The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

8 THE LIVERPOOL srANDARD. . _ . . .. .. . ... . . ..... ._ .....___ ..... Ott ST. BARTHOLOMEWS CHURCH, DISASTROUS GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. TO CORRESPONDENTS. effectually obviate the costly operation to the whole na- NAYLOR-STREET. tion of constructing railways for the sole purpose eventu- N SUNDAY next, the 9th inst, TWO SERMONS sh ort l y a f ter t h ree o ' c l oc k, on S a t u rday evening, a We are unable to find roorpefoe the highly important letter of - ally offoroing existing lines ; by threatened competition, O will be preached in ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S dreadful explosion of gunpowder took place in the shop • the Rev. Mr. Bailee; but it shall appear next week. into extortionary amalgamation, not at their actual cost, CHURCH ; in the morning by the Rev e JONATHAN of M r . Richard Jones, ironmonger, No. 58, Dale-street, The receipt yesterday of nearly double our usual quantity of but without the previously incurred risk of untried enter- BROOKS, M.A., Rector, and iteethe - evening by the (nearly opposite Moorfields,) by the effects of which Mr. advertisements has compelled us to postpone the insertion of prise, at the value which the old lines have attained by a ise have appeared to-day. would otherwise Rev. FREDERIC PARRY, I mbent of St.Clecnent's, Jones, and his shop-boy, John Buckstone, wereseriously several articles which concentrated and undivided traffic. Reckless speculations The late hour at which we received Mr. Hill's communication, will be stayed, millions of uselessly - expended money Windsor.—The Morning 'vice will commence at a injured, and several other persons more or less hurt. Mr. and its being written on both sides, prevents us giving it i quarter before Eleven ate the Evening at half after Six Jones dealt in powder by retail, and in the window, and l l' economized, hundreds of thousands of ignorant individu -o'clock. „es'' , ' at the rear of the premises, kept an average of about 3011 es. sertion. Ths very fact, however , of a verdict being unbest als will be rescued from the certain ruin attendant on • Collections will We made towards defraying the expense of the article. The explosion took place at the back of t r a e t a i d ng o l er giv is en su b ffi y c a jury who declined to hear the evidence sufficient to convince the public of the propriety investments in worthless undertakings, and private pro of lighting and warming the church. tho shop, where a canister with three divisions for differ- of the verdict. perty and its present use and productiveness will be secu - ant qualities of the explosive was kept, in all about 10lbs. BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL TO WIT. There was also about 15Ibs. to 20tbs. in the window, crowning result of such railway legislation will be, that AT a SPECIAL SESSIONS of the JUSTICES of which, when the fire was communicated from the canis- Ebt Ziberpool otanDari). all profits on the traffic in excess of the percentage on the the PEACE, of and for the Borough of Liverpool, ter, caused a second very loud explosion, to the alarm of held__ on the 29th day of October, 184,5, a t the ti m e of many parties in the vicinity, and even thromOont tha die- - holding the Michaelmas Quarter Se . s . eiwertrind for the t r i e s, the adjacent houses being shaken by the shock. TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 4, 1845 . fares." said Borough. The window of the shop of Mr. Daly, baker, on the op- _ Modest Mr. Heyworth ! Existing lines ought to Edward Rushton, of P ar lor de, Smithdown-lane, posite side of the street was smashed by a coal-scuttle, thank you, in the shape of a presentation of plate. Esquire ; Thomas Bolton, --elf Great George-square, carried across from Mr. Jones's, and driven through the Our readers would observe in our columns a no doubt, they would be to make "all the Esquire ; and Willia f m j eCon, of Gambier-terrace, sash. Ei g ht large panes were also broken in the Royal fortnight ago, an admirable address, from the Irish Gla d , railway . accommodation the country may require," Esquire • being three o e Justices o f an d f o r the said Hotel, and several in the window of Mr. Kearney, book- Protestants, Borough, ' and Willianellenry Duncan, of Rodney-street, seller, next door. The windows of the houses on the -- signed ' by Lord Roden, to the Protest- with capital borrowed at 31- to 4 per cent,, and to Physician, were appeinted Visitors of every or any House right, left, end rear, were also more or less damaged. In ants of England, upon the subject of the present receive for their disinterestedness ten per cent. di or Houses licensed for the reception of Lunatics within Mr. Jones's the explosion burst the shop window and crisis of Protestant interests in their native country, vidends. It would be a pleasant and profitable pro the said Borough, and Peter Wright, of Fairfield-terrace, frame to pieces, forced the joists under the window of the Ireland. We are happy to find that his lordship's Edge-lane. Clerk of the Peace of the s a id Borough, was first floor, and also all those under the shop from their hold-revs,. What creations of halves and quarters, appeal is not destined to be without its To fi l, t v t n in . g Nore eighths and sixteenths, we should have for years to appointed Clerk to the said Visitors. logs, and broke nearly every pane of glass in the top part of ELLIS and WYBERGH, the house. The sign-boat(' was dislocked, and the whole sponse from this Loyal and Protestan t come, with their thumping premiums ! "No injus- Clerks to the Justices. building, three stories in height from the ground, was so sooner had the address of hi lordship appeared tice would be done to existing interests"—alas that I hereby assent to the appointments above stated. shattered, as to reneer it uninhabitable. There were four amongst us than an influential meeting of the such a term should issue from free trade lips !—but GILBERT HENDERSON, persons in the shop at the time, Mr. Jones, his shopman clergy and gentry of the town was held at the Cla- Recorder for the Borough of Liverpool. Mr. Davis, the boy Buckstone, and a lad who had conic in rendon Rooms, to consider what steps should be a little would certainly be done to the public, who October 29, 1845. to buy a pennywoith of powder. It is not ascertained how taken the powder became ignited, but it appears to have arisen which Mr. Heyworth . has fared most sumptuously. To the MERCHANTS, OWNERS, and PART- from the spark of a candle which Buckstone had when he England with their Irish brethren. At a subse- The " crowning result" of such legislation, he says, OWNERS of SHIPS, and other Persons duly Qua- e was serving the boy 1 e .10M the eanister. Mr. Davis was quent meeting, on Friday last, at which nearly a lified to Vote for the ELECTION of MERCHANTS standing with his back to the boy, and was struck by of t he clergy and leading merchants hundred - or SHIPOWNERS to form part of the DOCK COM- something on the back of the head, which has left a mark, the per centage on the capital expended will go to MITTEE. and which knocked him &evil. He found Buckstone ly- the town were present, it was resolved— benefit the public by the reduction of Fares." Un- T JAMES LAWRENCE, E ire, Mayor of the ing on the floor, and took him out. He wes but slightly " That a public meeting be held at the Amphitheatre, happily the public have very slight reason to believe 1.3 Borough of Liverpool, in reuance and by virtue of injured. The second explosion then took place, and on the 17th Nov., at twelve o'clock ; and that a sub- this. Existing companies near home had better the powers and au tho r itie o f th e A c t o f Parliament, brought down the shelves, also the partitittn wall that di- committee be now appointed to secure and prepare the shew a little liberality of this kind in advance. passed in the sixth year the Reign of his late Majesty, vides the shop, which last was instantly in flames. Mr. room, and arrange for admission by ticke ts." King George the Fentrth, intituled "An Act for the Davis, who had exerted himself to save the lives of the two Arrangements have since been made to secure the There is ample " excess of per centage" to be dis farther Irnprosemeat o f th e Port, H ar b our , an d Town of boys, and succeeded in getting one of them out, got intoposed of already. When this .is done, we might, Liverpool, and fof Altering, Extending, an