The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

es t bs : eve-.eTer) de la' t tWere t th e ' °lit ° A to all th e :1), OM LOCAL NEWS. MR. CHARLES TURNER, M.P., was presented to Prince Albert, at the levee, on Thursday. THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ATLANTIC, Capt. West, sailed for New York on Wednesday, shortly before noon. MR. T. B. HORSFALL was on Wednesday last pre sented by the Marquis of Blandford to Prince Albert at her Majesty's levee. THE ANNIVERSARY TEA PARTY of the Sabbath school teachers in connexion with Islington Presbyterian Church, took place on Wednesday evening last, their pastor, the Rev. V. M. White, occupied the chair. A PORTRAIT OF SIR JOHN BENT has just been finished by Mr. Westeott ; it is to be presented to Lady t, Ben h as a testi mon i a l (valued at 18) guineas) from Sir Jon's friends. THE O RIGIN OF L IVERPOOL E XCHANGE . M any Petty, ill-conceived plans were being proposed for dis g of the land behind the Town-hall, when Mr. William Roscoe, taking up a map of the town, drew a quadrangle. "There," said he, " build a handsome suite of offices, with news-room, &c., and leave a noble area In the centre for an Exchange." " But the money, Mr. Roscoe " Oh, advertise it in shares, and place your are list on the door of the Town-ball." It was done next morning, and the share list was filled up in four hours. ti ,,DOCK C OMMITTEE .—At the weekly meeting, on "'arsdav, Mr. Litledale in the chair, it was stated that t he wheelwrights and carpenters had an increase of wages last week varying from 6d. to 9d. per day.—A letter was read from Messrs. M'lver, relative to proposed erections at the Huskisson Dock, and referred to the committee. — Messrs. Gregory, solicitors, in a letter on behalf of Mr. Blower, required the suspension of the alteration of the level of Hurst-street, and the same street restored to its original level. The letter was referred to the committee of works, and to their solicitor.—Mr. R. Gladstone asked Whether there was any scheme agreed upon by the Dock Committee for allowing railways on the quays ? A con versation ensued, in which the scheme of Mr. Grantham was alluded to. The subject was referred to the Works' Committee to report the practicability of some general scheme. Tit E HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the rneetingof this corn - inittee on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Lansdale presiding, it was stated, in reference to the Buildings and Sanitary Bill, (withdrawn by the council,) that Lord Redesdale, in his official capacity, had intimated to the Town Clerk that he would oppose any disjointed measure.. Mr. Dover snored that the parliamentary sub-committee proceed at once with the preparation of a bill for the next Session. Agreed to. The total number of deaths last week was reported to have been 72, being 9 more than in the pre -510115 week. Diseases of the lungs, with consumption, caused nearly one-Ina of the entire mortality. Forty four deaths occurred between 60 and 90 years of age.— The borough engineer was instructed to obtain all the i nformation he cou'd from places where low-level cross lives exist, in order to guide to an opinion on the applica tion of the East Lancashire and Lancashire and Yorkshire R ailway Companies to cross on a level from streets at the horth end of the town. ARCHITEC TURNT . AND ARCH-EOLOGICAL SOCIETY.— . the meeting of this society, on Wednesday night, Mr. Frank Howard in the chair, there was read a long corn bunication f r o m th e assistant - secretary o f th e L on d on s and was h - h ouses ' committee, relat i ve to a note Which appeared in a publication of theirs, in which Mr. eitanr.ese...Newlands, the Liverpool Corporation engineer, is or e n .g as having put forward, as his own, certain plans coul ees, eels havin g by Mr. Baly, the engineer employed by that The letter was written with a view to sub stantiatethe charges referred to, particularly that of Baly asctoopied so closely from an original design by Mr. next meetingtrieceenya defect - . The subject was postponedto the that a A letter from Mr. Newlands announced Photo Preliminary to the establishment of a Prop os ß e r 3P h i society, had been held that and it was Chairrnarit° bare wo r ki ng mem b er s and associates. The dente Tudo a nnounced that the subject for the next stu eclaPetition, was to be a design for a villa in the _leor earlier Gothic style, to cost about £3,000. Mr. . J ones was i n t ro d uce d t o th e Chairman as a new IS;slot. ci at e memb er o f t h e soc i ety. M r. M ou lt rea d " S ome ' R• emarks -upon the Entrance to the Port of Liverpool," in which,taw after describing the cause which led to the for -311 of'bars, h e exp l a i ned a plan o f hi s own f or re li F y. iss :0 ,, the - river f rom such obstructions. short discussion I bowed the reading of the paper. TH E -ANNUAL MEETING OF. THE MECHANICS' IN rITUTION, on W e d nes d ay even i ng l as t, a t w hi c h M r . James Ityley p res id e d, rece i ve d a re p or t, f rom w hi c h it a PPeared that the anticipations formed at the beginning of the year had not been realised, and the statement Of accounts sheers a considerable excess of expenditure over income. The statement of the moneys paid and re ceived during the year, indeed, shots a balance against t he instituti on even g reater than that reported at the s ame Period last year. The balance due to the treasurer On the transactions of the year is .f.,6135. 4d. ; the total balance due to the treasurer at this date, £2,430 10s. 7d. The number of annual members now in the roll is 194 ; 5 5 new members have been enrolled during the year, and 100 have declined t o r e ne w their subscriptions. The number of life members is C,36, an addition of one having been made to the list during the last year. At the evening -school the attendance is not 'quite so numerous as formerly ; in the library a slizht falling off has also taken place ; the business of the lower school proceeds in a most gratifying manner; and in the girls' school the pupils have greatly increased. The - Chairman said he was afraid the friends of the institution thought they had conquered their difficulties. and there was no reason for help. 'He could assure them that in the cause of educa tion the' battle was always to be fought—it was never won. Every branch was in a state of efficiency, and he would fairly challenge compat icon with any institution of the kind in this part of the country. Seance- VESTRY.—At the adjourned meeting, on Thursday. the Rev. Rector Campbell, presiding, Mr. Moss intimated that he would postpone his notice of motion relative to the appointmentsof a solicitor to the board. Mr. John Jones, the newly-elected vestryman, was introduced to the board. The finance committee proceedings, which contained the recommendations of a sub-committee appointed to consider-the recent letter of Mr. Mansfield, the stipendiary magistrate, were con firmed. The committee had arrived at the conclusion that Mr. Mansfield had, in one case, , received false in formation-; in another, the relief given was obtained at the instanee of the magistrates ; and in two of the cases he assumed, very erroneously, that a -common herein. and II lodging -letter can h ave no t i t l e to relief.—Mr. Banner, tollesei ng . up of the remark of Mr. Dover, at the last meeting council, that a breach of faith had been committed by the council, with respect to the museum rate, said he thought the council was to blame for allowing six months t s ck elapse b e f ore replying to the resolution of the equi table-rating committee of the parish.—Mr. Willmer was not satisfied with part of Mr. Banner's conclusion, and contended that the council had taken an unfair advantage of the vestry. It was suggested they should again apply to parliament, but the Chairman advised them not to talk Dig," as they had no legal ower to discus the atter. he proceedings of the Workhouse Com s mittee m —from tts 'wh tich it appeared that Mr. H ug hes hi mse lf was sa ti s fi e d o the erro neous c h aracter o f t h e statements relative to the coercion of Romanist children—were adopted. p ttr .Willmer remarked that membe r s of the hoard ought articularly t o a b sta i n from making allegations which W ere calculat e d t o create b ad feelings. Ile should, at the n ext meetin g , b r i ng f orward a proposition for carrying O ut_ tt a resoluti on o f the vestry, that no member be per trnhie tit ramble thro ug h t h e house without an officer of house accompanying him. (Hear, hear.) A conversation ensued as to the qualification of Mr. Hughes,_ which the - Chairman thought was not ()ad. Mr. lions characterised the conduct f of Ir. Willmer as unge nerous, in the absence , o Mr. Hughes, to make a cruel and unwarrantable attack was perfectly justi fi el-dinn him ' He believed Mr. Hughes .... ;visitin g the house when he pleased. The Chairman. that is a in mistake. The discussion was continued for some , rte very personal style. Speaking of Mr. Hughes , ofte n said ha t lie had no qualification. Mr. Moss.