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

!,, 1847. BAR. days have beer a the Northera 15.—Appleby, ky, February 20. Durham, Mon-. 6.—Liverpool, n Alderson and' ssioner, during er, on Monday, naris on Wed ly 30, at Mold. r on Tuesday, e resolved that e bench of the of a majority of balls shall be ;.—ln the Pre— fer Fust; whelk rked on the evil. f the Wills Act ;e probate to all; extremely pain-- ssity of defeat r the presump e subsequently STATE PAPERS a mass of ex affairs, written ) representative '. The brother rry, sent a so preventing the flat denial was is then applied rd Palmerston, to say that the a from the act )plied was found Td Castlereagh, ►t had originally anguage. In a ,s of the Foreign that the law t they are not taken to pre ys of the same a the Times." nerston's deci- expected to be Wednesday the 3pened in due Lster and Car be the lessees he Birkenhead ►e ready by tho ;isting of silver Waddingto n , tailway, by the fanchester and rpool, Crosby, tvantageous to hire Junction y and Birken . in the House ;t week, killed idge Railway. he line. Her is horrified by 'nch on Wed- South-East it to refuse its stranger pro- 1, and Reigate lease the line equal profits .rms were to the locomo ties, adjacent ndred houses e company's of Hudson's ortion of the d Newcastle from the in ny, will have to be held in s amount to n to antici gays will be satisfactorily on common should be day, of the e chairman, ker, that he ation of the-. tasborough, )n itself the he platforral ich the tubes . ection, and a Inufactured. et in length, 1. Ina few mmenced. last week, Sheffield, by ry. At the I a couple of t the index did so for a having been ration. amount of files of rai1,645 ,645 for the ;he earrige iengers and 1; being an week of last r of railroad Feb. 2, 1847. total Attys. sixteen or these make per annum. •ailroad per progress of !ars, in this anifestation Tribune; iilway have of the per 'ord in Sep t' Chigwell, pronounced Cotton, of Ind has not ion he had ing a large that small ,ed for her at the last one of the ,f the pro 'ay, and he and June two great o them to rile famous profit on ietors have idence be m English xceeds the • cent. per for income you have me railway le of great ent. on the t is nearly the wen amount to — insurance cost of the Four per •ate for the ies will, in 7overnment reverse of ntion to it. 'ed at the y on Man- lur o'clock, as running the same •train was that place. fifty yards, 00 or 250 f the chi.- val pieces, rith a ter- ligtlx, was ;cent came , s carriage. ng away a mgitudmal o the car eh it fell, , ages were rmed that with pas- t, two la who were portion of ere instan n partment , in a dun person in re inju . ry, Mountaoy min, The Liverpool Gas Bill was read a second time, in the llouse of Commons, on Tuesday. The congregation of Seaforth Church have raised £4OO 'for the relief of the Irish. Yesterday morning week, Robert Dobson, of Chapel lane, got up from his bed :and went to another room, 'where he fell down and died almost immediately. The cause of death was serous apoplexy. •On. Tuesday, John Lara was going on board a vessel lying in the Brunswick Graving Dock, when he acciden tally fell in. He was taken out almost immediately, but Vas found to be quite dead. Last week 969 square yards of land, situated between Uliver-street and Claughton-road, at Birkenhead, was sold for 41800, or at the rate of 255. per yard. It was bought a short time ago at 18s. An important reqnisition to the Lords of the Treasury, Praying them to dispatch an extra mail to America on the 19th of the months of February and March, was placed in the public news-rooms on Wednesday, and received nu merous signatures. MORE DEATHS BY BURNING.—On Tuesday, inquests were held by Mr. Curry upon the bodies of two children, who had died in consequence of being burnt. On Satur day the coroner held two more inquests on infants who had died from the same cause. The subscription at Birkenhead for the relief of the poor in the township amounts to upwards of £3OO. There have been distributed considerably above 70001bs. of bread, 6000 pints of soup, and near 30 tons of coal. The committee solicit the - support both of the middle and higher classes • and have appointed six collectors to go from house to ' house, as extreme distress abounds. On Wednesday evening last, about nine o'clock, the lightning descended the chimney of William Moir, of 40, Grosvenor -street, Rose-hill, and blew out the shop win dow, with all its contents, into the street. There were five persons sitting round the fire, none of whom were hurt, except a lad, who was struck on the knee by a brick from the chimney. •On Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, a woman, the wife of a sailor named Lither, residing in Roscoe street, was found by the policeman lying upon the foot way in Rock -street, Brownlow-hill, in the pains of labour, and before proper assistance could be procured, she was delivered of a son. The police immediately removed her to a public-house close by, and afterwards on a' stretcher to her residence. Mr. Charles Banning, assistant surveyor of the General Post-office , has been p romoted by. t he Postmaster-Gene ral to succeed his br o th er , Mr. W ill iam Banni ng , (on his retirement), as P ostmaster of Liverpool. Mr. Charles Banning has b een i n t h e service of the General " Po st-office for eighteen years in responsible situations, which have peculiarly qualified him for the various details and duties of his new appointment. MANSLAUGHTER.—A warrant has been issued against a man named James Ducie, for causing th e d eath o f an old man named Da n i e l M'earthy. It appeared from evi dence at the inquest, which . was held on Thursday, that M`Carthy occupied a house in Stewart-street, in afhich Ducie had apartments. About three weeks ago a misun derstanding arose between Ducie and deceased, when the former pushed deceased out of the door. The man fell •down the step, and his head was cut by coming in con tact with the stones. He was shortly after attended by a medical man, but continued to decline until Sunday, when he expired. The cause of death was stated to be erysipelas of the head, caused by the wound. THEATRE-ROYAL WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.—The per formances during the past week have been operatic, Ma '-dame Anna Bishop sustaining the part of Isoline, in Balfes opera of the " Maid of Artois," supported by Mr. D. W. King, Mr. CorH, and Mr. Glydon. The first of these gentlemen' appears not to have got rid of the cold under which we noticed him labouring on Monday evening. The piece was very splendidly put upon the stage. On Friday evening the opera of " Somnambula" was played, for the benefit of Madame Anna Bishop. Our opinion of the invocal abiliti es o f t hi s lady has been fully sustained by the utlional opportunities which we have had of hearing her. e afferpieces introduced during the week, the bens of the rekular company have shown themselves very efficient. The Birkenhead steam-frigate, Commander A. H. In -gram, arrived at Chatham on Saturday afternoon, the 23d alt., and dropped alongside the Fortitude coal depilt, and she completed shipping her coals on Tuesday last; amounting to nearly 400 towns. A case or two of small pox broke out on board, and the individuals were imme •cliately removed to Melville Hospital ; and those on board who had not had the eruptive distemper, or been hitherto vaccinated, had to undergo the operation. A few small repairs to the ship having been compelted, she was re moved to Gillingham-reach, and the reserve battalion of the 56th Regiment was to embark on board on Saturday, to proceed to Gibralter. The strength of the battalion con sists of 28 sergeants, 10 drummers, and 536 rank and file, with the regular complement of women and children, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Norman. LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.—On Sunday week, Letitia Neale, a married female, forty-two years of age, who re sided in Lark-lane, Toxteth-park, went into an outhouse in the yard, and on opening the door some time after, she was found with he r h ea d i n a reclining position. There was a mug filled with blood between her knees, and there was a wound across her throat. • She had a razor in her right hand, and on raising her up 'she appeared quite in sensible. The razor belonged to her father, and lay in a room to which she had frequent access. No cause could be assigned for the commission of the rash act, as the de %eased and her husband lived comfortably together. The day before, however, she seemed quite altered in her /hind, and spoke very incoherently. She was removed to the Southern Hospital, where it was found that the wound had extended through the windpipe. She died of the injury on Friday. THE GREAT BRITAIN.-We have been favoured (says the Dundee Advertiser) with the following extract of a letter from Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, Wick, to a gentleman in this quarter ,—" I left the Great Brirain in charge of Captain Claxton, the managing director, who is stuffing her larboard quarter with faggots, brushwood, sand bags and chains and b o lt s , & c . It is Mr. Brunel's plan, and I am not sure of its effects ; but I hope there will be no danger of her until April, when I expect to commence operations to raise her. She has quarried down six feet of the solid rock, and turned up like a plough forward. There are four feet of sand above the rock—in all 10 to 101 feet. She must be raised 13 feet perpendi cular height, and then her bottom patched, launched, and taken probably to Liverpool ; but, if possible, to Bristol, !)Y two steamers. The sand now in her, which the water 18 Over, will make her full 300 tons weight, so that you see the lift will be no joke." THE C ORN SPECULATION.