The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

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Ke his broi/ ) boy, fo r ive been TuNTS: e°' _ 17 - ttardia o elaborat e ; . apoleoos it of S; a wee , otject 1 18 , to that )f 095 ly agre."7, cise, an he brain' , n got uP a ti o n the he ha l Is, whor l 0 110 of of ". 11 crease 1 de to an d to LOCAL NEWS THE AMERICAN MINISTER has given a donation of books to the Manchester Free Library. MR. JOHN LORD is delivering a series of lectures at Manchester on the heroes of Protestantism. THE CARPET MANUFACTURERS OF BOLTON have ad vanced the prices for wea v i ng one penny in the shilling. A LITTLE GIRL, the daughter of a quarryman at Dalton, Inverston, was, in the absence of her mother, burned to death on Friday last. THE LIVERPOOL CHATHAM SOCIETY'S annual ball will take place in the Town-hall on Friday next, under the auspices of Lord Derby. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The middle school d arge re opene ch l on Tuesday, the number o f new entries being mur than usual. THE COUNTY CONSTABULARY FORCE contains 559 men, including officers. One of the officers bears the classic name of Telemachus. THE MAYOR OF PRESTON has issued an order that all bread must he sold by weight, in presence of the pur chaser, under a penalty of 10s. A GREAT NUMBER or PERSONS have recently emi grated from R oc h dale to Australia, and hundreds are preparing to depart in the spring. MR. SAMUEL HOLME , the Mayor of Liverpool, enter tained a sele c t party of gentlemen at dinner, in the Town ball, on Wednesday evening last. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday, John Day, a la bourer, while wor ki ng on b oar d the brig Amedora, lying in the Prince's Dock, fell down and expired. TWO FEMALE POACHERS from thetOwn of Arbroath, with nets an d a we ll-t ra i ne d d og in their possession, have been taken into custody in this neighbourhood. THE SOLE SURVIVING GRANDCHILD OF SIR WALTER SCOTT is the wife of Mr. James Hope, brother of the late Mr. John Thomas Hope, who was a candidate for Man chester. A GIG ACCIDENT occurred on Tuesday, near Stockport, by which Miss Potts, step-daughter of Mr. Middleton, grocer, was subjected to such injuries as place her life in danger. THE Rev. JANIES CRANEROOE will lecture to-night (Tuesday) in the Concert-hall, on " Oliver Cromwell," under the auspices of the Liverpool Sunday School Institute. PIifLHARMONIC SOCIETY. —The annual meeting of the proprietors of the Philharmonic -hall was held on Wed nesday, at the office, Exchange -court, when the report was unanimously adopted. AARON SMITH, aged 78 years, was killed yesterday week whilst crossing the Longridge Railway, near Black burn. The deceased was a labourer, and was knocked down by an engine and tender. THE DRESSMAKERS AND MILLINERS of Manchester have been invited to hear a paper read at the Mechanics' Institution, on Friday next, by a committee appointed on behalf of the above class of young persons. THOMAS AND MARY HOWARD, convicted of extensive illicit distillation at the Manchester Police-office, on Friday morning last, were fined in X3O: in default of payment, to be imprisoned for three months. SHIPPING TO ArSTRALIA.—The Gambia,• Jas. Carson, Ottilla, and Thorwaldsen, vessels belonging to Mr. James Walthew's Liverpool and Australian line of packets, have all arrived safely at their antipodal destination. LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—The numbers of persons who visited the Exhibition of Paintings, during the popular evenings, since Monday, December 27th, up to its close on Saturday, were 10,532 adults, and 1,1137 children. NEW DEPETV-LIEUTENANTS.--The Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of Sefton, has appointed Peter Catterall, Esq., Mayor of Preston, and Wm. Ainsworth, Esq., of Preston, Deputy-Lieutenants of the county palatine of Lancaster. THE NEW STOCK EXCHANGE.—Workmen. BTO now busily engaged in altering a portion of the west side of the Exchange-buildings, preparatory to the Stock Exchange being removed there from its present locality in Royal Bank-buildings. A PVIIVIC MEETING, called by the Mayor of Oldham, was held in that town on Wednesday evening, and a peti tion adopted praying both Houses of Parliament to remedy the evils arising from the gross 'violation: of the present Factory Bill. THE FARMERS in the neighbourhood of Rochdale met on Monday week to raison fund for the purchasing of an annuity for John Turner, of Birch, a poor man aged 71 years, who raised an improved variety of the potato, called the " Fluke." THE REV. MR. Rate, late of the Scottish Church. Oldham-sstreet, Liverpool, now minister of the second Scottish Church in Melbourne, officiates every Sabbath in the Temperance Hall, Russell-street, Melbourne. to large congregations. SIR EDWARD RYAN, the well-known Indian Judge, accompanied by Mr. J. B. Lloyd, paid a visit to the Free Public Library this week, and, after minutely examining the building and arrangements, expressed himself much gratified with all he saw. A CORRESPONDENT of the Lancaster Gazette states that the Preston board of guardians have made an unsuc cessful attempt to foist upon the town a Romish governor of the workhouse. "In every public dffice in Preston," he affirms, " Jesutte influence is at work." A BOY, eleven years old, named Fletcher Barra, was on Thursday last upset from a cart, in which he was rid ing with some companions, near the Bridge Inn, Lough, in the vicinity of %Damen. The shaft struck him on the bead, and he died almost instantaneously. THE MANX SUFFERERS. —The'ReV. Canon Stowell, of Manchester, having, on Sunday week, intimated to his congregation his willingness to receive contributions to wards the relief of the sufferers from the late catastrophe in the Isle of Man, has received £lOB ss. for that purpose. MRS. BESWIC,K, wife of Mr. John Beswick, innkeeper, Chapels, near Darwen, in Lancashire, was yesterday even ing week seized with a sick fit in' her own house, in con sequence of which she fell into the fire, and was almost burned to death: she is still in a precarious condition. MR. JAMES BAINES, of this town, accompanied by Captain J. 'N. Forbes, of the -ship Marco Polo, and Captain Alexander Newlands, had an interview with the Right Hon. .E. Cardwell, at the 'Board of Trade, on Tuesday, on the subject of ships deserted by their crews in Australia. JIIMPING.-I , Villiam Preston, aced 48 years, a strong, healthy men, , employed at Messrs.'Bury's works, Adelphi, Manchester, was killed on Saturday last, while jumping with some of his fellow workmen. He tripped his feet against the ground, lost his balance, and broke his neck against a door-post. A CAstx-sox STOLEN.—Jane Twist, aged 19 years, servant with Mr. Thomas Ball, grocer, Oldfield-road, Manchester,has been apprehended, charged with stealing a cash-box from her master, containing £36. Mr. Ball has been in the habit of hiding this box in a cellar, where he thought no one would find it. MILES DIXON, weaver and warper, in the employ of Messrs. R. Battersby and Sons, woollen manufacturers, Bury, has been committed on a charge of robbing that firm of a large quantity of linen yarn. Sarah Holt, the prisoner's paramour, was likewise committed on the charge of receiving the stolen goods. NORTR-WBSTERN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. —The result of the committee of Liverpool shareholders appointed• to inquire into and mediate in matters of dis pute between these two companies, is stated to be a de termination to submit all matters in question to the con sideration of a-Parliamentary committee. •• WILLIAM -SMITH, who escaped •- recently from the Borough Gaol, where he was confined for stealing a cash box from the Goat public-house, in Peter's-lane, was apprehended in Whitechapel, on Wednesday morning, by Carlisle and Marks, of the detective force. The fellow was coolly walking along the street at the time of his apprehension. INTEMPERANCE zTN TIIE COUNTY.—M: the Kirkdalo Epiphany Sessions, on Tuesday l as t, i n rep l y to a question magistrates, put by one of the -agistrates, Captain'Woodford said there was no diminution in the crime of drunkenness.—A Magistrate : 'lt is sure to increase with good times. Captain Woodford : : 'Yes ; when they have money they generally spend it. THE BRITISH ANDIS7ORTH AMERICAN IVaIL STEAM sun, CANADA, Stone, commander, was unable to take her departure for Boston, on Saturday, owing to want of suffi cient depth of water at the bar. She, however, proceeded on her voyage on Sunday, at 7 15, a.m., having about forty passengers, besides a fair cargo and the usual mails, on board. SAD ACCIDENT.—On\Sunday morning the .11,:iy1 life boat, in going to the assistance of a schooner asi West Hoyle, upset, and six out of the nine men who corn- Posed her crew were drowned. The crew of the schooner re supposed to be lost, as no traces of them could be h ave been vv°a and on b ar snea asnd Oatmeal sacks marked " A. and F. N." , ' , , re o. school So no Were entztiani or, TEA P ARTY.—The children attending the s attached to St. Silas's Church, Pembroke-place, Rev. S. %e n d at tea or. yesterday evening week. The Duck, and other , the i ncumbent, the R ev . M essrs. B arry, magic lante rn WasE i T itle men delive re d a dd resses, and the infant-school children e ntro4xced. 