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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The weather for the last day or two has been
unusually severe. It blew a terrific gale from the
nenh-west on Thursday night, which will, no
doubt, tell many a sad tale when accounts from sea
are to hand. As yet, we have not had any serious
accounts of disasters at sea, but a post or two will
probably furnish us intelligence of what occurred
long the coasts of the United Kingdom.
Our police reports in to-day's paper contains an
ecount of violence on board an American ship, the
Albert Gallatin. The case was one of an unwarrant-
able assault committed by the mate of the ship in
'question, upon two Germans and a Frenchman.
Mr. Aspinall, barrister, conducted the case for the
prosecution, and commented upon the absence of
the American Consul, who should have been pre-
sent on the occasion. The offence was fully
proved, and Mr. Mansfield inflicted fines to the
amount of .CO 13s. 6d. upon the mate, which he
paid, evidently greatly chagrined at the result of
the investigation. If what Mr. Aspinall asserted
:respecting the inhuman treatment practised upon
seamen in American ships, be anything like truth,
same steps should be taken by the United States
Government to put a stop to conduct—barbarous
and cruel in the extreme.
Yesterday a deputation, headed by Major Reid,
M.P., waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and urged the Right Hon. Gentleman to state his
intention to renounce " the war ninepenee," com-
monly called the Income Tax. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer replied that the Government had
no desire to take advantage of the peculiar wording
of the act, but it would depend upon the amount of
the army and navy estimates as to whether the tax
nthl be reduced. Notwithstanding this plausi-
hdity on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet, we
acy he is not quite prepared to give up the tax
in question.
Lord Ernest Vane, who has earned for himself
some little notoriety in consequence of his conduct
towards Cornet Ames, was figuring in the Court
of Exchequer yesterday, having been sued by an
eminentjeweller in Bond street, London,for the sum
of 150/. 19s for goods sold and delivered. To the
demand the noble defendant pleaded, by his
guardian, infancy and never indebted. After the
ease had proceeded some length the judge, Mr.
Baron Bramwell, told the plaintiff's counsel, Mr.
Edwin James, Q.C., that he had failed to prove
more than 631., and noon this announcement being
made, Lord Ernest Vane Tempest's counse4 Mr.
declined to go to the jury, and a verdict
was taken, by direction of his lordship, for 651. 15s.
Truly these scions of nobility are troublesome
customers, and well might Mr. James complain of
the conduct of the noble Marchioness for not paying
the whole amount.
As is usual at this particular season of
the year, when Parliament is about to assemble,
various rumours are afloat resnecting contem
plated changes in the Cabinet. They are, however,
only rumours, and must be taken as the idle gossip
of certain interested politicians. That Lord
Palmerston would find himself much more secure
in his position if ho got rid of some of his
colleagues, there can be no doubt. The volatile
conduct of his junior Lord of the Admiralty, Sir
Robert Peel, has tended in more ways than one to
bring contempt upon the entire cabinet. Both
Sir Charles Wood and Sir George Grey would, no
doubt, be glad to escape the cares and toils
appertaining to their high office. Talking of the
ministry reminds us to observe that the Right
Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., Vice President of the
Board of Trade, has just been paying a visit to
Manchester, and feasting with the Cotton Lords
of that aspiring city. Our readers are well aware
of his extraordinary efforts to rob Liverpool of the
Town Dues. Can it be that he has gone down to
Manchester at this particular season to take his
instructions how he is to proceed during the
approaching Session, in his proposed scheme
of public plunder ? It behoves the people
of Liverpool to look well to this matter.
The statements made at the annual meet-
ing of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
on Monday, and the visit of the Vice President of
the Board of Trade following so soon after, tells
us that something is in the wind—that something
can be nothing else than the concoction of a scheme
to deprive Liverpool of her legal rights—the Town
Dues.

