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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1854. I - Alt'tom. I Insurance Notices. r...., MONEY. —WANTED to BORROW £lOO to NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY.— ESTA BUSHED 1821. £2OO, for One, Two, or Three Years, for which satis factory security will be CAPITAL £550,000. given, and 5 per cent. interest.— TRUSTEES. Address T, Standard-office. Theßight Hon . Lord Hastings Edwd. Wenham Martin, Esq. The Lord Walpole Thomas Amyot, Esq. 1 LOAN S OF MON E Y.-BOROUGH OF Sir Henry Jardine, Knt. Henr y Brown, Esq. LIVERPOOL. John Stracey, Esq. Br.c. &c. &c. The CORPORATION of LIVERPOIL are prepared to DIRECTORS. receive LOANS of MONEY, for periods of three, Five, or President —Anthony Hudson, Esq. Seven Years, bearing Interest at the rate of £4 per Cent. p?r Vice-President—Lieut.-General Sir RohertJohn Harvey, C. B. Annum. Interest payable on the Ist January and let July Charles Evans, Esq., Chan- 1 Robert John Harvey Harvey, r, in e ver y year. Th e Security i s th e " Liverpool Water cellor of the Dioc ese of Esq. Account," composed of the Rents. Rates, and Charges for Norwich. George Durant, Esq. the supply of Water within the Borough pit Liverpool and the Edward Stewart, Esq. Sir William Foster, Bart. Neighbourhood, for Domestic, Trading. Manufacturing, and Thomas Blakiston,Esq.,R•N• Henry S. Patteson, Esq. other purposes, and for Shipping, THE BOROUGH FUND Timothy Steward, Esq. John Wright, Esq. BEING AN ADDITIONAL OR COLLATERAL SECURITY, SAMUEL BIGNOLD, Esq., Secretary. FOR THE INTEREST; AND THE LANDS. TENEMENTS , The Publ ic are respectfully reminded, that all Insurances HEEEDITANIENTs. AND ESTATE OF THE CORPORA- renewable in the LIVERPOOL AGENCY on the 25th day of 'LION, FOR THE PRINCIPAL. December, 1853, must be paid at the Office, 6, Exchange-street Applications to be made to CAPES ASHLIN, Esq., Trea- West, on or before the 9th day of January, 1854, or the surer, pdhlic Offices, 2, Cornwallis-street ;or to the TowN Society will cease to be liable for the sums insured. CLERK, Town-hall, Liverpool; from either of whom further This Society paid £74,037 95. Ild. Duty to Government for Particulars may be obtained. the year 1852. (By order) WM. SHUTTLE WORTH, Town-clerk. It INSURED, during the same year, £9,066,080 Farming Town-hall, 2nd January, 1854. Stock, which is Free of Duty. In proof of the public approbation of the principles and conduct of this Company, it may be sufficient to state that '• lnsurance Notices. its Business now exceeds SIXTY MILLIONS. _____-------- ROBERT NEILSON, AGENTS { JOHN ANDERSSON. t o t INSURANCE COMPANY. NO CHARGE. FOR POLICY STAMPS. I ESTABLISHED 18 24. PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Parties having Annual Policies falling due on the 25th of ESTABLISHED IN 1797. 1 December are respectful} , informed that they should renew iO, LOMBARD-STREET. CITY, eind 57, CHARING 'the same within fifteen days from that date. AGENTS : CROSS, WESTMINSTER. • NOTICE. LATHAM HANMER, jun., 1, Dale-street. F. L. MAWDESLEY, 3. Cook-street. The present Septennial period, prior to the next Division of • JOHN ATKINSON, 25, North John-street. Profits, will terminate on the 2d July, 1854. All Policies now I LITHERLAND & GROOM, 42, Lord-street. effected (and afterwards continued in force for five years) on the Participating Scale of Premium, will share in the surplus. ri For Prospectuses. and Forms of Proposal, apply at the CIORPORATI ON OF THE LONDON Offices, as above, or to any of the Company's Agents. it k..} ASSURANCE. ROBERT TUCKER, Secretary. AGENTS. 0 ESTABLISHED A.D. 1720. THOS. CROOK and Son, Accountants. 1, JA F M ire E - S offi o c D e. DlE, Agent to the Manchester Y No. 7, ROYAL EXCHANGE , CORNH ILL, LIVE n r00L... • I. AND • JAS. & THOS. LEWIN, Wine-merchants. s, No. 7, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Ashton "• • ' • { Thomas Hill Surveyor. ' Thorras L. Cunningham, Stationer. ; GOVERNOR. Edward Burmester, Esq. Blackburn { John Railton • St. Paul's Foundry ' .. • I. S UB -G OVERNOR , John A. Arbuthnot. Esq. '• James Wilson. Old Bank. DEPUTY-GOVERNOR, James Dowie, Esq. f J. Mawdsley and Son. Y Bolton FIRE INSURANCES effected upon every description of 1 James Knowles, Solicitor. Property, with the usual reductions allowed on and in Build- Burnley Thomas Holgate, Wine-merhant. • sags or Certified Warehouses, .tc. and for single management, f Thomas Crompton, Bookseller. ) -according to the lowest rates current. Bury ,- Chorley Richard Cliffe. 4 FIRE NOTICE. Lancaster Manchester .... i Richard Hinde, Wine-merchant. e PERSONS ASSURED AGAINST FIRE by this Corpora- r William James Tate, 57, King-street. % tion, whose Policies expire at CHRISTMAS. are respectfully Robert Holmes, Norfolk•street. 'reminded, that, for their own security, they should renew Ormakirk John Fairhurst, Miller. r them within FIFTEEN DAYS from the said QUARTER DAY. Preston Edward Pedder, Banker. t LIFE ASSURANCES.—This branch of the Corporation's Prescot a S Proctor, Grocer. jtj JonathanJ James vv. niNNe s. NA BG i . o . i N o ut o d i i dne s ei ~ , inl,, Attorney. Bo n.°nmitto;ntmog business is carried on without any charge for management, Rochdale r a i n: g e r . and offers peculiar advantages to the Assured. I Prospectuses, Mercantile Fire Rates, and all other infor- Salford I , 1 Thomas Fell, Old Bank. nation, may be had at their Offices, or sent free, on applica le Lion to Warrington . ... it JOHN SCOTT. 1, India -buildings, Water-street ; Wigan il 1 John Acton, Gentleman. C. F. CA RNE, 13, Rumford-place ; li Agents for Liverpool and adjac ent p arts ; or to _ - _ EDW D. ROBERTS, Sandford-street , B irkenhead. b 2 4 1 . 63 _Music. a WATERLOO LIFE , E DUCATION, - tr CASUALTY, AND SELF - RELI EF ASSURANCE cc IDASSED AWAY TO HEAVEN. "— " Joy a, COMPANY. r ful, joyful Spring."—" The Spring and the Summer Incorporated under Statute 7 and 8 Vic. cap. ?, both are past."—" Say, my heart, can this be love." By W. Subscrihed Capital, £400,060. VINCENT WALLACE. Price 2s. each. p HEAD OFFICE, 355, STRAND, LONDON. " These four songs, within the compass of a moderate 1 mezzo soprano voice, are among the best English songs that LIVERPOOL LOCAL BOARD : have been published."—Athenceum. a DIRECTORS. Chairman.—Hilton Flathead. Esq., Merchant. Robert Bickersteth, Esq. F.R.C.S. pll =- __, _ James Bland, Esq., Merchant. —l-. .4_ 7=.n..... =.7----__F2..,_ _ ._ ,__,,_ ,:.--, Matthew Gregson. Esq., Merchant. _. .....—„..... ....... ._ .. - ...7 „ ," William Joseph Horsfall. Esq., Merchant. " 0 lovely Peace, with plenty crown d." $, James Lord, Esq., Merchant. it MEDICAL REFEREE. - Alfred Stephens , Es q ., 4, NOVELLO'S CHEAP MUSIC is sold by Upper Parliament-street. every respectable Music Seller and Bookseller in this ri MANAGER.