The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

Loaf nub ignAtnrial 11.t1U5. THE LATE CAPTAIN EMERSON.—This much respected gentleman died a few days since, at Booterstown, near Dublin. For years he commanded one of her Mijesty's mail steam boats between Ois port and Dublin, and his gentlemanly bearing, great goodness of heart, and a dis position always eager to oblige, recommended him to all who knew him. lie was a skilful and experienced naval officer. THE RECEVT ATTEMPT OF THE Two YOUNG WO MEN FROM HULL TO BECOME SAILORS. In the ac count we last week furnished of this freak, we stated that when the girls were brought before Mr. Craig, sure,eon, and inspector of volunteers for the navy, they were re quired to strip, and took off their jackets, but being pressed to go further in the process of denuding, they confessed their sex. We afterwards stated, as taken from the lips of the girls themselves, and consequently their opinion only, that " had not a second doctor (a young man) been called in, they would have passed inspection by the first" (this is by Mr. Craig). By giving this last expression of the girls, (who were of course greatly mis taken,) we find we have given some unintentional offence to Mr. Craig, who, baying had long experience as an in spector of seamen, immediately detected the sex of the impostors, and so expressed himself to his son, who was the young man alluded to. Mr. Craig also gave them the most moral and earnest advice, urging upon them the im propriety and indelicacy of leaving their homes in such attire, or so foolish an adventure, and impressing on them the impossibility of escaping detection, should they make any future attempt, as complete personal inspection of all candidates for the service was imperative. As nothing was further from our own intention than to impugn the professional discernment of Mr. Craig, we trust this ex planation will be satisfactory, esnecially as we cannot be lieve that his reputation has suffered in the siightest de gree by the crude conclusion of two servant women. Docx COMMITTEE. THURSDAY. —The consideration of a synop-is of the routine duties at the Albert Dock ware houses was deferred for a week in consequence of the absence of some of the members, who had expr e ss e d s t rong opinions upon one or two of the clauses. Mr. Mann, in reference to a list which was submitted of parties recom mended for the various offices at the Albert Dock Ware houses, said the warehouse sub-committee, in considering the applications for the situations, had met 35 times, their sittings frequently occupying three or four hours. There were 423 applicants, all of whom, with very few exceptions, had a number of testimonials, all of which were gone through, All the clerks recommended were persons of considerable experience and great re-pectability, and the wonder was, that men of such respectability and ability should be induced to offer their services to the Dock Committee on such terms. The Secretary then read the following list, and the committee confirmed their appoint ment :—Warehouse-keepers, Superintendents, Clerk, Warrant Issue Clerk, Manifest or Ship Ledger Clerk, at salaries of £l5O per annum each : Thomas Inman, aged 44 ; Leonard Simpson, 32; Ebenezer Allen, 44; J. A. Cunliffe, 27; A. S. J. Pomperoy, 30; John G. Gilks, 28. Ledger Clerks for Warehouses and Vaults. at a_.salary. of £lOO per annum each: Elkenah Healey, 22; John Goodall, 25; Alexander Gordon, 39; Thomas H. Glover, 25. Warehouse Clerks, at a salary of £BO per annum each : S. T. Nicholson, 29; Richard Williams, 24; William Wright, 23. Landing or Check Clerks, at a salary of £BO per annum each: George Clare, 24; Henry Fox. 26; James Williams, 27; J. W. Fairclough, 22; E. R. Tillet, 22; W. F. Pennington, 21 ; H. J. Orme, 24; C. M. Machell, 22; J. D. Pennell, 25; John Marsh, jun., 28; James Askew, 26 ; William Eaves, 22 ; R. Evans, 21 ; Cornelius Beattie, 28. Landing or Check Clerks, at a salary of £5O per annum each : Wm. Owens, 22; A. C. Laughton, 19 ; George Thirkell, jun., 18; Edwin Wall e y, 20. M anag i ng Foremen at 455. per week : Silk—William Stokes; East and West India produce—James Ayre. Mr. Molvneux said that Mr. H inch and Mr. Card were highly recom mended for the two last appointments, but alter sending in applications they had since withdrawn. Mr. Rankin was understood to say, there were many of the rejected parties as deserving as those who were approved, and, it was probable, should an addition to the present staff be necessary, that a selection would be made from the un successful candidates without giving public notice. Mr. Ripley (who was much affected) proposed that the Chair man should write a letter of condolence and sympat.iy to the family of the late Mr. Charles Horsfall. The Chair man said he should t.e glad to comply with such a request. He felt himself very much indebted to Mr. Hors'all, for the information he had given to him whilst a member of that board. When applied to, he afforded it with that courtesy and willingness which so distinguished him through life. The last stone of the Branch Bank of England, King street, Manchester, was laid on Tuesday. On Thursday. a young man, named John Farrell, was drowned whilst bathing at the south shore. It is expected that a public meeting will be held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Thursday, to celebrate the passing of the Corn Bill. The bells of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, rang merry peals on Friday, when the news was received that the Corn Bill had passed. A black man, the other day, who was summoned for - allowing his dog to be at large, pleaded that it had no teeth, but the magistrates fined him. nevertheless, ss. and costs. The children of the West Derby Union Workhouse, at their examination on Tuesday, acquitted themselves very creditably. On Tuesday evening a female named Paulson, while under the influence of liquor, threw herself from George's Pier into the river, but was fortunately rescued. On Tuesday John Goldie was fined ss. and costs. or be imprisoned ten days, for endeavouring to evade the Wood side Ferry toll on Monday evening. On Wednesday, the axletree of a carriage broke on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, while the train was in motion, but no damage was done. Ibrahim Pacha has placed the sum of £4O in the bands of the Mayor of Liverpool to be distributed to the public charities. EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS.-Tt is intended to pull down the whole of the south side of Shaw's Brow, and the east side of the Old Haymarket, including the mass of small tenements called St. John's village. Handsome buildings will succeed the present old fashioned and un sightly houses. It is probable that the proposed salt water baths will be constructed on the site of St John', village. All the masses of old buildings at the bottom of Water-street, forming part of Tower-gardens, are to be immediately removed, and the site occupied by stately and handsome edifices for business purposes. WATER.-We believe we may now congratulate the town on the prospect of an abundant and speedy supply of water, the purest in the world. The Corporation is aware that the plan is being prepared for them by Mr. Robert Rawlinson, the engineer, of Manchester, who, availing himself of his opportunities while engaged in the hydraulic and other works of the Bridgwater trust, has perfec'ed a plan, simple, cheap, and efficacious. This plan will requir3 neither steam-engine, pump, or turncock ; the supply of water will be inexhaustible and constant ; it will flood the sewers, keep a thousand public founta , ns in eternal play, and give every householder, poor or rich, an opportunity of having always on, from high pressure, abundance of the purest water.-Journal. LAUNCHES.-On Tuesday morning a beautiful iron steamer called the Fenella (the cognomen of the interest ing dumb girl, characterised in Sir Walter Scott's novel of " Peveril of the Peak") was hunched from the building yard of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, South Shore The Fenella was constructed from a model by our towns man, Mr. John Grantham, and is truly a fine specimen of naval architecture, of very fine lines, and light flotation. She was built for Messrs. Kemp and Laidlav, of the new, and now thriving, town of Fleetwood; and she is intended to run, chiefly with passengers, between that port and the Isle of Man.-On the following day, a fine new vessel called the Georgina, was launched from the building-yard of Nlessrs. Peter Chaloner and Sons, Baffin• street. She is of 600 tons burthen, of a beautiful model, apparently adapted for combining speed with the capability of carry ing a large cargo, and intended to be employed in the Calcutta trade. The vessel was built for John Worrell, Esq. LIVERPOOL DOCKS.