The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

G. i ; sten' , sec 1; resu roduP"l,tor case g t se b A ',l st`j rchsg e t t hie' At 1 $ 5 , 3res- m Jost '"' of 11915 ; on till e soo tY s' o p Of 111/ e• U 1 3 , 1,13 - DA ° too il i or a rY 1 ,10 tbo t 5' tO A Tb- r• "re' c ne+ Dog, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE LOCAL NE WS A TAILOR, name unknown, aged about 28 years, was found drowned in George's Basin, on Tuesday. SUSPICIOUS !—On Monday night, the servants at a g en tleman's house in Duke-street saw four men, in dark clothes and masked, standing near the door. BODY RECOVERED.—On Thursday evening, the body of a man, name unknown, was found floating in the river near Garston. The face was almost eaten away, and the body generally decomposed. A PRISONER IN THE BOROUGH GAOL, named Rebecca Hill, who was under sentence of ten years' tra nsportation, died on Tuesday in the hospital of pul monary consumption. THE COTTON SPINNERS' ASSOCIATION at Blackburn have resolved to resist the claim now made by the opera tives for an advance of ten per cent., and to carry this act by a general stoppage of the mills. THE BELGIAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH was opened on Monday week. Birmingham has just been joined with the metropolis by the same company, and they contem plate proceeding rapidly with the continuation to Liverpool. OPPORTUNITY FOR CAPITALISTS.—In to-day's Stan dard will be found advertised an important sale of free hold and leasehold property in Liverpool, the lots being so arranged as to suit both large and small capitalists. Tnx OPERATIVE TAILORS OF LIVERPOOL, at a meeting on Tuesday evening, Mr. John Allan in the chair, resolved to support the Tailors' Institute, and to use every exer tion to place the trade in the position it ought to occupy. It was announced that several grievances had, on a repre sentation to the employers, been remedied. GEORGE THOMAS, late a keeper at the Rainhill Lanatic a As y l um (from which situation he has been discharged), s fined p, at the Prescot police court on Tuesday, for ;C nssaulting one of the inmates, Peter Mulligan, and break one of his ribs, because the poor fellow refused to eat his toed. _ _____--- —.. - BCDDEN DEATH AT CztracH.—At divine service at St. Barnabas's Church, Week, Mr. Thomas Bailey, of Aigburth , near this town, Pimlico, on Sunday morning was attacked by apoplexy for the third time. He was attended by Dr. Aldis and, althoug h the usual remedial means were immediately resorted to, he expired in a few hours afterwards. HAYMARSNG began nearly a fortnight ago at Woolton and in some other parts of the neighbour of Liver pool, and considera b le breadths of hay-grass are now cut. Clover and rye grass crops are heavy. The wheat, which Is oats sho oting into ear, promisee to be a good crop ; so do latter are o and barley, as well as potatoes and turnips ; the ut of the reach of the fly. Tfrt MORTALITY in the parish of Liverpool s week, Coding Saturda andas the same as in the he in the week namely, 116, in the out-townships the deaths w l3 er 7 e . 57. against 56 in the former week. The total was being 41 less than the average of the corresponding w eek of the preceding fire years. The mortality from fy fever and from other diseases of the nymotic class, w ith the exception of Imo Ty( 0 FLEET from .„. --E OA/LINGS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ping cough, is unusually low. rs iit p v or e t ss e fr l s om for th N e l l e s lb th our t u o e th 4 e ,6 2lnd tun in s s ; tant have been Port Adelade, 676 tons • two' vessels for Soyndeoveeys,sell,4f4o6 Pon t ; and one for Geelor ; ig and Melbourne, 188 tons; or an aggregate tonnage of 6,365 tons. The total number of vessels prenaring on the 22nd for the various ports of Australia was 26 ; registered tonnage, 18,266. CORPORATION NORTH SCHOOLS.—At the midsummer exmination, on Tuesday, the Mayor presented three prizes, which his Worship had o ff ered in December last, for the best essays —the competition being open to boyS and girls. The examination, both in the infant and girls' schools, satisfied all Pursued present that the system was the right t t levate poor children, and to put them i t n ustry. n a sys ern o e . t in themselves of education by honest i d a Position to main a BRITISH CLIPPERS :AT Tr 11.—The clipper ship Australia, built at St. John's --bl4;Pmr. O'Laughlin, for Messrs. Charles Moore and of Liverpool, and 'des patched from thii for Melbourne, returned to Mr. Wa t , Monday week, having . . to the Mersey on Port Co., -* * I hew in Ma 1 - 852, visited since her departure South Australia,tChina, Trinidad, and New Orleans. She passed the celebrated American clippers Flying Cloud, White Squall, and Atalanta. This is an unexampled quick run. AUSTRALIA A COTTON 'LA-sn.—Prom the Australian hews of a New York contemporary we glean the following Passage :—" If labourers ilock into Australia in sufficient numbers, we may have bulk of Australian cotton yet. One of the oldest dead—% m an who had c otton brok ers i n Li verpoo l , s i nce States in his early day s— grown cotton himself in thelJnited declared, in 1848, after examin ing dive rs specim ens would of Australian co tt on , th a t pro d uc t make a great dependency o f ours." co untry here a ft er o f th a t di s t an t "A LIVERPOOL ATPRENTICE," in the columns of a contemporary, complains that it is the custom of many merchants He ti to m a k e Mornin g. their clerks t a k e l etters on a Sunday tires an i nstance in whi c h th ree par t ners of a Li verpool firm live respectively at Rock Terry, Wood side, and Toxteth-park. The apprentice leaves his home at Bin the morning, gets the letters at the post.o ffi ce, visits the three resideoteßof the firm in succession, and does not get h ome till half-past eleven:! H, therefore 12 o'clock. This is a n sub - stantial grievance... A FEMALE SERVANT Rt Mr. Shuttlewortli's hotel, in Lord Nelson - street, n ame d Mary Guherty, has been found to have in her X I2O on th e N orth Am possession a bill of exchange for erican Bank, drawn in :favour of Mai P. Marter, M.D. A. gentleman of that name stayed and r. Shuttleworth's'frorn the-Bth to the !lOth instant, sz.noti f0..4.....i.... el— alia.._ ,A 4. 41.• , .1;.... .. On Wed nesday the girl gave a confused account of how it came into her p ossession.; the case was dismissed, My- Clo ocuredugh keeping the bill until f urt h er information can be pr RECEPTION OF THE ( ELECTION COMMITTEE'S DECI SION ON 'CHANGE.—The excitement on Tuesday after noon was intense. The -able speech of Mr. chimes, and the del a y i n the arrival of the ne ws , crea t e d a reaction of opinion in favour of the sitting members, and towards four the Liberals became •fidgetty. The odds, 4to 1 against the sitting members, on Monday, receded to 2 to 1. At 5 o'clock it became known in the Exchange room that the Mayor had received a communication to the effect that Messrs. Turner and Mackenzie were unseated, and at a quarter past 1), when the official announcement was placarded over the -gate, the Liberals attempted to get up a cheer, but it was speedily drowned ir. three hearty groans given with hearty goodwill. THE HIGH LEVES. P.,4IIE3VAY AT THE LIVEF.POOL DocHs.—Mr. Shand, at the inauguration of the. Garston docks, on Tuesday last, said:—Li '- was endeavour lug to follow the example of her younger neighbour (Garston) in regard to the high level railway, and the only Stoppage to that system was the opposition of the: ast Lancashire Railway. In every other respect he might say tehheire w Town il C a o y uncil of Liverpool, the'Lanca s hi re and ;York- Company, and the Dock Estate of Liver- Toci, had made the provisionmecessary for carrying out the 'll ‘ i gh level ra il way , w hi ch would give -such advantage in the 'l ni pping of coals ; an d h e h ope d , i f any gentlemen be "lging to the East Lancashire Railway Company were Present, they would endeavour, as-soon as possible, to lemove the difficulty. (Cheers.) 'ENTERPRISE ox ran Mattor.v.—Connected as I am Liverpool, I rejoice to see the enterprise of all upon , e 'le-estuary of the Mersey. Let us make our port the e taapest in the world, and the splace where expedition a ll be part and parcel of the .general system of our lv.er. Eve r y s hi p which enters the estuary of the Mersey - r , l _nßS, either directly or indirectly, wealth to the port of ili tl o v i e laric tspeo . l ; and I echo the sentirnents.just uttered by Mr. and say that, after all, Liverpool must be the great central luminary around which th e sate lli tes to " t tleia.he has alluded must roiL Th e more you extend these faciliti es , whether at Birkenhead, at Garston, at ituncoru,,or el sew h ere. every shilling which you expend sm u t be •beneficial to Liavnerdodooot,jinaatsmuch as it will give cheapness to commerce, ant to see done -- woo the commerce of the world to o ur ilivhores.—Speech qf the Garston Of the Mausr of Liverpool at the opelang, Docks. Dcke.K 'CO3f.UITTEE.