The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANIDA_RD, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1853. LO( NEWS A NEW STONE PIER is being erected alongside the land ing -slip at Eastham. THE JUBILEE of the London School Union was cele brated in Myrtle -street Baptist Chapel, (the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown's,) on Tuesday evening last. MR. WILLIAM HARGREAVES MANIFOLD has been Razetted as ensizn and assistant-surgeon in the Second Regiment of the Lancashire Militia. 4. GENTLEMAN, upwards of 70 years of age, who resides in Clarence -street, fell from the forecastle of the Chinese Junk on Friday, and fractured his leg, just above the ankle. THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS EXAMINATION takes place on Thursday next. The Rev. Thomas Jackson, of Stoke Newington, will preach on the occasion, at St. Peter's Church. llusnAsn PotSONED.—Martha Walker, of Ashton lander-Lyne, has been committed to the Liverpool Assizes, charged with attempting to poison her husband, Philip Walker, by administering to him acetate of lead. THE C OMMISSIONERS OF WAVERTREE have resolved to lay down a line of pipes from the tank now in course of formation for drawing off the refuse of the village—the said pipes to run down the private line for 100 ya r ds, awl farther, if f ound necessary. THE Pt7r:LIC BATHS AND WAVFI-TIOUSES are reported to be in a most hopeful condition. At the last committee Meeting; it appeared that a new and gratifying featzre is, that the wires of the Liverpool artizaus are found ?.ttend ing the cheap private baths. BEN NEVIS. —A letter, from a passenger by the Ben 'Nevis, speaks very highly of her performances on the !Idles voyage to A ustralia. The best day's sailing was 304 ; 285 and 295 miles was common euen she had Winds, and she was the easiest ship. AT A MEETING held at Newington Chapel, Renshaw_ street, on Tuesday, Charles Robc.rtson, it w nsq., presiding, as resolved to promote local petitions to Parliament, vind to memorialise our Town Council also to petition, against the Education Bill of Lord Join Russell. Tnt onia - ex - which was established in 1847, for the Cultivation ractice of orchestral and instrumental rattsic of the best class, P held their fourteenth dre concert at the Mechani s' Inslitution, Mount-street, dossWednea evening last.c LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY.—The concluding lectur e of the present season was delivered on Tuesday e ‘N ve i n i :hg, hY Xr. C. Millward, et the society's-rooms, in :*"",Street, under the appropriate title of " The Pre.. Eiden street, Budget." D av TlNto7or-7. CoNNow, " contractor," for intimidating id Doar, a brother workman wile he was at work on Wednesday morning, was cn Friday h bound over in :Cf: and two n s aoureties of £lO each to keep the peace for one calen dar rith. C AN- oR 'tyre men N PE ER GA RLAND A l ji M ARTIN - ‘VIIO had conspired t o o b ta i n a mar i ne s t ore li cense un d er false pretences, were brought before the magistrates on I'6 *, by Inspector Kehoe, and sentenced each to a moan's i mprisonment. Garland is, or was, etcployed at °Ttlan's music-store in Manchester-street. ST PANGE AND FY-TAL ACClDENT.—Duriniethe election Processional display, at Clitheroe, last week, l Mr. Chris topher Holgate, aNvery large man, put his heed out of an obilling mnibus, when his great weight overbalanced the vehicle, himself acci a ch Id sitting on the tor, as well as Injuring a number of the passengers. t ICENv AND t lrePUI. INVENTION.—The spi r ited proprie ..pors of th e Patent glass enamel, Messrs.l-. Cooper and of Liverpool and Manchester, have a stock of articles class from wrought-i ron, and coated or enamelled with which are not only distinguished iy their strength are all3jcitY, 13,4 t by their el ega n ce an d t as t e , an d w hi c h keepers : wor thy the p a t ronage o f s hi ppers an d house - • • TETE If Af°a• SAMUEL HOLMC, Eee,-, was Tuesday eveninpresent on g at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor of London tt about eighty mayors and provosts of the prin. a c s iP s a e l cit ies and towns of Great Britain and Ireland, r ,_ nahled with a view to aid the eforts of her Majesty's sjuver ranent, bv promotinga uniform organisation through out the country for the diffusion of a more general and practical 'knowledge of science and art among all classes. , AT"PITE ADJOUR NED SPECIAL Ilis - rnNo of the Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway, held on Wed nesdarlast in Manchester, a committee was appointed to consult and advise with the directors upon the present andfutere policy of the company, aria, to report thereon to the shareholders at a special general meeting. Messrs. J. Hi g b field and W. C. Fosbery, of Liverpool, are among the gentlemen forming the committee. TIM LOCAL PENSIONERS, under the command of Col. Sw ain,Sw ha ve b een called out in companies, since the 20th V e d ,each company bein g un d er drill fur two days. On dismissednesday they m arc h ed through the town, and were had a field.dat ay the E xc h ange. On Thursday the veterans and on Friday they-were inspected on the Para de-ground,' at the Everton barracks, by Colonel Tul lough, commander of the whole of the local companies. `WREC K OF AN EMIGRANT d SurP.--Th e s hi p Squan ont, emigrant ship, Crookes, for Easton, with 250 emi grants on board, went on shore on• Wednesday night in a dense foe, near Port Greenock, six miles S.W. of Douglas, Isle of Man. The crew and passengers were landed. She , svill scarcely be got off, being on the rocks. Her Majesty's steamer Porc up i ne is gone to render assistance. The ISquantum left Li verpool on Tuesday. KILNER'S FIRE -PROOF SAsEl'..—The certificates of the utility of these safes daily accumulate. The Percha Comp any i n L ondon were fortunate enough to ta hara their books and a large 4..uantity of valuable papers enclosed in one of them. After the fire the books were not only found uninjured, but property to the value of 45 ;(100 in bills, cash, &c., was found perfec tly safe. e The een test to which the s a f e was su b je ctedmustl v been the intense, as the brass work was co m pl e t e l y melted front, and there was not a trace to be seen of the knob or eaeuttheon. M E ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN LANZ ASIIIIIE.—Amongst the anecdotes related of the " sayings and doings" of souse of the militia, in Burnley, this -week, we may record the following. In the early part cif last week, the sub sequent dialogue as said to have beer. held between some officers and a private or the sth Royal! Lancashire Militia, in 'Lumley :—Captain . A : " V, 7 hc cut your hair ?" Private ;: " W or ?" Captain " Who cut you hair ?" Private : •' Oi corn'd till wod ye meon." Captain B. then interfered, and said he would a:ndertake for a glass of ,13 randy and water to elicit an answer the moment he Put - thesquestion, which was agree d t o immediately, when The B. said to th e man , " Who }you'd te', lad ?" man instantly .replied, " My mars, to be seur."- - lc - I"Rn oi 29.40 t. eleus A.Ncrrifra. NEW BRUNSWICK CL1..1..r teat., called the , And commanded by C ap t a in•Giml3er, arrived in the Mersey durin g th e past week. Her builders are ' w &Etrs. 'Brawn and Anderson, and Mr.-Brawn, who has come over.with her, is one of those men who rise by genius and perseverance, having gone through all-like degrees of his Praf sskil- The N e l eus made the passage in twenty one dasTs• stShe is a f u ll r i gge d ship, and' her spars look 193 rakish.. tier (l ength of k ee l is 175 f ee t— over a ll , a b out feet:; beam, 35 feet 10 inches ; depth, 20 feet 4 inches; old ,cess uretnent, 1,117 tons. 'Her model is ext r remely sharp at both en d s , w ith a concave bottom at cessfull he tnidnl4 .sect rb ion. H er handsome appearance is suc y " n/ bieci with great strength; and in the latter Particular she is.:.sid to be the finest ship hitherto turned out from stay 'yard in New Brunswick. She has a top gallant forecastle, and deckhouse aft, the latter oat yet furnished. She has been expressly designed for the pas senger trade, and , catries an upper and lower deck. She is at present discharging in the Brunswick look. A LANcAsstan.r ,CASE. —Court of Queen's 'Bench, Westminster, June . 9.—Tbe Queen v. l'ilkiegton and Another. In this case a rule had been granted to sheer cause why two justic ae of Lancashire should not issue a distress warrant upon the goods of W. 1114 Cue, to enforce payment of 19s. Gd. , bein l e the arrears of a weekly sum of 15..6d., ordered by two , ustices to be paid to one Bliza beth Gbrimes, for the maintenance of her bastard child, of .which the said W. 'Cue was the putative father. The r jestices had declined to issue their warrant Lugpaoonthhet ground that the order of ma intenance whi c h it :‘, to put in force was invalid. The mother of the bastard child .was a married woman transportd, but he had returned hose husband h a d b een to this country, and co habited svith his wife after the 'birth of the bastard child, the ,he had since abseoed2d• Lo rd Campbell said ...'" e object of the statutes was, to' prov i de tene rice , f , for the main. bastard children, and',to relieve parishes their maintenance ; and it would be stran this Child ..s huld be left destitute, and the p g u e t'ative father by the 7th ndeedfr,o from .?, f ,,, th ,? . e. lii_lfl,fred from liability to maintain it, i.,l6th opinion' c. 101. The o th e r judges expressed similar Rale absolute. S E .e Li,:c*r v. z . rx.r.