The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

No& ~~-r. - - - ~>c THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, • TUESDAY, MARL ict 29, 1853. LOCAL NEWS. FIVE HUNDRED GERMAN EMIGRANTS have sailed du ring the last week from Hull to America. MACHINERY is now being erected in Liverpool for the manufactory of casks by steam. This must prove a " sore discouragement " to the coopers. JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., has, in addition to arwaluable present of books, given a donation of five hundred pounds to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. ON GOOD FRIDAY, Mr. Bolton sat a short time in the morning at the Police-court, disposing of the over-night accumulation of "drunk and disorderlies." MR. T. W. HUGHES delivered a lecture on the works of Alfred Tennyson, on Tuesday night, before the Literary and Dramatic Society, at their rooms in Wilton-street. EASTHAM FERRY was reopened on Thursday last, and during Good Friday the boats were crowded with plea sure seekers. A CORNISH SHOEMAKER named Rowe, who had come to Liverpool to sail for Australia, was cheated out of £6, by a man named Bailis, on Monday last. Builis has been committed for trial at the present Assizz..s. A BOY NAMED SLOANE was brought up at the PoTim.- office, on Tuesday, and committed for trial, for picking pockets at the jubilee of the Bible Society, at the Philhar monic-hill. THE ANNUAL TEA PARTY of the Sunday School teach ers, connected with the Baptist Chapel, Shaw-street, was held an Good Friday evening, the Rev. Mr. Kershaw, of Rochdale, in the chair. • MR. ST-11,m5 . , whose demise is noted in our obituary of 'to-day, was for many years a fashionable teacher of datlcing in Liverpool; and 'the Wellington Rooms bear testimony to his taste'and skill. MR. J. F. TAPE, a member of the Liverpool Literary 'and Dramatic Society. has been lecturing with great sac cess at the Pimlico Mechanics' Institution, on " The Ballad Poetry of Ireland." WILLIAM REDMOND, a coloured man, stabbed a wo man named Margaret Smith, in a disreputable house, in Clement-street, Vauxhall-road, on Monday night. The wound inflicted is a very dangerous one. Redmond is in custody. A EANNIE SEOTCEIMAN, named Donald Gann. captain of the ship Ay rs hi re L ass, j us t arr i ve d i n thexiver from Newfoundland, was fined in a pretty smart penalty, at the Police-office on Thursday, for smuggling 221 b. of foreign manufactured tobacco. A Loom. "CONTEMPORARY of Saturday states that on Good Friday " the whole of the churches. and many other places of worship, were open tor service during the morning, and several Dissenting establiehorents (F) in the evening also." WILLIAM MILBOURNE JAMES, Esq., Q.C., Vice- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, held a court on Thursday, at St. George's Hall. There were very few cases, and the business was confined almost entirely to the examination (viva voce. for the firstlime) of witnesses. " THE ORIGIN OF MUSIC," a handsomely framed . engraving, was presented, on Wednesnay evening last, to C. J. Toms, Esq., by the Liverpool Amateur Glee and 'Madrigal Union. Mr. Terns has cifficiated as conductor 'during the absence of Mr. Lidel. ISLE OF MAN.—A tri-weekly communication will corn naence between Douglas and Liverpool, on the 18th of '.2lext month. The days of sailing will then be—from Liverpool every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and from Douglas every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. WILLIAM DUDLEY, an American, the second mate 6f 'the ship Hemisphere, was fined 5 at the Police-court, on Wednesday. for biting savagely the ear and nose of one Samuel Hale. The Yankee 'pleaded in extenuation that Hale had been calling his wife improper names. THE CORONER'S 'Tarr, on - Tuesday last, returned an open verdict in the case officento Antonio, captain of the Brazilian brig Providence, who was found dead in bed On Sunday morning -week, under-very mysterious circum stances. The deceased, it appeared, died of congestion - Of the brain. PATRICK EATTA'KAN, who presented a frightfully lace rated appearance, his wife, Sarah 'Rattakan, Mary Harris and Edward Fox, committed a brutal assault upon police officer No. 650, on llonday night last, in Wilton-street. On Tuesday, at the police-court, liattakan was fined in 5. , 5, and Fox in les. THE LADY EGLINTON, a new iron screw steamer, bound from Liverpool to London, on Wednesday after noon got on Trefusis Shore, in going from Falmouth. On Friday she was got off; but as she was found to leak badly the captain determined to bench her, which, having been accomplished, the passengers were safely landed. The cargo is likely to be discharged. : THE TIDE OF EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL:• presuming that each vessel to sail for Australia, during the next month, - will take out 203 passengers—which is I raq much under the average—this will give 4,000 passen gers a month and, including • the Government emigrants fro m Birkenhead, probably2;ooo more, we have • 6,000 Persons leaving 'Liverpool alone for the great colony at the Antipodes. THE ANNUAL EASTER :VESTRY MEETING for—this Parish is to be held to-day, at noon, in St. Nicholas's Church. Owing to the continued indisposition of the Ven. Archdeacon, it is understood that the Rev." Rector Campbell will preside. The new churchwardens are to be Mr. Caine and Mr. Hutchinson, the latter of-whom is not at present a member of the'board. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The annual admission of amateur - members for the ensuing year will close this day (Tuesday), as will be seen by advertisement. The Sacred Harmonic not only provides elementary vocal in struction for its members, but gives them an opportunity of becoming conversant with the -works of the great masters. A FIRE broke out, on Tuesday night, in the warehouse of Mr. Bolton, on the third floor of the lofty range of warehouses situated at the corner oCtirunswick-street and Back Goree. The - West of England engine was early on the sp o t,, an d t h e , con fl agrat i on was k ept f rom exten ding to the surrounding buildings. The stock of Messrs. Yates. Cox, and Co. was insured in the West of England office. IRON : THE MERSEY, AND THE TYNE.—The aFunderland Atetas. says. " Our neighbours, the builders of iron ships on the Tyne, must look to their craft. The Strathmore, a large new iron ship, of about 1,500 tons,. built therefor Mr.W: S. Lindsay, has just been condemned in London, by the Government emigration agent, as un seaworthy. This is the second Tyne-built iron ship be longing to this gentleman that has met the same fate." A COMMITTEE OF.THE ARCHITECT-MR/a SOCIETY, ap pointed last spring, has - been engaged for some time in maturing a project for•re-arranging some of the principal features of the town, and so disposing leading routes of great traffic as to render them available for the modern r equirements of the town and port. The project will greatly exceed in extent and importance therecommenda tions of the committee of the Town Council. The report to the Architectural Society will be made public shortly. SCOTTISH EMIGRATION TO IRELAND.—We learn from an Ayrshire contemporary of Thursday, that the Countess of Galloway steamer left'Kirkcudbright on Saturday, 19th, for Liverpool, having on board upwards of 100 fat cattle, a number of sheep, and a general cargo. Among other t hings, were observed on board horses and carts, with furnitu re , & c., for Tipperary, in Ireland. These were f rom Mr. David Tennant, the spirited tenant of Howell, and were destined as part of-the plenishing of a large farm w hich he has recently taken in the Green Isle. b THE FIRST GENERAL MEETING OF 111 E LIVERPOOL HOTOGRA PHI C SOCIETY, held at the Royal Institution, 541 Tuesday night, was ,presided-over by Mr. Picton. Mr. orrest, the secretary, read the rules. Ladies are ad mitted members; and the subscription is to be half a 'guinea. There is to be a grillers for the sale of pictures .11oduced by the society, and a photographic print is to be =given to each member annually. The society is to meet' ,(2),eare first Tuesday in every month,, and papers are to be -Th e hY the members. The list of members began with society e of the Mayor, who was elected president of the Qum • ,A v „,•ACCIDENT ON GOOD FRID.Y.—Mr. Hayman, a ''..nrc man in the employment of Mr. Christopher itawdon, of this town, in company with a few friends, went -out sh oo ti n g in the neighbo ur h oo d o f C a bb age- h a ll , ° l l Good Friday. As Mr. Hayman was getting through a /l edge, having at the time a gun in his hand with the muzzl e towards him, the trigger caught a thicket, and Unfortunately the contents of the gun were discharged, and lodged in the gentleman's leg. Mt. Hayman was conveyed to his residence at Cabbage-hall as quickly as Possible. it. was found necessary to amputate the limb, which was effected by Mr. Chalmers, of Everton, assisted by two other professional gentlemen. Mr. Hayman re mains in a very precarious state, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. MR. MULIA-NS, HIS WIFE, AND THE POLICE.