The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

Nov. 24, 1846. coral anb Vrobintiat grtvs. In a few days the streets of Southport will be lighted with oil naphtha lamps. In compliance with a requisition, the Mayor of Man chester has convened a town's meeting to consider " the oppressive and injurious tendency of the Salt Tax and Monopoly in India." Last Monday, Elizabeth Smith,an old woman aged about 77, living in Lionel-street, died in the Northern Hospital. A few days before, her clothes caught fire accidentally, and she was severely injured. At the Manchester Borough Court, on Tuesday last, several cotton spinners, dyers, &c., were fined 40s. and costs for nuisances arising from the unconsumed smoke from their works. Four hundred pounds have been subscribed on behalf of the testimonial to Mr. Trafford, on his retirement from the chairmanship of the quarter sessions for the county of Chester. The churchwardens of St. Augustine's Church have appointed the Rev. J. H. Brown, Vice- Principal of the Collegiate Institution, to take charge of the public ser vices of that church, and to be solely responsible for them, until a new incumbent be appointed. On Friday forenoon, a boy, carrying a tin cash-box, near Liver Chambers, Tithebarn-street, was knocked down and his box was stolen. Several persons seeing the assailant running with the box gave chase, and the fellow threw it down along with a bludgeon which he carried. Be eff.cted his escape. RAPID STEAMING':—The steamer Clementina, of whose trial trip to Dublin we gave an account in our last, steamed "to Folkestone from this port in thirty-five hours, against a heavy sea and adverse winds—a rate of sailing rarely, if ever attained, by our best packets. The Princess Cle rnentina is destined to ply between Folkestone and Bou logne, in connection with the railway communication from London to Paris. NEW HOLYHEAD PACKETS.—The Admiralty have contracted for four new steam-packets for the Holyhead station. One to be built by Messrs. Ditchburn & Mare, it is understood, on the lines of the Surveyor of the Navy —engines by Messrs. Seaward and Co. ; one of wood, on the lines of Mr. 0. W. Lang, with Penn's engine; one, engines and vessel by Messrs. Miller and Co. •, and one vessel by J. Laird—the engines by Forester, of Liverpool. They ate to be called the Caradoc, the Llewellyn, the Kathleen, and the Banshee. J UVENI E THIEF.—A lad named James Dodd, who made his debut at- thc----Polico-oottrtr brought before Mr. Rushton, on Thursday.—Police con stable, 109, stated that he took the boy in Crosshall street, about five o'clock on the previous evening. Wit ness conceived he was lurking about with a felonious de sign ; and when he was apprehended, a large nail, such as are used by tyros in the profession for removing small panes of glass from the shop windows, was found on him. —He was committed to prison for three months. MANCHESTER PARKS.—The actual amount of pur chase money paid for each park, and the probable total cost for each park, laid out and ready for the public; the latter in round numbers, are as follows : Purchase Money. Total Cost. £7262 8 2.....E11,000 7743 3 8.... 12,000 8169 16 1.... 13,000 Queen's Park Philip's Park. Peel Park ... Total .... £23.175 711 £36,000 EVILS ov loNoaANcE.—On Thursday, two young lads, named William Bell and Matthew Bell, were brought up on a charge of stealing two pairs of slippers from James M'Cann. The principal witnesses were two boys, from ten to twelve years old, who, on being questioned, said they had never been at school, and did nut comprehend the nature of an oath, or the conseqoences of telling a lalsehood. Mr. Rushton said there c ,uld be little doubt of the facts of the case, but it was shocking to thitik that children such as those in the witness box had never been et school, and were prevented from giving evidence in consequence of their ignorance. He directed the pri soners to be discharged. RIVER NIGER.—A paragraph in a London paper, co pied by some of our contemporaries in Liverpool, repre sents that the experimental trial from this port by Mr. Jamieson and others to open commercial i,tercnurse with central Africa " has failed a second time." This is not correct; there has not been a failure. The Ethiope steamer ascended and traded on the Niger last year as high as Rabbah, five hundred miles from the coast, that being the purpose of her mission to Africa, and she would have done the same this year but for her boilers giving way—an accident to which all steamers are liable, and which may, of course, be remedied in England, but not in the Bight of Biafra. SMUGGLING.—On Thursday, John Ansley was charged with having 2671b5. of smuggled tobacco in his rssession The prisoner engaged a carter, named George Coventry, to convey a cask from Clare-court, Creston-street, Tox teth-park, to the Manchester carriers, 130 e-street. Dur ing the transit, the cart was stepped by the police, and the cask was found to contain tobacco, and about 1' lbs. more was found concealed on the premises of the pris oner. He was remanded urt'l To , sday.—On Friday, David Coulter, steward of the ship Sophia, St. John's, was charged with having concealed Bhs. of cavendish tobacco, in the pantry of the ship. The prisoner was fined £lOO. _ . DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday, an investiga tion took place at the Aigburth Hotel, before John Heyes, Esq., Coroner, touching the death of Thomas Matthews, a farm servant, who had hung himself. The deceased had been in the employ of Mr. John Wcrrall, farmer, Ail,- burth, as carter, but in consequence of his dissipated habits, he was discharged on Friday week. Since that tim4 he bad been frequently seen about the hon , e and outhouses of his late employer, altioutah he had heen_roore than once forbidden to come near the place. On Sunday morn ing week, about church time, when a boy belonging to the farm went into the hay-loft be found the deceased hanging. DARING AND IMPUDENT ROBBERY. — On Saturday evening last, about six o'clock, whilst the men in the em ploy of Messrs. Kennedy and Renner, 15, Goree Piazzas, the window of which looks into the Back Goree, were being paid their wages, some villain suddenly dashed either his hand or an instrument adapted for the purpose (hut which, could not, from the rapidity of the act, be discerned), through one of the squares of glass, and snatched away from the desk placed against the window, a hag, containing about £l5 in silver, and although some of the men from the offize immediately ran round to the Back Goree, the fel low had decamped with his booty, and we regret to add that no traces whatever could, or have, as yet, been found of the delinquent. WATER FOR MANCHESTER.—There are no fewer than four schemes contending for the honour and profit of sup plying the borough of Manchester with an abundant supply of pure and wholesome water. They are the f, Bowleg : First, The Manchester and Salford Water Works Com pany, who propose to derive the water from Lyme Park and the neighbourhood. Secondly, The Corporation of Manchester, who propose to bring the water from the Etherow district. Thirdly, The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, who propose to ob tain the supply chiefly from the Peak Forest and the Macclesfield Canals ; and, fourthly, the Lancashire Water Works Company, who propose to derive the supply from the Turton and Entwisle reservoirs, and the neigh bourhood. DEATH FROM A NARCOTIC.—On Tuesday, an inquest was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of Michael Monaghan, a child nine weeks old, who lived with his parents in Henry Edward-street. It appeared, that when he was about three weeks old he was seized wile a fit of screeching, and that his mother got a penny worth of Godfrey's Cordial, and gave him a teaspoonful of it. Ever since that time she had been in the habit of giving him a pennyworth every week, but never gave him more than about a teaspoonful at a time. Last week she'' gave the deceased a teaspoonful, and from that time until five o'clock the next evening the child never awoke out of sleep. When he did awake at last, he appeared quite drowsy, and on Sunday evening he died. Mr. Patrick Kelly, surgeon, was of opinion that he died from the effects of some narcotic. A teaspoonful of Godfrey's Cordial would contain a drop and a half of laudanum lie considered that a most injudicious quantity to have been given. The jury returned a verdict of " Chance medley," thus reducing the t ffekee below manslaughter. DISTURBING A CONCERT. —On Tuesday, Mr. Vin ning, father of the " Infant Sept tin," appeared before Mr. Rushton, to prefer a compkint against Edward Wor rall, who was in custody, for creating a disturbance on Monday evening, behind the scenes of the Liver Thea tre. Mr. Vinning stated that, stub was the increasing popularity of his daughter, he had hired the Liver Thea tre, for a week. at a cost of £2O, and £2 for