The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

,_-'‘• BLic mur0..,,.... LOCAL 1 lielv 1 rE is coming int sails. stitehin a - 24 QUET AT TILE TONVN-HA.LL.—On Friday the mayor entertained to dinner, the pri n cipal co tt on b ro k ers an d se veral other guests, and to-morrow week the Earl of Derby and a distinguished party will dine with his worship. THE SPLENDID SILVER CRADLE, designed and executed by Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street, and intended to be presented to the lady of Thomas Littledale, Esq., ex-mayor, is now ° ll view_ VGA.RITABLE DONATION.-The treasurers of the Live. Pool Asyltuns for Male and Female Orphan Children have te e, eived a don a ti on o f £l4 , con t r ib u t e d b y t h e passengers tthe st eam-ship Arabia, on her late voyage to this port rough the hands of Commodore Judkins. -r• Lan , HORSE SALE at Lytham, at whit_ iancas, of the Repository, Great Charlotte-stree, to wn, were the auctioneers, was a very successful one, the Proceeds of the 123 animals disposed of amouuting to about £5,00 0. ha' 1 E DONCASTER RACING CLUB this year, as usua l , nave been presented by the Earl of Derby with two splend haunches of red deer venison from Knowsley Park.di They weighed up war d s o f 52 lbs. each, and were of the finest quality. MESSRS. GROUCOCK, COPESTIEE, MoORE, AND CO., have kindly contributed three guineas in aid of the funds of the Bazaar for the extension of the Library of the Church of England Young Men's Institution, which takes Place early in October. __VISIT OF THE C HANCELLOR OF TILE EXCHEQUER TO MANCHESTER._ -We learn that the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to pay a visit to M anc h ester on or about the 10th of next month. "•1_1•e right hon. gen tl eman will be the guest of J. C Harter, Esq., and at present it is understood that his visi, is entirely of a prix -ate nature. Manchester Courier. • FIRE. -On Saturday night a fire broke out in the top lait,m of Mr. Thompson's house, Richmond-row, but the flames were extinguished, chiefly the exertions of the police-office r on duty before much damagehad been occa sioned. It on suppo'sed that some one had been in the room with a candle, and had let a spark fall on " Mattress. THE SA.ILIIAKERs.-On sail makers of this town held Wednesday the master another meeting at the Claren don-rooms, when it was resolved to organise themselves no an as sociation for the protection of their mutual u- "erests. Mr. Gl a d s t one was elected president, and Mr, Brooke secretary ; and a committee was appointed for the 1 2 41 1 3 08 e of dra w i ng up the necessary rales, to report to a future general meeting. Tan FIRST OF NOVEMBER.-On Friday a meeting of 't ie r Con servatives of Pitt-street ward was held at the Vine avern, Pitt-street, at which resolutions were unanimously reed - to, expressive of satisfaction with the conduct of u r. Iv. P. Jeffreys, while he had represented the ward in Ve Town -council, and pledging The meeting to re-elect next November. SHOP- LIFTING.- On Th ur sday even i ng , two girls, I,,ilarned Catharine and Ann Murphy, entered the shop of r. Owens, in London-road, and asked to see some dresses. After looking at a great variety, they left the shop, carry -1,!1;g: with them no less than 15 dress pieces, which they ;T4 concealed under their clothes. The robbery was soon w-scovered, and the prisoners were taken into custody in Ascent public-house. They have been committed for try at the sessions. 11 .• Vine Go named Ann Darns, wife of a beerseller, was, 1 1 311 Fri day, fined 10e, with an alternative of 14 days' ilcaPrisonment, by the police magistrate, for disorderly se.huluct M court. Her 'husband had been summoned for ~i , aing• beer during the lours of divine service on the pre- Sunday Sa ndar he had been fined 10s. and costs for the nt o • ee, and his wife being in court, broke out into a tir• nt of invective against the police-officers, calling them riar ed villains," and other opprobrious epithets. After pee sentence of the 'court, she behaved in a very obstre bart'Dns manner, and•could not be removed from the dock "%flout considerable difficulty. atit4,PORTANT SAME'OF WINES.-The first sale by auctbm • spacious new public rooms, No. 9, Hackin's-hey,. sure '"'" Place on Thursday next, when Mr. Branch wall ni,,ot for competition a collection of choice wines, being Lo as' the stock of Mr. Gideon Lawley, of Oxford-street, ek l en, who is retiring from business. The selection in- Clap: Ports, sherries, East India Madeira, bueellas, • heel, sorf s ''Ond. champagne. From their scarcity, wines of all Inark,7. y e been greatly advanced in price in all the wine to z e „ - ,'l , so that the sale affords a favourable opportninty Per;;;'),"efuen whose stocks are becoming low, or to any leetai7o 4 luring to keep a good bottle of wine for the de 1..4 hits friends. we 'P°Ol, AMATEUR GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNTON. arch r efer to the an nouncemen t i n a n o th er co l u mn of the h a ; co . , ncert of this society, whose previous performances for . 1 ,`'", 13 .,e so much to create and fitter a taste in Liverpool stow - A ° thoroughly English class of music which forms the to ;;',"'°' these concerts. It will be seen that the society is • win Pen the new Clayton Hall, Claytou-square. The public vo eta t hns have an opportunity Of enjoying an excellent aeo n z„a instrumental performance, and at the same time pi a - h - g 'tile new hall. Miss Eleanor George will give two : -° forte solos while Mr. Lidel will play an Irish 1 :4022 n ot the oloncello, beiides conducting the-vocal it xt %':na nes. InvinipooL AND GLASGOW STEAM-SHIP COMMO- We the undersigned passengers of the steam -110, 3• ' oln medore, on her passage from Glasgow to ILiver t,„he 24th i ns t an t , b eg t o t es tif y our gra tit u d e t o theyvu"lß lioy ho d, his officers, and crew, for the skilfulness have shown in conducting the ship safe into port ~e 7 t i g theqate fearful gale as also for the humane ;ante- Pro 11-16 Y e vinced tq the steerage passengers in seeing'them hero a ccommodated:-Joseph Slater, Glasgow; Thomas GlaZ''MAnchester ; John O'Neill, Belfast ; D. Waftn-cty, ebest e ,, -- " - ; aohn Smith, Glasgow ; J. Woodward, Man ; lames Watson, Glasgow ; Thomas Morton, Jaio a ,';' W John S. Fisher, Glasgow ; Al!xander a Haklan, Am t . - fa; Peter Griffin, Glasgow ; Wm. Simons, las las e r ; Lit e 'Patrick Miss Hughes, - John Rantin, G geot e L - r (on board the 'Commodore), Monday, 28th tar...„''''er, 1853. ktkp o t7lNG of ALL SAINTS' ScnooLs. - The 'new Btreef,.p.ttaehed to All Saints' Church, Great Nelson ,kllo,L-North, were formally opened on Tuesday. ili T a he zloo s - ' 4 „,., hitherto have beentarried on in a large dwe 4," 11 'Beau -Street, which was exceedingly inconvenient h ' a dopted to its uses. The new schools, which adjoin 4 the in Great' Nelsonistreet North, are contained in St° -a ' two -storied building, constructed of brick with . f ae • 18 eXt e , I ngs, and the structure, which is noarly . square,__ • „ eti in the front bylhouses on either side, intended arctr ue nces for the teacliers. Mr. Culshaw is the t rhw tect ,for the building, and the work has been done PriaiZ a riY,_ by Mr. andsHenhaw. The lower room is appro y° the boys, the upper floor, which is divisMle, th e used - for the girleund infants' schools. At noon hew children formed in procession and proceeded to the jo n ,, ba iling, where they were addressed by the Rev. J. H. h Wit atand other ministe rs . Th e p rocee di ngs terminated t ea - Party held at 'the new schools in the evening, t a v 'Lich seve ra l Of th e 'l oc al c l ergy an d ot h ers who h ave h en an active part in promoting the erection of the new gs were present. of lin CusEroms AND !TIME ,CORN TBADE.-A meeting . clgentlenlen connected with the corn trade, was n h s eld e illoe Corn Exchange, on Wednesday , to take mrtoess7d to Mr. ir n i l the follewinglletter Winch h_t s be m en 4 add 6 -Vatri e k, C to . louse, Liverpool, }, e 1 4 .5,1853. Sir,-An apPlication havingbeen addr . ess . ed by themembers of the Dublin Corn Exchange Association to h, /tight Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, request ing that the duty on grain may be charged by weight, k id the Commissioners of 'Customs having directed us to Z annu nicate with the importers of corn at this port on tte subject of this request, we shall be obliged by your P 2 rti ag to ns any observations you may have to offer • Tcoo za▪ ronso,ecCollector f e ; , G ai . r ,G y u r n r oß o , bedi Aet e i n n t g s c erv am a p n t t ra s, lle E r .. Zs n e e d n fl e t " the Liverpool Corn Exchange' In ~liscthe Corn Exchange Committee met, favourable t r a at te t r, and 'having come to a conclusion to the collector - cu ar_, ging by weight, sent an intimation iesed that the sttabn'u temnPtr'iller to that effect, and pr o _ 9. tra de, which *lee should belaid before a meeting of ,opal Men* e u /fleeting was accordingly held. The pm' Fra n „L e ,, s of the trade were present on Wednesday. 4=o/Isid 41axwell who occupied the chair, spoke at eherable length ' in favour of the Proposed change, file e t; s eenled to m ee t w i th the unan i mous approvaloft orn the axel ,g • The matt er was ultimately-referred to the c dul at.:Acge Committee, f or f ur th er con sideration, as to . - Z" 8 , a future meeting to be held to receive their repo o rt N. S.ii:l4 CONCERT AND LECTURE ROOM, Cltlr oc T eu. pa4Rt.-The premises shavequax, recenitly the Roscoe Club, for the last mont or twn e , ()D- course of alteration, and in a few days are to be the public, as a concert and lecture-room of the The interior is much larger than would be rutied f rom an outward inspection. The accommoda the audience are, a body and two galleries, and for ellsM..""Azer or performers, an orchestra fitted with for seats and capable of seating about 150 per - Besides this, there is a space left for a powerful "e b e .'"uich it is intended to erect, and as music desks 41 1114_2 11 ,g fitted throughout the orchestra, there will be o f eeL.4e-ati, ties for vocal and instrumental performances },. Pablo magnitude The entrances for the audience Ware gee 'parts of the house are quite distinct, and P0i4'414 aildition, an underground passage of con eiZ'dth and well lighted, by means of which the ew. a laY proceed at once to the retiring rooms ap hei—n ‘ed uh,,thena which are two in number, and are enshi e r the wings of the orchestra. The seats are toi k ` crit a 2hed throughout, and the galleries ornamented i t i -4 blek," l l, drapery. The other decorations are in ad eft ra aroo - Plng, the fronts of the galleries being ornamented eo ected h a , White, and gold. The lighting in the day is win la eans f three windows in the ceiling and two li r and two (lo s ° ab , and at night by sunlights, one in the centre acre 16 "1 ,?e the orchestra, in addition to numerous faswilsoaets_ under the galleries, &c. Our enterprising bufi? , air. John White, estate agent, is the owner of la ,1 1 A01 5 7,,,,,g , which is calculated to contain 1,600 persons. vo.rw ' C aNT AMERICAN MERCLIA.NT-SHIP.