Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

OCTOBER (28, 1859.. Highest interests of tht 4biNn. Long may it be S ° , say we! and snit the are, that the great body of the people of Liverpool will take care that it : sh all be so, in the great trial of strength on the First of November. T HE LOSS OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. Liverpool was thrown into a state of great excitement and tohsternation early yesterday mottling, by the t tei Ngtnce of this dreadful calamity in, the neighbonr :l34 of Bangor. The Royal Charter had made her passage from Australia most promptly and prosperously. 'lle had accomplished the run in the unusually short Iltitie d of fifty-eight days, and Without, we believe, ttPeriencing any mishap whatever. She had not only : ` riv edaltriost within sight of htr destination, but had h anded several of her passengers at one of the Irish o rt.% at which she touched on her way hither, ,nbtless her hundreds of psent,'Pers had congratulated t , ae laselves on their safe vosuge homeward, and were k iry i l lig forward with joyous expectations to their land o at Li verpoo l , after a fe w h ours more so j ourn i ng on the gleat deep. It is Laid that the noble vessel had deter reached •the mouth of the Mersey, and was only a e ' e 'red frost' pursuing her_way at once up the ricer, by -I t li lendeddifficulties at the bar the storm that was t r ,: t kg• As a matt of common precaution, she put en - ; and, the storm increasing, it was Rattail that her i ,7 lll ander should seek for sea room. Oaring the the storm, the Royal Charter, it tis supposed, have been tuocking about the Channta, encounter -16,_-'s Dealer 'danger, probably, and' billictiag sufferings irtllll4r passengers and crew, , than nnyrthat had been e t *lth thrOuthout the whole of her ;passage. The from the north-west drove her again within •hr et the coast : the affrighted !passengers must have ii the long-hoped-for land, and s , 'ytit beheld it only 'i tee the 'EtpPtelaension of impending Visaster. Had it .Posniibts to keep out te sen, : iinzlll probability she; it t 'd have been safe ; hat .driven landward by the sis tibleirkre,e of such a gale , the ship was wrecked. Ih: hil l...siert of land, are! tilitio4t all her precious * ttl o i *eight hurled te , destecetion "at one ftli , t ii: st P:" It is only inotherAkhough an imensehf hn re ssitt lesson of the vanityvnd uncertainty Otta o.:oatrilrojecls and purposes. 'The great bulk >of Abe tije n gers on boa r d w ere ,dmihtle ss r eturning home Ito• tr native land to enjoy the`fruits of their induttry and 614 _ mrprise in a far diStruitvlountry; and wiaenJthey riv ' arrived within gem-sheet Tel that very land,tia a t ' 7 ent they perish—perish let the very instantvwlaen wed expecting the of and fondest tropes - in this world.ail thoirt long- EKE LATEST NEWS. THE FRENCH FUNDS- :12 p „ Pxnas, Ott. '27. 30 M'--Funds remain without variation. iJientes, l ie- 4v 3 e o ff 2 P •.— The mania' t is very inactive. Mentes a t •s 35c., or the same as yesterday. ?R USSIA AND TUSCANY. .114111te2 official Prusiian 'Gazette of Tharsciar says the tep t i ut ents Published by the papers concerning the re l'orA9ll of the Tuscan reputation by the Minister of ?P r ,"P Affairs, are, •i.n •essential parts, ine.ma-rA. The r, an Gazette aays particular stress on :the. fact that it,"Putation was . not -received officially, , because the ;11 m 7 4 ,n Cover ent has not been recognised by the — ' th s tall Court. The interview was also -strictly private Particulars mot being desired to be made public. SPAIN AIQROCOD. 'Peaceful settl MADRID, I , oot. 25. rn L OUndatiOn. ente . n Teu have been curnent meicerning a rhiefsof 'with Morocco, are. 'without -any GelleralarZabala and ano,:.aafil other G the a . -r133 3T, take their departure 'this feveni .1 ~-eneral Olano leaves on Saturday. The Spanish itione ra i ' w as still at Tar.giers on the 2tth inst. 4 96 . ALGEMIDAS,.O . -- - ‘3 ,: ilhe Span's' h Consd at Tangiers has jitstairmed here .. all his household. THE ,FIRE IN DUBLIN. - at The fire whish -boLe out on Thursday tmening, antile stores of theCity.of Dublin Steam-pallet Com ro Y ' w as got under about half-past five O'clock, ha - tik t e . "trary , expectLtions, been confined 40 th_e_ • i ji „, Gtfiee and irtores9where it originltteJ. Thisibuild 4 9wever, is entirely destroyed. The goods',stores ,„ 11144 1 are pule sate. The primisesace naure3. • TRE POPLAR POISONING CASE. Al i Il e trial of Georger'crederick Royal,feharged ith 141 ' d ' h e , ,ar er of ZipporalrArnght, a woman with , kovhom a_uabi mmenced this morning, at the Bentral "' a l Court, kei the Lord Chief Matonrand Mr. OTC tit Willianu. The medical witnesses deposedtthat, ath . t. j,, n l ldgment, sonaeldrritant poison wasithe cause of he poisons might have been Cantbariefles or or a tombinatisn of poisons. Wr.,Letkii,37, 'n34, ho 7" • analyze& the :contents of the atemash uan d lova, t z gave it a s b,is opition that a powerful. irrit ant ' 4 ere ,Lcalliie of death. ,ge stated that kis.esnclusions L' i s 3 /"4:4 0 , — "1d upon the :appearances detailed at ,:tho . „-, - ' 44 l.3;:‘",anunation,and 0)1 tthe matter extractedky the but not ex either, taken separately. .The —9ll . adjournedl until-. to-morrow. ~.• T. • THURSDAY, OCtOttUr 2 7. , IDth 1.114 14 .. f ., tt was thig - thiA.farther prorogued Ito 4, i t b. Air:,l3).tlteniber. ' 44 t1, 1 4 2 ,0ne1i leaves town :to-morrow, on a visit doitilo Ilar,"rby at Knowsley. in k nes, Ake fraudulent ;Bankrupt, was again .re-: t taw, fi €l , 4 , r " ekmpletion of the depositions, Alderman . ' t tli t- fd .l 4 4. " 3 7 iitz that he intenkled to commit him anall‘ hel d t e o.t l64c -stedes that a Gail:lament Council willioe T he ~...ert or. 8 8 4e4 ea l ri ttile iusticle in the alistitutionne/, on tkik Zit b t -.- i :Pezi lls by the assertion that the prohibition ;3utaiti,,ti"uel...:Siattrei to the Pacha of Egypt, has been . N ark "i -the interest of Sir 11. Bulwer, and 1 ti.. 111. n: at it was important .to the powers o f f ‘ , 3 " , i3°. fa - e ' t 'and ,it especially to _ France to know t i, it i s 2 4 Aelinlly. France need ;rot be astonished, t ; I :e d an accordance with the „eternally a.,,.egres „'atted4ll- „„ le : I tOla poliay . of England. England is then Ii ' t4 kth, 7 41 Ihe ties irn of ruining X. De Lessep's -,RtiliZJlln order, at A future time, to f ent through the lilres-; ne lf; and thus complete her line of exclusive kik, " f ro th n Jersey to the East tonesldies, and at he :kuki„,:e, pia ben c if in . A sition ut offall emu ; 4 Ye,, i'B‘l.°ll b etween France a nd Algeria. 