The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-26 00:00:00

BOARD OF- T RADE RETURN.

On Saturday. morning were issued the Board of Trade
returns foi the month and two mOnths endirig,'February
29, 1860. We subjoin a statement of the total declared
. value of the exports of British and Irish produce and'
manufactures during the month and two months, includ-
ing only' the " enumerated" articles:—
For the month. For the two months.
1858 . . £6,777,775 . . . £13,519,467
1859 . . 8,976,982 . . . 17,983,071
1860 . . 9,994,836 . . . 18,773,358
Including the " unenumerated articles," the aggregate
exports stand thus :
For the month. For the two months.
" 11858 . . £7,288,416 . • . X 14,610,016
1859 . . 9,614,143 .' . . 19,2(47,400
11860 .' . 10,721,940 .. • *),osg9t 437 I.•

THE SEWER, AND, THE UNDEHGROUND. RATL*.n,..
—We hear Falk' Of some 'great mistake in 'the level .of
the sewers, now. being , diverted in St, Paneras, for the
Underground Rail Way. It is, stated that, after a large
eNpenditure,,the new sewer will require to berlowered
six feet, and that the works are stlippecl.—Builder,
r. lAANoEtt Co? TATOOING.—The Journal tie Rouen
oate,s that the medical statistics of the marine having shown that several cases of loss of limb, and even death,.
had occurred from the practice of tatooing so common
among seamen, the maritime authorities have 11304/),"
mended the discontinuance, of the practice. a- •
At Berlin, a few days ago, a sad aocAdeAk. occurred.-
In casting a group in bronze of animals, ita M. Wollt, •
intended for the -Musentn, th,e. mould brake, and the
liquid metal bnisting forth, scalded several persons.
In: additioala the., roc f of the building wax 'set on fire,
an the, conflagration was not extinguished without
d'ortoulty,
OF A RAILWAY ARCH.—On Saturday, about. one
o'clock, one of the newly-fornied arches for the Exeter
and Yeovil line of railway; in the York-road, Lambeth,
fell in with a tremendous crash: The labontairs, about
200 in number, were at dinner at; the, time; and they
fortunately saved their lives, Thsiseeent damp weather
.was the supposed cause d the accident.
His Royal His the Prince of Wales, who is well
up in all the, good old English sports, , is, we (0-ifors4
,Q4-oaietest understand, likely to make a first-rate tennis
payer. Since his residence in Oxford his royal highness
has patronised the Tennis Gantt in,Merton-iitreet, and in
company with mans pf, the noblemen and gentlemen of
Christ; Church, boa .wielded the racket in an effective
nAnnner.
~Cildboars, it would seem, are almost as numerous in
Vine 14104,0. Ileardy as, rabbits elsewhere. "Atli gleat
boar hunt which took place at Ourteamp, (Oise), _a short
time ago, and, lasted;several days, 104 of 'these animals
were killed. On the first day of last week sixteen were
.killed in the Forests of Coucy and St. Gebain on,
the .following day three more, on the neat, twelve; then,
three ; and on the Jest of all, sis, mote.
THE NEW METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MAR,
KET.—A deputation attended- on Saturday, by aptpant-
.ment, et
,one, pomp. Office, to;explain, to Sir G. Come-
wall loewis and the Hon. Charles Gore the plans pro-
posed by the Corporation for the erection of extensive
wholesale markets, to be conuectoil by the Metropolitan
-Railway, with tlas abattoirs at- the Cattle Market -arid
the great provincial, railroads by which the metropolis
is now chiefly supplied. _
latn Soesat Evil.—. The third, of the series of meet-
ings ;held at .St. James's Piestaurant 'took place' ou
Thursday,night, or ether Friday. Morning.. raider
. same auspices as those on the previous occasions, Not.
' withstaa,d the cards of invitation were not_ diatsihotea
until a short time before the hour appainted for the
meeting, and then only in the intl:aodtate vicinity, the
hail was well filled with the. class of individuals for
whose benefit the movoutent has been set on foot,
A DOG'S sligaissito,.--s-The crew of one of the steamers
which ply between Havre and Rio Janeiro, relate the
following incident "zn the last voyage out, one
of the sailors fell overboard not tar Irons the coast of
'l.3razi!; and a large Newkundland dog, named Pollux,
'belonging to the vessel, immediately jumped into the
aea, and, seizing him by the cravat, maintained his head
Nbore. water until a boat could.put off and pick him up
l'he sailors state that they were SA delighted with this
exploit, that they unenireously resolved that on the
v iritge homand s e-the dog should be formally rated as one a.
their mess, dog their meals."
The Prince Consort has sent a cheque for £2511 to the
Coninaitie4i for the9reat Exhibition .11/einorial. Readers
(says the .4i,sencetsm) will remember that the first pro-
ject for a memorial included 'a bust or statue of the
;prince ai part of- the dezipa; to. this the 'prince strenu-
ously objected, on general and personal grounds. To
these objections thocommittee have at length yielded ;
and the memorial having taken, under Mr. Durham's
hands, a form af which his royal highness heartily
