The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

\ RPOOL N. • inufac -111, on counitY For the ia, and people. estions enact they estiot►e of the of the .ogreSs ie Go vatore, is, the sers of ;ive by rend a velop afford , with as are , ve the e pre rds, as be aP. venue 31 of India, e, but a irn- for l e ob )y al to and ity of to the aal of pre- India before Presi arner, right• was arious i t be .slay'. o an ibject and o the wag taller Lobbr. inion • Tao._ lways r suf ad to mmit ?ken , . eris! .con they 'tract with t the nentp H© e aP offer Awe- ~.. . kid he e 8P ._ y THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 1853. LOCAL NEWS. FIVE EIVNDRED GERMAN EMIGRANTS have sailed du ring the last week from Hull to America. MACHINERY is now being erected in Liverpool .for the manufactory of casks by steam. This must prove a 4 ` sore discouragement " to the coopers. JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., has, in addition to a valuable present of books, given is donntion of five hundred pounds to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. ON GOOD FRIDAY, Mr. Bolton sat a short time in the morning at the Police-court, disposing of the over-night accumulation of " drunk and disorderlies. " MR. T. W. HUGHES delivered a lecture on the works of Alfred Tennyson, on Tuesday night, before the Literary and Dramatic Society, at their rooms in Wilton-street. EASTHAM FERRY was reopened on Thursday last, and during Good Friday the boats were crowded with plea sure seekers. CORNISH SHOEMAKER named Rowe, who had come ,to Liverpool to sail for Australia, was cheated out of .£6, by a man named Bailin, on Monday last. BeiLis has been committed for trial at the present Assizes,. A BOY NAMED SLOANE was brought up at the Pone- office, en Tuesday, and committed for trial, for picking Pockets at the jubilee of the Bible Society, at the Philhar monic-a-mil. Trre. A.N,Num. TEA PARTY of the Sunday School teach ers, connected with the Baptist Chanel, Shaw-street, was held on Good Friday evening, the Rev. Mr. Kershaw, of Rochdale, in the chair. MIL ST. ALBIY, whose demise is noted in our obituary `of to-day, was for many years a fashionable teacher of dancing in Liverpool ; and the Wellington Rooms bear testimony to his taste and . slzill. Alit, J. F. TAFE, a member of the Liverpool Literary and Dramatic Society. _has been lecturing with great suc cess at the Pimlico Mechanics' Insti , ution, on " The Ballad Poetry of Ireland." WILLIAM ItEnstogo, a coloured man, stabbed a wo man named Marctfret Smith, in a disreputable house, in Clement-street, Vauxhall-road, on Motvdav night. The wound inOicted is a very dangerous one. Redmond is in custody. A CASNIE StorcnNtAx, named Donald Gunn. cal;tain 'of the slip 4yrshire Lass, just arrived in the river from Isten - fotndland, was fined in a pretty smart nenalty,.at the Police , office on Thursday, for smuggling 221 b. of foreien manefactured tobacco. A I LOCAIICONTEMPORAnY of Saturday states that on Good Friday " the whole of the churches, and many otFeer places of worship, were open tor service aurine the recrning;ond several Dissenting establishm enh (1) in the evening also." 3ITLEOURNE JAMES, Esq., ..C., Vice. -. chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, held a court on `Thursdhy, at St. George's Hall. There were very few 'cases, and the business wag confined almost entirely - to 'the examination (viva voce, for the first titrtc) of witnesses. " ^ Tim ORIGIN OF Music." a handsomely framed `engraving, was presented, on Wednesnsy evening last, to i e.l. Toms, EN by the Liverpool Amateur Glee and )fadrigal Union." Mr. Toms has officiated as conductor `d!lfing, the absence of Ms. Lidel. OF MAN.—A tri-weekly communication will corn._ Thence between Douglas and Liverpool, on the 'lBth of ,next month. The days of sailing will then be—from •Liverpool every Tuesday, Wednemday, and Friday. and f !lnla Douglas every Monday, Wednesday, and - Saturday. liTtutA: l / 4 1 DuntwY, an American, the secand•mate of .the ship Hemisphere, was fined X 6. at the-Police-court, :!:'n Wednesday. for biting savagely 'file ear and-nose of "E 3 Samuel Hate. The Yankee - pleaded in extenuation 'that Hale had been calling his wife improper names. THE CORONER'S JURY, en Tuesday last; Mtn-fled an „ th e verdict in the case of Vicento 'Antonio,- contain of Brazilian brig Providence, who-was found'dead in bed ,?: 1 Sunday morning week, under very - mysterious circum stances. ances. The deceased, it appeareti, died of congestion of the brain. PATRICK RATTAKAN, - who presented a frightfully lace rat'd appearance, his wife,‘SarAhltattakan, Mary Harris 110PuIceErdNowa. ,65 rd F O 7, committed a brutal assault noon police on .Moisdny night last; in-V, 7 iiton-street. 13 0 Tuesday, at the pc:dice-court, .Rattakan - was fined in and Fox in 10s. H F L ADY EWAN - T. a -new iron screw 'me T nd from Liverpool ON' tOLonden, on 'Wednesday afsteamer,ter /.,1,0n on got OH Trefusis Shore, - in going from 'Falmotell. i ;-) Friday s h e was get mfr; but as she was found to leak adly the captai n determined to-beach her, which, having been accomplished, -the passengers were safely landed. The cargo is 1.1:ely to be discharged. THE TIDE OF V IIGRA TIONT FROM LIV , ERPOOL.-- presuming that each vessel to sail for Australia , d u ri ng the next month, will take out2oo passengers—which is fiery much under the average—this will give. -4;60O passen gers a month=; and, including - the Government emigrants from Birkenhead. 4,robably - 2;000 more, we have 6,000 Persons leaving Liverpool alone for the great colony at the Antipodes. THE ANNUAL EASTER:-ITESTRY 1 4 .1gErr4c. for this Parish is to be held to-day,-at noon in St. - Nicholas's Church. Owing to the continued indisposition: of the Ven. Archdeacon, it is understood that the Rev. Rector Campbell will preside. The new churchwardens are to be Mr. Caine and lir. Hutchinson, the latter ct whom is not at present a member of the board. SACRED HAThMONFC 'SociErY.—The annual admission of amateur inenibers for the ensuing year will•close this day (TuedaY) , as will be seen by advertisement. The Sacred Harmonic not only provides elementary vocal in struction for its member 4, but gives them an opportunity of becoming conversant with the works of the great masters. A Fii broke out, •on Tuesdav night, in the warehouse of Mr. Bolt on , on th e third :floor of the lofty range of warehou ses eated at the corner of lirunswitk-street and Back G oree. The West or- England engine was early on the spot,' and the , conflagration kept from extending to the surrounding buildings. The stock of Mess7s. Yates, enxt and Co. vvas insured in the West of England office. IRON STITPs: THE'MEDSEL, AND THO Tr z.—The &older/anti News says, " Our neighbours. the builders of iron ships•on thervne, must look to their.craft. The Strathmore a :large new iron--ship, of about INt3O tons, built there for Lindsay, has just beencondemned in London, by the-Government emigration agent, as un- L e rPrthY• "This is the. seoond Tyne-built iron ehip be longing to this gentleman that has met the fame fate." A COSIMITTI3E. or THE ARcIitTECTURAL SOLCOTY, ap pointed last spring, has been engaged for some time in I Paturing a project lotere-arranging some of the principal leatu res of the town, and so disposing leading routes of areat traffic es to 'render them available for the modern taquirement s of the - town and port. The Project will greatly exceed in extent and importance the recommenda tion of the committee of the. Town Council. The-report —the Architectural - Society - will be made pu'elic shortly. „SFOTTISII EMIGHATIO'N TO titaLAND.—We learn from -"" Ayrshire contemporary of Thursday, that the Countess ?iGalloway steamer leftlCirkeudbright on Saturdayll9th, I°l' Liverpool, having on board. upwards of 100 fat te, It t OnTriber of ) sheep , and a general-cargo. Among other - a" ° Fa, W ere observed on board , horses and merle, arith furniture, &c., for Tipperary,--in Jecland. These were , r° rt Nlr. David Tennant, the spirited tenant of Howell. ' I A were destined as part of the plenishing of a levee farm IA he has recently taken in the Green Isle. z Ta n FIRST GENE R AL MECTING(OF IRE LIVEMPOpL 4 PH OTOGRA PHIC SOCIETY, held at the Royal Institution, a Tu esday night, was presided oveieby Mr. Pictos. Mr. r,i, ° i t i. f_est, the secretary, read -the. rules. Ladies age ad members ; and - the subscription is to be half .a p io ;ra• There is to be,a. gallery for tlle sale of pictures gi ven u ed by the society, and a photpgr.aphic print is 43 be on ,' ,0 each member annually. The .societ yis to meet th= e first Tuesday in every montb, and papers are to be th e Z Oci" by the members. The list of mem b ers began 'rah . n ame of the Mayor, whowas elected p res id en t of Citeety. GUN ACCIDENT ON GOOD .FRIDAY.