The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

MR. GEO. STACEY, late secretary to the Church of England
Building Society, has recovered from the directors, by action
in the Court of Common Pleas, £125 damages, for dismissal
without just cause.
A raw days ago, a man named Drummond, in attempting
to avoid a runaway horse, on the Whin-road, Alloa, stepped
back, and fell with his face on an axe which a boy was carry-
ing on his shoulder. The consequence was, that his nose was
nearly taken off.
EASTERN CotrxTrEs RAILWAY.—The Board of Trade, whose
attention to the state of this railway had been called by the
town council of the city of Norwich, have appointed Lieut.-
Colonel Wynne, 11. E., to inspect the line between London and
Norwich.

Ix the Exchequer Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Wyld, of map-
ping celebrity, brought an action against Mr. Ingram, pro-
prietor of the Illustrated London News, for infringement of
copyright, in copying into that paper some maps of the en-
virons of Sebastopol. It was alleged that various minute de-
tails, and the repetition of its inaccuracies, showed the im-
pression in the journal was copied from Mr. Wyld's map. The
case was ultimately referred, a verdict for the plaintiff being
taken, subject to the reference.
A Men VAGRANT.—At Oswestry, on Friday, a most
miserable-looking man, with a wife and six children, was seek-
ing alms. He complained of dreadful poverty, and of his ina-
bility to get anything to eat, and was kindly afforded shelter
by the gaoler. While he was making himself and his family
all right for his brief sojourn under his host's care, something
struck Williams that it might be worth while searching him,
rpon looking closely, a silver watch turned up. Emboldened
by his success, the gaoler searched further, when a gold watch
turned up, besides sundry sovereigns. The tale told by the
vagrant was that he found the silver watch near Liverpool,
and the gold one was vicked up by the children near Llanid-
loes. The different police-stations were comninnicated_with,.
when from Newton as owner was found for the gold watch,
which bore the initials. of "M. B. P." The man and his
family are now living on their own means until something
more is known about them. His name is Patrick Middle.—
Hereford journal. .
Twa ARIVIIN DESERT.—Captain William Allen, of the
British navy, has published a book advocating the conversion
of the Arabian Desert into an ocean. The author believes
that the great valley, extending from the southern depression
of the Lebanon range to the head of the Gulf of Akaba, the
eastern branch of the head of the Re 4 Sea, has been once an
ocean. It is, in many places, 1;800 feet below the level of
the Medherranean, and in it are iltuated the Dead Sea and
theSettof Tiberias. He believes that this ocean, being tut
,off' tl-dni the Red Sea by the rise 44* the land at the southern
,extrttalty, and being only leit'Phr small streams, gradually
betame dried by, solar evaporation. He proposes to cut .a
mud of adequate size from the head of the Gulf of Akabato
'the Dead Sea, and another from the Mediterranean, 'near
'Mount Cannel, across the iilain Esdraelon, to the ifissureln
'the mountain range of 16banon. By this means the Medittv-
'ranean would rush in, with a fall of 1,300 feet, filUtipthe
'valley,-and-substitute an ettan of 2,000 square miles in eitent
for a barren, useless desert; thus making the navigation to
India as short as the'areiland route, spreading 'fertility over
a now arid country, and 'opening up the fertile :regions of
Palestine to settlement and cultivation.

AN Excoataconrc-vation as COBLfixTs.--=.on ,Sunday, we
were witnesses of a ceremony which has ndt'becn !performed
_for__Centuries=ilzw,_Lan_excommunication,:the inlbject being
M. Sonntag, amorchatt at Coblentz, who was divorced, from
his first wife, and-eight years ago was married, ;-lty the civil
authorities only, tob his present one. Last-summer M. Sonn-
tag Was COmmande:diby the clergy to separate from his wife,
and not obeying 'their decree, he was on 9Stinday excom-
municated. Dean Kramentz, after preaching a sermon
against theeivil.ror-criage, put on some othersacerdotal- gar-
ments, and, accompanied by two clergymen bearing wax
tapers, read, 'standing in the middle 'Of the church, the
sentence •cift-exce.Mmunication agaituit M. Sonntag and his
lady- Tie 'then -extinguished the tapers,ssaYing that the.per-
sons ramed-svere.not worthy to see the darof the Lord,-and
throwing the-casidlesticks to the greland, threaking them to
picots, exclaimed, "Let tbe belts sonfidtke funeral knell!'
Weimmediaali heard the sound of'bells and the chants for
-the-clead: Alva • dealt; cOnclegion,-liroaiimed that no one
vrhamsotvervas to hold relations 'With' the excommunicated,
to salute them, &c. This yorchibitiOn has not had much
eiffect,Tor'lthelr house bas been filled' ever since with visitors-
:and at 'UIf:7;M they have been serenaled.—Lettera from
Ori6lentz Dec. 12).

C ,`A AIIWC TERI STIC 'aid of one of the Turkish;

soldiers who was the first to set foot inside the battery at
sgour. :perceiving a Russian colonel lying dead upon the
groand; he plucked off his glove, and appropriated a valuable
iliammidting which was upon iiisifimer. Knowing, however;
that itivould be impossible very' long to keep secret the pos-
session of so valuable a price, he showed his Usbashi, or captain,
his treasure, and requested permission to keep it. The
ilsbisha told the man that he wasmaite right to bring the prise
to him, and that henceforward itshould. be transferred for
finger of the said Usbashi. The-saldier, not satisfied with'
:arrangement, referred tie matter- to the Bimbashi, or major,
who said that both beam..ltlleMbashi were highly culpable in
daring to retain the rir.g from r heir superior officer, and 'that
lie.ikbuld, therefore, rive ihent of the subject of dispute.
from the Bimbashi the soldier went to the Kaima Kama, or
'HO/tenant-colonel, who at oncefollowed the example of iris in-

'(criers, and took possession,ofs tke ring. The soldier ttill.per-
keiered, however, and w*mt'4o the Meer Ali, or coloTil, ,who
'determined that he was the rightful possessor of the ring, by
r•Vivtue of his rank, and dismissed the rival claimants from his
.:presence in the most summary manner. Next day, taTrench
r,tificer, attached to the staff-nf Omar Pasha, observed a private
leoldier prowling near thetent of the commander-inzoliinf. The
.-story of the ring was at once-retailed by its original possessor
to this gentleman, who laid the matter before hisilighness,
and the man had not only the satisfaction of regaining posses.
sion of his property, hut of knowing that those whe had at-
!--tempted successively to deprive him of it had bees -ceveiely
1- reprimanded for their conduA.

