The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

TU ESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1853 ZOC,IL INTELLIGENCE. Comet Tilt BALTIC m , (United States mail steam-ship), Captain with th smled for New York on Wednesday morning, Tr ie e tl a ails and cargo, and upwards of 120 passengers. tem oP MAN Steam-packet Company have char to-'lleir fine h • b e , e s Tynwald to a Londonderry company, b e te ship Tynwald to a Londonderry company, 1l een that place and Liverpool. qIII•44ART B OOTLE.—EarIy on Tuesday the house tliiev es ' Al ieli, at Ford, near Bootle village, was entered by rt o. , ano of arti e r silver spoons, a tea-caddy, and nume wearing apparel carried awa y. 1144'41. MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The club held their hairll,°llthlY meeting at the club-house, on Tuesday. Linder the patronage of the club, is fixed to take hursday, the 24th instant. Lt(tlie then • BOSPITAL.—An amateur performance is 7 titan t the Theatre Royal on Friday, the 25th inst., Nool,lchester Shakesperian Society, in aid of the ~ZBO Vali! Blu e - coat Hospital. ,faei2) • Ec x OP THE ANNIE JANE.—On Wednesday ut _,T l i_ry took place, at the office . of the local btu a ro, 6ailors' Home, before Captain Beechy, into ‘ 4 41 0 j;alstances connected with the loss of the ship 1 1 8 1I t i r r ie b • The inquiry was conducted privately. w as '''"BPnr•--On Wednesday evening, as g-en -01)DearedPos811131filV•ong Abervcqnwy-osqnFe, others,at hi s fellow,a made wateh-gneaZ but the with guard broke, and the Ler(),.demon dealt his assailant a heavy blow, made k r the others came up. „ AND MR. EDWARD JAMES, of the northern (it o ; e r ' Montagu Smith, of the Western Circuit ; and Zettl ;„ ~ of the North Wales and Chester Circuit, ap i'Lll er;',,,,,,the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, "'led within the bar and took their seats as her br4 8 CORacil . tko4ite.of°aLlCAL OCTRAGE.-011 Thursday afternoon a thYtell o e ,„ e r went into a beer-house, in Greetham-street, {, Fen n so me when one of the . disorderly persons Ry e 'Num into his eyes. It is supposed to have „ vitriol , some other powerful acid, as the officer " 4 etherlquatelY deprived of sight, and it is doubtful '"eo,„7,will recover the use of his eyes. The party kAt ll ' l o `"ted the cowardly outrage escaped. To MARINE STORE DEALERS.-011 Tuesday, sAr ia ,„ I, marine-store dealer, of Sprainger-street, tZse, tniecl for dealing in marine stores without . a u' 4B e a . ' his defence Dunn said that he had left his 11'ha vi the Town-hall. in February last for the purpose 1 10 4:4J:t renewed, and that Mr. Tyson told him he I, P .'l.,.. ko , ll fitte to sell until the new license was granted. however, contradicted this statement, and his NA sente nced the defendant to pay a penalty of £lO "util at GIJARDIA /s S - .—Mr• Joseph Harrison pre- „ th e w erk reekly meeting o f t h is b oar d on W e d nes d ay, AI ' p u otise• The other members present were the r'so ` l adnall, and Messrs. Reyes, Alpass, Lunt, C a Roskell, Tattersall, Kirkus, G. Har -4i b alan r ,-.. r : C raig, Housley; Jeffries, Roberts, and M`Gee. 'tb 15 3 lu the hands of the treasurer was matter to be t o ,,,chos i i' k u i - The sureties of Mrs. Hobbs, the on of tit; 4B read' w ere accepted, and a series of monthly state t from various collectors. A committee, con li')aked t ° the members of the hospital committee, was ,tca'jnsider and report upon the erection of vacci thvellioca ils Health the union ; and an application to the ktkil de epen Committee was agreed upon , requesting ptile m ere the after portion of the sewer in ta b ; c 4 Ta re , e ffectual drainage of the hospital. ocicnrs AT AN AUCTION.—Three youths, alines Smith, John Roberts, and Frank Fretcroft, 'unesday charged, at the Police-eourt, with t),lllN,,oekets at a house in Breck-road, where Messrs. the ho carrying on a public auction. Mrs. Ca -1 ithr of 4 escot-street, said she went into 4 se to ' 1 4 4 ft ask the T reat of the premises, and, just as she ti felt h e ro lobby, the prisoners rushed against her, and trop OutPtl-rse, containing about 10s. i n silver,. being NA q ,a m o the f her p oc k et. She immediately gave mforma • am als o h P r isoners were apprehended. Another l a dy 4e4 her Pocket pi c k e d i n th e same p l ace. R o b er t s , L t qo ael ft, wh o h ad been previously committed, were wagli for three months ; Smith, about whom no heidirat fle uvn, was remanded for inquiries. LO4 Ti r'Ecra OF INTEMPERANCE .— An inquest was u rsdaY, before the deputy coroner, Mr. H. ei e ktt, of ' ll , on the body of Sylvester M'Conachie, aged 40 (11Z4 -t t o Ilricl gewater-street. The deceased was a „ toPerate character, being very seldom sober he ho lef t "'; last twelve months. On Tuesday morning I , a home, suffering at the time from the hi B eq ed u roliglt on by drink, and returned at noon VA ) 4 ead 1* Raving slumbered for some time with `41),1 Ith k, ic upon a table, he went to bed at thFee Noll ki t:o at "five was joined by his unfortunate wifp, dePrived of her usual rest and sleep from his abAS. It ha six oclock the awo, ecl ri; 4l her husband lf-past dead by ' woman her side. A verdict ke of 4 , kt l , x -111 excesiive drinking" was returned. k i i k k Thursday week, after the hearing of hit n ,4 l e, of our local courts, a person who represen t. eof th in be a reporter for the Mercury went up to hande_,Parties interested, and stated that unless a fee ar in Wryer to him, a full vport of the case- . . shonld . 4, A Z'ee th e e Paper of the following day- 111 . this T e (i ts 'ained of ratleman addressed had no occasion to k gracef u l, Proceedin in court, an ted_t_h r e e ntiOn eß ilit to extract money fromhe re !3is him. e with a view of cautioning the public i Lei nPted. 1 - , li a r of this kind, which are now frequently rve that no rr epo e ll_rter for the Mercury, and we be tbe guilty -of uch for any other Liverpool paper, kid the prppri e t on cricket, and certain we-are that arsons wourd give the other papers would ' e glad . ,intufotonrdniatefon when application kilue to thIESI for Lio /villa thus atte n m e su s ch circumstances.t into tk,ctieleilare, h angers ab p ont the p e nb i rie rsO co ns urt w s hO m ge n e Tiot t anie u ot .V7 they raise a few shillings ; and they use tha 4 , w e hav - a e ny h Tsp a er wi d u s l os h osryiptjotnheoir the tioatw who fre e ...tile attempt, ang w have reported the case to the 4 1 ....e.n esc h eld e SOS Ery OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. R,w on r st ordinary mee ti ng f or t h e presen t session-was e k ; l % ve ) : 11 ,,. L .' i rstlaY, at the Collegiate Institution. There titDied - b " 111 1 attendance of members. The chair was leZtes "" J ohn Robson, Esq., of Warrington. The-cor r. o f !leven gentlemen, candidates for memberdhip, ` 84Ciet for the first time. The list of presentations to .4 11 1 . 1 ilie r 3- was .of great length, and comprised a large 41,14 . ° A. _f volumes from various societies at home and *o pt . , alb t rerrds the exhibitions were placed on the t.h" in ~nelifit them were some of those elaborate AveriOuver executed in Ireland probably about the P r Y . Also some most important MSS. of Sir 'bert oa '40, 1 ;k4v , -especially " The Travels of Sir William "trs "r• ?fume read a paper "On an Election-of 4,,k11 1,, 9, Parliament for Liverpool in the year 1670," 4%11, ill with numerous letters and documents '1 4 4 0 ' 1 11 the se , "cif Monmouth and others. The papers are wLeassession of John Ireland Blackburne 'E 1 1 1?" 1 of ti," 3 ,,Plpeed -them in the hands of Dr. Hume . a 4 4 . 1' 0 , 11 (4 oh'ie tlis torio . Society, and they are highly intelst ed, locally :hut nationally. Some conversation Iph l'lift; fl u thanks were voted to Dr. Hume for his ,after which the meetin broke up. uctZ t eda, 4 . ll a LIRR _ From the report of the cam- N t 2ti PublishZi appears that, since the 18th of ti let' o ,eslL; Bs2 .., when -thelibrary was opened, 111,723 ; 44, le been issued to readers ; in addition to which tt - to ue e i 2l , f 6,960 readers of periodical publications, re cut t.,,! of works perused of 128,683. Works of 1 1 1 ZYtts' ; MI about one-half of all the books read. Far I,(ll ‘ ll2 e ic i e `" r g til thi . s result, the committee feel it their n of the library still more at-- , 1 :% 111 4 1 4: b i! ir lg of o is p* P?lt n io that the love of reading in any 11.1 it s ‘',7 ll (l to counteract the propensity to low and o and that, in order to inspire a thirst °h, 1 n the ' first step is to cultivate a thirst for e . a tine direction . sa History, general literature, o r!vels, and poetry have been next in de s ina eo n n d : i' kt theological and philosophical wolf h heri at a uont 80 per week, or 4,071 during t e year, re,.ronlarkable and indicates a higher class of • "101,4 Ping than might' at first sight be expected. '‘ . l ll llalS f reguentin . the 'library . do not belong to Wro Ac. et„.Partieul A large portion belongs to the w', o !•tbch il ' 8 • ,1, and ar of . these again many are apprentices. of ch lisueraries have been Pre , one at the Ni,, 1 14 " other at the South Corporation School, As pen °Pen two evenings in the week for the issue . j I,I N ch-blait,,Ter Proper regulations. Each of thesehbra t;'_leat,,,ti Present 1,000 volumes. A portion of these ~,I;erora the Central Library. The remain der o n pafi ll ot ~,uased at an expenditure of about t - -..mv MILS ku r .tiq a e lltie l l BRITISH ASSOCIATiON.—A num e _ _ A k ` o o t i ja. Y, beatin g convened by the Mayor, was h th ' • sid ed ''ll 4 e Council Chamber, for the purpose of , 4 - Ments for the reception of the Britis re h If „hor,f-`1,,a,,,,,,.their visit to this town. The Mayor p 4 41 , 0 those present were Messrs. Thomas Y T (1 1„ Thos. Th ornely, M.P., Wm. Earle, J. 6-te , cates, Hugh Hornby, Thomas Bouch, k ,kl 's, - ,'"a", °3 °, Ph Pollock, and T. S. Raffles, Rev. ate lt. a pßev - . Dr. Raffles, &e.—The Mayor read frow Lo rd Stanley, the, Earl of Sefton, ‘e th t v v • )3% Muspratt, and Mr. J.P. G . hovee ith other Association contemplated no inter i dbe re tivate b atr e o r eties, their object being to ttiNvitb dir ect '!fl'iy, and that more general attention .a l 'the r e u. to its study. They were running th u d, ' 41 14 ti nation s in navigation, and, in fact, every bq pi ra ati v ery i o le c Y o Mus.t keep the lead with every ship they e,, t Ufa et „ Motive they fabricate, and every blade 03 41 1,i ve 4 ,,, r e- Not the least gratifying fact to the thk4Nie Tare? °c . l, was the association being presided Harrowby, whom they all knew and 04.,tetr , to mov. Rector Campbell moved the first thli e :le effect that the British Association having t l~ the g in k invit t. of the Mayor to hold its next 1) ::D po k. in °n the autumn of 1854, a co g mmi em ' e te t : Zer,a t l i) ;At t le ree vu ep t t o ion reale the of its necessary and that Dr. tAZIM h . °3 l 6 ll, 4 lles ted to act as hon secretary.