The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

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MINTON delivered his first lecture on the book of Joshua on Tuesday evening. MR. GREENALL, M.P., was entertained at dinner at Warrington on Thursday last. M E EXPORT OF RAGS from this port to America has declined immensely of late. A GRATIFYING INCREASE is exhibited in the number of daily visitors to the Free Public Library. A MEETING was held at Bury on Friday week, to ad vocate a ten-hours' bill, with restrictions on the moving power. LAST WEEK a public inquiry was instituted into the state of the Bury burial ground. It is proposed to have a cemetery at some distance from the town. THE BLACKBURN STANDARD denies the statement in some of the London papers that Mr. Eccles, one of the members, was about to resign his seat. PRINCIPAL SCOTT has been lecturing during the past week at the Manchester Free Library, on " The great poetical authors and eras." ELLIS BARNS, a child two and a half years old, was burned to death the other day in Blackburn, in the sence of its parents. Two IRISHMEN, Thomas Riley and John Mahon, have been committed for trial at the Liverpool Assizes, for a desperate garotte robbery at Wigan. Their victim was Thomas Myers, nail-maker, Downall Green, Ashton. A WRITER in the Manchester Guardian protests against the proposal to place the monument to' Dr. Dal ton in a private cemetery, and suggests that his public worth demands " a cen t r i ca l an d conspicuous situation." ON TUESDAY, at the Police Court, Catherine flukey, a " searcher" at the Workhouse, was sent to gaol for two months, for robbing Harriet Jones, a servant girl, of a variety of articles of wearing apparel. JAMES CHISNALL, Blackburn, who seems to have hal a mania for robbing his mother, has been committed to the sessions for trial. The silver spoons were the last articles stolen. THE PROGENY OF A COW belonging to S. E. Boldon, Esq., of Red Bank, near Lancaster, has been sold for one thousand guineas. For a calf at eight months old Mr. B. has refused one hundred guineas. A CONSCIFNCE- STRICKEN THIEF, who twenty-seven years ago stole a trifling article from Mrs. Catlow, toy dealer, Blackburn, has sent half-a-crown to Mrs. C. as " restitution." AT THE EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING of the Literary and Philosophical Society yesterday evening week, the Atev- Arthur R amsa y, M . A., read a very learned paper, on the practical application of comparative philology." JAMES MYERSCOUGH was committed for trial at the Liverpool assizes, on Friday last, at Rochdale, charged with the manslaughter of Isaac Lowe, herb dealer, his father-in-lav;r. Iliadc has advanced to ls. 4d. per gallon in the neigh bourhood of some of the woollen cloth mills in Lancashire, in consequence of a recent discovery that milk mixed with oil answers the purpose of the more expensive olive oil. ANN O'NEILL was sentenced to eighteen months' im- Prisonment, at the Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, for stealing £lO5 from James Arbuthnot, a baker, of 76. Arley street, whilst labouring under the influence of gingerette, on the 17th December last. A. PERSON NAMED JANES, a coal-trimr, belonging to the Pacific, fell into the Huskisson Lo m ck, e on Saturday night, while loading coals on board said ship, and received such i n j ur i es that he died on Tuesday morning, at the Northe rn Hospital. JOAN COLLING of Bacup labourer, aged . 60 years, was on Sunday morni ng last found burned - to death on the tl fi oor of hi s dwelling He had fallen on the bars of the e - grate, in the absence of his wife, while getting out of bed, THE SCOTCH papers assert that 30 years ago a vessel nam the " Hi g hl an d L a d" was fi tte d up b y M essrs. Claud d, Girswood and Co., of Glasgow, with a caloric engine, the invention of the Rev. Mr., now Dr., Stirling, of Galston, in Ayrshire. n MARY R OLUINSON, a fine young girl, aged 16, 3 Court awke-street, went to assist an old woman in attending on her husband on Monday night; her dress accidentally 'caught fire, and she was conveyed to the R o yal I n fi rmar y, where she presents a frightful spectacle, her neck, chest, arms, hands, 'Ste., being quite divested of flesh. AT THE COUNTY COURT, the other day, it was con tended that a ring, sold by Messrs. Cohan, the pawnbro kers, of South Castle-street, was a " gold" ring, though they could not swear that a hundredth part of it was composed of the precious metal. lir. Rime, solicitor for Messrs.`Cohan, said that in 999 cases out of a thousand that was what was sold for a " gold" ring. SERGEANT HEAP, of the county police, Blackburn, in complying with the request of a letter recently received 'through the post, has ascertained that twenty-five years ago one of a gang of robbers had confessed to a woman with whom he cohabited, that he robbed, and then mur dered, a travelling Scotchman named David Hevon, who travelled in Todmorden, Bacup, and Burnley. The body of the deceased was found in the Rochdale canal, near 'Gariehohne, at the time, when the coroner's jury gave a - verdict of " Found drowned." A DISQUALIFICATION FOR CURATES.—The Rev. H. Stowell, in the course of a lecture on " Habit," which he gave to the members of the Manchester Young Men's Christian Association on Tuesday night, denounced the practice of tobacco-smoking in unmeasured terms. He said, " Never myself will I hire a curate who indulges in it. I never now make inquiries for a curate but I invari ably ask, is he a smoker of tobacco? if he is, I instantly reject his application." ON TUESDAY there was hunched from the building-yard of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and pretty little iron screw-steamer of about 240 tons Son, a arthen and 60-horse power, the first of a series of three vesse. for the company, known as the Austrian Lloyds. The 'vessel is called the San Giusto. She will go to the Me diterranean, and will he placed upon the station between Alexandria and Trieste. Messrs. James Watt and Co., of Soho Foundry, Birmingham, are making the engines. THE BANK ROBBERY, LIVERPOOL.—At the Court of Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, Frederick Clarke, aged 32, was charged with stealing the sum of £3,000 from Robert 'Spencer Humphreys, a clerk in the offices of Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co., in the Branch Bank of - England on Saturday, the 13th of November, last. Mr. Aspinall conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J. H. Parry the de fence. The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty, and the Prisoner was discharged. AT THE RECENT DINNER of the Blue-Coat Brotherly Society. Samuel Holme, Esq., the Mayor of Liverpool, remarked that that institution was one of the genuine fruits of the true spirit of Christianity ; and in travelling as he had recently done, over classi c groun d, h e h a d re marked, th at while magnificent ruins studded the coun— try, which had been the temples of their gods, while baths, and retains,foun and amphitheatres, mightbe found, the eye w a as ratified, n or th e hea delighted, by the sight of building known to be erected for purposes of charity. SErrocTioN is LIVERPOOL. —In the Court of Passage, on Wednesday last, a trial took place, in which Mrs. Hallom, of Clarence -street, Everton, was plaintiff, the defendant being Edward Dowling, a clerk in the employ ment of Messrs. Moore, soapboilers. The plaintiff sought to recover damages for the alleged seduction of her daughter. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 4.70. The details of this case are quite unfit for _Publication. Th e ev i dence of George Morris, formerly a la ceman, lately a jeweller in partnership with Mr. Clarke, was of the most disgraceful character. This person, in whose employ ment t h e plaintiff had been while he was a iYf e dealer, was ca ll e d b y the defendant. On Thursday, r s - Atkinso n app li ed for a rule nisi for a new trial, and was _ dire cted to m a k e hi s app li cation after the jury had been discharged. Messrs. Clarke and Morris have dis solved partnership since the trial. LON DON AND NORTH-WESTERN' AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES. —On Thursday a numerous meeting of proprietors was held at the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange-buildings, to receive a report of the committee of shareholders in both companies, ap- Pointed at a public meeting held in this town, in October last. Mr. Wm. Rathbone was called to the chair.