The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

MEDICAL PUPIL. SURGEON, engaged in extensive practice in the _A neighbourhood of Liverpool, wishes to receive a well nicated YOUTH to reside with him as a PUN where he will have the comforts of a quiet family, a at care will be :Atten to direct and assist him in his s es. He will be allowed to_ c ommence his lectures and ital attendance the third Year, and at the expiration ve years be ready for his exa mination. ..../11_3ply_by letter, ad eased AB C, Standard-office. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. LOANS OF MONEY. THE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are willing to rec eive LOANS of MONEY on the securit of he Bonds of the Tp~-trustees of the Liverpool Docks ra e of Four Pounds r Centtun per Annum Int , for periods of either Three, r, or Sev en Y ears. nterest paya bl e h ere or i n L on d on. II offers to be ressed to G EORGE W IT HER S , Esq., Treasurer to the • erpool Docks, Dock-office, Liverpool. By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. ice, ce, Liver p ool , March, 1850. LIVERPOOL BOROUGH PRISON. PERSONS willing to CONTRACT for supplying the ThLIVERPOOL BOROUGH PRISON with the following A RTICLES, for One Year. commencing the 20th instant, are requested to send Tenders, with Samples, directed to the Go. 'MINOR of the Gaol, on or before the 18th insta t: For PRISONERS' CLOT Gray Cloth, at per yard. lied Cloth, at per yard. Double Twilled Flanne or Drawers, at per yard. Scarlet and Blue Fl el. for Sinalets. at per yard. F EDDING, &c. BI ets, 7 feet by 4. per pair. gs, 7 feet by 4. each. Scouring Flannel. at per lb. __The above Articles are to be deliver e d , from time to time, in "Ch quantities as the Governor may direct, and subject to his APProval of the quality. &c. jtlformation as to the probable consumption, kc. may be 13 _,_ °t ailled at the Prison, where Samples can also be seen. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. 1, LCTIN OF DOCK ATEAYERS. To th e ME E RCHANTS O OWNSRS, R and PA P RT-OWNERS of SHIPS, and other PERSONS DULY QUALIFIED to VOTE f or the ELECTION of TWELVE LIVERPOOL DOCK RATEPAYERS to be MEMBERS of the DOCK COM MITTEE. ITHOMAS LITTLEDALE, Esquire, Chairman of "The Committee for the Affairs of the Estate of th e IN_ ustees of the Liverpool Docks," in pursue eiff the powers !ad provisions of "The Liverpool Dock , 1851," do hereby rnvene a M HETI NG of the DOCK PAYERS of LIVER VOL, (duly qualified as hereina mi ntioned,) to be holden WEDNESDAY, the 13th du August instant, between the .....ours of Eleven of the Clo in the Forenoon and Four of the t Vock in the Afternoon the DOCKOFFTCE. in Liverpool, for & purpose of fl ,LECTION. NOMINATION, and AP ,- u INTM ENT WELVE DOCK RATEP A YERS t o b e the e said COMMITTEE, in the manner and for ' ll e Periods in the said Act mentioned. Candidates for Election to the said Office must not be Mem. !:era of the Liverpool Town Council, must be natural born, or r u alY naturalized subjects of the United Kingdom, must have esided in Liverpool, or within eight miles therefrom, for rive Wears last past, and must each have paid, nithin one year then ast, Dock-rates to the amount of .£25 on his individual account, 1 ) 2 1 : as Agent for others residing not less than eight miles from %erpool, or 490, if paid by any House of Trade in Liverpool lb which he may be a Partner. The Ratepayers qualified as Electors to - vote at such Election M'et_e those Persons who, during one year then last aforesaid, respectively paid, as Principals or Agents, as irerPool Dock-rates to the amount of .elO, and whose names )W aPPear on the Revised AlphabeticarPrinted List ot Persons Llualified, which List has been duly published, according to and may at any time be inspected at the Dock-office. THOMAS LITTLEDALE. D ock -office, Liverpool, 2d August, 1851. ti e9NOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Right Hon. Sir T. Frankland Lewis, Bart., 11LP. , Chairman. Henry Frederick Stephenson. Esq., Demti y- Chairman. m._ 4 OENTS FOR LIVERPOOL—T. 0. COOPER and SON. 'uICAL REFEREE FOR Ihrro—F. WORTHINGTON, Esq. Thp ADVANTAGES • Lowest Rates of Premium-on the Mutual i System. - "e whole of the Profits divided among Assured every 7., Fifth Year. - "e sum of £274,000 was added to t Policies at the last Df. vision, which produced an av age Bonus of -624 per .rt Cent. on th e P rem i ums p a id .'he Assurance Fund exceeds 1,0-17,00. Income, £lBO,OlO Der Annum. Loan s granted on such olicies as are purchasable by the Society. YOr further parti ars apply to A ' ANDER MACDONALD, Secretary, 8, New Bridge-street. Blackfriars, London ; t eiter o the followin Agents : Iltlapoot... Or. Messrs. T. f O. COOPERandSON, 7, Rumford street. AV /c heater .... T. M. Baines, Esq., 3, Pool Fold Chambers. c h `tot ........ Henry Glover, Esq. er Messrs. Edwards and Roberts, Old Bank. rtiezhaeas John Bury, Esq. San Ralph Darlington, Esq. DES TRUCTIVE FIRES IN GLASGOW, MAN CHESTER, LINCOLN'S-INN, &c. ILNEICS "TIOLDFAST" and FIRE-RES t l s S af T e. - tu ING SAFES are the strongest, best, and che apest th e t,in e the world against fire, robbery, and fiau 72 ' 0,000 f safe- Lip the books, deeds, and cash of the practical men of ON, vol,v. Manchester , Glasgow , &c., who know their supert tio r z? any others. Five of have brought their contents ye or .tned out of the ruins of large fires in Glasgow alone this Tv,,,, , wherein scores of other snfes have been . burnt out. in o ne - five o ffi ces were burnt out in L i ncoln ' s -inn in January, tlit4'„e alone of Which rle title-deeds of thirty la g ;1ii, 1 2, were burnt, which would all have beee prese t rad fo ip . ',,,Nvisi".' - ! Safes. From some hundreds o f . certificates , xl s etyfbn selected, as one out of . many . instances n which "llie r ;"le was consumed in the buildings excepting - what ' &Safe contained : ir, A Clyde-street, A nd . erston, Manua May 7, 1949. Wili„' L entlem " en,— . At the calamitous firrterday morning, by t t' ll e ,;21 ou r pretorses, and ock of oil allow, l!ec., were o a y NerOyed, our books wer e , presery in the Milner's Fireproof ou We ave great pleasure in thus be ar ' in P g u t l e c s i t ' i a m se o d ny ti :t o o n t ' he gr'eat ciency of tlicse Safes. CHARLES BOYD and CO." This Safe was most sev y tested; the brass knob and b rass " ark about the lock we melted off. "Glasgow, 10th February, 1849. p. " Gentlemen,—T hooks and papers which we had in your f or ' r e - resisting Sa , which was subjected to a most intense heat )11 s everal hou at the late fire in Gordon-stre et, on Thursday I re 'lt, were wholly preserved—the property sa ved being of ex in a pe importance to vs. We have, therefore, great pleasure Co mmunicating this fact, deeming your Safes invaluable as laienlaseor ion against fire, and an invention with which the pub ok-untit be too well acquain ted .— We ~ are. gentlemen, your The outside servants, KER, DORRIYG, and CC." "e outside of the above Safe was completely burnt through. :: Messrs. Ib r o i ' i nn lei h a% Rani e t Robbers: Resistance to Robbers: Thos. Milner antl Son , Liv erpool. 4,-.Gentemen—Or Milner's Safesvas attempted to b n e bro - - si4 Pen hast n i ght ; but., _notwithstanding the per door violence with which the robbers have gr worked ea a a d t p t e l l ; t.lir„ a rtd back of the Safe (both of which.are neaten in anncut osti:/sa the ou t er p l ates i n numerous places), the lock and als,;,!einained true, and saved the contents. Yo u m a y se n d -mother Milner's Holdfast Safe, No. 6. " Q;RICHARDSON and CO. "Glasgow, 28th December. r a 4 n B ' 5 c . l7ester, August 13th, 1847. tir:i°entlemen,—ln the late fire in Market-street, whic w h ar n a: 110,). grated the whole block of buildings of which my Thai " k rtned part, I have sincere pleasure i n , infor_m e Wstchn'Y geh with a quantity in , yaluabl nl i f n a g p y e_ r r o e s u , exist es &e., were preserved uninjured in ,o_ne o y r . Fi - alb, ,',,_g Safes. which I strongly recommend to the pubic.