The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

lun e 10 ' 184.5 total anb prohinrial Ram iiZi k nt the last twelve months five new cotton mills t h 'ee'a erected at Burnley or the neighbourhood. kkigirrpool subscription for a testimonial to Row tie Esq., is £728 17s. 9d. has passed the House of Commons for appoint -o:ll4taiasioners to manage the affairs at St. Helen's. Wednesday, Henry Cobley, a car driver for Mr. Pt, aerdwood was fined ss. and costs for driving past 6 .. 1 15'5 Church on Sunday during divine service. lileat a Po, on ednesda Thomas Claham, reede lice-court r, was fined 10s. W and costs, y, for allowing p offen iLlaatter to run from five wood pigsties, kept by the ant in a yard in Atherton-street. L Wednesday, 11, 1 s or e mnesdaY, Thomas Coleman was committed to 14114. seven days, for having in his possession two and a half of tobacco on Tuesday, whilst passing l b ath the Waterloo Dock gates. 4 itt hyu T OF COTTON.—The past week has been pro ws.", U nprecedented in the import of this article into lIN P° C . According to the brokers' circulars of Fri- Thee arrivals during the week were 113,067 bales. 'ieter h lenels of Mr. Winterbottom, of Stockport, con e ear e m f orgery at Chester assizes, have received official 4 ot te‘ ,e that he will be sent to Van Diemen's Land,— ,A . orfoak Island. ti 4 . Trafford, Esq., barrister, has been appointed Nst i l tr7 magistrate for the Manchester division of the t i lte„ihteluding the borough of Salford. The salary is I s , annum. Sugden, aged 17, who was stabbed by Frederick W. in a turn-out affray at Bury. died on Wednesday I, 4 4 l , ee i nd, Harris has since been committed for trial at V et. charged with manslaughter. i v . t°4 l outlay of the county of Lancaster during the 014 "ars, has exceeded £423,000, of which sum „les e e 7n. 4d has been paid on account of the rural po- Stf o ,_ss4o7 2s. sd. for bridges, and £24,094 2s. 4d. for "'County gaols. ~etlo tt "Han CO M MISSIONERS . — On Tuesday , the i,i tette lf nine commissioners took place, when the fol ;vnthout opposition were elected :—Messrs. William ' • C. Bentham T. GilWa tsobertson, W. Horner, Alex- Laird ' , C. A. n, A. A. Dobbs, and ▪ h • . • Captain Armstrong, of Hull, was de b 9 fire near Elsinore, about ten days ago. She ,7loli_ e r passage P e t er Liverpool, laden with salt and ti w °,? l , for St.sburg. Of the cargo they have 1 01s 4 ' s i ning, since the fire appears to have caught the IL o f the cotton first. The crew had saved them , 6 4 ' ina boat. kee F r iday , in the London Bankruptcy Court, the loner adjourned sine die the petition of Mr. 100fts Coyle. described as a wine merchant of this town Lt.,44,0nd0n. His debts amounted to £4OOO and all N:Shad been sold for £5O. The Commisioner said vet,. a ft no trading on the part of the bankrupt to en• k e ll i t al to the benefit of the act. S 1 011,.", 13 RAILWAY AND STEAM-BOAT TRIP.—We tnout Where cheap excursions will end, for we now tlik• 4 Portunity of going by one to and from Paris, at I t tt lb ti o g e r of about ld. per mile. This is, indeed, an ex , worth taking, and one which those who have a 00 °11 "ds in their pockets and a fortnight to spare, 1 1 e ' l ll a.. no account miss. tie is a well fixed, 4t fortnight in July,) as The Pari m s is all lso gaiety during il tit t ee glorious days." Ztts e ,LMERPOOL LIBRARY.—The total number of Nt a - „ 1 2 ( ?w possessed by this institution is 36,000. An 1; 11 41 4 ,'' improvement has recently been made in the in tsrse'rangernents. The room formerly used as a lec -1 e ct :rn has been fitted up with shelves, tables. &c., th”."!el'ed with the gallery of the circular library, " t 'ng been much wanted of late for the rapidly in 81'works. The new room is celculated to contain fo..etavo volumes, and will be found a very useful t 4 reference purposes, as amongst others, there i'as; c !und in it the works published by the Record Ot ls is„ ners, statutes, parliamentary history, debates, I h roi st ' or r ePorts, gazettes, state . trials, &c., which the rAp il% 9 may consult at their leisure. ' etli„ G . AND SEWERAGE . Mr. Cunningham was vbeioNvith reference to a statement made by Dr. Dun ti r _e a Parliamentary committee, a few weeks ago, r,e.of,the streets in Liverpool were as bad as . those f or len s and Eccleston, the latter being considered , tl , t that could be found. Mr. Cunningham said :l te e b a statement had been made, but the names of ip e :Pool streets were not mentioned. He (Mr. C.) !. I; l ,ii the streets in St. Helen's and Eccleston, and did t ':(11t o :re there were any in this town so bad.—Mr. t , l iss," l e said he was afraid Dr. Duncan had some good t', l .e °r What he had asserted ; theta were some streets i.;'t i" in a very disgraceful state, although conside s-ir"ement bad been made within the last few i t tthi n 'le Chairman : It would be well if doctors bad b g better t o d o th an t a lk about the streets ; if they lard a d, why did not the members of the Board come e t her , give information on the subject.—After some 41.•` °o versation, the matter dropped .— M r. Gladstone . 1 l se ., toi r , u that the objectionable practice of blasting was ~,trea g on as vigorously as ever in Prescot-street, to ;', , ti ßh ; s 'anger of parties passing, and the annoyance of I,Nte i rtirbood, and, unless the Board took some steps th ` c : he should give notice of a motion for discon and of blasting altogether.—Mr. Max '+ I r. Lyon were then ordered to take such steps i ps t t l i ecessary to carry on the operations, without ;.t ht' nuisance complained of. y l kav i3 mmirreE,TIIURSDAY--Permission was given W te mtt :erge's Dock to be run dry on the 17th instant, e r ,°' some rertirs being done at the north gate.— ellm e - Posed alterations in the width of the passages at Iti r .,, ne e of the new docks (which might be rendered s%tt s '• ° 'ging to the adoption of the screw principle to ,ANiti, l4 'tead of paddle wheels) were deferred at the 4 toof the Surveyor.—A letter from Messrs Dut- Phew as to some alleged overcharges was re. I t the the Harbour Masters' Committee. A letter i tt illi n t 'fneers of customs, inclosing a memorial from 0, 0 3 waiters, complaining of the want owas ,qation in the huts used at the docks,al so e„ ici (o the Harbour Masters Committee. A corn (444:was received from the Shipowners' Associa- Oe s , e " tile 4th of June, on the subject of dock \ t, tNe n nt, the app o i n t me nt o f a superintendent, cen iilted dFt docks, &c., &c., regretting that ansthiag y 04 In their previous communication should have Yi t . 4 °re, which w a s q u ite unintentional on their it ti l l begged to withdraw their former letter, and \ t ' rl 'iss ',one forwarded. A short discussion ensued v t ,th e ° L the suggestions cot , tained in the memorial ; i'i chair '• • .L g 'tan intimated that that was not the time for s i ; git ,foo the details, as notice of motion would have Sll t r Previously to taking up the subject. Mr. Vtla submitted a mction, which was agreed to, ',,, :r lti t ;: e ?etary acknowledge the receipt of the corn a:iste" from the Association, and that the subject be ce t ..... p ?onsid erat i on at t h e next meet i ng o f t h e com cltei:7 other proceedings were unimportant. ~,trr„,,sTrty.—A special meeting of this body was St:est"sday to consider the report relative to the re 'S'ettf, ° 1 the parochial establishment. We gave an "e e i ne report in our last. The clauses in the re 7ad seriatim, Mr. Henderson having first of 40fi' li u that he felt strongly convinced that by 4 1i 1 , , th e report the poor-law commissioners wanted 1 1 4 eect vestry more than ever under their th ot ' b anker was appointed treasurer, and it was Vlitlnitit i t future no cheque be signed, or payment .`,el ee ,." has been first submitted to and approved OCedi t yestry. The poundage is to be carried to Ni t tle o4 °l the parish, the poor-law commissioners hii rpo r . ed it improper to appropriate any part of it kkti t lt of paying expenses of deputation, 1.r. 4 4 ( 1 then eppointed superintendent, and Mr. 11,;ttqt,‘:'.astiier.—Mr. Bright remarked that Mr. h' e tng salary. at present, was £4OO per annum ; O'le y e had £2OO cr £250 from the poundage, and ~ tretr at' l . he received a sum of £25 for diligence at 0 w 1 . % His pres-nt emoluments were larger, ',n they would be under the new arrange- Jl '9uhart staled that Mr Gray had £3OO a- Vti e . t Evans £2lO a-year, and a house, and that ii t , p tili d ; r °f those officers would be considerably de -1144 tie new arrangement, it was not propose . d 0 6 4 4 8 , their salaries.—The Hon. Mr. Clements said of in board established a more efficient i& I) 14 1 sor,.. n the relief department, with which Mr.. ‘°,q 4 .,! Or i'.' t eted, they would have done very little in tit l l e ao tt. I mprovement . He called upon them to pass , t 'l tL res pe r eeuestin g Mr. Hart to report as soon as 4 #Nlae tel c llog the more e ffi cient management of the Vit, h i rht.7-Upon the motion of 111 , -. Riding. 