Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS from 6 to 20 years, LEWIS St COM P ANY, R4nelagh-street. ROBERT MULLINER, (Successor to GORST Sc Co.), (Late with Win. Home, London), C:RRIAGF. AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER, 51 and 61, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL, mANorAcTusza OF EVERY DESCLUPTION OF FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES. o i e A g ent for the Patent Dioraples, for which a Prize Medal was awarded at the ‘Gre:st Exhibition, A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on view, which are ready for almediate use. Estimates given for repairs. CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Good Standing on moderate terms. Carriages sold by Com mission. Merchants supplied with Carriages for exportation on liberal arms. BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE, At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Rinelagh-street. Commercial battfk—Ellig Oat) At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 13, Tempe t-hey, abott, 25 tons fine Sapan Wood.—John Rowliaison. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office. 2, Dale-street, a quantity of Saltpetre, Myrabolams, Orchelia Weed, Gingally and Ground Nnt Oilf Sapan Wood, and 2apeseed.—Browne, Hunter and Co. At one o'clock, at the brOker's office, 4, Chapel-street, a quantity of American and Surat Co.ton Pickings.—Campbeli and Preston. At eleven o'clock, at the commercial saleroo-n, Temple-court, a quantity of Oranges, Lemons, Walnuts, and New Potatoes. — James Adam, Son and Co. For particulars see advertisements. A. , 41.15E vtE 'TS, PUBLIC; m.EzrINGs, THIS DAY, ROYAL A u PHITHEATRE—Dramitir Performance-7 p.m. HINDUS'S GRAND CIRQUE VA RIETZ, Dale-street-7 p.m. TEUTONIC HALL (Upper), Lime-street—Diorama of India-2 p.m. Fasz , dasorea HALL—Gallery or Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p. m. ALLSOP'S CeirsTAL PaLacz,lime.street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ROYAL CoLossaux—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—Giand and Varied Entertainment.. er For particulars see advertisements. L VAC Atiri,jrVLl (firiPlJ MONDAY. JUNE 8, 1857 THE DAY'S NEWS. We are glad to perceive, that the government are in earnest respecting their threatened prose cution of the British Bank Directors. The Attorney-General has filed ex officio informations against the leading delinquents, in this moustre swindle, and upon these informations the Governor and the two Managers have been arrested, and held to bail. No pains will be snared to make the whole of the board who took part in the nefarious proceedings so re cently exposed, amenable for their conduct, and the ➢reparations for this important inquiry have already been commenced. The announcement of a reward of £2OO for the apprehension of Mr. Humphrey Brown, late M.P., indicates that vigo rous measures will be adopted to pursue any who may be disposed to quit the country, and too much praise cannot be awarded to those who have had the management of the bankruptcy in tracing the history and unraveling the facts associated with these monster bubble. The Attorney-General, having at last taken the business in hand, the demand of the public for retributive jus tice will, no doubt, be satisfied. The interests of justice will not allow us, says a London cotem porary, to tell all we know of the proceedings which have taken place under the direction of the law officers of the crown to bring the delinquents in this great fraud to the bar of public justice. Several of them have been already secured in London and Paris ; and we trust to hear that most of the chief offenders—against whom these pro ceedings are properly directed, will be forced to atone for their delinquencies at the bar of criminal justice before a month shall have elapsed. 'There is no danger of a premature disclosure in stating this much. It is already known that proceedings have been commenced, and there is nothing to fear on the score of defeating justice in the case of those amongst the accused who have been " out of the way for some time past. Of local news we have hardly an item worthy of notice. Mr. W. H. Russell, the Times correspon dent at the seat of the Russian war, delivered his first lecture to a very select audience at the Phil harmonic Hall, on Saturday. An abstract of it will be found in another portion of to-day's paper. A case in connection with the conviction of the second mate of the James L. Bogart, for man slaughter, some months ago, was heard at the Birkenhead County Court on Saturday. An attorney of this town had received some money from the Lords of the Treasury, as compen sation money for loss of time, board, wages, &c , to one of the seamen of the J. L. Bogart, who had been detained for the prosecution- Of the sum received by the attorney, the seaman had not received much more than one-half, and he sued for the remainder. Of course the verdict was in favour of the plaintiff. At the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Mr. Brett moved for a criminal information against James Goodwin for a libel on the Board of Guar dians of West Derby, contained in a letter addressed to the clerk of the board, in which he asked if the contractors were