'Th i s plan, i 1144 fitat , 4 grand c eption, but too ambillioas for the At, ' 4 3', and F will : not stand it. . '.). t,te half yearly "" e e et me et ing of the East India Railway 1 1 tkt afternoo th e m gross trate receipts were stated i ' h ea t e ci byli 3 rrn . „an to exceed those , of the preview ha l f di re 'krxi t ,000. Additional capital w as . necessary, and Thertoenr2ol6l);veorf S to tat r e ai f s o e r t ln l, d B i o a o 7 o6o as willing to gore the R. ttt -`.' iwas adopted. upon debentures. :421N1,2e3421,:oterbtiiiiii.60:f the Oriental Bank Corporation a "L tll tilli, 0, 48 declared at the rate of ten per cent. per_ £03,000, and leaving a balance of 11 ,7 4 0 1 14 0 ° i 5 t Painful sensation has been caused in London telt4,_ ntelligence of the wreck of the Royal Charter. ka t ir o dtill. , Consols declined. The Railway Share ' haa been extreinnly inactive. The rteriNj oi ? Win g appeared in a porti on o f our im % Yesterday : It°C LAMATION OF GARIBALDI. X- a s ribaldi has a dd resse d a proclamation to the ePolitans. The following extracts ; I , troth To our , Brothers are of Naples. We gav a erB,--We hav e combatted the Anstnans, ha '--We fought these insolent oppressors of Italy, and • , We have beaten them. We have fought as Italians - fight when united, and you were not with us. The shout of victory was heard in every dialect except yours, and yet we knew your hearts beat high in the cause of the country. Yes ; Providence has decreed the union and alliance of our family—of this poor Italian family. Foreigners and priests labour in vain. In vain they seek to sow discord, to corrupt this hapless people, whom they have divided often, and so often sold to the stranger. In vain our brothers of the south have ' clasped the hands of our brothers of the centre, and of the north. The sons of the Procedas, the Massaniellos, and the Pepes have grasped the victorious right-hand of the soldiers of Palestrio and San Martino. The Paris correspondent of the Times says the news is serious enough, for according to all human calcula tions, we may reckon on a rising in Naples before long. The Post's correspondent says the Austrian Govern ment is affording every facility to the Neapolitan agents at Trieste in recruiting for a foreign legion to replace the Swiss, and for the body guards of his Sicilian Ma jesty. Scamps of all nations are engaged and forwarded on to Gaeta. THE STORM. In Devonshire the turnpike 'roads are greatly injured. The sea broke in on the South Devon railway at four different points. The London mail was nearly five hours late at Ply mouth, yesterday. The North-Devon line is very seriously injured. The granite coping was washed dolon nearly 200 yards at one ptace, and both walls are broken for a quarter of a mile. The embankments have given way. At Worthing the sea rushed into the middle of the town, reaching the Tovrn-hall, which is more than 200 yards above high watermark. The Steyne Hotel lost ZStO by damage to wines. letween Bexhill and Hastings 250 yards of the Hastings Railway have been washed away. At Portland the +lamage caused by the heavy seas on the great temporary timber support of the breakwater Gill entail very serious loss to the contractor, Mr. leather, and will also suspend the quarrying operations in the convict quarries. The communication to the outer or great breakwater is cut off by a . gttp of about 200 feet length, and until this is repaired the depositing of stone too form the breakwater must tease. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. SERIOUS 1 CCDENT.—A mai lameillrhomas Waters, .nine a. rigger, residing in 10 Court, Seltney-street, fell from the top of 'ie.:ladder of a ship, in Battley-Moore Dock, yesterday, -end sustained a severe 'hectare of the ribs. lie was conveyed to the Northerallespital, and speedy attention vas paid to his sufferings. Coteaeroae—A collision teak 'place yesterday evening on the Lancashire and Yorkshire 'Railway, but, happily, attendedNflith no serious or fatal - results. It occurred just eked to the goods shei, in' Great. Howard-street, betweenrtei engine which 'was -shifting to 'another Ike of rails,rard the train due ;at ten minutes' past six "horn Waterlee. .The injuries ettetairekiby the passengers ore confined to contusions, end - these are not of a serious , nature. The company, howeeene will sustain ton siderable loss, in consequence Of the damage doncto'tbe engines. rervenrooL.—Titz Seoltn.L.The flat Cherry is asbere, - - ansi dismasted on the river 'Dee. A schooner bus brine to pieces, near the point eff..Aor. Six vessels . areAtiven on Shore in Conway river. .A`elerelict brig, in winking state i owas drifting towards' thi Bell Beacon, last evening. A schooner stranded in 'Red Wharf Bay. The Mes senger, of Carnarvon, -struck on the bank during the gale,► and foundered.; crew stewed. The pilot leat`No. 12, 'represented to be ilost,'-is in the river eiithdecks swept. The hall of the Victoria, sunk off :the Maga zines, bas broken rapeind disappeared ; only a few: hides save' The The White star cis et anchor off Tew Forry, with -mizenmaet -sprung. I'R2.GRESS or Oneelotene—On Mondayloet, , a: new ledge, in connection evithehe Loyal Orange institution, was- opened at the 'house 'of 'Mr. Trevitt, - South-street, Teateth-park. The respected M. W. G. 111. Captain tie Bentley presided upenthe.oecasion, and dilly installed th4Worshipfnl Mutter. - . Several influential parties in that4ocality were :admitted into the ender.; ‘ancleilter the Municipal Election 'contests have 'terminated 'the ledge will be tsuchniocreask by an accession of meir:bers toits ranks, at its:next meeting, which-Wilrhe ;on Mon ,day, 7th proximo. After -the ceremenee Of instillation ' had been consoludedeand the other business disposed of, this brethern assenfiSleYl +around the socidl;board, -.when some patriotic 'and loyal toasts - were given and*uppro priately responded :to. present -separated - highly el:elighted with 'the -evening's proceedings. —Dori 'a pn-2-espondent. s ST. BARNANA4 DISTRICT:—A highly :instructive and entertaining lecture was -delivered an fit. - Babas'. :Schoolroom, on Wednesday evening last, by -the Rev. Dr. Burton, who :selected ;as his subject, "-AI - Voyage round the, World:" .Thetrev. lecturer inevery graphic ilanguage depicted ills-own:experience when aebey, and hell the audience in almost breathless etttention:while narrating the ead, as -well -as amusing, iin.cidentsewhich befel him in tie long and, perilous voyage. Thiornus the first of a series eif twenty-three lectures lobe ;delivered in the same schoedroome.en every Wednesday evening, at -In - If-past seven, ibpseveral very able -and infinential clergymen and laymen: in the town. The next lecture walibe given by C. Coßingwood, Esc, M.D., cr. the "'Botany of the Bible" ;:BANKRUPTCY Counr,—rie re Denis Eme"Ganzein.— Thit bankrupt, a ehipbrokcr in Liverpool e earrying on business under the firm Of' "D. Eme Gaterin and CCo.," came up yesterday, ibeforeitfr. Commissioner PerrY, on hie -4ijoarned last examination. Mr. Wynne appealed for the assignees, Mr. ;Frank Lowndes for the bankrupt, and. Yr. Pemberton and Mr, Neville on behalf of tredi tinge—His Honour drew the bankrupt's attention to his balanee-sheet, which ;commenced in 185'8 With -a -deli cien,ey, of £3,800, 'and asked for an explanation.—The bankrupt stated that previous to that date-there were no accounts which would --enable him to commence his Wanes- sheet earlier. Any,accounts that had , been:kept werein the hands of the trustee under a deed of assign meat made previous to the bedkruptcy.—Mr. Pemberton and . Me. Neville both 'expressed themselves dissatisfied witletheebalance-sheet as at present filed, and -suggested an , adjournment for new ateouats commencing from -an earlier ,'date.—His Honour -thought it desirable, .and adjouened the sitting to tholkitir November. TOXTRTg WARD.