The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS. THREE CHILDREN, of tender years, have been over lain by their mothers during the past week in Liverpool. THE TOTAL POPULATION of the township of Aigburth is said to be 2,756. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY have declared a dividend of 6-1 per cent., free of income tax. THE NEXT MEETING of the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society is to be held at Warrington on the ith September next. IN THE stomach of a heron, recently killed in the neighbourhood of Southport, a large water rat was found whole. A Cow, the property of Mr. Owen, grocer, Pwllheli, calved on Tuesday week three beautiful cow-calves, which are all likely to thrive. THE WESLEYAN METHODIST Association Chapel in Whiston, near Prescot, has been conveyed to new trustees for the continued use of the association. COMMISSION signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county palatine of Lancaster :—John William Whittle, gentleman, to be ensign in the Ist regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. THE COLLECTORSHIP OF THE TOWN DUES.- Mr. James Bo ar d man i s a candidate for the office which is Vacant by the death of Sir Thomas Brancker. 141 R. COURT. C.E., has been presented by the residents of Garston with a service of silver, accompanied by a beautifully written address. ON the e ven i ng of Tuesday week the Ettrick Debating Society, Greenock, entertained Mr. Duncan M`l,Vatty, of the Greenock Herald, to supper, on the eve of his de parture for Liverpool. THE Two ENGRAVINGS to be presented 63 the sub scribers of the London Art-Union are at present on view at the rooms of Mr. J. R. Isaac, Castle-street, the hon. Secretary for Liverpool. A PEitTioN to the Commons, from Preston, praying that ratepayers might he allowed a control over the ex penditure of county rates, was presented on Tuesday, by Mr. W. Brown. AT the request of the Mayor, the men of Manchester have held a meet i ng, at which they adopted a petitioncraving the entire and immediate repeal of the excise duty upon soap. A BOY, on Tuesday last, fell through the ice at the Prince's-park. A companion jumped in to his assistance, and but for the timely arrival of a man with ropes, both youths would have been drowned. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The performances of the equestrian company closed on Saturday night. Young Hernandez, the flying Yankey, was the attraction of the closing evening. TH E RESFIEN COMMITTEE, Isle of Man, have issued a Circular, stating that sufficent funds have been already col. lected for the relief of the widows and orphans caused by the explosion of the Lily. A. PIECE OF PLATE, consisting of a handsome lily centre Piece, is to be presented by the students of St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead, to Philip Wright, Esq., formerly tutor and bursar of that institution. JOHN JONES errand boy to Mr. Hand, Castle-street, has b een committed for trial on a charge of stealing jewel lerY, wearing apparel, &c., the property of his employer. The lad was apprehended at Birmingham. His parents are honest and industrious people. PE.DIA.LE VAGRANTS have recently adopted th e d o d g e, a t ALiburt h, of fainting when benevolent ladies were seen _to n , approach. Th e ma l a d y h as i nvar i a bl y b een cure d b y offering an extensive draught of a mixture of salt and t IN A QUAR REL a t'St. H e l en ' s , on Th urs d ay wee k, be dalevrenJames C oo k son, por k - b utc h er, an d J o h n M art i n- Lead that aged years, the latter was cut so severely on the he died on the following Sunday. A verdict of " manslaughter " has been returned by the coroner's jury. TN " Sows of Mr. Richard Rimmer, farmer, Altcar, 9.n Tuesda aged respectively 16 and 14, were accidentally drowned Y, by the breaking of the ice on a pit near to the house. It is conjectured that the eldest went to assist his brother. late IN LIVERPOOL A VI CI NITY th ere have been of ND ITS numerous house robberies during the absence of the inmates at church on Sunday evenings. On Sunday night week the house of Mr. J. Grundy, of No. 7, Moira-street, Was robbed of plate and jewellery worth £l5. PDBLI C SUBSCRIPTION has been set on foot for Wil A liam Strettle and William Price, two Liverpool police teen, who on Sunday week, at the peril of their lives, rescued a little boy from drowning in the pool opposite the Bootle landmarks. CIfDRCH OF ENGLAND INSTITTJTION.—On Tuesday evenin g an able lecture was delivered in the reading-room of the above institution by the Rev. David James. upon The Introduction of Christianity into Britain." The text lecture will be upon "The Liturgy," by the Rev. G. W. Warr, M.A. AN ELOQUENT LECTURE was delivered on Monday evening, at the Concert-hall, by the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, on " the state of religious freedom on the conti nent, with especial reference to the case of the Madiai." The proceeds are to he applied to the relief of the sufferers by the recent Lily explosion. DISGRACEFUL —On Wednesday, about 4 o'clock, persons in the neighbourhood of the north entrance to St. James's-cemetery were shocked to observe two men lead ing from the gate a female dressed in deep black, and so helplessly drunk that she could only walk when supported on each side by the men. She had been to " pay the last tribute of respect" to a departed friend. CUSTOMS DUTIES.—It appearing that in some instances of the detention of goods for being undervalued unneces sary delay has taken place in bringing the circumstances under the cognisance of the hoard of customs, directions have been issued for the particulars of all such detentions to be reported to the board at the expiration of 24 hours from the detention. SOME years ago a vessel, in a fog, struck upon the point on which the Queen Victoria has been lost. Daniel O'Connell was one of the passengers, and he re quested the Ballast Board of Dublin to place a fog-bell at the lighthouse; but, as the vessel had got into port without any loss of life, the recommendation was not attended to. ONT Tuesday the Courier, of Newcastle, an iron vessel, of '657 tons, capsized in the Salthouse Dock. She was entirely without ballast at the time, with the exception of twenty tons of iron bars. The masts caught in the rig ging of a vessel lying outside, and thus prevented her turning "bottom up." No lives were lost, nor did the hull of the vessel sustain any injury. RIINGORN.—On Thursday last, a public vestry meeting was held at the parish church, Runcorn, the Rev. J. Bar clay, vicar, in the chair. The chapelry of Daresbury, bound by agreement to pay one-third of the legal expenses the parish church, refused to pay their quota of the charges for ringing the eight bells, alleging that they were only bound pay their proportion for one bell. Legal priceedings are to be adopted against Daresbury. aminTRAINING COLLEGE, BATTERSEA.—At the recent ex ation for Government Certificates of Merit to Scoolmaser forty-five were successful at this College, and only four out of this number had been re sident more than twelve months. Mr. Hewitt is placed in the first division (first class Wales is the only national schoolmaster in England and who has attained to that position. Mr. V. Hall, of Moorfields School, in this tolumes own, also stands very high. This st a t e o f thi ngs spea k s v in favour of the principal, and the ether masters. ST. DAVID'S DAY,—It will be seen by advertisement in another column, that the morning service at St. David's Church will be in English, on Sunday next, in order to give the inhabitants of the locality an opportunity to hear a lecture, to be delivered by the Rev. Mr. Bardsley, who is so well versed in all the subjects of the Romish controversy. The Rev. Mr. Jeffreys, a very eminent c ie Da rgYman, from Wale s , w ill preac h there, in Welsh, on St. David's y. THE PADPER S who attend at the West Derby work house on W ednesdays, are obliged to wait without any pro tection from the inclement weather. At the Wednesday rneeting of the guardians, Mr. Cleaver said he knew of Bonze who had been waiting for six hours, and he also knew obeenf some who came th ere i n a h ea l t h y state, and had not able to leave their homes for months afterwards. Which was Rosk e agre ll p ed tosed that a proper sh e d b e erected, CHURL II ACCOM MODATION IN LI VERPOOL. —There are In and about Liverpool, 43 churches, capable of accommo dating 57,548 persons; in the surrounding country 16, With accommodation for 12,393 persons ; and 21 chapels, &c., including all denominations, with seat-room for 18,010. Including all chapels. there are a Total of 150 places of worship, with accommodation for 164,951 per sons. The population of the town and country is 376,080. Deducting 164,000 from 376,000, we have 212,000 as the number for whom there is no church accommodation, supposing the various buildings to be full. LIVERPOO L U NITED GASLIGHT COMPANY.