—Mr. J. iii„,-'eftY'seconded the resolution,. which was ~ertdst.:4llSlY--Mr. Joseph Brooks Yates, in th -44 ti-i""d resolution, said, he trusted that Mr. eoratnittee of St. George's Hall, would b b ,"Mit g to complete that edifice, in order that all raLke.,47cch t2 . ° '. the different bodies refight be held in the Vi4lAisi; "deb. the Association had never been able 4 tli t het. the Ik e i- e ePt in Oxford and Cambridge. He ~4 , lirie : l lt he ' ":l3'or for the graceful act of calling them pf e , 4: 14 44 l 3" of his municipal year, when matters P• i`ldedoehid_inzeessity occupy a large portion of his by moving that the general cora firte, Into five sub-committees, as follows : kt i io l l &:. ‘ , 4 : ll 4 o re ,,!p c ce To 4 r , section rooms and soirees; 3 , Printing and postal ; and 5, 4 0 4 kpleh Tho . rn e l y, E sq., as M.P., seconded the (to . ; kove d ered unanimously. —T. B. Horsfall, kii Ll tk, e) th e t , e next resolution, requesting the i;1 1 4, 1 , Lam a " (l saran Jane e b ie ing) ` - io act as president of the sel, t_ rs Rolm . e, Jos . eph B. Yates, and "t'iltoeC,Ter as vice-presidents, and that the g . Atl the su C e retar . y of the general committee be coninaittee,s.—Mr. Francis Haywood cihr r e 'notio n f or th e ti tn .--- Yhe Rev. Dr. Raffles moved that 411 3 -11 R., at som e bei ng , be respectfully requested to AN i t lart tl er to la see eco nvenient period, in the Sessions °r, P oll o .-- 1 . 3- • A. t n 'are the active co-operation of the Wh; t an ne, Esq., seconded the motion.— itti ot iu : 11 m -it? Pro posed a vote of thanks to the beCII beeended 4 WM carried by THE KIRBDALE SESSIONS were opened on Tuesday, by the chairman, the Yen. Archdeacon Brooks, and W. Hall, T. B. Horsfall, Gilbert Henderson, Thomas E. Moss, Thos. Rodick, James Lawrence, J. W. Harden, J. A. Tinne, R. Theakstoue, David Bromilow, J. Campbell, S. H. Thomp son, Robert Benn, J. S. T. Greene, J.W. Unsworth, Adam Hodgson, and Joseph B. Yates, Esqrs., Magistrates. The various reports were, as usual, voluminous, but contained little matter of special interest. CHILDWALL CHURCH BELLS.—On Friday these bells, which have been in such a dangerous condition, owing to the dilapidated state of the frame and hangings (havine , been up 131 years), were again made to sound several merry peals by the society of Childwall ringers, and by a select company from Liverpool. The old frame and hang ings have been taken down and new ones put up by Mr. William Thistlewood. In, the evening the ringers were entertained to a sumptuous dinner at that noted hotel, Childwall Abbey ; and after several peals had been rung on the hand bells, and the usual loyal toasts, together with those of the " Vicar," the " Curate," and the " Church wardens" had been drunk, the company departed, delighted with the day's entertainment. THE MANSLAUGHTER IN WOOD-STREET.—On Tuesday last, an inquest was held by the borough coroner on the body of Joseph Royles, who met his death on the previous Saturday night, in Wood-street, in an assault:committed on him by a man named Evan Hughes, the chief particu lars of which we gave last week. Several witnesses were examined, and among others the surgeon, who gave it as his opinion that the death of the unfortunate man had been caused by the injuries which he had received in the fall, and the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Evan Hughes, who was then committed to take his trial at the next assizes. FEMALE ORPHAN SOCIETY.—The annual examination was held on Wednesday, under the patronage of the Mayor:S. Holme, Esq. The children recited several pas sages of Scripture, being afterwards examined on them by the Rev. W. Hesketh and Mr. Banner. Their answers were quickly given, and were invariably appropriate. The remaining exercises comprised the reciting of " Teach a little child to pray," " God is in Heaven," and other hymns, and the reading of the 15th chapter of St. John's Gospel. The children were examined by Mr. Banner in the chronology of the first ages. The Mayor subsequently examined them in the multiplication tables, and in mental calculation, in English history, and in British geography, the result being extremely satisfactory and gratifying. NEW PUBLIC HALL INMANCHESTER.—The committee appointed to secure the erection of a new public hall, in Manchester, on the site of the present Free-trade Hall, have purchased the land from Mr. Cobden, and the scene of so many free-trade and other vst7gatherings will shortly be razed to the ground. The capital for the erection of the new building has been fixed at £25,000, and has been raised by 2,5000 shares of £lO each ; most of the sub scribers taking 50 shares, and so becoming proprietors to the extent of £5OO. Faeh proprietor of £lO or more paid up shares will be entitled to free admission to every con cert, meeting, &c., which takes place in the hall. The conditions guarantee that the hall shall be available for public purposes to all parties. ACTION OF THE SEA. UPON THE BATTERT. — Captain Westmacett, of the Royal Engineers, has communicated with the Dock Committee upon this subject. He states that, in the corner of the dock extension, north of the site reserved for the new fort, the sea-wall has been con structed so as to project abruptly in a northwesterly direction, considerably in advance of the previously ex isting wall prepared for the battery. Hence, when the wind blew from the north and northwestward, the sea, instead of coming to the face of the battery, was directed into the angle of the north wails, and thrown upwards and scattered around by the wind. This could not fail to Have an effect upon the work when completed, in caus ing serious inconvenience to the inntates, tending also to the accumulation of mud and silt in the angle. In answer to Mr. Holme, Mr. Hartley said that the Ordnance were consulted about the wall in every respect at the time of putting in the foundation ; and the very thing they now pointed out, he had shown them at the time would have those objections. It was agreed to invite Captain West macott to meet the sub-committee of works, in the pre sence of the engineer, upon the subject. DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Francis Shand, deputy-chairman, pre siding. Messrs. Stitt and Son's tender for supplying 100 tons of pig iron, at 82s. 6d. per ton, was accepted.—Mr. James Todd's tender for 'the supply of brushes was ac cepted.—The sub-committee recommended an allowance of £2O to several of the harbour-masters of the different docks, in consequence of their being obliged to remove their houses.—The 'Warehouse Management Committee reported the death of Mr. A. Gordon, landing clerk, and requested authority to fill - up the vacancy.—A communi cation was read from six master porters, who having learned that it was the intention of the committee to put in force a certain advance in 'the rates, existing prior to the Ist November last, for the landing of goods passing through the Albert Dock .and Warehouses, begged to ask whether it was intended to advance the rates of goods landed in the open docks and passing through the hands of the master porters. Mr. Robinson thought it would be better to refer the matter to the sub-committee. After some conversation the subject dropped, and the memorial was understood to be referred to the sub-committee. Mr. Bigham again called attention to the case of two mien who had been hurt while on duty. Mr. Robinson said the men would not be precluded from making an application afterwards for the amount of their full wages to be allowed them. Mr. Bigham said that would answer his purpose, and he had no objection to withdraw the motion, on the understanding that on their making the applica tion it would be granted. The subject then dropped.— Mr. Robertson Gladstone called the attention of the com mittee to the state of the quay at the west side of George's Dock. The pavement was in a -most dangerous state The clerk said it belonged to the corporation. Mr. Gladstone wished some pkm•could be devised whereby the whole of the paving about the docks might be placed under the superintendence of the borough surveyor. Ma LIVERPOOL SIIIPWRIGHTB.—A special meeting of the Shipbuilders' Association was held on Tuesday, with 'the object of considering the -propriety of advertising' for "strangers." Mr. John Wilson Green took the chair. Mr. Grayson recommended them to delay taking so im portant a step as that mentioned in the circular, of ad -vertising for strangers, until other and more conciliatory means had been fairly tried. He proposed that the journeymen should be called upon to increase the present number of shipwrights from 1,700 to at all events 2,000; and, in consideration of that, the masters should permit all apprentices in their sixth 'year at once to be made journeymen ; such apprentices, and also such strangers as might be admitted, making some payment to the funds of the Shipwrights' Association. To .carry out this he should suggest that, on a given-day, their own secretary, the secretary of the Shipwrights' Association, and a third independent person, selected by loth, should go round and ask the masters how many men each was in want of. This would put an end to all quibbling, and prove that 'the scarcity of men was undeniable. This being done, he -would suggest the formation of ajoing committee of the masters raid the men, being presided over as arbitrator by some independent shipowner, to discuss and settle the whole question. He urged the adqption of this course, which would redound to the interest of all, and which was called for alike by - reason, justice, arid religion. Mr. W. B. Jones seconded the proposal. Mr. Clayton cordially agreed with the bulk of Mr. Graysen's remarks, but re • commended the adoption of the piecework system, which was carried out advantageously in other places, particu larly in London. Mr. W. B. Jones cptite,approved of the piecework system, and had advocated a'book of prices at the last meeting. Mr. Grayson thought this was a matter of detail -which should be left to the committee.—lt was then decided that a circular should be sent to the masters asking them to supply, on Saturday, a list, of the average number=of men they had been employing-that week, and of the number they could have employed,—the committee who collected these accounts to attend again at that room on Monthly, to render the information, and ;when future steps could be taken. An application for an-advance of ls. per day, on the part of the ship-joiners, was •discussed, and it was resolved to raise their wages to Ss. 6d. A con versation then took place with regard to an allegation that some masters were paying Bs. a day at the Sandon Graving-dock, but without result. Mr. Pope Wished to know what allowances were paid to apprentices'by-other masters, for his, who were not bound, had struck. Mr. Grayson said that his firm allowed 9d. to old, and 6d. to young apprentices, and they paid them ls. an hour aver time. This appeared to meet general approval. MURDER OF A. POLICEDIA.N.—On Tuesday last, 9.