The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-02 00:00:00

LOCAL INTTELLIGENeE. PIENGLER'S CIRCUS:---FROWDE'S BENEFlT.—Eyery body- who really can enjoy a highly amusing, and,, we 44 1 say, an intellectual evening's entertainment, should go tuFrowde's benefit—the most inimitable of Shake spearian clowns—on Friday night. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDRF.N.— Monthly Re port, April, 1850 : Fr es h p a ti en t s a d m itt e d, 137 + ; Patients who have received treatment, 312 ; patients remaunng under treatment, 165: Hon. medical officers, Stephens and Mr: Hey; assistant medical officer, 'lr. Rowe; treasurer, Arthur Dempsey, Esq. ; bon: sur geon-dentist, Mr. _Newman. ACC IDENTS.—EIIen Craine, a child aged 5 years, residing in 117, Portland-street, was run over by a cart In Sc otland -road, and sustained severe contusions of the body• Joh n Ri g b y, a carter residing in 14, , Peaseh-street,, Nate nocked d own an d run over - by his .own cart in. lroo:road, and sustained a fractured lee:. 4 E LECT VE STRY .—Th e f or t n i g htly mee ting of the elect Vestry- was held in the boari-room, at the li v a c rish " ° ffictsßrownlow-hill, yesterday forenoon. The • Rector Campbell "resided; and the other members Z e serit were Messrs. Churchwarden Cropper. Owen, Scott, B a i rStow, E. Byford, Denton, Whitty, p Yr e ed ' Goodacre Lightbound, Turner, E. Whitby, and Whit r T be. proceedings of the Workhouse Committee, - th e „ b e ,! ° ° ll. nended that an advertisement he inserted in tee dr"°Plints, soliciting candidates for the office of lead °lnee r , in the place of Mr. Leather, were con tinued on the motion of Mr. Cropper.—A discussion ensued "as to the recommendation of the industrial S b s t uools Committee, that a sewing machine shuuldbe ult ained for the schools; and the recommendation w as b ei , im ately referred hack, a majority of the members hid Pinion that there was a sufficient number of !clitvera,c,ita...eire,eedndin. in the seliciols to do all the sewing which was --- - es - Mr Owen, in moving the confirmation of the of the. Finance Committee, alluded to a etatsot_ement which bad been made in the House of Com-' as to the removal of paupers from Liverpool . to h - ad I ,'= l . He stated that no such case as that which oth been brought before Parliament had, occurred in e p a ,;: ect ion with this town ; and he hoped the rat?- zathit is of Liverpool would not submit to such attacks in ° l. se of Commons or any other place.--e The cent- , Bin e "rought up a petition against the Medical Relief G eo 11 °Nv before Parliament, which was adopted.—Mr. iii t i r , t e e 11. Howell was appointed dispenser of medicines e-worlchonse.—This concluded the business. t n lll ll BOARD O F HEALTH.—The monthly meeting p ail is board was held yesterday, in the Public ffi ces, kr -r° ad IL S. Alpass presided, and the other member: vsaa , p were —Messrs. Hill, Walker, Da . rsie, o l vt iL eT e i ti ll g argrea Tes , an d Siddeley. The minutes-of the .clad were read and confirmed, also the meeting. which wa s held on the 16thminutes of a The proceeding the latter Meeting included cielerltition to impose as p ecialp district rate on the rest ive' i n Grove-park of 51d, in the pound, also a general for the ensuing -year of Is. 10d. There wag' no ssines s 0. of any importance. at the BOARD OF HEALTII.—Mr. Morris presided th e monthly m ee ti ng of this board yesterday, and cheidother members presentevere—Messrs; Cooper, Watts, l ast n, Uastellain, and Chaloner. The minutes of the re co lae etiat were read and confirmed. The surveyor th e - ) T 4 . l ended that a general rate of Is. 2d. be imposed on housed of the district, and a rate of 3d. on the lands. (. I .,,,,t urth a special district rate would recommends- o ti e n,Lne houses and.2d. on land. This off er i'as agreed to: Mr. Morris made a conditional ° lend , the sum of £l,OOO (which the b?ard now veL,lr„es) at the rate of 41 per cent. After some con - . °4 u off er -u pon the subject Mr. Morris withdrew his. b erz :' n ,,,,, 4 ° that the board could have an opportunity of tern ""'''e the money as cheaply as possible. The of the business was not of any .public LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The fifth concert of the present season of the Liver tee ti ; P hilharmonic Society took place last night, when f eat „ "elfg grand "Sinfonia Eroica" was the principal at i r e of the programme. Mad'lle Euphrosirie Parepa s -M adame Stanton Dolby were the only 'principal ti e l l , and th e selection of their songs was not effective. „ Wallace's new 'composition for Mad'lle Parepa, e Bells,' , is nothing more than a waltz of ver y i, e ,. /)121611 -Plaee charadter. Mr. V. Gabriel's new so n g , he S lipper , and. his Boy, " introduced to us by auanie Sainton Dolby, is uncommonly like several old balis: l B that. we have heard'Miss Dolby sing. The air fr°lll "R c ii,,m't le Diable" afforded •Mad'lle Parepa an great compass of voice, but not ; e Pportunity o f a h o y,: 5 considerable brilliancy r Y equal in uality. She b as " n 7 l execution, and some good tont!' in the middle and t °Ae , ltater,:but• her ripper notes af,".poor},,indthin. ;. e song,- from " Manon Lescaut," Auber, Iv— given by her with great comic power, a nd cats was ! Ilth usiastically encored. The overture to " Dinorali" was repTated, but we cannot say that it improves on the ear •4. l , e ither poetically or musically. Mons. Sainton Played _Mendelssohn's gi Violin Concerto" firmly acid With good tone, but, we canna rank him amongst the refined performers on that instrument. The hall was only moderately well filled, and the audience rather cold than otheiwise. SUPJRESSION OF A. BETTING-HOUSE IN LIVERPOOL. APPREHENSION OF ABOUT FORTY PERSONS LAST NIGHT. • Considerable excitement was occasioned here last night 1 5 Y the sudden descent of a strong b o d y o f t h e pol i ce 0 rea upon a well-known sporting house—the Albion °• tel, Ranelagh-street—shortly after nine o'clock, her the purpose of apprehending a large num _atter of persons, assembled there, it was believed, ° e the illegal business of gambling, or betting on probable results of racing, and other sporting '.lgageinents. At the hour mentioned, about a dozen °I of t* , c Ives entered the house, and at once took posses ... 3, _„ roo m o! , the entrance to what is known as the " betting „ir , where professional betting men and their patrons tve ustomers are wont to meet, to lay bets on coming d ee lllS, and settle acceunts for bets that may have been a ce , ue d• These operations being, of course, we imagine, be:°crepanied• with' smoking and drinking, for the e ut of the Thin rendezvous has, wo and erst house. tipo . ,and, been recognised for years as the pr.in tile 'Jetting house in this town. At the time tjelice entered there were, about forty persons cl oti Z t betti ng room. ' The detectives were in plain 1 ) es, bat th e y were w ell backed by a sufficient num of aft be be r egu l ar po li ce - o ffi ce rs. The consternation of essil i P °T tinggentlemeu then engaged in business may be tk e ,Y conceived, on receiving the announcement that o te Lw, ere all, without distinction, charged with being °de ed in an illegal pursuit, and that they must then, of ti ° ll t further ceremony, consider themselves prisoners l" • e Police and proceed with them to the Central ()lic e A tte , -etion. °f „„r, some fruitless efforts at escape, and a good deal di l e r — dision, it 'became evident to the captured that of atiou was the better part of valour, and the process tek e -l 'renderin g and subsequent transference to the Each .W 2,s submitted to without further resistance. tivi u present in the betting-room, after o'er g °ls itame to one of the inspectors, was handed t 0 an offiter, who instantly proceeded with his pri ielter.,,, the central office, in Date-stintrt, Mfrs. Smith, the ra.t See Q f the hot e l was t -2!to taken there. The eet o - ,„ gre ll,ea of the persons thug caught, was what is are :,:°, 1 , 1 1y called highly respectable, and many of them °theZ"„known tradesmen and publicans in town, with °I rather a higher grade, who are understood to ha ve manes c. the betting ring. Of course there may gamb ee n .some among them perfectly, innocent ,of Pre .although it will not be denied that their e tai la such an assembly is prima facie evidence to and, therefore, there can be little doubt Th - Nustifiableness of the procedure of the . police. th e e r ; ° ; 46 ' i s'ing are the names given to the police by 4 ty Plt a ,, -es apprehended in the betting-room. Whether 4sr' ah - b e eerreet Or not, of course, we know not, and how Qlsr;i 7 ‘ ,91. them are really implicated in the general tch in aMbling and betting will be ascertained keit% re ore the stipendiary magistrate : --+ Mrs. t a,,, 6 4.TbiOn•; Peter Haley, 291, Crown-street ; 'eY, •°•nli,, S mith ;• Richard Anderson ; Samuel Town ttreet vlayte;;street ; Thomas Shaw, 3, Sluvr "s, -"lward Brian 21; Phythian-street; Joh n Mills, 44 te alb ° t - street ; John Rick, Sheffi e ld; George Smith; str ee e t . e t 4 ilet; 'London ; John Proctor, 51, Fontenoy 'lo4,,,,' G eorge Routledge, Brownlow-street ; Stephe n toad 7 1 ,?. Chaloner-street ; Edward Ford," London -Littler Tedlor, 96, Eastbourne-street; Ebenezer ee tter" rV 3 ) Salisbury-street ; Robert Holton, .G l ° ll- . ept u t 44 aulel Louis,- Gloucester ; Keen, the g able s --e ',ClaYton-sciaire ; George Handison, Rainhill ; 3 1, D - ualxiel, 49, Gill-street; .Edward Brown, 4 a treet7 ll ",, ell- street; James M'Donald, 7; • Pleasant rsom Sand, Prince's-park ; William An- VittoZ B irkenhead; John Hepburn ; John Brown, Obi b'buildin_gs, Rumford-street ; William Heatley, .eon - 41 t - e 7.; Joseph Darlington, Wood-street ; Luke T hci B arke r tie Peet, Grenville-street ; Thomas Lunt ; Levi 4 6, RA Ci a„rke, Georgercourt, Redcross-street ; Henry .loeymonr-street; Peter llaydon, Clayton lohn 4illisxa Garly, 12, Parliament-place; Robert Pembroke-place; Edwd. Turner, Berry-street; T h tto Clac!ou, Great Newton-street. • deni e parties givi l m these names, and some others whose devir t tions catch in the hurry of taking sev etti t i o: list in the midst of so much excitement, were vilah tall en Out of the house, around the entrance, r e Th3 - o Lereat crowd had been attracted, amid 2 13 aPaiei --- „ f e xpressions of feeling according to the ,eouvhtb..- expressions various - spectators. Many were anddelight at u.,_ 4111 io indulge in manifestations of . — e so /am — my t , at at the unfortunate predicament 4 a ll az ild i. ,th,ernselveg - e n -L i tYr_ . fellow-toWnsmen unexpectedly h, , s ugiY, and gave , and these laughed and . ,ieered uccasion seemed vent t o etttla witty expressions as '.4118 of spectato r to them to call for. Another r 4 l , tt erept t 0 were iOUS to CK =ROT e ni& enough p '"eul could scarcely 4 - ', r eera in the y discharge 0! what to °f the crowd, apparently: ran a leasant duty. *me rave vent to their sple4 3.l : ll eeesei at the proceedings, esvit nge peel, and such oth 3' throwing at police, mud, host eri li t readily available. Noe ominous missiles as were oto tie and the whole of th e r was t tle Central _Police-office, wh et , done room. The next step in tisonera were transmitted us attempt at rescue • they were rd tl l l '4 . llar Y inquiry before Mr. the proms was a had charge names taken down, and, as orb, eh gain "Ind or er e of an officer, was sent off to Q t e r h : ' .re to be regularly booked on the thbetting, and to be locked up for the e hour last night we were informed nightf gambling m -a ai e n'B ri rrdew er ell, copsetone were to be permitted to lea " At a very_ In the the whole gang must haveY:the Bridewell ''Jlle cells:. The prisoners will, of coursPee, on bail, and nt be t broughthe u g magistrates to-day. before the cl) bonara-head court-martial was held at Chatham 1r'3.11 ay, for the purpose of trying a marine for a gross of insolence and insubordination to Lieut.