—A public meeting of the friends :of Mr. W. , Anthony and Mr. ettle.xander Miller was hold Ilast -night i e:A Mr. M'Laughlan'e, Park-place. The'room was crowded to the door. The chair was occupied -by ,Jr. A. eQgden, who opened the proceedings with a short speech, after which Mr. s,-Farney moved, and Mr. John - Wilsoneeconded—" Thatethis meeting is of opi nion that Mr. W. H. Anthony is-entitled to the warmest ';thanks of the'North Toxteth-parieWard for the valuable se independent services which he has rendered in Abe Town Council, and for his kindness in again placing himself in their hands 'for re-election."—Mr. A.nthony was -then introduced to the meeting. He said e that .when ethe committee inspected the alleys in February, they-retorted that there-were no less that 468 Laneefoned in eelllthy state, and that on their last exa mination in October they only found 24, showing that the ,dntrialiat had,heen undertaken hadleen well looked after, and that the 24 were in a much letter state than they were ashen they were first inspected. They had expended something like £70,000 in the:lad three years in improving the township altogether.—Mr. Jones then addreesed the meeting at great length:; concluding by moving a similar resolution in favour of Mr. Miller as that moved to Mr. Anthony.—Mr. Miller was then introduced to the meeting, after which -the resolu tions were put and carried by acclamation.--Mr. Schofield, Mr. Moss, and other gentlemen then addressed the meeting.—Mr. Chalmers moved, and Mr. Owen Williams seconded, a resolution, pledging the meeting to endeavour to return both gentlemen to the Council on the ist of November next, and a committee was formed to carry out the same.—A vote of thanks was then accorded to the chairman, and the meeting broke up, Mr. David Ross, Mr. G. Willoughby, Mr. James Gill (solicitor), accompanied by Mr. Baines, a deputation from Tranmere on the subject of the Local Government Aet, transacted business at the Home-office on Wednesday. AMERICAN MAILS.—The British and ,North American royal mail steamer Asia sails for New York direct to-morrow, with the mails and passengers for the United States. The box at.the Post-office will close at 10.15 a.m., and the receiving-house on the Landing-stage will be open till 11 a.m., on the payment of a late fee of sixpence. THE Wirers STAR.—We understand that the com mittee of the Liverpool Underwriters' Association have addressed a letter of thanks to Captain Mends and the officers and crew of H.M.s ship Hastinos, for the prompt and efficient assistance rendered by them to the 'White Star, when adrift in the river during the gale on Wednesday. ? TOTAL LOSS OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. LOSS OF FOUR HUNDRED LIVES. Yesterday morning the community of Liverpool were thrown into a state of extraordinary excitement and perturbation by the intelligence of the loss of the auxiliary screw-steamer Royal Charter and, as it was said, upwards of 400 lives. This fine vessel arrived in safety at Queenstown on Monday, after a splendid run unequalled for speed, from Melbourne, in fifty-eight days. Twelve of the passengers left her at that port, and she proceeded on her voyage to Liverpool. It is reported that the Royal Charter was so near home that she was within a few miles of the Bell-buoy on Tuesday night. There she was encountered by the gale in all its fury; and it is surmised that, unable to combat the storm, she drifted back towards the Island of Anglesea, for she went - ashore on 11 , 2(1 Wharf Bay on Wednesday morning, about three o'clock, and before seven a.m., she had broken up. The Royal Charter had about 79,000 ounces of gold on freight, valued at £316,000, besides large quantities in the hands of passengers. The gold may, of course, be recovered; but, alas ! not so the poor people -who have perished. At Penmaenmawr twenty bodies had been washed ashore. The bay in which the catastrophe has occurred is two or three miles to the westward of Puffin Island, in Anglesea, and six or seven miles to the north-west to Beaumaris. It has a shallow, sandy beach for several miles, with promontories at each end of the bay. The country round is wild, and few houses are near. So destructive had been the storm along the coast on Wednesday, that the Chester and Birkenhead Railway had been destroyed in two places, and com munication to a great extent impeded. Between Conway and Holyhead an embankment had been washed away'; lend near Rhyl, about a dozen yards of the live had beect completely washed away, and a hundred yards damaged. The passengers had to walk, in the first case,.two mites, and in the 'last nearly a mile, to reach the trains on either side of the disruption. Throughout The whole of yesterday, the greatest excitement prevailed in town, and the Underwriters' Rooms, the Cxchange News-room, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and!Co.'s office, and ether places where infer !nation might have been expected to be obtained, were bcsieged:byltumerous parties, all anxious to know the fete of htLabands, parents, -sons, and other relations, known to have been on beer& the ill-fated ship. The mixietVives much enhanceeby the fact that up ton late "period of the • day, no list of the survivors (known to be few) 'coaLl be obtained. Soon after one o'clock, how e'ver, a list of those saved,•of which the following is a copy,.Wras received by electric telegraph : PA-S£ GERS. —James IP'erres, James M. Capper, Thos. Griunlay, Henry earreNv Taylor, Bradbury, 'Samuel Grenfcll, Samuel Edward Gapper, John Judge, James Missal, James Dean. Dreaper, Patrick ritNVine, Gen. Pritchard, Thomas 'Cunningham, William Batton, Ihtmas 'Corms& :(Steward), John O'Brien, Tams Rogers, George Swager (boastswain), Wilter'Hughes (apprentice), William Foster (carpenter), Owen \NPR , hams (quartermaltoll), Henry Evans, Thetnas Griffith, 'William ltiVarthy,kEdward Wilson, 7 GeorgalfeGilkon, ;Daniel Strongman, Thomas Tints, and Thomas Ellis t:,.(storekeeper).. That the number who have perished 'must eicetd 400 'scarcely admits of a doubt, front 'the , circumstance that it is know* the qleyal Charter had vivo passengers on board when -shei left Melbourne; her :'crew,' rneluding officers and foremen, numbered about 14 or '96; and out of all that 'number, so far as is yet.knowtn, onlythe above comparatively fractional proportimreftindividuals sur vives, in addition to the few who landed , at futenstown. In the case of , one gentleman, who landedlt Queens town, and proceeded to London fortheptVpose of trans acting some urgent business, it:is - reported he left his wife and 'children on board. Hating-sa fartmomPlished his object iin the metropolis, he hastened tolLiverpool in hopes of meeting his dear ones, not , doubting that the ship would by that time be in•port. lie ternved here about four •Cedlock yesterday morning, 'only in time to learn the fat calamity which haarrondered him a widower and Oltildless. It is note little singular that •so fart as =the list of the saved extends, only one cabin passengers been saved, and no - wows and no child Ries been 'rescued. The alleged TedSCE for this is offered in the --supposed belief that when the vessel struck the passengers were advised to rennain , belew, as there was no danger.; and as many of the 'bodies, washed on share, are meek mutilated, the presamptionas, that they wore crushedtto death by the breaking up of the ship, and attic falling t 5 pieces of the machinery. The frrstuitetailed account of - the• catastrophe which reached the ipublic was through • the , medium of two letters, 'written by the carpenter and . the boatswain's mate to their respective wives, of , whick the following are copies NORTHERN DAILY LETTER 7ROM THE CARPVITERCTIO HIS WIFE. Moelfra, Red \Wharf Bay, Oct. 25. 