-me lancholy and tragic event occurred in Scotland Ward, in which a police-constable, named Richard Sunderland, was barbarously murdered. The unfortunate event arose.out of the municipal election for that ward, although it had no necessary , connexion with the contest or its result. The facts briefly stated are as follow :—ln the course of the day a crowd assembled round a public-house at the corner of Scotland-road and Edgar-street, kept by Mrs. Shaw, in wiaich several voters connected with the ward had assembled. This crowd, composed chiefly of riotous and disorderly characters, became more and more un ruly, demanding drink, and threatening violence to the inmates of the house; until at a little before two o'clock it was deemed necessary to call in the aid of the police. Several police-constables, including the deceased, went to restore order, and disperse the crowd, which consisted principally of ten or twelve - "roughs," among whom was Thomas Copeland, a youth, seemingly about 19 years of age, who was notoriously the most active and violent of the rioters. On being ordered to disperse, they generally obeyed, but Copeland refused, and behaved in a very riotous manner, threatening and striking at the police. He was seized by Constable Walsh, to whose assistance Sun derland, the deceased, came. The prisoner, who resisted very much, was held by Walsh by the left collar and left wrist, while deceased held him by the right collar only, leaving his right hand at liberty. At the mouth of the court, leading from the public-house, as they were bring ing out the prisoner, Sunderland suddenly relinquished his bold of the prisoner, and exclaimed, "I am destroyed," or words to that effect, and it was perceived he was wounded near the groin, on the inner side of the left thigh ; the blood rushing out in great profusion. Sun derland was immediately conveyed to the dispensary at Rosehill, but expired within two or three minutes after his arrival there, and not more than seven minutes after it was perceived be had been wounded. The prisoner was conveyed to bridewell, and on being searched, no knife or other weapon was found in his possession ; but, from the position in which he was relatively to the deceased, no room exists for doubt that the wound was inflicted by Copeland ; indeed it is said a girl saw him take a knife out of his pocket and stab Sunderland with it. On Wed nesday, an inquest was held before the borough coroner, at which numerous witnesses were examined, the prisoner himself in an impude n t and callous manner cross examining several of the m . Aft er a protracted inquiry, thejury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Copeland, who did not appear moved by the result, but maintained the same sullen and impudent demeanor he had exhibited throughout the day. He was under the coroner's warrant committed to Kirkdale gaol for trial at the assizes. At the conclusion of the proceedings, Mr. Superintendent Ride stated that the prisoner's relations had been threatening to take away the life of the mother of one of the witnesses, Ann Turner, living in Bent street, if she permitted her daughter to give evidence. The coroner, after requesting the police to take the neces sary precautions in such a case, observed that if any persons attempted to carry out this threat, they would place themselves in precisely the same position as the prisoner, inasmuch as they would become what was termed in law accessories after the fact. Deceased was a married , and has left a widow and three children. THE TIME BALL over the Electric Telegraph-offices, in Castle-street, now falls daily at one o'clock, Greenwich time. PRICE OF GA.s.—Mr. Beloe has been appointed auditor of the gas accounts, by the Recorder, with the consent of the Gas Company and Guardian Society, with a view to seeing whether there should be any, and what, reductions in the price of gas. ANN WEBSTER, who had been twice previously re manded on a charge of throwing vitriol in the face of her "liege lord," was again brought up on Thursday, and further remanded for seven days, her husband being still unable to appear. THE EMPIRE, Captain Stirch, 729 tons, which' sailed from Liverpool on the Ist of March last, with 291 emi grants for Sydney, Australia, arrived there on the 27th July last, after a protracted voyage of 141 days. Much sickness prevailed on board, and fifteen died on the pas sage, including Dr. Hyams, Mrs. Hyams and child, and twenty-six remained sick on arrival. Scurvy was the prevailing disease. Gnoss OUTRAGE.—During the performance of " Vir ginias," on Wednesday, at the Amphitheatre, and whilst Mr. G. V. Brooke was delivering one of the most pathetic parts of of it, an extra sensationwas created bysome person in the crowded gallery throwing into the pit a porter bottle. No serious result followed, though the formidable missile struck a gentleman a violent blow on the back of his hand, slightly abrading the skin. He immediately picked up the bottle, and having found a police-officer, went in search of the pOrpitrator, in order to give him into custody, but was unsuccessful in discovering him. WARRINGTON.—The annual election of councillors for 'the borough took place on Tuesday, and passed off with less excitement than usual. The south-east ward was the only one in which the contest was at all spirited, the three candidates being nearly even the whole day. The following was the state of the poll at the close, in the several wards. South-east. —Mr. John Evans, 198; Mr. Josiah Whittle, 177; *%lr. C. J. Hulme, 174. South west Ward—Mt. C. Heathcote, 172 ; Mr. Jas. Lee, 136 ; *Mr. Leftwich, 65. •North-east Ward.—Mr. Jno. Bur gess, 429 ; Mr. Thos. Worrall, 411; *Mr. John Litton, 255. North-west Ward.—M r . . Jones, 302 ; Mr. Richard Peers, 288 ; *Mr. James Bentley, 196. Latch ford Ward.—Mr. William Lamb, unopposed. Those marked thus * are thrown out, and the election, as a whole, gives seven new members to the council. TII ‘ STRIKES.—Wc have no improvement to notice in the position of the question now agitating between the employers in the manufacturing districts and their work people. At Preston, Wigan, Bacup, Burnley, Padiham, and Accrington, all the mills are at a stand. In Man chester, at the present time, we believe all the mills are at work, but a resolution come to by the members of the Manufacturers' Association, at a meeting held on Monday last, is likely to lead to a turn-out here also. The wages that have been paid in Manchester for some time are, it appears, larger than those agreed to be paid at Stockport, on the conclusion of the late turn-out, and also larger than the amounts in other districts. It was therefore agreed, on Monday, that all the advances made to the hands during the present year should be withdrawn after the 3d of nest December, and notice to this effect will be given in each mill as soon as the requisite signatures to the resolution have been attached by the employers.— Manchester Courier. DISTURBANCE AT BLACKBURN.—A disturbance of rather a serious character took place on Tuesday, at Black burn, during the municipal elections there. The principal contest took place in St. Peter's ward, where a collision took place between the Conservatives and the Liberals, during which several persons were severely injured, two of whom are not expected to recover. Some windows were broken, which caused the tradesmen to shut up their shops, and there was a good deal of excitement in the town. Whilst these proceedings were going on, the houses of several inhabitants in the neighbourhood of King-street were subjected to the violence of the mob. About half past one o'clock the Fieldenite" party marched down King-street in a body, and drove the " Hornbyites" from the front of the hotel, inflicting very severe injuries on several of the conspicuous leaders on that side, and taking complete possession of the polling booth. Several isolated contests took place in the course of the afternoon, in which sundry houses, including the St. Ledger Inn, were singled out for vengeance. The town of Blackburn was, during twenty-four hours, entirely at the mercy of a mob just as much as Wigan has been. The shops and banks were dosed, and business was completely suspended. The result of the election has been to place the radical party in a large majority in the town council. During Tuesday night a portion of the mob proceeded to Limefield and attacked the house of Mr. R. R. Jackson, and entirely demolished the windows in front of the house. Several uhots were fired. JONES v. ATTWOOD.—Mr. Atherton moved, at the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, by leave of Mr. Jus tice Erle, by whom this cause was tried at the last Liver pool assizes, to increase the damages from 40s. to £6,400. This was anoction for the breach of a contract entered into by the defendant with the plaintiffs, for the supply of 5,000 tons of iron rails during the two shipping seasons of 1853, and 1854, at £8 per ton, and the contract as declared on contained a stipulaEon that the defendants should fur liish the plaintiffs with a pattern section in March, 1853, and that, failing that, after request made, he should pay the price of 400 tons of rails monthly, from May in each year, until he should have paid the sum of £lO,OOO, being one-half of each year's supply. The only plea was that no request had been made, bait it appeared that the plaintiffs had made one in proper time, and the only question at the trial was, what the measure 'of damage ought to be which the plaintiffs had sustained by the breach of the defend ant's contracts,it being a fact that they had delivered no iron to the defendant, and that if they had been called upon to complete their contract they would have been losers by Its completion, a s the price of iron had risen greatly. The jury, 'under these facts, found merely no minal damages, .and it was now contended for the de fendant that he was entitled to the sum mentioned in the contract ;as the liquidated damage in The event Which had in fact arisen. Besides this, it was stated that there was a demurrer pending between the same parties, which would raise the eame point. The Chief Baron, after intimating doubts as to the success of the rule, stated that as the motion was made by leave of the lemmed judge, and the demurrer would enable the parties to take tile case 'to a court of appeal, the rule to go as prayed. Rule nisi ac- Tordingly. DRAINAGE OF SOUTHPORT.—Mr. Newlands, the Liver pool borough engineer, has submitted his report to the authorities at Southport, on the subject of draining that town. lie says that Southport may be drained into the sea directly.; but as the foreshore, by affording facilities for bathing, is the main support of the town, there should be no detefioration of it, by permitting offensive matter to flow over it. The sewage, however, may be .conveyed in covered conduits to a point below low water mark, and this at 'first view may appear to be the most direct and feasible plan of getting rid of it ; but experience teaches that such conduits, even when they have a rapid fall and a constant supply of water to flush them, 'are in a short time so silted up as to become useless ; and as at 'South port such conduit must, from the relative tlevdis -of the streets and foreshore, have very little fall, their silting up at every 'tide wouldbe inevitable. But, begides this prac tical difficulty, the flow of the sewage into the seaoppo site the town, even at low water, would create a nuisance detrimental to the interests of Southport as a watering place. 