The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1853. LOCAL I2V. TELLIGENCE. Virß ISLE OP MAN Steam-packet Company have it in contemplation to build a fast clipper steam-ship in addi tion to their present fleet of vessels. MR. MORRISH, of the Merchants' Dining-rooms, is fit ting up a suite of rooms at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway station, Tithebarne-street, to be opened as a restaurant and general refreshment rooms. TE E AmAL BAZAAR, in connexion with the Everton Church MisSionary Society, is announced to commence , t omorrow (Wednesday), and continue over the two fol lowing days. AMALGAMATION OF THE LEARNED SOCIETIES. —A meeting of delegates from the four learned societies was held on Wednesday, at the Royal Institution, and a very interesting discussion took place upon the desirability of amalgamation. No final resolutions were adopted, however, the meeting being adjourned till to-morrow. SP. GEORGE'S BAZAAR, Queen's-square, recently de- I troYed by fire, was re-opened on Wednesday. A sum heady sufficient to cover the actual losses of the tenants has been raised; and the exertions of the proprietor to °are the bazaar re-opened will cause the Christmas of clany of the tenants to be merrier than they could have otherwise expected. FIRE.—In an outfitting store, kept by Rose Delama, in Saltney-street, opposite Stanley Dock, a crowded neigh bourhood, an alarm of fire was given by the inmates, about half-past eleven on Friday night. It was imme diately subdued, without even the aid of the reel-hose and engine, which were promptly in attendanee. DECIMAL COINAGE.—A requisition was a few days ago Presented to the Mayor, J. B. Lloyd, Esq., requesting him to call a meeting for the purpose of hearing a statement of the evidence taken before the committee on the above subject, and of the advantages pointed out in the report likely to accrae from its adoption. His worship has com plied with the request, and has named Wednesday, (to morrow,) at the Sessions-house, Liverpool. ME. WILLIAM JENNINGS REES, St John's College, 'Cambridge, (formerly a pupil and Canning Scholar of the Royal Institution School,) who, in the first and second Tears of his matriculation at the university, gained a foundation scholarship and two Wood exhibitions, has again distinguished himself, being first man of his year, in the mathematical and classical examination, just ended, at the above college. CHANGE RINGING.—On Wednesday, Mr. John Holt's ten-course p ea l o f grandsire trebles, consisting of 5,040 hanges, was rung on the back, eight of St. Peter's bells, in three hours and eight Minutes, by Messrs. J. Heron, treble ; W. Heron, fourth ; James Heron, fifth ; R. WI Hams, sixth ; J. Heron, jun., seventh ; H. Roberts th ; G. Helsby, ninth ; J. Johnson, teno ducted by John Heron, jun. Weight o f tenor in the key of D 25 cwt THE SOUTH AMERICAN screw-steamer Braziliera, Captain Cox, went into the river from the Birkenhead Dock, on Wednesday, with a full cargo of fine goods on board, and sailed on Saturday for the Brazils and the River Plate, via Lisbon and St. Vincent. Since her arri val in port the Braziliera's accommodation for passengers has been extended, and she has been fitted with Griffith's Patent screw, which will no doubt enhance her sailing "Qualities. She takes anthracite fuel this voyage. BANQUET AT THE TowN-HALL.—OR thursday the Mayor, J. Buck Lloyd, Esq., entertained the consuls at this port and a party of gentlemen. The representatives 'of Russia and Turkey being among the guests, the Mayor .Placed them next himself, lamenting that there was no Member of the peace society in the room, to seat between 'them; and he set the table in a roar when proposing the Army and Navy" in the presence of two belligerent Powers ; for although he was ready to cry " A plague on both your houses," he expressed a strong suspicion that, if necessary, we could serve the masters of both alike. ROYAL MERSEY CURLING CLUB.—The annual meeting 'of this club was held on Friday, at Woodside, for the Purpose of passing the accounts, electing officers for the ensuing year, and transacting other business. The presi dent, Mr. Hastings, occupied the chair, and the accounts for the past year were presented by Mr. Houston, the secretary. After they had been examined and passed, a vote of thanks was given to the retiring officers, and the following gentlemen were elected to conduct the society for the next year :—Mr. Hastings, Liverpool, president; Mr. Dalziel, Landican, vice-president ; Mr. Corrie, Birken head, treasurer ; and Mr. Galloway, Birkenhead, secre tary. Upon the conclusion of the business, the members spent a social evening together. CONCERT Toun.—The enterprising house of Cramer, Beale, and Co., has just projected a grand musical tour nee in the provinces, which will commence in the last week of January. The artists engaged are Miss Arabella Goddard, Madame Amadei, (" the English Alboni," as she is called,) Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, Mons. Sainton, and Mr. Land. The tour can hardly fail to prove interesting in the highest degree. Madame Amadei is an untried singer, it may be said, and goes before her provincial audiences without a widely circulated reputation. We however consider that the projectors of the tourne'e are folly warranted in engaging the new-found contralto. Madame Amadei possesses a magnificent voice, and has already produced a great sensation at the Reunion des Arts and the Wednesday evening concerts. We cannot doubt that she will be equally successful in the provinces. Of Miss Arabella Goddard it is unnecessary to say a word. He r name is as well known out of London as in it ; her 'talent almost as thoroughly appreciated. The renowned Yiolini s t, M. Sainton, too, requires no preparatory trumpet -1/4,,g• He will be welcomed everywhere. Of Mr. and Mrs. eiss and Mr. Land, it is enough to say that they will 'constitute serviceable members of the company. —Musical World. BRENA.I.7 V. PRESTON.—The Vice Chancellor, on Wed -nesday, delivered judgment in this case, which has been long before tne — cout, d - possesm, interest. The plaintiff is part owner in the brig Pbcebe, the defend ants, Messrs. Preston and Watson, of this town, being the owners of the remaining part. By an agreement the de fendants were appointed ships' husbands and brokers, with a commission on all freights, and Brenan was appointed master. The ship was chartered to Messrs. Burns and Vlver, of this town, who paid £134 for it. It was con tended that by the agreement they should only have paid £l3O, and it appeared that this £4 which had been claimed by the defendants as commission, had been paid without the knowledge of the plaintiff, who thereon sought for what he alleged as a fraudulent agreement to terminate the partnership. The case has been long before the courts. His honour now decreed " that the £4 received by the defendants under the agreement ought to have been received on account of the owners ; that the receipt of that sum, without communicating the fact of such agreement, was fraudulent, and entitled the owners of three-fourths of the shares to give notice to determine agency, and that it was determined by such notice. The injunction restraining the defendants from acting as ship's husbands, &c., must be made perpetual ; the account of all sums received to be taken ; the costs of the suits, and of all the proceedings at law, to be paid by the defendants ; an inquiry as to the value of the defendants' shares in the ship if they acquiesce in a sale ; and a direction for pur chase by the plaintiffs at that valuation ; if the defendants decline to sell, then no order on that part of the case. Liberty to apply." The defendants, it is understood, in tend to appeal against the decision. DOCK ComnairrEE.—The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Turner in the chair. Mr. Gladstone said that the subject of funding the bonded debt had by no means escaped his attention ; but, whether right or wrong, he had considered the present moment scarcely the right time for bringing under the notice of the finance committee a scheme for the object contemplated. The matter, however, had by no means been forgotten by him, and in a short time he would take the opportunity of stating to them what his views were on the subject. The chairman said he was sure the finance committee would be very glad to consider so important a question. The object was a very desirable one to be attained, if it could be done. --The sub-committee of works submitted a plan of laying out a portion of the H arr i ng t on es t a t e f or yar d s for storing timber, and recommended that they should be let at a rent 5-16ths of a penny per square yard per week, to per manent tenants, and at a halfpenny per square yard for temporary occupation : these rates to commence on the Ist of April next. After a good deal of conversation, Mr. Gregson, seconded by Mr. Chaloner, moved that the rent tor the timber ground be ls. ld. per square yard per Annum for permanent, and id. per yard per week for tem porary occupation. On a division the amendment was lost by 12 to 5. Mr. Smith then proposed as an amendment that the rent be ls. per yard per annum for permanent, and id. per yard per week for temporary occupation. The amendment was lost by a majority of 10 to 7.—Mr. Steele 'moved an amendment that the time for the commence ment of the new rates he extended, as the import of timber did not arrive till about July or August. Seeing, however, that the feeling of the meeting was against him, he with 'drew the proposition. The recommendation of the sub committee was then confirmed.—After disposing of some other business, the committee adjourned. SINGULAR ROBBERY BY A FEMALE.— On Monday, last Week, a robbery was committed at the house of Mr. Wil liam Blackburn, the Bricklayers' Arms, corner of Claren don -street and Newcastle-street, Hulme, under circum stances of a very peculiar nature. The information was ,__ r eceived at the Chorlton T own -h a ll, f rom th e g i r l S arah i.„ v vhittaker, who had been left in charge of the h ouse . This girl, who is the sister of Mrs. Blackburn, and had I.e teutly come from Liverpool, stated that on Mo n d ay &rnoon, about half-past three o'clock, Mrs. Blackburn Zing in ill health, went with another female to visit a ""rgeon and left her in charge of the house. Immediately ber they h a d gone t wo men w i t h large wh i s k ers, one lack, and the othe r red, ca me i n and called for two glasses ° f beer. She went into the cellar to draw it, and while the W as a b sent she believed they fastened th e front door. ifter they had drunk part of the bee r one o f t h e men 'went towards the stairs, and the other man seized her. , and the waist, told her that if she uttered a sound he W ould kill her, and took out of his pocket a lar ge c l asp ife, opened it and placed it on a table near him. H e l e uen took a rope from his pocket and tied her to the table g• While this was going on she heard the other man 4 1 . 