—l .-ur obedient servant. " THOMAS HAIGH. I ' i l:l NV ... °°ll en Merchant, New Brown-street, and Market-street. 11 1 - 1,! .5 . Milner and . * hie! "e. numerous accidental fires and experimen s t c a r l i t t e i s a t a s of . I Milner's Safes have been exposed to, ever yde P I 'llrl i g i re in use—fireproof (so called) or otherwise—h ve been aci,nt.ont beside them, confirming the recommenda tio n a o! the Ihe Pate 'fi and practical authorities who have tested t hem , and Rtr,,ntees, during seven years' active working of their taatl" en a rapidly extending scale, have spared no pains nor Ple4Cu effecting improvements, by which they are enabled to si )d 4e t hemselves at all times to supply the most complete . laelt;',ei:ure depositories for books, documents, and valuables , , w ort,i lg the strongest wrought-iron safes an d . closets in the 'ut o ' r fined with their unequalled fire-resisting chambers. 'atioi u pwards of 20,000 of their safes in use amongst the elsa, cturing and commercial houses in Great Brita n—the_ w best able to a reciate their value—numerous cases . of I hrity ) . o rl :ria . l in accidental tires have occurred, from which whjet lner and Son select the following as instances, in w ito,l 4 j L t ileY are of opinion that no other safe than their own k, tr ite .. "..T: Preserved its contents unburnt :- 1, - ,, r eet .);" r. J. B. Black alley's Ship Chandlery Store, Sparling -"rtie.'-'verpool : a strong and fierce fire; safe most severely h t Pir,,"`Ltside • contents unsinged. il'ilti h at Mess so 1 and W. Walker's. the extensive builders, st -er n ;'''''‘l: buildings entirely gutted, everything in ; 41 4 4 'elading the contents of large iron safe and d rawers, `nd j,;ng beside 'Milner's; the contents of Milner's uninjured, 14 Pis; a te now ' q a; " Afars. Garniss and Co.'s, Park-lane: a very strong tin tl'e Dr4ineln is the contents of Ililner's Safe the only th ings saved Pir o m 41 'd d " Plimsaul Brothers, of Plymouth: a very extensive l'ith deatruetivehre; a large iron safe, covered with brickwork. 'lll,gZhie iron doors, burnt out; Milner's entirely preser oirir ~e n ntent s. -cu 'o e s . "..'quee a t Glasgow • a great number of safes and - 4 ,4- . oernt "tree ' t ' throughout the buildings 18 44 Dt,,,, g lies O s u r s t .; n 8 v R! " and Thomas Brown's, in Milner's fo li tilne r , . li., 11 Fire-resng Safes, Cables, and Boxes, suitable s t h l ` 414648 f buildings, Impregn able Locks and Cash Berms, .4111. 4 Work O , sty --st re a, .oA and 54, Lord-st gn reet, Liverpool, and 47 to 57, t et. st, Liverpool, and London Depot 47A Moolgate. . *. ..........—. 0 r ,.." ------- 0 ., - "nth e ir- T-.R . DISTURBANCE IN DENISON-STREET..— I(4NC di sturbance took place in this haunt yesterday s?Laes !' and during the affray a sailor, named Hugh Oly:ttri^das .seveey 'thjured. His head was beaten hor aPitehj"s lip, which was cut down to the chin, had to efleci,;" 1, 1 3 - He is lying in the Northern Hospital. ti,_ . 1?ojt-i,, YESTERDAY.—A working man of the name t irilay , ", while passing along the King's Dock pier yes 4ellto. a cci dent:illy slipped on the locality of a vessel N; a 4l I. ' " Palm oil ; he fell upon his arm, and a . eoin (4tber'auture was the consequence. He is now in the , h ‘L' ott 4 ti nsital. 4 „,; u llrob t. Y in" CoNSIDFRATION.—The Rev. J. B. Lowe, I, , ,, a lttez' a n , of the has solicited the assistance of his li r ' 4 l Aft°" 01 following distressing case. Mr. Thos, , P oth, ' O P, late book-keeper to the firm of Maxwell and e arl hers of this they age ric , , town, has been removed by death, at the ' s f eld est 1,39 Years, leaving a widow and five children, el age, to 1 whom is thirteen and the youngest five years 0:4,11 all Y unProvided for. Mr. Alsop has been for tPlayZats a member of St. Jude's Church, and although k o kar is , %an humble position in life, has endeared himself ot °4 ete; g ,,Y his Christian consistency and activity in every Of NDs i .,•:: At the time of his death he filled the office leph• -.W voh• hick , en dent of the boys' Sunday school, the duties tio le ll heican° discharged with that diligence and fidelity It it a iiihed ' l a ? a man of God, and which universally dis ati- Drop () ' l°l in every department of the Lord's work. bi, ak, t . s ed to raise a fund, as a testimonial of respect tr it t be ,Z° for Ids me mory, to be laid out in whatever 'lke al 4viitjat adv antageous to his family, and several influ ti4lsilt orlicli have most kindly undertaken the man -41114 . t t l ua fund. NO doubt the Phi rim be ' 4)1 !-• liberal iy yetponded fo. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1851. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A TRARRSMAN.—The following is the "change in the fashion," to which our correspondent refers, and a very good " change" it is—and will, no doubt, be welcome to many tradesmen's tars :—" It is now." says the Morning Post, " generally known that her Majesty has go great a dislike to the accumu lation of ' bills' that no account incurred for her personal use or that of the royal children is permitted to remain in arrear a single day atter the limited period (three months) for its discharge has expired. The establishment of this practice has, we are informed. been productive of the most beneficial consequences at the west end of the metropolis especially, where it has been the custom to contract enor mous accounts-current with the leading houses. It is now considered an evidence of the highest ton to follow the ex ample of the Court in putting an end to the system of indefi nite accounts; and so desirous are the aristocracy to second the wishes of her Majesty in this respect. that in many of the establishments of the nobility and gentry similar directions are given." X. G.—The tenancy is clearly void, and the parties may be expelled. ANx.'ous.—No more ships will be sent in search of Sir John Franklin by the Government. L.—lt depends upon the exact terms of the agreement, which may be stamped at any time upon payment of the penalty, by applying at the Stamp-office. C. F.—You are liable to be sued upon the bill, although you have received no consideration. A LADY.