The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

LAND. 'COAST• f WISE. I CANADA! FO REIGN. Wheat .. Ors. 539 Barley Qrs. Malt . Qrs. 15 Oats Qrs. 2435 Rye Qrs. Beans Qrs. 65 Pease Qrs. ShelledßarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. Rapeseed Qrs. , Oatmeal .. Loads 6726 Flour. .... Sacks 3920 Ditto Bris. 3990 786 463 220 337 Into Runcorn, Ireland Malt, —qrs. ; Oats, 1566 qr: loads; Flour, 706 sacks. TOTAL. 4551 50 801 2898 6776 3961 200 and Coastwise, Wheat, 742 qrs. ; Beans, 100 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 1905 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Malt, —qrs. ; Oats, 50 qrs. ; Pease, 25 qrs.; Indian Corn, 0 qrs.; Oatmeal, 4 loads; Flour, 590 brls.--Ireland. Wheat, 41 qrs. ; Oats, qrs ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 99 sacks, 10 brls.— Coastwise. Wheat, 191 qrs. ; Barley, 5 qrs. ; Malt, 6 qrs. ; Oats, qrs.; Beans, 4 qrs.; Pease, 42 qrs.; Oatmeal, 44 loads; Flour, 339 sacks 81 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending March 23, 1844 Wheat 565. 3d. 1 Barley 335. id. I Oats .. 20s. Od. I Rye 345. ld. Beans.. 31s. 2d. I Pease.. 31s. ed. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat 55s 7d J Barley 335 sdi Oats os 20d. Rye 33i 10d . . . _ Beans.. 30s. 10d. 1 Pease.. 31s. 2d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheatl7sod I Barley 5s Od 1 Oats .. . 7s Od I Rye.. gs 6d Beans 10s 6a I Pease .. 10s ed I Ind. Corn Os Od I Flour its lid Ditto from B:itish Colonies out of Europe. Wheat., is. Od. I Barley.. Os. 6d. Oats ..2s. Od. Itye.. Is Od Beans 2s. 6d Pease 2s. 6d. Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour.. Os 7id Liverpool Averages, week ending 26th March, 1844. Wheat, 1574 qrs., price, .S2s. ad. ; Barley, 170 qrs., price, 355. Bd. ; Oats, 773 qrs., price 17s. 6d. ; Rye, 153 qrs., price, 335. Id. ; Beans, 50 qrs. ; price, 345. Od.; Pease, 235., price, 335. ad. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—THis DAY. Very little demand for Cotton to-day ; about 1000 bales sold at yesterday's prices. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, THIS DAY• (From Messrs. R. Makin & Sons' Circular.) The arrivals of English, Scotch, and Irish Grain into this port since Tuesday last are on the whole rather incon siderable, but of Flour and Oatmeal we have to note a further good supply ; the imports from abroad, during the week, comprising merely 3,990 qrs. of Wheat and 214 barrels of Flour. Although our market this morning was tolerably well attended by town and country millers, the trade was not quite so lively as on Friday; to necessitous buyers, how ever, English, Iri-h, and Foreign Wheats, duty-paid, were disposed of to a fair extent at the rates of Tuesday last, and two or three samples of fine Irish realised an advance of id. per 701bs. A few parcels of Foreign were also taken for Irish account. Flour was in moderate request, commanding the full currency of this day week, with rather an improving aspect. In Barley, Malt, Beans, or Pease, though little busi ness was apparent, prices remained unaltered. Oats being still in limited supply continued to be held firmly, and fine mealing qualities are noted id. per 451bs. above our last quotations. Oatmeal was taken much less freely than at the close of the week, but was 3d. per load dearer than on Tuesday last. The weather latterly having been exceedingly fine, and still continuing as favourable as possible, the land in this part of the country is now in admirable condition for the reception of the seed ; and without the least interruption, the labours of husbandry are going on vigorously, with the prospect of being brought to an early conclusion. In consequence of Good Friday intervening, our next market will be held on Thursday. MONTHLY ACCOUNT of Imports, Duties Paid, and Bonded Stocks in Liverpool, viz.:—lmported into Liverpool from the Ist to the 30th March, 1844 :—Foreign —Wheat, 11,975 qrs. ; Oats, 1710 qrs. ; Beans, 500 qrs. ; Pease, 22 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 15 qrs. ; Flour, 7484 brls. British and Colonial—Wheat, 18,906 qrs. ; Barley, 3433 qrs. ; Oats, 16,607 qrs. ; Rye, 171 qrs. ; Beans, 1413 qrs. ; Pease, 827 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 30,387 sacks ; Flour, 23,516 sacks 941 brls. Duties paid,in Liverpool from the Ist to the 29th March, 1814 :—Foreign -Wheat, 724 qrs. ; Barley, 224 qrs. ; Oats, 31 qrs. ; Beans, 2471 qrs. ; Pease, 962 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 1093 ors. ; Flour, 21 barrels. Colonial—Flour, 3 barrels. Stocks of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal, in Liverpool, 30th March :—ln Bond—Wheat, 30,882 qrs. ; Barley, 2440 qrs. ; Oats, 2030 qrs. ; Beans, 18,282 qrs. ; Pease, 5211 qrs.; Flour, 56,724 barrels. ARRIVALS OF CORN. From the 26th March to the Ist April, 18. 4, inclusive. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Ebbw Vale and Sirhowy Works, which were adver tised to be sold on the 18th of April next, have been dis posed of by private contract, to the Coalbrook Dale Iron Company, for £216,000. 'The CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL.—There is at present an artist busily occupied, by order of the King of Prussia, at Hampton Court, copying, in the most elaborate manner, these wonders of art. Richard Dadd, the unfortunate artist, who murdered his father, some time ago, is not likely to be brought to trial. He will, probably, not long survive, as, according to the Kentish Observer, " his brain is wanting." It is said that the postmaster-general, now Earl of Lonsdale, intends to relinquish his office as soon as ar rangements can be made for the appointment of his suc cessor.—Morning Post. By the death of the venerable and estimable Earl of Lonsdale, a Blue Ribbon and Lord-Lieutenancies of the counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland have become at the disposal of the premier. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER. — We regretto learn that this nobleman continues seriously indisposed. Lord Robert Grosvenor arrived at Eaton Hall on Wednesday last.—Chester Chronicle. AM. THE FANCY FAIR IN THE THAMES TUNNEL.—A "Fancy Fair" in the Thames Tunnel commenced on Monday, and has been c ontinued during the week, vast numbers of persons having passed through the tunnel to mix in the gay scene. CHRISTCHURCH ELECTION : DEFEAT OF THE LEAGUE. —At four, on Thursday, the numbers were—Hon. Capt. Harris (conservative), 180 ; Tice (leaguer), 84. The con stituency,s,9nsists of 330 voters. At two a hand-bill was issued, 'Wile League are gone on a water excursion." THE SEASON.—Covent -garden market, last week, was supplied with green peas, French beans, cucumbers, straw berries, hot-house grapes, asparagus, rhubarb, sea-kale, good cauliflower and brocoli, (abundant and cheap,) roses, geraniums, camellias, lilacs, heaths, epacrises, and other flowers, in rich and luxuriant bloom. At Huntingdon assizes, on Wednesday week, Gifford White, aged 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of sending a letter to one Isaac Ilett, threatening to burn him and other farmers in their beds, and also to destroy their pro perty. Lord Abinger sentenced him to be transported for life. COUNTY OF BUCKS.—It is stated that Mr. Murray, who bas embraced the Roman Catholic doctrines, will bold his seat for Buckinghamshire until September, when the Marquis of Chandos will attain his majority and offer himself a candidate for the representation of Buchingham shire in the room of Mr. Murray. MURDER OF LORD GRANTLEY'S GAMEKEEPER. — At the Kingston assizes, on Wednesday, James Elsley was indicted for the wilful murder of James Edwards, a game keeper of Lord Grantley. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to trans portation for life. SOUTHAMPTON, March 23.—1 t is generally reported here, and I believe with accuracy, that the Oriental and Peninsular Company have just purchased the Great Western steam-ship, to ply between this port and Alex andria, thus showing that the company are not only not unmindful of their own interest, but anxious to afford the numerous passengers home and out to India the very best possible accommodation. THE FACTORY BlLL.—Memorials praying her Majesty to dismiss Sir James Graham from her councils, have been sent up from eighteen towns in Lancashire during the last few days ; three from Manchester and one from the following :—Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, Bol ton, Chorley, Chowbent , Bedford, Hindley, 'Wigan, Warrington, Stockport, Hyde, Ashton, Oldham, Lees, and Waterhead Mill. PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE. — The subscription to the Yorkshire Protection Society now amounts to £8055 ; the subscriptions to the Doncaster Local Society amount to £525 2s. 6d. ; the subscriptions to the League Fund from Doncaster and the neighbourhood is £5B Bs. ; a sufficient evidOnce of the feeling of the town and neigh bourhood on the question of the corn laws.