gas, when. in conjunction with the Tyler family, a series of concerts were to be given • but on Monday evening, he said, a conspiracy " had evidently been formed to destroy the respectability of the entertainment. The prisoner had come, it t ixicated, behind the scenes, having drink with him, and created great disturbance. Alr. Vinning told him if he would apologise and go away he would excuse him, but his answer was that he would see him d—d first. Five or six gentlemen from the pit leered on to the stage, to put an end to the annoyance, and he was given into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said be was a stranger in town, having only arrived the day previous. He was sent from the Theatre Royal to the Brunswick Hotel for some drink, and had quite mistaken the thea tre. Mr. Rushton :—" You will not get out till you find bail, or be imprisoned for a month." HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—Mr. Duncan re- Ported that the tower at the new works in Green-lane Was now up to within 23 feet of the entire hei g ht; that the roofing of the boiler•house was still incomplete, but that it would be out of the hands of the blacksmith in the course of the week ; tbat the engine - fi t te rs were en g a g ed 11l Putting down the pump-work in the well, arid that the steam and other pipes connected with the engine and boiler were nearly all fitted up. Mr. Duncan also re- Ported that the cooling ponds were in active pre press, Seventy men being employed upon them , and that 1“ o bad arranged with Messrs. Jones and I t ousely te perlo m the Work in four weeks. With regard to the pipe 01, it pas reported that the sluieitig cocks for st• At'd'ew" Street had been received, arid in the e m.rse ot being laid down. The Board coniefeitied of the delay In the tiorks, and the Town-clerk was, do tiled to write to Mr. 4 Ohnson to say the Board .er , dissatisfied with the progress , and that the penalty of £59 a-week would be ,enforced. Mr. Walthew said, that as this was the close ar_ their offici a l ye ar , h e begged to propose that a return or the attendance of the commissioners during the past !ir, at the weekly sittings of the Board and at the Com b,ntees, be submitted at the next meeting. The to-'inn a llying been seconded, several members expiesseti them -IPlves as opposed to the i s s u i ng of the return, as the du ;l_e::ut of doors were i to v er y many cases of more impor tance than that of attending the weekly meetings; and as tae return would not show what was done out of doors, ho • nst estimate could•befortned of the attention paid by cO e gentleman to his pilaw duties. No division was to on the suhjeot, ihut it was understood the return 'would be furnished. FIRE.—On Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the toy-shop of Mr. Ahlborn, situated at the corner of Richmond-street and Whitechapel. Messrs. Dowling, Maxwell, awl Hewitt were immediately on the spot, and the fire burned rapidly for a long time. Four rooms on the second and third stories, together with all their contents, consisting of a vast variety of children's toys and small wares, were destroyed. The damage is esti. mated at about £4OO. THE AURORA BOREALIS. — Tire appearance of those beautiful phenomena, the northern lights, was most bril liant and interesting to the spectator, from the Mersey. at Liverpool, on Tuesday evening. A little before 6 o'clock. the appearance was that of immense clear rays of a soft clear light flashing with various degrees of intensity from the northern portion of the horizon, and losing hen selves high up in the clear-studded sky. In a snort time the rays assumed the shape of an extended arch across the lower part of the sky ; at first the arch was a Si . but afterwards it became more quickly curved CCM yr, It is said that the aurora is a sign of fine dry cold weather. HIGHWAY ROBBi•;RY. — On Tuesday night, shout half past ten, a gentleman was proceeding homeward along the Old Chester-road. When near the 'rranmere Castle Hotel he perceived two men in company with a female. and the latter shortly afterwards accosted him, and asked him to accompany her, to which he replied by ordering her off She, however, renewed her solicitations, and threw her arms round him; at the same time, with the quickness of a professio:tal adept, she succeeded in ab stracting his purse, containing upwards of £2O, with which she immediately made off, and joined her male companions, who had kept at a short distance behind. The police nave obiained a clue which may lead to the detection of the robbers. DEATH FROM DROWNING.—An inquest was held be fore Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on Thursday, on the body of a man, name unknown, which was found in the Waterloo Dock on the preceding Tuesday. Police constable Marrow deposed to hearing a cry of alarm as he was on duty at the dock, on Monday night; he ran round to the side whence the scream proceeded, but could discover nothing to confirm him in the impression that a person was drowning. In consequence of his information, however, a boatman, of the name of Stockton, belonging to the flat Edward, then lying in the Waterloo Dock, made a search of ihe dock on the following morning, which led to the discovery of the body. Deceased was dressed in a barragao suit, and bad the appearance of a labourer. Verdict, found drowned. ATTEMPTED HIGLWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday three -ante-teuirie-o &Huy., vircli their names John Williams, Richard Smith, and William Jones, were brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having attempted to rob persons in Vauxhall-road. It appeared that between the hours of one and two o'clock in the morning of that day, a man named John Edward Brown was returning home along Vauxhall-road, when the prisoners, and two others who bad escaped, suddenly spran.; upon him, knocked him down, and turned his pockets inside out. Fortunately he had no money about him, or, doubtless, he would have been robbed of every farthing. He was quite sober at the time, and they were utter s'rangers to him. A sailor and his wife attended in court for the purpose of deposing, that about the same time, they were attacked by five fellows in Vauxhall-road. They tore open the woman's cloak, and endeavoured to rifle the sailor's pockets. They were each committed to gaol for a period of three months. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. —A most barefaced and daring attempt at robbery and murder took place on Tuesday evening, at Broughton, near Preston, at the house of W. Miller, E,c; , surveyor. At about six o'clock on Tuesdey evening a knock was heard at the front door, and immediately, on Miss Miller opening the doer, six armed men with pistols rushed into the house, and, presenting a pistol at Mr. Miller, de manded his money. Miss Miller, in terror, was endea vouring to make her escape, when she was shot at by one of the men and wounded, slightly only we are glad to say, on the head. Mr. Miller told the men he had not got any money, when they replied they knew he had, when he called to his servant, whom the intruders had shut up in an adjoining room, to " ring the bell." It appears that this bell is an alarm bell placed at the house, and that a rope in the room where the servant was placed communi cates with it. At Mr. Miller's call, the servant rang the bell, on which the men, after looking at each other with astonishment for a few moments, suddenly d-camped, before any of the neighbours arrived. In a few minutes, however, a considerable number of persons, ati rained by the bell, were on the spot, and an alarm wa- given to the police. Five men were next day taken into custody, charted with being concerned in the outrage; and we un derstand that three of them have been identified by Mr. and Miss Miller. They are remanded for the present. THE LATE DR. TATTERS HALL.—Dr. Booth's sermon contains a happy reference to the scientific attainments of the venerated deceased. " He was," says the learned preacher, " a man, the bright benevolence of whose cha racter was only equalled by his learning and his talents, as were these latter by the Christian graces with which he was adorned. To dilate before you, his friends, bis con gregation, on the kindness of his disposition, his sympa thies with the affiscted, his almsgiving to the needy, and his universal charity towards all men, would be in me su fluous. As a scholar, his learning was accurate and ex tensive ; as a mathematician, his attainments were of a high order; and as a divine, his knowledge of theology was profound. lie. is one more added to the list of illus. frious men wbo have adorned, by their learning and their lives, that Church of which he was so bight an ornament. And he, too, afrads another striking example (were any such needed) in refutation of a most erroneous opinion— that the study of the exact sciences, or the pursuit of physical investigation, indisposes the mind to the recep tion of religious truth; an allegation sometimes advanced by those who are often remarkable more for their zeal than their discretion; and which is not more opposed to sound reason than it is to acknowledged facts. It is op posed to sound reason, because such an assertion involves the tacit assumption that there may be found some dis crepancy between the works of God as manifested in tin creation, and his will as announced to us in revelation—a supposition utterly inadmissible, unless we ate prepared to deny that most indubitable attribute of the Godhead, His unity, His oneness, His unchaneableness of purpose. Such objectors unwittingly betray the very cause which they proles to defend." IRISH PAUFERS —DEATH IN THE BRIDEWELL.