The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

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"161 1 0 1 • ni o e t wog fi o 0 0 .„0 bl O- " - 0 119 t IRON SHILLINGS, neatly silvered by the " electro" Process, are circulating in Liverpool. A SPECIAL for rrin licenses was held on SESSIONS tran Thursday, at the s es sgionpsu'b-lhicoaunses, thethe Mayor presiding. There were fifty two applications, great majority of whi c h were sanctioned. A Va.t.rantx HEN.—Mr. AlexanoderhaDtcahlezdiel lest year, Trafalgar Hotel, Egremont, has a he Which the other d laid an egg ces. which measures 7i inches by 61 i nc h es, and w ay weighs 3 1 oun 0 _ intemperate habits, F ATAL RESU LTS OF INTEMPERANCE.—On last a woman, name d J ane Price, ofn Wednesday fell down in Fox -street, dw in -street, where she conv to her home apparently in a fit. She was eye d died the same evening. in Prince Edwin-street, ibiFLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL andHortie eeigehtyttobonkof the Liverpo o l Floral—ultAuraglraSnod place on Thursday, at the t ßo e ta s n ea ic so G n a . rd T en h s e , Fdge-lane, being the second skew allow was not so l arge as i n :flay of h last, but many o f t h e Spe cimens were of an ex cee di ng ly fine y and rare description. h ood t IAD Does are n umerous a t P arr an d i ts neighbour . Mr. Braybrook, owner of the game at Bold, has Ordered all his valuable dogs to be shot, . of in consequence of one o f t h em, wh i le in a rabid state, biting the nose the gamekeeper's. ekeeper's son. Th e yout h has been under t. merit eal treatment ev er s i nce S aturday, the lBth ultimo. 1, THE HEALTH OF LIVERPOOL—During the week ending arday s e ' nn i g h t, the deaths in Liverpo3l 'lumbered four more than in the previous week, and twenty bine less than the average of the same week of the from five ye ars . T wo males, aged 3G and 43, died from delirium treniens. 13"AD-SHAtipixt,-,—On Tuesday last, three men met a stranger in Pitt-street, and induced him to go into a enblic-house, when they swindled him out of £4 at cards, oy a .process known in police phraseology as " broad stiar Ping." A neat number of " magsmen" have been taken into custody, but the man having failed to identify any of themthey were set at liberty. REV. De, M'NelLt's SON'. --• At the examination of the students at the East India College, half-yearly liaileybury, amongst those in their first term, Mr. M'Neile, son of the Rev. Dr. Hugh M•Neile, has been hiehlystinuishd, and obtained the prize for the best nglish essay, prize in c'assics, prize in mathematics, Prize in law, prize in Sanscrit, and prize for general pro teiencT, at the Eastern examination. BM/ I'oaGERIES AT MANCHESTER. th e Manchester borough court, Mr. D — em92: n a l : In the firna of J, and W. Demeza, paper manufacturers, "Tuesday, e a p d a a r Y t n' e a s r t 'Castle Mills, Tamwortle, and carrying on b - esiness a a s also at Istalyarehouse, 37, Long Millgate, Manchester, w muted to the assizes cm the charge of uttering four forged bills of exchange, of various amounts, to Mr. Smith, paper Inlanufacturer of Wttford, in Hertfordstire. Some o f the bilk were, its ppears, drawn on parties at Liverpool. mo wer DERBY at the weekly GUARDIANS. —Mr. was read from Fitzpatrick, one eeting, on W, ed, s 3. the Poor-law n— h e oa d r a -, d a ddressed to Mr. 'HarrisoniAeomm communication tions vetted that he had not duly complied with the of the medical officers. The board re returby furaishin he with certain weekly thatregula nsguardians in future he would not fail to submit them to the tognwnTarecitiharnosT7iLth undeviating regularity. oration cf FESTIVITIES.— total abstainers of 'this ave been most unfartunate this year in the.....tele their anniv hilla took place on -Ines day. The rain fell en ersarY ' w h i izing showers during greater portion of ttsaZTthe unsympathizing bodies of police refused th he >n through the tenuthe privilege of Sympathizing e walking in proms sand of them metin rate manifesto was issuettlt?n4 tb.zoln the evening about tvro tem tho p u e. - 1 Gardens. A denied them the privilege of w in g gica in th g , . C EF L L 157:PNCE DIG R k • T. ' a i t n th p e roceseion. authorities had Kean, shoprnan to an outfitter in Whitechapel, brought . OF A DRUNKARII.—James up at the county court, a day or two since, 'for a debt a , orne 14s. sd. for ale and other liquors due to Raphael -uuggiano, not to publican, % , \T hitechafiel, pleaded that he ought drunk" when he had the aleP.ay,,as. he s'es ' tnconsctously 1 , 46116 !tits Ron remarked very strangly on the p,ed conduct of the defendant, and found a ve_r dict for the plaintiff', deducting t h e sem charged for 4164. only Sn Aikt / , Se era ... I ca s es s h c a lt ve 1- c c n t m come before COMPANIESthe J l u N d g Judge t a v t E the rt PP L I ; e . -- r - uounty Court, Pool Pears that • daring last week, from which it ap_n fte;_. in the beginning of last year, certain parties i liii.ea tcohwainrnastarnartewdaths e Atlas Marine Insurance Company -taid to be Edward Gordon Percy, a„. geon, Lord 'Nelson -street. There were at first seven tftgectors, but afterwards five ; the chairman was the ci d a i e r titl Y Ob liged to pawn his watch,-and so had one of named ectors, -William Poole, a law-stationer. A person r _l3rown.raiter said he was a - director of anothe c°cletY called the Theet;ix. No , INCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION. t Ene annnal meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Was held of theProvineial Medical and - Surgical Association .as held at ebeTown-hall, on Wednesday morning last. Amongst the gentlemen present were—J. Nottingham, si),-D, Liverpooll J. Dickinson, Nr.D., Liverpool ; H. 11,41n0e, Liverpool ; Ellis Jones, -Liverpool; H. Swift, Liver p o o 1 ; E. L. Falloon Livrpool; E. Batty, Liver pool ; Thomas' kden, Liverpool ; J. G. °Von, Birken eed- Dr. Nottingham read a paper on cases of Cancer of the Eye LOYAL OUNCE INSTITUTION Or GREAT BRITAIN.— The Anneal Grand Lodge Meeting of all England was held on Fridse, -at the Queen's Hotel, Lime-street ; the Worshipful Greed aster T. J.•Ousely, Es in the e c n h t a a ir. The assemblage of the brethren was large a n d in o llii gra i n k The business cf the past year,-with elec a t s ion IF re-elected; o,,Lficers, e:e.,carce duly off. The , G.X . t A w Eyford, Esc}.. ,W• Clark. Esq •, was elected D.G.M. ' cI . G.S. ; and the Isz•T '; ; x, 13 -. ,,.. w , Esq. y; Ur. Sheppard, ra ' Gran , d d pleasant evening w c as ea r pti e e le . c a te At seven o'clock the brethren sat down to dinner, Was spent amid speech, song, and sentiment. , 141ARIsE•STORE ' DEALERS HOAX THE —A man named Conway, who kept a marine- Store in Addison-st ree t, was d eprived of his licence some short time ago. ,00ri afterwards-Anthony Kelly, an () a id s refusedplie fer a licence r he same house, but w .. it. fie- was asked if fo he t knew Conway, and saki he (lid not, oe which he was given a licence for Fontenoy street. On going there some time afterwards, officer kehoe found'Conway in the store; and this week officer Carlisl e a l so saw him there. The latter found in Kelly's POSSe.si 1 ~ on a quantity of files, for te consequently of which deprived of his licence, but sent to-gaol for two months. hg Dock C OMMITTEE.—Mr. Turner presided at the meet sot:on Th ursday. The plan for phicing the table so th a t rePorters might hear, was ordered to lie on the table lij. a week. --It was reported that a screw pile beacon., 2,:ei_lY ereeted on one of the banks, was run foul of and 1 K hY a schooner in the afternoon of the 23d of June, a v tlel that a reward of 4 'lo had been offered for the disco tleltY of the name &I the schooner.—The Chairman said at after the accident a boat left the light-ship, and the b ieh went Oct 'board the schooner ; they asked the captain Ithat the Smarr,e of •his vessel was, and he replied that it ;;was the of - Limerick, but no such vessel was known. ther-A. letter was read from the Reva George Dover, asking the continuance of an annual grant of £5O towards , expenses attending the religiousservices for the work ;Veil at the north docks. --A letter was read from Messrs. Znlen_aWeett, Preston, and - Co., representing that great incon ee was experienced from the want of craneage ac r,y:iodation •at the-south •end of the docks, and sug ting anothe r site for the cranes, • namely, the south-east the of the Queeri's'.Dock. The letter was referred to ,Ille harbour-maste's sub-committee. —Mr. Bigham and ,',17-r : Barber were re-appointed to assist the chairman to ,r evise the list of desk -ratepayers, who were said to nutn '°er from 1,300 to 104).---A. letter .was read from Mr. William Jolliffe, owner of the .Propeller, steamer to the !fleet that the bell buoy having been -recently sun'lt, and 'left without any buoy or -:mark to point it ont, his steamer 'when proceeding down lisechannel, on the 29th of April', attack the bell buoy, and sank :; but he , had succeeded in he the veesel, and had got the damage repaired, and o t. be to inclose a bill of the costs and expenses, iil,.. at it, log to .C 328 Bs. Being a poor man, w h ose sole veve-niireas invested in the steamer , the earnings of w hi ch the suPP of hirnseif and family, he respectf u ll y d thetscknesteort Deck Committee to consider the matter, t ,„, 0 ,to The r the e x p ense to wh i ch he had been put to be ''' ll t letter was referred. tridecitZtli Cos i.sarrnE.—Mr. Alderman •Langsdalepre jacuir d e .'eeKlY meeting on Thursday.