—Doncaster Chronicle. ------ - TRAGIC XL OCCURRENCE.-011 Tuesday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the New Globe Tavern, Mile-end-road, London, on the body of George Furley, aged 18 months, who was drowned by his mother, Mary Furley, in the attempt to commit a double suicide by drowning herself and child on Sunday night, in the Regent's canal, near the Mile-end -bridge. The j ur y re t urne d a verdict of w ilf u l murder" against Mary Furley, who was com mitted to Newgate. THE MANCHESTER GAS WORKS.—The Manchester Gas Works are, no doubt, at th e present time, the most extensive in the kingdom ; but l arge as they are, a very con siderable addition is about being made to them by the construction of another gasometer, whi c h w ill contain 200,000 cubic feet. Whe i this is completed, w hi c h no doubt it will b e during the coming autumn, the Manches ter Gas 'Works will contain gasholders for 1,300,000 cubic feet of gas ! The Times states that Lord Brougham is seeking the Lieutenancy of the County of Westmorland, and Sir James Graham, Bart., that of the County of Cumberland, both vacant by the decease of the late Earl of Lonsdale. The Journalist recommends that both offices should be conferred upon the present Earl of Lonsdale, as both the Noble ex-Chancellors and the Home Secretary have been rejected by the parliamentary constituencies of the respec tive counties. " A GREAT FACT."—A Preston correspondent of the Morning Herald, alluding to the subscribers in that town to the League Fund, states that the relative respectability and influence of the firms may in some degree be esti mated by the horse-power used in the manufactories. The power used by the Leaguers (exclusive of Messrs. Horrocks, Miller, and Co. the firm of which are divided in opinion) is 160 horses; the power of the Anti-Leaguers (also exclusive of Messrs. Horrocks, Miler, and C 0.,) is 1306 horses. The above facts speak for themselves. A CUTTING BUT DESERVED REBUKE.—At the Lewes Assizes last week, on the special jury cause of Putland v. Troup being called on, one of the jurors, on his taking the book, to be sworn, said be wished to know, being, as a Roman Catholic, deprived of his civil rights in other respects, whether he was eligible to serve the office of a juror. Mr. Baron Alderson looked up to the gentleman and said, " How can you be so foolish ? I cannot think how a man can make such a goose of himself. Don't be such a goose." ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—About four o'clock on Satur day afternoon, a young woman, dressed as a servant, was observed to mount the parapit at the middle recess of the Blackfriars Bridge, and would no doubt have precipitated herself into the river but for a gentleman who was pas sing seizing her by a portion of her gown. Being thus foiled in her rash attempt, she broke away from those who held her and ran with the fleetness of a deer down the steps of the bridge, closely followed however, by police constable 368, who succeeded in arresting her further progress within a few steps of the bottom. A desperate struggle however now took place between her and the constable, during which her clothes were much torn before she was properly secured. FATAL ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.—A calamitous accident occurred on Wednesday last at Manchester. The New Bailey bridge is now re-building, to effect which a temporary railway had to be thrown across the river, whose only supports were two beams on which the rails were laid, and on which also a moveable crane was made to traverse. Whilst five or six men were in the act of raising one of the wood centres for the principal ash, esti mated to weigh nine tons, one of the beams suddenly snapped asunder, by which the men, centre, crane, and beams, were precipitated into the river. One of the men was killed, three others very severely maimed, (legs and arms broken,) the rest of the men slightly wounded. It is marvellous that none of the mcn were drowned. The HOUSE OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.--In Fri day-street, Cheapside, a short time ago stood the house which was in the occupation of Sir Christopher Wren, the eminent architect, during the erection of St. Paul's Cathedral, and which adjoined the church of St. Mat thew, Friday-street. In the course of pulling down the building, which was sold a few weeks ago, and which is now nearly level with the ground, several silver and cop per coins were found in the joists of the flooring by some of the workmen. The silver coins were of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, some being in good preservation. The copper coins were of an earlier period. The foundation walls were of extraordinary thickness, a portion of which formed part of the Saracen's Head, which is also taken down. SERIOUS PRACTICAL JOKE.—On Wednesday five men, without invitation, took possession of the cabin of the Robert and Elizabeth, a small craft lying at the Marsh End, Preston, and with the utmost sang froid, seated themselves around the fire, to await the abatement of a snow storm, then passing over. The sailors, not relish ing the company of the new corners, advised them to de part, but this request being unheeded, the Jacks coolly fastened down the scuttle, and threw a quantity of sul phur down the chimney pipe, blocking up the orifice with a wet sack. After a short time bad elapsed, and Jack had enjoyed his joke sufficiently, the cabin was re-opened, and it was then found that the inmates (a lot of carters) were in a state of insensibility. One suffered a great loss of blood from the nose and ears ; and it was not till after great exertions that all were properly restored. A SERMON TWICE PREACHED.—On Sunday even ing a somewhat novel scene took place in Islington Church. It having been announced that the Rev. Stephen Bridge, M.A., who for the last four years has been the evening lecturer, and whose talents have deservedly gained for him great popularity, would preach a " farewell ser mon," long before the time appointed for opening the doors of the sacred edifice, immense crowds had assem bled round the church in their anxiety to gain admission. The church having been, during the performance of divine service and the delivery of a most eloquent and affection ate discourse, crowded to excess, it was announced to the preacher that the multitudes without the walls exceeded that within, when the rev. gentleman, in compliance with the often-repeated wish, although much exhausted, kindly consented to return to the pulpit, and there, to a fresh congregation, delivered his sermon a second time. It was past ten o'clock before the service concluded. FATAL FIGHT.—On Wednesday last an inquest was held at the Town-hall, Derby, over the body of William Baker, aged 24. On the previous day, deceased and ano ther individual named Lee, who is only 19 years of age, quarrelled about their respective right to a shilling which bad been given to one of them, and they went into a field on the Uttoxeter road to fight, by way of settling the difference. When they got into the field they stripped, and a young man named George Hollis acted as second for Baker, and another, named Gervase Fletcher, acted as Lee's friend. They fought four rounds, and then the deceased fell, having previously received several severe blows about the heart from John Lee. When he was down he exclaimed "Oh ! dear." These were the only words he uttered. The jury returned a verdict of " man -slaughter " awittibt. Jul... Le-e, George Hollis; and Lee and Fletcher were committed for trial, under the coroner's warrant, at the present assizes. Hollis has absconded.—Derby Reporter. MAD DOGS.—DESTRUCTION OF CATTLE. --The neigh bourhood of Kirkwhelpington and Birtley, Northumber land, has at various times, within the last three months, been subjected to much alarm by the visits of dogs in a rabid state. No fewer than seven of these animals have been killed—all strangers, and principally of the mixed breed between the terrier and bull or mastiff. The injury they have done is excessive. On their first appearance the inhabitants, with praiseworthy care, raised the hue and cry, and pursued them to the death. All dogs bitten were at once destroyed ; which, in itself, although impe ratively necessary, is a severe injury in a district where the services of that valuable animal cannot be di pensed with. Amongst the farm stock bitten, and which have died of hydrophobia, may be enumerated thirteen sheep and four head of cattle at Westharle ; a number of sheep at Sweethope, Birtley. and Cornsacre; a horse at Gun nerton, and likewise a sow in that neighbourhood.— Gateshead Observer. THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM.—Never was there a more extraordinary spectacle than the House of Commons pre sents at this momeat as regards the factory bill. The genius of inextricable confusion pervades it. No Whig knows where to look for a brother Whig—no Tory for a brother Tory. The opponents of the government sit on the treasury benches, and not a few of their -u; porters on that bleak, inhospitable side of the house where "loaves and fishes" are phenomena often heard of, but seldom met with. The effect produced on the spectator by this strange confounding of parties is the most startling and grotesque it is possible to conceive. He sees a memb r jest rise be hind Sir James Graham, and within a couple of inches of the Premier's coat skirts, for the express purpose of de nouncing the conduct of 'these two unhappy baronets; and 10, before he has time to recover his astonishment at his open act of mutiny, he sees another member rise from the opposition side and defend the government with spite and earnestness beautifully inconsistent with his locality. —Sun. A GLOUCESTER JURYMAN.—At the Gloucestershire adjourned sessions last week, a girl named Adams was tried for stealing a pint of brandy, a bottle, and other arti cles, the property of her master, M:. Thomas, and was acquitted. After the verdict was given, the prosecutor began collecting his property toge.her, and missed the bottle of brandy ; search was made for it round the table, when some one present said he saw one of the jurymen with it in his hand drinking the brandy. Mr. Carter, counsel for the prosecution, then stated that fact publicly to the ceairrnan, and applied to have it restored to the prosecution. The chairman said to the jury "Is that true, gentlemen ? I hope you are not guilty of such conduct as that; " notwithstanding which, another of the jury in stantly put the bottle to his mouth, and swallowed the remainder of the brandy, nearly a quarter of a pint. The Chairman and Mr. Carter remonstrated, and said such conduct was extremely disgraceful, particularly sitting as he did in a public court of justice, and exercising the office of an English juryman.— Gloucester Chronicle. INVESTITURE OF MR. O'CONNELL WITH THE ORDER OF ST. JOSEPH AND MARY.—On Sunday evening Mr. O'Connell was "solemnly admitted into the guild of the holy order of St. Joseph and Mary. " The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Messrs. Moore arid Foley, at ' London. Virginia Chapel, Ratcliffe-highway Ab o ut half-past three in the a ft ernoon, M r.o' Connell made his appearance, and was greeted with rapturous applause by - some thousands of the lower orders of his fellow country men. Having dined with the priests and some other per sons connected with the chapel, at seven o'clock the usual service began. Vespers being ended, Father Moore ad dressed the members of the guild, and alluded to Mr. O'Connell as the most illustrious layman of the Roman Catholic Church. These, he said, were the words of the Pope. Mr. O'Connell was then habited in a green silk cloak, lined with white silk and trimmed with ermine, having on its front a cross of solid gold. A cap of Guano velvet was placed on his head. Some other religious ex _ ercises were performed, and the congregation dispersed. NOVEL SYSTEM OF FRAUD. — Several tradesmen, prin cipally woollen drapers residing at the west-end, have, in a very novel and artful man ner, been " to a considerable extent. It ap pears that some months ago a parcel, containing the halves of Bank of England and provincial notes to a large a mount, was forwarded from Leicestershire to London, and that the said parcel was by some means or other stolen. Within the last two or three weeks no fewer than six drapers have received letters pur porting to come from Brighton and Dover, and in which they were requested to send immediately ten yards of superfine black cloth, at LI per yard, in payment for which two halves of stolen " fives were inclosed, with an inti mation that the other halves would, upon the receipt of the goods, transmitted by the earliest post. The cloth was sent, as per order, to the new ready-moneY and, as the first halves were not perfected by the other customer, promised remittance, inquiries were, of course, instituted, when it was discovered that tie bird had flu" from Brighton and Dover, at which places he had occupied apartments for a few days, and then decamped. REBECCA RIOTERS.—A number of cases of Itebeccaism were tried at the Carmarthen Assizes the week before last. The following were the results :—John Harris, David Thomas, David Williams, Job Evans, Isaac Charles, and John Lewis, who had been found guilty of the riot at the Carmarthen workhouse, were sentenced—John Harris to one year's imprisonment, with hard labour, and the rest to eight months' imprisonment. Thomas Hughes, John Jones, and Benjamin Jones, for demolishing the Pontar llechan toll-gate, were sentenced to one year's hard labour. David Lewis, Jonathan Jones, Howell Lewis, Jonathan Lewis, and David Davies, convicted of a riot at Talog, were sentenced to eight months' hard labour each. David Thomas, John Jones, Evan Davis, John Thomas, Thomas Thomas, John Thomas, and David Evans, for the bur glary at Pantyfen, were sentenced—David Thomas to transportation for 20 years, and the whole of the others to transportation for 10 years. After the passing of this sentence a most heart-rending scene took place in court. The families of the unhappy transports threw themselves into a perfect frenzy of grief. Sobs and cries were heard on all sides, and there was scarcely a dry eye in the court. • EXPORT OF VALUABLE HORSES.—The season for the exportation of horses has set in in good earnest, the steam ship Queen of Scotland, having, on Saturday last, taken out for Hamburg a fine collection of twenty-three excel lent horses and mares, including one thorough-bred entire horse, one thorough-bred mare, ten mares, and geldings of superior quality. On Tuesday she was followed by the Leeds, which steamer took out a smaller number, but very valuable stud. They included twelve steeple-chasers and race horses. Mr. Bonsell has also in his stables the celebrated Brocklesby steeple-chaser, Newcastle Tommy, a fine grey mare, lately rode by Mr. Owston, of Brigg . ; Rocket. and several other superior Lincolnshire .hunters, purchased by Mr. Nevins, and destined for Vienna. Mr. Bamberger and Mr. Fanstenburg, both of Berlin, have been for some days in the neighbourhood , and the latter gentleman, we learn, ships this day from the Paragon Inn stables an entire horse by Little John, and a prime string of twenty-one superior mares and geldings; whilst Mr. Bamberger, we understand, is preparing for shipment, in the course of the week, about forty other horses, the greater part of which have already arrived in the town.— Hull Herald of Thursday. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF THE 'TURN -OUT COL LIERS.—On Monday, two of Messrs. Field, Cooper, and Co.'s men, John Oldfield and John Bateman, were com mitted by the sitting magistrates, Barnsley, to Wakefield House of Correction, for trial at Pontefract Sessions, for a most violent assault upon one of Messrs. Field and Co.'s men, on the night of Friday last. He was returning from his work, and was seizeu by the two men named, and with the assistance of a number of women, who are a disgrace to their sex, he was stripped naked, pelted with stones, dirt, and anything that was near at hand, and was com pelled to walk home in a state of nudity, for a distance of half a mile, surrounded by a mob of upwards of 100 per sons; and when he got home they surrounded his house, and sung the Union Hymn, and threatened him in the most violent manner, adding they would make him as, he could not work. There are hundreds of colliers in this neigh bourhood who are willing to work, but dare not for the unionists, and are thereby actually starving. This is said to be a Chartist movement, and it will be well for the au thorities to be on the look out. From what we can hear of the eight hours system which the colliers are about to turn-out for, many men will not be able to earn a liveli hood.—Doncaster Gazette. ACCIDENT FROM AN AVALANCHE.—On Monday last, the 18th instant, as a party of shepherds were out on Longdale Fells—situate betwixt Orton and the Yorkshire mountains—they had to encounter most formidable drifts of snow, in order to rescue the sheep from their ley pri sons. Edward Wilson, yeoman, of Long Gills, was un der the necessity of walking on a very steep acclivity, when the snow suddenly began to move in an immense volume from under his feet, with such velocity that the young man was unable to keep his body in an upright po sition ; the rapid progress of the avalanche—for such it really was—making him excessively giddy. He managed, however, to sit as long as he could, till, having descended to a rocky precipice, where, about 50 years ago, a person of the name of James Atkinson was unfortunately killed under similar circumstances, he, the shepherd in question, was dreadfully injured by the concussion occasioned by the stoppage. He nevertheless had presence of mind enough to tie his handkerchief or neckcloth round his head; to which probably he owed his preservation, as although he bled considerably, he did not lose conscious ness, and, on the whole, was much lese injured than might have been anticipated under the circumstances, and in a place so dangerous. On reaching home, Mr. Noble, sur geon, of Orton, was promptly in attendance ; and we have much pleasure in stating that he is now in a fair way to recover.