The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

iS4/. fiction Rai& Purchase or e House of Railway is ;it and Lon * Journal) motion to !dings of all That some ifficulties of ,ngham and it was re- next in con le House of took place oyed on the alf a dozen he following y, and two week, about of wages, labour. nd Glasgow some diabo- ay morning en removed rails. For person, 'but ;ed, and the; COLNSHIRE solders held n the chair, 4e of Lord h Junction ny, is con rn Railway 211 company erest in the- ;amation of s have de n complied the share -1 contended It a bill, but mpt will be th, but this he decision of all the , k has been ved.—Cork ; Glasgow, Southern (Extension I, Wicklow, tern (Rich riles proved. to Granton, and Leeds [anningtree lawtenstall est Riding 'ern (Devi- Liverpool, n Amend ; Brighton, )sgement); )n at Shef (Extension ,cester and on (Devia- LL.—Lord ;hgster and Holyhead, into two, as had 'no additional amount of £16,666, been paid are to en ny to alter ort exten committee " Standing [ere did not the pro oposed al of extend rf the tun -24 feet, ace of 250 will be 400 ) the con breadth 24 s, and the le steepest of a curve ;d. That ,wenty-five iereon the imposed. to et 8 inches. 0,000 calm )r the con ; and that ngineering I Rendles d amended mention of Holy head ; the bill as mittee ap ng further ant session itheshape t the pro n, after the 9 suspend ing as from lion. The liamentarl field. A vay bill of ie payment :except the pre-paid, ital autho lution de for powers ption con ' required. ?anies pay: raised for h declares rcise their if acquired id up, and y are au nates that ale, lease, y act for declares e granted no-halt. of resolution Ly is to b e ial line, to additional other rail shall have 10th and ital of the m of their way is pur ital by the e line pm'' n the our' my relaxa which the ient are to , a meeting this rail -3 Holland , T. F. Ben iissiaries of on. Secre ommitteer gage 15,1847. total .ews. Mr. Mallaby has been appointed chairman of the Dr- I kenhead Dock Commissioners. Another of our relit ving officers—Mr. Norton—died of 'typhus fever on Wednesday. Reporters are in future to be admitted to the meetings of the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners. The screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, will sail to-day for New York. The new landing stage seems likely to weather the storms. On Thursday it was subjected to the fury of a gale of wind and a strong tide, and stood the test well. IMPORTS FROM IRELAND.—In twelve days 484 tons, 5,670 quarters, 595 sacks, and 1,348 barrels of wheat were exported to Liverpool alone, besides hundreds of barrels of flour, oats, &c. The operative saddlers of this town are endeavourin g to bring about a reduction in their daily hours of lab our from thirteen to twelve during nine months of the year. Nearly all the masters have complied with this request. The Chinese junk " Keysing," bound from Hong Kong to London, was spoken by the Flora Kerr, (arrived here on Friday from Calcutta) on the 9th of April, in lat. 26 S. long. 11 E. We are glad to observe a great improvement in the Church of England North School. The present master, Mr. John Bowes. has been recently appointed, and is from the. Training College, Battersea. We congratulate the committee on their choice. PARISH SURGEONS.—There are at present thirty-nine surgeons in the employ of the parish. They are distributed as follows :—District surgeons, 13 ; Assistant ditto ditto, 16 ; Workhouse ditto, 5 ; Lazaretto ditto, at present, 3 ; Industrial Schools, 1 ; Great Howard-street Sheds, 1. THE FEVER SHEDS.—Mr. Brereton Nightingale, the late house-surgeon to the Liverpool Workhouse, in refe rence to•the alarm respecting the fever sheds, offers " an assurance that the apprehensions of contagion from at mospheric influence, spreading over so large an extent of surface, is entirely out of the question, even supposing the virus of typhus to be as communicable as that of the plague of Egyptian notoriety." MARRIAGE HONOURS.—A very ludicrous scene took place in Church-street on Monday morning, on the occa sion of the marriage of a butcher, the bride and bride groom having each attained the age of sixty. Several of the butchers from St. Andrew-street, with two asses and carts decked with flowers and shrubs,. made their appear ance before St. Peter's Church ; and no sooner had the loving couple got out of the church than they were lifted into the vehicles, and with shoutingsaccompanied to their residence. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE GENERAL ELECTION.—There appears to be •a simultaneous action going forward among all Protestants, without regard to •sects, against any further grants to the Roman Catholics ; and to this extent a large portion of the known candi dates, who are in the field of promise, appear to go. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD, one of the most successful of the provincial Journals in the Protestant, cause, bears evidence to the great preponderance of sound Protestant feelings in the constituency of that rich and influential mart of the national commerce.—Shrewsbitry Journal. In connection with Atlantic steaming it may be men tioned that a new vessel called the Guadalquiver, intended ultimately for a South American station, is expected to be despatched from Liverpool to New York about the 20th of July. She will be taken out by Captain Hosken, a circumstance which will be regarded by many persons with gratification, since whatever opinions may be enter tained respecting the loss of the Great Britain, confidence is placed in him from the singular success of his previous long career.—Times City Article.—The Guidalquiver is at present in the Trafalgar Dock, and is intended to sail between New York and Havana. FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Sunday week, John Dowling, aged 21, son of John Dowling, clothier, Suramerseat, was drowned while bathing in the canal.—Yesterday week, Joseph Hutton, a young man, was killed near the Northern Hospital. Deceased was sitting on the shaft of a float which he was driving, when the horse broke into a gallop, by which he was thrown down and the wheel passed over his body ; he was carried into the hos pital, where he died, about five hours after being admit ted, of rupture of the liver.—On Wednesday, the body of a man unknown was found floating in Victoria Channel. He had on barragon trousers, blue jacket, stripe shirt, and strong Wellington boots. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A STRANGER.—On Friday, an in quest was held before the borough coroner, on view'of the body of a man unknown. About six o'clock that morn ing, a labourer of the name of Hugh Meigham went to work on board a vessel called the Columbia, lying in the Waterloo Dock. On removing the main hatches, the deceased was found lying on some iron in the hold, with his face downwards, quite dead. The following address in pencilling, was marked in the memorandum book found on him:—"Thomas Reddy, Avonside Iron Works, St. Philliy's Bristol;" and on a slip of paper there was the following address;—" Rt. Spaven, Westmoreland, Oneide County, State of New York." fiaTiCiT;A CHILD BY FALLING FROM A WINDOW. —On Saturday, an inquest was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of Margaret Sherry, aged eighteen months, who lived with her parents in Oriel street. On Friday afternoon, a girl, named Franklin, was nursing the deceased, and placed her on the stone, or sill, under the garret window, upon which she sat, the girl having her arms round her, and looking through the windovi. While deceased was in that position, the young ,woman turned her head, and at the moment deceased mace a twitch, slipped from the nurse's arms, and fell down into the cellar opening below. When picked up, she was found to be dead. Verdict, " Accidental death." DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday last, about two o'clock, as five men were descending the shaft of the new railway tunnel, at King-street, Edge-hill, the rope slipped from the drum, and the whole of the five men went to the bottom, a depth of thirty-two yards. In a very short time after one man was quite dead. The other four were con veyed to the Infirmary : two have since died, and a third is not expected to recover. The accident is attributed entirely to the recent heavy rains. Mr. Park, surgeon, Edge-hill, was speedily on the spot, and rendered all the assistance in his power. The name of the man who was killed was Ilaies ; the two who died at the Infirmary were named Metcalf and Simmons. MOTINY.—On Wednesday,' the ship America, Captain Williams, bound from Liverpool to Calcutta, put into 'Cove, when the master came ashore and lodged an infor mation against ten of his crew for an assault. The crew got advance notes for two months, amounting to £4 10s. each, which they cashed in Liverpool, and when two days at sea they seized the captain and tied him down, and the first mate having interfered they also tied him. The captain parleyed with them, when it became evident their object was to quit the ship at the next port, and thus defraud the owners of the two months' advance; and Mr. Williams having pledged his word to run into Cove, they untied him and the mate. They were tried for the assault on Saturday by the magistrates at Cove, and were sen tenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT ED GE-HILL.