The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT.

(AMENDMENT OF ACTS.)
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application
is intended to prep made to Parliament, in the Session of
453, for an Act to al, alter, extend, amend, or enlarge
relne. of the provisions of the following local and personal Acts
ri2Sting to the Local Court of Record, commonly called the
etirt of Pass Age, of the Borough of Liverpool : that is to say,
nAct of the 4th and stb William IV., cap. 92 ; an Act of the
and 7th William IV., cap. 135 ; an Act of the Ist Victoria,
A,13. !the an Act of the Ist and 2nd Victoria, cap. 99 ; and an
.` sth Victoria. cap. 52. And it is proposed by the
i 7,41 Intended Act to alter the jurisdiction of the said Court,
.2d to limit, and in certain cases to'extend, such jurisdiction,
;u1 to confer powers to improve-ind simplify the practice in
Zie.onduct of actions therein/and the trial of issues and pro-
iio,:lts subsequent theretO, and to render the said Court
Ire efficient for the admitiistration of justice.
ipD NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN, that Copies of the
c,2lWill be deposited ifl the Private Bill Office of the House of
Lortlons,
is onlsth /ay of or beore the
November, 1 3lst daf
59. December next.
ated thoB

WM. SHUTTLE\VORTH,
Town-Clerk of Liverpool.
Solicitor for the intended Act

LIVERPOOL SANITARY AND OTHER LOCAL

ACTS

(PR
bOVISIONS RELATING TO BUILDINGS—SEWERS AND
‘,RAINS—STREET IMPROVEMENTS—NUISANCES AND AN.
"'IAN
. CES—WAGOONS AND PUBI.IC VEHICLES—LODGING
rSITSES AND PLACES-POLICE SUPERANNUATIONFUND—
, ',POSITION FOR RATES—MORTGXGES- A MENDMENT OF
nen.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
1, intended to be made to,Parliament, in the Sess ion of 1853,
t.,;`.411 Act to repeal the Vcal and Personal Act, fifth of Vic-
berr'aa chapter forty-four,tcommonly known in Liverpool and
Inaftr referred to,a's " The Health Act," and to re-enact,
„:"Ject to certain alterations, additions, and amendments, all
i,4ltite of the provisions of the said Act, and to make further
atrisAtititouchipt theFonstruction, al
fillingteration, repair, fencin
up, and regulation of buildings, excava-
iit_ n, and other works fr or d ,
w. .1 .yo..e.ngs, or of a
ature thereto, within thecontacte Borough oft Liverpool, and also
%Ohm; the materials and foundations of buildings, and all
41,7' matters incidental thereto, or otherwise in any manner
rat'''t,lr to buildinos, excavations, or works, as aforesaid ; and
touching interments of the dead within the said Borough,
tact, amend, so far as may be rendered necessary by the re-
r„..' of the said Act, such of the prdvisions of the Local and
I,l,'Bonal Acts 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 109, and. 7th and Bth
ietoria, cal 51 as would be affected by such repeal.
ktend it is' .pro'posed by the said intended Act, to extend,
a, enlarge, and regulate the powers and duties of Survey-
A,of Buildings within the said Borough, and to authorize the
tasointment of Official Referees, to decide, determine, or
aitg rt in relation to the construction or alteration of buildings,
Ora" Powers for regulating the payment of such Surveyors and
t.9al Referees, and enforcing compliance with their orders,
-sPorts, or determinations.
thAelld it is proposed by the said intended Act, to make various
to...rations in the Local and Personal Act, 9th and 10th Vic-
chapter 127, (commonly known in Liverpool
hire herein-
referr«l to as the " Sanitary Act,") wit pect to
10 "8, sewerage, and drainage, within the said Borough, and
bZbarge, rate, or assess the owners of lands, buildings, and
An'editaments with the cost of sewers. sewerage, and drainage
hiteertnin cases, and to direct the implication of such charges,
es, or assessments, and to repeal the provisions of the Saul-
tiroY Act, enabling the occupiers of property within the said
tailnlah to deduct one-half of the sewer rate levied upon and.
titeZ by such occupiers from any rent payable to the owner of
ta Property. and in lieu thereof to authorize such occupiers
s4:leduct the whole, or a larger proportion than one-half, of
tent sewer rate from the rent Payab
Sle by such occupiers, and
end the period limited by the anitary Act during which
l'ena'ls7ar, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough are
waned to pay a certain annual sum of money for sewerage
Lll/poses, within the Parish of Liverpool, and to alter the ap-
th.ration, directed by the Sanitary Act, of moneys arising. from
11,; rates levied and received by virtue of that Act, and from
4i tale of dirt, dust, night-soil, and filth ; and to authorize the
m'hyor, Aldermen, and Burgesses to expend such mpneys
letonexecution of works by the Sanitary Act or the said in-
thirell Act directed or authorised to be executed by them ;
bar t 0 enable the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, to
lviii;"llsse or lese and to hold lands or buisementsldings wprlithin o.r
eotit the limits of the said Borough, or ea
Over or upon lands or buildings, for sewerage, or,onage,
AenFing., and other purposes.
4,149 it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter or amend
let.a4nlll of the provisions of the Sanitary Act with respect to
thev,inz, paving, and flagging streets, and other places, whe-
tifo:_nighways Or not, and to make further and fetter provi-
tal,"Lwitli respect thereto, and to extend the provisions con-
tiaju in the sections of toe Sanitary Act, from 39 to 43 inclu-
Nf and from 102 to 104 inclusive, to
an and draining, as
Aaati.levelling, forming, pavina, flagging other purposes.
lit'`ovn.6.lt is proposed by the said intended Act to make further
braprY,Ps as to laying out anti making streets, and to alter the
otttilons of the Sanitary Act, with respect to fixing the level
to h:eels and measuring the width of streets, anti with respect
teGiGvidirm end constructing, cleansing and repairing, or dis•
house-drains water-closets, urinals, cuss-pools,
or ash-pits, and other works of the like maitre, in or near
kae 10 connexion with houses, warehouses, manufactories,
44.,°ther erections, already built or hereafter to he built;
Itijea,°l-nake new provisions, and to give the Council of the
114tterlsOrough further powers, in respect to all or any such
+tad •• .
is osed by the said intended Act to make further
tiller4}9n for p preventing nuisances, whether from smoke or
tlta•Wise, and for enforcing the use of furnaces and fire-places
441 the said Borouah ;lid in steam-vessels on the River
constructed on rinc.ple.for consuming or prev.,t-
-gea'")lce, and for enforcing the raising or altering of con.,
klzit:, or the adoption of other means for the prevention of
annoyance from smoke, gas, or vapour.