—Kendal Mercury. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY A YOUNG LADY.—On Friday an inquest was held, at the Globe, Moorgate, on Miss Martha Sale, aged 27, living with her parents at No. 47, Finsbury-circus, her father being clerk to Mr. Ross, leather dresser, in Bermondsey. On Wednesday evening she was in an unusual flow of spirits, and passed the even ing at her sister's in Calthorp-place, Gray's inn -road, where her manner was volatile and excited. On arriving at home in the evening, she amused her parents with a spirited detail of what had taken place at the small tea party at ber sister's, and retired to rest still in high spirits. At seven o'clock the ensuing morning she was found dead, suspended by the neck from her bedrail by a handker chief; and this note to her sister left on the dressing table : —" My dear sister, I hardly know what I am doing, but I have finished the lace cap I have been at work at, and trimmed the handkerchief, which I enclose. God bless you, my beloved sister. All I have is for you. M. Sale, March 20." For the past six weeks it appeared she had been alternately depressed and exhilirated in her manner. Her depression was thought to proceed from the fact that her mother was in bad health, and that she herself was becoming thin and weak. Half-a-dozen phials that had contained laudanum were found in ,her room, leaving no doubt that her excitement was caused on recent occasions by her partaking or it. The surgeon considered that hang inct was the irnmOiate cause of death, and the taking opium prior to it was the remote cause ; the reasunhig faculties would be ultimately depressed by partaking of the drug, so as to border on insanity. Verdict, 7 -" Tem porary Insanity. ANONYMOUS LETTER WRITING.—A well-conducted female servant, who had been dismissed from her servi tude in a highly respectable family in Hereford, for tell ing a falsehood by denying she had a " follower," drowned herself in the Wye about nine days since, her body being picked up on Friday sen'night, about a mile from the house of a relation with whom she had found an asylum. There is too much reason to believe that this unhappy and ill-fated girl was the victim of the heartless calumnies of one of her own sex An anonymous letter in a feminine hand, was addressed to the mistress of the deceased, cautioning the lady of the equivocal character and something worse of the maid-servant, and broadly hinting at acts of profligacy upon the part of the girl, which, if true, would have seriously affected her reputa tion. The contents of the letter were communicated to the accused arid the rest of the household, and its pur port, as a consequence. was also soon known to some of the other servants residing in the neighbourhood. The deceased, in the innocence of her nature, detailed the slanderous imputations to her lover, to whom she was going to be married, and for whose reception, upon the prospect of a happy union taking place, a house had been furnished. The infamous insinuation preyed so much on her sensitive and outraged feelings, that notwithstandinc , her betrothed scouted the charge with scorn, yet life be- came intolerable to the poor girl, and the destruction of her own existence became (in a moment when reason was overpowered by despair) the only apparent means of es cape from the fangs of her secret persecutors.—Glouces ter Journal. A GHOST STORY.—On Tuesday morning, a rumour prevail d in the town of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, that a man and his wife of the name of Ingerson, had been visited the previous night by a ghost, in the shape of a woman dressed in white. Ingeison stands upwards of six feet, and is proportionately Mitt, and lives in part of a house which communicates internately with the other'part. He went to bed early the preceding night with his wife ; and about twelve o'clock they heard theirliedroom door open and shut, and, on looking up, were horrified at beholding the object alluded to. Ingerson, with great awe and fear, muttered, " in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, what dost thou here ? " To which he received no reply. but was seized by it, and near ly dragged out of bed ; thus showing that if not an able bodied, it was a powerful ghost, to move the body of In gerson against his will. The ghost then slammed the door to, as if in anger. probably at not being able to make away to of her regions the inanimate Ingerson. At four o'clock, it repeated the vi-it, and paid the same attention to Inger scn, leavim in the like unceremonious manner. On the ft llowing-night, to test this relation, a primitive preacher, named Poole, slept with Ingerson, when they were again visited ; but what further occurred neither Mr. Poole nor Ingerson deign to tell, and further resolve never to relate to mortal. This last interview has been so far satisfactory, that the shost is never to appear again, either to Ingerson or his wife, or any other person ; Poole having completely subdued " the wandering spirit, " and "hurried it to its confines." Such is the true version of this marvellous tale, a great portion of the inhabitants entirely believing it, shuddering with dread at the awful visitings experienc ed by Ingerson, and the courage, piety, and power of Poole.--Cambridge paper. groom, b d n g M i r n . AFFECTING CASE.—In the London Insolvent Debtors' CT7Brt. Hughes lastweek fo , , M R o i r e r h i a s rd Humphreys was , a r e e d s William-street, Lis'on-grove. In this case a melancholy picture presented itself. The insolvent was a decrepid old man, and his hair, white with age, hung in clusters about his venerable face. He had been thrown into pri son by his son-in-law for a small debt incurred for the ne cessaries of life, and there he remained a long time neglected and forgotten by all the world except his daugh ter (the wife of the creditor,) who clung to her helpless parent with filial tenderness, and found the means to enable him to apply to the laws of his country for that mercy which was denied him by his relative. His daugh ter's career was remarkable. She began life in the capa city of a servant in a family of respectability named East hope, and her virtues gained her the heart of her master's son, who married her ; hut three days after the wedding her husband was cut off by an accident. The family with which she had thus become connected generously settled upon her art annuity of £lOO per annum, upon which she immediately made a moiety of her allowance to her pa rents. Subsequently she married again ; but, after nine weeks, a separation took place. Her husband (Williams) then sued her father for a debt of about £ 5 or £G for ma d, by which means the old man's debt was augmented to £lO, and this was the total amount of the liab ilitities i n his sch e d u l e. Th e appearance o f th e o ld man and his faithful daughter, who was effectionately tending him, ex cited a gen e al feeling of sympathy. The learned Com missioner Harris, on learning the facts, inquired whether the oPnvosing creditor was present, and on being answered in the affirmative, he indignantly asked the man whether he had any shame in him ? The court directed the insol vent to be discharged forthwith. ANTI-LEAGUE MEETING.—On Thursday last, pur suant to announcement, a meeting of landowners, tenant farmers, and others, was held at Garstang, for the pur pose of establishing an Agricultural Protective Associa tion for North Lancashire. The place, of meeting was advertised to be at the Royal Oak Hotel ; but it was af terwards determined that it should be held in the large room of the Town-hall. Shortly before one o'clock, the party proceeded to this room, which is capable of accom modating from 300 to 400 persons, and which was,crowded. At the west end of the room was a raised platform. for the chairman and the printinal landowners and members of the committ ee . Amongst t the company present were R. Townley Parker, Esq., Cuerden Hall; T. Bright Crosse, Esq., of Shaw Hill; J. Talbot Clifton, Esq., of Lytham Hall; Hugh Hornby, Esq., of Ribby Hall; D. Hornby, Esq., Raikes Hall; A. R. Ford. Esq., Ella Hall; W. A. Cross, Esq., Red Scar; J. Nowell Farington, Esq., Worden Hall; T. F. Brockholes, Esq., Claughton Hall; W. Garnett, Esq., Cluernmore Park; J. Taylor, Esq., Moreton Hall; J. Cunliffe, Esq., Myerscough House ; T. Y. P. Michaelson, Esq.. Barrow Isle; W. A. F. San ders; Esa., of Winnington Hall; George Jacson, Esq., Barton Lodge; Thos. Walmsley, Esq.. Preston ; Pudsey Dawson, Esq. - , Hornby Castle ; Kingston Salisbury, Esq., Liverpool ; Edw. Pedder, Esq., Clifton Hall ; and other gentlemen. The body of the room was filled principally with tenant farmers. Upwards of £BOO was subscribed on the spot. WITCHCRAFT IN THE 19TH CENTURY.