The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

CAL " I ' l by the Lord-I Observatory, has just assault ensued. - uesought them to spare his life, art to the committee, detailing the when one of them pulled out a knife, and threatened to stab him. In the scuffle Knight's fingers were much ^ut. ""- was then riffled of .£l. 3s. ld., and thrown into The police subsequently apprehended two and Robert Shannon, and Thomas Hun '-ntified by Knight and a I_, averpoo' ~~`r 3lr "urchased of the hedge , test port ter, who were id came up to his tic rarer who tance, on hen - ring his cries of murde semen The prisoners were committed to the Liverpool assizes. T VENDERS.—On Thursday even- MEETING OP :Ople, to I vetion NEWS of a man wasfound o be that of a beer- en I pe about hal .mit me to ishment of a t us have the HE IPSWICTI POST- g suspected that of Preston, has of the township Ide, for £70,000, . 4t ars-n, es and boxes, Adel phi nner, at th About fort " Eons of inn, a meeting of this humble class of trades' I the amelioration of whose moral and social cond latterly devoted so mu been destroyed, as t of St of this t eld at the sehool-roo.m was chiefly to ascert would respond to the ( n how many of th II made upon them to de,. —Abc penny savings bank, and the result was 300 being prepared with weekly RAL SOCIETY'S at the rate of about 3d. per head lane on Friday, in a yard adjoin- deposit the e R.ilwav station. The prizes Feeny scat ontributioT 0 6d. as SUM c it instalment verpool were about to be made on behalf of the fruit T aoss from • d • A usaa la, arrive in the ders in Dublin, Manchester, and other places. of fifteen silver medal RANTS .ustralian to the Committee o de, or be g whic they bad taken from it On Thursday, a dejeuncr was Cnaperas-hill. There lit venders t in a woman wished to sengers, and 20,000 GOVERNMENT EMIG ssrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Land and Emigration Commissic into that they intend to take under their own care the and lodging of persons who have received free passages, upon their arrival at the ports named in their approval A devot for the port of London is to be formed HoNIES.—The Colonial s have issued notices ,ard tureen Limehouse and Blackwall upon the north. This derOt will be capable of affording beds and other accommodation to 304) persons. Another depot is to be built on the banks of the Mersey, ;olated from — e public access, and also accommodating GOO emigrants. There is also to he a derOt at Plymouth, capable of ac commodating 300. The whole of the depots will be ready for emigrants on or before the Ist of January, 1853. T. —On Sunday evening )lice that a house, BURGLARY IN GROVE week information was given to tl No. 160, G 'one- street, o, Mr. Cros bad been broken open by thieves, who had stolen a great quantity of property. Two detective-officers, Povey and Russell, who immediately went to the premises, found that the house had been rummaged from the cellars to the attics, and that all the drawers and closets had either been broken open or the locks damaged. The house had been left unoccupied by Mr. Cross, who was at the time at Waterloo. After examining the premises carefully, the officers left them. returning on Monday night, when they found the house had been re-entered, and several other articles stolen. Acting upon information they had re- took into custoo, dy, who resie.e at Wit n and Cropper, .. lon they found Ft vast quantity of ceived, the named M'G named Waters road. In their posses a father, mother, two 1 sor, and two men. who resid t Everton- property, consisting of wearing apparel, old coins, botiles, &e.. all of which wcre identified by Mr. Cross as belong- ing to him giarates on Wedn€ noturht before the ma lengthy investiga- M'Gradv. lion, were all, with the exception of committed for trial CHRIST CHURCH RAGGED SCHOOL.—Alarge and re spectable meeting of the friends and subscribers of these schools was held on Tuesday evening, Edward Heath, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. J. Marland, after which the chairman called upon the secretary, Mr. W. Tatlock, to read the report, which was very encouraging. _ The treasurer, B. Kelly, Esq., nest read an abstract of the cash a, co , int, showing a balance in his hands of £4 2t was proposed by Reginald R 5 , , _ the Rev. R. Browne, at some length, addressed the meet ing, narrating an interesting instance of the power of a ragged school child over an abandoned father. Oliver R. Strickland, Esq., then moved, and the Rev. J. Marland seconded, a resolution of thanks to the Rev. H. M. Mosse, originator of the movement in this district, which passed unanimously. The Rev. William F. Taylor (of St. John's), in an eloquent and impressive speech, strongly recommended the cause to the consideration and liberal support of the public, concluding with an earnest appeal to the members of the congregation assembled. The re solution was seconded by the Rev. G. /Ulcer, urging the necessity of an increase of annual subscribers. A collec tion having been made, and the chairman having offered a few valuable remarks upon the best mode of conducting ragged schools, the meeting was dismissed with the bene diction. .• The first resolution liffe, Esq. ; after which LIVE LLIGGAGE.—One evening last week, an Irish woman, with two children, took her place in one of the third-class carriages of the London and North-western Railway Co., in order to proceed from Liverpool to Man- chestei. She had brought to the station it large deal hog, locked and corded, which she delivered over to the por ters as luggage, and it 'was accordingly placed on the top of one of the carriages, amidst a heap of other packages. After the train had reached the Victoria Station, the lug gage was, as usual, slided down from the top of the car riage to the platform.; and the Irishwoman's box, as it was too wide to pass along the gutrer or spout, was turned on its side, lifted about, and sent quickly to the ground. As soon as this was done, the woman seized the box, and after dragging it a short distance along the platform, coolly undid the fastenings, and lifted out a couple of children, somewhere about six and four years old. This was observed, and the woman was detained. The box was about four feet long, and one foot wide and deep. A small piece of the edge of the lid had been knocked off, and only through the aperture thus caused could the children obtain air during their confinement, the cover fitting very closely. It was quite by chance, and very fortunate, that the box was put upon the top of the carriage, in an upright position, and not closely sur rounded by other luggage, else suffocation must certainly have ensued. EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDE Nr.--'on Thursday evening, as the express train of the London and North- Western Railway, which left Distort-square at 5 o'clock, was on its way to Manchester from Crewe, a little after 9 o'clock, it ran off the line under most alarming ciacum stances. It appears to have attained a speed of about 40 miles an hour, when, about three miles north of Crewe. • a buffer, with the long iron rod attached, which had proba bly dropped off a preceding train, obstructed the line. The driver became aware that one of the fore-wheel guards was in contact with something, and he slackened speed. About 200 yards further he ascertained that the obstruction was still in the way of the engine, and was so alarmed that he instantly reversed his engine, and brought the train to a stand about 100 yards further, just as one of the fore-wheel guards had broken, and the two fore wheels of the engine went off the rails and became deeply embedded in the sand forming the ballast of the line. So well had the driver managed that he, in reality, brought the train to a stand almost without a perceptible shock. The passengers, however, were much alarmed by the great quantity of sand which was thrown up, and which found its way into the carriages till the seats and floors were coated nearly an inch thick. The train was de tained about two hours. The guard had to run back to Crewe and bring up another engine, and a force of men to get the engine of the train on to the line again. The pas sengtrs, twenty in number, were so plea-sed with the con duct of the engine -driver in sticking to'his post after he must have been almost enveloped in a cloud of sand, that they offered him a handsome collection made on the spot, declined it. CONfMITTEF —The weekly meeting; Thursday, Mr. Turner in the chair. The chairman