The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

isperse till the 4 . ORWAY. "'" , but the Jews nmerit has de' ian Dissenters , )lic act of OP ingdom, or be nother Medi' r invading the, possess ion 0 f irmy is to have mown whether do with it. in Melbourne, Le town. 0116 ad been in til►e ridiculously' s' scarlet COa° 'yes, the ori a g i h ; igging in ftee making colony. rom houss, )clging for 10' Public houle' Herald etigi of the Unt 4 Europe, ha d stakeable, r chief roam ! donizatios , 0 relf-expans!,j nimences days at tb off, writes i. The P l ' t of the eve n ' it vingt and, aft% f]apress, , 0 attachment ;- except ° able. be'on the 1- have bur' 'ere contin d ingfr, and m r., gentlemanL run of tr. nan r wish after - hint' 1r catch 11 0 ' s gold , shoe )ften anythiag°' Adelaide . . 1 Ipat r a call e d of expeosel they did Om charged fu r ! In col l " -s seized th e was offere d ) the vessels avy by th e ited for the, Sequence 01 iff of wine) he sufferer s Barnstaple' way. bereaved , NGRESS , ig the pr e. ;lit o'clock' )bby So wilco to cornPre' were CO e.roona• nendivent' on. Son 2o retired tc; e falling (/' rable gen' wounding it this 01 0 ' ith a hunt it heartill' the receP' i beautifu l stock loaf art of the to Santo , sses little Ner itSelfr ion. The ;eig, re; :he lid o' ile of the r its Who of earth. in see this it a deeP, .ction ucceediog t with la' I. is else' ,tralember (win s, by .d. NUERICA. le details al in the by seven erely VP; expecte ° tizh was ig, wer e " to hell v"- - rowdies ,d at th e w York,. 31 in th e. on at . iurderea of the net oswell R drear, . . r- lsed st rs wee- I with e pa myrtl the' t that t gr. i o n for Elonti fiv i e attentt we t of 41 Wig, os ticket THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1853. LOCAL I\EWS. T" SO CIETA ARMONICA. gave their thirteenth dress Concert on Wednesday, at the Mechanics' Institution. tno TH r T , 1 IRIBITION MEETINGS of the Liverpool Floral dune 30, and H orticultural Society have been fixed for May 19, September 1. THE MODEL of Mr. John Grantham's " improved et m ethod of working the Liverpool d oc k s " is now on view the Underwriters'-rooms. SDIER, beloning to the 23rd Fusileers, Plug OL d into the river from the north side of Welsh the landing stage, on Monday, and was drowned. d TIE REV W. P OLLOCK , t h e i ncum b en t o f St . M ar k' s, 4 ..eli? vered a lecture on Tuesday evening, at the Chur c h o f ngland Institution, on " Rome, and her Paintings." N AM ES TAYLOR, of Sutton, near St. Helen's, has a en, which h as laid an egg measuring inches round the toiddle, 8i inches round the length, and weighs 4 ounces. T " 'engine of a luggage train for London went off the Lt(?ndon and North. Western Railway in Northampton uire, on Thursday, by which the London six a.m. train "as an hour and a half behind time in reaching LiverpoolTHx . Rgv. DR. RAFFLES lectured at the Concert-hall pri Tuesday n i ght, nn " Isaac Watts and Nonconformist Psal mody. Mr. D. James occupied the chair. C ABIN PASSENGERS per the s hip F a l con , f rom e ,"eY, have pesented an address to Ctain Taylor, -:`Pressing their s satisfaction at his care, and for his exer tions to make them comfortable. atiIIETSY M`CARTNEY, the nurse of the unfortunate Barbour died at the Manchester Infirmary lte on Tuesday night. This is the sixth death arising fro a m the late accident on the Bolton Railway. 4,Mit. JOHN CALVERT, a geologist and a passenge r by 1 1 3 oe Falcon, who has been eleven years in Australia, Pi ngs with him maps, drawin g s, an d 730 nuggests of gold, one weighing 23 lbs. on MR. CHARLES FIELD delivered an historical lecture Wednesday evening to the West Derby Institute. 'Piny resident gentlemen have given, or are about to give, lectures. THE Svse ov £3OO has been raised for Mr. Howard, the Manchester jeweller, whose shop has been plundered so ofte n . It is proposed to present Miss Howard with a testimonial. HENRY MAIovELL was, on Thursday, committed for trial at the Liverpool assizes, for the late extensive robbery at Mr. 011ivant's shop in Manchester. His sister, Lucy'Stronach, was discharged. AT A FIRE, which broke out at midnight on yesterday Week at Sonthworth Hall, near Warrington, twenty-nine, cows were burned to death. Little additional damage Was done. THERE are 11,000 husb an d s i n A ustra li a whose wives I have been left behind. SPURIOUS NUGGETS, ingeniously plated, are manufac tured in England and sent out to Australia. A SEAMAN fell from the mizentopmast of the Western World, on Wednesday, and-was killed. HYDRO-CARBON GASES have answered so admirably at Southport, that we are told they are being adopted in other places. JOHN MTRIDE, a sailor on board the Western World, lying in the river, fell from the mizen.topmast, on Wednesday, and was immediately killed. MR. CARDY, master of the Berenice, his wife, and all the officers, have been murdered by his crew in the Straits of Gaspar, and the vessel burnt. THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP SARAH SANDS arrived at Melbourne, all well, in 84 days, including ten days' de tention at the Cape of Good Hope. ON Thursday a spirited ploughing match took place in the immediate vicinity of Fazakerley, in one of the fields of Rosebank farm, occupied by Mr. Charnock. A: PETITION against the solicitors' annual certificate duty was presented on Monday, by Mr. Mackenzie, from this town. HONOMOGIBBONS,a young Irishwoman at Stockport, is now in custody, charged with poisoning her female child, aged nine months. The mother was a member of a burial society, Ma. CHARLES LAMONT was on Saturday presented by his fellow-clerks, at the Albert Dock warehouses, with a gold pencil case, accompanied with an address, as a mark of esteem. ONE of the West Derby [paupers, Elizabeth Currie, is now 109 years old. At the age of 105 she walked from Toxteth park to Aigburth, and returned with a stone of apples on her back. JAMES BREMNER, owner of the paddle steamer Washington, has been fined 40s. and costs for conveying passengers on the 15th ult., without having - the requisite certificate on board. A Gruo MANUFACTURER, at Penistone, named Hodgson, has recovered £lOO at the York Assizes, from the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company, for da mages sustained by him on that line. LMERPOOL WORKHOUSE. —At this time there are not, out of upwards of 2,000, more than twenty young men and about ten young women pronounced by the medical officer to be capable of working the mills. CAPTAIN BROWN, of the steamship. Roscommon, who was instrumental in saving fifty-three lives from the un fortunate Queen Victoria. has been presented by the pas sengers with a handsome gold chain. TWELVE SEAMEN have been sentenced to one month's imprisonment each for violating their agreement to serve in the British ship Jenny Lind, on a voyage from Liver pool to San Francisco. THE Preston Chronicle states that a rich and extensive vein of copper ore has lately been discovered in the Earl of Lonsdale's royalty, near Gillerthwaine, and not far from the head of EnnerdaleLake. Two MEN in custody, M''..Nlahon and Robinson, have been identified by witnesses as the parties who perpe trated the brutal assault and robbery at Mr. Howard's shop in Manchester. JASIES VIACKA.Y, tailor, lodging at -29, Mount- plea t a ut, was f oun d suspended by his wife's drawers from the Mount-plea toot' of his bed on Thursday morning :he had bee dead ; five hours. Three empty laudanum bottles were 'found in his pocket, and a number of pawn-tickets. I :itto ti, If r. T. BOOTIIMAN has recei v ed twenty small bags of tnrwagrown upon th e es t a t es o f t h e P ac h a o f E gypt, rded as samples of the improvement already effected ''Y Mr. Edward Swi ng l e h urst, t h e young man who was Sent out through tAfarzchesterhe instrumen ian.tality of the chambe r of e nrccaer ce— Gkard va : C F• CAMPBELL, the dive r emp l oye d i n operat i ons for l4tising the hull of the steam-ship - Victoria, in a letter to Papers, denies that h e saw any persons in the cabin : ell down he was unable to do anything in the way of , lns P e ction from th e mu dd y state of the water, and au a narrow escape of being carried down the funnel. Ro e e the ''While BERT AN D V IOLENCE.—On Sunday evening week, , fa mily were at serv i ce , a farrn.house was Only.l_ per t Hurlstop, near Nantwich, and Miss Lee, the n in cha rge , was so severely beaten that it is OattLexP e cted she w ill recover. Thomas Wright and his son, v''ATROM neighbours, L have been apprehend e d on susp i c i on. HO second birth Ri ght R 0 day o f teP- - --- Testerday week being the eighty- People 0 .. 0 'II:. Lo that much respected nobleman, the a hOSpitab IS /Ord s hz I'd Skelnaersdale, the servants and Work- A: ".P's estate were invited to partake of the • l e ‘ 4 Lauer at Latham-house, to commemorate JoYcus occasion. T. p A aa.._ TIIICICS DAY IN LIVERPOOL. —This anniver '4‘N,'Jswas celebrated by a soiree at the Concert-hall, Lord oV;otai.street, on Thursday night. The party numbered . Sh e .' ~r ld r after tea, addresses were delivered by Richard Job .' '4sq•, the chairman. and the Rev. J. Nugent, Mr. _ Yates, Mr R. H. Sheil, Mr. 