The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-26 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

By the \Voolloomooloo we have advices from Sydney
to the 21st April. She brings 45,000 ounces of gold,
valued at £lBO,OOO, and has made the passage home in
88 days, her outward trip having been accomplished in
87 days. In addition to her large amount of gold, she
has also 1,611 bales of wool on board, and her general
news is highly satisfactory.
The steamer Cleopatra had arrived at Sydney, with
advices from Melbourne of the 16th of April, at which
time neither the Harbinger nor the Adelaide steamer had
arrived.

The following is from the Sydney Empire of April
20 :—" The commercial condition
been for some considerable time of Sydney is, as it has
uncertainty, high prices, and exliaausst,te cdharacterized,by
stocks. The
circumstance of so few arrivals with supplies,i
either from
remarkable
general
a l;
Great Britain or from foreign ports, s
and this untoward circumstance—so contrary
to
expectation—has given to transactions an excited
character,
which, in many instances, has the appearance of
to
un-
warranted extravagance. Goods are run up prices
which are scarcely justified by any state of the i import
market at which we have yet arrived, the competition
being stimulated by the immediate urgency of particular
demands, rather than produced by anything like per-
manent scarcity. But, if business were conducted in the
most sober spirit, high prices for all manufactured goods
would still range, in consequence of the positive girl-
sufficiency of present imports. This state of things is
experienced without any rapid augmentation of our
population, as was anticipated—for during the last few
weeks the passenger traffic inwards has barely kept past
with our outward drain. By the escorts from the Ovens
and the Northern Diggings to-day about 8,000 ounces of
gold were received in Sydney. The price now rules at
775. 3d. to 775. Gd. for Victoria, and 745. 3d. to 745. Gd.
for New South Wales."
We quote the following from the Sydney Morning
Herald of the same date :
" No subject occupies more general attention just now
in our commercial circles than the extremely unsatisfac-
tory state of our steam communication with England.
The Australian Royal Mail Steam Cocapany'a 443

" With some few exceptions there are no private letters
in Sydney of later date than October, being those brought
out by the Melbourne. In many instances our merchants
find themselves in the strange position of having received
goods without the invoices, the latter having been trans-
mitted by the steamer's mails under the full expectation
that they would come to hand long before the cargoes—a
process just the reverse of what has happened. But the
merchandise being in urgent demand, sales are effected at
conjectural prices, good care being taken, however, to
leave an ample margin for profit, whatever the invoice
prices may turn out to be. Indeed, the disproportion
between the demands of our market and its supplies, in
almost every description of goods, was never so great and
so trying as it is at this moment. Hard goods and soft
goods, luxuries and necessaries, articles for eating and
drinking, articles for wearing and using, at the minimum
of stock and the maximum of price. Advances on cost
price in England, taken not partially but generally, not as
the exceptions of trade, but as its rule, were never so
enormous as now. Our commercial report of yesterday
quotes rates of advance as high as 100, 150, 200, 300, 400,
and even 2,400 per cent. These gigantic profits are
coupled with the favourite quickness of return, the tran-
sactions resulting, not from any mania of speculation, but
from a sober estimate of the actual wants of the market for
daily consumption.

"The gold produce of New South Wales continues
steady, averaging, when compared with the whole number
of persons engaged in digging, about an ounce per week
per man. Large nuggets, weighed by the ounce or the
pound, are the prizes of the lucky few. The average suc-
cess is just now at the medium point, which best consorts
with the general welfare of the colony—neither so great as
seriously to disturb the ordinary pursuits of industry, nor
so small as to discourage the diggers as a body. The
colonists are still strongly of opinion that the auriferous
developments of New South Wales are only in their
infancy, and that as our population increases, though the
average produce per man may not much exceed what it is
at present, the aggregate produce of the colony will infi-
nitely surpass anything heretofore realised."

The Adelaide - advices received at Sydney were to the
9th of April. A return of the trade of the colony during
the quarter ending the 25th of March showed imports
amounting to £440,328, and exports of the value of
£954,760, of which £663,447 was gold that had been
brought overland from Melbourne. The markets were
very firm, and the last quotation of Burra Burra shares
was 1341. The Shaxamaxon had sailed for Swansea on the
4th of April with 14,108 ounces of gold, valued at £56,000.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Africa, Captain Harrison, which arrived on Sunday,
we have intelligence from New York to the 13th instant.
The Africa sailed from New York at 0 10, p.m., on the
13th, and came " north about." On the 23d, at 7 11,
a.m., she passed Tory Island ; at 8 45, p.m., passed the
steamer Niagara, hence for Boston ; and arrived in the
Mersey at 5 40, a.m., on Sunday, having made the run in
10 days 11 hours and 34 minutes.
The Africa has brought 80 passengers, and 8'877,933
in specie.

PASSENGERS.—Miss Bolton and sister, Miss Prince,
Miss Hunter, Mrs. Radcliffe, Mrs. Raden and three
children, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smith, Miss Now, Miss
Nixon, Mrs. Francess Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Beloi,
Captain Hon. H. A. Murray, R.N., Mr. and Mrs.
Garnett Duncan, Mr. Battersby, Mr. Hugh Wilson, Mr.
Gelpcher C. Bearcroft, dispatches to Berlin, Mr. Conner,
Mr. Sisley, Mr. R. M. Green, Mr. Ashley and nephew,
Rev. C. W. Bolton, Mr. Oxaryabal, Mr. Engles, jun.,
Mr. James E. Ives, Mr. J. W. Oliver, Mr. J. F. D'Costa,
Air. Thomas S. Lubbock, Mr. White, Mr. Lees, Mr.
King, Professor Dorenus, Mr. Goldschmed, Mr. and Mrs.
James Harrisson, Mr. J. S. Smith, Mr. W. Dickson, Mr,
Jos.. Lalland, Mr. John Watson, Mr. T. Watson, Mr. V.
Lang, Dr. Edward Gage, Mr. Campbell, Mr. W. Dickson,
Mr. Joel Cadbury, Mr. Hitchcock, Alr..John D. Julnsch,
Mr. James P. Dean, Mr. Hitchens, Mr. Camoror, Mr.
Clint, Mr. Fergusson, Mr. Henry Barbancey, Mr. A.
Grosch, Mr. John Watson, Mr. Henry Brown, Mr.
Butterworth, Mr. Melcher, Mr. E. Lewiss, Mr. Henry
Disston, Mr. Robert Cairns, Mr. Thomas Dauby, Mr.
Robert Gray, Mrs. Stewards and children,. Mr. and Mrs.
James Lovett, Mr. T. Wallace, Mr. Libby, Mr. Laurent,
Mr. Adam Wood, Mr. James Hickey, Mr. W. Brackell,
Mr. Harris.

The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain
West, which sailed from this port at 2 15, p.m., on the
29th ult., arrived at New York at 8 a.m. on the 10th inst.
having made the run•lO days, 22 hours, and 41 minutes.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia. Commodore Jud-
kins, which sailed at 4 20, p.m., on the 2nd hatant,
arrived at New York at 11 15, a.m., on the 13th, having
made the run in 10 days, 23 hours, and 51 minutes.
Several persons had been killed at Haverstraw, by the
falling down of a building. Dr. Achilli, with his wife,
child, and servant, had arrived at• New York from Liver-
pool. The convention of coloured persons at Rochester
had determined to form a " national council of coloured
people." Monsignor Bedini, a papal nuncio, had arrived
in New York, en route,to Washington, with communica-
tions from the Pontiff. The first mate of the Antarctic,
from this port, had been held to bail at New York for
assaulting a seaman belonging to the ship with a belaying-
pin. A destructive fire had occurred at Newark. A.
cotton mill had also been destroyed by fire in Mas-
sachusetts.

The steam-ship Illinois had arrived at New York with
the Californian mails of the 16th ult., and 4'1,835,714 in
specie. Several duels,. some of which were attended with
injury to the principals, had occurred.. A letter dated San
Diego, May 28th, says:—" the quiet of our peace-loving
citizens was somewhat startled the other day by the news
broutht by a Mexican, direct from La Paz;. that several
English men-of-war had arrived at that place, and there
landed sonic four or five hundred marines, duly armed
and equipped, together with a large amount of provisions
and stores. This statement, coupled with the generally
accredited rumour that Great Britain had aided Santa
Anna in regaining his old position in the Mexican capital,
upon condition that he was to cede to that government
Lower California and Sonora, created quite a sensation
among those who are disposed to forbid the banns. If
this statement be true, and we have no reason to doubt it,
something must be in the wind, or why this pomp and
parade of war at this particular conjuncture of affairs ?"
Agricultural affairs in California were in a flourishing con-
dition. A party of citizens of Jacksonville, hearing that
a white woman was kept prisoner by the Shanta Indians,
formed an expedition for her releabe, and, being unsuc-
cessful, killed six Indians, and wounded a number of
others. A Chinese, hating been convioted by his brethren
of theft, was sentenced by them to receive twenty-five
lashes, and have his cue cut off. The latter operation he
resisted to the last, begging them even to kill him so that
he might die with this honourable appendage. He was
afterwards given in charge to some of his countrymen, who
again whipped him and cut off his left ear. He was then ,
marched off for San Francisco in charge of another party ;
but, getting tired of their prisoner, they led him a little aside
from the road, and finally disposed of him by shooting him
through the head. New diggings of great richness con-
tinued to be discovered, and the miners generally were
doing well- The iSan Francisco markets had been ex-
tremely quiet. A shipwrecked Japanese had been picked
up and taken into one of the ports. The junk on which
he was floating had been blown off her course, and all the
men, with the one exception, had expired from cold and
starvation. She had been knocking about far seven and
a half months at the mercy of the waves.. A number of
very curious articles had been found on board the junk ;
among them was an exceedingly delicate compass, divided
into tyventy-four divisions only.. The points were named
goat, dog, rat, &c.
Mr. A. Shea, who was appointed by the Newfoundland
Houses of Assembly delegate to Washington, to promote
the interests of the colony in reference to reciprocal free
trade, had made a favourable report of the result of his
negotiations. _ _ _ .

Advices from Belize,. Honduras, to, the 16th ult., state
that business was brisk. The rivers had begun to rise,
and the floods were bringing out the season's wood. Al
though an extraordinary effort had been made to get out
a great quantity of mahogany this year, yet, owing to the
rains in March, April, and May, (the tracking season,)
over one-half of the wood remained uncut. This, and the
large number of vessels expected to arrive, had caused an
unusual stir in the mahogany market, and wood was enor-
mously high in value. Wood that formerly sold for .B'4o
commanded ,WBO if ready for delivery, and sia per M. to
be delivered in two or three months. For logwood there
was an extraordinary demand.
CUBA.—From Havana we have accounts to, the Ist inst.
Don Julian Zulneta, the owner of the slaver Lady Suffolk,
had been liberated, and had departed for Spain with a
Mr. Barrow, intending to bring an action against the cap-
tain-general for false imprisonment. A Spanish corvette
had been wrecked on the shoals of Rosario.
PANAMA.—WO have advices to the Ist instant. An
Englishman had been assaulted by a native, and, on re-
senting the attack, he was menaced by the natives. The
feeling against foreigners was so great that the Englishman
could not procure a barrister to bring his case before the
courts of law. Accounts from Bogota state that the new
constitution had passed. A new law regulating the cur-
rency, and placing it upon the same footing as that of the
United States, had also been sanctioned. The Congress
was in extra session. An attempt had been made at the
capital to raise a revolution. Dr. Florentrio Gonzales
was dangerously wounded by the mob. General Hessera
was prevented calling out the troops by General Melo.
President Obando was seriously ill, and General Lopez
bad been appointed to discharge his duties.
JAMAlCA.—Kingston advices to the 27th ultimo state
that legislative affairs still remained in stall; quo. The
weekly meetings of the Assembly were held on Mondays
or Tuesdays, on which occasion a quorum of seven gene-
rally adjourned the house to the following week. Sir
Charles Grey, the governor, had been heard to say that
the members of the Assembly might amuse themselves
for a month or two, until he received instructions from
the home government. It was whispered that a compro-
mise was on foot between the Assembly and the Council.
The latter was said to be agreeable to a retrenchment bill,
contemplating the reduction of salaries on a graduated
scale, according to the amounts, instead of the reduction
of twenty per cent. on all public stipends, irrespective of
the amount; and, further, that the Assembly, in framing
a bill, having this object in view, were to pledge them-
selves to pass no retrenchment bills contemplating the
curtailing of the salaries of the present incumbents of
office. Mining operations had been prosecuted with
vigour. The yellow fever continued to be rather virulent.
Tonnage was scarce.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, J.
MoNcy.—The Stock market continues to exhibitulyla the
same want of animation that has existed for some weeks
past. The limited orders from Europe, and the absence
of many from the city, as is usual at this season, will, to
some extent, account for the general inactivity. Not-
withstanding this general dulness, there is a steady demand
for Government and the leading State Stocks. The ag
grecate receipts of California gold for the fortnight amount
to .8'4,150,000. The exports of gold to Europe have been
51,062,681, making a total, from Ist Jan., of .89,717,663.
In 1852, for the same period, they amounted to
513,758715. The supply of money continues abundant.
Loans are freely offered on first-class securities, at 5 to 6
per cent. There is but little animation in the Exchange
market. Rates rather heavy ; supply of bills good. The
quotatione are—for billg ou London, 91c. to Dia. prem.;

Exp.orts to Total Exports Stock and
Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For. Ports. on shipb'd.
1853. 3,178,372 1,640,872 2,386,875 233,136
1852......2,974,267 1,592,766 2,341,998 147,060
Increase. 204,105 48,106 44,877 76,676
....(From W. P. Wright's Circular, of July 13.)