—A curious circumstance, showing that even at this time of• day the superstitious belief in witchcraft among individuals in the - country is not yet altogether extinct, happened last week 'in the Town Muir. A small farmer there had a cow from which the milch fell away, and 'l3elieving it was caused by an " evil eye," sent for a person professing to have the power of discovering the agent of the mischief. When he was called, and Crummy's condition explained to him, he got a hen's egg, blew it, and filled the shell with milk, gave it to the owner of the cow, and told him to go round to all the neighbours with it, and that when on holding the end of it up he found the milk did not drop in the house where he did so, there was the destroyer of his cow. The simple man did as he was desired. From walking, the milk naturally became churned, and at a certain house would not drop: The result was, that the occupier, a woman, was pronounced to be the witch. A very serious conference was held by the owner of the cow and his friends, as to what then should be done. The projector of the witch's discovery was called. He told them the only thing now for them was to get a nail ard scratch the brow of the sorceress, when the milk would again come to the cow. This was actually managed, but the cow was, of course, no better from the experiment.— Perth Courier. RACE WITH A STEAM ENOINE.—On Friday, the Bth instant, the Meerza Ibraheenr. of the East India College, Haileybury, met with one of the most frightful accidents, and providential escapes, that it has ever been our fate to record. The Meerza was coming from Ware to Hertford, and on arriving opposite the Union Workhouse he deter mined to enter the town through the back street, and for that purpose he went down Mead-lane, and passed over the railway. The Meerza bad proceeded about half the distance between the Mead-lane gate and the back en trance to the railway terminus, when the three o'clock train left the station. The Meerza's horse, a fine spirited animal, immediately became affrighted, wheeled round, and dashed back at a furious pace, literally racing with the train ; and on arriving at the gate he had just passed through, the affrighted animal cleared it at a bound, and alighted with its fore feet on the very edge of the line of railway, at the very instant that the train arrived at the gate. Fortunately, the horse did not obtain a secure foot ing ; the soil of the edge and bank of the railway was loose,, and the horse's feet slipping back, he rolled down the bank, and the train rolled by, within a few feet of the Meerza's head, as he lay under the frightened and strug gling horse, whose legs had become entangled in the fencing,—unable to disengage his feet from the stirrups. After the train had passed, the Meerza succeeded with difficulty in extricating himself from his unpleasant posi tion, as the horse continued to roll about with great vio lence ; but we are happy to state, that he sustained no greater injury than a few bruises, from the effect of which he has nearly recovered.--Hertford Reformer. IMPORTANT TO INNKEEPERS.—On Tuesday, the 12th instant, a man of respectable appearance and address, who gave his name as James Roberts (supposed to be fictitious) was brought before R. K. Rotherham, Esq., charged with obtaining from Mr. George Thomas Edwards, of the Castle Inn, the sum of £27 155., under the following circumstances :—lt appears the prisoner, who had been staying at the above inn for two or three days, passing himself as a commercial gentleman, on Saturday evening walked into the bar, and, with a familiar air, said to the landlord, " Edwards, can you cash me a cheque, the post goes at ten o'clock, does it not ?" Mr. Edwards said he did not think he had so much change in the house, but he would see ; and asked him who G. N. Davies (the drawer of the cheque) was. He replied, in an off-hand manner, turning the cheque over, oh, this makes you safe (show ing the endorsement, B. Green) ; I have just received it from Mr. Green, of Warwick. Mr. Edwards then cashed the cheque for him, giving him five £ 5 notes, the rest in gold and silver. The prisoner then went, as Mr. Edwards considered, from the bar to the commercial room, to write his letters and remit the money ; but some suspicion hav ing occurred to Mr. Edwards, he sent his waiter to the commercial room to see if the prisoner was there, and found he was not ; he sent immediately for the chief con stable, who succeeded in apprehending him in about half an hour after, going off by the coach to London. He gave up the amount, £27 155., and asked to be let go. On presenting a cheque at the banking-house of Messrs. Strachan and Co. of the Strand, they denied all know ledge of the drawer or endorsee. The prisoner was fully committed to gaol to take his trial at the assizes, on the 28th instant. The prisoner, who has several aliases, viz ; Cuthbert, Rodgers, Roberts, &c. is about five feet four inches high, very stout, and broad shoulders, about 45 years of age, dark bushy whiskers, red face, and broad flat features. and is very fond of smoking cigars. It is ~,aort rnstny tether cases will he brought against him. as a person of his description has lately victimised several commercial inns in different parts of the country, in a similar manner attempted in this instance.—Nottingham Mercury. A MANUFACTURER'S OPINION ON THE ABOLITION OF THE CORN LAWS.—On Friday week, a meeting of the landowners, farmers, and other inhabitants of the county of Aberdeen was held at the Court-house, Aberdeen, to take steps for counteracting the mischevious doings of the Anti-corn-law League. Sir. Hadden, who is a great manufacturer, made a speech of peculiar importance : " From what I have read of the doctrines of the Anti-corn law League, I believe that if any one is to derive advanta ges from a free trade in corn, it will be the manufacturer, and, consequently, that I am to be that happy person. (A laugh.) I looked at the matter in every way—and I do not shut my eyes to my own interest; but I cannot dis cover how I am to be benefitted by a free trade in corn. If we admit foreign corn free of duty, every one can see that the farming interest, and every one connected with it must suffer by competition. If you look at the poor soil, ungenial climate, and the amount of taxes borne by the farmer in this country, how can he think of competing with that man who has none of these disadvantages to con tend with? We all know that the great bulk of foreign will come from Germany, and that a few days will bring it here, burdened with only a few trifling charges, when it will come in competition with the home grower. We manufacturers have the monopoly of clothing all the far mers and their dependents. Now, what I ask is this—if we lose our own home trade, by depriving our best cus tomers of the power of purchasing our manufactures through admitting foreign grain, are we to supply clothes to foreign farmers ? If a certain country supplies us with corn, 1, as a manufacturer, have nothing to say against it, if I am to have the advantage of sending goods there. Germany is the principal country where corn comes from Now what chance is there of their reducing their tariff ? What chance of Prussia reducing theirs to suit u's ? Ihave visited Germany, and I know that manufactures and com merce are in a very flourishing state there. Instead of reducing their tariff to suit ours, they are yearly increasing it, and some goods are burdened with so heavy a duty that it may be said to amount to a total prohibition. I cannot, therefore, see how we are to be benefitted by free trade which is all on one side. If a certain customer is taken away from us, and no other provided in his place, how can we be benefited ? I say nothing upon the subject of real free trade. Ido not understand a free trade to be that we should open our ports to all the world, and that their ports should be shut against us." MYSTERIOUS PRIZE.