The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL LOCAL NEWS IRON SHILLINGS, neatly silvered by the " electro" process, are circulating in Liverpool. A SPECIAL SESSIONS for transferring publicans' licenses was held on Thursday, at the Sessions'-house, the Mayor presiding. There were fifty two-applications, the great majority of which were sanctioned. A VALUABLE HEN.—Mr. Alexander DaTziel, of the Trafalgar Hotel, Egremont, has a hen, hatched last year, which the other day laid an egg which measures 71 inches by 61 inches, and weighs 3i ounces. FATAL RESULTS OF INTEMPERANCE. -011 Wednesday last a woman, named Jane Price, of intemperate habits, fell down in Fox-street, apparently in a fit. She was conveyed to her home in Prince Edwin-street, where she died the same evening. FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—A. grand exhibition of the Liverpool Floral and Horticultural So ciety took place on Thursday, at the Bot an i c G ar d ens, Edge-lane, being th e second how of the season. The show was not so large as in May last, but many of the specimens were of an exceedingly fine and rare description. MAD DOGS are numerous at Parr and its neighbour. hood. Mr. Braybrook, owner of the game at Bold, has ordered all his valuable dogs to be shot, in consequence of one of them, while in a rabid state, biting the nose of the gamekeeper's son. The youth has been under medi cal treatment ever since Saturday, the 18th TFLE HEALTR or LIVERPOOL—During the week ending Saturday se'nuight, the deaths in Liverpool numbered 1 "j7--four mare than in the previous week, and twenty nine less than the average of the same week of the ure eding five years. Two males, aged 36 and 43, died from fletirium tremens. BROA-SHARPING.—On Tuesday last, three men met a stranger in Pitt-street, and induced him to go into a public-house, when they swindled him out of £4 at cards, byProcess known in poli ce p h raseology as " broad sharping." A great number of " " be taken into custody, but the m magsmen have an havin failed to iden ti fy en fy any of th em t h ey were set at liberty. g REV. DR. 11VNEILR'S SON. —At the half-yearly 'examination of the students at the East India College, Haileybury, amongst 'those in their first term, Mr. APNeile, son of the Rev. Dr. Hugh M'Neile, has been highls;distinguished, and obtained the prize far the bast English essay, prize in c'assics, prize in mathematics, prize in law, prize in Sanserit, and prize for general pro ficiency, at the Eastern examination. BILL FORGER/ES AT MANCHESTER.-1N Tuesday, at the Manchester borough court, Mr. Demeza, a partner in the firm of 1. and W. Demeza, paper manufacturers, CaStle Mills, Tansworth, and carrying an business also at a warekonse, 67, Long Millgate, Mandhester, was com mitted to the assizes on the charge of tittering four forged bills of e xchange, of various amounts,ta Afr. Smith, paper Manufacturer, of Watford, in Hertfordshire. Some of the bills were, it appears, drawn on parties at Liverpool. atth ES e WT D ERBY G UARDIANS.— ie r. Harr i son pres i ded weekly meet i ng, %vas on Wednesday. A communication read * * Om the poo r -l aw b oar d, a dd re s se d t o Mr. Pitz Patriblre one of the medical diEcers. The board re tiVetted that he had not duly complied with the regula ons by 'furnishin g th e guar di ans w i t h certa i n weekly ettwits in the prescribed manner. The board attached great importance to the returns in question, and trusted 'that in future he would not 'fail to submit them to 'the 'guardians with undeviating regularity. FESTIVITIES.-The Festiveries.Th e total abstainers of - this Isration of town have been most unfortunate this year in the tele- . ! l their ann i versary, which took place on Tees ays. T he rain f e ll in sympgthizing showers during the 'e ate rPortion of the day, While unsympathizing Indies .. : rs s aan itm tect_ t o h_ fr e refused them the privilege of walking in proms tuh.nygmh the streets. In the evening about twc-thou •deniewd et t n h i e re m st o : We et in the2oolalogical Gardens. k tempe apsrlysisluee d e , O s f tn w ti a n lk g in th g a i t n th p e ro a c u es th si o o r n it . ies had IcsseDanISGRACEFUL DEFICE OF A DRUNKARI9;—.IameS , ShOprnEß to an outfitter in Whitechapel, brought 1 0 .1po at the county court, a day or two since, for a debt of some 14s. sd. for ale -and other liquors due totßaphael ! z2 /6:!F ia no , publican, Whitechapel pleaded th a t-h e oug h t t t° PaY as he was '-' unconsciously drunk" when he had `the ale. His Hononr remarked very strongly on the unprincipled conduct of •the defendant, and found a ver t f or the plaintiff, - deducting only the sam charged for spirits. SeveralSHAM Isisunewce tasmeesizes IN EffrFßpooL. cases have come before the Judge at the Liver pool COOOIY Court, daring lasto week, from which it ap pears that in the begizitsag this town started the Marin e tit year, certain in d Insurance. ompan. The chairman was -said to be werer d ?ord e r uttrs t Perc y , seven surgeon, Lord Nelson -street. Therwea directors, but afterwcrds fivet he chairman was frequently obliged to pawn his ; atcls had one of the directors, Williamrroole, a lawssestetd:°' inner A person named Brown , a waiter s said he was a director ef another society called the Pheenix. PROVINCIAL MEDICLL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIA o —The annual meeting of the Lancashire •and Cheshire Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical A.ssociation was held at the Town-hall, on Wednesdapmorni e Amongst the gentlemen present were---3.sNettinagham last . M.D., Liverpool ;!j. Dickinson, N1.D.., Liverpool , H. Hulme, Liverpool :sEllis Jones, Liverpool H. S . wift, Liverpool ; E. L. 'Falloon, Liverpool ; E. Batty, Liver pool; Thomas Eden, Liverpool; J. G. 'Oaten, Birken h of e thade Eye. Lo - ALn I ~RAlzi,"E' LZSTITUTION OF GREATTRITAIN.- - The Annual Grand (..Lodge Meeting of all eEngland was held on Friday, at the Queen's Hotel, Lime-street • the Worshipful Grand Master T. J. Ousely, Esq.; in the chair. The assemblage of the brethren was large and-influenti a l. The business of the past year, with election of grand officers, &e., came duly off. The G.M. was re-elected ; W. Clark. Esq., was elected D.G.M. ; A. 'By .l ford, Esq., G.T. ;N. Bradley, Esq., was re-el ec t e d GiS and the Rev. Sheppard, Grand Chaplain. At seven o ' c lock the brethren sat down to dinner, and a pleasant evening was spent amid speech, song, and sentiment. How THE MARINE• STORE DEALER• 6 . 1 - i POLICE.—A man named Conway, who kept a marine store in Addison-street, was deprived of his licence some short time ago. Socn afterwards Anthony Kelly, an old man, applied for a licence for the same house, but was refused it. He was asked if he knew Conway. and said he did not, on which he was given a licence foeTontenoy street. On going there some time afterwards, officer Kehoe found Conway in the store; and this week officer Carlisle also saw him there. The latter fooncLin Kelly's Possession a quantity.of , files, for the possession sof which he could not account. He was consequently not only deprived of his licence, but sent to gaol for two.menths. Dome Commtrren.-41 - r. Turner presided at the meet • ing on Thursday. The plan for placing the table- co that the reporters might 'hear, was ordered to tie en ithe table ' for a week.—lt was reported that a screw pile.beacon, lately erected on one of the banks, was run foul of and • sunk by a schooner in the:, afternoon of the 23t1 of June, .and that a reward of .ClO had been offered for the. disco very of the name of the schooner.—The Chairman said that after the accident a 'boat left the light-ship, and the 'men went on board the echoeler ; they asked the•captain -what the name of his (vessel was, and he replied that it vras the Swan, of Limericksbut no such vessel was known. - "nlis letter was read from theßev. George Dover, asking • for the continuance of an anneal grant of 1:549 towards the expenses attending the religious services for the work men at the north docks.—Asletter was read from Messrs. ',Fawcett, Preston, and Co., representing that great incon venience was experienced from, the want of craneage he mumdation at the south end. of the docks, and aug gesting another site for the erang, namely, the south-east the sideof.the Queen's Dock. Th e ,l etter was referred to hatbour-master's sub.eoremit're —Mr Bigham and Mr. 'Barb er were re-a ppointed to - as . sist the chairman to 'revise the-list of dock ratepayer s, who were said to num bar 'from 11..300 to 1,400. l etter was read from Mr. William sioliiffe, owner ofh—at v h i e nte rra n eler, steamer, to the effect that the bell buoy left withontany buoy or mark to when proceeding down the channel, on, oa t , 29thh oaterprlre Point r s e F! l ?tly.sunk, and struck-thehell buoy, and sank ; but ,he,itad succeeded it: raising the ,vessel, and had got the damage repaired, and Le 'begged to inclose a bill of the costa and expenses, amounting to X 325 Ss. Being a poo r man, whose sole capital was invested in the steamer, the-earnings of w hi ch Were 'the support of himself and family, he respectfully reanested the 'Dock Committee t o cons id er th e matter and to eateler•the_ezpense to which he had been put to be Paid. The letter was referred. sid Re.taza•CommuTaE.—Mr. Alderman Langadale pre inleudirat the wee kl y meeting on Thur sday.—Mr. ,Fleming regular attendant, 4 with re f erence to Mr. C layton. w h o i s . not a very attendant, where he had sprung from.