The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

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" e!i4ibles" was reduced to 34 ; after which the 'list was
furtip r reduced to six, from which the guardians rill
make the selection. These parties are—Mr. and Mrs.
Ryan, of Kidderminster; Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Wor-
cester; Mr. and Mrs. Harris, of Coventry; Mr. and
Mrs. Leech, of Credston ; Mr. and Mrs. Gough, of the
Borough Gaol, and Mr. and Mrs. Walters, of Bir-
mingham. On Friday, a deputation of the guardians
went to inspect the various wash-houses, Sr..c. now sliver-
intended by the above-named parties, with the view of
reporting upon the most eligible person.
SELECT VEsva.v.—The Rev. Rector Campbell presided
at the usual fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry, on
Tuesday. From the Finance Committee's proceedings,
it appeared that the cashier had reported the defalcations
of Henry Perris, one of the collectors, to the amount of
£56 18s., and it had been agreed to apply to the British
Guarantee Association, under their surety bond, for
payment of the amount.—The Poor-law Board having
requested the appointment of Mr. Wm. Parry, as assist-
ant to the governor of the Workhouse, it had been re-
ferred to the Workhouse Committee to explain to them
the position in which the storekeeper stands to the go-
vernor.—A lengthy discussion took place relative to Mr.
Mansfield's letter to Mr. Wm, Earle, which most of the
members characterised as indiscreet and uncalled for,
and betraying great ignorance of the subject on which it
was written. The rev. Chairman said they were not em-
ploying the funds of the parish in sending paupers to
Australia, or anywhere else, because that would be con-
trary to the law. That should have been known, and he
presumed it was known, to everybody but the stipendiary
magistrate, who appeared to have written from London,
knowing nothing about it. That letter had been pointed
out to him, and he would not pass the judgment which he
might pass upon its singular indiscretion ; but this far he
would say, that he thought the stipendiary magistrate
might have employed his vacation more profitably, if he
had not employed a part of it in publishing letters sneer-
ing at the constituted authorities of the town, and dispa-
raging one set of men by puffing another. He had called
the members of that board faithless stewards ' • he be-
lieved that was the expression he had applied by impli-
cations to them. They were perfectly conscious, he
hoped, of their own deficiencies in performing one of the
most difficult duties which could fall upon any men to
perform—the administration of the poor-law in a parish
containing 255,000 souls. That was no mean nor very
easy task.—The Workhouse Committee reported that, on
the 27th ult., there were 2,012 inmates in the house, in.
elusive of 580 sick cases, 82 being of fever and 37 of itch.
The total admission to the vagrant sheds during the week
had been 486 males, 191 females, and 41 children ; total,
718.—The Medical Relief Committee reported that there
were 835 cases of sickness under the treatment of the dis.
trict medical officers, 43 of these being of fever.—Mr. T.
B. Browne, the Government Inspector of Schools, wrote
to say that he should be in attendance at the Industrial
Schools on Monday and the four following days.—Mr.
Denton said he saw that he had been passing a high eulo-
gium in Manchester on their schools.—The Vestry-clerk
read a letter from Mr, Wylie, resigning his seat at the
board.—A lengthy report, sanctioning the appointment
of a permanent paid surveyor, was adopted after a brief

discussion.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—On Thursday, at the weekly meet-
ing of this body, 1111.. Francis Shand presided ; and the
other members present were,—Messrs. Molvneux, Robin-
son, Chaloner. Helene, Langsdale, Claxton, Barber,
Malcomson, Holden, Rovden, Tobin, Bold, Rankin,
Nicol, Gregson, Steele, Evans, and Brocklebank.—Mt.
North, the solicitor, reported that he had written to
Messrs. Arnold, Leete, and Co., respecting a quantity of
gunpowder which, contrary to the regulations, had been
found on board the Aheona, in the Albert Dock, for
which the owners had each rendered themselves liable to
a penalty of £lOO, and had received a reply, which was
now read. This stated that the gunpowder had formed
part of the outward cargo, and that it had been paid away
by Captain Davies to the Kroomen, as customary, as part
of their wages. When the vessel entered the Alb..rt
Dock the gunpowder was not known to be on board, or it
would not have been allowed to remain there. This
statement was considered satisfactory.—ln answer_ to an