—The committee, in their report, state "That some progress had been made in the attainment of your object when the appointment of a select committee of the House of Commons to consider the whole question of railway legislation induced the Great Western Company to break off the negotiation, and await the result of that im portant measure. Your committee, then, as their last resource, deemed it their duty to apply to the board of trade, and urge upon the government the the•cbject for which your committee was formed, p,_ o ut at the same time the advantages to be derived fror, 'Zilarly report of the select committee above referred to I Orly might mitigate or suspend a ruinous and perhaps ria.,,„. faeil3,ve Parliamentary stiuggle. It is with much satis govertt that your committee are enabled to report that the but Et ,, tr `ent not only sympathise with the shareholders, jest, *:4:ially impressed with the magnitude of the sub cemlinisteeprenared, through the medium of the select su ggesti o n _ t °, _institute proper inquiry and receive every true interests elusion, wi l l : lei is likely to lead them to a correct con gottbe ,„, , ,Y freely stated that they considered the mittee su identical and co u l d t t l'e- Public and the shareholders were the c oin i Parties, of th they should receive- es e separated."—The Chairman said d that, if possible, before Easter, .. B all Present ex some interpretation, to be agreed to e guage act, and, if possible, prevent s poke f was admitted I PeneiVe committees going on and when he o e xpens . Creed ire committees, he might state that it anim al in .!le two bodies were spending £70,000 per Y the Parhanaentary proceedings, besides what was Penses of the Great •He believed the parliamentary sum of of •t 700,000 air. Hall Western amounted to the enormous th e auditors than that not lessHe moved the adoption of the report. seconded the motion.—Mr. H. Crossfield, one of h London and North-Western, believed two eeumanie £loo,ooo had been spent between the insi s t revenu of iear that the parliamentg what the directors were spending ; Y expenses should be shown in the t ueY were allowed and thus cornpany, and not added to the capital. exPenses to constantly a ccumulating. (Hear, hear.) If the to go on without interruption, adding air. Hall a e capital, it would never have an end.— westernsked whether in the London and North- Company the parliamentary expenses were Crossfieldeacpoiutladi carried to the revenue account, or to capital ?—Mr. added to pang this half state that not a single farthing had been __in the London and North-western Corn was agreed Ye to a ar.--At the suggestion of the chairman, it being a pro Mr. Hall moved proprietor Edward Cardwell, Esq., (he not or) to act on the select committee. sent committee be a resolution to the effect that the pre breefriuested to continue their labours, and add a number jointly interested in boetl:c elsewhere of those gentlemen to effect the object of theerePanies as might be calculated said he had no objection to shar eholders.—The Chairman assist otbera in the formatioremain on the committee and after_ that he must discontinue of in strong committee, but . e his services, on the ground , r his age and other occupations.—The resolution moved may iii Hallr. adop ted . was seconded by M r . uusamously, Elias Arnaud, and Imports THE MAYOR has issued an instruction prohibiting the sale of wines and spirits in the Town-hall at public balls. THE FOUNDATION STONE of the Salford Athenaeum. and Temperance Hall was laid on Monday morning. DR. DUNCAN, the Medical-officer of Health, informed the Committee, on Thursday, that the birth of children was not at all dependent upon the state of the atmosphere. MARGARET LEDWITCH, a married woman, residing at No. 8 Court, Pall-mall, died suddenly on Saturday night, from the effects of a drinking bout. EDWARD JONES, a poor man, was killed accidentally on Wednesday last at the Wapping Railway Station, in consequence of being jammed between two wagons. THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMER PACIFIC, Capt. Nye, sailed hence on Wednesday, for New York, with 40 passengers and a full cargo of fine goods. THE NOTTINGHAM FACTORY GIRL, whose story was recently given in the Standard, has been made a countess by the Emperor Napoleon. Miss (or as she is now called Mrs.) Howard is now the Countess of Beauregard, and has got a village which cost £30,000. A CORRESPONDENT of a contemporary draws attention to the fact that women-catchers are employed busily at this time in entrapping young females who are returning alone and unprotected from public school and other tea parties of a like character. THE. Manchester Guardian tells of two beautiful pic tures, by Ary Scheffer, having been purchased, at the Orleans Gallery sale, by Mr. Agnew, of that town. They illustrate passages in the " Faust" of Goethe, and are valued at 500 guineas the pair. - - • THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY have presented medals to Captain Nye and the crew of the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, which recently saved the men from the wreck of the Jessie, of St. John's. THE LIVERPOOL RAGGED SCHOOLS.—The annual meeting is announced to take place at the Theatre Royal this day, and is likely to be a highly influential and in teresting one ; the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the Rev. Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, and Mr. Mansfield, our stipen diary magistrate, having promised to attend. THE FORTNIGHTLY meeting of the Liverpool Chemists' Association was held on Ft iday week, at the Royal Insti tution—the president, Mr, Sumner, in the chair. Dr. D. P. Thomson delivered a most instructive lecture on the diffusion of vapour in the atmosphere. A TESTIMONIAL, provided by 4646 females of Oldham, was presented at a tea-party held in honor of Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., on Friday week. The present was a velvet purse, with 112 sovereigns in it. On the following even ing a silver inkstand was presented to Mr. Fox by the non-electors. STATE OF THE CHANNEL.—At the last meeting of the Architectural Society, the secretary, Mr. Joseph Boult, stated that the channel was returning to its former pre carious condition, when the Dublin mail used to be de tained many hours from the want of water, and that some precautionary measures should be adopted. INTEMPERANCE has seized another victim in Liverpool. James Wilson, a fireman on board the Pacific steamer, left the Atlantic Hotel late on Saturday night week in a state of intoxication. Next morning, he was found in the Huskisson Dock insensible. He died in the Northern Hospital on Tuesday. THE SCRUTINEERS appointed at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce presented their report on Tuesday, by which it appeared that Charles Robertson, Esq., Joseph Hubback, Esq., W. J. Tomlin son, Esq., Edward Higgin, Esq., and P. A. Clint, Esq., were chosen directors by ballot. Messrs. A. H. Coglie. J. E. Naylor, and R. Sheil, had each the same nnmber of votes. The committee have elected Mr. Sheil. THE LIFE-BOAT ACCIDENT AT RHYL.—The inquiry was closed on Monday evening. The jury found, " That the deceased men were accidentally drowned by the up setting of the Rhyl life-boat ; at the same time, the jury are of opinion that this boat is not suitable for this sta tion ; and with respect to the life-belts, they consider that they were wholly inefficient for the intended purpose." MEETINGS of the carrying interest have been held during the last week at Liverpool, Birmingham, Lan caster, and Preston, to consider and concert measures for attaining a more equitable treatment of carriers by rail ways, and with the view of applying to parliament for the introduction of protective and controlling clauses into any measure for the amalgamation of the great railway interests. THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ALBERT LODGE, NO. 10, of the Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain, held a soiree on Monday evening, in St. Silas's School-room, Pembroke-place. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. C. Eyton, the deputy grand master of the order. The meet ing was addressed by the Rev. W. F. Taylor, Rev. S. Minton, Rev. W. H. Duck, and other speakers. MORTALITY IN LrVERPOOL.—During the last week the deaths in the borough amounted to 200, 139 in the parish, and 61 in the extra-parochial wards. This •shows a decrease of 16 as compared with the week preceding, and of 36 as compared with the average. The decrease has been chiefly in chronic diseases. A girl eight years old, died from small pox, never having been vaccinated. A "gentleman," aged 34, died from delirium treniew. ADDRESSING LETTERS TO THE JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT.—In the course of Wednesday's sitting his honour severely commented on the extraordinary conduct of a person who signed himself John Quayle, M.D., who had forwarded to him a letter in reference to a case of his which had been tried in this court. If Mr. Quayle had any application to make to him, it must be in public and on oath. EMIGRATION IN 1852.—The number of emigrants who sailed from the United Kingdom in the year WU is com puted by the commissioners of emigration to have born — From English ports, 306,279; from Scotch ports, 19,955 ; from Irish ports 41,441 ; making a grand total of 367,675, or 1004 a day. Upwards of 66 per cent went to the United States.; and to Australia 86,901 souls. 