The murder of Mr. Little has not yet ceased
to afford food for gossip among the citizens of
Dublin. We observe by the papers of that city,
that a circumstance has oozed out within the last
day or two which, assuming the facts to be correct,
will sutheient!y explain the early arrest and subse-
quent detention of Catherine Campbell, who, by
the way, has not returned to her friends in the county
but is still in Dublin under the surveillance of the
police. It is stated that a little before 7 o'clock on
the night of the murder, and on the arrival of the
up train from Galway, this woman came out of the
house to the great gateway at the rear, where one
of the railway police was on duty, to whom she
told a plausible story of the expected arrival, by the
train just then come in, of a female cousin ; and,
pleading the neglected state of her dress—being
without a bonnet or shawl—she requested the
policeman to find out her expected visitor, and
accompany her back, she (Campbell) promising
to keep guard until his return. The distance to the
end of the platform where the third class carriages
stop is not more than 30 or 40 yards, but in the
bustle and confusion consequent upon the arrival
of a train, a deal of time would be lost in the search
for a country cousin ; and, so it turned out, for
after a fruitless enquiry the policeman returned to
his beat, and announced the result of his mission
to Catherine Campbell, who then returned into the

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house. Subsequent enquiries were made, with a
view of ascertaining whether this country cousin
had any real existence, and, her place of residence
being indicated by Campbell, it was found that
part of her statement was correct, but the woman
on being interrogated positively denied that she
bad any intention of going to Dublin, either on
the night in question or at any other time. So
goes the story; but, where ali official sources of
information are closed to the public, and where
every proceeding in connection with the murder
has been conducted with a secrecy worthy of the
Spanish Inquisition, it must be received with the
same amount of reserve which attached to every
incident that has transpired since the commence-
ment of the abortive investigation at the Broad-

stone terminus.
Among the political gossip now in circulation is
a statement to the effect that Sir John Pakington,
with a number of distinguished Commoners, hare

joined themselves together for the purpose of
resisting any attempt to despoil the Church of one
of her most ancient sources of ine,ine—Church
rates. We also observe that the right hon. baronet
has this week visited Manchester, and attended a
meeting of Educationists of that city, when the
heads of the new bill for extending education was
read He and Mr. Cobden are to have charge of
the measure.

In the course of a few days after the assembling
of I?arliameiii the several seats now virtually
caeant in the House of Commons will be keenly
contested. Respecting Southampton, we are told
that the Government has re-installed Mr. Falvey
in the situation of distributor of stamps. This
gentleman, we need scarcely remind our readers,
took an active part in the canvass for Mr. James,
who appeared on the side of the Government, and
was not interfered with ; but when he espoused
the cause of Mr. Andrews, who goes too far for
Lord Palmerston, his situation was taken away.
The Board of Inland Revenue have given it back
to him in consideration, no doubt, of the public
feeling against such an act; but Government has the
consolation of knowing that all other distributors
of stamps and taxes, and all other servants under
the Crown, will thus be apprised that submission
and slavery are their best hope.
The most important portion of our foreign news
tells us, that the Governor of Canton. encouraged
by the support of the chief inhabitants, had, with
more spirit than prudence, continued to resist the
demands of Queen Victoria's admiral and agents;
had burnt the foreign factories, and set fire to the
foreign banks ; and, says the despatch, it was
resolved that the city of Canton itself should not
now be spared by the English and other forces
before it. It is truly appaling to contemplate the
awful sacrifice of human life which this apparently
insignificant dispute may eventually cause.
We have late advises from Persia, which tell us
that the British Expedition against Persia had
made its first coup, and captured Bushie and the
Island of Barrack. There was not anyprobability
of the Shah's relinquishing his attitude of defiance.
According to a statement put forth in one of the
ministerial prints, yesterday, Brigadier Chamber-
layne's force is operating against the Meeranzyes,
at the express invitation of Dost Mahomed Khan ;
and, as soon as this service is performed, it will
return within our ONVII frontier. Should it be
necessary to march any force above the passes, in
order to protect the Affgbans from Persian attack,
our troops would of course advance from Scinde
by the high road of Quetta and Candahar. At
present, however, Post Mahomed is believed to be
strong enough to resist the invasion with which
his territories are threatened.

