The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

b. 2, 1847. 'HE BAR. wing days have bee" Lon on the Norther' ruary 15.—Applel Ituroay, February P ' 24.—Durham, larch 6.—Liverej il Baron Alderson "1" ommissioner, citul 4 kneaster, on Moil Beaumaris on W A) LY, July 30, at 14 0 ' :Hester on Tuesdali s have resolved tN to the bench - of IY I votes of a majority: black balls shall 1' ffiLLs.—ln the VP_ Jenner Fust, vir d remarked on the ev ms. of the Wills Al • refuse probate to s' ;aid, extremely pail ) " e necessity of defeat' under the presuint e made subsequentg iN OF STATE PAPS O ished a mass of 'olish affairs, w rittel is the representatiO rienna. The brothel donderry, sent a sr, w of preventing to: Int a fiat denial W. larquis then appb Lord Palmerstol pared to say that tP I iestion from the P i er supplied was foils' of Lord Castlerea , f what had origin , ',bat language. IV doubts of the Fora, nated, that the 11 0 , " that they are 0 1 in be taken to pre' papers of the sal t aced in the Time r I Palmerston's de l' E IRS. ie is expected to be —On Wednesday Of was opened in du.. Lancaster and Car' Ly to be the lessee° of the Birkenhesi is to be ready by till I, consistin g of silael David Waddingto* dies Raiiway,by the the Manchester and Liverpool, Crosble 3st advantageous 0 Cheshire Junction Chester• and Birken• 1 time in the House as, last week, killed !ambridge Railway ;sing the line. Ile ler was horrified II n's Bench on Wed. h the South-East' a right to refuse it ich a stranger pro' ldford, and Reigate to lease the htie and equal profits tjie terms were to with the Immo - Counties, adjacent ee hundred housd of the company 'S title of Hudson :hat portion of the 7, and Newcastla e line from the io' ompany, will have Ain to be held Wales .amount 0 reason to anti& f railways will 1 39 may satistactorili done on• common they should la n Friday, of the n, the chairman , Brancker, that be npensation of the at Masborough• a upon itylfAthe .--•T‘e platforms ni which the tubes of erection, and a dy manufactured• 100 feet in length' , limen. In a fe* be commenced. lolled, last weeks d to Sheffield; by lelivery. At the ) hold a couple Of tly at the indei He did so for* post, having been is attention. , I the amount ol 730 miles of rail -£67,645 for the for the carriage r passengers and Toned ; being .an ling week of 104 st bar of railroa d " now sixteen of and these ma"' ;ons per aiinujo• s of railroad P et / The progress i % cso years, in t he ng ng manifestatl o ' Fork Tribune. ,s Railway 11 °' Some of the per' ;trefoil' in Sep' an of Chigwel l, Seen pronounce d , Mr.' Cotton, 0 lurt and has not e action lie had r paying a large te of that smoo ndebted for he r .m.l it at the la9i ie is one of th° one of the pri°' Railway, and b ° ie Giand June these two grea' ti true to them t° s name famou s large profit 01/ proprietors have by evidence be,: tax on EngDa° ty) exceeds die -e per cent. P ei 3ent. for incolo e , and you W e le same railvi :ample of gre ° )er cent. on the Coast is "teal , with the aer ko will amount ' 'y an insurBo o6 , 1 the cost of f ir ,000.. Four 10 low rate fort . 0 npanies 'he Govern's° the reverse ! I t. ; attention to , ccurred at tb lawny on 1410 11 ' ast four o'clock' ter was runui" d at the sao ‘ , 4 ' e !owli-train S" . " g at that plo , e g ome fifty yor m o nit 200 or 7 1; tire of the dr l ) several piec et ~ o as, with a in length, /1 3 ,0 :s descent cl! ge , [-class carri" forcing away into 4- dill a .ongi.n 11 the t 7 ;l which it ff o g y carriages 14 6 0 informed Hied with Pic v tment, two Sop. who wo of'- The portioll o , hs were los t compartol o , to bc in a 'fin kther severe in3": 0 1 Mfrs. Moto'''. . os tram. I'eb. 2, 1847. ?Loral fltlus. House Li ver p oo l G as Bill was rea d a secon d t i me, i n t h e House of Commons, on Tuesday. The congregation of Seaforth Church have raised £4OO for the relief of the Irish. la Yesterday morning week, Robert Dobson, of Chapel le, got up fro m hi s b e d : an d wen t t o ano th er room, Where he fell down and died almost immediately. The mouse of death was serous apoplexy. Taesday, John Lara was going on board a vessel ling in the Brunswick Graving Dock, when he acciden tally fell in. He was taken out almost immediately, but Was foufid to be quite dead. Last week 969 square yards of land, situated between Oliver -street and Claughton-road, at Birkenhead, was sold for £lBOO, or at the rate of 255. per yard. It was °ought a - short time ago at 18s. „ s it ° important requisition to the Lords of the Treasury, 'dYlog them to dispatch an extra mail to America on the 9th of the months of February and March, was placed in t he Public news-rooms on Wednesday, and received nu- Meit ro us signatures. • - , ` 4° Ri DEATHS BY BURNlNG.—OnTuesday, inquests were e heldbY Mr. Curry upon the bodies of two children, °,:dal,r, u lied in consequence of being burnt. On Satur ,_yd coroner held two more inquests on infants who had fro m t h e same cause. The subscripti on at Birkenhead for the relief of the poor 1 11 the township amounts to upwards of £3OO. There !lave been distributed considerably above 70001bs. cif. Dread, 6600 pints of soup, and near 30 tons of coal. The FOunnitte3 solicit th e support both of the middle and higher classes • and have appointed six collectors to go 4.01 n house to ' house, as extreme distress abounds. On Wedne s d ay even i ng last, about nine o ' clock, the Lightning descended the chimney of William Moir, of 40, ro svenor-street, Hose-hill, and blew out the shop win- Clow, with all its contents, info the street. There were ;Ivo persons sitting round the fire, none of whom were Nutt,, ex cept a lad, who was struck on the knee by a brick from the .chimney. On Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, a woman, the wife of a sailor named Lither, residing in Roscoe- Street, was found by the policeman lying upon the foot way in Rock -street, Brownlow-hill, in the pains of labour, and before proper assistance could be procured, she was delivered of a son. The police immediately removed her to a public-house close by, and afterwards on a stretcher to her residence. Mr. Charles Bannin g , assistant surveyor of the General Post-office, has been promoted by the Postmaster-Gene ral to succeed his brother, Mr. William Banning, (on his retirement), as Postmaster of Liverpool. Mr. Charles Banning his been in the service of the General Post -office for eighteen years in responsible situations, which have peculiarly qualified him for the various details and duties of his new appointment. MANSLAUGHTER.—A warrant has been issued against a man named James Ducie, for causing the death of an old man named Daniel M'Carthy. It appeared from evi 41ence at the inquest, which was held on Thursday, that bl i Carthy occupied a house in Stewart-street, in which Ducie had apartments. About three weeks ago a misun derstanding arose between Ducie and deceased, when the former pushed deceased out of the door. The man fell d own the step, and his head was cut by coming in con tact with the stones. He was shortly after attended by a tuedical Man, but continued to decline until Sunday, When he expired. The cause of death was stated to be eryipelas of the head, caused by the wound. f t or 1 . HE ArRE-ROY AL , WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.—The per - 1 11.-ices during the past week have been operatic, Ma dame Anna Bishop sustaining the part of Isoline; in Balfe's Dr of the " Maid of Artois," supported by Mr. D. W. g, Mr. Corri, and Mr. Glydon. The first of these telemen appears not to have got rid of the cold under we noticed hi m l a b our i ng on M on d ay even i ng. Th e ; v r ni zas'very sp l en did ly put upon the stage. On Friday beriefi vocal ak;).- t p . opera of " Somnambula" was played, for the A lallatrie Anna Bishop. Our opinion of the additi fifties of this lady has been fully sustained by the ebffieresieonf the °PPortunities which we have had of hearing her. ofterpieces introduced during the week, the me t.the regular company have shown themselves very The Bi r k enhead steam-frigate, Commander A. H. In „igra, rn, arrived at Chatham on Saturday afternoon, th e 23d .7‘., and dropped alongside the Fortitude coal depot, and °up completed hipping her coals on Tuesday last, klounting to nearly 400 towns. A case or two of small ix broke out on board, and the individuals were imme llately removed to Melville Hospital ; and those on board w ho had not had the eruptive distemper, or been hitherto v accinated, had to undergo the operation. A few small r epairs to the ship having been compelted, she was re moved to Gilli ng h am - reac h, an d the reserve battalion of " 56 th RegiMent was to embark on board on Saturday, to Voceed to Gibraltar. The strength of the battalion con of 28 sergeants, 10 drummers, and 536 rank and gte, with the regular complement of women and children, ceder the 'command of Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Norman. N e ale ENTABLE SUICIDE.—On Sunday week, Letitia st r,m, a married female, forty-two years of age, who re- W% p Lark-lane, Toxteth-park, went into an outhouse a g" Yard, and on opening the door some time after, she was : Yard, with her head in a reclining position. There w as ! tong filled with blood between h er k nees , an d t h ere righ t 'Zmund across her throat. She had a razor i n h er aer,, ib ,alld, and on raising her up she appeared quite in viuga„T. The razor belonged to her fath er , an d lay in a be t is ;°Which she had f r eq uen t access . •N o cause could eea sed l gued for the commission o f th e ras h act, as t h e de der k g and her husband li ve d com f or t a bl y toget h er. The afore, ho w e ver , s h e seeme d qu i te altered in her „ ,u and spoke very incoherently. She was removed the Southern Hospi ta l, w h ere it was found that the ' , Ou n d had extended throu g h the windpipe. She died of tile injury on Friday. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We have been favoured (says the Dundee Advertiser) with the following extract of a letter from Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, Wick, to ! I gentleman in this quarter ,—" I left th e G rea t B r i ra i n Fi charge of Captain Claxton, the managing director, who 13 _ stuffing her larboard quarte r w ith f aggots , b rus h woo d , 42,an tud bags and chains and Nets, &c. It is Mr. Pruners and'l am not sure of its effects ; but I hope there ! 1 -1 be no danger of her until Ap r il, w h en I expect to er at nence operations to raise h er . Sh e h as quarr i e d _wn six f eet of the solid rock, and turned up like a plou g h ; w ard. There are four feet of sand above the rock—in (1 4 1. !? to 104 feet. She must be raised 13 feet perpendi kt7 h e and then her bottom patched, launched, and 6,.ca t w o to Liverpool ; but, if possible, to Bristol, talrotveo steamers. The sand now in her, which the water make her full 300 tons weight, so that you e lift will be no joke." begin " fi n d 8 SPECULATIO N. — The speculators • , to fi nd PECULATION.— e in corn taveTpool, t he ground slipping from under them. At , 11 Y. 1 1 ,,, ° ..n Tuesday, the market was " all sell and no • "Lrel red uction 48 , freely offered at 2s. fid. an d 3 s . p er ev en at th e ' the dealers fought shy at the article, couti f , a , very Proffered fall. The imports from America !and barr e l s ° rat ; one ship having brought ten thou tioria nfis 11l flour, the largest quantity ever imported orr t ° g y iot uro f r . one vessel. In addition to this, she cell hundred barrels of Indian meal, and other of ft _ • Another ship brought eight thousand barrels fen flo ur and eight thousand bushels of wheat ; another, l eve thousand five hundred barrels of flour ; and another, ) 141 ,!,1 s olland barrels of flour. and fourteen thousand ia,„qc„l_v wheat. The quantity of Indian corn poured ernoul . is immense, and there is a very general pat n hasthat prices must give way considerably. has already fallen from 2s. 6(1. to 4s per quarter ACCIDENT TO Tim COLUMBIA, WITH Loss ' OF I I kIS with regret we have to annou nce , that loss IF t h l; i l 4 ta n t, an accident, attended with melancholy of I.f e 1 the packet ship Columbia, on her passage rom li f e k , s '*k to this port. She sailed o n th e 2nd instant, and fi v 7riened a succession of heavy gales until the 13th, at wind 'clock, a. m., m when the ship, scuddin g b e f ore t h e tile" was struck with a heavy sea, which washed away il tuZ il lie el-house and winding spars, together with nine aft t b eings, among whom was the Captain (Rathbone), cis v 4 t l ,second mates, five seamen, and a boy. Shortly wj i l t it i,ul4 , s f the Columbia was fallen in with by the Lady tq e4 r ° ll.l New Orleans to this port, the captain of ' o, 4° , bi a 'T_l Put on board his chief mate to navigate the tothlsn4'" Liverpool. Captain Rathbone was a man ; w4 s deservedly respected by many persons `a whirlanr,ol and New York. For many years he a e ! kuojessej i r the well-known packet-ship Oxford, f uch bet: olade some of the most rapid passagfs greL"'el I: e etl this port and New York, and in Iltort,zati a very narrow escape orshipwreck in L 'aPti l i„` shops - Ile of January, 1839, when his ship was re w as " nathi ) e 14 Bootle Bay. What renders the loss of bas l eft % th e , ° le more to be regretted is the fact, that Z it a IVjf e e Ve of retirement from nautical life. He N tw . and family to mourn his loss. tirrtl7 infe f . et .Clai.F.AsTs ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.— Th u : 4 fro n , :1 111 .Z and talented minstrels, who have just Th e 'sday ev 1 .9 e United States, gave a private concert on a °l) Ject, e e Plig, which was very numerously attended. ter t _Nl t o t , course, was to give to a portion of the pub 1./140_4.u° Press, a sample of the quality of their en- A• l ich ti 2 1 "; and front the enthusiastic applause with th e e 'Y were received throughout, we venture to pre niez they will have no cause to regret the adoption of ce. m Pt a io st na o b i le o a mode of making their capabilities 440 larities of the°nf uegrtrhozeiaders, we dare say, are familiar De natu re entertainments, in which the c taracter are faithfully deneated, litlageeaPeisculiiarly original music of the southern states of fed by thaf r\acene_wtithh btahe instrumental accompan iments ..toperformed ?iere°ua n , and the marrow bones used 1 7: 01 4s a t n a 3 u , e w ts ide m an h Y hav nj° b f t ew h m ea o r n d th t s he ago or . igi w nl give thehpresent company the palm over 4 , 44 0 not hesitate t 4rY similar one which we a;venihetr4. Their performances given in the best taste ttili w y ell as the words, are reatiYucbe:„f ; m a t: d ie tsielelecstkeidli h e ! l aYed upon the simple instruinee; auttanongst the southern ti r t" e e .. B , and the banjo, played by m a r es e, eti Lesoecially the Di ee .7 of banjo players," is wonderful. " the ,tsV s eketed, " My dearest May," a be slug by Swains; "In de Wild B ace ful on T rack, ,, l tgaZ i per.,.w_ho po , s , sesses'a splendid bass voice ; and .. D ~..dlabama , by Sanford ; and a new ver e sio u 4ut t e c Y o - I ` l __ Cale," . were rapturously applauded. W e o u 'i mit noticing the violin playing of Master Ole Ba l l . cha i•ediZUe execution of so young a player are very toill he this wedecommend our readers to pay an early „ company, whose stay amongst us, we believe, ~-,olnited to this week. *h e • B INNS AND HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.—Dr. Binns, s was one of the principal phy s i c i ans i n t h e i s l an d o f 4e t eti ng s "as theexpressed himself in th e following manner t eont urprismg healing properties of Holloway's (A ses I have made many trials of this ointment 1 4 th e 1:?.1r of ulcers which several years' experience : . e tn 2! t Indies taught me to consider as incurable. ;Ply , e u: . lappy to say that in all cases it was really and 1 1 1 ,_„ carious. Signed, E. BINNS, M.D., go il orag st.:',?iloway's Ointment will cure bad legs, however "wtlulikewise the most obstinate cases of King's Se t' , • CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—The visiteri of this excellent institution have, during the last five weeks, paid 1247 visits to the abodes of poverty and sickness, and have ex pended £92 ss. 6d. in relieving 864 cases, consisting of 1789 persons. It will thus be seen there was an urgent necessity for the appeal recently inserted in our adver tising columns, and which we are happy to find• has met with a liberal response. In December the funds of the Society were exhausted, and the applicants for relief con tinue so numerous, that further pecuniary assistance is still needed. CASUALTIES AT SEA. -: -In addition to the loss sus tained by the packet-ship Columbia, from whose decks Captain Rathbone and several of his men were swept by a heavy sea, and never more seen, we have to record that the Eliza Warwick, from New York, which reached the port on Friday, met with a nearly similar calamity, her captain, mate, and two seamen having been washed over board and drowned. The Epaminondas, which arrived on Friday, brought the crew of the Genoese barque Sampsona, from Genoa to Cork, found in a sinking state in lat. 57.30, long. 7.30. The Clown schooner, hence to Glasgow, grounded on Friday on Burbo Bank : the life boat from Formby went to her assistance. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Wednesday morning, be tween the hours of two and three o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the spacious premises belonging to Mr. Challenor, situate on the east side of Mason-street, near to Wapping, which destroyed buildings and other prOperty to a considerable amount, A line horse was burnt to a cinder. Mr. Challener's large warehouse, which was used partly as a flour store and partly as a block manufactory, was completely gutted. Three of the rooms were fully stored with flour, and the other rooms contained a large stock of blocks and steam machinery, the whole of which have been either wholly destroyed or rendered utterly useless. The fire next communicated with a line ware house belonging to Mr. Thomas Booth, the corn mer chant ; and this warehouse also, together with its contents, has likewise been much damaged. Mr. Challener was insured in the Star-office ; and no doubt Mr. Booth is also insured. No correct estimate can as yet be formed of the value of the property destroyed, but doubtless it will amount to some thousands of pounds. THE Pantsn-oeerce.