—There is a winter garden in Paris something similar to that proposed to be made of the Crystal Palace. "AULD LANG SYNE" has our best thanks. His conjecture is correct 1M- We shall be happy at all times to receive communications on subjects of local or general interest; and if our friends will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged. tiberpoot -z)tanbarb+ TUESDAY MORNING, AUG, 12, 1851. THE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. WE propose to ourselves an annual task of review ing the Session of Parliament ; and, this year at least, if we only noticed good measures, the task would not involve any very extraordinary labour. English history celebrates several parliaments by particular epithets. We have had the Long Par liament, that was something more than a Venetian Senate,—the Convention Parliament, that was a Provisional Government,—the Barebones Parlia ment, that was a common rabble,—and the Parlia ment that would allow no barrister to sit, and on which the profession has revenged itself by qucting its acts as those of the parliamentum indoctum. or the illiterate parliament. But the Do-nothing Par liament was (beyond competition) that which was prorogued, we hope for the last time, on Friday. Six hundred and fifty-six gentlemen (for the two seats for ill-used Sudbury are pot yet given to the London University or the College of Maynooth) have sat from the beginning of February to the beginning of August, and have done scarcely any thing. The Speaker in bis address described the session as a " laborious" one, but its laboriousness was only shown in the extreme elaboration of trifles, and the House of Commons seemed by its dilatori ness to agree with Macbeth— The labour we delight in physics pain. The Bill against the pretensions of the Church of Rome was expected before the meeting of Parlia ment with the utmost anxiety by the nation. Even Lord John Russell's speech, in moving for leave to bring it in, was in the spirit of his letter to the Bishop of Durham ; but the bill itself was as like what the nation expected as the armaments of the German Landgrave were like his promises, who is said to have issued a manifesto against Napoleon, and raised, to effectuate it, thirteen men and a fiddler. Thanks to various assistances from without, the bill has . gone some way towaris being an effectual measure ; but Sir Frederic Thesiger is solely to be praised for the fact that it is not inoperative and a laughing stock. The ministers must really have meant to deceive the country.: to pass an act of Parliament merely against one particular bull of the usurping Bishop of Rome, and not to extend it to any other hulls, was mere trifling. Sir Frederic Thesiger saw this, and carried his amendment, that "all such bulls" should be equally prohibited; and the first fruits of Sir Frederic's labours are that Priest Wriale has altered his account at his banker's, from the name of the •` Lord Archbishop of 'Fuam" to that of the "Most Reverend John WHale"—the " Lion of the fold of Judah" (as lie was blasphemously named) having not the slightest desire to run against an indictment under the act. Already, therefore, the ex-Attorney-General's clause has had excellent effect. The most remarkable circumstance about the late Popish impertinence has been that they venture to attempt in a Protestant country what they dare not in a country entirely Popish. This determination of Popish sovereigns to refuse the domination of the Romish Church has not been a thing of yesterday. Don Pedro de Ronquillos, the Spanish ambassador, told James IL, by order of his court, that if he estab lished Popery he would repent it; and when James indignantly asked bim, " Did they never in Spain consult with their confessors ?" Don Pedro answered, "Yes, we do, and that is the reason our affairs go so ill?" But what Popish Spain would not tolerate in the seventeenth cen tury, Protestant England was expected in the nine teenth to submit to. The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, however, is passed, and it rests with the public to see that it is effectuated. Of the various strange incidents to which the complete imbecility of the Administration gave rise, the most remarkable was the sudden elevation into notice of some of the smallest men of the house, by their being enabled to beat the ministry. Like Charles XII. they fell by— . A doubtful quarrel and a nameless hand, for surely the last man who might have hoped to upset a ministry was Mr. Locke King, and the last question likely to be carried against them was a point of the Charter. Yet so it was. On the 24th of February, Lord John Russell pretended to resign because Mr. Locke King had carried a resolution in favour of a £lO household franchise. The Whigs in this case were like Mr. Mantalini poison ing himself to obtain a further allowance. They knew that the Queen was averse to a dissolution in the Exhibition year. They knew that no Protec tionist minister in his senses would dissolve in seed time, and give the farmers the choice of deserting their candidates or losing their substance. They knew, in short, that they must be sent for again, and so, to obtain forbearance for the remainder of the session, like Mr. Mantalini, they " poisoned themselves positively for the last time—demmit Doubtless this proceeding was visible enough to Lord Stanley, and he accordingly refused office. His lordship, however, in his explanation, spoke as a sine qua non of " official experience" being needed in a government. We cannot for an instant see the necessity. Official experience seems to us to wed men merely to forms and routine—to make them red-tapists, but not statesmen. Pitt had little official experience when be was recalled from the western circuit to become Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and there was as little official experience about Bolingbroke or Harley ; while, on the other hand, who will doubt the official experience of Lord John Russell, who has stuck to office with indomi table perseverance ; or Lord Palmerston, who has been in every ministry of all sides of politics since " the memory of maxi runneth not to the contrary?" The people of England will freely forgive in an administration the want of such experience as was likely to be gained by a connexion either with the Whigs or with the followers of Peel. The first use of their reinstated position made by the minister 6 was an attempt to carry out their compact with the Jews. Now if the government, or some portion of it, labour under the suspicion of corruption in this matter, they have themselves alone to blame. There is no public opinion in favour of the Jews. No man, not a Jew, has troubled himself seriously about the question, and it is absurd to say that civil or religious liberty is at all involved in the consideration. The question is between Christianity and the denial of Christi anity, and the House of Peers decided in favour of the faith of Christendom. Hence the fact that the bill was moved by ministers with the approval of the country, and thrown out by the Lords without creating disappointment. The result of Mr. Hume's motion respecting the Income-tax showed anything but a disposition towards a general system of direct taxation, and yet it is difficult to say on what principle those persons act who are at once free traders and advo cates for the abolition cf the odious impost which Sir Robert Peel (as his Elbing letter proved) consi dered inseparable from and co-existing with free trade. When the free trade policy was adopted, the income-tax was adopted along with it; for, the taxes thrown off, the country knows to its cost, were taxes for revenue and not for protection alone. The income-tax was a vulgar expedient —a cutting, not a loosing of the knot—and its effect upon all classes, those who pay it and those who do not, is equally disastrous. It is perfectly ridiculous to say that the bread of the poor has been freed from monopoly by free trade, and the income-tax only falls on the comparatively rich. It is notorious that people, both in their domestic and general expendi ture, have been economising with the direct object of "saving their income-tax," and such economy must and does fall heavily on the producing classes. It would take indeed a much greater advantage in the way of cheap food than has yet been given to the working classes, to compensate for the abso lute want of employment which has followed upon the imposition of the income-tax. For what reason the House of Commons last week refused to allow the evidence taken before the committee on the tax to be printed, does