The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

diplomatists to judge of the more definite signs of
the times, and to our military and naval authorities
to make the necessary preparations. But one thing
we may say, and thousands will concur with us,—
let the childish folly of past years be put an end to
as soon as possible. If the maintenance of our
National Defences means the building of expensive
steamers, which "first from year to year do ripe
and ripe, and then from year to year do rot and
rot," the " fool i' the forest" was nearly as wise as
the guardians of our national and household gods.
Perhaps, after all, the dread of an invasion is only
as well founded as that was in the reign of terror
which preceded the opening of the Exhibition.
Luckily we have survived it; and no Englishman
has been placed in the painful position which Sir
Boyle Roach so feelingly contemplated,—with his
head cut off, and thrown upon the table to stare
him in the face !

as the following were made in a friendly way amongst
themselves :

Town-clerk .. Memo.
.. J. Buck Lloyd.
Treasurer . .... Hugh Hornhy.
Clerk of the Peace John Stewart.
Surveyor.
Borough Engineer James Picton.
Recorder. Thomas Avison.
Receiver of Town Dues J. Hayward Turner.
Treasurer to the Health Committee.... Harmood Banner.
Deputy Town-clerk Wm. Kenny Tyrer.
Water Bailiff. Thomas Littledale.
Assessor of Borough Court .. Thomas Toulmin.
Medical Officer of Health.
Master of the Landing-stage .... Algernon F. Jones
Chief Superintendent of Water Works.... Wm. Bennett
General Superintendent of Baths
Edward L
and Washhouses.... ...
The Mayor's Chaplain (taking orders).... Thomas Lloyd
Governor of the Borough Gaol Oliver Holden,
Building Surveyor James Holme.
Observatory
Surveyor of Hackney Coaches....
CHIEF CONSTABLE JOHN BIGHAM.
Master of River Craft Dock....
Superintendent of WeiA ts and Measures.. Joseph Cooper.
Shipring Clerk (Water Works department).. James Tyrer.
Curator of Botanic Garden .. R. M. Beckwith.
Keeper of the Wine Cellar Arthur Henderson.
Keeper of the Town-hall ..George Holt.
Auditor .
Chain Cable Testing Machine........ J. C. Fernihough.
Keeper of Law Courts and Judges' Lodgings.. Jas. Parker.
Superintendent of Fire Brigade Thomas Robinson.
Superintendent of Juvenile Reformatory.. Thomas Dover.
Secretary and In-door Manager of the James Procter.
Water Works.
Chief Clerk Treasurer's Office . James Thomson.
Curator of Museum
Librarian Matthew Gregson.
Master of the North 5ch001........ Edmund Molyneux.
Master of the South School James A. Tobin.
Superintendent of St. John's Market.. James Lawrence.
Superintendent of St. James's Market.. Thos. Wagstaffe.
Superintendent of St. Martin's Market.. Thos. Chalmer.
Superintendent of Gill-street Market .. Edward Bradley.
Superintendent of Pownall-square Market.. John Rogers.
Superintendent of Milk Markets.... Jonathan Atkinson.
The remaining members might distribute amongst
themselves thevarious Collectorships and Clerkships
which might be re-arranged so as to suit the various
claimants. We take credit to ourselves for improv-
ing on the idea which has been thrown out : and
sure we are, that our readers will admit, that a more
eligible set of gentlemen cannot be found to fill
the various places which we have enumerated. It
is possi')le that a few of them would require to have
the situation forced upon them; but we do not
despair for all that; because the Watch Committee
have discovered a new method of forcing, and for
which, we understand, they are about to take out
a patent.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS.

