The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

June 30, 1846. Zoral anb Vrabinriat p.clus. The last stone of the Branch Bank of England, King street, Manchester, was laid on Tuesday. On Thursday. a young man, named John Farrell, was drowned whilst bathing at the south shore. It i. expected that a public meeting will be held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Thursday, to celebrate the passing f the Corn Bill. The bells of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, rang merry peals on Friday, when the news was received that the Corn Bill had passed. A black man, the other day, who was summoned for allowing 'nis dog to be at large, pleaded that it had no teeth, but the magistrates fined him. nevertbelesq, ss. and costs. The children of the 'West Derby Union 'Workhouse, at their examination on Tuesday, acquitted themselves very creditably. 'On Tuesday evening a female named Paulson, while under the influence of liquor, threw herself from George's Pier into the river, but was fortunatfly rescued. On Tuesday John Goldie was fined ss. and costs, or be imprisoned ten days, for endeavouring to evade the Wood side Ferry toll on Mondayi evening. _ _ _ On Wed❑esday, the axletree of a carriage broke on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, while the train was in motion, but no damage was done. Ibrahim Pacha has placed the sum of £4O in the hands of the Mayor of Liverpool to be distributed to the public chari►ies. A room has been hired in Greenland-street, for the purpose of tr3ing a ragged school ; but the principles on which it is established do not augur well for its success. The assistants of the late firm of Richardson and Cow turn, in this town, on leaving their employ, presented to Mr. James Cowburn a handsome silver cup, richly chased, and of elegant design, as a mark of their respect. A strong reinforcement of police are required in the new streets in Windsor. Every Saturday night the fight ing is brutal, especially in Harding-street, and the police far too weak. STEALING STRAWBERRIES.—On Tuesday, a young lad namrd William Haliiwell, was fined ss. at our Police court, charged with stealing strawberries from the gar den of Mr. Scarsbrick, at liirkdal. On Thursday, feorge Jackson, a flatman, was fined ss. and costs for beating a boy, his son, in a brutal manner with a rope, knotted at the end. He was in the habit of "correcting" his wife with the same intrument. FATAG ACCIDENT.—On Friday, an inquest was held on the body of Thomas Cork hill, aged 40, a rigger, who, while at work at Mr. Peter Cato's ship-building yard, had his skull fractured by the falling over of a timber truck. - _ . . . -- Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor and editor of the New York 1-!erald, arrived by the Hibernia, and re, mains during his stay in Liverpool at the Adelphi Hotel. We understand that it is Mr. 13 , nnett's intention to visit London and make a tour upon the continent. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—On Friday, at the Police court, a servant-girl, named Ann Kelly, was committed for trial, charged with stealing various articles of wearing apparel. the property of Mr. and Mrs. Tinley, of Vine street, with whom she lived as servant. A correspondent suggests the propriety of the figures on the dial of the Infirmary clock, in Brownlow.street, being repilt. At present they are almost invisible, and for the convenience of such a thortughfare, the trifling expense of restoring it is scarce worthy notice. Last week two little boys were drowned in an old marl pit on Bartington-heath, Cheshire. They had gone in to bathe, and no doubt had got out of their depth ; their clo:hes were found lying near the spot, which gave the first intimation as to their melancholy fate. A public meeting will take place at Chester on Friday next, for the purpose of promoting the erection of public baths and washhouses for the poor. The Mayor will take the chair ; and the fund already subscribed being £225, there is every prospect of sue, . . The bakers of bread have run thrir stocks of flour so - f ine that it was difficult to obtain bread in some of the villages in this county at the beginning of last week. Even in this town some of them are so completely nut of stock as to require that the flour bought by them shall be sent borne the same afternoon for immediate use. The Mayor of Bordeaux is at present in Liverpool. He was at the Police-court about an hour on Saturday, and sat alongside Mr. Rushton on the bench. He seemed to watch the proceedings at the court with great interest. On Sunday he was waited upon by William Brown, Esq., and other merchants of the town. During the week, a number of parties have been sum moned for keeping pigs in the vicinity of dwelling-houses, allowing ash pits to be in a defective state, and refuse mat ter to flow into the stree's, &c. In all cases where the ofience was proved the parties were fined, in some cases 205., and others 10s. and costs. CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH.—On Wednesday, Mary Bell, aged 17, servant of Mr. D. Scurfield, shawl dealer, Bold-so eet, was committed for trial. charged with secret ing the birth of an illegitimate child, and hiding the body up the chimney, where it remained undiscovered for six weeks. Edward Murray was on Wednesday committed on a charge of bigamy. Tne prisoner was married in Ireland in the year 1837, to Catherine Bennett, and again in Oc tober, 1837, to Margaret Parry, at St. Nicholas' Church, Liverpool, the first wife being then alive. Both wives appeared in court and gave evidence. A long investigation, involving the conduct of two or three police-officers, took place on Wednesday, respect ing an alleged assault committed on Mrs. Morris, who lives with her husband and family in the neighbourhood of London -road. The evidence was conflicting. Mr. Rushton was unable to adjudicate, but he dismissed 283 for being intoxicated. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Friday, three middle aged men were brought before Mr. Rushton, and ordered to pay a fine of £3O each, or to be imprisoned for three months, for having been detected in the act of making preparations to work a still in Ear:et-dale-street. back of St. Martin's market. Their names are Patrick Traynor, itatriek Ptrcival. and Jas. rvl` Bride. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH SCHOOLS, HACKIN'S Hay.— The chiloren of these schools were exsmined before the Rev. Robert Davies and a number of the congregation and friends, (in Tuesday 14st. The examination gave great satisfaction to the company assembled, and the Rev. Chairman declared himself much satisfi:d with their at tainments, and delivered an impressive address to the children. CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL.—On Tuesday the half yearly examination of the boys of Christ Church Schools, took place. The object is to select the cleverest boy, to be educated free ia the Lower school of the Collegiate Institution. The boys acquitted themselves creditably, and were surprisingly quick at their arithmetic. Ihe -principal examiner was the Rev. Dr. Hume', of the Col legiate Institution. After the selection was made, a gen tleman present made a handsome pecuniary present to the sixbest boys, -•• A BET TO THE BENCH.—On Tuesday, an old gentle rnan appeared before Mr. Rushton, to answer an in formation charging him with allowing offensive matter from his pren,i,es to ocze through to those of his neigh bours. He denied the statements of the informant. and (turning to Mr. Rushton) offered to bet him, or any one in court, .ZIOuO that the inrp> ctor bad been mistaken. Mr. Itushtnn quietly informed him that he did not bet, and fined him £1 and costs—warning him of the probable re petition of the fine, if the nuisance was not removed. CHESTER REGATTA. --The ensuing Chester Regatta, in August n-xt, is likely to be an unusually interesting and spirited affair. Mr. Jervis, M.P. fur the city, gives a cup value £25, which will of course be enhanced by a sweep stakes. The `• Royal Rowing Club" hove a new boat building for them by Searle ; and have already a very effi,ient crew in training upon the Dee, under Maynard, of London. N, ho took them in hand last week. Crews are expected from Lancaster, Liverpool, and Dublin, to con tend for the prize. During the voyage of the Roscommon steamer from Dublin to 'Liverpool on Saturday week, a fight commenced amongst the' harvest men, some hundreds of whom were on deck. The combatants being armed with stout shille laghs, it was not long before some dozen were stretched insensible upon the deck ; and the fierce, mad yells of the men, together with the screams of the women by whom they were sus rounded, were only quietened by a was -r-pipe being brought to play upon the •` boys." During the row a poor woman was prematurely delivered. A YOUNG CANNIBAL.