229,099 of the emigrants sailed from Liverpool. AN ACCIDENT happened on the Chester and Crewe branch of the London and North-western Railway, on Saturday morning week. One of the rails was displaced, and was jerked through the bottom of a first-class car riage. Providentially one of the gentlemen in the car riage had changed from the seat through which the bar of iron was forced, or he would have been killed. The iron bar passed between another of the gentlemen's legs. THE Greenock Advertiser states that a meeting of the sugar refiners of Scotland was held at Greenock on Satur day, Mr. Robert Macfie in the chair, when it was agreed by a majority to submit to government a plan for refining sugar under bond, by which it was proposed that all colo nial sugar and molasses should be taken into refinery without payment of any duty ; that all foreign sugar and molasses should pay to the custom-house the differential duty, exigible for the time being, until the duties on all sugars be equalized ; that the differential duty on foreign sugar, &c., having been paid, the whole of the su gars i n the refinery are thereby reduced to the same level as colo- nial ; and that the produce of the refinery, when intended for home consumption, to be charged the duties payable on colonial sugars. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of this com mittee, on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdale was in the chair. The Chairman said that a writ had been taken out against Mr. Freme, in respect to the claim against him for the paving of Oil-street.—A letter from Mr. John Atkinson was read : it complained of injury which his property, at the corner of Hurst-street and Carpenter's-row, had sustained in consequence of the late dispute between the Dock and Health Committees respecting the street levels at Wapping. The letter was referred to the sub-committee of works of the Dock Com mittee.—A resolution was passed for continuing, for a month longer, the temporary arrangement with Mr. Rose for the emptying of ash pits. Docic COMMITTEE. —At the weekly meeting, on Thursday, Mr. Turner, M.P., presided. The Harbour. masters' Sub-committee recommended that in future vessels requiring to go into the graving -docks be allowed to remain ten weeks on the list instead of six. After some conversation, the matter was referred back to the Harbour-masters' Committee, it being thought by some members of the Dock Committee that the proposed change would not work. Tim chairman said that the Finance Committee had had a meeting with the Audit Commissioners, on the subject of a more efficient audit of the dock accounts, and after the meeting the Commis sioners proposed to consult and consider what steps they would adopt. They had held a special meeting, at which it had been agreed to recommend to the Dock Commit tee, in consideration of the increase of the dock accounts and the additional labour necessary to an efficient audit, that the salary of the special auditor appointed by the Commissioners should be i ncrease d f rom £ l5O to :£3OO a-year. They also requested that rooms should be appro priated to their use and that of the special auditors, and that arrangements should be made by which, at all times, they could have access to the books and papers. The Fi nance Committee recommended that the proposition of the Audit Commissioners, as to the auditor, should be carried out so far as it could legally be done, and that the survyor and secretary should see whether any rooms could be found in the dock office for the accommodation of the commissioners and auditors. The chairman said there were two auditors, one appointed by the Dock Commit tee, and the other by the commissioners themselves. It had always been desirable that the special auditors should have access to the different checks in the Custom-houe. The Dock Committee appointed Mr. Bezer, of the cus toms, who could only give them his time after the Cus tom-house closed at four o'clock. The auditor appointed by the commissioners themselves was Mr. Moore, and each of those gentlemen, by act of parliament, had £l5O a-year, which was paid by the Dock Committee. The commissioners pressed very strongly upon the Finance Committee that they (the commissioners) ought to have the continuous services of one person to check the ac counts efficiently, and they thought that, for the conti nuous services of a proper person, £3OO a-year would not be too much. They wished to have the continuous ser vices of Mr. Moore, or of any other gentleman who might be appointed, and recommended that that should be the salary. Mr. Bezer would continue to have £l5O a-year, inasmuch as he could only give a part of his services. It was ultimately resolved to refer the matter back to the Finance Committee, with instructions to inquire what the commissioners proposed to do, and whom they proposed to appoint. The secretary read a communica tion from Mr. North, the dock solicitor, as to the powers of consolidating the debt of the dock trustees, stating that the powers were comprised in the 29th and nine following sections of the 11th Victoria, and that difficulties, more perhaps of a financial than a legal character, seemed to present themselves at every step. He could not see how a debt, always fluctuating and chan g in g in am o u n t, pay able at various dates, and with interest at different rates, could be consolidated. The idea of consolidation seemed to him to be applicable only to a certain fixed and perma nent amount of capital of the nature of stock, bearing an unvarying rate of interest, and payable at the same time. And it this difficulty could be got over, there was another which seemed to him to be fatal, for no change could be made in the general character of the debt, or the securi ties for the same, without the consent of every bond cre ditor, which, for obvious reasons, it would be impossible to obtain. He was reluctantly compelled to advise that the proposed change, however desirable it might be in itself, was not capable of being carried into effect under the present powers and circumstances of the trustees. After some conversation the subject dropped, arid the fiaaacial bushing was proceeded with. THE REV. W. F. TAYLOR will deliver the second lecture of his Anti-papal Series, this evening in St. Johns Church, subject " The Man of Sin, and Son of perdition." A HOUSE in Trwell-place, Strangeways, Manchester, fell into the river Irwell, on Wednesday night, and its inmates had a narrow escape of their lives. THE POST-OFFICE AUTHORITIES advertised on Thurs day that ship mails for Melbourne would be made up, to be sent by the steamer Iron Prince, which leaves Liver pool on the 22nd instant. A GIRL, NAMED ELLEN CONDRON, who had been prac tising similar tricks i❑ Liverpool, was, on Tuesday, sent to trial by the Dublin magistrates for perjury, in making most strange accusations of robbery against different innocent parties. ON TUESDAY a large number of workmen commenced operations for laying down the telegraph from the central station, at Lothbury, direct to Manchester, the wires to extend under the turnpike roads. IT IS SAID the owners of the Marco Polo, for Australia, intend giving £2OO to the medical officer, and passage back if desired. Generally the shipowners and emigration agents pay nothing to the doctors employed. A NUMBER, OF TNSTANCES have lately occurred of able seamen paying their passages to Australia, for the sole purpose of engaging at the high rate of wages now offered by many vessels to navigate them home or to fore ign ports. BURGLARY.—On Wednesday night the premises of Mr. James Chesney, grocer, Commutation-row, were entered by thieves. Eighteen sovereigns and a canister of tea were carried off. 'WILLIAM PICKLES was committed for trial by the Miln thorpe magistrates on Wednesday, for attempting to upset a train on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, by placing a pickaxe on the rails. THOMAS LowTnIAN, butcher, was convicted at the police-office, on Thursday, of offering for sale, at his shop, St. John's Market, two cows' sweetbreads as calves' sweetbreads, the value of the former being about ld. each, and of the latter 2s. each. Ile was ordered to pay a fine of ss. and costs. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning the Lon. don mail train, due at Liverpool about four o'clock, did not arrive until after eight. The delay was occasioned by an accident at the Stretton station, on the Trent Val ley line. A goods train, consisting of 14 or 15 waggons, ran off the line, and blocked up both lines for several hours. No person received the slightest injury, neither was any serious damage done to the engine or waggons. AN OBLIGING LANDLORD.-A person occupied a house in Pitt street for three years, but paid no rent for three quarters. The owner, Mr. J. Blackley, Park-road, not only forgave him the rent, but gave him three sovereigns to get rid of him. The tenant left the house, and when Mr. Blackley went with his men to clean the house, he found the floors of four of the rooms besmeared with coal-tar, twenty-four panes of glass broken, the cellar stairs destroyed, and other damage done. THE NEW CLIPPER•SHIP STAR OF THE EAST was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. W. and R. Wright, on Monday. Length of keel, 206 feet ; length aloft, 221 feet; extreme length from figure-head to taff rail. 237 feet ; breadth of beam, 40 feet 10 inches ; depth of hold, 22 feet ; and register tonnage, 1,219 tons. The quantity of canvas will be over 5,500 yards. We pro nounce the Star the most splendid ship ever built in this harbour.