— fr. Shand p res i ded at the w ee kl y Meeting on Th ur sd a y. Aplan for the better accornnao- liaciddleOtnon, the it datioi t of the reporterswas ir. produced, am a os nd m table. A l e tt er was read from tyranny," &c. . , naaster k-ooper in the Albert Docks, resigningv,hiiiischci,u.haetiaT on acccant of (the "petty pe rn E d n \er r - . leged, were." the ruling characteri ß st o ic h s io o s f o t o he de s f u e dent of the Albert Docks." Mr. Cowan, saving " there was not a more useful, Mr. ut, fir. ble, and zezlous officer in the dock trust." inde,,Lifr.fatliggas: dale : " We are all very well till we for the 11°13'4250n." The 4th of July was Yearly , and Messra. fixedarefouonpdono insPection of the lightships afloat. read from Messrs..Gibh; Bright, and Coe ,ie best mode 31I'Kean, NPLarty, and - Lo., in relation to tt . of Preveating tions to that they were most particular in their instrue done in fr au-ds on the dock trust, the writers stated their Customs clerks that everything should be doorder- It was stated that the N.W. ha laced i the • be painted and scraped. dock a gravingto lis:Ae '''' lightship Tobin a‘` d I presided at the weekly me bog , ' amongst'm "'t i T T o ß tl E i e • r - eg on Thursd M r. Fresh inspector of i ' r ma r. tter L c a , ng re s p a or e te_ Itusances ti-Y. . r., examination of 1 ,477 el the sanitary merit' cleared of intoat ll N, for ecosrhollses and 604 ee atn-w.n._ Alr.Beckwith complained° the lo " r North that the r ' between John -street and South John- c otsing . parta of the lie contended it was in good n d take it up streetiowas bei t n o g taken up. was laaiiig out the money untiee°4ct ar'l an Mr. Beckwith also complained that from they had wanted sewers for years, and oeZiall itol.Brunswick-road Yet not a word was ._aid about it.—The engineer remarked that the whole of Brunswiekaroad up to the Zoological ardens wag peNsered. road streets were recommended to be sewered, twnietlitlng Lawndes- street, Cobden-street, they W ould benefit Mr. Johnson at the public expe . nse. ta:c.—Mr. Beck `..pne altercaticn took place, which ended in a committee clog aPpoiated to examine the p roperty of Mr. Johnson. NV 1., - EX T D E Roam OF GU ARDIANS.—Mr. Allpass presided at the weekly meeting on Wednesday. A letter ;oas reael from Mr. Leer, house surgeon, in answer to a _ narrnunieation from 11r. Cleaver, which stated that the iu S ,et d had resolved that it was desirable that the surgeon tthat,lioald reside in the hospital. Mr. Lister's reply stated, as he did not conceive the alteration would be of any hat,tifi to the patients, he was not willing to comply . w . ith ..,'e w ishes of the guardians —Mr. Miller was of opipion that there ought to be some inquiry made by the leeisla itre into the working of the present poor laws, for he was IpgFatisfied that from the way in which the law was now work , they would b alt paupers very soon. (Hear, hear.) i tt was comin g to that, as every year the poor rates were Mere • th " t ug, whilst pauperism was decreasing. He et . lfo . red e necessity of themselves and other boards memorialising prernment. He also advocated a national rate, as did gr. Jeffreys, who was of opinion that the whole of the "untr should become one great parish, with one rate, re d and the Queen at the head. —Mr. Cleaver said he had to believe that in the next session of parliament beforan unPortant alteration in the poor law would be brought b the le isl tu Arr. Miller : Then I will waive ernatter.-fO,-': the suggestion of the Chairman, it was !tgreed to get a copy of the bill now paSSing through par- Ilatnetlt to pre-ent intramural interments. LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. —The second exhibition will take place at the Botanic Gardens, on Thursday next. A WHITE-RixGED SNAKE.—In discharging the Charles Jackson, in this port, three weeks ago, a live snake was found amongst the l ogwoo d. I t i s 22 i nc h es i n l engt h, with a white ring round its neck. It is still living. A TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM prevailed in Manchester, on Thursday afternoon, from half-past four till five. The lightning knocked down several people, but fortu nately no fatal accident occurred. Various houses were also struck and damaged. THE REV. DAVID JAMES has had conferred upon him, by the University of Heidelberg, the degree of " Doctor of Philosophy," in consideration of the learning which he has displayed in his published works—" Ob eruditionis specimina." ILLEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—On Wednesday the Mayor presided at the Sessions•house, for the purpose of hearing informations against persons charged with having in their possession illegal weights and measures. Sixty persons were fined by his worship. MR. GREENE, the engineer, who was engaged in making the Ormskirk Railway, has a " national" dispute with Senor Salamanca, in Spain, who had engaged him on railway works. Mr. Greene's house was invaded, and his engineering drawings carried off. THE CHILDREN OF THE FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM, on Friday week, were treated to a sail to Rock Ferry, and a view of the Chinese Junk, on the invitation of Messrs. Crippin and Forster, the proprietors. Messrs. Crippin and Forster have liberally determined to invite, at inter vals, all the children connected with our charitable institutions. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—A special general meeting was held at Bury, on Monday week, which approved of two bills now before parliament, one to extend the East Lancashire Railway from Clifton (where it now joins the Lancashire and Yorkshire) to Manchester, a distance of four miles; and the other to extend their railway to Southport and Rainford, and to make arrangements with the St. Helen's Canal and Rail. way Company. TRIAL TRIP To DT:SUN.—The paddle-wheel steamer Argentina, belonging to the South American and General Steam Navigation Company, on a trial trip, sailed for Dublin on Saturday afternoon to return last evening. The Argentina was tried for the first time on Wednesday last, and her performance was very satisfactory. She leaves on Friday next for her destination, the River Plate, calling at Lisbon, Madeira, St. Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio Janeiro, and presents a very favourable opportunity for passengers desirous of a pleasure trip to those countries. THE tEV. JoHN EVANS, M.A., the respected minister of Portland-chapel, Bath, having been appointed to the incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Grassendale, near Liverpool, his congregation have presented him with a handsome testimonial, consisting of a silver coffee-pot, of exquisite workmanship, and a purse of sixty sovereigns. Mi. Evans bears to his new sphere of labour, not simply the love of his congregation amongst whom he has faith fully ministered for five years, but the respect of all our fellow-citizens.—Bath Chronicle. THE CONVENTION AT MEMPHIS V. LIVERPOOL.— In the great Southern Convention at Memphis, resolu tions have been adopted favourable to a railroad to the Pacific—to the Tehuantepec route across the isthmus—to the establishment of commercial steamers between the southern ports and Europe—to supersede the monopoly of the cotton trade by the northern cities of the United States and Liverpool, as far as possible—to encourage and extend home manufactures in the south, Sze. Reso lutions in relation to a possible annexation of Cuba were lost. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The most complete success crowned the new play " Civilization," produced at this house on Wednesday night, Mr. James Anderson playing the principal part. The piece, we are pleased to observe, will be thrice repeated during the present week. On Saturday evening, Mr. Anderson appeared in Macbeth ;" last night in " Richard the Third." His engagement extends, we believe, over the present week. Last night an additional attraction was presented in the celebrated danseuse from the Lyceum, Miss Rosina Wright, who appeared here for the first time. NUPTIAL FESTIVITIES. The marriage of Thomas Mellor, Esq., of Hayman's-green, West Derby (of the firm of Mellor and Eason, merchants, Water-street), to Miss Elizabeth Pearson, sister of the wife of his brother, Mr. S. Mellor), took place on Thursday at Nottingham. The event was celebrated the same evening by a large number of gentlemen, who sat down to a most excellent supper at the house of Mr. Bulmer, Sefton Arms, West Derby, in honour of the marriage. A supper was also elven at the house of Mr. John Hughes, of the Hare and Hounds, where a considerable number of persons assem bled to do honour to the nuptials. A LIVERPOOL ATTORNEY COMMITTED FOR EMBEZ. ZLEMENT.—On Friday last, at the police-court, Thomas Pattinson, an attorney, practising in this town, was placed at the bar, charged with having obtained money from Mr. James Hankin, stonemason and builder, at Kirkdale, under false pretences. Mr. Hankin stated that he applied to the prisoner, as an attorney, at the end of last month, to bring an action against Thomas Southern, publican, of the Black Bull Inn, Kirkdale, for the recovery of £l4 7s. The action was to be brought in the borough court. Under what afterwards appeared to be a false pretence that the case was going on, Pattinson, who was often in a state of inebriation, duped Ilankin out of 15s. The prisoner was committed for trial. THE BEAUTIFIX. NEW CLYDE-BUILT STEAMER, TELEGRAPH, which is now running between this port and Belfast, left the latter place on Wednesday evening, with passengers and cargo, and arrived at the Bell-Buoy, off 4.