The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA.—The _ `volunteers enroll e d a t Liverpool each week s is 11P-. ALDERMAN COOPER has contributed £125 towards a Peal of bells for the new church, Grassendale, Aigburt h. THE RA ILWAY FROM GARSTON TO WARRINGTON is fast approachin g comp l et i on. The line will give a new route to Liverpool. AMONG THE MIDDLE TFMPLE'S call- - ; to the bar, this t erm, is Mr. Thomas Mc'Enteer, of Dundalk, for a long Period of this town. suic SAR AH TURNER, a g i r l age d 14 years, comm itt e d ide on W e d nesday week, at Walton-le -dale, by throwing herself into the river. ISLE OF MAN.—Lark-hill mansion and offices, Onchan, the p r operty of M r . Th omas C ow i n, were a l most totally destroyed by fire on Friday morning. , A FINE POR TRAIT OF MR. JAMES ATKIN, chairman of t t i tie n s a il ors , Rome, has just been presented to the institu o by the friends of that gentleman. , THE PA SSENGERS by the steam-ship Baltic, on her last passage to New Comst oc k w i th a York, presented the l a dy o f C ap t a i n painting of the vessel. THE SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY have opened a free vocal school for the benefit of the working classes ; the a pplications for admission are numerous. WILLIAM MOLYNEUX, a collector of government rates, at Crosby, has been bound over to keep the peace for assaulting Mr. Thomas Bryan, of Waterloo. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITY BALL was held at the Town -hall last night, under the patronage of the Hon. :Nlrs. Charles Stanley, of Denhall. THE PASSENGERS on board the ship John Taylor, from London to Melbourne, presented a purse to Mr. J. Gawne, chief mate, and a native of the Isle of Man. IT Is PROPOSED to erect a new public-hall —Ft palatial b uilding in the pure Venetian style —on the site of the barn -like Free Trade-hail, in Peter-street, Manchester. em F EMALE DONK EY - DRIVERS. —T he question about the ployme n t of females as donkey-drivers at Southport, Was decided at Kirkdale, last week, in favour of the young Women. amber of ,out 110. THE WHELPS OF A KAPPRARIAN LIONESS, which died on the passage to England after giving them birth, are now being suckled by a terrier bitch, at Wombwell's menagerie. CAPT. GR EIG , is appointm en t as Head-con stable, ha s visited the bridewells and parades 448 times. /ialf of these visits were in the night. He has also been Present at 27 fires. since I • •-•-'• THE NEW STEAM-/AT to ply between the Landin g _ s taze a N STEAM-BOAT Wo o d s id e F err y, n o w b u ildi ng by M r . L a i r d, will be ready for launching in three weeks. It is to be called the Woodside. OALL AT WIGAN.—The tradesmen's ball took place at l'," l an, on Thursday evening, d and Lady Crawford " e ine among the party. The band was supplied by Mr. Gribbin of this town. 11 POCKET -PICKING AT A TEA PARTY.—A young man, W• a nled William Andrew, for attempting to pick pockets age newsroom of the Concert-hall, on Monday night, committed for trial. tllTrned HE Coax -M ILL AT F OXHOLES. near Lancaster, was on M on d ay morning. W. T. Rothwell, Es. c° ue Propriet or , w i ll lose £4OOO or £5OOO, as no part of 'u q. e P r operty w a s i nsure d . T v a e takeli RI BBON ARREST S .—T WO mo re app re h ens i ons n place, and it is said that upwards of 200 so ns have have left their homes in different parts of Lancashire, owin g to the dread of consequences. TIITM TOBACCO TRADE of Lancashire and Yorkshire met ° L l,nchest er , on Monday last., and agreed to form an a ssociation under the titl e o f " Th e T o b acco Manufac s' Trade Protection Association." THE TOTAL TONNAG E of the ships now building at this port amounts t o 24,540 tons, divided as follows :—Wooden svessels, 595 0 tons ; i ron vessels. 18,590 tons ; sailing hips, 9,550 tons; steamers, 14,990 tons. I IR T. S • Architectural SCOTT will read the next paper before the Architeand Archmological Society, on Wednesday -k ye n n e ing ' en titled " Loo se A rc hi tectura l N otes, ma d e i n a e and Italy in 1850," with illustrations. bel4...avEr WELLM AN h as b een comm i tte d f or tr i a l at .a.,!:anchest er sessions, charged with obtaining money e pretences, by reresentin himelf as the agent of "I !societies, which turned to out to be s shams. I T Ira rftorosim to erect mon umen t s t o a c o u ple o f et• s.ical worthi es — the late M a tth ew Hi n dl e , o f G rea t k ." Blackbu rn , an d J ohn Bentley, the father of mu societies in that district of Lancashire. In T ee l lj E WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—The usual monthly sena of this body, which s hould have been held on rB daY evening, did not take place, owing to the ,ence of the greater portion of the members. L T RAILWA Y an d ot h er carry i ng companies of Man serster have agree d to withdraw their vehicles from the j e ets not l a t er t h an eight o'clock in the evening , excep t those required for the Liverpool shipping traffic. haIILiCIT DISTILLATION.—An Irishwowan, Alice INF ▪ , convicted of manufacturing whisky in a cellar in r,./ 3,o nd-street, h as b een fi ne d a t t h e P o li ce court, in j ,": de s'u fa tn ult o . f £3O, or to suffer three m on th s ' imprisonment TRIOITAS CRACKLOW, marine store dealer, Staninopc -Btteet, has been committ e d t o gao l f or t wo months and tie license revoked, in consequence of his having for sale !k piece of iron stolen from Messrs. Betteley and Co., 'confounders. !TEE Aim PAPERS announce that a small accordion, a Odcoat, a shawl, and a few pair of cotton socks, marked T. F. Gladstone," came ashore on Friday last at Pt- Patrick, where the Orion steam-ship was wrecked or in 340 e , J 18 - 0 . , --- -- 4. ~e vapt.,rrios; OF THE BIRK ENHEAD D OCKS .—Th e trustees have entered into a contract with Messrs. M'Cor tnick and B rassey f or the completion of the whole of the Outer works and tidal-basin, according to the plans in their integrity. I,,RE NIANCFIESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANK -8". COMPANY have declared a half-yearly dividend of 11;,,!er share, being at the rate of eight per cent. per ~f ?um. and also l a bonus of 3s. 6d. per share, both clear income tax. s b A l n tt• "LEAS INDICATORS. —There are, we believe, I , -lit 3°° ° lacni3-Posts in the town ; and Mr. Lea pro foroses to give for the privilege asked for, a sum of £6OO the first year, £BOO for the second year, and £lOOO °r the third year. reTHE INSTITUTION IN RODNEY-STREET is open for the ~,,c eP tion of governesses who are desirous of forming en i',7Zernents, for which great facilities are presented, and i ",,r the a ccommodation of those who may require a suitable "otPorary abode. F •,,, IRE.--On Satu r d ay morn i ng, about four o'clock, afire 48 discover e d at t h e Earl Howe public-house, in True man-street;_ and in an hour afterwards the premises were nutted, notwithstanding the exertions of the fire-brigade. T he inmates 'narrowly escaped with their lives. ON TUESDAY EVE NING a discussion took place at the Park School, Blackburn, between Messrs. Atkinson and Cleary, on " The Infallibility of the Church of Rome," %en the Papists behaved in a most disorderly manner. The discussion was continued for three nights. _ A HANDSOME SET OF ORNAMENTAL NATE, to be lu.:_eesented to Captain Patey, R.N., the late, emigration _°l.fi. er of this port, by our local shipowners connected w w !th the Australian emigration, is now on view in the l odow of the'manufactiwr, Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street. T H C o_ NEW PU'DLIC PARK AT W AVERTREE.—At the f rom "o E il, on Tuesday, M r. H ornhy, in reply to a question 0 11 1 . Mr Bighana as to th e p rogress of the Wavertree -4,1! Estate, w hi ch is being converted into a public-park, E 1 that a contract had been entered into for the making of the road. paGrtRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—On Thursday night, a f0...3: assembled at the Falstaff Tavern, Christian -street, tb r_tM purpos e of presenting to Mr. Egerton, nanager of b:',.. ,Adelphi Theatre a splendidly-embossed silver snuff mark24 _ manufactured by Mr. Quick, of Parker-street, as a of esteem. ipt t o vA stoNT OF TOWN DUES.—Mr. Bight= desired to it r duce this subject on Wednesday, at the Council, but towas not entered into. He said that a great fraud had use to his knowledge during the present week ; 12,000 onl y of flour having been shipped, while dues were paid -1 Upon 1,100. ,'`, l " ; l'F. n. so N . NAMED ENTWISTLE, a Bolton and Darwen e s - i s i• L 'er, was, on Thursday evening, attacked by six fr•—uers, who' nearly strangled him and his boy, stole Pro his cart £l4 worth of coppers and other . goods, f, e , c alEping in safety. Entwistle is a person addicted to - "`einperate habits. A NNUAL DINNER OF THE BLUE-COAT BROTHERLY atel4i l'ir.