The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

April IR, L 846. Korai anb Vrobinrial tb3o. The Liverpool Dock Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Mr. Thomas Croft, surgeon, of Wigan, has been com mitted for trial on a charge of bigamy. On Friday. an old woman named Hill, wl - o kept a small school, was found dead in her cellar in Park-street. On Sunday week Dr. Twtershall preached at Christ Church, Bradford, in aid of the schools. On Thur,day, at the Birkenhead Police-court, a car driver was fined 20s. for demanding excessive fare from Mr. Brownrigg. On Thursday, Caot. Champion, of the Mermaid, was fined 14s. 6d. for having a fire on board his vessel while in. dock. _ . . On hlondav , Elizabeth Jolly, an aged female, living in Stanley -street, was found lying dead on the floor of her house. The cause of death w , is pulmonary apoplexy. On Monday, John Gill, while working at a warehouse I3arton.lane fell through one of the doors into the street, and died the same day of the injuries received. On Thursday the first stone of a new chapel for the Primitive Methodists was laid in Limekiln-lane, Tran mere. A meeting of 47 delegates, from various districts, was held on Monday last, at Manchester, for the purpose of devising means to promote the ten hours' bill. • On Wednesday, Thos. Ainsworth, Vauxhall-road, was fined 40a. and costs, for refusing to provide accommoda tion for two soldiers of the 76th regiment. On Wednesday, Thos. Smith was fined 40s. and costs, for setting a dog at a boy earned Robert Miller, by which he was severely bitten on the th gh. ' On Thursday, a carman, named Pearson, was fined 20s. and costs for overcharging Dr. Dickinson, and Os. 6d. for refusing to produce his book of fares. The Duke of Sutherland has subscribed a very hand some sum towards the testimonial to Henry Booth, Esq.. 80 long connected with the Liverpool and Manchester railway. On Tuesday, Mr.-Rushton bound over, in £4O, to keep the peace, the young man who. as we stated in the Stan dard last week, had been molesting a workman who has Signed the declaration proposed by the masters. On Sunday, a piece of ignited cotton was thrust under the warehouse door of Mr. M'Arthur, west side Canning Dock. Fortunately the cotton had not been thrust far enough to eff,ct the diabolical act aimed at. Henry Ratites. Esq.. registrar of the diocese of Chester, has appointed Mr. William Maybrick, parish clerk, to the office of apparitor for the Liverpool and Ormskirk districts. The collections at St. Ann's Church, Manchester, on Sunday week, For the schools. after two sermons by the Rev. H. W. M'Grath, amounted to the munificent sum of £lOO. AWFUL DEATH.—Last week a carter, named Critchley, Was returning from th•s town to St. Helen's, in a state of int , lxicatian, when he fell under the cart-wheel, and was so crushed that he died the next day. LUNATIC ASYLUM.—It will be seen from an advertise /tent that the nraaistrstes are in want of land for a site for the Lunatic Asylum to be built in this division of the county. Or, Thursday an old man named Bryan Collins was .111 n over by a car in Islington, and so seriously injured that he died next day. The horse took fright, and a deo dand of LI was adjudged on the car. On Tuesday last, a gentle. an of the name of Su'cl;ffc, had his pocker-book stolen, on the Manchester Exchange, and which contained one drat fir £3OOO, another for £2.000, and four bank notes of £lOO each. There has just been completed a new temporary bridge aeross the Wallasey Pool, for the purpose of conveying by a line of rails, the earth from Flaybrick-hill to a portion o f the pool which it is intended to fill up. • T‘ Oti Thursday, a youth twelve years of age, named John '"• elan, whose parents live at No. 5. Croshie-etreet, got 1010 a cart in Wappi ng, but shortly after fell out, and was 80 much injured that be died next day. Old, three weeks ago, a boy named 'Magian, four years I ° l l i ti r was severely sca ld ed b y a co ff ee -k et tl e f a lli ng u p on f tn , at his par ents ' h ouse i n T rou b r id ge - street . H e di e d imp, the effects of the injury, on Thursr ay. 91 . 1 Thursday, as a lan o u re r name d Mrs in was at work b n r , l , la naillon-square, Woodside, ahnut a ton weight of tc ! i fell upon him and injured him so severely that he d ied in half-an.hour. J rr u t d Es.—On Friday there were two fires. The first oc eon: at Temple -terrace, Rat hbone-street, but was of no f rom ect c "V r ee: The second, in a small passage leading ' A l lan-street to Huuter..street ; it consumed a starsi„. „ d Early dwelling house. b " Thursday 'morning, a man named Fitzgerald, elonging to the Dove, in Canning Dock, was found lying Upoo tt th. sands, off the Albert Pier, drowned, having, it I s sur.poaed, f e ll over t h e p i er a s h ort t i me b e f ore . He Wag Setn in Mersey -street intoxicated the previous night. ,Tae H ouse of Commons has referred the LiverporlSa nitary Regulations Bill, the Liverpool Paving, Sewering, and Watering Bill, the Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Bill, and the Toxteth-park Improvement Bill, to the skim-, committee. The Committee of Works of the Dock Trust reported at the meeting en Thursday, with reference to the North Dock Works, that great progress had been made during the winter season, arid every thing that had been done Was highly creditable to Mr. Hartley, the dock surveyor. Two iron schooners, built by Messrs. Tayleur, Sander son; anti Co. were lan , ched from their yard at Bank Quay, Warrington, on M nday. The vessels were named Neptune and Enterprise, and are intended for the South American coast. EVANGELICAL Aeetesicg.—On Wednesday, two very large Meetings were held in the Rotunda, Dublin, in fur. therrnce of the objects of the Alliance. Amongst the ~.speakers we r e th e R ev . J. H. S tewart, an d the . Rev. J. To ' Brown, of this town, both of whom delivered long - aLd trgumentative addresses. P s A veisel d ~IMP Ge etr OF OTATOE . "eop arrive “TaTIONS d at Liverpeol from Leghorn. had call on e boar the d n tons of putat es, the produce of Italy. The importa ‘l"B of potatoes from the Channel Islands continu e a t r egular intervals • several arrivals of the a rti c l e ha vin g takenP .ce since ' the matter was last noticed. •UE MAGISTRATES AND THE HIGHWAY BOARD.— It tr,la said that there was a meeting of magistrate H s , . on shursd Board, to take into h ci v sesideration the bills of the High- Wa ys td, so far as . t e . affected the j stices. With one • .ptiorr, they unanimously disapprov ed _ of the clause for e e ll".g commis s ioners from the bench. aTTEMPTED SUICIDE.—About eight o'clock on Thurs ,77 night, Mr. Hickson, of Kent-square, when crossing ;" e 'tf Mr. Earle's fiel4s, in Smithdown lane, discovered ,an, Win ds Barney M'Giver, who resides in Lorton i:er. or, lying on the pound, with a frightful i; 8 „! in his throat. It appears be inflicted the wound -e a razor, whilst under tile influence of drink. . ()" r a zor, whilst morning week, Miss Watkis, who resides Pr,Maryland-street, was alarmed at hearing the report of ait?tr.tris from the yard at the back of the house. On ex bal'"lng the premises subsequently, it was found that a (had been bored through the yard door, sufficiently ores:lto admit the muzzle of a gun. Several bullets were rE1 4, 1 a l " w hich had been discharged, no doubt, by some i-erous villain. vrhn O ccostate:ece AT WAVERTRER —The female ter4t f we stat e d l ast wee k . h a d b een di scovere d. in an at- Yirkra c onceal two infants. has been fully committed to Ing 'et trial at the next assizes on a charge of hay le dm•-'4°Pled to destroy the children. One of the infants fiekr i g an dWel; the other, which had been found in the rll. , la s arm broken, and lies iu a precarious state. 111,,,bj: r man who brought the woman from Liverpool was Ci e to th row much light on the affair. nI eH O F DUBLIN STEAM COMPANY.—Tne half-year ly i t th i e l'g o f this company was held on Saturday, the 25t h, vet , h e i . ° nlPany's office, when a highly satisfactory report seri 4 ,rutitted to the proprietors, and the accounts pre tt,rradiss,naliersuatit to the provisions of the Company's Act ° lent. The report referred to the inc reased ter 14 expected from the npening of the several lines o exetiS leadin g t o t h e port an d c i ty o f D u bli n, an d t h e ae u r pi °na maki ng b y th e Di reetors to supp l y t h e necessary th e sto meet t h e same. T he company ' s new vessel, „- 14 W indsor " was exp ec t e d to b e a t wor k i n t h e curse next month. ' Their new vrs-el, the " Prince of e nn ." had alr ea d y b een b roug h t i nto serv i ce, an d t h e Iv s ,,,P ai nY's new reportscrew stated schooners were in a state of for a'', " n ess• The that the directors w uld be Pired to supply the Ht lvhead line with uitable ves-ela Th""n as the railways to that port hall s be compl s ted. es thed usual d divid en d, at the rate of six p er cen t. per annum, n eclar. 