inti mated that agreements had been made with the following parties for the purchase of property required for the Wapping Dock, namely, the executors of Mrs. Wade, the d Mr. John Gladstone, trustees 'of IT amesTrer ole of the ed to deal with jun. The chairman said that included the Wapping property, and it o now rem . . the London and North Western Railway Comp Instructions were given to the secretary to that effect form of ad-yertiseinent for tenders for the construction of the new dock works of Wapping was submitted ; also plans and specifications. After a short conversation as to the situation of the dock entrances, it was agreed to make one at-the north end. A memorial was read from several owners of property at Kirkdale, on the strand of the river, complaining of injury they were suffering in consequence of the projected timber docks at the north end not being proceeded with. The memorialists wished to know when the docks were to he commenced, as they had been led to suppose that no delay would take place. A deputation waited upon the committee to give any ex planation. The chairman said that no decisive reply could be given;; -the works would be commenced as soon as the increased trade of the port demanded it ; at the same time, the committee regretted that any depreciation of property should have resulted, and they would assist the memorialists as far as possible. After some further conversation the deputation withdrew. Mr. Steele called attention to a notice of motion he gave several weeks ago, relative to a certain dock rate on coals : the motion was withdrawn, on the understanding that the matter was under consideration by a committee. In reply to aiques tion, the chairman stated that nothing had yet been•done, as there were difficulties in the way. Mr. Holden said there was no difficulty ; the coals ought not to pay at all. Mr. Steele renewed his notice of motion. This was the whole of the general business. NEW CHURCH AT AIGBURTH.—On Thursday at noon, the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new church, in the hamlet of Grassendale, Aighurth, took place in the presence of a large number of spectatora. The building, which is to be in the decorative style of architecture, will be 110 feet in length by 40 in breadth, and 40 feet to the rising of the roof. A tower or spire, in height 120 feet, will be added to the east end, and form rather a picturesque and striking object, standing, as it will do, at the junction of the Garston and Aigburth roads. There is to be sitting' accommodation for 700 worshippers, all on the ground floor, galleries being dis pensed with ; the roof will be open, of stained oak, and varnished, similar to those now generally introduced in ecclesiastical buildings. In a recess on the south side of the church the organ is to be placed, and on the opposite side the vestry, in order to preserve uniformity in the general character of the interior. The plan includes very large pews for kneeling, and of these 200 will be appro priated to the use of the poor. Stone from the Woolton quarry is to be employed in the erection of the edifice. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone was per formed by the Rev. Rector Campbell, with a silver trowel, presented by Mr. J. G. Morris. Several documents, coins, &c., enclosed in a bottle, were deposited in the stone, upon which was affixed a brass plate inscribed as follows :—" The foundation of this church, dedicated to St. Mary, was laid on the 2nd of September, 1852. by the Rev. Augustus Campbell, rector of Liverpool and rector of Childwall." Tne church is to be erected from funds raised by the committee and by voluntary subscription. The site has been given , by the Second Aigburth Land Company, and Messrs. Darby, of Coalbrookdale. Com mittee :—Mr. John Grant Morris, chairman ; Mr. J. A. D. Watts, honorary secretary ; Rev. A. Campbell, A.M., Rev. J. Gibson, A.M., Rev. H. T. Hecker, A.M., Messrs. Henry Steel, George Woods, John Bevan, Alfred Castel lain, John Swainson. Thos, Grundy, Ralph Leyland, H. G. Sutton, and Fletcher Rogers. Mr. A. H. Holme is the architect, and Messrs. George Holtne, Geo. Glaister, and T. Walker, builders. The children attending the Garston and Aigburth schools were present, and look part is the services by singing several hyrans. with six yied to Al golf 'IL having on of A, . , s sel, now lying in the Canning Basin, zuration as an Australian liner. She lt, of Barns a deSizn" , her principal ,v.is.ited by a violent thunderstorm on illir;e‘,`ring which the electric fluid struck r La on the premises known under the s e : r nb, in Northga!e, occupied by Mr. Nl A ,:eled a portion of the brickwork, datt a i - e bh,„ -UEATt Derby' on 'NT, John Mullen at dinner at Air .iday evening, at the con -0100 s recreation at bowls, he suddenly tilt a a t l Ll,_in,stantly expire , ' s 40th year. The deceased fro w 3n from I spoken i. 1 .0 S sail, and going at the • An estimate of time and dis bout ten kn !ti l . 4 " Voltrf' s an hour On Saturda American royal mail steamer .01, — ',! 1- qtander, took her departure for thenl4l,llg on board 142 passengers and N;!S usual mails.—The Pacific, Capt. !"%o 'l7: 'tlem..—' with mails and p sengers, le On Tuesday last, as Mr. Charles 4 h orse down the slip at Birkenhead, 1 1 rc huse the horse went over the slip, itik l Yider into deep water. Mr. Harris i °r the third time, when Mr. Price lif e P e r, of this town, plunged in, at the saved Mr. Harris from a watery „ T ° A R LAIWAY RowbothaFlrn OFCIAI I t I; : ” K , the roods "° e ashire and Yorkshire Railway Com 11as Presenied those connected with i w tl . l t a gold wat c h }s and appendayes,.a . nd t; ) h l tu a hand some b rooch , on h is taking kiiiveefte the general manager of the )t t , 'v437 Company. t 'sfE t c: (3l l the arrival of the railway boat 11 Z - f e l`C at a quarter past eight on Friday named Gallagher, an unlicerped th e . : the boat intent on obtaining a .tob. he ( 1 . . 4 2 1 , 'swerved, and instantly fell into l'q e iClu not reappear on the surface, it is t iltd,,:gainst the side of the boat in the fall. 410- for the body, but without success. Sara The Foundation - stone a f d tion-stone of the new the education of the s nl i b ,ra of the Hebrew persuasion resident 4;4 1 1, with considerable ceremony, on chi'', "110 Earned, in the presence of the e s ,,' ra, bbi of the Jews of Great 1317 . 1tain, S" 1 ° 1 11 e of tie Jewish community of . did anquet vca 14 ;.. e REsTEtt.—A. splendid banquet was ° k'4ening, in the Athentelm 3 N an a h ere of the Guild or of Literature and took the chair. , Of ti'lBe' amateur the Aia3r were nearly_ all r. t i! el.lief kers company o the occasion were 4 r. kes,i, Ed a lv i3ea rd Lytton Cha r les Bulwer Iyt o Stone, M 'IV ? ' Knight, Mr. Francis S h. tier q,;' tie" AatniA.•gs.—At the meeting of this If t , rl cl ay. a letter was read from the Poor neer c f l o n t t r i! s o,„ectin g the case of Shearson, 66 % 4 -le district, who had been the it ,e detaining the money of pan. FoUld ~,,F°°l--law board expressed their ' e instat a - ','• comply with the request of the Ittt iOn ni; °hearson and required his im -4' ru t - 1 (34 pain of 'dismissal. tl4l, r .k4NCHESTER FREE LIBRARY.— ef la . 2" T il d a i n n e z ille i S 3 ter k !penweadsolThurs -4'12,401. /;60°°°, bsc o r i o b e s c i, "work - ing classes libta Lasts week the corporation accepted 114 3 , A l l . ' and is henceforth to sustain it 11)ete• There are 1 , &'000 vols. in the i l lto ee l. ': ti pf the institution' drew a crowded 01.1„,...,ngS Passed of with eclat. :ef We understand that, through the 1 : 1. 11 ) ;r. Thomas Haigh, of Slater-court, tl4 ll °C e ' llen ts have been entered into be lereet. and the members of the masonic dj7e, th I°l3 of a grand wasonic hall of ex- . t e site fixed upon being a portion . of t.in a and to be in connexion with the i3ellreet. The style of architecture ‘. In tended to be uniform with St. 414q8, STRALIAN EMIGRANT SHIP.