The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

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FREDERICK CRABB, charged at the police-court, on Saturday week, wifh forgery, was again brought up on Wednesday. and discharged. A DEPUTATION from Manchester and Bradford, on the subject of the soap duties, had an interview with the C hancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday last. THE STORM was so violent at Warrington on Wednes. to day, that the circus of Madame Pabelle was torn from top b° ttorn. It was crowded at the time ; •but no one was THE MEMBERS OF THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE at Warrington have presented Mr. Joseph Edmondson with a handsome silver watch, as a testimony of their esteem on his leaving town. T HOMAS GRE GORY , W arr i ng t on . h as b een comm itt e d , Kirkdale gaol for three months, in default of paying a 'lee of £3O incurred by his prosecution of illicit distil lation. A SUBSCRIPTION has bn opened for the widows and children of those belonging to the steamer Queen Victoria, who lost their lives when that unfortunate vessel was wrecked. PL UNDERING.—Tt has been estimated that in Maccles field the large silk manufacturers are annually plundered to the amount of £15,000, and those of Manchester to the silent of £20,000, by persons in their employ. J. A. ACTON, a clerk, in the employ of Sir B. Hey ood an magistrates,er of Manchester, was brought be pre the on Thursday, charged with obtain ing from that firm £3OO by means of a forged order. One • , 30 had been recovered. The accused was remanded. MAILS rost AUSTRALIA.—There are now on the Post office shipping list the names of 15 weasels for Sidney, 13 for Port Philip, 10 for Adelaide, 9 for Van Dieman's:Lmd, 8 for Melbourne, and 4 for Geelong, by all of which mails lire to be forwarded. ON FRIDAY, a large meeting of operative coopers was held at the Vine Tavern in Pitt-street—Mr. Davis, the society's President, in the chair. The wages of Coopers tow are 26a. per week, and the object of the meeting was to secure 30s. or some other amount according with the demand for labour. ACCIDENT AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE. — During the performance of the pantomime at this theatre, on Wed. besday evening, the clever little daughter of Mr. Appleby, clown at the Theatre- Royal, was severely burned, her muslin dress having become ignited while she stood by One of the " wings." She now lies in a precarious state. AMONGST THE PARLIAMENTAItY BILLS read a second time and ordered to be committed, on Monday, were the Liverpool Borough Court; Liverpool, Crosby, and South- Port Railway ; London and Northwestern (Shrewsbury to Newton ;) St. Helens Canal and Rail- Way ; and Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. T TUE BRICKLAYERS are to hold a meeting to-night. 4 t is stated that no strike is contemplated, but an appeal Is to be made for further support to a benefit society es tablished amongst the operatives of the trade, and which Is. at the same time, a trades'-union. There are on an 17a rage, about 700 bricklayers in Liverpool, but scarcely vu of these are yet in connexion with the society. t ; Ma. NOBLE, THE SCULPTOR, has now added another j'an3Ph to his list, in a bust statue of the Duke of Wel l'atton. just completed—invaluable, if from no other P i ase, from its presenting him in his latest "aspect as lie As an earnest of what the artist may accomplish, St IGeorly • 1° his bust of Sir Robert Peel, intended for our local interests may rest satisfied. :DiAR. HENRY JONES, the young man who was last week mmed to bail on the charge of having embezzled orteirlal to of money which he had received on account eery' e aroPrietors of the United Gas Company, in whose. Char ea tt lte held Ore situation of a collector, had been dis ainPvPesegatr. agail‘ns.hte him, company did not think proper to after instituting the most vigilant tgation in his district. Cu • th e " j p R ATE' recommends, from personal experience, 1. 'awin, receipt for the cure of broken chilblains :- 1 10 ' P (4. sweet oil, 3 oz. of Venice turpeatin . e. of a ard, oz. of bees' wax. Put into a pipkin, and on B :',"'w fire, Stir with a wooden spoon till the wax is dis ita'ved. and the ingredients simmer. It will be 'fit for use mediately, but the loner it is kept the better it is. pread Sat I 1.7 v 13ery thin on a linen rag." th e -- LETTER.A letter passed throu g h the r st-of▪ fiee at O ver D arwen , th e o th er d ay , bearing th a " ( min elaborate address :--" Paid. Tins is for t las as tha kone Sally Riff& what use 2 E Hallifas ktnialolrie, vsthpeee2 D d arfen we Gab us Gepsun he Bridge-streete. lap o f The stamp was placed upside down on , the env e l o p e , w h ere th e i m p ress i on ofthe seal 3 Usu ally made.—Blackburn Standard. c e : o ns f equence of the very long passages which vessels aye i had this se a s o n in crossing the Atlantic, a great both ships and men were experienced in New o,, °rk , • t `Upwards of 200 vessels are said to have beon due e 8 tn th ultimo, many ot them from London and Live r r"i• At New Orleans, also, a great scarcity of seamen is reported, and it was impossible to obtain a .crew for tiverpool at any rate. ONE OF THE SMALLEST STEAMERS ever built arrived ' k ete-on Mond a y l a st, ca ll e d th e A l p h a . Sh e i s a screw b oat, and was built by Mr. Martin. in a joiner and cabinet maker's shop, at Bideford, on the south-west coast-; from Whom she has been purchased by tile Liverpool Steam-tug Company, t , ) ply as a tender to their large steamers. The dimensions ot this little craft are::-48 feet in length, by 7 feet 8 inches beam, and her size is estimated at about 20 tons. Her stylish appearance —on a small scale—has attracted considerable attention. THE LATEMr.. THOMAS MUNCASTER.—The Lancaster Guardian, in noticing the death of our late townsman, says—" Deceased was a native of Ulverston, and served his apprentisbip to the printing and bookbinding business With the late Mr. -Soulby. having subsequently removed to Liverpool, Mr. Muncaster succeeded, in the course of a few years, as a bookseller, in realising a very handsome fortune, upon which' he retired some seven or eight and twenty years ago. The deceased has several near relatives in Inverston, and his property, estimated at £IO,OOO, has been left chiefly amongst them:" MR. RUSSELL CONCERTS, during the week, have been well a t tended by parties anxious to secure the prize ticket for a free passage to Australia. The prize on Mon day night was won by Mr. 'William Hastings, boot and s hoemak er ; on Tuesday night, by Mr. William Johnsen, 311 n•, foreman at the Albert Dock 'Warehouses ; on Wed tesdaY, by Mr. Willi am T. Lacey, tail or ; o n Th urs d a y. 1. 7 Mr. P. L unt, journeyman baker; and on Friday, by ZLiss Ann Jane Glover, aged seven years. Mr. Russell, r , av ious to the d raw i ng, announced that he purposes to t arn to Liverpool, when he will again give five tickets more for passages to Australia. jiMELTING OF TEE ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCII-EO - (UCAL SOCIETY was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. tvherelst in the cliair.—A communication was read from t•• Polytechnic Society, inviting their attendance at cer trnrneetings.—Mr. Boult communicated the decision of I_,?e council in relation to the students' designs.—Mr. F. i'i4oard exhibited and explained several designs prepared tl ! him for a stained-glass wiudow.—The two papers of evenin g were then read,—one being from Mr. R. D. ~l'avrtrell, entitled, "Description of an ancient pillar 14niscovered in taing down the old parish church at Leeds, c 18382 The o other was " Notes upon Cologne and its ahedral.'' , -- 141,,rfiRPOOL IN TUB SCOTTISH ACADEMY.—In an a ccount of the Royal Scsttish Academy, the .Dun?fries erellt! says :—" D arn l ey and the Conspirators, " deter a the murde r o f Ri zz i °. by W. L. Windus, of Livre erpool, is a ki n d red wor'r, highly studied, generally Puin drawing, and an excellent colour; admirable is the countenance of Rutliven, whose fierce passions are seen through the gathering shadow of death, and also that of the ruffian who directs the signature of Darnley. The murderers are seated around a table ,• the 'King -consort is about to affix his name to the deed, for which the rest are anxiously expectant ; and a black hound lies in front, Suggestive of their sleeping ferocity. beePOSTAL REFORM.—Arrangements, whi c h h ave long i.i in progress, are now completed for r9 Portant acceleration of th e d a effectin g an y mail ester, P; Liv erpool, Edinbu rg h, Glasgow, and Aberto Mdeen, andn the ° te rvening tow ns . O n the Ist of March and thence- Flirward, this mail will reac h M anchester about two hours er than at present, an d Ab erdeen about three hours 1 tier. The chief delay in making this very acceptable 1;16 44 at Provenaent has bee n cause d b y the necessity for erect many of the stations an apparatus for receiving the fg, 3 , Without the train stopping, so as to admit of the use 11, express trains. o ' , lie • A similar improvement on the 'land line will, it is understood, follow shortly. clia, u , . - noon RELIRF IN LIVERPOOL.