—At the Police-court, on Wednesday, James Mullins, grocer, of Mill-street, whose name has obtained some publicity in connexion with the police, was charged under the following circumstances Police-constable Townsnd, 511 . , was on duty in Mill-street at an early hour on e the r m e c s Minv ,y of the 13t1 instant, when his attention was ar m in:der, ,,th a e nd ac e r a e l a il ms of a female, who was shouting the shoo ng Wanting loudly for assistance. On ap him at the door in . h ° l f the defendant, the officer found belabouring his wiles. shirt, with a poker in his hand, covered with blood, 6:felt eihdrs.the ffi Mullins. eer o whose pr 0 The defendant demand face e c t was threatened to break his head with of the officer, then a blow at him. The ofiker, i, the poker, and made in tended blow, and seized the pok e r, owever, evaded the when the defendant went into the house, and returned with another swearing that he would b rea k the head ofany police poker, officer who attempted to enter .his dwelling . told the defendant that if he had any gru k Townsend e o Police, he ought not to lay it to Axis charge. Mullinst the re plied that they were all alike , and then further abused and threatened the officer.—The defendant was ordered to pay a fine of 40s. and costs. THE BLACKBURN ELECTION. — Tha nomination took Place on 'Wednesday, amid excitement. The candidates were Mr. M. J. Feilden, on the Liberal, and Mr. Hornby, on the Conservative interest. Upon a show of hands being .. t licen. the Mayor declared it to be in favour of Mr. nornby, a decision, however, which Mr. Feilden's friends considered resulted from partisanship ; and a poll was de manded. After the nomination the town was the tteen of a series of brutal and long-contested fights. Pleas proceedings prevailed throughout the night like- Da "'Lae b_ . a electors were forcibly carried off from their , ottes th at they might not b e a b le to recor d th e i r men Pol!be following day. Information was lodged at the Chce-office on Thursday morning, by the wife of Duncan iller, a tinman, residing in Darwen-street, that during h,, e night their house had been broken into, when her hus ft!nd was dragged from his bed, beaten, and forced away :la home. The windows of the Bridge Inn, a Conser :!atsve house, were completely smashed to atoms, and the ass and liquor casks in the bar were destroyed. Riots Arms, Place about the same time in front of the Hornby ZIU 3 BI and of the Pump-house. The magistrates deter (7,'?e to send for military aid; and a little before eleven tl l c e rk , a company of the 4th Infantry, and a squadron of __ B st Dragoons, entered the town ; order was ultimately 't.pored. Mr. Feilden was at the head of the poll from 4 . 6 , c ommencement to the close, when the numbers were 'IOII9W ; , -feilden, 631 ; Hornby, 574. SIXTEEN vessels are now being built in the Clyde for the Liverpool trade. THE EARL OF CARLISLE has appointed the Rev. T. Darnton Milner, L.L.8., incumbent of Bulford, to be his domestic chaplain. THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ARCTIC, Capt. Lace, sailed on Wednesday, with the u=sual mails, a very large cargo, and a fair complement of passengers. THE THIRD INSTALMENT of £2 per share has just been paid by the shareholders of the Ramsay Steam packet Company. JOHN DUFFY, the old and indefatigable messenger of the Underwriters' Rooms, died on Monday last. A sub scription has been set on foot on behalf of his widow and children, one of whom is a cripple. SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE.—On Tuesday evening, the concluding lecture of the seventh series to the mem bers and friends, was given at the Concert-hall. The lecturer was the Rev. Dr. Nixon, of Birmingham, and his subject, " Wesley and Whitfield." THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL, Rector of ..Althorpe, Lincolnshire, has been invited to give a lecture on the Uses and Advantages of Mutual Improvement Societies, on the 29th instant, at Lincoln. The Mayor of Lincoln has lent the Guildhall, and promised to preside. OWNERS OF COTTAGE PROPERTY should not forget that if they wish to compound for the poor-rates, they must give notice to the overseers within fourteen days after the 25th instant, of their intention to do so, or they will be excluded the privilege for next year. PAPER ROBBERY.—At the Police -court, on Wednes day, Thomas Brown, an errand boy, in the employ of Mr. Richardson, printer, Lower Castle-street, was com mitted for trial for stealing about thirteen reams of paper from his master's office. Mr. Ovington, grocer, 17, Soho-street, to whom some of the paper was sold, was also committed for trial on the charge of receiving. GERMANS IN LIVER - POOL.—During the past week four hundred and fifty Germans passed through Hull for Liver pool en route, chiefly to New York. It is calculated that more than 'twenty thousand emigrants will pass through Hull this spring for the United States and the colonies. The greater number of these will sail from Liverpool. BIGAMY IN :LIVERPOOL.—At the Carnarvon assizes, Henry Dixon was charged with intermarrying a second time, his first wife, Elizabeth Davies, the daughter of a respectable tradesman at Carnarvon, being alive. It ap peared that the prisoner took his wife to Liverpool, and there contracted a second marriage with a woman of light character, he being at the time in a state of intoxication. He was found guilty, but recommended to mercy. Sen tenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour. WAREINGTON.—PRESENTATION TO A CLERGYMAN. — On Tuesday, the 15th instant, 'the Rev. Henry Pigot, incumbent of Horwich, was presented by his late pa rishioners at Winwick with a very elegant communion service, 'in silver, as a memorial of their deep affection for him, and their high appreciation of his ministerial labours on their behalf. The rev. gentleman was, at the time of the presentation, a 'visitor at Winwick Cottage, the residence of the Misses Hornby (sisters to the rector), in whose drawing-room a deputation waited upon him.— , Manchester Guardian. ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHIEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. — At the fortnightly meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Verelst presiding, it was stated that the committee, appointed in May last to suggest a scheme of town improvement, would -report to the society on the 6th of April. The president, Mr. Picton, Mr. Frant'Howard, and the secretary, were appointed a committee to investigate a charge of plagiar ism of plans brotight - by the London committee of baths -and wash-houses, against Mr. Newlands, the borough engineer. Mr. Verelst read an eloquent paper on archi tecture, entitled, "Commodities, Firmness, and Delight." THE PAVING RATE for the past year was 6d. in the pound. In the usual course, it would be requisite, so heavy is the amount of necessary work, that a rate of something like 10d. or ls. should be raised; bet, if the plan of borrowing money, on the security of the rates, as proposed, be approved of by the Council, which would enable the Health 'Committee to put the whole of the leading streets in a thorougly efficient state - in a short space of time, then the amount need not exceed - Bd. in the pound, and possibly 7d. might be sufficient. The effect of this would probably be, that the succeeding rate will not, perhaps, exceed Ed. for the year following. THE CLERKS, and indeed every person employed by the London an&North-western Railway, will be rejoiced at the determination of the company to release their employes at reasonable hours, in order that they may have suitable time for recreation. Hitherto a very im proper custom lias existed in this town amongst-the car ters, who have-been in the habit of leaving goods at, or bringing them away from, the railway-stations at very late hours in the evening, causing the men and clerks to work until midnight. This practice is much indulged in by the American merchants, who ship goods by the steam ers up to twelve o'clock at night. THE CONFERENCE OF CONGREGATIONAL 'MINISTERS IN CHESTER, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, convened to take counsel together upon the state of religion in their flocks, was attended by Dr. Raffles, Liverpool ; J. A. James, Birmingham • J. Kelly, Liver pool ; J. Fleming, Lancaster; W. L. Brown, A.M., Bolton ; B. Beddow, Barnsley ; J. Gwyther, Manchester ; E. Jukes, Blackburn ; J. Marshall, Over; J. Mann, Birkenhead ;.J. Raven, Manchester; J. R. Smith, Ches ter; J. Spence, M.A., Preston ; R. Spence, M.A., Liver pool • J. Glyde, Bradford ; D. E. Ford, Manchester:; J. Griffin, Manchester; and S. Sleigh, Wavertree. There was not one address of a sectarian character, but the all prevailing solicitude seemed to be the glory of Christ and the salvation of souls. ATTACK 'BY THE PATAGONIANS,ON A LIVERPOOL SHlP.—lntelligence has been received at Lloyd's. dated Stanley,- Falkland Islands, January 5, of a most daring attack, by the Patagonians, on the ship Porcupine, of this port. Millinger, master. In passing through the Straits of 'Magellan, on her way to California, the Porcupine grounded. -Early the next morning the ship was sur .rounded -by numerous canoes, full of natives. Hostile demonstrations being made, and the captain observing a fleet of canoes approaching nearer, many bearing lighted pine branches, gave orders to the crew and passengers, most of whom had revolvers, to arm themselves. A terrible conflict ensued. The savages fought desperately, and tried to burn the ship. After a severe struggle, and great slaughter, they were beaten off, andloo bags of oats being thrown overboard, the ship floated. Two of the emigrants,- George Rowell and Henry Boyle, were killed, and several others severely wounded. The ship returned to the'Falkland Islands greatly disabled. FATAL _NEGLIGENCE OF A NURSE.