The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

Nov. 17, 1846. Korai anTi probittrial The ship Erin's Queen arrived here from Quebec, has brought 8,809 barrelsibf flour, and 376 barrels of oat meal. Mr. Alderman Turner has been elected Chairman, and Mr. Alderman Bushby Vice-Chairman, of the Watch Committee. __ . __ Mr. Robert Martineau, brother of Miss Harriet Mar tineau, and of the Rev. James Martineau of this town, has been elected Mayor of Birmingham. Notice has been given of an intention to apply to Par liament for an act to authorise the appointment of a stipendiary Chairman or Judge of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Chester. An infant, 18 months old, the daughter of Henry Kelly, a labourer, living in Stockdale-street, died on Wednesday, from scalds received about a fortnight previously, by the upsetting of a cup of bot tea over her breast. Our young townsman, Mr. Robert Griffith Williams, (son of Mr. Williams, Basnett-street), who distinguished himself at the Mechanics' Institution, after graduating at the University College, London, has entered the Mid dle Temple, as student at law. REMARKABLE CARGO.—A vessel, arrived at Liverpool, from the Rio Grande (western coast of Africa), had a cargo comprising 9260 ox and cow hides, and 18,521 ox and cow horns, without any other description of mer chandise. During the last two months there has been an immense increase of pauper immigration into Lancashire from Ire land. There is reason to fear that the influx will, ere long, produce a serious effect upon both our wages and poor rates in this country. _ _ _ . . James Maxwell, a young thief, was committed for trial by Mr. Rushton, on Thursday, charged with having broken the shop window of Mr. Meikle, pawnbroker, Gregory-place, and stolen therefrom sixteen wedding rings, three seals, and other articles of jewellery. On Wednesday, Thomas Davies, of Albert-street, Tox teth-park, was walking with another man on the quay of the Harlington Dock, when he fell down suddenly and ex pired. Death had resulted from a rupture,of an aneurism of the aorta. _ _ DEATH FROM SEA SICKNESS.—OR Friday, an inquest was held on view of the body of Michael Gill, aged 24, an Irishman, who landed that day at the Clarence Pier, from one of the Drogheda boats. A policeman found him sitting on the ground, in a most exhausted state, the effects of sea sickness.- He was taken to a. neighlanuring house, where he died shortly afterwards. On a post mortem examination, death was found to have resulted from congestion of the lungs, produced by sea sickness. WELL-TIMED BENEVOLENCE.—Wm. Ford. engineer, in the employ of Messrs. Geo. Forrester and Co., Vaux hall Foundry, died on Wednesday last, after a lengthened illness,, and being in no society, the widow was quite un prepared with the means for the interment of her husband. Mr. Macgregor, one of the firm, together with the work men, subscribed liberally towards this object, and after paying all demands made, presented the widow with the sum of £3, for which she begs most sincerely to thank them, corning. a's it did, quite unexpected and unsolicited. A CHINESE ARRIVAL—The ship Jeremiah Garnett, Capt. S. Davies, reported on Saturday week from Shang- Lae., one of the newly opened ports in China - She brings nearly 7000 packages of tea, and 561 bales, 3 boxes, 2 cases raw silk, an import not only interesting, as to amount, but as indicating the increasing commerce of the so-called Celestial Empire. She also brought 200 bags of alum. Tne Chinese will ere long lie searching into the capabilities of their country to furnish themselves with equivalents to purchase in exchange the manufactures of our country. _ _ _ _ There were great rejoicings in the pretty little village of hale, on Thursday, consequent on the marriage of Cap tain Blackburne, of the sth Dragoon Guards, eldest son of J. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., the honourable member for Warrington, to the eldest daughter of Sir H. B. Boughton. of Bold and Houghton Tower, which took place at St. Peter's, Regent's-park, London, the same day, by the Rev. R. Masters. Three sheep, the gift of the bridegroom, were roasted on the village-green, and were distributed in the afternoon to the poor of the vil • lage, with two barrels of beer, and about 3001bs of bread. The bells of the church rang merry peals during the day, and in the evening the village was illuminated. MARINE MONSTER.—On Thursday week, an exceed ingly large and fine specimen of " the sea devil." was ta ken at Tranmere, and has been exhibited at Mr. Shake shaft's, the Royal Standard Hotel. Its head is about three feet four inches in breadth, and four feet eight inches in length. Its mouth is of a semicular shape, about a foot in length, and is armed with triple rows of teeth. The cavity of the mouth is large enough to contain at least two -gallons of water. On the top of the head was a row of horns; and the eyes which were of a very luminous na tUre, projected an inch and a half. It had two pairs of powerful fins, two at the side and two underneath. Its body was about two feet six inches in length, and only about six inches in breadth. ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.—On Friday, an inquest was held on the body of Ellen Desmond. a married wo man. residing in New Milk-street. It appeared that the deceased was drunk at a public-house in the above street, and on being taken home was found to have a cut on the side of her head, which produced erysipelas, of which she died. It was thought at first that the injury was received in some of the many falls she had while intoxicated, but one of the witnesses having deposed that he saw a man knock her down by a blow on the head, the inquest was adjourned until Monday (yesterday), when the evidence brought forward corroborated the first impression, and it was - clearly established that the deceased died of erysipelas. . _ . ILLUMINATED BAROMETER.—A work of much inge nuity and utility has just been completed, and is fixed outside the shop of Messrs. Gray and Keen, nautical in - atrument-malo-rs, Strand-street, Canning Dock. It is an illuminated barometer, with a disc of two feet diameter, divided to the hundredth part of an inch. The proprietors selected the wheel principle, from a desire to construct an instrument of extreme sensitiveness. The large circum ference secures this object, as in the ordinary pediment oti an upright barometer a rise of one-tenth of an inch is merely indicated to that amount. l n this the tenth is registered to range over the scale of two inches. It will be conspicuous during the day, and will be lighted with gas until ten o'clock every night, thereby rendering good service to the mariner who has to sail early in the morning. NEW SHERIFFS.—At a Privy Council, held on Thurs day, the following gentlemen were nominated, among others, as sheriffs for the different counties :—For Che shire, Ralph Gerard Leycester, of Loft Hall, Esq. ; Henry Brooke, of Grange, Esq; and Thomas Wm. Tattoo, of Witenshaw, Esq. For Cumberland, Gilfrid Wm. Hartley, of Rose Hill, Esq. ; and John Gooden ' of Over Compton, Esq. For Yorkshire, George Lane Fox, of Bramham Park, Esq. ; Joseph Dent, of Ribston Park, Esq. ; and Yarburgh Greame, of Sowerby, Esq. For Derbyshire, John Bell Crompton, of Milford, Esq. ' • Sir Robert Bur dett, of Foremark, Bart .: and Jebediah Strutt, of Belper, Esq. For Lancashire, the nomination takes place subse • quently ; and, for Westmorland, the Right Hon. the Earl of Thanet is hereditary high sheriff. QUARREL ABOUT SIXPENCE.—On Thursday, an el derly woman named Ann Ford, who i ntroduced herself as a " twenty years' carrier in St. Johns Market," appeared before Mr. Rushton to complain of a grievous assault committed upon her in the open streets by a girl named Ann Boardman. The hair had been dragged out of her bead, she had been ill-used and knocked down, and her cap torn to the shreds produced, all because she had asked for sixpence which was due. She had no witnesses in confirmation of her statement. The defendant pertly de nied this statement, and told a long story about a pocket washed with scented soap, which soap the complainant purlioned from a neighbour's house. The complainant was the aggressor, and had thrown a handful of dirt at her in her own house as she was turning the mangle. It was this challenge which had led to the assault. Mr. Rushton, telling the complainant to take no more scented soap, dismissed the charge. THE BIRKENHEAD liocKs.