-A comparative statement of the rates and duties received in the years ending on the 24th of June, 1845 and 1846:-In the year 1846. duties on tonnage, £114.709 15s. Bd. ; on goods, £98.714 Os. 6d. ; lighthouse, £8.732 15s. 2d. ; floating light, £3.775 Iss. Id. ; graving dock, £12,338 4s. ; graving block. £2,308 12s. 6d. ; extra dock rent, £483 I3s. 6d. ;-total, £211.062 I6s. sd. In 1845. duties on tonnage, £118,046 Ba. 8.1. ; on goods, £103,200 15s. 9d. ; lighthouse, £8,632 Os. 9d. ; floating light, £3.897 3s. 2d. , graving dock, £11,660 17s. ; graving block. £2,239 3s. 6d. ; extra dock rent, .£66a ss. ;-total, £250,541 13s. 10d.,-showing an increase on lighthouse duties of £lOO 14s. sd. ; graving dock, £677 7s. ; graving block, £69 9s. ; and a decrease of duties on tonnage of £3,335 13s. ; on goods, £6,486 15s. 3d. ; floating light, £l2l Bs. ld. ; and extra dock rent, £3Bl lls. 6d. ;-total, decrease, £9,478 17s. 5d.-Number of vessels in the year 1846, 19,951: tonnage, 3,095.444. In 1845, number of vessels, 20,521; tonnage, 3,016,531; increase on tonnage, 79,913; decrease on number of vessels, 570. FATAL AND SINGULARLY SIMILAR ACCIDENTS.-On Saturday week, a young man named Burton, a native of Birkenhead, employed on the Holyhead Railway at Pen manmawr, was ordered to take his horse and cart into the sea to wash them. He did so, when the animal be ginning to plunge and kick, got beyond his depth, and Burton was thrown off and drowned, being carried away by the tide. Hi s body was afterwards found.-On Wed nesday last, a young man named Myers, a carter in the employ of Mr. Hitchmough, Higher Tranmere, took his two chain horses to an old stone quarry filled with water, near the Park Hotel, Birkenhead, to wash their feet. One of the horses slipped into a deep part of the quarry, and deceased clung to the reins to endeavour to get him out, but the horse became restive, threw him on his back in the water, and kicked the poor fellow so severely that he sank and was drowned. The vicious horse was drowned, but the other was got out. The body of Myers was not recovered until an hour had elapsed. His brother was drowned last year, and was pulled out by the same grap nel. His father was killed by a cart a few years_ago. A room has been hired in Greenland-street, for the purpose of trying a raeged school ; but the principles on which it is established do not augur %ell for its success. The assistants of the late firm of Richardson and Cow= burn, in this town, on leaving their employ, presented to Mr. James Cowburn a handsome silver cup, richly chased, and of elegant design, as a mark of their respect. A strong reinforcement of police are required in the new streets in Windsor. Every Saturday night the fight ing is brutal, especially in Harding-street, and the police Yar too weak. STEALING STRAWBERRIES.—On Tuesday, a young lad named William Halliwell, was fined ss. at our Police court. charged with stealing strawberries from the gar den of Mr. Scarsbrick, at Kirkdale. On Thursday, George Jackson, a flatman, was fined ss. and costs for beating a boy, his son, in a brutal manner with a rope, knotted at the end. He was in the habit of "correcting" his wife with the same instrument. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, an inquest was held on the body of Thomas Corkhill, aged 40, a rigger, who, while at work at Mr. Peter Cato's ship-building yard, had his skull fractured by the falling over of a timber truck. Mr. James Gordon Bennett. proprietor and editor of the New York Herald, arrived by the Hibernia, and re mains during his stay in Liverpool at the Adelphi Hotel. We understand that it is Mr. Bennett's intention to visit London and make a tour upon the continent. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—On Friday, at the Police court, a servant-girl, named Ann Kelly, was committed for trial, charged with stealing various articles of wearing apparel. the property of Mr. and Mrs. Tinley, of Vine street, with whom she lived as servant. A correspondent suggests the propriety of the figures on the dial of the Infirmary clock, in Brownlow-street, being regilt. At present they are almost invisible, and for the convenience of such a thoroughfare, the trifling expense of restoring it is scarce worthy notice. Last week two little boys were drowned in an old marl pit on Bartington-heath, Cheshire. They bad gone in to bathe, and no doubt had got out of their depth ; their clothes were found lying near the spot, which gave the first intimation as to their melancholy fate. A public meeting will take place at Chester on Friday next, for the purpose of promoting the erection of public baths and washhouses for the poor. The Mayor will take the chair ; and the fund already subscribed being £225, there is every prospect of success. The bakers of bread have run their stocks of flour so fine that it was difficult to obtain bread in some of the villages in this county at the beginning of last week. Even in this town some of them are so completely nut of stock as to require that the flour bought by them shall be sent home the same afternoon for immediate use. The Mayor of Bordeaux is at present in Liverpool. He was at the Police-court about an hour on Saturday, and sat alongside Mr. Rushton on the bench. He seemed to watch the proceedings at the court with great interest. On Sunday he was waited upon by William Brown, Esq., and other merchants of the town. During the week, a number of parties have been sum moned for keeping pigs in the vicinity of dwelling-houses, allowing ash pits to be in a defective state, and refuse mat ter to flow into the streets, &c. In all cases where the offence was proved the parties were fined, in some cases 205., and others 10s. and costs. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—On Thursday, the anniversary of the national schools connected with the Established Church, was celebrated in this town, by the children walking in procession, headed by a number of clergymen, members of the Town Council and others, and afterwards attending divine service at St. Peter's Church, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Thos. W. Peile, D. D., High Master of Renton, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. During the service, the psalms and hymns were sung by the children in a very beautiful and correct manner. Mr. Edmund Stott presiding at the organ. His Worship the Mayor was prevented from attending, in consequence of sudden indisposition. The collection amounted to £4O 2s. sd. ; hi-t year it was £44 Is. Iod. The subject of the reverend gentleman's sermon was taken from the three last verses of the 48th Psalm. In drawing a parallel between the providence of God over the ancient Jewish Church, and his merciful dealings with our own Established Church, the pride and protection of our land, he took occasion to advert to the glorious Reformation, the Res toration, and Revolution, in which our religion was re formed, established, and confirmed, and also to the in creased zeal and energy of her clergy and laity in the present day as causes of devout thanksgiving and good hope for the future. In saying this, however, he was not blind to the dangers by which she was assailed, more from the divisions by which she was weakened from with in, than even from the enemies by whom she was menaced from without. Tares had been sown among the wheat ; an enemy had done this : and " such tares, too," he ob served, " as one would have thought that neit her the craf t nor subtlety of the devil or man could have reproduced in the Church of Protestant England." However, as the de solating tempest only restored health to the atmosphere by which we are surrounded, even so this lamentable de fection might also be overruled for good in His hands who ordereth all things, to whom therefore thanks should be given, and in whom confidence should be placed. The following is an account of the number of children in the schools connected with the Established Church, within the parliamentary boundary, on the day of the anniver sary, 25th June, 1846 : REMOVAL OF PaueEns. - -The House of Commons have directed the publication of a return, showing the number of paupers removed to their places of settlement from the manufacturing towns of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire, during the years 3841, 1842, and 1843. The total numbers of persons removed from twenty-five manufacturing towns enumerated in the return were : in 1811, 718 families, comprisine 2,254 persons; in 1842, 1,393 families, comprising 3.922 persons; and in 1843, 1,745 families, comprising 5,168 persons. No returns had been received from Stockport, Bury, Blackburn, and Leeds (township.) The return states that from Man chester there were removed, in 1812. 414 families, com prising 928 persons ; in 1843. 