LORD CAMPBELL ON MEE LIABILITY OF RAILSTAIST COM-
PANIES.—In the Court -of Queen's Bench, on Monday, an
action was brought by the widow of a gentleman named
Meagher, to recover compensation in damages fro= the Eastern
Counties Railway Company for the death of that.gentleman
by an accident on the :defendants' railway. A\vertlict was
taken by consent for the-plaintiff, with £1,900 damages, it.
being arranged that 9-18ths of that sum should 'he appor-
tioned to the widow of The deceased, and s.l9ths to each of
his two children. Lord Campbell said the EasterntCounties.
Railway Company had:acted very handsomely . in ,yielling at.
once and making compensation. He wished that all railway
companies were equally conscious of their liability; but he-
understood they made it- ground of complaint that -the act-
of 'Parliament obliged them to become insurers without pre-
mium. Now; that was,a,complete misrepresentation of the
ant of Parliament; for ecaaspanies were not sued-as iinsurers,
but as wrong-doers, and aslhaving been guilty of negligence
hich caused death. .The Y: were not liable unless the party
killed, if he had survived,, would have had an action :for neg-
ligence. In former times, when a coach was upset, there
were great rejoicings when all the passengers were Jailed, for
in that case no actioninotild be maintained for 'negligence;
whereas, if any one survived he was entitled to maintain an
action to recovetdaraages for the injury which he had suf-
fered by the accident, 'The object of this act of Parliament
was, when a party was',Lrilleil by negligence, to givetthe re-
presentatives of the deceased a remedy for the wrong. The
representation which ',had ibeen made of the act was Wholly
unfounded; -for not only companies, but alliper-sons,
were liable to make corepansatinn, so that where a personmas
killed by negligence there nnight be a remedy against :the
wrong-doer.
THE FRENCH WARtRODEE.—The Moniteur publithee a
!.long article on the steps taken by the French government, at
Ithe suggestion of the Emperor, for improving thehreed
horses for the army, by means of introducing more freely Arith
:.blood among the horses oftthe French regiments. The Barb,
,or horse of North Africa,; is said to be superior to •the
Asiatic horse. To the qualities which constitute the ,war-
horse—vigour united to docility, impetuosity to gentleness,
and power of supporting fatigue and privation—the African
:horse is superior to iits ,Ogiatic brother. Although
'Perbsps less-elegant-in fortn,--it-Lis more robust-and-vigorous ;
:ands he war in the Crimea ,lias Chown all its value, 'by ,its
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the letier what. the Arab says .of the courser which is the
prideof his tent :—" He causstandetatigue of every kind, and
can support hunger and thirst!' The African horse is truly
the deaandant of the noble gatiiraahcf which Job, nearly
*Poo ors ago, said, "He saith among the trumpets, Ha,
ha ;' he .einelleth' the battle afar oft tthe thunder of the
captains and the shouting." broctobor,l66l, Lieut.-Colonel
Vatlot was placed at the head of mission, charged to visit
all the markets where horses are offered- for sale ; to go with
the officerstof the Arab burestax:among .the tribes who more
particularlpidevote their attention •to the r breeding of horses,
and among whom the original hreed,was 'kept up in its great-
est purity, to avail themselves of every • opportunity of pur-
chasing such-stallions and mares as were ;best suited for the
formation of breeding establishments, ;and for keeping up
those already organized. In 1851, th :number of stallions
possessed by the:State in Africa was4BB.• 1855,1 he number
was 111. The number of mares at the French depOts and
stations devoted to purposes of breeding, 'sin ;1851,oras 8,209 ;
in 1855, they hadenereased to 14,066.
THE POPE ANID iPHE TROOPER.—The fjourrierdies A /peg
relates the following.story, the authentieiti of whidh it gua-
rantees :—"A few months ago a soldier of the army of the
East, writing to a comrade of the French Amy at Rome, drew
a sad picture of the privations and fatigues which -the former
Iliad to endure, of the dangers to which they wercexposed,and
,of the ravages which disease and the Russian balls •were making
in :their ranks. He concluded his letter by recommenclinglbis
kiend without delay to carry to the Pope himself the priced
amass for the preservation of the French army, and request
'him to perform it. Faithful Ito the recommendation of his
friend, the soldier at Rome went the next morning to the
Vatican, and requested the first attendant he met to con-
duct him to His holiness. 'Rat, my brave fellow,' said
the guard, 'have you obtained the previous authority for
an audience?' All that is veil well,' replied the sol-
dier, for great lords, but with a simple trooper no such
ceremony is necessary.' The guard would not trespass on
the -usual regulations ; but the soldier, on his side, was so
little disposed -to give way, that it was found necessary to
conduct him to the prelate on duty that day. There
similar observations were made to the applicant, but all in
vain ; and at length the prelate, despairing of overcoming the
importunity of his viiitor; went and mentioned the matter to
the Pope. As may be supposed, the curiosity of Pius IX. was
excited by the application, and the etiquette of the Vatican
was set aside, the soldier being ushered'into the presence of
his Holiness. On coming near, the soldier stood upright as
a post, and, then giving the military salute by raising his
hand to his forehead,addressed the Pope as follows, just as if
he was speaking to the lieutenant .ofi his company :,--"llfpn
Pape, here is a letter from a conlikade in the Crimea which
concerns you ; please to read it,. ld tell me what answer I
am to send.' At the same time he 'with one hand held out

the letter, and with the other some pieces of money. The
Pope took the letter, and, after reading it, returned it to the
'soldier, saying, My friend, my mass of to-morrow is appro-
priated to a particular purpose ; but the day after, without
fail, I will say one with pleasure for that grand French army.
I, however, make one condition, and that is that you attend
yourself and prepare to receive the Holy Communion. As to
the payment you offer, keep the money to drink to the health
of ybur brave brothers in arms.' `That is sufficient, Mon
Pape,' replied the soldier, ' I will go and prepare myself with
the chaplain of the regiment, and the day after to-morrow, at
the app9inted hour, will be at my post.' He then again
saluted a la tnililaire, and, turning right about, left his Holi-
ness, charmed with his military nonchalance. On the day
appointed the soldier was present at the mass of the Sovereign
Pontiff, and had the happiness of receiving the communion
from his hands.