—On Wednesday last, as a young man was enjoying the agreeable pastime of popping at small birds in some fields near Sedgley, an intended vic tim of his deadly sport perched itself on something, the exact nature of which was not very discernible, in one of the pits of water with which the fields in that neighbour hood abound. Our sportsman took his aim—but the feathered one, too cunning to remain in such dangerous company, wisely took wing and fled away. Disappointed for the moment, the wanderer resolved upon a scrutiniz ing examination of the extraordinary-looking affair from which the bird had just departed. It looked like the head of a barrel, dimly seen through a kind of mist of long attached slime and weed. But what business had a barrel there? Determined to solve the mysterious ap pearance, and a hedge being near, the hero of our adven ture judiciously armed himself with a tolerably lengthy hedge rail, and took many a cautious poke at the tanta lizing object before him. The weeds and aqueous incrus tations at length gave way, and a portion of a tolerably portly sort of kdderkin stood revealedto view. It was heavy, ' and literally stuck in the mud. To get it out unaided was impossible, and assistance was speedily gathered. A stout rope and a hearty tug or two soon brought the cu riosity to the shore. It was evidently well charged with something, but what could it be? It was broached, and forthwith from it poured a rich stream of ruddy mellow old port—port such as might have warmed the heart of even old Bacchus himself. The cheerful news of this wonderful vintage soon spread around ; even from the most unseemly vessels was the precious liquor eagerly quaffed, and those " drank port who ne'er drank port before." Nor did the luck of the party end here, for one of them sagaciously enough conjectured, that as the sur face of the pit presented such good things, its inner depths might not be less satisfactorily stored, and forthwith an actve exploration of all its muddy recesses commenced, and the skill and enterprise of the party beheld their reward in the safe landing, amidst cheers and eager ex pectation, of another rotund prize, of similar size and aspect to the one already secured. This, on tapping, turned out to be a cask of peppermint. As the news of finding these good things derelict became more extensively known, it was resolved that means should be taken to discover, if possible, unto whom these remarkable waifs legitimately belonged. The wine-cask was found to be marked " Prince and Co., Tamworth," and three " W's" were impressed on that containing the peppermint. A communication was forwarded to Tamworth ; but, strange enough, the firm knew nothing of the commodities, nor is any trace of them to be found in the books, though referred to for years back.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. CORRESPONDENCE. BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR, -The world is full of touchy, 111-natured people ; and there is only one animal in nature that never sleeps, and that is old Time. Confound the fellow, he gallops onward as if he was running a steeple-chase, and nobody who has a bill running, a bit of 'land bought on contract, or a time bargain to fulfil, can scotch the wheels of his chariot. I rather suspect, by the very waspish style of Mr. Zephaniah Smith's last letter, that he has been bitten by the mad dogs on our side of the river, and that he is fearful and paroxismatic at the very sight of water. Mr. Smith, in every line he has written, makes it as clear as the nose on his face that he has bad a finger in the Bir kenhead pie, and that he is mos' desperately anxious that every thing should be kept snug and quiet, till he and other " sharp" fellows have wriggled out of their time bargains. What a happy fellow he will be when, as you said some time ago, he has converted his dirty acres into Commis sioners Bonds. Why, sir, Birkenhead Bonds will, ere long, figure away in the " Share List"— At {Paid. f Last quotation. £lOO. 1 £574 15s. 93d. Bankers from Siberia, Calmucs from Asia, Hottentot Bohers, Parisian Lafittes, Pennsylvanian Merchants, _ (honest gentlemen as they are,) and all those small-eyed, sharp-nosed, curly-beaded, and dark-complexioned gen tlemen known on the Stock Exchange as Bulls and Bears, will, ere long, rush in as purchasers, and London and Birminghams, Grand Junctions, and Great Westerns will be forgotten in the rush after Birkenhead Dock Shares— or, if you will, Birkenhead Bonds. Let Mr. Smith keep his temper. He and all the Cheshire people who hold land are on the high road to prosperity, and dame Fortune has taken her seat on a buoy in the middle of Wallasey Pool. Sir, a new area is about to dawn upon us, and although I think some of my neighbours are running rather fast, and are likely enough to get out of breath, yet I can as sure Mr. Smith that I can rejoice in the rich tints which glow in the horizon of Birkenhead ; and I see in the spirit of her Commissioners a proof that we are destined to be come a mighty nation, through the enterprise of those daring minds who—stick at nothing. England was once subdued by William the Conqueror; but he was a Norman noodle compared with that greater William (we write it short here) who conquered your Liverpool Harold, and vanquished him in fair fight. I know that his (William's) troops can still, like their progenitors, draw a long bow ; and depend upon it, that Birkenhead will become another Hastings, and the dynasty of the Mersey will soon be changed. To be sure, being an old man, you may say that .I am somewhat garrulous, and perhaps tell more than the Com Missioners like, but they do act so honour ably that there is no occasion to be very nice. Talk of your public improvements in Liverpool forsooth ! Wby, sir, we have a gentleman at Birkenhead can write about public improvements in a most extraordinary manner, and who practises *hat he preaches; and although he does wear drab, and sells most excellent gridirons, when Will or Joe shouts out " Go it,iye cripples", he can turn out essays on Birkenhead prosperity, compiled from newspa pers, that would astonish an ostrich. I will tell you a secret, Mr. Editor, but do not for the world let it be made public. Our Commissioners intend to get Wallasey Pool for nothing, or next to nothing ; and if the Commissioners of Woods and Forest would have kept on their nightcaps, and gone to sleep, as they ought to have done ; and if Jesse Hartley had been snugly de posited under one of his own dock walls, 1 verily believe that we should have succeeded. Bat somehow or other the thing got blown, and the little lady at Windsor has been most mischieviously advised not to part with the Pool, unless a few hundred thousand pounds is paid for it ; and until Attwood establishes a branch bank at Bir kenhead, it will be rapt her inconvenient to raise so much money. To be sure there are some beautiful plans exhi bited, and when the ladies retire after dinner, (for I dine out a good deal,) " Prosperity to Birkenhead," is always drunk ; and many sly nods and winks, and jokes and leers, are passing, which seem to say, that many people know more than they choose to reveal. You have heard, no question, that we are to have amongst our public edifices, a large and magnificent Lunatic Asylum, the first stone of which is to be laid on the day when the Port Jackson Dock Bill receives the royal assent : and it is whispered that a valuable plot of land, recently purchased from the Corporation, is to be appropriated for that necessary erection. There are several candidates in the field already for the governorship, and one of them lays claim to the situation from his well-known ability in administering drastic purgatives, and the skill with which he has so co piously phlebotomised a number of patients. His testi monials are of the most unexceptionable description, and his treatment is said to be quite Sangradoish, viz., plenty of blood letting and swallowing an abundance of (cold) water. But we have had a wet blanket thro,vn over us in a most mystifying manner by the postponement of our dock bill. If it had gone on as it ouht to have done, it would " have made two lovers happy," and fleets of New Yorkers would have soon discharged their cargoes into the centre of Hamilton-square. But list ! we are going to do as Hannibal did. We shall leave Carthage to be sacked, and march onwards to attack Rome. We shall carry the war into the very centre of your Dock Committee-room, and we shall spit our spite by arresting the progress of your bill ! Think of that, Master Brooke; and we shall succeed too, unless our opposition should be like Paddy's gun, which burst when it was discharged, because, al though it was thick enough in the back, it was over thin in the belly ! But, Lord bless me ! how I lose sight of my subject, I intended to tell you all about our im provements; and, if Mr. Smith and I could meet in a friendly way, I don't think we should disagree so much ; for I am an old man, and rather wary, and dread very fast high:trotting horses, for if they do cut themselves, they generally come down " all of a heap ;" but he says, •` Go on, you can't he in too great a hurry. so long as you can put money in your purse." Well, sir, we are to have, in addition to our Asylum, a new Infirmary for all our lame ducks, a charming