—In the . t as - e ' s ß the 12th of February last, there were 2,545 421 ~,Of outdoor relief to the unsettled poor in Li ver p oo l, m 1 ,,,,,,q , en, 2,278 women, and 2,442 children, or a t o t a l toc.."er of 5,144 persons. Of Irish poor, sick or irte rie:eable in consequence of the Five Years Residence rn,t there were in the same week 1,130 cases met by ~,11 1e F, 290 men, 986 women, and 1,917 children, or a total ~ 02. Of other non -settled poor, irremoveable and sick, there were 612 cases j 96 men, 557 women, and 825 children, or a total of 1 Sisting of 315 me, 29 ''''. P. —persons. Casuals 685, con persons. This gives I rmen, 812 children ; total, 1,656 aaturtend total of nearly eleven thousand live hundred ii )persons relieved in the week ; and to these £446 was Air,money, and bread bestowed of the value of paid,4l22: ofcemotrhir a th! frost, Which deprives so many labourers bas caused a frightful increase in the numbe r of aeptplinc,anan,ad , TH E NEW CHURCH OF . Sr.. CURY.SosTom.—Thig os t • • of ecclesiastical architecture whicl au dui sPeelme'l Meek -road d ti: west'. St ands in the fields between . 'Verb y Workhouse, is rapidly approaching. comepletion, arid is expected to be ready for opening . about the Ist of 1 11 it may be remembered, was '' 4 Y- The foundation stone, la b s t Y the lord bishop of the d . i t oc w e i s l e l hoonvetiolecettphioodfaita Year, so that when finished i t , , iZeLve months in erection. r y e s , os i t s om of 's t , ho w G hi o c t h h i ics every respect a truly noble S s i t . ru C ct h il nave (clerestory), " Yle known as the early English or decoratedperiod,is (31111 0 d I wi th 9x y cruciform, and consistsofa b ail aisles, transept, chancel, and chancel aisles. The us ding is of the bluish-gray Uphollandsitoontehisso neigh 8, all the churches recently erected . 8, urond, With facings (the doorways, ) ef Bath stone. windows, quoins , IZet MortMoN DELUSION.—On Wednesday,. the ship of , 4 na sailed "WNW° 1 from the Stanley Dock with upwards b o .!!', r hundred believers in the book of Mormon on orr, Proceeding to the City of the Salt Lake, via New ra 0 : 4 4 , 1 1. All the steerage passengers were of the Mo o r- . the - 4a ` t h , es, with one or two exceptions, were those of shaleohallecond class cabin also. Many of the men were . u. but still more were evidently from the agricult p a e l t d . is -t r iatB ; as they wore their smock-frocks—some being li.elied with the labours of the field. All were orderly ko ; quiet in their demeanour. The second-cabin passen th,.ll are principally respectable artisans ; they are all, for Nernost part, from England and Scotland, some from a s 1 1 ; 0 8, arid only three or four from Liverpool. As soon wed ship had sailed, the Mormon disciples were to pro ii7a to the election of a president, under whose control ti'etetnattere be t taken cognizance of by the ship's authori vow:J.ol4d cHe will be implicitly obeyed ; and t o „ le his turn, appoint captains of fifty and captAins of q to serve under him. JOHN REDFERN, a joiner, working on board the ship Bloomer, in the Bramley-Moore Dock, fell into the hold on Wednesday, and was mortally injured. THE Waterford Chronicle states that on Friday nearly 400 emigrants left that city for Liverpool, to take shipping for America. THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION of the children educated at the old-established Welsh charity schools in Russell street will take place to-day. THE MAYOR will give a grand banquet at the Town hall on Thursday. The directors of the London and North-Western and other railway companies have been invited. THE FOLLOWING NOTICE, which had much the appear ance of a hoax, might have been seen on Friday on the shutters of certain premises in the Roscoe-arcade :—This shop will be opened after the frost." WARNING.—On Tuesday morning a boy about fifteen years old was crushed between a gig and a cart at the corner of North John-street. He is now recovering at the Northern Hospital. RAW GIN.—W. Buchanan, a porter in the employ of of Rankin, Gilmour, and Co.. died on Wed,iesday morn ing last from drinking a large quantity of raw gin the pre vious day. A RUNAWAY APPRENTICE, John Young, who bad decamped from his master, Mr. S. L. Samuel, watch manufacturer, on several occasions, has been brouzht back from Dublin and sent to jail for a month. A DUBLIN " Boy," named Patrick Segriffe, notorious for his attachment to shirt-stealing, has been sent to gaol for a month, for steqlina , a shirt from the shop door of Mr. John Dyke, draper, Tithebarn-street. THE FLOURISHING TowN OF ST. HELEN'S, which was formerly in the parish of Prescot, has been constituted a parish, independent of Prescot. All opiscopalian mar riages within the parish boundary must be sclemnised at St. Mary's Church. MONA'S QUEEN, a splendid new steamer, built for the Isle of Man line, anchored off Ramsey at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning last, having passed the Clough lighthouse, six miles from Greenock, at five minutes past ten the previous evening. WHO BUY VALENTINES ?--It is estimatad by a certain stationer, that out of every twenty-one valentines sold, twenty are bought by the " fair sex ;" the other, usually by some " fast gent," is in mist cases a caricature, in tended for another " gent" equally " fast." A NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday evening week, as Mr. 011ivant, silversmith, of Exchange-street, Manchester, was counting the money in his cash-box, a man entered the shop and ran away with a fistful' of notes worth £1,500! His foot slipped, and he dropped £1,300 of the money, but got clean off with £2OO. KNOCK-DOWN ROBBERY.-At nine o'clock, on Monday morning, two men entered the shop of Mr. Samuel, Waterloo-road, knocked down the servant girl with a life-preserver, and ran off with the cash-box, which fortunately did not contain anything of value. The girl was taken to the Northern Hospital. THE FINE ARTS.—We understand that John Pember ton Heywood, Esq., has purchased the elegant statue of the " Industrious Girl," by Signor Fontana. She wears a wreath of flowers of the cotton plant, and is engaged in winding a bobbin. This elegant statue attracted great at tention at the late exhibition of the Liverpool Academy. JEWISH LADIES' BENEVOLENT INSTITITTION.—The fourth annual meeting was held on Sunday week, at the Synagogue chambers, Hardman-street; Mrs. Hart, lady president, in the chair. The receipts for the year were £66. There had been expended, in relief to twelve cases of confinement, £l5. THE FRIENDS OF TOWN MISSIONS will be gratified to learn that the gratuitous services of several gentlemen, chiefly from Liverpool, have been engaged in aid of the Prescot Scripture-reader Fuld,. A course of lectures, to be delivered in the school-room of Plumb's-house, were to commence last night with one by the Rev. J. England, M.A., on " Terrestrial Phenomena." DETENTION OF LETTERS 'BY A POST-OFFCE CARRIER. —Jeremiah Browne, a letter-carrier, was brought up yesterday week, and again on the day following, at the Police-office. for the above offence. The prisoner, who stated that the non-delivery arose from fatigue and illness, was remanded for a week. OA Thursday week, a very young child, b,longing to Thomas Owen, of Haydock, gamekeeper of Thomas E. Legh, Esq., of Golborne-park, got near the kennel of a savage yard dog. The animal sprang on the child, bit its ear off, and made several severe wounds on different parts of its body. The dog was immediately shot. A MURDERER APPRETIENDED IN LIVERPOOL.—On Wednesday Henry M'Erlam was apprehended in this town, on a charge of shooting Patrick M'Carron, on the 13th of July, 1847, at Town, county Antrim. After the commission of the offence, the prisoner escaped to America. He returnedto Treland, to see his friends, and was about returning to the United States, on board the steam-ship City of Glasgow, when he was apprehended. Is A Kiss AN ASSAULT ?—On Thursday Wm. Hamil ton, a porter at the Lime•street Railway Station, was brought up at the Police office, charged with having walked into the house of a Mrs. Griffiths, in Sandon street, ascerded the stairs to that lady's bedroom, where he found her asleep, and, having kissed her gently on the cheek, decamped. the defendant pleaded that he had gone to the house to search for a roan named Griffiths, who was employed on the line. Mr. Wybcrgh said the charge was for an assault, but he hardly thought that a kiss, such as described, came within the term "assault." It was more a case of trespass, and as such the prisoner was liable to an action.