allowed to send in inferior articles; if not, why did they allow Mr. Birch to do so, and why did they not proceed against him for breach of contract? And if it was the allowing contractors to send wine to the board that induced them to do this. The guardians answered that if he had charges to make they should be happy to hear him. Mr. Goodwin wrote another letter, and asked,who kept the throe brood sows at the workhouse. He had refused to make good the charges. There was a denial of the truth. Rule granted: Some sections of the clergy of the Established Church are memorialising parliament not to esta blish the principle that divorced individuals can marry during the lifetime of those from whom they are divorced. They say if such a principle becomes law, they will become punishable for conscientiously refusing to adhere to it. The petitioners thus put themselves precisely in the position of those clergymen of the ChurA. of Scotland who seceded and formed the Free Kirk. The law said one thing, their consciences said another, and as the law would not yield, they left their livings. Whether their brethren of the Church of Engand I , eit do the same, if placed by the Divorce Bill * in the same predicament, we cannot undertake to say. The official declaration of the poll at Leeds on Saturday did not alter the numbers previously reported, the majority for Beecroft over Mills being six. Amongst the Parliamentary papers issued on Saturday, was one of an interesting character res pecting the income Tax. From the report i t appears that in the year ending April 5, 1256, the number of persons in Great Britain assessed to the income tax in schedule D., profits and gains of trade, professions, and labour, was 250,891, and the amount of the tax levied from them was 4,802,943/ These assessed on incomes of 1001., and nnder 1501., constitute nearly hale the whole number, and contribute to the tax 634,632/ According to the return it would appear that there are in England and Scotland only 24.7,716 -persons with incomes derived from the above sources, under 1,0001. a year ; and 20,916 of these have incomes under 1001. There are 5,271 persons with incomes from £l,OOO to £2,000, and forty who enjoy the princely revenue of £50,000 a-year, or upwards. These proportions are pretty nearly what the Irish return gives, but the total amount of the tax under Schedule D in i2Bo,2lo—ahout one-seventeenth Ireland is only of that of Great Britain. Official salaries and pensions repreiented in the United Kingdom by 100,808 persons, _constitute £1,066,841; 39,735 officials have salaries from £lOO to £l5O ; and 66 have £5,000 a-year and upwards. It is said that the Morning Herald, Standard, and St. James's Chronicle, have been bought by the Con servative party, at a figure scarcely below that proposed when these three journals were offered for sale by auction. The event has created no slight flutter in Conservative circles, where it has been determined, with " bold emprise," that Government and Radical journals shall not have the road any longer wholly to themselves. At Northampton, on Thursday, a banquet was given to Lord Althorp, one of the county members, and to Mr. Vernon Smith and Mr. Charles Gilpin, the members for the borough. One of the speakers sought to extract from Mr. Smith some little information about the Government measure of Parliamentary Reform, but the right hon. gentleman was not to be so caught. No more definite statement could be wrung from him than the declaration, that the measure would not be a " sham." A drawing-room was held at St. James's Palace en Saturday. It was crowded. Despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail have been received. The paragraphs referring to India are of serious import. They announce the mutiny among the native troops to be spreading into alarming proportions, and of one regiment, it is said, several officers and men have been killed. From Hong Kong it is still "no news." Accounts from Australia report the sailing from that colony of many ships, in addition to those which have reached England within the last few days, with gold to the value of about £686,000. Our intelligence from the Continent does not possess any features of importance. From France we are informed that the election movement is making some little progress, but the names of the candidates for Paris have not yet been officially published. We may here mention that the various lists given by the Belgian and London papers are entirely imaginative, as up to yesterday the republican party had not come to an understanding. In some departments the rush of candidates is ludicrous; thus in the Somme, no less than 51 candidates contest the seat lately held by the proprietorof the Patrie, M. Delamarre, who, in this instance, will, however, obtain an easy triumph over his numerous antagonists. The treaty regulating the frontier between France and Spain is sanctioned by the Spanish Senate. It is said that the approaching census will show a population of 18,000,000 in Spain, which certainly will indieatc growth. A curious piece of intelligence comes from the East. Greece, which for reasons of economy, as its Government alleged, had discontinued its embassy at Paris, has been peremptorily ordered by the protecting