—An inquest has been held on Friday, before our borough co roner, upon the body of an Irish pauper, named Patrick Nl`Coy, aged 50, who, with four children, was taken to the main Bridewell, at about five o'clock on Thursday af ternoon, for being found begging in the streets. He was put into one of the cells, and the children were sent to lodgings for the night. In the course of the evening, two boys and a drunken man were placed in the cell with M'Coy, the drunken man, in consequence of his violence being chained to a ring in the wall. The Brideweil ,urn key entered the cell at various times, anti at two o'cit ck on Friday morning, the drunken prisoner, having beci.me quiet and orderly, bad the handcuffs removed, and he went and laid himself down on the bench A , three o'clock, an alarm was given by one of the lads, 'hat !here was a dead man lying upon the floor of the c. h ; and the turnkey, upon entering, found that it wa- M C,y, who had either been pushed, or had fallen off the beurr, noon which he had been lying during the earl) part of the night. He was quite dead. A surgeon was sent for. wi o, atter the expiration of some time, made a post-mortem exami nation, in consequence of one of the lads having stated that he saw the drunken man, after he was liberated, knock M'Coy off the bench, and kick him in the chest after he was down. There appeare , to be no truth in this state ment, as there were no external marks of violence what ever; and the surgeon was of opinion that death was the natural result of pulmonary disease. This poor man, who, with his wife and children, was before Mr. Rushton On Friday week for begging, and was only liberated upon consenting to be passed back to Dublin (though he said he might as well die of starvation here as in Ireland), ap. pears to have contrived to evade the parish authorities un til Friday, when he was again apprehended. In all pro. bability, his death had been hastened by the privat ons he has undergone ; but it is clear the poor fellow did not ac tually die of starvation, as he had five shillings in his pocket, the proceeds of his day's or week's begging. Tire great and steady influx of Irish paupers from Dublin, i s indeed becoming a matter of grave consideratio.i among the authorities here ; as it is utterly impossible for the pa rish to be burthened with them and it is a serious expense to have to pass so many families back to Ireland every week, which must either be done, or they must be sup ported in our borough gaol. They arrive here daily, lite rally by fifties and hundreds, clothed in rags, and without a penny piece in the possession of any one of them. They then pester the parish-office for relief, and finding that of no avail, go about begging, until brought to the police-of fice. An inquiry is, we understand, about to beinsrituted .6 1. b.. wen,- Iriatt pacrpre - inansgC try grit - t.hcil - v ... sage across the channel, it beina shrewdly suspected that the parish or some other authorities in Dublin are actually paying their passage money in order to get rid of them, utterly careless as to the result. - • WRECKED Goons.—The recent devastations on the coast have filled many of our drapers' shops with wrecked Manchester goods. Mr. Briscoe, of Oldhall-street, who has been an extensive.purchaser, is selling them at prices almost incredible. THE GREATEST LADY. All who have seen Tom Thumb, (and who has not ?) would do well to proceed to the Assembly-rooms, Bold-street, and enjoy the force of contrast,—for there Mrs. Armitage, in one sense, the greatest lady that the country can boast, hrlds a daily levee. She is of the extraordinary weight of 32 stone, and is 4 feet 8 inches in height. Der countenance is hand some and expressive; her feet and hands of the ordinary size, but her obesity extreme. As we heard a Rag re mark, she needs no " hustle." She is wonderfully viva cious and communicative ; although her step is far from sylph-like, her bulk considered, she is withal graceful in her carriage. The greatest difficulty is felt in travelling . A camel could as easily go through the eye of a needle, as Yrs. Armitage enter the door of a cab or railway cart iage. She is obliged to be content with the accommodation a horse-box affords. A visit will be found to gratify. EARLY'S BALTIMORE HAMS —We last week briefly noticed the importation of a quantity of. Baltimore hams, and conceiving them to be, in the present high state of the markets, a boon to the working population, we have taken an opportunity of testing them, and must at once pronounce them not only equal to, but surpassing in rich ness, delicacy, and flavour, the finest produce of this or our Sister Isle ; and we have the authority of a leading medical professor , to say, that "these barns bre quite as nutritious as our own curing, 'Nile they are lighter and more easy of digestion." Unlike previous importations of preserved provisions, there is in them an almost total absence of salt; and though highly dried, when cut, they present that ruddy freshness that invaria bly indicates the superiority of quality. Those who have not yet tried them, should do so at once, as they will fully bear out all that can be said in their praise. An adver tisement in our paper of to day. contains a list of the leading grocers by whom they are sold; and, as the price is extremely low, (Amu . 5d per 1b..) there tan be little doubt that the market wilt boon be cleared of them.. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. — Last week, as the servant man of Mr. Wm. Forshaw, of Tarleton•hall, Scarisbrick, was returning ►rom Liverpool market, where he had ben with a cart load of potatoes. he was met, about a mile from Aintree race course, on the Ormskirk road, by two fel. lows, who, after demanding his money, seized hold of him, and succeeded in taking from him six sovereigns, with which they made off towards Liverpool. After a few minutes' deliberation, he determined to follow them, and tying his horse to the nearest gate, pursued and nearly came up with them at the canal bridge, about half a mile from the place where he was robbed, but he still kept at a distance, unperceived by the robbers. When they arrived at Walton, to the young man's great satis faction, he met with two policemen in the street. He exclaimed, " these two rwri have robbed me of six sove reigns," when they were immediately taken into custody, and both confessed their crime, and gave up the money, which they had divided. On the following day they were fully committed for trial. It is said that a subscription will be got up in the neighbourhood, to reward the young man for his perseverance and success iu capturing the robbers. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS —At the weekly meeting, on Tuesday, it was reported by the me dical officer of the• fever-house, that, of the twenty pati ents left in the house the week before, eight had been dis charged cured, two had died, and that five new cases had been admitte.l, leaving fifteen in the house. A letter from the'Poor Law Commissioners apprised the Board that the Commissioners are now prepared to carry into practice the enactment of the last session of parliament, for the augmentation, out of the national treasury, of the salaries of union medical officers, schoolmasters, and schoolmistresses, and fur the entire payment therefrom of the salaries of district auditors. Another letter sanc tioned the proposed division of the township of West Derby into two districts, for the purpose of affording me dical relief. It recommended the continuance of Mr. Greatrix, for the municipal division, and the appointmPrit of another officer for the rural division. The commis. sioners also assented to a proposed addition of £2O to the last quarter's salary of Mr. Greatrex, in consideration of his extra labours and expenses through that period. The Board then proceeded to the election of four medical offi• cers, at the salary of £BO a year each, for the four dis tricts into which the township of Toxieth-park has re cently been divided. After some discussion and divisions, the choice fell upon the following gentlemen :—For the first district—Mr. H. G. Harbord, by the casting vote of the chairman ( Mr. Sheppard); second district —Mr. Gil - 'Hutu - , apintit - C - ctry cv - tae - Ltverpuol - Tro/HTM - IMF; third district—Mr. Ewing Whittle, of the Northern Hospital; fourth district—Mr. G. S. Deane, of the Northern Hospital. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A report of the working of fixed berths was submitted, but as it was con sidered in some respects not complete, it was referred back to the Harbour-master's sub-committee, to be made up for six months only. A specimen of lanterns proposed to be used in slims for the general docks was submitted and approved of. The Chairman said he wished it to be again under-tood that he had no responsibility in granting the use of these lights. Mr. Tobin : I wish it to be un dersi ood I disapprove of them altogether. The Chairman : I will be much surprised if you do not find ships turned into workshops.—A bye-law was proposed for the regula tion of master-porters in discharging ships, to the effect, that no master. porter acting in pursuance of the Dock Act, should undertake the receiving, weighing, and un loading of any vessel using the docks, &c., unless nomi nated by the owner or consignee entitled to the largest proportion. That in case no such application be made within 48 hours from the reporting of any vessel, it shall be lawful for the application to be made by the owners or consignees of such vessel. After a short discussion, it was proposed by Mr. Bold, seconded by Mr. Rankin, that the time should be limited to 24 hours. Upon a division, the original proposition was carried : Messrs. Bold, Ken dal, Locket, Saunders, and Rankin being the pat ties who voted against it.—A letter from the master tradesmen in the block and pump making business, complaining that Mr. Drury, clerk in the Dock Office, was a partner with Mr. Catterall—that when booking vessels for the Graving Docks be was in the habit of presenting his card of busi ness to the captains of vessels, and that the memorialists suffered materially in business therefrom —The Chairman sail it was a very serious charge, and must be inquired into by the sub-committee, to whom the letter was refer red.—A letter from the Rev. E. Hull, complaining that Thomas Howard, a workman at the north docks, had taken hold of his arm and pushed him out of the new dock works, was referred to the Committee of Works. Mr. Hartley said the man had only done his duty. A strong, rough fellow was placed at the gate in question, in order to keep patties out. It was a private entrance, and no person had a right to go through it. If Mr. Hull had gone to the right gate, he would have been received with courtesy, but if he or any other person had gained admis_ sion through that gate, the man would have been dis charged. _ . _ SELECT VESTRY.—At the meeting, on Tuesday, the chairman (Rector Campbell) expressed his belief that it would be unnecessary to read the letters which had passed between the board and the Poor-law commissioners, rela tive to the new parish-offices. It would be sufficient to say, that they (the commissioners) had communicated with the Building Committee, that the thing was now in a fair train, and that the new offices would be immediately commenced. The resolution passed by the magistrates at their meeting held on Monday week, and inserted in our last, having be, n read, Mr. Thornely, in moving that it be record, don the minutes, made a long address. He said that many unpleasant things had arisen dur ing the contro%e , -v , he was persuaded it would end in good—that each party would see their proper position, and thet such an event was not likely to occur again. Theregras a great deal, as Mr. Rushton had said, of paro chial business to be administered in Liverpool. It was in every way desirable, therefore, that the board should have the co-operation of the magistrates in the transaction of that business; and now that they had come to a fair un derstanding with regard to their relative positions, he hoped, from this time forward, that they would have a good understanding, and have the co-operation of the ma gistrates in all parochial business, whether it came from the W, rkhouse or from the Select Vestry. Mr. Fergu son seconded the motion, and begged to say one word on the suij ct. The statement he made, and which he thought it his duty to make, at the last meeting, as to the cilcurnstances which had induced the Workhouse Com mittee to adopt the resolution relative to the police cases, he made with very great care. He avoided everything of a se% ere nature. He might have said a deal more than he did, but he avoided giving offence to any one. Subse quently, however, owing to some remark made by a gen tleman at the board, he was induced, on the spur of the moment, to say something which might have been as well avoided ; for though he should speak the truth, it was not always prudent to speak it. He had never said anything derogatory to the magistrates of the borough ; and now, he trusted, things would go on more peaceably, and more in accordance with the duties of the board than had hitherto been the case. He seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Hand deried the truth of a paragraph which appeared in the _Mercury, and which charged him with having taken Mr. Horn, re gi•trar of births, to vote in Ahercromby Ward, and the Mercury has since made an abject apology for the shame tul charge, more shameful because the charge was reiter ated after a previous similar insinuation had been denied. CORRESPONDENCE. ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL. To THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ranges in the very first order of the facts I. have been ven turing to produce before the public. The first facts—the child's death, and the lingering convalescence of the mo ther—might or might not be the effects of the cause sup posed, taking them simply ; but when the links of addi tional facts, testing all ambiguities, are rivetted succes sively one with another, a chain results, of which the first link may be considered to stand as a cause, and every othet following as effect. 2. A poor woman, in the greatest depths of poverty, was twice confi ied in the Lying-in Hospital. On the last oc casion she was under the care of one of my colleagues, who was requ , -seed to visit her afterwards at her cellar. lie permits me to sate, that he found her in the utmost possible destitution ; her husband was a sailor, absent at sea, without having left her anything to keep her from starvation ; he had not left her any ship-note, the usual provision for a seaman's family. She was lying in a dirty damp cellar, in a 1 ttle crooked street between Gloucester street and Copperas- hill. Her infant and self had come out from the ho pital well. The infant died in a few weeks, and it is no wonder. She had nothing to lie upon . - at night, but a miserable shake down of straw on the dump floor—the walls were damp also. As for the win dow, it hardly contained one pane of glass, old rags sup plying the place of broken glass. She had h^-- food, but a poor woman, occupying the cellar, gave her a share of her eartrrigt to prevent her starving, and had also taken part or the straw from her own bed to afford the starving mother a most insufficien of the damp fl )or 1 ,, r an apology for a bed. At first this straw was not more tnan many a common sized dog gets to lie upon. Time matron of the hosidital went first to see her, found her to inis pitianie pil4nt, and saw reason to recommend her to make a little sup of gruel for the child. She replied she had not the meal t could she'get it except by the charity of h, fellow-lodger. She found her contending with this po verty ; and as a natural consequence of the want of pro per protection from damp cellar, shivered window, and hunger, at this present inclement season last year, she had become the subject of inflammation in her breast, which went on to the formation of abcess, requiring to be opened, &c., and she was some weeks before she was well again. It i, only justice for me to add, since I have introduced the case, that when her want was made known to the Ladies Committee, suitable bed and bedding was kindly provided for her, besides the needful temporary assistance. The matrons of society can appreciate the force of this case. It has been said that " one half of the world knows not how the other half lives starves" inr--nior cirri-roc Term. It may with pertecr truth be added, that, a large proportion of this, the wealthy half, enhances the fault of omission to inquire, by the sin of "cum rnir.sion" in hardening itselfagainst poverty. It sits clothed in the gay garb of sordid indulgence, and turns the (leaf ear to the poverty-stricken, or listens to it often but to v'stt it with the penalty as of a crime. The chain of social ,ym withy is thereby broken, and the spirit of human nature, w , ich submits not to want with a contented and becoming grace, is branded as