-- Tr. Hayman. si OUng man in the employment of - ,Mr. Christoplift• -"aWdon, of this town, in company with a few friends. `Arent out shooting in the neighbourhood of Cabbage-hall, Goodirriday. As Mr. Hayman was getting through a hedge, having at the time a glut in his hand wi:h the - muzzle to -yards him, the trigger caught a thicket, and :Unfortunately the contents of the gun were di3eliarged, -and lodged in the gentleman's leg. Mr. Hayman VMS -conveyed to.his residence at Cabbage-hall as quickly as possible. It was found necessary to amputate the limb, which wag effected by Mr. Chalmeg', of Everton, assisted by two other professional gentlemen. Mr.-Hayman re 'mains in a very precarious state, but hopes are entertained recovery. • 'MULLINS, HIS WIFE, AND -1 , 1, HE POLICE.—At twivicjlice-court. on Wednesday, James iklullins, grocer, 517. g cirpr zmutnees whose name has obtained some publicity i n eon n i tr et, follawi n 11° .n .with the police, was charged .under the raorni On duty i n Mill- Palice-constable Towneend, Mill-street at an early hour on the rested rtt of. the 13th instant, when his attention was murdarYjile screams of a female, who was shouting Dread • murder ; and calling loudly for assistance. .On ap ki_ nng the shop of the defendant, the oacer found b e r L at the door in his shirt, with a poker in his hand, cover his wife. Mrs. Mullins, whose Lace was theered xvith blood, begs,ed the officer to protect her. ,L defendant demanded-the business of the officer, then as4l7!ttened to break his head with the poker, and made t e , ° ;°w at him. The officer, however, evaded the in. wacted blow, and seized the poker, when the defendant smearing that he mould break the head of any police tobiet who attempted to enter his dwelling. Townsend 1301 i the defendant-that if be had any grudge against tlae pe c e , beought not to lay it to his charge. ' „, that they were all alike, and then further abused tt;"1 threatened sthe officer . —The defendant was ordered 11 3' a fine of 403. and costs. To .LACICBURII E,LECTION.—The nomination took l 'ter on Wednesday, amid excitement. The candidates on Vii• J. Feilden, on the Liberal, and Mr. Hornby, taC'e C onservative interest. Upon a show .of hands being Nazi. the Mayor declared it to be in fevour of Mr. co r ,,hY, a decision, however, which Mr. Feilden's friends de...`ataered resulted from partisanship ; and a poll was Bcetenended- After the nomination the town was the Lav r i e ° f a series of brutal and lon g -contested fights. is e " Proceedings prevailed throughout the night like- L ott ' and electors were forcibly carried off from their tes t hat they might not be able to record their veerveerp,se f ollowing day. Informati o n wa s lod ge d a t the qi7ice-office on Thursday mornin g , by th e w if e o f D uncan th e e r. a tinrnan residing in Darwen-street, that during ha nt rght their house se had been broken into, when her hus fron3 ,7as dragged from his bed, beaten, and forced away Vitti b ,°;:une. The windows of the Bridge Inn, a Censer this's° house, were completely smashed to atoms, and the took an d liquor casks in the bar were destroyed. Riots At tn . , ' lace about the same time in front of the Hornby min e d and of the Pump-house. Th e mag i strates deter o'el",_lo send f or m ilit ar y aid ; a n d a littl e b e f ore e l even th e ° l ?,K, , a COMpant? of the 4th Infantry, and a squad r on of e sto,;Pragoons, entered the town; order was ultim a tely the --"• Mr. Feilden was at the head of the poll from 88 f inlo7r oarn ence e ment to the close, when the timbers users , • nueni liernbY, 574. m SIXTEEN vessels are novr being built in the Clyde for the Liverpool trade. THE EARL OF CARLISLE has appointed the Rev. T. Darnton Milner, L.L.8., incumbent of Bulford, to be his domestic chaplain. THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ARCTIC, Capt. Luce, sailed on Wednesday, with the usual mails, a very large cargo, and a fair complement of passengers. THE THIRD INSTALMENT of £2 per share has just been paid by the shareholders of the Ramsay Steam packet Company. JOHN DUFFY, the old and indefatigable messenger of the Underwriters' Rooms, died on Monday last. A sub scription has been set on foot on behalf of his widow and children, one of whom is a cripple. SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE.—On Tuesday evening, the concluding lecture of the seventh series to the mem bers and friends, was given at the Concert-hall. The lecturer was the Rev. Dr. Nixon, of Birmingham, and his subject, " Wesley and Whitfield." THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL, Rector of Althorpe, Lincolnshire, has been invited to give a lecture on the Uses and Advantages of Mutual Improvement Societies, on the 29th instant, at Lincoln. The Mayor of Lincoln has lent the Guildhall, and promised to preside. OWNERS OF COTTAGE PROPERTY should not forget that if they wish to compound for the poor-rates, they must give notice to the overseers within fourteen days after the 25th instant, of their intention to do so, or they will be excluded the privilege for next year. PAPER ROBBERY.—At the Police-court, on Wednes day, Thomas Brown, an errand boy, in the employ of Mr. Richardson, printer, Lower Castle-street, was com mitted for trial for stealing about thirteen reams of paper from his master's office. Mr. Ovington, grocer. 17, Soho-street, to whom some of the paper was sold, was also committed for trial on the charge of receiving, GERMANS TN LIVERPOOL.—During the past week four hundred and fifty Germans passed through Helier Liver pool en mate, chiefly to New York. It is calculated 'that mote than twenty thousand emigrants will pass through Hull this spring for the United States and the colonies. The greater number of these will sail from Liverpool. BIGAMY IN LIVERPOOL.—At the Carnarvon assizes, Henry Dixon was charged with intermarrying a second time, his first wife, Elizabeth Davies, the daughter of a respectable tradesman at Carnsrvon, being alive. It ap peared that the prisoner took his wife to Liverpool. and there contracted a second marriage with a woman of light 'character, he being at the time in a state of intoxication. 'He was found guilty. but recommended to mercy. Sen lenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour. WARRINGTON..--PRESEI.ZTATION . TO A CLERGYMAN. — "On Tuesday, the 15th instant, the Rev. Henry Pigot, incumbent of Horwich, was presented by his late pa rishioners at Winwick with - a 'vett , elegant communion service, in silver, as a memorial of their deep affecti,,n for him, and their high appreciation of his ministerial labours on their behalf. The rev. gentleman was, at the time of the presentation, a •visitor at Winwick Cottage, the residence of the Misses Hamby (sisters to the rector), in whose drawing-room a deputation waited upon him.— Manchester Guardian. ARCHITECTURAL AND AT:CHIEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.— At the fortnightly meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Verelst presiding, it was stated that the committee, appointed in May last to suggest a scheme of town Improvement, would report to the society on the 6th of April. The president, Mr. Picton, Mr. Frank Howard, and the secretary, were appointed a committee• to investigate a charge of plagiar ism of plans brought by the London committee of baths and wash-houses, against Mr. Newlands, the borough engineer. Mr. Arerelst - read an eloquent paper on archi tecture, entitled, " . Comr.notlities, Firmness, and Delight." THE PAVING 'RATE for the past year was 6d. in the pound. In the usual course, it would be requisite, so heavy is the amount-of necessary work, that a rate of something like 10d. - or Is. should be raised ; but, if the plan of borrowing money, on the security of the rates, as, proposed, be approved of by the Council, which would enable the Health;tommittee to put the whole , of the. leading streets in a thorougly efficient state in a short , space of time, then the amount need not exceedSd.in the pound, and possibly'; d. might be sufficient. Thneffect of. this would probably be, that the succeeding rate will not, perhaps. exceed . 6d. for the year following. THE Ceurexs, and indeed every person .ernployed by the London and-North-western Railway, will be rejoiced at the determination of the company to release their employes at 'reasonable hours, in order that they 'may have suitable time for recreation. Hitherto a very im proper custom has existed in this town amongst - the car ters, who have been in the habit of leaving goods nt, or bringing them away from, the railway-stations at very late hours•in the evening, causing the men and clerics 'to work until•midrright. This practice is much indulged in by the .kmerican - merchants, who ship goods -bytbe steam ers up to twelve o'clock at night. TFIE'CONFERENCE OF CONGREGATIMAL MINISTERS . thIRST ER,- en Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, convened to take counsel together 'upon the state of religion in thElr - tacks, was attended by Dr. Riffles, Liverpool A. -James, Birmingham • .J. Kelly Liver pool.; J. Fleming, Lancaster; W. 1,. 