—l will tell yo u o r uali fications he has, and which I have here ; —h e h as a qualification which ou admired Possess, that is, very grea t t a l ent. (Hear, he y ar.) The P not oeedin gs of the comm i ttee on cottage rating were confirmed .r" at ai r . Denton, howev er , remar k e d , that haying one day owne rted by mistae in that room, he found four cotte _. a s t with M r . Clarke in the chair, adjudic a ti ng a o g n t might be said to be their own cases. If members b e were not cott age owners; did not attend, others should • e put in their places.—Mr. Bradley complained of those v-IP:eglAilar attacks, and would not permit them to be made. v ,Was such tom-foolery that made the proceedings of the , e — stree be laughed at.—Mr. Willmer moved " no cora ;'unication be read at this board-except by the chairman t y . vestry clerk ;" seconded by Mr. Kitchen, and agreed r e 'es-Mr. Earle knew that it was in consequence of the e _ct a ter he read. He did not care for the resolution. Some r or Y ti o w r other it could be evaded.—Mr. Kitchen gave notice th e comaPPotientment of a committee to consider how far A. e:3,of the vestry could be reduced. Eduard AT THE ,thaltte.heesmtocome Go d s P OLICE COURT.—On Thursday, street, wa s e s o p n i e t i i t c s tH e k : o t fi oyster-room in Hotham one.half the full penalty for selling beer, line of defence was wine, r a . s really sselni c t e o n u c t e. for T th h e e liquor, and the barwmeaaird j d g Enaeint. Earle, was produced to a public-housetli e magistrate, in eying his said "it and arful , both for parties to come here to perjure they and the parties -concerned in indueein forward will, if they do not suffer for taloa, assuredly do so in the next."—m r 1 1, in this world, • mh o attorney for the defendant, rose , and a d dre r.to the Earle individually and personally by name, a s i e rin duty to perform to myself ; and as I stand honour equally with you, sir, I wish to know whetheYr those insinuations and inuendoes which have fallen from YOU, and in which I am sure the rest of the court did not c oncur, meant an ythi ng personal to myself.—Mr. E ar l e: 1 . said it was a dreadful thing for people to come and per. h re themselves, and that the responsibility was very great, both on themselves and on those instrumental in Causing them to come here to do so ; and if they do not 1 d "er for it in this world, they would most assuredly do ) 4 ° C B °,..,in the next. I might mean you, I might mean vtlYbp - gb, or any other person ; and again (said Mr. le, with emphasis) I repeat it.--Mr. Pemberton: a . 1 1 cannot look, sir, with the inscrutable eye of Provi _o 1 10 _ as to know what did or did not take place at the u e You t 0 on the evening in questi on , an d it ill becomes o make use of non 3 , 0 s e such insinuations, and from the posi guilt., told on that bench to denounce any person as nart soonZ ° menrf Perjury.—Mr. Earle : I think the least said the Peneherton : Perhaps so, on your I .r. Earle : I sit on this bench to do my duty, and Will Judge of it .--Mr. Pemberton : You have said what a an ' l ce suc f h the land would not have said, and I will not take a tiY F insinuations from any one ;I am innocent of nch practices as those insinuated, and in point of "our _am equal to 11_ r. William Earle, or any man in oeplzpobre!to.n : c culrt p - --- Mr. Earle - I shall not argue with you, sir.—Mr. I will take care, air, that so long as I have an WouldtatiltY of telling you what I think, I shall do so, and itie. advise you to adopt the same line of conduct, l Mr. Per s o• aln much obliged to you for your advice.—Mr. diat.t_erton then I hope you will follow it.—He lame took hie hat and walked cut of the court. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1853. MR. FORBES MACKENZIE presented a petition, on Wednesday, from the working men of Liverpool, against the opening of the crystal palace on Sundays. JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., of this town, has given a site for a school and parsonage-house at Willas ton, where it is intended to erect a new church. FOUR BEAUTIFUL STATUES, by the English sculptor Gibson, are being exhibited in Berlin, at the Royal Exhi bition, and have met with much commendation from the artistic world. CONTROVERSIAL LECTURE.—The Rev. J. R. COIIOT will deliver the next lecture on the Romish controversy, on Thursday evening, in St. Paul's Church, Liverpool. Subject, " The Four Scapulars." A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE exploded at Longsight, near Manchester, on the London and North Western Railway, on Tuesday morning last. Sixty workmen were at break fast in the shed at the time; four were killed on the instant and ten or twelve seriously wounded. The driver and fireman miraculously escaped. The locomotive was old, but sound. MR. E. W. THOMAS.—Notwithstanding the appre ciation of Mr. Thomas's spirited exertions to give the public of Liverpool first-rate music at a low price, the returns have pioved insufficient to meet the expenditure, and he is at present a pecuniary sufferer to a considerable amount. This circumstance has induced several gentle men to take steps for making him a suitable acknowledg ment, and a committee has been formed for receiving subscriptions in order to present him with a testimonial. It is also proposed to give him a benefit concert on the occasion of presenting the testimonial. THE SHIP ANTARCTIC—FEARFUL MORTALITY.--The New York Herald conveys intelligence of the fearful mor tality on board the ship Antarctic, which sailed in Novem ber last from Liverpool for New York. An inquest had been held in that city, on the body of a child of one of the passengers, John Mc.Carthy, a child about four weeks old, who died of convulsions. Winnefred McCarthy, being sworn, says—l am the mother of the child ;be was born nt sea; we sailed from Liverpool on the 16th of Novem ber last, in the ship Antarctic. There were 500 passengers on board, and we were 14 weeks and 2 days at sea before we arrived at New York ; we ran short of provisions, and there was a scarcity of water ; we only received three pints of water for myself and daughter during each day ; there was much sickness on board. a n d 130 p er so n s di e d during the voyage; the ship was in a most filthy condition • all these passengers, with the exception of a f ew in th e cabin, were steerage passengers, and there was scarcely a berth that had not some one sick in it I never saw the Captain enter the steernae but once, and then he made no remarks about the condition we were in, nor did he speak to any of the sick ; many died of fever, cholera end small-pox ; the air in the steerage was very offensive, and there was not sufficient care taken to keep the sick clean end comforta ble ; my child was in delicate health, and died this morn ing from convulsions. THE WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS, at their weekly meeting, on Wednesday—Rev. W. Badmill in the chair—received the governor's report, to the effect that there were 717 paupers in the workhouse, being a decrease of 30 on the number of last week. In a discussion on the case of a poor man who was found in a state of utter des titution in Toxteth-perk, it was stated that he had been sent to Liverpool by the Dublin authorities : it was de cided that he should hare work given him at the new Hospital. Mr. Shaw suggested that the annual subscrip tion of £2O to the Liverpool infirmary, now due, be dis continued, as they were founding an hospital themselves. The matter. however, was deferred. In the case of the death of William Buchan, Mr. Gilmour, the medical officer at Toxteth-park, was exculpated from the blame laid to his charge by Captain Greig, inasmuch as the deceased was not a pauper. The Labour Test Committee recommended that Mr. Downes, the out-door superinten dent (whose appointment at £BO a-year has been sanc tioned by the Poor-law Board), report every Wednesday the amount of work performed by each pauper, This was adopted. Mr. Shaw withdrew his promised motion for a fresh Labour Test Committee. A committee was ap pointed, to meet on Monday, to consider a bill to be pre sented to parliament, called " an act to abolish the re moval of the poor, and to make provision for a more equitable system of assessment for the purposes of local taxation in England and Wales." Mr. Shaw moved a return of the expenditure incurred under the Nuisance Act, which was agreed to. SALVATION 1 , 011. A PENNY A MONTH.—The Preston Pilot publishes the following curious document, from which it appears that the Romanists of Preston have now the chance of obtaining "assistance to their suffering souls" when in 'Purgatory by subscribing a penny a month to a new association called the " Saint Walburge's Pur gatorial Society." The document is printed in the form of a handbill for distribution, and its contents are as follovv1—"1 - A."3,1.D.G Saint Walburge's "Purgatorial Society. ' Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, for the hand of the Lord is heavy upon me.'--Job, chap. xix, ver. 21. A society has been estab lished, entitled ' Saint Walburge's Purgatorial - Society,' l for the laudable and charitable purpose of rendering as sistance to the suffering souls in purgatory, 'for ' It is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.'