not very fully appear ; hut from the extreme anxiety of the Chancellor of the Exche quer to oppose the printing,it is probable that some thing amusing and instructive may be expected when it is allowed to appear. Doubtless if anything will teach the country how much it is likely to pay for free trade, the income-tax will be the most likely to give that lesson. The extinction of Mr. Cobden is one of the most remarkable instances of the total inability of what are called demagogues succeeding in the House of Commons. " I hope he will be elected," said Canning of Cobbett, "he will soon find his level here." Cobden has found his level, and a very dead level it is. His motion for instructions to the Foreign Secretary on the subject of keeping pea ce in Europe, was the very perfection of absurdity. Lord Palmerston laughed at him, as at a person trying by any means to keep his name before the public, and replied very truly in the strain that sneaking to France and seeking for treaties was the best possible mode of encouraging the French and their allies to go to war. No nation, as a nation, ever preferred war to peace. The necessities of governments and the ambition of kings may have created aggressions, and for such incidents the best preparation is that of effectual resistance. But Mr. Cobden must prate of reciprocity as Peter Peebles prated of his celebrated action-at-law. It is Mr. Cobden's sole stock-in-trade, as the action was Peter's, and he must do something for the very handsome subscription given him in consideration of the benefits of free-trade. The motion of the ,Marquis of Blandford on spiritual destitution was unproductive of any imme diate good results. Indeed, a House of Commons, which, by a solemn vote, twice repeated, denies "the true faith of a Christian," is little likely to assist the Church, or to consider Christianity of as much importance as cotton. They leave punishment to the police, and think prevention useless. If any testimony were needed to the inconsistency and absurdity of the present House of Commons, it would be their decision when Mr. H. Berkeley brought in his bill in favour of the Ballot. Whether or not it was that they were tired of the ministry, and would throw them out per fas aut nefas, they came to the chivalrous conclusion that an English man ought to be allowed to give his vote in secrecy, and deny immediately, if he was so disposed, the fact of his having so voted. Permission to intro duce a bill to effect this was, however, carried, and the present estimable House of Commons declared, for the ballot—a mode of election that must inva riably have this character, viz., that if any superior influence exists to force men to vote one way, the ballot, so far from making them independent, will simply make them cheats and hypocrit es . W e have not a " Venetian constitution," as Mr. D'lsraeli in Coningsby has told us, but we have sufficient espionage to let every one know how his neighbour votes, and the immediate Consequence of the ballot would be to make the poorer body of our fellow-subjects, who have the franchise, live a lie. Law Reform is the only matter in which, during the session, anything worthy of the name of pro gress has been made ; and that in that department anything has been done, is chiefly owing to Lord Brougham, with the exception of the law of patents, the disgraceful state of which has been at length brought before public attention, and the prospect given that such remarkable officials as the "deputy chaff-wax" will find— Some one, wandering near their ruined tower, Disturb their ancient solitary reign. On the whole, however, the session has been one of much talk and little work, " laborious" as the unfortunate Speaker may well call it. It is to be hoped that the next may be brought to a conclu sion by a dissolution, and the country obtain justice from a new administration, and a parliament not devoted to the foreigner. ELECTION OF DOCK COMMITTEE-MEN. The dock rate-payers of Liverpool will be called on to-morrow, to elect twelve gentlemen to represent them at the Dock Committee proceedings, and the various commercial bodies are evidently alive to the importance of the event. The recent Act of Parliament has completely changed the constitution of the trust, and questions of the liveliest interest will be brought before the newly formed board. The Town Council has -- already elected twelve members, arid the following list of the twelve chosen by the rate-payers has been issued, we believe, under the auspices of the Shipowners Assnciation and the American - Chamber of Commerce, and will, no doubt, receive a considerable amount of support : William Barber, Poulton-hall, Bebbington, Cheihire, mer chant. Thomas Bold, Fair Lawu, Banl:field-road, West Derby, iner chant. Ra'ph Brocklebank, Annesley, Aigburth, merchant. Eyre Evans, 73, Shaw-street. Everton, merchant. Samuel Robert Graves, 3, Falkner square, Liverpool, m chant. John Lockett, 65, Shaw-street, Everton, merchant. Joseph Ma Icomson, 6, Canning-street, Liverpool, merchant. William Nicol, 6. Abercromby-square, Liverpool. merchant. Robert Rankin, Bromborough-hall, Bromborough, Cheshire, merchant, Francis Shand, Sandtield-park, West Perby, tnerehant. James Smith, Seaford), Litherland, timber merchant. Henry Steele, 24, Abercromby-square, timber-merchant. RAILWAY ACCIDENT, YESTERDAY.—At the time one of the porters at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, was what is termed '' lighting" a load of cotton from a cart to a railway waggon, one of the hales (from the start ing of the horse in The cart) shifted,:and falling hrukc and severely mooed many of his ribs. THE NAVIGATION LAWS. THE advocates of the foreigner—the men who, to use the words of Canning's famous satire, " Are friends of every country but their own," succeeded, as our readers know, in repealing the acts that upheld our Mercantile Marine. In rela tion to the policy of this step, two publications are now before us, one containing a prophecy, and the other the record of its fulfilment. The first is a pamphlet entitled " The Navigation Laws—their History and Operation," by Mr. Houston Browne, L.L.8., barrister-at-law—a pamphlet largely circu lated at the time of its publication (1847) amongst the Shipping Interest; and the second is theßeport of the Committee of the General Shipowners' Society. Mr. Houston Browne, in referring to the legislation in favour of our marine, which, to use his own words, " Cromwell did and Washington approved, but which did not meet the approbation of Mr. Ricardo and Mr. Hume," gives, after a full history of the law, the following account of what might be expected from its repeal : '• The defence of the Navigation Law is talked of as the defence of a particular interest. If the trade of the na tion—the naval supremacy of the nation—the position of the nation amongst foreign kingdoms, be questions im portant only to a particular interest, then such are the Navigation Laws. But the repealers have declared, by the mouth of Mr. Ricardo, that they are fighting for one interest—for Manchester. The injury of the tnanufac turers is their watchword, and the exportation of cotton is the object to which all their energies are directed ; while the marine that they are assailing is described, in their own words, as the most flourishing in the world — demanding no interference of theirs to improve it, and provoking no complaint but from grasping foreigners and their advocates in England. On such grounds is the destruction of the navigation system sought ; nor is the shipping interest the only one that must