-There - ":g; in the Wellington Dock the largest merchant t4ess• L , r a -.. . e ° . 9 . t . at New York, which has been consigned his fin ufamshaw and Co., of this town. The name e vessel is the Calhoun, built by Messrs. J. -( - at elt tiQti e and Son ,s for a new line of packets the . v ne will also this port and New York. The Patriotic Th see i n. also embrace the Henry Clay, the Orient, and a l e e Cal pro gress, at New York, th be called the Webster. Z - R - th un is 1749 ns ; extreme le, et ad dept d eck., 217 f ee t ; to breadth of beam th over 227 I2feet, • ca,,.! of, 29 feet. A good idea may be obtained of steelhaana ea sh e f i s Pacity from the following iteras of cargo, is no Just brought across the Atlantic, and which atrels ulseharging :-26,000 bushels of wheat, 4,000 tesi of fl o ur b a „,a , 200 ae, 1,400 tallow, of cotton, 2,000 barrels of wood , ogsheads of lO,OOO staves, 110 tons of igT„ Ma nn ' m : e• The Calhoun is built in the most substan ki4ets,a r, of white oak, her masts being enormous coh is wr ing at the base nine feet in circumference. th e "cen ila li;r7 lted .throughout. Particular attention h ei tib il h er to. ventilation, both for the preservation of Wigs wh o ' r aung the ship tc_as. In fact,and the hundreds of human oliofter, cross the Atlantic within her CPPerie ° ,_ , is in every respect as perfect as skill, e, and lib olio c eral expenditure can make her. The a, c, :h i s ha ms , le of accommodating in the first cabin, Dr11(1-classoinely fitted, eight passengers, There is -vo accommodation for 150, and between 80Q and Class PasSe ngets can also be provided for, h the Messrs in this •ge carp; •eet, on Thursday ED STATES MAII THE ELEANOR Dixox, Captain Quay, one of Millers and Thompson's line of packets, has arriv Liverpool at Valparaiso, after the very brief passa, STEPHEN MARSHALL been brough More the magistrates at Wolverhampton, on a charge of being concerned in a robbery of £147 and a bank _ at Birkenhead, in April. The prisoner , against whom the evidence was inconclusive, was remanded. Mans TO AusxnALlA..--=The ship Neleus, belonging to Messrs. M`Calnaont Brothers, of this town, and which is announced to sail hence on the 4th October, , has been chartered to carry Her Majesty's mails. She is at present loading in Salthouse Dock, by Messrs. Cowe, Scott, and Roxburgh, for fine goods and passengers. DREAMS.—A lad residing with his friends in Wood street. Lowhill. left home on Thursday week, and never returned again: though diligent arch was made for whom the lad's pa VR ounnay a ivira. ivivr 6au, La va.., rent the house, called upon them and communicated her dream that their son had fallen into a cesspool adjoining the house. Search was made in it, and the remains of the lad, who, it appears, was subject to fits, were found there. STEALING PALM OlL. — Charles Musgrove and James Nowlan were committed for trial at the police-court, on Wednesday, for attempting to steal a cask of palm oil, on Saturday, from some warehouses in Cooper's-row. The oil was the property of Messrs. Rayner and Co. ' and the prisoners, one of whom had been employed in their ser vice, engaged a cart and placed a cask of oil on it, when, from some cause, both prisoners ran off, but were after wards apprehended by detective-officer Eaton. CLASSICAL CHAMBER CONCERTS. - Mr. W.Thomas, who t has associated with him Mr. R. R. Isaac, announces a series of four classical chamber concerts, for the next season, which are to take place in the Philharmonic-hall, on Thursdays, commencing on the 10th November. He has obtained the services of a corps of talented executants, amongst whom are Mr. C. A. Seymour, Mr. C. B. Herr mann, and Mr. Lidel. The concerts will doubtless be v highly attractive. SHIP LAUNCH.—A hAliclsome paadle-wneei steamer, named the Collaroy, was launched, on Monday, last week, from Mr. Laird's yard. Sefton-street. She is about 400 tons burthen. Her engines will be fitted by Messrs. Fawcett and Co.,.and in a few weeks she is to proceed to Australia, The Collaroy is said to be an improved edition of the steamer Clarence, also built by Mr. Laird, that was sent to Australia about 18 months ago, and realised by public auction the enormous sum of £30,000, and even at that price, from her superior qualifications, is stated to hay- I a profit - "" ;rivPstment for her purchaser. Ave proves. able Inv ea _ TRAVELLING- BY RAIL WITH AN OLD TICKET. — Ellen Dalton was brought up at the Wolverhampton police court, the other day, charged with having travelled from Liverpool to Wolverhampton without a proper ticket, September and only issued to convey a passenger to St. Helens. September, woman made several statements as to the mode in which she became possessed of the ticket ; one was that she had given 2s. 7d. for it, another s., and the last account was that it was given her by •a woman. As she was penniless, and the company did not wish to press the charge, she was dismissed with a reprhuand. Tnu BARQUE ST. JOHN, Capt. W. 11. Leighton, from Pernambuco, arrived in the Mersey, 'brings part of the crew and passengers of the ship Condor, burnt at sea on the 10th June last, in lat. 4 ° south, 10n.'24 ° west, while on her homeward passage from Melbourne ; and the captain and - part of the crew of the schooner Matilda, wrecked on the coast of Brazil, near Pernambuco. One of the passengers gives a most gratifying account of the gal lant conduct of the officers and crew of the Condor, and of their untiring exertions in saving the lives and property of the passengers, and -conveying them on board the French barque Charles et Pauline, from which vessel they were safely landed in Pernambuco. The passengers also speak in the highest terms of the discipline preserved on board the Condor while on fire'by her able commander, Captain W. H. Leighton, and of'his affable conduct during their previous passage from Melbourne. The St. John also brings a few of the passengers of the barque Sir Fowel Buxton, wrecked on the Brazilian coast. Susrxcious Deemn.--Susan Rice, the wife of a seaman, resided at No. '7, Court, Scotland-road, died on Tuesday last under circumstances which have excited great sus picion. The deceased, it appears from the statement of her husband at the inquest, had been confined to her bed for the last four months with dropsy, during which she was attended by Dr. Newton. She had also been troubled with an asthmatic cough for a number of years. The husband returned from Glasgow on Sunday afternoon, and went home in a state or intoxication. He was also drunk on the following day, and' had a violent quarrel with the sister of the deceased (who was also intoxicated), arising, it is said, out of his 'brutal treatment to his wife. 01; Monday evening his wife persuaded him to lie down, and, promised to call him Tally - in the morning. He lay down and slept on a box by the bedside, and when he awoke in the morning founa 'that his wife was dead. He then called in his bratherdn-law, who found deceased on her knees in bed, with ft small bottle of whisky in her hand. Two surgeons wereTalled in, but she was quite dead. One of the surgeons (Dr. Newton) expressed his surprise that she had lived so 'long. He made an examination of •the body, and gave it .as his opinion that deceased had died from disease of the lungs and liver, which had most pro bably been brought on by excessive drinking. There were no external marks 6f violence on the body which were the cause of death. Notwithstanding this, however, it was proved at the inquest 'that the husband had treated her in the most brutal manner, but with such indecency that the facts are unfit for pnblication, . . WEST DERBY BO.A.E)D OF GUARDIANS. - At the weekly meeting of this board, on Wednesday, the chair was occu pied by Mr. Harrison. Mr. Alpass moved that Mr. Bar nabas Barrett be •appointed a medical officer for district No. 4, Toxteth-park, with a salary of £lOO per annum (no extra fees being allowed), in the place of Mr. G. S. Deane, who has been declared incompetent from the state of his health. Mr. G. Harrison seconded the resolution, which was supported by Mr. - Mountfield, and carried unanimously. —Notice was given'by'Mr. Alpass that he should move, at the next meeting, the election of Mr. Barrett as vaccinator of the house, in the place of Mr. Deane.—Mr. Cleaver, the clerk to the board, said he had examined the books of Mr. Statham, an officerdately in the employ of the board, and they showed throughout very culpable negligence on the part 'of 'that officer--The following tenders for the supply of articles to the house, from the 26th instant to the 25th Mardi, 1854, were accepted : —For drugs, ste., Mr. Clay, St. Anne-street ; linen and woollen drapery, Messrs. Adamson and Tapley, Old Haymarket ; small wares, Mr. Johnson, Duke-street ; milk and fresh butter, Mr. Thomas 'Bird; coal, Mr. Harding, Whitley-street; salt butter and bacon, Messrs. Rae and Graham, Old Hay market ; meat, Mr. Soften, Berry-street ; groceries and soap, Henry Tate and Co., James-street; bread for the hospital, Mr. Thos. Allen, Prescot-street, and Mr. Samuel =Cottrell, Brunswick-road ; ditto, for Everton, Mr. Arden ; ,coffins, Mr. Cowley,,Heath-street. LANCASTER.-The stoppage of the night express train at Lancaster gave us an hour or so in that town, before continuing the journey. They have just now completed the tower and spire to the new church of St. Thomas there. It is early English in style, with a dash of Nor man ;in the belfry,—Transition, in short. The tower is octagon, and the spire a continuation of the sides of the tower,up to a point. Although it may be a reproduction ,of an ancient example, it is more satisfactory, viewed from a distance, than when seen at the foot. On the rising ground near the canal bridge the Roman Catholics have 'built schools and a convent of some extent; early English 'in style ,and satisfactory in effect. Not far from these is the Lancaster Royal Grammar-sclioa,built not long since under the Airection of Messrs. Sharpe and Paley. It is a collegiate structure, with low tower at one end, and a :series of gal)lets, formed by dormers, along the front of the main !building. A little figure -of the Queen in a -niche over ;the entrance-door gives hfe to the front, but might have been better executed. From this elevated spot the view of the town, with the castle and St. Mary's Church on a similar hill opposite, and the bay and moun tains in the distance, is very striking. If you walk back to that churdi you will find inside a singularly interesting set of carved wood stalls, now placed against the east end of it. It is 'one of the most extraordinary works of its kind in England. The tracery in the arch 'aver each seat is different, as it is in each gablet above. 