The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

5,7 THE LIVERPOOI- STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1853. LOCAL NEWS. AT A VEGETARIAN SOIREE, in the Concert-hall, on Thursday evening, 200 people were present. A GREAT CHESS MEETING is to be held at Man chester, on Friday and Saturday next. YESTERDAY coals were raised in price from 6d. to Is. per ton. This arises from the determination of the colliers to have a further increase of wages. THE EXHIBITION OF THE FLORAL AND HORTICUL TURAL SOCIETY Will take place this year at the Botanic Gardens, Edge-lane, in May, June, and September. The society is at present in a very flourishing condition. MR. JOHN BucKLEv, relieving officer for Runcorn, was incautiously crossing the line at the Sutton incline on Tuesday, when a train came up, and killed him on the spot, THE MAYOR entertained to dinner, at the Town-hall, on Tuesday evening, the members of the Select Vestry and a number of other gentlemen. The party numbered up. Wards of 50. DANIEL MATHER, Esq., Thomas Darnley Anderson, t sq., and Francis Alexander Hamilton, Esq., took the oaths and qualified as justices of the peace for this borough, on Tuesday last. IN THE ROLLS Coca - T., yesterday week, the master granted an injunction against George Merritt, who, in consequence of some disagreement with the corporation of Manchester, had threatened to stop the supply of water to that city. FORTY ACRES OF LAND, on the north side of Brom brough-pool, on the Cheshire shore, have been purchased by the company for, the manufacture of Price's patent candles, The works, it is contemplated, will give employ ment to a thousand people ! MR. 47, GRANTHAM, C.E., announced to the Polytech nic Society, yesterday week, that he intended shortly to bring his schemes for dock improvement before an impor tant body in London. whose opinion would have great weight with the kingdom at large, and probably with his townsmen. A HANDSOME Bible and Prayer-book have been pre sented by the clergy, teachers, and friends of S. Paul's Church Sunday Schools, Liverpool, to William Worrall, Esq., as a small token of their affectionate esteem for his 'unwearied services to the above useful institution during a period of more than a quarter of century. A CIRCULAR was issued on Tuesday morning by Mr. Coleman, the accountant, announcing a first dividend of 7s. 6d. in the pound on the estate of Messrs. Colin:Tann and Stolterfoht, who failed on the 10th of January, -and whose direct liabilities amounted to £153,811. It is un derstood that a further early distribution may be •looked for.— Timts. FURIOUS Dawes is by far too prevalent a Tractice in the streets of Liverpool. On Wednesday, at the police court, a respectable-looking man, named Richard Gil grass, was charged with knocking down and running over a poor woman, named Bridget Barret, in "St. James's- Street. The woman appeared in court, but in consequence of her weak state, it was thought advisable'to order her removal, and to remand the case. Gilgrass was driving at the rate of fifteen miles an hour through the town. TKs BODY 'OF CAPTAIN JOHN MACDONALD, of the Irene, capsized on Pluckington-bank, on the 26th of Fein-nary last, was found on Tnesday, near Eastham- Cif. A reward of .£lO had been offered for its recovery. Decomposition was far advanced, and it•was only by the clothes and a gold ring that the body could be identified. The -sum of £6 10s. was found in one of the pockets. The bodrwas placed in a shell and removed to Ireland for interment. lORHETCES IN BIRKENHED.—A cash-box, containing 'money to the amount of £l2O, was stolen at about six o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday last, from the hotel ' ol l4lr.e C. T. Clarke, Chester-street. 'At about the same Vine an'Saturday an entrance was effected into the offices '..„ (4 .31r.41. P. Priest, accountant, Market Cress Chambers, 4311- kentread, which as usual had been closed in the early v• t of that day. An iron safe, manufactured by Messrs. and M. Scott, of Tranmere, hathresisted the efforts of 'the thieves until they had brobably been disturbed. The l afebore marks of a crowbar, or some-such instrument. 'MORE THAN A TON OF CUEAN . COTTON, apparently 'Ouch as vagrant boys and girls steal out of bales, was dis. 'covered the other day by the police, in the marine store of 'Thomas McLoughlin, Cherry-lane. Two children "were also seen entering the store with cotton, evidently . stolen. It appeared that MeLoughlin was convicted half *year before he got his license, but as no reference was 'made to the police about him, the fact was not known by the licensing parties at the town-hall. McLoughlin was sent to the house of correction for two months, and his license revoked. The other prisoners were sentenced to `lesser periods of imprisonment. LIVERPOOL MORTALITY—ORRILZASE.—The mortality is lower than is usual at the present-season ; the deaths re gistered in the week ending on Saturday last having been 'l9O, against an average of 208 in the same week of the preceding five years. In the parish the deaths were 136, and in the extra-parochial wards, 34. Diseases of the lungs caused only 64 deaths. The deaths from zymotic • diseases were also below the average, being 37. The mortality from typhus was lower than in any previous week since the passing of the sanitary act, the deaths being only 3, all of which occurred in the fever hospital. i This s the only instance on record cf a week in which not .a single death from fever has been registered in a private -residence. 'NEWS FROM THE AUSTILVLIAN- SHIP PRINCE ARTHUR. —A letter has been received trom the captain of this vessel, which left this port I= ' , Australia a short time Since, dated March sth, in which he states that he reached the equator in 24 days —an •excellent run. The letter says :—" The ship sails very fast—lo, 11, 121, and "13 knots are booked, and she has 'done one day 297 clean between sights. The ship :passes everything we fall in with. I fell in with and passed a 'Swedish 32-gun ship Of the Canaries, both of -us on a taught bow line. I -should say we went two knots to her one-and-a-half at least. Indeed, sailing is no trouble to her, and I an ticipate a very quick passage. We had two births the •day after sailing, and there are prospects of a dozen or .more, at the least calculation. 'I have lost one infant, .aged ten months ; it died from pure exhaustion." All the rest of the passengers were quite-well. 'A MANCHESTER MERCHANT DET:.INED IN ITALY.— The Austrian authorities in Italy lately arrested Mr. 'Ferdinand, the son of Mr. A. S. -Sichei, a German mer chant long resident in Manchester, new travelling in Italy on business. He was apprehended at Pavia. a frontier town of Lombardy, and lodged in prison at Milan, where he lay 'for ten days, his friends in the meantime not know ing where he had gone, and being in the greatest alarm. He was not permitted to write home - to his father until the. British Consul had interfered. This letter, dated the - 20th March, reached Manchester on Monday week. Another son of Mr. Sichel's at once proceeded to London, had an :interview with Lord Clarendon,:Lord John Rus sell, and-several members of Parliament. The same night Mr. Sichel learned, by electric telegraph, that a courier "would be despatched next day to 'Vienna. It appears M. Sichel't visit to Milan was made to-recover a debt, and it is thought that his debtor, finding it inconvenient to Pay, found an alternative ready-made in the notorious suspiciousness of the Austrian police, and -denounced as a traitor °newt: o probably did not harbour apolitical thought either oneway or another. HEALTH :COMMITTEE. —At the meeting an Thursday, Langsdale in the chair, Mr. Rose applied to con tinue under. his present engagement for a mouth, in con sequence of his boats, machinery, &c.., not• being quite ready-. 'He was anxious to commence with the rew plans, hut \wished to have everything in perfect readiness. In reply to .a question, the clerk stated that Mr.titose had not signed his contract. Mr. Johnson thought the con tract .earght to be signed, and then the committee might relax if they thought proper. It was decided •that the new cotatract price take effect on the sth of May next. In reference to the watering of the streets, Mr. _Bight= Said it oeght to be known that £7OO per annum 4510 all they expended for -that purpose. Mr. Dover said there Was a rate of only a ld., or rather the ith of a penny, Paid for watering , the streets. Mr. Beckwith said, for xnerly, every shopkeeper paid 6d. a-week, and had the Streets properly watered. Instructions were given to ad vertise for contracts for watering the streets. Mr. Dover remarked on the insuffioient accommodation given to the public in cases where the footwalk was temporarily boarded off to make alterations in buildings ; he thought a greater width should be allowed for persons to pass. Several members coincided, and the borough-engineer instanced certain alterations in Rater-street, where a most improper encroachment had been made, notwith standing that a remonstrance had been sent. The best course would be in such cases to give notice to remove the boarding within the prescribed limits, and if not attended to, pull it down. EANQUET AT THE TowN.HALL.