The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES.—The advices by the Thames, steamer, which arrived at Southampton, on Wednesday. from the West Indies, are of a satisfactory character. 'The weather in Jamaica and most of the other islands was-Tery favour able for the crops, and it is expected that the yield i n 18.46-7 will show an important increase over that of 1815.6. The heaviness of the rains, however, had at the same occasioned some damage in Nlorent Bay and other parts of Jamaica, but the most fearful havoc among the ship ping, & c ., a ppears to have been occasioned at the Havana. In Trinidad there had been one or two slight shocks of earthquake. The papers are almost entireiv filled with accounts of public meetings on the sugar duties, and cor respondence and editorial remar k s t h ereon. Th e su bj ect appears to.be taken up warmly and with much spirit, and, considering all things, with considerable temper. There appears . to be a strong fe e li ng i n f avour o f an a lt era ti on o f the navigation laws, and also reduction of taxation. A disposition is evidently evinced to melee exertion to meet the altered state of things, to cultivate en the best prin cif les, and effect such a change by a reduction of local charges, freedom of shipping laws. and improved agricul ture, as to enable the colonist to compete with slave grown produce. HURRICANE AT THE HAVANNAH.— On Sunday, the 11th of October, Havannah was visited by the mos violent hurricane ever remembered by the oldest inhabi. tant. The damage to the shipoirg in that beautifully land-locked harbour proved most disastrous—scarcely a vessel escaped —many sunk, and out of at least 120 sail, the Habanero, Spanish brig of war, the royal mail steam ship Thames, the English brig William Rushton, and two or three others, at the termination of the gale, were the only vessels riding in safety. Among the vessels driven on shore were the French frigate Andromede, bearing the flag of Rear admiral Laplace, and corvette Blonde, while the war steamer, Tonnerre lost her masts and funnel. The Spanish men of war wrecked or sunk, were the brigs Laborde, Constitucion, and Trueno ; the schooners, Polka, Criolla, Habanera, and Infanta, ; and the steam ers Montezuma, Guadalupe, Bazan, and •Salitor. Tne brigs Nervion and Petriota were also damaged. The sheers at the navy-yard were blown down, the wharfs torn up and much injured, and covered with wrecked property. The following may be looked upon as a fair general statement of the merchant vessels sunk, ashore, or useless :—American, 19 t Spanish, 33 ; British, 10 ; Russian, 2; Bremen, 2 ; Danish, 4 ; Belgian, 2 ; Dutch, 1 , French, 4 ; Austriaa, 1 ; Brazilian, 1. Many houses, inside and outside the city, have been thrown down, crushing their unfortunate inmates; several churches have been partially injured, and there is scarcely a dwel ling that has not lost part of its roof, windows,-balconies, &c. Trees have been levelled to the ground, and even iron posts have been bent by the violence of the elements. The theatre Tacon was much injured, the opera house is an ruins. The city suffered comparatively little, but the suburbs, especially the Cerro, Horcon, Colon, and San Lizardo, very severely. In Regla the damage done was frightful ; from the ruins of one house were dug eleven corpses. The number of lives lost was still unknown, but it was estimated, from lists already given, that no less than one hundred persons had perished by the falling of houses and street accidents, besides those who had been drowned in the barbcur. At the height of the gale the barometer was down to 27.70 ; in the hurricane of 1844 it was 28.42. The amount of iniury sustained in the district around Havannah was still unknown ; but the cc,ffee and tobacco crops are said to have severely snffered. The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier slept at Blois on Tuesday night, and arrived at Paris by the Orleans Railroad, at one o'clock on Wednesday. GOVERNO.NSHIP OF BOMBAY.—Mr. George Russell Clerk will be proposed at the next court for the presidency of Bombay. Mr-Clerk w(nt to India as a writer in 1817. The Rev. J. H. Newman arrived in Rome on the 26th ult., and was most warm'y received by his Holiness the Pope, and several of the most distinguished of the Roman Clergy. Mr. Newman was accompanied by Mr. St. John, and -by Mr. Talbot, who is now a priest of the !lowish Church. The King and Queen of the Belgians left Paris for Brussels on Tuesday, by a special train on the Northern Railroad. The departure of their Majesties on the eve of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess de Nlontpensier, excited considerable surprise in Paris, and was construed by some into a prutest of King Leopold against their mar riage. Loss OF ONE HUNDRED LlVES.—Letters received at Vienna from Austrian Friuli contain particulars of an unfortunate event that had lately occurred at Goritz. A large number of soldiers and citizens were crossing a bridge of boats for the purpose of assisting at a military review, when suddenly the bridge, which was inadequate to support the weight with which it was loaded, broke down, and a great many of the persons upon it fell into the river. According to the most credible reports, fifty three Chasseu►s and about forty citizens have perished in the waters of Isonza. THE CiURT 4 , FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Royal Family are still at Windsor, and the Queen and the Prince have been taking their accustomed out door exercise during the present fine weather. It is ex pected that her Majesty will go to Arundel Castle in the course of next week. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland (Mistress of the Robes) are among the distinguished visitants invited, it is understood, by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, to meet her Majesty and the Prince Consort on the approaching Royal visit to Arundel Castle. On dit. that it will not be long before we shall have an opportunity of welcoming another sprig to the Royal Oak, and urging on Mr. Blore, the architect, iu his loyal labour of enlarging Buckingham Palace nursery. The Earl of Elgin was married on Saturday to Lady Mary Lambton, eldest daughter of the late Earl of Durham. The deceased Earl of Waldegrave's will has amply pro vided for his countess, Braham's daughter, as she is ap pointed sole executrix, and has been left almost every thing which it was in the testator's power to bequeath. The earl's funded property alone amounts to £20,000. The consumption of provisions at Hatfield, during the visit of the queen, amounted to 3 bullocks, 8 sheep, 6 calves, 200 chickens, 50 capons, 150 patridges, 100 phea sants, 50 grouse, 24 turkeys, 80 hares, 24 wild ducks, 200 rabbits, 4 bucks, 24 barns, 24 tongues, and 12 tureens of turtle, besides other accessories to the table in pro portion. FIELD SPORTS.—At the Marquis of Salisbury's battue, Prince Albert killed 150 head of game; the entire list was 318 head, the Prince killing nearly one-half among ten good shots, the party being away only two hours and a half. The Prince had four guns, and four attendants to load them, killing about one head per minute. To be sure, as old Ebony said the other day, on this un-En glish like butchering, death can only come but once, 'whether to a prince or a partridge, a pheasant or a pea sant. LAW INTELLIGENCE. No fewer than 21 gentlemen were called to the bar of the Irish Court of Chancery on Monday last. Several of them were the sons of very distinguished men in the country, and one of them was a member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd and Mr. Serjeant Manning have been invited to take their seats as Queen's Serjeants, and Mr. Serjeant Murphy and Mr. Serjeant Byles, who have received patents of precedence; and Messrs. Humphrey, Bacon, Rolt, and Walpole, of the Equity Bar, who have been appointed Queen's Counsel, have been called within the bar. A N AGREEABLE ADDITION I—By an index with which we have been favoured, it appears that the legislature i❑ the present year, " being the sixth session of the four teenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland," have passed 402 public and 51 private acts, among the latter of which are no less than seven for divorces and enabling the parties to marry again. A pretty addition t‘i the statute book all this, and a solid body of law for the people at large, who are regarded as fully cognisant of every act of Parliament that is passed, to digest. SPOT-TING IN TEL LIGENCE. CHATSWORTH COURSING MEETING.—SOUTH LAN CASHIRE CLUB.