THE Moscow journals announce the arrival at that capital
of the Persian Envoy-Extraordinary, Seifoul-Moulk-Miri-
Pindj-Abbas-Kouli-Khan.
AT the Thames Police-court, London, on Tuesday, a lad,
aged ten years, was sent to the House of Correction for one
month, for having worked a private still.
THE London and Westminster Bank has sustained a loss of
about £3,000 through the defalcation of one of their clerks,
who has been about 20 years in the service of the company.
Sin M. R. Sna.w STEWART, M.P., has, with the view of
affording his tenantry healthful recreation during the winter
months, constructed a curling pond on Lunderston-hill, at a
height of 300 feet above the sea level.
AN official communication from Canada has reached the
'directors of the Great Western Rail Way of Canada, to the
effect that the line between Hamilton and Toronto was opened
for traffic on the 3rd instant with great success, the trains
having kept time and been well filled.
THE superintendent of the South Shields police force has
been interrupted in a systematic appropriation of the borough
funds to his own purposes. Twenty-six cases have been
proved, in which he has received fines and fees from drunk
and disorderly persons, and neglected to transfer the same to
his Corporation account. He was committed for trial.
A LETTER from Faro Sound states that the American brig
Robert Patten has been seized by the Swedish authorities at
Stockholm, and found to have bales of cotton filled with re-
volvers on board. There are said to be three other vessels
similarly laden at Copenhagen, waiting for the departure of
the English squadron.
A PEW days ago, the Whitehaven harrriers, belonging to
T. Ainsworth, Esq., of the Flosh, near Egremont, were in
pursuit of a hare, near Calder Abbey, when, in passing
the brink of a large and deep quarry, six of the best and
swiftest dogs fell headlong to the bottom of it. Some of the
animals were killed by the fall, and others were so seriously
injured that It period was put to their existence.
TILE Camkrland Pacquet states that the wife of a farmer
residing, at Frizington-hall had occasion, on Saturday, to go
into an outbuilding where a thrashing machine was at work.
She incautiously stepped too near the machine, and a portion
catching her dress, she was instantly drawn in among the
machinery. She did not survive 'many hours, the injuries
which she sustained before she could be extricated being very
severe.

Ties LONDON -AND PARTS I;XHIBITIONS.,—The Prone&
newspapers publish a comparisonbetween the principal reedits
'of the London Exhibition df t 1351, and that of Paris df the
eresent year, which is not 'Without interest. The principal
feature in it is, that whilstthe former was open only1(31 lays,
and the latter 198, the number of visitors to the former was
' 6,039,195, and to the latter only 4,533,464 ; and that the
receipts at London 'Weft 12,625,5091., and at ,Penis only
2,941,668 f.
RUIN OF 'ME Ortmvo VlNTAGE.—According to the
Commercio, a respectable Oporto paper, all theaeorst antici-
pations of the 'vintage 'of the Alto Dotero this year will be
realised. A ilistis kleen of 45 cultivators, 'poseeseing 68 vine-
yards, and their:pi-Niue for 1855 is comparedwith that of the
average of former; years. The result isllB6.pipes against 5156
pipes. Takieg-this as a guide for estimating The whole pro-
duction, it is preettmed that it will not this.year exceed 72 per i
cent. of the average quantity.
A sm days'ago, a boy named trvitV;tl pupil in the Cen-
tral London iitistrict School Establishment for Pauper
Chadien, picked up a paper containing tetpaantity of _powder,
in the school-yard. lie showed the powiler to a school-fellow
nausea \William Randal, 14 years of age, who immediately
took a pettion of it into his month Atha swallowed it. He
diedlin' twellsours afterwards, the !powder proving to. be cor-
rosive sublimate, which it is believed had been thrown into
die school-yard from an adjoining Ohne road.
itstearne a trial before Mr. JUStire Willes, at Durhatn,.a
bremaa, on the judge making some observations on the legal
hearing of the case to one of thertomsel, addressed his lord-
ship,',ensid roars of laughter, and (add, " I quite agree with
yCkrrlordillip." Again, on thejjadge stopping a ease, the
Juryman informed his lordshili that he was of opinion it ought
to istsee been stopped half ran ',hoar ago. As the judge was
seutmaing up, he was for *hedged time addressed/lay the jury-
-man, who said, " Too may..ga on all night, kat you :can't
'rebst. sge my opinion?'
IBXTRAORDINARE Tarke.---Madamoiselle Dupuis, a young
4nd:tress at the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris, lately:appea;ed.before
. t'llhe tribunalof Correctional:Mice, to complabsof the editor of
',LtaTne Theatre, for Ihavistg,iin a criticism., ceorpared her to ,a,
`l.-'4* Nuremberg doll:" What particularly :aunoyed 'Mane.
Dupuis was, that :she :never appeared at Zia the part which
'the editor of the "Th*oltPe so unmercifully "cut up." The
'tribunal decidedthat such a style of criticism was not allowable,
.'and, as it-apPearea'tollave been dktatett by personal ani-
mosity, it condeaanediadllabert to pay ZOttr..fine and:2,ooofr.
damages, alsoto insert the text of the Judgment in his paper,
and to pay the tespenses‘of inserting it in three other papers of
Paris, to he 'ehesen'by the complainant.
GAIETIES .air IVIAtTr...—A letter fireandlalta says :—" Malta
was never so attractive to visitors as at -present. On Wednes-
day, the mew printwittonna, Madame L'eonti, is to have :her
benefit,andalreadytheavy premiums are offered on the prices
of the tickets. .ilt is thought it will, if:possible, exceed her
debit., and then Officers in uniform were glad to go in the
gallery; ;certainly,never since the English had Malta was so
' fallahosse seen. .On Friday, the officers of the Third:Division
:- gave alargebill;tothe elite of Malta:; 700 tickets have already
been issued. -Oranges are a failure :this year. Green; peas
have just come iin. The price of 'provisions is ,very high,
although we.areeo close to Africalaeltere poultry and meat is
to be had for almost nothing."
CitEXIC TE i THE, PAPAL STATES.—The Piemonte gives en
accouat of -the state of the prisons iin the papal dominions.
It says,—:"ln-aSiset, there were' imprisoned 10,436 persons.;
in 1851, 1.4279:; in 1852, 11,767 ;sin 1853, 12,035 ;' in 11854,,
13,006." Showing an augmentation of 2,s7o,—nearly, one-
fourth, in fivelsears. The same journal states that on the 31st
of Last August, there were '683; venous imprisoned in Fort
Urbane. whoniit divides under the following heads :=" Con-
demned hy.theif.s.cra Consulta,A3l; condemned by the ordi-
nary tribunals;•337 ; condemned'. loy the military tribunals,
191 a-condemned by the diocesan tribunals, 7 ; awaiting jadg-
ment, 2; in transit; 1; detainidas a measure of precaution,
124. .If thesaifigures are only thlerably correct (and the diffi-
culty ofaseertning with strict•precision such statistics must
be well understood), what a sad .pieture do they present of the
demoralszatiower a country containing less than 3,ooo,o9o'in-
habitants, and:governed by the Romish Church!
13UnatEGE •CUEIOSITIPEL—Darimg the recent audience to
British agents.at Burmaleby thd,King, the King and Queen
sat ,on the' Ithrone smoking. .The King is pronounced to be
decidedlyorirkandsome mani, and -With an agreeable expression
Of fewe, his Queen decidedly.plain: she is five years younger
than the Xingewhois forty-two-years of age. An extraordi-
nary .phenemenon was smithy thdlEing, for the inspection of
the embaosyoirr the shape of aavoman covered with hair. The
hair etcher-fee& is -from four to.e.ight inches long, and of a fine'
silky texture. Ileside the eat itgrows fully eight inched long,.
and is of a.whitish brown colour. 'Notwithstanding the -un-
natural appearance imparted by, the hair on the face, the
woman's, ,countenance is pronounced pleasing. In her arms
" she carried_ a- child fourteen months .cld, covered with down of.
' a flaxen colour; -she had another-child with her of oraistaff7
appearance, and the father is a Burman of ordinary appearance.
THE LATE AN Rrtiti RornsoreiLn.-The Swabian Mercury
contains the .following from Fnuakfort:—" The fortune of
Baron de Rothschild, who recently 'died, has been valued at
forty to fifty millions of florins. A sum of 1,200,000 florins
i S destined to - coatince the alms which the deceased was :in
t he habit of distributing every week, as well as for the distri-.
b'ution of wood to the poor in winter. !The fund for giving .a,
d. ower to Jewish,maidens receives,sll;ooo florins ; the fund for
the sick as well vas-the .Jewish hospital, 10,000 florins each.
TI se Jewish echool,iso;6oo.florins. Sums.of 3,000 florins are
be stowed on several :Christian ,estalonsannents. The clerks'
who have bean more limn twenty years. in the firm receive
2,090 florins, the others 'l,OOO ; the juniors from 300 to 500
florins. Many iegacies are left to servante."—By the death
of M. de Rotheciad. it„appears that his godson Sir Anthony
Rothschild, of London, ..,v4l receive f2.."008,0d, and also an
equal share with the other raephews and nieces of the residue'
of the estate of Use deecase4.