587 families, comprising 1,553 persons. From Salford (including Fendlebury and Pendleton), in 1841, 156 families, comprising 419 persons ; in 1842, 183 families, comprising 470 persons; in 1843, 229 families, comprising 614 persons. From Chorlion upon-Medlock (including Ardwick and Hulme.), in 1841, 32 families, comprising 90 persons ; in 1842, 65 families, comprising 166 persons ; iti 1843. GU families, comprising 186 persons. CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. —On Wednesday, Mary Bell, aged 17. servant of Mr. D. Scurfield, shawl dealer, Bold-street, was committed for trial, charged with secret ing the birth of an illegitimate child, and biding the body up the chimney, where it remained undiscovered for six weeks. Edward Murray was on Wednesday committed on a charge of bigamy. Tne prisoner was married in Ireland in the rear 1837, to Catherine Bennett, and again in Oc tober, 1837, to Margaret Parry, at St. Nicholas' Church, Liverpool, the first wife being then alive. Both wives appeared in court and gave evidence. A long investigation - , involving the conduct of two or three police-officers, took place on Wednesday, respect ing an alleged assault committed on Mrs. Morris, who lives with her husband and family in the neighbourhood of London-road. The evidence was conflicting. Mr. Rushton was unable to adjudicate, but he dismissed 283 for being intoxicated. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Friday, three middle aged men were brought before Mr. Rushton, and ordered to pay a fine of 30 each, or to be imprisoned for three months, for baying been detected in the act of making preparations to work a still in Ennerdale.street, back of St. Martin's market. Their names are Patrick Traynor, Ratrick Percival, and Jas. M`Bride. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH" SCHOOLS, HACKIN'S HEY.— The children of these schools were era mined before the Rev. Robert Davies and a number of the congregation and friends, on Tuesday last. The examination gave great satisfaction to the company assembled, and the Rev. Chairman declared himself much satisfied with their at tainments, and delivered an impressive address to the children. HI.,IIWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—On the recommen dation of Mr. Walthew, the law-clerk was directed to write a letter to the Town-clerk, requesting biro to call the attention of the Council to the desirabili. y of erecting troughs for supplying cattle with water, as the Board ex pect that the water-works at Green-lane will be in opera tion in about three months.—A conversation took place as to the laying of pipes from the new mains, for the pur pose of supplying the new north baths, but the opinion generally expressed was, that the Board had not funds to lay the pipes, and that, therefore, the Corporation ought to undertake that work.—Mr. Tirane said they expected the baths at the north end would be ready early in July. The law-clerk announced that the Liverpool Sanitary Bill had passed through committee on Friday last, with a clause inserted authorising the continuance cf the present commissioners in office till the act came into operation. Mr. Higgins alluded to what took place last week, when on his stating that a motion relative to the Sanatory Bill had not been put, Mr. Birkett gave his statement a flat denial. As that statement had since been corroborated, he called on Mr. Birkett to retract the offensive expres sion. Mr. Birkett refused to withdraw the expression which referred to the assertion that the motion had never been put. A long conversation and some explanations took place, c‘hich ended in both parties withdrawing all they had said, and shaking hands with each other. It appears that Mr. Higeins's version of the affair was the right one. H e had said " the motion was not put," and intended to add, •" while I was in the room," (which he afterwards called out aloud) when he was repeatedly in terrupted. SCHOOLS CHRIST CHURCH SCH 00L.—On Tuesday the half yearly examination of the boys of Christ Church Schools, took place. The object is to select the cleverest boy, to be educated free is the Lower school of the Collegiate Institution. The boys acquitted themselves creditably, and were surprisingly quick at their arithmetic. he principal examiner was the Rev. Dr. Hume, of the Col legiate Institution. After the selection was made, a gen tleman present made a handsome pecuniary present to the six best boys. Blue Coat Hospital Daily. i Sur 0 N i 0 Fetna'e Or. Asylum .. 91 .. Old Church II unter.street St. James's Welsh Charity ... , ;g6 104 .. Everton &z Kirkdale } 186 110 20 St. Mark's St. Andrew's l3B 181 36 St. Paul's Edge-hill St. lude's St. Augus'ine's St. Jonn theßaptist 157 24u 36 N. Church of Eng 268 205 28 St. Bride's 144 120 42 St. Catherine's 79i 76 6 Mill-lane S. Church of Eng l3Bl 150 4 St. Luke's 6Ol 4 St. Mary's Kirkdale Christ Church .. Mariner', Church A BET TO THE BENCH.-011 Tuesday, an old gentle. man appeared before Mr. Rushton, to answer an in formation charging him with allowing offensive matter from his premises to ocze through to those of his neigh bours. He denied the statements of the informant, and (turning to Mr. Rushton) offered to bet him, or any one in court, £lOOO that the inspector had been mistaken. Mr. Rushton quietly informed him that he did not bet, and fined him £1 and costs—warning him of the probable re petition of the fine, if the nuisance was not removed. CHESTER REGATTA.—The ensuing Chester Regatta, in August n-xt, is likely to be an unusually interesting and spirited affair. Mr. Jervis, M.P. for the city, gives a cup value £25, which will of course be enhanced by a sweep stakes. The " Royal Rowing Club" have a new boat building for them by Searle ; and have already a very efficient crew in training upon the Dee, under Maynard, of London, who took them in hand last week. Crews are expected from Lancaster, Liverpool, and Dublin, to con tend for the prize. During the voyage of the Roscommon steamer from Dublin to Liverpool on Saturday week, a fight commenced amongst the harvest men, some hundreds of whom were on deck. The combatants being armed with stout shille laghs, it was not long before some dozen were stretched insensible upon the deck ; and the fierce, mad yells of the men, together with the screams of the women by whom they were surrounded, were only quietened by a wat r- pipe being brought to play upon the " boys." During the row a poor wotnan was prematurely delivered. A YOUNG CANNIBAL.-4t the Police-court, Black burn, last Wedntsday week, Henry I-lope, of &Hinge End, was charged by Alice Hindle with having assaulted a little boy, her son. During the inquiry as to the cir— cumstances of the case, the singular tact was elicited that the child in question had art irresistible propensity to taste human flesh. Nearly every little playfellow's nose, ears, and fingers, that came within reach of his mouth, would this young cannibal seize between his teeth, and endea vour to make them meet. The mother admitted that her child was " rather given to biting;" and as it was for the exercise of this uncivilized inclination on the dafentlant's son, that defendant had chastised the juvenile savage, the magistrates dismissed the charge, with a recommendation to complainant to get her child muzzled. EXTRAORDINARY DE ATII.—On Wednesday, an in .quest was held before Mr. Curry, touching the death of a man named William Newall, aged 25, who lived in Sparling-place, Everton. Deceased was in the employ of Messrs. Critchley and Co., manufacturin:r. chemists, Can ning -street, and on Monday last was en g ag e d t h ere , w i t h the foreman of the establishment, in drawing off some ni trous acid from an earthenware receiver with an earthen• 13 11 C ton into stone bott'es, when the tap came out, and the arid gushed out. They both got away as quick a, possible. The deceased afterwards complained of a light ness of the chest, caused by the fumes arising from the acid. In half an hour he left off work, and went home. Next morning he became worse, and was taken to the Northern Hospital. where he died soon after. The house surgeon, Mr. G ldersleeves, ascertained. on a post moriem examination, that death had been caused by asphyxia, from engorgement of the air tubes, the result of inhaling the gas from nitrous acid.—Verdict accordingly. CROPS IN THE Pr LDS —The late rain has been of great service; its beneficial effects bring visible through vege . wheat crop, generally speaking, looks and fully average an land i t "produce is anticipated. Oats, on aood heart," look well inferior soil, are short an d b ad in colour. Beans will be a sorry affair; there will neither be straw nor pods. Potatoes of early sorts are pr e tt y f a i r; but late crops present a somewhat gged" appearance, and in sonie instances the banetul effects of the rot are visible. A great der.l of the turnip seed, sown in the drill a month ago, has not yet made its appearance. in con sequence of the hot and dry weather, but is just now beginning to braird. In some instances the fly has done much damage. Many farmers are busy in their hay,althou g h i t i s a month before the usual time of cutting. In brook or low lying meadows the crop i s f a i r , but the generality of fields will cut up " thin," and. taken y as a wh o l e , t h e produce of hay will be below average. Fruit of all ki n d s w i ll be a failing crop this season. Wit TING.