—The Rev. Rector Campbell re nd d at the meeting of this body on Tuesday. It appeared l a• e t the P; ttuelieerxteriVino for r °f relief are making arrangements relief in kind, in substitution of money va ro . a , far as , uo shed s d it is practicable. The admission to the tuar k lis,,ial In tiring the week were 896, a lamer number achooltnast; e°n stuence of the dismiazal of the late the first ari l hitl been agreed that James Bardsie t y n b t e . ochoolmaster. ' an iel Cullivan the second . , was reported to be a.:7ls ho a use e total number of inmates in tip , .. SICg eases. art. j. • Amongst 28 POraril o fill ' " I lles D. Kelly had been appointed tem death of his brother.i flaw, the Medica trict rendered vacant by the corna l it• Mr. Durkan. The sub taitted •,ee on the medical arrangements of the house sub the , l _l report on the statements made by Mr. Moss at th e f r' 41 , e ting of the e r n rl board with reference to satelate ° g-guat of the boys, Murphy and Marsden, by the of the boys, Murphy and Marsden, by the -re 9ter, Scarratt, in which they repudiated any were e " their part to stifle the inquiry. The proceedings th e pc,firmecl,.—Mr. Savage was elected a member of co st 'Rance Co mmittee.—lt appeared that the average and Per head per week in the Industrial School is 2s. Old., th at " the Workhouse 2s. 3d.—Mr. \Villmer gave notice rile he should, at the next meeting, move the appoint -1.5Q Of an •• at a salary of 1 .5 ,, .assistant to the vestry-clerk, ' a year. LECTU RE Rep,4, ON IN-DIA.-011 Thursday morning, several Association connected with the East India and China whoattended at the Chamber of Commerce, to a discourse on India, by Julius Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.5.,. lehas been long a resident in the east. The chair was ,cupied by 11Ir. I3ouch, vice-president of the . chamber. lo _ IPfll,e lecturer described the people of India as incapable f -government and self-advancement, and argued that , u ritish rule was a blessing instead of a curse. The mode li_. which justice was administered was scandalously bad, c are it was tardy and expensive. In reforming that matter, I, r e should be taken that British born subjects shoula not ..,e a l. li to wowed to continue under the administration of native iuges—subject to the caprice of those who were born a., av ,,es• The land ought to be irrigated, canals should be Iri,aue, wells should be sunk, and money advanced to the c ulturists, who ought also to be instructed in the use ( t ) , Proper ploughs and harrows, instead of being allowed t3t as.te time and labour over clumsy and ineffectual in rutnents lofartmight also be established for the • • Schools Instruction of native boys by soldiers who understood different trades ; and thus, tl, by giving knowled ge to t h e Aeo i Pie, advancing money, and laying down a solid basis on wnich they could work arid develope the land, India would 5`,011 preoent a different picture to what it does now. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The Earl of Harrowby will preside on Friday next at the prize delivery. ROYAL INSTITUTION' SCHOOL.—At the annual exami nation, just terminated, at St. John's College, Cambridge, Mr. Rees, pupil at the above school, was elected to a Wood's Exhibition. Mr. Rees's name appeared second in the list of the men of his own year. He was first in the classical part of the examination. NEW CONSULS.—The Queen has been pleased to ap prove of Don Juan Arellano Hall as Consul at Liverpool for the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Giovanni di Ma zarredo as Consul at Liverpool for his Royal Highness the Duke of Parma. STEAM BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND BALTIMORE.— American advices inform us, that the bill incorporating the Baltimore and Liverpool Steamship Company, with a capital of ~54 1 ,000,000, had passed. The object of the charter is to organise a company to build steamships to run regularly between Baltimore and this port. It fixes the capital of the company at a million of dollars, but authorises it to be increased, if necessary, to two millions. Ts NEW AMERICAN CONSUL—HINT TO LIVER- Poot.—We have noticed the suggestions in various quarters, that we should welcome the arrival of the new Consul at the port of Liverpool, by some public demon stration befitting the advent among us of one who, de servedly, occupies a high position in the Americun re public of letters. Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne has produced an infinite variety of works, the excellence of which is attested by the fact, that they are quite as popular in the old, as in the New World. We know men of the best judgment and taste in England who regard Hawthorne as really the first literary man in America, and he certainly surpasses the American minister, Ingersoll, in this point of view. And ss he is our consul, surely it is the least we can do to him that honour which was so gracefully paid to the American Minister, at the Cogst of St. James's, by this great 'commercial community. Were Mr. 'Samuel Holme to take the initiative in the welcome to Haw thorne, it would be an act worthy of his mayoralty, and would be a graceful recognition, on our part-, of the respect we entertain for the literary class of America, and the joy with which we hail the improved feeling for literature and literary men, new manifested bythe govern ment of the United States, ?LEASING TESTIMONIAT,-.-The Rev. James Philip Shepperd, the zealous minister of the North Shore district, Kirkdale, has been presented by the labouring poor of his congregation with a pleasing token of their esteem for him as their minister, as well as a testimony of their gratitude for the several institutions he has been enabled to establish , for their benefit, and that of their children. The present consisted of thirty volumes of books, on religious subjects, each bearing a suitable in scription. The poor met their minister last evening, and deputed Mr. Ambrose Smith (an inhabitant of long stand ing in the district) to present the volumes in their names, after which Mr. Shepperd replied in a very affecting ad dress. One of the most pleasing features in this present is that it proceeds entirely from the poor—the dock and other labourers, who have contributed their pence weekly for the last foul. months. It r ppears that in the short space of two years this district has been thoroughly or ganised ; boys', girls', and infants' schools have been established, as well as a Missionary Society, Bible Depot, and a system of religious tract distribution, solely by the untiring exertions of the present minister, and we do hope that ere long the present small chapel (which is supported by the united generosity of the Earl of Derby and the Liverpool Dock Committee) will be supplanted by a church with suitable accommodation for such an in creasing poor population. LIVEFOOOL CASES IN THE ADMIRALTT COURT.— On Tuesday last the following cases were heard, and dis posed off.—The Gipsy.—Salvage. This was an action brought by the steamer Cambria, to obtain 'remuneration for salvage services rendered to the Gipsy, on the 27th of February last. The Gipsy, bound from Charleston to Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton and turpentine, met with a violent storm, and when off the South Stack lighthouse, near Holyhead, being dismasted, came to anchor and hoisted signals of distress. When the weather had sufficiently moderated to 'render it practi cable, the steamer went out of the harbour and towed the vessel in. The only point in dispute was the safety of the anchorage ground. The property salved exceeded in value £21,000. The learned Judge allotted .£l,-200.-- The•E. 11.—Salvage.—This also was a cause of salvage, and was promoted by 12 men, forming the crew of the Broadstairs lifeboat, and by two luggers, the Ondine and the Ruby, to obtain remuneration for services rendered to the E. on the 27th of December last, off Margate. The bound from Antwerp to Liverpool, anchored in the Downs, but, by the violence of a gale, drifted, struck on the Brake-sand, and made water very fast. The-salvors put off to her aid, and, as they alleged, - their services•were accepted, and the charge of the vessel was given up to them. They endeavoured to conduct her to wards land.; one of the luggers remained by thewessel, lest-she should founder, while the other was employed in carrying an anchor and cable. She was subsequently aband-Caed, and found by a steamtug, which beached her, and for which she was remunerated. A tender was made of .C2OO, and refused. On the part of the owners it was contended, that however good the intentions •of the salvors, their services were comparatively useless, and would be amply rewarded by the tender. The value of the property salved was £44'95. The learned ...Judge, having characterized the services of the salvors as most meritorious, over-ruled the tender, and decreed £3OO. —Thnßravo.