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

Korai anti probintial 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, and 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 smallwares, were destroyed. The damage is esti mated at about £4OO. THE AURORA BOREALIS. — The 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 themselves high up in the clear-studded sky. In a short time the rays assumed the shape of an extended arch across the lower part of the sky; at first the arch was a slight curve, but afterwards it became unore quickly curved. It is said that the aurora is a sign of fine dry cold weather. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night, about half past ten, a gentleman was proceeding homeward along the Old Chester:road. When near the Tranmere 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 professional adept, she succeeded in ab stracting his purse, containing upwards of £2O, with which she immediately made off, and joined her male oompanions, who had kept at a short distance behind. The police have obtained 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 fiat Edward, then lying in the Waterloo Dock, made a search of the dock on the following morning, which led to the discovery of the body. Deceased was dressed in a harragan suit, and had the appearance of a labourer. Verdict, found drowned. 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 oopressive 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 d a y s b e f ore, 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 403. 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. Traff)rd, 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 c h urc h, 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. lid effected his escape. RAPID STEAMING.'—The steamer Clementine, 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 mehtina 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. Diichburn St 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. duvENlt E THIEF.—A lad named James Dodd, who made his abut at the Police-court some time ago, was 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. ATTEMPTED HIGRWAY ROBBERY.—OnSaturclaythree able-bodied fellows, well known to the police, who gave 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 alone. Vauxhall-road, when the prisoners, and two others who had escaped, suddenly sprang 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 strangers 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, Esq., surveyor. At about six o'clock on Tuesday evening a knock was heard at the front door,.and immediately, on Miss Miller opening the door, 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, w hen 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 decamped, before any of the neighbours arrived. In a few minutes, however, a considerable number of persons, attracted by the bell, were on the spot, and an alarm was given to the police. Five men were next day taken into custody, charged 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. TATTERSHALL.—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 those latter by the Christian graces with which he was adorned. To dilate before you, his friends, his con gregation, on the kindness of his disposition, his sympa thies with the afflicted, 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. He is one more added to the list of illus trious men who have adorned, by their learning and their lives, that Church of which he was so b: fight an ornament. And he, too, affords 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 the creation, and his will as announced to us in revelation—a supposition utterly inadmissible, unless we are prepared to deny that most indubitable attribute of the Godhead, His unity, His oneness, His unchangeableness of purpose. Such objectors unwittingly betray the very cause which they profess to defend." 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.... £ll,OOO 7743 3 8..... 12,000 8169 16 1.... 13,000 Queen's Park Philip's Park. Peel Park .... Total .... £23,175 711 £36,000 Evms or IGNOILANCE.—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 not comprehend the nature of an oath, or the consequences of telling a falsehood. Mr. Rushton said there could be little doubt of the facts of the case, but it was shocking to think that children such as those in the witness-box had never been at school, and were prevented from giving evidence in consequence of their ignorance. lie 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 intercourse with central Africa " has failed.a second time." This is not correct; there has not been a failure. The Ethiope ',steame r ascen ded and traded on the Niger last year as Vgis . as Rabbah, five hundred miles from the coas t, 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 ingland, but not in the Bight of Biafra. SMUGGLING.—On Thursday, John Ansley was charged with having 2671b5. of smuggled tobacco in his possession The prisoner engaged a carter, named George Coventry, to convey a cask from Clare-court, Croston-street, Tox teth-park, to the Manchebter carriers, Dale-street. Dur ing the transit, the cart was stk:pped by the police, and the cask was found to contain tobacco, and about bibs. retire was found concealed on the premises of the pris oner. 11e was remanded until Tuesday.—On Friday, David Coulter, steward of the ship Sophia, St. John's, was charged with having concealed Slias. 