—Mr. Beck wiciatitaiotn.Prom the dockyard.—Mr. Fleming: clotie s ...... mr Clayton.: :Out Out of the S s• for (La- ughter.)---ai t , Beckwith : Then 3 -_, to-e s e, 1 (Continued laughter.)—The death of Mr. u` : ."%u t O: Lee, you got your eo. , . con;tneihtiefteeeLerk in the nuisance-o ffi ce, was reported The tehlirman remarked that .the esiras_tttee had lost a very good servant.—The sub-com- AS " e a Pinsiet s d t •. • afi r :, teek wii , 0 enquire into the charge preferred by I —e ce as against Ur. Johnson, of using undue w.ria other tXt.?-fta totted *CO_ llStrucion a member of the committee, in procuring the i • Moss thou is from Yairelough-lane in toin Cobden 11 A person sittili th a r n s in %Oath. he was interested popty. %undue preference -had been exercised.— t n . t o h_e r r ls e .ot w i as a certain -degree of indelicacy hOa7 a 'e n a ; se direct•-sil had connec fre.ogiohthat room being the arbitrator in his whonee!ia denied that: e was a builder or a with builders. If gentlemen c ommitt ee w h„"°o with builders were not to sit on that even to r ' mu was to remain there? ;lie would refer 7,..ifr. O ' S , °,- se • , Was he not connected with builders ? ale. Joh_ 10u Was an independent property there.- 4 „ 1 . .4.04 ; I i„ asked what .he usve a piece of unbuilt ground. And he tat ber thi s nefit that derived from sewers. He would his land wit sewer had not been made, for he could drain he should l i til ' i t it. He would ask the Council whether dictation the committee, but he Lt at the would never leave her d ropped any of any individual.—The conversation recon s . and the report was received. Certain the a s e titions from a committee appointed to consider wer e ion of the o ffi cers of the Health Committee agre to raisi ax of ed !o: th ese recommendations advocated the a cros va rious sala r i es. —M r. Moss directed attention would mat ategrifarloiym. M i lton-street into Scotland-road, which ?Mi lton-street the pr o p er t y o f severa l o f hi s con aeiettlerlts. an d otnoi which was supposed to have been made to Pert odate a spirit-vaults in Scotland-road, the pro you y oil of Mr. Thomas Godfrey, —The Chairman : Have the Plan ?—Mr. Moss : No ; but I say it is a Perfect. ahomination.—Mr. Newlands said the work could ....be Properly seen in its present state ; Mr. Aloss should ...ran until it • Pretty s an abonli .was finished, and then, if it were considered ceedin nation, he would alter it at his own expense. A mart altercation here arose, Mr. Newlands suc 011h__ ,g at length in silencing Mr. Moss.—A deputation ~..cotland-road relative to the crossing was introduced s e' s 'tu Bradley to the committee.—After a short discus "'uu, the committee agreed to visit the place, and see what 8 committee d of .—Mr. M thsTitlPa de — si; ‘ a of ___,,, .e o.— r. oss bTlehatthaitt tiisletfhuetuorpeinmioenetionfothoifsthceomGmeniettreael gave the following notice Purp os es e e S ub-Committee be discontinued, and that Sit/ Mess be transferred to the ordinar Th d ' the mg, and that reporters . y urs ay a meet exce be admitted to all such meetings, Pt those for financial purposes." 'AX THE THE QUEEN has been pleased to approve of Mr. Chas. Stoess as consul, at Liverpool, for his Royal Highness the Prince and Regent of Baden. A COURTEZAN, at Preston, when apprehended the other day, just after stealing a gold Geneva watch, swallowed the watch in order to escape detection. SANGUINARY STATISTICS.—The following is a return of the number of animals slaughtered in Liverpool from January to June in the present year .—Beasts, 18,596 ; calves, 9413 ; sheep, 67,855 ; pigs, 13,958 ; total, 109,822. MAN DROWNED.—On Tuesday morning last, Michael Comerford, who had been drinking hard for some days, left his home in Sherwood-street, and was found next morning in the canal drowned. MR. JAMES HALSALL, who had been for forty years employed in the Liverpool police force, died in a fit of apoplexy at his house, in Islington, on Thursday night. He was latterly employed as crier in the Sessions-court and in the detective department. VISIT OF FREEMASONS TO DUBLIN.—Some of the in fluential masons of Liverpool are making preparations to pay a visit of congratulation to their Irish brethren in Dublin. The visit is intended to take place in August, when the Irish brethren will have a grand Masonic Ball. MR. ISAAC DIXON, who has been for some years mate in the Isle of Man steamers, and latterly chief mate of the splendid new steamer Mona's Queen, has been appointed to the command of the new Liverpool and Ramsey steam-boat, the Manx Fairy. CONVERSIONS FROM ROMANISM.—On Friday last, five adults, formerly members of the Church of Rome, were received into the Church of England by the Rev. W. F. Taylor, M.A., incumbent of St. John's Church. Three children were also, at the request of their parents, received at the same time. SIR BENJAMIN HEYWOOD, accompanied by his daugh ter, came down specially from Manchester on Tuesday last, to visit the steamer Great Britain. They were shown over the vessel by Samuel Bright, Esq., of the firm of Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and expressed themselves asto nished at her colossal proportions and admirable arrange ments for passengers. THE FORTHCOMING DIVIDENDS.—It is said that the London and North-western Railway Company will divide sk—that is, at the rate of 51 per cent. 'for the half-year. The Great Western will probably not divide higher than 4. On nearly all other lines, especially the Scottish, there has been a considerable increase of receipts as com pared with the corresponding half-year. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.— The Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed for New York, on Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, with a fair complement of passengers, and a full cargo. On Saturday afternoon the Arabia, Captain Judkins, sail e d for New , afternoon with about ninety passengers, and a full cargo. The screw steamer City of Manchester. Captain Leitch, sails for Philadelphia to morrow, Wednesday. MANIA FOR SI EALIN't: NEWSFKPERS.—Henry Thomp son, a shabby genteel-looking man, was brought up on l'riday, at the Police-office, charged by Mr. Calderwood with stealing a copy of the Nero York Tribune from the Artizan's News-room, Lord'Nelson-street. He was fined 55., or to be imprisoned forseven days. Thompson, it appears, has been previously convicted of stealing -news papers from the Liverpool Exchange. THE GREAT REGATTA`CN THE MERSEY.—The 'lovers of aquatic sports will be glad to learn that the fLoyal Mersey Yacht Club have determined that we shall have a regatta worthy of the town on the 18th of this month. They have obtained subscriptions from gentlemen of all classes, many of them totally unconnected with 'yachting or aquatics. We trust that the spirit and liberality of the Royal Mersey Yacht Cltb will meet with a suitable response from our townsmen. THE PEW-RTCRT' QUESTION AT WALTON'CRURCH.— The committee appointed recently to investigate any claims for compensation made by the reputed owners of pews in Walton'Chtrch reported to a special' vestry meet ing on Monday, and 'landed in a list of names of persons whom they 'deemed entitled to compensation in the event of the division of pews taking place. The amount was upwards of £3€o, and it was agreed to raise this sum by a voluntary rate trtd. in the pound. SUCCESS Ori3lE MIVERPOOL BATIM.--2kl Paul-street baths the business is more than 50 per tent. this year beyond what it was at the same time last year. At the Pierhead, and' Cornwallis-street, the increase is likewise great. Theproportion of women bathersecontinues to in crease. The proceeds from all the establishments in Liverpool, amount, within £l9, to as much as Hull, Bristol, Preston, Birmingham, and Manchester produce together. A ITORRIBLE'OCCTJRRENCE took place on the South western Railway on Wednesday. Three men who were working on the'line, having just received a week's pay, got intoxicated et a neighbouring beershop, and coming back lay down , to sleep on the line. train came along, which cut the , head of one of them in two and hurled his body off the line, another of the three tying dead drunk at the time •elose to the rails, and the third staggering acrose the - fields to procure more liquor. When the mu tilated body was discovered, one •of-the men was still lying on - the , line close to the rails, fast asleep, and the other staggering back and swearing fearfully at what he called she folly , ef his dead companion' in getting killed. Tue WEN. 'ARCHDEACON Baeoxs.—Portraits of the universally respected senior rector, theVen. Archdeacon Brooks, and , cf the Rev. Rector Campbell, painted by our townsman ; Mr. Philip Westcott, are at present on view in theilyceum. These portrcita , have been executed at the instancenf the Select Vestry, for the Board-room, in Brownlow-hill. They are now en private view, for the purpose of obtaining subscribers' names to engravings in the highest- style of the art, by Mr. T. A. Barlow, of London. That of the Archdeacon -is completed, and proofs are er.hibited along with the -original painting. They are •most striking likenesses, arid do justice to Mr. Westcott, while they confer considerable credit upon Mr. Barlow himself- The engravings of• the Rev. Rector Campbell are approaching completion. NEw 'FLEET , oF STEAMERS Felt altE GLASGOW ANIC LIVERPOOL TRI.DE.—On Wednesday afternoon the Elk, a beautiful paddle-steamer, the property of Messrs. 