'tiv / i 'RO GRESS OF THE E ARLY C LOSING OF S HOPS .— It - ta a source of real inju r y t o an y c ass i n this countryto:l'lli,teee,cbscovered, att empts at i ps Temosul im me t t i l: -cs e 7 t I , e ; and first although the exertions o f p , h b n ila r nto accomplish such a purpose m a y a t rst e imp . ▪ e otible to the unobservant, yet after a while they sue {:e in dragging it before the public gaze: then its doom a-fl'ekenounced. The ,gitation . to obtain an earlier closing 14pbt"1p8 is progressing in this way. Those benevolent 1 " who feel for the wrongs of their fellows," have , t „! their advocacy of the cause, succeeded in partially I e ° '°, vine the evil, but much yet remains . to . be done. A 11 4 e - '',..bYe. law has been talked of: a legislative enactment se%ueen more than once alluded to ;—but we are per ri,''.'etl that the most effectual way to bring about the ti s ia ,: r ed change is for the shopkeepers themselves to prac asTriY closin . We are happy to observe that many lri0v1%1: doing 80 • an g d we know of none more decided than C amidge and Jo es, hatters, and Mr. Edward (2, - „ r t of Re ns h aw-street. NlTeetl-I;ectere INSTITUTION.—The attendance at Dr. e xtr i ." 8 lectures during the week has, on the whole, been hi s e.n;elY gratifying , giving proof of a just aepreciation of a Of Z: n ent abilities ' on the part of the public, and therein ° np :` ll ,, Pr oving standard of musical taste in the town. ove n n 'ay evening the audience was smaller than usual, ca ns : to the unfavourable.' state of the weather. The same i e , ° Perated in very coesiderabl s y thinning Inc choir. d o , " was so reduced indeed that ome of the pieces set he 8. 4 r°r Performance' had to h, pos ' tponed , and others to T„;:_g In a different manner to that originally intended. Ilq on the pat of the si n g er s was certainly by Milethe es pectful. either to th e l ecturer or t h e au di en c e , • e Ple r a of " the weather" can hardly he e allowed as a cletit j n atification. Note ithstanding this disadvantage, spirit erg several of the illustrations were given with great aiti„4:nd e ff ect. S ome of them were truly noble compo• le er, , and were listened to with much delight; and none th e 4 1 ' 4 ° than the primitive version of the Evening Hymn, an , l ": ll l l simplicity of which invested it with a subli iltiste'• tl 'ed to the ernpredssiveness of which those who have only After th e c onc l uding editions could not well form an ;l e n b e deli . lecture of the . course, which 1, 1 or Mozart's deon Friday, Dr. Wesley will perform on t , The d,v,eiteoers has also , overture to the Zauber fl 9te. 0 18 , er we understand, very kindly promised rr an even i ng ' s performance, on some future • eatowards raising a fund for a new organ, which ball on the removal of the present one to tkfform a „ 1 ealecting for th e P h i l h armonic Society. The ee alolle Of ece the ilmost prebably take place shortly after p re sent lecture season. Upwards of two tons weight of crabs, besides packages of other kinds of fish, which had been taken at the fishing stations in the northern parts of Northumberland, were sent last week from Alnwick to the manufacturing dis tricts of Lancashire and Yorkshire. It appears. that a fishmonger from the south attends at the stations, and purchases the crabs at three-halfpence each, and ether fish at a stipulated price. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—About twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, a labourer, named James Johnson, employed in the saw-mills of Messrs Nichol and Co-. Upper Stanhope-street, was in the act of adjusting a lea ther strap connected with the machinery, when he was caught by it, and dragged several times round the drum. The engine was instantly stopped, but not before the poor fellow was dreadfully mangled. He died in a few minutes afterwards. He has left a wife and six children. LAMENTARLE OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday, at Chor ley, Che-hire. a youth, named Jackson, about 13 years of age, was amusing himself with a gun in a neighbour's house, during which he pointed it towards one of the daughters, Elizabeth Ridgeway, aged 20, an interesting young woman, saying jestingly that he would shoot her. The gun was loaded, and the youth pulling the trigger, killed Miss Ridgeway on the spot. He has been committed to Chester Castle to take his trial for manslaughter. A GREAT VOYAGE.—The Providence Journal adnotin ced the arrival at that port of the ship South America, Captain Soule, from the northwest coast, after one of the most successful whaling voyages on record. The South America brings home 4100 barrels of oil, 160 of it sperm. She had previously sent home 7t 0 barrels, 100 of sperm, end sold 1000 barrels at Bahia. She also sent home 37,000 pounds of bone, and brings 22,000 pounds. [This vessel was formerly one of our most caebrated liners, and was commanded by Captain Bailey, now of the ship 'York shire.] NARROW ESCAPE.—As the James, Birkenhead ferry. boat, was crossing the river, at eight o'clock on Friday night. the quick eye and ear of the captain detected a man struggling for life. With most masterly precision, he put the boat about, and the men of the James soon had the swimmer on bard. It appears that be was a seaman be longing to the Magnificent bark, lying in the stream, and bad fallen overboard accidentally, but being a good swim mer, had taken off his boots, and kept above water. The poor fellow stated that he bailed a Dutch vessel, but got no assistance ; and had the James been two or three minutes later, he must have sunk from exhaustion. The Manchester Guardian says—" We have had a no velty this week in our local theatricals—the performance, on Thursday evening, of "The Andrian," a comedy of Terence, by some of the senior boys of our Free Grammar School. The care with which the parts bad been pre- oared, did great credit to the juvenile performers, who acquitted themselves very creditably. In the intervals between the acts, various pieces of music were sung by some vocalists present ; and at the conclusion of ' 1 The A ndrian" some scenes from Shakspere's "Julius Caesar" were represented. Upwards of two hundred persons were present. [This, we apprehend, is not a very novel occur rence. 'We remember ourselves participbtipg in our youthful days in the per l ormance of Terence's comedies.] AN ASPIRANT FOR MASONIC FAME.—OiI Tuesday, at the Police•court, a young man, described as having served an apprenticeship to a orinter, and as latterly employed in cutting gravestones, at Walton, and whose facial develop ment gave abundant evidence of an erratic genius, was ad judged to pay 14s. 6d. for having been found, on Mon day, within the works of St. George's-hall, operating with a mallet and chisel, on the almost finished capital of an lonic column, in a manner but ill calculated to improve its appearance or make it in keeping with its fellows. The prisoner, in defence, said he was drunk at the time, and was quite unconscious of what he was doing. The act wa: perfectly a thoughtless one. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF TELESCOPES.—On Thurs day, Arthur Palmer, a working optician, was charged by Mr. James Basnett, with stealing a number of telescopes, &c., from his shoo, Robert-street North. The prisoner worked for Mr. Basnett, in whose employ he had been twelve years, and I ad, during Mr. Basnett's absence from home, contrived to carry off a number of telescopes, to gether with a quadrant, from the shop of his employer. Suspicion. being excited, Mr. Basnett was in , inced to go to Mr. Thirmasson's, pawnbroker, Tithebarn-street, where he found three telescopes belonging to him pawned. He afterwards found two pawned with Mr. Roberts, Hidifield-street ; one with Mr. Macferson, Tithebarn street, and one with Mr. Thomas Sorton, Dale-street. The value of the property pledged was £l5. The priso ner was committed for trial. WEST DERBY G VAUD' . ANS.—At the meeting on Tues day letters were rec.ived from the Poor Law Commis sioners. confirming the appointment of Mr. Harbord, as medical r fficer of the southern division of Toxteth-pa!k ; and of Mr. John Shearson, as relieving officer of the Crosby district. Mr. Dolling preferred a complaint against a member of the Board, who had, he alleged, on the previous day, whilst hia accounts were be•ng audited, endeavoured to prejudice the mind of the audi'or against and his accounts. Some conversation took place on the subject, but it did not lead to any practical result. Several disputed items were referred. connected with an account of Mr. Surgeon Harbord, and a claim made on Toxteth Park for a quarter's salary by the late rate-book clerk of that township, Mr. Watson, who had been sus pended. SELECT VESTRY, TUESDAY.