'Brown, Bolton; B. Beddovz, Barnsley ; J. Gwyther, Mancheiter; E. Jukes, 'Blackburn ; J. Marshall, Over.; Mann, Birkenhead; 'J.' Raven, Manchester; J. R. ginith, Ches ter; J. Spence,"7.4.A., Preston ; R. Spence, M.A.; Liver. pool; -J.. Glyde;. - Bradford ; D. E. Ford, Manchester;.;. Griffin, Manchester; and S. Sleigh, Wavertree. 'There was notone address•of a sectarian character, but the all prevailing solicitude-seemed to be the glofy of Christ and the salvation of souls. .A.Tr-Acx BY• THE PATAGONIAN'S ON .A LIVERPOOL Strip.--Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, dated Stanley,-Ealkland ;Islands. January .5,.0f a most daring attack:by the Patagetiians. on the ship Porcupine, of this port. Millinger.. master. In passing through the Straits of Magellan, on her way to California, the 'Porcupine grounded. :Early - the next morning the ship was sur rounded 4by numerous canoes, full of natives. 'Hostile clemonstrations•beirig made, and the-captain observing a fleet•of canoes.approa2hing nearer. many •bearing lighted pine branches,. gave-orders to the crew -and passengers, most of schom had revolvers, to arm -tbemselves. _A terrible- eoriflict ensued. The savages fought desperately, and - tried ..to burn the ship. After a severe struggle : and great-slaughter, they-were beaten off, and:ZlG bags of oats being thrown overboard, the ship floated. Two of the eatigrants,-Georgaßowell and Henry Boyle, were killed, and -several others severely wounded. The ship returned to the: alkland Islands greatly disabled. FAT*L :NI EGLI G-EMIL'i: OF A Nwasa.e—OreaSundar week a fine:boy, aged eight months, son of Mr. iDoubleday, Brock.-road,-was taken out by Ann Ellis. •the nurse girl,. into the garden, and -while there she fell, -by which the child sustained injaries, which she concealed. On re turning•to the house the child refused the breast, and daily became -worse,. azntil death ensued. Mn;' Stutter, surgeon, •on emaking a _post modern -examination, found that the deft-side was-crushed inwards:; and on opening the chestle , discovered that the child had died from in flammation -on the left lung and side. The coroner ranimadverted.strongly cn the conduct of Ann.... Ellis who, if she had irvtime ode fitted the cause of the.child.'s would hve'been the: means of inducing the parents to procure the,ne•cessary,Advice and assistance. The jury were of eviction that the youth of Ann Ellis shielded her from the crime c rmanslaughter. AUSTRA.GAMC ' COBieldtt ENTS TO lars , ..nroot...—At grar.d fete on =board the Great Britain, previous .to her departure from.Australia;--Sir Charles Nicliolson_proposed as a toast :-- , “lrite'Town and Commerce of liverpool." This was a toast whichz.would be appreciated .on that occasion, as it Ayes to the-energy end enterp4-ise of Liver pool skipowness , tbat they owed the presence of the Great Britain in this &arbour. , There was no cammunity.in the world characterised by greater spirit and lii;erality , than rthe Liverpool merchants. ildr. Thorpe responded. .1-le had been a resident in 'Liverpool for thirteen lears, and he was proud of the title of,a Liverpool shipowner. The •• ; C-neat Britain war .owned .by one firm in Liverpool, and was not aapported 'by any., government contracts. Her sayage to this colony4vas the result of individual enter prise, and to the colonists they looked for support to make the undertaking pay. F: 07FICI AL aileron'' , .on the wreck of the 'Queen Victoria by Captain Walker, the conduct of Captain Church is cxeiderntisd most strongly. Captain Church was not heard to giveany orders,. He had lead and log 3ines,pn board, but he „neither. sounded nor ascertained Chow fast she was going, nor did he sleeken speed, or adopt any precaution to prevent , thedeartui accident which tool. place.. Atter the vessel struck, his presence of mind appears entirely to have deserted :him. If, when , ;.be thick weather came on, the direction of the steamer's bead had been altered, and the engines slowed, the dia_ aster would not, most probdaly.,.have taken place. The conduct ofTbornas Davis, the ! mate, was greatly to blame. The reporter .comments on the fact, that six years had elapsed since. the ordering of a iiell.for the head, and also upon another fact, that four 'hours :before the Victoria struck there .was no person on -watch in the Lighthouse, and that one.ot the keepers, from infirmity of age, could scarcely be expected efficiently to perform the duties of his station.. SELECT Vestny...---At the usual meeting, on Tuesday, the Rev. Reetor.Campbell presiding, Mr. illughes, with regard to remarks made by Mr. Meilor at the previous meeting, as to his qualification. said all Mr. Mellor had stated was inoorreet.—Mr. Hughes thought it a most dastardly proceeding to bring charges against members of a public board in their absence. The subject dropped just as Mr. Mellor entered the room. The report of the ;Finance Committee stated that an offer of four.gnineas per square yard had beet ;made for the parish premises in Lime -street, but bad been refused, the committee asking £4 10s.—A letterhad been -received from the Emigration Commissioners, in answer to some application from the board,—that they were not in the habit of taping' any number of women from workhouses in large towns.- -Mr. , Gardner moved that a .copy of Mr. Mansfield's Letters, and the reply read at the last meeting, should be sent to the Secretary of State, that lie might know what Mr, Mansfield was doing.—Mr. Bradley seconded the motion ; but, while all who spoke censured the conduct of Mr, Mansfield, they did not concur in the proposal. and the subject was allowed to drop.—lt appeared that the matron had taken 7s. 6d. from the body of a deceased female pauper, and divided it between Jane Andy and Margaret Shannon, two other inmates. She pleaded that it was done at the request of the dying woman. On this she had been called before the board, reprimanded, and told that a second such offence would be visited with committal.—Total number of inmates in the house, 2,060; admissions to the vaerant sheds during the week, 794. — There were reported to be 1,088 children at present in the Industrial Schools. They had passed a creditable exami nation ; but both boys and girls were deficient in arith metic. The present average cost per bead, per week, was reported to be is. lop. A communication was read from the Poor-law Board, sanctioning the appointment of the three medical officers lately elected, at £2OO per annum.— Mr. Meacock wrote, withdrawing his name as a candidate for re-election at the general vestry, which is to be holden to-day.—Mr. Kitchen also intimated that he would not consent to stand as overseer.—Mr. Hughes withdrew th e motion of which he had given notice respecting the admis sion of Romanist children to the house. The governor, in whom he felt perfect confidence, had promised to per sonally supervise that part of the establishment.—A vote of thanks to the chairmen concluded the proceedings. A DESPERATE ATTEMPT was made at Wakefield, on Friday week, to garrotte Johu Barff, Esq., a West Riding magistrate. - - THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE has been removed from South John-street to the Revenue Buildings, opposite the Sailors' Home. AT THE MEETING OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE, the tender of Mr. Rose, for the removal of refuse from the birough and out-townships, was accepted. The tender was for Liverpool £7,550 ; for Toxteta-park, £1,460. ROBERT CATRAEL, the breaksman on the incline lead ing from the coal works of Mr. Samuel Stocks, Billinge, to the pierhead, died in extreme suffering, on Sunday week, from the effects of an accident which took place on on the previous Saturday, by which his left leg was completely severed and the other mangled. THE LIVERPOOL ASSIZE. COURTS were closed on Good Friday, an unusual circumstance; indeed, the first occa sion of the kind which hawcurred here since 1835, when the first commission was opened in Liverpool. At that time the judges were Sir Nicholas Tindal and Lord Abinger, and at all the subsequent spring assizes the judges sat on Good Friday, immediately after the morning service.—Chronicle. TEE NUMBER OF DEATHS in the borough for the week ending Saturday last was 213, be!ng a decrease of 13 as compared with the previous week. The change of weather in the middle of last week would probably cause an in crease of mortality during the present week. Diseases of the lungs caused nine deaths more than in the week pre vious, the total number, including 32 from consumption, being 93. A. shipvrright, aged 27, died from delirium tremens. TILE WIFE OF A FLATMAN, whose boat was lying in the Collingwood dock, was returning on Monday week from her sister's residence, in Tosteth-park, with her infant, about a month old. The child was alive when she reached the Exchange, but on arriving at the Coiling wood dock she discovered that it was dead. The mother had the child wrapped in a cloak so secure!y that the poor child was suffocated. COMMISSIONS SIGNED ty THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.