The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

LOCAL NE \VS Dr. SCHOLFIELD, of Birkenhead, medical inspector of emigrants in Liverpool, has resigned his appointment. SALMON IN DOCK.—On Tuesday last, a fine salmon, of Svc or eight pounds weight, was captured in one of the Sandon graving -docks. ----- SEVENTY-THREE PRISONERS have been tried at the Kirkdale Sessions during the past week. Of these 32 could neither read nor write. ____ ___ ......... A FEMALE, who gave evidence that she had received a very superior education, was convicted, at the Kirkdale Sessions last week, of stealing a pound of currants and 2 oz. of coffee. MRS. T. F. MEAGHER sailed on Wednesday for the United States, by the Arctic. She goes to join her husband, the fiery "Meagher of the Sword." SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—At noon on Saturday, Archibald Ure, a Porter at the Victoria station of the London and North-Western Railway Company, Manchester, was crushed between the buffers of two wagons, by which he sustained a fracture of the pelvis. Mr. S. P. BIDDER, the late manager of the North Staffordshire Railway, with his family and staff, sailed on Saturday i n th e A s i a, to take charge of the working of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. 300 miles of which (from Portland to Quebec and Montreal) will shortly be opened. 1-10 NV THEY DO THINGS AT GARSTONt.—On Thursday Morning, the Emerald screw steamer docked at Garston ; vess aelf, a t hal-past six o'clock the men commenced to load the a nd by nine o'clock she was trimmed and had her hatches on, after being loaded with 264 tons of coal in two hours and a half l __THE EARL OF D ERBY left London on Tuesday, for tlowsley-park, Lancashire, where the noble earl enter- ALive a select circle of friends during the race meeting at anrl"°l. The Countess of Derby and Lady Emma ey remained in town. The noble earl returned to town on Saturday. -14___Elv.C°T7NTILMaatSTRATES.--At the Kirkdale quer ‘....tr sessions, on Tuesday, the Mayor of Liverpool, Samuel On Thursda.y,q Thomaasa'Boa maeistrate for the county. sessions, a o s n a oth, Eq-. 4 , of Toxteth-park, T,'outl4ty magistrate. At the Kirkdal? petty day, Robert Benn, Esq., of Kirkdale House, West Derby, and Charles Chalorter,Esq., of Aig burth-hall, Garston, qualified as magistrates for the county. /aTEae TEres'eorr.—Dr. Fisher.ng havin g comp l e t e d a t otr through N otth Wales, i - to inspect some o f th e most celeb r a ted observatoriesgoing n and telescopes. This talent ed gentleman has for some time past been in comm-uni cation with Airy (the a stronomer-royal), Lassell, Dawes, Ha n ifill), and Dick, respecting th . e construction of a Powerful refracting telescope. He dt h e one of the -. inten s ohave most perfect instruments that can be made, and to erect a suitable observatory in 'connection with is edu cational establishment. ST •h•. 6 -•-• elderly tall, ING CASE. th e .Doliee.office, on Friday, a man. named Chardon, a fireman on board the :ern et7-steamer Melita, lvingi n the Coburg Dock, charged ._ otaer fireman, named James Tomkinson, with stabbing lain in T ogether , the neck w hil e they were in the engine -room on co mplain ant Thursday 'foren oon . It appeared that the the gratin ,in attempti ng t o str ik e Chardon, slipped on vvi g. which was greasy, and fell on the prisoner. ose k nife entered hi s -neck accidentally. The prisoner Was accordingly discharged. 'vessels Fxoncs To AtSTRALIA.—The total number of le 26 now preparing for the various ports of Australia _ ,n; thotal amount of registered teenage 16,300. The Vtiu s from this port. from the 7th"to the 13th inan have been one veesei for Moreton lay, 997 tons s t ore bourne.vessel for S Ydnq 1,650 tons; three vessels for Mel nnag, aefereeate ionage, 987 tons ; or an aggregate vesse'se ° amount .634 tons. During the last half-year, -13 al , have sailed from Liverponl for Australia: to of I) GoLn tonnage, 73,190. - - ".ntrAY.—AN APPROVER FROM LIVERPOOL. f?r wasseas A the Winche s t er assi zes , on 'W e d nes d ay, Aaron Cra nleh cOrretcted o f having, inOctober, 1852, o n th e , on b the Lady nora. stolen 570 ounces f fo ld dust. the p o perty of Nic'heias Pentreath antniTatki o n Charles Kenrick. Th e pr i nc i pal witness against the prison l er was an a onrover , John Gore, second mate of the veni , who was b roug h t from the Liverpool borough ra, was where he was under remand for forgery. Cracour sentenced to be imprisoned, with hard labour. SOME . AM usEMENT was rreated at the opening of the Kirkdale' Sessions, on by a letter from Mr. Critchley, of' Liverpool, alto had been summoned on the grand Jury. H e c l a i med exemption, one of the ground being that he was one of the " old free ard-inde pendent burgesses," and - he voted for Cannin g when' made hi s fi rst appearance in Liverpool. It Appeared the hat ; Mr. Ceitehl e y was disenallried by a ge , and on - that ground he was excused from serving. Tim 'LADY IN ELVCK.—On Thursday - afternoon. a little - girl, seven years of age, was sent an a' message.. On her return she was accosted by a female dressed in black, who, having elicited that she had a grandmother, said 'she was to go to her and borrow two sovereiens. The•woman told the child that she had seen'her mother, who requested the loan to be obtained. The child imme diately proceeded to the grandmother, who sent the two sovereigns. After having received the money, the little girl was waylaid by the female, who took 'it from her, under pretence thit she would return immediately, and go home with her. The woman then absconded; leaving the child in the street, where she waited for upwards of two hours. The police are in search of the female. E AsT LANCASTITP.E RAILWAY.—The directors' haree entered into an arrangement with the 'Lancashire and *Yorkshire Company, by which the East `Lancashire'be- Comes, from the Ist instant, joint owners of the Man- ' Chester and Bolton - Railway, between Clifton and - Salford, With the intermediate stations, ecc., and of the Manches ter and South port Railway, and stations bet w eenne ' B • u t r l s l a Cough and Southport, on the opening of t Manchester and 'Southport Railway from 13 ur a scougli will thus, in connection with the proposed extension of the will Skelmersdale branch, form a continuous communication from St. Helens viiithe East L ancas hi r e'R a il wa y o South port. In conseq uence o f these arrangements. th t e Clifton and Salford E x t ens i on bi ll has been withdrawn from Par liament, and the'Towers for constructing the Southport branch have been ebandoned. The bill for extending the Skelmersdale branch has passed the committee of the House of Lords. --, 2 , fanchester Guardian. KIRKDALE SESSIONS.—The venerable 'Archdeacon Brooks presided at the Kirkdale Sessions, which scos s com menced on Tuetd ay . Th e rate f or genera l purposes 17 -24ths of a p enny , an d t h e po li ce-rate f or th e Kirkdale division is 2ith s o f a penny i n the pound. Captain Woodford submitted his usual statistical returns. 'Within the last quarter,'2A*24 persons had been -apprehended by the county officers. The number of persons summoned during the same.period, by the county police constablilary, ,7, 5 8 2,217, of whom 2,031 were summarily convicted.. 'fie number of persons summoned by the parish autao e - Pities, common itiformers, &c., had been '2,506. Som discussion took place relative to the attendance of a body re of the Liverpool police-force at the races, Capt. Gig memandine for their services Ss. 61. for inspectors, and 6 4'41. fo; the men. The debate ended by Mr. Gorst, Live rpool of the Peace, being instructed to write to the the Pool Watch Committee, acknowledging the offer of m en Watch butstatingthat the magistrates could not ac eet rl i Ki r k d ,ern on the terms. There were now confined in of 418 le Gaol si° '. mates, and THE AtsTrt AttaN. --, N.Anon.—One of t I Bedgood, een zers, who came home in the Tay, was a A ro , in Mel he Condor's_ pas a borsetshire man. 'He has been nine Years bourne and has been an li telkeeper and gold spe culator. Re offe'red XB,OOO in AlelbOurrie for the monster B allarat ht for nugget, 00vr exhibiting in London, and he the,Boo the 321 b. nugget , which was found close. ° thmiciiinster was do g to ng where 801 h. n. together with -some smaller ones, in ,• out. Mr. Bedgood has in all a raugh Australian • weight of gold with a wide -wake h• Re aPpeared at Southampton, Mr. Bedgood looked the picture or h ea d ..., .. at, a blaok bushy beard, a . yr which was formedef small nosh breastpin nugget. j ust as it eatne from the di -- a sma unshaped nugget,.just with a with j l g9, a heavy life Preserver on his breastpin . the rroaitihf aacib4aecok s l t e n a n t h e Zr - but wrist, Cp ped with z c;igrngs, aavy oldt bag fastened rianPa•"rell-hi or bou ht 4 ' he left Melbourne t i y ch contained apparently f or ,Z, MO ounces of gold before persomf £5 000 worth of gold. a s - "e° 'is• 3d, en ounce. Th e nuggets h . e had with him the cargo left t*P ' d a portion of baggage; the rest forme . £2,000 by the Cre oaf tLereambuco. He will.lose about £2,000 fa r " f ",e.'Condor in salvage mcney home in the and eO l3 IP with his gold, *erne 'Z. hie family. Owing to . his c9m u l r g ed the latter, and steam-packet' he h a d _not tiseqUeritl b obliged to pay Y e was dale at the b r ,„, r, m).l , ra —M r , LanFs , presided himself. 