The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

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She is to ply in conjunction will the Elk and the Stag. THE MAYOR, we understand, has signified his intention of dining with the members of the Blue Coat Brotherly Society, at the Adelphi Hotel, on Wednesday, the 2nd of February. ANN ANDERTON has been committed at Manchester, for trial at the assizes, on a charge of bigamy. In her de fence she said that Anderton , her first h us b an d , behaved ill to her, and only lived with her six weeks. NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. -- We understand the directors of the London and North-Western Railway are taking measures to apply to their trains the best practical communication between the guard and driver. TESTIMONIAL.—The pupils of St. Andrew's confirma tion class have presented the Rev. John W. Lester with a handsome timepiece, and Mrs. Lester with a beautiful volume, as a token of their esteem and gratitude. SIR MICHAEL SHAW STEWART, Bart., to whom Lady Octavia Grosvenor has just been married, has endowed the church at Greenock with £3OO per annum, and £lOO for a curate, on condition that daily service shall never cease. RAPID PASSAGE.—The fine packet-ship Queen of the West, Captain Hallet, arrived on Wednesday from New York, having made the passage in seventeen days ; a ca pital run, considering the boisterous weather which she encountered. ST. HELEN'S RAILWAY.—The Parliamentary declara tion of this company for constructing their new works and branches states that the cost of them will be £95,666, and that it is proposed to defray them out of an unexpended share capital of £120,000. THE SAILMAKERS are about to petition the Council against a clause in the Fire Prevention Act, by which sailmskers are prevented from carrying on their business in warehouses where other general merchandise is depo. sited, unless the building is fireproof. THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—From a statement read at the Council, on Wednesday, it appears that, for the month ending 17th December, the numbers on the books at the North School were 1,350 ; attendance, 1,001 ; South School, numbers, 1,219 ; attendance, 950. A HANDSOME SILVER Cur has been presented by Messrs. Sandhach, Tinne, and Co., merchants, of this town, to Captain Donald Thomson, of the barque Leonora, which arrived at Liverpool on the Ist January last, after completin g the voyage to Demerara and back in eighty two days. JERSEY.—On Thursday, Mr. Clarke launched from his yard, at St. Heliers, a splendid clipper-built ship, of 1,000 tons register, called the Ann Holzherg, to be classed A 1 for thirteen years. She is intended for the Calcutta trade from this port, and is the property of Messrs. J. J. Mel huish and Co. THE RIGHT HON. E. STRUTT, M.P., Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has appointed his brother-in-law, Mr. W. M. James, of the Chancery bar, Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy. The learned gentleman was previously the Attorney-General's counsel in charity matters and in formations. FRAUDS BY OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS.—On Thursday, Thomas Butler and William Corless, conductors of omni buses belonging to Messrs. William and Daniel Busby, were committed for trial on a charge of embezzling various sums of money received in their capacity of conductors of the omnibuses plying between Dale-street and Buotle-lane. NFW SCREW STEAMER. —The Liverpool and Philadel phia Steam-ship Company have cempleted a contract with Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, of Glasgow, the builders of the steam•sbips City of Glasgow and City of Manchester, for a new screw steam-ship of 2,189 tons, to run on the Philadelphia station, in addition to their present steamers. THE AFRICA, Royal Mail steam-ship, Harrison, com mander, sailed from the Mersey at noon, on Sunday, for New York, having been detained a day by an Admiralty order. The Africa took out a very heavy mail, upwards of seventy passengers, and the largest cargo of manufac tured goods and merchandise aver taken out by a steam ship at one time. THE ROBBERY AT EASTER'S.— On Thursday, Elizabeth Brooks, the stepmother of the young man who was com mitted for trial at Wolverhampton, on a charge of being concerned in the robbery committed by his father upon Mr. Eastee, in St. George's-crescent, was sent for trial, it having been proved that she had pledged a large quan tity of the property stolen. MAGISTRATES AT ROCHDALE.—Air. Christopher, while in office, among a bench of magistrates nominated two not in the list submitted to him ; and the town's commis sioners are so far offended that they threaten parliamen tary inquiry ; but as these commissioners refuse to me morialise for the incorporation of Rochdale, the opinion in Rochdale is that they are " served right." MELANCHOLY DEATH. On Friday, about eleven o'clock, a man named M'Gregan was found drowned in the ash-pit attached to the house, 22, Charter-street, where he lodged. He was intoxicated the night before, and was heard to go down stairs about half-past four o'clock in the morning. He is supposed to have fallen from the yard wall into the place where he was found. THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA.—A meeting of the deputy lieutenants of the sub-division of Kirkdale was held on Wednesday. It was resolved that the enrolment of volun teers for the militia should be proceeded with immedi ately. The deputy-lieutenants will meet this day (Tues day), Thursday, and Saturday next, and on the same (Lys every week until further notice, at the Sessions-house, in Chapel-street, at one o'clock. ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday, a black man, named Robert Johnson, cook on board of the ship Western Star, fell into the hold of the vessel, and received concussion of the brain.—On Thursday, John M'D3nald fell from the fore yard of a vessel called the Scotland, lying in the Union Dock, and fractured one of his ribs ; and Michael Murray fell into the hold of the Birmingham steam-ship, and received concussion of the brain. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning, Mr. John Davies, master plasterer, of Hockenhall-alley, who had some men employed in repairing the roof of the brewery in Cheapside, went through a trap-door upon the slates, in order to reach them. Immediately afterwards he was found on the ground in an insensible state, having, it is supposed, missed his footing, and fell from the roof. He was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, but he died before reaching there. THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA.—A g the dey- lieutenant s o f t h e sub division of Kirkdale was he pu ld t on Wednesday, at which it was resolved that the enrolment of volunteers for the militia should be proceeded with immediately. We understand that for the purpose of en rolling and swearing in men the deputy-lieutenants will meet every Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday, until fur ther notice, at the Sessions-house, Chapel-street, at one o'clock each day. THE " OLD HORSE TRICK" has, according to the Preston Chronicle, been repeated this year for, probably, the thirtieth time, at the great horse fair held in that town. A young fellow from " o'er Wyre" had sold a nag for £22, when he fell in with a sharper, who offered him a " splendid" horse in exchange for the sovereigns, with 10s. to himself, for his trouble. The bait caught, and in place of his money the countryman found himself with a horse worth about £4. THE CENTENARY OF Mn, ROSCOE.—On the Bth of March one hundred years will have passed since the birth of William Roscoe. The Literary and Philosophical So. ciety, over which he so long resided, have determined to celebrat e t h e occasion, and hapve invited the co-operation of the other local learned societies. The Architectural and Archteological So c i e t y, at their meeting on Wednes day, appointed a committee to confer with the members of the Literary and Philosophical. BUILDING IN LIVERPOOL —The following is a state ment of the number of dvvelling-houss erected in 1852 in the parliamentary borough : — Under £l2 per annum, 223 ; £l2 to £25, 727 ; £25 to £35, 76 ; upwards of £35, 110: total, 1,136. The number erected in each rear since 11838 was a s f o ll ows :-1838, 1,052; 1839, 997 ; 1840, , 570 ; 1841, 1 , 7 61 ; 1842, 2,027; 1843,1,393. 1844, 2,450; 1 845, 3,728; 1846, 3,460; 1847, 1,220; 1848, 656; 1849, 4 46 ; 1850 , 420 ; 1851, 837; 1852, 1,136: total, 23,156. THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL. —The annual meeting of the trustees was held on Tuesday, W. Brown, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The report of cases showed that no less than 2,620 patients had been admitted during the year, of which 1,636 had been the result of accidents, most of which had occurred in the neighbourhood of the docks. Thanks having been voted to the several officers, the Mayor was elected president, and the former committee re-elected, with the addition of Mr. Robert Horsfall ; and Dr. Thos. Inman, who ysician. w as unopposed, was elected an honorary ph THE GLADRTONES.