The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

Aug: 25, MI6. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. THE Public is requested to take Notice, that on and, after the Ist September, the Second-class Carriages run ning with the 6 a.m. up train from Liverpool, and 6 15 from Manchester to Birmingham and London, will be removed from that train and attached to the 9 15 a.m. train from Liverpool and 9 40 from Manchester; and that on and after the same date the Fare. ^f the First-class Passengers by the latter train will be red-•rd a follows : Betweei Londo and Liverpool from 455. 6d. to 375. ~ Loud and Manchester from 428. 6d. to 355. and ihterint.......e stations in proportion - Notice is also given, that, 'and after the same date, the various Short Fares on th verpool and Manchester branch will be reduced. (By order) MARK HUISH. Euston station, ugturt 20, 1846. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE of CALL on GRAND JUNCTION £25 SHARES. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors, .. r in execution of the Acts of Parliament relating to the said Company, have, pursuant to the provisions thereof, made a CALL of FIVE POUNDS in respect of each of the £25 Shares which were created by the Grand Junction Railway Company on the 10th day of September, 1845, and have ordered that such Call be paid to one of the undermentionegßankers, namely : London Messrs. Glyn, Halifaxfand Co.; Birmingham .The Birmingham anking Company, or, Messrs. Mollierand Son ; Liverpool Messrs. Mosi and Co; or The Baprof Liverpool; Manchester Sir Retij. Heywood and Co. ; Bank, on and Salford nk, on or before the 15th day of September next. And the several Proprietors of such ..t25 Shares are required to pay such Call accordingly. GEO. CARR GLYN, Chairman. CHAS. LAWRENCE, Deputy Chairman. By order, RICHARD CREED, HENRY BOOTH, s Secretaries. Euston Station, London, August 20, 1846. LIVERPOOL, ORMRAILWAY .SKIRK, AND PRESTON REGISTRATION OF SHARE S. 'NOTICE IS HgREEY GIVEN, that the Act for I' Incorporating this Company having received the Royal Assent, all Persons holding Scrip Certificates for Shares in this Company, are requested to transmit the sain44o the Secretary for Registration, at the Company's_olfiZe, No. 6, Lord-street, Liverpool, on or before MoNDA.v; the 7th day of September, with their Names, Professions, and Residences distinctly written, in order that the same may be correctly entered in the Register of the Compai All Shares not clauped by the actual holders of Scrip Certifi cates, on or before We said 7th day of September, will be Re gistered as the Property of the Persons who signed the Sub acription Contract, dated 4th November, 1845. _ Forms of Letters claiming to be registered, may be had at the Office of the Company. Scrip may be sent without risk in Registered Letters, and for a greater security, the , parties sending may write across the face of each Certificate, "Forwarded for Registration." The Secretary will give an acknowledgment for the Scrip, and on completion:of the Registry, will exchange the same for Cer tificates under the Seal of the Company. By order, WILLIAM FEILDEN, Chairman. JAMES J. GRAHAM, Secretary. • Liverpool, 21st August, 1846. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAS- TLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, (late Liverpool, Manchester, andNewcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Companies, now amalgamated.) Tlll;Register of Shares in this undertaking being now nearly completed, all holders of Scrip who have not yet forwarded the same for Registration itiu•equested to do so without de ay, as the Share Registe ,will — be — absolutely closed on the ling lay of October ne after which time all Shares not trans:nit ted for that pu will be registered- in the names - of the original Allottees. It is requested that tko ..s..crip in the original Liverpool, Man chester, and Newcastlohpon-Tyne Junction Railway Company .may be forwarded to the Secretary, at 22, Parliament-street, London; and the i Scrip in the original Lancashire and North Yorkshire ltailw* Company to the Secretary, at 31, Princess street, Manchester, who will send an acknowledgment for the same. The Certificates under the Common Seal of the Company will be ready for delivery in a short time, of which due notice will be Sven to the Shareholders. By order, (Signed,) THOS. ROBERT WILSON-FRANCE, Chairman. W. K. INGRAM, } Secretaries. C. MOORE WILSON, August 11th, 1846. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAS TLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, (Late Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Companies. now amalgamated.) OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that INTEREST IN at the rate of FOUR POUNDS per Centum per Annum will be allowed on the present Deposits from the first day of July last, and on all fusdre Calls from the day of payment. The Interest on snch p fleposits to become due on the first of January and the lijsf of July, of which due notice will be given. By order, ISigned,) THOS. ROBT. 'WILSON FRANCE, Chairman. W. 11. INGRAM, ll Secretaries. C. MOORE WILSON, f August 11th, 1846. SHEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, POTTERIES, • AND CREWE RAILWAY. TN pursuance of the Resolution passed at the Meeting LII.. of Shareholders, held at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, on the 20th day of July last, by which the Company was Dissolved, the Directors have determined to RETURN to the SHARE HOLDERS SEVENTEEN SHILLIN.C.Sand SIXPENCE PER SHARE, and a further pro rataDitliiion (if any) of any balance of the funds of .the Coin any, which may remain after all claims have been disch d. triert p Forms to enable S eholders to receive the same may be had on application to.t e Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, in Leek. 13y order, R. Y. CLARKE, Secretary. Leek, 21st August, 1846. SOUTH YORKSHIRE COAL AND GOOLE AND DONCASTER RAILWAYS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , tha t a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the HOLDERS of SCRIP and BANKERS' RECEIPTS in the SOUTH YORKSHIRE COAL AND GOOLE AND DONCASTER AMALGAMATED RAIL WAY COMPANIES will be held, at theULidon Tavern, in Bishopsgate-street, in the city of LoadVfl7on TthiRSDAY next, the 27th day of August instsa.,7 4 -'iit One o'clock P.M., for the purpose of receiving the D . ctors' Report. By order, H. PARKER, Secretary. Dated this 2011: 5 1 , ' v. August, 18.16. 17, Park-stre , T estminster. N.B. No persons will be admitted, or allowed to vote, unless they produce Scrip or Bankers' Receipts. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. A T a MEETING of the EDINBURGH and GLAS -11 RAILWAY PROPRIETORS, held at the Claren don Rooms, South John-street, Liverpool, on TUESDAY, the 18th instant, A. F. JONES, Esq., in the Chair, the following Resolutions were proposed, seconded, and adopted : Moved by . Mr. RossoN, and seconded by Mr. WM. RODIE, "That this Meeting views with intense interest the import ant matter laid before it, and approves to the fullest extent the proceedings of the Manchester Committee." Moved by Mr. WOTHERSPOON, and seconded by Mr. T. • Gi t.now, "That this Meeting having no confidence in the present Di rection of the Company, and being fully ed of the ne cessity of a decided change therein reby pledges itself to support, in every possible way, t anchester Committee in their efforts to effect the same, do appoint a Deputation to co-operate with them at the uing General Meeting, in Glas gow, on the Ist of Septem and names the following Gentle men from Liverpool, h . Wotherspoon and Mr. Rodie, with powers to add to their umber." Moved by Mr. ouriNOALE, and seconded by Mr. L. PEDRONE, "That a Sub ription be immediately entered into for the purpose of d raying the necessary expenses, not exceeding Two Shillings and Sixpence per wkole Share, and the other Shares in proportion." Moved by Mr. A. F. JONES, and seconded by Mr. RODIE, " That the best thanks of the Shareholders are due to the Manchester Committee, for their unwearied perseverance in bringing to light the terms of the amalgamation with the Ca nals, and for their determined and successful resistance in Parliament to a measure fraught with such injurious conse quences to our Railway, as fully set forth in the lucid and va luable Report which has been recently circulated by them." Moved by Mr. EDMUND COSTON, and seconded by Mr. CHEETHAMy "That the thanks of this Meeting are hereby presented to our excellent Chairman, for the straightforward manner in which lie has opened these proceedings, and for the urbanity be has displayed." EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. (From the Railway Record.) TN another part of our paper will be found the cir-' cular, to which we alluded last week, from a Committee of the Proprietors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway formed at Manchester, and a sketch of the proceedings of a meeting at Liverpool, to oppose one of the most ruinous projects ever at tempted by a Board of Directors. That project was an application to Parliament for a Bill to take several canals into partnership with / the Railway Com pany. One of these Canal Companies, according to their own evidence, was in a state of hopeless bankruptcy; having been open for twenty years before the railway was constructed; and during the entire twenty years, when there was no railway to compete with, this splendid r ct never pa i d ls. dividend to the original proprietors ! mu c h l ess can profit be ex • pected now, with a .railway unning by its side from end to end, and with fares reducer(' (which they would have been by the Amalgamation BiVinore than 50 p er cent., though the - high tolls allowed to b charged by the old 13111 gave no profit • whatever ! So muchior the prospects of this partnership with the Union Canal. "ell"! but is there not som e thi ng b etter than this? The twit bargain surely will be more equitable ! Another Bill *posed to amalgamate the Forth and Clyde Navigation with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The dividend paid by the Forth and Clyde Company was 4 per cent. per annum; but it is proved by their own witness that this 4 per cent. was by no means earned by the canal. The witness says, "if comp e titi on h a d b een carried on, the dividend being • swept away, they would not have had sufficient funds to carry • on the work." At any rate, the days of competition at ruin ously low fares were drawing to.e close ; and one may reason ably 'ask what h a d a Railway Company to fear from concerns _ so utterly hopele ss as these? Why, the Directors, through their own witness, have furnished an answer, that is, that .4'5 los. out of 46 per cent. per annum paid to the shareowners in the railway was derived from other sources, and only 10s. per cent. per annum from the carriage of goods. But, it may be asked, were these Directors driven into such a desperate course, while they had an income of 51 per cent. per annum, independent of any goods at all, and with an in crease of income last year of -4'22,000 over the previous year, even under the intensity of this much-feared competition—it may be asked, we say, were they driven into such a position as to be constrained to take these canals into partnership? The answer one would expect from any sane man would be, em phatically, " No," but the partnership is wisdom itself when compared with the terms of the partnership. This canal, earning no snore then 31 per cent., it is proposed to take into partnership with a railway earning 6 per cent. per annum, on equal terms! , We know our readers will have some difficulty in believing the statement ; but, in truth, this was not the only concession to be made to accomplish this desirable'partnerShip. The proprietors of the canal were to receive their proportion of any new stock created by the Railway Company, and .415 out of each .4'25 share (of which shares there are 28,000) were to be cancelled at par, notwithstanding that the stock in the railway, at the time the provisional arrangement was made, vas at 65 per cent. premium in the market! The effect of an equitable agreement would have been to divide any increased income in an equal per centage betwixt the two parties, and of course to raise the price of each of the respective stocks by the same amount. Now, mark the result. Had this Amalgama tion Bill passed, the next day the £lOO stock in the canal would have been worth .el5O, or about 45 per cent. more than before the bargain was contemplated; while the railway shares, had the Bill been carried, instead :of being . raised (as they should have been by the arrangement, if a just one) 45 per cent., would actually have been lowered by 6 or 8 per cent.—making a difference in the comparative value of the railway and canal stock, before and after the arrangement, of more than 50 per cent. in favour of the canal. We have some doubt whether human folly was ever carried to a greater extent than when these Directors calculated upon the consent of the shareowners to such an arrangement ; but then, they never did calculate upon the shareowners generally assenting to the bargain. No I It will be seen from the cir cular that it was to a few special friends that they trusted to accomplish that object. Well, but, it will be said,. the share- holders have thrown the Bill out, and there is an end of the matter. By no means. These Directors are bound, by a point of honour, to carry out this arrangement ; they are not to be obstructed in their course by such trifling obstacles as a solemn decision of the two Houses of Parliament, or the want of consent of the partners—the shareowners. No ; after the large sums of the shareholders' money which the Directors have spent in Parliament in prosecuting the Bills, the unfor tunate shareholders having, at the same time, spent a large sum of their own money in opposing them in Parliament, they are again called upon to spend large sums to arrest these ex traordinary Directors in their extraordinary doings. Truly there is much to be done in railway legislation, before railway property is safe. But we shall have no faith in law or ii v in equity if these men cannot be constrained, the one or the other, to pay the whole of the expenses in on both sides, both in and out of Parliament ; and if istake not the character of the men of Manchester, they will teach these directors a lesson that will not speedily be forgotten by railway boards at large. - i EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. THE DIRECTORS AND THE SHAREHOLDERS. (From Me Scottish Railway Gazette.) THERE has been for some time, amongst a large and influential body of the Shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Company, a growin- feeling of disatisfac tion with the conduct and policy pursued by the present Direc tors, which has at length burst forth into open reprobation of their proceedings and arrangements. We must honestly con fess that we do not wonder at this result. The Directors—or at all events a decided majority of them—appear to have hitherto proceeded as if they had no common interest with their con stituency. They have not hesitated to attempt what the latter regard as the almost total sacrifice of their property—not only without consulting them, but in tht,teeth of their most deter mined reclamations. This has been their general course : in dividual directors have acted t less unworthily. One gen tleman in the direction, a very small shareholder, openly appeared at a public ing and avowed objects diametrically opposed to the pecunfiry interests of the Company. It is im possible, of course ito repose confidence in a body constituted of such materialit. Besides, it is felt that the line has never been properly managed; that, after many years' struggling, it has been made to yield a dividend of only X 6 per cent., instead of at least £8 if not per cent., being undoubtedly one of the best undertakings in the country, if its natural resources were fully developed and called into play. They have allowed rivals and competitors to start up on every side; and when the ground was thus pre-occupied, they have come forward to con test it at an enormous expense, and, instead of proposing terms at the most seasonable moment, have de;ayed arrangements till the enemy was at their gates and upon them. They have not sought to improve their own line, by multiplying short branches and local feeders, of which it stands so much in need, and which would prove infinitely: productive—all which, too, would have been within their immediate control and command —but, indulging in a wide monopolising and speculative spirit, they have played with the property of the Shareholders to such an extent, that they hardly knew the amount of their liabilities when the current session of parliament opened. And, so far as the public is concerned, it cannot be concealed that they have brought the company into general odium, by a system of narrow, short-sighted, injurious, and expensive parsimony, which has led to more evil and mischiefs than they are ever likely to counteract or redeem. In saying . these things, we do not express our own individual opinions simply, but rather re echo the universal sentiments of the Shareholders, whose mag nificent property they have trifled with—we shall not say with any bad or corrupt intention, but certainly with a degree of judicial blindness unparalleled in the history of railway man agement. For some years we were led to suppose, by the silence of the shareholders, that they fully approved of the system pursued by the directors; and, of course, so long as they remained quiescent, no other party had a right to interfere on their be half. About twelve months ago, however, we were led to per ceive that they were neither ignorant