3a ' tni. 4. -- `-'I7AR---- • Ti-e resignation salvage of mr. nd Mr. George Din e ' 49 Pelieting officer, was accepted ; tern!' assistant master in the workhouse a , Kirkus moved fo r earnY tc discharge the dutie . s.,-Mr. of the ADPOiott, ittee, to consist was appointed g u ardia ns 0 ,..,... ent of . a comm f or the diatriets. EkTis'aering Per Po se of 1 ' ,tv.erton, Kirkdale,.and 'West Derby, before the int o ,, :r m reporting to the next In . et , g to the propriety of re... t a i r o ranging those .2 k.f c , of a relieving officer. This was objected...it ii:aeaeerrirb..7l4arro4haw, and others; _bat, , on a division, lieving et"? f" aJority of 8 to 6.-1 h n e To..lteth-park re winter toy.tffiee, 11:.ero alteration in t . t as 'being, in the Place l l hl e. like rsfall described 1 a discussion as to de ' c i d e fou.,_, .reenland, and there ci e , hovre c • '",„ in earbar or anywhere else- It was to the effect notice of inoii 4' at t'h - no Y alteration be effeeted.—A was not such a tPon the office in a not exceeding £3O be upended made at a r • h Z *ll l l ,,' ° - 4-t - upon the books by Mr. Miller, de queetio n. ......, Areference to t,_ et, said the brick wl p evious r oeetin n rd in rega rd to a arej a i t c a I In front pork fle w °f the Boa - l Mr. Clayton, complaints fever hospita , Co RUCTION BY FIRE 0.1 the ePecifieation. was superior to that required by biesT AUSTRALIAN SilIP Boottkehl•---The Brazili which arrived at THE attileCipt," °n WedanileelLaY.l br a o ra ll e b i t news of the de f iv es _ ll 0 Y fire Babe Condor, Captain Leighton, one a trsli a _ aa• Gibb s et A..e.ackets. The Condor left Melbourne on the . 11 k ght, and Co.'s Eagle Line of Au t - 4 401. 1 1 1 1 ! lute with aboUt sixty passengers, a quantit of Of gold . h®o sL e h as w oo l, &e„ and 22,000 ounces th e ,K. ghe left short.handed, still the crew worked i fpol,age.lP jwell, and there was every ahoard nst as she was about to cross the line, the I bus prospect of a rapid of her e.aught fire, from spontaneous corn _ se r n n ' d A a t this Cale the Condor had not met a ship for in th e f Y B . The fire broke out at about eleven o'clock bore d orenoon, and at dusk on the day of the fire a ship tre iniei °lvo upon the Condor. which proved to be a French bad left At midnight the whole of the passengers and c t on hard the Condor in the boats of the latter, and go ,lave mast lear.ed. The captain of the Condor was the last to I s ship, and in a few minutes after he had left, her i nt ~arid riggbag caught fire. The French captain put ...,0,,,,,, 0 r ernarnbuco, and claimed above £20,000 salvage n e ... t o t , Y• The cause of the wool catching fire was owing '"e carelesaneqs in packing it in Melbourne. It was Packed dam - • p and not sufficiently pressed. One of the IP 'enters ti board the Condor was a son of Mr. Court er Thomapson. He escaped with his clothes only. Fifteen of the passengers came home in the Tay, °0 Condor was a fine ship, of 900 tons burthen. "d a favourite vessel with passengm. This is the first n_aeri°ll9 mishap that bas happenad to any of the vessels of "49 Ea gle line.' THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY LICENSES were granted to gamedealers, at the Licensing Court, on Thursday. THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF EGLINGTON left Lon don on Tuesday, for Knowsley Park, the seat of the Earl of Derby. THE ATTENDANCE at the Corporation Schools, for the past month, has been as follows:—North School, 856 ; South School, 925. WARNING TO OMNIBUS RIDERS.--Ott Tuesday an old lady had her pocket picked, in a dock omnibus, of £2O in notes and £4 in gold. CURIOUS.--A tomtit has hatched a brood of seven In a two-quart can, at Ormskirk. The utensil was covered by a close-fitting lid, and its only aperture a small spout. WORKMEN are now busily engaged opposite the front of the Custom-house in levelling the ground so as to form a line with the new dock road to the south. MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL.—The deaths registered up to Saturday week numbered only 161, being 41 less than the average of the same week of the preceding five years : 103 were children, and 59 adults. PRESENTATION.—There is now on view,at Mr. Mayer's, Lord.street, a handsome piece of plate, to be presented to the Rev. J. Gibson, M.A., incumbent of Garston, by his congregation, on the cccasion of the 36th anniversary of his ministry. MR. W. JACKSON, ALP., accompanied by Mrs. Jackson and their son, Mr. H. P. Jackson, Mr. Betts, and Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P., sailed on Saturday. with a numerous railway staff, in the Asia, for New York, en route to Canada. THE ELECTION OF PAVING COMMISSIONERS FOR TOXTETH PARR took place on Friday morning, at the public offices, Park-place, Messrs. Mathew Gregson, John Y. Lee, Wm. Rathbone, John Lathbury, and R. V. Yates, were re-elected. A LITTLE FOUNDLING, aeed three months, to whom the name of George Limekiln had been given in con sequence of his having been found exposed and deserted in Limekiln-lane, died suddenly in the Liverpool work house on Tuesday last. CLITHERO ELECTION COMMITTEE. The following committee has been nominated : —Mr. G. A. Hamilton, chairman ; Sir T. Herbert, Sir 3. Duke, Mr. Butt, and Mr. S. Laing. The member petitioned against is Mr. Aspinall. A BRUTAL FELLOW, named James Duffy, possessing great strength, has been committed for trial at the sessions, on a charge of stabbing two peaceable men, George Booth and James Webb, on Sunday evening week, at the corner of Northumberland-street. A Poole. DRONE:EN OLD WOMAN, named Ann Kelly, living in the Vauxhall-road, while wandering about in a state of mazy intoxication on Wednesday morning, between one and two o'clock, fell into the George's-dock ; she was shortly rescued and carried to the receiving house, where she expired in the course of the morning. MYSTEeicars C'ASE.—The body of a man, apparently about thirty years of age, with sundry initials engraved nn his person, was found floating in the Rock Channel on Wednesday ; he appeared to have been a couple of weeks in the water. has not been claimed, nor has the smallest clue to his name been obtained. 'TIE 'TWELVTII OF JULY.—The Orangemen of the town kept this anniversary on Teesday. In . deference to the wishes of the Mayor, there was no publiz procession, but a number of lodges assembled in the forenoon at Wavertree,•outside of the borough, and v7alked in pro cession, accompanied by two excellent 'hands, towards Aightith. In the evening the brethren dined at their respective lodge-rooms. -SttoetcrwG DEPRAVITY —An inquest was held on 'Thursday, on the body of an infant, -seven weeks old, named John Thomas, whose parents, • Thomas and Mar ' garet Thomas, live at No. 11, Ray:street. Both parties had been in a state of intoxication the previous night, and the deceased died in consequence of 'having been overlain 'by' the mother. The jury expressed`their utter disgust at the conduct of both of the parents. et - RIOLTS FACT IN' OnNITHOLOCY.—Some weeks ago, Mr.•'ames Bamber, of Little 'Eeeleston, near Garstang, found a throstle 's nest, with a mother bird in the act of incubation on three of her own ezgs. He took'oat two eggs, and substituted`three hen-eggs. The poor throstle ••continued her maternal duty, ant: in due time twohickens and one throstle made their 'eppearance The young `family were allowed to retain•tbeir native quatters ; but 'the hand of some ruthless school-boy stole the whole away. FACTION -FIGHT 'tIC LatinKlLN-L.kNE.—'en 'Friday, 'Michael Shea, William Preston, John Brannon, Henry `Spink, and Margaret Bui-ke, were placed in the duck `before Mr. Mansfield, at 'the police-court, - for an out rageous party-fight on 'Thursday afternoon, at the head of Wright-street, in 'Limekiln-lane. Winliow shutters and frames were smashed, and a pistol war:fired by one of the mob. The presiding magistrate said something must be done to put a stop to such practices, and that the prisoners must befined'4os. and costs, with three months' imprisonment in 'default of payment. FURS.—The number of foreign buyers at the Hudson Bay Company's late sale considerably affected the prices of furs. Skins have not realised, for many years, so high prices ; some lots Of Sables fetched fifty -. shillings a skin. Mr. John Cripps, of Bold-street, anticipating the advance, fortunately bought a great number eof-ckins previous to the sale, and will have manufactured, by the first of August, nearly one thousand boas in 'Mink sable, real ermine. very choice, Miniver, and Chinchilla, whiern he will offer all at one guinea each. Of these, he feels con vinced, equal value cannot be given in the season , under thirty-five shillinss ; also, a variety of dark sables, equally cheap.