'O n T uesday, at noon, the afforded a treat. THE SHIP JOINERS. place on Wednesday last -" , — ittZ' ee ting of this society took ks ssembly-rooms, Circus street, for the purpose of finallev ii s kt li ng ti t le he ra r t a e te o o f f w wa ag g e e s s : It was unanimously resolved, from the 17th instant, shall be ss. be daY, and the rate of remuneration for overtime shall e .9d . „ er hour," the aie society preferring a fixed rate t o a sliding acr otia o THE STEAM-SHIP CITY OP M A` E commander, belonging to the Liverpoo l a nd ptt iladelphia ? Leitch, Steam-ship Company, which left Phil adel instant, arrived he re o n Th u rsd a y, a f ter a fine r n 13 days 131 hou rs , f rom th e D e l aware. From thaelthe 6th a g t ` p o r the 19th instant, she averaged 244 knots per day, and _ the 13th, 14th, an d 15 t h ran 261 , 286 , and 250 u knot:respectively. THE Manchester Guardian states that on Thursday last about 500 brickmakers of that town and its neighbour hood proceeded per train to Guide-bridge, to intimidate a brickmaster there named William Cowley, who employed twelve " knobsticks," or, in plainer terms, men not con. nected with the society. The mayor and the chief-con stable of Ashton were present, and, fortunately, no violence Was resorted to. otITHE FIRST ANNIVERSAR Y DINNER of the drivers and meet parties connected with the cab and carriage establish- Goose 0i.nn11.4. Jonathan Bell, was held at the Fox and 1 Copperas-hill, on Wednesday evening last. The health' of Mr. Bell was given with great enthusiasm, and he was warmly. eulogised, especially for granting the men an opportunity of reverencin the I ord' d *th out making any deduction from their g wages.j s ay, wi FEMALE DRUNKENNESS.—Betsey Yates, aged 53 years who had lodged for twelve months with police-officer Appleby, in Brunswick -street Manchester, died last week suddenly in a state of intloexftictaotliolen. About two years since, she had some money deal r o' of it shee had lived upon it ever since. A great upon spirits, and the rest upon jellies, grapes, it spent and other extravagancies of a similar kind, intemperate had ohe become that she frequently for several days together drunk upwards of a quart of spirits a day. lore on UTE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JANUAR THE BRAZIL MAILS.-Mr. Warburton, in answer to a letter complaining of the detention of the Brazil mails in the metropolis, has received a letter from the Postmaster- General, stating that the mails cannot be accelerated till March ; that at present they are, with difficulty, des patched from Euston-square by the 9 15 a.m. train, and that it is quite impossible for them to be forwarded by the 6 a.m. train. KIRKDALE SEssxoNs.—On Wednesday last, at the court-house, Kirkdale, Richard Pilkington, Esq., of Windle-hall, St. Helen's, took the oaths, and qualified as a magistrate ; and on the same day, and at the same place, William Pilkington, Esq., of Eccleston-hall, St. Helens, and on Thursday, at the same place, William Rigby, Esq., of Liverpool, took the oaths and qualified as deputy-lieutenants of this county. RAMSEY HARBOUR. — Some improvements are likely to be made in this harbour shortly, which will make it more commodious than at present, and render it a port which weather beaten vessels may enter with safety, and he pro tected from the storm, in lien of anchoring in the bay. A petition from this town to the commissioners of harbours, praying them to grant an adequate sum for the extension and improvement of the harbour, was presented on Tues day last. The petition was received favourably, and a grant of £6OO given, all the funds the commissioners have at their disposal at present.—Manx Sun. REFUSAL TO PROCEED TO SEA.--At the Liverpool police-court, on Tuesday, the captain of the ship Albion, lying in the river, preferred a charge against Frank Wil liams, James Lettine, John Harrington, John Johnstone, Jonathan Seed, George Baker, Henry Kline, and John Seantan, seamen, for having, in violation of their agree ment, refused to proceed in the said vessel to New Orleans—from thence (if required) to any port in the United States, British North America, or whatever freight might offer, or for a term not to exceed twelve months. They were each sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment. EXEMPTION FROM JURIES.—An application was made at the Kirkdale Sessions, on Tuesday, on behalf of Thomas Ridley, Esq., J.P. for the island of Newfoundland, and holding her Majesty's commission as a member of the executive council of that island, to exempt him from serving upon juries at the sessions, on account of the offices held by him. It was stated that, although a magis trate was exempt from serving upon a jury at the sessions for the county of which he was a magistrate, (on the prin ciple that he was a judge at such court,) there was no such exemption in regard to sessions for other counties, or in regard to the assizes. THE SPRING CIRCUITS.—On Wednesday the Judges assembled in the Exchequer Chamber for the purpose of selecting their respective Circuits for the ensuing Spring Assizes. The following is the result of the selection : Northern.—Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Baron Martin. Norfolk.—Lord Campbell and the Lord Chief Baron. Midland.—Lord Chief Justice Jervis and Mr. Baron Parke. Home.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Western.—Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice Crompton. Oxford.—Mr. Justice Williams and Mr. Justice Talfourd, North Wales.—Mr. Justice Maule. South Wales.—Mr. Justice Wightman. Mr. Baron Platt will remain in town. NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.—It is asserted that this company will not pay more than five per cent., and to do that they will have to dip into the balance brought from last account. The earnings arc £16,000 less, and there are the quarter-shares to come in for full dividend instead of fcur per cent., making an extra claim on the revenue. It is likewise rumoured that the working expenses will be found unexpectedly heavy. Against this is to be set the reduction of interest on the new and the renewed deben tures, estimated at above £20,000, with considerable differences in their favour, on the numerous lines to which they have subscribed. Other computations assert that the dividend will not be less than 5 per cent., while one gentleman says £'60,000 balance for next account, and Mr. Yeats says above £BB,OOO. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. The second ballot amongst the uncompleted shareholders for right of choice of allotments on the society's estates, took place on Saturday week. The Rev. Dr. Worthington, Messrs. Mait land, Cribb, Knox, Holmes, Pownall, and Viscount Ranelagh, members of the Executive Committee, were present. Dr. Worthington presided, and in opening the proceedings congratulated the shareholders present on the prosperous condition of the society, He had great plea sure in stating that they had already become possessed of several most eligible estates : two at Pntney, in East Sur rey, one at Ealing, in Middlesex, and a fourth at Houns low, in the same county ; and the Executive Committee are now in treaty for various other estates in different localities. 'The ballot having been proceeded with, fifty rights of 'choice were drawn by shareholders in the coun ties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Bucks, Norfolk, Suffolk, Derby, 'Somerset, and Dorset. CTVIC ENTERTAINMENTS.--The mayor has introduced a new custom at his dinner parties, which is found to be very convenient. The large dishes are no longer placed on the table, but are all carved at the sideboards. This spares a number of gentlemen the trouble of carvine, which, in many instances, was no sinecure. A carte du (kdor is now placed at the right hand of every guest, who can order what he selects without inconvenience. His worship has also dispensed with the attendance of all the private servants who accompanied their masters; and the dinners are now exclusively -served by the domestics of the Town-hall, and those who are expressly engaged for the occasion. Much of the irregularity which previously 'existed will consequently be avoided ; and we think it may 'beuseful to make the cicumstance generallyknown, that the -private servants of the mayor's guests will not in future be admitted to the dining-room. Mr. Lynn, of theWater 'leo, supplies all the dinners at the Town-hall , during the present mayoral ty.—Albion. LIVERPOOL SHIPPING.—Some idea of the , commercial importance of Liverpool, as a port for foreign-goingyessels, may be formed from the following statistics::—During eight days no less than 223 vessels left here on foreign voyages. The total tonnage in th e e i g ht d ays amounted to 95,992, of which the United States trade has taken 92 vessels, of 64,466 aggregate tonnage. The cotton trade alone has employed 33 vessels, of 26,801 total tons, that number having sailed for New Orleans. For South America there have been'27 vessels ; total tonnage, 7,658. To the Mediterranean 33 vessels ; tonnage,'6:222. To the East Indies 12 vessels, - 5,946 tonnage. - West Indies 17 vessels, 3,699 tons. To Australia 3 vessels, 1,071 tons ; and California 1 vessel of 790 tons. To Europe generally 16 vessels, 2,287 tons; Africa 5 vessels, 2,388 tons ; Azores 7 vessels, 1,172 tons ; British America, 1 vessel, of 250 tons ; and nine vessels of which we have not the par ticulars. This return is exclusive of the coasting and Irish trade, which will amount to between 3,000 end 4,000 tons additional. A DANGEROUS LODGER.