1 1 4.tts o '''` o _r• Greene, the report was adopted with the sett, t ! made. The vote of thanks to Mr. Ni.,riltio s eti passed, and great regret . was expressed . ti t t - u t, Pr ) j ti was to be deprived of his valuable services. \ ti, fa v `"tinneit ON THE HIGH SEAS.—Geo. Hill, !,,; 4 11,, t '5-sel tradi ng to and from the coast of Africa \IS; tee' of this port), was brought up on Thurs. e , ,,01 ; 1 1 , 4 0 7 Poli ce - court, c h arge d w i t h t h e mur d er o f attirst'lle ,1 h o '" , a Krooman, one of his ship's coin 'Leward voyage, under circumstances of ‘i tt ‘tl 't "Intv The ease had been postponed fromWed \ seti ,e d prisoner to provide . himself with . legal The case against the prisoner .e.a.'ot to .7_the following :—On the 2d of May the t ie„re, Cuo, and the second mate, the cooper, and t ti 'vss ee ° ro 12 to 4 o'clock in the morning, on the Ge t th e " on deck. About 2 o'clock deceased was of the companion, and, falling asleep, .L.li t i ,qe a ft down the stairs to the bottom. The t , 'ti ki t lpri 'in the cooper assisted him up; and he lay 14 t Yri eti the mate's room and the grating. The out of his cabin, and, taking a rope's t h e sworn by the witnesses) with both e „'" 'head for ten minutes or a quarter of an ‘' L l q ,', l, te l , l P e , tain then, remarking that the rope was ►over the companion ladder and took a 1411iths on both sides, with which he beat e c i t" in splinters. Deceased then lay down Valtic tt eside the mainmast, and by the captain's (t ) , ) 4)1 3 water was thrown over him. At this - ail s A tpi_ 1 , face and a gurgling sound was issuing gGeil i i . o foh was severed from the face, and blood isidl his bead and neck, the vertebrae of IZratm a re- Deceased lay on the deck until t ria 4rd 1 2 o'clock, when he died. Ile was N 44 l)ea r t he name afternoon. On cross-exarni :toqer hs t d tha t all the witnesses and crew bad Mkclpa Punishment . One man was seven tge stabbing the captain, and a witness yti wag •On flogged two days before they got into yt ti. ti ff k _n the watch never interfered to prevent 4 4 `ttils ettratee. The captain continued in corn lei`the !pate breakfasting and dining with T he Prisoner was eventually committed tied h_„ ea ac r e c.ii and Co.'s blacking, and found it n WATER, AS SUPPLIED TO LIVERPOOL; A SECOND PAMPHLET, BY HARMOOD BANNER, ESQ• This is another appeal to public opinion from the pen of the Chairman of the Liverpooland HarringtonWaterWorks Company, in reply to a letter addressed that gentleman by Mr. Samuel Holme. Both parties have already appeared as antagonists before the public, on the same subject ; and although it would require much time and study to enable us to form a precise decision on the statements they re spectively furnish, or the arguments they thence deduce — and both are probably on some points in error—a hasty perusal of the pages before us leaves an impression upon our mind—supposing the data furnished to be correct — that Mr. Holme has hazarded one or two assertions which here meet with statistical facts which it will require con siderable expertness so to deal with as to enable him fully to maintain his former grounds on the particular points we allude to. We shall not, however, on so complicated a topic, venture to pronounce a positive opinion of our own, so as to prejudge the case. The question is undoubtedly in able hands, and the public at large are the proper judges. Nor do we attach the slightest blame to either party for taking the field. That there bas been a general and not groundless complaint of a deficient supply of wa ter from the two companies' works, especially in cases of fires, and that the prices charged for the article for do mestic use have been considered high as compared with the charges made in some other localities, will admit of no denial; and it became perfectly legitimate in Mr. Holme on the one hand to take up the matter on behalf of the consumers, and the mercantile interests of the town ; and, on the other, in Mr. Banner to defend to the best of his ability, and with the mans which his experience placed in his hands, the companies (one of which he especially re presents) from any undue imputation, or assumption of neglect or culpability, not in his opinion borne out by the evidence. We wish, however, that both parties bad come to the contest imbued with a little more of the suaviter in motto, and had not indulged in personal reflections, and somewhat unseemly epithets, which never yet served a good cause or bettered a bad one ; and had hoped that after the first heat of controversy these would have been dropped, and the time sacrificed in concocting them been applied to the clearer elucidation of the argument. In this respect, if we remember aright, Mr. Banner was first conspicuous, and provoked a return of the fire, with per haps a modicum of interest. Here at least it should have ended ; but we regret to remark that he has not aban doned his offensive attitude, and we shall in all probabi lity have to endure the sounds of a counter volley from the other side, which will be nothing welcome, albeit we cannot ourselves he wounded by the pellets. In the book before us Mr. Holum is charged with " an intensity of resentment," " a torrent of declamation," " rambling calculations based only on supposition," " fallacies," " strains of bathos," " insulting trash," and the like ; and in one place it is even stated that Mr. H. " basely im putes" such and such conduct to the Cornt any, &c. Would that gentlemen, in addressing themselves to the public, would remember that that public is sufficiently philosophical to have long since discovered, that in the moral as well as in the physical world there may be a great deal of heat without any light. Mr. Banner complains of a misrepresentation of his argument by his antagonist, as to the abundant and the timely supply of water at fires, the latter implying that Mr. B. did not consider an abundant supply necessary or impartant, but merely an early supply ; whereas he bad all along advocated, and so far back as 1823 had called the attention of leading and influential parties to the subject, with the hope of accomplishing " an early and abundant supply." lie next combats Mr. H.'s opinion against the utility of tanks to insure a ready supply for the extinguish ment of fire, and, in addition to argument, quotes, in their behalf, the authority of Mr. Stewart before the parlia mentary committee. But for tanks in Manchester much valuable property would have been destroyed. The water companies, he also states, in place of not acting up to their acts of parliament, " have gone far beyond them : supplies of water for days, weeks, and months having been given for salvage purposes, though the salvors had no claim, at an enormous cost to the companies, without compensation." Mr. H. is wrong too in stating that the act required the mains to be always full at night ;" whereas, the words were, to be left full at night, which was always done; and it would be an impossibility to keep them quite full, as shown by the evidence of Mr. Thompson. Mr. H.'s assertion (which he declares he will not retract) that there is no limit whatever which the company can charge for every purpose except for dwelling-houses, shops, and shipping, is next disposed of in a manner apparently showing that he had hazarded an erroneous statement. The writer enters largely into the question of price, supporting his former position that the principle fixed by parliament of charging the water ac cording to household rent, is, in effect, compelling the rich man to assist in providing a cheaper supply to his poorer neighbour. On the question of furnishing water to charitable institutions, he considers Mr. [L's expres sions and opinion, that it should be given for nothing, " illiberal and unjust." " Proprietors of water works are, (he says,) according to their ability, contributors to the public charities as well as he. It the company to which they belong subscribe, they again become contri butors, and there can be no reasonable ground for ex pecting that they should sell the commodity in which they deal without fair remuneration, any more than any other dealer in another commodity." In order to show that no article of necessity is supplied half so cheaply to these institutions as water, he supplies a table showing the charge for water to eleven of our principal charities — total, £53 15s. ; and the annual subscriptions of the com pany to those charities—total, £47 ss. Od. ; so that it ap pears that the entire cost of water to them all is but X 6 10s. per annum. With respect to the want of taps in some courts, that is the fault of the landlords; and Mr. H. is called upon to give the name of the poor woman in a cellar who was said to pay 3d. a week for water, and also all the " other instan.vs," stated in generalities; for, (says our author,) "on beh ilf of the water company I represent, I invite them, I entreat for them, I challenge complete investigation : the aggrieved are entitled