The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, AMERICA, On Sunday morning, the packet-ship John R. Skiddy, Captain Luce, arrived at this port from New York, whence she sailed on the 19th ult. She brings intelligence from Mexico of considerable importance—the latest dates being from Vera Cruz to the 2d ultimo, and from • the city of Mexico to 29th June. It appears that the .United . States Government had in the spring resumed negociations with the Mexicans for the re-establishment of peace, but the propositions we ' , less under certain stipulatior to which the Ames they invol- e refused tit a Government would not ac relinquishment of all the ad , e United States' troops. Still anxioi .ce, the President sent a plenipotenti. ever, 1 thoriz for pea to enter into a treaty with that obj and by ted no- or 'eply been "give I for decision had expired two months before was anticipated that the United States' troops _ _ :h upon the Mexican capital from Rio Grande, New Al Le receipts for the year being a million of in the last year of the old system.. time all that dat would a dollars m In the ny descr 3nande exchar Money continued plentiful ; s maintained at .51 to 61 per cent )renoon of the 17th the ived per teleg vices by the Britannia were r the eff tling the markets. before had sold at 6121, declined to at.s 51 D, but n was taken tannia's is there we buyers at .quently though generally merchants were holding I receipt of their letters. Ashes were firm at 612, Liverpool salt was wanted. Provisions dull. At Baltimore the stock of flour amounted to 30,000 brl The exports from New ending 16th ultimo wer( 221.980 to Great Britain 113,918 ba for pearls 127.488 lith, had 1 bushels, cor The ship Sar , 313 barrels; corn, 20,693 ,s arrived out at New York on t ported to one-half, and removing altogether from pigs, ox pork. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. yal Mail steam-ship Avon, from ti rived at Southampton on Wednesdal rehants 1,603 ounces of silver, 2,648 ounces of gold-dust, Lses of cigars, 101 serons of cochineal, 69 cases of I unust She sight with two steamers Squadron 14 miles off the her contradic 'Ole, the rains ap ?ear to have generally visited ' the various localities, tliough far too scanty in some districts. Great complaints continued in f the scarcity of shipping, and of course 'lnes from non-realiza- consequence the colonist: tion of produce. The want of money was severely felt. On the departure of the Avon from the Gulf the fol lowing v s the most recent intelligenc at Vera Cruz The Ar 4,000 men of the 10 new the r( won't of June. 1.( Kico they OkA• counts to about ,fi lately organizec ainder were expected daily, when the army mount to 10,000 men. On the night of the 16th mules were take by a Mexican gt pposed to amount to 200 men. Ge- waiting reinforcement , are making preparations for a stron Anna had been declared Dictator, or condition that he will not, under any eireumstant treat for peace ; and it is generally supposed by th . . the Americans - must conquer the whole country before there could be an end to the war. Almonte, the late Am- bassador to the United States, was in prison at Mexico. The fever was raging dreadfully at Vera Cruz, especially in the American army ; there were between GOO and 700 20 died daily ; however, rumour said between 25 and 30 daily. It is generally supposed that when the rainy season sets in the mortality amongst By the m merman troops will be fearfully great. no prospect of the Americans accepting the )n lately made by the American Government for LIE There is about half via d Pa I Mexicans rata, an affair took bout 400 between th Santa Anna was said to have 30,000 men organized in Mexico ; the priests are distributing their money in a most lavish manner in aid of the war. FRANCI In the discussion on the estimates in the Chamber of Peers, yn Tuesday, M. de Flavigny asked M. Guizot if it was true that ti Austrians 25,000 men in Lombard Ferrara ; and if the French government hat from the Cabinet of Vienna any explanation respet those armaments ? M. de Flavigny a Guizot what course France intended to pursue with to Switzerland ? M. Guizot replied that France intended to meddle with the domestic affairs of Switzt land, no prevent the Swiss from introducing into th fedrral compact or into their internal organization t reforms they might deem expedient. ;o enquired of M A CONJUGAL COUPLE.—So violent are the dissensions between the Queen of Spain and her husband, that she gave express orders that he should not be allowed to occupy apartments in the palace during her absence from Madrid, and sentries were posted for the purpose of en forcing obedience. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN PARIS.—On Sunday week a murder was committed in the Hotel de Turin, Paris, un der remarkable circumstances. That day an elderly Pied montese gentleman, named Terre, had taken possession of a small apartment in the hotel, and being infirm in his limbs, was attended by a female 24 years of age as his nurse. In the evening a man came to the hotel with some provisions, and from his representations that tl for the invalid was allowed to go to the invalid Ile remained some hours, when a struggle and cries were heard from the apartment. One of the servants, on going up stairs to learn the cause, met the man, who was coming down in great haste, and who told him Mademoiselle Boele (the nurse), had been taken ill, and that he was has tening for a physician. The servant went up and found the young nurse lying dead and streaming with blood from several wounds inflicted upon her with a table knife, in - presence of her master. wl s room The police was called, and the murderer, a Gilbert was tracedto a printing office in wh It appeared that he had been her paramour ears, and that he suspected her fidelity to him. e act be went to work at the printing office, and compositor for som After t' while hurrying the correction of a proof,—saying he was in haste to go and might not return, the police officers entered. He made no resistance, and the sleeves of his undercoat were found to be stained with blood. EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE. ON BOARD THE FRENCH ROYAL YACHT.—A frightful accident occurred on Monday, on board the royal screw-propeller yacht " Comte d'Eu.". She had left. Havre in the morning for Cherbourg, where some of her fittings were to have been completed, and she was to proceed thence to Treport, to take on board his Majesty. Louis Philippe, l and part of the • rIl royal family, for a pleasure excursion. Ine steamer was going at its usual speed, when about noon, the officers and a few passengers being assembled on deck, a mass of steam was seen to escape in thick volumes from all the of the engine room. The first moment of panic of t e steam even on deck was, however, so great that it was almost impossible to move about on it; and it was known that twenty engineers and firemen were in the greatest danger near the furnaces. Three of them were soon seen to emerge from the hatches, and fall senseless on deck. Cries of help were heard, but the difficulty of sending any person to the assistance of the unfortunates below was so great that none ventured to come forward, until the captain himself, only taking counsel of his cou rage, fastened a rope round his body, got himself hoisted into the engine room, and, though, having but one arm, succeeded, with the assistance of some of the crew, in getting up the bodies of the remaining sufferers. The greatest care and tenderness were afforded to the victims, but many had lost almost human shape, and most of them gave hardly any signs of life. Before ten o'clock in the evening nine had expired. The steamer's head had meanwhile been turned towards Havre, she being then near Barfleur. When the steam had sufficiently escaped to allow the examination of the engine, it was discovered that the boiler had burst in the under part, corresponding with the furnaces; and the boiling water, falling upon the fire, and running through the grates, had deluged with its burning waves the whole of the engine room. The effect upon . the unfort una t e men w h o were a t th a t time in the engine room must have been immediate, and instant suffocation must have been the fate of the persons who were nearest the boilers. The " Comte d'Eu arrived in the roads of Havre at two o' c l oc k i n the morning of Tuesday, when the killed and wounded were placed in boats, and brought on shore. Of the immediate survi vors, eleven in number, who had been sent to the hospi tal, four expired on Tuesday, and there is little hope entertained of the ultimate recovery of the remainder. IRELAND, Two MORE MURDERS.