—On Tuesday last, at the Li verpool Police-office, a Sicilian sailor, named Angelo Cook, was brought up on a charge of threatening to shoot William Benussi, pawnbroker and lodging house keeper. The prisoner lodged with the prosecutor, at his house in Drury-lane. On Monday afternoon, he informed the prosecutor that he had shipped in an American vessel, presented a shinning note, and requested an order fora pair of boots. Knowing that the ship was not to sail until Saturday, Mr. Benussi refused to give the order, whereupon the prisoner became violent, which led to his ejection from the house. On the same afternoon, he called and inquired for the prosecutor. Being informed that he was not in, the prisoner then produced two loaded pistols,' with which he said he intended to shoot Mr. Be nussi, and if they missed fire he would finish him with a large knife which he pulled out of his pocket. The pro secutor procured the assistance of detectives Sullivan and Carlisle, who apprehended the prisoner in Whitechapel. `He was ordered to find bail, himself in £3O. and two sure ties in £l5 each, or a month's imprisonment in default. A FAMILY or BOA CoNs . rmcrons.—On Sunday week there arrived in this port, in the ship Arrow, 'Captain Wyatt, from Para, a huge serpent of the boa genus. The reptile is 18 feet in length, and was caught by some of the natives on the banks of the " mighty Amazon." Before it came into the possession of Captain Wyatt, it had satis fied its appetite by swallowing a full-grown goat. On the day the vessel left Para. the captain and crew were sur prised-to find that the serpent had given birth to 3G young ones. The "snakelets" were about two feet each in length, and in six weeks they have only grown about an inch in . length. In about six days after the birth, the mamma devoured 29 pigeons, being the first food she had tasted from the time she had feasted on the goat —a period of about three months. Captain Wyatt has dis posed of the boa constrictor and its progeny to Mr. Edmonds, the proprietor of one of the travelling menage ries of his father-in-law, the late Mr. Wombwell, which is at present being exhibited in Manchester. The mother and three of the young ones has been conveyed to that town, but 33 of the snakelets have yet to be delivered, dead or alive, to the purchaser. They are at present, in seaman's phrase, adrift in the ship's hold. A RICE MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE.—On Wednesday last a conflagration took place at the rice-mill and starch manufactory of Messrs. Irving, Son, and.sones, Black stock-street, Vauxhall-road. The works.consisted of a large building of four stories, containing a great quantity of produce and machinery. The fire broke out in the upper part of that portion of the premises used as a rice mill, and was discovered shortly after four o'clock in the afternoon. Information was immediately sent to the central fire-police station, and Mr. Hewitt, with a number of the fire brigade, proceeded to the burning building with all despatch. The West of England engine was also in attendance. When the engines arrived the fire had made such progress as to render the destruction of the rice-mill inevitable. Through the exertions of the fire brigade, however, the starch manufactory, offices, and several surrounding cottages were preserved. The con flagration was chiefly remarkable for its fierceness, a cir cumstance in part owing to the extreme dryness of the materials exposed to the, action of the flames. It was about seven o'clock before the fire was effectually sub dued. The damage done amounts to from £4,000 to £5,000. It is covered by insurance in the Norwich Union Fire office. Much of the stock in the rice-mill was saved. The fire is supposed to have originated from the friction of machinery. SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—The annual meeting of the supporters of this institution was held on Thursday, at the school, Oxford-street East. The Re v . Recto r C amphell, the president, in the chair. The children under instruction in the school were in the room during the Proceedings, and their healthful and cheerful appear honorer "me was ft subject of gratification. There are at present between 40 and 50 pupils.—Mr. Edward Banner, the Y secretary, read the annual report. This stated that there had been an increase of income derived from legacies. More than three-fourths of the children now under More belon g to Liverpool itself; and never, at any former time, did the institution more fully answer the thief object of its benevolent founders. Contributions to the clothing fund had been received from Richard Rathbone, Esq., of Woodcote, Aigburth, and from other donors connected with the institution ; and the committee had also to express their thanks to Miss H. M. Rathbone, Mr. Hugh Shimmin, and the directors of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Connecticut, for valuable acquisitions to the school library.—The cash account was read by Mr. Arthur Thompson, the treasurer ; after which, the Rev. William Brewster moved that the report and statement of accounts be adopted.—The reso lution was seconded by Mr. Richard Rathbone, and car ried unanimously.—Mr. Harmood Banner moved a vote of thanks to the president, officers, and committee, for their services during the past year •, and the meeting broke up with lie usual compliment to the chairman. INIPOILTA'NT TO OIL MERCHANTS.—In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday, the case of Rosseter v. Cahl mann was beard on a demurrer to a rejoinder, which raised the question whether a contract for sundry gallons of palm oil, " old measure," to be delivered on the coast of Africa and paid for in Liverpool, was an illegal contract within the sth and 6th William IV., c. 63, s. 21, because it was not made in the "imperial measure" established by that statute. Mr. M. Smith, for the plaintiff, con tended that the statute in question could not apply to any contract except such as was made within the United Kingdom. Mr. Field, being called on to support his plea, submitted that the contract, though made with reference to foreign goods, was one to be performed in England, and, therefore, fell within the 21st section of the statute. The court, however, hen that the statute could only apply to contracts wholly arising within the United Kingdom, and could not be extended to foreign transactions such as that on which the plaintiff sued. There must, therefore, be judgment for the plaintiff. Judgment accordingly. LICENSES FOR STEAM-TUGS.---OR Thursday, John Nicholson, William Henry Ogden, and William Currie, the owners of the steam-tug Queen, appeared before the magistrates, charged with sailing that vessel with passen gers without a certificate.—Mr. Tindal, who appeared for the Board of Trade, said the information was filed on the 12th section of the Steam Navigation Act. According to the 3rd section of the act, owners of steam-vessels are bound, twice in every year, to have their ves se l s surveye d by a shipwrights surveyor appointed by the government, who shall testify as to the soundness of the hull, and by a shipwright's engineer, who shall testify as to the state of the engines. After this, the Board of Trade grants the certificates. In the case in question, no application had been made for such certificate.—Elisha Wilcockson, Custom-house officer, deposed that on the 3rd instant he saw 36 passengers on board the Queen, then lying at the Prince's-pier. The steamer was conveying passengers to the emigrant ship Forest Monarch, which was lying in the river.—Mr. Owen, for the defence, contended that the Queen was not employed on any voyage or excursion ; she was merely the means of transit to the ship.—The magis trates decided that the law affected the case in question, and ordered the defendants to pay a mitigated penalty of 40s. and costs.—John Newton, the captain of the Queen, was fined 10a. and costs for the same offence. DOCK COMMITTEE, — At the weekly meeting, on Thurs day, the Secretary submitted a letter from Messrs. George Baker and Son, in reply to a letter written to them, enclosing the resolution of the dock committee, and requesting to know the amount of expense they had incurred in tendering for the contracts for the dock works. They refuse to state what expenses they had incurred, complain of the injurious comparisons which had been drawn in discussions about their tender, and request that the case may be referred to three eminent engineers. After a lengthy debate, it was agreed to send a reply to Messrs. Baker, to the effect, that the committee could not proceed further in the matter.—The Solicitor submitted his annual report in reference to bills preparing for the ensuing session of parliament ; he expressed his satisfac tion that it was the first time during many years in which the dock trustees were not the object of parliamentary attack.—The Chairman intimated that the contracts for printing and stationery, now in the hands of Mr. M'Cor quodale and Mr. Harris, expired in March next, and it was agreed that the necessary advertisements should be issue , l for tenders.