The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

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No, 17,020. LONDON, WEDNESDAY MoRNING

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THE GENERAL STL AM N AVIGATION
comr.orrs splendid end powerful flrst-eliSs STEAM-
- iliP5 are appointed to leave.—
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( ustomlllouse or Tower, for— . .
HA:11813'1;0H, carrying' her Majesty's 1 ails, "every Wednesday
and Saturday Morning. . .
Blackwell Pier, for—
ROTTERDAM and the RHINE, carrying her Majesty's Mails—
Every Wednesday and Saturday, at Ten, Morning.
ANTWERP and the RHINE—The Soho, every Thursday, at
Ten, Morning. :
OSTEND—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning. Wednes-
day, April 7, :It Ten Evening; 14. at Twelve, Noon.
From St. Katharine's Steam IN'harf, for—

HAVRE—EN-cry Thursda.;anti Sunday. at Eight, Morning.
From London-bridge Wharf, for—
BOULOGNE—Every Thursday Morning. April 8, at Five, Morn-
ing ; 15, at Twelve, Noon.
CALAIS—Every Thursday and Sunday .7.lornlng.
HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning.
YARMOUTH—Redueed Fares—Every Wednesday and Saturday,
at Six, Evening.
From,Brown's Wharf, Poplar, fur
EDINBITEGII-Iteduced Fares—The Trident, Saturday, April 10,
at Ten, Night;. the Clarence, next Wednesday, April 14, at Ten,
Night; the Leith, Saturday, April 17, at Ten, Night.
From Store's Steam Wharfs, Wapf:ag, for—
NEWCASTLE—Every Saturday, at Eight, Evening.
Between BRIGHTON and DIEPPE, next Wednesday, April 14.
„ BRIGHTON- and HAVRE—ApriI 15.
DOVER and BOULOGNE—ApriI 19.
To secure Berths, for Freight, and for Bills, containing hours of
(!eparture, fares, &e., dpply at the Offices, 65, Lombard-street; 37,
Regent-circus ; and 35, Leadenhall-street.

TO THE CREDITORS OF STOCKWELL
ASO CO.

Notice is heteby given that the CREDITORS who have proved
their debts under a Commission of Bankruptcy, which was issued,
in the year 1802, against CHARLES STOCKWELL, CHARLES
EMINGWA Y, JAME • HAIGH, SAMUEL STOCKWELL, JOHN
BAKER, and J@IIN ROGERSOIC, formerly carrying on business
together in Copartnership as DYERS, in LEEDS, in the county
of York, or the respective legal representatives of such Creditors,
may receive a FURTHER DIVIDEND on their several debts, on
application to Mr. James Matson, of West-hill, in Halifax, in the
said county; or at the office of Mr. George Edwards, solicitor,
Lord-street, Halifax.

COL OURE D PHOTOGRAPHIC POR-
TRAITS, by Mr. BEARD, sole patentee.
85, King William-street, Clty;
84, Xarltament•streot. WestminStir; and • '
The'lloyal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
" A picture is now speedily produced far, very far superior to any
obtained by former experiments."—Art-Union.
" The resulting tableau will bear comparison with the best minia-
ture."—Morning Chronicle.

In two volumes, post Bvo., now ready at all the Libraries,
THE POACHER'S WIFE;
A STORY OF THE TIMES.
BY CHARLTON CAREW.
" A story of deep interest, highly-wrought situations, and pathos."
—New Monthly.
"A forcible display of a sad portion of our social position."—
Douglas Jerrold.
"It ably and eloquently illustrates the miszhievous influence of
the Game Laws on high and low."—Sunday Times.
"It will be highly prized by all circulating library frequenters."
—Asiatic Quarterly.
" Every game preserver in the United Kingdom will read,' we do
not say will ' like,' it. But read it, they all must."—Mirror.
" Mr. Carew is a writer of great power."—Sun.
Charles Oilier. 18 and 19, Southampton-street, Strand.

rhAVIES'S CANDLES, 6:1-d. per lb. ; Genuine
Spertn, Is. 9d. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 545., and 60s. pcir 112ibs.;
Mottled, 60s. and C4s. ; Wax Candles, Is. per lb. ; German Wax,
Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Trans:arent Wax, ls. lid.; C3enuine
Wax, 21. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 71id. ; Sperm Oil, Ps. per gallon ;
Solar, 3s. 3d., Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetabk, 4s. 6d. ; Wind-
sor and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet ; Brown Windsor, Is. M ;
Bose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. Gd. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. ; Hale's Paragon
Composite, requiring no snuffing, 10d. per lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

COMFORT FOR TENDER FEET, AND A CERTAIN CURE
FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS.
AUL' S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND,
which
,gives RELIEF on the FIRST APPLICATION.
PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND (CORN PLAISTER) Is ge-
nerally admitted to be the best emollient application for Corns and
Bunions, and is worthy of a trial on the part of those who are
afflicted with such unpleasant companions.
Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred
Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence, as well as from
many Officers of both Army and Navy, and nearly one thousand
private letters from the gentry in town and country, speaking in
high tents of this valuable remedy.
Prepared by John rex, in boxes at Is. lIZd., or three small boxes
in one for 2s. 9d.; and to be had, with full directions for use, of C.
King, 34, Napier -street, Iloxton New-town, London; and all whole-
sale and retail medicine vendors, in town and country. The genuine
has the name of " John Fox" on the stamp. A 28. 9d. box cures
the most obdurate corns. Ask for " Paul's Every Man's Friend."
Sold also by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-ssreet ; Edwards, 67,
St. Paul's Church-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Newbery, St. Paul's ;
Sutton, Bow Church-yard; Johnston, 16, Greek-street, Soho ; and
GS, Cornhill ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Willoughby and Co., Cl,
Bishopsgate-street Without; Owen, 52, Marchmont-street, Burton-
crescent; Eade, 39, Geswell street; Front, 229. Strand ; Hannay and
Co., 63, Oxford-street ; Hunter and James, Webber.row ; and retail
by all respectable chemists and medicine vendors in every town in
England.