1 1 stairs making a noise as if breaking open boxes and T h a 'everS. At this moment some one knocked at the door. man up stairs then came doWn and they both left the as t he by an entry leading into Clarendon-street. As soon Ch„ t heY had gone, she dragged the table to the fire, heated t h ' Poker, and released herself by burning the rope. She it et urned out that a box and some drawers had been forced 1 , i ) ) , 11 and £25 stolen. On ~_"ce examined the house, ai zleto the correctness of the Eitart us e , a ined that a few m u eu to have taken pl ace , tr o and had som e t a lk w i ee2l turned upon the numE hLtIY been committed, and taker, place by men ent se arch tO tables. This ( the reit was made, and 43 Whole of the st ot o 2 s. 10d., was foul bb e and conf fore th Mon Wedn' have re %wdust 'aid " - ...ag tes Istra charged 14 ' Oh, dear, I did take it (wh o —lack burn, the l an dl or d o f t is the prisoner's sister), the aloney was found. In 1. , Drisoner said, that before al 1114,1 lived with her uncle in t 'eeni unfortunate. She was Previous course of life may be arse in I TESTIMONIAL—There is now in Mr. Wordley's shop, in Lord-street, a silver &tilt basket, intended for presenta tion to Henry Meadows, Esq., of Poulton-hall, in Cheshire. The inscription is as follows :—" Presented by the friends of Henry Meadows, Esq., Poulton-hall, Cheshire, for his invaluable services and unwearied attention to all matters connected with the parish of Wallasey for up wards of 42 years, in the several capacities of commis sioner, churchwarden, and president of the Wallasey Club. October, 1853." SESSIONS IN 1854.—The following are the days for holding thderious quarter sessions of the county during the ensuinffear : Epiphany. Easter. Jan. 2 ... April 3 Lancaster Preston... Salford Midsummer. Christmas, ... June 26 ... Oct. 16 28 „ 18 10 ... Jiily Kirkdale 17 „18 „ 11 „ 81 Intermediate sessions are usually held at Preston and Salford six weeks after the quarter sessions. The annual sessions will be held June 29 ; the first adjourned annual sessions, (the principal meetinc , of the year,) September 14. ADVANCE OF WAGES AT VARRINGTON.-011. Tuesday, Messrs. Stubs, file-workers, Warrington, without solicita tion, advanced the wages of the workpeople in their employment ten per cent. Immediately on the announce ment being made, a meeting of the workmen was held at the works, when it was resolved that thanks be given to their employers for their generous and noble conduct, and that a dinner be given to them by the workpeople. A deputation afterwards waited upon the heads of the firm, and communicated the result of the meeting, but they declined to attend any dinner, as what they had done was merely an act of justice. ESCAPE.—On Tuesday, at half-past six o'clock, Mr. E. Watkinson, of Sefton, and Mr. Peter Almond, of Lunt, were returning home in a vehicle from the Liverpool corn market. In consequence of the darkness of the night they took the turnpike road as far as the Old Roan public-house, at which place they turned to go through Netherton. Here the horse ran against the cop, and turned the vehicle over. Both gentlemen were thrown underneath, Mr. Watkinson lying on his back, with the conveyance upon him. They were kept in this position for about ten minutes, when some of the residents in the locality were attracted to the spot by their cries for assist ance, and they speedily released the party, who sustained no injury from the accident, and the horse escaped with a few bruises on his hind legs. TILE LATE Mn. PRELps.—We find in the American papers numerous notices of the late Mr. Anson G. Phelps, who, though resident in the United States, has been so long connected with the commerce of Liverpool. The fol lowing is one of the many :—" It is with great regret that we have to announce the decease of Anson G. Phelps, which took place at his residence yesterday morning, after a lingering decline. His age was 74. Mr. Phelps had recently returned from a trip to England, which he had undertaken in the hope of deriving benefit from a change of air and scene. The journey proved of no material ser vice. The deceased has long been known as one of our most prominent merchants, and one of our most public spirited citizens. He has never failed to evince great sagacity and enterprise in his commercial pursuits, and long since succeeded in acquiring a princely fortune. At the time of his death he was President of the New York Colonization Society, and took an active interest in all the benevolent operations of the day. Few men have been in the habit of contributing more liberally to every good cause. For integrity, generosity, Christian principle, every quality that dignified human nature, Anson G. Phelps has left a character behind that reflects honour upon the mercantile annals of our city, and will long be held in admiring remembrance."—New York Courier and Inquirer. THE STRIKES AND INTI 3 IDATION.--011 Monday, last week, the factory owners of Wigan threw open their mills for such of the operatives as would return at old prices, and one thousand, or about a sixth of the whole, availed themselves of the opportunity. Many more would pro bably have returned to work, but the trades' delegates, attended by a large crowd, were in the streets at an early hour in the morning to intercept,persuade, and intimidate all they could, out of going to work. The Messrs. Eccles obtained the greatest number of hands (about 400), and 200 went in at Rylauds'. The others were pretty equally dispersed through various mills. The magistrates and police did all they could to protect the hands in going to the mills, and this they also did again on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. On Monday and Tuesday morning they found it necessary to apprehend several persons for undue interference with persons going to work, and for inciting to a b reac h o f th e p eace . Th e sys t em o f intimi dation does not apply to those alone who go to work at old prices, but in othertowns it applies to persons refusing or neglecting to subscribe funds to the Preston and other strikes. At Stockport, on Monday, and at Ashton, on the same day, men were brought before the magistrates for acts of intimidation, and there is no doubt that a wide spread system of tyranny prevails throughout the whole manufacturing districts to extort money from the opera tives in work at the mills to support those out of employ ment through the strikes. The people complain of it loudly at the shops where they buy their provisions, and it is talked of everywhere. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUAEDIANS.—The weekly meeting was held in the boardroom, on, Wednesday, Mr. J. Harrison in the chair. There were also present Messrs. Alpass, Heyes, Shaw, R. Birch, Lunt, Taylor, Abrahams, Mountfield, Brown, Molyneux, Miller, G. Harrison, Smith, Tattersall, Carter, Medealf, Kirkus, Pilkington, and the Rev. W. Badnall. The governor reported that the number of paupers in the house amounted to 679, the number in the corresponding week last year having been 723. There were 28 admitted during the week, and 22 discharged, and there were two births and three deaths in the house. The sum of £350 was ordered to be paid to Mr. Clayton, the contractor for the new boardroom, on account of the work he had done, in addition to the sum of £BOO previously ordered to be paid. A letter was re ceived from Mr. Reid, resigning his situation as school master. Mr. Alpass moved that the resignation be accepted, which was agreed to. Some conversation ensued upon the salary which should be offered, several of the guardians expressing an opinion that the sum paid to Mr. and Mrs. Reid (EBO and £32) was too much, and it was ultimately agreed that the salary should be £6O for the - master and £3O for the mistress. A letter was read from Mr. Johnson, one of the vaccinators, stating the grounds on which he had applied for an increase of salary. Mr. Alpass, in accordance with a notice which he h a d given at the last meeting, moved that Mr. Wood, who resides near the Aintree racecourse, be appointed one of the vacci nators for the union. Mr. Taylor seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.—Mr. Alpass, on behalf of the hospital committee, complained of the slow progress which was making in the work of laying out the grounds, under Mr. Downes, who was, he thought, quite unfit for the position in which he was placed. Mr. Shaw corrobo rated the statement made by Mr. Alpass, and said it was a waste of public money to pay Mr. Downes £BO a-year for what he was doing. Mr. Taylor justified Mr. Downes, and said the delay in the work was owing to the ineffi cient labourers employed under Mr. bownes. After some conversation the committee was ordered to investigate the matter, and report to the next meeting of the board. Mr. Kirkus then reported that four tenders had been received to supply an organ for the Workhouse chapel, and moved that Mrs. Bewsher's tender be accepted. Agreed to. The cost of the organ will be £6O, and £8 additional was voted for another stop. The following letter was handed to the chairman :—' Having some suspicion that the corpse of my late husband is not buried, I am determined to have the grave opened to see the corpse. If I should not receive the permission from you to see him, I shall give it into the hands of an attorney, who shall force it by all means. Wilhelmina Angbery." It was stated that the woman wished to sell the body, as she said she had been promised £lOO for it by the doctors, and it would be very useful to her, as she was very badly off. The board then adjourned. HOLMES' BANK.—Since our last issue, it has been ascertained that the amount of notes in circulation of this unfortunate concern, at the time of Mr. Holmes' death, fell but little short of £26,000. The license being but £lO,OOO, it results that the over issue was nearly £16,000. Whether the insular property, said to be mortgaged for the payment of these notes, will realise money sufficient for their payment, remains to be seen. We hope it will do so, and leave a good balance for de positors and other creditors ; but in these stringent times for money we are not so sanguine as some people are. But should these notes ultimately prove to be good, their being forced out of circulation by their uncurrency inflicts a most serious evil on the country, and is especially oppressive on the holders of these notes. But there is still another class of persons—and a pretty numerous class too—suffering still worse inconvenience, not to say positive distress, than the holders of these notes. We have on this island a great number of families designated as resident strangers, who have long been accustomed to draw their means of support from England or elsewhere through Mr. Holmes' bank. In many of these cases deposits had been made, as we learn, with Mr. Holmes, in anticipation of drafts for quarterly or half-yearly instalments. The amount of money thus coming to the island from abroad has ex ceeded £lOO,OOO yearly ; and it has made up no small portion of the circulating medium for this island. But this sudden stoppage of the bank—this well grounded apprehension of insolvency—has thrown everything into confusion as affecting those resident strangers ' • and in many cases has exposed them to a b s ol u te starvation. We state these melancholy facts for a special object, viz., that tradesmen, and the creditors of those strangers, do