4 G. and S. 'Burns, of Glasgow, and intended, we believe, for the Glasgow and Liverpool trade, was launched from the bnilding-yard of Messrs. William Denny and Brothers. The Elk is the first of a new fleet of stecmers now build ing for the 'Liverpool trade, and, judging from her ap pearance..theypromise to be as fine vessels as ever left the Clvtle.--A 'handsome screw-steamer, named the Chantic4eer, was launched on Thursday afternoon, from the alripbuilding-yard of Mr. Alexander Denny. The Chanticleer is owned by John Ormiston Esq., of New castle, audis intended to ply between that place and St. Petersburg.-- , Glaslow Citizen. "BOATH ALIKE:"—AN INTELLLGENT. atEIRY.—In the card-stealing case tried at Lancaster quarter sessions on Monday last, the-sapiency, intelligence,:--and intellect of some of our 'jurymen was developed in the following con versation, which , took place after the consideration of the case :—Clerk of the Peace : Gentlemen, have you agreed upon your verdict ?—Yoreman : We find''om booth alike. —Chairman : 'You-mast answer thequestion,•‘` Have you agreed upon your: verdict ?"—Foreman.: ‘We find 'em booth alike, and wefind at th' cards wereworth nout.— Chairman:: You really must answer the question.—Clerk of the Peace.: .Have, you agreed upon your verdict ? Foreman: Yes . ; we'find 'em booth alike.—,Clerk of the Peace : Is Owen Murphy guilty or not guilty - ?--+Foreman He's like 'tether, -they're booth guitty.—After some further trouble. .the jury managed to return &verdict of guilty in each ease.—Lancaster Gazette. THE ANNUAL .GENER.U. SESSION of the Peace-for the county of Lancaster was held in the Court-houc.e.'Pres ton, on Thursday. "In the absence of the 'Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, whose recent illness prevented him leaving home, Mr. Wilson Ffrance occupied the chair. The following assessments were granted :—Geneml,pur poses, 17.24 d, producing X 16,983 14s fid ; generaLpolice, prorincing £l,s72:Bs2d.—Local Police: NorthtLons dale, id, producing £463 , 9s ; South Lansdale, 44, producing £214 9s 5d ; Garstang, Id, producing 4£481 13s 10d ; Kirkham, lid, producing £922 115:6d.; Eigher Blackburn, Id, producing £1,047 16s 11d; Lower Blackburn, lid, producing - 1,014 14s lld ; Leyland, id, producing £624 lie 7d; Bolton, VI. producing £6lB istd; Bury, lid, producing £1;551 9s 3d ; Middleton, Id, producing £984 4s 4d ; Oldham producing £135 3s Sd; Ashton-under-Lyne, led, producing £562 5s • Manches ter, ti .1-16 d, producing 1E1,614 -7s .6d ; nd,, producing £2,348 6s 9d : Ormskirk, 1,4 d, producing £786 5s 6d ; Prescot, ltd. producing £1,594 2s Id ,• Warrington, 1.1-d, producing £1;326 Bs.—Houses of Correction: Preston and Kirkdale. 11-24 d, producing £4.167 Ss 9d; Salford, id, producing £BOl 15s 10d. —Hundred Bridges: Lonsdate, North and South, 3 10d, producing462o6 lOs 6d ; Leyland,id, producing£lo4 Is 6d ; West Derby, 1-32 d, producing £lO4 .11s 4d.—Various reports wererread, and either confirmed or•their conside ration deferred. In the matter of the magistrates' luncheons, and the late Ramshay inquiry. lefreshments, it was agreed by a majority to allow the treasurer the sum of money expended on the luncheons, &c, DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE. A most distressing accident occurred on Tuesday morning, at Doe Park, Woolton, the residence of Mr. J. B. I%.,Teilson., of High. street, in this town, one of his servants having shot another in mistake lox a dog. We subjoin the .following ,particulars, as furnished by Mr. Neilson. He says;— •" My premises have been robbed twice, and, in conse ,quence, I have a watchman who goes round the premises every night to protect thetools, &c., belonging to the work men employed in my alterations. This watchman's name is Frederick Guy, and the cowman's name, who also attends to the poultry. is John Cume. Last night. James Cume, ;the brother of John, came to Guy and said to him that, as it was Woolton Wakes, there would be many rough people about, so he would sit up to watch with him. This was at 9 o'clock, and while they were speak ing John Came came in and trld Guy that he had a duck just botching in the plantation, near the gate, but he should not like to lose it ; so he begged Guy to look after it in the night, which Gay promised to do. The two men were great friends. At five o'clock in the morn ing John came early to his work, and found his brother James asleep in the saddle-room, and Fred Guy on the look out. He awoke James, and asked him if Guy bad looked after his duck in the night. James said he did not know, for he had fallen asleep and had not been with Guy for some hours. John then said that he would go and look after it himself, and without seeing Guy to tell him, he went to do so. He crept into the plantation, and finding that the duck had hatched her young, he took off his cap, which he put on the ground, went down on his hands and knees, took the old duck off the nest, and began to take the young ones out of it, to put into his cap, and car r y up to the farm. Of course, while he did this the ol d duck mad e a great noise, which Guy, as he was walk ing round, heard, and thinking it was something worrying John s duck, h e went to t h e planta tions hurriedly, and just as be got near it he could indis tinctly see through the thick foliage o f th e trees, very low down, a rough brown hairy thing, whi c h h e took for a dog worrying the duck. This was poor John ' s head, at which Guy fired w ithout speaking, an d kil led the poor , fellow on the spot. Johnimmediately called out ' Oh, dear me !' and Guy, half mad, ran s h out i ng out to , John's brother James, who at once ran t o hi s ass i stance, but all was over." At the in quest, on Wed nes d ay, the above facts were proved in evidence ; and, after consulting for some time, the jury returned a verdict of " A cc id ental Death," but added that Guy bad not used sufficient caution before firing. STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY Sin JOHN GERARD'S troop of yeomanry cavalry dined together, on Thursday evening, at Mr. 'Whiteman's, Brunswick Hotel. A "LARK" AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.—LieRteDaIItS Shirley and Hadley, of the 50th, who, for a " lark," took a brother officer from his bed, and pumped upon him, at Preston, have been cashiered. LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS' ASSOCIATION.—At the last meeting of the season, Mr. John Abraham presiding, an interesting lecture on geology was delivered by Mr. R. Manson, of Birkenhead. QUICK WORK.—The new steam-ship Telegraph arrived at this port, on Tuesday morning, in ten hours and five minutes, from dock to dock, the shortest passage ever made between Belfast and Liverpool. THE ANNUAL MATCH played between the Liverpool Olympus and the Preston Cricket Clubs, at Preston, on Thursday, was won by the former. The return match will be played in Liverpool. PORTRAIT OF THE ARABIA.—The magnificent portrait of the steam-ship Arabia, painted by Mr. Walters, was presented to Captain Judkins, on Friday last, by a number of his personal friends, as a token of their sincere regard and admiration of his high character as a seaman and gen tleman. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Judkins, com mander, took her departure hence for New York on Saturday, about 4 30, p.m., with upwards of a hundred passengers, and a large cargo, besides the usual mails, on board. WATER-WORKS AT rtrNCORN.—A few days ago, at a meeting of influential gentlemen at Runcorn, it was resolved to form a joint-stock company for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of establishing water works for the supply of the town and its vicinity. AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, during the past week, Mr. James Anderson has been performing with his accus tomed success. The pieces last night were " The Rob bers," and a ballet-divertissement, entitled "Un Fete Bretonne," 'it which Miss Rosins Wright, a premiere danseuse, made her first appearance in Liverpool. POCKET-VICKING IN THE CONCERT-HALL.—On Sa turday a well-known pickpocket, who gave the name of Thomas Cox, was committed for trial on a charge of steal ing a watch from a gentleman, at a meeting in the Con cert-hall of the supporters of the lion. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Plorsfall, held on Friday night. nt. MANCHESTER POLICE.—A large number of men i!1 the Manchester police force gave notice of their inten- tion to strike, but afterwards withdrew it. Some misun derstanding has occurred, however, and has led to the fear that a great many will, after all, leave duty. The authorities say only thirty-two men are affected by the 'mistake, but it is currently reported in the force itself that 250. out of a total of 420, will cease duty unless prompt terms of accommodation are decided upon. ROBBERY FROM AN rMPLOVER.