The February quarter sessions commenced yesterday,
in the Crown Court, before Gilbert Henderson, EN,
recorder. The calendar contained the names of 80 pri-
soners for felony, and five for misdemeanours. Of this
number none have received a superior education ; seven
can read and write well ; thirty can read and write imper-
fectly; twenty-one can read, but do not write; and
twenty-seven can neither read nor write.
The following gentlemen were sworn on the
GRAND JURY.
William Henry Gilliat, merchant, Water-street.
Thomas Stevenson Ashburner, wine merchant, George's Dock
Gates.
Charles Frederick Carrie, merchant, Water-street.
John Murray Gladstone, sailmaker, Heaton-place, Breck-road
James Gordon, broker, Percy-street.
John Hammond Gareton, merchant, Rumford-place.
Edward Humble, gentleman, Blackburne-place.
George Green Hornby, merchant, North John-street.
John Harnett, corn broker, Ftnwick-street.
John Herd, merchant, Brunswick-street.
William Arthur Keene, broker, Dale-street. •
William Stanley Harris, wholesale stationer, Moos-fields.
Charles William Newman, broker, Hackir2s-hey.
Jonathan Robinson, merchant, Fenwick-street.
Thomas Sleigh, jun , broker, Exchange-street.
George Adams Tinley, sharebroker, Castle-street.
John Tyrer, agent, Wolstentiolme-square.
Thomas Taylor, merchant, High-street.
Horatio John Webster, broker, Rumford-street.
The Learned RECORDER then proceeded to address the
jury. He said that, on meeting them on this occasion, he
might express a hope that the present was the last time
they would be summoned to attend in their present capa-
city in that building. Ho trusted that their functions would
in future be discharged in thatnoble building (St. George's
Hall), which reflected so much credit upon the town, and
not the less so because that a large portion of it was apnro-
priated and set apart to the administration of justice. The
calendar contained the names of eighty-five prisoners, a
number rather below the average of commitments during
a space of seven weeks. Among the cases were some
serious charges of embezzlement, an offence more mis-
chievous than which, in a commercial part of the country,
could not well exist, and one for which necessity or igno-
rance couldinot :be pleaded in palliation. There were
other charges, of breaking into dwelling-houses by aid of
false keys or by other means, an offence which the law
regarded with great severity, and for this offence
there were now lying two persons under sentence for
transportation for fifteen years. There were also
some charges of robbery by night in the streets,
which was a crime, more especially at this period
of the year, which required to be seriously dealt with.
He had endeavoured to do what he could to suppress the
offence, and several persons had been transported for
ten years for committing it. He did not know, speaking
to men of their experience, that it was necessary he
should refer more particularly to any cases that would
come before them. The general principle on which their
duties must be discharged, they were perfectly aware of;
it was their province to see that the evidence upon which
they put a prisoner upon trial was of such a nature that,
supposing no answer could he given to it, would lead to
theconcluaion of guilt. He had already said that he thought
the state of crime was rather below than above the
average, and no doubt this was to be attributed to many
salutary influences at work in this town ; and one of these
doubtless was the administration of criminal justice; but
there were other influences at work tending to the preven-
tion of crime, amongst which must be conspicuously
named the institution of ragged and industrial schools.
He rejoiced that efforts were being made to remove the
ignorant both religious and intellectual, which prevailed
in the town to so great an extent, and to which a great
portion of the crimes brought before them was attributa-
ble. When he said this. he would not confine himself to
a general remark ; but from a session which had not long
ago taken place, he would refer to some instances, which
he had upon the most indisputable authority, to show tho
great want of information, more es2ecially on matters of
religion, on the part of some of the prisoners who had
come before him. He would not, in adverting to these
cases, give the names of the prisoners, although he was
in possession of the whole of them. One man was found
to be entirely ignorant on all subjects of religion, believing
that Christ was stoned to death. A pipemaker had never
heard of Jesus Christ. Another did not know who his
Redeemer was, but could partly guess. Another was
found to be entirely ignorant on all religious subjects; he
did not know the meaning of Redeemer ; knew not where
Christ was born, but believes that he was twice crucified,
the first time in heaven, and the second in hell • had no
idea of what became of '
the soul after death. Another
knew not the Redeemer, nor who Jesus Christ was.
Another, five years in Liverpool, a labourer, could not say
who his Saviour was; and does not know what is to become
of him after death ; has heard of Jesus Christ, but does
not know who he is. And so with regard to the women
also. One woman knows not the name of her Redeemer;
has beard of Jesus Christ, but has forgotten all about
him. He (the recorder) had given but a small portion of
the information with which he had been furnished on the
subject, all of which he had upon most indisputable
authority, and this information confined to persons
brought before the court at a single session. In
inquiring into, and commenting upon this subject, he did
not think he was travelling out of his judicial course. He
had to deal with everything that might tend to diminish
crime; and when they found such a great amount of
ignorance, such a want of all religious principle, he
thought no rational man could doubt that it would tend
to harmonise society and to increase morality if that
ignorance was removed, and some religious principle set I
up in its stead.
The jury were then dismissed to the discharge of their
duties.