-colonel 410 w, in presence of the whole division . . Th e man ss sentenced to fifty lashes, which were given without delay, ~:the Post understands that for the present the Duke Argyle, the Lord Privy Seal, will take the duties of the Pos t - offise . in the absence of the. Earl of Elgin. This ‘11,,,„,1" irrangement is made In consequence of an gut to the duration a the noble Earl's ikwatmeet e sup e pre of the a had •evious, Exc.lu -1 ships mailer about& rigatea eserve, it had would reserve it own mteert irte, "P were had a' .erve at nations to tilt paper. which, !Woo. td, and E:oreiin of the en Her aboli e exact in pra• ry whe tertPi- or what a abort ative to en flaa resented se that he Man rd men, revenue teen not s unani lMiSelOg Will fife to 12,0 0 y to be d the I sail of of nava s soon 0 amissios that the, ore 4, teal Lit to the ure Quid not 1 =lsar rs was ong the/ eetations ►lunteers Aunteers eel) , and aitted Qn ace. was now in only ISO seamen. ion. H. n, on the ly for the tern Ivo ecessitri• a bl e to diet t i L . sed rd 'frOl ° tken 1 9 r ryiUg out praise to y la °lle. eased the the PrT '.• the Fame.:' iu though t retained L thairable ates full marines• finding !nded the brough t d as per ur coasts :o various the nail , ed on 0., ' boys 8t ae crews good ser• navy °n. is presen t e bount9 , Ice ta-010-/ he couro mnuitteet ie briberl. we of !! . :e e detsile i Lich led t° to ly earrie • ition, carry"t izt , notoriou s sewnh • t redieste d : er toe unstoco far tb :' aclarati ° 7 , rupt 1c!? • yen asV 4 _ of lie, ear, 1 7, it aid flab • ciro ulv. atrictegt hither' of Lste rice afr eot athow . e , un e rass°a,. ie receipt see t h e e hy p v i n 4 a the rod' that * eandi- don was ' • evalen* Llich was L Lim of . namitte• repo e , on sir stopst exier g for 00 . teient ta, ould les" • member!: t did no t Corru_ A P` eat Ow" fro= r to a° r 1 dew Qf Les. Ile ' disti l2l l pledge' , lend er f grai l u * - tervva OUP briberl puld lead :fide. be aproo it ral .learn -d notilluf 'mission .cessors, p, of th e urned e on We re rorn ti2e , cool' e w hiclz should a t cora" elPt e ae co.-- I, soli" MAY DAY IN LIVERPOOL. The present season of the year inspires all the world with joy and good humour. It meets with a recognition almost as general as that accorded to Merry Christmas. In the great festival of the Nativity a sprinkling of 'snow and a keen frost are indispensable adjuncts. and the home-fireside is tint centre of attraction. But on May Day we look for the blossoms and the fresh lively green which give promise of the summer glory, and the . autumn abundance. It is a wonder that the May-Day observances have fallen off so considerably. All nature rejoices, and the natural impulse of man should be gratitude and joy. But the pastoral days are gone, and • the age of great cities anti big factories has come upon us. Steam has dealt ,rudely with poetry, and the locomotive has invaded every rural nook. Business is inure engrossing than of old—if we •must believe the -- chroniclErs of our early sports and pastimes ;—and the stern demands of the actual leaves but little room for au indulgence in the ideal. There was a time when the Ist of May was a great rural festival. The hearts of our forefathers responded merrily to the . cheerfulness of the season. At the dawn of May morn ing the lads and lasses left their towns and villages, and repairing to the woodlands they gathered the May or blossomed branches of the trees, and bound them with wreaths of flowers; then returning to their homes by sunrise, they decorated the lattices and doors with the sweet smelling spoil of their. joyous journey, and spent the remaining hours in sports and pastimes. .Our good old town, however, is never backward in its homage to the customary holidays; and yesterday Liverpool_ presented unmistakable evidences of some • . un usual rejoicing. The vessels in the docks and the river hoisted their gayest bunting, the horses and the carts were profusely decorated with ribbons and rosettes, and the quantity of new harness was something enormous. The teams of Messrs. Macfie, of Mr. Rose, the corporation contractor, Mr. Barton, and others paraded the principal streets, and the splendid animals in their holiday trappings, were the theme of universal admiration. The weather was glorious, and the temperature was considerably higher than it has been on auy other occasion since last year. Although the old customs have fallen into desuetude, some little sketch of them cannot fail to be interesting to our readers. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of this flay' in times past was the Mayrpole. During the stern rule of the Puritans in Cromwell's time, it was discarded, as smacking too much of Popery ; but "the reign of the saints" came to an end, and the restoration of Charles 11. was the signal for the restora tion of May-poles. - Washington - Irving—a poet who has not versified—gives a pretty sketch of a May-pole, which he saw at Chester. As the incident is healthfully told, and possesses local interest, We venture to give the passage : " I shall never ferget the delight I felt on first seeing a May-pole. It was on the banks of the Dee, close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint little city of Chester. I had already been carried back into former days by the antiquities- of that venerable place ; the examination of which is equal to turning over the pages of a black-letter volume, or gazing on the pictures of Froissart. The May-pole on the margin of that poetic stream completed the illusion. My fancy adorned it with wreaths of flowers, and peopled the green bank with all the dancing revelry of May-day.. The mere sight of this May-pole gave a glow to my feelings, and spread a charm over the country for the rest of the day ; and as I traversed a part of the fair .plains of Cheshire, and the beautiful borders of Wales, and looked from among swelling hills down a long green valley, through which the Deva wound its wizard stream,' my imagination turned all into a perfect Arcadia.—One can readily imagine' what a gay scene it must have been in jolly old London, when the doors were decorated with flowering branches, when every hat was decked with hawthorn; and Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, the morris-dancers, and all the other fantastic masks end revellers were performing their antics about the May-pole in every part of the city. I value every custom that tends to infuse poetical feeling into the common people, and to sweeten and soften the rudeness of rustic manners, without destroying . _ their . simplicity. -Indeed, it to the decline of this happy simplicity that the decline of this custom may be traced; and the rural dance on the green, and the homely-May day pageant, have gradually disappeared, in proportion as the peasantry have become expensive and artificial in their pleasures, and too knowing for simple enjoyment. Some attempts, indeed, have been made of late years, by men of both taste and learning, to rally In.& the popular feeling to these standards of primitive simpl:eity, but the time has gone by ; the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic ; the country apes the manners and amusements of the town, and little is heard of May day at present, except from the lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the Wick walls of the city." in many towns this is a great day for the chimney sweepers. And here we prefer, rather than give any description of $l4 feature of the festival ourselves, to enrich our columns with a rare extract from that most exquisite and genial of writers, Charles Lamb. Elia, chose noble heart seems to run over with sympathy, is nude both a poet and philosopher by his emotions, and thus Inites:— "I have a kindly yearning toward these dim specks— poor blots—innocent blacknesses--- " I reverence these young Africans of our own growth—these almost 'clergy imps, who spqrt their c l o th without assuMption; and from their little pulpits (the tops of chimneys), in the nipping air of a December morning, preach a lesson of patience to mankind. " When a child, what a mysterious pleasure it was to witness their operations ! to see a chit no bigger than one's self enter, one knew not by what process, into what seemed the faeces filverni—to pursue him in imagination as he went rounding on through so many dark, stifling caverns, horrid shades ±---to shudder with the idea that, now, surely, he must be lost for ever' — to revive at hearing his feeble shout of discovered day light—and then (0, fulness of delight) running out of doors, to come just in time to see the sable phenomenon emerge in safety, the brandished weapon of his art victorious like some flag waved over a conquered citadel! I seem to remember having been told that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew, It was an awful spectacle certainly; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth,' when the ' Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.' " Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry in the early rambles, it is good to give him a penny. It is better to give him twopence. If it be starving weather, and to the proper troubles of his hard occu pation, a pair of kibed heels (no unusual accompaniment) be super-added, the demand on thy humanity will surely rise to a tester. " I am by nature extremely susceptible of street affronts ; the jeers and taunts of the populace ; the low bred triumph they display over the casual trip; or splashed stocking, of a gentleman. Yet can I endure the jocularity of a young sweep with something more than forgiveness. In the last winter but one, pacing along Cheapside with my accustomed precipitation when I walk westward, a treacherous slide brought me upon my back in an instant. I scrambled up with pain and shame enough—yet outwardly trying to face it down, as if nothing .11.1. e. happened—when the roguish grin of one of these young wits encountered sae, There he stood, pointing me out with his dusky finger to the snob, and to a poor woman (I suppose his, mother) in particular, till the tears for the exquisiteness of the fun (so he thought it) worked themselves out at the corners of his poor red eyes, red from many a previous weeping, and soot-inflamed, yet twinkling through all with such a Joy, snatched out of desolation, that Hogarth--but Hogarth has got him already (how could he miss him ?) in the march to Finchley, grinning at the pieman— there he stood, as he stands in the picture, irremovable, as if the jest was to last for ever—with such a maximum of glee, and minimum - of mischief, in his mirth—for the grin of a genuine sweep bath absolutely no malice in it—that I could have been content, if the honour of a r gentleman [might endure it, to have remained his butt and his mock-cry till midnight. " I am by theory obdurate to the seductiveness of what are called a fine set of teeth. Every pair of rosy lips (the ladies mast pardon me) is a casket, presumably holding such jewels; but, s inethinks, they should take leave to air' them as frugally as _possible. The fine lady, .or fine gentleman, who show me their teeth, show me bones. Yet . must I confess, that from the mouth of a a true sweep &spicy . .