The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

April 1, 1851 Loral Ram The steam-ship Africa, which sailed for New York on uaturday, took out above a hundred passengers. On Saturday the dead body of a male child was found floating in the Clarence Dock. 'o fir. Driffield, th e d e p u ty t own - c lerk, has resigned his On Sunday afternoon the body of a man unknown was `found lying on the beach of the Duke's Pier. On Friday night, a boat attached to the Lady Faulk iirVaPsized as the vessel was coming up the river, and c) boys were drowned. boon Sunday morning, the body of a child, supposed to been still born, was found lying on the flags near to t he Potteries, Wellington-road, Park. The Unit e d St a t es ma il steam - s hi p Atl an tic, now under t~eair in this po r t, is expected to resume her station on line during the ensuing month. The Lit erary and Philosophical S oc i e t y o f thi s t own l ,,! 8 Presented t o th e M anc h es t er F re e Public Library, a •wil of their printed proceedings. ~On Thursdy the sum of £66 ws collected at St. Pe- Church, a in aid of t)e Orphan Boys Asylum, after a 'sermo n by the Bishop of Chester. t Amongst the gentlemen admitted members of the Royal i i n i l lege of Surgeons last week, was Mr. Edward Robert ckersteth, of this t own. An additional steamer, of lar tonnage and power, to " called the Adriatic, is about ge to be placed on the line of the United States Mail Steamship Company. On Tuesday a meeting of gentlemen interested in the erection of a new church at Aigburth was held in the e'larendon - room s. The proceedings of the Birkenhead Charity Ball, k eounting to between £5O and £6O, have been handed to the charities by Dr. Scolfield, the chairman of the e ' n !ernittee. un Tuesday evening. a seaman, named Evan Mann, on ooard the Sarah and Louisa, of Boston, owing t ,- ) a stage A rawned giyi ng way, was precipitated into the Prince's Dock, and m. The tradespeople, artisans, and others engaged on the model of Liverpool, have presented a handsome silver s nuff-box to Mr. A. J. Beloe, the gentleman engaged in ell terintending the completion of the model. A .....he packet-ship Parliament (Train and Co's line), Capt. I L Brown, arrived from Boston on Monday last, after a fine passage of seventeen days. She brings as a portion of her cargo 500 tons Wenham Lake ice. °o Monday l as t th e p u pil s o f the Rev. S. P. Bout rier. Seaforth, presented Mr. A. Arnstein, Professor of holdgurages, with a handsome gold pencil-case and pen to mark their their esteem and regard for him. U Tuesday a woman o f v i o l en t t em p er a nd weak mind, na riled Salmon, lately a servant with Mr. Edwards, Tox teth-lodge, drank a quantity of laudanum. She was re- Moved to the Infirmary, but died next day. we und erstand that Messrs. Willoughby contemplate ere cting a brid ge across th e T ranmere P o ol, from the 10 1 of Birkenhead slip to Tranmere slip, with the view of affording increased accommodation to their passengers. °n Saturday week, John Clarke was seen, whilst drunk, to fall on hi s h ea d o ff t h e steps o f J ac kson's spirit vaults, alter -street. When taken up he was brought into the Vaults and rallied, but he died on Wednesday. A lr• Alfred King, manager of the United Gas Com r'lnYs works, has recently made experiments on a cannel of which discovered at Boghead, near Falkirk, the gas tn,y_rhich is found to be very valuable. si During the week ending March 7th, 45 cases rhubarb, L lc rth.r ales sponge, &c., were exported from New York to e.,• - I .7°n ; and six cases silk, 69 unmanufactured ditto, and -6'ty tierces flaxseed to Liverpool. x ,tiliEttlCAN TCF.—Me ars. Ropes, Noyer, and Co., of Foril John -st reet , h ave w ithin the last few days imported r t ons of ice f r o m W e nham Lakes, by the ship Par lintaent. , Friday a woman, named Susan Macmanus, who had te`oasho Liverpool f r o m I r eland with the view of pro- ho to America to join her husband, was run over by rse and car t i n V o l can - s t ree t, near W a terloo Dock, a nd died at the Northern Hospital shortly after. i to une of th e cur i os i t i es l an d e d f rom t h e St. L awrence on e o fr t i l ,, d ay is a packet containing an air-exhausted metal a ge ""t 1 which a human body could be preserved for without decay. It contained a bouquet of flowers is as fresh as when it was first placed thera. rehs 'ke miniature model of the seven-hilled city of Rome Wins still f or a s h or t ti me l onger on v i ew i n the Exhi th,_l)l-rooms, Church-street. All who have not yet seen the beautiful model should avail themselves at once of vi,elMortunity afforded of visiting it. I.6,4,ll.Thursday, as two girls were gathering materials for Of rn In a quarry near the Potteries, at the extreme end theaoxteth-park, a stone above gave way and fell upon %p o rn ' One of them, named Sarah M'Henry, was killed .4. 1 1. ' the s f.L poto and the other had her leg broken. was the Stafford Assizes, on Kmday, Frederick Orchard in antenced to three months' imprisonment for having, thi s t 49, married Mary Daley, at St. Peter's Church, in aziar r 2w n• his first wife (Catherine Tobin), whom he had A ir l ed at St. Nicholas's Church, in 1836, being still alive. cle r k s Thomas White, for some time one of the principal Cer ri ,,,, n " l tbe treasurer's department of the Public,o ffi ces, kov a l aTs-street has been promoted (subject to the ap lPillten°e' the Council) to the situation vacant by the ap %ne.hisniti.of Mr. Tweedie to the treasurer's office at the mere, fil i Phitants of the Limekiln-lane division of Tran upthe f i ng the county police almost powerless in quell ee th re geent tumults in that neighbourhood, have, ap point ed Provisions of an act of parliament, met, and Of Pre s , , a ° inspector and three o ffi cers for the purpose Captain Peace and protecting property. Knight, haA's mold Moore Knight, son of Sir Arnold the Ca ue take .__ a . y Mou exchan e'd from the 7th Dragoon Guards to Mounted Riflemen, which corps will no doubt active pa rt very the Guardsar. Captain Kni g ht ' en. " In the 7th Drag in the last war, and was one of the aides-decam poon of Sir Harry Smith. 4 ,0 n Tuesday a very clever entertainment was got up at t he Concert-hall, by the Caledonian Tent of Rechabites, be l half ot the Polish ref sed in I by a as £lB, after Ulla amount nUalent.c, received for the refugees ',— lug all expenses. IV MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Tueselay night, James elann Clarke, a young 'man in the employ of Mr. ft. B. oore, solicitor, of Carlisle who was in Liverpool pro ssionally in c onnex i on with' the assizes, burst a blood _essel as he was passing down Manchester-street. He into a bi rd fancier ' s shop and asked for a surgeon ' 0 be sent for, but in a few moments expired. z ia ?n Tuesd ay a seaman, named Mann, on board the the and Loui sa , l y i ng i n t h e P r i nce ' s D oc k, was rear i ng . fitt ior eeta a 3', and was carrying the end of it along a stage ameleoatside the vessel, when one of the planks broke, sb e j Precipitated into the dock. He was got out ra an - ro L ; e n minutes, but though the usual restoratives , ; . ",geel, life was extinct. rY, " A 4 ltday week, a drunkard seized hold of a ch . ild i Oson-street, and was in the act of dashing it ivln s p t a'fic Pavement, when the mother: '— Li me t •mer, ,, rushed out of the house, and interpo.. herself save the life of her offspring ; but she received terrific blow on the face, which cut her cheek rb e n A tO the bone. a bet zc ING EXTRAORDINARY..—On Wednesday evening, Vir:,was decid e d a t th e rooms o f M r . J. L. Reynolds, Of ttt str e et, Liverpool, to dance for the greatest length and bout inte r mission. The schottishe was selected, half . c ompetitors being placed, dancing commenced at tni,;; -a st eight, an d was k ep t u p w ith gr e a t spi r it, n o t declared a tt single step until ten o'clock, when fatigue winner. SAlL tea.. •ORS' HOME BA Z AAR, onficent event are rapid . t A„_ n tha t it will be on 1 2e 5 t ever held in the town. r.a volunteered to take stalls. 4°Untain shall be placed in the centre an d that the entrance-ball be decorated with exotics and ever greens. v. Pei AND EAR INFIRMARY.