—On Sunday week a fine boy, aged eight months, son of Mr. Doubleday, 'Beck. road, was taken out by Ann Ellis, the nurse girl, Luto the garden, and while there she fell, by which the child sustained injuries,., which she concealed. On re tErning to the house the child refused the breast, and daily became worse, until death ensued. Mr. Statter, surgeon, on .making a post mortem examination, found that theleft side was crushed inwards ; and on opening the chest he discovered that the child had died from in flammation on --the left lung and side. The .coroner animadverted strongly on the conduct of Ann Ellis, who, if she had in time admitted the cause of the child's illness, would have been the means of inducing the parents to procure the necessary advice and assistance. The jury were of opinion that the youth of Ann Ellis shielded her from the crime of manslaughter. AUSTRALTAV 'COMPLIMENTS TO LIVERPOOL..-At a grand fete on looatd the Great Britain, previous to her departure from Australia, Sir Charles Nicholson proposed as a toast :—" The Town and Commerce of Liverpool." This was a toast which would be appreciated on that occasion, as it was to the energy and enterprise of Liver pool shipowners that they owed the presence of the Great Britain in this harbour. There was no community in the world characterised by greater spirit and liberality than the Liverpool merchants. Mr. Thorpe responded. He had been a resident in Liverpool for thirteen years, and he was proud of the title of a Liverpool shipowner. The Great Britain was owned ,by one firm in Liverpool, and was not supported by any government contracts. Her voyage to this colony was elle result of individual et te-- prise, and to the colonists they looked for support to make the undertaking pay. IN THE OFFICIAL REPORT on the wreck of the Queen 'Victoria by Captain Walker, the conduct of Captain iChurch is condemned most strongly. Captain Church -was not heard to give any orders. He had lead and log lines on board, but he neither sounded nor ascertained how fast she was going, nor did he slacken speed, or adept any precaution to prevent the fearful accident which took place. After the vessel struck, his presence of mind appears entirely to have deserted him. If, when the thick weather came on, the direction of the steamer's head had been altered, and the engines slowed, the dis aster would not, most probably, have taken place. The conduct of Thomas Davis, the mate, was greatly to blame. The reporter comments on the fact, that six years had elapsed-since the ordering of a bell for the head, and also upon another fact, that four hours before the Victoria struck there was no person on watch in the Lighthouse, and that one of the keepers, from infirmity of age, could scarcely be expected efficiently to perform the duties of his station. SELECT VESTRY.—At the usual meeting, on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell presiding, Mr. Hughes, with regard to remarks made by Mr. Mellor at the previous meeting, as to his qualification, said all Mr. Mellor had stated was incorrect.—Mr. Hughes thought it a most dastardly proceeding to tiring charges against members of a public board in their absence. The subject dropped just as Mr. Mellor:entered the room. The report of the Finance Committee stated that an offer of four guineas per square yard had bee, made for the parish premises in Lime-street, but had been refused, the committee asking £4 103.—A letterhad been received from the Emigration Commissioners, in answer to some application from the board,—that they were not in the habit of taking any number of women from workhouses in large towns.- -Mr. Gardner moved that a copy of Mr. Mansfield's letters, and the reply read at the last meeting, should be sent to the Secretary of State, that he might know what Mr. Mansfield was doing.—Mr. Bradley seconded the motion ; but, while all who spoke censured the conduct of Mr. Mansfield, they did not concur in the proposal, and the subject was allowed to drop.—lt appeared that the matron had taken 7s. Gd. from the body of a deceased female pauper, and divided it between Jane Andy and Margaret Shannon, two other inmates. She pleaded that it was done at the request of the dying woman. On this she had been called before the board, reprimanded, and told that a second such offence would be visited with committal.—Total number of inmates in the house, 2,060 ; admissions to the vagrant sheds during the week, 794. — There were reported t o b e 1,088 children at present in ' the Industrial Schools. They had passed a creditable exami nation ; but both boys and girls were deficient in arith metic. The present average cost per head, per week, was w to beßlosa.rldo, sanctioningid the appoi n t men t o f th e . A com mun i cat i on was read from three medical officers lately elected, at £2OO p er annum .— Mr. Meacock wrote , withdrawing his nam e as a can did ate the P rep or t e d o or for re-election at the general ves try, whi c h i s to b e h o ld en to-day.—Mr. Kitchen also int imated that he would not consent to stand as overseer.—Mr. Hughes withdrew the motion of which he had given notice respecting the admis sion of Romanist children to the house. The governor, in whom he felt perfect confidence, had promised to per. sonally supervise that part of the establ ishment. —A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the Pr9s494ngs. A DESPERATE ATTEMPT was made at Wakefield, on Friday week, to garrotte John Barff, Esq., a West Riding magistrate. THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE has been removed from South John-street to the Revenue Buildings, opposite the Sailors' Home. AT THE MEETING OF THE HEALTH CONIIIITTEE, the tender of Mr. Rose, for the removal of refuse from the borough and out-townships, was accepted. The tender was for Liverpool £7,550 ; for Toiteth-park, £1,460. ROBERT CATRAEL, the breaksman on the incline lead ing from the coal works of Mr. Samuel Stocks, Billinge, to the pierhead, died in extreme suffering, on Sunday week, from the effects of an accident which took place on on the previous Saturday, by which his left leg was completely severed and the other mangled. THE LIVERPOOL ASSIZE COURTS were closed on Good Friday, an unusual circumstance ; indeed, the first occa sion of the kind which has occurred here since 1835, when the first commission was opened in Liverpool. At that time the judges were Sir Nicholas Tindal and Lord Abinger, and at all the subsequent spring assizes the judges sat on Good Friday, immediately after the morning service.—Chronicle. THE NUMBER OF DEATHS in the borough for the week ending Saturday last was 213, beng a decrease of 13 as compared with the previous week. The change of weather in the middle of last week would probably cause an in crease of mortality during the present week. Diseases of the lungs caused nine deaths more than in the week pie vious, the total number, including 32 from consumption, being 93. A shipwright, aged 27, died from delirium tremens. THE WIFE OF A FLATAIAN, whose boat was lying in the Collingwood dock, was returning on Monday week from her sister's residence, in Toxteth-park, with her infant, about a month old. The child was alive when she reached the Exchange, but on arriving at the Coiling wood dock she discovered that it was dead. The mother had the child wrapped in a cloak so securey that the poor child was suffocated. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.—OIiver Ormercrd Walker, Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant ; Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia, Lieut. Clarence Horatio Carey to be captain; 4th Regiment, John Ireland B!ackburne, jun., Esq. (late lieut.-col. in the 2d Regiment), to be lieut-col.; sth Regiment, Charles Townley, Eiq., to be lieut.-col. TMPORTANT TO STEAM-BOAT AGENTS.