d Amending, the itreet, he knows not how, and was conveyed to Mr. Amphitheatre—the - only public building which can P prtunity of being lib perhaps, be disposed to trust them with further op the several Acts relating thereto," DO HEREBY AP- Howell's, surgeon, where remedies were apglied to his hold half the immense meeting which would respond POINT a MEETING of the MERCH ANTS , and face, head, land body, which were considerably scorch- to such a call . The Chair will be taken b y a gentle a SHIPOWNERS of Liverpool (duly qualified), to be e d. Mr. Westmore, a brazier, in Stanley-street, at the man, whose name will be a guarantee that the move less.. -es WVTITCVCTIAv. the. Twelfth day of November risk of his life_ dashed thronyh the flames. and rescued the meet is not one of a mere: siertinn of Churchmen A notire anneare in nor enlomne this rlav_ from IJAMES LAWRENCE, E ire, Mayor of the 3 Borough of Liverpool, in nuance and by virtue of the powers and authoritie of the Act of Parliament, passed in the sixth year the Reign of his late Majesty, King George the Fcistrth, intituled " An Act for the further Improiemeist of the Port, Harbour, and Town of Liverpool, and for Altering, Extending, and Amending, the seteral Acts relating thereto," DO HEREBY AP POINT a MEETING of the MERCH ANTS, and SHIPOWNERS of Liverpool (duly qualified), to be held on WEDNESDAY, the Twelfth day of November instant, in the Committee Room of the DOCK OFFICE, Revenue Buildings, Canning-place, in Liverpool afore said, between the hours of One and Four of the Clock, in the Afternoon, for the Election, Nomination, and Ap pointment, of one Member of the Commiteee for the Affairs of the Estate of the Trustees of the Lverpool Docks, to supply a vacancy in the said Committee, mused by the Election into the Council of Eyre Evans, Esquire, on the Ist November instant. JAMES LAWRENCE, Mayor. Town-hall, 3d November, 1845. The qualification of Members of the Committee as fixed by the Act is as follows, viz. : " A natural-born subject of the United Kingdom of " Great Britain and Ireland, or a subject duly natu " ralized according to law, and who shall have resided in " the Town of Liverpool, or the vicinity thereof, for five " years previous to the day of Election ; and shall have " paid rates and duties to the amount of £5O on his indi " vidual account, or as agent for others residing not less " than eight miles from Liverpool, or £lOO if paid by any " house of trade in Liverpool, in which he may be a " partner, within the year immediately preceding the " Election." The qualification of Voters as fixed by the Act is as follows " Merchants, Owners, Part Owners of Ships, and other " persons being Principals inhabiting the Town of Liver pool or the vicinity thereof, or being agents, living in " Liverpool or the vicinity thereof, for Principals residing " more than eight miles from the said Town, who have " paid either as Principals or Agents as aforesaid, rates " and duties to the amount of £lO within one year previ " ous to the Election." And from every Voter one of the following declarations, with his signature thereto, will be required at the time of his voting, which must be by personal attendance : [ln the else of a Principal above decribed.] " I do hereby declare that I have paid as a Principal, " inhabiting the Town of Liverpool, or the vicinity there " of, rates and duties, by the Liverpool Dock Act of 51 " Geo. 3, c. 143, or the Dock Act 6 Geo- 4, c. 187, au " thorised to be raised, levied and collected, to the amount " of Ten Pounds within one year from the day of the date " hereof, and that I am thereby duly qualified to vote at " the Election of Rate Payers to serve as Members of " the Dock Committee. " Witness my hand, this day of November, 1845." [ln the case of an Agent above described.] " I do hereby declare that I live in the Town of Liver pool or the vicinity thereof, and that I have paid as an Agent for a Principal residing more than eight miles from the Town of Liverpool, Rates and Duties by the Liverpool Dock Act of 51 Geo. 3, c. 143, or the Dock Act of 6 Geo. 4, c. 187, authorized to be raised, levied and collected, to the amount of Ten Pounds within one year from the day of the date hereof, and that I am thereby duly qualified to vote at the Election of Rate Payers to serve as Members of the Dock Committee. •'Witness my hand, this day of November, 1845." Printed copies of these Declarations may be obtained at the Dock Office. THE PATENT GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY 1 call public attention to the following, amongst other great Works, executed with their Patent article:— The ROOFS of the NEW HOUSES of PAItUIA- '_RENT, at Westminster. The SLIPS, or SH EDS, for building " First Rates " in the ROYAL DOCK-YARDS at WOOIIWICH, PORTSMOUTH, DEPTFORD, &e., (ale latter visible in passing down the Thames, and is an object of great beauty, having a centre span of 82 feet.) The TIMBER SHEDS and other Buildings in the Royal Dock-yards are also being rooffnd constructed with this Fireproof Material. The BUOYS and other RINE WORKS of the Honourable CORPO lON of the TRINITY HOUSE have for tw ears been constructed with the Galvanized Iron, w ch resists effectually the action of sea-water. Shortly after three o'clock, on Saturday evening, a dreadful explosion of gunpowder took place in the shop of Mr. Richard Jones, ironmonger, No. 58, Dale-street, (nearly opposite Moorfields,) by the effects of which Mr. Jones, and his shop-boy, John Buckstone, wereseriously injured, and several other persons more or less hurt. Mr. Jones dealt in powder by retail, and in the window, and at the rear of the premises, kept an average of about 301bs. of the article. The explosion took place at the back of tho shop, where a canister with three divisions for differ ent qualities of the explosive was kept, in all about 101hs. There was also about 151bs. to 201hs. in the window, which, when the fire was communicated from the canis ter, caused a second very loud explosion, to the alarm of many parties in the vicinity, and even throu,ghont tha dis trict, the adjacent houses being shaken by the shock. The window of the shop of Mr. Daly, baker, on the op posite side of the street was smashed by a coal-scuttle, carried across from Mr. Jones's, and driven through the sash. Eight large panes were also broken in the Royal Hotel, and several in the window of Mr. Kearney, book seller, next door. The windows of the houses on the right, left, end rear, were also more or less damaged. In Mr. Jones's the explosion burst the shop window and frame to pieces, forced the joists under the window of the first floor, and also all those under the shop from their hold ings, and broke nearly every pane of glass in the top part of the house. The sign-boat(' was disloded, and the whole building, three stories in height from the ground, was so shattered, as to reuc'er it uninhabitable. There were four persons in the shop at the time, Mr. Jones, his shopman Mr. Davis, the boy Buckstone, and a lad who hail conic in to buy a pennywot th of powder. It is not ascertained how the powder became ignited, but it appears to have arisen from the spark of a candle which Buckstone had when he was serving the bey from the eanister. Mr. Davis was standing with his back to the boy, and was struck by something on the back of the head, which has left a mark, and which knocked him &evil. He found Buckstone ly ing on the floor, and took him out. He w-is but slightly injured. The second explosion then took place, and brought down the shelves, also the partitihn wall that di vides the shop, which last was instantly in flames. Mr. Davis, who had exerted himself to save the lives of the two boys, and succeeded in getting one of them out, gut into the street, he knows not how, and was conveyed to Mr. Howell's, surgeon, where remedies were applied to his face, head, land body, which were considerably scorch ed. Mr. Westmore, a brazier, in Stanley-street, at the risk of his life, dashed through the flames, and rescued the boy Buckstone. Mr. Jones himself was literally blown through the window into the street. He and Buckstone were taken to Mr. Potter's, surgeon, and it was found that their injuries were of an alarming nature. The hair was burnt from Mr. Jones's head, and blood issued from his mouth. His hands were also scorched. He was removed to the Northern Hospital, and on Sun day but faint hopes were entertained of his recovery. The life of the boy Buckstone is also in