—St. John (N.B ) Courier.—[This ship is now on her way to this port.] AT THE COUNTY COURT, on Tuesday, his honour gave an important decision, in the case of Dutton v. Young. The plaintiff, a tailor and draper, sued Mr. N. M. Young, book-agent, for £1 10s. 6d., for goods supplied. The defendant pleaded as a set-off the sum of £2 Is., of which the plaintiff admitted 155., but objected to £1 65., the price of a copy of the History of Liverpool, for which the plaintiff had subscribed. The subscri►,tion book having been produced, in which the plaintiff had signed his name, the judge decided that any person sub scribing for a book, was bound to receive and pay for it when delivered. THE ARABIAN.—SALVAGE.—This was an action at the Admiralty Court, on Monday, brought by the screw steamer Phoebe against the Arabian, also a screw-steamer, to obtain remuneration for salvage services rendered to her from the 24th to the 26th of June last. Both vessels were homeward-bound from Constantinople to Liverpool, with general cargoes. The Arabian, on the morning of the 24th, accidentally broke her intermediate shaft, and, having been taken in tow, was conducted back to Malta— a distance of 250 miles. The principal point in contest between the parties was the danger to which the Arabian was exposed. The value of the property salved was £14,000, and the action was entered for £7,000. The learned judge awarded £950, with costs. ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.— The tenth meeting of the session was held at the Royal Institution, on Wednesday evening. Mr. Verelst, presi dent, was in the chair. Mr. R. Jones, jun., was admitted an associate member, and Mr. John Ramsden a student member. In the course of the interesting proceedings, the chairman made some observations on the students' designs for the Duke of Wellington's mausoleum, which is to cost £s,ooo.—Mr. Boult invited attention to Mr. Rennie's project for a breakwater at the mouth of the Mersey.— Mr. Picton expressed his opinion that the proposed break water would not remove the obstructions in the channel. Mr. T. S. Scott then read a paper, entitled " Loose Architectural Notes made in France and Italy, in 1850." MUSIC AND EMIGRATION.—Next week Mr. Henry Russell, the celebrated vocalist, will give five of his pic torial and vocal entertainments at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, and each evening a transferable ticket for passage to Australia will be drawn for by the audience. At a cost of mars than a hundred pounds passages have been secured in the packet-ship Falcon, or other first-class vessel, to sail in April next, belonging to Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of this port. We understand that each person on entering the hal! will receive a ticket, and duplicates of all the tickets will be placed in a hat or basket. A person from the audience will then be selected to draw the tickets, and the seventh number drawn will be the prize. The price of admission has been fixed at a uniform rate, so that all may have an equal chance. BIGAMY AT LIVERPOOL.—On Tuesday last, William Costello was charged at the Police-court with having been married to Catherine Flood, at the Register-office, Brownlow-hill, on the 10th January, his first wife being still alive. The second wife did not appear. Mr. Sayle, detective officer, produced a copy from the register of the first marriage, which was solemnized at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Chapel, Great Crosby, on the 2d July, 1840. William Turner, bricklayer, swore that he was present at the marriage, when he signed the register. The prisoner and his wife lived together for twelve years, and carried on business in a provision-shop in Vauxhall.road and Byrom-street. The prisoner had taken a passage for him self, second wife, and one of her cousins, in the Frances, about to proceed to Australia. He is said to be worth £1,200, which was acquired by the industry of the first wife.—He has been committed for trial. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS. — The weekly meeting was held on Wednesday, Mr. Harrison in the chair..—Mr. Bennett was appointed to succeed Mr. Tomkins, as re lieving officer at Toxteth.—The clerk read a letter from Messrs. Holt and Rowe, solicitors, on behalf of Mr. M'Govern, whose contract for supplying bread to the paupers had, on several occasions, been a subject of dis cussion at the hoard. It was to the effect that the atten tion of Mr. M'Govern had been called to the report of a speech delivered by Mr. Kirkus, reflecting very strongly on the character of Mr. M'Govern, and imputing to him fraud and robbery. Before taking notice of the proceed ing, he wished to give Mr. Kirkus an opportunity of with drawing such charges.—The clerk said that, so far from Mr. Kirkus withdrawing, or making any concessions, he (the clerk) was prepared to reiterate all that Mr. Kirkus had said. The proceedings concluded with an application from the able-bodied paupers, who stated that, if they were not better compensated for their industry, either in the shape of rations or wages, they would strike and leave their work. The announcement created much amusement. MERCANTILE USAGE. —ln the Liverpool Court of Passage, on Tuesday, a case of considerable importance was heard. A custom has obtained in Liverpool that on all ordinary bills of lading, no matter what their wording is, even the words " freight paid on delivery" being in troduced, the amount is paid less three months' discount, except where a specific clause is put in, making the freight payable on delivery less discount. A short time ago the Zodiac, from Alexandria, arrived at this port, and her bills of lading being indorsed to Messrs. William Rathbone and Co., they obtained the portion of the cargo consigned to them, the freight upon which was £446 6s. Messrs. Rathbone tendered the captain £441 Os. 11d., being the full amount of freight less discount for three months, which was refused. This amount, however, was subsequently received without prejudice, and it was agreed that the decision of a competent tribunal should be taken on the legality of the custom. The bill of lading stated the freight was to be paid at a certain rate, but no time for payment was specified ; and on this a sum of ss. Id. was sought to be recovered. A verdict was re turned for the defendants, Messrs. Rathbone and Co. THE ASSIZES.—The next assizes at Lancaster will commence on Thursday, 17th February, and at Liverpool on Tuesday 224 March. The records in causes to be tried at Lancaster, and at issue on or before Wednesday, the 24 of February, should be ordered forthwith ; and in those to be tried at Liverpool, and at issue on or before Mon. day, the 7th of March, should be ordered on that day. The last day for making up issues in time for trial at the next assizes at Liverpool, will be Saturday, the 12th of March, on which day the records must be ordered. Rule day after the assizes, Thursday, the 24th of March. The causes to be tried at Liverpool will be entered in the fol lowing order: Ist list, Salford hundred. 24 list, West Derby hundred or elsewhere. The entry of causes at Lancaster will close at nine o'clock on Friday morning, the 18th of February, and at Liverpool at twelve o'clock at noon on Wednesday, the 23d of March. The causes in the second list will not be called on for trial before Fri day, the 25th of March. The Chancery Court will be held at St. George's-hall, Liverpool, on Thursday, the 24th of March, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. MR. LEA AND THE LAMP POSTS.-At the Health Committee on Thursday, Mr. Hughes, the deputy town clerk, read a long communication from Mr. Lea. He stated that his purpose was to introduce the system by using only those lamps established in business thorough fares. After faithfully performing a variety of gratuitous public services, the remainder of the boards or banners will be devoted to the uses of the local trading commu nity, each individual of whom will be permitted to record simply his or her name, address, and occupation, without ever admitting, for any consideration, the slightest expres sion of an empirical or " puffing" character. A letter was read from Mr. John Reay, secretary of the Guardian Society. The committee of the Guardian Society were of opinion that the adoption of Mr. Lea's plan would be highly objectionable and inexpedient, and ought not to be sanctioned. The committee suggest the desirableness of having extended throughout the borough the plan now only partially adopted of naming the streets upon the lamps in the form now used, with the addition, where practicable, of stating upon the lamp, say at the bottom of Bold-street, " Bold-street, leading to Slater-street." This they apprehend was within the province of the Health Committee, and need not be interfered with by a private individual. The consideration of the subject was deferred to Thursday next; whatever decision the com mittee came to it would be banded over to the Watch Committee. A NAUTICAL SCHOOL, as will be seen by advertise- I went, is to be opened at the Sailors' Home. A LARGE DoG, in a state of madness, was shot, on Monday week, at Speke ; but not until it had bitten a number of dogs, a cow, and a sheep. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM SHIP ARABIA, Judkins, commander, took her departure hence on Saturdoy, at noon, with about sixty passengers and a large cargo, besides the usual mails. MISS EMMA JACKSON'S FIRST GRAND CONCERT will take place to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, in the pre sence of the Mayor. The list of vocalists is respectable, and the programme is selected with taste. COTTON FROM TRINIDAD.—We have had submitted to us a very beautiful sample of cotton, grown in the island of Trinidad. This island presents one of the finest cotton fields in the world.—Manchester Examiner. JOHN WATSON, aged forty-four years, fell into the hold of the ship Loodianah, while lying in the Canning Graving dock, on Tuesday, and received injuries which caused his death on Friday. Two MEN, HALL and POWELL, chr.rged on Saturday, at the Borough Sessions, with stealing wool from bales, the property of Mr. Henry Brownett, were convicted and sentenced, the former to fifteen, and the latter to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. THE DEAD:BODY of a full-grown female child was found on the waste ground in Canning-street about eight o'clock on Saturday morning. An inquest was held on Monday (yesterday) before the Borough Coroner, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the facts. HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR, on Thursday evening last, invited a select party of gentlemen to meet Colonel and Major Burns, who are here on a visit to James Aikin, Esq. Mr. George Holden's glee company sang appro priate glees from the Scottish bard. JOHN MITCHELL, fireman on board the tug steamer Athens, was found dead in the engine-room on Saturday morning. It is supposed that he had been accidentally struck by a portion of the machinery. An inquest was held yesterday, when a verdict was returned " accidentally killed." REEL CARRIAGE.—Mr. Hewitt, superintendant of the fire-police, has just invented a hose-reel carriage of great beauty and utility. It will in most cases render the taking of engines to a fire unnecessary. He is sending models to the New York and Dublin exhibitions. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN WaS so satisfied with the services of her last Welsh wet nurse, that she is desirous of engaging another for her approaching confinement. and, if possible, from the vicinity of Bangor.—North Wales Chronicle. THE AMPHITHEATRE.—The grand somersault contest of England against the United States terminated on Sa turday in favour of the Englishman, Mr. Barnes having thrown on that night 76 somersaults, which made a total of 393 ; while Mr. Franklin, who on that night only threw 58, completed altogether but 313 somersaults. THE NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS who left this port dur ing the month of January was 5,137, a fewer number than in any month since 1847. From the Government Emi gration Depot, Birkenhead, the Derry Castle sailed on Monday, having 360 souls on board, of whom 250 were single women, chiefly Irish ; and the Sea on Thursday, with 310 souls on board. The Empire of the West will sail thence to-morrow, the John Fielden next week, besides four or five others in the course of the month. COLLISION.—On Thursday, Mr. Pa!grave, attorney, appeared on behalf of Capt. Thos. Barber, of the schooner Undaunted, to claim £4B from/Owen Jones, the pilot in charge of the Spanish brig Justitia, caused by the neglect of the defendant. On Tuesday they were about to pro ceed into the George's gut, when the Justitia was struck by the steam-tug independence, which was backing out from the pier, and driven into the Undaunted. Mr. Mansfield said there was no blame to be attached to the pilot. He should, therefore, dismiss the case. FRAUDS BY OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS. —At the Bo rough Sessions, the other day, six of Messrs. Busby and Company's omnibus conductors were tried, upon separate indictments, for embezzling money belonging to their employers, which they had received as fares whilst in the conduct of the company's omnibuses. James Davidson was sentenced to six months, Henry Holden to two months, and Thomas Butler, William Corless, and Jas. Wright, to four months' imprisonment each, all to hard labour. A systematic process of plunder has been going on for a length of time. A PUBLIC DINNER was given, 'at the Lion Hotel, Warrington, on Wednesday last, to Gilbert Greenall, Esq., M.P. for Warrington, by the Tory portion of his constituents. The number present was about 160. John Clare, Esq., of Grappenhall, presided, supported on his right by the guest of the evening, Gilbert Greenall, Esq., M.P., the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, rector of Warrington ; and on his left by J. Perrin, Esq., Mayor of Warrington. The chairman, in proposing Mr. Greenall's health, referred to the contem plated opposition to his re-election, and expressed his hope that they would return him as their member until he was as grey as a badger. (Loud laughter.) SINGULAR CHARGE OF FORGERY.—Richard Woosey. known as a " cad" or " jackall" to low attorneys, and who was one of the informers against the Messrs. Busby's omnibus conductors, was on Friday taken into custody, on the charge of forgery, under the following circum stances :—ln a case " M`Nulty v. Rees," in the Court of Passage, the plaintiff was nonsuited on his own evidence. On the brief being placed on the table, Woosey took it up and altered the figure of 1 in the barrister's fee to that of 2, thus making it appear that two guineas, and not one, had been paid to the advocate. A learned barrister gave intimation to the judge, and Woosey was subse quently apprehended and lodged in bridewell. NEW SHERlFFS.—Cumberland, Francis B. Atkinson, of Rampsbeck Lodge, Esq. ; Cheshire, John Hurleston Leche, of Carden Park, Esq. ; Derbyshire, Sir John Harpur Crewe, of Calke Abbey, Bart. ; Lancashire, John Talbot Clifton, of Lytham Hall, Esq. ' • Shropshire, A. C. H. Percy, of Hodnet Hall, Esq. ; Staffordshire, Edward Buller, of Dilhorne Hall, Esq. ; Warwickshire, Sir W. Edmund Cradock Hartopp, of Four Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield, Bart. ; Westmoreland, John Wakefield, of Sedgwick. Kendal, Esq. : Yorkshire, Andrew Montagu, of Melton Park, Doncaster, Esq. Anglesey, Wales, Richard Williams Prichard, of Erianell, Esq. ; Carnarvon, Robert V. Wynne Williams, of Llandudno, Esq. ; Den_ b igh, P. Wynne Yorke, of Dyffryn Aled, Esq.: Flint, W. Dod, of Llanerch, Esq. ; Radnor, Jonathan Field, of Esgardrainllwyn, Esq. TN A CASE at the County Court, on Thursday last, in which Edward Pulford, flour-dealer, Prussia-street, sued a t , m f a o g r es injuriesfr()m R d i o c n h e a r to d Aft, s h h o c r r s o e f t, by c black, a r e le s s m s i s t h h o e i ß n r g r t h k e sfot r r e d e defendant's solicitor pleaded that he was not liable, as no want of skill had been proved, and plaintiff had not taken proper means to cure his horse when the lameness showed itself. He cited a case in point, where a man having a sore eye had gone to a horse-doctor to get cured. (Laugh ter.) The " surgeon" applied the remedies he made use of for his ordinary patients, and the result was that the man lost the sight of that eye. He brought an action for damages against the " doctor ;" but the jury nonsuited him, and a very learned authority designated him as " an ass !" (Laughter.) His Honour nonsuited the plaintiff. THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting of the proprietors was held on Friday : Mr. W. R. Sandbach presided. Present we observed the Rev. Rector Campbell, the Rev. Dr. Raffles, the Rev. J. H. Thom. Mr. R. M'Andrew, Mr. Drinkwater, Mr. Theodore W. Rath bone, and Mr. Harmood Banner.—The Chairman read a review for the year of the state and progress of the insti tution. Some fruitless negotiations had taken place, with the view of adding Alr. Mayer's collection of Egyp tian antiquities to the museum. The museum continued to be visited by the public in large numbers on the free days of admission. 