—.At the Police-court, Black burn, list •Wednrstl..y week, Ilenry Elope, of Billioge End, was charged by Alice Hindle with baring assaulted a little boy, her son. During the inquiry as to the cir cumstances of the case, the singular fact was elicited that the child in question had an irresistible propensity to taste 'lumen flesh. Nearly every little playfellow's nose, ears, and fingers, that came within reach of his mouth, would 'this young cannibal seize between his teeth, and endea. your to make them meet. The mother admitted that her child was " rather given to biting;" and as it was for the exercise of this uncivibzed inclination on the defendant's son, that defendant had chastised the juvenile savage, the magistrates dismissed the chat ge, with a recommendation .to complainant to get her child muzzl , d. F4TItAORDINARY DE kTII.—On Wednesday, an in ,quest was held before Mr. Curry, touching the death of a man named William Newall, aged 25, who lived in Sperling-place, Everton. Deceased was in the employ of Messrs. et itchley and Co., manufacturing chemists, Can ning•street, and on Monday last was engaged there, with the foreman of the establishment, in drawing off some ni trous acid from an earthenware receiver with an earthen• Wane top into stone bolt es, when the tap came out, and the Held gushed out. They both got away as quick as possible. The deceased afterwards complained of a light netts of the chest, caused by the fumes arising from the acid. In half an hour he left off work, and went home: Next morning he became worse. and was taken to the Northern Hospital, Where he died soon after. The house ileur4g,•oll, Mr. G ldersleeves, ascertained. on a post mortem x :. ination, that d ea th hail been caused by asphyxia , fro the e "gorgement o f t h e a i r tubes, the result of inhaling ens front nitrous acid.—Verdict accordingly. Citot' IN THE Pvl.DE.—The late rain has been of great service; its beneficial effects being visible through vege tation. Tue wheat crop, genet ally speaking, looks well, and fully an aver age produce is anticipated. Oats, on lan d " good heart," look well ; but, on inferior soil, are short and bad in colour. Beans will be a sorry affair; there will neither be 8-raw nor pods. Potatoes of early sorts are Pretty f a i r; b ut l ate cro p s present a somew h at ra gged' appearance, and in some instances the baneful effects of the rot are visible. A great denl of the turnip seed, sown in the drill a month ago. has not yet made its l OPesrance.:.n come qu, li ee of the hot a n d dry wea th er , b u t to jug now begioninz to brain!. In some instances the ft y has done much damage. Many farmers are busy in their hay, although it is a month heft) , e the usual time of cutting. In bruuk or low lying meadows the crop is fair, but the generality of fields will cut up "thin," and, taken as a Willie, the produce of hay will be below average. .of all kinds will be a failing crop this season. WRITING.—We have tare .dy borne personal testimony 'to Mr. Toornoson's excell en t s y s t em o f teac hi ng, wr i t i ng , lad need now only refer to itis advertisement. THE LATE CAPTAIN EMERSON.—This much respected gentleman died a few days since, at 13 , )oterstown, near Dub in. For years he commanded one of her M-ijesty's mail steam boats between nis port and Dublin, and his gentlemanly bearing, great goodness of heart, and a dis position always eager to oblige, recommended him to all who knew him. He was a skiltul and experienced naval officer. EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS.-It is intended to pull down the whole of the south side of Shew's Brow, and the east side of the Old Haymarket, including the mass of small tenements called St. John's village. Handsome buildings will succeed the present old fashioned and un sightly houses. It is probable that the proposed salt water baths will be constructed on the site of St John', village. All the masses of old buildings at the bottom of Water-street, forming part of Tower-gardens, are to be immediately removed, and the site occupied by stately and handsome edifices for business purposes. WATER.-We believe we may now congratulate the town on the prospect of an abundant and speedy supply of water, the purest in the world. The Corporation is aware that the plan is being prepared for them by Mr. Robert Rawlinson, the engineer, of Manchester, who, availing himself of his opportunities while engaged in the hydraulic and other works of the Bridgwater trust, has perfected a plan, simple, cheap, and efficacious. This plan will require neither steam-engine, pump, or turncock ; the supply of water will be inexhaustible and constant ; it will flood the sewers, keep a thousand public fountans in eternal play, and give every householder, poor or rich, an opportunity • of having always on, from high pressure, abundance of the purest water.-Journal. LAUNCHES.-On Tuesday morning a beautiful iron steamer called the Fenella (the cognomen of the interest ing dumb girl, characterised in Sir Walter Scott's novel of " Peveril of the Peak") was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, South Shore The Fenella was constructed from a model by our towns man, Mr. John Grantham, and is truly a fine specimen of naval architecture, of very fine lines, and light flotation. She was built for Messrs. Kemp and Laidlav, of the new, and now thriving, town of Fleetwood; and she is intended to run, chiefly with passengers, between that port and the Isle of Man.-On the following dry, a fine new vessel called the Georgina, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Peter Chaloner and Sons, Baffin-street. She is of 600 tons burthen, of a beautiful model. apparently adapted for combining speed with the capability of carry ing a large cargo, and intended to be employed in the Calcutta trade. The vessel was built for John Worrell, Esq. LIVERPOOL Docgs.-A comparative statement of the rates and duties received in the years ending on the 24th of June, 1845 and 1846:-In the year 1846, duties on tonnage, £114 . .709 Iss. Bd. ; on goods, £98,714 Os. 61. ; lighthouse, £8.732 15a. 2d. ; floating light, £3 775 15s. Id.; graving dock, £12,338 4a. ; graving block. £2,308 12s. 6d. ; extra dock rent, £483135. 6d. ;-total, £211,062 16s. 54. In 1845. duties on tonnage, £118,046 Bs. 8:1. ; on goods, £103.200 15s. 94. ; lighthouse, £8,632 Os. 9 1.; floating light, £3.897 3s. , graving dock, £11,660 17s. ; graving block. £2,239 3s. Gd.; extra dock rent, £660 ss. ;-total, £250,541 13s. 10d.,-showing an increase on lighthouse duties of £lOO 14s. sd. ; graving dock, £677 7s. ; graving block, £69 9e. ; and a decrease of duties on tonnage of £3,335 135.; on goods, £6,486 15s. 3d. ; floating £l2l Bs. Id.; and extra dock rent, £3Bl Ils. 64.;-total, decrease, £9,478 17s. 5d.-Number of vessels in the year 1846, 19,951: tonnage, 3,095.444. In 1845, number of vessels, 20,521; tonnage, 3,016.531; increase on tonnage, 79,913 ; decrease on number of vessels, 570. FATAL AND SINGULARLY SIMILAR ACCIDENTS.-On Saturday week, a young man named Burton, a native of Birkenhead, employed on the Holyhead Railway at Pen. manmawr, was ordered to take his horse and cart into the sea to wash them. He did so, when the animal be ginning to plunge and kick, got beyond his depth, and Burton was thrown off and drowned, being carried away by the tide. His body was afterwards found.-On Wed nesday last. a young man named Myers, a carter in the employ of Mr. Hitchmough, Higher Tran,nere, took his two chain horses to :in old stone quarry filled with water, near'the Park Hotel, Birkenhead, to wash their feet. One of the horses slipped into a deep part of the quarry, and deceased clung to the reins to endeavour to get him out, but the horse became restive, threw him on his back in the water, and kicked the poor fellow so severely that he sank and was drowned. The vicious horse was drowned, but the other was got out. The body of Myers was not recovered until an hour had elapsed. Ilis brother was drowned last year, and was pulled out by the same grap nel. His father was killed by a cart a few years ago. REMOVAL OF PAUPERS.-The House of Commons have directed the publication of a return, showing the number of paupers removed to their places of settlement from the manufacturing towns of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire, during the years 1841, 1842, and 1843. The total numbers of persons removed from twenty-five manufacturing towns enumerated in the return were :- in 1841, 718 families, comprising 2,254 persons ; in 1842, 1.393 families, comprising 3,922 persons ; and in 1843, 1,745 families, comprising 5,168 persons. No returns had been received from Stockport, Bury, Blackburn, and Leeds (township.) The return states that from Man chester there were removed. in 1812. 414 families, com prising 928 persons ; in 1843. 