Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-16 00:00:00

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY.
This Committee met to-day at noon. Sir Jemes Graham
in the chair. The other members present were, Lord
Henniker, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Paget, and Mr. North.
Mr MICRRIC \MITER said he thought it was his duty on
behalf of the Liverpool Corporation to tell the committee,
in the first pla^e, exfv,tly how (the opponents of the bill)
stord. It would not be uninteresting to the committee, in
their kindness, to know how Mc. Shuttleworth was. That
gentleman was progressing favourably, but at present he
was not in a condition to corns to London, under the advice
of his medical attendant. The evidence of the Town Clerk,
therefore,couldnotat present be proceeded with, and it would
b 3 inconvenient for gentlemen t 3 leave Liverpool that day,
as the American mail arrived on Sunday, and Monday
was a most impst•tant day of business. He hs.d witnesses
with which he could proceed to a certain extent, but he
was bound to say he thought their evidence would not
occupy the whole day. They had sent to Liverpool for
witnesses.

The CIIAIRIRN was extremely sorry to hear this, Mr.
Shuttleworth was taken ill on Friday afternoon, and
three days had elapsed—a sufficient period in which to
have procured evidence. The period was now rapidly
approaching when the functions of the committee would
cease. The committee had a great public duty to perform,
and it would be a great pity if such a matter of public
importance as this should be defeated by a waste of
time Such a thing would he di•graceful to the opponents
of the bill, and very discreditable to the committee, if
they allowed such a proseeding—if they allowed such a
melancholy deft at to take place As to inconvenience in
attending before the committee, Liverpool gentlemen must
know th.t the committee were put to great inconvenience
in attending to hear all this evidence, and that the sacri-
fice on both sides should be mutual.
Mr. AIEREIVETTIER said, that his clients were gentlemen
who were incapable of an unworthy action, and he there-
fore asked e Chairman to dismiss from his mind the idea
that he seemed to entertain, that the Corporation wished
to defeat this bill by time, they would engage at the risk
of not calling all their witnesses, that that should not
take place.