danger, he being much burned over the hands, head, face, and abdomen. He was also taken to the hospital. Several persons who were passing the shop at the time of the explosion were more or less injured. A dock-gate man was cut about the face by the projected glass, and his coat tails were set on fire. The engines were soon on the spot, and in an hour the fire was completely subdued. During the time they were working, Mr. Hewitt, ordered a cask, covered with canvas, which he thought might contain some com bustible material, to be removed from the doorway, and put into one of the engine water tubs- A man carried it out, while the canvas was ignited, and threw it into the tub. When exemined it was found to contain about 20 lb. of gunpowder! Quantities of the same material were after the fire found in the back room of the second story. In all about 2 3 / 4 cwt. of gunpowder was found, and was sent to the Magazines. Mr. Jones resides at Wallasey, and no one slept on the premises in Dale-street. Vast crowds visited the scene of the accident on Sunday and yesterday. Upon enquiry at the hospital last night, we learnt that Mr. Jones was going on as well as could be expected, after the injuries he had received, and that strong hopes of his recovery are entertained. He was severely burnt in the hand, and has lost several of his finger nails. The unfortunate boy Buckstone was in a more serious way, there being no hopes of his surviving. He was dreadfully burnt in the breast, face and head, and was insensible at the time of our visit to the institution. The celebrated EIXCTRIC TELEGRAPH S of Messrs. Cooke and Wheatstone are constructed exclusively with the Company's Galvanized Wires, &c. And this indestructible Iron, under all common infla ence, viz., Sea Water, Saline or Damp Atmospheres, is admirably adapted for ROOFING in ALL CLIMATES, being Fire, Hurricane, and Lightning Proof, if a conti nuous communication be formed with the earth by Gal vanised Iron Spouting attached to the Roof. Dock Work, Chain or Wire-rope Bridges, Wire Fences, Fireproof Buildings, Corrugated Doors, Shutters, Greenhouses, Conservatories, and an endless variety of purposes. Roofs of Gas Works and Chemical Manufactories. Ship-building Purposes, viz., Blocks, Bolts in lieu of Copper, and Knees. For Chain Rigging, Wire Rig ging, and Sheathing, it is extensively used. And the following Certificate, amongst many others, is affixed " Lloyd's Register, London, February 7, 1845, 2, White Lion-court, Cornhill. " The undersigned surveyors to this society did, at the equest of Messrs. Malins and Rawlinsons, examine the Patent Galvanized Iron Sheathing upon the bottom of the brig Mary Stewart, lying in Messrs. Curling, Young, and Co.'s dry dock, Limehouse, and lately returned from a voyage to the island of Ichaboe, on the coast of Africa, and found it unbroken and perfect throughout the vessel's bottom, and no appearance of corrosion or oxide of iron upon its surface. The iron that had been exposed by puncturing the nail holes had become coated with zinc— the sheathing was nearly clean, and free from marine grass and animalcules. It appears to have answered very well during the before-mentioned voyage, and the ship has sailed without it being found necessary to do any re pairs to it. _ " PETER COURTENAY, "1. H. RITCHIE, }Lloyd's Surveyors." " JAMES MARTIN, The Company are prepared to supply all articles re quired, or execute work of every description. Works—London, at Millwall, Poplar, near West India Docks; Staffordshire, Phoenix and Lea Brook Iron Works, from which Corrugated Iron and every descrip tion of Iron, Galvanized or otherwise, can be supplied ; also from the South Wales Works, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire. _ THE LATE JOSEPH WILSON TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—I observe in the Liverpool Chronicle of Satur day, an account of the death of our late clerk,, Mr. Joseph Wilson ; it is there stated that " he was discharged by his employers for irregularity in his accounts." As agent to Messrs. Barnby, Faulkner, and Co., I beg that you will give denial to this statement in your paper of to-morrow. _ _ _ Mr. Joseph Wilson was not charged by them, nor was he deficient in his accounts; or► the contrary, I am authorised to state " be was much esteemed, and his death is much regretted by the firm."—l am, sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS D. BROWN. Old-quay, 3d Nov. COURT OF PASSAGE Arrangements have since been made to secure the Amphitheatre—the only public building which can hold half the immense meeting which would respond to such a call. The Chair will be taken by a gentle man, whose name wig be a guarantee that the move ment is not one of a mere section of Churchmen only, and will also prove to our Irish Brethren that their cause is not dear to those alone who have suf fered persecution with them, but as well to those who, from their own position in society, cannot be suspected of being led on in their present course of action by anything but a strong sense of duty, and a sympathy with their suffering fellow-Protestants and fellow-countrymen, in Ireland. The Resolu tions will be moved and seconded by some of the most eminent amongst our clergy and fellow-towns men. We have been amused during the last few weeks, and disgusted at the same time, with the Jesuitical tone in which the Whig Radical organs have spoken of the municipal elections just terminated. Everywhere, we have been told that, in their selection of candidates for the contested wards, the Liberals were guided solely by considerations of the fitness of the men, and their opinions on local improvements, without regarding at all their political bias. With what amount of conscientious rectitude these professions. have been carried out, a glance at the names of the gentlemen thus selected to fight their battle, will show. In every case, their selection has fallen upon hitter and violent partisans. In many it has fallen upon the men the most likely to be obnoxious to the Conservative majority in the Council, and to introduce there those jars and per sonalities, so unseemly in a public body, and cal culated; more than any other circumstance, to re tard the progress of business and of practical im provement. They have, in fact, gone right in the teeth of their professions, and proved to the world that these were deliberately put forth to deceive. We must really say that such practices speak little in favor of the morality of the party by whom they are resorted to. A fair fight is what English men like—not this cowardly fighting behind an ambush. It is, however, to us inconceivable how any Conservative, with the ordinary intellect of manhood, could allow himself to believe such puerile absurdity as the notion that politics would not be made, by both parties, a leading ingredient in the " fitness" which they seek in a member of the Town Council. They ever have been so, and they ever will be so. It is a leading feature m the British Constitution and the temper of British society that almost every public appointment, from that of a parish beadle upwards, is made more or less a test of party strength ; and, with the known longing of the Whig Radicals for a leading share in the direction of our municipal affairs, it was folly to suppose that any other than party motives and party strength would decide the contests just con cluded. We trust that the untoward result of the blind confidence into which the Conservatives of Liverpool have been led, as exhibited in our return of the polling on Saturday, will warn them for the future, and tend to infuse a little more clearheaded , ness and activity into their proceedings. A notice appears in our columns this day, from the Solicitor to the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, of an intended application to parliament next ses sion, the objects of which, as they may not be easily gathered from the legal phraseology of the notice it self, we shall explain, so far as we have been able to learn them. The act to he applied for is stated to be to enable the trustees to purchase " lands, buildings, docks, basins, wharfs, quays, piers, tenements, he reditaments, and premises, within the parish of Li verpool and the extra-parochial place of Toxteth park ; and to make and maintain, vary, enlarge, &c., any such works. It also proposes to amend or en large various former acts; and is, in short, just the kind of notice which has been given whenever the Dock Committee have been