—This meeting came off on Tuesday and Wednesday last, and the company was fashionable and good. The following is a return of the two days' deciding courses :—The Chatsworth Cup, for sixteen all-aged dogs, was divided between Mr. Slater's Shatebroker and Mr. Jepson's Flisker ; the Devonshire Puppy Cup, for sixteen puppies, was won by Mr. Deakin's Dusty, beating Mr. Bake's Rosetta ; the Bur!in,gton Cup, for sixteen all-aged dogs, was won by Mr. Deakin's Den tist, beating Mr. Slater's Sunflower ; the Cavendish Stakes was won by Mr. King's Eclipse, beating Mr. Barnes's Blucher ; the Edenscr Stakes was won by Mr. Slater's Rachel, beating Mr. Williams's Cambridgeshire ; and the Bakewell Stakes was won by Mr. Barnes's Bounty, beating Mr. Bake's Camera. ALTCAR COURSING MEETING.—This meeting took place on Thursday and Friday last. The cup was won by Mr. W. Blundell i Bencbgo ; Mr. S. Standislx's Semp stress ran up. The Sefton Stakes was won by Mr. Swan's Snapdragon ; Mr. Clowes's Cormorant ran up. The Croxteth Stakes was won by Mr. E. G. Hornby's Heresy ; Mr. Swan's Shandy Gaff ran up. The West Derby Stokes was won by Mr. E. G. Hornby's Hempen Widow ; Mr. Swan's Sovereign ran up. The Ditch-in Stakes was won by Mr. Ridgway's Fairlawn ; Mr. Moore's Missouri ran up. The Hill-house Stakes was won by Mr. Ridg way's Ratoon ; Mr. Swan's Sparks-of-Fire ran up. The Altcar Hall Stakes was won by Mr. Buckley's Bright ; Mr. Buckley's Ballyshannon ran up. --40.- THE CHASE. Sir W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet on Thursday, Nov. 12, at Hooton Park Saturday, 14, at .. __ Mollington Hall . . . At Eleven o'clock. The MONTGOMERYSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday (this day), Nov. 10, at Friday, 13, at.... Tuesday, 17, at . .. • •• • • . Friday, 20. at Tuesday, 24, at .. ... Friday, 27, at Abermule At ten o'clock. The WYNNSTAY HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at . ... Thursday, 12, at ... Saturday, 14, at ..... At Half-pa s t T en o ' clock. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will.meet on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at Kinderton Guide Post Thursday, 12, at Arley Saturday, 14, at .............................. Crewe At Half-past Ten o'clock. IRELAND. On Saturday week, two stacks of Wheat at Cleriban. Tipperary, were maliciously set on fire by seven incen diaries, and were destroyed. I❑ September and October, 1844, 2,753 pigs were brought into Cork market ; in the same months of 1845, 3,025 ; whilst in those two months of this year, the enor mous number of 15,559 were brought to that market. EXPORT OF CATTLE.—Within the memory of the old est inhabitant (says the Limerick Chronicle) there has not been so large an export of horned cattle and pigs as this season so far as it has advanced. The " Young Ireland" party held their first public meeting in Dublin, on Tuesday, when Mr. O'Connell was spoken of as a good old man in his dotage, and the people advised by Mr. Magee, the new agitator, to " hide their time." THE PRESENTMENT SESSIONS. According to the Freeman's journal, the Board of Works have already sanctioned presentments under the Labour Rate Act, to the amount of £500,000, and the number of people em ployed is estimated at over 90.000. The Cork union workhouse, designed to accommodate 2,000 persons, centains 3,200 inmates, while the appli cations increase at the rate of 200 a week. The guar oians have agreed, in consequence, to rent a store for twelve months at £l5O. At their last meeting the clerk stated that he bad seen so many as twelve in one bed. Last Sunday evening, the house of the Rev. W. Bun bury, Charleville, Ireland, was broken into by a Popish mob, at the very time when some gentlemen were discus sing measures for the relief of the destitute people, and some shots were fired, to the great alarm of the family. The mob was beaten off by the male part of the family, their friends, and servants. DEATH FROM STaavanoN.—A correspondent of the Cork Examiner, writing from Macroom, states that a poor woman, the mother of several children, who had come into the town on Monday last, for the purpose of parCcipating in some casual relief distributed at the workhouse, died of destitution that evening, after having dragg.ed herself to her miserable home. At the meeting of the repeal association on Monday, Mr. O'Connell oelisered a long fulmination against Mr. Smith O'Brien and the Nation party. He had "done justice to the former too long," and so now is preparing to make up by a little abuse. H e declared it was not his intention to stand for Dublin at the ensuing election, but true, good repealers would be found to contest the city. The rent for the week was £57 12s. 4d. PRESENTMENTS FOR ROMISH CHAPELS.--The Irish Executive has cut off a fruitful source of jobbing, by re fusing to sanction any presentments for the building of Roman Catholic chapels. This decision was announced in a letter from the Under-secretary, in reply to an appli- . , . . cation from Wexford, and the local Romanist paper charges the Government with offering " fresh insult" to the Irish, " when their hearts are sorest, and their souls darkest." OUTBREAK.—On Tuesday a formidable outbreak took place in Castletownroche, Cork. A large number of the labouring classes assembled, and in the first instance stop ped some flour conveying from the mills, plundered the carts and carried off the flour ; but after some remon strance they were induced to restore it, though in a damaged state. Having given -up the flour, they went to seize on the cattle of some of the gentry and farmers, and drove off a large flock. A VOICE FROM CAHIRMOYLE.—Mr. Smith O'Brien has at length put forth a manifesto declaratory of his views with respect to the repeal question, as affected by the quarrel between the champions of moral and physical force. From his letter, addressed to Mr. C. G. Duffy, it appears that Young Ireland is about to set up business for itself, and it is not too much to anticipate that such a re solve will affect the interests of the old and ricketty rival establishment on Burgh Quay. At all events, as the pub lic cannot support both ; one or other must speedily be come insolvent, and of late all the symptoms of bank ruptcy are observable at the senior concern. IRISH ASPIRATIONS FOR PEEL.—THE ANTI-RUSSELL MANIA.—The Rev. Thomas Hardiman, parish priest of Kilmcena, in the archdiocese of Tuam, thus concludes an epistle laudatory of his own exertions in mitigating the poverty of the people :—" Oh ! give me the great Tory chef, with all his political sins upon his head, to grasp the helm at this dreadful crisis with his master hand, and I will then hope that we shall weather the storm. But I confess that my heart sinks to think that the noblest people on God's earth are at this moment at the mercy of a set of political jugglers, who seem to have no mercy whatever for them." THE MARKETS.—Prices are coming down. Since Friday week wheat has fallen from 355. (currency) to 325. 61, and oats from 15s. 6d. to 14s. Bd. Barley, per haps from the activity of the distilleries, has more than maintained itself, the price on the former day having been 18s. 6d.—Friday, 19s. Pigs have fallen within the same Period from 365. 6d. per cwt, to 295. The English mar kets also exhibit a decline, and in London there has been a reduction on bread of Id. to lid. in the 41b. loaf. We have had three arrivals of Indian corn at Cove since our last, and 46 vessels laden with it have arrived from France.— Cork Paper, FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.—On Sunday week, the ser vant maid of Mr. John O'Grady, of Martinstown, Li merick, was attracted by a noise to the bedroom of her master and mistress, when to her horror she found the latter weltering in her gore from a fatal stab in the neck. She screamed and ran down stairs, when she was pursued by Mr. O'Grady into the stable, where, seizing a pitch fork, he stabbed her in several parts of her body until he had killed her. He then left the house, and was soon after taken into custody.- He had only been married about six months to his poor slaughtered wife. It is sup posed that he was labouring under a fit of insanity, brought on by an over excited mind in consequence of his wife's relatives objecting to his three_unmarried brothers_ to whom he was greatly attached, continuing to live with him. He lately built a fine new house, and purchased an elegant car for his wife. Mr. O'Grady is said to be above fifty years of age, whilst his wife was only seventeen. The unfortunate lady was enceinte of twins. BLANDISHMENTS OF ENGLISH CORRUPTION.