—OIiver Ormerod Walker, Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant; Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's o..vt, Militia, Lieut. Clarence Horatio Carey to be captain ; 4th Regiment, John Ireland Blackburne, jun., Esq. (late lieut.-col. in the 2d Regiment), to be lieut-col. ; sth Regiment, Charles Townley, Esq., to be lieut.-col. IMPORTANT TO SPRAM-130AT AGENTS.—A case tried in ae Liverpool County Court a few days since, will be found of interest. The plaintiffs ware consignees of goods for warded by a steam packet Company, of which defendant is agent. The claim was for loss sustained in consequence of .defendant's detaining a portion of the consignment unthr a supposed lien for freight. Defend ant gave an order for delivery, but subsequently sent word to the dock that all the goods were not to be deli vered until the freight was paid. Plaintiffs skewed that the freight had Leen sent in, but not paid, in consequence of deferidant instructing them not to pay the cffice-boy. His Honour stated that no lien existed after the delivery order had teen given, and that the freight would have been paid but for defendant's instructions not to pay the office-bost. Plaintiffs were not bound to call until they could :find a responsible person to receive the money. He shmild, therefore, give them a verdict. MR:BRAITHWAITE POOLE says that, of the total mis cellaneous merchandise traffic in the port of Liverpool, that• is exclusive of the coasting trade and minerals; nearly one-half consists. of two commodities-only, namely. cotton and timber; and it is remarkable that, during the last year, 1852, the imports of each averaged 1,000 tons daily. Theirnports of cotton into Great Britain last year, 1852, were as follow: Into 2,205, 738 bales : 365,000 tons. „ London 48.7u0 „ 8,000 „ ~ Hull and Bristol 27,200 „ 5.000 „ „ Scotland Total.. 2 357=9 ~ 391,000 The cotton imported into London, Hull, and other sea ports, if not sold direct to the spinners, or re-exported, is frequently sent to Liverpool for sale, and the number of bales so brought by inland communication, last year, rather exceeded 4,000. The - number sent by railway, from Liverpool to Hull, for exportation, was 120.000; and the number to Scotland, for consumption, 33,000 by railway, in addition to the samoquantity by sea. A " Pl.TeLic BAKER." is the technical name for the owner of a public oven, to which poor people send their dinners or their bread occasionally to be baked, and there are, we are told, nearly &30 in Liverpool. On the even ing of Good Friday a considerable gathering of the trade assembled at a room in Liroe.:Areet—Mr. Hugh Kinrade in the chair—for the purpose of forming a union. The Chairman said : Some might say it was easy work. It was not, for they had to work-on a Sunday the same as on a Monday. Look at the expenses they had to contend with—coals, chaffers. peels, and tins. How many did they lose in a year; and, if they were not paid for their labour, there was no living at all. (A. Voice ::I lost £lO last year.) They wanted to unite, in order that they might bake on one scale, from one end of the town to the other, and charge a fair, honest price for their labour.— Mr. Cruickshank, the honorary secretary, said women ran, like black sheep, from one bakehouse to another ; and it only required that the public bakers should be united. The trade had :grown worse since the duty -bad been taken off flour; and' the loaves had grown uncon scionably big. Flour was now horribly cheap. -There was not a more suspicious lot of men than the public bakers ; and the reason -was, that when they offended a lady, she went with her tale to another baker. For his part, he never believed a woman in any tale at all. (Loud applause.)—lt was agreed that en association be formed; and, by a majority of -36 ton, that the secretary be paid. One of the rules is to the effect, that the baking of a loaf weighing Gibs. be ld.; above-1015., lid. • A NOBLE ExAmpm—On-Wetlnesday last an incident took place in Liverpool-which we have sincere pleasure in relating, as it sheds a -lustreon the character of the British merchant, and imparts a true nobility to trade. It appears that, in 1847, a certain 'house in this town, like many others, felt the influence of the untoward circumstances of the time ; that it was prepared to encounter and triumph over undoubted diffiotilties, if not pressed too far; th a t the majority of the-creditors had faith in the man who., at the moment, expected forbearance; that there were others less confiding; thattherthought - the worst, and pressed for settlement: that stoppagewas the inevitable conse quence ; and that the result of a bankruptcy left el-aims unpaid. The bankrupt emerged from his fallen state, once more solicited fortune, ventured, and won the prize; and his former creditors were. invited, on Wednesday morning last. to his office. He produced to them a list of his debts; told them these were ignored by act of parlia ment, but that be looked- beyond legal relief; that no man should reproach his memory by telling his children that their father died in his debt; that, in casting up the list, he found £lB , BOO was -still due to them ; that h e h e ld i n q hi s h an d s cheques on his bankers•for , that sum, and that , be then begged to hand to each creditor a cheque for the amount formerly due to-him. Amazetalent, mingled with • delight, sat on every 'face; and it was agreed simul taneously to deduct five per cent. from the sum received, and expend it in a testimonial, as an enduring monument of the opinion entertained.of an act so worthy. ITEAVII COMMITTEE.--7At the .:weekly meeting on Thursday, after the reports of the sanitary and medical officers had been read, it was. stated that the stib-corn .mittee had had several meetings to consider the subject of estimates for works to be executed, and the rates to he-laid, but they had not, et come to ,a4ecision.—Mr. -Gladstone wished to be understood that-though there , might be a small increase in the rates, stilirthere was no :intention to lay an excessive rate. It .wes agreed to makeedditional crossings in tinskissonrstreet.—A petition from4S shopkeepers and others in Vauxhall-road was read : the memorialists sought that the man:'e deposits in that neighbourhood might not be removed. they being a fruitful source of business.—The chairman thought the alteration could not cause any ; pecuniary losk; the only difference would be that the manure would go into the flats instead of being laid upon the quay. .The matter here dropped.—Mr. Gladstone read a letter from Mr. .Grantham, relative to some remarks he had made in re. ply to Mr.;:Newlands upon the subject of the high-level railway question at a meeting of the Polytechnic Society. He could :ally say that the remarks of Mr. - Newlarrds still cppeared to warrant the impressions he then received, and he was -therefore happy to feel that they were,erro neous. Alr. - Newlands explained that be did not report in favour of tba low level crossing., neither did the - council grant it.—Ttie committee then proceeded to consider-the tenders for the removal of the refuse from the borough and out-townships. The tender of Mr. Rose was accepted.— Tbechairman said that £lO,OOO wag paid, under the former contract and four more for seavengering, and that was within the borgugh. The difference now was £11,40 against £14,000, being a gain of £2.540, with the advan tage.of;6aving the manure sent outside the borough. INQLTPT ON, THE ; ,tATE MR. BLUNDELL.—:On Tuesday an inquect was held before C. E. Driffiehi, Esq., touching file death of It. Benson Blundell Hollieghead Esq., late-of ,Deysbrook, West Derby, an extensive coal proprietor, and a county magistrate, who, as we stated in the last .number of the, Standard, was found drowned in a pond about three hundred yards from his own residence, on Sunday morning last. The first witness who was exa mined at the inquiry, which took place at Bulmer's Hotel, 'West Dezby, was Peter Webster, the butler, mh o deposed that thedeceased was first missed about half. past eleven o'clock on _Saturday morning. It was at first sup. posed that he had gone into town ; but, as he did not return that night, inquiries were made at Pemberton, near Wigan, where his mines awe situated. They we re without effect. however . ; and, on Sunday morning, his hat was seen floating in the pond in.question. The pond was then dragged, .and the body found. There were no marks on the body, and the witness, who wiped the mud off the face at the pond, perceived no scratches upon it. No money whatever was found upon the body, but it did slot surprise the witness, as the deceased a. as in the habit .of going without money. His clothes were not at all in terfered with, and his coat was buttoned up. There were workmen draining the field within sight of the pond. Mr. Parke, surgeon, was then examined, and stated that he had attended Mr. Blundell several times, as be was labouring under an affection of