—Mr. Fleming regular e , with reference to Mr.Clavton , who is not a very 1,;1/21:yartotendnnt, where he hadsprung from.—Mr. e1 0nd5,.....1°' thec, dockyard.—Mr. Fleming: Oat of the .i (or to-day .. i-`4l (Laughter. Beck ciati_ . ir. layton : Out of the Constitutional Asso got your )Mr• Beckwith.: Then you _ doshua Lee' el l ceOntintieci laughter.) —The death of Mr. to th e eculnl - . in. clerk in the nuisance -office, was reported conamittael, -The.,ltt.ee• Chairman remarked that the mittee si , vo lu t Ilist. .very good servant.—The sub-com mr. Be ckty i thernst.steztak.nisritq T i ce . I natoohtuhseo n cl2.a .af rg e w pr i e o f g err u e n d d h u y e influence, as s u constructiom of 44rober of the c ommittee. in procuring -the and other streets iLrf!?l32 Pair clough-lane into Cobden e_ported that no u nd 7 te l co he was interested in property,' g Moss hat no there rferenee had been exercised.— to a person sitting in that as a certain degree of indelicacy , exercised.-- °w cause.—Mr.Johnsoarcrem? being the arbitrator in his !Ifd any direct ennnection Who had connectian with build wrilttield that he was a builder or F,o7eturnittee, who was to remainers builders. If gentlemen were not to sit on that g.,....,12 to Nlr. Moss. Was lie not cthere He would refer r.?:11:: MOSS : You have an independent with builders e? ~,,fj J 0 son : I hare a piece of unb i property there.— ~-"at_L'arwhat benefit that der . d f ult ground. And he I l ine this sewer had Perim f r o sewers. He would h e ' lan d witho ut •t pot been made, for he could drain ;t.. shoald leave ti l l • fie would ask the Council whether e at m e d; _, _. e committee, but he would never leave h ere si ro „,,n:tion of any in dividual. —Th e conversation e the atu met Pl c i a eo tio and the report was received. Certain rasePPleation nsf from a conarnittee appointed to consider a greed t ° the officers of the health Committee i in k of y _ .00: these recommendations advocated the Za.eressioga'E'rialls .a.laries.--Mr. Moss directed attention ~,,a'd reaterialltil.- .111 ton-street into Scotland -road, which :I_llnents, an , Y, inure the property of several of his eon c•ceoesrno,, .'s II . a rch was supposed to have been made to Pert 3, , (late a spirit-vaults in Se tl d road the pro- Peo an - . • .. /(311 °‘ Air ' T homas G df Have rf eaten the plan ;. ,...... ‘i o rey.—T_he Chairman ..t is a not geotpart'oltination..-- , :k r r .. "J e o w ss i a : n lo s ; )clutthel workicould Wait untillperly seen in its present stateTMr. Moss should 4 0 0 • I t was finished , 'andif ' .considered ni , . then, it were Dret t rtit•on he wouldalter it at his A 9 ' m it eeedin,, a tercation here arose, Mr. Newlands sue -Ifr ^ a t len th in • • M lik o . _,S silencing Mr. Moss. —A deputation Yk r n slo-road relative to the crossing was introduced =ne n, . .)rhdl e t h e Yto the committee. —After a short discus was c coinmittee r d t •.. the lace and ewhat gee o vim. p , .e e . Of 131Plaired o 3t iori . ' 0 . - --Sfr. Moss gave the following notice bus.!hat it is deli That That it is the opinion of this committee Ppcs sirable that the future meetings of the General es Sab- C • bcr t . a tnes s b °manatee e iscon inue , and that the n gi .... e transferred to the ordinary Thursday's meet- ,I eg '''m that Dept the reporters be admitted to all such anetins, ft for financial purposes." THE QUEEN has been pleased to approve of Mr. Chas. Stoess as consul, at Liverpool, for his Royal Highness the Prince and Regent of Baden. A COURTEZAN, at Preston, when apprehended the other day, just after stealing a gold Geneva watch, swallowed the watch in order to escape detection. SANGUINARY STATISTICS.—The following is a return of the number of animals slaughtered in Liverpool from January to June in the present year .—Beasts, 18,596 ; calves, 9413 ; sheep, 67,855 ; pigs, 13,958 ; total, 109,822. MAN DROWNED.—On Tuesday morning last, Michael Comerford, who had been drinking hard for some days, left his home in Sherwood -street, and was found next morning in the canal drowned. ME. JAMES HALSALL, who had been for forty years employed in the Liverpool police force, died in a fit of apoplexy at his house, in Islington, on Thursday night. He was latterly employed as crier in the Sessions-court and in the detective department. VISIT OF FREEMASONS TO DUBLIN.—Some of the in fluential masons of Liverpool are making preparations to pay a visit of congratulation to their Irish brethren in Dublin. The visit is intended to take place in August, when the Irish brethren will have a grand Masonic Ball. MR. ISAAC Dixos, who has been for some years mate in the Isle of Man steamers, and latterly chief mate of the splendid new steamer Mona's Queen, has been appointed to the command of the new Liverpool and Ramsey steam-boat, the Manx Fairy. CONVERSIONS FROM ROMANISM.—On Friday last, five adults, formerly members of the Church of Rome, were received into the Church of England by the Rev. W. F. Taylor, M.A., incumbent of St. John's Church. Three children were also, at the uquest of their parents, received at the same time. Sift BENJAMIN HEYWOOD, accompanied by his daugh ter, came down specially from Manchester on Tuesday last, to visit the steamer Great Britain. They were shown over the vessel by Samuel Bright, Esq., of the firm of Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and expressed themselves asto nished at her colossal proportions and admirable arrange ments for passengers. THE FORTHCOMING DIVIDENDS.—It is said that the London and North-western Railway Company will divide 51—that is, at the rate of 5:1 per cent. for the half-year. The Great Western will probably not divide higher than 4. On nearly all other lines, especially the' Scottish, there has been a considerable increase of receipts as com pared with the corresponding half-year. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed for New York, on Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, with a fair complement of passengers, and a full cargo. On Saturday afternoon the Arabia, Captain Judkins, sailed for New York with about ninety passengers, and a full cargo. The screw steamer City of Manchester, Captain L2itch, sails for Philadelphia to morrow, Wednesday. MANIA FOR Sit ALING NEWSPAPERS.—Henry Thomp son, a shabby genteel-looking man, was brought up on Friday, at the Police-office, charged by Mr. Calderwood with stealing a copy of the New York Tribune from the Artizan's News-room, Lord Nelson-street. He was 'fined 55., or to be imprisoned for seven days. Thompson, it appears, has been previously convicted of stealing news papers from the Liverpool Exchange. THE GRgAT REGATTA ON THE :MERSEY.-.The lovers of aquatic sports will be glad to learn that the Royal Mersey Yacht Club have determined that we -shall have a regatta worthy of the town on the 18th of this month. They have obtained subscriptions from gentlemen of all classes, many of them totally unconnected with yachting or aquatics. We trust that the spirit and liberality of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club will meet with a suitable response from our townsmen. THE PEW-RIGHT QUESTION AT WA , LTON CHURCH. — The committee appointed recently to investigate any claims for compensation made by the reputed owners of pews in Walton Church reported to a special vestry meet ing on Monday. and handed in a list df names of persons whom they deemed entitled to compensation in the event of - the division of pews taking place. The amount was upwards of £360, and it was agreed'to raise this sum by a-voluntary rate of 2d. in the pound. - 9 - cccEss OF THE LIVERPOOL B.O.TIIS.—At Paul-street baths the business is more than per cent. this year beyond what it was at the same time last year. At the -Pierhead, and Cornwallis-street, the increase is likewise great. The proportion of women bathers continues to in crease. The proceeds from all 'the establishments in 'Liverpool, amount, within £l9, to as much as Hull, 'Bristol, Preston, Birmingham, and Manchester produce together. A HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE took place on the South western Railway on Wednesday. Three men who were working on the line, having just received a week's pay, got intoxicated at a neighbouring beershop, and coming back lay down to sleep on the line. A train came along, which cut the head of one of them in two and hurled his body off the line, another of the three lying dead drunk at the time close to the rails, and the third staggering ucrose the fields to procure more liquor. When the mu tilated body was discovered, one of the men was still lying on the line close to the - rails, fast asleep, and the other staggering back and swearing fearfully at what .he called the folly of his dead companion in getting killed. THE VEN. ARCHDEACON BROOKS.—Portraits of the universally respected senior rector, the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks, and of the Rev. Rector Campbell, painted by our townsman, Mr. Philip Westcott, are at present on view in the Lyceum. These portraits have been executed at the instance of the Select Vestry, for the Board-room, in Brownlow-hill. They are now on private view, for the purpose of obtaining subscribers' names to engravings in -the highest style of the art, by Mr. T. - A. Barlow, of London. That of the Archdeacon is completed, and *roofs are exhibited along with the original painting. They are most striking likenesses, and do justice to Mr. "Westcott, while they confer considerable credit upon Mr. Barlow himself. The engravings of the Rev. Rector Campbell are approaching completion. NEW FLEET OF STEAMHRE FOR THE GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL TRADE.