—Th e ann i versar y o f this institution was cele ilis: , an Wednesday evening, at the Adel* Hotel. Dres,, ( 7'hio the mayor, with several other trustees, were l ' it at.O . „Yfr. T. Wood, mast er o f th e Bl ue - coa t H os- MR. 1 - " Di od the chai r . .., 01 , at ROtherI,7„OSTER AND MR. DARWIN, rival surgeons Patient, and i) having quarrelled in the presenc of a proceedin gs we d atter having assaulted the former, a legal by the advi ce or thcoramenced in the County Court, but and settled thefra-coaiattorneys the defendant paid costs a A SMALL YACH T . t the south Geor her ; CALLED THE SWAN, is now lying ge 5.d,,,,_ The OutO ut GO tons. Her crew • a. 0 departure for Australia .... gwdactoelfsr, and is shortly to take ... vessel is intended to tra .The vessel appears to be on her arrival out in Australia. o c rti ons o is n t e of five parents AM lirt.t, a veto persons.anotlier WILLI fine child, aged three years, whose reside in H d • . - 1 1 1irch , was dreadfully burned, on Thursday evening, toed, after lingerin Die chil d w s as ur t e a ttd, during the absence of his parent. !t1 to the Royal Infirmary, where it pTHR ALPACA gin excruciating agony about two hours. erlagerie prese now exhibiting at Mrs. Wombwell's au la • present now strong contrast to its den-mate the li sua - a,i:na cer.tainly is entitled to much attention. The trap Peculiarised bY. the a l pac has y a coarse short wool ;on the con -leferred to, ab a a very long wool (on the specimen te,sho.. ari silk. three feet in length), and finer in its 11. " 4 . , le eVer.ing ^LL AT d a „ _ . THE TOWN -HALL, ST. HELEN'S.—On Fri week L ondon y of Manorkpeople at the exten 241avtto`iv_orks of the andchester Glass Company, tizeolerne',st. k s."ear St. Helen's, held a ball in the Town-hall, awhent_ upwards of 200 were present. W. friends, were . 1 2 ) 1. r ., he manager of the works, and several Duni* SH I P Se:alstfie practice of chartering both Dutch ,! t orl French ships btained to a considerable extent 4 1 thi s port, and the Obtained is now extensively floating t°ll vessels anchored trad e; g the Mersey for the Australian ta de ; large ships in repute for that traffic, as Carrying more passengers end realising a larger profit than oaall vessels would yield. 0 ._ TING BY A BoY.--At the Prescot petty sessions, ~S;10 0 Wtted2! 1 : uesday last, a lad named Wilalitam Foster was cora for two months for shootin _smother boy named Tottao tn ' St W° Gds, on the 20th Illtio2o.g The contents of the sh,.. alsok him on the back and right arm, some of the entering the left arm, the clleek, an d the ear. Pri aon sr rued la >w pinion. hough that ifficnlty sc& that boa s for the s klr e bouillons, , they are , 1 , 11 )veers, rut' 1, or marige° Ice fastened' anging We have , but, insteo• fastened t i ! wing the DD bouillons , le shouldef l skirt. . red deepl9~ d gold leek the same? d llama fteen strio The skill of ribboo l I fl ow ers. rich 810 !h used fof of /ark", ;old and! lecrease !s have a, ng toward' ery by N ed with A 7ue, witk' t iolets ano] a novel fashion, 0 top and,' lonnd of '1 shouldersil nes, with! .t is edged s, embroil e cues, with' uch emPl periale,ll s nearer uis XV; r behincL; lteB, deel ,btaining ° Torn with ° the e one, em with" and cat If; op, and w, 1 of o nec,r:. Pith sroalv ur grand it robes'' theirs, id louring L~most be l branche! er, are n the la!] nd faro,'" large 1,1 n the rrou light add' scribed. nd, ford the w aist e , shadea r _, 1 emplo e body i!,' arge, )rning CO, crossing, pcning ar of MI -sleeves )und the,L amagnr t o hawl in ') t, to Ncb„ 1 1) d with g. he point'ms. Oc e Is Tb e e i ntoi tbe. thered The 1 .eves trni f hood• j 0! ipure fr o o ru1.99 hind. '„,"j roidered nt a silk s. .e eaehe7;l ge , !Wald • it is 70 Abon r,O f ribbon I,i contioli very fu l 'of bal, trioY ng.sili:. roliage• 4 A bet, i on to ':1,1 4 . A. An ° , lvet, el 0,, gabs , it) )laced .0 al at ecl-- d inner °, O l ;old 80, ]e boo jC' , with )in an Y eMbr° l 0 0 'e Lai is 10 1 anleath. jet em broi ind W S l ow ed t° nPd coilto simple istefui . .d 'lilted doi i s of Pj ibb o n,v; d ich ear, faced 0 11 ,1 ° , cant' Af 'fun, e. Th? ( ) pi! Parateai t the ecI A BI is vaalfi riolet o e falls gr o o .0 n t a lj bof led A tiro ace s oi wide ,3 °o s roun'tl oped a t .s are P so as. too; which nnwea raised ler. 141 0 , 1 } ch of erlaciDN [ndian orsadei tina TO ' veil. e i nd the f 1 1,1 A rrim•, of 00 is of o 0° two )y a u• imert ira M t ? Lure o °, t of 0 01 , the Pa r ed rupoi , ;hest Off , le hich cv tif r derea,, !,(1-ouice g 90'4 ed, bot ili Yj ith e s ' pro ) f ) its listiog 001 I e6ll/ ease' , ha bl 'c of e$P dY • r cil all P o t' utea t 9 ; f tb e D to o scie , e roc i 'oof 4194 Pp? tgyrtiloiflapfte , Of c° u d ISO° THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1853. r: CASE OF RIBBON'S:NI IN LIVERPOOL —The three William Robinson, Gerald Farrell, and John Rooney, were apprehended on a charge of being members of egal society, called " Ribbonism," and with having in their possession written signs, passwords, and other documents connected with said society, have been com mitted for trial by the magistrates in Dublin, COMMISSIONS signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster :—Edward Parker, Esq., William Earle, Esq., John Weld, Esq., James Hardy Wrigley. E-q., Edward James Stanley, Esq., Henry Master Fielden, Esq., John Rowlandson Marshall, Esq., , . Thomas Dugdale, Esq., William Ainsworth, Esq., and Peter Catterall, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants. ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.—In the list of mathe matical honours lately published at Cambridge, we observe that Mr. Glynn, formerly a pupil at this school, has obtained the distinguished place of sixteenth wrangler. Mr. Glynn was the successful candidate for the Canning scholarship at the Royal Institution, and has since 3btained a scholarship at St. Peter's College, Cambridge. PRIVATE EXPEDITION TO .AUSTRALIA.—SORIC time ago -r of young men in the Isle of Man purchased a schooner, and fitted her uo for a voyage to Australia. On Wednesday week the adventurers set sail from Peel. The Vixen carries out 37 emigrants, all young able-bodied men. They are expected to be absent from Peel four years. when they are bound to return to their native land. JOHN ADAMS, the cook of the Marro Polo, brought an action at the County Court. last week, against Captain Forbes, for the sum of £lB Hs., being the price of 21 cwt. of fat. which the plaintiff alleged had been improperly re tained and sold by defendant. It appeared that Captain ` , Ps had sold the fat, and handed the money over to His honour gave a verdict for the defendant. a numbe A LECTURE ON " MONASTICISM" was delivered by the Rev. T. W. Moeran, on Friday evening, in the news room of theChureh of England Institution, being one of a series of lectures designed more immediately for the diffu sion of useful knowledge under the direction of sound principles. Several very instructive lectures have been delivered this season, and arrangements are made for their continuance. ASSAULT AT THE WORKHOUSE AND ROBBERY.— lry Ann Kirby and Mary Robinson (two impertinent king young females) were convicted at the police court, on Thursday, on a charge of assaulting the matron of the refractory ward in the workhouse. Kirby was ordered to or to suffer two months' imprisonment in and Robinson, for stealing a handkerchief, was committed to trial. MORE PLUNDERING BY WORKMEI , 7.—Two porters, named John Gleaves and Thomas Ball, were convicted at the Liverpool Police -court, last week, of stealing a quantity of articles from the warehouse of Messrs. Isaac Had wen, jun., and Co., general brokers, Tithebarn-street. The prisoners had been in the employment of the defen dants for a period of 14 years. They were sent to gaol for two months each. Fourt of the workmen at the quarries of Messrs. Baynes, Lupton, and Co., Penmaen Mawr, have received a donation of £lO from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, for saving two men from the wreck of the Atlas of Liverpool, which foundered in a heavy gale of wind in Conway Bay, in November last. Griffith Parry, who took the helm, has likewise received the society's silver medal. FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A shocking acci dent occurred on Tuesday morning, at the Stretfort station, on the Bowden extension of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway. Robert Twiss attempted to get into one of the carriages while the train was in motion ; the poor lad's foot slipped, and he fell beneath the car riages, several of the wheels passing over his chest and literally dividing his body. MANY OF THE WELSH residents in this town and neighbourhood have had under agitation the propriety of establishing a Welsh Reform Association, as the means of advancing their political position. A meeting took place on Friday night, in the Concert-hall, under the presidency of David Davies, Esq. The Rev. J. Foulkes, the Rev. Wm. Rees, &e., and the Rev. Henry Richard, of London, took part in the proceedings. INTEMPERANCE.--On Monday, James M`Donald, Peter-street, died suddenly, while sitting in his chair. He had been drinking immoderately the previous night, and was a man of dissipated habits.— Ann Edwards, Higlifield street, was found dead on Monday evening, the cause of death being congestion of the lungs, supposed (from the usually intemperate habits of the deceased) to be the re sult of excessive drinking. BIRKENHEAD DOCK TRUSTEES 17:SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the Rolls Court, on Monday, Mr. R. Palmer, on behalf of the defendants in this cause, moved that an injunction, obtained on the 13th November, whereby the defendants were restrained from placing an iron swing bridge between the Morpeth and Egerton docks should be dissolved. His honour said he could not dissolve the injunction. RETURN OF BOYS KIDNAPPED FOR THE BRAZILIAN NAVY.