—At the Oxford University election Sir Thomas Galadstone, Bart., the right hon. candidate's own brother him. strangec_t_uaally went down to Oxford to vote against regti:dtt(!n this family there should be such a division in political opinions. Sir John Glad stone, the fathe a r, w as anda,TerY and a Protectionist. Sir T. Gladstone, Bart. vizes, inherit the pripia_rain Gladstone, M.P. for De- Robertson their arent, whilst Mr. Robertson Gladstone and William. Gladstone enter tain liberal principles. and m w er . , volic t 7 h . e warm supporters of Sir Robert Peel's commercial first exhibi io show)f the LONDON POULTRY Snow. --T he society established in the Metropolis for an annulln poultry, pigeons, and rabbits, took I were dividednto P ace en Tuesday a t n Present the Baker-street Bazaar. The fowls classes, and among the prizes awarded were the about fifty following:—Capt. Hornby, of Knowsley Cottage, Flails 2 ; an d panish fowls, first prize, class 1 ; third prize, first prize class, 3 : Dorking fowls, third. prize class 4 ; or.. first prize class 8 • Game-fowl, first prize. 111 .la w rail, Knotty As ' ll-house, Liverpool, Golden -pencilled Hamburgh, first prize. • CONGREGATIONA L TEA PARTY.—On Monday several members of the congregation of St. Silas's Church, Pem broke-place, assembled in the school-room adjoining, for the purpose of reviewing the accounts of the past year in support of missionary labours both at home and abroad. The chair was taken by the Rev. Samuel Minton, incum bent, who congratulated them on their satisfactory results, t:eclstated th ere was an increase of £2OO within the last by th e months. Th e meet i ng was afterwards addressed the Reeev. Dr. Hume, LL.D., th separated shortly Duck, ten o'c vßlo.eBk.. R. Sutton, &c., and after STEAM NAVIGATION ACT. -- Tinder the provisions of this statute, a complaint was preferred against Messrs. J. and R. Parry, the owners of a vessel called the Thomas Wilson, which plied between Seacombe and Liverpool on the 14th l an 4t D h sth d lecemb Vic. er last. and neglected, i n v i o l a ti on o f t h e r. stated ' , u, a. 11 , to take out the necessary certificate. They stated, in defence, that their affairs were ir, th e hands of their creditors, and the magistrates, accordingly, inflicted a mitigated penalty of ss. A similar charge was preferred against them in the case of the Bri tannia, and the result was the same. The masters of the Thomas Wilson and the Britannia were also proceeded against, but in each instance the decision was the same. CUSTOMS RECEIPTS AT LIVERPOOL.—The receipt of the Customs at this port for the past year nearly ap proaches £3,500,000, although it falls short by about £24,000 of the receipts of the preceding year, which is accounted for by the annual July reduction in the rate on sugar, and the holders of tea keeping back from payment in consequence of the proposed reduction in the duties. The same causes have affected the kingdom generally, as there is a diminution of £65,687 on the aggregate customs for the year. TRADE WITH MOROCCO.—The Manchester Commercial Association has received a letter from the Foreign Secre tary, acknowledging the receipt of a memorial from tho Manchester Commercial Association, calling attention to the unsatisfactory state of British trade to Morocco, and stating in reply, that " although representations have already been repeatedly made to the Moorish Government, on the subject, without effect, Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General in Morocco will, neverthe less, be instructed to renew his representations, and, to endeavour to induce the Moorish Government to remove the obstructions to the developemeat of British trade with Morocco, which are now so justly complained of." PRIZE MEDAL.—In the shop of Mr. Broom, silver smith, Lord-street, may be seen a handsome medal, awarded to Mr. Braithwaite Poole, by the council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in London, for the best essay on economy in the working of railways. The com petitors were numerous, including many of the most emi nent engineers, and other scientific gentlemen. The dis cussion lasted three sittings, and the premium is the highest character of any awarded. On one side is a head of the celebrated Telford ; and on the obverse, a repre sentation of his greatest work, the Menai-bridge. Around the edge is engraved, " Braithwaite Poole. Assoce. Instn. C.E. Prize premium, 1852." CAPTURE OF A POACHER.—On Thursday, Matthew Robertson was charged with poaching on the preserves of the Earl of Sefton, at Croxteth. The prisoner had had his arm broken by the keepers, and had been conveyed to the infirmary, from which he subsequently escaped. He was, however, captured again on Wednesday. It ap peared, from th e ev id ence of the gamekeepers, that on the 3rdinstant they were in a cover at Frenchwood, when they saw two men, whom they subsequently lost sight of ; but, after a short time, the prisoner was seen coming out of the cover ; the other man had entirely disappeared. Barnes attempted to seize the prisoner, when the latter stepped back, and presented his fowling-piece at the keeper. H un t prompt l y raised his stick and knocked the fellow to the ground, thus, probably, saving the life of his companion. The prisoner then received several blows from the gamekeepers, and he was conveyed to the head gamekeeper's house. Subsequently he was given in charge of a sergeant of police, who found the prisoner's fowling piece loaded with shop an d ca p pe d . H e was committed for trial at the Kirkdale sessions. PROVIDENTIAL RESCUE.—On the 10th instant, when near the Smalls, Captain Burn, of the screw-steamer Peli can, from Lisbon to this port, fell in with the brig Cale donia, which, during the recent gales, had been blown from the banks of Newfoundland. Though the sea was running very high at the time, Captain Burn managed to put a portion of his crew on board of the Caleonia, who fastened her to the steamer with a hawser, th d e crew of the Caledonia being too weak and exhausted to perform this necessary act. Captain Burn at first wished them to leave theis vessel, and come on board his steamer ; but as they refused, he determined to take her in tow at all hazards. They stated that the gale sprung up so sud denly and fiercely, that they were forced to run before the wind across the Atlantic, with torn sails, and without a compass ; while their small stock of provisions made them fear that all the horrors of starvation would be added to the other ills which had befallen them. Thanks, however, to Captain Burn and his crew, they arrived safely in this port, and will soon be enabled to sail again for Newfoundland. PAYMENT OF ADVANCE NOTES. —On Tuesday, Messrs. Brice, Friend, and Co., owners of the barque Flying Childers, were summoned at the Police-court for refusing payment of an advance note. The clause in the act re ferring to the payment of these notes, states that they must always be paid on becoming due, unless it is proved that the seaman is not on board earning his wages. In this case the defendants produced legal documents which certified that the seaman, in whose favour the note was given, had been committed to gaol at Queenstown by the magistrates there, before the ten days named in the note had expired, for refusing duty and to proceed in the ship. The notes are made payable ten days after the vessel sails, in order to provide against such an occurrence as that named above. But Mr. Mansfield's decision was that the note must be paid, so that the seaman who intends to act fraudulently towards the shipowner may now sign articles, obtain his advance note, and desert immediately ; and if Mr. Mansfield's interpretation of the law is correct, it is very necessary that an immediate alteration of it should be made. BRUTAL CONDUCT. —On Thursday, Mr. Owen, attor ney, appeared on behalf of a Chinese seaman, named Ho Ha, to complain of a series of assaults committed upon him by Captain Black, of the Athol, just arrived from Sincapore. It appeared that the defendant frz.quently ill used and brutally beat him for the most trivial faults, oc casioned by his slight knowledge of the English language. On the 6th November, the complainant had given the sailors some bread which had been made unfit for the cap tain's table, and when the captain heard of it, he rushed at the poor Chinaman and struck him with his fists several times in the face. He then took up a whip and threatened to flog him ; and when the poor fellow fell down on his knees and begged him not to do so, the brutal fellow kicked him in the face. Mr. Owen called the first and second mates, who gave evidence of the ill-usage which the Chinaman had received at the hands of the captain. On the night in question the sailor threw his arms round the neck of Mr. Wallace, the first mate, and wept for nearly an hour. Mr. Mansfield fined the defendant £5, and ordered him to pay the complainant's wages, withheld on the ground of incompetency. CONFESSION OF A MURDERER —A man named Robert Thornley has given himself up to the police at Stalybridge, near Manchester, on his own confession of being impli cated in a murder committed in 1847. He stated that at the time he had an improper intimacy with the wife of a man named James Brooks, at Godley, near Hyde, and that he procured her some arsenic, at her request, which she administered to her husband in some puddings. Brooks died suddenly, and an inquest was held on' the body, when the jury decided that he had died from the effects of a hurt in the head which he had received when working as a collier. On the strength of this statement the woman, who married Thornley soon after the murder. was arrested. The remains of Brooks' body were ex humed, and examined by Mr. Alcock, surgeon, but, as he was unable to detect the presence of poison, the accused was discharged. But Mr. Alcock subsequently analyzed another portion of the remains that was less decayed ; and he then found arsenic in large quantities. On this dis covery the woman was again apprehended, and Thornley and his wife have been committed for trial at the next Chester Assizes. THE SHIP JOHN KNox.