—The Lloyd,li, C.alf. l'°arlY ordinary mee ti ng was h e ld at noon on T u s e e s , d W. Re a d e, E sq., presided. Mr. J. B. r a e y tary, stated th at the directors recommended theprprietors to }:ldeclare a dividend at the rate of £5 per cent. for the last ar-r-eveoartreon the consolidated stock of the company paid tip, but not ." 10 a call of c Yet converted into stock; and 2s. 6d. per a b of the £25 A shares, on which . .d '-'- s• per share had been made ; and which divi ends yvaesre recorar, —e nded to be paid on the 24th inst. There b been a progressive increase in the business of the Company during the last h a i Tl chairman inti- In ated that there Was a prospect of the gas being reduced an price. of THE nbu r LATEg li JUSTLY -LAMENTED M a. JOHN RIACFIE, ,strinri:de sever a l munificent bequests to reli. gio us chariti es will be intere the total sum amoun ti ng to £5,800. It Liverpo o l to knolf t t h u at M r . Aacfio wasmanyoffeur Scottish the third son of readers Mr. R o b ert Greenock i Macfi e of Langhouse, a merchant in who, In th e close of last century, became in terested n Mr. J o h n M the th en incipient trade of sugar refining. then incipient to Leith, and carrie . d on an extensiveexen trade in that town, and likewise in Edinburgh, gar refining. This great trade he afterwards . ex- . tended to Liverpool. When Geer e IV. visited Scotland in 1822, Mr. Macfie was Provost of g Leith. The Estab lished Church of Scotland, by his death, has lost perhaps its most munificent benefactor. GM_eMR. RAWLINSON, superintending inspector of the neral Board of Health, held a preliminary sanatory i q ui ry at Aigburth, on Thursday. There was a respectable attendance. Mr. Grundy, chairman of highways, pre- Jthe the surveyor's report—a voluminous, antiquarian._ iPeattraPical, and sanitary document. The sewerage 94 the v I va was ?aid to be most defective. Many people in Moss a e have teen obliged to sink cesspools. Mr. John ,of Otterspool, ported that there was a want of burial grounds in theretownshi The burial ground at Childwall (t he Parish ch rch) p is greatly overcrowded. The Rev. John Gibson and Mr. Parker also tendered evidence confirmatory of Mr. Moss's statement. There are ninety.five lt was agreed thca om mon lodging-h ouses i n t h e di str i ct. that mm qualification for the me m b ers o f f O , or th e a b solute the l ocal board should be annual rati ng t o t h e amount of possession of p roper t y worth £lOOO, itawli nd that the number of membe rs s h ou l d b e twelve. Mr. nson afterwards made an inspection of the district. ten or er her in ob by the warded leplor- 'en, he their a little of the [l, in a eB9 of down a-hour 'e, Ekod )e was w her sown umber with- vessel. and Lr, and yarcb ihould iediate a been, s have- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1853. SEVENTY-TWO COTTAGES are at present in the course of erection at Aigburth. THE PANORAMA OF THE NILE, which will be exhibited for this week only, will have the rare accompaniment of appropriate songs in illustration by. Mr. Field. UNDER the immediate sanction of the Duchess of Sutherland, a Miss Forbes has been lecturing at Altring ham on the abolition of American slavery. THE Manx Sun states that, for some time past, the learned Attorney-General has been drawing up an im proved criminal code for this island, which will shortly be taken into consideration by the Insular Legislature. POLICE-OFFICER 731, (METCALFE) has been dismissed from the service for endeavouring to damage an adverse witness's testimony in a case, recently, by falsely charg ing her with keeping a`disgraceful house. AT THE POLICE-COURT, last week, a ruffi man, bearing the appropriate name of Peter Lawless, was charged with robbing a young Irish emigrant of XS. Re manded for a week. THE JANE ANDERSON, the property of a house at the Brunswick Dock connected with the timber trade, was despatched on Saturday with a full cargo of deals, &c., for Melbourne, the first of the kind shipped from this port to Australia. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM SHIP CAMBRIA. Miller. commander, took her departure hence on Saturday, at 4.30, p.m., with an average num ber of passengers and a fair cargo, besides the usual mails on board. THE CURLERS OF LIVERPOOL have, during the past week, been enjoying their fine Scottish game on the noble sheet of ice at Birkenhead Park. Although the snow is not favourable to the amusement, we hear that the play has been of the most gratifying and spirited description. MR. MAYER has made an interesting addition to his Egyptian Museum, by the purchase, from Lord Valentia's collection, of two statues of the Goddess Bubastes, a granite sarcophagus, and the only mummied infant in Europe. THE LECTURES ON EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES which Dr. Hume purposed delivering at the Collegiate Institu tion, and for which the Rev. P. Percival's Lectures on India have been substituted, were intended, we believe, to form part of a more extensive arrangement, the whole of which could not be carried out at present. WILLIAM SAVAGE and SARAH JACKSON, two Young and daring burglars, have been committed at Oldham, charged with a series of burglaries committed in various parts of the country. A great number of pawn-tickets, found upon the female prisoner, showed the existence of a system by which it would seem articles stolen at one town were invariably pledged at another. AT THE POLICE OFFICE. nn Friday, a hny fourfaan years of age, named Edward Fairhurst, was charged with breaking into the office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, at the Titheburn•street station, and stealing £lO 13s. The boy, when asked by Mr. Earle what he had to say to the charge, said that he was guilty. He was committed to take his trial at the sessions. THE DON AFFONSO.—We learn by the Severn that the Brazilian steam frigate Don Affonso struck on a sand bank whilst in pursuit of a slaver, and became a total wreck. One officer and some sailors were drowned. This vessel was built in England, at a cost of £BO,OOO, and will be remembered as having saved the passengers of the burning emigrant ship Ocean Monarch, of Liverpool. She was the finest vessel of war in the Brazilian navy. THE FIRST SALOON OF THE MARCO POLO, which now lies in the Salthouse dock, undergoing extensive internal alterations, is being fitted up with stained glass pannelling,s alternating with mirrors. Transparent paint ings on glass represent picturesque portions of Australian scenery, as well as the castles and old baronial halls of England. The ladies' drawing-room, the second saloon, and the third cabin are likewise being adorned and im proved at an immense outlay. AT ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, on Sunday, as a tribute of respect to the memory of the late Sir Thomas Brancker, who for many years was a constant attendant there, the funeral anthem, " Blest are the departed," (Sphor), was performed, the Psalms and " Benedictus" chanted to Gregorian tones, in the minor key ; and, after the ser mon, the " Dead March" (Handel), was played on the organ. WoouroN.—On Wednesday an inquir3; took place at Much Wootton, before Robert Rawlinson, Esq., relative to the application of the Health Act to that township. The principal or enly opposition was from Lord Salisbury. The average mortality of Wootton has been exceedingly high, being nearly 31 per thousand. Mr. Rawlinson said it might cost £3OOO to sewer and drain the township in a proper manner. Such an outlay would involve a rate of about 6d. in the pound. It was carried by a majority of 18 to 5 that the act be applied to Much Woolton, in cluding Thingwall. ALLEGED FRAUD ON THE CUSTOMS.-011 Tuesday the examination of Thomas Fletcher and Alfred Frith, fruit brokers, as also of their managing clerk, William Ker foot, was resumed before Mr. Mansfield, stipendiary. Kerfoot was now represented by Mr. Bremner. The cases of the ships Dauntless and Affeto were gone into at great length. After the examination of the witnesses, Sir George Stephen addressed the court in vindication of the character of his clients. They were ultimately corn mitted for trial at the assizes ; but bail for their ap pearance was accepted, themselves in £5OO, and two sureties of £250. FORGERY.—At the Police-court, on Saturday, a gen tlemanly-looking young man, Frederick Cragg by name, said to be the son of a solicitor, at Rugeley, was charged with obtaining money under false pretences from Mr. Thomas Martin, proprietor of the Neptune Hotel, Clay ton-square, and subsequently with forging the name of one James Mottram to a cheque. with the view of defraud ing Mr. Martin. The magistrates were of opinion that the case of obtaining money under false pretences fell to the ground, the prosecutor having agreed to a compro mise ; hut as it was necessary to make inquiries respect ing the cheques, they remanded the prisoner until to morrow, Wednesday. TOXTETII-PARK.