—The wrongs of the boys who were decoyed some time since from our commercial ports into the Brazilian navy, by agents of the latter service, have at length been redressed. The British minister of Rio demanded the boys of the Brazilian government, and they were delivered up. The boys complain of most infamous treatment. Offences have been committed too horrible to mention. SERIOES FIRE.—On Tuesday evening last, the pre mises of Mr. Robert Johnson, oil-cloth manufacturer, in Cornwallis-street, was burned to the ground. The oil and prepared clothing are estimated at £6OO. The owner was perfectly uninsured. Great fears were entertained throughout for the safety of the adjoining houses, and the furniture was removed from the house of Mr. Sim, .and placed in St. Mi c h ae l' s - c h urc h yar d. Ab ou t ten all Sanger was over. MAILS TOR AUSTRALIA.—Her Majesty's government have made arrangements for the conveyance of mails to Australia once in every month in future, by the establish ment of a packet to run once in two months from Singa pore (in connexion with the Indian mail of the 4th of the month via Southampton, and of the Bth of the month,-via Marseilles) alternately with the line of mail packets via the Cape of Good Hope, sailing from Plymouth on the of every second month. THE CORN SWINDLE.—At a meeting held in London, on Friday, of the creditors of Messrs. Coltman and Stol terfolit, of London and Liverpool, it was shown that the assets amounted to .£98,155, against liabilities to the ex tent of £153,811, and that they thus showed a dividend of about 12s. 6d. in the pound. Taking into consideration the expenses of liquidation and other contingencies that full sum might not be realised ; but at all events there was a prospect of 10s. being paid. THE BLENEIEIM, LIVERPOOL AND BELFAST STEAMER. This fine steamer, which has been undergoing repairs for some time, arrived here on Thursday evening, and attracted much attention, from the thorough " outfit" she has got by the skilful hands of Messrs. Todd and Mac gregor, of Glasgow. Her sailing qualities are calculated at from 13 to 17 miles an hour.—Belfast Chronicle, — [The Blenheim has now resumed her place on the station between this port and 'Belfast. LOCA'L BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.—The standing orders have been complied with in the following cases :—Liver pool Borough Court: To amend provisions of acts of civil court of record, the process, practice, and mode of plead ing in the court, and to extend its jurisdiction.—Liver— pool Sanitary and other Local Acts : To regulate the buildings in the borough, to make further provision for its sanitary and general regulation, and for establishing police superannuation fund, TEIE 'HEROES OF THE REFORMATION.—The lecture season for the present year commenced at the Collegiate Institution on Friday, when Mr. John Lord, M.D., delivered the first of two lectures on " The Heroes of the Reformation." The immediate subject of the lecture was the thirty Tears' war in Germany, with reference chiefly to the character and achievements of Gustavus Adolphus. The lecture was listened to throughout with great atten tion, and gave general satisfaction. NEW CLIPPER SHIP. On Friday, a beautifully modelled ship arrived here from Whitehaven, where she was lately launched. She is named the Pudsey Dawson, is 600 tons register, and commanded by Captain John Davies, late ofthe Jeremiah Garnett. The Pudsey Dawson is a thirteen years' ship, and will be shortly despatched for Shanghai. •She is neatly rigged, and nautical judges pronounce her a " clipper" in every respect. Her owner is Mr. H. R. Hoskins, of this town, and she is consigned to Messrs. James Aikin, Son, and Co. CHARGE OF DwuNKENNESS AGAINST A CAPTAIN.— On the 26th ultimo, a letter was addressed by Messrs. Stuart and Douglas to the local marine board, containing certain charges of the above nature against Captain Wm. Sillis, late master of the ship Severn. An inquiry was instituted, and a board held at the Sailors' Home, on Wednesday and Thursday last—J. S. Mansfield, Esq., the stipendiary magistrate, acting as chairman. The board recommended the Lords of the Admiralty to sus pend the certificate of Captain Sillis for twelve months. STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND AMERICA.—On Wednesday afternoon, the screw steam ship City of Manchester, Captain Leith, sailed from the Mersey, with passengers and a valuable cargo of merchan dise, for Philadelphia. About half-past one o'clock the same afternoon, the magnificent new screw steam-ship Alps, lately built for the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, sailed from the Mersey on her first voyage, under the command of Capt. Wickman, for New York and Chagres, with a very large cargo of merchandise on board. THE BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—On Tuesday evening, the usual monthly meeting was held in the board room ; Mr. Greene presided. Some conversation took place in reference to the obstruction of Canning-street by the railway, when a report was read from Mr. Douglas, the company's engineer, that proper gates had been erected on the crossing, and gatemen appointed to attend to the street, whilst the enaineers had received instruc tions not to attempt to cross till they got the " all right" signals.—An appeal had been lodged against the poor rate assessment.—The board then adjourned. REGISTRAR'S QUARTERLY RETURNS.—The registra tion of the year 1852 is completed, for the births and deaths. The births were 616,251 in 1851, and 621,171 in 1852. The deaths, 395,933 in 1851, and 407,938 in 1852. The average annual rate of birth is nearly 1 in 30. In 1852 it rose to lin 29. The average annual rate of death is rather less than lin 45. In Cheshire and Lancashire marriages are much more numerous than they were in 1848, but less numerous than they were in 1850; in Man chester and in Liverpool the marriages are declining, and increasing in Wales. In Cheshire and Lancashire the mortality is above the average. The deaths in Liverpool are fewer, in Manchester more, than is usual. THE LADIES' CHARITY.--The annual meeting of the trustees and subscribers to this excellent institution was held in the Board-room of the Blue-coat Hospital, on Thursday, Harmood Banner, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that, although there had been a falling off in the amount of annual subscriptions, the donations had increased ; and the general state of the funds was very satisfactory. Gratuitous vaccination is provided for the children. The report also noticed, in terms of regret, the loss, by death, of one of the warmest supporters of the institution—James Bold, Esq., for many years t reasurer . The number of patients relieved in 1852 was I,247—being 82 less than in the previous year. Votes of thanks to the Committee and officers were passed, and the usual appoint ments made for the ensuing Year, WILLIAM TYRRELL, a Manchester man, has per-. petrated a cowardly and wilful homicide. He quarrelled and fought with Quinn, a weaver; the quarrel continued, and Tyrrell wished Quinn to strike him, that they might renew the fight ; Quinn repeatedly said he would not, unless Tyrrell would " show both his hands." He would only show the left hand, keeping the other in his pocket; until at length he drew it out, clasping a knife in it, with which he fatally stabbed Quinn. The coroner's jury pronounced the act a " wilful murder." ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The meeting for Fe bruary was held at the club-house, Duke-street, on Tues day evening last. Mr. Edward Barlow, of Bolton, and Mr. Thomas Byrne, of this place, were elected members. A letter was read from the harbour-master of Lowestoft, with a presentation copy to the club, from S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P., of some sketches of that harbour, and con taining an invitation for the yacht-owners to visit that place. The accounts show a good balance in the hands of the banker to the credit of the club. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT NEWTON STEEPLE-CEIASE.— The race for the Selling Steeplechase was attended by a very serious accident to Walter White, owing to a colli sion between Harkover and Freshwater. It was found that his collar-bone was broken in three places, two or three of his ribs completely smashed, and his lungs very much injured. When first brought in he was quite cold and pulseless, and remained so for nearly an hour Hark over received a gash in the front of one of his arms. Poole escaped with a severe shaking. White is said to be going on favourably ST. JOHN'S CHURCH AID ASSOCIATION.—The first annual meeting of this society was held on Thursday evening last. in the school-room, Great Crosshall-street, the Rev. W. F. Taylor, incumbent, in the chair. The resolutions were moved and seconded by the Revds. M. Falloon. G. L. Ireland, Messrs. Owen Williams, J. P. Gwatkin, J. B. Williams, and Thomas Gregory. The first quarterly payments for the present year, amounting to nearly £35, were handed in. This society, during the past year, received in small subscriptions the sum of £l2O, in addition to the usual church collections. APPREHENSION OF A ROBBER IN LIVERPOOL.