The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST THE PROVOST OP LEITH.—
A case disgusting in the extreme, has just come to light, in
which no less a personage than the Provost of Leith is
ciimi-
nally implicated. The charge brought against the civic dig-
nitary is a criminal assault upon two girls, both under the
age of puberty. He has been examined before the sheriff and
procurator fiscal, and on Saturday was admitted to bail. There
is no doubt that Provost Phillips will figure rather disagree-
ably before the criminal court in Noyembyr.
NARROW ESCAPE.—A few days ago, as Lord Robert Mon-
tague was sailing in his boat from Portstewart to Portrush a
squall of wind caught the boat and upset her. Lord Robert
threw himself out of her, and being a very expert swimmer
soon managed to regain the boat, and having with some diffi-
culty prevented the sailor who accompanied him from sinking,
he succeeded in getting on the boat, which was now turned
bottom upwards. They remained in this perilous situation for •
nearly half an hour, when they were picked up by a boat
which had seen the accident from some distance.
OPPOSITION STEAMIIRS ON THE ATLANTlC.—Commodore
Vanderbilt, the great American ship-owner, is running
steamers across the Atlantic, in opposition to the United
States mail packets. Occasionally Vanderbilt's steamer and
the mail packet start together, and the speed of the steamers
is properly tested. In one instance the Vanderbilt steamer,
' the North Star, beat the crack American mail packet the
Arago. On the 22nd ult., the Arago and the Vanderbilt
steamer Arid left New York at the same hour, both bound for
Cowes, in the Isle of Wight. They kept in company for two
days, when the Ariel shot adead of the Arago, and the latter
saw no more of her. The commander of the Arago, on
arriving at Cowes, was surprised to learn that his steamer had
beaten the Arid.

PASSENGER TRAFFIC IN LONDON.—About 200,000 per-
sons enter the city each day on foot by different avenues, and
about 15,000 by the river steamers ; and besides the cab, cart,
carriage, and waggon traaffic of the streets, the omnibuses
alone perform an aggregate of 7,400 daily journeys through
the city. The number of passengers arriving at and departing
from the London-bridge group of railway termini, which in
1850 amounted to 558,000, had in 1854 risen to 10,845,000.
At the South Western Railway it appears that during the
same period the numbers have increased from 1,228,000 to
3,308,000. The number arriving at and departing from the
Shoreditch station last year is stated at 2,143,000; Euston-
square station, 970,000 • Paddington Station, 1,400,000 ; •
King's-cross station, 711,000; the Blackwell station, in Fen-
church-street, 8,144,000.
t A Wong OF TIME.—On one of the hilly moorland meadows,
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not far from St. Austell Bay, a piece of work is in quiet pro-
gress under a shed, which the autumn tourists and excursion-
makers visit. This is the gradual reduction into shape and
polish of the huge block of Cornish porphyry which is to serve
as a sarcophagus for the remains of the Duke of Wellington..
This enormous stone, weighing 70 tons when it was originally
detached, and wrought on the spot where it was found, is of a
grain so impenetrable as almost to defy the cutter's craft.'
The sawing of it into halves was a long mid painful task, and
the two men now employed in hollowing it out seem given
up to the most slow-going task conceivable at the time pre-
sent, since more than two cannot work, and the impression
made by their picks in the huge mass is a thing to be
measured from week to week, not day to day. There is ten
months' more work to be done ere the adamant rock will be
shaped' and smoothed into the required form. The colour is
of an intense deep gray, mottled with black and pale buff, and
streaked with veins of white.—Cornwall Gazette.

OUR WAR TACTICS.—Wo know not how far we may rely.
upon the assertions of a correspondent of one of the Ameri-
cans newspapers, but he professes to have heard a conversa-
tion in the course of which the French Emperor thus expressed
himself :—" I acknowledge the tactics of the Crimean cam-
paign to be my own projectionf and I confess myself satisfied,
mainly, with the results. The people of France and Britain
want a faat of arms, and perhaps the people of America would
applaud another Smolensko and Moskowa. No : France in
1913 crossed the arid steppes and and deadly snows of Russia.
I will now make Russia traverse her own wilderness to meet
us on her frontier. There is not a man who enters the Crimea
that has not undergone all we suffered in the retreat from
Moscow ! There is not a regiment that arrives at Perekop
that is not decimated. Whole battalions have been engulphed.
The Russian loss, according to their own estimate rendered to
the Emperor Nicholas lat December, amounted to 270,000.
The allied troops at that time had not lost one-tenth of that
number. lam content to protract the struggle in the Crimea
on those terms.