-At a meeting of the commissioners of Toxteth-park, held on Saturday, Mr. Matthew Greg son in the chair, a paving -rate of one shilling in the pound for the ensuing year was ordered to he levied on the inhabitants of that part of the township which is beyond the boundary of the borough of Liverpool. Se veral of the commissioners referred to an erroneous para graph in the Mercury of Friday, to the effect that the paving-rate for Toxteth-park, for the ensuing year, would be two shillings and threepence in the pound. Mr. Barry considered the publication of such statements injurious to the interests of the township ; inasmuch as many persons about taking houses were influenced by the amount of rates and taxes in the locality. MILK AND WATER.-At the meeting of the West Derby Guardians on Wednesday, the chairman read the following letter from Dr. Nevins :—" My attention has been called by Mr. Gough to the character of the milk supplied to the Workhouse, which I have examined, and find a deposit of a dark-coloured sediment, and to have such a flavour as to show that it is not naturally whole some milk."—lt was stated that the milk in question was supplied by Mr. Ledsome, of Sefton. Some of the milk was produced, and its appearance showed that water pre dominated. The quality of the milk was also tested by some of the members tasting it. Mr. Shaw : I think it would be as well to request Mr. Ledsome to send the milk in one cask, and the water in another, and we can mix it ourselves. (Laughter.) If SO gallons of that milk came in, then 50 gallons ought to be taken off for water. It was agreed that Mr. Gough should wait upon the governor of the Liverpool Workhouse, with the view of correctly ascertaining the plan adopted in that establishment. AT THE BOROUGH COURT, MANCHESTER, on Friday week, and on the following day, Mr. Thomas Hall, of Liverpool, the author of " Raby Rattler " and some other works, was charged with having stolen two letters. It appeared that Mrs. Girvan, of Rodney-street, in this town, dealer in French shoes, has a branch establishment in Manchester, which is managed by a Miss Thorp. A short time since the latter sent the errand-boy with two letters to the post ; but as one of those, and another which he was despatched with the following day, never reached their destination, he was questioned, and confessed that the accused had met and taken them from him. Subse quently he identified Mr. Hall. In the course of the in quiry, it appeared that a family quarrel had long existed between the parties. Mr. Hall called witnesses to estab lish an alibi. Mr. Maude discharged the prisoner. LIVERPOOL CHESS CLUB.—The annual dinner was held at the Adelphi Hotel on Wednesday, Dr. Inman occupying the chair, in the unavoidable absence of Sir George Stephen. Mr. M'Connell occupied the vice chair. The chairman gave " Prosperity and perma nency to the Liverpool Chess Club."—Mr. Sparke said a few words respecting the future prospects of the club. He believed it was about to enter upon a new era. It had been affected in various ways : the removal of some members, the checkmating of others, and various other causes had led to a considerable diminution in their num bers. In the beginning of April next there was to be a large gathering of chess notabilities in the city of Man. chester. Mr. Staunton,—(cheers)—Herr Lowenthal', and other great chess-players, were to be present. Now, he was strongly of opinion that if they were prepared to support a general soiree to be held in April immediately after the assemblage in Manchester, and were to invite the celebrities who were to be at that gathering, it would be the means of rendering essential service to the cause of chess in this town. (Hear, hear !) At their next meeting he should propose that such a step should be adopted and carried out. (Cheers). THE APOLLO GLEE CLUB held its fifty-sixth anniver sary dinner at the Adelphi Hotel, on Saturday evening. There were some sixty or seventy gentlemen present. Mr. Samuel Taylor, the president, presided, and amongst the guests were his worship the Mayor, Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, Mr. J. B. Lloyd (who was alluded to by Mr. Samuel Holme as his successor in the civic chair), Mr. J. Lockett, Mr. Charles Smith, the composer ; Lieutenant Lord, Mr. William Taylor, Mr. Arthur Holme, Mr. James Wilson Holme (son of the Mayor), Mr. Robert Clay, Mr. James Smith, Mr. F. F. Chime, Mr. Heathcote, of Warrington, and Mr. Pollexfen, of Sligo. Mr. James Holme and Mr. Thomas Evans were the vice-presidents. The usual toasts, including the health of the Mayor and the mem bers for the borough, were drunk between the glees. The speeches of his Worship and of Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., were particularly felicitous, the former taking occasion, in allusion to the superior melody of the human voice, to:say:that the remark was certainly true as regarded the present meeting ; but, judging from meetings over which he occasionally presided, he should say that there was a high melody of voice, but an utter absence of that harmony which characterised the Apollo Glee Club. Mr. Lloyd, in the course of the evening, took occasion to vin dicate the Council, on the ground that theirs was the Dutch school, in which every man sung his own time, not more than six being allowed to sing at once ! Mr. Holme had evidently received his musical education in the Italian school. " The Lancashire Witches" called forth a re sponse from the Mayor's son, Mr. J. Wilson Holme, who proved himself, in respect of oratorical proficiency, a not unworthy son of such a sire. The vocalists on the occasion were Mrs. George Holden, accompanied by Miss Evans, Mr. George Holden, who presided at the piano forte, Mr. George Holden, jun., Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Sedgwick, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Mellor. Mr. William Taylor contributed some of his inimitable performances on the " Jews harp." THE CHANCERY COURT fir the Duchy is to be held at St. George's Hall, on Thursday, the 24th of March. LADY CHARLOTTE PENICHYN, sister to the Earl of Derby, expired on Tuesday. THE MEMBERS OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY are to be invited by the Mayor to a soiree, to take place at the Town-hall early in Mach. OUR DEEP-SEA cod fishing progresses only moderately, and but slender hopes are entertained that this will be a productive season.—ltiona'a Herald. A PROJECT has been mooted for supplying, from the Preston works, water to Kirkham, Lytham, Poulton, Blackpool, and Fleetwood. MR. CHARLES TURNER, M.P., presented a petition from Liverpool, to tha House of Commons, on Tuesday, praying for a repeal of the soap duty. LAST YEAR 31,000 German emigrants sailed from Liverpool in preference to sailing from Hamburgh, Bre men, Rotterdam, or Antwerp. THE GLASGOW ART linos invites the public to inspect the prizes for the year; tiey are being exhibited at the Exhibition Rooms, Old Postoffice-place, free of charge. LETTERS FOR PORT PHILIP.—The Post-office authori ties advertised on Wednesday, that ship letter-bags will be made up on the 26th instant for Port Philip, to be despatched by the screw-steamer Hellespont. A SPECIAL SESSIONS vas held on Thursday, in the Sessions'-house, Chapel-street, for the purpose of hearing applications for the removal and transfer of licenses. One removal and several transfers were granted. LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH'.—On Wednesday a bill was printed to establish local boards of health at the fol lowing places :—Wakefield, Elland, Wallasey, Dudley, Barnsley, Dorchester, Brighton, and Welsbpool. The ele tions are to take place on the 28th of April next. DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—The annual meeting was held at the Savings' Bank, on Tuesday. The chair was taken by his worship the Mayor. The report was of a favourable character, upon the whole. The Rev. Rec tor Campbell, in the course of his speech, requested the Public to guard against giving to unknown beggars. CIVIC BANQUET.—A. party of fifty gentlemen was en tertained at dinner by the Mayor on Tuesday evening. Among those present were the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, several other local clergymen, magistrates, and many of the gen. tlemen who atte n d e d th e R agge d School meeting in the early part of the day. GRATIFYING TESTIMOIIAL.—A splendid volume of Brown's Family Bible is about to be presented by the workmen at Messrs. Jackson, M'Connan, and Ronald's to their manager, Mr. E. Hurst, as a token of respect. The testimonial is now on view at Mr. Howell's, Church street. FATHER CiAVAZII'S FAREWELL ORATION.—The fare well lecture of this popular orator, previous to his depar ture on a transatlantic visit, will be delivered in the Phil harmonic-hall this evening. The subject selected is " The present state of Popery." He has announced his intention of answering the assertions of Cardinal Wiseman as to the good effects of the Papacy in the Roman States. ON FRIDPY, JesiahWilberforce Pitt, a clerk in the em ployment of Mr. Mavrogordato, of Liverpool, merchant, was committed for trial, charged with forging and uttering at the Royal Bank a check for .