—Mr. George Moore, a gentleman in the prime of life, and against whom not the shadow of a complaint has been raised, has been pensioned off from the office of Registrar of Deeds, Dublin, worth f.:1,5n0. Mr. O'Connell was commissioned by his constituents at Fermoy to expel the present ministry from office, and arrived in Dublin for the purpose, on Wednesday week, to take the initiatory step in that expulsion, by lecturing the Lord Lieutenant at the head of an angry deputation. Next day, O'Connell had an interview of three hours with the Lord Lieutenant. The next day, the deputation was not angry at all, O'Con nell giving them the key-note roared gently as a suck ing dove. On Monday, he withdrew at Conciliation Hall all his abuse of the Board of Works, and threw cold water on the proposed meeting at Dublin to coerce the minis try. It has since been announced that Mr. O'Connell's second son, Morgan, has been made registrar of deeds in the place of Mr. Moore. This is a nice chain of circum stances, but other links have no doubt to be added, and when all the little family have been provided for, the careful parent will withdraw himself into quietude. This finale has already been determined on—when it arrives, let those who will, hurrah for repeal. An extraordinary disclosure has just taken place in Bel fast, where eleven men, mechanics and iron -moulders, were tried for conspiring to injure their employers, Messrs. Coombe and Danville. The men were convicted, the ring -leader sentenced to four months, and the others to less periods of imprisonment. After the trial, it trans pired that the sub-sheriff had selected certain persons to serve on the jury, and a man named Hill, with a number of blank summonses, had filled in such names as he thought proper, and even placed his own name on the list. Mr. O'Rourke, the prosecuting counsel, said he had long suspected the existence of such practices, and that it was such a suspicion in this particular case which had led to tle course be took in reference to it on Satur day, namely, pushing forward a comparatively trivial case to be tried first. When the jury were deliberating on their decision in this case, which, in point of fact, was one which no man of the slighest pretensions to commonsense could have the least hesitation in arriving at a decision on, he (Mr. O'R.) was desirous to get a second jury em panelled for the other ; but, as soon as the jury then de liberating discovered what was going forward, they threw down the issue paper, without even waiting to be asked if they had agreed, in order that they might get charge of the second case. IRISH DISTRESS, AND SAVINGS' BANKS IN IRE- I.AND.—The Times of Friday, publishes an extraordinary official statement—an account of the sums paid in and drawn out of the Irish savings' banks in the year 1846. It would be expected from the superficial examination which has been given to the subject, after the outcry which has 'been made, that there exist in Ireland no funds to pay rent or to buy food; that these savings' banks, the reci pients of a surplus, would be closed ; and that govern ment would be embarassed by the vast aggregate thus with drawn from its hands. This does not prove to be the case. " The savings' banks there, with one great exception, never were more prosperous thin in this year of unprece dented distress. What increases the marvel is, that their prosperity, in different districts, appears to be exactly in proportion to the extent of the demands on public bene volence. The more the people have wanted, the more they have had. Under increasing distress, there has happily existed a mine of increasing wealth; and while the trea sury has been lavishing its bounties with the right hand, with the left hand it has received back a current of com fortable deposits. One feels very sure that no other coun try under the sun could ever have presented so remark able an inconsistency between words and deeds." The SUM paid in, and the sums drawn out, by the trustees in the province of Connaught, are respectively £9,600, and £4,400. Mayo, where distress was said to be overwhelm. ing, drew out only £2,300, and paid in £3,300. Roscom mon paid in £3,300 and drew out nothing. Sligo paid in £l,BOO, and drew out nothing. In the province of Mun ster £80,699 were paid in, and £53,810 were drawn out, the account being thus improved to the extent of £26,899. Limerick beats them all : its trustees have paid in £18,200, only drawing out £3,300. The only exception in this data is one in St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, and has nothing to do with either the potato rot, or the relief measures. As much as £223,800 was drawn out by St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, between October, 25, 1845, and January 3, 1846, in consequence of a rumour that the funds of that bank were not sufficient to meet the demands of the depositors. So large a sum, of course, gives an unfavourable result, as far as the whole of Ireland is concerned ; but taking Connaught and Munster separately, the excess of deposit over the sums withdrawn is £32,099 " JUSTICE FOR IRELAND." Of Irish ills the chief is gone; Fur by the letter of Lord John, . . We're made to understand, Unlike all others of their line, The resent absentees decline ~ .. rain" their native la-4, UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL NEWS. The Rev. J. N. Peill, of Queen's College, Cambridge, and late of this town, has been appointed dean of the college. The Church of England possesses nearly as many bishops who are not peers as bishops who are; twenty, we believe, to twenty-six. The Norfolk Railway Company have presented the handsome contribution of £3,000 towards the erection of the Thorpe hamlet new church, Norfolk. A contribution of 200 guineas has been anonymously sent to the Pastoral Aid Society, through Messrs. Hoare and Co. The donor merely gave the initials of "C. C." The parishioners of the Rev. C. B. Taylor, late rector of St. Peter's, Chester, have presented him, on leaving that benefice, with a service of plate, valued at £5l. gown and cassock worth £l6, and a purse containing £7O. Miss Burdett's new church, for building, endowing, &c., of which she has given £30,000 to the Bishop of London, is to be built in Rochester-row, Westminsier. The munficent donor is to have the first presentation, and the bishop of the diocese afterwards. TIIE BISHOP OF FREDERICTON.—A letter from Fre dericton says, " Our bishop, Dr. Medley, is building a beautiful little stone church at his own expense, and the cathedral will be commenced next spring. The bishop is universally beloved for his mild deportment and his un ceasing exertions in going about doing good. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. — We are sorry to have to announce the melancholy death of the Rev. Thomas Bullock, rector of Castle Eaton, and vicar of Chisledon. It appears that about 10 o'clock on Thurs day night last, as he was driving near the Swindon sta tion, the horse suddenly jumped round, by which Mr. Bullock and his servant were both thrown out, and the former gentleman was killed on the spot. The servant escaped with some slight bruises. It is supposed from the denseness of the fog, Mr. Bullock was driving too near the side of the road, and by the horse swerving the wheel went into the ditch, and Mr. Bullock falling under the horse was unable to extricate himself. He was found to be quite dead when the horse and carriage were removed. The rev. gentleman was about forty-six years of age, and has left a widow and seven children. It is a remarkable fact that the advowson has appertained to the family of Goddard, of Wilts, from the period of the Reformation to the present time. As early as 1550, Johanna Goddard presented Humfridus Golimore. In 1623 Mr. Edward Gopdard presented some clerk to the said rectory ; and again, in 1627, the same Edward Goddard presented Jo hannes Hungerford.—Willshire paper. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—A crowded meeting of the Protestant Association was held on Friday evening at Exeter Hall. It was announced that Mr. Plumptre, M.P., would preside, but, owing to the unavoidable absence of • that gentleman, the duties of chairman devolved upon Mr. James Hamilton Storey, who opened the business of the evening by expressing a confident hope that the meeting would not attribute his deficiency to a want of zeal in the cause of Protestantism. The attitude which Popery had recently assumed was of a truly menacing character, and therefore it behoved the friends of Protestantism and truth to come forward and rescue the country from the cloud of darkness in which the Roman Catholics of Ire land were insidiously and irreligiously endeavouring to envelop it. This monition drew down rapturous applause, amid which Mr. Storey resumed his seat.—The Rev. Mr. Birks moved the first resolution, declaratory of their joy at the signal deliverance vouchsafed to their ancestors, and the church and nation, on the memorable sth November, 1605, and recommendatory of increased exertions upon the part of every Protestant for national awakening and national repentance.