—An inquest was held on Saturday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Thomas Jenkins, a miner, aged about twenty-six years. On Friday night, after deceased and another had been at work in the tunnel in course of construction at Edge-hill, he came up the shaft in a skip, and was safely landed. He then went to a fire, which was lighted about a yard from the mouth of the shaft, and in a few minutes was observed in the act of falling. He fell down the shaft to the bott om . He was found insensible, but when brought up, he somewhat recovered. He was taken home to Edge-hill, and died the same night. It appeared he had stepped back from the fire to the mouth of the pit. jury The depth w hi c h h e f e ll was thirty-two yards. The returned a verdict o f " acc id ental death. " The deceased was a witness on this day week at an inquest on the death Of three persons who were killed at the same works. TESTIMONIAL TO THE ORIGINATOR OF PUBLIC WASII HOUSES.-Yesterday afternoon week a gratifying testimo nial was presented to Mrs. Catharine - Wilkinson, the ori ginator of public washhouses, and at present the matron of the Corporation Baths and Washhouses, in Upper Fre derick-street, in this town. A large party was invited at the mansion of C. Lawrence, Esq.,Mosl97 : bill, a to witness the presentation Mayor anc or opeKetancts, ana otner orancuen respected and worthy host and hostess, Mrs. Wm . Rath bone, Mr. and Mrs. Tinne, and the members both old and young, of several of the families in the neighbour hood, attended on this interesting occasion. Mrs. Wil kinson was led to a chair, handsomely decorated with flowers, by Mr. Lawrence, who pleasantly observed, that though it was June, he would crown her Queen of May. The day being fine, tables with refreshments were laid out on the lawn in front of the house, after which the testi- raottial w jug, spoons, and china tea service, and tray, inlaid with pearl. On the teapot and cream jug there is the follow ing inscription Presented by the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the Ladies of Liverpool, to Catharine Wil kinson, 1846. ' Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy- from the weary bands of a most patient committee at 11 W-past five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, in acondition to carry into the Lo r d s th e e l emen t s o f an uncompro mising opposition, unless terms are speedily made with the opponents. In the Wigan matter, the house will be -moved for ft c • • r• kJ I UAL IC 01.1‘,GJJ11, the committee w ill not b e able to re-assemble upon Ll it until late in next week ; and, in the meantime, the pre cious days which should be occupied in forwarding the bill in the other house, are rapidly passing away. There are reasonable grounds for the motion, without imputing any blame to the promoters. The fact is, the committee themselves, by want of energy, and by Omitting to have several of their resolutions specifically, drawn and uni forinly acted upon, have been the primary cause of this threatened delay ; and some of the intended oition in the other house is attributabl e to the hurry ethos which towards the close, several clauses important to landowners were passed or rejected. Altogether, our estimate of the cost of the bill. £lO,OOO, will, we apprehend, be found :below the mark. Mr. Austin, Mr. Talbot, (who have only appeared twice in the whole enquiry,) Mr. Crompton, Mr. Burke, and Mr. Paget, absorb £lOOO per day in fees. Messrs. Gurney's bill for short-hand writing will extend to between £BOO and £lOOO. The other expenses are enormous. If the accidents of the political world should cause the bill to be lost this session, the burgesses of Liverpool may admire the perseverance with which the scheme has been prosecuted, but they will probably think it rather expensive, and that Mr. Hawkesley 's original estimate will need enlargement.—Manchester Guardian. THE MURDER AT BIRKENHEAD. — On Friday, the coroner for Cheshire, (H. Churton, Esq.,) and the jury empanelled to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Frinnigan, on the,24th May, again as sembled at the Adelphi Hotel. The prisoners, Edward Silk and Anne Tobin, were present. The evidence of police-officer Partington was read over, and'some further questions asked. He said that the handkerchief found in the mouth of deceased, was stuffed tightly into the throat, Indeed the whole of it. except about ten inches.. The throat was swelled out by it. A sister of deceased said, that prisoner, on the day after deceased was missed, told her that he (deceased) had fallen at tlie . pay-gate at Wood side Ferry, and cut his eye, so that it bled very much, and that his handkerchief was covered with biood'from wiping it. On afterwards being told that decease& could not be found, he appeared troubled, and said he (deceased) must have enlisted, or stowed himself away in some vessel. Prisoner, she added, had given different accounts about the handkerchief. The prisoner denied this, or that there was any blood on the handkerchief. Another sister• of the deceased said that when Silk went home, on the day deceased was missed, she saw him produce a pocket handkerchief which had blood upon it. Mr. J. Foulks, who had, with Dr. Vaughan, made a pos( mortem exami nation, said he agreed with the latter ; that the blood being in a fluid state, might be the result of drowning, but in all cases where death resulted from that cause the lungs were usually gorged with blood, and not in a state of collapse, as were the lungs of deceased.—Deceased had been seen in a beerhouse in Chester-street, on the night he disappeared. Two constables deposed to having seen the two prisoners with a man dressed like deceased, about midnight on the 24th ult. The party proceeded to a shed about 300 yards from where the body of deceased was found. The stain on Silk's coat was proved to be blood.—The prisoners, after being cautioned, strongly asserted that they had left deceased at Woodside Ferry. Ihe coroner summed up, and the jury, after a consulta tion of some duration, returned a verdict of " Wilful marder against some person or persons unknown." LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Ass AULTS.—An elderly man, named Jeremiah Roberts, an itinerant musician (we believe), was yesterday charged with having, on Saturday, on the premises of Mr. Chaffers, publican, St. Stephen-street, attempted, without provo cation, to stab a young man, named Carver, belonging to the house, with a table-fork, was fined 40s. and costs. The prisoner is defective in vision. In his possession were found several small boxes that had contained pills of opium, nearly a handful of which he had swallowed, so that medical assistance was, we learn, required to save. him from the consequences.—John Lawrence, mate of the ship " Queen," was fined £5, for violently assaulting, by kicking and dangerously collaring John Meritt, a sail maker, employed on board the vessel. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday, a tall man, of very respectable exterior, named William H. Swan, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having embezzled sums of money to the amount of £73 10s. Bd., the property of his employers, Messrs. Groves and Hart ley, wine and spirit merchants, of Duke-street. Mr. William Peer Groves, the principal of the firm, stated that the prisoner had been in their employment since Oc tober last, that he brought an excellent character with him, and that he was very much respected, not only in Liverpool but in London. His immediate duty was to collect money out of doors, and to render an account of it on his return to the office. This, however, he had failed to do in the three following cases. Mr. Edward Taylor, licensed victualler, of the Old Haymarket, paid him £26 19s. 9d. ; £23 10s. of that amount was paid him on the 29th of January, and on the Bth of March.the balance was handed him. Mr. John Pugh, licensed victualler, of Basnett-street, paid him £22 on the 19th of April, and Mr. James Rhodes, licensed victualler, of Chapel-street, paid him £lO on the 3rd of June. He was committed for trial. Mr. Davenport hoped he would be allowed out on bail. Mr. Rushton refused the application, and said it was too serious a matter to take bail for. CHARGE OF ARSON.