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

7 d ea in liC OOP 8 u j 0 ,cciii of tie s 5. n d 91 ,hen 111 , 1 WOTio gr. , 11' r e , ci'o s 11 ici a 0 t LL , Lter a song, 5 0 is . liig re, tero, ehiU g vet , at L P I 03 a fr °° , ins pec o Ffe h ' ‘ lef 03" of Blacl v a_ atv G the pa! : on Wednei accompaniet LIE PASSE Presented t o t weir su CLITHEnon ELE have decided that 1 1 the last election for is not duly elected. 'n, have, unson ten 5 per cent. GRISENTHWAITE, one of the men in the force, was on Sat ?r, rice Mr. He.' -,", 4.ecc.tlsed. which sailed for ers by the Baltic, lay, was M. Jullien. the C by his agent, Dr. Joy. on board the ship Saratoga have •geon, Mr. Pearson, a most gratifying .rvices on board that vessel. lON.- . The parliamentary ei ispinall was guilty of treatinz at borough of Clitheroe, and that he " 'R.,. . —mo,kn-SHAups."—n Tuesday an em so nndled of £9, by four swe O llishly-dressed men, igrant known to was the police as " broad-sharps," by the ordi nary mode of card-pitching," near the Waterloo Dock. A SAGE POLICEMAN.—OnTuesday, a policeman, gifted 'beyond his fellows with foreseeing wisdom, left an inebri ate tailor lying in Temple. court, to his fate, " on the plea" that he was not drunk enough to be locked up. THE WARRINGTON GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF ART has been established with every prospect of success. Mr. Collinson, the master, has been appointed by the Govern ment Department of Practical Art. AN UN RTUNATE SAILOR, named John Foley, was on Thursday night, opposite the a state of helpless intoxication, ban over C ustora-honse, wuue ttnd killed on the soot jOII X GLOVER. captain of the trig Maserene, loading Zthe Wellington Dock, fell from a ladder into the dock i e Fr klaY moraine, about two o'clock, and was drowned. was intoxicated at the time. Fa l ITY-oye VESSELS are now loading at the port of Tw7erPool for Australia, giving a total of 26,082 tons. taral t Y - %qt of these vessels are bound for Melbourne, for O r , A delaide, five for Melbourne and Sydney, eight D R 7 ne7 Only, and one for Port Philip. in t h :LR Cavetn BY A Psw.—A few weeks ago, a girl ham workhouse acc id en t a lly s wa ll o wed a pin, which chap the skill of the surgeons to remove. Th e poor de hi Plitath wasted gradually away until Tuesdaymorning, when at end to her sufferings. st ru Af Ms. the Liverpool detective, who was mainly in tt.a4ental. in the apprehension of the clerk to the Got altore.,r4.g who had decamped with property to the w vi j e t ti h t - . Z el 'i nc : ititi : st l . ,3oo, has been presented by the prosecutors an acknowledgment for his smart and effi- A e tt zen-raieerin.—On Thursday a woman named the :\l 'lrPhy was sent to goal for a month, for steal i ng_ inf ant and stockings of a child 18 months old. _ .The ana / r was met in the street without shoes or stockings, eke ?' to the bell-ma - n's 'house. Bia t , 40 E4 ' l° Tzs.—A. stop-watch observer of nature, in cry -,-1;e - Park, ha s ascerta i ne d t h at t h e cuc k oo utters its in t h e ' times an hour; the sparrow produces 700 chirps 116C_ s irne period ; and .the lark passes 7,000 notes, or per minute Je n "-, • t i k. al e li o n m p - o ' ll ' l n A arrisrees,meTsey-view,Toxteth r park,receivel fracture of the skull, on Friday, by a bar Pri nc e, f r i ,arri the rigging of the ship Bellona. In the at the He died immediately after his arrival sE orteern Hospital. office iz i ;„" v cm COIN/NG IMPLEMENTS.—At the Police catieef.l;Nit'ldsaDye'etOar .wkollainaenk' w n i a th me b d eing lar in y possession of on info Y rn, '°f f.t e°i ning materials, which he had discovered, ease was -- r a ," , ;':ri her house in Raymond-Street. The N rw . o n ' ar `aed. l in der the `q tr AND SCHOOLS are about to be built Qociety . a "Piees of the Liverpool Domestic Mission laiAsht„ site has been secured in Bedford-street and tr, T reet, loxteth-park. The foundation-stone was hank, i "ItaY last by Rethbane, Esq., of Green echo ° Presence of a large assemblage of people and ars, :4the 001, d "s'ICAL GARDENS.—Though Si g nor Lea c h and rarnatie company have departed from the gardens, ;Y,l)..buraildu has p rov id ed other novelties for this week. J:he Ersser family will please by 'its 'dramatic entertain reents, the'Leclerq family will delight with its terpsicho rean performances, and the Dentin family will astonish by tts gyrnrenstic tricks. THE 1 3 i'SNUAL a ASSEMBLY" Or • TKE WESLEYAN.' As soctATrow has b een holding its meetin gs in this town. The Rev. M r . C aryeth has been for some time at issue with the assembly upon some points of church discipline and government, and now it would - seem they have come 'to a res o l u ti on t o expe l hi m from their body. A remons trance upon the subject has been addressed to the z epresentatives. 1 - 1/S - EXCELLENCY THE L3RD-LIEUTENANT of Ireland, Who st arte d f rom Kingstown on Sunday evening week for London, having received a pressing summons on the m orning of that day from the Premier, to be in attend ance in the House of Lords on the debate on the Succes -tm‘Duiies Bill, has paid aligh compli men t to C apta i n Williams and the steam-ships-Windsor, belonging to the ei tY of Dublin Company, in which he crossed the Channel. ex triox.—Selling ginger beer on the Lord's day, lortkerr.tyise than within the hours appointed by the 11 and 4 . ap. 49, intituled, Au act for regulaang ..e "he of beer and other liquors " on the Lord's day," is t an r e nee agai ns t t h at statute. At H al i fax, two persons T.e fined in the sums of £1 Its. and £2 125., for selling lzanday.ger beer before h a lf-p ast twe l ve o ' c l ock on the previous LE•r• r • t • - ens FOR A'CsTRAti.A.. Letters for the"-Great 4 it9 in may b e sent through any post-office in the Tong "), but must have writtinvin one corner " Per Great Briti an from L:yerpool;" otherwise they will be sentlpy li •M• post.office sailing packet, and be charged Is. in stead of Bd. to Melbourne. The Great Britain will take all letters arriving in Liverpool through the past-office-up to the morning of the nth of 'August. STRIKE EXTRAORM NA R —Last week two barbers, father and son, residing in the neghbourhood of Lam merbead-green, .truck for an :advance of one-halfpenny her shave, to which the bearismen demurred ; and, in consequence, a public meeting was called, when - they came to the deterrninatiorrto resist the cent. per cent. ad vance, by going to Wigan to get their beards cut. — Preston Chronicle. °7 A.T THE BOROUG-H 'SESSION -6, on Friday, John Clarke, 11, and Joseph Murphy, 47 (postponed from the last 1 8 ,1 1 °o 9 ). were indicted, the former for having, on the vv "'" of Mar c h l as t, f e l on i ous l y sto l en 500 lb s . o f co tt on ~001, the property of James 'Watson Good, and Murphy th receiving the same. The jury returned a verdict of guilty for Clarke., and one of guilty against Murphy 1m re c ei vi ng . Murphy was sentenced to twelve months' ~,P ri s - onment, with hard labour. an t Ar '* t a ree, t; Ligron LAW FOR LIVERFOOL.--,::. IVilliTg of the M er sey Teetotal M ers the other night, r. not ,7 11 's said :—The time would come when they should to b e ed their processions.; when teetotalism would-cease graZ ei llsivelv a moral and social question, and become "oule,n high political one ;—(cheers;)—when they karid, fo a l] upon the Legislature for interference, and de verot, e own protection, - if not for that of tne Go tiltini,i7elit. a Maine Law,—(Lotd cheers). This would l y be the case, and the teetotallers could bide their th e Witt.r 1)El ln ' Gt; n- .iNs.—Mr. Allpass presided a ~,, eeting of Lis board on Wednesday, when it was-it_e,e liniv_ed that a call be made on the several townships i t n n, . 1 e p ai d for t 2,859 ls• 94. far county rate, such ir call b iati t : r ; e 'r before the i . icl of August next. 11 . Cleaver fe,„.,..ked that he had written to the poor-law board, i .n n : t h em-tats of that l'iir. Deane, medical officer, was an i ~ - ""`e 0 f lu n • • toirilFingliPtreo°stgmpletafet: ect 0 , h . and t tn ha , t ae a n t ith p . res T en n t e tellieerrke way AlitttArlE wrte to Mr. Clayton, the architect, urging AT flew hospital as soon as possible. tlisord 1 ~' .., er t el h sa se restoration 'n m PES TIVITIUS.—Arzang the " drunk and sae one Si hc.ases before the Salford magistrates last week, li att w ich excited some interest. On Monday, 4. _ itel 11,, d - aZess, a painter, was married at the Cath h e n d u r s l irszent with his bride and a party cf . friendstoa In th e (I 'rcl, where they spent the morning e i t n drinking. tae of the afternoon, Burgess in an old sweet- Ma e nand being so far drunk that he did . not . reflect upon ketposequences, he introduced her to his wife, who, irn -4 ,rotrately resented the "outrage upon-her feelings, and fight, fi • fou l knock on the head, _ e 43 ' war commenced which ultiatelen ,, d h e i d eh in le a t 0 Ilt urgess getting a . 