—A young man, named George Cox was committed for trial, on'Saturday, charged with stealing a gold watch and half a sovereign, the pro perty of his employer, Mr. Correy, surgeon dentist, Slater-street. The property in question was taken out of a desk, and the prisoner stated he took them to procure a suit of clothes, Tearing his-shabby appearance might cause bim to be dismissed; and that he intended to restore the watch and half-sovereign. The watch had been pledged for £2. LICENSF.4D'VIETUALVERS' ANNUAL FETE 'OIIAMPETRE. —This attractive gala will take place at the Zoological Gardens on Thursday next, when a multiplicity of enter tainments—far too numerous for us to particularise—will be provided. In 'the afternoon there will be a public dejetetter 'in the concert-hall, at which Mr. Alderman Procter will take the chair. His Worship the Mayor and the four candidates are expected to be present on the occasion, but the speaking will, of course, be entirely of a friendly description, to the exclusion of all political controversy. Those who patronise the gardens on this occasion will have the pleasure of seeing the new asylum and schools of the Licensed Victuallers' Institution, which are situated' ir. the West Derby-road;end are now rapidly approaching'their completion. THE lint.% MR. LIDDELL AND "TUE SHIPWRIGHTS.-- OnStiturdity night, after the Conservative election meet ing in the Shipwright's flail, Bond-street, the Hon. Mr. Liddell, and Mr. G. H. Horsfall, 'accompanied by other gentlertfcn, were drawn through 'the streets, from the plate of meeting, in a carriage, by'a number of the sturdy ana-enthasiastie artizans. While the vehicle proceeded along -et a pretty rapid pace the .erowd followed at its rear, -shouting and cheering lustily. In Marybone, we believe, a disgraceful attack was made upon the carpen ters ant the gentlemen in the , carriage by a number Of Roman Catholics. Fortaaately an efficient body of pollee were on the spot, and they-succeeded in keeping the mob partly at bay, until the vehicle bad passed out of the dangerous locality. Nothing could -exceed the enthnsi earn of the respectable assemblage of-shipwrights, and the evil intentions of the Papists only interfered for a'few urinates with the hearty and gratifying display of the 'Ocnservative working-men. A CLEVER TRlCK.—leentirsday a well-dressed -man, -having the appearance of a foreigner, went into the-shop .of Mr. Drielsma, jeweller,' Parker-street, and, although 'he professed himself profoundly ignorant of the" English language, contrived to convey the intelligence that he 'was living at the Adelphi Hotel, and that he wished to purchase two diamond -rings. He selected the articles, the price of which vas somewhere about £2O, and then discovered that he had left his purse at the 'Adelphi. That he might secure‘hls purchase, however, he wrapped up the rings in a piece of paprr in the presence of 'Mr. Drielsma, and, depositing a half-sove::-eign as a pledge of the bargain, placed ;them again in the hands of lir. Drielsma, and departed. As he did not return within a reasonable time, Mr. ',Drielsma opened the •paper, •and 'found that he had dexterously substituted two worthless articles for the genuine ones. Instant information was given to the police, ' , but no clue has.-yet been obtained of this accomplished professor of the art of legerdemain. ARRIVAL OF THE CZAPPLR;SHIP -EOVEREIGN orrraE *SEAS.—This celebrated American clipper-ship arrived in the Mersey on Saturday evening, from New York, ktiving -made the run in a shorter time than ever previously accom— plished by a sailing ship. -She departed from New York ot 3, p.m., on the IStlinat. The Sovereign of the Seas .w as built by Mr. WlCity, of Boston. She has a dead rise of 20 inches, and concave lines, but has the longest-and -sharpest bows of any ship or ocean steamer afloat. A. cord from the extreme of her cutwater to the turn of her side at the load displacement line, (205 feat draft forward,) would only show a concavity of .2 inches. The angle , ef 'her bow, at the sameline, is 145 degrees, and of her stern -155. Her loading 'dimensions are as follow :—Length , erf -keel, 245 feet ; deck, between perpendieulars, 258- feet; over all, from the knight heads to the to Frail, 265 feet; extreme breadth of bearc.44 feet, about 20 feet forward of the centre; breadth at the gunwale, 42 feet ; depth., .'234 feet, including le-al:eight of between decks ; deck -rise, 20 inches; swell, .or rounding of sides, 1 foot; sheer, nearly 4 feet.; and registered tonnage, 2421 tons. \Notwithstanding her vast dz.?, there are many ships of lief her tonnage that looki larger to the eye. , She spreads -about 12,000 yards of •canvas. She has been.exactly‘22B days at sea, and has madean average speed of HO knots per day during the whole time. The most -remarkable gesture connected with thi3-eztraordinary running, is the fact that she has made the twc last passages with ...a crew of thirty-eight seamen and six-boys. THE WEATHER. AND • T,HEt CROPS IN SOrTiVLAN 03,AAHIRE.—The recent gentle rain has dome incalculable .good to the green crops, 'but it. will have a contrary effect for •haymaking. The first crop of clover is exceedingly light.and thin. Vegetation now proceeds most vigorously, in the warmth and moistureof , the season. Field-beans .are,very promising; barley looks luxuriantly; oatszltort butan excellent colour, whilst vtheat is fast coming int ° ear. This crop is very tight and 'thin, with little more •than lhalf the usual quantity sown. Kidney and other new potatoes are showing signs of •decay. Vetches., cab bage, •rye, &c. are growing fast, and look remarkably well. The ravages of the " turniptty " seem to be one .of themain topics for conversation ; ; a double quantity of seed has generally been sown, and in many places the !:drills seem almost alive with the r fiy. Mangel wurzels dunotseera to be " brooding" well, owing to the recent dry weather. An increased quantity of artificial manure .has43een_sown. Irish labourers are.not so scarce as was expected, although extra wages are ,demanded and obtained. .The farmers' fears are mow "awakened " lest storms should devastate our water meadows. Cattle and .aheep, on the whole, are doing well.; ,flies irritate them so .much that many farmers keep them up during the heat of day, and at.several leys in this neighbourhood the fright ful and fatal disease called the " ,very prevalent. Several year-old stirks have fallen beneath .it. Young cattle and .useful horses are fetching moderately good prines, and are great demand. There is a .good show of fruit. So a AMERICAN AND GENERAL STEAM V6VIGA TION GaMPANY.—The annual general meeting of the shareholders was held on Friday afternoon, at the office of the company, in Dale-street, Liverpool. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. A. Turner. The chairman announced that it was expected that the Argentina would have sailed that day, but there were tome little arrangements neces sary which had delayed ler sailing. There has been an examination of her machinery ; and though she was enabled to pass over to Dublin and back at a speed ex ceeding the contract rate, namely, eleven or twelve knots an hour, that examination ,has shown that, without any expense to the company, a considerable improvement may be made in the machinery, xvhic.h it is confidently expected will enable her to attain an increase of two knots on the contract speed. (Hear, hear, and applause.) In all pro bability she will sail about the 24th of this month. This will cause a little delay, as it was stated the Brazileira would be ready about the 24th of July, and the Olinda on the 24th of August. The chairman moved the adoption of the report ; and the resolution, seconded by Mr. Barton, was agreed to.—Mr. W. Gibb moved, and Mr. Thos. Thompson seconded the next proposition, to t h e effect that Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., M.P., be re-elected a director of the company.-111r. James Atherton proposed " that James A. Turner, Esq., be re-elected a dire c t or o f this company."—Mr. I. H. R. de Castro seconded the proposition, which was carried nem dis.—Mr. Richard Rostron proposed that Mr. W. Alexander Park be re elected a director of the company.—Mr. George Deane seconded the resolution, which was also unanimously adopted.—On the proposition of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. W. A. Park, .Ir. Lawrence R. Bailey w as ap pointed auditor of the company.—Mr. W. Gibb moved a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors of this com pany for their great and beneficial services, and that they be requested to receive a remuneration of £5OO pe r annum, to be distributed amongst themselves as they think fit for the ensuing year.—Mr. Barton seconded the proposition, which was carried ?tern. dis.-1n his acknow ledgment of the compliment, the Chairman said--.‘. ir e must beg leave, and I have the authority, I believe, of the whole of the directors for saying this, to request you w ill allow us, with the greatest respect, to decline the offer made to us in the latter part of the resolution. (Hear, hear.) We have no desire to put money into our pockets for our services, however kindly offered, until some sub stantial results can bb shown." (Cheers.)