—A case tried in ti e Liverpool County Court a few days since, will be found of interest. The plaintiffs were consignees of goods for warded by a Steam packet Company, of which defendant is agent. The claim was for loss sustained in consequence of defendant's detaining a portion of the consignment under a supposed 'lien for freight. Defend ant gave an order for delivery, but subsequently sent word to the dock that all the goods were not to be-deli vered until the freight was paid. Plaintiffs shewed that the freight had been sent in, but not paid, in consequence of defendant instructing them not to pay the office-boy. His Honour stated that no lien existed after the delivery order had been given, and that the freight would have been paid but for defendant's instructions not to pay the office-boy. Plaintiffs were not bound to call until they could find a responsible person to receive the money. He should, therefore, give them a verdict. MR. BRAITHWAITE POOLE says that, of the total mis cellaneous merchandise traffic in the port of Liverpool, that Is exclusive of the coasting trade and minerals, nearly one-half consists of two commodities only, namely, cotton and timber ; and it is remarkable that, during the last year, 1852, the imports of each averaged 1,000 tons daily. The imports of cotton into Great Britain last year, 1852, were as follow: _ Into Liverpool 2,205,738 bales:-365,000 tons. „ London 48,700 „ 8,000 „ „ Hull and Bristol 27,200 „ 5,000 „ „ Scotland 75,700 „ 13,00 „ Total 2,357,338 ~ 391,000 The cotton imported into London, Hull, and other sea. ports, if not sold direct to the spinners, or re-exported, is frequently sent to Liverpool for sale, and the number of bales so brought by inland communication, last year, rather exceeded 4,000. The number sent by railway, from Liverpool to Hull, for exportation, was 120,000 ; and the number to Scotland, for consumption, 33,000 by railway, in addition to the same quantity by sea. A " PUBLIC BAKER" is the technical name for the owner of a public oven, to which poor people send their dinners or their bread occasionally to be baked, and there are, we are told, nearly 500 in Liverpool. On the even ing of Good Friday a considerable gathering of the trade assembled at a room in Lime-street—Mr. Hugh Kinrade in the chair—for the purpose of forming a union. The Chairman said.: Some might .say it was easy work. It was not, for they had to work on a Sunday the same as on a Monday. Look at the expenses they had to contend with—coals, chaffers, peels, and tins. How many did they lose in a year ; and, if they were not paid for their labour, there was no living at all. (A Voice : I lost £lO last year.) They wanted to unite, in order that they might bake on one scale, from one end of the town to the other, and charge a fair, honest price for their labour.— Mr. Cruickshank, the honorary secretary, said women ran, like black sheep, from one bakehouse to another ; and it only required that the public bakers should be united. The trade had grown worse since the duty had been taken off flour ; and the loaves.had grown uncon scionably big. 'Flour was now horribly cheap. There was not a more auspicious lot of men than the public bakers.; and the reason was, that when they offended a lady, she went with her tale to another baker. For his part, he never believed a woman in any tale at all. (Loud applause.)—lt was agreed that an association be formed ; and, by a maiority_etf VI to 19. that the secretary he paid_ One of the rules is to the effect, that the baking of a loaf weighing fibs. be ld. ; above 1016., lid. A NOBLE EXAMFLE.—On Wednesdarlast an incident took place in Liverpool which we have sincere pleasure in relating, as it sheds a lustre on the character of the British merchant, and imparts a true nobility to trade. It appears that, in 1847, a certain house in this town, like many others, felt the influence of the untoward circumstances of the time ; that it was prepared to encounter and triumph over undoubted difficulties, if not pressed too far ; that the majority of the creditors had faith in the man who, at , the moment, expected forbearance; that there were others less confiding ; that they thought the worst, and pressed for settlement: that stoppage was the inevitable conse quence; and that the result of a bankruptcy left claims unpaid. The bankrupt .emerged from his fallen state, once more solicited fortune, ventured, and won the prize ; and his former creditors were invited, on Wednesday morning last, to his office. He produced to them a list of his debts; told them these were ignored by act of parlia ment, but that he looked beyond legal relief ; that nocoan should reproach his memory by telling his children that their father died in his debt ; that, in casting up the list, he found £lB,BOO was still due to them ; that he held in his hands cheques on his bankers for that sum, and that he then begged to hand to each creditor a cheque for the amount formerly due to him. Amazement, mingled with delight, sat on every face; and it was agreed simul taneously to deduct five per cent. from the sum received, and expend it in a testimonial, as an enduring monument of the opinion entertained of an act so worthy. HEALTH COMMITM.—At the weekly meeting on Thursday, after the reports of the sanitary and medical officers had been read, it was stated that the sub-com mittee had had several meetings to consider the subject of estimates for works to be executed, and the rates to be laid, but they had not yet come to a decision.—Mr. Gladstone wished to be understood that though there might be a small increase in the rates, still there was no intention to lay an excessive rate. It was agreed to make additional crossings in Huskisson-street.—A petition from 68 shopkeepers and others in Vauxhall-road was read : the memorialists sought that the manure deposits in that neighbourhood might not be removed, they being a fruitful source of business.—The chairman thought the alteration could not cause any pecuniary loss ; the only difference would be that the manure would go into the flats instead of being laid upon the quay. The matter here dropptcl.—Mr. Gladstone read a letter from Mr. Grantham, telat lye to some remarks he had made in re ply to Mr. Newlands upon the subject of the high-level railway question at a met ting of the Polytechnic Society. He could only say that the remarks of Mr. Newlands still appeared to warrant the impressions he then received, and he was therefore Ea. py to feel that they were erro neous. Mr. Newlands explained that he did not report in favour of the low level crossing, neither did the council grant it.—The committee then proceeded to consider the tenders for the removal of the refuse from the borough and out-townships. The tender of Mr. Rose was accepted.— The chairman said that £lO,OOO was paid under the former contract and four more for seavengering, and that was within the borou g h. The difference now was £11,460 against £14,000, being a gain of £2,540, with the advan tage of having the manure sent outside the borough. INQUEST ON THE LATE Ma. BLUNDELL.—On Tuesday an inquest was held before C. E. Driffield, Esq., touching the death of R. Benson Blundell Hollinghead Blundell, Esq., late of Deysbrook, West Derby, an extensive coal proprietor, and a county magistrate, who, as we stated in the last number of the Standard, was found drowned in a pond about three hundred yards from his own residence, on Sunday morning last. The first witness who was exa mined at the inquiry, which took place at Bulmer's Hotel, West Derby, was Peter Webster, the butler, who deposed that the deceased was first missed about half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday morning. It was at first sup posed that he had gone into town ; but, as he did not return that night, inquiries were made at Pemberton, near Wigan, where his mines are situated. They were without effect, however ; and, on Sunday morning, hi s s hat was seen floating in the pond in question. The p on d was then dragged, and the body found. There wer e no marks on the body, and the witness, who wiped the mu d off the face at the pond, perceived no scratches upon it. No ot s money urp r surprise ew the l at whatever witness,was f a o s u n t hdeupon deceasedtlie bwoa in the habitdy, b u t i t d i d of going without money. His clothes were not at all in terfered with, and his coat was buttoned up. There were workmen draining the field within sight of the pond. Mr. Parke, surgeon, was then examined, and stated that be had attended Mr. Blundell several times, as he w as labouring under an affection of the liver. Some years back, Mr. Blundell had an attack of jauncice, and had been obliged to go to the continent for the restoration of his health. The liver complaint was a very depressing one. But he had never seen any manifestation of insanity in the deceased. The coroner asked if Mr. Blundell had been a high liver, and to this Mr. Parke replied in the affirmative, stating that Mr. Blundell had taken his bottle and a half of wine in his younger days, which, of course, he felt afterwards. Once or twice they took away.a quan tity of wine from the deceased, reducing his allowance. Mr. Blundell was very odd in his manner to strangers. He was reserved, and a shy man, and did not like com pany, even from a child, and, therefore, he thought that strangers would mistake his manner for something worse. He was so reserved that those who did not know hi m would think he was out of his mind. The coroner left the jury to consider their verdict; and, after a delay of about an hour and a half, they returned a verdict " that the deceased was found drowned in a certain pond of water contiguous to the lands of the said deceased, but bow or in what manner be became drowned does not ap. pear to the same jurors." The majority of the jury, w e are informed, expressed an opinion that the cause of death night have been accidental. GENERAL NEWS. THE CELEBRATED ASTRONOMER, Mr. J. Russell Hind, discovered a new comet on the 6th of the current month, which presents strong indications of identity with that of 1664. MR. JOHN PRITCHARD, of the firm of J. and G. Prit chard, bankers, of Brosely and Bridgenorth, has been elected for Bridgenorth, in the place of Sir R. Pigott, unseated. OUTLAWRY.