---There was an increase of up wards of 17,000 in the numbers of Irish relieved at the Parish-office last week, compared with the week before. The daily numbers relieved were as follows :—Monday, 22,065 ; Tuesday, 25,529 ; Wednesday, 23,313 ; Thursday, 24,297 •, Friday, 24,668 ; Saturday, about 24,000 ;"total, 143,872. The cost of relieving this number last week was upwards of £220. We are happy to state that, from and after to-day. Fenwick-street will not be rendered so impassable as it has been by the thousands of Irish who have congregated in front of the Pa2rish-office for provi sions, as Mr. Austin, the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioner, has introduced a plan by which the casual or Irish poor will almost wholly be relieved at their own dwellings. Twenty-four policemen have been selected for the purpose of dividing the town into twelve districts, visiting each Irish family at their several abodes, making inquiries into their respective cases, with the view of guarding against imposition, and imparting relief. The relief will be granted by tickets of different colours to distinguish the districts. There will be a house at which bread and soup will be obtained upon the presentation of the tickets. The twenty-four policemen will be under two inspectors, and every two of them will have a district under their immediate charge.. INTERESTING OPERATIONS.—On Thursday, a number of professional and scientific- gentlemen assembled at the Eye and Ear Infirmary in this towu, to witness•operations performed upon patients while under the influence of sul phuric ether. The proceedings excited the deepest interest. Mr. Neill, the skilful arid much-esteemed surgeon of the establishment, was the operator, assisted by his talented colleague, Dr. Edwards. The ether was administered by Dr. Higginson and Mr. Yaniewiecz. An elderly man, named John Davies, was first cut for cataract. He was rendered, in a great measure, but not totally, insensible by the sulphuric ether, and declared, after the operation, that he had felt a prick in his eye.—William Massey, of Run corn, a veteran 66 years of age, whose left eye, through cataract, had been almost entirely blind.for six months, and whose right eye had been blind nearly all his life, was next seated in the chair. This was a tery interesting case. The operation, which was also for cataract, was what is technically known as reclination. After about a minute's inhalation of the ether, he cried twice, " You'll h ave m e drunk " you are a black man," "oh ! I know what you are. The bladder was in two minutes wjAhdrawn, and he fell back apparently powerless, with his eye-lids closed. During the operation not the slightest twinge or shrug betokened nervous, sensibility. He was asked if he felt any pain ; " no, no !" he answered in a firm voice, appa rently delighted to find that the operation was finished, without his being conscious of its progress.—Jane Evans, a young woman also from Runcorn, was the next patient. She had, through cataract, been blind in her right eye for thirteen years. She was much excited, her pulse beating at 132 ; it afterwards ranged so high as 202. The ether had an almost immediate effect, and she querulously cried "Oh ! oh, dear ! I want to get out, I'm falling !" The matron and the medical attendants succeeded in pacifying her. The operation occupied but a minute, and she de dared that she had not felt the slightest pain. Even after the operation, she felt as if falling, but apparently reco vered on drinking a little wine.—ln the next case, that of Robert M`Loughlin, employed, he said, under Mr. Jesse Hartley, the ether produced no marked effect. He had suffered much, he said, and heard every word that had been uttered.—Ambrose Rossitar, aged twenty-five, from Birkenhead, whose right eye was affected by strabismus, causing a squint, then submitted to the (usually) painful operation of having it couched. He coughed very much during the inhalation, and his face became flushed. In two minutes he appeared quite insensible, and lay back with both eyes closed. The muscle was then completely cut across, the eye bleeding very much. The operation did not occupy long, and was very skilfully performed. At its close, the patient groaned, and asked, ( as h a d a l so a previous patient) for leave to spit out. He declared that after a certain time he had been conscious of considerable pain, but appeared still under the influence of the ether; and, when questioned, his statements varied much. Mr. Neill concluded by operating upon a boy (not etherised), restoring to him a fine pupil, hitherto completely veiled. The whole of the operations were highly satisfactory and interesting, reflecting great credit on the talented surgeons. LOCAL MEETINGS. HORTICULTURAL SHOws.—At a meeting of the nur serymen of this town and a number of amateur florists, at the Brunswick Hotel, on Thursday, a committee was ap pointed for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to recommence the Liverpool Horticultural Exhibitions, not one having been held in the town during the whole of last year. Mr. R. M. Beckwith and Mr. Thomas Davies were deputed to wait on the Botanic Gardens Committee, and ascertain whether permission may be had to use the gardens for the exhibition. _ - PRICE OF ALE.—At a meeting of the brewers of this town on Saturday, it was resolved that the price of the two lowest qualities of ale should be the same as an nounced at the public meeting of the licensed victuallers of the day previous ; namely, 365. and 445., with no inter mediate price ; also, that the system of taking back bot toms should be absolutely discontinued. We understand that these resolutions were signed by forty brewers, and that a copy of them 'will be forwarded to every licensed victualler in the town and neighbourhood. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ENGLAND.—This evening a meeting of the congregation of St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street, will be held to receive a deputation from the Liverpool synod, with reference to the various schemes of the church. Since the disruption of the Church of Scot land, when the body in England declared its independ ence, the numbers have rapidly increased, so much so, that at present it comprises six presbyteries, with eighty congre gations be s id es preac hi ng stations ' • and, on Tuesd a y, the foundation s t one of another church was laid at Dudl e y, by John Henderson, Esq.,The chur c h, w hi c h will he of th e ear l y G othic style, is . from the d es i gn o f John Hay, Esq., o f thi s town, whohas rendered himself by his admirable ecclesiastical designs. NEW GAS AND COKE COMPANY. —The half yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held on Wednesday ; William Fosberry, Esq., in the chair. M r . ' Steele read the report as follows :—The act of parliament under which this meeting is held prescribing that the accounts should be made up annually to the 30th June, the, yearly statement was laid before the proprietors at their meeting on the 29th July last. Excluding premiums paid on shares sold by public auction, which arc added to the capital without dividend, the dividend agreeably to the company's acts of parliament will be on subscribed capital as follows, namely, on 250 £25 shares issued on the 31st October last, Bs. 4d. per share; on the 470 £25 . shares issued on the Ist September last, 16s. Bd. ; and on the £25 shares issued previously, 255. per share ; and on each £lOO share, £s,—being at the rate of 5 per cent. for the half-year. It is now for the proprietors to order the dividend accordingly, payable on the 6th February,' subject to the deduction of the income-tax as heretofore. The report was adopted and the dividend declared. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the usual weekly meeting on Wednesday, the Law-clerk was re quested to write to the Cleansing Committee of the Council, to draw, their attention to the filthy and a l mos t impassable state id Mill-lane, leading from Everton-road to the Workhouse. The report of the Fever-house me dical officer showed that the number of patients remaining in the house was 15 ; admitted since last report, 6 ; dis charged cured, 4 ; relieved, 17 ; of those admitted two were very bad cases, and required great attention. No deaths had occurred. Mr. Cleaver, the Law-clerk, called the attention of the Board to a paragraph which had appeared in the papers, stating that so crowded was the state of the Workhouse, in consequence of the preva lent distress, that some of the poor were sleeping on the floor, and the overseers of Toxteth-park had paid £220 in outdoor relief in the course of one week. These state ments, he believed, were untrue, and he hoped the error would be corrected, in order that the ratepayers might be rightly informed. The Chairman (Mr. Sheppard) said he had that morning gone over the house, and was much pleased with the general order and cleanliness of the building. The beds placed on the boards were clean and comfortable. The excellent condition of the house re flected great credit on the governor, and he was entitled wtoathe approbation of the Board, every member of which 9 satisfied with his arrangements. Mr. Lloyd said he heard Mr Latham, the relieving officer, say that £220 stat bee ed w n as paid for relief. The officer said the amount was stated, init After some further,, conversation, it tioned, that t tradiction to the paragraph above men on the floor, ;I',,° beds were the most which had been placed out a bed. and at ti t i t a o one had ever slept on the floor with relief in Torteth. ,atrkthe greatest amount ever paid for a person be temP orar ir s £llB. Mr. Lloyd moved that Rowland, who was required in the place of Mr. park. It was agreed that b , - r the overseers of Toxteth situation till the 10th of February,Purnell should fill his his motion for dividing Toxtet Mr. Smith withdrew -park into two districts, and taking Bootle-cum-Lina cre from West Derby, and adding it to Crosby district. • t TILE LIVERPOOL STANDAM THE RhMYERS AND THE LICENOED VICTUALLERS.