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING.
A privy council was held at Buckingham Palace this
afternoon, at half-past two o'clock.
Her Majesty and the court came to town this morning
from Windsor.

The Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord J. Russell give
the usual ministerial dinners this evening.
From the Standard—lt is reported that Sir B. Hall
will, to-morrow evening, call for an explanation of Lord
Palmerston's dismissal, and that the ex-foreign secretary
is prepared with an overwhelming statement—a statement
that must at once crush the ministry.

PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Constirulionnel treats as absurd all rumours res-
pecting a war between France and England. Fives done
on Sunday at 102 70.

Some fresh disturbances have broken out in Algeria.
The President of the Republic has addressed a letter to
the minister of police. He says the ministry of police is
not to be a ministry of provocation and persecution, but
one essentially protective, principally animated by that
spirit of kindness and moderation which does not exclude
firmness. The object of the formation of the ministry is
to secure greater efficiency and accuracy.

RUSSIA.—The Breslau Zeituny states, that by a late
ukase, the export of grain is prohibited throughout the
whole extent of the Russian empire. The Independence
Belye has advice to the same effect.
CONSTANTINOPLE, 17TH JANUARY.—An envoy extra-
ordinary has arrived from Paris. Ali Pasha was ill, and
had, repeatedly, but in vain, demanded permission to lay
down his portfolio. The Accommodation Bank-bill Bank
was threatened with a loss of 20,000,000 of Turkish
piastres. The cabinet had determined in opposition to
the finance minister that the institution should be main-
tained.

TATTERSALL'S BETTING—MoNDAT.
LINCOLN TRIAL STAKES.-2 to 1 agst High Sheriff; 3to 1
agst Lady Agnes; 4 to 1 agst Maid of Lincoln.
LINCOLN HURDLE RACE.-2 to 1 agst View Halloo; 3to 1
agst Melford.

-LINCOLN TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.-5 to 2 agat Filly out of
Horton Yates dam ; 3 to 1 agst Broughton; S to 1 agst Poetess.
METROPOLITAN STAKES.— 18 to 1 agat Hesse Homburg ;
40 to 1 agst Merry Bird—taken ; 40 to 1 agst High Sheriff;
40 to 1 agst Neasham ; 50 to 1 agst Hippolytus.
CHESTER CUP.-17 to 1 agst Nancy; 25 o 1 at Confessor—
taken ; 30 to 1 agst Grand Duke; 33 to tgs
agst Black Doctor;
33 to 1 'agst Scarecrow—taken ; 33 to 1 agst Ariosto—taken ;
3 to I agat Ringleader—taken ; 40 to 1 agat Cockcrow—taken.
DERBY.-8 to 1 asst Robbie Noble—taken ;12to 1 agst
Augur; 14 to 1 agst Orelio ; 15 to 1 agst Claverhouse ; 20 to 1
agst Lipidist —taken ; 20 to 1 agst Alfred the Great; 20 to 1
agst Filing; 25 to 1 agat Home-brewed; 30 to 1 agst Chief
Baron Nicholson.