-2 Mac. chap. xii. ver.-43, 44, 45, 46. What Catholic is there, who has not some relative, friend, or enemy, who has departed this life, and who knows but that some of them are now suffering in purgatory to satisfy the justice of Almighty God, and who cannot help themselves, but must stay there until they have paid the last farthing, and where God will render to every one according to his works.'— Matt. chap. x. ver. 36, and chap. xii. ver. 32.; 1 Cor. chap. ii!, ver. 14, IS. Every one should bear in mind that he must die, but how, or when, is Very uncertain ; but , when that day comes he most likely will stand in need ,of the prayers of those he has left behind, and what a consoling thing it must be to know that the prayers offered to Almighty-God, through this society, will be offered for him daily. What act of devotion can be more efficacious, or more pleasing to God, than the holy sacri fice of the mass, which will be offered up as often as means will allow to move the clemency of God in behalf of the suffering souls in purgatory. How very few (con sidering the number of the faithful who die) have masses said for them on their anniversary ! Their surviving re latives neglect that charitable work, some through parsi mony, some through negligence, and others through want of means. To obviate these causes, and to render assist ance to our departed brethren, this society proposes to collect a small monthly subscription of one pennror up wards, and to devote it to this purpose, which will re move our anxieties about our friends and others .of the faithful who have gone before us. The objects of this society are i—lst. To render assistance to the suffering souls in purgatory, by having masses said as often as means will allow.-2nd. To decorate the altar suitable for such occasions.-3rd. To have a mass said at the death of each collector.-4th. To have two masses said at the death of each collector. The terms are One penny entrance, anti one penny, or upwards., per month, for which collectors will call.-2nd. Each mem ber to say one ' Our Father,' and one Hail Mary,' daily, for the -suffering souls in purgatory.—lt may be hoped that many will join this society, for the above object; it is to be feared that many of us are remiss in this duty, arid perhaps our friends are now suffering on account -of our sins, by being either too indulgent in our faults, or too negligent of our education in our religious duties. May they rest in peace. Amen. For further informa tion apply, Stc." LIVERPOOL Towsr Cou:ecta.a—At the adjourned meet ing on Wednesday—his worship the mayor presiding— Mr. Moss, before the council -proceeded to the ordinary business, made a statement, exculpating himself from the charge of having improperly interfered with Mr. Cloueh. the police-officer, in the case of two men, Doran and Gibbon, marine-store dealers, who wished their licence transferred from the neighbourhood of Vauxhall to Regent-road. Mr. Bradley, who charged Captain Greig with harbouring an anirnue against him, corrobo rated part of Mr. Moss's statement, and de n i e d that the parties were justified in dragging his name into this matter. The mayor said it was Bub judice, and at pre sent, therefore, it was better to let the matter rest where it was. Mr. Bradley protested this was not the proper way of doing it. He considered Captain Greig as their officer : he had had aspersions cast on him by several gentlemen, and he would not permit it unless there was some just reason or cause for it. The mayor ultimately put an end to the discussion.—On the motion of Mr. Hornby. seconded by Mr. Alderman Turner, the council approved of the proceedings rreparatory to levying a library and museum rate.—From the proceedings of the Education Committee, it appeared the attendance at the north school was 912 ; number on the books, 1,342. The attendance at the south school, 947; number on the books, 1.109. Miss Lees, third mistress of the south infant school, was appointed second mistress in the room of Miss Stretch, resigned.—Mr. Alderman Dover moved the confirmation of the Health Committee proceedings, which contained recommendations for the alteration of the public offices, Cornwallis-street, at a cost of from £3,000 to £4,000 ; also to permit the East Lancashire and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Companies to cross on a level, Walter-street, Blackstone-street, Boun dary-street, and Regent-road, on certain special condi tions. On an amendment by Mr. Alderman Bennett it was carried by 28 to 12 that the expenditure of £4,000 be postponed. In regard to permitting the railway com panies to cross the streets, the Town-clerk said that no member either directly or indirectly interested in the railway in question could speak or vote on the subject. Mr. Alderman Dover observed that if such were the law, then half the council could not vote. Mr. James Holme stated that had he been aware of it he would have sold out his shares to be in a position to vote. Ultimately, after a motion and amendment had been proposed, it was agreed that the matter be postponed.—On the motion of Mr. Stewart, the sanitary bill was withdrawn.—The minutes of the Water Committee included a report from Mr. Hawksley, as to the state of the Rivington-works, which, both as to the progress of the works and the con tracts in land, was favourable. A recommendation that ance an additional £lOO per annum be paid to Mr. Ashlin, as treasurerre spect of the water account, making his salary in as to his services anc of aoafter committees, £7OO, was postponed in pursu under the watch, lighting, [health, the standing orders. Mr. Alderman Bennett state in which they complained that there was an absence of proper informa- Jam es Ho , state of the water affairs generally. Mr. that, without th had visiteinethand Mr. Bradley, who, with Mr. Langdale, council should works, bore testimony to the efficient they had been found. Mr. Bigham said report, as written T o e ehrstscript furnished by Mr. Holme, the nothing more than a had no report before them. The the books of the committee, was men had of uttering nu of the talent which some H. Banner complained words without expressing ideas. Mr. manufacturers for water.° the exorbitant prices charged driven to sink private wells. In many cases they bad been a were then confirmed. — related to Mr. Ashlin's he proceedings, except as The proceedings of the salary,Library I t Ie e MUSCIIER Committee , not e dee of the Finance Committee, of J - lackney-coach and Baths' Committees, were confir At present the Hackney-coach Committee do apply for further powers from parliammeit t advisable to they punish drivers or owners exacting larger fairs than n au thorised to charge.—A memorial from the Meessyrsarle ul- lins, praying the council to defray th e expenses they had incurred in defending themselves from an unfounded charge of assault made on the police, amounting t o £5B , was dismissed, as it could not be legally entertained by the ccuncil, Tie eopcloded the business of public interest. THE POOR-RATE FOR THE PARISH, this year, will be 2s. in the pound. THE SCREW STEAMER CLEOPATRA, hourly expected at Valparaiso on the 14th of January, would sail a few days after its arrival there for Liverpool, via Brazil. THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ATLANTIC, Captain West, sailed for New York on Wednesday, with a fair complement of passengers. MR. GEORGE WESTLAKE, principal coast officer at Sheerness, has, by order of the Board of Customs, been promoted to serve as tide-surveyor at Liverpool. A VALUABLE CIGAR CASE was lost on Friday by a gentleman between the Exchange and the landing stage : the case contained £5O in Bank of England notes. MESSRS. ROE AND JACOB are executing a very elabo rately engraved silver snuff-box, which will shortly be presented to Mr. Thomas Eccleston, late surgeon-super intendent of the Lancaster County Asylum. THE MARINERS' FREEMASON LODGE, at their monthly meeting on Thursday, resolved that testimonials should be presented to Br. Mark Marks, P.M., and Br. Samuel Lewis Caffe, P.J.W., on their leaving for Australia. THE REV. W. POLLOCK is announced to deliver a lec ture to-night to the members of the Church of England Institution, exposing the audacious assumption that Popery is a promoter of Arts and Sciences. A NOTORIOUS POACHER.—Thomas Ball, of Chorley, has been committed for trial at the Liverpool Assizes, charged with shooting at Richard Tootal, with intent to do him bodily harm. CLITHEROE ELECTION.—There are two candidates in the field. viz., Mr. J. T. W. Aspinall, of Standen-hall, on the Conservative interest, and Mr. R. Fort, of Rend hall, who is a Liberal of the Manchester school. MR. 11. BYRTH, of Brazenose College, Oxford, and Iliff scholar of the Royal Institution School, was, yester day week, elected to a Hulme exhibition by the trustees of the Hulme estate. MR. JAMBS FLETCHER, of this town, formed one of a deputation of tobacco manufacturers that had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exphequer on Saturday week. A LIVERPOOL DRUGGIST, Mr. Pugh, has found among some old books purchased the other day, in the country, a life of the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots, by her confessor, printed in HU, and a work on medicine, said to be writ ten by the medical adviser of Henry VIII. REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE TO ROYALTY.