— The brewers of this town having rest:_lved to raise the price of their ale about Rs. per barrel, a uv.seting of publi:. cans was held on Friday, to come to some resolution as to propriety or otherwise of making any rise in the retail price to the public. it was resolved, that, as the advance appeared to be made only with a view of meeting the pre sent high price of barley, and as any rise in the retail price would be likely to interfere with the trade of the li censed victualler4, that, for the present, no advance to the public should be made. A committee was then appointed to have further interviews with the brewers, for the pur pose of inducing them to modify the advance in some measure, and to allow some little relaxation in other mat ters connected with the trade. On Saturday, the com mittee waited on the brewers ; but they did not obtain a meeting, as the brewers said they were then engaged. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The Committee of the Marine Department reported that they could• not re commend any increase in the salaries of the keepers of the Rock Lighthouse, and the keepers of the Telegraph at the Great Orinshead. Confirmed.—A new chart of Liverpool Bay, from a survey made by the surveyor in 1846, was submitted, with a report thereon, containing suggestions relative to new lights at the entrance of the port ; its con sideration was deferred for a week, until a report should he obtained from the pilots'—A letter was read from the officers of the Customs, intimating that a general bond would be taken for goods stored in the Albert Dock ware- . houses. Several appointments were made of delivery foremen and dock clerks to the Albert Dock warehouses, and some names added to the list of master porters.—The receipts at the port of Runcorn were stated to be as fol lows, for the month ending the 24th instant :-143 vessels, 7936 tons, £42 10s, 10d., being an increase of £2oss. 11d. over the corresponding period of last year. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The first annual meeting of the friends and subscribers of this institution was held on Thursday, in the Charitable Insti tution-house, Slater-street. Mr. Edward Cropper, the president, occupied the chair. The secretary, Mr. Reid, read the report, which stated that the directors had met monthly since their appointment in June last, and had awarded relief to the amount of £39 to applicants whose cases had been fully inquired into, and had been reported upon by the Ladies' Committee. They had also expended upwards of £5 in assistance to governesses whose cases required immediate attention,—assistance which had been of most material service, as the persons had been thrown into circumstances of great destitution and distress. At a meeting in August, the directors resolved to establish a savings' bank and a Government annuity department, and to open books for the free registration of governesses in want of situations, as well as for the entering the names of parties requiring governesses, to the latter of which those governesses who are registered in the books of the institution should have access. Accordingly a pros pectus was issued, setting forth the objects of the institu- I tion, and the establishment of the savings' bank, annuity and registration departments. The institution seemed to be little known, as there had been only one depositor for the savings' bank, and no application for assistance in ar ranging for a Government annuity. The directors drew attention particularly to the regisiration department, the value of which, to governesses, was obvious, while it was of great convenience to parties in want of such persons. Mention was made of the great loss which the institution had sustained by the death of their vice-president, the la mented Dr. Tattershall. The report concluded by calling the attention of the friends of the institution to the fact, that it had been enabled to undertake only a few of the various objects originally contemplated ; and that to ren der it useful and permanent much aid and encouragement would yet be required. The following is the statement of the accounts :—Donations, £327 3s. ; annual sub scriptions, £l4O Is. ; other items, £8 16s. 7(1. Expended in relief, printing, and other expenses, £llO Is. 5d., leaving a balance to the credit of the institution of £365 19s. 2d. The Rev. F. Farry, in moving the adoption of the report, said, of all the institutions in Liverpool, none were more entitled to support than the Governesses' In stitution. Dr. Nottingham, Mr. John Close, Mr. Tory, Mr. Samuel Martin, and Mr. Cotesworth, moved and seconded resolutions for the appointment of officers. INFLUX OF IRISH PAUPERS.—MEETING. OF THE MAGISTRATES. On Wednesday, a special meeting of borough magis trates was held in the Sessions'-house, to consider the propriety of petitioning parliament with respect to the present very alarming influx of Irish paupers into Liver pooi. The mayor presided, and there were present eight eer► other magistrates. The MAYOR opened the business of the meeting, and said it was for them to say whether they would adopt a petition which had been prepared by Mr. Rushton. Mr. RUSHTON said that he had drawn up the petition at his worship's request, making the best use of the facts in his posSession, which he believed were authentic. His attention had been called to the great influx of the Irish poor a few weeks ago, when many of them were brought before him as vagrants. He began to see then that that was the beginning of extensive immigration here ; and very soon after the laws respecting vagrancy became of little effect in the way of corrective, for the magistrates might have filied the gaol ten times over. Under the cloak of a large amount of real suffering, there was now a great amount of imposition, for the vagrants were availing themselves of the existing state of things, and were coming over in considerable numbers. The famine was one evil, and importure was another. The parochial autho rities had acted from the commencement in the most praiseworthy manner in meeting the evil. Thousands of the ratepayers of Liverpool would have to contribute out of their necessities to meet the evil of the immigration. He then read the petition, which was similar to that, of the Select Vestry, and after stating the immense number of Irish poor who had come over and been relieved at a great cost, prays that parliament will devise some mode of relieving Liverpool from bearing more than a fair share of this serious infliction ; and that whether this were acceded to or not, they will not separate without enacting a law by which in future the people of Ireland, like the people of England, shall be compelled to make provision for the wants of their own poor. Mr. BOLTON said it would require £4OOO to send the paupers back to Ireland. - Mr. RUSHTON recommended the inhabitants to relieve the distress only through the medium of the charitable societies of the town. The petition was adopted and signed by all the magis trates present. HIGHLAND DESTITUTION. On Friday, a public meeting was held in the _Music hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of devising some plans by which to alleviate the sufferings at present existing in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. GEORGE GRANT occu pied the chair. The CHAIRMAN, after some introductory observations, referred to two gentlemen who had honoured them with their presence that day, Mr. M`Leod and the Rev. Dr, Mackay. He was sure that the information which they would be able to give would be of the most interesting kind ; he was sure they would listen to them with great interest. With Dr. M•Leod he was well acquainted, and his untiring zeal and unwearied devotion to the cause of the Highlands of Scotland were well known to the world, and they entitled him to the gratitude of his coun trymen. He then passed a very high eulogium on the rev. gentleman, and, in conclusion, hoped that they would consider the resolution which was about being laid before them. Mr. Gina moved the first resolution, which will be found in our advertising columns ; it was seconded by Mr. WATSON. Mr. M`LEon said that the population of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland had been estimated at 400,000, and of that number there were about 100,000 who were not dependent on the potato crop for support, and who were not sufferers by the blight which had fallen upon that article of food, from which it appeared that there were 300,000 of the population of the Highlands who must be sufferers by that dire calamity. By contributing a little of their substance at that time, it would enable majority nto o aan i nrione, time ttoiyof starvation. tote Wine H nn ig ,e ll , l a a ri n d d er o s ls t o o t : p w re ea se t rv he e r t t h h e e m s s t e o h r , m es ' f c ( f ) o m r liiieinghtlaienydthetlentsh-egoenoemmaloidi no fo otherd f t r l e : d so m u t r r e e e ss t a li n u d s ,N le ,o ft nt tl i e h m at , h t a h s e a y ri n se eed n in n t o l t io w;o a n n i d er at great o 1C no less than 250,000 in a state of actual starvation. ation er . ew gl e t it was unnecessary for him to enter into detail. He had thought it his duty to write to a number of gentlemen in the Highlands, who, he was well aware, were acquainted with the real state of the people, and he was most happy to state that, with the greatest readiness, he received answers from all of them. Some of the letters he would lay before the meeting. Thesfact was undeniable, that famine prevailed in the Highlands, and he regretted to say that there was a great deal of distress