- 4 4;1riday, visited by the Eirl and Viscount andlTiscountess Brack. hil,), ll f_ e d Party of friends . and relatives. t Jardine, accompanied Ey 3/Tessra ))11,ljto",_n. attended for the purpose of show; , 1 ?,1 1 r 3 through the ship.. The noble earl Iti,Ltdrniration of the manner in which 1 47 1 has been fitted up for the comfort r4serigers, partictlarly with regard to I ,',enQ•". - -The Eagle, a screw-steamer, nth t o ,. and Son, for Mr. Daman, of th run betwe en this port and Newry, el e Nymrh, was launched on t 4), feet long, - 25 feet beam, 15 yuo tons, o.m. She is to be rig ,•:febirinooner, and will be fitted with a % t ,i ttn e i s _nr 120-horse power, by James hl l -te : ugharn. Below, the vessel has '2 I ,C- 1 the the cabins will be on deck. Mr. p , kk o N Nadel for the craft. ' , ' ll 4 4 )ac c , ---13 n, Friday morning, a little 11 lath" st eam -boiler, at the bleachworks ° l and Co., 'Great Lever, near Ihereliaelgrthree p ersons , name d William I'l le " rr ,nt• a pipe coverer, and Jane '~Ohii to , was almost a new one, 27 diameter, and worked at 53 lbs. cause of the accident is not 110 b ee ts torn into small fragments, so llep so lt an unusually explosive force at G peg as were hurt or scalded badly. • . ,• - -This noble ship, belonging tk it tO e l bo tnis town, was despatched by ~litNntellarn' Port Philip, on Wednes te,,i 'ho e had her full complement of t„op s berth being disengaged, and a t, - ‘',..ad o w i e, s re refused. She carries out 498 't e hecomputed according to the 11 47 10 takt i sengers were of a highly re egettireciati out with them large sums of I kl , cl i t_ t rat io g"ds. All appeared satisfied h e go t e re made for their comfort; ,e got under given for the owner by the under weigh. 1 4 14 ~ , , N " rolov WIGAN. —We believe . 1 0 4 i stt "ed bY 4 ,! ,sl l4 e Liverpool and Yorkshire , tern Railway Companies to 10i t 'tth . , i tt_ati o l , nn for Wigan. As far as we tii ti til v est e u rn vri ll be erected between the t t s,,_ th e ~ station and the point where of t Ti be -L ancashire and Yorkshire lines L "nstructed from the Wallgate 't-4etl-gcitt,(4t'oeashire and Yorkshire line near likely estl7°lith;certstr•eet, and close to where T h, ' line, which is about to be tine resentw:,- station of the Lanca w- the joint goods station.— R`, 4 , T , -i,fr,"4 l'inicEirs.—On Thursday,. he 'o ikilitiCes Collins, captain of the "ever 1 l e , t gt pestikeket Company's steamer Times, S tleellll f -aitY °f X , 5, and ss. on each of the „ 110:t tarrying 235 passengers more ma ,Ll ) f "ed lir the l's certificate. A iti o l , t l t 44 1, h , o e , „.. offence Gf the same escr '4t titl 4B‘ lBl th a similar result. The excess . 41. 1ki."01, On Saturday th be longing - to the same corn e tr 4. ar c'ed Li,toDnA_ Mi._ A - red Asp Niv ll / 4 1 for ti 41(1118 h basing carried an ex nail, instructed by Mr. apany, and success round that the spar capible of containing I into consideration by the ,-ring tho information. We thttle number of passengers was f . 4 t t t :" at allowed by their certificate, the eet-decks having been leftempty 4(lh.,*o44,ssengers re all more room for Tot".ely till,!veubee'n bad they been filled mber of passengers stated th'ltt t ' to ,0,74 The excess of passengers arose, like 4 >. hoot fererowd the boats and evade the 'llt ti N' to l64 te, r 7 ll }, a m isapprehension of the ti„ e ,e coman supposing that, if to e t , l.le • th. w number mentioned in . the 4 11 ( 1 !Lol d fa fined with cargo, they might 4 4 Q 7 2 fitted up for the reception $ Pined for their accorpmoda- THE LTVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1852 HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.—A daring highway robbery was committed on Sunday morning, at - tenant of the —'--- • A man named Knight, going up the New-road, Esq., to be towards home, was attacked by three men, who knocked him down, and after kicking Knight they left him for a short time, and then again overtook him, and a furious He either at the Liver 1 or Birkenhead DEATH FROM Porsow.—An inquest was held on Thurs day on the body of Charles M'Mullen, a man who lodged in Albert-street. It appeared that the deceased came home on Friday and complained of being ill, stating that he had been in a disreputable house, and a woman gave him a glass of punch, since which he had been veryun- well. He also said he had been robbed of as much as would keep him a week or a fortnight. He complained of a pain in his chest, and a burning in his inside, and drank cold water continually to relieve himself, saying he wanted to cool his stomach. These symptoms con tinued, and the deceased became gradually worse, and died cn Tuesday morning last. The deceased spoke of the punch as being of a dark colour, but he never said where the house he had been in was situate. A surgeon, ade a post mortem examination, gave it as his resulted from inflammation of the _ on, but he was unable to say of a were no marks of external injury on uler these suspicious circumstances the rued for further evidence. Inquiries lat death h t up by . Ther ed. 17 what kind the deeenq were immediately instituted, with a view to the discovery of the woman alleged to have given poison to the de ceased, and same information was obtained which it is expected will result in her apprehension. The adjourned inquest was held on Friday, when the jury came to the conclusion that poison was administered, but it was not known by whom. HEALTH COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting on Thursday, Mr. William Williams complained of injury , done to his property in Cheetham-street, north of Aber cromby.square, from the want of drainage. The engineer stated that the evil would be best remedied by carrying a branch sewer from Oxford street along Back Vine-street. A block of 18 houses in Abercromby.terrace, Chatham street, and Vine-street, would be benefited by the sewer. The estimated cost was £lOO.—A conversation took place respecting the making of a branch sewer to abate the nuisance complained of, and it was ultimately ordered to be carried out. and notice directed to be given accordingly. -Mr. R. E. Harvey waited upon the committee in refer to t' of the foot.- - bet- _ tne remora, tootwalk _ ween Mathew. street and Harrington-street. Mr. Harvey stated that it would be a great inconvenience to gentlemen occupying offices, inasmuch as carts went close up to the side of the buildings, and there was no room to pass.—After some further conversation, it was arranged that Mr. Harvey, -cdale, and the engineer should meet on the -ation, with a view to determine what was premises in qu, best to be done.—The medical officer of health reported that bowel complaints having become less prevalent, there had been a corresponding decrease in the mortality of the borough. In the week ending Saturday 181 deaths were registered in the parish, and 80 in the extra-parochial wards ; the aggregate being 20 less than in the previous week, but 34 more than in the same week of the preced ing four years. Diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera caused 66 deaths, being 19 less than in the week previous. Scar latina was fatal to 11 children, measles to 8, being fewer than in any of the 23 weeks preceding. From typhus 7 deaths. Of the 65 who died from bowel 55 were children, and 11 adults. Of the total ldren, and 79 adults. re ivere complaints deaths 182 GENERAL NEWS. A SPARROW, of a light cream colour, was days since in the parish of Irongray, Dumfriesshire CHOLERA has made its appearance at Rochester, and three or four cases have proved fatal.— United Serrice Gazette. shot a few THE Gloucesfe Mr. James Sot MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY. — Tbe following state ment is acknowledged to be true by one of the parties chiefly interested, and is corroborated in a material point by a highly respectable and totally disinterested individual, viz., that on Wednesday the Ist instant, at the parish church of Holy Trinity, in this town, there were united in matrimony a pair of ardent lovers, the bride being al ready the wife of a third party, who was present at the ceremony, and had previously given his consent. The first marriage took place, we are told, thirteen years ago, the bridegroom on that occasion being only fourteen years of age. The union appears not to have been a happy one and after existing about four years, the parties to it a— to separate, and they had been strangers to each o.ner's faces for nine years up to the present week, when the lady intimated to her first beloved her wish to be absolutely and for ever absolved from his allegiance and control, and united to the object of her maturer choice. The consent, we are informed, was most readily given, and the former master of the fickle dame had the curiosity to appear in person and witness the ceremony, which nominally (but not in law) handed her over to another lord. The first husband is a daily dispenser of drams in one of the greatest thoroughfares of Hull.—Hull Packet. ELOPEMENT.