—OrI Wednesday afternoon the Elk a beautiful paddle-steamer, the property of Messrs. G. and J. Burns, of Glasgow, and intended, we believe, for the Glasgow and Liverpool trade, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. William Denny and Brothers. The Elk is the first of a new'fieet of steamers now build ing for the Liverpool trade. and, judging from her ap pearance, they promise to be as fine vess3ls as ever left the Clyde.—A handsome screw-steamer, named the Chanticleer, was launched on Thursday afternoon, from the shipbuilding-yard of Mr. Alexander Denny. The Chanticleer is owned by John Orrniston, Esq., of New castle, and is intended to ply -between that place and St. Petersburg. —Glasgow Citizen. " BOATH ALIKE."—AN INTELLIGENT JURY.—In the card-stealing case tried at Lancaster quarter sessions on Monday last, the sapiency, intelligence, and intellect of some of our jurymen was developed in the following con versation, which took place after the consideration of the case :—Clerk of the Peace : Gentlemen, have you agreed -upon your verdict ?—Foreman :We find 'em boath alike. —Chairman : You must answer the question. " Have you agreed upon your verdict ?"—Foreman : We find 'em boath alike, and we find at cards were worth nout.— Chairman : You really must answer the question.—Clerk of the Peace : Have you agreed upon your verdict ? 'Foreman : Yes ; we find 'ern boath alike.—Clerk of the Peace: Is Owen Murphy guilty or not guilty ?—Foreman . Hb's like 'tother, they're boath guilty.—After some further trouble, the jury managed to return a verdict of guilty in each case.—Lancaster Gczette. TEE ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION of the Peace for the county of Lancaster was held in the Court-house, Pres ton., on Thursday. In the absence of the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, whose recent iilness prevented him leaving home, Mr. Wilson Ffrance occupied the chair. The following assessments were granted :—General pur poses,-17.24d, producing £10,983 1.4 s 6d ; general police, prenucing £1,572 Ss 21—Local Relice: North Lone dale, Id, producing £463 9s 3d ; South Lonsdale, gd, producing £214 9s 5d ; Garstang, id, producing £4Bl 13s 103 ; Kirkham, lid, producing £922 19s 3d ; Higher-Blackburn, Id, producing £1;047 16s lid; Lower Blackburn, I.ld, producing 1,014 14s lid ; Leyland, id, producing £a324 lls 7d ; Bolton, id, producinz £6lB is 3d; Bury, producing £1,551 9s 3d.; Middleton, Id, Producing:a:9B4 4s 4d ; Oldham, id, producing £135 3s 3d ; Ashton-under-Lyne, lid, producing £562 5s ; Manches ter, 1 1-16 d, producing £1,614 7s 6d:; - Kirkdale, nd, Producing £2348 6s 9d ; Ormskirk, lid, producing - C B6 55 6d ; Prescot, ad, producing £1,594 2s Id ; Warrington, producing £1.326 Bs.—Houses of Correction. : Preston and Kirkdale. 11-243, producing £ 4,16. 7 3s 9d; Salford, id, producing £BOl 15s 10d. — Hundred Bridges : Lonsdale, North and South. 3-10 d, Prod ucing£2o6 10s 6d ; Leyland,id. producing; 104 is 6d ; West Derby, ,1:-,12d, producing £lO4 17a 4d.—Various reports were-read, and either confirmed or their.sonside ration deferred. In the matter of the magistrates' luncheons, and the late Ramsbay inquiry refreshments, it was agreed by a majority to allow the treasurer the-sum of money expended on the luncheons, &c. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE. A most distressing accident occurred on Tuesday morning, at Doe Park, Woolton, the residence of Mr. J. B. Neilson, of High street, in this town, one of his servants having shot another in mistake for a dog. We subjoin the following particulars, as furnished by Mr. Neilson. He says.:-- My premises have been .robbed twice, and, in conse quence, I have a watchmen ,who goes round the premises every night to protect thetools,.&c., belonging to the work men employed in my alterations. This watchman's name is Frederick Guy, and the cowman's name, who also attends to the poultry. is John•Cume. Last night, James Come, the brother of John, came to Guy and said to him that, as it was Woolton Wakes, there would be many -rough people about, so he would •it up to watch with him. This was at 9 o'clock, and while they were speak ing John Come came in and told •Guy that he had a duck just hatching in the plantation, near the gate, but he sheuld not like to lose it ' • so he •begeed Guy to look after it in the night, which Gay promised to do. The two men were great friends. At five o'clock in the morn ing John came early to his work, and found his brother James asleep in the saddle-room, and Fred Guy on the look out. He awoke James, and asked him if Guy had looked after his duck in the night. James said he did not know, for he had fallen asleep and had not been with Guy for some hours. John then said that he would go and look after it himself, and without seeing Guy to tell him, he went to do so. He crept into the plantation, and finding that the duck had hatched her young, he took off his cap, which he put on the ground, went down on his hands and knees, took the old duck off the nest, and began to take the young ones out of it, to put into his cap, and carry up to the farm. Of course, while he did this the old duck made a great noise, which Guy, as he was walking round, heard, and thinking it was something worrying John's duck, he went to the planta tions hurriedly, and just as he got near it he could indis tinctly see through the thick foliage of the trees, very low down, a rough brown hairy thing, which he took for a dog worrying the duck. This was poor John's head, at which Guy fired without speaking, and killed the poor fellow on the spot. John immediately called out ' Oh, dear me and Guy, half mad, ran shouting out to John's brother James: who at once ran to his assistance, but all was over." At the inquest, on Wednesday, th e above facts were proved in evidence ; and, after consulting for some time, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," but addd Zhu Guy Lild not used sufEtient Wltttion before firing. THE LIVERPOOL. SIR JOHN GERARD'S troop of yeomanry cavalry dined together, on Thursday evening, at Mr. Whiteman's, Brunswick Hotel. A " LARK" AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. — Lieutenants Shirley and Hadley, of the 50th, who, for a " lark," took a brother officer from his bed, and pumped upon him, at Preston, have been cashiered. LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS' ASSOCIATION.—At the last meeting of the season, Mr. John Abraham presiding, an interesting lecture on geology was delivered by Mr. R. Manson, of Birkenhead. QUICK WORK.—The new steam-ship Telegraph arrived at this port, on Tuesday morning, in ten hours and five minutes, from dock to dock, the shortest passage ever made between Belfast and Liverpool. THE ANNUAL MATCH played between the Liverpool Olympus and the Preston Cricket Clubs, at Preston, on Thursday, was won by the former. The return match will ba played in Liverpool. PORTRAIT OF THE ARABIA.—The magnificent portrait of the steamship Arabia, painted by Mr.'Walters, was presented to Captain Judkins, on Friday last, by a number of his personal friends, as a token of their sincere regard and admiration of his high character as a seaman and gen tleman. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.--The British and North American 'loyal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Judkins, com mander, took her departure hence for New York on Saturday, about 4 30, p.m., with upwards of a hundred passengers, and a large cargo, besides the usual mails, on board. WATER-WORKS AT RI7NCORN.—A few days ago, at a meeting of influential gentlemenatßuneorn, it was resolved to form a joint-stock company for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of establishing water works for the supply of the town and its vicinity. AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, during the past week, Mr. James Anderson has been performing with his accus tomed success. The pieces last night were " The Rob bers," and a ballet-divertissement, entitled "Un Fete Bretonne," in which Miss Rosina Wright, a premiere danseuse, made her first appearance in Liverpool. POCKET-PICKING IN THE CONCERT-HALL. —On Sa turday a well-known pickpocket, who gave the name of Thomas Cox. was committed for trial on a charge of steal. ing a watch from a gentleman, at a meeting in the Con cert-hall of the supporters of the Hon. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Horsfall, held on Friday night. THE MANCHESTER POLICE.—A large number of men in the Manchester police force gave notice of their inten tio4 to strike. but afterwards withdrew it. Some misun derstanding has occurred, however, and has led to the fear that a great many will, after all, leave duty. The authorities say only thirty-two men are affected by the mistake, but it is currently reported in the force itself that 250. out of a total of 420, will cease duty unless prompt terms of accommodation are decided upon. ROBBERY FROM AN EMPLOYER.—A young man, named George Cox was committed for trial, on Saturday, charged with stealing a gold watch and half a sovereign, the pro perty of his employer, Mr. Correy, surgeon dentist, Slater-street. The property in question was taken out of a desk, and the prisoner stated he took them to procure a suit of clothes, "fee'ring his shabby appearance might cause him to be dismissed ; and that he intended to restore the watch and half-sovereign. The watch had been pledged for X 2. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ANNUAL FETE CHAMPETRE. —This attractive gala will take place at the Zoological Gardens on Thursday next, when a multiplicity of enter tainments—far too numerous for us to particularise—will be provided. In the afternoon there will be a public dejeuner in the concert-hall, at which Mr. Alderman Procter will take the chair. His Worship the Mayor and the four candidates are expected to be present on the occasion, but the speaking will, of course, be entirely of a friendly description, to the exclusion of all political controversy. Those who patronise the gardens on this occasion will have the pleasure of seeing the new asylum and schools of the Licensed Victuallers' Institution, which are situated in the West Derby-road, and are now rapidly approaching their completion. T-FIE HON. MR. LIDDELL AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS. — On 'Saturday night, after the Conservative election meet ing in the Shipwright's Hall, Bond-street, the Hon. Mr. Liddell, and Mr. G. H. Horsfall„ accompanied by other gentlemen, were drawn through the streets, from the place of meeting, in a carriage, by a number of the sturdy anti enthusiastic artizans. While the vehicle proceeded along at a pretty rapid pace the crowd followed at its 'rear, shouting and cheering lustily. In Marybone, we believe, a disgraceful attack was made upon the carpen ters and the gentlemen in the carriage by a number of Roman Catholics. Fortunately an efficient body of police were on the spot, and they succeeded in keeping the mob partly at bay, until the vehicle had passed out of the dangerous locality. Nothing could exceed the enthusi asm of the respectable assemblage of shipwrights, and the evil intentions of the Papists only interfered for a few minutes with the hearty and gratifying display of the 'Conservative working-men. A CLEVER Tnicti.—On Thursday a well-dressed man, having the appearance of a foreigner, went into the shop of Mr. Drielsma, jeweller, Parker-street, and, although he professed himself profoundly ignorant of the English language, contrived to convey the intelligence that he was living at the Adelphi Hotel, and that he wished to purchase two diamond rings. He selected the articles, the price of which was somewhere about £2O, and then discovered that he had left his purse at the Adelphi. That he might secure his purchase, however, he wrapped up the rings in a piece of paper in the presence of Mr. Drielsma, and, depositing a pelf-sovereign as a pledge of the bargain, placed them again in the hands of Mr. Drielsma, and departed. As he did not return within a reasonable time, Mr. Drielsma opened the paper, and found that he had dexterously substituted two worthless articles for the genuine ones. Instant information was given to the police, but no cluelas yet been obtained of this accomplished professor of the art of legerdemain. ARRIVAL OF THE CLIPPER-SKIP SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS.—This celebrated American clipper-ship arrived in the Mersey on Saturday evening, from New York, having made the run in a shorter time than ever previously accom plished by a sailing ship. • She departed from New York at 3, p.m., on the 13th ult. The Sovereign of the Seas was built by Mr. 31`Kay, of Boston. -She has a dead rise of 20 inches, and concave lines, but has the longest and sharpest bows of any ship or ocean steamer afloat. A cord from the extreme of her cutwater to the turn of her 'side at the load displacement line, (201 feet draft forward,) would only show a concavity of 2 inches. The angle of her bow, at the same line, is 141 degrees, and of her stern . 151. Her loading dimensions are as follow :—Length of keel, 245 feet ; deck, between perpendiculars, 258 feet.; over all, from the knight-heads to the taffrail, 265 feet; extreme breadth of beam 44 feet, about 20 feet forward of the centre ; breadth at the gunwale, 42 feet ; depth, 231 feet, including 8 feet'height of between decks ; deck rise, 20 inches ; swell, or rounding of sides, 1 foot ; sheer, nearly 4 feet; and registered tonnage, 2421 tons. Notwithstanding her vast size, there are many ships of half her tonnage that look larger to the eye. She spreads about 12,000 yards of canvas. She has been exactly 228 days at sea, and has made an average speed of 180 knots per day during the whole time. The most remarkable feature connected with this , extraordinary running, is the fact that she has made the two last passages with a crew of thirty-eight seamen and six boys. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN SOUTH LAN CASHIRE.—The recent gentle lain has done incalculable good to the green crops, but it will have a contrary effect for haymaking. The first crop of clover is exceedingly light and thin. Vegetation now proceeds most vigorously, in the warmth and moisture of the season. Field beans are very promising; barley looks luxuriantly; oats short but an excellent colour, whilst wheat is fast coming into ear. This crop is very light and -thin, with little more than half the usual quantity sown. Kidney and other new potatoes are showing signs of decay. - Vetches, cab bage, -rye, &c. are growing fast, and look remarkably well. The ravages of the " turnip-fly " seem to be one of the main topics for conversation; a double quantity of seed has generally been sown, and in many places the drills seem almost alive with the fly. Mangel wurzels do not seem to be " brooding " well, owing to the recent dry weather. An increased quantity of artificial manure has been.sown. Irish labourers are not so scarce as was expected, although extra wages are demanded and obtained. The fat mers' fears are now " awakened lest storms should -devastate our water meadows. Cattle and sheep, on the whole, are doing well ; flies irritate them so much that many farmers keep them up during the heat of day, and at several leys in this neighbourhood the fright ful and fatal disease called the " iron " is very prevalent. Several year-old stirks have fallen beneath it. Young cattle and useful horses are fetching moderately good prices, and are in great demand. There is a good show of fruit. SOUTH AMERICAN AND GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY.—The annual general meeting of the shareholders was held on Friday afternoon, at the office of the company, in Dale-street, Liverpool. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. A. Turner. The chairman announced that it was expected that the Argentina would have sailed that day, but there were some little arrangements neces sary which had delayed her .sailing. There has been an examination of her machinery ; and though she was enabled to pass over to Dublin and back at a speed ex ceeding the contract rate, namely, eleven or twelve knots an hour, that examination has shown that, without any expense to the company, a considerable improvement may be made in the machinery, which it is confidently expected will enable her to attain an increase of two knots on the contract speed. (Hear, hear, and applause.) In all pro bability she will sail about the 24th of this month. This will cause a little delay, as it was stated the Brazileira would be ready about the 24th of July, and the Olinda on the 24th of August. The chairman moved the adoption of the report ; and the resolution, seconded by Mr. Barton, was agreed to.—Mr. W. Gibb moved, and Mr. Thos. Thompson seconded the next proposition, to the effect that Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., M.P., be re-elected iv director of the company.—Mr. James Atherton proposed " that James A. Turner, Esq. ' be re-elected a director of this company."—Mr. I. H. 11. de Castro seconded the proposition, which was carried nem dis.—Mr. Richard Rostron proposed that Mr. W. Alexander Park be re elected a director of the company.—Mr. George Deane seconded the resolution, which was also unanimously adopted.—On the proposition of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. W. A. Park, Mr. Lawrence R. Bailey was ap pointed auditor of the company.—Mr. W. Gibb moved a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors of this corn. pang for their great and beneficial services, and that they be requested to receive a remuneration of £5OO Der annum, to be distributed amongst themselves as they think fit for the ensuing year.—Mr. Barton seconded the proposition, which was carried nem. dis.—ln his acknow ledgment of the compliment, the Chairman said—" We must beg leave, and I have the authority, I believe, of the whole of the directors for saying this, to request you will allow us, with the greatest respect, to decline the offer made to us in the latter part of the resolution. (Hear, hear.) We have no desire to put money into our pockets for our services, however kindly offered, until some sub. stantial results can be shown." (Cheers.) —Before the meeting separated. the Chairman stated that the directors had decided that the secretary, Mr. Hadfield, should go out in the Argentina, for the purpose of making arrange ments with the foreign agents of the company ; and that he would take with him letters of introduction from Lord Clarendon to the authorities of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video. STAND.AJID, TUESDAY, JULY THE NUNNERY QUESTION. REV. W. F. TAYLOR'S LECTURE AT THE CONCERT-HALL On the evening of Thursday lest, a lecture on the subject of " Nunneries" was delivered in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, by the Rev. W. F. Taylor, the incumbent of St. John's Church. The lecture was delivered under the auspices of St. John's Protestant Institute, an exceed ingly useful society, recently originated in Liverpool. Mr. J. P. Evans was called upon to preside, and among the gentlemen present on the platform we observed the Revs. G. L. Ireland, J. Bardsley, Carpenter, Sayers, and T. Sutton ; and Messrs. G. Nixon, Thomas Gregory, Owen Williams, J. B. Williams, and G. Ward. The proceedings were commenced with prayer by the Rev. G. L. Ireland, secretary of St. John's Institute, after which .....