application for permanent berths in'George's Dock, Mr.
Bold stated that it was the intention of the harbour mas-
ters' sub-committee to set aside the east side of the
Prince's, and the•west side of the George's Deck, solely
for the lading of vessels.—lt was agreed to remove the
office of the master of the Canning Dock to the entrance

of the Canning half-tide basin.—An application from Mr.
Tobin, for permission to erect a hut at the Toxteth Dock
for the chains and anchors and powder boys, was granted
on payment of a ground rent of ls. 6d. per square yard
per annum.—The tender of Messrs. Conway and Co., for
a supply of pea jackets, and for top-coats for the pier.
masters, was accepted.—The solicitor submitted a formal
resolution in conformity with that, the principle of which
was adopted at the last meeting, for admitting• foreign-
teamers fo five quay berths in the Prince's
uis they will be permitted to have fires and

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the use of them, however, being extended from six o'clock
till nine o'clock in the evening. The resolution also pro-
vided for permitting a fire on board the Mariner's Church,

MUNICIPAL BOROUGHS.—From a parliainentary papei
it appears that the receipts by municipal boroughs in
England and Wales in the year ended 31st of August,
1851, amounted to (with the balances in hand) £1,254,483
Is. lid., and the expenditure (with balances due to trea-
surer) to £903,721 4s.
THE DISTRICT COURTS OF BANKRUPTCY.—It is the
intention of Lord Brougham to introduces bill to abolish
entirely the district courts of bankruptcy, and to transfer
their jurisdiction to the county courts ; and also to limit
the jurisdiction of the commissioners in Basinghall-street
to London and its suburbs.

A FIRE broke out in the outward goods department of
the York and North Midland Railway Company, at Hull,
on Saturday, which completely gutted the building, nothing
being left but the bare walls. Fortunately the fire did not
extend to the adjoining warehouses. The amount of
damage is at present unknown.
THE GIRAFFE.—The fine female giraffe, which has
been so much admired by the visitors to the Zoological
Gardens, London, where she has resided for nearly thirty
years, has just died. She was the parent to the fine
giraffes now at the same gardens, and some of her young
have been sold to other prorrietors at good prices.
CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—On Tuesday, at a
treeting which took place at Hampstead, it was agreed to
form a Conservative Land Society, on the same plan as
that of the other societies already formed, or in course of
formation, in so many other districts. At the close of
the proceedings, a great many shares were subscribed for.
DESPERATION.—The Wiltshire Independent has the
following advertisement :—" Matrimony. A lady, 37
years of age, of independent circumstances, residing near
London, is desirous of forming an acquaintance with a
gentleman of undoubted respectability, for the purpose of
a matrimonial alliance. Satisfactory references will be
given and required."

SEVERAL OF THE ME➢IBERS OF THE LONDON BAR
have determined to attend the Westminster County Court.
They intend to hold themselves at liberty upon proper
occasions to exercise their common-law right of direct
communication with the client. It is their intention, in
£2O, where no great difficulty is likely to
arise, or much time to be consumed, to act in common
with the special pleaders at the bar, and to mark half-a-
guinea on their briefs.
Da. HENDREN, the Romish Bishop of Nottingham,
has, we understand, applied to the Pope for permission to
retire from the onerous responsibility connected with his
See to the seclusion of a monastery, and is now awaiting
his Holiness's reply, which, it is expected, will shortly
arrive, with the decrees of the Synod, from Rome. The
reason assigned for Dr. Hendren's retirement is that, in
consequence of growing infirmities, be is unequal to the
arduous duties of his office.—Morning Chronicle.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—Mr. Smith, a surgeon at
Wheatley, near Oxford, has committed suicide under
distressing circumstances. The deceased had been fetched
back by his wife from Canada, on an opening offering in
the village where he had been accustomed to practise,
but which he had left under pecuniary difficulties. For
six months things prospered with him, but he soon fell
into a low-spirited state, and getting worse, destroyed
his life by a strong dose of prussic acid.
LEEDS NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A special meeting of
this company was held on Tuesday, at Leeds, to consider
a proposed amalgamation with the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, and the York and North Midland companies,
Mr. Constable in the chair. After a long discussion,
which lasted five hours, the meeting was adjourned till the
Ist of December, and a committee of shareholders was
appointed to confer with the directors on the proposed
amalgamation. The meeting then separated.

cases undo.