—The Manchester Shaks uhtan Society will pla at our Theate Ryal, on the 25th T 1 ; ( , 41 4, for the benefit of our Eye and o Ear Infirmary .earing a cry of —The preparations for this g, and there is no eof the most perfect and rnagni- Preeeireedeb wil r: i;ologue, s exp y ressly for the oceaa of cl 't a Poet of c0n..,: uook ent i t l e d " Rh yme , R oman ho • RRPOOL H ORSE botht fai r Was held on Wednes d ay. dao 1 1,Yers and sellers far exceeds 3 of twenty ladies s intended that a of the large hall, nd " The Revic an, by J. B. Rogerson, able talent, known as the author nd Reveri, second Liverpool attendance of ' ll '¢ S h e number of horses brought to the fair was 235, Roo c it Increase of 82 over the last fair day. .There was that vve g ernand for horses f a better deseriptlon ; those good s he exhibited sold readily and well. There was a ru.."ew of cart bnrapa and roadsters. Scrtiw STEADIER ARNO.—T, on C e rn, whi c h left here on the evenit Gih r :,,second voyage to the Mediterranean, arr, afte r in the short space of five days fifteen hot. sea, en countering strong head-winds and a hea cross o . `n te4Gft_er a detention there of seven hours, she proceeded . *lat e , Genoa , which she reached on the . 21st, in nine days heii 4 hours from Liverpool, including stoppages. We p e r v N e this is the shortest trip on record. ALE.--In centuries past ale was the sdopted . be . - hee,„? of our forefathers. and the rapidity . with which it s tid ;:e abandoned by our yeomen as an auxiliary to health nphe6r9nßth, can only be attributed to some difficulty in 0t a 'O n g the system of its manufacture. Good water is lent " e " important ingredient in the brewing than excel tewriTalt and hops, and thence it is that in sea board . taro Where the water is hard or brackish , . good ale is al e j attained. The best ales consumed in Liverpool rien,oo,e from inland breweries, amongt the most prom ef .!.• of which in public favour is that of Matthew Brown, tistti-reston, whose ale possesses all the desired charact . e- Lai ) ," et . Purity—flavour, strength, and unequalled bril 1, tePiZed'lEß-:IEAD BATHS.— . The Sub-Committee have tr eu „ . 0t e Dock Committee that the whole of the e :'" ou the west side of the George's Dock would be " I red ke etil for dock p urposes. At t h e Dock Committee tes e , 1 F ou Thursday Mr. Sandbach explained thst this t e , l 4u "on had been cOme to in consequence of the Finance aidinittee requiring an immediate answer, otherwise an diat_r: w ould have b een g i ven to repa i r the b at h s imme f:t'Y ; but no expenses would b incurred until the hd th e t 4 Mr. Langsdale said th e y e bad a long discussio y s n in arena Health Committee on th e su bj ect , an d t h ey did no t ag r ther e eeable t o g i ve this land up. Mr. Holme said tie re a ppeared to be t wo c l as hi ng i nterests i n the town.wh ere was a place in the centre of Liverpool unoccupied, they could form, according to a plan now prepar- WiTheentral docks, and he regretted that, from a little th e ba th feeling, there should be an endeavour to keep tp ~:!aths there. It was proposed to put an engine down . a ti c g e rn t , P water, and the baths would be as well placed in ladie s Part of the town ; for it was well known that if th ' never would go to those baths. Mr. Turner thought CoureA) Dock Committee said they waisted this land, the theof uathiswould not co n fi rm t h e proposition for the repair e Arno, Captain G. g of the 11th inst., ed at ST. MARY'S CHURCH, KIRKDALE.—The Corporation being about to flag and pave round this place of worship, the minister and churchwardens are embracing the oppor tunity to have it enclosed with palisades, and donations are being solicited to defray the cost of the same. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT SEA. —During the passage of the ship Typhoon, from Portsmouth, United States, to this port, one of her sailors, named Badger. was struck by lightning. His over-coat, which was made of oil-silk, escaped, but his flannel waistcoat caught fire, and the poor fellow was dreadfully burnt about the back, legs, and right arm. The vessel arrived in Liver pool on Wednesday, when the unfortunate man was imme diately conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he lies in considerable danger. . MODEL OF TAB GLASS PALACE.—An exact model in glass of the Crystal Palace will form one of the articles of interest exhibited amongst the works of art on the occa sion of the Great Show. We understand that a copy of this model will shortly be exhibited in this town. The dimensions are as follow :—About eight feet in length, by two feet in width, or, in other words, it is upon a per fect scale of one inch to twenty feet. The pillars. gir ders, and galleries, are of silver metal ; the roof and all the outer surface in metallic frames ; but every other portion consists of glass. LAUNCH OF A LIVERPOOL SCREW-STEAMER.—There was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Denny, at Dumbarton, on Thursday week, a fine new screw steamer, named the Orontes, intended for Messrs. James Moss and Co.'s Levant line of steam-ships. The Orontes is barque-rigged, and of the following dimensions : Length, 191 ft. 3 in. ; beam, 28 ft.; depth, 18 ft; burthen, about 800 tons. She is expected round here immediately to receive her engines, which have been manufactured by Messrs. Hicks, of Bolton. The Orontes will be com manded by Captain Henry Bulkeley, late of the Nile, of which vessel the Orontes is a consort. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Monday last, Mr. Coates, the London pedestrian, picked up fifty eggs, placed a yard apart, with his mouth, and, to the astonishment of some hundreds who were present, he did not break an egg, though he threw a sumerset with each egg on taking it off the ground. The eggs were placed in a straight line on the gravel walk. Coatis traversed the ground fifty times, and conveyed each egg singly to a basket placed near the first egg. The feat was performed in 184 minutes, being minutes less than the stipulated time. Coates, who is 46 years old, is matched for £25, to leap over 100 hurdles, ten yards apart, against a noted professor. The former feat wrs accomplished near the Zoological Gardens. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday, a man named Richard Allen, employed at an establishment in Paradise-street, was celebrating the birthday of one of the principals, along with the other young men. He left the shop in the even ing about ten o'clock, and seemed at that time to have had plenty to drink. He subsequently got into a cab, but was unable to tell the driver his residence, whereupon he took him to the Rose-hill police station, where he was booked for safety, and placed in a cell with a pillow under his head. The deceased was visited several times during the night, and found to be going on well ; but on the offi cer visi;ing the cell during the morning, the deceased seemed to have fallen off the bench. A surgeon was sent for, and on his arrival the deceased was dead. THE DOCK TRUSTEE QUESTION.—The East India and China Association have passed resolutions to the effect, that merchants and shipowners should have a greater con trol in the management of the Dock Estate ; that, being dock ratepayers, they should have the appointment of at at least a majority of the members of the Dock Commit tee ; but that, considering the importance of effecting a settlement of a question which has so long agitated the town, it is exped ent that the following arrangement should be agreed to : namely, " The Dock Committee to consist of twenty-four members,—twelve to be elected by the Town Council out of their body, and twelve by the ratepayers out of their body. The committee to elect their own chairman and deputy-chairman. That the Dock Committee so constituted should have the entire management of the affairs of the Dock Estate, and that the veto of the Council, if retained, should be limited to any question as to the increase or reduction of the rates." We attended Mr. George N. Comer's lecture on " The Incidents peculiar to Mercantile Property," at his spacious and elegant rooms, corner of Washington and School Streets, on Saturday evening, and were very much grati fied with the entertainment. No man better understands all the phases of mercantile affairs than Mr. Corner, and few could convey the valuable information in such an agreeable manner. Mr. Corner's liberality in delivering these lectures—which must have cost him no inconsider able amount of labour and expense—entirely free, is de serving of all commendation, and will be gratefully remembered by his students and those who have embraced the opportunity of attending. As an instructor in writ ing and accounts Mr. Comer's fame is world-'vide. His next lecture on accounts, evening is to be on the interest ing subject of " Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes."—Boston Daily Times.