—A letter was read from Mr. Lowndes, formally resigning his office of Vestry clerk. Tit , - thanks of the board were voted to him for his valuable services, and a notic of motion given for the ap pointment of Mr. Hart as his successor. A communica tion was received from the Highway Board, drawing at tention to the proceedings of the Dock Committee, in en deavouring to obtain the introduction into their hill, by the Lords, of the warehouse clause, and requesting the co-operation of the Vestry in opposing the clause. A re. solution in accordance with the request was accordingly passed. It world be seen by the council proceedings that the clause has been withdrawn. A letter from Dr. Ma crorie was read, tendering his resignation as one of the honorary physicians to the Workhouse. The thanks of the Vestry were voted to him for his long and valuable services. ROBBFIRT ON BOARD SHIP.—On Wednesday, David Turkington and Mary Turkingron, his wife, were brought up on a charg- of robbing Patrick Lynch, while on the voyage from New Orleans to this port in the ship Cre mona. All the parties were passengers; and it appeared that Lynch missed £4O from his trunk about a week ago, when an inquiry took place, but the prisoners denied all knowledge of it. adding that all the money they were in possession of was one sovereign. Suspicion, however, was entertained against them, and on the arrival of the vessel here, they were given into custody and their box searched, when several sovereigns were found co , cealrd under the lid; some other money in gold was found in an old gun stock, the whole amounting to £l5. The com plainant could not identify it. The male prisoner said he had put away the moony for safety, and it was his own. They were discharged. On Friday an application was made to Mr. Rushton for the restoration of the money found upon the prisoner, bot he refused to make any order upon the subject, observing that the case was one of very great suspicion. He had hopes that circumstances would yet come to light that would lead to the discovery of the thief. MEETING OF THE HIGHWAY BOARD. An application having been made to rate the water water works at Kensington, the Law-clerk said it was his opinion the Commissioners were not liable, the works be ing public property, and not a beneficial interest. . The CHAIRMAN read a letter from the workmen em ployed at their water works requesting to be heard by de putation, which was granted, when the deputation said it appeared that th- Board bad been told by Mr. Tomkinson that it was not the fault of the masters that the men had turned out, but the fault of the employed. They begged to say, the workmen had never made any demand for an advance of wages, or reduction of the hours of labour, or any thing in connexion with the document the masters required them to sign. The CHAIRMAN assured them the Board would not in terfere between the masters and the men, either directly or indirectly. A report from Mr. Weightman, as to making a sewerin Great Howard-street, for draining some land belonging to Molyneux and others, was read. It recommended that the sewer be constiucted, which would involve an outlay of £llOO. Some discussion took place on the subject, and it was moved that the sewer be made. Mr. LAWRENCE objected to the expenditure of any money for such a purpose at present, seeing they hail no funds at command. They had expehded money illegally already: anti ahour 1900 or £ll ll whi..h wax Apen deputation money, would have to be refunded if they did not get their I . In reply to a question put by Mr. Lawrence, the SE caETARY stated that. they were indebted to the batik Tne CHAIRMAN said he was not aware they had ex pended any money illegally. Mr. A SPINA LL said he supposed what had been stated WAS merely to frighten them, but he himself would not be frightened—he would do-all he could to torwattl the bill of the Highway Board ; and use all his efforts to overturn that of-the Corporation. After some further conversation. it was agreed that the conversation should he deferred. and another survey made before any expense was incurred. Mr. GLADSIONR, in-reference to the interview which had taken place the previous week with Messrs. romkin son and Johnson, as to the strike among the workmen, proposed a resolution to the effect, that, without prejudice to existing rights, and taking into consideration the diffi culties in which the master trade-men are placed, owing to the turn-out, the Board do not press inconveniently any parties who are under contract to execute work for the Trust. The resolution was seconded by Mr. KILSHAW, and ad:pted. Mr. GLADSTONV gave notice of the following motion for the next meeting:—" That as it appears from the proceedings of the Town Council at the special meeting held on Tuesday, the 21st instant, that the Sanitary Bid promoted by the Council received almost unanimous ap proval,—that that bill contains many important provisi ons for the sanitary regulations of the borough which are not contained in any bill promoted by the Board,—that the Council have also under consideration a plan for af fording an ample supply of water fur domestic and manu facturing use and for public purposes, and that a parlia mentary contest on the several local bills now before parliament, all having for their professed object the bene fit of the public, would be attended with great expense to the rate-payers and public funds.—Resolved,—That it is not expedient or necessary for the public interest to pro ceed further with any of the bills promoted by this Board." Some conversation ensued on the subject of Mr. Glad stone's motion, when the Chairman observed that they had better reserve their discustion until the next week. Mr. GLADSTONL—The Board will perhaps not be in existence next week. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. A special meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday, to consider the report of the special committee on Lord Lincoln's bill, and on the sanatory bill of the Council. Toe Town clerk commenced reading the report from the special committee, extracts from which we subjoin : " That they now bring before the Council the bill which has been prepared in order to amend the present Health and Police Act, and to int oduce into the borough such or the provisions of the bill of Lord Lincoln as are necessary to ensure the efficient working of the several purposes of paving, sewering. draining, and cleansing, with other sanatory regulations, combined under the management of the Council. '• In their consideration of the bill, the committee have been deeply impressed with the importance of a cheap and abundant supply of water, not only for domestic use. but for cleansing sewers, streets, courts, &c., and other public purposes. " Acting under the advice of Mr. Hawksley, the committee proposed to the directors of the Liverpool and Harrington Com. party to purchase their icorks, subject to the approval of the Council. The directors. however, refused this offer, stating that they considered it far behiw the va:ue of the works, and the negotiation therefore terminated. " Mr. Haw , sley was also requested to turn his attention to the sir! ject of the general and independent supply of water from other and better sources than those now made, and he ex- pressed to your committee his clear and decided opinion that an abundance of water, of the softest quality, may be procured at a sufficient elevation to enable a constant and unlimited de livet y to be afferde to all parts of the borough. without the aid of steam o. other machinery; and at a cost which would enable a considerable reduction to be made in the rates now charged upon the consumers. _ _ .