The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

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Licensing Court, on Tuursdav

JoHN Fownv, a dock labourer, aged 24 years, fell
into the Qsteen'e Dock on Tuesday evening; and before
he was reached by a boat which was sent to his assistance,
he was drowned.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFlRMARY.—Yesterday week, at
the meeting of the trustees, it was agreed to spend £5,000
in the erection of new wards, and in alterations of the
present building.
ANCIENT LIVERPOOL.—A really interesting exhibition
has just been opened at the Old Assembly-rooms, in
Tarleton-street. It is a model of Liverpool as it stood
200 years ago ;—such a diminutive village among green
fields, trees, and hedges, that a comparison with its pre-
sent state is truly astonishing. It is of the dimensions of
20 feet by 14, and should be visited by every one as a
genuine curiosity, while, at the same time, it is eminently
instructive. It has been very cleverly executed ; and,
being visible from every side, is perfectly intelligible.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—On Wednesdey after-
noon, the United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Captain
Luce, with the usual mails for the United States, Canada,
&c., sailed from the Mersey for New York, with 154 pas-
sengers, and a large and valuable cargo of merchandise on
freight. The royal mail steam-ship Asia, Lott, com-
mander, sailed from the Mersey for New York, at 2 50.
p.m., on Saturday, with the usual mails. The Liverpool
and Philadelphia screw steam-ship City of Glasgow,
Wylie, commander, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday
morning, after a fine passage from Philadetphia of 13 days
12 hours.
ENGLISH PATENTS RECENTLY SEALED.— Robt. Whine-
rey, of Liverpool, leather merchant, for certain improve.
ments in the manufacture. Dated Jan. 6, 1853.—William
Weild, of Manchester, for certain improvements in looms
for weaving. Jan. 12.—John Petrie, jun., of Rochdale,
ironmonger, and Samuel Taylor, of the same place, me-
chanic, for improvements in machinery or apparatus
for washing or scouring wool. Jan. 11.—James Fletcher,
of Facit, near Rochdale, for certain improvements in
machinery or apparatus applicable to spinning, doubling,
and winding of cotton, wool, flex, silk, and other fibrous
materials. Jan. 12.—John Hetherington, of Manchester,
machine maker, and John and EdWard Dugdale, of Black-
burn, machine makers, for improvements in applying or
constructing and applying models or patterns for mould-
ing, preparatory to casting iron, brass, and other metals
for various purposes. April 27.—John Hetherington, of
Manchester, machine maker, for certain improvements in
machinery for combing cotton, wool, silk waste, flax, tow,
and other fibrous substances. April 28.—Joseph Denton,
of Prestwich, for improvements in machinery or apparatus
for manufacturing looped terry or other similar fabrics.
May 12.—Peter Fairhairn, of Leeds, and Ferdinand
Kaselowsky, of Berlin, for improvements in machinery
for drawing, roving, and spinning flax, hemp, and other
fibrous substances. April 28.
DISASTROUS INUNDATIONS.—The recent heavy rains
have destroyed an immense amount of property through-
out the kingdom, and caused the loss of several lives.
The River Wye rose on Saturday week, at Hereford, ten
feet in three hours, and destroyed a vast quantity of hay.
A villa on the banks, inhabited by an old lady named
Lawrence, her daughter, two granddaughters, and two
servants, was thrown down by the furious torrent on the
previous Friday evening, all in it being buried in one com-
mon ruin. At Brecon the River Honddu swept through
the town, tore up the piers of an old bridge, and threw
down several cottages, three of their inmates, one a bed-
ridden old man, being drowned. The canal at the village
of Dymoke, in Herefordshire, burst its banks, flooded all
the adjacent fields, and submerged numerous cottages.
During the past week all the country round Banbury has
been under water, and both there and at Brackley all the
hay crops and numerous sheep have been entirely swept
away. At Llanddowror, in Carmarthenshire, a bridge
over which the mail-coach passes, has been thrown down;
and at Leicester the streets have been so flooded that the
inhabitants hare been forced to go from house to house in
carts, paying a penny each journey. At Preston, the
quantity of rain that fell from nine o'clock on Saturday
morning week until nine the following morning was equal
to the average for a month in that part of the country.
The cellars in the lower part of the town were flooded,
and the old sewers were found totally inadequate to carry
off the great quantity of water that had fallen. The main
sewers at the Svke and below West Cliff burst from the
pressure. A *all was washed down, and one
of the re-
servoirs adjacent to Messrs. Dawson's new mill, in Fylde-
road, was filled to the brim with water, and there being
no proper overflow, it burst a portion of the wall of the
weaving-shed, into which it rushed with great force. The
low lands in various parts of Lancashire were flooded, and
considerable injury done to the hay and other crops. At
Croston and Rufford the " finnies" were under water,
and many of the meadows have suffered much. In the
village of Croston the water was some feet deep, and
washed into the various cellars. In the Fylde the injury
done has been very great, more especially in the neigh-
bourhood of St. Michael's, Woodplumpton, &c.

THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF EGLINGTON left Lon-
don on Tuesday, for Knowsley Park, the seat of the Earl
of Derby.

THE ATTENDANCE at the Corporation Schools, for the
past month, has been as follows:—North School, 856;
South School, 925.

WARNI7.,:G. TO OMNIBLIg RIDERS.—On Tuesday an
old lady had her pocket picked, in a dock omnibus, of
£2O in notes and £4 in goad.

CURIOUS.—A tomtit has hatched a brood of seven
in a two•quart can, at Ormskirk. The utensil was covered
by a close-fitting lid, and its only aperture a small spout.
WORKMEN' are now busily engaged opposite the front
of the Custom-house in levelling the ground so as to form
a line with the new dock road to the south.

?MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL.—The deaths registered
❑p to Saturday week numbered only 164, being 41 less
than the average of the same week of the preceding five
years : 103 were children, and 59 adults.

PRESENTATION.—There is now on view. at Mr. Mayer's,
Lord-street, a handsome piece of plate, to be presented to
the Rev. J. Gibson, M.A., incumbent of Garston, by his
congregation, on the cccasion of the 36th anniversary of
his ministry.

MR. W. JACKSON, M.P., accompanied by Mrs. Jackson
and their son, Mr. H. P. Jackson, Mr. Betts, and Mr. R.
Stephenson. M.P., sailed on Saturday, with a numerous
railway staff, in the Asia, for New York, en route to
Canada.

THE ELECTION OF PAVING COMIMSSIONERS FOR
TOXTETH PARK took place on Friday morning, at the
public offices, Park-place, Messrs. Mathew Gregeon, John
Y. Lee, Wm. Rathbone, John Lathbury, and R. V.
Yates, were re-elected.

A LITTLE FOUNDLING, aged three months, to whom
the name of George Limekiln had been given in con-
sequence of his having been found exposed and deserted
in Limekiln-lane, died suddenly in the Liverpool work-
house on Tuesday last.

CLITHERO ELECTION COMMITTEE. —The following
committee has been nominated :--Mr. G. A. Hamilton,
chairman ; Sir T. Herbert, Sir J. Duke, Mr. Butt, and
Mr. S. Laing. The member petitioned against is Mr.
Aspinall.
A BrarTAL FELLOW, named James Duffy, possessing
great strength, has been committed for trial at the sessions,
on a charge of stabbing two peaceable men, George Booth
and James Webb, on Sunday evening week, at the corner
of Northumberland-street.

A POOR DRUNKEN OLD WOMAN, named Ann
Kelly, living in the Vauxhall-road, while wandering about
in a state of mazy intoxication on Wednesday morning,
between one and two o'clock, fell into the George's-dock ;
she was shortly rescued and carried to the receiving.
house, where she expired in the course of the morning.

MYSTERIOUS CASE.—The body of a man, apparently
about thirty years of age, with sundry initials engraved
on his person, was found floating in tho Rock Channel on
Wednesday; he appeared to have been a couple of weeks
in the water. He has not been claimed, nor has the
smallest clue to his name been obtained.

THE TWELFTH or JULY.—The Orangemen of the
town kept this anniversary on Tuesday. In deference to
the wishes of the Mayor, there was no public procession,
but a number of lodges assembled in the forenoon at
Wavertree, outside of the borough, and walked in pro-
cession, accompanied by two excellent bands, towards
Aigburth. In the evening the brethren dined at their
respective lodge-rooms.