—The commander of the ship John Knox has received the following gratifying testimo nial from the passengers on board that ship, during her voyage from Li verpool :—" Lamlash H ar b our, Isle of Arran, Janu ar y 13 t h , 1853. We,the und ers i gned, acting on behalf of the passengers in the John Knox, which ship left the Mersey on the Ist instant, and has encountered an almost uninterrupted succession of adverse winds, storm, and hurricane up to the present time, and has met with considerable damage and disaster, are desirous to re cord our testimony to the untiring energy, the ability, the kind-heartedness of our gallant commander, I'. Killes, than whom a better man we could not wish to sail with ; to the unwearied exertions of himself, his officers, and crew ; to the attention and ability of our surgeon, and to the high qualities of our ship ; for had she not also been a very superior one, we should not have outlived the fear ful hurricane of the 11th instant. Signed, Wm. Whewell, chairman, Charles Thomas Ellis, John Davis, Samuel Howitt, William Henry Carter, W. B. Crispin, Samuel Bryde, J. Bushby White, John Westbourne, A. H. Rudd, Alexander Laing, John Chadwick, Richard Thompson, James Lockey, Wm, Paton, James Henry, John Sut cliffe.' TOTAL WRECK OF THE BRIG EDWARD.—TO the list of ships which foundered during the storms of Christmas last, may be added the brig Edward, of Liverpool, from Carthagena, in Columbia, to Liverpool, with a general cargo, consisting of dyewood, hides, cigars, &c. She bad nearly reached her destination, and had taken on board a Liverpool pilot at the Bell Buoy, when the late storms came on, which tossed her about in the channel, and eventually caused her to seek shelter in Ramsey Bay, with the loss of nearly all her canvas. She rode at anchor in the bay for about a week, with south and westerly winds ; but on Thursday morning the wind veered to' the south west, and blew a heavy gale, which caused her to part from her anchors : and having no canvas to stand to sea, (the captain being on shore at the time), the pilot and crew managed to run her on the beach, about two miles and a half to the north of Ramsey. As the wind changed to the south-west immediately after she came on shore, and as she came on at half-tide, hopes were entertained that she might be got off during the next tide ; but whon the water reached it was found that she had sustained so much injury that it would be impracticable to attempt to get her off without first discharging her cargo. Mr. Wm. Watkins, agent to Lloyd's, with his usual promptitude, commenced at once discharging the cargo, and removing it to a place of safety. On Friday the wind again changed to the south-east, causing a heavy swell, which swept her decks, carrying almost everything away, including one of her masts, and drove her broadside on the beach, strain. ing her hull so much that she is now a total wreck. As she is full of water every tide, that part of the cargo liable to receive damage from the same will be more or less im paired ; but the dyewood, being in logs, will not receive much injury.—Mona's Herald. INTERIOR OF ST. GEORGE'S HALL, LIVERPOOL. ---The interior of St. George's Hall is at present crowded with a forest of scaffolding. It is intended to line the side walls as high as the galleries, including the balustrades, with a Polished rose gran i te dado (which is now fixed), a n d a b ove with polished marbles in colours. The balustrades will probably be of black marble. The six pairs of doors opening into the hall have just been ordered. They will be in bronze, the panels open-work with plate-glass intro duced between the inner and outer tracery (if e may so call it). These doors w ill cost about £3o on o a pair, or part since the 1 ,800 in all. They are being manufactured by Potter, of London, from Mr. Cockerell's designs. The ceiling of the hall haa been entirely remodelled in the ornamental filled with Queen' s v i s it . The large panels are being county the armori a l b ear i ngs of the kingdom colours.p The, the alatine, and th e pr i nc i pal towns—emblazoned in with large allegoricalthetegronups in low r9ief, in plaster. The n by Grunere,l innedncparuosmtricsetsiletsobbyeMainton, from floor is bein Willis has ofs bel o w t a desig affair. The centre of the ball will be sunk three steps the gangway, which extends around. Mr. down a considerable portion of the frame -work organ, with the bellows, wind-chests, and a portion of the te pipes. The committee are about to contract for the cas e and platform, which will cost together about £3,000. The bellows will be worked by a steam-engine, having two 8-inch oscillating cylinders turning a crank, bur without a fly-wheel, that the power may be more under rapid control. This is probably the first application of steam power to the production of music on record, except the frightful railway whistle, suggestiv e of a train of thought of a very different nature. The organ will be the largest in the world—some think too large.— The Builder. ~.. ne st, nidst fis hed, it at; ate° i311.-' iv;l3 - 0 )logne )f tbst wer in Is th e at th° l ess of rpos e 4 in a 1 u esdat Ness of bis , o t a d the Irsdel• at the range' for the idencer ;rotbe t d a n d rigton' 3arinft ainurilf mae rt i _Lo ,d the Jobe g r. e,) ',l p '' m li, si3" Clo rr pP e i rtaie m al, We' r ero9 and THE LTVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS ' BALL.—On Wednesday the annual ball in aid of the charitable objects of the Li censed Victuallers' Association was held in the splendid raoms of the Town-hall. A brilliant array of company thronged the ball-room, upwards of 650 being present, a larger number than was ever drawn together on any simi lar occasion. The mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., was pre sent, and several of the members of the Town Council. Gribbins' quadrille band occupied the orchestra in the large ball-room, while the pensioners' band, stationed in the vestibule, performed at intervals a variety of popular music. Dancing was continued with little inter ru pti on until nearly three o'clock in the morning, when the party broke up, all being highly gratified with the proceedings. The proceeds of the ball are to be appropriated in aid of the fund for erecting the new institution in West Derby. road. CUSTOMS' DUTIES AT MADEIRA.—III consequence of the distress existing in the island of Madeira, through the disease which has attacked the vines, a decree has been published, dated 12th Nov., making the following alter ations in duties :—Art. 1. All merchant vessels, whether propelltd by sails or steam, calling at Funchal merely for supplies, or to land passengers, shall be exempted from payment of custom-house clearances, as well as from the charges for the health office and government visits. Art. 2. Potatoes and pearl barley shall be admitted free of duty through the custom-house at Funchal. Art. 3. The import duty on salt fish at the custom-house of Funchal is reduced to 15 per cent. ad valorem. Art 4. The favours mentioned in the second and third articles are granted for the term of one year, to be reckoned from the day on which this decree shall begin to be carried into effect. Art. 5. All legislation to the contrary is revoked. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The weekly meeting was held on Wednesday, the Rev. W. Badnall in the chair.— Mr. Stein, relieving officer, was exonerated from a charge brought against him.—Mr. James Wood, who was appointed at the last meeting to the office of superin tendent of out-door labour, was suspended on a charge of drunkenness.—A letter was read from the Poor-law Baard, sanctioning the appointment of Mr. and Mrs. Gough as master and matron of the Workhouse—the master at a salary of £lOO, and the matron at a salary of £6O per annum, and rations.—An inquiry took place relative to the manner in which Mr. Tomkins, one of the relieving officers for Toxteth-park, performed his duties, the result of which was that the board expressed their dissatisfaction with his conduct. He was suspended from office.