LONooN MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS-3fostnAy.
Consols Account and Money, 9611 1 • Three-and-a Quarter
per Cents., 984 1; Bank Stock, 2161 17 ; Exchequer Bills L.
and Ditto S., 56 61. Foreign Stock : Mexicans, 312 2 ;
Spanish Actives, 23 # ; Ditto Threes, 401 1 ; Ditto Passives,
5;; Deferred, 171 H. Railway Shares : London Stock,
1174 2; Midland Stock, 56 1; North Staffordshire, 9 8/ dm.;
South-Eastern and Dover, 30-4 1; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 30i ; Caledonian, 15 # ; Ditto Preference, 71 # ;
Eastern Counties, 74 4; East Lancashire, 152 164; Leeds and
Thirak, 14 15 • North British, 7 ; East Anglian, 31 ; Great
Northern, 141; Great Western, 86 7 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 624 2; Ditto Fifths, 7i ; London, Brighton, and South
Coast, 95 6; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17 1 ; York and
North Midland, 211 2. Gold Mining Shares: Agua Fria,
2r# pm.; Anglo California, 1 pm.; Ave Maria, 1 dis. 1 pro.;
ouveau Monde, 1 2 pm. ; Mariposa, par. 1 pm.
English market dull, French funds being lower, and opening
of parliament the reason assigned. Railway. shares steady,
little doing, but market closes strong at an improvement in
heavy stocks. Gold shares steady, but little doing. Foreign
market: Mexican stock continues to improve, large purchases
being made, and the January dividend being almost certain.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—MONDAY.
The following are the closing quotations :—Caledonians,
13, 14 15.16, 15 ; Midland, 56.

LONDON CORN MARKET—MONDAY.
But a small show of English Wheat at market, and the con-
dition being affected by damp weather, trade was slow at last
Monday's prices. Foreign : The demand steady, at late rates.
Flour and Oats unchanged. Malting Barley, in some instances,
Is. per quarter higher. Beans and Peas fully as dear. Seeds
firm.
English White Wheat
Red Ditto
Barley, Maiting..
„ Grinding
„

...41s. to 465. per quarter.
...365. to 435.
..295. to 365.
,„
...235. to 255. „
...245. to 275. ..

ARRIVALS.
Ern: fish. Irish, Foreign
1977 1449
4595 268
. 1782 3970
6885 25
773
746
4474
3518 barrels and 200 sacks

Foreign

COURT OF Y PASSAGE- - ESTERDAY:'

[Before Chas. Crompton, Esq., Assessor.]
The business of this court commenced yesterday morn-
ing at nine o'clock. There were fifty-nine cases entered
on the list, and one writ of trial. The first case tried was