—Mr. Chas. Batten, Cuthbert's-buildings. Town and Neighbourhood. Catalogues post-free on sending I: Clayton-square. six damps to 69, Dean-street, Soho, London. t( FEATURES OF THIS COMPANY. s - SI By the appropriation of profits, a Fund will be created for Nth) p üblica tio ns. ' e the Education of Children of qualified Assurers upon Volun le tary Principles, also for the relief of qualified Assurers and is Shareholders, their Widows and Orphans, by providing Lately Published, price 3 s. 6d., cloth boards. , f Annuities, and Homes or Asylums. i s Assurances granted against paralysis, blindness, insanity, SURGICAL REPORT on LITHOTOMY, 4 accidents, and other afflictions. with General Remarks on Operations for Stone, and i Annuities granted. Family endowments. No charge to the on Diseases of the Kidne y s, Bladdsr. and Urethra. By J. 4 assured for policy stamps. Medical men always paid for their NOTTINGHAM, M.D., Liverpool, Author of " Surgical reports. Loans granted in connexion with Life Assurance. Report on Cataract an d Artificial Pupil. if Rates of premium moderate. CHURCHILL, London: DEIGHTON &LAUGHTON, Liverpool. If An unusually liberal commission allowed to Agents. Detailed Prospectuses may he had on application to Price ss. 6d. by post. O T. G. WILLIAMS, JUN., ESQ., THE TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION, MANAGER AND SECRETARY. with Cases. By Dr. BURSLEM, Senior Physician to ..., Head Office, 355, Strand, London. the Blenheim-street Dispensary, London. O "Original and important observations on the treatment of - MONARCH FIR C E ON A w ND ANY LIFE ASSURANCE consuVi l on h in sic tl i i a e n frt. ne;t. . Dr. Burslem is evidently g le ADELAIDE-PLACE, LONDON BRIDGE. a "Of practical utility."—Medical Times and Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1835. London : J. CHURCHILL, 80110. ' CHAIRMAN: e- Sir John Musgrove, Bart. and Alderman. TO BOOK CLUBS , TOWN AND COUNTRY LENDING E - DEPUTY CHAIRMAN : LIBRARIES, MECHANICS' INSTITUTES, &c., &c. s, ' b GEORGE Kinneraley Hooper, Esq. and Alderman. In the Press. p GEORGE H. JAY, Manager. T_IIISTORY of the POLICY of the CHURCH Among the advantages offered by this Company may be j_i_ of ROME in IRELAND from the INTRODUCTION a stated, ample security arising from a large subscribe(' Capital, of the ENGLISH DYNASTY to the GREAT REBELLION. to Reduced Rates of Premium for Young Lives, one-half the By the late WILLIAM I'HELAN, D.D. With Biographical ; Premium for the first five years allowed to remain as a per- Memoir by the late Dr. JOHN JEBB. formerly Bishop of I- , manent Loan. Limerick, and Introductory Remarks, by JAMES LORD, Esq., i s Premiums payable annually, half-yearly, or quarterly. of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. To be published in Bonuses declared every fifth year. octavo, good type and paper. Price, 125 to subscribers ' 16s Participation by Life Assurers in two-thirds of the profit of t o non-subscribers. Orders may be sent to Mr. Sanders, Pro • - the Fire Department. testant Association Office, 6, Serjeants'-Inn, Fleet-street, Lon- Loans granted in connexion with Life Assurance on don, or to Messrs. Wertheim and Macintosh, 24 . Paternoster f • approved personal and other securities. - row. The printed list of those ordering copies will be inserted All kinds of Life Contingency nrotected. , in the Times of 2d January, 1854, and may be had gratis at the !) FIRE. O ffi ce. In it are the names of two Archbishops, eight Bishops, A Every description of Fire Business undertaken at the ordi- twenty-eight Noblemen, and Members of the House of Com nary rates. mons, as well as those of Clergymen and distinguished lay- It FOREIGN RISK. men in various parts of the kingdom. Insurances granted on Property in all the principal cities of 249 Copies have already been subscribed for. Europe and the British Colonies. The List for Subscribers will close January 18, 1854. The Renewal Fire Receipts for the CHRISTMAS Quarter HANDSOME CHRISTMAS OR NEV YEAR'S PRESENT. rt are now ready for eelivery, and Policy-holders are respect- ready, fully informed that the same can be obtained at the Head Now elegantly bound in cloth, gilt, 384 pages, with r Forty-four Illustrations, price 2s. 6d., i Office, or of any of the Agents. O All Transfers of Policy from other Offices will be made free HOME THOUGHTS for 1854, containing 1. of charge. Tales—Essays—Poetry—Historic Contrasts—Biogra- AGENTS FOR LIVER,YOOL : phical Sketches of Eminent Men — Loiterings r ound London Messrs. J. P. PLATT and C 0.... No. 53, Castle-street. —Papers on Science, Natural History, and the Arts—Notices Mr. R. ANGUS No. 6, Cook-street. and Extracts from New Books—Embroider y , Crochet, and If I THE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE Notes—Chess and Draughts, with Problems and Games — Arithmetical Questions—Riddles and Charades—and a variety 4 COMPANY. of instructive and amusing matter. I CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS. " One of the most welcome of fireside visitors."—Black burn Standard. / OFFICE-26, Market-street, Manchester. HOME THOUGHTS is also published in Monthly Numbers, LONDON OFFICE-2, King-street, Cheapside. price 2d., each containing 32 pages of letter-press, with LIVERPOOLOFFICE-3.High-street,&s,Exchange-streetEast. Wrapper, and Engravings. Nos. Ito 12 are now ready.— ..-.= GLASGOW OFFICES-118, Ingram-street. and The January Number (No. 13) contains the first chapters Li 3 4. Hanover-street. of a New Tale, by Mrs. Geldart, Author of " Truth is Every. w' GREENOCK OFFICE—The Mansion-house. thing," &c. i t ---- London: KENT &Co., Paternoster-row; and all Booksellers. r- DIRECTORS AT LIVERPOOL. C HAIRMAN —Eyre Evans, Esq. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, , Benjamin Derbyshire, Esq. 1 W. F. Hunter, Esq. a Commercial, Political, and General Newspaper, ie Thomas Fry, Esq. Frederick Lyon. Esq. IS PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, r, George Glen, Esq. Daniel Powell, Esq. and is delivered at the RESIDENCE of Subscribers by :0 Charles Holland. Esq. I James Smith, Esq. EIGHT O'CLOCK, in any part of Liverpool. or within the $ RESIDENT SECRETARY—John Semple, Esq. districts of Aew Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, r. Woodside, Tranmere, Rock-ferry,Waterloo, Seaforth, Bootle, LIFE DEPARTMENT. Walton, Everton, Fairfield, and Aigburth. .., BONUSES.—EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits apPOr- Subscripion, in advance. for a year, R 3 ; six months, toned to the Assured triennially, after the first five years, and applicable as may be preferred at the time of each valuation. £1 118, 6d. ; three months. 19s. 6 d. — For the Proprietor s, CHARLES WILLM ER, PUBLISHER. $1 I , lge. 1201 30 40 5O 160 v - - IMPORTANT TO SHOPKEEPERS. be Bonus Rates .g 1 17 0 .e 2 6 0 -f - 3 0 6 .4 6 9 £6 7 6 Just Published , price 2s. 6(1.. he . THE SHOPKEEPER'S GUIDE, designed to _ ....,.....„ .h. iata,aat of the ShnnlcaeoPn.bv in- SPECIAL NOTICE.—No Stamp Duty whatever charged. FIRE DEPARTMENT. BONUSES.—FIFTY PER CENT. of the Profits appor 'tinned to the Assured annually on Policies of three years' standing —an advantage offered by very few Offices. INSURANCES ON FARMING STOCK. The Public are informed that the Rates for the Insurances of Farming Stock with this Company have just been REDUCED 'from 48. to 3s. per Cent. without the Average Clause, and from 3s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. with that Clause. NOTlCE.