the liver. Some years back, Mr. Blundell had an attack of jauncice, and had been obliged to go to the continent for the restoration of his health. The liver complaint was a very depressing one. But he had never seen any manifestation of insanity in the deceased. The coroner asked if Mr. Blundell had been a high Hirer, and to this Mr. Parke replied in the affirmative, stating that Mr. Blundell had taken his bottle and a half .of wine in his younger days, which, of course, be felt afterwards. Once or twice they took away a quan tity of wine from the deceased, reducing his allowance. Mr. Blundell was very odd in his manner to strangers. He was reserved, and a shy man, and did not like com pany, even from a child, and, therefore, he thought that strangers would mistake his manner for something worse., He was so reserved that those who , did not know him would think he was out of his mind. The coroner left the jury to consider their verdict ; and, after a delay of about an hour and a half, they returned a verdict " that the deceased was found drowned in a certain pond of water contiguous to the lands of the said deceased, but how or in what manner he became drowned does not ap pear to the same jurors." The majority of the jury, we are informed, expressed an opinion that the cattse of death might bare been accidental. GENERAL NEWS. THE CELEBRATED ASTRONOMER, Mr. J. Russell Hind, discovered a new comet or, the 6th of the current month, which presents strong indications of identity with that of 1664. MR. JOHN PRITCHARD, of the firm of S. and G. Prit chard, bankers, of Brosely and Bridgenorth, has been elected for Bridgenorth, in the place of Sir R. Pigott, unseated. OUTLAWRY.-0a Thursday a county - court was held at the Sheriff's Court, London, when the Duke of Bruns wick, by the name of Charles Frederic William Guelph, was called for the fifth and last time. DYKES. — The first Dutch fort on the Scheldt has just been completed by Mr. Winder, an English engineer, and the same gentleman has constructed an immense dyke in Zealand: the obstacles were great. A GOOD SHOT.—On Thursday one of the convicts em ployed at the prisons on Dartmoor endeavoured to effect an escape. He ran off, but was pursued, and other at tempts to catch him failing, a sentry fired, and hit him in the leg at 250 yards. MAILS FOR NORWAY are now clnveyed direct by sea between Denmark and Norway. The rate of postage is ls. 4d. the half-ounce, and so on, according to the scale in operation in the united kingdom for charging inland letters. THE NEW SOUTH WALES AND PORT PHILIP portion of the mails disembarked from the steamer Australian has been despatched from Plymouth in the sailing ship Albemarle, and the South Australian portion has been despatched in the sailing ship Orestes, from Gravesend. ARCHIBALD HUNTER, blacksmith, Newyards, Maybole, Ayrshire, in a drunken affray with his wife on Sunday last, (both being in a state of inebriation,) was knocked down stairs by his better-half; and, alighting on his head, his neck was dislocated, and he died instantaneously. Mrs. Hunter has been lodged in jail. Ma. THOMAS APFADZEAS, a native of Newton-upon- Ayr,-N.8., and master of the schooner William Henry, of Preston, was drowned at Killybegs, west of Ireland, on the night of Monday the 14th instant. The vessel was lately launched from the ship-yard of Messrs. Sloan and Gemmel!, ship-builders, Ayr. THE FORCE OF HABIT.—Mr. Gladstone was once asked by a little boy to tell him something about Cerberus, when the great orator, clearing his throat, eloquently begant---"Why, my little dear, we must divide the subject into three heads." The little boy instinctively ran ont of the room.—Punch. AT THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING, On Saturday week, of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, the balance at the disposal of the meeting amounted to £27,528. A dividend equivalent to 94 per cent. was declared, reserving £2,288 interest on debt, and leaving a balance to the next account. THE NEAVSPAPERS in the West of Scotland state, that the letters . received by people in that part of the country from relations in Australia, are of the most cheering kind. One Girvan man had cleared £6O in a month. Another, a blacksmith, received £9 per week and rations. A. " quicds ening. of the emigration spirit" is expected in Scotland. STOODIL ON TILE NORTHUMBERLAND COAST.—On Mon day forenoon a northerly gale came on very suddenly on the 'Northumberland coast. Several fishing cobles were out at the time, and the fishermen were obliged to leave their lines and run for the shore. Two boats were out from Blyth, one of which in taking the bar upset, and, before assistance could reach them, the three fishermen belonging to her were drowned. Several fishermen be longing to Newbiggin had a narrow escape from death on the same day. - - - - • THE GLEN TILT CASE.—This celebrated and impor tant case has, " of consent of the defender," resulted in a findinc , that there is a public road through Glen Tilt, and in the duke being found liable in the whole expenses of the process. We believe that this termination of the case has been reached on an understanding that the pur suers will not resist an intended application by the duke to the road trustees for leave to make a new road de viating from the present track in its lower part for two or three miles.—Scotsman. STRANGE OCCURRENCE AT HAMILTON.—The Rev. Mr. Scott, of Bookie, was preaching last Sunday week, in one of the United Presbyterian Churches, when the clock struck eight; he stopped short, and said . :—" Time flies, and death hovers near. I have just bad one of the most striking notices put into my hand I ever read from the pulpit, sod I have been 36 years a minister. A lady in her usual health, and in the prime of life, while pre paring to come to church thi4 evening, dropped down, and instantly expired. She is Mrs. Dr. S. (wife of a medical gentleman in Hamilton)." The effect on the congregation of this announcement, improved in .a few solemn and appropriate sentences by the minister, was very marked. " Death can make more giddy tremblers in a minute than press or pulpit." A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred on Wednesday morning on the Midland Railway. The train from Derby to. Leeds reached the Masbro' station (five miles from Sheffield) between eight and nine o'clock, and was pre paring to pull up th, re,' when a middle-aged gel' dressed man was 'observed to open the carriage door and spring out. The train was in slow motion, but he stumbled and fell between the edge of the platform and the - train. The wheels in the first instance ran over his legs and mutilated them terribly. 'His body was then twisted into a posture more nearly parrallel to the train, and the wheels of several carriages ran along his chest and abdomen, literally opening the trunk from end to end. Assistance was un availing. 'All that could be done was to gather up the remains and remove them to the Prince of 'Wales Hotel (adjacent), there to await the coroner's inquest. The dead body has not been identified. There was no luggage, or anything else bearing the name of the deceased, and he was not known to any one present. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF CONVICTS--On Mon day last week two notorious criminals named Maggs and Wilson, the one under sentence of transportation for 15, and the other for 10 years, made their escape from Wilton gaol, at "Taunton, but were recaptured in the course of the same evening. They had been confined in separate cells, but on Monday morning about four o'clock they succeeded in breaking out of their respective places of confinement, and , by means of a rope formed from oakum, which they had secreted during their daily labour, assisted each -other over the prison wall. When they left the gaol they had no other clothing than their shirts; the morning .was , exceedingly cold, and snow had fallen in the night. In this state, and with a small portion only of bread, they concealed themselves until half-past four in the afternoon, when a labourer observed them emerging from a wet ditch, and immediate information being.given, two officers, withessistants, secured their prisoners and lodged them in•their -old quarters. Maggs is 46 years of age, and John Wilson, though only 16, is an adept in villany., •SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION.—A novelty in this Sway has occurred at Worcester, the person abducted being an old gentleman between E 0 and 60, and the object of the forcible capture being to compel him to marry a widow of nearly his own age. Mr. Davies. a farmer of Broadwas, a few miles 'from Worcester, went to the market in that city, and put up 'his horse at a farmers' inn--the Green Dragon—in Newport-street. In the afternoon a rues •senger brought him the intelligence that his housekeeper -had been taken dangerously ill, and that his presence was crequired, at home. lie at once got into a fly, which had been provided for the purpose, and his capturers (Messrs. Dobney and Wilson), instead of taking him home, con veyed him to an inn. at Ombersley, a village in a contrary direction. Here he ,was detained until next day, when, after much research, he was discovered by the police, just as he vas about being forced—according to his own ac count—into a marriage with Dobney's mother. A license had ;been procured, and to induce him to consent to the match threats and entreaty had been used, and a pair of handcuffs had been exhibited. He has been delivered over to his friends. A BOLD STROKE FORA WIFE, AND AN ACQUISITION TO ME .DIGGINGS.