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 Worrall, farmer, Aig burth, as carter, but in consequence of his dissipated habits, he wag; discharged on Friday week. Since that time he had been frequently seen about the house and outhouses of his late employer, although he had been more 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 he found the deceased hanging. DARING AND IMPUDENT ROBBERY.— OH Saturday evening last, about six o'clock, whilst the wen 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 (but 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 office 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 f our schemes contending for the honour and profit of sup plying the borough of Manchester with an abundant supply Pure and wholesome water. They are the following : irst, The Manchester and Salford Water Works Com ruY, who propose to derive the water from Lyme Park 4 4 1 the neighbourhood. Secondly, The Corporation of Vanchester, who propose to bring the water from the an d district. Thirdly, The Manchester, Sheffield, Zt_ l .( l Lincolnshire Railway Company, who propose to ob tain the supply chiefly from the Peak Forest and the .7acclesfield Canals ;. and, fourthly, the Lancashire eater Works Company, who propose to derive the supply 2 . °M 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 Wite a fit of screeching, and that his mother got a penny worth of Godfrey's Cordial, and gave him a teaspoonful uf it. Ever since that time she bad 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 !lave the deceased a teaspoonful, and from that time until fi ve o'clock the next evening the child never awoke out of d "P. When he did awake at last, he appeared quite e', 4 Y, and on Sunday evening he died. Mr. Patrick e , surgeon, was of opinion that he d of G odfied from the u l tB of some narcotic. A teaspoonful rey's i l urdial would contain a drop and a half of laudanum. a considered that a most injudicious quantity to have tr e el l given. The jury returned a verdict of '' Chance- DISTURBING y,uleY," thus r the offence below au. e - 'ISTURIIING A educing CONCERT.—OD Tuesday,mansl Mr. g hter Vin rAPg, father of the " Infant Sappho , " app eared before Rushton, to prefer a complaint against Edward Wor ll, who was in custody, for creating a dis turbance on Monday evening, behind the scenes of the Liver Thea tre. Mr. Vinning stated that, such was the increasing V °Pularity of his daughter, he had hired the Li ver Thee for a week, at a cost of X2O, and £2 for gas, when. 111 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 finie, it tcxicated, behind the scenes, having drink with him, and created great disturbance. Mr. Vinning told him if he would apologise and go away he would excuse but his answer was that he would see him d—d iltfirst. Five or six gentlemen from the pit leaped on to the I „!ge, to put an end to the annoyance, and he was given B ' 4 ' o custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was a a uger in town, having only arrived the day previous. lie was sent from the Theatre Royal to the Brunswick hotel for some drink, and had quite mistaken the thea treMr- Rushton :—" You will not get out till you find or be imprisoned for a month." H IGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—Mr.. Duncan re ported that the tower at the new works in Green-lane th e s ,."w up to within 23 feet of the entire height; that th at Tufing of the boiler-house was still incomplete, the ti would be out of the hands of the blacksmith in the in p ' S e of the ether that the engine-fitters were engaged meautting down pump-work in the well, and that the and other pipes connected with the engine and p ort e _r were nearly all fitted up. Mr. Duncan also re eent that the cooling ponds were in active progress, tirr a ,"3' men being employed upon them, and that he had w ori ;lea with Messrs. Jones and Homely to perform the Iv a ,' In four weeks. With regard to the pipe laying, it ac re tenoned that the sluicing-cocks for St. Andrew laid et bad been received, and were in the course of being tv ori ; 4o wn. The Board complained of the delay in th e J oh a, arid the Town-clerk was directed to write to Mr. Dr o s urt, to .say the Board were dissatisfied with the tt lf ress, and that the penalty of £5O a-week would be Of thei rthe official year, he begged to propose that a return Ye ti ," attendance of the commissioners during the past !iii t e_ at the weekly sittings of the Board and at the Com kbAri!eSt be submitted at the next meeting. The motion t a ; el,,: a g a b s e_en seconded, several .. members expressed them -o.,,soo.pposed to the issuing of the return, as the du tiriee'it t doors were in very many cases of more impor- s ae than that of attending the weekly meetings; and a ao h t e s t.unwould not show what was done out of doors , ra c k esti mate could be formed of the attention paid by To me gentleman to his public duties. No division was w on the subject, but it was understood the return ue furnished. IRISH PAUPERS—DEATH IN THE BRIDEWELL.