—Persons insured with this Office, whose Policies .expire at CHRISTMAS, are respectfully reminded that they should be renewed within Fifteen Days from that period; and those who desire to avail themselves of the advantages and security of The Lancashire Insurance Company incur no extra expense by the transfer of their Policies. Influential Gentlemen Wanted as Agents, where the Com pany is not represented. Prospectuses, Mercantile Rates, Forms of Proposal, and all other information, will be afforded at theOflices and Agencies of the Company. Mr. WM. HENDERSON, Agent for Birkenhead ; Mr. G. J. ASPINALL, Agent for Toxteth•park. ti' uS .ge he THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL, £2,000,000, in 100,000 SHARES of £2O each, HEAD OFFICE, NORTH JOHN-STREET, AND DALE-STREET. : TRUSTEES. John Shaw Leigh, Esq. IR.B. B. 11. Blundell, Esq. DIRECTORS, &C., IN LIVERPOOL. Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman. J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., and Edmund Molyneux, Esq., Deputy-Chairmen. Michael Belcher, Esq. Richard Houghton, Esq. Michael Bousfield, Esq. Edward Johnston, Esq. Thomas Bomb, Esq. Roger Lyon Jones, Esq. Ralph Brocklebank, Esq. James Lawrence, Esq. David Cannon, Esq. William J. Marrow, Esq. Thomas Dover, Esq. I Francis Maxwell, Esq. R. Ellison Harvey, Esq. George Maxwell, Esq. James Holme, Esq. Robert M'Andrew, Esq. T. Dyson Hornby, - Esq. William Smith, Esq. 'George H. Horsfall, Esq. John Torr, Esq. AUDITORS. William Titherington, Esq., and John Dickinson, Esq. PHYSICIAN. SURGEON. Richard Formby, M.D. Hugh Neill, F.R.A.S. SURVEYOR. SOLICITOR. Samuel Holme, Esq. Septimus Booker, Esq. MANAGER AND ACTUARY, Percy M. Dove, Esq. BIRKENHEAD BRANCH, "OFFICE—HAMILTON-BUILDINGS, HAMILTON-STREET. Agent.—Henry Cole, Esq. Surgeon.—James T. Vale, Esq., Hamilton-square. LIFE BRANCH. IMPORTANT TO SHOPKEEPERS. Just Published, price 28. 6d., THE SHOPKEEPER'S GUIDE, designed to give stability to the interest of the Shopkeeper t by in structing him how to place his business upon a secure foun dation ; but especially to guide persons, who, from ill health, or from reverse of fortune, may seek to obtain a livelihood by Shopkeeping, in a path which will contribute to certain success. CONTENTS : 1. SHOPKEEEING.—CAUSES OF FAILURES OF SHOP KEEPERS. 2. THREE WAYS OF LIVING. 3. QUALIFICATIONS FOR A SHOPKEEPER. 4. CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. 5. SHOPKEEPERS' STOCK LISTS. 6. HINTS TOWARDS THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. 7. DIFFERENCE OF REMUNERATION IN THE TRADES AND PROFESSIONS. 8. MONEY, CREDIT, BILLS OF EXCHANGE. LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING BILLS AN D PROMISSORY NOTES, LETTERS OF CREDIT, STAMPS, INTE REST TABLES, BANKS AND BANKING. &c., &c. 9. BOOK-KEEPING.—OUTLINE OF A SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM ADAPTED TO A RETAIL SH OP. 10. LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. 11. MISCELLANEOUS ADVICE FOR THE CONSIDER ATION OF THE SHOPKEEPER. 12. THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT. 13. EXAMPLES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN SUC CESSFUL IN LIFE. 14. NUMEROUS RECEIPTS FOR ARTICLES IN CON STANT DEMAND, WHICH MAY BE PUT UP BY ANY SHOPKEEPER, AND SOLD AT A CONSIDER ABLE PROFIT; WITH AN ACCURATE STATE MENT OF THEIR COST, AND THE PROFITS RESULTING FROM THE SALE OF THEM. 15. A LIST OF PROFITABLE AGENCIES OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC IN THE PAGES OF ALL TILE DAILY PAPERS DURING THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS. London : HOULSTON and STONEMAN, 65, Paternoster-row, and every Bookseller throughout the kingdom. Price 2s. 6d., (rind neatly. NECIAL NOTICE.—STAMPS ON LIFE POLICIES NOT CHARGED. Attention is directed to the fact that to a defined extent Life Premiums are not subject to Income-tax, and that in certain cases Life Policies are exempt from the New Succession Duties. FIRE BRANCH. FIRE INSURANCES will be effected at moderate rates of Premium. The Company, having the advantage of a Resi dent Directory, will he enabled to distinguish itself by its promptness in the settlement of Claims. No Charge made for the Policy. • MONDAY EDITION for all interested in the prices at MARK LANE and SMITHFIELD MARKETS. Price 6d., free by post, enlarge) to twenty-four folio pages, (each yearly volume complete in itself , ) THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE; a Weekly Record of Rural Economy and General News. The Horticultural Part edited by Dr. LINDLEY. In accordance with the wishes of Farmers, Millers, and others interested in the Corn Trade, an Edition will be pub lished in time for post every Moaday Afternoon from the commencement of the New Year. containing a Full Report of the Mark-lane and Smith fi eld Markets of that day. In consequence of the Advertisement duty having been taken off by Government, the customary charges for Adver tisements in THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICUL TURAL GAZETTE have been reduced. The peculiar character and very extensive sale of THE GAR9ENECS' CHRONICLE AND AORICULTURgL GAZETTE among the Farming Interest and Landed Aristocracy makes it an especially valuable channel for all Advertisements which are addressed to that class, particularly for Advertisements relating to the Sale of Estates and Farm Stock, the Letting of Farms, Farming and Garden Implements, Construction of Conservatories, Fences, &c., Seeds, Manures, Planting, Flowers, &c.,.&c. Another advantage is, that the work, from its nature, is one not only of daily but constant reference, so that Advertisements are repeatedly under the eyes of the subscribers. Advertisements will appear in both Editions without extra charge. Space of four lines and under (body type), 2s. Gd.; each additional line up to twenty, Gd.; every five lines beyond, 2s. ; a column, ''3; a page, .ea Ba. Advertisements of Bailiffs and Gardeners out of place, if not more than four lines, Is. 6d. each. From the last published Official Stamp Returns, Oct. 1851, it appears that during the preceding year, 1850, the Stamps supplied to each of the undermentioned Journals gave them an average publication Of—GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 6,500; Observer, 6,230; Magnet, 4,731; Mark-lane Express, 4,730; Examiner, 4,397; Evening Mail, 4,166; Economist, 3,826; Record, 3,754 ; Daily News, 3,692; Morning Herald, 3, 650 ; Britannia, 3,151 ; Spectator, 2,936 ; Nlorning Chronicle, 2.924; St. James's Chronicle, 2,891; Sun, 2,674; Morning Post, 2 ,657; John Bull, 2,115; Atlas, 1,884 ; Globe, 1,875; Standard, 1,577 ; Gardener and Farmer's Journal, 1,165. THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GA zETTE, price 6d., is published every Saturday Morning, with a Special Edition on Alonday afternoon after Mark-lane Mar ket, and may be ordered of all Newsvenders. A List of Con tributors may be had on application at the Office. Parties intending to commence with the New Volume had better give their orders at once, specifying whether Saturday's or Mon day's Edition, — Office for Advertisements and Communica tions, 5, Upper Wellington-street, Covent-garden, London. LIFE BRANCH. •-• The Company likewise assure Lives on any of the following contingencies, namely : For the WHOLE CONTINUANCE OF LIFE.