fail before the cottonolatry that. prevails. In proportion as the task of forcing cottons into foreign countries is hemmed in with difficulties on every side, will t he demands of the manu facturers for the sacrifice of those interests increase in boldness and in number; and if one portion of the com mercial community is contented to look calmly on at the demolition of another, while the paradise of calico is as distant as before, they must be Contented to perish in de tail, for . ' Dum singuli pugnant omnes vincuntur.' " But it is not the commercial classes only who are in. terested in this matter. In the present position of affairs in Europe, the question of national defence occuries the first place in the minds of statesmen ; and how are national defences to be maintained, if we take a step directly calcu lated to reduce the condition of our mariners, drive the younger men into the service of America, and deter others from entering ours ? We are informed by Alison, in his profound and statesmanlike History of Europe,' as well as by other authorities, that some thirty thousand of the seamen who manned the fleet of America in the late war were British ; and that, too, at a time when the men in our navy were receiving unusually high wages. If, then, we are prepared now to reduce still further the condition of our mercantile seamen, we cannot expect to have them at command, even if we should adopt the policy of wait ing till the outbreak of a war before seeking for their aid. It is easy, indeed, to say that whatever the condition of the Mercantile Navy, the advantages offered to seamen will keep them in the Royal Navy ; but is it our policy, or that of any other nation, to keep up such a marine as will require no additions in a time of war ? To this absurdity, or that of expecting to depend on the chivalry of foreigners, or the enthusiasm of our own seamen, for a country which year by year makes their condition lower, are the advocates of a repeal of the Navigation Laws re duced. But suppose the difficulty about seamen got over—suppose that we found foreign seamen trust worthy, or our own contented, under the new sys tem, where would be the naval artizans that now oc cupy the dockyards of Britain ? Are they to remain when their wages have fallen two-thirds, and employment has passed over to the continental ports ? It was the wonder of the world, He Witt informs us, with what alacrity in her chargeable war with England, Holland built and fitted out shipping ; but we would present a wonder to the world of another kind—a country once pos. sessed of the greatest naval resources of any in the uni verse rendered powerless by her own act. Are not these considerations sufficient to make the country pause and consider whether or not the theorists are guiding us safely ? It would be little consolation for us to know, once a fierce steam warfare in the Channel had commenced, how accu rately political economists could prove that we ought not to have lost our seamen and naval artizans by the over throw of the navigation system. We have our history to point to in support of the rules that have hitherto pre vailed—ground sufficient to refuse to enter on a new career, while even a doubt of its success could be whis pered ; but how much more firm a ground for refusing to adopt a course condemned by its own working where attempted, by the opinions of the most experienced, and recommended only by the facts that it is theoretical and new." What the repeal has done, may be easily gathered from the report of the Shipowners' Committee, and it certainly carries out the opinion of Mr. Browne. Amid a quantity of verbiage, always useless in a document addressed to commercial men, the Shipowners' Committee have given some valuable statistics, of which the following are con clusive respecting the evils done by the repeal of the Navigation Laws : The tonnage of British vessels entered inwards Tons. from foreign parts was i❑ 1848 .. 4,565,533 And in 1849 Showing an increase during the year preceding the repeal of the navigation laws of • 318,677 The tonnage amounting, as above, in 1849, to 4.884,210 Declined in 1850 to Showing a decrease in British shipping, during the first year succeeding the repeal of the navigation laws, of.. And it further appears that— The tonnage of foreign vessels entered inwards from foreign ports was in 1848 And in 1849 .. Showing an increase during the year preceding the repeal of the navigation lay, s of The tonnage amounting as above, in 1849, to 2,035,690 Advanced in 1850 to . Showing an increase in foreign shipping, during the first year succeeding the repeal of the navigation laws, of Those who need further argument after this, are of the class of people on whom all argument is thrown away. The advocates of the Repeal of the Navigation Laws never gave a thought to the effect of that measure upon the shipping interest or on those employed by the capitalists who embark in that particular branch of trade. A large part of the advocates for the Repeal deliberately desired any thing, at whatever sacrifice, that would, as they fancied, cheapen food and bring down wages; and another party were merely in search of notoriety— persons like Mr. Ricardo, who really seem not to have been endowed by Providence with the power of comprehending the subject. Amongst them all, however, they have given a blow to the Mercantile Marine of England that many years even of altered policy will not repair. ACCIDENT TO A FERRY STEAMER.—One Of the Wood side ,boats, in crossing the river, on Sunday evening, broke her paddle shaft. She was immediately replaced by one of the Monk's Ferry boats. THE LATE JEWELLERY ROBBERY.—The five persons who had been remanded for the robberies of jewellery from pawn-brokers, were yesterday again brought up and further remanded to allow time to produce evidence. ACCIDENT.—A poor man of the name of Millighan, a rigger, is now in the Northern Hospital, suffering from a scalp wound, occasioned by a fall from a ship's side. The vessel was laying in the Prince's Dock. Hopes are enter tained of his recovery. ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a ruffian, who gave his name as Michael Conning, was fined £5 for a brutal assault on a man named Blakeley, in M a ryb one . Another man was fined 455.. or one month . a imprisonment for an assault on a police-officer. JuvENit.k.DI:PaAVITY. — At the Police-coint,yesterday, two youths, either not evidently more than twelve years of age, were brought up charged with stealing a parasol. Tho p.isoners had entered into a shop in London-road, and while one engaged the shopinan in the selection'of a handkerchief, his accomplice succeeded in secreting a a parasol beneath his coat. A detective, who had watched their steps, was at hand, and, ere they had got a dozen step; from the shop, they were arrested. To-day, after receiving a character from the police books, both prisoners were fully committed for trial at the sessions. COLONEL SIBTHORP AND THE CENSUS.