—On Friday night a servant roan named Connell was murdered and robbed near Limerick; and on the same day a gentleman named White was shot dead at Greenhall, in the county of Tip- perary. CONSEQUENCE OF DEFECTION.—Mr. Smith O'Brien is sharing the fate of all Protestant professors of " liberal" vrincioles. Soon or late. they are generally made to_feel . - he folly of identifying themselves with a party which en - mint be true to them without being . false to the faith it follows. There is no use, however, in telling them this. They may have a faint foreboding of what awaits them, but e ac h c li ngs to the hope that he will be an exception to apprenticeship of any pupil teacher or stipendiary monitor the general doom. Mr. Smith O'Brien is beginning to is unexpired, the school shall be o p ene d to t h e v i s i ts o f I leave an inklin g o f w h a t h e h as to expect, and expresses i h er Naiesty's inspectors, ny means of their inspectors. Where schools receive aid towards their annual expenses only, the trustees and managers will be required to sign an agreement that so long as thi s 4. ~,,„f;„„,„,i nr the himself in terms of mortified disappointment to his former "friends," the electors of Limerick, from whom he has separated as representative in parliament,. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. O'CONNELL. —The mortal remains of the distinguished Daniel O'Connell signed to the tomb in the cemetery of Glasnevin, ~dr Dublin, on Thursday. For some days the body had been lying in Marlborough-street chapel. At eleven o'clock the hearse, drawn by six horses, was admitted within the barrier, also a number of mourning coaches, in were {!0: the di Many hundred persons had previously short time was spent in devotion, led wad the (prc demonsfiation o m took the route- previously marked re the tied the hear 7erent trades of the c swelled by tl two elections The pers( len of the in Merrio 1. of the O'Connell Circ but very ft placed in the vault ,ucb occasions, by boy ri four or of le9ser de tt time the tended to erect a The Rev. Thor The it curacy of CLERICAL 12 .pools of the Church Lpressive object in the silent but expressive -as moving to ttie vault h mstrueted in styled " the )wr it, which were )f the memt large numl:i, is cost of them were -present when • the body - The clergy were preceded, as :iiired in xlet and man Catholic bb her with the Revs I the deceased as his chaplain in his las r. Fitzsimon, Mr. Finn, Mr. Steele, Mr Jr. Patrick Costelloe, Mr. Ford, Mr. Dolan [linen, and numerous others enterec lersons in t he vati A the entrance of the coffin was impeded for iOME The ceremony performed in the vault comprise 3enedictus and Miserere mei .Deus, which were The ceremor dispersed.- crowds account is condensed,) says : ias not yet been decided whether TELLIGENCI Eaton, canon of Chester, to the v aof the Dean and Chapter of Chest 3n, to the perpetual !uniberland The Rev. William Whitworth, to the perpetual curacy of St. James's Church, Clitheroe, Lancashire. , The Rev. John Charles Wood, to the stipendiary curacy :ton, in the county of I 7th annual report of the churches (just published report 21 churches have modation has been pro. EW CHURCI ated, that since the last been completed, in which actor vided for 1 the use of the poor Is, including 13.292 free seats for Thus, in the whole, 391 churches ted , and provision has therein been ppropriated to the u THE GOVERNM VT EDUCATION PLAN f the Corinnittee of Council on tducat ddressed to the Inspectors of Schools. The best way to heme is to look at a bit of its workin t not in r gination of which woul have been sufficient When the in- lools lie t of their applyir e., for stipends on th in each school, but he is to take them altogether, and sub ject Church schools, Dissenters' schools, and British and Foreign schools to a common and a public examination. He is to put down the names of the most eligible scholars, appoint a day, procure a large room in the town, or other public place, for example the Town-hall, or the Mecha- )gether, exclu- nination, it appe that common in the particularly the schools main by the Society of I than what has h In the present )r is repeatedly charged to confine his to intellectual attainments, leaving ques- jolts character to owing area few passage: From this It is important that the scholars and their parents should, from the mode in which the examination of the school is conducted, place implicit confidence in the impartiality with which the intellectual qualifications of the scholars are discriminated. Their lordships consider the local au thorities as the proper arbitrers of everything that relates to the moral and religious character of the apprentices, but that it is the province of the inspector to determine their comparative intellectual qualifications. With this view it will be your duty, after an examination of the whole school, to point out those scholars whom you con sider to be intellectually best qualified, and it will be the duty of the clergyman and managers, or of the managers, to make known their comparative moral and religious qua- therefore practically concur in the recommendation of the candidate for the office of pupil teacher or stipendiary monitor The explanations in the last paragraph do not apply to the class of schools which are admitted to the benefits of their lordship's grants by the supplementary minute of July 10, 1847. When you have determined which scholars are most eligible for apprenticeship, it will be necessary, when the Iparish is isolated, that you should complete the examina . _ but when several schools applying for apprentices lie within a moderate distance of a town my lords request you to pursue the following course. You will take down the names of the mos Le scholars, and appoint a day on which they may be assembled with other candidates from neighbouring schools, in order that their comparafive qua lifications may be determined by an examination in ac cordance with their lordships' minutes. For this purpose it is desirable to procure the use of some public room in the town, or other central place, in which the candidates may be assembled for examination. Your report on each school will of course be separately made. This report, and the examination papers accom panying it, will be considered in this department ; and if . . indentures of apprenticeship will be filled up here, and transmitted to the managers of the school to