—The Premiums to cease after a LIMITED NUMBER OF ANNUAL PAYMENTS. For a Sum to be payable at Age 60, or at Death. PREMIUMS ON CREDIT. A PORTION OF THE PREMIUMS MAY REMAIN ON CREIT, OR ASURANCES AfAY BE EF IN VARIOUS WAYS, S NOT ENUMERATED, TOFECTED MEET THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PARTY MAKING THE ASSUR ANCE. The important advantages afforded by the Company in this Branch will include the following. viz.:— GUARANTEE OF AN AMPLE CAPITALL M ODER ATE PRE 'MIDIS, L ARGE P ARTICIPATION O F FROFITS BY THE ASSURED, SMALL CHARGE FOR MANAGEMENT, &c. The 115051 Commission allowed to Solicitors. Fees to Medical Referees are likewise granted by this COCl pany. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager. Policies fallin g due at CHRISTMAS should he renewed on Or before the 9th of January next, December, 1853, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Nein ipublications. Just ready, price 2s. 6d., lIFE OF DR. CHALMERS, SECOND QUAR TERLY PART. Also, FOURTH MONTHLY PART, Price 6d. To be completed either way for 10s. Edinburgh : TuordAs CONSTABLE and Co. London : HAMILTON, ADAMS, and Co. Just published, Svo, price Is. 6d., THE EVANGELICALS and the EDIN BURGH. A Rt PLY to the Article on CHURCH PARTIES. By the Rev. S. MINTON, M.A. " Unsparing, yet temperate and Christian."—Liverpool Courier. "A very able refutation."—Rev. Dr. Marsh. Liverpool : DEIGHTON and LAUGHTON. London : SEELEYS. This day is published, (pp 90 Price One Shilling. SECTION 1, of an INDEX to FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS, selected principally from British Authors, with parallel passages from various Writers, Ancient and Modern. By J. C. GROCOTT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. The Second Section will be published on the let February, and the third and conducting portion on the Ist of March next. _ _ _ Sold by the Author, at 8, Basnett-street, and by JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Bookseller, No. 50, Lord-street, Liverpool. Second Edition, price 2s. 6d. ; 3s. per post. ON THE CURE OF BLINDNESS FROM CATARACT, with a Practical Summary of the Rest Modes of Operating, Continental and British. By Huai' NEILL, F.R.A.S., Senior Surgeon in the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary. This Work shows the results of Mr. Neill's praetice in 1,000 Hospital operations, during a period of Eighteen Years. Worksby the same Author :—On Deafness, with the Modern Methods of Cure. Four Editions : out of Print. 1 11inical Report on Diseases of the Eye. Two Edi tions : out of Print. Liverpool : DETOHTON and LAUGHTON. B LACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE,No.CCCCLIX. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS: A Painter in Persia. The Quiet Heart.—Part 11. Dives. The English at Home.—By a Frenchman Abroad. The Past and Fu ure of China. The Last Fruit off an Old Tree. The Beverages we Infuse. The Aberdeen Cabinet. Edinburgh and London : WM. BLACKWOOD and SONS. Liverpool: SEDMAN P. CHEOWIN j WEBB and HUNT; and the other Booksellers. Just published. price One Shillinz. AN INSIGHT INTO THE MANAGEMENT of the LOWER SCHOOL. COLLEGIATE INSTITII - containing the whole of the CORRESPONDENCE and the written EVIDENCE adduced on the occasion of the remarkable investigation which took place relative to the very serious charges brought against the Head Master: to gether with Explanatory Remarks and other matter of grave importance, By GEORGE L. ARMSTRONG. For the last six years Math. Mas. of the Lower and Evening Schools, Collegiate Institution. Liverpool: EDWARD HOWELL. 6, Church-street. CHEAP EDITIONS OFBULWER'S NOVELS Is. and is. 6d. Volumes. 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The remark that the year just closed has been a most eventful one, has been so often made with reference to previous years, that. it has become an observation too trite to excite attention : still there are many circumstances worthy to be recalled, which have had their rise in the year 1853, though their ultimate results may be long distant. England has had a year's experience of a Coali tion Ministry, the income-tax renewed for seven years, and real property subject to a tax on succes sion. To commercial enterprise and industrial activity, 1853 has been a year of halcyon days, high prices, and unlimited demand ; but human nature is never satisfied, and long before the season had closed, reports from all quarters teemed with complaints of operatives out on strike for higher wages—so that prosperity failed to bring content, and full employment was the precursor of absolute idleness. Those who indulged in dreams of cheap bread, awoke to the reality of dear food of all kinds ; while the reflecting mind may have learned the useful lesson that every earthly good has its alloy of evil, nothing being perfect but the hope of good things hereafter. The dilatory manner in which measures for sanitary improvement have been carried on has received a salutary warning in a visitation of the cholera, which, though slight at first, and temporarily checked by the frost which has lately set in, may return with far more viru lence on the approach of warmer weather, should the interval not be wisely used in the application of the means within our power for the promotion of cleanliness, by better draining and ventilation, and a more ample supply of water. The lull in politi cal agitation, during the Parliamentary vacation, has not been unprofitably employed in discussing the wants of our poorer fellow-creatures, the best means of affording the advantages of education to the rising generation, and the most efficient mode of dealing with the increasing number of juvenile delinquents. The interests of the Church have not been neglected—for two members have been added to our Colonial Episcopate ; inquiries have taken place into the great seminaries of learning, Oxford and Cambridge : and though little direct benefit may be anticipated from the labours of a Ministerial appointed commission, the stimulus to self-examination, which has resulted, may not be without a beneficial effect. In our relations with Foreign states, there appears to be less cause for congratulation—for after, like. Judaea of old, the land has had rest for nearly forty years, we hear of wars and rumours of wars ; and none may safely predict how long we shall be spared from once more being called upon to put forth our strength to secure the safety of the British Empire, at the cost of war taxes and a heavy addition to the National Debt. Ireland, more than decimated of her population by famine, and pestilence, and voluntary expatria tion, has had an Exhibition of Industry and Art, displaying to the world at large that her latent energy and skill only required the stimulus of encouragement to give them fair play. Scotland, after a century and a half