—Dr. Addams applied to the Court for a warrant of arrest against the Bravo, under the following circumstances :—Messrs. Bliedberg and Co., of Liver pool, shipped a cargo of salt on board this Prussian vessei, which was bound for Stettin. Having experienced bad 'weather, she sustained some damage, and a portion of the cargo was thrown overboard. She put into Inver ness, and the captain wrote to Messrs. Bliedberg and C 0.., stating that he was without funds. They replied that he must act according to the laws of the country. if he could not obtain funds from his owner, living at a distance of three days' post, meaning that he should raise money on bottomry. He afterwards sold the cargo, and applied the funds to assist in paying the shipwright's and sailmaker's bills. The-shiT having returned to 'Liver pop!, the present motion was made. The learned 3udge acid thc.t it was a very hard ease on the owners, but he had nojFisdiction. However reluctant he was to leave the parties without any other re me dy th an go i ng t o Prussia, he could not attempt-to enforce the authority of the Court. Lis - e.s.RooL TowN CouNcre.----On Wednesday, the ad journed meeting was held, Sir 'John Bent, in the absence of the Mayor, presiding. The Markets Committee recom mended-that the yards and sheds adjoining Gill-street Market Should be let, as they were not required longer for the purposes of the market.—Mr. Cooper, in moving the confirmation-of the proceedings, eeplained that the market was a partial failure, though the income from it ..was between •stlisoo and £3OO per annum. By the proposed letting an additional £lOO would be obtained.—Mr. Jef freys seconded the motion.—Mr. Banner suggested that the Gill-street Market might be advantageously converted into public.,lle.ths.—Mr. Bigham approved of Mr. Ban ner's suggestion, which was referred generally to the com mittee for consideration, and the proceedings approved. The Educat ion Committee's reports,. ikc., were confirmed. The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the goal and House of 'Correction Committee, comprised:—Recom mendation to increase the salary of Mr. J. M. Wade, chief clerk, from sf,llo to £l3O per annum, the considera tion of which was postponed at the last monthly Council, pursuant to the -standing orders.—Recommendation that Mr. C. Coneannon be appointed permanently third clerk in the gaol, at a.aalary of £BO per annum, being the same salary as that paid to his predecessor.—Recommendation to increase the salary of William Buckle 7, taskmaster, from £lOO to £l2O-per annum. There was considerable opposition to the increase of Mr. Wade's salary ; but the increased renumeration was carried by a majority of 15 to 12.—0 n the proposed appointment of the third clerk, at a salary of £Bd, Mr. 'Dover pleaded that the peculiar state of the money market ought to make the Council pause ; and Mr. Bigham, urging also the necessity of putting a check to the present .system of advancing salaries, alluded to the contingency of a European war. The proceedings of the committee, however, with-the pro posed advances, were _sanctioned. The minutes of the Town-hall Establishment Committee were con firmed.—The chief item of the Health Committee's minutes was the recommendation as to the ,terms on which the East Lancashire and the Lancashire :sad Yorkshire Railway Companies shall be permitted to arose the highways on the level. The crossings were recom mended to be a ll owe d on sufference, to be c o n s t ruc t e d a t the railway company's cost, who were also to pay men (appointed by the Council) to watch and open the gates night read day. Mr. Langsdale moved, and Mr. Dover seconded the adoption of the proceedings. Mr. Parker movecl,and Mr. Bennett seconded an Amendment, that the recommendation be referred back. It having been decided:that members interested in either of the railways could not vote, Mr. Holt agreed to be the seconder of the motion, ,f,ice Mr. Dover, and the vote; were taken. The amendment was lost by 21 to 2, the two being Mears. Parker and Bennett.—Mr. Parker gave notice of a motion for a r.eturn of the slaughter-houses licensed as private slaughter-houses, with the number of butchers licensed for each slaughter-house, together with the amount of cattle killed.—The proceedings, resclutions, anti reports of the Water Committee, comprised a recom mendation to increase the wages of the followiug ser vants : viz., surveyor, .ss. per week ; superintendent of distribution and pipe-laying, ss. ; superintendent of turn cock, 35.; storekeeper, 2s. ; four enginemen, 135.; .five stokers, 6s. ; four repairers, ss. 6d.; five dock turncocks, ss. ; two smiths, 3s. ; two assistant pipe-layers, its. ; eighteen labourers. 235. ; watchman, Is.: the considera tion of which subject was postponed at the last monthly Council, pursuant to the standing order. It was also re commended that William Bryan, one of the clerks in the treasurer's office, be appointed collector of water-rents and charges, vacant by the resignation of John Pritchard, at a fixed salary not exceeding £l5O per annum, with the usual bonus for good collection.—On the motion of Mr. Holt, seconded by Mr. Bradley, the recommendations were individually approved, anti the general proceedings sanctioned, after a protest from Mr. Bennett that, while small matters were detailed in the reports of the com mittee, there was no mention of such large sums as £7,500 being paid to the contractors, " not by way of certificate." Mr. Bennett objected also to the limited number of tenders likely to be received for laying down pipes from Rivington to Liverpool.—The Library and Museum Committee's proceedings were adopted.—Mr. Woodruff moved, and Mr. John Gladstone, jun., seconded, the adoption of the hackney carriage, &c., committee's proceedings, which embraced the advance of inspectors' wages from 30s. to 31s. 6d. per week. The proceedings were confirmed.—The Baths Committee's proceedings were sanctioned.—Mr. Thomson's motion for a select committee to inquire "as to frauds or evasions with refe rence to the payment of town dues, and to report upon the best means for the prevention thereof," provoked some little discussion. It was seconded by Mr. Dover, but opposed by Mr. Bingham, on the ground that the Dock Committee themselves, next session, intended taking action in the matter. Mr. Bingham took the opportunity of stating his belief that, in the export and import trade coastwise, the frauds upon the town dues amounted to at least fifty per cent. Mr. Thomsons' motion was neither lost nor won, as the members, during the conversation upon it, gradually glided out of the room ; and, when the chairman rose to put the amend ment, there being " no Council," the proceedings cam e to au abrupt close. THE SELECT COMMITTEE on railway bills have reported in favour of the St. Helens and Warrington and Altrin cham bills ; also in favour of the bill of the London and North-western Railway Company, for making a line from Crewe to Shrewsbury. EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL. — The total number of vessels now preparing for the various ports of Australia is 33 ; the total amount of registered tonnage 21,493. The number of vessels despatched last month from Liverpool, under the Emigration Act, was 51, and the number of emigrants 24,202. THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN have been admitted fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons :—Messrs. Thos. Mather Ashton, Orrnskirk ; George Henry Hope, Sea forth ; King Ellison, Liverpool ; John Lonsdale Min shull, Liverpool ; Robert Thomas Lodge, Liverpool ; Alfred Whittle, Liverpool. LOCAL PATENTS. - The following patents, amongst others, were sealed during the week ending June 4, 1853 , —George Isaac Jackson, of Castle-street, Liverpool, and Henry David Jackson, of the same place, for improve ments in fastenings for buttons.—Joseph Bentley, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, gun and pistol manufacturer, for improvements applicable to fire-arms. A HANDSOME ILLUMINATED ELECTRIC CLOCK has been erected by the Electric Telegraph Company opposite their large new offices in Castle-street, which will be opened for business during the present week. In a few days the company will, it is understood, fix a ball on the roof of the building : both the ball and the clock will be electrically connected with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. LIVERPOOL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The fourth and final sessional meeting was held on Tuesday last, pre sided over by Mr. Newlands. Thirteen new members were proposed. Mr. Frank Howard read a paper on " Photography in connexion with the Fine Arts ;" and, on the suggestion of Mr. Chadburn, it was arranged that a general rendezvous of the members would be held at seven o'clock, on the Thursday evenings, at the society's rooms. A DRUNKEN ENGINEER, named Lewis, in the service of the Liverpool Steam Tug Company, while in a state of intoxication at Widnes on Sunday last, met two deaf and dumb lads, who were conversing by signs. Lewis fancied they were making fun at him, and commenced beating them. Some man came to the assistance of the poor mutes t but in the course of the struggle the drunken man was thrown down and had his arm broken. At the Pres cot police-court on Tuesday, he was fined in 245. 