The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-10 00:00:00

SCILLY -ISLES.

The Scilly Islands are situated about 30 miles to the
west of the Land's End of Englanct; they form a group
of 100 islands, in the best geographical situation as a
port of call for ships arriving at the Channel for orders,
as Scilly is 70 miles from Falmouth. Ships coming up
to the entrance of the Channel with east winds, can
reach Scilly many days before they can get to Falmouth,
especially dull sailing ships with heavy cargoes ; and,
also, the position is much more easy of access than
Queenstown. The islands form an archipelago, shaped.
like a horse-shoe ; every roadstead well,protected by
islands at the N.W.,' N., N.E., S.E., S.W. The least
protected part is,from W.S.W. to N.W. by W.; but the
sunken reefs in Broad Sound form a natural break-
water to ',he W.

Our port (St. Mary's) is mast valued during the pre-
valence of easterly gales, We have had as many as 300
sail at one. ime in the 'different harbours. St. Mary's
Roads is, capable of containing a fleet of 200. sail. There
is AYO Or six fathoms of water, with excellent holding
ground of blue clay ; there is access to our roadstead by
different channels, all deep water, sufficient for a line of
battle ship at low water. There are experienced Trinity
pilots, at five pilot stations on different islands, having
eleven pilot cutters, and numerous pilot gigs. The pilots
are out cruising in the heaviest gales. The islands are
quite bold at the north, east, and South ; there are not any
sunken reefs lying at any distanee off the shore. The chief
dangers of Scilly lie, to the, west. of St. Agnes' Light,
but those dangers are now protected by a light (dioptric)
erected on the Dishop Rock, the extreme western rock
of the islands ; and at the entrance of the S. W.
Channel. At the island there are facilities for repairs of
ships ; masts and spars are kept in stock by the different
parties in business, There is, a patent rope-walk; also
sailmakers, blacksmiths, &c. The principal trade of
the port is shipbuilding ; vessels of upwards of 500 tons
have been built at the islands,

Ships receiving orders at . Scilly tan proceed to either
of the three channels direct, without having to round
any angle. There is a steamer running thrice a week,
with mails to Penzance ; and we are in expectation of
having' an electric wire laid dOwn to the' islands next
summer. by Messrs. :Glass, Elliott and Co. A company
is now forming for the purpose.
There is a small military station at , Scilly, and,
during the late war, -the port formed the rendezvous of
Sir Edward Pelleves fleet, as the advanced western
-station. A wire to the islands is important in a national
point of view, as information might thus be forwarded
to our authorities in ,England, of any force of . the
enemy paSsing around the land towards Ireland; or any
part of the Aorth coast' Of England Or Wales. We 'hope
to get a small subsidy towards this important national
object, at a time when, the coasts are being put into a
state of defence.,

There'is a'bountiful supply of good fresh water, and,
at all times, Large stooks of fresh and other provisions,
and gßpply of steam coals always on hand.

MONS RUSSELLIUS BIS PARTURIENS.

MouNT:Russell's- the 'monarch of 'mountains.

(Mount Blanc sank long ago
To a Loudon sight, with red and blue light,
In ALBERT SMITH his show) ;
Though found his waist no 'forest's braced,
No avalanche in his hand
Though far from tall—his, person's small,
And the TeVevse of grand.
Yet of mountains that be the king is be,
And that I do maintain,
He hath' had a fate ne'er mount bad yet,
And none shall hare again.
Sarnelave heaved with the mirth of an earthquake'sbirth,
Some harp brought forth mice, we know
But kount Russell alone of mountains nath known
The weight of either throe.
For his the head, and his the band,
That liunched upon their way,
The Wartleake Bill of thirty-one,
And this 36,145 e Bilk of to-day !—Punch.