(even to' ostentation) of .those white and shining ossifications, strikes me as an agree able anomaly in manners , and an allowable piece of foppery, It is, as when A sable cloud Tunis forth her silver liniug on the night. It is like -some remnant of gentry not quite extinct ; a badge of better days ; a hint of nobility :—and, doubt less, under the obscuring darkness and double night of their forlorn disguisement, oftentimes lurketh good blood, and gentle conditions, derived from lost ancestry, and a lapsed pedigree. he premature apprenticements of these tender victims give but too much encouragement, I fear, to ,clandestine, and almost infantile abductions ; the seeds of civility and true courtesy, so often discernible in these young grafts (not otherwise to be accounted for) plainly hint at some forced adoptions ; many noble Rachel-s' mourning for their children, even in our days, countenance the fact; the tales of fairy spiriting may shadow a lamentable verity, and the recovery of the young Montague be but a solitary instance of good f or tune, out of many irreparable solitary defratiQns.- " In one of the state beds at Arundel Castle, a few years since—under a ducal canopy—(that seat of the Howards is an object of curiosity to visitors, chiefly for its beds, in which the late duke was especially a con neirpnr)—encircled with curtains of delicatest crimson, with starry corsets inwoven--folded between a pair of sheets whiter and softer than the lap where Venus lulled Ascanius—Was discovered by chance, after all methods of search had failed, at noon-day, fast asleep, a lost chimney sweeper. The little creature,laving somehow confounded his passage among the intricacies of 'those lordly chimneys, by some unknown aperture had alighted upon this magnificent chamber ; and, tired with his tedious explorations, was unable to resist the delicious invitement to repose, which he there saw exhibited ; so, creeping between the sheets very quietly, laid his black head upon the pillow, and slept like a young Howard. " Such is the account given to the visitors at the easktle. But I cannot help seeming to perceive a con firmation of what I have just hinted at in this story. A high instinct was at work in the case, or I am mistaken. Is it probable that a poor Child of that description, with whatever weariness he might be visited, would have ventured, under such a penalty as he would be taught to expe ct, to uncover the sheets of a duke's bed, and deliberately to lay himself down between them, when (f the carpet presen t e d an o b v i ous couc h, s till his pretensions—i s this probable, I would ask, farthe arubagr if the great power of nature, which I contend for, had not been manifested within him, prompting to the adventure ? Doubtless this young nobleman (for such my sled misgives me- that - be must be) was allured by some mem ory, not amounting to full consciousness, of his condition in infancy,.76hen he was used to be lapt by bis mother or his nurse in just such sheets as he there found, into which he was now but creepin„c. beck as into his proper incunabula and resting-place. 'By no other theory, than by this sentig-ent.of a-pre-existent state (as I may , it), can I explain. a deed s 9 venturous, au nee upon any other system so indecorous, in this tender, but unseasonable, sleeper. "My pleasant friend Jem White was so impressed with a belief of metamorphoses like this frequently taking place, that in some sort to reverse the wrongs of fortune in these poor changelings, be instituted an annual feast of chimney sweepers, at which it was his pleasure to officiate as host and waiter. It was a solemn supper held in Smithfield, upon the yearly return of the fair of St. Bartholomew. Cards were issued a week before to the master sweeps in and - about the metropolis, confining the invitation to their younger fry. Now and then an elderly stripling would get in among us, and be good-naturedly winked at ; but our main body were infantry. . One unfortunate Wight, indeed, who, relying upon his dusky suit, had intruded himself into oiir party, but by tokens was providentially discovered in time to be no chimney sweeper (all is not soot which looks so), was quoited out of the presence with universal indignation, as not having on the wedding garment; but in general the greatest harmony prevailed. The place chosen was a convenient spot among the pens, at the north side of the fair, not so far distant as to be imper vious to the agreeable hubbub of that vanity ; but remote enough not to be obvious to the interruption of every gaping spectator in it. The guests assembled about seven. In those little temporary parlours three tables were spread with napery, not so fine as sub stantial, and at every board a comely hostess presided with her pan of hissing sausages. The nostrils of the ' young rogues dilated at the savour. James White, as head waiter, had charge of the first table; and myself, with our trusty companion Bigod, ordinarily ministered to the other two. There was clambering and . jostling, you may b e sure , w h o s h ou ld ge t a t th e fi rs t table—for Rochester, in his maddest days, could not have done the honours of the scene with more spirit than my friend. After some general expression of thanks for the honour the company had done him, his inaugural ceremony was to clasp the greasy waist of old Dame Ursula (the fattest of the three), that stood frying and fretting, half-blessing, half-cursing 'the gentleman,' and imprint upon her chaste lips a tender salute, whereat the universal host would set up a shout that tore the con cave, while hundreds of grinning teeth startled the night with their brightness. 0, it was a pleasure to see the sable younkers lick in the unctuous meat, with his more unctuous sayings—hew he would fit the tit-bits to the puny mouths, reserving the lengthier links for the seniors—how he would intercept a morsel even in the jaws of some young desperado, declaring it ' must to the pan again to be browned, for it was not fit for a gentleman's eating'—how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing-crust, to a tender juvenile, advising them all to have a care of cracking their teeth, which were their best patrimony— how genteelly he would deal about the small ale, as if it were wine, naming the brewer, and protesting, if it were net good, he should lose their custom • with a special recommendation to wipe the lip before drinking. Then we had our toasts—' The King,'—' The Cloth,' — which, whether they understood or not, was equally diverting or flattering;—and, for a crowning sentiment, which never failed-_—' Nay the Vrush supersede the Laurel.' All these, and fifty other fancies, which were rather felt than comprehended by his guests, would be utter, standing upon tables, and prefacing every senti ment with a Gentleman, give me leave to propose so and so,' which was a prodigious comfort to those young _orphans ; every now and then stuffing into his mouth (for it did not do to be squeamish on these occasions,) indis criminate " pieces of those reeking sausages, which pleased them mightily, and was the savouriest part, you May believe, of ate entertainment : Golden lacle end hisses mupp, As chimney sweep - .rs, come to ds,t. "Jaines White is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the ftin of the world when he died—of my world, at least. His old clients look for him amon g the pens • and, missing him, reproach the altered face of St. Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed for ever." . The month- of May was deemed by the Romans to be under the protection of Apollo ; and it being the month wherein they made several expiations, they prohibited marrying in May. On the first day of May the Roman ladies sacrificed to Bohr? Dra, the Good Goddess, or the Earth. It is in May that Spring is with us once more pacing the earth in all the primal pomp of her beauty, with flowers eull soft airs and the song of birds every where about her, and the blue sky and the bright clouds above. But there is one thing wanting, to give that happy completeness to her advent, which belonged to it in the elder times ; and without which it is like a beau -tiful melody without words, or a beautiful flower with out scent, or a beautiful, face without a soul. The voice of man is no longer beard,, hailing her approach as she hasten 4 to bless him ; and his choral symphonies no longer meet and bless her in return—bless her by letting - her behold and hear the happiness that she comes to create. The soft songs of women are no longer blended with her breath as it whispers among the new leaves; their slender feet no longer trace her footsteps in the fields and woods and wayside copies, or dance delighted measures round the flowery offerings that she prompted their lovers to place before them on the village green. Even the little children themselves, that have an instinct for the spring, and feel it to the very tips of their fingers, are permitted to let May come upon them, without knowing from whence the impulse of happiness that they feel proceeds, or whither it tends. In short, All the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May Doth every )?eact keep kogd.y * while man, man alone, lets the season come with Out glorying in it ; and when it goes he lets it go without regret; as if "all seasons and their change" were alike to him; or rather, as if he were the lord of all seasons, and they were to do homage and honour to him, instead of he to them! How .is this ? Is it that we have "sold our birthright for a mess of pottage ?"- 7 that we have bartered " our being's end and aim" for a purse of gold ? Alas thus it is The world is too much with us; late and coon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away—a sordid boon —But be this as it may, we are still able to feel what nature is, though we have in a great measure ceased to know it: though we have chosen to neglect her ordi naeees, and absent ourselves from her presence, we still retain some iustinctive reminiscences of ber beauty and her power; and every now and then the sordid walls of those mud hovels which we have built for our selves, and choose to dwell in, fall down before the magic touch of our involuntary fancies, and give us 'glimpses into • "that imperial palace whence we came," and make us yearn to return thither, though it be but in thought. Then sing ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And let the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound ! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day reel the gladness of the MAY ! This time two hundred years ago, our ancestors were all 'anticipating their May holidays. Bigotry came in, and frowned them away ; then debauchery, and identified all pleesure with the tewn; then avarice, and we have ever since been mistaking the means for the end. Fortunately, it does not follow, that we shall coutinne to 'do so, Commerce, while it thinks it is only exchanging commodities, is helping to diffuse know ledge. All other gains,—all selfish and extravagant systems of acquisition,—tend to over-do themselves, and to topple down by their own undiffased magnitude. The world, as it learns other things, may learn not to confound the means with the end, or at least (to speak more philosophically), a really poor means with a really richer. The veriest cricket player on a green has as sufficient a quantity of excitement, as a fundholder or a partisan ; and health and spi rits, and manliness to boot. Knowledge may go on ; must do so from neces sity ; and should do so, for the ends we speak of : but knoWledge, so far from being incompatible with sim plicity of pleasures, is the quickest to perceive its wealth., Chaucer would lie for* hours lOoking at the daisies. Scipio and La3lius could amuse themselves with Making ducks and drakes on the water. Epami nondas, the greatest of all The active spirits of Greece, was a flute player and . dancer. Alfred' the Great could act the whole part of a minstrel. Epicurus . taught the riches of temperance and intellectual pleasure in "a garden. The other philosophers of his country walked between heaven aid eayth ip the colloquial bowers of Academus; and "the wisest heart of Solomon," who found everything vain because be was a king, has left us panegyrics on the spring and " the voice of the turtle," because he was a poet, a lover, aid a wise man. THE GREAT FIRE AT THE SAILORS' HOME. FURTHER PARTICULARS. One by one the men reported to be lost have made their appearance at the Arcade, and have reported themselves to the officials as "all right." Three only, according to the books, are now missing; and hopes are confidently entertained that in the course of to-morrow they will turn up. Yesterday morning labourers were employed to clear away the debris from the interior of the building, and it will shortly be seen whether there is anything or not in the stories of the men, who said that they left drunken comrades in some of the burning cabins. The committee have listened to the statements of each of the boarders relative to the amount of their property, in the shape of clothing, which has been destroyed by the fire. We are sorry to find that in some instances, the loss of boarders has been very great. The committee generously gave on an average £3 to each man which, with advance notes, will refit them again comfortably for sea. Most of the men appeared satisfied with this arrangement. The contents of the safe—one of Miluer's—in the bank, including gold and silver watches belonging to men at sea, and a large amount of money, were found all cafe yesterday morning by Mr. Harmer, the secretary APPEARANCE or THE INTERIOR OF THE HOME AFTER THE CONFLAGRATION. Entering at the chief entrance in the west end of the building, and turning a little to the left, we came upon the bank. Here poor Clarke received the fatal injuries. The joists and the heaps of rubbish, and iron, and stones, and wood, stood as they did when his legs lay under them; and the confusion in the room contrasted greatly with the neatness and the order observed there only a day two before. Receding again, and passing as we best could through pools of water and many inches of mud, we got into the central ball, or the Home proper, and there a scene oI the utmost confusion was observa ble. A heavy iron pillar, thirty or forty feet in length, stood in front; beneath were strewed iron railings, charred beams, iron pillars, heaps of stones, and burnt wood in all directions. As we trod along this mass of debris we observed remains of the Sunday at Home. Sketches in London, London Journal, railway time tables, and other periodicals and books. Turning the eye upwards, bare walls, beams half wasted away, and reduced to charcoal, met the eye; but it would have been impos sible to determine how the galleries, including the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ath, and 6th fiats ran, or where the sleeping apartments stood. All wes confusion, and a scene of devastation. Mounting the noble iron staircase on the left, we arrived on the first fiat, and proceeting onward offer burnt timber and the remains of bed clothes and bedding, we came to time dining-room, which it was almost impossible to enter. The door was barricaded on the inside by a mass of rubbish. However, we managed to enter in a cat fashion. On the floor on the north side was water a foot or more deep, and the south side was filled with remains of the sleeping-rooms and the concert hall, which had fallen through the ceiling. The south coma tower leant a little inwards and we would not have felt surprised to see it tumbling over at any moment. Under a window in the west end lay the frame of what might once have been a picture, and on inquiry we learned that it had contained the portrait of a local celebrity. The canvas was all gone, and the framework was charred and black. In this portion of the Home it is expected the bodies of the dead, if there be any, will be found, We next went towards the sleeping apartments, taking especial care not to tumble through the numerous holes in the gallery. Heaps of debris lay in all quarters, and here and there a solitary spark of fire continued a smouldering existence, while on all hands there were pools of water; and, in all places, the sound of water dripping, dripping, continually from above into the hall could be heard. Arrived at the top of the stc,irs, leading to what wimp the second flat, we perceived heaps of rubbish, and under a window a soli tary bible comparatively uninjured, which, perhaps had consoled its owner on many a trying occasion. Some of its leaves were pencil marked, and it had evidently been much used. Thera was scarcely anything more to observe—above was the sky* around bare walls—in front and on both sides charred joists, iron pillars, and heaps of rubbish. Be low was similar confusion, and in every corner there was the effects of the destructive element Whieh reduced this noble institution, the work of four years, and the result of benevolence, to a heap of ruins in a few short 1 hours. A VISIT TO TIDE TEXPORARY OFFICES OF THE SAILORS' HOME AT TUE CUSTOM HOUSE ARCADE. Arrived at the eastern entrance to the arcade I was stopped by a policeman who maintained his right in a gruff manner to turn away whom he pleased ; and whilst I was submitting that he had no right to refuse me admittance inasmuch as I was a member of the fourth estate, a man of middle size, who spoke with an Irish accent, walked up " Yon can't get in here, go hack, - said the policeman. The man, who was an Irish man, returned to the crowd; but there was a something about his looks which attracted my attention. There was an honest expression of sorrow in his face, and now and then I imagined I could see the tears gushing into his eyes. Ever and anon he looked with an impatient eye here and there amongst the crowd, and now and again he stepped up to the policeman, only to meet with the same gruff words', " You cannot come in here; stand back." By-and-bye, a sailor, of about five feet iu height, emerged from the crowd, and advanced with bold steps towards the entrance, where the Irishman grasped him affectionately with his arms by ,he waist, and exclaimed, in a half-choked voice, "Pat !" :ears of joy meanwhile running down his manly face. There was no oral response, but the expression of sincere affection which these men glanced at one another, would have baffled the pencil of a Reynolds in the description, " Let that man gu,7 pried the policeman, in a less authoritative voice. " Pat," was the only reply, " Pat! are ye saved 7" he repeated." Won't ye answer me ?" Pat did not answer, but looked a world of :hanks into his friend's face. " Now let the man go !" cried the gruff policeman again. "Ile's me brother," replied the sailor at length ; and the two " brothers " proceeded, locked in each other's arms, towards the offices in the building. Through the interference of .an inspector, I was admitted within the Arcade, and immediately miffed viith the brave, rough, open and generous spirits—British sailors—who were standing outside the offices of the officials of the Home, ' They were all neatly clothed, and a teetotaller would uct have grumbled at the appearance of any of them. There were other persons than seamen there ; first there were the officials, of the Home, who passed now and again from the offices to the room of the committee ; then again there were privileged persons without any particular business, end a good number of generously. inclined tailoYs WWI outfitters, who were looking after the safety of the money received iu compensation for the loss of clothing by the sailors at the hands of the committee. It was surprising to see how well those tailors plied their avocation ; with. winning smiles on their faces, they passed from seaman to seaman, shaking them most affectionately by the hands, and advising them—in a proper way, of course !—to let the com mittee know the real extent of their loss, and not spare the public purse ! These men were patriots evidently, for most of the seamen declared that they had never seen them before. No one could have imagined, by the faces of the seamen, the ordeal which they had passed through on Sunday morning. They talked stud laughed and spun yarns about the tire as though they were speaking of the pleasures of a good dialler. One spoke to the manner in which he, when running from his burning berth towards the staircase, overthrew an unfortunate fireman who was playing upon the fire 4u the interior'of the huilding. Others laughingly related curious incidents alaout their' escape by the entrance and by the windows. There was a Datchman, a tall, mnscalar man, who spoke of his experience at the fire in a more melancholy strain than the rest, "I vos turn in," he said, " about twelve o'clock, and in less dau a crack I heard de cries of Mr. Villiams, Fire !' and Mtuder ! murder'.' and tinks I dere is something wrong in de house. I got out of de bed fvd I went down de stairs e,s fLait as I could ; but I had no trowsers and no shirt, and no coat, and no hat on; but just as I vos I vent into de street, vere I did met a sailor who said you have no shirt, and uo trousers, and no hat. No, says I. Den, says he, come wid me, and I vil give you de trousers, and de hat, and de ali;,rt. MI then I had derv}, and don't tiny dat he vil make me pay for dem, for I know him afore, and he vas a good man. I vas not care nothing about nothing now, for I vas going to sea, and I shall be all right in a littel time. I did not tiuk much ven I vas inwle room. I had not a stich to lose, so tinks I de sooner I'm down stairs de better, and I vas glad yen I got dere too." Another man, who was painfully kept in mind of the #ccurrence by an injured hand, gave a relation of the manner in which, with the assistance of Mr. Foster, boarding-house keeper, he escaped. He said—'' I was awoke by a loud noise, and an unaccountable din. I got out of my bed, which was on the fifth landing, and ran to the window, the glass ot which I broke with my band. The glass cut me severely. I was quite frantic, and didn't know what I was about. There was the fire raging behind me ; what was I to do ? what was I to say ? or what was I to think ? I came out of the window, hung by my hands over the wall, and I heard the crowd below saying, ' There's a man, there's # man.' I answered the cries with How, am I to escape ? what am I to do Then Mr. Foster came up on a ladder, and assisted me to get down. I was glad when I got down, too. It