—We have alre rdy borne personal testimony to Mr. Ttiompson's excellent system of teaching writing, and need now only refer to his advertisement. ACCIDENT AT THE RAILWAY WORKS, GLOUCESTER STIV. ET. —On Friday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, an accident took place in the excavation, now approaching towards completion, for the extension of the yard-room, or station, of the Grand Junction Railway Company, between Gloucester-street and Sidney-street. Two borings had been made in the yellow freestone rock at the east end of the excavation, and both being charged with gunpowder, ignition was effected by slow matches in the usual way, and the overseers and workmen retired from the spot to await the effect, at what they considered a rate distanm—about forty yards. Contrary to expectation, the low r part of the stone bored into was softer than the upper stratum, and gave way first by the fume of the two explosions, sending in the direction where the men were standing a terrific shower of large and small pieces of stone. They saw the coming missiles, but had not time entirely to escape. One man named Jones was struck by a stone on the leg with such force that a compound frac ture was the effect. He was sent to the Infirm try, and is doing well. Three other men were seriously wounded by other stones, one on the back of the bead, another on the back, and another on the shoulder, which was disl cated. These were take-' to the surgery of Mr. O'Gorman, in the immediate neighbourhood, and were attended to by that gentleman, and afterwards sent to their homes. They are, we learn, in a fair way of recovery. There were from 30 to 40 persons, including casual spectators, at the time in the excavation, and it is wonderful, such were the size and quantity of stones projected, that a great fatality did not take place. The houses in the neighbourhood were sha ken by the explosion, and the inhabitants considerably alarmed. The blasting of the reek is no doubt resorted to to save time and labour, or, in other words, to expedite the work ; but as the site is in a populous and central p , rt of the town, it is to be hoped that the remaining part of the operations will be accomplished without blasting, 5 72 297 131 73 10 '7.. St. Bartholomew's 170 150 25 St. Clement's l42' 98 55 St. i'imon's 1311 St. Barnabas' 29S 16 .. St. Silas' St. Martin's St. Thomas', Paik 451 130 25 I - St. John's 152 132 22 W. Derby Werlais. 55 42 13 Liverpool Ditto 299 160 .. 14t5g 3907 5 6 1 270 601 266 55 1 204 70 254 162. 60, 208 571 271' 60 256 iO7 3 , 6 56: CO 1..51 3 , 15, 78, 158 521 148 100 1 254 40 125 1001 2 - 5 84' 296 7 5 1 194 96 Bilil 6 1 2"11 132 475 :24 497'6708 MURDER BY TWO BOYS.—Last week the Manch magistrates were engaged in investigating a case involving circumstances of an almost unparalleled descrn tion, as tending to prove a deliberate act of murder against two boys named James Seddon and Joseph Dean, the one 17 and the other only 14 years of age. The victim is a boy named George Wray, 13 years old, the son of a blacking maker living in Deansgate-street, Manchester. Seddon, the elder of the accused parties, has for some time occu pied a small coal-yard near a str, et called Tuer-street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock. but both he and Dean seem to bare led a sort of vagabond-life. existing rather upon what chance placed in their way than from any regular means of subsistence. The circumstances of the horrid affair are these : On Friday week the deceased and his brother were sent out by their lather with a donkey and paniers to hawk blacking for sale. As they did not re turn home at the usual hour in the evening, the father' went in search of them, and succeeded in finding the de ceased's brother and the donkey, but the deceased could not be met with. Late on Friday night the father cave I especially as the stone is of a soft nature easily quarried out i►► the usual way, by wedge. up toe searcn, intenling to renew it on the following morning, but on that morning he received the news of his son's death. It nnnenred ihnt Ahnnt ANNUAL SESSION.—The annual meeting of the ma gistrates for this county took place at Preston, on Thurs day last, Richd. Earle, Esq., in the chair.—Mr. Alderman od e son, on behalf of a committee who had been appointed for that purpose, reported that a site for a new lunatic asy lum for the West Derby hundred had been selected by them in the neighbourhood of Ra'nhill ; its cost would be 5.000 guineas. —The Rev. J. S. Rirley said the Poor-law Commissioners havhg been consulted, bad given it as their opinion that Manchester and Liverpool would be bound to contribute to the new asylums proposed to he erected, in the same proportion as they now did to the •asylum at Lancaster.—On the motion of Mr..l. F. Foster, it was resolved that a committee be appointed to consider the order made on the county treasurer for the payment of the special constables employed in that borough during the disturbances in 1842.—Mr. T. B. Addison, in a speech of considerable length, proposed that a committee should be appointed for tie purpose of taking into consideration the general state of the prisons in the county, and repott ing to the next meeting, with the view of introducing the separate system. Ile referred to !he new cells for wale prisoners erected in the House of Correction at Pteston, and said the separate system there had caused a great decrease of prisoners in the gaol, and thus effected a saving of £3274 to the country. lie expressed approval of the p r i n ciple of the model prison of Pe n t onv ill e , an d con sidered that the prisons at Preston, Kb kdale, and the New Bailey were sufficiently ample for the wants of the county, and said Lancaster Castle was not only unfit for a prison, but incapable of bving made so. The Rev. J. 0. Parr seconded the motion, and Colonel Rawatorne, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Netid expressed their general concurrence in the resolution. which was passed unanimously. A motion to erect an office and storehouse at Preston for the constabulary force, at a cost of £5OOO, was, after some discussion, defeated. Mr. Superintendent Fanning's salary was increased from £lOO to £l3O, and the salary of Mr. M'Guire, second clerk in the chief constable's office, was increased to £9O per annum. The meeting then adjourned till the 10th September next. morning, ,Lmes Hughes, ostler at the Golden Eagle, in Tuer•street, went to the stable connected with the inn, and, on opening a window which overlooks a stream called " Black Brook," he saw the body of the deceased lying in the brook. The depth of water in the brook was only shout three inches, and the upper part of the de ceaaed's dress was quite dry. The body was removed into a stable, and the police were informed of the circum stance. Inquiries were immediately set on foot, and o the d eceased's body being examined by the police sur geon, it was found that death resulted from a severe blow received on the forehead, and which had injured th e brain. The blow app ear ed to have been inflicted with some heavy blunt instrument, though with sufficient edge to cut through the deceased's cap, as a hole was disco vered in it at a part corresponding with the wound on the forehead. There were also some slight marks on the deceased's neck, as if an attempt had been made at stranguLttion. He had no money in his pockets, although he was known to have sold blacking to the amount of two shillings or three shillings in the course of Friclly. T he principal facts which tend strongly to fix the boys Seddon and Dean with the murder, are that between t en and eleven o'clock on Friday ni , ght they were seen go i ng with the deceased into Seddon s coal-yard, and shortly after that time a man who was passing heard a noise in the yard, and called the attention of the policeman to the cir cumstance; but the policeman, on knocking at the yard gate, could obtain no answer. Mrs. Bridge, a small shop keeper in the immediate neighbourhood, states that the deceased borrowed a candle from her about eleven o'clock that night, saying he was going to look at Seddon's " dandies," and she also states that the candle was re turned to her about half an hour afterwards by the prisoner Dean, but she saw nothing of the deceased