'D. Powell. Mr. n Yates, Messrs.. G. Smyth, H. Cullen, and J. Welsh. , kr k eeper - AGISTRATES who convicted Morgan, the light con at Point - Lynas for having in his possession and ha4ealing geods„ - par'of the wrack of the ship Fairfield, title issued a lithographed statement, contradicting . an of gation contained in a communication read at a meeting tracesth Li ver pool *dock committee, that one of the magis (lir. —parrow) had " expressed his regret that the conviction had taken place." a TnE Mancheatar Guardian relates thatnnadfe.wawdayas rat,ago sleek rfrray Passenger in that neighbourhood - now alld sl antique and y velture out of his hole-in an di bl '• - ' cmb one of the wheels of ~sa ed railway station, ;carriage in the train, dexterously raise the spring lid of bt see if he was o s b ervd, enjoy a hear ty meal, o a;wl then coolly betake himself to his old Quarters. THE WFIITEHAVEN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY have disposed of their steamer the Earl of Lonsdaie, which is henceforthintended to ply between ports in the Medi terranean. IN a case at the'Police-court, the other day,'the magis trate recommended the ejection of that large class of vulgar and immodest women who are employed at some of the stalls in St. 'John's and St. James's market. MR. JOHN AxicrNsoN, the collector of government taxes for the municipal district of West Derby, is now in Lancaster Castle, and it appears that he has failed to pay up certain sums received by him 'on account of taxes for the municipal district of West Derby. Mu. PYPER, master of her Majesty's steam ship En counter, lately stationed here, has been dismissed from the service for drunkenness. The Encounter has left Ports mouth for a cruise in the Irish Channel, and will perhaps pay another visit to the Mersey. THOMAS DERBYSHIRE, cheesemonger, Toxteth-park, was committed for trial on Friday, charged with forging a figure in a bill presented to him by• Mr. Mansell, smith, Simpson street, whereby £7 paid on account by the per son was changed into £l7. SEVERAL JEWS, it is said, have realized £200,000 by exporting goods from London and Liverpool to Australia. A member of parliament has cleared ;X90,000 by some old Australian Agricultural Company's: shares, which he be lieved to be nearly worthless. ON the 7th and Bth instant, 5,263 horses and vehicles passed Wapping, opposite the railway. In Regent-road, Great •Howard-street, Walter-street, Blackstone -street, and Boundary-street, there were counted 10,543 carts and 2,055 coaches. Somme OF AN EMIGRANT.—On Friday morning, Alexander Wood, who had arrived, in Liverpool that day, intending to sail in the Constitution, committed suicide with a razor in the house of Richard Plunkett, 44, Stewart-street. JABEZ DAVENPORT, in whose possession 300 oz. of melted gold and silver were found, has been allowed to go at large by the Manchester authorities : he has not ventured, however, to ask for the metal or the crucibles, which are, of course, in the hands cf the police. THE CLIPPER SHIP FALCON, Captain Taylor, arrived in the Mersey, on Tuesday, from Sydney, whence she sailed on the 17th of November. She has brought 14,655 ounces of gold dust and 13,000 hides on freight, and ten cabin passengers. ANN Tno si p soN , a Li verpool girl and an orphan, was r ecently taken into the house of Mrs. Rowen, of Eccles, near Manchester, and treated in a kind manner ; she had not been many days in the house of her benefactor, how- P , er, before she returned the kindness with the basest al gratitude, , and ran away w i t h a quantity of wearing Il i:Tare!, the property of her mistress. On Thursday, at the Manchester New Bailey, she was sent to jail for 7 days. THE AFRICAN MAIL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY have announced their intention to commences bimonthly line of steamers from Liverpool to Madeira, Teneriffe, and the west coast of Africa, commen c i ng on t h e 10th of October. The vessels to conduct the Liverpool trade, na mely, the 'Northern Light, the Southern Cross, and ,the Pleiades, Are to be of 1,000 tons burthern and 300- alorse power-; so that the largest, the most pow , erful, and ~the fastest sa ili ng s hi ps w ill b e appropriated to Liverpool. The vessels just named are building by Mr. Laird, and kr. Hamilton-Laird will undertake the agency of them.;, THIRD REGIM ENT OF THE DUKE OF 'LANCASTER'S OWN MlLlTlA.—Captain Montague JosenloSielden to be snaier, rice Hinclie, deceased ; Captain Thomas Townley b arker to be major, vice Hornby, resigned; the Hon. dward Henry Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley, to ward captain, vice Fielden, promoted ; Lieutenant Wm. tN,lcholson to 'be captain, vice Parker, promoted ; vi Townley Parker, gentleman, to he lieutenant, Ice Meads, retired ; Ensign Thomas Woodcock to be ~,Ilt nesenant, vice German, promoted ; Ensign 'Thomas Withington to be lieutenant, vice Worthi ng t on , nt, vi ce Clarke, resigned.slgned ; Thomas -Harre aves, gentleman, to - be lieu -1.1 ila Ta R DOOMERANG. NSCREW-PROPELLER, invented by ov„utColonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, surveyor-general of 1,„';4 Australia, is coining into extensive requisition. },: , est th e pr i nciple, the Genova, an iron steamer, has ii7n fitted up b y M essrs. James Taylor and Co., Britan v. i ron-wo r k s, Cathcart-street, Birkenhead. The Water 80 itinech, an o th er iron steamer, which has been lengthened of 45 feet by the eame,firm, and supplied with engines or,.FlTater power, is also to be propelled on the same l'4, 4e 'Ple, but an important improvement is introduced.' an y s haft and fan extend beyond the rudder, so that, if chl accident should happen either to the screw or ma deenY, the f an can be readily detached and hauled upon c an . In anythin g lik e moderate weather, and the vesse l 4 h,;" P r oceed on h er voyage under sail. The government 1 that _ordered the construction of an iron stea Principle by Mess rs. J ames Taylor and Comer upon. CONSCIENCE MONEY. Mr. 'Robert Arrowsmith, banker, of Preston, on Monday last received through the Post-office a sum of money for a small debt owing to the late Dr. Parkinson, of Lancaster." Who sent the money is .a mystery. It was all in gold. THE BODY OF JOHN SHORROCK, a celebrated fortune teller, was interred, on Thursday, at Padiham Church. His house in Preston was crowded with foolish people during his lifetime, who came to test his skill. He was 59 years old when he died. A GALVANISED PIPE, according 'to the Blackb urn Standard, has b een led from the stoves in Holy Trinity Church, Over Darwen, to the top of the steeple • hence the architectural bea u ty o f th e structure is sadly dis figured. GROSS SUPERSTITION was manifested lately at Rick mansworth. A child had fallen into the river ; some of the inhabitants endeavoured to disccver the body by putting quicksilver into some bread, and , floating the loaf down the river. EDWARD MILLER, an out-door pauper of the West Derby Union, died on Saturday week, atGarston, at the advanced age of 105. He was able, until the last few years, to follow bis business as a fisherman. He has left a wife aged 96. LIVERPOOL COOPERS.—There are upwards of 500 ope rative coopers in Liverpool (about 500 in , the trade so ciety, and only about 50 out of it) ; and wetave in Seel street one of the largest cooperages in the kingdom. As to the men, the hours of work are from six to six, and the fixed wages have been about 265. a week, but are now 30s. AT THE WARRINGTON PETTY SESSIONS, on Monday, 275. 6d. each had to be paid by Hugh Williams and Edward Jones, of Toateth-park, Liverpool, for being drunk and misconducting themselves in a carriage of the London and North-Western Railway Company., .on the previous Saturday. THE SCREW-STEAMER PERSIAN, which left the Coburg Dock on Monday, the 28th ult., arrived in the harbour of Valetta, Malta, on the morning of the 9th inst., at nine, .1.t..4R...,.,.• HORSFALL AND THE ELECTORS OF DERBY.-- having performed the entire distance, 2,400 miles, in o eight days fifteen hours. This is the shortest voyage e i.,`_.- I .'• B. Horsfall has issued a parting address to the Malta on record. k r i c y lo b ra of Derby, in which, after stating that he cheer- the e ih o u w a s e toot Coln decision of the Election Committee of AMERICAN GRANTS TO STEAM LINES.—New . - ES —New York ommons he says.;—," Nor is it necessary, ! hope, to Peat to otonsyou'what I have already stated in the t_e_, _L • iv , erpool, 5858,000 ; ditto . to C $ h3a4gBreoscoor Charleston Aspinwall, douse 000 • Panama to California, „ tiouse of as wet! as before a committee ofaprleston' that house, that I was to Havana,' 5',50,000 ; across the Isthmus of Panama, cognizant of, nor did I sanction #120,000 ; Bremen and Havre lines, S - 350,000 ; New ', 1 , 1 any way, the proceedings which led the committee to Orleans and Vera Cruz, .8'65,000. th at conclusi on , To those who took an active part in A PRIZE of £5 has been offered by the Institutional °Pposing me at the election, or in any subse ef.e.dings, I do-rot entertain a vestige of unkincliuyePeelpinro" Association il . 