587 families, comprising 1.553 persons. From Salford (including Fendlebury and Pendleton), in 1841, 156 families, comprising 419 persons ; in 1842, 183 families, comprising 470 persons ; in 1843, 229 families, comprising 614 persons. From Chorlow upon-Medlock (including Ardwick and flulme), in 1841, 32 families, comprising 90 persons ; in 1842, 65 families, comprising 166 persons ; in 1843. 60 funailies, comprising 186 persons. 111 HWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.-OR the recomieen dation of Mr. Walthew, the law-clerk was directed to write a letter to the Town-clerk, requesting him to call the attention of the Council to the desirability of erecting troughs for supplying cattle with water, as the Board ex pect that the water-works at Green-lane will be in opera tion in about three months.-A conversation took place as to the laying of pipes from the new mains, for the pur pose of supplying the new north baths, but the opinion generally expressed was, that the Board had not funds to lay the pipes, and that, therefore, the Corporation ought to undertake that wotk.-Mr. Thine said they exp , cted the baths at the north end would be ready early in July. The law-clerk announced that the Liverpool Sanitary Bill bad passed through committee on Friday last, with a clause inserted authorising the continuance of the present commissioners in office till the act came into operation. Mr. Higgins alluded to what took place last week, when on his stating that a motion relative to the Sanatory Bill bad not been put, Mr. Birkett gave his statement a flat denial. As that statement had since been correborated, he called on Mr. Birkett to retract the offensive expres sion. Mr. Birkett refused to withdraw the exoreseion which referred to the assertion that the motion had never been put. A long conversation and some explanations took place, which ended in both parties withdrawing all they had said, and shaking hands with each other. It appears that Mr. Higgins's version of the affair was the right one. He had said " the motion was not put," and intended to add, •' while I was in the room," (which he afterwards called out aloud) when he was repeatedly in terrupted. ACCIDENT AT THE RAILWAY WORKS, GLOUCESTER STEP ET.— On Friday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, an accident took place in the excavation, now approaching towards completion, for the extension of the yard-room, or station, of the Grand Junction Railway Company, between Gloucester-street and Sidney -street. Two borings had been made in the yellow freestone rock at the east end of the excavation, and both being charged with gunpowder, ignition was effected by slow matches in the usual way, and the overseers and work tnen retired fi om the spot to await the effect, at what they considered a sate distanm—about forty yards. Contrary to expectation, the lower part of the stone bored into was softer tLan the upper stratum, and gave way first by the force of the two explosions, sending in the direction where the men were standing a terrific shower of large and small pieces of stone. They saw the, coming missiles, but had not time entirely to escape. One man named Jones was struck by a stone on the leg with such force that a compound frac tore was the effect. He was sent to the Infirmary, and is doing well. Three other men were seriously wounded by other stones, one on the back of the head, another on the hack. and another on the shoulder. which was dial cated. Thee were take-, to the surgery of Mr. O'Gorman, in the immediate neighbourhood, and were attended to by that gentleman, and nfterwards sent to their home,.. They ar,.. we learn, in a fair way of recovery. There were from 30 to 40 persons. including casual spectators, at the time in the excavation, and it is wonderful, such were the size and quantity of stones projected, that a great fatality did not take'place. The houses in the neighbourhood were sha ken by the explosion, and the inhabitant: considerably alarmed. The blasting of the rock is no doubt resorted to ' to save time and labour, or, in other words, to expedite the work ; but as the site is in a potiulons and central part of the town, it is to be hoped that the remaining part of the operations will be accomplished without blastit g, especially as the stone is of a soft nature, and may be easily quarried out in the usual way, by pickaxe and wedge. ANNUAL SESSION.—The annual meeting of the ma gistrates for this county took . place at Preston, on Thurs day last, Richd. Earle, Esq., in the chair.—Mr. Alderman Hodgson, on behalf of a committee who had been appointed for that purpose, reported that a bite for a new lunatic ar y lum for the West Derby hundred bad been selected by them in the neighbourhood of Ra;nhill ; its cost would be 5.000 guineas. —The Rev. J. S. Birley said the Poor-law Commissioners havi, , g been consulted, had given it as their opinion that Manchester and Liverpool would be bound to contribute to the new asylums proposed to he erected, in the same proportion as they now did to the asylum at Lancaster.—On the motion of Mr. J. F. Foster, it was resolved that a committee be appointed to consider the order made on the county treasurer for the payment of the special constables employed in that borough during the disturbances in 1842.—M r. T. B. Addison, in a speech of considerable length, proposed that a committee should be appointed for the purpose of taking into consideration the general state of the prisons in the county, and repo. t ing to the next meeting, with the view of introducing the separate system. He referred to he new cells for male prisoners erected in the House of Correction at Preston, an d said the separate system there had caused a great decrease of prisoners in the gaol, and thus effected a saving of £3274 to the country. lie expressed approval of the principle of the model prison of Pentonyille, and con sidered that the prisons at. Preston, Kiikdale, and the New Willey were sufficiently ample for the wants of the county, and sail Lancaster Castle was not only unfit for a prison, but incapable of being made so. The Rev. J. 0. Parr seconded the motion. and Colonel Rawstorne, Mr. Hodgson. Mr. Foster, and Mr. Neild express-d their general concurrence in the resolution, which was passed unanimously. A motion to erect an office and storehouse at Preston for the constabulary force, at a cost of £5OOO, was, after some discussion, defeated. Mr. Superintendent Fanning's salary was increased from £lOO to £l3O, and the salary of Mr. M*Guire, second clerk in the chief con-table's office, was increased to £9O per annum. The meeting then adjourned till the 10th September neat TIM LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE RECENT ATTEMPT OF THE Two YOUNG WO MEN FROM HULL TO BECOME SAILORS. In the ac count we last week furnished of this freak, we stated that when the girls were brought before Mr. Craig, surgeon, and inspector of volunteers for the navy. they were re quired to strip, and took , off their jackets, but being pressed to go further in the process of denuding, they confessed their sex. We afterwards stated, as taken from the lips of the girls themselves, and consequently their opinion only, that " had not a second doctor (a young man) been called in. they would have passed inspection by the first" (this is by Mr. Craig). By giving this last expression of the girls, (who were of course greatly mis taken,) we find we have given some unintentional offence to Mr. Craig, who, having had long experience as an in spector of seamen, immediately detected the sex of the impostors, and so expressed himself to his son, who was the young men alluded to. Mr. Craig also gave them the most moral and earnest advice, urging upon them the im propriety and indelicacy of leaving their homes in such attire, or so foolish an adventure, and impres , ing on them the impossibility of escaping detection, should they make any future attempt, as complete personal inspection of all candidates for the service was imperative. As nothing was further from our own intention than to impugn the professional discernment of Mr. Craig, we trust this ex planation will be satisfactory, eseecially as we cannot be lieve that his reputation has suffered in the slightest de gree by the crude conclusion of two servant women. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—TiIe consideration of a synopsis of the routine duties at the Albert Dock ware. houses was deferred for a week in consequence of the absence of some of the members, who had expre sse d s t rong opinions upon one or two of the clauses. Mr. Mann, in reference to a list which was submitted of parties recom mended for the various offices at the Albert Dock Ware houses, said the warehouse sub-committee, in considering the applications for the situations, had met 35 times. their sittings frequently occupying three or four hours. There were 423 applicants, all of whom, with very few exceptions, had a number of testimonials, all of which were gone through, All the clerks recommended were persons of considerable experience and great respectability, and the wonder wag, that men of such respectability and ability should be induced to offer their services to the Dock Committee on such terms. The Secretary then read the following list, and the committee confirmed their appoint ment :—Warehouse-keepers, Superintendents, Clerk, Warrant Issue Clerk, Manifest or Ship Ledger Clerk, at salaries of £l5O per annum each : Thomas Inman, aged 44 ; Leonard Simpson. 