—Mr. Alfred Stephens, one of the medical officers of Toxteth-park, appeared to answer to a charge of having canvassed for a midwifery case (for which the medical officers are paid by fee). Mr. Stephens was acquitted of all blame, and the board then adjourned. LANDING-STAGE FOR LARGE STEAMERS. —At the Town Council meeting, on Wednesday, one of the " Mayor's communications" was a letter from Mr. Rounthwaite, manager of the City of Dublin Steam packet Company, calling attention to an application pre sented some months since, soliciting further accommoda tion for the landing and embarkation of passengers to and from these steamers. He trusted that the Council would take the earliest opportunity of providing for the in creasing wants of the port in this respect. Only a few days ago no less than seven large steamers were waiting to get alongside the small stage. Mr. Fernihough moved that the memorial be referred to the Finance Committee, a special committee from which had been appointed to take into consideration this subject. The only reason for delay had been that they had no surplus income to enable them to prosecute the work. They had now, however, command of funds, and this would he one of the first subjects which they would take up. The Mayor informed the Council that both Mr. Weightman and Mr. Hartley had been instructed to furnish plans for the consideration of the Council, and that these plans were now being pro ceeded with. LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, in the case of " The Queen v. Walsh in re Walsh v. lonides," an application fora prohibition to be directed to the plaintiff to prohibit him from further proceedings in the Liverpool County Court in an action against the defendant for non-delivery of a bill of lading, a policy on cargo, and other papers relating to a cargo; and also for non-delivery of the cargo itself. It was con tended for the defendant, that, as the cargo might be de livered at at any port in the United Kingdom, and had actually been ordered to a port in Ireland, the breach of agreement which constituted the cause of action had not arisen in Liverpool. Lord Campbell delivered the judg ment of the court. The prohibition must issue, but with some modification. As to that part of the breach of the agreement the cause of action was complete in Liverpool, and the action was properly brought. But the cargo might be•delivered anywhere within the United King dom. and, in fact, it was ordered to be delivered at a different port. So far, therefore, there was no breach of the agreement at Liverpool with respect to the cargo. The plaintiff must be prohibited from proceeding with that part of the action which related to the non-delivery of the cargo, but he might proceed as to the rest. The plaintiff might apply to the judge of the County Court to amend his particulars of action in that respect, and might proceed on the amended particulars. ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCH,EOLOGICAL SOCIETY.— The fortnightly meeting of this society was held on 'Wed nesday at the Royal Institution, Mr. H. P. Horner in the chain—Various presentations of books, plans, &c., having been rnade,—Mr. Picton urged the desirability of at once depositing their library and portfolio at the rooms of the Free Public Library in Duke-street, where he pro mised that special accommodation would be provided for them.—Mr. N'ewlands called attention to a gross attack upon his professional character in the report of the Lon don committee of baths and wash-bouses, in which he was charged with plagiarising the plans of Mr. Bailey, their engineer. He stated that, till long after his design was published, he had never seen Mr. Bailey's plan, and produced the first rough sketches to show that he had hit upon the principle in Edinburgh, when designing a type foundry, so far back as 1842 and 1843. He asked for a committee of inquiry to be appointed, that he might be set right in the matter.—The Chairman and other mem bers expressed themselves already satisfied ; but the se cretary was instructed to write to the London association to know on what ground such charges had been made.— Mr. J. A. Forrest called attention to the double windows which were being put into Dr. M'Neile's church ; the plan effectually excluded all draughts and noise, and, owing to the cheapness of glass, the cost was of trifling amount. Mr. Forrest also exhibited a beautiful specimen of the stereoscope, representing a druggist's shop in mini ature.—Mr. Barry read a paper containing a few facts of architectural and archaeological interest, gleaned from a cursory visit to the three neighbouring churches—Orms kirk, Aughton, and Sefton. He produced rubbings of several of the monumental brasses, and also of a brass let into the wall of Ormskirk church, containing the fol lowing quaint inscription : " My ancestors have been interred here, above 380 years This to be very ancient appears, Which that all men may know, and offer no wrong It is ten perch one foot broad, and 4 yards long. , ' This was signed by one W. Bostock, as the sculptor. and referred, he supposed, to the size of the tomb. There was a similar one in Aughton church.—The society soon afterwards adjourned. DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. C. Turner, M.P., in the chair. The following tenders were accepted :—William and J. Norris, and Chapman and Callis, for chains ; R. Houlgrane, for tar ; Thomas Hart, torch wick ; Mather and Co., sheet iron.—Mr Bold asked whether orders had been given to Mr. Hartley to proceed with the dock works at Wapping. It was stated that Mr. Hartley was going on with the works. Mr. Hartley said they were proceeding so far as making preparations. Mr. Bold wished to understand clearly whether they were going on just as though the proceedings of the committee had not been vetoed. Mr. Hartley repeated that they were going on with the pre parations ; the works were, in point of fact, going on. The solicitor said that what was passed by the committee was good until it had been annulled. Mr. Bigham thought it was adding insult to injury to go on with the works in the present position of the council and the dock commit tee.—Mr. Malcomson thought great injustice was being done to the town and the docks by the stoppage of the works ; and if the council in their wisdom did not choose to meet and decide the matter, it ought to be brought prominently before the public, in order that it might be got from under the direction of that body. After some further conversation, it was agreed that the chairman and dock solicitor should confer, with the town-clerk in refer ence to calling a special meeting of the council ; in the meantime, the works were not to be proceeded with. A recommendation to re-advertise for tenders for 3000 gal lons of oil for the lighthouses (in consequence of a party tendering refusing the contract) was agreed to. A re commendation to accept the offer of Mr. Alexander Miller, for lithographing a survey of the river, was agreed to. A tender of Messrs. Weber and Co., to supply buoy sinkers, was accepted. The practice of dock-gatemen and others soliciting Christmas-boxes was brought under the notice of the committee, but after a lengthened conversa tion the subject dropped. The harbour-masters' sub committee reported that they could not recommend the appropriation of berths at the Sandon Dock for Messrs. M'lver's steamers ; but if these gentlemen would give the harbour-master a few days' notice, arrangements would be made to give them the utmost accommodation. The other business was unimportant. SELECT VESTRY.—The Rev. Rector Campbell presided at the fortnightly meeting on Tuesday. There were re ported to be 2,062 inmates in the Workhouse, inclusive of 572 sick cases, 58 of these being of fever and 50 of itch. The Industrial Schools Committee reported that a girl named Kelly, a pupil teacher, had been appointed assistant-schoolmistress, at a salary of £2O a-year, and rations. Mr. Weightman reported that £l.BOO was due to Messrs. Holme on their contract for the new Work house buildings, making a total of £71,200. Mr. Brad ley complained of a recommendation by the committee to separate the dispensary connected with the workhouse buildings, and make two distinct establishments, one for the in-door patients, and one for the out-door patients. After a short discussion, it was agreed that the subject should be left to the Medical Relief Committee and the Building Committee to consult together on the plan, when they thought they could come to a proper arrange.. ment. A long discussion took place relative to the ap pointment of a surveyor. Mr. Bradley said the resolu tion which the committee came to on the 31st ult. was, " That from the candidates who offered themselves for the situation of surveyor for the parish, this committee have not been able to make such a selection as they can in every respect recommend to the general board for ap pointment.' After the committee h a d b ro k en up, the vestry-clerk drew up a report briefly embodying the reso lution, for presentation to the board. To that report, which was submitted on the 7th instant, there was an amendment moved in the absence of the rector, of Mr. Whitby and Mr. Moss, that the report should not be adopted. M r. Sumners was present and voted, but it appeared afterwards that he was not a member of the committee, so that the amendment was carried by four to three votes. This was a straightforward explanation of the proceedings of the board up to a certain point, and lie was now placed in the disagreeable position of having personally to report that there were not those