was hot work, and much more painful than to be thrown ashore from a wreck; for there you can swim for yoir life at least." Then there was a brave fellovV, who appeared capable ot undertaking 1 - ..ny enterprise 4 had to "scoops' for it ; better save skin than coats, sir; so I ran down the stairs through the flames, and Bocci my bacCQ," Softie of the men Were in a hurry to see the institution in working order again. " When," said one, "you've put a bed in the Home, I shall go to sleep there." Fe would not 1 11101:9 Olaf / it 79Y14 a ke /ears CR 1'044 44 pkic: " Why it will be up again in a month or six weeks, won't it ?" he exclaimed ; "but build it when ye like : I shall come back ; for if the place takes fire, I shall get a couple of pounds compensation for the loss of my clothing, and that's more than I can get at any private boarding house !" This young man took a business view of the question, and his expressions certainly spoke much more to his credit than those of others ; for the Arcade was net without persons who grumbled at the amount of compensation they had received. I now visited a poor fellow, named Daniel, who is staying at Cleary's, Hanover-street. He was badly burnt at the fire. I found him in the kitchen. his face was covered with bladders, and appeared unlike the face of a human being. It was much swollen and disfigured, and very likely he will carry the scars with him to the grave. " When I was I awoke," said he, " by the fallingof the timber, I jumped out of bed, opened the door, and saw the place all in a blaze. I went along the , gallery through the thick of the flumes, but finding the heat and the fire too much for me, I retreated to the room, closed the door, and then, thinks I, I must get out of this mess somehow. By this time I was badly burnt. I opened the window with the intention of jumping to the ground, but I found a ledge, on which I stepped, and remained until a man from the Albert Dock assisted me in making my escape by a ladder. Drowning, sir, is a pleasure when compared with burning to death. I had only my drawers and shirt upon me, and I lost a watch, money, and all my goods. It was but work, and I hope I never will see the like again." Then, again, there was a per son named Henry Brigant, from Loudon, who stays at a house in Bakehouse-lane. He did not get out of the building until about two o'clock, and he slept on the fifth landing .—" I had a bad cold on me, and the smoke getting into my throat, made me cough, and I awoke. I got out of bed in a moment. I knocked against a stauncheon and fell on my back into the fire, but managed to rise again, and rushed through the flames, and got my face and hands and leg burnt very badly. Other persons escaped in a similarly miraculous mann( r. and it is only a wonder, taking the length of the building, and the rapidity with which the tire extended, into consideration, how so many came from the place alive. LITERAT URE. THE MANSE GARDEN : or Pleasant Culture of Fruit Trees, Flowers, Vegetables, and Sweet Herbs, for the Beauty and Profit of the Villa or Farm. By NATHANIEL PATERSON, D.D. London : James Blackwood, Paternoster-row. The title of this book, which we have copied in full, briefly llut Well describes its character and its object. It is designed as a popular manual of that pleasantest of all gardening—fruits, flowers, vegetables, and sweet herbs; those productions which are most commonly and most satisfactorily cultivated, for beauty's sake at the villa, and for profit at the farm. It is the work of a Scottish minister who justly considers that, in forwarding such. an bbjeet, he is indirectly promoting at the tame time the cause of religion and morality. Wherever, he truly maintains, skill augments the capital employed in field or garden culture, the effect has been to secure a better education for the children. Although more remotely, yet quite as surely, will virtue and good taste be promoted by •" the outdoor ornaments of roses, ivy, and fruit trees, which at once hide the deformity of naked walls, and suggest the idea of comfort within them," The little work consists of three distinct yet congenial Parts,—l. Forest and Fruit Trees ; 11. Vegetables ; 111. Flowers. And under these several heads a variety of practical information on all the points which they respectively embrace is given in a manner so plain and familiar as to be readily understood and easily acted upon. No wonder that so useful a manual as this, on so interesting a subject, should already have got into its ninth thousand. It well deserves a still more extended circulation, wlai,e4 we have no doubt whatever that it will i.apidifsecur . e. The remains of Vice-Admiral Don Gabriel de Oiscar, which were interred in Gibraltar in 1829, have been exhumed, and with military honours embarked on board H.C.M. frigate Villa de Bilboa for conyeyance to atiyt 44#1, THE DAILY TIMES, ,WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1860. BIRKF.NHEA D COMMISSIONERS. The usual monthly meeting of the Birkenhead Com missioners was held yesterday morning at the Public Offices, Hamilton-square, Mr. Laird in the chair. The other members present were Messrs. Willoughby, Gil bertson, Keiehtley, Beazley, Walker, M'Gill, Bradley, Hind, Aspinall, Baylis, Cook, and Rae. LiGHTINO AND WATCHINI) COMMITIEE. The committee having considered the recommendation from the magistrates in reference to the present Police Court and liridewell, it was resolved that the neccessary alterations be made at an estimated cost of £3OO. Mr. WALKER moved the confirmation of the pro ceedings. The CHAIRMAN said be considered it very important that the work should be proceeded with at the Police Court and Bridewell, as the township would soon save the outlay by the transaction of the public business at the old premises. Dr. ISAYr.ts thought more time for the consideration of the subject should have been given. The proceedings were then confirmed. THE REVIEW IN TIE PARK. A letter from Captain Cadell of the Ist Cheshire Volunteer Rifles was real. The captain expressed his thanks to the Watch, Ferry, and Road and Improve ment Committees, for the manner in which they had co-operated with him to promote the success of the review on Saturday in the park. He also expressed his thanks to Mr. Walker and Mr. Hind, and to Superin tendent Birnie, Mr. M'Kelvie, Mr. Kemp, and Mr. Hobbs, for the efficient manner in which they bad severally discharged the duties of their respective departments. The proceedings of the Markets Committee were read and confirmed. HEALTH CONIMITTFE. The proceedings of this committee were read and confirmed on the motion of Mr. Bradley. The deatba in the township during the month were fifty-three, of which four were from zvmotic diseases. The proceedings of tlieRO;(1 . and -- iMprovement Com mittee were read and confirmed. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The minutes of the Finance Committee were read and confirmed ; and, in answer to Dr. Baylis, Mr. Keightley stated that the Monks' Ferry Hotel - had been repeatedly advertised to be let, but no tenant had yet been obtained for the property. FERRY CO)I7,IITTEE This committee had ordered £4,000 of its surplus receipts to be handed over to the Finance Committee for the benefit of the township. The CnxiBLIAN, in reply to Dr. Baylis, state‘l that the sum handed over last year from the ferry was £3,500. Mr. ASPINALL said the original intention of the com mittee was to hand over £6,200, but, owing to sundry causes, their original intention could not be carried out. They, paid £750 due to the Corporation of Liver pool, and the traffic since Christmas had fallen off to an extraordinary extent—about £7OO or £BOO. They had ' in the bank, to the credit of the ferry, £B,OOO, and, in addition to that, they proposed to hand over £4,000. It was necessary to have a large surplus to credit of the new boats fund, contingent fund, and sinbing fund, locatiric r to the r*.nhable and early requirements of the ferry in connection with an anticipated largely increased traffic. During the year they had also increased the stock by the addition of a boat, for which they had paid £2,000. The CErAIRMAN said it would be very imprudent on the part of the Ferry Committee not to have a large surplus in hand to pay for the new boats which would he required in a year or two, so that the boats might run every nye minutes. The bill promoted by the Mersey Dock Board would be passed in about six weeks, and the Birkenhead Commissioners were co operating. cordially with the Dock Board. The proceedings were then confirmed. GAS AND WATER COMMITTEE. This committee recommended that the foundations for a new gasometer should be put down during the ensuing . summer. The proceedings were confirmed on the motion of Mr. M‘Gill, who stated that the whole of the contemplated addition to the gto works now pro posed would cost £6,000. The proceedings of the Library Committee were lead and confirmed. COMMUNICATIONS. Messrs, Mills and Galloway, the AFiessors, replied that the letter sent to the Board by Mr. Craven a short time ago in reference to some of the assessments in Claughton, would have their attention at the next assessment of the property in question. A letter from Mr. Beloe on the question of the fees on the transfer of bonds, was referred to the Finance Committee. THE. LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND THE PERMISSIVE BILL. A memorial signed by IG4 ratepayers, including several clergymen and ministers in Birkenhead, was read. The memorialists asked that a public meeting should be called to consider the Permissive Bill, which is about to be introduced into Parliament, and con demned iu strong terms the sale of intoxicating drinks. Mr. ASPINALL (brewer) said he had great respect for the memorial, because amongst the signatures was a vast number of customers to his own brewery. (Roars of laughter). He moved that the petition be referred to the Health Committee. (Laughter). The CHAIRMAN said he would do whatever the board wished, but individually he did not feel that he would be justified in calling a public meeting, which was not likely to pass over very harmoniously. After a long discussion, on the motion of Mr. Rae, the consideration of the memorial was deferred fur a month. CRICKET PLAYING IN THE PARK. Dr. Bmars moved a resolution having for its object the extension of the privilege of cricket playing in the Park, now granted to schools. The motion was agreed to, and the board shortly afterwards adjourned. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT, YeSTERDAY. (before Mr. RATPrxs.) Srar.vr ROVOIIIY.—Mary Martin and John «'Litr were placed in the dock, charged by Police-officer 30.5, with having stolen a quantity of pawn tickets from the pocket of a lady who was standing near the Sailors' Houle, The prisoners Were observed by a gentleman tp, put their hands into prose autrix's pocket. This, gentleman pointed out the prisoners, and they were taken into custody. He had neglected to leave his name with the officers, and did not appear as a witness in the esae. Mr. Rafael oon , ldered that the gentleman's evidence was essential, and accordingly remanded the prisoners for a week. AN UNFOUNDED Cuanor.---William Kerr, a respectable looking young man, was charged with assaulting Mra. Jones, and robbing her of a purse containing 1,2,5. 