driven to parliament for powers to increase and extend the vast estate under their control. The first object, we believe, sought for, is to arm themselves with powers to give increased efficiency to their recent purchase of the Harrington Dock Estate, It will also be remembered that it has been decided upon to carry a line, or lines, of railway along the dock quays from north to south ; and for this purpose it is found necessary to entrench upon private property adjacent to such quays, and pos sibly upon some dock property which does not be long to the trustees and cannot be dealt with with out an act of parliament. Whilst seeking the ne cessary powers for carrying these views into effect, it has been resolved to take powers, at the same time, for purchasing the property comprised be tween a straight line drawn, from the south end of Hurst -street, or thereabouts, to the north end of Mersey-street, and the present boundaries of Hurst street and `Napping. This purchase has been found necessary, as affording the only available site of the proposed railway along the docks. It will be seen, however, from the maps, that a considerable addi tional area of most valuable land, beyond that re quired for railway purposes, will, by this purchase, be acquired by the trustees, which probably may hereafter be converted into dock space, for which it is admirably fitted. At present, however, no deter mination has been come to as to its application ; nor do we believe that the question has ever been mooted, except by a few all-wise gossips, who are in the habit of taking rumour, or their own ingenious inventions, for established truths. The complaint of Mr. Procter, at the last Coun cil meeting, that the Health of the Town Committee have determined upon an application to parliament for powers, to be vested in the council, similar to those given by the general measure of Lord Lincoln, without having previously consulted the body at present charged with the duties sought to be so transferred from them, viz. :—the Highway Board —is a very just one. That board was fully entitled to be consulted. It has performed its onerous du ties as efficiently as its very limited means would ad mit of. By its balance sheet for the year ending September 30th, 1845, which has just been printed, One of the last men we should have expected to we observe that it has expended, during that period, find advocating monopoly of any description is Mr. in sewerage—the want of which is principally corn- Lawrence Heyworth. We have heard him on plat- _ plained of by the Health of the Town Committee— forms declaim to delighted audiences, on the bless- a sum of £10,449; whereas the rate of 2d. in the ings of free trade, and the indefeasible right of every pound, collected to cover this item of necessary ex man to direct his capital and his industry into what- penditure, amounted to only £6,144. It is clear, ever channel he may find most profitable. We have therefore, that it has not been from deficiency of in heard him denounce the iniquity of protection being clination, but from the absolute want of means at t extended to any interest at the expense of another. their command, that the sewerage of the town is not But—alas for Mr. Lawrence Heyworth's consistency all that it might and ought to be ; and, such being as an apostle of liberalism !—there is such a thing the case. the somewhat abrupt proceedings of the as a railway interest, in which he is himself largely Health of the Town Committee is calculated, at embarked ; and though we may dock, as much as least by implication, to cast a slur upon the board we like, the landowners rent-rolls, or the manufae- which it has not deserved. turer's or the merchant's profit, we must not touch It is quite necessary, we admit—and the accounts railway dividends. Unlimited competition is good above referred to prove the fact—that some greater for every other interest—for agriculture, for com- powers than those at present possessed by the merce, and for industry—but where a competing Board should be sought for from Parliament ; line, with its long array of provisional committee- and we quite approve of the proposed concen men, engineers, and lawyers approach one of Mr. tration of the duties of that Board in the Coun- Lawrence Heyworth's railways, he begins to babble cil by a local Act rather than allow the regulation to us of " the rights of private property" and of of the sewerage, &c. of the town to be "vested interests," and is ready to exclaim to the brought under the provisions and the intruders, in the words of the poet— machinery of Lord Lincoln's Act. That this ob 't Procul, oh Procul, ject may be successfully achieved, it is highly im- Este proftni ! " portant that the Council and the Highway Board We shall give M". Heyworth's views upon the should not appear before Parliament as conflicting peculiar sacredness of railway property, as pro- parties, Nothing would so certainly tend to enable pounded in a letter which he has just addressed to the Government to step in and take the management the London Times, for the amusement of those of of our local improvements out of our hands as a want our readers who are acquainted with the pocket in- of union amongst ourselves. On this account we terest which prompts them. Speaking of the ex should deeply deplore any apparent difference, be travagance of recent railway projections, he says : tween the two bodies. The Highway Board are certainly entitled to some deference, from their past " As the sacred rights of private property can be justly superseded by legislative power only, even tor the purpose experience and practical knowledge of the wants of admitting public works of great and general utility, it a nd circumstances of the town. The importance, is the bounden duty, and the special business, of the le- however, of a consolidation of our public departments gislature to insist that these works shall be undertaken on and of the management of matters so conducive such principles of economy as will secure for the public to health as the drainage, sewerage, cleansing, &c., (suppose them to be railways) the greatest transit ac- of our streets and thoroughfares being vested in the commodation at the cheapest rate. Hence it follows that same body which takes under its peculiar care the to prevent a useless and wanton interference with the rights of private property, duplicate railways, projected to sanitory regulation of the town, is so obvious, that convey the same or nearly the same traffic, ought not to we are sure no difficulty will be experienced in receive legislative sanction, because they involve a two- bringing about an arrangement satisfactory to all fold management, double expense in almost every item, parties. and the wasteful expenditure of two capitals, which con stitute (even after the amalgamation, which, in such cases, Whilst upon this subject, we must say that we is the certain result) serious items of charge on the cost have not the hesitation expressed on Wednesday, of conveying the country's traffic." I by some members of the Council, with respect to Perfectly correct, no doubt, is a great portion o f the propriety of at once seeking powers to enable the this. Parliament ought not to sanction " duplicate Council to take into its own hands the supply of railways to convey the same or nearly the same Water to the town. We regard it as imperatively traffic," and we dare say will not. But hew, if it necessary to do so. No measures for the improve be proved that the existing lines—some of those, for ment of the salubrity of the town can be com instance, in which Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is known plete without an ample and cheap supply of to be embarked—cannot or will not afford accorn- Water, not only for street cleansing, but in the modation to the public at reasonable rates ? " Pro- dwellings of the poor, being first secured ; and perty,"—we dare say he has used the quotation every year's postponement by the council of this more than once in his Anti Corn Law philippics— urgent public duty, will only render the ultimate " has its duties as well as its rights ;" and if railway settlement of the question more difficult property cannot, by the mere force of public opinion, be brought to perform those duties, parliament may not be so indisposed as Mr. Heyworth imagines, to try the effect upon them of a little wholesome competition. His views as to the course which parliament ought to pursue in its railway legislation are vastly amusing. "In regard," he says, "to all the necessary additional lines of railway the country may yet require, I would beg leave to suggest that, as the existing lines of railway are mostly in a position of being able to obtain the capital required for their construction, by guaranteeing to capit alists the certain remuneration of 34 to 4 per cent. on the outlay. Parliament will be wise and just in legislating to secure, through their competency and willingness to un dertake such guaranteed returns on the capital invested, the cheapest means of obtaining all the railway accommo dation the country may require. "No injustice will be done thereby to the existing in terests, for which acts of Parliament have already been passed, which have introduced these works of vast national utility at great hazard and immense cost; whilst the ac cession of traffic passing over them from the new accom modation lines will abundantly remunerate them for taking upon themselves the guarantee of the percentage above mentioned on the capital required for the construc tion of all future railways. This legislative measure will THE MERCANTILE RACE.