'The crockets are studiously varied, some spreading out into large fiat leaves .; and each finial, too, is different. The upper part of the tower here is an amusing specimen of ithe Gothic of "1769." The ehurchyard has the novelty in England of a marble realising figure on a tomb, and there is a gravestone which might afford a subject for a sanitary lecturer. It is -simply headed,—" In memory of Crowd son's :" and then follow the name and age of twelve of the family, coming :up to the year 1847, eleven .of whom enjoyed between them 841 years ! The twelfth hied an infant. The oldest lived to ninety-three ; one till aluety ; and six till eighty-four. So much for the value of a ; good stock.—The Builder.. DEATH or SINGLEWR COOPER, ESQ. — Another .a Live and useful inhabitant of Southport,—one whose services, as they were efficient and unremitting, and invariably n listed in some beneficent ,cause, were highly valued,—has been taken from amongst as. It becomes our melancholy and painful duty to announce the decease, on Thursday the 15th instant, of Mr. Singleton Cooper. The lamented gentleman some days previously to the decease of his late wife, which occurred only a few weeks ago, had been ob served to be gradually failing, and since that event his recovery was regarded as all but hopeless. Mr. Cooper's early career would appear to hay.e been a chequered contest with adverse fortune ; but by perseverance, activity, and industry he acquired a sufficient competency to enable him to retire to seek seclusion and peace in the evening of his days. On quitting the active engagements of business in Liverpool, he came to reside in this town, where he has ever since devoted his time, and his money, and his in fluence, to the advancement of the moral and social wel fare of those by whom he was surrounded. Mr. Cooper for twelve years filled the office of one of the church wardens of Trinity Church ; and few, if any, of the many thousands of visitors to Southport, who have during that time attended Divine worship at that church, but have cherished some pleasing reminiscence of the courtesy and attention they received at his hands. So unremittingly attentive was he to the duties of his church, that his absence, but for one portion of the day, gave rise to the appre hensions of his friends, as he was never known, when in the enjoyment of good health, and in town, to absent him self from his place —now, alas! vacated by him for ever—in that sacred edifice. The schools attached to the church will also lose in him an ardent, active and devoted friend. He personally visited and superintended many of the arrangements ' • and we have rea son t o k now th a t he was regarded with filial affection by the young flock on whom he bestowed so much affectionate care. Few who witnessed the salutary scene will forget the air of pious satisfaction with which the respected gentleman, on the occasion of the recent tour of confirmation by his Lordship the Bishop of Chester, marshalled—for the fourth time—the young candidates, in whom he took an especial interest, to and from the parish church. Mr. Cooper, as a member of the Board of Improvement Commissioners, was most attentive and useful. He was a member of several committees, and his efforts were always directed towards effecting really useful measures of improvement, and he was ever most solicitous to maintain the high character for salubrity which Southport has attained. His death has cast a deep shade of gloom over the whole town ; for he was a man revered and respected by all clastaeo,—SQuthport Visitor, on Tuesday, for using the he 17th of August 1 ast, without QUICK PAssAGE. I On Friday morning, at nine o'clock, the packet-ship Constellation, from New York for this port, was telegraphed off Holyhead, and at three in the afternoon she was safely anchored in the river. The wind was in her favour, but notwithstanding this advantage, the passage was an unusually rapid one for a sailing vessel. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, Francis Power, a carter in the employ of the Ince-hall Coal Company, met with a serious accident. Whilst proceeding along Dublin-street he fell, when one of the wheels passed over his head, and produced a concussion of the brain. He was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he remains in a very precarious state. A MEETING OF ASSISTANT HAIRDRESSERS was held on Friday, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of earlier hours for closing in that irade. After some discussion the meeting was adjourned until next Friday. A committee was formed to communicate in the meantime with the master hairdressers on the subject. THE LOST CHEQUES Bob £6oo.—We last week narrated the circumstances attending an alleged loss of cheques, amounting to £609 Bs. 6d. ; and also their having been presented at the Huddersfield Banking Company's Bank by a young man, who spent upwards of twenty minutes in counting the cash handed over to him in exchange for the ged "loss" was communicated to the managers. Since the appearance of the paragraph this affair has assumed a singular aspect, and persons are in custody to answer a- charge of "conspiracy to defraud." The suspicion of the Huddersfield police being aroused by the singularity of the transaction, and the strange be- Les, ana NV; 3 the all( haviour of the loser, Mr. George Booth, of the firm of G. and J. Booth, cloth-manufacturers, of Mytholm Bridge, near Hohnfirth, he and his family were closed watched and the police have succeeded in discovering that the "lost" cheques were cashed by Mr. Booth's son, and from the confession of Booth himself, it has transpired that the money alleged to having . been stolen has been found. Booth and his son are now in prison on a charge of attempt ing to defraud their creditors. bOCK COMMITTEE. — The weekly meeting was held on Thursday—Mr. Turner in the chair. The sub-committee 'of works recommended an agreement with Hugh Roney for the purchase of a house in Sparling-street, required in connection with the works of the London and North- Western Railway Company; it was also recommended that a sum of £4OO be paid to Mather, Ledward, and Co., as compensation for injury by the alteration of the levels in Carpenters'-row.—A statement was submitted of the profit and loss on the Albert warehouses for the _ ears 1851, 1852, and 1853, in compliance with a motion made by Mr. James Holme. It was ordered that the statement lie on the table for the inspection of the members.—A report was read of the visit of the committee to make an inspection of the telegraphs in Wales. The report contained. recom- mendations that repairs and alterations be made at some of the stations, ata that charts of the approaches to the port were required at all of them. The marine committee were instructed to carry out any work required at the various stations. Mr. Bigham called attention to the assistant at Holyhead station, who received 12s. a-week, and some days he had to walk a distance oflB miles. After some conversation the subject dropped, it being under stood that it would come before the marine committee in the usual form.—The harbour-masters' committee recom mended that an additional quantity of land (2,300 square yards) on The south-west side of the Harrington dock be let to Todd, Naylor, and Co., making at-otal of 6,oooyards, at a certain rate per square yard per z.unum ; sheds, walls, &c., to be built, and the tenants to pay the interest on the outlay. The land was required for vessels coming to this port with silver and copper ores. After some further con versation the matter was referred.—lt was recommended that at additional quantity of lanil on the north side of the Harrington basin be let to the Harrington Carrying Com pany.; the total quantity now be 'be held by that company won - la - be about 7,000 square yards, at a certain rental per yard per annum.—The chairman intimated that there would shortly be applications for land from the Lancashire and Yorkshire and the London and North-Western coin panies.—A resolution of the Town Council relative to pro viding balls to communicate with the Observatory, in order to -mark the time, was referred to the marine committee. THE WELLINGTON TESITMONIA L.—A public meeting was held on Tuesday, in the Sessions'-house, the Mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., presiding, in order to receive a re port from the committee appointed at the meeting held. last October, at which it was resolved to procure subscrip tions for the erection of-weolumn, surmounted by a-statue, us a memorial of the late duke. The Mayor said that the sum already subscribed was quite inadequate to carry out 'the project. The fame of the Duke of Wellington as a warrior, his complete identification with the nountry as its most illustrious son, rendered it necessary - that any tribute to his memory should be of a first-rate description, worthy alike of the departed hero and of the town of LiverpooL He was quite of opinion that, if a number of gentlemen would take books and canvass personally, large numbers, not only of the tradesmen and shopkeepers, but also of the working classes, would cheerfully contribute to such an excellent object. It was a matter of regret to him that, though many individuals had subscribed libe rally, 212 of the 223 who signed the requisition for the meeting last October had not sent in their names as sub scribers, though circulars had been forwarded to them. He trusted, however, that the tradesmen and operative classes of Liverpool would, by their contributions, shame these gentlemen into coming forward.—The Town-clerk then read the report, which showed that the amount subscribed was £5,742 75., of which £5,422 had been paid to the treasurer.