11Iy deafi rife, —I am ?so-rry :to inform you that the ship is a complete wreck. Eke has gone to pieces this ntenwhv,.'about five o'clock. There are only about twenty-five to thirty of u saved out,Sif :about 400 souls. Dear wife, .give my love to •the children, and tell them I shall' 3ehorae almost as oocr,as the, letter. Remember me to Mr. .anil Mrs. Rodgers, and all inquir — ing friends. I shall till .you 311 about it when: I come home. So no mere at present ;from your affec tionate husband, 'W.LtITA.M FOSTER. /ETTER FROM EOtEr6WAIN42, MATE. MY DEAR WIFE,—I have melancholy news to send you—the-ship was wrecked last night with a terrific gale from NA.".W. All hands lost, except, to my judg ment, about -twenty-five, and, - thank God, I am one of the saved. -,ceiptain and all the officers. The carpenter and me are- the only two belonging to ;the officers' de partment. • rrn\to the office and -balltthis, and ask if Captain iUartin is "e oming down to ns,r for the carpenter and me will:atat leave here aintil he :either comes or sends us directions to go by. All of =us :have been very hospitaillyrreeeivtd and relieved by the inhabitants of this village, and the coast-guard officers have provided a place to lodge:us in until Messrs.'Gibbs, Bright & Co., or Lloyd's agent, takes us away from this.—Your affectionate husband. (Sigae4) Gnu; SWAGER. Malpa, (October 26th. Early yesterday, another letter was •alss received in Liverpool from a•i•oung seaman 411 board to his wife. For a copy.of .this letter, which are sub join, we have been indated •to-the courtesy of Mr. Murphy, of the Local Marine Board. The writer of the letter and his brother were ouVin the Channel is a. steam-tug, and the Royal Charter king short of hands they joised. The letter is written intthe following terms : "Island .ef Anglesea. October 26th, 1859. MY DEAR WIFE,—I am very sorry to •inform you that we have been east away in the Royal Charter. We were put. on board yesterday by the tug-boat; and out of 500 there are only twenty -saved. lam very muck afraid that poor brother Henry is among the missing. it is by -a miracle and by God's•help that the few are saved. We hope to be able to get to town to-morrow or neat day. 1y dear wife, kiss the children for me, and -thank the 1,,0rd for his kindness and mercy. God help poor Sarah Ann if poor Henry does.nct turn up. Console her, my dear wife, as a sister can d 0..-1 remain your loving and thankful, yet sorrowful husband, " JAMBS WHirr..." "'.S.—May God help the bereaved, and be all in all to those in need." The latest information of importance which has been obtained from the Royal Charter is, that she was broken into four pieces and all of them have sunk. Large num bers of bodies were being washed ashore, some fearfully mutilated ; and some of the inhabitants of the district were stripping and plundering the bodies to a showing extent, so much so, that telegraphie messages had been sent to Cheater for a detachment of military to protect persons and property. From the preceding letters, however, it would appear that only a portion of the inhabitants of the district are open to the aspersion implied in the statement contained in the last paragraph ; and it is but fair to say, that the collector of customs, and the officers and men connected with the coast guard of the district, have been most considerate and kind, as well as energetic, in rendering every assistance to the survivors, and in the protection of property. Shortly before dark, hardly a vestige of the ill starred Royal Charter was visible above water. Captain Martin, overlooker of the steam vessels be longing to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., pro ceeded from Liverpool, in a steam-tug, accompanied by another, for the scene of the disaster, about six o'clock yesterday morning. He took with him a number of working men, and, as we have been informed, returned in the evening. The Royal Charter is said to have encountered very nvere weather in rounding Cape Horn, and to have , then suffered some injury to her machinery. The immediate cause of the calamitous catastrophe by which so many lives and so much property have been sacrificed, is understood to have arisen from the necessity of - cutting away one of the vessel's masts, which fell overboard. Part of the rigging, it is supposed, fouled the screw, and, rendering the ship totally unmanageable, she was drifted on some sunken rocks. This fine vessel was built of iron, under specification, for Mr. Jonathan Grindrod, of this town, by Mr. Henry Cram, of Queen's Ferry, near Chester. She was originally intended for a sailing vessel ; but while in course of construction, she was purchased by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, & Co. By these gentlemen she was transformed into an auxiliary screw-steamer, under the superintendence of Mr. J. H. Paterson, of Bristol. She wAg 320 feet long,' and had a breadth of beam amounting . to 41 feet 6 inches, and was 2,749 tons register, with engines, made by Messrs Penn, of Green. wich, of 300 horse power. It may be remembered that tke Royal Charter...was* first attempted to be launched on the 30th of July, 1855, The attempt was unsuccessful, but it was re newed with perfect success on the 31st of August in that year. It is said she cost originally £90,000; her estimated value, immediately prior to the wreck,. is reported to have been £70,000, and she is understood to' have- been insured to the extent of £BO,OOO. Besides the gold.mentioned, her cargo included a large quantity of wool. The details of insurance on the cargo are not known. _ _ _ LIST or PASSENGERS. — We have been favoured with the following list of cabin passengers on board of the Royal Charter, from memory, by a passenger :—Mr. Edwin Fowler, merchant, Melbourne ; Mr. John Mur ray, merchant, Melbourne; Captain Withers, of the Virginia, lost on the Feejee Islands ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Murray, three children, and servant ; Mr. Walter Nugent, Madame La Fargue, Messrs. Rufford, Welsh,• Mellor, and Watson, Mrs. Woodruff; Mr. Robert Jen kins, wife, and six children ; Mrs. Nahmur, Consul's wife; Mr. and Mrs. Fowler; Mr. and Mrs. DaWsand, friend, from Tasmania ; Mrs. Tweedle ; Mrs. Gru n dy, Sydney ; Mrs. M'George, Adelaide; Rev. Mr. Hodge, from New 'Zealand, who had been presented with a purse by 'the passengers ; Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Fenmell and four children Mr. Hulton, Dr. Halch, Mr. Beans (Sydney) Dr. children, ; Mr. Pelcher ' M. P.,_ and two thidren ; Messrs. Emery and S. J. Henry ; Mr. and Mrs. Poore, Messrs. Carew Taylor, Molyneux, Bethune, Moore (Sydney) ; Captain Taylor, to whom had been presented money for a piece of plate ; Rogers, enginter ' • Stephens, Ist officer; Corrie, 2nd officer M‘Bean, 3rd officer; Crom, 4th officer; Foiter (apprth tic4). St. 