Powers to re-establish it. Either Greece is an independent State, and it so she can withdraw her embassy if she likes, or she is a mere dependant of the protecting Powers, and in that case requires no representation at their Courts. From Constaninople wef learn that the four powers favourable to the union of the Principali ties have reco:nrnended a postponement of the elections, appparently with the hope that the delay will allow the Unionist party to get some thing like that fair play which the Kaimakan has hitherto denied them. Lord de Redeliffe left the Austrian internuncio to resist the recommendatio n by himself. WHEN Mr. HORSFALL appeared before his constituents for re-election in Alarch last, he called attention to the grievances which are endured by the commercial community in conse quence of the extravagant powers vested in the Board of Trade. He depicted with much truth fulness the objectionable constitution of the Board, and promised to bring the matter before the attention of the new Parliament. He has redeemed his promise, and although unsuc cessful in carrying his motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the origin, the past and present constitution, the powers and duties of the Board, with a view to its better adaption to the requirements of the country, has certainly done some service to the cause of trade and commerce, by the able and lucid statement which he made in recom mending his resolution to the attention and support of the House. No one who reads his speech can deny that the history of the Board of Trade, from its first formation until within a very recent date, shows most clearly that the whole affair has been, as Mr. BCRKE termed it, "a job ;" and that as a Ministry of Commerce it was more a hindrance to the progress of trade than anything else. The first position which Mr. HORSEALL laid down after he had given the history of the Board from its earliest formation, in the time of the Stuarts, was, that its present constitution is that of incompetence and injustice. A reference to the ruling parties in this department of the public service will show that he was right in the first of these charges.• It has. now a Railway Department, a Mercantile Marine Department, a Department of Science and Art. To its care are committed the patent laws, as well as the registration of design laws, and several other subjects of minor legislation, besides supervising the Consular correspondence of the Foreign office. Such are the duties. Who are the men to superintend and watch their faithful execution ? The President is a nobleman who has never been engaged in any branch of commerce. He can boast of being a Peer, but never had anything to do directly or indirectly with the merchant princes of the United Kingdom. His deputy, Mr. LOWE, is a perse vering and plodding Australian lawyer. How, we ask, is it possible for two such gentlemen to superintend all the important departments of the Board of Trade which we have enumerated ? It cannot be. On the point of incompetence, Mr. HORSFALL adduced an apt and telling illustration in his anecdote of the impediments thrown in the way of trade by the refusal of the Board of Customs to increase the number of landing-waiters at Liverpool, until sufficient influence was applied to Sir ROBERT PEEL, who, after hearing the complaints which the merchants of Liverpool had to make, told them that the matter should have his personal attention, The right hon. baronet kept his word, and the grievances ' complained of were remedied by the appoint ment of such an addition to the number of landing waiters as the augmented commerce of the port of Liverpool required, As another proof of the incompetence of the Board of Trade, Mr. HORSFALL alluded to its interference with private bills and to the fact that its decision THE NORTHERN TIMES,- LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 18517. and that of the Board of Admiralty were at complete issue respecting the construction of docks at Liverpool—the latter censuring the report which the Board of Trade had made upon the subject, Now, if there are grounds for a charge of incompetency, it follows that that of injustice, which Mr. HORSFALL preferred, is equally clear and conclusive, inasmuch as parties engaged in trade, or the promotion of great and important public schemes, are thwarted in their designs, and the ultimate upshot of all is the loss of time, labour, and money. Then, again, we have the question of the utility of the Board of Trade as to its effects upon agriculture, exemplified in the mode and manner in which the corn returns are made out. Practical men, like the members of the Liverpool Corn Association, or the President of .the Agricultural Society, are better able to form an opinion as to the worth and accuracy of these returns than either Lord STANLEY, or Mr. LOWE, or any of their subordinates. It seems, too, that the Board take upon them to decide pecuniary questions bearing upon the interests of agriculture. This is implied in the case of the recently discovered Guano Islands, which the President of the Liverpool Chamber of dommerce, a merchant and a gentleman of the highest intelligence, honour, and probity, has designated " a gigantic plunder." It is well known that the