6d. The prisoner was in liquor on Monday night, and went up to the prosecutria and snatched froy A her hand a purse containing the sum men tieeed above. Mr. Cobb, who defended the prisoner, stated the whole matter wea a mere " lark " between the two parties. Mrs. Jones had also been drinking on the night in question, and she offered her purse to the prison-a, who, being insensibly drunk, ran away with it. His Worship said there was not sufficient evidence to convict of felony, but lie would rise the prisoner 20a. and costs for the assault. RQtainT BY A SEtivANT.—Margaret Quigley and Mary Fitzpatrick were charged by their late mistress, Mrs. Bavle, with stealing the sum of £l2. The prosecutrix keeps a boot and shoe shop at 22, Oldhall-Street, and the two prisoners were recently servants in her employment. On Saturday night containing £l2, and placed it under hertio:k a P be a d r r s o e om, to which the prisoners had we3s . The money was all right on Monday morning, but in Mfrs.a glass B acy ass the afternoon it gone. The prosee.utrix suspects only one of tle prisoners—Fitzpatrick. The money has not yet been b ui l Quigley w4diseliarged, and Fitzpatrick was t emended for urther evidence. BANKRUPTS. Roert Blake Foster and John Frazer, Liverpool, COM lission agents. Wham Cowper, Cheriton, Hants, builder. Jares Dowell, Birmingham, victualler. S a auel Gosling, Swoff barn, Norfolk, butcher. Roert Dawson Clegg and Frederick Angerstein, Friday treet and Fleet-street, dealers in atmospheric clocks. Tbmas Brookes, Birmingham boot and shoe maker. Ea i n Henry Spark, formerly o f C umm i ng -street, Pen- Wham P - ynar Goose, Downham Market, ',Norfolk, uilder. Jares Edward Claridge Hill, Croom, Worcestershire, ud Chamboro', Oxfordshire, cattle salesman. Joh Lancey, Barnstaple, draper. Wham Smith, South Shields, all'.,powner. Hery Haywood, alas doseph - Haywood, Coventry, noon manufacturer. Whim Higgins Merrick, Halesowen, Worcestershire, inkeeper. Hery NSitliam Larad, Hull, jeweller. Joh Laffere, Plymouth, chemist and druggist. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Joh Hewitt, jun., HolTerg4e, Norfolk, mile;. 2,1112e8 has a lovder on e.hill,l anchharacteriieS ene c i as 4-- ..,ng in Ireland, li e si • u many respects more 71. of the child Mortara, STREET RAILWAYS. (Fio;a t 1 e Zigineep.) The township of Birkenhead appears likely to be the first, in the kingdom to adopt what must be considered as one of the most important improvements of the age. An enterprising American, Mr. George Francis Train, of New York, has been for some time endeavouring to obtain the attention of various public bodies in this country to the advantages of the street railway system now so generally and so successfully adopted in the United States. Taking the opportunity afforded by the action of the Mersey Dock Board, at Liver pool, in imposing a prohibitory toll upon the omnibuses using their line of ;pails along the docks, Mr. Train came forward with an offer to pay th toll if allowed to start and run a line of railway omnibuses upon the American plan, a plan very different, however, from the contrivance in Paris, called the Cheini,i de fey Amiricain, which has been so often referred to in disparagement of the system of street railways. By some means, Mr. Train's proposal was shelved, and he has accordingly been on the look-out fur more public-spirited boards, one of which is evidently that of the Commissioners of Birkenhead. Mr. Train having offered to put down lines of street railways at his own expense, and to work them with horse-drawn carriages, the Birkenhead Board referred the matter to their surveyor, Mr. Edward Mills, who has reported favourably upon the whole system. On Tuesday week, at an adjourned meeting of the board, Mr. Mills' report was adopted, and a joint committee was appointed to conclude arrangements with )Ir. Train. There remonstrances, it is true, from citizens residing in some of the thoroughfares through which it was proposed to extend the new lines of communication, but other routes will probably be adopted, and the remonstra ting citizens will probably be the first to regret their fully. As to the immense advantages attending the working of the railway omnibus system there can be no doubt, and experience on the largest scale abroad, and the most careful investigation here, have alike shown that all the apprehensions of danger and :nconvenience which have been excited in the minds o ' those who are unacquainted with the system, l are altogether unfounded. We have argued the engineering aspects of the question so often in these columns, that it seems almost supererogatory to repeat our former conclu sions. It is undeniable, however, that the power of a horse is more than doubled upon a street railway as com pared with his draught on an ordinary pavement ; and on account of this fact, a given number of passengers may be carried at a speed of eight or nine miles an hour, upon rails, in not more than half the number of vehicles requisite upon a pavement, and consequently with but little more than half the bulk, wear and tear, and danger. As the wheels of the railway omnibuses are placed beneath, instead of at the sides of the body, the car riages occupy much less width than common omnibuses, a consideration of great importance in narrow streets. The railway carriages are completely under control at their highest rate of speed, and are safer a gviust collisions with each other and ordinary vehicles than are common omnibuses. Mr. Mills recommends a single line of way for the streets of Birkenhead, this line to be laid in the centre of the street. The railway-cars cau thus pass without disturbing vehicles standing at shop or house doors. The pattern of the rail likely to beadoped is one which will cause no obstruction to the ordinary traffic, but will, to a great extent, accommodate it, as all vehicles will be at liberty to make what use of the rail- way they like, so that they do not needlessly obstruct the omnibuses specially constructed for it. THE SCIENCE OF MODERN NAVIGATION. (From the Shipping Ga;;ettv,) The following interesting letter on improve ments in modern navigation has been addressed by Lieut. Maury, hydrographer to the United States government, to Capt. Emerson, of the ship Golconda, of Boston (U.S.) : Observatory, Washington, April 3, 1860. have to thank you for the abstract log of the Golconda, on her voyage from London to Australia, and thence to Boston. This voyage led you through the "brave west winds " of the southern bmispliere and the very antipodes. It afforded your ship a fine oppor tunity to display her prowess, and gayer her master a chance to display his skill. Both ship and captain improved the opportunity, making the fine run of 85 days out, which iu the log is ascribed to the " wind and current charts." The run home would also have signalised both ship and master but for touching at Rio. It is well to remember what a voyage to Australia and back used to be, and then to see what it now is. When we commenced systematically to investigate the winds and currents of the sea, the route to Aus tralia as then followed was what was known as the Admiralty route. It lay through a region of loadling winds and calms, and it took 127 days on the voyage to accomplish it. The homeward passage was more cir cuitous. 1 have now before me the passages to Aus tralia from England of 184 ships in 1856, and 226 in 1857. The average passage of all of each group was 98 days and 3 hours in 1866, and 98 days and 9 hours in 1857. The homeward passage •by the Admiralty route was even longer, but only a few returned direct. The average homeward passage by the new route is 93 days. Here, then, there has been a gain on the route voyage from England.to the golden colony and back of GO days at the least ; and that, too, not by steam nor any outlay , whatever of money on the part either of master or owner, but simply by the application of a little auxiliary head power—the most profitable of all powers. Nay, it is still almost within the recollection of our own "Ancient Mariners" when the voyage from England to Australia and back occupied the entire year and more. With the lights of the day to guide the navigator, the outward passage has frequently been accomplished in less than 70, and the homeward in si , ss than 80 days. To enable three ships, to do the work of four, to lift up distant markets, and practically, for all the purposes of commerce, to set them down closer together by runny days' sail, is surely a great achievement. liow has it been accomplished ? Answer Simply by collating sea journals and comparing the experience of one navigator with that of another, until the result depended on numbers so large there could not he, in any reasoning mind, room left for difference of opinion as to the best route for any particular season of the year. As a proof of this Ne haye only to look at the returns for the two years that happen to be before me. The average passage of one, compared with the average passage of the other, differs, for the round voyage out and home, six hours. Now this, considering that the voyage is one or. circum navigation, considering that the ships which make it actually pass through regions that are antipodal to their ports of departure, considering that their masters depend upon the wind and waves alone for their motive power— considering all these things, the result is entitled to be regarded as one of the most complete, eloquent, and triumphant vindieations of this system of inductive philosophy for seamen and the sea that can possibly be imagined. The voyage from England to Australia and back, could ships go as the crow etiea, would require them to sail not less than 24,000 miles. 184 ships tried it one year—they accomplish it iu the average time of 191 days and 3 hours. The next year 226 try it—not the same men, but many of them going for the first time—and they make an average of 191 days and g hours. I say it is marvel lous ; and yet we uaw and then come across a shipmaster who has no faith in any such system of research, or in sailing directions based upon Maury's theories—when, in fact, the sailing directions are based on no theories at all. They are simply the fruit of the experience of those navigators who send their abstract legs to this office, which experience is brought together on charts, grouped in tables, and presented again back for their guidance, to those who furnish the data. Somehow or other it invariably happens that these .vessels that have these sailing directions on board always beat in the long run ;hose who have them not. The route to California is pretty well understood now, whether a ;hip has charts on board or not. Don't you thrnt so ? Well, I have before me a list of all the ships that arrived at San Francisco durine , last year. Of those with the charts on board, the average passage from the Atlantic ports was two weeks less than those from the same ports, but without the charts, and nearly a month less than those from Europe. The mere keeping of the abstract itself is of great service to owners, as well as to masters. Besides the information, it operates in a measure as a stimulus, and serves to keep, the navigator up to his mettle. He knows vilien it comes here it is to be overhauled by experts, who are sure to discuss the skill and judgment displayed by him as a navigator. These abstract logs are a study. It is impossible for any slip-shod navigator to attempt one fcr us and hide his tracks if he treads carelessly. The abstract log tells whether it is kept by a navigator just as surely as the ship working up to hey anchorage tells whether she is handled by a seaman. Yours speaks well for you, and I hope to have many more of the same sort. Wishing you fair winds and prosperous voyages, I have the honour to M. F. Fbe,:iTc.