—AII inquest has been held on Friday, before our borough co roner, upon the body of an Irish pauper, named Patrick M'Coy, aced 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 turn key entered the cell at various times, and at two o'clock on Friday morning, the drunken prisoner, having become quiet and orderly, had the handcuffs removed, and he went and laid himself down on the bench. At three o'clock, an alarm was given by one of the lads, that there was a dead man lying upon the floor of the cell ; and the turnkey, upon entering, found that it was M'Coy, who had either been pushed, or had fallen off the bench upon which he had been lying during the early part of the night. He was quite dead. A surgeon was sent for, who, alter 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 appeared 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 privations 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. The great and steady influx of Irish pauper& from Dublin, is indeed becoming a matter of grave consideration 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 be instituted as to how so many Irish paupers manage to get their pas sage across the channel, it being 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 Oldball-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 ontrast,—for there Mrs. Armitage, in one sense, the greatest lady that the country can boast, holds a daily levee. She is of the extraordinary weight of 32 stone, and is 4 feet 8 inches in height. Her countenance is hand some and expressive; her feet and hands of the ordinary size, but, her obesity extreme. As we heard a wag re mark, she needs no " bustle." 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 Mrs. Armitage enter the door of a cab or railway carriage. 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 hams are quite as nutritious as our own curing, while 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, there can be little doubt that the market will soon be cleared of them. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Last week, as the servant man ranges in the very first order of the facts I have been yen of Mr. Win. Forshaw, of Tarleton.hall, Scarisbrick, was turing to produce before the public. The first facts—the returning from Liverpool market, where he had been with child's death, and the lingering convalescence of the mo. a cart load of potatoes, he was met, about a mile from ther—might or might not be the effects of the cause sup- Aintree race course, on .the Ormskirk road, by two fel. posed, taking them simply ; but when the links of addi. lows, who, after demanding his money, seized hold of tional facts, testing all ambiguities, are rivetted succes him, and succeeded in taking from him six sovereigns, sively one with another, a chain results, of which the first with which they made off towards Liverpool. After a link may be considered to stand as a cause, and every few minutes' deliberation, he determined to follow them, o th er f o ll o wing as effect. 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 men 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 .obbers perseverance ar 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 admitted, leaving fifteen in the house. A letter froth 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 for 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 appointment 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 offs• cers, at the salary of £BO a year each, for the four dis tricts into which the township of Toxteth-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 mour, apothecary to the Liverpool Workhouse; 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 ships for the general docks was submitted and approved of. The Chairman said he wished it to be again understood that be had no responsibility in granting the use of these lights. Mr. Tobin : I wish it to be un derstood 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 thc parties who voted against it.—A letter from the master the 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 he 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 said 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 parties 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. __ . . _ _ 2. A poor woman, in the greatest depths of poverty, was twice confined in the Lying-in Hospital. On the last oc casion she was under the care of one of my colleagues, who was requested to visit her afterwards at her cellar. He permits me to state, that he found her in the utmost possible destitution ; her hitsband 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 little crooked street between Gloucester street and Copperas-hill. Her infant and self bad come out from the hospital well. The infant died in a few _lit, but a miserable shake down of straw on the damp 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 hardly any food, but a poor woman, occupying the cellar, gave her a share of her earning*. to prevent her starving, and had also taken part of the straw from her own bed, in order to afford the starving mother a most insufficient covering of the damp floor for an apology for a bed. At first this straw was not more than many a common sized dog gets to lie upon. The matron of the hospital went first to see her, found her in this pitiable plight, and saw to recommend her to make a little sup of gruel child. She replied she had not the meal to make could she get it except by the charity of her kind 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 is 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" would be the more correct term. It may with perfect truth be added, that, a large proportion of thig, the wealthy half, enhances the fault of omission to inquire, by the sin of "commission" in hardening itselfagainst poverty. It sits clothed in the gay garb of sordid indulgence, and turns the deaf ear to the poverty-stricken, or listens to it often but to visit it with the penalty as of a crime. The chain of social sympathy is thereby broken, and the spirit of human nature, which submits not to want with a contented and becoming grace, is branded as lawletts and disaffected towards that portion of society which revels in the lap of