of union with England, has determined to speak out and demand her full share of the rights which her patient submission has failed to obtain from a sense of justice. The colonies have not been without interest. Australia has started in the race like a young giant, her gold fields surpassing the wildest dreams of Oriental enthusiasts, and attracting im migrants by thousands and tens of thousands; while the wants of the latter have opened an ex port trade for our home produce, which, as yet, seems to know no limit. It is a circumstance also worthy of observation, that, although the almost fabulous accounts of the discovery of gold excited many apprehensions of too great an abundance, we have really experienced a gradual tightening of the money market, through the decreasing store of bullion in the coffers of the Bank of England. The long war • which endangered the peace of the Cape of Good Hope has been brought to a conclusion, and now we are promised new supplies of colonial produce. The West Indies have partially recovered from their long suffering, and at length given up their claim to hold ,the purse-strings independent of the Governor.. Canada has hardly supplied us with an incident for comment, except to sympa- thise with the injustice which has robbed the Church of the clergy reserves guaranteed by a former government.. With the exception of the dispute, which has grown into a war, between Russia and Turkey, the state of Europe has been comparatively one of quietude. Louis NAPOLEON has contrived to preserve the Imperial crown of France, which he so adroitly won, and to restrain the thirst for military conquest which animates his troops. Austria, vacillating between her Russian ally and her professions of peace with the Western Powers, has been successful in doing nothing. Prussia appears to have forgotten her dream of German unity. Spain has lost nothing but her loyalty for her sovereign, the eccentric daughter of an infamous mother, and still retains Cuba from the long-meditated grasp of the American eagle : and the little states are in much the same condi tion at the close of the year as they were at the beginning ; so that 1854 may be said to dawn upon the civilized world amid a calm, the duration of which few will venture to foretel. Having thus taken a hasty glance at some of the more striking events which have now become matters of history, little remains for us to say with reference to ourselves and our readers. Our past labours in the consistent advocacy of the great principles of Church and State have spoken for themselves. With no interests to serve except those of our common country, and no object to gain but the satisfaction of having performed our duty, we have pursued the path which we believe to be the right one, swerving neither to the right hand nor to the left, not deterred by the fear of enemies, nor tempted by false friends. In politics, as in religion, we have been solely guided by the con sciousness of right, and though we may sometimes have been compelled to differ with those whose good opinion we value, we have never been in fluenced by any other motive than zeal for the maintenance of our national faith in its integrity and purity, and the preservation of the Constitu tion, handed down to us by our forefathers, and under which, by the blessing of Providence, this country has grown in greatness from the glorious days of ELIZABETH down to those of our own VICTORIA. We have no need to make promises for the future, but let the past be the best earnest of the time to come. It is, however, satisfactory to know that our labours are appreciated, and in the steadily increasing circulation of the Liverpool Standard we experience that reward for our exer tions which must prove the secret incentive to constant perseverance. WE briefly alluded last week 'to the erroneous opinion which appeared to prevail with reference to the Foreign policy of the present Home Secre tary being opposed to that which seems to have influenced the course pursued by the EARL of ABERDEEN, in the affairs between Russia and Turkey, and thereby led to the inference that the recent resignation and resumption of office had been caused by a difference of opinion on this sub ject. In all the developments, whether real or pre tended, which have been made respecting the recent split in the Cabinet, a variance of opinion as to the details of the proposed Reform Bill. has been adhered to as to the real cause of the dis pute ; but notwithstanding the positive assertions of Ministerial organs, professing to be in posses sion of State secrets, public opinion has been rather inclined to the belief that the HOME SECRETARY has ventured to have an opinion of his own on Foreign policy, and that that opinion has been more in accordance with the feeling out of doors than the one which has been acted upon. Now, so far from believing that Lord PALMERSTON has been actuated by any refined sense of national honour, which would prompt the succour of the weak and defiance of the strong, there are many incidents in his'previous career as FOREIGN SECRE- Ting which lead us to a totally opposite conclu sion. It will be remembered that some twenty years since, a ship belonging to Mr. BELL was seized, in the Black Sea, by the Russian forces, and indignant remonstrances were made to the FOREIGN SECRETARY on this wanton outrage. No satisfaction was obtained for wounded national honour, but compensation was privately made to Mr. BELL for his individual loss, and the affair was hushed up. Shortly after this a young gen tleman, who officiated as Vice-Consul in, the petty State of New Grenada, committed some outrages upon the peace of the town at night, while in a state of intoxication, for which he was apprehended, and made amenable to the laws he had broken. LORD PALMERSTON was appealed to. Here was no mighty empire of Russia to deal with, but a defenceless State, and demand was therefore imme diately made, with a threat of bombardment for the release of the Vice-Consul, and compensation to him. In 1840, Mr. URQUHART returned from long diplomatic services at Constantinople, and in a series of pamphlets openly accused the FOREIGN SECRETARY of being the agent of Russia, and in triguing with that power for the weakening and overthrow of Turkey. Again we find him suc cumbing toTrance under Louis PHILIPPE, when Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS wantonly seized upon Tahiti, and expelled Mr. PRITCHARD, the English resident. Later still we find him sending a fleet to the little State of Greece, not long rescued from Mahometan despotism, in order to enforce by threats the doubtful claims of Don PACIFICO. In every instance, and each of them is too notorious to be doubted, we find the foreign policy of Lord PALMERSTON to be the ignoble practice of commit ting injustice on the weak and submitting to it from the strong ; leaving the legitimate inference that, in the question which is now agitating all Europe, his diplomatic skill and official experience would have been displayed in a similar manner, to be followed by his inimitable ingenuity in explain