—Discharged. THE YACHT SWAN, harper, master, (which excited so much atte►►tion while fitting out in the George's Dock,) belonging to our townsmen, Messrs. Moss, Butler, and Co., sailed on Saturday week, for Melbourne. She is only 36 ►ons N.M., and will carry about 60 tons over and above all her water and other stores. She takes out a crew of five men only. -She was built for the Right 'Bon. the Earl of Mountcashel, by White, of Waterford. and was one of the fleet of the Royal 'Western Yacht where she distinguished herself by winning several cups. Since she left, a good deal of interest has been caused by the sailing of another yaCht, the Corsair, Captain Kreft, froin Southampton, on Monday week, for the same port; but she is a vessel double the size of the Swan. DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on Thurs. lay, Mr. Shand in the chair, the sub-committee of works submitted a plan for the extension on the east quay of the Euskisson Dock of shed aecommodation for the Arnericen nitil steamers. Referred tolhe committee to carry out. — As application from Brown, - Shipley, and Co., for fires in certain dock nuts, was granted so far as regarded the steamer docks.—Someapp6intments to subordinate situa tions at the Albert Dock were confirmed ; also the fol lowing scale of wages to be paid to apprentices :—First year. (weekly,) Bs. ; second, 10s. ; third, 13s. ; fourth, IGs. ; fifth, 19s.—An application from the gatekeepers of the Queen's and Sandon Graving Docks, for an advance of wages, was refused. Da. I . VisrmAN IN LI VERVOOL .—A report got a b roa d that "his eminence" would preach on Thursday morning at Copperas-hill Chapel, and from an early hour the streets in the vicinity were crowded. 'The chapel was speedily ; tut the "cardinal" neither officiatedf nor preached. At the conclusion of mass, it was announced from the altar that the laity were t o re ti re. With the exception of scarlet coif and stockings "his eminence" did not wear any of tte cardinal insignia, being merely attired in his archi-episcopal costume. It is stated that the Right Rev. Pr. Brown, the Roman Catholic Bishop in this district, is in a bad state of health ; and this, together with his ad vanced years, has prevented an active discharge of the duties of h's office. To remedy this, the appointment of a coadjutor bishop to assist Dr. Brown has been resolved upon, and Dr. Wiseman attended to preside over the chapter(sail to be the first since the xeformation). It is reported that the Rev. Dr. Roskell is to be the new prelate; but the result cannot be known until the proceedings have been confirmed by the pope. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting on Wednesday, the number of paupers in the workhouse was stated to .be 744.—A letter was read from the poor-levy board sanctioning the salaries which the guardians pro posed to pay the medical officers of the union. A com munication was read from the poor-law board respecting a letter which that body had received from Henry Johnson, one of the medical officers of the union, and requesting the guardians to furnish them with some observations on the matter. Mr. Johnson complained that the guardians had not paid him a sum of X 2 for a midwifery case, in which extra services were alleged to have been rendered.—Mr. Roskell contended that Mr. Johnson was fully entitled to the £2, and made a proposition that that sum he paid, which was seconded, put to the vote and lost. The clerk was instructed to inform the poor-law board that the guar dians deemed the sum of 10s., the usual fee, quite sufficient. Mr. Shaw moved that the following gentlemen form the labour-test committee::—Messrs. Sutton,: Thomas Birch, Bolshaw, Abrahams, Jeffreys, ancl Molyneux.—Mr. Reyes, as an amendment, proposed that Messrs. Miller, Harrison, Shaw, Kirkus, James Birch, and Hey es, form the commit tee. The motion of Mr. - Shaw was carried. Mr. Harrison moved that Mr. Downes, the taskmaster, make a weekly return to the labour-test committee of the labour, 80., performed by the paupers. Mr. Kirkus gave notice that would move that 'the salary of Mr. fohn Whitehead, ,Tistant overseer of West Derby, be increased to £l5O per annum GENTLEMEN.—There is no article of dress a gentleman is so particular in regarding as his shirt, which, if imper fectly dressed, is more annoying than any other part of his apparel. In order to obviate this, every gentleman should see that his Laundress uses only the GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, " used in the Royal Laundry." which far sur passes any other for giving a fine CLEAR ELASTIC Fr NISH. The Glenfield Patent Starch has long been the principal Starch used in this country, and it has never been equalled °Luny other for its fine ELASTICITY, CLEARNESS, and 9. eutdul GLOSS. The benefits of using this Starch are touiliforrnity of its stiffness, and at the same time pos sessing Glenfield wear an elasticity which yields with the motion of the er, thereby preventing the shirt front from going out uninfluenced of its Positio and the collar from lying over, which is the case invariablit This STAR off dam St when other kinds of Starch are used, The rch has also the important quality of being Laundries dampness of climate or lapse of time. of the SOLELY used in the Royal Laundry ; the the Lady Af.:: r e_ most of the Nobility ; the Laundry of WaShifig 'W ait e :l;r London ; and by most of the Public timonials in favour towns; from all of n 9 in London and the provincial "Idiom we have seen very flattering tes the recommendation °f these Glenfield Patent Starch. On these authorities, we have every confilence in urging you, for your own comfort and satisfaction, to requ est i = your r d Laundress to use no other, to is concerned. For at least, in so far as your information, we be g state that the Glenfield Patent Starch may be obtained Shopkeepers in town and vieinit of all, or nearly all, the of part of the Testimonials we Z a , who will also give a list have , to ask for the above alluded to. It will be necessary in making p u rchased Glenfield Patent Starch, and to see that the Manufae• turer's name, R. Wotberspoon, is printed on each packet ; without which, none is genuine. This caution is necess ary as certain parties are endeavouring to pal m off. an iofe-rior article with a colourable imitation of the label of the genuine. However, some of these parties have already been stopped, by the order of the Lord Chancellor, but it may yet be as well to see that the maker's name, R, Wotherspoon, is printed on each label. MR. WILLIAM HEW . TT, of Liverpool, has been ad mitted a member of the loyal College of Surgeons. The Preston Chronicle complains of the defective postal arrangements between tint town and Liverpool and Man chester. MORMONISM.—The average attendance on Sundays at the Mormonite meeting house in Liverpool, we regret to state, is estimated at 500. MANY of our readers will be gird to perceive by our advertising celumns, that Mr. Ferny, the Soyer of our northern metropolis, is clout to intr)duce the continental system into his new restatrant. IVAN SWEN ANDREA EIERFORD, Gent., has received the commission as Ensigr in the Ist tegiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia, signed by the Lord-Lieute nant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. THE Dumfries Courier states. tiat the fine estate of Fairgirth, in the Stewartry of Kioccudbright, has been purchased by private bargain, by Villiam Hilton, Esq., Manchester, for the sum d £22,006 THE REV. HUGH STOWELL BRCWN has handed over to Mr. Thomas Orford the sum of a 16s. 63., the pro fits of his lecture on the state of reigious freedom on the continent, delivered in aTcl of the vidows and orphans of the sufferers by the explosion of till brig Lily. THE KNIFE.—On Monday forming, about three o'clock, a man named Murphy vas attacked by two men and two women in Waterloo-rood. They demanded drink from him. stabbed him will .a knife in the back and on the head, and afterwards rcbbed him of is. sd. CHURCH MrssroNs.—The Rev Mr. Ryle whose tracts have hail such extensive circtlatiol. and Rev. F. Close of Cheltenham, with Revds. IVessrs. Cooper and Fox will be the Deputations for the Churci Missionary Society in Liverpool at the ensuing asnivetsary on the last Sunday in April next. A LITHOGRAPHED FACSIMILE of the coffin-plate on Nelson's coffin has been pr..sented to the free library by Mr. G. S. Russell, of Nth Jchn-street. By the style of the engraving, &c., it affores a singular testimony to the wonderful progress nude in the decorative arts in the space of less than fifty years. SußscauT•rov has been opened on behalf of the family of the late Captaii A. Church, commander of the queen Victoria. The deceased had been in the employ of the City of Dublin Seam-packet Company for upwards of 23 years. The comlany have headed the list with the donation of £lOO. Th, subscription list lies at the Ex change News-room. LIVERPOOL CAMBR AN SOCIETY.—The members and friends intend celebraing their 46th anniversary on St. David's Day (to-day). It is the intention of the members to present their surged], Nicholas Marsh, Esq., Mount pleasant, with a handome service of plafe. DOMINO ANTONIO, a Spanish sailor, was charged on Friday, at the Police. , ourt, with having broken into the chest of a fellow-seanan, and stolen a quantity of apparel and some money ther:from. The offence was committed while the vessel was ling at Bristol, whither the prisoner was accordingly sent:o be dealt with by the authorities there. A CANNIBAL Ar lIomE Isherwood was charged, at the St, Helen's sessions, on Tuesday, with biting off part of de nose of Joseph Wood, at Sutton, and also with bithg the finger of Sarah Wood, and assaulting James good. Joseph Wood was unable to attend, and his case was adjourned. The prisoner was fined in each of theother cases, or in default four months' imprisonment. COMPLIMENTARr DINNER.