'Under these circumstances he con ceives that any means of getting rid of the _sewage 'by allowing it to be discharged into the sea opposite the town either at 'high or low water would be attended.by injurious results, and should not, therefore, be attempted. He also considers the proposition to convey the sewage inland directly, and by gravitation to Fine Jane's Brook objectionable, as a sufficient fall could not be obtained. The plan by which he proposes to effect the object most effectually is to convey the sewage by drains to a well or sumph, whence it might !be 'raised by steam power to such a height as would cause 'it to low by gravitation to the distance required. He says that the sewage may 'be cal lected in three different ways-Ist, bk making an inter cepting sewer along the sea shore, into which the sewage from all the streets would be conducted, and from which it might be raised et any convenient point by steam power ; 2nd, by making an intercepting sewer along the bed 'of the Nile, with a pumping station in some convenient part of it, and conveying into this sewer the sewage from the streets running at right angles to it; 3rd, by making a pumping station in the 'neighbourhood of Hill-street, thereby obtaining better gradients with the same depth of sewer. Of the three plans the borough engineer recom mends the third, which involves the erection of a central pumping station, and which he conceives would be fully adequate to all the wants of the town. The cost of the main sewer, outlet pipe, &c., would be £8,040, and that sum borrowed at four per cent. would involve a payment for interest of £321 12s. per annum ; one-thirtieth of the principal, as a sinking fund, would amountto £268, making The annual charge on the permanent outlay, when the -works are completed, £589 12s. ; annual cost of pumping station, £400; making the total annual charge £989 12s. BOILER EXPLOSION AT BLlcgmyßif.-SEVIN PERSONS MILLED. - An accident of the most appalling description occurred on Wednesday morning, at Blackburn, on pre mises occupied by Mr. W. Hesketh, cotton-manufacturer, by which seven persons were killed, and several others were injured. The premises are situated in Starkie-street, and toteprise a cotton factory, four stories in height, ad joining -which was a weaving shop, two stmies high at the back, and one story in the portion fronting to the street. The boiler-house fills up the space between this building and two cottages at the corner of Penny-street. Behind the boiler-house was the engine-room. Mr. Hesketh em ploys about 100 hands, of whom rather more than half work at the looms. The boiler which exploded was in the boiler-house J'tst alluded to. On Wednesday morning the engine was started at six o'clock, and worked till tight, when it was stopped for the breakfast hour. At half-past eight o'clock it was started again, and almost immediately afterwards the boiler exploded with a tremendous report, the back plate flying through the engine -house into a yard behind the houses in a street called Salford; whilst the boiler shot in the opposite direction a distance of about 20 yards, right across Starkie-street, imbed ding itself in one of the lower rooms of the Fleece Inn, at the corner of Penny-street. It penetrated three walls in its passage—first, the outer wall of the boiler house, (nine inches thick,) then a 14-inch boundary wall in front of the public-house, and, lastly, through the wall of the house itself, also about nine inches in thickness. The effects of the explosion were of the most widely-spread and disastrous character, the whole of the boiler-house being levelled with the ground, as also the one-story portion of the weaving shed ; and the upper story of the remainder, the lower story of the back part of this building, and also the engine -house were completely gutted. The nearest of the two cottages before spoken of was shaken entirely down, scarcely a fragment of a wall being left standing. Fortunately, only fourteen or fifteen of the hands had returned from breakfast when the explosion took place. The engineer, Edward Sharpies, and the fireman, James Walmsley, were in the boiler-house at the time of the explosion, and also Thomas Sharpies, the son of the fire man, all of whom were afterwards brought out. Mr. Hesketh was in the weaving shop when the accident took place, and escaped unhurt. Great numbers of people were speedily assembled round the place, and as soon as possible about 100 men from the crowd were set to work by Mr. Withers, the town surveyor, to disengage those who were buried under the ruins. On Saturday an inquest was held on the bodies, and, after several witnesses had been examined, the inquiry was adjourned till Saturday next. In the meantime Mr. Fairbairn, or Mr. Naysmith, engi neers, Manchester, is to be consulted as to the condition of the boiler. In the course of the inquiry it transpired that Sharples, the engine -tenter, had been repeatedly cautioned as to having the steam too high. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Of 590 SOLDIERS stationed at Gateshead barracks, not one was seized with cholera during the late fatal outbreak in the district. _ NEWBY PARK has been purchased from Mr. Hudson, for £190,000, on behalf of Viscount Downe, already a large landed proprietor in Yorkshire. THE MIDLAND COUNTIES POULTRT SHOW.—The en tries closed on the 29th October, and numbered 362 pens, amounting to upwards of one thousand birds. There are, we understand, entries in every class and section. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION took place on Wednesday in the premises of Mr. Woodin, firework maker, Shadwell, and Mrs. Woodin and a boy were so seriously burned that their lives are despaired of. A PROVIDENT MOUSE.—In an allotment garden at Loughborough, the other day, there was found a mouse's nest, in which were 181 broad beans and an onion, stowed there, undoubtedly, as food for the approaching winter. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The winter session was opened on Tuesday, by Principal Lee, who delivered an able and learned inaugural discourse, which was heard with much attention by a numerous assemblage.—Edin burgh Evening Post. THE LONDON NECROPOLIS is about to be begun at Guildford, the commoners having been arranged with and paid £15,000 for their rights, which they valued at £22,000. Lord Onslow is also arranged with for 2,118 acres for the cemetery. PRICE OF BREAD.—On Monday the bakers throughout the metropolis again raised the price of the 41b loaf one halfpenny. The first-rate bakers at the West-end, who have been charging 111 d., now charge is. to is. Old. for the best, the second rate from 91-d. to 10d. per 41b. Many of what are called "cheap bakers" charge Bd. to 9d. MARRIAGE PORTIONS.—On Wednesday the trustees of Archbishop Laud's and Theodore Randue's charity met at the Town-hall, Windsor, and elected eight young maidens as the recipients of the marriage portions provided by the benevolence of Archbishop Laud and Mr. Randue, two centuries ago. A CASE FOR ARBITRATION.--We think it might be fairly expected of Messrs. Cobden thid Bright, and the Peace Society, that they should offer their services to ar range terms, on peace principles, between the turn-outs of Lancashire and their employers. The opportunity ought certainly not to be let slip. —Edinburgh Evening Post. THE ELECTRIC Loom.—lt is stated in the Piedmontese Gazette that one of the first manufacturers of Lyons, M. Bezon, having visited Turin expressly to examine Cheva lier Bonelli's new invention of an electric loom, has again set out for Lyons with drawings, and a description of the apparatus, which he is to present to the Chamber of Com merce of that city, together with his report on the inven tion, of which he has expressed the highest approbation. SCOTCH LAW.—The wife of a musician, in Edinburgh, eloped with a foreign flute-player in his band. The in jured husband commenced proceedings for a divorce, whereupon the wife sued him for alimony pendente lite. The sheriff awarded her 12s. per week, for non-payment of which her husband was sent to prison. As the poor musician had no means of support, he made in his turn application for aliment from his creditor ; and the sheriff this time awarded him eightpence per day. AN AMERICAN BISHOP ON ENGLISH MORALS.—Mr. Caswall states that in conversing with the Bishop of Con necticut, and comparing the morals of the agricultural parts of our southern counties with those of Connecticut, as described by the bishop, he had reason to be ashamed for our agricultural poor :—" A few statistics respecting unmarried mothers and disgraceful marriages among this class, fairly horrified the worthy prelate ; and he stated that such things were unknown within his diocese equally among churchmen and among dissenters." THE BELLOT TESTIMONIAL.--A densely-crowded meet ing was held al Friday, at Willis's Rooms, to carry out the above object. Sir Roderick Murchison presided ; and Sir James Graham, with a number of gentlemen of eminence, were present. Resolutions were passed for erecting a statue to Lieutenant Bellot's memory at Greenwich Hos pital, and for investing the surplus of the subscriptions for the benefit of his family. The sub-committee were in structed to render the subscriptions general throughout the kingdom. Subscriptions exceeding £l,OOO were announced, the list including the names of several mem bers of the Cabinet. DISGRACEFUL PROSECUTION.—At Wakefield Quarter Sessions, last week, Isabella Heuland, head woman in the milliner's shop of Thomas Searle, was tried for having stolen a handful or two of " clippings," which she had given away to the assistants in the shop. She was in London, upon her master's business, when this serious offence was discovered, and a police-officer was sent from Wakefield to apprehend her ! The value of the goods was a mere nothing, and the chairman stopped the case as soon as the prosecutor had given his evidence, believing that there was no case. The decision was received with applause by a crowded court. LUMLEY v. GYE. — The curious case of " Lumley v. Gye" is still pending, and will be tried at the sittings after the ensuing Michaelmas Term. It is an action against Mr. Gye for inducing Miss Johanna Wagner to break her al leged contract with Mr. Lumley, who lays his damages at £30,000. The principal witnesses, including Mis Wagner herself, being beyond the regular jurisdiction of the English courts, a commission has been issued to take their evidence at Berlin, where their examination will be con ducted by English counsel, through the medium of an in terpreter. Mr. Hayward, Q.C., has been named sole com missioner, and will discharge the duties of a judge at a nisi prius trial. The commission was to be opened at Berlin on the 7th inst. CLERICAL VoTEs.