The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

QIA AND TURKEY. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. 4 ' Z r "i our Second Edition of Yesterday.) %14; I , MONDAY.— The conference of Ambas briosall r ll.lB Caital, will dispatch to-morrow, a 0 1 arrangements to the Porte. According Iposal, the negotiations for peace are carried on, even though hostilities - be suspended. There seems little he proposal will be accepted. Nov. 28.—Neither the Russians nor the alafat have made a movement in ad 'eat improveMents have been made in itions of Kalafat. The Turks still hold near Oltenitza. Id 'of Mokanon is the object of daily con appears the Turks are resolved to take ice. (na paper, Austrian Correspondenz, con tews of the recall of Baron Bruck, the at Constantinople. Baron Bruck :dschid Pasha that the Austrian govern iorted the neutrality of the Prince of that she would not be pleased to see lave recourse to means of coercion, in Inpel the Prince to take the part of Tur ;chid Pacha replied that the Sultan was compel the Prince to renounce his neu that orders had been given for that pur- A'a t ii . , t,-h,S instructions the policy which Baron II I I;ij to on observe inthis, affair, have been sent rail l trlna,.. c 'W letters state that the Russian authorities lk i l d i° ,tified that neutral vessels on their voyage h e e'oin the Black Sea, to Brailow and Galatz, i rleci ti llilowed to pass without molestation, pro eY do not stop in any place. Litit. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Ili b il ew. g en erally admitted here that if there kil t e ett any negociations for a Congress, pro leaking, on the Eastern question, they have *, ab andoned ; but there is still great talk of a 'keTee proposed by England and France, and it t , by Austria and Prussia. The Augsburg 4 !of the 3rd publishes a letter from London, i e t e eing to give (but from what authority is not St) the account of the negociations on this kte; „: 1 :lie correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette n• - , s , `u at Austria and Prussia have consented, if f B t-should come to the worst, to make corn h'use with England and France to prevent fii' ll exation of the P r incipalities of the Danube t L . s la,"or any other violation of the integrity of aish territory ; but that they are still in t a pacific solution will be obtained. The i,, 4 4Ys the article in the Augsburg Gazette , is , 1 4 v rited to declare on what terms it will t r e at uPoint.a negotiator, and the four Powers un to use all their influence with the Emperor kis. to .induce him to adopt a similar course ; h ,ligerelat parties:being invited in the mean- N l enter into an armistice. vttii 'ersion of the ,Augsburg Gazette, however, .:4a 4 i, . a good deal of credence here, with the ex.- Of :that part of it 'which states the prop os ' . ' i s OVe" come in the - first instance from Eng , u•Viince. In the diplomatic circles it is , 1- !that lie suggestioD was first thrown out by , ~ . b aep t : an was then: adopted by the other three 'lb c , 4l ' ' Fiw persons: expect th at t he p ro p osition '" t adopted, but it is hoped and believed that /kNe7lBtice will be agreed to, and that this be i ng ~,, .4 "1 \ ,Zmemodified and more acceptable proposi - N he d i ! h „. O 104oney Market remains firm, but the prices i, 1 114 . , Improve, although the quotations from Lon 'it,,:!tne higher. , 1 ' ~ c :Orrespohdent of the Pressegives details of 4 4: 1 1.1.ti0n, of the Russian forts and positions ( , tie ' n'Oni. which it would appear that they ca n -4 t ae r t11 : 1 Y very serious resistance to the Turks. .1 44 s intions, however, that it was the Asiatic fast sand in defence ussian service who fought -- Valia pcjityof fort St. Nicholas. I t tintes from the Danube, that Omar ' It a s eh :iti, -1 , blk s • daeration of the health of his troops, `ld Placed uuraltt'tliem from the banks of the river, e ; 0 „ them in good winter cantonments. The rs" t a ken informs us that an exchange of pri uieri in the affairs of the Danube having 1 Proposed, the Russian prisoners entreated V', Pacha not to send them back to undergo l treatment to which all Russian soldiers are i ed, but to a llow them to enter the service of i;(t '', l t.e. He has complied with their application I:4 ts il eY are to form art of the Christian regi k, . Which are being oprganised. ,a ‘V e THE BOURBON FUSION. 1, 1 learn that the recent " fusion , ' has been le,. of serving the Count of Paris and his ;Z; rhe Duchess of Orleans refused to have L 7,e,13 kurrenceemours in the after i visit tOt. Frohsdorf or to see d N o ~~~ r u' ~ ~:, IRELAND [mom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENr.] DUBLIN, TUESDAY. j'ASTERN QUESTION IN IRELAND,—A few days ikl e tAerry-making took place on the Mornington a, in the Queen's County, lately purchased C. Coote, M.P., when a political dispute -- ` ,1 41• amongst some of the peasantry on the 4 1 ,, ? .Merits of the Eastern war. The matter ertie s 14 a manner appropriate l y Irish. Two the '!'ere formed, one for the Cza r, the other 4 4 e,z) ( , e ,ultan, and a very novel faction fig ht corn :trk Which, however, would have ended trag i ' it , gcl ugh, but for the interference of the police. t li ell Qh ! z ts , several broken heads was the conse- N 4 - t The belligerents were subsequently .411 p 14 before the magistrates and fined. The 1111t rt ers of Russia stated that they fought under 0 '4l ls 7Pression. that the Emperor was " a good 4 J 3 r . ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. i• 11, • LLy V. THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN 14 b S L --In this case, which was an action 1 11 0 " . t by the relict of the latelMr. McNally, Soli `hkilled i n the collision at Straffan, against the tiki \IL Y Company, there was a verdict for the titiff 4 for a 3 ) :500. ' °4ll laborer, v. same—Xso. Vf i ttw A l • ri a _ AY ROBBERY BY A MILITIA STAFF-SERGEANT.— k 4tib lt t Y night last, Joseph Whyman, a staff-sergeant in 4, 1 1 °Yshire militia, committed a highway robbery on a f tried Jervis, a soldier, on furlough, with whom he Attie, r ° ' l llerly served in China. They had had a drink to -4141' a. 9 Whyman proposed to lead hlm the nearest way 1,?9; z : z a i liviay station. He took him another way, and was i.;4 th e Murder as well as rob him, but that he was alarmed : kh a PProach of some traveller. A t ' • I sr t-4 - l i. CASE OF SUFFOCATION.—On. Saturday last 4 k 1 :i, I . Badger, coroner of the Sheffield district, held a ju t'it q ;s.,cl t :Nllly at Elsecar into the circumstanc es attendin g 14 1 '0' of Phoebe Sadler, aged 53 ; her daughter and '' .er n 4adler, aged ; 19, and John Sadler , 15 ; and a Vcli,.,, t allied Warrick, aged 48 ; all of whom were suffo ' Vec kr - •weir bedrooms during the night of Thursday last. ',A Tli 4 populous village between Rotherha m andißarns ..4 a ' Ilt a e .Elsecar iron-works are close to the village , and \ ii Oit li a lile distant are the Milton iron-works. Bo th p ro- Ailticea by Messrs. to Earl Fitzwilliam, and are occ u p ied and '11 4 4 of a Y Messrs. W. H. and G. Dawes. The most north 'l,o444 short row of houses abuts upon one of the blast , 1,„, 5 ' 4 b; 4 ,_t the Elsecar iron-works. This house was occu- N i t t 7l 12 t he four deceased persons and Benjamin Sadler, T'eci at son of Phoebe Sadler. Benjamin Sadler is em ly, I ft,' , 1 the Hilton iron-works, and, being on the " night iliersd:tf,t home to go to his work a little after 6 o'clock on 1.