at that time. Matthew Mills, a shopkeeper near the same spot, saw the two prisoners leaving the coal-yard alone about a quarter before twelve o'clock the same n•ght ; and some time after midnight, Jane 'Williams, who occupies a house in Tuer street, heard a struggle on the ground below her back bed- room window, which overlooks the brook where the body j scene of the preacher's dying labours. He strongly urged Preambles in Commons—Oldham, Manchester, and was found. She states that she looked oat at the wi n d ow the claims of India both upon missionaries and medical BirkenhTad. proved •, Oldham district line, nor proved; an d saw two persons going away, but she could not Wen- men, and stated that the medical practice of the ilindoos Caledonian ( Clydesdale Junction, deviations ), proved ; tify them. A cabin in Seddon's coal yard was searc h e d i s i n t h e same b ar b arous s t ate no w that it was two thou- Midland (Leicester and Swanninztnn). proved; Caledo.. b y th e police, and in a box in the cabin were found a 1 sand years ago. The bishop thanked the University for nian Extension, no t proved; Blackburn, Chorley, a n d h a ndkerchief belonging to the deceased and 2s. 4d. in I its liberal contribution to the cathedral of Calcutta, where, Liverpool, not pro ve d ; Lli n vi Valley and South Wales copper. On these being shown to Seddon he said they he said, he was going back to die, and rest with his pre- Junction, proved. were his own, and that be had received the mo ne y f or d ecessors i n hi s ep i scopate , among w hom was the !amen- Bills rejected in Commons' Commillees.—Dover and coa l s . A p u r s e containini , 6s. 81 in silver was found be- ted Heber, whose life bad fully home out the high exPec- Deal ; London. Hou nslow an d w estern ; London and neat h a fire-grate in the cabin, and three of the coins were tations formed of him by his University prize poem of Windsor; Leeds, Wakefield, an d Midl an d (Wakefield. marked with blacking. A poker, a short thick piece of " Palestine," which (the bishop said) he heard delivered Pontefract, and Goole Junction); Huddersfield and Shef wood, and a Mackintosh coat were also found in the ca- in the theatre forty-three years ago. We may add, that field line ( Darfield Branch). bin, and two or three small sums of money were fo un d i n t h e same year, the bi shop himself gained th e p r i ze Bats read a third time.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car hidden in different places in a stable adjoining, of which essay—t. C ommon s ense : , Th e co ll ec ti on a ft er the se t .- lisle; the Cornwall Railway Bill; Edinburgh and Bath- Seddon had the key. At the close of the examination the man amounted to £97, being £lO more than last leaf*. gate Railway; Ipswich and Bury St. Etlmuoils ( Norwich p r i soners were fully committed for trial for murder at the often Es.—The following is an outline of the Bill to Extension) ; Belfast and Con.,ty D ow , L e i cester and ensuing Liverpool assizes. provide fur the erection and repair of churches in. con- Bedford; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole. solidated ecclesiastical dsstricts (just introduced into the Hou-e of Commons by Mr. R. Hodgson, and Mr. H. Elphinstone.) The preamble recites the several Acts for building additional churches, from 58 Geo. 111., c. 4,5, to 8 and 9 Vic. c. 70; and then the bill proceeds to enact, " That it is expedient to provide for the erection and re pair of churches and chapels in consolidated ecclesiastical districts ; and that consolidated ecclesiastical districts be considered distinct parishes." Churchwardens or other officers are to be appointed for new parishes. Clause 3 relates to the rate for building new churches •—That it shall be lawful for the rate-payers in any such new sepa rate parish (provided always that the consent in writing of the ordinary shall be first duly obtained) to make a rote for the building of a new church, or for the repairing, or for the enlarging any church or chapel now existing, for the. use of the inhabitants of such new separate parish ; provided always, that no such rate shall be valid unless rate-payers occupying at the least . three-fourths of the property rated to the relief of the poor in such new parish concur in making such rate ; and no such rate shall be valid unless due notice be given of the intention to make such rate for such purpose, by an advertisement published during three successive weeks, in some one newspaper pub ished in the county or counties wherein such parish is situated, signed by the churchwardens. overseers, and ten rate-payers ; or where there shall be fewer than ten rate payers, by rate-pryers to the amount of one. fourth of the rates levied for the relief of the poor. Clause 4 declares that churchwardens may raise money for building new churches by mortgage—provided always, that it shall be covenanted that not less than one-tenth of the sum so borrowed shall be annually paid off, in addition to thein terest agreed to be paid tor such sum. Clause 5. Pro viding sites for new churches.—That it shall be lawful to erect any such new church or chapel on any such glebe land on any part of such new separate parish ; and it shall be lawful to take any quantity of such glebe land, not exceeding in the whole t.wo acres, for the purpose of form ing a churchyard for the burial of the dead ; and the glebe land so taken for the site of such new church, and for such churchyard, shall thereafter be vested in the ordinary for the use of such separate parish ; provided always that such glebe land shall not be taken unless the ordinary and the clerk in holy orders, who may be in the possession of the glebe land, shall give their consent thereto in writing. Clause 6 provides that funds now applk-able to repairs of churches may in certain cases be applied for the purposes of this Act CORRhSPONDENCE. EARL GREY AND THE IRISH CHURCH THE PRESENT CRISIS -FACTS AND RUMOURS IN THE POLITICAL WORLD. The royal assent was given, by commission. on Friday afternoon to the Corn Bill arid the Cu stoms D ories Bill. Viscount Falkland has relinquished the governorship of Nova Scotia, and Major General Sir John Harvey bas been appointed his successor. Lord George Bentinck is to be invited to a public din ner at Lynn, as a mark of the esteem of his constituents for his public conduct. It is said that the conservatives of Preston will invite Lord Stanley's son to become a candidate for that borough at the next election. The Britannia says, that if Lord John Russell takes c llsu rs c e ce t e o d a in di g ss e , tt l i u n t g i,, t n hrough the s o e ffi ss c i e o , n i t w i i s thout probable havi l n ie will having re It is said that the able and active chairman of the South.. Eastern Railway Company, James Macgregor, Esq., late manager of the Commercial Bank, in this town, is to go into Parliament for a Kentish borough. Mr. G. F. Egerton. eldest son of Lord Francis Eger ton, has announced his intention of coming forward as a candidate for Newcastle•under-Lyrae, in the event of a dissolution of parliament. Tlo , address to Sir Robert Peel, approving of his com mercial policy, which was exhibited on Friday, in the Li verpool Exchange News-room, received in the course of a few hours, upwards of GOO signatures. Lord Stanley's protest against the Corn Bill was on. Thursday laid on the 'able of the House of Peers. It re capitulated all the points that have been urged against the measure. The Hon. E. R. Littleton, the son of Lord Hatherton, in a circular to the electors of Walsall, has announced his intention of offering hiinself as a candidate for their suf frages whenever a dissolution of Parliament shall occur. It transpired in the city on Friday that a considerable quantity of baggage, under the charge of Sir Robert Peel's domestic servants, bad passed through Paris to the south ward. This is significant of the course the Premier in tends to pursue for the present. and also that his mind has been made up to retire from office for some time. LEAGUR REJOICINGS.—A few of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League had guns fired at Leeds. yesterday, in celebration of passing of Corn Bill ; but generally the news of the event was received with a feeling little short of apathy. The League party threaten to inflict an illu mination upon this and other large towns at no distant day. Would it nut be wiser to " wait a wee ?'' The good (?) of free trade has yet to be realized.