£5l 16s. 7d. He bad en dorsed his ern plorer's name to a check, presented it at the bank, and received the amount. The forgery was not dis covered until Mr. Mavrogordato found the item debited to his account. MR. JOHN CLINT. in a letter to the worshipful the mayor, which Mr. Holme intended to have read at the Ragged School meeting on Tuesday, objected to the plan of having hulks established in the river for reforming juvenile criminals. Mr. Clint thinks the object would be much better accomplished by " a national vessel," on the principle recommended by him to Sir James Graham, for manning the mvy. INTELLIGErCE has been received at Pernambuco, from Paraiba, of the total loss of the barque Sir Fowell Bux ton, near Assr, with 240 emigrants on board, for Austra lia. A Brazilian man-of-war and a vessel with provisions had been deseatched by the government to her assistance. The English brig Richard, of no tons, had been char tered to convey the passengers to Port Philip for the sum of £3,200, free of fitting berths and finding provisions. No lives were lost. HEALTH or THE TOWN.—In flub week ending last Saturday 21f deaths were registered in the borough, being nineteen more than in the previous week, and ten more than the average of the same week of the five years prece ding. The increase has been chiefly in diseases of the lungs. One man died from delirium treirsens. Sixteen deaths occurred b etween the ages of seventy and ninety. The temperature was lower than in any week of the pre vious three years. AN INTERESTING CASE came before the Police-court on Friday, important to members of benefit societies. Andrew Glynn, Benjamin Matthewman, and Joseph Smith, three office-bearers of the Queen Lodge of Oddfel lows, Caledonian district, appeared to answer the claim of Sarah Carlin, the widow of a late member of the society, for £l2 funeral money due on account of her late hus. baud. The case had been submitted to arbitration, and the arbiters had awarded the amount to be paid.—Mr. Glynn said, " We do not refuse to pay the money, because we know it to be legally due to the widow ; but we could not pay, because we had no money to pay with, and, therefore, according to the hook of rules, it is the district that supplies the funeral money."—Mr. Garnett : " Why don't the district give you the money ?"—Glynn : " They said we are out of benefit, because we did not pay the district levy."—Mr. Garnett : " And that is so, I suppose !"—Glynn : " They said we were out of benefit ; an arbitration was held upon it, and, therefore, the arbi tration was thrown upon the club."—Mr. Mansfield : " Was there a fresh arbitration ?"—Glynn: "Yes ; the decision of the second was, that the lodge pay in one month." The case was adjourned until to-morrow (Wednesday). WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday, at the weekly meeting of this board, the Rev. Mr. Badnall pre sided. Some conversation took place as to the salary of a taskmaster, whom it is proposed to appoint. It appears that in the advertisement £BO a-year is the salary offered. Mr. Harrison contended that this was too much, and moved that £65 a-year be given. The chairman said they must abide by the advertisement. Several members spoke on the subject, and some confusion took place, after which a member asked the law-clerk whether the poor-law board would sanction an alteration now.—Mr. Cleaver : I am sure they would not sanction anything so preposterous.—The question having been submitted to vote, the numbers were : For Mr. Harrison's motion of £65 a-year, 13 ; for £BO a-year, according to the adver tisement, 11 ;—The chairman then rose and vacated the chair, protesting against such a proceeding. After some confusion, Mr. Owen moved that the chairman resume his seat. Mr. Harrison moved that the offensive motion be rescinded, which was carried unanimously.—The matter then dropped, and the board proceeded to the election of a taskmaster. Mr. Downes, who has been acting tempo rarily as taskmaster, was elected. HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held an Thursday. Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided. A long discussion took place respecting a claim against Mr. Freme :for £4O odd, for the paving of Oil-street, for which a writ had been issued. It appeared that Mr. Freme was now willing to pay the original claim, but objected to the expenses. The committee, however, by a great majority, decided that both debt and costs should be insisted on.—A letter was read from Mr. Lea, the proposer of the scheme for affixing advertising boards to the street lamp. posts. It was ultimately resolved that the report of the borough engineer should be sent to the watch committee. In the engineer's opinion, the adver tising boards would be an obstruction to the streets, in themselves they would be most unsightly, and they would present a surface for the wind to act upon, thereby aid ing the overturning of the lamp-posts.—A report from the town-clerk was read, directing the attention of the committee to a clause in a bill introduced into parliament by the London and North-Western Railway Company— the clause relating to the Wavertree-road bridge and approaches thereto. The subject was referred back to the town-clerk and the engineer for a week.—lnstructions were given to the town-clerk to obtain the insertion in the Magnetic Telegraph Company's Bill before parlia ment of the necessary restrictive clauses as regards the breaking up of the streets. Mr. Gladstone said it had been stated by Mr. Johnson that some parties had it in contemplation to build warehouses at the outskirts of the town, where lamd was cheap, and to establish telegraphic communications between their offices and those premises. If that was done there would be no end to the pulling up of the streets. Mr. Alderman Dover called the attention of the committee to the fact that a piece of waste land at Kirkdale was now about being enclosed. It was of great importance to the health of the inhabitants that it should be kept open to them if possible. He was quite sure that if a proper representation were made to Lord Derby, his lordship would prevent the enclosure. It was resolved Chet the town-clerk and the borough engineer should confer with Lord Derby's agent on the subject, and report. DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the meeting on Thursday, Mr. Shand presided. The sub-committee of works produced a plan for shed accommodation on the west quay of the Huskisson Dock, for the use of the British and North American mail-steamers, and they recommended the adoption of the plan, subject to the approval of the Board of Ordnance. The Warehouse Management sub committee recommended that in future youths not under 15 years of age be taken as apprentices into the Albert Dock warehouses for five years. The recommendation was adopted.—The same sub-committee recommended that the resignation of John H. Ruxton, a person em ployed in the Albert Dock warehouses, should be accepted. A letter was read from the person resigning, in which he alleged that he had been coerced by Mr. Cowan, the superintendent; and that coercion had been carried out by others in blasphemous and insulting language. It was stated that Mr. Ruxton had (been four times brought before committees, and on two occasions threatened to be dismissed if he was brought up again. —A letter was read from Lieut. Thornton, of the United States navy, containing a resolution of thanks to Lieut. Lord, R.N., marine-surveyor of the port of Liverpool, for the valuable information, drawings, &c., sent by him to the Light house Board of the United States.—Mr. Shand stated that a letter had been received from Messrs. S. Baker and Co. Mr. Evans : What, again (Laughter.) Mr. Molyneux No ; it is a Liverpool Baker. Mr. Evans : No more hot rolls for us. (Renewed laughter.)—Mr. Mason, the secretary, then read the letter, which was an application to be allowed stowage room for a limited quantity of iron on one of the dock quays, such iron not being sent here for sale, but solely for trans-shipment by foreign vessels. The letter was referred to the Harbour-masters sub committee.—Mr. Robertston Gladstone, ip reference to the question of the consolidation of the bonded debt of the Dock Estate, observed that ho did not intend to let it drop. But if the chairman of the Finance Committee would give an assurance that he would go into the matter and bring it before the committee, it would save him (Mr. Gladstone) a great deal of trouble. The chairman of the Finance Committee said, as he had the honour of having Mr. Gladstone as a coadjutor on the Finance Committee, any suggestions made by him to the Finance Committee would be attended to, and he should be happy to join with Mr. Gladstone in carrying out any measure for the benefit of the estate. Mr. Gladstone said he would bring the subject of the debt before the Finance Committee, and he should wish to have access to all books, documents, and papers. Here the !übjectdropped. MESSRS. GIBBS, BRIGHT, AND Co., owners of the ship Eagle, have presented to her commander, Captain Boyce, a handsome silver salver, with tea and coffee pots, for having made the fastest passage known from Melbourne to London. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAYS. — The eleventh half-yearly meeting of the proprietors in the above company took place, on Tuesday, in the Clarendon rooms. William Earle, Esq., occupied the chair. The business for the half-year, ended 31st December last, exhibits an increase both in the number of passengers and tons of goods conveyed. The increase in the receipts over the corresponding period of 1851 amounts to £684 ss. sd. The net balance to the credit of revenue available for dividend is £5,944 17s. 3d., from which the directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 9s. per share, being at the rate of 24- per cent. for the half-year, clear of income-tax, leaving a balance to carry forward of £757 17s. 3d. The report was carried unanimously. A divi dend of 9s. per share, payable on and after the 18th instant, was carried without dissent. THE RIVINGTON PIKE SCHEME.—An abstract of the receipts and expenditure of the Liverpool water account for the year 1852, prepared by Mr. Capes Ashlin, the treasurer, has just been printed, and furnished to the members of the Council. The general result is comprised in the following statement of the income and expenditure: ORDINARY INCOME. RECEIVED. PAID. To balance as per last £ s. d. s. d. s. d account . 8,524 17 10 „ Waterrentreceired7o,ls2 19 11 78,746 17 9 61,176 9 3 EXTRAORDINARY INCOME. „ :Money borrowed 10,000 0 0 „ Sundries 2,440 10 8 2,440 1 15,504 13 3 RIVINGTON ACCOUNT. To balance as per last account 72,634 19 10 „ Moneyborrow'd,&c.9,7sB 12 9 79,393 12 7 71,860 12 S „ Income-tax „ Balance in banker's hands on extraordinary account ]3,241 19 6 „ Ditto on Rivington account 7,532 19 11 In treasurer's hands IS 13 1 173,557 19 0 173,557 19 0 From a supplemental statement of the income and ex penditure of the water account for the five years from 1848 to 1852 inclusive, it appears that the total income is £304,824 18s. 3d., and the expenditure for the same period, £269,488 15s. 9d.; deducting accounts owing for interest, &c., the excess of income over expenditure Is £10,597 183. 11d. GENERAL NEWS. THE EARLIEST LAMB in Derbyshire was dropped six weeks ago on the farm of Willersley. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON i 8 confined to his house by a painful injury to the arm. JAMES KILLIGAN, a miner, was killed on Saturday night week in an Irish row at Kilbirnie, Ayrshire. ON Friday, the 11th instant, the remains of the Right Hon. David Boyle were committed to the dust in the churchyard of Dundonald. THE posts for carrying the telegraph along the Glasgow and Southwestern Railway have been erected betwixt Dumfries and Cumnock. A LARGE FISH, of the whale species, 14 feet in length and 10 feet in circumference, was captured a few day's ago in the fishing nets off Brighton. A CUSTOMS CLERK died the other day in Albany-street, Regent's Park, London, who had been drunk every day except Sunday for twenty years. On Sunday he went regularly to church. A Coro FISH, sold to a gentleman. in Northumberland. street, Newcastle, a few days ago, on being opened was found to contain a small gold ring, securely embedded in the entrails of the fish. VOLUNTEER CORPS.—There seems no longer any doubt RS to the intention of the government to raise volunteer corps, under certain restrictions ; and we believe that the services of several will be accepted in a few days. A SCOTCH PAPER says, that last week, the gamekeeper to Lord Panmure, on returning home after watching for poachers, was surprised to find two hares on the sneck of his door, and the following intimation attached :—" If you want more, you will get them upon the shortest notice." ANOTHER OFFER FROM THE FR3NCH GOVERNMENT TO A BRITISH SHIPBUILDER.—An offer has lately been made to an eminent Clyde builder, Mr. John Wood, of Port Glasgow, to build a French man-of-war, which was promptly refused. A GRAND MEDAL, presented for annual contest to the curlers of Ayrshire by the Earl of Eglinton, was won on Thursday by the parish of Kirkmichael. The match appears to have been quite unexampled in the annals of Scottish curling. THE Derbyshire Courier states that the Duke of Rut land preserves nearly 11,000 a:Tes of moor ; these moors are surrounded by cultivated land, and in the autumn the grouse go down to:the stubbles in large flocks to feed, when they are as easily approached from behind walls as they are difficult to approach on the heather. TROOPS IN THE COLONlES.—According to a return to the House of Commons there were in the colonies. on the Ist of April, 1851, employed 1,608 officers, 2,070 ser geants and drummers, and 34,558 rank and file. On the Ist of April last there were 1,706 officers, 2,735 sergeants and drummers, and 35,530 rank and file. QUAKER BRIGHT.—The Standard accuses Mr. Bright of being, though a professing Quaker, in reality a Papist and Jesuit, and thinks no one can doubt the possibility of such being the case, when the fact is stated that he is brother-in-law to Mr. Lucas, of the Tablet, a present Papist and Jesuit, though an ex-Quaker. THE At Advertiser notices the circumstance that the recent shipments of cattle from Kirkcudbright for Liver pool have include.' less fat stock than usual. " This may he accounted for," says our northern contemporary, " by the large mixture of Roman Catholics among the con sumers of Liverpool, Manchester, and the surrounding districts, who are keeping Lent." ST. VALENTINE'S-DAY. The amount of corre spondence passing through the London Post-office on Monday was immense. At eight o'clock in the evening it appeared that not less than 350,000 letters had been sorted during the dcy, upon many of which not less than ls. postage was charged, the major part of which were taken in. During the duty the men were regaled accord ing to annual custom. A CURE FOR INDIGESTION.—Rise early and walk a mile or two before breakfast, then drink a cup full of spring cold water, half-a-pint will not be too much:if the stomach is strong enough, and walk another mile. Con tinue this treatment regularly for a month or six weeks. It is worth a trial, and has been known to succeed when medical aid would not. THE FRENCH EMPRESS.-It is stated, from an authen tic source, that a gentleman well known:in the county of Monmouth, and closely related to one of its leading families, had for some time paid his addresses to the lovely Countess of Theba, now Empress of France, and that an alliance would have taken place but for the strong objec tion which the countess's family entertained to her resi ding in England.—Cambrian. THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL, rector of Althorpe, Lin colnshire, three or four years ago became acquainted with a " navvy" at the Grimsby docks, whom he kindly aided in the task of self-educaeion. Subsequently the working man emigrated to Australia, and his diary, kept for the perusal of a sinter at home, having fallen into the hands of Mr. Aspinall, has been published by the worthy rector, under the title of " Australia, and the Voyage Out." It is one of the modern curiosities of literature. " DOING WELL AT THE DIGGINGS."—At the weekly meeting of the Marylebono Board of Guardians on Friday, Mr. Messer read a letter from Catherine Enright, one of 25 workhouse girls sent to Australia in 1849, by the parish, which, after praising their happy change, and thanking the guardians for it, thus concluded :—" I need only add that all the girls who came out with me are married (a laugh), and most of them got children. (Con tinued laughter.) I have got a little boy. (Increased laughter.) We are all doing well." A STRONG SWIMMER. A seaman named George Goff, of the brig Voyager, Hoperoft, of Sunderland, has just performed a notable swimming feat at this cold season. On the voyage from Newcastle to Hull he fell from the foreyard arm into the sea, about eight o'clock on the evening of Monday last, and swam to Filey Beach, a distance of two miles. Here Le was fed, lodged, clad, and sustenance money given to him by the agent of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society, and a free passage given him to Hull.—Neutcastle Journal. FARM-POULTRY.—The Council of the Royal Agricul tural Society, on the motion of Mr. Jonas, seconded by Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, voted the sum of £lOO, as the amount of prizes to be offered at the Gloucester meeting, for improving the breeds of poultry best adapted for the purposes of the farmer ; and referred to the committee of last year the report with which the council had been favoured by the Society's Judges of Poultry at the Lewes meeting, with a request for recommendations on the sub ject of the particular prizes to be offered in this department. RECEIPT FOR JOINING GLASS.—MeIt a little isinglass in spirits of wine, and add a small quantity of water. 'Warm the mixture gently over a moderate fire. When mixed by thoroughly melting, it will form glue perfectly transparent, and which will re-unite broken glass so nicely and firmly that the joining will scarcely be per ceptible to the most critical eye. Lime mixed with the white of an egg forms a very strong cement for glass, porcelain, &c., but it must be done neatly, as, when hard, the superfluous part cannot easily be smoothed or taken off. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—O❑ Monday consider able surprise was occasioned at the inland department of the General Post-office by the accidental discovery of bank-notes and jewellery to a very large amount, sup posed to be the proceeds of a series of letter robberies which occurred two years since. They were found in an extra office only used under a pressure of business. Some of the notes were entire, and others in halves, and all of them were creased, as if they bad been enclosed in letters. Information was forwarded to the secretary's office, and the property was carefully deposited until steps can be taken to trace the various owners. FRIGHTFUL DEATH.— James Granger, a plumber, aged 32, in the employ of Messrs. Saunders and Co., builders, London, was a few days since engaged in melt ine nine pounds of lead in a ladle, when, in lifting a ladle of water off the furnace, a quantity of it fell into the lead, which instantly spurted over his face and body. His screams attracted the attention of his fellow work men, who conveyed him to the hospital, where the house surgeon immediately attended the unfortunate man, who he found was frightfully scalded about the face and neck. The lead had actually run into his eyes, and Mr. Lane extracted from them two moulds, describing the exact shape of the eye. Erysipelas set in, which shortly afterwards terminated fatally. THE GOVERNMENT BALANCE-SHEET.--FrOca the Government balance-sheet, issued on Thursday, it ap pears that in the year ended the sth April, 1852 (after abating the expenditure thereout defrayed by the several revenue departments), the income or revenue was £52,468,318 17s. lld„ and the expenditure, including unclaimed dividends, £50,291,322 14s. sd. The excess of income over the expenditure was £2,176,996 3s; 2d. On the sth April. 1852, the balances in the Exchequer were £6,838,846 14s. 2d. In the year ended the sth January last the revenue was £53,210,071, and the ex penditure £50,792,511 13s. 9d.. leaving the excess of in come over the expenditure £2,-117,559 6s. 3d. On the sth January last the balances in the Exchequer were £8,841,521 15s. ld. Similar accounts are given for the year ended the sth July, 1852, and the 10th October, 1852. A HUNT ON THE RAILWAY.—On Saturday, the pas sengers by the twelve o'clock train from Braintree were somewhat startled by hearing the whistle and finding the train pulling up about two miles from the Witham station ; but on looking out of the window the only "killing" sight to be seen was the East Essex fox-bounds coming at a racing pace between the rails over which the train was passing ; but luckily the driver had caught sight of a red-coat and brought the train to a stand, or the de struction would have been serious, the hounds being so well settled on the scent that the guard had to dismount to prevent them getting under the engine ; end thwarted there, they attempted the sides, till a note frr .1 a staunch old hound behind the train set matters all right, and the whole pack were " at him again," completely within the rails over which the train had just passed ; and, after a splendid run, the death of sly reynard prevented his again coming the " artful dodge" in such dangerous fashion. CURIOUS MARRIAGE LEASE.—An assault case came ;fore the Birmingham magistrates last week, which, like Le majority of matrimonial squabbles, would have been simply interesting in the eyes of those immediately con cerned, but for a legal curiosity which was brought to light in the course of the hearing. 'William Charles Capes was charged with assaulting his wife. In giving her evidence, Mrs. Capas mentioned that her husband was not living with her, but was "leased " to a young woman named Hickson. This being a species of contract unknown to the magistrates, further inquiry into the matter was made, when it was elicited that a regular legal document had been drawn up by which Capes and Hickson bound, or, as they termed it, " leased' them selves to each other for the term of their natural lives. The " lease" was produced in court and read. The girl Hickson was present at the time "of the alleged assault. On being asked about the „ lease, she admitted th at s h e signed it, and stated that it was drawn up by Mr. Camp bell, the lawyer, who told he r at th e time she si gne d it that if Caw ; w if e gave her any annoyance he would put in that paper as evidence. She moreover said that the paper was signed at his Mice, and that she believed Mr. Campbell charged £1 14s. for drawing it up. The magis trates fined Capes 2s. 6d. for the assault, a nd commented in ver y strong terms on the document which bad been brought before them. IN A GREAT NATIONAL CURLING MATCH, held in Scotland last week, the North of Scotland players proved victorious over their opponents from the South. The last match, in 184950, was won by the South. ALARMIST SLIDING SCALE.—Chinese gongs are adver tised in the London papers. " One for 40s. will effec tually frighten a thief, one for 60a. will appal a burglar, one for 80s. will alarm the country for miles round." THE REV. DAVID INGLIS, of the United Presbyterian Church of Port Glasgow, the oldest minister of any de nomination in Renfrewshire, has just died at the patri archal age of 86. His death was caused by a fall. AN OLD MAN, upwards of 100 years old, who served under Captain Cook, died the other day at Winchester, from exposure to cold, having been turned out of a public house at midnight by the police, against whom a verdict of manslaughter has been returned. SIR HENRY LYTTON BITLIVER had a narrow escape with his life, a few days since, while descending the Rhone, from Avignon to Lyons. The boiler of the steamer burst, and the vessel sank in the river. Sir Henry, with other passengers, swam ashore. THE Times of Thursday contai ns th e f o ll ow i ng adver tisement :—" She is returned. But where is the fulfil ment of those brilliant pr i omis”? Forgive past om i ss i ons, all shall be explained. Faith is es the ascen d ant. Write or indicate—t. if possible, before the 22d, its I ma be out a week.—Valentine. S." y SUPERFINE BREAD should not be eaten by one who prefers health and clearness of intellect to indigestion, constipation, and stupidity. Fine bread will kill a healthy dog in seven weeks, whereas, if he is kept on coarse bread (having, of course, access to water in either case,) he thrives perfectly well for any desirable length of time. Food may be too rich as well as insufficient in nutrition. HENRY DOBSON, a cabinet-maker, of dissolute habits, residing at 'Wakefield, went at a late hour on Friday night to a disreputable house, in New-street, in that town, and brutally murdered a young woman with whom he had cohabited. The prisoner has been committed for trial, charged with wilful murder. A CORRESPONDENT of the Hull Advertiser (speaking of the convict Pries) says, "I learn from a private source, that his unhappy wife, who was not cognisant of her husband's nefarious doings, until the hue and cry had been raised against the criminal, has become deranged, in conse quence of the deep and unmerited trouble which has over whelmed her." - A DETERMINED PRISONER.—Abraham Sella was on Tuesday brought brought into King's College Hospital, London, having for the fourth time attempted self destruction by poison. He was instantly attended to by the house-surgeon, who used the stomach-pump with such success that the poison was expelled. It was then discovered that he had attempted to destroy life by swal lowing an admixture of phosphorus. FEARGUS O ' CONNOR.—On Friday, Miss O'Connor applied to the magistrate at Hammersmith Police-court for aid in obtaining the removal of her brother, who was at Dr. Tuke's asylum at Chiswick Manor, to another establishment. Hitherto she has been unable to obtain access to her brother, as the uniform answer was that Dr. Tuke was not at home. When the patient was placed in this asylum £1,700 was deposited in the joint names of Dr. Tuke and Mr. Jacob Bell; the doctor, therefore, could allege no unsatisfied claim. The magistrate said he could do nothing in the case, and referred the applicant to the Commissioners in Lunacy. W. H. ORCHARD, an attorney of Staple Inn, and G. Cox, his clerk, were, a few days since, called up for judg ment in the Court of Queen's Bench, and not appearing were sentenced in their absence. It appears that the master and servant made affidavits that certain costs had been paid by them on behalf of a client of Orchard's. On investigation, through a quarrel with Orchard's brother, the contrary was proved, and the two indicted for conspi racy to defraud. They were found guilty, and sentenced by Lord Campbell, the attorney for six months', and the clerk for three months', imprisonment. They have, how ever, escaped to Australia. RAILWAY DIVIDENDS.