—A hawker by profession, named George Bartlett, after being "refused" by a number of young women at Cheverell, hetook himself on Tuesday last to the Devizes union workhouse, in search of a wife. At this critical moment, .the matron of the workhouse passed by, and to this excellent woman George Bartlett told his want, and begged her assistance. Mrs. Hassell (the matron) immediately repaired to the female ward, and proclaimed -to .the inmates that there was a man out side in want of a wife to go with him to Australia. and •asked if acy one :would accept him as a husband ? " have him !• simultaneously exclaimed half a dozen voices. I " Shew him up. let's have a peep at him !" But there was one voice wore vociferous that: the others, and that was the voice of Sarah Early, and. Sarah Early insisted on the first refusal. Now, Sarah Early stands six feet high without her shoes. She has six tees upon each foot ; and she has a child, we are told, with •the same number of toes. She is a perfect Amazon. She can break a square of glass with her fist, or a man's head with her patten. She leads the " Opposition" in the workhouse, and where tbere is either mischief or frolic to he,performed, " I'm your match !" said Sarah Early. " Then pick up your traps !" said George Bartlett, and the matter was settled in less time than it is written. Aye, and in Jess than half an hem Sarah Early and Sarah Early's child and George Bartlett turned their backs upon the Devizes union work house. Within three weeks, or as soon as the banns can be published, Sarah Early and George Bartlett will be married, and directly afterwards they will be off for the diggings. LETTERS OF CREDIT.—A case was determined in the Lord Mayor's Court, London, last week, involving a question of.great commercial importance. An American gentleman bought for cash a circular letter of credit from a mercantile firm in the city, addressed to their agents on the continent, and this document authorized the various houses to whom it was addressed to honour his draughts. Shortly afterwards, a house at the west-end, which had some disputed accoents with him, lodged an attachment with the London firm on the funds which they had thus received for the sale of the letter, upon the plea that the transaction was a simple deposit, and that the money so attached still belonged to the person who had paid it to them, and that they, the garnishees or issuers of the credit, incurred no responsibility until they came under acceptance. It was also contended that after the attach ment was lodged, the garnishees could not accept and pay the defendant's bills, except in their own wrong. The gar nishees, on the other hand, maintained that the sum banded them was the purchase-money for the letter of credit; that it was as complete a sale as if the article . bought had been goods ; that there is no essential dif ference. between giving an acceptance at once for the amount and an engagement to accept and pay whenever called upon, and hence that the money ceased to be the accredited party's directly he received the garnishees' en gagement in exchange. Three points were submitted by the Recorder to the jury, all of which were decided in favour of the garnishees, but the only one of any public interest was the finding by the jury that the money passed absolutely to the garnishees in exchange for their credit ; that it simultaneously ceased to be the defendants', and consequently was not attachable. This result is very satisfactory, since, if the suit had gone the other way, it would then be held that the article acquired, and the money paid for it; both remained the property of the pur chaser —that an engagement to accept and pay is only binding, if a subsequent claimant floes not step in—and that a person who 'fancies he has a demnd, can, by a simple affidavit of debt, make the issuers of the credit break their engagement to the accredited party, • AMONG the gentlemen who passed their examinations at the Apothecaries'-hall, last week, wbs one named Death. THE BODIES OF Two CHILDREN were found dead the other day in a jar floating in the River Lea, but how or by what means they came there there is no evidence to show. ACCELERATION OF MAILS.-011 the first of April a great acceleration of the mails to and from the north will take place, which will enable letters to be delivered two hours earlier, and dispatched two hours later, than at the present time at York, Newcastle, and other places. ABD-EL-KADER has addressed a letter to Lord Lon donderry, thanking him for his exertions on his behalf. It is addressed "To his lordship the magnificent, the highly exalted, the man of heart, the key of happy issues, before whom misfortune flies, tlie General Vane London. derry, the Irishman." WHALE AND SEAL FISHERY.—The vessels from the port of Dundee, engaged in the Davis' Straits fishery, appear to be relay for sea. Those from Peterhead, where the trade is principally carried on, have sailed some time ago. The total number of vessels this year for Greenland and Davis' Straits is 56, equal to 14,783 tons. RAILWAY DIVIDENDS declared during the week : Caledonian, £4 4s. per cent. per annum on the preference stock, and £2 103. on the ordinary stock ; North British, 6 per cent. on the £5 guaranteed shares; and Scottish Central, 4 per cent., with a bonus of 10s. per cent. paid out of the monies received from the southern companies. AN AMERICAN-IRISHMAN, John Eyre Johnson by name, was, on Saturday, at the Marlborough Pclice-court, London, charged with having stolen jewellery, at various times, from the show-rooms of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell. New Bond-street, of the value of upwards Of £l,OOO. He was apprehended in Paris ' greatly disguised, after having been missing several weeks. He was remanded. Fool' HURDLE RACE.—A foot hurdle race, between two of the most celebrated performers—Fenwick, of Lan caster, and Patterson, of London—came off on Monday afternoon last, in the Eton Brocas. The distance was 200 yards, over ten hurdles. The race was admirably con tested, both men taking their leans together until they reached the eighth hurdle, which Patterson failed to clear and fell, leaving Fethvick an easy winner. PRAYERS FOR A CONVICTED MURDERER.—George Sparkes having been found guilty of the murder of Mr. Blackmore, of Clayhidon, the murderer was prayed for in many of the churches at Exeter on Sunday ; and some of the churches hare been opened half-an-hour before the service, and kept open half-an-hour after its close, daily. until the day of execution, to enable persons desirous of doing so to offer up their prayers for his soul. CAMPS OP INSTRUCTION.—For a few days past stores and equipments for the formation of an extensive encamp. ment have been forwarded from the Tower of London to Chatham, on the race ground of which place troops are to assemble for the purpose of forming a camp of instruc tion. Ascot-heath, and some ground near Sandhurst, have also, we hear, been selected for the summer camps of instruction.— United Service Gazette. WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Saturday forenoon Mary Rowley, aged 50, a widow, residing at Fartown, who had tong been subject to fits of apoplexy, was ob served cleaning her windows. On one of her neighbours going into the house shortly afterwards, she was disco vered laid with her head and body upon the fire, her clothes and body being burnt literally to a cinder, except a small portion of the lower extremities of her stays. — Leeds liztelligencer. THE LATE FIRE IN DONCASTER CHURCH.—The judi. cial investigation into the origin of the late fire at the church of St. George, Doncaster, was brought to a close on Tuesday evening, in the council-chamber of the Guild hal!, after seven different adjournments. :The verdict was to the effect that the cause of the fire might be as signed to the state of the north flue, and the defective and unsafe construction of the heating apparatus, and to the negligence of those parties who had charge of them. 'Z he jury censured the conduct of the officials of the church for their want of care and . attention. DECAY or FEARGLTS O'CONNOR.