to re lief. and the directors are anxious to afford it." The gist of the pamphlet is the reply to Mr. Holme's statement as to the price of water in other towns. On this point, (says our author,) " Mr. Holme quotes me as follows :—' You say the charge for water in Liverpool is not so highly rated as in other places ;' and he adds, ' Here again you are wrong; I could give you instances where towns are supplied at a cheaper rate than Liverpool, but I prefer to give you the evidence of one whom you will not venture to contradict, namely, Mr. Thom, of Bothsay. He says, at Campbelltown a family of five individuals will be supplied for one shilling and fourpence per annum ; at Ayr. for two shillings and twopence ; at Paisley, it is two shillings and ninepence ; in Greenock, I think it is two shillings and sixpence.' " For the specific and tangible I am thankful, but I complain of the indefinite. ' I could give instances,' has an extensive meaning. It not only declares the certainty of such instances existing, but it is designed to convey the implication that in a majority of towns water is supplied at a cheaper rate than in Liverpool. Indeed Mr. Holme has before declared it ; yet the only proof he offers is this evidence of Mr. Thom. Before I dispose of this, let me premise that Mr. Holme had a great deal of testimony on this point before him as well as Mr. Thom's. He strongly recommends my perusal of the volumes of evidence pub lished by the Commissioners of Sanatory Inquiry. I have a right to assume, therefore, that he has lead them tho roughly. Indeed he has frequently appe led to, and quoted from them. And yet, containing as they do nu merous instances of the charges made for water by other water companies, ready to his hand, he has suppressed them, and confined himself to this solitary selection. The cases suppressed being generally against the position he was contending for, I will leave comment upon their ex clusion to the reader. But it becomes my duty to supply the deficiency, and they wi.l be found in the following ta bles, with some others a hie') 1 have been able to procure. The result will show that in Liverpool the charge for wa ter is less, to the lower orders especially; than in most other places. And now, to test the accuracy of Mr. Holme in stating this instance of cheap water, in the places named, - upon the evidence of Mr. Thom. The fact is, the evidence quoted is not at all as to the charge for water by the companies. It is only as to the cost of Mr. Thom's machinery, or mode of supply, if applied by him to small towns, and he enumerates these situations where such would probably be the cost. It is merely hypo thetical." After some further remarks on the manner in which Mr. Holme has given some of the evidence on this point, and excluded other parts that bore against himself, Mr. Banner furnishes a table of charges in many of the princi pal towns in England and Scotland, with the amount re quired respectively per annum on given rents from the lowest to the highest ; and from this it certainly appears that while some are lower than the charges at Liverpool, others of them are much higher, and others about the same. We have no means of ascertaining, however, the facilities, as compared with Liverpool, in procuring and conveying water to the inhabitants of these respective towns; and if Preston, for instance, be taken as an ex ample, in which lOs a-year is charged on cottages under Lit) value per annum, no criterion is afforded, inasmuch as the water company there is a complete monopoly, and the inhabitants, who complain of exorbitant charges, are taking steps to procure a large reduction. Towards the close of his remarks he says— " I have no objection to have my pamphlets placed side by side, and reau page by page, with Mr. Holme's reports and letter, as they affect the Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Company ; and am content to leave them to the disinterested judgment of those who honour them with their perusal." Mr. B. states that Mr. Holme boasts of having the public press with him, and against water companies, and adds—" of this disadvantage (to myself) I am aware ; and the feeling was signally exhibited in some of the papers on the appearance of his letter. Copious extracts from it were promptly inserted, several in different parts of the same paper, on the same day. There had been no ex tracts of portions of the pamphlet to which Mr. Holme was replying. so that both aides might, be seen and under stood." With reference to this remark, we trust Mr. Banner does not include the Standard, in which his work was noticed at some length in, to our thinking, a spirit of candour and fairness—extracts being given, and the heads of the contents supplied as closely in accordance with our perception of the author's views and mean ing as could be furnished by a synopsis, to which our limited space necessarily constrained us. Our author concludes in these words.-- " Looking to the immense population, the consequent number or dwellings and other premises to be served, the demands of the shipping along the distant range of docks, the mode and cost of obtaining and raising water, and of distributing it through the vast space over which the works of the company necessarily extend ; they, who will duly appreciate these considerations, may ascertain, by com parison, that the inhabitants of Liverpool are as well and cheaply supplied as in most places in her Majesty's do minions." THE t4FVERPOOL STANDAR'D. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The usual monthly meeting of the council took place on Wednesday, at the Town-hall. The proceedings of the Finance Committee, comprising a recommendation to rescind the resolution of the council of the Ist May, 1844, permitting the appropriation of land at the north end of the slate yard as a site for the Sailor's Home, having been read, Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE moved their confirmation. He expressed his regret at having to call upon the council not to appropriate the site for the Sailor's Home, but as the Dock Committee had decided, and not unwisely, that the land at the slate yards might be required for dock put poses, he was compelled to invite them to rescind the ap propriation. At the present time, when competition was manifesting itself on the other side of the Mersey, it would be wrong to interpose any obstacle to the success of the Liverpool docks, and, therefore, it was necessary to release the property from the engagements with which it was entaegled. He moved, now that they were unable to carry their original intention into effect, that the sub ject be referred back to the committee to consider and report on the assistance that could be rendered by the corporation to the Sailor's Home. Sir T. BRANCKER seconded the motion. After a few remarks from several members, it was understood that the Finance Committee would exert themselves to furnish the committee of the Sailors' Home with an equivalent. _ _ _ Mr. Nicol was glad to observe by the proceedings that the Finance Committee had taken serious notice of Mr. Askew, the harbour-master's, conduct in having published a letter in the Liverpool Standard, aspersing Mr. Evans's character. lie was pleased to find that Mr. Askew bad been called before the committee—that he had apologised, and was admonished ; but steps should be taken to circu late the apology and reprimand as widely as Mr. Askew's letter. The proceedings were confirmed. DOCK COMMITTEE. When the proceedings of the Dock Committee were read, a long discussion arose as to the legality of that committee giving an additional subscription of 200 gui neas to the Northern and Southern Hospitals. The Tows-CLERK decided that the grant was legal, and the proceedings were confirmed. a single complaint. And if the Board of Customs and the government considered it so important that there should be warehouses on the dook quays—he said if, for he wished to avoid all discussion. of the merits of the question—why had they permitted the Dock Bill to go through the House of Commons, prohibiting the dock estate from building any more worchosses for a certain number of years? If they considered it so important, why had they allowed that bill to- pass ? (Hear, hear.) Se far as he had been able to ascertain, those were the arguments used to the Board of Customs against the re munerative system of paying the landing-waiters. He knew of no other. He desired to state the question fairly and to let it be fairly discussed, believing that it was to the government they must look if they were to have the system changed at all. The committee had hitherto re ferred merely to the practice of the Board of Customs, but it had been urged upon him to say something of the constitution and powers of that board. He desired to abstain from doing so, because it was impossible to speak of the constitution of the board without appearing to be personal, and this was not his object. He held in his hand a very