—On the evening. of Friday a party of gentleman dined at the Brunswick Hotel, (Mr. Whiteman's,) on tle occasion of six young officers enter ing the Excise. Jr. Mitchell, supervisor of the first district, occupied the chair; and Mr. Chadwick, import surveyor, officiated as vice-chairman. The viands and wines were of tie most recherche description, and the proceedings were :haracterised by much good feeling and harmony. THE THIRD OIDINARY MEETING of the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway Company was held at the Clarendon-r(oms on Tuesday last, C. Ho!land, Esq., in the chair. Ile director 3 confidently rely on the line being c)mpletedand ready for traffic before the next half yearly meeting. The directors intend to make a further call, payable in :tpril next, after which the company will be in a positiot to take up money on loan. The report was adopted. SINGULAR CksE.—An emigrant ship from Liverpool lately put into 3eaumaris under these circumstances : After it had failed, the ship was boarded by a steam vessel, and forty-two additional passengers put in. The captain remonirated with the parties concerned., on the ground of want of accommodation for such a number, but with no effect. He therefore made for ileautnaris, and the broker w)o had shipped the surplus number was served with two summonses to appear before the magis trates, when 113 was fined in two penalties of £5O and £3O. " HEAVY I\,.Era.L.'”—At the Police-office, on Fridays James M'Carthv, marine-store dealer, in Harrison-street, was charged with being in possession of a quantity of sheet lead and a bras preserving pan, knowing them to have been stolen ; and Margeret Raney, an elderly woman, with being concern:d in the robbery. The magistrate com mitted Wearthy for one month, and ordered his license to be revoked. The woman, who was discharged, is known among her confreres by the appropriate title of " Scrap Nelly," and it would appear that the thief was one " Patty Joyce," who was not forthcoming- STEAM-BOAT CARES.—Messrs. Colborn and Pritchard, owners of the New Brighton steamers, were charged, at the Police-office, on Thursday, with allowing the steamer James Atherten to carry passengers, not having the li cense on board at the time. Fined Is., and as. costs. — James and Alex. Bremner, owners of the steam-tug Modern Athens, were charred with allowing .her to carry passengers, she not being licensed for the same. Fined 405., and 4s. 6d. costs ; and John Hughes, master of the vessel at the time, Is., and Is. costs. CONVERTS Friom •POTERY.—Three persons publicly abjured the errors of Popery on Sunday evening last, at the church of St. James', Latchford, 'Warrington, and were received into communion with the Church of Eng land, by the Rev. J. W. Wright, incumbent. An excel lent sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. J. W. Harden, vicar of Condorer, Sslop, when £9 was collected for the s Society for Irish Church Missions. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—On Wednesday after ternoon, the United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, sailed from the Mersey with the usual United States and Canadian mails, 36 passengers, and a large and vuluablc cargo on board. Amongst the passengers was the Padre Gavazzi. At an early hour on 'Wednesday morn ing, the British and North American Royal Mail Steam ship Africa, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey, with advices from New York to the 9th instant, and mails and passengers. The British and North American Com pany's screw-steamer Andes, Captain Hutchings, arrived here a little before ten ci!cicck on Tuesday night, on her first return voyage from New York. The Cambria, hence for Boston, was passed on. Monday morning. The Andes brought no passengers, bet a large miscellaneous cargo. ASYLUM FOR ORPHAN Boys.—The annual meeting of the supporters was held on Wednesday, in the Claren don-rooms, the Mayor, ISannuel Holme, Esq., in the chair. Mr. J. M. Banner read the report. Forty-two boys have to this time been admitted ; about £4,400 has been received, and wlien the Asylum is ready for occupa tion it is hoped that the whole of the £6,000 required for its completion will be in the treasurer's hauds.—Mr.. Bibby, the treasurer, read the statement of accounts. After an expenditure of £-1.74 183. Ild., a balance re mained of £5B is. id. The Rev. Rector Campbell, Mr. 11. 9anner, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting. It was announced that the Mayor had given the unsoli cited donation of £5O. Loss or THREE EMIGRANT 'Sores.—During the last week, Lloyd's have been apprised of the total loss of three emigrant ships, while on the outward-bound passage to Australia, with nearly 1000 passengers on board, the whole of whom escaped, with the exception of two or three persons. The names of the vessels are, the Sir Fowell l'...uxton, from London, bound to Port Philip ; the Eglinton, also from the Thames; and another vessel, reported to be the Australian Express, from Liverpool. The loss of the Eglinton took place on the night of the Bth of September, about 30 miles northward of Free mantle (on the coast of Australia). Two passengers and the boatswain met with a watery grave. The other vessel, the Australian Express, was wrecked also on the Austra lian coast, 200 miles southward of the Heads, near Syd ney; all were saved. THE LAW or -SHIPPING NOTES.—On Wednesday Mr. Owen appeared at the Police-office, on behalf of Joseph Spradlow, to claim from Messrs. Hatton and Cookson, the owners of the brig Lily, payment for an advance note which he had discounted for a seaman who sailed in that vessel. Mr. Aspina'.l, for the defendant, admitted that the seaman had sailed, but he said the vessel was wrecked before the ten days after which the note was made payable had expired, and he contended that the note was not pay able unless the seaman was earning wages at the time of the presentation of the note by the discounter. Mr. Mansfield said he had had a discussion with the judge of the County Court respecting the interpretation of the act, and they had agreed it would be better to refer the matter to the Board of Trade, end get the opinion of the law officers of the Crown on the subject. He had communi cated with Mr. Cardwell, and he would postpone his de cision on this case until he received an answer. GUARDIAN SocrETY.—The anniversary of this society was celebrated on Thursday evening, by a dinner at the Royal Hotel, Dale-street. and was honoured by the pre sence of Samuel Holme, Esq., mayor. Mr. J. H. Smith presided, and the vice-chairmen were Mr. Hugh H. Gib son and Mr. M`Millan. Amongst the gentlemen at the principal table were Mr. Alderman Parker, Mr. Allred, Mr. Councillor Thomson, Mr. Councillor Woodruff, Mr. Evans, solicitor to the society, and Mr. E. Roberts. There were also present, Messrs. Richard Bissington, vice-president of the Leeds and West Riding Society for the Protection of Trade, and Mr. Johnson, secretary of that society. The report stated that during the past year the sub-committee have issued 40,523 circulars, containing the names of upwards of 1,000 persons against whose fraudulent practices it was necessary to caution the members. IMPROVED ANCHORS.—The report of the Anchor Com mittee has at length been issued, and as it embraces many matters of importance connected with the Royal navy and commercial marine, we give the list of those inventors who supplied anchors to be tested, in compliance with the circular of the Admiralty, in the order of merit as they stand in the report :—Trotman, first; Rodgers, second ; Mitcheson, third ; Lenox, fourth ; Honiball, fifth ; Aylen, sixth; Admiralty, seventh; Isaacs, Bth. It was sug gested to the committee during the trials, that, from their superior holding properties, anchors on Porter's principle were fully equal, for all general purposes, to much larger anchors on common plans; and as this appeared to the committee to be a question of vast importance to the shipping interests, they felt justified in so far deviating from their original design, as to subject Trotman's anchor (which proved to have greater holding powers than Honi ball's or Porter's) to trials with anchors on the Admiralty plan, of the respective weights of 30, 35, and 40 cwt., (stock included,) on the parade ground, and of 31 cwt. on the beach. The results, as shown in the appendices of the reports, left no doubt in the mind of the committee, that, in regard to holding power, with a steady equable strain, Trotman's anchors are fully equal to Admiralty anchors of at loot 24 per oent. greater weight. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1853. GENERAL NEWS. MR. PHILLIPS, a solicitor at Southampton, of imbe cile mind, who has been missing from his friends some time, has at length been found in an out-house at Drox ford, in Hampshire, about 16 miles from Southampton, perishing from cold, hunger, and distress of mind. OYSTERS IN PARIS.—It appears, from statistical re turns, that during the year 1851 there were consumed in Paris 1,070,926 f. worth of oysters, which, at the average of 2f. 30c. the hundred, would show nearly seventy mil lions to be annually eaten in the French capital. A DIGGING MACHINE has recently been patented. It is simple in construction, goes deeper than the plough by several inches, covering from two to three times its breadth, and reducing the land to a tutu equal to several ploughings and harrowings—in fact to trenching. It is equally effective in breaking up land for railway and other public works. TROOPS IN THE COLONIES.—From a parliamentary return of the troops stationed in the colonies, it appears that in 1851 there were 1608 officers, 2076 sergeants and drummers, and 34,558 rank and file employed in the colo nies ; and that, on the Ist of April last, 1076 officers, 2735 sergeants and drummers, and 35,530 rank and file, were so employed. BOAT-RACE.—On Monday, a scullers' match, for £25 a side, took place between two noted boatmen, Cook of Oxford, and Ault of Manchester. The distance was a mile and a quarter, from Oxford to Iffley, which was com pleted by Cook in ten minutes, when he came in easily fifty yards ahead of his opponent. THE GERMAN FLEET.—When the German fleet was in course of formation, the Grand Duke of Oldenburg presented a silver punch bowl, in the shape of a bomb, to the officers' mess of the vessel bearing his name. Since the sale of the fleet the bowl has been returned to his royal highness, who has announced that it shall be pre served, in order that it be re-given to some ship when ever the Germen fleet shall be revived. A HOARD IN A Wortxtiousx.—One of the nurses attached to St. Giles's Infirmary died rather suddenly a few days since, and on searching her clothes the sum of £l3 10s. in gold was found. How she accumulated a sum so large is a mystery, as no salary is attached to the situa tion, the nurses being selected for their cleanliness and other qualifications from the inmates of the workhouse. To DRESS A HAM.—Bayonne is celebrated for its hams. I accordingly had one dressed under my own inspection ; and, as a considerable degree of science is required in dressing a ham, I publish my receipt. Boil it in hock, a quarter of an hour each pound ; then put it in an oven, and bake it another quarter of an hour to the same weight ; and I'll venture to say the epicures will acknowledge that nothing can be more delicious.—Lord Blaney. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday, a most singular accident happened at Monk Bretton Church. On the wife of Mr. Thomas Wandsworth, who was the first com municant, kneeling down, the floor beneath her gave way, and she suddenly disappeared. Assistance, however, was instantly rendered, by putting a ladder down the hole, and the lady was found at the depth of eight feet uninjured. The accident was occasioned by a dry rot having taken place in the timber that supported the raised floor, there not having been any ventilation beneath it. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—A man named Witham, who was suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, on Mon day week, and was left alone for a short time. He availed himself of the opportunity to break a pane of glass ; and with one of the fragments of glass he began to cut his throat, which he wounded so severely, before the surgeons arrived to stop him, that he still remains in a very dangerous condition. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. —The eligible estate at Wood-green, Tottenham, has just been pur chased for allotment among the members of this society. The property is situated mid-way between and near two stations on the Great Northern Railroad, and is at an easy distance from Enfield, Edmonton, Hornsey, Hollo way, &c. The society has now five estates—two in East Surrey, at Putney, and three in Middlesex, at Ealing, Hounslow, and Tottenham. EXAMINATION OF LAW STUDENTS.—The examiners of solicitors and attorneys have determined upon in creasing the rigour of their examination, by requiring next Michaelmas term satisfactory answers in convey ancing, as well as common law and equity. The answers in retard to bankruptcy and criminal law, and proceed ings before magistrates, will still be taken into considera tion in summing up the merit of the general examination as heretofore. MANCHESTER AND M USIC.- 4 4 A Shareholder in the Concert-hall" writes a letter to the Manchester Courier of Saturday, arguing with great warmth. that the cotton metropolis is not a musical town. He remarks :—`• To go no further back than last week, ask Mr. Thomas what he thinks of the support which Manchester gives to music. A band as good, if not better than Jullieri's, playing night after night to an empty room, because Mr. Thomas did not depend upon humbug but trusted to the fictitious character for musical taste which Man chester enjoys." A ROYAL BALL.—On Fridaywcek,aballwasgiven by de sire of Prince Albert to thedomestics of Buckingham Palace, numbering about 300, on the occasion of the opening of the new servants' ball at that establishment. A band of the Life Guards was engaged for the occasion. Her Ma jesty and Prince Albert, together with many of the ladies and gentlemen connected with the household, honoured the company with their presence, and many of the latter joined in the merry throng. Refreshments of the best kind were provided for the occasion, and the party did not break up till a late hour. A. MOST DARING BURGLARY has been committed:at Macclesfield by five robbers, who, with masks on their faces, entered the premises of Mr. J. Dean, on Sunday, at seven o'clock in the evening, Mr. Dean was absent at the time, but two friends paying a casual visit to his wife, were with her bound to chairs, under threats of being shot, whilst the robbers secured a bag with upwards of £2OO in specie, and some deeds belonging to a loan society, of which Mr. Dean was secretary. The thieves appeared well acquainted with the premises, and addressed each of their three prisoners by name, but at present no clue has been found. THE REY. J. FLAMANK, Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, who had been residing with Dr. Rigg, a homceopathic surgeon of Northampton, has died of poison. Mr. Flamank had been deranged in his mind, and though his health had improved, he was still subject to attacks of mania. One day he was found dead; and from the evidence at the inquest there could be no doubt that he had swallowed prussic acid.. How he obtained the poison is not known, and whether he drank the acid to destroy himself, is equally smatter of conjecture.; though Dr. Rigg had deemed it necessary to be watchful that Mr. Flamank should not obtain ready means of suicide. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—On Monday, in the Queen's Bench, Mr. Andrews, solicitor, sued the Morning Herald for reporting a trial, in which Mr. Andrews was plaintiff, giving an introduction to explain the proceedings, which reflected on the plaintiff. Lord Campbell pointed out the legality of a fair report, and left it to the jury to say whether the introductory notice took it out of that cate gory. They immediately returned a verdict of not guilty, and the Lord Chief Justice said they were perfectly right; he took a great interest in the respectability of the press, and he must say that the reports which were given of law proceedings were in general perfectly itepartial. It was not right to mix up comments with reports. If the mat ters reported seemed to require comment, the comments should appear, not with the report, but in another part of the paper. SINGULAR FACT.—It is a very remarkable fact in the history of the United States, that, none of the great names among the American elected presidents had children. No one who was ever re-elected has had a son. Washington had no children ; he held office eight years. John Adams had children ; he was not re-elected. Jefferson had no children ; he was re-elected, and held office eight years. Madison bad no children ; held the presidency eight years. Monroe had no son ; held office eight years. John Quincy Adams had sons ; ho was not re-elected. Jackson had no children ; he was re-elected. Vast Buren had children.? not re-elected. Harrison died; Polk had no children; Taylor died ; and now, among the childless, is the next elected president after Taylor, President Pierce, made sc by the recent accident at Andover. ERICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINg.— At the meeting, last week, of the Institution of Civil Engineers. the renewed discussion took place on Mr. B. Cheverton's Paper, " On the use of Heated Air as a motive power." The construc tion of Ericsson's engine, and the application of the Re generator were first described, and it was then argued, that the action of the regenerator almost amounted, theo retically, to the creation of force, and that it was not of the utility that had been presumed. From the best ac counts, it appeared that various practical difficulties ex isted, in the application of heated air as a motive power, and from calculations which were entered into, it was shewn, that the mean pressure of the air in the working cylinder being 411b5., the engines making eleven strokes per minute, a total power was developed, which, after making a proper deduction for friction and waste, did not exceed 208 H.P. with the cumbrous machinery which was described ; it was then contended that with such a fine model of a ship and under the circumstances of the ex periments, a greater speed than seven miles an hour ought to have been attained, with a less expenditure of fuel, and that therefore, at present, the Caloric Engine could not be practically regarded as a successful innovation. Further investigations were entered into of the theory of the Air Engine, and the general result appeared to exhibit so much distrust of the accounts already received, of the working of the caloric ship, that it was suggested, that the further discussion of the subject should be adjourned for a few weeks. STATISTICS OF DRUNKENNESS. A parliamentary paper has been published, showing the number of persons taken into custody for drunkenness and disorderly conduct by the metropolitan police force, with similar returns relating to the cities of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 1831, when the metropolitan population amounted to 1,515,585, there were 31,353 persons arrested fcr drunken ness, and 10,383 for disorderly conduct; of the drunkards, 11,605 were women, and 19,748 were men ; among the persons who conducted themselves in a disorderly manner there were 7,287 women and 3,096 men. In 1841, when the population had increased to 2,068,107, the numbers of the same offences were still enormous, the total for drunkenness being 15,006, and for disorderly conduct 15,810; there were among these totals 5,123 female drunkards and 9,883 males, and among the disorderly there were 7,913 women and 7,897 men. In the same year the city police took up 2,313 persona for drunkenness and 802 persons tor disorderly conduct among a popula tion, as shown by the census returns, of 123,563 persons. In 1851, when the population of the metropolitan dis tricts had increased to 2,399,004, the total number of persons arrested for drunkenness had decreased to 10,668, 6,207 of whom were men and 4,461 women, and the total of disorderly persons arrested was 6,131, 2,556 of whom were men and 3,762 were women. In London the numbers were in 1851—drunkards arrested, 280; dis orderly persons arrested, 681. Edinburgh, with 140,000 inhabitants in 1841, shows 4,824 arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct in that yearoind in 1851, when the population was 166,000, the arrests were only 2,79 3 , while Glasgow, with 333,651 inhabitants in 1851, had in that year 10,012 arrests for the reasons mentioned above. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, FRB. 22, Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of the Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill. The legal profession in Scotland approved of the extension of the provisions of the act of 1851, by which parties to suits were examinable as witnesses. DIVORCE. After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL, in which he stated that the commissioners appointed to consider the law of divorce had recommended that a regular tribunal should be established to take cognizance of allegations on the part of the husband against the wife, the bill was read a second time, and their lordships adjourned. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 The Chancery Suitors Further Relief Bill, being one of six legal bills introduced by Lord St, Leonards, was read a second time, and after some discussion between [the law lords, all the six bills were referred to a select com mittee. THE BURMESE WAR. The Earl of ELLENBOROUG 11 moved for the production of a letter written in 1829 by the Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General, giving instruc tions as to the line of operations to be pursued in any future war with Ava. He then commented on the line of operations pursued in the present war, which bad been anything but successful or satisfactory.—The Earl of ABERDEEN had no objection to produce the letter, though a despatch written 25 years ago on such a subject could scarcely be considered as anything else than an historical curiosity. The government had the greatest confidence in the discretion of the Governor-General, and, as he had expressed himself satisfied with the progress of the war, and had determined to annex Pegu after mature delibera tion, the government were disposed to acquiesce in the opinion expressed by the late government.—The Earl of DERBY defended the line of operations pursued against Ava, and read a memorandum written by the late Duke of Wellington, to prove that the war could not have been averted ; that the operations proposed were judicious ; that they had been carried on with great gallantry and success; and that in justice both to the I'eguese and ourselves we were bound not to stop short of the annexa tion of that province.—The papers were then ordered, and their lordships adjourned. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Somepetitions having been presented, Lord BROUGHAM, after some remarks upon the system of bribery at elections, expressed a hope that by the operation of the late act, which enabled the parties themselves to be examined before election committees, it wou , d have the effect of greatiy curtailing, if not altogether preventing, the abo minable system. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH inquired whether her Ma jesty's government intended to propose any measure for the future government of India during the present ses sion. The noble earl also presented a petition from the Madras Native Association and others for redress of griev ances in connection with the expiration of the East India Company's Charter. The principal grievance complained of was excessive taxation. They prayed for the construc tion of certain public works, and for a better system of education. They further complained of the want of a pro per system of irrigation, and the extreme badness of the public roads, which tended to impoverish the country, and to mar the industrious efforts of the inhabitants.— After some remarks by the Duke of Argyle in reference to education in India, and by Lord Campbell upon the administration of justice in the Indian empire, the Earl of ABERDEEN said that it was intended to bring in a bill during the present session relative to the Indian Govern ment, but at present he could not enter into details. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--TUESDAY, FEE. 22. Mr. Phillimore took the oaths and his seat for Taristock. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE The second reading of Her Majesty's Theatre Associa tion Bill was opposed by Mr. CARDWELL, on the ground that it involved the principle of limited liability, and upon a division, the second reading was negatived by a large majority. LANCASTER ELECTION. The minutes of evidence taken before the Lancaster Election Committee were ordered to be printed ; and it was also ordered that no new writ be issued until Monday, April 4. EXCHEQUER BILLS. In reply to a question by Mr. Alasterman, with refer ence to a statement that the Bank of England had been aware of the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the interest on Exchequer bilis some time before the reduction was publicly known, of which the Bank had taken advantage to effect the sale of those securities at the higher rate of interest, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER stated that the reduction had not been determined until Tuesday, the 15th of this month ; and that he had not consulted the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank upon the subject until the afternoon of Saturday, the 12th. Sir H. HALFORD obtained leave to bring in a bill to secure the payment of wages without stoppages. CUSTOMS REFORM Mr. lionsFALL asked when it was the intention of the government to bring forvrard•the subject of a reform of the Board of Customs.—The CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER said he was not in a position at present to state whether any measures which the government might take for the improvement of the Customs' department and machinery would require legislative interposition. The whole subject was under the consideration of the Treasury. ROMISH PRELATES Mr. I. BUTT asked the Home Secretary whether, since his accession to office, any instructions had been issued to the authorities at Dublin Castle with regard to the award ing of rank and precedence to the Romanist bishops in Ireland.—Lord PALMERSTON.