I'EMARKABLE CASE of RESTORATION.
A striking instance of the power of scientific art to remedy
the defects of nature has lately occurred in the case of a Mr. F. Balls,
a gentleman residing at IVortham, in Norfolk, who, In the year 1842,
on returning from tiarlestone Market to Woybred, where he then re-
sided, sustained so severe a fall from his horse, as to bring on an ill-
ness of several months' duration, during which period his hair con-
Minted to come off, till he became, to use his own terms, " as perfectly
bald as if his head had been shaved;" and the Rev. J. E. Daniel,
then clergyman of the parish, offered him a wig as a substitute for
his lost hair. Under these circumstances, he was induced to try the
effect of BOWL A.ND'S MACASSAIt OIL, and it is highly gratifying
to add, with the most happy results. As soon as part of a bottle was
used the growth recommenced, and he has now to boast of a very
thick and luxuriant head of hair, which presents this peculiarity,
that, though prior to losing his hair it evinced no tendency to curl,
the new growth is curly and strong. This fact speaks too strongly
fbr itself to require observation.—Bell's Messenger.
Fe.* Beware of " Spurious Imitations !—The genuine article has
the words " ROWLAND'S MACASS AR OIL " on the wrapper.
Price 30. 6d.-7e,—Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. Gd.;
and double that size, 21s. per Bottle.
Sold by the Proprietors, at 20, Batton-garden, London; and by al
Chemists and Perfumers.

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ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.
JUST PUBLISHED, THE THIRTIETH THOUSAND,
An Improved Edition, revised and corrected, 120 pages, price 25., in
a sealed envelope, or forwarded, post-paid, to any address; secure
from observation, for 2s. 6d. in postage stamps, illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Coloured Engravings,
A 0 0 D
NI The Causes of Its Premature Decline; with Plain Direc-
tions for its Perfect Restoration.
A Medical Essay on those diseases of the generative organs,
emanating from solitary and sedentary habits, indiscriminate ex-
cesses, the effects of climate, and infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in youth, manhood, and old age ; with practical remarks on
marriage, the treatment and cure of nervous and mental
debility, impotency, syphilis, , and other urino-genital diseases.
by which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and
reach the full period of life allotted to man. The whale illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Engravings on steel, in colour, explain-
ing the various Rinctions, secretions, and structures of the reproduc-
tive organs in health and disease; ith instructions for private cor-
respondence, cases, &c.
By J. L. CURTIS and 0., Consulting Surgeons, 7. Frith-street,
Soho-square, London.
REVIEW OF THE WORK.

" Courts ON Marinoon having for many years been
the standard work on these diseases, its originality is apparent, and
its perusal breathes consolation and hope to the mind 01 the patient."
—Naval anti Military Gazette.
Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence ; sold
also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Delaney, 63, Oxford-street ;
Mann, 39, Cornhill, London; :fowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Man-
chester; Philip. South Csstlo-stree t, Liverpool ; Campbell, 146,
Argyle-street, Glasgow.; Robinson, 11, Greenside-street, Edinburgh;
and in a sealed envelope by all booksellers.
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their resi-
dence, No. 7, FRITH-STREET, 50110-SQUARE, LONDON, and
Patients can have this work privately forwarded them, by initial or
otherwise, to any part of the United Kingdom, direct from the
Author's Residence, or from any of the above agents, on remitting
2s. 6d. in postage stamps.

6 O B B S 0 L D."
Fr
now oft on the newspaper sheet we behold
This inviting advertisement-phrase, " To be Sold."
E. MOSES and SON beg to copy this jargon
In its tidiest extent To be sold a great bargain."
Al any " Lots- of attire at this warehouse appear,
And the public are coining to kid far and near ;
While thousands of " bargains" arc daily " knock'd down"
At the Dress Mart of MOSES—that Mart of renown.
Ono " Lot" is a very remarkable " Lot,"
Such as no other House in the kingdom has got.
Fifty thousand light Wrappers aro °freed for sale,
The fashions of which you will heartily hall ;
Ar.d as many choice Dress Coats are here " To be sold,"
And Frock Coats as well, which you all should behold.
Another prime " Lot" is a " Lot" of rich Vests,
And Trousers, whoeie elegant fashion arrests.
In addition to these there are "Lots" of prime Shoes,"
And " Lots" of prime Boots, such as none would refuse.
E. MOSES and SON would invite your attention
To their " Lots" of choice Hats, so deserving of mention.
And they also refer, with the greatest of pride,
To the Hosiery goods at their Warehouse supplied.
The attention of all Messrs, MOSES invite
To their sales, which continue from morniag till night ;
And they trust you'll remember the Auctioneer's jargon,
Which they quote for themselves, " To be sold a great
• bargain."
This ESTABLISHMENT will be CLOSED on TUESDAY EVENING,
Six o'clock, till FRIDAY MORNING, Seven o'clock, when business
will be resumed as usual,
LIST OF PRICES.
MADE TO MEASUZZ.
Cashmere Codrington, from .... ••••• • • • • • ... 16 6
Taglionia, silk collar and cuffs .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1 2 0
Cambridge Coat, lined throughout ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 2 5 0
Tweed Coats .
Sporting Coat .• .. •••••• • • .• • 0 13 6
Dress Coat.... • ... • • ......... ....... ........ ••• • • • 1 12 0
Best quality manufactured •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 2 15 0
Frock Coat • • ...
Best quality manufactured ••••.•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 3 3 0
Rich pattern •• • • ••••••• • • • •• 0 8 0
Cashmere, or cloth— .• .. ••..•.•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • . 0 8 6
Tweed Trousers • . • • .... •• • • ...... • •
Single-milled Doeskin ditto .... •••••••••• •• •• • • • • • • 1 2 0
Best, er Dress ditto .. • • .... •.••• • • • • •• •••• • • • • 1 6 0
Boys' Hussar or Tunic Suits . • ........ ...... • 1 5 0
ILEA= MADE.