—On Tuesday, a young man of rather genteel appearance, named George Bevan, was brought before the magistrates, on a charge of having set fire to his premises, at an early hour that morning. The prisoner resides in Castle-street, Kirkdale, where he has carried on the business of a boot and shoe maker for the last six months. About one o'clock in the morning smoke was seen to issue from his shop by a person who was passing, immediately upon which the alarm was given, and Superintendent Abrams' who lives opposite, in the same street, with Inspector Eaton and another officer, were quickly on the spot. A man was at first seen to put his head out of the top room window, and attempt to get on the roof of the house, but was persuaded to go back, as ladders would be procured in order to assist his escape. The fire was confined solely to the shop, and appeared to burn with considerable intensity. Two ladders were then obtained, and reared up to the window where the person (said to be the prisoner) had been seen, but he had then gone away, and no trace could be seen of him. Shortly afterwards the prisoner was seen again at the window; he got out, and one of the officers went up the ladder and assisted him down. He was undressed, and on reaching the ground fell down in a state of insensibility. He was conveyed to the house of a neighbour, where medical as sistance was procured, and in a short time he recovered. The rooms were searched, but no one was found in the house. The officers having gained access to the shop from the front, with some difficulty, as several chairs had been placed against the door on the inside, obtained a few buckets of water, and succeeded in subduing the flames. An alarm was given at the fire station, and the engines were got out under the direction of Mr. Hewitt ; they were, however, stopped on the road by an intimation that the fire had been extinguished. A search was then made in the shop, and a bottle, which had contained spirits of turpentine, was found on one of the shelves ; there was also discovered a quantity of paper and rags saturated with the same inflammable liquor, and the boots and shoes, together with the flooring, and all parts of the shop neared to have been 'in simil - Sr AU. soar eu _ 4 _Aar manner. oe veral of the shoes were full of turpentine when taken off the shelves. A candle was found near the bottom of the stairs leading from the shop. The appearances were such as to indicate that the place had been set on fire wilfully, and, under these circumstances, the prisoner was taken into custody. Mr. Maxwell, inspector of salvage, stated the stock, fixtures, &c., of the prisoner were in sured for £4OO, in the Guardian Fire-office, including £6O on the dwelling-house, of which the prisoner has a lease. He had examined the stock, &c., and considered them worth about £l7O. It was stated, in evidence, that it would have required two or three gallons of turpentine to saturate the articles in the shop, the shelves, floor, &c., in the manner found by the parties who entered. Mr. Davenport, who a p peare d on b e h a lf o f the prisoner, cross-examined several of the witnesses, but did not elicit anything which tended to alter the features of the case. He admitted that the premises had been set on fire by some person, but said that there were individuals who owed the prisoner a grud ge , i n consequence o f his having commenced business in that neighbourhood, and they had threatened to do him an injury. He would call witnesses to support that view of the case, if time were allowed. Mr. Rushton said it was a case in which every facility should be afforded for enquiry on both sides, and he would remand the prisoner until Wednesday. On Wed nesday the pris oner was again brought up, and the inves tigation was resumed, and after some additional evidence had been given the enquiry was adjourned till Friday next. LOCAL MEETINGS, OPERATIVE MASONS.—OR Wednesday a meeting of the operative masons of this town was held at the Concert hall, Lord Nelson-street, to hear an address from Mr. Roiaert M`Donald on trade societies, and also a report of his mission in Scotland. Mr. M`Donald demonstrated the immense social advantages of trade unions, and re futed all the objections made to them. He advised his brethren to unite as much as possible, and form asso ciations, not of a local character, as those were too nar row to suit the spirit of the present age, but associations of working men in all parts of the kingdom, by which a larger amount of influence would be gained, and they would be enabled to carry out the principle of protection to a far greater extent, and with much more probability of success. DOCK COMMITTEE, TIIIIRSDAY.—The Dock Surveyor, having recovered from his late severe indisposition, at tended the com m i ttee : he was warmly congratulated by the various members. —lt was reported that the bill against the Corporation for rebuilding the river -wall opposite the Tobacco Warol i j,,,j i ,,i;,„, founds_ The account v )e handed to the Corporation It was directed that notice should be given to the Earl of Sefton of the intention to relinquish in two years the occupation of the land occupied byFort:nbylandnark.— The sub-committee reported that they had inquired intc the complaint preferred by Mr. ,Eolton against Mr. John Kennedy, master porter, to t short delivery of cot ton, and found that - - Kennedy was not to - . sub-committee bad also inquired !to two . cbarges pre 11- T- L 1 • hi both - instances Mr:Taylor had agreed to lie'iert tima 'inmate, widow of the late master of the Clarence Dock, stating that she had been left . unprovided for, and praying for some assistance. The Chairman thought that all the servants of the trust who were in circumstances to do so, ought to be calied upon by the committee to insure their lives. Mr. Aikin said, that so long as the public went on making provisions for families, provision would not be made by those who ought to make it.. w It was car ried to a dangerous extent, and the public were encoura ging improvidence by such conduct. The Chairman said the committee had no power to make a continued chari table donation. Mr. Aikin said that within the last week two or three individuals had been inaKing suusenptions for the families of men who had been in positions to pro vide for their own families if they thought fit. There was so much false sympathy got up in behalf of individuals, that, said he, "the surest way to make proiision for your every dock-master had the power of putting something aside, and of insuring his life. Mr. Aikin thought it should be the rule that all officers of the trust must join a benefit society. Mr. Henderson said, in the warehouse dpn.rtimmt it tr.g n sine and non that all the men should carried to the higher officers. The Chairman gave notice that next week lie should move that all the officers he re- Pt... and the -- - tern' sub-committee. THE BIRKENHE AD C OM MISSIONERS.—The first gene ral hoard o f thi s b o d y, s i nce th e recenfitfteeelnecfmmenm, b t e o rs ok place on T uesday evening ; present, . file seven new l y -elected comm i ss i oners t oo k the requi red t d i e i e clara ab steionnceanodf fir.thei Potter , r seats.—M w r h . o M m all h a e b have pr oposed,) Mr. Benth ( am should take the chair on this occasi on . M r. B. was an old commissioner, and had should d o thel that, i i n e s w acted with as s id u i ty and effect in the service of the town. Y sh m ou o Mr. Thompson, on the und ers t an di ng t h a t th e e l ec tion was only f or the present month, seconded the motion. — Mr. W. Laird proposed Mr. Pike, who was at the head of the list. Mr. P. said he should decline the honour. — Mr. Bentham was eventually chosen, and proceeded to read the names of the members proposed to be on the respective cnnarniftees,—beginning with Messrs. Brown rigg, Bentham, Cole, Brya ns , G reene, Pritchard, Fox, and Pike, for. Finance Committee. Mr. Pritchard objected to serve on that particular committee. Mr. W. ITN LIVERPOOL STAADARIL Laird objected to the chairman of the present meeting being a member of the• Finance Committee. Ile objected to him, on explanation, on. account of some transaction relative to an advance made• to the' commissioners by the North and South Wales Bank, but the amendment of Mr. Laird, after having excited some little sparring, was not seconded, and the original motion was carried. The following were then elected :—Of the Watch Committee, Messrs. Cole, Watson, Gilbertson, Homer, Pike, Adam son, Hicklin, and Fox ;—of the Health Committee, Messrs. Adamson, Mallaby, Barbour, Cole, Gilbertson, Watson, Pritchard, Thompson, Hicklin, Pim, and, on the motion of Mr. Hind, Mr. Laird's name was added ;—of the other committees several of the parties named, and others.—lt was agreed that no motion should be brought forward at the general board, unless four day's notice were previously given to the Law Clerk.—The town-clerk read a letter relative to the Gas and Water Bills. It appeared that Lord Shaftesbury objected to allow any of the acts to pass, unless the , whole of the improvement acts were repealed, and one general enactment con solidated the whole of them brought in, and as there was no time to do this in time this year, Mr. Hicklin moved that the bills be withdrawn for the present session, which was agreed to.—A motion was proposed, requesting Mr. Lloyd to draw a case for counsels' opinion, relative to any gas contract made for the commissioners for more than three years ; but this was superseded by an amend ment, (carried by 7 to 4,) deferring the question until the next meeting.—lt appeared that• the ferry receipts, from 23d April to 31st May, 1846, had been £2537; for the same period in 1847, .£244B.