ing away all the charges made against him. Not withstanding, however, the little reliance we place on his regard for the national honour in foreign affairs, we believe that he is far more of a Conser vative in domestic policy than many of his col leagues, and that,with an eye to his future position on the inevitable and speedy break-up of the coali tion Ministry, he has manfully resisted the designs of Lord JoHN RUSSELL to make the proposed Reform Bill a means of democratic extension in the government of the country. IF we may judge by the very numerous public meeting which was held on Wednesday, at the Sessions-house, the high standing of many who took part in the proceedings, and the unanimity which prevailed, the adoption of a decimal system of coinage has been placed almost beyond doubt, as an improvement of self-evident Utility, and which only requires the formal sanction of the Legislature to be brought immediately into practice. Before, however, arriving at such a conclusion, it would be as well to look more narrowly at the arguments made use of by its promoters, the advantages which are sought to be gained, and the difficulties with which it may be accompanied. It will be observed that the speakers at the meeting we have referred to, in common with the advocates of the decimal system elsewhere, almost confined their attention to the advantages to be derived from the greater facilities for calculation, and received the support of the Principal of the Collegiate Institution on the intelligible ground that, if arithmetic were con fined to decimals, it would be much easier taugh than the present system, which combines calcula tions in money, and also in weights and measures. The miplusionts h therefore, which have been, ar- .e 949 9 9 lURTON, M.A., Hon. Sec. rived at no-one-will attempt to dispute, for it must be easier in: the addition or multiplication of pence to put down: the unit, and carry on the other figures, than, to labour through the process of 1 dividing the product by twelve. So, in the treat ment of shillings, the unit, as at present, will be retained, and the division of the remainder by two will be saved.. Thus far the advantages of the proposed decimal. system may be readily admitted, and, no doubt, that in keeping accounts and making the calculations which are continually being required. in commercial transactions, there will be a saving of time and labour, sufficient in some large establishments to save the cost of one clerk. But what is the price which must be paid for this obvious advantage P Not simply a slight change which will be willingly consented to, but a retention of the present pound sterling, and a posi tive re-construction of the rest of our monetary system, involving an alteration in the value of our copper coinage, which enters more than any other into the every-day affairs and monetary transac tions of the vast majority of our population, and those, too, the least likely to take readily, or even to comprehend, new ways. By the present system the penny—which is used for toll at our ferries, for postage, for receipt stamps, and as the price of a multitude of articles—is the two hundred and fortieth part of a pound ; by the proposed system it must represent either the two hundredth or the two hundred and fiftieth part of a pound,wronging in one case or the other the payer or the receiver. Some of the speeches slightly touched upon the necessity of decimalising our weights and mea sures, but though that part of the question was postponed, it is absolutely indispensable to the other. In discussing the question, however, some of the speakers dwelt on the inconveniencies aris ing from the conflicting weights and measures used in different districts, owing to the variety of local customs. No clearer argument could have been adduced to show the impracticability of en forcing the proposed decimal currency system. By the act of 5 and 6 George IV., passed in 1825, or nearly thirty years since, all weights and measures were required to be copies of the imperial standards deposited in the Exchequer ; and by the act 4 and 5 William IV., c. 49, passed in August, 1834, local weights and measures were abolished, and all contracts made by any other than the imperial standards were declared to be null and void. Yet, despite the stringency of these regulations, which were to equalise all commercial transactions, wheat is still sold in Liverpool at per 701bs. ; butchers'; meat in London at per Sibs., instead of the im perial stone of 141bs. ; and local customs are maintained as though the law were not in exist ence. If, therefore, people cling to their old and well accustomed ways in defiance of acts of Parlia ment, of what avail will be an act to convert farthings and pence into mils and cents when the old names and the old values will be adhered to, unless the almost impossible alternative be adopted of withdrawing all the present small coinage from circulation, an operation involving immense ex pense, and a delay which has been computed at twenty years ? Merchants, accountants, and clerks may be readily convinced of the saving of time and trouble in keeping their books, and may unite iu adopting the proposed system, without troubling the Legislature, but the long-practised habits of millions of people are not so easily changed, and their transactions in the buying and selling of small quantities are those which would be most affected. There is, however, another difficulty in the sub-division of small quantities for which no advantage in large transactions would prove a compensation. Under a decimal system, division could only take place by fifths and tenths, render ing halves and quarters utterly impracticable, so that, in the purchase of minute portions of goods, in which the poor are chiefly interested, they would be constant losers by the impossibility of finding coins to represent the fractional parts. All the arguments which have been used by the advocates of the decimal system may be admitted, as far as concerns the facilities for calculation and keeping accounts in mercantile transactions, but beyond this it is overloaded with difficulties which no in genuity in altering the coinage can surmount ; and the instance we have alluded to with reference to weights and measures is a proof that the long settled customs of a people cannot be changed by acts of Parliament, however stringent their regu lations. DOMESTIC POULTRY. ONE of the most interesting signs of the times is the rapidly increasing desire for the cultivation of domestic poultry, which has almost become a passion. This is evident in the number of poultry exhibitions throughout the country, and the immense number of specimens which they have been the means of collecting. There are some matter-of-fact people by whom this new fancy may be ridiculed, but when it is remembered that tons of poultry and millions of eggs are annually imported from foreign countries, in order to supply our markets for consumption, the importance of increasing our own production of these useful animals will be more evident. It has been thought beneath the dignity