parties before them whom they could recommend as surveyor for this important town. He thought himself, after mature consideration, the best course they could adopt would be to transfer the whole matter to the finance committee, and let them take such a course as, under the circum stances, they considered advisable. After some remarks from different members, principally condemnatory of the report of the committee, it was agreed to refer the matter to the finance committee. THE SHIP ALBATROSS. Letters were received on Tuesday from passengers in the above vessel, under date Dec. 9th. The Albatross sailed from Liverpool on the 15th November, and experienced a violent storm when crossing the channel, which kept her beating about for nearly a week, and so strained her that at one time it was feared her masts would have to be cut away. Fortunately, however, the gales ceased, and she proceeded on her voyage until, on the 9th of December, she was near the coast of Africa, on the point of crossing the line. It was then hoped that she would complete her voyage about a fortnight sooner than was originally expected. The pas sengers express themselves perfectly satisfied with the captain and the officers, who treated them with much consideration and kindness. Much inconvenience had arisen from the misconduct of some of the first-class pas sengers. No wines or spirits were served to either second class or steerage passengers, but unfortunately several of the first class got intoxicated and conducted themselves in a most disgraceful manner, so much so that the cap tain had to put two of them in irons. With these excep tions everything on board was satisfactory.—Cork Con stitution. SHAMEFUL HOAX.—An uncommon occurrence has caused a great sensation in the neighbourhood. About two months ago, Elizabeth Howells, a respectable farmer's daughter, left Llanerfyl to go into service at Liverpool where she remained till Thursday last. On that day her uncle, a farmer, in Llanggadfan, received a letter, an. nouncing the sudden death of his niece, and that she had requested to be buried with her deceased family in the churchyard of Llanerfyl. He immediately gave orders to make ready a grave for her ; and proceeded to Liverpool, in company with an innkeeper from the said village. On the following day, another uncle, a farmer in Llanfair, hired a horse to Oswestry, to meet the train, the distance being about thirty miles, and was there in readiness wait ing the funeral of his niece expected from Liverpool that morning ; but, to his surprise, she came to him alive and well, in company with her uncle and the innkeeper, who had gone to Liverpool for her body. She was no doubt delighted to find herself alive, and returning home to see friends who had made great preparations for her funeral, intending to give tea to the large multitude of people who purposed being present at her interment on Saturday, when she herself hurried to the churchyard, to prevent any more tolling of the bell, and to see her intended grave, which had been opened in readiness for her. — North Wales Chronicle. BLASTING WITH GUNPOWDER.—At the sixth ordinary meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society held last week at the Royal Institution, Mr. J. J. Moss read an account of an explosion in a granite quarry, at the village of Furnace, on the western shore of Loch Fine, on the 29th of September last, and exhibited a ground plan of the quarry. A shaft was driven into the solid rock, to the depth of sixty feet, twz horizontal arms proceeded from it, each seventeen feet long. The shaft and arms were three feet six wide and high. At the ends were lodged 3,0001h5. of gunpowder, in two parcels of 1,3001b5. and 1,700110. each. The whole was secured by masonry, set in Roman cement, and the shaft, besides two inverted arches turned in it, was loaded to the mouth with stones, gravel, and sand, to prevent the escape of the powder that way. The trains were fired by a galvanic battery, heating platinum wires to redness in the centre of the powder. The explosion was grand in effect, but not very loud, con sidering the quant ty of powder. It threw down from the quarried front of the cliff (which was eighty feet high) between 30.000 and 40,000 tons of fine blocks of stone, so that it was most successful. The expense was small. The sinking the shaft and galleries cost £94, at £1 per linear foot ' • and the 3,0001b5. of powder, or sixty barrels, cost £6O. So well was everything cal culated, that, though some of the houses of the little vil lage of Furnace are within a few yards of the quarry, not a pane of glass was broken, nor a slate of their roofs injured.—ln the course of the discussion, Mr. Towson re marked that the effects were most terrific where powder exploded in slightly confined places, such as buildings or ships ; but in those cases where powder was used for blasting purposes, its whole force appeared to be expended in removing the great obstacle in its way, and its effects were scarcely felt beyond its immediate neighbourhood. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting on Thursday, a letter was read from Mr. James Rose, of Birkenhead, calling attention to a new plan of deodorising by means of peat charcoal. Mr. Rose offers to deodorise all the middens in Liverpool for a period of fifteen years, for £BO.OOO, on condition that the committee will spend £50,000 in erecting tanks, and also construct 1,500 ad ditional water closets. A short conversation followed, but no resolution was come to. Mr. Moss said he had been intrusted with a memorial which contained some valuable suggestions in connexion with allowing the rail way company to cross certain streets at the north end of the town The memorialists did not object to the company crossing the streets at a low level, but they proposed the thou g ht th ol t, st a r ds e e e tfi t , s e m on att l e a r nd wa b s e n lo o n w ging to the company, one of which would form a communication between Athol feseetrrirveeeed:taondThiteiliiseeo Nelson Dock, and remove many obstacles which had been suggested, besides improving the value of qi property in the neighbourhood. The chairman in abeyance, it would be better to officera r r e e p p o e r r t re was t that was agreed to, and the memorial re ending the Bth the deaths in the instant, were 147, and in the extra-parochial wards, 67 ; engineer. b re o r rot borough, g e hT, memoria l he forthe medical un til week total, 214: being 12 more than in the previous week, and 11 less than in the corresponding week of the five prece ding years. Although still below the average of the season, the mortality of the week was higher than in any previous week since the end of September. Of 44 deaths from zvmotic diseases, 14 were from typhus ; hooping cough, 12; measles, 5 ; croup, 5 ; scarlatina, 3 ; erysipelas, 1. The deaths from hooping. cough were more numerous than in any week of the two and a half years preceding. Two men died from delirium tremens, and a woman from rheumatic fever. The mortality for the last quarter was below the average, being 851 less than in the previous quarter, and 702 less than the average of the same quarter of the pre ceding five years. ENORMOUS SWINDLING.—On Tuesday much surprise was excited by the announcement of the failureof Messrs. Collmann and Stolterfoht, of London and Liverpool, with liabilities amounting to about £300.000 ; a m o st respect able house connected with the grain trade, and a branch of whose business has been conducted here. The event has been occasioned solely by a series of frauds and for geries committed upon them, in connexion with which Mr. Robert F. Fries, a merchant of Crosby-hall Cham bers, engaged in large corn transactions, has been already examined by the London magistrates. The various sums obtained by him from Messrs. Coltman and Stolterfoht are stated to have reached a total of £BO,OOO ; and, with the exception of these advances, which were made upon forged bills of lading and other documents, the firm was in a prosperous state, with a free capital of about £40,000. It is hoped, therefore, that the loss to the creditors will not be serious. The entire extent of the delinquencies with which Pries will be charged is not yet known, but it appeared, from the police examination, that two other houses have suffered to the extent respectively of £3,000 and £lB,OOO. It is supposed that they will reach the enormous sum of £35,000. The £lB,OOO was advanced upon forged corn-warrants by James Holford and Co., New Broad-street. The prisoner was apprehended at the station of the Northwestern Railway, on Saturday, just as the train was about to start. He was in one of the first class carriages, and had a ticket for Newcastle. The offi cer asked him to give up whatever property he had, and he handed a canvas bag containing £lOl Ils. 9d. The police are still busily investigating the case. It is consi sidered that, in the investigation of the above affair, a solution will arise of the origin of certain large purchases of grain at foreign ports, on English account, at various intervals during the past year, and which, inasmuch as they were made at prices which involved a loss in our markets, have given rise to conjectures that they could only have been carried on for political objects. In con. nection with this failure, we have to announce the stop page of M. E. N. Werthemann, of Amsterdam, Mr. Pries' correspondent in that city. The amount involved is sup posed to be large, probably exceeding £40,000. The paper of a very respectable, though small, foreign house, con nected with Messrs. Coltman and Co.'s misfortunes, has been taken up by other parties, and thus there will be no loss to the general creditors. WORKING MEN'S CHURCH ASSOCIATION.