nor unobservant of the conduct of the directors, and its injurious effects,—" a change had come o'er the spirit of their dream," and a deputation of the English shareholders arrived in Scotland with the express object of enforcinr , a thorough change of the system and. the personnel of the direction. That deputation went over the whole details of the concern, and they were fully satisfied that nothing but "a clean sweep" would restore matters to a healthy state. They were induced, however, from the pacific and repentant spirit displayed by the direct Ors, to anticipate that some slight change would be sufficient in the meantime ; and, accordingly, they merely insisted on three English gentle. men being adopted into the direction. Last spring this change was made, but it seems to have brought no improvement,—at least the shareholders conceive that since that period they have had still more reason to complain of and condemn the system which has been pursued—and the total disregard of their rights and interests as proprietors of the railway. The principal charge against the directors brought by the shareholders—all others being naturally looked upon as quite secondary—relates to their attempt to complete an amlgama tion of the railway with the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals on equal terms. We need scarcely go over the history of the contest between the railway and canals ;—it is enough to state that, after vainly endeavouring to protract the war of compe tition, the canal proprietors found their property scarcely worth preserving—the Forth and Clyde yielding about four per cent., and the Union nil. All this time the returns of the railway were rapidly rising, particularly from the passenger traffic. Indeed, it is one of the proofs of their imbecile management of the railway that the directors did not long ago succeed in keeping down the canals, either by ami cable arrangements, or by properly .:onducted competition. But, be this as it may, it turns out that just when the prospects of the canals were at their very lowest, the directors of the railway suddenly receive tbem with open arms—taking them into partnership, not on equal terms simply, but actually con verting the capital of the canals, paying £4 per cent (rapidly. tumbling down) into capital of the railway, paying 6 per cent.—and likely to pay 47 per cent., (even under gross mis management)—thus literally presenting to the Canal Compa nies abonits of £5O per cent. for allowing their property to be preserved, instead of being destroyed altogether ;—a result which the natural progress of the railway would have brought about in no long time. The canals, too, were to participate in all new shares issued by the railway company ; and here a great injustice—something like robbery—was attempted on the holders of the half-shares, by reducing them to £lO shares, although bought and sold in the market at premium. On this point there can be but one opinion ; and it is truly matter of astonishment to us that such an attempt, involving a breach of contract, should have ever been dreamt of by men in their senses. These various arrangements, we are assured by the Manchester and Liverpool shareholders, were adopted at a meeting without due intimati on —p r o x ies for which were sur reptitiously obtained by the directors. Of this latter allegation we can say nothing; we cannot allow ourselves to give it any credit, however distinctly asserted ; for we believe the direc tors to be perfectly honourable men, and we have no desire to prejudice them in the estimation of the public. But this mat ter must assuredly be explained ; and till the opportunity of doing so occurs, we shall content ourselves with merely allud ing to this grave accusation. Now, although there can be hardly any doubt that the amal gamation with the canals was altogether inequitable as regards the railway, it must be remembered, in justice to the directqrs, we are boluid from our impartial position, to statethe fact—that the terms ere dictated by certain arbitrators chosen by the res pective partiei, and thus far a part of the responsibility is shifted to the shoulders of the latter. But it is fairly considered that the directors had the power, which they must and ought to have exercised, to declare on what principles the reference should proceed; and really, therefore, the blame of its injustice must equally fall upon them as if they had arranged the details. This question, however, does not affect the interest at stake — the plain fact being that, however brought about, an arrange ment was entered into by which the railway proprietors were to be deprived of a great portion of the property which their capital and enterprise had acquired for them, after years of hazard, anxiety, and labour. The directors, however, might have even now been enabled to satisfy the shareholders to some extent. The amalgamation having been defeated by the efforts of the shareholders, the di rectors might have honourably abandoned the attempt to carry the obnoxious scheme, seeing that they were not supported by their constituents. But it appears they still insist on carrying it into effect in the face of the determined opposition of the shareholders. Such conduct certainly is indefensible ; and we are not surprised that it should be resented by the shareholders as a measure fatally inimical to their interests. The latter have held several meetings in .Liverpool anti Manchester, and they seem resolved to take effectual means to prevent the alienation of their property, and to place it upon a better footing for the future. In our present number will be found a lengthened re port of one of these meetings, the proceedings at which, we un derstand, virtually represent the views and wishes of at least four-fifths of the proprietary. The questions at issue will be decided at the meeting about to be held in Glasgow ; and we need not, therefore, recommend the subject to the im mediate and earnest consideration of all the shareholders. The conduct of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Directors towards the Caledonian by all contiguous Lines is forcibly stated in the following memorandum, which we have received from authority. The Scottish Central and Caledonian Railway Companies were formed, and issued their prospectuses, in the spring of 1844, nearly simultaneously; and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Board of Directors commenced the most inveterate hostility and opposition to both from the very announcement of the prokcts. _ " The projectors of the Caledonian, however, previous to the issuing of their prospectus, made a direct offer to the Edin burgh and Glasgow Board to strike off from their scheme their Edinburgh Branch, and to rest satisfied with taking the Cale donian traffic direct north on to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Line at, or near, Castle Cary; so that all traffic of the Caledo nian from, or to. Edinburgh and Glasgow, would have to pass along the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway for a distance of about twenty miles. Both parties were then in London, and this intimation was conveyed to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Board by Mr. Theodore Ratbbone, of Liverpool, then a Direc tor of that Company, but the offer was indignantly rejected by them, though the only stipulation was a withdrawal of oppo sition. Both the Scottish Central and the Caledonian Companies went to Parliament in 1845, and obtained their bills in spite of the most protracted and costly opposition by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Board before both Houses of Parliament. In the summer of 1845 the Caledonian Company applied to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Board, without success, to be al lowed to connect their Line near its entrance into idinburgh by a short Branch, so as to enable their traffic to pass down the Extension of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Line, through the Princes-street Gardens, to the terminus of the Leith and Granton Railway.; and to be allowed rates, somewhat less than their six-mile clause, for that distance. The Caledonian Com pany, failing in this, projected their Independent Branch to Granton. . The Edinburgh and Glasgow Directors, during the summer of 1845, held the argument that theirs was an Last and West traffic, and should not be interfered with by any other Com pany. In this the Caledonian Company acquiesced, stipulating for the same terms for their traffic from the North and. South; but the former soon became aggressors, and seduced from their connexion with the Caledonian Company, by the offer of h sen igh tt g ia u h ar c a n n a t t e r e a s l ,t Wishaw ana Coultness Company and the Lines, and necessary Company, tna b n o d t h embracedof which in, are North the and South Caledonian scheme as sanctioned by Parliament ; however none