of an English farmer to pay attention to the affairs of the poultry yard, but perfection cannot be reached without it, and if the same care were bestowed on this department, which has been sometimes given to the improvement of the breed of larger animals, it would often be found equally, if not more, profitable, and constitute a very important item in the means of supplying the rent In all these cases it is not sufficient that the utility e made evident, a certain degree of fashion must be en to them in order to insure their adoption. It was the encouragement given by Earl SPENCER and other noble men, which led to the improvement in the breed of short horned cattle : the establishment of the Royal Agricul tural Society, and many local societies, with annual prizes for superiority, added to the impetus and may be consi dered the main cause of the great attention which is now paid to the several breeds of cattle, sheep, and other farm animals. The command of capital and indomitable per severance of Mr. MEcRI, a London tradesman, gave a stimalus to the extension of draining and other improve ments in agriculture ; and now the adoption of similar means of encouragement, with reference to the more abundant supply of fowls and eggs for home consumption, has led to a more rapid progress in this department than was ever before known. It is almost impossible to over estimate its importance ; a fast increasing population must ' be fed by additional supplies, and every step which is taken to obtain the addition from home produce is assisting in the laudable endeavour to render us independent of foreign aid. It has been said that the man who causes two blades to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country, and the same remark will equally apply to the man who exercises his skill in the improvement of so use ful a race of animals as domestic poultry, which might be made to convert more vegetable into animal food than even the ox or the sheep. It will be observed that an exhibi tion of poultry will be held in about a fortnight in this town, and we have no doubt that the commercial emporium of Europe will not be behind in the race for distinction in this useful pursuit. CHILD OVERLAIN. — On Sunday morning last, about -two o'clock Joseph Beha, a child five months old, living with his parents at 36, Bevington Bush-road, was taken to bed by his mother, who laid his head on her breast, and covering him up with the bed clothes fell asleep. On awaking about eight in the morning she found the child still in the same position and quite dead. DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND.—OH Saturday night, about nine o'clock, as a boy, named William Board man, was going on a errand to No. 1 Court, Comus-street, he kicked his foot against something, which on examina tion turned out to be the dead body of a female child. It was wrapped up among some hay. Medical testimony proved that the child had been still-born. A man with a bundle of hay was seen to go up the court a few minutes before the body was found. WOMAN DROWNED.—On Saturday night, about half past eight o'clock, a woman named Ann Staley, aged 67, wife of John Staley, a labourer, was found drowned in the Brunswick Dock, by police-constable Wilkinson, who heard a splash in the loter, and immediately made every exertion for her rescue. In about fifteen minutes she was got out, but quite dead. It appeared deceased was much addicted to drinking, and a short time prior to her being found in the Dock she had had some words with her husband, relative to her dissipated habits. At the conclu sion of the altercation she went out uttering angry ex clamations. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. Tixa QUEEN held a Privy Council on Thursday, and on Fridiy proclamation was made in the London Gazette for the assembling of Parliament on Tuesday, the 31st of this month. This is but a few days earlier than the time ordinarily appointed ; but this little difference may have been occasioned by the natural anxiety to hear the inten tions of the Government with reference to the Eastern question,. and also the explanation of Lord PiLKERSTON as to his recent resignation and resumption of office. The discussions on these points will find ample occupation for Parliament, and leave Lord JOIEN RUSSELL sufficient time to cogitate over his new Reform Bill, if he has really any serious intention of persevering in such a hopeless scheme. Convocation, which stands adjourned until to-morrow, will be further prorogued until Wednesday, the Ist of February. THE NATIONAL REVENUE. Tim quarterly statement of the National Revenue will not be published until Friday next. In the mean time, however, the Observer, a London weeky paper professing to have official sources of information, has published a statement in anticipation, from which it would appear that upon the year's accounts there will be an increase on Customs of about £300,000; Excise, nearly £200,000; the Post-office a trifle, and Stamps from £lOO,OOO to £200,000. The quarter's account will not be so favourable, and this is attributed to the abolition of the Soap duties affecting the Excise, and the reduction of Tea and Sugar duties lessening the Customs returns. The Income Tax is to show a slight increase, the Post-office an increase of about £50,000, and Stamps a falling off. MOMAS S SHILLING CONCERTS. TxtE first attempt was made last night to revive the experiment of cheap concerts at the Philharmonic Hall, and it proved triumphantly successful. Last year it was evident that there was sufficient love of music in Liverpool to. support first-class concerts at low prices, and perse verance would no doubt have overcome every difficulty. Last night nothing was left to desire ; every seat was oc cupied, numbers were obliged to stand, and thunders of applause testified to the gratification afforded. The or chestra comprised about sixty instrumental performers. Miss Lascelles proved a valuable acquisition as a vocalist, while Mr. T. Harper on the trumpet in "The Soldier Tired," was vociferously cheered. In a word, the success of the Shilling Concerts is an accomplished fact. TOWN-COUNCIL MEETING, YESTERDAY. A SPECIAL MEETING of the Town-council was held yesterday, in the Town-ball, for the purpose of making the annual appointments of trustees and members for the undermentioned trusts, charities, and public boards. John Buck Lloyd, Esq., Mayor, in the chair. His Worship the Mayor was appointed trustee of Mrs. Ann Molyneux's charities in Liverpool. Messrs. J. A. Tobin, Thomas Fleming, and Matthew Gregson, were appointed trustees for St. James's Cemetery, under the local act 7 Geo. IV. Sir John Bent and Alderman W. Bennett were appointed execute the powers given to the Mayor and Senior Alder man by the local act 10 Geo. IV, cap. 15, relative to the Blind Asylum Schools and Chapel. Forty-one gentlemen were appointed members of the Council Commission for the regulation and encourage ment of pilots. Messrs. H. Hornby, S. Holme, and T. Littledale were appointed commissioners under the local act 10 Geo. IV., for the embankment on the north-west side of the Leasowes, in Wellasey and Great Meols, in the county of Chester. Forty-one gentlemen were appointed commissioners under the acts relating to the Churches of St. Paul and St. John. Messrs. Shand, Bold, R. Gladstone, and Robinson were appointed commissioners of the Liverpool docks. Messrs. Henry R. Hoskins, W. IL Daunt, and Jas. T. Pownall were re-appointed auditors of the dock accounts. His Worship the Mayor, and Messrs. J. B. Moore, James Lawrence, and Samuel Holme, aldermen, and H. Hornby and John Stewart, councillors, were appointed commissioners of income-tax. This concluded the business of the meeting. THE STRIKES. WIGAIT.