Blouses, fr0m.......... ......... .............
Cashmerette Codrington •............• •• •• • • 0 18 6
Cambridge's, Chesterfield Polka's, and all the newest
patterns ...... .•• • •'•• • • 18 0
Tweed Coat •• .. ..... ..... . ...... 0 8 6
Sporting dittto •• •• •• •• •• •• •••••• •• • • •• s• • • .... 0 6 0
Dress Coat •• •• •• •• •••• •• •• •• •• •• •• '••• 1 0 0
Extra •" ............ 1.16 0
Frock
........from 1 4 0
Extra Superfine, a superior coat „ „
•„, ..... 2 2 0
...
Roll-Collar Vests .. •••••• •• • „„ „ .......... 0 2 0
Fancy Satins ...... • •• • ... 0 6 6
Cloth, or Casimere .. • " • • • • •••••••—••••••••
0 4 6
Tweed Trousers.
Fancy Cas,;im, • • '• • • • • • • • • • • • • ••
Boys Tun'- -re or Doeskin • . ...... •0 10 6
obsery. and Hussar suits• •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 0 18 6
sure. . ..—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to men-
, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the
"oney returned.

E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, 'flatters,
Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for
Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 185, and 156, 157 Minories, and 83,
84; 85, and 86 Aldgate, London.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the
public against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman.
like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern,
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
h 11, ,onn,,,i^n With in 7 o'`ler or out of Loudon ;
;,1 wno zoht , should 0411 a'
S .I,:iud.ll(lglt,,, t.‘143,,
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Notice. No business transacted at this ostablkhment from sun-
set Friday, till kttaset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve
o'clock.

' CORNWALL RAILWAY.—Notice is hereby
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given, that the INTEREST due on the PAID UP CALLS, in
this Company, will be payable on FRIDAY the liith April next, for
'which purpose Interest Warrants will be issued to the Shareholders
• registered, on the 25th instant, the day to which the half years' in-
, terest will be computed.
WM. 11. BOND, Secretary.
, . .
, Truro, 233 March,lB47. , .

ri 001) PIANOFORTES CHEAP.—The large
and valuable STOCK of PIANOFORTES manufactured by
ZEITTEII and Co. is how SELLING OFF at 4, New Cavendish-
street, Portland-place, London, in consequence of a Dissolution of
Partnership, The Instruments, consisting of mahogany and rose-
wood grands, semi-Brands, cabinet, cottage, and piccolos, are made
with the patent sounding-board, metallic plate, check action, and all
the latest improi,ements. The Pianofortes made by Zeitter and Co.
have always enjoyed a preference among the nobility and gentry,
having been honoured with the patronage of her Majesty the Queen,
the Duchess of Sutherland, &c. The peculiar construction of the
scunding-board insures their greater durability, and their firm tone
is well known. Parties desirous of possessing one of these superior
instruments may now purchase the same on very advantageous terms.
Grands, heretotere fro.n 120 to 14i guineas, are now selling at ',O/.
to 701., and others in proportion. The premises, No. have been
recently closed.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.
pOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, ky
T. Rymer Jones, Esq., F.It.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy at
King's College, Mornings and Evenings during the week. The
GYMNOT US ELECT it ICUS, or ELECTRICAL EELS, exhibited
in a TRANSPARENT VESSEL. LECTURES on ARMSTRONG'S
HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, by Dr. Bachhoffner. The WORK-
ING MODELS and MACHINERY clearly explained. The varied
Optical Effects Include a New Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS.
Experiments with the DIVING-BELL and DIVER, &c., &c.
Admission is. Schools, half-price.

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Blake, Kingseliffe, Northampton-

shire :
"Kingsditre, January 21, 1847.
" Sir, —Twelve years ago I became afflicted with Rheumatic G,ut.
I procured the best advice possible, but without deriving benefit ; and
the doctors recommended me to go to the Stamford Infirmary, where
I continued twelve weeks, and left it without obtaining any benefit,
and all hope of relief had vanished.
" This hopeless state of things continued until a friend advised me
to try Blair's Pills. I then lost no time in sending to Mr. Mortlock,
of Stamford, (or a box, and 1)P the time I had taken that quantity I
got rid of one crutch. I then sent for another box, which enabled
me to throw away the other, and, thank God, I have never since had
such an attack.
" I am much exposed to cold ; but, whenever I feel symptoms of
attack, I have recourse to the Pills with universal success.
" I recommended the Pills to a gentleman who resides in this
neighbourhood, and he has derived the most essential relief there-
from. and is now never without them.
" You may publish this for the benefit of those similarly afflicted.
"I am, sir, your obedient, humble servant,
"SAMUEL BLAKE,
" Smith and Farrier."

The never-failing effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC
PILLS in curing every description of Gout and Rheumatism, have
secured to them a celebrity unequalled by any medicine of past or
present times. They not .;/tily give relief in a few hours, bat restore
to perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. They are
equally speedy and certain in Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head
or Face, and indeed of every Rhematic or Gouty affection ; in fact,
sucn has been the rapidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this
medicine, that it has astonished all who have taken it, and there is
scarcely a city, town, or village in the kingdom, but contains many
grateful evidences of its benign influence.
Sold by Thomas Trout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint-
ment by all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United
Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per bOX.
Ask for BLAIR'S' :GOUT and RHEUM tTIC PILLS, and ob-
serve the name and ad tress Of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Lon-
don," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of
the Genuine Medicine.

ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT rHEYs ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
Just Published, in a Sealei Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free
by post, 3s. 6d.

CONTROUL OFy THE PASSIONS: a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Couplete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequo4ces of excessive indulgence,
terminating, In Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigest.on, an.l Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.

Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. do,
CONTENTS OF THE WORK,
Chap. 1. —Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused by the practice
of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonondacea, its symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the I'rastate.
Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
Sold by Brittain, 11, Patertioster-row ; Gord m, 146, Leadenhall-
street , Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane • Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; Winhal, 78, lligh-street, Bir-
mingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ; Howell,
54, Church-street, Liverpool; Robinson, 11, Greenside street,
Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; and all
Booksellers.
Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to
apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it
direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. 6d., or Postage Stamps.
Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from Tenti 11 rwo, and
from Five till Eight in the evening, at 'their residence, No. 60,
Newman-street, Oxforl -street, London, and country patients may
bo successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclos-
ing the usual fee of 11. tor advice.