SHOCKING DEPRAvITY.—An inquest was held on
Thursday, on the body of an infant, seven weeks old,
named John Thomas, whose parents, Thomas and Mar-
garet Thomas, live at No. I], Ray-street. Both parties
had been in a state of intoxication the previous night, and
the deceased died in consequence of having beep overlain
by the mother. The jury expressed their utter disgust at
the conduct of both of the parents.
CURIOUS FACT IN ORNITHOLOGY.—SOMe weeks ago,
Mr. James Bamber, of Little Eccleston, near Garstang,
found a throstle's nest, with a mother bird in the act of
incubation on three of her own eggs. He took out two
eggs, and substituted three hen eggs. The poor throstle
continued her maternal duty, and in due time two chickens
and one throstle made their appearance. The young
family were allowed to retain their native quarters; but
the hand of some ruthless school-boy stole the whole away.
FACTION-FIGHT IN LIMERILN-LANE.—On Friday,
Michael Shea, William Preston, John Brannon, Henry
Spink, and Margaret Burke, were placed in the deck
before Mr. Mansfield, at the police-court, for an out-
rageous party-fight on Thursday afternoon, at the head
of Wright-street, in Limekiln-lane. Window shutters
and frames were smashed, and a pistol was fired by one
of the mob. The presiding magistrate said something
must be done to put a stop to such practices, and that the
prisoners must be fined 40s. and costs, with three months'
imprisonment in default of payment.
Funs.—The number of foreign buyers at the Hudson
Bay Company's late sale considerably affected the prices
of furs. Skins have not realised, for many wears, so high
prices; some lots of Sables fetched fifty shillings a skin.
Mr. John Cripps, of Bold-street, anticipating the advance,
fortunately bought a great number of skins previous to
the sale, and will have manufactured, by the first of
August, nearly one thousand boas in Min sable, real
ermine. very choice, Miniver, and Chinchilla, which he
will offer all at one guinea each. Of these, he feels con-
vinced, equal value cannot be given in the season under
thirty-five shillings ; also, a variety of dark sables, equally
cheap.—Shawl, Mantle, and Fur warehouse, No. 14 and
'l6. Bold-street, Liverpool. John Cripps, proprietor.
TUE ISLE. OF MAN STEAMER, MONA'S QUEEN, on
her voyage from Douglas to this port, on Thursday,
was
visited by an accident to the starboard paddle,hich
rendered it necessary to stop the engine. It was blowing
a gale at the time. 'Finding that it would be impossible
to get steam on the vessel again without risking further
injury, Captain Quayle set sail on the vessel, and the
steamer came along in capital style under canvass. She
reached the river in time to dock, and that night a mes-
sage was sent by electric telegraph to Glasgow, to Messrs.
Thomson, the builders, requesting them to send up new
parts to repair the injury done to the wheel. During the
time the vessel was knocking about, Captain Quayle was
capsized on the deck, and had his right leg cut and
bruised. The passengers all unite in attributing the
absence of any serious result to the coolness and judgment
displayed by Captain Quayle, and they have presented
him with an address to that effect.
DOCK COMarITTEE.—Mr. Turner presided at the meet-
ing of the dock committee, on Thursday.—Mr. M'Cor-
mack's tender for excavating the Wapping dock, at a cost
of £60;000 to £70,000, to be finished in two years, was
accepted.—The tender of Messrs. Jones and Jump, for
some erections on the west side of the Huskisson dock,
at a cost of £3,400, was also accepted.—A sum of £225
was agreed to be paid to different parties as compensation
for injuries sustained by their property by the works at
Wapping. The committee agreed to purchase 2028
square yards of land, at a price of £17,602, from Messrs.
Lowndes, Robinson, and Bateson, assignees of Messrs.
Barton, Islam, and Higginson, at Tabley-street, Wap-
ping.—A letter was read from the Rev. George Dover,
thanking the committee for the annual grant towards the
maintenance of a clergyman at the North dock works.
—A plan for the alteration of the position of the report-
ers' table was approved, and signed by the chairman.
—Mr. Bold gave notice that at the next meeting of the
committee he would bring forward a motion, to the effect
that the Bramley-Moore dock in future be called the
Sefton dock.