}3: 4 1it 16 1 P'ening. The rest of the family retired to rest 11,1 4 .le r a nd ° Clock, being then in their usual health. Mrs. ,i,r ktlie bur daughter and son, the latter of whom was Fi: d jrt? ell Pied a bed in the front bedroom, and Warrick, ',. Nior V, slept alone in the back bedroom. Benjamin Ittitly n e , Lur ned from his work at half-past 7 o'clock on I .l tr Wer, — o nr . ;litig. His knocks for admittance received no •.0 th e 1 1 1 1 . ‘,4 atter alarming some of the neighbours he en ,OB house through the kitchen window, and went up 1, - inla. C e lle spectacle which there met his sight smote his „ A ck er, art with dismay. Mother, sister, brother, and ttitm " — ell we r Oer (1 th e ~ c corpses The lodger was lying upon his i ztl4, l ,a j , uoor at the foot of his bed ; Mrs. Sadler and Ni+k" oi14: 11 were lying at the foot of their bed, clasped in /: :,01 - :arai lee arms ; the sister lay on the bed, having, to all 1, 4 , tc) t . 61 Passed undisturbedly from the slumber of re to e '' ll ll. „'", of death. All the rooms were filled with white li t) I N ' l -"' the air was strongly impregnated with sulphur. ~.11 1 14, Perso ns 4 , , • litt abler who entered the house shortly after the i tl .-, ab above white vapour issuing from crevices in the wall t , Ihe'wood the floor both of the house and kitchen. Mr. tfb stated ' 'nemist of Sheffield being exaipined on the in ,,fk,to(lta4f iiilrri tl o i f at the deceased had died of inhaling cyanide thd kle s tleiti which there is always a deposit in the lower. 111 11 0 ,2 th ro n g furnaces. The vapour penetrated from the itu nate ugh People.the wall into the house occupied by the 1. t r , 3 .1) , L ro I ue !re ' ' '.41,, 1 , 0 t ' 25 e tir rf' 44l 4t , a, ti , „ tk e : at Ka Gre ke 4tt ifica: k_igl it 100 „, n • 'audit 3 5 se o 14 R: Vielll vls4 spile ne 101 d-Re, 0 a a ii,lippo ..? b # i r p o ' , t id oc tr ee,,toi 4sli c eAsc . 111 Ifiguekto k l i4qd • Pe ry o too rris' ;up. [o , !' af' odg, REV. MR. BROWN'S LECTURES. The Rev. H. S. Brown proceeded with his course of lec tures upon the religions of the East last night. The subject was a continuation of his lecture upon the Greek church. The rev. gentleman gave a clear and concise description of the points upon which the Greek church differed from that of Rome—their modified acceptance of the doctrine of tran substantiation, their dispute about the use of leavened or un leavened bread, their rejection of the " filioque" clause in the Nicene Creed, the number of holydays they kept, their bap tismal and dying services and ceremonies, and their reverence for the Virgin Mary, He also dwelt upon the fact that, al though they refused to admit statues into their churches, they filled them with pictures, which they held in as much esteem as the statues of the church of Rome. They , lit wax candles, which the pious believers purchased in the churches, at these pictures, and to him a great part of the Greek reli gion seemed to consist of candles. (Laughter.) The rev. gentleman, in alluding to this subject, said—Now, with re gard to image-worship, how do we ourselves stand ? We are all innocent, of course, of the worship of pictures or statues. Yes ; I grant that. But it is often considered that a picture in a church, at the east end, in the window, a picture of some Scriptural character or incident, would be a great improvement to the appearance of the church. Ido not know but that it is, and I should have no objection in the world to having such a picture there. It is called by many a decided improvement, and they think it to be desired ; but mark you this, that the man who would give you 50 guineas to put up in the window a picture of some Scriptural Saint, would rather throw his money into the Mersey than give you 10s. 6d. towards a statue of John the Baptist, to be placed there. (Applause.) Why is this ? Will any man tell me why we might not as well have a statue of an Apostle as a picture in a church ? Yet there is a strong feeling upon the subject. We put up in our churches statues, busts, relieves of statesmen, warriors, scholars, poets, physicians. Yes, and worse than that. Some good-for-nothing man, who never in his life did a good turn to anybody but himself, some wealthy old sinner who has just died—you will find this man's features, his hard, griping, grinding, grovelling, and half devilish face, chiselled by the hand of Chantry, and put up in the house of God. (Applause). I know a case in point. I know the exact place. I knew the man. I have seen the relievo, and know that Chantrey's immortal name was placed upon it. And yet if, in such a case, the clergyman, thinking that King David was quite as good a man as the rich banker, the rich brewer, or the rich brickmaker, who just died, proposed to erect a statue in David's honor, and place it over against the chair, the parish would be up directly. (Applause). You have seen St. Paul's—you walk through that splendid edifice. Well, will you say when in the grand gallery, walking round the base of the dome, you could tell whether it was a Christian church or a Pagan temple ? What do you see there ? You see states men, warriors, philanthropists, scholars; but you see some thing more. There is fame, and victory, and I know not what other heathen deities, sculptured in marble as cold and hard as the ideas they represent. But if the Dean of St. Paul's, thinking that the illustrious saint, to whom the church is dedicated, was about as good a man as Lord Nelson, and perhaps near as great a man as the Duke of Wellington, were to propose erecting a statue to St. Paul himself beneath that glorious dome, the Londoners would rebel en masse. Barclay and Parkins's draymen would seize their whips, and every gin-shop in London would ring with the cry of "No Popery." (Loud applause). But you observe as you quit St. Paul's, as you come out from that majestic area, so magnificently paved with marble, that if you look narrowly St. Paul and other saints are to be found in the cathedral. But they were outside. They appear upon the western pediment ; they are ranged along in a line, perched upon the roof almost, exposed until they are as black as the thousand chimneys which every moment belch their abomin able smoke in the faces of the holy men. Yes, it is thus that we treat the saints. We put Lord Nelson inside, and we leave St. Paul without. (Applause.) We put a long circle of swearing soldiers around the base of the dome, and leave the pure and preaching apostles upon the roof. lam afraid seriously, that this is but too true an emblem of the Chris tianity of this country. Apart from the consideration of the worship of saints, I like the catholic practice much better than this. I would rather see twelve statues of the apostles beneath St. Paul's dome than twelve statues of warriors, of statesmen, ay, or even of philanthropists. I know but one man whose statue is worthy of standing in that sacred place, and he stands in strange proximity, John Howard. (Loud applause.) Let John Howard stand there, who would carry him away ? If there ever was an Englishman worthy of standing beside John the Apostle, it was John Howard the philanthropist. (Renewed applause.) But, after all, a great man needs no statue, graven with art and man's device. You pay a poor compliment to a man, after all, when you erect a statue to his memory; for a great man's statue is his works in the world. Paul's statue is his epistles : David's statue is his glorious psalms, and, to come to a much lower name, Shakespeare's -statue is his plays. If a man's deeds are not enough to command the reverence and admi ration of mankind, let the man and his deeds sleep in the oblivion of death. But every great man has his place in the temple of fame ; he is not put there, he goes there, and the world cannot hinder him. (Applause.) The rev. lecturer then returned to the subject of the practices of the Greek church, and, passing from Russia into Palestine, proceeded to describe the holy places, and the ceremonies performed by the priests of that church there. He described the ceremony which takes place in Easter eve in the church of the Holy Sepul chre, from which it was asserted the resurrection of our