The CHAIRMAN said, he had had a request on Saturday
that the committee would not sit to-day, but he had
assured that gentleman that they would sit, and, there-
fore, the Corporation had had Ample time to make proper
arrangements fer proceeding with business to-day.
Mr. MEREWETIM said, unfortunately the Town Clerk
was she solicitor under the opposition, and his atten-
dance was necessary to instruct counsel as the examina-
tion proceeded.
The CHAIRMAN : We are now within a fortnight of the
period when this committee must come to an opinion
affirmatively or negatively upon the merits of this bill, and
our lime ought not to be wasted. If you do not proceed
to occupy our time to-day, we should consider ourselves
very ill-used.
Mr. MEREWETIIER : Sir. I think you shall have no
cause to repeat the imputation—we will proceed.
Mr. John Weightman, surveyor to the Liverpool Cor-
poration, said—l have held that office about nine years,
and as assistant eleven years I am aware of the land trans-
actions that have taken place between the Corporation and
the Dock Committee during the last eleven years. I
have now the records on the question from the date of
Queen Anne. The first gift was made in 1710, and con-
sisted of 5-1- acres, and £5OO ; the second in the reigu of
George the Second, 1737, 18.3 acres, for the Salthouse and
and Thy Decks, and a sum of £l,OOO ; the third was in
the year 1762, the second of George the Third, 17 acres :
the fourth gift was in 1785, 15 acres, for the George's Dock
and quay ; the fifth gift was in 1811, for the extension of
the Queen's Dock, 14 acres, and £15,165, for which they
were to receive 2 acres of the old dock, constructed in
the reign of Queen Anne. The Dock Trust subsequently
gave up the remainder to erect a custom-house. That
building was erected jointly by the Corporation and the
Government, the former contributing £75,000. The Dock
Trust stipulated for a portion tithe building to be reserved
as offices for them. The value of the land that the Corporation
gave towards that building was £7,000. The next gift was
in the 1826, when the Corporation gave up property and
reversionary interests to the extent of £29,000, the latter
being worth alone £21,229. The Corporation have given
fifty-six acres to the docks, and money aed reversions to the
amount cf £41,894. The first sale was made in 1788 of land
near the King's Dock, in all 68,975 yards of land, for which
the corporation gave and received from the Dock Trust
£27,315. The corporation subsequently sold land byt a
jury tu Lue v.O .01i,C
tionary interest in a house received £1,249 is ; -181:2,
they sold, under the verdict of a jury, 5,313 yards of land
on the strand for £974. Again, they sold the reversion of
three houses near the Salthouse Dock, for £214 10s, and a
piece of land for £328. These were jury sales, In
January, 1825, the corporation sold No. 4 and 5
graving docks for £29,800 to the Dock Trust. The
quantity of laud was 16,387 yards. The corpora.
tion had expended in improving them about £20,000.
In 1826 they sold more property, 6,033 yards, for
£18,361 13s, This land was occupied by houses and
warehouses rented by tenants of the Corporation, whose
reversionary inrerests had to be bought up by the Corpora-
tion. This was a jury sale. In 1841 there was a further
sale, consisting of all the property to the west side of the
Salthouse Dock, consisting of graving docks, shipyards,
warehouses, &c. The price was fixed by agreement, in
anticipation of, and was inserted in, the act of Parliament.
The quantity of land was 83,353 yards, and the price at
which it was sold £221,853 17s. The Corporation have
expended on these two last properties, of which the pro-
ceeds were £250,000 the sum of £98,000.
The CHAIRMAN : It is impossible to follow these
important statements viva tom ; we must have an
abstract.
The witness' examination was resumed. The corporation
in 1806, handed over to the Dock Trust property for the
construction of the Prince's Dock, of the value of £41,000,
and to the extent of 92,282 yards about 41,1651 yards
had been bought by the corporation. On this transaction
they gained nothing, for they sold the land at the price
they gave for it. Subsequently the corporation, in the
year 1817, paid the Board of Ordnance for the old
fort on the site of the Prince's Dock £4,173 145.,
although originally they had given the Board the
site of that fort. In 1819 the corporation sold the
Dock Trust under the verdict of a Jury, for Prince's
Dock and Basin, 79,198 yards for £30,053 15s. 7d. In
1820 the Waterloo, Victoria, and Clarence Docks, and
quays, were under construction, and under a jury's
verdict they received £llO,OOO for 270,049 yards of land.
In 1844, for the Collingwood and Stanley Docks, the cor-
poration sold 346,040 yards for £250,879, a sum which
was fixed by agreement under she act of parliament On
this property the corporation had expended upwards of
£136,000. The last transaction was 560,000 yards of
land purchased from Lord Derby for £17,000, and from
the Duchy of Lancaster for £83,000 In 1809, for one of
the South docks the Dock Trust paid the corporation, under
a jury's verdict, £13,091 lls 8d for 4,107 yards. On the
same day, and under a jury's verdict, another sale of
73.169 yards for the Coburg dock, was sold for £30,104
15s. In 1826, the corporation sold buildings and
strand, South, for £65;900, the quantity of land
being 159,912 yards. In embanking this land the
corporation had expended £lO,OOO at least. In March,
1850, land for widening the approaches to the Wapping
docks was sold by the corporation to the dock trustees for
£164,170. I represented the corporation in fixing these
values, and Mr. John Stewart the docks. The quantity of
land was 40,500 yards. The total amount of these sales
has been £1,073,357 65., and in respect of all the expendi-
ture and purchase money of the property by the corpora-
tion which they have thus sold is £388,251 17s id., leaving
a balance accruing to the corporation of £685,105 Bs. 11d.
I have heard it stated that the corporation has sold land to
the Dock Trust which had been improved at the expense
of the docks —an assertion which was incorrect. It is not
true that the corporation now hold 47 acres of land re-
claimed at the expense of the docks. The witness then
proceeded to corroborate the Town Clerk's evidence as to
the sales of land at Birkenhead.
Cross-examined by Mr. CALVERT : The land was not
made by the Dock Trust, except in so far as they, to save
expense to themselves, placed their " spoil" upon the
Corporation land.
Re-examined by Mr. Loewe : There is no doubt, as Mr.
Hartley told the committee in 1855, that the Dock Com-
mittee saved their own pockets by putting their " spoil"
on our land, and it hae, no doubt, benefitted us to receive
that " spoil."
Mr. Jones. STEWART, late Mayor of Liverpool, was next
called and said : I am a surveyor and land valuer, and
have been extensively employed by the Woods and
Forests department of the government. I have
for many years been the adviser of the Dock Trustees
in the purchases of land &c., the sales by the corporation
don't represent more than one-half of the transactions that
have been entered into by the Dock Trustees for dock
purposes. It is a great advantage to the Dock Trust to lay
their spoil on adjoining land, and when such has been the
case as regards the corporation property, the cor-
poration, I believe, Or their lessee, build and pay

for the sea wall. It is the ordinary practice, if a
man has put spoil on his neighbour's land, and
subsequently buys that property, to pay the in-
creased value for it occasioned by the deposit of spoil.
There is a case in point now, where Mr. Ryder obtains an
advantage by allowing the corporation to put the spoil from
the Great Float upon his marsh land. I believe that Par-
liament will not allow the Dock Trust to buy land in antici-
pation.