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EXTRAORDINARY AND DETER-
MINED ATTEMPT' AT SUICIDE.
In the course of Wednesday morning it became known,
in Newcastle-undeieLyne that a young man named
William Keen, booking clerk at the railway station in
that town, had attempted suicide, and that he was then
lying in a dangerous state.
Keen is about 23 years of age. He had been for some
time in the office of Mr. Appleby, the extensive carrier
at Longport, and was about six months ago appointed to
the management of the railway business at the Newcastle
station. He was particularly steady and attentive, his
obliging manners and general courtesy of demeanour
making a favourable impression upon the numerous
parties having occasion to travel from that testablish-
ment. He is a single man, and had lodgings at the house
of Mr. Thursfield, in Red Lion-square. About eight
o'clock on Wednesday morning, one of the men from the
station made application for the key of an outhouse to
get some hay for the horses. Mrs. Thursfield called to
Keen, and some time having elapsed without his making
his appearance, Mrs. Thursfield went up to his room.
There, to her surprise and horror, she saw a chamber
vessel half filled with blood. Keen was in bed with his
throat cut, and in a state of insensibility. An alarm was
immediately given, and medical assistance sent for. Mr.
Crewe and Mr. Hallam promptly attended. On exami-
nation it was found that the upper part of the windpipe
was cut completely through ' • the razor with which the
injury was inflicted seemed to have been drawn twice
across the throat, producing an excised wound of consi-
derable size. Extensive heaniorrhage had taken place,
and the act must have been committed two or three hours
before the young man was discovered. On further exa-
mination the root of his mouth was found to be seriously
injured, and his clothes were much soiled with dirt of a
reddish colour. It was, at first, thought that he had been
engaged in a death struggle with some person during the
night, and the affair seemed enveloped in 'mystery. It
was some hours before he spoke, and then he informed
his attendants that the injuries had been inflicted by his
own hand. He also said that he had discharged the
contents of a pistol into his mouth, but the ball not
taking effect, he spat it out. In the course of the morn-
ing there were found in St. George's Churchyard, close
to the grave of a young lady lately deceased, a pistol ;
not far distant, a leaden ball immersed in a pool of blood.
This was the scene of his first attempt at self-destruc-
tion, by shooting himself.
From information afterwards collected it appeared
that on Tuesday evening Keen left the office sbortly after
nine o'clock, and proceeded, as was his usual custom, to
the Globe Inn, to read the newspaper. He was exceed-
ingly temperate in his habits, never taking more than
one glass of brandy and water, nor did he exceed that
quantity on Tuesday evening. He called at Mr. Browne's,
next door, for a few minutes, leaving there at a quarter to
ten o'clock. He must then have proceeded direct to St.
George's Churchyard, and attempted the appalling act
of self-destruction, for the report of a pistol was heard
in that direction by police constable Bloor and other
parties immediately atter the ten o'clock gun was fired
at Messrs. Brocklehurst's silk factory. The ball, it
appears, was imperfectly formed, and rather too smill
for the barrel, and it is coojectured that the strength of
the gunpowder must have been partially wasted, and
that the ball did not pass with sufficient force to effect a
lodgment in the root of the mouth.
The probability is that the young man, stunned by the
shot, fell down amidst the graves, where he must have
remained for a considerable period, and afterwards in his
wounded state, found his way back to his lodgings. He
let himself in, and went up to his bed.tooni, and the pre-
sumption is, from the circumstance of his garters being
found flattened to the bed-posts, that he then meditated
death by strangulation. His last attempt, howeeer, at
suicide was by cutting his throat, which he did as before
described. A note, found in the bed-room drawer, shows
that the dead was premeditated. Ili that note he clearly
states his intention to destroy himself---.le says that the
money in the office-desk, with the exception of a small
balance due to himself, belonged to Air. Appleby, adding
that his accounts would be found to be perfectly correct.
No motive for the lamentable act can be ascribed. Keen
was esteemed by his employers, and iruich respected by
the public. The circumstance of the pistol and ball
being found by the grave of the young lady before
mentioned, would convey the idea of an attachment, and
impart a tinov. of romance to the melancholy event; but
we :.re assured that no intimacy beyond that of a
common acquaintance existed between the parties. Keen
had for some time carried about with him a pocket
pistol—the one with which he attempted to destroy him-
self—and he had been observed casting the ball atter-
, wards found in the churchyard from a piece of lead
while at the office on Tuesday. No alteration in his
usual manner had been observed previously to the dread-
ful occurrence. &Ws medical attendants state that
there is a fair prospect of hia ultimate recovery. The
injuries in the mouth are not so serious as was at fires
anticipated. lie has been calm and collected, and ex-
presses himself free from pain; but he has not at present
assigned any reason for his unhappy and in every way
extraordinary attempt.—Stuffordshire Mercury.

THE SPEAKER'S CuAIR.—Mr. Howell, auctioneer,
of St. George-street, Liverpool, has now in his sale-room
an arm-ohair which was for many years the Speaker's
chair in the old House of Commons, before it was burnt
down, in 1834. The chair belonved to the late Hon
tTharles Manlll'l'SSllVOil d ,„: vv), SPeal;';',_"l
the 11...u5e (A CoutL.wlis, am; was vt_ce $l, the A)Ulit
of Sussex, on the occasion of his giving: ctu audience to
the Corporation of Sunderland. ,

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The revenue table which we publish
this morning presents many features upon which the
public, as well as the Chancellor of the Exthequer,
may reasonably congratulate themselves. After a
year, the former half of which witnessed an immense
change in our commercial policy, and the latter the
operation of one of the greatest calamities of modern
times—an [rich famine and an English scarcity—the
year's accounts of ordinary revenue present an aggre-
gate increase of receipts above those of 1846 of not
less than 2,387,806/. In every department except
the Stamps and Crown Lands—in the Customs, the
Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, and the Pest-
office—there is an increased return. In short, were
it not for Ireland and her calamity—were it not for
that awful drain which English neglect and Irish
misgovernment have brought upon us—we might
boast that never within human memory, at least, was
the national exchequer in a more healthy state, or
there a better prospect of removing every burden by
which either our domeitic industry or our foreign
commerce is tramellid. In presence of our
potato famine, ,however—of the ravages of
all but invisible animalculm in a root on which
nothing but a strange mixture of rapacity
and improvidence could have suffered a nation to sub-
sist—our surplus, so far from furnishing means of
relief to the tax-payer, W4ll only by a happy chance
avoid the necessity of new taxation by meeting the
charge for interest on the sum we have just been
compelled to borrow. Cold as the comfort may be, it
is well it will do this, and that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer has not, in a time of much pressure, and
almost general stagnation, to.seek out the means of
impesing a new tax as era= contracting a new loan.
On the Customs the increase is most signal. That
after a series of years, each remarkable for some large
reduction in our import duties, each 'reduction de-
clared to be alike fatal to the home producer and the
revenue, we should be able to show an increase of
1,132,0001. upon the year, is a proof of the soundness
of our new commercial policy, which even its most
ardent advocates could scarcely have anticipated.
Nor has this branch of our income suffered in any
measure during the quarter which has just come to a '
close, and during which it has received scarcely any
augmentation from the duties on corn. On the
contrary, the increase has been in a more rapid
proportion, and amounts to nearly half a million.
In the Excise also the increase, quarter by
quarter, has been uninterrupted, until in the aggre-
gate it gives a surplus of 661,5721. above last year's
return. This item has been generally regarded as a
kind of barometer by which to measure the national