railway interests have suffered by the interference of the Board of Trade. Mr. HORSFALL instanced two cases, proving his position on that head, and made out a satisfactory cause for granting the committee which he asked Now for the answer. Two Cabinet Ministers spoke—Mr. LABOUCHERE and Mr. LOWE; and as both were implicated in Mr. HORSFALL'S charge of incompetence, it was but natural that they should stoutly deny his allegations. In fact, the former set out in his speech by regarding the motion as a kind of censure upon the Government, and therefore made the most he could of the inexpediency of thus arraigning a great department of the administration of the country with a view t(*) its reconstruction. He could not deny the truth of the cases cited to prove Mr. HousFALL's position, ut argued to convince the House that they were exceptional cases, and that if the decisions were wrong with respect to them, it was universally right, and the inquiry should not be granted. But he eschewed all argument as to the constitution of the Board, merely asserting that he dissented from Mr. HORSFALL'S doctrine; that men practically acquainted with trade, should alone rule the destinies of the Board. There was something like clap-trap in the right hon. gentleman's remarks, when he said that it was most important that there should be a department, not only administrative, but qualified to counsel the Government upon trade matters This was very plausible, but it could not convince any one that a peer and a lawyer are exactly the best fitted persons to preside over the commercial interests of the country. Sir JAMES GRAHAM. came to the rescue of Ministers, but after spending an extraordinary amount of oratorical ammunition in praising Liverpool, and HUSKISSON, in which, by the way, he committed many blunders from au ignorance of the geography of Liverpool; he eulogised the Board, Praised its practical results, and called upon the Government and the House to resist the motion. We cannot help regarding this effort of the wily member for Carlisle as a symptom of his anxiety to take office under Lord PALMERSTON, and we are strengthened in this surmise from the fact, that he is the Chairman of the Committee on the Mersey Conservancy Bill, a project which has the concurrence of Mr. LOWE, and if we are not wrongly informed, was prepared by, and with his sanction and advice. Mr. Lowit's reply was lengthy and prosaic, abounding in assertion, and denial, for which the hon. member for Kidderminster has a happy knack. If any reliance can be placed in all he said, the country —commercial, agricultural, artistical, and the several other interests of which the Board of Trade takes charge—is really blessed, and that nothing can exceed the ability and. zeal which Lord STANLEY, of Alderley, and himself display. in administering affairs of which they are as ignorant as the tribes of North American Indians, or the native and cannibal population of New Zealand. , The debatd closed by a reply from Mr. HORSFALL, in which Sir JAMES GRAHAM came off second best, for had Mr. HORSFALL been less courteous, and followed up his charge of political inconsistency, the Netherby baronet must have felt its force, and quailed before its effect. As we said before, the motion was negatived without a division, nevertheless it will ultimately work out good results, and the commercial portion of the constituency of Liverpool must rejoice that they have such a straight-forward, honest,—aye, and talented representative. THE inquiry before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the Mersey Conser vancy Bill, is still going forward. The last two days of the inquiry has by no means stregthened the position of the promoters of the Bill; inasmuch as the evidence given by the principal witnesses, Mr. BARLEY, President of the Man chester Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. J. A. TURNER, M.P. for Manchester, demonstrated that they had been crammed for the occasion. Th 3 outset of Mr. BAZLEY'S evidence was a recital of the long-continued efforts of the people of Manchester to interfere in the Dock and Municipal regulations of Liverpool. For twenty-one long years have they carried on this " game of speculation." In 1836, Mr. BA ZLEY tells the Committee, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce petitioned against a bill brought in by the Liverpool Dock Trust, on the ground of the high rate of the Dock Dues, and also the Town Dues. In the years 1851 and 1854, we find the Chamber of Commerce as humble petitioners of the House of Commons upon the same subject, and thwarting the Dock Trustees in their endeavours to extend dock accommoda tion, or the Town Council to effect certain improvements which the Corporation had considered it wise and expedient ro carry out. Last year, we well know how eager the Man chester folks were for the passing of Mr. LowE's measure of spoliation—the Bill for the Abolition of Passing Tolls on Shipping. Such has been the exertions of the Cotton Lords of Manchester to worst our position, and to deprive us of rights which the superior Courts have pronounced to be not only legal, but as sacred as those of private propesty. While we admire the perse verance of the gentlemen in pursuing, for nearly a quarter of