—On Thursday a county'court was held at the Sheriff's Court, London, when the Duke of Bruns wick, by the name of Charles Frederic William Guelph, was called for the fifth and last time. DI RES.—The first Dutch fort on the Scheldt has just been completed by Mr. Winder, an English engineer, and the same gentleman has constructed an immense dyke in Zealand: the obstacles were great. A GOOD SHOT.—On Thursday one of the convicts em ployed at the prisons on Dartmoor endeavoured to effect an escape. He ran off, but was pursued, and other at tempts to catch him failing, a sentry fired, and hit him in the leg at 250 yards. Mans FOR NORWAY are now conveyed direct by sea between Denmark and Norway. The rate of postage is ls. 4d. the half-ounce, and so on, according to the scale in operation in the united kingdom for charging inland letters. THE NEW SOUTH WALES AND PORT PHILIP portion of the mails disembarked from the steamer Australian has been despatched from Plymouth in the sailing ship Albemarle, and the South Australian portion has been despatched in the sailing ship Orestes, from Gravesend. ARCHIBALD HUNTER, blacksmith, Newyards, Maybole, Ayrshire, in a drunken affray with his wife on Sunday last, (both being in a state of inebriation,) was knocked down stairs by his better-half; and, alighting on his head, his neck was -dislocated, and he died instantaneously. Mrs. Hunter has been lodged in jail. MR. THOMAS M`FADzEArr, a native of Newton-upon- Ayr, N. 8., and master of the schooner William Henry, of Preston was drowned at Killybegs, west of Ireland, on the nig ht of Monday the 14th instant. The vessel was lately launched frcm the ship-yard of Messrs. Sloan and Gemmel!, ship-builders, Ayr. THE FORCE OF HABIT.—Mr. Gladstone was once asked by a little boy to tell him something about Cerberus, when the great orator, clearing his throat, eloquently began :—" Why, my little dear, we must divide the .subject into three heads." The little boy instinctively ran out of the room.—Punch. AT THE • HALF-YEARLY MEETING, on Saturday week, of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, the balance at the disposal of the meeting amounted to £27,528. A dividend equivalent to 91 per cent. was declared, reserving 22,288 interest on debt, and leaving a balance to the next account. THE NEWSPAPERS in the West of Scotland state, that the letters received by people in that part of the country from relations in Australia, are of the most cheering kind. One Girvan man had cleared £6O in a month. Another, a blacksmith, received £9 per week and rations. A " quickening of the emigration spirit" is expected in Scotland. STORM ON THE NORTHUMBERLAND COAST.—On Mon day forenoon a northerly gale came on very suddenly on the Northumberland coast. Several fishing cobles were out at the time, and the fishermen were obliged to leave their lines and run for the shore. Two boats were out from Blyth, one of which in taking the bar upset, and, before assistance could reach them, the three fishermen belonging to her were drowned. Several fishermen be longing to Newbiggin had a narrow escape from death on the same day. THE GLEN TILT CASE.—This celebrated and impor tant case has, " of consent of the defender," resulted in a finding that there is a public road through Glen Tilt, and in the duke being found liable in the whole expenses of the process. We believe that this termination of the case has been reached on an understanding that the pur suers will not resist an intended application by the duke to the road trustees for leave to make a new road de viating from the present track in its lower part for two or three miles.—Scoistnaa. STRANGE OCCURRENCE AT HAMILTON.—The Rev. Mr. Scott, of Bunkle, was preaching last Sunday week, in one of the 'United Presbyterian Churches, when the dock struck eight; he stopped short, and said :—" Time flies, and death hovers near. I have just had one of the most striking notices put into my hand I ever read from the pulpit, and I have been 36 years a minister. A lady in her usual health, and in the prime of life, while pre paring to come to church this evening, dropped down, and instantly expired. She is Mrs. Dr_ 'S.— (wife of a medical gentleman in Hamilton)." The effect on the congregation of this announcement, improved in a few solemn and appropriate sentences by the minister, was very marked. " Death can make more giddy tremblers in a minute than press or pulpit." A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred on Wednesday morning on the Midland Railway. The train from Derby to Leeds reached the Masbro' station (five miles from Sheffield) between eight and nine o'clock, and was pre paring to pull up there, when a middle-aged well dressed man was observed to open the carriage door and spring out. The train was in slow motion, but he stumbled and fell between the edge of the platform and the train. The whet is in the first instance ran over his legs and mutilated them terribly. His body was then twisted into a posture more nearly parrallel to the train, and the wheels of several carriages ran along his chest and abdomen. literally opening the trunk from end to end. Assistance was un availing. All that could be done was to gather up the remains and remove them to the Prince of Wales Hotel (adjacent), there to await the coroner's inquest. Th. a,..z uocry tins not teen went:nen. mere was no luggage, or anything else bearing the name of the deceased, and he was not known to any one present. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF CONVICTS.—On MOO day last week two notorious criminals named Maggs and 'Wilson, the one under sentence of transportation for 15, and the other for 10 years, made their escape from Wilton gaol, at Taunton, but were recaptured in the course of the same evening. They had been confined i n se p ara t e cells, but on Monday morning about four o'clock they succeeded in breaking out of their respective places of confinement, and, by means of a rope formed from oakum, which they had secreted during their daily labour, assisted each other over the prison wall. When they left the gaol they had no other clothing than their shirts; the morning was exceedingly cold, and snow had fallen in the night. In this state, and with a small portion only of bread, they concealed themselves until half - past four in the afternoon, when a labourer observed them emerging from a wet ditch, and immediate information being given, two officers, with assistants, secured their prisoners and lodged them in their old quarters. Maggs is 46 years of age, and John Wilson, though only 16, is an adept in villany, SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION..--A novelty in this way has occurred at Worcester, the person abducted being an old gentleman between f 0 and 60, and the object of the forcible capture being to compel him to marry a widow of nearly his own age. Mr. Davies, a farmer of Broadwas, a few miles from Worcester, went to the market in that city, and put up his horse at a farmers' inn—the Green Dragon—in Newport-street. lin the afternoon a mes senger brought him the intelligence that his housekeeper had been taken dangerously ill, and that his presence was required at home. He at once got into a fly, which had been provided for the purpose, and his capturers (Messrs. Dobney and Wilson), instead of taking him home, con veyed him to an inn at Ombersley, a village in a contrary direction. Here he was detained until next day, when, after much research, he was discovered by the police, just as he was about being forced—according to his own ac count—into a marriage with Dobney's mother. A license had been procured, and to induce him to consent to the match threats and entreaty had been used, and a pair of handcuffs had been exhibited. He has been delivered over to his friends. A BOLD STROKE FORA WIFE, AND AN ACQUISITION TO THE DIGGINGS.—A hawker by profession, named George Bartlett, after being "refused" by a number of young women at Cheverell, betook himself on Tuesday last to the Devizes union workhouse, in search of a wife. At this critical moment, the matron of the workhouse passed by, and to this excellent woman Gaorge Bartlett told his want, and begged her assistance. Mrs. Hassell (the matron) immediately repaired to the female ward, and proclaimed to the inmates that there was a man out side in want of a wife to go with him to Australia. and asked if any one would accept him as a husband? " I'll have him !" simultaneously exclaimed half a dozen voices. " Shew him up, let's have a peep at him !" But there was one voice more vociferous than the others, and that was the voice of Sarah Early, and Sarah Early insisted on the first refusal. Now, Sarah Early stands six feet high without her shoes. She has six toes upon each foot ; and she has a child, we are told, with the same number of toes. She is a perfect Amazon. She can break a square of glass with her fist, or a man's head with her Patten. She leads the " Opposition" in the workhouse, and where there is either mischief or frolic to be performed, " I'm your match 1" said Sarah Early. " Then pick up your traps !" said George Bartlett, and the matter was settled in less time than it is written. Aye, and in less than half an hour Sarah Early and Sarah Early's child and George Bartlett turned their backs upon the Devizes union work house. Within three weeks, or as soon as the banns can be published, Sarah Early and George Bartlett will be married, and directly afterwards they will be off for the diggings. LETTERS OF CREDIT.