—The Mayor, on Ihiarsday even i ng , gav e a grand banquet at the Town. 41 to the members of the Liverpool Chamber of Corn eti,(4e4the deputies from the commercial associations of on th e '.l n and towns who are attending the conference other fc 'eMet of the mercantile law of the kingdom, and present,:—.F h ' e en. The following is a list a the gentlemen Arnott, Es q , Mayor of Liverpool (in the chair); J. R. Esq., Liverp r Z Addison, Esq., Bradford; John Aikin, Henry Aldrich, E 9 Henry Ashworth, Esq., Manchester ; B L a iv r e be rp r o , ol E ; s :r , an zi i v ; e ' r ', B --to i r t cester , ; Thomas Bauch, Esq., , Esq., Liverpool ; William Livergpo Bi!,olohkoes, Liverpool; Willi am e: i ol h ; Ralph Brocklebank, Esq., F. A. Clint, Esq q., Worcesttesr .E D sLi er H E udderseld ; 00l ; William Dent, E s °- ; John Darlington, , sq., ,Liver- Esq.,EvansAlexq.' Worcester ~ T. Bradford ; Edward B. Forwood, Esq., Liverpool • Liverpool • Thos. B. HorsfaU, ,Es,., tdver Finlay, Esq.. Higg i n, Ac t ., Liverpool; Edward HeatelfP7l; Edward pool ; the Rev. David James • Fran • / 4 ' sq.. Liver. Worcestert cm vne, .Lamm' don ; J. W. Lea, Esq., ; W. ,y- Esq., Liverpool ; Henry Hanmer Leycester, Esq., t:: : London ; Joseph —a.comson, don ; Leoni Levi, Esc!, Esq., Liverpool ; William Potter, Esq., ditto ; J. p. Palmer, Esq., ditto ; James Procter, E ' EO., ditto • Air. Commissioner Perry, ditto ; Charles ßobertson, Esq., ditto • Robert Rankin, Esq. , ditto ; Malcolm R oss , Esq., Manchester ; Francis Shand, Esq.. Liverpool ; J ames smith, Esq, ditto; Samuel Stitt, Esq., ditto; ditto James en A. Tobin, Esq., ditto; John Torr, Bristol ,; ry Winch. Esq., ditto ,• John Cox, Esq., • Robert Lang, Esq., ditto ; James Hassell. Esq., ditto;Charles Holland, Esq., Liverpool. The Rev. David Jamesoffi eiated as chaplain. Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, furnished the dinner in elegant style. Mr. Holden's Party of vocali s t s were present. In acknowledging the toast, " The Tribunals of Commerce Committee, of London," which was prcposed by the mayor, Mr. Francis Lyne, of London, said be was commissioned by Lord Beaumont, the president of the London committee, to say that his lordship received the invitation to be present with a great deal of pleasure, and it was a matter of pain to him that circumstances over which he had no control deprived him of the power of coming to Liverpool on this important occasion—by none estimated of more im portance than by his lordship. (Hear, hear.) His lordship felt that the commercial community had now taken up a position of considerable importance before the world—of importance because Liverpool had come for ward, and, by her movement, had declared in the face of the empire that a system invented for the creation of cogs and not the due administration of justice was not com. Aatible with the feelings of Englishmen, (Applause.) THERE are one hundred strict vegetarians in Liverpool and its neighbourhood. A NOTORIOUS DRUNKARD, named Elizabeth Clarke, 47 years old, was found dead on the step of a house in Dalton-street, shortly after midnight on Tuesday. A MARRIED WOMAN eloped from Rossendale the other day, with a single man of the neighbourhood. The crea ture took with her the wages of the children, which they had just received, and all the clothes which were at hand. FIRE IN THE SALTHOUSE DOCK.—On Friday, a fire broke out on board of the ship Sea Nymph, lying in the Salthouse dock, and loaded with cotton, oakum, and other inflammable articles. THE LONDON ART-UNION.—The prizes were awarded on Tuesday. The Liverpool subscribers who have been successful are—Mr. F. Parker, work of art, worth £4O; Mr. B. B. Drinkwater, tazza in iron, modelled from a Greek design ; and Mr. W. Ashcroft, Parian statue of " Solitude." LIVERPOOL PHILOMATRIC SOCIETY.—OR Thursday evening, the twenty-eighth session of this society was brought to a close. Mr. James Spence was elected the president of the society for the session 1/353 54, and Mr. John M`Diarmid, vice-president. The Philomathic So ciety was instituted in 1825. A GOLD SsuFF-Box was presented on Thursday even ing, by the workmen in the employ of Messrs. Ewart, Myers and Co., to their manager, at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street, on the occasion of the marriage of Jos. Myers, Esq., to Miss Ashton. About forty sat down to dinner. THOMAS ICoKEL, while being brought from Manchester to Liverpool en route for Dublin on Monday, leaped from the train at its entering the tunnel, to escape the police man wilt) had apprehended him on a charge of robbery. He was much injured, but sought concealment in a ditch, to which he had crawled. He v, as taken to the Royal Infirmary. AN OLD MAN named Edward Lynch, living with his son in Stanhope-street, aroused the denizens of the house in which he lived on Tuesday at midnight by his cries. When his son and daughter asked him where he felt the pain, he put his hand to 'his side on the spot where lie had received a sword wound on the coast of Africa. He then expired. DR. WISEMAN IN MANCHESTER.—On Wednesday afternoon, the so-called Cardinal Wiseman arrived in Manchester. On Thursday evening he lectured on the relation between the arts of design and the arts of pro duction, at the Corn 'Exchange. During his stay in this neighbourhood he was the guest of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, at Trafford Tark. He was announced to preach in the morning and evening of Sunday last, at Salford. MEN DROWNED e.t SEA.—During the passage of the packet-ship Daniel Webster, which arrived on Tuesday night from Boston, a seaman having fallen overboard, a boat with four men in it was lowered, and an endeavour made to save the unfortunate man, when, just as he was reached, the boat upset, and three out of the four composing the boat's crew were drowned. The man who fell overboard was also drowned. NtleoctAricrNs have been in progress between the London and Yorth-western and the Shrewsbury lines of railway, for the purpose of putting a Stop to the ruinous competition which has so long existed between them for the Liverpool traffic. They are not yet concluded, how ever, the 'Shrewsbury company wishing, instead of the equality of fares to which their rival would agree, to charge a less passenger fare to Liverpool than the North western. A private gentleman has difered to lease the Shrewsbury lines, giving four per cent. per annum. THE UNION OF THE LIVERPOOL A - ND BIRKENHEAD DOCKS wasegain under the consideration of the conferring deputation from the Liverpool Dock Committee, and Baron Goldstnid. Mr. F. Goldsraid, and Sir Joseph Bailey, en Tuesday last, at Mr. Torner's residence, in Park-place, St. James's-street, London. The negotia tion is said to be adjourned for a week, in order to give time for ascertaining the views of the entire body of pro prietors in the docks and the dock warehouses at Birken head, as to the price they would -he disposed to accept for their property. TRAGEDY AT BOOTLE.—On Tuesday last, Sarah Jones, a - fine young girl of 17 years, belonging to Chester, was shot onintentionally by Edwin, a youth ten or twelve years of age. son of her master,-Mr. Abraham Wren, tea merchant, Baliol-road. Bootle. The boy had found the pistol in a drawer, and the girl happening to enter the room in which he was, he playfully raised the instrument, and remarked that he would shoot her. She replied that he inest not do anything of 'the sort, when the youth thoughtlessly pulled the trigger, and the contents of the .pistol entered her body. The ball is supposed to have lodged in the hip of the unfortunate young woman. She lingered in great agony until Thursday, when she expired. Are EXHIBITION OF Tale-ELECTRIC LIGHT, by W. E. Staite, Esq., took place in the theatre of the Royal Institution, on Friday evening. In the absence of the mayor, Mr. Sumner, druggist, took the chair.—Mr. Staite, before exhibiting his -wonderful, yet simple, appa ratus, gave a brief lecture upon the principles of electri city, illustrating his propositions by several beautiful and -conclusive experiments. The brilliant light is only about the sire of that given by an ordinary gas-burner, but in the-extreme, so indeed that to look upon it was like looking at the sun ; and, byy-means of a glass prism, the elementary solar or rainbow-like rays were thrown -on the•wall. It will illuminate the Mersey over to Wood aide, together with all the-approaches to the Landing stage. The Dock Committee have resolved to avail themselves of Mr. Staite's elaborately-matured scientific triumph, which to-morrow night will be put in operation. CAMIIDATES FOR AMCRICAN CITIZENSHIP.—The 1 packet ship Universe, Capt.. Bird, from Liverpool, which arrived yesterday, has favoured us with the following sta tistics of his passengers :—Whole number 576 ; of whioh .383 are males, and 242 are females. Of the former there are .10 farmers, 4 tailors, 1 carpenter, 1 barber, 1 wheel wright, 2 railway clerks, 3 storekeepers, 1 carter, 3 wool len manufacturers, 2 carriers, 3 butchers, 9 colliers, 1 jeweller, 3 weavers, 1 machinist, 2 engineers, 1 mason, 1 builder, 1 blacksmith, 1 painter and gilder, 1 gardener, 2 bakers, 4 miners, 3 millwrights, 1 limner, and the re mainder of the adult males are labourers. Of the females S 2 are-dressmakers, and the remainder servants. 