luxury and sits at ease in high places. Some retrograde movement will have to be made back towards the hospi tality and alms 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 heroic; but it fails to encourage the struggles 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, reason it, nor hearted Bedford-street, Nov. 15, 1846 G. C. WATSON DISTRESS AMONGST 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 ncum - bency near Tyrone My Dear Mr. Groves,—The papers have no doubt acquainted you with the great destitution in the south of Ireland ; but of 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 him to starve rather than beg, by a spirit of obedience to the law, which would restrain him from be coming notorious by crime. My object in troubling you is to seek your interest and aid for starving fellow crea tures, who worship God under the same ritual as yourself. I will state a few, facts briefly :—My glebe and ch u r c h 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 £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 , ll-dressed men come into my farm yard, and gather the bits of turnips, the refuse of my cattle at night. Ido what 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 publio works begin, and, if possible, to buy some meal and sell it to them at half price when they are in work. They have no potatoes—no meal—nothing to live on. The work house will now be quite full, and they who go there lose their tenements for ever. My application is for no public or general collection. It is a little private matter of my own planning. I therefore expect- but- lift*: - would go further in this way, than more in the public funds. If you could do something for us promptly, (meanwhile they are starving,) God would increase your store and bless your Christian liberality. My heart is sad when I think of it.—Ever yours faithfully, 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 been read, Mr. Thornely, in moving that it be recorded on the minutes, made a long address. He said that although many unpleasant things had arisen dur ing the controversy, he was persuaded it would end in good—that each party would see their proper position, and Viet such an event was not likely to occur again. There was 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, be 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 Workhouse or from the Select Vestry. Mr. Fergu son seconded the motion, and begged to say one word on the subject. The statement he made, and which he thought it his duty to make, at the last meeting, as to the circumstances 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 severe 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 gistrar of births, to vote in Abercromby Ward, and the Mercury has since made an abject apology for the shame ful charge, more shameful because the charge was reiter ated after a previous similar insinuation had been denied. ***4ok* We understand that C. Groves, Es q ., 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 CORRESPONDENCE. 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 issue department, while i❑ the banking department the stock of gold and silver coin has risen from £524,621 to £602,458, showir 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 it has 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 scarcity 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 Morning Chronicle says : ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " We are still firmly of opinion that the great absorp tion of capital which is going forward in railways will tend to an increase of interest, and to a turn in the exchanges. We cannot apprehend an immediate action on the circula tion, nor do we think that the public are unmindful of the prospect before them ; and, therefore, that there is no danger of any such crisis as would otherwise have arisen." Consols left off firmly last week at 94i for money after very slight fluctuation. On Monday no alteration was perceptible, with the exception that all were seller at the above prices. On Tuesday fluctuations t oo k plane, but without any assignable cause than that above mentioned, viz., the influence of sales, &c. On Wednesday, from the understanding that the Bank had received a larger supply of bills than bad 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. Spanish Five per Cents. have declined from 26/ to 25/. Dutch Four per Cents. have continued steady. In the remain ing stocks the prices have been merely nominal. Mexican Bonds have bee❑ done for the account at 21.1, hut there have been no transactions for money. Messrs. Schreider and Co. have declined to deliver up the bonds and money in their possession to Josh M. Mendoza, who has made 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 have 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 throughout 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 continue to counteract the operations of the speculators. The only quotations for Consols were 91/ to / for money, and 941 to for the January opening ; Bank Stock left off 205 to 206; Reduced Three per Cents, 931; Three-and-a. Quar ter per Cents., 95}; and Long Annuities, 91, The Ex chequer-bill market is weak at Bs. to Ds. premium. 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 wer e —B raz ili an at 85i ; D an i s h, at 86 ; Mexican, at 22 for money, and 21/ for the account; Portuguese Four per Cents, at 36 for money, and at 361 for the account; Spanish at 251 for the account ; the Three per Cents., at 361 for the ac count; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., at 59; and the Four per. Cents., Certificates, at 91. Nov. 24, 1846. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LETTER. XIX " Property has its duties as well as its rights.' THE DAMP, FOUL STATE OF DWELLINGS, AND THE HASTY OCCUPATION OF NEW-BUILT HOUSES, SOURCES OF DAN GER—(conlinued). It is surprising to what extent the evils of premature inhabiting of new houses may be, and has actually been carried in the town of Liverpool alone. The dangers are very great, and the mistake not infrequently attended with a fatal result, as the experience of every medical man will chew. I don't suppose there is a medical practitioner 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 sad ef fects, then I shall allude to the cause of them, and finally what may be suggested for the cure of them. 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 if 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, &e. &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, which ustrates 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 de 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 Everton, and improves. She returns home again, and sleeps one night in the old effluvia, and again takes slow fever I" 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 bi for a single night, to the poison, that I should, if I had introduced the wording r almost begin to suspect that my own de nover-statement, arising out of my eager nessip ann was myself, an 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 ami its vicinity were on Friday visited by a severe storm, which has proved destructive to property on the seaboard especially, and, we yet apprehend, to life in the outward channels. The previous day was fine, but 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 -beads on Friday, in order to contemplate the scene, even at the risk of a About noon, at high water, the waves rose with terrific power, for the wind at that time blew with greater seve rity than at any previous or subsequent part of the day. The vessels at anchor in the river, many of them laden with grain, were obliged to brave the fury of theelements. ained the shock with comparatively 1 hers parted from their cables arid two or three Some sus jury; of The Woodside and other ferry steamers could not start precisely at their usual tim from the violence of the waves lasuing against and occasiona , and their efforts to perform their trips, f the middle of the day, were, notwithstandine thei over the sea-wall traordinary difficulty, and uo little danger. The landing and embarking on this side particularly was hazardous, yet the adventurers were, considering the circumstances, pretty numerous, including even the fair sex, who in these days of steam transit by water, are becoming George's Pier, (the principal landing place on this that the writer.of this, who crossed at the time in c the powerful Woodside boats, could not help thinking that, bad 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 plan. The first storm from will probably realise his apprehension of their any westerly point The Skerryvore steam-tust went down about half-pas • • • one o'clock, her funnel, ri ter Basin notes alone to t a. H appily no lives were los vessel was soon broken up , iin her upper , works and por were got out by means of b oa t-h oo k s , b ut by. far the greater quantity floated away down the river, piobably to be seen no mote. At this time the Woodside boat with difficulty effected the passage across the estuary in about an hour! though the ordinary passage is but tea 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 floating stage and some flats, started about an hour before 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 dor inF the storm, early on Friday morning, but got otherwise safely into the river. A tug-boat, draggin g I ran into one of the City of Dublin Company'l and both of them were drifted down the river her anchor, _ its parted from their moorings, and got aground outside ; but such is the strength, buoyancy, and general large f these clumsy-looking, bui most r river -craft, that few of them susiained any m storm in the mit the stream, and while riding at anchor continued to ply their paddl wheels to ease the strain upon their cables. Ono came 8 George's Pier, was dashed with such violence agaii parapet wall at the top of the stairs as to throw do eps at st the vu the nugc stones or Which it was composed, together with the adjoining stron g i ron ra ili ng. T he waves broke furiously over the little light-house at the extremity of t planade new es Island. Shortiiitit;rnoon a brig was seen with her mainmast gone in the outward channel. She was after wards taken 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, and great distress prevailed amonest numerous nartie4 velin 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 Blrlecnhead 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. Thee had been landed from three flats on the previous day. The shed on the north of the coal yard was also flooded, and a number of sacks of flour, &c., were washed out, and carried down the river to beyond the pleasure.grounds north of the hotel. A flat bringing coal for the same deptit, was sunk between the Tranmere and Birkenhead slips, but having been skuttled to keep her from being driven further up, was after Ards got ott • The middle portion of the sea wall, Jr quay. parallel with the river, between the slip and the pleasure grounds, was thrown down, to t length, and 16 in depth, although the sty spectively from 1 ton to 91 or