21,230 had been admitted in the course of the year. The chairman referred, in very com plimentary terms, to Mr. D. Turner, the principal, who has just brought out a second edition of his Notes on Herodotus. The total receipts of the year had been £689, and the expenditure/£636. Mr. Drinkwater said he was the first individual to set that institution a-going ; and it grieved him to the heart, a short time ago, to think that ' they were going to part with it ; but there was no occa sion to evoke old grievances. The committee were re elected, with the addition of Mr. J. Bramley-Moore and Mr. Mayer. THE GREAT TOY ROBBERY. At the Borough Sessions, on Saturday, before Mr. Recorder Henderson, Thomas Hall, Elizabeth Hall, and Wm. Henry Brooks, of Wolverhampton, were charged with receiving a large quantity of toys, the property of Mr. Eastee, of St. George's-cresent, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended Thomas Hall ; Mr. M'Oubrey defended the female prisoner. Brooks was undefended. The circumstances of the case will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. Mr. Atkinson, on behalf of his client, contended that none of the property had been traced to his possession ; that he had born can exemplary character for seventeen years ; and that Mrs. llall, who was his second wife, stole goods unknown to him. The lad Brooks staled, in his own defence, that he had received the few articles which had beer traced to his possession from his father (the principal in the case, who is not in custody,) in liquidation of some money that was owing to him ; and t hat he had not the remotest idea that they were stolen. The jury acquitted Thomas Hall ; but convicted the old woman and young Brooks. The former was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and the latter to six months, with hard labour. Beforo leaving the dock, " he thanked his honour for the lenity he had exercised towards him, and expressed a hope that he should never have the pleasure (the lad meant mis fortune) of seeing him again." GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST A LIVERPOOL ATTORNEY. —Strange disclosures were made lately in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, at Lancaster, reflecting gravely upon the character of a solicitor in considerable practice in this town, and who lately occupied a more prominent public position. A widower. with large pretensions to religion, who resided within a few miles of this town, lately found it unpleasant or inconvenient to discharge debts to the amount of X7OO, which, although possessed of £3,000, he was unwilling to meet. He sought the advice of the solicitor in question, who put him up to a " dodge," by which he would be saved from paying a shilling. This was to get a wife, and settle all his means upon her. An advertisement, in the following terms, shortly afterwards appeared in a London paper :—" Wanted a Wffe.—A respectable, middle-aged, active, healthy, and religious man is desirous of entering upon the holy state of matri mony with a lady of religious character, not more than thirty years of age. Property is not a consideration with the advertiser, although it would not be considered a dis advantage. His chief if not only anxiety is to secure a wife of good properties in herself, and whose sole desire would be to make her home happy, and her husband and family, should they be blessed with any, content and comfortable. if by means of this advertisement the writer should be so fortunate as to make the acquaintance of a lady likely to be a helpmate to him in passing through this world of trouble and care, he is prepared to make a marriage settlement of £B,OOO upon her, and would desire immediately to make a marriage contract!' A lady from the Isle of Wight was caught, after the first bite had escaped the hook. Shortly after the marriage the bride groom was torn from the side of his bride, and carried off to a debtor's prison. The commissioner, in sending Mr. Snig back to gaol for twelve calendar months, expressed his great regret that be had not also Mr, Hook within his jurisdiction. GENERAL NEWS. THE NAVY.—It is rumoured that the Admiralty in tend commissioning six first-class steamers immediately. THE North British Mail states that gold has been found upon the Duke of Hamilton's property, at Arran. FOR the first time these two years, snow fell in South ampton on Wednesday. MURPHY DONOVAN, aged six months, died the other day at Ratcliffe from the deleterious effects of a composi tion ornament sold at the shop of a confectioner. HADDOCKS.—Great complaints are made by fishermen of the growing scarcity of haddocks, and that the supply of that fish is not one-half of what it used to be a few years since. TROUT FISHING.—On Saturday week a lady captured, in Windermere, a trout weighing upwards of a pound and a half, while it was endeavouring to swallow a perch half as large as itself. A VERY PLEASANT PAPER on the life and writings of Oliver Goldsmith, was read last week, by G. E. H. Vernon, Esq. M.P., to the members of the Newark Mechanics' Institute. Mr. Vernon is a relative of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. THE NEW GRINNEL ARCTIC EXPEDITION, which is shortly to proceed from New York in search of Sir John Franklin, is to be commanded by Dr. Kane, who believes that Sir John still exists and can be rescued ROWING MATCH.—A match in four-oared gigs has been made between the Perth, Leven, and Glasgow pullers, to come off on the Gareloch, in the end of June, for a sweepstakes of £lOO, for the championship of Scotland. — Glasgow herald. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.—A lady was economically in clined, and, in cutting out some shirts for her husband, resolved that they should not descend much lower than his hips. She wound up her arguments by observing that linen was a very expensive article, and that she could not see what on earth was the reason that people should stuff so much capital into their pantaloons. THE LARGEST MERCHANT STEAMER in the world, the screw steamer Himalaya, of 3,600 tons measurement, designed and built at Mr. Mare's establishment, at Black wall, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, will be complete for launching next month. She is to be propelled by screw machinery of 700-horse power. FIRE IN SHIPS.—To extinguish fire in the hold of a ship, nothing more is required than a cask of common chalk in the bottom of the hold, connected with the deck by a small pipe, and a three-gallon bottle of sulph ur i c acid, which, on the alarm of fire, being poured down the pipe, will generate a sufficient quantity of dense smoke (in which flame cannot exist) to extinguish any fire, how ever large. Flame cannot exist in carbonic acid gas. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A declaration of insol vency was filed in London at five minutes to n o'clock. The fact was communicated by electric telegraph to a legal firm in Bristol, by whom application was made in the matter to the Court of Bankruptcy in this city, which was heard and disposed of by Mr. Shum Tuckett, the Regis trar, and the solicitor left the Court at ten minutes before twelve at noon.—Bristol Gazette. HUNTING ACCIDENTS.—The Hon. Henry Pepys, son of the late Lord Chancellor Cottenham, met with rather a severe accident, while hunting nearAylesbury on Saturday. Mr. Pepys' horse fell, and the young gentleman dislocated his collar bone and fractured his wrist. Mr. E. B. Farn ham, M.P., was hunting a few days ago with Sir R. Sut ton's hounds. when an old bridge gave way as he was pass ing over it. The back of the horse Mr. Farnham was riding was broken, but he himself escaped unhurt. A SHIP ON FIRE.—On Tuesday morning, off Dungeness, a fine schooner, called the Zelinia, Viand, master, bound to London from Nantes, with wine and a general cargo of merchandise, took fire. She at length took the ground between No. 3. and No. 4 stations, some four miles to the westward of the Ness. The fire had obtained, however, too powerful a hold to admit of her preservation. The flames continued to extend over the vessel until at length she was burnt to the water's edge. The crew and all who assisted in endeavouring to stay the conflagration, succeeded in reaching the shore in safety, not a life being lost. A MURDER was committed on Tuesday morning on the high road between London and Rumford. Mr. Toiler, a commission agent, living at the latter place, was met by an ill-looking tramper who, felled him to the ground with a stick, and his cries bringing assistance, the murderer took out a clasp-knife, and cutting his victim's throat from ear to ear, made off, but not till he had been recognized by a labourer and his wife in a neighbouring field, who gave immediate information to the police. Losing his way, he returned to within three hundred yards of the spot of the murder, arid was at once captured and placed in gaol. His name is Saunders, a native of Mortlake, in Surrey; and it is supposed his object was to have robbed the deceased. SALT WATER JUSTICE.—On Saturday a waterman named Hamly undertook to convey a sailor's wife, with her husband's clothes, on board the Magicienne steam vessel in the Sound, for 2s. In going through Plymouth Sound he carried away his mast, when he threatened the woman that, unless she paid him for the damage, he would take her to sea. In passing the Vulture, steam vessel, the woman gave an alarm. Pursuit was given, and the boat was soon brought alongside, and the waterman taken on the quarterdeck, made to refund the 25., and threatened, if he did not speedily make his exit, he should undergo summary punishment from the crew. His next appearance was at the stern of a rigger's launch, having prevailed on the crew to take him in tow. As soon as this was perceived from the Vulture, a boat rowed after her and told the tale. The fellow was immediately cut adrift, and when last seen by them he was adrift in Cawsand Bay. HOMES AND THEIR ESSENTIALS.