38 are natives of Germany, 2 of Holland, 39 of England, 1 of Scotland, 22 of Wales, 4 of the Isle of Man, 461 of Ire land, and 9 citizens of the United States—all in good health,—New York Herald, Aril 16. Loss= oF TWELVE LIVES.—On Saturday week the Richardson, Captain Carruthers, while on her passage from Whitehaven tor Liverpool, where she was proceed ing -to be loaded with an outward cargo, ran ashore at Duddon. Carpenters were immediately engaged and set to work, who platformed her, and on Saturday she was got off the beach, and taken in tow by a steam-tug, with the intention of being taken round to Whitehaven. The vessel was making so much water that the carpenters and crew became greatly alarmed. The vessel appeared to be sinking, and the men jumped into the boat before she was lowered into the water. In consequence of the hurry and confusion, the ropes by which the boat was fastened were not properly loosed, and it fell bead foremost into the sea, the whole of the men, 18 in number, being pre cipitated into the water. Six of •them, including the captain and mate, were rescued, but the other twelve were consigned-to a watery grave. The vessel did not go down far upwards of an hour after the men left her. WEST DERBY , GrARDTANs.—At the meeting on Wed nesday, Mr. Alpass presided. It was stated that the schoolmaster, inconsequence of ill-health, would not be able to resume his duties for several weeks. As the boys are in disorder, the governor suggested the propriety of appointing a temporary schoolmaster, which was agreed to. The house was reported to be crammed, and many old people were in. - Mr. Shaw complained of the butter recently supplied, which had been " shameful." The ale, too, was unfit for use. Mr. Roskell, to avoid getting bad ale and to economise, suggested that a brewery might be established on thepremises. The matter was-referred to the Visiting Committee. It was resolved, "'That a call of 25 per cent. upon the declared averages be Dow trade on the several townships in the union, to be paid on or before the 17th day of May pert." Mr. Shaw moved, " That no in-door paupers -be tent out of the house to labour under the Test Committee." Carried...—The offer of the Liverpool -Corporation, with regard to the boundary of the site of the West Derby Union Hospital, was accepted, " providing that the work be proceded with, and the boundary ascertained forthwith." Mr. Archer, baker, appeared before the board.; and in explanation of a pauper having been supplied with bread deficient in v . /eight, stated that the affair arose entirely from the mis take of a fresh shop-keeper. Mr. Tattersall expressed himself satisfied.—With regard to the Union Hospital, Mr. Mc.4Gee said the brick work all over was disgraceful. He thought a blind man would do better work. Both the architect and the builders were, in his opirrion, to blame. Mr. Cooper's tender for a new board-room and altera tions was accepted. Mr. Heyes's motion, that £6 a-year be paid for the use of a relief office for the Crosby district, was negatived. UNION OF THE LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. —At the Dock Committee, on Thursday, Mr. Gladstone (who was chairman) stated that, according to an arrange ment of the committee, Mr. Bold, Mr. C. Turner, and himself proceeded to London as a deputation, and they met Baron Goldsmid, his son, and Sir Joseph Bailey, on Tuesday last. A. good deal of conversation took place in reference to the purchase of the Birkenhead Docks ; but as those gentlemen were not authorised to act for other parties, at their request all proceedings were postponed for a week.—Mr. Bold said they might be prepared to make their report that day week.—Mr. Bigham remarked that all they could say up to that time was that the proprie tors of the Birkenhead Docks had gathered from the Dock Committee the fact that they were ready to buy without giving them anything in exchange for such knowledge. The committee did not know whether the proprietors would sell, or at what price ; but the proprietors had gathered from the Dock Committee that they were ready to purchase. He thought so far they had got the best of it,---Mr. Bold said they gathered from them so far that the gentlemen who met them, and they were largely in terested, were prepared to sell. It did not follow that the tuere prepared to buy. It had been considered ad visablesha. to appoint a deputation in consequence of several shareholders, having a large interest in the undertaking, tavvh_ios_hsoei.nwghtoo .beet them.—Mr. Bigharn understood that the op intment of a deputation was consented to with a view to negotiate with the company ; whereas it appeared that partiea.—Mr. dependent paPen seen on the subject were merely in. would lead to negotiation.) Bold : They are very important negotiate ---mr Bigham : It appears they had no power to o o t l i d at s io a n id . lt r. h T ad ob ta in ke a n sk a e c d o w ur h s e e t which s the disadvantage of the public knowing that the Dock Committee were willin g to buy. H e a ppr e hended that the deputation was appointed with th a t i n t en ti on . The only thing was the question of price, and nothing definite would be done without It was not a question whether being brought forward. rt i hey were to buy or not ; it was a question of price._N f o . Bight= thought the comm ittee would have objected s a deputati on h a d they been aware that the three person au thorised by their body, but acted to be met were not n sibility.—The Chairman said that as to their own respon o what the deputa tion had done, there was nothing a t at all affect the posi tion of the Doc present Committee which could had not gathered anythi n g fro m them astowia ; they were disposed to give , and a report would be laid before they the Dock Committee on the sub j e ct. — The deputation were not in a position to say anything further at present, b ut t i, crc m i g 4 be oomahing next Thursday, THE ILLEGITIMATE CHILD Of Margaret Thompson, 7 Court, Pall-mall, was suffocated in bed on Tuesday night. The mother had been to the Colosseum, and came home at midnight, drunk. THE SHIP MAJESTIC, belonging to Messrs. Horsfall, of this town, is now lying in the Queen's Gravin g -d oc k, with all her frame and top timbers exposed. The Majes tic was built by John Haws, Esq., of St. John, N.B. ; and though upwards of fifteen years old, is as strong as when first set afloat. DREADFUL DEATH.—At noon, OR Tuesday, James Findlay, on going to his house in Russell-place, Warren street, could not get admission. On entering by the window, he found his child asleep on a table, and his wife, Wilbelmina Findlay, lying in the lobby, with her clothes on fire. She had been dead for some hours. JOHN GIBSON. THE SCULPTOR.—" Roma," a corre spondent of the Builder, relates that years ago the King of Bavaria, after visiting Gibson's studio, inquired if there was anything he could do for the sculptor. The reply was, that his Majesty could confer one favour, namely, accompany him to the neighbouring studio of the sculptor Wyatt, in order that a brother artist—some would say rival—might also have the aid of royalty. LIABILITY OF A WIFE RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS FROM HER HUSBAND.—Elizabeth Brooks, who was con victed at the Liverpool sessions of receiving goods be longing to Mr. Eastee, knowing them to have been stolen, has had the conviction quashed on appeal to the superior criminal court in London. Mr. Baron Parke said it was perfectly clear that a wife receiving stolen goods from her husband could not, under any circumstances, be an offence. SUICIDE OF A LETTER CARRIER IN THE ISLE OF MAN. —On Wednesday morning, Thomas Shimmin, letter carrier, of Douglas, was found hanging by the neck in his bedroom, dead. Deceased had been much annoyed by a regulation at the Post-office, by which he was to be re moved from a district of the town in which he had delivered letters, &c., for about eleven years, and placed on another district. LAUNCHES OF MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL STEAMERS IN THE CLYDE.—The 'reenock Advertiser states that on Monday there was launched from the yard of Messrs. John Wood and Ca, Port-Glasgow, a fine wood screw schooner, named the Josefina, owned by Messrs. Salomon, Moro, and Leon, of Manchester, and intended for the Brazilian coasting trade. Immediately after the above, Messrs. John Reid and Co. set afloat a beautiful iron screw ship of HU tons new measurement. She was with due ceremony named the Olinda, by Miss Isabella Anderson. This vessel has been built for the South American and general Steam Navigation Company, and is to ply between Liverpool and the Brazils. Messrs. Caird and Co. are to fit her with a pair of oscillating engines of 200-horse power. THE LIVERPOOL 'Firer ateN.