important return, were be disposed to go into the question of their constitution—a return moved for by Mr. Wallace, and printed by order of the House of Com mons in March last, containing the names and ages of the Commissioners of Customs, a list of superior officers, and their office or occupation held preceding their ap pointment as Commissioners of Customs. There were ample materials here to dwell upon. But it was not his intention to do so—certainly not at present, although he did not hesitate to say, briefly but decidedly, that he thought the constitution of the Board of Customs in London was the groundwork of all the mischief. (Ap plause.) In proof of this it would be necessary to adduce nothing more than the statement of facts which the re turn exhibited. Having said thus much, he ought not to occupy the attention of the council at that late hour fur ther than to say that the committee had undertaken a duty—that that duty they would discharge to the best of their ability—that they would not shrink from the use of every legitimate course to accomplish the reforms which were so justly called for in Liverpool, but that they would not lend themselves to anything which might appear un necessarily personal. (Applause.) With these observa tions he begged to move the adoption of the report. Mr. Busnnv seconded the motion, which was unani measly Carried. The MAYOR then presented the memorials with which he was entrusted, and which we enumerated in our last, and the council adjourned. THE LANDING STAGES. Mr. TURNER asked whether the plan of a landing stage, to whicb the first premium had been awarded by the Dock Committee, would be adopted. Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE said not. The committee felt, however, that they would not be justified in putting artists to so great an expense, and so much labour and trouble, without awarding the premiums to the two best plans, although those plans were not to be acted upon ; and this was a great piece of liberality on the part of the Dock Committee. Mr. TuRNER was not at all satisfied with the explana tion. Why should the premiums be granted for plans not intended to be carried out ? Every competitor had as good a right to the prize as the man who had received it. The committee should have awarded the premiums among the whole of the artists. Mr. Ash IN said the proceedings of the Dock Commit tee throughout the whole business had been very lamen table. The plan that received the prize was not only not to be acted upon, but every man who had seen it declared that it was quite impracticable. HEALTH OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE. The proceedings this committee were confirmed, with the exception of a resolution that no plan of any house intended to be built in a court will hereafter be ap proved by this committee unless there be shown upon such plan a separate privy and ashpit, immediately adjoin ing such house, for the exclusive use of the inmates thereof, which was referred back for further considera tion. CUSTOMS RESTRICTIONS AT LIVERPOOL. The TOWN-CLERK read the report of the special com mittee appointed by the council on the sth February last, to inquire into the unnecessary restrictions imposed upon the trade of this port by the Board of Customs, and the insufficiency of the Customs Establishment for the grow ing wants of the port. The report, after noticing the in terview which they had with Sir IL Peel, accompanied by our borough members, the purport of which we gave at the time, proceeded as follows: " Your committee have reason to believe that arrange ments are now being made for a considerable addition to the number of Custom-house officers at Liverpool, as well as for a proper and legitimate increase in the salaries of the officers ; but your committee desire again to record their opinion —an opinion in which they feel assured they are joined by nearly the whole of the mercantile commu nity of Liverpool—that no measure short of reverting to the remunerative system of paying the landing-waiters, will satisfy the wants, and ought not therefore to satisfy the just demands, of the community. " It is true that a partial redress of some of the minor grievances pointed out by your committee has taken place —by giving a discretionary power to the heads of the Custom-house department at Liverpool, in case of the seizure of vessels with a trifling quantity of tobacco on board, and with regard also to granting licenses to ves sels ; but, even in these cases, the redress falls short of what the merchants had a right to expect. " During the past month two commissioners of the Board of Customs have visited Liverpool. As, however, your committee thought it undesirable, in the first in stance, to apply to the Board of Customs, but to the First Lord of the Treasury, so, in pursuance of the same view, they thought it better, as a committee, to abstain from having any interview with the commissioners, who might be said to be sitting in judgment on their own measures. " That your committee were right in the view which they thus took, was fully confirmed by the fact that the chairman having, at the request of the commissioners, met them at the Custom-house, and having alluded to the subject of the mode of paying the landing-waiters, was info►med by them that that must be considered ' a closed question.' Your committee, however, feel assured that the merchants will never consent to consider this as a closed qurstion so long as there is a higher power to which they can appeal, and until the commissioners are prepared to point out a more substantial objection to it than they have ever yet been able to do. " In concluding their report, the committee are grati fied its being able to state, that they have received the assurance of Sir Robert Peel that be will come to no final decision on the recommendation of the Board of Customs, with respect to the report of the town council, without communicating with your committee on the subject. " THOMAS B. HORSFALL Chairman." _ _ Mr. HORSFALL said the committee felt that the state ment did little more than report progress and ask per mission to sit again, but they thought it due to the coun cil, and also to the public, to make known what they had been doing. He begged to assure the council that no delay whatever had taken place on the part of the com mittee, notwithstanding three months bad elapsed since the list report was presented, and that no delay, consis tent with propriety and courtesy, would be permitted to take place until the committee were prepared to present the council with a far more satisfactory report than any they had yet been able to do. He knew the committee might be told that they had hardly allowed time sufficient for the Board of Customs to effect the reforms pointed out to them. This might be very well for gentlemen sit ting in London, and uninterested in the question, to al lege; but when he stated that at one period during the past month there were no less than sixty or seventy ves sels waiting for landing-waiters, notwithstanding the em ployment of forty additional tide-waiters, he thought a quarter of a year was quite long enough to have the de tects remedied. (Hear, hear.) Reference was made in the report to an interview which he had with the commis sioners of the Board of Customs when they were in Li verpool. That interview he had had with them, not at his own solicitation, but at their request; and he might, perhaps, be permitted to make a remark or two with re ference to what had taken place on that occasion. He told them that although lie had no authority from the cammittee of the council to meet them, yet he doubted not that if they would furnish a copy of their reply to the report of the Board of Customs to the council, the committee would be prepared to enter into the merits of the report and the reply—that the taking of both con jointly might be the most desirable course to pursue, whilst the commissioners were in Liverpool, as the com mittee had no other object in view than to ascertain the truth, end that, if the report and the reply were conflict ing, the commissioners, while on the spot, would have the books of the Custom-house here to guide them in arriving at a right conclusion. This request was declined, court eously certainly, but positively. Now, in the absence of that reply, he could only gather—and he believed he was not far wrong in gathering—something of its substance. He understood the Commissioners of Customs objected to the remunerative system of paying the landing-waiters on several grounds, one of which the committee noticed in their last report, and satisfactorily answered—that was, what they urged with regard to the desirableness of uni formity of system. The committee showed that there was no uniformity at the different ports. The next thing was, the desirableness of having one set of porters in the discharge of a vessel, instead of several, as at present. He perfectly agreed with the Board of Customs as to the