POPISH PRACTICES AT ELLESMERE CHURCH.—We
are informed, says the Shropshire Conservative, that
during the celebration of Divine Service in Ellesmere
Church on Sunday evenings, several boys in white sur-
plices stand round the Communion Table, each boy
holding a large lighted wax candle in his hand ! What
are the Protestants of Ellesmere doing to tolerate such
mountebank show in their parish Church ? Such pro-
ceedings arc a disgrace to Protestant England ; and the
inhabitants of Ellesmere are to blame for their inaction
in permitting ridiculous and Popish customs and observ-
ances to be carried on within the walls of the Parish
Church.

A NEW SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING WHITE SUGAR,
recently invented by Mr. H. Bessemer, civil engineer,
was put into operation on Wednesday last, at the premises
of the inventor, Baxter-house, Old St. Pancras, London,
in the presence of several gentlemen practically conversant
with the subject. Mr. Bessemer, by means of his "cane
press," is enabled to obtain, by a principle of continuous
pressure, from 75 to 80 per cent., without any additional
cost ; whereas, by the old plan, the average of juice ex-
tracted was no more than from 50 to 55 per cent. Not
only is the quantity increased, but the superior quality of
it would command 7s. or Bs. per cwt. in the market over
the ordinary colonial produce. The experiments through-
out were most successful and satisfactory.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—A most dis' ressing accident
occurred on Saturday week, in the Dean of Windsor's
woods, Butleigh, Somerset. A party were shooting there on
that day with Mr. Neville, among whom were Mr. Hunger-
ford Colston, of Lydford, and Mr. Tudwav, M.P. for
Wells. A woodcock had just fallen in a thicket, for which
these two gentlemen were searching, when the gun of the
latter, from some unknown cause, went off, and lodged its
contents in Mr. Colston's knee. He was carried home to
Lydford with as little delay as possible, and it was found
that the bone had been so badly shattered that the three
medical gentlemen who had been summoned, decided
unanimously that no time should be lost in taking off the
leg. This operation was all but completed, when Mr.
Colston sank under it from exhaustion at half-past 12
o'clock the same night.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—We learn from a source on
which we can rely that the Premier has changed his mind
on the subject of the intended Charter to the Crystal
Palace Company. His Lordship has, as we are assured,
been convinced by the representations of high legal au-
thorities, that it is not competent for the Government to
grant a Charter. It appears that there is an Act of Par-
liament, which was passed in the twenty-first year of the
reign of George 111., which expressly declares it illegal to
receive money on the Sunday for entering any place of
public amusement, which, it is said, the Crystal Palace
will, to all intents and purposes, be. It is, therefore, con-
fidently stated that Lord Derby, instead of granting the
Charter on his own responsibility, as originally intended,
will allow the matter to be referred to the Legislature,
which could only be in a position to grant a Charter by
first repealing the Act of Parliament to which we have re-
ferred.—Morning Paper.

LIBEL ON LORD FITZEI ARDINGE.—In the Court of
Queen's Bench, on Thursday, Sir A. E. Cockburn said he
was instructed, on the part of Earl Fitzhardinge, to move
for a rule calling upon Henry Davies, the printer and pub-
lisher of the Cheltenham Chronicle, Sze., to show cause
why a criminal information should not be filed against
him for a libel published by him in that journal of the Ist
of July last. When the Militia Bill was brought forward,
his lordship saw that the number of deputy-lieutenants
would be insufficient to carry the act into effect. He cc-

office, and obtained their sanction for increasing the num-
ber of deputy-lieutenants to the extent of 30, if necessary.
Earl Fitzhardinge then selected 15 gentlemen, and, having

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MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. and Sir Denis Le Marchant, standing at his usual place at
the table, according to the established practice of parlia-
HOUSE OF LORDS. ment, pointed to