—The Rev. 11 ugh Stowell urged on the meeting the necessity for preventing any endowarent and encouragement of Popery, which stood opposed to civil freedom and national prosperity; and the duty of electors to secure the return of those men to Parliament who would oppose Popery and support the Protestant institutions of the country.—The meeting was also ad dressed by Dr. Kalley and some other gentlemen. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RAILWAY INTELLIGEN CE. The Wharfedale railway proprietors have refused to lease the line to the Leeds and Ttirsk company. The directors of the Worcester, Tenhury, &c., Railway have passed a resolution expelling Captain Richardson from the office of chairman. The Manchester and Leeds Railway directors have declined to lease the Preston and Wyre line on the terms offered by the latter company, who will hold a special meeting on the subject on the 25th instant. On Saturday week, Mr. Samuel Birchenough, of Sand. bach, was killed on the North-Western line. He was crossing the line at the Nantwich station, and was knocked down by an engine, and run over. The case of Wontner v. Sharp, the decision of which was by many considered as diametrically opposed to that in the celebrated suit of Woolmer v. Toby, is to be re opened. _ _ A special meeting of the Manchester and Lincoln Union and Chesterfield and Gainsborough branch authorised the directors to divide the capital into 43,210 shares of £8 2s. each, and to give notice to the Sheffield snd Lin colnshire that the provisional agreement between them ought to be put into effect. The Great Western held, on Friday, a special meeting to conclude its agreement with the South Wales. The terms were unanimously assented to. Some remarks on 10 per cent. dividends were dropped by Mr. Heyworth. In like manner, the South Wales met, and on their part confirmed the agreement. _ CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We understand that Mr. Joseph Mallaby has resigned the clerkship of the above company, and that Mr. J. B. Lloyd, a solicitor re siding in Liverpool, is appointed in his room. It is said that Mr. Mallaby was required by the directors of the Cherhire Junction to resign his appointment as-their law clerk. or to give up tha elerkshirt of the Chester and Bir kenhead Company ; both of which he has hitherto held, as a friendly alliance was supposed to exist between the promoters of the two railways. Mr. M. as above intima ted, has decided to abide by his " first love." CAUTION TO SPECULATORS.—The directors of the Metropolitan Junction Railways Company have lately is sued a circular advising the dissolution of the company, and asking the shoreholders who have paid, as deposit on each £25 share £2 12s. 6d., to receive back 10s. per share. They say, that " every attempt to raise a contribution from the Provisional Committee has hitherto failed, many of them being absent on the Continent or elsewhere." From the appended statement of accounts, out of £19,897 subscribed, we find that £12,990 has been absorbed by solicitors, engineers, and surveyors, referencing and sa laries ; and this by a company who never even incurred the expense of going before the Standing Orders' Com mittee. SHAREBROKERS AND THEIR PRINCIFALS.—III the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a somewhat novel case was brought forward. It was that of Briggs v. Hayes. An action had been brought by the plaintiff, who is a stockbroker, for :noney paid upon differences upon the sale and purchase of railway shares and scrip. The par ticulars furnished stated the names of the railway under takings in which the scrip and shares were bought and sold by the plaintiffs,-also the time each purchase and sale was effected ; but the defendant submitted that he should be supplied with the names of the sellers and purchasers, and the amendment required was, that they should be set out in the particulars. There was no fraud imputed, but it was contended that it was essential, fur the ends of jus tice, that the bill already furnished should be amended in this respect. Within the last few weeks several forged railway ad vertisements have found their way into the newspapers, having evidently been concocted for stock-jobbing pur poses. We were last week made the victims of a similar fraud. Our readers will no doubt have observed an ad vertisement respecting the Chester and Manchester Di rect Railway, purporting to have been issued from the office oflMessrs. Higson and Robinson, of Manchester. This is the forgery to which we refer. The person who perpetrated it forged the names of three persons. Thls sort of forgeries must emanate from parties who, from appearance, are of the better class of society ; and the means which such persons have at their command for successfully operating in the way we have described, render it the more difficult to trace the offenders. In the present case, Messrs. Higson and Robinson have offered a reward of £2O for the apprehension of those concerned. —Railway Times. • A TERRIBLE POSITION.—As a train was proceeding through the tunnel on the Leicester and Swanninglon Railway, on Thursday, in the direction of the latter place, one of the chains which connect the carriages broke, and left a number of the carriages behind. Another train left the Leic..ster station about a quarter of an hour after that which stopped in the tunnel had started thence, so that the passengers in the latter expected every minute to have a collision with that which was following them. Their agitation and feeling of approaching danzer were heightened by their hearing the noise of an engine draw ing near, while they were unable to judge whether it was in the front or rear of them. In a few minutes their state of awful uncertainty gave way to a sense of security, for the engine which bad gone on returned to take the train forwards. Had the delay existed five minutes longer, the collision between the following train and the carriages would have been terriole, and the sacrifice of life certain. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD. A special general meeting of the shareholders was held in this town on Wednesday. The chair was occupied by Wm. Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Directors. The Ch a i rman ob served, that at the last meeting a resolution was framed authorising the directors to carry out certain nieaseuarrersy, powers being given to a portion of that body to them out, and at that time he ( the chairman) had it in contemplation to take the steps he was about to do. Those measures related to the extension line to the docks, the arrangements with the Cheshire Junction Company, and with the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater. lie considered there were parties rather personally opposed to him who had the power of carrying out such arrange ments, who represented different interests, and that the welfare of the company would be beat consulted by his re tirerrtent. Their interests at ' , resent would be best man aged by those parties who had the power to carry out certain measures which he could not do, and which, if carried, would be for the advantage of the company. A resolution was then submitted by the Chairman, giving sanction to the directors to borrow to the extent of £lO 0,000 on security of the tolls. The motion was car. ried unanimously. Mr. J. S. Jackson stated that h e should follow the course pursued by his brother, and withdraw from the direction of the company. SINGULAR SUCCESSION OF ACCIDENTS ON THE .NORTH. WESTERN RAILWAY.--On Saturday last, a se ri es ofae cidents occurred upon this line, attended with serious consequences to carriages and passengers. The train which left Birmingham at one o'clock for Manchester, was stopped a few miles from Stafford, the rails being found blocked up by a l u g gage t ra in having run into a ballast train. But for the partial clearing of the fog, ane_ ther collision must have occurred here. It was two hours before the line was cleared. Ten miles further on, a de tention matted of two hours and a half, from a luggage train having got off the line. Six trains were stopped by this accident. Another accident occurred at the Chelford station by a luggage train running into the down passen eer train, smashing a horse-box and the carriage of Mr. R. H. Greg, and inflicting injuries upon the son and ser vant of that gentleman. Fortunately himself and his daughter had alighted, and thus escaped. Many of the passengers in the train received severe contusions, and one or two fractures. They are recovering, however, under the care of the Company's medical officer for the district. Ultimately the trains, now joined together, reached Manchester about eleven at night, instead of ten minutes to five. The whole of the accidents are attri buted to the negligence or incapacity of the drivers of the luggage trains, who are inferior men, and paid a lower salary than the passenger drivers. CORRESPONDENCE. ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL. LETTER XVIII To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, " Property has its duties as w ell as its rights." BLUNDERS ABOUT HOUSES.—WATER, CONTAMINATED. A. friend of mine took a small villa residence some where about the suburbs of the town. The supply of water was from a spring he understood—not from one of the water companies. The well was located somewhere about the foundations of the cottage, under the scullery kitchen place; the floor of which scullery was always damp. The water for a long time past has been entirely unfit for use, so that they were constrained to avail them selves of rain water, caught for the purpose, or to resort to some extraneous source. The water when pumped up was latterly even ropy, and stunk horridly ; so that, so far from being able to make any use of the water what ever, except for garden watering, it was a matter of loathing to work the pump at all, the result was such a stench. The atmosphere of the lower part of the house was always more or less oppressive, and often foetid. Meat could not be kept, and scarcely the appetite for food ! The fluid, which my friend Dr. Brett was kind enough to analyze, was clear, but possessed a most offen sive odour, satisfactorily attributable to sulphuretted hy drogen, in most probably a free state. This opinion was confirmed by the fact, that when the ordinary means were used for ascertaining whether ammonia was present in combination, there was no evidence to show that such was the case. When this water was exposed to the atmosphere for some hours, a copious deposit of sulphur took place. Thie is precisely what is found when water is purposely impregnated with the gas for chemical uses. It was not thought necessary to examine the water for any other noxious gas save sulphuretted hydrogen. This gas was found to amount to not less than WI cubic inches to the imperial gallon. This is more than half a pint of gas. and consequently more than one-sixteenth of the volume of the water, and double that which the celebrated Harrow gate water contains ! (Harrogate Spa does not contain two inches to the pint.) Add the other ingredients only, and it would be perfection! In all cases where this water is heated for domestic purposes, doubtless the greater pro portion of this gas would be evolved. That such an evo lution of gas, and in such proportion, would be injurious, there cars be little doubt, from the known properties of thi- gas in its effects upon vegetable and animal life. "This gas is found to destroy life , even when it is allowed to remain in contact with the skin."-Taylor's Medical Jurispru- -- dence. " When introduced into the lungs of animals, even in a very diluted state, it has been known to give rise to fatal conse quences."—Taglor. It appears that the charge of gas which has been borne by an individual with impunity has been 3 per cent. Rats seem, either from habitual exposure in drains, or from other causes, to enjoy freedom from injury when the proportion rises from 2 to 8 per cent., according to French experimenters. " The respiration of an atmosphere, only slightly impregnated with the gas, may, if long continued, seriously affect an indivi dual, and even cause death."—Taylor. In discussing the nature of the symptoms, the same authority mentions, in reference to '' air but slightly con taminated by the gas," that sometimes there is a feeling of nausea or sickness, accompanied by pain in the bead," and so on. I have adduced these authorities on the several points given, in order that the position of parties may be fairly determined by the reader, without one single expression of my own, which might be supposed to be a strained opinion, as grafted on the tact narrated. It will be impossible to suppose that a fluid, capable of giving off such a large quantity of this highly deleterious gas can be accumulated about a house—nay. within its very foundations—without prejudicing the atmosphere of the house, and, thereby, the health of the tenants. As to the using of such water for any domestic purposes of the coarsest kind, comment must be needless. It can be no wonder that, under the most restricted dealing with such an inimical nuisance, an amount of ill-health, loss of appetite, and other symptoms of indigestion, should be complained of by the tenants, and correctly referred by them to the above source. The source of contamination proceeded from two cesspools, one upon the premises, a few feet from the well, the other over the call adjoining ! A domestic, who had been in the family about five months, came a stout, florid girl, and left, looking very thin and very pale. A servant girl informed the tenant that, two years ego, when she lived in one of the houses, the landlord was acquainted with the existence of the nuisance. INJURIOUSNESS OF DAMP WALLS OR FLOORS Dr Moffat informed me of a case of confinement, which be attended, where the party bad imprudently rushed into a new house before it was dry ; so that the walls were running down with water at that very time : the danger of which damp atmosphere would have been only aggra vated by the mistaken expedient of lighting good fires, of course. He preferred the plan of getting the wails well wiped down with dry cloths. Who could wonder that the poor creature suffered from a severe febrile attack, which actually placed her life in jeopardy. She did recover, however, no thanks to the wet walls, whatever might he due to her doctor. Mr. Ritchie, surgeon, tells me that he had lately some cases of low nervous fever, and rheumatic fever, in some new houses situate upon ground generally under water, previous to being occupied with buildings. 'I he cellar kitchens and cellars are often trickling down with damp at the present time ; and the people, though ill, cannot quit their prison houses, without giving the regular legal no tices. Here is a field for the beneficial duties of a Sana tory Commissioner, whose certificate might thus be the means of saving health from disease, and life from death, in numerous instances. As it is at present, many in stances might be found where the chances are that death might release the victim rather than the landlord's avarice. Mr. R. mentioned a case to me the other day, where 3 or 4 members of a family he was attending were attacked with disorders which he felt satisfied must have sprung from damp being constant in the house. He inquired if such were the case, and was shown down into the cellar, where there was water flooding the whole floor to the ex tent of at least one foot deep. He accused this accident as the undoubted cause. In a short time, on his return ing visits, he found the tenant busy pumping out the wa ter from the cellar, by a temporary pump, which he had obtained for the purpose. From the nozzle of which a very respectable stream was issuing, whereby the existing evil was remedied for the time. He had advised the party to use no delay in vacating such an unhealthy house. The reply was that there existed a difficulty in complying with this essential part of the medical prescription, be cause a long notice of quitting would be requisite ; de spite of which, however, the party declared his purpose not to sacrifice the health of himself and family even for such a heavy consideration as large forfeit of rent. This is just one of many illustrations of the necessity existing for a legal provision introduced into future sanatory mea sures, whereby the alternative of a tenant's remaining under certain prejudice to health, or quitting under pro longed legal form of notice, ought to be met. The State has an interest beyond the landlord in saving life, or sa crifice of money. The subjoined case occurred not a week ago :—A poor woman, who had been confined but tour mouths ago, got the present epidemic, low fever, which attack lasted about six weeks, accompanied with rheumatic swellings of the joints of the ex rctuities ; she was delirious, and had other symptoms proportionately severe. Under careful treat ment, she rallied into convalescence, and began to sit up in her room for a little while ; w h en s h e re l ease d w i t h out obvious cause, such as error in diet, exposure, or other imprudence; her respiration became difficult, and at length cough set in denoting o e e of the most dangerous affec tions of the vital organs in fever, wid its relapsed forms especially. In this state, I was asked by her medical at tendant to sr.e her. She proved to be in a sinking state. At my visit, the condition of the house-place struck me as being highly prejudicial to health. The house is one of those recently built on the flat land of Win,lsor ; it is situate in a court, the whole of which is well fl , ggud. This is sa far a great advantage over the former state of such ccurts ; but then the floor of