0 0fLa , n w c T a h s a h t ire wo a u n l ( d 1 C be he t s h h e ire m , o f s o t r su th oc e es b s e fo st l — vl th e c on t ra , I willingly concede to them, what gi e ie s . s e a a y n's s of o s w eeu g ring a better and more useful disposal of the elm._ .. -•-, , And ;I or myself, a sense of duty, as my motive of action. leisure hours of the working classes, in regard to their ear nest it oaly remains for me to express my sincere and — Nest h and se etati hope, that your present any future repre- studies and amusements ?" I c an ves may serve you with more zeal and ability than by T A H rr E . STAR OF THE EAST clipper haebeen purchased se Ivi.presurne to claim, though lam sure they cannot do James Beazley., the owner of the clipper ssei s s b e ip ng A im il ed Barton, the Constance, and t s r e a v d e e r . al 4theer Starl of the East, Your to a greater desire to promote the . best interests of in the Australian passenger _ 1 , "re, or the general welfare of its inhabitants. -4,, i 'l AMERd C ANS ,IN AUSTRALI A.—The Aewi Kork !Isa . , 1%511.1 Line form e o f n i, e ne o k f et Apsrs. Millers and Thompson's te,,,g'd of the sth says: -- ; l3y the British barque Large from Golden 3.e o'l , ol, via Callao, some I 7 passengers arrive d in our por t a U nited A MERICAN st States es,,(S.W learn C e os ou t li from ern 1 4:11PaY from Australia. These passengers came sori CON SULpaper, T 9 11 e *ja.l , Greenville lrE i ' ' °te %lie to Callao in company with about three hundred Patriot, President that re.rce , G c a n n e d. ra h l t as Bonhamrec eireceived sthbeeenon appointment a f pert' s ' in the ship Miltiades which sailed from the former t thl th T ' . dma de fifty days' passae Major a 0• 0 e au e 27th November, an a " l The best offices within the gift of the Administration, and is the Consulship at Liverpool. This is one of the very The Miltiades is , boasnd for Liverpoo . 4 4 „.. 3' of the passengers who came up in the Larne are THE BOROUGH d on Tuesday rorth fifteen or twenty thousand dollars per annum." BOROUGH SESSIONS were opened !I•ls,4"t'eaa,nes,lrwahoemenated from California t to at A c ti o s u tr n a t l r ia y fb37 have been'prinnipcaen their landing in . h the Recorder, being indisposed. s last, by Mr. Blair, barrister,Gil T ber he t ca H le e n n d d a e r rs c o o n n , th E in st d , erine home with the Y engaged in mining, and all satisfied. N ene of tT a goodly pile, and are perfectly thousand dollars, a nd e e m e ,....hav3 less than two or three charged.thenam e w s i o th f foferltoyn.syl,x andpr is prisoners, w , i forty,th misdemeanour. on one o f whom were The pounds weight of the pu ra "" th e nave Upwards of twenty his h ,ighest terms of the counir etal. They all speak in the so far recover business elosed ed on h T is hu h r e s a d l a t y h a a f s ter t n o oo b n e . ab T l l e ie to re r c e o s r u d m er e ha . d and cli mate, their only duties. Nection being to some of rh:revenue far, Which the THE LANCASHIRE SPRING AsszzEs.—The commission thin rather stringent, and the want 0 protectio Petty. li soh e emigration into Melb nd the United Staten issaid to average kit •- ' rn de re to a will be w e e l o i p a e n n d e dm thisßaron m (T a u rt e i s n d . ay ) 1, before calen A d l a r r . Justice t s a t i i n ce s thousand daily, of importance. Th about one 106 cases, which are rather above the averag e e n e u ff m ee b e e e r e ; but there are no eases 144 FtETURNED GOLD-DIGGER, who arrived i n the c w l i a t s h sed in a t s ee fo t li t o e ws m : rr.sey on Tuesday last, says of Melbourne --.. that d l e ; r, , stabbing a ; b manslaughter, 1 ~ wounding, assault 6 ; h ar , in , g last winter thousands of persons were encamped rape 5 ; robbery,bigamy, 7 ; orgery . , 9 i burglary, — urle a r r , k . ,"" outskirts o f th a t pl ace literally in a thestate of starve. 1 2.1; s ' aciilege, 1 ; hou'sehreaking 2; f stealing in a dwel of,l and subject to great suffering frominclemencyat 2 conspiracies to defraud, 5 •;total , . was a stealing 16. retLeF'e weather. Some working men wer . e . earni ng the .2n.g-hous., 1 : mint cases, 2; 'bills of exchange, ve. of 4 500 a year, and yet, from the high price of pro. MERCHANTS' 4NING-ROOMS.—Ttlere . iktcrsi, '0 and other neeetearies, they were barely able to very full attendance of tors' on Tuesday last, to La . r POrt themselves and families. The publicans, he says, take of the fine baron of beef dressed on that day. T.he. Bee,,eloSt extravagant in their demands, and care not for, ll.lTOrtallt operation of cooking this royal dish occupied dtitntiodating persons unless they have been at the thirteen hours, having commenced at midnight; and to tio e '' Vs, and have large sums of money of which they was generally admitted that the beef did ample credit Ilse. he Plundered. Three or four hundred bo b - ueen known to land at the Queen's wharf, at Mel- purchased, and also to the capabilities of the cuisine. the, and, there being no place of accommodation for One of . the attractions at this establishment is a caps irefo,nth,.they have been compelled te remain on the wharf cious divan, which has been recently fitted up, where the ' !light, exposed to heavy rains ; and under such lovers of the fragrant weed ono indulge, and also enjoy Itlifstirtnss•lances some of the females have given birth to the eupwh hcheers, but t inebriates, or the more file ae ,.. Should the emigrant be able to bear up against potent compound. he i s ..`llllulating inconveniences and annoyances to which POLICE SU.PERANNUATION FUND.—A special meeting loti,niueiected, he has before him 70 miles of a toilsome e f th e Council was held at the Chamber, on Wednesday, t he (11 ' a k'ng almost imp fi a n ss d a s b n le roads,. before he reaches to consider a motion which Mr. Tobin made at the eedged field, where he dreadful state, unanimous request of the Watch Committee to the effect , Il titie r cl . u r froln £2O to £4O a saZ. A r al l l n o r a s, who can best that so much of the proposed. sanitary bill as relates to ~,:veatee ° . the necessary fatigue and exposure to inclement t i le esta bli s h me nt of a Poltce Superannuation Fund, and t te roin ' , are generally at first most successful ; but on to amendments of the Police t Act, pow in force, be pro ,,; ti res itszitot Melbourne laden with gold they soon become ceeded with during the present session oftptarliament ; and to promote Zs te. ' 4 he marriage,rifice of the abandoned women of the that it be referred to t 4 h is en real or imaginary, is got up ; Jack and th e tipantons forget themselves are easily robbed, t which •_ .r. Ferni was ultimately cas tle her are then turned adrift, 2 • ' .. hough moved an . otelof"the Mayer,-16'voting for, Comets _mplices golde 'elt acco • the bill, so far as ad j r o e u i h r a n e te m s e t n o , these obj m ec l ts ee eaving the fancied wife seed by Lain castleg Y . 1 ' 4 similar fraud on the and 16 agst. wets !torn the Adds." Mr. ROBERT GRUNDY, of St. Helen's, has been ad mitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. MR. JOSEPH REED WALKER has been appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Lancaster. Two PERSONS died last week in Liverpool from deli rium tremens, one from excessive spirit drinking, and one from opium eating. ONE OF THE PASSENGERS FROM SYDNEY, by the Falcon (not Mr. Calvert), is said to have brought home with him 300 ounces of gold. GEORGE GRIFFITHS, aged 20 years, engineer on board the screw-steamer Albatross, died suddenly on Tuesday morning, after arriving at the Nelson Dock from Dublin. THE CONGREGATION OF ST. THOMAS'S, Toxteth-park, have presented a beautiful pocket communion service of silver to the Rev. J. 0. Powell, the incumbent, and a similar one to the Rev. J. W. Brown, the curate, as tokens of their esteem. THE COLLINS steamers appear to have adopted the same style of rig as the Cunard steamer Arabia,—th a t o f a brig, rigged man-of-war fashion. They used to carry three masts, but now they have only two, which will be of great service when driving head to wind. A MEETING of bankers, merchants, and manufacturers of London will be held to-day, to consider what, sugges tions that community ought to make to the government or to parliament for the better development of the resources of British India. This week a meeting with the same object will be held in Manchester. THE Mercury published an erroneous statement the other day of the attendance at the day schools in connexion with St. Thomas's, Toxteth-park. We have authority to say that, instead of 300 being the attendance, the average for the last four years is from five to six hundred, exclu sive of the attendance at the Sunday school. ON WEDNESDAY a package was delivered by one of the porters connected with the London and North-western Railway, at the office of a gentleman in this town, and on being opened it was found to contain the body of a full grown child. It appears a young woman left it at the Euston-station, London. AT THE MANCHESTER BOROUGH COURT, on Friday, Harriet Barker was charged with stealing a £5O note from her employer. She passed the note at the shop of Mr. Stafford, Church-street, in this town. Remanded. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM SHIP NIAGARA, Lang, commander, sailed hence, on Saturday, at 3, p.m., with 106 passengers and a full cargo, besides the usual mails on board. AT THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, on Wednesday, Jas. Oliver, formerly a draper in Byrom-street, received a second-class certificate, subject to a suspension for twelve months, with protection during that time. PHOTOGRAPHY.—A society for the formation of this interesting art has been established in this town, and a meeting will be held this evening to settle the constitu tion of the society. THE REV. DAVID JAMES.