—The speculators in corn Min to fi n d th e groun d slipping from under them. At ttyveTpool, on T uesday, the market was " all sell and no barrel „Flour was freely offered at 2s. 6d. and 3s. per aea.vnend baa7—v?Pctryion, but the dealers fought shy at the article, coati mie ‘ue proffered fall, The imports from America one ship having brought ten thou into t , 'feta o flour, the largest quantity ever imported b,___•Purope in one vessel. In adon to this, she Provisions, fifteen hundred barrels of Indian meal, and other e l es iuna. Another ship brought eight thousand barrels flour and eight thousand bushels Bf wheat; another, f our thousand five hundred barrels of flour ; and another, five thousand barrels of flour, and fourteen thousand bushels of wheat. The quantity of Indian corn poured into Liverpool is immense, and there is a very general Opinion p reva iling that prices must giv e way cons id era b ly. 'Wheat has already fallen from 2s. 6d. to 4s. per quarter. _ ACCIDENT TO T HE C OLUMBIA, WITH Loss OF LIFE. It is with regret we have to announce, that on the 13th resfter thet , an accident, a tt en d ed with melancholy loss of life, packet ship Columbi a , on h t a passage fro m N ew i il i t iLs e ta h and a York to thi s port. She sailed ' on experienced a s uccess i on of heavy gales an five o'clock, a.m., wh en t h e ship, scudding before 'thet wind, was struck with a heavy sea, which washed away the wheel-house and winding spars, together with nine human beings, among whom was the Captain (Rathbone), first and second mates, five seamen, and a boy. Shortly a fterwards the Columbia was fallen in with by the Lady calkland, from New Orleans to this port, the captain of W hich vessel put on board his chief mate to navigate the W'mina to Live rpool. • Captain Rathbone was a man L ot O nown and •deservedly respected by many persons 'n Liverpool and New York. For many years he 4, ll i 'Zinand er of the well-known packet-ship Oxford, liavessel he made some of the most rapid passages Wich between this port and New York, and in gre s ii s el he had a very narrow escape of shipwreck in ,"riven h urricane of January, 1839, when his ship was ,k , apt e i n el l„sho re in Bootle Bay. What renders the loss of Rathbone more to be regretted is the fact, that ha s t e ;un th e eve of retirement from nautical life. He , 4 ' a wife and family to mourn his loss. These • New O RLEANS E THIOPIAN S ERENADERS. — arrive • i nteresting and talented minstrels, who have just Th i ,rom the United States, gave a private concert on Tb e — ' 3 o ,-IU e Y evening, which was very numerously attended. li e , .211 to of course, was to give to a portion of the pub te,',unutkit the press, a sample of the quality of their en ents ; and from the enthusiastic applause with ( b et Ithey were received throughout, we venture to pre soat they will have no cause to regret the adoption of known.unexceptionable a mode of making their capabilities with Most o f our readers, we dare say, are familiar h the natur e o f these ent ertainments, in which ' the P e culiarities o f t h e negro character are faithfully delineated, and the pecu li ar] y original music of the southern states of used Amer i c a b y t i l s iat rac g iv en with the instrumental accompaniments d v an}' hesita t as castanets. _anthe banjo, and the marrow bones used performed here a few months ago. We _ Y have no doubt heard' the original are given in the best we have heard. Their any sim il ar one ),}f.ive the present company the palm over as well as the words, taste ; much of the music selected, performances displayed upon the si tt a really beautiful ; and the skill bones, and the banjo, pi ''nstrument s used, especially the bY Mr. G. Swaine, " the prince of banjo players,37d splendid band beautiful southern pieces selected, "My dearest i ZVerfni• Amongst the Racoon Track," refrain, sung by Swaine ;" In •% 7% ' 7 ' ' by Rainer, who possesses a s ; and " De )Lose of Xlabama," by Sanford ; arai ss " iee e ought playing 0 'MRS ei N . V O Lucy Neale,',' were rapturously applauded version e of not to omit noticing the violin The fine tone and execution of so young a play er a l r Creditable. We recommend our readers to Pay a.nevaerelYy visit to this company, whose stay amongst us, we believe, will be limited to this week. DR.....INNS AND HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.—Dr. thins, b was one of the principal physicians in the island of `,?.maica, has expressed hi mse lf i n th e following man ner 7 3 Pecting the surpri s i ng h ea li ng propert i es o f H o ll oway ' s .znntment :—" I ha ve ma d e many trials of th i s o i ntment !! eases of ch ron i c u l cers which several years' experience i t e fthe West Indi es t aug h t me to .consider as incurable. sly now hapy to say tha in all cases it was really an eifieac p ious.—Signed, t E. Biarxs, 'M.D., F.S.A.,d _ curt Holloway's Ointment 4 '41 st will cure bad legs however g andin Scrofula g; likewise the most obstinate cases , of King's or CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—The visiters of this excelleni institution have, during the last five weeks, paid 1247 visits to the abodes of poverty and sickness, and have ex pended £92 ss. 6d. in relieving 864 cases, consisting of 1789 persons. It will thus be seen there was an urgent necessity for the appeal recently inserted in our adver tising columns, and which we are happy to find has met with a liberal response. In December the funds of the Society were exhausted, and the applicants for relief con tinue so numerous, that further pecuniary assistance is still needed. CASUALTIES AT SEA.—In addition to the loss sus tained by the packet-ship Columbia, from whose decks Captain Rathbone and several of his men were swept by a heavy sea, and never more seen, we have to record' that the Eliza Warwick, from New York, which reached the port on Friday, met with a nearly similar calamity, her captain, mate, and two seamen having been washed.over board and drowned. The Epaminondas, which arrived on Friday, brought the crew of the Genoese barque Sampsona, from Genoa to Cork, found in a sinking- state in lat. 57.30, long. 7.30. The Clown schooner, hence to Glasgow, grounded on Friday on Burbo Bank : the- life boat from Formby went to her assistance. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Wednesday morning; be tween the hours of two and three o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the spacious premises belonging to Mr. Challenor, situate on the east side of Mason-street, near to Wapping, which destroyed buildings and other property to a considerable amount, A fine horse was burnt to a cinder. Mr. Challener's large warehouse, which was used partly as a flour store and partly as a block manufactory, was completely gutted. Three of the rooms were fully stored with flour, and the other rooms contained a large stock of blocks and steam machinery, the whole of which have been either wholly destroyed or rendered utterly useless. The fire next communicated with a fine ware house belonging to Mr. Thomas Booth, the corn mer chant ; and this warehouSe also, together with its contents, has likewise been much damaged. Mr. Challener was insured in the Star-office ; and no doubt Mr. Booth is also insured. No correct estimate can as yet be formed of the value of the property destroyed, but doubtless it will amount to some thousands of pounds. TILE PARISH-oFFlcE.—There was an increase of up wards of 17,000 in the numbers of Irish relieved at the Parish-office last week, compared with the week before. The daily numbers relieved were as follows :—Monday, 22,065; Tuesday, 25,529; Wednesday,23,3l3 ; Thursday, 24,297 ; Friday, 24,668 ; Saturday, about 24,000; total, 143,872. The cost of relieving this number last week was upwards of £220. We are happy to state that, from and after to-day, Fenwick-street will not be rendered so impassable as it has been by the thousands of Irish who have congregated in front of the Parish-office for provi sions, as Mr. Austin, the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioner, has introduced a plan by which the casual or Irish ,poor will almost wholly be relieved at their own dwellings. Twenty-four polictmen have been selected for the purpose of dividing the town into twelve districts, visiting each Irish family at their several abodes, making inquiries into their respective cases, with the view of guarding against imposition, and imparting relief. The relief will be granted by tickets of different colours to distinguish the districts. There will be a house at which bread and soup will be obtained upon the presentation of the tickets. The twenty-four policemen will be under two inspectors, and every two of them will have a district under their immediate charge. INTERESTING OPERATIONS.