—The Great Western dividend is 4 per cent., with a balance of £63,777 15s. 3d. The Midland dividend was officially announced last week as at the rate of 34- per cent., with a balance of £13,000. The York and North Midland pays at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, an elevation which it has not reached since 1846, when it paid 6 and 8. The Midland will de clare a dividend for the past half year at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and leave a considerable balance. The York, Newcastle, and Berwick has declared a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. The Hull and Selby recommend a dividend of £2 Os. on each of the whole £5O shares, and of £1 4s. 6d. upon each of the half, or £25 shares. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.—A Mr. Dean sent for a Mr. Pike, a packing-case manufacturer, to measure a pic ture for a case. In going into his warehouse, Mr. Dean leaped over a counter to get near the picture. Mr. Pike followed the example, but unfortunately alighted on a floor of glass, and immediately fell through into the shop below. The plaintiff was taken to the hospi tal, where he remained three weeks, but having lost the use of his right hand, he brought an action in the Queen's Bench to recover damages for the defendant's negligence in inducing the plaintiff to follow him, and not giving him proper warning as to the nature of the floor ing. The jury gave a verdict, damages £3O. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, AN EFFICENT CURE FOR DIS EASES OF THE CHEST, AND INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.—Mr. John Schoonenberg, of Paramaribo, Suri nam, had suffered for a considerable time from a severe cough, pains in the chest and side, and ultimately an in flammation of the lungs, and great fears were entertained that he was in a deep decline. After the best endeavours of some of the most eminent doctors had failed to cure him, he tried Holloway's celebrated Pills, which have re stored him to a perfect state of health ; and so satisfied is he of the result that he strongly and confidently recom mends their use to all who suffer from similar complaints. WILL OF THE LATE NAPOLEON.—In the Prerogative Court, on Thursday, the Queen's Advocate made an ap plication for the delivery out of the Registry of the willfand codicils of the late Napoleon Bonaparte, who died at the island of St. Helena, on the sth May, 1821. He left pro perty within the Jurisdiction of the Court, not exceeding £6OO. The will ( with seven codicils) was duly proved in August, 1824, by Count Montholon, one of the executors. 'The will and codicils bad remained in the Registry up to the present time, and it was now prayed that the Court should decree that the papers be delivered up to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of their being delivered over to the French Go vernment. The learned Judge said that what he should direct was, that the documents be delivered over to the Secretary of State for the purpose of being delivered by him to the legal authorities of France. FISH BY RAILWAY.—In the Court of Queen's Bench an action was brought by Mr. Walker, a fishmonger, against the York and Midland Railway Company, to recover the value of three consignments of fish, addressed respectively to parties residing in York, Liverpool, and London, and which were entrusted to the defendants for delivery. Owing to the negligence of the company's servant's, the fish, not having been delivered in due time, had been spoiled, and were consequently unsaleable. The defence was that notice of the arrival of the fish:bad been served on the parties to whom it was consigned, and that, not having been taken away, the company were not liable for the damage sustained. The rules observed by all the railways, with respect to the consignment :of fish or other perishable commodities, had been strictly adhered to. The plaintiff's witness, however, denied that any such notice had been served on them until long after the arrival of the fish, which was then unfit for market.— The jury found for the plaintiff for the _full amounts claimed. A CHARACTERISTIC FUNERAL.—A person who had carried on the business of a carrier was buried at Sher borne last week, and the funeral procession was so strange as to excite universal observation, The proces sion was led by a common gig, in which were seated two gentlemen, wearing hatbands and an outer coat of a kind of drab colour, so characteristic of the old school of yeoman of our neighbourhood ; next followed a large road waggon, such as carriers use, drawn by two hea v y h orses , with the usual covering of tarpaulin, containing the body of the deceased ; the vehicle was succeeded by a travelling or carrier's van, %Nith a cquare "tilt," or covering of material similar to the former, which conveyed a party of mourners. The other arrangements of the funeral were in character, the four pall-bearers wearing smock frocks. The deceased, by his will, had ordered that after his horses had carried what remained of himself to his long resting-place, they should be shot. DEATHS FROM COLD.—SO great was the intense cold on Saturday night, at Dartmoor, that three soldiers lost their lives, viz., corporal John Panton, and privates Geo. Driver and John Carlin. belonging to No. 7 (Captain Brown's) Company, 7th Regiment Royal Fusileers, sta tioned at the Dartmoor prison, Prince-town. The two privates, who only left the Royal Military Hospital list week, marched from the head-quarters, St. George's square, early on Saturday morning, under charge of Cor poral Ramsden, who conducted them seven miles, to the village of Jump, where they were received by Panton, who took them four miles further, to the Doursland-barn Inn. Snow having fallen all day, the landlord advised them not to proceed, but the corporal said they must obey orders, and the three marched on. It is surmised, from the position in which their hats and knapsacks were scattered, that they passed through the first snow-drift on the margin of the moor, smile and a half from the inn, and reached the Devil's-bridge, a mile and a half further. There they could not proceed, and retraced their steps to the first drift, which;by that time had become impassable, and here they unhappily perished. John Smith, of No. 3 Company, who returned to Devonport on Saturday, states that he and Panton were four hours in the morning coming from Doursland-barn (five miles) , be in g a t times up to their arms in snow, which was in some parts eight feet deep. He endeavoured to dissuade Panton fro m re turning the same evening. The bodies of Dri ver an d Carlin were found. THE GARDEN.—Perrect Wisdom placed th e perfect man in a garden to dress and keep it. The place and the duty must have been divinely congenial with the exercises of an unclouded reason and an u n d epraved heart. The love of man's P r , . seems yet to lin g e r f on dly i n the bosom of tne exiled race. The first pleasure of children is to gather fresh flowers from the daisied mead, or their little hand s i n t h e allotted patch of garden gr toy garden around. " Heaven lies about us in our infancy."—Some faint visionary gleam from Eden seems yet to rest on the infant soul, and, with the dawn of reason, the first voice of childhood seems to say that Paradise should have been its home, and horticulture its proper vocation. it is sadly true, no doubt, that adverse lessons in gardening have come to us from Paradise—promptings of an apostate kind from beyond the Euphrates. Boyhood, and the succeeding period of immature manhood, with their tu multuous passions and noisy pleasures, spew themselves alien to the tranquil delights of the garden. But " years that bring the philosophic mind," and that chasten hu manity with their mildening influence, conduct the belated pilgrim back to the garden, end teach him there to find pleasures serene and unalloyed. The Gentile imagination placed the future home of renovated man in the Elysian fi e lds—gardens of the picturesque type. It might almost seem that the poor worshipper of nature had gathered, from some faint tradition or deep instinct of the soul, tidings of the Paradise whence man had sprung, and whither it was meant he should be translated.—Black wood's Magazine. LIVERPOOL RAGGED SCHOOLS. Tim Tie supporters of the Liverpool Industrial Ragged Schools was held on Tuesday, in the Theatre Royal; the Mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., in the chair. Amon'Ast those on the platform, were the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the Rev. Dr. Guthrie, (Edinburgh,' the Revds. J. H. Higgins, Thomas Carter, (chaplain of the gaol,) J. B. Lowe, Wm. G. M.Falloon,Wilson, D. Hume, F. Bishop, F. Barker, J. R. Conor, Drummond Ander son, William Graham, Pollock, Crichton, Warr, Charles Lawrence, James Lawrence, F. Ould, S. Minton, J. Lundie, A. Cromer, Messrs. C. Inman, E. Cropper. T. D. Anderson, Wi!liam Rathbone, Adam Hodgson. John Campbell, R. L. Jones, J. Beazlev, Charles Langton, William Hall, E. Heath, T. Sands, T. R. Arnot, J. Burt, T. Postlethsvaite, J. C. Duncan, T. Tyrer. Grundy, J. R. Brougham, Neill, R. H. Taylor, S. Kearsley, Arbuthnot, T. H. Holderness, T. Clarke, R. Dawson, G. Glen, C. Cotesworth, J. Bold, C. Bushell, Charles Grayson, J. G. Brown, Ellis Brodie. J. 0. Johnson, Admiral Grenfel, S. Stitt, T. H. Headlam, Reginald Radcliffe ; and John Eden. The meeting, which commenced at two o'clock, lasted two hours and a half. The report stated that there are now enrolled in these schools, 196 boys and 112 girls ; 173 of whom were born in Liverpool, 100 in Ireland, and 35 in other places. 