be duly exe cuted by all the parties interested. Besides cases thus arising out of the explanations which you are requested to make during your visits to each school, T the at 3renticeshi stipendiary monitors may also be - made to the Committee of Council by the managers of other schools, many of which may not have previously been under inspection. When the preliminary inquiries are completed, my lords will, from time to time, transmit such applications to you, and will authorize you, if necessary, temporarily to with draw from the route of inspection which you would other wise have pursued. You will then make arrangements to visit each of these schools, and to report upon it in refer ence to the application for apprentices, and will afterwards resume your tour of inspection. In the appropriation of grants for the erection of school buildings, attention has been paid to the tenure of the site and to the structure of the school deed, especially in every thing that could affect the permanency and good management of the trust. The majority of schools erected with and from the public funds are secured by valid conveyances, and in a great number of them clauses are inserted providing for the management of the school, and defining the powers and duties of those to whom it is confided. The objects sought to be secured are-1. Permanency. —2. Efficient management. The Committee of Council will, in all such cases, re quire the following preliminary conditions 1. That the school-rooms be of sufficient size and height, well ventilated, warmed, and supplied with school furniture, apparatus, and books. 2. That the school-room be not liable to any uses likely to interfere with or disturb its occupation during the or dinary hours of school keeping, or to occasion a sudden termination of its employment for education. 3. That the proprietor, trustees, or managers of the school sign an agreement, that if the school-room cannot, by reason of the nature of the trusts of the deed or otherwise, continue to be appropriated to the education of the poor during the apprenticeship of the pupil ,eacher, the amount of t Rid gratuities to the teachers le stipends of the apprentices, hall be repaid on the oc- currence of every such interruption. All schools aided with grants towards their erection, enlargement, or towards the supply of school furniture, have, either by a clause in the conveyance, or by an in dorsement thereon, or by a memorial under the provisions of 7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 37, secured to the Committee of Council the power of visiting and examining the school THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The judges arrived at Lancaster on Saturday. At the Radnorshire assizes there was not a prisoner for trial, and no cause whatever at Nisi Prius. Mr. Justice Cresswell was only detained about an hour. THE LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—The judges will arrive here on Wednesday, and the trials will be proceeded with on. Thursday. The following is a digest of the calendar:— Murder, 6 ; intent to murder, 1 ; manslaughter, 'l3 ; stabbing, wounding, &c., 9 : rape &c., 9 ; burglary, 24 ; housebreaking, 2 ; robbery from the person, 19 ; arson, 3 ; forgery, 5 ; perjury, 2; horse 11—total, 115. infr, 3; mint offenc DMITIALTY COURT WEDN SDAY, AUG. 4 rcEu.—Dr. Robinson moved for a commission of ap iement and sale of the ship in this case, under the wins; circumstances:—The ship had been sued by the amounting to £270, incurring eve Otht against the 0, were ii laily deteriorating- in value, and i C4OO. Sir J. Dodson (who sat for Dr. Li idered that as the claims already c he - AK and matters must be getting wo do ifijury as now worth onl: nngton) con ,eded Le value of every d THE ELECTIONS, 4-c —Hudson (c), 879; SUNDERLAND.—CIose of the.poll Barclay (L), 642 ; Wilkinson (L), 568 Dr. Boyd was, on Thursday, elected for the borough of Coleraine, by a majority of 56, over Sir H. H. Bruce. CORK ELECTION.—Messrs. Fagan and Callaghan have been elected. The South Essex election closed on Saturday evening. Sir E. N. Buxton, a Liberal, and Mr. Bramston, a Con- servative re returned --- liithe6amciageTnlversity Election, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel voted for Lord Fielding and Mr. Le- Ewart, the Liberal representative of the Dum fries Burghs, was re-elected on Monday without opposi- tion. FALKIR At the Br Lx.—The polling took pla numbers stood as follows e on Tuesday. At the —Lincoln, 512 ; Boyd, the first vote was a plun Berkeley,ly Arthur Patine years of age, who, in 1774, acted as poll clerk for the cele brated Edmund Burke. y, of Fleet- a veteran reformer, Ur. See itreet, has written a letter to the Jduces evidence to show ich had left that city to Morning Herald, in which4ie px ous briber at Nc manage ....pinion election. A man named Jarrett has been committed at the Sus -‘ssizes, on a charge of having offered a bribe to an -, in order to induce him to vote for Messrs. Bris coe and. Robertson, at the late Hastings election. .esult of the poll at the h of Barnstaple, it was stated e in favour of the At the announcement of tl late election for the borm _ that one elector had recorded his vot At the Cambridge Uni Manners plumped for Mr the Marquis of Granby, 1 Mr. Law and Lord Fielding The election for West Kei y Election, Lord John whilst his elder brother, ike a truer Protestant, voted for It terminated on Saturday, in triumph for the Liberals. It was stated on the hustings at Darlington, on Thurs day. that John Bowes. Esq., the former member, had spent the large sum of £30,000 in two contests for South Dut'ham. ELGIN BURGH -The final state of the poll for this !lied us ; but it is understood that opponents, Mr. Alexander Bannerman (Tory), and Sir A L. Hay (Whig-Radical). KINSALE.-Mr. W. U. Watson, the notorious pro moter of the pretended " Roman Catholic Relief Bill," has been ejected from the representation of this borough by Mr. Gurness, a Conservative. At the close the num bers were--Gurness 104, Wakon 86. ENNIS.-Mr. O'GorMan Mahon was, on Tuesday, elected for the borough of Ennis without opposition. The honourable gentleman is regarded as a Young Irelander and a sworn enemy to the O'Connells, whose recent at tacks upon him he will answer in the House of Commons. Now that Mr. D'lsraeli is safe for Buckinghamshire, he states that " he has not renounced the opinions he ex pressed in Parliament upon the s ..oject of Protection to native industry; but he will not make them the subject of an electioneering howl. He will wait the course of events." In ad 1) , - _dressing the electors for Dublin ,niversity at the nomination, Mr. Shaw, one of the late and present mem bers, said that, "in order to serve the University, he had -that of Attorney General—from which three men have since under the same government been made judges " ELECTION PURlTY.—During the Hull election, a man named Thos. Airy went to the Porter-street committee room, and tendered a vote for Mr. Clay._ The usual oath was administered to him, and he stated his name as Bee croft, but one of the gentlemen in the room knew both Mr. Beecroft and the man himself. He was of course taken into custody. Mr. D'lsraeli stated very emphatically at the Bucking hamshire election that he would offer " no factious oppo sition to the present government," and added that as long as he found them pursuing a constitutional course, "he would give the government not only an impartial hearing, Init ac far as hP ennhl indoe of the tendonpv of their anta hitherto, an earnest support CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.