Bia.Loom Accitanyr.—lL Godard, junior, ,the aeronaut,
'had a miraculous escapeon-the 10th of December, at Crefeld,
iin Rhenan Prussia. He asocaded in a balloon Sled according
tothe Montgolfier systew,and placed himself .on,za " traptir-
ortitanging board attadhaltoa,parachute fastened to his bal-
flow. He had already attained a considerable height, and was
in. the act of performing his ,petilous gymnastieleats above
the beads of several thousand,swctators, when an.explosive
-report, like that of a fleld.gam, ,uras.heardhe balloon was
seenrto collapse, and to descendswitb terrible velocity. It had
burst. M. Godard retaiued :his of mind, and was
enablOdlto detach the cords ofithe parachute. This sosaewhat
broke the velocity of the descent, and he landed, orTather
fell, in as open field, without °awry:la:nage than some severe
bruises occasioned by the hand•frozen_ground. A subscription
was ;immediately made for his benefit, .Which produced *bait
twenty.five pounds.

A BAyszc CAMPAIGN..--The .Sie'cle anticipates a futv.re
campaign intthe Baltic provinces,and after having enumerated
the forces possessed by Russia in theseregions, which it values
at 200,000 men, thus marshals the armies•which the allies. in
conjunction 'with Sweden and Denmark, ,cotild dispose of if
necessary::—F` Admitting that Sweden wasTto .furnish .70,000
men, stud Denmark 30,000, the Western Rowers would have
to furniainloo,ooo.usen, or 70,000 French and:64looo English.
France could eveniinerease her contingent ,if the military or-
ganisation of our neighbour were not to permitrthetu to com-
plete theirs, for ,our country possesses a military .strength
really formidable. Thus is constituted the French arng :
Infantry of the line, :$2B battalions ; light infantry ;(rifles),
80 ditto; artillery, 248 companies ; siege train, 120 tlibto .en-
gineers, 54 ditto; sappers, 11 ditto—ctivalry, 378 squadrons ;
gendarmes and firemen of Paris, 119 squadrons or 'companies:
veterans of all arms, IZcompanies. It is not a question there
of an improvised foece. At like advent of the government of
the 2d December, the army was composed of 327 battalions
of infantry, 313 squadrons.of mavalry, and 240 companies of
Artillery. It has thus only been augmented by 30 battalions
`,of- infantry and 60 Ruadrons-.of cavalry. Without any offence
we may say that this great army bras been organised under
the constitutional regime, and had found in Algerialhe tra-
ditions of victory. `I like to hear the roar of cannon in
Algeria; said Louis Philippe, ' Europe ,does not hear it.' Eu-
rope ihas since heard this African cannon, and friends and
enemies know that it fires well. A great expedition to the
Baltic is therefore not impossible. England will pay her alli-
ance in vessels, and our soldiers will find at Cronstadt another
Malakhoff."

CULTIVATION OF THE SUGAR CANE IN FRANCE.—A suc-
cessful attempt to cultivate the sugar cane has been made in
the department of the Vaucluse. In June last, aM. Tellee,
residing in the village of Caumont, having procured some of
the reeds of that plant from a friend in the colonies, sowed
them on his estate; and notwithstanding the advanced period
of the season, by the month of October last they had attained
a sufficient degree of maturity to be cut down and subjected
to the operation for extracting the juice. One hundred canes
of a medium size were crushed by means of an oil-mill, and
afterwards pressed, when they yielded 50 litres of saccharine
juice. One important point remains yet to be ascertained,
and that is, whether the canes produced from cuttings will
succeed as well as from seed, as it is well known that those
raised by the latter process lose a great deal of their saccha-
rine quality in a few years. The sugar canes grown at Cau-
mont attained a height of about 19 feet. The cultivation of
the cane does not require more attention than that of corn.
After the ground has been well ploughed, furrows are drawn
and the cuttings are planted at equal distances, and covered
lightly with earth, and then with the leaves of the old canes,
reserved for that purpose. As soon as they begin to shoot
above the ground the furrows are filled up with the earth and
the plant is left to itself, taking care to keep the ground clear
of weeds. The climate of Provence is perfectly identical with
that of New Orleans, where the sugar cane is cultivated with
great success,— Galignani's Messenger.

MR. THWAITES has been elected chairman of the Metro-
politan Board of Works.
THE inspectors of the estate of Messrs. Do Lisle, Janvrin,
and Co., at a meeting on Thursday, determined to declare a
third dividend, payable on the 2nd of February. It will be
2s. in the pound, making, with the former two dividends, 10s.
in the pound.
PERVERSION TO ROME.—The Rev. W. Wheeler, for many
years vicar of Old and New Shoreham, in the county of Sus-
sex, has within a day or two left the Church of England and
embraced the doctrines and become a member of the Church
of Rome.

A. TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE has been received from Bremen,
announcing the arrival of the United States mail steamship
Washington in the Weser, having landed her mails, passen-
gers, &c. In consequence of the rapid accumulation of ice in
that river the Washington has been compelled to put back to
Southampton.
NATIONAL GALLERY.—The late Samuel Rogers has be-
queathed to the nation three well-known pictures from his
collection—the Titian " Noli me Tangere; " the Giorgiorie, a
" Small Picture of a Knight in Armour ; " and the Guido,
" Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns." The remainder of
the collection will, it is presumed, be sold in the course of the
ensuing spring.
THE SOUTHAMPTON MURDER.—At the Winchester Assizes
on Thursday, Abraham Baker was convicted of the murder of
Naomi Baker, at Southampton, on the 14th of October. The
circumstances attending the murder will be fresh in the re-
collection of our readers. Baker was sentenced to death, and
the judge intimated that no commutation of the sentence
could be expected.
THE FRAUDS OF DAVIDSON AND GORDON.—At the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, on Thursday, Daniel Mitchel Davidson
and Cosmo William Gordon, who had been acquitted on the
previous day upon an indictment for embezzlement, were
placed at the bar upon another indictment charging them with
having, within three months of their bankruptcy, obtained
from certain creditors goods by fraudulent means and pre-
tences, with intent to defraud, and not to use in the way of
business. The trial lasted the whole of Thursday, and was
resumed on Friday, when thejury found both prisoners guilty.
The Judge then sentenced them to two years' hard labour.
MR. BARON MARTIN, in reply to a letter by Dr. Jackson.
complaining of the closing expression of the judge, in his
charge to the jury on Mr. Wooler's trial, "that there was
another person whom he would be inclined to find guilty
rather than the prisoner," asserts that "he never made use
of any such expression, or anything tantamount to it ;" that
the substance of what he meant to say, and he believes he did
say, was, that having endeavoured in his own mind to arrive
at some conclusion on the subject," it appeared to him there
was no proof against any one, and that if he were to indulge
in mere surmise and fancy, not the prisoner, but some other
person would first occur to his mind.
A Cunrons METEOR.—A very curious phenomenon was
observed at Gateshead, about 6h. 15m. on Wednesday morning.
A very bright pillar of blue light appeared to stand up from
the horizon to an altitude of about 30 degrees. At that point
'it assumed a very bright appearance, resembling the bursting
of a bilge rocket. A stream of sparks and haze ascended to a
height of about 10 degrees more. The light continued visible
for abcait two seconds, illuminating the whole neighbourhood,
and was unaccompanied by any noise., The lower parts then
disappeared, leaving the haze in the form of a bright oblong
cloud,. which gradually diminished in brilliancy for nearly ten
minutes, when it had entirely disappeared. Its position was
'nearly due south.
Sur rossn ACCIDENT.—Some anxiety has been created at
(Chatham inconsequence of the absence of three young engi-
neer officers, who, accompanied by the brother of one of them,
'went from Gillingham down the Medway on Saturday week
in pursuit of 'wild-fowl, and have not since been heard of. It
is feared that they have been drowned from the upsetting of
'their boat, which, it appears, was ill calculated to encounter a
-stiff breeze. 'Every exertion has been made by the authorities,
`but no tidings of the young gentlemen, boat, or oars have
'been obtained. A hope is entertained, however, that, having
-'gone 'a greater distance from their starting point than they
lexpected, they have got on board some vessel bound to another
port, and that in a day or two some information respecting
'them will be obtained.
Thu CONSERVATIVE PARTY.—With reference to certain
-statements which have appeared in several of our contempo-
raries relative to a supposed breach in the ranks of the Con-
-servative party in North Essex, we have the highest authority
• for' giving a most emphatic contradiction to any such sinister
reports. The Conservatives of North Essex are thoroughly
united upon all essential points. The differences which_ exist
are trifling and insignificant, and have their origin in the ma-
levolent attempt of a local journal to avenge itself upon a cause
which some years since abjured its equivocal advocacy. We
Lave the best grounds for believing that, whenever a dissolu-
tion shall occur, the Whig-Radical party will find the True
Blue electors ready to meet them with two candidates, whose
I principles and whose character entitle them to the support
and confidence of a Conservative constituency.— The Press.
i A MAN FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEA.—Ou Saturday week,
the schooner London, of and from Boston, left the Roads,
laden with wheat, for Port Dundas, Glasgow. Shortly after
she had stood out to sea she encountered heavy gales, and
about two o'clock on Sunday morning it was discovered that
she had about two-and-a-half feet of water in her hold, while
she appeared to be sinking, and was drifting towards the shore.
On this the crew, consisting of the master and two men, put
'to sea ha the boat, but finding they could not reach the shore
'with safety, they put out to sea. It appears that the boat
'Thad drifted about till Wednesday, when it was picked up by
'the brig- Temperance Star, of Ipswich. By that time the
master bad died from the effects of the cold, and his compa-
tuions, w ho were more dead than alive, were taken on board
rthe brig.
CHANGMS IN THE HOUSE or Commons.—Several new
members will take their seats on the opening of parliament
next mon th, and some writs will be moved for as soon as the
iiacuse assembles. Mr.-James Rust willtake the oaths and his
- seat for Huntingdonshire, in the room of Viscount Mandeville,
inew Duke of Manchester ; the Earl of Gifford succeeds Lord
-Seymour a t Totnes, the noble lord having become Duke of
-Somerset; Captain Joliffe will take his seat for Wells, in the
. room of Mr. Tudway, deceased; Sir Charles Napier succeeds to
-the represe: citation of Southwark, vacant by the death of Sir
`William M olesworth ; Mr. Bond will take his seat for Ar-
magh, in th. e room of Mr. R. S. Moore, deceased; Mr. M'Evoy
succeeds to ...Ur. Frederick Lucas, deceased, in the representa-
tion of the ci minty of Meath. On the meeting of parliament,
nemwrits wi 11 be moved for Taunton, in the room of Mr. La-
bouthere, wh o has become Secretary of State for the Colonies ;
for Leeds, in the room of the Right Hon. Matthew T. Baines,
now Chancellt w of the Duchy of Lancaster ; for New Ross, in
the room of M r. Charles Gavan Duffy retired; for Rochester,
in- the room of ' the Hon. Francis J. Villiers, who has accepted
the Chiltern I lundreds ; and for Yarmouth in the room of
Mr, C. E. Ruml who has intimated his intention of with-
drawing from p; trliamentary life.
.THE ;BROMSG ROVE AND STOURBRIDGE BANKS.—A final
dividend upon th is estate, estimated at 3d. in the pound, was
declared-,yesterda. v in the Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy.
--Debts --t,O the am ount of between £3,000 and £4,000 were
proved during the day. This dividend, with 6d. in the pound
already paid, make s 9d. received by the creditors of the Broms-
grove establishmei it. Messrs. Philip and Frances Rufford
were the, only partoers. In the matter of the Stourbridge
Bank, of which M essrs. P. Rufford, F. Rufford, and C. J.
Wragge constituted the firm, a final dividend meeting is fixed
for the 13th of Septet nber next, when the estate is expected to
realize a further divi'dend of 7d. or Bd. in the pound. Two
dividends of;ls. 6d. anal sd. each have already been declared,
making a total of 2s. 7d. in the pound. The separate estate
.of Mr.,Philip:Rufford has already been realized and divided.
The first dividend was 55., and the second ls. 3d., making a
!total of Cs. NI The separate estate of Mr. Wragge, which
proved to be byr.far the most productive to the creditors, has
also been dividek. There were three dividends—the first of
42.5..,a, second of-.lc. 3d., and a final of 25., making a total of
;Ms. 3d. in the ipound. A final dividend meeting of the
separate estate of-Mr. Francis Rufford is fixed for the 23rd of
January. :Throe Xividends of ls., ld., and 4d. each in the
pound, and the final are likely to produce as much as will
make a total from the separate estate of the late member for
Worcester of 3s. !bet.l. in the pound. The estates have been
realized with. t dknculV, in consequence of the unsaleable
nature df re property, and the numerous questions of legal
nicety and importance which arose, not only between the
estates !themselves, 'but with other parties. It is a fortunate
circumstance that no action or suit has arisen out of these
racriouscoraplications either in Chancery or at common law.
Small a.-Alte dividends are, they would have been much smaller
but foralprndent avoidance of litigation.