—lt is said that the mayor of Liverpool, some days ago, received a communication from Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for the Home Department, requesting to be furnished with a statement of the number of voters entitled to vote in the election of members of Parliament for the borough of Liverpool; the nunTher of persons voting as householders ; the number voting as freemen ; and the number, if any, voting in the double capacity of freemen and householders. It is stated that this communication has some reference to the new Reform Bill about to be introduced by Govern ment. DOCK Comte:yr - cm—On Thursday, 11fr. Gladstone presided. Applications for an advance of wages from the Landing-stage men and the Dock-gate men were not ac ceded to. It was stated that, weather permitting, the screw pile beacon would be erected on Littleßurbo Bank, on Mon day. In pensioning Moses Owen, an old 'dockgateman, it was stated that formerly there was a fund available for the purpose -which had accumulated from penalties for infrac tions of the Dock laws. The fines now went to the Bo rough furid. Mr. Bigham said that if the Dock Committee now got the fines, the fund might be increased by penalties for Dock - frauds. Mr. Robinson gave notice that next week he'would move for the appointment of Mr. Langs dale on the Warehouse Management -Committee. He added that it would be necessary to 'increase the rates on produce, in consequence of the advanced wages paid to the labourers at the Albert warehouses. Thu AFRICAN LINE OF STEAMERS.—The African Steam-ship Company's mail packet Hope, Commander Bowen, built by Mr. Lsird, of Birkenhead, sailed on-Sunday week, with mails for Madeira, Teneriffe, Goree, Serra Leone, aid the West Coast of Africa, in charge of Lieutenant Pearce, the mail agent. This is the first voyage of the Hope, which is a sister ship to the'Fcith, belonging to the same enterprising company. `Like the others, she -is-constructed of iron, snd is of 900 - tonsburthen. She is provided with iron tubular masts, which admit the top masts into them, and allow the -ship to be made snug when encountering strong adverse winds—an arrangement proved to be both advantageous and economical for this service. Her diagonal cylinder engines (on the same plan as those so successfully adopted in the Cape steamers), ere 'constructed by Mr. George Forrester, of. Liverpool ; they are.of 200-horse power, and revolve her three-blade pro peller 52 times per minute, with a consumption of 15 tons -of fuel in 24 hours. The boilers of the Hope are placed one in each wing, and either can be used separately. Her feed engine (commonly called a donkey engine), besides Ming the boilers, can be readily adapted to washing decks' or extinguishing fire. The Hope is fitted with a telegraph, ! having one dial on deck and another in the engine -room. , When any alteration of the steam-power is required a movement above strikes a bell below, and the dial hand points immediately to " Go ahead,"•" Back astern," , &c., -so that all the hoarse bawling and occasional error by the ordinary mode is avoided. - The arrangements below -enable the engineer to command at one viaw the entire economy of the engines and boilers. The Hope has a full and valuable cargo, including a large amount in specie and a great quantity of gunpowder for different ports. IShe next homeward packet, the European, Capt. Groves, is due at Plymouth on the Nth of May. THE NEW PASSENGER AOT.—TMPORTANT !DECISION. —On Tuesday, Mr. Mansfield delivered judgment in a case of considerable importance as affecting the rights of emigrants and passenger agents.—On Friday last Mr. 'Edward Whitley, solicitor, appeared before the bench in support of a summons which had been taken out by two emigrants aeainst the well-known firm of Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson, to recover a sum of 41 each, which had been paid by them as a deposit for a passage in the ship Lochiel. It was admitted, for the purposes of the case, that the contract was duly made, that the money sought to be recovered was paid by the plaintiff, and that he was in readiness to proceed-upon the voyage on the day mentioned in the contract. The contract itself had also been put in, and the day fined for the departure of the vessel was the 10th April. There was an endorse. ment on the contract, the purport of which was that the passenger was warned not to leave home to repair to the place of embarkation until he had received notice that it was time to do so. The plaintiff receiving no notice before the-fixed day of departure, presented himself at the place of embarkation on that day ; but now it appeared the vessel would not sail till the 30th. The question, there fore, said Mr. Mansfield, was whether, under the circum stances, the plaintiff was entitled tc have:back his money paid, and compensation. He was inclined to think that a delay of .20 days before the commencement of a voyage of several months could hardly be considered, under the circumstances, to have been intended-by the statute. He was the -further confirmed in this view by the notorious fact that few , ressels were so fortunate in the punctual arrangement of the vast and complicated machinery that must be put in motion to fit out and man and store them for a voyage to the antipodes as to be able to depart upon the precise day anticipated by the owner and the charterer. It mist be remembered that the delay was against-the interest of the charterer and owner, that the subsistence money alone for many passengers was a severe penalty incurred-by the charterer, and that the legislature, having in view the difficulties he had to contend with in clearing his ship outwards, might have considered that the interests of the.public would be better served by per mitting a short delay in the performance of the contract, rather than by giving e power to one party -to rescind it altogether, which in most instances would retard the sailing of the ship-still-further, or tend to raise the price of passages by making the voyage ruinous to the-charterer. The summons must be ,dismissed.—Mr. Hull -said the object of both parties had been to lay the faets'elearly before the court, in order to obtain a decision on a question so important to this mercantile community. Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson had .returned the two intending emigrants their money, as they intended remaining in their native country. MERCANTILE CONFERENCE iN LIVERPOOL.—At this great conference, held in the Cotten Salesroom on Friday, " to consider the state of Mercantile Law and the Judicial System of the United Kingdom," the Mayor presided. Deputations were present from London, Manchester, ?otteries, Worcester. Bradford, Bristol, &c. Letters of approval were read from Chambers of Commerce, &c.. in Belfast, Greenock, Southampton, Plymouth, Stockton, Dundee, and other places. The resolutions adopted were as follow :-Ist, moved by Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall, seconded by Mr. Leycester, of London : " That the grievances under which the trade and commerce of this country labour, in respect of the anomalous state of mercantile law, and the imperfect working of th e j u di c i a l system, demand immediate consideration.; and, in order to insure the efficiency of any remedial measures, it is essential that theyshonld be suggested or approved by the classes for whose benefit they are intended, and by whose experience they ought to be tested : that, as the most important interests of the empire are n ow i n di ssolubly associated with its commerce, whatsoever tends to inter pose hindrances to the freedom and safety of it s operations is contrary to all sound principle and ought to be removed." —2nd, moved by Mr. Henry Ashworth , of Manchester, and seconded by Mr. Malcolm Ross, of Manchester - —" That the efforts of the London Law Amendment Society, in the cause of law reform, are gratefully recog nized by the trading classes ; and that the proceedings of the conference held in London, in November last, so f ar as relates to the assimilation and consolidation of th e commercial laws of the United Kingdom, are f ormally approved and adopted by this meeting. 3d, moved Mr. Leone Levi and seconded by Mr. Lang, of Bristol "'th a t, beneficial as the measures recomme n d ed by the London conference prove to be when carried out, th ey d o not provide a remedy for the more immediate and pressing evils of which the trading classes complain, and which are only partially touched by the provisions of th e recent Common Law Procedure Act." 4th, moved by Mr. Charles Holland and seconded by Mr. Lyne : " That the remedial measures best calculated to put an end to the evils com plained of point to the establi shment o f permanent local jurisdiction, within with compulsory powers an d e q uitab le within towns and districts of certain extent, for th e a dj u. dication of all mercantile disputes, wherein the j u d ges theshould procedureconsist b , e a at informal, least e o of f oc r men, ei and tri bunals of commerce, whose working in every country where established has been successful and satisfactory." —An amendment was proposed by Mr. Harry Ashworth and seconded by Mr. Malcolm Ross, but only three hands were held up in its favour. It was to this effect : " That arbitration in questions of account should be made com pulsory ; and that the modifications of the existing tribu. nals, so as to adapt them to the exigencies of the general commerce of the country, would go far to remove the evils complained of."