32;' Ebenezer Allen, 44; J. A. Cunliffe, 27; A. S. J. Pomperoy, 3 ); John G. Gilks, 28. Ledeer Clerks for Warehouses and Vaults, at a salary of £lOO per annum each Elkanah Healey, 22; John Goodall, 25; Alexander Gordon, 39; Thomas H. Glover, 25. Warehouse Clerks, at a salary of £BO per annum each : S. T. Nicholson, 29 ; Richard Williams, 24; William Wright, 23. Landing or Cheek Clerks, at a salary of £BO per annum each : George Clare, 21; Henry Fox, 26; James Williams, 27; J. W. Fairclough, 22; E. R. Tillet, 22; W. F. Pennington, 21 ; H. J. Orme, 24 ; C. M. Machell, 22; J. D. Pennell, 25; John Marsh, jun., 28; James Askew, 26; William Eaves, 22; R. Evans, 21; Cornelius Beattie, 28. Landing or Check Clerks, at a salary of £5O per annum each : Wm. Owens, 22; A. C. Leughton, 19 ; George Thirkell, jun., 18; Edwin Walley, 21/. Managing Foremen at 455. per week : Silk—William Stokes; East and West India produce—James Ayre. Mr. Molyneux said that Mr. Hinch and Mr. Card were highly recom mended for the two last appointments, but after sending in applications they had since withdrawn. Mr. Rankin was understood to say, there were many of the rejected parties as deserving as those who were approved, and, it was probable, should an addition to the present staff be necessary, that a selection would be made from the un successful candidates without giving public notice. Mr. Ripley (who was much affected) proposed that the Chair man should write a letter of condolence and sympatay to the family of the late Mr. Charles Horsfall. The Chair man said he should to glad to comply with such a request. He felt himself very much indebted to Mr. Horeail, for the information he bad given to him whilst a member of that board. When applied to, he afforded it with that courtesy and willingness which so distinguished him through life. CO RR ttSPO NDENCE. EARL GREY AND•THE IRISH CHURCH TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Our opponents misrepresent our position; our hostility to Papery is quite consistent with our love for Papists. It is not against Roman Catholics but against Romanism we protest ; it is not against those unhappy victims of Priesthood and hypocrisy in the sister island against whom we protest, but against those men and that religion by whom and by which they are victimised. We protest, and by God's grace we will protest, till we have not left a voice to lift up against its enormities a system, than which all the ingenuity of Satan and his infernal councils could not have devised one more effective for the perversion of humanity, the destruction of nations, and th. everlasting ruin of immortal souls 1 A system, which, wherever its infecting presence is found, blights commerce and pros perity, roots up communities and nations, and spreads devastation around it. A system, a more terrible engine in the hands of Godlike venrance for the punishment of a nation's sins, than all the inagues, calamities, and woes ever issued from the quiver of eternal wrath ! This is strong language, and we are decried for using expressions incom patible with Christian charity and moderation ; but, Sir. I ask with what other diction are we to suit our subject?- Would that / could speak on such a burning topic in " words that burn." When we read of the cheats that are practised by the inheritors of that truth which Christ gave unto his disciples, upon the very calamities of a -starving peasantry. When we read of men, priest's for sooth of Christ's holy religion! and in this enlightened age, trading with the mummery of their perverted office, and selling "holy salt" as a remedy against disease to those wretched and -deluded beings who were perishing ender that disease, and whose necessities favoured their helpless credulity. When we read of ministers wearing the badge of the deity of the Bible denouncing that holy volume a " damnable book," and consigning the Stem. bling spirit who shall dare to consult its divine precepts to " eternal damnation ;" when we find the ambassa tors of the Prince of Peace sowing the seeds of dissension amongst their people, and encouraging them to acts of violence, robbery, and bloodshed, by extending to them God's pardon beforehand; when we read of these things not one tithe of the fearful class of enormities which stain that horrible confederacy of the powers of darkness, whilst in public, decency and conventionality step in to our restraint, in the private musings of one's indignant spirit the whole vocabulary of Saxon vituperation is utterly unable to furnish language capable of expressing our just abhorrence of such wicked, such blasphemous, such horri ble abominations! for th- use of the inhabitants of such new separate parish - ; provided always, that no such rate shall be valid unless rate-payers °coup\ ing at the least three-fourths of the property rated to the relief of the poor in such new parish concur in making such rate ; and no such rate shall be valid unless due notice be given of the intention to make such rate for such purpose, by an advertisement published during three successive weeks, in some one newspaper pub ished in the county or counties wherein such parish is situated, signed by the churchwardens, overseers, and ten rate-payers ; or where there shall be fewer than ten rate payers, by tate-pters to the amount of one• fourth of the rates levied for the relief of the poor. Clause 4 declares ' that churchwardens may. raise money for building new churches by mortgage—provided always, that it shall be covenanted that not les: than one-tenth of the sum so borrowed shall be annually paid off, in addition to the in terest agreed to be paid tor such sum. ClAuse 5. Pro viding sites for new churches.---That it shall be lawful to erect any such new church or chapel on any such glebe land on any part of such new separate parish ; and it shall be lawful to take any quantity of such glebe land, not exceeding in the whole two acres, for the purpose of form ing a churchyard fat' the burial of the dead ; and the glebe land so taken for the site of such new church, and for such churchyard, shall thereafter be vested in the ordinary for the use of sur:h separate parish ; provided always that such glebe land shall not be taken unless the ordinary and the clerk in holy orders, who may be in the possession of the glebe land, shall give their consent thereto in writing. Clause 6 provides that funds now appli -able io repairs of churches may in certain cases be applied for the purposes of this Act. And, Sir, who is it that is favourab'e to this dangerous religion; who is it advoc,tes its brawling claims? Not only Earl Grey and his reckless party, but our own, or sure our own leader and ally, the Premier of England. It is Sir Robert Peel who has fed the pollution of May nooth, and who has threatened the destruction of the Pro testant University and that now pants to dispense the money of Englishmen to the maintenance of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland ! It is lamentable to contemplate the sad wreck of former prosperity and greatness, exemplified in that degenerated man. " But yesterday, and Peel might have stood against the world ; now, none so poor as do him reverence." Apart from the considerations of party, this fallen man is a terrible lesson to his compeers and successors ; he will be for ever a monument of favours lost, and advantages thrown away. 1 , 1 the political history of his country, his own life will form a melancholy episode, pointing, for the warning of future generations, to that rock upon which no statesman can steer with honour or with safety, veri fying the truth which one day, if the terrible time of rec koning has not yet arrived, will flash across his con science, with all the force of thirty years' experience, that though the arts of duplicity and cunning may for a while succeed on the credulity and weakness of a party, yet, like water, the dishonest, statesman must at last find his real level. Ile has been tamped by a master hand our Fabius n Mxi o a tle rri ss us but o n 0 ; table,n character r we a i ct i e i r sid a far oiant less iquity will only suit t u h g i h s crimes. When we reflect. upbti the many advantages showered down on this misguided minister by a lenient providence, perverted to thwart the very will of that gra cious providence, we