3 , 8°41 e of his hotblood, and his wife a shocki f ng b b e la h c e k ld ey in . tt: G " SOUTH 'LANCASHIRE Aaszzcs are .9 . Mr, , r eorg e , s Hall to-morrow week. Mr. Justice Erie am e * dusti Wiglotman will be the el ti llar ee trialpresiding fudges. isone r s The fo; int e rs. o whom 3 are to be in contains n list of np7a d r ic d t s ed of for murder, pr 2 for 28 ;, 4 for manslaughter, 1 for my 1 for stabbing, l obo o,_r burglary, - s:for rape, .sacrilege, - 5 for arson, 7 for bigamy,:! ~ uousebreaking, 4 for forgery, 3 for p . erjury, 14 for ace , er i y, a for horse-stealin, 7 for uttering base c2 . i . n e , t ' l, ird -4d 3 for ' to defraud the customs. Ir. bi th evs i, ei conspiracy . thi se a; ude the lei'. is of a sailor named Mar on the . s seas, a ,nd tle stabbing of a sailor by a w°4141, in i k % he two , cases of intent are, the killing Poisoning affair°otia • 7l the yng. _, p. gai ery v prostitute o f m a I b Vivian O'Reef, w"ich lately took place at Ashton-uncle he W e htra 1 i T n i tat R . Ev. J e C ,J O it ififaitlliestaan in this 4 rgus of the 12 -to insin Aic!ieltl't et , the following from the , - 1,4. TE OF OLDRAfS 3 T ie S l, c o o u t rne -cil l T ad he to f h ri e e a n r d o s f ofthe hiswel r fs e r v e sn it D r field of labour i A t li .n Z ....us_ra QUEEN thiS eau. " tE s 33 YTER /AN c unca .—The committee of on tch met in the seete u s e j; o ol-room, Collins-streot, the of Monday last, inconsequence of their h a e l r, the R ev. John Reid, hawing received a call from Th reabYteria • h blants of the parish of Doutta Galin. e nni e la il i t e t ° ' A lr.- 11 C i l n ow n having been calle . d to expressive chair, the their atta Passed a series of resolutions. tof tet a h 3 h . c tn en tto Mr. Reid, and of_their intention o Astir,. 1 .. 41 ' if Possible, in his present sphere of usefulness. i ncle r ` nu °f £4OO per annum was guaranteed to Mr. Reid, go., Pendent of an equal sum to which he is entitled from elai„serrlizent under the new church act. The competing th a V of Slelbourne and Flemington will be presented which taa e reision of the Presbytery of Melbourne. 8 on the first Wednesday of April next." il,r ek , TRADE. —lt is OF THE AUSTRALIAN ._ Times ° b i el la e a v t ed t A lZ, in consequence of an article in the fro m ~w,eek, the general rates of freight have advanced pu_ 'ka to ~.. ers offering to Melbourne and Sydney £5, while the increase in the number of 7;... ,renlarkl, better Some shipowners have fou ts n d d e Igioit p ar e hand; s than passengers, and are taking mer osiugtnathteadt Gibb s I.n preference to men and women. Messrs. 13.4' , Bright, and Co., are doing this with the Great lithsi:Aoinv;eraenigdri so are Messrs . James Baines and Co. with of the Seas—in both instances because they fo4nd readily obtain, enormous rates for the chance of abl e. r d„',nx goods by the most rapid conveyance attain shi- ... a llot a more striking instance is that of the new ~ 1 rta4n, one of Messrs. Millers and. Thompson's .Golds n Line " which was expressly designed for the nye , 4.1(). Yanee of passengers only. Her owners, however, th:, Prefer freight to steerage passengers. and announce Of e 0 will only take first and second cabin " fares." 1 , 44 211r,se. those who can afford to pay the higher rates b4o,,‘ ° ° increasedvs comf o rt get the worth of their extra stoney in .—Liverpool hums!' THE LIV EV POO e died in I a bowel comp' THE ORMSKIRK Gas WORKS are now incorporated act of parliament. was sal a boiler , St. Hel I works of Mr. Gam , on the 19th ultimo James I & w ively, Joseph iith and TiplPn 'a lo went up - a sewer near gaswol. vapour. ST. JAMES a RCH, _ the foundation.stohe of the new schou.-. omit, _ connexion with the church was laid by the youthful Lord Skelmersdale. .frocated FATHOM.-011 :sday 1 CHILD MURDER AT OIUISKIRK.—Mary Hale, a young °man at Ormskirk, has been committe, charge of " wilful murder," the victim being male child, to which she had secretly given birt THE DEATHS IN LIVERPOOL up to Satt numbered 124 in the parish, and 58 in the out-township total, 182, being 31 less than the average of the same week of former years. day week MR. J. MAcLoGHLIN, of Liverpool, having passed his examination before the Board of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, on Friday, 22d ult., has been admitted a member of that profession. A FIRE broke out about two o'clock on Friday morning at the chalk and whiting works of S. B. Walrot, Parliament-strret. It originated in the ignition of the beams over the stove or kiln. Mr. Hewitt was quickly on the spot, and the fire was arrested ere much damage had been done. WARNING TO HOI73EHOLDERS. -On Wednesday morning, the servant of a family resident in Ashton street. Pembroke-place, who had been sweeping the steps in front of the house, while she retired to . the - back parlour, was stealthily followed by a fellow in the guise of a journeyman painter, who took a coat off the rail over the kitchen stairs, and bolted. OVERLOADING OMNIBUSES.—At the Police-office, on Friday, Thomas Elliot Greep, driver of one of Messrs. Gates' dock omnibuses, was summoned for having a larger number of passengers than As permitted by law. Greep said he had enough to do to mind his horses, without looking back ; and Mr. Mansfield directed that the conductor, instead of the driver, should be summoned. ISLE OP MAN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—At the half-yearly meeting of tho proprietors, held on Tuesday last, at Douglas, it appeared that the amount received from the passeneer traffic, as compared with the cor responding period of last year, had been increased by about £4OO. It was resolved to pay a dividend of four per cent on the half year, besides adding a considerable sum to the surplus fund. THE LATE ELECTTON.--0a Thursday, a deputation 'from the electors of West Derby ward waited upon Mr. Robertson Gladstone, and presented him with a com plimentary address. Mr. Gladstone, in acknowledging the address. disclaimed on his part the merit ascribed to him, and said that it was owing to the disinterested activity and zeal of Mr.Georze ill!t end Mr. J. R. Jeffery that the electors were principally indebted for the nomi nation of Sir Erskine Perry at the last election.--,-Lirfr pool Chronicle. AT THE KINGSTOWN REGATTA, on T Wednesday, the only Liverpool yacht a ran was the celebrated to del to R. M. Grinnell, Eso for yachts •of 15 _,caong those ~ the Truant, belonging aon Tuesday v nrize tons and under, but lost all cLance by going to rescue the crew of one of 'the competing boats, which had upset. On Wednesday the Truant ran with seven other yachts of 12 tons and under, and came in fourth, being 22 minutes behind the leading boat, the Imp. • - A SAVAGE POLICEMAN.—At the Police-court, last week, a young man, late No. 2SS in the police force, was fined 40s for breaking the jaw of a lodging-house keeper, named William Fairburn, in Calton-street, on the night of Wednesday, the 20th ult. The Officer who acted thus brutally was taking Fairburn -dfl' to prison for an assault upon his wife, when he lost his temper it the provoking words of Fairburn, and struck him repeatedly with his stave, till his jaw was transversely fractured. lORGING A MAGISTRATE'S SIONATtRE.—At the po lice-oEce on Thursday, Thomas Brunn, a man of very respectable exterior, was brought up on a charge of forging the name of Mr. Mansfield. stipendiary magistrate, to a pawnbroker's affidavit. Mr. Mansfield deposed to the forged signature being - : very bad imitation indeed. The case was remanded for seven days, by the sitting magis trate, Mr. Rathhone. THE MORTALITY'6I , A QUARTEn..—During the quarter ending the 2nd of July, the death:, in the borough were '2550, being 611 fewer than in the previous quarter, and 2G7 less than the average of the same period of the five previous years. Allowing for the increase in population ,, the decrease in the mortality of the last quarter amounted to about 420. The deaths from diseases of thu 'zymotic' class were 487, aga:nst an average of 830 in the same -quar ter of former years. The most striking decrease was in the mortality by typhus fever, which amounted to only 86, a smaller number than in any quarter previously recorded. A LivEßrao-1, ATTORNE: SENT TO PRISCN.-- - At the sessions, on Wednesday last, Thomas Pattison, a young Liverpool solicittr, was ordered to be imprisoned for six months for having defrauded Jame -, Hankin cf the sum of ss. nankin, who is a builder at Kirkdale, had committed a case to the care of Pattisen, who obtained the cash on the strtr:gth of the proceeeings which he alleged he had taken, hut in which, it was subsequently found, he had done nothing whatever. IdArnaroctn'TowN IMP-novEmENrs.—The;first meeting of the committee took place in the Council-chamber, at the Town-hall, on Wednesday last. William Earle, Esq., was elected chairman, and J. R. Jeffery. 'Esq., deputy chairman. A note was read from the Mayor, regretting his unavoidable absence in Derbyshire, and it-was agreed that the appointment•of -sub-committees, to consider and report on the various schemes of improvement, and on the financial measures necessary to secure the execution of some comprehensive plan of town improvement, should be postponed until the next meeting. then adjourned The committee Dock CommirrEE.