-sth, moved by Mr. , Coxe, of Bris tol, and seconded by Mr. Lea , of Brytol : ' That petitions to both houses of partiament, setting forth the substance of the foregoing resolutions, be pr" epared for the s i gnature of the chairman and deputations.—Mr. 4shworth moved a vote of Nuke to the mayor, and the proceedings ter minated. THE Manx Sun asserts that Louis Napoleon intends visiting the Isle of Man in July next. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—We understand that the band and chorus of this society has been engaged to assist at the opening of the Dublin Exhibition. THE SCRUTINY, which closed on Friday at Birken head, showed that Mr. Sweeney had been elected assistant overseer by a majority over the rival candidate, Mr. Shillinglaw. THE REV. ROBERT SPENCE, M.A., of Renshaw street Chapel, Liverpool, has accepted a call to Ward Chapel, Dundee, and his farewell sermon will be delivered on the first Sunday in June. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM sIur CAMBRIA, Lang, commander, took her departure hence for Boston, on Saturday, with 105 passengers and a full cargo, besides the usual mails on board. A BAZAAR, for the sale of useful and ornamental ar ticles, will be held in Mr. Walker's new rooms, 55, Church-street, on Monday and Tuesday, the 9th and 10th instant, in aid of the funds for the erection of Windsor street chapel and schools. A FINE BARQUE, named the Joannah Boag, was launched from the shipbuilding-yard of Messrs. Sloan and Gemmell, Ayr, on Wednesday. She is the property of Neil Boag, Esq., Belfast, and will carry a general cargo from Liverpool to San Francisco. THE LYRE AND THE SWORD.—An agreeable entertain ment, under this title, was given at the Collegiate Insti tution on Friday evening, by Mr. W. H. Grattan, of London. It consisted of selections from the poetical compositions of the warrior-poet Korner, set to music by Weber, Himmel, and others, and sung by the lecturer as illustrations of the history and character of the writer. A TEA-PARTY, for the benefit of the United Charity Schools, Ormskirk and Hurleston-green, Scarisbrick, was held in the town-hall, Ormskirk, on Wednesday last, under the patronage of the ladies of Ormskirk and the neighbourhood. The Rev. W. E. Rawstorne and J. Culshaw, Esq., addressed the company. The proceeds of the tea.party amounted to £9. A FAMILY OF ROBBERS.—On Friday Michael Coy, Peter Kienan, Catherine, and James Kienan, the latter father, mother, and son, were committed for two months, to hard labour, for breaking into a beerhouse, in Great Richmond-street, on the 21st ult., and stealing £2 10s. When apprehended, plaster of Paris moulds, for coining, were found in their possession. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BRUNSWICK DOCK.—On Friday morning, a man named Michael Lerner, residing in Lower Harrington-street, Toxteth-park, fell into the hold of the ship England, now lying in the Brunswick Dock. He received a compound fracture of the right leg and left thigh, together with other injuries. He was taken to the Southern Hospital, where he died yesterday morning about one o'clock. An inquest will be held on the body to-day. THE MA MMOTH STEAMER.—The dimensions of the iron steamer about to be built by Mr. Scott Russell for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company are :-620 feet long, 100 feet beam, 6,000 horse-power, and 12,000 tons burthen. She is to he propelled by four paddles and a screw. The horse-power will be proportioned as fol lows :-2,000 for the screw, 2,000 for the midship paddle wheels, and 2,000 for the fore paddle-wheels. The en gines, which have already been contracted for, are to be constructed immediately. FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP.—On Saturday afternoon, a seaman, named Richard Smith, belonging to the packet-ship Isaac Wright, now lying in the Waterloo Dock, fell down into the hold of the vessel, and died im mediately from the injuries he received. It appears that about three o'clock the deceased was coming round the end of a boat that was on the house on deck. There had been some rain, and the deck of the house was slippery. The deceased caught his toe against the end of a plank, and fell into the hold head foremost, down the main hatchway, a distance of more than thirty feet. His skull was dreadfully shattered. The GREAT Exstrnertoet OF DUBLIN.—The dis tinguished party who will be the guests of his Worship the Mayor of Liverpool to-day, will include some of the chief literary ornaments of the age, besides other per sonages of note in the United Kingdom. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, the veteran General Lord Gough, Judge Haliburten (" Sam Slick,"), Sir John Kingston James, Sir Edward M'Donnell, and Professor Kane are expected. Mr. Roney, the indefatigable secretary of the Exhibition, will-also be among the guests. The directors of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company kindly conveyed the committee of the Industrial Exhibition to , Liverpool, by one of their first-class steamers, from Kingstown, yesterday evening, which was not one of the regular nights of sailing. THE WAGE-S MOVEMENT.—The painters have suc ceeded, or, as reported, partially so ; but to such anextent that general concession must be the result. The shoe ' makers may also be said to have gained their point, the great majority of the respectable employers having con ' -rented to the asked-for allowance. The -names of the •consenting and non-consenting parties have been pub lished. The plasterers' labourers, who wish an advance of2s. per week, have published a characteristic " appeal to the public," having failed with the masters. The cabinet makers have gained all they asked for. The tailors, who were successful in their agitation, hold delegate meetings -every Tuesday evening, consisting of men representing the trade in different neighbourhoods; and these legislate for their brethren, and form a tribunal to which all ap peals are made. The gas-fitters, it was said, had made another movement, but this-would seem not to be the case. 'LANCASHIRE MILITIA.-4th Regiment of Royal Lan cashire Militia,—Thomas Robbins, gent., to be Adjt. 4th or the Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry 'Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia,—Adt. Thomas Robbins, late Lieut. sth Dragoon Guards, to serve with the rank of Capt. The Artillery Regiment of the Royal Lancashire Militia,—Thomas Atchison, Esq., late Cant. Royal Artillery, to be Major. 2d. Regiment of the Duke of. Lancaster's Own Militia.—Matthew Ford. gent., to be• Lieut. Hewett Massey Dillon, gent., to be Ensign. The Duke of Lancaster's .Own egiment of Yeomanry Calvary, Bolton Troop,—lee Gendre Nicholas Starkie, gent., to be Cornet. sth regiment of Royal Lancashire Mili t ia.—Charles Hamilton Fenton, Esq., to be Adjutant ; Adjutant Charles Hamilton - Fenton, late Captain 9:h and 53d Regiment of Foot, to serve with the rank of Captain; James 'Greenwood, Esq., to be Captain ; John Weld, E i q., to be Captain ; Ralph Holden, Esq., to be Captain; John Joseph Middelton, Esq., to be Captain ; Thomas Goulburne Parker, Esq., to be-Captain ; Edward Petre, Esq., to be Captain ; George Reeks Skingley, Esq., to be Captain ; William Lister Sager, Esq., to be Captain; John Pickup Lord, Esq., to he Captain ; Frederic Broad bent, Esq., to be Captain ; Philip Gilbert Hammerton, gent., to be Lieutenant ; Antony Buck Creek, gent., to be Lieutenant ; Edward Francis'Ward, gent., to be Lieu tenant • Daniel Grant Brereton, gent., to be i Lieutenant ; Wm. Miller Coultate, gent., to be Surgeon. THEWILLIAM TA PSCOTT NEW AMERICAN SHIP.—Mr. William Tapscott, who has long been :known in the emi gration trade here, has just added to hie line of packets a new ship, bearing his own name, which., for a combination of all the varied and peculiar beauties of modern marine architecture, certainly stands unsurpassed. The William Tapscott is a full three-decker, of 212 feet in length. ier beam is 42 feet 6 inches, and her depth " to the skin", 29 feet 6 inches. In the deck ample opportunity ,has been afforded for light and ventilation to the 'tween decks, and this important object has been a primary study. The plans of Mr. Tapscott, founded on his lengthened experience, have been adopted throughout with admirable effect. .On deck there is a spacious hos pital, lour galleys for cooking, one of the latter fitted for ' the purpose of serving the second-class passengers with provisions in a cooked state. The after-part of the main deck is permanently fitted into state-rooms for two and four persona each. Every room is lighted from the desk, the hatches, and by-side ports. There are excellent tables, and there •is every convenience for washing, Rsc. ; and, in addition to the water-closets on deck, which are twelve in number., permanent ones are also fitted here. The forward portion of the vessel, as well as the lower decke, is devoted to steerage passengers, for whom portable iron beds are provide& Wind cents and other ventilators are carried throughout. The height between-decks is seven feet eight inches. The dead lights, which are in serted at every few feet in the upper deck, throw their rays on similar ones in the main deck, and thus every portion of the ship is rendered cheerful. She is estimated to carry about 850 passengers, namely,-200 second cabin aft, 250 forward on the main deck, and 400 on the lower deck. The William Tapscott was built under the personal superintendence of her commander, Captain Cornish, by Messrs. Trutant, Drummond, and Co., of Bath, who will be remembered as the builders of the suc .eessful packet-ships Continent, Saratoga, &c. SELECT VESTRY.