ficto'cr;', to much of the Local and Personal Act sth and 6th
tlay chapter 106, (commonly known in I iverpool,
ce hereinafter referred to as the Improvement and Po-
t A(1
.en‘>) as relates to the removal of night soil or other

to .oNstructions, nuisances

ct and the Sanitary Act

:g injury to carriage ways and foot
.!1), especially by enforcing the cc

ig provisions for pre-
ways within the said
mstruction of proper
drawing, or wheehng

such footways, and

injury thereto,

together with a copy of this Notice, be deposited before the
tame day at the Residence of the PARISH-CLERK of that Parish.
Printed Copies of the Bill will be deposited at the Private
Bill-office of the House of Commons, before the first day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

Dated' this twelfth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-two.

JOHN WHITLEY, Clerk to tke Company

LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT

RAILWAY.

(REnuc nor: OF TOLLS FOR USE OF PART OF THE LANCA
SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY—LEVEL CROSSING IN
NORTH MEOLS—POWER TO LEVY TOLLS IN RESPECT OF
AINSDALE BRANCH—AMENDMENT OF ACTS.)

IOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
by the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Company.
for an Act to alter the existing tolls, rates, and ditties- limited
by "The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Act. 1547."
and by " The Liverpool, Crosby, and-- Southport Railway
Amendment Act, 1850," or either of them, and to confer, vary,
or extinguish exemptions from p,ayinent of such tolls, rates,
and duties, and other rights and privileges, and also to alter and
reduce the tolls, rates, and cjiarges payable in respect of the
passage of all traffic cominyto or from the Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport Railway, on or along that part of the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire 1 !way which lies between the terminus
of the said last-men • tied Railway, at Titheharn-street, Liver-
pool, and the poll} of junction of the same Railway with the
said Liverpoolverosby. and Southport Railway, such part of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway being wholly in the
county of LAncaster.