desirableness of this measure. Many gentlemen here equally agreed with them, and, in fact, the system had been adopted by many houses in Liverpool, and would be most &Arable if adopted altogether. But when brought forward as an argument against the remunerative system, how did it stand ? The merchants of Liverpool had had experience of the remunerative system for eleven years, when the porterage was exactly the same as is was at present, and when every gentleman sent down hiebsyn porters,—so that this did not apply as an argument against the remunerative system. Another point the commissioners made was, that the merchants' clerks and porters caused a delay by not being down at the vessel in the morning when the landing-waiter was there to dis charge. If this were the case, which he denied, for al though cases of the kind might occur, yet as a general rule it was not so; still lie maintained that it was the very strongest argument which could be brought forward in favour of the remunerative system. And how ? Send a landing-waiter with a fixed salary down to a vessel, and what did it matter to him, so long as his salary was run ning on, at what hour the vessel commenced discharging, whether at eight, nine, or ten o'clock? But put him upon the remunerative system, and he would not stop at a vessel where the parties had not arrived, but he would go to one where the clerks and porters were in attendance. This would make the clerks and porters attend more assi siuously to their duties, and bring about a thorough reform in the system. (Hear.) Another thing the commission ers stated was, that no :good would be effected until we got warehouses round the dock quays. He was not going to raise any question on this subject. He was quite aware of the differences of opinion to which it bad given rise. and, therefore, he was not going to argue the merits of the question, but merely to allude to an argument used by the Board of Customs. Why, when the remunerative system was in operation eleven years—namely, from 1818 to 1829—there was not a single warehouse on the dock quays, and yet the system worked admirably, and without WOOLTON FLORAL, &c. SHOW. On Thursday the first exhibition for the season took place, in a spacious marquee, erected for the occasion, on a plot of ground close to the church. Though the weather was not so inviting as might have been expected for the time of year, the attendance was unusually numerous, and the show was particularly pleasing, being in tae opinion of many, one of the finest ever witnessed in the same place. A stand of three pelargoniums, sent by Ambrose Lace, Esq., which obtained the first prize, was greatly admired for its symmetrical form and extraordinary profusion of beautiful flowers. W. Shand, Esq. furnished several exceedingly fine plants, and amongst them a rhododendron:), to which the first prize was awarded, received its due :need of at tention. There were several immense sticks of rhubarb, sent by T. Rawson, Esq. ; and there were some ripe cur rants and grapes. which looked as tempting as they were rare. The new potatoes, peas, and gooseberries, were also remarkably fine. The baskets of flowers and vegetables reared and most beautifully arranged by the cottagers, showed in"a very praiseworthy degree the taste, skill, and industry of the contributors, and were not by any means the least attractive arnonp t the multitudinous and splen did specimens of nature's beauties by which they were surrounded. Messrs. Davies, the seedsmen, sent several plants, but not for competition. The following is a list of the prizes : . _ FRUITS.—Best pine, Mrs. Foster. Best white grapes, Ist prize Wm. Shand ; ad ditto Wm. Gilgeous. Best dish of apples. Mrs. George Copeland. Best dish of gooseberries. Ist prize Thomas Rawson, Esq.; 2d ditto Wm. Gilgeous. Best dish of currants, Ist prize Thomas Rawson. VEGETABLKS.—Best dish of peas, Mrs. Joseph Ashton. Best dish of beans, Mr. Joseph Warburton, of the coffee-house, Woolton. Best dish of French beans, Mrs. Joseph Alison. Best brace of cauliflowers. Ist prize Mrs. Joseph Ashton ; ditto Wm. Shand. Best dish of potatoes. Ist prize Richard Alison ;2d ditto Thomas Rawson. Best brace of white cabbage. Ist prize Mr. Dunlop; 2,1 ditto Thomas Rawson. Best bunch of csrrots. Ist prize William Gilgeous; ad ditto Mrs. Joseph Alison. Best hunch of turnips. Ist prize Mrs. Joseph Ashton ; 2d ditto Wm. Shand. Best brace of cucumbers. Ist prize Mr. John Molyneux ; 2d ditto Richard Alison ; 3d ditto John Moly neux. Best four sticks of red celery, Wm. Gilgeous. Best brace • f lettuce, Mr. Warburton. Best dish of curled parsley. Mr. Dunlott. Best six onions. Ist prize Mr. Dunlop ; 2d ditto Thomas Rawson. Best dish of mushrooms. Ist prize Mrs. Joseph Ashton ; 3d ditto Mrs. Foster. Best six sticks of rhu barb. according to weight. Ist, 2d, and 3d prizes to Thomas Rawson. Best collection of vegetables. Ist prize Richard Alison ; 2d ditto Wm. Gilgeous. CorrAcags' Paints —Fur the cleanest and best-cultivated garden. Ist prize Thomas Tattersall ; ad ditto Wm. Molyneux ; 3d ditto Thomas Riding. Best collection of useful common vegetables. Thomas Riding. Best assortment of cut flowers, Thomas Riding. Best window plants and flowers. Ist prize -Mr. Hill ; 2d ditto Thomas Riding. PLANTS.—Best stove plants. in flower. :St prize Richard Alison, Esq. ; 2d ditto Mrs. Foster ; 3d ditto Ambrose Lace, Esq. ; 4th ditto Wm. Shand. Esq. Best green-house plants, in flors - er. tst prize Mr. Shand ;24 ditto Mrs. J. Ashton ; 3d ditto Mrs. Foster; 4th ditto Mrs. Ashton. Best st.lnd of three pel kr. goniums. Ist prize Mr. Lace ; 24 ditto Mr. Shand ; 3d ditto Mrs. J. Ashton. Best collection of cut roses, (not fewer than ;2 varieties.) Ist prize Mrs. J. Ashton; 2d ditto, Mr. Alison, Six varieties. Ist prize Mr. Alison; 24 ditto Mrs. J Ashton. Best stand of six ericas, Mr. A isoo. Best device of flowers. Ist prize Mr. Wm. Hill ; 2cl ditto Mr. Thomas Tattersall. Best basket of cut flowers. Ist prize Mr. Alison ; 2d ditto Mr. Shand. Best basket of plants. Ist prize Mrs J. Ashton ; 2d ditto Mrs. Foster; 3d ditto sir. Alison. Best stand of three calceolarias. Ist prize Mr. Alison; 2d ditto Mrs. J. Ashton. Best orchideous plant. Ist prize Mr. Alison ; 2d ditto Wm. Gilgeous ; 3d ditto Richard Alison. Best collection of fuchsias ltt prize Mrs. Fos'er ; 24 ditto Wm. Gilgeous. Best hardy shrub, in flower. Ist prize Wm. Shand ; 2d ditto Richard Alison. BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The first exhibition for the year of this flourishing so ciety took place iii the garde:is of the Royal Rock Ferry Hotel, on Thursday last; and though the weather was rather rough, the wind being fresh from the southward, with a cloudy sky threatening rain, the attendance was both numerous and fashionable, including many of the first families and individuals of the locality and its neigh bourhood. The show took place in the large tent ; and the grounds, which are chiefly laid out in shrubberies and grass, with numerous bowers and arbours, were remark ably fresh and attractive after the seasonable rains. The promenade was enlit , ened by Mr. Parker's Royal Chel tenham Band, who played alternately stringed and brass instruments ; and several ladies and gentlemen at one time danced the Polka on one of the grass-plots. Amongst the company were the Venerable Archdeacon Clarke. the Rev. Mainwaring and friends, the Rev. R. M. Fielders, lady, and daughters, the Hon. Lady Cust end daughters, C. Stanley, Esq., lady, arid party, I'. Turk, Esq., J. G. Wainwright, Esq., S. Vertue, Esq., and party, C. Rawson, Esq., J. Wrigley, Esq., and party, the Commodore and several officers of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, and many others of the first respec tability. Mr. Errington, from Sir P. Egerton's; Mr. Dwerryhouse, from New Brighton ; and Mr. Murray, from Mr. Skirving's nursery, Walton, were the judges. Some handsome and appropriately-designed medals, of various values, struck by Mr.lsaacs, lithographer. Castle street, and bearing the inscription " Bebingion Horticul tural Society, established 1843." were brought forward and presented to those of the successful competitors who preferred them to money prizes. The show of plants, flowers, and fruits, was extremely good, taking into account the rather backward state of the season for such productions, and, in the floral depart ment especially, included many rare and beautiful speci mens. The exotics sent by Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., attracted much attention, especially the azalias. We do not remember to have seen a better assortment of Cape heaths, distinct varieties. In these Sir W. M. Stanley excelled, as did to an almost equal degree Mr. Wainwright, and also Mr. Killock, of Oxton Nursery, one of whose plants (the Linnceoides superbus) was a veritable gem. The last-named gentleman would have obtained a prize, and indeed it was awarded, but it was withdrawn on its being found that the exhibitor had sold his