—At the anniversary of the " Yorkshire Welsh Society," its published report con cluded by paying a graceful and well-merited compliment to the zealous and respected incumbent of St. Mary's, Kirkdale, upon his recent election to another sphere of labour, the headship of the Llandovery Institution. HEALTH or THE TowN.—The registrar's re t urn f or last week.shows a decrease in the mortality, consequent upon the change from severe to genial weather. The deaths registered were 226, against 272 in the week pre vious. The decrease was almost exclusively in diseases of the lungs. THE AUSTRALIAN.—The Post-offioe authorities gave notice, on Wednesday, that the mail for the Cape of Good Hope, which was on board the steamer Australian, was transferred to the steamer Lady Jocelyn. The mail, therefore, that will be detained by the return of the Aus tralian consists of all newspapers for Australia posted between the 2nd of January and the 10th of March, and all letters for Australia posted between the 4th and 10th 'instant. THE AMELIA, the first iron steam-ship ever constructed at Chester, was launched on Saturday week from the ship yard of Mr. Cram, in the presence of the mayor, magis. trates, and clergy. She is to be rigged at Cheater, which port she will leave during the next spring tides for Liver pool, where she will be fitted with her engines and made ready for her first voyage. She is intended for the coast ing trade between Liverpool and Bristol. GEORGE SMETHURST, beerhouse-keeper, Leigh. street, whose house is said to be a favourite resort of thieves, entered a claim at the County Court against William Russell, a detective police-officer, for the sum of £l5, damages for false imprisonment. The Judge ruled that Russell had no good ground for suspecting the plaintiff was guilty of felony. The verdict must be for the plaintiff, but he would take time to consider what amount of damages he should give ; and he intimated they would be small, owing to the character which the plaintiff bore. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR MANCHESTER.—At the inquest on Monday week, the jury found " that the deceased Thos. Croston, Richard Simmons, and George Barbour were killed on the 4th day of March instant, by the engine, No. 13, running off the line and upsetting near the Dixon Fold station, on the Manchester and Bolton Railray, caused by the excessive speed at which it was driven by the deceased Thomas Croston, against whom we return a verdict of ' Manslaughter.' " They further state that the economy of the line endangers the safety of the public. ON SUNDAY, the Rev. Verner M. White preached an eloquent discourse in Islington Presbyterian Church, on " The Divine Institution of the Sabbath, and the Nature and Necessity of its Due Observance," with special reference to the projected opening of the Crystal Palace on the Lord's Day. LIVERPOOL ENTERPRlSE.—Messrs.Vianna, Jones, and Chapple, have established a line of steam-packet commu nication to Oporto. The first vessel despatched to the new station was the screw-steamer Rattler, Benson, com mander, which took her departure hence on Saturday evening, with a fair cargo on freight. MESSRS. IRONSIDES, the owners of the barque Irene, which vessel was upset on Pluckington Bank, on the 26th ultimo, and eleven lives lost, have presented Capt. Edwards, of the steam-tug Powerful, with a handsome silver salver, for his meritorious services in rescuing the people (ten in number). LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT BILL.—In the minutes of the House of Lords, issued on Saturday, we find under this head the following memorandum :—" Brought from the Commons; read la; and referred to the Standing Order Committee on the fourth sitting day after the recess at Easter; and a printed copy of the bill referred to two English judges to consider and report." A MERCILESS HOAX was committed near Lancaster, the other day, by which a widower was not a little sur prised at finding his dwelling entered by a number of friends from a great distance, attired in mourning, who, in accordance with a letter received by them, had come to bury him. The poor people had been put to the serious expense of a long journey, to say nothing of the pain of mind which they were made to endure. ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.—We have to announce this week the election of two gentlemen of the above school at the universities. Mr. G. Abram, son of the late Ralph Abram, Esq., was elected, on Thursday last, to the open sizarship at Clare-hall, Cambridge ; and on 'Saturday Mr. R. Duckworth, son of Robinson Duck 'worth, Esq., of this town, was elected to the first open scholarship at University College, Oxford. There were twenty-one competitors from the universities and from the leading public schools. MERSEY V. CLYDE.—THE " AUSTRALIAN" DISAS 'IERS.—Iron boat-building, at least as pursued on the Clyde, has experienced a heavy blow and great discourage ment by the continuously accumulating disasters that have befallen the vessels of the unfortunate Australian Mail Company, whose mishaps have been before the public and Parliament all the past week; and the rival builders of this class of craft on the Birkenhead bank of the Mersey are naturally elate at the total exemption of their ships from all reproach on the score of being turned out in such slop-shop fashion as was disclosed by the examination at Plymouth of some of the crazy tubs constructed in the northern waters.—Birmingham paper. THE STAR OF THE LEAST fetched a higher price than has ever been realised on a colonial-built ship ; a fact which speaks well for the character of her builders, Messrs. R. and W. Wright, of St. John's, New Bruns wick. Messrs. Wright have now on the stocks a ship of similar class to the Star of the East, but 30 feet longer and 14 feet more beam. We hear that the Star of the East has been chartered for £lO,OOO. It is intended that, after landing her passengers at Melbourne, she shall pro ceed to China. This makes the third ship which Mr. .Beazeley has bought of Messrs. Wright, through the agency of Messrs. Fernie Brothers and Co. ; namely, the Constance, the Miles Barton, and the Star of the East. TERMINATION OF RAILWAY HOSTILITIES. The traffic agreement entered into by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway directors, some years ago, with the London and 'North-western and Midland Railways, which has proved so baneful to the traffic of the former ROBERT 'CLARICE, Esq., formerly of the Liverpool Theatre'Royal, has already followed his departedwife to the grave. In ex ellent health at the time of Mrs. Clarke's death, a change suddenly came over him. He declared to his friends that he would soon join his beloved wife in another and a better world. He had only one wish, before he died, to see his old friends, Mr. Manifold, the surgeon, of Rodney-street, and his family ; and he arrived here about ten days since. Every effort was made to rally him, but without effect; and at a quarter to four o'clock on Friday afternoon he breathed his last, at the age of 76. A PASSION FOR SACRILEGE.—The only case possessing features of a peculiar character to be brought before the approaching assizes is that of Charles Seddon, commit ted for sacrilege. On the 23d of February, he broke into the Ir.dependent Chapel, Farnworth, and stole some pen dants and other gas fittings ; on the Ist instant he broke into St. Paul's Chapel, Little Hulton, and stole several bronze candlesticks and other articles. This criminal seems - to have a peculiar liking for this sort of robbery, having been -five times previously committed, and once un dergoing twelvemonths' imprisonment forrobbing a chapel. THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-HUNTERS, who are returning to their native land with fortunes, advise persons emigrat ing to proceed to Sydney. There order prevails:; the necessaries of life are comparatively cheap.; and, being an old town, there is proper accommodation for persons ar riving in the colony, and for a much larger number than is likely to reach that place for some time to come. The gold fields of Sydney are quite as valuable as those of Melbourne.; but as the diggings at the latter place were discovered at a later period, emigrants have unwisely overlooked the riches of the Sidney diggings. TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIPS.—The Alps, the second of the Cunard line from Liverpool to New York and Cha gres, arrived at this port on Thursday morning, from New York, after a very rapid run, from port to port, of 12 days and 12 hours mean steaming time. She brought .8'200,000 in specie on freight. The Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company's screw steamer City of Manches ter, Captain R. Leitch, arrived in the Mersey, on Friday forenoon, from Philadelphia, with 143 passengers, (24 of whom occupied cabin berths,) and 4;15,000 in specie. She left Philadelphia on the 3rd instant, and on the night of the 16th breasted Cape Clear, since which time she en countered strong easterly winds, with thick snowy wea ther, making the passage from port to port in 14 days 8 hours. WEST DERBY UNIoN.—At Wednesday's meeting, Mr. H. B. Farnall, poor-law inspector, said he saw from the returns that there had been in that union, in the year ending last Lady-day, a decrease of paupers to the number of 763, as compared with the previous year. This was a much greater diminution than was shown in the general averages of this district. The annual average cost of a pauper was £3.95. 