—The Wigan Times says :—Our readers will remember the daring robbery committed upon the lady of J. Woodcock, Esq., in the Haigh plantations, a few months back, by a man having on only a shirt or blouse at the time. A. large reward was offered by the Earl of Crawford and Bal. carres, and another by Mr. Woodcock, for the apprehen sion of the robber. Sergeant France proceeded to Liver pool, on Saturday, and apprehended Thomas Latham, formerly in the service of Lord Crawford. He is charged, along with two persons of the name of Nelson, with being concerned in the crime. A MAN NAMED M'DERMOTT was brought up at the Police-office, on Wednesday, under distressing circum stances. Mr. Parkinson, bridewell-keeper, said that the man was Drought to bridewell on the previous night, with a child in his arms about five months old. The poor man had come from Manchester, where he had converted all he possessed into cash for the purpose of sending his daughter and her child to America. The captain refused to take the child in the ship, and at the last moment the infant was thrust upon ArDertnott, in spite of every en treaty. The magistrate ordered the man to be sent to Manchester. THE ATTORNEY OF A BANKRUPT refused lately to give the Commissioner of the Court in London informa tion where the bankrupt might be found, and was sent to prison for contempt. After being in gaol ten days, the attorney intimated his readiness to answer, and upon ex amination stated that the bankrupt had sailed for Mel bourne. He was thereupon discharged. The messenger of the court immediately proceeded to Liverpool with a warrant for the arrest of the bankrupt ; but the Prince Arthur, the vessel in which he had taken his passage, had sailed. The messenger, however, recovered some of the property. WARNING TO THE LIVERPOOL LADIES'.—OR Thurs day afternoon a lady, whilst " shopping," had her pocket picked of £l2, in gold, in the Compton House. About an hour afterwards, £2 7s. 6d. was abstracted from a lady's pocket in Ahlborn's, Whitechapel. On Wednes day evening another lady had her pocket picked of 10s. 6d., in a shop, while making purchases. Mrs. Levy, of London•road, on Thursday night. had her pocket picked, whilst in her own shop, of 104. On the same day, a lady had her pocket picked, in Drinkwater's, Church-street, of £5 4s.—An expert gang of operators in the extracting line are actively at work throughout the whole town. THE DOCK DEBT.—At the Dock Committee, on Thursday, after the reporters had retired, Mr. Robertson Gladstone suggested the desirability of funding four or five millions of the debt, and creating a three-and-a-half or four per cent stock. His reasons for making such a proposition were, that a large sum of money would be required for the new works ; that there were constant 'fluctuations in the value of money in the money market; and that they would thereby save the great uneasiness and anxiety occasioned in the number of bonds continu ally falling due, and in raising the necessary funds for paying them off. The law adviser is to report next week whether that clause would he applicable to the particular proposition made by Mr. Gladstone. A YOUTHFUL DENTIST.—The other day a boy in this town, eleven years of age, went to his mother and asked her if she was in want of money, to which she replied she was. " Very well, I know how to raise you some," said the little urchin, and immediately, retired from the apart ment and extracted one of the best teeth he had in his head, which he sent with his two younger brothers (twins) to a druggist's shop in the neighbourhood, saying that they would get sixpence for it. The disciple of YEscula pins, however, told them to take it to the grocer's shop next door. The poor little fellows were obliged to return to their brother disappointed., failing to transact business in the precious instrument of masticulation of which he had so unwisely deprived himself. A. SERIOUS CEIARGE.—On Thursday, the widow of Gilbert Evans, of Burroughs-gardens, appeared at the Coroner's Court, in consequence of a letter received by the coroner from the father of the deceased, which said :—" I hear that she put a strong needle through the chair, which went through a certain part of his person, and was likely to cause death. From•certain details lam inclined to believe that she put a pillow to his mouth, which caused suffocation. They were four years separated 'by reason of acting the harlot with certain men. It can be proved that she gave him a pint of ale two hours before his death, which appears very singular." After putting some questions to her, the coroner said he considered tke thing merely an idle tale. liubsequently the writer of the letter had an interview with the coroner, and made certain statements, but the coroner declined to proceed any further in the matter unless some more satisfactory evidence was brought forward. • THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS •OF THE LIVERPOOL UNION BANK was held on Wednesday, Mr. J. A Turner in the chair. The nett profits of the bank for the year 1852, sill bad debts deducted, was £42,059 Ils. Id., out of which had been paid a dividend of six per cent., together with a bonus of 6s. per share, leaving a balance of upwards of £14,000 to be carried to the credit of the surplus fend, which now amounts to £70,899. A resolution having been passed in 1818, limiting the dividend to six per cent. until the surplus fund reached £60,000, and this sum being exceeded, hence the necessity of the bonus: .the directors recommended that the surplus should be allowed to accumulate to £lOO,OOO, before any increase of dividend took place, unless, in the meantime the directors thought it advisa ble to declare it. The report was adopted, and also a recommendation to increase Mr. Lister's, the manager's salary. REFORM SOIREE AT MANCIIESTER.-041 Thursday evening a meeting of leading reformers resident in the various towns of South Lancashire, was held at the Town lull, Manchester. It was called in the cards of invitation a soiree; but, estimated by the refreshments served and avant of arrangement to partake of them, it was far below a soiree. Mr. George Wilson was in the chair. He claimed that the forthcoming Reform Bill should give Manchester four members, Liverpool four, and in the whole increase the representatives of Lancashire from twenty-six, the present number, to sixty. Mr. Milner Gibson promised Government his support, provided that their measures were such as to give general satisfaction to him and the constituency of Manchester. Mr. Brother ton, M.P., for Salford, spoke to the same effect. Mr. James Heywood, M.P. for North Lancashire, moved a resolution, engaging the liberal members representing Lancashire to - be a committee in London, to watch over the political interests of Lancashire, in connexion with the new Reform Bill. Mr. Bright seconded this resolu tion. 'Several other members of parliament were present. Mr. William Brown was absent from illness ; and Mr. John Cheetharn, owing to a death in his family. THE LATE W. BONNAR, R.S.A.—The Scotch papers report the death of this celebrated artist, w ho p a i n t e d portraits of many of our local gentry and clergy. Several of these portraits have been engraved, among which are those of the Rev. W. Ewbank, Rev. W. Pollock, Rev. Dr. Baylee, and Rev. H. Hampton. Mr. Bonnar was a native of Edinburgh, and was horn in June, 1300. His father was a house painter of considerable skill, and the son, having from his early years evinced a remarkable aptitude for drawing, was apprenticed to one of the lead ing decorative house painters of the time, in whose esta blishment he ultimately officiated as foreman. When George IV. visited Edinburgh in 1822, Mr. Bonnar assisted Mr. D. Roberts in decorating the Assembly-Rooms for the grand State ball that then took place there. Shortly thereafter some pictorial signboards, painted by him, attracted the notice of Captain Basil Hall, who sought out and encouraged the young artist, advising him as to the class of subjects in which he thought him qualified to excel. In the year 1824. his picture of " The Tinkers," which was exhibited in Waterloo-place, established him as a favourite with the public, and accordingly, shortly after the formation of the Scottish Academy, Mr. Bonner was elected an Academician, and till his death continued one of its most consistent, independent, and useful mem bers. Mr. Bonner has left behind him many fine pictures, and a number of them havebeen engraved, the engravings enjoying extensive popularity. A LIVERPOOL TEACHER COMMITTED FOR MISDE mEANouR.