Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-22 00:00:00

doixtfturciar sgts. THIS DAY THIS DAY, the 22nd instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the 1,277 Casks EARTH OIL, ez Bonita. —Apply to DAVIES, SYERS, and Co. Brokers, No. 2, Lancaster-buildings. Tnis DAY, the 22nd instant, at Half-oast One o'clock, at the Broker's Office, Corn Exchange-buildings, Brunswick-street, 92 Sacks Heated Irish Superfine FLOUR, ex Cherub ; lying in liateson's warehouse, Drury -lane. 60 Quarters Damaged Egyptian WHEAT, ex Quay, Stanley Dock.—Apply to H. 11. GOLDING, Vrciker TO AGRICULTURISTS AND OTHERS. Postponed from Friday, the 18th instant, until Puss DAY, the 22nd inst.tnt,. at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, i 3, Exchange-buildings, 607 Bags C PUMICE, Just landed ex De Witt Clinco - _, from New York. Of this article, Mr. Johnson, Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, Yale College, U.S., writes from the analysis (which can be had on application) ;—" We may pronounce the Castor Pumice a mP;st valuable fertiliser, fully equal to the average qualities of Linseed and Rape Cakes, which have long held a high rank as manures in England and Germany: Its value as a concentrated fertiliser depends chiefly upon the two ingredients, Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen, the latter of which passes into Ammonia as the pumice decays. Like Guano, and other Ammonia yielding manures it is of a quick and stimulating character, and may be used to great advantage, either as a direct application, .or in the preparation of composts with swamp manure, Ste., &c."—Apply to Messrs. Maclean, Maris, and Co., Merchants; or to J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. DAY, the 22nd instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 10, Exchange-buildings, 500 Tons Kooria- - Moolia GUANO, ex Ingleboro.—Apply to Messrs. H. and J. Hornby and Co., Merchants ; or to j. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokert... :Tens DAY, the 22nd instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' °face, 16, Exchange-buildings, 280 Tens Kooria-Mooria GUANO, ace.—Apply to Messrs. Lamport and Holt, Merchants; or J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. THIS DAY, t lielf-past One o'el3ek, at the 0, FenvViek-street, ks French FLOUR (all fa se, No. 4, Lydia Ann-stye ,GE H. IRELAND, lirok( TO-MORROW. Valentia ORANGES, ex Tuna (s.s. , ex Beaver (s.s.), -Boxes Gibraltar LEMONS,. et Crimean Naples (I RANGES, 500 , 31, ExaNs: „ ex Expre: ex Taurus 100 „ Bilbae - CRESN U 100 „ Para NUTS, 1 SON, Broke: To-MO jug :landed ex Bleugg, Braun, Apply•to On Ti t B o,Tfi 100 BOxes Oki Tuiolity FIGS. Apply to GEO. BAIANACII a Apply to TiItRSDAY Bags PI On TORSD*Y-nett, the 24th instant Brokers' Offlet 7W-Br.gs fine Bombay 1111_1 3 ESEED, 190 ~ MUSTARDSEED. nd 13. LITTLEDALT Apply to On Tntmsniv 3ommer 34 Can Lndihg'-ex NEXT WEEK )W, the 23rd instant, at One o'clodg, at 13, Exchangt-buildings, 200 Bales 'of Strat COTTON. , - T. and 11 . LITTLEDALE and Co., Brokers -,w, , the 23rd instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Public Saleroom, Exchange-builddigs, 720 Bates GAMBIER, 1,200 Bags SAGO FLOUR, kontmorenef.—Apply to T. and 11. LITTLEDALE s.e 1 Co., Brokers Egnmt nest, the 24th instant, at Clic o'clock, at the Brokers' Offle-", 16, Exchange-buildings, INDIA RUBBER, Para.—Apply to 'Messrs. Drake Apply to Messrs J. H. BA;"ZNER & Co., Brokers, Twelve o'clock, st the d Co., Brokers. • 24th . inatant, at Twelve o'clock,!:n the .), from Oporto. —Apply to GEO. BADLNACII and SON, Brckers 28th instant, at Twelve o'cleek, at 0/kMo7m.Ay next, the Attaut 92 Dozen Bottles Mango CHUTNEY, 7 Of „ PICKLES, „ 24 „ , - "Tarry POWDER, „ 23 Bottles 7 M:iced Mango FRUIT. BROWNE, HUNTER, and C 0.69 AFTER NEXT MONTH MY, the 7th April next, at Twelve o'clock, at the Public Salm:rout, Exchange-buildings, 300 Claests‘l3engal INDIGO, Apply to Neon's. Thom& now laniting.tw t consumers and corf! an tiolin Brocklebank letehairis ; or to - - C. and IL SITTLEDAI,E and Co., Brokers ABNER STETSON; .FROM NEW ORLEANS ). E. Platenius, of New Orlear of above Cotton 9te hereb; nfornied kaglieen warehoused. and days from date, be sold to -414) 1 5" to _ _ rill, unless claimed within Fourte€ le ray freight and other charges.- MAKER, BARRON and Co.. February, 1859. 32, Tower-build xz 2iti.e. BANK CASTLI DERBY-SQUARE LI V•XRPOOL Black, Bright, and ( TELEGRAPHAWIRE and SIGNAL COED Whale 3al CAMERON UTACTURER A CEIRONOHETER rD OPTICIAN, 54, SO,I7TH MARINE EALE- STREET, LITEILPOOL. CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVERWATCHES, SEXTANTS, QUARPANTS; BABOXETERS; TELESCOPES, 4-c CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS 'STORY 11 Every So OF THE WORKING :GLASSES, irdaS i lll4ti, NORTHERN DAMN' T. 7741 Es, Price One l'cnl,: frw Aßm TER c!,orEE T" G E E N'S OUTFITTING 4 AND -.2 POLDSTRI P. L. M. ER COATS, IIVERS N-D VESTS FANCY FUNNEL SHIRTS. .11:WAY RUGS :AND • PLAIDS. . MUFFLERS AND . gCARFS. MLNNELS AND ELANKETS VTIATT CLOTI112! TO CORRESPONDENTS Under no cirmnotances can ,we .12tsert acc4:npanied laz,the author's real t sari for puhlicetion, . The nete of " Spectator" declined, in ed adar4.B e and address. not of good faith s received., but its publicagqr was fence of his still withholding his name; and AM USEIIZNTS, MEETIWS, &c.—THIS DAY. THEictitt ItoyAL—Aii. and Mrs. Ciarles Mathews. ROYAL A..aPor ruß , Tlitt—Sir Wm. and LEdy Don. I m IENG L' Ea'a en " u n , I ZARlETE—Miscellaneous Attractions AHE ARPTAN GALt.I4, or ANATOKYe Paradise-street. , XANDE I 4 ,S ` MEN AGE. 4, - Foot o f Sh aw ' E 4 row. or particilt.r s see advertise4cents on Bth pag --...... ,11.M.111MM1MM0N•a211111011 ' qL4 . -h attlitru - 11tf'1,‘ .7774bSDAY, 17,7,,TRUAR1 .22, 1659 THE DAN'S NEWS _ . The India and China mails hay ved Alexandria. The dates ? from C a l cu t ta ar-- at t a o r t e h to the 28th of January, and from Hong K ong The retleels had, it is reported, made another lath. attempt to enter Rohilcund from Nepali:, bunotth it er was unsuccessful, and they we re terribly cut up by Her Majesty `.s 42nd Regiment. The 'reports of the Calcutta Import Market are favo4zrable, showing that a very. active laisiness was going forward. There had been an improvement in freights, and exchange Du },:ngland was quoted at 2s. Old. The -adviees from China report thf3 ic turn of Lord Elgin to •Shanghai, on the fird of January. Some attackS having been made upon. Europeans outside the city of Canton, a small 0014bined naval and land force. was despatched on the Bth of January to the spot, when the enemy was routed, andia small village destroyed. It Was said that the diiturbance - had been instigated by by the Imp er i a l Govertment, Tradelvas dull o`i, Hong Kong, but active at Shanxi, wiierd there was a good demand for all imports, except metals. Exchange had declined to 6s 4d for Bank-bills. The price of Tea had advanced at all the ports, and there was a reported decrease in the expor+ A of 2,500,0001b5. "At Shanghai Siks had adva-,, eo d in price. At Foo-choo there was a ness going on in Tea. The Bombay mrls of the 25th January, and the Calcutta mail of the 14th of January, via Marseilles, wr..,re delivered in London yesterday. The P.,omby correspondent of the Times says, that tte reduction of Oude sets free a number of regiments. one 80th is already in part at Cawa - pore, and the whole regiment will soon be • concentrated there, eight regiments will be sent home, four Itf the miiitary train. The nth, 32nd, 64th, ?..nd 'nth are already officially Mider orders for Eurore. The accounts of the attack on Colonel Campbell's force, by 3,000 Rohillas, is not very complete. Brigadier Hills, who was encalnped within four miles of the scene of this suprise, sent up a detachment of his brigade, and Colonel Ctanpbell who then attacked the rebels. In the engagement, one British oflizer, M‘Kinnon, , 3rd Regiment Hydra bad Infantry, is reported killed. Two other officers were wounded, one mortally. 250 of the enemy were left dead on the field. One account says that our forces were obliged to retire. The Roiiillas subsequently disbanded. Letters received from St. Petersburgh, and dated the '2oth inst., deny that up to the present time any movement of troops to Poland has taken flace, and it is confide n tly a dd e d, t h at none o f t h e ortresses have been armed. It is however stated, .a.s a fact, that all sailors and marines on leave received orders to hold themselves in readiness in case they should be required. The soldiers on furlough were about to receive intimation The official correspondence respecting the Charles-et-Georges affair has been published ; it comprises 67 despatches. It shews that Lord Malmesbury directed the Admiralty to send a small force to the Tagus to watch the Fren c h squadron. His Lordship also pointed out lo the Duke of Malakoff the great danger to which any state departing from the concilatory protocol of Paris,; and acting hastily against another'power, under the impression of being wronged, must expose the peace of Europe. The Independeitee Beige is informed from Paris, that Lord Cowley has remitted.to Count Walewski a diplomatic note on the Italian question. The English Cabinet is of , opinion that all diffi oulties might and ought to be settled by diplo matic means. The Emperor's speech has .not been published in 'the official journal of Rome. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News asserts, that Russia has intimated her determina tion to resist any attempt to prevent the union of the Principalities, by force. • The Neapolitan exiles left Cadiz on Saturday, on board an American frigate. The correspondet of the Times says, that the object of the French Ambassador at Turin in coming to Paris is, to take the Emperor's last in structions on the question with Piedmont, where people are getting impatient and perhaps sus picious. - In the House of Lords, last night, Lord Derby stated that Sir Hugh,Storks the newly appointed Lord High Commissioner Of the lonian Islands, had arrived at Corfu, and that Mr. Gladstone had already taken his departure for England. The discussion upon lonian matters was conse quently postponed until the Ist of March. In the House of Commons, Mr. Walpole introduced his Church Rates Bill, by the provisions of which he considers the charact er o f th e ra t e would be changed from a compulsory to a voluntary one. Sir J. Trelawney demanded for his Bill a formal second reading. Yesterday, an important and influential meeting Was held at the Clarendon-rooms, the object being the establishment of an I n f an t Orphan Asylum. Some £7,000 are .required for the purpose, 14,000 of which has already been subscribed. The meet ing was very numerous, and a provisional com mittee was appointed. Samuel Holm(); •Esq., presided, and the Rev. Dr. McNeile, Archdeacon Jones, &c., were the chief speakers. At an adjourned meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners held yesterday, a petition was adopted against the Mersey. Dock BilL The grounds of the opposition are, that the Birkenhead docks, if completed by the Dock Board and Cor poration, would be sufficient t o mee t th e wants of dock accommodation. A second petition against the Wirral Waterworks Company's Bill was also adopted. Sir J.. W. Rawsden was, yesterday, elected a member of Parliament for the West Riding of Yorkshire, without opposition. OUR:RAILWAY WARS WHEN we wrote a brief article, the other day, about our Railway system, we called that which has been so ruinous .to many a Company conyeti- —the act of endeavouring to gain what another is endeavouring to gain at the same time And this, on as a contest— whin carried of opposition, and .with the object of -in a spirit injuring a rival Company, without benefiting, but rather, at the same time, damaging their own—this, we say, thus conceived, and thus pursued, were surely bad enough. .But we had not, it seems, after all, stigmatised it so strongly as we might have done, or as we now-have most respectable Railway autho rity for doing. Competi4fon is a mild term as com- pared with that of war,--and this is the word, it ap pears, which we ought to have used. At the half yearly meeting of the . Great Northern Railway, which was reported in our issue of yesterday, the question of competition was clearly considered •as one of war; and one of the shareholders did not hesitate to say, that he " held the Chairman responsible .fore the warkre which the Com- piny had carried on he actuttilN complained that the ilinz. gentleman managed the affairs of .The Company very much in the same spirit, and upon the same principle, as the Emperor of the French