54d..; so that there would be a saving, in the decrease of 763, to the extent of £2;649 per annum. To meet the relief, he said that a levy of Bd. in the pound upon the rateable value of property was sufficient. The average amount required in this union was just 101 d., which, when added to the cost of administering, &c,, would only be about 1l d. The average of the district was Is. 2d. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We learn from the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday, December 21, that the Great Britain sailed punctually at two p.m. Her depar ture was watched by crowds assembled on the shore. " Every one connected with the vessel who arrived in Sydney in her hare gone away with her, Some of those who ran from her at Melbourne have written to the cap tain, expressing their contrition, and begging that they may be allowed to rejoin the vessel. She has on board 35,000 ounces of gold; the consignees are not stated. The following is a list of the passengers for Liverpool : First claes : Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Griffiths, family, and servant; Mrs. Mathews, Mr. Mathews, jun., Mr. and Mrs. Haigh, Mr. and Mrs. P. Solomon, family, and ser vant, Messrs. M. Anderson, F. 3l`Nab, W. Grieve, J, Inches. and Edwin Hickey. Second class : Mr. and Mrs. Robley, Captain Spence, Messrs. Parrott and J. Rawson. Third class : Messrs. L. Wilson, John Mabson, and John Tully. For Melbourne—First class : Mr. and Mrs. Byrne and child, Mr. J. B. Darvall, M.L.C., Mrs. H. B. Smith, Mrs. Bell, son, and daughter, Miss Hawkins, Mrs. E. Elson, Mrs. Devlin, Mrs. Jones, Dr. Smith, Rev. L. Hogg, Messrs. H. Thorp, Swan. Mankerville, Eyde Manning, E. Gildea, Morse, Brown, C. T. Mac lachlan, Alfred Smith, L, Barber, J. Clark, A. C. Hood, Isaac Levey, Pemberton, H. M. Smith, E. B. Davis, E. P. Colquhoun, P. de Costella, L. Brodziak, R. Cherry, and R. Bright. Second class : Messrs. Bradley, Feather. stone, Griffin, Bardsley, and T. Towers." AT THE DOCK COMMITTEE, on Thursday, Thomas Littledale, Esq., presiding, the sub-committee reported that the coopers' wages had been raised from 265. to 30s. a week. When the trade became slack, the wages were to be reduced back to 26s.—Mr. Langsdale : Very like a hook !—Mr. Robinson informed the committee that on Monday last they were in want of about 700 porters for the docks, and only about half a score offered themselves, who required an advance of sixpence a day, their former wages having been three shillings; owing to the emer gency, they had been obliged to employ men at this increased rate.—Mr. Robinson recommended that, if they demurred to their present wages, they should be resisted. —A report was read from the marine-surveyor, estimating that the damage done to the Crosby lightship by a vessel piloted by Thomas Jones, No. 11, amounted to £7B 10s. —ln a conversation on the propriety of establishing a superannuation fund for the police, the opinion seemed to be in favour of the men providing for themselves by joining benefit societies. The matter was ultimately adjourned.—A letter was read from Mr. James Baines and Co., applying for a permanent dock situation at the Salthouse Dock, or in the Canning Dock.—A letter was read from Mr. William Fisher, asking what would be the rent of 5,000 or 6,000 square yards of land with a water frontage for seven or fourteen years : a central situation would be preferred.—Mr. Evans: What is it for ?—The clerk : He does not state.—Mr. Evans : Well, that is a strange application.—Referred to the Harbour-masters' Committee. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—OnThursday, Alderman Langs. dale in the chair, a deputation was appointed to visit the various towns where streets are crossed on the level by dock railways ; Hull, Sunderland, Dundee, Gloucester, &c.—By a re-arrangement of clerks, it was stated that a saving of £4O per annum would be made.—An application from the Select Vestry was read, asking that forty -two able-bodied paupers now in the Workhouse might be employed as scavengers. It was agreed that the borough engineer should employ them as far as he had power.— Mr. Gladstone observed that it would be much better to have all the parish affairs under the Corporation. (A laugh.) That would keep the clergy in their proper sphere, and we should have them in the back streets look ing after the sick and poor, instead of engaging themselves in secular affairs. By having all matters under one management there wouid be greater economy.—Mr. Newlands stated that the cost of scavenging in 1847 was £17,400. Last year it was just half that amount, and this was attributable solely to the substitution of square -set paving for macadam.—Mr. Gladstone thought it proper to say, in regard to an insinuation thrown out by Mr. John Grantham, at the Polytechnic, that Mr. Newlands, borough engineer, so far from favouring the interests of the railway companies, had shown himself rather opposed to the crossing on the low level.—Mr. Newlands observed that Mr. Grantham had even gone the length of insinua ting that he was bribed by the railway companies to sip. port their interests.—A. memorial from Hygeia-street, praying for sewerage there, wa* referred to the general purposes sub-committee. The cost, it appears, would not be less than £l,OOO. company, as well as forcing them into hostility with - their only natural ally, the Great Northern, is now on the eve of expiring.; and the Great Northern directors have passed a resolution appointing their chairman and two of their body to open a communication with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, with power to conclude arrangements, accompanied by an expression of their opinion that it is most desirable amicable arrange ments should be entered into. THE ALBATROSS.--INTERESTING PARTICULARS.— Letters have been received from passengers by the Alba tross, for Melbourne, which vessel sailed from this port on the 15th November last. On the 20th January the vessel was three days past the line. They were all well. A young gentleman from this neighbourhood fell overboard, and was in imminent danger of being drowned, when his brother jumped overboard to save him.; but both were placed in a very perilous situation, when a sailor, seeing their danger, boldly jumped into the sea after them, and succeeded in getting a rope round the two brothers, and towing them to the vessel's side, when the whole party were hauled on board ; and at that instant a shark made a grasp at them with open mouth, but fortunately missed his aim. The monster was afterwards caught, and, of course, killed. He measured nine feet lang. DR. Fisgeit's EXHIBITION.—On Tuesday evening, the large School-room, Cornwallis-street, was inconveniently crowded by persons anxious to see the numerous and beautiful views, sacred, classical, and astronomical, which Dr. Fisher so kindly and generously represented for the must We instructive haveab e re n e s u fi br t ee o e tn f h these lry s . schools fie and erd, so gratified, — the hw S ee t M lattera i s c h h a i e bs ' y s at uh d de i e t i n r n i sc c t ter . ,u • representations which were exhibited, and tlie former by the evident interest felt by all present in the costly and splendid diagrams which Dr. Fisher produced on the occasion. The tickets, though moderate in price, al money y d and some parties who came with m and were obliged to return realised upwards o fi f n 120 room , ; home disappointed. Managers of schools and other charitable objects in this town are largely indebted to Dr. Fisher's exertion on their behalf. IT was stated by the Rev. IV. Pollock, in a lecture to the members of the Church of England Institution, on Tuesday night, that Rome was multiplying her institu tions in Liverpool " every year—he had almost said every month." " They had got in Hope-street," he con tinued, " the new Catholic Institute, a large house that lately belonged to a member of his own congregation, with extensive garden ground behind, and offices; and, , from the moment that they had got possession of it, he ' had se en p eo ple working night and day (f or h e o f ten passed that way at night on sick or other calls), to get those offices ready as a school. Afterwards he saw a large placard stuck up that the Catholic Institute would be re-opened, although the fact was it never had been opened before. This was the deceit the Romish priests practised. He dared say that by and by they would per suade their dupes that the institution was as old as the Apostles." (Laughter.) ADVANCE OF WAGES.—There has been a great advance of wages in Liverpool during the past week. The extra porters at the Albert Dock have been raised Gd. per day ; and the seamen engaged on the various steam-boats plying to and from this port have obtained an increase of 2s. 6d. per week, with peculiar exemptions. The nightmen are on strike for an advance of 4s. per week; the plasterers have given notice of a strike if their wages are not increased to 265. per week, from 245.: and the journey men bootmakers, watchmakers, and paper-hangers are also demanding increased wages. On Friday the porters at the Tithebarn-street Station struck for an advance ; and yesterday the carters of the town were to strike unless their wages are raised to the uniform rate of 245. a-week. The journeymen bootmakers, not satisfied with an increase of wages, now insist upo n their employers discharging the apprentices. The cabinet-makers have obtained an advance of 2s. per week ; the upholsterers have given notice that they expect a similar increase, to commence yesterday; and the corn porters have respectfully requested their employers to advance their wages Gd. a-day. INTERFERENCE WITH THE POLICE.