Refuge for the Destitute, with a pretty look on Wallasey Pool, which view it is thought will be very cheering and consolatory to the inmates, as many of them will probably have their all in it. The Port Jack son Great Dock is to be a Naurnachia for six-oared gigs ; and several American sea serpents are to be kept in it for the use of the " Young 'uns," who are to be taught to be as dexterous in the use of the harpoon as their fathers have been. Ample provision is to be made for instruction. The lads are particula ly to be taught how to conjugate such verbs as to buy," and to decline "to sell," &c. Such fables as the hare and the tortoise are to be excluded from our public schools, and our grate literary man talks of publishing a new dictionary, possess ing all the modern phrases now in common use,—such as " go a-head," " Jetty building," and other elegant words omitted by Dr. Johnson ; and such obsolete words as " moderation," " preservation," " punctuality," and several other 'ations and 'alities, are to be excluded, be cause they are perfectly useless, and will only bother the young ideas who are to be taught how to shoot. Our slaughter-houses will soon be in a forward state; they are not wanted just at present, because we have, as yet, only done a little in the maiming and winging line; but as the slaughtering will follow in due course, it is as well to be prepared. The calves have been bled to a small extent, but not sufficient, as yet, to make the veal white enough for our New Market; but I suppose, by the time the budding is finished, a good many of them will be ready for sale. The Monks' Ferry Bill is, lam told, going on swimmingly, like everything does at this place. Old Wiggins, my neighbour, was in London bn Friday, and heard" Will" give his evidence upon it; and he declares that "Will" did the thing slick and slap up. What a sharp, cle. ver fellow he is ! Wiggins thinks he has been taking les sons from Sir Robert Peel, because, when he said a good thing and made a hit, which he often did in the most mo dest, unassuming manner, he looked ound at his friends in the committee-room, as if he expected a cheer; and he would have got one too, only Wiggins says that cheering is confined to the house at present. Monks' Ferry must be had, and everybody knows that Birkenhead must fol low. Willoughby will be much better off when lie is te nant to the co mmissioners, than being under your corpo ration ' • and I advise him to throw no impediments in th e way. There is one thing which I don't like about the ferries, and that is boats running all night. It is teaching our young sprigs to keep bad hours, and will have an evil effect on the morality of this very moral subuib, where nothing flourishes without that strict honour and good moral conduct which has hitherto characterised all our dealings. At present, we never get above three sheets in the wind; and 1 do hope that our commissioners will let the poor boatmen swing in their hammocks at 12 o'clock, or Brotherton will kick up a shindy if lie hears that there is a new motion atter midnight. A bright idea has just struck me, Mr. Editor, and it is this. A great hobbery has been kicked up about our dock bill, and terrible in deed has been the splashing and plunging since the " thunder-bolt," as the Mercury called it, fell in Liver pool. Now my opinion is this. The land is not to make the dock valuable, but the dock is to lay a hundredfold on the value of the land—indeed it bas done that already. It has therefore struck me, that if our commissioners would still continue the splashing, and talk big, and look daggers, and blow their trumpets louder that. ever, and hurl defiance at the corporation and Liverpool duck peo ple, and then—just let the Birki nhead bill drop, as the monkey did the hot potatoe, that it would be a capital hit. Don't you take? They could then keep up the ex citement, talk about " grievances," " justice to Birken head," "foul playou behalf of the corporation," and a thou sand ingenious devices might follow, so that everybody will see that they are a very ill-used set of men, and every body will join in saying, " We shall get a b otter bill next year" ! Then land might be screwed up another pound or so a yard, and it is so cheap at present that it will really bear it. Why, sir, fortunes might be made in ano ther year; and as to the interest accumulating—pshaw I who thinks anything about interest here? Besides—but it is of no use speculating (except in laud). if I was a commissioner I would suggest such a thing, but 1 am now hrathne.altie forro a l t d d cattle.runningl h in harness a w nessfewiththsigunchs morevigor to and ig say, but my housekeeper has just brought me my bed candle and a bason of gruel, and says that I have written long enough to-day. " Put down the gruel, Betty, and bring me the TimEs, with the last article oil joint-stock companies. Ther y e o ; o y r o s t: o no e y di n en or ly, g . o . to_b ed . ' , EBENEZER JONES. Birkenhead, Lady-day. CAUTION.—The Liverpool pace have received infor mation that ten experienced London thieves arrived in this town on Thursday last, for th e purpose of practising the.r art in the omnibuses cont•ecled with Liverpool Ladies „ ho travel in omnibuses cqnnot be too careful of the contents of their pockets or reticules whenever they find strangers in tbe . same vehicle with them, although their appearance may be ever so genteel. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, - - - - - On Tuesday, a special meeting of the Council n at the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking int o cons. eis tion the Fire-Prevention Amendment Bill , now .b e s. Parliament. The Mayor presided. d noir with the third clause, which define commenced hi T h i : l l ienTown-Clerk nature o opened the business proposed a tr of e n t d h the e day nt !) . el o i clearly the dangerous trades. The object of the fowl and fifth clauses was to enable parties to give eer. ll _„, l notices, either landlords or tenants, and according to tel e ' r clauses it would be for the landlord to determine., wh e et i he would conform to the act of last session, and, b he would be entitled to 73 per cent. rent on the cooto! his alterations. Clause 6 did away with the restricti tit as to building new warehouses and provided that Olt warehouses should be built in streets, squares, or CO' i of prescribed, but diminished, limits. Clause 7 P r°l _ , J that nothing in, the lastly recited enactment shoulder, 1. to warehouses hereafter to be built on sites of any b ad ings whatsoever (though not warehouses) existing , :ke time of the passing of the said recited act. In W l 7; tion of the clause, the Town-Clerk said that in case of . _ se erection of warehouses on the sites of old buildings hose warehouses must be subject to extraordinary protectiotn._ Mr. IsAAc HoLmEs moved as an amendment tha.t! all cases where warehouses were erected in streets less than thirty feet wide such warehouses should be receus.s.eZ so as to leave thirty-six feet from the opposite b Tugs. The amendment was lost. at I Mr. STEWART moved, as another amendme n t, th l e st a street be less than 36 feet wide, then, for every fon',.s in width than 36 feet, the height of 65 feet, allowed for warehouse by the schedule, shall be reduced 3 feet' This amendment was agreed to. of Clause 8 provided that the lowest floor and part o t other floors of a fire proof warehouse might be P„ nw with wood. Clause 9 and 10 were framed to 8 ,5, hazardous goods to be warehoused in cellars, stidi though not arched as is a fire-proof warehouse, s" have a ceiling lined with sheet-iron. Clause 11 dangerous trades, such as the bottling of wine and sPir i r to be carried on in certain buildings. Clause 1 2 e a , f -. countable exo c g: l ,e a Ntw u h s he e ro . powered the committee, for a period of twelve wtonwit to allow the licensing of saltpetre and nitrate of sods warehouses to be approved by them. Clause 14 wss the effect that no warehouses should ho rated to thee/ 6 m be house fire-police rate, unless such war.larnases should watched. Mr. PARKER characterised this as a perfectly ull" celfa t L l s r ier . ea A rplt i the the good e bill. e d t was management eand thought wifert eh iadttewp could o en u d ! di depending for donew ell theirto without strike we ibn je o iti n erf t g t b o l o, or Iset: extremelye encouragement, e impolitic oora g em f e o o r t t o h f e pirnohpaebrity go and charge an extra rate for doing that which it w ,r, the bounden duty of -the Watch Committee to u:'; (Hear, hear.) The clause would lead to many disput% and, after all, if they got the twopence, it would c'. ll ,„' amount to some £l5OO. He again hoped, that if, WW. t; out affecting the bill, they could get rid of the extra 1.8 altogether, they would see the pr - opriety of doing so. el The TOWN-CLERK said they were going as far as i t 'l could venture to