—An elopement took place last week from Portsmouth, which has been the source of deep and painful regret, not only to those who were intimate with the family of which one of the parties to it was a.member, but to the inhabitants of the locality generally. The young lady concerned was one of the daughters of a gentleman of considerable wealth, whose mansion is in the immediate vicinity of Portsmouth, on the sea shore and she herself was of very great personal attractic accomplishments, and possessed in her own right, i. said, of £2,000. She was 21 years of age, and the perso with whom she eloped was her father's groom. It ap pears that, with a view to the result now stated, the latter had some weeks since proceeded to London and consulted with a legal gentleman of note upon the sub ject, asking him his opinion as to what danger, if any, he should run in eloping with his master's daughter. He also inquired as to what would become of the £2,000 to which the young lady was entitled. To these inquiries he had satisfactory replies, it would appear, the young lady being of age, and the money clearly her own. He was at the same time cautioned not to convey . property whatever belonging to his master. Unon this measures were taken, and one day last week tl-e pair proceeded to the Fareham station of the South-Western Railway, whence they proceeded to London, where, on Saturday, we are infor me d, th e y were marr i e d by special license. The groom is described as young, and of good appearance. BURSTING OF A RAILWAY ENGINE.—A serious acci dent, but happily unattended with fatal consequences, occurred at the Lenton Junction, near Nottingham, on the Midland Railway, early on Saturday morning. The seven o'clock train from Codnor-park, heavily laden with passengers, was passing at the rate of about thirty miles an hour from the Erewash to the Nottingham arid Derby line, when a slight explosion was heard, and suddenly the train came to a stand-still ; but the air, for a considerable space, suddenly becoming filled with vapour and smoke, some time elapsed before it could he ascertained what had happened. In the interim the terrified passengers rushed from the carriages in all directions, and several of them ran to a considerabl e dist ance f rom th e li ne , f ear i ng th e possibility of a second and more disastrous explosion. It appeared that one of the tubes leading from the fire— which, owing to having previously been damaged, had bad a joint soldered thereto, and then been plugged--had burst, forcing the plug into the fire, the hot water and steam from the boiler following it, and damping the fire out. Happily the fire-hole door was shut at the time, or the driver and the stoker, who were standing close to it, would have been killed on the spot. As it was, the driver was so dreadfully scalded and burnt about the face as to prevent him attending to his occupa tion for some time to come. It is much to be desired that the patching and plugging of tubes in locomotives — always a source of great danger—should he peremptorily forbidden, both by railway directors and the government inspectors. rain, the carriage SrPPOSED MURDER, AT SHEFFIELD. -On Friday evening, about half-past seven, two children, who were gathering blackberries in a hedge-bottom, at Eastbank, about a mile and-a-half to the south-east of Sheffield, discovered the dead body of a man almost concealed among the bushes that had overgrown the ditch. Upon an examination of the body by persons drawn together by the information of the children, it was found that the right cheek was mangled by an extensive semicircular wound, extending from the lower lip to down the chin, following the lower jaw, and turning upward to the corner of the eye. It was, likewise, found that there was a slight cut from the right side of the nose downward, crossing the larger wound, and that the jaw -bone was broken. A few yards farther down the hill a pool of blood was discovered, and marks upon the grass as though a heavy body had been there, and been dragged away. The right hand trousers' pocket was turned in side out, and the only property found on the body were two small song-books and a new pair of lady's scissors. Various parts of the clothes were much smeared with blood. The appearance of the body led to the belief that it must have remained undisturbed for a day or two, for the blood was blackened, and the wound flyblown. At an inquest, held on Saturday, evidence was given which leads to the belief that the body was that of Mr. A. Robinson, a travelling draper, residing in Spring-gardens, Doncaster, bat who regularly visited Sheffield once or twice a-week. After hearing this evidence the inquest was adjourned to 'Wednesday. A. TALE OF 41. PROSELYTE.—A. case, at whic'n of course the profane smile, has just occurred in this neighbourhood, showing how good intentions and religious zeal may at times be imposed on by the worldly-minded. A gentle man, who takes more than ordinary interest in the spiritual welfare of the Jewish race, fell in with one of the wander ers from Canaan, and attracted by his hook nose, sharp eye, and block hair, began -to angle for a convert, texts being thrown at him as tenderly as a fisherman flings his artificial fly before a rising trout. The son of Israel fairly began to nibble, till at interview after interview he appeared to be fairly caught. He listened with an attentive ear and a solemn face, and at last the good man proposed that be should be formally -received into the Christian Church preparatory to his producing him at the next anniversary meeting as a live Jew converted by his eloquence, This was agreed -to ; but first he had some worldly gear that incumbered him, a little lut of jewellery worth £6O, that he must convert into cash to seek a fresh mode of life after embracing his new faith; and out of pure benevolence, and as some return for the interest taken in his welfare he offered it to his patron for £4O. At first there was some hesitation as to taking advantage of the warm feelings of the convert—his gratitude appeared to have overcome the proverbial discretion of his race ; but at length the work was completed—the £4O was paid, and the stumbling block removed. The dinoilement may be easily divined. The jewellery looks delicious by candlelight, but its worth at the utmost is about £lO, and the Jew has fled unbap tized either to Duke's-place or the gold diggings.— Chelmsford Chronicle. THE MILITIA AOT..--A LOYAL AND DISLOYAL SUDJccr.—Peter Sheffield, a rough, weather-beaten man, about 50 years of age, was brought before Mr. Yardley, at Thames-street. London, on Tuesday, charged with being disorderly, and abusing :George Andrew Richards, a dealer in China and earthenware, of Salmon-lane, Lime house. It appeared that the complainant had put up a bill in his window dissuading persons from enlisting in the militia under the new act, and condemning the discipline clauses, for the purpose, as he now stated, of attracting customers, when the prisoner, on observing it, attempted to pull it down, telling the prosecutor that the act was now the taw of the land, end the bill ought not to be there. The prosecutor, on the prisoner then beginning to abuse him, gave the prisoner in charge. The prisoner, on being questioned by 'Mr. Yardley, said he had been both a soldier and a sailor. He did not like to see the bill, which was headed " Flogging in the :New Militia," and on the top of it was an engraving of a man being flogged at the hal berds with a cat-o'-nine-tails ' the blood streaming down his back, and the officers and drummer-boys standing by in full unifelm. If he was going out passenger in a ship to-morrow, he would rather go in one where the captain enforced discipline, than one where there was no discipline at all. He had been in countries where, among large bodies of armed men, flogging was sometimes necessary. He had seen men punished with the cat, but they deserved it, and he should like to know what the seditious bill meant ? Mr. Yardley seemed to enter much into the feelings of the prisoner, and commented severely on the conduct of the prosecutor in putting up such a bill. He did not think the prisoner had offended against the law in attempting,to tear it down, and, having ordered the com plainant to take down the bill directly, dismissed the case. ASTOUNDING BZWECT.