A CRICRET BALL OUT OF THE WAY.—Mr. Hughes,
butcher,,of Rhyl, has slaughtered 'a 'beast which had a
cricket ball in the inside of the tripe.
A FATHER'S LEGACY OF ARMS TO HIS SON IN 1546..
In the will of Robert Dukinfield, Esq., of Dukinfield;
dated 23rd March, 1546, is the following passage :—" I
give unto William Dokenfield, nay son and heir, my
great two edged sword' and my less two-edged sword,
which I do wear myself, with 'my great new "buckler,
and my short arming sword, with my dagger,,which is
garnished with silver, and also my battle-axe, with all
other .harness belonging to my body ; and I will that
my executors shall deliver all to hiin at such time as he
shall be able to have the gnvernance of the same himself."
—Wills and Inventories of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Part 11.
GAMBLING. - The foreign correspondent of the
.Atheneeton tells the following anecdote of Mdlle. Ru-
benstein, late of the Igalais Royal Theatre, and recently
married to M. Eanican Philidor.' The young actress—
so the story goes—was a,spiritectgamblet- at Hamburg,
and won very largely. She 12id for a property on the
scene of her successful play. But her bid was about
• 15,000: francs; under the lowest price the proprietor
would accept.. Suddenly M. Blanc (who farms the
hamburg gambling tables) generonsly stepped forward
and gave her the( difference. The gentleman was com-
plimented on his gallantry. He replied:, " Mdlle Ru-
benstein has taken nearly £20,000 out of nay bank.. If
she leaves thii neighbourhood I shall never see my
'money back again. In helping her to fix her -residence
here, I give myself the chance of retrieving my ill luck."
ADDRESS TO vnn BISHOP 'Or BAtemtr.-----;An ad-
dress of sympathy with ,Bishop Forbes having been
circulated 'among the working classes of Dundee, and
:signed by no fewer than 5,386 of them, a' eputation of
:theirnumher waited on-the bishop on Tuesday evening,
,for the purpose of,presenting lt. The deputation, hav-
ing been introduced to his lordship, presented.the fol
lowing address We, the undersigned, operatives and:
working people -of pumice, of all denominations, desire, at
thispartirmiar time, to express our sincere respect for you,
land our gratitude-for all your numerous acts of kindness
and charity to so many ;of our suffering brethren, while
in sickness and in distress, during• thectwelve years you
have laboured amongst us. May God bless and reward
you forsucbtliaintexested zeal .for. our and our children's
ivolfare and may your future exertions amongst us be
still further rewarded by the conscientious testimony
and esteem of every class of the community." Bishop
Forbes having received the address, made' a very feeling
reply. The deputation, after some further expressions
of their sympathy and esteem for the, bishop, then
retired.=Xclinluveyli Coorant.
01.,trirca.n Cosrinto.—Some amongst us desire, for
the very best Dbjelts, that , our dress as clergymen was
more distinctly demonstrative of our calling. Thev
urge the Wholesome restraint to ourselvea- which such
an outward mark zust *ye against levity or sports
unbecoming out' Rttred character. They dwell on the
self-recollectedness it would help to engender, and on
the aid it would give us in society, by reminding others
as well as ourselves who and what we are. They
point to many and good examples of the usefulness
of so natural a distinction. They have much to urge,•
and they are not uawilling to practice what they
commend ; they would fain, if it were possible, bring
hack into ordinary use the cassock and the tippet.
Failing this, they adopt a dress as near as possible to it,
and as remote, as possible from that of ordinary laymen.
On the other side, it is urged that the English, clergy,
man is an eyiten i that, like other men, he
marries, rubies in soctety, and take his full share in all
civil and social matters ; that he is not, like the RoMan