And it is proposed by the said intended Act, to take powers
to enable the said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway
Company to carry over the line of the said Railway on the
level, a certain public road or highway, commonly called
Hawes Side-lane, in the township of North Meols, in the parish
of North Meols, in the county of Lancaster, either as such road
or highway at present exists, or as the same may hereafter be
deviated or diverted ; and also to levy tolls, rates. and ditties in
respect of a branch line of Railway constructed by the said
company, commencing at or from the Ainsdale Station of the
said Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, in the township
of Ainsdale and parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, in the county of
Lancaster, and terminating at or near Segar's-lane, in the
township of Halsall, and parish of Halsall, in the said county.
And it is further proposed by the said intended act, so far as
may be necessary for the several objects aforesaid, or any or
either of them, and also for other objects, to alter, amend,
extend, enlarge, or repeal, or to amend, repeal, and re-enact,
all or some of the powers and provisions of "The Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport Railway Act, 1847," "The Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport Railway Amendment Act, 185 p," "The
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (Sale or Lease) Act,
1850," "The Mahchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1835," "The
Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1837," "Time Manclester
and Leeds Railway Act, 1839," "The Manchester and Leeds
Railway Act, 1841," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act,
1844," "The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, No. 1. 1845,"
" The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act. No. 2, 1845," "The
Manchester and Leeds Railway Act, 1846," "The Manchester
and Leeds Railway Act, No. 1. 1847," "The Manchester and
Leeds Railway Act, No. 2, 1847," "The Manchester and Leeds
Railway Act, No. 3. 1847," "The Ashton, Stalybridge. and
Liverpool Junction Railway Act, 1844," "The Ashton,
Staly-
bridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway Act, 1815," "The
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Act, BM,"
" The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Act,

•
1832," "The ;Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway
Act, 1835," "The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and
Railway Act, 1838," "The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal
and Railway Act, No. 2, 1846," "The Manchester, Bolton, and
Bury, and Manchester and Leeds Canal and Railways' Act,
1845," "The Liverpool and Bury Railway Act, 1845," "The
Liverpool and Bury Railway Act, 1846," " The Liverpool
and Bury, and Manchester and Leeds Railways Act, 1846,"
• "The fludderafield and Sheffield Junction Railway Act, 1845,''
"The Huddersfield and SiteflieldJunction and Manchester and
Leeds Railways Act, 1846," " The West Riding Union Railways
Act, 1846," "The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway
Act, 1845," "The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway
Branches Act, 1845," "The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole
Railway and Port of Goole Act, 1846," "The Manchester and
Southport Railway Act, 1847," " The Oldham Alliance Railway
Act, 1847," " The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Act,1848,"
An Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 9th
and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intitnled
"An Act for vesting in the Grand Junction Railway Company
and the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, the North
Uhion Railway, and all the works, property, and affects apper-
taining thereto," an Act passed in the said Session of Parlia-
ment, held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intitnled " An Act for enabling the MB and Selby
Railway Company to lease, and also to sell, their Railway to
the York and North Midland and Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way Companies, or one of them, and to antiorise the raising of
additional money by both or either of the la-t-mentioned com-
panies for those or other purposes," an Act passed in the said
session of parliament, held in the 9th and 10th years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intitnled "An Act for
making certain Lines of Railway in the West Riding of
the County of York, to be called The Sheffield, Rother-
ham, Barnsley, Waktfield, Huddersfield, and Goole Rail-
way,'" " The York and North Midland (Bull Station) Rail-
way Act, 1847," "The Leeds Central Railway Station Act,
1848," "The Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and
North Western Railways (Preston and Were Railway, Harbour,
and Dock Vesting) Act, 1849." "The Lancashire and York-
shire Railway Act, 1849," " The Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Act, "The Lancashire and orkshire Railway
Act, 1852," " The York and North !Midland anti Lancashire
and Yorkshire Arrangement Act, 1852," "The East Lanca-
shire Railway Act, 1844." being an Art for making a Railway
from the Manchester and Bolton Railway, in the parish of
Eccles, to the parish of Whalley, all in the county palatine of
Lancaster, to be called " The Manchester, Bury, and Roesen-
dale Railway ;" " The East Lancashire Railway Act, 1845,"
" The East Lancaahire Railway Act, -1815, (No. 2,)" "The
East Lancashire Deviation and Branch Railways Act, 18'6,"
" The East Lancashire_ Railway Amalgamation Act, 1846,"

R2:il;mliy Act

the town of

The East Lancaslii.