—Shawl,` Fantle, and Fur warehouse; No.' 14 and 16, Bold-street; Liverpool. John Cripps, proprietor. THE ISLE Or MAN STEAUEn, MONA'S QUEEN, On her voyage from Douglas to this' pert, on Thursday. was visited by an 'accident to the starboard paddle, which rendered it necessary to stop the engine. 'lt wad blowing a gale at the time. Finding that-it would be impossible to get steam -on the vessel agaitr•without risking further injury, Captain' Quayle set sail on the vessel, • snd the steamer came along in capital style•under canvass. She reached the river in time to dock, and that night a mes sage was sent by electric telegraph to Glasgow, to - Messrs. Thomson, the builders, requesting them• to send-up new parts to repair the injury done to the wheel. During the time the vessel was knocking about, Captain* Quayle was capsized on the deck, and had his right leg cut and bruised. The passengers all unite in attributing the absence of any serious result to thecoolness and , judgment displayed by Captain Quayle, and they have presented him with an address to that effect. DOCK Comsr:TTEE.—Mr. Turner presided at the meet ing of the dock committee, on Thursday.—Mr.M'Cor mack's tender for excavating the Wapping dock, at a cost of £60,000 to . Z 70,000, to be finished in two years, was accepted.—The tender of Messrs... Tones and'Jump, for some erections on the west side of the Huskisson dock, at a cost of .£3;400, was also accepted.—A sum of £225 was agreed to be paid to different parties as compensation for injuries sustained by their property by the works at . Wapping. The committee agreed to purchase 2028 square yards of land, at a price of - .C17,602, fromXessrs. "Lowndes, RobinAon, and Bateson, assignees of'Messrs. 'Barton, Ham. and Higginson, at - Tabley-street, Wap ping.—A letter.was read from the Rev. George'Dover, thanking the committee for the annual grant towards the maintenance of a clergyman at - the North dock— orks. —A plan for the alteration of the position of the report ers' table was approved, and signed by the chairman. —l.lr. Bold gave notice that at the next meeting of the committee he would bring forward a motion, to the effect that the Bramley-Moore dock in future be called the Sefton dock. TOBACCO -,_:7D SNUFF LUDT: OF LIVERPOOL. — In Liverpool the trade is in the hands of half-a-dozen importers, and just the same number of brokers. There are 22 manufacturers, and IGO tobacconists, or retailers. The deliveries of last year were equivalent to 8,380 tons gross in weight, and, at an average of per lb., or 425 per hovhead, ex they, £365,000 in value. The stock, 7,912 tons, value £.344,000. In addition to these hogs heads of American tobacco, we received the following im. ports into Liverpool last year, 1852: viz., 2,800 boxes or kegs, manufaetured.;_2,l29 bales and 13f: chests leaf to bacco, and 'l7B cases cigars, the weight of which amounted to nearly 409 tons, and the value £40.000. The twenty two manufacturers of 'tobacco in Liverpool cut the leaf into what se termed -shag, bird's-eye, roll, cavendi.h, negro. and pigtail, to the extent of aboutl, 9 oo hhds., equivalent to i5O tons nett, per annum, which manufac ture is afterwards distributed in the town and country in smaller casks of two to ;- - five cwt., to all parts of Great. Britain. Very few .cigars are imported into (Liverpool. 'There are about half-a-dozen persons who manufacture cigars in the town, to the extent altogether •of nearly 'lOO tons a year, wto, with the manufacture of cuttobacco, afford employment to upwards of 400 individuals. This trade has much increased of late years ; but the mEnufac tura of snuff is still very inconsiderable. Tobacco pipes are made in Liverpool by nine makers, working frfteen kilns, and employing nearly 150 individuals, one moiety being females. The quantity exported last year from Liverpool amounted to 700 tons in weight, and £15;000 in value. About GOO tons pipeclay, brought coastwise from Teignmouth, in Devonshire, .is consumed annually in the manufacture. The entire trade of tobacco, &c., in this port, awounts to 0,480 tons in weight, and £420,000 in value, .e.v duty, per annum.—B. P. HEALT,}I 'COMMITTEE.-Mr. Langsclale presided at the weekly meeting on Wednesday. M. Beckwith called attention to a-memorial (read before the.co , oomittee), from the shopkeepers of Lord-street, complaining of the ineffi cient manner in which the street was watered. They desired that, in future, the Health Committee would cease to collect the water rate from them., and they would provide themselves with the requisite quantity of water. The chairman said that the amount for the purpose, £7OO, was taken out 4f the paving rate. Nothing could be done till next March. The memorial was referred.— Two tenders for number-plates for house-doors came be fore the committee, that of Mr. Laird (who was under stood to represent Fox, Henderson, and Co.), offering the plates at I6s. per cwt.., and that of Messrs. Weber and Co., whose price was l-Gs. 6d. per cwt. Mr. Godfrey considered that as Weber and Co. were ratepayers, they ought to have the preference. On a division, the com mittee were found to be equally divided, and the chair man gave his casting vote in favour of Messrs. Weber. Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Moss con demned the decision.—A report relative to the flagging of Mountpleasant, at an expense of X..:55, was referred for further consideration. —Th e subject of the crossing in Scotland-road was further adjourned to Thursday next. Mr. Godfrey intimated that he should move at the next meeting that the pavement in Scotland-road be taken up altogether, and adapted to the traffic. He considered that Mr. Newlands had made a mistake as to the road. — Mr. Henry Aynsley was appointed to succeed the late t ordinarye meetingti nu o e n d and tlieMr. Lea as chief cle r k i n the nuisanc e department.— Mr. Moss submitted hi s mot i on, that the meetings of the business general ed committeetohe Thursday, purposes transf r transferred but, in consequence of an informality in the notice, he would bring it forward at a future meeting.—. Mr. Hen derson gave notice that he intended to propose, at the next quarterly meeting, an increase in the salary of the borough engineer. (Laughter, and cries of " 06, oh.") Mr. Beckwith thought they had better at once increase the salaries of all the officers under the corporation—give them all what they liked. He added, " I really think (referring to Mr. Henderson) they will kick you out, as dead as Chelsea, if you come that—(laughter); 1 shall go out myself next November; I really cannot tit here." JOHN POWDY, a dock labourer, aged 24 years, fell into the Queen's Dock on Tuesday evening; and before he was reached by a boat which was sent to his assistance, he was drowned. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFlRMARY.—Yesterday week, at the meeting of the trustees, it was agreed to spend £5,000 in the erection of new wards, and in alterations of the present building. ANCIENT LIVERPOOL.—A really interesting exhibition has just been opened at the Old Assembly-rooms, in Tarleton-street. It is a model of Liverpool as it stood 200 years ago ;—such a diminutive village among green fields, trees, and hedges, that a comparison with its pre sent state is truly astonishing. It is of the dimensions of 20 feet by 14, and should be visited by every one as a genuine curiosity, while, at the same time, it is eminently instructive. It has been very cleverly executed ; and, being visible from every side, is perfectly intelligible. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—On Wednesday after noon, the United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Captain Luce, with the usual mails for the United States, Canada, &c., sailed from the Mersey for New York, with 154 pas sengers, and a large and valuable cargo of merchandise on freight. The royal mail steam-ship Asia. Lott, com mander, sailed from the Mersey for New York, at 2 50. p.m., on Saturday, with the usual mails. The Liverpool and Philadelphia screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, Wylie, commander, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday morning, after a fine passage from Philadetphia of ]3 days 12 hours. ENGLISH PATENTS RECENTLY SEALED.— Robt. Whine rey, of Liverpool, leather merchant, for certain improve. ments in the manufacture. Dated Jan. 6, 1853. William Weild, of Manchester, for certain improvements in looms for weaving. Jan. 12.—John Petrie, jun., of Rochdale, ironmonger, and Samuel Taylor, of the same place, me chanic, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for washing or scouring wool. Jan. 11.—James Fletcher, of Facit, near Rochdale, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus applicable to spinning, doubling, and winding of cotton, wool, flax, silk, and other fibrous materials. Jan. 12.—John Hetherington, of Manchester, machine maker, and John and Edward Dugdale, of Black burn, machine makers, for improvements in applying or constructing and applying models or patterns for mould ing., preparatory to casting iron, brass, and other metals for various purposes. April 27.