'PETER'S WARD.-MEETING OP MR. JAMES HOLME'S FRIENDS. Last night a meeting of the friends of Mr. James Holme, the Conservative candidate for St. Peter's Ward, was held in the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street; Mr. Thomas. Branch in the chair. There was a crowded attendance. The CRICIRMAN said—Gentlemen, I believe about this period nine years ago I had the honour to fill the chair on an 'occasion somewhat similar to the present. I remember well presiding here 'at that time, at a meeting of Mr. nolme's friends; on that, occasion when we, in St. Peter's Ward, did ourselves the 'honour 'to return Mr. Helmet° the Council by a Ivery 'large majority of the ward. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we have never had reason, for one moment, -to feel dissatigfied with the selection we made on that occasion, and I helieve we may venture to say that there is no gentleman in - the Common Council of Liverpool who has rendered greater services than our excellent representative, Mr. James Holme (cheeri). Gentlemen, I trust that, on - the 'present occasion, we shill return Mr. Holm-at - the head of the poll, by afar greater majority than we did on 'that occasion (hear, 'hear, and cheers). I cannot for one moment suppose that the electors of 'St. Peter's Ward can forget the services that their trepreseiltative has conferred upon them (hear, hear). for 'one, must confess that Ido not think that "where a gentleman has served you the length of time 'that Mr. Holme has served you— :nearly nine years—it is a very:gracious task to endeavour 'Ao rem-we that gentleman from the position that he so veyorthily fills (hear, hear). believe some reinarks have -been made to tlieeitfeet thatlfr. Holm has been drag ged before you on this occasion. I must contradict that assertion in /6 - to. (Ap•Pl'ause.) A smallish meet ing of the friends of Mr. Holme and of the electors of this ward was called in my office, some ten or twelve days ago, and upon that occasion we thought it right to pass a vote of thanks to Mr. ilolme for his services up to the present period, arid accompanying that vote of thanks we sent to Mr. Holme a letter, requesting him to do us ; the honour to suffer us to. put him in nomination again for the ward. I don't knowwhat is meant by "dragged," as these gentlemen use it. If he was " dragged," it was by a silken chain. - .I sent 'the letter to Ireland, and I got a reply to the letter by the earliest possible means, and in that letter he said, I shall be happy to comp ly with your request, and' leave myself entirely in your hande," If that can •be-construed into dragging, I don't , know what the meaning of " dragging" is, nor do I think 4 that is a very elegant or elassicalword to apply to a gen tleman like lir...James Holme. (Cheers.) We, too, are charged with _going here and there, and I don't know where besides, to look 'for a candidate to supply the va cancy. I must give to that a flat contradiction ; and I believe no gentleman• would have been asked to repre sent this ward -without. something having been said to me about it. I de - say, without fear of contradiction, that no gentleman was asked 'to take the place Of James Holme, either 'before or-Since we asked that gentleman to come forward again. It is not possible that we could do such a dishonourable or disgraceful act as that. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, 'I hope and trust that on the Ist of November we .shall place our excellent friend, Mr. Holme, at the top of the poll; and that my own' friend, Mr. Beloe—for he is an excellent 'friend of mine, and a friend for whom I have a high esteem and, regard ; but I do 'hope that on that occasion you will place Mr. Beloe below the name of Mr. James Holme. (Loud cheers.) Mr. JAMES Haman, who was received with prolonged ' , cheering, said he would at the commencement give a few 'reasons for appearing 'before them as a candidate. Some Mime ago he was lisited with a serious sickness of u -sudden character. Following the advice of his medical !men, he promised them that in some measure he would -slot take such an active part in public matters. But it having now pleased God to restore him, and having received a requisition whilst 'in Ireland, again asking him to become their representative, he without any hesitation consented to do so. It was not for him at an earlier period to thrust himself before them. But as soon as the requisition reached him he reterned his reply. Now, he was likewise told that there would be no opposition to Mr. Beloe unless he again offered himself. Although the.question of a member of the Council was not a ques tion of politics, they all 'knew he had been identified , with certain party, and he should be sorry as long as health and strength permitted him to forsake that party, (Applause.) He confessed that, chiefly through 11l health, during the last twelve months he had absented himself to some extent from the Council ; but surely, after the services he had devoted to them, they would not quarrel with him for having taken a little relaxation ; and though his votes did not appear so often as that of some gentlemen whose names appeared before them in the public prints, he appealed to any of the parties at the Town-hall whether he had not been sent for and consulted many a time when his name did not appear. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Holme then briefly expressed his interest in street improvements ; but was of opinion that the "working-man" of the pre sent day was made too much of a clap-trap. It served a political purpose; but he wished the parties who made such professions would put these professions into practice. He concluded by expressing his thanks for the manner in which he had been received, and hoped, if they again elected him, he would not be charged with having neglected any of his public duties. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN read the following letter from Mr. Tobin ; LIVERPOOL October 27, 1859. DEAn regret exceedingly that I cannot attend the meeting of Mr. James Holme's friends to-night. I would gladly have taken part in the proceedings, for I do not hesitate to say that there is not any man in the Council who is listened to with more attention than he is, or one who brings a greater amount of pra c ti ca l goo d sense to bear upon any question which may be under consideration. Zealous in promoting every measure which can advance the Prosperity of the town, his sound practical knowledge enables him well to discriminate between those measures which will prove of the greatest advantage to the public, with the least possible cost, and those which would entail a burden on the community which they might net be able or willing to bear. To pretend, as his opponent does, that Mr. Holme is in eligible to a seat in the Town Council because he is a member of the Dock Board is, to my mind, a doctrine most dangerous and unsound, and that man is no well-wisher to Liverpool who would endeavour to