-0a Friday, before his Worship the Mayor, at the Police-court, Michael [on, teacher of navigation, was charged by Mr. John Towson, teacher of navigation at the Sailors',Home, at the prosecution of the Board of Trade, with having fraudently altered the certificate of John Mardon, formerly mate of the schooner Bell. John Mardon deposed that lie had been for six months mate of the schooner Bell, James Robins, master, on a voyage from Liverpool to Vienna and Smyrna, and back to Lon don, and on leaving his service obtained a certificate of character, came to Liverpool on the 7th of January, and went to the prisoner's house for the purpose of receiving lessons in navigation. On Monday or Tuesday last was at his house, when he asked to look at the certificate. On obtaining it, be remarked that the word " sober" was not in it. Mardon said he would write to the captain and get another, when he remarked, " Never mind ; I'll make it aq right." He then took it to another table, and in five or ten minutes returned it to me. Observed that the words " being sober" were interlined. Did not take par ticular notice, not being aware that it was a fraudulent proceeding. A few days afterwards took the certificate to the Sailors' Home. Heard nothing further until sum. moned to appear as a witness. John T. Towson, teacher inter. lineation navigation to the Sailors' Home, deposed to the lineation being in the prisoner's handwriting, The pri. soner (who was defended by Mr. Arnold) was committed for trial for a misdemeanor, but admitted to bail, him self in £5O, and two paretic') of £24 each. A. SIMPLE SIPPER: SERIOUS ROBBERY.-At the Police-office, on Thursday last, Mary Johnson and Ellen Mackay were cha•ged by John Kennedy, captain of the Scipio, with robbiig him of £176 in gold, on the 31st of January last. Theprosecutor deposed that, on the evening of that day, he hsd received the above-named sum for freight, and, meetiag with the prisoners at a public-house in Sherwood-strew, full of beer and kindness. he treated them to a glass of ale each. Not to be outdone, they invited him to their residence, a cellar in Dennison-street, and put him to bjd. He observed the women counting his money, but still went to sleep. On awaking, he found that the two ladies had decampel. The defendants, who stoutly protested their innocence, were committed for trial. Ten pounds only had been recovered, which had been left in the hands of apublican by one olthe women. REFORMATOIV: HULK IN THE MERSEY.—A meeting of the Shipowners' Association was held on Friday, to consider a proposition from Mr. Mansfield, our stipen diary magistrate, that boys convicted for vagrancy and trifling thefts should be sent on board a hulk moored in the river, and there receive such moral and religious train ing, and such instruction in the duties of a seaman as the place, and a period of detention varying from six months to five years, would admit of. The following resolution was unanimously agreed to :—" That this meeting con siders the suggestion deserving of the best support and encouragement of this association, and is of opinion that, although there mhht be exceptions, yet that shipowners generally would not object to taking youths from the hulk (after such moral end religious training as is referred to in the suggestion) who received good characters as respected their conduct whilst there, from the governor or superin tendent." HEALTH COYMITTEE.—At the usual weekly meeting, on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided.—A letter was read from Mr. Lea, the gentleman who, last week, propounded to the committee a plan for street ad vertising, by means of having " indicators" affixed to the different lamp-posts. A report was read from the borough engineer, who was of opinion that the boards would create obstruction to the traffic of the street, and, in themselves, would be most unsightly. They would also offer a great surface for the wind to act on, which, in a storm, would risk the overthrowing of the lamp-posts. Mr. Hodson must confess that he saw something commendable in the scheme. Mr. Dover said the objections which he had previously entertained had been removed by the explana tions of Mr. Lea. Five guineas is the yearly sum asked by Mr. Lea for the privilege of one advertisement. Mr. Lea's proposal was referred for one month. It was like wise agreed to consult the Guardian Society on the sub ject.—The medical officer of health reported that there had been an increase on the mortality of the borough. The deaths were 154 in the parish, and 62 in the extra parochial wards,—totals 216, being 31 more than in the previous week, but 15 fewer than in the corresponding week of the five preceding years. The mortality from zymotic diseases was below the average. There had been only one death from scarlatina. No fatal case of bowel complaint was registered during the week, being the first instance in which this case has occurred since the sanitary act came into operation. Consumption had caused 79 deaths. There had been one death from delirium tre mens, and two from rheumatism. One-third of the mor tality occurred between sixty and ninety years of age. THE MARINERS AND THE CHURCH.—We have seldom witnessed a more gratifying assemblage than that which met on the evening of Wednesday last, at the Concert hall, Lord Nelson• street, where the friends of the Mari. ners' Church Day and Sunday Schools held their annual soiree. The hall was densely crowded, and among the audience were a large number of persons evidently con nected by the ties of relationship, as well as sympathy, with the seamen. The hall was appropriately decorated for the occasion, and appropriate mottoes were hung round the ball, in front of the galleries. The company having partaken of tea, the chair was taken by the Rev. Mr. Maynard, chaplain of the Mariners' Church. In opening the proceedings, he addressed the meeting at some length on the claims of the sailor, both temporal and spi ritual, to their support. The rev. gentleman said, that when they began operations, eleven years ago, they had only £ll 16s. in hand, and they commenced alterations in the building, making a reading-room and school, with the prospect of being £126 in arrear ; but the Lord had blessed their efforts, and they had been enabled to meet it every farthing. The Sunday School was now going on prosperously, and the only thing they had to complain of was that they were cramped—that they wanted more room. They could get the additional accommodation for £6O or £7o.—The Rev. D. L. Barry, curate of St. Paul's, next delivered a humorous and amusing speech, conclud ing with some interesting particulars as to the employment of the sailor, and the dangers to which he was liable when ashore, urging at great length his claims upon the atten tion of the audience. He attacked the expensive, and, as he thought, offensive habit of smoking, which obtained to such an extent among seamen, and expatiated on the good which might be done by the devotion of the im mense sums of money expended in tobacco and snuff, to objects of a higher character than the mere satisfying of a false appetite.—The Rev. James Bardsley, of Manchester, in a speech of great length, directed attention more par ticularly to the question of the education of the mariner. He enforced upon them the necessity of studying a few good and substantial works rather than of roving over a wider range of literature.—Mr. Thomas Bardslev and the Rev. Mr. Butler, minister of the Sailors' Home, afterwards addressed the meeting, and the proceedings did not close till shortly before eleven o'clock. During the evening the choir from the Liverpool Blind Asylum sang several pieces of sacred music in a very creditable manner, and a vote of thanks was unanimously awarded them for their services, and a similar compliment paid to the chairman, by whose exertions chiefly the meeting was one of the most spirited that we have ever seen. In the course of the evening a handsome collection was made. DOCK COMMITTEE.-At the meeting, on Thursday, Mr. Turner presided. The proceedings of the sub-com mittee of works contained a rocommendation that the shed on the east side of the Huskisson dock, used by the New York line of steamers, be enlarged to the best ad. vantage, and that the crane be altered so as to be made available. The recommendation was approved. A tender for a quantity of iron, and two tenders for the supply of oil, were accepted. A grant of f..,6 10s. was made to the master of the Formby light-house, towards damage which his furniture sustained in the gale of the 26th December. The special sub-committee on the new landing -stage re commended that the south end of the proposed new land ing-stage for the sea-going steamers should be placed as carryi with o e far south as the steps of the top of the George's pier. The chairman communicated to the co m mi t te e t he pro ceedings th in e mthaedceouiancwilhoinchtliiet was prec proposed ed t the execution of the works at Wapping. He suggested that it would be a matter for the consideration of the committee whether they would appoint a special meeting for the purpose of reviewing the decision to which they had come.—Mr. Gladstone said his object in recommend ing the adjournment of the council meeting was not only that the dock committee might have an opportunity of reviewing their decision, but also to give time for the members of the council to re-consider the question.