governed France," and he went on to declare, it Amild be seen, that "pea,ee or war rested with the ,Chairman " This great functionary, -then, he is totil to his face, has imperial dominion. His is not a limited, but an absolute Monarchy. Oar gracious Sovereign the Queen cannot levy war without the concurrence of her faithful Commons., because with them it rests to grant or withhold the necesizry- supplies. This is one of the wise previsions of .the British Constitution. But a Railway King —that is the :Chairman of a Railway Cosapany—ha/ no such -check or control to contend with :. he has the supplies continually pouring in to his Ex4equer, and can appropriate them as he gisteth. This particular potentate, it is true, has lately. been striving to pursue a more paec policy than formerly ; an d ano th er o f th e s h are h o ld ers , th ere fore, very generously declared, that ;' he was to . be commended for bringing to a close the reckless ' competition which had for some time prevailed.' The Chairman himself was frank enough, at length, to acknowledge, that " if they could only, a co u n t t h in e ue sh a a t r peacee h o l d e theyy:av n o u l a d s s s u e r c a u n r c e e p o r f o s t p h e e r i ttyr truth of which there can tic no doubt whatever, whether as respects this or any other Railway that has any fair amount of traffic. This • ery Chairman, indeed, proclaimed a general conentren • ce sucliAt conclusion, declaring, as he did, that " good judges were of opinion •, that if Railway Companies generally would avoid great expenditure and competition, the trade of the country would rapidly run up, and all Railway pro perty in the country become remunerative." No doubt this opinion has not been arrived at without a pretty costly experience of the ruinous extrava gance of the competitive or war policy ; and this may account also for the earnestness with which the same worthy Chairman assured the meeting, that "he and his co-directors had, always been ready to promote peace with their competitors," and the expression of pleasure with which he com municated to them, " that by friendly conference between the directors of the London and North Western, the Manchester,•Sheffield, and . Lincoln shire, and the Great Northern Companies,. and aided by the advice,of their general manager, the unfortunate competition between Lancashire and London was brought to a close in November last." We only wish that all the other " unfortunate competitions " could also be brought to a close. And we say this with a thorough • conviction, that it is not for 'the interest of the public, any more than of Railway proprietories, that these " unfor tunate competitions " should be carried on. They are unfortunate for the country, as well as the Companies themselves ; because they involve a wasteful expenditure. War can never really be profitable to any body. For war, in whatever it is carried on, has in it a spirit of violence and injustice ; and even when it is waged between Railway Companies, it is apt to resist the rules of moral obligation. A wholesome competition is quite a different thing—where competition can really be wholesome. But whatever the public may temporarily gain by any other kind of com petition, since capital is wasted by it the public themselves must in the end be sufferers. AORITRitN `,LILIES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2'2, 1.89 OPPRESSIONS OF . THE PRESS If it be a national blessing to have the people intelligent and well-informed —and no one, at this time of day, we think, will deny that it is----then is the Press eminently entitled to be regarded as a national benefactor. We say nothing of it now as to its liberty—as that which constitutes what haS been so 'truly described, as " the pallathum of all, the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman." We speak of it at present as the great public instructor that it is, in a general and comprehensive point of view. The civilised world has grown old enough to know, that it is of pri mary importance to the best interests of society, to promote a general diffusion of knowledge. Public opinion, to be beneficial, must be enlightened ; and it is by this means that it is to become' so. Not that knowledge; more particularly popular knowledge, is to be , understood as comprising all that is contained in the large term of education, which, to be real and effectual, must have regard to the disciplining of the feelings, the restraining of 'the passions, the inspiration of worthy motives, and the inculcation of pure religion and morality. But •knowledge is an essential element in the accom plishment of all this. And in every • part Of the process, from the beginning to the end, the Press is a powerful, an indispensable means of giving pra.e- tical,effect to it -Now if this be so —and that it is, can scarely be questioned—it certainly can never be just or reasonable, or otherwise, in fact, than most inju- nions, to .oppress such an, instrumentality ; rather must it be the part of true wisdom and benevo lence to . encourage and enforce it. Yet it used not so to be considered. The policy of former times was to hamper, and harass, and obstruct the Press, in every conceivable way—more especially the newspaper Press. There are statutes still in ex istence, if not in force, the object of which was precisely of that kind. Whigs and Tories alike .e afraid of the Press, just because they were afraid of the truths it disclosed, and of the intelli gence . it diffused. Their deeds, if not positively evil, were at least not really good, and therefore they stood. in dread of the light which the Press shed abroad. The Stamp-Office restrictions upon it were, many of them, imposed as obstacles to the free action .of so powerful, and, as such politicians used secretly to think, so dangerous an engine. And publishers had, as it were, to be •licensed ere they dared to set to work to enlighten the public with intelligence, or instruct it with knowledge. But, as MILTON has observed, in his Essay on Unlicensed ,Printing, " truth and understanding are Rot stich . wares as to be monopolised and traded in by tickets, .and statutes, and standards. We must not, he _continues, " think to make a staple commodity of the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it - like our broad cloth and our woc but a What