6d., and costs, for the offence. THE MEIVIBERS OF THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB held their monthly dinner and meeting at the marine station, Birkenhead Hotel, on Tuesday evening last. Mr. Archibald W. Clarke, Manchester. Mr. Henry Schwabe, merchant, Aigburth, and Mr. Joseph A. Robinson, of Liverpool, were elected members. A decision of the sail ing committee was to the effect that the Stanley yacht, having violated sixth rule at the recent match, was dis qualified from receiving the prize, which was accordingly given to the next yacht arriving in time, the Surprise. SINGULAR PLAN OF PICIC , ..NG POCKETS. -It has transpired during the past week that four Chester thieves, named respectively William Hughes, John Davis, Eliza Hughes, and Mary Ann Hughes, follow the Bishop on all his visitations throughout the diocese, in the pursuit of pocket-picking. On Thursday they stole a gold watch from Mrs. Green, of Everton-road, during the late con firmation ceremonies at 'St. George's Church, Everton. The same gang robbed two ladies of sums of money in St. Faul's Church on the previous day. The unwelcome visitants have been committed. PRESENTATION.—On Tuesday evening last, when the Rev. W. Taylor, M.A., the much respected incumbent of'St. John's church, was leaving the vestry at the close of the service, he was met by a number of young people, who had been examined by him prior to their confirma tion, and by whom he was presented with a very hand somely bound copy of Matthew Henry's Commentary, in three volumes, as a slight return upon their part for the very great kindness and attention they had received from him during their examination. The rev. gentleman ap peared much affected at this entirely unexpected mark of the esteem in which he is held. THE ACCIDENT TO THE SCREW-STEAMER TIMES.— Thirty-three persons were severely injured, and seven have died from the effects of the explosion on board this steamer. Three poor women still lie at the Pigeon house in a deplorable condition. The engineer, n account ing for the accident, states that in one of the landings or compartments of the boiler a portion of the rivets had been frayed, and, when the pressure was put on, the part that was thus undurated gave way. At an inquest on Mon day, the jury attributed the accident to " the gross neg lect of James Haigh, government engineering surveyor, in not making a proper inspection of the boiler in April last." A vrarrantevas placed in the hands of the police, with direc tions to take Mr. Haigh to Kilmainham. THE MARCO POLO.—At the latest dates a newspaper had been started on board this outward bound ship, en titled "Sayings and Doings on board the Marco Folo." Mr. W. H. Fisher writes, " April Bth. On the line. I am very glad indeed that .1 have c)me in this ship.. Nothing could be better than her performance, and the captain is a first-rate fellow." Mr. James Galt, of this town, has received a letter from Mr, Thomas Staggs, a Sunderland emigrant, in which he -says, We have passed several vessels, hut not one has come up with us. I have not been sick at all, and we have had very little sickness since the day of leaving. We have the church service on board on Sundays, when the weather is tine. Considering the large number of passengers, (between six and-seven hundred,) everything proceeds very orderly." Mt. EDMUND SHAW has been appointed office-clerk to the Runcorn Improvement• Commissioners, at a salary of . £45 per annum ; his salary as assistant-overseer and collector of taxes had been previously fixed at £75 per annum. At the monthly meetingeon Monday week, ten.. ders for the excavating, sewering, .&c., of Brunswick, King, Mill, Water, and Queen-streets, .were put in by Thomas Jones, John White, Thomas Harper, Samuel Hughes, George Hunt, and William Shaw ; the tender of George Hunt was accepted. Advertisements for a loan Qa act was Company,as tto be of £1,500, at four per cent., on security of the improve ment h e e m ° e ni dtrated which at rate for five or seven years, was ordered. Th e , B by ri a dg c e l w a a u t s e e r t in rus t t i e le es im an p d ro t v one-third its full value, was assessed at £1,500 rateable value. War DERBY GUARDIANS.—Mr. Hayes presided at the meeting on Wednesday, when the clerk was ordered to cancet the indentures of a boy apprenticed from the 'Work-house, to amen in Warwick -street, named Richard son, by whom he was badly treated. Leave of absence for a fortnight was granted to the , chaplain. A letter was read from Mr. Fitzpatrick, medical officer for West Derby rural district, in reference to an order of the board requesting the medical officers to furnich weekly returns. Mr. Fitzpatrick stated that only 2a returns were attributed to him during the year, whereas he had furnished 37, and during his connection with the Union, 4 years, he con -sidered that he had furnished his returns with as much punctuality as was consistent with a due regard to his duties. Mr. Wensley moved that a. copy of the letter be sent to the Poor-law Board. SOME THINGS SHOWN IN THE DllELlN,Eynieirioie. —Glasgow is an extensive contributor; and, although she did not send her Lord Provost to the opening ceremony, .she forwarded a greater number of articles than any other-town or city except Dublin. Among the most use ful of the many excellent articles shown was,tvve sets of dental forceps, patented by James A. Young, of A. S. Young and. So n; surgeon-dentists, 185, Buchanan-street, Glasgow. These reduce to a minimum the pain of the extraction of teeth or roots, and ought to be more exten sively known. Then, there was M`Bride's patent checking loom, the agent for which in Preston-is Messrs. J. and J. Atherton, and which is yet destined .to be better known in the manufacturing districts of England. This, with all the other specimens of machinery, are shown in operation, and the Scottish girl from the banks of the Clyde .rho presides over this loom of the enterprising Messrs. M'Bride and Co., of Glasgow, is a a very fine specimen of the class to which she belongs. Messrs. Henry Pooley.and Son, of the Albion foundry, Liverpool, exhibit theiepatent dormant platform machine, as used in the merchandise department of the London and N orth-western and other railways, and for general weighin g in warehouses; .various other kinds of the weigh ing machines; counter scales, the computer balance, the bank weighing machine, and -the weighbridge machine for common road and railway waggons. Simple in workman ship, and of good workmanship, the M essrs . P oo l e y' s machines are the finest specimens of the kind we ever saw. t p o p li c extendation t f h r e o m r e rii the is Rev. es at 34r e . t Maynard DocK COMA! ITTEE.—Mr. Shand presided a t th e wee kl y meeting on ;Nova Scotia, occupied as a seaman ' s reading-room p and School, was granted.—A report was read from the super intendent of the Albert Dock, relative to the strike of the " operative porters. The porters at the Albert Dock re ceived 3s. Gd. a day. Mr, Bigham had received offers from men to work for 18s. per week. The Chairman said the porters wished to make it imperative to give 4s. a day to all who were employed, and_ that -no man was t o b e taken .except from the That was a principle they could not recognise. No resolution was come to upon the matter..--Mr. Bigham stated that a letter was read at the last meeting, (he being absent,) from Giannacopulo and Co., in which they say that he (Mr. Bigham) " made a statement ealculated to be highly injuriou s t o th em, and in itself so completely devoid of truth that, in justice to themselves, they felt it necessary to give it their most distinct denial.' He stated not only what he ,conceived to be correct, but what was correct as befo re the core_ mittee at the time. Mr. Tobin : Did thes e parties s en d in a manifest ? Mr. Bighorn : Yes; and it was a mani fest signed by themselves. Mr. Tobin conceived th at was a strong circumstance. Mr. Bigham: I don't thi n k t h ere was an intentional fraud. The Solicitor stated, in refer ence to the matter, that a clause had been carefully pre_ pared, and submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, but no answer had been received. HEALTH CONIMITTEE.—Mr. Alderman L . angsdale pre sided at the meeting on Thursday. A petition was pre sented from the inhabitants of Edge-hill and its vi c i n i ty, complaining of the water-carts not visiting those locali ties.—The paving of Washington-street was postponed...— Mr. Beckwith observed that on the committee there were sixteen members, yet they frequently had the attendance of only five or six, and he suggested that those parties who did not attend should '' be struck off." —Another letter was read from Mrs. Lowndes, the widow of a porter in the service of the corporation, who had died suddenly, asking for a trifling pecuniary advance. Mr. Moss spoke in favour of the request being conceded.—m r. Beckwith (sarcastically): " Well ! but you know there are no funds for this ; there were to give to the town_ clerk an addition of five hundred a year,"—Mr. Moss brought before the committee the subject of smoke nuisance.—The borough-engineer explained that by p roper remedies being adopted, in nine cases out of ten all the grievances complained of might be remedied. T he sub_ ject was referred until next week. — A n application from Mr. Rose for an extension of time to fulfil his contract was brought before the committee.--Mr . Rose was intro duced, and explained the position i n which he was placed. He said he was in a " fix," and could not help it. lle merely asked for a fortnight's time, and any other of his competitors in the contract would have asked for si x months.-13Itimately the time asked for was conceded.