—Within the last quarter of a century we have made great progress in locomotion, but certainly we were not prepared for the startling project of Mr. D. S. Brown, who proposes to reach America in forty-eight hours, and to make the voyage to India and back in a ,fortuight 1 Mr. Brown says, " The events of a year in the present age are equal to the occurrences of a century in the past; projects which a short time ago were received with ridicule have long since passed into realities, and no longer excite our wonder:; such has been the case with railways and steam navigation." Our correspondent intends to put his theory into practice by vessels of quite different construction to those at present in use, giving them a greater depth of beam. He proposes to make the under surface of the vessel, which is flat, of two inclined planes ; the effect of this will be, when the ship is in mo tion, to raise her whole hull to the surface of the water, thereby removing entirely the resis'ance at the bows, which is stated to be the great obstacle of her progress, being an illustration of the principle well known to every school-boy who has thrown a stone slantingly on the sur face of the water, making what. is vulgarly called a "duck and drake." By reducing the angles of the inclined plane speed could be added to the vessel, which could be in creased from thirty to sixty miles per hour, and a ship so constructed would be as little affected by the ordinary waves of the Atlantic as a Gravesend steamer is by a Thames ripple. The hull is of a square tubular form ; the deck, bottom, and sides, being of great thickness, and, in order to combine lightness with strength, they are in tersected throughout with hollow cells or cavities, con sisting of a series of central cells, surrounded by another series of smaller cells; by means of these the weight of the vessels would be reduced to one-eighth of the amount, according to the number of series employed, and still have nearly all the advantages of solidity ; whilst the form in which the hull is made gives to it the strength of a tube, enabling it to be made of almost any length with perfect safety. If water obtains its wonted superiority as a mode of locomotion, the velocity of a steam-ship might as much exceed that of a railway-carriage, as the railway carriage now does the steam-ship. Unseen rocks could not endanger a ship whose path was on the surface, sea sickness could not take place where there was no oscil lation and the size of the vessel would place her beyond themercy of the wind and waves. In conclusion, Mr. Browne hopes that the numerous advantages to be ad duced are a sufficient excuse for this attempt " to add another feather to our wing," by projecting a ship worthy of the ocean she is to traverse, and the two worlds which she is to unite ; and that the scheme will receive the attention that it merits, and which the importance of the subject with which it is identified has a right to demand.—Mining Journal. MARRIAGES may be celebrated in bowers as fair as those of Eden, but they must in the end be put to proof in the workshops of the world. PERFECTION IN OMNIBUSES.—The following is a de; cription of a new omnibus about to be set up in tl metropolis :—" First, the seats in the interior are a separate, so that a person, on enterin; perceive which is his place, instead of his neighbour's lap. Second, one at eac tween the wt sons may enter without ste Third, there is a check-strir cate on which side of the ro On the outside, instead of th are twelve separate seats, means of a staircase. re two entral o placed that annroacbab: seats are as comfortable as the int, means o rolls up witlia spring behii be protected from the weat would fill outs he drive London Times says :—About fast with my family at Kensal-green tep. house. I endeavoured to ascertain th much difficulty I did so. The stream of men curl u had come from Paddington to no, not men—women ! One of rize-tig the combatants stripped to took them there, men holders and time-keeper an-hour, some say for 5s some say they will do it agair in triumph by men. You, sir, hare moral from such things. Perhaps you add my matured conviction that crimes are too disgraceful for t clean, well-ordered, and well-fe whipping-post again, and at the floggir " unmanly brutes" be written over the OFFICE fraud I I tion, Chronicle reports the sudden death of , an old and respected inhabitant of Tin- too heartily of cucumbers. THOMAS ROBERTS, a labourer at Whitlessey, Cam bridgeshire, has died of lock-jaw, occasioned by a small wound in one of his heels, caused by the point of a shoe tern Abbey, froin partakin THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS hare issued orders to their officers, when they make a seizure, to give a written notice to the owner or agent specifying thegrounds of detention. The board will also in future hear evidence on both sides, given on oath. A PARISHIONER or SHEFFIELD indignantly complains that, whilst there are not thirty free sittings in the parish church, an advertisement should appear in a local paper, between two others for the letting of a theatre and public house, offering " to let;" any one three sittings in a pew. LYNCH LAW AT ASFIBURTON.—A few days since two lads having been detected pilfering tradesmen, the com plaining parties, instead of ushering them into the presence of a magistrate, tied them hand to hand, and publicly whipped them out of town—a rather summary mode of proCeeding in these dales THE CHOLERA.—The Board of Health have, in con sequence of the recent news from abroad, expressed their formal opinion to the Government that two medical officers should be specially appointed to take such steps as may seem best calculated to meet and mitigate any attack of cholera upon this country. " QUITE TIM LADIES' (NOBLE) NAN."—We under stand that the Earl of Fife has sent upwards of twenty sets of Parisian fashions for the use of the ladies of Elgin. These have been distributed among the dressmakers of the town, in terms of his lordship's request. A s i m il ar present has been mado to the ladies of Forres.—Elgin Courier. SUICIDE Crt? A LADY.—A young lady named Hyne. daughter of a clertryman residing at Plymouth, committed suicide on Thursday week, by hanging herself from an oak tree growing on a cliff` over West Mill Lake. Grief for the death of a sister is supposed to be the cause of the melancholy Het—the grief being increased by the removal from her of the sister's child, a little girl. SUICIDE IN HANOVER-SQUARE.—On Wednesday an inquest was held on the body of Mr. Thomas Taylor, agerl . s3, in the drawing-room of No. 4, Princes-street, Hanover-square, London. It appeared that he retired to bed on Saturday night, and not making his appearance in the morning, the servant knocked at his bed-room door, and not receiving any answer, went in, when she found her master hanging from a press bedstead, with a rope round his neck. She called the footman and they cut him down, but life was found to be quite extinct. Ver dict, "Temporary insanity." THE CROPS IN SOUTH WALES.—The weather, with the exception of a few thunderstorms, has been extremely fine for the harvest. The principal bulk of the wheat is now housed, and the crops are acknowledged by three fourths of the farmers to be a full average. Complaints are made:respecting beans and peas being affected by the blight. A few more fine days will finish the harvest of barley and oats, which are most promising. We regret to state that every day brings stronger proof of the pro gress of the potato disease. In the district surrounding Aberzevenny it is becoming most alarming. AREAL BULL FIGHT.—On Monday morning, a des perate encounter took place between -two two-year-old bulls on the land of Mr. Guy, of Hatrisey, Lewes. It ap pears that Mr. Elwyn, whose farm adjoins Mr. Guy's, has a bull which broke through into a field where Mr. Guy's bull was grazing. A fearful conf•ict took place be tween the animals. They fought with the most fearful violence for upwards of a quarter of an hour; and our in formant says that one of them had his horn broken off close•to the head. They fought till they were almost ex hausted, when the man on the farm succeeded in separating them.—Brighton Gazette. SUICIDE.—A person named Meek had re le time past in Green Arbour-court, Old London, where, it is generally believed„ he had ated considerable property by working at his SS a and collecting rents. Between eight sided for sot Bailer d nine o'clock on Tt ...esday morning he came out of his house, and entered into cheerful conversation with some vintners' porters. Shortly afterwards he sallied forth jot° the Old Bailey, and deliberately cut throat in the He staggered once or twice, and then fell ground, the blood at the time . gishing from the wound, which lie had inflicted with a knife. open stree ITCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. Wifs'ltAM'S SHIP YARD.