—John Hetherington, of Manchester, machine maker, for certain improvements in machinery for combing cotton, wool, silk waste, flax, tow, and other fibrous substances. April 28.—Joseph Denton, of Prestwich, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for manufacturing looped terry or other similar fabrics. May 12.—Peter Fairbairn, of Leeds, and Ferdinand Kaselowsky, of Berlin, for improvements in machinery for drawing, roving, and spinning flax, hemp, and other fibrous substances. April 28. Des A STROUS INtmnATToNs.—The recent heavy rains have destroyed an immense amount of property through out the kingdom, and caused the loss of several lives. The River Wye rose on Saturday week, at Hereford, ten feet in three hours, and destroyed a vast quantity of hay. A villa on the banks, inhabited by an old lady named Lawrence, her daughter, two granddaughters, and two servants, was thrown down by the furious torrent on the previous Pride} , evening, all in it being buried in'one com mon rain. At Brecon the River Honddu swept through the town, tore up the piers of an old bridge, and threw down several cottages, three of their inmates, one a bed ridden old man, being drowned. The canal at the village of Dymoke, in • Aerefordshire, burst its banks, flooded all the adjacent fields, and submerged numerous cottages. Daring the past week all the country round 'Banbury has been tinder water, and both there and at Brackley all the lay crops and numerous sheep have been entirely swept away. At I tlanddowror, in Carmarthenshire, a bridge over whiCh the mail-coach passes, has been thrown down; and at 'Leicester the streets have been so 'flooded that the inhabitants have been forced to go 'from house to house in carts, paying a penny each journey. At Preston, the quantity of rain that fell from nine o'clock on Saturday morning:week until nine the following morning was equal to the average for a month in that part of the country. The eeliars in the lower part of the town were flooded, and the old sewers were found totany inadequate to carry off the great quantity - of water that had fallen. The - main sewers at the Syke end below 'Vest Cliff burst from the pressure. A wall was washed down, and one of the re servoirs adjacent to Wiessrs."Dawson's new inill, inTylde road, was filled to 'the'btim with water, and there being no proper overflow, it burst aportion of the wail of the weaving -shed, into which it rushed with great force. The tow lands in various parts oflancashire were flooded, and (ensiderable injury done to the hay and othererops. At Croston and Rt:d'ord the '"* . finnies” were under water, and many of the meadows 'have suffered much. In the village of Croston the water was some feet deep, and washed into the various cellars. In the Fylde the injury done has been very great, more especially in the neigh bourhood of St. Michaers,"Woodplumpton,'exc. . • • CAPTURE "EY 'TRE SOPMARINE TELERAPH. The screw-steamer Scandinavian, Captain Rayner, trading between Hull and Gothenburg, left the latter port on the Ist instant, with 0)00'230 emigrants. Yimongst them was a young man, whose luggage was •addressed "C. Arvidsson,' but we believe his real name is Carl Winberg. The Scandinavian arrived in Hull on - Monday week, but did not get into dock antil next morning. The emigrants she brought at once left for Liverpool' en route to Ame rica, * Winh-etg allowing bis luggage to go in the customs' van with 'the emigrants. Winberg, who is between 25 and 30 years of age , h as b een i n th e em ploy of M e ssrs. Willer ding and CO. ; Gothenburg, and it - was 'discovered after his departure that he had 'absconded with an amount of at least X6OO. '• On the'Tuesday, Messrs. Anderson, Hober, and Co., the Hamburg correspondents of Messrs. Willer ding, received an intimation of the flight and embezzlement which had taken place, and at once addressed messages by the submarine telegraph, via Ostend,' to Messrs. Wilson and 'Co., of Hull, the owners of the' - Scandinavian ; and also to a' - Londonfirm, -who telegraphed to Messrs. Clay and'Squire, the Swediegh consul at Hull. Messrs. Wilson's btyththaet ttoelwengrghthteo cornmonication reached Hull o n th e rT ues d ay evening;l:ott too late to be of any -service. Ho w e ver ear l y on Wednes day morning, st e p s were ta k en for tracing and captm.ing L the e T r u p n o a o w l , they a D at i s Zo t t h s i e n t g t a h e m p e o s ri police - o e alert. A clerk in 'the.employ of Messrs. Wilson and-Co. left forrLiverpool, on Coe same morning-; and in the even_ ing a clerk of Messre.'Clay and' Squire, accompanied. by Police -constable Greaves, of the Hull force, also went in pursuit. 'lt seems that the latter' left Hull soon after seven;•Ont did not reach Liverpool-until the Thurtdiry morning, when proceeding at once to the office of the Swedish consul, they found the prisoner in custody o f a Liverpool detective arid Messrs. Wilson's clerk, and. just ready for being returned to Hull. The prisoner and his captors -reached this town on Thursday evening, ab ou t half-past-six o'clock. 'He was again placed on board, and kept 'under strict surveillance. Winberg returned to Gothenburg by the Scandinavian, whichieft Hull for that port 'last Saturday. 'We understand that within ten minutes after the receipt of the information at Liverpool, the prisoner was in cirstedy. The money which he had in his 'possession was about £BOO.--'Eastern Countiee Herald. LATT ELECTION. ANALYSISPOF THE POLL. The following is a complete analysis of the polling at the recent election, showing the numbers in the several districts, and also the segregate voting, as dkided between the respective candidates; distinguishing the 'Freemen : )ISTRICT. Total No. of Votes 420 .. Horsfall and Liddell Freemen • 97 Horsfall and Perry Perry and Moor( Plumped for Hel Ditto for Liddell Ditto for MOOT 4 Ditto for Perry KIRKDALE DISTRICT. Total No. of Votes 145 .. Horsfall and Liddell Horsfall and Moore Horsfall and Perry Perry and Moore .. Plumped for Horeflil Ditto for Perry 'Ditto for Moore }icemen . 18 . 0 . 0 . 5 . 0 . 1 . .0 LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. Total No. of Votes. Preerner, Horsfall and Liddell Horafall and Moore . florsrall and Perry • ~ 793 Liddell and Moore... Liddell and Perry ... Perry and Moore ... Plumped for Horsfall Ditto for Liddell Ditto for 'Perry , Dittto for Moore, 6513 TOXTETH-PARIC DISTRICT. Total O. of Votes. Itreemen Horsfall and 'Llddell /24 . . 246 Horsfall and Moore Horsfall and •Porry Liddell and Moore Liddell and - Perry ........ Perry and Moore . 65 B Plowed for Horsfall 4 a Ditto for Liddell . Ditto for Perry Ditto for Moore . 216 .. 1101 WEST DERBY DISTRICT. Total No. of Votes. Horsfall and Liddell 346 Horsfall and Moore Horsfall and Perry Liddell and Perry I Perry and Moore . 51 Plumped for Horsfall Ditto for Perry , , 209 ... Ditto for Moore NONRESIDENT FREEMEN, Horsfall and Liddell Horgan and Moore Horsfall and Perry Liddell and Moore Perry and Moore Plumped for Horsfall Ditto for Liddell Ditto for Perry Freemen 8 1 21 2 GROSS TOTALS. Pl um p er g Splits with Horsfall 269 ... l7B 28 GENERAL NEWS. MAGNA CHARTA.—A movement is on foot, in London, for the erection of a monument to commemorate the signing of Magna Charta. COD FISHING.—A Stornoway correspondent, writing on Thursday, says—" An English cod smack arrived here on Tuesday night, from Iceland, with upwards of 14,000 cod fish, which they caught in 19 days." SCOTTISH LAW OF ARREST.—The government has issued a commission to J. H. Burton, Esq., advocate, to inquire into the law of arrestment in Scotland, and also into the truck system and imprisonment for debt. IMPORTATION OF OPIUM. —The monthly accounts show a large importation of opium. In the month ended the sth ult., there were 9,699 lb. imported, and in the five months ended the same day no less than 65,354 lb., being the largest quantity for a considerable period. THE KING OF HANGVER has conferred on Mr. S. W. Fullom, the author of The Marvels of Science, and their Testimony to Holy Writ, the Royal Hanoverian Medal of the Arts and Sciences, as a mark of his approbation of that work. THE REV. MR. MACKINTOSH, a young man, curate at Burton-upon-Trent, has been drowned while bathing in the sea at Sandycove, near Dublin. He could not swim, and seems to have been deceived as to the depth of the water, where he was bathing alone. WILLIAM YrLF, Reed 53, who committed the late frauds on the Isle of I .Yight Savings'-bank, by which he appropriated to his own use £BOO a year, for ten years, out of the savings of the poor depositors, pleaded guilty to his arraignment, and has been sentenced to transporta tion for life. TREASURE TROVE. — During Friday and Saturday week above fifty sovereignswere found by different persons at the bottom of the river Stow, at Canterbury. A hair watch guard, with two gold keys and a seal, and a mourning ring, bearing the inscription, "The Right Hon. Lord Henniker, ob. 5 Dec., 1821, mt. 69," were also taken from the same spot. ARRIVALS OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—The Elizabeth Buckbam, from Geelong, and the Sarah Ann, from Laun ceston, have arrived, the former with 200 ounces, and the latter with 126 ounces of gold, together of the value of about £1,304. The Templar, from Sydney, has arrived with, it is reported, 10,000 ounces, value about £40,000. She reports the Stebonheath to have left Melbourne on the 6th of April for London, with 46,000 ounces, value about £184,000. AUSTRALIAN NABOBS.