—Before the meeting separated, the Chairman stated that the directors had decided that the secretary, Mr. Hadfield, should go out in the Argentina, for the purpose of making arrange_ ments with the foreign agents of the company ; and that 1 he would take with him letters of introduction from Lord Clarendon to the authorities Of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video. THE NUNNERY QUESTION REV. W. F. TAYLOR'S LECTURE AT THE CONCERT-HALL. On the evening of Thursday lest, a lecture on the subject of " Nunneries" was delivered in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, by the Rev. W. F. Taylor, the incumbent of St. John's Church. The lecture was delivered under the auspices of St. John's Protestant Institute, an exceed ingly useful society, recently originated in Liverpool. Mr. J. P. Evans was called upon to preside, and among the gentlemen present on the platform we observed the Revs. G. L. Ireland, J. Bardsley, Carpenter, Sayers, and T. Sutton ; and Messrs. G. Nixon, Thomas Gregory, Owen Williams, J. B. Williams, and G. Ward. The proceedings were commenced with prayer by the Rev. G. L. Ireland, secretary of St. John's Institute, after which The CHAIRMAN introduced the lecturer to the meeting. He said, any person who had paid any attention to the subject on which the reverend gentleman was about to speak must be convinced of the fact that it had assumed a very serious aspect. It behoved them to be well acquainted with the exact position and true character of the Nun neries, and he thought every person present would feel grateful to their friend Mr. Taylor, for kindly agreeing to lecture on what had been so prominently brought be fore the attention of the public. (Cheers.) The Rev. LECTURER, on coming forward, was welcomed with loud cheering, and prolonged rounds of the Kentish fire. He said that great gathering showed that he had not miscalcu lated the popular feeling when lie determined, with the blessing of God, to deliver a lecture upon the question of nunneries. It was no small pleasure, indeed, to behold such a large and in fluential assemblage of Protestants, anxious to hear all that was to be told on the present exciting. topic—a topic to which public attention in this co un t r y h a d been recently attracted by the bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Chambers. Before entering upon the subject, he thought it right to mention that, from the mixed character of the audience, he would be necessitated to cast a shroud over much that was base, foul, and immoral in connexion with nunneries; that he would have to leave the worst unexposed, and bold back much that was likely to create the most startling effect. Crimes of the most horrible character were essentially wrought up in the very constitution of the nunneries; but to the worst he dare not allude. And he further deemed it proper to men tion that the facts he would state were all quoted from authori tative documents of the Church of Rome. He had not pro duced a single Protestant authority. The hooks be would use were "The Spouse of Christ," by St. Alphonso Liguori, and "The Pontificale Romanum," besides a few newspapers. In the first section of his lecture the rev. gentleman contended that nunneries were manifestly an interference with the personal freedom of intelligent beings—that a coercive power and a controlling tyranny was wrought up in the very ty: g t tr n which e oughtver very n a o s t to bepect . (tolerated conventual irar eeestcaobti establishment, e like suggested at once that it was the abode of despair and tyranny. Wh y those bars, those bolts, those prison-lik e doors and walls— precluding access from without, and escape from within? Why were the Romanists more anxious to keep the people out I of such buildings than the citizen was to preserve'hi; house from intrusion? These very bars, he contended, afforded prima facie evidence that a nunnery was a prison. (Cheers.) Were the Romanists afraid that the people of England would break in and do ininry to the poor unprotected nuns? (Hear, hear.) He thought rather that those bolts and bars were there to prevent the escape of individuals who might reveal facts that would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of their priestly betrayers. Females were admitted into nunneries at an age when they could not possibly be aware of the tremen dous sacrifice they were about to make. And this did not constitute the only evil of their early reception ; for the con secration service read to the poor girls was of such a polluting character, that we start back with abhorrence from its blas phemy. Every female who had been consecrated must, neces sarily,, from the nature of the service, be aware of sins. the existence of which no female ought to know. Let a nun be as pure as an angel, she must, by the private examination of the bishop, be theoretically aware of sins which she ought not to be aware of, and which he dare not name. A female might be admitted upon her novitiate at twelve years of age, and he asked what did a girl of that age know of the world ? She knew little, and it was quite proper that she should know little. At that age her physical frame was not matured, while her heart was - innocent, if he might so speak, of the affections which might ultimately arise there. And yet, at the age of sixteen, I sheniight take the irrevocable profession upon herself of per petual celibacy. (Hear, hear.) Previous to taking this vow, thenun had to be examined by the bishop, and one of the points upon which he had to question her was, whether she bad ' been constrained by force to go into, and remain in the nun nery. From this rule, it was evident that even the Romanist 'allowed that she might be forced into the 'convent. Else, why 'this examination of the bishop's'? Must there not have been .a necessity for that law before the law was passed? The exist-- ence of a law plainly indicated the possibility, and even the 'existence of. the crime or evsl against which it is directed. Our legislators do not pass a law 'for a 'merely possible crime, but • with reference to a crime 'which exists and has existed. In England there was no law against cannibalism—the genius of 'the people was opposed to thatorime; but there were statutes directed against bull-baiting ars4 cock-fighting, for bdth of these disgusting recreations had existed. *Hence, arguedthe lecturer. if the crime had not existed, the " holy" Council of Trent would not have occupied its time, .as it did, making a law by which the person is subject to - anathema who shall force a virgin or widow into a nunnery. '('lsead cheers.) And so, when the Roman Catholic askedlim," Do you wish to adopt Mr. Chant bers's bill, because we'have people confined there against their will ?" he (the lecturer') would reply, " Yes ; and your own Council of Trent proves•the suspicion to be true:" (Continued cheering.) Step by-step hemould prove it to be true without the shadow of a dotibt. 'lt -was a law that a nun should not get out of the converit,notlor a single moment, nor under any pretext, except it-was 'for a .purpose approved by the bishop. If a nun escaped she incurred the penalty of excommunication. And, .if any person would endeavour to lead a nun away, unless they made restitution and expressed -penitence, the most dreadful anathema-of the churcn was .pronounced over them by the bishop —an-eternal malediction consigning them, body and soul, to •eternal perdition, and assigning them a Portion with the devil and '-his angels. The canon law en joined that, If a nun escaped from a convent, the superior should call in'the aid ora magistrate to assist inthe capture of the runaway.; -so thatovervEngland . under the power of that law, and were a nun to escape in this neighbourhood, the mayor of Liverpoawould 'have to send Captain Greig and a body of constables after the escaped prisoner. But, thanks be to God, the Churn of 'Rome had not the power in this country, at'd, thank • God, -she never would have. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Another law with respect to nuns ran thus :—" That, if any pretend that they have been forced into the house, they are to be judged by their own- superioress and bishop." How was-she , likely to have justice meted out to her when that lady superioress might be the tormentor from whom she wished , to escape,- or •when the bishop might have a very good reason for deciding unfavourably in order to preserve the reputation of - her priestly betrayer. (Hear; hear.) Liguori, in his "-Spouse of Christ;' l observes—" It is true that even in the cloister there are-some discontented souls:" Now, the people of England did not-seekto force any woman out of a convent if it was her wig) to remain there; but they demanded freedom for the "discontented souls:" (Loud cheers.) They knew that a-girl at 21 had a great many notions-which a girl at 12 or IG had sot ; and Liguori showed that convents were not to all bowers of bliss, when he remarks, that a nun must enjoy " a foretaste of heaven, or an anticipation of hell." The lecturer, -in the remainder of his lecture, proved that nun neries mere • the money. making- machines of the Romanist Church, theinterest, or-less than the interest, of the money brought by eadli nun supporting the possessor during her life time, and the -principal going to the church at her death. The nunneries -were at the - bottom of all the -toe churches which the • Papists were building in England and elsewhere. (Hear, heat%) tUr. Taylor likewise alluded to the horrible -tortures resorted to in nunneries, when a refractory - "Religious" had to be corrected, and demanded if we should tolerate those ecclesiastical bastiles in this free land of ours. (Lood , cries of " No, not") Should there beliouses of the kind described, at the door of which the magistizte might not enter? —places, over which the law of England .A'AC to have no control,andwhere hundreds of poor girls might be sighing for liberty in-vain, and for whoca there -was no liberty-save to pine and die. 'The habeas corpus act would not reach them, and he was afraid that Mr. Chalrebers's bill would be a dead letter, like the Ecclesiastical Titleat-Bill. 