—Mr. Bigham brought forward the motion of which he had given notice, that in future the reporters be requested not to withdraw until the chairman left the chair ; but, after a lengthy discussion, the motion was lost, the majority considering that the presence of re porters would be injudicious, and might lead to difficulties. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of the com mittee on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided. From a financial statement read by the clerk, it appeared that in 1852 the rates collected amounted to £4 ss. 7d. per cent. increase upon those of the preceding year, or a total of £3,s4o.—The medical officer reported that though inflammatory affections of the lungs have become more prevalent, there had been a decrease last week in the general mortality of the borough, the deaths being 200 against 214 in the week previous, and an average of 258 in the corresponding week of five preceding years. The deaths in the parish were 140, and in the extra parochial wards, 60. Of the total deaths 96 were from diseases of the lungs, including consumption, a larger proportion than in any week of the previous three years. Consump tion caused 40 deaths, which exceeded the number in any week of the preceding twenty months. There was a decrease of six in the mortality from aymotic diseases, the deaths last week being 38, including 9 from hooping cough, 7 from typhus, 6 from scarlatina, 6 from diarrhoea. 2 from small pox (1 not vaccinated), 1 from measles, and 1 from erysipelas. One death from rheumatism.—The chairman read a letter from Mr. John Rose, relative to his proposition for deodorising the town manure, and afterwards disposing of it in the most advantageous man ner. The letter, which included some financial state ments, for the purpose of showing that by the proposed plan the committee would save £1,538 per annum, or £23,000 during the fifteen years, was referred to the engi neer.—Mr. Bigham said, at the last meeting remarks were made as to his interest in a machine for sawing, purchased by the engineer; all he could say was, that it was pur chased from a gentleman, a friend of his, and he bad no beneficial interest in it whatever. A letter from Mr. Taylor, of Pumpfields, was read, complaining that he had rented works for the manufacture of rosin oil for some time, and before any works were within the distance required by the act of parliament, namely 75 feet. Since then, a neighbour, Mr. Lutwyche, had come within the prescribed limits., and an information had been laid against him (Mr. Taylor). Mr. Taylor was requested to bring his complaint before the finance committee.—Mr. Bigham was about to call attention to the crossing of the streets at the north docks by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail way Company, when the chairman intimated that the matter had been referred to the engineers of the two bodies. ST. CLEMENT'S MISSIONARY MEETING.—A very in teresting missionary meeting was held in St. Clement's Boys' School-room, Windsor, on Monday evening, the 17th instant, in furtherance of the object of the above society,—the Rev. F. Parry in the chair. After the pro ceedings had been opened with prayer, the rev. chairman, in an eloquent speech of considerable length, dwelt upon the Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews, of which he is the zealous secretary ; in the course of which he defined its real province and aim—corrected many prevalent mistakes made by many with regard to the objects of the society, and urged its claims upon the sympathy and support of the meeting.—The Rev J. S. Burdon, who has been recently ordained, and is about to proceed as a missionary to Shanghai, China, next addressed the meeting, and ably advocated the cause of missions to the Heathen. Among the topics dwelt upon, was the success of one missionary and the want of success of another, though equally zealous, which he argued was, under God, mainly to be attributed to the settled conviction, followed up by untiring devotedness, of the former, in carrying out the conviction—that the education of the rising generation was the opening of a wide and effectual door for the'Gospel," by which the whole fabric of Heathenism will be shaken to its base, and the comparative neglect of this duty by the latter. He glanced at the interesting mission field of China, in which, in the providence of God, he will be soon called to labour —noticed their genius and literary acquirements as a people, and sketched the advantage the missionary •ne cessarily enjoyed in labouring there, over those whose lot it is to labour among half civilized and barbarous races of our fellow-creatures. But by far-the most interesting feature in the evening's proceedings was the pleasing duty which the congregation had to discharge. As a feeble expression of good will, and to record their high sense of the value of the faithful services of Mr. Roberts, their late Scripture reader, they deputed the Rev. Chairman to present him with a large handsomely bound copy of Baxter's comprehensive Polyglot Bible, with notes, &e. 4 and a purse containing ten guineas. The Bible bore the inscription :—" Robert Roberts. Presented to him with sincere and cordial wishes for his peace in time, and bliss in eternity, by his friends in the district of St. Clement's, Windsor, Liverpool, as a token of th e i r a pp rec i a ti on o f hi s faithful labours as a Scripture Readerof thatdistrict foreight years:: ' Be thou faithful unto death, I and will give thee a crown of life.'—Rev. 2, v.lO. They part with him with regret. In this:world partings arefrequent and unavoidable ; but there is another world, where adieus and partings are unknown.' The Rev. Chairman, in a feeling and affec tionate address, bore testimony to his zeal and devoted ness, and implored the Divine blessing to follow him in the new sphere in which he has been called to labour. As soon as Mr. Roberts had sufficiently recovered from the emotion which the unexpected presentation had occa sioned, he briefly, but in an appropriate manner, returned sincere thanks; whereupon the proceedings terminated with singing and prayer. THE BURNING OF THE ST. GEORGE.—The .steamer Sir Edward Banks, arrived at Havre, has brought some additional particulars of the loss of the St. George. G. Grant Cousins, one of the crew, states that the vessel would he about 40 deg. 12 min. lat, and 23 deg. 30 min. long., or about 1,200 miles south and westward of Cape Clear, when smoke was first discovered coming from the hold. During the whole period, indeed, it seems that no fire was observed at all, the vessel being enshrouded in thick and stifling smoke. Cousins states that when the Orlando came in sight, the first two boats that left the ship contained Captain Bairnson and all the crew, with the exception of five bands. Cousins also described the successive trips of the life-boat on the first day of the disaster. He says—That the people had, so violent was the hurricane, and so terrific the rolling of the St, George, to watch the boat's rising on the top of a wave in order to jump :in. Two lost their lives in the attempt. He left the vessel in the fifth trip, and no one was left on board then that could manage the vessel. Two other trips were made after this, the last about nine o'clock. The Orlando had two brats, but it was not safe to launch them. She remained by all night, about ten miles distant. No com munication was made during the night with the St. George, and the storm raged more furiously. At day break the following morning, (Christmas-day,) Captain Bairnson came forward, and asked who would volunteer to go off to the St. George to save the lives of the pas sengers. I was one of the party. Off we went, and, in the course of an hour and a half, succeeded in coming alongside. Still there were no means of assisting the pas sengers, and the only chance for them to reach her was to jump. We remained a long while alongside, imploring others to follow the example of those who had already jumped, but fear and terror seemed to have seized them. Several missed the boat, and were lost. No one was saved who fell overboard. The poor creatures who were left consisted entirely of women and children —the number they could not tell ; but, on calling over the names of those on board, for Captain Bairnson had saved the ship's papers and log-book, some fifty were ascertained to be missing. They never afterwards saw anything o f the St. George, or heard what fate she and her passengers met with it. The next morning Captain Bairnson, who was in a dreadful state of mind, called the men together, and asked whether any of them would volunteer to risk another attempt with him to rescue theunhappy creatures, adding that it was a horrible thing to abandon the wreck a f r vi while so many poor things we re on it. None would volunteer to go, every one, as also those belonging to the o t f he No emigrantstingham Nottingham, f aypwh t l l o i a fieil h e ad paid for a years of age, Bairnson St . George,and his officers and men. He says — " Had they remained to direct the terrified passengers in making their esca pe, the Orlando, being convinced an atte m pt would prove fatal.— jo a h m n e w S o t r a k r , kn one itt e r o , f complains e in in s bhietrt,ery o takinglf - with the conduct hi m o hisf whole of them might have been saved. ST. HELENS SAVINGS' BANK.