are afflicted with reeret that we should have trusted in his hands our best and most impor tant interests, as his day of remorse will come for betraying them. Whilst he might have retired from the active arena, upon which he has so long played his part, covered with the laurels of success and a gratified ambition, followed by the endless gratitude of his own party, and the forced admi ration of his political opponents, he has now blighted every hope, but the paltry prospect of a wickedly earned coronet. He has not one satisfaction meet for an honour able man to entertain, and the only anxiety he occasions a betrayed country is., that for the good of pro'.perity he has grown tired of his troublous existence, if nor from a conviction of its turpitude, still from the desire of repose. There can be no peace fora detected deceiver on the stage where he practised his deceit ; and that party into whose arms he has thrown himself, only despise him for his weakness and distress. As soon as they have accomplished the dirty work in which they have employed him as their tool, they reject his help as an incumbrance, and laugh whilst he writhes under the contempt of one party and the ridicule of the other. Without one friend in the wide world who would vouchsafe him a character, this helpless wanderer is at the mercy of every tide and blown by every wind that caprice, cunning, or revenge may raise to his destruction. Once the cherished hope of a nation, he is now the miserable object of scorn and detestation of every party in that nation : once the recognised leader of the greatest party England ever saw, now cast out from alle giance, a pitiful deserter to a faction whom even he taints by his adhesion : once the great premier of England, now the apostate hireling and tool of a rabid and revolutionary crew! CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—On Thursday, the anniversary of the national schools connected with the Established Church, was celebrated in this town, by the children walking in procession, headed by a number of clergymen, members of the Town Council and others, and afterwards attending divine service at St. Peter's Church, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Thos. W. Peile, D. D.. High Master cf Renton, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. During the service, the psalms and hymns were sung by the children in a very beautiful and correct manner. Mr. Edmund Stott presiding at the organ. His Worship the Mayor was prevented from attending, in consequence of sudden indisposition. The collection amounted to £4O 2s. sd. ; last year it was £44 ls. 10d. The subject of the reverend gentleman's sermon was taken from the three last verses of the 48th Psalm. In drawing a parallel between the providence of God over the ancient Jewish Church, and his merciful dealings with our own Established Church, the pride and protection of our land, he took occasion to advert to the glorious Reformhtion, the Res toration, and Revolution, in which our religion was re formed, established, and confirmed, and also to the in creased zeal and energy of her clergy and laity in the present day as causes of devout thanksgiving and good hope for the future. In saying this, however, he was not blind to the dangers by which she was assailed, more from the divisions by which she was weakened from with in, than even from the enemies by whom she was menaced from without. Tares had been sown among the wheat ; an enemy had done this and " such tares, too," he ob served, " as one would have thought that neither the craft nor subtlety of the devil or man could have reproduced in the Church of Protestant England." However, as the de soh.ting tempest only restored health to the atmosphere by which we are surrounded, even so this lamentable de fection might also be overruled for good in His hands who ordereth all things, to whom therefore thanks should he given, and in whom confidence should be placed. The following is an account of the number of children in the schools connected with the Established Church, within the parliamentary boundary, on the day of the anniver sary, 25th June, 1845: xtay. Info SCHOOLS Blue Coat Hospital Fm. a'e Or. Asylum Old Church 253 252 8 Hunter street l6B 100 15 Sr. James's Welsh Charity ... 296 104 .. Everton ftr Kirkdale 186 110 20 1..4. Mark's.. St Andrew's l3B 128 36 St. Paul's Edgr..hiq St. lude's St. Augus'ine's :59 140 26 St. Jonn the Baptist 157 24u 36 N. Church of Eng 268 20' , 28 St. Bride's.. St. Ca' herine's 79 76 6 Mill-lane S. Church of Eng l3B, 150 4 st. Luke ' s 6Ol 43 5 St.Maty'r , Kirkdale Christ Church 88! 373 100 '175 156 334 ;6. 431 19') 456 Maxims quis non Jupiter, exelamat, simul atque audivit ) 601 266 55! 204 Sol 384 2281 492 1:39 3:•1 2021 410 The subject has carried me too far : I have touched upon it very slightly : I must recur to it and my Lord Grey's speech on the earliest opportunity.—Tour obedi- • I 66, 162 D's ent servant, NIGEL June 19th, 1946, 60, 256 3.6 86. 4.0 22. , 47 . 6 422 735 297 717 1 7 5 sso UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS, 78' 158 52 148 tan, 254 The new church at Elworth,in the parish of Sandbacb was consecrated on Tuesday. • I 72 2M 510 89 214 151 223 287 654 The diocese of Australia is to be immediately subdi vided into three distinct bishoprics. It is Miss Burdett Coutts who has expressed an inten tion of founding, at her own expense, two colonial bishoprics. On Friday the Bishop of Chester consecrated two new churches at Longsight, near Manchester. His lordship preached on each occasion. On Wednesday, the Bishop of Chester consecrated the beautiful little church at North Rode, Cheshire, and on the following day he performed the same ceremony at Rainow, in the same county. In the Arches Courr, on Saturday, the Rev. James Shore was admonished and condemned in costs of suit for celebrating divine worship in an unlicensed chapel within the diocese of Exeter. 13f11 73 Mariner' , Church . 10 74, '. . . St. Bartholomew's 170 15n 25 St. Clement's 142 98 55 St. 'imon's . 130 St. Barnabas' 2lB 16 St. Silas' St. Martin's . l2O 951 • • St.l homas', Paik 45 13 St. John's . 152 1 W. Derby Workhs. 55 Live' pool Ditto I 42 991 169 14t59 390; SSI 3h7 1.• 100 2 - 5 24 296 75 194 9 6 1 202 6 2.0 85i 132, 4751 260 5, 202 498 2'9 483 4'B 716 1;3 373 ISO 385 144 318 50 118 4241 497 6708114205 Mcinnrit BY TWO BOYS.—Last week the Manchester magistrates were engaged in investigating a case involving circumstances of an almost unparalleled desert, tion, as tending to prove a deliberate act of murder against two boys named James Seddon and Joseph Dean, the one 17 and the other only 14 years of age. The victim is a boy named George Wray, 13 years old, the son of a blacking maker living in Dfansgate-street, Manchester. Seddon, the elder of the accused parties, has for some time occu pied a small coal-yard near a street called Tuer-street, Chorhon-upon-Medlock. but both he and Dean seem to have led a sort of vagabond-life, existing rather upon what chance placed in their way than from any regular means of subsistence. The circumstances of the horrid affair are these :—On Friday week the deceased and bis brother were sent out by their father with a donkey and pithiersTolnilik blieltiortor - sale. - As they did not re= turn home at the usual hour in the evening, the father went in search of them, and succeeded in finding the de ceased's brother and the donkey, but the deceased could not be met with. Late on Friday night the father gave up the search, intenling to renew it on the following morning, but on that morning he received the news of At a consecration a few days since, by the Bishop of London, his lot &hip alluded to the number of churches be had consecrated (upwards of 150), and said, there was a friendly rivalry between himself and the Bishop of Chester, who had consecrated upwards of 160 . The valuable vicarage of St Pancras has become vacant by the death of the Rev. James Moore, LL D., (Ale of the most Eloquent preachers in London. It is said that the Rev. T. Dale, canon of St. Paul's, will be his suc cessor. JESUITS IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Archbishop Magee, the predecessor of the present Archbishop of Dublin, made the following assertion o some cler of his diocese, some time previous to his death re are, (said-he), at Ws moment - , mriny count—but still acting as Church of England clergymen, and in the possession of parishes, who are silently but surely working its downfall." At Glasgow a floating church has just been launched. The vessel is built of iron, perfectly flat underneath, the a I one end formed after the fashion of a bow, and the other, son's death. It appeared that about four o'clock in the morning, James Hughes, ostler at the, Golden Eagle,. in Tu'er-street, went to the stable connected with the inn, and, on opening a window which overlooks a