—[Mr. George N. Corner is, we believe, a son of Mr. James Cotner, of Everton.] LIVERPOOL UNDER THREE QUEENS.—The following tabular statement, illustrative of the population and commerce of Liverpool under Queen Elizabeth, Queen Anne, and Queen Victoria, will accompany the model of Liverpool which is about to be forwarded to the Great Exhibition in London : RISE AND PROGRESS OF LIVERPOOL, Under Queen' Under Queen Under Queen Elizabeth. I Anne. Victoria. 1570. 1710. 1851. Population.— ... • Tonnage 1 268 No. of Vessels l5 £378 19s. lid 400,000 3,536,337 23,000 £211,743 £91,000 a'3,366,284 Amount of l £272 3s. .e 70,080 Customs .. Incomeof the .6 Corporation 20 4s. Bd. 1115 Is. Odd. 1 TESTIMONIAL. - 0 111 Sunday week, a very interesting event took place in connexion with the Liverpool German Church. Sir Thomas's-buildings, Dale-street. About forty members of the congregation, mostly sugar-bakers, had assembled in the school-room in the afternoon, and Rev. Mr. Hirsch was about to dismiss the Nrs for the day, they entered the room in a body, and presented h the Reading-desk, spl £139,153 78. 4d. m with a large German Bible fi nditlly bound in gilt morocco, &c of the unremitti zeal in his minist et their deep sense Ty amongst them, the acceptance of the Bible as a faint token in acknowledgment of the same. The reverend gentle man, being altogether taken by surprise, as well as deeply moved by seeing who the presenting parties-were (all of them persons in a very humble sphere of life, who had cheerfully contributed to this testimonial out of their and reques weekly earnings) required some little time before he was able to express his most heartfelt thanks. PORTRAITS OF THE RECTORS.—The Manchester EMl miner, in speaking of Mr. Westcott's picture of the ve nerable Archdeacon Brooks, intended to grace the select vestry chamber, says :—lt presents a fine mass've head and face, with a full lip, denoting good humour as well as resolution. Had the worthy rector lived in the times generous abbott ; not only having an eye to the good things of this world on his own account, but liberally dis pensing them among those who gathered round his rook ery. The picture is treated with greater simplicity than the one before alluded to—deeper in its shadows—more massive in its effects—all tending to harmonise with the r even, about the calm bu man, and the tone of colour which generally pervades the canvas. The companion picture• of the Rev. Rector Campbell is not, we believe, in so forward a state. • earnes `eatures of MODEL OF CHEPSTOW BRIDGE.—A model of the wrought iron girder bridge for the South Wales Railwa Company, and intended to span the river Wye at Chep stow, which is at present in course of construction at the works of Messrs. Finch and Willey, engineers, of this town, has been exhibited for some days past in the model room of their establishment (Windsor Foundry), where it was made. The design is by Mr. Brunel, the celebrated engineer. The extreme length of the bridge is 629 feet, and its height from the bottom of the river 106 feet. The number of links used in its construction is 1000. The bridge will be a kind of suspension one, of a_very Exhibition on Friday. In the same room there is a very beautiful and complete working model of a high pressure steam-engine, also intended for the Great Exhibition. It was designed and executed by Mr. William Pemberton, an engineer employed in the model-room. It has a glass cylinder, with a glass steam chest, showing the action of the piston, and a -- glass condenser, showing - the manner in which the steam is condensed whilst the engine is at -One of the ARRIVAL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP TYPHOON.- the most remarkable passages ever made across has just been accomplis the new American ship Typhoon. She sailed from Ports mouth, New Hampshire, U.S., for Liverpool, on her trial . trip, coming over in ballast only, and entered the Mersey on Wednesday, completing the passage in the extraor dinary short time of fourteen days from port to port. She is a model of the architectural beauty of the American mercantile marine, and of the ability and skill of her enterprising builders. This splendid ship, as we learn from one of her master builders, is 2100 tons carpenters' measure, and 1611 52-25th tons register, clipper built, and is the largest merchant sailing ship aver built in the United States. The cabins of the Typhoon are below the quarter-deck, which is about sixty feet long. The first through which you enter is formed into a kind of vesti bule, and fitted with rooms for the officers, &c., neatly grained in oak. The saloon is not only elegant, but so novel in decoration as to deserve notice. It is about forty feet long. There is a deep architrave round the top, which is supported with circular-fronted pilasters, placed apart to divide the " walls" into panels. The whole apartment is enamelled in white, and the high polish it has taken gives it the character of " a hall of burnished marble ;" each panel is relieved, in artistic skill, with scroll-work foliage in gold, shaded with lake. In richness and beauty it surpasses anything we have hitherto beheld in the cabins of sailing `ships. The Typhoon is a full rigged ship, her spars enormous • the maintopmast is eighty-nine feet long, the topmasefifty-one feet, the top gallantmast twenty-eight, and royal twenty-three fee! - . The yards, fore and main, are as follow :—Lower yards eighty feet, topsail sixty-four, topgallant forty-eight, and skysail twenty-eight feet. She spreads a " terrific" amount of canvas, and, were these not days of peace, she is a craft of that sneaking-looking kind that would be dubbed a " privateer." Her owners have sent her to Liverpool, as the novelty of a trial trip, in ballast ; and but for the delay in waiting there, and the want of proper facilities and arrangements in placing such things in the crystal palace, they would have liked to have sent her to the world's fair in London. Upon her return to New York, she will take her place in the berth for California and the East Indies. During the passage, this splendid vessel experienced very severe weather. She ran in one day no less than 358 miles, on two other days she made 300 each, and the shortest distance ran in any one day was 140 miles. The wind wm chiefly- N. and N.N.W. THE. LIVERTO.O.L. STANDARD. trial occupations continue to be making and printing paper bags-for bakers, chemists, grocers, &c., and to sorting bristles for the brushmakers. * * * The zeal and discretion of Mr. and Mrs. Orris, who respectively super intend the boys' and girls' school, and the combination of kindness and firmness in the treatment of the children, are acknowledged by the committee in terms of satisfac tion andJpleasure. With respect to financial affairs, the treasurer's account shows a deficiency of £lO3 Is. Bd. for the past year ; the fitting-up of the girls' school hav ing involved a considerable additional outlay. The com mittee, therefore, as a large sum will still be required anntuill, to work the school efficiently, earnestly appeal to the public of Liverpool for support." The Treasurer, after reading the statement of accounts, announced that a donation of £BO had been presented to the institution by Mr. Wm. Brown, M.P. The Rev. Rector Campbell proposed the fi rst resolution, and re viewed the various demoralising agencies which were in operation amongst the poor; p•.rticularly dwelling upon the injurious influence of the 28,263,000 works of a bane ful tendency which were actually in circulation ; and glancing at the miserably small proportion which the publications of a religious character bore to these. He believed the ragged schools, however, would act as lite buoys to save our youthful population from destruction ; and he earnestly entreated the co-operation of all good Christians in what he deemed a Christian work.—Mr. James, of Birmingham, seconded the resolution. which was carried unanimously. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Picton, the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, and other gentlemen. &rime aiib 31/orttrulturt. MR. HENRY DEACON'S FOURTH PAPER ON THE MANu. FACTURE OF GLASS, Having fully explained the manufacture of crown glass, I will now proceed to describe the blowing of sheet glass, the only other kind of blown window-glass now made. I, have been unable to ascertain the date of the first intro duction of the process into England. The earliest men tion of it I have seen, is in a black letter act of Parlia ment passed in 1777, which fixes the excise duty upon the materials made use of " in the making of glass now called German sheet glass, a duty of fourteen shillings for every hundred-weight;" and further on in the same act, under the provisions for drawback, occurs this sentence,—" and fourteen shillings per hundred-weight for all glass called German sheet glass made in Great Britain;" crown glass and spread or Bodd glass, a manufacture now aban doned, being separately named and rated. Thus sheet glass must have been made in England for at least 74 years, and probably longer. Though called German sheet, the workmen were and are principally Belgians. Many Eng lishmen have learnt the art, and some are first-rate work men, but many Belgians and other foreigners are still em ployed. It is an art requiring extraordinary skill, and really good English workmen have not increased so ra pidly as the demand, whilst many foreigners are seeking work, from the effect of the late continental revolu tions, &c. There are five kinds of sheet glass recognised in the glass-house, distinguished by the weight per square foot. Shades may also be called a variety, as they are made in the same houses, by the same men, of the same " metal," and in the same manner slightly modified : they are the only articles made at the St. Helen's works besides win dow-glass ; and, after sheet glass, I shall describe their manufacture also. The different kinds of sheet glass are called as follows : —No. 1, averaging 13 ounces to the square foot ; No. 2, averaging 16 ounces; No. 3, averaging 21 ounces; extra, averaging 26 ounces; and plate, averaging never undtr 32 ounces, and often a little more. All are blown in the same way, the thicker kinds taking only more t•me and strength. The " gatherer" uses a shorter and lighter blow-pipe than those for crown glass, but in other respects the same. It will be remembered that sheet glass is blown into hollow cylinders, which are split and unrolled into flat rectangular sheets. The gathering is made as if for crown glass, but no " marver" is employed, and the weight of the piece varies from 8 or 9 to 30 or 35 lbs., ac cording to the size and strength of the cylinder (sheet) required. After cooling the pipe, the gatherer lays it in an iron fork, and turning the pipe round, and at the same time drawing it back, forces the metal to the end of the pipe. The piece is then laid in a hollow in a block of wood, partially filled with water. It is turned round in this block until it takes a conical shape. Water is sup plied from a sponge, and though it b o il s i n contac t w i t h the heated wood, yet against the hot glass it assumes the spheroidal state, and does not crack o r i n j ure it, act i ng merely as a lubricant to preserve the surface from injury. The piece is now in charge of the blower, who r ais es tie pipe and blows down it, enlarging the piece. It is then replaced, to straighten the enlargement, and stiffen the thin sides. The pipe is again raised, blown into, and drawn up. It is retained in this position for a few se conds, being, of course, and as It always must be, turned upon its axis, until the thin part is too cool and stiff to enlarge by blowing. Being still in the block, it is then blown forcibly into, and expands only from the thick hot mass of metal at the bottom, taking a shape, which may be described as a short and very squat bottle, with a nearly flat and very thick bottom. It is now carried to the blowing furnace, and this requires a few words of de• scription. It is a long, narrow, reverberatory furnace with round holes about 14 inches diameter on each sid one for each workman, generally eig r ten in number the furnace, Opposite to each hole, and at right angh is a long, narrow, deep opening in the floor, like a saw pit, and called a " grave" or " swing hole." The work man stands on one edge of this opening : its use will be seen directly. The bottle-like piece is heated through a " hole," and the pipe being seated on a hook, and nearly horizontal, the thick bottom only becomes sof tened. When sufficiently hot it is taken from the furnace, and swung to and fro in the swing -hole like a pendulum, the workman at the same time blowing into the pipe with very carefully regulated blasts. The piece, from the combined effect of the swinging and weight of the hot bottom, as well as the blowing, assumes a conical shape. and from the softness of the " metal," would soon run off like a drop of any thick liquid, thinning the sides too much for use, and spoiling the piece. To avoid this, very dexterous management is required. It is elevated, and at to return upon itself, and thickens the sides; and so soft is the glass, that an instant too long, or too great vation:or too strong a thr and cause it to stick at every spot that touched, of course spoiling the work. The pendulous swinging, to elongate the piece ; the elevation, to regu has fully lengthened. A second heat is now taken, and the swinging motion exchanged for a complete rota• tion, something like swinging a sledge - hammer, only the pipe is not swung round at arm's length, but whirled round by the alternate action of the hands, which are held near the body. The force thus acquired draws out the piece to the full length, but still of the same shape as oefore, the thickness being regular throughout. [owing, .0 maintain its diameter The next operation is to open ti the method pursued with the thinner kinds first; the thicker descriptions are treated in a slightly different manner. The pipe being supported on a little crane, at a convenient distance from the furnace, the piece is nearly horizontal, and the extremity is just inside ibe hole. At'r is forced into it as much as possible, and the bore of the pipe is stopped with the thumb. The end near the fire soon softens, first swells, and then bursts, often with a slight report. At the i ular, but the hea Jursting, the o y causes ilia turned out edges to AIM tne snape of tne piece, and the nearly melt ing- " metal" runs together and thickens at the same time that the opening is enlarged. The piece is now elevated, and the end sinks in like a cup. When re-inserted into tne turuilue, ,up-„ac %AL,/ COOLUIi pitnects ono opening from too great a heat, and allows the sides to become soft ; the_ pipe is gradually turned more quickly, the hole enlar . ges from cer orce, and vigorous 'swing in the swing -hole the hole is opened to the same diameter as the body of the piece, the sides are straightened, and the blower's work is so far complete. The piece is now called a cylinder or " muff," the latter LOCAL MEETINGS. The monthly meeting of the Council will be held to morrow, and the proceedings will be important. An ad journment will probably be resorted to. WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—At a special meeting on Friday, it was resolved to rescind the resolution passed at a previous meeting against the proposed alteration in Rake-lane. and to proceed with the improvements recom mended by 'he committee. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting, on Wednesday, it was resolved that new averages should be taken for the union. A resolution of confidence in Mr. Allen (whose case has been so often brought forward), and that the charges against him were frivolous and vexatious, was carried by a majority of sixteen to two. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—THURSDAY. —The medical officer of health reported that in consequence of the increased prevalence of bronchitis and other diseases of the lungs, the mortality of the borough continued some what about the average. The temperature was rather below the average on the first three days of the week, and about three degrees below on the last four days. The rain fall was nearly three quarters of an inch. A long conversation took place relative to the baths on George's pier, the land being wanted by the Dock Committee for dock purposes. The chairman and other members were opposed to the removal of the baths, but the subject was ultimately referred to the Baths Committee. LIVERPOOL FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—The annual meeting was held on Tuesday. There was a highly !e -spectable attendance, the majority of those present being ladies. The Rev. F. Parry was called by acclamation to the chair, and the report was read by Dr. Anderson , the secretary. This referred to the erection of new buildings during the year. The admissions and dismissals during the year had been as follows :—ln the house as per last report, 51; applicants for admission, 94 ; applicants re fused as unsuitable, 36; applicants taken into probation ary ward, 58 ; total in the house during the year, 109 : restored to friends or placed in service, 23 ; left by their own desire, or for disobedience to rules, 17; proved im becile, 1 ; eloped, 3 ; removed to another institution, 1 ; not returned from hospital, 14; remaining in the house at this time, 50. The statement of accounts showed that there had been an expenditure of £145 on account of the new buildings, and that the balance in hand was about £34. On the motion of the Rev. J. Lister, seconded by Mr. Howdall, the report was adopted, the committees were re-elected, and tile usual routine business was gone through. DOCK COMMITTEE.