SL'VITTIE AND ANOTHER V. NOBLE.
This was an action for damage brought by the plaintiffs,
who are coal-merchants, apsiost the defendant, who is an
omnibus proprietor. Mr. James appeared for the plain-
tiffs, and Mr. Aseinall defended. Mr. James stated the
case. On the 27th of September last, which was on a
Saturday, one of the plaintiffs' carts, containing a load of
coal, was being driven down London-road. An omnibus
belonging to the defendant, coming from Knotty Ash,
was being driven in the same direction, at some little dis-
tance behind the coal cart. The streets were rather
crowded with vehicles, and on making the turn into Lime-
street, the shaft of the omnibus came against the chairs
horse of the coal cart, injuring the animal severely
The action was brought to recover the amount of a
farrier's bill for attending to the horse, and the deterioration
in the value of the animal in consequence of the accident,
the damages being laid at £5O. One of the plaintiffs was
called to prove the amount of damage, and the driver of
the cart to prove the collision. For the defence the
driver of the omnibus, two of his passengers, and a car
driver, who witnessed the occurrence, were called, whose
evidence went to show that just previous to the accident,
the driver of the cart was not attending to his duty ; in
consequence of which he became so confused on the ape
•
preach of the omnibus that he placed his horse in such a
position that a collision became inevitable. Mr James
in reply dissected the evidence given by the vritn sses for
the defence, and contended that there were great discre-
pancies in their several accounts of the occurrence. The
learned assessor then summed up, and at two o'clock the
jury retired, and after being absent for half an hour re-
turned into court with a verdict for the plaintiffs for
£25 15s. The case occupied nearly five hours, but the
details were very uninteresting to the public.
HARRISON V, SMITH AND ANOTHER.—The damages
in this case were laid at £l4 103. It was an action brought
by the plaintiff to recover a sum of money he had had to
pay to a loan society, in consequence of becoming surety
for a person, now the wife of the defendant. Mr. Tindal
Atkinson stated the case, and called, as the first witness,
Mr. William Bruce, who stated that in 18.0 lie was secre-
tary of the Second Union Loan Society, when a woman
named Ann Sweeney, a widow, carrying on business as a
butcher, applied for the loan of £l5, giving as one of her
sureties the name of the plaintiff. The money was lent,
and a promissory note given. On being asked if he
could produce that note, the witness said that
the society was now defunct, and all the papers
destroyed. Witness attested the note, and subsequently
Harrison (the plaintiff) had to pay the society £lO in ful-
filment of the note. He had afterwards lost sight of
Ann Sweeny until lately, but understood that she had
been twice married in the interval ; her present husband's
name being Smith, against whom, along with herself, the
action was brought. Margaret Milburn was then called to
prove that in 1846 she knew Sweeny, and remembered her
obtaining a loan, for which the plaintiff was one of the
sureties. Knew her to have also obtained £4 from Mr..
Harrison's sister on his account. Wm. Harrison, the
plaintiff, deposed to becoming surety for Ann Sweeny,
and afterwards having to pay the loan society £lO in con-
sequence. He had also made a pair of shoes for one of
her children, and lent her a sum of £4. She was then a
widow, carrying on business as a butcher, and for eighteen
months after the transaction continued to do so under her
own name. He had, some short time since, taken out a
writ against her, and, on going to serve it, she introduced
him to a person named Smith as her husband. Ann
Sweeny, who appeared in her own defence, denied being
married to Smith, and told a rambling story in contra-
d'ction of the previous witnesses, but without being able
to disprove their statements. The learned assessor
directed the jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff,
which they did accordingly:
LLOYD V LEYLAND.—This, like the first, was a horse
case. The plaintiff. Thomas Lloyd, who is a cart-owner
brought an action against the defendant, Ralph Leyland,
who is a cart-owner and blacksmith, residing in Leeds-
street, to recover the value of a mare belonging to the
plaintiff, said to have been destroyed through the negli-
gence of the defendant's servants, the damages being laid
at £3O. Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mrs
Atkinson defended. It appeared, from Mr. James's
statement of the case, that on the sth of August last the
plaintiff sent a mare to the defendant's forge to be re-shod.
This was done, and the mare taken home again, and next
day put to her usual work. Some eight
or nine days
after, the animal fell lame, giving rise to the supposition
that she had been injured in shoeing. She was taken
back to the forge, and one of the shoes taken off and made