-- , ..Mr. Turner presided at the meet ing on Thursday. The improvements - in the room .ere . now completed, and the arrangements f or .the press are considered satisf a ct or y. —M r . ,Gladstone inquired whether it-was to be understood as an established prin ciple that en increased rate of interest be given for morey lent by charitable institutions.—The chairman replied that they were governed by the circumstances of the case.— The tender , (:f . Messrs Rigby and Salked for bricks, and that of Anderson and for coal, were accepted.—lt was agreed that in future the rate of charge for storing timber on - the storing ground at the east of Huskisson dock be 1-Md. per square yard per week, and on the east quay of the dock id.. p er square yard per week,The harbour-masters committee recommended certain altera tions at the Brunswick and Coburg clocks, in order to give a greater depth of water, and admit vessels of larger beam. Cortfirmed.--The harbour-mater reported that the ship James Wright get aground on Wednesday, to the south of the Sandon basin. The accident was attributed to the pilot.--A report Was received from the superinten dent of the Albert warehouses, stating that he had made experiments with the hide rope, and found it unsuitable for outside work. COUNTY COrRT. - M g C3RMICK v. CHARLES DANVERS HACKETT.—ThiS was an action tried on Wednesday, for a balance of salary due on account of services rendered and work done by the plait:tiff, to the "Sacred Harmonic Society," of Liverpool, of -which the defendant is con ductor. Tbe.claim .was -for commission-on names ob- tained by plaintiff, as patrons and subscribers whilst so employed. 'lle defendant made a " set• off" on the alleged plea, that several gentlemen who had signed their names in the canvassing or subscription-book did so merely as patrons to the society, at the instance of the plaintiff, thus hating no intention of becoming paying subscribers, (though they distinctly signed under the heading of subscribers,) and consequently declined paying up their subscriptions when called upon to do .30. His Honour, after a patient hearing of the case, thought it not a little strange-that such respectable persons should -so attach their signatures, thereby influencing the public -to become subscribers, and thus force a sci-dis 6.-4 status to any society, whilst it altogether freed them from any further pecuniary engagement, as to their subscriptions. :However, as it was denied by the plaintiff that he can vrssed or solicited solely on the grounds of patronage, and without further responsibility, (as the prospectus of the society clearly showed forth) his Honour postponed biz de cision, and adjourned the hearing of the case until the 10th of August, to give the defendant an opportunity of bringing a number of witnesses into court, whose letters, though not received as evidence, went to say,- that the writers signed their names in the subscription-book merely as patrons, and not as subscribers. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—Mr. Langsdals, presided at the weekly meeting on Thursday. A letter was read from Mr. William Rose, stating that he had ,completed his preparations for taking the night soil out of the borough. and was ready to commence as soon as the council had completed the necessary tipping place in Burlington street. 4. sewer was ordered to be constructed in Spring field-street ,; estimated cost, £144. The chairman stated that it had been suggested to have a depu tation from the board to wait upon the Finance Com mittee relative to the fees for magisterial business.—Mr. Dover said that about £lOOO per annum was paid for summonses and warrants, while they were written ,out and servedmm summonses hetusel2ves, s ; and it was thou g ht th at 2 s . f or t h e 61. for warrants was too much, suts and especially when it came upon the more humble classes of ratepayers.—Mr. Gladstone considered that there should be a reduction of the charges for summonses and war rants ; while almost everything else was being reduced, solicitors kept up their charges, and so long as they had the presfine of the Town-clerk for keeping up the rates they would never get law reform.—Mr. Bigham said there were from 20,000 to 25,000 appeals annually, and 1-10th had to go before the magistrates for having neglected to obey the orders of the committee ; if they withdrew the penalty involved in the summoning, he believed 19,000 out of 20000 would go before the magistrates.—ln reply to a question, Mr. Ashlin, the treasurer, said that the taxes remitted amounted to 121 per cent. of the whole amount, or about £BOOO per annum.—There being no ocbojmeemtiiotnteeto? the the da r d ec ep o u m t m at e io n nw ti a o i n theastinweupaognreedto.—The Finance .—he c m u e r d re icl aaatorhecer pre ex vi p o l u a s ine m d e , e i t n ing re a f s ere to nce s pthersowlniaatllhegadedotco have been employed in his (Dr. Duncan's) office, at a guinea a week, that the person alluded to was not engaged in his work at all.—After some explanations, it appeared that the man had been appointed temporarily to under take the duty of measuring lodging-houses. —Mr. Dover, on behalf of Mr. Moss (who was absent), moved a resolu tion that so much of the proceedings of the Health Com mittee of Thursday last as related to the recommendation to the Council to increase the salary of Mr. Newlands from £7OO to £lOOO per annum be rescinded, and that the increase to be recommended should not exceed £lOO per annum.—He (Mr. Dover) also moved that it be re commended to increase the salary of Mr. Davis, the assistant engineer, from £3OO to £350 per annum. —After some discussion, Mr. Dover's motion relating to the borough engineer's salary was put to the meeting, and the votes being equal, the chairman gave the casting vote, observing, " I am no thousand a-year man."—The motion for increasing the salary of Mr. Davis was carried, all the members of the board voting for it except Mr. Beckwith. _NDARD, cause he de ,is boots ND THE I ed more than a halff ging to p to Clies —On T nny for de, the South Corpora T on Ericlay, ?any conveyed of Birkenhe their ad Ferry, !d the ch. iren to )ats in crossing the river free of any cl ,e children e use of FIRES IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday o'clock, a fire broke out on board the ship Belcarrig, Dock. It assumed a serious aspect ; xertions of Superintendent Hewitt and gade, the flames were extinguished before much about nine lying in liat,olin ge had ben occasioned. T. GENERAL NEW WS. COMPULSORY VACCINATION.-T 1 to extend and make compulsory the tion has just been published. There are 13 provisions in the bill, and several schedules of forms. It is proposed to enact that the father or mother of every child ' England or Wales after the Ist of August, within three months after birth, causc, it to be taken ti the medical officer of the place and vaccinated, unless the same shall have been previously vaccinated by some qualified medical practitioner. Penalties are to be en forced for non-compliance with the act. CORKCUTTERS' STRIKE.—On Wednesday between 400 and 500 journeymen corkcutters, in London, turned out for an advance of wages. This strike will be severely felt by the employers, being the most busy time of the year. In the afternoon the strike hands held a meeting, when they expressed their determination of not returning to work until their demands were complied with, alleging as a reason the increase in the price of provisions, and that their landlords had raised the rents of their rooms on that account. born in 1853, shall, BETTING HOUSES.—The bill for the suppression of bet ting-bouses has been printed. The penalty on any per son keeping a house for the purpose of betting with other persons, is £lOO, or imprisonment for six months, with or without hard labour ; on persons receiving money on con dition of paying money on the event of any bet, £5O, or three months' imprisonment ; and for cxhibitina placards or otherwise advertising betting-houses, a penalty of £3O, or two months' imprisonment. Magistrates and the Police Commissioners are to be empowered to order a search of suspected houses. SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—As the Great Western express train which started on Monday from Ox ford to London, about a quarter of an hour late, was rush ing on at upwards of sixty miles an hour, the crank axle of the engine broke, by which the whole machinery was thrown out of order, and the wheels, unable to turn round, ran sliding along the rails at a fearful pace, in imminent danger of breaking and throwing the train over. The wheels, however, stood the strain, and after proceeding in this way about a mile, the train was brought to a stand without any accident. STRIKE or THE Hum. PoLICE.—An agitation has been going on for some time past in Hull, to obtain an advance of their wages, from 18s. sd. and 16s. sd. a-week to 21s. sd. and 19s. 501. The Watch Committee have refused to accede to the request, and the consequence is, that about 30 of the men hare resigned, and about 50 refuse to do duty, but will not resign. The Watch Committee sat on Saturday week, to receive applications for the vacant situations, but they had not a single applicant labourers not being willing to work seven days a-week for 2s. 6d. per day. Letters have been despatched for men to Nianchester and other large towns, as well as to the villages in this neighbourhood. A MODERN MlRACLE.