•‘ The quail!) , as well as the quantity of the water supplied shoidd be fully considered ; and your committee are decidedly of opinion th•t sufficient attention has not been pain to these c risiderati ns in the plans now laid before Parliament by the Highway Board for a further supply to the town ; and they are advised by eminent engineers, that if those works were com pleted in the manner proposed, they would not a - ord an acte rpiate and constant supply; that the water is not the best that can be procured, and that from the manner in which the work , are proposed to be constrncted. they w;11 be most costly in ma nagement, and entail a heavy rate upon the inhabitants and property of the borough. "Your committee have also considered the two bills intro duced by the Higtm ay Board. As th se bills are not only ex ceedingly ohj cticnable in themselves, but directly at variance with the principles of the sanatory bill your committee have prepared petitions against them, which the ,- n w propose to the Council for adoption, and recommend that the most vigorous opp sition be offered to them. Y , ur committee have also had before them the bill of the T , xteth park Commissioners, against which, as interfering with the sanatory bill, as tar as respects the part of Tor eth-park within the borough, your committee al-o submit a petition, and recommend the Council to oppose the bill. Your committ e have also con , idereet the bill intrrduced by the Liverpool and liarrinerm Water Works, which appeared to lour committee so objectionable. as affec ing the interests of the public, and the tights of the Corporation, under the cxisti g acts, that they have presented a petition against it, and ale pre pared, if directed by the Council, to oppose the bill in commit. tee." On the motion of Mr. LACE the report was adopted, Mr. BIRKETT observing, that some parts of the report, with reference to the bill of the Highway Board, were not agreeable with the facts. Petition's were adopted against the bill of the Highway Board. and against the Toxteti. Park Improvement Bill. Mr. BOOKER suggested the appointment of a sub-com mittee from the Council and The Highway Board to settle their dtfferences at home; but Mr. LACE said as the Council had already determined to proceed with their bill, he conld not see on what principle a reference to a sub committee was now proposed. The TowN-cLeax then proceeded to read the pre amble and clauses of the Liverpool Sanato! y Regulations Bill. On clause G being read, which repealed the acts of the Highway Commissioners for paving and seweriug the town, Mr. PROCTER objected to it, but declined to divide the ;he Counc,l. Clau.e 82 provided that the Council might let any un occupied or unproductive property, to defray expenses. . . . . Mr. I3IRKt•;TT thought this a most arbitrary clause, and was certain it would never be passed by Parliament. Clause 86 convulsed the Council with laughter. It pro vided that the dirt, dust, night soil, and filth collected from the streets, sewers, and cesspools, should be vested in the Mayor and Corporation. The clauses from 87 to 92 were passed. The words "if required" were added to clause 93, which provides that no house shall hereafter he built within the borough without a pr per privy and ashpit. Clause 102 was struck out. It provided that it should be lawful for the coroner to require the medical officer (to be appointed) to make post mortem examinations. Clause 106 was viewed as a mist valuable one. It pro vided that from and after the passing of the act, all fur naces employed in woi king any engine, mill, factory, dye house, brewery, bake house, gas works, or steam-boat, shi uhf, when practicable, be so constructed as to consume their own smoke. he TOWN-CLERK remarked that a simple apparatus, su Tested by Mr. Grantham, t( r consuming smoke, had been tried with complete success on hoard of the Birken head onats. It saved fuel, and created additional steam, and would, if generally adopted, be found extremely valu able. Clause 110 provided that no beast should be killed ex cept in the licensed slaughter-houses of the town. The word " exchn-ive" was added to 138. It provides that all churches, chapels, schools, or builsiings, used for the education of the poor exclusively, or any land, build ing, or other property belonuing to the Council under the provisions of th s act, shall not be liable to be rated. Mr. BRAMLEY-NIOORE e xpr<ssed his anxiety to have some clause or proviso introduced, by which the existing rihts and privileges of the Deck Estate should be pre ser After some discussion, it was agreed that a clause to this tff-ct should be drawn up by the Town-clerk and Mr. Worthington, the dock solicitor, and submitted to the Council. Clause 148 provided that the owners of property not exceeding £lO per annum, nett annual value, should pay rates instead of the occupiers. The TOWN-CLERK said, that, with reference to this clause, a memorial had been received from the Liverpool Houseowners' Guardian Society, in which they stated that tr make the owners liable to the rate, would be to commit an unconstitutii , nal and partial act. Mr. J LAWRENCE called attention to the 150th clause, which provided that a deduction of £l5 per cent. shall be allowed In assessin_ rates on the owners of 'remises not eneeeding £lO annual value. . _ . ........_. Mr. Bt RKETT moved that clauses 148 and 150 be struck out. • The Council divided, when there appeared—for the mo tion, 17; against it, 16. The clauses were accordingly expunged. All the remaining clauses were passed nem. con. ; and, upon the motion of Mr. LACE, the bill, subject to the al terdtions, was approved of. _ - - Mr. HORSFALL said he had got a clause to propose It alluded to the propriety of closing the dram-shops and public-houses on the Sunday ; and It was a scource of pleasure in him to state, that the credit of originating the measure had emanated from parties who were themselves engaged in the trade. It had been stated by Mr. Higgins, in Council, that, on an average, the sum of £4OOO was taken every Sunday in the dram-shops of Liverpool. By the police returns it appeared that there were no less than 3.315 persons brought before the stipendiary magistrate on the Monday mornings of the past. year for drunken ness, while only 6.050 were brought before him on the whole of the remaining days of the week. The Coroner's accounts bore testimony to the fearful number of cases in which infants had died Irom having been overlain by their drunken mothers on the Saturday and Sunday nights. His resolution was to the effect, that the dram-shops and b er-- hops of Liverpool be open from one to time o'clock on the Sunday, (though this was more than he should give if he had any chance of succeeding,) and that they be closed after three o'clock until Monday morning. Mr. SANDS seconded the motion. but Mr. BIRKETT raged the t ropriety of postpor.ing the measure until neat Council, arid allowing the parties aggrieved to have a hearing, and Mr. PARKER said tlia , he stood upon as high moral ground as any man ; and he contended that aithough public houses might afford a facility for desecrat ing the Sabbath, yet that much of the evil ersted in the tact that railway trains laden with pa , sengers arrived in the town on that day, and tLat steamers were plying on the river. After some further remarks, Mr. HORSFALL akreed to postpone the subject until the first meeting of the Council 'in May, when lie said he should certainly bring it tot ward. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CORR, SPDXDEP'CE. ON THE SANITARY STATE OF SOME PARTS OF 1..117 l'[)[) 1.. - I - TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVA ;RPOOL STANDARD. FREEMASON'S-ROW. What has been advanced already in reference to Harri son-street, Banastre-street, and Freemason's-row, has afforded ample evidence, I trust, of the truth of the state ments with 'which I set out in my first and second letters ; but the importance of the subjects, as they bear upon pub lic health, requires at the hands of every man capable of giving evidence at all a fair quota of labour in this depart ment of the common-weal. The non-sanitary condition of our own town is a matter that concerns every indivi dual man, woman, and 'hild in it. None are too high or too low not to have an inter st, direct mid immediate, in the future legislation upon their case. It is owing to the neglect of all these vital questions of municipal and medi. cal police that so many tearful diseases have invaded and domiciled .themselves amongst us; and in how many in stances the fatal arrow might have been permitted to have been warded off it is not possible to calculate ; but we know that the universal tyrant, " who strike. with equal foot the poor man's cottage and the roof of kings," has been times innumerable literally invited to houses and neighbourhoods by the neglect of sanitary points. The inorganic and organic laws are immutable, and man must either protect himself against their pr• judicial operation by controlling them, or he must fall their victim in the end. He who thinks there is any other state than victory or defeat is ignorant of nature, and, more than this, becomes superstitious towards art. The mass of preventible dis ease amongst us may be lessened, and therefore ought to be. How this is to be done, and hest done, is the pro. since of medical police, as it is termed, and is, in fact, the very highest duty—the most exal►ed privilege of the science of medicine, to which its most sacred efforts are direct..d, and which all seem moreover to know, fi.r the adage em. bodes the general conviction, viz , " That prevention is better than cure. Yet how little is this conviction car ried out, or worked upon. It is no one's duty especially to point out to the public the science of prevention ; and, therefore, there is no school for teaching this ail-im portant department, except as far as the public autho rities may be said to be herein schoolmasters, so far as re. gulations of superficial cleanliness are in their bands, armed with sundry and often impracticable penalties. . _. _ __ ........ . __ The medical profession iiself—the only proper sanitary tutor—has aroused Well to a full covseiouNness of its loftiest t.phere of lab ur ; arid Government must go on, as it has commenced, by sanctioning their tuition, and carrying nut legirlatorially their experienced recommenda tions, and the public is untrue and inconsiderate towards its own dearest interests if it slackens in its endeavours to obtain a general enactment providing authoritatively for these matters. As society has been working for centuries past, it has commenced at the wrong end of the entangled cord of public interests : in order to disentangle it suc cessfully they must now begin at the preventive instead of the curative end only. Then they will unravel the tangled and perplexing maze, and every best interest will be revealed to a delighted mind as the thread of truth and knowledge yields itself willingly to the fingers of the phi lanthropist and the authorized. The simplicity of the doing of this, will, like the erg of Columbus, appear to stultity our past acumen, and we shall, like those around Columbus, when be smashed down the erg on one of its poles. actually stare at our former selves, who could tolerate an evil so long, and not seize the prevention so ready at hand. Public institu tions, especially lever hospitals, will be hardly wanted comparatively, and society, having mastered several of the physical evils around, can give a less distracted atten tion to the enormous and growing evils of the land. Politics themselves will be simplified and mitigate their acerbities, for differenoes of kind will then merge into 'differences of degree: and, finally, there will be some chance of integrity and honesty and worth obtaining the prize of public esteem—now, alas .so often withheld. The task set be , ore me, as an individual member of the medical profession, is limited to the matter of exposing, in the best way I can, some of those social evils which are most. glaring and prejudicial to the health of the community. I have now to bring forward a state of things in a part of the town very different to those which I have hitherto noticed, and yet one which requires some change in its non-sanitary position. BRUNSWICK•ROAD has at the back of it a row of houses apparently pleasantly situated, in having an extended prospect over the fields towards Everton village. Hence it has been named Brunswick-view, a name which is correct in more senses than one; for whilst the green fields form one view, now rapidly covering with bricks and mortar, yet there is un doubtedly another very prominent object to the view ; it is also in hot weather prominent to the organ of smelling. It is a sewer which runs down at the foot of the houses, from their commencement at the top down to the very bottom of these frontages, when, as it can no longer an— noy houses at their front, it condescends to sink into a covered drain at the rear of some other houses, and this it does just opposite the play-ground door of the Lower School of the Collegiate. The bubbling up of this impure fountain at the top seems to indicate its escape from some covered drain, as though the water was drained from the Necropolis and adjacent parts of the Everson and West Derby reads. I think Gregson's Well opens here too. A part of this water, muddy and stinking, overflows upon the field, forming a little marsh, which, from what I have been told of fevers in the houses near, has not been the innocent spot, after all, some might take it for, as the spreading over a surface of drainage water is the very best way to develope whatever malarious agency, by exposure Imo evaporation, the fluid may be charged with. But as a fact is worth a thousand arguments, and should always he referred to when possible, let us see whether the antis l i lysis of this said water shews or not that it is charged with any deleterious materials. A word before quoting this, upon the mode of getting it. I have stated that a part of the stream overflowed, and sank into the little marshy bed, or was removed by evaporation, thus of course leaving a layer of mud behind. At the present season this is mud ; in the warmer weather, when the drain is low, it becomes caked and dried up, an occur. rence worse than its present mud, as every well-inforti ed person knows. The remainder of the drain courses along the side of the housei before described, and receiving se veral various contributions of ashes, slops, &c &c., from the tenants, in some parts half-stagnart sin its course, and thus gives rise to the gaseous exhalations arid other aggravated evils of clogged-up drains: the escape of the gas can be seen in the shape of the numerous bubbles floating along slowly, or stationary upon toe surface. Shortly before it gets to the end of its open course, another artificial' contrivance meets your ob servation. It may not be so bad a specimen of rustic en gineering as it must he in itself injurious to health. A second deviation of the course of the water is made by a sluice in the side of the drain. and a reservoir or dam is formed into which at pleasure a sufficient quantity of Ibe fluid can he drawn off, and then the sluice closed again. This pond, so formed, is not as bad as the lake or marsh above, but the further application of the fluid is nor quite as innoxious comparatively as leaving the body of water merely there. A large open pit is formed out of the ground a Rae lower on the slope of the vacant ground, and into this a large quantity of straw manure is laid for a time, and this is moistened occasionally w;th the c..n ents of the pond baled our upon it. This may be a very good process for making manure, but near habitations it cannot be considered a healthy process. It may appear invidious to make public any private operations; but whenever these become injurious in their tendencies, they ought to be regarded as nuisances, and therefore looked after by the appointed authorities. It may seem hard upon inJivi. duals, but it is still hard , r upon the community to omit _the restraining of such rrsances; and it becomes hard otherwise upon every ratepayer who may be called upon to contribute towards the maintenance of fever hospitals, &e., which rate might he greatly reduced if the proper at tention was paid to the sanitary questions of the town. In Birmingham they have now no need of a separate fever hospital, because they have no fever comparatively. Why should it not be so eventually here? M least it ought to be aimed at. Every preventible source of fever is a re proach to the town. From this pond water a specimen was dark-coloured, and yielding a deposit neatly black, offensive in odour, and when distilled with sulphuric acid evolving a gas which threw down a black precipitate from lead salts (iallphuretted hydrogen). One imperial pint contained 14 grs. of solid matter, one-half of which (7grs.) was azotised organic matter, making 56 grs. of azotised (natter in the imperial gallon. I have referred to Birmingham. I bappend to he there lately, and went to look at the worst part of the town. I walked into several of their courts, but I could not detect anything a hundredth part as bad as may be seen in Liverpool streets too numerous to nientioo. There are no cellars at all, angl their courts are open and cleanly. I was struck at the immensity of the difference--no wonder their fever wards are so happily shut up. It is our misfortune to have fever to he cured. I shall resume next week.—l am, sir, &c. G. C. WATSON, M.D. ADVERTISEMENT.] CLAIRVOYAIsCCE AND ITS BLASPHEMY. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Str.,—There appeared in your paper of the we, k before last, an invitation to the public, with c, rtifiratfs from persons well known in this town, to sanction Clairvoyance, and, of course, its blasphemy against God. I am, how. ever, glad to say I have a letter from one the indi viduals, W. B Hodgson, Esq., of t -Mechanics' Institu'ion, denying that he ever aut • rised the Goen nerns to use any certificate from hi,, or that he believes in their absurdities. I , is know • to many that these Goennerns have endeavoured, the metropolis (as tray be seen by Dr. Forbes's,,Tre Ise on Mesmerism), and now perseveringly here, to old forth their attempt to show that they have the ower of God, in foretelling things to come. and ha • . positive infallibility in curing disea.es. God simply Is his creatures that "We know not whit shall be n i he morrow," and that "He will not give his glory • another ;" but these persons hold forth blasphemous that they participate in both these prerogatives of t, e great majesty ..f God alone. It is, therefore, impO ant for the glory of God, that they should go no urther, but that their procuring false certificates, a d other impositions on the public, should be exposed ; • nd, in addition to craving this pubicity at your hands, I challenie them to meet me lace to face, and, with God's help, will bring forth such proof against their wickedness and lying wonders, as will bring these enemies of God to his footstool. I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, THOS. J. HUITON. 