— The subject of an application from Mr. Itvlands, the borough-engineer, for leave of absence to go to Germany to recruit his health, Wll3 complied wi;bl AT THE APOTHECARIES' HALL, 011 Thursday last, Mr. James Fielden Steward Shaw, Lancashire, and Mr. William Hewitt, of Liverpool, passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.—The police have received instructions to prevent ginger-beer and confectionary stalls being placed on the high-road in the vicinity of the Botanic-gardens on Sundays. IcEs.—Those who desire the cooling influences of these seductive luxuries should visit the Merchants' Dining rooms, near the Exchange. The proprietor has announced a collection of unique flavours. MAN FOUND DROWNED.—Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, the body of a man, unknown, and bearing the appearance of a labourer, was found in the George's Dock Basin. The body was taken to the dead-house. An in quest will be held today. WE understand that the Postmaster-General has, at the request of a number of the inhabitants residing in the district hitherto called Cabbage-hall, assented to the name of the Post-office there being changed to that of Anfield. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. --We have the pleasure of announcing another University distinction obtained by a pupil of this Institution. Mr. Rigby, who was elected to the Canning Exhibition last year, is placed in the first class at Trinity College, Cambridge. MissioNs.—On Thursday evening a public meeting will be held in the Collegiate Institution, in aid of the Patagonian Church Missionary Society. 9. deputation will attend for the purpose of detailing missionary labours now being made on behalf of the native tribes of South America. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.—A deputation from the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com pany had an interview o❑ Saturday with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell at the Board of Trade, on the subject of the Merchant Shipping Bill. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Yarborough, Mr. C. Turner, M.P., Mr. C. Geach, M.P., Mr. Allport, Mr. Stable, and Mr. Parker. A FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION, which occurred at the factory of Messrs.. Marshall and Son, Stockport, on Saturday morning, scalded two men named John Marley and Benjamin Dawson, in such a serious manner that they died before they could be rescued from their situation in the boiler hole. PRESENTATION. - At a meeting of the officers of the Public Bakers' Association, held at the house of Mr. Williams, on Thursday evening, an elegant silver snuff box, lined with gold, was presented to Mr. Hugh Kinrade, their late president, as an acknowledgment of their res pect for his services in conducting their affairs. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-Mr. Josh. Silsbee, the Ame rican comedian, has been playing during the past week in several of his favourite characters. His delineations of Yankee character are exceedingly rich. On Friday evening he took his benefit, in " Sam Slick," and as Deuteronomy Dutiful, in the " Wool Dealer." On Saturday evening he appeared for the last time. During the present week a series of tragedies will be presented, in which Mr. J. H. Anderson will appear. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DOCK LABOURER.—Yesterday an inquest was held before the borough coroner on the body of a man named Neil Callaghan, who died on Satur day morning last, from the effects of an accident he met with on Friday, the 3d instant. On the afternoon of that day deceased was assisting to discharge stones from a schooner, lying in George's Basin, when the handle of the crane caught the deceased, and knocked him into the basin. His scalp was fractured, and he also received other internal injuries. Verdict, accidental death. THE Glasgow Citizen, of Saturday, informs us that a bottle containing the following, written in pencil, was picked up on Wednesday last, on the shores of Dunoon, by Peter Morris,:—" 28th December, midnight, midst of the Atlantic, on board the Rover, of Panama.—Dear friends in Liverpool, should this, our only means of trans port, reach you, we are at present tossing in the billows. John, I believe, is very ill. We will put in as soon as fair weather comes; and should this meet the eye of my dearest wife Mary, let her know that lam well. Captain is in good spirits.—l am, John Thomas, jun." AmtrsiodENTS.—The grand concert of the Philharmonic Society takes place this evening, and the names of Botte sini, Herr Pischek. and Mad'lle Bury, announced . in the programme, m amanager of the secure T f h o e r a i t t re a - n ß a o v y a a l l an h cti a s e a o n f n p o a u t n r c o e n d n ag a e. —The amateur performance, on Saturday, for a benevolent pur pose.; and at the Royal Park Theatre, Mr. Charles Pittis appearing this week in some of his favourite characters. To-night he performs Richelieu, under distinguished patronage. —At the Zoological Gardens, the variety of entertainments is daily attracting crowds, who enjoy the music and dancing al fresco. —At the Rock Ferry, the Chinese Junk divides the interest with the beautiful scenery around ; while at Eastham Ferry the Catageloseum performs its mission of exciting laughter.—Those who seek more distant joys will shortly have the cheap railway trips to enable tnem to visit the camp at Chobham. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—A FORTUNATE ESCAPE PROM MATRIMONY.—At the Warrington County Court the other day considerable amusement was caused by the case of Longshaw v. Dootson. Mr. Longshaw, who keeps the Vine Tavern, Market-street, brought a claim for the restitution of a gold watch and musical snuff-box, feloniously kept or taken from him by Miss Maria Doot son, and now in possession of her father, Mr. Dootson, farmer. He said Miss Maria (or Maria, as he persisted in calling her,) and he were in company, and she par ticularly requested him to let her wear the watch for a week. He consented to let her have it for that time, but said he would not part with it altogether, as it had been been his late wife's, and he promised to keep it for her sake. Miss Maria gace a very different version of the affair, affirming that the articles were love-gifts, and that, when the match was broken off, she went to Long shaw's and offered him the articles., but he refused to take them saying—" I'm not a child to take back my play things ; I gave them to you, whether you have them or not." She therefore took them back. Ultimately the case was adjourned. LIVERPOOL AND THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The confe rence arranged by the Council of the Society of Arts, between the members of that society and the representa tives of the educational institutions throughout the country, took place on Wednesday, in John-street. Adelphi, and was very fully attended. M r. Cole, as chairman of the council, presided. One hundred and sixty representa tives from various institutions in the Union were present. Each speaker was limited to five minutes, and the chair man -six announced speeches at d e close been each than with one an hundred and average duration of something less than three minutes and a half. A E i d r w . a E rd wa ß r a t i , ne l s i.p of . ; L t e i e le ds R ,• e D v r . . son, l'aMala 'le i v oe e sf r t p el O ri o ;r ; ; and Mr. Nicol, Liverpool ; are men amndetirmoppoolrittaannt p pa re r s t s in as th a e m b o u n s g i s n t e t ss h . ose m w ri h th o refereneeto the subject of class instruction, it was resolved, o ttioil n o:n t kwe l propositioni €d e :niab'aycttil'ee of the Rev. I. S. Howson, of Liver pool, " That it is desirable that the training schools of this c oei t i ro t h r o ys u h g o l u i ld kn i o n w tr l o e d d u g c e e oifnttohetlnieiatrucraoluarsneds physicalof study a more sciences, and a system of instruction in art, and that the Councilof the Society of Arts be requested to forward this resolution to the President of the Council of Educa tion, and to the various training institutions." A public dinner of the members of the Society of Arts and of the representatives of the Institutions in Union was held in the evening at the Freemasons' Tavern ; Lord Granville presided. Speeches were made by the Dean of Hereford, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Lord Granville, Mr. Hutt, 11. P., Mr. G. Knight, Mr. Dvart, M.P., Mr. Slaney, and Mr. S. Holme, the Mayer of Liverpool, whose name was coupled with the mayors who were present. In responding, he said he conceived it his highest privilege and his bounden duty to promote the cause of practical education. The railways, the electric telegraph, and the other facilities of modern times, were working with the most salutary results upon the minds.of the people ; and he trusted that Liverpool, as it had already surpassed the metropolis in its maritime development, would also do so with reference to the question of education. If the metropolis did not move in that voluntarily, it would be compelled to do so. ,;Cheers.) This speech terminated the proceedings of the day.-0a Thursday morning the Lord Mayor of London held a grave conference at the Mansion-house, the evening being devoted to the lighter labours of a conversazione. The conference assembled in the long parlour, and con sisted of nearly all the mayors who had attended the ban quetof the previous evening, and Mr. Cole and Dr. Lyon Playfair. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor took the chair, supported by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Lords Provost of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Lord Mayor of York, and the Mayor of Liverpool. The mayors explained the ,position of educational affairs in their respective towns. Mr. Samuel Holme stated, that in Liverpool schools had been _successfully established ' • sixty thousand pounds are annually spent on educationa l objects; and the working classes exhibit marked improvement as compared with their predecessors of thirty years since. Workmen can now understand the most elaborate plans, and have actually become critics on the designs of their employers. At the conclusion of the conference, an invitation was accepted to dine with the llayor of Southampton on Monday (ves terday).--On Friday the members of the Society of Arts, the representatives of the literary, scientific, and mecha nics' institutions in union with that body, and many of the mayors invited to the recent hospitalities at the 'Man sion -house, went down to Sydenham in a special train provided for their accommodation, to visit the works and grounds of the Crystal Palace Company. The Daily News states that only one of the mayors, his Worship of Liver pool, showed himself with the excursionists, his brethren, it was presumed, having waited upon the movements of the great central sun, who drove up in bis carriage to one door as the delegates departed by another. THE CENSUS OF 1851.—The first portion of the census returns for 1851 has just been issued, from which we glean the following :—The total number of the popu lation returned was 21,121,967, of whom 10,386,040 were males, and 10,735,919 females. On the night of the census 12,924 people are believed to have been sleeping in barges, 9,972 in barns, and 8,277 in the open air or under tents. In Great Britain the number of families has risen from 2,260,802, in 1801, to 4.312,388 in 1851. The last halt-century has seen 1,815,567 "new lines of families " established in England, while in Scotland the number has increased from 364,079 to 600,098, notwith standing the migratory propensities imputed to its inha bitants. The number of "inhabited houses " in Great Britain was returned at 3,648,345, against 3,446,797 in the last census, and 1,870,476 in 1801. Omitting deci mals, we might state that there was 1 family to a house, 5 persons to a house, and 4 persons to a family. Of villages, that is to say of " places having defined boundaries and separately- returned in population tables," there are 17,150; while of genuine towns there are in England and Wales 580, in Scotland 225, and in the Channel Islands 10. The " British isles " are five hundred in number, though only 175 were found to be inhabited on the morn ing of March 31, 1851. Of these islands we have a list, with their names and population. Great Britain had over 20 millions of inhabitants, and Ireland over six millions; Anglesea, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and the Isle of Wight had each more than 50,000 ; and Guernsey, Lewis, Skye, and Shetland over 20,000. From these, however, we descend very rapidly to classes with 10,000, 1,000, 500, 400, 100, 40, 30, 20, and 10 inhabitants each, till we finally get to a man with an island all to himself. The name of this British Selkirk we cannot give, but his abode is called Inchcolm, and is apparently a territo rial appenage of Fife. The report contains nearly 1,000 pages of =closed and analyzed matter. THE LIVERPOOL LETTER-CARRIERS. (From a Correspondent.) No department of the civil service has become so notorious for paltry economy as the Post-office ; and this economy is brought to bear chiefly upon that most laborious and deserving portion of its servants, the letter-carriers. The numerous petitions lately presented to Parliament, from this class of men, have revealed facts respecting their scanty wages which the public could scarcely credit. The present promoters of the system appear to have no regard for the merit or well-being of their servants, in order to carry out this wretched theory. In proof of this we need only go to the Post-office in this town, where we shall find about seventy letter-carriers, in a worse condition, as regards pay, than the commonest labourers at our docks. Their wages are only 2s. lOid. per day, or £1 for seven days' work, while dock la bourers receive from 4s. to ss. per day, and are only employed six days iu the week. Another bad feature in the case of these carriers is, that no distinction is made between the oldest hands and the most reeently ap pointed ; the men who have been but a few weeks in the service receive the same as those who have been employed from ten to thirty years. This is great injustice ; and the more so, when it is borne in mind that the rules of the department are so strict, and the duties so responsible, that none but the most attentive, honest, and meritorious men could retain their situations for so long a period. it can scarcely be wondered at, under this state of things, that the Post-office has become so notorious for lost and stolen property. Seldom a year passes without two or three being transported from this office for embez zling money-letters. It would be well for the public to bear in mind, that in no case is the Post-office respon sible for lost property; so that it is a matter of no con sequence to the authorities, in a pecuniary point of view, what amount of money is stolen by their officials ; the poorer classes ought to remember this in particular, for they are the sufferers in the majority of cases. But to return : How is it that the London letter-carriers are so much more favoured than their brethren in this town? The authorities recognise among them seniority and merit, by giving progressive wages, from 235. to 30s. per week ; besides, they are clothed, superannuated, and frequently promoted to superior situations, privileges totally un known amongst their brethren here. Why this remarkable distinction is made is a mystery • for the duties and re. sponsibilities of both classes of men must, to a con siderable extent, be the same. If so, then why this ex traordivary difference? Why give seventy men in Liver pool 20s. a-week for performing duties exactly the same as those in London, for which a similar class of men receive from 3s. to 10s. per week more? There can be no satisfactory solution to these questions, except upon the hypothesis that, if they make one provincial town approximate somewhat near the metropolis, all the rest would demand the same. This is, no doubt, the secret of the whole matter ; and yet how absurd. Surely, the largest towns have the strongest claims ; and are the carriers of such a town as this to be refused a just compensation for their responsible duties, because, if granted, it would cause general dissatisfaction amongst their provincial brethren ? Surely not. We would suggest that the men in each particular town be remunerated in proportion to the responsible and arduous nature of their duties. This would be true economy. With the letter-carriers, as a whole, it is not a question of labour ; the grounds upon which they ought to be better paid is the weighty respon sibility of their duties ; for it is a well-known fact, that an immense amount of property is daily under their con trol, especially in such a town as this. Why not, then, have them proportionately paid, so that they may main tain their position in society with decency and respect. THE TURN-OUT AT STOCKPORT. The strike of the factory workers of Stockport has at length become a " great fact." The men made these propositions to their ernployers:—To adopt the ten mile cir cuit from Manchester as the basis of the average of the wages to be paid ; or to pay the advance of ten per cent. at once ;or to refer the question to arbitration. To none of these propositions have the employers paid any atten tion, and on Friday week the working classes met in the open air, to the number of between ten and twelve thou sand, and then determined to quit work unless the ten per cent was conceded before the expiration of their week's notice. On Monday, the members of the Master Manufacturers' Association held a numerous meeting at the Warren Bul keley Arms Inn. The returns of prices paid in the various places a wereand morecarefully n nm e examined,numerous m e e t i and ng f on t h ee rn `Wednesday ypinera w re solved to give an advance of five per cent. upon the self actors and mule spinners, and eight per cent. to the thros tle spinners. The weavers' averages were revised, when, the Stockport list being above the averrge, it was deter mined to make no change in that department. The average was taken in respect to the old district extending thirty miles from Manchester. It was discovered that the Stockport masters had been paying from one to three per cent. below the average to hand mule and self-actor spin ners : five per cent below to throstle spinners; but above the average for power. loom weaving. Rumours, however, got afloat amongst the weavers that their application would not be conceded, and another public meeting was therefore held that night in the Cattle Market, and was attended by about 13,000 persons, all engaged in the factories. The decision was, without an