Saviour took place. Here, amid a scene of devotion, yelling, and confusion of all kind, which the lecturer described as being only paralleled by the scenes of a Liverpool election ; the priests taught the subjects of Nicholas of Russia to be lieve that God Almighty descended upon the tomb of the Saviour, and the bishop, who had been left alone in the church, was borne out in an apparently fainting state, as sumed to make the crowd believe that he had been over powered and overwhelmed by the presence of the Eternal God. These are the ceremonies, continued the lecturer, in _defence of which the Czar of Russia threatens to involve the civilised world in all the horrors of war. That such blas phemies, which may well challenge the Vatican to show their equal, may be more fully, freely, and unreservedly en gaged in is the cause which urges the Czar of Russia to make war upon the Sublime Porte. It strikes me that it would subserve to the interests of true religion better, if the vene rable edifice, from its towering dome to its basement, were battered by Turkish cannon, than that by the barbarous hordes of Russia such abominations should be conserved and intensified. (Applause.) The Czar of Russia has taken upon himself to preserve the interests of the Greek christians. I do not think the Turks ha re ever borne very hardly on them. You or I might live more freely in Turkey than in Italy. Give me to live under Mahommedan rule rather than under the true Papal rule. (Applause.) When I consider the religious belief and views of the Turks, it appears rather a marvel to me how the Turks have tolerated these ceremonies so long, and that the sword of Islam has slept so long, and not been unsheath ed against such abominations. Let no one imagine that I recommend such things ; but I am now speaking of the professed principles of the Mahom medan faith, and I say the marvel is not that the Greek church should be so much persecuted, but that it is allowed to be so free. It is said that they suffer under disabilities, and that the evidence of a Greek Christian will not be taken in a Turkish court of law. This is true ; but do we expect that the Emperor of France, or anybody else will make war upon this country because we do not admit Jews into the House of Commons ? And the question of these disabilities might surely be more perfectly and satisfactorily arranged by the peaceful interposition of the Christian powers. It is not by the sword that the interests of religion are to be carried out. But why argue it ? There is no man in this assembly, no sensible man anywhere, who believes that the Emperor cares about the Greek church._ or that i he has any zeal for religion. It is a p i e ce of his im p eria cant. He is clothed with zeal, but it is as a cloak. He puts on that flimsy covering to cloak his gigantic and barbarous ambition. If he thinks it is his mission to sustain the church, I would remind him of the old proverb, that " charity, begins at home." Let the bearded barbarian go back and feed his 215,000 poor starving parsons a little better than he does. Let him rescue his own church and his own clergy from their intense ignorance, their awful poverty, their miserable squalor; and when he has done this, when he has acted decently at home, he may then perhaps be entitled to interfere in the display of his zeal for Christianity and the Greek Christians in Turkey. Until that is done he stands simply forth to the world as an im perial hypocrite. The lesson 1 learn from the whole of this business is just this : It would be much better if all em perors minded their own business, and left the churches to settle their own disputes. It is just another illustration of the evils of the connection between the civil and eccle siastical authorities. (Applause.) It is that connection which has now disturbed Europe, which would not now be threatened with a war upon that pretence, although perhaps upon some other it might. When will the kings of the earth be wise ? When will the princes of the world consider ? When will men listen to the brief but pregnant sentence, which if understood and practised, would shatter for ever the idea of kings becoming de fenders of the faith—" my kingdom is not of this world." The Rev. Mr. BROWN then do sed his lecture, amid repeated bursts of enthusiastic applause. THE TEA TRADE, DEC. s.—The deliveries in London, made up for the week, are 607,114 lbs., being an increase of about 41,000 lbs. compared with the previous week. Lord Ward had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Monday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Charles Russell, chairman of the Great Western railway company; Viscount Barring ton, M.P., deputy-chairman ; and Mr. C. A. Saunders, secretary of the company, had an interview with Sir William Molesworth, on Monday, at the Office of Worics and Public Bifildings, in Whitehall-place. SECURITY FOR LIFE IN PORTUGAL. —The celebrated guerilla chief, Galamba, who took so active a part on the side of the Oporto junta, in 1846-47, has been murdered at a town called Vidigueiva, in Alemtejo. He was shot dead in broad daytime, and in the most frequented part of the town, by a political enemy, who will probably be paid off in the same coin by the friends of the deceased; but who, if he only keeps out of the way for a a couple of months or so, has little or nothing toifear from what is called justice. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. SELECT VEST.RY.—YasTnwAY The usual fortnighey meeting of the select vestry was held yesterday, in the parish-offices, Brownlow-hill, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair. The other members present were : Messrs. Denton, Crawford, Hand, Mellor, Came, Johnson, Shaw, Moss, Bradley, Sumner, Luff, Whitty, Blain, Whitby, Gardner, Savage, and Banner. MR. HEATH AND THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, Mr. CARNE referred to the statement made by Mr. Sum ner at the last meeting, to the effect that Mr. Heath had made some remarks disparaging the industrial schools at Kirkdale. Now, he (Mr. Carnes) was requested by Mr. Heath to state that he had never mentioned the name of either the workhouse or the industrial schools, and that his remarks were entirely confined to the facility which they had of obtaining situations for boys in preference to the workhouse, inasmuch as people did not like to take them out of the workhouse. Mr. Heath named neither the work house nor the industrial schools. He had no initntion of disparaging either one or the other; and that he was much indebted to Mr. Coates, of Kirkdale, for information on matters of routine by which he had been called more efficiently to regulate the school under his charge. He wished also to bring before them a subject mentioned to him by Mr. Heath, although he did not think the vestry could entertain it; yet he felt it right to name it. Mr. Heath said he had been frequently met by children, in cold frost) weather, in the streets, in wretched, miserable, clothin2 which must necessarily subject them to disease. Mr. Moss : This is very irregular, Mr. Chairman Surely those remarks cannot apply at this stage of on' proceedings. Mr. CARNE : The chairman has allowed me to make them. Mr. Moss : This is a flat contradiction of the statement made here by Mr. Sumner; and it had better be reserved until that gentleman is present. Mr. CARNE : Mr. Sumners may not be here. Mr. Moss : Then give him notice, and bring the question forward. Mr. CARNE : It is only an explanation that Mr. Heath never intended to disparage the schools ; he did not say Ms remarks might not be taken in that sense ; but he did not intend them. Mr. Moss : Ay, that is very different from your first statement. Mr. CARNE : Wilt you allow me, Mr. Chairman ? The CHAIRMAN : Yes. Mr. CARNE was afraid they could do nothing in the matter. It was a custom amongst parents to send out children in this inclement weather, almost unclothed, and the consequence was, they contracted disease. Mr. Heath wanted this to be brought before the vestry to see what could be done. He (Mr. Came) answered that it was not the duty of the board to run about the streets to bring per sons into the workhouse ; their duty was simply to receive them when they were sent in ; and if the council or Mr. Heath adopted measures to send such children to the work house, they would be received and taken care of. That was the only answer he could give him. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee having been read, Mr. CARNE moved their confirmation. Mr. DENTON remarked with reference to the cottage rating sub-committee, they had no report on the books of this committee of what they were doing. He had called atten tion to this fact repeatedly, and notwithstanding he found there was no report from them. As regarded the other question he was going to ask, he found the finance committee had anticipated him, namely, relative to the monthly report from the surveyor. It was desirable they should have a monthly report from that gentleman as to what he was doing. It was found from. the proceedings of the health committee they had weekly reports from Mr. Rishton, their surveyor, Mr. Newlands and Mr. Fresh, and he thought it was necessary the vestry should have a report from its sur veyor. Mr. Moss said the question was now before the finance ',ommittee. Mr. DENTON was satisfied so far. It was stated that the appointment of a surveyor would be a great saving to the parish • he wished it to be shown it was so. Mr.lipes remarked that the messenger employed in the dis tribution of bread had had his salary raised from 15s to 20s. He proposed 18s which he thought would have been fair. He must enter his protest against what he considered a piece of extravagance on a small scale. Mr. DENTON begged to give notice, that at the next meeting he should move that a return of the proceedings of the cottage rating sub-committee be entered on the pro ceedings of the finance committee. Mr. BRADLEY said the cottage rating sub-financial coin• mittee had no necessity for meeting recently, and that was the reason why there had been no report. Mr. BLAIN inquired who were the members of the com mittee ? Mr. DENTON : and Mr. Moss. The overseers, together with Mr. Bradley Mr. MELLOR aslod why they had not called a meeting. Summonses had to be regularly.issued, and it could not be done until this committee met. Mr. BRADLEY said Mr. Mellor had brought forward an assertion before the vestry which could not be borne out in the committee ; and it was a waste of time to answer him. So far as regarded the business it Was going on as usual, and the collection for the present year was in excess over the previous year or the year before. Mr. DENTON : It seemed strange to him that the busi ness should be going on as usual, if there had been no meetings at all. Mr. BRADLEY : There had been meetings ; if Mr. Denton would only take notice of the proceedings of the board, he would find that meetings took place ; but he was so fond of talk. Mr. CARNE thought Mr. Denton's complaint a very fair one. The proceedings should come before the board ; but he believed it was an oversight. Mr. BRADLEY : You must be very negligent of the busi ness of the board if you make assertions of that kind. Mr. CARNE did not remember the proceedings having been read. Mr. BRADLEY : You must not make statements in conse quence of your not remembering. Mr. Moss : Just explain that. Mr. LUFF said he asked the question of Mr. Bradley a month since, and he said it was true there had been no meeting. That was a month since. Mr. BRADLEY believed there was a meeting called for last Tuesday; he was present, but no one else but himself. Therefore there could be no blame attached to him in this matter. The notices went out in the usual way, three days previously, but no one came, and the consequence was no meeting took place. He could only state to the meeting, so far as he understood it, that the proceedings of the cot tage-rate sub-financial committee was going on exceedingly well ; and that the amount collected up to the present time exceeded that of last year, or the year before, very con siderably. Mr. DENTON had been told by several that the finance committee could not take cognisance of the sub-committee. Mr. Moss considered this an ungenerous remark, consi dering the constitution of the committee. On reference to the proceedings of the committee in ques tion, it was found, as we e understood it, to have met on the 3d of November. Mr. CARNE begged to apologise. Mr. BRADLEY hoped the board would see how improper _ _ was to give way to those kind of unguarded expressions, thus giving an impression out of doors altogether wrong. Mr. CARNE: Just so ; if the proceedings were reported. Mr. JOHNSON said it might save time if this were done. He did not think it necessary that the committee should meet, when there was no business for it; and if it were true ft... 0 • A.1.4.4.J, t%i n aa evi dent the committee were doing their duty, and the work was going on in a proper and satisfactory manner. He would suggest that a rider should be put to Mr. Denton's motion, to the effect that an official statement of the rate of increase be given to them from all the collections of the cottages, in order that they might judge as to the fruits of the labours of the committee. As to meeting from week to week, if there was no business, it was a waste of time, and the vestry did not care a straw about it. He should suggest that the motion be so altered., Mr. BRADLEY would give the ratio in a moment. Up to October 15, 1853, when the accounts were brought down, 6,5141. were collected for the present year, whilst the sum up to the same period in last year was 5,4121., leaving a balance in favour of the present year of 1,1011. If that were not a satisfactory state of the department, he did not know what could be. Mr. CARNE remarked that he was borne out by the pro ceedings of the finance committee, that the proceedings of the sub-committee had not been read. Mr. BRADLEY thought the statement he had just made was so satisfactory that no further steps should be taken in the matter. The CHAIRMAN said the proceedings were not recorded, and he must rule they were not read. The reading was not recorded. The question was not whether this committee was meeting and transacting business, but whether it was meeting and transacting business without recording its proceedings, because that was very possible. This committee might be transacting business without recording its pro ceedings, and if so, it was doing what was illegal. With regard to the comparative sum received, it was very satisfac tory ; but it was not conclusive, because the question was whether more ought not to be received if the business had been properly done. He did not mean to say it had not' been properly done, and that all had been got that could be got; but there was no proof of this, and the mere saying that they had received 1,1001. more than last year, was no proof that business had been properly conducted, or that all the money had been received which might have been. Mr. GARDNER said it was the fault of the finance com mittee not to have read their proceedings. They had nothing more to do than to record them, and if the finance committee did not read them the fault was theirs. Mr. CARNES only remarked that he had never heard them read. Mr. GARDNER said it would be well if Mr. Came had seen those proceedings were recorded. He was an advocate for having matters brought before committee rather than before the board, and he ought to have mentioned this in committee. Mr, BRADLEY said considering the difficulty of