stream called * 1 Black Brook," he saw the body of the deceased lying in the brook. The depth of water in the brook was only about three inchrs, and the upper part of the de ceased's dress was quite dry. The body was removed into a stable, and the police were informed of the circum stance. Inquiries were immediately set on foot, and on the deceased's body being examined by the police sur• geon, it was found that death resulted from a severe blow received on the forehead, and which bad injured th e brain. The blow appeared to have been inflicted with some heavy blunt instrument, though with sufficient edge to cut through the deceased's cap, as a hole was disco vered in it at a part corresponding with the wound on the forehead. There were also some slight m ar k s on the d. ceased's neck, as if an attempt had bee n made at strangulation. He had no money in his pocket s ; a l though he was known to have sold blacking to the am ount of two shillings or three shillings in the course of Frid a y. T he priocival facts which tend strongly to fix the boys Seddon and Dean with the murder, are that between ten and eleven o'clock on Friday night they were seen going wi t h the deceased into Seddon's coal-yard, and shortly after that time a man who was passing heard a noise in the yard, and called the attention of the policeman to the cir cumstance ; but the policeman, on knocking at the yard gate, could obtain no answer. Mrs. Bridge, a small shop keeper in the immediate neighbourhood, states that the deceased borrowed a candle from her about eleven o' c l oc k that night, saying he was going to look a t S e d don ' s " dandies," and she also states that the candle was re turned to her about half an hour afterwards by the prisoner Dean. but she saw nothing of the deceased at that time. Matthew Mills, a shopkeeper near the same spot, saw the two prisoners leaving the coal-yard alone about a quarter before twelve o'clock the same n , ght ; and some time after niidn'ght, Jane Williams, who occupies a house in Tue r street, beard a struggle on the wound below her back bed or stern t part, quite square. The extreme length is 78 f breadth 23: and depth of iron 41 feet. Tie area of the church has a fine, raomy, and most comfortable ap pearance. The height from the floor, which is level with the base of the i.oat, to the Op of the c urch, is 17 feet, and in the middle of the roof there are three cupola win dows which light the whole house, and these have their centre pieces moveable to act as ventilators. There are as vet no seats formed in either arcs or galleries. and it is doubtful if any will be placed till the church arrives at its destination, which is not yet definitely fixed. It is inten ded to ace mmodate about 700 persons. THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA.—The appearance of Bishop Wilson, on Tuesday morning, in the Oxtord Uni versity pulpit, attracted an unusually crowded audience to hear and see a man so distinguished in the religious his tory of the last thirty years. Long before service cern menced, the spacious edifice was crowded irs every part. His lordship took his text from Titus. chap. ii., v. 14. It was evidently a great exertion to the bishop, worn out by his labours in India, to deliver a discourse at all. much more so on this important occasion, when the public cu riosity and interest were so highly raised. His lordship's physical powers, formerly so vigorous and energetic in de livering his great message, are no longer equal to the task of preaching, and those who recollect what he was twenty five years ago, .in the zenith of his fame and popularity, listened with saddened feelings to the :übdurd and altered voice once so thrilliu and impassioned. The most strik ing passages in the sermon were his lordship's brief ad. dress to the young tutu of Oxford, urging them nit to fritter away their too brit , f academical term in attending to the mere externals of religion—the traditions of men— and the Popish and semi - Popish teaching of the last ten years. The people of England, the bishop said, detest Popery, and are strongly and firmly attached to Protest. lare ; and there was no fear for the Church of England. provided the bishops and the nobles were true to their duties. The b'shop's charge, however good, is not enough ; he must follow it up by the whole of his conduct. Another striking passage related to India,. the chosen room window, which overlooks the brook where th e b o dy scene of the preacher's dying labours. He strongly urged Preirnbles in Commons Oldham, Manchester, and was found. She states that she looked out at the window the claims of In both upon missionaries and medical Birkenhead. proved ; Oldham dis,rict line, not prov e d ; and saw two persons going away, but she could not idea- men, and stated that the medical practice of the 1-1 indoos Caledonian ( Clyd es d a l e J unct i on , d ev i a tio ns ), p rove d ; tify them. A cabin in S e ddon 's coal yard was searched i is in the same barbarous state now that it was two thou- Midland (Lciesi e r and Swannington), proved ; Caledo by the police, and in a box in the cabin were found a sand years ago. The bishop thanked the University for nian Extension, not proved; Blackburn, Chorley, and handkerchief belonging to the deceased and 24 . 4-d• in its liberal contribution to the cathedral of Calcutta, where, Liverpool, not proved ; Llinvi Valley and South Wales copper. On these being shown to Seddon he said they he said, he was going back to die, and rest with his pre- Junction, proved. wer e his own, and that he had received the money for decessors in his episcopate, among shorn mes the 'amen- Bill& rejected in Cemmonj commiiteet.— Dover an d coals. A purse containing 6s. 81 in silver was found be- ted Heber, w h ose lif e h a d fully borne out the high exPec- D eal; Loudon. Ilounlow, an d Western . L on d on an d neath a fire-grate in the cabin, and three of the coin s were tation s f orme d o f, hi m by hi s University prize poem of 'Windsor ; L ee d s , Wakefield. and Mitirand (Wakefield, marked with blacking. A poker, a short thi c k pi ece of " Palestine," which (the bishop said) he heard delivered Pontefracr,and Goole Junction); Huddersfield and Shef wood, and a Mackintosh coat were also fou n d in the ca- in the theatre forty-three years ago. We may odd, that &Id line ( airfield Branch). ' bin, and two or three small sums of money were found in the sa me y ear , t h e bi s h o p himself gained the prize Rile read a thi r d ti me. — Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car hidden in cl.fferent places in a stable adjo'ning, of which essay—" Commo n se ns e." The collection after the ser- lisle; the Cornwall Railway ; Edinburgh and Bath- Seddon had the key. At the close of the examination the mon amounted to £97, b e i n g £lO more than l ast ear. ga t e Railway; leswich.and Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich prisoners were fully committed for trial for murder at the CH URCHES.--The following is an outline of the Biil to Extension) ; Belfast and Cour,ty - n --wn ; Leicester and ensuing Liverpool assizes. provide for the erection and repaa• of churches in con- Bedford; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole. sulidated ecclesiastical- dsstricts (just introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. R. Hodgson and Mr. H. Elphinstone.) The preamble recites the several. Acts for building additional churches, from 58 Geo. 111., c. 45, to 8 and 9 Vic. c. 701 and then the bill proceeds to enact, " That it is expedient to provide for the erection and re pair of churches a-id chapels in consolidated ecclesiastical districts; and that consolidated ecclesiastical districts be considered distinct parishes." Churchwardens or other officers are to be appoin'ed for new parishes. Clause 3 relates to the rate for building new churches •—That it shall be lawful for the rat--payers in any such new sepa rate parish (provided always that the consent in writing of the ordinary shall be first duly obtained) to make a rate for the building of a new church, or for the repai, ing„ or for the enlarging any church or chapel now existing THE PRESE T CRISIS-FACTS AND RUMOURS IN THE POLITICAL WORLD. The royal assent was given, by commission. on Friday afternoon to the Corn Bill and the Customs Dies Viscount Falkland has relingu;shed the governorship of Nova Scotia, and Major General Sir John Harvey has been appointed his successor. Lord George Bentinck is ro he invited to a ner at Lynn, as a mark of the esteem of I his constituents tor hii public cooduct, It is said that the conservatives of Preston will invite Lord Stanley's son to become a candidate for that borough at the next election. office, it is probable he will succeed in getting through the session without haying recourse to a dissolutinn. It is said that the able and active chairman of the South— Eastern Railway Company, James Alsegregor, Esq., late manager of the Commercial Bank, in this town t is to go. into Parliament for a Kentish borough. Mr. G. F. Egerton. eldest son of - Lord Francis Eger ton, has announced- his intention of comiug forward as a candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the event of a dissolution of parliament. Tho address to Sir Robert PePI, approving hatrcial policy, which was exhibited on Frill,) verpool Exchange New..