THURSDAY.—The first session of the new Parliament 1 Mr. ROBERT PALMER, who, after advertingioinn terms of
was opened by Royal commission, at 2 o'clock. Judging high encomium to the qualities'' of the right e memberr
by the number of persons outside the Palace, and in the for North Hampshire, who had filled this high offi
the last
athnrseen ears, with so much advantage to the
approaches to the body of the house, there seemed to bepmrauectieehoet;opuarrltioathniemntselif)--to his knowledge
a good deal of public curiosity excited. The Lords' Corn. of the countryaw and d impartiality,em ea n demeanour—
opened, u hisr
equanimity of temper. and his courtelosus
missioners were seated by the time the gallery doors were
moved that the Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre do take
opened, and no other peers were in the house, but Lord
Brougham could be seen in the distance engaged in ever- t The motion was seconded by Lord R. Gonn.onSIVENOR,
getic conversation with some peers at the side of theseverese
followed by Sir R. INGus, who remarked ti
lemur which now fell upon the speaker of Slat house.
throne, and the Duke of Leinster was standing at the There) being no opposition, the election would have
side bar. The clerks of the house were at the table, andacclamation;hieflerk butut so me members calling " Ques-
several ladies were seated in the seats below the bar passedon," theythe question, which was carried
The Commons, who were summoned by Sir Augustus 'tern. con. in the affirmative.p
Mr. Lefevre bowed to the decision of the house, and
Clifford, presented themselves at the bar, headed by the
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Chancellor, the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis
rules and orders.
of Salisbury, the Duke of Montrose, and the Earl of I •**- TI ,„
Lonsdale.

When the Commons approached, after the usual inter-
change of three formal bows between the Lords Commis-
sioners and the members in the front row,
The LORD CHANCELLOR desired the clerk at the table
to read the Royal commission, which was done accord-
ingly. Then
The LORD CHANCELLOR said,---My I
men, we have it in command from her :Majesty to let you
know that you shall hereafter be informed of the cause of
calling this Parliament together ; hut, it being necessary
that a Speaker for the House of Commons should first be
chosen, you will for that purpose return to the place pre-
pared for your meeting, and there be pleased to choose
a Speaker, and present such person whom you shall so

choose here to-morrow at two o'c

Royal approbation

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ek for her Majesty's

The members of the House of Commons then with-
drew, and the house adjourned during pleasure.
After a short interval the house resumed, and from 40
to 50 peers took the oaths.
FRIDAY.—The Royal Commission appointed to
receive the newly-elected Speaker—consisting of the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Earl of Eglinton, and Lord Colchester—
habited in their official robes, took their places at the foot
of the throne at half-past two o'clock.
The Commons having been summoned, the Speaker,
accompanied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Clerk of the Commons, and a numerous body of members,
appeared at the bar.
The customary formalities having been interchanged,
The SPEAKER, addressing the Royal Commissioners,
said,—My Lords, I have to acquaint your lordships that,
in obedience to her Majesty's Royal commands, and in the
exercise of their undoubted privileges, her Majesty's
faithful Commons have proceeded to the election of a
Speaker, and that their choice has fallen upon me. Deeply
impressed with my own unworthiness, I now submit
myself for her Majesty's Royal appr?bation..

-The Lord CHANCELLOR.—Mr. Shaw Lefevre, we are
commanded by her Majesty to asQure you that her
Majesty is satisfied of your ample efficiency to discharge
the important duties which her faithful Commons have
elected you to execute ; and that her Majesty most fully
approves, and gives her sanction to, their choice.
The SPEAKER.—I bow with all humility to her
Majesty's Royal will and pleasure. And now it becomes
my duty, in the name and in behalf of the Commons of
the United Kingdom, to lay claim, by humble petition to
her Majesty, to their ancient and undoubted rights and
privileges, more especially those of freedom of debate,
freedom from arrest, for themselves and their servants, and
free access to her Majesty whenever occasion may require;
and to pray that her Majesty will be pleased to place the
most favourable construction on all their proceedings.
For myself, I humbly entreat that if any error should
arise it may be imputed to me alone, and not to her
Majesty's faithful Commons.
The Lord CHANCELLOR.—Mr. Speaker, we have it
further in command to inform you that her Majesty most
readily confirms all the rights and privileges which have
ever been granted to her faithful Commons, either by her
Majesty or any of her Royal predecessors; end that as to
yourself—although not standing in need of any such
indulgence—her Majesty will ever put the most favourable
construction on your words and actions.

Mr. iii:ME uttered some sugges
in which members should anuear

The house a..,
to be presented for her
of Lords.

urned until'

The Speaker and the Commons then bowed and

withdrew