ecclesiastic, a member of a separate unsympathising
class ; and that on his retaining his frqedom from
this ecclesiastical separatiOn, depends greatly his
acceptance- and his useftdnew with Englishmen.
This party, therefore, whilst it would retain those mode-
irate badges of.colov and shape, which all men identify
with clerical attire,. would eschew all prominent and
startling diversity of dress from that of Saber laymen.
On their. skirts as on the skirts of the other side, hang a
loose cloud ofd extreme men, who pridothemselves in throw-
ing oil all the established sobriety of a clergymen's apparel.
Now, how light a thing this is, and yet how important.
For the - adopting either the one extreme or the
other, marks internal unquietness, and soon- disturbs
external peace. The hottest strifes and most lasting pre,
indices are engendered and kept alive by tlrse outward
badges. Many 'a young clergytan, have
preaChed Chris e'spreadtb lie of fits 'church
throughouta parish iaround him, has marred all his
usefulness and raised a host Of enemies hy the straight-
lie's§ of lils guar, qr the length of his 4irt.-4(fclresses
A 3 tlte oiolates
•Ore3itiall4W Rishop cif
Ox Arc?, ,' •
I'RA MURDER IN NOTT/IsT4TIAMsIIIRE.—The inquest
04 the body of Charles Spencer, who was murdered
' while returning from Gainsborough to Walkeringham,
On'Tuesday night,. was opened on -Wednesday. It will
be remembered that Spencer, stp,ppiinis, M a ferry -souse,
m
met twoen flinn has own village, named Jfebn and
James Benton, who 6d every opportunity of ascertain-
ing that he had in his possession a considerable sum of
money., All. three crossed the Trent together, accom-
panied by a person named Anderson, who resides close
to the river bank. The "Fenton walked on, and Mr.
Spencer remained for a short 'time ix conversation with
Anderson. .He Alien. proceeded homewards, and when
near to his own house was murdered in the .most
barbarous manner. The_ surgeon, who examined
deceased's body, deposed :—" I found - two gun-
shot wounds in his rage, one upon the left
side of the Olin, and the other on.. ihp left side of the
face. I have since taken a bullet out of each wound.
In addition, I found two extensive wounds, one on each
side of his neck, the right side one, being about six
3.inehes.long and four. wide, and the other fonr inches
long, and, two wide. The larger wound divided the
carotid artery and the two principal hloodyessels, the
instrument with whibli the deed was committed having
gone to the backbone, and injured the spinal rntarro_w
The first wound was quite- sufficient to make
and die; and he would die froth loss of blood. on
the left
fin„ on
also a deep cut between the thumb and 5, ~.
- thorn, show-
_hemre
hand, and another deep cut on the rightattempt at resist-
ing that there must have been sconniao___e_of the wqtr4s7
ante. lam quite sure, from t!In,Lo1:1- them ti,pkon
that deceased could not have I ni'
r iiblieyed that the pistols
self. !!-Iq, SMith, f4ritre the murder was com-
he spot
pieked up, near t
to Jo'bn Fenton.
.The same witness
mitted belonging b d, on the morning. of the murder,
stated that Fenton
07: poveTty, and explained 4A anition.s
complained to hoint:ie money to settle a eouuty,court sum-.
The inquest
wish to obtain h
mops, with which he had been served.
To secure possession of the
Wnlaos%ea',€ljdvoleucrenaseeddfowraas wkeneok; 11 to have had on his person
:ems to have been the cause of the commission of the
foul deed, for his pockets were found to have been rifled
of everything. Up to the time at which we write, no
intelligence or the finding of the knife or other instru-
ment with which the awful gashes in deceased's.neck
were made has been received, We learn, however, that
a scarf, the ends of which are covered with blood, has
been found in John Fenton's honk. Fenton, it is'
believed, wore this on the night of.the murder