Prices are firm, and holds continue to refrain from
offering their stock except at the full market quotations.
The better qualities have been more inquired tor, and au
advance of lc, to c. per lb. must be quoted on good
middling and upwards. The sales since 15th instant have
been 9.000 bales, chiefly since the Atlantic arrived, and

have been for export to Liverpool and the north of
Europe. The accounts from New Orleans represent an
improvement in the prospect for the crop in Louisiana
and Mississippi, and say that in those states the plant
looks well. From portions of Alabama, Tennessee,
Florida, and the Atlantic states generally, we are still
receiving unfavourable accounts. The plant is small and
stunted in growth, and in many places is in bloom when
a few inches high, instead of being from two to three feet.
Everything for the crop depends on the weather during
this month and August.
BREADSTUFFS•—Up to the close of last week the turn
of the market was in favour of the buyer, but the advices
from Liverpool, per Atlantic, were of an unexpectedly
favourable tenor, and produced a good deal of excitement,
a considerable advance both in flour and wheat, 25c. per
barrel and sc. to 6c. per bushel respectively, being imme-
diately realised, at which the market is still scantily sup-
plied. Wheat in small supply and extensive demand.
Indian corn heavy.
PROVISIONS.—The supply of western pork is not large ;
and, with a fair demand, there is considerable steadiness
for mess, though prime is easier. Beef is in fair request,
without change in prices. Lard in good request, and prices
have advanced /-e. per lb. Butter in moderate supply,
with a steady demand. Cheese goes off freely at 6c. to
Qe. for common, and 7e. to Bc. for fair to prime.
SALT.—SaIt continues scarce, and in quick request at
full prices. 850 sacks Ashton's Liverpool fine, and a
cargo Turk's Islands sold on terms not published it is
said there is but little, if any, more of the latter to come
to market this season.

IRON.—Scotch pig, with a small stock and moderate
expected receipts, continues in speculative request, and
prices have again advanced. The sales are several hundred
tons, part to arrive, at £'29 to £3l, cash, and £3l to 412,
six months. In bars no sales. Railroad sells in lots, at
£7O, cash.

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool and London there has been
more offering, and some improvement has taken place.
Tho rates are : —To Liverpool, for cotton, 5-32 d. per lb. ;
flour, ls. 7jd. to ls. 9d. per barrel : grain, in bulk, 51d.
per bushel. To London, flour, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per
barrel ; grain, in bulk, 7d. per bushel. To Havre, cotton,
fie. per lb.
NEW OnLEANS, JULY 9.—Cotton has been quiet to-day,
nearly 500 bales having been sold at full prices. Middling
is quoted at 10c.
CHARLESTON, JULY 7.—Holders manifest very little
anxiety to sell, and this indifference was followed by higher
prices, resulting in an advance for the week of lc. on the
good middling and middling fair qualities, with sales of
1816 bales. Freight to Liverpool, 5-10 d. to Bd.
MOBILE, JULY 4.—Very little doing until the Africa's
accounts on Friday caused a better feeling, and we heard
of 600 to 700 bales being sold, the market closing firmly.
Total sales, 1610 bales. No ships up for Liverpool.
HAVANA. JULY I.—The sugar market is dull, notwith-
standing sixty vessels have freighted since last week.
Prices as before. Nothing doing in coffee. Molasses scarce.
SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 15.—The general market has
been extremely quiet, and we hear of few sales of moment
from first bands. Little freight is going forward to the
interior, except by the river steamers. Shipments have
been moderate.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

PILGRIMAGE BY STEAM.—A pilgrimage excursion
from Lyons via Marseilles to Jerusalem, by rail and
steam, is being set on foot, and a great many subscribers,
at the rate of I,ooof. there and back, have engaged places.

HUMAN BRAINS BY THE WEIGHT.—Since the weight
of the brains of Daniel Webster has been ascertained and
published, it has become a custom in America to follow
the example with almost every man of any consequence.
The brains of the late Amos Lawrence were found two
ounces heavier than those of Webster.

VETERANS.—A letter from Berlin, of the 6th inst.,
says, " Last Sunday, the officers and soldiers who served
under the great Frederick, and who reside in the neigh-
bourhood of this city, met together at a banquet, to the
number of 168. The oldest of these veterans is 168 years
of age, and the youngest 83. The Great Frederick died
on August 17, 1786,"
THE CHOLERA.—At the date of the last accounts from
St: Petersburgb, the 9th inst., the cholera had increased
in intensity. There were on that day 104 new cases.
Letters from Copenhagen, of the 12th, state that the
cholera was at that time increasing in intensity. A letter
from Kalmar, in the island of Gothland (Sweden), states
that this terrible disease had broken out there with great
virulence. Many of the persons attacked died in less
than two hours.

A PARADISE OF A PRINTING- OFFICE.—The Boston
Olive Branch, on which females are employed as com-
positors, says—" Our rooms are well carpeted, and the
girls do not come till nine or ten o'clock in the morning,
retiring in good season, seldom making even seven or
eight hours a day. Smart compositors can in that time
earn from six dollars to eight- dollars a week. We have
also one female clerk out of the three we employ. Added
to this, one desk has been occupied by a female editor as
our assistant, at a salary of 900 dollars. She has spent
seven hours a day in the office for five days in the week.
We generally have in our office an organ and apianoforte,
and we have music at the meal hours, when the ladies
feel to like playing."
MURDERS AND SUICIDE IN ITALV.—The city of Bolog-
na was the scene of a horrid tragedy on the idth. Sveral
large drops of blood under the windows of a well-known
gentleman, named Dr. Accussi, roused the attention of
some people, as it seemed as if those drops must have
fallen from seine wounded person who had gone to the
window. Cries, groans, and, lamentations being also
heard to issue from the same house, the police were
called, who after repeated summons to open, which were
disregarded, had to force open the outer and some inner
doors, when a frightful tragedy presented itself to their
view. Accussi and his maid-servant were found lying
dead in one room, both evidently murdered ; while in
the next lay Dr. Gieuseppe Salvi, Dr. Accussi's nephew,
who, from a sharp surgical instrument in his hand, was
conjectured to have been the murderer of the other two,
and to have afterwards committed suicide, to avoid being
arrested. The cause of this melancholy event is attributed
to family dissensions, but nothing certain has yet been
elicited.— Galignani's Messenger.:
PARIS.—It appears that the late Prefect of the Seine,
who has just become a member of the senate, and who
has presided over the municipal works of Paris. since the
2d of December. not being a sufficiently fast man for the
superior authorities, has been succeeded by M. Hauss.
man. Report says that ho is to propose a loan of 200
millions of francs (eight millions sterling) to be devoted
to works At this rate Paris will in ten years be com-
pletely altered, and, except the larger monumental build-
ings, the completion of which was mainly due to the late
Louis Philippe, its whole aspect will present an entirely
new physiognomy. The greatest improvement would re-
sult from the abolition of the octroi, and snbstitution of
a house tax. This would allow of the unlimited extension
of Paris beyond its present narrow and inadequate limits,
and introduce life, energy, and private building opera-
tions into the suburbs, as we see in London.—The Builder.

ONE OF THE SIGUTS OF SYDNEY.—A German, named
John Clippel, has recently arrived in Sydney, vid Mel-
bourne, bringing with him a French piano, of a superior
and beautiful construction, which plays a variety of
modern and popular airs. At the top is a glass case, con-
taining several Fantoccini figures, very well executed,
and which are set in motion by the music. At an aper-
ture in the glass stand.; a small but pretty female figure,
with an infant on her left arm, and holding a plate in her
right. At the sound of the music she turns about, gently
bowing her head to the spectators ; and when any person
is so gracious as to drop a coin in her plate, she bows her
thanks, and deposits a coin in her box for that purpose.
Next to her, but in the back ground, is a female form in
'the costume of a Tyrolean, playing on a guitar. The
next figure is that of an Indian snake-charmer, who goes
through the evolutions peculiar to those persons, with a
snake coiled around him. A jolly cobbler plies his ends
and wags his face as if he had been " pouring spirits
down to keep his spirits up." The last figure is that of a
tailor, mounted upon an Alpine goat, which he whacks
with his yard measure, having his goose in his right hand.
The animal makes continual inclinations of the head,
demonstrative of its desire to pitch the tailor off. The
performer, John Clippel, is a decent-looking, civil young
man, and any person desirous of seeing a modern novelty
and affording a few minutes' amusement to their children,
will be gratified by the performance above narrated.—
Sydney Empire.

THE ASSIZE intelligence from the provinces presents
an appalling increase of crime,—especially of offences
arising from the indulgence of brutal passions. False
education, which is directed more upon the intellect than
upon the heart,—false philanthropy, which abhors the
wholesome severity of punishment in accordance with
the Divine law,—political liberalism, which teaches the
people that no one has a right to rule them, but that
they themselves ought to be the rulers,—religious liberal-
ism, which falsifies the conscience by persuading it that
it is subject to no law except that which it chooses to im-
pose upon itself, are doing their work in removing re-
straint out of the way of the natural corruption of human
nature, which is at the same time artificially fostered by
covetousness and luxury. Having sown the wind, we aro
in a fair way to reap the whirlwind.—Johns
FATAL SHIPWRECK.—The melancholy intelligence was
received at Bristol on Friday, of the total loss of the sloop
Ann, of Newport, with crew and passengers, off the Steep
Holmes, in the Bristol Channel. The sloop, heavily laden
with coal, left the last-named port, on Tuesday, on a
voyage to Bridgewater, and it is believed that when off
the Holmes, and in about nine fathoms of water, she
started a bunk. Certain it is that she sank, and that her
master, Captain Billings, his son, a seaman (name not
given), and a man named Hambledon, who was a passen-
ger by her, were all drowned. The catastrophe was to
some extent witnessed by the crew of a vessel belonging
to Bridgewater, called the Fortitude. They saw the four
men take to the boat, and endeavour to release her from
the disabled vessel, but before they could get time to cut
away the rope which fastened her, the sloop suddenly
' sank, and dragged the boat and all the Wen down with her,

The following case was tried at the York assizes, before
Mr. Justice Wightman and a special jury.
TWEDDLE V. RANISLIAY.—The declaration stated that
the plaintiff and the defendant agreed to marry each other;
that, after the lapse of a reasonable time, the plaintiff was
ready and willing to marry the defendant, and that the
defendant refused to fulfil his part of the contract. The
defendant pleaded that he did not agree to marry the plain-
tiff in the manner alleged, and that the contract was re-
scinded and abandoned by mutual consent. The damages
were laid at £5OOO.
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins and Mr. Simpson were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Temple, Q.C., and Mr. Travis for the de-
fendant.
Mr. Serjeant 'Wtexters, in stating the case, said—He
had the honour to appear on the part of the plaintiff. The
defendant in this action, Mr. John Ramshay, is steward
to Lord Carlisle, at Naworth, a gentleman of large pro-
perty, as was admitted on the other side, having an income
of between £2OOO and £3OOO a year. The lady cannot
beast of equal advantages as regards fortune, but in point
of education and everything which could adorn a gentle-
man's house in the character of a wife, she is quite Mr.
Ramshay's equal. The plaintiff's father has been a tenant
under Lord Carlisle since the time of his father's death—
his father and grandfather before him having occupied a
farm of about 1400 acres of land. The defendant had
been intimately acquainted with Miss Tweddle from
childhood, he being now about 45 and she 25 years of age.
He had noticed her often when a child, and even when a
child had expressed his admiration of her, and given her
many tokens of his regard. In 1843, however, he made
known to her aunt that he had long entertained for Miss
Tweddle the strongest affection, that, from his observation
of her general conduct and character, he entertained the
highest admiration for her, and wished, if the young lady
would accede, to make her proposals of marriage. He
wished the aunt to send for Miss Tweddle, that he might
make these proposals to her. She was sent for from her
father's house, and then, in the presence of her aunt, t h
defendant stated to Miss Tweddle that he was anxious to
make her hit wife. "Sir," said the young lady, in reply,
"I am younger than you are considerably; but there seems
to me to be another obstacle which you would do well to
consider. I allude to our different positions in life.
You associate with the first families in the county, and
are considered, no doubt, superior to me, both in point
of wealth, and also as regards your rank and position in
life ; and these are obstacles wbich I fear cannot well be
got over." Mr. Ramshay said he bad well considered
both these circumstances, and that he felt they presented
no obstacles to his proposal. He assured her that his
intentions were pure and honourable ,•- that he had given
due deliberation to all the surrounding circumstances, and
pressed her to receive him as her accepted suitor. Miss
Twaddle told him that the question he had put to her was
an important and serious one, and she trusted he would
give her time to deliberate. " Well," said Mr. Ramshay,
" I am going to Newcastle to-morrow, I will give you the
night to think of it, and will call in the morning, when I
hope you will give me a favourable answer." He did call
next morning, and asked if Miss Tweddle had thought
over his proposal. She said she had, and he then asked,
"Do you consent, or not ?" Miss Tweddle did consent,
and, no doubt, Mr. Ramshay being a man who stood high
in the county, and having all the advantages which cha-
racter, position, and wealth could give him, such an alli-
ance was a most desirable one for her. During the
remainder of that year Mr. Ramshay's visits to the young
lady were almost daily, and when Naworth Castle, which
had been partly burnt down, was rebuilt and was being
refurnished, he took Miss Tweddle and her aunt to see
the furniture, saying that if some of it accorded with the
young lady's taste he should purchase some like it for his
own drawing-room after they were married. Besides
this, he took pains himself to publish his intention of
marrying Miss Tweddle, and requested her aunt and her
mother to make no secret of the matter if any one in-
quired whether or not the marriage was to take place.•
It was his intention to marry her, he said, and added
that, in his opinion, people were much mistaken if
they made a secret of that the publication of which
would be to them a source of honour. He conse-
quently represented her and introduced her as his wife,
on all hands, and, on verious occasions when there were
public entertainments going forward, he was desirous of
her being brought to those entertainments, and when she
was not there expressed great dissatisfaction. So things
went on up to the year 1850, when, for some reason or
other, the defendant thought proper all at once to discon-
tinue his visits ; or, at all events, he made them mere
matters of form, and avoided every chance of meeting the
young lady alone. The consequence was that her health
became seriously affected, at one time so much so that
apprehensions were entertained for her life, she feeling the
defendant's conduct to her so bitterly that she was often
found weeping in the dead of the night and expressing
sorrow on account of the treatment she had experienced.
Eventually she wrote to him for an explanation of his
conduct, but her letter could not he produced, as she had
made no copy of it. The nature of the contents, however,
might be pretty well gathered from the defendant's answer,
which was dated April 25, 1850, and was to the following
effect :