—At the late registrations for the city of Gloucester, objection was made by the liberals to the votes of the Very Rev. the Dean, and the Revs. Sir J. H. Seymour, Bart., Edward Bankes, and H. Wetherell, canons of the cathedral, on the score of their paying no rates.. It appears that the dean and canons have been in the habit, from time immemorial'," of paying a " dona tion" of £lO annually in lien of the poor-rate, which is entered pro rata against their names in the parish book. The objectors contended this did not amount to being rated. This was the third or fourth occasion on which the same question has been raised ; and it was again deter mined by the revising barrister that the votes were valid, inasmuch as the parties objected to paid all rates de manded of them. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW FOE 1863 will be held, as usual, at the Baker-street Bazaar, Portman-square, London, and will commence on Tuesday, the 6th of De cember. The beasts are to be arranged in nineteen classes, according to their respective breeds, and for each of the four classes of the Devon, Hereford, and short-horn breeds, prizes to the amount of £l2O will be awarded ; to the Welsh, Scotch, and Trish breeds, £l5 ; to other pure breeds, under certain restrictions, £2O ; and for cross or mixed breeds, £3O ; making the total amount of sums to be paid in prizes for approved cattle £425. The prizes for sheep amount to £lB5, while £45 will be adjudged to the best pigs shown, thus making the total in money prizes amount to £665, with five gold and five silver medals. _ _ AFFECTING Scimr.—On Tuesday se'nnight the curate of St. Margaret's, Westminster, officiated in the morning, it being the festival of St. Luke ; whilst engaged in the service, his wife was seized with cholera, and died in the short space of thirty hours. On the following Sunday, the same gentleman preached a funeral sermon over the remains of his wife, and took his text from Ezekiel, xxiv., 15 to 19. " Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ' Son of man, behold I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke, yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run. Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.' So I spake ' unto the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded, and the people said unto me, Wilt thou not 4AIII us what these things are to us , that thou doest so ?' " 'From this text he preached a most impressive sermon ; there was scarcely a dry eye in the church, and the only .one who seemed perfectly unmoved was the preacher him self, such was the complete command which he possessed over the expression of his own feelings, necessarily acute. EXEEAORDINA EY Drenprionr.—A man and his wife, named Airley, flax-spinners, were living at Garngad-hill, Glasgow, and also another family named M`Donald. The Airleys were childless, the wife being some years older than the husband, who was nevertheless very anxious to be 'blessed with a child. Some time ago Mrs. Airley quitted her flax-spinning, and set herself to attend to her domestic arrangements, which included an occasional Application to sundry trifles of baby-linen—shadows of an important coming event which was to fulfil her hus band's whales. On the evening of Wednesday, Mrs. Airdley, who had been out all day, returned, accompanied by a midwife; and when the husband came home from his work, " a thumping boy, with its eyes open, the picture of its poor dear father, , ' was put into his arms. Meanwhile the 31`Donalds, who had been absent at work all day, returned in -the , evening, and found that their son, a boy of five weeks old, had suddenly disappeared. A female acquaintance had been loitering about the house all day, fondled the child, fed it with a spoon, and finally, in the dusk of the evening, disappeared with it. Immediately after an infant had been seen by two men lying under a hedge in a field,but a woman came up, claimed it, and carried it off. The NrDonalds immediately applied to the authorities, by whose assistance the missing child was traced to the Airleys, and, while the happy husband was making merry with his neighbours over the birth of his supposed firstborn, the police-officers came in, accompanied by a medical man, who declared the young stranger to be at least five weeks old, and the birth a hoax. The child was therefore restored to its mother, and the pretended mother taken off to prison. The real mother of the child has been prostrated on a bed of sickness, in a state ap proaching to raving madness, ever since her boy was first missed, raising terrific screams on any attempt to remove , her child from her close embrace. 1 A RELIGIOUS MENDlCANT.—Cambridge at this mo ment h i ! p ren o c f h, v s ag w r i a a n a, s a o e f m all ran , and English to boot, are to be met with, levying contributions on the charitable public, and every artifice is resorted to by the mendicants to evade the law. Amongst the most "gentlemanly" of these beggars is a Mr. Ross, who MACS the following petition:— The petition of Donald Ross, servant of God, unto the nobles in London. v -our petitioner humbly showeth, asketh, and telleth the reward which shall be given at the last great day of judgment. That I went forth to Franee last past winter to preach and to teach the things which Christ the Son of God commanded his dis ciples to preach and to teach to all nations, having his word learn f n o g r ,not becausego I am through the course of poor. In France I was cast into prison on the last past Bth day of March, in college pe l rf e° ec u t l l d y, and brought out of prison on the last past sth day of July, and leave was given me by the French Government to come to England; leave was rejected me to go forth from France to Spain, according to the command of Christ, because I am poor. Your petitioner humbly asketh your compassion on me, who am poor, and seeketh anything your compassion nioveth you, nobles, to give me, which shall ever be remembered by me, and Christ the King shall remember it, when he shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him ; when he shall sit on the throne of his glory, the King shall say, ' Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these m y brethren, ye have done it unto me.' The reward shall be given, then is life eternal —St. Matthew, 25th chapter. Your humble petitioner shall ever pray. I am, Nobles in London, your humble servant, DONALD Ross, Servant of God."—Other docu ments, equally " religious," were found upon Ross when he was apprehended. We trust that the really benevolent will not encourage these MIA c Impostors.—Cambridge Chronicle, Tilt LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COINIMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Two WOMEN STABBED.- An American sailor, who gave his name Cocklin Jones, has been arrested at Bristol, charged with wounding two young women, named Mary Ann Dingly and Mary Ann Sanders. The sufferers were conveyed to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and the prisoner was shortly apprehended, and he stands remanded to await the result of his atrocious violence. PROPAGATION OF SALMON.—The committee appointed by the salmon fishing proprietors of the Tay have already eommenced operations ; the spawning boxes and one pond have been commenced, and under the direction of Mr. Ramsbottom, who has had so much experience in this way in Ireland, a first effort will be made in the neighbourhood of Stormontfield this season.—Perthshire Courier. __ -------------- DESTRUCTIVE STOR3I. — On Thursday night a terrific storm visited Chelmsford and its neighbourhood. At the expiration of the first half hour it was thought its fury was expended, but after a short comparative cessation, the storm burst forth again with all its original force; the lowlands were inundated before many hours had elapsed ; and considerable loss has been sustained. THE EASTERN QUESTION.— A large meeting has been held at Nottingham to memorialise the Queen on our foreign policy. This assemblage passed only one resolu tion, viz., " That her Majesty would he pleased to com mand that all foreign communications should cease instantly, that a new Parliament should be summoned to inquire into the conduct of her Majesty's servants and the system on which foreign affairs were conducted, with a view to the rectification of abuse." A similar meeting has been held at Derby. THE ANNIE JANE.—The Barra correspondent of the Inverness Courier writes from Barra, the scene of the wreck of the Annie Jane :—" The shore is strewn with dead bodies, many having their limbs broken or dissevered. Among the corpses is that of a French Protestant minis ter of Montreal, M. tVernier ; and it is affecting to see three young missionaries who were with him, natives of Switzerland, shedding tears over his remains. A Captain Rose and his lady are also among the drowned; and near them lies the body of a little girl, well-dressed, her eyes still remaining open, and expressing the agonies of terror." MURDER OP A CHILD IN DERBYSHIRE.—On Tuesday morning a girl of about two years old, the illegitimate daughter of a woman named Martin, was drowned in a well, by its unnatural grandmother, in the village of Loscoe. From the evidence adduced at the inquest, it appeared that on the morning above named, Ann Martin, the grand mother, aged sixty, took the child out of the house in which she and it dwelt, and deliberately threw it into the well where it was drowned. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful. Murder," and the prisoner was committed for trial at the next Derby assizes. EXPLOSION OP A FIREWORK MANUFACTORT.—A ter rible explosion took place, on Wednesday, at the work shops of Mr. Henniker, a gun-maker, at Chatham. He and his three sons had been engaged for some time past in preparing fireworks for the 6th of November. Mrs. Henniker was leaving the workshop with a large quantity of squibs, when they became ignited, and the roof and one side of the workshop were blown away, and the furniture demolished. Mrs. Henniker was found fearfully burnt and scorched, and apparently dying. A son, aged four teen, was greatly injured by the explosion, and lies in a precarious state. The other sons, though much injured, are progressing favourably. ST. MARGARET'S, NEAR RICHMOND.—The beautiful estate on the banks of the Thames, a short distance from Richmond-bridge, comprising the noble mansion, built by Cubitt, from the designs of Mr. Vullamy, for the Earl of Kilmorey, and the picturesque park of seventy-five acres, has just been purchased for the Conservative Land Society. The estate has a magnificent river frontage, affording most picturesque and extensive views. It is immediately opposite Richmond Gardens, and is within a short distance of three stations on the South-western Railway. It is proposed to ensure, as far as poasible, the erection of first class houses, in order to render the purchase a real public improvement to this charming suburb. RECOVERY OF A WIFE THROUGH THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A few days since a telegraphic message was received at the Strood station of the North Kent Railway, to the following effect Please detain two ladies, the one short and the other tall, and a man very much marked with the small-pox." The parties were stated to be in a first-class carriage. In consequence of this communication, on the arrival of the train at Higham, the carriages were locked, and the parties were detained on their arrival at Strood. A message back to London brought down a gentleman, who claimed one of the ladies as his wife, who, it was said, had eloped with his managing main. After some parleying the lady joined her husband, and the parties depaited in cabs, taking different directions.