—A meeting of the de positors was held at the Fleece Inn, St. Helens, on Mon day, Mr. Edward Morgan in the chair. The report of the committee appointed the preceding year by the depo sitors was read. The trustees furnished them with a full statement and abstract of the accounts, whereby it ap peared that the net amount realised from the estate of the two Jobnsons was £555 ; that mortgages on the shares in the colliery, amounting to £2,366, had been paid, and that the expenses of the prosecution, beyond the amount allowed by the county, had been very great. Conceiving that the depositors have a strong claim on Government for at least the amount of those expenses, the committee prepared a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whichWm.Brown, Esq., M.P., has undertaken to present. MURDEROUS THREATS.—On Tuesday, Angelo Cook, a Sicilian, was charged at the Police-office with threatening to shoot Mr. Benussi, who is a pawnbroker in Paradise street, and keeps a public-house in Drury-lane. Robert M'Cartney, assistant, stated that at half-past three, and again at half-past five o'clock, on Monday afternoon, Cook called at Mr. Benussi's house, Drury-lane. At the former hour he wished them all " good bye," but when he came the second time, he inquired for his master, who was absent. Prisoner then pulled oat two pistols and said, that " if they would not do, this knife shall." M'Cartney, who saw a large knife in his breast, sent word to Mr. Benussi, who, accompanied by Sullivan and Car lisle, police-officers, arrested the prisoner, on whose person were found the pistols loaded, as also a dagger-knife. The prisoner was ordered to find bail—himself in £3O and two sureties in £l5 each. CRIME IN LANCASHIRE.—At the Epiphany Sessions, held at Kirkdale, on Tuesday, Capt. Woodford, the chief constable, read a return of the state of crime, &c., in the county. During the quarter, from the Ist of October to the 31st of December, 1852, there had been a total of 2,174 prisoners apprehended, 422 charged with offences against the person, including 245 common assaults, and 55 assaults upon police constables. There were eight bur glary cases, and 544 charged with larceny and other offences against property. Of the other offences, 42 pri soners had been charged with wilful damage ; bastardy, 159; deserting females, 26; drunkenness, 401; and va grancy, 292. Of the total number of 2,174 prisoneri, 271 were sent for trial, 1,230 summarily convicted, 129 bailed, and 544 discharged. 1,970 persons had been summoned by the police in the same period, 149 of these being charged with breaches of the beer act, 98 breaches of the licensed victuallers' act, 168 with breaches of the peace, and 701 with drunkenness. Of the total, 1,070 were summarily convicted, 1,747 dismissed, 180 did not appear, and the number of warrants granted was 39. Of other summonses, issued on the complaints of parish authorities, common informers, &c., there was a total of 2,382. Of these, two were sent for trial ; 1,376 summarily convicted, 667 cases were settled out of court, one left to arbitration, 300 persons were dismissed, 36 did not appear, and 25 warrants were issued. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS AT CIIORLEY.-011 Tuesday, two collisions occurred at the Chorley station, on the Bol ton and Preston line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, but neither was attended with loss of life. The first, which took place in the morning, appears to have been caused by the neglect of persons in charge of the station, in not turning on a signal. Through this over sight, a coal-train came up behind, and ran into a goods train which was standing in the station, on the down-line from Manchester, and the force was such as to make con siderable havoc with both trains. The second accident occurred in the evening. About three-quarters of a mile short of Chorley the express-train which left Preston for Manchester at 5 o'clock, consisting of five first and second class carriages, overtook and ran into a train of 19 wag gons filled with cattle, which was going in the same direc tion, and ascending one of the steepest gradients on the line. The cattle train had been much impeded by the slippery state of the rails, and the express came upon it in a very sharp curve of the line, where the driver could not see any great distance in advance. However, he succeeded in arresting the train so as to prevent the collision being a severe one. Three of the cattle-trucks were smashed, and six sheep were killed, but in the express train the passen gers were some of them scarcely conscious of the shock. None of the carriages of the express-train were thrown off the line, nor were they in any way injured. The directors have made a strict investigation into the circumstances. A FRAUDULENT INSOLVENT. —ln the Insolvent Debtors' Court, London, William Pomfret, who had kept the Railway Hotel at Blackburn, was brought up last week, before Mr. Commissioner Law. The insolvent in his schedule stated that in March last he had property at the Railway Hotel to the value of at least £3OO, which had been seized at the suit of Mr. Bell, an attorney at Blackburn. Towards the end of 1851, finding himself in difficulties, he mentioned his circumstances to one Charn ley, a sheriff's officer, who advised him to go to Mr. Bell, which he did, and, after explaining his position, he, at the request of Mr. Bell, wrote his name several times in a book, which that person produced, with different pens and different inks. He also, by Bell's desire, gave a pro missory note for £l9l 16s. 10d., payable on demand. Insolvent then came up to London, and Mr. Bell sued and obtained judgment upon the promissory note, under which he levied an execution upon all the property at the Railway Hotel, and Charnley, as the sheriff's officer, got into possession. The property was sold, and realised be tween £2OO and £3OO, of which no part had reached the creditors or the insolvent, who left the town with £65 in cash, and had remained in London till the period of his arrest.—Messrs. Bell and Charnley stated, by affidavit, that the circumstances deposed to were utterly false and untrue, except the institution of legal proceedings against the insolvent upon a promissory note given to secure £l9O, money advanced to insolvent by Mr. Bell.—Mr. Commissioner Law said the insolvent, by his own account, had employed Mr. Bell, an attorney, and Charnley, a sheriff's officer at Blackburn, to help him to cheat his creditors. The other two persons. Bell and Charnley, had had the indiscretion to make affidavits, which he con sidered as confirmatory of the insolvent's statement. He (the Commissioner) believed all that part of the insolvent's story, and he looked upon the whole as a conspiracy be tween these three parties to cheat the insolvent's creditors. The insolvent, however, had been the primary cause of all the creditors being defrauded, and on that account he would not be discharged till the lapse of 14 months from the date of the vesting order. LivertrooL Awe UNION.—The drawing for the - prizes took place on Tuesday.; Samuel Holme, Esq., mayor, presided ; and, in the course of a preliminary speech, intimated that 378 persons had subscribed, mak ing the sum of £396 185..; and by which they were enabled to offer 25 prizes, varying in amount from 450 down to £5. While on former occasions the chances, he be lieved, of obtaining a prize were about 1 in 45, those chances were now reduced, or rather, he should say, advanced to 1 in T 5 of the subscribers. He could not avoid congratulating the people of Liverpool, and particularly the artists, on the greater encouragement which had been given of late years to modern art and to modern artists. Mr. F. Ro berts, the secretary, read the report, in which, while the committee regretted the smallness of the sum lubscribed, as compared with Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other towns, they still expressed a hope in the future. The total amount of subscriptions was £396 18s. ; and after paying all expenses, a balance of £355 had been left to buy pic tures—one of £5O, one of £3O, one of £25, three of £20,4 of £l5, eleven of £lO, and four of £5. At the conclusion of the drawing, the Mayor read the names of the fortunate subscribers. The first in the list was " the first drawn blank." and was, according to the conditions, entitled to a £5 prize. The following is the list :—Mr. John Roberts, 12, Huskisson-street, £5 ; Mr. Richard Grindley, 58, Bedford-street, £5O ; Mr. R. H. Frank, Aigburth, £2O ; Mr. Robert Greenham, Mersey-chambers, Old Church yard, £lO ; Mr. J. W. Macrae, Liverpool, £2O ; Mr. J. H. Swale, at Messrs. Leyland and Bullen's, King-street, £20.; Mr. George Brown, Birchfield, Edge-lane, £l5 ; Mr. Thomas Mather, Holywell, £lO ; Mrs. H. Lorimer, Woolton-road, Wavertree, £10; Mr. Samuel Blain, Brunswick-street, £5 ; Mr. W. Graham, Monk-street, Birkenhead, £5 ; Mr. John Naylor, banker, £10.; Mr. Robert Case, Holly-road, Fairfield, £l5 ; Mr. Thomas Branch, 'Hanover-street, £lO ; Mr. F. Braun, Falkner square, £10; The Earl of Sefton, £3O; Mrs. Macintyre, 25, Slater-street, £10; Mr. J. J. Hadwen, 10, Erskine street, £25 ; Mrs. William Kay Coubrough, 8, Cumber land-terrace, .Upper Parliament-street, £10; Mr. James Pelham, Marsden-street, £10; Mr. J. Joynson, Exchange buildings, £lO ; Mr. George Schultz, Grove-park, Lodge lane, £5 ; Miss Agnes Atkinson, Seaforth, £l5 ; Mr. Latham, Garston-hall, £l5 ; Mr. F. Tamplin, Colonial buildings, £lO, MILNER'S'FIRE-PROOF SAFES.