There is later news from the Cape of Good Hope,
but there is not any intelligence of interest.
Matters had become quiescent, and Umhalah had
given orders to his people to plough.

THE subject of manufacturing duty paying
goods and bottling wine in bond has often been
urged on the attention of the Government, but with
little success. The Treasury insists on having
the duty paid on the raw material before any
labour has been expended upon it. We believe
this to be a very injurious course for the Ex-
chequer, and no less hurtful to the manufacturers

and industry of the country. In the preparation
of tobacco, for example, some thousands of
additional hands might be employed in this town.
By allowing our manufacturers to make their
cigars, if for export only, under the government
lock, we might compete with the cigar makers
of Germany and every other country. We
could sell the Americans cigars cheaper, made
of the tobacco grown in the States, than they
could produce them. Sugar might be refined in
bond also, to great advantage both to the importer
and the Treasury. The blending and bottling of
wine in bond has long been allowed in London,
but the latter only for export. Now, wine and
tobacco are improved by age, while sugar dete-
riorates seriously by being kept too long in store ;
and why wine should not be allowed to mature
in bottle, instead of losing, as much of it does,
by being kept in the wood, has never been
satisfactorily explained.

Good crusted port ready for consumption, and
tobacco made into " prime old Havannahs," would
be far better security for duty than raw produce,
a large portion of which perishes and is -wholly
lost in the government stores. Liverpool might
have the largest cigar and tobacco trade
in the world, giving constant employment
to thousands of hands, if the Treasury
would allow the raw material to be
worked up for home and foreign markets,
under their own lock and key. We might also
have an immense bottled-wine and refined sugar
trade if the same privilege were granted. Every
pound spent on the raw material would be so
much additional security for the payment of
duty ; whilst the public would be supplied with
pure articles which would command the highest
prices. This would be all in favour of the fair
trader, and there can be no doubt that it would
lead to a large increase in the consumption of
these duty-paying commodities, and a propor-
tionable increase in the revenue. This, added to
what we should gain by being wine-bottlers,
sugar-refiners, and tobacco-manufacturers for
every other country, and so disposing of our
surplus stocks, of which we now have a large
amount annually on hand, would be a very great
boon to the community at large.

We must expect, however, that the proposal
will be met by many objections in official
quarters. Routine will say, " the project is too
" vast, and the business contemplated would
" soon grow beyond all government control."
The lovers of the " as you was" system will see
a direct innovation on the old mode of allowing
goods to rot before they are made use of. But
we would put one simple question to these
tapeists, and ask them how they manage the
prodigious malting, distilling, brewing business,
and paper and tobacco manufactures at present ?
Frauds may be perpetrated, but as we hear of
very few serious convictions, we may fairly as-
sume that no great mischief can be attributed
to the extraordinary magnitude at which these
mercantile pursuits have arrived. Give the wine-
merchant a bonded warehouse or vault for bot-
tling, the tobacco manufacturer a bonded ware-
house, and the sugar refiner the room he re-
quires under bond, and capital and labour will
find a wide and profitable field of employment in
anticipating that enlarged consumption which
genuine articles will always command. Our
machinery, and low-priced skilled labour, give us
advantages which would make us the general
manufacturers for the world, if we could only get
the raw material.

We should import, make, and export things
which no Britisher would ever think of eating,
drinking, wearing, or allowing into his house,

but for the Government lock. We must first
pay duty before we can manufacture for export,
and then we get a drawback, Now, if we were
allowed to employ the money we pay in duty, in
manipulating in bond duty paying articles marked
specially for export, the revenue would not suf-
fer, nor would the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER lose one sixpence by allowing articles
of a delicate and perishable character to be pre-
served, and put in a more marketable shape for
home consumption. The Crown would lose
nothing whatever by making the concessions we
have mentioned. A few additional locker*.
might be required, but what would the expense
or trouble amount to, if we had fifty bonded fac-
tories added to our breweries, distilleries, &c.,
compared with what we should gain by the in-
creased employment of labour and capital ?.
One of our largest cigar and tobacco manufa~-
turers has assured us, that if he could manu-
facture in bond, he would put on one thousand
hands instanter, and that he would be able to
compete successfully with the Germans and all
other foreigners; and we have no hesitation in
saying, that our wine importers could supply
foreign markets with bottled wine at a lower rate
than many of the wine growing countries. And
these are considerations which ought not to be
longer overlooked by Government, and those
local associations who devote so much valuable
time to commercial affairs.