—Among the passengers who came home in the Indus. which landed the Indian mails .at Southampton, were 19 Australian returned emigrants, most of whom were from Melbourne. They wore white calico hats, and their hale, hearty, and John Bull appear ance formed a striking contrast to that of the Indian pas sengers. The salubrity of the climate from which they had come was manifested throughout the voyage in the range and power of their organs of digestion. They had all made rapid and large fortunes. SELLING} A WIFE.—A case of selling a wife actually and bona fide happened in a provincial town about eighteen years ago. A man publicly sold his wife at the Market cross for £l5. The buyer carried her away with him some seven miles off, and she lived with him till his death. The seller and the buyer are now both dead, but the woman is alive, and is married to a third (or a second) husband. The legality of the transaction has some chance of being tried, as she now claims some property belonging to her first husband (the seller,) her right to which is questioned inconsequence of her supposed alienation by sale, and &lawyer has been applied to in the case. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. — At a meeting of the 'Crystal Palace Company, it was agreed to issue 50,000 new shares of £5 each. It was explained that the pros pect of the undertaking had much improved, and that whereas some few months since only 10s. per foot frontage for exhibition space could have been obtained, the whole ' would now readily let at £1 per foot. The expenditure up to August next would be about £490,000, which, making allowance for the money received from the sale of surplus lands (nearly £55,000), showed an outlay of £435,000, leaving £300,000 as the amount to complete the undertaking. The opening is to take place on the Ist of May next. • HOLYTIF.An NEW lIARIOVR WORKS.—The new har bour at Holyhead is now continually affording shelter to large numbers of vessels Which run in for protection, the works being so far advanced as to afford the required re fuge. As - a 'harbour of refuge it is now being fully tested, and, when completed, it will form the largest in the king dom. Hundreds of sail have put in during the last few months. An area of 3 . 16 acres is being enclosed by a breakwater, three-fourths of a mile in length, with a sea pier 2;000 feetiniength. and the average depth of water will be - upwards of '3O feet. Millions of tons of stone have been deposited tolorm the foreshore and bredkwater, and the daily delivery into the sea has been at the rate of 4;000•tons. This stone is obtained at "fhe mountain," about 'half a mile from Holyhead, where the blasting operations that are'being carried on are themost extensive in 'the` kindom. ATOME 1 , R0141 ." THE DIGGINGS:"—A. gold-digger, writing from Bendigo 'Creek, Australia, to a friend in 'England, concludes'his letter with the following unique and earnest appeal:—"Now, pray write onee a month at least, and number your letters, that T may -see whether I receive all. And, above all things vote for "'Ocean 'Penny 'Postage:" 'Go-ahead with that. A penny is enough for a letter. Our shippers only pay three farthings a pound for freight of wool, and less for tallow. 'I °nip •paid £l5 for my passage out, Which is 3,600 pence, and . I believeTweigh 3,600 half ounces ! Besides, our shippers nearly kept me in food for 100 days, and 22 days more. 'Just try - to remember that, and that a letter does not eat any thing. • If the 'Ocean 'Penny Postage were established,"Government would reap the advantage in paper duties, for -the stationers would sell a ream 'where they now sell a 'quire. 'CIVIL 'LIST TENstows.---Trom a return just issued , it appears that there were eleven pensions granted between the - 20th June, 1852, avid the'2o!h of 'June last, charged upon the civil list, amounting to £1.200. To John 'Russell "Riad, the astronomer, £200; Gideon Algernon Mantel!, the geologist , £100; Caroline Southey (widow of the late poet lattreato, £2OO ; 'Nancy Taylor (widow of an discoveriespginCol.'Taylor, killed arSobraon) , £ 100 ; Francis Ronalds ,, fo in electricity,'&e., £75 ;`Chas. Richardson, author,r tls , wife *Louisa - Stuart Costello, authoress, £75 ; of R: Pu g i n , arc hitect, £lOO ; 'ET;za je heth Hester Colby, wife of Major-GenerarColby, £lOO ; 1 0 Edinburgh , d i o n r b s u u rg ria h ; 017 of 5 wini am le . rdan, " consideration or his services to lite-, nature for 'many years, And his distressed circumstances' a t a n•advarlced period of life, £lOO ;" andrElizabeth . M. Dunbar, widow of the Gate professor of 'Greek in the and her three daughters, them. fUornitvheerssiurrtY 'Nx - vAt t CoAsf•VournorfrzEns.--The 'bill Cor the este .blishment ea body of naval coast volunteers, and for the temporary transfer to the navy, in case of need, of sea -faring in 'ether p u bli c serv i ces , h as j us t 'been pnblisbed. There are twenty-four provisions in the The Admiralty is to be empowered to raise not ex .ceeding 10,000 men, to be 'calked the " Royal Naval-Coast cVolunteers." They are to be entered forgive years, and -may be trained and exercised for - twenty-eight days in •each year. In ease of invasion or imminent danger, her . Itlajesty may •order the volanteers to be called into actual service. During exercise and actual service the men are to have the pay of able. seamen. In case of emergency the officers and -men of the -coast-guard and seamen riggers may be required to serve in the navy for a limited period. Upon invasion or danger. seafer , ing men in public depart ments are to be called to temporary service in the nary. There are certain penalties set-forth. and it is provided that persons not attending when called into actual service may be apprehended and punished as deserters from the Royal Navy. MANNING THE 'NAvr.-Sir James Graham's 'Bill to make better provision conczrning the entry and service of seamen, and oth erw i seto amend the laws con cerning her Mayesty",s navy, has inzt been issued. The ohject of the measure,:s to carry out the Admiralty regu lations-of April last,-to extend the period of service to ten years instead of seven, and to extend the service of boys " hereafter eriteriaz the navy, and otherwise to amend the law cotteerninz the .manning and discipline of the navy'. l ' It is proposed to enact that any proclamation of her Majesty for the services of _sentaring men, either during the time of peace or war, maybe general or re stricted, and service of seamen in the , navy may be ex tended by proclamation, saving the power of the Admiralty to enter for any periods and to discharge men. There is a provision that spirituous .or fermented ttiquors are not to be brought on board her Sfajesty's..ships without the commander's-consent. Desertion maybe punished sum marily, and persons making .fraudulent reFresentations on entering the navy are to , be punished as rogues and vagabonds. Railway companies are to convey naval forces on,the same terma as military and police. Rev-AL 'THE POST•OFWE.—Some annual returns relating to the Post-office department have dust been printed. The total number of chargeable letters delivered in the united kingdom in 1839, 'weeding the first general reduction of postage on the - sth cf December, 1839, was - 75,9t7,572, and'6;50,024 franked detters. Since the reduction letters have increased, and in the course of last year 379, - 5011,499 were delivered. The gross revenue of t(te Post-office in the yearonded the sth .of January last was £2,434326 16s. 7d.., and the net revenue £965,442 is.. - 74 d. In the same period .4329,963 14s. 4d. was paid for the convey ance of the mails by railway in the united kingdom,. From the Ist of January to the 31st of December last there were 411107 0 925 money-orders issued in the united kingdom, amounting to £9,08,277 17s. 2d., and the number paid was 4,942,859, amoun ti ng to .9,423119 2s. 10d. The mosey-order (ace cost £70,669. The amount of commission received was £82,333. The profit in England and Scotland was 412,720, and the loss in Ireland £1,056. For the last five years there was a profit on the money-order office, except in 1848, when there was a loss of £5.745- In 1.852 the profit was £11,664; in 1851, £7,437 ; in 1850, £3,236; and in 1849, £322. - - NEW DUTIES ON' SPTRITB ACT.