—Mr. Nicol thought it was quite irregular for the dock com mittee to meet at all until tie determination of the council had been made known to them in the regular course. He would propose that at the next meeting Mr. North should give them his opinion as to whether their proceedings were not already absolutely passed by the council, for they had allowed the time to go by for exer cising the veto by adjourning the meeting yesterday with out taking a vote.—Mr. Bigham said the Town-clerk gave it as his opinion that it would be perfectly legal to ,exercise the veto at an adjourned council or special council called within seven days after the preceding meeting.— Mr. Nicol remarked that the dock committee must be guided by the opinion of their own solicitor upon all sub iects.—Mr. Bigham said, not only had the Town-clerk given his opinion that the veto upon the proceedings of the dock committee was legal, but that opinion had been confirmed by the opinion of Sir Fitzroy Kelly. He dis tinctly confirmed the opinion of the Town-clerk, but he said further, as he (Mr. Bigham) was told, that any act ofthe dock committee performed after their proceedings or Aecisions had been vetoed by the town council, was performed at the responsibility, risk, and loss or profit of the individuals so acting.—The chairman said, I think the committee is of opinion that however they would wish to hold a meeting to meet the view of the council, there , will be no use in holding such a meeting.—Mr. Bigham.—And this committee refuses to review its deci sion %—The chairman.—No ; there is ao refusal. The financial business of the committee was then proceeded with, and the reporters withdrew. A Gi.i4G OF CocKFrGwrEa.s.—Thirty-two persons were summoned at the police court, on Thursday, on a charge of being engaged in aiding and abetting in the brutal practice of cockfighting. The informations were issued under the third section of the Cruelty to Animals Aet. The defendants were notorious prize.fighters, belonging to this town, to Manchester, Oldham, Chowbent, and other places. This disgraceful proceeding, it appeared, took place on the 20th ultimo. in a large room in a beer house, kept by Matthew Walker, Burlington-street, where upwards of 200 persons had assembled. Detective officer Carlisle, along with detectives Eaton and Lloyd, and police-officer 419, went to the house on the evening in question. Ia going in, Carlisle was asked by a man if he was a better, and, replying in the affirmative, was allowed to go up stairs, and on getting up to the door of the fighting-room he met two men coming out, each with a cock in his hand, the birds bleeding profusely. After waiting in the room for a quarter of an hour, 40 or 50 fresh men entered, and cried " Clear the pit." This pit was regularly constructed, and was five feet in length, and 4i feet in width, in which the fighting of the cocks took place. Two other men, attired in sporting uniform, then entered with cocks; scales were also produced, and the birds were weighed and spurred. The fighting then commenced, bets were exchanged, and the greatest ex citement as to the result of the fight prevailed. Before the battle commenced, Walker, the landlord, ordered the blinds to be pulled down, and less noise to be made, as Lloyd, the policeman, was in the street. Carlisle then went out to obtain the assistance of the other officers, and on coming back he met two men coming out of the room with the two cocks in their hands, one of them having been killed in the conflict. The doors were then closed, and the names and residences of the defendants were obtained. On seeing the officers the greatest con sternation seized the sporting fraternity, and many of them made their escape through the windows.—Matthew Walker, the proprietor of the house, excused himself by saying it was the first offence. He was fined £5 and costs. Most of the other defendants were fined in various sums.—John Roper, 23, Henry-street, (a respectably attired elderly man), said he was summoned for dog fighting. Carlisle stated that the cock that was killed belonged to the defendant. The man's dignity appeared to be offended at the idea that he was summoned for dog fighting. " Here," he exclaimed, "I am summoned for dog-fighting—a thing which I detest. (Laughter.) There is not a man in this place who more abhors dog-fighting than me—that hates the very name more than I do; but from my heart lam fond of a cock. (Renewed laughter.) I have gone 24 miles to see a cock-walk ; but as to dog fighting,"—(Here the court was in a roar of laughter.) 4 : I leave myself in your hands; I want nothing but what is right; but I am fond of a cock from my heart — (laughter)—and when I die I shall have some cock's feathers put in my coffin." (Renewed laughter.) The defendant was ordered to pay a fine of 20s. and costs. Defendant "Then I will willingly pay it, and bow to the court." (Laughter.)--The whole of the fines were paid. AN EXTRAORDINARY MARINE CONVULSION was ex perienced by the Males on her passage from this port to Caldera. On the morning of the 13th of October, being twelve miles from the equator, in long. 19 W, a rumbling noise appeared to issue fr, - nia the ocean, which gradually aced in sound till the uproar became deafening ; th e sea ruse in mountainous waves; the wind blowing from all quarters, the control over the ship was lost, and she pitched and rose frightfully, all on board expecting each moment to be their last. This continued fifteen minutes ; , the water then gradually subsided, when several vessels in sight at the commencement of the convulsion were found to have disappeared. Shortly after a quan!ity of wreck, a part of a screw -steamer, were passed, so that some vessels and lives were lost. TESTIMONIAL TO CApr. PATEY, R.N.—The Liverpool merchants trading to Australia have just forwarded to Capt. Patey, R.N., who was recently the head emigration officer at this port, and is now in command of H.M S. Amphion, three pieces of silver plate, consisting of a large centre for the table, in form of an oak tree, a claret jug, and a large waiter. On each of the pieces is engraved the arms of Captain Patey, and the centre-piece has on the front side of the base a view of George's Pier, on the River Mersey. with the great Landing-stage, and at a distance from it is an emigrant vessel ready for sea, lying in the river, towards which a boat is nearing, filled with passen gers about to embark; one of the other sides contains an appropriate inscription. Captain Patey has acknowledged the receipt of the handsome present In a letter addressed to Charles Morse, Esq., chairman of the committee of subscribers. PRESCOT TOWN Nltsstos.—A_ large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Prescot, was lately held at the Court-room, to promote the interests of the above mission. The chair was kindly taken by Dr. Hibbert Taylor, of Liverpool, who opened the proceedings in a very appropriate address. Some parts of the report were read by the Rev. Thos. Sturges, detailing the devoted and useful labours of Mr. W. Axford, the late missionary. The Rev. Mr. Nevett, of St. Helens, obliged the meeting by a relation of events in his ministry among the careless and neglected. The Rev. Mr. Hewlet, incumbent of Astley, gave a thrilling address on the obligations arising from the doctrines o' the Gospel, to seek not only the spiritual, but temporal good of our neighbours, and of all mankind. The Rev. T. Moody, Wesleyan minister, clesed the proceedings of the evening in a most effective speech, in which he expressed his regret, that so useful an effort had not met with a cordial support from parties who were most deeply interested in the protestantism of the country, and the religious instruction of the lowlier classes. In these remarks the meeting expressed an enthusiastic sympathy, and a vote of thanks was passed by acclama tion to the chairman. TMPORTANT TO SHIPOWNERS.-At the Police.court, Kingstown; near Dublin, a case was brought before the magistrate, arising out of a combination of some seamen on board the brig Marsden, of London, Captain 'Widde combs. This vessel left Liverpool on Friday week, for the Cape of Good Hope, and after being three days at sea, George Ratcliffe, William Roberts, George Cham bers, Charles Hammond, and Donald Blue, refused duty if the vessel proceeded on her voyage, insisting on the master taking them into some near port. They con tinued off duty several hours, when the master, for the safety of the ship, bore away for Dublin, and, on the above charge, obtained a warrant for the men named ; and, on their appearing in court, Mr. W. Rowett, of Liverpool, the agent for the Marsden, who had come expressly from Liverpool to conduct the case, addressed the court at considerable length on the importance of such conduct on the part of the sailors, urging the ne. cessity of keeping a wholesome but determined check on such insubordination, in most impressive terms, that did him much credit, and administered a lesson to the prisoners that they will not soon forget. Various efforts were made on the part of the prisoners to establish a justification of their conduct, but all so frivolous that they could not be entertained by the court, and his wor ship would have passed sentence on them of thirty days' imprisonment - out for the considerate disposition shown by Mr. Rowett, who said he hoped the ends he sought would be obtained if a less imprisonment could be awarded. They were then ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen d ays. GENERAL NEWS. CHARLES SPENCER LLOYD, Esq., has been appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Salop. THE DERBYSHIRE TENANTRY of the Duke of Devon shire have presented their noble landlord with a portrait of himself. VANDALISM.