—A case was determined in the Lord Mayor's Court, London, last week, involving a question of great commercial importance. An American gentleman bought for cash a circular letter of credit from a mercantile firm in the city, addressed to their agents on the continent, and this document authorized the various houses to whom it was addressed to honour his draughts. Shortly afterwards, a house at the west-end, which had some disputed accounts with him, lodged an attachment with the London firm on the funds which they had thus received for the sale of the letter, upon the plea that the transaction was a simple deposit, and that the money so attached still belonged to the person who had paid it to them, and that they, the garnishees or issuers of the credit, incurred no responsibility until they came under acceptance. It was also contended that after the attach ment was lodged, the garnishees could not accept and pay the defendant's bills, except in their own wrong. The gar nishees, on the other hand, maintained that the sum handed them was the purchase-money for the letter of credit; that it was as complete a sale as if the article bought had been goods ; that there is no essential dif ference between giving an acceptance at once for the amount and an engagement to accept and pay whenever called upon, and hence that the money ceased to be the accredited party's directly he received the garnishees' en gagement in exchange. Three points were submitted by the Recorder to the jury, all of which were decided in favour of the garnishees, but the only one of any public interest was the finding by the jury that the money passed absolutely to the garnishees in exchange for their credit ; that it simultaneously ceased to be the defendants', and consequently was not attachable. This result is very satisfactory, since, if the suit had gone the other way, it would then be held that the article acquired, and the money paid for it, both remained the property of the pur chaser—that an engagement to accept and pay is only binding, if a subsequent claimant does not step in—and that a person who fancies he has a demand, can, bya simple affida v it of d e bt, ma k e th e i ssuers o f th e cre d i t break their engagement to the accredited party. AMONG the gentlemen who passed their examinations at the Apothecaries'-hall, last week, was one named Death. THE BODIES OF Two CHILDREN were found dead the other day in a jar floating in the River Lea, but how or by what means they came there there is no evidence to show. ACCELERATION OF MAILS.—On the first of April a great acceleration of the mails to and from the north will take place, which will enable letters to be delivered two hours earlier, and dispatched two hours later, than at the present time at York, Newcastle, and other places. ABD-EL-KADER has addressed a letter to Lord Lon donderry, thanking him for his exertions on his behalf. It is addressed "To his lordship the magnificent, the highly exalted, the man of heart, the key of happy issues, before whom misfortune flies, the General Vane London derry, the Irishman." WHALE AND SEAL FISHERY.—The vessels from the port of Dundee, engaged in the Davis' Straits fishery, appear to be ready for sea. Those from Peterhead, where the trade is principally carried on, have sailed some time ago. The total number of vessels this year for Greenland and Davis' Straits is 56, equal to 14,783 tons. RAILWAY DIVIDENDS declared during the week : Caledonian, £4 4s. per cent. per annum on the preference stock, and £2 10s. on the ordinary stock ; North British, 6 per cent. on the £5 guaranteed shares ; and Scottish Central, 4 per cent., with a bonus of 10s. per cent. paid out of the monies received from the southern companies. AN AMERICAN-IRISHMAN, John Eyre Johnson by name, was, on Saturday, at the Marlborough Police-court, London, charged with having stolen jewellery, at various times, from the show-rooms of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell. New Bond-street, of the value of upwards of £l,OOO. He was apprehended in Paris, greatly disguised, after having been missing several weeks. He was remanded. FOOT HURDLE RACE.—A foot hurdle race, between two of the most celebrated performers—Fenwick, of Lan caster, and Patterson, of London—came off on Monday afternoon last, in the Eton Brocas. The distance was 200 yards, over ten hurdles. The race was admirably con tested, both men taking their leans together until they reached the eighth hurdle, which Patterson failed to clear and fell, leaving Fenwick an easy s:inner. PRAYERS FOR A. CONVICTED MURDERER.—George Sparkes having been found guilty of the murder of Mr. Blackmore, of Clayhidon, the murderer was prayed for in many of the churches at Exeter on Sunday ; and some of the churches have been opened half-an-hour before the service, and kept open half-an-hour after its close, daily, until the day of execution, to enable persons desirous of doing so to offer up their prayers for his soul. CAMPS OF INSTRUCTION.—For a few days past stores and equipments for the formation of an extensive encamp mcnt have been forwarded from the Tower of London to Chatham, on the race ground of which place troops are to assemble for the purpose of forming a camp of instruc tion. Ascot-heath, and some ground near Sandhurst, have also, we hear, been selected for the summer camps of instruction.— United Service Gazette. WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Saturday forenoon Mary Rowley, aged 50, a widow, residing at Fartown, who had long been subject to fits of apoplexy, was ob served cleaning her windows. On one of her neighbours going into the house shortly afterwards, she was disco vered laid with her head and body upon the fire, her clothes and body being burnt literally to a cinder; except a small portion of the lower extremities of her stays.— Leeds Inlelligencer. THE LATE FIRE IN DONCASTER CHURCH.—The judi cial investigation into the origin of the late fire at the church of St. George, Doncaster, was brought to a close on Tuesday evening, in the council-chamber of the Guild hall, after seven different adjournments. ;The verdict was to the effect that the cause of the fire might be as signed to the state of the north flue, and the defective and unsafe construction of the heating apparatus, and to the negligence of those parties who had charge of them. 'I he jury censured the conduct of the officials of the church for their want of care and attention. DECAY OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR.—A gradual paralysis is said to be stealing over the frame of poor Feargus O'Connor. He is treated as one of the family, and spends his time at billiards, in playing with the children of Dr. Tuke, arranging books, &c. He told a late visitor that he knew he was in a lunatic asylum, but he was under no restraint, and all the people were mad there but himself. He could go away if he chose, and did not know why he did not. Reference being made to the Chartists, he asked, " How are you going on ?" and sung his old stave of "The Lion of Freedom," asking, with exultation, " Do you know how I thrashed the blue lambs in Nottingham Market-place ?" A NEW DESCRIPTION OF STEAMER, called the Rota tory, commenced plying on the Clyde, between Glasgow and Dumbarton, on Wednesday. The engines are said to be more compact than other engines, consume about one-fourth less fuel, and require no engineer; the steersman, by a peculiar valve, moves the vessel a-head or astern, without communicating with any one. The steers man stands before the funnel, and there being no paddle boxes to interrupt his view, he sees every object a-head, and can stop or reverse the engines in an instant, without leaving the wheel, or applying to any second party. The inventor is Mr. David Napier. STRANGE DISCLOSURE.— At Lambeth Police court, last week, the presiding magistrate was engaged for some time in investigating a case of a delicate character. There is every reason to believe from the disclosures made that, at a lodging-house in Waterloo-road, respectable-looking females were in the habit of taking up their quarters, for the purpose of being, with the help of medicines admi nistered by a surgeon, prematurely confined. After hear ing the evidence the magistrate, Mr. Norton, thought enough had been shown to prove the necessity for further investigation, and directed Hoyes, the officer, to call on the medical man and tell him that his professional cnaracter was very mum involved in the discosure, ana that he (Mr. Norton) wished him to attend at the court to explain his conduct in the matter. Thus the matter rests. AWFUL Loss OF LIFE.