"My dear Mary,—l have got your note from Mrs. Tweddle,
and you need not think you have given me the slightest
offence; nothing of the kind. It is only the painful circum-
stances under which I am placed, and of which you are aware,
that have prevented me coming as usual to Askerton. I have
felt that had I done otherwise I should have acted unfairly
towards yourself. I shall always entertain towards you the
greatest regard, as well as towards the whole of your family;
but the explanation which I once-gave you of previous occur-
rences, and which still hang over my head, compels me to
abandon the intention I most seriously entertained. I have
done all in my power to avert this, but it has been in vain.—
Believe me very faithfully yours,. litsasu.kv."

It appears, said the learned= serjeant. that Mr. Ramshay
set a very light estimate upon the feelings, affections, and
hopes of young ladies, for this painful circumstance to
which he referred in his letter was a difficulty in which he
had involved himself by making a previous promise to
another young lady. He had expressed a hope that he
should be able to get out of that difficulty by a payment
of something like £2,000, and repeatedly said he had no
doubt that he should do so. For Miss Tweddle, and
Miss Tweddle alone he had made up his mind, and he
had long ceased to entertain affection, for a former young
lady at Trentham. He said he could easily get out of
that, but when his admiration of Miss Tweddle began to
give way, he urged this very engagement as an idle pre-
tence for justifying him in treating her as he had done.
That was only an idle pretence, for Mr. Ramshay had
since married a Miss Lacy, who was not the young lady-
at Trentham, and to whom the same objection would,
have applied if that had been the real ground of the
defendant's conduct. At any rate, on the 25th of April;
1850, after he had ceased to pay his attentions, and
after he had been compelled to abandon his intention,
he spoke of Miss Tweddle in the highest terms, in-
forming her that ho should always entertain towards-
her and the whole of her family the greatest regard.
After this the plaintiff had the misfortune to lose her
father and uncle, and while these calamities were going
on she did not press her claim, and then at last the
defendant married another lady (Miss Lacy), thus
precluding the possibility of his marrying the plain-
tiff. Shortly afterwards the present action was. brought ;
but previous to that the Rev. J. Bell, of Bolster-
stone, wrote to the defendant on behalf of Miss Twed-
dle. This letter, was dated March 15, 1853, and called
upon the defendant to state what reparation he was pre-
pared to make for the serious injury he had inflicted upon
the plaintiff. Mr. Bell alluded to the death of her father,
and informed Mr. Ramshay that as she had been deprived
of her natural protector he had undertaken to see that
she should receive such compensation as the law, in an
aggravated case like this, would require.. He went on to
say that, if he might judge from the letter. Mr.. Ramshay
had written to Miss Tweddle, he could not conceal from
him that if the matter became public it would be calcu-
lated to do him (Mr. Ramshay) a serious-injury. "Ac-
cording to your own confession," said be, " she is not
the first young lady you have rejected after an honourable
engagement.. The fact will necessarily come oQ in
evidence if the case be brought into a court of juslice.
Such publicity will be quite satisfactory to Miss Tweddle,
as it would afford the public an opportunity of becoming
acquainted with the real facts of the case, and establish
her purity of conduct. However he (Mr. Bell) might
condemn such conduct, he felt reluctant that such an ex-
treme should be forced upon Mr. Ramshay, knowing that
he occupied a prominent position in the county. The
plaintiff, he assured him, was not actuated by any feeling
of revenge, and although she had suffered by his conduct,
she did not wish to lower him in the opinion of those
whose regard he had well earned. He should wait for a
week from the date of his letter to learn what the defen-
dant proposed doing, and if then he should receive no
reply, he should conclude that Mr. Ramshay preferred to
abide the verdict of a jury, and should give instructions
to a respectable attorney to commence an action to recover
compensation in damages for the injury sustained by Miss
Tweddle, in consequence of Mr. Ramshay's breaking off
his engagement with, her." The answer to this letter was
dated March 21, and was as follows :
" I am quite prepared to meet any proceedings you, may think
proper to commence against me in regard to the matter to which
your letter relates."

Then the action was brought, and the question was to
what damages was the plaintiff entitled ? If Mr. Ramshay
had fulfilled his promise to her, she would have been
married to a man standing high in the county of Cumber-
land—a man of high character, of great wealth—and she
would have been placed in a position of which almost any
woman in the land might be proud. Now what was her
position ? Her hopes were blighted, she must have re-
ceived a wound which nothing but time could heal, she
had undergone intense suffering in consequence of the
defendant's conduct towards her, her prospectqwwere
destroyed, and she was subject to all that surmise, ani-
madversion, and suspicion to which she had never been
subjected before and which she did not deserve, the de-
fendant having courted her, and not she or her relations
him, and his solicitations that she might be sent for were
repeated over and over again before they were acceded to.
Witnesses having been called in support of the plaintiff's
case and the above letters put in,
Mr. TEMPLE proceeded to address the jury for the
defendant, who now, for the first time in his life, had had
imputations brought against his honour, and who, he
regretted, was not able to appear in the witness box to give
.
the jury his version of transaction, and to counteract
the anxiety on the other side to swell up the measure of
injury sustained by the plaintiff. He commented upon
the great difference between the position in life of the
plaintiff and defendant, and pointed out what consequent
great temptations there were for the relatives of the
former to bring about an engagement between them
if they could. He believed that the story of Miss
Tweddle having been sent for at the request of the de-
fendant had been much exaggerated. He admitted that
it was an imprudent act on the part of a man whose
disparity of age was so great compared with that of the
plaintiff, but he denied that she ever had any real affection
for him, and therefore there were never any wounds of the
heart in respect of which she was entitled to becompensated.
The learned counsel animadverted upon the conduct of
the plaintiff's aunt, imputed to her that she had afforded
Mr. Ramshay an opportunity of sitting up with the
plaintiff alone at night time, and contended that the jury
could have no doubt that from the moment he expressed
his admiration of her niece the aunt had determined to
inveigle him into a contract. The defendant did not cast
the slightest imputation upon the character of this young
woman, but he did complain of the manner in which ho
Lad been treated in this matter. At Easter, 1819, the
defendant di.sc4nttiluCtl paying his ageatlouz tQ

ECCLESIASTICAL.

DIOCESE OF' CHESTER

PREFERMENT.—The Rev. Thomas Wilkinson Norwood
to the stipendiary curacy of North Rode, in the parish of
Prestbury, in the county of Chester, on the nomination
of the Rev. John Daintry, the incumbent.

The Bishop has licensed the School-room connected
with St. Bride's Church, Liverpool, situate in Grey-street,
within the district of St. James's Church, Toxteth-park,
for the performance of Divine Services, on the represen-
tation of the Rev. Henry Hampton, incumbent of St.
James's aforesaid.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. P. S. Ashworth,-M.A., to the Vicarage of Bredicot and
the Vicarage of Tibberton, Worcestershire.
Rev. G. Bishop, 8.A.,t0 the Curacy of Wolvey,-near Hinckley.
Rev. C. Boston, Vicar of Wickhambrook, to the Rectory of
Hartest, near Boxted, Suffolk.

Rev. P. B. Brodie, to the Vicarage of Rowington, War-
wickshire.

Rev. U. H. Buck, to the Curacy of St. George's, Southwark.
Rev. A. S. Butler, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Penn-street,
near Amersham, Bucks.

Rev. T. G. Carter, M.A., to the Rectory of St. Nicholas,
Warwick.
Rev. G. Carter, 8.A., to the Curacy of Coningsby,-Lincoln.
Rev. R. Cooper, A. 8., to the Curacy of the District Church
of St. Jude, Southwark.

Rev. J. M. Cox, 31:A7:t0 the Vicarage of Misterton, Somerset
Rev. E. A. Darby, 8.A., to the Curacy of Audenshaw, nea
Manchester.

Rev. R. W. Ferguson, 8.A., to the Incumbency of the united
parishes of Llandago and Whitebrook, Monmouthshire.
Rev. A. Gault, A. 8., to the Curacy of St. Thomas's, Lambeth.
Rev. E. Haff, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Little Cawthorpe, Louth.
Rev. R. Hornby, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Bayston Hill,
Shropshire.

Rev. A. Jenner, LL.B., to the Rectory of Wenvoe, Cardiff.
Rev. D. L. Jones, to the Vicarage of Stainton-le-Vale, Lincoln.
Rev. Dr. H. Kynaston, High Master of St. Paul's School, and
Rector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey with St. Nicholas Olave, to
a Prebendal Stall in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Rev. N. G. M. Lawrence, B A., to the Incumbency of St.
Paul's, Forebridge, Staffordshire.
Rev. E. H. Loring, M.A., to the Vicarage of Cobham, neat
Gravesend.
Rev. H.
Basingstoke

Mitchell, to the Curacy of Nately Scures, near

Rev: W. C. Moore, M.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord
Viscount Valentia.

Rev. W.
up2n-Trent

Morton, to the Incumbency of Penkhull, Stoke-

Rev. J. H. Nowers, 8.A., to be Assistant Chaplain to the
Convict Establishment fl Portland Island.
Rev. W. H. Oakley, Rector of Wyfordby, Leicestershire, to
be a Surrogate.

Rev. F. V. Pearson, M.A., to the Ministry of St. Peter's
Episcopal Chapel, Charlotte street, Pimlico.
Rev, W. H. PritchettrM.A.,.Fellow of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, Cambridge, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Stair.
Rev. H. R. P. Sandburn, 8.A., to be one-of Her Majesty's
Inspectors of Schools.

Ven. J. Sandford, Archdeacon of Coventry, to be Examining
Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester.
Rev. R. Sankey, M.A., Vicar of Farnham, to the RectorY of
Witney, Oxfordshire. _ _

Rev: kV. stoddart, 8.D., to the Vicarage of Charlbury,
near Enstone, Oxfordshire.

Ven. H. Tattam, D.D., Archdeacon of Bedford, to be ChaP
lain in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
Rev. J. Taylor, M.A., to the Rectory of Midmile, Leicester.
Rev. T. Thomas, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Cwmamman,
Carmarthensitire. _ _ _

Rev. C. P. Tyley, 8.A., to the Curacy of Dynedor, Hereford.
Rev. A. Williams, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Thomas's,
Bethnal-green.

THE COLONIAL CHunca,—The bill introduced by the
Archbishop of Canterbury into the House of Lords, is
"to enable the bishops, clergy, and laity of the united
Church of England and Ireland in her Majesty's foreign
and colonial possessions to provide for the regulation of
the affairs of the said church in such possessions." Con-
vocations in the colonies are provided for, the bill enacting
that the affairs of the colonial church shall be regulated
by assemblies of the clergy and laity- Power is given to
the diocesan to call the clergy and laity together and to
make regulations, which, however, are only to bind
ministers and members of the church "in respect of
their ministry and membership," and are to have no legal
validity against the acts of the colonial legislatures.
Thus the State obtains all the guarantees which it is en-
titled to demand ; whilst the orthodoxy of the .;hurch
finds ample security in the sixth clause, which forbids any
regulation to be made at variance with the prayer-book,
the articles of religion, or the oaths of ordination. The
existing subordination of the colon;at church to the Sea
of Canterbury is also protected by a provision that no
measure affecting it shall be valid without the consent of
the archbishop under his hand and seal, and the final
sanction of the Queen in council. The lay representative
or representatives to be chosen must have been a commu-,
nicant or communicants in the said church for at least
the term of twelve months preceding. Power is also
given for provisional assemblies of like character to be-
held.