50, Bedford-street South, April 23, 1846. CLAIRVOYANCE AND MR. T. J. HUTTON. TO THF, EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In reply to the libellous attack of this indivi dual, in the last Mercury and Mail, I beg to state, that I have never procured, or made use of any false certificate, which I am to prove, if Mr. Hutton will favour me with h ls attendabee at any of my ,siiiiiees which are publicly announced in the newspapers. I deny that Ma dame Goennern ever pretrnded to possess the powr r of "foretelling things to come." Her power is confined merely to medical questions in relation to the cure of diseases. I further beg to rate, that it is my intention to bring the matter before a court of justice, unless he make• a public apology, Hod gives a handsome donation to the charities of Liverpool, as 1 cannot suffer such an attack on .my character to pass without taking the proper means of redress. The whole matter has originated in a spirit of revenge on the part of Mr. Hutton. which I can show by letters which I have now in my possession, be having formerly been under my treatment. I am, Sir, yours obediently,_______ H. N. GbENNERN. 69, Rodney.s►reet, Liverpool. 271 h April, 1846. On Wednesday night, Wainwright ; one of Lord Derby's gamekeepers, was shot at, by, it is Pu p pose d some poachers, on leaving the public-house, Knowsley. A poacher, named Lyon, has been committed for the offence. BAD ITEALTH FOR TWENTY YEARS.—IMMEDIATE RELIEF BY it ot,Lownv's Pict.s.—Extract of a letter from the Rev. George Prior, curate of \4evagh, Letter kenny, Carrigart, Ireland. May 2, 1845:—" To Professor Holloway. Dear Sir,—Within a short distance of my loose resides a small farmer, who for more than 20 years had been in a bad state of health. and never got hut a mo ment's relief. Mr.. Prior procured a box of your Pills for him, which did him so much good that I heard him say that for 26 years previously he never ate his food and jnved it so much as since taking your pills. (Signed,) GEORGE PRIOR•" FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH—for bilious or sick head-ache, indigestion, and for the whole train of symp toms arising from a weak stomach, or vitiated bilious se cretion, are pre-eminet tly successful: for costiveness, either habitual or tempor ,, ry, they are admirable, and for elderly persons will prove the most agreeable medicine that can be taken They are used with the greatest ad vantage by either sex and will, therefi re, prove an excel lent family pill; for, in any case where an aperient medi cine is required, they need only be tried to he universally adopted. Sold by all medicine venders. Price ts per box. See the name of '' Thomas Pront, 229, Strand, London," on the Government stamp. LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND. The following important sentences of Mr. Buchanan's letter, published in the STANDARD of last Tuesday, ap pear to have been omitted in the copy sent ns : " As I took occasion before to explain, I have not per sonally (as a Colonist) any interest, direct or indirect, in timber, my interests in the Colony being based entirely on the success of the emigrant farmer, who, now cast off by England, will, to find a sure and permanently profita ble market for his wheat, be forced to get his produce into the market of New York, which is protected against foreigners by a Corn-law of Bs. per quarter, even if this be at the expense of a political connection with Washing ton. " Under the circumstances in which Canada is spurned by England (and seeing herself sacrificed to please the Republican party of this country), it is my solemn con yictiln that, before many years, we shall see a more bitter feeling against England evinced by the descendants of those who left the old Colonies at the American Revolu tt 4 i o e n i a n t a h na o w s e find among i t yto Eng l and thoses surely wh h bitter t t te e r n ebe e r noug l h l e . d ; and " Let us consider all this in time. " Ir England gives Canada no advantage in wheat. the Canadian farmers, who are the body-politic, and who have no interest in encouraging the timber trade, will impose an export duty on the latter article. " When Canada becomes a part of the United States, this is sure to be done. " They know, though the Manchester political econo mists pretend not eo know, that the Baltic and all otlur foreion wood countries could not furnish much more than one-half what England wants of timber, and that England is not only dependant on British America for the compe tition that reduces prices to the lowest point (these Colo nies furnishing nearly two-thirds the supply). but is DEPENDANT UN BRITISH AMI'.RICA FOR GETTING SUP PLIED AT ALL WITH THIS GREAT NECESSARY." . And again, at the close of the letter : " The retention, after 1848, of the 4s. duty on foreign wheat, would preserve the integrity of the rrnpire, by saving to us the principle of protection to Britioh indus trpat home and abroad. "What. then, must you Colonists think of the honesty of those who pretend to be friends of the Colonies. and will not go even this length to meet your views, and re tain your connection !" While on this suhject, we shall also subjoin the follow ing, communicated by Mr. Buchanan to the Greenock Advertiser, the editor of which, Mr. Scott, was formerly editor of the Montreal Herald:— " I, however, would not consider myself at liberty to encroach on your valuable space at such lergth but from the circumstance of Greenock and the other seaports being so vitally concerned in the decision concerning Frce Trade, not only from their intimate connection taith the Colonial trade and shipping, but from the •r even greater dependence on the coasting trade, which, under Free Trade, foreigners would of coursecome to share with us. " I view the coasting trade as one of our greatest na tional considerations; for while the whole colonial and foreign tradss employ each of them only about two mil lions of tonnage, the coasting trade employs eleven mil lions of tons of shipping. " It would also be very fatal to our seaports if British ships are driven to get their repaits done abroad 'in the cheapest foreign port.' " And as protection to Colonial and British labour is, in truth, hut one question, the reconstruction of the colonial system is as ouch the interest of British shipping, and British industry of every kind, as it is of the producer in the Colony. " British industry is, in fact, more vitally concerned, for Free Trade would not injure Canada as a country, in material prosperity, but only outrage the feelings of her inhabitants, in forcing them into the American Union. "To my mind, therefore, the reconstruction of the Colonial system, on a rational footing, and on the prin ciple of moderate pro•ection, is the most patriot c. and, (l oo ki ng to the dependent situation of our working chissss in Great Britain) I would add, the most humane of public objects. I desire no man to give up his preference for the prin ciple or theory of Free Trade, but in our circumstances I try to show that it would be far more prudent to delay the discussion of out 'and out Free Trade till we see what practical effect on the permanent prosperity of the Country would flow from such measures as the following. I WOULD AT ONCE DO AWAY WITH ALL EXCISE DUTIES AND GIVE A FAIR TRIAL TO THE COLONIZATION SYSTEM OR PRINCIPLE BY ADMITTING DUTY FREE THE SUGAR, SPIRITS, WHEAT, WOOL, Ste. OF THE COLONIES, IN SISTING AT SAME TIME THAT THESE COLONIES RE CIPROCATE THESE PRIVILEGES BY TAKING THEIR EN TIRE SUPPLIES OF GOODS AND PROVISIONS NOT RAISED BY THEMSELVES FROM THIS COUNTRY OR OUR OTHER COLONIES. This is the prin•iple which has worked such wonders in the prosperity of the United States, and why then should we be afraid to adopt it ? " If, for instance, we were thus w restore to British America the supuly of the West Indies with provisions we would create so great arid so permanent a demand for Agricultural labour in Canada, that we could safely send thither each year a hundred thousand, or mole, of our surplus population, who in a few years, would, each man, take six times the value of our home manufactures that the Americans do, or any foreign country can, in the na ture of things, do permanently. "Ott our getting our trade placed on such a footing ( in no way interfei ins; with or cramping foreign trade) depends, I feel convinced, the only chance of our securlng perma nent and large outlets for our enormously increasing pro duction of manufactured goods, and a profitable employ ment for our sailors without reducing them to the wages and fare of foreign countries." NEW ERA IN THE SCIENCE OF COOKERY. There is