—A melancholy occurrence took place at Deal on Thursday, three brave and hardy men having met with a lamentable death in the Gull stream. Their boat was the hovelling lugger Victoria, and the names of the men were Thomas Bowbyree, George Thompson, and another, with Thomas Thompson (father of George Thompson, about 50 years of age, and an ex perienced boatman,) and Edward Greigs. They pushed off in the lugger about nine o'clock in the morning. About eleven they were cruising in the Gull stream, when a brig was observed to heave to, and hoist her colours. Another boat, the Fawn, belonging to Deal, happened to be close on Thompson's boat, and, requiring a hand, Edward Greigs jumped in, and the Fawn immediately bore up for the brig. On approaching within hail of the brig, the captain beckoned to something that had befallen the Victoria, and, on looking astern, they saw the lugger foundering. They made all haste to the spot, but only arrived in time to save the elder Thompson, the others having disappeared with their lugger. PARLIAMENTARY COGNOMINA.—The following names Will be touud constituting the members of the House of Commons returned to sit in the present parliament, which, when put together, appear somewhat strange aliquot parts of the Constitutional body at large :—A Court with two Kings, with Grace, a Duke, a Hale Knight, and a Haslie French Marshall. A Portal, two Halls, and two Chambers, with a Guest, and one Bell. A Wall with a Walpole. A Forester, a Roebuck, a Buck, besides a Bagge Fox and a Talbot. A Monck, a Goodman, and a Shee•Hayter. Cocks, and a Vane Peacocke. A Masterman, two Carters, with a Mare and Packe. Currie and Rice, with Green Lemon Peel. A Butler, with two Butts. A Collier, and Prime Yorke Coles, with two Prices. A Woodhouse and Hutt, with Barnes, and a Freshfield with hill and Wood. A Miller, with two Mills, two Brookes, besides Wells. A Coote, a Swift, and a Martin. A Wise Child. A Potter, with Clay Balls. Six Smiths (Bright Fellowes). A Taylor, a Tyler, a Sadleir, and a Palmer. Milton, Thompson, Cowper, and Shelley. Power, North, East, and West. A Hogg, with Lowe Manners. A Scott and a Kirk ; and, by way of winding up the list, two Dunnes and a Baillie. BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A DAUGHTER.—On Monday, Joseph Swales, a small farmer, residing at Swillington, was charged before the magistrates at Wakefield, with ill treating his daughter, nine years of age. On the night of Sunday the 13th inst, Swales went home about twelve o'clock, when he asked the girl if she had got his supper ready, and on her replying that he had not told her to get it ready, he struck her and kicked her in the mouth with his foot, having his shoes on at the time. He then threw the carving-knife at the girl which stuck in her hand, cut ting it in a frightful manner. He afterwards seized her by the throat and held her until she was choked. Not satis fied with this, the inhuman parent took her by the hair, threw her down, and dragged her on the floor into the kitchen. He said he would kill her, and inquired where the hedging-bill was. A hedging-bill is a sharp instru ment with which the hedges are cut. He went up stairs to fetch it, when the poor girl managed to get the back door of the house open and make her escape, or there ap pears little doubt but her life would have been sacrificed. Cut, bruised, and bleeding as she was, and in the dead of the night, she managed to get to the house of her aunt, Hannah Nicholson, of Woodlesford. When her aunt saw her she was scarcely able to recognise her, her face was so bruised and covered with blood, her eyes black and cut, and her hair matted with blood. The prisoner, who was organist at Swillington Church, was committed for trial at the assizes. COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—On the Bth of March, Colonel Mure moved for a committee to inquire into the management of the National Gallery ; also to consider in what way the collective monuments of antiquity and fine art possessed by the nation might be most securely preserved, judiciously augmented, and ad vantageously exhibited to the public. The sysi-rn of management of the National Gallery, the sma:.. ess of our collections, the want of an architectural gallery, and of space for a national collection of sculpture, and for the exhibition of prints and drawings, were dwelt on with emphasis. The present time was spoken of as a crisis in the history of art in this country ; and any further unne cessary delay in providing sufficient and efficient space for a really national collection of works of art was strongly deprecated. Ministers (i.e., Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer) indorsed most of the com plaints and recommendations; raised the question so often and so fully discussed of the re-arrangement of the various national collections, and warmly supported the proposition. They declared, however, that no determina tion had been arrived at as to the retention of the National Gallery in Trafalgar square, or the removal of the collec tion to another spot. On the 18th of Mardi the com mittee was appointed, to consist of the following gentle men :—Colonel Mure, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Charteris, Marshall, Lord Sterling, Mr. R. Currie, Mr. Milnes , Mr. Lord Seymour, Mr. Vernon, Lord Brooke, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Wall, Sir W. Molesworth, M r. Har dinge, Lord Graham, and Mr. Hamilton. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, AN EXCELLENT REMED Y FOR IMPURITY OF BLOOD, AND GENERAL DERANGEMENT OF HEALTH.—Many persons of robust habits frequently suf fer from a dangerous determination of blood to the head, benumbed feelings in the limbs, heaviness and drowsiness, ar ising from the blood being in a bad state ; the stomach in such cases is generally out of order, with little or no appetite. Such individuals should take a course of Iloilo way's Pills. Thousands who had been given up as incurable by the faculty, have been thoroughly re-invigorated in constitution, and restored to the uninterrupted enjoyment of good health by this admirable remedy. THE REV. MR. HOUSTON, a minister of the Established Church in Glasgow, has been "libelled" for the too pre valent crime of drunkenness. THE SKELETON OF A MAN was found a few days ago buried in the And under a house in Main-street, Carts dyke, Greenock, THE PROPOSED DECORATION of St. Paul's Cathedral will be confined to the " restoring Thornhill's preposterous paintings," by Mr. Parris. These have been commenced. BuILDING SOCIETIES.—At the present time there are two thousand building societies in existence, having an invested capital of £30,000,000, anti an annual income of £ s,ooo ,ooo.—Civil Service Gazette. AT BRIDGENORTH, on Tuesday, Mr. Hope, having again retired, after feeling the pulse of the electors, Mr. John Pritchard, a banker of the town, was unanimously elected on the Conservative interest in the place of Sir. R. Piot, unseated on petition. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER has been returned against Perkins and Maycock, the two guards of the mail train run into by a pilot-engine on the Bristol and Bir mingham railway. It appears the train was stopl ed to put to rights a set-pin that had slacked. THE EGHANI DUEL.—The grand jury having returned true bills for murder against Etienne Barronnett, Edmond Allain, Emanuel Barthelemy, and Philippe Eugene Mornet, the parties concerned in the late duel at Egham, the trial came on on Monday, when they were found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN YORKSHIRE. — The principal portion of Spenithorne, the seat of Mr. Henry Von Straubenzee, ten miles from Bedale, was destroyed by fire on Monday night. The damage done is estimated at be tween £4,000 and £5,000, only one-half of which is covered by insurance. STEPHEN ADAMS, clerk to Messrs. Bevan and Ander son, Lincoln's-inn-fields, recently absconded, after com mitting extensive forgeries, leaving his wife and family totally destitute. A hundred pounds has been offered for his apprehension. His wife last week became so dis tracted under her accumulated misfortunes, that she drowned herself in the river, near Rotherhithe. A Cann ATTACKED BY A GAME COCK.—On Sunday, a boy, four or five years of age, was attacked by a game cock. The child fell on his back and was defending him self with his feet as well as he could, whilst the infuriated bird was making vigorous attacks on his ►ace. Some passers-by drove the bird away, or the consequences might have been serious. As it was, the child was bleed ing profusely from the nose and mouth, and, but for the assistance afforded, might have lost both his eyes, as the attack of the cock was always directed at the face.—Don caster Chronicle. FIERCE LOVE.—At Exeter assize, Pierre Adolphus Augustus Sebire, a native of Jersey, and owner of several tradine vessels, was transported for fifteen years. He had fallen in love with a very pretty interesting girl named Emma Hillyer, at Plymouth, and proposed mar riage to her. She consented, but the prisoner appears to have remembered that he was already a married man, and desirous of avoiding bigamy ; but his passion for the girl had got beyond his control, and, determined no one else should marry her if he could not, fired a pistol straight for her head ; fortunately the ball missed, and lodged in a shutter behind her, and before he could fire a second be had in his right hand the girl made her escape, and Sebire was secured. COMBINATION OF WORKMEN. —On Saturday was printed a bill to amend and explain the law relating to combination of workmen. The object is that masters, employers, workmen, or other persons whc shall enter into any combination to advance, or to lower, or to fix the rate of their wages, or to lessen or alter the hours or duration of the time of their working, or to peaceably persuade or induce others to abstain from work in order to obtain the rate of wages or the altered hours of labour so fixed or agreed upon, shall not be deemed to be guilty of " molestation " or " obstruction," within the mean ing of the act, and shall not therefore be subject or liable to any indictment or prosecution for conspiracy. DESERTIONS FROM AN AUSTRALIAN SHlP.