—III committee of supply, lately, the gallant member for Lincoln was the occasion of no little amusement to the house. On the vote of £130,000 for the expens,es of the census, we read in the debates, " Colonel Sibthorp complained of the hardship inflicted on females by requiring them to state their age. It was gross, indecent, and unbecoming to show them up in that way. (Laughter.) The sole object was to gratify a dirty, low, and inquisitive curiosity. (Laughter.) . Some of the persons concerned did him the honour of consulting him on the subject, and the advice he gave them was to open the door and turn the inquirers out, at the same time to hok to their silver spoons. I.eaughter.) COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS. Monday Night. ewbbaFxeaerh T eneni denetd h eears e sdya e ltsi eydt cini,sh,:aarbacirtcehsueusoist less, e lrtsya e Tos n i IDtojit. whoyoeaosemubataogefunrahwl:dhi with uhladoe s i :fas t ar e nsoet a ktdgmhfo d noec y Aluooik:ndde d etnoisdri e f rtfaa m eetutlrhsli l aevvuna : neegdt d wtraiiypairnct r f iarii o itsnconh r 2e, piets. p taooerrh r uc po o sarpch d bvioei n anarrrnvgc c st ge e ess: s f ports falling off, the been received, we may look for some improvement. The lower descriptions of Coffee continue in request for export, aod Native Ceylon has been sold at 40s. per cwt. No change in Tea. Rum steady at former prices. The demand for Cotton, both from the trade, exporters and speculators, continues unabated, and the sales for several days past have averaged 10,000 per day. By the steamer Asia, from Ncw York, which vessel arrived yes terday at noon, there is little new regarding cotton. In the New York cotton market activity prevailed, and pre vious prices were firmly maintained. Upland and Florida middling fair to fair were quoted at 'ad. per lb. ; New Orleans and Mobile, same quality, 71d. to 'al per lb. At New Orleans market, on the 28th July, good middling fetched 81d. per lb., although the transactions were f w. The receipts were going steadily on, and the present crop of Cotton is put down at 2,350,600 bales. The weather for the growing crop was generally propitiou., and the crops of grain were understood to be excessive, the effects of which we shall no doubt experience in a month or two; indeed, with the fine weather in this country our different corn markets are anticipating it. The potato disease is again spoken of, but all such rumours should be received with great caution; for, as far as we have seen of the growing potatoes the last few days, nothing could be in better condition. We had not much animation in our Wool Market last week. but the state of the trade is healthy and the pros pects ar.- cheering ; prices are without any material change. There will not be much here in Scotch until after the prices have been partly established in the north. We have again had considerable fluctuations in our share market, prices, however, closing this day generally about the same as on this day week. Any attempt by the dealers to lower prices has been met by a demand for investment, consequently the decline has been checked, and the market i ,shews a tendency to improve. Stock, espe cially Leeds and Midland. is very scarce; for the former as much as £1 per share above the current price of the day is offered for immedia.e delivery. The London arid North-Western report has not given satisfac:ion, it having been made known that the expenditure has been so great as to require a considerable sum from the reserved fund, to maintain their dividend of 51 per cent.—The Midland report is considered favourablethe dividend being 21 per cent., with about £lO,OOO surplus; as also the Western, which also maintains its dividend, with an increased surplus, and these for the worst half-year of the two. The market to-day is steady, with prices generally showing a disposition to advance. We annex the quotations :—Old Leeds, 491 t 60; London Stock, 122 2t: Ditto new Quarters, 31 t i F p. ; Midland, 42i- 311 ; Halt-shares, 20* 194 20 19id. ; Old Dovers, 221 221; York and North Midland, 181 4 ; Dutch Rhenish, 41 id. ; Royal Batik Shares, 1141 1151. The money market at New York had become much straitened, and it was with the utmost difficulty the com modity could be obtained for any purpose, however legi timate. At Boston it was still worse. The exportation of specie was being continued in great quantities; and the Stock and the Securities Market had depreciated. Busi ness, too, throughout the States is not reported of favour ably. Breadstuffs continue inactive, prices remaining as before. Western Canal flour was firm at dots. 4to 4 124 per brl.; Genessee prime wheat, dol. 1 10 to 1 12 per 60lbs. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 58c. to 60c. per bushel; Indian meal, Cols. 3 to 3 121 per brl. Provisions have been in good demand, at prices tending upwards. Freights continue as at last advices. Exchange on England was in fair request, at. 10 to MI pm. ; Paris, 5 12 ; Bremen, 78t 79 ; Ilamburgh, 364 to 36i-. The returns from the Bank of England for the week ending the 2nd August give the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits .... £4,758,458; Increase .... £462,963 Other deposits .... 9.002.461 ; Decrease .... 95,101 Rest On the other side the account : Government securities £13,464,021 ; The same as before. Other securities 11.800,143; Increase.. £199,538 Notes unemployed 6.922,485 ; Increase.. 213,040 The amount of notes in circulation is £20,345 695, b::ing a decrease of £170,345 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £13,894,879, showing an increase of £78,143, when compared with the preceding return. TILE LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND. The annual meeting of the above society was held yes terday evening in Christ Church School-room, Christian street. Among those present we noticed the Revds. H. M. Moss, J. /garland, W. 11. Duck, C. F. M'Carthy, and R. Falconer and George O'Neille, EFqs. In the absence of the Rev. Fielding Ould, the chair was taken by the Rev. H. M. Mose. A hymn having been sung, and a prayer having been delivered, The CHAIRMAN, in an eloquent address, explained the objects of the society, and impressed upon his hearers the absolute necessity of Christian unity and exertion in for warding them. There were 200_00 Sunday-school teachers in Ireland, and it was impossible they could extend or sustain their exertions without assistance. Christians comprised one body, and he called for united help. The Rev. C. F. M'Carthy attended as a deputation from the parent society. The Agent of the Society, Mr. O'NEILL, read the report, from which it appeared that there were, in January. 1851, 3004 schools in connexion with the society, attended by 226,512 scholars, and 19,753 gratuitous teachers. Of the number of the scholars, 136.355 were reported to be reading in the Bible, and 54,915 to be adults above the age of 15. it stated also that of the above 226,512 scholars, only 83,974 were receiv ing instruction in week-day schools, but that as the re turns on this head had not been received from all the schools, it was estimated that 100,000 did not attend daily schools, and that many of these derived the whole of their instruction at the Sunday schools. That on clos ing the lists for the past year there appeared an increase of 51 schools, and 2454 scholars, but a decrease of 50 teachers. That the number of the schools to which gratuitous grants had been made during the past year was 1076, containing 94,474 scholars, being the largest number of schools ever assisted in any one year. That there bad been upwards of 37,01 0 bibles and testaments, 12,457 portions of scrip ture, 30,583 spelling books, and upwards of 20,000 other books, &c., granted and sold during the past year. Dur the year the claims of the parent Institution had been ad vocated in Christ Church, and St. Ann's, Aigburth, by their incumbents, the Rev. Fielding Ould and the Rev. Purdon, and the committee desired to offer their grateful acknowledgments for those renewed proofs of their frtendship to the cause. The committee regretted that the ladies' branch of the auxiliary exhibited a very con siderable decrease in the