exercise at this time the greatest forbearance possible, until other arrangements can be made to realise their foreign funds. Some of them, indeed, may suffer loss— such, for instance, as have ordered their remittances through Holmes' bank, and deposits had been there made in anticipation ,of cheques. It is surprising that in a shrewd community like ours suspicion had not long since got abroad of Holmes' insolvency. Look at two facts. First, the interest of 41 per cent. being paid by him on deposits. If Mr. Holmes had been a great capitalist he would not have been a borrower of money at all, and especially at a rate of interest beyond what any business on the island will warrant. This of itself should have awakened suspicions that all was not sound at bottom and yet we know of but one man on the island who drew the correct inference from that fact ; and that man for the present shall be nameless. Bat Perhaps same other persons who had funds in hand , may remember that a certain man gave them hints long ago, which prevented their depositing money in Holmes' bank. The other fact to which we allude is a most telling one. Why should a man of seventy-five years of age, when he had become stone-blind, attempt to carry on the intricate, delicate, and most hazardous business of banking, for years, without a partner on the spot to aid him ? Such a one lays a powerful temptation before a set of clerks and dependents to rob him right and left. The clerks could falsify the books, and misread them to the poor old blind man, and he be none the wiser for the deception. Far be it from us to insinuate that Mr. Holmes' clerks did anything wrong in the bank ; but we are speaking of the folly and hazar dons absurdity of a blind man attempting banking. Why, then, did Mr. Holmes do so r• present state of his affairs answer. NT ,4I knowledge of his insolvenc‘' to carry on Let the ig short of a full and the want of moral courage +1 drag emptiness in lifetim, induced along till the grave should cover him trout an expose - of his bankruptcy. His sycophants had cracked up his wealth too high for forty years to leave, him with courag enough to declare his insolvency, as. a,greater and a bett( awn would have done. We sav,„ therefore, that this f of keeping on the bank in a stale of blindness should hi aroused suspicions that all wae.•.not right. Bu ,e shock hastalicn, all by surpriatas.—lmona's was not VP' MR. THOMAS'S shilling concerts commence at the Philharmonic-hall, on Monday next. Sr. MARK'S ScsooL.—The children, after their an nual examination, last week, presented the curate, the Rev. W. Moeran, with a very handsome writing•case and a pair of vases, containing wax flowers. TICE Docx TRUST. —lt is said that during the past week the Dock Trust have received offers of money as follows :--t12,300 at four per cent., and £3,000 and £4,000 (old bonds) renewed at the same rate of interest. THE LECTURE intended to have been delivered by the Rev. V. M. White, at Clayton-hall, on Friday evening last, has been postponed, in consequence of the reverend gentleman being called to attend the sick-bed of his mother. INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS, SOHO-STREET.—The annual Christmas dinner to the children of this institu tion, was given yesterday at the large room of the Police station, Rose-hill, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P., having kindly offered to defray the expenses. A NEW PILOT BOAT, called the Criterion, was launched at Ipswich on Saturday week. She is intended to replace No. 10 in the Liverpool pilot service, and her owners have great confidence in her being a fast and comfortable boat. The Criterion is the third schooner-rigged pilot boat which has been substituted for cutters, and it is contem plated to build two others of the same class. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday night a man, while passing through Whitechapel, was robbed by a woman, who threw her arms round him, of £5O, the savings of many years, which he had put into his pocket for safety. The same night a prostitute was taken into custody for being drunk and disorderly, and upwards of £5O was found upon her. She was subsequently identified as the woman who committed the robbery. ACCIDENTS.—On Friday night Mary Quin, aged fifty six, of Thomas-street, got jammed between a cart and the wall in the same street, and received a compound fracture of the arm and a fracture of the ribs.—On Saturday night William Edward Wilson, second mate of the ship Empire State, lying in the Sandon Graving Dock, was going on board, when he slipped, and fell into the bottom of the dock, receiving a severe compound fracture of the thigh, and other bruises and contusions. , THE CHRISTMAS " PLYGAIN " AT ST. DAVID'S CHURCH.—The custom received from the Eastern Church of assembling at an early hour on Christmas morning, was duly observed at St. David's church on Sunday last. The service, commencing at six o'clock, was read by the Rev. D. E. Jones, M.A., and the sermon was preached by the Rev. W. Hughes, 8.D., from Ezekiel xxxiv. 29. The choir and the carol singers acquitted themselves in a very creditable manner, and the church was well attended. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The last rehearsal for the present year of a selected portion of the chorus of this society, numbering upwards of 100 members, took place in the class rooms, 34, Church-street, on Monday evening last. The music was selected from the works of Handel, Mendelssohn, &c., and included a new anthem, by the con ductor, a copy of which was presented to each member at the close of the performance. When it is considered that the whole of the members of the chorus are amateurs, all of whom have been taught singing in the vocal school during the past year, it must be admitted that very great pro gress has been made. The chorus contains some re markably fine voices, especially the trebles ; and there is little doubt the society will shortly have a chorus most efficient both in respect of proficiency and numbers. Correspondent . SEASONABLE BOUNTY.—DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL. — On Friday week the pupils attending this school were admitted to view the works of art contained in the Exhi bition of the Liverpool Academy, with which they appeared to be much gratified. In the afternoon of the same day they partook of a plentiful dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, provided for them, as customary at this season, through the bounty of Richard Rathbone, Esq. The number of these pupils is now greater than at any former period. The school occupies a sphere of usefulness in which it can have no substitute; and we trust that its merits and claims will be borne in mind by those who have the power and the will to do good. In dispensing their Christmas bounty, or appropriating their charitable subscriptions for the next year, they will do well to re member what a good work they may aid by supporting our local school for the deaf and dumb. HEALTH OF THE Towx.—The medical officer of health reports that the continued low temperature causes a pro gressive increase in the mortality from diseases of the lungs, and that the general mortality of the borough is consequently, as in the previous weeks, comparatively high. The total deaths were 247, being six more than the previous week, but ten less than the average of the same week of the preceding six years, after allowing for in crease of population. From diseases of the lungs the deaths were 116, being twelve more than in the previous week, and a greater number than in any week in the nine months preceding. Excluding this class of diseases, last week's return shows a decrease of six in the mortality of the borough. From zymotic diseases there were 53 deaths, being 26 fewer than in the week previous. They included 12 fr2m hooping cough, 10 from cholera, 7 from measles, 6 from typhus, 5 fyom scarlatina, and 4 from diarrhoea. B-iwel complaints are not more than usually prevalent, and n3ither • the registrars' returns nor the daily reports of the district medical officers furnish any indication of the immediate spread of epidemic disease. The temperatttre was below the average on every day of the week. The mean 37 610ths degrees—was nearly 4t degrees below the average of the same week of the pre ceding seven years. In the corresponding week of last year, when the mean temperature was eleven degrees higher, the mortality from diseases of the lungs was little more than half that of the past week. LIVEEPOOL RIGGED ScirooL SOCIETY.—The seventh annual meeting of the Liverpool Ragged School Society was held on Thursday, at the Mission-house, Bedford street, Toxteth-park, T. B. Blackburn, Esq., in the chair. The attendance was very limited. The 11ev. Francis Bishop, the secretary of the society, presented the report, from which it appeared that the average attendance in the boys' school during the past three months had been 62 ; in the girls' school during the same period, 40. When the continued usefulness of the schools (the first of the kind established in this town) was pointed out, and the great need of an increase of such institutions, in conse quence of the large number of neglected and destitute children still allowed to wander our streets, and become the victims of the many temptations that surround those that are deprived of the blessings of good home influences, and the kindly and elevating discipline of the school, it was hoped that the society would increase in numbers and usefulness, when the new Mission-house, now rapidly approaching completion, shall be ready for occupation, arrangements having been made to accommodate both schools in that building. The treasurer's report was pre sented by P. H. Holt, Esq. It stated that the amount of subscriptions and donations during the past year was £99 6s. ; the expenditure £6O 2s. 9d. ; leaving a balance in the hands of the treasurer of £39 3s. 3d. It was resolved to print the secretary's report and treasurer's statement of accounts, for circulation. Samuel Bright, Esq., was appointed president of the society for the ensuing year, and resolutions, appointing the committee, and expressing the thanks of the society to R. V. Yates, Esq., the retiring president, were then passed, after which the meeting separated. SELECT VESTRY.