—A meeting of magistrates was held on Friday, to hear the report of the committee of their body upon the complaint of Inspector Kehoe relative to the alleged interference of different members of the Council with him while in the perform ancef Awmcthah. asMellor, e oot: of rnoda:s vgnjrhsnd: Hodgson, Evans, : duty,.. TaETEnh seu: Cropper, rr ln i ARe n e oraw,myeiri ryk c e onnexion nrpresent.G sNiRi Gl adston e , aec with stdhht 00, bin3o: h r wed e, Garnett Messrs. raaEaerrrsnaci Stewart,srelnral tseeyt.-: Hornby, cue t Bo o arordo r ol n e s: marine-stores the report, which began by saying that Inspector Kehoe was of unblemished character. In 1843 he was appointed, under the local act, to report upon marine-store dealers, previous to their receiving a license, as licenses were to be granted by the finance committee to such only as had supported a tolerably good character for the three pre ceding years. In the discharge of this duty he stated he had been interfered with by Mr. Alderman Parker, Mr. R. Harbord, Mr. Toulmin ' Mr. Thompson, and M r . Woodruff. The report concluded by saying that whether they regard the interference of members of the Council with the police, or the granting of marine-store licenses to unworthy persons, or in improper localities, as disclosed in the information before them, your committee are of opinion that, from the joint operation of these causes, the administration of justice, in this borough, is seriously endangered. The appropriate remedy for this evil must be sought in an alteration of the statutes, both of com paratively recent date, which give the power of dismissing the police and of licensing marine-store dealers, to a po pularly elected and fluctuating body like the Town Coun cil. It seems only reasonable that the law, which secures the independence of the higher, should be extended to the inferior officers of justice. Nor, as it seems to your committee, is it compatible with the pure administration of justice, to give the power of granting licenses to judges who owe their position to the votes of the applicants for those licenses, lest the probable result follow that the license is made the condition for the vote, and the Vote the consideration of the license.—After some discussion, in the course of which Mr. Hugh Hornby, as chairman of the finance committee, denied the insinuations which lie thought were cast against the members of that body, and declared that none of the cases to which reference was made had ever come under his notice, the report was received, and a copy of it ordered to be sent to the finance committee, with a request that they would co-operate with the magistrates in adopting some measures which would destroy the abuses of the present system of grant ing marine-store licenses. GENERAL NEWS. A RIFLE CORPS is about to be organised in Greenock. THE SEAMEN AT AYR, N. 8., have struck for an advance of wages. They ask £4 per month. THE SENTENCE ON MARY ANN PARR, convicted of in fanticide at Nottingham assizes, has been commuted to transportation for life. THE POLICE FORCE OF NEW YORK amounts only to 1,040 officers and men, while that of London is between 7,000 and 8,000. ROMAN PAVEMENT.—In the course of making a drain in Tanner-row, York, a very beautiful Roman tesselated pavement was discovered about ten feet below the surface. JOHN WILLIAMS was executed at Greenlaw, on Mon day, for the murder of Andrew Mather, toll-keeper at Cleikumin, near Lauder, Berwickshire, on the night of the 4th December, 1852. He was an merican by birth. AT Worcester assizes, Mr Porter, who received injuries of a permanent character from an accident on the Mid land Railway, was compensated by a verdict, by consent, for £l,OOO. THE COURT OF CHANCERY has issued orders for com pelling the Earl of Mornington to pay the annuity of £l,OOO a-year settled by him on his wife. The case has been several times before the police-courts, the Countess applying for maintenance in a state of destitution. " EXTREMES MEET."—The Derby Reporter says, Messrs. Bass and Heyworth are to have a public recep tion on entering the town on Easter Monday. What a pleasing picture to the ardent teetotaller ? Heyworth, the son of temperance ! Bass, the embodiment of the bitter-beer interest ! in friendly conjunction. THERE IS A BIBLE still preserved, written on palm leaves, in the University of Gottingen, containing 5,367 leaves. Another Bible, of the same material, is at Copenhagen. There were also, in Sir Hans Sloane's collection, more than twenty manuscripts, in various languages, on the same material. A MISER, named Jameson, died at Newby, Westmore land, a few days ago, in abject wretchedness. He made his own clothes, washed his own linen, and lived on the sparest diet. He sat in his lonely cottage without fire or candle. His property has been estimated at nearly £30,000, the principal nart of which will go to a nephew in London. SCARCITY or COALS.—The late snow storm, having closed the roads in many districts in the north, occasioned a great scarcity of coals. In Eilon, neighbours, to make their fuel last as long as possible, agreed to have but one fire between them : and there was also a case, where two women, the one with three children under her roof, and the other a pauper 80 years of age, sat for two days without fire in their dwellings. MR. JUSTICE WILLIAMS left Oxford, on Saturday night week, for London, and was returning, by mail train, on Sunday night, but instead of getting out to change carriages, at Didcot, he kept his seat, and did not discover his mistake until he reached the Steventon station, where the learned judge alighted, and was accommodated at the inn, in the village, until tier Majesty's royal mail-cart started, when his lordship was taken on, and reached Ox ford in safety about one o'clock on Monday morning. A MAN DECAPITATED.—On Friday, a shocking acci dent occurred at Kirkstall-forge iron -works, near Leeds. William Merritt, aged 28, was employed in a room where there is a revolving shaft, and at the top is a circular piece of thin metal. It is supposed that his clothes caught the revolving shaft, and whirled him round it, for after the accident he was found in the room without head and minus one arm, the head being in one part and the trunk of the body in another part of the room. He was most probably drawn up the shaft, and his neck coming in contact with the piece of circular metal, it would be severed from his body instantaneously. EXTRAORDINARY FIRE.—On Wednesday week, about three o'clock in the morning, a fire broke outin the house of a chemist, at Holborn-bars, London. The firemen, in their anxiety to clear the place of combustible substances, threw a quantity of phosphorous into the road, when it ignited, as it commonly does in contact with the air. A constable rushed forward and began to stamp on it, to subdue the flame, when a quantity of phosphorous adhered to his boots, and his clothes were soon all on fire. A soldier, who was passing rushed forward and endeavoured to ex tinguish the fire about the officer, and in so doing his own clothes came in contact with the phosphorous, and in less than a second, he, too, was on fire. By great perseverance the fire was subdued about the policeman and soldier, but they were terribly burned: THE WESLEYAN CONTROVERSY has brought forth bloodshed at a place called Yeadon, near Leeds. On Sunday, Mr. Everett, an expelled minister, - was announced to preach ; but was prevented by a legal process served upon him. A mob of the reformers, becoming exasperated, attacked the house of Thomas Mann, the keeper of the meeting-house, declaring they would turn him out; and as the mob began to break the doors and windows with stones, some one from within threatened to fire. In about half an hour after the disturbances had begun, a gun was discharged by some one from within, and the shot entered the leis' of - Hiram Yeadon, who is now under medical treatment. After this the constables were called in, and took five men who were in the house into custody, who have been remanded by the West Riding magistrates for a fortnight, that the wounded man may be able to appear. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY IN YORKSHIRE.— This society having been invited to extend their operations to Yorkshire, a deputation, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Worthington, Mr. Harrison, one of the solicitors, and Mr. Gruneisen, the secretary, visited Leeds, Wakefield, and Bradford, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and attended large and respectable meetings of the inhabitants of these towns. The deputation at each place was cor dially received, and the statements with respect to the ad vantages of the movement, morally and socially, were listened to with attention and general approval. It was intimated that immediate steps would be taken to pur chase eligible Yorkshire estates, and that the committee were prepared to undertake, if desired, land purchases in almost any county in England. In the course of their tour, the committee made a large addition to the members of the society. A TOUCH OF NATURE.