is it," he asks servitude like that imposed by the Philistines, not to be allowed the sharpening of our own axes ,and coulters, but we must repair 'from licensing forges ?" A all quarters to twenty servitude, and a base and a baneful one, it .cer- And one's wonder is, that our statute book should yet be encumbered and disgraced 'by [enactments for still enforcing it ; although a Bill has now at length been. brought in, in the House of Commons, to - repeal -them. Then there is the Paper Duty oppression and obstruction it is to the Press, in its work of conveying intelligeree, and furnishing inKtruetion, to the masses of ;the people. It first oppresses and obstructs the ;Paper-maker, who may be ,considered as an integral portion of the great instrumental agency of the Press, in its comprehmsive character, and its ; practical influ ences. It is an impost which, by placing him under the regulations of the Excise, subjects him to severe hindrances and vexatious annoyances, in the prosecution of his trade; and thereby, as well as by the tax itself, has the effect of raising the price of that indispensable commodity. The printers of cheap publications—the proprietors cheap newspapers, and other popular periodicals, more especially—experience it as a clog upon all their efforts to provide information and instruction which shall be .accessible to the great .body of the people. Such information and instruction cannot but be most conducive to the interests of the whole It cannot but have a very powerful. i tainly was. community See what at effect in enlightening that public opinion which, after all, is the great governing principle in our political institutions now-a-days. It is therefore, as a national influence, entitled to a nation's regard. Everything should be done to improve, and encourage, and promote the success of the means of diffusing such an influence among all classes of the people. But the Paper Duty, we repeat, has a directly Contrary . - effect. It is felt, and severely felt, as an Obstruction and an op pression. The effort to repeal the statutes which would subject the Press to the Stamp-office and other oppressions, to which we have alluded, will no doubt'be successful—if only because it is admitted on all hands to be unwise to retain enactments, which no law-officer of the Crown would dare to put in force. But the Paper Dtity is an infinitely, greater practical grievance than all those enact ments put together, even could they be enforbed ever so readily. The Paper Duty is to the Press a real and very grievous oppression, and especially to that large and influential portion of the Press which may, be said more particularly designed for the people to be It is an oppression, a most grievous oppression, to those who are making often the most praisewOrthy exertions to circulate important intelligence, and the most useful information generally, among those who, but for a cheap Press, would be utterly deprived of so great an advantage and it is an oppression to the people themselves, against whose interests, as the principal supporters, after all, of the cheap Press, it in many ways militates so injuriously THE .LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASSOCIATION. A special meeting of the trustees and committee of the Liverpool Licensed Victuallers' Association was held yesterday, at which the following resolutions on dock rating were unanimously adopted :—" 1. That property of every, description should contribute a fair proportion towards iocal taxation, and that the exemption from rating hitherto enjoyed by the Liverpool dock estate,-is partial and unjust. 2. That this committee, representing a very numerous body of large ratepayers, use every means in their power to forward the Local Bill now before Parlia ment, and request the co-operation of those members who have rendered their valuable services in times past. 3. That the secretary be now instructed to communicate with the different members of Parliament, with the least possible delay, conveying a copy of the foregoing reso- lutions THE COURT The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday evening at Byckingham Palace. The company included the Princess Alice and the Duke of Cambridge, the French Ambassa dor and the Duchess of Malakhoff, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, the Earl and Countess of Derby, Lord and Lady Cranworth, Lord Lyons, Colonel the Right Hon. Cecil Foresler, and the Equerry in Waiting to the Duke of Cambridge. The Prince Consort presided on Saturday morning at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. His Royal Highness, attended by Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, arrived at the Palace of Westminster at eleven o'clock. The Commissioners present were—The Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Overstone, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart., the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart., Sir Charles Barry, Sir William Cubitt, Sir Charles.,Eastlake, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Bazley, M.P., Mr. Coulson, Q.C., Dilke, Mr.. Joseph Locke, M.P., Mr T. P. Gibson, and Mr. Gott. Mr. Edgar Bowring, Secretary to the Royal Commission, was in attendance. The meeting broke up at half-past two o'clock. Prince Leopold visited the Zoological Gardeni in the Regent's Park. On Sunday the Queen and Prince Consort, the Prin cesses Alice and Helena, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the Damestic Household, attended Divine Service in the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Bishop of London preached the sermon. Despatches were sent from the :Colonial-office on Saturday to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong-Kong, the Mauritius, and Labuan. His Excellency Lord Lyons will embark this week from Liverpool for America, .to succeed Lord Napier, as British Minister at Washington. TIIE WooLskex..—Should Lord Chelmsfoi:d retire from the woolsack, to take his seat on the bench as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, it is expected that Lord Kingsdown will be his successor. COAST GUARD APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant John G. Boileau (18:51), who has served as chief officer at Fair light, Hastings, since February, 1858, has been removed to. Greystanes, Delgany, County Wicklow ; Mr. , John Mullins to Crookhaven, instead of Ballycotton; and Mr. John Town to Bonmahon, instead of - Ballygeary. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the Fellows of this society took place on Friday last, at their apartmentslat Somerset House, for the election of . officers and other business. The Wollaston Medal was awarded to Mr. Darwin, and the proceeds given to Mr. Peach. On the following day the Fellows and their friends, to the number of 70, dined at the Freemas o n s ' Tavern. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF SANDIVICH.—Lady S iud 7 with died at an early hour - on Sunday _morning, at the family - residence in Curzon-street, May-fair. She died after a :very short illness ; indeed, it.thay_be said of only a few hours, for she was engaged to dine with th e Duchess of Cambridge o n Saturday evening. The de ceased countess was the second daughter of the late Field-Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey, by his second marriage with Lady Charlotte Cadogan. Her ladyship was born on the 16th of June; 1812, and married on the 6th of September, 1838, to the Earl of Sandwich, by whom her-ladyship leaves a numerous family. ' MUNIFICENT DeNkrioN.—Miss Atherton, of liersall Castle,,near Manchester (a descendant of the well-known Dr, Byrom), has made a donation of £5,000 to the Man chester nagged and Industrial Schools, expressing a de sire that the money may be applied . more particularly towards that branch of the institution which affects " the education and moral training of vagrant, destitute, rand disorderly children:" After ,paying off the debt, this donatiOn will leave £3,000 for investment. A portion of the building is to be named the Byrom Wing, in honour of Miss Atherton's family. . APPREHENSION OF A MILITARY OFFICER FOR STEAL ING A SOVERElGN.—Considerable excitement prevailed on Saturday at the head-quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Brompton Barracks, on account of Lieut. A. F. Baillie, an officer of the Indian Engineers, being placed under arrest, by command of Colonel Sandhani, on the charge of stealing a sovereign belonging to Lieut. T. C. Manderson also an officer of Indian Engineers. The latter officer having at various times been robbed of money by some person entering his quarters, he was advised to, lay a trap .to catch the offender. He therefore marked a sovereign, which very soon disappeared. The police kept watch, and on Friday eveEing the prisoner sent his servant out with five sovereigns to Mr. Burfield's, ' grocer, High-street, Brompton, for a £5 Bank of England note for the gold. On examining the sovereigns, the one marked by Lieutenant Manderson was found among the givers five. The circumstance was immediately brought under the notice of the commanding officer, and Baillie was apprehended on the charge of robbery Information of the prisoner's apprehension , has been sent to the Horse Guards, to ascertain what his Royal High ,ness the Duke of Cambridge will .do in the matter. LITERATURE, THE PROBLEM OF SQUARING TUE CIRCLE : OR TAE TRUE CIRCUMFERENCE AND AREA OF TIIE CIRCLE DISCOVERED. By James Smith. Lsndon : Longman and C 0..; Liverpool : Howell. The author of this little work .(who is a neighbour, being a resident of Seaforth) is persuaded that he has discovered the solution of the great problem set forth in its title-page., as given above. He has never, he says, gone through a regular course .of mathematics, and can make no pretensions to deep mathe matical knowledge ; and yet has he succeeded, he believes, in solving that difficult question, to his own mind so clearly and distinctly, that he could not resist the desire to make it known to the world. W e cannot go through the details of his process, by which, as he exultingly declares, the secret whieh h as b een bid for ages is now revealed." But the result is thug The 7 . atio between an area of a. circle whose diameter is unity, is as 64 to 50. The circumference of the circle : o4oBe diameter is _unity is 3'lo, and its are '78125." It will of course be fo r our giathematicli Professors to set him right, if be i [$ wrong, LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. AMERICAN MAILS. —The Screw. Steamer North Briton will sail for Portland to-morrow ( Wednesday,) with the semi-weekly Mails for Canada and the United States. RUN OVER.—James Singleton, a labourer, residing in Clement-street, was run over by a spring cart yesterday in Castle-street, and sustained a contusion of the hip and thigh. OCEAN STEAMERS.—The British Queen sailed for Rarve yesterday, and amongst the arrivals we notice the Crimean from Alexandria ; Calpe from Lisbon ; ,and the Albanian from Venice. DROWNED AT SEA.—ltichard Dick, a seaman on board the Mary Hammond, from Savannah to Liverpool, was engaged in reefing topsails on the 23rd January, when he fell overboard, and was drowned. RETIREMENT OF DR. HOOK FROM LEEDS.—The Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds, has been appointed to the Deanery of Chichester, and has signified his intention of accepting the office.---Leeds Express, Evening Edition. DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN'S INSTITUTION. The annual meeting of this institution will be held on Tues day, the Ist proximo, at the Savings Bank, Bold-street. The chair will be taken, at two o'clock, by the Venerable Archdeacon Jones. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a man named John Fallows, residing at 46, Gloucester-street, fell down a flight of stairs in a building in Water-street, and sustained a compound fracture of the. skull. He was removed to the Northern-hospital, but never spoke, and died shortly after four o'clock last evening. MAILS FOR THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.—The screw steamer Armenian, will sail for the West Coast of Africa on Thursday. The box at the Post-office will close at 11, and finally at 12, and with late' fee, on the landing stage, letters will be received up t o one o ' c l oc k o f that day. Loss OF AN ENGLISH SHIP BY FlRE.