—At the Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday, Mr. Commissioner Perry gave judg ment in the case of.ffohn German Harrison, which we re ported fully last week. His Honour said that the charge against the bankrupt was either gross fraud committed against Mr. Milner, or gross recklesness, according as the bankrupt is to be considered as acting for the Messrs. Tann in the capacity of agent, whose safety boxes he sold in Liverpool, or on his , own account. His Honour, after recapitulating the facts sf the case, and the piracy com mitted by the bankrupts,on Mr. Milner's patent by which the latter had been compelled to bring two actions at law, said—Now it appears to me, that no sufficient justification has been shown for the bankrupt's exposing himself to the litigation which has occe.rred, and to the expenses ne cessarily consequent upon it. He failed to take the ordi nary precaution of obtaining a guarantee which would na turally have suggested itself to the mind of one strongly impressed, as his was •years ago, with the belief that the Messrs. Tann were using Milners' principle of non-con ductors, and which Mr. Samuel's application for indent teity, made according to the bankrupt's own representa tien to Messrs. Tann, ought to have made him the more ready to exercise in his own case. The costs incurred and payable to his opponent have amounted to £1,300, in ad dition to a large sum for which the bankrupt is liable to Messrs. Norton. The preference also shown by the deed of October, 1851, for securing the previous debt of the fa ther and uncle of the bankrupt, executed in order to de feat the judgment obtained by Mr. Milner in the first ac tion, is another feature in this case. It is urged by Mr. Bardswell, first, that the proceedings in aetion have been instituted by Mr. Milner for the purpose of oppressing Mr. Harrison, his late servant, and he asks why the pro ceeding was not instituted against the Messrs. Tann. The answer to this has, I think, been satisfactorily given by the pamphlet issued by the bankrupt, in which he has de scribed himself as sole proprietor, and also as proprietor of Tann'a patent for the manufacturing districts. The next argument in support of the bankrupt is founded upon the fact of professional advice having been taken respect ing the defence of the action, but what that advice was, does not clearly appear, and it may be added, that such an argument is entitled to little weight in the present case, in which the bankrupt was probably more competent, from long experience in the service of Mr. Milner, to de cide for himself than any professional adviser could be, upon the question of infringement, or no infringement, of Mr. Milner's patent rights. With regard to the assign ment in October, 1851, it is said, and very properly, that it is justifiable to assign property to protect it for the ge neral body of creditors ; but that is not the present case, the assignment having been made to benefit two creditors, relations of the bankrupt, at the expense of his other cre ditors, and which two creditors have only been prevented by the order of this court from reaping the full benefit of the assignment. Upon a review of the whole case, ,I thought that the certificate should be suspended for Sur months from the date of the last examination, and that, as the accounts of the bankrupt are stated by the official assignee to have been properly kept, the certificate should be of the second class. The Commissioner consented to grunt protection to the bankrupt. 25, 1853. GENERAL NEWS. TALAVERA WHEAT has succeeded admirably in the north of Scotland. THE PLAINS OF LINCOLNSHIRE are again under water, and it is feared that the damage will be extensive. CHARLES TROTTER, ESQ., mayor of Stockton, was en tertained by his townsmen to a public dinner on the 13th instant. l‘flt. T. HARPER, the best trumpet-player in the country for a period of forty years, died suddenly in London last week. THE VIEW from the upper gallery of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham is one of the most beautiful and ex tensive in England. THE INAUGURAL MEETING of the Ph•tographic Soci ety was held on Thursday last, in London. Sir Charles Eastlake was appointed President. THE WELL at the People's Palace at Norwood, has already been sunk 340 feet, a depth found to be sufficient for an ample supply of water. HYDROPHOBIA.—Mr. Sinclair, farmer, Macduff, Perth. shire, has lost a great number of sheep in consequence of a rabid dog attacking one of the flock. " DIGGINGS" IN SCOTLAND.—The Dumbarton Herald announces that a mine of nickel silver is at present being wrought on the Duke of Argyle's estate near Inverary. A BOILER EXPLOSION took place at the Ebley clothing mill, Gloucestershire, on Thursday morning, which killed one person, injured several others, and nearly de molished the building. TEN HOURS' BILL.—A meeting has been held at Chorl ton-upon-Medlock, to adopt measures for the restriction of the motive power. " Stop the engine," is the universal cry of the operatives in that district. THE FALL OF THE ROTHERHAM MECHANICS' HALL, by which a labourer was killed, has been decided to have taken place, partly from neglect of the architect, and partly from the unprcecedented wet season. JOSEPH HAYES, Sheffield, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for enlisting into the Royal Ma rines, denying and concealing the fact that he had volun teered into the Third West York Militia. THE BARONESS VON BECK'S COMPANION.—In the case of Constant Derra de Meroda (secretary to the late Baroness Von Beck) v. Dawson, Tindal, Peyton and Ry land, a rule nisi for a new trial has been granted. DISCOVERY or GUANO.—The governor of the Falk land Islands has just sent home despatches announcing that guano has been discovered in large quantities in those islands. The guano is not of equal value to Peruvian. NOBLE CONDUCT.—The daughter of the late Mr. H. Hall, of Bridge Bottleworks, Sunderland, has recently waited upon her father's creditors and paid them 20s. in the pound, 25 years having elapsed since the bankruptcy. THE Doncaster Chronicle states that, a few days ago, the presiding elder of the Latter-day Saints' Church, in Crowle, mysteriously disappeared from the village, leaving behind him a disconsolate wife and a host of unpaid bills ! A GANG OF HIGHWAY ROBBERS have been conducting their illegal operations for some time past in the neigh bourhood of Penrith, Cumberland. One of the gang generally goes in the dress of a female, on their nightly exploits. THE Perth Courier states that all the emigrants to Australia from that neighbourhood are doing well at the " diggings," and further, that they have not forgotten in their prosperity their friends at home. One sailor lad has saved upwards of £5OO. A NOBLE DEED.—EarI Manvers has just made a return to his tenants at Fledborough, Notts, who have all suf fered severely from the late flood, of the whole of the half wear' rent which was paid by them at his late audit in December. A WORTHY DAUGHTER.—The daughter of the late Mr. H. Hall, of Bridge Bottle Works, Sunderland, has re cently waited upon her father's creditors, and paid them 20s. in the pound, twenty-five years having elapsed since the bankruptcy. HENRY HALL, of Brighton, has been apprehended on a charge of committing two daring burglaries at South ampton, on Sunday night. The burglar admitted in prison that a cap and shoes left behind in one of the houses robbed belonged to him. GEORGE PETERS, the son of a labouring man, residing in the Cliffe, on the Sussex Downs, lost his life on Tues day week, from exposure during the whole of a tempes tuous night to the weather. He had lost his way on the road to Lewes, and been unable to proceed. THE Scotsman states that Thomas Lees, a cattle dro ver belonging to Edinburgh, was run over by a locomotive at the Haymarket station of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Both legs were cut off close to his body, and it was not expected that he could live over the night. THE CLERK TO THE NOTTINGHAM MAGISTRATES, in a letter to the Times, denies that a fracas took place between the military and the inhabitants, or that there is the least ill-feeling prevalent between them. The alarm ing paragraph in the morning papers were the fabrications of some local penny-a-liner. THE NOTORIOUS IMPOSTOR, Thomas Bradley, alias the Rev. J. Bloomfield. and Mary Bradley, his wife, were brought up at the Lambeth Police-office, on Friday, on a charge of obtaining a quantity of choice plants, under false pretences, from Messrs. Lane and Son, the florists. The prisoners were remanded. ST. KATHARINE DOCKS.—The dividend declared at the half-yearly meeting of this Company, on Wednesday, was at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, and the report and accounts were unanimously adopted. The chairman (Mr. Alderman Thompson) explained that the progress of business was satisfactory. THE CHARTIST LAUREATE.