LOCAL

NE \V S

TO THE REV. W. POLL
d Jacob have executed a hands°
sented to the Rev. W. Pollock, by the
dates for confirmation in St. Mark's district.
AN UNGRATEFUL DAUGHTER.—Elizabeth ilindley
was, on Wednesday, sent to prison for three months, for
breaking open a drawer and stealing 305., the property of
her father, a hard-working old man.
THE WRECK OF THE VICTORIA.—It is stated that the
City of Dublin Steam Company has made arrangements
with the sufferers of the wreck of the Victoria steamer,
off Howth, which will stop further litigation.
WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—A meeting of the com-
missioners was held on Friday evening, for the purpose of
receiving the report of a special committee appointed to
frame bye-laws, but an adjournment took place.
THE Earl of DERBY has undertaken the erection of a
church, for the accommodation of his tenants, in the
township of Treales, Roteacre, and Warles, and the
parish of Kirkham.

THE BETTING-OFFICE SWINDLE has been successfully
carried on in Manchester, by parties who called them.
selves Elliott and Co. They set up for the Liverpool
races, and, when " reckoning" day came, they decamped.
CANADIAN STEAM-SHIPS. The screw steam-ship
Sarah Ssnds, Captain W. Ilsley, for Quebec sod
Montreal, left the Birkenhead dock on Thursday with a full
cargo of manufactured g00d5,228 passengers, and the mails.
LIEUTENANT MAURY will sail for Liverpool on the
23rd instant, to meet, at Bristol, in August, a meteorolo-
gical conference of the naval powers of Europe, to fix
Upon a uniform plan of observation, &c., in connection
With Maury's wind and current charts.—Nero York paper.
THE STEAMER LADY EGLINTON, Capt. Paton, arrived
at St. John's, Newfoundland, in 8} days from Liverpool,
and arrived at Quebec on the 29th ultimo, in 13 days,
Mean time, from Liverpool, including the stoppage at
St. John's.
Tut MANCHESTER STRIKES.--There have been strikes
tin various trades in Manchester, but arrangements have
been effected with all but the dyers, dressers, and finish-
"B, who demand an advance of 15 per cent, which the
employers are very much disinclined to allow.
ROMANIST Bisuors.—lt is stated that the Rev. Alex.
ender Canon Goss, Vice-president of St. Edward's Col-
lege, Everton, has been appointed coadjutor Bishop of
Liverpool ; and Dr. Roskell, of Sheffield, is to he the new
Bishop of Nottingham. Both of these fictitious prelates
are to be consecrated at Nottingham.
A BAGMAN SEIZED.—it the police-court, on Friday,
a Young man named George Davies, who had been ar-
rested in the river on board of the emigrant ship Gold-
Ender, about to sail for Australia, was ordered to be sent
to London, on a charge of embezzling X3OO, the property
of his employers, in whose service he had been a traveller.
PETITIONS most LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Horsfall presented
Petitions, on Tuesday, in favour of the Inspection of
tanneries, from the Presbytery of Lancashire, in connex-
ion with the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Eng-
land, and from the ministers, wardens, and members of
St. John's Church, in this town.
A riertmArreN from the Liverpool Chamber of Com-
merce, consisting of Mr. Hubbuck and Mr. Forward,
bad an interview
with the Right Hon. 'E. Cardwell and
tiord Stanley of Alderley, on Wednesday, at the Board
el Trade. The deputation was accompanied by the Hon.
11. T. Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Horsfall, M.P.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—Appointments for Liver-
:—North (Brunswick Chapel, 'Sze.): Francis A.
es% Thomas Llewellyn, Joseph Millar. South (Pitt-
: Samuel Simpson, James Dixon, D,D., J.
(Pitt-
'Gilchrist Wilson, John Roberts 2nd. Birkenhead :
-041ZYe. Benjamin [-killer. Liverpool Welsh (Berm's-
," --8114 c.) : Richard Prichard, William Davies 3rd.
OP
ec‘i.rottinitz, PASSAGE.—The ,cnarterly sitting of this
JaN,„"*'t,ened on 'Wednesday morning last, before Edward
stee-,4" assessor, in the "Sessions-house, Chapel-
The cause list contained twenty-three issres and
sane writ of trial. The whole were disposed of by Thurs.
y evening, with the exception of one case, which was
r'o3tPoned till next session.
DEPARTURE OF AUSTRALIAN VESSELS.—TWO splendid
vessels took their departure from the Mersey for the
Australian ports on Saturday, namely, the Goldfinder, one
.of. the " Fox Line," with 576 passengers, being a full
and the Tasmania, one of Messrs. Pilkington and
Ison's " White Star Line," with 440 passen-ers. The
Tasmania will be succeeded by the Moore's fort, a new
vessel, and equal to the smartest clippers afloat. She is
now in the Salthouse Dock.
Tim CHARIOT eV FA-ssr..—Thiys, fines I,}ipper vessel,
paeciretsbut newly arrived arrived from St. John's Ba
pressly for Train and Co.'s Boston line of
builder of the Sovereign of-the Seas, Mr. Donald 14•11:1t4e
Her framework is of white oak, and pine planking. sfis.
measures 223 feet in length, 44 feet in width, and 7 feet
'tween decks. She can accommodate 20 cabin and 900
Steerage passengers. The-Chariot of Fame is commanded
by Captain Knowles, and i€ now lying on the east side of
Huskisson Dock

RATHER HARD.—At- the County Court, on Friday
William Jarley, of Clayton-street, publican and iron-
tnoonger, summoned ',Edmund Jones, moulder, for the
sum of 25., the balance of an account of 35.. 6 I. for drink.
His honour strongly censured the man for bringing an
action for such a trifling sum, as the costs would be about
shim s. He should give him a verdict, but should only allow
23. costs. The plaintiff would thus be about a
shilling out of pocket, notwithstanding the verdict.
AN EQUIVOCAL COMPLIMENT TO THE BAR.—At the
Tuesday
of a case heard at the Liverpool County Court, on
Tuesday, his honour, in answer to a plea put in by one of
the litigants, that he had no counsel, remarked that the
Only disadvantage which bad resulted to 'him from that
fact was that "the 'truth had been nava:aced by it;"
rather an equivocal compliment to the gentlemen of the
bar, to the effect that if
."wisdom lies in the wig," truth
Is not always to be found m the same locality.

BLACKIIIIRN.—The loomers have resumed work on the
following conditions, agreed upon by the deputation of
masters and men :--Counts to be taken below 16's to be
paid according to quality of yarn and fineness of reed :
16's to 20's, 2d. per 1,000 threads; 2315 to27's, 2P. per
ditto ; 28's to 55's, 2id, per ditto ; 56's to•80's, 2P. per
ditto ; and 80's and upwards, 2d. per ditto. Three
leases to have something allowed, as v.r agreement;
double warps, for worsted goods, to have an allowance.
per agreement ; jobbing or labouring to be paid extra, at
so much per hour.

LECTURE ON THE EASTERN RUESTION.---Crt Wednes-
day eveninz, Mr. Percy B. -St. John delivered a lecture
at the Royal Assembly-rooms, in this town, on the sub-
ject of the present Eastern crisis. There was a numerous
and very respectable attendance. The lecturer's views
are, that it is the duty of the civilised governments of
Europe at all times, but especially now, to check the
ambition of absolutist Russia ; that the Turk, as shown
by the experience of 400 years, is incapable of civilisation,
but that there are about ten million Greeks in European
Turkey, now subject to the Mussulman, who, if freed,
Would build up a powerful kingdom.
.18T. CHRYSOSTOM N
'S CHURCH, EVERTO.—The works
lhatitli, new church are now in such an advanced state
tai„,,if the remaining sum cf about £l,OOO can be ob.
hr",eo in the interval, there is every probability that this
3Vlchurch, with upwards of four hundred free sittings,
,„'vith more than two hundred seats to be let at five
"ungs each annually, will be cccsecrated by the bishop 13. t
the course of the ensuing month. The building cern-
-14 tee and their excellent chairman, Thos. D. Anderacn,
sum Pave, r within.
um 4..7e1 little more than two years, obtained a
tette of nearly £4,500. The population of the district
ched to this church is estimated at upwards of five thou-
aand, and all these souls there is no church whatever.
BELLor 'VF.sray.—On Tuesday; at the fortnightly
atapeoeioing, the Rev. Rector Campbell presided. Mr. Moss
tioningiV for offending the chairman lest week, by ques-
Wortgh :Vat to rote.—The number of inmates in the
very-'l,-(2°Arbort the 130 instant was reported to be 1790,
late interfere,-eluve the average.—The chaplain reported a
Catholie ce of the Rev. Mr. Fleetwood, the Roman
testant priest visiting the house, with one of the Pro-
Inten. PatiPer children —lt was stated that there was no
tion to,erect a Roman. Catholic chapel at the Work-
pose .0 appropriate one of the offices for the pur-
br u ea Sunday, having a moveable altar.—Mr. Hughes
14?°
triglt forward a motion—" that it be an instruction
e .this board to the Industrial Schools committee to
'" into consideration as early as possible the necessity
providing the means of relizious instruction for the
Roman Catholic chiidren."—After some conversation,
'arr. Hughes said he would withdraw the motion for the
Present.—Mr. 3fellor.: In my opinion you had better
Withdraw it altogether.—An application from one of the
district medical officers for an increase of salary was
refused.

THE GRAND REGATTA CN THE theMEßSEY.—Tuesday,
, second day of the regatta, was the principal day,
On board the flagship (Mr. Littledale's yacht, Ariel,)
rra,Thionable company assembled, including the mayor,.
13°e: Earl of Sefton and party were on board the Queen of
*el:4, For her Majesty's royel plate, value £lOO, pre-
Yachts by Queen Victoria to the R.M.Y.C.. twenty-two„
the is tZieerne entered, but eight only started. The follow-
irlicia time of each yacht's arrival :
Cr., i tit !i Lily
'-erali '
Tart. ......... ..... sh. 37m. 19s.
Paul. ,
, sh. 39m. 245.
Enchantress
.
sh. 41rn. 10s.
.tochan ' •
1 tress ~ ...
This be* Ban'eY
6h. 6m. 41s.
rue me a time race, the Coralie was declared the winner.
play 1)lar neat race on the list was 3 for trawl boats,for whichrsoar
these 0 f X2O Was offered,
£30,,1t
at werehgeoroedm noany entries.
te.._iiot boat race, .boats were
lo
Le . but only four started. They came in in the fol.
'lng order :

Teazer (No. 2)
Auspicius (No. 4)...... sb. 58m. 19s.
Geo. Canning (No. 7.).. 28m. 395.
.T;he master o• f No. 4 protested against the prize being
"'en to No• 2, s he boats came into contact with each
other as Le•y rana up the channel, which, in a yacht race,
Would have
ee ated the
gt race. The Mersey Club race,
" 420, was onteed for by three yachts, and the
Pa_ was won bv the Presto. The Shrimpers' boats race,
ka a Purse of £lO, was won by the Jane, belonging to J.
1Y : ten craft started. The Regatta Cup, value £lO
3,,.s gained by the Truant. Mr. Grinnel, the model yacht;
....e,!!lt competitors for this race. The Ladies' Cup, value
...co rowed by gentlemen amateurs, was won by the Lady
Zk•Onstance—c,ixswain, H. Roberts,—there being four
agetitors.
died for
rowing race, for a purse of
' was contended for by four boats, of which the Joe
proved the victor. The ships' gigs' contest for a purse of
‘ was won by the Prince. There was also an opening
far American seamen, but none would venture upon the
e• Four and flats' punts started for the sculling match ;
of ci this
e race, though short, afforded more fun than any
reeraces of the day. The Swan came in first, and
•
eived X 2, winning his race well. The Reefer, the
ge _',3n d boat, was awarded a sovereign ; and the British
the third boat, got 10s. One or two minor rowing
2.enes were got up during the day, but the names of the
tw,le ners were not given in to the flagship. In the evening
was a beautiful display of fireworks, and the scene
ebb thrkenhead Ferry was one of great animation.

MR. JOHN HEYES, of this town, has been admitted a
member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

THE SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS has been chartered for
about £12,000, by Messrs. James Baines and Co., for the
Australian trade.

TUE MAYoR visited, on Friday, the model of Ancient
Liverpool (exhibiting at the Assembly-rooms, Tarlton-
street), and expressed himself highly delighted.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The performances of Signor
Leach, during the past week, have been the principal
object of attraction. The other amusements are still pur-
sued by the visitors with unabated enjoyment.

ALLEGED FRAUDS ON THE CUSTOMS. Messrs.
Fletcher and Firth, who were being prosecuted at the in-
stance of the Board of Customs, for the alleged offence of
conspiring with their clerk to defraud the revenue, have
laid before the board such satisfactory proofs of the
absence of any knowledge, on their part, of the irregulari-
ties which gave rise to the charge, that the board have
directed the prosecution to be withdrawn.
THE ALLEGED FORGERY ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH
WALES BANK.—At the Police-office, on Thursday, John
Gore, alias Brown, and William Mudd, were re-examined
on the charge of having fraudulently obtained from the
North and South Wales Bank the sum of £3OO, by forging
the name of William Simpson, and were committed for
trial at the sessions on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretences.

ST. HELENS.—HORRIBLE DEATH. —Last Tuesday
morning, William IP:Manus, a labourer, aged 17 years,
whilst employed in carrying slates on premises belonging
to Mr. D. Gamble, at Gerard's Bridge, was going across
a roof of the chemical works when a spar broke, and he
fell into a pan of boiling vitriol. He was immediately
taken out by two men, but expired directly.—Man-
chesfer Courier.

GEORGE RUTTER, a carter, residing in Charter-street,
was killed, on Thursday morning, in consequence of being
struck with a bale of goods lowered from a warehouse at
the Duke's Dock sheds. The deceased was in the employ
of Mr. James Johnson. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death, accompanying their verdict with a sug-
gestion, that in future some one should be placed at the
crane to keep a look-out and prevent accidents.