„. .. - ~.... The CHAIRMAN introduced the lecturer to the meeting. He said, any person who had paid any attention to the subject on which the reverend gentleman was about to speak must be convinced of the fact that it had assumed a very serious aspect. It behoved them to be well acquainted with the exact position and true character of the Nun neries, and he thought every person present would feel grateful to their friend Mr. Taylor, for kindly agreeing to lecture on what had been so prominently brought be fore the attention of the public. (Cheers.) The Rev. LECTURER, on coming forward, was welcomed with loud cheering, and prolonged rounds of the Kentish fire. He said that great gathering showed that he had not miscalcu lated the popular feeling when lie determined, with the blessing of God, to deliver a lecture upon the question of nunneries. It was no small pleasure, indeed, to behold such a large and in fluential assemblage of Protestants, anxious to hear all that was to be told on the present excitins•-, topic —a topic to which public attention in this country had been recently attracted by the bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Chambers. Before entering upon the subject, he thought it right to mention that, from the mixed character of the audience, he would be necessitated to cast a shroud over much that was base, foul, and immoral in connexion with nunneries; that he would have to leave the worst unexposed. and hold back much that was likely to create the most startling effect. Crimes of the most horrible character were essentially wrought up in the very constitution of the nunneries • but to the worst he dare not aUude. And he further deemed proper to men tion that the facts he would state were all quoted from authori tative documents of the Church of Rome. He had not pro duced a single Protestant authority. The books he would use were " The Spouse of Christ," by St. Alphonso Liguori, and " The Pontificate Romanum ' " besides a few newspapers. In the first section of his lecture the rev. gentleman contended that nunneries were manifestly an interference with the personal freedom of intelligent beings—that a coercive power and a controlling tyranny was wrought up in the very system which ought not to be tolerated in a free country like England. The very aspect of a conventual establishment, suggested at once that it was the abode of despair and tyranny. Whythose bars, those bolts, those prison-lik e doors and walls— precluding access from without, and escape from within? Why were the Romanists more anxious to keep the people out of such buildings than the citizen was to preserve his house from intrusion? These very bars, he contended, afforded prima facie evidence that a nunnery was a prison. (Cheers.) Were the Romanists afraid that the people of England would break in and do injury to the poor unprotected nuns? (Hear, hear.) He thought rather that those bolts and bars were there to prevent the escape of individuals who might reveal facts that would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of their priestly betrayers. Females were admitted into nunneries at an age when they could not possibly be aware of the tremen dous sacrifice they were about to make. And this did not constitute the only evil of their early reception ; for the con secration service read to the poor girls was of such a polluting character, that we start back with abhorrence from its blas phemy. Every female who had been consecrated must, neces sarily, from the nature of the service, be aware of sins. the existence of which no female ought to know. Let a nun be as pure as an angel, she must, by the private examination of the bishop, be theoretically aware of sins which she ought not to be aware of, and which -he dare not name. A female might be admitted upon her novitiate at twelve years of age, and he asked what did a girl of that age know of the world ? She knew little, and it was quite proper that she should know little. At that age her physical frame was not matured, while her heart was innocent, if he might so speak, of the affections which might ultimately arise there. And yet, at the age of sixteen, she might take the irrevocable profession upon herself of per petual celibacy. (Hear, hear.) Previous to taking this vow, the nun had to be examined by the bishop, and . one of the points upon which he had to question her was, whether she had been constrained by force to go into, and remain in the nun nery. From this rule, it was evident that even the Romanist allowed that she might be forced into the convent. Else, why this examination of the bishop's? Must there not have been a necessity for that law before the law was passed? The exist ence of a law plainly indicated the possibility. and even the existence of. the crime or evil against which it is directed. Our legislators do not pass a law for a merely possible crime, but with reference to a crime which exists and has existed. In England there was no law against cannibalism—the genius of the people was opposed to that crime; but there were statutes directed against bull-baiting and cock-fighting, for both of these disgusting re creations had existed. Hence, argued the lecturer. if the crime had not existed, the " holy" Council of Trent would not have occupied its time, as it did, making a law by which the person is subject to anathema who shall force a virgin or widow into a nunnery. (Loud cheers.) And so, when the Roman Catholic asked him, " Do you wish to adopt Mr. Cham berg's bill, because we have people confined there against their will ?" he (the lecturer) would reply, "Yes ; and your own Council of Trent proves the suspicion to he true." (Continued cheering.) Step by step he would prove it to be true without the shadow of a doubt. It was a law that a nun should not get out of the convent, not for a single moment, nor under any pretext, except it was for a purpose approved by the bishop. 1 If a nun escaped she incurred the penalty of excommunication. And, :if any person would endeavour to lead a nun away, unless they made restitution and expressed penitence, the most dreadful anathema of the churcn was pronounced over them by the bishop —an eternal malediction consigning them, body and soul. to eternal perdition, and assigning them a portion with the devil and his angels. The canon law en joined that, if a nun escaped from a convent, the superior should call in the aid of a magistrate to assist in the capture of i the runaway ; so that, were England under the power of that law, and were a nun to escape in this neighbourhood, the mayor of Liverpool would have to send Captain Greig and a body of constables after the escaped prisoner. But, thanks be to God, the Church of Rome had not the power in this country, and, thank God, she never would have. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Another law with respect to nuns ran thus :—"That, if any pretend that they have been forced into the house, they are to be judged by their own superioress and bishop." How was she likely to have justice meted out to her when that lady superioress might be the tormentor from whom she wished to escape, or when the bishop might have a very good reason for deciding unfavourably in order to preserve the reputation of her priestly betrayer. (Hear, hear.) Liguori, in his "Spouse of Christ," observes—" It is true that even in the cloister there are some discontented souls." Now, the people of England did not seek to force any woman out of a Convent if it was her wish to remain there; but they demanded freedom for the "discontented souls." (Loud cheers.) They knew that a girl at 21 had a great many notions which a girl at 12 or IG had not ; and Liguori showed that convents were not to all bowers of bliss, when he remarks, that a nun must enjoy " a foretaste of heaven, or an anticipation of hell." The lecturer, in the remainder of his lecture, proved that nun neries were the moneymaking machines of the Romanist Church, the interest, or less t han the interest, of the mone y tbirmouhatnblytheeach principalnun supporting going t o t. the he c hur possessor ch at her during d e a 0 1 e . r Ke e nunneries elrietshe building all in the England churches and hear) Mr. Taylor likewise alluded to which i a s t ts the we b re ottom of fine elsewhere. (Hear , ' the horrible tortures resorted to in nunneries, when a refractory " Religious had to be corrected, and demanded if r nor which the we should tolerate those"e ecclesiasti " cal bastiles in this free land l f i there magistrate b e l c; t f an d where hundreds of poor girls might be sighing not enter? —places, over which the law of En g land was to have no control, for liberty in vain , and for whom the re was no liberty save to pine and die. Th e habeas cor p us act would not reach them , and he was afraid t hat Mr. Chambers 's bill would be a dead