Cross-examined by Mr. CALVERT : If the Dock Trust
could have usefully converted the adjoining land, I think
it would have been prudent to have obtained it.
Re-examined by Mr. LOCKS : The four million, or North
Dock scheme, was opposed by the Birkenhead people and
by Lord Darby, partly on the ground that power was
sought to take land in anticipation. The witness proceeded
to exp'ain the nature of the dealings of Lard Derby in
respect of purchases for the Dock estate.
Mr. TWEEDIEi treasurer to the Corporation of Liverpool,
said the practice of the corporation is, and always has
been, to borrow money on bonds under the corporate seal,
for an agreed number of years, and the bonds to
bear interest. After an agreed rate of interest,
being the current rate at the time the loan is negotiated,
varying from 34- to 5 Der eent. Our average rate now is
£4 8s 6d per cent, The atneuut of bonded debt at this
time is £1,143,469. The charge made on the borou,th fund
by the purchase of the Birkeah ead docks is £1,183,860.
Under au act for supplying the town with water, there is
also a bonded debt of .E 1,560,000.

The CHAIRMAN : What is the rental of the corporate
property ?
WITNESS : The income of the corporation frnm all sources
for the present year is estimated at £204,000, including
the town dues.

The CIL AIR3IAN : Excluding the town dues, what do you
receive ?

WITNESS : Only £69,000.

The Cu tiny : The committee wal rag:l;re a return
showing the idcome of the corporation for the last ten y ears,
exclusive of the town dues.

At four o'clock the committee adjourned until this day
;Tuesday) at twelve o'clock.