of those ruinous guarantees of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Board have been sanctioned by Parliament, and they can yet be prevented by the Shareholders. The avowed wish of the Caledonian Company has always been to maintain " Peace with other companies, and mutual co-operation upon fair principles," but they have met, at every step, with opposition from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Board, and that of the Glasgow and Ayr Company, which (having the same Agents) is in constant alliance with them. Most of the new schemes of the Caledonian have been forced upon them in self-protection, whilst all the expensive opposition they have met with during this and last session of Parliament is clearly to be attributed to the fruitless efforts of. those two Boards of Direction, who have boasted that they would break the back of the Caledonian, and compel them to sell their rails for old iron. It is to be feared that the exact same conduct will continue, to be pursued unless some very e n e r g etic measu res are taken by the Shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company ; and there is no reason why that Company and the Caledonian shofild not be on the best of terms, if not more closely con. nectedo THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LADES. BEWARE OF SUMMER ! riIHOUGII the Season is delightful, yet exposure to 1 the scorching rays of the SUN produces upon the delicate skin a species of inflammation, which, upon subsiding, leaves a permanent stain of inveterate TAN, or Sprinkles of FRECKLE; in other instances, a discoloration inclining to REDNESS, or SWELLlNG—ultimately assuming one of the multitudinous forms of ERUPTION. 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THE LEAGUE BREAD COMPANY.—An' advertisement appears in the London papers for the formation of a company. with a capital of £200,000, in shares of £5 each, for the following purposes :—" To carry out the free- trade principles of the League to the fullest possible extent. To enable the consumer himself to reap alt the benefits conferred and intended by the legislature. To supply the consumer with the best bread, full weight, unadultered, at five per cent. advance on the actual coat for materials, wages, &c. To reduce the pre ent price of the quartern loaf by 2d. or more. To destroy the mono poly which has existed from time immemorial." AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER AT LEEDS.—OnWed nesday night a shocking occurrence took place in the Old Post-office Yard, in Leeds. A man flawed William Walshaw, a licensed hawker cf hardware, had been beat ing a woman who lived with him as his wife in a most un merciful manner, and a number of women living in the same neighbourhood, whom she had made acquainted with the ill-treatment she had received, went in a body to the man's lodgings, hooted and hissed him, called him a " murderer," and expressed their feelings of indignation in a variety of other ways. Two of the women, named Elizabeth Smith and Kitty M`Loughlin, attempted to go into the house, when the man in a rage, and under the influence of drink, rushed upon them with an open clasp knife in each hand and stabbed them. Smith died the same night, but M`Loughlin, who was wounded in the thigh, is expected to recover. Walshaw, after commit ting the foul act, attempted to escape, but was secured, and kept in custody awaiting the coroner's inquest. He is apparently about 36 years of age, and formerly lived at Pontefract. A verdict of " Manslaughter" was returned at the inquest. THE EGYPTIAN PEA TREE.—Several years ago Sir Gardiner Wilkinson found a vase and an Egyptian sarco phagus, 2,844 years old, in a mummy pit, which he sub sequently presented to the British Museum. On exami nation, the vase was found to contain a few grains of wheat, a few peas, and other decomposed mat ter, supposed to have been originally similar substances. Three of the peas were presented by P. J. Pettigrew, Esq., to Mr. W. Grimstone, of the Herbary, Highgate, who, on the 4th of June, 1844, planted them in a compost resembling the alluvial soil of the Nile. They were placed in a forcing frame, and in exactly one month he was most agreeably surprised by the sprouting of one of them. The product was nineteen pods, from which fifty-five peas were pre served. Some of these were planted on the 23rd of April, 1815, and some on the 4th of June, in the open air, and in a similar compost, and all were soon in a most flourish ing condition, producing quite a plentiful crop of seed. The Egyptian pea is very prolific, producing from seventy to one hundred pods. The tree grows similar to a dwarf grape vine, about three feet in height, and has many stems, two or three mother stems generally springing from the mother stalk. DO Nor DESPISE SMALL THINGS.—The possibility of a great change being introduced by very slight beginnings, may be illustrated by a tale which Lockman tells of a vizier, who having offended his master, was condemned to perpetual captivity in a lofty tower. At night his wife came to weep below his window. " Cease your grief," said the sage, "go home for the present, and return hither when yru have procured a live black beetle, toge ther with a little ghee (or buffalo's butter), three dews, one of the finest silk, another of stout pack thread, and another of whipcord; finally, a stout coil of rope." When she came again to the foot of the tower, provided according to her husband's commands, he directed her to touch the head of the insect with a little of the ghee, to tie one ehd of the silk thread around him, and to place the reptile on the wall of the tower. Seduced by the smell of the butter, which be conceived to be in store somewhere above him the beetle continued to ascend till he reached the top, arid thus put the vizier in the posses.. sion of the end of the siltr thread, and drew up the pack thread by means of the silk, the small cord by means of the pack thread, and by means of the cord, a stout rope capable of sustaining his own weight—and so at last es caped from the place of his dureAse.—Quarterly Re view. AN INFIDEL'S DEATH-DED.—Some years ago, an indi. vioual well known and highly respected in the religious world narrated in my hearing the following incident. I n early life, while with a college companion, he was making a tour on the continent, at Paris his friend Was seiz e d with an alarming illness. A physician of gre a t ce l e b rity was speedily summoned, who stilted that th e case was a critical one, and that much would depend upo n a m i nute attention to his directions. As there was no one at band upon whom they could place much reliance, h e was re quested to recommend some confidential and exper i enced nurse. yourself happymentionedHein deed added,o s n h e o , u b ld ut y oubeable to secure her is " You m ay t h ink serv i ces ; but she so much in request amongst the higher circles here, that there is little chance of finding her dis. engl sed." The narrator at once ordered his carriage, best and went to her residence,. and much to . his satisfaction found her at h ome . Be briefly stated s his errand, and reque;ted liPir immediate atten . dance. .• , But be'ore I consent to ac companyyou, permit me, si . r, ' she sai . d,. " to ask you a single question. Is your friend a Christian ?" " Yes," indeed he is—a Christian . in the highest sense of the term, a man who lives in the fear of God, But I should Ithe to know your ,, reason for such an he replied, ." Sir," she Answered , I was the nurse that inquiry ?" " attended Voltaire in his last illness, and for all th e wealth of Europe I would never ,see another infidel die.".