a century, an object which appears so dear to them, we must deplore their infatua tion, and the reckless statements they have made, to support a scheme hatched in jealousy, and sustained by unpardonable fallacies and assertions, manifesting not only ignorance of the merits of the question, and an 'entire absence of truth, but also a desire to gain a victory at any cost—pecuniary and moral. Mr. BAZLEY tells the Committe of the House of Commons that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce objects to the exaction of Dues upon articles of commerce, except for the promotion of commercial purposes ; and because the Town Dues are levied in a shipping port, this sapient advocate of Mr. LowE's bill of last year, proclaims that they should be expended for shipping purposes. Why, the very title by which these "dues" are recognised in the Charters, and Acts of Parliament, authorising their imposition, should have taught Mr. BAZLEY that he was quibbling before the Committee. Had they been termed " port," or even shipping" dues, his argument would be plausible. This is not so. They are called and termed, in all legal documents treating of them, " TOWN DuEs," a fact which justifies the Corporation of Liverpool in claiming them as the sole property of the town, and, therefore, applicable only for town purposes. But although Mr. BAZLEY and Mr. TURNER have thus spoken of the Town Dues levied in Liver pool, and given their impression as to their legitimate application, it does not seem to have entered their mind that the very thing which they have contended for has been done with the Town Dues. Can they sit before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, and so distort facts—aye, and figures, too—as to induce that Committee to believe that the Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool have betrayed the trust reposed in them, and illegally expended funds entrusted to their care, as the Municipal representatives of the Ratepayers of the borough ? If such be the end and aim of these gentlemen, we must tell them they have displayed ignorance, and manifested a cunning which reflects little to their credit as public men. Any one who walks along the whole line of docks, and takes into consideration the splendid means of ingress and egress to all parts of the docks,. and the vast amount of money which must annually be spent to keep those magnificent thoroughfares in working order, must admit that it is not merely the accommodation of the inha • bitants of Liverpool which is consulted, but the best mode of increasing every possible means for the promotion and extension of trade and commerce. Are not the old landing-stage at George's-pier, and the one now in course of erection at the south end of the Prince's-pier, satisfactory proof of the desire of the Corpora ' tion in expending the Town Dues, that the shipping interests of the port are cared for and attended to ; and is not the proposed alterations in Dale-street, Oldhall-street, Moorfields, and the widening of Park-lane enough to satisfy any one that the interests of trade and commerce, more than any thing else, and in preference to every other consideration, the causes which have suggested these improvements. The men of Manchester see in all these improvements—past, present, and future—that the appearance and beauty of Liverpool is promoted ; and although they are the positive gainers by the alterations, and obtain increased facilities for loading and unloading raw and manufactured produce, such is their jealousy that they not only make an attack on the Town Dues, but concoct their Mersey Conservancy Bill, and seek to take away the magagement of the Docks from those parties who are legally entrusted with their direction and control. Every disposition has been manifested by the Corporation and Dock authorities of Liverpool to meet the wants and wishes of the promoters of the Bill. What says Mr. CROSSLEY, M.P., one of the promoters of the Bill ?—" I have no complaint to make of any want of accommoda tion in the port of Liverpool ;" and Mr. TURNER, M.P. for Manchester, beam testimony to the respectability of the Dock Trustees. He says : —"I know most of the gentlemen on the Liverpool Dock CoMmittee, sent down by the Corporation, and I do not think there could b e a more respectable list of names. Many of the gentlemen are men deeply interested in the trade of the port, and well competent to manage their business." But notwithstanding the important fact that there is no want of Dock accommoda tion to complain of, and that the affairs of the Dock Trust are administered by gentlemen deeply interested in the trade of the port, and who are well fitted to discharge their duties, the mercantile community of Manchester, and other parts of the manufacturing districts are discon tented; they cry aloud, and spare not. Influenced by a spirit or envy, like wicked HAMAN of old, they exclaim, " Yet all this availeth me nothing so long as I see MORDECAI the Jew, sitting at the King's gate." No matter how well the affairs of the Liverpool Dock Trust may be managed —no matter what extent of accommodation may be given, or what are the facilities for carrying on the trade and commerce of the North of England, so long as the Corporation of Liverpool