THE
WEAVER NAVIGATION BILL

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Meepee, Juice 15.
The committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock this
morning. The members of the committee present were—
Lord Naas, in the chair, the Marquis of Blandford, Mr.
Booker Blakemore, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Handley.
Mr. Serjeant WRINGIWI proceeded to a'ldress the com-
mittee on behalf of the '"rustees of the Weaver Navigation.
He intimated, in the first place, that he did not propose
to call witnesses on the part of his clients, because he
thought that the evidence on the other side would amply
justify the committee in rejecting the bill. It had been
admitted throughout the inquiry that the consumer would
not be bsnefitted by a reduction of the dues. Mr. Brace-
girdle said the reduction would find its way into his
pocket, but as a salt dealer and shipper, and not as a salt
manufacturer, because in the latter capacity it was quite
obvious that the competition at home regulated the price,
and that if it was taken off the salt manufacturer
would not be allowed to put it into his
pocket any more than he would be allowed to
maintain a fictitious price by agreement. Such agreements
had already been tried in the salt trade, but an outsider
had invariably come forward and, by selling at a lower
rate, had brought the price down to the ordinary scale.
The circumstances of the salt trade in this local ty were
somewhat peculiar. The salt of Cheshire was almost ex-
clusively sent to Liverpool for exportation to America, and
it was asserted that the supply generally, if not always,
exceeded the demand. If that were really true, how would
the reduction of the dues by Bd. affect the price to the
consumer, the price in America not being regulated at all
by the impost on the river Weaver? In point of fact, the
rates in America were determined by the sums charged for
freight between Liverpool and America ; but the sum which
the committee were now asked to remove was in the nature
of a middleman's charge, and the only effect of reducing it
would be to put the money into the pocket of the middle-
man, and to encourage speculation in salt in America,with a
view of benefitting in some way the dealer on the other side
of the Atlantic. He did not think that the committee were
prepared for the sake of encouraging speculation either in
Liverpool or New Orleans, to withdraw from the county of
Chester a surplus revenue which had been dedicated to
them by a series of Acts of Parliament, ranging through
o
the v
ertwholeh a ofd
bteheenp
asked
past andeci
that presentvery
question
centuries.uestio nby
Now,the
com-
mittee, h
"e eeeereeteee of the bill ? His learned friend, Mr.
but dexterously fenced with it by talking of those
who were said to support the bill. In point of fact, it
could not be contended far a moment that the bill was
either promoted or bona fide impportea by tue u,w •—_
turers of salt. The committee already had it in evidence
that the salt manufacturers were a numerous body, num-
bering as many as sixty persons, but which of them had
taken part in the bill as a promoter ? He had not had the
advantage of seeing the petition or the signatures to it, but
he ventured to say that if Mr. Jackson or Mr.
Bracegirdle had signed it, they were the only persons
engaged in the manufacture of salt who had stretched out
a finger for the purpose of promoting the bill; and in the
case of Mr. Bracegirdle, that gentlenman appeared not in
the character of a salt manufacturer, but of a salt monger,
into whose pocket the reduction, whatever it might be,
would go. It seemed that there had already been an
application to the trustees to reduce their rates—but upon
what? Certainly not upon salt, which was the main
object of the present bill, but upon coals. He was sorry
to say that the trustees had been weak enough to consent
to a reduction of the dues upon coal, but in so doing they
had not conferred the slightert iota of benefit upon the salt
trade. In fact, it was impossible that they could confer a
benefit, inasmuch as they were asked to give an equality
where equality was impossible, because the manufacturers
whose works were contiguous to the railway, possessed
advantages which no reduction of dues would give to
manufacturers upon the river. Indeed, the reduction of
the coal dues had simply acted as a stimulus to the rail-
way to reduce their charges, and the parties were now in
precisely the same position as they were before the
Trustees consented to comply with the request of the
manufacturers. He entreated the committee to reject the
bill now before them ; if only upon the ground that in
passing it they would confiscate the property of the rate-
payers of the County of Chester, for which their fore-
fathers had paid a consideration How could they expect
that Lord Ellesmere walk securely in the neighbourhood
of Bridgwater Canal, if in this case the committee held
that all the rights and the privileges which had been pur-
chased, and conceded by acts of Parliament, were to be
treated with contempt. His iearned friend (Mr. Calvert)
said that the revenue derived by the Trustees way an ac-
cidental revenue which Parliament had never contem-
plated. He (Mr. Sergt. Wrangham) contended that it was
a bona fide bargain, and thought it ought not to be broken
because the ratepayers of the county had been gainers.
If a surplus had not been contemplated the legislature would
not have introduced into the Acts of Parliament provisions
to prevent the ratepayers of Cheshire from acting as jury-
men in disputes between trustees and the persons engaged
in the trade, of the weaver, and to give jurisdiction in all
matter of dispute to Lancastrian juries. It was clear that
Parliament had contemplated a surplus, and a considerable
surplus too. His learned friend said that what Parliament
had given Parliament could take away again, and also
added, that in this case there was nothing but—bare words
of an act of parliament to sanction rights of trustees. But
what could be more strong in favour of trustees, than the
fact that Parliament had fully considered their case and
had conferred upon them a grant which was purchased in
the first instance for a consideration, and which had been
held ever since on condition that certain duties and oblige •
tions should be discharged. With regard to the maietenance
of navigation he denied that there had ever been the small-
est degree of neglect on the part of the trustees. Instead
of having refrained from discharging the obligatiohs
which had been thrown upon them by the act of parliament,
they had performed them to the fullest extent, and had
paid over every farthing of surplus to the county for the
purposes to which parliament directed it to be applied. He
believed that no blot whatever rested on the escutcheon
of the trustees of the Weaver, or that there had been
anything iu their conduct which would justify a committee
of the House of Commons in repealing or rescinding the
express provisions of an act of parliament passed more
than 150 years ago. He contended that there had been no
ground laid for an adverse decision as against the trustees,
and without troubling the committee with any further
remarks, he confidently trusted the case in their hands.
Lord NAAS asked if the lamed sergeant proposed to
call any evidence.
Mr. Sergeant WRANCIIIAM : No, my lord.
The committee-room was then cleared at one o'clock, and
after the committee had deliberated for about half an hour,
the parties were re-admitted, and
Lord NAAs said : The committee are unanimously of
opinion that the preamble is not proved.
The bill is consequently lout,

THE COMING COMET.

BY THE MAN IN ME MOON.