RECOVERY Ot DAMAGES BY A WORXMAN.---ITI the
Court of Passage, on Wednesday, James Boylan, journey-
man stonemason, obtained £2OO damages from James
Loch, one of the Duke of Bridgewater's trustees, for
personal injury, caused by having his jaw broken on the
Bth of July, 1852, while working close to a crane at the
back of George's Dock, the crane being negligently set in
motion at the time.

SusPfttors.—On Friday, a woman was found concealed
in a passage in Brunswick-street by a policeman on dutY
at the place. On observing the policeman, she threw
away half-a-sovereign, and when searched at the police..
office ^:€3o in silver was found upon her. She stated that
she had come into the town on the previous day, and had
obtained the money off a manic Liverpool, by whom she
had had an illegitimate child. The officer subsequently
returned to the place where he had apprehended her, and
in the street he found an empty purse and two £5 note.
She was placed before the magistrates on Friday, and
remanded for a week, in order to give the police an oppor-
tunity of making inquiries.

THE SPIRAL PROPEI:LER.--A few days ego the new
screw,called the spiral propeller,invented by Mr. Maxwell
Scott, of Tranmere -Foundry, was tried in the screw-
steamer Weaver, 'which had been lent by the trustees of
the Duke of Bridgewater for the purpose. She was tried
against the Countess of Ellesmere, on Saturday week,
during the two trips between Liverpool'and Runcorn, and
the difference was only twelve minutes in favour of the
Countess. The saving of fuel by the-spiral was shown to
be upwards of-sixteen per cent. The propeller has two
blades, something resembling the blades of the old-
fashioned screw, 'with a piece cut out of each, thus giving
them the shape of an elbow, being diametrically opposed
to Griffith's, where the outer edge has the least stzface.

CUSTOMS AL7ERATIONS AT LI'VERPOOL.—The hon.
Board of Customs, in order to facilitate the discharge of
cargoes, issued a mandate last March to this• port, to the
effect that all-cargoes upon which there is little cr no du-
ties, were to be allowed to be discharged from-6 a.m. to 6
p.m., without any expense to the merchants for the attend-
ance of the officers. The bond allowed the landing-
waiters, six in number, £3O per annum, in lieu of the
usual charge for overtime. This arrangement was not so
agreeable to the landing-waiters, as, instead of having
2s.od. per hour for overtime, they had only about Bd. They
endeavoured to procure an alteration, but without effect ;
but on Monday last a new regulation came into operation,
namely, getting the patrol inspectors to -discharge the
duties of landing-waiters aver free cargoes. "The experi-
ment id-being tried in seven .or eight docks, and, should it
answer, about twenty landing-waiterS' services will be
dispensed with in the free goods department.
• A NOVELTY IN COMMERCIA.L ANNOUNCE:It ENTS.—The
following notice, which was posted up on Wednesday, in
a most conspicuous portion of the Exchange Wews-rooni,
will convey a most satisfactory idea of the brisk state of
the trade in fine goods at -present carried on between this
port-and New York. We must premise that the Baltic
only arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday night, and would not
sail again till the 27th instant Cargo for the Baltic,
for I.7ew York, will be received at the liuski:ison Dock
to-morrow morning, at eight o'clock. In consequence of
the great pressure of goods, shippers will have to deter-
mine their priority of shipment of goods cow in town,
and ready for shipment by casting lots at Brown. Shipley,
and Co.'s ofice, this afternoon, July 20,1853." In
obedience to this notice, about seventy persons presented
themselves at Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co.'s office,
in the course of the afternoon, when a scene of unusual
interest and animation varied the ordinary routine of
business. The Baltic carries about !GO tons of goods ;
the rate of freight, which has been raised-X1 since the
Ist instant, being £5. The-quays of the Huskiscon Dock,
during the last few days, have been entirely blocked up
with carts, loaded with fine goods.
Twa LATE CASE .05 ABLUCTION By A. FA.TY;CR.—The
Warrington Guardian states that when the two young
ladies, of whose being taken to a convent, under pretence
of going to Southport, we gave particulars last week, ar-
rived at Warrington, they etated the facts of the case to
-the station-master. and entreated his assistance, but he
could render them no service; and they afterwards asked
the aid of a clergyman and county magistrate, -.who tele-
graphed to Sir Richard Mayne, the chief commissioner of
the`London constabulary, who stated, in reply,- by tele-
graph, that there was no lax-; ''that allowed any interference
between the parent and child in such a ease, excepting
with paupers. We learn that the young ladies are still at
the branch establishment of: the convent, in London. It
has been stated in town during the week that the con-
version of the young ladies_was in consegnence of-some
proselytising efforts of thoßev. H. R. Smith, the clergy-
man to whom they announced their intentionof becoming
Protestants. We are authorised to state that this .is= not
thocase—that their avowal to -him of their intention of
leaving the Church of Rome,was made at their ,first in-
terview with the reverend gentleman ; and that previous
to this statement he had had no conversation with them
on religious subjects.—Prestorvaironicle.

BANKRUPTCIES.—Number gazetted in England during
the first five months of the years 1850, 1851, 1852, and
1853, compared with the average cf the preceding seven
years, to May 31 in each year :,

District

1851. 1851

Average
of 1553.

S rears

Liverpool
Manchester
Birmingham
Leeds
Bristol
Exeter
Newcastle ..

Average of
7 yrs, to
May, 1849.

Total country 1176..197.. 164 , . 141
districts. f
London l7l 197 .. 166 .. 178 ..:174
Five months to l 347 394 .. 343 .. 362 .. 2.15
May 31.

.... 535

At the rate for 1 533
1284
13 mouths •• 945 ..823 ..879 .. 758

{Country Districts,
A.veraa. of 20 y ars to 1842....

SEIPBUILDING .ON THE MERSEY.—On •Saturday, at
noon, a nice little screw-steamer, the Emilie, was launched
from the building-yard of Mr. J. Laird, at the Dingle.
Her dimensions are--length, 135 feet ; breadth of beam,
IS feet; 200 tons burthen, old measurement, 250 new;
and 45 horse-power. She will have three masts, and will
be fitted with Griffiths's patent screw, the engines 'being
supplied by Messrs. Fawcett and Co., of Liverpool. The
Emilie is owned by Mr.J. E. Eaton, of this town, and is
intended for the coasting trade of South America. When
fitted with her machinery she will make a trial trip to the
Isle of Man. Mr. Laird has other vessels on the stocks,
which are rapidly approaching completion. The paddle-
steamer Collaroy, sister ship to the Clarence, is nearly
finished, and will in a short time proceed to Australia.
The Northern Light, for the African Company, is also in
a forward state, and will be launched in about a month.
The Diana, for the South American Company, is in frame
and plated. In the yard of Messrs. Vernon and Son, at
the end of the Brunswick Graving-dock, there is a fine
iron steamer of 800 tons burthen, for the Londonderry
trade, in a forwsrd state. She will be 350 horse-power,
and will be ready for launching in about two months.
This company are about laying down four or five lighters
for South America. At noon onSaturday an iron clipper-
ship, about 400 tons burthen, was launched from the
buildiug- yard of Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., Brunswick
Dock. She has been built under the superintendence of
Captain Green, late of the Swordfish, for Messrs. Deane,
Youle, and Co., to trade to the Brazils.

HCALTLI COMMITTEE.—At the usual meeting of the
Health Committee on Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdale
was in the chair.—A letter was read from Dr. Duncan,
the medical officer of health, dated Rothsay, Scotland,
19th July. The letter stated that he intended to have
been at home on the morning of the 19th, but had un-
fortunately been detained by a bilious attack. It was
stated that Dr. Duncan's duties were performed in his
absence by a person who received a guinea a-week. Mr.
Bigham said he believed that they would very soon find
that a person at a guinea a-week would do all that was
required. Mr. Bigham brought forward the following I
motion, notice of which was given at the last meeting
" That so much of the proceedings of the Health Com-
mittee, of Thursday last, as relates to the acceptance of
the tender of Messrs. 'Weber and Co., for supplying
numbers for houses, be rescinded, and that the tender of
Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co. be accepted in lieu
thereof, being the lowest." After some discussion the
resolution was agreed to.—Mr. Henderson brought for-
ward the motion of which he gave notice last week, to
the effect that the Council be recommended to increase
the salary of Mr. Nevvlands, the borough engineer, from
£7OO to £l,OOO per annum. A long discussion ensued,
but ultimately the motion was carried by a majority of
six to five.—A conversation ensued, in the course of
which Mr. Bigham suggested the desirability of the com-
mittee being unanimous in their recommendation to the
Council. lie thought £3OO a-year was not too large an
increase, but for the sake of unanimity he would support
£l5O. The Council could increase the sum if they thought
proper.—Mr, Moss would have pleasure in proposing an
amendment, if it could be done, that the sum be £l5O.
Mr. Beckwith, for the sake of unanimity, would second
the motion. Ultimately it was agreed that the matter
!should etand over to next Thursday.

THE LIVERPOOI.

THE 33D REGIMENT is under orders to move from
Manchester to Liverpool and embark for Dublin.
WARRINGTON SAVINGS' BANK.—The trustees and
managers are petitioning the House of Commons against
some of the clauses of the new Savings' Banks Bill.
THE TANK AT WAVERTREE, which fell in on the 26th
ultimo, still lies exposed and unnoticed by the commis-
sioners.

DEPARTURE OF MINERS FOR JAMAICA.--Among the
passengers who went out in the royal mail steamer Mag-
dalena yesterday week, were several Cornish miners, to
work the Port Royal Mining Company's copper mines at
Jamaica.

ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—On Friday, the mail train due at Lime-street
station at four o'clock, a.m., did not arrive till half-past
nine, in consequence of the upsetting of a goods train near
Lichfield, on the Trent-valley line.
A JUVENILE'S PLEA.—A young vagabond, not more
than fourteen years old, in palliation of a charge made
against him of attempting to enter the cellar of a poor
woman, in Ellenborough-street, stated that he was " very
drunk at the time." He was committed to prison for a
month.

CHARGE CF CONSPIRACY.—At the Police-court, on
Tuesday, four well-dressed sharpers, named Wm. Groom,
John Walker, Gordon Hunter, and William West, were
charged with conspiring together to defraud John Hind-
ley, by inducing him to bet upon cards. The prosecutor
was a shopkeeper and farmer, living at Eccles, near Man-
chester. The magistrates committed them for trial.
A. BEGGING LETTER IMPOSTOR, named Walters, alias
X. Fleming Teasdale, alias Rev. Mr. Franklin, was
charged at the police court on Friday with having forged
the name of War. Jones, Esq., a magistrate of Flint, to a
begging petition, on which he had been for some time
" raising the wind." Leave was granted to remove the
impostor and his coadjutors, Walters and Cullen, to
Mould, in order to have them tried for the offence.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. T. Lenton has been re-
versing the order of nature during the past week, by walk-
ing fly-like on the ceiling. Mr. and Miss Baker have been
delighting full houses all the week ; and last evening the
" Lockwood Family," the juvenile harpists, commenced
an engagement, On Saturday, Mr. Vandenhoff, for that
night only, will appear in his celebrated part of Cato; his
son, Mr. Henry Vandenhoff, representing Pardus, and
afterwards O'Callaghan, in " His Last Legs."
WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The weekly
meeting was held on Wednesday last, at the West Derby
workhouse, Mr. Allpass in the chair. The chairman in-
timated that there were five applications for the situation
of relieving officer, in the room of Mr. Stain. Mr.
Olney, the assistant master, was unanimously appointed.
It was agreed that on that day fortnight a person be ap-
pointed to the vacant situation of assistant master, with
a salary of £4O a-year and rations.

NEWS FROM THE BANKUR'S DAUGHTER.—The owners
of the new ship Banker's Daughter, which sailed from
this port with passengers for Geelong, have received a
most satisfactory letter from Captain Pace, date 11 th lune,
lat. 7 N. long. 20, in which he states that he had been
becalmed for six days, but had ran to lat. 8 in 16 days,
thus proving the ship to be an extraordinary fast sailer.
The emigrants, 400 in namber, were all in good health and
spirits.
A MARINE-STORE 'DEALER COMMITTED'IPOR TRIAL.
—A boy, named Joseph M'Clean, and his mother, Mar-
garet M'Clean, were charged at the Police-court, on
Thursday, with stealing lead from the roof of Mr. Pier-
son's ink manufactory, Duke-street, and also with steal.
ing several bottles of ink, a quantity of sealing-wax, &c.,
from the same firemises. Ann M`Laughtcn, the wife of
a marine-store dealer in New Bird-street, was charged
with receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
Committed for trial.

WELLINGTOST TESTIMONIAL.—There is now on private
view at the rooms of Messrs. Winstanley, in Church-
street, a =dot design, by our townsman, Mr. J. A. P.
M`Bride, kr a Wellington testimonial, prepared with a
view to competition in a neighbouring city. The design
has been greatly admired by many competent judges, and
it has been stgzested to the members of the committee for
the Liverpool Wellington testimonial, that they might
with advantage pay a visit to MrAll'Bride's production,
preparatory to deciding on a local memorial to the illus-
trious duke.