lawless and disaffected towards that portion of society which revels in the lap of luxury and sit. at ease in high places. Some retrograde movement will have to be made back towards the hospi tality and aline of the older world. The new poor-law is no fair substitute, and the masses of poverty feel it to be so; it may sometimes possibly goad on, the despondency of indolence and the unsuccessful, to another effort, which, when made, by many might be dignified by the name of her is ; but it fails to encourage the struegles of industry, or to energize the hard-pressed ; its grinding contest is with human nature, and not with mere machines. (To be continued.) I am, sir, yours truly, Bedford-strert. Nov. 15, 1846 hearted G. C. WATSON DISTRESS A MONGST PROTESTANTS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. The following is an extract from a letter from Tyrone, dated 13th November, 1846, from a clergyman who was recently officiating at Woodside, but has now an incum bency near Tyrone : My - Dear Mr. Grores,—The papers have no doubt acquainted you wi.h the great destitution in the south of Ireland ; but ~ f the Protestant north, or in particular of this county (Tyrone), you hear little or nothing ; for there is an honest pride in an Irish Protestant which would induce hirn to starserather than beg, by a spirit of obedience to the I , w, which would restrain him from be coming notormus by crime. My object in troubling you is to seek your interest and aid for starving -fellow crea tures, who worsh'p God under the same ritual as yourself. I will state a kw facts briefly :—My glebe and church are in the mountains, five miles from any house. I mi nister alone over a district nine miles long by six and a half, numbering over 1,000 souls in my care. We have collected above 1:250 for mine by the Deanery parish, and expended it in food and labour. The public works are not yet begun, and when they do, Bd. or 10d. a day will not support families. Mean while the cotters are starving. Several families whom my wife visits almost daily, are reduced to one meal in the day ; and I have seen w e ll-dressed men come into my farm yard, and gather the bits of turnips, the refuse of my cattle at night. Ido wbat I can. Seventy pounds a year, badly paid, does not nearly meet the labour of my glebe land. Money I have none. What I can, I give, but I cannot reach all. My object now is to collect a few pounds, and to keep these cotters alive till the public works begin, and, it possible, to buy some meal and sell it to them at halt price when they are in work. They have no potatoes—no n cal—nothing to live on. The work house will now he quite full, and they who go there lose their tenemet,th f. r ever. My application is for no public or general co'lect.on It is a little private matter of my own planning. I therefore expect but little. But a trifle would go further in this way than more in the public funip. If you could do something for us promptly, (meanwhile they are starvins,) God would increase your store and bless your Christian liberality. My heart is sad when I think of it.—Ever yours faithfully, We understand the' C. Groves, Esq., Rumford-place. will be happy to receive and forward any contributions for the above object, and we are sure that many of our friends will be glad of an opportunity afforded them of contributing to the deep necessities of their Irish brethren. FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF THE WEEK, SATURDAY MORNING The Consol Market has continued steady during the last week, the only fluctuations having arisen from the temporary influence of sales and purchases. Business has generally been dull, and there has been but little speculation. The exchanges are still on the decline, notwithstanding that the stock of bullion in the Bank is on the increase. This may, in some measure, be accounted for by the con tinued demand for bills upon Holland. By the Gazette of last night we perceive that the stock of gold and silver bullion for the week ending Saturday last was £14,246,395 as compared with £14,235,885 in the previous week. This shows an increase of £10,510 in the isuie department, while in the banking department the stock of gold and silver coin has risen from £524,621 to £602,458, showing a total increase of £88,347, thus proving that the Bank is in a much more favourable condition than last week to meet a demand for bullion. Money remains much in the same condition as i been for some time past, a strong evidence of which has been the readiness with which buyers have discounted their purchases, instead of giving acceptances, as usual, which has been one of the causes of the recent sell-city of bills. First-rate paper is, however, easy at the minimum Bank amount, and bills falling due this year have been taken even below that rate. The Morninu Chronicle says : " We are still firml; of opinion that the great absorp tion of capital which is ving forward in railways will tend to an increase of interest, and to a turn in the exch2- We cannot apprehend an immediate action on the circula tion, not do we think that the public are unmindful of the prospect before them ; and, therefore, that there is no danger of any such ciisis as would otherwise have arisen." Consols left off firmly last week at 944 for money after very slight fluctuation. On Monday no alteration was perceptible, with the exception that all were sellers at the above prices. On Tuesday fluctuations took place, but without any assignahle cause than that above mentioned, viz., the influence of sales, &c. On Wednesday, from the understanding that the Bank bad received a larger supply of bills than had been the case for some weeks past, the impression arose that money was likely to become of higher value. On Thursday a slight improvement took place, but last night the prices remained nearly in statu quo. -in the Foreign Market little has been done. Stmnish Five ponfra. - hinvc alcolincol from l'Og to rak. IJO!Ch Four per Cents. have continued steady. In the remain ing stocks the prices have been merely nominal. Mexican Bonds have been done for the account at 2li, but there have been no transactions for money. Messrs. Schreider and Co. have declined to deliver up the bonds and money in their possession to Jos6 M. Mendoza, who has made a formal demand for them, as consul for Mexico; the re fusal being made on the ground that they were trustees for the bondholders. The course pursued by Messrs. Schreider is universally approved of in all the respectable circles in the city. Monday was the settlement day in the Share Market, which has, however, gone off very satisfactorily. There has been a very unusual delivery of stock, which would lead us to infer that speculators have been exten sively realizing the profits which the recent rise of price placed within their reach. There has been a considerable advance in Oxford and Worcester shares. There has also been a further advance in the price of North British shares ; Eastern Counties hav e also been firmer. With these exceptions, the market must be reported as dull, with a decided tendency down- ward. The Grain Markets remain in the same depressed con dition, but the prices range nearly the same as last week. SATURDAY EVENING. The English funds have been heavy thronghout the day, but without variation from the closing' prices of yes terday. Under ordinary circumstances the fall in the French funds caused by the aspect of affairs regarding Cracow might have been expected to produce a marked decline, but the money purchases of the public co , tinue to counteract the operations of the speculators. The only quotations for Consols were 944 to 4 for money, and 914 to 4 for the January opening ; Bank Stock left nff 205 to 206; Reduced Three per Cents, 934; Three-and-a Quar ter per Cents., 954-; and Long Annuities, 94, The Ex chequer-bill market is weak at Bs. to its. pre m i um . There was a degree of flatness in the foreign market this afternoon, though the extent of business was by no means important. The latest bargains were—Brazilian at 854 ;• Danish, at 86 ; Mexican, at 22 for money, and 214 for the account; Portuguese Four per Cants, at 36 for money, and at 364 for the account; Spanish at 254 for account ; the Three per Cents., at 364 for the ac count; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., at 59; and the Pour per Gents.,,Certificates, at 91. LETTER XIX " Property has its duties as well as its rights." THE DAMP, FOUL STATE OF DWELLINGS, AND THE H AST' uCCOPATION OF NEW-BUILT HOUSES, SOURCES liF DAN G a —/continued) It I u. posing to what extent the evils of premature iui ahi it , t4 of new houses may be, and has actually been ito in the town of Liverpool alone. The dangers are set-) wed , and the mistake not infrequently attended with a ia,ai result, as the experience of every medical man will ',new. 1 don ' t suppose th ere i s a me di ca l pract i t i oner who has been resident here for a few