—It is said that a young lady at present performing at the Theatre Royal is extremely like our gracious Queen. In the opera of the " Crown Diamonds," and in reading, the similarity of face, figure, and voice is very striking. Snor ROBBERY.—On Friday night, three watches were stolen from the slicip of Mr. Lambie, watchmaker, Red cross-street. The thief had cut a hole in one of the win dow panes with a diamond, and by introducing a wire with a hooked head effected his purpose. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.—On Thursday, Mr. R. P. Stephens, one of the partners in the Liverpool and Dublin Screw Steam-ship Company, was refused a certi ficate without protection. The investigation lested several hours, and the chief opposition was from the Union Bank of Scotland. A KNOCK-DowN ROBBERY was perpetrated on Thurs day, in Maguire-street, by Thomas Cunningham, who felled a man named Alacquinnes to the ground, cut his pocket out, and ran away. The pocket contained 17s. The villain was apprehended, and sentenced at the police court to two months' imprisonment. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—A charge against Captain Grebow, late master of the Pemberton, for drunkenness while in the command of that vessel, was heard before the Liverpool Marine Board on Wednesday; the charge was preferred by Mr. Colburn, one of the owners. Mr. Gray, who resided at Bombay, in 1851, was the leading witness against the captain. The case was adjourned till the Bth of April. THE NEW STEAMER MONA'S QUEEN arrived at Liver pool from Douglas on Thursday, having made the passage in four hours. On Friday she went on an Admiralty trial trip, with Mr. Waterman, draughtsman, and Mr. Hughes, engineer, from Somerset-house, on board of her. Not withstanding the adverse current, she accomplished from 14 to l - miles an hour each way. The surveyors ex pressed their entire satisfaction at her performances. THE PASSENGERS OF THE STEAMER AVSTRALIAN have sent two protests to the directors of the Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, remonstrating against the vessel having been sent to sea without under goins a thorough repair in hull and machinery. Three times has she left - Plymouth, and three times put back leaky and disabled. THE WEATHER A?:D HEALTH.—The very injurious influence of the recent severe weather is shown by the progressive increase of mortality during the last five weeks, in which the deaths were, respectively, 196. 219, 247, 263, and 272. Should the present mild weather continue, a considerable decrease in the mortaiity may be expected. DR. SHORT. Bishop of St. Asaph, having been the diocesan of :odor and Man, previously to his translation to his present see, was appealed to to aid the funds being collected for behoof of the sufferers by the blowing-up of the Lily, at the Isle off - Mani awl transmitted the noble sum of ONE THOUSAND :POUNDS ! Such munificent liberality ought not to pass unnoticed, and we have the most unfeigned pleasure in recording that one at least of the bench of bishops is not " given to filthy lucre." LtvEr.PooL Tows MtssioN.—The twenty-fonrth an niversary was held in the Concert-hall, on Wednesday evening, the Rev. Dr. Raffles in the chair. The number of visits paid by the missionaries during the year was 90,887. They bad distributed in that time 149,849 re . - ligious tracts, and lent 57,548 other religious books. There was a balance to the credit of the institution of £505 14s. sd, which included an extraordinary donation from the late William Lassell, Esq., of £l,OOO. MRS. SHANNON, nurse at the Liverpool Workhouse, was committed for trial on a charge of "manslaughter" on Wednesday Inst. On the Sunday previous she had received a poisonous embrocation from Dr. Gee, to rub on the back of Mary Wainwright, a pauper woman aged 80 years. She straightway administered the embrocation in a galiipot, and the patient had no sooner swallowed it than she became sick. She was seized with convulsions, and died about midnight. IMPORTANT DISL!LLERY CASE.--At the police-court, on Friday, Mr. Edward Benn, distiller, Vauxhall-Toad, was convicted by Mr. Smith and Mr. William Earle in the mitigated sum of one-fourth of the penalty on each alle gation for three important infringements of the license laws, namely, for removing spirits of a less quan tity than eighty gallons, whereby he had incurred a penalty of £200; second, for removing spirits without a license, which rendered 'him liable to the same penalty,; and, third, for removing spirits without having paid the duty, for which he had forfeited to her Majesty £lOO. HUSBAND AND WIFE.—At the Police•office, on Fri day,' an old man, Michael Al`Kenna, charged Hannah Hepburn with stealing from him a quantity of bedding and wearing apparel. The prisoner, on being asked what she had to say to the charge, exclaimed energetically, " Sure, sir, he's my lawful husband, but I'm not married to him !" (Inughter).—M`Kenna " Not at all, your honour; she's only my housekeeper."—Prisoner, ad dressing the magistrates : ".Oh, then ! hear that, now, yer banner, and him told me we were to be married in the inside of a month" (roars of laughter). The magis- trate evidently considered that the title of " husband" in such a caee•was somewhat questionable, and ordered the prisoner to pay 18s. 2d., the amount for which the articles bad been pawned, and a penalty of £l, or one month's imprisonment. A MEMORIAL from this port has been addressed to the Admiralty by different merchants, shipowners, proprie tors, and others connected with and trading to the West Indies, British Guiana, Venezuela. New Grenada, Mexico, . west coast of South America, and California, complaining that, notwithstanding the repeated assurance of improve ment, the mails subsequently brought by the steamers continue almost invariably to arrive after the stipulated day. and to be anticipated by the duplicates brought by a route indirect, and under the further disadvantage of having frequently to wait some days in New York for conveyance forward to England. That the memorialists have reason to believe that other responsible parties would contract with the government for the performance of this service, not only with efficiency, but with a con siderable caving in time, and for a much less sum than is now paid by the government to the Royal Mail Company, as well as less charge for freight on treasure and for con veyance of passengers. The memorialists, therefore, urge the Admiralty either to make the Royal Mail Company fulfil their contract, or throw the service open to the com petition of others. THE POLICE AND THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.—On Monday a meeting of magistrates was held to consider a charge, preferred by Mr. Clough, against Messrs. Moss and Bradley, the representatives of Vauxhall ward, the former, it being alleged, having held out a threat to the officer in regard to the transference of a marine-store license from a person named Doran to his son-in-law Gribbon. The magistrates passed a resolution that there had been an improper -interference, but adjourned the matter ti.l Thursday. On Wednesday Mr. Moss explained in the Council that be had gone only for imformation, that he certainly did not mean to hold out any threat, and that he had spoken to Mr. Bradley only as he was acci dentally passing at the time. On Thursday, at a meeting of magistrates, Mr. Inspector Kehoe requested to be re moved from the office of having to report respecting the keepers of the marine stores, " as it so often brought him into collision with the local authorities and the rate payers." On being examined. Mr. ttehoe said he did not wish to mention names, as it would make him enemies. He, however, stated that members of the Town Council a had su i b n . t co er m fe m re i d tt w ee it w h a b s im a . On proint t e h d e suggestion toreceive of vi t r b . e ic M eh a o y e or s , statements, and report to the general body. DISPATCH AND COMFORT.—Who has n ot . wasted much m time at the toilet attempting to put to il's a collar of inferior finish, the laundress having been careless of her selection of that most important article, starch ? And who has not been teazed by this or that article of dress not being finished to taste ? And bow uncomfortable wnen such articles do not please the wearer ! To prevent this, direct the laundress to secure such starch as pos sesses the greatest elasticity, strength, and transparency. These combined qualities are possessed to a very eminent degree by the Glenfield Patent Sta rch, manufactured by Mr. Wotherspoon from the finest quality of Queen East Indi a sago. The laundress of her most gracious ma j esty Victoria has issued a testimonial p rovin g the in herent excellences of the Glenfield Patent Starch, and further stating, " that it is the best she has ever used, and that she intends to use no other." Our readers would do well to ask for the " Glenfield Patent Starch," and see that the name of R. Wotherspoon, 40, Dunlop-s treet, Glas gow, is on each package (none other is genuine), as cer tain parties, seeing its wide-spread celebrity, have so very closely imitated the out.side appearance of the original and genuine article, that casual observers m ight be im posed on if they did not take the precaution to see th a t the maker's name, i R. Wotherspoon, is on each package. We observe that the Glenfield Patent Starch is sold by most of the shopkeepers in town and country. We would now close this short notice, with e xpressing the hope th a t our readers, interested in this article, will confer an ob ligation on themselves, by adopting in their laundries this useful auxiliary. STRIKE AT THE DOCKS.