specimens. Mr. liaynes, too, showed some fine plants of this genus, in classical vases,—one of them a tricolor of about 5 feet in height, and flowered from top to bottom. Two giant plants, of the united height of 20 feet 5 inches, though planted from cuttings only eleven months ago, were amongst Mr. Wainwright's. A still finer one, of some what less height, but flowered and gracefully branched to the bottom, was in the same collection. Mr. Errington also sent a splendid Sianhopere (a parasite) suspended in moss, and with the leaves above and the flowers hanging in air below. Amongst other plants worthy of notice were a fine nosegay azalia ; an Anagallis milieu, from Mr. C. Rawson,—a Chinese curiosity, growing out of a monster in china-ware ; some splendid cut roses and other plants, from Messrs. Dixon, of Chester; and a splendid stove plant, the Thunbergium, covering a trellis, with a yelloc convolvulus-looking flower. The pelargoniums were generally fine, particularly those sent by Al r. Winch, including a beautiful " Lane's Duke of Cornwall," with a flower -of a fine dark hue. Some good pansies were shown, but there were not many. The baskets of cut flowers were all good and tastefully arranged, Miss Greenharn again beating in this depart ment Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart. The fruits and vegeta bles, and especially the strawberries, and some giant as paragus from Sir P. Egerton, Bart., (not for competition,) were very superior. The green peas were few, and yet but small. Some excellent early potatoes were shown by Mr. H. Littledale, and some superb sticks of rhubarb by Mr. Mayer. But we must proceed to the LIST OF PRIZES. PLANTS AND FLOWERS.—AzaIia, Sir Wm. Stanley. Heaths, Ist prize, Sir Wm. Stanley; 2d, Mr. G. Wainwright: Single specimen, Sir Wni. Stanley. Fuchsias, three light and three dark. Ist prize, Mr. G. Wainwright: Ditto, two light and two dark, Ist prize, Mr. G. Wainwright; 2d, Mr. J. T. Raynes. Pelargoniums, six varieties, Ist prize, Mr. El. Winch ; 2d, Mr. G. Wainwright: Ditto, four varieties, Ist prize, Mr. H. Winch; 2d, Mr. H. Littledale : Single specimen. Mr. Winch. Orchidse, Ist prize, Sir Wm. Stanley; 2d, Mr. Winch: Single specimen, Mr. Wi ch. Collection of stove plants, Ist prize, Mr. G. Wain wright; 2d, Sir Wm. Stanley; 3d, Mr. S. Needham. Collection of greenhouse plants, Ist prize, Mr. G. Wainwright; 2d, Mr. C. Stanley ; 9d, Mr. W. W. Perry. Best greenhouse plant, Sir Wm. Stanley. Best stove plant, Mr. Wainwright. Calceolarias, six varlet es, Mr. Winch. Cinnerarias, six varieties, Ist prize, Mr. S. Vertue ; 2d, Mr. Wainwright. Verbenas, six varieties, Ist prize, Mr. Needham; 2d, Mr. Wainwright. Petunias, six varieties, Mr. Wainwright. Roses in pots, Ist prize, Mr. V. ain wright ; ad, Mr. Winch. Rose, single specimen, Mr. Wain wright. Ctrr FLOWXII6.—Ist prize, Miss Greenham ; 2d, Sir W. Stan ley. Pansies, twenty varieties, Mr. Itaynes : Ditto, twelve varieties, Ist prize, Mr. Raynes; 2nd, Mr. W. Littledale ; 3d, Miss Greenharn. Faints.—Pine apples, Ist and 2d prizes. Sir Wm. Stanley. Strawberries. Ist prize, Mr. Winch ; 2d. Mr. Wainwright. Cherries, a Cottager. Gooseberries, Mr. Perry. NrynwraaLas.—Cucumbers, Mr. Needham. Cabbages. Mr. Wainwright. Lettuce. Rev. R. M. Fielding. Peas, Mr. Winch. Parsley, Mr. Needham. Turnips, Mr. Vertue. Asparagus, Ist prize, Mr. H. Littledale; 2d. Mr. Perry.. Rhubarb, Ist prize, Mr. Wainwright ; 2d, Mr. Winch. EXTRA PRIZISS.—TuIips, best, Mr. R. M. Beckworth ; 2d, Mr. Grey. Device, Mr. Wainwright. Seedling, Mr. Rayner; Pelargonium. a Cottager. Basket of Fuchsias, Mr. Raynes, Pears, Mr; Wm. Maury. Basket of plants, Mr. Raynes; ditto, Rev. R. M. Fielding. Apples, Mr. J. Tyner. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The journeymen painters of Hull have succeeded in ob taining 245. a week. On Tuesday, a boy was drowned in the river Medlock whilst bathing.. The first steam-boat that has yet ventured upon any of the English lakes, was launched on Windermere a few days ago. DEATH. ON THE WEDOING-DAY.—AH old gentleman at Glossop who was married on Monday last, died on the same evening. Helen Williams, aged. five years, died last week, at Hendrebach, Carnarvonshire, in consequence of eating the root of fool's parsley, which she found in the fields► On Monday, the chemical works of Mr. M'lntosb, at Grangemouth, Glasgow, were destroyed by fire, and a man named Bell perished in the flames. The Earl of Cork, who for some time has been suffer ing from cataract, was recently operated upon, and some hopes are entertained of a restoration of sight. On Monday last, at Nottingham, a young man was raaana'ng down the charge of a gun when it went off, and drove the ramrod through his face and head. No hope is entertained of his recovery. The man committed recently, for driving a cart against the Duke of Wellington, and, who was committed for a month, had the penalty paid at the instance of his grace, and has since been set at liberty. The steam-ship Helen M`Gregor performed the passage from Cronstadt to Hull, including six hours at Copen hagen, in 1363 hours. Mr. Owen, a pink saucer maker, in Goswell•road, Lon don, has been killed through testing the essential oil of almonds by the taste. Three boys were drowned in the river at Greenock, on Wednesday, by the upsetting of a boat, as is supposed, for the gig in which they embarked was found ashore, split from stein to stern. It is now said that Mr. Hoyle, the Heigbington sur geon, who was supposed to have died by violence, or committed suicide, has only given " leg-bail" to his creditors. Three boys, of the ages of 16, 14, and 11, in the em ployment of Mr. Morley, news-agent, London, left their home last week, and have not since been heard of. It is believed they went to bathe, and were drowned. A person, named George James Morell, died in Lon don last week of drunkenness, in his 32d year. Ile was accustomed to swallow a gill of ardent spirits at a draught ; and ten quarts of ale a day was his ordinary allowanze I SUDDEN DEATH.—On Tuesday, while a large body of Odd Fellows were in attendance at St. Charles's Church, Plymouth (having had a public procession) the secretary of the Pride of Devon Lodge was taken ill, and died al most immediately. THE LATE FATAL FlRE.—Miss King, the young lady in whose apartment the late fatal fire at Raggart's Hotel commenced, is the Miss King who was personated, some three or four years ago, in Bristol. by the notorious Miss Bryers, when Mr. Woolley, .a Bristol merchant, was made a laughing-stock for the whole country. It is a singular coincidence that J. Brown. Esq., clerk to the magistrates of Newcastle-on-Tyne, T. Swinburne, Esq., clerk of the magistrates of Gateshead, and J. Kid son, Esq., clerk to the magistrates of Sunderland—three adjoining towns—should all have died in the course of last week. A ROYAL PLEADER.—The Duke of Brunswick, in an action brought last week in the. Sheriffs Court against the proprietors of the Lancaster Guardian for a libel, con ducted his own case, and that so eloquently and skilfully as to falsify the proverb which says that " the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client." The jury awarded him £2OO damages. The Nottingham Review gives a circumstantial account of the recovery of a horse-dealer, named Richard Fowler, of Mansfield, by the aid of electricity, after he had swal lowed two ounces of laudanum, and had been by the poison reduced to a state of stupor that had all the appear ance of death. The stomach-pump and other means were tried without avail. SEASONABLE PROSPECTS.—FnIit of all kinds, grasses, wheats, and vegetation generally promise abundant crops. In some districts, however, wheats have suffered from the long drought at the early part of the year, and in other localites considerable damage has been done by the overflowing of rivers, &c., at the early part of the last month. Hops do not promise to be so good as they were last year.—Leeds paper. DR. LARDNER.—This gentleman has, it is stated, left New York for Havre, en route fur the metropolis, with his wife (Mrs. Heaviside) and two children. The return of Dr. L. to Europe, it is said, has been occasioned by a summons issued by the House of Lords, commanding the appearance of l\lrs L., in order to testify in regard to some property amounting, according to the Amelicnn prints, to about 200,000 dols., which she claims in her own right. MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE. —On Saturday, two boys, named Corner and Read, each fourteen years of age—the one residing at Whaligoe, and the other at Sar clet—met their death at different places, but under simi lar circumstances. Both had gone to the precipitous cliffs in their respective neighbourhoods, for the purpose of ga thering sea birds' eggs; and, both had, no doubt by missing their feet or losing their hold, fallen over the precipices and were killed. —John 0' Groat Journal. THE LATE DUEL.—DEATII OF Mit. SETON.