„atx. Pullinger's circumstances are not nearly so bad as was represented a few days ago. His own balance at the Union Bank on the day of his apprehension w as a respectable amount, and had he required it lie could "7.euerable d have, with little difficulty, raised from £l,OOO to £1,20 among his brokers at a very short notice. year. Her d ill aug h li e t%l! 7 o t f il the late Dr. DEA.TA OF TILE COUNTESS OF 'MANSFIELD. We hop of York, 'eet ; re gret to announce the death of the above much-respected lady, who expired ou Monda at and ir Gilliamae d s i y d i l e h n i c p e ; 3,...,4 rwi L h a o n l ;I, f g h, h a sa amm the A I House, Archbishop tbh e i s , 1797, the third Ear ' l of Mansfield, Nc,, diwt e . 4 - 11 - --) i The Dal'y News 5p. ,71 v 4i r. 4 ix ," o „,, •- - -a. 110. it • • ~,the Uni0n1441 4 4 - " b ....went occasioned by 10. A- is subsiding. Pullinger and 1 01 a will be brought up at the Mansion Honer on nutty. The directors are endeavouring to trace the notes which Pullinger misappropriated instead of paying them into the Bank of England. Meanwhile they have not made any response to the request for information preferred by the committee of the - toelc gxchano, TRANMERE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. The monthly meeting of this board- was held last evening in the board-room ; Mr. Liveraidge in thechair. Present—Messrs. Lee, Webb, Morecroft, Wrig,ht, Hitch mough, Cumming, M'Donald, Peters, Scott, Williams, Searle, and Hogarth. . . . . . The Water Committee recommended that immediate steps betaken to commence the new waterworks. The co tn mittee had considered thesubject o f a p po i nt i ng anengineer, and after some deliberation as to whether Mr.. Fulton or Mr. Rawlinson should be consulted, the committed had instructed the law-clerk to write to the latter, announcing 'their intention to obtain water, and. inquiring whether 'Mr. Rawlinson would accept the appointment if elected, and' the terms 'upon which he would carry out these works. To this letter Mr. Rawlinsori had replied, stating his willingness to accept the appointment, and that he would make the needful survey after two or three - days' notice. His terms, he stated, would be five per cent. on the outlay, including office and travelling ex penses. The Chairman moved a resolution to the effect that the Water' Committee be empowered to enter into negotiations with Mr. Rawlinson, with the view of securing his services immediately as water engineer for Tranmere. Mr. Williams suggested that it would have been advisable to employ Mr. Fulton as water engineer for the township, as he bad behaved most hand somely and disinterestedly towards the district when the board was engaged in the parliamentary contest in the committee of the House of Commons ; and be was of opiuiou that such services should 'not be ignored when the board had .an opportunity of acknowledging them. The chairman explained that there were very cogent rea sons which the committee regarded as entirely conclusive, for not engaging it Fulton, whose services were duly, appreciated by the board. AU amendment of Mr. Wil hams, to the effect that the appointment of Mr. Raw lio.ou be delayed until the committee communicated with Mr. Fulton, fell to the ground for *ant Of . a seconder '• _ end Mr. Rawliuson was app o i nte d , and in struated fo rthwith to proceed with the survey of the town ship. A formal letter of ackn ow l egement of 'the com munication received at the previous board meeting from the Wirral Waterworks Company, as to the supply of water for the township, was ordered to be forwarded to: that company. An irregular and lengthy discussion took place as to the lighting of. Clifton-park during the summer months, but nothi ng was done in the matter, as the Road and Improvement Committee, which had the subject in charge, had not presented the expected report. A communication was received from the Birkenhead Commissioners, calling at tention to a nuisance arising from the existence of prgsties in the Woodlands, under the control of the board. The Health Committee was empowered to enter intoa contract with some responsible party for the removal of night soil within the township. A still more irregular conversation took place as to the advertisement for applicants for the situation of surveyor for the district, and resulted in the 1 town-clerk, Mr. Lloyd, bein g i ns t ruc t e d to use his own discretion in the matter. Mr. Williams, according to notice, moved that the Water Committee in future consist of eight members, and that Messrs. Peters and Hogarth be appointed on the committee. The motion was lost, and it having . been agreed to supply each memberof the ,board with a copy of the local govern ment and health of towns acts, the board adjourned. sporting Xntritigture. - - CHESTER RACES.—YEarritilky. Stewards: Lord Portnnoutb, Sir L. Newman, Bart., Lord Courtenay, and the Earl of Coventry. Clerk a the Cqtyse Mr. Edward W. Topham. Judge : Mr. R. Johnson, of York. Starter Mr. Hibburd. Clerk of the scales : Mr. 3. Pickering. GROSVENOR STAKES of lOsovs each, h ft,with 50sovs added. 8 12 Mr W Day's br c Promi-ed Land, 4yre 0 Fcrdham 1 7 0 Mr T Parr's ch f Avalanche, S yrs Challoner 2 6 12 Mr Copperthwaite's br c Rising Sun, 3 yrs ...Robertson 3 8 7 Mr Saxon's'b c Defender, 4rrs L Snowdon 4 9 3 Mr Edwards' bl. h Jack Spring,-d yrs .1 Osborne 5 Betting : 6 to 4 on the Land, who took the lead, was never headed, and won easily by two lengths ; Avalanche beating tieing Sun the same distance for second place. PALATINE STAKES of 15sovs each, 5 ft, with 50sors added. 8 3 Mr Eastwood', ch f Butterfly Aldcroft 1 8 7 Mr .1 Whittaker's br c First Lord J Osborne 2 8 10 Mr Ingham's br c Odo G Fordham 2 7 Mr W Thornton' ch c Curlew Bullock 4 8 10 Mr Merry's br c Trovatore Custance 5 3 Mr Gordon's br f Harebell Withington 6 Betting: 6 to 4 agst Trovatore, and 4 to 1 agst Butterfly. First Lord, with Trovatore lying second, made the running to the distance, where Odo and Butterfly joined him ; a splendid race home took place, Butterfly by half a length ; a Reek sepa rating the second from the third. WYNNSTAY HANDICAP of lOOsovs. 6 8 Mr•W Day's br c Traducer, Spa J Adams 1 8 8 Sir.ll Des Vteux's ch c Comforter, 4 yrs ....Fordham 2 6 0 Hon C 0 Powlett's bf La Hollandaise, 3yrs..H Grimshaw 6 12 Mr ,T Davison's na% br h Swale, syrs Bullock 4 7 12 Lord courtenars br h Man Friday, aged Custanca 5 6 4 Mr R C b f Brocketina. 3 yrs ......... A Edwards 6 7 - 0 Capt Christie's hr o Spieebox, 3yrs W Bottom 7 Betting: 5 to 4 on Traducer, 4 to 1 agst Spicebox, and 5 to 1 each agst Comforter and • Man Friday. Traducer made the whole of the running, and won'easily by a length ; La Hollan daise was a bad ttliid. MOSTYN STAKES of lOsovs each, with 100sovs added. 8 12 Mr Saxon's br c Big Ben 8 7 Mr H W Thomas's br c Dictator 8 7 Mr Parr's br e Kildonan 'S 12 Mr Merry's eh c Folkestone 8 7 Mr Jackson's b c Longsbot 8 7Mx Windsor's b c Flirtation .. ..L Snowden 1 „Wittington 2 Clenneuts 3 Cnstcnce 4 Bullock 5 ..G Foram 6 Betting,: 6 to 4 ion Big Ben, and 6 to I each agst Dictator and longshOt. Dictator took Om lead to the New Bridge turn, where Big Ben went up, beaded him, and won cleverly by a length ; Lonrhot losing second money by a neck. CHESTERFIELD STAR OO TS, a IT‘nd adds Tr ap of 105ovs eac h , with Isovs 5 10 Mr Barber's br c Ben Webster Entwistle 1 7 6 Mr Gibbs' ch F Golden Pippin Perry 2 6 12 Mr Harg-reaves' b o Horace Bullock 3 e 10 Mr Gratwicke's ch f Allington ..........................,Daley 4 Betting : 5 to 2 agst Ben Webster, 5 to 1 agst Horace, 6 to 1 art Libellous, and 10 to I agst North Lancashire. A beauti ful start. Ben Webster taking the lead, was never caught, anA won very easily by three lengths; two lengths between the second and third, and a length between the third, and fourth. A HANDICAP PLATE of 3050v2 8 7 Capt. Christie's b g Brandy Ball, 4yrs G Fordham 1 7 li Mr W b c Weardede, 4yrs H. Robertson 2 7 6 Mr DewsOn's br c Professor Dick, 33-rs ............Bullock 3 5 10 Mr M Hardy's ch f by Nutwith—Gardenia, Syrs .................. . Entwistle 4 7 4Mr F Swiudeb's br f Simla, 3yrs ................ Pritchard, 7 6Mr Jenkinson's fby Teddington, dam by Sir T,tun, Sykes, lyre ................................. ....silt. 6 7 2Acar. 4 ever) Mr Peace's h r g Irish Erni, grant, 4yrs ................ . ............................buck Betting : 2t o 1 on B randy Ball, who nati foduerthieen:- ... .. t h h o s l . e of er 7 the running, and won in a comm on canter by A SWEEPSTAKES of ssovs each, with 30sova added. 6 4 Mr Savile'a bf. by Tadmor---Mainstay, 3yis ...Bottom 1 6 5 Colonel Townely's b c Job, lyre .................. J Snowden 2 6 9 Hargreaves' eh f Jessi e , Syrs ..................... Madd en 3 An exciting race. Wo n by a length. The following horses have been scratched out of the Chester Cup : Lifeboat, Trumpeter, Roman Candle, Rocket, Old Robert, Fright, Desdernona, Secret Treasure, Hibernia, Nut bourne, Roneoni, Bankrupt, Ileirees, Chirper, Viatka, Chance Shot, Hetman, Egbert, ch c by Surplice out of Rose of Cash mere, eh g by Surplice—Concertina, b f by Surplice---Bee's Wax. LATEST BETTING. CHESTER. Tin CUP : 5 to 1 on the held, offered; 8 to I agst Petra. taken; 11 to 1 agst longrange, taken; 11 to 1 ayst Man-at- Anna, taken; 20 to 1 agst Blue 'Ruin, offered ; 20 to 1 agst Independence, offered ; 20 to 1 agst Apollyon, offered ; 40 to 1 agst Marine, offered. ARTIFICIAL TEETH, GUMS, AND PALATES, PROTECTLD EY HEY MAJESTY'S ROYAL TATTERS PATENT. TarES.SRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS, 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL, Opposite Berry-street : 33, LUDCiATE-HILL LONDON WEST-END BRANCIf, ler 110, REGENT-STREET. • Observe Numbers particularly. ESTAD LTSII ED 1315,--9 s D1P1.057A. TEETH, THEM LOSS. And as now restored, on the new principle of self-adhesion and capillary attraction combined, by means of a soft flex ible lining, with CORALITE La:II-COLOURED INDIA -RUDDER in lieu of bone or gold, without springs or wire, and with out any operation; THEY ARE WARRANTED eustr, WROLE SOME, AND ENTIRELY FREE FROM IiNLELL ; they are easy and comfortable upon the most sensitive gums, and may be worn for many years without being in any way affected. The materials used at* of the best quality, the workman ship of the first order, and are supplied at less than halt' the ordinary cost. New Edition, just published. " Gabriel's Treatise is of importance to all requiring the dentist's aid, and, emanating from such a source, it may be confidently relied mi."— United Service Gazette. "Thousands requiring artificial teeth are deterred from consulting a dentist,.fearing the anticipated cost or dread of failure. To all such we say, peruse Glabriel's treatise." Service Gazette. Published by Messrs. Gabriel (gratis on application, or seat on receipt of three postage stamps), at their Establish ments. FROM COUNTRY PATIENTS, ONE VISIT ONLY REQUISITE FOR A SINGLE TOOTH lOR COM PLETE SET, PATENT WHITE ENAMEL CEMENT, the only per manent preparation for front teeth, which effectually retains its colour (ss. per packet). PREPARED WHITE GUTTA PERCHA, the best stop ping .for Decayed Teeth or Toothache. 