SCH•OOL THIZES.—At the 'recant distribution of -the
prizes at Mulberry-street school, the first was awarded to
Master .Wm. L. Lawson, of-Upper Parliament-street,
who, besides taking a leading. place in English, 'stood
highest in mathematics; the second to Master Charles
Oceleshead, of Rupert-lane, Everton, for holding.a•simi-
kr standing in his division. This school, established in
January, 1852, has already over sixty pupils,—a proof of
the estimation in which the ,qualifications of its conduc-
tors,'Messrs. Hickie and Johns, is held by the public of
Liverpool.

AutuornINTIMIDATTONtit WORKMEN.-At thePolice-
office, onFriday, William Wakefield, a "fiatnian," ap-
peared under summons on the charge of having intimi-
dated and assaulted Matthias Barlow, also-a 414:atman,"
with the-view of deterring thim from pursuing his usual
calling-and occupation. Tr,sppeared that the .defendant
had:taunted Barlow with working for Messrs.
"'fiat""-proprietors, who had refused to become members
of a certain club, all members of which agreed that they
should not work under a par.icular sum; but`Mr. Mans-
field decided that there had not been an assault, much
less intimidation, arid the race was accordingly dismissed.
Funs.—The number of foreign buyers at -the Hudson
Bay Company's late sale considerably affected the prices
of furs. Skins have not ref:Used, for many years, so high
prices ;- come lots of Sables fetched fifty shillings a skin.
Mr. John Cripps, of Bold-c-treet, anticipating-the advance,
fortunately bought a great slumber of skins previous to
the sale, and will have manufactured, by the first of
August, -nearly one thousand boas in Mini: sable, real
ermine,- very choice, Miniver, and Chinchilla, which he
will Offer ail 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
16, Bold-street, Liverpool. John Cripps, proprietor.
THE -ST;tITIIPORT DONMICS AND GOMBIiS-SIONERS."
A number of curious eases were tried at the-last Kirkdale
Sessions. Several parties were heard in appeal against
decisions.given by the Southport magistrates relative to
infringements of the by-`laws relating to donkeys. The
cousrnissloners of that fashionable watering-place have
entered on a regular crusade against those donkey drivers
who fail to keep within tharaits of the laws and the roads.
Mr. Aspineli, the banister, who appeared on behalf of
the appellants, while speaking of the number of donkeys
which did-duty at Southport, was interrupted by one of
the commissioners present,-who charged him with exagge-
ration; Mr. Aspinall retorted that in calculating the
donkeys he of course included the commissioners. He
afterwards followed up this hit by an appeal to the bench
on behalf of-his clients, and finally gained his cease.
MR. ROBRRTSON GLADSTZNE, it would appear, has
s:
received a letter from his friend, Mr. Cobden, on the
a s
Turkish—"CluFealtyianth.anTkshefor
you
r member
tract
for
upthoen
nWorni 'eat-hiding-
,
y
tion in the affairs of Turkey; and still more ,for your
.courage in signing a paper containing so much,eommon
sense—which, alasl is so little in favour with the majority
jr.st at present. 'But you have,told the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the. truth ; and, although,you are
a good deal in advance of public opinion, the time will
come when the soundness of your views will be acknow-
ledged and acted upon. I am-quite as sceptical about the
danger of a war now, as I was six months ago with
reference to the French invasion. In my opinion this
squabble will end in the discharge of a cart-load of.pro-
tocols instead of cannon-balls."
EXCISE PROSECUTIONS.—IMPORTANT TO DEALERS,IN
COFFEE.—On Thursday last, at the police office, eleven
grocers were fined for having sold a " mixture of chicory
and coffee" as coffee, namely—Wm.:Harrison, 33, Fox-
street, and 135, Scotland-road ; Henry Haskayne, 97,
Bvrom-street; Robert Abbott, 10, .Elliott-street;
Righton, -287, Scotland-road ' • John Tindall, 20, Isling-
-ton ; Thomas Douth waite, 40,Tithebarn-street ; Thomas
Hensman, d 65, Scotland-road; John Robinson, 125,
Scotland-road ; James Hardisty, 57, Tithebarn street,
and Henry Taylor, 83, Scotland-road. -The magistrates
said they would recommend them to the commissioners
for farther mitication. Mr. Forsey, the analytical chemist
from the -Board-of Inland Revenue, stated that some of
the samples sold by these parties, as coffee, contained 35
per cent. of chicory

NEW RESERVOIE, AT EvEnToN.—There are three new
reservoirs at present in progress in Liverpool, in con-
nexion with the water supply,—one at Park-hill, and
another at Kensington. The third reservoir, at Everton,
has now been commenced. The sire is in the fields be-
tween Audlev-street and Whitefield-lane. There will be
two reservoirs— one on a lower level, the same as those at
Kensington, and one elevated on a tower, for the purpose
of supplying the inhabitants residing upon the crest of.the
hill extending from -Kirlaiale to Windsor. The lower
reservoir will have capacity of storage for six million gals.
of water ; and the.upper tank will contain about a quarter
of a million of gallons. The whole establishment will
cover an area of 10,000 square yards. The plans are by
Mr. Thomas Duncan, the water engineer, under whose
superintendence the works will proceed. We believe
that the total cost will be about £25,000; and the con-
tractors are Messrs. A. and G. .Holme. There will be a
communication between the reservoirs at Kensington,
Park-hill, and Everton, so that, in .ease of deficiency of
water in any particular district, a supply may be drawn
from the others.

THE EMICHANT SHIP FALCON. - Messrs. Gibbs,
Bright and Co., on Friday, received a letter from the
cabin passengers (twenty-five in number) on board of their
Australian emigrant ship Falcon :—" Ship Falcon, at sea,
Monday, 13th June, 1853. Gentlemen, we, whose names
are hereunto annexed, with reference to the unfortunate
collision between this ship and the barque Zuleika, on
the night of Saturday last, feel it only an act of justice
towards Captain Taylor, to certify that up to the present
time his conduct has been, in all respects, irreproachable,
and marked by unceasing diligence and attention to the
ship and passengers. We beg to assure you that our
entire confidence in his skill and ability remains perfectly
unshaken, and we doubt not that by a continuance of the
same good judgment hitherto displayed, we shall yet make
a good and satisfactory passage. Of the event referred to
it is due to Captain Taylor to state that, throughout the
affair he displayed the most admirable coolness and
capacity, and gave his orders in a manner that com-
manded the prompt obedience of his officers and men in
carrying out is instructions with success. From the time
of the accident Captain Taylor has been unremitting in
his endeavours and determination to save the Zeluika,
and be has the satisfaction of seeing that he is likely to be
rewarded by success, aided by the vigorous and willing
assistance of his own officers and men, and passengers.
We should be wanting in common courtesy to your good
selves, did we not take this opportunity of tendering to
you our best thanks for the very liberal and superior
manner in which the ship is provided, as well as for the
general accommodation and arrangements so far experi-
enced. We are, gentlemen, yours very respectfully,
M. C. Hopkins, M. A. Clay, Laura Middlecoat, Rachel
Michaelis, Robert Wheeler, W. Pentland, R. G. Dobin-
son, James Clegg, Charles Rowley, George Reade, W. B.
Clay. G. H. Riley, H. Joseph, R. B. Dobinson, Mr. F.
Wray, William Nicol, James Gundersheing, Mose,
Michaelis, Mayers Gundersheing, Caesar Lowenthal, John
Marks."

STANDARD, TUESDAY,

JULY

THEATaE-ROYAL.--This theatre will be opened on
Monday next, Mr. Charles Matthews appearing for five
nights in his principal Lyceum parts.

THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. JOHN GIBSON.—
The articles of plate subscribed for by the members of the
Rev. John Gibson's congregation, at Garston Church,
were presented to him on Saturday, by a deputation.
LOWNDES vice GORST.—We understand that an early
Gazette will contai❑ the Queen's license empowering E.
Gorst, Esq. , of this town, to take the name of " Lowndes."
In pursuance of this license, Mr. Gorst and his eldest son
will immediately assume the name of Lowndes ; but his
daughters and younger sons will still retain their present
surname.—Preston Guardian.

AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION.—Six vessels have taken
their departure from Liverpool, for the Australian ports,
during the week. There are now three ships loading at
Liverpool for Adelaide, of an aggregate tonnage of 1,102 ;
seventeen for Melbourne, 9,888 tons ; one for Moreton
Bay. 1,309 tons • one for Port Philip, 1,040 tons; and
six for Sydney, of an aggregate tonnage of 3,599.
PILOT BILL.—The following notices of motion have
been given :—Mr. Horafall, to move the following amend-
ments : In clause 10, after the word " mate," i❑ lines 32,
35, and 39, insert, "of any coasting ship or vessel."
Mr. Liddell, in the event of Mr. Horsfall's amendment
being rejected, to move, " That the port of Liverpool be
exempted from the provisions of the said clause."
THE ARGENTINA.—The new steam-ship Argentina,
belonging to the South American Steam Navigation Com-
pany, made a most satisfactory trial trip to Holyhead and
back on Thursday, when she accomplished a speed of
fourteen knots. She is now taking coals and stores on
board, and will proceed on her voyage to Lisbon and
Brazils to-morrow.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAM Ens.—The British and North
American mail steamship Niagara. Lang, commander,
took her departure hence for Boston, on Saturday, at
eleven, a.m., with 156 passengers and a very full cargo on
board, besides the usual mails. The Baltic, which will
take her departure to-morrow (Wednesday), carries about
700 tens of goods, the rate of freight, which has been
raised £1 since the Ist instant, being £5.
AN ACCIDENT occurred on the London and North-
western line on Thursday morning. The mail train from
the north to London, which left Wigan at eighteen
minutes past four, had for its guard a man named Thomas
Barlow. It should have stopped at Crewe, but the breaks
were not put on as usual on its entering the station. This
led to a search for the guard who was not et the break
wheel, and ho was discovered dead on the top of one of
the carriages. From appearances it was concluded that
he had come in contact with one of the arches over the
line near Hartford.—Wigan Time
PREPARING FOR 'run CIIIIRCR.—A curious case came
before the County Court on Friday. The plaintiff was
W. Booth, teacher of elocution, Wesley-street, and the
defendant James Battersby, gentleman, residing at Hope-
place. The action was brought to recover the sum of
three guineas., for instruction given to the defendant in
the art of elocution. The plaintiff said the defendant was
the son of a gentleman of -great wealth, and, having just
come from college, he desired to take lessons in elocution.
The defendant told him his father was very rich, and
money was of no moment'; he was reading with a clergy-
man, to whom he paid £l5 per month, and he was shortly
to he ordained. He 'wished to go through the church
service with him. The defendant agreed with him to
take lessons on his usual terms of three guineas per quar-
ter, and he had given him a quarter's instruction, for
which be made the present claim. His honour, after
hearing the evidence, said the plaintiff was entitled to his
claim. It was quite :clear the defendant had mistaken
Iss. in a class for lbs. private lessons.
THE BLACRBDRN RECTORY LANDS.-Our readers will
remember that memorials respecting these lands, (which
`have been recently enfranchised,) were, some few weeks
since, forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Earl of Aberdeen, and the Bishop of Manchester.. The
purport of these memorials war, that the consideration
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town or parish of Blackburn, rather than go to swell the
general revenues of the ecclesiastical vommissionersi
Acknowledgments have been received from the parties to
whom the memorials were addressed—those from the
archbishop and the premier of a more formal character ;
but the vaply from the Bishop of Manchester expresses a
most lively interest in the views of the memorialists. At
his lerdelip's request, a deputation, which consisted of
the Rev. Thomas Sharpies, M.A., Thomas Dugdale,
Esq. `John Baynes, Esq., and J. Turnerflopwood, Esq.,
attended at the registry in St. James's-square, Manches-
ter, last week, on which occasion his lordship entered
very folly into the business, and after having given a
detailed history of the rectory of Blackburn, and shown
the legal bearing of various acts of Parliament affecting
the question at issue, concluded by expressing a confident
opinion that Blackburn had not only a moral and equi-
table claim to consideration, but one which the courts of
law would enforce.—Blackburn Standard.
'LEAVING KEYS WITH'-THE POLICE.—In consequence
of -numerous applications received from the inhabitants,
and in order to afford the accommodation desired, the
watch committee at Manchester have made arrangements
--under which the keys of their premises may be deposited
for safety by night at any-of the principal police stations,
-in consideration of the payment of £1 per annum. At
each place there will be fitted up a place to receive boxes
-of different sizes, something similar to the pigeon-holes
-for letters at the postecrffice, and each person depositing
the keys will be provided-with a box, at a cost not exceed.
ing 2s. 6d., on which he will be required to place a lock,
so that the keys may be'loeked up in the box before being
left at the police station ;' he will also be furnished with a
-ticket, on which will be placed a distinguishing figure to
correspond with a similarfigure, which will be placed on
the box, as well as in tteegistry book, and it will be neces-
sary for the meesengerwho la sent for the keys to produce
that ticket. In the event, of• fire in any depositor's pre-
naises, the police would break open the b=, in order to
-obtain access, by means of the keys, and such premises
would be taken charge of by the police until-properly deli-
vered over to the proprietors. The watch committee have
also made arrangernetns, that any persons who may have
'found keys may leave them at any of the police stations,
when the finding the same-will be notified by " route" at
-every police station, so that any person who has lost his
keys on inquiry at any of the stations, ascertain
whether they
they have been found and left in charge of the
police.--Manchester Onaedian.
CHANGE OF AIR AND CLIMATE.-It has been ascer-
tained that consumption is a very common disease among
the resident inhabitants of many of those places to which
invalids from this country freenently resort-. This shows
that the advantage derived is dependent tnore -.upon the
excitement of travelling, and the change of habit end
aeene, than upon any curative power of climate. The
selection of a suitable climate is a subject which could
not be briefly touched upon with advantage. 'I shall
oniy therefore observe that the change to more distant
plates is adapted chiefly to those in whom tubercular
disease is in an early stage, or very perfectly arrested,
and that most of the advantages of change may be more
safely attained, by more delicate invalids, he removing
from one part of the country-to another. There is
scarcely any point, in reference to the treatment of this
disease, on which the medical man is called to give an
opinion, of greater importance- to• the comfort of -the
patient than that of change of climate ; and I believe that
much IL-jury is often done by-the removal of patients, who
would flare been better at home. :In deciding whether a
change .should be made, and what change would he
aaldidvisatbhebleeneffe, ae;riteessroetefd , a change
are many points which should be care-
fully considered—the condition of the patient, the stage
and extent of the local disease, the period of the year;
previous
of air treatment.and W
clihen
et the disease
ll ofeoften
has
stimulate the constitutional powers, anti enable them to
carry forward the improvement, after the. remedial means
by which it had been accomplished have,ceased to be of
.further service. On the other baud, where there is much
d sorganisatien ,of one or both lungs, and the disease
appears still to-be advancing, so that the :patient mast
necessarily, during winter, keep chiefly in the house, the
comforts of home-and the society of friends will be often
found more valuable than a change to a slightly milder
climate. In those advanced cases, where there is reason
to believe that the disease will steadily advance,in spite of
any treatment, the -patient should not, on any account,
be removed from home.—Dr. Turnbull on the Progress
of improvement in tilt Treatment of Consumption