••• saao.wir.ff of fourteen knots, or upwards of sixteen statute miles all the way, a fact which vouches for her speed, and needs no comment. The Telegraph is commanded by Captain Leitch, late of the Cunard service, brother of the re spected commander of the Philadelphia and Liverpool steamer, City of Manchester. The Telegraph is the pro perty of the Belfast Steam Packet Company, and her agents here are Messrs. Grainger, Bristow, and Johnston. She will leave each port twice a week. THE AMERICAN CLIPPER SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS. —lt will be remembered that on the passage between New York and San Francisco she attained a most extraordinary speed, having on one day logged the unprecedented num ber of 436 miles in twenty-four hours. The accounts by the last steamer stated that the Sovereign of the Seas was then about to sail from 'New 'York for Liverpool, so we may expect to see her in the course of a week. She is the largest merchant vessel afloat. The Sovereign of the Seas will form one of Messrs. Bowman, Grinnell, tz Co.'s line of packet-ships between this port and New York. ¶t is very gratifying to obse rve so many fi ne s hi ps sent to Li verpool, and it proves the eminent position which we hold as a shipping port. We have a more splendid class of vessels sent here than to any other port in the world, for, when a ship has attained a good character at Liverpool, it is a potent recommendation everywhere. WELSH MEETING.IN LIVERPOOL. —PRESENTATION TO THE REV. DAVID JANIES, PH. D.—On Friday evening, a numerous meeting of the Welsh inhabitants of the town and the friends of the Rev. David James was held at the Bible Depository, Slater-street, to present that gentleman with an address, previous to his departure from this town, to enter upon his duties as principal of the college of Llandoverv, in South Wales. Mr. Evans, solicitor, oc cupied the chair, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Robert Wynne, who was to have presided.—The Chair man remarked on the fact, that Mr. James was about to enter upon a much more important office, for which he had been selected from numerous applicants who sought the honourable post to which he had been appointed. (Applause). He did not know a gentleman better quali fied by his learning. his talent, his devotion to his coun try and its language than Mr.. James was for the institution over which he had been called upon to preside. (Applause.) —Mr. Ellis Jones moved the first resolution, as follows : " That this meeting sincerely congratulate the Rev. D. James on his appointment as principal of the College of Llandovery, believing him to be eminently qualified for the erduous and responsible duties connected therewith." —The resolution was seconded by the Rev. T. W. Jones, of St. Paul's, supported by Mr. T. L. Sturgess, and car ried unanimously.—Mr. Robert Roberts moved the second resolution :—" That though we unfeignedly rejoice at the enlarged sphere of usefulness opene d t o th e rev . gent l eman, we cannot refr a i n f rom express i ng regret at the loss Liver pool will sust a i n b y hi s remova l , an d that as a memento of the hi g h est i mat i on i n which he is held, an address be presented: to him, signed by the c h a i rman . on b e h a lf o f the meeting."—Mr. Robert Thomas seconded the resolu tion, after which poetic effusions appropriate to the .occa sion were recited by Mr. E. S. Jones., Mr. Lewis, Mr. Edwards, and Mr. Hugh Hughes.—The chairman pre sented to Mr. James the address, which the rev. gentleman eloquently and feelingly acknowledged. CHILDWALt FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. —The sixth annual exhibition of this thriving Society was held on Thursday last, under an immense marquee in the field adjoining the churchyard. This beautifully pic turesque locality is alone sufficient to insure success, es pecially on such a fine day as that on which the show was Meld. More than Eve thousand persons visited Childwall ,on that day, and everything passed off with great spirit, and much to the satisfaction of all parties. The leading feature of the exhibibition was, of course, the Pelargo niums, which, as usual et this season, werein great per fection. There were yerzt few novelties, and the general growth of the plants was of such an average excellence as to admit of few special remarks. N. Walker, Esq., of Calderstones, had a very fine specimen of Banksia Serati folia, welt flowered, which excited great attention. Mr, Morton, the gardener to that gentleman, stated it was a seedlinz raised by him within four years. We also noticed a remarkably beautiful variety of Gloxinia, called Wilsonii, a seedling raised by Mr. Thomas, gardener to Charles Wilson, Esq., of Allerton,..and now in the posses sion of Mr. George Davies, of the 'S'urseries, Green-lane, West Derby. Several remarkably fine collections of Ex otic Ferns were exhibited, amongst which one shewn by Mr. Robinson, gardener to Edward Molvneux, Esq., of Childwall-hall, was especially worthy of notice, and so also was a splendid collection of Lycopodiums shewn by Mr. Cahill, gardener to Julius Focke, Esq. We have never seen these beautif u l p l an t s i n grea t er per f ec ti o n. chas.Wilson, Esq., had some beautiful stove plants, and an Aphelexis macrantha purpu ra , s h own b y J. F oc ke, Esq., was unique. A l arge co ll ec ti on of wax.ilowers, shown by Miss Newton, drew crowds of admirers, who were astonished at the perfection t o w hi c h thi s c l ever art i ste h as b roug ht this elegant accompli s h men t. A l arge co ll ect i on o f rare and choice plants was exhibited by Messrs. T. Davies and Co., of Wavertree nursery, and added much to the gene h ral l a n t t h l e y s d r r r e a s n s e g d e n v l i e s n i t t o s r w s e h r a e d c a o a n i d p u l e c t o e p d p , o a r n t u d n t i l t i y e ral effect. Nothi ng cou ld exceed the good management crowcrowds h o i f c of seeing the beautiful specimens without inconvenience. The band of the Zool og i ca l G ardens was in attendance, . and enlivened the scene w ith cap i tal music ; and an effi cient body of police, judiciously applied for by Mr. Rim mer, of the Childwall Abbey, p revented that concourse . of low characters rending fruit, &c., which too frequently gives an air of dissipation to these rural festivals. The pressure on our space prevents our giving the usual list of prizes; but we must not omit to m en ti on that the Cot-- tagers' prizes, for which the Childwall show has always been remarkable, were fully equal to previous ones, and the general character of the exhibition showed a decided progress, which is due to the spirited exertions of Wm. Davies, Esq., the acting secretary. A SHIP, of 447 tons, new measurement, called the Mimosa, has been launched at Aberdeen. She is intended for the Liverpool and South American trade. A WOMAN from Liverpool was killed, on Wednesday last, at the Ordsall-lane Station, Manchester, by falling under the wheels of a train. A FIRE broke out, at a late hour on Sunday night, in the upper part of a dwelling-house, in Atherton-street, but it was extinguished without doing much damage. THE ACADIA, formerly belonging to the Cunard line, and sold to the German Confederation, has been bought to trade between Bremen and New York. A RAILWAY WAGGON, filled with copper, passed over the body of Joseph Gerrard, a fireman at St. Helens, on Monday evening week, and killed him on the spot. THE WILLIAM TAPSCOTT and KOSSUTH, which sailed hence on the 11th May, arrived at New York on the 10th June, making Sandy Hook on the 9th, and beating every ship from Liverpool which had sailed between the 2nd and 11th, and the passengers were landed all well. Does-OFFICE.—The following gentlemen were, on Saturday, at the Town-hall, elected commissioners of audit :—Messrs. John Gordon, Henry Dawson, Charles R. Taylor, David Rae, Joseph Mondel, James Brebner, J. A. Clint, and J. A. Black ; and these ger.tlemen there after appointed'Mr. H. B. Hornby their accountant. MERCHANT TAILORS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GREAT CROSBY.—The half-yearly examination was conducted by the Rev. G. W. Snowball, M.A., of St. John's Col. lege, Cambridge, and on yesterday week the prizes were awarded by John Myers, Esq., of Crosby-house, who delivered an excellent address. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The Royal Mail steamer America, Captain Leitch, took her departure for Halifax and Boston on Saturday morning about eleven o'clock, with a full cargo of fine goods, and upwards of 132 pas sengers. The United States mail-steamer Atlantic, Capt. West, sails for New York to-morrow afternoon, with pas sengers and a full cargo, having also had to shut out goods. ST. PAUL'S, LIVERPOOL.—We would direct the atten tion of our readers to an advertisement in another column relative to the proposed building of a school in connexion with St. Paul's Church. The case is there fairly stated, and we should think, at least, sufficiently proves the ne cessity that exists for such an institution. We hope the friends of scriptural education will avail themselves on this occasion of practically giving evidence of the sincerity of their opinions and good wishes. QUICK WORK.—The new steamer Mona's Queen, Captain Quayle, made the quickest passage on record, between Liverpool and this port, on Monday last. This fine vessel left Liverpool shortly after eleven, and arrived here a little after four o'clock, having accomplished a run of seventy-five nautical miles in five hours and ten mi nutes ! the shortest passage ever made. The Mona's Queen brought between three and four hundred passen gers.—Manx Sun. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This favorite resort continues to be thronged each gala evening with visitors. The en tertainments provided by Mr. Durandu appear to give universal satisfaction. During the past week vocal and instrumental concerts, followed by dramatic performances, have taken place, a very talented and effective company having been engaged ; and we perceive from the advertise ment that several favourite farces are announced for this week. The fireworks are quite as beautiful as ever, and on Tuesdays and Fridays a ball concludes the evening's amusements. Such a variety of entertainments, in addi tion to the several amusements of the gardens, cannot fail to be appreciated. For to-day the grand annual fete of the Temperance Societies is announced. We are informed it will be a very brilliant affair, numerous extra attractions having been prepared for this occasion. • The REV. JAMES PHILIP SHEPPERD, the curate of the North-shore district, Kirkdale, has been appointed to the curacy and lectureship of South Molton, Devon, and in the diocese of Exeter; but, from some suspicion enter tained by the bishop as to the soundness of the rev. gen tleman's views, a correspondence was opened which has been carried on with unyielding decision on both sides. The point at issue proposed by his lordship was " sacra mental grace," especially that of baptism (regeneration). Accordingly a full and candid statement was sent by Mr. Shepperd, appealing to Scripture and the writings of the Reformers to corroborate his sentiments ; in answer to which the bishop, regretting that unsoundness on the doc trine of sacramental grace is regarded by so many persons as of little moment, pronounces the statements forwarded to be very unsatisfactory, and, therefore, refuses to grant a license or to admit the rev. gentleman into the Exeter diocese. JOHN MACDONALD,' THE ROMANIST CHAMPION, the Liverpool thesum of County C 25. for tourt lo re cover rtiff at a john Whitel leged he had sustained by reason of whichabroughtbreach the a o onf laincoln action contract on the part of the defendant. Mac donald stated that he had engaged and paid the requisite o d n e p t o h s e i t evening i t i h nc e o u f s et the ef 29th the oof Tabernacle , A oril; and .B s t p h h a a t m o - n s t ree t, pro oeeding thither on the night in question, he found a crowd assembled at the door and the place closed. He went to the office of Mr. White, but it was closed too; and the upshot was that he had to procure another room in Circus-street, which was smaller than the Tabernacle, and thither part of the crowd adjourned. This was the meeting to which the plaintiff had challenged the Rev. Dr. M'Neile to a public discussion. The arrangements e h l a e d rk ,..it a T pp h e e ar d e e d ien b o e e en w m as a , de wtheitthth3elr. plaintiff ßail e, y w M as r.N t V ol h d ite' he s must pay a second deposit of ss. at Mr. White's office before he could use the room for the first meeting, and that he did not fulfil his part of the contract. The judge gave the plaintiffa verdict for £2. CANADIAN RAILWAYS.—The Atlantic brings advices of the amalgamation of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic and Trunk Railway, and of tho lcasin; of tho Portland Railway at six per cent. This secures a terminus at the noble harbour of Portland, with 150 acres of land, and deep water wharfs. The Quebec and Richmond will fol. low, and then this magnificent enterprise will be consoli dated. A great railway convention has also been held at Buffalo, for the purpose of entering into working agree ments, so as to prevent any hostile rivalry. This is as it should be, and when capitalists become better acquainted with Canada they will find that no safer or sounder invest ments can be entered into; while, h owever goo d "intrin sically" continental investments may be, the chances of war or revolution at any time breaking out makes thinking men regard funds and foreign stocks and railways with the sort of feeling that, at best, it is like reposing on a bed of lucifer matches, which may ignite s u dd en l y an d d estroy all within its reach. The half-yearly interest on the 'Quebec and Richmond shares is advertised to be paid on the sth July, at the agent's office, 2, Leadenhall-street, at the rate of six per cent. per annum. —Herepath' s Journal. DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—On Wednesday, Mr. Charles Holland presided at the sleeting of shareholders, held in the Clarendon-rooms. The accounts to he sub mitted to the general meeting of shareholders at Amster dam, on the 29th instant, were submitted, and approved unanimously. A hopeful and encouraging letter, from Mr. Charles William Hesleden, the managing director at Utrecht, stated the increased receipts of the past book year had enabled the whole of the interest due on the bonds to be discharged, and that the railway, in its pre sent unfinished state, yielded 41 per cent. The new works were proceeding with that vigour and energy which cha. racterised all the works undertaken by Mr. Brassey. The greatest of the works, the great bridge over the'Yssel, will be commenced next year. The line on the Prussian terri tory, which is to form the connecting link with the entire railway system ofGermany, has been surveyed and staked out. :The chairman read a most favourable report by Messrs. Harrison and Tinne. the two English commissa ries, who had been over to Holland to audit and inspect the accounts. 'lt appeared that 1,400 excellent navigators were at work. The commissaries were of opinion that Mr. Hesleden's estimate of 255. per share dividend, on a paid-up capital of £l2 per share, would be very much under the mark. The retiring commissaries and directors, Messrs. Holland, Harrison, Tinne, and Uzielli, were re elected. 310C1; Sues.—A magnificent appearance of parhelia, or mock suns, occurred on Thursday afternoon, and were plainly visible from this neighbourhood. The day had been warm and sunny, and the sky was slightly overcast with thin light clouds, hardly sufficient to prevent the sun's light from being painful to the naked eye. Shortly after half-past five o'clock two mock suns became visible, one on each side of the real sun, at the distance of about twenty degrees .on the right and left, while exactly over head was the portion of a circle towards the sun, similar varyingtai n r at rf da ri appearance nmiai r,oyrient intenseet o n 6a appearancet r y a o i nfibnclo continued , .abeumdt brightnessuf.cco still smaller distinctlycoor more o than hr i d aT i v a n: diameter, e bo t iis eu e ex e r:. , and the night which succeeded was more than usually warm, but the weather has since been cooler, with occa sional falls of rain. Astronomers describe this pheno menon as having occurred at rare intervals, in J 072 and 1692, in 1702, 1721, and 1;83, but the cause is not clearly defined, though it is attributed to refraction of the sun's rays, caused be strata of varying density. Iu Parting lon's British eyclop&dia occurs the following :—" Par belie are apparently of the same size with the sun, though not always of the same brightness., nor even of the same shape ; and when a number appear at once, there is some difference in both these respects among them. Externally they are tinged with colours like the rainbow. They differ in number and size, but all agree in breadth, which is that of the apparent diameter of the sun." ;C.frARGE OF PERJURY.—In the Court of Queen's Bench ,on Saturday, before Lard Campbell and a special jury, the case of the Queen v. Seaton was brought on for trial. This was an indictment against the defendant for having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in an affidavit made by him, and used in answer to an affidavit used in a pro ceeding taken before the Master of the Rolls, under the following circumstances :—ln 1851, a Mr. Castle, who kept the George Hotel, at Liverpool, died, leaving a widow, who was about thirty years old, and two children. He left considerable property in trust for the benefit o f his wife and children, amounting to about £B,OOO. Mrs. Castle kept on and managed the business of the hotel until February, 1852, when she eloped with a married man. They went to Boulogne, and when she left she took a large sum of money, exceeding £2,000, with her. She, however, returned in about a month. The executor of Mr. Castle's will took proceedings in Chancery to have the children made wards in Chancery, and also praying that the business be sold, and that Mrs. Castle be restrained from parting with certain shares which she had purchased with a part of the money sh e had taken away. In support of this the executor, Mr. Mor ton, put in an affidavit. This was opposed by an affidavit of the defendant, who, it appeared, was putting himself forward and wishing to be made one of the guardians of the children ; and he gave an account of what took place at an interview alleged to have taken place between him, Mrs. Castle, and Mr. Morton, in which certain terms were proposed, but which were eventually not agreed to; and on this affidavit the perjury was assigned, and it was imputed by the prosecution that the statement made in that affidavit was untrue. Mr. Morton was called in sup port of the prosecution, but his memory seemed to be very indistinct as to what really passed, though he swore that it occurred on a day subsequent to that on which it was alleged by the defendant. At the close of the cross. examination of Mr. Morton, Lord Campbell said that as the case must depend to a considerable extent upon