—On Thursday, a number of professional and scientific gentlemen assembled at the Eye and Ear Infirmary in this town, to witness operations performed upon patients while under the influence of sul phuric ether. The proceedings excited the deepest interest. Mr. Neill, the skilful and much-esteemed surgeon of the establishment, was the operator, assisted by his talented colleague, Dr. Edwards. The ether was administered by Dr. Higginson and Mr. Yaniewiecz. An elderly man, named John Davies, was first cut for cataract. He was rendered, in a great measure, but not totally, insensible by the sulphuric ether, and declared, after the operation, that he had felt a prick in his eye.—William Massey, of Run corn, a veteran 66 years of age, whose left eye, through cataract, had been almost entirely blind for six months, and whose right eye had been blind nearly all his life, was next seated in the chair. This was a very interesting case. The operation, which was also for cataract, was what is technically known as reclination. After about a minute's inhalation of the ether, he cried twice, " You'll have me drunk," " you are a black man," "oh ! I know what you are." The bladder was in two minutes withdrawn, and he fell back apparently powerless, with his eye-lids closed. During the operation not the slightest twinge or shrug betokened nervous sensibility. He was asked if he felt any pain ; " no, no !" he answered in a firm voice, appa rently delighted to find that the operation was finished, without his being conscious of its progress.—Jane Evis, a young woman also from Runcorn, was the next patient. She had, through cataract, been blind in her right eye for thirteen years. She was much excited, her pulse beating at 132 ; it afterwards ranged so high as 202. The ether had an almost immediate effect, and she querulously cried "Oh ! oh, dear ! I want to get out, I'm falling !" The matron and the medical attendants succeeded in pacifying her. The operation occupied but a minute, and she der dared that she had not felt the slightest pain. Even after the operation, she felt as if falling, but apparently reco vered on drinking a little wine.—ln the next case, that of Robert M`Loughlin, employed, he said, under Mr. Jesse Hartley, the ether produced no marked effect. He had suffered much, he said, and heard every word that had been uttered.—Ambrose Rossitar, aged twenty-five, from Birkenhead, whose right eye was affected by strabismus, causing a squint, then submitted to the (usually) painful operation of having it couched. He coughed very much during the inhalation, and his face became flushed. In two minutes lie appeared quite insensible, and lay back with both eyes closed. The muscle was then completely cut across, the eye bleeding very much. The operation did not occupy long, and was very skilfully performed. At its close, the patient groan e d, an d as k e d, ( as h a d a l so a previous patient) for leave to spit out. He declared that after a certain time he had been conscious of considerable pain, but appeared still under the influence of the ether; and, when questioned, his statements varied much. Mr. Neill concluded by operating upon a boy (not etherised), restoring to him a fine pupil, hitherto completely veiled. The whole of the operations were highly satisfactory and interesting, reflecting great credit on the talented surgeons. LOCAL MEETINGS, HORTICULTURAL SHows.—At a meeting of the nur serymen of this town and a number of amateur florists, at the Brunswick Hotel, on Thursday, a committee was ap pointed for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to recommence the Liverpool Horticultural Exhibitions, not one having been held in the town during the whole of last year. Mr. R. M. Beckwith and Mr. Thomas Davies were deputed to wait on the Botanic Gardens Committee, and ascertain whether permission may be had to use the gardens for the exhibition. PRICE OF ALE.—At a meeting of the brewers of this town on Saturday, it was resolved that the price of the two lowest qualities of ale should be the same as an nounced at the public meeting of the licensed victuallers of the day previous ; namely, 365. and 445., with no inter mediate price ; also, that the system of takin g b ac k bot toms should be absolutely discontinued. We understand that these resolutions were signed by forty brewers, and, that a copy of them will be forwarded to every licensed victualler in the town and neighbourhood. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ENGLAND.—This evening a meeting of the congregation of St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street, will be held N receive a deputation from the Liverpool synod, with reference to the various schemes of the church. Since the disruption of the Church of Scotland, when the body in England declared its independ ence, the numbers have rapidly increased, so much so, that at present it comprises six presbyteries, with eighty congre gatiens besides preaching stations ; and, on Tuesday, the foundation stone of another church was laid at Dudley, by John Henderson, Esq. of London. The church, which will be of the early Esq., style, is from the de , qignof John Hay, Esq., of this town wlohas rendered himself ' by his admirable ecclesiasticafd NEW GAS AND COKE COIVIesIIgAnNs. meeting of the proprietors of this co Y m .— Esq. , company y e it; wasmub.eldNi)rn The half-yearly Wednesday ; William Fosberry, Steele read the report as follows :—The act of parliament' under which this meeting is held prescribing that the accounts should be. made up annually to the 30th June, the yearly statement was laid before the proprietors at their meeting on the 29th July last. Excluding premiums paid on shares sold by public auction, which are added to the capital without dividend, the dividend agreeably to the company's acts of parliament will be on subscribed i capital as follows, namely, on 250 2 5 shares issued on the 31st October last, Bs. 4d. per share ; on the 470 £25 shares issued on the Ist September last, 16s. Bd. ; and on the £25 shares issued previously, 255. per share ; and on each £lOO share, £s,—being at the rate of 5 per cent. for the half-year. It is now for the proprietors to order the dividend accordingly, payable on the Gth February, subject to the deduction of the income-tax as heretofore. The report was adopted and the dividend declared. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the usual weekly meeting on Wednesday, the Law-clerk was re quested to write to the Cleansing Committee of the Council, to draw their attention to the filthy and almost impassable state of Mill-lane, leading from Everton-road to the Workhouse. The report of the Fever-house me dical officer showed that the number of patients remaining in the house was 15 ; admitted since last report, 6 dis charged cured, 4 ; relieved, 17 ; of those admitted two were very bad cases, and required great attention. No deaths had occurred. Mr. Cleaver, the Law-clerk, called the attention of the Board to a paragraph which bad appeared in the papers, stating that so crowded was the state of the Workhouse, in consequence of the preva lent distress, that some of the poor were sleeping on the floor, and the overseers of Toxteth-park had paid £220 in outdoor relief in the course of one week. These state ments, he believed, were untrue, and he hoped the error would be corrected, in order that the ratepayers might he rightly informed. The Chairman (M r . Sh e ppard) said he had that morning gone over the house, and was much pleased with the general order and cleanliness of the building. The beds placed on the boards were clean and comfortable. The excellent condition of the house re flected great credit on the governor, and he was entitled to the approbation of ihe Board, every member of which was satisfied with his arrangements. Mr. Lloyd said he heard Mr. Latham, the relieving officer, say that £220 had been paid for relief. The officer said the amount stated was £llB. After some further conversation, it was stated, in contradiction to the paragraph above men tioned, that tw o b e d s were th e mos t w hi c h h a d b een p l ace d out the floor, that no one h a d ever s l ep t on t h e fl oor with relief bed. and that the great es t amoun t ever pa id f or in T oxteth-park was £llB. Mr. Lloyd moved that a person be t Rowland, whoemporarily appointed in the place of Mr. park. It wa was required by the overseers of Toxteth situation till Teed that Mr. Parnell should fill his of February. Mr. Smith withdrew his motion for edivitdculing To.xteth-park into two districts, and taking Bootle y dirtn.Letmacru from West Derby, and adding it to Crosb y TILE LIVERT3 THE BREWERR , AND: THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS. — The brewers of this town having resolved to raise the price of their ale about Bs. per barrel, a meeting of publi cans was held on Ffiday, to come-to some resolution as to propriety or otherwise-of making any rise in the retail price to the public. It was resolved, that, as the advance. appeared to be made only with a view of meeting the pre sent high price of barley, and as any rise in the retail price would be likely to interfere with the trade of the li censed victuallers, that, fer-the present, no advance to the public should be made. A committee was then appointed to have further interviews with the brewers, for the pur pose of inducing them• to • modify the advance in some measure, and to allow some little relaxation in other mat ters connected with the trade: On Saturday, the com mittee waited on the brewers, but they did not obtain a meeting, as the brewers said .they were then engaged. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The Committee of the Marine Department reported that they could not re commend any increase in the salaries of the keepers of the Rock Lighthouse, and the keepers of the Telegraph at the Great Ormshead. Confirmed.—A new chart of Liverpool Bay, from a survey made by the surveyor in 1846, was submitted, with a report thereon, containing suggestions relative to new lights at the entrance of the port; its con sideration was deterred for a• week, until a report should be obtained from the pilots'—A letter was read from the officers of the Customs, intimating that a general bond would be taken for goods stored in the Albert Dock ware houses.. Several appointments were made of delivery foremen and dock clerks to the Albert Dock warehouses, and some names added to the list of master porters.—The receipts at the port of Runcorn were stated to be as fol lows, for the month ending , the 24th instant :-143 vessels, 7936 tons, £42105, 10d., being an increase of £2O ss. 11d. over the corresponding period of last year. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The first annual meeting of the-friends and subscribers of this institution was held on Thursday, in the Charitable Insti tution-house, Slater-street. Mr. Edward Cropper, the president, occupied the chair. The secretary, Mr. Reid, read the report, which stated that the directors had met monthly since their appointment in June last, and had awarded relief to the amount of £39 to applicants whose cases had been fully inquired into, and had been reported upon by the Ladies' Committee. They had also expended upwards of £5 in assistance to governesses whose cases required immediate attention,—assistance which had been of most material service, as the persons had been thrown into circumstances of great destitution and distress. At a meetin g e , in August, the dire c t ors reso l ve d t o es t a bli s h a savings' bank and a Government annuity department, and to open books for the free registration of governesses in want of situations, as well as for the entering the names of parties requiring governesses, to the latter of which those governesses who are registered in the books of the institution should have access. Accordingly a pros pectus was issued, setting forth the objects of the institu tion, and the establishment of the savings' bank, annuity and registration departments. The institution seemed to be little known, as there had been only one depositor for the savings' bank, and no application for assistance in ar ranging for a Government annuity. The directors drew attention particularly to the regisiration department, the value of which, to governesses, was obvious, while it was of great egpvenience to parties in want of such persons. Mention was made of the great loss which the institution had sustained by the death of their vice-president, the la mented Dr. Tattershall. The report concluded by calling the attention of the friends of the institution to the fact, that it had been enabled to undertake only a few of the various objects originally contemplated ; and that to ren der it useful and permanent much aid and encouragement would yet be required. The following is the statement of the accounts :—Donations, £327 3s. ; annual sub scriptions, £l4O is. ; other items, £8 16s, 7d. Expended in relief, printing, and other expenses, £llO ls. -5d., leaving a balance to the credit of the institution of £365 19s. 2d. The Rev. F.: Farry, in moving the adoption of the report, said, of all the institutions in Liverpool, none were more entitled to support than the Governesses' In stitution. Dr. Nottingham, Mr. John Close, Mr. Tory, Mr. Samuel Martin, and Mr. Colesworth, moved and seconded resolutions for the appointment of officers. INFLUX OF IRISH PAUPERS.—MEETING OF THE MAGISTRATES. On Wednesday, a special meeting of borough magis trates was held in the Sessions'-house, to consider the propriety of petitioning parliament with respect to the present very alarming influx of Irish' paupers into Liver pool. The mayor presided, and there were present eight een other magistrates. The MAYOR opened the business of the meeting, and said it was for them to say whether they would adopt a petition which had been prepared by Mr. Rushton. Mr. RusitToN said that he had drawn up the petition at his worship's request, making the best use of the facts in, his possession, which he believed were authentic. His attention had been called to the great influx of the Irish poor a few weeks ago, when many of them were brought before him as vagrants. He began to see then that that was the beginning of extensive immigration here; and very soon after the laws respecting vagrancy became of little effect in the way of corrective, for the magistrates might have filied the gaol ten times over. Under the cloak of a large amount of real suffering, there was now a great amount of imposition, for the vagrants were availing themselves of the existing state of things, and were coming over in considerable numbers. The famine was one evil, and importure was another. The parochial autho rities had acted from the commencement in the most praiseworthy manner in meeting the evil. Thousands, of the ratepayers of Liverpool would have to contribute out of their necessities to meet the evil of the immigration. He then read the petition, which was similar to that of the Select Vestry, and after stating the immense number of Irish poor who had come over and been relieved at a great cost, S prays that parliament will devise some mode of relieving Liverpool from bearing more than a fair share of this serious infliction ; and that whether this were acceded to or not, they will not separate without enacting a law by which in future the people of Ireland, like the people of England, shall be compelled to make provision for the wants of their own poor. Mr. BOLTON said it would require £4OOO to send the paupers back to Ireland. - Mr. RUSHTON recommended the inhabitants to relieve the distress only through the medium of the charitable societies of the town. The petition was adopted and signed by all the magis trates present. HIGHLAND DESTITUTION. On Friday, a public meeting was held in the Music hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of devising some plans by which to alleviate the sufferings at present existing in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. GEORGE GRANT occu pied the chair. The CHAIRMAN, after some introductory observations, referred to two gentlemen who had honoured them with their presence that day, Mr. M‘Leod and the Rev. Dr, Mackay. He was sure that the information which they would be able to give would be of the most interesting kind ; he was sure they would listen to them with great interest. With Dr. M'Leod he was well acquainted, and his untiring zeal and unwearied devotion to the cause of the Highlands of Scotland were well known to the world, and they entitled him to the gratitude of his coun trymen. He then passed a very high eulogium on the rev. gentleman, and, in conclusion, hoped that they would consider the resolution which was about being laid before them. Mr. Gum moved the first resolution, which will be found in our advertising columns ; it was seconded by Mr. WATSON. Mr. 111`Luon said that the population of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland had been estimated at 400,000, and of that number there were about 100,000 who were not dependent on the potato crop for support, and who were not sufferers by 'the blight which had fallen upon that article of food, from which it appeared that there were 300,000 of the population of the Highlands who must he sufferers by that dire calamity. By contributing a little of their substance at that time, it would enable. some of the Highlanders to " weather the storm" for some time to come, and also to preserve themselves from `starvation. Wh en th ey b e h e ld the common food of the majority of the Highlanders thus gone, and no Other re source thus left them, they need not wonder at the great i d nt i o s w t l r ae e ss s s s utn a i dei, than want2soa,r unnecessary a oi t r.