'He would advocate total suppression., and if there were Any who wished to serve 1 , the pope, let them go and live with oli:m at Rome, and serve inim there. In,proof that the titthilwere not free to leave the ,convent, he quoted from Liguori, who di s ti n ctly st a t e d f ea t it impossible to-escape. He also quoted from Liguori to ° prove that the nsusueries were frequesttly• the-scenes of dancing • and debauchery—that profane songs And operas, and ocher ,carnal amusements, were at times the. occupations of. those ,vericreatures.whoswere too good to lookup to heaven. (Hear, heir.) In referenceto the question of the celibacy of the Wing, becontented himself with a reference to •the uncontroverted .statements of Pierce iConolly and Mr. Hogan. the celebrated . converts • and also to the case of Dr. Aclsitii v. , Father Newman., in Which the Romanista themselves produced evidence of the depravity existing among their own priests and nuns, and enabled us to convict them out of their own mouths. Refe • rence was made to tlieease of Miss Talbot, whawrote from her convent that she,was quite contented and happy (this while under coercion). and who, when ordered •out by the Lord Chancellor, whose ward she was, instead of running back, rushed .izto the arms ef husband. And lie,ivished to God all the nuns in Britain were out of the convents, and honestly married. (Cheers.) The Tlecturer made a pungent assault .upon•LordJohn Russell, for his opposition to Kr.. Chambers's bill, and concluded his address by urging the sneeting not to ,cease its, exertions until nunneries were totally suppressed, as .being inconsistent with those,glorious ideas of liberty which Animate the , Lreast of every to ge Briton. The meeting, which .was large and respectable, gave utterance to their feelings by !loud bursts orapplause. The Rev., Q. L. IRELAND moved a vote of thanks to the .6hairman,,whicii was secondedby Mr. WiLtrams,acd carried lay acclamation. The Rev. J. ffIARDSLSY, ,super4ntendent of the Scripture readers,,who was loudly called,,and whom the audience wel comed with.many,rounds of the.Kentish fire, delivered .a brief and pertinent speech, and concluded by moving a -vote of thanks to Mr. EMUS for his admirable conduct in the chair. Mr. is7axarsr, one ofithe churchwardens of St. John's, seconded the notion „ in an exceedingly neat and pungent speech, and it was eanried with great enthusiasm. The proceeding. tee minated ,with the -singing of the doxotagy, at a few minutes before tea ozeolock. There were a number,cf Roman Catholics present, and it was expected that some discussion would take riace, but no attempt was made t deny thestatements made lky the reverend lee. turer,—a task which wtatd have been aV.ended with some difficulty. NEW MAGiarnATEs..—.4t the quarter sessions on Mon day last, the following gentlemen took the oaths and their seats, as magistrates of the county :—B. P. Gregson, Esq., Caton, near Lancaster, and John Gardner, Esq., Fleetwood. IMPORTANT TO AggUßEELS.—rsig3 theory and practice of Life Assurance have been recently greatly improved, and it is quite certain that the public are much indebted to companies of a comparatively modern date for many advantages which the old ones never thought of extending to them—not from want of inclination, we dare say, but from an adherence to old systems of management, which rendered them blind to the various modes in which Life Assurance might be employed to benefit the assured, and yet leave a handsome profit to the assurers. The Sovereign Life Assurance Company is one of these bene ficial companies, and it has had a most successful career. Established in 1845, it had at the close of its seventh year effected 1,268 policies, covering assurances to the amount of £561,374 75,, proposals having been made for the sum of £1,059,820: and so carefully were the lives selected, and the business managed, that only £6,683 10s. 6d. had been required to meet the claims by death, being less than 245. per cent. on the amount assured, and only a little more than one-seventh of the amount of premiums paid —viz., £43,587 Bs. 6d. The business of the office has gone on steadily increasing, the assurances effected with in the last three years exceeding those of the first four by about 23 per cent. ; and Mr. Neison, who had examined the accounts prepatraory to the declaration of a bonus, stated a singular and important fact at the last annual meeting of the company--viz., that " if one-fifth of the lives assured in this office were to die to-morrow, there was enough in the coffers of the company to pay every demand." The usual average of mortality is, however, about one per cent. ; the company cannot, therefore, be in a better position in order to secure confidence. After making allowance for every liability to the 31st of December, 1852, the company is in a position to declare a bonus which adds to the policy a sum equal to 75 per cent. on the amount of premiums paid. We instance one case, showing the extraordinary benefit accruing to the assured : A man aged 25 has, during seven years, paid £153 Ss. 4d : , being £2l 18s. 4d. each year, to secure £1,1300 at his death, whenever it may h a pp en . By the division just made he has no less than £123 7s. added to his policy, so that at death his family will receive £1,123 7s, and this at the first division only ! There are few companies which can show such a result —one of such immense consequence to the assured.—Globe. THE GREAT BRITAIN SCREW STEAMER. On Friday last, a party of private friends and gentlemen connected with the literary department of the Liverpool press, were entertained by Captain Mathews, on board this magnificent vessel, as she lay in the Sandon Dock. Before sitting down to the repast, the gentlemen on board were conducted over the vessel, in order to sex the im provements and alterations which have been effected in her since her return from the golden regions. The nau tical men expressed a very high opinion of the alteration in her rig to that of a clipper-ship, and prophesied a great acceleration to her sailing powers by the change. Every one admired the elegant saloon and state rooms for the chief-cabin passengers, while surprise was manifested on finding such excellent accommodation in the second cabin, so superior to the same class cabins in the sailing vessels. In this department we observed that the number of this class of passengers that can be taken is reduced, thus giv ing more accommodation for the remainder. The fore cabin has been done away with, and the after one has been painted in light and pleasing tints, giving the apartment a very agreeable appearance. Indeed the comfort and com pactness of the arrangements were the theme of praise of all on board. At three o'clock, about forty gentlemen sat down in the chief saloon, under the genial presidency of Captain Mathews; Captain Martin, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s overlooker, occupying the vice-cbair. There were produced from the famous " kitchen" of the Great Britain substantial viands and delicate dainties, with wines of the choicest vintages, and full justice was done to the edibles. After the usual loyal toasts had been disposed of, Captain MATHEWS rose and said he had invited his friends there, to show them what alterations had been made to get the ship to perform the shortest voyage pos sible to Australia. They had combined the best sailing to her steaming powers, and had fitted her with the latest and most approved form of screw-propeller,—Griffith's patent. The Great Britain was now rigged as a clipper -chip, and would do to sail with any ship afloat. (Cheers.) He (Captain Math ews ) was qu it e p rou d o f t h e manner i n which the alterations had been made, and had every con fidence in their success. They had reduced the number of tecond-cabin passengers, to give the others as much comfort as possible. He trusted it would never be said again that they were over-crowded. Every improvement that could be made had been done to the satisfaction of all concerned. In conclusion, he sincerely hoped their anticipations would be realised on Monday, when they were to make their trial trip ; and he knew that the public had a similar feeling. Wherever he had been, all over the world, he had found that there was a feeling in favour of the Great Britain. (Cheers.) He was glad to see some of the representatives of the local press, and he would propose to the company, as a toast, " The Press of the World:" I Mr. Wrz.rwie acknowledged the toast, and proposed "Success to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co." The toast was received with all due honours, and re sponded to by Mr. HENRY BRIGHT in an eloquent speech. He said that the object of the owners of the Great Britain was to make her, if possible, the finest merchantman that sailed on the seas. He thought all present would agree with him that they could not have a more meritorious captain, or a better set of officers than belonged to her, and he begged to propose their healths. (Cheers.) Captain MATHEWS replied, on behalf of himself and his officers, for the kind manner in which the toast had been received. Speaking personally, he said he had now been a commander, off and on, for upwards of twenty years, and never had any serious mishap to any ship of which he had the charge, He had never cost the under writers a single sixpence. He did not say this boastfully, but merely to show them that he had had a most fortu nate career ; for be did not know how soon he might be as unfortunate as some of his brother commanders. He went to sea at ten years of age, and had