—On Wednesday, at the Thames Police-court, James Duncan, the father of Dun can the Chartist poet, who made himself so conspicuous in the Trafalgar-square " revolution," was ordered to pay 4s. 6d. a week towards the support of the laureate, who is in a lunatic asylum. THE SEXTON of Lambert parish, according to the Edin burgh Scotsman, was busily engaged one day last week digging a grave, when the earth gave way, and he was precipitated into the excavation and securely wedged there. The neighbours exerted themselves for two hours before he was rescued. Fortunately, he was "more frightened than hurt." POISONING IN EDINBURGH.—The Evening Courant states that a woman has been apprehended on a charge of poisoning her pßramour, Peter Kerr, a shoemaker, be tween fifty and sixty years of age, by whom she had several children. Arsenic had been found upon the stomach of the deceased. The woman, it appears, had been heard to threaten his life. SEVERAL PASSENGERS were injured by an accident which occurred on Monday on the Hamilton branch of the Caledonian railway. In consequence of a slip caused by the late heavy rains, the trains had to run on the same line in both directions. A collision was the conse quence ; hut, beyond a few bruises to most of the pas sengers, little harm was done. HENRY MEREWEATHER, Esq., said to be a son of the late Dean of Hereford, has been committed for trial, at Aberystwith, on a charge of cutting' and wounding E. R. Williams, son of R. Williams, M.D. The offence was committed in the lobby of the ball-room at Aberystwith, and arose out of an intended duel in which both gentle men were to have been the seconds. THE BUILDING OF IRON SHIPS has become quite a staple trade on the Tyne. On Tuesday. the Swarthmore, of 1,100 tons, built for a Liverpool firm, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Coutts and Parkinson. Her owners, who are members of the Society of Friends, instead of a carouse, gave £5O towards a school for the education of the workmen's children. AMUSING INSTRUCTION.—A magic lantern, represent ing the principal stations of the Church Missionary So ciety, has been designed and brought into use for the purpose of interesting and instructing the juvenile friends of that institution. " Dissolving Views" have also been prepared for the use of juvenile associations of the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. THE CRIMINAL BARBOUR.—This murderer, who lately suffered the last penalty of the law at York, in the " con fession" which obtained for him a temporary respite, im plicated a person named M'Cormack in the horrible crime of which it is now known that he, Barbour, alone was guilty. It is remarkable, as showing the cool villainy of the miserable culprit, that he, in his letters to a Mrs. Pigott, written in York jail, requests that his " best re spects" be given to his " friend, Mr. M'Cormack." ALICE KENYON, aged 44 years, the wife of Edward Kenyon, a dresser, died a miserable death on Saturday evening last, at the Guide-bridge station of the Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. Being in toxicated, she fell back between two carriages of a train, while it was in motion, and, despite the efforts of the by standers, she was run over. She only survived for about fifteen minutes. The husband of the deceased, who was with her at the time, was likewise drunk. Surely the railway officials were neglecting one of the company's best byelaws in permitting intoxicated persons to travel on the line. THE GREAT CORN SWINDLER.-At the Mansion-hous e on Tuesday, two further cases were proved against Mr. Robert Ferdinand Pries, the discovery of whose extensive forgeries in the corn market caused last week the stoppage of the House of Messrs. Coltman and Stohltenfoht. On their behalf Mr. Freshfield produced forged documents purporting to represent 28,000 quarters of wheat, and upon which £51,000 had been obtained by the prisoner. Mr. Ignace Sholoff, a foreign banl er, produced forged bills of lading upon which he had advanced £9,000. The prisoner was then remanded for a week for the production of other cases. COUNTY VOTES.—It should be kept in mind that the last day on which a qualification for a county vote can this year be legally obtained is the 31st instant (January) ; and that the title-deeds should be completed on or before that day, to enable the party to have his name duly regis tered in August next. Persons intending to procure quali fications for county votes had better consult their solici tors at once, and have the legal transfers perfected with out delay. The Conservative party have always been negligent of this duty, which they owe to themselves ande their country ; not so the Whigs and Radicals , or we should should not have the legitimate voters of countie t so e over-run clique by Anti-corn-law League faggot votes, nor the the wife of a resect- Li a de, o n_ Tuesday, at usurpingAberdeen, h Russell, erule of t h l‘ l i so greatl esw o rth. kingdom. Keogh. Hull, en EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER:= A most diabolical attemptatmt i te s r . D w u a ffi s I T Cottingham, near Hull. carriage were Tuesday, train for Beverley, taking and left that town by the last . able innkeeper at Beverley, with the exception of a man, y c , a h ri a l d ag v e l . site i t d nuds her seat in a second-class several other persons, who, however , all got out when the d Cottingham, Mrs. T 1 who was thus left alone with Duffil. No sooner was train reache in motion again than this fellow setthe unfortunate train robbed her , upon unfortunate woman, carr i a ge. She is fearfully cut and bruised about the head ; and no hopes whatever are entertained of her recovery. It is known that Mrs. Duffil had a considerable sum of money upon her when she left Hull, but none whatever was found upon her person when she was picked up. As the train was slackening speed on arrival at Beverley, a man was seen to jump out of the carriage in which the crime was committed, and run away. In the darkness of the night he escaped, SINKING A SHIP.—At the Thames Police-office, last week, Captain Ridley Wilson, aged 35, was charged with with sinking the schooner Essex Lass, of Colchester, at sea, on or about Christmas, 1850. The last prosecution of any importance in the port of London relating to the sinking of a ship took place forty years ago, when Capt. Codlin was hanged at Execution Dock, for casting away the ship of which he had the command, by boring holes in the cabin with an augur. The captain in this case is alleged to have sunk his ship in a similar manner. The only witness examined was William Cadmore, a seaman, who said he saw the captain bore three holes underneath his bed cabin, in the ehip's side, in the cabin, and below the water-line. The water ran in through the holes, be tween the skirt and lining of the vessel, into the hold ; and some hours afterwards they took to the boats, and the vessel went down. Upon this evidence the case was re. mended. SALARIES OF . POOR LAW OFFICERS.—A Parliamen tary paper has just been printed respec ti ng th e Tewkes bury Union. The guardians carried resolutions to reduce the salaries of the several officers, on accoun t o f th e " cheapness of provisions . " The officers appealed to the Poor Law Board, and the reasons were required from the guardians that induced them to pass the reso l ut i ons. They urged that the value of agricultural produce had been diminished at least 30 per cent., that the rates had decreased, and that food was cheap. The Poor Law Board replied, that they had " never recognized the prin ciple that the price of the articles and of the produce re ferred to are to be the criterion by which the amount of salaries ought to be estimated and regulated, or that such salaries should be liable to vary as the price of food fluc tuates." The Poor Law Board thought that no sufficient reason had been assigned for the reduction, declaring that the fixed salaries of the medical officers remunerated them only for their ordinary duties, and the board did not see that sufficient grounds had been adduced for di minishing the salaries of either of the officers referred to in the resolutions of the guardians. MEETING INTERRUPTED BY A STRONG-MINDED FEMALE.—On Tuesday evening Mr. John Kingsley de livered a lecture at the Educational Institution, Alders gate-street, London. At the close of his speech a wo man rose in the body of the hall, and demanded to be beard. The chairman and his supporters on the platform were petrified, and had not the courage to decide whether the lady-aspirant should be heard. A vote was taken and the numbers on either side appeared equal. The chair man ruled that the decision was against the lady. The lady protested that it was in her favour, and strong in this conviction, she expressed herself determined to be heard. Mr. J. Cowell Williams, the secretary to the society, jumped off the platform, and assisted by one or two other anti-state churchmen, attempted to eject her vi et armis, from the room ; but she successfully resisted their attacks, and notwithstanding the difficulties of her situation, went on with her speech. At length a policeman was intro duced, and with the despatch usually practised by gentle men of his calling, thrust the ambitious lady from the room, amidst loud exclamations from her that the con duct of the meeting in allowing such violence was wicked, impious, and blasphemous. C RUE LTY TO A CHILD.