— Ford's Damascus. TO THE LANDED AND MANUFACTURING INTERESTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,— Let US suppose that OUT Gracious Queen is made sensible at last of the great duty she owes to her people, and she is anxiously enquiring around her for advice and information, how best to gratify the reasonable claims and to secure the happiness of her subjects. In these circumstances, we may be permitted in honest candour to deliver a suitable memorial to her Most Gracious Majesty, with all becoming firmness and respect. No doubt can be entertained, after the truly gratifying and encouraging manifestation recently exhibited at Lynn Regis by the genuine friends to Native Industry, that you will respond to the respectful sentiments and vital truths expressed in the accompanying appeal to ber Majesty the Queen, and that you will, IN DUE TIME, be urged to as semble your numerous Protectionists Societies, especially the FARMING TENANTS throughout the United King. dom, under the fostering, powerful, and wise influence of your devoted persevering friends and noble leaders the Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, Rutland, Newcastle, Lords G. Bentinck, Ashburton, and a long line of aristo cratical commercial Protectionists, to constitutionally appeal to your Sovereign for a revocation of the Free Trade Act, calculated as it is, to paralyze the exertions of the agriculturists and all classes of our fellow subjects both in England and the Colonies. Keep in mind, Electors of the Empire, the advice of your leader, the noble Richmond—noble in patriotic feel ing and heroic deeds, the champion of his beloved coun try's liberties and dearly bought rights ; re-echo the cry, No Surrender firmly resolve, at the next election, to fight the battle of the good old cause, Native Industry ! UNDER the motto of the victorious Nelson. " England ex pects every man to do his duty !" A PROTECTIONIST TO FREE LABOUR, BOTH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. It is necessary to notice that our colonies in British America are our best customers for our manufacturing fabrics, and that the United States altogether take infi nitely less than what we import into the Canadas. Let us mark the importance of our North American colonies : Russia takes our imports only Bd. per head ; Prussia, 81.1. ; Germany and Switzerland, 2s. 9d. ; France, ls. 7d. ; Holland, 31s. sd. ; Belgium, 7s. ; Denmark, 2s. 10d. ; Sweden and Norway, ls. 3d. ; United States, 7s. Ild. ; and the North American British Colonies, 375. 4d. ! Notwithstanding these astounding facts, at would appear that a great reliance is placed on foreign competition, though foreigners met England with hostile tariffs. A PROTECTIONIST TO BRITISH INDUSTRY. Oxford, 6th .Angust, 1846. THE NEW POOR-LAW COMMISSION. The committee appointed by the House of Commons co inquire into the alleged irregularities of the Andover Union have made their report. Under the head of dietary, the committee point out an explained discrepancy between the dietary No. 3, as pub lished in the second annual report of the Poor-law Com missioners, and the dietary said to be No. 3, adopted in the workhouse of the Andover Union. They are of opi nion that, until last autumn, the Andover dietary was too low ; and that it was often further diminished by the master. It was proved that the hungry inmates bad been in the habit of eating refuse food thrown to pigs and fowls, and of eating the marrow of the bones they were set to break. The committee find it proved that produce of the paupers' labour in crushing bones, was distributed among the guardians by a mock auction. It is their opinion that this or any other labour of a dis gusting or penal character, should not he adopted by boards of guardians, to deter the really destitute poor from entering the workhouse. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding petitions to parliament to this effect in 1842, no order for the discontinuance of the practice was issued by the Commissioners till November, 1845. The committee mention that the sick in the Andover Union did not receive their necessary extra allowances. They are of opinion that these abuses would have been checked at once, had the medical officers of the Union been placed in an independent position by being appointed during good behaviour. The Committee find it proved that the greatest laxity has prevailed in respect to the accounts of the Union ; that many important books have remained for long pe riods unchecked ; and that the Board of Guardians and Clerk of the Union have failed in the due performance of the duties which they respectively owed to the rate-payers and the poor of the district. The Committee mention, as one contributing cause to the irregularities prevalent in the Union, that the clerk had been, from the beginning, allowed to act by deputy. The Committee account for Mr. Parker's not having detected the abuses which prevailed in the Andover Union, by ihe fact "that the large extent of his district, the large number of Unions comprised in it, and the heavy special calls made upon his time by the Poor. law Com missioners, have rendered it almost impossible for him to pay visits to each of the Unions under his care, nu• m o e rk ro h u o s o andses. In connexion long enough eosoez foro with efft thective excessive e inspection s o z f t he w of Mr. Parker's district, the Committee advert to the cir cumstance that while the number of unions has been yearly increasing, the number of Assistant Commission ers has been successively diminished from twenty-one to seventeen, to twelve, and at last to nine. Not only, it is added, were Mr. Parker's labours excessive ' • his special representations of the disgraceful state of the accounts and workhouses in many of the unions placed under his superintendence, received no attention from the Commis sioners ; nor is this the only instance in which these gen tlemen have failed to encourage the detection and removal of abuses by Assistant Commissioners. On the cases of Messrs. Parker and Day, " tbe com mittee are of opinion their (the commissioners') conduct has been irregular and arbitrary, not in accordance with the statute under which they exercise their functions, and such as to shake public confidence in their administra tion of the law." In conclusion, the committee intimate that they have "received much evidence upon the mode of transacting business which has been adopted by the Poor-law Com missionets, throughout the existence of the commission, and upon the insufficiency of the present number of As sistant Commissioners for adequate inspection and con trol, and upon other points connected with the adminis tration of the poor-law, to which they think it their duty to direct the special attention of the house ; but upon which, as these subjects are not included in their order of reference, they consider themselves precluded from offer ing any opinion of their own." THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP. TO THE RIGHT HON. H. GOVLBORN, M. P. SIR,-1 have to-day read a statement made by you in the H ouse of Commons when a committee on the North American mail contracts was moved for by Mr. Miles, and, as that portion of your speech relating to the Great Western steam-ship was not founded on fact, (although there can be no doubt you, sir, believe it true, and that you were induced to believe it by false information from interested parties,) I feel called upon, in justice to myself, who commanded that still good ship, to call your atten tion to the following days of her departure and arrival during the years 1838, 1839, and 1840, which will clearly show you that the Great Western Steamship Company, with their ship the Great Western, under my command, have a right to the credit of proving to this country. and to the world, the possibility of crossing the Atlantic by steam, to and from America fat ALL seasons of the year; and this was done against, the expressed opinion of high scientific authority, and also (of what I deem more im portance in this case) the strongly expressed opinions of good practical seamen: You will see•by the dates I shall give that the Halifax and Boston contracts were not made until the Great Western had prmied, by making winter passages (being at sea in November and December, 1838, and January, February, and March, 1839) the possibility of the voyage being accompliOhed at all times of the year. The following is copied from your speech, as reported in The Times, of 25th of July : " Mr. Cunard has thus proved to all, what no other company ever yet proved, that it was possible to main tain the communication regularly through the winter." * * * " But the Great Western Company have never attempted to cross the Atlantic during the winter months. The last period they ever sailed from any port was November 6, and the earliest voyage was in April • that company had made no attempt t o f ace th e difficulties of navigation through the ice. Those difficul ties were never faced by any one but Mr. Cunard, and, therefore, having overcome them, he was entitled to the preference." What you, sir, call Mr. Canard's doings have been well done by the Boston and Halifax steamers, and the difficulties they have had to encounter have been great, but the Great Western has gone through the same, ice, and all other difficulties. On one occasion we were thirty hours continuously in ice, and at another time fairly stopped, and with much difficulty extricated from a pe rilous situation; indeed, we have encountered ice very frequently. Now, sir, for dates, (being every month you were told the Great Western never sailed from any port :) Left Arrived at Left Arrived at Bristol. New York. New York. Bristol. 1838. 18'8. 1838. 1 , 38. October 27. November 15, November 23. December 7. 1839. 1839. 1839. 1839. January 28, February 16. February 25. March 12. October 19. November 2. November 16. Nov, tuber 30 1840. 1840. 1810. 