the memory of Mr. Morton, which it was evident was not to be relied on, he thought the case ought not to proceed further. The jury expresged themselves to be of a similar opinion, and a verdict of not guilty was returned, CHURCH OF ENGLAND EDUCATION SOCIETY. GREAT MEETING IN THE ..4.IIIPHITHEA TEE. A most influential public meeting of " persons interested in the education of the children of the poor in the Pro testant and Evangelical principles of the Church of England" was held on Thursday last, in the Royal Amphitheatre, at twelve o'clock. The admission was by tickets, and the attendance was numerous, a tolerably large proportion of the audience being ladies. The following gentlemen were present :--The Revds. J. C. Ryle, 8.A., rector of Helmingham, Suffolk ; Edward Girdlestone, M.A., vicar of Deane ; Hugh 31 4 1s:elle, D.D., William Pollock, M.A., William He nr y W r i g ht ( one o f th e honorary secretaries), J. Herbert Jones, W. M. Falloon, H. Hampton, W. Maynard, J. B. Low, D. James, W. F. Taylor, Dr. Hume, S. P. Boutflower, W. Rawson, H. Carpenter, F. Barker, J. R. Conor, W. E. G. Carr, St. Helens; Ellison, W. Brewster, T. Robinson, C. W. Lawrence, S. Minton, F. Parry, W. B. Mathias, F. Ould, W. H. Duck. G. Read, J. Leicester, and J. England ; Messrs. Alderman Molyneux and family, Chas. Inman, J. M'Cormick, R. A. Payne, T. D. Anderson, G. H. Horsfall, J. Booker, Alderman Parker, Edward Cropper, W. Maples, C. Cotesworth, T. Carson, W. Jones, W. Hall, J. K. Rounthwaite, Bernard Hall, John Campbell, F. Mill, Captain Gardiner, R. Wright, R. Williams, T. E. Glazebrook, E. Higgin, J. Hakes, E. Tennant, T. D. Headlatn, M. W. Collit, John Eden, R. A. Payne, A. Steains, J. Woodwall, J. P. Mather, W. Statham, R. Wright, G. M ars d en , J. S. Ski p p er , & C . Mr. CHARLES INMAN was called to the chair, and read a letter from the Mayor, expressing his sympathy with the society, but declining the request to preside on the occasion, as being inconsistent with his general practice as Mayor. Their vice-presidents, Mr. Adam Hodgson and Mr. Horsfall, could not be present, for they had both been absent with their families for some time from Liver pool ; the former at Landudno, the latter on the Con tinent. "The society," said Mr. Inman, "to which I hope you will this day add a Liverpool auxiliary, has the extension of education—sound scriptural, Protestant education—for its design : and it appears to me that there is abundant room for an auxiliary in this great commu nity, where I find only 112 subscribers of 21s. and up wards to the National Society in this town and neighbour hood, and 15 subscribers of a smaller amount." The Rev. W. H. WRIGHT, one of the honorary secretaries, stated the origin of the meeting, which had arisen out of a preliminary meeting held on the 27th of May last, at the Clarendon-rooms, at which statements were made by the Rev. E. Girdlestone, on the subject of national education and the present position of the National Society. The Rev. WILLIAM POLLOCK, in a long and eloquent address, moved the first resolution, which was as follows : —" That there exists an acknowledged deficiency in the provision made for the education of the children of the poor, and that it seems highly desirable to increase that provision accordingly, and in doing so to secure, as far as possible, the inculcation of those holy principles of Pro testant and Evangelic truths which are the legacy of the church from the fathers of the English Reformation." Mr. Pollock said they were well aware of the position they occupied that day, which was one involving great respon sibility, and stood therefore in need of a proportionate justification. They were met in no new cause, but for an old cause, the good cause, of scriptural education—a cause consecrated to them by the recollection of many a sacred struggle and many a gracious triumph. The question presented itself at the outset, had they not the National Society for the education of the children of the poor in the principles of the Church of England ? But difficulties as regarded the National Society had been long and severely felt by many members of the Church—(hear, hear)—they had long weighed upon their hearts and burdened their consciences before God ; and since the meeting of June, 1852, a committee, consisting of 54 members of the Church, combining among them names of the highest re pute, both among the clergy and the laity, had been sitting in anxious deliberation upon this very point.— " Can we, by any possible amount of effort, of union, of expenditure, of godly sacrifice,—can we effect our purpose —the purpose of securing to the people a sufficient and a sound education in connection with our church—can we effect that purpose through the medium of the National Society ?" And after many an anxious deliberation, after, he believed, many a prolonged and prayerful meet ing, the committee to which he had alluded came most reluctantly and most sadly to the conclusion that the Na tional Society, in its present position, and as at present constituted, was not available for the purpose that they had in hand. (Hear, hear.) The funds were most im partially distributed ; but they found that practically the management of the National Society was now in the hands of a few individuals, and that those individuals, so far from fairly representing the whole Church of England, represented only one section of it, and that section the tractarian. Moreover, they found that those parties could not be overcome, the society being managed by a close corporation, whom it was impossible to remove or defeat. Besides they found, above all, that the whole income of the society was derived from annual subscriptions —and a wretched income it was ; it was an income which, from its paltriness, at once recorded a vote of distrust against the society ; it was a miserable income of £9,000 a year. (Hear, hear. hear.) That £9,000 was almost all of it exclusively given to the support of the training schools, which would not alto gether bear investigation, and one must be distinctly set down as the very seminary of tractarianism, of which some of their friends thought the object was to get rid of the catechism. They did nothing of the sort. They did not wish to be compelled to teach the little Baptist, the Quaker, the Independent, or the Wesleyan—if they happened to be in the schools—to tell by compulsion a positive un truth ; they had either not been baptized at all, or, if zo, it was without sponsors ; and, therefore, when they asked little Elihu, little Jabez, little Prudence, or little Grace, his or her name, they did not want to put a lie into the mouths of those children, and say—" You shall assert that you received those names from your godfathers and your godmothers, and your bishops :" and, therefore, where the catechism was inapplicable, they did not want to teach it. Nor did they want to do away with the they h a d could go t one the a 1r e bishops ad y, ( tchoeme Bishopove r to bishops, as some ;said ; the thing nearest their heart at theirthat And w howas Manchester,) and he had no doubt they would soon get more. The speaker then urged that , having entered on the good work, they must not now pause or hesitate, o r they would be thrown back again , and have to endure many years of disunion and perplexity : but if they went boldly forward, then his heart told him they would suc ceed ; the country w ould g o wi th t hem, a n d he b el ieved the country was still P rotestant at its core. (Applause.) He bad been slow to assume the attitude in which he found himself. It was possible a suspicion might exist of his position being identified with disorder, love of se paration, or change ; but he had come to the conclusion that they must no longer consult their own idiosyncracies, but give up much of feeling and friendship, and give their support for Christ and for His truth's sake. (Applause.) After referring to what had taken place in the Church in the last twenty years, during which doctrines had been propagated which led to the apostasy of many, and heresies had worked their way amongst the cleygy and other ranks of the community, he contended that the time for action had arrived, and they must meet union with union, organisation with organisation, society with society, and, he would venture to add, order with order ;—they must stand together as one man for the defence of the gospel, if they would not go back to a system which compro mised many of the soul-destroying errors, while it did not present the consistzncies, of the system of apostate Rome. (Applause.) Mr. EDWARD CROPPER seconded the resolution, which was put to the meeting, and adopted unanimously. The Rev. EDWARD GIRDLESTONE, M.A., Vicar of Deane, moved the second resolution :—" That, as long as free action is secured to the Church in the discharge of her solemn responsibilities in the matter of public edu cation, it appears to be her obvious duty and interest to maintain, as far as possible, harmonious relations with the State." After referring to the importance of Liver pool, and the truly Protestant spirit which it had evinced, he said it was only right she should be foremost in the great work of public elementary education, on Protestant principles, as represented in that education society. It might seem strange, but it was no less true and gratifying, that Liverpool was actually before London as regarded the formation of an auxiliary society ; and he rejoiced to think that the preliminary meeting was likely to obtain full confirmation at the great and imposing meeting being held that day. _ _ _ Mr. E. HiGGIN seconded the resolution, commending the society in the strongest terms to the meeting. The resolution was carried unanimously. A collection was here made, and during the collection the audience sang a hymn. The Rev. Dr. AP/sTEKLE, who was loudly applauded on rising, moved the third resolution. He said this was a very serious movement in which they were engaged. The cause was indeed a great one, involving interests and issues vast in their comprehension, vital in their charac ter. They said it was a cause of national education, and so it was primarily and directly ; but it was more. It was the cause of our refo rme d church—(hear, hearl— whose stability and prosperity must depend, under the blessing of Almighty God, upon the scriptural education of the people of this country. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) They utterly repudiated the shibboleth of priestcraft that ignorance was the mother of devotion. (Loud applause.) No ; ignorance was the mother of prostration, of slavery, of blind obedience on the one side, as it was the mother of pride, and tyranny, and arbitrary exs'tion on the other side. (Loud cheers). It was more still ; it was the cause of our constitutional monarchy, it was the cause of our civil liberties. All these stood together, and with these it was the cause of liberty, civilisation, and Christianity all the world over. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible, he thought, to exag gerate the importance of the movement in which they were now embarked, and he cordially congratulated the chairman and the meeting, especially his rev. brethren around him, on the manifest progress of the modern re formation. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) He must not forget also to congratulate his rev. friend and brother who opened the meeting upon the speech he made, the tone he took, and the manly stand he declared himself ready to make in support of protestant and evangelical principles. (Hear, hear.) There were three sides with reference to any erotestant movement. There was a side concerning whom it was said, " Oh, you are sure to have them." There was another side concerning whom it was said, " Oh, they won't go ;" and there was another side, concerning whom they said, " Well, I am not sure, perhaps." (Laughter.) Now, there was nothing he had a greater horror of than to be ranged among the men of " perhaps." (Applause and laughter.) The resolution which he had been requested to propose was this :—" That this meeting rejoices in the recent institution of the Church of England Education Society, which, from the nature of its constitution, the moderation of its plans, and the purity of its principles, is fully entitled to the confi dence of the sound members of the church." He showed that there existed a want, and that this society was of the right kind to supply that want. In the course of his speech he urged the change which had come over the National Society as a reason for not reading the Queen's letter, which was not now the constitutional letter that they once delighted to receive and respond to. To reuse to read it would be no indignity to the Crown, but a re buke to the unfaithfulness of the minister who recom mended such a step to the Sovereign. The Rev. J. C. RYLE, 8.A,, rector of Helmingham, Suffolk, nonded the resolution, He trusted that they ‘)A I -a- VV. were agreed that whatever education was given must be a religious education. The sense of England had been taken, and he believed they were of one mind on that subject—that men should not be taught merely how to live but how to die. There were at this moment no fewer than 380,000 children receiving no education at all ; and in 172 parishes in this country no daily education was given in connexion with the Church of England. And as to the character of the education—in many of the schools it was a mere apology for education ; the teachers, though they did their best, were inadequate to the work, and good teachers could not be obtained, more than anything else, unless a proper remuneration were offered. But who should undertake to provide education ? There was no difficulty in answering that question, and of all bodies there was none so proper as the Church of Eng land. There was no church which had such opportunities of doing good as that church ' • and where the gospel was preached and the principles of the church carried out and properly administered, it was eminently successful in taking a hold of the people. He could not now support the education of the National Society, because he believed it had forfeited the confidence of all sound, true-hearted members of the Church of England. It was quite true, after what had been shown to be the state of the National Society, that a new society should be formed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Colquhoun, a gentleman who had laboured six years to put the society on a better footing, had found, after all his efforts, that there was no alternative but the course which the meeting was recommended to adopt,—the formation of a new society, like that which was now before them. The speaker referred to some of the Romish practices which he said had been for some time creeping into the church, and said it was now come to this,—they were to decide whether they were to have a real Protestant- Church, or change its character and send word to the Pope to forward us half-a-dozen Cardinals in addition to the one we had already, and be the real sub jects of the Pope once more. (Hear, hear.) But he had no doubt the people of this country were sound at heart, and thoroughly protestant and evangelical, and he wished to see them taking the lead in the movement which had been brought before them, and support that which was protestant and evangelical. (Hear, hear.)—The resolution was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. CARSON, seconded by Mr. J. C. DUNCAN, it was agreed that an auxiliary be formed far the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, and that the following gentlemen be appointed officers for the ensu ing year :—Edward Cropper, Esq., president ; Revs. Dr. I‘l'Neile, William Rawson, Alexander Knox, Adam Hodg son, Esq., T. B. Horsfall, Esq., G. C. Arbuthnot, Esq., vice-presidents. Committee : Revs. W. Barker, W. Pol lock, W. M. Falloon, J. B. Lowe, S. Minton, W. Parry, H. Carpenter, T. C. Cowan. Charles Inman, Esq., Wm. J. Tomlinson, Esq., Geo. Marsden, Esq., Thos. Carson, Esq., Arthur Stelling, Esq., James C. Duncan, Esq., Richard A. Payne, Esq., Henry Woodfall. Esq. ; William Jones, Esq.. treasurer ; Rev. W. H. Wright and John Eden, secretaries. Thanks having been voted to the chairman, on the motion of Mr. JOHN EDEN, seconded by the Rev. Dr. ITNEILE, the meeting broke up at ten minutes before four, having lasted nearly four hours. THE ELECTION.-WARD MEETINGS. PITT-STREET WARD The Conservatives of Pitt-street Ward commenced the series of ward meetings, in connection with the forth coming borough election, on Tuesday evening, when a numerous and influential body of electors met at the Vine Tavern in Pitt-street. The room in which the meeting was announced to be held was soon found to be far too small to hold the numerous electors present, and an ad journment consequently took place to the large yard at the back of the house, the speakers being located in a room looking into it. Mr. Thomas Toulmin was called to the chair; and amongst others present were Messrs. G. H. Horsfall, J. W. Horsfall, L. Peel, Jeffreys, Arthur Hen derson, Bold, Rimmer, and Callis. The CHAIRMAN, in reference to the recent decision of the parliamentary committee, expressed his surprise how the committee of the House of Commons ever arrived at the conclusion they had done, his opinion being that it had raised the character of the constituency. Mr. THOMAS BOLD, who was the first speaker, said he had been for the last month engaged in London in pro tecting the rights of the freemen of Liverpool. He must say the ordeal they had gone through there was highly creditable to them, after the attempts that had been made for the last twenty-one days to deprive them of the rights which they all valued so highly, when it is only proved by the witnesses—the 153 witnesses taken up to London by Messrs. Rathbone and Ronald—(groans)—that only the small sum of £6 17s. had been spent in paying the wages of some men who had, very likely, large families to sup port, and could not afford to lose their day's work without injury, or without their children suffering by it. He thought, therefore, with Mr. Toulmin, that he might con gratulate them on the result of the investigation. In commending the two candidates, Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Liddell, he said of the latter gentleman :—Having been consulted in London, I have seen Mr. Liddell ; he is a man who was for many years the parliamentary represen tative of an important constituency in the north of England ; be distinguished himself in taking the lead and opposing the navigation laws when they were first intro duced into the House of Commons. He fought the battle of the shipowners, the blockmakers, ropemakers, sail makers, carpenters, and of every other man connected with the shipping interest ; and he is prepared to protect that interest still, and by electing a man of that character you will