MERCHANT SHIPPING INQUIRY.

The committee 're-assembled on ThorSday at one
o'clock ; Mr. HorsfaLl in the chair. "

Mr. Phillips, shipoviner and "broker, examined.---,
Believed that during last year there had been a decrease
in the quantity of tonnage built. The distress on the.
shipping interest did not extend to the sailors, for ill
consequence of the care taken of them by the legislature,
they become somewhat masters. There was a diminu-
tion in the number of seamen in consequence of their
obtaining employment in foreign shipping. The number
of apprentices in the merchant service had very much,
decreased. Recent legislation had produced a bad feeling
amongst the smaller class of shipowners, and they were,
not particularly anxious to provide seamen for the navy:.
Had no objection to the system of lights,' but objected to
paying for them, and thought the charge ought to be
defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund. There was
a sum of £361,780 Os. id. in the Consolidated Fund,
which had arisen from the overcharge for lights..
That sum ought to have been applied to the reduc-
tion of the light dues. There was a clause to that
effect in the Merchant Shipping Act, and the Govern-
ment
in that respect were not acting according to
the law, and were not doing justice to the ship-
owners. Her Majesty's navy benefited from the
lights, but paid nothing towards them. The whole "
expense was borne by the merchant service. The Ame-
rican and French coasts were well lighted; but no '-
charges were made upon shipping. He entertained'
strong objections to the Passenger Act on account of its
prolixity, and thought its useful . provisions might be
embodied in a few clauses, and that some of the clauses.
required amendment particularly the 3d,. 4th, and.
11th. He thought; the 12th clause must have orept
into the act by accident, for it was monstrous to provide ,
that the owner of a ship should forfeit, the vessel merely
because the captain had evaded certain regulations with- .
out the owner's knowledge. The 29th clause, which pro—
' hibited the taking of certain articles as cargo, was most
injurious to the shipowner and to the public generally. It
was a great hardship on any gentleman going to Calcutta,
Australia, or India, that he 'was not allOwedto take a
house, a bull, or a ram with him, Whilst he was at
liberty to take a pack of hounds. He was once on
board a, vessel with a pack of hounds, and never 'found
anything more offensive or destructive to the health and
comfort of the people on board. Mr. Philips then pro-
ceeded at great length to point out' many other '
objectionable clauses iii the bill, and afterwards expressed
his decided opinion that the repeal of the navigation
laws had operated very injuriously to British shipping,
and condemned the treaty with France as a one-sided
arrangement.
The committee then adjourned?z" 1 nk lil'alri"vu'(
—,,,,,,

THE INCOME-TAX.

The following correspondence between Mr. GapOf, lc,
M.P. for Lancaster, and the Chancellor of the Exchequecnoq
has been published :
_ _

" March 2, 1860

" have given notice of my intention td move
in Committee of Ways and Means that the abatement of -
Income-tax allowed• to incomes under £l5O a-year be 1:
extended to incomes under £5OO.

" If the Income-tax is to be made a permanent source, •
of revenue—and wbo can, doubt it, especially with a it
Reform Parliament ' looming in the future ?'—l hope I
may be pardoned for suggesting,. by the proposed exten- t
sion, plan—very imperfect I admit—by which the ~
sense of injustice in, taxing permanent and precarious
incomes alike would, I think, to some extent be
diminished.

"The return laid before Parliament last Tuly (No.
119; Sess. 2), stating the amount of Inconie-tax charged
tinder. Schedules D and E, and dividing the persons so." 11.
charged into classes of incomes of £lOO, £10; £200,'
and so on, giveslery valuable information on the Subject ; -
but, taken alone, it is clearly incomplete, and therefore
I shall feel obliged if you can inform me whether it ia
possible, at no great cost of time or money, to lay before-
Parliament a similar return embracing all the schedules rid
—I have the honour to remain, sir, your very faithful „a
servant, ".WILLIAM J. qAprETT. )4

"To the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the,Excheqlker.':l

" 11, Downing-street, Whitehall, March 7.

_ -
" My DEAR SlR,—From the manner in which the In-
come-tax has been levied since it was remodelled in the'
time of Mr. Pitt, we are not able to give for Schedule* -
A and C the returns which have been presented to Par-
liament for Schedule D. Schedules A and C lay the
tax off property, and take no account of the owner
except in cases of application for exemption.
" Neither can we estimate with precision the effect
which the adoption of your suggestion would produce.
But it would probably be little short of £150,000 a-year
for each penny of income-tax. An additional establish-
ment would also be requisite, to the extent of £2,000 to.
£3,000 a-year.—" I remain, faithfully yours,
" "W. E. GLADSTONE.
"W. J. Garnett, Esq., M.P."