AVOTERIL POISONING CASE.—An inquest was held at
Devonport, touching the ceeath of Louisa Mitchell alias
Louisa Hallettliving as the wife of Mr. John Hallett, drug-
gist, of James-street, lint . commonly known as Dr. Hallett.
The deceased had lived with Dr. Hallett upwards of seven
years as his wife, and, from the evidence of several witnesses,
they had lived ;in .a state, of,discomfort, and quarrelled fre-
quently. The,tleceased had been ill several months. About
two months since, Mr. James ,Bennett, surgeon, had been
called in to attend her professionally. He now deposed that,
on the 2nd November, he was requested to visit Mrs. Hallett
by a female, who represented Mrs..Hallett as being danger-
ously ill. He saw tle,cleceasediinled. She appeared insen-
,a.ible, her countenance ,waavery much Hushed, her breathing
very loud, and foam was issuing from her mouth, the pupils of
her eyes were contracted, and the pulse slow and labouring.
He immediately bled her, !hut she continued insensible. He
then considered deceased tolite sufferingfrem great congestion
of the head. He intimated to Dr. Hallett that the recovery
of his ,wife was doubtfuL The doctor replied that she was
suffering from apoplexy, and Trefusedito•havea second medical
opinion. Witness subsequently again urged tthe propriety of
further advice, but Dr. Hallett Again refused, ttating that he
had sufficient consfidence in him (witness). Witness visited
deceased several times during the day. On one,of these occa-
sions Dr. Hallett said, "I like to look on dead; eoyle—poor
devils. I always call them poor devils, for they are.' Witness
attended deceased three days, and she appeared to get better.
On the third day, when he alled at the house, deceased was
down stairs. Dr Hallett said, in witness's presence, " I
had a good mind to give her a good hiding this morning, for
the took too long dressing." Deceased made no reply, and
appeared afraid to speak. Dr. Hallett spoke in a very decided
tone, at if he meant it. On witness's first visit, it was his
impression that the deceased had taken narcotic medicine.
Witness did not visit deceased after the third day, but on
Friday last he was requested by Dr. Hallett's son to call. The
son represented that Mrs. Hallett was dead when he left the
house to call witness. Witness called, and Dr. Hallett then
stated that the deceased was alive when the son left. Witness
examined the body externally, but there were no marks of
violence. He proceeded to make an examination, in company
with Mr. Laity and Mr. Little. There were marks of ulcers

on both legs, and the remains of an ulcer on the left knee;
pupils of the eyes rather dilated, arms very flexible. In
making an examination of the contents of the chest, he dis-
covered a quantity of bloody serum in the cavity of the pleura;
the heart was of the natural size, healthy but rather flabby,
liver much enlarged and diseased, and the external surface of
the intestines was very florid. On turning the body round, a
quantity of fluid escaped from the mouth and nose, which was
preserved with the contents of the stomach ; the brain itself

was healthy. On the stomach being opened, the natural sur-
face presented a dark spot about the size of a halfcrown, and
a quantity of fluid of an oily nature. In witness's opinion the
deceased died from congestion of the lungs, not arising from
natural causes. The jury here pressed the witness to give an
opinion whether poison had been administered; and he replied
that it was his opinion something of a deleterious nature had
been administered, but he was unable to say what it was. On
this the inquest was adjourned to Monday, the 31st inst., to
give time to have the contents of the stomach analysed. Dr.
Hallett was in attendance during the early part of the pro-
ceedings, but behaved in such a way that the coroner was
obliged to order him out of court.

FOREIGN POST REGULATIONS.—POStMaSterS making up
mails for foreign parts are directed to treat as unpaid letters
all those upon which au insufficient amount of postage may
have been paid in pdstage stamps. In the case of letters in-
sufficiently paid in money, they are directed to surcharge the
deficiency upon the postmaster at whose office the letters may
have been posted, and treat them as paid, and transmit them .
as such to foreign destination.
REPRESENTATION OF LINCOLN.—There seems to be every
probability that there will be a strong contest for the borough
of Lincoln, which has become vacant by the death of Colonel
Sibthorp. Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart., who unsuccessfully
contested the Northern Division of the county at the last
general election, is spoken of as a candidate. The seat will be
contested by Major Gervase T. W. Sibthorp, son of the late
colonel, and Mr. Chas. Seely, a wealthy merchant of Lincoln.
MR. RUSSELL and Mr. Angell, of the Post-office, dined with
General Codrington on Thursday. Owing to some strictures
made by Mr. Russell in the Times on drunkenness in the
army, and his advising- the withdrawal of the soldiers' field
allowance granted by her Majesty, his house was attacked by
the red-coats the other night, and serious consequences might
have ensued but for the prompt arrival of the picket.—Crimean
correspondent of the Morning Herald.
CURIOUS CHRISTMAS CUSTOM. —At Dewsbury, a bell is
tolled on Christmas-eve, as at a funeral, or in the manner of a
passing bell ; and any one asking whose bell it was would be
told it was the Devil's knell. The moral of this is, that the
Devil died when Christ was born. The custom-was discon-
tinued for many years, but was revived by the vicar in 1828.
Among the sweet bells of Dewsbury is the famous " Black
Tom of Tothill," which is said to have been an expiatory gift
fora murder.—Bridgewater Times.