-room, received in th few hours, upwards of 6ao signatures. Lord Stanley's protest against the Corn Bill was ots Thur&day laid on the able of the House of Peers. It re capitulated all the points that have been urged against the measure. his com- the Li- .e coluse of a j The lion. E. R. Littleton, the son of Lord Hatherton, in a circular to the electors of Walsall, has announced his intention of offrring himself as a candidate for their suf frages whenever a dissolution of Parliament shall occur. It transpired in, the city on Friday that a considerable quantity of baggage. u n d er t h e c h arge of Sir Robert Peel's domestic servants, bad passed th roug h P ar i s to the south ward. This is signifi c a n t o f th e course the P remier in tends to pursue for the p resen t, an d a l so that his Luinj has been LE A nla s up j o o r i e c t i ir N e G t s . ro . f A office of fo o rsmommeemtibmeers of the . Anti-Corn-law Ltague had guns fired at Leeds, yesterday, in celebration of passing of Corn B,11; but generally the news of the event was received with a feeling little abort of apathy. The League party threaten to inflict an illu mination upon this and other large towns at no distant day. Would it not be wiser to " wait a wee ? The good (?) of free trade has yet to be realized.—Leeds paper. _ _ - The Manchester Courier says, that when it was publicly announced, by Mr. Greg, on Frsday. in the Exchange Newsroom, in that town, that the Corn Bill and the Cus toms Bill had passe,' the House of Lords, and that minis ters had been defeated on the Irish Coercion Bill, " Not a single cheer, or even the whisper of a cheer, followed the announcement. It was received in solemn, and almost brew bless silence." The Times says, that " The division on the Irish Coerci , ,n Bill was received by the House or Commons in silence." THE C_,URT FASHiONABLE WORLD The Queen and the Court still remain at the Royal marine residence in the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the youthful Royal family, intend to prolong their sojourn at Osborne House until the 6th proximo, according to present ar. rangements. The Royal christening is expected to take place the third week in toe ensuing month. On Tuesday a handsome horse, estimated at the value of 2,000 guineas, arrived at Brighton, as a present to her Mai-sty from Mehemet Ali, and was immeaiately for warded to London by railway. The Marquise D' Harcourt died at Windsor, on Monday morning, from the effects of poison which she had swal lowed in mistake for a dose of medicine. By a regulation of the new club established in London, at Coventry House, Piccadilly, no professional man can be a member. Lord Lindsay, son of Earl Balcarres, will shortly marry M's Lindsay, daughter of Col. Lindsay, of Balcarres, Fifeshi re. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have left town for Worsley Hall, there to reside until autumn. The noble lord has paired off for the remainder of the session. The lion. and Rev. It-ginald W. S. West, has been appointed by his father, Earl Delawarr, the lord chamber lain, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen. hi the room of the Hon. and 11... v. George Neville Grenvilip. A marriage is determined on between Viscount Seaham, eldest E on of the Marquis and Marchioness of London. derry, and Miss Edwards, only daughter and heiress of Sir John Edwards, Bart , of Machytillech, Montgomery shire. The fair fiancee is said to have a princely fortune. It is reported that the Duchess of Orleans received from Queen Victoria an autograph letter requesting her to stand as one of the sponsors to the young English Prin cess recently born, and replied that she most willingly ac cepted the honour proposed to her, but that she would be obliged to act by proxy, on account of the solemn vow she had made not to leave her children. THE 13.krtONY OF PRESTON.—On: the subject of the paragraph in Saturday's paper. copied from the Glohe, . and headed " Absurd Rumours," a cortepondent calls our attention to the fact that Sir James Graham could not he elevated to the title of Lord Preston whilst Sir R. Graham Eves, as he is the son of the elder brother, and, as a matter of course, the elder branch. The estates be longing to Preston were confiscated to the crown. but it is believed much was returned in after years, and, if our correspondent is rightly informed, they lie somewhere in Berks.—Times. RAILTVAY E CE. The Nor'h Union Station is to be greatly enlargel. When completed it will be one of the best in the king dom. In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, Mr. Rey nell, advertising agent, recovered £568 from Mr. Lewis, provisional committee-man of the Central Kent Railway, for advertisements. There were no tewer than five accidents last week on the works of the Caledonian Railway. two of which were fatal. The sufferers were William Bonscer and Robert Carlisle, both labiurers. In the Nisi Prius Court on Thursday, the case of Gar wood v. Moore came on for hearing, and was, in its most important features, similar to the case given elsewhere. In this case the plaintiff bad paid to the Directors of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway £lO5 as deposit on an allotment of shares in that Compa ny, the capital of which was represented in the prospectus as £300,000, but it turned out that only £lO,OOO of that sum were subscribed for. The defendant was one of the Provisional Committee-men of the Company. The only point to which the Lord Chief Baron thought it necessary to call the attention of the jury was, whether the defend ant; by consenting to act as a Provisional Committee.. man, engaged to pay the preliminary expenses of the pro jectrd railway. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. . - Ax " ALLorrEE."—A person named Wyse applied to the Lnndan Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Monday, to be discharged on sureties till his bearing. The Chief Com missioner said he doubted whether bail should be taken in such a case. He saw, from the schedule, that the debts without consideration were upwards of £12,000, and the consideration debts only £53. What are these debts ? asked the learned Commissioner, " without consideration?" Insolvent.—They are railway liabilities, sir. Chief Com mission r —How did you incur so large an amount? In s ilvent.—l wrote for letters of allotment, which I received CV C Ir- diet ~ommissioner.—Pray what are you osolvent.— A clerk in the General Registrar's-office, Somerset-house. Chief Commissioner.—Why, in the name of common sense, did you dabble in such matters? Insolvent.---I saw so many apply, that I thought I would have some myself. Chief Comxnissioner.—That is. you saw so many mad men that you w, , uld be mad too. The irisolvent made no an- swer. urnet Uommtsstoner.— sh.rres? It was st ited that the: e were no s'lares obtained, only lob rs of allotment in various railways, which had been filed in court. The court accepted the proposed bail. ecome o PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS LAST WEEK. Preambles proved in Lords' Committees.—Edinburgh arid Northern (Dunfermline division); Strathearn devia tion; Great Western and Uxbridge; Norfolk (Yarmouth Donne, and Callander ,• Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Pollock anti- Govett -hranehee) 36: T ow Strettivern Caledolian (Mid Lothian branches); Lesmaha- Row, Daherf, and Coatbridge Mineral J unction; Grand Junction Winton and Warrington branch); the same (II uyton. A-hton, and other branches); Yorkitire and tilmq , ,w Union. In a " select committee on merits," the following bills were declared to have passed, and ordered to be reported —The Midland (Nottingham and M ansfield branch); London and Birmingham (Camden and Euston Stations enlargement); .Midland (Clay Cross to Newark) ; Wil sontown, Morningsido, and Coltness (Bathgate branch) ; ditto (Caledonian branch); ,•ditto (improvement and branches); Slamannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig branches). Standing Orders complied with in LordS.—St.'H elen's Canal and Railway; Birmingham, Lichfield. and Man chester ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole (Methley, Askern, and Oakenshaw branches; Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway ; Wisbaw and Coltness(Greenhiltbranch) kit etwood, Preston, and, West Biding Junction; Hud rkr,field and Manchester Railway and Canal ; Hudders field Diversion and Cooper Bridge branch ; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Dukinfiad, Wors borough, and other branches); Dublin, Belfast, and Cole raine Junction ' • Eastern Counties (Manchester and Lin coln Extension). Bills rejected by Lord's Commillees.