—The Rev. Rector Campbell presided at the fortnightly meeting on Tuesday.—Mr. Hart read a communication from Mr. William Mason, dated from 17, Marybone, stating that, in consequence of circumstances which had occurred since his election as a member of the board, he was incapable of serving the ( ffice, and he regretted to be obliged to resign. Mr. Moss and Mr. Gardner gave notice that they would each nominate a person to fill the office. Mr. Willraer believed it was usual for one of the churchwardens or overseers to fill up those vacancies. Mr. Moss : I protest against that. I believe you are one of the overseers. The Chairman said that Mr. Willraer meant to nominate. It was only a lapsus lingoes.—The report of the Workhouse Committee stated that Mr. Willmer had been elected chairman, and that the number of persons in the house on the 20th of April was 1959, and the number of sick 568. The com mittee recommended the accepting of the only tender received for taking down the old chapel and building it upon a different site, with schools underneath, and addi tions to the women's ward besides, which was one from Messrs. A. and G. Holme, for the sum of £4,623.—Mr. Power was elected wardmaster. In recommending him, Mr. Moss said he had been for several years at Walton hall establishment, and had recommendations from seve ral medical practitioners in this town. He was a teeto taller. Mr. Gardner : He is not any better for that. Mr. Mellor thought it was rather worse that he was a teetotaller, for he might break out again.—The Messrs. Holme's tender was accepted.—The Industrial Schools Committee reported that the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks had been appointed chairman, and Mr. Gardner vice-chairman. Three boys had absconded from the schools. The committee had resolved that an application for the attendance of the band of the Industrial School with the militia, in May next, could not be acceded to.— Mr. Moss suggested the propriety of flagging the areas of the Industrial Schools, and Mr. Johnson of the road round the Workhouse to the Mount-pleasant side. Mr. Bradley : They are short of money now. Very shortly you will have an increased rate for these little matters. Mr. Moss : I think Mr. Bradley's remark is exceedingly improper.—The Vestry-clerk read a letter from Messrs. E. and B. Jones, stating that they had committed an error in their tender for lead work at the Industrial Schools, and they asked to be furnished with a copy of a blank form, in order that they might make a fresh tender. Referred to committee.—As to the medical state of the Workhouse, everything appeared to be in excellent order. Mr. Bradley stated that the only deficiency he saw was connected with the itch wards. He suggested the desira bility of having a sulphur-bath for that department. — Mr. Hart commenced reading a communication from Mr. Parker, brewer, containing an offer to supply the Work house with ale, porter, and barm on certain terms. It appeared there was another from Mr, Moore, Referred to the committee. GENERAL NEWS. SCOTCH MORALITY.—It is stated that 30,000 of the people of Glasgow get drunk every Saturday evening. . - SOME HENS belonging to a gentleman at Wayne, which were constantly supplied with lime-water, have lately laid four times the number of eggs they did formerly. CHEPSTOW TUBULAR BRIDGE is at length completed, and after having undergone an examination by the Govern. ment Inspector of Railways, has been certified to be fit for traffic. PROTESTANTISM.—Since the last published account, dated March sth, eighty-two more have renounced the errors of Romanism in St. Paul's, Bermondsey. Many more have it in contemplation to take the same step. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAIL. wxy.—The third section of this line, from Evesham to Wolvercot, near Oxford, will be opened on the 7th of May, instead of the 2d, as recently announced. PROSPECTS OF THE BAR.—As an example of the de clining state of the learned profession, we may mention that no less than 22 sets of chambers are now to be let in the Middle Temple alone, which numbers 250. VALUE OF WASTE PAPER.—A sum of not less than £12,000 to £15,000 annually will be saved to the country by the recent order, requiring all Government offices to return their waste paper, &c., to the Stationery Office. THE BISHOP ELECT OF LINCOLN.—On Tuesday a silver salver was presented to the new bishop of Lincoln by the teachers and children of the schools of St. James's, Westminster, as a small token of their affection and gratitude. EXTRAORDINARY DIGESTION. —On cutting open cow at Homeburn, a few days ago, there was found in its inside a large table knife, which, with the exception of a small portion of the point protruding between the ribs, was in good condition, and not at all corroded. THE Nottingham Journal announces the fact that a proposal is afoot in the metropolis of the lace district to establish " a general commercial exchange," to be go verned and managed upon the same principles as are ob served in those of Liverpool and Manchester. THE SHAKSPERE FESTIVAL —A. demonstration in honour of the natal day of Shakspere took place on Tues day at Stratford-upon-Avon, and was celebrated with all due honours. An immense number of " pilgrims" to the shrine of the poet came into the town from Birmir e ham, Oxford, and the surrounding neighbourhood. In the evening a dinner took place at the Town Hall, at which Mr. B. Webster presided. A GOVERNMENT BILL was printed, on Thursday, to consolidate the London and Edinburgh Gazettes. The reason is, the great expense at present incurred by reason of the separate publication and management of the two Gazettes. After the passing of the bill, the Gazette, to be called the London and Edinburgh Gazette, is to be published in London, and a permanent agency in Edin burgh. STEAM BETWEEN GERMANY AND AMERICA.—MeSSIS. Fritze and Co., of Bremen, are on the eve of commencing a spirited competition against the two United States steamers, Washington znd Hermann. They intend to run the two steamers, Hansa, 2000 tons and 1,000 horse power, and the Germania, 1,600 tons and 600 horse power, which they recently purchased from the German fleet, between Bremen and New York. They will start once a month, and take the same course and touch at the same places as the United States steamers. PREMATURE BALDNESS.—Mr. J. Sergeant, bookseller, of Linton, Cambridge, has made public a curious case of a young man named Haylock, of Ashdon, whose hair came off entire from some very unaccountable cause, and left him in a state of premature baldness. He purchased from Mr. Sergeant several popular preparations, which he applied, but without any effect whatever. At last, how ever, he made trial of the macassar oil of Messrs. Row lands, of London, and exhibited to the most incredulous the proof of its efficacy in a thick crop of hair. Mr. Ser geant permits a direct reference to him on this very inter esting fact.—The Observer. ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.—The Lancet of last week contains a remarkable statement of the extent and manner in which the recent regulation for preventing the adultera tion of coffee is being evaded. Out of 34 samples, all purchased as coffee from as many shops in the metropolis, only three were found to be genuine, the propo r ti on o f chicory in the majority of cases being equal to about 50 per cent., while in some instances there was scarcely any coffee whatever. Ten of the adulterated samples were a ltogether without the required label , stating them to be a " mixture of chicory and coffee," and in those where it existed it was generally concealed from immediate obser vation by the mode of folding the wrapper. THE COINAGE.—A Parliamentary paper, just published, contains an account of all gold, silver, and copper moneys of the realm coined at the Royal Mint from the Ist Jan uary to the 31st March, 1 853 : -4,304,227 sovereigns were coined in that period ; their value was £4,304,227 2s. 3d., and their weight 92,1181 b. 3oz. 9dwts. 16gr. Half. sovereigns coined—number, 62,260 ; weight, 6661 b. 20z., 19dwts. lOgr.; value, £31,130 Bs. 4d. ; making the total value of the gold coinage during the quarter £4,335,357 10s. 7d. Of silver money, 382,214 florins were coined, to the value of £38,214 ; 847,440 shillings, value £42,372 ; 483,120 sixpences. value £12,078 ; 4,158 four pences, value £69 61.; 4,488 threepences, value £562d. ; 4,752 twopences, value £39 12s. ; 7,920 silver penny pieces, value £33—total value of the silver coinage during the quarter, £92,862. CHEAP LAW.