'TLis invaluable stopping is placed in the cavity, when perfectly soft, becomes hard as the tooth itself ten minutes after inser tion, and, readers the decayed member sound and useful in mastication. Is. 6d. per Box, or sent on receipt of 20 stamps. The ROYAL TOOTH POWDER, Is. Gd. per Box. • • The above preparation: , may be had ttom any cliemist in the kingdom. BtoppinF Decayed Teeth, Scaling, &c. MESSRS. G..48R11:L, THE OLD ESTABLISHED DENTISTS, ear 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL g 23, LUDGATE-HILL, 110, REGENT-STREET, i t 'ONDON, Attendance flatly from Ten to Six. 'PCarriages, ttO ptatbs. Births, 3farriages, and . Deaths, forwarded for i nsertion, must be properly authentwated n it . h the flame and add ress of the under. Th e charge for the 7 7atertwn of Births w ai be &x. peace each. BIRTH. On the 29th ult., at Palboro-place, Kensington, London, the lady of F, S. Gray, litq., at a aon. DEATH.. On the 30th ult., at his residence, 151, Crown-street, Vaughan, age.l 55, after a short but severe illness. S RIB II . - -NOT4CI.—AII Shirts made to order at the (;olden Gln7a Establishment, 18, Berry-street, are made by Liverpool Needlewemen. gt ..A cltxx UN:qASIi.tI) ; Its extortions, impositions, and deceptions fully exp ose d . Sent free for two stamps, by Dr. Sargeant, S, Store-street, BedfordAquare, London. EAR ----It will be seen by our advertising columns that Mr. Rackham, of Norwich, one of the most celebrated auriste of t he day, and whose treatment of the various forms of deafness hat been so successful, is in Liverpool, and may be consulted daily. The Advertiser is assured that a compromise has been come to between the Conservative party and the Government relative to the Reform Bill. The nature of the alleged compromise is this, that Ministers and the leaders of the opposition have agreed that the borough franchise shall be £8 and the electoral qualification in counties £l6. WEST7dItiSTFR SEW PALA.cs. A parliamentary return issued states that the amount expended the deOration of the New Palace at Westminster with fresco paintings and statuary, up to the 31st ult., was £41,835 16s 6d. The sum of £1,960 has alio been spent on .accouut tt the twenty-eitt, portraits_ in the Prince's Chamber, executed, in fresco, but in oil. £65,210 9s 4d has been expanded for the repair and maintenance of the palace and its fu,:kituxe ; and £87,063 2s ld for the current expensea of lighting and TentilAting since those services came, under the manage ment of the Officer of her :Majesty's-Works Rd Public Buildings. 3 E LEO TR 0-P,LATE WAREHOUSE, 46 LORD-STREET-4- 6. HiGos JONES. WARRANTED QUALITY. FL ECTRO-SILVER PLATED FORKS AND SPOONii- Tea Spoons •.• . 12s. per Dem. Dessert Ditto . 196. „ Table Ditto ••• . • ••• .. 245. „ Dessert Fork, ••• ..• Table narks ..• ••• 245. 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TAcKsON, New and -Second-hand- OLOTTIES U DEALER, of 47, BROWNLOW-HILL, Respectfully intimates that, with the view of extending his Bulkiness, he has adapted the extensive premises, 9b, White cbapel, which he has OPENED, in connection with his present Establishment, as a WHOLESALE and RETAIL DEPOT for NEW and SECOND-HAND CLOTHINQ et the very choicest and best description and quality. LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHIgO IN EVERY VARIETY INSTANT RELIEF AND SPEEEDY CURE OF COUGHS, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, &c., AND arramoNs OF TUT CHEST •ND LDNOti. BY ))R. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. (M.R.C.S.L., f.4rmerly Army Medical Staff.) 1 you must get the Genuine, and not fraudulent imitations, with is pirated name. Genuine, sold in Stamped bottles, se,led, with directions and numerous medical testimonials, sent on receipt or Post-office Order for 2s. 9d. or 4s. 6d., by J. T. Dayea port, 3 .5, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury-square, L au d on , Sots A.OF.NT and Manufacturer, AVOID liFURIOtill Costeovraree. SOsaylo BROWN & POLSON'S PATENT CORN FLOOR. The Lco.cet states, THIS IS SUPTRIOR TO ANYTHING OF TKI KIND KNOWN." The most wholesome part of the best Indian Corn, prepared by a process Patented for the Three Kingdoms and France, and whtrevei it becomes known obtains great favour for Puddings, Custards, Blancmange; all the uses of the flues: arrowroot, and especially suited to the delicacy of Childran. and Invalids. BROWN & POLSON, MANUFACTURERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN PAISLEY, MANCHESTER, DUBLIN AND LONISON. Llaalpcot WHOLESALZ WRIGHT, CROSSLEY & CO., RAIMF,.§ & CO. WHOLESALE PAPER & STATIONERY WAREHOUSE. Superfine Foolscap, blue, cream, and yellow, Ss. 6d. to ISt. per ream. Superfine Commercial Large Post, Es. Ed. t o 12s. per ream. Ditto, Ditto, Large Note, 3s. Ga. to. ;7 es. per ream. E-4 Straw Letter Paper, 4s. per ream. • , Straw Note Paper, 2s. per ream. Superfine Thick Cream-laid Note, in dire c.4 quire packets, ls., Is. Ed., aI d 2e. Id. C t j - Commercial Envelopes, 3s. 61. per 1,000. Superfine Thick Cream-laid Envelopes (owe manufacture), 9.1. per 100. -4 1 Superfine Draft Paper, 15s. to 21s. per ream.. M I MISCELLANEOUS OFFICE STATIONERY. E - Lead Pencils, 9d. per dozen. Pens, great variety. Quills and Quill Pens. Penholders, t-3=l Inkstands (in every pattern), Copying Presses g 0 E . )lo e r l dan ope 's il m os ak e. e;,: a l p s. er ed *, S i t g a: t i s oneu m em% LEATUER GOODS. p:l ° L. :3 Letter Scales, Rulers, Ike. .I', Tourists' Cases (best make), from 6s. to 21a. H "4 each. I Emigrants' Writing Desks, large size, ss. and as. each. ~cr Writing Desks (best make), from 10s. 6d. 0 425., in }Lassie and Morocco, complete. Z Despatch Box and Desk combined, in Russia, W c.O .fitted with every requisite for writing, (tc., and the cheapest and most complete ktal 1. : made, £5. Purses.—A large variety of new p a tt arns , _ just received, from 6d, to ss . gd. e as t. z • Pocket-books, eontauatug Memorandum -41 beak, two pockets, place for post age and. &-4 ' 7 ". --- receipt stamps, with ela s ti c b and, One Shillisz. Tenants' Weekly Rent, Books, 2s. each. e p h e . r doz. `4 Landlords' Collecting Books, 2 SAMPLES AND ESTIMATES PURNTSBED ON APPLICATION. PRINTING, STATIONERY, & BOOR SELLING ESTABLISHMENT. STEAM PRINTING WORICS-UAIMINGTON.STILUST. ot eS TEAM rEachTabTotu3Est.2titl.O—ruPchkßie"nE3gA'eSSBßtoBhTlie:Pii ri4tN!prllNTtAleßuTrN—oclEGNornT?tileiv, ITB rir rara3l:l2 ms dk.(::mr : S b e' about .-.): establish houses in Liverpool —are respectfully infornaed that TO every description of Mercantile, Legal, and General PRINT ING, is executed with accuracy and despateh, and on the most moderate terms. The Premises, Plant, wad Staff, for extent, completeness, and eficiency, are unequalled in Livaolvoi. Machinery of the best construction, driven by steam Power, ensures rapidity and economy ; while his large and efficient staff of intelligent workmen enables him to execute orders in the first style of the art.—Estimates furnished to large 0312- !. - amers for Commercial, Gene al, and Palmy PRINTING at every description. T ITHOGRAPHIC PUNTING --Superior work, tranship guaranteed in printing Maps, Plans of &state* or other Property, Sections, Diagrams, Landscape*, Marine Views, Portraits, Far-Similes, Architectural, Engineering, and Mechanical Drawings, Coloured Show Cards, Libels, Circulars, Cheques, Bill Heads, Invoice*, Bank Drafts, awl every variety of Ornamental and Commercial Lithography, plain, tinted, or coloured. Kio OKBINDIN G, MACHINE -RITLING, MACHINING, LETTERPRESS, and LITHOGRAPiiIC NTINU executed for the Trade on advantageous terms. AeDVERTISEMENTS FOR ENGLISH AND . FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS.—Ad re rtisiwig Agent t o a l t .eading Mercantile Firms and Tradesine-ii in Liverpool.— The undersigned is the At AGENT IN L iIIER POOL for receiving ADVERTgEMENTS for all the leading English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, Australian, Canadian, Aneri can, French, Russian, German, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss, and other Foreign Newspapers, having a direct coturaunioation with nearly NO newspapers throughout the world, and devotes to this business the experience of ....early a quarter of a century.—Contracts tutored into for long series at greatly reduced rates. Adre f tisements fir the Manchester and other d:strict Paters fur the following day reef:veil up to Stinin o'clock every rvenind All the principal newspapers tiled for refereuee. HENRY GREENWOOD PRINTER BY STEAM-POWER, RIOLISALE AND DXPOST STATIONERY AND ACCOUNT-BOOK MANUFACTURE, ENGRAVER, AND LITHOGRAPHER. AND GENERAL ADVERTIS/NO AGENT EET. 32. WORICS-.HAREIXOTON-STRIDT, HCLLOWAY'S OINTNEILIT AND PlLLS.—Erysipelas, cancer, ulcers, hemorrhoids, or piles, boils, and prickly heat are treated with unvarying success by this mild yet penetrating unguent. The vast consumption of these remedies in India and throughout the East is E n /fetter pr,oof of their excellence than the testimony of any individual. They would not be in such demand in all our distant dependencies and colonies, sf they had not been found so universally beneficial. Few Internal or external diseases can withstand their joint influence; whilst the Ointment cools, soothes, and remedies outward complaints, the Pills by purifying the blood, improving indigestion, and stimulating the kidneys, thoroughly throw out from thesystem those subtle corruptions which engendered erysipelas and Its associates. 47 The latest edition. Just publishtl. Sant free per pose $c three stamps, or may be had on applicration. TEETH . Loss AND RESTORATION. On tlps beat MeRUSOf TeStor:ng *Mb, by the new principle cf self-adhesion, with vulcanised gun coloured India-rubber in lieu of bone or gold, and by means of a flexible gum, without springs or wires, and without extract ing roots, at half the ordinary cost. By Messrs. Dentists to the Pr: D'Ottajana. A multum in parvo bro-. chure, which all requiring the aid of q dentist will do well tom, peruse, as, emanatin4 from such a source, it may he coati-. dently relied on.---17w.ted Service Gazette. Dent.' Establish., meats i 94, Duke-street, Liverpool; 33, Ludgate-hill. 110, Regent-street, Loudon Note name and *umber. Xatale— li.s.'sied 1816. Vide diploma. Our *readers have only to send a penny stamp and tti4Y receive, tree by post, the " Invalid's Own Guide," Qr natural restorer without medicine or expense, of perfeot-, digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and retreshing sleep. 13 the mos: enfeebled, effectually removing indigestion (dyspepsia), nausea and sickness, even during pregnancy, &Wily, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, incipient consumption, drop , : constipation, flatulency, diarrhoea, dysentery, bilioulne„ fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises •in the ,gia, thsiumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, netbun.,. irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, tis brow headache, despondency, cramp, spasms, ..inkinir antmete ur chitis ; also children's complaints. Ac,:ompanipa = - --cretttrr.er.t ramie successful cures, which had resisted all meow: _ .o.eg4 , nt-creet, been abandoned as h-pelcss. D. J. Ear-i. • " London. U , Lity to Lag tu co, it Como 30,00 o now' L aiber• er the Could. mmou proper i be to are an Lists to Le Vain