—A car full of passengers re. cently passeover the ester n Railroad, n whichoccurre a simple but touching scene, worthy of i record. One of the passengers was a woman carrying in her arms a child who annoyed every one by its petulance and cries. Mile after mile the passengers bore the infliction of its noise, which rather increased than diminished, until, at last, it became furious, and the passengers nearly so. There were open complaints, and one man shouted " take the child out." The train st o p pe d at a station, when an old gentleman arose, and made the simple statement that the father of the child had died recently, away from home, that the mother had been on a visit, that her dead body was on board the train, and that the child was in the arms of a woman who was a stranger to it. It was enough. There was a tear in nearly every eye, and all were melted into pity and patience. All selfishness was lost in think. ing of the desolation of the poor little wanderer, who would have found a warm welcome in hands that a moment before would almost have visited it with a blow. —Springfield Republican. CURIOUS CASES OF SOMNAMBULISM.—On Saturday the quiet village of Hoff, near Appleby, was thrown into an unusual excitement by a report that a married lady had, during the night, disappeared in a mysterious manner from the bed of her lord and master, while wrapt in balmy sleep. All places, likely and unlikely, were explored, with the hope of discovering the missing fair one ; but, as the day wore on, it was suddenly announced that an old bachelor of Hoff, on the dark side of 60, had also been stolen, or had strayed, or had been otherwise conveyed away in a similar manner. About three o'clock on Monday morning the lost ones returned to their re spective homes. Of course, as neither of them has the least recollection of anything that occurred in the interval, they must have been in a state of somnambulism ; but their simultaneous seizure by the fit, and their not having suffered in any material degree from the excessive cold, or from want of food or rest, during a period of 51 hours, are knotty problems which our magi have not yet been able to solve.—Carlisle Patriot. STRANGE SCENE IN A COURT.—At Bedford, on Friday, John Saunders, John Leonard, and Joseph Morrell were indicted for burglary and violence. William Saville, a fine intelligent old man, in his 89thyear, proved that heand his wife, who is 84 years of age, lived alone in a cottage at Eyworth. On the night of the 17th of January three men came up stairs, one having a bludgeon, another a gun, and the third a lighted candle. They demanded his money, and struck him on the head in a brutal manner. The wife interposed, and one of them struck her on the head and knocked her back in bed. The poor old cren, tures were both bleeding from their wounds, and the villains made them strip to sbew they were not concealing any property. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Chief Baron then directed judgment of death to be recorded against the prisoners. This being the last case, the judge rose from his seat, and as he was about to re tire, a man in the court, related to one of the prisoners, called out to his lordship that he had committed murder in sentencing him. He repeated his calls, and the three prisoners became violently excited, and shouted "murder" in the most terrific manner. The court became a scene of great excitement, the cries of murder continued, and terrible denunciations were dealt forth. The prisoners resolutely refused to leave the dock, but swore they would die there first. At last additional officers sprang over the bar, dragged the men into the cell, and ironed them. The van was then ordered, and the prisoners were con veyed to the gaol amidst great excitement. The trial lasted until an advanced hour. INTERESTING TO NAVIGATORS.--THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.—Under this head we find in a recent number of the New York Express the following remarks in re ference to the Falkland Islands, now attracting much attention in this country, because of their exceeding eli gibility for purposes of transportation, when the dispatch of convicts to Australia shall cease. The importance of these islands to Great Britain, in a commercial sense, is strengthened from the fact of the rapidly-increasing num ber of Australian vessels coming home by way of Cape Horn ; and we believe it is the intention of the proprie tors of some of our great lines of steamers to establish a coal depot there, in which case, there will, necessarily, be a vast augmentation to the advantages already specified by our American contemporary, namely:—" For the I interest of American and other shipowners, whalers, and all other vessels, it cannot be too generally made known that the Falkland Islands, off the coast of South America, now afford an excellent station, with many good and safe harbours at which vessels, of every class, may find supplies. Ships proceeding to or from the East Indies, China, or from the Pacific coast and Polynesia, round the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, will find at the Falklands the means, in ordinary c ases o f d am a g e, of repair, supplies i d of provisions, &c., in short, all such stores as arere required by by merchant vessels. There are no port or custom-house charges, whereas, at all the South American continental Plate, ports, whether in Brazil, or on the River . ate, the charges are very high, delays and vexationsfrequent, labour, and the articles required for repairs exorbitant. But the most serious objection to the Brazilian ports is f B the prevalence of a malignant yellow ever, particularly dangerous to the ship's companies on board vessels in the harbours. From these reasons, as well as from the con veniences and facilities afforded by the authorities, and by the new settlements at these islands, the number of vessels touching there has been very much increased, and will no d ou bt continue.to increase in every succeeding year." FROM a return to the House of Commons, printed on Tuesday, there are 50,170 electors for counties in Scotland and 133 polling places. CAPTAIN CHEVALIER, of the port of Nantes, has been presented by Lloyd's with a piece of plate, for having navigated an English steamer from the coast of Africa to England, the captain of which had died. SEVERAL GROCERS in Melbourne made last year from £24,000 to £27,000, and are now making at that rate per annum. An itinerant knife and scissors-grinder—the first seen here—and a locomotive shoeblack, have also made their £4OO or £5OO a year. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The seventh purchase of land for allotment amongst the members of the society, has just been made in the West Riding of Yorkshire, at Leeds, close to the railroad, on the River Aire, on the Kirkstall and Bradford road. BANK OF ENGLAND. —The dividend declared at the half-yearly court was 4 per cent., free of income-tax. The profits for the past six months amount e d t o £563 , 049, and the " rest," after this distribution, will remain at £3,012,113. CHARLES COOKE AND JOHN SMITH, two poachers, were convicted at the Worcester assizes, of deliberately firing a gun at the head of a gamekeeper in the preserves of Sir John Pakington, at Westwood, and were sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. THE REFORMATION.—At St. Matthew's, Great Peter.. street, Westminster, the Rev. R. Malone, incumbent. six males and two females publicly and formally renounced the errors of the Church of Rome, at the Sunday evening service. The rev. gentleman also, during the evening, baptised an adult Jew. AT BRIGHTON, the body of a child was found in a field strangled with a handkerchief. Inquiries show that the child was the daughter of a servant named Sherwood. Before her arrest, and after the murder was known, she actually attended a public ball. In prison she tried to strangle herself. IRON SHIPBUILDING IN HULL. —OR Tuesday wag launched from the ship-building yard of Messrs. C. & W. Earle, into the Victoria Dock, an iron screw steam schooner, called the Minister Thorbeck, 220 tons re gister, and 300 tons burthen, the property of the Zwolle Shipping Company, and intended for the trade between Zwolle and Hull. ABSURD PROSECUTION.—At the assizes at Bedford the other day, a woman, having a baby in her arms, was ar raigned on a charge of stealing a piece of muslin. When the article was produced, it was a small white rag, ap. parently a slip off a white frock ! There was a auestion to whom the rag really belonged, both prosecutrix and prisoner stoutly claiming it. The jury acquitted the prisoner. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.—The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's steam-ship, Harbinger, from South ampton to Sydney, arrived at St. Vincent on the 24th ult. all well. It was intended at starting to go direct to the Cape, but the continuance of contrary winds induced the commander to put into St. Vincent's for a fresh supply of fuel, whence she sailed on the 25th. The new ship Argo, belonging to the General Screw Company, is announced to leave Southampton on the 4th of May. CALORIC ENGINES are expected to be soon in opera tion on the Ohio and Mississippi. The Bu f falo Courier anticipates the speedy universal adoption of the new principle, and continues :—" We shall then have no more wholesale scalding of men, women and children ; no more mangling and disfiguring them for life; in short, no further chronicling of those horrible disasters and explo sions, which are of such frequent occurrence on the western rivers, and which cause the blood of the nation to run cold." INTERESTING FACT.