—Kentish Observer. I" ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.—The Chester and Holyhead steamer Cambria, which left Kingstown yesterday morn ing week, had a rough passage, and, when approaching Holyhead, a heavy sea struck the vessel, carrying away the starboard bulwarks, and the corresponding side of the saloon on deck, which was then occupied by several pas sengers. Several people were injured by this catastrophe; one lady, a Mrs. Nugent, from Leamington, received a simple fracture on the right leg. Two servants of Major Hart, 49th regiment, were also badly injured. Mr. D. J. Dinjam and Mr. J. W. Wilson, assistant-surgeons, R.N., who were passengers, relinquished their journey to London until night, in order to afford medical aid to the sufferers. DESPERATE ASSAULT UPON AN UNDERGRADUATE.— At the Cambridge Borough Police Court, !on Wednesday, a man named John Willis, aged about 23, was charged with an assault upon Mr. P. J. Woodgate, of Queen's College. The prisoner is a denizen of a low locality, and has been several times before the magistrates for felony and assaults. From the evidence it appeared that the com plainant was walking round Parker's-piece on Tuesday evening, about half-past five, and was accosted by the pri soner just opposite the town gaol, a lad being in the com pany of the latter. Prisoner asked him to stand some beer, but he declined, and proceeded on his way. The two followed him down Regent-street, and, just after passing the Prince Regent, the prisoner stepped up to him and dealt him a violent blow on the head which felled him to the ground insensible. When he recovered he found he had received a most severe contusion, which, from its desperate character, appeared far more likely to have resulted from a weapon than a fist only. In answer to the bench, the prosecutor said the prisoner did ask him for money, but denied that he threatened to expose him on refusal ; a female had previously accosted prosecutor, but he repulsed her advances. The prisoner here asserted that Mr. Woodgate threatened to give him "a poke on the head " if he did not go away, and that prosecutor actually ' struck him first ; but this Mr. Woodgate denied, as also that he promised to treat the prisoner at the Prince Regent. The Mayor, after some suitable observations on the atrocious nature of the assault and the character of the defence, sentenced the prisoner to pay a penalty of £5, or two months' hard labour, and, as he had no money, he was sent to gaol. There are a number of fellows, of a similar character to the prisoner, continually lurking round Parker's-piece to entrap the unwary. SHOCKING} MURDER NEAR WINDSOR.-031 Tuesday night a murder, attended with circumstances of peculiar atrocity, was perpetrated at Burnham Abbey Farm, about four miles from Windsor, on the person of Mary Anne Sturgeon, a young woman, housekeeper to Mr. Goodwin, the occupier of the farm. That gentleman, returning home about, half-past eleven at night, and letting himself into the house by a latch-key, found on the stairs, as he was proceeding to his room, a human tooth and a hair-pin. He likewise perceived a dense smoke, and a strong smell of burning, which seemed to proceed from the bed-room of the deceased. Calling for assistance, he entered the bed-room, and discovered the body of the unfortunate woman lying near the fire-place, with her legs on the hearth-rug ; on the legs and body of the deceased was a mass of fire still burning fiercely and consuming her re mains. On examining the body, it was found that both legs had been burned off close to the trunk, from which they were completely separated. The head and upper part of the body had not been touched by the fire, but they exhibited marks of great violence. One of the teeth had been knocked out, and had been, as already stated, found by Mr. Goodwin on the stairs. The head was in jured as if by blows from a heavy blunt instrument, and near it was a large pool of blood ' • while on the floor of the apartment and on the hand-rail and stair there were also marks of blood, and from various appearances it was evident that deceased bad been murdered down stairs, and that her body had afterwards been carried up to her bed room,where the attempt to destroy it by burning had been made. To facilitate the destruction, a dressing table and some linen had been employed as fuel ; the fire had burned through the floor of the chamber, and was consuming the joists when it was discovered. Plunder appears to have been the object of the murderers, some valuable rings, a gold pencil-case, and other articles, having been stolen from the bed-room of M r . Goodwin. Circumstances at first seemed to throw suspicion on the groom of Mr. Good win, a man named Moses Altow, but the early steps of inquiry tended to remove that suspicion. THE LAST SESSION.—A summary of the attendance of members of the House of Commons during the past ses sion has just been published. The gentleman most punc tual in his attendance has been Mr. Duncan, member for Dundee, who has been absent from only 11 divisions, and present at 246; on the other hand, Mr. Horsman has attended only one division. Colonel Gilpin, member for Beds., has been present at only two ; Sir R. Lopes (North Devon) at only seven ; T. B. Macaulay at only nine. The two members for Bodmin, Mr. Sawle and Dr. Michell, have been, after Mr. Duncan, most punctual in the house. The Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam, (Mahon) Colonel Powell, (Cardiganshire,) and Mr. Roebuck, have not attended any divisions. Of the Ministry, the two whippers-in, W. G. Hayter and the Hon. G. L. C. Berkeley, have been present at 224 and 222 divisions respectively, having both been surpassed in punctuality by Lord Alfred Hervey, who has attended 225, and the latter whip equalled by the Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Earl of Mulgrave, an occasional whip, has been present at 207, while the Secretary for Ireland has attended 221. The attendance of the other Ministers ranges as follows :—Mr. Jas. Wilson at 201 divisions : Mr. R. Lowe, 197 ; the Secretary-at-War, and the President of the Board of Trade, at 183; the Pre sident of the Poor-law Board, 175 ; the First Lord of the Admiralty, 171; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 170 : the Attorney-General, 169 ; the Hon. W. F. Cowper, 168 : the Chief Commissioner of the Public Works, 162 ; Lord Elcho and Mr. Monsell, 161 ; the Home Secretary, 160; Lord E. Bruce and the Hon. H. Fitzroy at 158 ; Mr. Frederick Peel, 158 ; the Judge-Advocate, 152 ; the Secre tary to the Admiralty, 147; Lord John Russell, 136; the Solicitor-General for Ireland, 134; the Solicitor-General, (Sir R. Bethell,) 131; the President of the India Board, 106 ; Mr. Sadleir, a member during only the last two months of the session, 64. Of the independent supporters of the Ministry, the most punctual has been Mr. H. W. Wickham, (Bradford,) who has attended 187 divisions ; Sir R. H. Inglis has attended 84; Sir Thomas Acland, 83; and Mr. Goulburn, 32. Sir George Grey, the most pro minent of the Whi gs no t i n office, has at t en ded 79. The attendance of the chiefs of the Opposition present an average much below that of the Mi n isters. Mr. Spooner Stanley, stands first, 187 ; M r . F rewen , 167; J. Napier, l39 ; L ord 128; Lord Naas, 116; J. W. Henley, 110; Sir J. Paking ton 107; Mr. Newdegate, 103 ; Sir J. T rol l o p e, 101 ; S. H. Walpole, 91; B. Disraeli, 89 ; Lord J. Manners, 87 ; A. Stafford, 84 ; Colo n el Sibthorp, 66; R. A. Christopher, 67; Sir Fitzroy Kelly, 51; Major Beresford, 50; Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. Loftus Wigram at 39. Of the Radicals, Mr. Wilkinson (member for Lambeth) has heen most punctual; he stands first, having attended one more division than Lord Alfred Hervey, after whom and the Treasury whips comes Sir George Goodman, (member for Leeds,) who has attended 204 divisions. Mr. Brotherton has attended 161; Mr. Cobden only 110 ; Mr. Bright, 100 ; Mr, Hume, 9/ ; Mr. H. Drummond, BR ; And Mr. Thomas Duncombe only O. THE MAYOR AND MR. R. GLADSTONE. The following correspondence will explain itself : Union-court, 2d November, 1853. the course of the observations that fell from you in the Town Council, at the meeting on Monday last, I understood you to say that you had, on several occasions, been provoked to retort, but that you had been determined to bear in silence the remarks that had been made by me. You must be aware that it would have been in vain for me to attempt to reply to this statement at the moment; but I am not aware, in fact I deny, that, on any occasion, I have made use of language inconsistent with the fair and legitimate rules of debate, or such as was unbecoming the appointment I hold as a representative of the people. You will oblige me, therefore, by informing me what it is you refer to, when I will take an opportunity of pointing out another error you committed, as well as the irrelevancy of your observations in so far as they relate to the real and main point at issue.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERTSON GLADSTONE. Samuel Holme, Esq., Mayor, &c., &c., Town-hall. Town-hall, Liverpool, Nov. 3, 1853. , SIR,—I have neither time nor inclination to enter into a correspondence on the subject to which your note refers. When I have vacated the position which I now hold, I shall be quite prepared in the Council-chamber to answer any questions you may be pleased to put, and to vindicate any opinions which I have ever utttered.