—The extra labourers at the Albert Docks have struck for an advance of sixpence per day in their wages. The subject was to have been brought before the committee yesterday. THE Manchester Examiner states that there will shortly be exhibited in Manchester models of a new mode of screw.propulsion, calculated to sail at a very high speed, and a new description of boat for the preservation of life in cases of shipwreck or fire. The inventor is a Manchester manufacturer. THE PUPILS OF MR. FLEMING'S SCHOOL, Bootle, have presented Monsieur J. Loth, author of the Elemen tary French Grammar, with a valuable gold pen Speaking pencil Icase,as a token of esteem and of their high consi deration for his pleasing and successful method of teach ing languages and drawing. MAN DROWNED AT THE BRAMLEY-MOORE DOCK.— On Thursday last, George Bentley, a blockmaker, in the employment of Mrs. Garner, Hurst-street, aged about 26 years. fell from the ship Hemisphere into the Bramley- Moore Dock, and was drowned. His body was not re covered till Saturday. Yesterday an inquest was held on the body, before Mr. Coroner Curry, when a verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was returned. PLEASURE TRAIN.—A meeting was held, on Friday evening, at Mr. Lovelady's, Derby-street, to form a com mittee for the purpose of assisting Mr. Ewing in arranging a grand railway trip from Liverpool on Whit-Monday next. Full particulars of the excursion will shortly appear in our columns, and the names of the committee will form a sufficient guarantee for the proper management and suc cess of the trip. AT THE COUNTY COURT, yesterday, held before Joseph Pollock, Esq., judge, the cases were few and uninterest ing. The principal case was that of Mullins v. Kirkpa trick. The plaintiff, Mr. James Mullins, Mill-street, sought to recover from Mr. Andrew Kirkpatrick, grocer, Vauxhall-road, the sum of £2O 10s. 9d., the balance of an account for groceries. Mr. Rime appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Daly for the defence. The question was purely one of account, and ultimately the Judge gave a verdict for the payment of £lB Os. 7d., including a small sum of money paid into court. The court rose at a few minutes past four o'clock till to-day. - - Da. Fisaaa's EXHIBITION. — This evening, the above exhibition of dissolving views will be given in the Corn wallis-street school, at seven o'clock. It is seldom the public have an opportunity of seeing such rich add varied views of renowned places at home and abropd as Dr. Fisher's diagrams. present. The Duke of Wellington's funeral car. the interior of Walmer Castle, as it appeared with the Duke in it the Sunday before his death, are among the views to be exhibited. We consider this to be the most interesting and instructive way of spending an evening, especially for the young, at the same time those attending contribute to a religious object. SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD. — An inquest will be held to-day on the body of Emily Davis, aged two months, the illegitimate child of Eliza beth Davis, and the circumstances connected with whose death are of a rather suspicious complexion. It appears that the infant had been put out to nurse with a woman named Mary Ray. It became poorly some time ago, and continued to grow worse, but no doctor was called in. At length, on Saturday evening, the child died in convul sions, no inclination having been exhibited by the nurse to obtain the assistance of a medical man. THE LADY EGLINTON, one of the new screw steamers being built in the Clyde. by the British and Irish Steam Packet Company, for their London, Plymouth and Liver pool line, made her trial trip on Thursday last, and was eminently successful. Her average speed, in the run from the Cloch Lighthouse to the Cumbrae and back again, was fifteen geographical miles per hour. The Lady Egiinton is a fine, clipper looking vessel, of nearly 800 tons, carpenter's measurement, and engines of 150 horse power. Both engines and hull were built by Mr. Robert Napier, Lancefield Works. She will immediately take her station on the Liverpool line, in conjunction with the Nile, just purchased from the Mediterranean line. REFUSAL. OF SAILORS TO PROCEED TO SEA.—On Friday last the crew engaged in the Fytho, bound for Africa, twenty in number, were brought before Mr. Mansfield, at the Liverpool Police-court, charged with refusing to proceed to sea. The defence was that there was not sufficieat accommodation, and the case was ad journed until Saturday, in order that Lloyd's surveyor might inspect the vessel and report. On that day he reported that the accommodation was in every way suffi cient. Seven of the crew agreed to go in the vessel, but the remainder (thirteen) were committed for trial. The crew had received £5 each as wages in advance. JUVENILE REFORMATION.—SCHOOL-SHIP IN THE MERSEY.—We have pleasure in intimating that the Lords of the Admiralty have acceeded to the wishes of the com mittee of the Soho-street Ragged Schools, in this town, and will place a vessel at their disposal, to be moored in the river for the reception of boys, who are to be trained for sailors. Those who feel an interest in the subject, or desire to further the object in view, by donations or other wise, should place themselves in communication with Mr. Joseph Huhback, the honorary secretary of the schools, who will be most ready to afford them every information in his power. FIVE.—On Friday night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in the northern extremity of the sugar-refinery of Messrs. Macfie and Sons, Batchelor-street. It origi nated in the large wingrecentiv erected inTitheloarn-street, which was devoted to the boilers and stoves, used for the purpose of drying. The flames shot out alarmingly ; but as Messrs. Macfie's men were abundantly supplied with hose and water, they took possession of the portion not yet quite built up, and not only prevented the fire from extending, but quickly checked it. In this work they were promptly assisted by Mr. Hewitt and the fire-police, and in a quarter of an hour all apprehension of further danger was removed. The loss was trifling, owing to the nature of the building, and is amply covered by insurance. ROYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —A meeting of the council of this society was held on Wednesday, when it was arranged to hold the show meeting at Blackburn, in August. Lord de Tabley is the president for the current year. The sum of £286 was agreed to be offered in premiums for horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and dairy produce. The premiums offered for competition amongst tenant-farmers only, are considerably increased, and to effect this object £l5 was subscribed by members of the council at the meeting. The council have cancelled all the restrictions as to male animals having to remain within the society's limits for stated periods after the award of the prizes. The sum of £lOO will be offered for improved implements. £64 was also voted to the local agricultural societies within North Lancashire,. to be offered by them in addition to their pre miums for crops. Charles Towneley, Esq., N.1.P., has offered two premiums of £lO for the best male and female animals respectively in all the short-horn classes, but de barring the Towneley herd from competition.—Preslon Pilot. -- - .---- ENGLISTI BALLAD Mustc.