‘ ia a i ms stateart ois entere arisen f i in a land. e t it h nu e taol dt starvation.lT h l i e e e B 1 were dt thought it his duty to write to a. number e f a g l e a n c t gentlemen in the Highlands, who, he was well aware, were with the real state of the people, and he was mosti acquainted y to state that, with the greatest readiness, he received i answers from all of them. Some of the letters he would lay before the meeting. The fact was undeniable, that famine prevailed in the Highlands, and he regretted to say that there was a great deal of distress among the peo= ple. They would be told of starvation such as this—tbe child clinging to its mother's breast, and trying to obtain its natural food, but in vain ; they would hear of cases of children crying around their parents from morning to night for food which it was impossible they could give them. I et, for all this, they had reason to bless God that the state of Scotland was nothing to be compared with that of Ire land ; the people of Scotland bore their forlorn condition with a fortitude becoming Christians. There was no class in the Highlands who felt the weight of this calamity more than the clergymen, gentry, and other gentlemen, whose kitchens were always crowded with persons seek ing relief. From a document which he read, it appeared that two-thirds of the rents were unpaid. The rev. gen tleman stated that there is a very large class of persons in the Highlands, called the •` cottar population," who have not a spot of their' own to sit down upon, who are mere " squatters," The famine was brought a b ou t b y circumstances over which the proprietors had no control. They were well aware that a short time ago, a great busi ness was done in the manufacture of kelp. That was destroyed by a single act of the legislature. Many of the proprietors derived thousands of pounds from this manufacture, and who only had about £2OO from the land ; some who were formerly well to do in the world, were now, in consequence of this act, serving as stipen diary magistrates u n d er the burning sun of the West Indies. But there was another cause of this calamity, which he would take that opportunity of stating to the meeting, and that was.the driving away the poor people out of their homes, where they and their ancestors had existed for centuries. It is not merely the failure of the manufacture of kelp, but in the plan which many of the landlords are adopting, that of turning their land to the . purposes of grazing, for which purpose they are driving the poor creatures out to make room for their cattle. The rev. gentleman stated that the people ge nera ll y d eserve d the highest praise for their forbearance under the trying circumstances in which they were placed. He had heard of no outbreak—no thefts of any kind. The subscrip tions amounted in Scotland to about £14,000, but it would require about £1,000,000 before all their wants could be relieved. In a few words he eulogised the conduct of several of the noblemen and gentry, not only of Scotland, but of England, who, he said, had behaved in a most handsome manner on the present occasion. By means of this evil, one great good had been effected, and that S T A *WARM. was, ; the union of parties- in 'one common feeling of com miseration for the unfortunate Highihnders : and he con chided by expressing his conviction that all things would be•turned to good out of evil,'and' light out of darkness. Mr. DUNLOP then, in a very neat and eloquent manner / addressed the meeting:. Ire said' they ought to consider it a-sacred duty, as far as. in them, kty, to relieve the wants and administer to the necessities of their suffering fellow .countrymen. The resolution which he was about to . pro pose, and which he hoped would express their sentiments and be-carried unanimously, would disclaim the idea of ' attempting anything thatcan absolve either the goverth ment or local proprietors from adopting such remedial measures as the necessity of theeaserequired. He thought that the cultivation of the , land in Ireland would amply repay itself; but this would 'not apply to the Highlands of Scotland. He recommended that a system of emigra tion should be adopted, and that the government should grant plots of land for the use of emigrants. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. Srtrr was carried unanimously. Al stranger then addressed the meeting, after which Dr. MACKAY, in a very eloquent and lengthened speech, detailed the wretched condition of the people of Scotland, giving an account of the place% which he h a d v i s it e d b y himself and along with others, and the destitute condition in which he found the people, which, he said, would shock the feelings of any person who should happen to see them. The people of England formed no conception of its extent, nor indeed could they. He read several letters from gen tlemen and clergymen in the Highlands of Scotland, and' in a most emphatic manner called upon the persons pre-. sent-to lend their aid in relieving their fellow -countrymen. Several gentlemen afterwards addressed the meeting. A number of gentlemen were appointed as a committee to carry out the objects of the meeting, apd subscriptions to a large amount were handed in to the treasurer. A vote of thanks were then passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated. ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION. Oh Tuesday evening a public meeting to explain and advocate the objects of this association was held in the Music Hall ; LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., in the chair. It had been announced that three gentlemen, Dr. Price, editor of the Electic Review, Edward Main, Esq., of the Nonconformist, and the Rev. D, Rhys Stephen, of Man chester, would attend as a deputati6n from the Executive Committee. The room was crowded to excess, and it soon became evident that a large portion of the audience were hostile to the object of the meeting, and great up roa r and disturbance eventually ensued. The CHAIRMAN implored the audience to listen calmly to the facts and arguments that would be produced. Mr. URQUHART complained, in the first instance, of the interruptions, and amidst the shouts, cries, &c., it was some time before he c o u ld proceed. He finally moved, "That this meeting hold that the principle of the British Anti-State Church Association lies at the basis of all just views of civil and religious liberty,—namely, that in regard to religious faith, man is accountable to God alone; and that the support of religious institutions by State enactments and provisions, ultimately involving in their very nature a resort to compulsion, is at variance with the laws of God, and with the responsibility of man." Mr. Urquhart spoke to the resolution in figurative and generally guarded terms, but was listened to with impa tience and interrupted by frequent ejaculations. Mr. SIMMONS begged for free discussion, saying he would himself move an amendment. (Cheers.) The Rev. D. Ruts STEPHEN seconded the resolution, but was less fortunate in securing attention than even Mr. Urquhart. The uproar continued to increase. Mr. SIMMONS then spoke, and was listened to with at.: tention. He said that if the church establishment was an evil at all, it was a necessary evil, and should be main tained, he contended, as long as other religious parties held they had a right to be supported by the state. He concluded by proposing an amendment, to the effect that the Church of England was the most tolerant church in Christendom, and the only security against the reacting of the drama of Smithfield. This having been seconded, the CHAIRMAN put the re solution and amendment, and declared the former to be carried ; but several gentlemen who were present, con sider the amendment to have been carried. Dr. PRICE then proceeded to speak, but was interrupted at every sentence, and addressed himself almost exclu sively to the reporters. He explained the origin of the Anti-State Church Association. It was formed, he said, in 1844, in London, at a public meeting attended by seven hundred persons. Mr. MIALL spoke on polemics. In the course of his address he challenged to discussion the Rev. H. M`Neile. The Cu AIRMAN then declared the meeting closed ; but the people did not retire, nor the excitement abate. The gas was lowered ; and after various parties had attempted to speak from the platform, the Kentish fires were given, and the meeting finally broke up : [A correspondent who signs Fair Play" assures us that, in his opinion, the amendment was carried, and another correspondent deprecates very justly the shame ful insinuation indulged in by one of the speakers, that the Rev. Hugh M`Neile was the instigator of the oppo sition, when it was well known that the reverend gentle man was in Ireland, and had been there for some time previously. He could not, therefore, by any possibility, have been acquainted with the intended opposition to the meeting. Indeed, few persons were aware of it, or the demonstration would have been more -narked and decided. A third correspondent regrets that any interruption at all was offered to the speakers, but of course on this point there will be a diversity of opinion.] MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY. The usual fortnightly meeting was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair. The Rev,. Rector Brooks, Mr. Alf. Au"stin, the Assistant Poor-law Com missioner, and a full board, were present. After some preliminary business, the clerk read the re port of the Relief Committee, from which it appeared that the total amount of relief given last week was £3OO 12s. 61d. ; and in the corresponding week of last year, it was £26 6s.