—In the Insolvent Debtors' Court the other day, some information was given respecting the comparative expense of the superior and county courts. The commissioner having remarked that the action in the case before him had been brought in one of the superior courts, he wished to know the difference in the expense of going to the superior and the county courts. An attorney ' stated that, in cases under £2O, judgment could be ob tained now in a superior court,' where no appearance was entered, for £2 165., whereas in a county court it would cost £4. Another attorney said that in the county courts the fees out of pocket were upwards of £3, and in the superior courts only ss. For a summons to £2O in a county court the fee was £1 135., and the hearing fee upwards of £3, even by consent, whereas in the superior court an order could be drawn up for 4s. ELECTRICITY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—In the course of the last few days an electric telegraph station has been opened adjacent to the lobby, by the Electric Tele graph Company, for the use of parties engaged in parlia peen tary proceedings, and direct telegraphic com munication is thereby obtained with all parts of the country, and intelligence transmitted to th e prov i nces o f divisions and debates. Operations were commenced for placing an electric clock over the principal ent rance t o th e l o bb y, and a general system has just been introduced of notifying to members in all parts of the house the precise moment of a division by the electrical ringing of 30 bells in various directions, the bells being set in motion by an apparatus in charge of one of the officers of the house at the lobby door. Wires are also being carried from the house to the Carlton, Reform, and other clubs, for the intercommuni cation and information of members. THE GREAT ENCANIPMENT. Captain Blackwood Price's field-battery, quartered at Sborncliff, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to join the camp to be formed on Chobham-common, near, Windsor,:in the be ginning of June next. The battery is composed of 6 guns, 85 horses, and 138 non-commissioned officers and men. The officers who will accompany it to camp are Captain Blackwood Price, Captain James R. Gibbon. Lieutenant Francis Miller, Lieut. Frederick S. Seale, Lieutenant Charles Lennox Tredcroft, and Assistant. Surgeon William Perry. Captain F. A. Campbell's field battery at Chatham, of similar strength, has also been ordered to join the camp at the same time. The 6eh Dragoon Guards (carabineers), under the command of Lieut-Colonel H. R. Jones, at present stationed at Can terbury, and the 13th Light Dragoons, under the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. Doherty, at present stationed at Hounslow, will form a portion of the Cavalry Brigade. OPERATIONS OF THE NEW LEGACY DUTY.—The full bearing of the application of the legacy duty to land we pre ; sume the Chancellor does not see. and, therefore, we will say a word or two on it. Beyond a certain affinity the legacy duty is 10 per cent. " Well," many may say, " we would not mind giving up to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 10 per cent. of the estate if any one would leave us one." That is very well in its way, but just let us look at the arithmetical operations of the tax. The 10 ver cent. is not a 10 per cent. of one or two years' in come, but 10 per cent. of the value of the property, which to avoid inconveniently sacrificing the principal, says the Chancellor, he consents to spread over 8 years' rent. Now, much of our landed property pays only 2to 2f per cent. For simplicity of calculation say 2 per cent. Thus for 8 years the fortunate legatee receives only 2- 10-8-4 per cent., the other 1k going to the crown, or out of £l,OOO per annum he receives £375. But suppose at the end of 4 years this legatee should die (no unlikely occurrence), and leave his property to a second party, removed as far in blood propinquity from him as he was from the first testator, a second 10 per cent of the value of the same property will have to be paid during 8 years, the first being also in the course of liquidation. For remember, Mr. Gladstone says the two duties co-exist. I Then for 4 years the two 10 per cents. will make up 24 per cent. annual charge, or 4 per cent. more than the rent. So that the second legatee would have to pay a per cent. instead of receiving anything from the coveted legacy—that is, in place of an accession to his income of £l,OOO a year, or even £375, the happy man would have to pay annually for duty £250 a year. A few such lega cies, as Pyrrhus said of his victory over the Romans, and he would be undone.—Herapath's Journal. PLAGIARISM.—There can be nothing more disagreeable to a person than being imposed upon by "false pre tences," nor can anything annoy one so much as being made the dupe of some unprincipled designer. Yet such is the case, and among the commercial community too; for no sooner does a party, by devoting his capital, ex perience, and attention, in bringing some article of manu facture to perfection —no sooner does he earn for his pro duction a justly entitled reputation, than some unprin cipled persons immediately get up some base imitation, having nothing further to recommend it than its appro priated name. We are led into these few remarks by seeing before us Two Packets of the (now all but) univer sally known Glenfield Patent Starch ; and so much alike are they to a casual observer, that we, by outside appear ance, would think they were the same; but , on close r t IL inspection, we notice (which is the only difference) e t h at the one wants the well-known name of on the packet. This is the spurious: a nd to WOTHERSPOONsuch an extent has plagiarism gone, as regards woodcut, type, &c., without close observance you could scarce know the one from the other, so far as externalappeances are concerned ; as for internal , we can easily i magine what rubbish it must be composed of, and that purchasers, to their regret and annoyance , will at on ce d iscover it wh en applied to Linens, &c. 'W e are gratified to observe from the London papers that Mr. Wotherspoon, the manufac rer of the Glenfield Patent Starch, has obtained injun c ti ons in the Court of Chancery against these parties, which will in all probability put an end to the fraud. llrawuid.lenWdeaarheanqduiitne awa re that no respectable merchant carrying out such base imposition, but to such an extent has it gone that it is actually sold to merchants as the p original, and they and the ublic ge nera ll y should b e particular in observing that the original and only 211anu: facturer's name, R. W OTHERSPOON, be distinctly printed on every Packet—without this none is genuine. It can 14 obtained at most shops in town. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. PARIS, MONDAY. APRIL 2.—At the Exchange all Funds rose. Threes closed at 81; Four-and-a-Half, 103 60. Railway Shares were in good demand, with a tendency to further improvement at the close. SWITZERLAND.—BERNE, MARCH 29.—A despatch from the Federal Commission reports that the Austrians have a military post near Stabbis, on a territory which is considered as belonging to Switzerland. The Council met to inquire into the affair. SPAIN.—MADRID, ARIL 27.—There had been some sharp discussion in the Chambers. Salamanca and Suero bad fought a dtel.—Threes, 44. The Continental Advices received on Monday showed a rather unfavourable tendency in the rates of Exchange. AUSTRALIA.—The fortnight later advices from Vic toria, received yesterday, are very satisfactory. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, JAN. B.—Nothingof much im portance in the shape of gold discoveries. AUSTRALIAN MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY..-011 Monday, after some discussion, the meeting adjourned to the 23rd, when the Directors would be ready to discuss the future prospects and management. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. Eastern Counties, 131 : Leeds Northern, 161 ; Mid land, 76 76 13-16 ; York and North Midland, 31; ; North Western, SI ; Leeds Bank, 23k. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIs DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. _ _ Chester and Holyhead, 24; Eastern Counties, 13h East Lancashire, 188 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, sog ; Midland, 761 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23; Union Plate Glass, 38k. LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.-THIS DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. THE FtiNns.--Consols for Account, 100 l 1 ; ditto for Money, 100&-K ; Three and Quarter per Cents., 1031 I ; Bank Stock, 228 7. Foreign Stock—Mexicans, 271-. RAILWAY SHARES.—London Stock, 120 + ' • Midland Stock, 761 t ; North Staffordshire, 131-; South Eastern and Dover, 761 I; Caledonians, 67 1 ; ditto Preference, 108; Eastern Counties, 631 R-; Northern, 16+; North British, 351 6 • Great Northern, 90 1 891; Great Western, 921 f; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 80+ 11; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 105+ 6; London and South Western, 911; York, Newcastle, and Berwick,. 