Weimar, went out shooting. The Marquis of Ailesbury,
the Earl of Derby, and Sir George Bowles had the honour
also to accompany the Prince. The second Dramatic
Performance at the Castle took place this evening: The
pieces selected on this occasion were a petite comedy, in
two acts, by Mr. J. M. Morton, entitled " Our Wife ; or,
The Rose of Amiens," and a farce, in one act, by Mr. John
Poole, entitled "Deaf as a Post,"

The Qtteen and Prince continues to receive the best
accounts of the haalth of his Royal highness Prince Alfred,
from Geneva, where he has been residing for some weeks.

ANTI-INCOME TAX MEEFINGS.—The agitation against
the continuance of this objectionable impost continues to
proceed with unabated vigour. A grand demonstration
took place in London on Wednesday, when several dis-
tinguished members of the House of Commons attended,
several of whom addressed the meeting, urging the expe-
diency of effecting the total and immediate repeal of the
tax in question. Yesterday, a respectable deputation waited
upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and urged upon him
the extreme desirability of so constructing his forthcoming
budget as to avoid the necessity of levying an income tax
according to the mode now in operation.
THE WRECK OF THE TYNE.—The Commander in Chief
of Portsmouth has been applied to by Captain Vincent, the
superintendent of the Royal Mail Company, who is at
the Isle of Purbeck, endeavouring to get off the Tyne
steamer stranded there, for the loan of a couple of powerful
steam tugs of light draught of water, to be employed in
dragging the Tyne from the rocks. The gale of Monday
from the south west did not do any damage to the stranded
vessel. An attempt to get her off will be made to day
or to-morrow, and it will soon be known whether she
will be a lost ship or not. The landmark near which
the steamer lies is called in the charts St. Aldan's.
It is popularly called, however, St. Alban's. On
the top of St. Aldan's Head, which is of immense
height, there are the remains of an ancient chapel which
was dedicated to St. Aldhan, and which was supported
centuries since by mariners who bestowed their offerings
when they landed at neighbouring harbours after they had
passed the headland in safety. The remains of the chapel
are now used by the coast guardsmen. On the top of the
headland also are walls built of loose stones crosswise, where
the coast guardsmen can be sheltered from the wind no
matter in what direction it blows. These places are
absolutely necessary, or men would at times be blown of
the cliff into the sea. St. Aldhan's Head is about seven
miles from Swanage and 12 from Wareham.

ACCIDENT TO THE TAMAR.—The Tamar (R.M.S.), which
left Southampton on the 9th instant, for Lisbon and the
Brazils, has put into Vigo with much damage to machinery
and rudder.

ADVICE TO ENGLAND.—The Assemblee Nationale submits
the following disinterested and flattering advice to-England :
--England is indebted to her industrial development for
the strength and grandeur she enjoys—a fictitious strength
and grandeur, since it is this excessive development that
has created those perils which cause us at this hour to
question the destinies of the haughty nation which aspires
to the destinies of ancient Rome. England endeavours to
extend her domination over all the seas, islands, and conti-
nents ; she should perhaps renounce these vast ideas in
favour of the more humble task of secnrittg her internal
existence, which is menaced by the barbarians who people
her manufactories. There exist in England volcanoes that
are now audible, and which will finish by running over. It
is not for nothing that, amidst a civilisation proud of its
luxury and its brilliant appearances, there exist masses of
men, women, and children who wallow in the most fearfnl
misery, and live beyond the pale of Christian laws.