—Mr. Hicklin gave notice of motion, for the next meeting, to the effect, " That a com mittee be appointed to consider the expediency of applying to government for a charter of incorporation for the township of Birkenhead." MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY On Tuesday the usual weekly meeting was held. The Rev. Rector Brooks presided. Mr. COLEMAN, sharebroker, attended before the board, and stated that he had had several interviews with Mr. Rushton and the Mayor, in reference to the necessity of making the provision of a fund for the support of the wives and families of those public officers who had fallen in the service of the parish. The matter was more parti cularly pressed upon his attention now, in consequence of the death, last week, of Mr. Whitley, one of the district medical officers : and he certainly thought it was a great disgrace to the parish if something were not done for the wives and families in cases of the kind. Mr. Rushton had drawn up a memorial to the house of Commons and House of Lords upon the subject, and had said that it ought to be presented to the former by Lord Sandon, and to the latter by Lord Brotigham. The memorial, after stating that about 250,000 nearly destitute persons had arrived from the sister country ; that although 70,000 of these had emigrated to the United States, and 6000 of them had returned to Ireland, yet a vast number of the remainder had located themselves in this neighbourhood, and were living in the cellars of the town ' • that this accumulation of human misery had pro duced disease ; that at present 3000 persons were afflicted with fever ; that the giving of assistance to them was at tended with danger to life; that several of the relieving officers and medical men had died of contagion thus con tracted, leaving their wives and children, in most instances, very inadequately provided for; and that there being no funds to provide for the wives and families of those who had fallen in the public service—concluded by praying that the house would cause a short act to be passed, en abling the overseers of the poor to make, in every case, an allowance out of the parochial funds to the wives and families of those who had died in the discharge of the public duties of the parish. The RECTOR, after expressing his approval of the me morial, signed it in his capacity of chairman of the Select Vestry. The expenditure for out-door relief for the week ending the 3d of June was reported to be £1049, being an in crease of £366 over tilt expenditure of the corresponding week of last year. The Irish casual poor relieved during the last week amounted to 57,701 individuals. The cost of their relief in money and in kind was £721. During the correspond ing week of last year only 400 Irish had been relieved, at the small cost of £lO ss. 6d. It was reported that the parish was indebted to the treasurer in the sum of £6,000, and that it .was, there fore, essentially necessary the rates should be collected in as quickly as possible, in order to reimburse him. Mr. HORSLEY said ha observed two items in the expen diture—one for £l2O, and another for £3B, for coffins : he wished to know over what period of time that expen diture had extended ? Mr. HART replied that the £l5B was for a fortnight's supply. it was reported that there were 900 fever patients in the Workhouse, Hospital, and sheds adjoining. It appears that fever patients are now occupying the new chapel, and also the old committee-room at the Workhouse. The total number of inmates is 1988. It was reported that there were 115 cases of disease amongst the children of the Industrial Schools, and that the total number of children at the schools was 968. Mr. Rounthwaite, of the City of Dublin Company, suggested that 'the Clarence Pier ought to be used for the examination of paupers arriving by the steamers from Ireland ; the pier to be walled up at both ends. The Workhouse Committee informed him that his suggestion could not be adopted, and that the steamers must conti nue to go as usual to the lazarettoes A great increase in the number of fever cases having been reported to the committee, a deputation waited upon the Mayor, at the Town-hall, with a request that some gentlemen might be sent to London, to urge upon the government the propriety of putting a stop to the immi gration from Ireland. The Mai or having written to Lord Sandon, to ascertain his sentiments upon the subject, Mr. Earle, Mr. Rathbone, and Mr. Aikin were appointed as the deputation to the government. The Messrs. Molyneuic offered to place their sheds, situated in Athol-street, at the north end of the town, at the disposal of the parish, for the accommodation of fever patients, on receiving a rent for them of .C3OO per annum. Mr. Whiteman having examined and reported that, with a house adjoining, they might easily be made to accommo date 180 patients, authority was given to the Irish Relief Committee to take them at the proposed rent within the next week, if they should think proper so to do. Some of the district medical officers wrote to suggest that a building capable of accommodating 5000 fever pa tients ought to be erected out of the town ; and they con tended that their own salaries ought to be advanced, and their lives insured by the Select Vestry for twelve months. Mr. HORSLEY suggested that application be made to the Birkenhead Commissioners for the warehouses on the other side of the Mersey, for the accommodation of fever patients. It was evident that the warehouses on the other side would not be wanted for a considerable length of time by the commissioners ; and as they were a very ac commodating set of people at Birkenhead, and we had lately accommodated them with a landing stage, they might grant the use of their warehouses. He believed that 3000 or 4000 fever patients might find room in the Birkenhead warehouses. Mr. Walker and his, wife, of the South Dispensary, were appointed to the offices of superintendent and ma tron of the " Akbar," at a salary of 40s. per week. Mr. Graham was appointed as additional medical assistant at 20s. per week, and Mr. Callan, jun. was appointed to the office of district medical officer. According t tl i by .o the orders issues le committee, the steamers are to be brought twice a-day to the Albert Dock steps, there to receive fever patients on board, and to convey them to the lazarettoes. The CHAIRMAN said it was utterly useless for the vestry to think they could ever keep pace with the fever no st od o o p u t b o t t , the a arrival r; great aueaptdpi diffi culty from n eu o l w t y Tr n g e nahgne way a n y l o s h s f e r t e l e h l e e w P c akr put n, g the influx, and it could only be done by the enactment of some very stringent law. The difficulty would be this :—They would have to pay so much--five shillings a-head for sending them back to Ireland ; but, unless there were some law to prevent them from coining to Liverpool again, where was the use of vv ir minds. i‘qs rior l ie d b i ,l n ei _g rcoownf t o l td l uh e i na m ed webu b leli a toai c lel k ems b?tohus astit l na ' wse h so e :u:el m ltdlh o fse r op e rrgitrn t he l g l ae e tuseptre atv vestry vom,otliehrlesd r reflected c t t h e d e , instance, they would send them hack for ss. to br them for nothing, in order to get a second ss. a-head for taking them back again. If, indeed, the vestry could be sure that, when sent back, they would never come again, it would be all very well to incur the expense of I getting rid of them in Liverpool ; hut what guarantee was titer( for that ? (Hear, hear.) were now winz prepared would not accommodate more One was to be fitted up for conval- PRINCIPLES OF ORANGEISM AND; DUTIES OF ELECTORS. On Tuesday evening, one of the mernberssof 24 Lodge of the Protestant. Association of Loyal Orangemen deli vered to the members present on that occasion, being the monthly meeting, the following. eloquent and spirited address : FRIENDS AND BRETHREN. — We approach a period when that portion of the government of Great Britain, which is supposed to concentrate the opinions and feelings of the people, is to be cast once more upon the conscien tious discharge of individual duty, and when every elector holds a trust for which he is solemnly responsible before his God, his Queen, and his country. Never since . England has been a. nation has her weal or woe been so deeply involved as at the present time, in the answer to the great appeal. We live in times when sounds that would have startled every man in England, are heard with indifference and even approbation, and propositions are received with courtesy and indulgence that would once have been crushed with indignant reprobation, ere they could kindle the sympathy of a second pleader. At once passing by every subject however important, upon which politicaleconomists may differ, and argue, and experi mentalize, we strike the chord to which every patriotic heart should vibrate, and ask,. is it not now and hi our day to be decided, whetaer or not we preserve undimmed the light around which all our blessings have so long re volved, and transmit to our children the glorious bequest of our own forefathers, that Protestant faith which, as it honours God, he has condescended to honour in return, and has caused us, beneath a triumphant flag abroad, and " our own vine and our own