- of the poll :—Law, 1486 ; Goulburn, 1189 ; Fielding, 1147 ; Lefevre, 860. The total number polled was 2491. The greatest number of votes for any member to serve in Parliament, or other University officer, since the foundation of the University. (previous to the present election) was for Lord Lyndhurst, 973. OXFORD UNIVERSITY At the final close of the poll ,is, 1,700 ; Gladstone, 997 ; . . Round, 824. The total number polled was understood to be .. 1857, of whom 120 "plumped" for Mr. Glad and about 25 for each of t The num ierof pairs reported to t THE PROTECTIONISTS LOOKING Our.-At the Buck inghamshire election, on Wednesday, Mr. D'leraeli, on returning thanks, said, that " though his opinions had not undergone any change, he hoped to be prepared at the right moment, if the country required remedial mea sures, to propose such measures as might have a remedial effect." Again, in speaking of sanatory reform, he said that he could not support the bill of Lord Morpeth of last session, but, he added, " I promise that if in the turning of the wheel we should be called on to put popular prin ciples into practice, we shall bring forward a bill which shall not be ashamed to meet in comparison with the bill of Lord iN lorpeti NORTH LANE election took place la >hire-hall at Lancaster. The attendanc lich he accordingly RAILWAY AFFAIRS. er than 128 trains go out and in dail the North Staffordsl Able porti ire main line to Congleton, are e petted to be ready for opening in October, 1848. It is reported, - on what is-considered COS __authority, idend at the half-yearly meeting of the North Western Company, in the present month, will be at the whole arid 2s. sd. per third share out of the pronrs on rue half-year, being almost_ 4 per cent.. on the first six monihs. An excursion train, bringing u pwards of COO persons I on pleasure bent, from Edinburgh and Glasgow to the great metropolis, arrived at the Easton station on Wed nosday. when the passengers gave three'hearty cheers for 'factory, in this respect that it maintains the former dividend (viz., 6d. on the half-year), and it is to be observed that the dividends on successive half-years are unequal. Four arches fell on the new line of railway between Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, on Tuesday. Being in ing on the Tonge side, they gave way, and about seven men were at the top at the time. Two of them were killed. The freemen of Lincoln are likely to be much enriched by the approach of railways to their city. From the Great Northern Company they claim £BOO per acre as se- the compensation claimed amounts to £25,000; they likewise claim £l,OOO per acre for two acres taken by the Midland Company. a official returns it a he amount of traffic for the last week, on upwi:ds of 3,154 miles of railway, was £198,878, thus accounted for :—X116,219 for the con- increase of £34,723 over the corresponding week of the last year, when the mileage was about 2,290. FIRST SPECIAL. TRAIN FROM EDINBURGH TO LONDON. sembled on the North Bridge and Calton-ill, to view the the departure of the first special train to London. After the whole had fairly started, which consisted of twenty-six carriages, propelled by two locomotives, a loud cheer was got up by the spectators, who all seemed to be deeply in terested in the event, which may, indeed, be regarded as the beginning of a new era in our social and national pro- gress.--Edinburgh paper. YORK AND NEWCASTLE RAILWAY.-At a meeting of the shareholders in this company, held at Liverpool on !rms proposed mation' with the Newcastle and Ber Crick Company, and also to receive the report of a deputation to Mr. Hudson on the subject, it was unanimously resolved that in conse- quenee of that report being posed terms likely to prov injurious to the interests tion of those terms at the York meeting on the 9th inst. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOU CESTER RAILWAY.—On Friday evening, an accident at- the mail train which arrives in Birmingham shortl eleven o'clock was travelling at a rapid pace in a c near Lifford, the engine ran off the rails, dragging tl der and luggage-vanafter it. It continued its course for several yards, ploughing up the earth until it fell over, and unfortunately, John Warburton, the engine-driver, was LIVERPOOL MANCHESTER, AND 'CASTLE JUNC- company have assumed a healthy and promising aspect. The dissensions which have so long existed in the direction have disappeared by the retirement of tne Newcastle party. The Board, is now united, and matters are progressing peaceably and rapidly. The falling through of the amal gamation with the Northern Counties Union'Railway may be considered in every respect a fortunate circumstance for a line that never could have been otherwiie than injurious to their legitimate interests, and it has brought unity and peace'into the direction. We need hardly - add . that the extraordinary resolUtion which was passed at the meeting in February last, giving to any two directors the power of a majority, is now a dead letter. We trust the affairs of my will never again stand in need of a similar meeting the share- he coming genera holders may expect to receive - a satisfactory and encourag ing report.—Railway Magazine. _ ORMSKIRK RAILWAY. - The following is an extract from the report of Messrs Locke and Errington, the en gineers to the East Lancashire Railway presented at a meeting of the company last' week. "The Ormskirk con tract was not let until the end of January, 1847, when the whole of the land had to be obtained : the progress, there fore, has not been great in earth-work ; at several points the embankments cannot be carried on until the bridges lie cans. pressed forward ; the masonry of three is finished, and the fourth is in course of construction. There has already been executed nearly 200,000 cubic yards, or about one eighth of the whole. This rate of progress will rapidly in crease as the cuttings are fairly opened out. Four bridges are completed, and sixteen considerably advanced. INO permanent way has yet been laid on this district. The whole of the contracts above enumerated expire at different periods between January, 1848, and June of the same year. It appears probable, on reviewing the present state of the works, and considering the preparation of material by the contractors, that the whole line may be finished and opened to the public next summer, and some portions of it at an earlier period." ANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meet company was held at Bury on Friday ; Mr. J. Grundy in the chair. The report stated that the net balance applicable for dividends from the traffic to the 30th of June was £10,007 ; that the passenger traffic was in creasing, and the arrangements for the mineral and goods traffic were becoming more complete; that the difficulties arising from the incomplete and unconnected state of the line would shortly be overcome. It was proposed to in crease the rate of interest on calls from 41 to 5 per cent. Under the Preston Extension Act the company was em powered to raise an additional capital of £217,000 scrip shares of the nominal value of £55, which had been issued and taken up to the amount of £216,800, which the direc tors would consolidate into quarter-shares of £6 ss. each, making within £12,800 of that sum. As interest could not be paid upon the new stock out of capital, these shares .eceivea. dividend at the rate of 5 per edit. until January, After the payment of the next call, the directors expect that they will be enabled to borrow money and defer making calls for some time. Of five bills promoted by the company in the late session two had had been passed and three rejected. The engineer's report stated, that from the advanced state of the work on the Accrington, Burn ley, Haslingden, Bacup, and Ormskirk contracts, it was probable that the whole line would be opened to the public next summer. The capital account showed that £1,447,792 had been received, and £1,207,490 expended, leaving a balance of £240,302 ; the revenue account th4t £18,506 had been received, and £13,406 expended ; leaving a pro fit of £6,100. Resolutions were passed adopting the re port and authorizing the directors to create 34,720 quarter shares of £6 ss. each, to be apportioned to the holders of scrip shares ; £1 ss. to be considered as already paid, and to be entitled to a dividend of five per cent. until January, 1850. ST. HELENS CANAL AND RAILWAY.