getting in the rates, instead of the remarks of the chairman, he rather thought a vote of thanks should be given to the committee for having collected up to that period of the year £llOO more than in the preceding year. " (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN : If any gentleman wishes to move a vote of thanks I will put it. I only want to reason logically and proceed according to law. Mr. BRADLEY said according to law they had proceeded, for he knew their proceedings were recorded. Mr. Moss remarked that if any of the proceedings of the sub-committee were not recorded, it wai not only irregular but illegal. The question was whether any proceedings had taken place without passing through the book ? Mr. HART : No. Mr. DENTON denied this. Mr. HART observed that the proceedings were entered on the book belonging to that particular committee. Mr. DErrox : But not on the finance committee's pro ceedings. Mr. GARDNER : You have been in a fog this morning Mr. Denton. Mr. DENTON : You are always in a fog, Mr. Gardner. The proceedings were, then confirmed. WORKHOUSE COMMITTEE. • The proceedings of this committee contained a recom mendation relative to the erection of some lamps in front of the building. Mr. BRADLEY inquired how this matter came to be taken out of the hands of the finance committee ? Mr. DENTON thought it was in very good hands. Mr. BRADLEY contended that did not justify the irregu larity. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. The proceedings of this committee contained four charges against the band-master, the first of which was withholding 10s; secondly, taking two boys into a public house and giv ing them drink ; thirdly, refusing to attend the governor ; and fourthly, for being drunk and using abusive language. There was also a recommendation that the band-master shfuld be dismissed. The proceedings also contained a re solution to the effect that the infants and their teachers recently sent from the workhouse to the schools should be sent back. _ _ _ Mr. GARDNER moved the confirmation of the proceedings, with the exception of that part relating to the band-master. Mr. SUMNERS : In connection with the explanation given by Mr. Came on behalf of Mr. Heath relative to the Indus trial Schools, remarked that he understood Mr. Heath had no intention of disparaging the Industrial Schools, but he merely wanted to throw in a little bit of high coloring. Mr. JOHNSON hoped when the committee met if the facts were such as were disclosed in the minutes relative to the band-master, they would value the moral bearing and the moral influence of such a man amongst such a number of children rather than teaching music. If he had been guilty of such conduct he ought to be dismissed. The CHAIRMAN : Taking two boys and giving them drink—is that proved ? Mr. Moss remarked if this charge was exparte it was cruel that it should be sent forth to the public without being substantiated. He objected altogether to the proceedings of the industrial school's committee at their last meeting. According to the standing orders of the vestry three mem bers were registered, but he found that there were only two in attendance, the Chairman and Mr. Crawford, and that those two gentlemen proceeded to the transaction of the business. The whole of the proceedings then fell to the ground. The band-master was an old " Waterloo man," and he did now and then get a little elevated in celebrating that great victory ; but as to taking the children into a public house, let them hear what he had to say. Mr. DEN'roN feared that he had commemorated too many victories. Mr. BRADLEY asked if those proceedings were not in proper course, would the children be sent from that school back to the workhouse ? Mr. GARDNER stated that they had already come ; and the board could confirm the proceedings of any number in committee. The CHAIRMAN : Yes. Mr. GARDNER : If the committee had not proceeded to business, it would have been blamed. Mr. CARNE seconded the confirmation of the proceed ings. The CHAIRMAN remarked that even if there were three members present the proceedings would not be legal until they were sanctioned by that board; and even were the proceedings brought before them by one member, they could confirm them if they pleased, and if they did so it was just the same as if there was a proper quorum. Mr. Moss : Then the standing orders amount to nothing whatever. The CHAIRMAN : Allow me— Mr. Moss : I will listen to you with the greatest pleasure, if you allow me. (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN : Have we any standing orders ? Mr. Moss : I think so. Three members are required for the transaction of business. Three members must be pre sent in committee, and five at this board, to form a quorum, and if there are not five members present you cannot pro ceed to business. _ The CHAIRMAN : You are perfectly right as to the five, because that is a matter of statute law. We cannot trans act any business at this board unless five members are present. But there is no standing order or by-law to my know ledge, necessitating the presence of three to form a quorum in committee. Mr. Moss : That is your opinion, but in the council it is invariable The CHATamAN : I am on my legs, Sir; sit down. Mr. Moss : I thought you were about sitting when I rose, and then you rose again. (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN : Yes, Sir, and I will continue to rise. You say that is mynpinion. It is not my opinion ; it is the fact. There is no by-law necessitating the presence of three members on a committee. Mr. Moss : Then I am improperly instructed by the vestry clerk. Mr. HART : There is no written by-law ; but committees usually do not go to business unless three members are present. Mr. Moss : Then the usage is the law. The CHAIRMAN: There is no by-law; but what the statute law is, Mr. Gardner has very properly laid down, namely, that what is brought before us by one member of a .committee, if auctioned by the board becomes law. I lay that down as the law from Mr. Gardner's mouth. Mr. BRADLEY thought it a pity to deviate from the usual course. The CHAIRMAN : That is another thing. Something must be done. Unless orders were given for provisions, the whole thing would have stopped. There would have been no food for the children. Mr. Moss : Your best course would be to read a lecture to the absentees. Mr. BRADLEY said coming to that portion of the question rilatLvo tie cul ltea _ _ The CHAIRMAN : I beg your pardon. There is now a question before us. Those proceedings are confirmed or rejected. Is it your pleasure to confirm them or not. Mr. BRADLEY : Before they were confirmed, he was going to refer to the matter of bringing the children back from the schools to the workhouse. The committee recommend them to be brought back to the workhouse. The CHAIRMAN : You can decide whether you will permit that or not. Mr. BRADLEY was going to say if the schools were not very crowded, he thought it would be unwise at present to return the children to the house, because he need not say there was an impression in town that cholera was becoming prevalent. It was manifesting itself, he was sorry to say, near the north end of the town in such a way there was no knowing how soon they might require the full accommoda tion of this establishment, and he thought at present it ncee t call t y i lon l itr i CaTle L arliirkciale, and all overcrowded, and, therefore, he did not see the raa a d t t l iigy u *t v g e necessity of their removal at the present moment. Mr. GARDNER said it was in consequence of a resolution come to by the workhouse committee, that the children had been sent back. The infants were lodged in the infirmary, and it was thought better to send them back. Mr. BRADLEY : Surely they were not sent back before this passed the board ? Mr. HART : They are come. Mr. CARNE : Perhaps they would allow him to explain why those children had been sent. The children brought into workhouse had no school to go to, as all the masters and mistresses were sent away, and, therefore, it became im perative on the governor either to send all the children as they came in up to the industrial schools, or they should have sent back the teachers sent there to look after the chil dren coming in. Therefore, they thought it right the in fants should be sent back in order thatthe teachers might look after those coming in ; but at the same time they left it at the option of the school committee, only to send back such children as they thought advisable. The CHAIRMAN remarked that the children could be sent back in two hours. The proceedings were then confirmed, with the exception of that part relating to the band-master. There is to be a further inquiry into the charges preferred against him. On the suggestion of Mr. Bradley it was agreed that should the medical relief committee deem it advisable they should be at liberty to remove the children at once. The following report from the government inspector of schools was then read : " I have again to report that the boys under the charge of Mr. Haggar have passed a very creditable examination, and distinguished themselves both by their information and general intelligence. " The state of the girls is also creditable ; but they are not equal to the boys. The infants under the charge of Miss Hilton are, I think, well managed. " The children who have lately come from the Liverpool workhouse are not equal to the others, but this could not be expected under the circumstances. Ido not doubt that they will nod improve rapidly. " The staff of teachers in this establishment is greater at present than is necessary. I believe that three schoolmis tresses are sufficient for the girls' school, with the teacher of the infants ; and five masters for the boys', although the number of boys at present is unusually large. The salaries of all the teachers in such an establishment as this are pay able from the parliamentary grant; but these payments are made on the understanding that such persons are bona fide teachers—regularly and constantly engaged in teaching, and not servants. " I hope that no offices of a menial character will be re quired from the teachers. The services of efficient persons cannot be permanently secured if duties are required from them which have no reference to teaching, and which a ser vant might discharge equally well. The time of such a staff of teachers, as I have mentioned, would be fully occupied here ; but some of the masters might easily superintend the field work of the boys, if a greater extent of land should be taken for that purpose, while the mistresses would superintend the knitting and needlework of the girls, with the assistance of a sewing mistress. " I hope that the board will consent to the appointment of five boys and two girls as pupil teachers. It appears that two boys, late pupil teachers, have been dismissed for fight ing. I believe that those persons who have been most suc cessful in the management of boys have usually treated offences of this character with lenity, while they have punished stealing, lying, and every kind of baseness with great severity. It is not possible to prevent quarrelling amongst boys, and I submit that a boyish quarrel ought not to be injurious to a man's future progress in life. If the board should think it necessary to dismiss a pupil teacher hereafter, I have to request that the circumstances may first be communicated to the Committee of Council on Education. "A refractory ward would, I think, be very useful here for the punishment of petty offences. " J. B. bRowNR, Inspector of Schools. " Nov. 23rd, 1853." " I have inspected the schools, and have much pleasure in remarking that good school-rooms have been provided for the girls and infants. " The children have as yet unavoidably made but little progress, as they have generally been but a short time in attendance. _ " J. B. BROWNS, Inspector of Schools. " December sth, 1853." Mr. GARDNER. remarked with regard to the boys who had been dismissed for fighting, that they had been before the committee for general bad conduct, and this was the winding up of the affair. MEDICAL RELIEF COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee were next read. They recommended that the services of Mr. Catell should not be longer continued ; also that of Messrs. Looney and Gibson, the dispensers at the dispensaries were very much inconve nienced for pounders and messengers, that the two assistant dispensers should be dismissed, and two paupers employed in their places, at the rate of 12s. a-week, with apartments in the dispensary. Mr. BILADLEY, in moving the confirmation of the pro ceedings, regretted that cholera was manifesting itself in one district in the town. Mr. CARNE objected to the dismissal of the dispensers, who had been appointed only a fortnight before, and con cluded by moving that this portion of the proceedings be referred back to the medical relief committee. After a brief discussion on the subject, the proceedings of the committee were confirmed, and the business terminated. In the vagrant sheds, 309 males, 192 females, and 66 children ; total, 567. In the house, 2,011. BIRKENHEAD TOIVW COMMISSIONERS. The usual monthly meeting of the Birkenhead town com missioners was held last night, in their board-room—Mr. J. H. GREENE in the chair. The other members present were, Messrs. Rae, Gough, Hughes, Currie, Cook, Story, Bailiff, Henderson, Light bound, Whittingham, Willoughby, Watson, Bradley, and Holme. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, the clerk brought up the report of the lighting and watch com mittee, which recommended, amongst other matters, that a dead-house be erected on certain land• belonging to the commissioners. -_ Considerable discussion ensued, and it was eventually de termined that it be left to the watch committee to report on. The report of the health committee was then read and adopted. It stated that the committee had inspected the lodging-houses in the town, which numbered 454 licensed to accommodate 4825 people. The report of the market committee , was then read and adopted ROAD AND IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE. On the report of this committee being read, Mr. WILLOUGHBY wished to make a few remarks as to the mode which they had lately INen adopting in sewering and macadamising the streets. When he had the honour of being a commissioner before, they acted on a very different principle from what they did now. The owners of the property had then to sewer and macadamise the streets, and even after so doing, the commissioners might refuse to adopt the street, unless the number of in habitants there was sufficient to pay an annual rate to main tain it. He mentioned this because according to the present arrangement, there was already a list of arrears owing to the commissioners, for streets and sewers made, to the amount of £3,000 ; and there was very little probability of this money being ever obtained. He, therefore, thought that the only sate principle they could adopt, was that laid down by the act of parliament, namely, that the streets should be first made and sewered by the owners, and that then they should make application to the commissioners to adopt them. lAr. GOUGH said that the commissioners were at present liable to the contractor in the amount of £3,000 for the making of the Shrewsbury road. Mr.llßNimisoN replied that the contract was for £1,900. Mr. GOUGH : I say it will cost £3,ooo , before it is finished. We have already paid £1,200 out of the late rate, and 1 do think that it is the owners and not the ratepayers who should have paid. The report was unanimously