the house-place was flagged, and the stones were exceedingly damp, so tlu.t there was not a square foot of the whole flooring dry ! The flags were evidently laid down simply on the toil it self, without nny provision by false flooring for interven ing space ; which, of course, ought always to be adopted for an inhabited ground floor. I bring forward this case as another illustration of the unfavourable combination of exciting and predisposing causes, as they are termed in medical language, of disease. The epidemic constitution of the atmosphere was un doubtedly the pre-disposing cause here ; but the con junctiva of two natural causes are requisite to the deve lopment of perhaps all diseases. Au exciting cause in the shape of casual exposure to cold, fatigue, or wet, might have been the efficient secondary cause of the first attack of fever ; but the persistence of this exciting cause, viz., the constantly damp house floor and walls, was adequate to cause the renewal of the attack ; and, therefore, in the absence of other obvious cause, most probably did so. I believe that most of my professional brethren would concur in this opinion, although it is possible, I grant, to dempr at the extent of my conclusion, upon the ground that parties are prone to relapses in this form of fever es pecially. The other medical attendant took the same view of the subject with myself. For a sceptic, in or out of the profession, the proposition may be undeniably laid down, that a relapse is more likely to occur under these prejudicial circumstances than where such did not exist — and this admission is sufficient for my argument, were the full adequacy of the deleterions agency to produce re lapse excepted against. Therefore such ought to be dwelt upon and suitably remedied. Medicine has no fair field in such cases, and it s justice to ourselves, as well as primarily to our patients, to point out emphatically that state of thi n gs, which mili tates so forcibly, and I may add, so much more commonly i but than is generally admitted, against all the applied resources of the healing art, and will do, until the hygiene of the case is studied and effici en tly carr i e d ou t. Unless this is investigated and fulfilled, the resort to drugs is but as if a right-handed weapon were wielded by the left hand against the foe. The profession has too long suffered itself to remain in this false position, endeavouring to carry on its unequal contest : deceived into the supposition that the elemental processes of nature were in friendly alliance, whereas they have in the crowded social state but too fre quently been turned against us—subsidized as it were by that very enemy against whose inroads we relied upon their most important assistance in order to overcome. It has been well observed, " that natural laws are either for or against us,"—they cannot remain neuter in their cease less activities. Yet it will tare long years of still further sacrifice of life, before this hard-earned wisdom shall have brought itself into systematic operation amongst the masses of ignorance and prejudice. The machinery of even a pa ternal administration will be like all the great bodies, but slow in its movements. The profession must have pa tience ; they cannot undo in a year what a century of folly has been permitted to build up in men, manners, and materials. The philanthropist must even let his enthu siastiedesires cool somewhat—even though his eyes are pain fully opento thestill sustained carnage of preveratibledisease. I have further facts to bring forward, which I resume for my next letter.—l remain, Sir. Yours faithfully, G. WATSON. Bedford-street North, November 7th, 1846. ANTICIPATION OF LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES AND PADDLE WHEELS, BY EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sra,—ln the ancient Irish manuscript, called " The Book of Ballymate," which is very many hundred years old, and is preserved in the library at the Royal Irish Academy, in Grafton-street, Dublin, there is an account given, at folio 93, of a vehicle called the" rowing wheel," constructed by an Irish prince, named " Moea-Roh," in the first century. In " The Book of Fermoy," also, which is a manuscript of the twelfth century, a similar vehicle, and of the same name, is described. The writer of this work states, that this vehicle will be brought into requisition, at some future time; that it will travel, both by sea and land, all over the world ; and that it will be used as a means of gathering the Jews together, and con veying them to their own land. The reader tray see an account of this matter in the " Abstract" of " The Book of Ballymate," published by Mr. Owen Connellan, who is probably the best Irish scholar, as to ancient Irish, at present in existence; and who was employed for many years, by their late Majesties, the Prince Regent, George the Fourth, and William the Fourth, to make exact copies, for the Royal Library, of" The Book of Leacan" and " The Book of Ballymate," and of other unique Irish MSS. in that and other public libraries; and woo is now employed, with a bookseller in Dublin, to publish, in numbers, a literal translation of these books, which are the most authentic records in existence as to Irish history before the invention of printing, and of the early state of knowledge and literature in that country. The above invention seems to have been an ingenious anticipation of the use of locomotive carriages and paddle wheels; but whether as moved by steam or by some other power, I cannot say. It is difficult to say why the inventors of the machines, or perhaps the writers of the books, sifeak of them in connection with the restoration of the Jews to their own land ; unless it be founded on a translation of Isaiah xviii. 2, similar to that which Bishop Horsley says is the cor rect one. namely, " vessels of revolution," or " of re volvers," instead of " vessels of bulrushes," as in the common translation ; and who also translates the first verse, " Ho! to the land," &c., instead of " Woe to the land," &c., which prophecy has an evident relation to tin, future and final restoration of the Jews to their own land, and to the assistance then to be given to them, for that purpose, by some great maritime nation, possibly our owu. I am, your obedient servant, CHARLES ED - WD. HERBERT ORPEN, M.D., Fellow and Member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and of England, &c. 34, Hamilton-square West, Woodside, Birkenhead, 28th Oct., 1846. LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF MODERN ART. [FOURTH NOTICE.] No. 3, Pentrwn Back, from Llandilus, J. TV. Oakes, gives promise of great talent, as do many of the other specimens of the artist in this exhibition. We should like, however, to see Mr. Oakes depend a little more upon his own. He is quite able to exhibit nature to us in her own dress, instead of giving her to us reflected from the pictures of Pvne. ••• •• •••••• ••.• • 357. Benson: Portrait of J. Bramley Moore, Esq. As a painting this is fair, with some considerable deduc tions however. The background, in particular. is faulty. We recognise at once the portrait as that of the Chairman of the Liverpool Dock Comniittee ; and here is the prin cipal fault of the picture. The painter has not caught the intelligence and character of the features of Mr. Bramley Moore, in doing which, to our mind, consists much of the merit of the portrait painter. Flattered likenesses arttcertainly to he eschewed. Fancy portraits are only tolerable when those of females. This is neither. It is heavy and not at all to our taste. 378. Benson: Portrait of Mrifiramley Moore, is a superior picture, the accessories well managed, and the colouring throughout good. 477. Portrait of J. Askew, Esq., by Tr. Loyal!, a Liverpool artist, is a faithful likeness, and full of the character of the original. 312. Portrait of Dr. Mc.Naught ; 512, Portrait of a Gentleman; 528, Portraits of three children; and 530, Port, ail of B. J. Simpson, Esq., Everton, by C. 11'. Hart, are meritorious pictures, and convey faithful like nesses of the parties. The accessories, flowers, &c., of 528 we do not like. Mr. Hart, we believe, has recently taken up his residence in Liverpool. 72. Catherine Douglas, using her arm as a boll to assist the (seape of James the First of Scotland from his assassins. by R. Redgrare, A.R..A., is a well-painted picture, but rather stiff and incorrect in design. A woman capable of such an effort, to prevent the breaking open of a door, would be more likely to assist it by adding the weight of her body as an opposing force than to stand upright and aloof, depending entirely upon the feeble in tetposition of her wrist as a bolt. 74. A Study from Nature, J. P. Drew, is meritorious 731. The Croppie's Retreat —H. 31. Anthony— powerfully-painted savage landscape an d fi gures, ba '" " is considerable talent in the painting of the little girl. 761. Peter the Hermit preaching the Crusades, by David Scott, R.S.A., deserved a better place. 