prosperity, for as it affects what are principally
luxuries,• at least in degree, it is imagined that an
indulgence in excisable commodities betokens a suffi-
ciency of the necessaries of life. As a general rule
this may be a true one, but it is difficult to reconcile
its universal application with the fact that while the
mass of our agricultural population has been debarred
by the high price of food from the purchase even of
their ordinary scanty modicum of luxuries, while
Scotland has suffered severely from actual want, and
Ireland depends for its daily bread on English
bounty, the Excise has gone on increasing, and even
in this last quarter, when the pressure has been most
severe, exhibits a surplus of 26,4071. Under the
head of Property-tax the increase upon the year is
379,8401.—a most satisfactory amount. The Post-
office revenue shows an advance of 1,0001. a week
during the last year ; and that comprehensive term,
" Miscellaneous," shows an increase of 129,2731.
On Stamps the deficiency, probably owing to the
partial cessation of railway enterprise, amounts to
32,693/. ; and on Crown Lands, for some reason,
which Lords Lincoln and Morpeth will doubtless be
able to explain, to 18,0001. Upon the total ordinary
revenue, however, we have an increase of 2,387,8061.,
against a falling off in the two branches we have named,
amounting in the whole to only 50,693/. Would that
there were no drawback on this favourable statement
of our financial condition ! Flourishing as the re-
turn appears, however, one item is there to remind
us of our liabilities, and of the heavy charge to which
the great calamity of the year has exposed us. In
the account of Income the receipt of 960,0001. is
acknowledged as the first instalment of the loan of
8,000,0001., which it will require many years of for-
bearance and retrenchment to redeem. It is a punish-
ment, and not an unmerited one, of a system which
has permitted a third of our population to live in
utter dependence upon a crop with which
famines are periodical, and without that claim for
subsistence upon the soil which could alone secure
from the rich an interest in the prosperity of the poor.
We have had a severe warning, let us not require a
second.

CHRONICLE.---The revenue accounts for the
year and the quarter just ended, present at first sight
a much more favourable aspect than they do when
only at the columns under the heads
each item is minutely examined, and the peculiar
circumstances which have influenced the various
sources of income are duly considered. On the sur-
f "
increase" and " decrease," the tables present a satis-
factory and encouraging result; and especially in
reference to those items to which we are most accus-
taocrnee,d looking
to
look as an index of the state of the country,
of its enjoyment
of commercial prosperity, and of
social comforts. The Customs receipts for the year
exhibit an increase of no less than 1,132,0021., which
at first sight is more satisfactory, when we remember
that the present return completes the first entire year
under the ultimate reductions in the tariff effected
by Sir Robert Peel. On the other hand, however,
it is impossible to overlook the fact that a large por-
tion of this increase is due, first to the extensive im-
portation of foreign corn during the last six months
of 1846, and considerably more than one half of it to
the enlightened settlement of sugar duties by the
present Government, at the close of last session. At
a moment like the present, when financial difficulties
and deficiencies upon the general balance of the
public accounts become apparent, it is important to
mark any particular source from which those diffi—
culties are relieved, and more particularly so when it
indicates the success of a great and sound principle of
teaexnaetnimtionp.elnt
on
nill
whichbe dutyremembered,was paid
that up to the
month of August last year the deliveries of sugar for
paid showed a con-
siderable deficiency on those of the preceding year.
aend
But after the reduction of the differential duty
charged
which,argedonfuforretbigenfisrustgatirms Billstuhuebsugrs were really
and of last August,
consumptionpracticall increasedybrought so
within the
at the consumers' reach,
the
of the year the deficit which appeared in the deliveries
up to August was converted at the end of December
into a handsome surplus. We find, that out of the
increase which is apparent on the Customs receipts
for the year just ended, amounting in all to 1,132,0021.,
we are indebted to the liberal and wise settlement of
the sugar duties for no less than 739,8841., and in
like manner, of the increase shown upon the last
quarter, amounting to 485t755/., we are indebted to
that measure for no less than 317,4661. It would be
difficult to point to a greater triumph in the result
of any financial principle than flee followed the
adoption of a course so long urged by political
economists and free-traders, to rely upon a reduction
of differential and protective duties as the surest
means of increasing the revenue of the country. If,
however, to this single item of increase we add the
corn duties received during the last six months of
1846, we shall find that we considerably more than
exhaust the whole apparent increase. So that the
Customs receipts for the year, as far as regards the
general trade of the country, and irrespective of these
two items, would exhibit a considerable reduction.
That the quarter just ended should show a slight in-
crease,guurte
rof last year, irrespectiveus
o fsnot a
sugar, oivnoeftr matterh
e htoBbaforiorresponding. Such was
surprise, nor of
much congratulation, when we consider
pehonwdinmgutchhe
business in all departments was held in suspense
during
.businessth tee
first
pared with the corresponding quarter of 1845, the
s
Customs showed a deficiency of no less than 440,000/.
the state agt e o the
of futlhrusedbnaruignge monthst h a t
quarter, that, com-
The general result of the Customs receipts,
when considered in reference to the whole
trade of the country, and looked to as
an index of its prosperity, cannot, therefore,
be considered so satisfactory as they, looked
at first sight. The other great index of national wel.
fare, and of the command of social comforts, the Ex-
cise duties, we fear, affords in the present return no
more satisfactory evidence. It is true that the in-
crease shown upon the year is large, and that that
increase is fairly divided over all the various items
which contribute to the Excise, and which may be
taken as evidence of increased activity in industry,
or of increased comforts enjoyed by the people. But
while the increase upon the year is 661,5721., that
upon the quarter is only 26,4071. We have here a
palpable proof of a declining state. The high price
of food, and the scantiness and dearness of some of
the chief raw materials of our manufacturing indus-
try, have already begun their work of deterioration.
The complaints from the busy seats of industry
during the last three months, the mills working short
time, the increasing difficulty in obtaining railway
" calls," and the consequent " slackness" of some of
arid the difficulty which the labour.
rag population find in obtaining; anything beyond th(
barest necessaries of life at their present prices; these
facts are all loudly proclaimed in the comparative de-