—Recently Cardinal Wiseman preached in St. Aloysius's, Somers Town. In the course of his remarks he said, " Within the last few days it has been my happiness to verify, in one of the religious com munities of the Benedictine convent of this city, the in stantaneous aed perfect cure of a religieuse, who for six years and a half never left her bed, who was pronounced by every medical man who had seen her to have been in curable for life, being affected with disease in her bones, and who, at the devotions to the sacred heart of Jesus, rose whole, and without a vestige even in outward marks of that complaint which existed for that long period." AN ECCENTRIC CRARACTER.—The Suffolk Chronicle relates the death of a Miss Mary Finch, aged 49, of Risk inghall. She had for the last six years lived alone, and a leg of pork, which she was known to have bought about leas found in th e h ouse at th e ti me o f h er ea Sh a ek o ept six or seven ca t s , w hi c h s h e some ti mes death.f ou y" g locked np in a room for many days without food. Although she had sufficient property, she had not allowed herself common necessaries, and her end was hastened from want. Six years ago an aunt left her about £4OO, but she world never go after it, nor would she take it when offered to her. It is stated that about ten years aTo, a day was fixed for her being married, that the dress and wedding cake were provided, but the gentleman dis appointed her, and the dress and cake still remain in the house. AN UNFORTUNATE Lot ER.--On Sunday a clockmaker, who had for some time paid his addresses to a lovely daughter of a wealthy chimney-sweeper, thought to con summate his happiness by making her his wife. The staff' of Trinity Church were in attendance ; the spruce gallant, with punctuality equal to one of his own clocks, arrived in a cab at the residence of his " lady love," but on entering the house was met in a manner well calculated to cool the ardour of any man not over head and ears in love. The mother, not thinking him a suitable match for her daughter, had locked her up in her chamber, and herself received the gallant bridegroom with " warmth." All the earnest entreaties of her would-be son-in-law were of no avail.. She was obdurate, and an interview was positively denied. 'Wearied with his perseverance, mamma lost her temper, seized the poor bewildered lover by the neck, and, with determined and masculine energy, turned him out of the - house.—Durham Chronicle. A. CHURCH FAiumic.—On Sunday an interesting occur rence took place in the church at Temple Sowerby, con nected with the family of Abram Lowthian, the village tailor. -61 d Abram, who was many years the parish clerk there, but who had-resigned the office to one of his sons, gave out the psalms-; old Mrs. Lowthian was an attentive hearer-; the Rev. John Lowthian, vicar of Wharton, Winsford, Cheshire, his eldest son, was the clergyman who preached; Abram, the second son, played the violon cello and joined in the singing; Christopher, the third son, was parish - clerk, and two other sons and two daugh ters formed part of the choir. The church was crowded to excess, all the - friends and old companions of the rev. gentleman, whols on a visit to his native village, flocked thither to hear'"John Lovrthian" preach. Old Abram has brought up a' family of twelve children, six sons ald six daughters, all of whom are now living, with the ex ception of a son, who died young abroad six years since. Abram never had anything but what he worked for with his own hands.—Ccrlisle Patriot. RAALIVAT TRKFFIC.—The traffic - returns of railways in the United -Kingdom amounted, for 'the week ending 16th July, to - £352.939, and for the corresponding period r, Coast, ns 6 t i t o; Western, x o l n l6 t 4 h ; : tloo. G n r xt e Th a she t , e9 N 6LB O O Northern, receiptshd o e on r n n a , onht and of last year to £M2,586, showing an increase of £50.353, I€.lor per cent. The increase on the 'Eastern Counties £ R s a F i a l7 6 ay ; amountedth greatt o X l London and . North-Western, to £4i457; on the London, £96; and on the South-Western to £3,323; andßß th ri e ai ; w h o an e ti other ea l i n n Sd e yi n eti ; a h SC e t United Kingdom amounted to £192,214 ; and for the corresponding period of 1852 t o £164,439 ' shearing an increase 0ft:077775 in the receipts •ofthes e lines, -which, added t o t h e i ncrease on the metropolitan lines -cf £22,578, makes the total increase £ 5O - 35 3 ove r the corresponding week of 1852. The total receipts from then I st January to the 16th July amo un t e d to £ 8. 677,664; for the corresponding period of 1852, £7,722,9d2; showing an increase of Z 54,762, or 12.3 per cent. over the-corresponding period of 1852. NAVAL Review.—A review of the' leet now assembled at Spithead has been fixed for this day., dependent upon the state of the weather, the Quee n ' s h ea lth, an d f ore i gn t aif unae i e, 12 e . „T i lie following's a list of the force to be coll ec t e d : — Duke of Wellingten;-.131 guns, screw three-decke r ; Nep guns, sailing three-decker.; - Waterloo, 120 tuns, sailing three-decker; Queen, li6 guns, sailin g three-decker; St. Jean d'Acre, 101 guns, screw t w o decker; Agamemirepilil Runs, screw two-decker; Prince Regent. 90 guns, sailing two-decker; London, 90 guns, two.decker; Blenheim, 60 guns, screw two-decker ; Ilegue,o guns, screw two-decker; Edinburgh, 59 guns, screw two-decker; Ajax, 58 guns, screw •two-decker; Impkrieuse, 50 guns, screw-frigate; Arrogant, 48 guns, screw-frigate; Sybille, 40 guns, sailing-frigate; Amphion, 31 guns. screw-frigate; Tribune, 30 guns, screw-frigate; Sidon, 22 -guns. paddle-frigate; Highfiyer.2l guns, screw frigate; Terrible, 21 guns, paddle-frigate ; -Odin, 16 guns, paddle-frigate ; Enceunter,l4 guns, screw-corvette; Leopard, 12 guns, paddle-frigate; Desperate, 8 guns, screw-corvette ; Berner:mite. 6 guns, paddle-sloop ; Vesu vius, 6 guns, paddle-sloop; Banshee, 2 gurts,express-boat. EXTRAOELQINAILY PROCKEDINGS.—We hear that on Saturday last Mr. Ackroyd, of Stourbridge, and Mr. George Rebineon, solicitor, of this town, while com paring a list of the proprietary of the Shrewshury and Birmingham Railway. Company with the transfer books, made discoveries 'of a nature which induced them to have the books sealed up, god which, it is -said, are likely to cause a further resort to legal proceedings. ,On Monday morning, Mr. Gesell, who is a director -of the company. Mr. R. Scott. Mr. Ackroyd, Mr. Coliia, and Mr. G. Robinson met at the company's offices, and demanded that the books should be delivered to them, as they said, for further examination. Mr. Hill, Mr. Joseph Walker, and Mr. Knox were, we hear, at the offices in the course of the morning ; and the-further inspection of the books was refused-by Mr. -I(ncm, no order from the board of directors for that purpose having been obtaiined, and without this order the inspection could not, it was alleged, .be permitted. In consequence Mr. Geach and his friends sent for Mr. -Hunter, foreman to Messrs. Chubb and Sons (who required a writtenindemnity), and , directed him to open the safe: containing the key of the closet in which the books were -kept. This was done, and the safe containing the bode; opened. The books were at first deposited with the polic e , b u t a f terwar d s trans mitted to ,Landon. Colonel Hogg and .some of his officers were called in, iu order to prevent any breach of the peace. This remarkable proceeding has given occa sion for many rumours.-IVolveriesanpion Vhrtazicle. ELOPEMENT.—We noticed last week that an officer of the 35th regiment had run off with the wife of a baronet, residing in the4iorth of Devon, under circumstances of a very dhgraceful &exacter. There is no doubt of the truth of the statement; the officer is Captain Berkeley, of the above-named reeirnent, and his -unfortunate com panion in guilt Lady Wrey, wife of Sir Bourchier Wrey. It appears that this man is no w w ith hi s reg i ment, an d still wearing Her Majesty's uniform, though it is currently reported that he will be obliged to leave the army ; and the lady, it is said. is in London. Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart., has recently been staying at his marine residence in Barnstaple. For some few weeks past Captain Berke ley, of the 35th, son of Sir George Berkeley, had been visiting at the house of the honourable baronet, whose hearty hospitality is only surpassed by his high-minded and unsuspecting candour. This town became agitated on Friday with the startling and painful intelligence that this guest of the honourable baronet's—the man who had been receiving his hospitalities—bad taken the opportunity of domestic intercourse thus afforded to him to draw from her conjugal duty the wife of his friend; that she had, in fact, that morning eloped with her paramour. They drove off, it would appear. about half-past one on that morning to Barnstaple, and from thence to the Tiverton station of the Great Western Railway. Their course from this point we are not curious to trace. That this lady should have left in such a manner, and for such a man, a home replete with all the earthly good that earthly wealth can furnish, a husband dotingly fond of her, and without the shadow of the causes usually assigned in such cases, is an aberration of conduct only to be charitably covered by a verdict of temporary insanity. Report says that already has the dreadful hallucination passed away, and reconciliation sought. We g i ve , o f course , s i mp ly report, but it is highly probable that such is the case, as we know that such must be the course the moment the mind recovers its equilibrium. Sir Bourchier returned thatunmenningtoTawatockCourt.