The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

IT is rather surprising that so many of the population die
" not in their own homes." For every five persons, or rather
more, who died in London last year, oue died in a werkhorthe,

hospital, or other public institution.
THOMAS RALPH COLLINSON, commission agent iii Bank-
street, Leeds, has been committed for trial, charged with
forging the name of a referee to a bond of " The Times Fire
and Lif. Assurance and Guarantee Association," which has
offices in London and Liverpool.
SnocRING ACCIDENT.—An accident attended with a seri-
ous loss of life occurred at Bowtheck Slate Quarries,near Camel-
ford, a few days ago. Upwards of 100 fathoms of rock at the
back of the quarry suddenly gave way, and three men, named
Pasco Hoskin, John Masters, and Youlton, were crushed to
death. Several others narrowly escaped ; and if all the men
employed at the quarry had been in their usual places a large
number would in all probability have lost their lives.
THE Illustrated News recently had an engraving entitled
" Sunday Morning Prayers." In Saturday's number we find
the following correction :—" We are requested by Mr. Carmi-
chael to correct a mistake made in the title of the illustra-

tion, Sunday Morning Prayers.' It should have been the
' Daily Morning Prayers on board H.M.S. the Blenheim.'
The people of England and the world ought to know (adds
our artist) that British sailors attend prayers every day in the
week."

Tau bankers Strahan, Paul, and Bates, were brought up
in custody, on Tuesday, to an examination-meeting in bank-
ruptcy, before Mr. Commissioner Evans. It was stated that
a dividend of ls. 9d. is in course of payment, under the joint

estate, and a further dividend is expected to be paid in :Tune
next. A dividend of 9d. iu the pound is also payable, under
each of the separate estates of Strahan and Paul, and of id.

under the separate estate of Bates.
Joint THOMAS, a black man, has been repeatedly before the
Worship-street (London) police-magistrate, lately, for uttering
base sixpences ; recently, he has been taken, upon an average,
twice a-week. The Mint, however, refuses to prosecute, on the
ground of the base sixpences not closely resembling the real
coin, which would, probably, owing to the wording of the
statute, allow the fellow to escape. On bis being once more
brought iitp on Thursday, the magistrate said he would remand
him to see what could be done ; ' the prisoner clearly laughed
at the powerlessress of the law."
Mr. SAMUEL BAKER and Mr. Richard Potter have resigned
their seats as directors of the Great-western Railway Com-

Lamy, because, after considerable experience and much consi-
deration, they came to the conclusion "that the duties imposed
upon Mr. Saunders were greater than any man could execute,
with justice to himself and advantage to the company. He is
the secretary and general superintendent ; and on him, alone,
devolves nearly all the responsible duties which, in other com-
panies, are shared by directors." The board had previously
resolved, by eight to six, to continue Mr. Saunders in his
office.

CHARITAELE USES 1311,1.—A bill of Mr. Atherton and Mr.
Butt amends the law relating to the conveyance of lands for
charitable uses. It provides, after a preamble- of enormous
length, that no past or future deed for charitable uses upon
valuable consideration shall be void if enrolled in the Court of
Chancery within six months from the date of the act. No
past deed is to be void by reason of non-compliance with the
formalities in the 9th of George 11., chap. 36; and no future
deed is to be void by reason of specified stipulations for the
donor's benefit or (as to copyholds) for want of deed indented.
The act will not affect deeds already avoided or pending suits.
A DEPUTATION from the fire insurance offices waited, on
Tuesday, on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to explain the
danger of ruin they were placed in by the announced compe-
tition of a French company, La France, prepared to take
English policies in Paris. This company will receive policies
at !Zs. per cent., whilst the English companies have to pay a
duty of 3s. per cent., from which our allies are exempt. Of
course, under such terms, the whole business of fire insurance
must speedily cross the Channel. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer promised that he would consider what should be done
to protect the English companies and the revenue ; but
Thought, notwithstanding the opinions given to the contrary,
that their best protection would be the want of public confi-
dence in foreign companies.
THERE was a " row " lately at a lecture by M. Nisard, at
the Sarbonne in Paris. Police agents in plain clothes were
present ; they made a mark with chalk on the backs of the
most uproarious of the students, so that they might be known
and arrested when they left the hall; the students detected
the manoeuvre, and aalked the police agents : when the
officers left the place, the Sergens de Ville arrested them,
lodged them in prison, and kept them there for a day and a
night ! The real -delinquents, two professors and twelve
students of the Schools of Law and Medicine, have been tried
by the Correctional Court of Paris, for participation in the
riots. One of them was acquitted; the two professors were
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, five of the students to
three months, four to one mouth, and the others to NOE fine.