quay, running he extent of 40 feet in gress of being completed by the Corporation of Liverpool, who own the ferry, and was not commenced until the ne cessity for additional lauding accommodation had long become obvious. It is to be regretted that the work, from mistaken , notions of the security of the Ch es hi re s id e 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 as the sea walls on this side the estuary. The crew of Mr. Willoughby's river steamer, the William Fawcett, gave the utmost assistance to the flat noticed, otherwise 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. The 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 overseer of the masons employed in building the new pier at the ferry, was most active and expert, with his men, in saving the stages timber, S.E., and gradually veered to the S.W. at high water. An 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 with- 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 embankment, near Woodside ferry, was washed down, and the loss con, -t t' 't • • sequent .nereon 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 named at a sum which we almost fear to re peat, although it was mentioned on very competent au thority ; the space into which the water has rushed being, we are informed, the size of our Prince's Dock. Some timber was washed adrift on one of the bites of Wallasey pool, and a number of men were busy in endeavouring to recover it, up to their shoulders in water, in which they were successful. The tide washed up upon the new street running from 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 Harlequin exhibited signals of distress on the north-west lightship; and, on Friday evening, the steam tug President towed out the Magazine lifeboat and brought back the whole 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 with 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.orAhree miles further in at the back of Burlio Bank. They succeeded in towing her into Liverpool, and she now liesiffi the Queen's Dock basin. The Saranak, American ship, from Philadelphia, rode at anchor off II ilbre 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 Too' of 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 Runcorn flat, empty,is lying atprescnt high and d ry, 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 but sustained no damage. At Douglas, Isle 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. The sea wall at the ship-yard was carried away, and the end of the smithy which abuts to the bay washed down—the water making a complete in•• road upon the loose timbers in the yard, and the frame of a schooner recently laid down received some severe shocks. In spite of every exertion a good deal of the loose timber floated off, hut 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. Backwell, bookseller, were laid bare to the "ocean wave," by the breaking down of the projecting wall, and a stack of hay in the yard was the sport of the turbulent surf, a great portion of which is spoiled, and a stable wall in the same premises also gave way before the repeated 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, whilst his neighbours on each side fared even worse. The beach wall which protects Mr. Croughan's back pre mises was 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 alarmed at the roaring of the tossed waves, or more aroused than in the gale we are noting. All the cellars on the north quay were full to overflowing, and never watt known a greater abundance of water in cellar kitchens before. The South Devon Extension of the Great Western railway has been stopped by the water of the river Exe being carried over the line in great quantities and break ing down the wall along the whole distance where it skirts the shore. The streets at Starcross are under waster, and the road between Teignrnmith s..A 17- * ld flies to the number of put in requisition in consequence of the iiiwnv y, chaises, omnib fifty having i-Tyne the storm Was at fearful destrUClloll after four o'clock on I attempting to enter th n in, her The life )n, also thrown c fLernoon a brig v 'ded by a Shortly observed nd in d rit carr manned, and after in res t ween the yes on Thursday ineffectual proached the vessels, but as the tide crews refused to leave them. A galliot, st done to the shim Jamag€ ascertained to b dashed on the rod Mr. John Ruddocl saved. Daring Fri LL CON of the Lady Fevershit which g on tne coast is no doubt very con-- the v to we have as elds, whic Captain. the Scephe, of N s drowned, but the cr night, the vessels were lit accounts from Cork are very distr d )wn in torrents, and the tide re city. In some feet high, while in the Grand-parade market it was over twelve inches. In the post-office, George's-street, the 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 inundated. 