fig-tree " at home, to bask in national glory, and repose in domestic peace. It has been honestly declared before the nation by a Popish noble, whose right to stand in a British parliament was purchased in the year 1829, by promises that have been broken, and oaths, the violation of which all but Papists deem perjury and treachery, that the contest between Protestantism and Popery must continue until Protestantism is extinct, and henceforth no man in England will be infatuated enough to deny that if our Protestantism is to be preserved at all, it must be by strong and energetic measures for defending what remains, though there may be a difference of opinion concerning aggressive measures for the recovery of what is lost. The best and noblest reply that indignant Eng land could return to the speech of Lord Arundel would be —" A Protestant House Of Commons "—or at least, such a majority of true hearted men, that,would crush every at tempt to challenge the displeasure, and provoke the judg ments of God by apostatizing our government, and so en danger the crown of the House of Brunswick. If these are times when even our enemy can afford to be honest, let us not be afraid to be honest too, and if Protestantism is to be exterminated, let us astound those who have un dertaken the task, with a witness of the principles they must first annihilate. If there are men so Popish as not to be afraid to declare hostility to liberty of conscience, and the principles on which the government of England is erected, so indifferent as not to be afraid to counsel the sovereign to perjury, by supporting a religion she has sworn to hold false and heretical, so infidel, or so rebel lious to the laws as not to be afraid to combine for the overthrow of our Protestant established church, let not men be wanting bold enough to declare their steady reso lution to preserve the freedom that God's truth has.given them—to remind the sovereign of the articles of the faith she has sworn to maintain, and to guard the national church as a blessing to the people, a security to the state, and a pledge of true liberty, political, intellectual, and spiritual. To call ourselves Protestants is not enough—the word once so electric, so well known as the watch word of principle, has become so elastic, and thousands possess the name who seem to have forgotten its meaning and its origin—a pledge more decided, an assurance more defined, that shall not be evaded or mistaken, is demanded by the necessities of our present position. Evangelical alliances will not supply the want, for they comprehend ingredients whose impotence, as regards steady consistent co-operation, has been detected and exposed. Is there then nothing that without the objection of novelty, might stand forth a tried and trusty combination of heads, and hearts, and hands in this great cause ? To any and every Protestant associa tion set for the defence of our holy religion, we cordially and heartily bid God speed, and to such we need make no apology for commending one particular, which seems to harmonize most with the early strength, the devoted zeal, and unwavering constancy of that Protestantism which won for our forefathers the blessings we now inherit ; and perhaps we could not select from the neglected records of the past, a name better calculated to carry conviction of our meaning, our character, and principles to the minds of. the most obtuse, than that which bore upon the ban ner of Nassau in the year of our Lord 1688, the assurance of help, preservation,,and protection to the Protestant re ligion and the liberties of England. Glorious and thrill ing are the associations clustered around the name of the Prince of Orange, never, never to be forgotten while a Briton lives to breathe his thanks to God, for the memo ries of a period so nobly commemorated in the Liturgy of his national church ; and it is treason to the crown King William wore, to impute disloyal or unholy motives to the society which has adopted his noble name, whose sin gle aim it is to preserve that crown, radient with every jewel whose lustre has made it worthy a royal brow, and worthy the affectionate obedience of a free and enlightened people. The Orange Society was instituted in a period of sorrow and peril to the Protestants of-Ireland, for the defence of life, liberty, and religion ; and to its operations and exer tions, under God, Ireland was indebted for preservation from the climax of misery through rebellion, civil war, and Popery. But services past, calumny successful, and zeal relaxing, the name grew obnoxious to modern libe ralism ; and at last, in self-denying obedience to the sup posed wish of the Sovereign, the loyal band dissolved, and, maligned and insulted, each member retired, to che rish in- private those Conservative Protestant principles, which could not be laid aside with a ribbon, or rolled up in a • flag ; and which, notwithstanding the ingratitude with which former services were repaid, are ready again, in time of need, to spring forth with unabated vigour in the service of Church and Queen. The; purpose of the reorganisation of the Orange Society in England must not be misunderstood. It is not to shackle men to a political party ; it is not to raise a fac tion throughout the country, to embarrass rulers in their efforts to promote and improve the social condition of the people ; it is not to interfere with corn-laws, poor-laws, or any laws that may properly be discussed upon the ground of expediency ;—but it is, to be able to distinguish between friend and foe, in a graver matter than any that should be allowed to depend upon the existence of cabi nets, or majorities in parliament ; it is to interfere with every attempt to introduce Popish laws ; it is to arrest every Ronieward movement, and to elicit, if it were pos sible, from every tongue in Britain, one universal procla mation of determination, to resist every effort to endow the Romish religion upon any spot under British sway, or that may tend to invest it with the enjoyment of any public patronage, so long as God's fiat against idolatry stands unrepealed in the pages of Holy Writ. The great and exclusive - features of the society are these First,—Reverence for and obedience to the 'Word of God, as 'the only standard of sound doctrine in every religious controversy, the ultimate reference in every argument, the rectifier of every interpretation, and the circulation of that Word among the people, unmingled with human comments, as free to the Esuine infant in the school as to the learned commentatorinTisTtliy:" To know on inspired authority that the Scripture makes wise unto salvation, is sufficient guide to duty upon this im portant point ; and here is the true foundation of the only temple whose top shall reach to heaven, while the pre sumptnous elevation of the Mystic Babel shall be scat tered as rubbish before the wind. Secondly,—Respectful and affectionate attachment to the person of the Sovereign, whose power is based on laws which guard the dignity of a national head, while they restrain from the tyranny of an absolute will. " The King can do no wrong " is not the expression of slaves, but the legitimate result of a code of laws as solemnly binding upon the ruler as upon the people. And while the Orange Society proclaims undivided allegiance to the British throne, it as firmly denies that any foreign Prince or Pontiff has, or can have, any power, temporal or spi ritual, within the realm of England, whether in neigh bouring isles or distant colonies. Thii;l,—ln resisting falsehood we are bound to defend truth, for true Protestantism is not a mere negative, " it consists not merely in the rejection of what is wrong," and tracing from the Word of God the righteous title of an Episcopal Protestant Established Church to protection and support, the Orange Society recognises in the sys tem established by law in this country, the best machinery for the Moral cultivation, and spiritual salvation of the testaut Church, guarded by defences that must be Over thrown before any successful assault can shake her deep foundations—she is, however, bitterly assaulted on every side.