THE ATTACK ON CANTON.—A letter from St. Petersburg
of the Bth, in the Debats, says :—" The news of the attack
on Canton by the English fleet has produced a consider-
able sensation here. It appears certain that depots of
goods belonging to Russian Merchants have been burnt,
and that their loss of property has been considerable. This
act, which is perfectly unjustifiabia and for which no serious
motive can be assigned, is regarded here as the prelude
to the conquest which the English propose to themselves
to make of the Island of Chusin. The Russian Govern-
ment is perfectly aware of the intentions of the English,
and of all the plans which they meditate in China,
and for which purpose they have been for some years past
very quietly increasing their naval force on that station,
until they have now a very formidable fleet there. All the
intrigues carried on by English agents with a view to ruin
the important commercial relations which the Russian
merchants carry on with China through the town of
Kiachta, are well known at St. Petersburg. It does
not unfrequently happen that large quantities of tea
of the finest qualities, thus imported by land into
Russia, are purchased by English houses and sent
to London. It is well known with what jealousy
the English 'watch the progress of the Russian military and
commercial establishments on the river Amur, where we
already touch, by the south of Siberia for a distance of more
than 400 kilometres (250 miles), on the Chinese frontier.
All the triangle between that part of Siberia and the
Amur, and of which Nicolaieff has been designed by the
Emperor to be the new capital, may now be considered as
definitely belonging to the Russian empire. The intelli-
gent men who were sent some years ago into those distant
countries, have so well secured Russian domination there,
that all commercial affairs with the Chinese provinces may
be said to be exclusively in the hands of Russian
merchants. The anxiety of the English to dislodge
the Russians from these countries may be thus readily con-
ceived, but they will have the more difficulty in effecting
their purpose that the different Russian military establish-
ments along the Amur are becoming every day more and
more formidable. It may be also remembered that the
English made a fruitless attempt, in 1855, to penetrate with
their squadron into this river, the mouth of which has been
since so well fortified that it would now cost immense
efforts and sacrifices to force this new Cronstadt with vessels
of war."

THE WRECK OF THE TYNE.—The attempt to get off the
Tyne is postponed until Tuesday next, in consequence of the
time which must be occupied in taking the paddle wheels
from her, and performing other preliminary operations.
The government authorities at Portsmouth have!consented
to send down powerful tugs to insure the success of her
being got off next Tuesday. People have slept on board
of her every night since the first night after she was
stranded. The surf, rollers, or waves, fortunately break
before they reach the ship. Lieut. Fuge, the Anmiralty
agent who was injured in the head while attempting to
save her mails, now lies dangerously ill at Southampton,
The two wild animals brought home in the stranded
steamer Tyne were pumas from Buenos Ayres. They are
the only animals found on the American continent which
bear a resemblance to the:lion of the old world. They
were good tempered to those who fed them on board.
They lived on raw flesh and bones. During the confusion
when the steamer went ashore, they were neglected, but
some one thought of giving them some live poultry before
the shin was deserted ; they killed it instantly, and devoured
it. They were kept on short commons for two or three
days after that, but before they left :Southampton for the
Zoological Gardens, in London, they were well cared for
and got into good condition.

tion was, of course after all, very cold. I wonder how long
is Europe to be humbugged by these comedians styling
themselves, Emperors, going about and procuring audiences
with money or threats, and then exclaiming, " Behold,
how popular lam !" There is a wonderful dearth of poli—
tical news, and in foreign and domestic affairs a poi feet
lull. All conversation turns on the Verger case, on which
opinions are much divided—l mean on the character of the
min : few abstain from blaming, directly, or indirectly,
the conduct of the trial. The Siecle of this morning'
without alluding to Verger, mentions that ➢lr. Redpath
was allowed to produce his calumnies in court; and that
they did no harm, because he was a criminal. The drawn
inference is, that if what Verger had to say was calumnious,
no injury would have been committed if he had uttered
them."