—The Rev. Rector Campbell presided at the meeting of the select vestry, on Tuesday, when the workhouse committee stated that the total number of admissions into the vagrant sheds during the past week had been 662. The number of inmates in the workhouse on the 14th instant was reported to be 2,076. The num ber of sick cases in the house was 606, of these 64 being of fever, and 27 of itch. Mr. Hughes complained that a boy had been confined in one of the sick wards for a fortnight, for want of clothes to go out in, and that an old woman, 70 years of age, was a nurse in one of the lunatic wards, on which it was agreed, after a discussion, that the work house committe should inquire into the matter. Mr. Johnson then explained that both the newly qualified magistrates, and some of the old ones, had agreed to visit the workhouse to attend to parochial business, and he therefore moved that the establishment in St. Panl's square should be closed. The motion was agreed to after a brief discussion, in the course of which Mr. Hughes said it seemed an absurd law which required two magistrates to pass paupers one way or another. If the vestry could remit any portion of the poor rates, they surely were quali fied for all the purposes for which those magistrates were to be used. A letter was read from Mr. T. B. Browne, government inspector of schools, respecting the power of the vestry to dismiss apprentices, which he said they could not do without the concurrence of the Poor Law Board. Mr. Hart's reply was also read, the pith of it being con tained in the following paragraph : The select vestry do not deem it expedient or proper that, with regard to dis missal for misconduct, the `pupil teachers' should be placed on a different footing from the assistants of a higher grade ; nor do they think it fitting that a board of guar dians should be placed in such a position towards these junior assistants as to be incapable of dismissing them, however deservedly, without the concurrence of their lordships." In answer to Mr. Kitchen, the chairman said that there seemed no chance at present of closing- the cemetery at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and hence there was no necessity of opening that at Walton. The visit of Dr. Sutherland had brought the matter under the serious consideration of the churchwardens, and everything should be done that was right and proper. _ _ HEILTH CO3I3IfTTEE.—The weekly meeting of this committee was held on Thursday, Mr. Langsdale in the chair. After the disposal of some routine business, Mr. Lee, an inspector of the general board of health, was introduced. He said that as the board was informed of the still high rate of mortality in Liverpool, he was in structed to visit Liverpool, to examine the sites of the epidemic disease, and report to the board any particular circumstance connected with it. He commenced his labours on Wednesday, and has visited, along with Dr. Duncan, the engineer, and Mr. Fresh's assistant, a con siderable number of places where the cholera had exhibited itself in Liverpool, and he might say that, with only three exceptions, so far as his inspection had gone, he had found that the cases had occurredia-houses which were in close contiguity to, or . immediately adjoining,_ open privies. It seemed, tl erefore, that although theii-driin , Ige works were very excellent, and their pavement had been wonderfully improved, (and, undoubtedly, they had done more here in a sanitary point of view than anywhere else,) it seemed that these privies, as they now existed, were very serious evils. Of that they were themselves fully convinced, as he believed they had applied to parlia ment for powers to enable them - to remove them. The position of these privies and their character were both objectionable, and from the construction of the houses he did not see how they could be remedied, except by con verting them into some kind of water-closets, so that the soil might be taken away from the premises. Many of those he had examined were in a most disgusting state, and the emanations from them were of the most offensive character ; some of them being within a few feet of the windows of the rooms within which the persons had died of cholera. Some desultory conversation ensued, and Mr. Lee then proceeded to state that there were several kinds of apparatus which could be got for water-closets, which might be had at an expense of about xa for each place. He was aware that there would be some difficulty in keeping them in repair at first, but ft was an educational process, and after the neonle became , accustomed to them they would occasion Mile Or no, trouble. After some con versation Mr. Lee retired, and' the subject dropped.—The subject of the bill for whicb.,the.Laneashire and Yorkshire Railway are now applying : to parliament, asking .for powers to carry their rails on bridges over certain streets at the north end of'tlie town, was introduced by the surveyor. A general: feeling . was expressed that the Council should_coppose in _parliament, and the sub ject dropped.. RAILWAY Accrrosa - r.—On Saturday evening the pas senger down-train from Chester, which is due at Birken head at seven o'clock, when about leaving Tranmere sta tion, was run into by a goods-train. The collision was severe, but the passengers sustained little or no injury. CHRISTMAS HOSPITALITY.—On Friday and Saturday last. upwards of 70 tons of coal were distributed by the Con servative Association of Abercromby Ward to nearly 300 deserving poor people in the ward, irrespective of party, creed, or politics, the only recommendation being their good character and their poverty. This benevolent un dertaking, which was zealously carried out by the com mittee, was suggested by Dr. Neill, who gave £lO, and was handsomely seconded by Mr. Alderman Gardner, who like-. wise contributed a similar sum. Other gentlemen in the ward also subscribed liberally to aid in the object by which so happy a result was brought about. Two IcQuEsTs were held before Mr. Carry, the Borough Coroner, on Saturday; one on the body of Patrick Skelly, aged three years, who died on Thursday from the effect of injuries sustained by being accidentally burnt on the 3d instant ; and the other on the body of John Coffey, illegitimate infant of a servant-girl in the service of Mr. John Holme, Aigburth, which had died at the house of Widow Donnelly, of Gerard-street, on Thurs day, to whom it had been entrusted by the mother to nurse on the previous day. A verdict of "accidental death" in the one, and " natural causes" in the other, case was returned. A DESPERATE PRISONER.—John Cavanagh was, on Saturday, charged with entering the liquor-vault of Ben jamin Elvis, at the corner of Love-lane, on Friday morn ieg, and stealing five shillings from the till. He was committed for trial. As he was being removed, in order to have the depositions taken, he seized a water-bottle, placed on the table for the use of the bench, and was about to hurl it at the prosecutor, when he was secured, and taken out of court. DEFENCES or LIVERPOOL—A correspondent of a Lon don contemporary says : —" The value of property lying in the docks at Liverpool is reckoned by millions. Its only defence is a small and not over strong fort at New Brigh ton. In case of the outbreak of hostilities with Russia, what is to prevent a Russian steamer, commanded by another Paul Jones and under a false flag, entering the Mersey ? Half an hour would suffice, and you would publish, in a third edition by telegraph, that ' the docks were in flames.' It is not invasion lay a squadron, whose movements would be known and therefore intercepted, that we have to fear ; it is the possible mischief that a single armed vessel could inflict that has to be guarded against. Let our energetic head of the Admiralty send a single block-ship to be moored in the Mersey until the horizon of European politics brightens." PRESENTATION TO A CLEREIY3tA.N.--011 Monday week, the congregation of St. Paul's, Withington, near Man chester, assembled at tea in honour of the Rev. George Troughton, L.L.8., and his 154, and for the purpose of presenting them with a large and handsome timepiece, bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to the Rev. George Troughton, L.L.8., by the congregation of St. Paul's Church, Withington, near Manchester, as a mark of their esteem and respect, and as an acknowledg ment of the efficient manner in which he discharged his duties as curate."—December, 1853. Though the even ing was bitterly cold, and there was snow on the ground, yet a very numerous assemblage sat down to tea in the school, which was very tastefully decorated for the occa• sion. The Withington choir were in attendance, and greatly contributed to the enjoyment of the occasion. The Rev. Theophilus Bennett occupied the chair. Mr. Troughton is son of the late Mr. John Troughton, of this town. Bosun' INTOLERANCE.—On Thursday evening a meet ing. of Roman Catholics was convened at the Temperance Hall, Bond-street, by one - of the itinerant Popish lecturers of this town, who make a trade of abusing the Church of England, and, by inviting members of that Church to dis cussion and promising fair play, succeed in entrapping many Protestants to attend. The principal object of the meeting was the organization of a society, which should counteract the successful efforts of the " Liverpool Work ing Men's Protestant Reformation Society,' established under the patronage of Mr. Alderman Molyneux. Among those invited by public placard were Mr. J. Parsonage, president of the above-named society, Mr. C. P. M`Carthy, and Mr. T. Worrall, special missionaries in connexion with the parent society, and other gentlemen, all of whom attended, being induced by th e false promise of fair play and honourable discussion. It would be impossible for language to describe the scene that took place when Mr. M`Carthy rose to reply—the hooting and yelling which were unceasingly kept up during the whole time he at tempted to address the meeting, when contrasted with the silence and attention that were given to his opponent, who occupied an hour and a half, was a faithful reflection of that system of ignorant bigotry and blind superstition which fears free discussion and fair play, as also an in stance of truly Christian forbearance upon the part of the Protestants present, which was worthy of the cause of truth. We understand Mr. M`Carthy will lecture on Thursday and Friday evenings next, in the Temperance Hall, Bond-street, when these disgraceful proceedings will be exposed. LIVERPOOL WAREROITSES.