—The following singular and au thentic case of restoration of the human hair is worthy of observation, more particularly as it relates to an article of high and universal repute during the last half century. Mr. A. Herrmann, of Queen-street, Soho, had been quite bald for some time past, and had tried various prepara tions for the recovery of his hair, but without any benefi cial result. He was then induced to try the effects of " Rowland? Macassar Oil," and after daily applying it for about two months, he, much to his gratification, had his hair quite restored, and now possesses a beautiful head of hair. This fact speaks too strongly for itself to require comment.—Bell's Weekly Messenger. THE FLUES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The fate of Doncaster Church holds out an impressive warning, by making evident the necessity for extreme caution and vigilance wherever buildings are heated by flues. After that deplorable occurrence, who will say that the British Museum is safe ? The prohibition of open fire-places and candles or gas is an insufficient precaution against such an accident as that at Doncaster. It is not, indeed, at all likely that if a fire were to break out the whole of the structure would be destroyed ; but great, and of course quite irreparable, injury might be done to the contents of that part of it where a fire took place. Wherever there is a flue, fire may be hatching without any symptoms of it to create alarm.—The Builder. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—A frightful colliery ex plosion took place in the Risca Vale, near Newport, Mon mouth, on Saturday week, by which 7 young men and boys were killed, and thirteen more or less injured, so that four are not expected to survive. The seam of coal is known as the Black Vein, from which the proprietor has for some time past supplied the West India mail boats. It aas in this seam" that about seven years azo a great explosion took place, when between thirty and forty per sons were Wiled ; and since that period occasional ex plosions of a minor character have taken place, by which one or two lives each time have been sacrificed. It is to the negligence of a collier, who survives to admit the truth, that the present frightful catastrophe is to be at tributed. It appears that he neglected to place a " sheet," used for the purpose of regulating the admission of air from the wind way of the heading into the upper part of the stall where the gas is supposed to have accumulated, and coming into contact with the naked candles, caused the explosion. EXPLOSION OF A LOCOMOTIVE.—On Thursday morn ing, shortly before seven o'clock, an accident of a frightful character took place at the Brighton station of the London and Brighton Railway, by which three men lost their lives. The engine had just emerged from the shed, to be attached to the train, having on it the driver, stoker, and engine-fitter, when the boiler blew up with a terrible re port. Upon the clearing away of steam and smoke, it was discovered that the three men had been killed, and the bodies frightfully mangled. The engine -driver had his head blown off from his neck, and it was found some sixty yards from the engine, while the body of the stoker was found dismembered of both rms, and the head smashed into a shapeless mass. The engine -fitter had both his legs blown off, and his body dreadfully shattered. The remains were collected, and the force of the explosion may be imagined from the fact of portions of the bodies having been picked up three hundred yards from the station. A piece of the engine —a heavy iron mass —was driven through the roof of the station, and fell at the distance of two hundred yards. There is cause to believe the accident arose from the driver having screwed down the safety-valve shortly before the explosion took place. MURDER AND SUICIDE.-At Clifton, near Bristol, a most appalling tragedy has been perpetrated by a respect able master shoemaker, named Isaac Tucker, who, after having murdered his two children, aged respectively five and three years, by cutting their throats with a shoe maker's knife, put a period to his own existence in the same way. The deceased had recently taken a house upon Prince's-place, near the Royal York-crescent, Clifton, and entered into possession only a few days since. On Thurs day, between twelve and one o'clock, his wife went to Bristol on some business, and he was left at home in the house with his children and a female servant. Soon after wards he was observed to come down stairs, go to the street door, look up and down the thoroughfares, and then go to a looking-glass and survey himself, putting out his tongue and working it about in a somewhat strange man ner. He then went up stairs, and soon afterwards his eldest little girl went up also. Nothing subsequently was heard of any of them, but soon after the door was dis covered to be locked, and upon its being broken open, all three were discovered quite dead, their clothes saturated with blood, and their throats cut in a shocking manner, the head of the youngest being all but severed from his body. PERFECTION. -- We are always happy in directing the attention of our readers to whatever is of general utility. On the present occasion, we would refer to art article which has reached the enviable state of perfection, and that is in regular use in every family, viz., starch, the qualities of which depend not only on the ability and experience of the manufacturer, but also on the superiority of the article from which it is manufactured. We refer to the Glenfield Patent Starch, _manufactured by Mr. Wotherspoon,of Glasgow, at the Glenfield Starch Nirorla -• • It is now in almost universal use, and recommended by I, the most eminent authorities. The Qu e e n , P r i nce A lbe rt, and the nobility and gentry of Britain have the finest of their goods finished with it, while its merits are equally appreciated, and in daily use, by the middle and working classes of the community. In proof of the varied and superior excellencies of the Glenfield Patent Starch, we here insert a copy of the testimonial, of Her Majesty's Laundress :—" The Glenfield Patent'Powder Starch has now been used in that department of the royal laundry where all the finest goods are finished for Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, and I have much pleasure in informing yori that it has given the highest satisfaction. M. Weigh, Laundress to Her Majesty. Royal Laundry, RiAmond, near London, 15th May, 1851." We could also copy similar recommendations from most of the laundresses of the principal nobility and gentry, beside's a testimonial from 1,500 of the retailers of the artjefe in the principal towns in this country. li r e have therefore the greatest confidence in recommending all our readers to make a trial of this very _ tosuperior article, which we are certain is all that is required con vince every one of its rare qualities, so c le arly in the royal testimonial, and which we think set forth will induce as all articles brought manufacturer our readers to adopt it for daily use, to perfection by the skill and industry object in view other is imitated by such as have noof the d •. to the • "mposing upon the unwary article, with the intention of Imposing palm off a worthless article, labelle d si m ilar genuine havebeen many obscure who have endeavoured manufacturers of starch . their inferior productions by ' • or casual purchaser. There ' , upon the public giving the outside appearance of their packets a colourable imitation y make even a colourable of the original (they, owever, fall very far short of Starch).he The Lord Chancellor, strech Glenfieldwhich t however, last session granted the maker (Mr. Wother spoon) two injunctions to restrain these fraudulent i g m iv i i t n a g tio t n he of practices, with costs against the ff d o en ers. The report of these trials appeared in the • Tones and other London papers at the time, July 29 and 30. Our readers, to prevent imposition, should see that the maker's name (R. Wotherspoo ) n is on each packet. We see this starch is sold in every shop in town. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, A UNIVERSAL REMEDY FOR OLD WOUNDS AND OBSTINATE SORES. Mr. John Mackie, proprietor of the Northern Ensign. Wick, informs Professor Hollow y, Water, dated April 3d, 1851, "That he is aware ni,rfilinerous instances in which Holloway's ointment,and pills have been of the greatest service to sufferers in that part of the country, more especially as regards wounds of long standing, and that lie could, if erinitted, give th e names of many re spectable partie who have been en ti re l y cure d b y their se y use." No f ily should be without a supply of these excellent cr nedicines, which are so j ust l y ce l e b rate d through t the civilised world. IsP )f co rePre‘ even; elan' es t 25 'hid" 0 0 ' fatten re' with Bn vocs' , of° ec tor the!+ tow je t 130 r, to r are . e of