CAPTURE BY THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. The
screw-steamer Scandinavian, Captain Rayner, trading
betwetin Hull and Gothenburg, left the latter port on the
Ist instant, with about 230 emigrants. Amongst them
was a young man, whose luggage was addressed "C.
Arviditson,"but we believe his real name is Carl Winberg.
The Scandinavian arrived in Hull on Monday week, hut
did not get into dock until next morning. The emigrants
she brought at once left for Liverpool en route to Ame-
rica, Winberg allowing his luggage to go in the customs'
van with the emigrants. Winberg, who is between 25 and
30 years of age, has been in the employ of Messrs. Willer-
ding and Co., Gothenburg, and it was discovered after his
l
departure that he had absconded with an amount of at
£6OO. On the Tuesday, Messrs. Anderson, Hober,
and Co., the Hamburg correspondents of Messrs. Willer-
ding, received an intimation of the flight and embezzlement
which had taken place, and at once addressed messages by
the submarine telegraph, via Ostend, to Messrs. Wilson
and Co., of Hull, the owners of the Scandinavian ; and
also to a London firm, who telegraphed to Messrs. Clay
and Squire, the Swedish consul at Hull. Messrs. Wilson's
ttoelwengroap nli th to
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communication reached Hull on the Tuesday evening, but
too late to be of any service. However early on Wednes-
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day morning, steps were taken for tracing and capturing
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alert. A clerk in the employ of Messrs. Wilson and Co.
left for Liverpool, on the same morning ; and in the even-
ing a clerk of Messrs. Clay and Squire, accompanied b
Police-constable Greaves, of the Hull force, also went in
y pursuit. It seems that the latter left Hull soon after
seven, but did not reach Liverpool until the Thursday
morning, when proceeding at once to the office of the
Swedish consul, they found the prisoner in custody of a
Liverpool detective and Messrs. 'Wilson's clerk, and just
ready for being returned to Hull. The prisoner and his
captors reached this town on Thursday evening, about
half-past six o'clock. He was again placed on board, and
kept under strict surveillance. Winberg returned to
Gothenburg by the Scandinavian, which left Hull for that
port last Saturday. We understand that within ten
minutes after the receipt of the information at Liverpool,
the prisoner was in custody. The money which he had
in his possession was about £Boo.—Eastern Counties
Herald.

THE LATE ELECTION.

ANALYSIS OF THE POLL.
The following is a complete analysis of the polling at
the recent election, showing the numbers in the several
districts, and also the azeregate voting, as divided between
the respective candidates; distinguishing the Freemen :