—On Wednesday morning, about two o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive range of premises belong to Messrs. Wi2ram and Co., the well known ship builders of Blackwall. The engines soon arrived, and were worked with full vigor for some considerable time, when the firemen at length got the mastery over the destructive element. The damage done may be thus narrated:--The greater por:ion of the -store-houses destroyed, a portion of the mast-house burned, a consi derable quantity of timber and stores consumed, and serious injury to the steam machinery, &c. The firm was not insurCd ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.— On Tuesday last, while three men who had boon appre hended for poaching at Norton Disney, on the night pre vious, were being conveyed by four keepers, in an open carriage, on the'Midland Railway to Lincoln, for exami nation by the magistrates, one of them, named William Harrison, suddenly placed his hand upon the top of the carriage, and leaped out upon the line, while the train was going at full speed through Skellingthorpe Wood. He appeared not to have sustained any injury by his dreadful leap, for although he was pitched over upon the embankment, be instantly arose, and, after beckoning to the keepers to follow him, rapidly darted into the field, sad escaped.—Lincalizthire Chronicle. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BRIGHTON.—About four o'clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out in that fashionable locality known as Brunswick-terrace, in a house belonging to Philip Salomons, Esq.., high sheriff of Sussex. Mr. Salomons had recently purchased the house, and for the last few weeks it had been undergoing a thorough alter ation. The fire lasted from four to eight o'clock, when one of the noblest mansions on Brunswick-terrace was completely gutted. It is calculated that the house was worth from £3OOO to £4000; it was insured in the Alliance Fire Office. The adjoining houses, it is supposed, have sustained damage to the amount of £lOO each. BURY ST. EDMUNDS.—Mr. John Stuart, the recently elected member for this borough, having accepted the va cant office of vice-chancellor, the Conservative electors held a meeting on Wednesday, at which it was resolved to support Mr. Henry James Porteous Oakes, eldest son of Mr. Oakes, of Norton Court, and head of the banking firm of Oakes, Bevan, and Co., as successor of the hon. and learned gentleman, whose seat will be necessarily va cated by his well-merited professional elevation. Mr. H. J. P. Oakes has consented to stand, his politics being identical with those of Earl Derby's Government. — Morning Herald. ATTACK UPON BRITISH SHIPPING IN THE DARDA NELLES.—Oar Gibraltar correspondent sends us the fol lowing communication :—" Captain George Reed, of the British barque Polly, of Newcastle, which vessel arrived liera on the 16th from Tagan rog an d C ons t an ti nop l e , makes the following report :—' On 3d July, at one o'clock, a.m., whilst the barque was coming down the Dardanelles, the Turks fired 12 guns of round and grape which carried away one of the topmast a erect quantity of small rope, and cut „..ff topsail into ribbons ; , dispatched the bo a t to the old _Ale of Europe, with thelurlash pass given hi m a t Con stantinople, and two dollars which they (the Turks) de manded ; but as the boat approached they fired at her, would not allow the crew to land, and even refused to take the pass. The captain could not bring the vessel to an anchor, in consequence of a strong current running down, and a gale of wind blowing, the windlass being broken at the time. Captain Reed gives publiciiy to this, in order that some notice may be taken, to prevent the like occurring again,' "-'Shipping Gaieties to her, EXTRAORDIXARY FRAUD IN —The Postmaster-General to a considerable extent had some official connected with the postof John Ramsey, the I sent down to Il way any j detecting the guilty part swich, on Monday last, for the I Oa arriving at Ii pad to make PrOurc o'clock on Tuesds who was directed to h She - lcirake t by all respectable chemists, perfumers, and stationers upon them by the clerk in the office. Mr. Ramsey also gave the man 2s. 6d. marked, with instructions to pay the postage out of that. Morphew accordingly deli vered the packets at the office to a clerk named Frederick Jos. Sheldrake, who, having weighed them, demanded ls. Bd. for the stamps required to be put upon them. _ll sum demanded was accordingly paid t phew with the marked money, there being no other per son in the office, as alleged, but Sheldrake, at the time. Morphew immediately returned to the Inspector-General, who was in waiting at the police-station, to whom he gave the change he had received from Sheldrake. About an hour afterwards the Inspector-General went to the po,t office, and informed the parties in attendance who he was, at the same time asking for the packets he bad sent by Morphew. Mr. Fitch, the postmaster, producedthem, and Mr. Rams-y at once saw that the stamps upon them had been previously made use of. He then -" drake, and upon being informed that he had left f aired for Shel• ar dinner the Inspector-Generil, accompanied by Superintendent Mason, of the borough police, left the office, and proceeded to Sheldrake's house, and communicated to him t he object of their visit. Sheldrake, upon being told that he must be searched, voluntarily produced from his pockets upwards of 200 penny and twopenny postage stamps, all of which bore the obliterating mark. The police superintendent then searched him, and found upon him money amounting to £l5, among which was found one of the marked shillings. Sheldrake was then given into custody on a charge of having embezzled the shilling, the property of her Ma jesty, and he was at once removed to the station-house. After a further minute examination of the money the second marked shilling was found. A search was after wards made at Sheldrake's house, where, in a writing desk, were found a few more postage-stamps, all of which bore the obliterating mark, showing that they had gone through the post-office. In his office-coat more stamps were found, and also a small quantity of paste folded in brown paper. The prisoner was taken before the mayor and borough magistrates on Thursday last, and the above facts were deposed to in evidence, after which he was fully committed for trial at the sessions. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he was " not guilty." The magistrates refused to accept bail, as it was intimated by Mr. Ramsey that there was another charge of a similar character against him. The prisoner, who is respectably connected, has been in the Ipswich post-office for five years, and Mr. Fitch, the postmaster, stated that he had never had any reason to suspect his honesty till now. The prisoner was married about three weeks since. A FASTING WOMAN.—An account appears in the Ipswich Express of a female emulator of Bernard Cava nagh, of fasting celebrity, which is however accompanied by circumstances of an almost blasphemous character. In June, 1850, it is stated that she left school (having been when there of a very studious disposition), on account of a spinal affection ; and was sent to the Suffolk Hospital, where she remained for about six weeks, and was after wards taken home. When there she became worse, and lock-jaw set in, depriving her, as alleged, of the power of swallowing, and she lived for a considerable time upon milk, which was poured down her throat. The account goes on to state that" at Midsummer, 1851, she recovered from her lock-jaw, but it was alleged that she had previously been seized with blindness and deafness—faculties which she did not regain. The way in which she had lived began to be talked off, and some excitement was occasioned among the gossips of the neighbouring villages. But at about this time the writings and speeches of the child occasioned considerable interest, which was heightened by the asser tion that she still ate no food. Persons living in the locality came to visit her, and found the patient in a hum ble apartment, supported on her bed by pillows, with a countenance which most of them called "angelic," but which certainly was remarkable for its singularly devo tional cast, and from the great intelligence which beamed from it. Although it was alleged she could not see, her eyes remained open, and but little defect could be observed in them- To