THIII BEALE Toras.—The musical public of Liverpool.
will soon have an opportunity of hearing two of the most
interesting lyric performances which have ever taken place in
this town, arrangements having been made with Mr. Beale for
the representation of " Ii Trovatore." and " Il Don Giovanni,"
at the Theatre Royal, the former on the 9:h, and the latter on
the 10th February. Both operas will be supported by the
most powerful and complete company that could possibly be
brought together in this country ; but the attraction to be pre-
sented will not rest exclusively with the principal artistes, as is
too frequently the case in such undertakings. A complete band
and chorus has been selected from those of the Royal Italian
Opera and her Majesty's Theatre, and every effort, decorative
no less than musical, will be made to ensure the most perfect
execution of Verdi's chef d'oeuvre, "II Trovatore," and
Mozart's immortal " Don Giovanni."

IREL4ND.

THE NEW Bisuor.—The announcement of the

name of the new bishop yesterday took the public
by surprise, for, although one of the first set down
in the list of candidates, there were believe:l to he
obstacles in the way of Archdeacon Fitzg,,erald's
elevation which considerably diminished the
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strength of his claims. These, however, being
surmounted, the appointment must be regarded as
creditable to the judgment of Lord Carlisle. Dr.
Fitzgerald is a profound scholar and one of the
most eloquent pulpit orators in the diocese of
Dublin, but being of a somewhat cold and reserved
temperament, he is said to be rather unpopular
among the junior clergy with whom he came in
contact. Bating this slight drawback, it would be
hard to suppose that any party or section of a
party could raise a sound objection to his well
merited promotion. The following sketch of the
m'nisterial career of the new bishop appears in the
neutral columns of Saunders's Neasletter :
f cDr. Fitzgerald, the Archdeacon of Kildare, Professor
of Ecclesiastical' History of the University, Incumbent of
Monkstown, near Dublin, private chaplain to his Grace
the Archbishop of Dublin, and also on the list of Chap-
lains to his excellency the Lord Lieutenant, is Bishop
elect of the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne. and Ross.
The Lord Lieutenant's letter, we believe, reached Dr.
Fitzgerald on Tuesday evening last, and the public mind
is at length set at rest by an appointment less open to
cavil and objection from any quarter or party in the
church than would probably be that of any other clergy-
man of the whole united church that could be named.
Remarkable throughout a memorable career for uncom-
mon ability, laborious habits, profound learning, and un-
ostentatious piety, the new bishop uniformly steered clear
of faction, and never committed himself to any party in the
church. Even on tile vexed question of national educa-
tion in Ireland, though favourable, as is understood, to
the system, he never put himself forward as its champion
or apologist. " If,' as- is said in the 28th number of the
Cautions for the times—a paper, by the way, attributed to'
Dr. Fitzgerald's peri—' you can never trust a party man;
and if, on the other hand, as is stated in the same article,
' a sensible and upright man who keeps himself unconnected
with party may be calculated on as likely to act on the
views which you have found him to take on each point,'
then it may be said that no man should be more trusted
than Dr. Fitzgerald—none should be more calculated
on from his character and antecedents to act the
part of a consistent, exemplary, and devoted prelate.
As rector of the important parish of Monkstown,
he did not, we believe, dispute the arrangements
of the parochial schools, though they had been con-
ducted on the principles of the Church Education Society;
nor did he, on obtaining the living, dismiss Arch-
deacon Lindsay's curates, though one of them, the Rev.
Thomas Rooke, was, and still is, on the committee of that
society. In the parish of Donoughmore, in the county of
Wicklow, of which he had been the incumbent previous
to holding the living of St. Anne's, he acted in like
manner, and permitted the schools to be conducted on
the old system, so that it may be presumed hi 3 patronage
as a bishop will be dispensed somewhat according to this
rule—by promoting really meritorious ministers, not
because they are partisans of either the National Board
or the Church Education Society. Dr. Fit zgerald became
scholar of the university in the year l 833, and on entering
the ministry continued deacon for many years, in conse-
quence of some scruples regarding priest's orders, which
he found difficult to overcome. As an author it may be
said of him—' Nullum tetiigit quod non ornavit,' as every-
thing he has written is of the highest literary merit and of
a varied kind. His edition of Butler's Analogy is the
standard edition of that immortal work wherever it has
been given ; also, his edition of the Nicomachean Ethics of
Aristotle, his volume of Practical Sermons, and other
works. He is the fourth of the chaplains of his Grace the
Archbishop of Dublin who have become bishops, the late
Bishop of Meath, Dr. Dickenson ; the present Bishop of
Norwich, Dr. Hinds ; and the late Bishop of Cork, Dr.
Wilson, having filled that position; and, in addition to his
fitness for the mitre as a scholar and divine, the experience
he has acquired as the archbishop's chaplain must be of
incalculable value In the discharge of the duties of the
episcopal office. It is said that the Rev. Hercules Dicken-
son, rector of St. Anne's Parish, will be his successor as
the archbishop's private chaplain, and that the Rev. Dr.
Moeran, Professor of Moral Philosophy, T.C.D., and
minister of Bethel Church, at Kingstown, will succeed
him in the living of Monkstown."