—Swinton and Lincoln ; Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds; Buckingham shire (Trigg to Banbury). • Bills passed committees of the Commons.—Exeter. Yeovil, and Dorchester : Board of Trade to determine at whose expense the double guage should be laid down and maintained; London and Richmond (Ke w Branch); Btistol and Birmingham (Gloucester and Stonehouse junction) ; South Devon (excepting branch from Plymouth to and aLis r t y o , ck a ) n ; d GreatG s Manchester and Bolton. and Bu r y Canal and Railwa y , and Manchester and Leeds Rail w ay amal g amation ; Noith Manchester b andy and Leeds Sheffic amalgamationl d ; . Liverpool ; Kent (South-Eastern line); London, Salisbury, and Yen it ; Lancaster and Carlisle (extension to the Caledonian); Caledonian (Carlisle division); Cockermouth and Work ington; Bristol and Gloucester, and Birmingham and Gloucester; Blacknurtr. Preston, and East Lancashire Junction; Caledoniar, (purchase of Gamirk, Edinburgh and Glasgow); and. Clydesdale Junction; Pollock and Gavan arnalgamatirrn ; London and Birmingham and Canal t r angerneut M anchester, Huddersfield,, sad Cl loam. THE LATE B. R. HAYDON, ESA This well-known h'storical painter died on Monday last, under very melancholy circumstances. Pecuniary difficul ties appeared to have pressed on his mind. An examination of the body proves that the deceased must have first fired a pistol into his head, a bullet wound being viable in the parie tal bone. This appears not to have had a fatal effect, and the deceased appears subsequently to ha , e obtained possession of a razor, with which he afterwards inflic ed two severe gashes in his throat, which caused his death. The coro ner's jury found, that the deceased was of unsound mind whets he committed the act. In the cow se of inquiry, the following extract was read from a journal of the eeceass.d, that he had kept fr r marry years, up to the moment of his death :—" I have written to Sir Robert Peel, to and to —, stating that I have a heavy sum to pay. I have offered the Duke's Study' to—, Who answered first.? Tormented by —, harassed by pubic business, up came the following letter : " ` Whitehall, June 16. " am sorry to hear of your condoned embar rassments. From a limited fund which 1 have at my dis posal I send, as a contribution to your relief from these embarrassments, the sum of 450. " 1 remain, air, your obedient servant, " ' BERT PEEL.' " That's 1 3 eP1. Will —, or answer." The coroner said, that in leaving the case in the hands of the jury, he could not fail to remark on the munificent act of Sir Robert Peel towards the unortunate deceased. He thought it must speak to the heart of a great many thousand persons that, whilst others were, so to speak, attempting to destroy his own mind, and amidst a Ares ` sure of public business almost unparalleled. Sir Robert Peel bad not forgotten the sufferings of others. It was further stated at the inquest, by the Rev. Mr. Hyman, the deceased's stepson, that as soon as Sir Robert Peel was informed of Mr. flaydon's death, he transmitted a sum of .£2OO to prevent the family from being molested by the creditors before a public appeal could be made on their behalf, and added, that when► that appeal was made, he should be most ready to come forward with his private purse and personal influence. The following letter bas been addressed to the editor of the Mornino Herald:— twenty years ago (July 9. 18' 1 7) your journal published an appeal —or rather a com pl a int . of poor ilaydon's, too plainly foreshowing the desti ny of his helpless and hopeless career. At thie moment, when the dead man attracts a notice which the living c ou ld never obtain, his sad letter may not be inaptly reprinted. "TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD " Sir,—ln the Literary Gazette of Saiu , day week was published a report of what had been spent by the directors of the British Gallery in favour of British artista--viz £75,000 in pictures sold, £14,000 in pictures by the directors. and £5OOO in premiums bestowed. " Perhaps, in my present condition of bitter degrada tion, it will not be considered- ungrateful in toe to state that I never received one guinea of the £75,000 laid out in pictures sdd at the Bridal Gallery ; that of the £14,000 bestowed by the directors in purchases I have never had the honour of receiving one • shilling; and that of the £5OOO spent in premiums. only £lOO was voted as a pre mium. £lOO as a premium during 23 years ! That at this moment my ' Judgment of Solomon' is rolled up in a winehouse in the Borough ! My ' Entry into Jerusa lem,' once graced by the enthusiasm of the rank and beauty of the three kingdoms, is doubled up in a back room in Holborn! That my ' Laz Yrus' is in an uphol sterer's shop in Mount-street ! and my Crucifixion' in a hayloft in Lisson-groce •.. Purchased "My being unable, th••refore, to meet the just denvmds on me at present is not, I hope, wholly unaccounted for. " Sir, yours, " B. R. II A.TDON. " King's Bench Prison, July 7." One hundred pounds in 23 years! and not a penny daring the next 19! The utilitarians to whom we vote our hundreds of thousands of pounds in reward of their having made their own fortune,. by railroad and cotton schemes will piously wonder over the suicide, whom 42 years of neglect have driven into his d• sperate grave. Long before the date of his letter to the Herald. 1111Y don had been liberated from gaol as an insnlvent, under which process one of his finest pictures (a debt contracted for its gilt frame being. I believe, in his schedule ; and another, probably, for its canvas and ca'our.:,) was sold to a tradesman for less than the cost price of itN materials jUI3O 25, 1846. Pil YLAX. (F ,- om the Britannia.) To give a last remembrance to the unfortunate Haydon. If he could have obtained in the earlier part of his career but ob. - ye the necessity of driid2iiii on all kinds of snhjoets,lia-nlight_havP made a gre4T ar.ist, and agreat honour to his country. With his absolute passion for the arts, his untiring industry, his active ambition, and his picturesque mind, he must have produced works.which Our into oduction country would not " have willingly let di( ;ion prohibits, and wisely prohibits tl be turned into picture gaderie Nor can we force the various city or country corporations to expend money, money generally not their own, in 6ecorating their walls. We cannot expect private individuals to give commissions for great pictures, which are unsuited to their houses or their personal means ; and yet, without the production of pictures on a large scale and on striking public subjects, we cannot have a nation., school of painting. ne u o t o his uf fa me , rP. young o l w ' u e e n g artists coalj ) pi oetushcert spaholptobsravisiOnf., 0 f course, •. v. l••... 1 , • ....... .., .• • • '' Proof wag shown of would ` The provide or y il o y u n n a g tu a r r a t l is a ts nd in e effective e e s ir p:e ti d m ie s o t t yrawt i sno vv .:t o inen u shod l o d wootfihs b txehu e :2thooht t io o se moderate competence which would enable a lover of his tat a o ha. art, nyee t aoshrruoiasmisb, subject, i eg n nicnh d titl u octa n ohcn a sesp l ln: l eceb o rei t oui h eter t y : nei; atr o tytw b ;l be enough. xpelitnent ; and What are £5,000 out of an income of fifty millions? There are at this moment other artists, and those too, tfa t uct.i al b ti thteeye ability. purpose rußxesr.npsdiose:eix.ocoefapottyhueewga nations) : e t : hi seoinscahle suffi ci ent eexpended ed Gallery has cost , probably, men of fine conceptions, and even of known name, strug glingduces generally £4OOO a }ear. with scarcely lees. than the di ffi culties of the unfor- X 12,000. But all those es tablish ments , t h ings to be? The nation is not de fi cient in liberal love for the arts. The National British Institution is large. The Royal Academy pro - The Art-Union produces their merits, fail in the one great and e-,sential otject—tor securing a man of talent from the direct pressute of wan t ; I 0 . 000 . Tale and theyo uie j o 1 have a t h e e disturbed by the exigencies of the hour ; a d nrde:qment for Of enabling him to pursue his chosen course offrotaaadiT,,ying him to cultivate, in whatever totelenee an d row lusty e round the time, that genius which id yet done. trill roy alty country. SJrnething morezrr of a pure s(nd solid silty neglect the noblest.° legislature be negligent Of an illus trious duty ? Will the leg" forget that Its genius is its Will. the nati on that justice to that geniuS most preciou s exalted tides to national renown? is Among the moat popularity? posses,ion, and .