among the peo ple. They would be told of starvation such as this—the child clinging to its mother's breast, and trying to obtain its natural food, but in vain ; they would hear of cases of children crying around their parents from morning to night for food which it was impossible they could give them. Yet, for all this, they had reason to bless God that the state of Scotland was nothing to be compared with that of Ire land; the people of Scotland bore their forlorn condition with a fortitude becoming Christians. There was no class in the Highlands who felt the weight of this calamity more than the clergymen, gentry, and other gentlemen, whose kitchens were always crowded with persons seek ing relief. From a document which he read, it appe are d that two-thirds of the rents were unpaid. The rev. gen tleman Aged that there is a very large clas's of persons in the Highlands, called the " cottar population," who have not a spot a their own to sit down upon, who are •mere " squatters," The famine was brought about by circumstances over which the proprietors had no control. They were well aware that a short time ago, a great busi ness was done in the manufacture of kelp. That was destroyed by a single act of the legislature. Many of the proprietors derived thousands ,of pounds from this manufacture; and who only had about £2OO from the land ; some who were formerly well to do in the world; were now, in consequence of this act, serving as stipen diary magistrates under the burning sun of the West Indies. But there was another cause of this calamity, which he would take that opportunity of stating to the meeting, and that was the driving away the poor people out of their homes, where they and their ancestors had existed for centuries. It is not merely the failure of the manufacture of kelp, but in the plan which many of the landlords are adopting, that of turning their land to the purposes of grazing, for which purpose they are driving the poor creatures out to make room for their cattle. The rev, gentleman stated that the people genera ll y d eserved the . 'highest praise for their forbearance under the trying circumstances in which they were placed. He had heard of no outbreak—no thefts of any kind. The subscrip tions amounted in Scotland to about £14,000, but it would require about £1,000,000 before all their wants could be relieved. In a few words be eulogised the conduct of several of the noblemen and gentry, not only of Scotland, but of England, who, he said, had behaved in a most handsome manner on the present occasion., By means 1 of this evil, one great good had been effected, and that was, the union of parties in one common feeling of com miseration. forthe unfortunate Highhinders : and he con cluded by expressing his conviction that all things would be turned• to good out of evil, and light out of darkness. Mr. DUNwe' then, in a very neat and eloquent manner, addressed the meeting. He said they ought to consider it a sacred duty, as far as in them lay, to relieve the wants. and administer to the necessities of their suffering fellow countrymen. The resolution which he was about to pro po,e, and which he hoped would express their sentiments and be carried unanimously, would disclaim the idea of attempting anything that can absolve either the govern ment or local proprietors from adopting such remedial measures as the necessity of the case required. He thought that the cultivation of the land in Ireland would amply repay itself; but this would not apply to the Highlands of Scotland. He recommended that a system of emigra tion should be adopted. and that the government should grant plots of land for the use of emigrants. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. STlrr was carried unanimously. A stranger then addressed the meeting, after which Dr. MACKAY, in a very eloquent and lengthened speech, detailed the wretched condition of the people of Scotland, giving an account of the places which he had visited by himself and along with others, and the destitute condition in which he found the people, which, he said, would shock the feelingsi of any person who should happen to see them. The people of England formed no conception of its extent, 'nor indeed could they. He read several letters from gen tlemen and clergymen in the Highlands of Scotland, and in a most emphatic manner called upon the persons pre sent to lend their aid in relieving their fellow-countrymen. Several gentlemen afterwards addressed the meeting. A number of gentlemen were appointed as a committee to carry out the objects of the meeting, and subscriptions to a large amount were handed in to the treasurer. A vote of thanks were then passed to the chairman, and ale meeting separated. ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION. On Tuesday evening a public meeting to explain and advocate the objects of this association was held in the Music Hall ; LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., in the chair. It had been announced that three gentlemen, Dr. Price, editor of the Eleetie kviesv, E lward Maill, Esq., of the Nonconformist, and the Rev. D. Rhys Steph en , o f Man chester, would attend as a deputation from the Executive Committee. The room was crowded to excess, and it soon became evident that a large portion of the audience were hostile to the object of the meeting, and great up roa r and disturbance eventually ensued. The CHAIRMAN implored the audience to listen calmly to the facts and arguments that would be produced. Mr. URQUHART complained, in the first instance, of the interruptions, and amidst the shouts, cries, &c., it was some time before he could p rocee d. H e finally moved, "That this meeting hold that the principle of the British Anti-State Church Association lies at the basis of all just views of civil and religious liberty,—namely, that in regard to religious faith, man is accountable to God alone; and that the support of religious institutions by State enactments and provisions, ultimately involving in their very nature a resort to compulsion, is at variance with the laws of God, and with the responsibility of man." Mr. Urquhart spoke to the resolution in figurative and generally guarded terms, but was listened to with impa tience and interrupted by frequent ejaculations. Mr. SIMMONS begged for free discussion, saying he would himself move an amendment. (Cheers.) The Rev. D. RHYS STEPHEN seconded the resolution, but was less fortunate in semring attention than even Air. Urquhart. The uproar continued to increase. Mr. Stmmows then spoke, and was listened to with at tention. He said that if the church establishment was an evil at all, it was a necessary evil, and should be main tained, he contended, as long as other religious parties held they had a right to be supported by the state. He concluded by proposing an amendment, to the effect that the Church of England was the most tolerant church in Christendom, and the only security against the reacting of the drama of ,Smithfield. This having been seconded, the CHAIRMAN put the re solution and amendment, and declared the former to be carried ; but several gentlemen who were present, con sider the amendment to have been carried. Dr. PRICE then proceeded to speak, but was interrupted at every, sentence, and addressed himself almost exclu sively to the .reporters. He explained the origin of the Anti-State Church Association. It was formed, he said,. in 1844, in London, at a public meeting attended by seven hundred persons. Mr. MIALL spoke on polemics. In the course of his address he challenged to discussion the Rev. H. M`Neile. The CH AIRMAN then declared the meeting closed; but the people did not retire, nor the excitement abate. The gas was lowered ; and after various parties had attempted to speak from the platform, the Kentish fires were given, and the meeting finally broke up. [A correspondent who signs " Fair Play" assures us that, in his opinion, the amendment was carried, and another correspondent deprecates very justly the shame ful insinuation indulged in by one of the speakers, that the Rev. Hugh M•Neile was the instigator of the oppo sition, when it was well known that the reverend gentle man was in Ireland, and had been there for some time previously. He could not, therefore, by any possibility, have been acquainted with the intended opposition to the meeting. Indeed, few persons were aware of it, or the demonstration would have been more •narked anti decided. A third correspondent regrets that any interruption at all was offered to the speakers, but of course on this point there will be a diversity of opinion.] MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY. The usual fortnightly meeti ng was h e ld on T ues d ay , th e mßiesysioßneecrt:arnd a Campbell in board,i nt w he er c e h p ai r r e . sen T t h . e Rev. Rector Brooks, Mr. Alf. Austin, th e A ss i s t ant P oor- l aw Com- After , some preliminary business, the clerk read the re port of the Relief Committee, from which it appeared that the total amount of relief given last week was £3OO 12s. 61d. ; and in the corresponding week of last year, it was £26 6s.