—Last week, John Laird, -Esq., and William Potter, Esq., had an interview in Lon don with Lord Morpeth, the chief commissioner of woods and forests, and his colleagues, on the subject of exchang ing a portion of the crown reserves at the north end of the Woodside slip, for another equal portion of the Wal lasey shore. The hon. lords' commissioners had recently Paid a visit of inspection to the dock works at Birken head, and were, therefore, fully prepared, from personal observation, to discuss the important question. The re sult was, an agreement on the part of the commissioners of woods and forests to grant to the Birkenhead dock commissioners the ten acres of the crown reserves required by them for the purpose of constructing for large graving docks, which will be, at all hours of the tide, accessible for vessels of the largest class, both ships and steamers. The consequence of this grant is, that " the temporary cut" leading to the Bridge-end Dock will be made into a permanent dock, as large as either the Prince's Dock or the Brunswick Dock, in Liverpool, and containing more lineal quay space and accommodation than either. SEAMEN'S CASES.—James Maynall, a seaman belong ing to the ship Mary Caroline, summoned Captain Kidd, On Friday, before Mr. Rushton, for arrears of wages. Complainant had shipped at New Brunswick, and the Vessel was bound for Liverpool. On the first night they Were at sea it blew a heavy gale, and defendant, with se veral others of the crew, refused to work the pumps, and insisted on the captain putting back. He, however, re fused to comply, and, with the assistance of the first and second mate, the carpenter, the steward, and one seaman, *orked the vessel and brought her safely into port. The ease Was dismissed, and Mr. Rushton advised the captain lgive Maynall, with Ins discharge, such a character as 18 , gro,s conduct deserved, remarking that this was the 1 111 3' effectual means of punishing such fellows,—James .„ e ulmonds, a seaman belonging to the ship Ocean, sum --(Med Captain Farran for £7 4s. 6d. arrears of pay. The "idence went to show that the complainant bad been guilty of imp ro p er conduct towards the c a p tain, who had rem onstrated with him for putting th e shi p back when at " e A vvheel. The case was dismissed. meeting of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Chester, Drainage and Inclosure Company was held in aid e st er, on Saturday, for the purpose of taking into can _ ration ti'e expediency of applying to Parliament for ract of incorporation. Sir S. R. Glynne, Bart., M.P., also Lieutenant of Flintshire, presided ; and there were *.Present Sir R. Cunliffe, Bart., G..Wilbraham, Esq., j'wnshend Mainwaring, M.P., R. Wilbraham, And Esq., J. Wynne Eyton, Esq., Wilson Jones, Esq., milers. Letters, approving of the object of the meeting, were received from several influential promoters. ePort was read by the secretary (Mr. Hicklin), detail ,d the results of an intemiew which a deputation from company had with Sir R. Peel and other members of aft government and reciting the attempts which were th e sam rd e fac ade to induce te present theiliy operations of e e x _ Proposed association, as had been promised by the taiPremier. The re ort was unanimously adopted, and as _ . • j _esoived that the necessary steps be taken for ob ile."o-, the proposed act of parliament in the ensuing n. SUPERSTITION IN SALFORD.—About the middle of September last the husband of a woman named Elizabeth Cardhall left his home on his road to Chester in search of work ' • but his wife held some fantastic notion that he would not return, and she therefore determined to consult an old man in the neighbourhood, who was known to deal in the " black art." Upon calling at the house of a man named Joseph Williams, she stated her suspicions, and was shown, as appears to be customary in these cases, a globe of water, through which, with the addition of the usual illusory figures, she saw what she imagined to be the features of her husband returning to her in prosperity. With this the poor woman was - satisfied ; and being unable to pay the charge of half a sovereign which the impostor demanded for his " services," she gave him the pledge ticket of a suit of clothes, the value of £3, with the intimation that she would redeem it in a few days. The fellow, however, himself took the clothes out of pledge, and refused to restore them on the return of the foolish woman's husband. He was committed to the New Bailey for a month, as a rogue and vagabond.— Manchester Guardian. LAMENTABLE INSTANCE OF MORAL DESTITUTION. —William and Matthew Bell, two young lads, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on Thursday, on a charge of stealing two pairs of clippers from a man named M`Cann, who carries such articles about for sale in a basket. Complainant stated that he went into a butcher's shop, in Sampson•street, for the purpose of purchasing some beefsteaks, and laid his basket down ; presently he was informed by two young boys that the prisoners had decamped with two pairs of slippers ; the thieves were traced to their father's house, where the slippers were found concealed. The case rested on the testimony of the two young lads who had witnessed the theft, and they were called on to give their evidence. They were appa rently from ten to twelve years old, and were, as is usual in courts of justice where young children are ex amined, asked by the clerk, prior to being sworn, if they knew what would become of people who did not speak the truth. To this question both boys replied in the nega tive. Mr. Rushton said it was shocking to contemplate such a brutal and frightful state of ignorance as was evidenced by these boys : he could not think of admitting their evidence. The case was consequently dismissed. TRANMERE TOWNSHIP.—On Thursday, a meeting of the inhabitants of this township was held at the Castle Hotel, in pursuance of two requisitions addressed to the overseers—the one having for its object the lighting and watching of a district the centre of which is Clifton Park, the w Lute - tu %Tun' p. ttIEITV: gins. one of the overseers,•was ealled-to the chair. - Mr. Alexander complained that last year a committee was appointed to go to Parliament for a bill for the objects stated, and an expense of £5OO or £6OO had been incurred, but opposition being apprehended, the matter was dropped. He called upon them to pay those expenses before they proceeded further ; but his appeal met with no response. The question for lighting and watching the whole town ship was then put, and carried by a large majority. A poll was then demanded, which was fixed for the 26th instant, and the meeting was adjourned to the 3d Decem ber, to receive the result: The district proposal was almost unanimously scouted. It appears that the mino rity of the meeting object to the measure being carried out under the existing act, which is expensive, and prefer waiting for the operation of the general sanitary act expected to be passed early in the next session of Parlia ment, as more comprehensive and economical. THE AFRICAN EXPEDITION.—Letters have been re ceived announcing that the expedition got up and sent out last year by Mr. Jamieson, of Liverpool, and others, for the purpose of exploring the Niger, with a view to developing the commercial resources of Africa, has again failed. This is the second failure. The following letter explains the reason of the unfortunate result : Liverpool, gth November, 1846 SIR ,—lt is with extreme sorrow 1 have to communicate to you unfavourable intelligence of the Ethiope steamer, and the consequent relinquishment of her re-ascent of the Niger. Capt. Becroft and Dr. King write, that when upon the Gaboon river, the vessel's boilers suddenly gave way; and that, although the engineer succeeded in repairing them, so as to complete the exploration of that river, they afterwards burst so frequently as to render it altogether unsafe to hazard another ascent of the Niger with them. Accordingly, the vessel has been laid up at Fernando Po, under care of Captain Becroft ; and Dr. King is on his way to England. Upon his arrival, a statement of ;nti. culars and accounts shall be prepared; and after having been submitted to the committee of subscribers in Liverpool for examination, they shall be laid before you, with the view to a call on subscriptions, so far, and also to obtain your opinion as to the further prosecution of the enterprise. I may here add, that the Gaboon river was found to be of no importance as a highway to the interior,—not being navigable farther than the tide ascended; say, some 50 to 69 miles.—Sincerely regretting these untoward circumstances, I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, ROBERT JAMIESON% MEETING OF THE BOROUGH MAGISTRATES.