—making an excess of £274 6s. 61d, After some ordinary business, Mr. Schofield introduced the question of the propriety of petitioning parliament to adopt measures to relieve the parish of Liverpool from being mulcted by Irish vagrants, as it had lately been, and he moved the adoption of a petition to parliament, stating that because Liverpool was the most convenient place for the landing of the Irish paupers, that ought not to be a reason for fastening on Liverpool a great portion of the expense caused by a national calamity, and praying the legislature to adopt some means to do away. with the evil to which the parishioners of Liverpool are liable. The motion, having been seconded, led to a short dis cussion. Mr. AUSTIN said that it was just possible that when the vestry petitioned to parliament they might, in all pro bability, be told that they had taken no steps to relieve themselves. Mr. FERGUSON said he thought they would not suc ceed in doing good except they called a public meeting of the, parishioners, and gave them an opportunity of decid ing upon the steps which they would take, and he thought that a petition from a meeting of the parishioners would have far more weight than if it was merely sent as the petition of the vestry. Every person sympathised with the people on account of the great calamity which had befallen Ireland ; but it must be borne in mind that the meeting had a duty to perform to the parishioners, inde pendent of the Irish. The vestry had to protect the pockets of the parishioners, and if.they were to go. on re lieving 130,000 Irish cases in one.week, they would incur a serious amount of responsibility. The Rev. Rector Bitooxs thought that the vestry being more of a deliberative assembly, their opinion would have a greater.weight with parliament than a petition from a public meeting. ' Mr. EARLE recommended that the vestry should lose no time, but should at once ,petition parliament, as the magistrates intended to,do at their meeting, which would be held on Wednesday. The Rev. CHAIRMAN said that he should be sorry to say anything that might be calculated to check or to freeze the genial current of charity that was flowing in the direction of Ireland at the present time : but it was a posi tive fact that with the amount of destitution that de manded relief, there was an amount of fraud and impos ture that demanded the greatest caution in investigating. The rev. gentleman gave two instances of deception by Irish impostors--which we gave in a former number. The rev. gentleman concluded by stating, that it was a great hardship upon Liverpool to support tens of thou sands of Irish. In the Isle of Man there was a law, that any captain of a vessel bringing paupers to that island, should be liable to keep them. The Rev. Rector 13Rooxs gave another instance of im posture by the wife of a man who earned, last week at his work, the sum of £1 17s. 6d. He suggested that the practice of indiscriminate alms-giving should be discon tinued, and that relief should be given through the Pro vident Society. Mr. AUSTIN, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, said he had some information to give which would show that the imposture which had been referred to must be much greater than any one suspected. On the 12th of January the number of applications for relief was 10,074; en the 22nd they were 24,330, which showed an increase of 14,256. Between these two days —on the 13th of Ja nuary the police were stationed to watch the boats Which arrived from Ireland and to count with great accuracy the number of Irish who landed. From the 13th to the 22nd Of January inclusive the number of Irish'who arrived was 7,403 ; consequently the applications for relief from 6,853 persons would not be applications from Irish vagrants, for that number had not arrived to make up the 14,250 who had applied for relief on the 22114 over and above those who were relieved on the 12th January. The number of men who were relieved on the 22nd over the 12th, was 2,631, and those who arrived were 4,498, consequently 1867 Irishmen had arrived who were not relieved. That number, 1867, he would add to the . 6,853, whom he had stated had not arrived, and that would number 8,720 who were relieved, and who had not arrived by the boats be tween the 12th and 22nd of January. The excess of wo men relieved between those days was 2,311, and the num ber who had not arrived was 1,755, which made 1,056 who applied for relief and did not arrive between those day's. He also found that there was an excess of 8,814 children ; for within the time alluded to only 1,150 had arrived from Ireland. Therefore, there were 7,664 children relieved who had not arrived from Ireland between the 12th and 22nd of January. The statement of Mr. Austin created great surprise ; and he stated he had no earthly doubt of its truth. The petition was then agreed to, and it was ordered to be forwarded to Lord Sandon for presentation, and that a' request should be made to Sir Howard Douglas and the members of the southern division of the county to sup port it. A memorial to the government was also adopted. Mr. 'AUSTIN stated that he had a return of the number of passengers arrived from Ireland in a state of destitu tion between the 13th and 25th January. That number was li2 e 4, of which number only 1823 were children ; 6368 , men, and 2533 women. Now th e num b er o f child . n who had arrived was less than that of women, whilst the number of children relieved was four times as many as the women. This suggested the notion that fraud had: been practised to a great extent, and it also suggested to him (Mr. Austin) that it had been encou raged by- the lax way in which relief had been granted at the of It had had the effect of bringing people to apply for relief, and he felt sure that they had Irish poor enough- of their own without the extra number of appli cants: In the 24,000 cases - which had been relieved, nearly one-third of the relief had gone to people who ought not to have had it without inquiry. Last week the relief given cost £378, or, in round numbers, £400; and one-third or a quarter-went to persons who ought not to receive it. Now a hundred pound's would provide an army- of relieving-officers,, ving officers, and he would propose that a number of relieving officers be appointed. He would not mention the number; he Auld leave that to-the vestry. The next point for consideration ,was the destitute sick, and it was necessary that some place should be prepared for their reception. He stated; on the authority of Mr. Cripps, that disease was increasing, and gave an account of the destitute condition of the people in some streets, particularly Lace-street, where lie had found 41 people in-one house. In order to cheek- the increasing demand for relief, the outdoor system of - relief' must be resorted to, and some premises must be procured for that purpose. After a short discussion, a committee was appointed to carry but the heads of Mr. Austin's recommendations, and the board separated, after the case of Mr. Blanchard had been referred to the Finance Committee. LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday, a, young man, named John Stringer, was committed for trial charged with hav ing stolen 3s. Gd., the property. of Mr. Evans, clock and watchmaker, of this town. TFIEFT BY A CHARWOMAN.—On. Friday, Hannah Hul loch was committed for trial upon the charge of having robbed Mrs. Hughes, of Clayton-square, at whose house she bad been acting as charwoman. THEFT BY A WORKMAN.—A mon named John Ker foot was on Friday committed for trial by Mr. Rushton, upon the charge of selling- bricks from his master's kiln, at Kirkdale, which he had no authority to do. COLLISION.—On Wednesday, the Police-court was a considerable time occupied in hearing a case of collision on the river. The Highland Mary was on the previous Wednesday lyit ' , at anchor; when the schooner Diamond, coming up with a strong,tide struck her heavily on the starboard bow, carrying away, the, cutwater. The High 'land Mary had at once to , let go the anchor, with 75 fa thoms of chain, and put- into the Prince's Dock for re pairs. The damages, it, was stated, did not exceed £2O. It was left to Mr. Askew, the harbour master, to ascer tain the precise amount, an order for payment being awarded by the court. DRUNKENNESS A , NECESSARY EVIL.—At the Police court, on Thursday, a female, whose name we don't give, was summoned to appear before Mr. Rushton on a charge of drunkenness., . The lady did not appear in propria persona, but sent her husband in her stead. The case having been proved by a policeman, the - husband intimated that he had something to say in extenuation. "Do you deny her being drunk ?" said Mr. Rushton. " She was taken ill some time ago," said her spouse," " and she was ordered to take spirits. I admit that it is an evil, though it is a necessary evil." Mr. Rushton—" 0 no, there can be no necessity to get -drunk." The lady was ordered to pay ss. and 4s. 6d. costs. A SIMPLE COWKEEPER.—On Saturday, a young man, of the name of Michael Conway, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of hairing robbed a cowkeeper named Owen, of his watch. Owen stated that he was in Sum merseat, a notorious place for thieves and bad characters of all descriptions, about eleven o'clock on Friday night, and that, as he was in the act of entering a public house to get what he called his "nightcap,"or, in other words, his last glass for the night, the prisoner came up to him and asked him what time it was. Owen replied, between ten and eleven. The prisoner told him that he particu larly wanted to know the exact time, and should be ob liged if he could tell him to a minute. Owen immedi ately drew his watch from his fob; and was about to feel at the minute hand when the prisoner seized the article and gave it a tug. It happened to be suspended round his neck by a very thick, strong chain, which resisted the tug. A scuffle then ensued between them, and in the course of it the prisoner gave the watch another very se vere tug, and the clasp of the chain gave way. He then made off with it, and was pursued sharply by the cow keeper. After running through various streets, he was at length arrested by an officer in Chisenhale-street, but he had not the watch then in his Possession, and there was very little doubt that he had in the course of the chase passed it to one of his confederates. He was committed for trial. A PUGILISTIC POLICEMAN.