—Advices received from Pernambnco inform us of the destruction by fire of the Glentill, of' Cardiff. She took fire about 25 miles off Rio Grande-del-Norte, she was run into Grande and sunk. Part of her crew had arrived at Pernambuco previous to,the 18th of January. • LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—The fort nightly meeting of this society was held in the Royal Institution last night. The Rev. H. H. Higgins pre sided. After some miscellaneous communications had been made, the paper for the evening was read by Mr: Keith. It was entitled " The past, present, and future of PhotosT . lphy." THE W ATER COMMITTEE.—This committee could not raise' a quorum -five—yesterday, and therefore no busi ness was transacted. The chairman, Mr. L. Hodson, and Messrs: Ryley, Woodruff, and Stitt, were in attendance ; but, after waiting some time for the " coming man," they separated The chairman intimated that there was no pressing business, nor anything that need cause anxiety in being held over. PUTTING MR. BLUCK ON HIS METAL.—At the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Mansfield, in the case of a marine store-dealer, who was charged for having a quantity of brass and other "metal"' in his possession, for which he could not properly account, Mr. Black was for the prisoner and produced a book, and p rocee d e d t o argue on the legitimacy of the possession 'of the Metal, when he was irrupted by Mr. Mansfield; w h o sa id " When you, 111 r. Black, are 'put on your metal' for a defence, I find it hard to convict a prisoner, so I must discharge him in this case." WRECK PASSED.—T he Mary Hammond arrived here yesterday, from Savannah, and her master, Captain Colson says -On the 14th February, about' 4 30 p.m., in lat. 50 N, lon. 14 W, saw an abandoned wreck, with foremast and foretopmast standing, mainmast - gone about ten feet from deck ; approached within two cable lengths of her. She appeared to be an English brig of about 200 tons, mainmast bright, and foremast painted white, bulwarks green inside and black outside, with a broad white streak ; deck-house and everything down to her main transom gone. She appeared to have been but a short time in that condition. EXHIBITIONS FOR THE LANCASTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL. —Memorials were recently forwarded from Lancaster to the Duke of Montrose, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, requesting that the £lOO which had annually been devoted to the Lancaster races might, in future, be applied to the Grammar School, in the shape of Exhibi tions; and a few days ago a deputation waited upon His Grace on the subject. On Friday last, a letter was received in Lancaster, intimating that the Duchy Council could hardly recommend to Her Majesty the continuance to the Grammar School of the sum which had been an nually paid to the races, but they were prepared to recommend. Her Majesty to make a donation to any fund which might be raised by the people of Lancaster, to found exhibitions at the Grammar School. THE BILLETING SYSTEM. -At a recent meeting of Delegates representing Associations of Licensed Vic tuallers in Lancashire and Cheshire, held in Manchester, it was resolved that Mr. James Aspinall Turner, M.P., be requested to use his endeavours to cause the following propositions to be inserted in the forthcoming Mutiny Bill, " with the view of providing against fraud and other practices of extortion and imposition to which innkeepers are 'subject under the present system : "-Ist. That it shall in future be imperative upon Billet Masters throughout the United Kingdom to have the parties before them for whom billets are required, at the time of application. 2d. That it shall in future be imperative upon Billet Masters to write, or cause to be written, upon the billet paper, the names of those for whom the billet is 'required, and the number of nights for which it is issued, instead of in figures. 3d. That the allowance,to innkeepers for their accommodation in future be paid by the Billet Masters, at their offices, on presentation of the billet paper, at the expiration of the period for which it was issued. SUDDEN AND ACCIDENTAL DEA:Hrs.—The child of Jane Anderion (who was before the magistrates at the Police Court on Saturday, on a charge of having attempted to kill the infant) died yesterday, in the Work house.. A full report of this case appeared in our paper yesterday. An inquest will be held on - the body of the child this day. The mother will also be brought before the magistrates again. Elizabeth Anne Blundell, a child five years old, who died with her parents at 4, Gilbert-street, was accidentally scalded a few days ago, and died in consequence. An inq ues t w ill b e held this day on the body. On Saturday, a child named Jane Boskill, two and-a-half years of age, was ran over by a milk cart, in. West Derby road, and killed. George Sinclair, aged 37, who was a " prize fighter," died on Sunday, in Finch -street. It appears that for the last three years he kept an imprope r h ouse along with a ma rr i e d woman, named 'Willis, whose husband is in the Army in Canada. = The house was 42, Finch -street He was in bad health for some time. In the report of his death at the Coroner's Court yesterday, some curious ,particulars relative to the wife of th e l as t Captain sentenced to death (but not executed,) for cruelty to a sailor, and who was tried at a recent assizes here, were mentioned. An in quest will be held on the body this day. COUNTY MAGISTRATE'S COURT. —Yesterday, a man named, Arthur Barnes was brought up, at the County Police-court, Tarleton-street, before J. Theakstone, Esq., having been apprehended by a bench warrant, for not having surrendered to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions, held at Kirkdale in the 'month of July last, after having been committed by the local magistrates. The offence for which the prisoner was sent for trial, was that of obtaining money under false _pretences, of a Mr. Hill, of Fairfield. He was bailed out, and attended at the Sessions-house, until the grand jury found a true bill against him, after which he absconded, and was not found until last Saturday night, when he was apprehended. In answer to the charge, he said that, when at the sessions he understood from th e p rosecu t or that he did not intend to prosecute, and, therefore, left the cOurt, and did not answer when called upon to take his, trial. He denied his guilt of the charge alleged against him, and said that h e cou ld no t rea d or write, and had taken the money under a mistake. Mr. Eaton, the clerk to the magistrates, stated that the prosecutor-had no powerto withdraw the charge, and that the bail would be estreated, and steps taken to punish them. The magis trates ordered the prisoner to be again committed to take his trial at the next Kirkdale Sessions, but was to accept bail, two su re ti es i n 201., an d hi mse lf i n 401.,°but as they were not forthcoming, he was removed to Kirk dale gaol. SOCIAL SClENCE.