—On Tuesday last, a meeting of the magistrates was held in the Sessions'-house, to receive a copy of the resolutions passed by the Select Vestry at their last meeting, relative to Mr. Rushton's reprimand of the Governor of the Workhouse, and to come to some determination respecting them. The Mayor having opened the business, Mr. Rush ton entered into some explanations. He said that, as regarded himself, the meeting was perhaps not necessary, but some of the resolutions that had been sent to the head-constable demanded it. From these it appeared that the magistrates would in future be expected not to give any expression of opinion relative to the conduct of the officers of the Workhouse,—and that such matters should be dealt with by the Vestry alone. He detailed what had taken place at the Police-court, as already published. The Vestry had resolved that he had, in reprimanding the governor, stepped out of his duty as a magistrate, awl that he should have left the case to them, and not have spoken to their officer. He did not claim exemption from animadversion on all that he said, for it was difficult for any public officer so to discharge his duty as to satisfy every one. Mr. Bennett was reported in one of the papers-to have said at the Vestry—" if every harsh expression - of Mr. Rushton had to be accounted for, there would be plenty to do." Now, he had that morning received a polite note from Mr. Bennett, in which that gentleman assured him that he bad never made use of such expression, and that whoever used it, it was perfectly incorrect to say that he was the individual. Mr. Bennett had a right to the benefit of this manly denial. He (Mr. Rushton) regretted that one of his oldest friends, Mr. S. Thorneley, had said that the magistrates gave no support to the parochial authorities, which he emphatically denied. It had been the practice, when a case arose like that of the woman Comerford, who was accused of child murder, and bad been brought to bed and weak, to send the party to the Workhouse, until sufficiently recovered to go to gaol; but this humane practice the Vestry had resolved should not continue. It was necessary, therefore, that the ma gistrates should come to a determination on the subject. He also submitted to their consideration whether his con duct under the circumstances, and that of the other ma gistrates acting at the time, was not consistent with the interests of humanity and justice. Mr. Harvey con tended that, as there was a lying-in hospital at the Borough Gaol, parties such as Comerford should be sent there, or that arrangements should be made for them at the Bride well, or in lodgings ; but this part of the subject was finally referred to the visiting magistrates, with a request that they would report upon it. Mr. Rushton, with allu sion to the Select Vestry, having deliberated whether they would allow the Governor of the Workhouse to attend and give evidence in the case of Comerford, said that, where justice was concerned, the magistrates could com pel his attendance. Mr. Rushton, after recommending a small increase in the salary of one of his clerks, retired, and in his absence a resolution was unanimously adopted, to the effect that Mr. Rushton's conduct on the bench had always been most satisfactory to his brother magis trates ; that they considered the reference to the Select Vestry required by that body, would be derogatory to the position and character of the magistrates ; and that the language made use of by Mr. Rushton to the governor, was not only fully justified but decidedly called for by the circumstances, as they appeared by the statement of the stipendiary, and the depositions read, and had the entire approbation of the magistrates present. The Mayor was requested to send a copy of the resolution to the Select Vestry, and the meeting dispersed. THE MONSTER LADY.—Mrs. Armitage continues daily to hold her levee at 100, Bold-street, where she has been visited by numbers of our townspeople, who seem quite as much surprised at the lady-like appearance and excellent figure of the fair exhibitor, as they do at her ex traordinary weight of 31 stone 10 pounds, Unlike what might be supposed, there is something rather pleasing in her than otherwise, and as her motto is, " Laugh and get fat," she has always a smile on her face. No doubt she will receive that patronage her "weight" and "capacity" entitle her to. THE NEW OMNIBUS SCHEME.—There appears in our paper to-day, the prospectus of a new (omnibus) con veyance company, the object of which is to carry eassengersat _one_verinu oer mite—At, first, thought the tares appear extremely tow, and to some it might be doubtful whether the return would he sufficient to com pensate for the outlay—but on examination it will be found to be ample for that and a large rate of inte rest. In proof of which we have omnibuses now running to Aigburth, six miles for sixpence ; and though the same fare is charged for any distance, the new Company would overcome this by running their omnibuses short stations, so that those running within the precincts of the town make a mach greatet number of journeys than those running in the outskirts, so that each conveyance might calculate on being pretty well filled. Cheap travelling in our now crowded streets and thickening suburbs would certainly be a boon, and as economy is the order of the day. they will no doubt get all that is needed to ensure success—the public patronage. THE Busn PEOPLE OF AFRICA..—AII who have visited the exhibition of the tribe Aborigines in Bold-street, ap pear astounded, and some can scarcely credit that such a race could be in existence on the earth. Their utter Ignorance of anything approaching civilization ; their dances, and rude music, have been watched with in terest by the audiences. As curious specimens of our species, the North American Indians would- sink into insignificance before them; and that they are genuine no one can for a moment doubt. In proof of which we give the following extract from a Capetown paper of the 24th of August, which we have just received :—" We under stand the brig Fanny, Captain Wheeler, which recently left Table Bay, for Liverpool, had on board an unusual kind of exportation, viz.—two males and two females of the genuine bushman species; they are in charge of a Mr. J. G. R. Bishop, who has been at considerable trouble and expense in procuring them from the interior. They are intended for public exhi b ition in Great Britain, and are, we are informed, authentic specimens of this di minutive and rapidly decreasing tribe of Aborigines, found only in Southern Africa." Necessity or free will has in former times agitated the public m i n d more than in the pr esent da y . Boerhave says, " It has been either by chance or necessity that all the great discoveries in medicine have been made ;" hut still be has left the question of NECESSITY versus razz WILL undecided. And although Blair's Gout and Rheu matic Pills are manifes tl y one of the greatest discover ies with which the world has been blessed, it certainly has not brought us nearer to the decision of the important ques tion. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The balance in the hands of the treasurer was stated to be £275 13s. 3d. A pre cept was reported from the Clerk of the Peace, ordering for the current quarter the payment of £950 145., being the aggregate of the county rolls for the several townships of the union. The medical officer of the Fever House re. ported that, during the past week, seven patients had been discharged cured, five new cases bad been admitted, and that no death had occurred, although there were some very bad cases. Mr. Smith moved that notice be given to Mr. Harbord, surgeon, for the termination, at the end of the current quarter, of the contract subsisting between him and the Board, for vaccinating persons resident in Toxteth-vark. The motion was carried. CORN AND PROVISION IMPORTATIONS INTO LIVER POOL—Certain corn dealers represent in their circulars that no fall has taken place in prices, nor do they seem to anticipate any. But prices will no doubt fall ere long. Within four days last week, the following have arrived here from abrood, nearly all from America :-25,700 bar rels of flour, 76,600 bushels of Indian corn, 19,600 bushels of wheat, 5000 bushels and 200 barrels of peas, 4000 bushels of buck-wheat, 900 bushels of tares, 300 barrels of corn meal, 11,200 bushels of meal, 300 casks of beef and pork, 1000 boxes of cheese. 500 barrels and 500 kegs of lard, 500 kegs of butter, 570 bushels of oats, 1000 hams and 13 hogsheads of hams, 1000 shoulders and 40 hogsheads of bacon, 200 barrels of oatmeal, 900 barrels of apples. CONSUMPTION OF FISH IN LIV - ERPOOL.—By far the greater part of the salmon sold in this town is brought by steamers, during the season, from the fisheries in Ireland, in large wooden boxes, in which it is packed in ice. Some idea of the quantity brought over this year may be formed from the tact that nearly the whole area of an extensive yard, running through from Great Charlotte-street to Deane-street, is now fill th u with thousands of these huge empty boxes, compactly piled to the height of a three story house. Even supposing that the contents of some of them were conveyed to Manchester, the probability is that most of them, (as they are not temporary, but strong packages,) were during the year returned to Ireland several times and replenished, and it may be calculated that the total import into Liverpool was some thousand tons, and if to this be added the fish of other kinds sold at our fish market, quays, and fish shops, (fresh and dried,) the total annual consumption of varieties of the finny tribe must be astounding. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—Mr. Bremner, of Wich, civil engineer, with Mr. Alexander Bremner,_ of Liverpool, at tate request - alb - 6 - tffiffeffiliters, reported that this strong vessel has as yet received comparatively little injury ; that means may be used for beaching the vessel, by keeping the stern to the sea until next season, and that then it will be perfectly practicable to take her off the strand. At present the tide flows and ebbs regularly in this mag nificent vessel, which sits nearly upright on the roc which forms the substratum of the rock at Dundrum Bay, and the officers and crew are still on board. To meet the exposed nature of the bay, and the great length of the vessel, the Messrs. Bremner have proposed power ful tackling, whereby to beach the vessel in stormy wea ther, and a peculiar original and ingenious construction of timber over the stern, resting at the top of the vessel and on the rock at the bottom, and strongly braced dia. zonally with chain cables therefrom to the midships. This is intended to act at once as a breakwater, a support to the overhanging stern, and as a means of keeping the vessel end to sea. With these means, which have been sanctioned by the board of directors, and are now being carried into execution, strong probability is that the vessel will be preserved entire, and be got off early next year.— Glasgow Chronicle. BIGAMY.—Lydia Tyson, a middle-aged female of re spectable appearance, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Friday last, charged with bigamy. James Tyson, a bookbinder, who lives in Swift's -court, rhurlow-street, stated that he was present on the occasion of the prisoner's marriage with his brother, John Tyson. The marriage took place on the 30th of October, 1827, at St. Mary's Church, Edge-hill. John Tyson, the first husband, re sides at Bootle, but keeps a shop in Liverpool. About four or five years ago, he ceased to live with his wife. Mr. John'Simpson, clerk of St. Martin's Church, proved that the prisoner was married at St. Martin's on the 10th instant to a man named Thos. Holmes. She gave the name of Lydia Martin, (her maiden name,) and des cr ib e d herself as a widow. ohn Tyson, the first husband, was in court, and corroborated the statement made by his brother relative to the separation from his wife, and added that he had allowed her eight shillings a week from the time of the separation until within about three months of the present time, when the overseer reduced the allowance to six shillings, in consequence of the bad conduct of the prisoner. Witness had, however, since given her the ba lance. The prisoner, whn was respectably dressed in mourning, appeared to be fully sensible of the degrading situation in which she appeared, and persevered in keep ing her veil down to conceal her features from view ; and when the witness Simpson was called on to give evidence of the first marriage, the bridewell-keeper found it neces sary to remove the veil, in order to give him the opportu nity of identifying her. Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the unhappy woman, admitted the charge. The pri soner was fully committed to take her trial at the ensuing assizes. HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—The Chairman an nounced that the total sum already expended in laying the water pipes was £62,158 13s. Bd. It was calculated that £2200 would be required to complete the work, making altogether about £65,000. Then the commis sinners had the land at Green-lane and Kensington. Mr. Walthew—What is the value of the land? The Chairman —We paid Is. 9d for that at Green-lane, and 2s. 6a. for the other. Mr. Walthew—lt is much more valuable now. The Chairman—That at Kensington will be wanted for another reservoir.—Mr. J. Holme made an application to the Board to be allowed to lay down a railway in the neighbourhood of Bury's foundry, along which to pass the rubbish from the excavation in making the new rail way tunnel, in order to prevent 200,000 tons of soil being carted along Gr.( at Howard-street. The commissioners of the district were to inspect and give orders.—The Law Clerk said he had been served by the solicitor to the Dock Estate with a notice of appeal against the assess ment of the Albert Dock Warehouses. As it appeared there had been an error committed in assessing the west stack of the warehouses, which is neither finished nor occupied, it was resolved that the assessment should be amended by striking out the amount of the west stack, hut that the rate on the other warehouses should be con firmed.—A long letter was read from the Town Clerk, in the shape of a notice to the Board to give up possession of all goods and chattels on the Ist of January next, and also to provide lists of streets adopted and not adopted, with maps of sewers, &c.—Mr. Duncan was ordered to obtain tenders, and proceed at once with the formation of the cooling ponds at Green-lane.—Mr. Duncan's weekly report stated that the works at Green-lane were proceed ing satisfactorily.—Mr. Walthew called attention to the resolution of the Board of June, recommending to the attention of the Town Council the desirability of provid ing tanks for supplying cattle with water, and fountains in different parts of the town, and asked whether any steps had been taken by the Council. Mr. Lawrence said, until the Board were in a position to supply water, it was rather early to ask such a position. He had no doubt when the water was ready the Council would move in the matter. Mr. Tinne, on the part of the Health Committee, said the subject was under consideration. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Present, Messrs. Moore, (in the chair) Molyneux, Middleton, Chilton, Mann, Bold, Rankin, Royden, Saunders, Shand, Bold, Sandbach, Kendal, Lockett. and Wood. The sub-com mittee produced tenders from various offices for insuring the Albert Dock Warehouses against fire, and stated that the rate had been fixed by the several dices at ss. per cent. The Chairman said ss. per cent. was the same rate as that fixed on for fire proof warehouses in other parts of the town, although they might be in contact with other buildings, and in narrow streets, where there was no sup- ply of Water their own rates now, but they would not be able to retain the rate of ss. There has no doubt been a combination amongst the offices, There was a meeting held in Lon don on the 9th, and all the offices agreed to the same rate. Mr. Middleton.—lt is a very extravagant rate. It is only 2s. 6d. at St. Catharine's Dock. Mr. Bold said the offices had sent practical men down to examine the warehouses, and they entertained a very different opinion of the risk to what the committee did. The Chairman said he had consulted with several parties, and they con sidered the risk one of the best. Atter some conversation, it was agreed that only one half of the value of the ware houses above ground should be insured. The whole of the applications were then read over. That of the York shire Company, (through their agents Messrs. Litherland and Groom,) offering to insure for ss. per cent., and to take less if the London offices agreed to do so, was eOnjiiderpd the rringt baldness-film anolicatio,n..nd it decided to give thorn a risk of .+2,000 on each of the two stacks now 'n use, when the Chairman said they ought to do every thing they could to break up this combination. He thought they might underwrite the risk the same way as they did the risk on ships. He would have no objec tion to take to the amount of £lO,OOO. He had no doubt The policy would be soon underwritten, and then they could throw the insurance o ffi ces over board. He was quite sure the town would take up the risk.—Mr. Moly neux said he would take £lo,ooo.