THE TOBACCO AND SNUFF TRADE -7. F LIVERPOOL.—
In Liverpool the trade is in the hands of half-a-dozen
importers, and just the same number of brokers. There
are 22 manufacturers, and 160 tobacconists, or retailers.
The deliveries of last year were equivalent to 8,380 tons
gross in weight, and, at an average of 4d. per lb., or £25
per hogshead, ex defy, £365,000 in value. The stock,
7,912 tons, value £3-14,000. In addition to these hogs-
heads of American tobacco, we received the following im-
ports into Liverpool last year, 1852: viz., 2,800 boxes or
kegs, manufactured ; 2,129 b: les and 139 chests leaf to-
bacco, and 178 cases cigars, the weight of which amounted
to nearly 400 tons, and the value £40,000. The twenty-
two manufacturers of tobacco in Liverpool cut the leaf
into what is termed shag, bird's-eye, roll, cavendish,
negro, and pigtail, to the extent of about 1,200 hhds.,
equivalenti to 660 tons nett, per annum, which manufac-
ture s afterwards distributed in the town and country in
smaller casks of two to five cwt., to all parts of Great
Britain. Very few cigars are imported into Liverpool.
There are about half-a-dozen persons who manufacture
cigars in the town, to the extent altogether of nearly
100 tons a year, who, with the manufacture of cut tobacco,
afford employment to upwards of 400 individuals. This
trade has much increased of late years ; but the manufac-
ture of snuff is still very inconsiderable. Tobacco pipes
are made in Liverpool by nine makers, working fifteen
kilns, and employing nearly 150 individuals, one moiety
being females. The quantity exported. last year from
Liverpool amounted to 700 tons in weight, and £15,000
in value. About GOO tons pipeclay, brought coastwise
from Teignmouth, in Devonshire, is consumed annually
in the manufacture. The entire trade of tobacco, &c., in
this port, amounts to 9,480 tons in weight, and £420,000
in value, ex duty, per annum.—B. P.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—Mr. Langsdale presided at the
weekly meeting on Wednesday. Mr. Beckwith called
attention to a memorial (read before the committee), from
the shopkeepers of Lord-street, complaining of theineffi-
cient manner in which the street was watered. They
desired that, in future, the Health Committee would
cease to collect the water rate from them, and they would
provide themselves with the requisite quantity of water.
The chairman said that the amount for the purpose,
£7OO, was taken out of the paving rate. Nothing could
be done till next March. The memorial was referred.—
Two tenders for number-plates for House-doors came be-
fore the committee, that of Mr. Laird (who was under-
stood to represent Fox, Henderson, and Co.), offering
the plates at 16s. per cwt., and that of Messrs. Weber
and Co., whose price was 16s. 6d. per cwt. Mr. Godfrey
considered that as Weber and Co. were ratepayers, they
ought to have the preference. On a division, the com-
mittee were found to be equally divided, and the
chair-
man gave his casting vote in favour of Messrs. Weber.
Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Moss con-
demned the decision.—A report relative to the flagging
of Mountpleasant, at an expense of £55, was referred for
further consideration.—The subject of the crossing in
Scotland-road was further adjourned to Thursday next.
Mr. Godfrey intimated that he should move at the next
meeting that the pavement in Scotland-road be taken up
altogether, and adapted to the traffic. He considered
that Mr. Newlands had made a mistake as to the road.—
Mr. Henry Aymiley was appointed to succeed the late
Mr. Lca as chief clerk in the nuisance department.—
Mr. Moss submitted his motion, that the meetings of the
general purposes committee be discontinued, and the
business transferred to the ordinary meeting on Thursday,
but, in consequence of an informality in the notice, he
would bring it forward at a future meeting.--Mr. Hen-
derson gave notice that
he intended to propose, at the
next quarterly meeting, an increase in the salary' of the
borough engineer. (Laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh.")
Mr. Beckwith thought they had better at once increase
the salaries of all the officers under the corporation—give
them all what they liked. He added, " I really think
(referring to Mr. Henderson) they will kick you out, as
dead as Chelsea, if you come that—(laughter) ; 1 shall go
cut myself next November; I really cannot sit here."

Horsfall and Liddell.
Horsfall and Moore .
Horsfall and Perry
Perry and Moore
Plumped for Horsfall
Ditto for Liddell
Ditto for Moore
Ditto for Perry

Freemen
• 97
. 1
• 4
. 15
• 1
• 0
• 0

KIRKDILF, DISTRICT.
Total No. of Votes,

Horsfall and Liddell.
Horsfall and Moore .
Horsfail and Perry
Perry and Moore
Plumped for Horefall
Ditto for Perry

Freemen
. 18
0
. 0

Ditto for Moore

LIVERPOOL DISTRICT.
Total No. of Votes. Freemen,
Horsfall and Liddell 3675
Horsfall and Moore
Horsfrill and Perry
Liddell and Moore 3 o
ir.i.ciaon arsrl Parry 11 3
Perry and Moore
Plumped for florsfall
Ditto for Liddell 2l 2
Ditto for Perry
Dittto for Moore l5 i

TOXTETH-PARKDISTRICT

Total No. of Notes. Freemen
724 246
Floras-01 and Liddell
23 5
Horsfall and Moore
Horsfall and Perry
Liddell and Moore 2 1
........
Liddell and Perry 4 1
65 8
25........ 3
........
Ditto for Liddell 1
4 ........
Ditto for Perry
216 19
Ditto for Moore
7 0
yandf:'r Moore G 5
Plumped Per r

Total ..

. 1101 ...