—Mr. Brown, M.P., who moved the first resolution, warmly eulogised the character and abilities of the late duke, alluding to his refusal of the enormous bribe of £lOO,OOO sterling at Hyderabad, to the fact that he gained his Peninsula victories with ::a force never larger than 25,000 men, while even at Waterloo he had only 35,000 BritiAh rank and file in the fi'dld.. Even at college the Duke of Wellington was constantly thinking how he could improve the condition of his country. It would be unworthy of Liverpool, the largest .commercial town in the world, to refrain from erecting a suitable monument, particularly when they saw what•monuments other towns could raise, the column of the Mary Vendome, at Paris, and the Duke of York's column, and the Nelson column in the metropolis, for instance.—Mr. W. R. Sandbach se conded the resolution, deeming 'it a great reproach to Liverpool that only 470 personsilrad been found to con tribute towards the erection of a monument to the me mory of the greatest man of modern days. The reso lution was carried unanimously.—Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P., moved the second resolution. He thought the in habitants should consider it a privilege to subscribe towards the memorial ; if there existed one man who was not sensible of the debt of gratitude which he owed to the illustrious departed, let him withhold his name.—Mr. John Campbell seconded the resolution, which was carried Torr, who moved the third resolution, attributed the-comparative smallness of the subscriptions to the 'fact of their not, from motives of delicacy, com mencing• operations until six weeks after the death of the duke. 'The people of Liverpool, however, had, when much less numerous and opulent than they were now, raised £12,000 for a monument to Nelson,-and surely they could raise an-equal sum for a memorial to one who served his country thrice as long as that great naval hero ; was equally great in arms, and far wiser'in councils. Why, in Manchester, they had raised £B,OOO or £9,000, and surely 'Liverpool was not to be excelled by Manchester.— Mr. T. E. Moss, treasurer, seconded the 'resolution, which was carried ; and on the motion of Mr. Brown, M.P., seconded by Mr. Horsfall, M.P., a vote of thanks was passed to 'the Mayor, and the proceedings. closed. SEILIWS 'CHARGE AGAINST AN AFRICAN CAPTAIN. —Mr. Aspinall, on behalf of Mr. Chilton, appeared on Tuesday, at the Police-court, to prefer several charges of cruelty and manslaughter against Capt. Geo. Alexander Lewis, alleged to have been committed by ;him, on board of the ship Abeona, at Old Calabar, on the coast of Africa. At the request of Mr. Owen, who appeared for the ac cused, the tase was remanded till Wednesday, Captain Lewis finding 'bail, himself in £5OO and two sureties of £250 each. 'On Wednesday, several witnesses were ex amined, and it appeared that Capt. Lewis was the captain of the ship Pytho (lately blown up with gunpowder), and on the 14th of June, he was stationed about sixty miles up a river on the coast of Africa, near Old Calabar, with ' the Abeona, commanded by aptain Davis. On the evening of the day in question, both captains were on board of the Pytho, When word was brought that a dis turbance had arisen -on board of the Abenoa. In con sequence of this they both went on board of that -vessel, when Capt. Davis ordered a seaman named White, 'Whose death formed the subjeet or the present charge, to go on to the poop. Capt. Lewis went to put him there, but Capt. Davis afterwards ordered him to come away. This White refused to do, and Capt. Lewis then attempted to force him off. A struggle took place, and White was forced against the poop railings. At last he fell over board ; the witnesses said he was thrown overboard by Captain Lewis, who, however, averred that he did not do so, but that in his struggles White lost his balance and fell into the river accidentally. By order of Capt. Davis, the boats were lowered to save him, but he was never found, though his cap was picked up. Mr. Mansfield said that he did not consider the charge of manslaughter proved, and dismissed the case. The second charge was gone into on Thursday, when the following facts were detailed by several seamen, who had formed a portion of the crew of the Pytho. While lying in the Calabar river three men, named M'Elere, John Jones, and John Hall, went on shore without leave from Capt. Lewis, of the Pytho. The captain found it out, and left the ship in a very great passion, and saying some of them would never come on board alive. As soon as the captain got on shore, the men were there, and two of them instantly came forward, and the third in a short time after, on bein g called for by the captain. Some angry expressions were used, the men were frightened, and the three of them jumped into the water. Whilst two of the men were up to their knees in the water, and the third was swimming, the captain gave orders to a body of natives to fire on them. They did so, and the man Jones was shot upon the spot. So far from thinking this enough, after the captain knew the man Jones was dead, he and a Captain Davis pro ceeded to beat the other two men about the head with sticks in an exceedingly brutal manner. The transaction took place about midnight, and the captain subsequently sold the clothes of Jones, on the ground that he was a deserter. M'Elere and Hall were tried by a court-martial, when MTlere was discharged and Hall put in irons for some time. On behalf of Captain Lewis, Mr. Simon sub mitted this was a case in which the bench could not com mit. In the first place, the alleged offence was not committed within the jurisdiction of the court. It was not on the high seas. Secondly, there was no attempt to prove that the guns had been fired at the man, there was no evidence to show that the guns were loaded, nor that they were the means of causing death. No body had been found, there was no proof by any one that the dead body of a man had been seen, and yet the magistrate was asked to commit the captain for the death of a man whose death was not proved by a single witness. A witness named Jackson, the first mate of the Pytho, at Old Calabar, said that he never heard of the captain shooting Jones till Wednesday night when the alleged murder took place, he heard no guns fired and no cries of murder. The magistrates consulted together, and came to the resolu tion of committing the prisoner for trial on the charge of " wilful murder." The prisoner was admitted to bail, entering into his own recognisanco for 41,000, and two sureties for £6OO each. GE..N -~-- THE STEAMER FROM THE WES' about the Ist of October, and is expo of silver from the Gulf Of Mexico. INDIES will ig £BOO, MANY OF THE CHESTNUT, pear, fig, peach and orange trees, in several districts of Portugal, are stated to be affected by a disease similar to that which has attacked the vines. EXTRAORDINARY SWARMS or SMALL FLIES have filled the air in several parts of Yorkshire do At Harrogate, on Thursday evenit formed a black cloud 'which obscured the light for some A PAILAGRA.PII which has been going the round of some of the papers, to the effect that a decimal silver coinage, to be issued at the eommencement of next year, and bearing the date 1854, is in progress at the Mint, is entirely without foundation. REAPING Me.cniNE.—Messrs. Richmond, Chandler, and Norton, agricultural implement makers of_Liverpa?l Emu .i.vitutuurnuer, nave uecome zne Improved Reaping Machine, with the works in progress, plant and machinery of the establishment in Manchester of Mr. Hussey, who is about to return to America._ published some particulars as - - - MIL HYDE CLARKE has to the existence of quicksilver in England, Scot Ireland. As yet it has on researches will most likely% discover cinnabar ore. This is of importance, in consequence of the greater attention paid to the working of gold ores, SINGULAR FACT IN POTATO GROWING of Tipton Hall, Dudley, last year raised some potatoes on his ground, but they proved so badly diseased he would not go to the expense of getting them in. There has been this year, however, a very fair crop of sound potatoes off the same ground, although nothing at all has been done to it. TILE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to grant a pension of £5O a year to Mrs. Glen, widow of the Rev. Wm. Glen, D.D., the translator of the Bible into the Persian language. The pension, we believe, has been granted in honour of the literary labours and attainments of the Rev. Dr. Glen.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN HUNGARY.—At Petronell, ,--Wm. Comely just been Hungarian town on the Danube, there I found, near the castle of the Counts of Abensberg an uncommon fine mosaic pavement the spot where the pavement was found, a litary order of the Emperor Trajan was discovered. Petronell is the ancient Cornuntum, and near it are the remains of a triumphal arch, raised by the Emperor Augustus to Tibe rius, in memory of the conquest of Pannonia. . X SCOTCH BEE STEALEE..—A rather amusing ce-se of theft was tried before Sheriff Arkley, on Saturday. A man named Robert Robertson, was brought up, charged with stealing a swarm of bees, from a place near West Calder, Edinburghshire, and so dexterous had he become in this peculiar species of depredation, that it appeared he had ac quired the soubriquet in the district of " Bee Robbie." His plan, it seemed, was to secure the queen, and the rest of the swarm instantly followed him—leaving hive, honey, and all behind. As he had been only a fortnight liberated, the sheriff sent Vim back for sixty days to prison. —Cale- donian Mercury. A PROFITABLE TRADE.—In addition to the advantages to be derived from keeping fancy poultry, the profit pro duced by the common domestic fowl is very considerable. It is stated in The Times newspaper for Feb. 1, 1853, that 15,000;000 of eggs and 240000 worth of poultry were imported from France in 1851. The same writer adds that it will take five years to fatten an ox of the weight of 60 stone, which will produce a profit of £3O; while the same sum may be realised in five months by feeding an equal weight of poultry for the table.—Dickson and Mow bray 'on Poultry, by Mrs. Loudon. Taia Penis EXHIBITION os 1855.