—THURSDAY.—A communication was read from the harbour masters, suggesting the ap pointment of a dock master for the Sandon Dock and Basin, and eight gatemen. Referred. Mr. Lockett said the docks would be opened on the 14th of May. Mr. Hartley hoped they would. A letter was read from Mr. J. Grantham, requesting a donation from the Dock Com mittee towards the expenses incurred in the construction of the model of the town and docks, and the collection of imports. The . amount required was £5OO, already ex pended £BOO. A communication from Mr. Wainwright stated that it would be necessary to send a deputation to the committee on the subject of the station for transat lantic steamers. A communication was read from Messrs. M'lslicol and Vernon, accompanied with a plan illustra ting the working of their new timber cranes. They pro posed to erect nineteen of those cranes on the Brunswick Dock for the unloading of vessels, &c., to be worked by steam power, which would render more quay space unne cessary, for £42,000, inclusive of their patent-right, and to take the cranes on a lease fir twenty years, paying five per cent. on the cost, and reducing the charges nearly one half. The communication was referred to the Special Committee. Mr. Holt : If they can carry that out it will be a cheap way for creating dock space. A memorial was read from the Rev. D. James, of Kirkdale. requesting the committee to grant £5O per annum for the payment of an additional curate in the district, made necessary by the large accession of the population caused by the parties working at the north docks. The application was refused. The chairman said this would lead them much farther, for three-fourths of the persons employed at those works did not belong to the Church of England. VESTRY MEETINGS EVERTON.—At the annual meeting of the ratepayers, on Tuesday, after some ludicrous and unseemly squabbl ing, Mr. Bremner, Mr. E. Blanchard, and Mr. W. Nicholson were elected overseers by large majorities over the gentlemen proposed in opposition to them. A volun tary rate of id. in the pound was agreed to, in order to pay £2O a-year, as rent, to Mr. Jones, for the rooms used as township offices. BIRKENHEAD.—On Tuesday the annual vestry was held in St. Mary's Church, the Rev. A. Knox in the chair. The overseers nominated were Messrs. Edward Storey, flour-dealer, Market-street; Thomas Bradley, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, Chester-street ; William Henderson, nursery and seedsman, Market-street; Henry Gough, hotel-keeper, Woodside. A proposal for an addi tional assistant to the overseers' office was rejected by a majority. The other proceedings were of a routine cha racter. TRANMERE.—The annual meeting of the rate-payers of this township was held on Tuesday, Mr. David Ross, who has filled the office of senior overseer for the last three years, being in the chair. Mr. E. G. Willoughby r. Chomley Woodward were appointed overseers ensuing year, and Messrs. Samuel Lightbound mes Routledge were appointed surveyors of the ys. Mr. W. W. Perry and Mr. W. Stewart con ) replesent the township at the Board of Guardians he. Wirral Union. KIRKDALE.—The annual vestry meeting of this town ship took place on Thursday, Mr. T. F. Roskell, chair man. From the year ending 25th March, 1846, the cells on the township, by the Board of Guardians, amounted to £5lO 4s. sd. ; 1847, to £643 9s. 2.1. ; 1848, to £914 13s. 2d. ; 1849, to £1,117 6s. 7d. ; 1850, to £1,495 Os. 2d. ; 1851, to £1,531 6s. 10d. ; being an increase since the year 1845, ending March, 1846, to the present time, of £3OO per cent. Mr. John Foden and Mr. Thos. W. Taylor were recommended to the magistrates as over seers, for • the ensuing year. At th e suggest i on of high wa mr. iNortn, a committee was appointed to consider the propriety of increasing the salary of Mr. Parnell, the assistant overseer. BOOTLE.—At the annual vestry meeting on Tuesday, T. Robinson, Esq., in the chair, the surveyors accounts showed that, although property in this township had been greatly depreciated during the past year, yet the collec tion of the highway rates and poor rates had been such as to bear a favourable comparison with that of former years Mr. Patriel, 4 Donally was re-elected surveyor of thehigh ways, as also collector of the government taxes. Mr. W. Knowles and Mr. Charles Musker were re-elected over seers of the poor for the ensuing year. The highway rate for next year will be sevenpence in the pound, and the poor-rate one shilling in the pound. These rates are calculated to cover the whole of the expenses in these departments. THE SOHO. STREET INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS The annual meeting of the friends and subscribers to this institution was held on Wednesday evening. The chair was occupied by T. B. Horsfall, Esq., and amongst the gentlemen on the platform were—Rev. Hugh M'Neile, F. Bishop, Rector Campbell. A. M'Conkey, Dr. Asninall. and Messrs. Picton. C. I-Tenth. T. Jecretary to the institution), Mr. Locke, (secretary to the London Ragged School Union), Dr. Nottingham, Mr. Duke, and other gentlemen. The audience also was numerous, a great number of ladies being present. The Chairman congratulated the friends of the institu. tion upon the progress which'had been made, and parti.: cularly upon the addition to the establishment of a school for girls. Alluding to the statistics quoted in a recent letter published by Mr. Rushton, he contended that it was a matter of economy on the part of the inhabitants Schools in Soho-street, in order to save the enormous expenses entailed upon the ratepayers by public prosecu tions. With a view to show the beneficial operations of ragged schools, when fully established, Mr. Horsfall glanced at V-- ' " ' ' her of he wondertu It had take diminution in the nut nlarP gimp tha rnmmen, prisoners whi The Report, which was very lengthy, was then read. It stated that the working of the schools has been neces sarily, from the large extent of the town, confined. in a great measure, to the destitute children of the more northerly districts. "During the year 1850, 107 boys have been admitted, of whom 51 were born in Liverpool ; 35 in Ireland ; and 21- in. other places. - Six were from nine to ten years of age ; 42 from ten to twelve twelve to fourteen ; and 14 from fourteen to sixteen this whole number 26 were orphans ; 35 had m 45 from Of were beggars ; 48 had no occupation ; and 14 were chip and grit sellers ; 49 could neither read nor write; 20 read only; and 29 read and write. On the Ist January, 1850, there were on the books 102, which, added to the 107 admitted during the year, gives a total of 209. Of these 4 have been dismissed as unfit subjects; 82 have 'left of their own accord ; 32 have obtained situations ; 3 have been sent to the workhouse; 1 to gaol ; and 1 has left for a better school; leaving 86 upon the roll on the 31st December, 1850. The average daily attendance has been about 80. The hope expressed in last years report, with respect to the establishment of a girls school, has been realised. The house adjoining the boys' school was taken. and, under the superintendence of the ladies' committee, a school for girls was opened there on the Ist July last. From that time to the 31st of December, 1850, 69 girls have been admitted. Of these 42 were born in Liver pool ; 21 in Ireland ; and 6 in other places ; 12 were from nine to ten years of age ; 28 from ten to twelve ; 15 from twelve to fourteen ; and 9 from fourteen to sixteen. Or phans there were 5 ; 31 had mothers only alive; 6 fathers only ; and 27 both parents. Five were beggars ;1 a thi e f ; 51 had no occupation ; and 1 2 were chip and grit sellers ; 26 could neither read nor write ; 41 read only ; and 2 could read and write. Of the 69, two had been dismissed as unfit objects ; 12 had left of their own accord ; 7 bad obtained situations, and had gone to work ; and 1 had left the town : leaving, on the 31 s t of December, 