—The annual meeting of this company was held on Tuesday, at Liver pool : Mr. W. Greenall in the chair. The report stated that their bills in the late session of parliament had been strenuously opposed by the North Western Company for making a line into Warrington, connecting the Garston Docks with the Cheshire Junction and the North Western Railways, with a view to extend the coal trade of the district, and to make Garston the great depilt for the export of coal and salt from the Mersey. That the Howe of Commons rejected the opposition projects pro moted by the London and North Western Company, and sanctioned in their integrity the schemes of this company. That contracts have been entered into for altering the inclined planes on the main line from 1 in 30, at present worked by fixed engines and a rope, to a gradient of 1 in 100, which can be worked by locomotive power. This alteration will be effected for £35,000 less than the origi nal estimates. It is expected to diminish the expenses of hauling the traffic fully one-fourth. A call on the £25 new shares will be made immediately. The revenue ac count for the year exhibits a surplus of £3,460, after providing for interest and the guaranteed dividend on the preference shares. The total _accumulated surplus of _ - upw ktru , - - since iti4s, would afford a dividend of 50s. per share ; but the directors recommend that a dividend of only 30s. per share be now declared, reserving the surplus for a further dividend at an early period. They have determined to make application to parliament in the next session for an extension line to Liverpool of about five miles in length. —Mr. C. Holland stated at considerable length the ad- V.:Wt./16GO I, UV completed, and the establishment of docks at Garston.— Resolutions were passed adopting the rerort, approving the dividend of 30s. per share on the old shares, and pre- 5 per cent. secured to the latter, and also las. per share on the half shares. The retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks passed to the chairman and directors. :he other candidates two committees was adding 308 to the total number of voters ; and making *Mr. Gladstone's supporters 1,151. . . SOUTH DURHAM • ELECTION.-The nomination took place on Thursday. There was no contest, and Lord Harry Vane (Lib.), and Mr. Farrer, of Inglethorp (Tory), were declared duly elected. The noble lord was proposed by Joseph Pease, Esq., of Southend, and seconded by Geo. J. Scurfield, Esq., of Hurworth ; Mr. Farrer was proposed by Marshall Fowler, Esq., of Preston Hall, and seconded by Captain Morritt of Rokeby Park.- This is the first time a Tory has been returned for this division. The contest in this district Mr. J. B. Smith, who, we THE STIRLING BURGHS has resulted in the return of y a Christi t Mr. Smit an constituency in Scot ;h professes Free Trade land. It i; true, that principles ; but we regret to think that the electors of Stirling should have gone to Manchester for a candidate of such a persuasion. Mr. Smith polled 345 votes, Mr C. A. Maitland 312, Mr. A. Alison 156 WINCHESTER Mr. Bonham Carter, 363 ; Sir J. B. scott, 243. Nothing could be more complete than the failure of Mr. Escott, his supporters comprising the very lowest Radicals, with a few of the Conservative party who supported him on private grounds. Mr. Bonham Carter is a gentleman universally respected for his personal worth, and many of the Conservative party gave him their second vote, as a vote against Mr. Escott. This accounts for his majority over Sir James East. DUBLIN, CITY.—The nomination of candidates to re present this city took place on Monday. After the former conservative members had been proposed and seconded, +h. P Oar n rivarrrr, lan a - Afv• Chnrlac, TTrrrnivnovh posed and seconded . Mr. Ferrand, late of Kriaresboroiigh, and Mr. John Reynolds, a repealer, was also proposed and seconded. The numbers at the close of the poll were—Grogan, (C) 3,353; Reynolds, (Repealer) 3,229; Gregory, (C) 3,125. Mr. Ferrand was withdrawn. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—For the representation of the University of Dublin there has been a sharp contest. Originally"there were seven candidates in the field,—Mr. Shaw ; Mr. Hamilton ; Mr. Napier; Mr. M'Cullagh ; Dr. Giffard, the editor of the London Standard; Mr. Butt; and Mr. Kyle ; the three latter, however, after make - A: - These King their speecnes retirea .rom the contest. - gentlemen urincipally directed their fire against Mr. Shaw, the late member, and certainly a more brilliant speech than that delivered by Dr. Giffard it has seldom been our good fortune to peruse ; though we do not intend it to be understood by this that we agree in the propriety and justice of all that the learned gentleman said of Mr. Shaw, who is a man very much misunderstood. At the close of the poll, on Saturday night, the numbers stood as follow : —Hamilton, 675 ; Shaw, 514 ; Napier, 477 ; M'Cullagh, 324. _ _ _ _ _ - _ NARROW ESCAPE.—At the Peeblesshire election, on Friday, when the two candidates—Mr. Forbes Mackenzie and Mr. Carmichael—with their respective friends, and also the Sheriff, had taken their places on the hustings, the latter had scarcely finished the reading of the act against bribery, when the temporary wooden platform gave way, and upwards of 50 gentlemen were precipitated to the ground amidst falling beams and planks on all sides. Great confusion ensued; but it was ascertained that twenty- Mr. Forbes Carmichael was more fortunate, having escaped uninjured. Provost Kerr was much bruised, and Sheriff Burnet was also hurt, though not severely. ESSEX VOTERS.—In a contest in a borough in Essex, where it appeared there would probably be a close run, a seaman, a £lO voter, was found to be absent with his ves sel, and it was uncertain whether he was at Havre or Ant werp. A young girl, one of his daughters, of her own ac cord, and quite uninown to the liberal candidate or his committee, determined to fetch him. All she asked was to be driven over to the railway station, to meet the third class train. On reaching London, she went to the station of the Dover railway, where a clerk, with great civility, advised her to go by Southampton. So she went on to Nine Elms. On reaching Southampton, she found a packet just sailing. At Havre, having hired a guide who understood English, she searched the quay till she found her father and his ship, and brought him home. LONDON ELECTION.