—Yesterday evening a public meeting was held in Hope Hall, for the purpose of expounding a plan for the " Benefit of the Social Life and' Comfort of the Working Classes." The attendance was not so large as could have been expect e d f rom • the i mportance of 111 A question. Mr. Syers occupied the chair, who briefly introduced to the meeting J. T. Jones, Esq., to address them. He said he had nothing mote to do with the proposed plan than to deliver a lecture, and his sub ject for that night was " Home its beauty and its power." The lecturer commenced by showing what civilisation had made of man and done for him, and then went on to say that home ought to be the sanctuary of the heart, and no other- influence had such power over man. When lie was absent from home, amid the din and bustle of the multitude,- he could think that the world was the field of activity, but it was at home alone that he could have an hour of sweet repose. Then, as to the beauty of home, some would think that beauty was to be found on the Continent only, judging from the painter's and the poet's fancy. But it was at the poor man's-cot, wher.evietv and co.nfort were to be found—or at the rich man's:ll , 44Tc.; havi 1g the same blessing—that beauty had her s r There was, in intercourse: with' the WOrld, a'k,- of se'fishnes, which tool hold of; men ; 'but the ma,- u - ,,me so selfish as to take ad-i - n the vantage of his unsuspecting fellow-man, ought- I st ... vs , leeturer's opinion- to be treated like Robert , t_ e r ed hypocrite, whipped through space, and then '" ei , es , beyond the boundaries of creation." At home, haw of the associations we r e such as to banish thoughts,„ selfishness from the mind of every man who could c W t l 7 o that beautiful name as his property. He went 0 11 , 4 describe the power of home over the hand, head , a T i a heart of man. The lecture was a very able one, t u tee elicited frequent applause from the audience. At 4.0 .0 conclusion of the lecture, some arrangements were eu' ci thc into for the social benefit of the working classes, _ s meeting then separated. EYE AND EAR INFIRM AR Y, 126, top o f acone t Pleasant.-Weekly Report.-Eye -Department : vet patients admitted in the week ending FebrnarY.ced 97 ; patients prescribed for, and who. have rec,l, o surgical assistance, 352. Eir Department : patients admitted in the week 'ending February io ' 20 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received s ,„„a gical assistance, 149. Consulting Surgeon : Neill, Esq. Surgeons : John Poole ' Esq., Dr. R. fluibett _ s ,, s Taylor, and Dr. Nevins. Assistant-Surgeon Th e ' Bickerton, Esq. Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, ESC! At . MR. AND MRS. C. MATHEWS AT THE THEATRE Reirs,,ir -Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews commenced tu`, second week at the Theatre Royal last night, t l3 fashionably attended house, with " A Tale of a C 4 l O " A HandsomeltHusband," and the " Eton Boy. . 0 j the first, Mr. Mathews had it all to himself, and exhibso, his usual vivacity and .eSse.„ .In the second, e d Mathews took Madame Ve s t r ie s p ar t o f th e l a dy reste' ol -to sight, and who expects to see a handsome husba4 oo which she evinced considerable p ower ; b u t, in the i f, f f, Boy," both parties' came out in great force, 10 Mathews disguised as the Eton Boy, and Mr. Mathest,th Fanny Livety, in which he convulsed the house laughter. cal; A DESERVING Cssa.-A gentleman e arne stly aPP,, o r to the charitable f or a f ew s hilli ngs , to ena bl e a P"bo woman to bury her only child, a b oy s i x years ' o ld, died on Sunday. He collected for her only ten daYs 3 :0 enough to bury a little d aug ht er f our y ears ' old, to fearing that that sou rce ma y h ave d r i e d u p, he t ify adopted this to enable the poor bereaved mother to gra. o s the very natural desire of her heart, to bury in the same grave with its little sister. She is a ' u se r indastrious and deserving woman ; she maintained,.;„ husband and these two children for two y ea rs by 0 , 0 ring, at which her earnings have not exceeded * se,.' o l shillings per week, her husband having been ou t t he employ for two years, and having received a fall in of docks some time ago, has quite unfitted him fc' t rll heavy labour, and light employment he has been utte unable to obtain. Any contribution will be most thal, fully received by F. L., 245, Denbigh-terrace, Cr ° street. 5; RE-APPEARANCE OF PINCHER."-It came to 110 as like it did, when weeks had passed away ' Pincher re-appeared again, upon last Saturday; . h u ," c a; not visit Mansfield's Court, nor stand beneath the e'' ) ,a $ no, he walked into the centre court, giving Mr. 1,10 4 5, her lost Dolt shock ; although he is not nervous-so everybody 45, shock but Pincher has about him some strong dog=matic 'l s t Would' you like to look at Pincher ? I'll tell yen,,, Nc e is he is ; his colour's black as any sloe, and hands°' - a ro his phiz ; with eyes as bright •as Chloe-and these io bright enough-if y ou requ i re more about leer, en (11 " 1 , 0 .11 of Robert Clough. A n d Pi nc h er ' s a 'tail-bearer, t ,_ 'L ° ls he never carries stories, ab ou t p ar li amentary pagilislat; any other glories ; n o , h e 'd scorn to do the like of t fat he looks a little higher, and although he ne ye speaks the truth, be sure he is no liar. o ; Pincher is a stud en t, b e l ong i ng to Li nco l n 's , the r and cares not for the " bi g - w i gs ," nor anY,°„vel. men, who walks about our fo r u m , situate in " 4 'loo street, for he's studyi ng C oo k on Littleton, 40 4 other asses with two fe e t ! 