—After some conver sation, it was proposed that the per centage should be 4s. —Mr. Bold said that plan would only save £l5O a-year. The Chairman did not look to the saving of £l5O a-year, but to the cheapening of the port. If they reduced the rate on the warehouses, that would operate in reducing the rate of insurance on the merchandise in the ware bowie. The. Dock Solicitor was tben sent for, and gave it as his opinion that the committee would be acting legally by insuring in the manner proposed by the chairman, as suming the solvency of the parties underwriting; but he thought it would be very objectionable for the Dock Committee to become underwriters. Mr. Middleton, se conded by Mr. Chilton, then proposed that a policy of in surance for the Albert Dock at 48. per cent., limiting the risk to £lOOO each, be opened, and placed in the bands of one or more respectable brokers. This resolution was carried, Messrs. Bold, Wood, and Shand being the only dissentients. The Chairman said, if this did not succeed, they could but fall into the jaws of the insurance offices. Mr. Mann said it had been stated that there was a diffi culty in vessels entering the Albert Dock, in consequence of an accumulation of sand at the approach. He had ma d e inquiries on the subject, and found such was not the fact ; that the entrance into the Albert Dock was equal, if not better than into any of the other docks, whereas the accom modation inside was very superior. This week, a vessel of 450 tons had been discharged, and 7700 packages of tea, silk, &c., had been landed in a few minutes over ten bow s—an instance of despatch unprecedented not only in Liverpool, but in London. The delay as to fixing the rates was in consequence of the sub-committee not having received the opinion of the different associated bodies, the rates having been submitted to them a month ago. On the suggestion of the Chairman, it was feferred to the porterage sub-committee, to frame a bye-law, declaring whether the owner, the consignee, or the owner of the cargo, should appoint the master porter. By the present undefined system, great inconvenience watexperieneed. MEETING OF THE IRISH SOCIETY. Yegterday week, the annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary of this Society was held in the Amphitheatre, which was densely filled in every part by a most respec table assemblage. On the platform were many of the clergy, gentry, and merchants of the town, and not a few strangers. The house presented a beautiful appearance. The Rev. Mr. RAwsorr, of Seaforth, was called to the chair, and at his request the Rev. H. Carpenter, the secretary of the society, opened the proceedings with prayer. The CHAIRM \N, in entering upon the business of the evening, expressed his regret that an individual had been compelled to leave the town that day, who would have occupied the chair that evening much more ably than he (Mr. C.) could do. Those who heard him would equally regret the absence of that gentleman, when he named him to be Mr. Thomas ilorsfall. They had, moreover, to deplore the demise of a dear and valued friend. who had often occupied that chair, and who, in the decrees of Providence, had been taken from them, to reap his re ward, after .his labours on earth. The society they had met to aid was a most interesting one. Its object was religiously to instruct the Irish who could not speak English, through the means of their own language. Ire land had at present strong claims upon their sympathies in want of provisions for the approaching Winter. In as- sisting thim in this way, all who heard him would no doubt contribute were they called upon ; but the Govern ment bad taken the matter into their own hands, and would better do the needful than they. But there was a famine of another kind—a famine of the Word of God— the Bread of Life—which the Government was not so d , s. posed to supply. He trusted that one spirit would be o accomplish b., fu. stirred up amongs that they would 1 that night hear related culiar. at the present time the effects of superstition, were still adverse to receiv Protestant doctrines, but a great portion of the popula tion were not so much attached to the priests as formerly, The situation of Ireland was pe- The Roman Catholics, from and many of them spoke of the prohibition by them of the circulation of the Bible, and also of the advantages of this society, which the priests denounced. He trusted there would be at this meeting a heartfelt desire to pro mote the glory of God in the salvation of the people of Ireland. He called upon the secretary to read the report. ( Cheers.) The Itev. Mr. cArrerrs-erus -- sTii - th - e - iiiiiilia then read the report, which stated that there were 699 schools in active operations. The scholars, a majority of whom were adults, amounted to 16,274 w ho had passed inspection, besides many who were deterred by persecu tion from presenting themselves for examination. In Liverpool one labourer was engaged in visiting poor Irish families, teaching them the Scriptures through their own tongue : 1780 families bad been visited, and the visitor had been affectionately received. The report added that the funds of the Parent Society were totally exhausted, and it concluded by an urgent call for further assistance. Appended to the report was a statement of the treasurer's accounts, which showed that the Liverpool Auxiliary had raised £414 during the year, and that deducting unavoid able expenses, they had remitted to the parent society the sum of £356. The Rev. Mr. WINNING, rector of King's-court, Ire land, and one of the deputation from that country, intro duced a resolution to the effect that the report be adopted ; that the committee of last year be requested to continue their services; and expressing an opinion that the principles of the society were the best calculated for the propagation of true religion amongst those who could not understand or read the English version of the Bible. In urging this resolution, he expressed his gratitude that the society was known and appreciated in Liverpool, which had liberally contributed towards it. One indivi dual had nobly given it a munificent donation of £lOOO. He begged to return his grateful thanks to him and all contributors, in the name of thousands of the poor Irish, who had through their bounty become possessed of the Word of God. He then entered into a detail of the be neficial operations of the society in many districts, but more especially in that to which he had been attached for a quarter of a century—namely, King's Court. The first sehool there established was in autumn, 1803, and at that time there were not above five copies of the Bible to be found. Since then schools had extended from it in all directions, even to the extreme north of the island. The schools were attended chiefly by adults, taught by men who spoke the Irish language and at them, relatives, young and old, mingled together, learning to read the Word of God. The operations of the society extended to the mountains of Tyrone and Ulster, and in all they had from 600 to 700 schools. He remarked upon the love which these people bore to their native tongue, and re lated numerous affecting anecdotes of the conversion to Protestantism of Roman Catholics even in remote dis tricts. Since 1823, 1749 Irish Scriptural schools had been established throughout the country, taught by as many teachers who had been Roman Catholics ; and wherever an Irish Bible was seen, an English one was found near it. After noticing the obstacles thrown in the way by the priests, he detailed instances in which the poor converted teachers bad been murdered in cold blood. He was con vinced that Romanism was not impregnable ; for it could not withstand the Word of God ; and when he thought of the triumphs of the society, he felt that if its resources were strengthened, and its powers wielded aright, it would yet sap the foundations of Romanism. The funds were now exhausted, but he hoped he should be'enabled, from the results of that meeting, to tell the poor teachers that they had friends in England who sympathised with them. He concluded by a powerful appeal. The SECRETARY said the funds were so exhausted that the committee had nothing to remit. The house in which they now met also cost upwards of £4O. A collection, amounting to £5O, was then made, during which a hymn was sung. The Rev. DANIEL FOLEY, one of the deputation, in seconding the resolution, said—l stand before you to re iterate the statement I made when last I had the privilege of addressing you, that the master evil of Ireland is the Church of Rome, and that she is the evil of every land where, in the mysterious providence of the Lord, she has been allowed to trample the liberties and intellect of man, and to corrupt the religion of Jesus Christ. I call upon you to help us in our struggle against this evil. England rules over one-sixth of the dry surface of our globe, add one-fifth of its teeming population acknowledge the sovereignty of Queen Victoria ; before England's laws, her civilization, and her religion, Brahminism, Xlahometanism, Paganism, superstition, and ignorance hide themselves, from our meridian to our antipodes; and, before her influence and her arms, dynasties and tyrannies crumble to the dust; and what she is among the nations, she has attained in spite of the angry curses and the harmless bulls of Papal Rome. Will you, the people of this great country which God has elevated for his truth's sake among the nations, allow your rulers to give back England's power to the Beast, and thus to perpetuate the ignorance, superstition, and slavery in your sister island, which it seems your high destiny in God's hand to overturn, from the Pole to the Line ? We in Ireland present a picture of the sad effects of the sys tern of the Church of Rome. Nowhere, except in Italy, has its priesthood so much influence as in Ireland ; and nowhere, except in the same country, are its physical destitution and moral debasement paralleled : nor till freedom of thought and independence of unshackled mind are restored to the people by contact with the Word of God, is there any rational hope that her physical or moral debasement among the nations shall be removed. It is cheering, however, to see a kind of Protestant spirit lately springing up among the Roman Catholics of Ire land, and that, for the first time in modem days, the dictates of the priesthood, through their well-paid ser vant, are resisted by many who profess allegiance to the spiritual despotism of the Roman Church ; and as it has generally happened in Protestant countries that the social ..