—If homes are your province, whatever is allowed to be done by law, or for the want of proper laws to prevent it being done, for mak ing dwellings truly homes, is in your province : if dwell ings should be a home of enjoyment, the essentials for happiness should be there. The first is, the health of the individual. The health of the people is the first require. ment of the law of mutual interests. The first essential for health is pure air : no one should be denied it. Next necessary is pure water for consumption, and plenty of it for cleanliness. No man or body of men should have a monopoly in its supply. Good sewerage and facility for clearing away all animal and vegetable refuse. Have we these necessaries ? and why have we not them ? Not be cause there is not sufficient intelligence or ability in the people to provide them ? No. It is because there are vested interests in existence incompatible with the com fort of the people, i. e. those who have but a common in terest: those who have a separate interest are not the people, but from the people holders of invested interest ; because those who have vested interest have the power of making the laws affecting the lives and property of all; while the great bulk of those who have but a common in terest in mutual justice have no voice in making these laws, though they are subjected to them. If homes are your province, then ethics and politics must be your pro vince, while right morals and right laws are necessary to make dwellings homes.—The Builder. FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES AND OLD COACHING TOWNS. —No place in England suffered more severely by the introduction of the railway system than the town of Hounslow, so well known to every traveller on the great western highway in the good old times of " the road." Nearly three hundred coaches were driven off the road by the monopolist locomotive, and Hounslow, the liveliest, became one of the dullest towns in the kingdom. Pro perty in the town, which in the busy coaching times rea dily realized from £4 to £5 per foot frontage, has been depreciated at least one-third, and the good folks, of course, for a long time fervently blessed the railway. But having in the interval taken to economical studies, in their meditations on the past, they begin to hail the destroyer as the probable restorer of business to the place. With a healthy situation, a convenient distance from town, a good line, as railways go in this quarter of the globe,—a station to match, and very numerous inquiries after build ing lots, the good people find that they are not quite ruined yet. They have left off sighing, and begin to hope for better times coming. This hope has been considerably raised of late, in consequence of the agitations by, and purchases of land on behalf of, Freehold Lind Societies. The right hand of welcome has been held out to the pro moters of these societies, and there is every prospect of the movement being mutually advantageous. The Con servative Land Society have purchased a valuable estate adjoining the railway station, which, in the course of a very few months, will add a little town of elegant first class houses to Hounslow. A public meeting, presided over by Mr. Farrall, of Isleworth, was held on Friday evening, when Colonel Dickson, Mr. C. E. Lewis, the solicitor, Mr. Gruneiser, the secretary, and Mr. Morgan, the surveyor, attended as a deputation to explain the principles and plan of the society. After a very full ex planation, resolutions approving of the principles, and pledging the warm support of the meeting in favour of the society, were passed, and a considerable number of addi tional shares were at once subscribed for. In the course of the proceedings it was significantly remarked that " Hounslow must not now look any more to the High street, but to the Railway Station and the Freehold Land Societies, to recover her ancient prosperity." SHOCKING MURDER IN DEVONSHIRE.—A murder was committed on Sunday last week at Ciayhidon, Devon, on the Black down Hills, about five miles from Wellington, in Somerset. Mr. William Blackmore, who lived at Clayhidon Mills, near the village, was a land surveyor and tax collector. He was 53 years of age, was married, and had one son. He had been out collecting tithes on the Saturday, and in the evening went into the White Horse public-house, where he drank rather freely in company with three labourers, named George Sparks, Edmund Sparks, and James Hitchcock. They left the public house together about one o'clock on Sunday morning, and at four o'clock the body of Mr. Blackmore was found by his son and a servant-man lying across the road in a dreadfully mangled state, and his purse, with two £5 notes in it, lying by his side. The head was severely fractured, and there were other injuries on the body. Suspicion at once fell upon the throe men with whom he had been drinking, and the police proceeded to arrest them. George Sparks lodged with his brother about half a mile from the deceased's residence, and when the con stable went to him he was in bed. He at first denied any knowledge of the crime. The officer then requested him to put on the same clothes as he wore that morning, and on the waistcoat there were spots of blood. On searching the house, the policeman found ten sovereigns and a half, wrapped up in a piece of rag. While searching the house several persons came in and began to talk to the prisoner about the murder. At last he said, " It's no use to care or to think any more about it ; for I would as soo n tell a the seat and whole of it as not." The prisoner then got up from his sea and took up a pair of fire tongs, saying, did it. I struck him backhanded, " This l thinkis the 1 killed him the first blow, but I struck hi m t d wiceafter that." He further said, he struck the dece ased with a portion of a pair of fire-tongs, which he broug ht awa y with him from the White orse, and which was subsequ en tl y found in a river near the spo t at which the murder was committed. He subsequently exonerated the oth er pri soners from any partic i p ation in the crime. The only suspicious circumstances against Hitchco c k were these : on his great coat were spots, which some said were blood, but others said they did not think they were. Near to where the body was found were footmarks also, which cor responded with Hitchcock's boots. Th e j ury returne d a ver dict of " Wilful murder" against George Sparks and James Hitchcock, and they Were at once committed for trial at the assizes. I SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] TUESDAY AFTERNOON. PLYMOUTH.—.A. corporal and two privates of the 7th Rcyal Fusileers lost their lives in the snow on Dartmoor. on Saturday night. The privates' bodies have been found. In some parts the snow was eight feet deep. SOUTHAMPTON. —The Queen of the South, which sailed yesterday for the Cape and India, took £60,000 in specie, 70 passengers, and a full cargo. PARIS, MONDAY. —The Legislative Chambers were opened on Monday, by the Emperor. In his speech he said, his Government bad decided to diminish the national expenses, to reduce the army, and to reserve and apply to useful purposes the resources of the Country—to keep up a good understanding with foreign powers, and to prove to the incredulous, that when France expressed her intention to remain in peace, she must be believed strong enough not to be afraid. The effective number of the army, which was last year reduced by 30,000 men, will this Lent be again diminished by 20,000 men. To those who regret that liberty had not greater influence in the Empire, he said, " I will answer that liberty never assisted in raising a lasting political edifice, but it crowns the edifice when time has consolidated it." The Emperor and the Empress, who accompanied him, were loudly cheered at the close of the speech. At the Bourse the address made a favourable impression. Threes closed, 80.35 ; Four-and-a-Halves closed, 105.85. The Corn market is very dull, the reports from the departments being unfavourable to business ; prices are almost stationary, at last week's currency. HA VRE, / ATONDAY.—The Cotton market has improved ; considerable sales are reported at full prices. The Sugar market is quiet; but there is some activity in Coffee and Indigo. VIENNA, JAN. 12.—A military cordon has been drawn round Ticino by Austria. Nothing new from Montenegro. The Turks keep their position on the frontier. ITALY.—MiIan was subjected to a most rigorous state of seige. Piedmontese, Englishmen, and Tessinos were among the prisoners. LONDON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET. THIS DAY, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 99k; Ditto Money, 991 I; Three and Quarter per Cents., 1033 LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.