—No instructions have been sent on that subject. (Laughter.) MAYNOOTFI COLLEGE Mr. SPOONER moved that the house resolve itself into a committee to consider the act Bth and 9th Victoria, chap. 25, " for the better government of the College at Maynooth," and also the last Maynooth Act, with a view to the repeal of those clauses which provide money grants to the said college. He shortly referred to the grounds he had offered for his former motion on this subject, ob serving that he had been met on that occasion by personal abuse and the imputation of sinister motives ; but not by a denial of the truth of his statements as to the system of education pursued at Maynooth and the books used there, WEich took away the necessity for further inquiry ; and he now asked the house to do its duty to the country, the Sovereign, and itself.—Mr. Scrior.grier.n moved, as an amendment, to extend the consideration of the committee to "all enactments now in force, whereby the revenue of the state is charged in aid of any ecclesiastical or religious purposes whatsoever, with a view to the repeal of such enactments." If his amendment should be negatived, he should vote against the original motion, which was based upon a narrow sectarian ground.—Sir W. CLAY seconded the amendment.—After some further discussion, in which several members took part, the debate was adjourned. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. Mr. C. TURNER presented a petition from the letter carriers of Liverpool, complaining of the order of the the Postmaster-General prohibiting Christmas boats. Mr. BREMBRIDGE presented a petition; from Mr. Wm. Parker, surgeon, of Birkenhead, praying a commission to inquire into the physical uses of the elements of our atmosphere. COUNTY RATES. Mr. M. GIBSON having moved the second reading of the County Rates and Expenditure Bill, said he merely asked the house now to sanction the principle of the measure.— Lord PALMERSTON, on the part of the government, ac knowledged the importance of the Eli' ject, which involved matters of national consideration—police, treatment of prisoners, and care of lunatic asylums—and was, more over., connected with the personal feelings of the unpaid magistracy. The expediency of introducing the repre sentative principle into the control of county expenditure, lie considered, had been conceded, and acquiescing in the bill so far as that principle was concerned, he should offer no opposition to the second reading.—After some discus sion, in which the details of the bill were strongly ob jected to, it was read a second time, and was ordered to be committed pro forma on Friday, in order that it might be adapted to the views of the government. MAYNGOTH COLLEGE ADJOURNED DEBATE.—Mr. FAGAN opposed the amend ment as well as the original motion, and denied the relevancy of the charges brought against the Romish priests for their alleged conduct at the late elec tions in Ireland, which, if true, had nothing to do with Maynooth, or with its system of education.—Lord STANLEY, though he deprecated the agitation of this question, was unwilling that the debate should close without the expression of an opinion by a member of the late government upon the motion, to which he could not give his support. Briefly tracing the history of the May nooth grant, he observed that the intention of Sir R. Peel was that the settlement of 1845 should he perma nent and unconditional ; and that it would be impossible now to replace the question in the same position as that in which it stood prior to 1845. Had the motion been for inquiry, he should have supported it, for parliament had a right to see whether the money had been appro priated to the purposes for which it was granted.—Mr. LucAs was opposed to both the amendment and the ori ginal resolution. The former was as objectionable to those who shared his religious opinions as the latter ; he considered it, indeed, the same in a different shape, and dictated by the same feeling of religious bigotry. The question was not whether Maynooth was a good college or not, but whether the Romish religion was such as not to be entitled to any endowment whatever.—Mr. DRUM MOND exposed the dangerous doctrines of the Jesuits, which were now, for the first time, he said, authorised by the Romish Church, observing that he wished to treat this not as a regular question, but as a question of a con spiracy of these men against the rights of manki, I.—An attempt was made to adjourn the debate, which failed, and the house divided upon the question whether the words in the original motion proposed by the amendment to be left out should be retained, which was negatived by 194 to 164. This destroyed the vitality of Mr. Sp )oner's motion ; but it being six o'clock the amendment could not be put, so that the main question remains to be dis posed of, and was subsequently fixed for to-morrow (Wed nesday). THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24. Mr. C. TURNER presented a petition from schoolmas ters and teachers of Liverpool, praying that the right of representation in Pcirliament may be granted to the gra duates of the University of London. BLACKBURN ELECTION. Mr. DEEDES reported from:the committee that Mr. W. Eccles was not duly elected to serve in the present Par liament for the borough of Blackburn, and that the last election of that borough, so far as regarded the said Mr. Eccles, was a void election, on the ground of bribery. AUSTRALIAN MAILS. in answer to a question respecting the intention of the government to enforce the due and more punctual per formance of the existing contract for the conveyance of mails to Australia via' the Cape of Good He' was sorry to say, that the performanceePoTSir J. GRAILAI4the contract on the part of the mail contractors had not been as punctual as the good of the public service required, and that it Was the intention of the government to enforce, punctual perf ormance if necessary, by penalties, a oFooFFEranCe of the con tract. ADULTERATION In reply to a question, the CHANCELLOR ouitOoxii said the government hAd of the EX CUE to the decision that the public interests would be best consulted by allowing chicory to be sold in a state of mixture with coffee, provided it was so described in labels attached thereto. THE LEADER OF THE HOUSE. Mr. CAYLEY asked Lord John Russell whether it was true he had resigned the seals of the foreign office, and, if he had, whether he held any office under the crown to which a salary was attached.—Lord Jou N RUSSELL re plied he had resigned the seals of the foreign office, and her Majesty had been pleased to appoint the Earl of Clarendon to that office. He had no hesitation in saying that he held no office now under the crown to which a salary was attached.—Mr. CAYLEY thereupon gave notice that upon an early day he should move a resolution to the effect that it was expedient that a salary be attached to the office of leader of the House of Commons. NEWRY ELECTION. Mr. LASCELLES reported from th e comm i t t ee appo i n t e d to inquire into the Newry election, that Mr. Kirk had been duly elected. TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON drew attention to the state of the Australian colonies, and to the question of trans portation. He explained the reasons which induced the late government to promise the Australian colonies that transportation to Van Diemen's Land should cease, and he trusted that the present government would, at the earliest possible moment, state what their views were on the subject of secondary punishment. —Mr. FREDERICK PEEL said the present government was prepared to follow up the intentions of the late ministry on the subject of crown lar.ds. It was intended to cease transportation to Australia, arid parliament would be called upon to provide some other secondary punishment.—After a few remarks from other members, the papers relating to the subject were ordered to be laid upon the table. ADMISSION OF JEWS Lord JonN RUSSELL moved that the house go into committee to take into consideration certain civil disabi litities affecting the Jews. What he proposed was so far to complete the edifice of religious liberty as to allow the Jewish subjects of Her Majesty the same rights and pri vileges of British subjects as were at present enjoyed by Protestant dissenters and Roman Catholics. An error in faith, he contended, was no ground for debarring men from serving the crown and sitting in parliament. It was said that the Jews were a separate nation ; but they were not aliens, and therefore were British subjects by the force of the proposition. Then it was alleged that they were meant to be divided from all other nations ; but it was not for us to carry out the decrees of the Almighty. —Sir R. INGLIS opposed the motion. lie did not consi der the Jew, who regarded our Saviour as an impostor, a fit person to legislate for Christian people in a Christian country.—Sir R. PEEL did not consider the admission of Jews into parliament was at all a question of religions liberty. He was in favour of the removal of all disabili ties affecting Protestants or Roman Catholics, but he would never countenance the admission of Jews into par liament, and the opening to them of all the high offices of the state.