months, and has not witnessed some or other fatal or lamentable case from this cause. The people in general seem to be involved in ignorance of the deleterious effects of living in new or damp houses. The occurrence of several fatal cases has still been ineffi cient as .a warning to the many who blindly rush in eager haste to occupy what are technically termed " green " houses! I shall first give a few instances of these 54d ef fects, then I shall allude to the cause of them, and finally ue suggested tor the cure of teem. Here is such a list as I have had either personal know ledge of, or have the best authority of others for. As for the real extent of the evil, I cannot adequately report any thing like it. I cannot quote a number proportionate to the new houses themselves. It would not gain credence it I were to say that, in my own judgment, the fact of the first tenants of a new house, especially if that be of the smaller or cottage kind, escaping without prejudice to their health, of some kind, would be as an exception to a general rule. The larger calibre of house is not certainly quite as obnoxious as the smaller to this evil of unwise haste, mostly perhaps because the ornamenting, &c. &c., of it, consumes more time ; partly because they are more often built for a private owner; partly because the rough drying of the walls, &c., is essential to the finishing work, decorative or plain. Mr. Blower, surgeon, gave me the following fact, whi c h illustrates the dangers I have so often alluded to : 1. A poor woman he visited in a court in a street leading out of Whitechapel, was a resident of a house so arranged that most of the ventilation of her apartment was " by the leave" of the ashpit. a circumstance neither creditable to the house-builder nor to the town. The foul atmosphere she was thus doomed to inhale was repugnant to her, in spite of habitual endurance. She was confined ; the infant died in a fortnight (this is just like a case I very lately d e . scribed, where infant life fell an early sacrifice); the mo. ther made a lingering recovery. Removal to the country for a while restored her. " She returns back to her house ; she has an attack of slow fever. She retires to Egerton, and improves. She returns home again, and sleeps one night in the old effluvia, and again takes slow fever !" These are the very words of description I have down in the handwriting of the narrator. They prove the fact so conclusively, of the prejudicial nature of these stinks, as a direct cause of a slow febrile movement, in the indivi dual exposed. whether for a constancy or for a single night, to the poison, that I should, it I had introduced the wording myself, almost begin to suspect that my own cit. cription was an over-statement, arising out of my eager ness to prove a certain point; in fact, if I had coined a fictitious case, for the purpose of putting an extinguisher upon scepticism, I could not have been as happy in my hitting off the required links in the chain of demonstrative evidence. Another furnishes the facts, and the public can exercise a judgment free from any bias whatever.. This VIOLENT STORM Liverpool and its vicinity were on Friday visited by a severe storm, which has proved destructive to prop-rtv on the seaboard especially, and, we yet apprehend, to life in the outward channels. The previous day was fine, hut at night the barometer fell rapidly, indicating that atte nuation of the atmosphere which is almost invariably followed by a gale. Those who have not seen the Mersey lashed into madness by a storm, have yet to enjoy one of the most striking spectacles in nature. The lovers of the wild and the sublime crowded the pier•heads on Friday, in order to contemplate the scene, even at the risk era' thorough drenching, which many of the devotees received. About noon, at high water, the waves rose with terrific he wind at t blew with greater s rity than at any previous or subsequent part — of the day. The vessels at anchor in the river, many of them lac'en with grain, were obliged to brave the fury of the elements. Some sustained the shock with comparatively little in jury ; others parted from their cables ; and two or three drifted out of the river, and are now on shore at Bootle The 'Woodside and other ferry steamers could not start precisely at their usual from the vic waves lasning against and occasionally over the sea-walls, and their efforts to perform their trips, for some hours in the middle of the day, were, notwithstanding their general hazardous and embarking on this~~ii Je particularly wa yet the adventurers were, considering die circumstane pretty numerous, including even the fair sex, who " nautically" daring George's Pier, (the princi Such was the sea-way alon al landing place on this lo crossed a ime in one o the powerful Woodside brmts, could not help thinking that, had the new landing pontoons, now in course of construction, been afloat, they would have met with a buffetting and displacement, by the wind, the waves, and the tide, which would have shown the inefficiency of the projector's pl;.n. The first storm from any we•terly point will probably realise his apprehension of their inefficiency. The Skerryvore steam•tug wont down about half-past one o'clock, alongside the Manchester Basin, and part of her funnel, rigging, and tattered sails were in a few mi nutes alone to be seen. happily no lives were lost. The vessel was soon broken up in her upper works, and por• tions of the wreck filated down the river. Some portions were got out by means of boat-hooks, but by far the 41U12.1.4y . Hvateil avurraown M. river, pronatity-to be seen no mme. At this time the Woodside boat with difficulty effected the passage across the estuary in about an hour ! though the ordinary passage is but ten minutes ! Another fine steamer, of the same ferry, " The Wirral," carried away her ropes twice at George's Pier, narrowly escaped run ning foul of the landing fl mting stage and some flits, started about an hour b fore the other, but being driven down the river to nearly opposite Seacombe, did not reach her destination until nearly half-an-hour after the other. One of the Irish mail steam-ships lost her funnel dur ing the storm, early on Friday morning, but got otherwise safely into the river. A tug-boat, dragging her anchor, ran into one of the City of Dublin Company's steamers, and both of them were drifted down the river. Several large flats parted from their moorings, and got aground outside; but such is the strength, buoyancy, and general adaptation of these clumsy-looking, but most mannPable river -craft, that few of them sustained any material da- A considerable number of steamers were exposed to the full fury of the storm in the middle of the stream, and while ridin g a t anc h or con tlllued to ply their paddle wheels to ease the strain upon their cables. One ferry steamer that citric alongside the south flight of steps at George's Pirr, was dashed with such violence against the parapet wall at the top of the stairs as to throw down the If huge stones of whi c h it was comp , together with the adjoining stron g i ron ra ili ng. Th es broke furiously over the little li g ht-h ouse at t h e ex mity of the new es planade at Woodside Ferry. A flat was sunk near Hilbre Island. Shor ly after noon a brig was seen with her mainmast gooe in the outward channel. She was after wards takrn in tow by a tug. The ship Lowther. from Alexandria, and the Wakefield, from New Brunswick, were stranded in Bootle Bay. A report obtained circulation on the day of the storm that the steamer Severn, from Sligo, had been lost ress prevailec expected friends or relatives from that quarter. The ru mour, however, proved to be unfounded, and if maliciously put forth, was an execrable offence in the heartless origi nators. The vessel arrived in dock in perfect safety on the previous night. The sea walls on this side of the river did not sustain any injury that we can ascertain, the ma son work being of the best description. On the Cheshire side the damage was rather extensive. Mr. Willoughby, of the Birkenhead Hotel, was particularly unfortunate. His coal-yard, for the supply of fuel for his ferry boats, and which is at the top of the slip. at the south side. was broken into by the sea. and about 200 tons of coal were washed away. They had been landed from three flats on was - also flooded, and a number Ofs:;Ciis—olflOUr, were washed out, and carried down the ricer to beyond the pleasure-grounds north of the hotel. A flat bringing coal for the sane depii, was sunk between the Tranmere and Birkenht•ad slips, but having been skuttled to keep her from being driven further up, was afterwards got off. The middle portion of the sea wall, or quay, running parauei wiin the river, between the slip and the pleasure grounds, was thrown down, to the extent of 40 feet in length, and 16 in depth, although the stones weigh re- his wa was in pro- gress of being completed by