a somewhat homely proverb which informs is that God sends meat, but another p3wer, which shall be nameless, sends us too frequently the class by whom such meat is prepared for our use. The proverb speaks the truth. The art of cookery in this country is a sadly neg lected one. Our ordinary culinary processes are not only most rude, hilt they are, what is far worse, most wa,teful. We affect a plainness in the national taste, and a contempt of the appliances used by some other na tions for stimulating appetite; and, as the result, it re. quires a great , r quantity, and a better quality of food to support any given number of Englishmen than would be required to support double the number of any other pro- ple. We have for the last few years been endeavouring to supply the deficiency of the supply created by our wastefulness. We have imported the beef and pork of the continent and of America; but we cannot get our po pulation to enjoy it, becsu-e they don't know bow to pre pare it for the table. The average ability of our cooks goes little further than to spoil a surloin, to murder a chop, or to reduce a steak to the condition of a piece of sole• leather. From an opportunity which we had of judging during the past week, we find that we are about to get rid of our wasteful incompetency to make the best use of the bounty which Providence has bestowed upon us. and, whilst increasirig our supply of food by calling in the aid of foreign countries, to adopt more efficacious means than we have hitherto possessed to render that supply available. By the kindn ss of Messrs. Ingleby and Cook, of this town, we were, on Fsiday last, enabled to taste the qua lity of some of their meats prepared for the consumption chiefly of the ,hipping of the port, but eqoally available and economical for that of the family table ; and we must say.t hat, by their peculiar modes of cooking and preser vation, the same qualities of food, which an English housekeeoer would not be able to serve up as a palatable meal, and which, wider the hands of a ship's cook, would be almost uneatable and indigestible, are converted into positive luxuries, whilst the better descriptions of meat— our poultry—cut soups —our game—are supplied at prices, and in a state of perfection, which perfectly astonished us. In particular we were struck wits the quality and tenzlency of their foreign beef it. canisters, which, although sold in a cooked state, with its gravy and juices preserved, at 44.1. per lb., is equal to the best joints which a first-rate English cook, using English beet at 74d. or B.s. per lb., c uld place on the table. A full-sized fowl or capon, roast or boiled, ready to be served up cold, or which a quarter of an hour's immersion in hot water will make ready for a hot dinner or supper, for 2s. 4d., is a moderately cheap luxury. Salmon, if thet-fir.t guilty, mutton, veal, game of every sort, soups, sauces, mid eve rt, k nd of condiment and pickle, are furnisl,ed•at prices, and in a state of per fection 'and preparation for yse, wh ch to us is astonishing, and to the fraternity of cooks may well induce the tear that " Othello's occupation's gone," and that henceforth they are t, be thrown into inn human lurnhpr-memsi ... herd with the old race of rurnspirs. But, although an acquisition to families, and a cenveni ence of no ordinary description, to be enabled to furnish ourselves from such stoics as those of Al , s•r-. Ingleby and Cook, to the mariner it is of inappreciable value. Imagine an Indiaman, visited when just out of the Channel with a gale of wind—his hen coops washed overboard — the ribs of Isis pigs staved in—his cow a ikati cow—•and his cabbages, green peas, asparagus, and artichokes gone overboard to feed the fishes, and the vision held up before his officers and cabin passen gers,,of a weary four months of salt junk—that depressing consideration to all those who go down to the sea in ships. Yell can still open the store-room, and the enterprise of Messrs. Ingleby and Cook supplies you with roa t fowl and boiled fowl, beet as fresh when you are off St. Helena as you tasted before you left the Adeltihi—in short, a Mayor's feast, provided by a Horne or a Latham, with salmon fresh ft orn the Shannon, game from the moors, cream fresh from the cow, when, hut for this triumph of the culinary art, you Might have been glad to diversify your ordinary salt fare with a chance steak from the back of a dolphin, or the♦ not very tender eating to be got from a beguiled shark ! We can afford, however, to be pert ctly serious in corn meeting upon this great enlargement of the comforts aff-rded in life for 13,41 i the land-man and the sailor. It is not a light thing ti, reflect upon the increased cou.fort which skill and enterprise is thus bestowing upon our race—which is annihilating distance and tieu'ralizirig cli mate, by enabling us to sit down to an English dinner, and to enjoy, at a cheap rate, the luxuries of an English hotel, beneath the tropics, or in the antartic. It is not a light thing, either, to he thus able to prove to Englishmen that science can render palatable and nutritious for their use, food which they would reject if left to be prepared by the ordinary and unski ful operations of their present sys tem of cookery. To do this, is effectually to increase the aggregate supply of the means of supporting life, as if we could remove nearer to us the praries of the United States, or the pastures and corn fields of the Ohio. CAUTION TO BOOKSELLERS, &c . —A respectable book seller and stationer, io this town, has had an information laid against him for selling a pack of playing cards with out the spade ace duly stamped; they are of the d. sgrip tion denominated waste-paper, having the corners clipped off. It appears that this is an evasion of the Act of Par liament, and he has been applied to by the solicitor of stamps and taxes for a penalty of ten pounds. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH—FRIDAY. (Sittings in Banco at Wesiminstfr.) POLICY OP INSURANCE-DEVIATION.-OLIVERSON AND ANOTHER V. BR,GHTON AND ANOTHER. This action was brouAt by Messrs. R. and R. Oliver son, insurance brokers, nominel plaintiffs, who effected a policy of insurance on behalf of iSlessrs. Garrett and Co.. in the Marine Insurance Company, upon certain goods shipped on board the Pellane, and destined for China. The action was tried at Liverpool Spring Assizes, 1814, and a verdict taken for the plaintiff for £2872, subject to a special case. Mr. Martin, in applying for the rule, stated the facts as they appeared in evidence, which were in substance to this effect:—That the Plaintiff; shipped their goods on board the Penang for Canton ; that while on the voyage a storm arose, and the vessel and cargo were injured ; that the Penang put into Hong-Kong, and there trans shipped the goods into the .1-tines La , ,g, which the defendants contended was the final port of destination of the 200 bales of R00d,.; but the plaintiff, controded that such could not be the else, inasmuch as that Hong- Kong was then (in June, 1841) but a barren rock, having no warehouses, and only a tew sheds, and that the goods were only transhipped in order to ascertain the extent of the damage they had sustained ; and that Canton was the final port of destination, because it was the final port of sale. The case is one of a rather complicated nature, and involves the consideration of the question as to what was the actual understanding betwren this country and China at the time, or whether England was at open hostilities with the Chinese then. The S - dicitor-G-neral, on behalf of the plaintlf. con tended that Eng was then at open war with China, and that Canton was, at the time of the arrival of the Penang at I-long-Kong, in a state of actual siege by the British lose s, and that tbere'ore the party in charge of the goods did not deem it sate to take them there ; and therefore he hired the James Lang as a receiving ship, and put the goods into her. iie further contended that the policy was so generally worded as to leave optional the port,in China at which the goods were to be landed ; and that the Penang was destined to return to Et , gland with tea, and not to go on to Canton. He further con tended that the James Lang was trot hired as a teceiving ship, which was to convey the goods to some other port, but as a ware ouse for the goods. Mr. Martin w s theti heard in reply, and Toe Court decided that the I:eneral terms of the policy being "to a port in the Chinese seas," covered the devia tion under the peculiar circumstances ; also, that the vessel was by the terms of the policy entitled to unload and reship these goods, if necessary, on her way to the final port of delivery. A similar case, " B tld and another v Rt thethatn," occupied the Court during the greater part of the remain der of the day. Arthur Piggott Fletcher, Esq., cf this town, has been admitted by the Lord Chancellor as a master extra ordinary in Chancery. In the Court of Exchequer, on Thursday, a new trial was refused in the case of Gado-re°le v. M tall, for a libel in tiie Nunconformrst. The reader will recollect that the darna , es were .1:2‘10, in the general estimation most ex cessive. CLARKE v. TIPPING.