of ours. kind (dLeoscurdibcerdie,ga qfth No, tloo o l f ) Should letter, like the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. He would advocate total suppression; and if there were any who wished to serve the Pope, let them go and live with him at Rome, and serve , him there. I n proof that the nuns were not free to leave the convent, he quoted from Liguori, who distinctly stated that it was impossible to escape. lie also quoted from Liguori to prove that the nunneries were frequently the scenes of dancing and debauchery—that profane songs and operas, and other carnal amusements, were at times the occupations of those very creatures who were too good to look up to heaven. (Hear, hear.) in reference to the question of the celibacy of the nuns, lie contented himself with a reference to the uncontroverted statements of Pierce Conolly and Mr. Hogan. the celebrated converts ' • and also to the case of Dr. Achilli v. Father Newman, in which the Romanists themselves produced evidence of the depravity existing, among their own priests and nuns, and I enabled us to convict them out of their own mouths. Refe rence was made to the case of Miss Talbot, who wrote from her convent that she was quite contented and happy (this while under coercion). and who, when ordered out by the Lord Chancellor, whose ward she was, instead of running back. rushed into the arms of a husband. And he wished to God all the nuns in Britain were out of the convents, and honestly urging s i u e p e tvi suppressed, s n e married. (Cheers.) The lecturer made a pungent assault i 'i t s i l t t a h l e l y n d n e o , t a t o s upon Lord John Russell, for his opposition to Mr. Chambers's cease bill, ands exertions concludedu ntil l being inconsistent with those glorious ideas of liberty which animate the breast of every true Briton. The meeting, which was large and respectable, gave utterance to their feelings by loud bursts of applause. The Rev. G. L. IRELAND moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr. WILLIAMS, and carried by acclamation. The Rev. J. BARDSLEY, superintendent of the Scripture readers, who was loudly called, and whom the audience wel comed with many rounds of the Kentish fire, delivered a brief and pertinent speech, and concluded by moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Evans for his admirable conduct in the chair. Mr. NIXON, one of the churchwardens of St. John's, seconded the motion, in an exceedingly neat and pungent speech, and it was carried with great enthusiasm. The proceedings ter minated with the singing of the doxology, at a few minutes before ten o'clock. There were a number of Roman Catholics present, and it was expected that some discussion would take place, but no attempt was made to deny the statements made by the reverend lec turer,—a task which would have been attended with some difficulty. NEW MAGISTRATES.—At the quarter sessions on Mon day last, the following gentlemen took the oaths and their seats, as magistrates of the county :—B. P. Gregson, Esq., Caton, near Lancaster, and John Gardner, Esq., Fleetwood. IMPORTANT TO ASSURERS.—The theory and practice of Life Assurance have been recently greatly improved, and it is quite certain that the public are much indebted to companies of a comparatively modern date for many advantages which the old ones never thought of extending to them—not from want of inclination, we dare say, but from an adherence to old systems of management, which rendered them blind to the various modes in which Life Assurance might be employed to benefit the assured, and yet leave a handsome profit to the assurers. The Sovereign Life Assurance Company is one of these bene ficial companies, and it has had a most successful career. Established in 1845, it had at the close of its seventh year effected 1,268 policies, covering assurances to the amount of £561,374 75., proposals having been made for the sum of £1,059,820: and so carefully were the lives selected, and the business managed, that only £6,683 10s. Gd. had been required to meet the claims by death, being less than 245. per cent. on the amount assured, and only a little more than one-seventh of the amount of premiums paid —viz., £43,587 Bs. Gd. The business of the office has gone on steadily increasing, the assurances effected with in the last three years exceeding those of the first four by about 23 per cent. ; and Mr. Neison, who had examined the accounts prepatraory to the declaration of a bonus, stated a singular and important fact at the last annual meeting of the company—viz., that "if one-fifth of the lives assured in this office were to die to-morrow, there was enough in the coffers of the company to pay every demand," The usual average of mortality is, however, about one per cent. ; the company cannot, therefore, be in a better position in order to secure confidence. After making allowance for every liability to the 31st of December, 1852, the company is in a position to declare a bonus which adds to the policy a sum equal to 75 per cent. on the amount of premiums paid. We instance one case, showing the extraordinary benefit accruing to the assured : A man aged 25 has, during seven years, paid £153 Bs. 4d., being £2l Hs. 4d. each year, to secure £l,OOO at his death, whenever it may happen. By the division just made he has no less than £123 7s. added to his policy, so that at death his family will receive £1,123 7s. and this at the first division only ! There are few companies which can show such a result—one of fuck immense consequence to tin aßevied,--G/oPe, 5, 1553. CORREPSONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, MR. BRAMLEY-AIOORE AND THE INDEPEN DENT BURGESSES AND FREEMEN OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. SIR,—So this town is to be put to the expense of another Election, and ill-feeling arising therefrom; and all for what? To satisfy the ambition of one man, and he a Conservative. I fear lessly state, that had it not been for Mr. Bramley-Moore coquetting with the Radical party, that they would never have dared to have contested the approaching election ; and it was only when they found Mr. Moore employing the very same tactics which Mr. Cardwell did, that they seriously entertained the idea. Some parties still affirm that Mr. Bramley-Moore will not go to the poll. Stuff! Let them read his Address to the independent Burgesses and Freemen of Liverpool in this day's Albion, and posted all over the town. I, for one, would have voted for Mr. Moore, had he been brought forward in the first instance, but, as matters stand, I should consider myself a traitor to the Conservative party were I to do anything of the kind. The Electors and Freemen ought not to be deceive!, but stand fast to their principles as one man, and vote for Liddell and Horsfall. They are bound to treat any person who may cause dissension amongst them, whoever he may be, as an enemy; and, unfortuntely, the friends of Mr. Bramley-Moore have put him in this position. If they are true to their own interest, they will return Liddell and Horsfall with a triumph . _ . ant rnajority.—l am. Sir, 'Change, 4th July, 1353 A FREEMAN. THE COMING ELECTION. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. S 111,-1 presume it has been arranged, to gratify Mr. Moore's inordinate ambition, and to gratify his spleen, to divide our party and let in a leveller. Let us hear no more of political consistency, and love of our cause; it is clear personal matters influence our leaders, and that all professions go to the wind when pride and wounded vanity rankle in the breast. Mr. Moore has, I suppose, your support, and that of Mr. Mellor, Mr. Bigham, and 400 to 500 Radicals, who have signed his requisition, to make a show, and entrap Mr. Moore. The bait has been swallowed, and now look at Mr. Moore's position,— disowned by his BEST FRIENDS, and the laughing-stock of his worst enemies,—he may detach as many Conservatives at may lose us a Tory member, but cannot poll as many as will give him the ghost of a chance himself Surely, he has no reason to complain ; Mayor, Dock Chairman, &c., he has been honoured with; a dock has been called after his name, and his friends do not forget that he has done service to the cause, and would have been ready to repay his past exertions. What can now be done, if he wars against the judgment of his party, and puts himself forward, opposed to his oldest and best admirers? He must certainly sink his political character as a Conservative; and if mishap overtakes us next Thursday or Friday, on the obstinate self-love of Mr. Bramley-Moore will be properly placed the odium of acting Marplot to crowds of delighted Papists and Infidels. Oh, shame, where is thy blush ?" It is not too late, if Mr. B. Moore is anxious to preserve a sound political character, to assist his old friends, and to check the exultation of his and our enemies ; let him come boldly out, and say he will not consent to break up his party by any compromise with hangers-on at the Angel Inn, and that he does not recognise Mr. Mellor as his commentator. Mr. Mellor, and Mr. John Bramley-Moore t—how are the mighty fallen The Standard brought out Mr. Cardwell, who broke us up for seven years; we are now united, and I hope the Standard will not again assist in breaking up our loyal party for another seven. Assuredly, if we have one of our selected candidates placed in jeopardy, we shall consider it done by professed friends, and no amount of repentance can atone for such a political sin. "Awake 1 arise ! or be for ever fallen." At another time let us have Mr. Moore, and we will work with hearty good will for him ; but if he allows the Mellors, the Hodsons, and the Angel Inn clique to rule him, his politi cal influence is set, and he is no longer worthy of the united exertions of his friends and party.