—Mr. Ceorge Barker, of London, delivered his second lecture at the Collegiate Institution, on Friday evening last. The audience was somewhat larger than that o f the previous Friday evening ; but the numerous attendance of boys connected with the schools was a source of great annoyance both to the audi ence and the lecturer. These lads posted themselves in groups in different parts of the theatre, end kept up an 'incessant commotion, which was very ungraceful and not at all creditable to their sense of propriety. We should not have alluded to this matter, but for the fact that no steps have apparently been taken to stop the disorderly proceedings which have prevailed at every lecture since the course began. Mr. Barker's second lecture was de voted to melodies of Moore and Shakspere, and the vocal illustrations were rendered with the greatest delicacy and taste. The entertainment concluded with Topsey's song, " I specs as I never was born," at the request of a number of ladies wbo had heard it on the previous even ing, and were desirous of hearing it repeated. This song, we believe, is the production of Mr. Clifford Crau fords a Scotch gentleman in London, whose brother, one of the ablest lawyers in Scotland, was some time ago ap pointed sheriff of Perthshire. SCREW•STEAMING is daily becoming a more prominent feature of our local lines. The efforts of builders Pre pro ducing their legitimate results in the formation of new steam companies. We have witnessed the success of the Andes and the Alps, belonging to the Cunard Company ; the Liverpool and Philadelphia line ; the steady progress of the various Mediterranean companies ' • and the large increase of the traffic to Lisbon, .Rotterdam, and other places, by means of screw-steamers. Then we see that the African Mail Company have announced a bimonthly branch from Leverpcol ; and the successsul performances of their first boats, the Forerunner and Faith, promise well for the future efficiency of the company. Another company, to the Brazils and River Plate, start in Juno next with their new line, the departures to be from Bir kenhead on the 24th of each month. Their first vessels, the Braziliera, Lusitania, and Olinda, are to be com manded respectively by Captains Daniel Green, James Brown, and George H. Harem. When open, the new line will offer a monthly communication between this port and the Brazils and River Plate, and we shall have a return mail from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video in 72 days. With such a fleet of steamers selling from our port, we should suppose that the advantages to our own immediate locality, and the manufacturing districts of England generally, must be immense. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERIES AT MANCIIESTER.—In last week's Standard we gave a few particulars of a dar ing robbery committed in Manchester on the afternoon of Monday week. Miss Howard, a girl eighteen years of age, having been left in charge of her father's shop, at the corner of Market-street and Corporation-street, was as sailed by a gentlemanly person, who got behind the coun ter and gagged her mouth, while another villain entered from the street and cleared the window of jewellery to the value of £3OO. Having effected this, the man holding Miss Howard threw her down, and left the shop with his companion, who had the booty in his pockets. They hailed a cab as soon as they got into the street, and were soon on their way to London. Mr. Howard was so much affected when he heard the news (this being the second time within twelve months that he has been robbed), that he was obliged to be placed in the hands of a medical man. Although there were a number of persons standing close by the shop, from whose statements the above facts were elicited, no one seems to have suspected that a robbery was being committed until the men had departed. The man who was on guard outside the door ordered awayseveral persons who stopped to look in at thewindow,as though he had been legitimately stationed there to prevent a crowd collecting. A public subscription has been set on foot on behalf of Mr. Howard. Manchester will get unpleasantly famous for its dexterous robberies. On Wednesday morning some thieves entered the establishment of Messrs. 011i vent, St. Anne's-street, and stole a vast amount of valu able property ; including 81 gold watches, maker's name, " 011ivants," and other property, amounting to the value of about £2,500. This robbery, following that of Mr. Howard's in less than forty hours, led some of the authorities to see the desirableness of making a sweeping capture amongst the haunts and resorts of known thieves; and on Friday morning a score of thieves were accordingly apprehended. A man named Henry Maxwell, with his brother-in-law James Stronach, and Lucy Maxwell, the wife of the latter, have been apprehended at Newton. Maxwell, who was formerly employed at 011ivant's, has the appearance of " a man about town ;" Stronach looks like an ordinary mechanic. The stolen property has been found in boxes belonging to the prisoners. On Thursday, Stronach was discharged from custody, but Maxwell and his sister were remanded till Thursday next. GENERAL NEWS. Ma. BORROWS. the master of the Cottesmore hounds, has sold two hunters, Guardsman and Evergreen, to Na poleon 111., for £4OO. DINNERS.—It appears from an official report that the directors of the East India Company have spent £53,000 in house dinners during the last eighteen years. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The sixth purchase of the society was made on Tuesday in Hertfordshire, between the towns of Ware and Hertford. COMPVLSORY VACCINATION. — There is a bill in the House of Lirds, by which it is proposed that vaccination of children shall be compulsory. THE ESTATE OF FAIRGIRTFI, Stewartry of Kircu- bright, has been purchased by private bargain, by W. Hilton, Esq., Manchester, for £22,000. MR. WILLIAM JACKSON, M.P. it is said, is about proceeding to Canada with 15,000 labourers, to carry on the railway undertakings in progress and projected there. STRIKES.—The yachtsmen at Cowes have struck for higher wages. A large number of agricultural labourers in the neighbourhood of Andover, Hants, have just struck for higher wages. IN CONSEQUENCE of a strike amongst the workmen in the smiths'-shop of the factory of the Great Western Railway Company at New Swindon, their wages have been advanced. The claim of Lord KENSINGTON to be admitted to vote at the election of Irish representative peers, has been ad mitted by the House of Lords, on the unanimous recom mendation of the Committee of Privileges. SIR JOHN CAMPBELL, late Licut—Governor of St. Vincent, died on the 18 , h January, after s short illness of two or three days, of confirmed yellow fever, aged forty-four years. THE BOWYER BIBLE, which has been the suLject of two lotteriei, and was valued at £3,000, has been disposed of by auction, for £405, to Mr. Willis, bookseller, of Covent-garden, London. A SHARK, nearly eleven feet in length," was recently caught off the East Neuk of Fife. The shark had swal lowed a codfish, which was hooked, and became so entan gled among the tackle as to be secured by the fishermen. THE SUBSCRIPTION for a monument to Thomas Hood having reached £4OO, has been closed, and a bronze bust of the poet, on a granite pedestal, embellished in relief from his writings, resolved upon. The subscription for a monument to Thomas Moore has nearly reached £3OO. THE Heron? OF TNIPUDENCE.—On Sunday last, says the Nottingham Journal, a lad walked up to a lady in the market-place of that town, snatched the veil from her bonnet, and, notwithstanding an instant pursuit, escaped with his booty. MR. JAMES HOPE, the well-known parliamentary bar rister, has just added Scott to his name, in compliance with the provision in the entail of the estate of Abbotsford, to which estate his wife lately succeeded, upon the death of her only brother. A RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, recently pub lished, shows that the expenditure for the relief of the poor in Ireland, for the year ended the 29th September last, had decreased £280,700, compared with the preceding Sear, when the total sum disbursed was £1,166,954. THERE IS A MAN IN BLOONIFIELD, Ontario county, who in April next will, if he lives until that time, have seen his 112th birth-day. His name is James Knight, and he was born in Queen's county, Ireland, in April, 1741. He resides with his son, who is 72 years old. Ir IS STATED that in the Dead Letter Office, in Washington, five millions of misdirected letters are annually opened and burnt. All letters containing money are retained and filed. The amount recovered last year exceeded 540,000. THE Kott-t-Noon diamond has now—after an expen diture of £2,000 'in bringing it to light—been set. in an exquisite circle of small diamonds, and made the Moun tain of Light" on a most graceful tiara of diamonds for the brow of Queen Victoria. FATAL ACCIDENT.-071 Friday, the materials of an old building called the Mint, in Soho, Birmingham, which had been sold for the purpose of pulling down, were being removed, when a brick wall fell in and buried several of the labourers in the ruins, killing two, and seriously, if not fatally. irjuring three others. GEORGE WELLBORN, the driver of a goods train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, has been found guilty of inattention to the signals, by which a collision took place on the Clarence and Leeds Railway with a passenger train, and Mr. Grainger, an engineer of eminence at Edinburgh, was killed, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the manslaughter. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The village of Framlingham, Suffolk, was thrown into excitement on Saturday by the discovery that William Goodwyn, a man in comfort. able circumstances, had. in a state of insanity, murdered his daughter, a girl of four years old, and then cut his own throat. His wife gave the alarm, rushing out of the house too horror-stricken to articulate. RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.