124 are above, and 184 under, twelve years of age. The average daily attendance of boys is 69 ; girls, 32. During the last year, out of the 308 children admitted, 28 boys and 24 girls have gone to situations ; three boys and five girls have been sent to parishes, on which they were found to have claims ; 9 boys have gone to other schools, 13 have left Liver pool; 64 boys and 29 girls have left the school of their own accord; 4 have died; and 3 boys have left sick. Since the schools were opened, in July, 1850, 112 boys and 52 girls have obtained employment. With the boys who have gone to situations a communication is endeavoured to be kept up. Every Sunday afternoon a member of the committee attends the school to meet the " Place Boys." Sometimes more than twenty are present—advice and instruction is given, thrift is en couraged by the establishment of a savings' bank, and by such means it is endeavoured to water the good seed sown, that fruit in due season may be reaped. Several boys have been sent to sea, many of whom, on their re turn to port, visit the schools on Sundays. To make the institution still more efficient, the committee have had under their consideration the desirableness of having, in connexion with it, a vessel moored in the river, where lads who evince a predilection for sea may be trained as sailors. With respect to the financial affairs, last year the deficiency amounted to £272 15s. 2d. ; this year it is £228 10s. 10d. ; to wipe off the debt entirely, and to ensure the continued efficiency of the institution, a vigo rous effort will be required. After an eloquent opening address from the Mayor, in which he called attention to the fact of the Corporation of Liverpool expending £160,000 for a new gaol for the town, Mr. A. HODGSON moved the first resolution,—" That the Liverpool Industrial Ragged Schools are continuing completely to answer the end for which they were established ; namely, to give destitute, and even criminal children, at least a prospect of becoming honest, indus trious, and useful members of society." The Rev. Dr. GUTHRIE, of Edinburgh, having seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech of some length, The Rev. Dr. M'Neree moved the next resolution, "That the industrial training and diversity of employ. ment provided in the schools and garden are found peculiarly attractive and beneficial to this class of children; and that a ship moored in the river, wherein some of the boys might be trained as seamen, would, in all proba bility, prove a most valuable auxiliary to the institution." In the course of his speech he adverted to an interference with the useful operations of the schools in Soho-street, by the Roman Catholic Priesthood. "It is well known," says the report, " that there are many abandoned parents, who even, when earning a tolerable subsistence, spend the whole in licentiousness, and leave their children to misery and want.; and others, again, who not only neglect, but systematically corrupt, their unhappy off spring, endeavouring, through them, to obtain means for the indulgence of their own evil propensities. A measure is therefore required, by which the real culprit can be reached." No doubt of it. Where the parent was the real culprit the measure was what he had just read, the magistrate should be invested with power to take the children from such a parent, and compel such parent, if able, to pay for the maintenance of such child at school. But suppose the parent was not the culprit— (hear)—suppose it was found to be some one else who went between the child and the parent —suppose it were discovered that some one had hindered the parent from sending his or her child, who had been so relentless that the tears and entreaties of the parent had not prevailed— suppose it were found in this country that there was some secret tyrannical power behind the scenes, interfering be tween parent and child—absolutely hindering their work, he asked was that to be passed unnoticed ? (Applause.) Was the real culprit to be let alone ? was all the blame to be laid upon the parents ? He knew of parents who were not to blame. He knew of a mother who, weep ing at the sight, was nevertheless compelled to see a child taken out of an industrial ragged school. Where was the culprit then ? Where, he asked again, was the secret tyrant, who was lording it over British society, that was practically interfering at every turn with our British liberty, who was hiding himself from the British view ? Ay, and there were but few Britons who had the courage to charge him out and show him. (Long and loud applause.) He said it would never do to ensconce this and cover it over as if it were not existing, and blame the unfortunate parents. He did not excuse the " aban doned parents" referred to, but he said there were other parents ; and if blame fell on some, let him be the apolo gist for others,—for poor, ignorant, helpless, but affec tionate parents, who would gladly send their children to their schools, who would rejoice and thank them for it, not only for the porridge given, but the education and training given. And yet they could not send their chil dren to their schools. They dared not. Why ? Why ? What hindered. " Some measure should be adopted," says the report, " by which the real culprit could be reached." Yes, was it within his worship's wisdom as a magistrate —was it within the wisdom of any of his bro ther magistrates —was it within the reach of the wisdom of our most worthy senators, in the House of Commons, the House of Lords, or both combined, or the privy coun cil, to devise some plan that should save children and pa rents from the secret tyranny that was exercised by the canon law of Rome, in English society ? (Applause.) He said that in that case the Roman Catholic priest was the I culprit. (Hear, hear.) The Roman Catholic priest in terfered, and would not allow the child to be brought to school. It is a fact (said the speaker, turning to the side of the platform). Gentlemen might deny it, and leave the room as they denied it. (Cheers.) If he wanted any proof of the truth and importance of anything he said, it had been supplied. Truth, truth must be told, no matter who stood or fell—(applause)—and if we as Britons, in British society, if we were to be cajoled, and browbeaten, and hindered from speaking out under whatever pretence, from courtesy, ar from whatever cause—ifwe were to yield and allow those secret enemies of our order, ourschools, our liberty, to see we were afraid to expose them, farewell to British liberty, farewell our liberty! (Hear, bear, and loud applause, and a voice, "Go on.") Yes, he intended in the strength of God and in that good cause, to go on as long as he was able. (Applause.) But this was nor mere theory. This had been done within the last few days in this town. An industrial ragged school, with which he was happy to stand in some degree con nected, had been thus treated, and children had been withdrawn by the tyranny of the Roman Catholic priests against the will and against the entreaty of their own pa rents; and when the priest was remonstrated with by the mistress of the school, and told he should take the children on the streets, not them cared for in tne schools, he said, " It is the souls of the children I am concerned for. The souls of the childre.i to the street are not in danger, but the souls of the children in the school are." (Sensation.) Now, the mayor had said they were going to ask for some legislative enactment. Dr. Guthrie was going to London to lay this matter before Her majesty's government, or some committee of the House of Commons ; and accord ing to the statement of the report they were going to ask for some plan whereby power could be given to the magis trates to send children to the industrial school and compel parents to maintain them. Oh, it an enactment could but pass our legislature which should compel the secret irre sponsible tyranny of the men he had alluded to, to let go their hold, and leave parents to their freedom, to leave fathers and mothers of children to act as they would wish themselves, to draw that extraneous influence which was operating here just as it had in Ireland—for it was not the parents who were adverse to a sound and scriptural edu cation in that case—he did not doubt but that in many in stances it might be as here ; but generally speaking, in Ireland and in this town it was not the parents that in• terfere.—Mr. Inman seconded the resolution proposed by Dr. M'Neil ; and after brief addresses from the Rev. V. M. 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