The inhabitants o f Liverpool, including London-road,
with the b g lamo in L ime-street, and every soft abode, in
the locality of John's-lane, are hereby notified that the
comet she is coming, with all celestial pride, like the
handsome Queen of Sheba, the inhabitants, therefore, will
meet a hot recepti n from this visit to their shore. As
this comet is my cousin -as we often have a chat, and
am acquainted with the e liter of the Milky 'Pay Gazclte
that's the fishioeab' e org All, like the London Morning Post,
that's on our breakfast table, with the butter, eggs, and
toast. I say, being :has acquainted with that very famous
print—knows what the scissors man leaves out, and all
that he puts 'nt ; T can tell you all our movements, and the
places without fail that my cousin she wllt honour
with her read and with her tail. She will
cell on her arrival, but this is entre nous -on the Bonn-est
bey in England, and that's Tom. What's to do ? for the
Hyades come ser aching, and they are in our suite, and
fling themselves distractedly down at my cou-du's feet.
Some terrible disaster, I fear, has taken place, and here
comes brother Jupiter, with horror in his face. I knew
that something wrong was up; ho was in his m :ruing
gown, and cursed like aey trooper, " Jove. we eteritr
d ,wn !" After foaming like a madman, on the sofa he
stretched out, and then I asked him, " Ju. my dear, pray
what's it all about ?" and the ass Ter that he gave me
was decisive, t eat., and handy—'twas, " D your eyes,
old fellow, fetch me a glass of briudy." Rasing thus
" tipped " off his " morning," like other gentlemen, a sigh
deep as Atlantic came out above his chin, and he cried,
alas, dear Luna, is'nt this a shocking fix' that scoun-
drel has placed us in ?" and then he gave some kicks, that
smashed a Grecian lounger in the middle of the room;
then he called for an Havenna, and with its soothing fame,
assisted by the co-ni-ac, and meditation deep, I'm glad to
say he gradually went very fast asleep. All
my satellites, at the instant, were packing up my
traps—they were putting cords on boxes, and "laving"
trucks with straps--even my little tiger Jemmy, that I
found in Doneybrook, and my page young Billy Mulligan
and Nora Mike, my cook, were busy just as midges, all
packing up the delf, s) the only thing was for it—l
attended on myself. 'Twas a little in fra dig. no doubt ;
but that's nothing hero nor there, for then the cause I
ascertained of my brother's great despair ; 'twas certainly
a great mishap —a very sad provoker—nothing more nor
nothing less than the drunkenness of the stoker—who was
to fire the engine, destined to bear us all, a-down to terra
firma, from my cousin's blazing hall. By this time Ju
had wakened from his brandy and cigar, and again he
swore like C. Napier, or Alick the young Czar. I sug-
gested moderation, and the best thing to be done, under
the great privation, WAS to ask ours friend the SON--•for
he's our noble ally, and when e're in a fix, he " stands"
most nobly to us—like a thousand of new bricks.
He's a regular piece of "granite," and true as
British steel, that's the thing they make the bayonets of,
and bayonets make foes reel before their mighty influence,
and so I thought our friend, King Sol, a few sharp fellows
of that very stamp would send. Ono of my " beams"
stood ready—l despatched him to the south, where our
friend was on a visit, but unluckily he was out, and his
mother did not know it, although he was tweate -won, and
all with her admitted he is a " brilliant son." The reason
of his absence, to me was thus explained ;—lle was out
electioneering, and too long had remained—after a public
breakfast, at which he took the shine, by speeches the
most luminous, and conversation—fine. Now, was'nt
this perplexing ? But just in nick of time, who walked in
but Madame Venus—she was humming the last " rhyme"
that was written by Mr. Meany, when presenting an
address, to doctor (!) Billy Russell, front the Associated
Press—that is, he said, it was from them —yet but four of
all the "gang" knew anything about it, so the bosh and
fulsome slang, offered at the shrine of Billy, in the speeches
after dinner, emanated—oh good Gemini—from a publican
and sinner, 'Tis said the pleasure to deceive is always
very great; and I hope on the occasion that all parties
felt elate ; but I can't tell the most deceived—Bill, or the
deputation—so 11l put it down under the head of " The
grand hallucination," that took place at the Philharmonic
Hall on Thursday night, when the " Crimean Hero" had
done his wordy fight. But just as I was saying. when
the Queen came walking in; my brother Ju jumped out,
and cried, " I'll take a ' throw' of gin." Oh, that was very
shocking, and so the lady said ; he should practice better
manners ; but then you know his head, wasn't in the right
place, or, as some say, "not all there ; and very true,
because it lacked a thatching of black hair. Some one
—I think 'twas Watty Scott, or any one you pleate—
wrote thus of " lovely woman"—
" Oh, in thy hour of ease,"
Thou art a very vixen,
" Uncertain, coy."
and what ; with other little libels that I really have forgot;
but then he made the antende in the following h tnclsome
strain, that shows she is an angel too, in sickness, glief,
and pain. _ _