Railway Act,

Extension,)" "The Blackburn and t'reston
844," being an Act for making a Railway from
lackburn to the North Union Railway, in the

:on, near Preston, all in tI

d Prestitn lintlwny Act. 18:15,"

"The BlaCkburn andPre;tWliail;;;;;cct,7B46," " The Li-
verpool, Orniskirk, and Preston Railway Act, 184 G," " The
East Lancashire Railway Act, 1849," and " The East Lanca-

MICE 'IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN, that Copies of

2, in the Pr

e Thirty-first day of December, 18
ce of th. House of Commons.
2nd day of November, 1852.
ZUAREY, and DUNCAN, Liverpool
Solicitors for the Mi.

Dated the
DU.N

H. and W.

2, l'arliament=itreet,Westminster,

SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY,

',CONSOLIDATION AND A:5l ENDM ENT OR

NT OF SHARE CAPITAL, BORROWINO POWEII

rOAGI•: DEBT OF THE COMPANY-CONVERSION OF
SHARE CAPITAL INTO STOCK-SCAtE OF VOTING-CREA-
NEW SHARES FOR PAYMENT OF DEBT-POWERS

MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
pi intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session

thereof, for an Act to alter, atriend, extend, and enlarge, or to
repeal in whole or in part, and to consolidate and re-enact, with

such nmenf?ments as may he necessary, the /vets hereinafter
specified, relating to the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway ;
(that is to say) Local "-and Personal, 7 and S Victoria, chapter
99; 8 and r 9 Victoria, chapters 42 and,ns; 9 and 10 Victoria,
chapters —' 914, and 275-- V; -

wards
Mid

14)0, 23►, , -,JI 10 ancill ViCtoria, chapter 141;
13 Victoria, chapter 55; 14 anq 15 Victoria, chapter 131;
and 15 and 16 Victoria, chapter 46; by which Act it is in-
tended to dissolve the Shrewsb y and Chester itailway Com-
pany, and in their stead to i orporate into a new Company
the present holders Of sha .s in the Shrewsbury anal Chester

Railway Company, and transfer to and vest in such new
Company the whole Rail' ays, stations, shares of joint stations,
piers, wharves, jetties, anding places, works, lands, property,
capital, stock, shares state, and effects, of or belonAing to
the said Shrewsbur and Chester It•ilway Company, and all
the rights, powers rivileges, and authorities vested in and
exercised or en' yed by the said Shrewsbury and Chester

Railway Compt4 • and to enable such new Company to levy
tolls, rates, and duties for or in respect of the Railways,
wharves, piers, landing places, and works, vested in or belang-
ing to the said Shrewsbury and Chester :tailway Company ;

s, rates, anc

tarrying into effect the above objects or some of them, it is
intended by the Act to alter amend, extend, and enlarge, and
also to repeal, if need be, ail or some of the powers and pro-
visions of the several Acts of Parliament above mentioned, or
some of them, relating to, or affecting the said Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway; also, of the Warrington and Altrincham
Junction Railway Act, 1851; also, of the Acts relating to the
Chester and Holyhead Railway (that is to say), Local and Per-
sonal, 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 65; 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 33: 10
and 11 Victoria, calls. 147 and 238; 11 and 12 Victoria, cap.
6); and 12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 41 ; also, of the Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Act. 1852; and of
the Acts relating to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway;
(tll4t is to say), Local and Personal, 9 and 10 Victoria, caps.
307 and 31. 8 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 80; 12 and 13 Victoria,
cap. 85 ; and 15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 165.
And NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBYe FURTHER GIVEN, that
on or before the 31st day of December next, printed copies of
the said Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the
Horse of Commons.
Dated this Ist day of November, 1852.