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 have also been particularly those in the soft goods and losses of a few of them being estimated ad £3OO, up to £5OO. The Misses Fan. had pron--' afferers grocery li at from .4 ning on the Para £loo completely d ty to the amount of a of a new house A pOrt n-road town down. The -lower Glanmire- Great cable to travel by t ter Cork by the Upper-rc e tease s on the There bas been much lose the river a good Much property destrOyed ;sage, abut 300 boxes of ) were overflown in re much damaged so high, re it im- As._ _ ,ehooner News-rooms here, Dublin conch was t road, and had to e coast, owing to the violence of ti escape t fury of the storm Perry, doi deal of dar laaded per A :ore and will been very great, the tide 14;4 ... . possible - to sgve Elliot and ./En The official report received at the )1n Cork, is to the following efn On Friday (th 20th) the port had been visited by a severe storm, which had commenced on the previous night, and still continued up to noon on that day. The wind was at first from the S., but veered round to the S.S.R. ThEre were 130 veasels lying. in the harbour at noon, and damage to a great extent accrued amongst them. What injury had taken place on board or the mass of the vessels, could not then be ascertained, a landing. The Nimrod steamer, from this port, went into Cove barbour'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 Eneas got on shore. The brig Ellen and Margaret was wrecked. The Neapolitan brig Sofia went on shore, but was assisted off with some damage. The beach was strewn with ships' boats broken up. About tirty whale-boats were all in. pieces, belonging chiefly t o the agents. In the neighbour hood every house 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 br known, came into contact with the ship EmTgrant. The Blarney from I 3eck stancheous stove in, hitving got f rpool, had her lul of , The Empress, led with loss 0 e ship don to On Satu 1 other THE DUCHY OF - LANCASTER. We have received "(says the 'Dublin Mail) from a Lon don correspondent the following. verilinn of the rpp_ent nn- k/A ••••••• aIVIII V . 151U1.1 Ul LUV ICU... 141, pointmentsin 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 vraisemblance well calculated to obtain credit : u " e e T n h . e DHuecrhir aj s L t} a , n h c a l s s been ter is m the u c private p p property t o fi f n t h d e . ing, that, although she had a nominal rental of £28,000 per annum, she received but £lO,OOO , and as she was aware that the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall, 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, and of whom Sir James Graham ani Lord Lincoln were the leadim; 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 request to those persons and Lord Hardwicke, and the Dub - 0 lertake e of Bedford, to unn,. —le management of the The three Conservative gentlemen, of course, consented, on condition that they were to have nothing to do with the patronage, leaving that to the Chancellor of the Duchy, thus keeping themselves clear of any obliga tion to Lord John Russell or the Government." estates THE TEA DUTIES. The popularity of tea as a wholesome and refreshing be- counts of its import and consumption, were as superfluous as to produce voluminous evidence of a truism. Tea forms, in fact, in almost all families, the sole liquid portion of two important daily meals ; and it has from habit be- come indispensible, not only on the well plenished tables of the rich, and on the plainer boards of the middle classes ;. but, descending in the scale, we find tea to be (if we may so express it) the grand mollifier and assistant in the pleasurable mastication of the otherwise dry crust of the poor, to whom, in the absence of dainties, it becomes more of a necessary than a luxury of life. With respect to the wealthy, the price of the article is of less moment, their means being adequate to meet a high expenditure ; but as regards the other two classes, it is es pecially important (more particularly with reference to the last) that the consumption of tea should be encouraged, by its being afforded to them at moderate prices, which might he accomplished. were the secondary qualities not smothered up and repelled from the market by exorbitant duties, which positively defeat their own purpose, and at the same time impolitically deprive the greater numerical portion of the community of a comfort and a means of sustenance, not only perfectly innocuous in itself, but con ducive to social doinestic habits and to sobriety. Were there something poisonous in the tea-plant— something destructive to the 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 out taken advantage of the very virtue of the lieges—for it is a virtue to prefer lea to beer, or other potent drinks of former times—to fill the coffers of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, without reference or con descension to the comforts of the masses. 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 affections. 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, which 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, and the means of transit to and fro would form an impor tant extension of our mercantile marine, and our school for navigators. The reduction of the duties on teas would, we feel as sured, be acknowledged as a " boon" by all classes of the community, and would not, in our view of the question, involve a loss to the government, but rather tend to in crease the finances and resources of the country. The facts of the case are simple, and may be hri, fly stated from a work now before us—A Letter to Sir R. Peel, dated December last, by Mr. Edward Brodribb, a member of the Liverpool East India and China Associa tion, and published by " The Liverpool Association for the Reduction of the Duty on Tea." This small but in telligent work exposes, beyond the reach of contradiction, the impolicy of the system hitherto pursued in regard to the tea trade, giving valuable statistics of the rising duties on its import, from time to time, over nearly a century. We antieipate that the meeting in this town, on Wed nesday, (to-morrow,) convened by the Mayor, will be nu merously attended, and will help powerfully to forward the present agitation. me, un- The luau, wincn naa 'ent upon the boat, a