—It is worthy of notice, as a cu rious fact, that the results of the three last contested elec tions in the city, (the bye-election of October, 1843, ex cepted,) were not correctly ascertained before the official declaration. In 1837, Mr. Horsley Palmer's election by a majority of 13 over Mr. Grote, was decisively announced by his committee at the close of the poll. The next day, however, Mr. Grote was declared duly elected by a majo rity of six ! In 1841, each party gave up Lord John Rus sell for lost, and Mr. Wolverley Attwood was the success full candidate—until noon next day, when the sheriff turned the scale by declaring the return of Lord J. Rus sell, Mr. Attwood being left in a minority of nine. The present case is a third example of this uncertainty. No one dreamt, until the returning officer opened his lips, that Mr. Masterman was re-elected, and one of the Libe ral candidates rejected. one gentlemen bad received serious i n j ur i • THE WEST RIDING.—On Saturday, the nomination of candidates for the West Riding of Yorkshire took place. The area in front of the hustings was crowded with about 20,000 persons. No opposition to the late members was expected until Wednesday last, when a movement was made by certain members of the Anti-Corn-law League to bring forward Mr. Cobden and Mr. Dunn, of Sheffield, s h. miner proposes, Lord Morpeth, and in doing so took occasion to recommend the electors to split to Mr. Cobden. _The Hon. E. Lascelles, and Mr. J. Rand, of Bradford, proposed and seconded Mr. E. Deni son. Mr. Goodman, Mayor of Leeds, and Mr. Wm. Rand, of Bradford, moved and seconded Mr. Cobden. Lord Morpeth then addressed the electors, as did Mr. Denison, after which the name of Mr. Denison was with- drawn, his proposer stating that they were taken 0Y prise. Lord Morpeth and Mr. Cobden are, therefore, the members for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and, we pre sume,the latter will resign the representation of Stock .. „1„.„40,1 Lord Mor- port, for which place he has also beer peth said, in the course of his address, tenth Wig he had appeared before the electors that it was the was vc and Mr Manchester previous night a report was_ circulated that tl Stanley, son of Lord Stanley, would be brow in the Conservative interest ; but this report not to be true, and the two candidates were re out opposition. Mr. Patten was proposed b James Heywood (lit In the early part y and d It, and seconded by Mr. Garnett, of Qu Ir. HeywOod was proposed by Mr. R. For rmstrong. Mr. T. Park princi on Conservat lisappr and for the Maynooth gran s not a Stanley before them, n, but this much he would say, tl next election a member of that family would before them, and before whom Mr. Heywood would it like chaff before the winds. He, ther Preston eve bee levivood to mai at the vei SOUTH t election he v ICASHIRE EL I Wed merous at Chester. day at Is Id be turned out LION.--The no wton. There w tendance of gentlemen from Liverpool and Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, the newly -E posed the re-, IVilliam Brown lected ction of their Mr. Bazley, of Jt gentleman worthy to be th member for Liverpool, late representative, Mr Manchester, seconded rose to Mr. Brown—worthy to rank. for his past services, with the best-benefactors of his country. He begged to pro pose the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers.—Mr. James Mellor, of Liverpool, seconded the nomination. No other the elector ratifying to him to think that the votes be had given met the tion of a large proportion of his con stituen underwent a long chatechi Chartist, of Rochdale, who, of cours rig from Mr. I , did not E satisfactory answers to his questions. The concluding formularies were then gone into. Mr. Brown and Mr. Villiers were declared duly elected, and a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff, proposed by Mr. Brown and se conded by Mr. Bright, was carried by acclamation. The High Sheriff briefly returned thanks. Three cheers were given for the new members, for Mr. Heywood, of North NORTH CHESHIRE.-Mr. Egerton and Mr. E. J. Stan ley have been returned. Mr. Duckinfield Astley was pro posed and seconded, but after a speech from Mr. Cornwall Legh, who was one of the representatives for the division in the last Parliament, in which he explained the reasons why he was not again before them as a candidate, Mr. Cheetham withdrew the name of Mr. Astley, alleging that from the addresses of the other candidates, it appeared that there was a misconception existing, or had been, which was now removed. He, however, assured the free- holders, that though Mr. Astley was withdrawn then, I would appear before them at the next election, and wou] be carried to the poll. SOUTH CHESHIRE and J. Tollemache, Esq., (the late memb turned for the southern division of Cheshire without op "• ~• —On Saturday Sir Philip Egerton the sudden decease Of the Rev Prestwich, and uncle to Lady Egerto in the course of his address, said that he N vote azainst any schools narticinatinv in t Tr. Blackburne, vicar of Mr. Tollemache. Aug. 10, 1547. THE LANCASHIRE ELECTIONS.—The total Whig gain in this county amounts to four ; this is, however, brought about by many changes in the character of the represen tation of the various towns, as well as a decided alteration in that of the county, where, in place of three Conserva tives to one Whig, we have now three Whigs to one Con servative. In South Lancashire, Mr. Entwisle (c) gives way to the Hon. C. P. Villiers (w) ; and in North Lan cashire, Mr. J. Talbot Clifton (c) to Mr. Jas. Heywood (w), without a contest in either division of the county. In Ashton, Bury, Rochdale, and Salford, the former members have been re-elected' without opposition. At Bolton, after a contest, the Conservatives gitin'one : Bolling (c ), at the head of the poll, has succeeded Mr. P. retired ; Dr. Bowring (w) being t Ainsw grant from which the authorised version of the Scriptures was excluded. He would strenuously oppose the endow ment of the Roman Catholic clergy, because that church was founded on error tection to native industry of He was ;fiil of opinion that pro ht to he maintained, and tnat tne recent corn-jaw measure of air Hobert feel was founded in error. He, therefore, honestly declared his opposition to any further extension of those principles by the repeal of the navigation laws, on which he believed the maritime and commercial supremacy of the country depended. (Cheers.) Much as he admired the ability and courage which Lord George Bentinck had displayed ze recent him out as his leader in the House of Commons, and, so far as confidence in public men went, he confessed that, comparing the conduct of the recent and present govern ments, he believed the institutions of th country were quite as safe in the keeping of Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey as of Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham. (Cheers.) NORTH STAFFORDSIIIRE.—Mr. E. Buller resigned, on finding that it would be a very doubtful matter, with the powerful influence of the Duke of Sutherland in favour of his Grace's nephew, Lord Brackley, for any one devoid of such support to enter the pOlitical arena as a compotitor ;mere's eldest son, and has taken reft tINA g. +II at Newcastle-under-Lune. After Mr. Buller announced his retirement, some of the leading Liberals induced him to withdraw his resignation, and oil Tiles, also arrived, and resolved to allow himself to be put in nomination, not really with a view of going to the, poll, he being already one of the members for Litchfield, but merely as a rallying point for the Liberals. On Wednes day, the Hon. and Rev. A. Talbot proposed, and Mr. Kinnersley seconded, the nomination of Mr. Adderley ; Captain Mainwaring proposed, and Mr. Pye, of Clifton, seconded, the nomination of Mr. Edward Buller. Lord Sandon and Mr. Smith Child nominated and seconded Lord Brackley ; and Mr. Bass, of Burton-on-Trent, pro posed, and Captain Powys seconded, the nomination of Viscount Anson. A show of hands was then taken, and declared to be in favour of Lord Brackley and Mr. Adder ley. The polling was. fixed for Monday and Tuesday, and a sharp contest is anticipated. LORD BRACKLEY.