—The motion was opposed by Mr. Napier, Mr. Wigram, and Colonel Sibthorpe ; and supported by Lord Monck, Lord Drumlanrig, Mr. Digby Seymour, and Mr. Maurice O'Connell. Upon a division the motion was carried by 237 to 207. The house then resolved itself into committee, when a resolution in favour of a bill for the admission of Jews into parliament was agreed to. IRISH TENANT RIGHT, The motion of Sir J. Young, for a select committee on several hills relating to the law of landlord and tenant (Ireland), gave rise to considerable discussion, and the motion was ultimately adjourned. FRIDAY, February 25 111 r. Cogan took the oaths and his seat for Kildare. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that the Government xould on Monday take the Ordnance Estimates, and the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill on Friday. THE BRITISH ARMY On going into committee of supply, Colonel NORTH, in reference to certain speeches of Mr. Cobden and others, complained that the British army received too little gra titude from those whose property they are so often called upon to protect, namely, the manufacturers of the north of England.—Mr. Men suggested a gradual increase to the reserve force of pensioner battalions, without detri ment to the militia and regular forces. He commended Lord liardinge for having called out the pensioners, who in round numbers might be said to amount to 70,000 men ; and of these about 30,000 were able-bodied. He would suggest to the Secretary at War the desirability of allow ing small pensions after a period of short enlistment, and by that means young men of twenty-eight or thirty years of age would have something to go on with, and enable them to pursue the trade to which they had been brought up before they entered the army ; at the same time, he did not object to giving full pensions to those veterans who had fulfilled their full period of service.—Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said the prevailing practice in the army was that persons who had enlisted for a limited period, even when the termination of that period arrived, were desirous of remaining in the army, the commanding officers of regiments were very reluctant to take three times ten years' men, and the soldiers having during that period familiarised themselves with the army, were reluctant to leave the service. The subject, however, was one which engaged the attention of the government. THE BURMESE WAR, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY moved for an address for extracts of communications in reference to the Burmese war.— Sir CHARLES Woof) said that everything that was pos sible had been done to avert the war, but without success, and Commodore Lambert had delayed taking hostile steps until the insults of the Court of Ava had become intolerable. The papers asked for would be produced.— Mr. HumE expressed his coneurren in the necessity of further information being afforded on the subject.—Sir J. W. HOGG defended the course pursued by the govern ment and the court of directors in reference to this war.— The motion was then agreed to. THE ARMY ESTIMATES Mr. S. HERBERT proposed the Army Estimates for the ensuing year, in which he said he should not ask an increase of men beyond the number previously announced, although there would he some slight argumentation owing to the return of men from service in India, and An increase for pay, Fy c., of about £17,000. In the public department there was an addition of £5,500, arising from the great increase of business which had recently taken place in the War-office. lie proposed to increase the rewards to sergeants for good conduct, by an annual grant of £2,000. These were the principal heads of increase upon the Estimates previously announced. Much benefit had been found to result from the libraries which had recently been established in the various regiments. The soldiers evinced considerable eagerness to avail themselves of the books thus placed at their dis posal, and the number of volumes thus accumulated was no less than 117,000. The same good results had arisen from the institution of regimental schools. It was also satisfactory to hear that mortality in the army had greatly decreased during the past year. The condition of the soldiers, owing to the improved habits of the men them selves, would, he hoped. he equally satisfactory. He con cluded by moving that 102,283 men be the number for the ensuing year, exclusive of the troops belonging to the East India Company.—Mr. Hung disapproved of the proposed increase of the number of men, for which he contended no cause had been shown. He recommended rather an increased police force, and the maintenance of an efficient navy.—Colonel SIBTHORP, in expressing his approval of the estimates, said that in the event of war, the members of the Peace Society would be glad enough to avail themselves of the protection of the military when they found their mills in danger. The vote was then agreed to. VOLUNTRER CORPS. Lord PALMERSTON said he thought that the formation of volunteer corps ought to be postponed till next year, so that the militia might be properly organized.—Mr. Hume contended that volunteer corps should be formed as a means of saving the expense which would be incurred by the organization of the militia.—Sir GEORGE PECHELL said that as fur as Kent and Sussex were concerned, the two counties most liable to invasion, the formation of volunteer corps was desirable, as there was no probability that a militia would be raised in those counties.—Lord PALMERSTON observed that the defence of the counties referred to would be provided for.—The several money votes having been agreed to, the House resumed—Upon the Metropolitan Improvements Bill being proposed for second reading, several Members objected to the Bill upon the ground of its extreme obscurity, but on a division the motion was carried by 104 to 57. The House adjourned at a quarter past 11 o'clock NEW LOAN.—The accounts from Frankfort state that a new Prussian loan for 55,000,000 (X 750,000,) was ex pected shortly to be contracted. RAILWAY DIVIDENDS.—The following ha ve be en de clared during the week :—Midland, 4i per cent. ; Eastern Counties, 6s. per share ; York and North Midland, 3 per cent. ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 3 pr cent. ; East Lancashire. 3 per cent. ; Great Northern 2 per cent. AUSTRALIAN' PACKETS.—The General Screw COM• sany's steamer Hellespont, sailed yesterday from London for Australia, with 40,000 in specie, 200 tons of cargo at £l2 per ton, and about seven passengers. In consequence of the return of the Australian, the Hellespont will call at Plymouth. THE AUSTRALIAN, Mail steam-ship, which left Ply mouth on Thursday with mails for the Cape. Sydney, &C. put back at six, p.m., on Friday. She had gut about 60 miles from the Eddystone, when it was discovered that she was making water fast, which increased to such an extent as to put out the port wing fire. There were then Oft. 6in. of water in her engine-room, which no effort with the whole of the pumps could reduce. These at last became choked, so that the pump on deck was the only one that could be worked. At three, a.m., the captain resolved to bear up for Plymouth, where she had to go into dock, which will detain her some days. In bearing to in the Channel she shipped a heavy sea, carrying away her port life-boat. It is said also that she leaks forward, and that there was at one time three inches of water in the fore cabin. r w ur ,l y l:l D L l e T n T i A s .rshOwnor/Itlho,llday shoemaker,Week, a ß t o t c h h e . d p a e l pt e tyEss a e Fil lsGisatßullen, weaver, Blackburn, were charged with ' b a yi ng enlisted in the 4th King's Own Regiment, b e i ng at the time enrolled in the 3d Lancashire Militia; an d, pleading guilty, it was at first determined to send them to prison for a month ; but as they expressed a strong desire to remain in the regiment, paying back the bounty they had rec e i ve d on enter i ng the m i l i t i a , i t wa s ultimately agreed that they should be remanded until an opportunity was afforded to make satisfactory arrange ments with the military authorities. GENERAL SIR HARRY SMITH, as Commander-in-Chief of the western district, has been inspecting the garrison al Portsmouth ; at the conclusion Sir Harry addressed the men to the following effect :—"Soldiers,—Hitherto I have not had the opportunity of having any of you under my orders ; but 1 am happy now to take the command of this district. I start on the broad basis of a feeling of love for the soldier ; and as long as you serve under my orders, and do your duty as soldiers should do, you will always find me your true friend—but, mind, I will have the duty done, and done effectually ; no slatternly dockyard guards mind. People talk of the French coming—b ut let them come ; I know enough of the British soldier to say. ff they do come, we shall give them enough of it. Our duty 44 to support and maintain the character of the country, and in this feeling let us now give three right good hearty cheers for the Queen."