go to obtain every object mention ed to Mr. Aikin. The advantage of the clause would be 0 give a summary mode of collecting the rate, if t h j o h should be a general application for extra watching "',be would, in their judgment, require such rate. Oe other band, if the committee were only called upon tb q one or two individual warehouse•keepers, they bai i s power completely in their own judgment to refuse to ot• - •, any such rate, and to refer the parties to certain 1 31111 sions in the act. Mr. TURNER asked whether it would jeopardise the bill to strike out the clause altogether. The TOWN CL ERK said he had gone as far as he 09 possibly go with propriety. As the clause now et °o e , the Watch Committee could not lay a warehouse D r ,, police rate but upon the application of parties to thet; and they could only lay the rate upon those who znadev application ; and if the parties applying should be so it as to induce the committee not to lay a rate upon th e ri request, or if, upon any other grounds, they might W it l i it unnecessary, they might refuse. He fully agreed w re , Mr. Aikin, that the town was bound to protect sl ic e" house property, to the fullest extent, and that the P?" 0• were also bound to guard, especially against in:endiar o b, He suggested that any further consideration of the s u ject should be left to the committee. Upon this understanding the clause was adopted. big, The several clauses having been gone through, the as now altered, was adopted on the motion of Nicol. eat Mr. LACE called attention to section 21 of the P re ;er, act, and asked whether trustees, for minors, had a P° u st according to its provisions, to lay out their owe "D i f money ; and secondly, whether they had the power t° . . out any money at all ? 1 ' It was understood that this important question 0 , 0 0 o receive consideration, and the Council adjourn twenty minutes to one o'clock. Mr. J. Birbeck Nevins has just been appointed 171• fessor of chemistry and natural philosophy, in th e e at, legiate Institution. In consequence of this appoineg io 0 he has resigned the o ffi ce of examining tutor of " Hospital, London, which he has lately held. q. e e,.; LANCASHIRE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.--- b eo tensive house and ground called Eton House, situ i t ie nce the Wootton road, have been purchased for the resl di ,., of Dr. Brown, the Roman Catholic Bishop of th is t ie trict. The house was at one period the residence numb of late Dr. Crompton, where he resided for a n un ' years previously to his decease. n c ol At the Birkenhead police-court, on SaturdaYt n g ar ged stylishly dressed man, named John Jones, was ', w ad, with stealing a coat, the property of a gentleman - 6t h of w G i a , r e b n u t t , t e , o f b ro se m r,, F d re t n h c e h:s ,ri W son a e te r rl w oo ear H in o g tel ti , ,e,, ot er : t i l e :: ::; January last. Mr. Garbutt stated that he sa% us jar through the streets of Birkenhead on the P e r o e ,T th Bt A he (Mr. G.) had lost. The prisoner.a...4, a ..--J i ,; (Tut• fence, and was committed to Knutsford to take u-,_, g s When searched, it was found that he had no stoca t ',Tf., on.—On Monday, two joiners were charged with stole"ra, some timber, the property of their employer, J. I ) • dto E•q. The case was proved, and they were cornmitte Knutsford for trial. SUICIDE.—On Wednesday last, acted in the capacity of boots at the Imperial Hotetallic John's-lane, put an end to his existence by taking S t r ee t, acid. The deceased went to a house in Lime- . o . when they asked him to take a cup of tea, which he 1 ' i ..., cepted, a ft er which he went out to the yard, and theteij to the privy. One of the parties present, having tli v i some of the tea which he had left in the cup, and 0 4 1 that it was sour, suspected that something had beet:taro into it, and followed the deceased. Some warm w h et las' was given to him, but he refused to take ;t, and sP 1-18 William Miller,. St acted it about, and in the course of a few minutes he died. ho p had bought the poison a short tim e p re viously at a s or in Lime-street. No motive could be assigned for the e 0 mission of the act. Verdict accordingly. ,asf A Goon TRICE.—About eleven o'clock on Th e "' 01l night, four men called the attention of the policeni t er., duty to an unoccupied house in Strickland- s treet , , sod ton, tailing him that the window was unfastene d ' ea. that in all probability thieves bad been effecting 8 4 0 0 trance into the premises. The policeman desired t",,bile be good enough to keep " watch and ward" out=idfie ac" he went in to ascertain the fact. They did so. _0 the cordingly proceeded in, found all correct, sec.il i ` . a o afr window, and was about to make his exit by the slu, e a diffs , the(wahheinch turned four rned fellows out t orushed strictlyi n , a, dm e n r d e tt tilb mtti b i e ,: f wanted to take possession of the house. The .3 Piled the!, we suspect, was a soft one, or he would have are s.O b f offemst.aamraz term-servant , ieasin,Beteitrterviwrtdaeoanedsat..teah America , accosted E . c opl aso T ttl eeih Police -office, t object thtchweatothaainn isf_ i dt t ee t nrs tthtaeakt intelligence, p i a g adrh such a stratagem was plain : they wished that if , the e ' B ,l were absolutely on the premises, the policeman s " tier would be smashed in the rencontre, certain t o el l rather than their own sconces. P e ap n °ts t l ishd b y es f b a ,. 7ls6Pe c :e 'l o se 5 ., : 1 'ili . : who, assen t h e a d vi t n o g t a h s e s i e r r t p a r i o n p e o d sal his t o pt t i a rp k o e se a , w th a l l d k RATHER DOUDTFU L.-011 Wednesday last, A n - r ip going to the same place, and they would enga g e blo t rilf e reboo t three o'clock in the afternoon, when they had rea die le ° 1 unfrequented part of the town, at the rear of some v/$ ' houses, they all three made a sudden halt, and enter ed to an animated conversation, which speedily beca o3 l ther personal. " Give us some proof," said o ne 0 : "farmers" that you have paid your passage, and tbacli are ready and willing to enter on the lucrative post vib i on. are willing to place at your disposal at the other : co l "Oh 1" said the Irishman, in reply, "I have no d i ' nr el on that head, for here (taking out £l3 in gold) is 3 'go j' . good proof that I am not without money. "The ao tr i was no sooner exhibited than one of the fellows Pre: v et! a pistol at his breast, and robbed him of every shill i ;nr had in his possession. The circumstance was 0 01 ,4 cited to the commissioner of police, who, we stypee r o n, not at all disposed to believe the statement,—simil 9 t vb j ,l' to which are frequently made by persons in the b e irsr. condition of life for the purpose of exciting a Pr ° I sort of commiseration. 0 (If ..e CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the polic e-1 ;d ? on Friday, a highly-respectable looking person, 4 . 1 " 0 0, °/ : John Swainson Royle, was p l ace d b e f ore M r. Rusb' t - o v o r a charge of embezzling various sums of money ;ti amount of between £l2OO and £l4OO, the proP e ,' $1 1 h "; Messrs. Jack son , W oo lf a ll, an d P erc i va l , b o ttle , F o r w,,, facturers, of M anc h ester . M r . P a t c h,- tt appeared l'10" prosecution, and Mr. James defended the a ccused• a d f e l l, cases were adduced against Royl e , w h ere i n he h oo lq, ceived monies belonging to Messrs. Jackson, " and Percival, from parties who owed them a ccon ° rot which he had hot given them credit in the hnol c , s ,; i ier a d first was a sum of £262 16 s . Id., p a id t o . the Ptl e " o et 4 l ol 1839, by Messrs. Os ens, Joh nson , an d Co.; th e ti cl,"l , was £ll ss. 6d., from a Mr. Kearns in 1836; 5 81 0 ;0 third a sum of £59, paid by a Mr. Hickson. g r ' c lit et, fall produced the books and proved that no er e ,oo o oo given to the parties fur the sums received by the c i'aie who absconded t o A mer i ca i n 1839. At that , he h ot various sums received by the prisoner, for whingerlte not acconnted, were entered to his debt in the l e 01 0 '0 he positively swore that no compromise had beetl f 10 . 5; 1 0, the prisoner, that he should not be prosecuted , 1 40 0 ,0 4 , the pound were paid on the amount of his d 7010.4,110 Two respectable witneves were called by Mr. J .O Ol they swore that an offer to forego any prosee, o f a 4 been made by the prosecutors, on the payrneir'b be pe of £6OO, or 10s. in the pound on the sums wh ic 6roi' t ioe' not accounted for. Mr. Jackson, one of thecestissoir being pre sent, the case, aiter a lengthened in 0 00; was adjourned.—On Saturday Mr. Quieks‘!, tt to b e 0 0 mined ; after which the prisoner was order ed o ine h ir nutted for trial at the Session., but was at the bo ils " informed, that he might be liberated on findi ng self in £5OO an two sureties in £250 each. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. April 2, 1844.