—The Board of Trade has received information from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that a Universal Exhibition of the Fine Arts is to take place in Paris in May, 1855, at the same time as the Exhibition of Industry. The French government ex presses a desire that this Exhibition may be as complete as possible, and that its organisation may be arranged in •is manner to give satisfaction to every 'nation_ invited to assist in it. The artists' works will be forwarded gratui tously to Paris, and the arrangement of them will not entail any expense on the artistsexhibiting. • A MONSTER MEETlNG, — Probably the dinner party that ever sat down under one roof at one time took place at Saltaire, the model mill of Mr. T. Salt, alpaca manufacturer, near Bradford, Yorkshire, on Tuesday last. The dinner (which was the commencement of the day's festivities) was given by Mr. Salt to 3,700 persons, com prising the notabilities of the West Riding, the leading merchants and manufacturers of Yorkshire and Lancashire, his personal friends and his own workpeople, to com memorate the opening 'of The stupendous works at Saltaire, the majority of his eldest son, his own birthday, and the completion of his fiftieth year. HOSPITAL FOR CONSVAIPTION.—Property to the value of £15,000 has just been left to the Hospital for Consump tion, at Brompton, under somewhat singular circumstances. Just before the foundation-stone of the building was laid by Prince Albert, in 1844, the handsome trowel manufac tured for the ceremony so attracted the attention of John M'Cullom, Esq., that he bought it of the committee for thirty guineas. Soon after, finding that it was usual to present the trowel to the person who lays the foundation stone, the committee 'became desirous of re-purchasing the trowel ; and Mr. M'Cullom, on becoming aware of the wish, kindly gave it back, foregoing his thirty guineas for the benefit of the institution. Nor did M'Cullom's libe rality stop here ; ton his death-bed he left all his effects to his sister, with a request that she would leave it to the institution ; and 'by her will, which is just proved, the hospital becomes.eutitled to property of the net value of £15,000. GOLD MINE rN L PRIVATE YARD..--Mr. Martin Dunn, of Gateshead, has received a nugget from Victoria, the history of which.is .curious, for it was dug up in a back yard. Last year, Mr. ,G. Middleton, of Hartlepool, went to Australia, accompanied by his father and mother, re sident in Gateshead. This year he was followed from Hartlepool by his wife and two children, by two of his sisters, by Mr. Joseph C. Dunn, his successor in business (who superintended the carpentry work of Herrington Church when at was rebuilt) ; and by Mr. George Brown, brother of Mr. M. Dunn. They settled at C,olliagwood, near Melbourne, on a site which cost them £316, and on which they established a general store. One day, being visited by a young man, formerly a clerk of the railviay goods stationdn this town, he remar ked that the ground in their back yard had a gold-producing aspect. Diggings were at once opened, and up to the time when the letter containing the nugget was despatched, had been productive. GENTLEMAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF A. SLANT. —Some time between 1800 and 1805, Lord Seaforth being governor of Barbadoes, a slaveholder having killed one of his own slaves, was tried for the murder, and ac quitted, the law considering that such an act was not murder. Thereupon Lord Seaforth came to England, obtained an act of Parliament declaring, the killing of a slave to be murder, and returned to Barbadoes to resume his official duties. 800 n afterwards another slave was killed by his owner, who was tried, convicted, and sen tenced to be hanged for murder under the new act of Par liament. At the time appointed the prisoner was brought out for execution, but so strong was public feeling, that the ordinary executioner was not forthcoming ; and on the governor reqUiring the sheriff to perform his office, either in person or by deputy, after some excuses, he absolutely refused. The -governor then addressed the guard of soldiers, desiring a volunteer for executioner, adding " whoever would volunteer should be subsequently pro tected, as well as rewarded then." One presented himself; and it thenceforth became as dangerous to kill a slave as a freeman in Barbadoes. SEIZURE OF COUNTERFEIT COIN AT HULL.—For three or four months past.a large amount of counterfeit coin has been put in circulation in Hull. The police had had some information that a notorious character, of the name of Robert Gill, had had a small heavy parcel sent to his house addressed fora " Mr. Brown." The parcel had come by the Great Northern railway from London, and the porter at the Hull station was requested to inform the police immediately in the event of any similar occur rence taking place. On Saturday morning, on the ar rival of a small parcel, which was rather weighty, and addressed to "Mr. Smith, to' e • called for," information was given to the police, and a detective was sent to the station, who remained there until between eight and nine o'clock, when Gill came for the parcel. It was given to him, and he walked away, but was followed and taken into custody. The parcel when opened was found to contain 600 bad shillings., wrapped up in 60 parcels of 10s. each. The delinquent's house was then searched, and a number of bad half-sovereigns was found. He refused to give any account of how they came into his possession, and has been remanded to afford time to communicate with the mint. STATISTICS OF PAITPRIIB.—The return prepared by the Poor-law Board, as to the number of paupers in the receipt of poor-law relief in the course of the last and the present year, presents some remarkable features. The decrease, as already stated, between the Ist of July, 1852, and the Ist of July last, numbered 66,533 paupers. In England the number was 66,032, and in Wales 1,724. An exami nation of the English counties shows, that in Lancaster alone the decrease was 9,364. and in the West Riding of Yorkshire 6,222. The next largest diminution in one county was 2,626 in Suffolk ; and in Middlesex the decrease was 2,507. In Middlesex, on the Ist of July, 1852, the number of paupers in the receipt of poor-law relief was 38,078, and on the Ist of July last 35,447. With respect to able-bodied paupers, the decrease was 17,002, and on the Ist of July last there were, among others, 1,084 abult males in the receipt of relief, on account of the went of work or other causes, against 2,907 in the preceding year. There were 16,781 wives, against 21,455 in the preceding year. Of widows, the number was 45,471, against 47,562 of the previous year. On the Ist of July, 1862, the number of single women without cnildren in the receipt of relief was 5,375, and on the Ist of July last 4,847. There were 3,186 mother of illegitimate children on the Ist of July, 1862, and 2,644) on the Ist of July last. On the Ist of July last there were 1,728 wives relieved on account of their husbands being in gaol. DARING BURGLARY IN NOTTINGILAISSIIIRE.—During the morning of Tuesday last, a daring burglary was com mitted at Boughton, near 011erton, in the house of Mr. William Flower farmer and hop grower . Thi s house is situate a short distance from any other in the village, and about ten o'clock on the previous evening the servant girl (who appears to be the only inmate along with her master and his sister), heard, whilst going to bed, some conversa tion on the outside, and on looki ng ou t , saw a man n ear the blacksmith's shop. She, however, went to sleep, and was awakened about two o'clock in the morning by some men being in the house. She got out of her bed and was soon pushed back again by a man, who told her. what they wanted was money. Another o f the burglars went into Miss Flower's room, and having struck her over her face, said money they wanted and money they would have. Mr. Flower himself got out of bed, and commenced de fending himself and his property, but was struck with a besom's handle, and was consequently incapacitated from so doing. One of the men then broke open a desk with a chisel, and took therefrom £llB in gold, contained in two bags. The men then ransacked the house, t a king away with them five old-fashioned silver teaspoons, one dessert silver spoon, a silver cadd y spoon, an d a pa i r of silver framed spectacles. These last were picked up on the road by a boy during the afterpart of the morning. Before they broke open the desk, Mr. Flower offered the thieves £5O not to hurt him. One or more of the men had their faces blackened, which, we are afraid, will prevent their identi fication ; and this fact, added to the circumstance of Mr. and Miss Flower's mental condition, may tend ultimately to thwart the ends of justi ce .—NOlinghapi iournah FROM A PARLIAN n 1852, the emigr STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNI ceived at this port H.M.S. Leander, of some £60,000. An ord ho has come into Devonport Pape!. been r AT NEWARK, a few days at a window before which was a brilliant flash of lightning, was found imprinted on her hod., A GOOD MARKSMAN.—OD Friday w Anderson, of the 27th (Inniskilling) Infants a bet made for a considerable sum, with soy Armagh, shot a hen at the distance of 600 yard of the new Millie rifles. COTTON FROM INDIA.—Mr. Hugh Fleming, secretary of the Manchester Commercial Association, has received information from the secretary to the East India Com pany, that Mr. Rathbone, of Liverpool, has been instructed to fnrward to him for dlicnnsal in Manchester. 500 bales of standing cotton from the ' Dharn : ar Collectorate, re Bombay per Dundonald.—Manchester Guar STRIKE EXTRAORDINARY. — The followi nounced the other evening, by the town _ _ _ 1a ,'and those who go out and shear for a less while returning home."—Edinburgh Witnes AT GRONINGEN there is in flower an alo( Americana), 100 years old, which since June 3, has thrown out a stem 7 metres 90 centimetres in height from the extremity of the leaves, with 63 lateral branches. The plant bears 8,000 flowers, more than 150 on each branch the colour is yellowish green.—Galign JAMES MONS recently complai Wednesbury, Staffordshire, that a stoned 1 to the polk been given him among t coin had I for a pair of trousers he 'had pledged: The police, on going with Monk to the pawnbroker's shop, discovered that the trousers were the property of a tailor, of Westbromwich, and Monk has since been committed for stealing them. THE NEW MODE OF GRINDING WHEAT.—It is known at the American consulate that the patent granted by the United States for Westrupp's conical mills in that country have been contracted for by a highly respectable citizen of New York, who has also a counting-house in London. Thp +lrina k cam to 11A altnnt Steil nnyable by nuarterly instalment APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A matri monial alliance is arranged to take place between the Lady Wilton, and diptaill the Hon. Dudley - De Ros, eldest son of Lord De Ros, and equerry to her Majesty the Queen. The marriage will be celebrated at Heaton-hall, the seat of the Wilton family, near Manchester, on the 12th of October Morning Post. EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.