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, SAMUEL HOLME. Robertson Gladstone, Esq. Union-court, 3rd November, 1853. Sin,—l have received your note of this day's date. In it you inform me that you have neither time nor inclina tion to enter into a correspondence on the subject to which my communication refers ; but that when you have vacated the position you hold, you will be quite prepared, in the Council-room, to answer any questions, or to vindicate any opinions you may have uttered. Permit me to remark, that inasmuch as neither time nor inclination were wanting, on your part, to make a statement, which I contend is an unfounded one, it appears to be not only your duty, but an act of justice towards the individual to whom that statement refers, that you should, whenever called upon, be prepared to verify it, at an sacrifices, either of time or convenience. You have no pretext for attempting to shelter yourself— you have no fair grounds on which to procrastinate until a season more convenient should arrive. A plain answer is required to a plain question ; and, as the party con cerned, I cannot recognise any right or authority you may claim to defer answering, for a comparatively indefinite period, that which ought now to receive a prompt and decisive reply. But since silence is the course you have marked out for yourself, it will be for me to appeal to a competent tri bunal—the public—who, I cannot doubt, will be able to form a correct judgment between us, and to determine whether the only and proper inference to be drawn from your conduct is, or is not, that you have made a statement which you have no means of substantiating. Before I conclude, I will endeavour, though somewhat hurriedly, to redeem the promise I made in my first com munication, that I would take an opportunity of pointing out another error you had fallen into, as well as direct attention to the irrelevancy of your observations, in so far as they relate to the real and main point at issue. In the course of your remarks at the Council meeting on Monday last, you said that when I was Mayor of Liverpool I had assisted in laying the foundation-stone of the Collegiate Institution, and on that occasion had in vited you to a dinner at the Town-hall. You are mis taken : I was not Mayor of Liverpool when the foundation stone was laid ; but I was so when that institution was opened : and inasmuch as one of my brothers was spe cially invited to take a part in the ceremony, I did give a dinner at the Town-hall; and I would have done just the same thing for the Mechanics' Institution. But the case is altogether foreign to the point I brought before the notice of the Council : what took place, in re spect of the Collegiate Institution was within the pre cincts of the borough, where if anything was said or done that was wrong, it would of necessity be at once known, and a remedy be speedily applied ; but the objection I raised referred solely to your travelling beyond the pre cincts of the borough, to your visit to the Mayor of Lon don, without the knowledge or sanction of the Council, and where and when you, in the capacity of Mayor of Liverpool (and it was to be presumed, as representing the views of the Council), did discuss the subject of education, in what form or manner is immaterial—thus establishing a precedent which I believe to be dangerous to the best interests of the Corporation, and opposed to the rights, in dependence, and freedom of the members of the Town Council.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERTSON GLADSTONE. Samuel Holme, Esq., Mayor, &c., &c., Town-hall. LIVERPOOL STEAM-BOAT PROPRIE• TORS it THE PILOTS' COMMITTEE. Liverpool Steam-ship Association, 3, High-street, Liverpool, 14th October, 1863. am desired by the Liverpool Steam-ship Asso ciation to inform you that several members of the associa tion are now prepared to bring forward their masters and mates for examination by the Pilots' Committee, that they may have certificates granted to them, in pursuance of " The Pilotage Law Amendment Act, 1853," and to re quest that you will inform m • at your earliest conveni- • ence, at what time and p 1 • • Pilots' Committee will examine such masters and .. I shall also be obliged to you to inform me of any regulations of the Pilots' Com mittee of which it is necessary that masters and mates applying to be examined should be informed.—l am, Sir, join: obedient servant, BEN. J. Tuomsort. D. Rowland, Esq., Secretary to the Pilots' Committee, Liverpool. Pilot-office, Liverpool, 26th October, 1853. am desired by the Liverpool Pilots' Committee to inform you that they do not intend to grant any licenses to any persons who have not been apprenticed, and regularly brought up in the Liverpool pilot service, and are not meaning to continue in that service as their only pursuit ; and that, therefore, they have not made any regulations, nor do they intend to do so, for the ex amination of any masters or mates of steam vessels who might be willing to offer themselves for the purpose. In coming to this determination, the Liverpool Pilots' Committee have had singly in view the public interest, and an anxious desire for the protection of the vast amount of lives and property in charge of steam-vessels resorting to the port of Liverpool; and because they are satisfied that there are peculiarities connected with the pilot service of Liverpool which apply to no other place, so that it is not sufficient for a Liverpool pilot that a man should be a the oretical and a practical seaman, or be experienced in the pilotage of vessels in any other port, or even possess a ge neral knowledge of the coast and harbour of Liverpool, acquired from long experience in the coasting trade. All or any of these qualifications do not ensure the knowledge and aptitude essential in the Liverpool pilot, for the follow ing amongst other reasons : Because the approaches and entrances to the port of Liverpool are extremely difficult and intricate, and subject to continual and considerable change, and the requisite knowledge of such changes, for the purposes of safe navi gation, can only be kept up by uninterrupted and almost daily observation, as Capt. Evans, R.N., the conservator of the river, and Lieut. Lord, R.N., the marine surveyor of the Liverpool Docks, have, in their printed reports, abun dantly demonstrated. That it is an essential part of the education of a Liver , pool pilot to acquire the knowledge of a large extent of coast • and before a pilot's license is granted to him, he is subjected to a strict examination in this respect, because in the way of his calling it may be necessary that the ship under his charge should run for shelter to the Isle of Man, to Beaumaris Bay, to Chester Water, and to Wyre Water, as far as the Pile of Foundry ; and the knowledge ' of safe places to resort to, according to the point of the winds, can only be gained by such apprenticeship as the Liverpool pilots are compelled to undergo, and by the knowledge of currents and sandbanks, which can only be acquired by unremitting observation. That the bringing up and education of a pilot from early life, in a particular locality, where danger is to be apprehended to ships, and cargoes, and passengers ; his being inured from a boy to all the hardships, trials, and difficulties of the stations, and the sense of personal res ponsibility under which he acts, and the conviction that he is constantly under the observation of an executive body, having great powers to punish any misconduct—all these circumstances give him a status which is eminently calculated to ensure sobriety, vigilance, and promptitude, on which the lives and property placed in his charge mainly depend. The position of a pilot is so essentially that of a middle man, between the shipowners and masters on the one hand, and the owners of cargo and the public on the other, that, as soon as a vessel receives him on board in his pilot ground, the authority of the master is superseded, and the responsibility of the owners is at an end. That this position of the pilot as the recognised public guardian of lives and property, at the mouths of ports and havens, should not be interfered with, except for the most cogent reasons, and only in deference to the public interest generally, and not of private interests of a particular branch of shipowners. That such is the necessity for skill, founded upon expe rience in navigating vessels through the channels during the winter season, that the Pilots' Committee formed a by-law twelve years ago, and which has been in operation ever since, restricting themselves, under any circumstances, from granting a first or second license to any one, though regularly brought up in the Liverpool pilot service, between the 25th of September and the 25th of March. And that the Liverpool pilotage authorities having, in the rates of pilot recently, made a very great reduction pln ilot age, councilhi h b w as i 1 l been takeoebfftaeci obtained aftered to the t l co o n y s . e o n o a t c o o f _ N b e e r t 3 b l a aj t e t s b t3 e , only just ground of corn the Liverpool steam-ship Co sta m te m d i , ttee to de proprietors has been don p e lai o n v t a away with. otherolinFeortothaesraenatnaidlyexcept,the asPialbootsv'e prosecute it as their only pilot service, and inte per sons duly apprenticed and brought up to the Liverpool license re on s Sir your most obedient servant, Purs uit ' —i DAVID RoWLAND ,Secretary. B. J. Thomson, Esq., Secretary to the Liverp oo l St eam ship Owners Association, High-street. ALEXANDER M'CLINTocrc Esq., has been appointed by William Blundell, Esq., of Crosby-hall, near Liverpool, to the agency of his estates in the counties of Louth and Meath.—Drogheda Conservative. THE ROYAL REGIMENT of Lancashire Militia Artillery has finished its tour of twenty-eight days' duty, and was inspected, on Friday week, by Colonel Brereton, R.H.A., when the manceuvring of the regiment in battalion, and the proficiency of the gunners in working the field and garrison guns, was such as to elicit the warmest commen dations. On the following day the regiment, with two field guns, marched to the North Shore for ball practice, and proved, by the accuracy of their fire, that the lessons given in the barrack square had been carefully studied. The strength of the regiment, at the training, was about 380 present, with their guns ; the officers—Colonel-Com mandant Sir Duncan M'Dougall, K.S.T. ; Majors Atchi son and Bourne ; Captains Hall, (brevet -major,) Fyers, Crigan, Benton, Lediard, and Creagh ; Ist Lieutenant: Middleton, Raon, Furnivall, and Campbell; Captain and Adjutant, Campbell; Burgeon, Ferguson, M. 13. ; ass"li surgeon, )3ehrend. ABERCIRO3IBY WARD. A LARGE party of gentlemen, friends and supporters of Mr. R. C. Gardner, • met on .Tuesday evening last; at the Phoenix Inn ; Mount-pleasant, to celebrate that gentle man's return, for the third time, as a Councillor for the ward. - _ . Richard Griffith, Esq., occupied the chair, and Mr. Hastings the vice-chair. The numerous company having partaken of the very substantial dinner provided, the cloth was drawn, and the usual loyal and patriotic toasts proposed and duly honoured, when the CHAIRMAN rose to propose the health of Mr. Gardner. In doing so, he eulogised Mr. Gardner's past conduct in the Council, and remarked that the ward had honoured themselves, as well as Mr. Gardner, in re turning him again to the Council, and by so large a majority. He then proceeded to give some information 'relative to Mr. Robertson Gladstone's former connexion with the ward, and stated that that gentleman was three or four times brought forward as the Conservative candi date, and at last succeeded in ousting his now bosom friend, Mr. Earle, from the representation. Mr. Gladstone was re-elected three years afterwards ; but, when his time of service had again expired (he having, in the meantime, given symptoms of those Radical changes of opinion which, from being a violent Tory, have led him