WEST DERBY DISTRICT.
Total No. of Votes,
Horsfall and Liddell 346 ..
Horsfall and Moore 7 ..
Horsfall and Perry
Liddell and Perry
Perry and Moore
Plumped for Horsfall
Ditto for Perry
Ditto for Moore 3 ..

Freem en

•••• 111

NON-RESIDENT FREEMEN
Horsfall and Liddell
Tlorsfall and Moore..
Horsfall and Perry..
Liddell and Moore ..
Perry and M00re....
Plumped for Horsfall
Ditto for Liddell
Ditto for Perry
Total

254

GROSS TOTALS. Freemen
FERRY Plumpers
)1 Splits with Hort•fall 269
II Splits with Liddell.. 17
1, Splits with Moore 1117
HORSFALL Plumpers l2l
i, Splits with Liddell.. 5448
Splits with Perry 269
JP Splits with Moore 133
LIDDELL Plumpers 2B
•f
If Splits with Perry .. 17
I, Splits with Moore 6 2
MOORS
Splits with Perry .. 1107
~ Splits with Horsfall 133
s) Splits ?Mb Liddell,, 0

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TEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY,

TFLY

GENERAL NEWS.

MAGNA CHARTA.—A movement is on foot, in London,
for the erection of a monument to commemorate the
signing of Magna Charta.
COD FISHING.—A Stornoway correspondent, writing
on Thursday, says—" An English cod smack arrived here
on Tuesday night, from Iceland, with upwards of 14,000
cod fish, which they caught in 19 days."

SCOTTISH LAW OF .ARREST.—The government has
issued a commission to J. H. Burton, Esq., advocate, to
inquire into the law of arrestment in Scotland, and also
into the truck system and imprisonment for debt.

IMPORTATION OF OPIUM. —The monthly accounts
show a large importation of opium. In the month ended
the sth ult., there were 9,699 lb. imported, and in the
five months ended the same day no less than 65,354 lb.,
being the largest quantity for a considerable period.

THE KING OF HANOVER has conferred on Mr. S. W.
Fullom, the author of The Marvels of Science, and their
Testimony to Holy Writ, the Royal Hanoverian Medal
of the Arts and Sciences, as a mark of his approbation of
that work.

THE REV. MR. MACKINTOSH, a young, man, curate
at Burton-upon-Trent, has been drowned while bathing
in the sea at Sandycove, near Dublin. He could not
swim, and seems to have been deceived as to the depth of
the water, where he was bathing alone.
WILLIAM YRLF, aced 53, who committed the late
frauds on the Isle of Wight Savings'-bank, by which he
appropriated to his own use £BOO a year, for ten years,
out of the savings of the poor depositors, pleaded guilty
to his arraignment, and has been sentenced to transporta-
tion for life.

TREASURE TROVE.—Daring Friday and Saturday week
above fifty sovereigns were found by different persons at the
bottom of the river Stow, at Canterbury. A hair watch-
guard, with two gold keys and a seal, and a mourning
ring, bearing the inscription, " The Right Hon. Lord
Henniker, ob. 5 Dec., 1821, wt. 69," were also taken
from the same spot.

ARRIVALS OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—The Elizabeth
Buckham, from Geelong, and the Sarah Ann, from Laun-
ceston, have arrived, the former with 200 ounces, and the
latter with 126 ounces of gold, together of the value of
about £1,304. The Templar, from Sydney, has arrived
with, it is reported, 10,000 ounces, value about £40,000.
She reports the Stebonheath to have left lAlelbourne on
the 6th of April for London, with 46,000 ounces, value
about £184,000.
AUSTRALIAN NABOBS. —Among the passengers who
came home in the Indus. which landed the Indian mails
at Southampton, were 19 Australian returned emigrants,
most of whom were from Melbourne. They wore white
calico hats, and their hale, hearty, and John Bull appear-
ance formed a striking contrast to that of the Indian pas-
sengers. The salubrity of the climate from which they
had come was manifested throughout the voyage in the
range and power of their organs of digestion. They had
all made rapid and large fortunes.
SELLING A `Virg.—A case of selling a wife actually and
bona fide happened in a provincial town about eighteen
years ago. A man publicly sold his wife at the Market-
cross for £l5. The buyer carried her away with him some
seven miles off, and she lived with him till his death. The
seller and the buyer are now both dead, but the woman
is alive, and is married to a third (or a second) husband.
The legality of the transaction has some chance of being
tried, as she now claims some property belonging to her
first husband (the seller,) her right to which is questioned
in consequence of her supposed alienation by sale, and
a lawyer has been applied to in the case.
- - -