her visitors who sympathised with her she would say, when lamenting bur deafness and blindness, that ' what she had learned during health were the tools she had to make use of during her illness.' Every hour that passed away added to the excitement, and spread her fame wider and wider from her native village. At all hours of the day parties wended their way to her cottage, and, no sooner had they gazed on the child, than they were interested in her—an interest that had a strange dash of mystery in it when they were assured that for nearly two years not a particle of solid food had passed her lips. But the moment she began to speak she fairly enchained the sympathies of her hearers. For the most part her re marks applied to religious subjects, on which she would descant with a beauty of language, power of thought, and devotion of mind to which old divines could make little pretensions, and she became to be regarded as a being who had some direct mission to accomplish on behalf of Deity." Shortly afterwards, she began to assure her visitors that she had seen a vision of angels, one of which number had consented to be her constant guardian ; and she begged that God would grant her an immediate manifestation, and, after a while, as the credulous reporter of the Express states:—" Her prayer was answered in this wise—while her visitors were deeply engaged in devotional exercises, a ringing noise was heard, as if proceeding from a small tumbler glass that stood some distance from her. The sound excited the attention of those who were present, who listened in wonder to her statemeist that whenever it sounded it was swept by the invisible wings of the angel that attended her, and was a direct manifestation from Heaven of the presence of God. Often and often did this mysterious ringing occur, and always when they were most devout ; but the visitors were unable to account for it. She often, although deaf, expressed much anxiety that it should ring, and after its peculiar sounds had been beard she seemed bathed in a sort of ethereal inspiration, during which her thoughts flowed from her lips, burdened with devotion and religious zeal." The same reporter is compelled to acknowledge that it was the general opinion that she could see and hear, and that:—" Regarding the ringing of the glass, we ought to add that she has in her room a glass barmonicon, which frequently laid on her bed, and on which she was very fond of playing, though we cannot conceive what delight she could take in music that she could net hear. The belief is that this is the means by which the ringing is occasioned; that, in lieu of the invisible angel's wings, she touched it under the bed clothes while her visitors were absorbed in their devo tions." By the last accounts, she had been fasting from food altogether, and committees, partly composed of learned doctors, had been watching her. But unfortunate facts oozed out, of a nature which we cannot explain, but which satisfy us that she is not only an imposter, but that she has been indoctrinated into imposture by most igno rant parties. The fact is acknowledged—" That the girl is undoubtedly an extraordinary character—that at the beginning of her illness she certainly took but little to sustain life—that reports of her abstinence from food spread widely—that the cottage was besieged—that its humble occupant was lionized—that the parents had their vanity flattered and their pockets replenished, and that the thing has gone on to the present moment, interspersed with many extraordinary circumstances." Had certain unfortunate discoveries not taken place, we should cer tainly have heard of her case being a miracle. THE SUMMER RIDE OR PROMENADE.—The peculiar virtues of C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA completely remove the difficulty experienced by Ladies in preserving their ringlets after exercise; its use so invi gorates the hair, that tresses, previously the straightest and most destitute of curl, rapidly acquire a vigour which maintains in permanent ringlets the head-dress of the most persevering votary of the ball-room, the ride, or the promenade. After the minerals and vegetables of the old world have been compounded in all imaginable ways in fruitless attempts to discover so important a desideratum, we are indebted to the Western Hemisphere for furnishing the basis of OLDRIDGE'S BALM ON COLUMBIA, the effi cacy of which in preserving, strengthening, and renewing the hair has become a mattet of notoriety among all civi lized nations. Its restorative vir teriare indeed a proverb, and the most sstisfaCtory a stations to its infallibility in reproducing hair upo persons otherwise hopelessly bald, have been public d from time to time by the pro prietors, 13, Wellin on-street North, Strand, London. OLDRIDGE'S BAL causes eye-brews to grow, prevents the hair from to ing grey, and the first application causes it to curl beau ully, frees it from scurf, and stops it from falling off. mndance of certificates of the first respec tability are town by the proprietors. 3s. 6d., 65., and lls. per bottle; no other prices are genuine. When you ask for " Oldridge's Balm" never let the sFi= l- - suade you to buy any other article as a subititutt piieepers per- Snla HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, A CERTAIN CURE FOR SCURVY, LEPROSY, SCROFULA, AND ALL DISEASES OF THE SKlN.—Tye—treTivines , Weariness dejection of spirits, and otl or-impressions usually attend, ant on those who suff row diseases of the skin, are speedily removed by e use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills. The efficac of these medicines, in correcting the bad habit of bo , and in curing complaints of the class above wenti ed, stand unrivalled (and in many parts abroad, w e the malady is so prevalent, the cures are wonderful the purifying prop er ti es o f the pills, and t h e peculiar effect the ointment has on the skin, render them superior to any other remedy. month ago I Ira SARA H SANI This fine steame meats r ►s now lay nlia, anc ,rig for Aust r after have seen. , affords a I so that there &USTRALIAN STEAMER t of co ;eafort. B 1 the spar n officer ,g in the Wellington Dock it is stated that there will f her appointed d e 14th from Liverpool, and 18th f ao post Her decks 1 in sad confusion, from saloon is re ass of accommodation. On the lower c and the cabins are count of economy ; fc , ure convenience and ps, is rend n Queenstown multitude tent exertions to ner for her 1 d lofty ed from taint in that leek the he be avowed w expense the lower deck, usua main deck, and numerous large v - entilator; fr leck will secure an ample circulation. We ptain Patey, a zh the Sarah Sands would not actually lie subject Emigration Comrt he New Passenger ners till the Ist of October comes into operatior believe that no such supei vision, as to the space allotted to passeneers, and ether important details, took place in the case of any of the steamers which have already left for Australia, as they have been exempted by their mail We have observed a great change in the appearance a , • this ship since her last voyage. Her machinci 3 , been informed, has undergone a thorou.th overhauling and she has been docked and inspec'ed, and found tho roughly sound. Her rig is somewhat altered, and we for the better, the third - -ed for being exalting It is ex mast t both her sailing and steaming qualities will be greatly iroved. It is to be remarked that she made the last age from New York in 15 days, when the Manchester, Tack screw steame )out the same time, took 17 days s all very satisfactory, so far 'or the same vos essel is concerned ; but o corn steamers, and it must be recognized as better t best which has, up to the present time, been published A fall complement of water, in tanks and casks, is to be carried, independent of the distillator. which is adequate to furnish between 2000 and 3000 gallons daily. Expe rienced medical attendants, stewards, and stewardesses, for both classes, are engaged. With regard to precautions against fire, the strictest regulations will be enforced, and a full allowance of fire annihilators will be carried in the different parts of the ship. During the week it is intended to allow free admission general inspection. The a, whore, admirable at he rates of p Oat the voyage may be expected to be' made in 65 or 76 days, there is great advantage in proceeding in such a It is evident that the economy of time and re sources in the colony will be great, and even the poorer classes, who cannot afford this