—On Saturday, a tall, ath letic policeman, of the name of Spencer,. was brought before Mr, Rushton on a charge of being drunk, fighting; and breaking the furniture in the house of Mr. Charles Howell, eating-house keeper, 27, Tithebarn-street, the night before. The prisoner had a black eye and sundry bruises and contusions about other parts of the face, which showed but too plainly that he had not come off altogether scatheless in his recent encounter. Mr. Howell stated, that he had met with a great many ferocious cha racters in his time, but never such a one as the fellow in the dock ; in fact, his opinion was that the prisoner was a devil incarnate, and not a human being. The night before he entered his house drunk, and, not being satisfied with fighting with and turning every man out of the eating-room, he ran down stairs, seized a heavy poker, broke some of the furniture with it, and swore that he must have somebody else to fight with. Several were obliged to fight against him in self defence, and others had to fly out of the house for their lives, for he brandished the poker over his head and laid about him on all sides. Mr. Howell, who was labouring under severe indisposition, said that a similar scene of up roar, terror, and dismay, had never before been created by any twenty men in the neighbourhood. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to pay 2s. and costs for the damage done to the furniture, and ss. and costs for being drunk, and to be forthwith dismissed the force. Esistrirt grivg. On Saturday at the Borough Court, Bolton, a person in that town, agent for the sale of Dr. Coffin's medicines, was bound over to the Quarter Sessions, to answer a charge of practicing as an apothecary and selling medicine without a certificate for that purpose. WIGAN.—The Manchester Express says that Mr. Standish, M.P., is dangerously ill; but the Preston Pilot says that the report is very likely an election ruse.—On Saturday week, the cabinet-maker's workshop and con tents of Mr. John Cooke, near Scholes Bridge, were destroyed by fire. The loss is £3OO. On Sunday week two sermons were preached by the very rev. the Dean of Bangor, at the parish church of Eastham, on behalf of the suffering Irish, after which the sum of .£2l was collected ; also, on the same day, a ser mon was delivered by the Rev. Thos. Collinridge, for the same purpose, and a collection made at the private chapel of Sir W. Massey Stanley, Bart., at Hooton. SUBSCRIPTION AT MANCRESTER.—The amount sub scribed in Manchester and Salford for the Irish and Scotch is £7OOO. Amongst the subscriptions we see the munificent one of £315 from Messrs. William Grant and Brothers (half for each country), and one from Messrs. J. and N. Philips and Co. of £250 for Ireland, and " young men in the employ of H. Bannerman and Sons, £95 4s. 2d." MRS. BUTLER.—We noticed in our last that Mrs. But ler, late Fanny Kemble, had been in negociation with Mr. Bunn, for an engagement at Drury-lane Theatre ; but Mr. Bunn, having offered her just one-half the amount she asked, she declined to accept her engagement there We now learn that this celebrated actress is to make her first reappearance on the British stage onthe boards of the Theatre-Royal Manchester, in all probability in the month of February. CHILD POISONED.—The village of Garston was thrown into a state of great excitement on Tuesday evening by the circulation of a report that a woman, named Mary Bates, had poisoned her child, half a year old, by the administration of laudanutn. Bates was taken into cus tody by one of the rural police, and an inquest was held on the body of the child on Thursday, when, it appearing that the woman had administered the dose to the infant to keep it asleep whilst she went out to work, and not with any felonious intent, she was discharged. In proof of the increase of heat gained by burning the smoke, we may cite the experiments of Mr. Henry Holds worth, of Manchester, who has shown, that in the front flue of a furnace, of common construction, the thermo meter seldom rose ab ove 1,100 degrees Fa hrenheit, and often fell below 900 degrees, the mean being 975 degrees; while in the sane furnace, when consuming its smoke, the mean temperature was 1,160 degrees Fahrenheit, ranging between 1,400 degrees and 1,000 degrees. The quantity of water evaporated by a pound of coal was one half quarter more than when the smoke was not con sumed. . A NEW RACE-COURSE FOR MANCHESTER.—It is stated that a site has at length been fixed upon to be converted into a race-course, and that in a few days the necessary lease will be signed. The place chosen is the low ground near Agecroft Bridge, in Pendleton, the property of John Fitzgerald, Esq., of the Pendleton collieries ; but we have not heard the extent of the ground, nor the price which is to be given for it. It appears, however, to be a prevalent opinion that an enormous sum must be expended before it can be got into a proper condition for horse-racing. The races at Newton are, this year, to take place in Whitsun-week, doubtless in consequence of there being no races on Kersal Moor at that time. • SUICIDE AT WARRINGTON.-011 Wednesday an inquest was held at Sankey Bridge, before Mr. Heyes, coroner, on view of the body, of Joseph Hanley, aged 34, carter to Messrs. Winstanley and Hobson, flour merchants. He was a steady, careful man, and put his spare earnings i n the savings'-bank. On going, on Saturday, to his money box for this purpose, he found £2 had been taken, which, he ascertained, his wife had taken and squandered in drink and other vile ways, in consequence of which he became intoxicated, and on the following day, while labouring under head-ache, and in the absence of his wife, he hanged himself by a clothes line from the banister of the stairs. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." THE WARRINGTON FILE MAKERS' TURN-OUT.—It will be recollected that several of the workmen in the em ployment, under contract, of Mr. J. Edelsten ' file manu facturer, absconded some mon th s a go , at the dictation of the Trades' Union, without any assigned reason or com plaint of grievance. Several of them, after inducing others to leave, were apprehended, and some were kindly re ceived back by Mr. E., but soon afterwards again absconded, taking others with them. Seven or eight of the runaways were apprehended in various parts of the country, and taken before the Warrington magistrates ; three of them were committed for three months. An attempt was made to show that Mr. Edelston (who had forgiven several others) did not pay the regular wages ; but this was not proved, and Mr. E. said that if it were he would be the first to respond. Loss OF TIIREE LIVES AND FIVE SEVERELY BURNED. —An inquest was held at the house'of William Johnson, sign of the Bull's Head, Parr, before John Heyes, Esq., coroner, on the bodies of three young lads who came by their deaths in consequence of the explosion of fire damp in Messrs. Bourne and Robinson's colliery, at Parr.. It appeared from the evidence that one of the lads went with a lighted candle into the place where he worked, and the explosion took place in consequence. EMBEZZLEMENT AT MANCHESTER.—OD Wednesday morning, a respectable-lobking man, named Thos. Smith, was brought up at the Borough Court, Manchester, before Mr. Maude and a full bench of magistrates, charged with embezzling several sums of money from his employers, amounting in the whole, it is said, to several thousand pounds. It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. John Shuttleworth, stamp distributor for that district, cotton-broker, and agent for Messrs. Strutt and Co., of Derby. Mr. Mande sent the prisoner to the sessions. - DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR HALSALL Moon.—Four men, James Cowsill, aged 40, William CoWsill, his son, Peter Harrison, 38, and William Johnson, 30, all brick setters, lost their lives on Tuesday last by suffocation, while at work in a coalpit. The pit had been excavated to the depth of 61 yards, and two sets of men were alter nately employed. Those named were at work, during a storm of thunder, lightning, and rain % which had prevented. other workmen from coming, when the banksman at the top heard a loud noise from the bottom of the pit, and immediately an immense flame issued frOm its mouth. A man was sent down, and discovered the bodies of the four men, all dreadfully burnt. Some days before, the work men discovered a fissure in boring through the rock, from which a small quantity of gas escaped. It was stated that stormy weather had always considerable influence on the air in coal mines, and that some gas had collected under the scaffolding on which the men were working, which had come in contact with a lighted candle. The verdict of the coroner's jury was, " Died from suffocation." MEETING AT ST. HELENS.