IT is, it seems, the fashion at Antwerp to have the tomb of
Rubens periodically opened. The last opening took placea
short time back, in presence of a " select party." The interior,
of the tomb is said to have presented a frightful spectacle—
nothing was seen but fragments of coffins and mouldering
bones. Thirteen persons, besides Rubens, were buried in the
same vault, and the exact spot in which he was deposited is
not precisely known ; but four coffins are slightly elevated on
iron rails, and it is supposed that three of them were occupied
by the great painter and his two wives.—Literary Gazette.
THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM.—The grand jury, sitting
at Winchester, have presented a memorial to Baron Parke,
"earnestly urging on the Government the pressing necessity
of abstaining for the present from issuing any further tickets
of leave to convicts, except in cases where the most satisfactory
proofs of reformation are given, and of taking the earliest op-
portunity of submitting to Parliament some comprehensive
plan for enforcing the punishment of offenders sentenced to
transportation or penal servitude, either by the establishment
of a new penal colony, or by adult reformatory establishments
within the United Kingdom."
THE Italian jonrnals have frequently described , in terms
of enthusiasm, the performances of a blind Sardinian shept
herd, named Picco, on an instrument they call the tibia-pas-
toral—to wit, a half-penny whistle of the rudest and most
primitive construction, with only three holes, and its length
not exceeding that of a finger ; yet upon this barbarous instru-
ment he has performed at the San Carlos and La Scala, and
the Neapolitan and other papers affirm that the blind musician
draws sounds as dulcet as those of the sweetest flute, and
that his execution upon it is still more marvellcns. The
poor Italian ministrel has arrived in Paris to perform at the
Italian Opera.
THE LATE SAMUEL ROGERS,—We have, within the last
dozen years, heard Mr. Rogers describe how he had seen
Marie-Antoinette dance, and illustrate the same by himself
walking a minuet. There is also an anecdote of his having
left an early poem at Dr. Johnson's door only a day or two
before the doctor's death. Till an accident confined him to
his chair, Mr. Rogers continued to be an attendant at the
opera, the Antient Concerts, and, when these died out, at the
Exeter-hall oratorios. Till a very late period he might be
seen at midnight feebly hurrying home from these on foot—
no matter what, the weather—thinly dressed, and as resentful
of the slightest offer of attendance as was " the Duke " when
he was scarcely able to mount his horse. This passion for
pleasure did not forsake him till a very late period. Only a
few years since, a street accident, caused by this imprudent
manner of wandering home alone, sentenced him to a chair
for the rest of his days.—Athenseurn.
THE CANADA LAND COMPANY.—A meeting of this com-
pany was held on Thursday, Charles Franks, Esq., in the
chair. The statement of the operations from the Ist of Janu-
ary to the 23rd ult., showed,. [that the sales of land comprise
3,302 acres of Crown reserves at 275. 9d. per acre, and 1,413
of the Huron tract at 275. 6d. The leases included 19,116
acres at 415..11d. of Crown reserves, and 4,740 acres at 61s. ld,
of the Huron tract. The land leased converted into freeholds
was 13,203 acres, at 16s. ld., and 53,001 at 15s. 3d. per acre.
The receipts during the above period were £129,659 2s. 4d.
currency, against £164,614 in 1854, showing a falling off of
£34,955 17s. ld. The funds in hand were—balances at bank-
ers, £4,513; loans at interest, and interest thereon, £58,800;
and short bills, £11,100; making a total of £74,413. As re-
gards the liabilities, they are very small, viz., £7,600, of which
£3,269 was for debentures unpaid, and interest thereon. The
report, which recommended a division of the assets, to the ex-
tent of £7 a share, payable in January next, was.then agreed
to. A resolution was adopted for the introduction, of a bill'
into Parliament for enabling the directors to divide the assets
half-yearly. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman
and directors, and the meeting adjourned.
POSITION OF PEusslA.—The Berlin correspondent of the
Times writes :—" Prussia is just now at-the head of Germany,
as regards giving the tone of political feeling ; neutrality
towards without and reaction towards within are the order
of the day ; the advantages of neutrality are exemplified, says
this party of the Kreuz Zeitung, by the sacrifices and
losses of the belligerent Powers, the necessity of reaction is
felt in the consciousness of the danger and disgrace of the
revolution just put down. England and' France are the
incarnation and radiating point of revolution, and all that
trouble the repose of the world: England and France are the
belligerent Powers, and are suffering for it in their fearful
sacrifices of men and money. .Ergo, down with revolution
and everythin :Ire, movement. Avaunt England and France,
that would drag l'sussia into sharing their sufferings.. These
are the sentiments of the Kreuz. Zeitung men, and which
are every day spreading further and further like a leaven
"through the various strata of society, and to this end the
course taken by our diplomacy and by our press has contri-
buted very largely."
THE prospectus has been issued of the General London
Omnibus Company, established in Paris under the French
law as a society en cornmandite. The capital is to be.
£1,000,000, in shares of 100 f. or £4 each, but the first issue
is to be limited to £BOO,OOO. The gerants are Macnamara,
Carteret, Willing, and Co., and the London managers are to
be Messrs. Wilson, Barber, Hartley, and Trevett. The com
pany state that complete regularity of service is to be estab-
lished; that tiane-tables are- to ,be published monthly and.
traffic returns weekly; that indicate are to be used, as in
Paris ; and the contracts have been fflitered into for the pur-
chase of the greater number of the 810 omnibuses-now work-
ing in London. In their financial representations they men-
tion that each omnibus, under the present imperfect system,
gives an average profit of £lOO a-year, which, on 810 omni-
buses, would yield £Bl,OOO, and consequently a return of ten
per cent. In Paris; however, the result of amalgation was an
increase of Bs. per day in the profit of each omnibus; and,
assuming an increase of ss. in London, the annual profit
would be raised to £150,000. The dividend now paying by
the Paris company is stated to be at the rate of 15 per cent.
THE AUSTRIAN CONCORDAT.—THE-PROTESTANTS OF TIM
EMPIRE.—The new laws relative to the future position of
the Protestants in Austria are now before the Council of the
Empire, and they will probably be less unsatisfactory than the
world is inclined to believe. People here profess not to care
for public opinion but you may be assured that the storm of
indignation to which the concordat has given rise in Germany
and other countries has made them feel extremely uncomfort-
able. Indeed, there is proof positive that such is the case ! The
draft of the new marriage act or law, which has been made by
the Archbishop of Vienna, will, instead of being at once ac-
cepted, be referred to the crown lawyers. The following ex-
tracts from the pastoral letter of the Archbishop of Milan will
suffice to show that the Italian prelate is already inclined to
go beyond the concordat :—" The concordat not only gives
the bishops the right to prohibit bad books, under the menace
of ecclesiastical punishments (?) but also to prohibit their
being read by the faithful. The co-operation of the state to
prevent their promulgation is promised. All law matters re-
lating to the matrimonial tie belong to the church alone (?)
By the concordat, the immaculate bride of Christ (the Roman
Catholic Church) has acquired freedom, power, and glory,
throughout the vast empire. Cast down is every barrier
which had been an impediment to her ` giant steps,' broken
is every fetter which impeded her action. The church has the
right to oppose all kinds of error and temptation, as well on
the stage as in the press. The concordat is a work which
gives a brilliant example of religious feeling on the one side,
of moderation on the other, and of the perfect prudence and
wisdom of both parties.— Tinier' Vienna correspondent.
lEASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—Mr. Waddington has
issued a reply to the report of the Committee of Investigation.
He sums up his view of the question in the following sen-
tence :—" How comes it that I have encountered the hostility
revealed in the report of the Committee of Investigation ? It
is, I repeat, because you have, in your complicated direction,
an influence which, if permitted to prevail, must permanently
injure your property. You have three directors less interested
in increasing your traffic than in forcing it into other chan-
nels. You have there men who will profit much more largely
by making you pay a toll than by participating in your divi-
dend. Look at the whole tenor and character of the report,
concocted principally upon their evidence, and under their
influence. What are the points specially assailed ? Lowestoft
harbour; the coal traffic which has been developed; the
steam-packet traffic which we have endeavoured to create OH
the ports of the east coast; the East Suffolk line, which, how;
ever undesirable for us, would undoubtedly assist that coast;
the Hackney-wick branches, which form so important a con-
necting link between our Eastern system and the North and
South-Western lines of railway ; our advances. for the pur-
poses of the Norfolk and East Union lines, and the additions-
to capital for working those and other railways. A moment's
reflection will show you that this apparently scattered hos-
tility has but one aim and one object. That aim is to sup-
plant our eastern system by a northern system—to substitute
the East Anglian for the Norfolk line—to make Lynn the
chief port of your system, and thereby to subject your ear-
nings to a toll which will go, without benefit to you, into the'
pockets of the East Anglian shareholders, and which will
enable them to depreciate your stock and raise the value of
their own when the time for compulsory fusion arrives in
AR . •