41 When pain and sorrow wrings the brow,
A ministering angel iheu."
I think I'd write th© same myself—as good, perhaps, or
so; if I only got a fortnight's leave—but I fill that
thing "no go :" although there's a but.er man" in town,
who offered me a nice near the corner of John's-
market—aye, and did so with much grease—that was
Weaargetagitig, he asked but one condition, that I would
PLACE affords to public health. I no dotibt oftnar-L.
beats all medicine to snuff—as the oak's above the lath !
At the place where last I broke off I mean now to begin ;
it was where Ju was talking about real Holland gin, which
much shocked Misses Venus, though with a gracious smile,
she said, let him sleep a little longer, and that will
cure his bile. I told her how the fireman, who was to
drive our car, got fuddled by attraction, at the adjoining
Hotel bar—when she nisei her hands imploringly, say-
ing, a—lass—what shall we do ? and her pretty eyes were
filled with tears, and she groaned, " Oh wirra-strue"—
which told me she was Irish—her father was a Brady, and
her mother an O'Brien—a real Garryowen lady. She
considered for a moment, and then her " womans wit," in
the twinkling of a tarf-clamp, on this expedient hit—
" give me some scented paper," she said with seraph laugh,
and 11l cure it in a " jiffey," with a neat paragraph. Now
send this off to SLIM-KINS of the " MILKY WAY GA-
zErrE," and tell him just to publish it. I'll send him the
best hat, that's sold by WOOD of Lord-street, yes go and
tell him that ; and on the Earth, nor on the sea, none these
hats surpasses—they are fit to fit our neighbours,
over there on Mount Parnassus ! Tell him to
put a placard conspicuous in the street, and let
its elevation be at least some thirty feet, so that all who
runs may read it—that is if they can read—but such as
can't, no matter :be off now boy with speed ! I suppose
you will be asking what that paragraph contained? You'll
find it some day in a " Blue Book," and then your object's
gained; but I'll tell you before-hand, so you'll gain
knowlectge from it —'twas a fashionable on dit, 'bout our
cousin the Great Comet ! Madame Venus being a poetess,
all her correspondence wrote, in that soft and flowery
language, such as I'm about to quote; you'll find it quite
Homeric, and no wonder that it should ; she was a pupil
of Diogenes, when surround by the wood. Many long
winter's evenings, did she the hours beguile ; writing
ballads to dark eye-brows, whilst sitting on a stile—not
looking for a Mary, whom she never more could see ; but
smiling in her beauty and—looking strait —at me ! some
of her fine productions are very scarce, but yet, hear the
last sonnet that she sent to the Milky Way Gazette.
Good people all,
Both great and small,
Lament for Madame Blaze
That's the cornet that was coming
Within the last few days ;
The needy seldom passed her door,
But always found her kind ;
She had no ehilder to be sure,
Tho' she carried her tail behind !

Piano—
It happened in the month of June,
In tho year of '57,
When larks and linnets are in tune,
And sing their songs to heaven,
That our cousin, Lady Comet,
Bethought her of a journey,
And sent for a shorthand writer,
Whose name w.is Pauclheen Gurney.
Chorus—(By sixty thousand Constellations )
She's akin to the Callaghans, Brallaghan3,
Nowlans, and Dowlin3 likewise,
But what is all that to the fire
That darts from our lady's bright eyi's ?