now reached fifty without ever being shipwrecked or meeting any dis aster. (Cheers.) With regard to his officers, he was going to take the same officers and most of the same men who had been with him on her last voyage to Australia, and in whom he had every confidence. (Cheers.) Cap tain Mathews then proposed the health of Capt. Martin, overlooker for Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., who had superintended all the alterations made on board the Great Britain since first being fitted for her Australian destina tion ; but, as that gentleman had left a short time pre viously, it was not responded to. Mr. J. H. NIGHTINGALE proposed the health of the gentlemen connected with the office of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., coupling with it the name of Mr. Bye water. Mr. CRAWLEY proposed—" The Ladies." Mr. BELCHER responded to the toast. Mr. TowsoN, of the Sailors' Home, proposed " Success to the Great Britain herself." Steam, so far, had not gained great advantages over sailing vessels, in the voyage to Australia, as it had done on shorter voyages ; but he thought the time was coming when it would succeed there as much as it had done in other points of the globe. He thought the advantages of establishing a coal depot at the Falkland Islands were very great. All that could afford to travel by steam ought to do so, as it ensured a u tp g hp h i ln t agu t s s h eet this ni G s d r v e ao a cy t ka ng ß oe r .w i t l ae Theidnwg eh w det a nob s ayts h l th i ekeyre waslwy ore t r o comforts which counterbalanced even the cost of t h e c al. ecoicyvoaelldepw.liisthhilgegrreetaahtto able to say some thing more about her capabilities. Cthheeeersdony came back thy c o f r m o m ni a h n e d r e r , w trialli o trip, said t h t hat ey w h o e u h l d o p h e e d , Mr. LEE then gave " Success to of Aus tralia," and hoped that every shipload went thither, would i m p ar t additionalof passengers that to the already strong and v strength d • ur vigorous - an vil ' o alluded to the projected docks "3 colony. He then pt Aielh -.mune, and elicited from . Captain Mathews the information that docks of a most commodious character were being completed at Sydney. After spending a most agreeable afternoon, the com pany separated about four o'clock. THE LIVERPOOL WRIT PARLIAMEN- TARY NIAMEUVRING. A petty battle, fought during the past week, over th e Liverpool Writ, has been decided in favour of common sense and justice. The Liverpool Election Committee gave birth to a report almost unparalleled in parliamentary annals for inconclusiveness and stultifying self-contra diction. Each half of every paragraph contradicted the other ; each paragraph contradicted some one that pre ceded or followed it ; and the last nullified all the rest. Yet, though the committee could not reason, they could act; and, to the astonishment even of their own friends in Liverpool, they voted out the sitting members. Their zeal, indeed, outran the occasion ; for the sudden, and on the whole unjustifiable, verdict found the Liverpool Liberals without the means of setting up new candidates. Not so the Conservatives of that great commercial town. The strength of the cause is there so fully felt, that men of the highest local influence are willing to stand, know ing that, although every art of unscrupulous partisan ship be resorted to in order to render the struggle severe, the result is certain. And there is among the Liverpool Conservatives an earnestness and activity in the cause that merits this confidence. Tho Liberals, dismayed at seeing Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall in the field, and rushing everywhere to find victims to succeed Messrs. Cardwell and Ewart in the honour of defeat, were unpre pared for an immediate contest. At all risks, then, the writ must be stopped, and time be gained. To this scheme Lord Dudley Stuart was induced to lend himself. When Mr. Freshfield, on Wednesday afternoon, moved that the writ do issue, the noble lord rose to " speak against time," drawling on with dull and unintelligible verbiap, amidst the derision of the house, long after the stock of ideas wherewith he had armed himself had be come exhausted. At length, as six o'clock struck, the noble and magnanimous electioneering agent attained his object, and the manoeuvre so far succeeded. On Thursday the attempt was renewed ; but this time Lord John Rus sell committed himself to a participation in the disre putable trick. Appealed to by Mr. James M'Gregor not to leave Liverpool without representatives, when such important commercial questions were coming on, the leader of the Whigs " was afraid that the house would be too much occupied to go on with the subject." In other words, the coalition candidates could not be found, or were not screwed up to martyrdom point, and the dis tinguished party chief condescended, for the nonce, to do the work of Mr. Coppock. The matter was not, how ever, to be easily shelved. Even at nearly three in the morning the adjourned debate was resumed, when Lord Dudley Stuart, compelled this time to appeal to the house instead of to the clock, moved the suspension of the writ till the 20th of July—a course which Lord Palmerston, in the absence of Lord John Russell, modified into a proposal of postponement for a fortnight. For surely in a fortnight some candidates could be caught ! The energetic remonstrances of Lord John Manners and Mr. Malins defeated even this adroit " move" of the noble Home Secretary, who, " on learning," of course for the first time, " that the committee had recommended the issuing of the writ," withdrew his objetion, and ulti mately the writ was ordered to issue forthwith. We congratulate the Conservatives of Liverpool on this result, so well merited by their promptitude and con stancy. Their city has indeed esciped a multiplicity of dangers. Persisting, from some singular perversity, to return Conservative members, Liverpool has been threatened on various hands with the disfranchisement of its freemen ; with the ballot ; and with an interregnum of representation at the very time when a new dispensation of the commercial policy of the country is under debate. To leave the second city of the empire unrepresented at such a moment was a step which nothing could justify, and which despair only could have suggested even to the Whigs. It is nleasant to know that the attempt has been so utterly baffled, and that the consequences promise to recoil in discomfiture and disgrace upon its authors.— The Press. THE HON. H. T. LIDDELL AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL. Gallant Liverpool is like what Napoleon said of the Great Duke, we have lost and lament, at Waterloo, " It is beaten but will not know it." A snug trio majority liberal-packed in a House of Commons committee, with the vacillating member for South Shields at its head, ap pointed to try the merits of a petition aginst the return of Messrs. Charles Turner and Forbes Mackenzie for that great port, decided according to a foregone conclusion against the validity of that return, on the ground of cor ruption by their friends or agents, said corruption con sisting :in the enormous fact that "twenty five labour ing men (electors) had been given a day's holiday by their masters, who had paid those men their day's wages,' to enable them of course to exercise their rights7as electors ; without exposing their families to one day's hunger or abstinence in consequence. So conspicuously as the names of patriot Rathbones have flaunted on all occasions for half a century past at least, it is odd their old fellow citizens, singularly blind to their surpassing merits, should never to this day have cast a longing eye upon them, or breathed the softest whisper of desire, for the distinguished favour of their representative services for Liverpool. Happy tribe, who can thus so plainly " Read opinion in their townsmen's eyes." We repeat it—the gallant spirit of constitutional Liver pool cannot and will not be beat. Less than ever now are the Conservative party likely to succumb, when their un scrupulous opponents, self-sweated of their tens of thou sands at the last contest, and from their insolent attempt since by election petition to swamp the voice and dictate the votes of the vast majority of the constituency, will be so much the less found with the means for the wholesale practice of that scandalous corruption to which, whether represented in meal, or in malt, or in hard metallic, they owe the votes of that miserable minority which could be duped into being dragged through Coventry with such a motley set of leaders. The Conservatives were forecast ing for the emergency that might possibly arise, and on, its arrival were prepared accordingly. They present themselves with two excellent substitutes for the capital members who for a season are lost to the constituency. To fill the place of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall is offered, a gentleman whose name is associated with all that is respectable, trustworthy, phi lanthropic, and truly Christian in Liverpool, —a name, indeed, historically connected with the seaport which justly boasts to be the greatest in the world. To succeed Mr. Charles Turner, that inestimable citizen, merchant, and gentleman, who is cherished, as so well he deserves to be cherished, in the hearts of the magnificent community among whom his lot has been cast, the Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell, our invaluable