- the Morning Advertiser, a conference is Af According to for the purpose of uniting together more closely th various evangelical missionary societies. The arrange- ments are under the immediate direction of a d .gyman of the Church of England, a Baptist minister, and a Methodist minister, —namely, the Rev. T. R. Brooke, rector of Avening, Dr. Angus, of Stepney College, and the Secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. SINGULAR DEATH OF A HORSE. - OD the workmen going to their employ on Saturday morning, at the power loom factory of Messrs. Taylor and Sons, Barnsley, they were astonished to find a large pool of blood on the weaving shed floor, but soon discovered that it was occa sioned by a horse that was partly hanging through a sky light. The animal had fallen over a low wall from the field, and thence upon the roof of the building, and having cut a main artery by the iron work in the skylight, had bled to death. The animal was worth £4O. REPORTED MURDER OF AN ITALIAN PRINCESS IN TIIRKET. - It was stated, some time ago, that the Princess Belgiojoso, whilst travelling in the East, had been attacked and stabbed by a discharged servant. No apprehension of fatal consequences was entertained by the friends of the princess in this country, as they had received a letter from her after the event, and had heard from other sources that her wounds were not dangerous. A letter from Constan tinople of the Bth, in the Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna, says that the favourable account given of the state of the princess was unfounded, as she is reported to have died of her wounds in the Turkish capital.—Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle. A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.—On Tuesday, Edward Thompson, a farm servant in the employ of Mr. Thomas Scott, Preston Patrick, was gored to death by a bull. He had needlessly gone into the pasture where the bull was confined, and after irritating it by throwing stones at it, and driving it about, had actually attacked the infuriated animal with a " bull-stick"— a stick ;shod with iron, used in coercing these animals—and had entered into a single combat with the powerful and ferocious brute. The con sequence may easily be anticipated. The bull, maddened by the attacks, rushed at his presumptuous assailant, and having got him in his power, tossed and gored him in the most frightful manner. The fellow-servants of the man endeavoured to rescue him by attacking the bull with spades and pitchforks, but so maddened was the animal that it was quite hacked and mangled before it would quit its victim, who expired in a few minutes afterwards. — Westmoreland Gazette. ELorEmEs^r.—A short time since, some parties in a humble sphere of life in this county, allured by the accounts continually reaching them from the auriferous regions in Australia, resolved to quit the land of their birth, where fortune frowned upon their efforts, and to proceed to the rising colonies of the far-off country men tioned. Shortly after their arrival there, the husband — for they were married—left his wife "in town," and re paired to the " Diggings," in the hope of realizing that fortune which his prolific fancy had painted, before he quitted the shores of old England. After enduring the burning heat of "the sun at noon," and the inconvenience of "the cold night moon," together with many other suf ferings and privations which a "digger " can only describe, the poor fellow succeeded in obtaining nuggets "to the value of £4OO ! Brimful of joy, he repaired "to town," where he had left his wedded partner, recounted his diffi culties and his success, at the same time making her his banker. Happy couple ! Fortunate exiles ! But as all human happiness is transient, so was theirs. The deceit ful wife grew enamoured of another adventurer, packed her husband off to the diggings once more, and in his absence eloped with her newly-formed acquaintance ; crossed the tropics, and reached England a very short time ago. We may add that she is a native of a village, situate about six miles from this town ; and that when she passed through here, on her arrival in this country, she was decked in jewellery and hung in chains, flaunting through our streets with all the vulgar swagger of a shameless woman. The deserted husband, it is cheering to learn, has again been successful, for, according to accounts recently received by a gentleman in this town from his son, he has amassed about £5OO since the departure of his worthless spouse.—Cambridge Chronicle. STARTLING DISCOVERY ABOUT THE COMET. — In a paper published in "Weale's Astronomical Almanack" for 1854, Professor Crestadoro, of the University of Turin, announces the discovery of a new feature in the propa gation of light, which forms the groundwork of several important problems of physical astronomy. It is no less a new law of the planetary radiation and formation of shadows, that dissipates all the mystery attached to comets, the rings of Saturn, Zodiacal Light, Aurora Borealis, and a few other unexplained phenomena, such as occur in the eclipses and transits of Jupiter's satellites. According to such law the comets are only the phases of ordinary planets in their way to or from conjunction, under certain circum stances, when their radiation being oblique to the earth is converted into tails or commas of different shape, whilst the planet itself is noted down in the ephemerides as invi sible at the time, and as such, not thought of by observa tion. The last comet which has been conspicuous to the naked eye, during the last days of August, would t urn out to be the planet Venus, who at the time was not seen as such, but was throwing obliquely, m regard to the earth, a strong pencil of light that formed its tail, which pencil, as it gradually converted into a direct radiation towards oar globe, the appearance of the planet is insensibly sub stituted in place of that of the missed comet. The paper is entitled, " Expected Return of the Great Comet of 1556, or the emetic Mysteries Dissipated, with Illustrations." SLAVERY IN AMERICA.—At Wilkesbarre, in Pennsyl vania, at one of the hotels there lived as waiter a tall mulatto, nearly white, who went by the name of Bill. In the beginning of the present month there arrived in the town Deputy-Marshal Wynkoop, another fellow named Joe Jenkins, and three other assistants from Virginia, to arrest poor Bill as a " fugitive from labour." These per sons came behind him, and knocked him down with a mace ; but Bill, who, as it appears, is—or was, for, in all probability, the poor creature is dead—a very strong and active man, recovered his feet, and threw his assailants oft'. Finally, he managed to break from the house, with the handcuffs fastened on his right wrist, and made his way to the river. Into this he plunged, exclaiming " I will rather be drowned than taken alive." His pursuers fired at him before he reached the water, and when he was swimming they deliberately levelled their revolvers, and fired four or five shots. One ball was supposed to have struck his head, as his face became instantly covered with blood. He sprang up in the water, and shrieked in his agony. The bystanders were becoming so excited at the horrible sight, that the southerners retreated from the bank, and took counsel together as to what was best to be done. Meanwhile the poor slave came to the shore, and was supposed to be dying, upon which his pursuers remarked, that " Dead niggers were not worth taking south," and were walking away, when the fugitive unexpectedly re vived. As he in his turn was walking away, supported by another coloured man, the Virginia people, perceiving that he was alive, headed him, called upon him to stop, and threatened to shoot anybody who should protect the fugitive. The threat took effect, for the crowd actually did retire, and there was nothing for it but for poor Bill to take to the water again, which he did. In the water he remained for upwards of a hour, and there his pur suers dared not follow him. At length they appear them selves to have been intimidated by the menacing attitude of the crowd, who were preparing to arrest them, for they retired of their own record. Bill waded some distance up the river, and then got out. He was found by some coloured women flat on his face in a cornfield, senseless from the effect of his wound. Such is a specimen of pro ceedings under the Fugitive Slave Law. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS HAVE EFFECTED A WONDERFUL CURE OF LAMENESS OF FIVE YEARS' DURA TION.—Extract of a letter from Mrs. Drandanril, of Turks Island, Bahamas, dated August 3, 1851. —"To Profess or Holloway.—Sir,—l suffered during fi e years from lameness, occasioned by a severe cold, which confined me to my room s for two years and a half, during whic h p eriod I tried various remedies, but derived no benefit w h a t e ver from. them. I as then recommended to try your excellent medipnes,a d from their use I have experienced the greatest relief. They have proved most efficacious in my case, as I am from pilaa i bl . id , to walk without assistance, and a m entirely free BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATI C PILL. Extract of a letter written by John Molard wheeler, Esq., Collect other, of Customs, Jamaica, having been handed : —"by is bre at Swindon, to Mr. Front, for publi cation I know you have never had occasion to take Blairs Pills, but let me emphati• cally tell you, in mercy to any friend who may suffer from gout, rhuematic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, Or an y branch of that widely - allie d family, to recommend their using them. In this country they are of wonderful efficacy ; not only am I personally aware of their powers, but I see my f r iends and acquaintances receiving unfailing benefit from their use. I would not be without them on any account. If taken in the early stage of disease they dissipate it altogether if in a later , they alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier • er . cure, than by any other means within my knowledge,” Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by all resir t actable Medicine vendor@ 14 0 9000 the I gnited Kingdo m , price 9a. 9d. per box POOI the proce I dation to apply t hie-h 1 alteration in Shaw's-brow a west end of Hardman-street ment at the west end of Wa IE TOWN SYOR said : Gentlemen, 1 )vement Committee mov before U resolution on t sed this Council to be especia summoned, I have a comrr. think ought