—making an excess of £274 6s. 61-d, After some ordinary business, Mr. Schofield introduced the question of the propriety of petitioning parliament to adopt measures to relieve the parish of Liverpool from being mulcted by.lrish vagrants, as it had lately been, and he moved the adoption of a petition to parliament, stating that because Liverpool was the most convenient place for the landing of the Irish paupers, that ought not to be a reason for fastening on Liverpool a great portion of the expense caused by a national calamity, and praying the legislature to adopt some means to do away with the evil to which the parishioners of Liverpool-are liable. The motion, having been seconded, led to a short dis cussion. Mr. AUSTIN said that it was just possible that when the vestry petitioned to parliament they might, In all pro bability, be told that they had taken no steps to relieve themselves. Mr. FERGUSON said he thought they would not suc ceed in doing good except they called a public meeting of the parishioners, and gave them an opportunity of decid ing upon the steps which they would take, and he thought that a petition from a meeting of the parishioners would have far more weight than if it was merely sent as the petition of the vestry. Every person sympathised with the people on account of the great calamity which had befallen Ireland ; but it must be borne in mind that the meeting had a duty to perform to the parishioners, inde pendent of the Irish. The vestry had to protect the pockets of the parishioners, and if they were to go on re lieving 130,000 Irish cases in one week, they would incur a serious amount of responsibility. The Rev. Rector BROOKS thought that the vestry being more of a deliberative assembly, their opinion would have a greater weight with parliament than a petition from a public meeting. Mr. EARLE recommended that the vestry should lose no time, but should at once petition parliament, as the magistrates intended to do at their meeting, which would be held on Wednesday. The Rev. CHAIRMAN said that he should be sorry to say anything that might be calculated to check or to freeze the genial current of charity that was flowing in the direction of Ireland at the present time : but it was a posi tive fact that with the amount of destitution that de manded relief, there was an amount of fraud and impos ture that demanded the greatest caution in investigating. The rev. gentleman gave two instances of deception by Irish impostors—which we gave in a former number. The rev. g - entleman concluded by stating, that it was a great hardship upon Liverpool to support tens of thou sands of Irish. In the Isle of Man there was a law, that any captain of a vessel bringing paupers to that island, should lit - 1 liable to keep them. The Rev. Rector BROOKS gave another instance of im posture by the wife of a man who earned, last week at his work, the sum, of £1 17s. 6d. He suggested that the practice of indiscriminate alms-giving should be discon tinued, and that relief should be given through the Pro iident Society. Mr. AUSTIN, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, said he had some information to give which would show that the imposture which had been referred to must be much greater than any one suspected. On the 12th of January the number of applications for relief was 10,074 ;• on the 22nd they were 24,330, which showed an increase of 14,256. Between these two days —on the 13th of Ja nuary the Police were stationed to watch the boats which arrived from Ireland and to count with great accuracy the number of Irish who landed. From the 13th to the 22nd of January inclusive the number of Irish who arrived was 7,403 ; consequently the applications for relief from 6,853 persons would not be applications from Irish vagrants, for that number had not arrived to make up the 14,250 who had applied for relief on the 22nd over and above those who were relieved on the 12th January. The number of men who were relieved on the 22nd over the, 12th, was 2,631, and those who arrived were 4,498, consequently 1867 Irishmen had arrived who were not relieved. That number, 1867, he would add to the 6,853, whom he had stated had not arrived, and that would number 8,720 who were relieved, and who had not arrived by the boats be tween the 12th and 22nd of January. The excess of wo men relieved between those days was 2,311, and the num ber who had not arrived was 1,755, which made 1,056 who applied for relief and did not arrive between those days. He also found that there was an excess of 8,814 children ; for within the time alluded to only 1,150 had arrived from Ireland. Therefore, there were 7,664 children relieved who had not arrived from Ireland between the 12th and' 22nd of January. The statement of Mr. Austin created great surprise ; and he stated he had no earthly doubt of its truth. The petition was then agreed to, and it was ordered to be forwarded to Lord Sandon for presentation, and that a request'should be made to Sir Howard Douglas and the members of the .southern division of the county to sup port it. A memorial to the government was also adopted. Mr. AUSTIN stated that he had a return of the number of passengers arrived from Ireland in a state of destitu tion between the 13th and 25th January. That number was 10 - 24, Of which - number only 1823 were children ,• 6368 ' men, and 2533 women. Now the number of child n who had arrived was less than that of wo men , i re whilst the number of children relieved was four times as many as the women. This suggested the notion that fraud had ben practised to a great extent, and it also suggested to him (Mr. Austin). that it had been encou raged by the lax way in which relief had been granted at the office. It had had the effect of bringing people to apply for relief, and he felt sure that ithey had Irish poor enough of their own without the extra number of appli cants. In the 24,000 cases which had been relieved, rrearly one-third of the relief had gone to people who ought not to have had it without inquiry. Last week the relief given cost £378, or, in round numbers, £400; and one-third or a quarter went to persons who ought not to receive it. Now a hundred pounds would provide an army of relieving officers, and, he would propose that a number of relieving officers be appointed. He would not mention the number; he would leave that to the vestry. The next point for consideration was the destitute sick, and it was necessary that some place should be prepared for their reception. He stated, on the authority of Mr. Cripp3, that disease was increasing, and gave an account of the destitute condition of the in some streets, particularly Lace-street, where he had found 41 people in one house. In order to check the increasing demand for relief, the outdoor system of relief must be resorted to ) and some premises must be procured for that purpose. After a short discussion, a committee was appointed to carry out the heads of Mr. Austin's recommendations, and the board separated, after the case of Mr. Blanchard had been referred to the Finance Committee. -- ~__.. ,~: ~ _ ..~ .~ LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday, a young man, named John Stringer, was committed ter trial charged with hav ing stolen 3s. 6d., the property of Mr. Evans, clock and watchmaker, of 'this town. THEFT BY A CHARWOMAN.—On Friday, Hannah Hul loch was committed for trial upon the charge of having robbed Mrs. Hughes, of Clayton-square, at whose house she had been actin as charwoman. THEFT BY A W OREM AN.—A mon named John Ker foot was on Friday committed for trial by Mr. Rushton, upon the charge of selling bricks from his master's kiln, at Kirkdale, which he had no authority to do. COLLISION. — On Wednesday, the Police-court was a considerable .time occupied in hearing a case of collision on the river. The Highland Mary was on the previous Wednesday lying at anchor, when the schooner Diamond, corning. up with a strong tide, struck her heavily on the starhofird bow, carrying away the cutwater. The High land Mary had at once to let go the anchor, with 7.5 fa thoms of chain, and put into the Prince's Dock for re pairs. The damages, it was stated, did not exceed £2O. It was left to Mr. Askew, the harbour master, to ascer tain the precise amount, an order for payment being awarded by the court. DRUNKENNESS A NECESSARY EVIL.—At the Police court,' on Thursday, a female, whose name we don't give, was summoned to appear before Mr. Rushton on a charge of drunkenness. The lady did not appear in propria persona, but sent her husband in her stead. The case having been proved by a policeman, the husband intimated that he had something to say in extenuation. "Do you deny her being drunk ?" said Mr. Rushton. " She was taken ill some time ago," said her spouse," " and she was ordered to take spirits. I admit that it is an evil, though it is a necessary evil." Mr. Rushton—" 0 no, there can be no necessity to get drunk." The lady was ordered to pay ss. and 4s. 6d. costs. A SIMPLE COWKEEPER.—On Saturday, a young man, of the name of Michael Conway, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having robbed a cowkeeper named Owen, of his watch. Owen stated that he was in Sum merseatt, a notorious place for thieves and bad characters of all descriptions, about eleven o'clock on Friday night, and that, as he was in the act of entering a public house to get what he called his "nightcap,"or, in other words, his last glass for the night, the prisoner came up to him and asked him what time it was. Owen replied, between ten and eleven. The prisoner told him that he particu larly wanted to know the exact time, and should be ob liged if he could tell him to a minute. Owen immedi ately drew his watch from his fob, and was about to feel at the minute hand when the prisoner seized the article and gave it a tug. It happened to be suspended round his neck by a very thick, strong chain, which resisted the tug. A scuffle then ensued between them, and in the course of it the prisoner gave the watch another very se vere tug, and the clasp of the chain gave way. He then made off with it, and was pursued sharply by the cow keeper. After running through various streets, he was at length arrested by an officer in Chisenhale-street, but he had not the watch then in his possession, and there was very little doubt that he had in the course of the chase passed it to one of his confederates. He was committed for trial. A PUGILISTIC POLICEMAN.