—Leeds TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Our opponents misrepresent our position; our hostility to Papery is quite consistent with our love for Papists. It is not against Roman Catholics but against Romanism we protest ; it is not against those unhappy victims of Priesthood and hypocrisy in the sister island against whom we protest, but against those men and that religion by whom and by which they are victimised. We protest, and by God's grace we will protest, till we have not left a voice to lift up against its enormities a system, than which all the ingenuity of Satan and his infernal councils could not have devised one more effective for the perversion of humanity, the destruction of nations, and tha everlasting ruin of immortal souls ! A system, which, wherever its infecting presence is found. blights commerce and pros perity, roots up communities and nations, and spreads devastation around it. A system, a more terrible engine in the hands of Godlike vengeance for the punishment of a nation's sins, than all the plagues, calamities, and woes ever issued from the quiver of eternal wrath ! This is strong language, and we are decried for using expressions incom patible with Christian charity and moderation; but, Sir. I ask with what other diction are we to suit our subject? Would that I could speak on such a burning topic in " words that burn." When we read of the cheats that are practised by the inheritors of that truth which Christ gave unto his disciples, upon the very calamities of a starving peasantry. When we read of men, priest's for sooth of Christ's holy religion ! and in this enlightened age, trading with the mummery of their perverted office, utahnnoadseleremntwbraetg-tcdliseisTn:d3a3 and whose u as d beingsemees necessities t h:e;sa favoured u p r e d r i diseasepe rishing nt their go helpless credulity. When we read of ministers wearing the badge of the deity of the Bible denouncing that holy volume a " damnable book," and consigning the trem. bling spirit who shall dare to consult its divine precepts to " eternal damnation ;" when we find the ambassadors of the Prince of Peace sowing the seeds of dissension amongst their people, and encouraging them to acts of violence, robbery, and bloodshed, by extending to them God's pardon beforehand ; when we read of these things not one tithe of the fearful class of enormities which stain that horrible confederacy of the powers of darkness, whilst in public, decency and conventionally step in to our restraint, in the private musings of one's indignant spirit the whole vocabulary of Saxon vituperation is utterly unable to furnish language capable of expressing our just abhorrence of such wicked, such blasphemous, such horri ble abominations! THE C URT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Queen and the Court still remain at the Royal marine residence in the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the youthful Royal family, intend to prolong their sojourn at Osborne House until the 6th proximo, according to present ar rangements. The Royal christening is expected to take place she third week in the ensuing month. On Tuesday a handsome horse, estimated at the value of 2,000 guineas, arrived at Brighton, as a present to her Majesty from Mehemet Ali, and was immeniately for warded to London by railway. The Marquise D'Harcourt died at Windsor, on Monday morning, from the effects of poison which she had swal lowed in mistake for a dose of medicine. By a regulation of the new club established in London, at Coventry House, Piccadilly, no professional man can be a member. And, Sir, who is it that is favourab l e to this dangerous religion; who is it advocates its brawling claims? Not only Earl Grey and his reckless party, but our own, or sure our own leader and ally, the Premier of England. It is Sir Robert Peel who has fed the pollution of May nooth, and who has threatened the destruction of the Pro testant University and that now pants to dispense the money of Englishmen to the maintenance of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland! It is lamentable to contemplate the sad wreck of former prosperity and greatness, exemplified in that degenerated man. " But yesterday, and Peel might have stood against the world ; now, none so poor as do him reverence." Apart from the considerations of party, this fallen man is a terrible lesson to his compeers and successors; he will be for ever a monument of favours lost, and advantages thrown away. In the political history of his country, his own life will form a melancholy episode, pointing, for the warning of future generations, to that rock upon which no statesman can steer with honour or with safety. veri fying the truth which one day, if the terrible time of rec koning has not yet arrived, will flash across his con science, with all the force of thirty years' experience, that though the arts of duplicity and cunning may for a while succeed on the credulity and weakness of a parry, yet, like water, the dishonest statesman must at last find his real level. Ile has been termed by a master hand our Fabius Maximus ; but now, we find a far less enviable, though riot less notable, character of antiquity will only suit his crimes. When we reflect upon the many advantages showered down on this misguided minister by a lenient providence, perverted to thwart the very will of that gra cious providence, we are' afflicted with regret that we should have trusted in his hands our best and most impor tant interests, as his day of remorse will come for betraying them. Whilst he might have retired from the active arena, upon which he has so long played his part, covered with the laurels of success and a gratified ambition, followed by the endless gratitude of his own party, and the forced admi ration of his political opponents, he has now bighted every hope, but the paltry prospect of a wickedly earned coronet. He bas not one satisfaction meet for an honour able man to entertain, and the only anxiety he occasions a betrayed country is, that for the good of prosperity he has grown tired of his troublous existence, if not from a conviction of its turpitude, still from the desire of repose. There can be no peace for a detected deceiver on the stage where he practised his deceit ; and that party into whose arms he has thrown himself, only despise him for his weakness and distress. As soon as they have accomplished the dirty work in which they have employed him as their tool, they reject his help as an incumbrance, and laugh whilst he writhes under the contempt of one party and the ridicule of the other. Without one friend in the wide world who would vouchsafe him a character, this helpless wanderer is at the mercy of every tide and blown by every wind that caprice, cunning, or revenge may raise to his destructiop. Once the cherished hope of a nation, he is now the miserable object of scorn and detestation of every party ixt that nation : once the recognised leader of the greatest party England ever saw, now cast out from alle giance, a pitiful deserter to a faction whom even he taints by his adhesion : once the great premier of England, now the apostate hireling and tool of a rabid and revolutionary Lord Lindsay, son of Earl Balcarres, will shortly marry 1111ss Lindsay, daughter of Col. Lindsay, of Balcarres, Fifeshire. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have left town for Worsley Hall, there to reside until autumn. The noble lord has paired off for the remainder of the session. The Hon. and Rev. Reginald W. S. West, has been appointed by his father, Earl Delawarr, the lord chamber lain, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, lit the room of the Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville. A marriage is determined on between Viscount Seaham, eldest son of the Marquis and Marchioness of London derry, and Miss Edwards, only daughter and heiress of Sir John Edwards, Bart , of Machynllech, Montgomery shire. The fair fiancee is said to have a princely fortune. It is reported that the Duchess of Orleans received from Queen Victoria an autograph letter requesting her to stand as one of the sponsors to the young English Prin cess recently born, and replied that she most willingly ac cepted the honour proposed to her, but that she would be obliged to act by proxy, on account of the solemn vow she had made not to leave her children. THE BARONY OF PRESTON.-011: the subject of the paragraph in Saturday's paper. copied from the Globe, and headed " Absurd Rumours," a corre,pondent calls our attention to the feet that Sir .1 antes Gramm could tint be elevated to the title of Lord Preston whilst Sir R. Graham Eves, as he is the son of the elder brother, and, as a matter of course, the elder branch. The estates be longing to Preston were confiscated to the crown, but it is believed much was returned in after years, and, if our correspondent is rightly informed, they lie somewhere in Berks.—Times. Maxime quis non Jupiter, exelamat, simul atque audirit ? RAILWAY The subject has carried me too far : I have touched upon it very slightly : I must recur to it and my Lord Grey's speech on the earliest opportunity.