—The new act, which received the Royal assent last week, has just been printed, to impose additional duties on spirits in Scotland and Ireland, and to alter the countervailing duties on spirits the manufacture of Guernsey, Jersey Alderney, or Sark, imported into Scotland or Ireland, and the countervailing duties and drawbacks on the removal of certain mixtures and compounds between Scotland, Ireland, and England, and to amend the laws relating to the collecting and secur ing the duties of Excise upon spirits. There are 41 clauses and several schedules in the new act, which has three periods of operation. As to the duties and draw backs granted and imposed and allowed, the act is to take effect from and after the 21st April last ; and as to the abatement or allowance to be made in respect to the de ficiencies in spirits warehoused, from and after the passing of the act (Bth of Jely inst.); and as to all other provisions, from and after the 10th of October next. The first part , of the act relates to the additional duties mentioned, the next portion to the countervailing duties, and the third to the collecting and securing the duties of Excise on spirits. It is enacted that a proper spirit store is to he provided in every distillery, and the officer in charge of the same to attend daily. All spirits distilled are to be removed into the store within six days. Permission is given by this act to distillers to carry on the trade of a wholesale dealer in spirits within the distance of two miles from the distillery. The additional duties and drawbacks are to be under the management of the Connissionere of Inland Revenue. 19, 1853. THE EXPORT BEER TRADE.—In the manth ended the sth ult., the value of beer and ale exported was £136,147, against £74,933, at the same period of the pre ceding year. THE REPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—The Jewish Chronicle says :—" Arrangements are in progress for shortly commencing an energetic agitation for the purpose of enabling Baron Rothschild to take his seat for the House of Commons, to which he has been thrice elected by the citizens of London. We hear that, once com menced, the movement will not rest until this important object is fully attained." REMOVAL OF TROOPS FROM THE CAPE.—We have been for some time past aware that it was intended by the authorities to order the removal of some of the troops from the Cape of Good Hope on the cessation of the war in Caffreland, and it is now decided that the following changes will immediately take place :—The Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel George Buller, who left England for the Cape on the 2nd of January, 1852, are to return to England ; the 12th Prince of Wales' Royal Lancers, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Pole, who left England for India on the sth of July, 1851, but were detained on their arrival at the Cape of Good Hope for service against the Caffres, are now to proceed to India, to relieve the 15th (King's) Light Dragoons (Hussars), under the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel George William Key, the regiment having been on service in India since 1839. NOVEL PAPER.—Some time back it was mentioned that paper with a novel kind of water mark had been produced at the mills of Mr. Thomas H. Saunders, of Darenth, in Kent, which would be likely to come into use not only for ornamental purposes, but also for bonds, checks, and other similar documents, as an extra precaution against forgery. The process enables portraits, landscapes, or any other subjects to be given with the same effect as in the German porcelain pictures, the graduated thickness of the paper at the various parts of the design creating, when it is held to the light, the requisite effects of light and shade. It was invented by the late engineer of the Bank of England, and much time has since been spent in bringing it to per fection for practical purposes. All the early difficulties, however, are now stated to have been got over, and paper of this make has been adopted for specific objects, by some public companies, both at home and on the continent. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. Jesse Oldfield, whose name has for many years been before the public in connec tion with the notorious Cobbett in various Chancery suits, met with his death under the following melancholy circumstances :—On Wednesday he was in his horse and chaise, on his way from London to his residence at Smitham Bottom, four miles from Croydon, and called on a friend at the latter place. After remaining some time, he determined to drive home, notwithstanding the torrent of rain. He quitted Croydon about eleven o'clock, but not arriving home his family was kept up all night in a state of great anxiety, momentarily expecting his return. At four o'clock on Thursday morning, mes sengers were dispatched in search of him. They had not proceeded far, when, in a lane leading from Croydon to i Smitham Bottom, they discovered the horse and chaise of the deceased, the latter without an occupant. The search was resumed, and ended in the discovery of the body of the deceased, some dist&nce from the spot where the horse and chaise were found, lying on his back at the side of the road, his skull dreadfully fractured, and his body otherwise awfully mutilated, the blood flowing copiously from the wounds, and his clothes saturated with rain. The precise time deceased breathed his last could not be ascertained, but it is supposed that it was not long after his leaving Croydon that the fatal accident happened ; therefore probable that lie must have lain for hours in the most excruciating agony. THE SAINT AND THE SAVAGE.—Lord Shaftesbury, in a speech made on the sth instant, on the second reading of the juvenile mendicancy bill, took occasion to refer to a chancery suit twenty-seven years ago, and to a speech of the late Earl of Eldon. In doing so the name of the Earl of Mornington was introduced. The ire of the noble earl has been aroused thereby, and in an epistle to Lord Shaftesbury he says ;—" I beg leave to invite your lord ship either to explain and retract the offensive remarks with which you introduced my name into your speech on the sth instant in the House of Lards, and which have been reported in The Times newspaper of the 6th inst., or to say whether you will give me that alternative that I am entitled to, and which I trust that you will not re fuse." Lord Shaftesbury, in reply, said :—" In my speech in the House of Lords I simply quoted a judgment of Lord Eldon's—a law case, published in a law-book. This I had a right to do, whetherl in parliament or out of it ; and every one has the same right. Your lordship is good enough to send me what is technically called a chal lenge.' I refer you for a reply to this and any further communication either to the police magistrate in Bow street or to my solicitors." In answer Lord Mornineton says Your referring me either to a police magistrate of Bow-street or your solicitors is but adding to your original insult, and is very absurdly impertinent. Thus, I must consider you as neither having the good feeling to explain the unfounded imputation, made in the House of Lords, you have passed upon me, or the spirit to meet what you have yourself provoked in the manner which regulates the conduct of gentlemen." THE RECENT Euec - rroNs.—Several alterations in the composition of the House of Commons have taken place recently. Captain Vernon has been returned for Chat ham by a majority of 13 over Admiral Stirling. The vacancy was caused by the ejection of Sir F. Smith by the committee, on the ground of bribery and treating. Mr. 'O'Brien and Sir J. F. Fitzgerald were unseated for the county of Clare by the committee, but have since been returned again. Mr. J. T. Aspinall has been re turned for Clitheroe, in the room of Mr. Wilson, un seated for bribery and treating. A seat for West Corn wall is vacant in consequence of the death of Mr. E. W. W. Pendarves. Mr. Mowbray is now member for the city of Durham, instead of Lord Adolphus Vane, whom the committee unseated on the ground of bribery and treating. The seat for North Derbyshire has been va cated by the acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds by Mr. Evans. The Earl of Dalkeith has been elected for Edinburgh County, in the room of Sir John Hope, Bart., deceased. Mr. Bagshaw is now member for Harwich, in the room of Mr. Peacock, unseated for bribery and treating. The Hon. H. T. Liddell and Mr. Horsfall now sit for Liverpool, in the room of Mr. F. Mackenzie and Mr. Turner, ejected for bribery and treating. Mr. Whalley was unseated for Peterborough on similar grounds, but he has been returned again. Mr. Horsman has been elected without opposition for Stroud, in the room of Lord Moreton (now Earl of Ducie). Mr, J. Sadlier has been returned for Sligo city, in opposition to Mr. Somers. Mr. Townley was removed from the seat for bribery and treating. Mr. Daniel O'Connell is now member for Tralee, in the room of Mr. Maurice O'Con nell, deceased. THE QUEEN AND THE ITALIAN BOT. — Another in stance of Her Majesty's benevolence and kindness of heart evinced itself on Tuesday last, at the Windsor sta tion of the South-western Railway. The Queen's maternal anxiety for her children at Windsor Castle induced her to travel from London, in private, to see them on the day in rizestion ; consequently the customary guard of honour, sad the usual state formalities, were dispensed with upon this occasion, and Her Majesty's arrival at Windsor was witnessed only by a few persons who happened to be strolling