to take precedence of the regular business; and I think that the communication will afford to this Council, and I am sure to the public at large, as much gratification as it afforded to me, when I had the honour Your public library and museum have nuch promoted, and so many respectable and well-conducted young men attend it, notwithstanding its somewhat remote situation, that it has become painfully evident that the accommodation afforded is utterly in- adequate to the wants of the community. We have long contemplated the erection of an edifice in connexion with sy will sanction and enable us to carry s far as the well-digested plans of the committee and the state of the Corporation funds will permit us. But I believe the cost of a building suitable for con taining the Free Public Library and Museum has hitherto prevented the committee from bringing the matter before the Council until some of those general improvements have been effected which the wants of the inhabitants so .0 -L. this Counci much require townsmen ha come to our aid ; and I cannot ao better than simply detail to the Council the circumstances gentleman, known and honoured by all, whose life has displayed the activity and commercial industry which leads to success, Who has been the architect of his own fortune, and whose name is familiar here, and is, indeed, everywhere a household term, came into my room to tell me he was deeply impressed with the inadequacy of the present Reading-room and Library in Duke-street ; and he expressed a very strong wish that every means should be afforded to the young men in this town to enable them to 1 to of societl cultivate their minds, and acquire a which would make them useful memb which would tend to elevate them in th Then, alluding to the contemplated improve knowlec much needed, he hoped we should have no difficulty in finding a site for a more spacious edifice in a central situation, and near St. George's-hall. He feelingly added, that Providence had blessed his exertions, and he acknowledged the debt he owed to Liverpool; and then communicated his intention of presenting the munificent be open to all classes of this great community, if the ( poration would provide a suitable site. On my p out the north side of Shaw's-brow, when the conten plated improvement was adopted, he thought that would be a suitable situation, and stated that it would have his perfect concurrence, if this Council thought fit to carry out that improvement. The visit made a deep impression on my mind. It now only remains for me to disclose this Council, and through it to the communit the name It of the gentleman who has made this munificent offer is Mr. William Brown, one of the members for South Lancashire. I haire no doubt, in making this communi cation, that the Council will pass a resolution, such as I think it ousrht, in acknowledgment of so handsome and so gift. (Applause.) generous Mr. CHALES TURNER said he was sure that all the members of the Council had heard the Mayor's announce ment with deep gratitude to Mr. Brown, and with great satisfaction that they had among them a merchant of his worth and high abilities, who had justly earned, during a long life in this town, the esteem and approbation of his fellow-townsmen, and who had always been ready to come forward to advance the interests of the inhabitants of Liverpool. Until a few minutes before he entered the • Council-chamber, he had not the slightest idea that this announcement was to be made to this Council, and he was, therefore, not prepared to express his feelings adequately upon the occasion. He was, however, sure that the Council would not allow the announeement of this gift to pass over without adopting some such resolution as that to which the Mayor had alluded. In conclusion, he pro posed a resolution to the effect, " That the thanks of the meeting be conveyed to Mr. Brown, for his munificent offer of £6,000 towards the erection of a Free Public Library at the north end of Shaw's-brow, when the con templated high-level bridge has been constructed." Sir JOHN BENT bad great pleasure in seconding Mr. Turner's motion ; but, after the well-deserved eulogiums which the Mayor and Mr. Turner had paid to Mr. Brown for his munificent gift, no words of his were necessary to add to its importance. He should, therefore, content him self by observing, that, as an inhabitant of this town, he appreciated very highly the value of the establishment of a Free Public Library of this kind in Liverpool; and he was as grateful to him as, he was sure, the inhabitants of the town would equally be. . . . Mr. GREGSON :Are we to understand that the offer is made on the consideration that the site of the building shall be Shaw's-brow ? because I think it is possible that a better site may be found. The MAYOR : I pointed out to Mr. Brown the improve ments that were contemplated on Shaw's-brow, and he said that if the Council thought fit to make that improve ment, that site would meet with his concurrence, as being nearly the centre of Liverpool, and accessible to all classes, . . particularly to those for whose peculiar benefit the institu: tion would be formed. • Mr. Alderman PROCTOR thought it would be better not to discuss the question of situation at present. - . Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE was of opinion that the best plan to adopt would be to move a vote of thanks to Mr. Brown, and to keep the question of situation entirely separate and distinct. He was very sorry that the two had been mixed up together, and that the question of thanks should have come before the Council in the shape of a cut and dried resolution. The question of a high level bridge was involved with difficulties, and ought not to have been introduced along with that of a vote of thanks to Mr. Brown. He suggested that a vote of thanks should be moved to Mr. Brown distinct from the question of situation. Let them do justice to the muni ficent offer, and afterwards to the other subject. • . _ Mr. STEWART thought Mr. Gladstone was right. There could only be one feeling of gratitude to Mr. Brown ; and they should confine themselves, in the first instance, to an expression of the warmest thanks to him for his offer. Mr. Tllorasoix in the name of a large party out of doors —the mechanical apprentices, tendered Mr. Brown his warmest thanks. Mr. BENNETT.—As Mr. Brown has expressed a wish as to the site, I think the two resolutions should go together. Mr. J. H. TURNER. —He does express a decided wish on the subject, I think. The MAYOR.—Mr. Brown said the Council would no doubt select a suitable site. I mentioned the north end of St. George's Hall, and he thought it a very convenient spot. Mr. BIGHAM wished the Council to be informed clearly under what circumstances the offer was made. Was it simply on the condition that they should provide a suit able site? The MAYOR repeated that Mr. Brown had offered the sum of £6,000 for the erection of a free library and mu seum, on condition that the Council should privide a suit able situation. Mr. Brown did not mention any particular site ; but he (the Mayor) pointed out a site which he thought was obtainable, and Mr. Brown expressed his con currence, and stated that he thought the situation a very central, and, therefore, a very suitable one. It was agreed that the consideration of the subject should be deferred until a later period of the proceedings, in order that the Town-clerk might divide the two ques tions of "vote of thanks" and "situation" into two sepa rate resolutions. This was subsequently done, and the amended motion, conveying a vote of thanks to Mr. Brown, was unani mously, adopted. It was in the following terms : " That the Mayor be requested to convey to Mr. Brown the full appreciation, by this Council, of the noble senti ments which have actuated, and of the generosity which has prompted this most munificent proposal, and to inform him that the Council readily avail themselves of an offer which will secure to the inhabitants a suitable building for the Free Public Library. And this Council desires, also, to tender to Mr. Brown their warmest thanks for a gift which, they.feel assured, will be fully appreciated by all classes of the community." PROPOSED TOWN IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. Alderman BENNETT, in the absence of the chair man of the Museum Committee, (Mr. Picton,) moved the confirmation of the minutes of the Improvement Com mittee, which r ecommended the widening of Hatton garden to a width of 20 yards at the cost of L 15,150; the construction of a " street from the bottom of Shaw's brow to the top of Manchester-street, including improve ments in Shaw's-brow, and the works connected therewith," at an expense of £90,600 ; the purchase of a small portion of land in Hardman-street to enable them to make it the same width from top to bottom, at an expense of ELKO ; and lastly, the widening of Water street, by carrying it down past the iron warehouse, at the same width as it is opposite to the office of the City of Dublin Company, at a cost of £7,250 ; making a total of £114,600. The Town-clerk, in offering a financial statement, thought they would be justified in expending this sum of money, which, calculated at an interest of 6 per cent. would be something like an expenditure of £6,800 a-year ; and the Corporation Estate was sufficiently flourishing to justify this. These were all steps which the committee considered were in the right direction, as forming part of a grand scheme of improvement, which he hoped they should be able to bring before the Council. He might say that the whole of the recommendations would be passed unanimously by the committee ; and the Town Committee, appointed at the public meeting at which the Mayor presided, were also unanijnous in wish ing these improproceedivementnsgstoofbethcae i rr n i l ed pro o s u ,e t m . en li t e co be ni gg nil ed tte th e mo ve that the be confirmed. A discussion of some length ensued, in the course of which Mr. Bran.km said—The recommendation to erect a high-level bridge was the result of a committee's deli beration out of doors, and the considerations which caused them to adopt the suggestions were quite secret. Would m it i n ttee ot be th p e ro v per e th fo e r so ma m fe e w persons reasons why representingthat thisreoin m co end rn a: , m if ad p e :26 to sibl e e n ? abl T e ak tl in iem g a t w o m a z rri o x n e se a n t se th l s w am o e f clus was ion e con, the question, he should say that a high-level bridge was likely to do serious injury to property in and about Shaw's-brow ; and that the compensation to which parties would be entitled would be a very large sum indeed. With the present high rate of interest, and a probability of an increase, combined with the possibility of a check in their trade, which would be likely to continue for some time, would it be wise and prudent to enter upon a scheme involving a certain expenditure of £ll4,soo,—and it might resolve itself into an outlay .of £250,000, a quarter of a million; and he dared say he had as much ground for thinking it would be £250,000, as Mr, Bennett had for dertake t—___ _ =Cuts r. tie thougnt tne sunject ought to receive the careful deliberation of the whole Council, in order that they might condense the whole of the facts, and then consider what measures they should adopt. He should therefore, move that the subject be referred back to the committee,—Mr. HENDEUSON se conded the amendment. ' sigh-level I. H. mittee to , vernent COMMISSION BRS ETIIV G. His we 1 2 at the Town- Mayor occupied iers , were also John W WOOD stated tt ,rn of M. Stewart of pilot Until the passing of the new pil could not have been entertained under the operation Queen in council, „ steamers were the only ex was prepared to sub. mid me nts of the case, and ports in the - world, viz., those _of_Londoit, NeCv Yc v.crpuut, . wvum uc iounu inaL toe rates m Liverpool are just one-third of what is charged in London and New York. Still the committee, always desirous of extending the advantages of reduced rates, so long as that would not interfere with the efficiency of the pilot establishment, had agreed to recommend that for coastino..