—Mr. Seton appeared to he going on very comfortably after the operation of Saturday, until Sunday night, or rather Monday morning, about two o'clock, when a decided change for the worse took place. It soon became evi dent that be could not long survive, and about 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening Mrs. Seton took leave of him, as also did his sister and mother. He appeared quite sensi ble until within five minutes of his death, which took place without a struggle before eight the same evening. On Wednesday there was an aggregate meeting of Pro testants in Exeter Hall, London, presided over by the Earl of Winchelsea for the purpose of addressing a " memorial (why not a remonstrance ?) to the Queen, imploring her Majesty to withhold her Royal assent from the Mavnooth Endowment Bill, until, by a dissolution of Parliament she shall have given her loyal people an op portunity of pronouncing their deliberate judgment upon such a momentous change in the fundamental principles of the British Constitution." This is the right course. Reach the Throne; and compel the Queen's Ministers to put into her Majesty's mouth a refusal of the prayer of the memorial, and her reasons for so refusing. A TALE OF Woll.—On Thursday a respectable young person, calling herself Mary Ann Salisbury, was charged at Lambeth•street police-office, with having attempted to commit suicide, on the pre eding night. It appeared that she was about to throw herself off London Bridge, and entreated a person who held her back to let her effect her purpose. She stated to the magistrate that she had been induced to leave her father's house at Bath (a boot and shoemaker inextensivebusiness, and a dissenting preacher) with a young man, who when in London, accomplished her ruin, having first stupified her with some liquid, and robbed her of a gold watch and £2O in money. He had broken his promise of marriage, and said he should com mit suicide, advising her to do the same. The magistrate placed her under the protection of the police. PUNISHMENT OF CLERGYMEN.—A correspondent of the Times publishes the following scale ;of ecclesiastical punishments recently awarded by competent authority : The Hon. and Rev. F. S.' Monckton, for indecent con duct with the females of his family, " especially Sarah Huggins" —suspension from office, not from emolument, for one year, without costs, by the sentence of the Bishop of London.—The Rev. J. Jones, for adultery—suspension from office and from emolument for two years, with costs, by the sentence of the Court of Arches.—The Rev. H. E. Head, for declaring the baptismal service to be not free from erroneous and strange doctrine, contrary to the 39 Articles, and such as a clergyman is pledged to " banish and drive away"—suspension from office and from emolu ment for three yeas, with costs, by the sentence of the Court of Arches. Thus it appears that an offence against the baptismal service is visited by the ecclesiastical au thorities with far greater severity than an offence against the decalogue. MIXED MARRIAGES.—MEMORIAL TO THE POPE.— The Roman Catholic aristocracy are at present very busy in getting up a memorial to the Pope from the English Roman Catholic aristocracy, on the subject of the last two or three refusals of the marriage benediction to Ro man Catholics of station marrying Protestants without guarantee taken for the children. The last case is that of a lady who cannot marry, it seems, unless in the Pro testant Church, as her friends have discovered that not a rescript from Rome is to be had, to sanction a marriage of which the progeny are not to be Roman Catholics. The principal areument of the gentry in thus appealing to the Pope is, that " they, his Holiness's faithful, &c.." have failed to discover at what period it was that the Church of Rome departed from the laudable practice of the " primitive church" in this respect. They quote the lives of the saints; e. g., of St. Monica, St. Helen, and so forth. They humbly submit that it is very hard that they cannot marry Protestants, whereas the Christians, and much better Christians than they ever were or will be, of the " primitive " time were allowed to marry Pa gans.—Tablet (Roman Catholic paper). The REPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.—The new slave-trade abolition treaty, concluded between this coun try and France, has been published. Its leading principle has already transpired, namely, that France and England are to establish, within the shortest possible period, upon the western coast of Africa, a naval force composed of not less than 26 cruisers, steam and sail, which force shall act in concert for the suppression of the slave trade. The line of coast placed under the surveillance of these armaments extends from Cape Verd to the 26th deg. 30 min. of me ridional latitude. The treaty consists of ten articles, which provide for the manner in which the respective commanders of the joint forces shall exercise their func tions, and for various contingencies. The moment France is ready to commence operations, a not fication to that effect will be made to the English government, when the two contracting parties will make known by a public de claration that the present convention is upon the point of being put into execution ; and in six months afterwards the operations are to commence. The treaty is concluded for ten years, during which the treaties of 1831 and 1833 shall be suspended. In the course of the fifth year, how ever, the high contracting power shall consult anew and decide, according to circumstances, if it be expedient either to renew all or part of the treaties of 1831 and 1832, or to modify or abrogate, all or part, of the present treaty. ELECTRIC SHOCK.—During the storm of thunder on Tuesday, the electric stroke was received on the premises of B. M. Fnakes, Esq. Entering the apex of the granary gable, the fluid dished about the tiles and mortar, and passed through the wall into the interior, carrying a piece ofhoard across the chamber do vn to the foot of the ladder on the ground floor ; pasting along a bell-wire to the hell-pull at the entrance gate, and causing the bell to ring, it splintered the heavy oak gate-post to within afoot of the ground'. The inside of the granary smoked much, and had a strong sulphurous smell. The groom, who was in the yard with a wheelbarrow, was thrown from the latter by the shock, and four pigeons on the roof of the Town-Hall were burled into the street. Providentially no life was lost or any injured, although many were thrown down.—Essex Standard. MURDER OF AN OFFICER AND EIGHT MEN OF THE WASP BY THE CREW OF A SLAVER.—A most distress ing circumstance has occurred in the African squadron. The Wasp, 18, Commander S. El. Usher, took a prize, which was sent to Sierra Leone, to be condemned. On her way this prise fell in with and took another slaver; the lieutenant in command still keeping charge of the first vessel, put a midshipman, named Harmer, with eight men, into the other. The vessels then separated. Unfortu nately, Mr. Harmer allowed a strong party of the slave crew to remain out of irons, and at night they rose and murdered every Englishman on board ; and, when day light broke, exchanged signals with, and fired at, the other prize, and then bore away. In a day or two after wards she fell in with the Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, who took her, and brought the whole of her murderous piratical crew to Ascension. The villains will shortly be sent to England. REGISTER r REGISTER ! REGISTER!—" The battle of the Constitution must be fought in the Registration Courts," are the memorable words of Sr Robert Peel. Let owe Conservative friends not lose sight of them, but act nobly up to their import. The very greatest exer tions are making by the radicals. This example must not 132 lost sight of by the Conservatives. It is their duty to commence work in right good earnest, so that they may be able to foil the base attempts of the Anti- Corn-Law League to swamp the constituency. Conser vatism was triumphant at the last election mainly through the perseverance and united exertions of Conservatives in the Registration Courts ; and, to render the same tri umphant at the next election. not a step must be missed for placing all true and good Conservatives, who are duly qualified, on the register. These efforts must be made before the 20th of July, and, considering the importance and amount of the work to be done, no time must be lost in commencing. EXTRAORDINARY DESTRUCTION OF WASPS.