S Ny APRIL 7, 1847.

cline of the Excise receipts during the quarter just
finished. A consequence, moreover, which we fear
will only be further developed as the year advances.
The other general items of the revenue are not of a
character which speak much to the immediate state of
the country, still it is satisfactory to observe that they
show, generally, a considerable increase both on the
year and the quarter. But notwithstanding the in-
crease apparent under all these heads, unfortunately,
when we look to the side of expenditure, we find it
all inadequate to meet the extraordinary demands
upon the G-overnmedt. Notwithstanding the increase
on the ordinary sources of the Exchequer, and not-
withstanding the addition of 960,0001., as the first in-
stalment of the " loan of eight millions," the result
of the accounts now published is, that in place of a
surplus to meet the various Parliamentary grants for
the public service, amounting last year to 1,783,3081.,
that surplus at the present time is only 628,7811., a
sum altogether inadequate for the purpose.
ADVERTISER.—We publish, in another part of
our paper, a tabular view of the revenue returns for
the years and quarters ending sth April, 1846, and
sth April, 1847; and we heartily congratulate the
country on the extremely gratifying results which
they exhibit. Under the head of Customs— the
source of revenue which of all others affords the best
criterion of the real condition of the people, and the
healthy state, or otherwise, of the national finances—

we have an increase, on the year, of 1,132,0021., while
the increase on the quarter is relatively still greater,
being no less than 485,7551., or close on half a mil-
lion. We will undertake to say, that this is an in-
crease far exceeding anything of which the most san-
guine ever dreamt. It is. all the more surprising,
when it is remembered, that it only includes, so far
as relates to the quarter, a mere trifle in the shape of
corn duties, the corn-laws having been suspended
early in the quarter. In the Excise there is
also an augmentation on the year to the extent
of 661,5721., and on the quarter of 26,407/.
The Stamps have likewise proved unusually
productive on the quarter, giving an increase of
131,4141., as comparei with the corresponding quar-
ter of 1846. The Property-tax has also proved
unprecedentedly productive, the amount for the year
being 5,464,5811., which gives an increase over the
year ending April 5, 1846, of 379,8401., and of
69,1901. over the quarter ending at the same date.
The Post-office still continues, though gradually, to
augment the national resources, yielding, as it
does, 52,0001. more than last year, and 4,0001. more
on the quarter than on the corresponding quarter
of 1846. Under the head of Miscellaneous, we
have an addition, on the year, of 129,273/., though,
on the quarter, the increase is only 1,071/. The
only departments in which there is a falling off
are those of the Taxes and Crown Lands. The
deficit is trifling in either case. Under the first
head it is only 15,2501.; and under the second,
8,0001. The total increase on the year is 1,538,168/.,
and on the quarter 403,02/. This, we repeat, is a
most gratifying state of things. So far from expecting
so large an augmentation, there were general appre-
hensions of a defalcation. Nothing could more con-
clusively prove the solid foundation on which our
commercial and monetary edifice is based. The im-
provement in the revenue which it is thus our pleasing
duty to record, as having taken place in a period of
unexampled destitution in Ireland and part of Scot-
land, will, there is every reason to hope, go on pro-
gressing for months and years to come. If, indeed,
Providence should bless the land with an abundant
harvest, we may confidently calculate, considering the
extensive trade with America which is now opening
up to us, on a period of commercial and financial
prosperity wholly unparalleled in the history of the
country.
HERALD.—We have before us the official state-
ment of the national revenue for the year and the
quarter which ended yesterday evening. If any evi-
dence were necessary to prove the vitality of British
vigour in resisting the results of a new-fangled system
of legislation, which must have proved destructive to
the interests of any country whose innate strength
had been less positively confirmed by the considerate
policy that was formerly the principle of action by
which British statesmen were guided—if any testi-
mony were requisite to show the elasticitt'of British
resources in 'repelli,ng the heavy load o depression
which recent Acts of Parliament have heaped upon
them, and which projected measures promise to aug-
ment—we have the proof before us in the abstract of
the net produce of the revenue of the country, to
which it is our duty to refer.—( ! ) In every
department whence we derive our ordinary
revenues, save two, there is an increase for the
year ended yesterday, compared with the year
which ended on the sth of April, 1846. The two
items which exhibit a decrement on a comparison of
years are Stamps and Crown Lands. Let us now ex-
hibit the condition of the whole revenue of the
country for the year and the quarter, as compared
with that of the previous year, and that of the cor-
responding quarter of 1846. In the present year
there is from the Customs an increase of 1,132,002/. ;
from the Excise an increase of 661,5721. The de-
crease on Stamps,: as we have already mentioned, is
32,693/. The increase from Taxes for the year is
33,119/. ; from the Property-tax an augmentation has
been derived amounting to 379,840/. ; from the Post-
office it is 52,0001. The Crown Lands, as we have
stated, exhibit a decrease of 18,000/., whilst, from
Miscellaneous resources, we have procured an increase
of revenue which has placed in the national coffers
129,2731. In the quarter's receipts, as compared
with those of the April quarter of last year, ss e
find an increase from Customs of 485,755/. ; from the
Excise of 26,4071. ; from Stamps of 131,414/. ! ! the
decrease on Taxes is 15,2501. ; the increase from
the Property-tax is 69,1901.; from the Post-office
it is 4,000/. ; with reference to Crown Lands, the de-
crease is 8,0001. ; from Miscellaneous resources there
is an increase of 1,0711. Now, in dealing with these
various items of our income, to-day, our observations
must necessarily be brief—our comments upon these
items few. We deal only with those sums which
form the ordinary revenue of the nation. The other
portions of the account, embracing " advances," " im-
prest and other monies," &c., we leave intact for re-
mark on a future day. In reference, then, to the
year's ordinary revenue, there is a net increase over
that received up to the sth of April, 1846, which
amounts to 2,387,8061. The net ordinary revenue
for the quarter ended yesterday, shows an increase
over the receipts for the same quarter of the previous
year, amounting to 717,8371. Let us at once ask
these questions—Has the value of manufactured stock
become augmented during the past year, or during the
past quarter ? Has the condition of the manufacturing
operative been improved, or the position of the agricul-
tural labourer been made better during the same period?
Has the character of our monetary exchanges, com-
pared with that of other countries whence our