•. • . . • more destructive bondage in error of the immortal souls, more way, _ may lead the and assist toward the important cc ilArmiall atc. Sprintiiraca 1 nm happy to inform you, that, while several in t have joined themselves to Rome, in Ireland there is de cidedly a move towards Protestantism. Six-and.twenty priests are on the list of converts lately published by a society in Dublin, and several of these are preaching the Gospel in this country at present; the Irish University will soon send several intelligent converts to enter the his country ministry of our church, and need not inform you she has already sent very many such, within the last few years. who, as wet he indivic the cause of Ireland on your platforms and in your pul pits. The rev. gentleman here entered into a proof of the necessity of sending the Scriptures to the people, f , on, the unsocial principles of the Church of Rome. which hula Mat ttic.v ..•-• 'Jaw, NE au alptrztiitit Dy any means • no hope for one who separates , though he err not in faith; no hope for a born Protestant, because baptized on schism, an sought not the true church ; which, in fact, was to deny private judgment either in or out of that church, except it conduct us to her own arms • while the hope of the Gospel belonged to every soul, Who be lieved the- testimony of God concerning his Son. He quoted from a trial in Kerry, where a convert was plain tiff and a priest defendant, for assault, and showed that the priest admitted, when cross-examined on his oath, that he had called the convert several times a bad charac ter publicly on his sigh, though he previously gave him a good character, and` altered his judgment because he taught the Scriptures • that he advised the people not to purchase meat, whic h the poor man sold by retail ; and that he personally requested a gewleman, whose driver the convert was, not to speak to him. He quoted several other cases from the papers of the same kind, and said it was no wonder the people should be degraded under such teachers, who only represented Christianity in their cere monies theatrically, and left it to be taught by pictures and images, while they instructed them in politics from their altars. He next gave several anecdotes in illustra tion of the power of the truth over the minds of the pea santry, who, at the usual examinations of the teachers of the society, exhibited the most intelligent acquaintance with the doctrines of God's word, even where they could not speak a word of English, and some of the translations of the passages were really beautiful. Tilt re were great numbers leaving the Church of Rome daily in Ireland, and he had himself received many " fine handsome con verts," which was impottant, as a maimed, disabled, blind, or lame man, or any whose forefathers even were more morally blemished, must quit his neighbourhood, if he would become a Protestant. The Church of Rome finds employment for every man, and a man for every employment; and as she brings into her service the in telligent and the superstitious, the liberal Protestant and the !A l lotted Roman Catholic, so her priests are sure to find opprobrious names for the ennverts, and even her little children are made to shout these names to annoy them. The rev. gentleman here detailed several instances of fearful persecution, to which the converts and Irish teachers are exposed, and their stedfastness and resolu tion under it. He said there was at present a great de mand for teachers in several districts, which the society was obliged to refuse for want of funds Land that they sorry to s from some of the - bishops of the would be sure to hold their peace upon the subject; that, at least, no selfish motive could urge any minister in Ireland to engage in open opposition to Rome; and that course in w ich the church co ectivelv could Id expect peace from their open enemies, or sympathy protection from the rulers of the land, whether they hap. pened to be Whig or Tory. He said the object of the was not, Pore, an people in contact with the Word of Life, as the deposi tory of truth and the proclamation of Divine mercy to . . sinners; and that, however varied in details of argument they sought to preach the truth, which is. Christ in hi: person and work, to the people; that they set him fortt the satisfaction he mad of his death, r eurrection, angeror and intercession ; so that every su bj ec t, whe ther of doctrine or controversy, may d er i ve it s source and its impulse from the cros s o f Ch r i s t. H e entreate d the Roman Catholics not to believe they ant444.i n .d natred against them ; for himself, he loved his native land and its people. and therefore was ready to hear repeoach and blame to devise and do them good; he said it was the people of that unhappy land who adjusted upon their own necks the links of the iron chain of their spiritual degradation, and exhorted them, in the name of liberty, of our common nature, of the God of truth, to cast off the foreign incubus, and take upon them the easy yoke of Christ; and to let the light of God's holy Word, testifying of Jesus, drive out the inner darkness of their minds, conduct them through the mazes of their earthly pilgrimage, cast its halo round their dying couch, and light them safely through the dark valley of the shadow of death. The Rev. JOHN CORDEAUX moved the second resolu tion, which was to the effect that the meeting being deeply convinced that the pure and unadulterated word of God was the only means by which error and superstition could be overthrown in any land, and true religion established, would impress upon the friends of the Bible the paramount duty of aiding the Irish Society in its labours to impart ••__ _ _ _ Scrip " Igo to tl in their own were unable to discharge the demands upon them fcr the somewhat more than the minimum strength and quantity current quarter, and' that, as the property of Ireland was of laths. Even in these particulars. however, we fear taxed for ten years in advance, to meet the famine of the that the discovery will be made, that the jerry builder has present year, little assistance could be expected from the I been too many for the ijspecor ; whilst in others will b people of that country to support the society, which I found omissions of matters conducive to health, which formed an additional reason why Christian benevolence deserve serious attention. The drainage of most of them in England should flow out towards them. He thought is defective. In some there is absolutely none worth the it an awful feature of the times, that while famine of the mention. Where this is the case, damp, especially in - the bodies of men brought into action about it the govern- cellars, will be found to exist, to an extent calculated to went, relief committees, and consultations of every kind, lead to fearful consequences to the female servants and famine of the Word of Life could not move them •, and others habitually using them. In a ere ....---L - that death from starvation excited more horror than it I stanp,.. , did to see thousands sink into the grave, in ignorance of that Word which alone can reveal a true hope beyond it. He described the difficulty which the ministers of the Established Church in Ireland had to contend with who faithfully protested against Rome. The priests and their instruments in Ireland said they came over here to pan der to English bigotry and hatred of Ireland ; and many in this country were of opinion they were violent parti zans, and that to aid their objects would be to perpetuate discord and angry controversy in Ireland. He said it was well known, that to protest against Rome was a bar rier to advancement in church or state in Ireland ; that every man in office was as civil to the priests as insolent to their opponents; and that every sleepy man, ever unfaithful man, every trimming expectant of plae advancement, either from the government - louses have been built over f wanted lor the purpose, were pits, eantai filth of the neiizhbourho r and t of which yva;-never.; S. whils :s which, until upon stucco of tenants and sday mot, he peop The rev. ientlemari delivered a brief and effec tive speech in support of the resolution, in the course of which he adverted to the history of the society, which shewed that the blessing of God rested upon it. What, however, were