—The Earl of Traquair has for several years past given a liberal reward to the children in the neighbourhood for destroying those destructive insects, during the months of April and to the middle of May, as it is understood that at that pe riod every wasp is the parent of a whole nest, amounting to some thousands. Those noxious creatures are un usually numerous this season, as the following account will show. The chi►dren, about fifty in number, attended at Traquair House with their spoil every Saturday, where they were counted by his lordship's gardener, and each one paid so much per dozen. The following has been the result :-26th April, 756 dozen, weighing 2lb. loz. ; 3d May, 114 dozen, weight 6oz. ; 10th May, 591 dozen, weight 2i oz. ; 17th May, 6431 dozen, weight 113 oz. Total 1,573 dozen, weight 41b. 91 oz. ; making the incre dible number of 18.876 wasps' nests destroyed in four weeks, and in one parish. It may be presumed, if each of these had been allowed to multiply, however favourable the season may prove, there would be little fruit or honey left for miles round.—Caledonian Mercury. WESTMORELAND AND CUMBFRLAND YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—A correspondent writng to us from Penrith says,—" This day (June 4th) I have felt much pleasure in witnessing the exercises and evolutions of this truly splen did regiment. It consists of six troops, under the com mand of Col. Hasel. Although it is the morbid fashion of the day to revile these local corps, I assure you a more noble and soldierlike appearance than was presented to-day it is impossible to conceive. No body of regulars could be more imposing, either in their evolutions, the fineness of the men, the splendour of the uniform, or the superiority of the equipments. Unpopular as the idea may seem, my notion is, that if ever such a means of domestic defence were needed, a regiment like this stalwart northern array would rather astonish some of the less vigorous southerns. A few weeks ago I was present at a review of the Salopian cavalry at Ellesmere; and, as compared with the West moreland and Cumberland, they were as a disable d fishing smack to one of your A 1 crafts. I was peculiarly pleased with the Kendal troop, under the command, I believe, of Capt. Heddall. PARLIAMENTARY DlvlsioNs.—The only member for this county who voted against the second reading of the Irish Colleges Bill, was Mr. Greenall, M. P., for Wigan. In its lam there voted Lord Sandon, J. Ireland Black burne, Dr. Bowring, J. Brotherton, E. Cardwell, J. Talbot Clifton, Sir G. Clifton, W. Sharman Cranford, Lord F. Egerton, W. Entwisle, W. Fielden, T. Greene, J. Wilson Patten, M. Philips, and C. Standish. The following were absent. Sir Howard Douglas, J. Hornby, J. Fielden, General Johnson, P. Ainsworth, C. Hindley, R. Walker, G. Marton, T. Milner Gibson, and Sir H. Fleetwood. On the motion of Mr. Ward, for the appoint ment of a select committee to enquire into the " peculiar burthens" upon land the following voted in its favour ; Sir George Strickland, Dr. Bowring. J. Brotherton, W. Sharman Crawford, T. Milner Gibson, C. Hindley, M. Phillias, and R. Walker. Against it were Lord Sandon, J. Talbot Clifton, E. Cardwell, J. Ireland Blackburne, P. Greenall, T. Greene, J. Wilson Patten.—Among the absentees were Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, G. Marton, C. Standish, P. Ainsworth, W. Feilden, J. Fielden, General Johnson. J. Horriby, W. Entwisle, Lord F. Egerton, and Sir Howard Douglas. JUSTIFICATION OF THE OPPOSITION TO MAYNOOTH. —A Roman Catholic peer, Lord Beaumont, in the debate of Monday night, gave the strongest justification which we have beard of the efforts which have been made joy the opponents of the bill. He said, that "if they redly be lieved the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church to be as they described, their toleration would be a crime." Most earnestly do the opponents of the measure eve the doctrines of the lioinan Catholic Church to bM - rit ually as well as temporally evil in the highest degree, and they therefore consider it to be their most urgent duty to set their faces against any measure, proceed from whatever quarter it may, which may encourage and spread those doctrines. But the belief of the evil tendency of the Ro man Catholic doctrines is not confined to the opponents of the Maynooth Bill. Even the supporters of the mea sure join, to a greater or less extent, in that belief. The Earl of Hardwicke said, in the very hearing of Lord Beaumont, on Tuesday night, " that there was much in the dogmas taught at Maynooth which he abhorred" — and yet the Earl of Hardwicke, and other legislators making similar professions, can find it in their consciences to advocate the propriety of voting away an increased grant of public money for the purpose of giving greater effect to the teaching of the dogmas of their " abhorrence." Truly we are fallen on strange and lax days. CHILD D ESERTION.—On Monday, a well-dressed young woman left a beantiful infant, with a letter, on the step of the door of No. 74, Lower Grosvenor-street—a house occupied at present by the lion. William Lucas Rous, having previously knocked and rung at the door. When the butler opened the door and found what had been deposited there, he made the circumstance known to Mr. Roue. to whom the letter was directed. The letter was as follows :—" Mr. Rous, I have had no an swer to the letter of yesterday; therefore I leave your child. The last thing I did for him I gave him the breast, and then fell on my knees and implored heaven to pro tect him. If my feeble limbs will support me so far, I am now point- to No. 40, Little-street. I have eaten the last piece of bread, and drank the last draught of water that shall enter my lips, till I have seen both him and you. 1 die in peace with you and all the world. May God, my Saviour, protect my child! SARAH FULCHER.' A police-constable was sent for, and the child and the letter directed to be taken to the watch-house. When asked by Mr. Maltby why she bad left the child at the residence of Mr. Rous, she said she was ready to swear that Mr. Rotas was the father. She bad been in the ser vice of Mrs. Rous, as lady's maid, at Worsted-house, Norfolk. She was seduced by Mr. Rous, and the result of the intercourse was the child, now ten months old, which she had left on the step of Mr. Rous's door. Mr. Maltby said the regular course was to proceed by sum mons against the alleged father, and accordingly a summons was issued for Tuesday against Mr. Rous. MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.--The Birmingham Journal narrates the loss and recovery of a child under extraordinary circumstances. Tne child was two years and a half old, and belonged to an Irish couple named Ronan. When lost, search was made in vain for it, and six days elapsed without any hope of recovery. At last as two young men, who lived in the house adjoining an empty tenement, were retiring to rest, one of them thought he heard faint cries. They got up, and proceeded into the empty house. In an attic adjoining their own room, they found, huddled op in the corner, the poor little creature, so sadly changed in appearance that it could scarcely be recognised. On seeing two persons approaching with lights' half dressed, the child screamed with fright, but it was speedily quieted, when it eagerly asked for water. On the Romans being apprised that their little girl was found, the mother could not at first believe that the ema ciated little creature befOre her was their own long lost child. Of this, however. the overjoyed parents were soon reassured. On undressing her, the little creature's back and sides were found quite sore and bruised from lying on the hard boards, and her feet were swelled from the pressure of her boots, and they were also bruised in va rious places. She complained sadly of pains in her stomach. caused by her long and dreary fast, not a morsel of food having been tasted by her for six days and nights ! It appears that on straying from its mother's door, it fell into the open cellar of the empty house without any one being aware of the circumstance. It was probably stunned by the full (as it has a severe cut on the forehead), and was thus prevented from crying out for help. On reco vering itself, it crept from the cellar up stairs, and from the lower rooms into the attic, on reaching which it closed the door, which shut so closely, that the child became a prisoner in the solitary apartment. CLASSIC SCULPTURE.—The perfections attained by the nations of classic antiquity in the arts, especially that of sculpture, is too well known and appreciated to require further eulogium at the present day. We may however cease to wonder at the excellence thus attained, when we learn the extent to which it was practised, since we find . it recorded by an ancient svriter that the number of stetees at Rome exceeded that of its living inhabitants. It is well known that the master-pieces of Greek and Roman skill have constantly supplied modern artists with models and examples; and we have recently beet. much struck with the adaptation of a beautiful specimen of ancient art, by those distinguished artists Messrs. Perkins and Bacon, who, for the protection of an article of deserved celebrity —the KALYDOR, prepared by Messrs. ROWLAND and SON, of Hatton-garden--have produced a label depicting a classic group of eminent grace and beauty, a farther description of which appears in our advertising columns. . • rn