—The strike of factory operatives in this town, now in its fifteenth week, has been somewhat altered in character during the past few days, though it is yet far from a satisfactory termination, The three mills at Hindley still remain closed for want of hands, as also several at Wigan. The total number of operatives now at work is about 2.000, or about one-third of the whole number, but 1,000 of them are employedat Messrs. Eckersley's mill alone. The adjourned meeting of coal proprietors was held at the Royal Hotel, on Thursday, Mr. James Darlington, manager of Ince-hall Colliery, in the chair. It was con sidered that the strike of colliers might now be taken as ended, and, after a brief deliberation, the meeting was adjourned for another fortnight. PRESTON.-It appears from the returns that the number of unemployed hands relieved this week from the Trades' Union funds, was 15,720; last week, 15,781: decrease, 61. The amount distributed in relief this week was £2,944. Bs. 3d. ; last week,£2,93B. 12s. : increase, £5. 165.3 d. In addition to their ordinary payments, the weavers' com mittee has this week given sixpence each to 2,120 children. Many hands are obtaining employment else where, upwards of twenty spinners and their families having already left Preston, and nearly one hundred per sons having been removed by the poor law officials. Pub lic meetings continue to be held by the operatives, mostly in the open air, and the interest they excite is unabated; the attendance, in spite of frost and snow, being as large as ever. A FATAL SLIDE.--On Thursday, as a boy, named John Whitehead, of Trelfall-street, Park, was sliding on a pit in that neighbourhood, he fell, whereby his skull was so fractured that he died four hours afterwards. YESTERDAY was observed as a holiday by the cotton and general produce brokers, and by many other mercantile houses in the town. Some of the banks were also closed, including the Union Bank, Bo roug h B an k, B an k o f E ng l land, Heywood's Bank, and North and South Wales Bank. THE GREAT SEAL of Ireland has been placed in com mission, in consequence, it is said, of the intention of the Lord Chancellor to proceed to London, respecting the Reform measure for Ireland. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON has purchased Beaufort house, in Arlington-street, London, for £60,000. The EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has ordered Messrs. Orsi and Armani, merchants in London, to pay 700 francs into the funds of the Dreadnought, hospital-ship, moored off Greenwich. It is stated that Louis Napoleon sub. scribes to many of onr charities. FIRE. — On Saturday night, the hat manufactory of Messrs. W. and F. Townend, Cheapside, London, was destroyed by fire. The premises adjoining were also con siderably damaged. _ _ _ RAILWAY A C CIDENT.—On Thursday a train from Old ham dashed into a Yorkshire train which had stopped at Newton-heath, a new station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. All the passengers of the latter train were scattered about upon the line, or thrown down an, embankment. The guard was picked up labouring under severe concussion of the brain. Jane Sykes, a young lady aged about seventeen, on her way home to Lindley, near Huddersfield, was found in an insensible condition, and expired in the station. Her grandmother, with whom she was travelling, Ellen Lord, wife of R. Lord, tailor, of Syke's-hill, Preston, was taken to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, dreadfully cut ; and seven other persons received serious bruises and personal injuries. The station-master says that he had turned on the down red light, signifying " a train at the station." It is said that the Oldham train, which does not stop at the Newton-heath station, only starts 5 minutes after the Yorkshire, which does stop at the Newton station, so that there is a continual danger of accident. An inquest was held on Saturday, and the jury returned the following verdict :—" We find that the death of Jane Sykes was caused by the collision of the express train to Oldham with the Yorkshire train, and that the death was accidental. And the jury take this opportunity of ex. pressing their regret at the apparent carelessness of the Lancashire and York ire Railway Company in allowing the express train to start at so short a time after the above train, and would suggest, that in future more care be exercised, especially in foggy weather." , LECTURES ON THE DEMORALIZING TENDENCY OW POPERY.—Two lectures were delivered in the Temper ance-hall, Bond-street, by Mr. W. P. M`Carthy, o Birkenhead, special missionary in connexion with th Protestant Reformation Society, on the evenings o Thursday and Friday last. On the first-named evening, the chair being occupied by Mr. Parsonage, the lecturer commented at considerable length on the illiberality' evinced towards him at a Romish meeting held in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, on a recent occasion, at which, after being invited to speak, he was uproariously .refused a hearing. He also commented in strong terms upon the misrepresentation put by Mr. Macdonald, Roman Catholic lecturer, on a speech made by Mr. M`Carthy in Birkenhead. To the misrepresentation he (Mr. M`Carthy) gave the flattest and most emphatic con tradiction, and said that, while he admitted Mr. Mac donald was a well-conducted private gentleman, he must brand him with dishonesty as a lecturer. Mr. M`Carthy then proceeeded at great length to expose the falsification of Scripture by the Romish Church, wh en it quo . t suited the purpose of that church to do so , and Ile In dw dwelt several instances in which perversion of scripture had been made and sanctioned by that c b vi worship offered by minuteness severity RoAianists to the rgin with much and?n tb Mary. The e idolatrous lecturer next directed attention totb ane blas phe mo us u exposition h.le of the merles connected with the doctrines o f transubstantiation. The second lecture was devoted to iniquities of the confessional. Tun NIAGARA, Britis h and North American Iloyd Mail steam-ship from B os ton, with advices to th e 21st ult., had not arrived at the time of our going t o press. Should she arrive in time, we shall publish her news in a Second Edition. PHILHARMONIC-HALL. THE GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH Will be Repeated THIS EVEN ING by THOMAS'S UNRIVALLED BAND OF SIXTY PERFORMERS. (See Advertisement in another page.)