amount. of funds collected in aid of the society, there being a diminution of £25 18s. 9d. in the receipts, as compared with those of the preceding year. This diminution, however, was not to be attributed to any want of interest on the part of those excellent ladies who had devoted so much energy to the furtherance of the cause. The Rev. JOHN MARLAND moved the adoption of the report. Alluding to the objects of the society, he said, it was necessary that the children for whom these schools were intended should obtain Bibles and instructors, and be taught the truths to makethem wise unto salvation ; to teach them; how to controvert the horrible doctrines of Popery. In many schools in the vicinity of Dublin, the incumbents of the parish in the localities had come forward to instruct the children of their schools, and showed them that Rome, which was once an English church, had now become a foreign one. He could bear testimony that there were several children in the habit of attending these ' schools who came regularly to the Sunday school, being attracted by the bibles supplied by.the Sunday School Society. Besides doiag this, they they did much to eradicate the errors of popery. The society also went far to stop the system now going on in Ireland, called the national system of education ; and, in the schools established under that system, the Scriptures were only an open book during certain hours of the day. He alluded to the smallness of the amount of the collec tions made on Sunday in Christ and St. Saviour's Churches, which amounted only to about £22, and concluded with an earnest appeal in support of the funds of the society. The Rev. C. F. MACCARTUY seconded the adoption of the report. lie exhibited at great length the enslaving doctrines of the Romish church, more especially to the doctrines of transubstantiation. It was an acknowledged doctrine of the Roman Catholic church, that any of its members who omitted to receive the eucharist at Easter were shut out from salva tion ; and yet it was the practice of Romanist priests to deny the doctrine of exclusive salva tion. He had asked hundreds of Roman Catholics to bring him the unanimous consent of the fathers to any one of the great disputed points in their church. The Rev. J. Gregg, of Dublin, had offered .£40,600 to any Catholic who could bring forward the unanimous consent of the fathers to the shortest chapter in the whole Bible, and no reply had been received. (Hear.) Every Roman Catholic priest swore that he would not receive the Scriptures without the unanimous consent of the Fathers. He adduced passages fr3m the Epistles of St. Paul, ann demonstrated the departure of the modern Romish Church from the Scriptures; and concluded an able add, of r t e h s e s R impressing efcrm quently addressed, in support of appropriate resolutions , C h t u h r e c h s.ounidhneessineoett'ingthewadsocstlrbitsiees_ by the rev. gentlemen on the platform, and, the doxology having been sung, the meeting separated. THE LAW OF LODGINGS. — In reference to a complaint made in the Times, that a family had to pay £8 58. lid., . a single forcomplains for a night's lodging, the appartments having been taken for a week, but found it uninhabitable on account of bugs, a correspondent of the same journal brings forward the Tour pel l correspondent edto pa y x 8 ss. ' A d . j. ofollowing having night's lodging in furnished apartments taken by hi m f or a week, but which were so infested by bugs that h e was c h a e s e e n :— co . m . compelled to quit them after the first night. As similar instances have come to nay knowledge, I think it may be useful to recall to the recollection of landlords in such eases the decision of the Court of Lxchequer iu Smith r. Marrable." . • -- FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. A letter from Lyons, of the 3.1 instant, states that the sudden rising of the waters of the Rhone had caused con siderable damage in that city. The lower quarters of the city and of La GuiHonore were complete ly flooded. The quay de Retz, from one end to the other, and the quay Bon Renenntre, from the bridge Lafayette to the bridge of the Hotel Dieu, are covered with water. All the warehouses on those two quays have been closed, and are only to be approached by boats. The waters have risen above the breakwat. r of the Tete d'Or, and have in consequence ovetflowed the low grounds in the neighbourhood. The Rhone has reached the same height as during the year 1840. Subsequent accounts state that the waters had begun to subside, and all further apprehension had ceased. In consequence of the numerous suicides which have taken place in the army of Paris, Gete.ral Magnan, the Commander-in -Chief, has addressed to the troops a feel ing exhortation against. this sinful and .cowardly proceed ing, and quoted the laneaage of the Emperor ;rt ,;:.-droba tion of it.— Paris Journal. A.Dltis.p.uj;kirrivoiNll,s: has aT,HidEre,DselSdClaPfiEeSite7toOFßAoSnSeE‘LoAfSt.h---e journals, in which. he states, with reference to the an nouncement that. a M. Salamanca had invented a flying apparatus, that before M. S.denianca was engaged on this invention he had made considerable progress with ex periments with the same ohj.'ct ; and had now advanced so much with his machine. that lie hoped to be able to exhibit its effects in the course of the autumn. He adds that his invention has many advan tages over .that of M. Salamanca, which, according to him, produces a ti otion afecting the stomach like sea sickness, and also requires considerable muscular exer tion; whereas, M. d'Arville can, lie says.. with case work • his wings by the feet with p«lals, and the motion is so easy that he can write and read in the air as if he were on land seated in a chair. lle pretends that he will be able to fly with as much speed as a pigeon.—Galignard's Messenger. AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.—A carpenter named Du mont, residing near Versailles. received a few days back a letter from a man who had long owed him a sum of money,stating that he was then able to lky him. Dumont, wishing to give an agreeable surprise to his young wife, whom he was much attached to, d. teto,iited to go for the money, and suddenly present it to her. He accordingly told his apprentice that lie was going to bathe in the Seine, and set out. for Paris, where big debtor lived. This latter was nor at home when Dumont arrived, so that he was obliged to wait until the evening. The debtor insisted on his staying for supper, and in the end he agreed to sleep the re. lie reeeived the money the next morning, and hastened hoer , ; but there ho found everything. changed. Elk Cure li , :d become dread fully alarmed when he did net return at. e;ght, and, going out early the next morning to make ire:dries, heard that a man named Dumont Intl been drowned. Being in formed by two or three ditc-rent p..rsoes that thi; body of a man had certainly been taken oust of the water a little before, site rushed to the river and threw herself in. Her body had just been taken out of the: water when Dumont arrived. He was so violently affected that fears were at first entertained for his r.ason. The man who was drowned was named Delmont, by trade a cabinet maker.