raise between their two great estates a spirit of antagonism. The interests of the two are closely identified, and caa be best promoted by that friendly feeling which I trust will always exist, and which will be best fostered by having gentlemen in the two bodie s who will take a deep interest-in tae well-working of bot h. In illustr ation of this I need but ailade to a question which Mr. Willi am Earle has warmly and very properly taken up, and in which this wa r d i s greatly interested. I mean the approaches to our nobl e river. Ido not think there is a more magnificent sight in the world than when the river is crowded with vessels from every quarter of the globe ; but the difficulty of reaching it is so great that that which ought to be productive of pleasure to the countless thousands comprising this vast community, has become a source of the greatest inconvenience a nd positive danger. If an improvement in this be as I believe it to be absolutely necessary, how can it be carried out except by the co-operation of the two estates? And will that co operation be best accorded by cementing the union between the two or by raising them into rival bodies ? Unwilling to inflict upon you a long letter, I will briefly say that, feeling the greatest respect for Mr. Holme as a man of the highest integrity, and one eminently useful in the Town Council, I shall feel the greatest pleasure in aiding in any way his re-election. In so doing, I should be sorry for any one to think - that I am opposed to Mr. Beloe personally ; but I believe Mr. Holme has served the ward long and faithfully, and is well entitled to a renewed expression of your confidence.—l remain, dear sir, yours truly, J. A. TOBIN. T. Branch, Esq. - - - - - Mr. Alderman HOLME then came forward, and was received with prolonged applause. He said it was many years since he had attended a ward meeting. He was not enamoured with tie character of being an itinerant orator, flitting abaut from ward to ward (a voice : "Three groans for Jeffery," and cries of "Order, order"), in places where he had no business to thrust his advice upon gentlemen much more competent than he could be to say who was the most fitting representative for them. And he sho - eld not have been here this evening had it not been that he considered on one hand that some injustice had been done to his brother—(hear)---- and oa the other, because he had read some extraordi nary sentiments which were uttered by another gentle man who sought- their representative. His brother had been accused of negligence in attending to the duties of the Council. For many years he had been most assiduous in his attendance, but he-had been visited with affliction, and in his solitude he felt somewhat incapacitated-to i-sittend to his public affairs. He (the Alderman) and his physicians persistently insisted upon his brother not at tending for a time to his public duties. He did, indeed, state his opinion that his brother ought to retire ; but that had been magnified into absolute certainty. But Mr. Holme had now recovered. He was partial to his brother ; and he would tell them that if they rejected 14m, they would reject an able, faithful, and honest representative (loud applause). • For thirty years they had laboured together, and by honest industry and in. tegrity he hoped they each fought their way, shoulder to shoulder, to the highest point which it was possible for the town to confer on them; and he trusted neither of them did discredit to the choice (cheers). He would say that it was ungrateful to those gentlemen who met in this room a few evenings before, to utter the senti ments they did. " He who is ungrateful has no other crimes but one ; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him." Now, he saw with deep regret that attempts were being made to sow dissension between the Dock Board and the Corporation. Was it come to this, that the men whose enterprise had converted a mere fishing village into the greatest port in the world—that these men were not to be entrusted with corporate matters because the merchants had selected them as being the best able to manage the docks ? He did not wish to say it offensively, but was it come to thii, that Mr. Beckwith should manage their affairs, and that a great shipowner like Mr. Brocklebank should be excluded? (Hear, hear.) The shops were made by our docks ; and he held this doctrine, that it was the commerce of Liverpool that had made the shops, and the counting-houses, and the roperies, and the anchorsmiths of Liverpool. It was that which had given us our wealth ; and they were not the friends of Liverpool who would preach antagon ism between those two great bodies—the Dock Board and the Corporation. (Applause.) If it were the desire of:busybodies to exclude from the Council men of the highest standing, whose position adorned, and whose knowledge enlighted any assembly.—that their own twinkling tapers might be better seen—they might, possibly, succeed in creating a division ; but, depend upon it, the government would speedily step in, and take upon itself the management of those great works. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He would now turn to the speech of Mr. Beloe, for whom he had the highest re spect. Mr. Beloe, at the meeting, said, somewhat classically—" I think Mr. Holme, thus stabbed by the neglect of his friends, might, like Cresar of old, have wrapt himself in the mantle of past honours and fallen with dignified silence." It was most magnificently put —a brilliant idea ; and he was not surprised that the Reporters had put after it " Hear, hear, and applause." (Laughter...) A person in the room said Mr. Beloe used the word "retired," not " fallen:" Alderman HOLME said the Reporters of Liverpool, he could speak from experience, always reported the speeches with considerable accuracy. Now, he said there was no need for Cresar to have fallen if Brutus and the other compatriots had not basely stabbed him, while they were outwardly professing friendship and admiration. (Cheers.) Recollecting his schoolboy days, and the expression of Cresar, tu Brute, he involun tarily exclaimed on reading this part of Mr. Beloe's speech—Et tu Beloe. (Laughter and applause.) And he was somewhat reminded of the words put into the mouth of Brutus by -Shakspeare " The people 'twixt Philippi and this grsund Do stand but in a forced affection. For they have grudged us contribution." Mr. Beloe quarrelled with the Council because they re fused to impoverish future councils by taking the fines .for large sales, anl spending the money as income. That was a question which -seriously affected the pockets of every burgess in this town. And he would say this, that if they wanted one who was really ecsnomical—and he spoke from a -practical knowledge —they would. find among the Conservative party in the Council men who possessed a greater desire and a greater power to prac tise economy than many of those who went into that assembly with the profession upon their lips. Alderman Holme then proceeded as follows :—Mr. Beloe quotes the following remark of the Finance Committee : " That inasmuch as provision is made for the discharge of the whole debt of .the Corporation, it will be necessary