—It is said that a remark. able change is in progress among the Jews in every country, owing to a MS. being extensively circulated by an influential rabbi proving from Scripture that the time has come when the Jews must set about making prepara tions for returning to the land of their fathers. The manuscript has been printed in Hebrew and English, and a society has been formed to further the movement pro posed by the learned rabbi. AWFUL SUICIDE.—On Thursday afternoon, a man, named Tennant, the keeper of a low beershop, in Abbey street, Barnwell, Catubsidr, fell out with his wife, and finally left the house. saying that he and she would never have words more. He then proceeded to divers public. houses, and having drank deeply, went on to the Eastern Union Railway, and deliberately laid himself down before an approaching train, with his neck on the rails, so that it completely severed his head from his body. THE NEW YORE YACHT CLUB has offered a priza of 500 dollars, to be sriled for on the 13th of October next, open to yachts of all nations. The course to be from Robins' Reef Light, in the harbour of New York, around a vessel to be anchored 12 miles from the beacon on Sandy Hook, passing to the southward and westward of the South-west Spit, and to the eastward of the buoy on the west bank, going and returning. The entries to close on the 22d of September. DEATHS OF Two CENTENARIANS.—On the 15th Feb., at the workhouse, Chelsea, an army pensioner died of "natural decay" at the age (as stated) of 102 years. Mr. Lamer, registrar, mentions that " this was a man of co• lour, who had been for mtray years cymbal player in one of the regimental bands." At 24, Duke-street, Aldgate, London, on 19th Feb., the widow of a fruiterer died from " decay of nature" at the great age of 104 years. She came from Mentz in Germany to England in 1770, at the age of 21 years. She retained her faculties till the last, and never had medical advice previous to her last illness. A COURT-MARTIAL at Devonport has passed an extra ordinary sentence on Francis Stapleton, boatswain's mate on Her Majesty's ship Vulture, for disobeying the orders of his lieutenant, and knocking down a sentry, charges to which he pleaded guilty. The court have adjudged him to be disrated to the rank of able seaman ; that he receive thirty-six lashes from the cat-'o-nine-tails on his back, on board the Vulture, at such times, and in such ptopor lions, as the commander-in-chief at the port shall direct; that he be imprisoned in the Devon County Gaol for twelve months ; and. finally, he be dismissed from Her Majesty's service with disgrace. CONFESSION OF MURDER.—On Friday a respectable looking young man entered the central police-office, Glas gow, stating that be wished to deliver himself up to justice as he could get no puce in his mind from having recently committed a murder. Some eight months ago, while at Longbank, about fifteen miles from London, an illegiti mate child was born to him, and he killed it by holding its head under water, and then tossing tke body into the stream. He came to work at Bar rhead, near Glasgow, as a calico printer, some ten weeks ago, but remorse would not let him rest, and he resolved to surrender himself. ASSIZE NEWS.—At Lincoln, John King, aged forty three, subject to epileptic fits, and who had been obliged to have a man to watch him for some time past, was tried for the murder of his mother. He was considered better, and his keeper left him, when he knocked his mother down, and beat her till she was dead, calling it " a spree." He was acquitted on the ground of insanity. At Nottingham, Mary Ann Parr, aged 25, a miserable looking creature, halt idiotic, was found guilty of suffo cating her child by pressing it against her bosom till its breath was out of the body, whilst in Bingham work house. She was sentenced to death, but the judge pro mised to forward a recommendation of mercy to the proper quarter. At the same assizes, Mary Antliff, aged 25, was indicted.for the murder of her husband's child, a boy only two-and-a-half years old, whom, having been married to its father only nine weeks, she kicked, beat, and starved to death. The body was in a very bruised and wretched state, and some special injuries on the head were stated by the surgeon to have been the immediate cause of the child's decease; but there was no evidence how they were occasioned. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter," and she was sentenced to be tran sported for life. STATISTICS OF EMIGIIATION.—A parliamentary paper has been published of all vessels belonging to the United Kingdom cleared outward with passengers at the custom houses of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 16th of June to the 31st of December, 1852, under the inspection of emigration officers. The totals are given for the year 1852. From London, in the course of last year, the registered tonnage of the emigrant ships was 124,856; the officers numbered 762 ; the cooks, carpenters, and stewards, 825; able seamen, 2,€69; ordinary seamen, 638; landsmen. 251; boys, 661 ; the total number if the crew was 6,006; of the emigrants from Londe there were 15,257 men, 7,964 women, and 8,026 children, making 31,247. From Liverpool, in the year, the registered tonnage of the ships was 368,294; the crews numbered 11,954 ; and the emigrants —men, women, and children, 137,331. From Plymouth the registered tonnage of the ships was 50,957; the crews, 335; and the emigrants numbered 8,443. From Glasgow and Greenock the registered tonnage of the ships that sailed in the year was 27,850 the crews, 1,278; the emigrants, 11,542. From Belfast 1,560 emigrants sailed • from Dublin, 4,101 ; from Galway , 774 ; from Limerick, 7,007 ; from London derry, 4,662; from Queenstown, 7,468; from Sligo and m ontports the number of emigrants was 1 , 816; and gr Waterford and New Ross, 5,135. The total nu mber of emigrants last year from Great Britain and Ireland, under 2 the inspection of emigration officers, was 21 V 8 " For upwards of . e FRAMPTON'S PILL OF ITEALTFI. of Winch_ro or nine years, (writes Mr. Thomas Province , ffi c e a n ey affl of ic t t h e s l d Hill, Middlesex), I have experk nee e d vio t us e iT e be excellent Medicine. had long pr with headache and indigestion ; but a friend having in duced me to make a trial of Frarnpton's Pills, I now in form you that a few doses gave me great relief ; and dur ing that long period of time, I have taken them in pre ference to any other medicine ; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a better stat e o f h ealth, which I attribute to Frampton 's Pills. I beg further to add, that , this medicine is in g ener a l use by my family and we k n ow of nothing to equal it." In any case where an aperient medicine is required, they need only be tried to be universally adopted. Sold by all medicine vendors. Price Is. lid. per box. See the name of " Thomas Prout, 29, Strand, London," on the government stamp. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] TUESDAY AFTERNOON. PARIS, MONDAY.—In the Legislative Assembly, the votes for calling out 80.000 conscripts, and other mea sures, were carried unanimously. The budget will be presented on Wednesday or Thursday. Funds closed at a fall. Threes, 80.80. Four-and-a-halves, 103.70. GERMAN - Y.—An American has been arrested at Heidelberg, with printed revolutionary documents in his possession. ITALY.—The town of Cremona had been put in a state of siege ; a sentinel having been killed by a musket shot. The report that Mazzini is on board a British man-of•war is contradicted. SWITZERLAND.—Rigorous measures were still car ried out against Tessin. ST. PETERSBURG. — The last advices quote Exchange on England 381 to t, being rather more favourable. ODESSA, Pea. 28.—Business was generally quiet. with the exception of wool, of which large sales had been made. LONDON MONEY MARKET.—The Times says, there was a slight diminution in the demand for money on Monday, and in some cases discounts were obtained at 21. It is stated from Paris, that the influx of gold has latterly been resumed. - - SHIPPING NEWS.—Georgian, and Duke of Lancas ter, from Mauritius ; Nonpareil, from St. Michael's ; Panama, from Hobart Town ; and Julia v Pepita, from Havana, all at Gravesend, 14th instant ; Wilmore, from Madras, and Windsor, from Callao, at Deal, 14th instant; Mazcppa, and Gem, sailed from Charente for Liverpool. LONDON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET. THIS DAY, ONE O'CLOCK. THE FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 1001; Ditto for Money, 1001 ; Exchequer Bills, L and S, March, 3-12 ; Mexicans, 251 6. RAILWAY SHARES.—Great Northern, money 81, 81& 2 account ; Great Western, money 911 1 1 , account 911 2 ; London and North Western, money 1191, account 1191 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, money 30 ; Mid land Stock, money 76, account 761; North Staffordshire, money 13:1 ; York and North Midlai.d, account 60. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tins DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 78.4 ; Midland, 764-;. North B:affords, 44- dis.; North Westerns, 83-16. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Taus DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 761 ex div. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire New Pref., 7 pm., ex div.; Midland, 76i ; South Eastern and Dover, 239. 