—An inquest was held a few days since at Milverton, Somerset, which disclosed great bar barity on the part of a young woman, named Elizabeth Baker, towards a child two years and a-half old. The deceased, Albert Marks, had been intrusted by the mother (who is in service at Pitminster) to a Mrs. Scott, who was paid is. 3d. per week for her charge. Elizabeth Baker was the daughter of this person, and used to beat the child cruelly with a stick, and on one occasion, when the poor little fellow had made himself dirty and wet, she took off his socks and shoes, and put one of his feet close to the bars of the grate, keeping it there for some minutes, in spite of his cries. On a post mortem examin ation the body presented a very emaciated appearance, and there were several contusions upon the head and in different parts of the body, evidently produced by blows. There was a large contusion between the ribs and hip on the left side, about three inches in circumference, burns on the sole and the great toe of the left foot, and on the centre of the upper margin of the frontal bone was an old wound which had suppurated, about the size of a walnut. internally. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against Elizabeth Baker. This was the third child said to have been placed under her care, and all three had died. The coroner directed inquiry to be made as to the causes of the deaths of the other two. NATIONAL WORK FOR FELONS.—A correspondent of the Builder proposes that the new structure for the Na tional Gallery shall be absolutely and entirely of eranite ; that the Millbank Penitentiary shall be removed alto gether from London, and that the felons should be em ployed in working granite on any convenient spot where it abounds. The site of the Penitentiary would fetch a very large sum, which would go far to effect the removal of an accumulated felonry from amidst a dense population, where they cannot be adequately employed, to a compara tive wilderness, where they can. Hewing granite cannot be done by machinery, and is hard work for man. It consumes both time and labour, both of which we have to spare, festering in our criminal prisons. Transportation, as a punishment, is becoming impossible, and ceases to terrify. The work to be done is extra to all legitimate employment, and would give increased occupation to the skilled artisan to finish the blocks, and to the builder and labourer in the enlarged breadth and elevation of the structure. If it be objected that the expense of forming a new and gigantic felon-working establishment in a granite district will be out of all proportion to the results in obtaining material for a National Gallery, however ex tensive, it may be replied, first, that such an institution must be speedily founded, apart from any other consider ation than providing the felon continuous labour ; and, secondly. that with all our great national establishments granite, of all things, will be in unceasing demand. THE RAILWAY KING.—The case of the York and North Midland Railway Company v. Mr. George Hudson, the late chairman of the company, to obtain the restitution or the value of a large number of shares in the East and West Riding and the Hull and Selby branches, amounting to upwards of £12,000, which, it was alleged, had been taken, appropriated, and disposed of by him, without the authority of the company, and in direct violation of its acts and regulations, was commenced on Tuesday last, before the Master of the Rolls. The Solicitor-General appeared for the company, and stated that the present bill was in the nature of a bill by cestui que trusts against a trustee for appropriating to his own use the trust-funds; and that the allegations in the bill, and the evidence to be produced before the court, were of a very serious nature as regarded the character of Mr. Hudson. From these allegations and such evidence it was argued that Mr. Hudson, as chairman of the company, has taken advantage of his position to benefit himself at the expense of the company ; that as such chairman, possessing the seal of the company, and having a casting vote and other powers,. he had from time to time altered the accounts so as to make the dividends of the company considerably larger than they really were ; that be had procured his own brother-in-law and his own solicitor to be appointed auditors of the company, and by collusion with them had been able to deceive the shareholders ; and that he managed to make all things pleasant to his brother direc tors by going shares with them in the booty he from time to time secured. Sir Fitzroy Kelly appeared for Mr. Hudson ; and, in answer to such charges, stated that the present proceedings by the company against Mr. Hudson were contrary to all law, inconsistent with equity, and in direct violation of good faith. The argument was resumed on the following day, and the Master of the Rolls said he would give his judgment in a day or two. NEW AMERICAN RIFLE.—An improvement on Colt's revolver has just been introduced into this country, and last week was tested at Woolwich. It exhibitors claim for it two important qualities; first, a simple, safe, and ex peditious mode of loading at the breech i • and, secondly, the cleansing of the barrel s ecure d a t e ac h discharge. The loading at the breech is effected in a very ingenious manner, and differs essentially from all other contrivances adopted for the same purpose. A lever, working in the line of the stock, and forming, when down, the guard to the trigger, moves forwards or backward a slide with a strong iron plate, in front of which, when back, the cartridge is dropped through a slit in the side of the lock. The iron plate becomes, when pushed into its place, the bottom of the breech, the chamber of which thus becomes occupied by the cartridge. In the centre of this plate a small bole is drilled, communicating with the nipple, and the fire of an exploded cap passing down to that hole immediately finds its way through a perforation in the wad at the end of the cartridge, and ignites the powder within. The perforation in the cartridge wad corresponds exactly with that in the iron plate, and the wad itself, which is of sole leather with the pasteboard case of the cartridge attached to it, remains behind in the breech when the discharge takes place, while tho conical ball, entering the grooved part of the barrel and taking the required spiral motion, travels upon its way. When the gun is again loaded the wad left behind at the previous discharge precedes the ball in its flight, cleansing out the passage. Thus the rifle never fouls • never, there fore, requires washing ; and, by the plan of loading at the breech, not only is the use of the ramrod dispensed with, but shots can be fired with a steady aim at the rate of from eight to eight and a-half, or even nine per minute. Even on a first trial at Woolwich, in hands totally un accustomed to the use of the weapon, 100 shots were fired in 15 minutes, or at the rate of nearly seven rounds per minute. gradually on APPALLING SUICIDE OF DR. RICE, HEAD MASTER OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Thursday, an inquest was held on the body of the Rev. Edward Rice, D.D., Head Master of Christ's Hospital.—Susan Bancroft said she b w e a f s o r i e n on to the bed. ninethe service o'clock o f on Dr. Thursday Rice, and morningtbat about f a r quarters. Rice andf oun found his Dr. f a et Rice at hang ingsome d b i 8 ); a h n i c s e n eck fr o m a t bt t ui h i e ta fgloireoatasonhfdot.wh showed dA b i e rn d a , o. Rice immediately cut the handkerchief by which lie was when he was s A us s p u e r n g d e e o d n , a w n a d s the sign of life. Sheaft erwards had for some time noticed that he was very low. spi rited, Thos Stone, spo ken t° * -311% attended' as they lowered h scarcely resident-surgeon to Christ's Hospital, said he the doctor last February twelve months, when he was attacked with a very severe fever, and again for a nervous fever in May or June last, since' which time he had appeared a completely altered man. H e was exceedingly desponding and melancholy, and weak in body, which sent time. So strongly were they convinced that he was suffering from derangement of mind that they required him to resign his head-mastership: o f Christ's Hospital, which he did on F r id ay last. Of late he was particularly desponding, and the most trifling matters he magnified into the greatest importance. So firmly was he (witness) of opinion that he was quite mad, that in consequen ce o f this he felt it to be his duty to inform Mrs. Rice of it, and to request her to remove all things out of his way, and that he should not be allowed to shave himself. On Thursday morning, when she arose, she left Dr. Rice asleep in bed ; but in a quarter of an hour she returned to the room, when he still appeared to be asleep, and some time after that she sent Miss Rice up stairs to see if he was awake, but listening at the door and not hearing him stirring, she went down stairs again, and the family went to prayers. As soon as these were ended, Mrs. Rice again went up stairs, and found him in the situation the last witness bad described. He was insensible and pulseless, and quite black in the face. Witness performed operations for the purpose of restoring respiration, but without effect. Th e j ur y re t urne d a verdict, That Dr. Rice committed suicide whilst in a state of derangement." It is a singular fact that Mrs. Rice lost her first husband five weeks after marriage by suicide at the house of her rather, who was so affected that he died a week afterward;;