—The old churchyard of Alloway, the scene of Burns's "Tam o'Shanter," has been levelled, and all the gravestones removed. THE FARM LABOURERS in South Wiltshire have struck for an advance of wazes from 7s. to 93. per week. The farmers have offered Ss., which the men refuse. PROFLIGACY.—Harriet Welch, a Yorkshire woman, 30 years of age, attended at the Thames Police-office on Tuesday, and affiliated a child on her own nephew, the mate of a vessel. AT A PUBLIC DINNER, in a little Ayrshire village, the other day, on the health of Lord Eglinton being given, the local band in attendance struck up " Paddy, my boy, take care of yourself !" BRYSON NELSON, an engineer in a bone-crushing yard at Nottingham, while drunk, slipped from a plank into a copper of boiling water, and was so severely scalded that he died the same night. THE Dumfries Courier states that a quantity of tallow recently cast ashore on the Galloway coast is supposed to be part of the cargo of a vessel which was wrecked off the Isle of Man about 50 years ago. THOSE interested in the shipping trade of Troon, one of the safest harbours on the west coast of Scotland, are agitating to have it changed from a creek of Irvine into a separate and independent port. A SPEEDY FORTUNE.—A young gentleman of Glasgow, who has shipped for Australia these last four years, now finds that he has made £40,000, by successful consign ments of rough goods to that quarter. THERF, is now living at Tolleshunt Major, a labourer, named Joseph Bateman, who has reached the age of 102 years. His wife has been dead many years, but he has a son living SO years old.—Essex Herald. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A young man, named King', who was employed in stacking straw in a barn at Page's. ham, Essex, a few days since, fell from the stack upon the points of a pitchfork, and was killed on the spot. THE STAMFORD MAGISTRATES sentenced a drunken platelayer to 14 days' imprisonment, but doubled this term when the prisoner " hoped that tl►e magistrates might stop on the bench till he came out again." SUSPICIOUS JOKE.—Two men, who were found secreted in a bed-room in a hotel at Kingston-by-sea, have been committed respectively for one and three weeks. Their defence was that they only did it for a joke. AIRS. SLOANE, whose case has excited so much public interest, and whose husband (who was imprisoned with her) died some time back, was on 'Wednesday morning discharged from Newgate. She was in a bad state of health, and looked very weak. THE very large sum of £43,000 has been paid into the Savings Bank connected with the Sailors' Home in Well street, London, in the last year. The government has resolved to establish Savings Banks at the different ship ping offices throughout the country. DiQTRDER.—A man named Thos. Mockett, a bricklayer's labourer, is in custody in London, charged with the wilful murder of Eliza Lea, aged 26 years, by thrusting her into the Regent's Canal. The deceased had lived with the prisoner upwards of six years. THE GREENWICH BRUTALITY.—Mary Ann Oldham, the woman who caused the death of John Gaywood, aged six years, in the Greenwich Union Workhouse, by placing a piece of red hot coal in his hand, has been committed to Ncwgate for trial, on the charge of manslaughter. SUNDAY TRADING.—Mr. Harris, chief constable of the county force, has issued a notice stating that the police are everywhere instructed to proceed against all parties who shall exercise their worldly callings on the Lord's Day after this warning.— Worcester Journal. PUFFERY.—During the examination in the London Insolvency Court, on Wednesday last, of an insolvent who had kept a pie-shop in Marylehone, it was stated, that on the first night of opening his shop, ha put some fourpenny pieces into his pies, in order to attract customers. THE LATH STEAM-SHIP AMAZON.—The directors of the Royal West India Mail Steam-packet company have determined upon erecting, in the chapel of the South ampton cemetery, a monument to the memory of the pas sengers and crew who lost their lives in the bay of Biscay, in January last year, through the destruction of the above steam-ship by fire. A SPANIARD and his lady, the latter speaking English fluently, have been in Ayr, during the past fortnight, engaging a sore of young needlewoman to go with them to Spain, to introduce the style of Ayrshire needlework into that country. The couple are quite unknown in Ayr, and all the girls solicited are very good-looking. The Ayr .Advertiser hints that all is not right. GREAT REJ DICING took place in the towns on the Tyne during the past week, on the return of some more of the crews of vessels blown away on Christmas Day. In one instance, in the case of the missinz crew of the John Burrell, so hopeless seemed any prospect of their being in the land of the living, that some of the wives of the crew were preparing mourning for themselves and families. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.--One of the most extra ordinary freaks of nature hsppened, a few days ago, in Berwick-street, Oxford-street. Mrs. Emma Echert, the wife of a wealthy tailor, of No. 65, in the above street, was confined, and brought into tho world a full-grown female child, with two distinct heads and necks. It is said the lady dreamt, a fortnight ago, that her child would have two heads. A STRANGE LITTLE WOMAN.—The Scottish papers announce the death, at Cowroading-street, Stevenston, on the 30th ultimo, of Barbara Cowan, aged 89 years. Deceased was in height only three feet six inches ; she was very active, and a good hand at the needle; she never saw the town of Kilwinning or that of Ardrossan, having never been out of the parish in which she was born. A sister of hers is living, also advanced in years, and a little less in height than deceased. ROMANCE OF ADVERTISING.—The Times of Friday contains the following advertisement :—" To M. L. L. — M. L. L., you have chosen your own lot: may it be a happy one ! and if it be so, I would not have you think of the desolate heart you leave behind; but, oh ! my if sorrow should ever overtake you, if you shoul d find, when too late, that you have been leaning on a Woken reed, then, my Maria, come back to her whose heart has ever cherished you ; she will always be rea d y to rec eive you." A LONDON FOG.—London was visited on Tuesday by one of the densest fogs ever known boys with link s made a considerable sum of money to guiding people in peleveaolongg, b t 1 :1 e t street. Numerous acciden ts occurred in h not any of a serious nature. An engine, going t o a f i re at Walworth,thofitiagmhi?letaguhxte,drabnylestfftwrtoahnse road into the moving strong lamps, and aided necessarily on the way with Ele phant and Castle public - house. slowly, instead of its usual pace, or the d amage m i g h t lave been lerioui. DANGER gild abou old was recently left alone in a roo by a domesticated ferret, which inflicted a number of ,ttacked severe wounds on its neck, an( Its re- is not, tter of Groat Journal STRANGE -.—During the fierce gale on Wed nesday week, a woman named & - ewart, about 24 years of atZer when walking in the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, was blown with great violence against a lamp-post, and severely injured. She died on Sunday in the infirmary, from the injuries she received. ACCIDENT, DEATH OF GREAT GRAND-CHILDREN OF BURNS.—We find the following in the Dumfries Courier :—" Died,- at sea, on board th e ship Chance, from Liverpool to Port Philip, on the ith September last, Arabella Ann ; on the Bth September, Robert Burns ; on the 18th September, Arthur Vincent, the only children of Mr. Berkeley W. Hutchinson, surgeon, government medical officer of the Chance, and great grand-childr en of Robert Burns." Mrs. Hutchinson is the daughter of Major James Glencairn Burns, and was educated in Dumfries under the care of her grandmother, " Bonnie Jea.i." OUR DEFENCES IN THE 'WEST.—There is not a single soldier between Exeter and Plymouth. The F renc h may land whenever they please and burn Teignrnouth, (as they did 160 years since,) Torquay, and the othe r seaports, pillage all the coast for 20 miles inland, even to the capital of the west of Exeter. There is only a 32-pounder gun at Exmouth for the use of the Coast Guard, the only one mounted between B. islol and Plymouth, a distance of 130 miles. The French may land and smoke their pipes all the way 4. ‘o the Topsham and Exeter barracks without opposition.—United Service Gazette. SHREWSBURY AND BIR.MII'cGHAM RAILWAY pecial meeting of this company on Mundt —At the last week). the resolution in favour of the Great Western hills, now before parliament, was lost, and an amendment in favour of the North-Western proposals carried. Mr. Russell, the chairman of the Great Western, has since addressed a letter of remonstrance to the Hon. R. H. Ciive, chairman of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, urging that the course adopted is a most direct. breach of agree ment with the Great Western, and that, while parliament are never likely, on grounds of public policy, to sanction an alliance with the North-Western, there is every pro bability that the union with the Great Western would not be opposed. TRIAL. FOR MURDER.