never regret it. (Cheers.) On church matters he is as sound, I believe, as any man living. He is most firmly opposed to the Maynooth grant. (A Voice : "He voted for it.") He voted for it, but he will be better able to explain the reason why he voted for it when he comes here himself. (Cheers.) When he voted for it, ho cup_ posed it would benefit those for whom the grant was made ; but now he is convinced that, rather than hav ing benefited them, it has been prejudicial to them. I would close with one remark in regard to the way in which the late petition was got up. I think you were deceived altogether. They talk of purity at the last election ; now it so happens that all they wanted was one seat. (Laughter.) They would have been very glad to have withdrawn the petition if we gave them one seat. I shall be very glad to meet Mr. Rigge or Mr. Rathbone, and to expose them completely, and to show they had no pure motives whatever, and that it was all humbug from begin ning to end. (Cheers.) The next speaker, Mr. GEORGE HENRY HORSFALL, said : It happens, unfortunately, that my brother, who has been named as a candidate, is absent on the continent, and consequently cannot attend here this evening. Means have been taken during the day to communicate with him, and it is just possible, in the course of t o - morrow, we may have an answer from him, stating when he may be here. The accusation which has been brought acainst you, against me, and against almost every respectable Tory in the town, is as false as it is possible for any statement to have been on the face of the earth. (Cheers.) I think myself it is very questionable whether, in a court of law, the gentlemen who have put forward the names of their fellow-townsmen as parties who were guilty of bribery, and also the names of their fellow townsmen who were bribed, are not themselves liable to a prosecution in a court of law. (Hear, hear.) And I say publicly, on my own behalf, if I find, on taking legal advice, such a step would be attended with any good results, I for one am prepared to spend a considerable amount to punish those gentlemen—(great cheering)—for what I say was a gross insult to you, a gross insult to me ; and they have done under the protection, or what they conceived the protec tion, of a petition to the House of Commons, that which as men and gentlemen they dared not to have done. (Con tinued cheering.) He then alluded to the fact that it was something like twelve months since they embarked in the election which had now so unfortunately terminated. They commenced it from that window, he believed. He next advised the electors to show the country " what the petition against the late return was—that the late election was then fairly and honourably won, and the election now shall be fairly and honestly won by a larger majority than it was on the previous occasion. Ido not speak to one or the other; but I shall feel disgraced as a freeman if you do not return your men with a still larger majority than before." But the greatest possible caution should be used. The enemy's spies are in the camp; and there are parties amongst us to lay hold of the slightest flaw. (Hisses.) They will not scruple to avail themselves of any practice which they think will contribute to their own success. They will be on the watch for us, and we must be careful not to commit ourselves in any way, for, as I said before, there is no use winning elections in Liverpool to have them overthrown in London. Mr. JOHN RIIIIIER proposed, and Mr. JEFFREYS seconded, a resolution pledging the meeting to support Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall. This was unanimously carried. Mr. CALLza then submitted the resolution—" That this meeting cannot separate without expressing their deep regret that so paltry and miserable a case as that which Messrs. Rathbone, jun., and Ronald have brought before the House of Commons should have severed the connec. tion of William Forbes Mackenzie and Charles Turner, Esqrs., with us as members of Parliament for the borough of Liverpool." Mr. LAWRENCE PEEL energetically supported the motion, which, like the preceding one, was adopted with enthusiasm. Arr. RIGBY then proposed a vote of thanks to the late members, which was seconded by Mr. A.RTHURHENDER soN, and adopted ; and after a vote of thanks to the chair man, and three cheers for Mr. T. B. Horsfall, the meeting dispersed. EVERTON AND KIRKDALE `YARD, On Friday evening, a numerously attended and influen tial meeting of the electors in the Everton and Kirkdale Ward was held at Halliday's Coffee-house. Mr. Thomas Carson was called to the chair, and in opening the meet ing, he said, that however muc h h e m i g h t regret t h e decision of the select committee of the House of Com mons, he thought the constituency might congratulate themselves upon the good character th e i r o pp onen ts had so unwittingly given them. (Cheers.) Althou g h those proceedings were both frivolous and vexatious in the high est degree—(bear, hear.)—he trusted that they would control their feelings and conduct themselves calmly. Mr. ROBT. HORSFALL, who was most warmly received, proposed the first resolution :—" That this meeting deems it its first and paramount duty to offer to Charles Turner and Forbes Mack enz ie, E sqr s., th e exp r ession of their sincere sympathy on the result of the proceedings before the Election Committee of the House of Commons, and of their decided approbation of their public conduct during the period in which they have represented this borough in Parliament. Mr. ROBERT AXED seconded the resolution, which was carried with enthusiastic unanimity. Mr. MADDOCK then proposed :—" That although the decision of the committee, founded upon a bare technical necessity, has unseated the late members, this meeting rejoices that the inquiry before that committee has estab lished beyond all doubt the fact of the purity of the con stituency of Liverpool, and has thoroughly refuted all the calumnies which, for nearly twelve months, have b een heaped upon the Conservative party i n this town by their unscrupulous opponents." Mr. MANGER seconded the resolution, which was also carried unanimously. . _ Mr. ROHM', then nroposed,—" That in the opinion of this meeting the Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell, and Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq., are fit and proper persons to represent this borough in parliament, and the electors now present pledge themselves to tie every exertion and adopt all Lawful means to secure their election." The resolution was seconded by Mr. LANGTON, who eulogised Mr. Liddell. He believed be was a gentleman of undeniable integrity and ability, and it would doubtless gratify the ladies to know that he was very good-looking, and the father of thirteen children. (Laughter and cheers). A vote of thanks, and three cheers, were then given for the chairman, and three extra cheers for Mr. T. B. Hors_ fall, followed by groans for Mr. Rathbone. TOXTETH WARDS. A meeting of the friends favourable to the return of the Hon. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Thomas B. Horsfall was held on Friday evening in the Toxteth Hall, Mill-street. The hall was crowded to excess.—Mr. H. Steele in the chair. Mr. EDWARD LAWRENC E proposed the first resolution, sympathising with the late members, and pledging the meeting to support the lion. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Thos. B. Horsfall. Mr. GREGSON seconded the motion, which was unani mously carried. Air. A. SHAD proposed the second resolution, pledging the meeting to support the Hon. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Thomas B. Horsfall. . Mr. W. B. JONES seconded the resolution, which was also unanimously agreed to. Mr. GEORGE H. HORSFALL subsequently addressed the meeting ; and, after some routine business had been gone through, the proceedings, which were most enthusiastic throughout, terminated. LIME STREET On Friday evening a meeting of the electors of the Lime-street Ward was held at the Swan Inn, London road, for the purpose of promoting the election of the Hon. J. H. Liddell and Thos. B. Horsfall, Esq. The large room of the Swan was densely crowded with the electors, and throughout the proceedings the greatest unanimity prevailed. JOHN 131 LLOYD, Esq., who was unanimously called to the chair amidst general and prolonged applause, said : If it were in any other ward than Lime-street, with which I have been connected for the last twelve years, I should have felt some diffidence in taking the chair, after the way in which I have been treated by those whom I will call the opponents of true liberty and truth. I am one of those whose names have been placarded not only through all the papers in Liverpool, but I may add through all the news papers in the United Kingdom, as attached to a list by the petitioners against the return of our respected and worthy late representatives. In the list which was pre sented to the committee of the House of Commons, my name appears as a briber in 25 cases. (Groans.) As I before observed, I should have felt same diffidence in taking the chair to preside over so numerous and respect able a meeting as this of my fellow-townsmen, if I did not believe they felt that which I fee:—a perfect contempt for such aspersions, believing my character with you stands as pure—(cheers)—and unsullied as before they published their list. (Continued applause.) Those gentle men from the first