—Yours, &c., CRANMER P.S. We shall want no more articles about 141aynooth or Popery from the .Standard, if its influence lets in a Whig and pro-Popery candidate—a connexion of a levelling newspaper editor and proprietor,—Mr. Perry. [Our fearlessness at any attack is shown by our giving publicity to the above. The Standard, under its present management, is not responsible for the course pursued in 1847, and will yield to none for independence of tone, as well as for fidelity to principles. Before any candidates were brought forward, we suggested the names of Messrs. HORSFALL and BRAMLEY-MOORE; the latter was not acted upon ; and, as the former, in conjunction with the Hon. H. T. LIDDELL, has received the general support of the Conservative party, we strenuously exhort all, who value the maintenance of Constitutional principles, to unite cor dially in the support of those two gentlemen.] THE GREAT BRITAIN SCREW STEAMER. O❑ Friday last, a party of private friends and gentlemen connected with the literary department of the Liverpool press, were entertained by Captain Mathews, on hoard this magnificent vessel, as she lay in the Sandon Dock. Before sitting down to the repast, the gentlemen on board were conducted over the vessel, in order to set the im provements and alterations which have been effected in her since her return from the golden regions. The nau tical men expressed a very high opinion of the alteration in her rig to that of a clipper-ship, and prophesied a great acceleration to her sailing powers by the change. Every one admired the elegant saloon and state rooms for the chief-cabin passengers, while surprise was manifested on finding such excellent accommodation in the second cabin, so superior to the same class cabins in the sailing vessels. In this department we observed that the number of this class of passengers that can be taken is reduced, thus giv ing more accommodation for the remainder. The tore cabin has been done away with, and the after one has been painted in light and pleasing tints, giving the apartment a very agreeable appearance. Indeed the comfort and com pactness of the arrangements were the theme of praise of all on board. At three o'clock, about forty gentlemen sat down in the chief saloon, under the genial presidency of Captain Mathews ; Captain Martin, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s overlooker, occupying the vice-chair. There were produced from the famous " kitchen" of the Great Britain substantial viands and delicate dainties, with wines of the choicest vintages, and full justice was done to the edibles. After the usual loyal toasts had been disposed of, Captain MATHEWS rose and said he had invited his friends there, to show them what alterations had been made to get the ship to perform the shortest voyage pos sible to Australia. They had combined the best sailing to her steaming powers, and had fitted her with the latest and most approved form of screw-propeller,—Griffith's patent. The Great Britain was now rigged as a clipper ship, and would do to sail with any ship afloat. (Cheers.) He (Captain Mathews) was quite proud of the manner in which the alterations had been made, and had every con fidence in their success. They had reduced the number of second-cabin passengers, to give the others as much comfort as possible. He trusted it would never be said again that they were over-crowded. Every improvement that could be made had been (lane to the satisfaction of all concerned. In conclusion, he sincerely hoped their anticipations would be realised on Monday, when they were to make their trial trip ; and he knew that the public had a similar feeling. Wherever he had been, all over the world, he had found that there was a feeling in favour of the Great Britain. (Cheers.) He was glad to see some of the representatives of the local press, and he would propose to the company, as a toast, " The Press of the World," Mr. WYNNE acknowledged the toast, and proposed " Success to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co." The toast was received with all due honours, and re sponded to by Mr. HENRY BRIGHT in an eloquent speech. He said that the object of the owners of the Great Britain was to wake her, if possible, the finest merchantman that sailed on the seas. He thought all present would agree with him that they could not have a more meritorious captain, or a better set of officers than belonged to her, and he begged to propose their healths. (Cheers.) Captain MATHEWS replied, on behalf of himself and his officers, for the kind manner in which the toast had been received. Speaking personally, he said he bad now been a commander, off and on, for upwards of twenty years, and never had any serious mishap to any ship of which he had the charge. He had never cost the under writers a single sixpence. He did not say this boastfully, but merely to show them that he had had a most fortu nate career ; for he did not know how soon he might be as unfortunate as some of his brother commanders. He went to sea at ten years of age, and had now reached fifty without ever being shipwrecked or meeting any dis aster. (Cheers.) With regard to his officers, he was going to take the same officers and most of the same men who had been with him on her last voyage to Australia, and in whom be had every confidence. (Cheers.) Cap tain Mathews then proposed the health of Capt. Martin, overlooker for Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., who had superintended all the alterations made on board the Great Britain since first being fitted for her Australian destina tion ; but, as that gentleman had left a short time pre viously, it_7as_r_iot responded to. lir. J. H. NIGHTINGALE proposed the health of the gentlemen connected with the office of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., coupling with it the name of Mr. Bye water. Mr. CRAWLEY proposed—" The Ladies." Mr. BELCHER responded to the toast. Mr. TowsoN, of the Sailors' Home, proposed " Success to the Great Britain herself." Steam, so far, had not gained great advantages over sailing vessels, in the voyage to Australia, as it had done on shorter voyages ; but he thought the time was coming when it would succeed there as much as it had done in other points of the globe. He thought the advantages of establishing a coal depot at the Falkland Islands were very great. All that could afford to travel by steam ought to do so, as it ensured comforts which counterbalanced even the cost of the voyage. He thought the Great Britain was likely to accomplish great things this voyage. The toast was re ceived with great applause and acknowledged by her wor thy commander, who said that he hoped, when they came back from her trial trip, they would be able to say some thing more about her capabilities. tCheers.) Mr. LEE then gave " Success to the Colony of Aus tralia," and hoped that every shipload of passengers that went thither, would impart additional strength and vigour to the already strong and vigorous colony. Re then alluded to the projected docks at Melbourne°, and elicited from Captain Mathews the information that docks of a most commodious character were being completed at Sydney. After spending a most agreeable afternoon, the com pany separated about four o'clock. THE LIVERPOOL WRIT - PARLIANIEN• TARY .IANCEUVRING. A petty battle, fought during the past week, over the Liverpool Writ, has been decided in favour of common sense and justice. The Liverpool Election Committee gave birth to a report almost unparalleled in parliamentary annals for inconclusiveness and stultifying self.contra diction. Each half of every paragraph contradicted the other ; each paragraph contradicted some one that pre ceded or followed it ; and the last nullified all the rest. Yet, though the committee could not reason, they could act; and, to the astonishment even of their own friends in Liverpool, they voted out the sitting members. Their zeal, indeed, outran the occasion ; for the sudden, and on the whole unjustifiable, verdict found the Liverpool Liberals without the means of setting up new candidates. Not so the Conservatives of that great commercial town. The strength of the cause is there so fully felt, that men of the highest local influence are willing to stand, know ing that, although every art of unscrupulous partisan ship be resorted to in order to render the struggle severe, the result is certain. And there is among the Liverpool Conservatives an earnestness and activity in the cause that merits this confidence. The Liberals, dismayed at seeing Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall in the field, and rushing everywhere to find victims to succeed Messrs. Cardwell and Ewart in the honour of defeat, were unpre pared for an immediate contest. At all risks, then, the writ must be stopped. and time be gained. To this scheme Lord Dudley Stuart was induced to lend himself. When Mr. Freshfield, on Wednesday afternoon, moved that the writ do issue, the noble lord rose to " speak against time," drawling on with dull and unintelligible verbiage, amidst the derision of the house, long after the stock of ideas wherewith he had armed himself had be come exhausted. At length, as six o'clock struck, the