Piano again—
My lady was £0:'0 disappointed,
And begs of the people below
Not to think that she's cold in her promise,
As very soon she'll let them know.
Her affection they'll find very warm,
As soon as her fireman's sober,
Then she'll come on the sunbeams expressly,
With tail-or, and nay-lor, and robe-her.
Chorus, with additions, variations, and accompaniments—
Oh, for that was the way with the comets,
And flaming O'Flannagans too,
They could set the whole world on fire
With that fine Grecian cry--
CROIII Anoo !
Just as the fourth edition of the Gazette came out, our
Cousin called to us, to ask us what it was all about ; for
up to this same instant she knew not that the "stoker" was
booked for being "incapable," and blind as any poker.
You really would have pitted her, 8110 almost took

hysterics, and then she sent a courier to eight-and-forty
spherics, to know if ei nveyances could be had, to prevent
disappointment—as time was an ingredient that would not
allow disjointment. They sent her word immediately, that
they'd supply a car, but thought the 19com olive waulirnt
carry steam so far ; but this sh A obviated by the aid of her
own tail ; and some barrels of Pike water, some buckets and
a pail. She asked if I'd drive the engine ? to this I gave
consent,but if I live a thousand year; that day I will repent;
for at the equimmial line, I mis,ed the points, the which
caused train and coiner, tail and all to flounder in a ditch.
And there I left them sprawling, whilst I ran down to tell
of the horrible cat-ass-tr,phy that to the train Wel ; and
I'm off to the ass-tranome-s, with my heart (pits full of
sorrow, but if I get some rest to-night, I'll tell you more
to-morrow.

SOME INCIDENTS OF ITS " Nr;r" COMING.
We could fill—if NI-c3 had the stn time and space at
our command as c me's are said to have —some two
thousand quartos about the sayings and doings of this firey
creature. The following are all we can find space for
t o-day

An unusual number of disorderly men. and women were
br aught up at :he Police Court, ye,terday morning,
charged with assaulting the police, creating disturbances,
and committing vssious oifonces against the peace. It
appeared the prisoners were out on Liatun'ay and Sunday
nights wate-dug for the arrival of the comet, but as the
visit was postponed, they got angry, and• vented their
pugnacious spleen on each other. They were fined in
sums varying from 5s to £l, according to the degree of
the offence.

One decent old woman, who resides at the north end of
tie town, has locked up lier house, and ha; been waiting
sin:te Saturday on one bf the piers. When the comet
strikes the earth, and everything is at once involrel in
what' the Yankees call a " tarnation blaze," the old
woman intends to jump into the river, and drown herself
and her anxietiAs together.
In nuoth3r ca'e, is man who has never for years uttered
a prayer, has been, it is said, praying f r twenty. four
hours consecutively, and intends to clntiuue this exercise,
with the additional one of fasring, until the crisis is past.
On Saturday, a countryman, from near Bolton, who has
been staying a few (Lys at Birkenhead, was standing on
the pier, talking to a police-officer. The theme of dis-
course was the cornet, and the dre'dful consequences of its
touching the earth. All at once, a roar as of artillery
burst forth. " What's that?" inquired the affrighted
bumpkin. "I'm afraid," said the officer, "that is the
comet Etrikirg us " A deadly paleoess spread over the
countryman's face, his knees knocked together, and he
seemed in a faintin,:r state. When told, however, that the
noise might be the guns of the Persia as shs steamed out,
he slowly recovered.

CRICKET MATCH,

THE ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND V. TWENTY GENTLEMEN OF

LIVERPOOL.

The grand cricket meteh advertised to take place
between the Eleven of all England and twetny gentlemen
of Liverpool, with two bowlers given, came off yesterday
on the cricket ground, Prince's Park, under circumstances as
auspicious for the thorough enjoyment of our national game
as could well be desired. A brilliant sun shone down from
a cloudless and glorious sky, but his rays were happily,
tempered by a pleasant breeze, which was not more wel-
come to the players than to the numerous crowd of ladies
and gentlemen assembled to witness :the. match. , In the
far distance, so clear was the a'mosphere, the bold outlines
of the Welsh mountains could be clearly traced by the
naked eye, and the scene was rendered still more spirit-
stirring by the excellent performance of the Local Pen-
sioners Band, which was early on the ground, and played
throughout the day au admirable selection of popular airs.
Tee number of spectators, among whom were several
ladies, was large, but it may fairly be taken that the
muster will be much larger this day and Wednesday when
the "All Englanders" will take their second innings, and
make good by their play, their claim to the proud title
which they arrogate. Of yesterday's play little need be
said. The match was to have commenced at noon, but it
was nearly one o'clock before the wickets were pitched.
The " All Englanders" had the first innings and only
scored 49, including 3 byes. The higheQt single score
was 13 by Stephenson, but it was very evident that they
were not playing their best -- indeed their play might be
characterised as loose, if not careless. Occassionally fine
balls were struck, but this excellence was not sustained,
and they were all out before three o'clock An interval
here took place for rest and refreshment, and the play was
resumed at four o'clock, at which time the number of
spectators had greatly increased. The Twenty-two of
Liverpool then went in on their first innings, and started
most auspiciously, scoring 15 by Tinley before his wicket
went down. Throughout they played steadily and CAll.
tiousle, and the result of the match may teach the "All
Englanders" the truth of the cld ::dage, that it is well to
make hay while the sun shines. To-day they will probably
get their second innings about two o'clock, and will then
show what manner of men they are. The wickets were
drawn at half-past six o'clock, at which time the Twenty-
two of Liverpool had 59 scored, with eight wickets more
to go down. The play stood
_thus :
.trY,1715. . t,,Tsv , &cowl Innings
A. Clark c & b Ilinkly 1
T. Sherman c Fairclough, b Tinley 2