590. Competition Design .for a Testimonial to the late Earl of Leicester, by S. Huggins., is a very flue arclii- tectural design. It is a Corinthicu column, elevated on a lofty and massive pedestal, each side ornamented with a transferred to speculators' accoant during the last two months, which stock must come again into the market; and although the consumption is likely to be reduced during the winter at least one-fourth, still cotton is deemed a good investment• whilst money continues abundant and yields so bare an interest. Yesterday (Friday), the operations in the Li ver p oo l mar k e t w ets " on a large scale, amounting from ten to twelve thousand bags, at full rates. All this speculation is going on the chance of • doubtful contingency, and is little better than gambling. Oar opinion is already on record. We have sufficient grounds for believing (notwithstanding the estimates of American jobbers) there will be a full average crop of cotton, and that in February or March a good deal of money will be lost by those who are buying at present currency, in the expectation of selling here after at an advance, We are glad to find that at Ashton and Staylybridge the short time movement is being acted up - )n. A steady adherence to this policy by the whole trade during the winter, whether demand have a Iry mentary stimulus or other wise, is the only safe and sensible method of correcting the markets abroad and at home, and reconciling the balance be tween supply and demand, on the due establishment of which depends a fair return for the labour and capital employed in the staple trades of this district. Prices remain as last week, which we quote :-26 inch, 64 reed printers, at 4s 6d to 4s ad; 27 inch. 66 reed ditto, at 4s 6d to 5s lid; 27 inch, 72 reeds, at 5s gad to 6s ; 36 inch shirtings, 66d reed, is gd to es fd ; 72 reed ditto. as 3d to los; 40 inch G. E. India Longcloths, 56 reed, 6s gd to 6s loi ; 64 reed, 7s loid to Ss ; 66 reed, 9s tad to as 3d; 77 reed. 9s gd to Ms. Ya••ns are without material change; No. 20's, water twist, good seconds, may be quoted at Bid per lb , and No. 4 , l's, mule, ditto, at 01. ROCHDALE, Monday.—We have had another dull market to day, and the demand for Flannels has been very limited. There is very little doing in Wool, and prices tend downward. HUDDERSFIELD, Tuesday.—The tone of our market is much better to-day ; and although there is not a great deal more doing. there is a better feeling for the future. Prices are firmer and there is less disposition to press sales. On the whole, there seems to be a better prospect for the spring trade than could have been anticipated not very long ago. LEEDS, Tuesday.—We have no improvement to notice this week of the state of the markets at both Cloth Halls; the quantity of goods sold was about an average of the last few weeks. There still continues to be a complete absence of specu lation. The prices, however, keen steady, and the stocks of winter goods are reduced lower than might have been expected a few weeks ago. We also hear of a few orders being out for the American spring trade, as well as for Spanish stripes for the eastern markets. Business has been dull in the warehouses. LEICESTER.—The demand continues dull for the season• Si' ronght hose are most saleable. The straight-down branch is very fiat. The price of provisions is operating seriously in checking the demand for the manufactures of this town. Wool and yarn are stationary. NOTTINGHAM.— The manufacture of both hosiery and lace continues in an inactive state. The wrought hose, as well as the cutup branches, are in the same depressed condition. The silk-knotted trade is removing slowly to Mansfield; but such is the low state of this manufacture, that the change is scarcely perceivable. The plain silk hose branch has by no means recovered, and it may be considered as half extinct, although these articles may be bought in London extremely cheap, or at a little more than half the price they fetch in Paris. The fancy bobbin-net trade is in a dull state; there is a little speculation utl,at in new manufactures. The plain net trade is in a better condition than the fancy branches, but in that the supply in some measure exceeds the demand. Some of the bob bin and carriage -makers are constantly at work making "in sides" for Germany. The cotton warp lace trade keeps in about the same position as it has done for some weeks past, in rather an improved state. The silk warp lace branch has latterly im proved a shade, and some of the manufacturers have ventured an advance of the wages of twopence per yard, but they state that the journeymen want energy to maintain it. LONDON GAZE? TE.—TUESDAY, Nov. 3. 110 , PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and G. Wr gg, Liverp el. cutlers—E. T. Booth sad G. Clarke, Manchester—H. R. stevenson and J. G. Cooper, Man chester, manufacturers c.f fancy trimmings. BANKRUPTS. John King. 'Buckingham, scrivener. George Knight. \Veybridgc, Surrey, dealer in manure. Sarah Wilcke, Fore-street, Cripplegate, whllesale milliner. Lydii Wood and Charles Ilenry Wood, Willow-walk, Ber mondsey, builders. Laniel Burton and John Burton, Middleton, Lancashire, cot ton-spinners. Robert Crow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper. Mary Dent, York, bookseller. Joseph Hall, Carlisle. victualler. Samuel Wellington Roden, Shropshire, brewer. Thomas Thomas, Ibstock. Leicestershire, draper. DIVIDENDS. Nov. 27, J. Holt, Manchester, hanker—Nov. 27, J., J., and W Cockcroft, Addirgnam, Yorkshire, stuff manufacturers—Nov '6, J. _ark, Leers, woollen cloth manufacturer. DECLARATIO'; OF INSOLVENCY. Edwin Church Everitt, sidmouth, Devonshire, sharebroker. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED John Roland, Manchester. hardwareman. Henry Payne. Goulden.terrace, White Conduit fields, builder Wiliam :Frnith, Deptford, potatoe dealcr. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contr ry on the day herein mentioned. Nov. 24, M. Jones, Liverpool, saddler—Nov. 24, J. Gill, L f " verpool, wine merchant—Nov. 26, S. Hawley, Ash:on.under" Lyne, grocer. No, 6, Portrait of Mrs. Carpenter, by W. Carpenter, is a very well - drawn picture, very naturally painted, although the colours are rather raw. It is altogether very promising if, as we suppose, the author is young. It is moreover interesting, as being a portrait of, perhaps, the best female artist in England. J. K. winte, T b /E a C t I. ,m AR I ALIO ,I N ie S ste O r F b D a I d Nr ke I r DENDS 1. Portrait of Sir Philip Egerton, T. R. Midge. This picture is an excellent likeness of the honourabl e w. Walker, Manchester, fustian ,manutacturer. member; but, as a painting, it possesses no very striking J. Garsed, sen., and J. Garsed, jun., Leeds, flax manufact o merit. We cannot but express our opinion that the gene- rers. ral effect and utility of the exhibition itself, as calculated H. Bone, Durham, grocer. to advance art, is injured by the prominence with which W. G. Taylor and E. Guy, Liverpool, hosiers. Failsworth, Lancashire, varnish maker. these large and showy portraits are displayed, an d the J. K. Wood, BANKRUPTS. gJeat space which they occupy, to the e x cl us i on sometimes James Stout, Liverpool, bootmaker, Nov. 19, Dec. 14, at 1] of works of a higher order of talent. No young painter, o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Sl i , c !• however clever, gets orders for portraits of such a size a t tors, Mr. Oliver, Old Jewry ; an d _ . M ..e-srs. Evart and So n , Li • prices which will remunerate him ; and few have the verpool. Official assignee, Mr. Cazenove. Liverpool- it, at 11 means to venture so much on speculation. John Lessor, Birkenhead, builder, Nov. 17 , Dec 7. A Morning in Wales, by T. Cresswick, A.R.A. tors,o cl o c r‘ k i , r a . t Frampton.the Liverpool G Gray a District i , s s t r i o i c o t Court ; ade t is . o i f r . Bankruptcy. This picture, of which we have already expressed an ad- Official assignee, r. Turner, Liverpool. miration, displays more beauties the more we become Edward Axford, St. John's W ood-terrace, milliner. acquainted with it. It exhibits all the force and vitality John Morris. Crown-street. Fiusbary, leather seller. William Henry Smith, Edgware-road, linen draper. of genuine nature, and the character of perhaps one Robert Weir, Harley street, Cavendish-square, bookseller. beautiful spot; but it is imbued also with the spirit of . William Louis Collins, Wood street, Westminster, brewer. loveliness and the poetry which we only dream of. The Jonathan George Moon, Fenchurch-street, merchant. water is exceedingly transparent and beautiful, especially James Rule, Saffron Walden, Essex, veteripa y surgeon. In the foreground, where it is shallow; and its rippling is , J i o a h r John Edward N 0 King , ETga ad t K e l : r Tg Merton, a E v t a i ~.n t d o . c o i s ,dg, surrey,u s a o ; a e p. auctioneer,i ,3n maker. don . over the p,:bb!y bottom is finely monaged. The trees,ailkiarurftiyr.keislhoeadlici: also, are very fine in form and character; but, perhaps, are deficient in that freshness and greenness of nature John Brown and Thomas Brown, Newport, c Y h o c r i l l a m b i rre tre . 