mode of conveyance, are indirectly benefited by the low fares of steamers, as they have influenced the rates of sailing ships so far as to bring fares which had been progressively augmenting, so ,he latter are now reduced to nearly their original stank._ The departure from Kingstown is an important feature in this voyage. To Irish emigrants, no doubt, it highly beneficial, and to many English and Scotch p. sengers, especially of the first class, it will afford an im portant opportunity to join the ship some days later than if obliged to embark here, while no serious inconvenience lan be experienced by those first embarking. The c ', Sands was built in 1847, so that she is now She has been round Cape Horn twice, t will be five years old a two years on the Californian station, and, lough not what is called a fast vessel, her sailing quali- havinz ties have been well tried. The chief mate informed us that in passing the Horn she met with the most trying weather, and made an average between nine and ten knots without steam. In her last voyage out to New York, she encountered terrific bead winds, (the same which were so favourable for the homeward voyage of the Great Britain.) and she proved herself a staunch and safe sea boat. This must give confidence to the passengers, while the urbanity, tact, and seamanship of Captain Thompson are too well known here to require comment or eulogy. It is, therefore, with every assurance of favourable cir cumstances, as wrll as in the arrangements of the ship as in the propitious weather at this season, that we antici pate for the passengers a happy and prosperous voyage. — Mining Journal. TOWN COUNCIL MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Council was held on nesday, in the Council Chamber, Town-hall; Thomas Littledale, Esq., in the chair. FINANCE COMMITTEE The proceedings of the Finance Committee comprised .Recommendation to appoint Mr. George Craven to the situation of inward bool:..keeper and assistant to the in ward computer in the Town Dues office, in lieu of Mr. Ashley, at the same salary of £lOO per annum. The pro ceedings were confirmed. THE APPOINTMENT OF NEW MAGISTRATES. Mr. J. B. LLOYD requested that the report of the spe- cial committee appointed to recommend the names of six gentlemen to the Secretary of State, to be appointed ma. 0 gistrates in the borough, should be first taken.—After a l,lng discussion, in which many members complained of the informality of the Report, it was decided, by a majo rity of 19 to 18, that it should not be read. WATCH COMMITTEE The proceedings of this committee contained a recom mendation to enter into an agreement with the Gas-light Company for lighting the public lamps for a period of seven years, on the same terms, subject to some condi tions. The proceedings were confirmed without discussion. The proceedings of the Dock Committee, which were of an ordinary character, were passed without discussion. ST. GEORGE'S HALL The proceedings of this committee having been read; and Mr. J. B. LLYOD having intimated he was about to move a resolution to rescind or alter the resolution of the council of the 18th of May last, giving an instruction to the Law Courts Committee to provide accommodation for the recorder, so that he may hold all future sessions in one of the new courts, a letter was read from the recorder, asking the council not to deny him the use of one of the new courts, and suggesting some plans which might be adopted, to prevent the holding of sessions interfering with the works proceeding in the body of the hall. Mr. Lloyd's resolution was agreed to, it being distinctly un derstood that the sessions were to be continued in the new court, some method to be adopted to exclude the public from the great hall, so that the workmen should not be interfered with, a new access being given to the court.—The proceedings of the Markets' Committee were confirmed without discussion, as were also the proceed ings of the. Educational and Town-hall Establishment Committees. From the latter it appeared the mayor's state carriage had been purchased for £450 from Mr. GAOL COMMITTEE. From the 'proceedings. of this committee. it appeared that the late governor, Mr. Duke, was a defaulter to the amount of £520, and the Town-clerk was directed to pro ceed against his sureties. It was also intimated that a report would be presented as to the system of cash trans actions in the gaol. The proceedings were confirmed. HEALTH COMMITTEE The proceedings of this commit mendation to increase the salary of Mr. Wm. M superintendent of scavengers, from £l3O to £l4B num , the consideration of which was postponed at the last monthly Council, pursuant to standing orders ; also a recommendation to grant permission to the Wavertree Local Board of Health, on payment of a sum of £lOOO, to d a reconc form a communication wi sewer of Liverpool. The pi WATCH COM The proceedings of this committee contained a letter from Mr. Venn, written from London, in which he said, We have completed the taxation of Mr. Watson's bill of costs, and Mr. Stutter's charges as arbitrator. I give you the figures as under : Total amount of bill, and S.'s charges £951 10 1 532 18 6 Taxed off Allowed I offered £55 in satisfaction of Mr. Stutter's bill, but this was refused, and the taxation insisted upon. The master allowed him £54 13s. 9d., taking from his hill £164 4s. 9d. Enfield Fletcher, £9l 193., taken off £65 ; Philip Parker (Preston), £42 12.. 3d.. taken off, £32 2s. 3d.; Jones, £33 33. 6d., taken off £lB 12s. ; E, Grundy's bill. £3l Is., taken off £24 3s. ; Mr. Bateman (engineer of Manchester Waterworks), £59183., taken off £32 9s. ; Mr. Ayres, £25 3s. 6d., taken off, £l6 16s 64 ; Mr. James Hardcastla (Bolton), £2l, taken off, £l5 155." The above were witnesses in an inquiry into the value of some land belonging to Mr. Andrews, at " Rivington. Mr. Watson was the solicitor for Mr. Andrews. The proceed ings were confirmed, The proceedings of the Library and Museum and Car and Coach Committee were then read and confirmed. The proceedings of the Bath Committee contained a recommendation to construct sixteen additional private warm baths at George's Pierhead, at an estimated cost of £1,300; but, after some discussion, it was suggested this should be postponed, it being suggested that the Dock Committee might soon require the site of the baths. APPOINTMENT OF A NEW MAGISTItATES P CLERK. A communication was read from the magistrates, in— forming the Council that Mr. Garnett had been appointed magistrates' clerk, in the room of Mr. Jamebon, and recommending that the salary of Mr. J. M. Anderson be increased from £75 to .£ll.O per annum. To stand over in pursuance of the standing orders._ IMPROVEMENT OF THE BOROUGH Mr. SAMUEL HOLME then moved 04 the Improvement Committee to consider .. plan for the improvement of the borough, committee be empowered to frame a NI, to ' lsdpopulation legislative to the Council, preparatory t o an ...- " p o r r o v hundredse ent s. ; aAI ment, in the next sessio n , poured through thoroughfares which tendedsarY m im f absolutely nec essary to enable those in authority to widen the public stre e t s , to open public thoroughfares where they were impe rat i ve l y demanded, to pay attention to the paving and severing o f th e streets, interference became and likewise to give a free acces s to t h e town, and the free circulation of air, without vvhirth it became stagnant, and, consequently, unhealthy. (H ear .) Th e Council would not be com pelled to adopt their suggestions when the committee reported to them ; but he must say that Church.st had become almost impassable, an d a n--- it be referred to a Comprehensive and that the be submitted on to Parlia to effect the neces creased, thousands were originally in- for powe sslty existed )st crowded thorough `* st Derby, Everton, to be widened, or have to be made to lar route obviated. Jroperty situated in xe, he pointed out , e around the out localities to- for relieving the traffic in that no' fare. As population increased in I &c., either Church-street would hi a new and better thoroughfare wou the Exchange, and the present ell After referring to a very low clas s the immediate vicinity of the Excl the desirability of a boulevard or dr skirts of the town, connecting the variot gether In conclusion, he assu re d th e C ounc il h e had _ no interest in the improvements he foreshadowed. Ur TifoluesoN seconded the resolution, which m e t th e unanimous approval of the Council. The proceedings terminated at two o'clock t t 6