+A.arn... a outward bound, without a made ; and for those inward bound, Luc , a branch pilot is not required, the rate be reduced from four shillings to one shilling per f oo t. H e conc l u d e d moving the following resolution : " That, with the consent of her Majesty in council following regulation be made with respect to t pilotage on coasting steamers, that is to say : tl steamers, outward bound, proceeding to sea without a pilot, be altogether' exempted from the payment of pilotage ; and that the rate of pilotage for coasting steamers, inward bound, be reduced from four shillings to one shilling per foot, where the services of a branch pilot are dispensed with ; and that this resolution take effect at the expiration of one calendar month from the consent of her Majesty in council being obtained." Mr. A. MANN seconded the adoption of the resolution, and in doing so remarked that the proprietors of coasting steamers had long entertained an opinion that a reduction in the rates which they were charged for pilotage was ne cessary, and some of the commissioners were of a similar opinion. Till the new act passed, however, it was not in the power of the commissioners to grant any relief. Many of the coasting steamers, availing themselves of the know ledge of their commanders, during fine weather proceeded to to rates of oca w iLuvuu yuvuo , muta Limy also frequently in summer time made the voyage inwards without a pilot; but in winter and during stormy weather, they generally applied for the ser vices of pilots, so that no steamers could be said to be entirely independent of the pilot establishment and in its efficiency they were, th ere --- `" , Auce other part i , in te r e s ted. Looking at both views of the case, the com mittee were of opinion that the recommendation included in the resolution was such as to meet the case of the coast ing steamers most liberally. By that resolution it was proposed entirely to exempt them from pilotage charges, when going outwards without the services of a pilot ; and the present charge of four shillings per foot on the inward voyage, where a pilot was dispensed with, was to be reduced to one shilling. The retention of this small charge the committee deemed indispensable for maintaining the effi ciency of the establishment. deeply The SECRETARY stated that at presen steamers pay fcnur shillings p ill inward and in answer t question, hi said, it was considered th e gross amount of this proposed reduction would be in all probability about £4,000 per annum The resolution having been put to the meeting, was unanimously carried. Mr. J. BATESON moved that the necessary steps be adopted for obtaining the consent of Her Majesty in Council to the proposed alteration. Mr. W. GIBSON seconded the motion, which was uns mously agreed to. On the motion of Mr. J. N. resolved that Mr. George Kenda Wood, it was unanimously 11 and Mr beappointed to fill the - vacant seats in the commission A vote of thanks was then proposed to the Mayor, the meeting separated. LIVERPOOL COUNTY COU.R7 Trn September sitting of this Court commenced yes terday (Monday). There were upon the list 50 fraud sum monses, 3 interpleaders, 705 ordinary cases, and 40 adjourned cases. This sitting will end on the 7th of Oc tober, and the next sitting commence on the following Monday, October 10th. The Judge, Joseph Pollock, Esq., took his seat at ten o'clock, and proceeded with the fraud summonses. The following individuals were severally committed to Lancaster Castle, for 30 days, for non-com pliance with the orders of the Court : Edward Bradshaw, Joseph Jones, Mary Hirst, Thos. Davies, Joseph Musker, William Vickers, George F. Smith, John Evans, Charles Knowles, John James, George Sanderson, James W orre ll , William Vane, Norman M`Leod, William Russell, Jam es Worrall, John Doyle, and Thomas Carmichael. In the case of MANN - v. CROSTON, adjourned from last court for the judge's decision, his Honour now read hi; judgment. This was an action brought by a tenant for the recovery of half of the sewerage rate paid by the plaintiff, for a tenement in his occupation belonging to the d ud decisions of the Judges which bore upon this case, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £1 10s. 4d. WILLIAM DYER v. MARY JONESMr. Grocott ap peared for plaintiff, and Mr. Hime for the defendant. This action had been brought for £2O. A verdict was given at the last Court for £lO, and another quarter's rent, £lO, was now due. Mrs. Jones stated that she had expended £6O for the goodwill of the premises, and £216 for stock. Mr. Dyke had offered to forgive her the debt if she would leave the house, but she refused to do this unless she was indemnified in some degree for her expenditure for good_ will, or Mr. Dyke would accept a tenant whom she offered. Mr. Grocott now applied for her committal, on the ground that defendant had been guilty of misconduct in taking the premises, not having at the time the means of payi ng her rent. His Honour said the defendant was a milliner,n - and had hoped to get a good business. He •did no t co sider that she had been guilty of misconduct at the time of taking the premises, and therefore would dismiss the ease. INSOLVENCY CASES.—In the case of Edmund Pear son, the final order for protection was granted. Finai r d p .,.. - - hau s o upi i‘ xs i rted the were also granted to John Thomas William s an d J a ames s — , Hayes. the an afpacptslicaotfiotnheforease. The . order. his In the case of James Brooke, Mr. Eva n on behalf th sides, when ly n s li t s at w ed as insolvent's petition, and Mr. Rime, The case was entered into and argued b o a • final --tr.' solvent was a ship-builder ; he had 59 Honour iii H s owin, oppo s s h ed ort . amount of about £2,500. Forty-nine f creditors to the to accept the insolvent's offe f4 B r 0 . 0 these had agreed 7d in the pound, and ten had refused to accept it h . • , w o were creditors to the amount of about £lOO. The uestion insolvent, finding such to be, the ci e, should have the the Bankruptcy Court and asked that Court to his property, as he might have done, or whether it was against public policy for him to appear in this court. Mr. Evans was right in argui ng th at the insolvent was a per son to whom he was entitled to giv e relief. The ' only ob jection would be on the ground of public policy, that it would have been less expense to have administered to the estate in the Bankruptcy Court.—Mr. llime argued that the insolvent ought not to have executed the deed at all, but he ought to have gone to the Court of Bank ruptcy. He then commenced an exa m i nat i on of the insol vent. His Honour said, because the in so l venthad not had re course to a reme dy provided for him in the last Bank ruptcy Act, he was not prepared to say that he was pre cluded from having recourse to this C ourt. In the case which had been quoted by Mr. Hime, Mr. Commissioner Holroyd said he would not give the insolvent a final order until the opposing creditors were put in the same position with regard to the dividend as those who had agreed to it. But in his decision he had not adhered to that course, and he therefore supposed that there was some inaccuracy in the report. In such a case, therefore, he thought he should be at liberty to enter into the fullest investigation Of the manner in which the assign ment had been brought about, the mode in which it had been conducted, and the honesty of the dealing with which it had been carried out. The fact that the insolvent had not applied in the first place to a public tribunal, rendered it incumbent upon him to exercise great care in the consideration of the case. At the same time it would be his business to inquire what would have been the most beneficial mode of administering the estat e. He also required that the fullest means of investigati on should be afforded to the opposing creditor in the account s , and the circumstances relating to the assignment, and the assets of the estate. He would therefore name the 2d of October for the granting of the final order. A final order was granted to David Scott The further examinations of John , John and Elizabeth Done, were adj ournea until the 221 of October The case of Richard Maddock was ad 10th of October, and the cas un th of. Lawrence Holder til post poned for two months This closed the business of the first ( the associated masters of Prest found that the operal Lad placed themselves of an irresponsible and design;., state that, havir ice has bE 11 which ti the various mills pioy ed tanding the concession made of a noGiii can no strike sl rants the men on tne ..._ .101 resume th e i r work, or u a nt b il etter understanding be established between the employer and The masters, in taking this step, express their e c m on p v l i o r t ion of the serious evils by which it is likely to be attended, but they add that the r esponsibility attaches to those who have so recklessly ereatea the difficulty, and forced them to adopt such a course. Limekiln-1 PILO t twelN Le follow D HOWLASI