largely-increased imports have been derived, exhibited
a corresponding amount of exports, or has it even
manifested the exportation of an amount of home-
made merchandise equal to that sent abroad
.during
several past years ? These questions are easily re-
solved by facts. Look to the prices current for the
returns paid for our manufactured produce! Look
to the mills out of work, for the condition of the
manufacturing operative I Seek for the position of
the agricultural labourer (notwithstanding the efforts
of his employers to promote his comparative prospe-
rity, despite the sacrifices made by landlords and land•
holders, and the advances made in agricultural
science)—seek for this in the daily tale told by the
provincial press ! seek for it in the hopes of the Irish
landlord from the new Poor Relief Bill ! Notwith-

standing these facts there is an increase upon the
rear and the quarter from the Customs revenue!
the consumption of imported produce, used in lieu
of grain, of course has something to do with this ;
but the energy and untired, not worn-out activity
and resources of Great Britain have dealt much
more largely with it. Taking our course
through the other items of receipt, we are
compelled to stop at " Stamps." What a
tale is told by the official development of
the condition of this department of the revenue.
The increase for the year is only 32,6931. The in-
crease for the quarter is 131,414/. ! What has caused
this increase ? Has it been an augmentation of the
legitimate trade of the country ? Did our legitimate
imports, or has an augmentation of our internal—our
home traffic in the manufactures of Great Britain,
rendered such an accession to our national income
the probable result of such a salutary process ? No !
whilst there has been a great decrease in the Excise
receipts of the quarter, as compared with those of
the year, the Stamp Duties' receipts exhibit an
increase of 400 per cent. more upon the quarter
than they do upon the whole year. Here is
the result of Sir Robert Peel's Corn Bill ! here
is the effect of the gambling and speculation
which were to have ,been destroyed and deter-
mined by the damage done to the cultivators of
the soil of Great Britain and the sister kingdom !
here are assets derived in a great degree from corn
accommodation bills neate have neither time nor
space to dwell at gr length to-day upon the
official document before us. It is to us matter for
hearty rejoicing, that, under so many circumstances,
which in any other nation must have caused a decrease
of revenue, we have an increased income as the
subject for our remarks.
ke

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from tLe
Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar.

PRICE SD.

OPENING OF THE BIRKENHEAD

DOCKS.
This event is looked forward to with considerable
interest, and every arrangement is in progress for
conducting its celebration with becoming splendour.
The extensive warehouses, the opening of which will
be a striking feature in the day's prcceedings,
twelve in number, and will each hold 4,000 bales of
cotton. The extension line of railway runs in a
diagonal line, by means of an open excavation, across
the town, from the Grange-lane station, through
Oliver-street, Cc:gamy-street, Price-street, and Cleve-
land-street, to the dock warehouses ; having branch
lines communicating with the docks, so that goods
may be at once hoisted from the vessel's
side on the railway trucks, and dispatched
into the interior, or from the ship into the
warehouses, without the least hazard or
delay from exposure on the quays. After the cere-
mony of opening the dock, the company will proceed
to the dejefiner, and this part of the proceedings
being completed, the next object of interest will be
the opening of the new park, which has been com-
pleted at a cost of 127,7781. The celebrated proprietor
of the magnificent marquee, which is fitted up on pub-
lic festivals in Greenwich-park, will there pitch his
refreshment tent,- 170 feet long; and various other
booths, camps, &c., will be erected. Cricket, foot-
ball, and other athletic games, rural sports, and
divers amusements, will occupy the holiday throng
in that vast and picturesque arena. The beau-
tiful new market, on which a sum of '26,000/. has
been expended, will likewise present its attractions.
On the east quay of the new docks, facing the river,
six pieces of ordnance will be placed, for the purpose
of firing salutes ; the guns being under the manage-
ment of a detachment of the Royal Artillery from
Chester Castle, kindly granted by their commanding
officer, Major Robe. As we intimated last week
there will be no procession, but the quays of the
docks will be lined with pensioners, clubs, and socie-
ties of various kinds, with flags, music, &c., and after
the docks have been opened, they will repair to the
park to be in waiting to receive Lord Morpeth. Four
of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and
50 wide, are beautifully and most tastefully fitted
up for the festival with pink and white drapery, by
Mr. Shaw, upholsterer, of Birkenhead, under the
direction of Mr. Hornblower and Mr. Brine, archi-
tects, who kindly give their services on the occasion,
and are most indefatigable in promoting the arrange-
ments. The suite will include reception, withdraw-
ing, ball, and banquet rooms ; in the former of which
a magnificent cascade will throw forth its silvery
streams, amidst a profusion of choice conservatory
plants, flowers, and other decorations. The dtleziner
and supper will be provided by Mr. Hillier, of the
Monk's Ferry Hotel ; all the orders have been given,
as it is proper they should be, to Birkenhead trades-
men. After the ball there will be a special train to
Chester, and the Woodside boats will continue run-
ning during the whole of the night. All the work-
men employed at the docks (2,000 in number) are to
have the gift of a day's wages, and the various con-
tractors have come forward most liberally as regards
this part of the proceedings. Mr. J. Laird has given
his men leave to take part in the festivities, and they
will be paid their wages for the day. We understand
OW all the principal builders will give their men a
holiday, and the day is expected to be one of general
rejoicing.—Liverpool Mercury.