1840. February 20, March 7. March 19• April 2. November 7. November 24. December g. December 23. During this time the Great Western Company found During this time the Great Western Company found that the winter passages were not profitable, from the small number of passengers, length of voyage, and con sequent extra wear and tear of their S hip; and as they did not succeedi n getting the mail contr4et, and could not compete with a company having Government pa tronage, they very wisely decided on making passages in the finer months of the year only. I blame no man or set of men for using every exertion to obtain such patronage, but I do complain of false state ments to obtain it; end as those statements affect my credit as one of those who first solved the problem of At lantic steam navigation, I make no apology for thus placing myself before you and the public on an occasion in which I feel peculiarly called on to do so ; and I trust to your sense of justice to acknowledge tbat the statement made by you in the House of Commons, now referred to, was made on incorrect information. I have the honour (Si to ned) J be, sir,.ouAMES yr obedientHOSKEN servant, g. Great Britain steam -ship, Liverpool, August 20. N. B.—Since writing the above I find the names of Cunard on the Great Western passenger list several times, and more than once during the dates I have given you. Those are Mr. S. Cu/lord or bis brothers. INCREASE OF INCOME. IT is required by the Advertiser to appoint upon mutually advantageous conditions, REPRESENTATIVES for the SALE of some UNIQUE ARTICLES, commanding from their appearance, superiority of manufacture, and their great utility, such an attraction to any established genteel Bu siness, as will be worth the immediate notiee of parties who may desire an addition to the trade, unaccompanied with doubtful results. The intention_s.ta teserve the advantages offered to one perso i n;Leheteveral t wns of the kingdom, and, as the Sale of the icles will be very extensive, the ge neral character of t proposal for the AGENCY will be found to be one of unusjal occurrence. To any one also, seeking a profitable burins without risk, the opportunity now offered of employing a few pounds, will scarcely meet with a parallel. Address, (free,) to A. B. C., 117, Bath-row, Birmingham. WENHAM LAKE ICE AND REFRIGERATORS. THE WENHAM LAKE ICE COMPANY, for three years established in this country, and honoured with the patronage of Her Majesty, and more than one thou sand of the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, invite attention to the quality and price of their pure Spring Water Ice. For actual use it is worth three times as much as Rough Ice, while the retail price is less. Price 10s. per cwt., or if less than 281 b., 2d per lb., delivered twice daily in all parts of town. Refrige rators, or Portable Ice-houses, for Town or country, from A 4 10s. to 410 10s. They have been brought to a high degree of perfection, coupled with the least possible expense; and the many hundreds already sold have given•entire satisfaction to the purchasers. Ice and Refrigeratnrs to be obtained only from the Company and their advetliSed Agents. Principal Offices -164 A, Strand, London ; apt 28, North John-street, Liverpool. Agent—J. S. SwEsTiNe, Fish and Oyster Establishment, 159, Cheapside, adjoinin&tfie General Post-office, London. Country orders. , ihould be accompanied by a remittance. Town orders mutt be given over night for the morning deli very ; and by Two o'clock, p.m. for the afternoon delivery. The Company will not be responsible for the fulfilment of any orders, except those given at their office, either verbally or by post. THE SANITARY BILL. A special meeting of the Town Council was held yes terday, " to receive the report of the special committee appointed on the 3d April last, on the bill of Lord Lincoln and the sanitary bill of the Council, and on the other bill or bills on the important subjects therein projected, com prising a recommendation to appoint a special committee to make the necessary preparations for carrying out the several provisions of the sanitary acts which come into operation on the Ist of January next, and to confer on such committee full powers to take all necessary steps for securing an adequate supply of water to the borough for domestic, manufacturing, and other private and public purposes." The notice also contained an intimation that the Council would consider a memorial of the president, treasurer, and committee of the Guardian Society for the protection of trade, on the subject of the supply of water. The MAYOR presided. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the Council had been assembled for the purpose of having laid before them a copy of the Sanatory Act, which bad now become the law of the borough. A more important measure had never been submitted to the Council, or one from which greater advantages might be expected. It had been ob tained with considerable difficulty, and after much muni cipal expense ; and it had hazarded, in some degree, the cordiality and friendship which had subsisted between some members of the Council and some members of the . Paving Board, whose powers and authority would be taken away by it. Any feelings of that sort, however, were done away with, and merged in the one considera tion of the general good. It was now the duty of the Council to put the measure into motion by appointing a committee to take the first st , -ps towards carrying it out. At this season it was important the Council should act quickly, inasmuch as they had obtained the services of those gentlemen who were acquainted with the details, and also with the wishes of the public, some of whom might not be in the Council after the Ist November next. Be that as it might, it was desirable the Council should at once proceed with carrying out the measure— Mr. LACE suggested tkat the report of the committee should be read before any general statement was made, as the Council would then be better able to see the pur poses and objects of the committee. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE inquired whether it was neces sary to appoint the committee first? Mr. LACE replied that the Council would then be able to see the objects in view. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said he had been guided, in his mode of proceeding, by the Town-Clerk. The TOWN-CLERK then read the following report : " The Special Committee appointed on the 3rd of April last, on the Bill of Lord Lincoln, and the Sanatory Bill of the Council, and any other Bill or Bids on the important subjects therein proposed to be pro-• vided tor, " REPORT, _ _ " That the Sanatory Bill of the Council has received the Royal assent, the bills introduced by the Commis sioners for Paving and Sewerage, and by the Commis sioners for improving Toxteth-park, having, under an arrangement, been withdrawn by their promoters when before the Committee of the Louse of Commons. " No alteration affecting any principle has been made in the Sanatory Bill since it was submitted to the Coun cil, except in relation to the supply of water for domestic purposes, which will be hereafter referred to. " The act comes into operation on the Ist of January next, and after that data all the powers now vested in the Commissioners for Sewerage, &c., and in the Com missioners for improving Toxteth-park, so far as the powers of the latter body can be exercised within the borough, are transferred to the Council, who are also invested with all the powers hitherto exercised by the Surveyors of Highways within the townships of Everton and Kirkdale, and that part of West Derby which is within the borough ; and these townships, which have hitherto been without any provision for sewerage, will now have the benefit of a general arrangement to be made for that purpose. . . " The Council, therefore, throughout the whole bo rough, after the Ist of January next, will regulate the paving, sewerage, and cleansing, including the removal of all refuse from private dwellings. " The enactments of the present Health Act have in several respects been amended by this act, and upon the Council will devolve the duty of carrying out the provisions of the new act, as amended, re lating to the width 'of streets and courts, the con struction of houses therein and their drainage, the flagging and channelling of courts and passages, the de scription of cellars used or intended for habitation, the regulation of slaughter-houses and knackers' yards, the registering and inspection of low lodging-houses, and the abatement of nuisances, including the important enact ment requiring that all furnaces employed in working en gines by steam, or in any mill, factory, tlyehouse, brew ery, backhouse, gas works, and other buildings used for the purpose of trade, or manufactures, within the borough and furnaces employed io working the engines of any steam-boat plying on the River Mersey, shall, where practicable, be constructed so as to prevent or consume their own smoke. " The cnumil will also be required to nominate a civil engineer to act as local surveyor, a medical officer of health, an