we doing for it? Should it go before the world that England contributed only £3OOO towards this noble object ? He suggested there should be another col lection; and that every one present should become either a contributor_ or subscriber to the society. In this way tongue real "justice" would be done to Ireland, and we should shew that we valued the Scriptures which were circulated among us in our mother tongue. Mr. CARPENTER here rose and said the appeals made on behalf of the Society were beginning to tell, for he had received from a gentleman on the platform, who did not wish his name to be known, the sum of £5. (Cheers.) The Rev. HUG H IV -- _ . _ _ MULE seconded the reso, a most effective address, which he commenced by a want tribute to the memory of the lamented Dr. Tatershall. The resolution, he said, implied a very solemn opinion for the meeting publicly to entertain and publicly to record. It implied that Romanism was a system of error and su perstition ; ane - - ' ution in ills was a solemn sentiment to maintain publicly, because it - placed that meeting in immediate an tagonism to the great legislative assemblies of th e country. the realm had declared that Romanism was Christianity ; they had opened their doors to the members of the Church of Rome, whom they proclaimed to be equally true Christians with us Protestants. Yet here was that meeting, a set of dutiful subjects, owing and owning allegiance to the powers that be, unanimously and publicly declaring that Romanism, instead of being Christ ianity was error and superstition. (Cheers). Was the meeting right or were the powers that be wrong? [A VOICE :—They are wrong.—He agreed—they were wrong. Cheers.) But see bow the matter stood. In one estate of the realm six hundred and fifty-eight gentlemen were selected who were supposed to represent 11 the wisdom for thepurpos or the three kingdoms: They were sew.. of making, altering, and repealing laws ; and in their ag. gregate wisdom, in the very last session they repealed all the laws enacted against the Church of Rome from the days of Henry 111. down to the reign of George 111. Yet here was a public meeting in Liverpool, coolly assembling by thousands. passing resolutions declaring that the MIMI vereign upon the throne, had acknowledged to be Chris tianity, was error and superstition. (Hear.) England, then, was divided against herself. There was a nation in the midst of the nation. It was in vain to bide this fact from ourselves, and it was wise to look at it. They might pass resolutions declaring Romanian) to be error and superstition. but what availed that declaration if the moving power of the nation took another view, and if the nation were moved on by that power until it would be too late to stop. (Hear, hear.) But the fact was, that a little explanation was required of the absolute declaration that " the people manage everything." Never at any period in the history of England was the fact more true than at present, that an agitation got up with care, supported by funds, and conducted judiciously from stage to stage, came eventually, through its influence upon electors, to be influential upon government. Thus agitation, finding a " squeezable material" in power. ef- upon one side, if it were all in the direction of favouring Rome, and if Protestants had become so cool, so prudent, so gentlemanlike, so fearful of incurring reproach, or so filled with horror at the notion of mixing up religion and politics, that they would not attempt to move the govern ment, but yet would allow themselves to be moved, what must the result be ? (Hear.) The result must just be, that we should be hurried on by the movement, and that the government could not help it. The current ' must run forward if there was no obstruction in the way. The end was then plain. (Hear.) But he rejoiced to find, from what he had seen that evening, that the battle was not so easily to be lost. Protestantism had yet many able cham- pions, and it had the great armoury of defence—the pure word of the living God. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman then proceeded to dwell at length upon the thesis of the ution, that the pure and unadulterated word of God can overthrow error and superstition ; after which be re ferred to the operations of the, society, and testified to the laborious zeal of the Irish clergy in the cause of Scriptural education. The resolution was unanimously carried, and the doxo logy hating been sung, the proceedings terminated. _On Tuesday moining a number of the principal friends ion at a the Adelphi Hotel, when a number of 'interesting The collections at the various churches on the Sunday .evinnn simminteri to A FEW HINTS FOR OUR HEALTH COMMITTEE Os the first sf January the Health Committee of the Town Council will hare thrown upon their hands a most onerous respons. ,usiuess, w will require earnest attention and untiring energy, to en able them to perform it satisfactorily to themselves and watching over the removal of those impurities which ge nerate disease, compelling the removal of cellar occupants to more healthy habitations, ventilating.courts already aou m g oniting me erection or others in course of construction, they will take upon them the important du ties of the existing Highway Board, the sewering, paving, and flagging of streets ; and they are also engaged in an of rt to provide the population of the town with an abundant and cheap supply of water. The bleb character for intelligence and business habits of the gentlemen com posing the committee, is a guarantee, to• some extent, that its functions will be well performed. The evils to be grappled with, however, are so various and so complica ted, as to render it no great act of presumption in any one, capable of offering to the committee, in a proper spirit, any hints for their guidance, to do so ; and we trust that we shall not be considered presumptuous in availing ourselves of this, or any, opportunity of offering a few such- hints. Every one whose avocations, or inclinations, take him occasionally to the outskirts of the town, must have no ticed, during the last two or three years, the great num. ber of new houses springing up in every direction; some of them to supply habitations for the working classes, driven out of their wretched courts by the Improvement Act, and some for the more wealthy classes. From the south end of the town, round by Wavertree, Edge-hill, Low-hill, Everton, and Kirkdale, to Bootle, every vacant site is being taken up for cottages, or for more pretending taken by the committee, we feel convinced, ought to be to enter into a thorough and firmly-conducted examina tion of the construction of all these new buildings ; and the result, we have no hesitation in affirming, of such an examination, will be, that very many of them will be as. certained to be wretchedly built, and worse contrived ; and that some are not fit habitations for human beings. We do not refer particularly to the cottage erections, Many of which, however, are as bad as they can be, but to those villa-formed erections, detached or semi-detached, as well. Some of these—and we have watched them during their building, and before they bad their smart co verings of lime and gravel, or stucco, and their fantas tical wooden pendants, aspiring to imitate stone—are equally bad. Drainage has been neglected in most, and solidity of construction in all. We know it will be urged that all the buildings which have been erected of late, have undergone a sort of in spection ; that is, that their windows are of the Parlia mentary size, the joists and the outer walls of the Parlia mentary thickness ; the rooms above the minimum capa city laid down in the act, and the slates supported by )undations in most, especially of th - esTu the brickwork will prove miserably arid di defectiv Some of these faults it is now too late to at rising a cure for. All that we can do, in m 3e to wait until the effect of wind and r and ornaments, with a few mon !wowing juveniles, ceeded in reduein g open to the sion. The owners v ind it to their in le and dry within_ to make them at least ace they have no 1 nend them the removal )1 which of the commit trust those r driving our population out of wr counter sources of disease quite tations provided for them in who exchanges fever for influenza, has not much the best of the b known to the medical man h ngst tne occupants ). It is a ,sited LiN lished fact, that the epidemic wl the latter months of 1844, rang a ledly round the outskirts from the south end of the town, skirting, and even extending over, the ridge formed by the high --] - running- fr.?. Edge-hill, Low-hill, Everton, and Kirkdale, to Great Crosby, whilst the old fever district was comparatively uninfluenced. Tue earliest cases oc curred in the neighbourhood of Old Swan, but it had its stronghold in Everton. And it was remarked, that, un like the usual fever of the crowded parts of the town, the epidemic