about the precincts of the station. The Queen proceeded to the Castle through the grounds on the north side of the park, the entrance to which opens immediately upon the South-western station. On Her Majesty's return, about two hours afterwards, some people had congregated to witness her departure, and among them stood a poor Italian boy, with his rude frame of images upon his head. Theeine expressive countenance of the lad was observed by the naturally quick and scrutinising eye of the Queen, and ehe herself beckoned the youth to follow her, which he did to the vestibule attached to the elegant suite of apart merge provided for Her Majesty at the station. The boy, conscious that it was the Queen who had summoned him, hurried to the porch, in a state of bewilderment, with his images-won his head, when one of the officers present, seeing his confused state, assisted in bringing him and his board of images to the feet of the Sovereign. With that benignant and gracious smile so pecular to the Queen, she gazed for a moment upon the youth, and then selected from his little stock the infant Daniel, praying, a Venus, and a lady at her bath. After liberally rewarding the little fortunate vendor ©f the fine arts, the Queen had her purchases placed iu the train, in which Her Majesty in a few minutes afterwards tack her departure. This act of Her Majesty is another of-the many proofs of her great condescension and gooditees of heart.—Morning Herald. RomANtsr Rzors.—For some time past a religious feud has existed among the Italian and Irish attendants at a ,Romish mass-house,in Gray's-inn-lane, London, which at :intervals has broken out in most alarming riots, creating the greatest terror among the peaceable inhabitants. To scch a height has the feeling risen, that one of the priests, who expressed hisozelf disapprovingly of the conduct of theJtaliens, was recently severely wounded in a court I leading out of Gray's-inn-lane, the aseassin escaping, and the priest's life far a considerable time being in extreme danger. On Mondaylest week a considerable number of t e a n n tauntedworship e e e r r e e d s u t l h t e was Iri s t h h p a e t o a p l t e e r w r i h ti o c the Italians, who ha ve a mass -h ouse i n Baldwin ' s gardens, a w ee nt al t b o leci At 'd Th j riot ensued, the Irish, armed with pokers and bludgeons, attacking the Italians, %aim, with large clasp stiletto knives, stabbed indiscriminately all who came near them. Several persons were carried away bleeding and danger ously wounded, and with bre4cen limbs. Father Gilligan and other priests who essayed to quell the tumult were severely handled, and came out of the fray with their faces covered with blood, Father Gilligan, it is reported, being stabbed, ;In the meantime sections of constables arrived from the police-station. The force proved in sufficient, and the Italians making an attempt to fire the school-house, at ten o'clock a forte of several hundred constables were brought together, when the men drew their staves and charged the mob of rioters. A great many were apprehended, but it was not till midnight that tranquillity was restored, extra constables remaining on duty to prevent a renewal of the fight during the night. Throughout the entire of Tuesday and Wednesday a strong detachment of police were on continuous duty in Baldwin's-gardens. After dark the number of men was doubled, and persons were not allowed to congregate near the spot, all groups that gathered being immediately dispersed. The surveillanc e is to be co n tinued until the present thirst for revenge, known to exist, has somewhat subsided. The friends of the Italians engaged in the con flict deny that they used their knives, but declare that the injuries the Irish sustained were inflicted with their bludgeons and fists, Several of the Irish who joined the fray from Saffron-hill have incised wounds on the arms also aware that the Italians and breasts. The p o li c e a re had their knives with them. One of the priests is cut across the nose. The reason that none of the Italians have been arrested is, that the injured parties are unable to identify their assailants ; they are also afraid of th e personal consequences for the share they took in the riot. Another serious disturbance occurred on Sunday ni g ht , between a number of the lower order of Trish and a party of Italian refugees. On this occasion, as on the previous Monday, the Irish were the aggressors, and, owi ng to the admirable precautions taken by Superintendent Martin, of the G division, several fellows have been apprehended and lodged in the station-house . on the double charge of assaulting unoffending . Italians, and resisting the police e • the execution of their duty. Of the p r emeditated P cin cha racter of the riot there cannot be the smallest doubt,inasmuch as . fr . om information previously communicated to the authorities, nearly 400 constables have been kept in reserve, ready to act at any moment they might be called upon. flits. CuistioLm Las left London for Rome, to take leave of her son, previous to her return to Australia. CHICORY.—In London, the police-courts have been called upon to deal with three respectable tradesmen for mixing chicory with their coffee, and selling it as pure coffee, and, of course, at coffee price. These creditable individuals were fined in mitigated penalties of £25 each. PAPER HOUSES.—A number of cottage houses have been constructed of papier mache: The frames, floors, and doors are of wood, but all the rest of papier mache. The cottages contain from four to ten rooms each, and can be taken down and re-erected in a few hours. SERGEANT WRANGWANI, Mr. Alexander, Kinglake, and Mr. E. James, Q.C., have given it as their opinion that Mr. G. H. Whalley, M.P. for Peterborough, was not qualified to become a candidate for re-election, having been unseated in consequence of the treating practised on the previous contest. Sergeant SHIPBUILDING ENTERPRISE ON THE CLYDE.—The Greenock Herald mentions that twelve months ago the yard of Messrs. Simons was under a crop of grain ; and, since the commencement of building operations, three vessels, including the " Aurora," have been launched, while three large vessels are at present in rapid progress. A HEART TOO Fui.L.—A man named Andrew Francis, whose brother was among a batch of emigrants leasing Galway last week, being refused admittance at the railway terminus at Eyre-square, ran round by another direction to meet the train, with a view to seeing his brother once more, but, on observing the train pass before his arrival, he dropped down and expired. DIVINE SERVICE IN THE ARMY. A return has been published, showing the expenditure of the sum of £18,500 taken in the army estimates for allowances to officiating clergymen for performing Divine service to the military at home and abroad, and for religious books. To Churchmen the sum paid was £14,536; to Presby terians, £865 ; and to Romanists, £2,702. For religious books £s26 4s. 10d. was spent—£2o2 Os. 6d. for books for Romanist soldiers, and £324 Os. 4d. for Protestants. HARVEST PROSPECTS.-With the exception of a hasty thunder shower on Saturday, this has been a week nearly void of rain, though generally cloudy. Tuesday and Wednesday were decidedly fine, which was a cause of re joicing with haymakers, and much was stacked d that time in good order. The mild temperature has exceedingly favourable to all growing crops, both of grass. roots, and corn, and will greatly assist in perfecting the wheat grain at the critical period of flowering.—Leicester, Journal. " AN APPROVING CONSCIENCE ITS OWN REWARD." —Not far from Ripon, in the parish of North Stainley, there is a Methodist local preacher, nearly seventy years of age; he has preached for the Wesleyans during forty years; walked five miles every Sunday to the morning service, returning in the evening —making, in all, upwards of 20,000 miles—alabour which he still continues to pursue, and for which he has never obtained more than one shil ling, which a man put into his hand one day when he was coming down from the pulpit ! This makes his pecuniary reward, for edifying a Wesleyan congregation, a fraction more than one farthing per annum. He is employed the rest of the week in breaking stones on a carriage-road, and he has never made more than ten shillings a week. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DERBY. —On Wednesday, about a quarter past six o'clock, flames were seen to issue from the roof of the extensive silk manufactory of Mr. Joseph Davenport, in Albert-street, Derby. An alarm being given, the inmates left the mill, but several daring men having ventured to ascend for the purpose of saving part of the silk, the roof fell in upon them. One of them in flames threw himself from the window, a height of 70 feet, and was so much injured that no hope is entertained of his recovery. Mr. Thorpe and two other men were al , o rescued alive, but dreadfully burnt. The building being fire-proof, the flames were ultimately subdued. FATAL FIRE.