—The An nual meeting was held at the Collegiate Institution, on Tuesday, and was numerously attended. The Rev. Rec tor Campbell was in the chair, and on the platform were the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, Rev. Dr. Baylee. Rev.W. Pollock, Rev. H. Hampton, &c.—The Rev. Rector Campbell ad dressed the meeting at great length. The great object of the Working Men's Church Association, he said, " is to bring the Gospel home to the doors of the people. This is the great work we have to do, and to do this thoroughly the number of clergy ought, perhaps, to be doubled. The Gospel, as has been well observed, must be preached in courts and alleys, or the church-bell will sound in vain." The Rev. Dr. M'Neile next addressed the meeting. Re ferring to the pew system in the churches connected with the establishment, he said, " Well, whose fault was it, then,—whose fault was it that the State had degenerated from the old practice, and had not supplied accommoda tion for the people such as the people should have, and had thrown us upon inventions and contrivances to eke out the miserable incomes of ministers of God, by charg ing people for seats in the church ? And then it came to this, the man who could give the most money got the best seat. That was free-trade. To be sure, sell in the dearest market, and buy in the cheapest ; and here came a man to the parson and said he would give 30s. for a seat, and with the gold ring on his finger he gets a seat. Another poor man could only give 45., and his seat was under the gallery. That was the way it. was. And whose fault was it ? Oh, those Radicals ! Those Radicals, he said, who bad hindered the State, the British State, from holding its original, all-Christian tone, and keeping its Church as wide as the State. They grudged the Church's means, they did not believe the Church's doctrines ; they had power in the State, and they exercised it to divide, to separate ; and, under the name of religious liberty, the poor of England had been deprived of the liberty of going to the Church of England." The Rev. Dr. Baylee gave some interesting details in connexion with the progress of the association. The first effort made was in August, 1851, in an address to the working classes. Thirty-one thousand of these addresses were delivered. Subsequently a second address was drawn up, and circulated among the middle classes, as well as a handbill ; 62,000 papers being thus circulated amongst the public. They had had seve ral small meetings, both within doors and in the open air. To the Mayor the society were under obligations for the use of his large premises, in which to hold their meetings. They had been able to hold twenty-eight meetings in the first half of last year. They had received pecuniary as sistance in this way even from the very poor. They next formed a district association, of which the clergyman pf each district was the patron. All subscriptions of two pence, and under, went to the employment of clerical assistance, and this had amounted to £221 I3s. 93. during the year. The minister of the district always had the choice of that assistant, which ensured his co-operation. And in addition to this current fund, which was applied to the employment of ministers, without any deduction, the subscriptions above twopence formed a sinking fund, by which they had realised during the year the sum of £73 12s. 3d.--A collection having been made, and the benediction pronounced, the meeting broke up at nine o'clock. The collection amounted to £ll 15s. Ord. ; £3 lls. 6d. was received in the room from "Anonymous," and £5 next morning from Mr. Cunard, making a total of £2O 6s. 6d.; and it is hoped that further contribu tions will yet be received. JANUARY 18, 1853 GENERAL NEWS. THE MURDERER CHRISTIE was executed at Aberdeen on Thursday morning last. THE COAL AND MINERAL MINES in South Stafford shire are being rapidly exhausted. The MARLBOROUGH, 130, screw, three-decker, was launched at Portsmonth on Saturday. THE Jewish Chronicle states that Lord Aberdeen is now in favour of removing the Jewish disabilities. THE HEALTH OF LONDON has not been so good during the last ten years as it was previous to that time. AN ELIGIBLE PIECE OF LAND has been secured for a new School of Design in Sheffield, and £1,300 subscribed. JOSEPH DANIEL, apprentice to a chemist at Penrith, poisoned himself with prussic acid, solely, it is said, with the view of annoying his master. AN OFFICER who was instrumental in rescuing a lady from a runaway horse in the Regent's Park, London, has won her fair hand, with £20,000. THE "WIFE OF GEORGE BERRY, butcher, Bawtry, Lincolnshire, was, on Sunday week, delivered of three fine boys. Mother and children are doing well. MUCH ANXIETY prevails among the friends of the officers and others of the 40th Regiment, which sailed from Cork in July last, in H.M. steamer Vulcan. MR. HENRY BEVERLEY, lessee of the Queen's Theatre, at Hull, has been fined in the mitigated penalty of £5, for performing a ballet called " La Statue Blanche." The BENGAL, new screw steam-ship, built on the Clyde for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, attained, on her trial trip last week, a speed of 16 miles per hour. SALE OF AN ISLAND.—At a public sale in Edinburgh, a short time since, the island of Eday, Orkney, was knocked down to an English gentleman, a Mr. Hebden, for £lB,ooo,—the upset price. THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY have taken on lease, for a term of 99 years, thirty-five acres of land belonging to Dulwich College. It is intended to form this land into a carriage -drive. SIR ROBERT PEEL has presented a portrait of John Knox to the library of Geneva, and it has been received by the disciples of Calvin with marked pleasure. It is copied from the portrait at Holyrood. NEW YEAR'S GIFT.—On Saturday week, nine hundred unmarried persons, resident at St. Leonard's, Colchester, received a new year's gift of a penny roll, bequeathed to them by an eccentric individual in days of yore, THE TELEGRAPH WIRES now being put up on the Caledonian and other railways, are erected at a cost of less than £5 a mile ; whereas the older telegraph, on the North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow lines, cost nearly £2OO a mile. MR. JOHN SCOTT, of Malton, last week killed an ox measuring from the horns to the tail nine feet, and weigh ing, whilst alive, 1 ton 8 cwt. 2 qrs. The animal was bred on the neighbouring moors, and had been fattening for nearly two years. A " DEAF AND DUMB SWINDLER," in Newcastle gaol, was dipped the other dry in a hot water bath, seven feet deep. Not knowing the depth, and finding that he was going down, he took fright, and bellowed for assistance in a fine Irish brogue. THE Observer " understands" that the government have lately been making inquiries at the various railways as to the facilities which could be afforded for the con veyance of troops, horses, and artillery, in the event of any sudden emergency. SAD ACCIDENT.—The eldest son of Colonel Eden, while out shooting at Batt!esden, on Saturday,' was acci dentally shot in the leg by his companion, a son of Sir John Walsbam, and a main artery having been wounded, he died in a few hours. THE Nautical Standard announces that the much vaunted French steam-ship Napoleon, the " model steamer," has suffered so complete a derangement of her machinery as considerably to damp the sanguine expecta tions formed regarding her. AT THE DERBY POLICE-OFFICE the other day, the Mayor asked a prisoner named Hawler what he had to say in his defence. " Nothing : only my father is blind." His Worship said he was not surprised to hear that, when he had such a wicked son. AWFUL DEATH.—A quarrel arose at Bralford last week, between two females, whilst cleaning door-steps. In one hour afterwards one of them (Ann Atkinson) was a corpse. The verdict of the coroner was, " Died from mental excitement, caused by a quarrel." To CURE CHILBLAINS.—Soak the feet in warm water, made quite salt, then rub the parts affected with palm oil, and hold the feet to the fire, drying the oil in. One application will usually cure, and two trials are said to produce, in any case, a certain cure. REMARKABLE ABSTINENCE. Mrs. Hannah Harvey died at Eggington, a few days since, aged 60. For full six weeks she subsisted on cold water, excepting half a tea-cup of milk received once, and three or four tea spoonsful of tea received as many times during the six weeks. ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—There is no doubt that another expedition will shortly he fitted out for the purpose of conveying supplies to the ships already engaged in the exploratory service in the Arctic Seas. It is probable Commander Inglefield will be engaged in it, with the rank of captain. A MOST DARING ROBBERY was perpetrated in Not tingham on Friday. In one of the busiest thoroughfares of that town, in the open day, three ruffians knocked down an elderly person, the bookkeeper to a lace firm, and stole from a bag which he carried £2O in silver and £5 in gold. A FRENCH NURSERY MAID, named Lafrille, while in the act of hailing a cab in the New Road, London, the other day, fell down dead.—Another French woman, Sarah Lacohee, residing in Marylebone, went to bed quite well on New Year's Eve, and on the following morning was found dead. THE BOSTON TOWN COUNCIL had a dispute, at their last meeting, with respect to 200 copies of the sermon preached by the vicar on the occasion of the death of the Duke of Wellington. They have been printed, it seems, at the municipal cost, arid now the corporation does not know what to do with them. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—A royal letter is in course of being forwarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury (by command of her Majesty) to the clergy of the various parishes in England an d W a l es, ordering collections to be made on behalf of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church. THE BTH HUSSARS.—The Nottingham correspondent of the Times reports a fracas between a number of the mechanics of that town and a party of the Bth Hussars, said to have taken place on Sunday evening last and the three following days. Beyond a few broken heads, no damage was done. The local papers are silent on the subject. HORRIBLE DEATH IN ARGYLESHIRE.—On Thursday, George Campbell, a farm servant, was found lying on the road under his horse, which was upon its back, with the cart upturned. No outward marks of violence were upon his body, saving a mark upon his breast, cqused no doubt by the severity of the struggle to obtain his freedom.— Scotsman. THE CARRIER FROM BRAENIAR TO PERTH, overtaken by a storm at Cairmwell one day last week, was obliged to abandon his carriage in the snow. Some days after wards the van was dug out of the snow, and there was found the faithful dog, alive, and in charge of his master's property, which be bad watched for two days and two nights. EXECUTIONS.—The execution of Waddington, for the murder of his illegitimate child at Sheffield, took place at York, on Saturday week.—The execution of Henry Horler, for the murder of his wife, took place at the Old Bailey, London, on Monday.—The execution of Barbour was postponed for further inquiries, which resulted in confirmation of his guilt. A SrgANGE DISEASE has made its appearance amongst children in some parts of the fens. It is not contagious, but appears to arise from atmospheric causes, or from the condition of the earth. The disease is accompanied with great prostration of strength and glandular swelling, and those attacked recover very slowly from the effects ; some have been taken off very suddenly. MELANCHOLY OECURRENCE.—A young man, a pas senger on board the Star steamer to Gravesend, was lean ing over the bulwark, pointing out to his sister the ship in which they were going to emigrate the next day, when he fell overboard, and though ropes and buoys were thrown out, and a boat lowered, he never rose again to the surface. The distress of the sister may be imagined. SHIPBUILDING ON THE WEAR. — During the past year 142 vessels, of an average tonnage of 3988, and of an aggregate of 56,645 tons, have been launched from the building-yards on the Wear, showing an increase on the preceding year of 4,822 tons, and a decrease of four ves sels ; and an increase in those years on the aggregate amount of tonnage of 12,312 tons,orupwards of 25 per cent. ROBBERY BY A FOOTMAN.—On Tuesday, a man ser vant absconded from St. John's-terrace, Regent's Park, London, carrying off with him several dozens of silver spoons, three forks, a silver mug, three silver waiters, and several other articles of plate, marked with crest, " An Indian kneeling, and presenting a sword ;" a quan tity of other plate, without the crest, and a quantity of apparel. DISASTROUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a serious acci dent happened to Miss Ricardo, the daughter of Mr. Ricardo, M.P., at Windsor. Two ponies, which she was driving in a carriage, were frightened by a railway whistle and ran away. Miss Ricardo was thrown out with consi derable violence, but escaped any serious injury. The lady's maid had her leg entangled with the hind wheel or springs : it was broken below the knee, and had to be amputated, but she died on Saturday morning. AN EMIGRANT POISONED.—Tbe Glasgow Citizen re lates a lamentable occurrence which took place in that city on Saturday week. A respectable young man, who had engaged a berth at Liverpool for Australia, feeling ill, went to a neighbouring apothecary's shop, where a young medical student had been left temporarily in the absence of the proprietor. In a mistake the young man got a mixture of belladona, or deadly nightshade, and monks hood or wolfabane. The patient expired in the course of an hour. UNCLE TOM.—A New RENDERING.—A niece of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Guthrie of Edinburgh was collecting in Brechin last week for the Uncle Tom Penny Offering, and in going to an old woman said, " Well, Clemie, I am col lecting for Uncle Tom, and its just a penny." The ancient dame had never heard of Mrs. Be echer Stowe's famous hero ; so she held up her hands in amazement, exclai m i ng —" Preserve's fat in a' the earth's corn' ower yer Uncle Tam, that ye're needing' to seek a penny till Daily Mail. • • - MELANCHOLY i o le rt L ti o m n e do s n in b ce an A k l e is r s Drummond,, daughter Some ofs i t l A C CIDENT. —A melancholy acc i dent re cently was enjoy i ng a r ide, when she ?vas thro wn v i o l ently and broke her jaw. S he was rem?ved t o h er hotel, where m edical assistance was called in, and th e su ff erer was doing as we ll as could b e expected. At four, a.m., of the 29th, she awoke her nur se , and, feeling unwell, her m edical man was sent for, b ut b efore he arrived she was a corpse. The lady was itt he r 33d year . occrtehde e a l t d e A s l t a lta. TERMINABLE ANNUITIES.-A memorial, signed by the chairmen of 61 leading assurance-offices, representing a capital of £100,000,000, has been presented by a deputa tion to Lord Aberdeen, setting forth the glaring injustio of the operation of the income-tax on the pu chasers o terminable annuities. THE HUMAN FAMILY.—From a statistical paper, just published, it appears that the the human family numbers 700,000,000 ; and that its annual loss by death is 18,000,000, which produces 624,000 tons of animal matter which, in turn, generates, by decomposition, 9,000,000,000 cubic feet of gases, which are cleared away by the atmo sphere by yezetable matter decomposing and assimilating them for their own uses. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—Joseph Rogers, a miller, has absconded from Whitehaven, charged with stealing a cash-box containing upwards of £9O. He is a native of Egremont, in Cumberland, and on New Year's-eve was seen in a small plantation near that place looking anxiously about him, but, finding that he was observed, he made a przcipitate retreat, and on the spot where he had been standing was discovered between £5O and £6O in gold and silver. MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—O n the 17th Decem ber, Duncan Brodie, aged 21, left his father's house at Gienfalloch (head of Lochlomond),. for the purpose of visiting a near relation at Lochgoilhead. H e crossed Lochlong, at the ferry of Colless9n, in good health ; but in passing through the glen at the back of " The Cob.. bier," it is supposed he had been overtaken by the storm, as he was found dead on the 2nd instant, within a mile or so of Lochgoilhead. TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF YELLOW FEVER.—In conse quence of the awful mortality amongst the officers and crew of the Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain Hal stead, at Barbadoes, the letters from that ship are com paratively few ; but those which have come to hand are heart-rending in the extreme, for up to the 16th of De cember no less than 120 out of a ship's company of 330 had been attacked, and of these 59 had died ; the officers being the greatest sufferers. A DISAPPOINTED BRIDEGROOM. A young couple about to be married, and twice proclaimed, had fallen out, when the woman prohibited the third proclamation of the bans. The youth, however, not satisfied with this summary turnoff, very cowardly attacked his intended, assaulting her in such a ferocious manner that several of her ribs are said to be broken. The case is at present under the authorities, and it is not unlikely that he may pass the time proposed for the honey-moon in a very different quarter.—Fifeshire Journal. A JUDGE COMMITTED.