—On Sunday night last the Express in anticipation of the ordinary Indian Mail arrived, via Marseilles, having been anticipated by the despatch brought on Friday morning by Mr. Waghorn via Trieste. It appears that Mr. Waghorn left Alexan dria at 10 minutes past 11 o'clock on the morning of the 20th ult., having received a private despatch from Suez in the remarkably short space of 11 hours. He arrived at the Times office at half-past four o'clock on the morning of the 31st. The Iberia, with the Marseilles mail, did not start till 48 hours later on the morning of the 22d. The result, therefore, of the grand race lately pending would seem to be that the route via Trieste is the shorter of the two by rather more than 11 hours, that being the time which remains after deducting the 48 hours start which Mr. Waghorn had over the Iberia. " The American Woman !" is the title of a newspaper published in Philadelphia. It is devoted to the American republican cause, and is edited, printed, and published exclusively for women. PROMISE TO A DELINQUENT. —Yesterday, a young man was charged before Mr. Rushton with having embez zled various sums of money belonging to Messrs. Reid and Co., of Glasgow, but it appearing that the complai nant had promised to d ea l leniently with the prisoner if the latter would confess all he had done, the prisoner was discharged. THE LONDON TIMES AND THE NEW RAIL- WAY PROJECTS. Our potent contemporary still continues to flounder in his attempts to explain in what manner the deposits on these projects are to be handed over by the Bank to the Accountant-General. A few days ago, he assumed that the amount so to be paid would be £30,000,000, a sum large enough to create doubts as to how its transfer could be accomplished, without producing serious monetary de rangement. Subsequently his estimate was reduced to £15,000,000, and in his last publication of Saturday we find it reduced almost to nil—at all events to so trifling a sum as to render any anticipation of difficulty being expe rienced totally groundless. The following is our contem porary's latest speculation on the subject : " The extraordinary fact that notwithstanding the numerous applications and urgent entreaties for informa tion, only one of the 600 new railway companies has volunteered any statement of the amount of deposits paid up, may almost be said to give the force of truth to the conjecture hazarded by us only a few days ago, that the money actually in hand is extremely small, and that the danger of any disturbance to the currency is nearly, if not altogether, removed. Yet how confidently was it said by those who wished to give these insane speculators a better character, that the various bankers had at least £15,000,000 in hand ! This for a time was believed, or assumed to be the case, by well-informed persons in the city, and hence the very general alarm which followed, not more, however, than such a state of things would fully justify. The notion once set on foot that this was capable of being immediately put to some certain test, the clue was pursued, and the conviction is now becoming general, as was hinted yesterday, that the apprehension may in great measure be dismissed. This relieves the regulators of the currency from some anxiety, but it places the projectors of railways and speculators in their shares in an infinitely worse situation. Most of the schemes must be abandoned, and the premiums paid at least become a total loss. not to mention that as a reckless expenditure has been almost universally resorted to, every shilling of the small deposits in hand must be wasted ; for it is in vain to expect, now that the eyes of the public have been opened, that any addition will be made to them. Still this is by far the lesser evil of the two, and the storm may now be weathered in safety." It is really a pity that so much " excellent indignation" should have been wasted, ;and so much alarm created upon a matter which, we are now informed, is a mere bugbear after all. We question much, however, whether the Times is not now as far wide of the mark as ever. It is not by any means a legitimate conclusion that, because only one Company has volunteered a statement of the amount of their paid up Deposits, they are therefore trifling in amount. With respect to those Companies, which were projected at an earlier period of the year, we are inclined to believe that the bulk of the Deposits will be found to be in the hands of their bankers ; and although we perfectly agree with the Times that many of the more recent schemes can never be in a position to go before Parliament during the ensuing session, there are numbers of them which, by amalgamating, and thus throwing their deficient capitals together, will be enabled to so—with what ultimate success Time only can determine. In any event, we entertain confidence that Government will take care that that the operation of transferring the amount called for to the hands of the Accountant General, will be managed so as not materially to derange the circulation of the country. GETTING UP RAILWAYS AND GETTING OUT OF THEM. Nov. 4, 1846. LAST NIGHT ADJ. ----, - ____ - i______ ---- -------1------------- --- MARK LANE CORN MARKET -YE STE RD °. folk was model ate, but the trade remng Saf• gent an d The supply of Wheat this morning from Essex, nae staff in tbe sa s. ve il of uncertainty as to an interference with the Corn la s !, iicle little business was transacted ; in the few sales effectau, ...., cline of is to 2s per quarter was submitted to; bon Matting held at Friday's prices, but was less sought after. ni;eane Barley is Is lower ; grinding supports its late vaa,., e& and Pease meet a ready sale at our quotations. me u." nadian Barrels are sold at 35s to 38s ; Americ an le • stn is dull, and the turn cheaper. Flour meets a hear, sale I .e tO in b 0 335. SMITHFIELD MARKET—YESTERDAY' mar ket itnhdi r s : e o md m otrhn o ei u rne r g o ww w eer n ree sgvoreamrzyeineogltdtehinsetsrivbiceets,statsnhhedofrortef hsfhourinlgsrarvii:earaltsteoe b the at we ever witnessed at this period of the year. AlthoOlc„,u.st tendance of b .yers was good. the beef trade was veil' per decline in the quotations obtained on MOllday last or a" Sibs. and a clearance was not effected. The northern droves of beasts amounted to 2,10 3 shn rt.h°rnS "'As: trora the those from the eastern counties comprising 4 00 S '"" s ru nts ' western and midland districts, B'o tlerefords, Devn",,'„, &c. ; from other parts of England, 200 of various ki, o lo !. r th ati a d i Scotland, go Scots; and fr - im Ireland, partly by radrar, partly by steamers direct, 300 beasts. The number of sheep being on the increase, the gale_, whiCh description of stock was very inactive. Prime old 1:1 0 ."... sof' were scarce, produced full currencies; but all other br..