—Your (Medi- ent servant, IN u CE. NIGEL. The North Union Station is to be greatly enlargeZ. When completed it will be one of the best in the king dom. June 19th, ]846 UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. The new church at Elwortb, in the parish of Sandbach, was consecrated on Tuesday. The diocese ut Australia is to be immediately subdi vided into three distinct bishoprics. It is Miss Burdett Coutts who has expressed an inten tion of founding, at her own expense, two colonial bishoprics. On Friday the Bishop of Chester consecrated two new churches at Longsight, near Manchester. His lordship preached on each occasion. In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday. Mr. Rey nell, advertising agent, recovered £568 from Mr. Lewis, provisional committee-man of the Central Kent Railway, for advertisements. There were no fewer than five accidents last week on the works of the Caledonian Railway. two of which were fatal. The sufferers were William Bouscer and Robert Carlisle, both labourers. In the Nisi Prius Court on Thursday, the case of Gar wood v. Moore came on for hearing, and was, in its most important features, similar to the case given elsewhere. In this case the plaintiff had paid to the Directors of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway £lO5 as deposit on an allotment of shares in that Compa ny, the capital of which was represented in the prospectus as £300,000, but it turned out that only £lO,OOO of that sun, were subscribed for. The defendant was one of the Provisional Committee-men of the Company. The only point to which the Lord Chief Baron thought it necessary to call the attention of the jury was, whether the defend ant, by consenting to act as a Provisional Committee.. man, engaged to pay the preliminary exp enses o f the pro jected railway. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. On Wednesday, the Bishop of Chester consecrated the beautiful little church at North Rode, Cheshire, and on the following day he performed the same ceremony at Rainow, in the same county. AN " ALLOTTEE."—A person named Wyse applied to the London Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Monday, to be discharged on sureties till his hearing. The Chief Com missioner said he doubted whether bail should be taken in such a case. Ile saw, from the schedule, that the debts without consideration were upwards of £12,000, and the consideration debts only £53. What are these debts. ? asked the learned Commissioner," without consideration?" Insolvent.—They are railway liabilities, sir. Chief Com .. `fire Manchester Courier says, that when it was publicly announced, by Mr. Greg, on Friday. in the Exchange Newsroom, in that town, that the Corn Bill and the Cus.. toms Bill had passe,' the House of Lords, and that minis— ters had been defeated on the Irish Coercion Bill, " Not a single cheer, or even the whisper of a cheer, followed the announcement. It was received in solemn, and almost breathless silence." The Times says, that " The division on the Irish Coercion Bill was received by the House of Commons in silence." In the Arches Cour, on Saturday, the Rev. James Shore was admonished and condemned in costs of suit for celebrating divine worship in an unlicensed chapel within the diocese of Exeter. At a consecratiim a few days since, by the Bishop of London, his lordship alluded to the number of churches he had consecrated (upwards of 150), and said, there was a friendly rivalry between hirnselt and the Bishop of Chester, who had consecrated upwards of 160. The valuable vicarage of St Pancras has become vacant by the death of the Rev. James Moore, LL D., one of the most eloquent preachers in London. It is said that the Rev. T. Dale, canon of St. Paul's, will be his sue ces•sor. JESUITS IN TUE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Archbishop Magee, the predecessor of the present Archbishop of 'Dublin, made the followiog assertion to some clergymen of his diocese, some time previous to his death There are, (said be), at this moment, many Jesuits—concealed of course—but still acting as Church of England clergymen, and in the possession of parishes, who are silently but surely working its downfall." mission r —Flow did you incur so large an amount? In s ,Ivent.—l wrote for lettt rs of allotment, which I received. Chief Commissioner.—Pray what are you ? Insolvent. — A clerk in the General Redstrar's-office, Somerset-house. Chief Commissioner.—Why, in the name of common sense, did you d.ihble in such matters? Insolvent.—l saw The vestA is built of iron, perfectly fiat underneath, the one end formed ;After the fashion of a bow, and the other, - - - feet, breadth 23 and depth of iron 41 feet. The area of the church has a fine, roomy, aid most comfortable ap pearance. The height from the floor, which is level with the base of the imat, to the top of the c web, is 17 feet, and in the middle of the roof there are three cupola win dows which light the whole houe, and these have their centre pieces moveable to act as ventilators. There are as vet no seats formed in either aria or galleries, and it is ' - übtful if any will be pliced till the church arrives at its Chief Cornmissioner.—Thai is. you saw so many mad men that you would be mad too. The insolvent made no an swer. Chief Commissioner.—What has become of the sh , +res? It was stlted that there were no s'lares obtained, only letters of allotment in various railways, which had been filed in court. The court accepted the proposed bail. PROGRESS OF OF RAILWAY BILLS LAST WEEK pv-ao-encee Ago nr• gre;,,,r. DJ and Northern (Dunfermline division); Strathearn devia tion; Great Western and Uxbridge; Norfolk (Yarmouth Extension) ' and Lowestott Railway lease; Dunblane, Donne, and Callander ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Pollock and Govan branches) ; Glasgow Southern Ter minal; Caledonian (Mid Lothian branches); Lesmaha gow, Dalsert, and Coatbridge Mineral Junction ; Grand Junction (Huyton and Warrington branch); the same (Huyton,_A,hton, and other branches); Yorkshire and destination, which is not yet definitely fixed. It is inten ded to ace mmodate about 700 persons. THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA. — The appearance of Bishop Wilson, on Tuesday morning, in the Oxford IJui versity pulpit, attracted an unusually crowded audience to hear and see a man so distinguished in the religious his tory of the last thirty years. Long before service com menced. the spacious edifice was crowded in every part. His lordship took his text from Titus. chap. ii., v. 14. It was evidently a great exertion to the bishop, worn Out by his labours in India, to deliver a discourse at all, much more so on this important occasion, when the public cu riosity and interest were so highly raised. His lordship's physical powers, formerly so vigorous and energetic in de livering his great message, are no longer equal to the t , ,sk of preaching, and those who recollect what be was twenty five years ago, in the zenith of his fame and popularity. listened wish saddened feelings to the , übdued and altered voice once so thrilling and impassioned. The most strik ing passages in the sermon were his lordship's brief ad dress to the young men of Oxford, urging them no t t o fritter away their too brief academical term in attending to the mere externals of religion—the traditions of men— and the Popish and semi-Popish teaching of the last ten years. The people of England, the bishop said, detest Popery, and are strongly and firmly attached to Protest ism ; and there was no fear for the Church of England, provided the bishops and the nobles were true to their duties. The bishop's charge. however good, is not enough ; be must follow it up by the whole of his conduct. Another striking passage related to India, the chosen 61asjiiw Union In — a " select committee on merits ," the following bill were declared to have passed, and ordered to he reported : —The Midland (Nottingham and M atifield branch); London and Birmingham ((.:atnden and Euhtoti Stations enlargement) ; Midland (Clay Cross to Newark) ; Wil sontown. Morningsido, and Coltness (Bathgate branch); ditto (C,ledonian Uraneh); ditto (improvement and brancher); Slamannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig branches). Standing Orders complied with in Lords.—Sr. H elen's Canal and Railway; Birmingham, Lichfield. and Man- chester ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole (Methley, Askern. and oa;ceirshaw branches ; Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway ; Wishaw and Coltness (Greenhill branch) Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction ; Ilud der,field and Manchester Railway and Canal ; Hudders field Diversion and Cooper Bridge branch ; Sheffield. Ashton-under-Lyne, and *Manchester (Dukinfield, Wors: borough, and other branches); Dublin, B e lf as t, and Cole raine Junction ; Eastern 4.3ounties (Manchester and Lin coln Extension). Bills rejeclrd by Lord's Committees. — Swinton and Lincoln ; Doncaster, Wake fi eld, and Leeds ; 13uckingham shire ('l'ring to Banbury). Bills passed committees of the Commons.