of March last placed me under the speaker's warrant; and from the 30th May to the 11th June. I was kept there to answer any questions that might be put to me. Yet, gentlemen, I stand here now without any'one of the twenty.five cases being inquired in to, or myself being called to answer the charges which they brought against n•e. (Great applause.) I can only say, that when it is asserted that illegal acts have been done—and to some extent it may to stated that this accusation which has been brought against me has not been refuted before the committee—it is now my duty to you and to my fellow-townsmen, thus publicly to say that I repudiate and deny that I did, at the last election, take one single step that was illegal, nor did I ask any man's ♦ote by offering or promising to offer anything in the shape of a bribe. (Applause.) But I can only say to you, gentlemen, that I took those steps which every one of you did in seeking to return triumphantly as you did Mr. Forbes Mackenzie and Mr. Charles Turner. (Ap plause.) Having said that much, let me refer to one of the witnesses they produced on that occasion. It was the witness, I believe, who stated himself to be the cor respondent of some morning paper, who did say and swear that he saw me on the day of election in the house of Mr. Lawton distributing favours, treating, or whatever other words his evidence goes for, which I here declare, in the presence of Mr. Lawton, who is here to answer if you, think it necessary that he should do so, that I was never at Mr. Lawton's house after half-past seven o'clock in the morning until the election was closed. (Cheers, and a voice : " Redmond.") That is distinctly the truth. From a quarter to eight o'clock in the morning until the election finally closed. I can account for myself from the commencement of that day until the termination of it, and bring gentlemen who will corroborate where I was, and what I did during the whole of that day's proceed ings. (Applause.) So much for the veracity of this re porter for a morning paper. (Hear, hear.) I come here with a clear conscience. I did nothing at the last election by which my acts would be a stain on the constituency of this extended and most influential ward. (Hear, hear.) The Chairman concluded by reading Mr. Liddell's ad dress, which was loudly cheered. He felt satisfied the selection of candidates would do honour to the constitu ency of the ward which had now the honour of meeting. together. (Amiens!) A VOICE.—Nire will have no Quakers laughter.) (Hear, and The CHAIRMAN.—They will have quite enough of themselves when they pay their bills atter the inquiry. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. GEORGE RIDING proposed, and Mr. JONAS GLEAVE seconded, a resolution pledging the meeting to support Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall, which was enthu siastically carried. Mr. JAMES COOPER proposed the next resolution : " That the warmest thanks of this meeting be presented to our late members, William Forbes Mackenzie and Charles Turner, for their attention to the interests of the the p , rind they have been its representa tives; and that this meeting begs to express the regret, which is believed to be that of the inhabitants at large, that their separation from the constituency should have arisen on so paltry a case as was presented to the com mittee of the House of Commons." Mr. SMITH seconded the motion, and remarked that, since the last election, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie had been made the object of malevolence and lying, without the slightest cause. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. THOMAS BOLD, after being repeatedly called for, said, of what had taken place in London, that he had attended from the first day of the meeting of the com mittee down to the last word that was uttered in the committee-room. He was at the threshold of the door, ready at any moment to produce every account. He had paid, and given an account of every shilling expended in the election, but the gentlemen who promoted the inquiry never ventured to call him into the room. (Hissing.) And for this reason ' • they got wind of it during the cours e of the inquiry that there had not been a shilling spent during the whole inquiry by the committee conducting the election of anything approaching to an illegal character. (Hear.) If there had been any doubt of it, they would have called him in, and demanded the documents which he had in his pockets. which he showed to Mr. Coppock and Sir T. Birch in London, after the inquiry finished— (hear)—and he was now ready to produce them to any gentleman who had the slightest curiosity to investigate them. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Bold) had heard it whispered that threats had been held out, that if young Mr. Wm. Rathbone appeared during the coming election (groans), particularly about the docks, or should he take a public part in the contest, his life would not be safe. He (Mr. Bold) did not believe there was a single man in that or any other ward who would touch Mr. Rathbone, notwithstanding it was as serted, but he believed with no truth, that Mr. Rathbone once in his election madness—(he must also say it had been contradicted by Mr. Rathbone himself, and he didn't be lieve he ever did it)—spat in General Gascoigne's face. k Laughter and hissing, and a voice, " I saw him.") Mr. Rathbone having once so conducted himself, that would be no justification for using strong or insulting language towards his son. (Hisses.) If his father had so far for gotten himself as to spit in the face of General Gascoigne, he (Mr. Bold) felt perfectly certain that the gentlemen now before him would never so far degrade themselves as to insult his son in that way. (Cries of Mr. J. GLEAVE.—Ask fhem . in Vauxhall Ward about old Billy. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. LAWRENCE PEEL then energetically addressed the meeting. . -- - Mr. LAWTON corroborated the statement of Mr. Lloyd, that on the day of the last election he was not in his house after half-past seven in the morning ; and he also stated that the same individual who had sworn that Mr. Lloyd was there, was mistaken relative to Mr. Jonas Gleave. After a vote of thanks had been passed to the chairman, three cheers were given for Liddell and Horsfall, and for Mackenzie and Turner, and the proceedings terminated. POLICE COURT.- Y ESTERDAY. ROBBERY PROM THE PERSON IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE... A young woman, named Rose Ann Hutchinso n , was charged with stealing a purse, containing 10 sovs. and a register note, from the waistcoat-pocket of a sailor, on Friday last. The prosecutor said that, on Friday after noon, he went to the Sailors' Home, in order to be paid off. He received £lO, which he put into his purse, along with a register note. On coming out of the Sailors' Home, he met with the prisoner, who asked him to go with her to a public-house. He did so. They had not been in the house many moments before the prisoner put her hand into his pocket, and took out the purse contain ing the money and the register note. She ran out of the house, and the prosecutor followed, but could not find her. Subsequently, however, he received information that the prisoner had left the money at Mrs. Marsden's public house, in Dickenson-street. He went there, and was told that ten sovereigns had been left there by a woman answering the prisoner's description. He then gave in formatior the police. Mrs. Marsden's daughter stated th,,t, the prisoner was the person who left the money at her mother's house. After the prosecutor called at their house, they refused to give up the money to the prisoner unless she brought an officer with her. On doing so the prisoner was taken into custody. She was committed for three months, and the £lO was ordered to be given up to the prosecutor. BURGLARY IN LONDON-ROAD—EXTENSIVE RoB BERY OF IRONMONGERY.—Four lads, named respec tively Richard Parkinson, Thomas Wheelan, Lawrence Cleary, and James Parkinson, were charged with breaking into the shop of Mr. Cooper, ironmonger, on Friday evening or Saturday morning last, and stealing a large quantity of 10. It appearedf ironmongery,rom thecuetlliedreyn, B' ce of c M 'to r the value of £ the prisoners had g ai ne d access to the premisesbreak ingoobpyer,that open an entrance into the back office. Detective officer Marks stated that, from inf ormation he received, he went in search of the* Saturday, and found them in London-road t searching prisisnnerson them, he found several of the stolen articles upon them. He also found another of the prisoners hiding under a quantity of hay in Wavertree, and on taking him into custody he told the o ffi cer that it was the prisoner Wheelan who took him to rob the shop. S ever al of the other arti c l es were found on the other prisoners, in different parts of the town. All the property was produced, and Mr. Shep pard, pawnbroker, deposed to two of the prisoners pledging several of the articles produced (including an overcoat, which was identified by Mr. Cooper) on Satur day last. Other witnesses deposed to the prisoners having offered knives and other articles, part of the pro ceeds of the robbery, in different parts of the town. The officer Marks stated they had traced it out that the pri soners had been offering the property for sale all the way towards Edge-hill and the Tranmero Hotel. The pri mers were remanded until today.