—ExelerFlYin9 Post, he fire is supposed to have been the result of spontaneous combust' [on among a cargo of charcoal.—About one o'clock on Sunday morning a broke out in the shed of the railway station at Sand-hit, • was only saved from destruction by the great acti. ; , •.gi e . The West of England fire-engine d the fire 1 ded both fi and rendered good service in extin guishing the one at Bootle. Several wagons full of coal, we believe, were burnt ou the line near the building. MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—The submarine cable, consisting of six insulated wires, laid in May last, between ➢onaghadee and Port Patrick, is in perfect work ing order. The Irish lines between Dublin, Galway, and the intermediate towns, from Cork to Thurles, and from Belfast to Newry, Portadown, and Nevvtownards, are com pleted ' • and the main lines connecting the princip a l En glish, Scotch, and Irish towns will, in a short time, be ready for the transmission of messages. Liverpool, es pecially, may:anticipate much advantage from the estab lishment of this new company. THE COMMITTEE OF THE LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND meeting on Saturday, of the first class, to Capt. Sands, and £3O for distribution among the crew of the Oracle, the number of whom are supposed to be from 15 to 20 for their noble exertions in saving the passengers by — 1 William and Marv, bound from Liverpool to The committee would have awarded a -.case having been brought under the awarded a silver me New (Means. larger sum, but t notice of Lloyd' 3y their agents at Nass;u, it was pre - . mmittee of that institution would not themselves, but would bring the case e Royal Humane Society. e a rewa TEE NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS LEAVING LIVERPOOL.-- The subjoined statement for the past month will be found interesting :—The Star of the East cleared out on the Gth, for Melbourne, with 386 souls on board:, the Goldiinder, on the 22d, for toe same destination, with 484 passengers; the Tasmania, also for Melbourne, with 400 emigrants, on the 25th ; and the Caroline, government ship, on the h, with" 317 souls on board, making a total of 1,587 ao were despatched from the Mersey for the ports in the past month. The departures for Canada, during the same period, were the Conqueror, on the 2d, 156 passengers ; Charles Chaloneri 12th, 301 ; Sarah Sands, 21st, 115 I Milicete, 2;th, 301 ; and the Helen Oliver, 26th, 58 ; all bound for Quebec. ON Or DOCK COMMITTEE-MEN.--'-Tho caused by the retirement of Messrs. Henry illiam Nicol, William Healing, and T. Bold, who go out by rotation, will be filled up to-morrow. The Shipowners Association recommend the election of Messre. H. Steele, Adam Gladstone, J. Smith, and either Mr. Healing or Mr. Bold ; the East India Association have unanimously recommended Mr. A. Gladstone as the successor of Mr. Nicol, who declines to be again placed in nomination ; and the American Chamber of Commerce have made a similar recommendation. Mr. Palmer, chairman of the Shipowners' Association and Underwriters' Association, will be nomionted, on behalf of an influential body of rate-payers, as the successor to Ci ELE vacancies Steele, Mr. Nicol MAN - SAT/ANTIC STEAMERS... , -The screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, Captain W. Wylie, sailed at one o'clock on Wednesday, for Philadelphia, with 131 passengers and a full cargo.—The steamer Argentina sailed on the same day. She took above twenty passengers, and about £-15,000 in specie on freight. Among those on board was Mr. Harlf.eld, the secretary of thecompany. The Argen tina's rotte will be,—Lisbon, Madeira, Cape de herds, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio janeivo, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, eventually remaining to ply between the two latter ports. A large nurn'ner of merchants interested in the Brazilian trade assembled on the Prince's Pier to witness the departure of the Argentina. The nett vessel will be the screw-steamer Eraziliera, to be despatched on the *-24th of next month.-. , 0a Thursday morning, the Royal Mail screw steam=ship Lady Eglinton, Capt. Paton, Ihoen royaltr eal o m n a i t i h s e te l a 3 m t r n dQ Aricaueb, arrived in the river with th e C anadian ma i ls. She left m i n a s n t a d n er took her departure t hence f or New York on Saturday z e l - 1%7 r n is tr o h n e , l c 6 o t m il m.ternoon, at three o'clock, with 74 passengers, a full cargo, and the usual mails on board. 'the Glasgow and tv York screw steam--ship Glasgow arrived at Greenock on Saturday, at S 30, p.m. NOVEL PFIOTOGRAt l' . ..—Yesterday, Mr. Robt."Lang ton, wood engraver and draughtsman, of Cross-street, brought to our ofEce -some very successful and beautiful specimens of photography, taken by himself, not 311 Metal plates, or on paper, or on glass, ' but on blocks of"boi wood, such as are .ordinarily used in his own art fonvood engravings. One was a st , iking portrait of himself ; another was a vies of the beautiful little church at Worstey, ere ted a• few veers ago by the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere. The Tatter was compressed within the ordi nary dimensions e' a circle 3-1 inches in diameter ; and, as the image of the church is thts-nlversed, - the design, in all its elegant proportions, and - reduced to a Miniature • such as no hand of human artist can ever hope to rival, in its exquisite-delicacy of light and-shade and its elaborate minuteness and detail,—this' photograph, so taken on a block of box-wood, is quite ready for the application of the wood-engraver's barin. It is impossible to say how greatly this will advance the process •of wood engraving, es pecially by saving all the preliminary labour of the draughtsman.; , which, in manyoases, constitutes the chief element in both • - the time and the cost attendant on the production of - wooi-engravings of a high class. Even in many of the lower branches of the art, the new application of sun-tirawing be an invaluallle auxiliary. For in stance, it is an extremely diffi,:ult matter to get accurate drawings-of - machinery, in perspective; mechanicaldaugh ts men , only represent it in plane; and artists are generally found extremely reluctant to-•-employ a large amount of time so unprofitably as the drawing of a complicated ma chine in perspective demands. Mr. Langton's -d aguerr6o type -can now in a few seconds accomplish what it would require hours -for the artist to effect; and in point of accuracy., the instrument must-ever have the preference. But greet as will eventually be the boon which this new application of photography will confer on the practical art of wood-engraving, it may be made more • extensively valuable, as a cheap form of producing pictorial objects. By Mr. I.angtofi's process, portraits, landscapes, &c., could be produced on any smooth piece of wood, duly prepared; and thus even wooden snuff-boxes, hand screens, &c., may he decorated with portraits, or scenes from nature, or-copies of works of-art, at a-cost much less than daguerretynes-on metal plates. Indeed, it is diffi cult to say where- the applications and uses -of this new process may not extend. Mr. Langton does not limit his invention to its use in wood-engraving, but claims for it •ful -and valuable application in other di with practical art.--,ll,anchester an equally rections. in conne Guardian. THE ELECTION PETI HON. --49.