THE IRON TRADE.—The making of iron has been on the
increase for half-a-century, but since the use of railroads has •
been so universally adopted, the progress of the trade has been
exceedingly rapid, and the quantity made annually very large.
At the beginning of the present century I,he iron produced in
England was not 500,000 tons a-year ; it is now upwards of
3,000,000 tons, and the demand is still on the increase. The
In ge quantity used for railway purposes will account for the
consumption of late years ; about 8,000 miles of line having
been constructed in this kingdom, 16,000 laid down in America,
on the Continent many thousand miles made, and in India,
and many other colonies of the British empire, there are up-
wards of 3,000 miles of line in progress, while in America up-
wards of 10,000 miles of new line have been sanctioned by the
Legislature. These figures sufficiently explain what has been
done with the millions of tons that have been used, and also
show the iron that will be used for some years to come. Great
as is the quantity annually made, it is, therefore, evident it
will all be wanted, and the prices be remunerative, except in
times of panic from scarcity of money, when iron will be ex-
pected to be sold at a reduced, probably not a losing, price for
a time, like other articles of merchandise.—Mining Journal—

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. J. T. Alderson, NI.A., to the Rectory of Ravenstone, near
Ashby-de-la•Zouch.
Rev. W. Berrington, M.A., to the Rectory of Nolton, near
Havertordwest.

Rev. G. S. Bowes, B.A.' to the Curacy of St. Saviour's, Chelsea.
Rev. It. NI`D. Cam, ter, 8.A., to the Curacy of Hanwell, near
Banbury.

Rev. J. Clarkson, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Great Sandal!, near-
Wakefield.

Rev. B. P. Clarke, 8.A., to the Curacy of Port St. Mary, Ruthen,
near Castletown.

Rev. H. Creswell, 8.A., late of Cookbarn Dean, near Maiden-
head, to the Incumbency of Ne., castle, Chin, Salop.
Rev. W. J. Dare, M.A., to the Rectory of Chipstable, Somerset.
Rev. C. A. Dickins, M.A., to the Vicarage, of Tardebigge, near
Bromsgrove.
Rev. J. M. Dixon, Rector of Trinity, Bath, to be Diocesan In-
spector of Schools.
Rev. G. S. Escott, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Wednesbury, Stafford-
shire.

Rev. C. F. Hayden, M.A., to the Rectory of Helmdon, North-
amptonshire.
Rev. T. F. Henney M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford, to the
Canonry of Sancta Crux, in Lincoln Cathedral.
Rev. it. Helsop, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John's,
Sheffield.

Rev. E. Will, to the Rectory of Little Woolstone, near Newport
Pattnell.

Rev. E. G. Kelly, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Otterford, near
Taunton.

Rev. F. Latham, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Helpringham, near
Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

Rev. W. M. Leir, M.A., to the Rectory of West Bagborough;
Somerset.

Rev. R. Lewis, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Broadway,
Somerset.

Rev. A. Middleton, 8.A., to the Curacy of Ponsonby, near
Whitehaven.

Rev. G. F. W. Mortimer, D.D., to be Chaplain to the Lord
Mayor during the ensuing mayoralty.
Rev. G. E. Moule, to be Chaplain to the County Hospital at
Dorchester.

Rev. J. E. Nash, M.A., to the Incumbency of the newly-erected.
Church of St. Peter, Clifton, near Bristol.
Rev. I. H. Noyes, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Ketton-with-Tixover,•
near Uppingham.
Rev. G. P. Ottey, BA., to the Curacy of Lewisham, Kent.
Rev. 0. F. Owen, M.A., to the Vicarage of Child's Wickham,
Gloucestershire.
Rev. C. S. Palmer, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Owston, near
Melton Mowbray.
Rev. H. Parry, M.A., to the Incumbency of Bylchan, near St:
Asaph.

Rev. T. J. Paske, 8.A., to the Curacy of Gravesend.
Rev. E. G. Pym, M.A., to the Incumbency of Fylingdales, near
Whitby._ _ _ _

Rev.- F. J. Rawlins, MA., to the Rectory of Fiddington,
Somerset. _

Rev. H. Spurrier, 8.A., to the Curacy of Horricastle, Lincoln-
shire.