for the future to invest the amount of such fines, the interest thereof being payable to the borough fund ;" and then the report goes on to say that perhaps the most convenient mode of making such investment is to leave the money by way of a redeemable mortgage upon the premises so leased, and thus the income of the burgesses is immediately reduced from £lOO per annum to £4 17s. 6d., namely, Di 10s. for interest, and 7s. 6d. redemp tion money during 75 years. I confess the arguments, as well as the law of the report, are altogether beyond my con prehension. He - tells us what he will do when lie gets into the Council ; but I promise him that he will there find gentlemen sally prepared to meet him. And he adds—" I once renewed a lease within four or five years of its expiration, and probably paid the full value of the house. This being only a fine on renewal, would be called, under the new system, income. Had I abided my time and bought the house at auction for £6OO, I should only have had to pay six times £4 I 7s. 6d. or £27 15s. per annum for seventy-five years, and have kept the £6OO in my pocket, to my profit and your loss. Again, the George Hotel was sold for about £16,000; the ten per cent. upon this purchase was called income, and you enjoyed it accord ingly, but the other 90 per cent. was called capital, and you only enjoy the rent at 4,1 per cent. It these inconsistencies were brought under the notice of the Treasury, there can be no doubt that a royal commission would issue to enquire for what purpose we were hoarding up our estates." Now, the principle of the Municipal Act is, that all corporate property should be kept intact, and that it should not be in the power of any corporate body to grant leases for more than 31 years ; for the granting of long leases had been a practice of many small corporate bodies, and all their property had been alienated, and the fines spent, so that they were without income. The act therefore specifies, in the 91th section, that no lease should be for more than 31 years, and that it should be by a reserved rent, and not by a fine, unless in special cases, with the consent of the Lords of the Treasury. In con sequence. however, of difficulties peculiar to Liverpool, a subsequent act gave power to extend the period to seventy five years, that being our constant practice ; end now that we shall receive from the docks a larger sum than will extinguish our bond debt, we have to consider the best mode of investing our surplus, so that it will yield us the largest permanent and steady income. We have undoubtedly the legal power to alie- , nate the whole estate for 75 years, and to apply the sum received as income, and expend it in any one year. So has a tradesman the power, if he so choose, to convert his stosk into money— call it income, if he likes—and spend it as such. It will last him for a time; but is it wise or prudent to do it? Would any man in his senses do it? Let us see how it works. We had a block of land in Great Howard-street; we valued it at about £50,000; we might have taken that money and spent it as income, and then there would have been an end of it. But we took an annual rent of £2,359 ss. in perpetuity, and that goes to swell our annual revenue. fir. Beloe quotes his own case. Had he bought the house for £6OO, and we had passed the money to income, we should have spent it undoubtedly; or had we put it out on mor t gage, we s h ould not have got more than 41 per cent. for it, or £25 10s. per annum, but by commuting it we obtain, by his own showing, £27 15s. ; so that how it could be to his profit and our loss I cannot make' out. H e a ll u d es to the George Hotel. 'Of course, if we took the £16,000 for income. and spent it as such, and followed the same course throughout, we should have a large income for some years ; but, like the drunkard excited by spirits, we should leave unna tural excitement, to be followed by subsequent langour. But now, gentlemen, we receive for the George Hotel the annual sum of £682 per annum, for the whole period of 75 years that the lease has to run, and at the end of the 75 years, after we have been receiving £682 a year, the property comes back to the Corporation with a mag nificent building upon it, which is a gran d improvement to the property. (Loud applause.) This just shows how fallacious these things are when probed and explained. (Applause.) Take another case :—We have recently sold the propierty near the Exchange for £60,000. Without the britlewell it has"produced £1,560 per annum. If we take the whole as income, the corporate estate for the next 75 years is minus that amount per annum, in addi tion to the annual value of the site of the bridewell ; but if we commute it, or employ the money as a loan, .. A c he r. willßeloe of t h,aLvi however,ve Liverpool r a p o o short l wanted ve notu andl d (. 1 merry eT we have the interest t o sw ell our annua l i ncome , an d provide for our annual d eman d s (h ear , h ear ). If you believ e th at h e i s a pru d ent man w h o, possess i ng a landed estate, alienat es it f or 75 y ears on t h e paymen t o f a sum down, and s p en d s t h e amount at once, you will say that of f x t rs he tenxce6,o,obouot inthata poverty and di s t ress are not far d i stant (hear, hear). summary way. Here w it is •—" The other day th e bur gessesed to purchase a cemetery, and found 120 acres of la u d su i table for that purpose at a o price of £60,000, and you are to have the pleasure of being taxed to pay for it. Last week the C9rporation sold, not 120 acres, but about one-third of one acre for about £60,000. You are to be taxed to pay for the one, but the profits of the other will be lost to you, because they will be commuted for the benefit of posterity at £4 17s. 6d.. per cent. Now, consider for one moment the advantage it would have been to the town if the one £60,000 had been set against the other £60,000.• The cemetery would have been got, and we should have had no taxes to pay. I may be told that this would be illegal, but I do not believe it. The Lords of the Treasury would never have interfered to prevent an exchange for sanitary purposes of 1,600 yards of land for an estate of 120 acres." If, then, he applies it for a parish ceme tery, my notion is that the whole of the municipal borough would be making the parish of Liverpool a present of £6o,ooo,and get nothing for it. (Hear, hear.) The cemetery is for the parish only, not for the borough. What will our friends in Toxteth-park say? They form part of the borough. They have a cemetery of their own, for which they are already taxed, and they will not permit the borough fund, of which they are par takers, to lose £2,500 or £2,600 a year, for which they get no equivalent. (Hear, hear.) We have already taken in our estimate £20,000 a-year for renewals, which on any average of years is not far from the amount which may be treated as income, leaving the estate intact. Of course if any one holds that we may alienate the whole estate for 75 years, spend the money, and leave our successors without income, I have done reasoning with him. (Hear, hear.) It might be a present advantage to the town, or rather to the parish, if one £60,000 could be set against the other: So it might be an advantage to a reckless trustee, who was in debt £60,000, if he could alienate for 75 years that amount of trust property, receive the fine, pay his own debts, and let the successor to the estate be without any income until the lease had expired. I am sure that such imprudent doctrines as those pro-, pounded will not advance us, if acted on, either in wis dom or in credit. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Mr. Beloe then attacks the system f audit, which he denounces as a farce, a delusion, and a snare. He has been auditor thirteen, not fifteen years, for I find that the Corporate account for 1844 and 1845, ending August 31, are signed John Walker and Geo. H. Plant, and those for 1845 and 1846 are the first signed by him. If, then; the system be what he designates it, how has he permitted it to go on without remonstrance so many years ? He has had every facility for examining the ac counts, and he has annually signed them as correct. His former coadjutors, nominated by the Mayor, were Mr. Richard Houghton, of Rodney-street ; then Sir John Bent, and then Mr. Preston, the present Mayor. Mr. M'Quie has been for some time his co-elected auditor. His remarks are an insult to the gentlemen I have named—an unjust reflection upon those who are quite as honourable as himself (cheers). The Finance Committee are exceedingly obliged to him for "freely forgiving them ;" but when he so pathetically complains that "he made a deadly enemy of" almost every member "of the Finance Committee," I beg humbly to observe, that he must have lost his recollection, or given us the efferves -1 cence of a lively imagination for fact (cheers and laughter): There were some inaccuracies or omissions in one of the clerks, who had not kept an account of many trifling amounts during the parliamentary contest, but they really amounted to a comparatively small amount ; and. when Mr. Beloe attempts to cast odium on the chair man of the Finance Committee of that day, I beg to say that it was Mr. Hornby, who would not attach his sig nature to any document without satisfying himself of its correctness. And when the present Mayor, Mr. Wm. Preston, and myself investigated the circumstances to. I which he alludes, we found that the mountain had been in labour, and the town-clerk produced vouchers find receipts for everything except small expenses hourly incurred by Mr. Quick. The fact is, Mr. Beloe mistakes altogether his position as an auditor. The 93rd section enacts that the treasurer shall enter in books a true ac count of all sums of money received or paid, and these are to be submitted to the auditors ; and if the said ac ,ounts shall be found to be correct, the auditors shall sign the same. That is, they arc a check upon the treasurer ; they are to see that he has vouchers for all his payments, and that his receipts are correct as between the treasurer and the burgesses. But the auditors are not to usurp 1 the foundations of the Council, nor to say whether any outlay ordered by the Council is judicious or not. (Hear, hear.) As to the new landing-stage being useless six 1 hours out of the twelve, it is simply incorrect. We em ployed an engineer who is said to understand something of engineering, Sir William Cubitt ; but I would not venture to place his engineering ability a ga i ns t th e supe rior knowledge of Mr. Beloe. (Roars of laughter.) We are always obliged by any information that can be use ful ; but I am of opinion that we have now a corporate auditor in Mr. Bland whose fitness and intelligence will render it a work of superogation for Mr. Beloe, if he is sent , to the Council, to interfere. (Loud cheers.) He says he predicted the defalcations in the markets iu 1853. Now, I will not find fault with the Market's Com mittee, for it is impossible for any gentleman to detect all the petty peculations of a determined rascal like Luya, especially when they believed him to be an honest man. But if it proved anything it was this—that the commit tee was composed of some of the most eloquent fault finders in the Council, and I hope it has taught them to he more considerate in the shortcomings of others. The majority were of the Liberal party, and here they are. The chairman was Mr. Johnson, the deputy-chairman Mr. Woodruff, a very active member of the committee, who is, indeed, an active member of all committees ; and let me say for him he often causes a little pleasant amusement in the committee-room. (Laughter). Then there was Mr. Beckwith—(laughter)—Mr. Robertson Gladstone (loud hisses), Mr. Shell (hisses), Mr. Bowring (hisses an d laughter), Mr. Corbally (laughter), Roger Haydock (loud cheers and laughter). But now I must. put a little salt into it. Of the Conservatives there were on the committee, Mr. Chilton—whom we have since - lost (hear, hear)'—Mr. Ridley, Oliver Holden, with his jolly round disc, and our friend Mr. Shimmin, who looks, perhaps, as if a good dinner would dO him good some times (roars of laughter), but who has been, let me say, Most attentive in his attendance upon the Council during the short period he has been in it (laughter and cheers). It is a clear proof, therefore, that the Liberals arc not immaculate. (Hear, hear.) I have detained you too long, and could go into many other matters of interest, lam amused at reading the various addresses. What lions and eagles we have outside ? What sucking doves. when we get them into fair debate, with a clear stage and , no favour. Truly, if half the crotchets talked about are to be carried out, and by those who talk so largely too of economy, you will not only have to take every bit of pro perty you can get, and spend the money, but you must have a borough rate also, for you may rest assured that boule vards, public parks, and extended improvements, all mean taxation ; and the more you have, the deeper will you have to put your hands into your pockets, and the less will be the corporate income you leave to your children. But my fervent hope, is that its affairs may be conducted with discretion, and that you will elect men who will not sacrifice future prosperity for pre sent popularity—and such is the candidate who has so long served you. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The Chairman introduced Mr. Hutchison to the meeting as the representative of Abercromby Ward. Mr. HITTCHISOIC, on risin", was received with l ou d cheers. He thanked them I. their kind reception. He had to congrat _date them upon their good choice in again assembling t o secure the services o f th e i r late representative. - He had fought by his side in contesting Abercromby Ward, and he was willing to forward the interest of Mr. Holme to the utmost of his power. (Cheers.) Mr. PRIEST moved—" That after the 'explanation made by Mr. James Holme, we beg to thank him for his services during the nine years which he has repre sented St. Peter's Ward, and this meeting pledges itself to use its utmost endeavour to secure his re election. Mr. HOLDER seconded the motion, which was carried amid loud cheers. Three cheers were given for Mr. James Holme ; a similar compliment was paid to Alderman S. Holme; and a vote of thanks having been passed to the chair man, the proceedings terminated.