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.—At a meeting of the
Crystal Palace Company, it was agreed to issue 50,000
new shares of £5 each. It was explained that the pros-
pect of the undertaking had much improved, and that
whereas some few months since only 10s. per foot frontace
for exhibition space could have been obtained, the whole
would now readily let at £1 per foot. The expenditure
up to August next would be about £490,000, which,
making allowance for the money received from the sale of
surplus lands (nearly £55,000), showed an outlay of
£435,000, leaving £300,000 as the amount to complete
the undertaking. The opening is to take place on the let
of May next.

HOIXIREAD NEW HARBOUR WORKS.—The new har-
bour at Holyhead is now continually affording shelter to
large numbers of vessels which run in for protection, the
works being so far advanced as to afford the required re-
fuge. As a harbour of refuge it is now being fully tested,
and, when completed, it will form the largest in the king-
dom. Hundreds of sail have put in during the last few
months. An area of 316 acres is being enclosed by a
breakwater, three-fourths of a mile in length, with a sea-
pier 2,000 feet in length, and the average depth of water
will be upwards of 30 feet. Millions of tons of stone
have been deposited to form the foreshore and breakwater,
and the daily delivery into the sea has been at the rate of
4,000 tons. This stone is obtained at " the mountain,"
about half a mile from Holyhead, where the blasting
operations that are being carried on are the most extensive
in the kindom.

A VOICE FROM " THE DIGGINGS."—A gold-di4ger,
writing from Bendigo Creek, Australia, to a friend in
England, concludes his letter with the following unique
and earnest appeal :—" Now, pray write once a month at
least, and number your letters, that I may see whether I
receive all. And, above all things vote for " Ocean
Penny Postage." Go-ahead ,with that. A penny is
enough for a letter. Our shippers only pay three
farthings a pound for freight of wool, and less for tallow.
I only paid £l5 for my passage out, which is 3,600
pence, and I believe I weigh 3,600 half ounces ! Besides,
our shippers nearly kept me in food for 100 days, and 22
days more. Just try to remember that, and that a letter
does not eat any thing. If the Ocean Penny Postage
were established, Government would reap the advantage
in paper duties, for the stationers would sell a ream
where they now sell a quire.
-emit LIST PENSIONS.—From a return just issued it
appears that there were eleven pensions granted between
the 20th June, 1852, and the 20th of June last, charged
upon the
civil list, and amounting to £1,200. To John
Russell Hind, the astronomer, £200; Gideon Algernon
Mantel!, the geologist, £100; Caroline Southey (widow
of the late poet laureate), £2OO ; Nancy Taylor (widow of
Col. Taylor, killed at Sohraon), £100; Francis Ronalds,
for discoveries in electricity, &c., £75 ; Chas. Richardson,
author. £l5 ; Louisa Stuart Costello, authoress, £75 ;
Jane Pugin, wife of R. W. Pugin, architect, £lOO ; Eliza-
beth Hester Colby, wife of Major-General Colby, £lOO ;
Jerdan, "in consideration of his services to lite-
rature for many years, and his distressed circumstances
at an advanced period of life, £lOO ;" and Elizabeth M.
widow of the late professor of Greek in the
of Edinburgh, £75, and her three daughters,
uDnunivbearrsity
for the survivors or survivor of them.