—This young nobleman the electors of North Staffordshire is very addres which he issued when a candidate for South Lancashire. In South Lancashire, he " has a confident expectation that the application of the principles of commercial policy will realize the advantages anticipated by their advocates. In North Staffordshire he says, " Though not disposed to advocate the re-imposition of those restrictions on com merce which were removed by the now expired parlia ment, I am in favour of giving every encouragement to native industry, consistently with the general interest of the community." In South Lancashire, again, Lord Brackley expressed his wish to see the blessings of educa cation " freely placed within the reach of all classes of her Majesty's subjects ;" but in North Staffordshire the noble lord is desirous that Catholic children should " partake in h.npfits of eovernment aid,".only " if a measure to that effect could be carried out without increasing the in fluence of the Roman Catholic church." In South Lan- 1.31.21111.71U011.11G, 1110 avi uomp Ins opinions • • en tirely coincide " with those of the former member, Mr. Adderley (one of Lord G. Bentinck's party), in conjunction with whom his lordship stands. kt the Glasgow electln” Mr. M'( - .iregor, made the fol lowing extraordinary revelation —(We quote the Morn ing Chronicle's report).—" If he were to refer to any one part of Sir Robert Peel's public conduct more than another, he could not be more proud of anything that he did publicly than the testimony that he gave for three consecutive days in June, 1840, before the committee of the navigation laws, and which testimony was frequently referred to by Sir Robert Peel, when he was carrying out his great free trade measure (hooting, and cries of ' hear, hear'). And he could obtain proof, that when Sir Robert came into office, Lord Ripon, who was then President of the Board of Trade, confided to him (Mr. M` Gregor) the arrangement of the whole, and the resolutions as they were presented to and carried by Parliament, (Cheers.) Now he had done with all personal allusions.". Scarcely recognised by Hansard, Mr. AVG-roger was the virtual , prime minister from 1841 to 1846. It was he that taught the ostensible Premier to prepare that commercial revolu tion, the early preparation of which, four years before the potato plague was dreamed of, is acknowledged in the Elbing letter. It was he that drew up Sir Robert Peal's resolutions .; it was he that manufactured his acts of Parliament. It is worth the while to mark the date of Mr. M`Gregor's first boasted conquest of Sir Ro bert Peel, viz., the spring of 1840. Sir Robert had then vowed himself secretly to free trade—one whole year be fore he helped to dismiss the Whig ministers upon the ground of their free trade measures. This antedates the hypocrisy avowed in the Elbing letter by twelve months and more : but a man who could play the hypocrite for six years must have been a hypocrite all his life, and must be expected to remain a hypocrite to the end. How BARON ROTHSCHILD IS TO BE ADMITTED.. — . We are not aware that the matter is either so mysterious or so difficult as appears to be imagined in some quarters. There will not be any occasion, so far as we know, for Lord John Russell to tempt fortune and the bishops in the lottery of legislation. The well-known case of Mr. Pease (the first Quaker member. of .the House of Com mons). in the year 1833, supplies a precedent, the prin ciple of which seems completely applicable to the case of Baron Rothschild. The honourable member for London will, we presume, on the usual oaths being tendered to him at the table of the . house, decline, as did his Quaker predecessor, to swear in the usual form — intimating, at the same time, his perfect readiness to take the oaths in question according. to the form prescribed by his own creed, and recognised as legally valid an d su ffi c i ent i n every courtcourse, refer of justic ethematter in theto the kingdom. pe aker andT he the speaker will, of will take the sense of the house. T}' canno t ti-- ner, ne a mo ment's doubt as to what the sense of the house would be under such circumstances. The question would be simply and purely a judicial one; and no House of Commons, probably no individual member of the house, would dream of dealing with it in any other than a judicial tem per. In the case of the Quaker member. for Durham, it will he remembered that Mr. C. W. Wynne's motion for - -silting a " solemn affirmation and declaration," in lieu -slstomary f orm o f oat h- --- • I without of oath, was carnet. .._ word of contradiction " amidst loud cheer 3 from all parts of the house."—Morning Chronicle.-IThe affirmation which Mr. Pease was • permitted to make was, in sub le same is the oath taken by the new members—viz., that he believed the Articles of the Christian faith, and would sincerely maintain the same.] Mr. JohnnßroOks (w one of the two Conservative re 1, the other retiring ; .n re-c r. .Tn rn Clithero, the Cc ington (w) has been rvatives lose one, Mr. ut opposition, Mr. E. 3 has since been elected !It Lancaster, the Conser in being elected, after a of Mr. G. Marton (c); the Greene, being re-elected. At es lose one, both the former d, on a contest, Sir T. Mr. E. Cardwell (c). station remains the sam e , M r . ght (w) being elected, without opposition, on the - Ir. M. Phillips (w) ; the other member, 1, being re-elected. At 1. Wilson (w) suce • 1 •• lose or rvaiive, iverpooh the ( Hon. T he Conser ds wit} to : there on the retirement o nd that of Mr. F fr. W. J. Fox (w) 3reston he other forr turned as a cont6t fter a—co r. Duncuft (c) have been re s before, Mr. P. Grenfel (w) Sir P. H. Fleetwood (w), rho retired. 'Warrington r( rement of Mr. J. I. Blackburne (c), 3), after a contest. 1 ns as before; on the re- Mr. G. Greenall Wigan remains returned it of Mr. C. St - andish (w) oc BaAneteu unin tutf:te tie 1.41115, Luau the losses to the Conservatives have been—one in South Lancashire, one in North Lancashire, one at Blackburn, one at Clithero, one at Lancaster, and one at Liverpool.: the Conservative trains On the other ERALLY We rejoice to say that. t Lnticipations of a fine and abundant har )f most articles of field produce are already in progress of being reali land, as they already have been in the south , d in the north of Eng- The har- vest has commenced in earnest in most of the counties. and the general result is an abundant yield both of grain of the best quality and of straw. Even so far north as Cumberland, barley has been cut ten days ago, an d other weather has been highly propitious ; and though heavy showers have been flying about, in some instances laying portions of the wheat and oat fields, any loss that may thereby arise will probably be comparatively small, and will be more than made up by the advantage accruing to the turnips, aftergrass, and other green crops, which for some time had wanted water. It were easy to' quote, from the different provincial journals, a column or two in justification of these remarks : but this is superfluous, in asmuch as they all gratifyingly sing the same song, and to the same joyful tune. There is certainly some slight Plr- ception here and there as to the potatoes; the truth of which time alone can solve. The general opinion is-that the crops of the year will be considerably above the ave rage product, and of superior quality. In Scotland the prospects are equally cheering. In the . more fertile districts of that country—the Lothians, &c.