-THIS DAY, NOON QUOTATIONS. . Eastern Counties, 13,k ; Gooles, 23t ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 78a ; Leeds Northern, 16; Midland, 781 1. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—This DAY NOON QUOTATIONS. British Australian, pan. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781. ; London and North Western, 1204, a; C. qrs., 19.16, p.m. ; Manchester and Lincolnshire, 30i ; Midland, 781; South E. and Dover, 24 1-16. -,•. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, ;THIS DAY. The frost noticed in our last has since continued with great severity, and a light coating of snow covers the country in all (directions. Simultaneously, arrivals from abroad have fallen off into all the ports of the kingdom; no more of any consequence can be looked for from the Baltic till the re-opening of navigation. Supplies from America are of late limited, and, from so much being diverted to other foreign markets than England, likely to continue so for some time, especially while our prices are so lunremunerative : through the Mediterranean only we can look for early and continuous importations, and those at present on the way we consider less in quantity than this time last year. The general tone of the trade throughout the United Kingdom was firmer, at the close of the week, markets inclining dearer: we had yesterday a good demand for Wheat and Fluur, at further improve ment in value, millers and bakers purchasing more freely; little was, however, done in speculative transactions on the spot, or in cargoes of wheat on passage. We noticed somewhat more inclination to purchase cargoes of Indian Corn, at late prices, but buyers unwilling to give any advance. The imports we have received since Friday are very slightly increased, and we have not a single arrival from America during the week ; the exports of wheat and flour are pretty liberal. The market to-day was pretty well attended, but the extreme firmness of holders has checked any extensive business in wheat. An advance of id. per 701bs. is how ever established since last market day, and in flour the transactions have been to a fair extent at a proportionate improvement. Oats and meal steady, the latter at 6d. advance. Little done in cargoes afloat. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Louisa, from Pernambuco, at Gravesend, 14th Feb Telegraph, hence at Bayonne. 9th Feb. Margaret, hence at Havre, 10th Feb. Victory, hence at Nantes, 12th Feb. St. Jean Baptiste, from Marseilles for this port BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—A report of the Com mittee of Public Baths and Wash -houses in the metro polis, states that there has been an aggregate of upwards of 3,000,000 washers and bathers during the last five years. In 1848—the first year of the period in question only one establishment, that of Goulston-square, Whitechapel, had been opened to the public, and for bathers alone. The number under this head was 48,637. In 1849 there were two establishments, which have re turned for that year 297,831 bathers, 9,070 washers. Ia 1850 there were three establishments, which gave acco modation to 509,200 bathers, and 60,154 washers. The increase under the last head is not a little remarkable. In 1851 there were five establishments-647,242 bathers, and 132,251 washers. Finally, in the year 1852, with seven establishments at work, the returns are swelled to 800,163 bathers, and 187,580 washers. The receipts for the last year, in the metropolis alone, have amounted to the very considerable sum of £13,413 7s. 2d.—a sum quite large enough, we believe, to meet all the expenses incurred. LYNCH LAW ON THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.— On Friday, immediately after business commenced, con siderable excitement was created in the neighbourhood of Capel Court by a mob of boys and idlers following and hooting a person, originally, no doubt, of gentlemanly appearance, but all bespattered with flour and rotten eggs. It appeared that the members of the Stock Exchange had been " Lynching" a defaulting speculator, who had been defrauding a respectable broker to the extent of £l,OOO. It was further stated that lie had been carrying on his game for some time past, that he prefixes " Rev." to his name, and resided in one of the old-fashioned mansions between the Foundling Hospital and the British Museum. On making his appearance at a broker's office in the morning, he was invited to visit the exchange, when he rather hesitatingly refused ; but, after some parleying, was persuaded to go. His reception had been previously arranged, and, as soon as he made his appearance, a signal was given, when he was most unceremoniously rolled in the sawdust, and afterwards literally covered with flour and rotten eggs. Being in that condition kicked into the street, his appearance very soon at. tracted a questionable retinue of followers, who, learning the nature of the case, evinced but little sympathy for his misfortunes, hounding him on until with great difficulty he gave them the slip, and managed to get clear away. We understand he was in the habit of employing one house to buy and another to sell the same stock ; and that in some instances he had recommended himself to brokers by stating to them, that having attended the dying moments of dear friends of theirs, who d escr ib e d them as persons on whose activity every reliance could he placed, he was determined to employ them in laying out a few thousands he had by him to advantage. AN AMERICAN ON SLAVERY In the year of the Exhibition a young and intelligent American visited the metropolis, and, after exploring the Chrystal Palace, wandered on foot through a great part of the old country—from London to the Land of Burns. In 1852 he sailed from Liverpool for his native land, where he arrived in safety towards the fall of the year. Some months subsequently he wrote to a friend in Liverpool, and from his letter we cull a brief passage on the subject of slavery : " I became so deeply interested in our presidential can didates, that I could find no time to devote to correspon dents ; but the election is over, and the man in whom my hopes were fixed has been beaten in almost every State of the Union. The political world is now enjoying a " bliss ful quietude," and there is no lamentation, rejoicing, or contention ; but the whole country seems to be in a state of prosperity that bespeaks the general satisfaction of the people. Only one source of discontent is left to harass our minds, and hinder our upward flight, and that is ' the curse of slavery.' We in the north are not satisfied with the conduct of our brethren in the south in relation to this subject. We not only deplore the existence of that institution, but we are left to groan beneath the weight of the heavy burthens that it imposes upon us. You in the old country sympathise with the poor slave (a commend able sympathy) ; but we forget these wrongs towards the men of toil, because of the injustice towards ourselves. Our laws require that I, and every northern man, should shut our eyes to the palpable crime of t e slavery, and arrest every refugee, and send him back to h robber,. who stole us, so deeply criminal in the him from his father's fireside. But do you imagine we do anything so wromr, not that kind of men.' eyes of God ? Oh, no help them m oney, and them on, and We give themth and determined adherence to the ' higher so hein e o are God speed to the land of freedom. This ' violation of the e s into collision with our southern brethren, are kept constantly in a broil concerning the us law institutions principleof the n t i s l o e ut h northon t o h n e t o h n e e o l t i l a i n e r d ;, and but the bn a` law,' n lo d w eh bangsawwe 'u t ` h h e ig cn li n er . se quences what they may, we are determined that our means shall not be lent to the interests of slavery. Our southern brothers are very immoderate in their language. and threaten disunion and reprisal ; but we talk less, and adhere the more firmly to our determinations. We only laugh at their threats of disunion, for we know very well that without the north slavery could not exist a single day. Our free labour system brings us prosperity, and their system of slavery reduces them below a capacity to pay their own expenses, while our excess of receipts must be thrown into the scale to cover their excess of expendi ture. We are not so unmindful of our own wrongs as of the wrongs of the slave. But the worst has not come yet with relation to this matter. The incoming administra tion has an eye to Cuba, and what will be the result of an attempt mto add that slave territory' to this U n io n ? from the task of d e s cr ibi ng it. f or a l rea d y I Delivere can see streams of blood pouring from the veins of many nations, and mingling into one vast flood, absorbing countless treasures of gold, and casting a withering blight over the happiness of many social circles. But let us hope that reason will encompass the throne of authority."