—By infidels, who reject her faithful witness for God, by republican politicians who feel that she is interwovon with the.existence of a monarchy, which she has enabled to defy their revolutionary clamours—by voluntaries who envy the dignity of her position as the just object of a national affection, and the wealth secured to her by laws that recognise the duty of the civil ruler to provide for the whole condition of immortal subjects,—and by Ro manists, who detest the scriptural medium she holds be tween the superstitions wherewith Popery has displaced Christianity, and the fanaticism which risks decency and c s i h et e y. Here then order, by.the rejection of apostolic system, an d scr i ptura l not only the sym form. She demands and deserves support, a p n o d ss w e h ss il e e s t h h e e r B tSyo r ' iton, and as e ver y pa confidence p t s oat n iinni d edt i se o n w t . i h ol devotionipeciehrrapotieofgstni ehi ought t t foo i e n raev t ne e nln g gi s r ,et i t Orangeman is known to be a Bible man, a loyal man, and a Churchman, we invite our c ountrymen to a fearless avowal of sentiments that will do them honor, and present to the knowledge of every ge ntlema n willing to represent 'an honest Protestant constituency, a roll of flames upon whose cordial support he may rely —and to every Papist, Infidel, or modern liberal , an int im ation of the opposi lion, It does not become an English- ae must encona... man to register his principles first at the hustings, but first to commit himself to them by adopting a name that at once and for ever cuts off the possibility of being per suaded to violate or change them—and thus to encourage Protestant representatives to come forward, who now shrink from the contest under the sad conviction that a majority of true Protestant electors is not to be expected tl -ate dav- -therefore the few noble spirit In these &genera, who brave the sneer, and stand the scoff, are left to com bat single-handed for the honour of God, in the Parlia ment of their country. It is to prevent rather than to court danger that we desire to enlarge and strengthen our Institution. Self-defence is admitted to be the first law of nature, one of the sinless instincts of natural life. May not the proverb be truly transferred to a larger sphere, .and. national defence be deemed a sinless instinct of social life r the first law of patriotism. W e cannot now be mistaken concerning our enemy. Itis not over a heathen or infidel world lying in wickedness that the Bishop. of Rome bends his yearning gaze,. it is on. the little British oasis in the desert, where God is honoured, where the waters of life flow fresh and free, where it spar kles forth from the fountain's head, untainted by the muddy traditions of fallible men ; where the Queen of the Isle wears a crown independent of a Popish blessing ; and where the people worship God in Christ Jesus, with out any of the devices wherewith Popery trades in the souls of men. As Mordecai to Haman, so is England to Rome ; and though the whole world cringe beneath the imperious sweep of pontifical sway, all fails to satisfy the covetous desires of the despot, while heretical England disdains his command, and defies his authority ; and disdain and defy them she will, so long as she holds fast by that precious Truth which has lighted her path to preeminence among nations, and enabled her to turn the bright rays of the Lamp of Life wherever men are " sitting in darkness and, the shadow of death." Let us not then mistake our duty ; we live not in a dispensation of miracles, when men's strength was sometimes " to sit still," but we live in a I dispensation of means, on which we ask the blessing that can crown them with success. "If the foundation be de stroyed, what shall the righteous do ?" First let the righteous do their best to guard them from destruction, that no reproach may rest upon cowardice or indifference, when courage and zeal might defend them. We have clergymen pledged by ordination vows to Pro testant principle, and a laity pledged to support them would cause many a soldier of the Cross to thank God and take courage. For these high and holy purposes we de sire to combine the strength of the British people in mighty phalanx, through which no human power shall break, and to weave such an Orange wreath around the Royal purple that no papist act from a British parliament shall reach the presence chamber of a British monarch ; and that a faithful representation of the right-minded Protestant po pulation of still Protestant Britain, shall on the opening of the first session of a new parliament greet the presence of our Protestant Queen. A faithful representation, I re peat, of the restored tone of public feeling which drove a popish monarch from the throne, popish laws from the statute-book, and the popish mass from the Church; and which, no longer deceived by false promises, nor cheated by disguise, is steadily resolved that what was boldly dri- yen out shall, by the help and blessing of an approving God, be still kept out, for His glory and our country's peace. Orangeism asks not " what is truth ?" like the temporising politician of Pagan Rome ; but knowing it, toss for the excellency of the knowledge of it, and all things well spent in the ze a l ous d e f ence o f it. ' The Orange symbol is of necessity at once, from the kindling associations of days gone by, a proclamation of principle among British laymen, before which, if boldly made upon a national scale, revolutionists would retire in the assurance of failure, political dissenters would be taught gratitude for toleration and security, instead of as sailing the fortress whose bulwarks guard their sectarian outposts ; and Romanists would once more tremble for a " craft in danger ;"—pure Orangeism would throw up its rampart around " the Protestant religion and the liberties of England," and unfurl the broad banner of " No Sur render" in the face of every foe. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY-. On Wednesday, Captain Coddington, the Government Inspector of Railways, arrived at Wolverton, and investi- gated the circumstances connected with the late fearful collision. The gallant captain made a minute examina tion of the points at which the train entered the siding, the exact distance of which from the Wolverton station is stated to be 580 yards. The whole of the bodies of the sufferers have been removed by their friends for inter ment. The report as to the condition of the parties in jured is that they are progressing favourably; some of them it is believed, will be able to attend the adjourned inquest. The Company have directed that all the funeral expenses of the sufferers should be charged to them. The Cambridge Advertiser says—" It is with painful feelings that we perceive among the victims of the terrible colli sion at Wolverton on Saturday evening last, the name of a young gentleman of high talent and promise, who ap pears as mathematical orizeman of Masnialene Colleup in railway directors in favour Of Mr. Miller, Who suffered on the same occasion. Mr. Miller was an active agent in the Ragged Schools, and has left a wife and young family. The coroner's jury re-assembled at Wolverton on Fri day morning. There were present Mr. Barnewell, solici tor to the Railway Company, Captain Huish,' general manager, Mr. H. P. Brageres, general superintendent, Mr. M'Connell, locomotive superintendent, Mr. Blott, station-master, and others, including Mr. Payne, deputy coroner of Middlesex, who appeared as counsel for the relatives of one of the deceased—Mr. Miller. Fossey, the policeman was pr sent. William Manners, the engine driver of the train, stated, in answer to questions from several parties, that they were nine minutes later in leaving Euston-square that night than usual. He de scribed the lights used on locomotives. They had a white light which denoted " safety." The paints were about six yards on the London side of the bridge, and the dis tance from them to the place where the collision occurred, on the siding, was 547 yards. Before he came to the points he saw the policeman exhibit his green light which denoted " caution, ' before he had let off the steam, and had on the bieaks. He had never driven the mail train before, but had driven pilot and night engines. He had not sufficient time to stop the train, (though the pace was slackened to about ten miles an hour by the breaks being put on. There was no engine or lights attached to the _coal waggPps,„„l 4 ights are never fixed to stationary en gines. If the points had not been interfera with they would have been all right. Neither he nor the stoker jump ed off the tender. The buffers were broken. He knew Fossey, who had never before had an accident. He could stop an engine of 100 horse power as soon as one of 50 horse : but not with a train of 20 carriages, as soon as with one with 10 attached. it was a wet night, other wise he might probably have stopped the train. The stoker corroborated this evidence. William Cooper, chief to the mail train, said that had not the rails been slippery from the train, the train might have been stopped before coming into collision. William F. Smith, inspector of police, at Roade station, deposed that after he heard of the accident he saw FACCPV_ anti acknti him now ne Happened to turn the train into the siding ? He (Fossey) said " I don't know, my watch de ceived me, she's twelve minutes before her time." Fossey, in some subsequent remarks, said that, -if no one was killed, witness might transport him as soon as he liked, for that was what he wanted. He a fte rwar ds sa id : „ _ —" I thought it had been a goods train, but the light de ceived me." He was given into custody. The prisoner's watch was found to be four minutes slower than the station time. Prisoner had made a mistake, at the same place, on the Monday previous, and was fined ls. No luggage train was dup at the time of the accident under review. Mr. Bruyers, general superintendent of the Southern division of the railway, said the fine was reduced to ls., owing to the prisoner's previous steadiness anc _ the waggons not been in the way, the train would. MVO run again into the main line. (Here an explanation of the kind of lights now used was