inspector of nuisances, clerks, treasurers, and the other officers, which the consolidation of the local boards will render necessary the appointment of the two first-named officers being subject to the approval of the secretary of state. " Each member of the Council has been furnished with a copy of the act, but this short epitome of its leading provisions is introduced into this report, in order to im press upon the Council the importance of the trust which the legislature has confided to them, and the heavy re sponsibility to Parliament and the public under which that trust must be exercised. " Your Committee have spared' no pains or labour in their endeavours to make the bill efficient. Upon the Council and the Committees appointed for the purpose will now devolve the onerous and responsible duty of carrying these provisions into effect, and in order that no time may be lost, a ter the commencement of the act, your Committee recommend that a Special Committee be now appointed to make the necessary preparations for carrying out the provisions of the act, to consider and re port upon the staff of officers required, and to provide the maps and plans required by the act. " By this act the waterworks, now in course of con struction at Green-lane, by the Highway Board, are transferred to the Corporation ; and by the bill, as sub mitted to the Council, it was proposed to enact, that the Council should have power to erect any number of new cisterns, pumps, conduits, 'or other waterworks for the supply of water to the inhabitants of any street, court, or alley, or to erect the same in any public situation for the gratuitous use of any persons who may choose to carry the same away for their own private use, but not for sale, with power to contract with the water companies for a supply of water. These clauses were, however, objected to by the existing water companies, who petitioned against the bill, and the Committee of the House of Commons, considering that the question of water supply should be int. oduced in a most comprehensive manner, struck out the clauses conferring power upon the Council to supply water for domestic purposes even gratuitously, and the use of the water is therefore confined to public purposes, iqcluding the extinguishing of fires, cleansing and water ing streets, flushing sewers, and the supply of public baths and wash. houses. " Your Committee, pursuant to the instructions of the Council, opposed the bill of the Liverpool and Harrington Waterworks Company, but the Committee of the House of Commons passed the bill, inserting the following clause : •'' And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said company cf proprietors, and they are hereby authorized and required, at any time, within twelve calendar months from the termination of the present session of parliament, if the Council of the said borough of Liverpool shall think fit to purchase the same, and shall be authorized and em powered so to do by any act to be passed in the present or in the meat session of parliament, to sell to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the said borough, the water works, land, machinery, or other property, rights, and privileges vested in the said company of proprietors, for such price or consideration as shall be mutually agreed upon between the said Council and the company of pro prietors ; and in case of disagreement as to the said price or consideration, the amount thereof shall be determined by arbitration, according to the provisions for that pur pose contained in the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845;' and if such amount shall be so ascertained by ar bitration. the arbitrator or arbitrators. or their umpire, shall not assign any additional value for the said water works, land, machinery, or other property, in consequence of the powers hereinbefore contained for creating new shares, after the expiration of the said period of twelve calendar months, as aforesaid.' "Under this clause it is compulsory upon the company to .ell their works if the council think fit to purchase them within the time limited, via. twelve calendar months from the close of the present session of Parliament. The propriety of such purchase, considering the quantity and quality of the water supplied by the company, the cost at which new and independent works could be constructed, furnishing a constant and unlimited supply of water of the finest quality, and all the circumstances of the case, has become a most important question ; and your committee recommend that it should be referred to the special com mittee:to be now appointed to consider this question con ferring upon such committee full powers to take all neces sary steps for obtaining an adequate•supply of water to the borough for domestic, manufacturing, and other private and public purposes." Mr. LACE moved the confirmation of the report. He need not enter into details further than to say the com mittee thought it necessary a special council should now be summoned, seeing that in case any negociation should be necessary with the Liverpool and Harrington Water works Company, it must take place within twelve months from the end of the present session of Parliament, and there would be very little time to give the notices for an act if any should be applied for. The special council was also thought nec-ssary upon another account. There was, at present, a bill before Parliament which might or might not pass, which prescribed that all plans should be lodged in the Private Bill Office by the Ist November, so that, although only a fortnight wou ld be ga ined by the calling of the special meeting, even that fortnight would be im portant, if the Council, upon the report of the committee, deem it necessary to apply for an act of parliament to supply water from various sources. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE seconded the motion. The report was then unanimously confirmed. Mr. T. B. HORSFALL apprehended the Committee should make a full report to the Council before making any purchase. Mr. Lace replied, of course. The Council were abroad, as it were, at present, as to what should be done ; and it was necessary a committee should be appointed to take that subject into consideration. The committee was one merely for the purpose of enquiry, and their report would be presented to the Council. Air. G. H. LAWRENCE added, that the committee was one for details and arrangements. With these views, tte Council would agree with him in thinking it would be much better to leave the subject in the hands of those gentlemen who were already acquainted with the details of the measure, and also with the wishes of the town. He should, however, propose two gentlemen in addition to the existing committee. He then proposed the re-election of the following gentlemen seriatim :—Mr. R. Houghton, senior, Mr. James Lawrence, Mr. Turner, Mr. Thorn hill, Mr. Chahmer, Mr. Ratbbone, Mr. H. Hornby, Mr. J. A. Tinne, Mr. Sothern, and Mr. Lace. To these gen tlemen be proposed to add Mr. John Stewart and Mr. William Nicol; Mr. Stewart for his extensive practical knowledge upon the various subjects comprising the ob jects of the bill, and Mr. Nicol because he was the repre sentative of the Council at the board of the Liverpool Waterworks Company. The committee, as proposed, was unatimonsly ap pointed. The TOWN-CLERK then read the following memorial, from the Guardian Society, for the protection of trade : "To the Worshipful the Mayor and Town Council of the Borough of Liverpool. "The Memorial of the President, Treasurer, and Com mittee of the Liverpool Guardian Society for Protection of Trade, SHEWETEI,—That your memorialists, baaring i n m i n d the efforts which were made in the early part of the pre sent session of Parliament to curtail the riots and privi leges of the Liverpool and Harrington Water Company, beg to refer the Council to the fact that those efforts re sulted in the introduction of a clause into the Company's Bill by which they were restrained for twelve calendar months from the termination of the session from raising any additional capital by means of shares. That such a clause was inserted to enable the Corporation to make ar rangements and mature plans for the purchase of the in terest of the company and to establish waterworks over which the Corporation itself would have the sole control. "Your memorialists deem it of importance that such ar rangements should be speedily made, and they respect fully crave leave to urge the Council to take the necessary steps to effect that object." On the motion of Mr. LACE, the memorial was re ferred to the committee just appointed. Mr. PARKER hoped that as the legislature had invested the Corporation with full sanatory powers, they would be carried into execution without delay ; and he was most glad to see the feeling with which the whole subject was taken up. In too many cases where local