— .. colder, though later lands, the oats (yet green) are thick and strong in stem, giving equal promise against the time of harvesting, which will be quite as early as usual. Some fine wheat has already been cut in Dumfriesshire, and the grain fields generally are approaching to maturity. As in England all the writers on the subject express their de light at the continuance of the finest possible weather for h respect to Ireland (by skimming over bundles of The reports are most encourag ging 'from all parts ; and certainly convey an assurance that the asser tions some time ago put forth, (probably by interested corn-holders), that farmer and cottier had been alike ne- ttul in sowing or planting, were, to say the least, muen ;gerated. Prolific as is the general soil of Ireland, we vet to learn that. even there, he who " sows" not can - - The only drawback refers itself to the " potato." The " earlies," and especially the earliest of them, have been throughout the kingdom abundant and good. The of this crop (now being gradually gathered) haveialli - ..4,4 last is certainly somewhat ominous as to the late, or Win " field" crop. The rot has in these shown itself in some districts, but it is by no means very important as yet. Some writers report that they observe no appearance of it p in ily th fl e el fields .It thy have is e notw surveyed, ell, andtrust however, to halloo thatb before asorheohneaß is___. Out, of the wood. til about this tim The disease didnot set in instyea;:in: ~ and it may yet exercise its halpful in- But we see no cause for alarm, come what may; inary course of nature's laws. Should one-half be-- , taking !omit the fi crops of other produce, and the large —in a position far beyond the reach of or of exorbitant prices. Should the potatoes escape with but about the usual loss in amount of failure in ordinary years, we may venture to prognosticate that in a few months hence we shall have provisions of all kinds lower in price than we have known them for the last twenty warehouses SALE OF SHAKSPERE'S BIRTHPLACE of the Stratford Shaksperian Club, onthe 22d ultimo, the following noblemen and gentlemen have formed themselves into a committee for raising a fund for the purchase of the house in which Shakspere was born :—His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Earl Delawarr, Earl of Warwick, Earl Den bigh, Earl Howe, Viscount Villiers, Lord Lilford, Lord _ _ Redesdale, Lord Leigh, Lord Brooke, Hon. C. B. Percy , Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P., Sir R. Throekmorton, Bart., Sir G. Skipworth, Bart., Sir Charles Douglas, M.P., D. J. Shirley, Esq., M.P., W. Collins, Esq., M.P., the mayor of Stratford, Dr. Thomson, Stratford, &c. On the 4th instant, a meeting of the committee was held at Stratford, Dr. Thompson presided, when the following report of the proceedings of the committee was unani mously agreed to : That a committee of noblemen and gentlemen having, in the year 1835, at the instigation of the Royal Shak tshpeerii)aunrp o Club, of b o e b e t n a o formed o n a t at S io t r n a s t fo fo r d r -up fo o r f enabling them to preserve and renovate the tomb and monument of Shakspere, and the chancel in which the remains of the poet and his family ar _ the event of a sufficient amount being nterred ; and, in übscribed, the tion and res 'the which was t residence o nn Hathaway, afterwards wife of Shakspere, and even to the purchase of the site 0 ` New Place, the house in which Shakspere passed the latter years of his life, and in which he died, a spot which being. yet unencroaehed upon, they are most desirous of guardi", from new erections, and consecrating to the memory e' him whose name has rendered it, in their estimation, hol lowed ground. The means, however, placed at the dis posal of the committee (the subscription being limited to £1) sufficed only for the primary object thendn view. " Since that time no opportunity offered for the par chase of the house in which Shakspere was born until the end of last year, when, in consequence of the death of tba late proprietor, it became known that the property wow be sold. At an early period an application was made for the, purchase of the property by private treaty, when it v a i ascertained that legal difficulties 'existed, which rendere,‘' it incumbent upon the trustees to offer it for sale by p 11blic auction, and, therefore,- not less so on the committee t ° move in the matter with the greatest "caution and - circul ly spection, and hence the delay in announcing their Inter tions. " The sale is fixed to take place on the 16th of Septenv ber, and, after much deliberation, the committee h ave determined to abandon the plan which had been for sonic time entertained, of a private guarantee fund, for the pur chase of the house in the first instance, and to make public appeal to the nation for the means of purchasing and preserving so precious a relic of England's greatest poet. " That portion cf the property which is to be sold P sists of the rooms which have always been exhibited I; the house in which the poet was born, and of the 50,1 9 ,4 and Maidenhead public-house, on the east side of it ; u t Te there are likewise within the area of th e p ro p er ty, on t' o , w estern side, four teneme n t s , th ree o f w hi ch were verted into habitations at the beginning of the last centime and the fourth, which, from the continuation of ' i g framed timber front, and the form of the old door-" be communicating internally, evidently forms part of, birthplace, but whi c h, i u 1771, was separa t e d f ro m it. ,ed " The committ ee h ave w ithi n th e l as t f ew d ays pure ll a4, , the four ten emen t s a b ove - men ti one d f or th e sum o f ' l , s e wlich, as it puts them in possession of part of the 11° a0 g in which Shakspere was born, cannot but be regardepe a most important acquisition at the present time. the price which the committee have given for this part 00 property, and for the advantage of at once securing _ probably be referred to as some indication of the Ow t o required for the purchase of the larger and more val o3 o portion of it, which they understand realises, fr0na,,,,..e, rental of the house and the exhibition of the 'birthnt , from £BO to £lOO per annum. In the event of thiltei tion of the property being also secured, the cowr_, contemplate restoring, as far as possible, such portio% it have been remnved . whe„ftt, it as may from time to time_ would be placed under the protection of the govern ,jog the Chief Commissioners of Woods and Forests bat'llue signified that that department ' would willinglY . 0 0 1 charge of Shakspere's house, as a just object of oat' care." of The report concludes with announcing a d00ti ° ,, 11 . 1 .0 £250 from Prince Albert. The Queen Dowager 11 11 - 5 ' George Jones, Esq. has offe e Shakspere house and proper 00 f °f sum of .£2O 100 3rovided that it is.' 0 of at privat nd . theieb ,revent _...,c of its being sold at p u bli c auction. Irre,'r e - t ; of the name of Shakspere, the property is only V 8“/ few hundred pounds, advised Col whi the lag] on live Fri( aca hot the tot 9,1 littl cha of 1 , que and that dun Sate root frog seer Nic to i the Ea sere Hs] G 5 Ga