—In the London Court of Bankruptcy, on Friday, Mr. Commissioner Goulburn gave judgment in re Williams and Marchant upon a proof for £2,000 and interest, which had been tendered by one David Price against the separate estate of Williams. The matter was originally argued before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn alone, and subsequently before that commis sioner and Mr. Commissioner Holroyd. The disputing parties havin'g decided to abide by the decision of this court. The claim on the part of Price arose out of unpaid purchase money alleged to be due to him by the bankrupt for the sale of his (Price's) share of certain warehouses in Liverpool, which had been their joint property, and Price, in the first instance, asked that he might be permitted to prove, without prejudice to his lien on th e wareh ouses , for the said unpaid purchase-money, no conveyance hav ing been executed by him to the bankrupt. On the part of the assignees the latter condition was objected to, and ultimately the lien on the property was abandoned, and the whole matter in question was left to this court. It appeared that on the 24th of July, 1849, an inden ture was made between Price, the bankrupt Williams, and Hughes, the trade assignee. This was a deed of dissolution of a partnership theretofore subsisting be tween Price and Williams, who had for some time pre viously carried on the business of warehouse-owners together, under the style or firm of David Price and Co. No articles of partnership had ever been executed between them, but Price and Williams mutually agreed to dissolve partnership upon certain terms therein mentioned. His honour, in pronouncing judgment, after some intro ductory remarks, said the claim was preferred under the bankruptcy of Williams and Marchant against the sepa rate estate of Williams. The claim was grounded upon a covenant in the deed of dissolution between Price and Williams, dated. July, 1849. The assignees had no per sonal interest whatever in the matter beyond seeing that a certain trust was fulfilled. The principal acting assig nee was surety for the performance of the covenant in the deed alluded to, and he was nearly connected with Wil liams, and had throughout shown a friendly disposition towards him. The only other party who opposed the admission of the proof was Williams himself; who was practically interested in its rejection. Price, by the deed referred to, obtained a lien on certain portions of the pro perty, until the debt to him was liquidated—in fact, until Williams had performed his part of the contract, Price was to continue with the rights of an unpaid vendor. But it was contended that the deed was inoperative in that, as Williams was induced to make it through misrepresenta tion, fraud, and falsehood. He (the Commissioner), how ever—and he also expressed the opinion of his learned brother (Mr. Commissioner Holroyd) —intimated his opi nion that there was no fraud or falsehood, and that no thing could be more unsatisfactory than the evidence of Williams himself on this head, his memory appearing to be, as far as all important points were concerned, a perfect blank. His honour now went through all the evidence with great care ; and, having adverted to the numerous cases which had been cited pro and con., came to the con clusion—a conclusion, also, in which his learned brother Holroyd concurred—that Price was entitled to prove his debt and receive his dividend. The costs to be paid out of the estate. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. MURDER.—SENTENCE OP DEATH. — At the High Court of Justiciary, in Edinburgh, a man named William Cum ming, a seaman, belonging to Leith, has been convicted of murdering his wife. He was sentenced to be executed on Monday, the 9th of January next. LIE WEST RIDING OP YORX.—The greatest extent of railway is in the West Riding of York. The length is 420 miles, 3 furlongs, and 192 yards ; and the land occupied by the railways is 5,391 acres, 3 roods, and 4 perches, out of 565,158 acres, 3 roods, and 36 perches. SINGULAR SUICIDE.—On Thursday se'nnight a lady, a remarkably fine-looking woman, committed suicide in a cab in London. It appeared she hired a cab and directed the driver to proceed to London-bridge. On arrivinc , at the Old Pancras-road toll-gate, it was di scovere d she had cut her throat. Subsequent examination made it also apparent that she had swallowed a large dose of the essen tial oil of almonds. 'A verdict of " temporary insanity" was returned. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH STAPPORDSHIRE.—Lord Paget has announced himself as a candidate for South Staffordshire, vacant by the death of the Earl of Dart mouth, and the consequent elevation of Lord Lewisham to the peerage. Lord Paget has issued an address to the electors, in which he declares himself an adherent of free trade,, and an intended supporter of the new Reform le to be introduced b Her Majesty's ministers. THE PANAMA 'RAILWAY. According to the latets accounts, every effort was being made to complete this railway as soon as practicable. 1,700 labourers were em ployed upon it, and additions were being made every fortnight by the steamers from Carthagena. Besides this two ship loads of Irish labourers were daily expected from the Emerald Isle, who would commence work with an equal number of Coolies now on their way to Panama. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred on Wednesday at the Windsor station of the South Western Railway, to Charles Allen, a porter belonging to the company. He was discovered on the line, opposite the Queen's waiting room, lying under a heavily -laden truck, with one of his legs literally smashed, and the other dreadfully lacerated. The cause of the accident is not ascertained, it being wit nessed by no one, and the man when taken up being in a senseless state. FIRE IN .GREENOCK.—On Wednesday morning a fire broke out in the store-room of the large cotton-spinning mill, situate above the town. The men were at work, and assisted by the mill girls, succeeded in confining the fire to that part of the building whereit originated, which was entirely gutted ; a fire-proof wall was• the principal means of preventing the fire from spreading. This mill is one of the largest and finest buildings of the kind in Scotland, and its water-wheel is uneq - ualled in size, and hundreds of men and women are employetrin it. GALE ON TEE NORTHUMBERLAND COAST.-011 Thurs day week, the coast of Northumberland was visited by an easterly gale of great severity. Several colliers, beating between the Tyne and: Whitby, were overtaken by the storm, and endeavouredtto obtain shelter from its fury by running for the Tyne. On crossing lynemouth-liar, one of them, the Sylph s wa s s t ru ck by a treme n d ous sea, which ove in her stern, unshipped her rudder, and nearly filled her: , with water. Perceiving the imminence of her peril, the-South Shields-life-boat, manned by some of the pilots, .went to the rescue, and fortunately suc ceeded in saving the crew. The vessel soon afterwards drove in.amongth2 rocks . at tile -Old Priory, and went to Two LADIES BITENTC—Cr Wednesday night a fire broke out in the house. of Mrs. Wilkinson, Wimpole street, Cavendish-square. The- la;dies were sitting on a sofa near the fire-place of a. front room on the first floor, and the dress of one havingcome in contact with the bars of the grate, the dress of both: became immediately in flames. The screams of the-sufferers soon brought assist ance and they were removed:to the-lower part of the pre mises, but both were so dreadfdly burnt, about the arms and other parts of their bodies that their lives are des paired of. INCREASE OF PAY TO THE: CITY POLICE.—The in crease of pay for which the Chief Commissioner has so long urged on the Court of Aldermen and the City Police Committee, has at length been obtained. The rise is general, and the scale is as followso:—lnspectors, from £2 55. to £2 10s. ; sergeants, £1 4s. to £1 Bs.; first-class pri vates, £1 2s. to £1 4s. ; second ditto, £1 to £1 2s. The inspector of the reserve men is. raised from £2 lOs to £2 155.; and the detectives from. £1 ss. to £1 103. The change takes place on the Ist of January, 1854, after which period, it is said, stringent regulations will be adopt= ed as to the probationary men and new enrolments. GRAVE YARD REGiLITIONSs—There appears to have been a misapprehension as to the origin and intention of the burial-ground regulations issued by Viscount Pal merston, previous to his resignation. They had been announced as general regulation s intended to be applied to all new burial-grounds, but it is now stated that they were simply drawn up for St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, the latter of which has already declined to have a burial-ground under such restrictions, and it is denied, moreover, that the regulations had the sanction of the Home Office. The mistake, if such it was, is strange, and unaccountable; but whatever we may think of the original statement, and of the version now given of the affair, it is pretty plain that no such regulations will be enforced, —John Bull. LORD PALMERSTON AND THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. —The lord mayor of London wrote to Lord Palmerston on the subject of making Monday (yesterday) a holiday. In the reply sent the following passage occurs :—" With regard to the public offices of the government, when Christmas day falls on a week day it is made a holiday, in order to enable the persons employed in those departments to attend to the religious observances belonging to that day ; but as in the present year those observances will have been duly attended to on the Sunday, the 25th, there does not appear to Lord Palmerston to be any good reason why the public service of the country should be stayed and impeded by a holiday in the government offices on Mon day, the 26th December, when there will be no religious observances to attend to." A WnoLE FAMILY POISONED.—On Thursday an in quest was held on the body of James George Trump, aged six years, the son of a plasterer living in Prince's•road, Bermondsey. The mother stated that on Monday the family, consisting of herself, her husband, the deceased, and a child, aged 17 months, dined off some hashed mutton, over which a paste made of flour and water had been poured. Soon after partaking of the meal, the whole of the family except the youngest child, who had had none of the paste, became very sick. In the night the illness of the child increased so much that her husband went to fetch a doctor, but before medical aid could arrive the child had died. Witness had used flour out of the same lot without experiencing any ill effects. The coroner said it was a very mysterious case, and adjourned the inquiry for further evidence. ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—On Wednesday morning another of these accidents, involving a considerable destruction of pro perty, occurred at Peterboroug,h. The night fast-goods train from London to the North was entering the station at about three o'clock, when it dashed into a coke train, which was also cominc , into the station from the Eastern Counties line. The shock was very violent. Consider able injury was done by it to both the engines and several of the trucks of the two trains, but no person was parti cularly hurt, though the drivers and stokers of both trains had an extremely narrow escape. The line. was got clear in the course of the morning, and a fresh train was despatched with the merchandise after some delay. The damaged trucks and engines were sent to Doncaster for repair. BURNING OF A PAPER MILL.—On Saturday, a most tremendous conflagration took place at Esher, on the premises of Messrs. W. M'Murray and Co., about 18 miles from London. The first intimation given was from a drunken man, having called at the Washington-street station about three o'clock in the morning, but, after re peated questions put to him, his authority was doubted. However, the foremen of the four districts of the London Brigade met at the chief station, when, from the intelli gence received by that time from the London warehouses. of the firm in Queen-street, Cheapside, the dreadful de struction previously announced was proved to be too true. It appeared that the engines from Richmond, Teddington, Twickenham, Esher, and others from private resources, were sent to the scene of the fire, ani, there being large tanks of water at hand available for the use of those attending the engines, every effort was attempted to stop the progress of the flames ; but such was-the inflammable nature of the property that had ignited, and the fearful progress made by the flames, that it was very improbable that any portion of the great establishment could be saved. The loss is supposed to be about £lO,OOO. MURDER IN LONDON.