the Corporation of Liverpool, who own the ferry, and was not commenced until the ne cessity for additional landing accommodation had long become obvious. It is to be regretted that the work, from mistalcen notions of the security of the Cheshire side as compared with this—the prevailing gales being from the westward—was not stronger and better secured, by greater breadth of wall, or abutments towards the westward. The damage done affords sufficient proof that though sea walls in that locality, may endure or escape for a considerable time, any strong gale especially with casting in the wind, (as was the case at the beginning of the storm in question,) will be toppled down, if not built as securely a•• the sea wr.lls on this side the estuary. The crew of Mr. Willoughby's river steamer, the William Fawcett, gave the utmost assistance to the flat noticed, ot:ierwise she would probably have been lost. She was got into shallow water at the back of the coal-yard. The sea wall of the yard, though of four years' standing, and the stones clamped together with bands of iron, was nearly demolished. Tne surf broke over the south end of the whole line of gardens and pleasure grounds south of the hotel, the spray and spin -drift reaching many yards up each of them, and doing considerable damage. Mr. John Entwistle, the ovf rst er of the masons employed in building the new pier at the terry, was most active and expert, with his meo, in saving the stages, timber, &c., employed in the works. The gale commenced from the S.E., and gradually veered to the S.W. at high water. All the damage (which cannot yet be estimated in amount) was done in about two consecutive hours—that is, between ten and twelve o'clock in the day. As Birkenhead ferry had suffered so much, it was natu. rally apprehended that the new dock works north of Woodside would also have suffered ; and this fear we are sorry to find realised. Part of a stank, or embanl-- • ass near W onus. terry, was washed down, and the loss con sequent thereon is, it is said, considerable, the water fsom the river having forced itself into a gut which was being excavated. The water will have, we believe, to be pumped out, and the works will be delayed for upwards of six weeks. The loss occasioned by this disaster we have heard ~arced at a sum which we almost fear to re peat, although it was mentioned on very competent au thority ; Ihe space into which the water has rushed being, we are informed, the size of our Prince's Dock. Some . timher was washed adrift on one of the bites of Wallasey s. I pool, aid a number of men were busy in endeavouring to recover ii , up to. their shoulders in water, in which they were successful. The tide washed uP upon the new street miming fr,,ro Corporation-road to Seacombe. The esplanade at Rock Ferry has been considerably damaged, and a meeting has been called to take steps to repair the injury. The Ihirlequin exhibited signals of distress on the north. west lightship; and, on Friday evening, the steam tug Pre,i.tent towed out the Magazine lifeboat and brought back the a hole of her crew, save two men. These two, we regret to say, were drowned during the height of the gale. They were aloft when the mast was carried away, and a 'th the falling mast they fell also, and perished. On Saturday, the President and Mona steamers pro ceeded to the lightship and found that the Harlequin had drifted two ter three miles further in at the back of Burbo They succeeded in towing her into Liverpool, and she now lies in the Queen's Dock basin. The Saranak, American ship, from Philadelphia, rode at anchor off H dbre Island. The Liver tug-boat, which was riding outside her, received considerable damage, and lost her starboard paddle-wheel. One of the iron smoke-funnels on the rociof the Town hall fell about midday, with a tremendous crash, on the footwalk in High-street, and two persons, who were pass ing at the moment, had a very narrow escape from serious, perhaps fatal, injury. The barque and ship which we have noticed above, as having been driven ashore in Bootle bay, still remain there, although attempts were made during Friday and Saturday to tug them off. The ship has rafted off a quantity of timber to lighten her. A flat of stone for the new fort was also driven in ; but has been got off. Anothar Runcornflat,emt ty,islyingatpresenthighanddry. The storm raged the whole day at Dublin, and consi derable damage was done to the Kingstown railway near the Booterstown station, the sea having washed over and damaged the wall so as to occasion a stoppage of the trains. Two vessels were driven from their moorings in the har bour hut sustained ro damage. At Douglas, tale of Man, much damage was done. The new pier, or red quay as it is called, was completely co veved with water as the tide rolled in, and the surf broke over the watch-house. Th.- sea wall at the ship-yard was carried away, and the end of the smithy which abuts to the hay washed down—tt e water making a complete in• road upon the loose timbers in the yard, and the frame of a r recsntly laid down received some severe shocks. I't spite of every exertion a good deal of the loose tinih r floated off, but was subsequently secured on the beach. In Strand-street the devastation produced by the inshore wind was beyond the ordinary run of casual ties. The street was completely flooded. The back premises of Mr. Clague, watchmaker, behind those of Mr. Back well, bookseller, were laid bare to the "ocean wave," by the breakingd, vir. of the projecting wall, and a stack of hay in the yard was the sport of the turbulent su ea w t a ed ll rin t f h , e a a g a r m e a e t p p r o e r m ti i o a n e s o a f i a w o h g i c a h v e is ,way p a o y i e b d e , fo and t a h s e t a r b e l p e rush of waters. Further over, in the same street, Mr. Christian the baker, suffered some loss by the flooding of his cellar and the sudden inundation amongst his flour, wit Is Ids neighbours on each side fared even worse. 'I he tu•sri, wall which protects Mr. Croughan's back pre misesNa,- completely levelled, and that of the adjoining Premises, belonging to a Mrs. Gelling, much shattered. Altogether, the residents in Strand-street have seldom been more alarna..d at the roaring of the tossed waves, or more aroused than in the gale we are noting. All the cellars on th e nort h quay were f u ll t o overflowing, and never was kno wn a greater a b un d ance o f wa t er in cellar kitchens before. The South Devon Extension of the Great Western i railway has bee n stopped by the water of the river Exe being carried ove r t h e li ne in great quant i t i es an d break ing down the wall along the whole dist4ric the shore. The streets at Starcross are the roa.l b e t ween Teignmouth aocl — Exeter dig& activity, enaists, ommilases and flies to fifty havinz neen pu , in req u i s i t i on ' --- ~ •. where it skirts der water ; and At Newcastle-on-Tune the storm was attended by a fearful destruction o' shipping and loss of life. Shortly alter four o'clock on Friday afternoon a brig was observed attempting to enter the harbour, at Shields, and in doing ""non the Black Middens, when her stern was ^nt cai ned away, and other damage nned, and after crew. Two fad', hpf— The life-boat was immed ately m several efforts succeeded i i rescuing ti Newcastl nd London, which had sailed on Thursday afternoon, also went upon the 'Middens was - thrown over o The life boat, a he vessE crews refused to le3v Captai¢ .r repeated attempts, a was recec A galliot, supposed to be to pieces, and all hands perished. ! laden ships that went to sea on Thurs t many of the y were compelled aro, which. still lies in the main channel of the river. The damage done to the shipping on tne coast is no doubt very con siderable. One of the vessels above alluded to we have ascertained to be the Scephe, of North Shields, which was dashed on the rocks, and went to pieces. The captain, Mr. John Ruddock, was drowned, but the crew were saved. During Friday night, the vessels were literally gutted by wreckers. - The accounts from Cork are very distre poured d )wn in torrents. and the tide ros ng. The rain. :o an unusual _ the entire flat of the city houses, particularly in Peter height, covering In some parish, the water was five t fe w e e t iv h ! g i b ti , c w he l T e iln,:thteheGrpaonsdt--opffiarcaed,e George's - t st w re a e s t, o t v h er e clerks were engaged at their respective duties, while des patching the mail, standing knee-deep in water. Scarce a house was there that was not inunda , ed. The poor householders in Peter's parish have suffered severely, their bedding and clothing being saturated with water before they had time to leave their beds, the tide having risen previous to six o'clock in the morning. A number of industrious shopkeepers beve also been serious sufferers. particularly those in the sort gods and grocery line, the losses of a few of them heir'_ estimated at from £2OO, and £3OO, up to £5OO. The Misses Fan ning on the Parade, had property to the am unt of a £lOO completely destroyed. A portion of a new house building on the We-tern-road was blown down. The Dublin conch was . nable to travel by the lower Glanrnire road, and had to enter Cork by the Upper-road. Great fears are entertained for the sa fety of the vessels on the coast, owing to the violence of the storm. COVE.