TO MESSRS. COBDEN AND BRIGHT

1
WHERE, where is the big loaf, Messrs. Cobden and Bright,
Which you promised to all, when Free Trade came tolight ?
Where, where it it Cobden ? where, where is it Bright ?
In vain do we ask you from morning till night !
The bellows of Anti-protection you blew,
And sounded the horn of the "League" eider crew !
Down, down with Protection, and up with Free Trade;
Let the big loaf on every one's table be laid.
False prophets you've been, and that with a vengeance,
And every one sees it from Berwick to Penzance !
And you know it well, but say " 'tis the fighting,"
-As if that set all folks at their loaves faster biting !
Then if with our army we'd done as you wished,
John Bull would have been most assuredly dished;
Yould have left us no troops worth talking about
And nary in readiness for a " turn out." ,
But hurrah for Old England, tho' peace we delight in,
We'll keep up our army all ready for fighting ;
So that if with proud boasters we " come to the scratch,"
They'll find, to their cost, we are more than their match.
December 1855.
A. R.

By Messrs. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
On FRIDAY, the 11th day of January next, at Two o'clock in the
Afternoon, at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, Liver-
pool,

A-Piece of LAND, with Two DWELLING-
HOUSES thereon erected, numbered 35 and 37, situate on
the south side of Athol-street, in Liverpool ; bounded on the east
by Premises of Owen Rowlands, on the west by premises of John
Mason, and on the south, in part by Nelson Court, and in other
part by land of John Shaw Leigh, Esq. The tenure is freehold of
inheritance.

For further particulars, apply to Messrs. W. and C. E. EATON,
Solicitors, 5, Clayton-square, Liverpool.

MODERN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
yr ESSRS. BYFORD and SON will SELL by
AUCTION, on THURSDAY next, the 27th instant, at
Eleven o'clock precisely, upon the Premises, No. 1, Ivy-street,
Myrtle-street,
The Modern and Genteel HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Richly
Cut Glass, China, Dinner Service of Staffordshire Ware, Electro
Plate, Books (including the Lives of the Queens of England, 6
vols.) Gas Chandeliers, Framed Prints, Marine Views, and other
Effects, the Property of a Family declining Housekeeping.
The PARLOURS include handsome Maiogany Pedestal Side-
board, with Marble Top, Set of Chairs, in Hair Cloth, Easy Chair,
in ditto, Pembroke Tables, Windovr:Curtains, Sofa, Brussels Car-
pets, Tapeitry Hearth Rugs, Fenders, Fire Irons, &c.
The BED CHAMBERS contain superior Mahogany Half-tester
and Polished Birch Bedsteads, with Damask Hangings, Camp
Ditto, Hair Mattresses, Prime Goose Feather Beds and Bedding,
Lady's Painted Wardrobe, Painted Toilet Tables and Washstands,
Toilet Ware, Dressing Glasses, Chests of Drawers, Chairs, Car-
pets, &c. _

Tile Kitchen and Culinary Requisites, and other Effects of do-
mestic utility.
May be viewed on the Morning of Sale, when Catalogues may
be had on the Premises, or at the Office of Messrs. BYFORD and
Sort, Clayton-square.

On account of whom it may concern.
TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 20th instant, at Half-past One
o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 10, Brunswick-street,
About 200 Barrels FLOUR, and
~ 5,000 Bushels of WHEAT,
Saved from Wreck of the ship Constitution, from New York, and
now lying at the Wreck Shed, north-west side Prince's Dock.
Also, 160 Bushels WHEAT, ex Saranak.— Apply to
WILLIAM PARKE, Broker.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that by Inden-
ture bearing date the 24th day of December, 1855,. made
between FREDERIC FRANCIS TREVOR, of Liverpool, in the
county of Lancaster, Hosier, of the first part, JOHN CRIPPS,
of the same place, Shaw man, and JOHN WHARTON SOPPET,
of 21, Paulton's-quare, Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex, (of
the house of HONEY and SON, 14, Ironmongers'-lane, in the
city of London), Accountant, Trustees for themselves and the
rest of the Creditors of the said FREDERIC FRANCIS TREVOR,
parties hereto, of the second part ; and the several other persons
whose names and seals are hereunto subscribed and set, being
respectively creditors of the said Frederic Francis Trevor, of the
third part. He, the said Frederic Francis Trevor, did assign all
and every the Stock-in-Trade, Goods, Wares, Merchandizes,
Household Furniture, Fixtures, Plate, Linen, China, Books of
Account, Debts, Sum and Sums of Money, and all Securities for
Money, Vouchers, and other Documents and Writings, and all
other the Personal Estate and Effects, whatsoever and wheresoever,
of him the said Frederic Francis Trevor, in possession, reversion,
remainder, or expectancy, together with full and free possession,
right and title of entry, in and to all and every of the Messuages
or Tenements and Premises, wherein the said several Effects and
Premises now are, unto the said John Cripps and John Wharton
Soppet, their executors, administrators and assigns, upon Trust
for all the Creditors of the said Frederic Francis Trevor • and
that the said Indenture was executed by the said Frederic
Francis Trevor, John Cripps, and John Wharton Soppet, on
the day of the date thereof, which executions respectively
were, in the presence of, and attested by, William Kenney
Tyrer, solicitor, whose place of abode is 34, Everton Village,
near Liverpool, aforesaid ; and the place of abode of the
said John Cripps is Nos. 14 and 16 Bold-street, in Liverpool,
aforesaid; and the place of abode of the said John Wharton
Soppet is No. 21, Paulton's-square, Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex. Dated.this 24th day of December, 1855.

WM. K. TYRER.

" He that doeth truth. cometh to the light."

WONDERFUL PUBLICATION.—THE RESTORER IS COME.
THE VOICE OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH.
Voice the First.— Second Edition.-6d., Post 7d. Any
Bookseller.

London i C. NI. PEACOCK, Publisher, 19, Cursitor-street,
Chancery-lane.