—On Saturday the neighbour hood of King-street, Soho, was thrown into a state of excitement by the report that a man, living at No. 15, had attempted to murder his wife, and had then commit ted suicide. The man's name was Heise, a German, a tin-plate worker, who lived with his wife and two children in the attic. It appeared that his circumstances were good, but he had strong feelings of jealousy against his wife. The poor woman was confined only on Wednesday, and Heise had become impressed with a conviction that the child was not his. He frepiently taunted her with his'suspicions, but she had no reason to suspect that he meditated violence towards her. On Saturday night, however, as she lay in bed with her infant at the breast, he suddenly rushed into the room with a dagger-knife, of the Italian form, and stabbed her in several places on the left side and arm. She immediately jumped out of bed and rushed out of the room, loudly calling out " Murder." She dropped on the stairs from loss of blood. She was removed to a room below, where she was immediately attended to, and her wounds dressed. She was sub sequently removed to the 'Workhouse, with the infant, which was drenched with blood. The man himself was quite dead before the medical gentlemen arrived. On entering his room a frightful scene presented itself. The floor was a pool of blood, and Heise lay partially upon the bed, his throat cut from ear to ear. He had nearly severed the head from the body, with the exception of the vertebrae; both the carotid arteries, the windpipe, and all the soft parts being cut through. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.—A public meeting took. place at Birmingham on Tuesday, for the purpose of pro moting the general establishment of reformatories for the reception of destitute and criminal children. The body of the hall was crowded, and the galleries were nearly filled by a most respectable audience ; upwards of 3,000 persons were present. Sir J. Packington, having given a brief sketch of the proceedings which had taken place at the conference in the morning, and of the resolutions which were then adopted, submitted to the meeting the followine. resolution :—" That this meeting, having re ceived information of the proceedings of the conference held this day, in reference to the national treatment of ' morally destitute and criminal children,' expresses its hearty concurrence with the resolutions which have been adopted."—Mr. Adderley, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was adopted.—The Earl of Harrowby proposed the second resolution :—" That this meeting trusts that the legislation which is held to be necessary for establishing Industrial Reformatory Schools will encourage the en lightened and philanthropic managers of those institutions maintained by voluntary effort, which have already awakened public attention to the subject, and which ought to be fostered and multiplied for the sake of the varied r l and valuable experiences they are calculated to supply, the individual zeal and interest they enlist, and the op portunity they present for the immediate adoption of treatment towards criminal children, different from the ordinary punishment of adults."—Mr. M. D. Hill, recor der of Birmingham, seconded the resolution, which was agreed to.—Lord Lyttelton moved the following resolu tion :—" That the reformatories established privately in this and other countries have been very successful, and afford decisive proof of the practicability and fitness of the mode of treatment of juvenile crime which they have adopted." The noble lord expressed his opinion that refor matories should be established, if possible, by voluntary efforts, under the sanction of the government, but that if private liberality did not meet the requirements of the case, it might be advisable that the government itself should provide such institutions.—The resolution was seconded by Mr. Woolrych Whitmore, and was adopted. —On the motion o' Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., seconded by the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., the following resolution was agreed to :—" that the petitions from this meeting be presented to both Houses of Parliament in favour of the objects sought by the conference, and that such petitions be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting; and that the noblemen and members of the House of Com mons now present be respectively requested to support the prayer of such petitions, and that they be repectively presented by the Earl of Shaftesbury and Sir John Packington."—On the motion of Lord Calthorpe, seconded by the Rev. S. Turner, a vote of thanks was passed to thdbrl of Shaftesbury for his conduct in the chair, and th eedings terminated. IDloTs.—Professor Sedgwick, in speaking, last week, at the meeting held in the Town-hall, Cambridge, in behalf of the " Asylum for Idiots," among other anec dotes and statements of interest, narrated the following : Mental imbecility may arise from blighting or withering up of certain faculties, still leaving other facultids belong ing to the mind of man capable of great development. It is important, therefore, that those who are engaged in the training of idiots should watch and see if any strength re main, that thereby they may develope such faculties as are not destroyed. Having mentioned a case, in which all the avenues of the mind were shut up, that had been suc cessfully treated, the rev. Professor said that that case was different from those which this society contemplated gene rally. In that case there appeared to be no original imbecility in regard to the constitution of the mind itself; it was only that the avenues to it were blocked up, so that the mind could not get the raw material of thought to mould to its own purposes and uses. " I remember," said the Professor, ' that, when a boy, I saw, in my native town, a Melancholy case of an idiot. Those around him made sport of him, and mocked him, and he was treated immorally by those who ought to have known better. Yet, in those circumstances of moral and intellectual degrada tion, he had certain faculties in an extraordinary state of perfection.. His powers of calculation were most marvel lous, and he delighted in numbers, and answering compli cated questions ; yet he knew nothing of arithmetic. He could not write a single letter: He was brute in manner, and he was brute in morals, so far as his perception in right .and wrong went. Well, a question was put to him. My father spoke to a schoolmaster to try him in figures. Are r son was knitting stockings, and the; gave the man th e number of stitches on the needles, the expansion of the calf of the leg, the contraction.of the heel, and the peculiar for mation of the foot,andasked him to work out the number of stitches ! I saw- him sit down as one in a mental agony, and his features puckered up in thought. He went on, and at last' gave the number of stitches very near the mark. If this man .had been taught in the manner spoken of by the Rev. Mr. Sidney - and Dr. Conolly, something, x traordinary might have been made of him. Yet he was the vidina of brute passions ; and I have seen , hips beat his head with fury on the.ground, makingJhe very blood. trielde over his face, , :while he cursC4l.4ll4 swore . most. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. SUICIDR. — The daughter of a w slizbber" . resifting at NECROMANCY AND THE POLICE.. Longwood, near Huddersfield, drowned, herself last week, because her mother refused to fall in whither whim that her cloak should be made of a particularshape.and fashion. LAST week appears to have been an unpropitious one for FIRES.—On Thursday night, at a few minutes before 9 the necromantic and fortune-telling tribe of Liverpool; o'clock, a fire broke out in the lofty premises occupied two of those gentry, through the adverse influence of their conjointly by Mr. Baker, a sailmaker, and Mr. Hinchley, stars, no doubt, having found their way, as defendant* granary-keeper, No. 25, Wapping, High-street, London. before the police magistrates, to answer charges of having- The flames commenced in the top floor, used as the sail obtained money on false pretences. On Wednesday,. factory. The firemen went to work, but they were unable William Mills, a fortune-teller, of forbidding aspe c t, wa s to get the mastery over th e fi re un til the whole of th e i n t roduced to the ex-mayor, amuel Holme, Esq., on the valuable stock of sails was destroyed, and considerable charge of obtaining money by false pretence of unfolding damage done to the grain in the granary below by water.— ; the secrets of futurity, and man u f ac t ur i ng f or t unes f or On Thursday afternoon a fire, which, it is feared, will be ' those of her Majesty's subjects whose faith was sufficiently attended with fatal results, happened on the premises of strong to induce them to cross his palm for the perform— Mr. Miller, Blackmore-street, Drury-lane. Between 1 ante of the cabalistic rite. Detective Murphy sa id th a t, and 2 o'clock loud cries of fire were heard, and one of Mr. between six and seven o'clock on the previous evening,, Miller's children was found encircled in flame.. By great two persons, named Henry Carroll and Ebenezer Hughes, perseverance the fire was extinguished, but not until the called at the central police-office, and stated that they had poor creature was burnt in a most frightful manner. been imposed upon by the prisoner, and accordingly officer MURDER AT YORK. — On Tuesday, a shocking murder Cousins and himself were deputed to call upon the prisoner was perpetrated in York. Mr. John Hall, of Swainton at his residence, No. 2, Conway-street, leading out of Great New Inn, near Scarborough, a man occupying a respect- Homer-street. On going into the house and inquiring for able position, was at the Great Christmas Horse Show, the prisoner, he found eight females and one gentleman and in the evening, between five and six o'clock, being in l waiting their turn for consultation in the parlour. Not liquor, he fell into the company of two girls, who induced i being anxious of waiting the pleasure of the diviner, they him to accompany them on to the King's-staith, a dark iwent up stairs and entered his bedroom, were they saw lonely place near the river Ouse. A little before six two respectably-attired females sitting by the side of the o'clock, a man named Sargent saw Mr. Hall with these bed. Murphy asked the prisoner if his name was Mills, two girls, who were pushing him about, with a view, it is ; and was answered in the affirmative. One of the females supposed, of robbing him, he having about £.50 in his said her name was Jones, and she resided at No. 8. possession. He endeavoured to beat the girls off, bat was : Chester-street, Birk en h ea d , h av i ng come i n company w i th so much intoxicated as to be unable to do so. Sargent • a friend to have her fortune told; and she seemed per shouted to the gi r l s , "Let the poor man go," but th e y I f ec tly sa ti s fi e d w ith what the necromancer said to her. She laughed at him, and persisted in their attack upon Mr. had been married fifteen months, and was at the present Hall until they forced him to the water's edge, when one time without any prospect of a family ; but her face became of them gave him a push, and he fell backwards off the radiant with smiles on being informed by the prisoner that staith into the water. Sargent immediately procured she was to be the mother of a large family. The officer assistance, and an oar was held out to the drowning man ; then produced a book of astrology, which was handed to the but he was unable to help himself, and was sucked under magistrate for examination. Mr. Holme, after perusing it, a vessel lying close to the spot. The river was dragged said it was a book of " Astrology Improved ; or, a Comj?en for about two hours a ft erwards, wh en th e b o dy was drawn dium of th e w h o l e Art of that most important Science, in. from the water and conveyed to a publie-house, when it five parts, by Rd. Ball, professor in astrology and physic ; was found that if the girls intended robbing the deceased, printed by A. Butterworth, at the sign of the Red Lion, ' they had not accomplished their object, as there were in Paternoster-row, London, and bore the date of the year taken from his pockets six £5 notes, 19 sovereigns, ss. 6d. 1723.