—Captain E. T. Browne, commander of an Australian passenger ship, the Chowringee, was summoned at Thames Police Court,London,onTuesday, by threeofhis seamen for wages. On arriving at Port Philip, the hands, 41 in number, de serted, leaving the captain with only the three mates, the carpenter, and a boy ; the ship was detained four months by want of hands, and at last the captain had to pay, in advance, for every ordinary seaman £3O, and six able seamen £5O, and £55 for the run home. The wages thus paid to seamen and labourers in the port amounted to £1,200, and the captain, after exhausting the funds re ceived from passengers, bad to borrow money in the colony at from 12 to 15 per cent. The complainants who had deserted were received back, forgiven the penalties they had incurred, and received £3O to come back with the ship. They now alleged that the £3O bore no rela tion to their wages, but was simply a douceur. The magistrate dismissed the summons. ATTACK ON AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—lntelligence has been received, under date, Stanley, Falkland Islands, Jan. 5, of a most daring attack on the ship Porcupine, of Liverpool, Millinger master, by the Patagonians. It seems that in passing throuz,h the Straits of Magellan, on her way to California, the Porcupine grounded. Early the next morning the ship was surrounded by numerous canoes. The captain thinking they might be useful in getting the ship off, let some of the principal chiefs come on deck, when they offered to exchange a copy of Johnson's com prehensive Dictionary, signed on the fly-leaf " John Badiam, January, 1851," a prayer-book, and other articles, evidently belonging to an English ship. The captain now observing a fleet of canoes approaching nearer, many bearing lighted pine branches, gave orders for the crew and passengers, most of whom had revolvers, I.skal u 6."1111... 11. !lOU\ d• savages fought desperately, and tried to burn the ship. After a severe struggle and great slaughter they were beaten off, and 300 bags of oats being thrown overboard, the ship floated. Two of the emigrants, named George Roswell and Henry Boyle, were killed, and several were severely wounded. The ship returned to the Falkland Islands terribly disabled. LAW OF DIVORCE.—The Divorce Commissioners have published their first report, in which, having considered the law of divorce in its different bearings, they sum up briefly the alterations and improvements which they think may be made in it with prudence and safety. Their sug gestions are :—" That the distinction between divorce a mensd et thoro and divorce a vinculo matrimonii shall still he maintained.—That the grounds for divorce a mensti et thoro shall be conjugal infidelity and gross cruelty.—That wilful desertion shall either be also a ground for divorce a mensd et thoro, or else shall entitle the abandoned wife to obtain from her husband a proper maintenance by way of alimony.—That divorce a mensci et thoro may be obtained by the wife for the above-men tioned causes, as well as by the husband.—That divorces rincuio shall be allowed for adultery, and for adultery only.—That divorces a vinculo shall only be granted on the suit of the husband, and not (as a general rule) on the suit of the wife.—That the wife, however, m a y a l so apply for divorce a vinculo in cases of aggravated enor mity, such as incest or bigamy.—That recrimination, connivance, and condonation, shall, if proved, be deemed and treated as bars to the suit.—That recrimination shall include any of the grounds for which divorces may be obtained a mensti et thoro.—That the existing mode of obtaining a divorce a vinculo shall no longer be con tinued.—That a verdict at law, and an ecclesiastical sen tence, shall not be considered as preliminary conditions which must be complied with before it can be obtained.-- That a new tribunal shall be constituted to try all ques tions of divorce.—That all matrimonial questions, also, which are now determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts shall be transferred to the same tribunal.—That this tri bunal shall consist of a vice-chancellor, a Common Law judge, and a judge of the Ecclesiastical Courts.—That the party who seeks a divorce, whether it be a divorce a mensil et thoro or a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, shall pledge his belief to the truth of the case, and that there is no collusion between himself and his wife.—That the evi dence shall be oral, and taken down in the presence of the parties.—That in general the process, practice, and plead ing, shall conform to the process, practice, and pleading of the Court of Chancery, as recently improved ; with such additions as may be beneficially derived from the ecclesiastical system.—That the rules of evidence shall be the same as those which prevail in the temporal courts of the kingdom.—That the judges shall have the power of examining the parties, and also of ordering any wit nesses to be produced, who in their opinion may throw. light on the question.—That the court shall be intrusted with a large discretion in prescribing whether any and what provision shall be made to the wife, in adjusting the rights which she and her husband may respectively have in each other's property, and in providing for the guardian ship and maintenance of the children.—That there shall be only one appeal from the decree of the court, and that the appeal shall be carried to the House of Lords." To THE LADIES.—We beg to direct the attention of our fair readers to the following special advantages possessed by the " GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH "— advantages (particularly with lace and other fine fabrics) which every lady can appreciate; and in proof of which advantages we have no less an authority than that of the laundress of her Majesty, Queen Victoria :—Her Majesty's laundress states, in a testimonial granted to Mr. Wotherspoon, the ma ufacturer of the Glenfield Patent Starch," that no other kind than that made by him, and called the Glen field Patent Starch, is used in the Royal Laundry." It requires no boiling; and is perfectly free from all impuri ties. Being used in a more fluid state than any other kind of starch, it can be applied with greater ft cility, greater cleanliness, and more perfect uniformity ; and from its extreme fluidity it goes fu r th er . In this alone, is i a saving to the consumer of 25 p er ce nt. It s manufac tured by a peculiar process, known only to the manufac turer, whereby every injurious ingredient is excluded it imparts to the clothes, a clearness, colour, and beautiful gloss, hitherto quite unexampled, which advantages are retained permanent, uninfluenced ;fl a u r e e n cceodp convinced e dampness ed tt allo w weathereiia have e or length of time. We have no hesitation in stating these facts to our readers, as advanced is borne out satisfactorily, by the e l even follow ing testi mo nials, which we think will be enough to induce any one who is desirous of a. adopting improvements i n th e imp c.. 0 t r o t a usen t ja. h eut o shn u teyd s e rG h ens o liese l r d ,Ofictu o f o p , e d r a s t oa nrdressingm l t a h c e e s l a , linen, un dre s s the een ;h Right Lady o Mayoress Hon. . the o f Countess Lon don ;of toHer the ra l Eglinton, lady of the late Viceroy of Ireland • the laun dress of the M os t N oble the Marchioness of Breadalbane ; the laundress of the Right Hon. the Countess of Dart mouth ; the laundress of the lady of Lieut.-General Sir Harry Smith, Bart.; the lady of Wm. Chambers, Esq., of plenormiston, one of the publishers of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal; the matron of that excellent institu tion, the Manchester Female Asylum ; froin Watts' Laun dry, Brighton, (where about sixty hands are daily em ployed ;) from several hundreds of the principal groce rs i n London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Halifax, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow ; and spe cially noticed by the Jury of the Great Exhibition, 1851. 1 ! Some parties have attempted to deceive the public by labelling their worthless materials closely to resemble the Glenfield Patent Starch, so as the unwary might be de ceived thereby, and not discover their mistake until they put it to practical use, when it is then too late. We would remind the ladies to caution those they send to purchase starch to ask for the Glenfield Patent Starch, and further to observe if the name of the manufacturer, R. WOTHER, SPOON, 40, Dunlop-street, Glasgow, is on each packet, as without that none is genuine.