FATAL GAS EXPLOSIXS AT BOOTLE.—One of the most
serious explosions that has ever occurred in this neighbour-
hood took place at •Bootle-village, about half-past three
o'clock on the afternoon.cf Tuesday, and resulted in the
total destruction of •the St.n Inn, the death of one man,
and the infliction of severe•injuries on two other persona.
The premises were in the occupation of Mr. Edward
Ashcroft. and consisted of -two houses joined together,
one of them -very old, the other erected during the last
twelve months. Both belonged to the Earl of Derby.
For some days a strong smell of gas had been perceived
on the premises, and some men from the Gasworks were
searching out the leak at thetime of the explosion. They
had dug a trench in front of the house, laying bare the
main, and had discovered a fracture, which they tempo-
rarily staunched. Two of -the men, John Jones and
Joseph Lowe, had then gone into the cellar with, it is
supposed, a light to examine the state of the metre, when
suddenly a terrific explosion occurred—blowing out the
windows, shattering the old part of the Louse, and laying
the new part of it completely in ruins. At the time of
the dreadful occurrence, in addition to the two gas men,
the only inmates were Mrs. Ashcroft and the servant
girl, Mr. Ashcroft being absent from home arranging for
the funeral of a brother. The servant girl, who happened
to be in one of the upper rooms of the old part of the
house, presented herself ate window, and safely descended
by a ladder, much frightened, of course, but unhurt.
Mrs. Ashcroft was found lying under the cellar stairs,
her body, in a great measure, protected by an angle in
the flooring resting upon one of the barrels. The spirit
pipes had to be out away before she could be rescued.
When taken out she was insensible, but was restored in
a few minutes. She is much bruized about the head and
body, but the wounds are not of a dangerous character.
Of the two men in the cellar, Jones was brought out quite
dead. having been killed by the heavy mass of bricks and
rubbish which had fallen upon him. Lowe was recovered,
much bruised and burned, and with a fractured leg. He
was conveyed to the Northern Hospital. 411 the spirits
in the house at the time have been lost, but the greater
partion of the ale was safely recovered. The value of the
stock, furniture, and buildings destroyed is roughly esti-
mated at £l,OOO. On Thursday, an inquest was held on
the body of the unfortunate man Jones, before C. E.
Driffield, Esq., the county coroner. After the carious
witnesses had given their evidence, the officer who had
been sent to inquire after the state of Mrs. Ashcroft re-
turned with the information that there was a little alter-
ation for the better, but that, in her present state, it was
impossible to obtain any evidence from her. One of the
jurymen having also stated that the man in the Northern
Hospital was progressing favourably, the coroner said he
would leave directions that, if circumstances required it,
the depositions of Mrs. Ashcroft should be taken by a
magistrate ; and that, as the state of the man in the
hospital would make it necessary for them to adjourn for
a longer period than a week, he would adjourn the further
inquiry for two weeks, namely, until Thursday, the 4th
of August. The jury then retired. We understand that
Mrs. Ashcroft is still in a dangerous state. She was,
previous to the accident enceinte, and we are sorrY to
learn that 8 miscarriage took pinoo on wodueldsy.

96, 1853.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE AnmY.—Orders have been issued to remove two
regiments from the army at the Cape of Good Hop Tr—the
First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade under Colonel Buller,
and the Twelfth Lancers under Colonel Pole. The former
return to England ; the latter go on to India to relieve
the Fifteenth Light Dragoons.
MEMENTOES.—At a sale of autographs, on Saturday,
" the original act of national insurrection under Prince
Rakozy, at the commencement of the eighteenth century,
with about two hundred signatures of senators and nobles,
in the Hungarian language," sold for £9O. An autograph
of Richard Cromwell for £5 12s. 6d. A. letter of the
Duke of Wellington, containing thirty-three pages, £33.
THE Westminster Review was lately, at the request of
a member, withdrawn from the reading-room of the
Bristol Athenaeum, on account of its alleged anti-Christian
sentiments. There being, however, a party who wished
to see it restored, the directors of the institution sub-
mitted the question to the votes of the subscribers, and
the Review was expelled by 294 members against 277.
A FATAL FLASH.—The tower of Hereford church was
struck with lightning during a thunder-storm on Tuesday,
and while a marriage was being celebrated by the vicar.
Two women and two little girls, spectators, were struck
with the lightning; one of the little girls being badly
burnt and her limbs paralysed. It is said that the whole
party were more or less injured by the lightning.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Sunday, while two
boys, aged 10 and 12 years, were, either at play or in
search of nests, at the North Cliff, in Camborne. Corn-
wall, they were observed by person; not far off to fall
over. No time was lost in hurrying to the spot, but it
was found that they were both killed. Their bodies were
dreadfully cut and bruised, and they were at once taken
to their homes in an open cart. The mother of one of
the boys, named Bond, is said to be in a state of destitu-
tion, and the deceased was the only child out of six who
was able to earn anything. The father had left the poor
mother and family to enter the army.
CHILD MITILDER.—At the Lewes assize, on Tuesday,
Caroline Sherwood, aced 23, was indicted for the wilful
murder of her illegitimate child. The child had been
placed out by the prisoner, who was servant in a family
at Brighton, in the care of another person. The prisoner
called and took her child out one wet evening in March,
and the next morning it was found dead with a ligature
tied tightly round its throat. The child's frock, very wet
and muddy, was found in the prisoner's box. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner, having re-
ceived sentence of death, was carried from the dock in a
state of insensibility.
STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.—At the adjourned meeting of
the Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, it
was stated that the homeward voyage of the Melbourne
had exceeded the expectations of the board. The prin-
ciple upon which the Victoria had been despatched—
namely, the economising of fuel and using the screw-pro-
peller merely as an auxiliary power—would prove whether
such voyages could be made with profit to the proprietors.
The delay of the Melbourne would leave that vessel a
charge to the company. There was a balance against the
company of £7351 ls. 6d., and a further sum of £5673
17s. 10d., making £13,024 19s. 4d. The report was
adopted.

THE CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST RAILWAY
DIRECTORS.—At the York assize, Harry Stephen Thomp-
son, George Hicks Seymour, and Samuel Priestman, di-
rectors of the North Midland Railway, were charged, on
the verdict of the jury at the inquest, with the man-
slaughter of John Thomson and Josiah Sykes, an engine-
driver and stoker, whose deaths had been caused by the
engine running off the rails, owing, it was stated, to the
defective condition of the permanent way. The grand
jury ignored the bill, by the direction of Mr. Justice
Erle, and the counsel for the prosecution admittine tbat
the directors were not the parties criminally responsible,
the prisoners were formally acquitted.
THE LAST OF THE STUARTS.—A mad woman, named
Mary Stuart, was brought up at Bow-street, on Monday,
charged with breaking windows, and creating a disturbance
at the residence of Lord Palmerston, in Carlton-gardens.
The prisoner said the Home Secretary ought to do some-
thing for her. for she was one of the descendants of the
unhappy race of Stuarts—her great grandfather was
Prince Charles Stuart ; but she had been cruelly deprived
of her dignity and station, and had only succeeded to a
workhouse or a lunatic-asylum. She had been on a pre-
vious occasion, for breaking Sir James Graham's windows,
sent to Hanwell, but was no more mad then than she was
new. Mr. Hall had no doubt of her madness on the
Stuart question, and committed her to the care of St.
Martin's workhouse.
THE SOAP DUTY.—The taking off the duty on soap
was attended with some ceremony in the manufactories of
Messrs. Thomas, Tripp, and Thomas, and Messrs. Cox
and Shaw, Bristol. At four o'clock in the morning, the
Excise officers attended and removed the partitions, took
off the locks, &c., which before cramped the manufac-
turer's enterprise, when the cannons, which had aIL been
ready loaded in the yard, were fired off, and the workmen,
crowding to the gates, gave three cheers for the first load
of free soap that passed out. Messrs. Cox and Shaw's
men hung up, in two rows, the old locks, and under
them the keys which had so long kept them in awe, and
over these trophies they suspended the old Act of Parlia-
ment, now a dead letter. Soap, however, is dearer than
it has been for a long time, owing to an increase in the
price of the raw material.
THE LONDON CAB AUT.—The new act for the regula-
tion of London cabs has led to many disputes with the
cab-drivers ; but it seems in some instances they have
adopted a passive revenge for the injury they consider in-
flicted upon them by the new act. On Tuesday night,
after the rising of the house, when there was a great
demand for cabs in Palace-yard, the entire stand drove off,
uttering jeers against the hon. gentlemen who wished to
engage them. " Yer wants to ride for sixpence, does ye?"
says one. " Let 'em walk," said another ; and so the
members were compelled to find their way home as they
best could. On Wednesday night, while the rain was
failing with incessant violence, and peopletrom the theatres
and other places of public amusement were anxiously
seeking refuge in a hackney-cab, the drivers amused them-
selves in parading their empty vehicles up and down the
Strand and other thoroughfares, deaf alike to threats and
entreaties."

CURIOUS RELIC.—At the meeting of the Arcbreological.
Institute, amongst hundreds of splendid curiosities exhi-
bited, may be mentioned :—" A small alabaster box or
vase, elegantly shaped, with a lid, brought from an Eyp-
tian tomb by Mr. Curzon, illustrates the well-known text,
St. Matthew xxvi. i ; such vases were employed by the
Egyptians for holding ointment, and the present specimen
contains the ointment originally placed in it about 50 years
8.C., a date therefore more remote than the action of
Mary 'Magdalen, described in the Gospel. Another curious
memento of Mr. Curzon's Eastern travels consists of a
walking-stick of the wood of a tree planted in the valley
of Mount Sinai, close to the Christian convent, which is,
said to have sprung from the wand of Moses, there planted
after the division of the waters of the Red Sea. The tree
is jealously guarded, and kept sacred from all intrusion by
the Styrian monks. but Mr. Curzon was fortunate enough
to obtain a sapling."
CoamEncran TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.—The first stone
of the edifice intended for schools for the orphan and
necessitous children of commercial travellers was laid on
Wednesday with the accustomed forms. The estate
purchased far the schools is at Pinner, near the Pinner
station, and 'the site seems well selected as regards
salubrity and -the beauty of the locality. The ceremony
was performed by John Mesteman, Esq., M.P., in the
absence of Prince Albert from obvious causes. The
company afterwards partook of a cold collation, and the
chairman, in proposing "Prosperity to the Commercial
Travellers' Schools," touched upon the advantages to be
derived from the spread of education, and spoke of the
commercial travellers as a most intelligent and respectable
class. The body consisted, he said, of 30,000, and he
conld not say how many children. The architects of the
proposed builditig are Messrs. Lane and Ordish. It will
no doubt be worthy of their reputation and of the pur-
pose for which it is to be erected. The institution, it is
to be hoped, will be well supported.