— fered a decline of 2d. per 81b. at F. -Adds Calves were in moderate supply and heavy demand, depression. tra de W 0 Nearly 250 pigs were on sale from Ireland. The p ork a sluggish state, and prices were not supported. In its sweeping censure of the Railway mania, however great the injustice which it has perpetrated, and ac knowledged by subsequent endeavours to retract or qualify, there can be no doubt that the London Times has stumbled upon a few truths and made a few racy ex posures. The following letter from a correspondent of that paper is one of the exposures to which we refer. " Twelve leading men' in the city brought out a project for a railway. The deposit was trifling, but their standing enabled them to demand a heavy premium. They cleared by this '25,100 a-piece, and shortly afterwards sent round a circular, that unforseen engineering difficulties rendered necessary the abandonment or the scheme,' a•AI with a trifling per tentage deducted for expenses, the deposit, not the premiums, were re turned. The writer is not at liberty to give the names of the actors in this nefarious business, but he is at liberty and has per mission thus to afford -a lue to their discovery." _ _ _ PRICES OF STOCKS, &c. — The public securities have to-day beer rather decli ning n . no 9 61 sols for present transfer lime realised 96a- to 97i; an d for _ o wn; to 97 ; Exchequer Bills have been marked 38s. to 355• P' er cerls' and India Bonds under X; AN` t 3s. premium; New W 96 : have been "scar to gi: and per cent. rednce a tb• Money bein‘P scar - e here and on the continent, together ce i , s ot; agitation in the corn market, the causes which inil u c e a n ri ed 011 Bank . Stock is 206 to 2ust. A large failure has 'l c morning. YVSTF P PO; MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET-M(OD° f t stoo , 5 Newark , 18. I r 6 k e Chelmsford a e hn a e d ldm a ss n fho d erdffi C e h aln e d d sh n i 4 re uir;y J , u c ri l v c iam t : o bp n r , iudd l g O lee , i • C;_ 13 ,1 50 10, ,46 jron 5 0.; and S., 33 ; Eastern Counties, 234: ditto new, wyr. Edinbro' and Perth. 5 ; Fleetwood, Preston , turc n ioni Railway, 3 9-16 ; Goole and Doncaster, 6 ; Gra r T A ,, r 6 field 24; Great Eastern and Western, 34, 4, 4; 1 10 "":01; and Manchester Railway and Canal Company' he"' cest Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 24 ( c losing P L i eg ls 294 to 30) •, Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 31; s od and Thirsk, 12, 114, 11 • Liverpool, Manc hester, Newcastle, 54 ; Liverpool', Ormskirk, and Prestontuola London and Birmingham Extension, 24; Lon cl ,c 3 Manchester (Remington's line), 34; London to' sad 54, ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation top, West Junction, 24, 2,4, 3 ; Manchester and Salthavion ton, 44 ; North Staffordshire, 64, 11-16, ; North t tvfa a. A., 213 ; Nottingham, Erewaah, Ambergate , a cl n )e d st L e i r n , c s o t n ; sh S i h re effi ju el n d c , ti L on ee , k 5 ,; asnhdeffiCeriedwaend Manc ;"0-hrcestof quarters, No. 3,9; Shropshire Mineral, 24, I; ter, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, 2. NEW TRADE.—There is at present lying at pier, near Invergowrie, two vessels from Holland, 1(100 with potatoes for that country, a circumstance 1101"" in the history of the pier.—Perthshire Courier. hot° Last week an Irishman who had just returned circa America was robbed, whilst intoxicated, of one h n • sovereigns, which he had fastened round his wai sutri 1 strip of muslin. •f y; The Tipperary paper of Friday brings the hong ijr. intelligence of the assassination, in open day, 13f an a Patrick Clarke, a gentleman of extensive propertY, 0j late of the firm of Clarke and Vincent, solicitors a land agents, of Merrion-square, in this city. n 3ao DEATH FROM Poi SON.—On Friday, an elderly vr °- named Margaret Murray, lodging inGilbert.street, ego found lying in bed and black in the face. A bottle tha t found in her lap, and she was just able to a rticulat e ' she had taken laudanum. She died the following d a L ag b On Sunday evening, after a sermon by the Re ° ' 'll3e M`Neile, in his usual eloquent and powerful sty le, ia sum of £33 3s. 6d. was collected at St. Silas Church to aid of the funds for the support of the schools attached ()f course we can say nothing as to the truth of the above facts. The Rig, however, is not of difficult execu tion ; but what were the shareholders doing to allow themselves to be diddled in so atrocious a manner. It is out of the power of any set of Directors to dissolve a scheme against the wishes of the proprietary. But it is quite within their power to get up a scheme, and to drive it up to a premium, which is only fit to be abandoned as the best course open to the unfortunate dupes who have embarked in it. PROPOSED PURCHASE OF HUNGERFORD BRIDGE, BY W. JACKSON, ESQ. that church. .. l a st, At an agricultural meeting in Adelaide, in Jan" 1 100 of one of the principal prizes was won by Mr. Clarke , - f 0 6 Mr. Edward Cl ar k e of thi s t own . Th e governor o_. colony paid Mr. Clarke a high co m pli m ent on the oc 01 We were not a little surprised to notice in the Morning Herald of Saturday, a report of a special general meeting of the Hungerford Suspension 11.idge Committee, for the purposes of considering the terms of a proposed purchase of the said bridge, by a Mr. Francis Fuller, Solicitor, acting on behalf of Mr. William Jackson, of Birkenhead. Hungerford Bridge and Birketillead ! NN e could not, for the life of us, see where was the connexion of interests. We could not see what a junction between Charing Cross and Lambeth had to do wit) Woodside. And yet the report told us that the contracting parties to the purchase in question were Mr. Hawe3, M. P., Chairman of the Hnngerford Suspension Bridge Committee, on the one hand, and Messrs. William Jackson, William Potter, Reid, and Sir Joshua Weltnsley on the other. An attentive perusal of the proc;Tdings brought stranger things to light. It appears that a company in London, called the " Central Terminus Railway Company," had bid for the bridge property in question—a chain suspen sion bridge—the sum of £216,000, without, however, coming to any decided agreement with ifs proprietors. Mr. Jackson, however, subsequently stepped in, through his Solicitors, and bid for the same property an advance of £lO,OOO over the said bid ; and preliminary arrange ments were entered into, for the purpose of securing the bargain. Mr. Fuller, Mr. Jackson's Solicitor, agreed to make a deposit of £20,000 in:lieu:of £lO,OOO, the first deposit agreed upon. This proposition, however, was repudiated by Mr. Jackson ; and £lo,ojo was ultimaetly agreed upon as the deposit to be paid. Th en, a series of differences as to the terms of several clauses were started by the solicitor for the purchasers, and promptly agreed to by the solicitors' for the Bridge Committee, who appeared determined not to let slip an opportunity of selling, for £226,000, a property which we believe had cost its owners from £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO only. In this position the affair appears to stand at present; the Bridge Committee being resolved to sell, whilst Messrs. Jackson and collleagues appear to have several obejections calcu lated to obstruct, if not prevent the completing of the contract. con. Cale" The Glasgow Argus announces, that when the t he donian Canal is re-opened, after the completion 0 ' re . present great improvements on it, steam-tugs will P lY ge gu!arly along the whole len g th, and make the vor " from sea to sea in twenty-four hours. lig of Byron's statute, whilome imprisoned in the vatl",b6 the Custom-house, has at length found a home ill " From all the information which we can gain, we believe that this purchase of the Hungerford-bridge is not a movement of the Birkenhead fraternity at all, but a private purchase of Mr. Jackson and a few of his friends. It is, as we have before said, clearly not an affair in which Birkenhead interests are concerned. We may, however, state that the Central Terminus Company, who were the first bidders for the property in question, have, we understand, completed an arrangement for a station, by the purchase of Waterloo-bridge, at a sum little more than their first bid for Hungerford. How far this may tell upon the value of Mr. Jackson's purchase we do not pre tend to say. bosom of his alma motor. Cambridge. ' f the On Saturday last, the workmen in the employ °' Liverpool and Manceester Railway Company, C r°ll ,ed street. presented Mr. C. Richie, the highly resPec eo manager, with a superb and massive silver tea pot, a i e tu acknowledgment of the kindness which the men ha u variably received at his hands: • - - The Observer announces that information was circnlttted through the London Police, on Saturday, that Mr. 14 ° 1 3 , 1 of this town, engized in the Smyr na and American tree e; has absconded, having committed forgeries to a very largo{ amount. [The statement alludes to aW. H. Lyon , this town, whose sudden departure last week has °"—. sioned much remark.] of ABUNDANCE OF LABOUR.