H. KELSALL

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,

(AMENDMENT OF ACTS; EXTENSION OF POWERS FOR CON-
STRUCTION OF OLDHAM BRANCH RAILWAY; DEVIATION
OF LINE; AND ALTERATION OF LEVELS.)

E tßeYpaGri
ilaVmEenNt ,
itnlitahteA.,ppl.icatifolnBsis
rc
intended O TICE
ItSo Ur le
Emadeß
for an Act to alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or
some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Par-
liament, or some of them, following, relating to the London
and North Western Railway Company (that is to say): local
and personal Acts, Bth and 9th Vic., caps. 36, 37, 43, 105, 112,
123, 156, and 198 ; 9th and 10th Vic., caps. 67, SO, 82, 152, 182,
154, 192, 193, 204. 231, 232. 233. 244, 248, 259, 261, 262, 269, 300,
309, 322, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and 396; 10th and I lth
Vic., ceps. 73, 107, 114, 118, 121, 131, 132. 139, 159, 161, 178,
183, 228, 236, 270, 278, and 294; Ilth and 12th Vic., caps. 58,
60, and 130; 12th and 13th Vic., cap. 74; 13th and 14th Vic.,
cap. 3n; 14th and 15th Vic., caps. 28 and 94; and 15th and
16th Vic., caps. 98 and 105 :
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to revive the
powers granted for the purchase by compulsion of the lands
and houses or some of them required for the Branch Railway
by "The Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviations
and Alterations in Oldham Branch) Act, 1847," authorised,
and therein described as commencing at or by a junction with
the main line of the Huddersfield and• Manchester Railway, at
or near Shaw Hall Bank, in the township of Quick, in the
west riding of the county of Yo , and terminating at or •in
the town of Oldham, in the to ship of Oldham, in the parish
6y6,K"
of Prestwich-cum-Oldham • the county of Lancaster, by a
junction with the Mrimp Extension of the Manchester and
Leeds (now Lancashir , and Yorkshire Railway), at or near
Mumps Mill, and p, ing in, through, into, or along the
several parishes, tow ships, extra-parochial and other places
of Rochdale, Sadd worth, Quick, Lydgate, and Lees, in the
west riding of t e county of York, and Ashton-nnder-Lyne,
Prestwich-cum Idhain, Knot; lanes, Hartshead, Lees, sind
Oldham, Oldh m above Town, and Oldham below Town, in
the county of Lancaster, and to extend the time limited for the
construction of said Branch Railway; and to make a diversion
and alteration in the line and levels of the said Branch Railway
within the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or
other places aforesaid, or some of the same.
And powers will lie token by the said intended Act for the
purchase, by compulsion or agreement, of lands and houses for
the purposes thereof, and for altering, varying, or extinguish-
inc all existing rights, powers, and privileges connected with
shot lands and houses, which would impede or interfere with
the objects of the said intended Act ; and also for crossing,
varying, divertine, or stopping up permanently or temporarily
all roads, streets, footpaths, and other ways, as it may Ire ne-
cessary to cross, vary, divert, or alter, in carrying the purposes
of the said intended Act into execution; and also for levying
tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of such proposed
diverted and altered Railway, and for granting exemptions
therefrom ; and also for abandoning such perts of the said
Railway as now authorised as may become unnecessary by
reason of the proposed diversion or alteration.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable
the London and North Western Railway Company to apply to
the purposes aforesaid any moneys which they are now au-
thorised to raise, or to raise a further sum of money.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that a pub-
lished map, and plans and sections describing the proposed
diversion end alteration in the line and levelsof the said Branch
Railway, and of the lands to be taken for the purposes thereof,
toeether with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of
this Notice, as published in the Lo,idois Gazette, will be depo-
Sited, on or before the thirtieth day of November, 1852, with
the Clerk of the Peace of the County of Lancaster, at his Office,
in Preston, and with the Clerk of the Peace of the West Riding
of the County of York, at his Office, in Wakefield ; and that
copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of re-
ference as relates to the several parishes, townships. and extra-
parochial places in or through which the said Itaitwey is pro-
posed to lie made, together with a copy of this Notice, as puh-
fished in the Landon Gazette, will be deposited, on or before
the said thirtieth day of November, as follows (that is to say) :
in the case of parishes, with the parish clerks of such parishes
respectively, at their respective places of abode; and in the
case of any extra-parochial place, with the clerk of some parish
immediately adjoining thereto, at the place of abode of such
parish clerk. •
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that printed '
copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill
Office of the House of Commons, on or before the thirty-first
day of December, in the present year,
Dated this Ilth day of November, 1852.
SAMUEL CARTER,
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF, Solicitors.

THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE.

When Humboldt wrote his " Cosmos," he thus sums
up the question of what we may term the psychology of
earthquakes, or " the cause of the deep and peculiar im-

pression produced on the mind by the first earthquake
which we experience, even if it is unaccompanied by sub-
terranean noise" :-
" I do not think

' says this great savant, " that this
ed by the recollection, at the moment,
of the dreadful images of destruction which historic rela-
tions of past catastrophes have presented to our imagina-
tions: it is rather occasioned by the circumstance that
our innate confidence in the immobility of the ground
beneath us is at once shaken. From our earliest child-

y of the ear.h : all the evidence of our

senses have confirmed this belief, and when suddenly the
ground itself shakes beneath us, a natural force, of which
we had no previous experience, presents itself as a strange
and mysterious agency. A single instant annihilates the
illusions of our whole previous life we feel the imagined

repose of nature vanish, and that we are ourselves trans-
ported into the realm of unknown destructive forces."
The Baron is right, and by concurrent testimony we
. .

, many,
more familiar with thieves and robbers than with nature,
fancied their dwellings had been assailed. It took place
on the morning of our last publication, about 4h. 29m.,
a.m. The antecedents of the earthquake ber3 have been
continued easterly winds and an unusually high tempera.

tare, with most gloomy skies. This may be easily ex-
plained : the easterly winds, loaded with vapour, approach-
ing colder regions, have precipitated the invisible moisture,
first in clouds, and then, when the atmosphere could no
longer suspend these " couriers.of the air," in rain—and
al currents sped on, and the clouds drifted north_
Abroad, Etna has been, violently erupting, and
s fearfully shaken by an earthquake on the 3d
the West Indies have not yet

The earthquake visited us, as observed, at an hour when
" man sleeps" and nature is in repose. Hence the

drop: we have literally gone a-begging: From evidence
gathered we find that it occurred somewhere from twenty
minutes to half past four, most accounts fixing it at a
minute or two befote the half hour, and to have com-
menced by a sort of upheaving motion, followed by-others

undulations, vibrations, tremblings, and such concus-
sions as would be caused by a 'heavily laden wagon
passing close by a slightly built house. Though it shook
s, agitated pieces of furniture, and made
,orne instances producing destruc-

Kibtrpoot fitanbarb,

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 16, 1852

THE PARLIAMENT.

THE new Parliament was formally opened for the
despatch of business on Thursday last, with a
speech from the throne, by Her Majesty QUEEN
VICTORIA, upon which we have commented in
another article. The address in reply to the speech
was carried in both houses without a division, but
in the lower house the Free-traders took exception
to the paragraph which related to our commercial
and financial policy. Mr. C. VILLIERS gave
notice of a motion for the 22d, to force a distinct
avowal from the Ministry of their adherence to
free trade policy, and the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER gave notice that he would make the
ministerial statement on the 26th inst.

On Friday messages from the Crown were deli-
vered in both houses respecting the funeral of the
late Duke of WELLINGTON, and the subject was
taken into consideration yesterday (Monday).
Petitions were presented in the House of Commons
against the elections for Bridgenorth, Tavistock,
and Great Yarmouth ; and Sir A. COCKBURN pre-
sented a petition alleging systematic bribery at the
late election of Mr. T. B. HORSFALL for Derby,
and complaining of the undue interference of
Major BERESFORD on that occasion, and gave
notice that on Friday next he should move for an
inquiry into it. The bringing up of the report on
the Address led to a desultory discussion, in the
course of which complaints were made of the allu-
sions to Ireland in Her Majesty's speech.