exception, in favour of " The ten per cent., and no surrender." On Thursday morning the hands quitted the mills, their demand being ten per cent. The workpeople of eight mills, five of them being of the more extensive establishments in the borough, ceased work by the close of the day. The strike then fairly commenced. On Friday, thousands of the operatives, male and fe male, paraded the streets, and called at the different mills which were to become vacant, as the notices expired in rotation, various branches falling due at various hours. Their conduct was most peaceable their advice to the thousands as they turned out of the mills being, " Pre serve peace and respect property." The procession thus to he Ncwiesp ,e93l.ai became loranrdc.todea. Hfogt; uiemployers, Messrs. roeopius r duel sgdt,ncs:heurosoils,agtui. throughout eigetnn m ii aticnnethh o aeeeo r hcd; eiat, ‘,ffd,,idevarrLaic.operativesbuHnicat ctehluaci asi were—Mr. i:dmreh formidable , aearoepn: nno—c a ldshiti n i 3lean d ii Cseilng , gr:uaat. Manufacturers' c t ;otdpuol ‘sh m eurpierte o rnesi rc; v rgesce, e l, rnl d twg,ptoi from work people rtorei In the course of the day it transpired that several of the Asso ciation,t- had acceded to the application for the ten per people resumed labour amidst much cheering. Those who l don, Portwood ; Mr. Williamson, Hope Hill ; Mr. West, Carrs ; and Messrs. Newton and Scattergood. Others are spoken of as likely to " come in" at the commence ment of the week. But those who object comprise the largest concerns in the borough. The numbers likely to be on " strike," speaking in round numbers, may be 30,000. Symptoms are already presenting themselves of the loss which this unfortunate turn-out will occasion, even to the employers themselves, large numbers of the best workmen having quitted the town, in search of better wages or better employment in the manufacturing towns of Lan cashire. On Friday there was an agent in the town, from some extensive cotton mill recently erected in the neigh bourhood of Ashton ; prepared to engage 300 hands at improved wages and constant employment ; 60 of the most experienced spinners were speedily engaged, and he was negotiating for 250 weavers, The authorities have taken every precaution by calling in supernumerary constables, &c., for the preservation of order, but at present there is no probability that the workpeople will commit any disturbances.—Manchester Courier. THE GARSTON DOCKS will be opened on the 21st instant. AT THE COUNTY COURT, on Friday, in a case in which a married woman was summoned on account of a debt contracted by another woman, for whom she had given her word, the judge decided that a husband could not be made responsible for debts contracted by a wife upon another person's behalf, unless it could be shown that the husband authorized her. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The Liverpool and Phi ladelphia screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, Capt. Wylie, sailed on Wednesday afternoon, with 107 passengers and a fair cargo, for Philadelphia. On Tuesday afternoon the United States Mail Steam-ship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, arrived off the Bell Buoy, but, owing to the state of the tide, was unable to cross the bar, but landed her mails at 7, p.m., by the steam tug Tiger. She left New York on the 28th ult. She brought 241 passengers and 48600,000 in specie. The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Leitch, commander, took her depar ture from the Mersey about noon on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, with the usual weekly mails and a fair com plement of passengers. SINGULAR AFFECTION OF THE LUNGS.—An inquest was held yesterday, before the borough coroner, on the body of a man unknown, who died on Friday evening, under the following circumstances :—Mary Manning, the wife of Richard Manning, residing in Addison-street, said, that about seven o'clock on Friday evening the deceased came to their house, and asked for lodgings. She objected to him at first, and told him he looked very ill. Deceased said, " for God's sake don't turn me out." lie said he had come out of the hospital, and was to return. Witness told her daughter to put him in bed. About eleven o'clock he asked for a drink of water, which was supplied to him. Nothing more was heard of him until Saturday morning, when he was found dead in bed. Mr. George Kemp, surgeon, said that he had made a post mortem examination of the body, and found the cause of death to have been disease of the lungs, from natural causes ; the right lung was completely hepatized, and weighed the enormous weight of fine pounds. STEAM TO AFRICA.—The first annual meeting of the African Steam-ship Company was held on Saturday—Sir John Campbell presiding.—when a dividend was declared at the rate of 5 per cent. f.r the six months ending the 15th of April last. The report stated that, although the first voyages in a line of such novelty, and including so many calling-places, could only be regarded as experi mental, all the vessels of the company had kept satisfac tory time. All the company's steamers at present running—namely, the Forerunner, Faith, and Hope— have answered the expectations entertained, and the Charity is now being fitted with her engines, while the Northern Light will be launched in July. With regard to the traffic, both direct and intercolonial, its develop ment has confirmed the calculations of the directors, and additional advantages are looked for from the abolition of the soap duty, which will greatly stimulate the palm oil ' trade. Arrangements have therefore been made to pro- , mote a semi-monthly line from Liverpool, and particulars 1 92—a sum that will b e su ffi c i ent for all the avbn made to .1.3129, was disr to y.A forth t . of which are to be submitted hereafter. In rel ation to the dangers of the trade, the results of t h e i ntroduction of steam are shown in the fact that the company have not proceedings ofe been lost one of their men by accident or tropical diseases, none of them even having been laid up by sickness. The number of shares were to be 12 , 500 of £2O each, but onl:, 7 purposesll'ooB have o f thebee been undertakingissued, and it during to Mr, Macgregor Laird, i n notg t. proposede h present r the the erleomseaoiefdethr On these 1 a 1, special 0 08payments vote bare thanks GENERAL NEWS Ma. WILLIAM CLAPHAM, of Hatfield, near Hornsea, has a shearling sheep which was clipped last week, and yielded no less than 171b5.. of wool. MR. Hoßsmalc, late M.P. for Cockermouth, has started as a cadidate for the representation of Stroud, vacant by the elevation of Lord Moreton to the House of Lords. THE ANNUAL SPEECHES were delivered in the Upper School at Eton College, on Wednesday, before a large and distinguished audience. Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales were present on the occasion. ainsst 00 C UM BERLAND fduce dto public POET, Unpublished noticei o s f s t . , h e bnya Georgemg r e ea o t f e r E cip i g ai z rl ..t , fillan, of Dundee, to who pm m Em._u A YOUNG t d o a b m e nl., the i ci commandingyoungeaut e t e d n t a o n Lt thet the tfGkeo Lake-poet rea authoritiesatl at the has i o ssu f ab w bm h oi i ut e tt i e l are said to be of great merit. a CH t aoTpt h lße. o °oS m °fil' e rGsGo that :e. odßrOgilmhe Hope, e'a e f:t a hEi n icaas n Cr o ctAo' w spare the 12 t h Lancers and three regimenst of infantry. M. J. E. FULLER, an attorney at Birmingham, who was on Monday sentenced by Mr. Justice Die to three months' imprisonment ; but on e f r o m r is l si s o s. n a to -w a eek, barber to use his name as an at torneyga n a ye application altered to striking his name off the rolls. from the defendant, the sentence was BRIBERY.—Before the Cambridge bribery commission, some of the witnesses acknowledged that they had re ceived £lO, and others £5, to vote. After the election one of the agents passed the house of a voter, accom panied by a veiled female, who gave him an envelope containing two £5 notes. A GRATIFYING EXCHANGE.—TWO hampers—one of cod liver oil, the other of claret—recently entrusted to the Eastern Counties Railway, suffered a change of address on the road, and were cross-delivered. The doctor's patients, who got the claret, are said to have been more gratified than the gentleman's friends who got the oil. THE ELECTRIC CLOCK.—Mr. Futvoye, of Regent street, London, having at length succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests for the erection of this clock, has spiritedly placed it at the corner of Beak -street, where it is not only an object of general attraction, but of great public utility. It was to the perfecting of this clock that Mr. Bain devoted his genius and labour for so many years. THE POEMS OF ALEXANDER SMITH, we are happy to perceive, have been republished in Boston and New York ; and the leading journals of the New World are loud in the poet's praise. The Rev. George Gilfillan, of Dundee, in a paper in the current part of ilopy's In structor, states that the "Life-Drama" was first put into his hands in a rude state in the April of 1851. DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH COTTLE.