OPENING OF THE DOCKS.
Monday was a memorable day on the' banks of the
Mersey, having been chosen for the triple purpose of
opening the new docks at Birkenhead, the splendid new
park, and the extension line of the Chester and Birken-
head Railway to the docks. The docks to be opened on
this occasion were the Woodside and Bridge-end, the
joint accommodation of which is equal to the Prince's

Dock at Liverpool.
Immediately adjoining these docks are the extensive
warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company ; twelve
of which, each capable of storing 4,000 bales of cotton,
aro already completed. These warehouses are two
stories in height, and when finished will form three long
tiers, running rectangularly from the shore.
The extension line of railway to the docks affords
facilities and advantges which few railways or docks
enjoy. From the main line branches run along each
side of the warehouses: one side will be made available
for fie storing of goods by vessels just arrived—the

other for coinveying goods to vessels loading for sea.
The rails run so clpse, that the goods can be hoisted
direct from, or lowcrea' into, the trucks, and thus all
confusion and necessity for carting will be avoided ;
neither will there be delay nor hazard from exposure on
the quays.
The docks were opened in person by Lord Morpeth,
Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. His Lord-
ship arrived in Liverpool about ten o'clock in the fore-
noon. A special train, with Lord Lincoln, Lord Mont-
eagle, and other visitors, left London about six o'clock
in the morning, and arrived in Birkenhead at twelve
o'clock. Shortly after that hour the Lords Commis •
sinners, with other distingushed guests, the Birkenhead
Dock Commissioners, the Birkenhead Improvement
Commissioners, the Directors of the Birkenhead Dock
(Warehouses) Company, the Directors of the Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and
the Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway,
embarked at Monk's Ferry, on board the Lord Warden,
a handsome new iron steamer. Six pieces of artillery
were posted along the quays ; and the steamer, which
was beautifully decorated, started amid music, the roar
of cannon, and the cheers of the spectators. After
steaming about a mile up the river, the boat returned,
and, similarly saluted in its progress, slowly entered the
new docks, and moored alongside the south wall of the
Bridge-end Dock ; after which the party repaired to the
new warehouses to partake of a dejeuner, at which 800
ladies and gentlemen sat down.
The weather was serene ; flags and streamers floated

from every available spot ; the ferry steamers were
crowded : Liverpool poured its throng to the opposite
bank. A more animating spectacle than the river pre-
sented it would be impossible to conceive.
Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and
50 feet wide, were beautifully and tastefully fitted up
fur the festival with pink and white drapery. The walls
and roofs were lined with fluted drapery. The recep-
tion-room was adorned with a magnificent cascade,
which poured out a crystal jet amidst a profusion of
choice conservatory plants and flowers.
Joseph Bailey, jun , Esq., M.l'., occupied the chair ;
John Land and William Potter, Esqs., the vice-chairs.
After the toasts—the Queen, the Queen Dowager,
Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family, the
Army and Navy, the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese,
and the Lord• Lieutenant of the County, had been given,
with the usual honours,

The CIIAIRMAN proposed the health of Lord Viscount
Morpeth. He thanked the Noble Lord, not only in the
name of the two boards of directors and the dock corn-
missioners, and those who had taken a direct interest in

the prosecution of these works, but also in the name of
the public, for having given his sanction to the pro-
ceedings of that day by his presence. The Noble Lord's
public career had now been of some considerable
duration, and his public character was so well known
that it would be needless for him to enlarge, upon
it. His private worth was also as conspicuous
as his public virtues, and he felt great pleasure in
doing honour to them.—(Hear.) It might not be inap-
propriate to remark, as they were on the shores of the
Mersey, that the Noble Lord had recently visited a
country which was the most intimately connected with
us by commerce, and from which we were now drawing
largely nor noooeoary supplies of food. in that country
the Noble Lord had had the opportunity of witnessing
the energies of that great people the Americans—(Hear)
—of seeing the fertility of their soil, and of judging to
what extent our commercial relations with them might
be carried. He honoured the Noble Lord for having
devoted his leisure in that most useful field, instead of
in visiting countries, no doubt interesting in themselves,
but not so important to be known to a man who was a
servant of the Crown and a British Statesman.—(Hear,
hear.) The presence of the Noble Lord, who had more
than once enjoyed the:confidence of his Sovereign, and
was now a Cabinet Minister, stamped the works on the
shore of Wallasey Pool, on the west banks, with that
degree of nationality which their warmest friends
claimed for them, but which the public at large mght
not be willing to concede.—(Hear, hear.) Those
works were not undertaken for the benefit of a few
individuals merely, but partook of a national cha-
racter. When they adjourned from thatf room ita
would be to open the Birkenhead Park ;
duty no more appropriate person could .betesreelecsotrtehsde thanhad
always taken in the:sanatory condition,
the Noble Lord. Knowing the warm
the
comfort of the people, and the improvement ueafltthon
etdhe
toseea
park devoted to people
ehannsd,
he was sure the Noblehu h the health
recreation reel
r gratified
theto
nending in every direction around it.—(Hear, hear.) On
midst of those piles of buildings which were ex-
an occasion like the present, when no political feeling
interfered, but where men of all parties were met toge-
ther to celebrate the opening of a great national work,
he was sure they would all unite in doing honour to the
toast.—(Hear, hear.) It was his misfortune to sit on
theo e
cuoppi
epdo s ihtye si dof
the
e No b
lthe
rd House;
botft t Commons
hefri(i'mor that
other gentleman who sat there could fail to pay to the
Noble Lord's character that respect to which it was en-
titled.—(Hear, hear.)
Ie gave them " The Right Hon.
Lord Viscount Morpeth."
The toast was drank with three times three. The
cheering having subsided,
Lord MORPETIt said—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gen•
tlemen, I assure you that I feel most sensibly the more
than kind and cordial manner in which this toast has
been received.—(Hear.) Ever since I have been called
to the office I have now the honour to hold, and which
connects me with the property of the Crown, I have
felt the strongest interest in the rising fortunes of Birk-
enhead; nor it is unnatural that I should do so, for you
e probably aware, that besides the general parental
interest which the Crown may be assumed to take
in the welfare of all that aro represented by the ab-
I stract idea of its subjects, it has also motives not so