16 1. ' LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—Tics DAY. West India Sugar is firm, at fully previous prices; Re fined in firm demand ; Grocery Lumps, 465. to 495. ; for Foreign there is a fair inquiry for export, at stiff prices ; a fair inquiry for yellow Havannah in bond at 223. to 255. Little passing in Coffee; buyers are awaiting the result of the Dutch sale. Native Ceylon, 475. to 48s. The Tea market is firm, and a fair amount of business doing; common sound Congou, 10d. to 104 d. Tallow is very flat, at 445. on the spot, sellers. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tars DAY. The arrivals into this port, up to and since Friday last, include, for the entire week, a fair supply of Oats, with a • considerable increase of Oatmeal, and a few parcels of other produce, coastwise and from Ireland. During the same time, the imports from abroad comprise chiefly a moderate quantity of Wheat and Indian Corn, with up wards of 5000 barrels of Flour from the United States, 14,284 sacks of the same article from France, and a few minor lots of grain from Europe and Egypt. There was but a moderate business doing in Wheat and Flour at this morning's market, at the prices of Friday last ; but the trade was by no means active. The same remark will apply to all other descriptions. PROTESTANTISM is said to be rapidly on the increase in Florence, notwithstanding the efforts of the Jesuits to check it. COLONIAL CIVILIZATION.—An immense order for handcuffs and leg-irons is now in course of execution in Birmingham. A large quantity has already been shipped for Melbourne. MR. HERD, a farmer at Lincoln, has had to pay £2O damages to the friends of a boy. eleven years of age, whose leg had been bitten by a dog belonging to the de fendant, which, according to the indictment, supported by evidence, he kept, knowing that " it was accustomed to bite mankind." IRON CHURCH FOR AUSTRALIA.—At the monthly meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Know ledge, the committee gave notice that at the next meeting they would propose that £1,300 he granted towards send ing out an iron church and parsonage house to the gold fields in Australia. CHANCERY REFORM.—There will benumerous appoint ments under the new Suitors in Chancery Relief Act, ran zing from junior class, £lOO per annum, to senior class, £BOO per annum ; pension, if disabled after fifteen years' service, one half—the whole after fifty years' eoroloo tho appointments will be in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. EAST INDIA CHARTER.—It is said that Government is contemplating the renewal of the charter for ten years instead of twenty, and th.lt the requirements of the in. terval are to be satisfied by investing the Court of Direc tors with the privilege of electing a third of their own number and expanding in some degree the Legislative Councils of India. COUNTY COURTJUSTICE.—CADTION TO SURVEYORS.' At the Lambeth County Court, a few days since, a house agent was plaintiff against a surveyor for payment of an account for work done to a house, put into his hands to let, and which he had taken upon himself to do, not only without any authority whatever, hut in defiance of written directions he was not to do it, which document was produced in court, and although it was dated the 21st February, 1832, and the man's account, for drain cleaning and a few other similar works, consisted of items dated from the 27th February to the Bth March, the judge (if it is not a libel upon the title) actually gave judgment for the plaintiff! THE FIRE AT DONCASTER CRURCH.—The coroner's inquiry into this calamity was resumed on Friday week, and the evidence seems con c lusi ve th a t t h e fi re b ad its origin with the flues connected with the heating apparatus. On Monday a meeting of clergy and inhabitants was held at the Guildhall, for the purpose of considering the best measures for the restoration of the parish church, when it was resolved to adopt immediate measures for rebuilding.. The Doncaster Chronicle states that at a meeting of the , Town Council on Thursday, that body " set a very muni ficent example by heading the subscription list with the sum of £5,000." It is estimated that the restoration will involve an outlay of £35,000, and as the townspeople, through their representatives, have by this noble grant shown such cheerful willingness to help themselves out of the disaster in which they have been involved, public libe rality will be promptly applied to make up the residue. CANADA CLERGY RESERVES.—The Society for the Pro pagation of the Gospel has had one or two rather storm y discussions at its meetings on the subject of the Canada Cergy Reserves. It was very forcibly argued; and, in spite of the threats of at least one bishop, a petition against the Government measureempowerinz the Colonial Legislature to deal with them, and, if it likes confiscate them, was adopted by a large majority, and was ordered to be taken to Lambeth to hare the corporate seal affixed to it, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the keeper. It is not above once or twice in a century that the Society adopts the course of petitioning the Legislature ; and it has always been very chary in showing any opposition to measures of Government. So that this Clergy Reserves Bill of our present Ministers must be deemed very ob jectionable to have produced such a movement on the present occasion. BLOWING UP OF Two STEAMERS.—On Saturday in formation was received of two very serious disasters off the north coast. The George Bolton, belonging to Great Grimsby. left the Doggerbanic on Wednesday, with a full cargo of cod fish, from the numerous craft engaged in those fisheries, for Grimsby, to discharge her cargo. On Friday morning, about seven o'clock she was steaming past the New Sand, near the entrance of the Humber, when her boilers exploded with terrific force, tearing up her decks, and nearly splitting the vessel in two. The chief engineer, Christopher Jewitt, was blown up high on to the deck, and fell near the mainmast. And another man, named James Smith, was similarly hurt. In a few minutes it was discovered that the vessel was fast sinking. Her boat was immediately lowered, and the master and five of the crew, carrying with them the two sufferers, got into it, and abandoned her just in time to avoid being drawn down by the schooner which foundered in deep water. In the excitement which prevailed, two men were lost. The other mishap befel a new steamer, called the Engineer, which had been recently built on the Tyne. She made an experimental and first trip on Friday, to test the capabilities of her engines. As usual on such oc casions, a number of persons were on board who had been attracted to witness her success. When some miles out to sea, off Tynemouth, her boilers exploded, and eight or nine persons are reported to have been scalded. The injured. The add that it is feared some are fa tall y o st f her, eamer .aud, becameafter some disale difficulty, sheostea s team-tugs g t so towed hold hack to the Tyne. FATAL RAILWAY C O LLISION.—On Wednesday a lwiYhelischainisd due e e a re t injuries dreadful accident oceurredfroon fro m Railway,h e t Benreißsatrroi Bristol tt a ti n le d l ß r i a r n al g i o n t tr a The morning terminus, and station,branch o a f bo t u h t e fi ll v l u idl m an il d es down mail train t r w t h o , fromwh e t ra h sn e odn st loss .he no at three, a.m. , had to ic severalh resulted Birmingham o tb in p proceeded in safety till it approached the 3f ae gotsfield station, and was within only about five miles of its destination, when, owing to some derange ment of the machinery or boiler tubes, it gave symptoms of coming to a stand still. The ' engineer and stoker both got off and endeavoured to ascertain the cause of the stoppage, and also to r • the damage. • repair For this pur pose the train was entirely stopped. At this time an engine, which the previous cvening had gone up the line for the purpose of assisting a heavy luggage train up the steep incline,.was in the act of returning to the engine house at the Bristol station. The driver of this engine, being wholly unaware of any stoppage on the line, and the morning being very foggy, did not see the disabled train till just as he was turning a sharp curve near the Mangotsfield station, and had arrived within a very short distance of it. H e applied the breaks, and did all in his power to stop the engine and avert a collision, but in vain, for it ran into the train with alarming violence, completely smashing the two last carriages all to pieces. Of course, the most disastrous consequences ensued. Subjoined is the list of casualities :—Mr. Thomas Jones, Gloucester, killed ; Mr. William Bantell, Gloucester, killed ; Mr. James Moreton, severe contusions and in juries of head and person ; Mr. S. Chas, a foreigner, injuries of the ancle •' Bennett (the mail guard) wounds and contusions of the face and head ; Mr. Henry Thomp son, fractured arm. In addition to this several other passengers were severely bruised. •- --~ n froi s ncell° r to h?„ ntrY de' 'urner' ore , ‘lo .1 gat of rew p t he' beat' o f e fr re I l e lit i J k