—So great is the scarc,,,. labourers in some agricultural districts, that the crier Bo been sent round to announce an increase of wages; 1 / 4 ,0 the drain upon the labour market, consequent u pon i, railways about being Did down, labour will be eiceeere ingly valuable next year, if it be not scarce enough torte. tard or prevent the gathering in of the fruits of the ea' Hereford Journal. ; a THEFT OF PLATE.—On Saturday morning, at nig. o'clock, some thieves entered the dwelling-house efhijot Rev. W. W. Ewb an k, G rec i an -t errace , E v ertor), /I 'oo the family were at praye rs , an d succee d e d in gerti n i n ee with plate to the amount of £2O. Th roug h the vigni-the and activity of lnfpector Auders, within tour hours °' robbery the property was discovered in a house in m",go street, and has been identified by Mr. Ewbanic• Rus h' women and a man were yesterday remanded by Mr ton on a charge of being concerned in the robbery. ho g CABINET COUNCIL YESTERDAY.—The Globe ° f asts; night says that summonses were issued by Sir J • u r .ersi for a cabinet council yesterday afternoon. The R. members of the cabinet in town will assemble at ' l. lll O Peel's, owing to his continued illness from enu t „tur'' only absent members from the cabinet council, on '''h o lce day, at Sir R. Peel's, were the Earl of Ripon, tb,e ; g ore of Buccleuch, and Lord G. Somerset. The rei n The were in deliberation from two till half-past Earl of Ripon is at Bishop's-close, and gave an en ter, L ord ment, on Friday, to his tenantry, in celebration of 'lvo Goderich's birthday. Lord G. Somerset is absen t t ;gti, town, and in consequence of the death of Lord IV l ° ° the Duke of Buccleuch did not meet at the council' ott SUICIDE. OF A CLERIC IN PILGRIM-STREE I.. ;S I : I ' Friday, an inquest was held on the body of a year i g i p r k jn aged nineteen, named Joseph Wilson, formerly a C "'"o1F the service of Messrs. Barnby, Falkner, and Co mp flog carriers, Nova Scotia, who committed suicide by o ° .:l f itg• himself with a pistol. He had latterly been in low,, e rbioP His brother, on Thursday, endeavoured to Oa t lea His answer was, " Thomas, pray for me ; I are fl a fter' for this world,—my character is gone !" On the beet noon of the same day, he retired to his hed-roon b .l o ct' five o'clock in the afternoon, and committed the faL a Death must have been instantaneous. His une' e t n nte , Joseph Wilson, butcher, had enclosed him £5 i°_, ; l - o i n requesting him to acknowledge its receipt; he u' - „, e' elel the , e terms, written iu red ink—" Yes—my dear 0 ,-, r •A God bless you—take care of my sister and brnti'ritlei cannot bear trouble." Another note, in the ban d "„ fl ion e ,' of the deceased, expressing similar sentiments. we - i deao' on his person. A verdict in accordance with the e / was returned. PROPOSED INCREASED SALARY OF MR. HARTLEY, THE DOCK SURVEYOR.—Many reports have been circu lated during the past week with respect to an alleged ex travagant demand made by the above gentleman for an increase of his salary—at present £2OOO per annum—as surveyor of the dock estate. From the best information which we have been able to obtain, we believe that an ap plication for an increase has been made by Mr. Hartley, on the ground that, from the present demand for engi neers, caused by the multitude of projected Railways, he could now turn his talents and reputation to much better account than he is able to do from his engagement under the Dock Committee. So far has that body coincided in his views that, we believe, they have offered to raise his salary to £3,500 per annum, his peculiar usefulness, and the various departments of the public works going on, with which he is intimately and practically acquainted, appearing to them to deserve that scale of remuneration. We believe no decisive reply io the offer has, as yet, been received. ORIGIN OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS.—After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, vast crowds of pilgrims, from all parte of Europe, hastened to the Holy City. The roads from the sea-coast to Jerusalem were infested by armed bands of Mussulmans, who issued from their strongholds among the mountains. and robbed and murdered the pilgrims. For the protection of the latter, nine noble knights, who had distinguished themselves in the siege and capture of the city, formed a brotherhood in arms, and took the vows of perpetual charity, obedience, and poverty, after the manner of monks. Uniting in themselves the two roost popular qualities of the age, devotion and valour, and exercising them lin the most popular of all enterprises, they soon acquired a splendid reputation, and the most illustrious warriors of Christen dom aspired to the honour of being enrolled members of the fraternity. Such was the origin of the renowned order of the Templars. They derived their mine from the edifice vulgarly called the Temple of Solomon, on the summit of Mount Moriab, which was assigned them for their habitation by the King of Jerusalem, nineteen years after the conquest of that city by the crusaders. The protection of the pilgrims was their first object; but they soon determined, in addition to this, to make the defence of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, the eastern church, and all the holy places, a part of their particular profession. St. Bernard, the famous abbot of Clairvaux, warmly espoused the cause of the fraternity and their rules, revised and corrected by him, were sanc tioned by the council of Troyes (A.D. 1128), and con firmed by a papal bull. An astonishing enthusiasm was excited throughout Europe in behalf of this chivalrous association ; princes and nobles, sovereigns and their sub jects, vied with each other in heaping gifts upon them, and scarce a will of importance was made without an article in it in their favour. Many illustrious persons, on their deathbeds, took the vows, that they might be buried in the habit of the order; and sovereigns, quitting the government of their kingdoms, enrolled themselves amongst the fraternity, and bequeathed even their do minions to the master and brethren of the Temple. The order, in consequence, so on became enormously wealthy. Its annual income in Europe has been estimated at six millions sterling; and according to Matthew Paris, it possessed nine thousand manors or lordships in Christen dom, besides a large revenue and immense riches, arising from constant charitable and donations of sums of money by pious persons.—Hogg's Weekly Instructor. OPENING THE PORTS.—For some days ru—t r at pf talked authoritatively of an intention on the , r he o `, ministers to open the ports of the kingdom for L- 10 IP mission of foreign Brain ; and, it has even gong ° ter f ° ' to state the duties resolved upon. viz.: 4s. per Oa r " bet wheat, 2s. for oats, &c. Up to the present time' b e co ve u r r , se w h e as ha b v e e en no relyed confirmation upon , o a f lt t i h m e u fah tie etlartecsv:oettgi sembling of cabinet councils gives us reasong t o belieaegits some step of more than ordinary importance i 5 tion. On this subject the Globe of last night Nel% por t s e " The opinion as to the necessity of opening t'":oent' appears to gain ground, the advices from the Con ti 0 tt, markets being such as to show likewise that the.. r tt oP deed no time to be lost. Many doubt whet he "d any circumstances there can be much grain obtaineoeePj abroad, independently of what is already i n bond' o haej from America ; but at least the thing is worth strioil,`: must be tried, because, according to the ordinerterich"; supply and demand, grain may be attracted frog' t 0 vex tant parts of Europe, whence imports have hitb to come to hand, provided such imports can be me de r a g" . which they will stand some chance of doing °u" minal impost." LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 184 5 ' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED d JOSHUA FLETCIIER LACE, of 53, Grove-street, -n LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street' „04 At N 0.4, ST. GS ORO li;f; CRESCENT, LIVW°C"OI3 .0 , Orders and Advertisements are received by Messrs•vite.strker, Co , Warwick-square ; Barker and White, 0 13 0- 0 , Deacon, Walbrook ; Reyn ell, Chancery-lane ; Charleio sus, Birchin-lane ; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Celli/40d den Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Mitc,iell, ..,rt, 11 _,," - ei court, Fleet-street ; Lewis and