—On Saturday, a tall, ath letic policeman, 'of the name of Spencer, was brought before Mr, Rushton on a charge of being drunk, fighting, and breaking the furniture in the house of Mr. Charles Howell, eating-house keeper, 27, Tithebarn-street, the night before. The prisoner had a black eye and sundry bruises and contusions about other parts of the face, which showed but too plainly that he had not come off altogether scatheless in his recent encounter. Mr. Howell stated, that he had met with a great many ferocious cha racters in his time, but never such a one as the fellow in the dock ; in fact, his opinion was that the prisoner was a devil incarnate, and not a human being. The night before he entered his house drunk, and, not being satisfied with fighting with and turning every man out of the eating-room, he ran down stairs, seized a heavy poker, broke some of the furniture with it, and swore that he must have somebody else to fight with'. Several were obliged to fight against him in self defence, and others had to fly out of the house for their lives, for he brandished the poker over his head and laid about him on all sides. Mr. Howell, who was labouring under severe indisposition, said that a similar scene of up roar, terror, and dismay, had never before been created by any twenty men in the neighbourhood. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to pay 2s. and costs for the damage done to the furniture, and ss. and costs for being drunk, and to be forthwith dismissed the force. Bistrtrt pays'. On. Saturday at the Borough Court, Bolton, a person in that town, agent for the sale of Dr. Coffin's medicines, was bound over to the Quarter Sessions, to answer a charge of practicing as an apothecary and selling medicine without a certificate for that purpose. WIGAN.—The Manchester Express says that. Standish, M.P., is dangerously ill ; but the Preston Pilot - says that the report is very likely an election ruse.—On Saturday week, the cabinet-maker's workshop and con tents of Mr. John Cooke, near Scholes Bridge, were destroyed by fire. The loss is £3OO. On Sunday week two sermons were preached by the very rev. the Dean of Bangor, at the parish church of Eastham, on behalf Of the suffering Irish, after which the sum of £2l was collected ; also, on the same day, a ser mon was delivered by the Rev. Thos. Collinridge, for the same purpose, and a collection made at the private chapel . of Sir W. Massey Stanley, Bart., at Hooton. SUBSCRIPTION AT MANCHESTER.—The amount sub scribed in Manchester and Salford for the Irish and Scotch is £7OOO. Amongst the subscriptions we see the munificent one of £315 from Messrs. William Grant and Brothers (half for each country), and one from Messrs. J. and N. Philips and Co. of £250 for Ireland, and " young men in the employ of H. Bannerman and Sons, £95 4s. 2d." MRS. BUTLER.—We noticed in our last that Mrs. But ler, late Fanny Kemble, had been in negociation with Mr. Bunn, for an engagement at Drury-lane Theatre ; but Mr. Bunn, having offered her just one-half the amount she asked, she declined to accept her engagement there We now learn that this celebrated actress is to make her first reappearance on the British stage on the boards of the Theatre-Royal Manchester, in all probability in the month of February. - CHILD POISONED.—The village of Garston was thrown into a state of great excitement on Tuesday evening by the circulation of a report that a woman, named Mary Bates, had poisoned her child, half a year old, by the administration of laudanum. Bates was taken into cus tody by one of the rural police, and an inquest was held on the body of the child on Thursday, when, it appearing that the woman had administered the dose to the infant to keep it asleep whilst she went out to work, and not with any felonious intent, she was discharged. In proof of the increase of heat gained by burning the smoke, we may cite the experiments of Mr. Henry Holds worth, of Manchester, who has shown, that in the front flue of a furnace, of common construction, the thermo meter seldom rose above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, and often fell below 900 degrees, the mean being 975 degrees ; while in the same furnace, when consuming its smoke, the mean temperature was 1,160 degrees Fahrenheit, ranging between 1,400 degrees and 1,000 degrees. The quantity of water evaporated by a pound of coal was one half quarter more than when the smoke was not con sumed. A NEW RACE-COURSE FOR MANCIIESTER.—It is stated that a site has at length been fixed upon to be converted into a race-course, and that in a few days the necessary lease will.be signed. The place chosen is the low ground near Agecroft Bridge, in Pendleton, the property of John Fitzgerald, Esq., of the Pendleton collieries; but we have not heard the extent of the ground, nor the price which is to be given for it. , It appears, however to be a prevalent opinion that an enormous sum must bei expended before it can be got into a proper condition for horse-racing. The races at Newton are, this year, to take place in Whitsun-week, doubtless in consequence of there being no races on Kersal Moor at that time. SUICIDE AT WARRINGTON.—On Wednesday an inquest was held at Sankey Bridge, before Mr. Heyes, coroner, on view of the body of Joseph Hanley, aged' 34, carter to Messrs. Winstanley and Hobson, flour merchants. He was a steady, careful man, and put his spare earnings in the savings -bank. On going, on Saturday, to his money box for this purpose, he found £2 had been taken, which, he ascertained, his wife had taken and squandered in drink and other vile ways, in consequence of which he became intoxicated, and on the following day, while labouring under head-ache, and in the absence of his wife, he hanged himself by a clothes line from the banister of the stairs. Verdict, Temporary insanity." THE WARRINGTON FILE MAKERS' TURN-OUT.—It will be recollected that several of the workmen in the em ployment; under contract, of Mr: J. Edelsten ' file manu facturer, absconded some months ago , a t th e dictation of the Trades' Union, without any assigned reason or com plaint of grievance. Several of them, after inducing others to leave, were apprehended, and some were kindly re ceived back by Mr. E., but soon afterwards again absconded, taking others with them. Seven or eight of the runaways were apprehended in various parts of the country ,and taken before the Warrington magistrates ; three of them were committed for three months. An atteulpt was made to show that Mr. Edelston (who had forgiven several others) did not pay time regular wages ; but this was not proved, and Mr. E. said that if it were he would be the first to respond. Loss OF THREE LIVES AND FIVE SEX NEELY BURNED. —An inquest was held at the house of William Johnson sign of the Bull's Head, Parr, b e f ore J o h n H eyes, Esq.,, coroner, on the bodies of three young lads who came by their deaths in consequence of the explosion of fire damp in Messrs. Bourne and Robinson's colliery, at Parr. It appeared from the evidence that one of the lads went with a lighted candle into the place where he worked, and the explosion took place in consequence. EMBEZZLEMENT AT MANCRESTER.—On Wednesday morning, a respectable-looking man, named Thos. Smith, was brought up at the Borough Court, Manchester, before ,Mr. Maude and a full bench of magi -trates, charged with embezzling several sums of money from his employers, amounting in the whole, it is said, to several thousand pounds. It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. John Shuttleworth, stamp distributor for that district, cotton-broker, and agent for Messrs. Strutt and Co., of Derby. Mr. Maude sent the prisoner to the sessions. DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR HALSALI. MOOR.—Four men, James Cowsill, aged 40, William Cowsill, his son, Peter Harrison; 38, and William Johnson, 30, all brick setters, lost their lives on Tuesday last by suffocation, while at work in a coalpit. The pit had been excavated to the depth of 61 yards, and two sets of men were alter nately employed. Those named were at work, during a storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, which had prevented other workmen from coming, when the banksman at the top heard a loud noise from the bottom of the pit, and immediately an immense flame issued from its mouth. A. man was sent down, and discovered the bodies of the four men, all dreadfully burnt., Some days before, the work men discovered a fissure in boring through the rock, from which a small quantity of gas escaped. It was stated that stormy weather had always considerable influence on the air in coal mines, and that some gas had collected under the scaffolding on which the men were working, which had come in contact with a lighted candle. The verdict of the coroner's jury was, " Died from suffocation." MEETING AT ST. HELENS.