Julius Ca3sar

b Rinklv

H. S. Hirst, Esq. h linkly •
G. Parr .. c Trodd, b

H. Stephenson b Hinkly .. 13
G. Anderson b Hinkly .. 10
E. Wilsher c Fairelougb, b Tinley 1

J. Jackson

. cSt b Hi❑kly ..

:, 0

J. Bickley

no+ out
bl, 1-b ,W 2, n-b 3

T0TAL....49 TOTAL....

LIVERPOOL First Innings Suend lan rgs
F. Tinley .. s Stephenson, b Willsher 15
S. Jackson .. c Parr, b Willsher 2
G. Hampshire . . c& b Willsher .. 0
W. Horner b Willsher ..
W. P. Lockhart b Bickley . •
E. Hinkly b Bickley • .
W. Clare .. b Tinley ..
Troth]. b Bickley • •
E. W. Bird .. b Willsher „
Greenwood .. c Willsher, b Bickley
J. Fairelough b Bickley
C. Owen .. b Bickley
G. Clare b Bickley
D. M. Drysdale b Bickley
R. P. Jones .. not out
W. Garrow
T. Holt
C. Hampshire
W. G. Cross
H . Linton
J. Cooke
3. Gamble

b I, 1-13 0, w , n-b 1

TOTAL ...59 TOTAL..."

Mrs. May, of the Land Hotel, Wavertree, had some
excellent marquees on the ground, which were well supplied
with every description of the choicest refreshments. The
play will commence this day punctually at 12 o'clock.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT STRAIN, U. S. N.—Lieutenant
Strain, U. S. N., whose name is well knawn to all resi-
dents on the Isthmus, as connected with the Darien
Exploring Expedition, undertaken by the United States
Government, in 1853, of which he was the commanding
officer, came out a passenger in the Illinois, to join the
sloop-of-war Cyane, in Aspinwall, and we regret to say died
on Thursday night, shortly after his arrival. Hie remains
were interred yesterday in Mount Hope Cemetery, the
corpse being accompanied to its last resting place by the
officers of the Cyane, and of the British ships-of-war Orion
and Basilisk, and by many of the residents of Aspinwall.
examined the boiler for his own information, gave evidence
iii considerable detail as to the cause of the explosion. He
was satisfied, from the appearance of the internal flue, that
it was not from scarcity of water. He discovered that the
angle iron, uniting the flat end to the cylinder, had had a
fracture in it for about four feet. This was along the
lower part of the end ; and he considered that the expan-
sion of the flue (which lice nearest to this part) had tendedto create the rupture. There might have been a veinin the plate originally, but, if so, ii; would, with a short
flue, as in the present instance, be gradually increased. and
—Panama Star and Herald of May 23.
THE LATE BOILER. EXPLOSION AT RED BANK. —On
Saturday last, an inquest was held before Mr. E. Herford
city coroner, at his court, Ridgefield, on the body of
Edward Grimehaw, of Arthur-street, Fairfield-street.
labourer, aged 32, who had died from injuries occasioned
by the explosion of a boiler on the premises of Mr. Joseph
Carter, tinplate worker, Back Foundry-street, on Wednes-
day the 3rd instant.—Thomas Rowlands, who worked
on the
promisee, stated that he found the deceased
immediately after the explosion, lying upon his back, badly
bruised. He was taken to the Royal Infirmary,' and died
—Mr. Thomas Forsyth, managing engineer at
on Thursday. Witness was also knocked down by the
Atlas Works, Oxford Road, who had
Messrs. Sharp's,
result, as this had done, in as explosion .—The jury returned
a verdict of " Accidental death."