—Lord Langdale, in the Rolls Court, gave judgment in this cause. in which the plaintiff was the consigner of corn, grain, &c., from Carlow. in Ireland, to the defendant a , Liverpool as his factor. His Lordship said the plaintiff had a right to hate the ac counts duly taken from the beginning. The Vice-Chancellor, on Thursday. disso'.ved the in junction previously granted, to restrain Mr. Henry Smith from pirating or singing several songs of Mr. Henry Russell, so far as the music of the songs said to have been composed by Auber and Strauss was concerned; and as to the rest, the plaintiff is at liberty to bring an action at law, if advised. In the Court of Exchequ'-r, last week, on the motion of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. a rule nisi w s granted for a new trial in a breach of promise of marriage case, one of the grounds for which was stated to be that the defendant had at the trial promised to marry the pl.int•ff. The court observed that perhaps further argue ent might be rendered unnecessary to make the rule absolute, as the parties might, in the meantime, come together:it'd marry. An action was I 'tely tried at Shrewsbury, which was brought by a Mr. Price against Ar.Dotinell, an innkeeper at Cleobury M‘rrtimer, .. , hropshire, to reenTer compensa tion for injury sustained by the plaintiff from the defend ant's reiusal to provide him vv,th accommodation when requested so to do. He bad omlted to bring his horse and gig with him. Verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. da mages. The case of the Scotch church at Birkenhead was be fore the Vice-Chancellor, on Wednesday. His honor, with reference to an oljection raised on the part of the Rev. Mr. Gamler, the rietei.dant, that all the subscribers to the charity, and not merely the treasurer and trr.srees, and a few of the subscribers, ought to have been made parties to the suit, said he would not decide the pint un til the hearing of the cause generally. COLYLTAS v. Bowl s.—A " Rule Nisi " has been for a new trial in this case, which was an action brought by the plaintiff (an old servan► of the de end ant's). who is a clergyman, to recover compensation in d4maces for alleged acts of adultery ai , h plaintiff's wits. The case was tried at the last assizes held at Bedford, when the jury !eturneil a verdict in favour of the plaintiff—da mages £2OO. The defendant is 70 years of agr, and plaintiff's wife 54. , s r o yN l i v ur e n. d d • er Barst ow, iki in The the BAIL Coeu.T.—On the ] 7th instant, a Mr. Erlam obtained a verdict of £lOO against two attornies, named Davis and Winter, out of 1.275 which be had paid them on account of 800 guineas, the price of the secretaryship to the Dieppe and Paris Railway, which he was to obtain from their hands, at a salary of .£4OO per annum. The defendants had no authority to sell the o ffi ce ; the con cession aatissdee plaintiff,t ooi h tinf e i I,c.a w woEn t ußi l iaoo, Bail compliance Court,nni stc n , Egecrteawahi grandfather tdoFh h pfnea a l aart d Trii e, eh b e, rtruersi peremptory in, nos Thursday, kot i y, trial, in of the French government had never been obtained, o t o : h e s H a vsfi Smith r gi t j d r: g pc n l grit eite asp r oceeded itno rt breach h d o c f o p u r n o s m el is s e ai o d f this was an action brought by the against the the celebrated action n r o e b e l o e , e t - 1 i ! t i e h s i e d rin u t in for £lOO, money alleged to have been lent to his lordship. Rule granted. Mr. li.Ao.na Browne, Browne, am o em f bßerrnowfntF hall,lrishh.e son n at the Cornmi-sion C our t, bar, and the Galway, was Dublin. Mr. Browne paid lis addresses to Mi-s Copla n d, tried of Colonel col week for bigamy, - the daughter of Mr. Charles Copland, nian;:g-r of the royal bank ; and on the sth of November last year they were married. During the winter, a person calling herself Mary Downes, threw the Copland family into consterna tion by representing that she had been married to Mr. Browne in June, 1842. The truth of this allreation was established on the trial. The marriage had taken place when Mr. Browne wanted some months of legal age; the bride was one of his father's servants. Verdict, guilty— sentence, seven years' transportation. SENTENCE UN A BARRISTER FOR FORGERY.—At the Dublin Commission Court, on Friday, Mr. John Sarjeant was put forward to receive sent, nee. He had been convicted of forging a bill of exchange, purporting to be the draft of Gt•neral Saunders. Mr. Surjeant, who is a barrister. had been agent to the general, who died since the period wben the case had cone before the primary tribunal, where the case had been at the instance of the deceased general. Baton Richards, in passing sentei ce upon this gentleman. said, "Had you been eon. vicled of a similar offence previous to the wise and mer ciful relaxation of the criminal laws, you would be standing re to receive sentence of death, instead of that which the court has now to pronounce against you." The learned judge then pronounced against the convict sentence of transportation for seven years. A fact in re ference to this person may not be deemed out of' place here. It appears that in the year 1821 he was convicted , of forgery, and wits under sentence of tran-portation when George the Fourth was in Ireland. On the oc casion of his Majesty's departure from Kingstown Har bour. and while the royal barge was getting under weigh, amid the acclamations of the assembled mill - nude, a re spectably-attired female with a paper in her band dashed wildly into the water in the hope of reaching the barge. The Kit g exclaimed, "Oh tare the woman ! Sa re her On being taken ashore she w.:s discovered to be the wife of Sarjearit ; the paper, a petition to the King to pardon her husband. His Msjes:y was so much affected by the circumstance that be at once eranted an unlimited pardon to him ; and now, after a la, se of 25 years, be is again convicted of a similar crime. EXTRAORDINARY CASII.--Mrs. Mary Jane Scott. the lady who was on trial, in Dublin, during the en ire of the week be fore last, and who was acquitted upon an indict ment charging het with marrying Anthony Galway, in 1828. her former husband, James Carter. being rl ce, was on Tuesday again placed at the bar, and indicted for mar rying Mr. John Binden Scott, of Cahircon, in the county of Clare, the same Carter being alive. This case, which is now finally disposed of, is pethaps one of the most ex traordinary bigamy cases upon record. It appeared that, in the year. 1813, Mrs.. Scott married a. pirson named James Carter, in Letter kenney, in the county el Donegal; in the year .1821 married a Mr. Anthony Galway, Carter being then alive ; and in the year 1833 married Mr. Scott, both Carter and Galway being alive. Shortly after the last marriage she was indicted for marring Scott, Galway being then alive, and was then acquitted, by prov ing that Carter was, in point of fact, lning ; and on Sa turday she was again acquitted upon an indictment charg ing her with marrying Galway. Carter being alive, by proving the illegality Or Carter's marriage, it having been celebrated by a Presbyterian cle gyrnan, arid one of the parties being an Episcopalian Protestant. The ca-e came before the court upon an application for a postponement of the trial until nest commission. on behalf of the prose cution. but it was opposed by the traverser's counsel, on the ground that the evidence in bath cases as to religion was similar, and that the case should not be postponed to enable parties to obtain evidence which. they bad years to collect. The Court was in favour of the objection, and accordingly the traverser was arraigned in the usual form, and acquitted for the third and last time, no evidence hav ing been offered for the prosecution. The acquittal was grounded upon the law in the celebrated Presbyterian marriage case of "the Queen a. Mills," which was de. aded by the House of Lords a couple of years since, and upon which the late Irish Marriage Act was passed. AFFAIR OF HONOUR IN DUBLIN.—Mr. Butt, the counsel in the extraordinary trial of Mrs. Scott, for bigamy, which is noticed in another column, has been challenged to a hostile meeting by Mr. Jackson, an attorney, who considered himself insulted by some ex pressions used respecting himself, in Mr. Butt's speech. Mr. Butt, however, has declined the meeting, on the ground of professional privilege, and that he was ut only r discharging his pr o f es sion a l duty. To-day, the C • of Queen's Bench will be moved for a conch tional order to fill a criminal information against Mr. Jackson.