noble and magnanimous electioneering agent attained his object, and the manoeuvre so far succeeded. On Thursday the attempt was renewed ; but this time Lord John Rus sell committed himself to a participation in the disre putable trick. Appealed to by Mr. James M`Gregor not to leave Liverpool without representatives, when such important commercial questions were coming on, the leader of the Whigs " was afraid that the house would be too much occupied to go on with the subject." In other words, the coalition candidates could not be found, or were not screwed up to martyrdom point, and the dis tinguished party chief condescended, for the nonce, to do the work of Mr. Coppack. The matter was not, how ever, to be easily shelvEd. Even at nearly three in the morning the adjourned debate was resumed, when Lord Dudley Stuart, compelled this time to appeal to the house instead of to the clock, moved the suspension of the writ till the 20th of July—a course which Lord Palmerston, in the absence of Lord John Russell, modified into a proposal of postponement for a fortnight. For surely in a fortnight some candidates could be caught ! The energetic remonstrances of Lord John Manners and Mr. Malins defeated even this adroit " move" of the noble Home Secretary, who, " on learning," of course for the first time, " that the committee had recommended the issuing of the writ," withdrew his objection, and ulti mately the writ was ordered to issue forthwith. We congratulate the Conservatives of Liverpool on this result, so well merited by their promptitude and con stancy. Their city has indeed escaped a multiplicity of dangers. Persisting, from some singular perversity, to return Conservative members, Liverpool has been threatened on various hands with the disfranchisement of its freemen ' • with the ballot ; and with an interregnum of representation at the very time when a new dispensation of the commercial policy of the country is under debate. To leave the second city of the empire unrepresented at such a moment was a step which nothing could justify, and which despair only could have suggested even to the Whigs. It is pleasant to know that the attempt has been so utterly tallied, and that the consequences promise to recoil in discomfiture and disgrace upon its authors. — The Press. THE HON. H. T. LIDDELL AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL Gallant Liverpool is like what Napoleon said of the Great Duke, we have lost and lament, at Waterloo, " It is beaten but will not know it." A. snug trio majority liberal packed in a House of Commons committee, with the vacillating member for South Shields at its bead, ap pointed to try the merits of a petition aginst the return of Messrs. Charles Turner and Forbes Mackenzie for that great port, decided according to a foregone conclusion against the validity of that return, on the ground of cor ruption by their friends or agents, said corruption con sisting ;in the enormous fact that "twenty-five labour ing men (electors) had been given a day's holiday by their masters, who had paid those men their day's wages," to enable them of course to exercise their rights:as electors, without exposing their families to one day's hunger or abstinence in consequence. So conspicuously as the names of patriot Rathbones have flaunted on all occasions for half a century past at least, it is odd their old fellow citizens, singularly blind to their surpassing merits, should never to this day have cast a longing eye upon them, or breathed the softist whisper of desire, for the distinguished favour of their representative services for Liverpool. Happy tribe, who can thus so plainly. " Read opinion in their townsmen's eyes." We repeat it—the gallant spirit of constitutional Liver pool cannot and will not be beat. Less than ever now are the Conservative party likely to succumb, when their un scrupulous opponents, self-sweated of their tens of thou sands at the last contest, and from their insolent attempt since by election petition to swamp the voice and dictate the votes of the vast majority of the constituency, will be so much the less found with the means for the wholesale practice of that scandalous corruption to which, whether represented in meal, or in malt, or in hard metallic, they owe the votes of that miserable minority which could be duped into being dragged through Coventry with such a motley set of leaders. The Conservatives were forecast ing for the emergency that might possibly arise, and on its arrival were prepared accordingly. They present themselves with two excellent substitutes for the capital members who for a season are lost to the constituency. To fill the place of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall is offered, a gentleman whose name is associated with all that is respectable, trustworthy, phi lanthropic, and truly Christian in Liverpool, —a name, indeed, historically connected with the seaport which justly boasts to be the greatest in the world. To succeed Mr. Charles Turner, that inestimable citizen, merchant, and gentleman, who is cherished, as so well he deserves to be cherished, in the hearts of the magnificent community among whom his lot has been cast, the Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell, our invaluable neighbour, and one of the chief ornaments of these counties, has been called upon with one acclaim to come forward, and he has accepted the invitation. Conservative Liverpool has honoured herself no less than she has distinguished the heir and representative of the noble and time-honoured house of Ravensworth by such a selection. The friend, pupil we may say, of the immortal George Canning and the illustrious Huskisson ; the friend also and fellow. collegian. who won high honours, of the Earl of Derby, Chancellor of Oxford University that is, and first scholar we may say that was, he could not present himself with higher credentials of character in justification of the choice of a bcdy so enli,z litened as a Liverpool constituency. We can testify of him, moreover, as can all in this the northern metropolis, and in the great communities surrounding, that in addition to the various eminent qualifications, and the amiable qualities which he holds in common with the noble family he is connected with and so endear him and them to us, Mr. Liddell possesses in an extraordinary degree those special acquirements which should peculiarly recommend him to the favour of a mercantile and indus trial community. In the Commons' House, when a member, no one more exerted himself, and none was better accomplished by position and knowledge for the task, in the defence of the great shipping interests, those of every class inclusive engaged from the shipbuilder and shipowner and shipwrights, down to the lowest operative, even rope and sail makers and sailors, against the rash experiments of ignorant theorizing legislators ; so also with respect to mercantile and manufacturing interests. We can state, and the columns of this journal will bear frequent testimony to the fact under his own signature, that few men, statesmen or not, are so well versed as Mr. Liddell in all those great questions of finance, currency, banking, and political economy which have been and yet are in agitation amongst us. We fearlessly assert, there fore, and challenge contradiction, that for the suffrages of Liverpool it would be impossible to find a man with higher and more substantial pretensions, and appreciated as t hey are, and called upon es he has been, by the most influential inhabitants of that great port, as well as by the mass of the electors at large, no doubt can be entertained that the present candidate will become the successful member.—Newcastle Journal. IRELAND. TIIE C." - STABLTLARY.—Orders have been issued to raise 4O .ecruits for this service in Ireland, and the standard of height has been reduced half an inch. LIFE ASSURANCE.—The Court of Common Pleas was occupied the greater part of last week in trying an action for the amount of a policy on the life of Mrs. Evangelique Devereux, of Carrickmannon, who died on the night after the first pay ment was made to the London and County Insurance Company. The jury found for the full amount claimed, £1,500. - • • -- 7 • THE QUEEN VicrontA.—ln the Dublin Court o f m Co a m ge m s oagnareisetas e on ci lV y e e d f n D es a d b a l y i , a the jury glee £6OO d a- Steam-pa c k et C ompany -P4OO being for the widow and 200 for the mot h er of 4 person lost in the Queen Victoria steamer. • HER MAJESTY'S VISIT.—Her Majesty will stay two days at the Dublin Exhibition. She will leave London early on Tuesday next, and will travel by the London and North-Western Railway, as f ar as Holyhead, where she will sleep the same night, and depart on the following morning for Dublin. CLARE ELECTION. —The latest intelligence from Clare gives the following numbers, but not the decisive result; Sir John Fitzgerald.. 1350 Cornelius O'Brien.... Colonel Vandeleur ...... ........ 1297 The votes were given in despite of the most awful threats that could be fulmivated. Here is a passage from the speech of an anointed priest, delivered from a Romish altar to a large congregation of inhabitants of Clare : " May the blight seize your potatoes ! May the mur rain seize your cattle ! May the cholera seize yourselves May you be sent to hell if Colonel Vandeleur is returned 1" NEW DEFINITIONS.--Rebus : to kiss one again. Om nibus : to kiss them all. Blunderbuss : to kiss another imau'i wife. bille[y]baka one lady kissing anvtber.