was found in houses (such as the new erections referred to) where want. of cleanliness on the part of the occupants could not be alleged as the cause, and amongst families of a grade which has hitherto been compara tively free from such visitathns. With respect to the cause of these new districts bein g selected by the epidemic for visitation, it has clearly to be attributed to the nature of the soil, and the want of proper drainage. An atten tive observer of its ravages—Dr. Watson—in a pamphlet entitled " Some Account of the Epidemic Fever in Liverpool in the letter months of the year 1844." repub lished from the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, states that the district in which it first showed itself, (the Old Swan and its neighbourhood,) has " a substratum of clay about two feet below the surface," well calculated, therefore, to retain the moisture, which had been suuer- abundant; and of Everton, he remarks, " Everton has no bog soil, being geologically the cropping out of a ridge of the new red sandstone. I must call the attention of the society to the existence of large bodies of stagnant water under Everton and Edge-hill, retained from percolating by strata of clay in the variegated sandston plain that extensive drainage i house drainage, which is deficient enough, bnt a co tapping of the pent-up water under the soil, befc wealthy of mere - The first step of the committee, we conceive, , should be, to h.vp ^ and geological examination of the a proper survey • whole of our outskirts, before they are further built upon, in order that some comprehensive plan may be adopted of getting rid of the underground moisture. When this is effectually provided for, and indeed at once, proper ' ffi - —to exercise a diligent supervision over the , building going on, and, at the same time, to see to the effectual eures of evils existing in houses and neighbourhoods, where their presence is scarcely suspected. There will be abun dant work for such officers; and their districts need not be very large. One great nuisance and inducing cause • 'hey shout(' -- of disease th at once set about removing, viz., the collection, in pit., of surface and stagnant water. No such places should be Allowed as those which abound in some of our outskirts, nth as the neighbourhood of Edge bill. Crown-street, Windsor, Victoria-road, &c. We shall have a few more observations to make; but for the present we have overrun our space. RAPID STEAMING.--At ten minutes before three this ternoon, we received a copy of the Lieernool Standard steamer, which made the passage from Liverpool in eight hours ! This was her first experimental trip. She will again leave Liverpool to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock in company with the mail.—Dublin Evening Packet. Nov. g, we scarcely expectedthis f so rapia a F as muct vessel would make She left Dublin at half-past' sev for Holyhead: where al four hours and twenty-five minutes, against a strong head wind and tide. She remained therefor an hour and twenty minutesvesse quarter past seven, having, in consequence of one o f the cranks becoming heated, stopp e d for seventeen minutes m be e t. r w l e in en , fo H r o L ly i h v e e a r d poo aind dir L ec iv t e: l p e o f o t l bub l in M. steam -vessel before the P r i ncess, an d di d not arrive unt i lan b our a f ter. ci t h u e . r w t e b r o s ! whole n u c a l t s i s d a i g n c g ! o t n i, l e y d o e c t c e u n p t y m i n n g a eleven l y h h o e u a d rs ! a n i d h t e h re losse - of time by the b ea ti ng o f the crank, in addition to the seven s - great deviation from the usual course, caused by going into Holyhead, cannot be calculated at less than three hours' atonrn inn. w01,i"4. .......1-11 t__— ',iced. the passage of the Princess - from Kingston to Liverpool to eight limns and three quarters, against a strong head wind and sea, with unfavourable tides.—Extract of a letter from Holyhead, dated November 12th :—" H.M. packet Dotrel was 8 hours 12 minutes making her passage from Kingston to Holyhead, on Wednesday last; the Princess Clementina, therefore, beating her 3 hours 47 minutes." The di s t ance is 55 miles. The Princess Clementine is a new iro n yes- r • • kenhead, for the South Eastern Steam Navigation Corn. pony; and fitted with engines by Messrs. Geo. Forrester and Co., of this town. She is intended for the Ramsgate and Ostend, or Folkeston and Boulogne station.l THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. MEETINGS Ow BRITISH ORGANIZATION. -At the several sessions recently held at Manchester, a number of resolutions were I bus summed United Kingdom was formed by the conference into five divisions, and a committee appeared for each—their first meetings to be in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Dublin respectively. There is to be no money analifientinn but those who can afford h, It is hoped, - will contribute each ss. per annum. The conference remitted the fol lowing subjects for i nvest igation :—tbat is to say. Po. pery, to the Scottish division—lnfidelity, to the Southern, and Sabbath Observance to the North Western. None of the results are to be published, except by direction of an aggre meeting. A series of eight resolutions adopted by the Alliance in reference to the cultivation of the spirit of Christian union, especially in the manage ment of religious controversy, and in efforts for the ex tension of the kingdom of Christ, was.passed with great cordiality. No member is to be admitted, unless recom- mended by two members of the committee as a pers xtment, and no one doaitted without signifying his adhesion to the An interim committee was appointed, to engage an office in London; receive the minutes of divisional committees, conduct the correspondence, &c. The divisional com mittees are to originate sub-divisional committees in such places• as the following :—London, Norwich, Bristol, Birmingham, Lincoln, Leeds, Sheffield. Newcastle-upon- Tyne, Livern ,,,, t Manchester, Derby, Chester. Ed; —such com- The burgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dublin, Belfast . mittee to consist of not more than fifty members gregate meeting. To diffuse the sentiment and spirit of the Alliance among the masses by the plan of periodical meetings for friaterrial intercourse,•and united praise and prayer is strongly recommended. In one resolution the conference deeply sympathizes with all their fellow.. christians who may be enduring persecution for righteous ness' sake, more especially adverting to those in Tahiti, Fernando Po, and Madeira, and commend them to the hanks we passed to the most active members,—to Sir C. Smith, Bart., the committees, cfficers, &c.; also, a resolution of devout gratitude to the Father of Mercies, for His.pro tection to them in travelling, and his influence in ena bling them to errive at their conclusions in unbroken harmony and brotherly love. DREADFUL DEATHS.—TWO inquests were held on Tuesday, on the bodies of a mother and her son, at Bir kenhead. The deceared lived in a cellar at the bottom of Old Chester-road. Their names were Mary Waring, aged 40, and Richard, 4 tears. On Saturday morning. the mother was drunk. and fell asleep by the fire with the child near her. About half -past one she ran out of the cellar, in flames. A neighbour immediately cut off her burning clothes, and she was removed to the Dispensary, almost roasted to death. The poor creature lived in dreadful agony about two hours, and his mother died the same afternoon. _ _ PAUPERS.—At our Police-court, on Friday, three or four Irish families, in a sta te of utter destituti on , . . . • t i h h e e r q e u p e l s y tio in n va a r s ia t b o ly wh w e a th s. er ,, t vv he e y h to v t e ild no be ho p m as e se t d o h g o o m toe: It is of no use our going back, as we may as well starve here as there." One family refused to be passed, and the parents were ordered to be imprisoned fourteen days ; the chqdren, three in number, to go to the work house during that time. Another poor fellnw •,anww, WILD 11 wife, and tio infant children, who gave the name of MiCay, and whose clothes consisted of a mass of mg. said, in a rich brogue, that he camp n.... hrland .. , • ---- —u, UV Cr irOM I i ria.r. under the idea of becoming a scho o l mas t er, and idducay tin the little childh er , h ut was told by that it was one of th e wildest delusions he could possibly entertain, as ther e were p l enty of well educate d a nd ac complished m en a l rea d y in Liverpool, w ho could not get sufficient rem unerat i on, as teachers, to fi n d themselves in necessaries o f lif e ; b e m i g ht just as well expect to With find gold in th e streets . great reluctance, the poor fellow co nsente d to b e passe d tuck with his family, though he did n o t k now w h a t would become of them there. the magistrates Scarcely a day now passes during which similar scenes to the above may not be witnessed at our court.