—At Bow-street Police-office, last week, John William Molloy, who described himself as a late colonial judge, and looked about sixty years of age, was committed for trial for obtaining money on the security of a forged cheque. The prisoner said he was formerly Solicitor-General at Bermuda, and subsequently (in 1825) judge of the Supreme Court at Newfoundland, to which he was appointed by Lord Bathurst. He con fessed that he had been committed several times for mis demeanours, and once to three months' imprisonment. A STAFFORDSHIRE GENTLEMAN, writing home from Sydney, says :—Our gold discoveries appear at length to have produced some effect on the people of the United Kingdom. It is sincerely to be hoped that great numbers of our countrymen at home will turn their attention to this wonderful country. My firm persuasion is, that there is abundant room and most remunerative employ ment for hundreds of thousands of able-bodied working men and women for many years to come. Wages of all kinds are rising fearfully ; female servants, £2O to £25 a year and beard. IMMURING OF A YOUNG LADY IN A PUSEYITE CON VENT.—The Morning Advertiser mentions a case in which a young lady of fortune, the daughter of one of the partners in an eminent metropolitan monetary establish ment, has been induced, by Tractarian influence, to enter a convent belonging to Dr. Posey, in Regent's-park. Her father has revoked a great portion of his will, but allows her £lOO a year, and of this £360 is claimed by the lady superior. The young lady, it is stated, has now no other dress than a coarse linsey-woolgey gown, in which she is daily to be seen scrubbing the floors of the convent. A DRUNKARD'S REVENGE..--One Peter Carroll, a strange, drunken fellow, has been committed for trial at the assizes, on a charge of scuttling a steamboat. Turned out of a public-house in the Low-street. Sunderland, he threatened to make the landlord rue. Shortly afterwards he got on board a steamboat in the Wear, of which the landlord was part owner, and, it is alleged, drew up a plug or tap in the bottom. He then returned to shore. The engineman and stoker, when they went on board, found the vessel sinking, and were glad to retreat with their lives. In a few minutes she went down.—Gateshead Observer. QUART AND PINT BOTTLES.—On Saturday, at the Brentford petty sessions, William Bayliss, landlord of the Railway Hotel. at Twickenham, appeared to answer an information laid by the inspector of weights and measures, for selling a certain quantity of beer in quart and pint bottles which were not of the imperial measure. The bench said, as hundreds of people, with their eyes wide open, were in the habit of purchasing these bottles, well knowing they did not contain the full measure, they should not convict the defendant. The agents of the brewers who supplied the publicans were the parties in fault, if any.—Daily News. THE MISSES SHARPLEY.—The case of these two un fortunate young women, who attempted, some months ago, to starve themselves to death rather than apply to the parochial authorities of Marylebone for relief, has again been brought painfully before the public. For the last three or four weeks they have been in Windsor Union workhhouse, and on Wednesday they were taken before Captain Seymour, one of the county magistrates, ciarged with refusing to make a shirt, when asked to do so by the matron, acting under the Board of Guardians. Having nothing to say in their defence, they were committed to Reading Gaol for fifteen days, with hard labour.—Daily News. A NUGGET FOR THE QUEEN.—Among the many spe cimens of gold on board the steamer Australian, arrived at Plymouth, the finest is a mass of ore, weighing 340 ounces, called the " Royal Victoria Nugget of Australia." which has been forwarded by gentlemen in Victoria, under charge of the Admiralty agent, as a present to her Majesty the Queen. This splendid specimen of virgin gold was found at the Bendigo Diggings, in the beginning of September, and was forwarded to Melbourne for sale by a person who is said to have purchased it from the finder for £l,lOO. It was advertised for sale by auction ; but, before the day of sale, was sold privately to a gentle man connected with the local government for £1,500. DISCOVERY OF OLD COINS.—An old cottage on a farm at Tenter-hill, in Whittingham, a portion of the glebe of Woodplumpton Church, was lately undergoing some repairs, when the workpeople, in removing the thatch, came to a piece of old woollen cloth, containing a large number of silver coins. They are 301 in number, and comprise crowns, halfcrowns, shillings, and sixpences, of the reigns of Philip and Mary, Elizabeth, James 1., and Charles 1., Sovereigns of England, and some Spanish coins of the reign of Philip IV. From the circumstance of none of the coins being of later date than the reign of Charles 1. it is conjectured that the hoard had been con cealed by some careful housewife during the troubled times that marked the later years of the reign of the first Charles. TELEGRAPH LINES.—The extent of telegraphic com munication in operation at the beginning of the present year may be estimated at nearly 40,000 miles. Of this amount there were nearly 4,000 miles in Great Britain, of which 100 miles only were underground, with about 400 or 500 miles in course of construction in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and as many more projected. In America there were 20,000 miles of telegraph completed and in operation, with 10,000 more in process of con struction. Russia has just commenced her system of telegraphs, between St. Petersburgh, Moscow, and Cra cow, and the ports of the Baltic and the Black Seas. About 4,000 miles are about to be constructed in India. The only unsupplied portions that will soon present them. salves on a telegraphic map of the world will be Australia, Africa, and China. A GHOST.—For two or three nights, a large crowd of people assembled in the Murraygate, Dundee, standing for hours together gazing at an old building, because of a report that the house was haunted, and the ghost had both been heard and seen. A member of the force bad been induced to go and examine the house the other night. lie carried a lighted candle in his hand, and when he reached the top of the stairs, some swaggish current of air blew out the light, and down came Dog berry in a state of the greatest consternation, and re ported that the ghost had blown the candle out. The crowd believed it. Next night the house was again searched, but no spectre crossed the floor; it was deemed, however, judicious to board up every crevice, and nail down the windows, and barricade the door. owing t o th e fnßg ta excessiveoilefwtarhyies,in convenience DISCOVERY AT MACCLESFIELD.—In the course of ex e cavating for an artificial lake at Mr. Broad's pleasure gardens, on the margin of Dane's Moss, the proprietor has discovered an ancient stone pavement, five feet from the surface, under a peat or moss, upon a little gravel or fine sea sand. This pavement appears to be in good preservation, and evenly laid. The stones vary in size, and are similar in form to those common in our streets, but are of a white hard nature, and when broken are something like the spar-stone of Derbyshire, but they are apparently of a different kind to any stone in the neighbourhood of Macclesfield. Many different kinds of pebbles have been found ; also a very large tree root, during the past few with a small embankment around it, on which the pave ment was laid. It remains for the .o n a a n gt t ha i antiquaries a ts r ou i e r i rv t e soiwe Lanca shire and Cheshire to solve this mystery, which has ex cited some interest in the fdtathmh n ee e a i tg g swe h o b ut- o tofl u oi r l-sdw h a o :c o ea d nsut . oseetrhnoi afternoon, supposed, did a OVERFLOW OF THE THAMES.—On Monday showersshortly b o e f lo r r a e in hi w gh hi - c w h at i e i r av t e im fa e ilen days, the water ran off the bills above bridge i n such vast which, as may be its i h me o si d db i B e e s oe considerable s t() t e o e c : c oaws a ci m u ooca s nos e se ddon t the bs e eidof river thereby. Thames banks i❑ many places, of the river the water rose some feet in the public thorough fares. On the Middlesex side most of the wharves along ',lillbank•street were some feet deep in water. The corn r m il es in extent, were. described to present immense sheets o f water, resembling rivers of no small magnitude. This h the river and the great fall of rain—the former preventing the land -water from effectually draining off into the Thames, EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.—A female of the sect of Johanna Southcote was married at St. Peter's, \Val worth. on Monday week, to a priest of the same per suasion, when an extraordinary procession to the church door took place. Some of the males wore jackets of light material, others a species of coronet, and several singular looking caps, while around the waist, and across the shoul ders of most were polished leather, and other bands and y, cabalisti c an d zo di aca l t twelve in number, were singular decorations, and attired r s e , dti characters.in,esnc r headiwb d i th ee w o, f i wf t e l ei i mta , cia a hl e p v sa p , r a ia r o e bu n os t u l depended a long showy veil. In this singular procession were borne sixteen various ban ners, comprising the standard of England, the union jack, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, one of the sun, and one of the moon and stars. In the midst of these was a sort of shepherd's crook ; and the bridegroom, who, together with his companion, headed the procession, bore on his shoulder a species of mace, surmounted by a crim son velvet cap with gold fringe.