111:11-- makers. which we see in his contemporary Leo. Joseph Pidwell, Falmouth, general furnishing iroardanger* 324. Contemplation, T. H. Illidge. We cannot see George }lint, Tamworth, paper manufacturer. why this picture has received such a title. If it had been DIVIDENDS colter/, entitled the shawl, we could have understood it, and ad- Dec 3, D Thomas, Manchester, merchant—Dec. 1, J• •-• __,,,_ mired its artistical execution. The painting of the face Winkhouse, Yorkshire, f •rmer — Dec. 2, J. Robinson, Beverley, Yorkshire, spirit merchant. o w IC n and figure of the wearer is not worthy of M r. Illidge. CERTIFICATES 422. Portrait of Wm. Ramnscroft, Esq., T. Scarrow,is not a good likeness, though very well painted. Mr. To be granted, unless cause b e sh of meeting. Scarrow has also a very good portrait of a lady, N o . 425. D ec . I, E. S. B ou lt, Li verpoo l , s h are b ro k er —N ov . 27. , .. , 434. Portrait ci the Rev. B. A. M ars h a ll, by 7'. C. Lancaster, Liverpool, shipowner — Nov. 2 7, J. Wilkinson, 14. Thomson, R.H.A., is good as a likeness, alth oug h th e verpool, fruiterer—Dec. 2. T. ;mason. Leeds, builder artist has not caught the best expression of th e reveren d . ' gentleman. The colouring is rath er r aw an d h ar d to the contrary on the day FROM Till? LONDON GAZDTTS OM FRIDAY. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Varney and E. Pledge, Birmiugham, whip manufacturers -- C. Marshall and F. J. Stones, Sheffield, edge.tool-manufacte rers. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL• it 11 District , Ditto, 3, 10, 1101:h James WilliammnEvansesG C Gillman a l ( t pn e r r o : o 2 f d ) ) Coup, (proof and div.).. 13, Hewson Dutchman (2d) . .. Ditto„' i 13, William Beamer ;2d` Ditt o , 13, Thomas Broady (Ist) , Ditto, 1S 17, John Setlick Lyddon (proof) 17, John Leasor, (lst) Ditto, 1 . lg. Benjamin 91 ercer Burroughs (proof and city.): Ditto. 1 1 19, James Stout (Ist) .. 20, Thomas Crowther. (2nd) .............. Ditto. 11 20, William Maw, (2ncl; ...... ... Ditto, 11 12 20, John Burton (2nd) 2.. , , Henry Eyres (2nd Ditto, 00, Robert Harrison, (211 d) .. Ditto, )2 subject in bas relief, ref thropic pursuits (ti , no doubt, to the nhilan lvancement of agriculture!, &c.) to Lured exert terminating the basement are fit emblems. The sarcophagus with which the foliated capital is sur mounted (supposed to contain the ashes of the dead) has a classic and s9lernn effect. 604. J. A. Picton : Buildings about to be erected in the Old Churchyard and Tower Garden, for Josh. Bailey, Esq. M.P., is a beau'iful design, most appropriate for the situation. When erected upon this plan, they will form one of the finest ornaments of the town. rich as it already is in structures devoted to mercantile purposes. The SCULPTURE-ROOM this season is not well filled, and contains few, if any, productions of high art. Mr. M'Bride contributes a fine bust of John Leyland, Esq., 810, and three other very meritorious works; and Mr. Spence's Portrait Group of the Children of Mr. A. Holme, architect, is a very pleasing work. We understand that the amount received up to this time for pictures sold is £1,300. The pictures sold are fifty-six in numbr, of which only nine are by Liverpool artists—a fact which does not say much for our patronage of local art. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Saturday .—We have had another week of in activity. Since 1942, we do not remember a period when the trade of this district was so languid as at present. With scarcely an exception, the leading export houses are doing little or no thing, although the opinion is genetal that prices of yarns and goods, if they do not speedily advance. certainly urn not. likely to recede from present rates during the winter. The difficulty of effecting sales abroad ate profit on shipments made when prices here were considerably lower than at present, accounts for the limited extent of the operations for export. now that a large advance on former rates is demanded. This failing off in demand is sensibly felt not only by spinners and manufactareis, but by bleachers. flers, and all those extensive establishments connected with the finishing processes. The home-trade hous,s are also complaining of the dull and stagnant condition of their market. Drapers appear to be afraid of laying in stock, and confine their purchases to present necessities. As the food panic is subsiding, and prices of bread-stuffs are already giving way, a revival of the domestic demand for manufactures is ex pected speedily to manifest itself. The drooping condition of this market, and the policy of curtailing prcduction by working short time, now in course of adoption by spinneers, do not appear to have yet deterred capitalists from investing in the raw staple. Although a very large amount of stock has been STATIONS OF TIIE BRITISH ARMY, ON THE lisT NOVEMBER. 1i46. (Franz Colburn's United Service Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the DepOt of the Regiment is stationed.) Ist Life Guards—Windsor. 140th—Winchester. 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park. 141 st—Mnllingar. Royal H.Guards—llyde Park 42d—Malta ; Isle of WigLt let Dragn Gds.—Birmingham. Reserve batt., Malta 2d—Newluidge. 4th—Nnitingharr .—Dover .th—Etelfast. 1 W ithCape of Good Ilope, Reserve batt., C.G.ll°r ith—Canada; Guernsey. sth—York. 6th—llablin. G. Hope, Maidstone Dragoons—Coik. Newbridge. — Jamaica —Galway Dublin 1; Cliatham. .. Cliatbs.- 51st—Van 1). Land 52 d—Q.Iebee ; Bre( 53d—Bengal ; Chathair 54th—G: bra itar ; Kinsale Lancashire.) N.S.Wales ; miaow Bombay ; C h i c ada Chatham' Bengal; Madras ; -Kilkenn sqh—N.S.Waic 56th—Cihr.ltar Chathan rcmplen 3 ° re 7th - Public 72d—Gibraltar i Nenngh. 73d—C. G. Hope ; Clare Caste' 74th—Aberdeen. lath—Athlone. 'ort George, N.l —Bombay ; Chatham• —Gibraltar ; Castlebar 180th—Bengal ; Chatham 31st—Canada; Jersey. 'B.2d—Canada; Spike Island ti3d—Dublin. Madras ; Chatham !ssth—Buttevant s 86th—Bombay ; Chatham 87th—Newpoit. S. W. 88th—Malta ; Birr. I ,, gth—Halifnx, N.S. ; Linn' ter. 190th—CapeG odllope ; Cheo fv e, 191st—CapeotGoodllope; Reserve batt., C. ty. • liCe 1924—Enniskillen. LtiD3d—Canada; Naas, Aden ; Chatham —China ;T, Tralce , gfi t.:1 1 1 1 , 1 - 1 :C h o . S r i n i 97th—Corfu l l c e s i s l i e a ; t o S h f:N e N7b egt .. ; Reserve bait ., Cephalop fls girth—N. S. Wales ; Chatbs;i Rifle B I stl).)—Corfa :**St).";,o 2d batt lialifas,N.S•,.'',4 5 • batt., Halifax Reserve tit W. R€ Jamaica, SierraLeou e,-1" 33d—N. Brunswick ; Mullingar Cape Mounted Riiiemen" - ' - 34t11—Corlu ; Cloetnel of Good H0pe.....„01' 35th—Mauritius; Charles Fort. R. Canada Rifle te m p ßeg.— ,, ` 36th— Weedon.t A Royal Newfoundland • Te Al aya , nth—Chatham f. Companies—Newfou n r a itst. 38th—Jamaica ; London'erry. Royal Malta FencibleS, rps 39th—Bengal ; Chatham.- St. Helena Regt.—St. ile l t `cnOt * 16th Lancers and 31st Foot •erdered home. t ( rdered to India. 3 36th, under orders for lonian . 9- 00 - § 37th. under orders for Ceylon. 8 51st, under orders f ol ris ssl l gal. 4 8* gsth, ordered to Hong Kong. ** Ist Batt. Rifle B under orders for the Cape of Good Hope. ist Dragoons 3d—Bengal; Maidstone 4th—Dublin. ath—Longford. 7th Hussar Rh—Cabin Athlone 9th Lancers Bengal; Maidst Bombay;Maidst 11th Hussars —Coventr 12th Lancers— flou,slo' ragoons-1 nbay ; Mai, th Hussar, 16th Lancers—Berg 17th Lancer Gren.Gd (2d bat (3d batt 's —Antic Ist hatt. trearn St. Gem' ;c's Barr. Portmar st. 1:4 batt N ewbri ge. (2d hatt.)--Editiburgt 2d Foot—G , sport. ad—Dublin. - 4th—Madras; Chathar bth—Devouport. 6th—Cape Good Hope. Reseive hatt , Euttevan 7th—St. Vincent Bth—Bombay, Chatham gth—Bengal ; Chatham 10th—Bengal ; Chatham 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 12th—Mauritius; Isle Wight Reserve batt., Mauritiu, 13th—Port-mouth. 14th—Halifax, N.S; Plymouth 15th—Ceylon; Waterford. 16th—Gibraltar; Athlone. 17th—Bombay ; Chatham. 18th—China ;t Chatham. loth—Barbactoes ; Boyle. 20th—Bermuda ; Isle of Wigh Reserve batt.. Permud; 21st—Madras; Chatham. 22d—Bombay ; Chatham. 23d—Antigua ; Isle of Wight Reserve hatt., Canad; Bengal ; Chatham. Madras Chatham. C G. II( :Bth—Bombay ; Chatham , 9th—Bengal ; Chatham. 36th—Ncwcastle-nn-Tyne 31st—Bengal;* Chatham Nov Madras : M'ster 10, 1846.