bills had been obtained, they had been allowed to remain a dead letter; but in the present instance he trusted that error would be avoided. Before the Council broke up, The MAYOR announced the death of Mr. John Footer, architect to the Corporation for a great number of years. He was sure the Council would feel deep regret at the Joss which the Corporation had sustained, by the decease of this gentleman, who had tendered to it many most im portant services. (Hear.) The Council then separated. FROM PUNCH IN LIVERPOOL. HOW TO CHOOSE A DWELLING-HOUSE. Tbere are certain classes of houses which it is most desirable to avoid, if you are in search of comfort. Steer clear of all cottages in the gothic style, with little gardens and rockeries in front, and porches at the back. Nine out of ten are no better than bandboxes. The ornaments outside are generally in proportion to the dilapidation and inconvenience inside. " Pretty, romantic-looking places," your friends may call them ; " not very cheap, but so stylish !" You have to live in them, however, and to pay the rent. You can't sleep comfortably in a turret ; and pendant ornaments from the roof or win dows, resembling the drops from the nose of an Indian, squaw, are dear at a pound a-year each. Semi-detached villa., with a garden in common, or divided by a privet hedge or a railing, are to be avoided. If your next-door neighbour is fond of gardening, and you are not, your cat is always destroying his tulips or his dahlias ; and if you are fond of gardening, perhaps be keeps hens. Or he has Sunday visitors, who smoke cigars and drink bottled stout upon his grass-plot ; and you wish to reverence the Sabbath, and hate the idea of living next door to a private pothouse. In short, the disagreeables attending this kind of joint occupation are numerous and obvious. As a general rule, avoid stucco-fronted houses of a pretending style of architecture, wherever situated. They are like jerry-built bcots—all blacking and polish, and no leather. Choosing a landlord is another weighty affair, requiring great circumspection. Never listen to a man who tells you that his rent will do any time. The chances are that he is at you before breakfast on the very day it is due; that he has bought some property, and it will particularly oblige him this time. Don't take a house from a man who has a joiner's bench, and prides himself on his amateur joinership, does his own repairs, his own painting, or his papering. Such men are often botches, and generally humbugs. Lastly, don't live next door to such a landlord, if you can help it. You can't knock a nail in without his ima. gining that you are knocking down a wall. His children - always think that your house is more theirs than your - - own, and take liberties accordingly. THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS. TO THE ELECTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN. Fellow-Countrymen,—The warm and enthusiastic re ception which you gave to the appeal which I presumed to make to you in 1828, when the voice of Protestant England sounded through every valley, and each sur rounding bill re-echoed the cry of no surrender of those great religions principles upon which our civil and reli gions liberties had been based, leaves me without the shadow of a doubt that the appeal which I am about to make to you will be responded to through the length and breadth of the land—for it is the cause of suffering hu inanity—a cause in which no division of sentiment can arise amongst us from religious or political party differ ences—a cause which I am confident will receive the support of all bodies of my fellow-countrymen, whether they are Roman Catholics or Protestants, Whigs or Con servatives, Radicals or Repealers, a at all will unite as one man to preserve that hr . gem which England placed in her national crown, -when, at the costly and noble sacrifice of twenty,Anillions of her treasure, (the beat and cheapest expenditure of public money to be found recorded in the annals of any country.) sho gave freedom to the slays' population of her West India Colo nies, and wiped from her statute-books those acts which had too long been suffered to disgrace and degrade ns as a Christian country, by which she had given open coun tenance and /encouragement to that most accursed traffic in human flesh, called slavery—a traffic as revolting to the best feelings of our nature, as it is sinful and odious in the sight of our God, whose attributes are mercy, pity, justice. The act which has passed the lower house of parliament repealing all duty upon slave-produced sugar, I will not, upon constitutional grounds, deign to entertain when it reaches the House of Lords, for the majority by which it has been passed through that branch of our legislature no more speaks the sentiment of the great body of cite-- tors of Great Britain than it did upon the withdrawal of all protection from native industry. A general election cannot be far distant. I call upon you, in the name of your country and of our God, to raise your indignant voices against this most odious and accursed measure, which is a direct encouragement to the slave-trade. I earnestly implore you not to suffer England to stultify herself by undoing with one hand what she has so nobly done with the other, and to save her from the charge of hypocrisy, which will be justly levelled against her by surrounding nations, should this act be allowed to remain on our statute-books one mo ment longer than you can prevent. Let our motto be— " Great Britain expects that every elector will do his duty, and degraded may every one be who gives the slightest countenance or encouragement to slavery." I have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen, With every feeling of respect, Your ever devoted and sincere friend, WINCHILSEA AND NOTTINGHASE. Haverholme Priory, August 10, 1846. THE GAME LAWS. The Committee appointed to inquire into the operation of these laws have made their report:— "The Committee think that the statutes relating to pursuit and sale of game may be so altered as without im pairing their-efficacy to prevent unequal or excessive pun ishment of parties contravening them. The committee -think that the penalty for sporting without a certificate is excessive; that the space of three days allowed for giving notice of appeal against a summary conviction is too short; that a moiety of the penalty ought not to go to the infor mer; that parties convicted of night.pna, , hing ought not to be required to find sureties not to repeat the offence. The committee are further of opinion that it is expedient to abolish cumulative penalties for p3aching. They think, considerations of revenue being kept out of view, that owners and occupiers of land, having the right to kill game upon it, should not be required to Ow out a game certificate; that certificates ought to be abolished, in so far as hare-hunting or coursing is concerned ; and that the duties on greyhounds ought not to be higher than on common dogs. But the committee are not prepared to recommend that those who, in their pursuit of game, in fringe the revenue laws, or who, being armed, use violence, should be exempted from any severe penalties. " The committee regret to find that gre3t facilities still exist for the disposal of stolen game, but are not prepared to recommend additional legislative restrictions. They are in favour of extending the power of constables to search and detain parties found under suspicious circumstances with game in their possession ; and to give constables the power to, search public houses and buershops for game. They recommend that the sale of each species of game should be deferred until one day after the season for shoot ing it has commenced. " The committee have received evidence to show that the preservation of large quantities of game has frequently dsmaged the neighbouring crops. It is their opinion that a tenant's just claim for compensation is in such cases ge nerally allowed by the landlord ; hut that it is scarcely possible to ascertain the amount of the d a m age . Th ey damagethink t causedbe made byt the he subject gm o t hf ineighbouringthat reparationproprietors caon o P revious agreement. Th e ex t reme di ff i culty of establish ingaoef: the liability of any particular party for the damage done has induced them to reject the suggestion, that an 1 action on the case wo u ld b e a fitting In their opinio n such damage is mainly , if or practicalnoentirely,t remedy. to be attributed to hares and rabbits • no appreciable portiwl of it can be ascribed to tea thered came. It i s very generally reported in Dublin that Mr. Mor— gan John O'Connell, one of the mern tiere for the county of Kerry, ap Ker p r o y in , t a m nd en n t of ephew to the " Liberator," has accepted the Poor-law Commitsioner for Irelalad, in the room of Mr. Twideton. who succeed:. to one of the vacant English commissionershiys. -