has the controling power they will not be satisfied, and will, year by year, agitate their views until they effect the confiscation of the Town Dues, and get into their own hands the management of the Dock Estate. But there is another view which must be taken of the evidence of ✓lessrs. BAZLEY, Mr. TURNER, M.P., and Mr. CROSSLEY, M.P. As an argument in favour of their pet project, they say that representation and taxation should go together, and that those who pay the Dock Dues should have the management of the Trust. This is therefore an assumption that the docks of Liverpool were constructed at the cost of the nation, and are therefore national property. But this is not so. The debts on the docks of Liverpool arise from debenture bonds held by private individuals, and until these debenture bonds are paid off, the docks are virtually their property, The shippers and shipowners, who use the docks, only pay for the privilege and accommodstion granted them in the prosecution cf their business as merchants, &c., &c. And the promoters of the Mersey Conservancy Bill might as well make a similar attempt to rule and control the management of the London and North Western, the Great Western, or the Bir kenhead and Chester Railways. This is a point to which we shall return on another occasion. One word more, and, we have done for the present. Mr. Alderman BAN CROFT, of' ganchester, was examined on Friday , and had the effrontery to use a written document —what Sir JAMES GRAHAM said was very like a brief. He considered that was not a judicious way of examining a witness. Certainly Sir JAMES was right when he said it lopked too much like counsel holding a brief, and a copy of it being put into the witness' hand for him to say his lesson from ; and as he considered such conduct highly objectionable, desired the worthy alderman to put the paper aside. Surely the Manchester folks must blush at such a rebuke being given to one of their pet aldermen, and one of the prime movers on the question of the Town Dues of Liverpool. The trick was disgraceful, and shows the shifts and subterfuges which the promoters of this nefarious project are prepared to adopt. in order to gain their selfish ends. We are of opinion that the evidence of Mr. BANCROFT should be struck out of the minutes, for being given under very suspicious and questionable circumstance:,... THE DIVORCE AND ILIDATRISIONIAL CAUSES BILL.—The following amendment is to be moved on the recommitment of this important bill by Lord Wensleydale. The noble Lord proposes to add to clause XLIII the following pro viso—viz " Provided , that the other party shall not marry the person with whom the adultery is proved to, have been committed, and the court in its decree for a divorce is to name that person." ACCIDENT.—A woman named Sarah Grayson, 15-court, Kitchen-street, was coming down the step of her house yesterday morning, when she slipped and broke her leg, receiving also several contusions. y, named John B './UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. — M r- Lawford Yats Lee, late a pupil at the Royal Institutio n School, in this.town, and also at 'Windermere College , ha s obtained a scholar.. r playing ship with college prize, at Em anuel Colle g e, Cam bridge. r A ea c m cl e n : E l N iv r in — g O in n ll S o a r t n u b rd y a . para pet of the canal bridge in Li g htbod y -street, w hen he fell off and received several cuts and other injuries. Hav ing been conveyed to th e Northern Hos pital , it was found that he had fortunately no b o nes br oken. s Y t r a e f e t t e , w n o a o s n, a b on the LIVERPOOL STEAMER, PRINCESS ROYAL—QUI.= PAS sAGE.—This splendid steamer arrived at Greenock on Friday, having made the run from the Bell Buoy in 13 hours 50 minutes, and from port to port in 15 hours. This vessel makes her passage with the greatest regularity, having, since she commenced plying, averaged to and from Liverpool and Greenock, 15 hours and a-half, and to the Broomielaw within 18 hours. SEVERE INJURIES TO A Bor.—Yesterday, a boy about 13, named John Kean, living in Albert-street, was playing with some other lads at the top of Warwick -street, Park road. He was wrestling with one of his companions when he received a fall so severe as to dislocate his arm at the elbow, and fracture his wrist. He was at once conveyed to the Southern Hospital. RE-OPENING OF ZION CHAPEL, ELIZABETII-STREET.— Yesterday, this chapel was re-opened for divine service, having been closed for some time for the purpose of alterations rendered necessary by an increase of the con gration. The Rev. W. Sanderson has been minister of Zion chapel for a period of seventeen years, and has rendered his services gratuitously from a conscientious scruple against paid servants in God's cause. " THE 11 - OLIOAYS.—On the whole, the weather for the past week has been most favourable for holiday:and ex cursion-train folk. On Friday and Saturday the town was literally crammed with mechanics and other excur sionists, from all quarters of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, &c., and many hundred thousand of strangers made their appearance for the first time in the Northern Metropolis. All seemed to enjoy themselves very much. FALL FROM A Snip's YARD.