—The ships and small boats in harbour c - not escape the fury of the storm. There has been much lose of property, and a few ships lying there have been se- riously damaged. The Penelope drove foul of the William Perry, doing a good deal of damage. Up the river a good deal of damage has been done. Much property destroyed in lower parts of stores. At Passage, about 300 braes of tin (landed per American shin Metoka) were overflown in the store and wi Ibe sold. The quays are much damaged and shattered. The damage to boats along the shore has been very great, the tide rising so high, rendering it im possible to save th , m. The coasting schooners Mary Elliot and /Eneas ate ashore here, and a good deal damaged. The official report received at the News-rooms here, from Cork, is to the following effect : On Friday (the 20th) the port had been visited by a severe storm, which had commenced on the previous ni4ht, and still continued up to noon on that Jay. The ' and wind was at first from the S., but veered round to the S.S.E. There were 13) vessels lying in the harbour at noon, and damage to a great extent accrued amongst them. What j Iry had taken place on board of the mass of the vessels. could not then be as;!Prt4ined, inasmuch as the boats beloogiog to them could not effect a landing. The Nimrod steamer, from this port, went into Cove harbour in the night, and coming into contact with the brig Caroline Lesure, from Genoa, cut her down to the water's edge, and carried away some of the spars, &c., of four other vessels. The schooner Ene .s got on shore. The brig Ellen and Margaret was wi ecked Neapolitan brig Sofia went on shore, but was with some damage. The beach was strewn with ships' boats broken up. About thirty whale-boats were all in pieces, belonging chiefly to the agents. In the neighbour- hood every hoti;e was more or less injured ; and the effect of the gale was such, that the entrance to the harbour was marked by one sheet of foam. A large brigantine, un known, came into contact with the ship Emigrant. The former lost her mainmast, and was otherwise injured. The Blarney, Severn steamer, from Liverpool, had her deck stancheons stove in, having got foul of the ship Elizabeth. The Empress, of Halifax, from London to Boston, arrived with loss of sails, fore and mail, topmasts, On Saturday a number of other vessels put into the damaged in sails and rigging. We are ‘,l-- lad to sta obs of Itte THE DUCHY Or LANCASTER We have received (says the Dublin Mail) from a Lon don correspondent the following version of the recent ap pointments in the administration of the affairs of this de partment. It comes from a hand likely to be well in formed, and carries an air of eraibenzblance well calculated to obtain credit : pcle ur " e T nn l n i . e u ni D ii, u e c sr l h t m y e j o rie f ecs L et il a ,v n he c da i s s b t b e eu r et i n t u s n c oc, private aonp p od r ra p , ts e e r d t s y ha et o fin wn t h ad. : ing, that, althou g h s h e h a d a nominal rental of £28,000 aware that the revenue of the Duchy of Curnwalt, the pro perty of the Prince of Wales, has been augmented from £16,000 to £60,000 per annum, under the management of certain commissioners, who did not change with minis ters, Lnd of whom Sir James Graham an i Lord Lincoln were the leading men, her Majesty thought it would be advisable to try the same experiment with the revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster, and therefore made a per.onal D r e u q u k e e s e t t B o e t d h f o o s r e d e t r e s u o n n s th and L k e o t h r d Hardwick e, management ar ice, and o h t. thet e estates. The three Conservative gentlemen, of course, consented, on condition that they were to have nothing to do with the patronage. leaping that to the Chancel:or of the Duchy, thus keeping t ,rnn.elreS clear of any obliga tion to Lord .LO4l 119.. t-ii 4,r the Government." rEA DUTIES The popul iritv ‘it I. aai Wil. lesome and refreshing be vel-nee, ammigi.t all cksses of the 13, itish people, is now so firmly estiablii•lieti, that to adduce long statistical ac counts of its import and colisuniolion, were as superfluous as to produce volumt, ou. evidence of a truism. Tea forms. in fact, in almost all fan,il,s, the sole linuid nnrtinn cf two important daily meals; an,l it has frr;m habit be con, c indispensible, not only on the well plenishtd tables of the rich, and on the plainer hoards of the middle classes ; but, descending in the scale. we find tea to be (if we may so express it) the grand rn dhfier and assistant in the pleasurable mastication of the o , herwise dry crust of the purr, to whom, in the absroc.• dainties, it becomes more of a necessary than a luau:) f life. With respect to the wealthy, of less moment, their mans expenditure but as r r of the article is ate io meet a high ci , s-e., it is es- earls IF last) that the consumpti it of its s t uld he etc ooray,ed, by its being afforded to then, at molt Nte ,sites, which might be accomplished, were Ihe xecondgry qualities not smothered up and repelled from the market try exorbitant duties, which positively drfe, t t l.eir own purpose, an.] at the same time impolitically deprive the greater numerical portion of the community of a comfort and a means of Were these something poisonous in the tea-plant— dsuusctievneatnoceso, c n i o al t d o o n m ly e p st e i r c fe h c a t b ly i its n a n n o d cu t o o u s s a i b n r i i t e s t e y l . f, but con something destructive to t he public health (as. for instance, the use of opium in China), we should have appreciated the levying of large duties as a means of arresting an evil which, from the easy process of smuggling in so portable an article, they could not altogether put down. But, in . _t e absence of all such plea, our legislators have through oist taken advantage of the very virtue of the lieges—for it is a virtue to ref, r tea to beer, or other potent drinks of former times—to fill th c,ffers of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time beiti , J, without reference or con descension to the comforts of the misses. If tea were obtainable at half its present price, the con sumption would be more than doubled, and the enhanced price to the consumer is solely attributable to the "mon ster" duty. The people would prefer a strong cup of the beverage to one so diluted and watery that it may tend to produce nervous affect ons. Successive administrations have, however, stinted us of the tea, though they have somehow contrived to keep us in hot water. As we now stand with relation to China, and having, moreover, possession of several valuable ports in that im mense and rich territory, it behoves us for our own sakes as well as for the interests of humanity to pursue a dif ferent line of policy. The present system acts as a deadly check upon our commerce; and upon commerce, more than ever, depends our national strength and supremacy in the present day, in the partial failure of some of our agricultural pursuits. A variety of articles, particularly cloth, can be manufactured in this country at a smaller cost, than other places; and why not promote a profitable traffic with China, wh ch is willing to meet us, by a re duction of the tea duties? Such a consummation would afford employment to many thousands of our operatives, tfor a n r and t e h z e t e m n s e i a o n tal sni on o df f ow t of r ou a ut r n hl s dme i t end t rou t c ) tta: a ne n ist n d i oe f on r u o rt w eva o ig ud marine, e view of would, o f a o f n r t m a The and our oewu n ier question,f se m ce p hl o oa r os v u b ri n ge e i da t tu y or acknowledged as a '• boon" by all class es o f t h e mm involve a loss to the government, but rather tend to in crease the finances an I re s o urces o f t h e country. The facts oi le y o o f t case are simple, a n d may b e b r iefly stated from a work now b e f ore us—A Lead' to Sir R. Peel, dated December l ast , b y M r. Edward Bro d r ibb, a member of the Li verpoo l E ast India and China Associa tion, and ounlished by " Th e Li verpoo l A s sociation for ori the Reducti t .n o f t h e Duty on Tea." This small but in tellit work exposes, beyond the reach of contr ad iction, the unv the system hitherto pursued i n r egard to the tea tr a d e , g i v i ng valua b le stat i s ti c s of the rising duties on 8 import, from time to time, over nearly a century. We anticipate that the meeting in this town, on Wed ne.day. (to.morrow,) convened by the Mayor, will be nu merously attended, and will help powerfully to forward tLe present agitation.