Lowe, 3, Castle-ee'og.ll,,f, hill; at the London Commercial Cobee-house, 'enter :;041 at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; " -r ole" fee-house, Paternoster-row ; North and Sothoe..olifip, Coffee house, Threadneedle-street ; Parsons, 9. rued lane, London ; Johnston and Co.. Eden Market -taker s' Wheeler, Exchange-street, and C. H. Leviig , o'—ookse" 04 Manchester ; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth. Ityright a Warrington; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston; an d Dain, Herald-of f ice, Birmingham, ere Terms of Subscription for this p aper P aid 64 one year, £1 3s. ; half-year. I is. • 10e• 6 d • advance—one year, £1 Is. ; half-year: TYSACK V. HILL A case of considerable interest to auctioneers and others was heard before C. Crompton, ESQ., on Saturday. Mr. James was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ramshay for the defendant. The action was one of tracer, and was brought by Mr. Thomas T. Tysack, a schoolmaster and lodging-house keeper, against Mr. Joseph Hill, auc tioneer, Hanover-street. The declaration set forth that the plaintiff was possessed of a quantity of goods, which he casually lost, and which the defendant found and con verted to his own use. Defendant admitted that lie had converted a certain quantity of the articles—household furniture—and paid a shilling into court as compensation for the damage. The plaintiff did not admit that this was sufficient compensation. There were several other issues, resolving themselves into the fact that the plaintiff was possessed of the residue of the goods, which had been re turned to him ; and that the other part had been con verted with his leave and authority. There were twenty five witnesses, fifteen for the plaintiff and ten for the defendant. It appeared that in December, 1844, plaintiff occupied a house in Sussex-street, but being in difficul ties, and anticipating a distraint, he entrusted his furni ture to a man named Smith, and it was removed to another house, in Lowther-street, to which plaintiff also went, and continued to keep lodgers. In April last Smith went to the house with bailiffs, seized the coods as his own, left them at the defendant's, and confided them to his care. Defendant then received notice that they were the property of the plaintiff, and that if he disposed of them he should be held responsible. Being, however, otherwise instructed by Smith, he sold the greater part of them. A few of them were afterwards sent back to the plaintiff, with the shilling for compensation. The learned counsel said the jury had nothing to do with the conduct of the plaintiff with respect to his creditors, but merely the question as to the rightful owner of the goods. On the part of the defendant, it was shown that Smith had pur chased the goods from the plaintiff for £32, and that the sale was directed by the proper owner. An inventory of the articles had been made out, and a receipt for the mo ney stated was signed by plaintiff. Tne sale by auction produced £l9, and Mrs. Tysack was present, and pur chased some of the articles. The jury, after an absence from the court of ten minutes, returned a verdict for the defendant. AS SUPPLIED TO THE ROYAL TABLE. CAPTAIN PIDDING'S HOWQUA'S MIXTURE TEA is an admixture of 40 rare Black - Teas, produced on as many different plantations, each Tea differing from the rest, and possessing a flavour, a fragrance, or strength, peculiar to itself. Blended together in the proper prc— portions, they comprise all that is desirable.in-Tea. This discovery was not the effect of chanceetint of many great advantages united in one individ , and the result of numerous experiments and t most minute analysis. For another to produce the e result, he must possess equal skill, the same disc • inating taste, equal power of procuring the forty va, ous Teas required, and know the exact proportions of ach kind used—arid though he may never once have vi ed China, he must have had equal opportunities of securing to himself, its productions : with one, who, like Captain Pidding, has spent years there in acquiring these advantages, and to whom alone How qua—years before his death—imparted at Canton, the secret of compounding his Mixture. Yet there are upwards of 500 retailers pretending to sell tea, they call " Ho%qua's Mixture "—each mixture dif fering from all the others. Now as there can be but ONE REAL " Howqua's Mixture," it follows that, as 500 dif ferent medleys are offered-499 must be spurious. The 499 counterfeits are so many evidences of the superiority of the ONE GENUINE. And it would be absurd to suppose that Captain Pidding, with advantages, the result of Eight Voyages made to China, and five years spent in that country, would be so silly —even were it possible —as to yield them up to 500 others, or impart to them so valuable a secret. The very great celebriety this Tea has acquired, having tempted many unprincipled persons to give similar, or nearly similar titles to their own spurious mixtures, to guard against such imposition, purchasers should observe that " THE SIGNATURE THUS," Captain JOHN RHODES PIDDING, Honourable Company's Service, is on every genuine Package. To those who drink Green Tea, " Captain Pidding's Howcria's Small Leaf Gunpowder," grown only on one estate, is recommended for its strength and economy, and as being the purist and most wholesome Green Tea im ported from China. r Captain Pidding has appointed the under Agents for this District : GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, Agent for Liverpool. E. Bowker, Bookseller 38, BOLD• STREET, Accrington Ditto Blackburn Bolton .. W. Hutchinson. Stationer. J. Parkinson, Chemist, Church street G. J. French, Silk Mercer. Burnley •. • T. Sutliffe, Bookseller, St. James street Chester T. Bowers and Son, Druggists. Evertors Kuutsford Lancaster Manchester J. Ford & Co. Drapers, St. Ann's-e q uare. Prescot Preston Ditto Ditto . ..... J. Higham, Draper. Ditto J. Knight, Waterloo House. Ditto T, Wren, Auctioneer. Southport S. Whitely, Wine Merchant. Ditto Wigan E. H. Burmish, Chemist. For Agencies, Address, Captain Pidding, 22, College hill, London. Office, 3, Mansion-house-place, London CAUTION AND NOTICE. This great Patent, like every good one, is invaded ; and by the law's delays, (and its miserable state as re gards the interest of Patentees,) the parties are able to evade the consequences some short time longer. The same thing has occurred with other Patents. In Neilson's Hot Blast Patent the invasion went on for years ; but one Firm only had at last to pay upwards of £llO.OOO (One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds) Penalties. Buyers as well as Sellers are liable, and the Patentees will proceed against all parties wbo invade this—one of the most important inventions ever brought into use. Actions are proceeding against Messrs. Morewood and Rogers. Messrs. Walker, Gospel, Oak, and many others. The Company take this opportunity of giving the most unequivocal contradiction to the advertisement issued by Messrs. Morewood and Rogers on Bth August. AGENT FOR LIVERPOOL, JOHN HAMILTON, Jun., 2, James-street, Who is also Agent for TOSWILL'S PATENT SHEATHING and BOILER FELT, and has always a large Stock on hand. At the quarter sessions holden at Kirkdale on Wednes day last, Mr. William Cleaver was appointed clerk to the magistrates visiting th e L una ti c A s yl um in this division, pursuant to the Act passed in the last session, " For the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics." ADELPHI HOTEL, WOODSIDE.—This Hotel, which has always been most attractive from its delightful situation, and the fine views of the Mersey and its s hi pp i n g, which its frontage and grounds almost un limitedly command, continues, under the management of the worthy and obliging host, to undergo successive improvements, for the comfort or amusement of the guests. FATAL ACCIDENTS.-011 Friday, as William Yates, the master of a flat, in the Clarence Dock, was lowering timber into the hold, the rope broke, and the barrel of the winch flew mast-high, and, in falling, struck Yates on the head and fractured his skull, of which he died the fol lowing night. Early yesterday morning, one of the hands of the corporation flat, Lady Sale, in pushing the vessel from the wall, at the north docks, fell into the water and was drowned. THEA Und Last 1 1 111 s will I. _ Zan 440nora Lei. THE O P N o w elleb EC '°randi ~. TBF RED P Tic S hope Duke ] a llay I 4ke Geor *hie Piltrc