10; York and North Midland, 63 4- 2t. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. TRAFFIC ItETIMNS.—TotaI for the past week, £9,625 Ils. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tnis DAY. At this day's market we have bad a moderate attend ance of the trade, and with fair fresh arrivals of Wheat and Flour from the States and advices of !increasing ship ments from thence we have experienced an exceedingly dull sale for most articles of the trade; Wheat has de clined id and 2d per 701 b., and Flour fully 6d per barrel, without leading to more than a limited business. N. change is reported in the value of either Grain or Oatmeal, but the same dullness pervades the whole. The arrivals into this port during the week continue extremely light, both coastwise and from Ireland ; those from the United States, however, include a tolerable supply of Wheat, a liberal import of Flour, but one parcel of Indian Corn thence, and none of the latter article from any quarter; the accessions from Europe and Egypt, fresh in for to-day, being generally upon a very moderate scale, while the exports, particularly of Flour, are fair in amount. THIRD EDITION. TRUE HEROISM. — During the voyage of the John Melhuish, emigrant vessel, from London for Port Philip, when in 39 deg. 11 min., south latitude, and 19 deg. 57 min. east longitude, the fi rst mate went st e althil y i n t o the hold, and tapped a brandy cask. The light which he held in his hand came in contact with the liquor, and the hold was speedily in flames. An alarm was raised, and a passenger, named Hayward, thrust his finger into the hole from which the brandy was flowing ; and, notwith standing the blue flame enveloped his arm, he held it there until the fire was subdued. He was afterwards presented by the rest of the passengers with a gold watch and chain, as an acknowledgment of his heroic conduct. The first mate was placed under arrest. FATAL COAL PIT EXPLOSION.—On Tuesday another of these frightful casualties occurred at the Old Park Colliery, Dudley, belonging to Lord Ward, which re sulted in the death of six men and three boys, and the severe injury of three or four others. At the inquest, Mr. Wynne, the Government inspector, said that the explosion must have been caused by the fouling or accu mulation of carburetted hydrogen in the east level, pro duced by the lowering of the temperature of the upcast shaft, by the leakage of the air, or by the skirting at the end of the south air course being left open, or, by what was not improbable, all these circumstances combined. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. MERCANTILE LAW.—At the monthly meeting of the members of the Society for promoting the Amendment of the Law, on Monday, Mr. Stuart, Q.C., in the chair, a report was presented from a committee an the com mercial laws, which expressed it to be the opinion of the committee that it was not expedient to establish tribunals of commerce similar to those existing on the continent; that, nevertheless, increased facilities were required for the settlement of disputes arising on commercial ques tions, and that it would be desirable to refer such ques tions to arbitration, and give the country and common law courts the power of carrying out the awards. After a long discussion, the consideration of the report was ad. journed to the next meeting. LORD'S DAY DESECRATION.—In answer to a depute ' tion of working men opposed to the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays, who waited upon Lord Pal merston on Monday, his lordship said :—For himself, he could not be brought to see how the opening of this ' pleasure-ground could be productive of the amount of evil which had been described. He could not see the harm of an individual, who devoted a portion of the seventh day to the worship of his God, going afterwards to view these pleasure grounds ; but he was only stating~ his private opinions. He should not object to a measure for closing public-houses and beer-shops on Sundays, but he thought opening the Crystal Palace would draw people away from such places. He certainly objected to the desecration of the Sabbath, but was not unfavourable to harmless and innocent recreation after divine service. THE NEWSPAPER IN THE FAMILY. ---, IS IT AN EDUCATOR ?—A schoolmaster, writing in a recent number of the Ogdensburg (U. S.) Sentinel, says :—I have found it to be a universal fact, without exception, that those scholars of bcth sexes, and of all ages, who have had access to newspapers at home, when compared with those who have not, are-1. Better readers, excelling in pronunciation and emphasis, and consequently recd more understandingly.-2. They are better spellers, and define words vbith greater ease and with more accuracy.-3. They obtain a practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires others, as the newspapers have made them familiar with the location of the important places, nations, their governments, and doings on the glohe.-4. Theyare better grammarians, forhaving become so familiar with every variety of style, in the newspaper, from the common-place advertisement, to the finished and classical oration of the statesman, they more readily comprehend the meaning of the text, and consequently analyze its construction with accuracy.-5. They write Letter corn. positions, using better language, containing more thoughts more clearly and connectedly expressed.-6. Those young men who ;lave for years been readers of the newspapers, are always taking the lead in the debating society, exhibit ing a more extensive knowledge upon a greater variety of subjects and expressing their views with greater fluency, clearness and correctness in their use of languages. THE SEIZURE OF ROCKETS AT ROTHERHITHE.—The proceedings in this rase were resumed at the Bow-street police-court, London, on Thursday, and Mr. Henry, the magistrate, gave his decision upon the first summons, which charged Messrs. Hale with being in possession of a greater quantity of gunpowder than that permitted by act of parliament, to the effect that the powder, found on Messrs. Hale's premises, was gunpowder within the mean ing of the act. He, therefore, adjudged that all the I powder seized beyond the allowed quantity should be forfeited, and the defendant should pay 2s. per lb. penalty. William Hale, Robert Hale, and James Boylin, were then charged with having made, in contravention of the pro visions of the act 9th and 10th 'Wm. 111. chap 7, large quantities of rockets. For the prosecution, it was stated that from October last there were a great many workmen in employ, some of whom were foreign refugees, and the whole of their proceedings were evidently carried on in the greatest possible secrecy. Police officers gave evi dence respecting the seizure of the rockets. Auguste Usener, the next witness, said that he had been an officer of Prussian artillery, and had served in the Hungarian army during the war. He was employed by the Messrs. em beforeb by Hale, in making rockets at Rotherhithe, about the close of September last year, and worked for them to the begin ningi] e went of to November.be employed. li e knew H e n w o a t s h the subject last M. Kossuth. He first saw M. Kossuth. the elder Hale in the company middle of September he saw introduced in gof t he Hales to tll latter, and - at the house of the was then last summer, on his return from America. About the of M. Kossuth, recommended .d by his. M. Kossuth to Mr. lisle's employ. M. wage s should be 18s. pe r wee k , and rec ommended him to keep the affair quite secret. Th e witness then described the manner in which he was em ployed in making the rockets, said that secrecy had been machine for the rockets had been tried at a house in Kossuth. A Ger dinhebtlyileiatip: by M. Kos man named Gerlach, who had also worked in t' ,:e factory, g al P so lac s e al enjoined upon him r e ebse H een a nc l Hales , o , f recommendedal\nid . added that a fi r i ng surf', to the Hales, was afterwards • - examtned. Mr. Henry intimated that, he should not deal summarily with the a P n i d ck w er h i o n case, but should send it for ' trial at the sessions, and th prisoners refusing to put in h • ail were removed to Horse monger Lane Gaol. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PlLLS.—Extract of a letter, written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq., Collector of Customs, Jamaica, having been banded by his brother, at Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication :—" I know you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but let r h eu matic gout, lumb ago, sc i atica, rheu me emphatically tell you , in mercy to any friend who may suffer from gout, matism, or any branch of that widely-allied 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 friends and acquaintances re ceiving 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 cure than by any other means within my knowledge." Sold-by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by all respectable Me dicine Vendors throughout the kingdom. 1 — me )e -le