NAVAL COAST VOLUNTEERS.—The bill for the esta-
blishment of a body of naval coast volunteers, and for the
temporary transfer to the navy, in case of need, of sea-
faringmen employed in other public services, has just
beenpublished. There are twenty-four provisions in the
bill. The Admiralty is to be empowered to raise not ex-
ceeding 10,000 men, to be cane' the " Royal Naval-Coast
Volunteers." They are to be entered for five years, and
may be trained and exercised for twenty-eight days in
each year. In case of invasion or imminent danger, her
Majesty may order the volunteers to be called into actual
service. During exercise and actual service the men are
to have the pay of able seamen. In case of emergency
the officers and men of the coast-guard and seamen riggers
may he required to serve in the navy for a limited period.
Upon invasion or danger seafaring men in public depart.
ments are to be called to temporary service in the navy.
There are certain penalties set forth, and it is provided
that persons not attending when called into actual service
may be apprehended and punished as deserters from the
Royal Navy.

MANNING THE ROYAL NAVY.—Sir James Graham's
Bill to make better provision concerning the entry and
service of seamen, and otherwise to amend the laws con-
cerning her Majesty's navy, has just been issued. The
object of the measure is to carry out the Admiralty regu-
lations of April last., to extend the period of service to
ten years instead of seven, and to extend the service of
boys "hereafter entering the navy, and otherwise to
amend the law concerning the manning and discipline of
the navy." It is proposed to enact that any proclamation
of her Majesty for the services of seafaring men, either
during the time of peace or war, may be general or re-
stricted, and service of seamen in the navy may be ex-
tended by proclamation, saving the power of the Admiralty
to enter for any periods and to discharge men. There is
a provision that spirituous or fermented liquors are rot
to be brought on board her Majesty's ships without the
commander's consent. Desertion may be punished sum-
marily, and persons making fraudulent representations
on entering the navy are to be punished as rogues and
vagabonds. Railway companies are to convey naval forces
on the same terms as military and police.
THE POST-OFFICE.—Some annual returns relating to
the Post-office department have just been printed. The
total number of chargeable letters delivered in the united
kingdom in 1839, preceding the first general reduction of
postage on the sth of December, 1839, was 75,907,572,
and 6,563,024 franked letters. Since the reduction letters
have increased, and in the course of last year 379,501,499
were delivered. The gross revenue of the Post-office in
the year ended the sth of January last was £2,434,326
16s. 7d., and the net revenue £965,442 Is. 71d. In the
same period £329,963 14s. 4d. was paid for the convey-
ance of the mails by railway in the united kingdom.
From the Ist of January to the 31st of December last
there were 4,947,825 money-orders issued in the united
kingdom, amounting to £9,438,277 17s. 2d., and the
number paid was 4,942,859, amounting to £9,423.719
2s. 10d. The money-order office cost £70,669. The
amount of commission received was £82,333. The profit
in England and Scotland was £12,720, and the loss in
Ireland £1,056. For the last five years there was a profit
on the money-order office, except in 1848, when there
was a loss of £5,745. In 1852 the profit was £11,664 ;
in 1851, £7,437 ; in 1850, £3,236 ; and in 1849, £322.

NEW DUTIES ON SPIRITS ACT.—The new act, which
received the Royal assent last week, has just been printed,
to impose additional duties on spirits in Scotland and
Ireland, and to alter the countervailing duties on spirits
the manufacture of Guernsey, Jersey Alderney, or Sark,
imported into Scotland or Ireland, and the countervailing
duties and drawbacks on the removal of certain mixtures
and compounds between Scotland, Ireland, and England,
and to amend the laws relating to the collecting and secur-
ing the duties of Excisa upon spirits. There are 41
clauses and several schedules in the new act, which has
three periods of operation. As to the duties and draw-
backs granted and imposed and allowed, the act is to take
effect from and after the 21st April last ; and as to the
abatement or allowance to be made in respect to the de-
ficiencies in spirits warehoused, from and after the passing
of the act (Sth of July inst.); and as to all other provisions,
from and after the 10th of October next. The first part
of the act relates to the additional duties mentioned, the
next portion to the countervailing duties, and the third
to the collecting and securing the duties of Excise on
spirits. It is enacted that a proper spirit store is to be
provided in every distillery, and the officer in charge of
the same to attend daily. All spirits distilled are to be
removed into the store within six days. Permission is
given by this act to distillers to carry on the trade of a
wholesale dealer in spirits within the distance of two miles
from the distillery. The additional duties and drawback!
are to be under the management of the Commiationers of
Inland Revenge.