approves, he has now felt himself free to subscribe to. it.
According .to the latest accounts from India, Lord
Clyde has yielded to the pressure of the Governor
General's wishes, and' has consented to remain in India
for another year. The result will be a general though
partial change in the Indian commands. As Sir Hugh
Rose retains the Bombay command, Sir Williaaa Alasas-,
,
field intends; understood, to proceed to Bombay
and to resuaili there until the Premideney- shall be trans-
-fanod to him on Lord Clyde's departure for England._ j
Army and-Navy Gazette,
.•3TIMATEs.—It
/RUMOURED DErtcA't 'USE ARMY
circle that a deficit of
is'currentli ruin,onted military
schnewhopr. about £8.50,01:4 will he found in the amount
required for,. the Army Estimates of this year in conse.
q,isence of e, mistake anode by the clerk whose ilia,' it
vim to totalise the sums to be asked for by the War
. Minister in committee. It is further said that in eons 2
sequenoe of 'this awkWard arithmeticalbninder, the
intended increase of companies ,to. 100 men_ each moss
be postponed for the present,—
.o.nited,Serriee Ga.xtte.
ACCIDENT TO A TAARKii ox THE SkYEAN.--AD
accidentjo'a heave, Welt plaCe OA the Severn on Friday.
..The •Wercestes and Heseford Railway bridge over the -
river, A* heen stengthened by piles placed under the
etches., which ser'iousl'y oltitinet the passage.r On Fri-
t deo, morning, as the canal boat Lady IN ood was brisiag-
• rug-down a cargo of coal from Staffordshire, in, passlng
under the bridge the vessel fouled the pits, throwing
her out of her course, and almost immediately capsizing
her. At the same time there Were seven persons on
board-iriz., the captain, /lamed Whitehouse, his wife, ,
three children, n suer of'Mrs. Whitehouse, and a boat-
man
natreed Causer. Causer swam aalss\ao,, but the
threemorel, and Mrs. Whitehouse's+ sister aged
save aged 16,
were all, drowned. Whitehow contrived toi'e his
wife and himself. - •
SocIETT Ihkrrtrata Anrsawa.—The thirty-seventh
annual exhibition, of the Society of British Artists was •
opened to private view on Saturday Slit will be opened tq p,ublie vie* to-day. The exhibition contains in
88,9 'works of art, of which 9 are sculptures, 22.'s off'
water colour drawings, and 6'3 are oil paintings.' The pqst ;of honour is accorded this se ,g• to W. Saltees
picture, No. 119, "The- of the liose and Lily," and it certainly:deserve& the 401111 distinction of being
the best placed work in the principal apartment, The
subject NNeseiii,ted is the first, interview of' Charles I. and
his fistore. Queen -lienrietta Maria, at Dover. The
Qaigen came across from Calais, in a storm, on the ere/l-
bw Sunday, June 24, 1625 ; and Charles, who had
boz,4 Su waiting at Canterbury, rode oveis to receive her
next morning. • They met with the eakeaneas,f lovers
faint with joy and it is said the young Queen,
first sight of her bridegroom,
THE MARQUIS OP ATBRIX)RD'
8 WILL.-- TRIVIAL
OMISSION.—"4kot ifivot poit,. Mrtin perdit son ane.,.
which Frerach*overb in'-English a
simply-is that " For
want.' of a stop; Martin lost his ass,. But the loss was'a
good deal more than an a.Si, as. he lest the Abbey of
Assello, in consequence of having omitted to put a point after one of tot sentences in his petition, in
which he preferred his claim, to the ecclesiastical
nrnpersy. Some of the sons of tie present Marquis
of waterford are - likely- to And themselves losers,
owing to the late martinis having involuntarily com-
mitted. a' somewhat similar trifling -Mistake. The noble
maresuise in Making his will, used the words; in devising
his Irish estates, 4, I. leave the whole _of my pro-
perty to my 'brother, Lord John Beresford, and to his
sons in succession ;" but in bequeathing his English
property, he omitted the preposition "to," and-merely
said, " I leave my property .to my brother,' Lord
John Beresford, and his sons in succession." This
omiasions slight as it may appear, has formed the
ground for a Chancery 'suit, fur the purpose of
obtaining a legal Oonstsuction of the document.
Lloyd, on the part of the younger sons of Male
_present marquis, contended that, by the
words cited,
rd during
the estate was given to Lord John Be
his life, after which the whole of his
sons should
enjoy it simultaneously as one body. The 'Lord
Chancellor, in expressing his opinion, _
was of thought the
si omission of the word " to" in the w
importance, and asked very reasonably, what
hat difference
is there between saying o I send a cake to you and
your children," and " I send a cakelßrtoueeyoueoualtl
nott°
ont.children." Lord Justice Knight
concur in this view, and observed grayery,o;ercty,
on., Thissutnable
articles are very different from landed
is file enough, but still we cannot see why cakes and
land might not be given away in nearly the same words.
It i 4 a Curious circumstance that the best lawyers have
made the strangest wills. Lord Eldon's will is quite a
curiosity, and we believe Lord Abinger forgot to attach
his signature to the testament by which he disposed of
his property.—Sasuley Pines,