—On Tuesday even ing Mr. Joseph Cottle expired at his residence, ' Firfield house, Knowle, near Bristol. in his 84th year. Many, no doubt, are familiar with Lis name as the early friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey. He was exten sively known by his own literary labours, and throughout his long life was greatly honoured and loved for his distin guished personal worth by all who had the privilege of his acquaintance. COFFEE AND CHlCORY.—ltappearS, from a return lately printed of the number of prosecutions instituted for the adulteration of coffee and the illegal use of chicory, under the respective treasury orders of August 3, 1852, and Feb. 23, 1853, that the results are as follows : Under the former there were 1,063 inspections, 50 seizures, prosecutions nil, other proceedings 6 ; under the latter, 1,884 inspections, no seizures, 94 prosecutions, and 133 other proceedings OATLANDS GRANGE.—The vi3itors to the camp at Chobham, in changing trains at Wey bridge, will perceive a beautiful ravine of overhanging plantations close to the station. Over this ravine is the well-known Oatlands Grange, forming formerly a portion of the domain of the Duke of York. The Grange has just been bought for the Conservative Land Society for distribution amongst the members. The estate commands a magnificent view of St. Ann's-hill, the residence of Charles James Fox, Chertsey, Windsor Castle, &c. The late King of the French is buried at Weybridge, which is within three quarters of an hour's distance from town by the South-Western Railway. MODERN ORTHODOXY.—A tea-meeting was held at Derby a few days ago, as an ovation to a Mr. Corbin, an Independent teacher, on his leaving that town, at which the Rev. W. F. Wilkinson, Vicar of St. Werburgh's, b e Derby, was present. In his speech, laudatory of M r . i is B pretty n d that hat I welle esteem teunderstoodem him not y am s au m t e s freely r m Corbin, the Vicar is made by the Derby Repo r t er t o say : mein ' A b n er d sh it p and fully recognise his Churchmanship an d Church of the Church of Christ, but as a minister o: that Church by an ordination as valid as my own." DISASTERS IN THE PACIFIC.—The San Francisco Herald sums up the marine losses in the Pacific waters, during the last three years, as follow :—The City of Pitts burg, burnt in Valparaiso, .8'200,000 ; the North Ame rica, wrecked on the Mexican coast, .8200,000 ; the In dependence, wrecked on Isla de Margarita, .8100,004; the Tennessee, wrecked in Indian Cove, .8200,000 ; the G,neral Warren, wrecked on the Oregon coast, , 850,000; the Pioneer, wrecked in San Simeon Bay, $75,000 ; the Eudora, wrecked on the Oregon ceast, .850,000 ; the Corn. Preble, wrecked on the Oregon coast, .850,000. This estimate shows at least a loss of .8925,000, to say nothing of the loss of life which has been sustained. STRANGE FRAUD.—At Clerkenwell police-court, Mr. James Palmer, of the London Gas Company, was charged with assaulting Mr. Firmin William Potts, of the Im perial Gas Company, competing bodies. The quarrel originated in the attempt of the plaintiff to gauge the quantity of gas fraudulently obtained by the London Gas Company, through secretly tapping the pipes of the rival company. the Imperial. By an ingeniously contrived and delicate apparatus, the amount of gas thus obtained had been estimated as worth at least £l,OOO. The in strument was broken in the assault. The Imperial had charged the other company at the Queen's Bench. EXPENSES OF A SUIT IN CHANCERY.—On Saturday week the case relating to the will of Mr. Day, the blacking ma nufacturer, came on before the Lords Justices, upon a question of payment of costs. It appeared that under Mr. Day's will there were twenty-three persons who were en titled to small annuities, and many others entitled to shsre in the residuary estate, and nearly all these claimants upon the property had throughout the suit, which was in stituted to administer the will, appeared by different counsel and different solicitors. An objection was raised to the payment of separate costs, when it appeared that the expenses of the suit, before it even came on for hear ing, amounted to £70,000. The court left it to the different parties to consider whether they could all agree amongst themselves to be represented by one solicitor. In case no such arrangement could be come to, the question would be disposed of on following Friday. A SIMPLE REMEDY.—To persons having the care of steam-engines, the following from the Lawrenceburg Register may be available :—" Mr. Ira Hill has informed us that he has accidentally made a valuable discovery, by which the deposition of lime upon steam boilers may be obviated. Two or three shovels of sawdust are thrown into the boiler, after which process he states he never had any difficulty from lime, although using water strongly impregnated with it. He has always found the inside of his t oilers as smooth as if just oiled. Whether the lime attaches itself to the floating particles of sawdust, instead of the boiler, or whether the tanic acid in the oak sawdust forms a salt with the lime which will not attach itself to iron, remains to be explained. The sawdust was placed in the boiler for the purpose of stopping a leak. The experiment is cheap and easily tried."—NewYorkTribune. THE QUEEN'S TENT.—THE CAMP AT CHOBH AM. — The Queen's pavilion was taken out of store at Woolwich on Tuesday. and has been set up on Greenhill, a place within the boundaries of the garrison. The pavilion has not been used, it is said, since the visit of Queen Charlotte, but it is now to be put in good condition here, previous to its being taken to Chobham-common, and erected there, as it is intended that her Majesty, Prince Albert, the commander-in-chief, and the master-general of the ordnance will be present on several occasions to witness the encampment and evolutions, reviews, and sham fights which will take place to instruct the troops in the duties that would be expected of them in actual warfare, and a large supply of blank cartridge will be issued for that purpose. The Queen's pavilion is 60 feet long by about 15 broad, with two entrances covered over, one at the east and one at the west end, each about 2U feet in length, making a total length of about 100 feet. The roof in front and back is supported on eight arches, the two centre arches being large, and the three arches on each side of the two centre arches being of smaller - dimensions. The canvas can be thrown open from any or the whole of the arches to afford an uninterrupted view in front and in the rear, and the flooring is composed of timber frames, formed of deal, about 5 feet long by 4 feet broad, for the convenience of being carried on wag gons. The marquee for the master-general was also .et up on Greenhill, but it has been taken down and for warded to the place of encampment on Chobham-common. osnon this return,Sltewas found was immediatelyho SHOCKING CASE OF POISONING.—On Thursday great consternation was created in Belper by a rumour t h at a family named Flewitt, living in th e Cl uster- b u ildi ngs, were poisoned. It appears that th e moment t h e f at h er had finished his last course at dinner' which was rice pudding, he complained of sick ness , and was obliged to remove hastily from the table. S c arcely had h e go t out t u gh : of the house before three of his children and a young man named Sheldon were also seized with sickness and vomit ing.il They became very alarmed, and the mother ran into a neighbour's house and informed them that she be lieved w d - i l c iolefamil ran for the rm e ealassistance, to be suffering from the same cause. None of the family could give any account of what kind of poison th ey had taken, except a girl about twelve years of age, w h, said she saw something like flour in the sugar her m o th er family were and p , o used in making the pudding. Fromi hered to he arsenic, although they all denied having it in the house. Sheldon, working in the same shop with Flewitt, has been in the habit of taking his dinner to his house to eat ; the eldest daughter, then at home, having a d• like to rice pudding at all times, Sheldon offered le o ered her his pudding, which was of a different kind, in exchange for her share of the rice one, which she accepted. first sight caused a little suspicion to be This at thrown upon the daughter, from the fact of her having escaped ; but on being closely questioned she explained pre cisely the same manner a the matt er in s Sheldon and the rest of the family, which threw the affair into perfect mistery. The poor creatures suffered most intensely for many hours, and on Friday morning it was perceived that the mother was in a dying state, in which she continued until five o'clock in the evening, when she expired. After some enquiries, Mr. H. Mozley, the coroner, ordered the im mediate apprehension of Sheldon. It appears that lastweek Sheldon asked the master dyer at Messrs. Ward's, Bel per, at which place he worked, if he could supply him with some prussic acid ; and on the morning the parties were poisoned he went to Flewitt's house in his working hours, a very unusual thing, through the back doer to On place where the sugar was kept. It also appears that lie — . has been wanting to pay his addresses to on e 'of Fl ew itt'i I daughters, and, on her father forbidding 4im from so - doing a short time ago, he said he would..to'avvay with himself and them too. There are also otaigregiuixistances which make the case very suspicious 4 , 7 , 7 ,..# , Pir; '__,,-He is v ery respectably connect e d, hi s father. ~ • IRWAru to .Ir, J. Strutt,