—On Saturday afternoon, a seaman named Thomas Fitzsimons was working on one of the foreyards of a vessel named the Latina, in the George's Dock, when he fell from his position, struck against one of the bulwarks of the brig, and receiving a severe wound on the right temple, was plunged into the dock. He was rescued, and immediately conveyed to the Southern Hospital, where his injuries were attended to. IHE REV. HUGH SI3WELL BROWN.—A large crowd assembled in the front of the Brunswick Hotel, Clayton square, yesterday, under the impression that the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown was about to preach from the bal cony. It was intimated, however, that the Rev. gentle man s ministerial duties did not allow him to attend that day, but that:he would preach, as before announced, next Sunday. A mistaken impression that the open air ad dresses were to be delivered regularly every Sunday, had caused the crowd to collect. The Licensed Victuallers of the Hundred of Wirrall, deeply regret the decease of one of their committee, Mr. Thomas Beddows, of the Dock Hotel , Birk enhead, w hose remains were taken on Friday, the sth inst., by rail, to his native place, Welshpool, for interment. Upwards of twenty-four of his friends followed the hearse to the Monks'-ferry station. During his lifetime, he invariably assisted in every cause for the good of his fellow creatures, and pursued his bus iness with credit to himself and corn fort to all. Out of the respect they held him, their usual mon thly meeting was postponed, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] THE EAST. The Mail Stermer which left Constantinople May 28th, has arrived at Marseilles, but does not bring any fresh news of interest. It is stated that the Consul of France, at Tipliz, is at the head quarters of Bariatinski, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army operating against the Circassians. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The Mail steamer, Asia, arrived in the river this morning, at about three o'clock, but up to the hour of going to press her mails had not been landed. We shall bublish details of her news in our second edition. Mons. Roger, the celebrated French tenor, is now in London, intending to make an early appearance berare the musical public. STRANRAER —RYE-Gaxss.—A heavy cart-load of Italian rye-grass was offered for sale in the market on Friday. It appeared of good quality, and attracted some attention fir - m its growth, which averaged fully 41feet in length.— Galloway Advertiser. Count de Morny, previous to his departure from St. Petersburgh, which is to take place about the 25th of the present month, will sign the treaty of commerce between the French and Russian governments, of which the clauses are all already arranged and agreed upon. We understand that one of the greatest artists of modern times, M. Ary Scheffer, is now in EnglaLd, having come hither to paint the portrait of rtarie Amelie, ex-Queen of the French, lone time a pat•oness and friend of the artist, • and who, we believe was the possessor of his " Christus Consolator."—Athenceunt. We are glad to announce that the Chiswick Gardens will be thrown open to the general public free of charge three days, perhaps six, of this we , 211: The implements will be retained ; the flowers which suffer no injury from exposure will also be kept; above all, the gardens them selves are seen to advantage in early June. The Ame rican garden, new this year, will prove very attractive.— Athenotan. NITHSDALE AND HE CRIES PEERAGES.--We ❑nr?erstand Lhat a case has been lodged in the House of Lords for Mr. _ - Maxwell, of Carruchan, in support of his claim as heir male of the family of Maxwell, to the earldom of Niths dale and the baronies of Maxwell and R-rries. The ease states in detail the creation ;niidWceOi the several titles, and also the documentary evidence to be adduced in support of the elaim.—Dumfiies Herald. M. Julhen is about to start on a provinci it tour, f r the purpose of giving (at Manchester, Liverp )01, Hull, Leeds, &c.) 'a series of open-air concerts. The arrangements this year are to be on a more extensive scale than have ever before been attempted ; and is one insta - ice—that of Leeds —there will be the addition of Asley's Hippodrome and Darbj,'s •fireworks to the other attractions; and the musical part of the entertainment will have the assistance of the Misses Brougham. Wroes.—The will of the Right Hon. Francis Egerton, Eirl of Ellesmere, K.G., F.S A., has been proved in London, under £160,000 personalty within the pro vince of Canterbury. Also the wills of Sir Crompton Domvile, Bart., of Santry House, Dnblin, and Grosvenor square,.