—Ebenezer Hughes, chemist, residing at 269, Scot in silver, and some copper. The girls had ran off; and, land road, went to have his fortune told, and saw the from a description given of them by Sargent, Isabella female mentioned by the officer on going up stairs to see Campbell, of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Caroline Nichol- the prisoner. When he went into the room he did not son, of Middle-water-lane, York, both prostitutes, were speak, and the prisoner took up a pack of cards and shortly afterwards apprehended. On Campbell was found spread them out across the table. Witness stood by the a purse, but no money ; neither had Nicholson any money. table and said nothing, when the prisoner laid his fingers The prisoners were brought up for examination, before the on the cards, touching every fourth card, until he came to Lord Mayor and other magistrates, and remanded. the ace of clubs, which he held up and asked witness Crataszares PLUM Pcnnixo.—lf there be one " What is the name of the dark-eyed girl you love ?" stronger impulse than another in the English breast, it is and " Who is the young man you have as a companion ?" the desire that the whole human race on Christmas-day IHe then told him he had a long journey to go, and charged. should partake of plum-pudding. This savory compound, him ls.—The prisoner here questioned the witness of "equal parts of Malaga raisins, currants, suet chopped • whether, when he went up stairs, he asked him for any fine, sweetmeats, and bread crumbs," is the very founda- money, and was answered "No ;" he threw the money on tion of Anglo-Saxon civilization. We shut a man and his the table. The prisoner : You threw down ls. 6d., and wife up ina workhouse—carefullyseparatingthem for twelve not a shilling; of course, when the money was thrown months,but on Christmas-daywe give to each ofthem alarge down, I took it up. Henry Carroll, a baker at the corner wedge of plum-pudding as a set-off against the discomforts of Newsham-street, Scotland-road, saw the last witness of the year. The country squire causes his servants hall at the house of the prisoner, waiting his turn. He to be 'decorated with holly-sprigs, ruddy with their cheer- (Carroll) had to wait two hours for his turn, there being ful fruit, and bunches of mistletoe more sparely inter- about ten parties before hin. Some of these were ladies, mingled ; and the "establishment," after partaking of he should say of independent means. When he went up plum-pudding, " threads the mazy dance"—we believe the stairs he saw the last witness standing looking through a phrase is a correct one—the lady of the mansion leading glass (a solid mass about the s i ze o f a goose ' s egg ) . Wit the ball. The Sovereign of these broad realms is not ness said, "If you please, sir, I've come to get my unconscious of the influence of the genial season, while the fortune told," and sat down. The prisoner then gave poorest of her subjects may on Christmas-eve be seen him a pack of cards, and said, "Cut them." Witness did standing outside a pawnbroker's shop with three flat irons, so, and the prisoner laid them down on the table in a sys an ancient engraving figurative of a harvest-home, and her tematic way, about half an inch apart, extending across husband's Sunday waistcoat—all of which goods and chat- the small table. The prisoner then touched a card, and tles she is prepared to make over to the usurer by way of asked witness if he saw that ; he said he did, and the mortgage, that she may obtain the needful purchase money prisoner asked him, " Who is the black man you have for the ingredients of her Christmas pudding. The sol- had to contend against, with dark hair and black eyes ?" diers and sailors of Queen Victoria eat their Christmas Witness then said, " Tell me something that is to take pudding to a map; it is the necessary condition of our place ; something for the future ;" at the same time national safety. Crime even is pampered for the moment, giving the prisoner somethin g to work upon, he asked. 'and indulged with gastronomic emotions. The wheel him, " " Shall I soon be married ?" The an swer t o thi s stands still and the crank forg ets to revolve; indeed, we was, You can, any minute y ou lik e. " W i tness asked, know not what degree of moral turpitude would, to the " Can I get one with money ? that is the one I want." apprehension of a true Englishman, justify the deprivation The prisoner then shuffled the cards, and the queen of of a plum-pudding on a rhristmas-day. This we take to be diamonds was turned up, whereupon he exclaimed, " Here the absolute and simplb truth.— Times. she is, a woman." He immediately afterwards picked DISASTROUS FLOODS IN DEVONSITIRE.—The he av y fall out another card, and said, " She has plenty of money ;" of rain which commenced on Sunday, last week, and con- after another shuffle, he said, " There is more coming to tinned without intermission until midnight on Monday, her." Witnes's asked, "Do you think I shall be soon caused the waters of the Yeo and the Creedy, two tributary married to her ?" and he said, " Certainly ; before next streams of the river Exe, to rise with frightful rapidity, May." The prisoner then picked out another card—the and the Exeter and Crediton Railway, in many parts of the j ack of clubs — an d said, "That i s a rival, and if you line, and also the neighbouring turnpike roads, were coin- do not look sharp after her, you may lose her." On pletely under water. The first indication of damage to the Witness asking if she was a virtuous woman, the pri. line was ascertained on Monday night, when the 6.35 soner replied, Yes, a virgin." Witness here said, as train, which left the Exeter station for Crediton, arrived he was a married man, he began to be suspicious that at Newton-St. Cyres, a station about half-way along the this was all gammon, and felt somewhat disappointed, line, and it was then discovered that the line beyond was after waiting two hours for his turn ;he then asked. totally impassable. The driver of the train, in this ewer- the prisoner his charge, and he said ls. Witness gency, attempted to return to Exeter, and in doing so, said lie thought it was only 6d., and put down 61d., saying when near Newbridge, the rails sank with the weight of that was all he had. The prisoner said he only charged the carriages, in consequence of the ballast having been 6d. to ladies, but his charge to gentlemen was ls.—Mr. completely waslied away from beneath the sleepers for Holme (to witness) : Pray, on which side of the Irish about half-a-mile ; added to this, the fire in the locomotive channel were you born ? —Witness : I was born on the was extinguished by the water, and the engine thrown off English side, air, at Barnsley, in York s hi re . (L aug ht er .)— the line. It was quite impossible to move forward or g o M r . H o l me : I should scarcely have thought you would backward, and equally futile were the attempts to extri- have allowed this man to come Yorkshire over you. (Con cate the passengers from their perilous situation, the land tinued laughter.)—The prisoner asked witness if he did not on either side of the line being submerged to the depth of tell him that he should go a long journey ; if he did not several feet. Mr. Mears, the superintendent at the Exeter tell him that he should lose money by a fair woman ; that station, and other officers of the company, were out the he thought there was another woman in his house, and whole night with lights and vehicles, in the hope of being that she was his wife. This the witness partly acknow able to afford assistance, but; in spite of all their efforts, ledged to be true.—The prisoner, on being asked by the they could not get within three fields' length of the dis- magistrate what he had to say, replied that he had been abled train. At length, about four o'clock on Tuesday left a widower with three children, and being lame he morning, after the passengers, fourteen in number, includ- had taken up this science as a means of livelihood, and ing several ladies, had been in this most uncomfortable had followed it for a little less than two years. He position for nine or ten hours, the waters gradually sub- had told a great number of fortunes which had proved to sided, and, horses having been attached to the carriages, be true ; and if any had not turned out exactly perfect, it they were drawn back to Newton-St. Cyres, a distance of was not his fault; he had given them as perfect as half a mile, whence the passengers were sent on to their he could, and they all knew the world was not made in a destination by other vehicles. The traffic of the line is day. Mr. Wybergh then read the law, which says that entirely suspended, and the company are now carrying any person so imposing upon the public is liable to be im passengers in omnibuses drawn by four horses, over the prisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with hard old turnpike road. The damage caused by the inundation labour. Mr. Holme said it appeared to him most extra is so extensive that the ordinary traffic on the Exeter and ordinary that in this the 19th century persons like the Crediton Railway cannot be resumed for at least four or witnesses, and even respectable ladies, could be found to five days, although the company set on a large body of men enter the bedroom of a man like the prisoner, with an to repair the line as quickly as the occasional rise of the idea that he could look into futurity. It was only another waters would enable them. Though the river Exe is very striking proof that wherever knaves were to be found much swollen lower down, the adjacent portion of the there were always plenty of fools to patronise them. With Bristol and Exeter line has not in any way been injured, regard to the book from which the prisoner derived his A horse belonging to Mr. Carthew, a miller, was drowned information, the magistrate said, on perusing it, lie found while drawing a waggon on the Crediton turnpike road. it full of nastiness and of the most disgusting description, At Newton-Abbott the floods have been much more and he should not be doing his duty to the public if he serious, having occasioned the destruction of property did not commit the prisoner to gaol for three months ; if amounting to several thousand pounds ; and in other places it had not been for the representation of the prisoner's - in South Devon the damage is very extensive, though no lameness, he should have given him hard labour. "Itis a life has been lost. striking proof that the stars have not been propitious to THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF you to-day, and I have told you your fortune for the next CHEAP LITERATURE.—CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY three months." It was stated that the science was of so PAPER, for the week ending January y, will be ready at all profitable a nature that the prisoner occasionally made £6 booksellers on Wednesday, December 28, price ONE PENNY. —Never in the history of periodic a l lit era t ure has such a sale a week, and that some of the parties present had come from Prescot to gratify their inquisitiveness as to their been secured by any work as that obtained by CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY PAPER, upwards of one hundred and future destiny. filly thousand copies having been sold in little more than a On Thursday, another revealer of futurity's secrets, week. Encouraged by this great success. JOHN CASSELL is named Richard Parkinson, a hoary-headed sinner, resid determined to spare no expense in securing first-rate artsts ing in Horatio-street, Scotland-road, was charged with and writers. The Engravings in Number 11. will be numerous obtaining 6d. from Catherine Downs, a married woman, and splendid. The following will be their order :—The Ern- living in St. Martin's-street, by pretending to tell her barkation of Henry Maynard in the " Fair Fanny," illustra ting the narrative of " The Arctic Crusoe," by Percy B. St. fortune. The woman stated that, in consequence of what John—Ancient Kalmuck Encampment on the Banks of the she had heard of the prisoner from some of her acquaint- Danube—Group of Bulgarians—Jassy, the capital of Moldavia antes, she went to his house in Horatio-street, about six —Types of the various races on the Banks of the Danube— o'clock the previous night. The prisoner was then up stairs, Costues F ar me r , e Moldavians; Postillion, Postmaster, Tra veller, Coachman, and Herdsman—Columbus taking telling the fortune" of two other women who were with possession of the Island of St. Salvador—General Baraguay him, and she waited in the kitchen until they came down D'Hilliers and his staff. The whole forming an e nsem bl e whe n s h e wen t u p stairs to him. H e s h owe d h er a glass; of Illustrations constituting JOHN CASSELL'S IGLUS- ball to look through, at the same time pretending to offer TRATF.D FAMILY PAPER the Literary Wonder of the Age. up a prayer in her behalf from a book which he had by CAS3ELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY PAPER can be him. He then told the woman that her husband, who ordered of any Bookseller, price ONE PENNY Weekly. —It was a labourer, was about to sail for a " foreign country," will also be published in Monthly Parts—Four Numbers, 32 and it would be "better for him to go to Australia than to pages, price FIVIIPENCE , ; or when Five Numbers, 40 pages, SIXPENCE ; enclosed in a neat Wrapper. Ph iladelphia." Her worldly prospects were to be improved in the course of the ensuing year. He charged 6d. for his scientific advice. The woman then left, and two other equally credulous persons immediately entered. When the prosecutrix got into the street she was interrogated by police-officer Kennedy, who had received information respecting the manner in which the prisoner obtained a. livelihood, and was watching for a dupe to leave the house in order that he might establish a, charge against the pri soner. The officer asked Mrs. Downs if she hadbeen getting her "fortune told," and receiving a reply in the affirma tive, he inquired if she believed what the man had told her, when she immediately replied " No ; I don't believe what he has told me about my husband." The officer then went and searched the prisoner's house, where he found. two glass balls, one of which, according to the directions, , written in red ink,in one ofthe prisoner's scientific works," was to cure witchcraft in man or beast, and the other was to discover the future partner " of all who would believe in its miraculous qualities." There was also a framed tes timonial of the prisoner's " abilities as an astrologer," the body of which was profusely covered with all kinds of hieroglyphics. A number of othes voluminous works, on. the same abstruse " science, " were also found at the residence of the prisoner. The magistrate said he thought it was a clear case of extorting money, and such conduct ought to be suppressed. The prisoner must go to gaol for three months. [ADVERTIAEMENT .] UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, HEAD OFFICES-40, PALL MALL, LONDON. TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, The period between Christmas-day and Old Christmas-day being one of the most important in the year for effecting Fire Insurances, I he :r most res;)ectfully to remind you of the approaching opportunity for bringing your own policies, and inducing your friends and neighbours to bring theirs, to this office, or to some of the Liverpool agents. It has not only become an ambition on the part of each member of the Unity to be a direct contributor of business to the concern, but it is also a commercial fact, that every policy added to the vast number already completed is a new source of profit, augmenting your own respective dividends ; and you will find among our acquaintances many who are not bound to other offices, and who have To commence Insurances hitherto neglected ; To augment Insurances hitherto insufficient; To renew Insurances expiring at this time ; And some persons have ALL these things to do. It will be well to remind all your friends, that " he who in sures his property has compensation in case of loss ; he who does not insure has self-reproach instead." And let it ever be borne in mind, that in asking your friends to insure with this gigantic Association, you are suggesting a positive benefit to themselves, seeing that two-thirds of all the profits of the concern are to be returned to the policy holders every five years, not as a capricious or patronising bonus, but as a debt specially due to them, proportionate to their outlay in Insurance. SHARES IN THE ASSOCIATION. EXTENSIVE LANDSLIP.—An extensive landslip, carry ing away a whole field, has just occurred on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, line, now constructing near Devizes, together with an occupation bridge, owing to the immense superincumbent weight of an embankment, which has, it is stated, at great expense been made and re made. The wholeorili-e-500,000-o;:iiin—alsliaTe;, It 2 each, have been taken up, by nearly 5000 Subscribers, and are now to be divided into 1000,000 shares of .*l, as directed by the Regis trar-Gene:ll, in order to be uniform with the new shares. The deposits on the former are all paid up, and the shares are at a high premium. The new shares, 1,000,000 in number, at 25 . 6d. deposit a n d 2s. 6d. premium, are just beginning to be issued ; and, as the premium itself is paid into the funds of the whole Association, the old and new members are thereby alike benefited. This is a trifling entrance fee to pay for admittance to a large concern now solidly established; and already, although the new issue was only authorised, by law. so recently as the 28th November, no f wer than 70,000 to 80,000 shares have been applied for on this basis ! Fox AND PITT AS Bors.—A curious prediction of Fox's mother, Lady Holland, about this time, deserves a passing notice. In expostulating with her husband, on his un wise indulgence to his children, and especially to Charles, she said, " I have been this morning with Lady Hester Pitt (meaning Lady Chatham), and there is little William Pitt, not eight years old, and really the cleverest child I ever saw, an d brought .up so strictly and so proper in his beha viour that, mark my words, that little boy will be a thorn in Charles's side as long as he lives."—Eclectic Review. CURIOUS CA SE.—At ...the Court of Q ueen ' s Bench, on. W e dnesday, Miss Abbrassant sued the Rev. Lut trell 3foysey, vicar of Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, for a breach of engagement. The plaintiff is a native of Brussels, and was engaged by the defendant as governess in his family, at a salary of £5O a year, with extra for the first three months. Plaintiff was discharged in a short time after her engagement, and the defence to the action was that the plaintiff had sometimes represented herself to be a Roman catholic ' and sometimes a protestant, and at other times a n infidel. A great mass of evidence was heard on the question raised, but ultimately the jury gave a verdict for the full amount claimed. Your friends may, therefore, not only secure for themselves two-thirds of the profits by insuring with us, but may also re ceive the other one-third of the profits by becoming share holders, in addition to five per cent. per annum interest on their deposits. I repe . at, that a single half-crown per share, for such advan tages, is indeed a small entrance fee, especially as it is paid into the very funds of which every purchaser of shares be comesa co-proprietor. BUSINESS . M.READY EFFECTED BY THL - In less than the first 12 months, say to} Policies, 4,500 ; insuring 42,500,000 Sept. 28, 1853 .... - In the next 12 weeks, I say to Dec. 20,1853. / " " UNIT 7." .t 1,689,0 14 Total inless than 14 years, 7,080 • .4,189,017 Such proofs of the extent ,f and vitality of this truly national association require no comment. I remain, Your obedient servant, JOHN SMITH, Local Manager for Liverpool. Unity Fire and Trafalgar Life Offices, Commerce-court, it, Lord-street, Liverpool, December 19, 1853. EMPLOYMENT FOR TURNOITTS. — The question of a, labour test for turnouts has uudergone serious discussion between Mr. H. B. Farrall, the Poor Law Inspector for the district, and the Guardians of the Haslingden Union. The Poor Law Commissioners, anxious for the application of the labour test, propose that the guardians sh ou ld hi re land, and set the operatives on strike, who apply for relief, to turn the soil, without any reference to the productive ness of their labour. Surely this must be wickedly in tended as a satire upon free trade. After the bread has been taken out of the mouths of the agricultural labourers, the unemployed factory laboure rs are t o b e turned i nto agr i c ulturists, with this only difference, that whereas the toil of the former produced a crop, that of the latter is to produce—nil !—John Bull.. AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL Mr. JOHN SMITH, Branch Offices, 11, Lord -street Miss E. A. MAUGER, 62, Oxford-place, Vine -street, Mr. GODFREY LEVI, Stationer, 26, London -road. Mr. D. WILSON, 34, Exchange-street East. Mr. WILLIAM OKILL, 2, Dale-street. Mr. JAMES R. PENN, 8, India-buildings. % OUTHPORT:- . Mr. JAME WOOD, Lord-street.