ESCAPE OF FIVE CONVICT LUNATlCS.—Considerable
alarm has been felt by the inhabitants of Fisherton, Wilts,
owing to the escape of sve convict lunatics from the
asylum of Dr. Finch on Saturday night. Soon after one
of the keepers had retired to rest on Saturday night he
was attacked by five of the inmates, some of whom held
him by the throat, while others knelt on him and com-
pletely overpowered him. After making him secure, and
preventing his access to the pull of the alarm bell, they
obtained possession of the necessary keys, some of which
they placed in the locks on the outside of the doors lead-
ing to the wards occupied hy•the.other keepers, thus pre-
venting the possibility of their being unlocked from the
inside. They then effected their escape from the ward,
taking with them all the clothes on which they could lay
their hands, and one of them carried away a coat belong-
ing to the keeper. It was some time after they had
vitted the establishment before an alarm was made by
others of the lunatics, but when the escape of the five was
made known to the cfficiale, information was immediately
sent to all the police-stations in the neighbourhood, and
tile country was scoured in every direction, and two of
the number were captured—one in a field of barley be.
longing to Mr. Harding, and the other at Cholderton,
about nine miles from the asylum.
NCNNERIES ENGLAND.•-• A serious dispute has
arisen between the Lady Abbess of the convent at Taunton
and the relations of a nun in the establishment. The
young lady's name is Knight, and her parents belong to
an old Romanist family of Axminster. Some time since,
the young lady sustained an accident, for which it became
necessary to call in medical advice; and the person selected
to attend her was a self-styled homoeopathic doctor, for-
merly " a pastrycook or baker." Eventually, intelligence
bad to be conveyed to the parents that their child had
been stricken with insanity, and the parents became
anxious that their daughter should have more efficient
medical aid. This, however, the Lady Abbess, Father
Jenkins, the confessor, and the hotnceopathic doctor

sturdily opposed ; and it came out on the occasion that the
growth of the young lady's insanity had been for a long
time past well known in the establishment, whilst the
facts connected with the same had been kept from the
knowledge of her friends until the shrieks of the maniac
prevented her malady from being longer concealed. A
new doctor was at last allowed to attend Aliss Knight,
who recommended an entire change of treatment, with
open air exercise, and advised that, for that purpose, the
patient should be removed to a convent at Bristol, and if
no improvement should take place there, to the convent
of the Abbe Macs, Bruges. These arrangements the Lady
Abbess again vehemently opposed, claiming by her own
control to send the sister to the convent of
Benedictines,to
at Menin, in Belgium. The lady's family decided
appeal to the Bishop, and her brother, Mr. Knight, was
on the road to Bristol for that purpose, when Father Jen-
kins, the confessor,somevrhat "abruptly and imperatively'
intercepted him, using every endeavour to retard him, and
induce him to return and see the Lady Abbess. ATr.
Knight proceeded, however, to the Bishop, who returned
with him to the convent. The Lady Abbess persisted in
her claims with regard to the young lady, and threatened
to appeal to Rome if the Bishop should decide against
her. Meanwhile, Mr. Knight obtains an order, and
removes his sister from the convent, having to undergo, it
is said, in so doing, considerable obstruction and insult
from two fathers of the convent, Messrs. Jenkins and
•

)ER OF A HUSBAND.—At the I
day, Sarah Smith, aged 4
murder of her husband, at St. L(
him through the heart. The prisoner and}
were both in liquor at the time. She was convicte
manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years' transportation
AT THE YORK ASSIZES, on Tuesday, Thomas Gooche
and William Stacey were convicted of throwing stones at
and after an engine on the Midland Railway at Brins-
worth, in the West Riding, on the 4th of May last, thereby
endangering the safety of persons conveyed on the said
railway, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment.
SATURDAY was a great day for Glasgow—" the roughest
night in the drinking way," says the Glasgow Herald,
" which has been experienced in Glasgow for a long
time." The day was a hllidav, but, being rainy, the
people were not tempted off by the railways, and betook
themselves to the whisky-shops.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—The select committee of
the House of Commons, in their recently published re-
port, recommend that free libraries, mechanics' institutions,
and other public institutions, be supplied with Parliament-
ary papers. The committee recommend that a committee
be appointed at the commencement of each session to
consider all applications made for Parliamentary papers.
UMBRELLA COMPANY.—A company has just been
started in London, designated the "Umbrella Associa-
tion," for the purpose of hiring out umbrellas and
parasols in wet and sultry weather, the borrower to lodge
a shilling for the safe return of the article, and pay one
penny an hour for the loan. The company have already
laid in a stock of 25,060 umbrellas and parasols, and
intend forming several district depots in London.
NEW LINE ON THE CLYDE.—The Glasgow and White-
haven Screw Steam Navigation Company's steamer Solway
was, on Monday morning, launched from Messrs. John
Scott and Son's building-yard here, with steam up, all
ready for sea, being the first time the extraordinary feat
has been performed on the Clyde, and probably in the
world, of a steamer being launched with the machinery on
board, and the steam up.—Greenock Herald.
THE DOG Tax.—The occupier of a house is liable to a
the assessed tax on a dog kept there, though it may belong
to a lodger. Wherever the dog is found, the householder
is subject to the duty, unless he proves it is paid for ; and
as it will hereafter be 12s. for every dog, occupiers of
dwellings will do well to be careful about those animals
being brought to them. Large numbers of dogs are being
killed in consequence of the alteration in the assessed
taxes, which includes all the canine species in the impost.
QUICK WORE.—A girl has just been tried at Dorchester
for concealing the birth of her child. It appeared that on
Monday she was haymaking till six o'clock in the evening.
She then went into a lane and was confined of a child,
then milked 12 cows, and did her household work before
she went to bed; rose next morning and milked the 12
cows again, and did her household work during the day.
At night she was taken into custody, was afterwards com-
mitted for trial, and was absolutely tried on the following
Saturday.

THE MAMMOTH STEAMER.—The following are the
dimensions of the iron steamer about to be built, by Mr.
Scott Russell, for the Eastern Steam Navigation Com-
pany. She is to be 620 feet long, 10Q feet beam, 6000-
horse power, and 12,000 tons hurthen ; to be propelled
by four paddles and a screw ; and the horse-power will be
thus proportioned-2000 for the screw, 2000 for the mid-
ship paddle-wheels, and 2000 for the fore paddle-wheels.
The engines, which have already been contracted for, are
to be constructed immediately.—Mining Journal.
DEATH OF AN EQUESTRIAN.—A melancholy occur-
rence took place last week, involving the death of one of
the female equestrians in the establishment of Mr. Cook.
During the performance of the troupe in Gosport, upwards
of a week back, Mrs. Smith received a serious injury by
her leg having come in contact with a bar, while she was
galloping in the circle. She was received as ari in-door
patient of the infirmary in Carlisle, and had apparently
so far recovered, that in a few days more she would have
been discharged. On Sunday last, however, as she was
sitting in bed reading, the patients, whose beds were
nearest to hers, observed her fall suddenly back on her
pillow, and give a few short gasps. On examination, she
was found to have expired.
SAVE-ALL WATER-TAP.—A great proportion of the
water supplied to the poorer districts of large towns is
absolutely wasted. This is particularly the case with
public taps in yards and courts. From negligence of one
sort or other, more than half the water is lost. Frequently
the taps are " left running " all night. I would, suggest
a water-tap and box for public places, which it is presumed
would entirely prevent the possibility of waste. It consists
simply of an ordinary tap, fitted at the side with a lever
and weight. When the weight is raised by the hand, the
water flows; but the instant the weight is released, it
falls into its vertical position, and shuts off the water.—
A Correspondent of the Builder.
MR. RONEY ON CANADIAN EMIGRATION FOR IRISH-
MEN.—The following extract from a private letter, written
by Mr. C. P. Roney to a friend in Dublin, exhibits some
singular facts in connexion with emigration from this
country:—" Instead of my being astonished at the im-
mense amount of emigration that has taken place from
Ireland during the last few years, my surprise is that the
whole of the peasant population has not already come,
either to this country or to the United States. During
the three weeks that have elapsed since I landed, I- have
travelled 1,850 miles by rail and steamboat ; and, although
I am told that I have not as yet visited by any means the
best portion of Canada (Upper or Western Canada), I
have seen quite enough of it to convince me of its inex-
haustible resources, and the glorious field that it is for
the employment of the Irish people."
QUARANTINE.—The Commissioners of Customs have
issued orders to the collectors and controllers at the
several ports throughout the United Kingdom, directing
them to prepare and transmit, with all practicable des-
patch, a return, in detail, of all vessels which have been
detained in quarantine during the five years ending the
Ist of July inst., at the respective ports, specifying the
name of each vessel, the date of her arrival, the port
from which she last sailed, the duration of the voyage in
days, the number of the crew and passengers on board,
the disease for which quarantine was imposed, the num-
ber of cases of sickness and of death during the voyage,
and the number of sick on board when she arrived, the
durtaion of quarantine imposed, and whether any and
how many fresh cases of sickness occurred during the de-
tention in quarantine.
A LADY'S DILEMMA.—In looking over the "correspon-
dence " of some of our more fashionable papers, it will be
perceived that most of the " answers " relate to complaints
on the part of the fairer half of creation, respecting the
ravages which atmospheric influence makes with the com-
plexion. In lien of bloom and beauty they expatiate on a
long train of personal disfiguration in the shape of pim-
ples, tan, freckles, &c.—eruptive horrors, all ! And what
is a lady to do in this dilemma ? She has her bane :
where is she to look for an antidote? Why, it is before
her in Rowland's Kelydor—a mild, soothing extirpater of
all impurities of the skin; prepared from the choicest ex-
otics of a balsamic nature; utterly free from mineral sub.
stances ; harmless in its components ; grateful in its
effects. It neutralizes atmospheric extremes, promotes
the healthy action of the microscopic vessels, and thus—
" Adds to beauty all the charms of health."—See
THE RAILWAY KING.—The transactions between Mr,
Hudson and the York and North Midland Railway Com-
pany have produced several actions, another of which was
argued, during Wednesday and Thursday, in the Rolls
Court. Various claims were made by the oompany upon
their late chairman, on account of interest on moneys
kept in his hands, of overcharge in brokerage and espe-
cially for a considerable margin of surplus which he had
obtained upon 2500 tons of iron rails, having contracted
in his own name for the rails at £6 108. per ton, and
afterwards transferred to the company at £l2, keeping
the difference for himself. After a very long hearing, the
Master of the Roils reserved some points, in order to look
over the evidence, but decided that Mr. Hudson must
repay the profit derived from the contract for the rails,
his fiduciary character of chairman to the company ren-
dering him incompetent to enter into any contract with it
on his own account

TRANSPORTATION.—The bill of the lord chancellor, to
substitute other punishment in lieu cf transportation, has
been printed. It is to take effect from the first of Sep-
tember, reciting in the preamble that by reason of the
difficulty of transporting offenders beyond the seas, it has
become expedient to substitute in certain cases other
punishment in lieu of transportation. It is proposed that
sentences of transportation, except for life, or 14 years,
or upwards, shall be discontinued, and sentences of penal
servitude to be passed instead of transportation for less
than 14 years. There is to be a scale of penal servitude
for transportation. Conditional pardons are to be allowed
with reference to the substituted punishment, as in cases
of pardons on condition of transportation. All acts con-
cerning convicts sentenced to transportation are to be
made applicable for the purpose of the present measure.
Persons convicted of larceny, after previous conviction
for felony, are not to be transported.

BURIALS BEYOND THE METROPOLIS.—The bill of the
government to amend the laws concerning the burial of
the dead in England beyond the limits of the metropolis
has just been printed. On representation of the Secretary
of State Her Majesty in Council may restrain the opening
of new burial grounds and order the discontinuance of
burials in specified places. An order in Council is not to
extend to burial grounds of Quakers or Jews, unless
expressly included. Burials are not to take place after
an order in Council for discontinuance, except as to
vaults, ttcc., and cemeteries and new burial grounds ap-
proved by the Secretary of State. The new burial grounds
are not to be open contrary to an order in Council. Cer-
tain provisions of the Metropolitan Burial Act, Isth and
16th of Victoria, cap. 85, are extended to parishes, &c.,
not in the 1, ,ropolis. The present measure is to be
confined to England and Wales. It is not to extend to
the metropolis. The preamble recites the Metropolitan
Burial Act, and declares that it is expedient to make
better provision for and in relation to burials beyond the
limits of that act. _

----TIIEERPOR; 4.11. ADE.-A return has just been printed,
showing the quantities and the declared vaolureku,lolli Bmfieareicrsliticokoi.:
the ten principal articles exported in 1850 and 1851, from
each of the ports of London, Liverpool, u
Southampton, Newcastle, Glasgow, including the Clyde,
Dundee, Leith, Aberdeen, Bel fast, Dublin, c
5,c. it appears that from the port of London the declared
value of the exports in 1850 was £14,137,527, and the
Customs' duties collected amounted to £11,095,145, while,
in 1851, the exports were £14,489,494, and the Customs'
duties £11,241,281. At Liverpool, in 1850, the exports
were £34,891,817, and, in 1851, £37,918,640; from Hull,
in 1850, the exports were £10,366,610, and, in 1851,
£10,126,421 ; from Bristol the exports in 1850 were
£362,039, and, in 1851, £419,958 ; from Southampton
the exports were £1,859,647 ; in 1850, and, in 1851,
£1,916,737 . from Newcastle, in 1850, £920,063, and, in
1851, £939,141 ; from the ports on the Clyde, Glasgow,
Port Glasgow, and Greenock, the exports were £4,234,604
in 1850, and, in 1851, £4,046,814. The Customs' duties
of the former year were £1,172,631, and of the latter,
£1,177,061. The exports from Dundee were, in 1850,
£91,672, and, in 1851, £66,890; from Leith, in 1850,
£366,880, and, in 1851, £389 ; from Aberdeen, £4,305,
and, in 1851, £9,682 ; from Belfast, £56,506 in 1850, and
£50,183 in 1851 ; from Dublin the exports in 1850 were
£50,354, and, in 1851, £50,070. The Customs' duties
collected at that port, in 1851, were £893,383. From
Cork the exports in 1850 were £116,268, and, in 1851,
£109,404 ; and from Limerick, £8,457 in 1850, and
£2,870 exports in 1351.