---.. The followinz is a cony of the petition presented by Mr. ROBERT-C-3N GLADSTONE anti Mr. GEORGE BGLT : Martin, 21 , Q die :lulu, A petition of the there-undersigned electors of the hornagh of Liverpool, was delivered in and read ; setting forth, That at the last election of members to serve in parliament for the borough of Liverpool, the petitioners were registered electors of the said borough, and had a right to vote and did vote et the said election ; that-Sir Easkine Perry, 'Knight, John Bramley-MooreaEsqaire, Thomas Berry }angel!, Esquire, and the Honourgile Henry Thomas Liddell, were candidates at the said elec tion, and that a poll was demanded and taken, and the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and the Honourable Henry Thomas Liddell were at the ease thereof declared by the returning officer of the said borough to have the majority of votes and to be elected, and were returned ,as members to serve in parliament for the' barough of Liverpool; that before and during the said election the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell were and each of them respectively was hs himself , .big ngente, friends, and managers, guilty of bribery and corruption, and did re spectively by gifts, presents, money, and rewards, and by promises, agreements, and securities for gifts, presents, money, and rewards, and by other illegal practices, cor rupt and procure divers persons being registered electors of the said borough, and entitled to vote at the said elec tion, to give their votes in favour of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell, or one of them, and to forbear to give them in favour of the said otter candidates, or one of them; that before, daring, and after the-said election, the said Th omas Berry Hors fall, and Henry Thomas Liddell and eac h of themrespee lively did by themselves, their agents, friends, and par. tisane, by divers ways and means, either partly or wholly at their charge and on their behalf, directly et- indirectly g ive, provide, present, and allow, and cause and know ingly permit to be given, provided, presented, and a ll owed to registered electora cf the said borough, and p ersons having a right to vote at the said election, money, m ea t, drink, entertainment, provisions, and reward, and mad e promises, agreements, and engagements to give .mone y, meat, drink, entertainment, provisions, and reward, to taondvoftoerassUachforresegaisidte,reind order r or th s a a t n t d h p e e s r a s i o d ns T h i a lo v rnas having a right Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell might have and re ceive the votes of the said registered electors and persons entitled to vote at the said election, and might thereby be elected members to serve in parliament for the said borough of Liverpool; that gross, notorious, extensive, and systematic bribery, treating, and corruption, were practiced and carried on at the sold election by divers azents, friends, managers, and partisans, of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell, and by others employed and sanctioned by them, with a view to the election of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell, and the election and return of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell were procured by means of such bribery, treating, and corruption ; that by reason of such corrupt and illegal practices, the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell were and are and each of them was and is wholly incapacitated and ineligible to sit in this present parliament for the said borough, and the election and re. turn of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell, were and are wholly null and void ; that by the various illegal and corrupt practices as aforesaid, and by coercion, intimidation, and other illegal and irregular proceedings, the said Thomas Barry Horsfall and Henry Thos. Liddell obtained a colourable majority of votes over the said Sir Erskine Perry and John Bramlev-Moore, and the return of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and He nry Thomas Liddell is illegal, and ought to be declared wholly null and void ; and praying that the house will take the pre mises into consideration, and will declare that the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell were not duly elected and returned, and that the return of the said Thomas Berry Horsfall and Henry Thomas Liddell was and is wholly null and void, and that the house will give the petitioners such further and other relief as to the house 21411 :eau meet. U ES]D 1853. pf " Uncle Tom" on the 21 CHURCH S church of E BY LIGHT m, Herefm ightning on Tuesday, while the marriage care being performed within the edifiel vo women en among e spect RICHARD CROSS, aged 50, who was lately postr Whitchurcb, pleaded guilty, at Shrewsbury assiv charges of stealing post letters, containing bills and securities to the amount of £2,000, and was si to ten years' imprisonment. PORPHYRY FOR THE CRY specimens of Swedish porphyry at Elfdal has arrived in Englan chide 15 distinct varieties, some of g. have been presented to the Crystal Palac Mr. Charles:Henry Edwards. the R These s ,t biauty PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—The Govern ment balance-sheet has been published of the public in come and expenditure for the year ending the sth of July last, with the balances in the Exchequer. The income was X 54,249,141 33. Bd., and the expenditure £50,680,516 75., leaving an excess of £3,568,624 16s. Bd. On the sth of July, 1852, the balances in the Exchequer were £6,492,731 6s. 10d., and on the sth July last, £5,112,639 ss. 9d. TRANSPORTATION.—A new clause has been added to the Government Bill by the Lord Chancellor, the object of which is, that Her Majesty may grant licenses to be at large to convicts under sentence of transportation ; the holder of the license is not to be imprisoned by reason of his sentence, and, if the license is revoked, the convict may be apprehended and committed to prison. By the bill as it now stands, penal punishment is to be awarded in the cases of persons liable to transportation for 14 years. The new law is to take effect from the Ist of September next. EMPLOYMENT OF CRILDREN IN FACTORIES.—The bill brought in by Lord Palmerston and Mr. Fitzroy, further to regulate the Employment of Children in Factories, and just printed, provides that no child shall be employed before six in the morning nor after six in the evening, except between the 30th September and the Ist April, when they may be employed, under certain regulations, between seven in the morning and seven in the evening Children are not to be employed, under 7 and 8 Vie., it recovering lost time, after seven in the evening hours of employment of children not to b© in Any case extended beyond what is at present lawful. MAILS TO AUSTRALIA.—The next mails for Australia will be forwarded by the Vimiera sailing vessel, the owner of which has entered into a contract for that purpose with the postmaster-general. This vessel is appointed to be despatched from Plymouth on Friday next, after the arrival at that place of the north mail, and all letters and newspapers for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land reaching Plymouth pre vious to her departure, and not addressed to be sent by any other vessel, will be forwarded by the Vinare. The packet-rates of postage will be charzeable on letters trans mitted by the Vimiera, but no charge will be made upon newspapers. The mails to be conveyed by this packet will be made up in London on Thuisday, and at Plymouth on Fliday. MANSLAUGHTER AT LEEDS. has just taken place on the pre Kirkgate, Leeds, . the result of —A painful occurrence raises of Mr. Barker, of which is the death of a journeyman plumber, named Wallace Waddington, aged 21. On Saturday morning the deceased made use of some annoying and irritating expressions towards an apprentice named Peter Dawson ; a war of words ensued between them, and, in a moment of passion, Dawson seized a long brush, and struck Waddington over the head with it, thereby fracturing and indenting his skull. The in jured man was at once removed, and medical aid pro cured, but he only lingered until the following day, when death put a period to his sufferings. Since then a coroner's inquest has been held on view of the body, and, after hearing the evidence, which showed that the deceased was the aggressor in the first instance, they returned a verdict of manslaughter against Dawson, who was forth with committed to York Castle for trial at the assizes. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF THREATENING has oc cupied the magistrates of Corshain, Wiltshire, occasioning some protracted investigations. The prosecutor was the Rev. Dr. Horlock, vicar of Box, and the prisoners were Henry Sprague. son of Dr. Sprague, late of Box, and Benjamin Bullock, sexton. Anonymous letters of a most insulting and threatening kind had been, for a length of time, mysteriously conveyed to the vicar and his family, and to persons in the n eighbourhood. One was ad dressed to a young woman named Elizabeth Smith, " If you will make a cake, and buy at a chemist's one drachm of arsenic, and put it in it, and send it to Miss Horlock, with a note from yourself, I will give you £lOO, which will make you and your relations quite rich, and you will need not remain in service no longer." A similar letter was sent to another woman. A number of witnesses were called to prove the handwriting ; and the magistrates, after a private consultation, discharged Bullock, and com mitted Sprague to take his trial at the next assizes. TAXATION OF THE CLERGY.—Mr. Apsley Pellatt, the Dissenting minister for Southwark, having complained that the clergy do not bear their fair share of the public burdens, three letters have appeared in the Times, from a Norfolk rector, a Suffolk rector, and a Kentish vicar, giving the following statement of the amount to which their incomes were charged in 1852 with state and local taxes : Norfolk 1 Suffolk 1 Kentish Rector. I Rector. I Vicar. X. s. d.l X. s. d. X. s. d. 319 13 10,475 0 0 268 0 0 INCOME STATE TAXES. Property Tax on Glebe & Ttthe.Rent Charge 9 Ditto,on Rectory House 1 House 'fax Land Tax . Assessed Taxes Duty on Insurance LOCAL TAXES Poor Rate.... Highway Rate 6 6 12 9 2 1 .... 