—A highly respectable pub lic meeting of the inhabitants of St. Helens and neigh bourhood was held in the Town-hall there, on Wednesday last, in aid of the funds of the British Association for the relief of the destitute in Ireland and Scotland. The chair was taken by E—Pilkington Esq., and the meeting was successively addressed by Mr. Mulvany, the Rev. Mr. Carr, Incumbent ; the Rev. Mr. Mostyn, Incumbent of St. Thomas's, Eccleston; Mr. Fincham; the Rev. Mr- Edmonds, Independent Minister; the Rev. Mr. Wat mough, Wesleyan Minister; Mr. Bishop; and by the Rev. Mr. Pollock, lately Incumbent of St. Helens, and now of St. Mark's, Liverpool. The following was the first resolution moved :—"That Almighty God having, in his inscrutable wisdom, permitted a widely spread and de solating famine to fall upon our fellow subjects in Ireland and Scotland, we desire deeply to sympathise with them, and feel it our duty to contribute out of our necessities, still more out of our abundance, towards its alleviation." The sum of £325 wai subscribed in the room, and an.or ganization formed for further collections amongst those who were unable to attend. POLITICAL VARIETIES. The victory of the " Ten Hours Bill," is now said to be certain. The rumours of a dissolution in May, are all fudge ; the sessional business will not admit of it. On Monday; W. J. Chaplin, Esq., chairman of the South-Western Railway, was elected member for Salis bury, in the room of A. Hussey, Esq., resigned. The manufacturers and merchants of the Midland Counties have sent a memorial to Lord Palmerston, praying his lordship to use every effort tb put an end to the blockade of the River Plate. Mr. Miall, the editor of the Nonconformist newspaper, is - to be a candidate at the general election for Edinburgh, supported by the anti-state-church and complete suffrage party. The election of Middlesex is fixed for Wednesday, the 3rd of February. It is reported that Air. H. Pownall will be started in opposition to Lord Robert Grosvenor on the Conservative interest. Mr. Charles Lushington has promptly replied to the in vitation of the Westminster Reform Society, that he would come forward as a candidate'for that city on the next dissolution of Parliament, when Mr. Leader retires from that honourable position. CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.—A splendid banquet was given at the Carlton Club, in London, on Saturday even ing, and we observe among the names of the distinguished noblemen and gentlemen present, those of Lord Stanley and Mr. Talbot Clifton. Tho Duke of Newcastle occu pied the chair. _ EMBASSY TO BRAZIL.--Lord Howden has been ap pointed minister to Brazil. His lordship will call (en route to his station) at the river Plate, w ith a view of bringing matters in that part of the world to a satisfactory termination. His lordship arrived in town last week from the continent, and will proceed to Rio early in the present month. The National Club, which was first formed after the passing of the Maynooth Endowment Bill as a rallying point for the Protestant party, have taken the houses, No. 2 and 3, Old Palace-yard, between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which will open as a club-house in the course of a few days. The Mark Lane Express says, "we are highly gratified in being enabled to state that the Government has made the important announcement that their attention has been directed to devising a system of agricultural statistics, and that a measure thereon will be laid before the House of Commons as early as possible." SIR R. PEEL AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The Globe states that on Tuesday evening, in the House of Com mons, Sir Robert Peel sat for a long time by the side of, and conversed very .earnestly with Lord John Russell, which occasioned considerable observation. Sir R. Peel subsequently conversed for a long time with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, and afterwards engaged in a long conversation with Lord Monteagle. THE FARMERS' CLUB.—In consequence of the ill suc cess which attended the deputation appointed to seek an interview with Lord John Russell, on Friday week, on the subject of the repeal of the malt tax, the council of the Farmers' Club, in conjunction with the committee of the Central Society for the Protection of Agriculture and the Malt Tax Association, have resolved, when the pre sent distress in Ireland has in some degree abated, to organise a combined system of agitation, as important in numerical strength and persevering in energy as that which characterised the Anti-Corn Law League. LORD ASHLEY AND THE TEN HOURS' BILL.—The Ten Hour Bill agitation, which was carried on in York shire and Scotland under the superintendence of Mr. Oastler, has been honoured in Lancashire with the at tendance of Lord Ashley. On Thursday week, the no ble lord addressed a large meeting at Manchester. On Friday, he was at Blackburn ; on Monday, at Bolton ; and, on Wednesday evening, he. attended an enthusiastic meeting at Todmorden, the native place of Mr. Fielden, in whose hands the cause in Parliament is now placed. The reception given to his lordship at all these towns was such as his noble sacrifices on behalf of the Ten Hour Bill demanded and deserved. • THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND. The amount of this subscription, when last advertised, a few weeks ago,—we mean the subscriptions forwarded to the committee for this district,—amounted to £53,624. Since that announcement, other .subscriptions have been re ceived, chiefly from Liverpool, together with some from Paisley, Kendal, and Macclesfield, increasing the amount by £4,722 • the total, up to last evening being £58,846 19s. 9d. These subscriptions include one from Mr. John Pennington, of Liverpool, of £3OO. J. C. Ewart, of Li verpool, £2OO ; Messrs. Tenants, Clow, and Co., Liver pool ; Mr. William Jackson, Liverpool, £l5O ; the family of Mr, Crosfield, Liverpool, £145 ; and ten others of £lOO each, all from Liverpool. DESTRUCTION OF THE POWER OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS.—The proposed alterations of the des potic poor law government, submitted by Lord John Rus sell to the House of Commons on Friday night, has given general satisfaction in this town. We believe there will be no public meeting convened upon the subject until the ministerial scheme has been fully developed. The propo sition that the president of the new board to replace the present irresponsible commissioners, and one of the secre taries, be members of the House of Commons, whereby they would be compelled to answer all such questions as would be put to them by the representatives of the peo ple, and thus, rendering them responsible to the country for their acts, meets with almost universal approval. Mr. Bright's party held a great ticket meeting at Man chester on Thursday. It was stated that upwards of 6000 pledges had been obtained. Mr. Milner Gibson, who was present, said he was opposed to the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, and also opposed to the creation of a new bishopric in Manchester, and pro mised that f Lord John Russell introduced a bill for that purpose he would oppose it. On the subject of na tional education he had very strong opinions. He would, in all cases, object to any religious instruction being given in those schools ; indeed, he would go so far as to exclude the use of the Bible. Mr. Bright followed with an anti church speech. The canvass by Lord Lincoln's friends is now complete. It is stated that, under the most unfa vourable circumstances, there is a majority of nearly 400 in faVour of his lordship. CHESTER ELECTION.—The • election to supply the vacancy in the representation of the city of Chester occa sioned by the resignation of Lord Robert Grosvenor (candidate for Middlesex), took place on Saturday. The Mayor (Dr. Phillips Jones) proposed Earl Grosvenor, which was seconded by Thomas Dixon, Esq., who said that 1400 electors had been waited on, and not more than two dozen had declined to support arl Grosvenor. No other candidate being proposed, the sheriff declared Earl Grosvenor duly elected. His lordship thanked the elec tors most warmly, but said his youth and inexperience must be accepted as the excuse for his not making pledges, and for not giving a declaration of his political opinions. Ilis•lordship did, however, say that it was his desire `` to promote the extension of commerce, and support every measure calculated to improve the social and moral con dition of the people." A vote of thanks was then passed to the sheriff and to Lord Robert Grosvenor, and the meeting separated. _ _ MR. BRIGHT AND MR. OASTLER.—A correspondence has taken place between these two gentlemen, which has excited some little interest. A deputation from the Man chester Short-time Committee had waited on Mr. Bright with a copy of the Ten Hours' Advocate, of which Mr. Oastler is editor, and which contained a " challenge" to ek public discussion to Mr. Bright, to prove his assertion that he (Mr. 0.) was either •‘ deceiving himself, or being dreadfully guilty." Mr. Bright refused to notice any letter not addressed to him in manuscript, and a written copy was sent by Mr. Oastler. Mr. Bright declined to accept the challenge, on the ground that Mr. Fielden and Mr. Ferrand, "two leading apostles of Mr. Oastler's faith," were in the House of Commons, where the question would come for discussion. Mr. Oastler justly states, in reply, that the question of culpability attached to him cannot be discussed in the House of Commons in his absence—he not being a member. Mr. Bright, however, adheres to his dexterous shuffle, and will not publicly meet the Matz` he has slandered. • ,