It appears from a statement in the Evening Mail
that a successor to poor Mr. Little in the office of
cashier has been at length appointed by the board
of directors, at the unassuming salary of £l5O per
annum, or £5O less than the sum allotted to the
deceased officer. Commenting upon this ill judged
parf.imony, a writer in the journal above named
indignantly exclaims :
Can men be found in this day, respectable men, of
course, willing to give £1,500 security, and to undertake a
most serious trust in which thousands per week of public
money is placed in their hands, and they held responsible,
if they take a base crown, a light sovereign, or a forged
note, to make it good out of their own purse, for the
dazzling prospect of £l5O a year? Can any terms ade.
quately express the feelings with which such conduct on
the part of railway directors must be viewed ? Is it not
paying a premium to enrourage embezzlement ? No doubt
the grinding system is largely carried out in these days,
but this out-herods Herod—a post, too, in which one
amiable man fell a victim to his integrity, and where the
murderer still stalks secure, perhaps meditatiag a second
coup. It is stated that this reduction of £5O per year is
to go towards paying the munificent donation of £2OO
which the directors have voted towards the subscription
now making in aid of poor Little's mother and sister—a
donation so miserably small and inadequate that many
respectable citizens refused to contribute to the fund until
the company shall be compelled, by the unanimous voice
of the public, to mend their contramtion, and 'make it
somewhat more in proportion to the loss which the be-
reaved family of their faithful cashier has sustained.

ARRIVALS RARE IN LIVERPOOL.—A. pair of very fine
tigers have been brought to this port by Captain Lefever,
of the barque Neptune, from Plate River, South America,
and landed in King's dock. These beautiful animals were
purchased by the Lion Slayer, and conveyed to the encamp.
ment at bottom of Shaw's Brow.

CoNvlcra IN VAN DIRMAN'S LAND.—As there has been
much said in reference to the rising of the Quarry Gang
at Port Arthur, we give a correct version of the affair
which we have received from our own correspondent :
"On Friday last, between the honrs of 3 and 4in the
afternoon, a rush was made by eight or nine ot the penal
servitude men upon the constables who were stationed to
guard them. The constables fired, but without inflicting
any injury upon the men. I was immediately on the spot,
and we fortunately succeeded in capturing six of them.
Two of•them, however, named Patfield and Moran, got
clear away. Patfield is a very dangerous fellow. They
were chased from Eagle Hawk Neck, and it appears made
their way to the sheep runs near the coal mines. We never
heard ot or saw them afterwards till last evning (24th),
when they were taken at the sheep farm. Of What use the
military are which are stationed here I know not. On this
occasion they tcek no part further than coming out of the
guardroom to witness the fun. lam afraid we shall have
warm work here during the summer season. They have
begun early. We are now getting rid of all the men who
received oily short sentences, and they are being replaced
by men whose period of punishment is more extended.
There is no hope held out to any of these fellows ; and I
have heard some of them declare that they would rather
be shot in compassing their escape than remain here. Dido
and Flaherty axe going on very steady at present. There
cannot be a question, however, as to the necessity of at
once placing a guard of military over these men.—Hobart
Town Mercury, Sept. Z.
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