6 1 0 26 2, 12 91 4 10 0 1 8 0 5 0 0 8 10 0 2 16 7 17 6 0 0 17 6 12 6 22 16 101 67 10 3 17 12 6 8 1 71 8 8 9 4 19 6 64 2 6.132 14 61 59 9 5 Per Centage on Income, about ARREST OF A RAILWAY TRAIN.—A most extra ordinary method of executing the powers of the law, was put in operation at the Newfoundwell station of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway. The collector of county cess, Mr. Simpson, had made repeated applica tions for the payment of the county cess due on the lands and premises held by the company, but could not succeed in obtaining payment. Accordingly, being bound to lodge the amount of his warrant on the first day of the assizes, unless he could show that any part of it was irrecoverable, and that he had used every necessary exertion to recover it, Mr. Simpson, attended by a body of his assistants, met a train at the Newfoundwell station, and then and there producing his warrant he took possession of the train and all it contained. There were six grand jurors travelling by it to attend the Dundalk assizes, which were open at 10 o'clock, and in ordinary course they would have been barely in time to be sworn in. Remonstrances with the collector were all in vain ; the county cess he must have, and the train was not aliowed to move a peg until his demand was satisfied. Then the lost time had to be pulled up by increased speed, and the released engine again snorted along the line which had just been freed from the payment of a county cess until the next assizes.—Louth Advertiser. Tau HULL BRIBERY Commtsstosr.—This commission is still sitting. The following letter from Mr. J. B. agree ee other wit h cle y a o c l ear ly, Moore has been put in as evidence " Liverpool, inst. , stand T ea a c fith April, 1852. Dear sir,—ln reply to your letter of the .:2dderyt.hbateroilteisabnetetleerctwioenschoomuledsuonn: with regard to money matters. I shall stand to my pro positien mentioned to the deputation at Normanton, as rsareed in your letter, namely, to go as far as £1,200 f or the legal expenses of the election--not necessarily that this sum should be expended—but I will, if that sum be required, go thus far and no farther; and I agree to incur mother responsibility. lam wholly unacquainted with what wile be required, having no exserience in these matters. If the expenditure in this matter should exceed the above named num, the gentlemen in Hull must undertake to exonerate me from all further demands. Being a stranger I could net, with any judgment, select an agent, and would leave this and the entire tnanagement of the election in the hands of a committee. I think to provide against a contest, the electors should subscribe a sure equal to the positive requirements for fighting a good fight. The can didates herezre only responsible for .4:540 each. In offer ing myself to represent your borough, I beg to say I have no personal interests to serve, and having plenty of leisure to devote to •your services, I will come forward to stem -the democratic torrent which threatens the country, and the destructive policy which has been carried out, and to indulge an honourable and laudable ambition.—Yours, .trely, J. Bramley-Moore." One witness stated "In 1817 .he was chairman. of the Sculcotes committee for Brown and Baines: was is correspondence with the National Club, for a second blue candidate : Sir Robert Inglis was written to on the subject, and he took considerable pains to find a candidate; he ultimately, however, handed over ahe letter to the National Club, and they named Mr. ISands,,of Liverpool; -but when Brown came down, the correspondence with the National Cl u b cease d. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Southampton COT regpondentof The Morning Herald, under date of Friday, says:--The tide of emigration from this port has, since its commencement, been one continual stream of de partures to the land of gold, and two large ships are now in dock preparing to sail, with passengers anxious to reach the shores of Australia. The Athenian, a barque, of 675 tons, will leave on Monday for Sydney. She has embarked 140 paissangers, but iscapable of accommodating 206, statute adults, the whole of which she will, doubt less, receive prior to her leaving. Another large ship, Credenda, of 900 tons register, is also in preparation to depart for Geelong. This ship, which is capable of ac commodating 335 statute adults, has th,er berths built up midships, which arrangement, doubtless, gives more room for the admission of air from the various port-holes, and thereby considerably improves the ventilation of the ship. The Herefordshire, 1600 tons, will leave this port for Sydney on or about the 10th August. Her passengers will consist principally of railway labourers. The Pekin, for Melbourne, 562 tons, also leaves on the Ist August ; and the Epaminondas, 1171 tons, will leave on the 6th proximo, for Adelaide. The government commissioners also took up two other ships yesterday, the P oiters, 756 tons, which they intend fitting out for Port Ph ili p, to sail on the 7th of September, and the David Malcolm, 538 tons, for Adelaide, on the sth of the same month. It is fully expected that both these vessels will embark their passengers at this port. Since the first ship left Southampton docks under the surveillance of the go vern . went commissioner of emigration, upwards of 6,000 per sons have left this country from this port for the Australian colonies. Of these nearly 5,000 were English, the remainder Irish, and a small portion Scotch. The first government emigration ship left here on the 17th of January, since which time nineteen first-class vessels h av e departed from these docks. The arrangements have been, as requirement suggested, improved consi derably, and the whole of the emi grants on board the Athenian seemed perfectly happy in their floati hbi tation, and cleanliness and order were to be a - particularly observed. RAUD.—A person ibitants of Dunde :mous insurance company, on condition t .ed their lives previously. By this means onsiderable sum of money. a well kno by fire on Wednesday mon were seven horses, and alth Under the gh strenuous exe riot one could be ;I) an omnibus to go into the c lane, fell back end expired d heart. ,3 destroyed H IN AN OMNIBUS.—An awful instance of the my of human life occurred to Mr. Jeremiah !et, London. He got into ave die aid to be the intent ew law courts erected in the government to have tl mediately adjoining the houses of parliament, and not, generally expected, in the vicinity of Lincoln's•inn ; so that the courts will continue to sit at Westminster during term, as heretofore, the well : known inconvenience of the prEsent courts being re DISGUSTING.—On Saturday, a person named Thomas Ward, of West Retford, was at a public-house, in East Retford, and offered a small wager that he would drink ten pints of ale in a short_ given time. T. e wager was accepted. and he proceeded to the accomplishment of the task. He won his wager, but was taken suddenly ill, and a surgeon was obliged to be sent for, who administered an emetic, and under his treatment he recovered. A WARNING.—At the Ipswich assizes, on Wednesday, Mr. Cook, a member of the corporation of that town, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour for having know ingly defrauded the gas company by using gas in his plumbing shop direct from the main instead of from the meter. His foreman was car 1 as a witness for the defence ; and, as lie swore to having hime " bye-pipe," the judge, Sir John Jervis be taken into custody, and afterware the game punishment as his master. If made the ordered him to s sentenced him to CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. — An unsuccessf►l attempt to launch the screw two-decker Desar, 90 guns, from. Pembroke Dock-yard, was made on the 21st. The vessel on. the instant the dog-ehe ;truck down Lth a speed tf at apveared to be irresis- tible, but received a check in her career before she bad floated, which.completely stopped her progress. An exa mination of every accessible parr was made without dis covering the cause of the failure. Each tide since attempts without success were made to start the ship, and she now lies in a very precarious position. HoLynoon PALACE.—Her Majesty's Chief Commis sioner of Woods and Forests has at length agreed to an arrangement of a character very favourable to the public, with reference to the opening of Holy rood Palace. In stead of the present unsatisfactory mode of handing per sons about from one exhibitor to another, and leaving the amount of the gratuities to the discretion of the visitors, a small fixed fee•will be substituted ; this will be paid to one receiver, and no other payment will be requisite. One important part of the arrangement is, that the palace will be open every Saturday without any charge. • CHARITABLE TRUSTS.