'Ti s sa id th at h e ' s eng tot by the ,Tnrist and Law Ti mes , t o c h ron i c l e d ec i s ions, a id are given here be-times ;by the " learned" 'flab magistrates, whose jud gmen t s now an d t h en, ar c en' a ie. to make Lord Campbell weep-but that would be at., At all events last Saturday, he stepped i n t o the Cows 's, t .a funny dog is Pi nc h er , and very fond of spur stretched out bef ore th e fire, with his tail toucloug 0 fender, and he smiled on Mr. Campbell, with a lookL A soft and tender--the poor fellow's coat was r ather w` i j and half an hour at the fire, would, beyond all lu ull o ,rd question, make it a little drye r . P er h aps th e last " ii id should be " thirsty "-for Pincher's pretty muzzle, C o le ; imbibe a "sherry co bbl er "- t h e Chi nese ca ll it 91001 but that is neither here nor there, for at the " rig 4 0, 'Whistle," he could get a " steak," trig jtencta et in'id like Shamrock, Rose, and Thistle. Mr. Campbell 1p Mr , at Pincher, with a face the most benignant; bu. ' n , t; Dixon looked another way-both furious and joligs, a n Mr. McCoom stood at the outer door, in silent ad. 111 ;" 1 1 10 tion; whilst Mr. Lloyd considered if_a_ ten ia a 'aait li-a-ba-shin of Pike water o'er his carcass, settle his hash clean ; and put an end to all his s tudie s o f his pleasure and his pain. Why a. Pin t a ba that same liquid, if poured down his throat, sce ul d his worse than Prussic acid-at least so Pincher pledge, 0 .0 oath. Mr. Dixon raised his right foot, to give the " ° ;;01 elcibe - Pincher thought that he was Achilles, 0 gripped him by the kibe-so Mr. Dixon ran away ' s fast as he could peg-p er h aps f or M r. H ew itt, or rOO haps for Major Greg ! It has struck me more than be or twice, that the "M a j or " i s " the man " ( t h o ng' to says the contrary himself) wbo can lay a proper Pla ib i dd subjugate bold Pincher in a military way-'caus e ,have "done for" N ana Sahib, had he caught , ~ Hackin's Hey ! I n a space that's known by 'no tilarle's, an advance guard of " Bobbies," took up their st 3t „ i° sis trio deep, on th e a dj o i n i ng lo bbi es ; and every nu i r t _ to wooden " falchion ' drew-it was a glorious Sea see the preparati ons ma d e f or the canine fight. time brave " General" Pincher, sat barking at the '-sot looking hard on an o ld law-book (as he turned an d l' s io dryer) and he knew, if ever surrounded by a () T oss "O A ' of Hannibals, he cou ld "li c k" them b y one aes the " cruelty to animals "-he knew the law was ?'" t he side, and no quarter would he beg-no, not from al` " Caledonians." patronised by Major Greig. cretion; even th e M a j or k nows, is the better part of c 3 -1 r; and Pincher, w ith ou t trem b l i ng, nor any sort of rfso thought th e b est t hi ng he could do-when he gfiwors opportunity-was retreat int o th e o th er court, awl" to large community, of men and women waiting t here at hear old " rhad aman th us, " g i ving judgment 'gains'f ad moral men, ab ou t b a bi es, et infan-tus I Pi n cher I( :°G e t at Mr. Campbell, saying, " Morning to you, sir ;"--- „ r ;'' out of this,' cried Dixon, " you unmannerly young c- be -" I tell you what," says Pincher, "if you do o , et an d quiet, I'll kick up such a ruekshin, such a shindy , .„ c s a riot, as was never h ear d within those walls, nor o r the seige of Troy -at the fun' of Balaklavas,L4 since Ada m was a b oy! " So Pincher gave a " W I " not wow," . and left the cour t qu i te easy; h i s step woulu -red have injured a young butter-cup nor daisy ; and sates down the st a i rs as lig ht as if on a carpet green, hejlety could have done that had he worn crinoline ! T ° a ds door then i n E xc h ange -street, our friend Pincher n' "be his way ; h e t u r ned i n, and on the stairs, wit h o ut t y least dism a y ; he saw the " blue-guards"a N tie s ri t black-guards ?) waiting there,all thirsting his blood-but by the time • they'l catch _, A V L "; we'll have another N oa h' s fl ood! And he soidosndTor "mistaken men; do you think that" I'm a goos4 aof that all your p owers can capture ms, though yolata every ruse?"-L-he looked at th e b rawney l eg o f o ne, - o f gave a stifled laugh, as he se i ze d on 9 7 b y the m iddle 0 the " calf!". Then 97 roared an d b aw l e d ; an d 56 the round; and 80 flung his baton -but it fell lin° 3 a ground-instead on th e h ea d of P i ncher; and 32 c'ssecl a re ," an d 69 ran clean away, full of fear, and- bile. vcig ire ! The n 24, w i t h fur i ous main, came madly, ruslifilt in, and ai me d a bl ow at Pincher's tail, but in place he the shin of 76 was broken-but that's not worth mention--I hope the watch cons-mit-tee will give hi' l leo good pensi on : h a d h e b roken a civilian's head; to In e Are " very clear, the Major would award him one 1 10 .7,03 pounds a year. By thi s ti me all the courts the raised, and I never saw such scrambling, uP or on tables, gambolling-(query s stairs, and down the stairs, such s houting , r o t clerks(q u e r y g j a u t p l e i d ng u ?) p - o th n e a a n t a to ir i s ai ; ie s sl 6 lo - 0 young m en b ro k e through the windows and said moretheir t p n r r a ) 1 ; e ip r s s ; n and r o ; s o me old lat' of um ;Infeorr ant they o u t h t a f u o g r a b t i i t t t a beta e it Nicholas, or that' Antichrist had come PerhaP . ,, s would'nt be right now, to tell how it all ended; been 0 as Mr. Cl oug h we l l knows, "little said i s soones t ment o e' but I w ou ld not h e at all surprised,fo r cor p ora t e repat 3 " - -: i f Pinch er t o t h e levee goes, 'long w ith th e d e p u tatioo si _hat's going to ourgracious Queen,wh om H eaven long n/ 00 bless ; to congratulate her Majesty, and hand he r ,, 0 address ; b u t t hi s I know, that Pincher will agaiu, tis to the court, an d as a stu d ent of the law, will W all some sport -so be it ! ! -The Man in the Moos. , fi are Fascinating Gent. (to p recoc i ous little girl)— g " ''' ona very nice little girl ; you shall be m y 'wifey wh en / ant grow up!" Little Girl—" No, thank y ou; I don'tAlther to have a husband ; b u t A unt Bessy does ; I hear' say so!" (Sensation on the part of Aunt Bessy.) n f the THE HAvELocH MON UMENT.— A t a meeting leo Snnderland Tow n Council, the Mayor said he had f o r - A requested some ti me ago to write to the Governmen t the contribution towards th e H ave l ock Monument, i.7-feet. shape of g un metal, for a colossal s t a t ue o f eigu",• the He had received an answer f rom th e L or ds c " ' d in Treasury, which stat e d th at £ 420 would be inserte,, o f the estimates of the War Department for the purpti c i i purchasing th ree tons and a half of gun metal, victor ,would be•placed at the dispos a l o f - th e committee.--" V erland Times.