DURING a storm which prevailed last week, a remarkable
electric phenomenon occurred at a tavern near Bristol. The
bar front of the place is a shop window of considerable height
and width, glazed with a thick quality of glass. Across the
middle of this Ivindow, on the inside, was a shelf, on which
were several decanters and glasses ; and further in-was a crim-
son curtain, working with brass rings upon a brass pole. The
inmates observed-an unusual degree of darkness, when all of a
sudden a noise was heard like the firing of a small cannon,
and immediately the brass pole on which the curtain worked
was torn to pieces, and the entire window front, with the
shelf, decanter; and glasses, shattered to atoms .and driven
out into the street. The Voof of the house was afterwards
examined, and it was found that the chimney-pot was -so much
affected by the electricity, that on being touched 'it fell to
pieces.

POLICE (COUNTIES AND BOBOUOII) BILL.—A bill

render more effectual the police in counties and boroughs in
England and Wales has been brought in by Sir .G. Grey,
Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Massey. It empowers the Court
of Quarter Seesions to establish a sufficient police force for the
whole of a county, when such has not already been formed,
or, otherwise, for the residue of the said county. The Queen
may, by order-in Council, require separate police districts to
be constituted in counties, and, on representations from
boroughs, may arrange the terms of their consolidation with
counties. On a certificate of the Secretary of State that an
efficient police force has been established in any . county or
borough, onezfourth of the charge for pay and clothing will be
defrayed by the Treasury, but no payment is to be made
towards the expense of the police force of any borough the
population of which is under 5,000, not consolidated with the
county force. This act does not extend to the metropolitan
district of police.
A NOVELTY d'N TIIRKEY.—The Viscountess Stratford de
Redcliffe gave a: children's fancy dress ball on the 22nd ultimo,
at the residence of the British Embassy in Pere. The 200
little creatures present included little Turks, little Greeks,
Albanians, Armenians, and Syrians of every race. All were
in their richest costumes, chattering each in their own tongue,
and dancing after their own fashion. And there were the
children of diplomatists, and of the Frank colony, dressed in
every variety of pioturesque costume, and speaking among
them every language in Europe. At midnight the gay little
crowd were led away to their homes, some across the Golden
Horn to Stamboul,c-thers to villas on the Bosphorus, and
others to the labyrinths of Pere. The evening then began for
the rest of the brilliant society, and dancing was kept up till
daybreak. A little after midnight the banqueting-room was
thrown open, where every delicacy was offered in profusion to
the guests. Among those present were many names .well
known to-the fashionable world in London.
Mr. ALEXANDER NPCORKINDALE, a gentleman who has
twice visited Natal, •is -now again on his way there, with the
intention of cultivating -sugar, cotton, and coffee, for the pro-
duction of which the soil and climate are well suited. He has
purchased •(says Arlie Tirrningham Gazette) about 3,000
acres, and baying completed his arrangemente in this country,
he has chartered a vessel of 300 tons burden. The crew and
passengers consist of about ninety persons, including Mr.
M`Corkindale, his wife and sister, an efficient-schoolmistress,
a surgeon, labourers, blacksmiths, carpenters, and twenty-two
boys from reformatory schools, seven of them being from
Utley, thirteen from Redhill, and two from Miss Carpenter'§
school, at Bristol. The boys are apprenticed to Mr. M'Cork-
indale for three and a-half yeers, during which period he will
provide them with food, clothing, and lodging, and pay them
wages. At the expiration of the term, if they resolve to re-
main in his service six months ;longer, he has agreed to pay