to become a now more bigoted and intolerant Radical), Mr. Gardner was brought forward by the Conservatives to oppose Mr. Gladstone, and, after a very severe contest, Mr. Gardner was returned, though by but a small majority. This was six years since, and, in the meanwhile, Mr. Gardner's conduct in the council had met with such general approba tion, that, after three years' service, he was next re-elected without opposition. This year, however, emboldened, it is supposed, by their success in the previous November, Mr. Gardner's opponents (or rather Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Earle, who claim, forsooth, the right to dictate to them, and to choose representatives for the ward) deter mined to bring forward a candidate to oppose him, and, after a due and proper time spent in the selection and se curing the approbation of the gentlemen before-named, Mr. J. Houghton Brancker was at length brought for ward. The result of that day's proceedings, however, would prove to those gentlemen that their pretended in fluence was but ill-founded. The Chairman again referred to Mr. Gardner's conduct, and congratulated him on the unexampled success of theday's polling, and concluded by proposing his health, which was drunk with enthusiaism by the company. Mr. GARDNER, in returning thanks, entered at some length into an explanation of his past conduct, and re ferred particularly to the Rivington Pike scheme, to which, he said, he had always been opposed, and was just as much so now ; and, in conclusion tendered his acknowledgments to his friends for the assistance they had rendered him that day. The VICE-CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the Chairman; in very complimentary terms, and that gentle man having replied, Mr. GARDNER proposed the health of the Officers and Committee of the ward Conservative As. sociation, which was r e pli e d t o b y M r. C IIRIBTIAN. The next toast was the health of the Alderman and Conserva tive Councillors of the ward, which was proposed by the CHAIRMAN and drunk with all the honours. The SECRETARY here read a letter from Mr. Councillor Neill, congratulating Mr. Gardner on his return, and apolo gising for his absence. The following is an extract from the letter :—" Winter is coming on, and war and pestilence may not be far off; many of our poor householders in this ward may ere winter is over have a fireless hearth. I know the suggestion will be enough, and that you will propose some arrangement by which many a cold hearth (and what is so desolate ?) may be warmed up on Christmas-day. I therefore would suggest that, in proof of our gratification I n o d if to morrow at the splendid result of this day, we create a fund to warm up the hearths of those poor householders in the ward who require such help on will hand ehristn h Christmas-day ; d i a m y ;:i 3,-ouwill m a o p r plin g t .,, a treasurer reracherngof this paragraph was received with loud cheers. Mr. GARDNER then rose to respond to the toast, and in doing so returned thanks on behalf of the alderman, Mr. Mr. Neill, and himself, for the honour done to them; and, with reference to Mr. Neill's letter, he cordially concurred in the sentiments of that gentleman, and should be happy to put another £lO at the disposal of the committee. Numerous other toasts were drunk during the evening, among which was " The Lancashire Witches," coupled with the name of Mrs. Gardner, which was proposed in a huMorous speech by Mr. CHRISTIAN, and responded to in the same way by Mr. JOHN GARDNER. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE CORPORATION. AT the Police-court, on Saturday, Joseph Rowson, brick contractor, and William Clark, clerk of the works at the New Gaol at Walton, remanded from the previous week for an alleged conspiracy to defraud the Corporation of the , sum of £1,400, were again brought up for examination. Mr. Snowball appeared for Rowson, and Mr. Bretherton, in place of Mr. Bremner, for Clark, and Mr. Simon for the Corporation. The first witness called was Thomas Kitchen, broker, Manchester. In 1851, I worked at the Walton Gaol as a brickmaker for Mr. Rowson. I worked to the end of the season. I was paid ss. 7d. a thousand for the bricks I made. I worked at No. 3 stool, and kept assistants, whom I paid. I counted the bricks over roughly each day, and accurately on Friday night. Mr. Harper, Mr. Rowson's clerk, used to come sometimes on Eriday and sometimes on Saturday to count the bricks, and we compared our reckonings together. We generally agreed, and he made an entry in a book belonging to me. When I went to him on Saturday for payment, I took that book. The book produced is mine, and the entries are in Mr. Harper's handwriting. From that book there appears to be 560,000 made. The entries were correctly made once a week by Mr. Harper. I know Mr. Clark, the surveyor of the works, who visited them frequently. He used sometimes to look s o e v N e e r n tli s e um sto ir o ie ls rs . Altogetherl h g r tha a t v have of 1851. for .Iblr. cannot ßo say y on if he would de b de e a,3 a f l l r s 7 e ,000 t a o in j a d dn g ady e tolerably nt "are l atr o eo f uni t yo h t e me n a u kw n ea l ys b e s, r o f a b n ri d ck " the same length and breadth. Samuel Ingham, brickmaker, was engaged at Walton Gaol, by Mr. Rowson, in the season of 1851, and worked at No. 6 stool. I worked the whole season, and was paid ss. 10d. a thousand for the bricks I made. I paid my own assistants. I daily counted the bricks I made. On Friday Mr. Harper came and counted the bricks, and our accounts generally agreed whenever we compared them. He used to make an entry in a book of his own. On Saturday, when I went for payment, he entered them in my book, and called out the numbers. Rowson was generally present, and on Harper's calling out the number I was generally paid by Rowson. At the end of the season I added up the number of bricks entered in my book. In the month of February, 1852, I was still working for Rowson. I sent my book to him to have the amount of my work entered. I have not got my book since, though I have asked for it. In the season of 185/ I made 575,000 bricks. At the end of the season Mr. Clark asked me how many bricks I had made. I told him 575,000 also. I used sometimes to see Clark in the field with Rowson. They now and then went to the different stools. It was very seldom that I saw Clark and Harper together. William Harrison, brickmaker, in the year 1851 worked for Mr. Rowson, for thirteen weeks, at the New Gaol, at Walton, at No. 1 stool, from April to July. I counted my bricks daily, and every Friday Mr. Harper used to count the bricks. The rest of the evidence was in almost every respect similar to that of the preceding witnesses. Mr. Tweedie, chief clerk at the Treasurer's-office, Town hall, said : I have heard the evidence given this morning as to the number of bricks made and the account paid for them. I have also examined the book produced, as fur nished by Clark to Mr. Weightman, the borough surveyor, and on those materials I have made a calculation of the number of bricks made, and the amounts paid, in a docu ment I hold in my hand. I make the number of bricks overcharged to be 1,196,680. This number does not in clude No. 9 stool. The total number overcharged, includ ing No. 9 stool, will be 1,643,145, the amount for No. 9 stool being 446,565. The amount in money overcharged, including that stool, is £1,378 ls. 11d. The amount over charged for the 9th stool is £334 18g. 6d. In making that charge stool No. Bis omitted. I have made the calcula tion for the 1,2, 3,4, and 7 stools at 15s. per 1,000, the lowest charge the bricks are made for. On the sth and actual a t l h e e hi c a h rg ar e g a e m is ad ma e b d y e 3aitrt.he Rowson rateoffn2rssN. o p . e s r and . stools The were 245. and 275. 6d. a thousand, and on the others 15s. After some objections by the legal advisers of the pri soners, The MAGISTRATES decided that both prisoners should be committed for trial at the next assizes. Mr. Snuox then requested to call a further witness, which was objected to by Mr. Bretherton ; but the bench decided that Inspector Kehoe, the witness in question, should be examined. He said : I am detective officer in this borough. I ar.. rested the prisoners. I took Clark in Oswestry ; I arrested him at night, when he appeared to have some drink. He asked me to tell him the charge, and I did so. In the morning he asked me again , and I told him th e c h arge. I told him he was charged w i th conspiring with Rowson to defraud the Corporation of £1,727 14s. 9d, by returning newly 2,000,0 00 o f bricks which bad never b een made, and, that for so doing, he was to receive, so it was said, £l5O for his share from Rowson. He said, " I know nothing about the bricks, I depended upon Harper's return, I must admit it was very gross negligence on my part to do so. I have on several occasions, three or four times, received £5 and £lO from Rowson, but it was to pay off debts due by me, and I gave him my I 0 U." I said to Clark, it is also • said that you returned a ninth stool, which was not on the ground. He said there was a jobbing stool or two during the summer. He then went on to state that "as it is come to this, it will go further." Cross-examined by Mr. SIMON : I have made diligent search for Harper. I have had two men as well as my self to look for hi m , b u t h ave been unable to discover him. Mr. SIMON then stated that offers of money had been made to some of the witnesses, not to appear against the prisoners, and he wished the bench to warn the witnesses that if they took money, it would make the case against Rowson stronger. After a discussion between the different legal gentle men about the amount of bail, Rowson was bound in him self in £l,OOO, and two sureties of £5OO. Clark, him self in £5OO, and two sure ti es o f £250, t o appear f o r tri al at the assizes. ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCILEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The usual fortnightly meeting of this society was held in the Royal Institution, Colqnitt-street, oh Wednesday, - Mr. Verelst, president of the association, in the chair. Mr. Picton read a paper on the subject of Birkenhead Priory, which he showed to have been founded in 1150,—. Mr. Berry then delivered a lecture on the subject of photo graphy, in the course of which he explained the process of preparing the paper, and the different descriptions of cameras employed in the art. The lecture was illustrates by various specimens take n both b y da y and g as u s - 1 4 and a series of photograp hic p ictur es of the Thebes, in Egypt, taken by a French / 4 , 31`Kinlay also exhibited and explained a p or t a b ie -- Tildrlvd U(4 l, of his own invention, which was admired for itg Riahs ea ,z m 74,'l n... 0 and convenience. The lecture gave rise to ai fii i . ----- K- i _ hs c•wr:7 conversation on the subject of perspective ; add ; Ifoward, Mr. Horner, and the secretary , - - c many useful purposes to which the ad might be further applied. of Photo I] grap * •Nleci . , /4* Itz icni ; z