—Paris Paper. ALSTRIA. The murrain is very prevalent amonz the cattle in Hun gary. Inoculation has been tried with great success. In Serhay, 15 sheep and the same number of oxen were, after being inoculated, put with cattle suffering severely from the pestilential disease, and remained perfectly free from all infection. Some young children have b -en bastinadocd at Leg horn. They were eight or ten in number, from eight to fourteen years old, and received from six to ffteen strokes each. Their offence consisted in having, whilst at play, hit an Austrian sentinel with a stone. Some months ago, M. Ma,. the editor of a hamburg journal, called the Mephistopheles. was' severely beaten by six Austrian soldiers, for an article in his journal which they regarded as insulting to the Austrian army. Thee soldiers were brought to trial a few days ago, and merely sentenced to a wc , ..k's imprisonment. On the other hand, a hair-dresser, who was the cause of the disturbance at Hamburg, between the Austrian soldiers and the inhabi tants of St. Pauli, has been tried and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The Emperor of Russia continues his war nrainst ab senteeism. The Emperor, by nksse dated the 27th June, orders that for the future passports to foreign countries shall only be delivered to nobles for three instead of five years, and to non-nobles for a veer only. In addition to the ordinary duty, a tax of 250 rustles (10001.) is to be paid by each person for each half-year's absence ; for sick persons, however, the duty is only to be 50 rubles. For each member of a family and far etch domestic the duty is to be 250 rubles; but ti.e dotnestics of persons belonging to the mercantile guilds are to be exempt-. A watchmaker in Berlin, M. Hoffman, has solved the problem which gave the Emperor Charles the Fifth so much trouble in the monastery of Sr. Just. M. Hoffman has succeeded in constructing' art eleerro magnetic clock, the machinery of which keeps two other clocks in regular movement. The impediments remaining in the way, and which will as yet prevent the invention becoming of general use, are—the expense of the works—t he difficulty of attain ing such nicety of perfection in them as shall obviate any interruption in the electric stream, and the apparatus stopping--and the difficulty of making the works solid enough to serve for keeping't he clocks of u whole town in uninterrupted motion. MURDeR AT MALTA.—This city has been the scene of a horrible murder, committed by a Turk of Susa, lately baptised in the Roman victim o a f ge i t n, l i te 1 4 1 128 a py r i t ae i e c o f s s e r Paolo Azroppartli. The unfo r t una t e v i ct i m was a woman oatrilnlpfatmteddee'tr c'or. t b l y i a t i l fi e t t a eilir he body i n th e we ll o f t h e h ouse, but a Til te e in i u finding the mouth of the well too small to admit it entire. he divided the tirms from it at the shoulders. The neigh bours, upon hearing the cries, instead of proceeding at once to the house to render assistance, sent for the police, who, finding the door fastened upon arriving, entered by the window, and seized the murderer, hid under a sofa, with the Turkish knife with which he had perpetrated hie horrid t rime concealed in his shoe, and the woman's jew_ ellery on his person. The prisoner is.a young man 24 years of age. EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION IN AUSTRALIA.—The following is an extract of a letter just received by Mr. Joseph Shearman, a resaectable labourer in Orton, in the county of Westmoreltuel, from his brother in Aus tralia, who emigrated a few years ago :—" We have had the droughtiest summer that was ever known in Port Philip. There is a great failure in Ihe ..ogriculteral pro duce. Flour has risen f:ami £lO to £l7 per ton, owing to the drought and destruction by fire. There are many. very ninny, that hare lost all they had by the bush fires all round about us. For six weeks we could see them flaming every day ; it was set on fire round me before it consumed all my grass in the flames. We pot it out twice, and the third time it burnt all but the house and stock ; it flamed round us with fury. The heat and smoke were had to encounter with the hot wind from the north. The fire came at a great speed, but that day was nothing to the great consuming day a fortnight after. It was called black Thursday. Hundreds of sheep and cattle were burnt to death ; many lost all they had in the world, and many were burnt: ate woman and five children were burnt, to death. Many saved their lives by going into the river and water holes. There was a part of the country set on tire by a man burning his stubble. It is often set on fire ay the draymen—t he carriers who travel through the country with store goods.. They have teams of oxen and encamp all along the road for hundreds of miles, leaving flair fires in when they go off in the morn ing, and the long guess and bark pet hold, and it races in a dry time like this summer is. The natives never saw a summer like it." Circus of Ararjuez has again been the the a t r e of a spec tacle worthier of the age of the Romans of the empire than of the 19;li century. Several wild beasts were in troduced successively to fight in the arena. The Queen. mother and her family, together with the King and the Duke of Riunzares, were present in the royal box. The first fight. was between a wolf and several dogs. The wolf look d at first excessively frightened, and made several leaps to clear the lotty iron grating which surrounded the arena. These efforts became desperate when he raw bound into the circus four powerful dogs, which, in a few moments, reduced him to such a pitiful state, that it was necessary to withdraw him. The wolf stood merely on the defenbive—he shook off the dogs, but he did not attack them. Next entered an hyena, against which four dogs were likewise loosed. One of the dogs distinguished himself greatly in this combat, and several times mastered the hyena alone, dragging him over to the ground, but be was so punished by the fierce I,:;. •• . wild beast, that his master was fain to co' and withdraw him amid salvos of applaus.s. ";• oyena was then withdrawn. The act of the spectacle was that which had more parti cularly attracted crowds by railroad to Aranjutz. The fight was now between a lion tool a hull. The first was one of the finest of his specir. No sour; he tail of his loosed into the an na and espied bull than *de ti tail his claws. towards him et once, and !ied him will: in the lion leid l e , he foe, by i y nbzy s ü bu ( i T tit e ,ei t e • n l d hhi The bull thus attacked frcoi oelyi n d, was una bl e to defend himself by his Lorne, hut aft.etwattla close off to his rump, the bull turned on biro, and frantic with pain charged with trymendou, tossing ti.e lion, notwithstanding his size, into th o-ped the pluck of the latter, that it C t:* I , lliCh side the vk!orY would be —*red. :,,111 sat down dejected and moaning with pain, while the bull charged him seve ral times in succession, instigated be the crowd outside the grating more than by his ov. 11 V 111, for us soon as the . lion was hoes de ccrnbat, the hulk sought no longer to molest him, and would have left him alone but for the stimulation which was applied to him by the spectators. The lion was yews. SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yestertlay morning. as the Isle of Man steamer was about to take her departure, a stranger, of the name of Longhottham, in eetting ashore. slipped between the vossel and the pier. Il e was immediately taken to the Hospital. wht•n It was found he had received a fracture of the lei and a .serjous scalp wound. • . ev t it KALTDOR, TO REMOVE FOECKLES. --- Prvared coral, juice of lernans,,•4 oz. Disaolvetheprepared coral i n t . 0i , ., juice, and keep wet corked for use. Apply it wit - ) a sponge two or three timer a day. It is quite harudesso,and utay In: relied upon. re° l is ti jedl'inf /,1 ~ 5/' o f per ••voi