—A gradual paralysis is said to be stealing over the frame of poor Feargus O'Connor. He is treated as one of the family, and spends his time at billiards, in playing with the children of Dr. Tuke, arranging books, &c. He told a late visitor that he knew he was in a lunatic asylum, but he was under no restraint, and all the people were mad there but himself. He could go away if he chose, and did not know why he did not. Reference being made to the Chartists, he asked, " How are you going on ?" and sung his old stave of "The Lion of Freedom," asking, with exultation, " Do vou know how I thrashed the blue lambs in Nottingham Market-place ?" A NEW DESCRIPTION OF STEAMER, called the Rota tory, commenced plying on the Clyde, between Glasgow and Dumbarton, on Wednesday. The engines are said to be more compact than other engines, consume about one-fourth less fuel, and require no engineer; the steersman, by a peculiar valve, moves the vessel a-head or astern, without communicating with anyone. The steers man stands before the funnel, and there being no paddle boxes to interrupt his view, he sees every object a-head. and can stop or reverse the engines in an instant, without leaving the wheel, or applying to any second party. The inventor is Mr. David Napier. STRANGE. DISCLOSURE.— At Lambeth Police -court, last week, the presiding magistrate was engaged for some time in investigating a case of a delicate character. There is every reason to believe from the disclosures made that, at a lodging-house in Waterloo-road, respectable-looking females were in the habit of taking up their quarters, for the purpose of being, with the help of medicines admi nistered by a surgeon, prematurely confined. After hear ing the evidence the magistrate, Mr. Norton, thou. - 1M enough had been shown to prove the necessity for further investigation, and directed Hoy es, the officer, to call on the medical man and tell him that his professional character was very much involved in the disclosure, and that be (Mr. Norton) wished him to attend at the court to explain his conduct in the matter. Thus the matter rests. ..A.wFur. Loss OF LIFE.—A. melancholy occurrence took place at Deal on Thursday, three brave and hardy men having met with a lamentable death in the Gull stream. Their boat was the borelling lugger Victoria, and the names of the men were Thomas Bowbyree, George Thompson, and another, with Thomas Tho m p son (f a th er of George Thompson, about 50 years of age, and an ex perienc,d boatman,) and Edward Greigs. Thu pushed off in the lugger about nine o'clock in the morning. About eleven they were cruising in the Gull stream, when a brig was observed to heave to, and hoist her colours. Another boat, the Fawn, belonging to Deal, happened to be close on Thompson's boat, and, requiring a hand, Edward Greigs jumped in, and the Fawn immediately bore up for the brig. On approaching within hail of the brig. the captain beckoned to something that had befallen the Victoria, and, on looking astern, they saw the lugger foundering. They made all haste to the spot, but only arrived in time to save the elder Thompson, the others having disappeared with their lugger. PARLIAMENTARY COGNOMINA.—The following names will toe found constituting the members of the House of Commons returned to sit in the present parliament, which, when put together, appear somewhat strange aliquot parts of the Constitutional body at large :—A Court with two Kings, with Grace, a Duke, a Hale Knight, and a Haslie French Marshall. A Portal, two Halls, and two Chambers, with a Guest, and one Bell. A Wall with a Walpole. A Forester, a Roebuck, a Buck, besides a _Nue Fox and a Talbot. A Monck, a Goodman, and a Shee-Hayter. Cocks, and a Vane Peacocke. A Masternzan, two Carters, with a Mare and Packe. Currie and Rice, with Green Lemon Peel. A Butler, with two Butts. A Collier, and Prime Yorke Coles, with two Prices. A Woodhouse and Hutt. with Barnes, and a Freshfield with hill and Wood. A Miller, with two Mills, two Brookes, besides Wells. A Coote, a Swift, and a Martin. A Wise Child. A Potter, with Clay Balls. Six Smiths (Bright Fellowes). A Taylor, a 7 yler, a Sadleir, and a Palmer. Milton, Thompson, Cowper, and Shelley. Power, North, East, and West. A Hogg, with Lowe Manners. A Scott and a Kirk ; and, by way of winding up the list, two Dunnes and a Baillie. BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A DAUGHTER.—On Monday, Joseph Swales, a small farmer, residing at Swilliagton, was charged before the magistrates at Wakefield, with ill treating his daughter, nine years of age. On the night of Sunday the 13th inst, Swales went home about twelve o'clock, when he asked the girl if she had got his supper ready, and on her replying that he had not told her to get it ready, he struck her and kicked her in the mouth with his foot, having his shoes on ut the time. He then threw the carving-kniteat the girl which stuck in her hand, cut ting it in a frightful manner. He afterwards seiz,d her by the throat and held her until she was choked. Not satis fied with this, .the inhuman parent. took her by the hair, threw her down, and dragged her on the floor into the kitchen. He said he would kill her, and inquired where the hedging-hill was. . hedging-bill is a sharp instru ment with which the hedges are cut. He went up stairs to fetch it, when the poor girl managed to get the.back door of the house open and make Ler escape, or there ap pears little doubt but her life would have been sacrificed. Cut, bruised, and bleeding as'she was, and in the dead of the night, she managed to get to the house of her aunt, Hannah Nicholson, of Woodlesford. When her aunt saw her she was scarcely able to recognise her, her face was so bruised and covered with blood, her eyes black and cut, and her hair matted with blood. The prisoner. who was organist at Swillington Church, was committed for trial at the assizes. COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.-011 the Bth of March, Colonel Mure moved f or a comm i t t ee to inquire into the management of the National Gallery ; also to consider in what way the collective monuments of antiquity and fine art possessed by the nation might be most secureiy preserved, judiciously augmented, and ad. vantageously exhibited to the public. The system of management of the National Gallery, the sitially-ss of our collections, the want of an architectural genet. , and of space for a national collectio n o f scu l p t ure , and for the exhibition of prints and drawings, were dwelt on with emphasis. The present time was spoken of as a crisis in the history of art in this country ; and any further unne cessary delay in providing sufficient and tfficient space for a really national collection of works of art was strongly deprecated. Ministers (i.e., Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer) indorsed most of the com plaints and recommendations; raised the question so often and so fully discussed of the re-arrangement of the various national collections, and narrely sup ported the proposition. They declared, however, that no detc_rtuina- UN na had been arrived at as to the retention of the ational Gallery in Trafalgar-square, or the removal of the collec tion to another spot. On the 18th of March the com mittee was appointed, to consist of the following gentle. men :—Colonel Mare, Mr. Labouchere , Mr. Charteris, Mr. Sterling, Mr. R. Currie, Mr. Milnes, Mr. Marshall, Lord Seymour, Mr. Vernon,iri,tr ,Lord.Ai Brooleolstweo, Gi‘oirti.lbnuarnr: Mr. Ewart, Mr. Wall, s Binge, Lord Graham, and Mr. Hamilton. H OLLO WAY'S P IL LS, AN EXCELLE NT R EMEDY FOR IMPURITY or B LOOD , AND GENERAL DERANGEMENT OF HEALTH. —Many persons of robust habits frequently suf fer from a dangerous determination of blood to the head, benumbed feelings in the limbs, heaviness and drowsiness, „ r i s i ng from the blood being in a had state ; the stomach in such cases is generally o u t o f order, with little or no appetite. Such individuals should take a course of Hollo way' s Pills. Thousands who had been given up as incurable by the faculty, have been thoroughly re-invigorated in constitution, and restored to the uninterrupted enjoyment of good health by this admirable remedy. Standard Office, Three o'clock, p.m. OVERLAND MAIL. TRIESTE, MARCH 2S, The steamer Bombs} arrived this morning from Alexandria in 23 hours. Ambassadors from Aye, accompanied by two mission aries, had reached General Godwin's camp. The Emperor of Ave was besieged in a small fort by his younger brother, who had the whole army on his side ; he was sure of reducing the fort, and desired peace with the British on any terms. In consequence of orders received from Ava, Burmese troops had evacuated the province of Pegu, and General Steel had occupied all the strong positions in the district. The Province of Bassein bad been cleared of the enemy by Captains Fextch and Rennie; but an expedition sent against a robber chief, near Donahen, bad been repulsed, with a loss of two guns and 88 killed and wounded. Among the officers killed were Captain Loch and Lieutenant Kennedy, R.N., ,and Captain Pryce, 67th Bengal Native Infantry. Among the severely wounded were Lieut. Bushnell, R.N., and Messrs. Hindle and Wilson, mates of the Winchester. Trade was brisk at Calcutta and Bombay. The rebellion in China was growing more and more serious every day. - • THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, a.m. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NEWS OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. A telegraphic dispatch has just been received from Plymouth, with the intelligence, brought by the steam ship Calcutta, from the Maui itius, that the steam-shi Great Britain, Captain Matthews, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Liverpool on the 20th of February. She may therefore be hourly expected. TERMINATION OF THE CAPE WAR. PEACE PROCLAIMED. By the screw steamer Calcutta, which arrived at Ply mouth this morning, we have advices from the Cape to the 24th of February ; St. Helena, March 4th ; Ascension, 7th ; St. Vincent, 17th. The nelss from the Cape is important. Peace was pro claimed by the Governor on the 14th of February, The Great Britain (screw-steamer), left the Cape on her homeward voyage four days before the Calcutta. The Adelaide, (screw steamer,) was at St. Helena, where slie bad been detained seven days, and was then filling up with wood. PARIS, MONDAY.—No news. The Exchange was dull. Threes closed 79 80. Four and Halves. 103 60. SWITZERLAND : LUGANO, MARCH 23.—The peasantry from the Val Coll,' who threatened Lugano on the 23rd have been dispersed by force of arms, and the military have occupied the entrance of the Valley. The Times says : "The influx of gold continues at Paris, and the period at the Mint, between the receipt of bullion and the redelivery of coin, is now extended to 18 days." LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—This DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. THE FUNDS. — Consols for Account, 100; Ditto for Money, 99i 100 991. RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonian, G4l ; Great Western. 90 4; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 74; London and North Western, 118 1174 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, 30; Midland Stock, 734 4; North Staffordshire, 134 ; York and North Midland, 58. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tuts DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. East. Lancashire, 18; Leeds Northern, 16; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 741 41 ; Midland, 74 ; North Western, Si. Caledonians, 32 ; East Anglian 7 per Cent., 9; Eastern Counties, 12 /; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 74; Lancas ter and Carlisle, 921 ; Ditto Thirds, 131 prn.; London and North Western, 113 171; South Eastern end Dover, 23 3-16. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Herman from New Orleans, and the Ammerland from New York—at G7avesend. The Kinz Oscar from Hayti; Sliftamtmann Haneyrajt from New York ; Azorian from St. Michael's ; and the Janet from Alexandria—all at Deal. _ The Brise from Liverpool at Canmet, 19th inst. Tramp, sailed from Bordeaux for Liverpool 25th inst. The Agneta Juliana put into Plymout► on Monday afternoon, with part of the passengers and seamen of the emigrant ship Duncan Ritchie. of Glasgow. She left Leith for Port Philip on the 19th of March, and has leaked more or less ever since. On Good Friday the leak increased, and could not be kept under, the pumps being choked. Next morning the leak decreased, and about twenty passengers returned, but the crew refused. After receiving stores, the galliot made sail. The passengers landed at Plymouth are Men in all, and seamen thirteen : they state that the Duncan Ritchie appeared to be pre paring to prosecute her voyage ; her . pumps were still at work ; her crew comprising only master, chief officer, second mate, two carpenters, boatswain, one able seaman, the cook, and steward. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—THIS DAY. During the week ending yesterday we have received into this port, coastw ise and from Ireland, very little Grain, and of Oatmeal less than usual of late. From abroad the fresh arrivals of - Wheat, chiefly from the south of Europe and Egypt, are also but moderate ' • while from France and America we have to note a further liberal supply of Flour; and from the United States, France, and Constantinople, a fair quantity of Indian Corn. The exports of erain within the same period are not excessive, but of Flour rather large, including 4,140 barrels, shipped to the Brazils. The market this morning attained considerable steadi ness for all dcscriptions of grain, and there was a tolerably fair demand, at the prices of this day week. Flour, how ever, being in large supply, rather hung in value. • GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET.—This DAY. Market quiet. Sellers, 545. cash. FOURTH EDITION. THE REV. MR. HOUSTON, a minister of the Established Church in Glasgow, has been "libelled" for the too pre valent crime of drunkenness. DESERTIONS FROM AN AUSTRALIAN SHlP.—Captain E. T. Browne, commander of an Australian passenger ship, the Chowringee, was summoned at Thames Police Court,London , onTuesday, lay three of his seamen for wages. - On arriving at Port Philip, the hands, 41 in number, des serted, leaving the captain with only the three mates, • the carpenter, and a boy ; the ship was detained four months by want of hands, and at last the captain had to pay, in advance, for every ordinary seaman £3O, and six able seamen £5O, and £55 for the run home. The wages thus paid to seamen and labourers in the port amounted to £1,200, and the captain, after exhausting the funds re ceived from passengers, had to borrow money in the colony at from 12 to 15 per cent. The complainants who had deserted were received back, forgiven the penalties they had incurred, and received £3O to come back with the ship. They now alleged that . the £3O bore no rela tion to their wages, but was simply a douceur. The magistrate dismissed the summons. To THE LADIES.—We beg to direct the attention of our fair readers to the following special advantages possessed by the " GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH" —advantages (particularly with lace and other fine fabrics) which every lady can appreciate; and in proof of which advantages we have no less an authority than that of the laundress of her Majesty, Queen Victoria :—Her Majesty's laundress states, in a testimonial granted to Mr. Wotherspoon, the ma• ufacturer of the Glenfield Patent Starch," that no other kind than that made by him, and called the Glen field Patent Starch, is used in the Royal Laundry." It requires no boiling; and is perfectly free from ail impuri ties. Being used in a more fluid state than any other kind of starch, it can be applied with greater ft eility, greater cleanliness, and more perfect un ifo r m ity ; and from its extreme fluidity it goes further. In this alone, is a saving to the consumer of 25 per cent. It is manufac tured by a peculiar process , k nown onl y to the manuf ac _ turer, whereby every injurious ingredient is exclud e d ; i t imparts to the clothes a clearness, colour, and b eau tif ul gloss, hith er t o q uite unexampled, which a d vantages are dampness of weat h er o hesitation y i . a m n e e . n t . w uninfluenced ave no b retained r le n n stating these* facts to our reader s, as we are convinced that all we have a d va nced is borne out satisfactorily, by tl th p o e f rm time. .eleven follow itestimonials, whi c h we think • ng any one who is desirous of el • a .opting improvements in the important household operation of dressing laces, &c., to Majesty to use the Glenfield HStarch :—" From the la un d re ss to the Queen ; the Lady Mayoress of Lon don ; , the laundress of the Right Hon. the Countess of Eglinton, lady of the late Viceroy of Ireland ; the laun dress of the Most Noble the Illarchioness of Breadalbane ;_ the laundress of the Right Hon. the Countess of Dart mouth ; the laundress of the lady of Lieut.-General Sir Harry Smith, Bart.; the lady of Wm. Chambers, Efq,, of Glenormiston, one of the publishers of C'hambcve Edinburgh Journal; the matron of that excellent institu tion, the Manchester Female Asylum ; from Watts' Laun dry, Brighton, (where about sixty hands are daily em ployed ;) from several hundreds of the principal grocers in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Halifax, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow ; and spe cially noticed by the Jury of the Great Exhibition, 1851." Some parties have attempted to deceive the public by labelling their worthless materials closely to resemble the Gienfield Patent Starch, so as the unwary might be de ceived thereby, and not discover their mistake until they put it to practical use, when it is then too late. We would remind the ladies to caution those they send to purchase starch to ask for the Glenfield Patent Starch, and further to observe if the name of the manufacturer, R. WOTHER. SPOON, 40, Dunlop-street, Glasgow, is on each packet, as without that none is genuine. hew ?: out was pan)• stcd• •eely• 3lati. little well' voul i a °sou' Thep greet . ' n ode. that , been