them the current wages of the colony, and to present each of
them with £l5 and fifty acres of land.
CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMA.N.—At a special petty
session of the county magistrates, held at Odiham, on Mon-
day, two informations were laid against the Rev. Alfred Lush,
the curate of Greywell, who induced a man and his wife, who
had been previously married at the Dissenting meeting-house,
to be re-married by' im in the Church. One of the informa-
tions charged him with solemnising such marriage without a
due publication of the banns ; and the other with making false
entries in the marriage registry, by describing the parties as
bachelor and spinster, and marrying the woman again in her
maiden name. The witnesses called were the man and his
wife, " the Rev. J. Gwynne Hughes," who originally married
them, the registrar, who was present at both the marriages,
.and the parish clerk. The knowledge of the first marriage by
Mr. Lush was proved, and also that he paid all the expenses of
the re-marriage. Mr. Lush's legal advisers raised several points
of law, but the magistrates considered both the charges proved,
and committed the curate to take his trial for felony, at the
next Winchester assizes. Bail was accepted, himself in £2OO,
and one surety in £2OO, for his appearance.
Tan REVENUE DEPARTMENTS.—The estimates for the
year 1856, ending the 31st of March, 1857, show that the
amount required for the Revenue Departments of the Customs,
Inland Revenue, and Excise, is £4,688,744, against £4,385,951
in the year 1855-56, thus exhibiting an increase of £202,793.
The Customs' Department entails a charge of £840,001 for
salaries and expenses, and £486,028 for the Coast-guard ; the
Department of Inland Revenue, one of £1,459,207 for salaries,
and £63,025 for the Revenue Police, Ireland. The Post-office
entails a charge of £1,740,483, being an increase of £101,622
over last year. The gross total charge of these three depart-
ments, including the superannuation allowance, is £5,082,927.
The Post-office items of expense are as follows, viz.:-241E3.596
for the chief o ces in the three capital cities ; £42,786 for
surveyors ; £385,528 for the provincial establishments in
England; £45,456 for those in Ireland ; and £60,380 for
those in Scotland ; £18,184 for colonial establishments ;
£707,118 for the conveyance of mails ; £32,700 for buildings
and repairs ; and £29,735 for manufacture of postage stamps.
FORMATION Or PARISHES BILL.—The Marquis of Bland-
ford's new bill empowers the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
to constitute new parishes (whether they contain a church or
not), to modify the endowment according to the 6th and 7th
of Victoria, chap. 37, to appropriate lands for sites of churches,
and to make other arrangements. The right to pews in the
old parish church will lapse after the occupation of sittings in
the new. Portions of pew-rents, not exceeding one-fourth,
may be accumulated towards permanent endowments, and
upon the permanent endowment of any chapel a certain num-
ber of sittings will be declared free, or the scale of rents
reduced. The scale of pew rents may be altered at any time,
saving the rights of existing incumbents, who, however, may
" consent " to any new arrangement affecting their incomes.
The incumbent will appoint the clerk and sexton, and receive
the burial fees and the profits accruing from the sale of vaults.
No grave must be dug within 20 feet of the church walls.
The freeholds of churches and graveyards will be vested in the
incumbents. Districts may become new parishes on the ap-
plication of the incumbent, his wardens, and two-thirds of the
inhabitants (ad valorem). Patronage may be conferred upon
parties permanently endowing churches with a sum of £l5O,
or building a church and endowing it with £4O a-year, or en-
dowing a church with £lOO a-year and building a parsonage.
Such patronage may not be vended. When there are several
contributors the patronage may be vested in trustees. Other
arrangements of detail follow.