given.) Mr. M'Connell said the engine was tipOn Mr. Stephenson's patent principle, and had been in use at the time two months. The breaks, ten der, &c., were in good order. Witness could not account for the principal damage being done to the sthand6th carriages, but thought the driver and stoker deserved credit for stick ing to their posts. The destruction of the carriages was described as in former accounts. A superintendent of re pairs, named Parker, was complimented for having saved the life of a gentleman named Turner. The Railway Company had, it appeared, paid the greatest attention and kindness to the passengers who were injured. The inquiry was then adjourned. CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY, Aiding 314 Clergymen, having under their Pastoral Charge 2,193,550 souls. " Our cause is the cause of God and His Church; it is the cause of Evangelical Truth in this land ; it is the cause of mil lions Of immortal souls, who would be otherwise perishing for Innt- of r-2—. Man, at the Anniversary of th'e Church Pastoi•all'. in 1844, when Archdeacon Shirley. lid Society, The Society now aids in all 314 incumbents, having under their care a population of 2,193,550, or each the average charge of 6,977 souls; the average amount of their incomes is £2Ol, and 173 of these incumbents are without parsonage-houses. The existing grants provide stipends, in whole or in part, for 301 clergymen and 73 lay-assistants, calling for an expenditure estimated at about £33,000 per annum when all the grants shall be in operation ; so that the ')er of 1 ' numL .ahourers amongst these 2,193,550 souls has been more than doubled by the Society's aid. The grants are classed as follows : Additional curates for populous parishes. Chaplains on railways . Chaplains for boatmen and mariners Incumbents, or ministers, whose incomes are fur nished, either in whole or in part, by the Society 31 Lay-assistants for parishes Lay-assistants for railway labourers 2 Total clergymen .. Total lay-assistants 374 As has always been the case, s evera l of these grants re main unoccupied, on account of the difficulty the incum bents experience in finding suitable fellow-labourers. But it is with great satisfaction your committee are able to re port that never were there more grants in actual operation than at the present moment, these grants being for 261 clergymen and 71 lay-assistants, at a rate of expenditure of above £29,000 per annum. The Society has now 77 more grants on its books, and 88 more grants occupied, than it had on the Ist of April last year. Instead of one-fifth or one-sixth of the grants being vacant from want of clergy men to take the posts, as in former years, only between one-ninth and one-tenth are at present vacant. The Society's operation have led to the erection, opening, or keeping open of 119 churches or chapels; and 156 rooms, licensed for public worship, are used, in connection with the present grants, for additional public services. 506 additional full services on the Lord's day, and 222 on week days, 317 school-room or cottage lectures, and 161 Bible classes, are the immediate benefits arising from the society's grants ; besides which, more than double the amount of pastoral visitation and regular superintendence of the Sunday and parochial schools is secured, while the incumbents are better able to attend also to the manage ment of the various benevolent and religious institutions in their respective parishes. In the eleven years since its institution the society has collected, for the great object it has in view, the sum of £196,629. It has made grants to 539 incumbents for stipends f0r563 additional clergymen and 146 lay-assistants to carry the gospel of salvation to a population amounting to 3,664,133 ; and, in the same period, it has made 50 grants towards securing the purchase, erection, or fitting up of rooms to be licensed for the celebration of divine service in districts destitute of church accommodation. 1 I PROPOSED HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT HOLYHEAD. The report of the Commissioners appointed by Parlia ment to inquire into the expediency of making a harbour of refuge at Holyhead has been printed by order of the House of Commons, and would be presented to the house yesterday, or this day. It would appear from this, so far as it has yet transpired, that the Commissioners have left the matter yet indefinitely decided upon, the main objec tions being unanswered, while there is an animus shewa by them in favour of the railway company, by viewing in the most favourable light the more obvious defects of the plan of Mr. Rendel, that company's surveyor. - The Admiralty had instructed the Commissioners as to the several questions upon which they desired specific in formation. The committee examined Mr. Rendel, who explained his plans ; also Mr. Downes, the diver, and Mr. Beardmore, who was employed by Mr. Rendel to examine the bottom. No fewer than twelve witnesses, including engineers, nautical, scientific, and practical men, expressed opinions against the measure, their objections nearly all embracing the great cost beyond the estimates—the dan gerous, and at times the inaccessible, nature of the entrance —the heavy swe ll i ns id e i n gales—the bad anchorage, and the rockiness of the bottom—the badness of the stone for the construction of the sea walls; and, generally, the im possibility of rendering the site an available harbour of rPfli CIP Sir J. Rennie, and Mr. G. Rennie said the cost would be £1,800,000 in place of £BOO,OOO as estimated, that the holding ground was bad, that there was no beaching ground, that sailing vessels could not enter in westerly gales, and that the eastern side was designed for govern ment vessels, leaving merchantmen without accommoda tion in such gales; also that the stone would have to be taken from a distance. Mr. W. Bald objected to the stone and to the cost. Mr. Page estimated the cost at £1,526,000, and the anchorage was bad, and no beaching ground. Mr, Joshua Trimmer deposed at length to the bad quality of the stone. Mr. CounEeller C. W. Williams urged numerous objections on behalf of the City of Dub— lin Steam-packet Company. Lieut. Sarsfield, R.N. said ` - kere would be great dancer in Pn +.rin g the harp- u,...iscr in enter..., .uour, ann to all vessels, during westerly and north east gales. If obliged to run in the dark, he would prefer the old har bour, and thought that moo r i ng - c h a i ns wou ld b e use l ess, as there would be difficulty and danger in getting hold of I the ouoys. _besides, there would not be sufficient accom modation for trading purposes. Capt. J. H. Christie, of the Dublin mail packet "Princess" deposed to the bad-. ness of the anchorage, the rapidity of the tides; that no vessel could get into the harbour with the wind from N. W_ to W.N.W. blowing hard ; and that he could not see how large steamers were to get into the inner harbour. Mr. Lockett, chairman of the Shipowners' Association of this port, complained of the exclusion of the public from the inner harbour, and stated, that if the bottom were as had been represented, it would be anything but a harbour of refuge for ships from Liverpool. Mr. Askew, harbour -master of Liverpool, objected as follow :—lf a vessel's chain break, she would not only destroy herself, Eut others. If the anchor clnpc tint b n'l A ..,...4.: --I —l__ __ p as you cannot immedi a t e ly t a k e th e canvass of arucutart y a ship, she must either go on the other vessels or on shore on the rocks. Vessels when they once get in cannot get out. with the wind round to the E.N.E. The destruction will be dreadful if the wind chops round from N.W. to N.E. Has owned four sail of vessels, and always gave his mas s_-_ al •C cept to save life and property, he would supersede them. Vessels suffer very severely off Holyhead, from the short abrupt swells. Vessels could not lie alongside one ano ther, or on the west side of the packet-pier, in heavy gales from N.W. to N.E. Should not like to run in a sailing vessel at Holyhead, where the tides are so strong, be tween pierheads less than 300 yards apart. Great diffi culty in a large steamer in turning into the inner harbour. Mr. Imrie, a member of the Liverpool Shipowners' As sociation, objected, that the harbour will not be used; that the insecurity of the intended harbour will prevent the shipping of Liverpool making use of it. In the appendix a statement also appears of Lieut. Tudor, R. N., against the proposed h ar b our The commissioners (it should b ployed divers, and made examim which led them to the conclusion that the anchorage is good ; but, on the other hand, Captain Askew states that the bottom cannot be adequately tested by divers, but only by borings. Bars driven in four feet were no guide; and Captain Christie said he had bored the bottom ; never got more than fifty-three inches before he came to the solid rock, and generally speaking the soil was shallow.. The commissioners admit that there is some hard ob jectionable ground near the Platters, which the engineer proposes to improve, and this they consider possible. With regard to the difficulty of entering the harbour, they admit the objections