CLERICAL OBITUARY

Hon. and Rev. H. W. V. Stuart, M.A., to the Vicarage of Nap-
ton-on-the-Hill, near Southam.
Rev. J. Thorhold, 8.A., to the Vicarage of St. Mary-le-Wigford,
Lincoln.
Rev. J. T. Tucker, 8.A., to the Curacy of Ratcliffe, Leicester-
shire.
Rev. F. Warre, M.A., Vicar of Bishop's Lydeard, to the Per-
petual Curacy of Whelston, Somerset.
Rev. F. Warre, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Cothelstone, near
Taunton.

Rev. J. D. Winslow, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bulkington, near
Nuneaton.

Sept. 29, at Harrogate, the Rev. John Baldwin, of Dalton, near
Ulverstone, aged 63.
Oct. 8, at Bath, William Hungerford Colston, D.D., 57 years
Rector of West Lydford, Somerset, and for the same period an
active Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the said county,
aged 82.
Oct. 9, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Thomas Price,
Esq.. of Heywood, Surrey, the Rev. Henry Hickman, of Ongar•-
bill House, late of Walton-on-Thamea, aged 58.

THE recent Thanksgiving, by whomsoevercomposed, omitted
all allusion to the mediation of our Blessed Lord in the con-
clusion of the prayer ; a fact the more striking when it is re-
membered that, with the exception of the prayer of St.
Chrysostom (addressed to our Lord himself,) all the prayers in
the Prayer-book are, in obedience to our Blessed Lord's injunc-
tion, made in His Name.

PEOPOSED NEW ENGLISH BISHOPRICS.—The commis- -
sioners appointed to inquire into the condition of our cathe-
drals, have recommended to Her Majesty's government the
immediate formation of four additional English Bishoprics—
one for Westminster, now comprised in the bishopric of Lon-
don—one for Southwell, now comprised in the bishopric of•
Lincoln—one for St. Columb, now forming part of the diocese
of Exeter, and one for Bristol which is to be independent of
the see of Gloucester. It is expected that the Dean of Bristol
will have the bishopric of that city, and that Dr. Walker will
be appointed bishop of St. Columb, for which see he has pro—
vided an endowment.

THE BISHOP of LA.BITAN.—Her Majesty having been
pleased to issue letters patent for the erection of the Island of
Labuan into a bishop's see, with jurisdiction over the clergy
and congregations of the Church of England in Borneo, a royal
mandate has been issued to the Bishop of Calcutta and his-
suffragans to consecrate the Rev. Francis Thomas M`Dougall,
D.C.L., to be the first bishop, and St. Luke's day, Oct. 18, has
been fixed for the consecration. The principal part of the en-
dowment, £5,000, is provided by the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel, out of its public funds, and the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge has granted £2,000.
THE CLERGY AND THE LATE ARCHDEACON BROOKS.—
The following is the address of the clergy, which lies for sig-
natures at the Savings'-bank :—" We, the undersigned clergy
of the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, desire to convey
to the children and family of our late beloved and venerated
archdeacon the expression of our deep and affectionate sym-
pathy with them in their present affliction, and to record our
feeling of reverence and attachment to one who ever taught
us to regard him as a brother and a friend. Of his
qualities as a public man, we do not feel called upon
of a
an opinion—they have been honoured by theu!eerstc
our
spi..
Intooneenipnress
whole community ; but, regarding him asr 1 1
him in the language
ritual household, we cannot but ofspeakihyofdopble honour, gentleof St. Paul, and count him
to all men, patient, in 'meeknesswor4isitnrgucting those who
himself a pattern of
op-
posed themselves, in all theiontruptess
, gravity, sincerity.' We-
good works in doctrine,i n
atillhaict,tioans,
hteh
liveda that hi shfoanmoiubr'ehonoured
willof findail
trust, in the midst of their
consolation in the reflection
the_ atoning efficacy of a divine Saviour's
men, so, through
God's infinite mercy, be permitted to attain
blood, he may,
of righteousness, which the Lord, the ripteous
that crown
judge, will give
to those who have shown their faith in their
works, and that he has passed from the scene of his earthly
labours to the rest that remains for the People of God."