£3s,ooo within the province ; the Hon. and Rev. Charles Douglas, of Tyrone, £2,000 personalty ; and Robert Lawe, of Preston, £40,000 within the province. Alexander Stewart, Esq., of Winchester House, £120,000. A regular service of screw-steamers is now established between the ports of Kiel (Holstein) and St. 1 etersbnrg, the departures from either port takinz, place every Satur day morning. The fare, board included is 40 Prussian thale-s (150 f.) for first class cabin passengers, and 26 thalers for those of the second. Each passenger has a right to 1001bs weight of luggage. Passports must be signed by the Ruesien Consul at Kiel- The charge for conveying gold is 3-piths per cent. ad valorem. and 1-4th per cent for silver, From a return, we learn the state of the various loans advanced from time to time for public works in Ireland at the end of the last financial year. The total amount authorised to be issued is £3,654,000, of which £3.197,000 has been issued. Of this amount £435,000 has been remitted : £1,022,009 has been repayed as principal, and £466,000 as interest, leaving balances of £1,739,000 principal, and £247,000 interest. The advances during the year amounted to £125,000, and the repayments to £26,000. A Parliamentary, return published at the instance of Mr. Bouverie, President of the Poor Law Board, shows that in England end Wales the sum expended for the relief of the poor in the half-year ending Lady-day, 1857, was £1,979,000, of which £1,486,000 was for out-relief, and £493,000 for in-maintenance, being a decreasa.of £llB,OOO, or 5.7 per cent. on the amount expended in the correspond ing half-year of 1856. In only one county, Durham, is there an increase, and that amouts to but £299, OI 1.0 per cent. The , largest decrease occurs in Norfolk (14.4 per cent.), Rutland (11.8 per cent.), and Suffolk 11.5 per cent.) A parliamentary paper, moved for by Mr. Spooner, shows the sums expended on the national art collections since 1846. In 154,7-8 it was £134.000; in 1848-9, £122,000; in 1849-50, £96,000; in 1850-51, £103,000; in 1851-2, £122,000; in 1852-3, £111,000; in 1853-4 £114,000.; in. 1854-5, £163,000 ; in 1855-6, £228,000 ; and in 1856-7, £202,000. The same return shows the sums expended each year, from 1851 to the present time, on the Kensing ton Gore estate. The first expenditure appears to have taken place in 1852, when £75,000 was I out ; in. 1853 the sum was £150,000; in 1854, £9,000; in 1856, £11,000; and in 1856, £29,000; making a total expendi ture of £277,005. Imrstovourars IN Loernox.—All manufacturing trades, such as potteries, glass houses, talkw melters, bone boilers, and varnish ti akers, and, in fact, all objectionable trades not actually required in London, should be removed at least twenty-five miles from the metropolis. This plan would scatter the working classes over a large ssace of country, and prevent the necessity of retaining so many small houses for the poor in London, and it would allow of the worst portion of small dwellings to be cleared away altogether, and make mem for the co Itemplated, improvements, in forming new streets of a superior grade, on the same plan as in Paris. —Correspondent of the Builder. PUBLIC WORKS IN IREL AND. —A blue book of 100 pages contains the 25th report of the Board of Public Works, Ireland, with copious appendices. It refers to loans and grants for public works in the year 1856, to the improvement of land, to public buildings, post roads, arterial drainage, piers and harbours, and inland navigation. It appears that up to the 31st of December last the amount issued for public works was altogether £9,690,061, of which £4,731,335 has been remitted, and £4,958,725 is the amount of principal to be repaid. The total repayments of principle and interest to the Exchequer up to the said 31st of December, 1856, amounted to the sum of £2,834,406. As regards piers and harbours, the public will be interested to hear that the works of the new packet pier in Kingstown Harbour have so far advanced as to afford a berth alon g side for very large steamers, and that a junction line from the station of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to the stew pier is in course of construction, which will admit, when the works are comple ted, the moving of the rail eonnage, 203,880. We r i of Lieutenant General Sir death rail road carriages close to the p acket. 1 , 766 vessels entered h Bae th ssto t e ,1. K.C.H. Sir William Berries CB oColonel Herries, and youngest Right Hon. J. C. H err i e s. Hi the said joined harbouriwas William brotherrni e tth Lewis to theaw n He served as a brigade major in the expedition against Bu enos A yres . I n 1809 he was aide-de-eamp to Sir Ey re C o, , te i n the Wa l c h eren teirlileiregdeal army a of n iss secondtoy l itu y ih e nn ee a cr year—tonnage, 1 late 0 expedition, and was actively employed in the siege of Flushing. He served on the Quarter-master General's staff in the Peninsula, and was present at the battle of Vittoria, the siege of San Sebastian, and the passage of the Bilassoa. Ore the 4th of April, 1814, in the famous sortie from Bayonne, Sir John Hope had his horse shot under him, and lay, &gabled by his great weight, exposed to a heavy fire. Sir William an: his brother aide-de-camp. now Major-General Moore, rushed forward to his rescue ; but before they could move the enormous weight that they had to deal with, a ball [truck Sir William on the knee and his companion on the arm. All three were taken prisoners, and Sir William had his leg amputateJ the next morning, This event closed his military career, at least his career in active service. Subsequently he served as Quartermaster-General in the lonian Islands, as Comp troller of Army Accounts, and as Commissioner of the Board of Audit, from which he retired in 1854. The Colonelcy of the 68th Regiment is vacant by his death.