—A highly respectable pub lic meeting of the inhabitants of St. Helens and neigh bourhood was held in the Town-hall there, on Wednesday last, in aid of the funds of the British Association for the relief of the destitute in Ireland and Scotland. The chair was taken by E—Pilkin g t on E sq ., and the meeting was successively addressed by Mr. Mulvany, the Rev; Mr. Carr, Incumbent; the Rev. Mr. Mostyn, Incumbent of St. Thomas's, Eccleston ; Mr. Fincham •, the Rev. Mr. Edmonds, Independent Minister; the Rev. Mr. Wat mough, Wesleyan Minister; Mr. Bishop; and by the Rev. Mr. Pollock,' lately Incumbent of St. Helens, and now of St. Mark's, Liverpool. The following was the first resolution moved :—" That Almighty God having, in his inscrutable wisdoM, permitted a widely spread and de solating famine to fall upon our fellow subjects in Ireland and Scotland, we desire deeply to sympathise with them, and feel it our duty to contribute out of our necessities, still more out of our abundance, towards its alleviation." The sum of £325 was subscribed the room, and an or ganization formed for further collections amongst those who were unable to attend. POLITICAL VARIETIES. The victory of the " Ten Hours Bill," is now said to be certain. The rumours of a dissolution in May, are all fudge ; the sessional business will not admit of it. On Monday, W. J. Chaplin, Esq., chairman of the South-Western Railway, was elected member for Salis bury, in the room of A. Hussey, Esq., resigned. The manufacturers and merchants of the Midland Counties have sent a memorial to Lord Palmerston, praying his lordship to use every effort to put an end to the blockade of the River. Plate. Mr. Miall. the editor of the Nonconformist newspaper, is to be a candidate at the general election for Edinburgh, supported by the anti-state-church and complete suffrage party. - The election of Middlesex is fixed for Wednesday, the 3rd of February. It is reported that. Mr. H. Foamsll will be started in opposition to Lord Robert Grosvenor on the Conservative interest. Mr. Charles Lushington has promptly replied to the in vitation of the Westminster Reform Society,_ that he would come forward as a candidate for that city on the next dissolution of Parliament, when Mr. Leader retires from that honourable position. CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.—A splendid banquet was given at the . Carlton Club, in London, on Saturday even ing, and we observe among the names of the distinguished noblemen and gentlemen present, those of Lord Stanley and Mr. Talbot Clifton. The Duke of Newcastle occu pied the chair. EMBASSY TO BRAZIL.—Lord Howden has been ap pointed minister to Brazil. His lordship will call (en route to to his station) at the river Plate, with a view of bringing matters in that part of the world to a satisfactory termination. His lordship arrived in town last week from the continent, and will proceed to Rio early in the present month. • The National Club, which was first formed after the passing of the Maynooth Endowment Bill as a rallying point for the Protestant party, have taken the houses, No. 2 and 3, Old Palace-yard, between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which will open as a club-house in the course of a few days. The Mark Lane Express says, " we are highly gratified in being enabled to state that the Government has made the important announcement that their attention has been directed to devising a system of agricultural statistics, and that a measure thereon will be laid before the House of Commons as early as possible." SIR R. PEEL AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The Globe states that on Tuesday evening, in the House of Com mons, Sir Robert Peel sat for a long time by the side of, and conversed very earnestly with Lord John Russell, which occasioned considerable observation. Sir R. Peel subsequently conversed for a long time with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, and afterwards engaged in a long conversation with Lord Monteagle. THE FARMERS' CLUB.—In consequence of the ill suc cess which attended the deputation appointed to seek an interview with Lord John Russell, on Friday week, on the subject of the repeal of the malt tax, the council of the Farmers' Club, in conjunction with the committee of the Central Society for the Protection of Agriculture and.. the Malt Tax Association, have resolved, when Ile pre sent distress in Ireland has in some degree abated, to organise a combined system of agitation, as important in numerical strength and persevering in energy as that which characterised the Anti-Corn Law League. LORD ASHLEY AND THE TEN HOURS' BILL.—The Ten Hour Bill agitation, which was carried on in York shire and Scotland under the superintendence of Mr. Oastler, has been honoured in Lancashire with the at tendance of Lord Ashley. On Thursday week, the no ble lord addressed a large meeting at Manchester. On Friday, lie was at Blackburn ; on Monday, at Bolton ; and, on 'Wednesday evening, he attended an enthusiastic meeting at Todmorden, the native place of Mr. Fielden, in whose hands the cause in Parliament is now placed. The reception given to his lordship at all these towns was such as his noble sacrifices on behalf of the Hour Bill demanded and deserved. THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND. The amount of this subscription, when last advertised, a few weeks ago,—we mean the subscriptions forwarded to the committee for this district,—amounted to £53,624. Since that announcement, other subscriptions have been re ceived, chiefly from Liverpool,ltogether with some from Paisley, Kendal, and Macclesfield, increasing the amount by £4,722 ; the total, up to last 'evening being £58,846 19s. 9d. These subscriptions include one from Mr. John Pennington, of Liverpool, of £3OO. J. C. Ewart, of Li verpool, 4200 ; Messrs. Tenants, Clow, and Co., Liver pool; Mr. William Jackson, Liverpool, £150; the family of Mr, Crosfield, Liverpool, £145 ; and ten others of £lOO each, all from Liverpool. DESTRUCTION OF THE POWER OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS.—The proposed alterations of the des potic poor law government, submitted by Lord John Rus -011 to the House of Commons on Friday night, has given general satisfaction in this town. We believe there will be no public meeting convened upon the subject until the ministerial scheme has been fully developed. The propo sition that the president of the new board to replace . the present irresponsible commissioners, and one of the secre taries, be members of the House of Commons, whereby they would be compelled to answer all such questions as would be put to them by the representatives of the peo ple, and thus, rendering them responsible to the country for their acts, meets with almost universal approval. Mr. Bright's party held a great ticket meeting at Man chester on Thursday. It was stated that upwards of 6000 pledges had been obtained. Mr. Milner Gibson, who was present, said he was opposed to the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, and also opposed to the creation of a new bishopric in Manchester, and pro mised that if Lord John Russell introduced a bill for that purpose he would oppose it. On the subject of na tional education he.had very strong opinions. He would, in all cases, objeCt to any religious instruction being given. in those schools ; indeed, he would go so far as to exclude the use of the Bible. Mr. Bright followed with an anti chureh speech. The canvass by Lord Lincoln's friends is now complete. It is stated that, under the most unfa vourable circumstances, there is a majority of nearly 100 in favour of his lordship. CHESTER .ELECTION.—The election to supply the vacancy in the representation of the city of Chester occa sioned by the resignation of Lord Robert Grosvenor (candidate for Middlesex), took place on Saturday. The Mayor (Dr. Phillips Jones) proposed Earl Grosvenor, which was seconded by Thomas Dixon, Esq., who said that 1400 electors had been waited on, and not more than two dozen had declined to support Earl Grosvenor. No other candidate being proposed, the sheriff declared Earl Grosvenor duly elected. His lordship thanked the elec tors most warmly, but said his youth and inexperience must be accepted as the excuse for his not making pledges,. and for not giving a declaration of his political opinions. His lordship did, however, say that it was his desire " to promote the extension of commerce, and support every measure calculated to improve the social and moral con dition of the people." A vote of thanks was then passed to the sheriff and to Lord Robert Grosvenor, and the meeting separated. - MR. BRIGHT AND MR. OASTLER.—A correspondence has taken place between these two gentlemen, which has excited some little interest. A deputation from the Man chester Short-time Committee had waited on Mr. Bright with a copy of the Ten Hours' Advocate, of which Mr. Oastler is editor, and which contained a " challenge" to a. ii public discussion to' Mr. Bright, to prove his asse rtion that he (Mr. 0.) was either " deceiving himself , or bein g dreadfully guilty." Mr. Bright refused to notice any letter not addressed to him in manuscrriipgth,tanddeca written copy copy was sent by Mr. Oastler. Mr. B accept the challenge, on the gr ound f l lr. atl l, o l a r s . t F ie i r e , l s d f e a n it a h nf , Mr. Ferrand, "two leading apostles o were in the House of Commons, where thestluteesst,io inn wouldreply, tehaomtetifioerqdiuescstusiot of cu r p r a . bi O li a t r a e t r tac ju h s ed tly to him cannot be discussed in the House of Commons in his absence—ho not being a member. Mr. Bright, however, adheres to his dexterous shuffle, and will not publicly meet the man he has slandered.