1850, 47 upon the roll. The average daily attendance in the sum mer was from 16 to 20 ; in the winter from 30 to 35. * * * * Diversity of occupation (the repo r t goes on to say) is found to be exceedingly suitable, almost requisite, for this class of children. The rapid improvement in both the moral and physical aspect of many of them is truly surprising ; and the almost uciyersal satisf ac ti on which those who have obtained situations have given to their employers is the best proof that the care bestowed upon them has not been in va in. The committ ee po i nt with much pleasure to the increased amount received, during the past year, for work done by the children, the actual profit on which amounts to £lO7 17 s . Id. I t must be remembered that this is independent of what has been done by the boys in making clogs for themselves, and making and mending their own clothes. The girls have also made shirts for the boy 3, as well as various articles of clothing for themselves. The principal indus term being nearly of It is laid across a wooden - - short crack is caused by the action of the cold iron • on the hot glass, and this crack is made to run round the neck by a blow with the iron upon the pipe. It sometimes happens that the two ends of the crack do not meet, but one turns off, and even causes the loss of the whole cylin der; but it generally allows the workman time to stop the teaches him where and how to give, so that the crack re turns and and re-enters upon itself. In fact, it would be a very slight stretch of language to say that the crack 30 crack turning quite round course incloses a piece of glass more or less circular ; this falls out, and a portion of the length or breadth of the sheet is sacrificed to save the remainder. The thick cy linders or pieces are opened by an additional contrivance. When swung out, as before described, a small lump of very hot " metal," gathered purposely from the furnace, is stuck on the point of the piece, and at the same time nearly pierced by a thrust from a pair of pointed shears. The hole in the pipe is closed by the man's thumb, and the whole piece inserted in the furnace. The confined air expands, and the hot and soft lump of metal soon sof -a the cooler and stiffer part of the piece when it is at - swells and bursts at that spot. It is tanned : it gran, removed from the furnace, and the ragged edges cut off with shears by an attendant boy. The opening is com pleted in the same manner as thin glass, and the pipe is detached by the same means. The cylinder is now open at one end, but has a contracted cap at the other. As soon as it has cooled the cap is removed by drawing out by pincers a little lump of "metal" gathered on the end of a small iron rod, called a " cauline." The thread of " metal" thus produced is about the size of the stem of a tobacco pipe, and is wrapped round the cylinder close to the cap. In a few seconds the hot glass thread is removed, and the pincers, dipped in cold water, are applied to the heated part of the cylinder ; a crack instantly flies round that part, releasing the cap, leaving the cylinder open at both ends, and of equal diameter and thickness through out. The blower has now finished his part of the manu facture. The men work four times a week, from Bto 10 hours each time, with half an hour's rest in the middle of the "journey." A good workman in that time will make from 90 to 115 cylinders of the thinnest kind, and propor tionately fewer of the thicker kinds. The usual size of the sheets is 41 inches long and 31 inches broad ; but some are about 51 inches long and 31 inches broad—the size required for cutting the panes for the Great Exhibi tion building, for which, at half-past the eleventh hour, we were requested to furnish 10,000 panes at our own price. This we did, and had the satisfaction of telling and shewing the contractors that if the order for the whole had been entrusted to us, we could have executed it in ten weeks. - _ In tie next paper I will describe the mode by which the cylinders are converted into flattened plates or sheets. HENRY DEACON. CORRESPONDENCE. 4 TO THE EDITOR OF THE . LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The Liverpool Times gravely recommends that Brother Jonathan should at once blow out his iron fur naces, and break up his cotton machinery, there being no reason, he says, " why the inexhaustible wealth of the hills and valleys of America should remain undeveloped itt the shape of bread, cheese, beef, and bacon, for English stomachs. Will your contemporary condescend to say, whether he seriously thinks that.there is any reason why the mineral wealth of the hills and valleys of America should remain undeveloped ; anth whether he seriously thinks that there is the least probability of the "free-trade" theory of the Manchester school (whichds based upon the assumption that England alone is possessed of those natural resources which are the root of manufactures) being permanently responded to by a, country like America. The Manches ter school wholly ignores the mineral resources of the United States, partly from wilful misrepresentation, and partly from ignorance. It might be useful to some of these parties to remind them, that while the superficial coal area of Great Britain and Ireland is only 11,850 square miles, (with iron in pro portion,) the superficial coal area of the United States of America is 133,132 Square miles, (with iron in proportion.) —Yours, &c., ANTI-HUMBUG. LORD G. BENTINCK ON PEEL'S CURRENCY BILL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Sta.,—The following letter is given in the Journal of Industry, the organ of the London Currency Reformers, and indicates that Lord George Bentinck was turning his attention to the evils inflicted upon the country by Sir Robert Peel's gold law of 1819, further aggravated by its complement, the bill of 1844. J. H. Falk ner-square. " Harcourt-house, Nov. 4th, 1847 " Sir,—l have to- acknowledge a very able letter frtim yon, containing many original ideas. lam one of those who have always estimated Peel's Bill of 1819 as the greatest robbery that ever ioas inflicted upon an unsuspecting people: but I confess that in latter years I have thought the time gone by when a retracing of our steps would be a restitution of the spoil to the spoiled. . . I do, however, think that the in struments of exchange require a great increase ; whether your plan would work or not lam not prepared to say. I have a strong opinion that much might be done by authorising rail way companies to issue debenture notes of .e 5, or even £2 or 1, w the amount of half their paid-up and uncharged capital, and making them a legal tender for the payment of taxes, bearing not less than 5 per cent. interest. " In like manner, copying the example of Frederick the Great of Prussia. 1 cannot see why pfembriefe', land mort gage notes, bearing interest, and inconvertible, so long as the interest is paid, should not circulate in tlis country, and espe cially in Ireland—fostering and forcing her agriculture, and fertilising Ireland, just as the adoption of the principle in Prussia raised her from prostration, and caused her to grow in strength and wealth beyond any other country in the world, except the United States. . . I happen to have one of these pfembriefe' in my possession : it is for 20dollars (.e2 175.6 d.), and bears 3} per cent. reduced interest, having been issued in 1804 at 5 per cent., and having, undamaged, run the gauntlet of the wars of Napoleon. " The public mind here, however, is not, I fear, ripe for any such novel British expedient as this. About the same time that I proposed my Irish railway scheme, I mooted this other scheme, as far as Ireland was concerned, among my friends; but I got no support and no encouragement. These land mortgage hills' would be the instruments by which I would enable and stimulate every landed proprietor in Ireland to improve his estate after his own fashion. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient, bumble servant, •` G. BENTINCK. "To James Nixon, Esq., Dublin." * The prosperity of the United States is owing mainly to papPr money. Under General Jackson's bullion mania, she assumed all - the distressful symptoms familiar to this country THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP LIVORNO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Stn,—ln the Gibraltar news, it is stated the Livorno screw steamer has been put into quarantine' there. We shall feel obliged by your giving publicity to the following account of the circumstances, as it will serve to show somewhat of the an noyance to which British vessels are put by the quarantine laws even in a British port ;—The Livorno sailed from Liver pool on the evening of the 12th instant, bound for Genoa, Leg horn, and Sicily, and arrived at Gibraltar on the 180, about midnight. Just as the vessel was passing through the dock ; ates, at Liverpool, one of the apprentices got ashore and ran away from the ship, an entry of which was regularly made in the log-book, and a representation made to the Board of Health, at Gibraltar, stating the circumstance, which was testified to by the commander. crew, and all the passengers ; yet although the facts were not questioned, pratique was refused, and the steamer, with a valuable cargo on board for Italy and Sicily, detained for at least three days in quarantine.—Your most obe dient servants, M'KEAN. ➢i'LARTY and Co, Anglo-Italian Steam Navization Company, Liverpool, March 28. POLICE INTLL,LIGENCE. A man named Bishop, apparently 'a baker, was fined five shillings, on Thursday, for having, cv assaulted a doorkeeper, and forced his e h five others 'once into temperance meeting in Bisp rn-street A - young woman, named Mara mitted for trial to the assizes, by the ma day, for concealing the birth of a still-born child, of which she had been delivered at a house in Row-court, Rose- Ann Price, was corn Six seamen, who had signed articles to proceed to Africa in the ship Skimmer, were ordered, on Friday. to be im prisoned for thirty days. The reason they assigned for their refusal was, that the ship was not sea-worthy. UNWHOLESOME FOOD.—lnformations ware laid by Robert Read, market inspector, against the following persons :—William Lister, for exposing 6lbs. of unwhole some veal for zale, ss. and costs.—David Evans, Trow bridge-street, for dressing calves' heads by a process called blowing, 10s. and costs.—James Hayes, for the same offence, 10s. and costs. age, of the names of Ja►- .nd Jan Were committed for tri Richard Gould. arocer, therefrom 5s in copper from the till. to premises through the r I is only on being c curious case v ,e of rc 3n, call but A SUSPICIOUS AFFAII brought forward on Tuesday, involvi bery against a fashionably.attired per A someN Davies-street, Berkeley-square, London, where he follow the business of a wine -merchant, and where h fashionable milliner. Mr. Thomas who hrnorht, steam-vessels sailing from Liver . Duke. A charge of elopement witl also brought against Meade, and letters were rea Gilbertson's wife was )chew there had been an intimacy between them The evi- APPREHENSION Of Wednesday night. Mr. Superintendent Fanning A GANG OF B county police, and Murphy, of the I force, assisted by Sergeant Pickering recent outrages an htburne, and George Tudor. Oliver and Tudor are well known poachers, and have been previously con victed. On Searching Oliver's house, a gun and bludgeon RGLARS.-Ofl of the James I quantity of powder, previously ap - prehended by the n the outr MOCK AUCTIONS AGAIN magistrates on Tuesd —A young man applied totho experienced at an auction-room in Castl A chain was put up, and tt belonging to the shop agkedj vatioti to him. He replied thnt it son beside beside him. A scene was then got up, and the atuc• tioneer ordered him into custody. Mr. Rushton said the only remedy was an action for false imprisonment. The best way was for people not to go near them. There were complaints every clay of their conduct, People went in, and were not only treated as the .onaplainarit had been, but worse YESTERDAY A SERIOUS " LARK." and Charles Jones, three pauper inmates of the West Derby Workhouse, were put to the bar under the follow. —James Claytc John Cart house, stated that on the previous afternoon his attention had been drawn to a disturbance going on in the young men's ward; he then saw the prisoners dragging a pauper named William Lowrie, whose hands were bound, and who was struggling and calling out vigorously ; they eon t- st him forward to a 1- tinned to thrun until they came large boiler used for the reception of cold water, and which at the time had in it 150 gallons ; into this boiler they plunged the bound man head foremost, with his feet up, and left him, and had it not been for the immediate assist ance rendered he would undoubtedly have been drowned. The prisoners designated the matter as " alark." Clayton and Carter who had previously been before the magis trates for disturbances in the workhouse, were ordered to pay £5 each, or, in default be imprisoned for two months; and Jones 50s. and costs, or be imprisoned for one month. DESPOILING POST-LETTERS OF THEIR STAMPS. — An elderly man named John Hemingway, in the service of Mr. Hughes, solicitor, Lime-street, was charged by his employer with having taken a number of prepaid stamps from letters which had been given to him for the purpose of posting. Mr. Hughes stated, that in conse quence of having been advised by several of his agents that letters received by them, and which bore evident marks of having had Queen's heads attached to them, had been charged 2d. each postage, in consequence of the stamps having been removed from them, he took means to detect the person who removed the stamps. He applied to Mr. Clough, who placed Tuck, one of the detective officers, on the watch near to the post-office at the railway; and whilst so watching, the prisoner was sgen to remove a stamp from a letter , which he posted. The prisoner was then taken into custody. The magis tratesharness. remanded him for seven days. S TEA LING GIG HARNESS. — John Lloyd and Philip Sweeney, two fellows well known to the police, were com mitted for trial on the charge of having stolen from the coach-house of Mr. James, Huskisson-street, on the twopre betteernrieangetelamps, saiodudsles d, a L &c. &e. se T ts he of eo g a i h m eans of false keys, and the prison ers were d e t ec t e d w ith the property in their possession, v Bigtrirt petus. Mr. Noble, the Successful competitor for the Salford Peel Monument ; has obtained the commission to execute a similar work at Tamworth. Mr. Thomas Patten, of Warrington, brassfou n d er , built, in 1766',. the first battering-mill for copper and b rass . He was grandfather of the present member for North Lancashire. On Thursday a ploughing match took place at Tarleton, on ,the ground reclaimed on Martin Mere by Sir 'l'. G. Hesketh. The first prize was won by the hon. baronet's ploughman. - The Ormskirk Steeple-chases are appointed to come off to-morrow (Wednesday), under the stewardship of Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart., Captain Anderton, and R. de Trafford, Esq. They are to come off in the New Mirk. The late Mrs. Butler Cole bequeathed to Mr. Dixon, surgeon, of Preston, her medical attendant, the sum of £3,009. That gentleman has, it is said, declined receive the legacy, and has executed a deed of renunciation. This sum will be divided among the ne phews and nieces of the deceased. The Illustrated News of Saturday gives a sketch of s scene in which a poor factory girl was discovered among the ruins of the cotton-mill after the explosion last week at Stockport. She had been protected by the way in which the beams had fallen, from being crushed, but bad been suffocated by the smoke whilst engaged' in prayer. She was on her knees, with her hands in the attitude of supplication—and so her spirit passed away. THE COUNTY MAGISTRACY. —There are, at the present time, 440 acting maeistrates for this county,. viz. 57 for Lousdale Hundred, 27 for Amounderness, 73 tor Bhck burn Hundred, 23 for Leyland Hundred, 113 for West Derby, and 147 for Salford. The three oldest justices are Lord Skelmersdale, who qualified January 23rd, 1800; Edmund Hornby, Esq., of Dalton Hall, who qualified October 6th, 1807; and Matthew Wilson, Esq., of Esh ton Hall, who qualified July 20th, 1808, CHRIST CHURCH, SOUTHPORT. —We perceive that on. Thursday next this church will be re-opened after its re cent enlargement and improvement,. when sermons will be preached by the Revds. Canon- Stowell and W. Pol lock. About 130 free sittings will be gained by the en largement, which has of course occasioned a considerable expenditure of money, a large portion of which has not yet been subscribed. We believe- that parties leaving by the ten o'clock train from the Tithebarn-street station will be in time for the morning service. TRACT SOCIETY'S PRIZE. ESSAY.