—On Monday noon, a destructive fire took place upon some farming property belonging to Lord Headley, in the vicinity of Wulff, near Brentwood, which ended in the loss of two if not more lives, and a very serious distruction of property. A few evenings back a party of Irish tramps, haymakers, slept in a barn attached to an off-hand farm, the house being occupied by a Mr. Bottershall. The tramps had left some matches behind them in a cattle pen, and four of Mr Botteshall's children, on going into the barn to play, found the matches with which they soon struck a light, and as quickly fired the place. The straw which was lying about in all directions, generally ignited, and but for the prompt action of a labourer named Willey, the children would doubtless have all perished. He rushed into the blazing barn and succeeded in dragging all four of them out. Two, however, a little boy and a girl, were so shockingly burnt that they survived but a short time, the other two being hurt. Willey in his noble exertions sustained con siderable injury, The flames were eventually subdued, the dwelling house being preserved. PRIESTLY INTERFERENCE.—The Sunder/and News publishes a letter from H. J. Staley, a Romish priest, to a young woman, who was about to marry a young man belonging to the Primitive Methodist body, in which he says, " I take the liberty of addressing you in this way on the important step you are about to take,—a step for which you must expect to suffer, either in this world or the next, or both. Either protracted bodily affliction, or, poverty, or persecution, or some other temporal calamity, or a premature grave, or an eternal hell, will inevitably follow the breach of that Divine command, ' Be not un equally yoked together with unbelievers.' You know that you are doing wrong ; you were evidently not pleased at my calling upon you yesterday. ' Your deed is evil,' and you wish to avoid the light, and all who would tell you the truth ; but you cannot get rid of your conscience, nor of God, nor the judgment day. If you take the pro posed step it will be my painful, solemn, but imperative duty to expel you from the society. If you say that this rule has not been enforced in other cases, I answer, ' By the grace of God, I shall enforce it while lam here.' I suppose it is quite useless to ask you to break the con nexion,—that would be too great a pri ce f or e t erna l g l ory . Do not, my sister, think that I hate you because I soy and act in this manner. No, I love you; and shall follow you with my tears, anxieties, and prayers. Request all your friends to procure mourning, and to put it on the day you are married. Please to show this letter to the young man to whom you intend to give your hand. Give my love to your sister, and accept it yourself.—l remain, your much grieved, faithful, and affectionate pastor and leader." ABDUCTION IN YORKSHIRE.—At York assizes, on Wednesday, William Johnson and Mary Cartwright were indicted for the abduction of Judith Kay (under the age of 16 years) from the possession of her father. The pri soner Johnson, a good-looking young man, had formerly been a " navvie" on the Thirsk and Malton line of rail way, and the female prisoner was the wife of another " navvie." Both prisoners lodged in the village of Thor.. manby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire—Johnson at the house of a Mr. Kay, a grocer and provision dealer. The prosecutor, Kay, had a daughter at home not more than 14 years of age, though in appearance a grown-up and very good-looking young woman, apparently 17 or 18 years of age. Between this girl and Johnson an intimacy sprang up, which was noticed and reprobated by her parents, on account of her youth. Johnson offered to marry her, and two or three times proposed to her to leave her tather's house. This the girl refused to do for some time, till the female prisoner called upon her, and endea voured to persuade her to go off with Johnson, telling her that if she was in her place she would ilo it. Partly in consequence of this persuasion, backed by her own incli nations, the girl agreed on Saturday, the 16th of April. with the female prisoner, who represented to her that Johnson was going away next day, and that she was also going with her husband, to join them on Sunday evening after church, at a little distance out of the village, and to put her clothes out of the window that night fr:: .;(,;msort to t►ke away. This the eirl did, and went off with the prisoner Johnson to Guisborough, where she spent the night with him. The female prisoner and her husband lodged in the same house. Information was given to the police of the girl's absence, and she was traced to Guis borough and taken from the prisoner Johnson's bed. Both prisoners were found guilty and were sentenced, the female to two years, and the man to six months' hard labour. ALLEGED ABDCCTION BY A ROMISTI PRIEST.—It is anticipated that when the Nunneries 13i11 comes before the House of Commons, on Wednesday, a c i rcumstance that has caused much excitement in this town, will be brought under the notice of the Legislature, the whole of the facts having been laid before Lord Palmerston, Mr. Chambers, the author of the Nunneries Bill, and other supporters of it ; while Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Lucas, and other Romanist members have been acquainted with the particulars. It appears that two young ladies, about fourteen and sixteen years of age, the daughters of a respectable family re siding in this town, and formerly of Burnley, have been hitherto ethic ited in the religion of their father, as Ro manists, , and it was his intention to take them to the con vent of tne Holy Child Jesus, at St. Leopards-on-Sea to receive further educati on, an d t o act also in the capacity of pupil teachers. Wh e th er t h ey had shown, at any time previously, any wavering in their doctrines, we are not aware; but onthei r com i ng t o res i de at Preston, a few weeks since, and about the time when their departure for the nun nery was resolved upon, they renounced the 'lowish faith to one of the clergy of this town, attended his Sunday-school regularly, and had consented, with the approbation of some of their Protestant friends, that he should make ar rangements for them entering a training-school for teach ers, the one at London and the other at Warrington. They Tickets for the weekwialtenthe their house fati o ,e f r a i n n e da r somerelative ot i i i n .fedr t et h hdf e eroi t en o rna w dil ti n ss.,, , a w Protestant, ere l a s last taming possession of the girls to take them topic nunnery. They were invited to take a trip to the sea-side, and Ly tham MIS t. .ed upon for an excursion. This they accept e d , ttfinding persuasion unavailing, hit uphoneTrooelainrefod.eceyeioje_iucnegfolradoiebs eo no took i o t nh upone(oii r f ii gteo seatspwinaaig: 1 passing e t nsi o in: aegSnt tolecrinar:ii cried laifdpant9otdoirri tuetmtir:s:tqseys,otauu'l i r t . e l di parties. and, on Saturday last, they left with their . father and an uncle for the train ; but the latter . then intimated their in. j w ou h r o n le ey p , a w rt i y th w o e u r t e ;n u y n t k h r i i i o;n re t n o l. a t r h k. e a f b e l m e atlaekmi taking p b members e of un . i t t i l y n o g u u n s g t l o ad a ie c s on s v a e il t :,,No we ' ll right. One of the girls then ' t L he ond e o w n, to 7d it t in he ct t io ra n i , n w tl i i l e e n n were :ieeded. Various for necessary created wpowi obtained toetlrayeetr ;raco: at hand to render assistance tio they n, abrruffifeete:tilia'afaekoltsri although are for South the person they ejaculated, " Oh ! for a rescue, if assistance Such an exclamation reports were . speedily in circula t the aid of a magistrate was volunteered interference had was there been any opportunity of - exercisin g it, nothing, could be done where a father was simply taking, as he 'stated, two girls to school. Th e wires of the electric telegraph were set i n motion, and information of the extraordinary incident was conveyed to Preston and other places ; and, on the arrival of the train at the various stations on its way to London, considerable interest was excited, news of the occurrence having preceded the train. We learn that the young ladies are now in London, at a branch establish ment of the convent, where they are to remain for a few days previous to being taken to St. Leopard's. Their Romanist friends allege that they are now reconciled to the prospect of a conventional residence; but we learn from other quarters that their (lislike has not bean o'er. come, and that they avow their intention of remaining Protestants. Several ge n tl emen o f th e town are Interest ing themselves on behalf of the young lakes, should there be any means of legally placing them in the way of pro. twins the Protestant religious—Praia Prosicie. EVERTON PERKY Splits with Liddell. 17 Splits with Moore 1117 HORSFALL Plumpers l2l f, Splits with Liddell.. 5448 if Splits with Perry 269 lf Splits with Moore 133 LIDDELL Plumpers 2B ~- ~ Splits with Perry .. 17 ~ Splits with Moore 6 2 MOORE Splits with Perry .. 1107 3, Splits with Horsfall 133 n Splits with Liddell.. 6 ;sio ;ell Nig wits, ser 4 ibt 00.