made to be of considerable weight ; but they propose certain and not very definite alterations in the plans, which will, they think, remove the difficulty. One of their main suggestions on this point is merely experimental —an opening in one of the breakwaters, to be permanent or to be closed up as expe rience may point out ! They say that the refuge harbour appears to be so designed as to admit of such modifications as will render the entrance more easy of ingress to vessels seeking shelter, anti that the breakwater will render the packet harbour " easy of ingress and egress to steamers of all classes, in all weathers," an assertion which, in the face of so many obvious objections, some o: them admitted,) savours of special pleading in favour of Mr. Rendell's plans. To the question as to how long steam-packets, not con veying the mails, may participate in the advantages of the harbour by lying alongside the western face of the pier, or by the construction of another pier further to the west ward, they reply in the same spirit of accommodation to the scheme, namely—" The western side of the packet pier affords 1600 feet of wharfage, and should this not prove approachable during strong westerly winds for the purpose of discharging cargo, we are of opinion that one or more piers further to the westward might be run out, without materially encroaching on the general anchorage." They state that they do not feel competent to form an opinion as to Mr. Rendel's estimate, but having followed his calculations, they see no reason (` good easy men !') to doubt his accuracy. They also give it as their opinion— contrary to that of many of the witnesses—that the stone in the Holyhead mountain is suitable for the work." GENERAL PROVIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL. Chroniclers of the passing events of the day, as well as of the various movements made by the different classes of society for the amelioration of the labouring classes of the community, it falls distinctly within the range of our duties to direct the attention of our numerous subscribers to the advertisement of the General Provident Assurance Society of Liverpool, which appears in the columns of our paper of this day. We would not propose to enter into --- insurance, and the equally beneficial tendency of associa tions founded for the succour of the immense number of individuals whose daily labour is the only means they possess of procuring their daily bread, and of whose sor rows, when laid prostrate on the bed of sickneq. ? 42. 5 members of the middle and upper classes of the commu nity can, at the utmost, form but a very imperfect and inadequate idea. The immense extent to which such associations have ramified over the whole of our country, forms one of the best indications of the advantages which have been reaped from them ; and however varied the constitution, and diversified the rules by which they are regulated, they afford incontestible evidence of the work ing of a great principle, the application of which, when properly developed, and equitably adjusted, must be held by all philanthropists as one of the most comprehensive. Most efficient, most harmonious, and most philosophic schemes which could have been invented by the masses of the working people for equalising the contingencies of sickness and mitigating the sorrows of death. The plan ;inated with themselves, and it is to their lasting than 200 patiirit FERGUSON said the vestry had written to the Admiralty three weeks ago, requesting that two additional lazarettoes might be sent round here, but that as -yet an answer had not even been returned to the application. A memorial was received from the Liverpool Medical Botanical Society, which was signed by Mr. John Wain wright, president, Mr. Joseph Smith, Mr. William Tur ner, Mr. John Carson, Mr. William Henderson, Mr. William Currie, and Mr. Paul Smith. The memorial set -th t' hey _ t. , (no members of the Liverpool Medical Botanical Society, having cured the worst cases of fever by adopting Dr. Coffin's system—(loud laughter) —were, therefore, firmly persuaded that the adoption of that sys tem for a few weeks, would satisfy the Select Vestry that it was a speedy method of curing the sick. On the motion of Mr Lewin - , the memorial Was laid upon the table. Mr. SMITH asked whether anything had been done with a view to provide a new cemetery ? The CHAIRMAN replied that no land had been offered, and therefore a purchase had not been effected. A letter was read from the Poor-law Commissioners, desiring to know for what length of time the vestry were prepared to rent the premises taken for, and occupied by, The CHAIRMAN said the Vestry would send the corn cissioners the terms upon which the premises were agreed to be taken. Another from the commissioners was read, desiring to be made acquainted with the circumstances under which three persons were said to have died of starvation in Li verpool, and requesting to know whether any officer of the parish was chargeable with these deaths. Mr. Hart promised to send copies of the depositions taken before the coroner to Somerset-house. Mr. RIDING recommended, in conformity with the terms of a letter received from Mr. Austin, that two resi dent medical officers be appointed at the Workhouse, at a salary of £l5O each that three n on - res id ent me di cal officers be appointed, at £l2O each ; that one dispenser of medicine be appointed, at £75, and two assistant-dispen sers at £52 each, with such alterat ions a f terwards as cir cumstances might. require: After some discussion by several members of the.board, the motion was agreed to,. honour From the nature of the calculations as to the probabi lity of sickness, in the early periods of the hist or i es of these societies, being very obscure and imperfectly known, it was obvious that much ambiguity would arise at first in apportioning the premiums to be attached to the different kinds of risks or benefits; and in cases of sudden and severe endemic diseases widely prevailing, it was not im probable that the valuation of their contributions would be found totally unequal to meet the pressure of the numerous claims emerging against them. These and other difficulties connected with their internal economy and arrangements (such as, indeed, were natural enough to arise in the organisation of a new scheme fraught with so many complex relations) have offered qprim,. ;,„„,,a; zul im ments to the more wide diffusion an d secure IUILS positio p eal n or friendly societies. The chief obstacle, undoubtedly, has been the very equivocal and uncertain nature of the pro babilities of sickness to individuals at different periods of life, for in some estimates they were found to exceed by upwards of 100 per cent. the rates on which the tables for risks and premiums had been drawn up. Facts of this description were brought out and substantiated by various documents, and in particular by statistical tables in different parliamentary reports. The failure of differ ent societies afforded melancholy proof of a correlative nature, that there were some serious sources of errors in the calculations ; and a vigorous and searching, inquiry resulting, has laid the basis of a series of tables of risks and premiums, ,possessing (as they are the result of data. supplied by several thousand friendly societies) a degree of security and certainty which, we might safely assert, leaves nothing further to desire. These tables, arranged and constructed by the able actuary Mr. Neison, and certified by the revising barris ter, Mr. Tidd Pratt, afford the basis of the risks and pre miums calculated for the General Provident Assurance Society of Liverpool. We have read them carefully over, as well as the rules and constitution of the association, and can confidently recommend it to the notice of every person desiring to join such an institution. It has re ceived the sanction and support of some of the first men of the place, and enjoys the patronage of some of the most influential gentlemen in the county. It is well adapted to the wants of the people ; and as there are no compulsory attendances required, every member is per fectly free and unrestrained, as well as at liberty to select any benefit he chooses. The sums paid as contributions, we observe, are fixed and definite ; so that each subscri ber knows exactly the sum he will have to pay, and there are no irregular contributions or fines whatever, except in cases of arrears, for which, we may remark, the associ ation requires a comparatively light per centage. In conclusion, it is proper to subjoin that the benefits of this society extend to females on the same terms as to males. a Vt ;g, eW .I SUPPOSED SUICIDE AND MURDER. — T It woman named Mary Ann Robinson, aged 2. 7 , 1 eft. pi 64 ; j on on Monday in the Leeds and Liverpool cadal,efiti - d' 414 bridge. A. few days previously she 114Wie 4. 0. i,; 5 4 elAtral• that her troubles were more than she dcopd,.b _ Alit ttat . they would soon be at end. She livetk-wifink r i :o6 l 4 , , in' Fairhurst-street. Next day deceasectit;filfaawwiLy„,a,' - '. ...‘,. .... in the canal near Burlington-bridge. : ..4` ::.; -,:.i,:•?,V . F. ;,!.... mart. _ —l' ate AIM A