—Exeter. Yeovil, and Dorchester : Board of Trade to determine at whose expense the double guage should be laid down and maintained; London and Richmond (Kew Branch); Bristol and Birmingham (Gloucester and Srorrehouse junction) ; South Dever ] (excepting branch from Plym outh to Tavistock); G r e a t G r imsby and Sheffield; L i v er p ool and Bury, and Manchester and Leeds a malgaint.lway, ition ; Manchester and Bolton. and Bury Canal and Railway, and Manchester and Leeds Railway amalgamation ; Nr_irth Kent (South-Eastern line); London , Salisbur y , and ) eo vil ; Lancaster and Carlisle (extension to the Caledonian); Caledonian (Carlisle division); Cockerniouth and Work. invon ; Bristol and Glouceste r, and Birmingham and Gloucester; Blackburn. Preston, and E ast Lancashire Junction ; Caledonian (purchas e of Garnirk, Edinburgh and Glasgow) ; and Clydesdale Junction ; Pollock and Gavan amalgamation ; London and Bil - mingham and Canal arrangement; Manchester, Huddersfield, and Oldham. June 30, 1816. TETE LIVERPOOL STANDA'RD. TIIE LATE B. R. IIAYDON, ESQ This well-known h storical painter died on Monday last, under very melancholy circumstances. Pecuniary (Wheal ties appeared to have pressed on his mind. All examination of the body proves that the deceased must ha, e first fired a pistol into his head, a bullet wound being visible in the parie tal bone. This appears not to have had a tital effect, and the deceased appears subsequently to have obtained possession of a razor, with which he afterwards inflic'ed two severe gashes in his throat, which caused his death. The coro ner's jury found, that the deceased was of unsound mind when he committed the act. In the coin se of inquiry. the foll he had keptowiegratrae f t waser many years, read fromyea .up to theajournal moment othef dece o a f h sed i; that death :—" I have written to Sir Robert Peel, to —, and to —, stating that I have a heavy snm to pay. I have offered ' the Duke's Study' to—, Who answered first? Tormented by —, harassed by public business, up came the following letter : " " ' Whiteh a ll, J une 16 . Sir,—l am sorry to hear of your cont,inued embar rassments. From a limited fund which 1 have at my dis posal I send, as a contribution to your relief from these embarrassments, the sum of £5O. 4 ' ' I remain, sir, your obedient servant, " ROBERT PEEL.' " That's Peel. Will -, or -, answer." The coroner said, that in leaving the case in the hands of the jury, he could not fail to remark on the munificent act of Sir Robert Peel towards the unfortunate deceased. He thought it must speak to the heart of a great many thousand persons that, whilst others were, so to speak, attempting to destroy his own mind, and amidst a pres sure of public business almost unparalleled, Sir Robert Peel had not forgotten the sufferings of others. It was further stated at the inquest, by the Rev. Mr. Hyman, the deceased's stepson, that as soon as Sir Robert Peel was informed of Mr. Haydon's death, he transmitted a sum of £2OO to prevent the family from being molested l b , creditors e s t h h o e uld be most d v a tpublic come appeal forwardw could it h b h e is ro p a r d in eo t t: their beh a lf, an d a dd e d , that when that appeal was made, purse and personal influence. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Morni ng H era ld :— Sir,— publishedislear l y p y p e e a a r l s_a o g r o .. rather(july 9,; complaintlB27 pour our journal of poor Haydon's, t oo pl a i n l y foreshowing the destiny of his helpless and hopeless c areer . A t thie moment. when the dead man attracts a notice which th e living could never obtain, hie sad letter may not be inaptly reprinted, TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD " Sir,—ln the Literary Gazette of Saturday week was published a report of what had been spent by the directors of the British Gallery in favour of British artists—v 4., £75,000 in pictures sold, £14,000 in pictures purchased by the directors. and £5OOO in premiums bestowed. " Perhaps, in my present condition of bitter degrada tion, it will not be considered ungrateful in the to state that I never received one guinea of the £75,000 laid out in pictures seld at the British Gallery ; that of the £14,000 bestowed by the directors in purchases I have never had the honour of receiving one shilling; and that of the £5OOO spent in premiums, only £lOO was voted as a pre mium. £lOO as a premium during 23 years ! That at Ibis moment my ' Judgment of Solomon' is rolled up in a winehouse in the Borough ! My Entry into Jerusa lem,' once graced by the enthusiasm of the rank and beauty of the three kingdoms, is doubled up i n a b ac k roornin Holborn ! That my Lazarus' is in an uphol sterer's shop in Mount-street and my Crucifixion' in a hayloft in Lisson-grove! _ " My being unable, th-refore, to meet the just dernlnda on me at present is not, I hone, wholly unaccounted for. " Sir, yours, ' B. R. HAYDON. " King's Bench Prison, July 7." One hundred pounds in 23 years! and not a penny during the next 19! The utilitarians to whom we vote our hundreds of thousands of pounds in reward of their om 42 years of negliethave driven into his d , spernte grave Long before the date of his letter to the Her a ld, Hay don had been lib:-rated from gaol as an insolveNt, under which process one of his Guest pictures (a debt contracted for its gilt frame being. 1 believe, in his schedule; and another. probably, for its canvas and co:ours,) was sold to a tradesman for less than the cost price of its materials! June 25, 1846. Pli YLAX. e.,...... d. 4... .1 xt,,;A........:...) To give a la.t remembrance to the unfortunate flaidott. If he could have obt.in.d in the earlier pert of his career some small appointment sufficient to_ bite, not in luxury, but :bore the necessity of drudging on all kinds of subj-c's, he m;ght have made a great anist, and a great honour to his c,ilintrv. With his absolute passion for the arts, his untiring industry, his active ambition, and his picturesque mind, he must have produced works which his country would trot " have willingly let die." Our religion prohibits, and wisely prohibits the inttoduction of paintings in general into churches. They must not turned into picture galleries. Nor can we force the various city or country corporations to expend money, money generally not their own, in decorating their walls. We cannot expect private individuals to give commissions for great pictures, which are unsuited to their houses or their personal means ; and yet, without the production of pictures on a large scale end on striking public subjents, we cannot have a national school of painting. The only natural and effective expedient would be, to provide moderate a r l is , s in w h ichnarrowwould circumstan c e sl o ver with of the his on of £2OO t a o a r wk t ne t o shui a sh b j fi r:l nc abandon j u ct o oh all apnu chance of ere: oat tatwioval no bjects ha, ahl ol b nuhoti his powers, fa r. m e , e , n tsoi . and c hoose os e thus histo t g u l i . 7: a g h t e ewr l ei j t h H a n y r s B d t i o ut u n t : •except where su ffi cient proof was shown of to be given tah.yeyearromseiginhttoacnesiweebrrietyve;rythpouserpopsreovoifsioyncsu,nogracrotiusrtsse,unntottl ability. £5.000 a year thus expended would be enough tmoinsetsns ;a and dn f d t t h h w e ohs u ae unfor tunate too , faore- known name , donix f o uase r , i . n. el () t i t oor t egyof generally n, u nuaees r tsre p icecci n aal, :fll s trnys e catct : x,ho,el incomepiy f ptt t ro 01 0:io va n :, a a t lea t hoyyn i na o fe:dn o axflor a efl.t i tt: ohily e eee z nnr p ooi e oal fr difficultiesl artists, Ought such things to be? The nation all io n those is establishments, large . is not deficient in liberal love for the arts. The National . The incotneof the their merits, fail in the one . great TTh B rit.i. 11 £12,000. I essential ohject—of c t a i d e eyn producesat s all have h p r a u r v o g e securing a man of talent from the direct pressure of want; of , nabling him to pursue his chosen course of study, un disturbed by the exigencies of the hour; and of qualifying_ and the time, that genius which is yet to throw lustre him to cultivate, in whatever silence and retirement fo r Will roy alty country. Something more must be don u e r - e and solid neglect the noblest occasion of be ntega a l t i gi p e ts nt ge o n f ili an s illus triousis sits justice to that genius most precious posses-ion, and " lea to national renown is among the znoat exalted tit popularity duty? Wi Will l t r h h e e l :ICI l o a n t ure forget thath e h a end Royala Art-Un ion n A cademy