neighbour, and one of the chief ornaments of these counties, has been called upon with one acclaim to come forward, and he has accepted the invitation. Conservative Liverpool has honoured herself no less than she has distinguished the heir and representative of the noble and time-honoured house of Ravensworth by such a selection. The friend, pupil we may say, of the immortal George Canning and the illustrious Huskisson ; the friend also and fellow collegian, who won high honours, of the Earl of Derby, Chancellor of Oxford University that is, and first scholar we may say that was, he could not present himself with higher credentials of character in justification of the choice of a bcdy so enlightened as a Liverpool constituency. We can testify of him, moreover, as can all in this the northern metropolis, and in the great communities surrounding, that in addition to the various eminent qualifications, and the amiable qualities which he holds in common with the noble family he is connected with and so endear him and them to us, Mr. Liddell possesses in an extraordinary degree those special acquirements which should peculiarly recommend him to the favour of a mercantile and indus trial community. In the Commons' House, when a member, no one more exerted himself, and none was better accomplished by position and knowledge for the task, in the defence of the great shipping interests, those shipowner every c andass inclusiveshipw rishipwrights , hetns down aged frtoo the the e lowest shipbu i lder operative,nd even rope and sail makers and sailors, against the rash experiments of ignorant theorizing legislators; so also with respect to mercantile and manufacturing interests. We can state, and the columns of this journal will bear frequent testimony to the fact under his own signature, that few men, statesme n or not, are so well versed as Mr. Liddell in all those great questions of finance, currency, banking, and political economy which have been and yet are in agitation amongst us. We fearlessly assert, there fore, and challenge contradiction, that for the suffrages of Liverpool it would be impossible to find a man with higher and more substantial pretensions, and appreciated as they are, and called upon as he has been, by the most influential inhabitants of that great port, as well as by the mass of the electors at la rge , no d ou bt can b e entertained that the present candidate will become the successful m e m ben—Newcastle Journal. 5, 1853. CORREPSONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, MR. BRAMLEY-MOORE AND THE INDEPEN DENT BURGESSES AND FREEMEN OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. Sta,—So this town is to be put to the expense of another Election, and ill-feeling arising therefrom; and all for what? To satisfy the ambition of one man, and he a Conservative. I fear lessly state, that had it not been for Mr. Bramley-Moore coquetting with the Radical party, that they would never have dared to have contested the approaching election; and it was only when they found Mr. Moore employing the very same tactics which Mr. Cardwell did, that they seriously entertained the idea. Some parties still affirm that Mr. Bramley-Moore will not go to the poll. Stuff! Let them read his Address to the independent Burgesses and Freemen of Liverpool in this day's Albion, and posted all over the town. I, for one, would have voted for Mr. Moore, had he been brought forward in the first instance, but, as matters stand, I should consider myself a traitor to the Conservative party were I to do anything of the kind. The Electors and Freemen ought not to be deceived, but stand fast to their principles as one man, and vote for Liddell and Horsfall. They are bound to treat any person who may cause dissension amongst them, whoever he may be, as an enemy; and, unfortunately, the friends of Mr. Bramley-Moore have put him in this position. If they are true to their own interest, they will return Liddell and Horsfall with a triumph- ant majority.—l am, Sir, 'Change, 4lh July, 1853, A FREEMAN, THE COMING ELECTION. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,--1 presume it has been arranged, to gratify Mr. Moore's inordinate ambition, and to gratify his spleen, to divide our party and let in a leveller. Let us hear no more of political consistency, and love of our cause; it is clear personal matters influence our leaders, and that all professions go to the wind when pride and wounded vanity rankle in the breast. Mr. Moore has, I suppose, your support, and that of Mr. Mellor, Mr. Bigham, and 400 to 500 Radicals, who have signed his requisition, to make a show, and entrap Mr. Moore. The bait has been swallowed, and now look at Mr. Moore's position,— disowned by his BEST FRIENDS, and the laughing-stock of his worst enemies,—he may detach as many Conservatives at may lose us a Tory member, but cannot poll as many as will give him the ghost of a chance himself ! Surely, he has no reason to complain; Mayor, Dock Chairman, &c., he has been honoured with; a dock has been called after his name, and his friends do not forget that he has done service to the cause, and would have been ready to repay his past exertions. What can now be done, if he wars against the judgment of his party, and puts himself forward, opposed to his oldest and best admirers? He must certainly sink his political character as a Conservative ; and if mishap overtakes us next Thursday or Friday, on the obstinate self-love of Mr. Bramley-Moore will be properly placed the odium of acting Marplot to crowds of delighted Papists and Infidels. " Oh, shame, where is thy blush ?" It is not too late, if Mr. B. Moore is anxious to preserve a *sound political character, to assist his old friends, and to check the exultation of his and our enemies ; let him come boldly out, and say he will not consent to break up his party by any compromise with hangers-on at the Angel Inn, and that he does not recognise Mr. Illellor as his commentator. Mr. Mellor, and Mr. John Bramley-Moore I—how are the mighty fallen I The Standard brought out Mr. Cardwell, who broke us up for seven years; we are now united, and I hope the Standard will not again assist in breaking up our loyal party for another seven. Assuredly, if we have one of our selected candidates placed in jeopardy, we shall consider it done by professed friends, and no amount of repentance can atone for such a political sin. _ "Awake I arise I or be for ever fallen." At another time let us have Mr. Moore, and we will work with hearty good will for him ; but if he allows the Mellors, the Hodsons, and the Angel Inn clique to rule him, his politi cal influence is set, and he is no longer worthy of the united exertions of his friends and party.—Yours, &c., CRANKIER P. S. We shall want no more articles about Maynooth or Popery from the Standard, if its influence lets in a Whig and pro-Popery candidate—a connexion of a levelling newspaper editor and proprietor,—Mr. Perry. [Our fearlessness at any attack is shown by our giving publicity to the above. The Standard, under its present management, is not responsible for the course pursued in 1847, and will yield to none for independence of tone, as well as for fidelity to principles. Before any candidates were brought forward, we suggested the names of Messrs. HORSFALL and BRAMLEY-MODRE ; the latter was not acted upon; and, as the former, in conjunction with the Hon. H. T. LIDDELL, has received the general support of the Conservative party, we strenuously exhort all, who value the maintenance of Constitutional principles, to unite cor dially in the support of those two gentlemen IRELAND. THE CONSTABULARY.—Orders have been issued to raise 406 ecruits for this service in Ireland, and the standard of height has been reduced half an inch. The jury to fotuhnedLfoonrdtohne fulland amount County L IFE ASSURANCE.—The Court of Common Ple as was occupied the greater part of last week in trying an act i on for the amount of a policy on the life of Mrs. Evan ge li que Devereux, of Carrickmannon, who died on th e n i g h t after yo s : oo ep . na n t was cl t l h na e si mu r fi ea r dn s tpa ex Ica THE QUEEN VICTORIA. —in th,C o, Common Pleas, on W e d nesday, the jury gave £6oo ourt da mages against the City of Dublin Stearn-packet Company, £lOO being for the widow and £2OO for the mother of a person lost in the Queen Victoria steamer. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT. —Her Majesty will stay two days at the Dublin Exhibition. She will leave London early on Tuesday next, and will travel by the London and North. We s tern Railway, as far as Holyhead, where she will sleep the same night, and depart on the following morning for Dublin. .e Dubl CLARE ELECTION.—The latest intelligence from Clare gives the following numbers, but not the decisive result : Sir John Fitzgerald.. in of the mos t awful threats Cornelius O'Brien ........ • . • . • • 1374 Colonel Vandeleur 1297 Here is a passage from the The speech of an anointed priest, deliv ere d f rom a Rom i sh votes couldwere b e si ve despite fulminated . altar to a large congregation of inh a bi tan t s o f Cl are : ~ may the blight seize your potatoes ! May the mur rain seize your cattle ! May the cholera seize yourselves ! May you be sent to hell if Colonel Vandeleur is returned !" NEW DEFINITIONS.-116118 : to kiss one again. Om nibus : to kiss them all. Blunderbuss : to kiss another man's wife, Silla[y]busa ; vac lady kissing anntber. not nce 'ere you tra w, of ;a ale ed