—The land settled on charitable trust in England and Wales consists of 442,015 acres of freehold ; the personal property so settled amounts to . £6,668,509, and the rent charges on land granted for charitable purposes to £79,930. The total income of these different properties is estimated at £1,209,395, and their total value is computed at fifty millions, or nearly one year's net revenue of the United Kingdom. The gross income of charitable educational endowments is £312,544. Of charities, 13,331 are under £5 a-year ; 4.641 are above £5 and under £lO a.year ; 3,908 above £lO and under £2O ; and 1,866 above £2O and under £3O. This immense mass of property, amounting in all to 28,840 trusts, is subject to grievous disadvantages : there is every temptation to mismanagement and malversation, and no tribunal able to correct it. THE REPEALED DIITIES.—The Commissioners of Cus toms have caused an amended list of articles of foreign merchandise not now su bj ec t t o d uty on i mpor t a ti on into this country. which has been prepared by the Inspector- General of Imports and Exports with reference to the recent resolutions of the House of Commons, showing the denomination under which each article should be de scribed on the official documents, to be printed and furnished to the collectors and controllers, and other principal officers of Customs at the several ports through out the kingdom for future government, in lieu of those formerly in use. In transmitting this list of goods on which the duties have been repealed, they have been directed to observe, that every description of glass is to be entered by weight, and that bottles imported containing goods are to be deemed as packages, and exempted from entry for the duties. Mocic PEERAGE.—The nobility of the order of the Grand Star will sit in council on Wednesday, (to-morrow,) at three o'clock, at the mansion of the noble Alpha- Atlantis, Hyde-park, to discuss the merits of identified candidates of the noble order for installation, who peti tioned the court previous to March last. Also to receive presentations, by nobles elect, of candidates for identifi cation, whose petitions show that they are eligible to support the exalted rank of a noble elect, by living and baying lived, for the previous ten years of their presen tation, as independent gentlemen, and keeping an estab lishment in that character, at no less an expenditure than £5,000 annually, and giving to charitable purposes no less a sum than £lOO annually, or one sum of £l,OOO, and are prepared to continue the same expenditure out of a certain income in support of the distinguished character of the noble order, and subscribe liberally to the encouragement of literature. Hereditary titles have no preference over commoners for election. as no one can be installed a " noble elect," except from his own personal merits. — By command, E. de: 3fecenas, Under-Secretary.—Court Journal. A NEW AN_ESTIIETIC is announced in the Common Puff Ball (Lycoperdon Proleus). The anaesthetic pro perties of this well-known production was recently spoken of by Mr. Richardson at a meeting of the London Medical Society. The properties mentioned appear to have been known in some country districts where bees are stupefied by this agent previous to the honey being taken from the hives. Having observed this fact, Mr. Richardson was induced to try the powers of the! puff-balls on cats and dogs. The result accomplished was exactly the same as if tether or chloroform had been employed. Even surgical operations have been performed on animals to whom the new anaesthetic had been previously administered. The mode of administering is by allowing the animal to inhale the fume of the dried fungus while in a state of ignition. The Athenceum states that Mr. Richardson inhaled the fumes himself, and found the same effects follow as from, chloroform. "It is curious (says our contemporary) that this fungus, which emits these narcotic fumes, may be eaten with impunity, and that it is amongst those which Dr. Baciharn has recommended in his recent work to be eaten as the esculent fungus of Britain. No chemical principle has yet been detected to account for these very curious effects." We may observe that there are many agents in medicine which save or destroy according as they are administered. Some may be swallowed with impunity which would ensure certain death were they made to enter the system by the blood and absorbent vessels. It is well known, too, that the poison of the serpent, which kills by being infused into the blood, may be taken into the stomach without evil results ensuing. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT THE POWERSCOURT WATER FALL.—An a(v:ident of a most distressing nature occurred at this favourite place of resort on Saturday, the 16th ult., whereby Mr. James Bostern, of Manchester, lost his life under the following painful circubstances—lt appears that he, accompanied by his friend Mr. Reuben Levy, left Man chester for the purpose of making a tour in Ireland, and on the above morning left Dublin for the purpose of seeing the dargle and waterfall, at which latter place they arrived at about half past two o'clock. Mr. Bostern in a short time after began to climb the rocks on the south side of the Fall, entirely against the wish of his friend, who remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his doing so. When he had got up some distance he sat down and smoked a cigar; after which he began to return, took off his hat, and threw it down ; upon which Mr. Levy, who was lying on the bank, stood up for the purpose of getting it, as it was blown towards the stream by a sudden 1- wascontrary n to h gust of wind, and, on getting into the rocks at the foot of the Fall, the first thing he beheld was the mangled and life lessr ce o body of Mr. Bostern at his feet. It is supposed that , in attempting to get to the edge of the cliff (after throw inga of the from Waterfall, d c dl leondwtoai l g nwn deathmtl ioen hat),dbayyfalling . fo r the from o p u m : posethe cliffo gettingo when the jury returned f rock a view a verdict deoo,sw he overbalanced himself, fell on the under ledge of rock, ai de stantaneously. An inquest was held on the body on I.4"L* thence dashed wch he to ,bad the bottomascended a wish of his friend. M r . Le v y a 1,30 stated on leis exami nation, that he did not even hear a tou or moan from the deceased, or had he the slightest knowledge of his fall ing until he met the lifeless body on the rocks at the base of the Fall, with one leg partly in the water. 1 A CRYSTAL PALACE FOR BIRMINGTIANI.—On Tuesday, 3 a meeting was held in Birmingham, the object being the provision of some place of recreation suited to the require ments of a large manufacturing population. The Mayor q t Cff u uul e oln n i sd:eEei di-tolo or other . occupied the chair, and most of the leading manufacturers asellnitiedi:coettorehde cionri p l a o b r i a t t a i l o t oration. : project, which embraces a public park, the erection there ' otifiLsoo a f ei n fspiledt d ritui o.hrfit m btlecioa e niTTndb r s c , loay h w a s nnp togethertl e s n w de Council.r were p e s 1 ‘ e i n r t ~ Beale besides a n outline li membersngo fthish i s upon of an inexpensive but suitable building—in fact, a miniature crystal palace—fittingly ornamented with statuary and :--rks of art ; the scheme to be carried out versified with wood an d i maid ensl" :ea t e p r l . acr_e e object ee t e l f - I te has Pu difficultyb b l i' e n ihtniodti hitherto ,ebc.pritcttaaoehri accessible nisaobo:flsmheue3eti t o , Anow t ola h ilo6ey e toi m soili fcst o f er r boae : esc e i l cioo o ndnc f megoltpsnihgl charge. tsiehoes the land. siregornvearrnrei dan.ebypoartiosenlsf -1 and.ii enormous esstmaixno d a ms nst miles I,r:ea fromppa irldeklaaysbßaremarkable eirt mlf little tnct tlg e increasingprice haatbomow.unot nosftu c h l tse e t oumnt oldatoni sndr that Ch d a aod tl f dot itor. the richest place in the kingdom, manage this r. he, tl town The graze wh their t t e h d y . They fine lwsisaendinwveosrproperty as usefully as they have power to d o. have established receive cattle . upon and enjoy th e access to their noble park. But with all this good fortune the people find something • L wan t• and __ ng wanting —t he y a railway . the London Aortli-Western Company obtained an act to construct a line some years since, but they suffered their powers to expire without making the railway, and it is understood that they have abandoned the scheme. Mr. Beale now proposes to provide Sutton with a railway in consideration of certain concessions made by the inhabi. tants to Birmingham, the principal one being to con eede to that town, for a term of 999 years, some 300 acres of the park, at a nominal rent : so that, as Mr. Beale expressed it, this marriage of poor Bir mingham to rich Sutton may be made mutually advanta geous. The people of Sutton have so far welcomed the project, and as Mr. Beale unfoldci his plan, at the meeting on Tuesday, it met with the hearty approbation of all who heard it. The result of the meeting was, that on the motion of Mr. Alderman Muntz, the plan was received and approved, and a committee of five gentlemen was appointed to confer with the corporation, in order that details may be arranged, and no time lost in carrying out $llO project. alf lP be- , e 0 the t i e to' o ear Qt ra Of t coacie gl,t . ju re t9' n ia )1 1 1011 . Pr, be lig O o f Y °3 fl e 4e A t At p ., 0 7 t ; f li T b° g r. ti 06 t. ilr Ce i3 CIA t c . 'OO s, or a