adopted. The report of the finance-committee was then read. It recommended that the plans for the proposed new buildings be adopted. Having offered to lease the Monks Ferry hotel and adjoining field for £4OO a year, Mr. John Laird offered to take the field at eightpence per square yard on a lease of 25 yeqrs, from the first of July, 1854. The commissioners to be put to no outlay, and at the end of the lease, he to be allowed to remove the buildings which he might erect there. The committee recommended the offer to be accepted. The report was unanimously adopted. FERRY COMMITTEE. This committee in their report stated that the managers were directed to confer with the captains of the other river steamers in order to devise a better system of danger signals. The receipts of the ferry for the last month within the past two years were—in 1852, £1289 Os. sd. ; in 1853. £1589 14s. 9d. The report was adopted, but considerable discussion took place on one regulation adopted by the committee, by which all parties officers and others, are prevented from passing through the contractors' gate, and are compelled to pay at the toll gate. Mr. BAILIFF on the part of the watch committee, com plained of this arrangement, and said that at the last meeting they had to pass an account for 2d. for the ferry of one policeman. Mr. RAE replied that the inconvenience could be easily obviated by the watch committee purchasing a number of tickets at one time, which they could give to the officers as occasion required. The feeling of the board seemed to be in favour of the regulation. The amount paid in out-door relief in Burton-on-Irwill union last week, was £22 11s. 3d. in money, and in kind £ll Os. 3d. The number relieved was 566. FATAL COAL PIT ACCIDENT.—One of the pitsheadmen at the Hillhead Colliery, in the immediate vicinity of Kilmar nock, fell down the shaft on Saturday morning, and being precipitated to the bottom, was instsint.”--- , . r--• RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday morning a coal and a luggage train came into collision at the Sanquhar station of the Glasgow and South-Western railway, whereby several waggons wort. damaged, but there was no detention occa sioned to the usual passenger traffic. AUSTRALIAN BANS.—At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Australia held on Monday, the report of the di rectors was unanimously adopted. The chairman (Mr. Oliver Farrer) referred to the dividend of 15 per cent. declared in October as indicating the progress of business, and stated that, in addition to the increased amount of profits which the board had been enabled to distribute, attention had also been given to the formation of a gurantee fund, towards which it is anticipated, when the accounts shall be pre sented in June next, £200,000 will be found applicable. The operations of the bank have latterly become enormously augmented, but, although entailing great labour on the managers and officers both in London and the colonies, they have hitherte been conducted without a single impor tant loss from bad debts. According to the latest advises from Sydney the circulation had increased in the interval between October and July from £659,000 to £915,000 ; the advances from £971,000 to £1,350,000 ; and the de posits from £2,200,000 to £3,800,000. The only discus sion which took place related to the future prospects of the bank, and to the terms agreed upon for the site of the new London establishment, the explanations afforded being re ceived as satisfactory. D AM AGE TO SHIPPING IN THE kIVER, THAMES ON YES TERDAY.—Yesterday morning, from a very early hour, a fog of intense density shrouded the river in a darkness of the most opaque nature. At half ebb (eight o'clock) the great est confusion prevailed amongst the shipping in the Lower Pool, and in Greenwich and Blackwall reaches, in conse quence of a large number of inward-bound vessels having brought up in those places on the preceding tide, owing to the opacity of the atmosphere ; and the shipping o u t ward bound, in dropping down the river on the ebb tide, un avoidably got athwart hawse of the tiers, inflicting serious damage to smaller craft ; bowsprits, jibbooms, figure heads, and light spars were carried away, and the bulwarks and stanchions of two colliers broken in. A small skiff, with three men on board, was run down and swamped off Ratcliffe Cross, Shadwell. Providentially the men saved themselves by clinging to the bobstay of the vessel, and were taken on shore by a waterman, who picked up their skiff. It is stated that a barge was swamped at the east end of the Isle of Dogs, but no authentic intelligence can be as yet obtained, The generality of the mails this morning were late, which is attributable to the glassiness of the metals, a sharp frost having prevailed during the night. The fog cleared away about half-past eight o'clock. SPORTISO INTELLIGE,YC.E. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.-TUESDAY. ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE. Topsy Seven ran. SELLING STEEPLE CHASE. Tulip Sir Philip HURDLE RACE Half and Half Colt, by Drayton Eighteen ran. 1 2 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF FLLNTSIIIRE.—We understand that a : Mr. Williams, clerk to Mr.- T. W. Eyton, the county treasurer of Flintsbire, has been found a defaulter to the, extent of several hundred pounds. ROBBERY AT. PRESTWICIL—Mr. W. Wright, Prestwich, formenly a mechanic, but latterly practising as a dentist the town of which he bears the name, has been committed) for trial for receiving certain watches, stolen on .the occasion of the marriage of the Earl of Wilton's daughter in Octo ... 1 11 last. , , r. - ' ~ .i ARRIVAL OF THE RIPON.-The Oriental . conipim 'IP steamer, Ripon, arrived at Southampton yesterday morniil with the heavy portion of the India and China mails. ; thr, cargo consisted of 39 parcels of gum; 95 bales of 'wool, 81 bales flax, 65 barrels of dates,l6 packages elephants' tusks, 2 barrels mother-of-pearl, 2 cases tortoiseshell, 580 bundles _._ raw silk, 240 cases general merchandise, and a small amount of specie. At Alexandria, labourers were very scarce, on account of the war with Russia. , FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE QUAY.—About midnight on ' is Fridao, when the fog which then over.spread the city, 0 very dense the , private watchmann over.. board -l o l fn 'V 1 lying near the RecesS Ferry stair, south side, heaid ibh ' vy plunge in the water, and immediately apprised the Policr._ man on the beat, who, with five other officers, procured the life hook and dragged the river, but without success. No thing was seen bloating in the water but a blue cloth cap. The. person supposed to be drowned, was one of the hands on board .the schooner Hope, of Wexford, as he has been': . Missing, and when last seen was the worse of liquor. 'Up to last night the body had not been recovered.—Noath British 43fail ANOTHER CASE OF STABBING.—A man named jobn Rocker, a labourer, about 40 years of age, was remanded on a charge of stabbing no less than three persons. It appears that all the parties were engaged in a row in Oriel-street, and that the prisoner who is said to be the companion,of the man who stabbed the policeman in the same -street& short time since, cried Oid fhat fie would'sta it amen I and suffer like his friend. One of tbe wdriCen; howeikr, there being two of them stabbed, stated that the prisdher was not the party who used the knife, but a man of the name of John Lynch, who escaped from the police-officer who went to arrest him, through a sky-light. 5 A PILGRIMAGE.