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, John Parrott, 45, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Sarah Parrott. The prisoner got his living by hawking meat about the streets : he and his wife lodged in a garret at 6, Spicer-street, Spitalfields, and they were in a most wretched state of poverty. The deceased woman was in a very weak and emaciated state of body, and nearly blind ; and the parties were continu ally quarrelling. On the evening of the 7th December, the deceased and the prisoner were heard quarrelling, and the prisoner told her that "he would do something for her the next day." On the following morning a woman named Merritt heard cries of " Murder," for nearly half an hour. She was found dead in bed. The prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to transportation for life. THE PHILISTINE OF THEOLOGY.—Dr. Cahill, who has been engaged in a series of lectures on " the principal dogmas of the Catholic faith," at " St. George's Cathe dral," having indulged in the true Goliath style—" i offer a premium to the man that can meet me—l should like to hear the man that would contradict me"—the Rev. R. Maguire, of Trinity Church, Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn fields, has accepted his challenge. If the account given of the lectures in the Tablet is to be depended upon, the doctor must have undergone a great change—" for," says that journal, " no word of offence to the creed of another falls from his lips—no vulgar abuse dishonours his sacred profession." " Error," we are told, " disappears before him as the mower cuts down the thin grass, and the most abstruse points of Catholic doctrine are made so clear, that men smile at their former ignorance, in not seeing what now appears clear as noon day." TAE REAL SEA SERPENT.—On the night of Saturday week, when the tide was high and a gale blowing, there was cast ashore at Torduff Point, parish of Graitney, a large tree, which was at the time mistaken for some mon ster of the deep, and may have led some who saw it in some distant latitudes to believe that it was in verity the mysterious sea serpent himself. The tree is 38 feet in length,and at its thickest part 6 feet in circumference, and is estimated to weigh about five tons. The huge roots are still attached to the trunk, and from one end to the other the tree was covered with sea-weed from one to two feet long, while adhering to the end of each strip is a shellfish. The seaweed was thrown round the tree, as it rose and fell with the waves, like a flowing mane ; the shells made a rattling noise against each other; and, as the roots now sank under water, now rose above the waves, there is little wonder that the vegetable was taken for some huge production of the animal kingdom,— Dumfries Courier. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Tuesday morning, as the fast up goods train was approaching the Clay Cross Station, on the North Midland line, it ran into the break of another goods train which was being shunted into a siding to make way for the fast goods train. Both trains were smashed to pieces, but fortunately no one was hurt.—On the same day, an accident, attended with very serious consequences, occurred on the Midland Railway, a little to the north of Leicester. It appears that as a ballast train was standing at the ballast hole, a goods train coming up on the same line of rails ran into that which was stationary. The fireman of the goods train was very severely hurt, and much injury was done to the goods. So severe was the collision that both lines of rail were completely shut up for several hours.—On the same day, an accident occurred on the South-Eastern Railway. The 12.30 p.m. train for Ramsgate !eft London at its proper time, but when within two miles of the Penshurst Station the whole of the train, except the engine, ran off the rails. Twelve passengers received cuts and bruises, but none of a serious nature. By means of the electric telegraph assistance was quickly procured, and the passengers, with the exception of one, who was conveyed to Tunbridge, were transferred to other carriages, and the train proceeded to Ramsgate. SHOCKING BRUTALITY. —At the petty sessions at Devizes a man named John Webb, residing at Market Lavington, was charged by Mr. Stratton, of Gore Farm, with cruelly ill-using his four children, the eldest of whom is only eleven years of age. It appeared that the poor children had recently lost their mother, and since her death they had been entirely at the mercy of a drunken father. An intelligent, pretty looking girl, about eight years of age, in a very timid manner made the following statement to the magistrate :—She said that her father night after night had come home drunk, taken her out of her bed, beaten her, and thrown her across the room. Mr. Stratton stated that on the night of the 29th of December last, about seven o'clock, as he was returning through Market Lavington, he heard fearful screams pro ceeding from a house. " Don Tee, father, don't'ee, father : oh, don't'ee, father," screamed a child in the most piteous voice. He drew up his horse and looked through the window, when he saw the defendant punching the head of a little girl with his fist. He made some in quiries, and was informed that this was a matter of almost daily occurrence, and that the four children were con stantly subjected to this creel treatment. The screams of the child, he said, were of the most heart-rending descrip tion, and when he went to the place next day the neigh bours flocked around him and begged him to take the case up. The defendant was in an independent position, being in the receipt every week of an income of 30s. Several witnesses gave evidence of the brutal treatment the chil dren had received. Their grandmother said she had seen the bedclothes on which they had lain saturated with blood, which had been drawn from them by their unna tural parent. The magistrates required the defendant to find two sureties of £lOO each, in addition to his own surety of £2OO, to keep the peace towards his children and every one else: As the sureties were not forthcoming he was committed in default. While in prison his income will be applied to the maintenance of the children. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—The case Good win v. Pegge, was tried at the court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday. The defendant pleaded that since the mak ing of the alleged promise the plaintiff had conducted herself lewdly with nine persons, whom he named, and with divers others to the defendant unknown. It ap peared that the plaintiff was one of 13 children. Her father was a brewer, at Battle, in Sussex, and also the keeper of a beer-shop there. The defendant Edward Morrison Pegge, was an auctioneer, formerly residing at Battle, but now at Hastings. The plaintiff and her sisters were milliners at Battle. Her acquaintance with the defendant commenced in the year 1847, and continued for several years, during the course of which time she had had two children, one of whom had died, and the other had been supported by the defendant. The defendant all along professed the greatest attachment to her, and pro mised to marry her. On one occasion he presented her with a wedding-ring, which she worn upon her finger. Several letters were read from the defendant to the imam tiff, in which he professed the greatest affection for her, but instead of marrying her, as he had promised, he had broken off the connexion, and united himself in marriage to another person. Tile plaintiff's sister was called, and proved the main points of the case. In cross-examina tion, she was asked several questions as to the correct ness of her own conduct in respect of chastity, which she declined to answer, alleging, as a reason for her refusal, that she was not bound to answer such questions. The father was called, and stated that the defendant had been in the habit of visiting his daughter as her suitor; and the plaintiff's brother-in-law proved that the defendant was now married. The defence was, as alleged in the defendant's plea, that the plaintiff had conducted herself in a lewd manner with a great number of persons, who were named. Several witnesses were called in support of this defence. They spoke to the fact that the m illiner's shop at Battle was resorted to at various times by young men, who smoked cigars and drank brandy and water there. They did not, however, give very distinct evidence as to the unchaste conduct which was attributed to the plaintiff. The jury gave a verdict for the i p m,oe l nAr a , i c n tio t l i s ff t.:_hee damages £5O. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, A CERTAIN CURE FOR or t he HEADACHES, AND WEAR l l u n n e g u s r b a l r e e fr diseases equen loss o f s t r ength, a dloss of energy. 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