—In August, 1849,:a prize of £lOO was offered by the Religious Tract Society. for the best essay on " The present state of our manufac turing and other working classes, so far as s uc h c l asses are affected by mor a l causes , an d by personal character and. habits, and the best means of promoting their temporal and spiritual welfare." Fifty pounds for the second best.. The prizes not to exceed six printed sheets, or ab')ut 144 pages of the usual tract size. The Rev. Henry Dunckley, A.M., baptist minister, of Salford, Manchester, last week received the highest prize of £100; there being 180 corn-. petitors. The essay (which will be published shortly) is entitled " The glory and shame of Britain." ANOTHER RoILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.— On Tuesday the boiler attached to some premises situated. in Riga-street, Manchester, exploded, totally destroying the building,, and causing, it is to be feared, a serious lose of life. The building, which was of considerable extent, was underlet to various tenants, who employed together about forty persons. The explosion utterly destroyed the building, and the whole of the persons employed were thus suddenly covered with the ruins. In the alarm and confusion attending the accident, it was impossible to as certain the number who contrived to extricate themselves. Two persons were taken out dead and frightfully muti lated. This unfortunate disaster has proved to be much more fatal than was at first anticipated. Late on Tuesday night two more bodies were exhumed, and an Wednesday four others were extricated, but in none of them were signs of life remaining. There is still another body known to be in the ruins. PROPOSED MODEL FARM FOR COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE WEST INDIES.—On Wednesday a meeting of cotton-spinners and manufacturers was held at Farnworth, near Bolton, to hear a proposal for the establishment of a model farm in the island of Trinidad. Thomas Bazley, Esq., president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, took the chair. Mr. Walkinshaw, late of Trinidad, is the gentleman with whom the proposition originated, and the plan which he submitted to the meeting was that £lO,OOO should be raised, and lent to him at interest, for the pur— pose of carrying it out, and for promoting the growth of cotton in the West Indies generally. It was proposed that the money should be raised in such sums as might he convenient to the promoters of the undertaking ; Mr. Walkinshaw to transmit periodical reports to the lenders and the public press, as to the progress and results of his operations. Mr. Walkinshaw's scheme met with the general approbation of the meeting, and a resolution was passed appointing a committee to act with him in carrying it out. MEETING OF FARMERS..—At a meeting of farmers and others connected with agriculture, holden at Ormskirk. on Thursday week last, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to That this meeting consi ders it would be of advantage to the agricultural interests of this neighbourhood, and tend very much to simplify calculations in selling produce, if the weights and mea sures used here were the same as in most other districts; viz., of the legal standard of 112 lbs. per cwt. and the ali quot parts thereof ; the stone 14 lbs. or one-eighth part; and the bushel of potatoes three-quarters of a hundred weight, that is, 84 lbs., or six of such stones.--2d. That the attention of the committee be also directed to the long practised system of exactirg double tolls in the Li%erpool markets at certain seasons of the year, called fair days, long after such fair, or any advantage therefrom has ceased to exist, and to the possibility there may be of get ting relief from such burden through memorializing the town council on the subject. A committee has beer' formed for the carrying out of these resolutions. SLEEP.—The poet Young says, " Sleep is great nature's second course—the balm of hurt minds." Johnson says, "It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being 'thus appreciated by mankind, how desirous ought we to be that all should tranquilly enjoy " sweet repose,!-Lthe ge neral obstruction to which is through an unhealthy action of the liver or other viscera. A little attention to the " young disease," by having recourse to a mild aperient, often producesAllt - most salutary effect, and for such pur pose Fgampton's Pill of Health stands prominent in public opinion. A PERSON SEN ENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD CURED OF A D LEG BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.— s. Larenden, of No. 2, Richardson's-h-,'"' ailclings, Gos— four years ago, suffered with dreadful wounds in herleg, and which several medical men both i ratriraiid Eng land had been unable to cure ; weintense, to her bed. Ultim , y the advice of her friends, she made trial of way's Ointment and Pills, and these celebrated edies have healed her wounds, and she can now wallrabout with the greatest comfort. COURT AND FASHION. The Queen, Prince Alberti and the Royal Children, r 3ackingham Pi ,ce, on Tues for the season The Queen held her thi r d l evee on Wednesday in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty wore a train of blacl trimmed with black cra )etticoat was also o jest) , wo The presentations were numercus. On Wednesday the Queen and Prince Albert went to the Princess's Theatre. The Marquis an d M arc hi oness -c 4" . • • • •-• on "I:hursc Theatre with Bou . verie n and Prince Albert honoured Drury-lane L their presence on Friday. The royal suite the Countess of Dysart, Hon. Amelia Mur- get, anc Her Majesty visited the Orleans family on Saturday. Lord John Manners is_ about to be married to Miss tighter of the la ess Dowager Of Charle;ill( ie Earl beth Digby, only daughter of Peter Barfoot, Esq., of Mid lington, Hants, and Landenstown, Kildare, was solem nised on Wednesday last. leman is LORD LONDONDERRY.—The health of this not in such a precarious state that the greatest fears are en tertained for his recovery. The affection from which the noble Marquis is suffering is water on the chest. PRINCE ALBERT'S GERMAN LAW SUIT.—The action. which Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Vi( toria, rought against the Treasury of the eject of the rente of 25 • session of his mother, has been decided Gotha, on the )achy of Sate- cominz to in his favour. From the matrimonial conventions made between Prince Albert and the Queen Victoria, and which have been submitted to the judges, it appe ar s th a t, i n the event of the Ducal Crown of Saxe-Getha passing to the descendants of Prince Albert, (his eldest brother, the reigning duke, is unmarried,) it will be the second son of the Queen that will succeed to it. The duchy would, in that case, devolve to the royal family of Great Britain ; and a costly acquisition it would prove, no doubt. A SPORTSMAN'S APPETITE.—I Saw Major Cartwr,,, (the the Lambs, n not Hampstead, the patriot in Kent, in l 7e9lt, at the house.lasrisit visiting with h of Mr. Hodges, his brother-in-law : we had nearly finished dinner when be came in. He desired the servant to cut him a plate of beef from the sideboard. I t h oug h t the footman meant to insult him : the plate was pile height which no ploughboy, after a hard day's fasting, could have levelled ; but the moment he took up his knife and fork and arranged the plate, I saw this was no com mon man. A second and third supply soon vanished : Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, who had never before seen him, glanced at each other; but Tom and I, with schoolboys' privilege, kept our eyes rivetted upon him with what Dr. Butt would have called the gazo of admiration. " I see you have been looking at me," said he, when be had done; " I have a very great appetite. I once fell in with a stranger in the shooting season, and we dined to gether at an inn : there was a leg of mutton which he did not touch. I never make more than two cuts of a leg of mutton : the first takes all one side, the se cond all the other ; and when I had done this I laid the bone across my knife for the marrow. The stranger nevercould saw re a frain ma n n o longer . eat tlikeyou.' This man i ha d i ' ' sr d he, and perseverance characterized in every muscle. He eat three cucumbers, with due quautity of bread and cheese, for his breakfast the following morning. I was mu c h pleased with him. He was good-hun3oured and commu nicative. His long residenfe on the Labrador coast made his conversation as instructive as interesting. I h a d never before seen so extraordinary a man, and . is not, there fore, — strength strange that my recollection of his manner, and words, and countenance should be so strong after an inter al of six lean.—Southey's Commonplace Book. ed to a