—The quay at Marseilles, a few dttys since, presented a very picturesque and singular appearance', from the presence of a large body of Mussulrnan pilgrims, who had returned from Mecca and landed from the steam packet Louqsor. They had pitched their tents during-t4e night on the quay, and remained there wrapped,up only in their burnouses, and in the morning proceeded to their rt r ligious cermonies, and prepared and took their morning meal of cuscoussou. The calmness with which they went about, their occupations contrasted in a singular, paper with the bustle which prevailed on the quays, but not prevent , them from tranquilly sipping their MOcha add smoking their chibouks. Among tlie efiraVan' was only one woman, who was of an advanced ~age, but , was care fully.concealed by the Arabs from the gaze of the Chris tians. The party, the majority of whom are fromlt Oro , have left by a steamer for Algiers ' ' BIRKENHEAD TEMPERANCE SOClETY.—Lastiiiilit A soiree was held in the school-room of the 'United Prekt* Church, Grange-lane, Birkenhead. pie school-roorWiitts tastefully decorated for the occasion, 'and after a veriw cellent tea, at which about 400 ladies and gentlemen partook, L. Heyworth, Esq., was requested to ,preside. The, chair man, in the course of his observatory, expressed te, deep regret he felt, and lie had no doubt but that the meeting equally regretted the absence of the president of the society, Smith Ilarnson, Esq., and the minister Of the Presbyteri4n church, the Rev. James Towers; both of whom were -pre vented from attending through indisposition. The present movement he said was one ;:f the' greatest importer:L - 6AF. mankind generally, as its ifis:;he total stipretion `of the use of intoxicating li gnat,' acknowledg, e b'v the judges of the land, the chaplains ot the bridewells, and a large number of the medical profesSion, to be the cause of most of the crime, the misery, the poverty, and disease that prevailed, and that at least 60,000 persons died annu ally from its use. Lately there had been a revolution in China, owin g to the attempt to prevent the use of opium amongst the Chinese ; but while the present government knew that intoxicating drinks were equally destructive to life in England, yet no steps were taken by them to endea vour to prevent its use. He had been a total abstainer for the last twenty years, and had at first hpeome so for the sake Of example to others ; and he could recommend as a beverage the pure water that flowed from the spring. Having pointed out the benefits which would arise from the general adoption of the teetotal precepts, which were daily becoming more popular, and included in its lists men of all colors, amongst whom were the king and queen of Sweden; the former of whom expressed his intention of doing something to curtail the use of grain, in making intoxicating drinks, which tended to undermine the best feelings:of the' popa lation, he said that he expected more good results would accrue from the present committee of the house of commons, on the licensing system, concluded an able address, of which the foregoing, for want of space, is but a brief summary, by hoping to see these principles fully ' develop e d. The meeting was subsequently addressed, in a very eloqut ' speech, by Mr. J. E. Littleboy, of Wrexham, Mr. M'Carthv and other gentlemen. The 'Chairman having been . coinpellea to retire, the chair was taken by Mr. R. C. Rawlings, and after a most pleasant and agreeable evening, the meeting separated. THE LrvEnrooL WArrEns.—The waiters of Liverpool—. not the "waiters upon Providence "—but on dinner, and other parties have memorialised the borough council of Liverpool, complaining of an infringement of their " privi leges.; By whatever term it may be proper to designate the matter of which they complain, a simple statement of it will convince every considerate person that it is a grievance. There are a number of persons in the employment of the corporation of Liverpool, both at the Town-hall and the other public offices, who act as waiters at corporate banqnetS, and other public celebrations of a convivial nature, and who are permanently employed, and at fixed salaries, payable from the borough fund, very many of them—if not all of them—are in the habit of hiring themselves out to attend companies, not on dining corporate interest, and theie ordi f narily obtain a preference, as will be easily understood, offer those humble, but useful, men who are solely dependent iii such engagements for a livelihood. It is against this the " waiters' c omplain in their memorial ; and we think with justice. They complain of a favoured, a " protected." class, who, being, in part, maintained by public funds, ont'of rates, too, to which the complainants contribute, enter into competition with their less-fortunate brethren, upon terms which leave the latter no more than the gleanings of that field over which the others sweep without restraint. The " public waiters" have, in fact, no chance against the " Town-hall waiters." Now, if the latter are not paid well enough, let us discuss their case ; but as long as the former conduct themselves honestly, civilly, and actively, let us .i rlo t t subsidjr others to en ikilVVAT - ENT BRICKMAKING AfICHINE. A machine has recently been invented and patented by Mr. Clayton, which undertakes to bring solid bricks within the range of machine power. The improvement consists in the construction of moulding orifices or dies, having floating sides formed by vertical rollers, instead of the fixed sides used hereto fore, the rollers rotating while the clay is delivered through the die, and thus producing a sharpness and neatness in tho edges of the brink which had previously been found unattainaVit, in manufacture of bricks through dies. The machine pugs of p repares t h e clay and makes the bricks at ono and the =ea.. time. One of the leading features observed is a continuous delivery. The action of the blades as or dinarily set can produce only an intermittent delivery; but in this case there is an arrrngement of blades by which the clay is subjected to a continuous lateral thrust, effected on either side of the die through the moulding orifices. The machine seen in operation yesterday was worked by ono horse, a man to feed the machine, and two boys to clear off the bricks at the sides. Four or five revolutions were per formed in a minute, and in that time sufficient clay was given out to make 25 bricks. In the London district, which in brickmaking, as in so many other processes, appears to take the lead, a pallet moulder will turn out 5,000 bricks in a day, in doing which he requires the assistance of a' clot moulder and five other hands, and also that of a horse. In the country districts, where the clot moulder is dispensed with, 3,000 is the average. Assuming 25 a minute as the average production of the machine, the multiplication of that number by 60, and of the product again by 60, will give 15,000 in ten hours; but from this will probably have to be deducted two or three thousand for unavoidable stop pages, leaving, perhaps, a general average of 12,000 a day. Such is the inventor's estimate, The cost of a machine of one-horse power is stated to be about 1001. The machine also turns off hollow bricks and tiles. 33irtb4, ant( Otatint.. BIRTHS At Grosvenor-square, the wife of William Brougham, Esq., of a son. At Conway-street, Everton, the wife of Mr. Thomas W. Lee, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. At Christ-church, Everton, by the Rev. W. H. Wright, Mr. Thos. Boylan& engineer, to Miss Anne smith At Antony, Cornwall, Henry Maxwell Lefroy, Esq., of Fremantle, Western Australia, to Annette, daughter of the late David Fryar Bate, Esq., of Torpoint. DEATHS. At Glasgow, aged 52. Mr. James Seruton, son of Mr. Scruton, Professor of Music, of this town, and formerly of the Theatre Royal, under the management of the celebrated ewts. At Southampton, in her 66th year, Jane. relict of William Amor Esq. At Chester, in his 49th year, Joshua Coddington, Captain Royal Engineers.