larger, the farrier advising the person who had her in
charge to apply a bran poultice to the lame foot. Thig
was done, and the animal again put to work, but in a day
or two she again became lame, and was taken to the torge
a third time, and had the shoe on her lame foot wits
removed, and another bran poultice was applied. On
the Bth of September, the mare became so very bad,
that by the advice of the defendant the plaintiff sent
for Mr. Sumner, a veterinary surgeon. Mr. Sumner
was from home, but his brother came instead, and ordered
the mare to be taken in a float to his surgery. -For some
days after being removed there, she appeared to be getting
better, but on the 30th of September she died, owing,
according to Mr. Sumner's evidence, to general inflam-
mation, caused by what he termed "constitutional dis-
turbance." After the death of the mare, the carcase wag
removed to a knacker's yard, and the lame foot and
another cut off. These were produced in court, to prove
that the hoof of the lame foot had been injured in the
proce of shoeing. It further apperred from the evidence
EAR INSTITUTION, ST. ANNE' S DISPENSARY. AND EYE AND
that, after the death of the mare, the defendant offered to
give the plaintiff £5 or another horse, but denied his
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The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of
went as a carter, was called to prove the good state of
the St. Anne's Dispensary and Eye and Ear Institution,
was held in the Board-room of the Institution, on Wed- health in which the mare was, previous to the sth of
quent illness. Thomas Johnson, also
August, and the circumstances attending her subse-
nesday last, at two o'clock ; Thomas Barton, Esq., Vice-
owoc thepflhlitoni
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President, in the chair. Among those present we noticed
the Rev. S. B. Sutton, Dr. Hume, Dr. Nottingham,de
referredveaievidence
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Messrs. Garrett, thydock. Jordan, Roxburgh, Batman,
Cattell, Taylor, Gilbert, Watts, &c.
The Annual Report was read by Mr. Kitchen, the
Honorary Secretary, shewing that 9,200 persons had been
relieved during 1851, at a cost of £4Ol ss. 2d.; while in from the lame foot having been " pricked" in the process
1850, 9,000 had been relieved, at a cost of £456 15s. 7d. of shoeing. Mr. Thos. Lloyd, the plaintiff, spoke as to
the value of the animal, and also to the offer of compro-
amise made by the defendant. For the defence Mr. Atkin-
been reduced to £26 7s. lid. b
Institution
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fe rkb favourableiss.2d. havingsta state, the
son called Mr. Chatterson, the blacksmith in the defen-
The resolution to adopt the Report, and pass the Trea-
dent's employment, who had shod the mare. The witness
surer's accounts, was passed unanimously, having been
stated that the mare was brought to the forge the second
moved by Mr. GILBERT and seconded by Mr. GARRATT. time, the shoe on her lame foot was broken, a statement
which was at variance with some of the previous wit-
Mr. WATTS, in moving the thanks of the meeting to
the Committee and Officers, mentioned the great services nesses. Mr. Lawrence Sumner gave somewhat similar
of the Honorary Secretary, and his unwearied attention evidence to his brother, who appeared for the plaintiff_
for several years to the best interests of the charity. The John Whitred declined being called a " veterinary
meeting all seemed to be sensible of his great claims to surgeon," but said he was " one of the horse and
their consideration, cow leach craft." He gave it as his opinion that the
The SECRETARY moved a rote of thanks to the Clergy mare had died from the effects of injuries received sub-
who had advocated the claims of the Institution during sequently to being shod. Ralph Leyland, the defendant,
the past year ; and this, as well as a vote of thanks to the admitted in evidence his having offered compensation to
Honorary Medical Officers, was passed with enthusiasm. the plaintiff, but added that he denied his liability at the
A resolution of special thanks to Dr. Nottingham, for time. The Learned Assessor having summed up, in a
his marked attention to the eye and ear department, ell-
very concise manner, the jury returned a verdict for the
cited a conversation of some minutes' duration, respecting
plaintiff, damages £l5. The case occupied nearly four
hours, and the Court rose shortly after six o'clock.
the professional etiquette of mentioning an individual I
name. All the non-professional gentlemen present, with
one exception, thought that as the eye and ear department
was a special one, the senior surgeon who had attended to
it, with such manifest advantage to the Institution, was
well entitled to the separate thanks of the meeting. Apprehensions having been entertained by many ship-
Out of 2352 cases treated by Dr. Nottingham at the In- owners and others interested in the trade between this
stitution, in the course of the year 1851, the following port and the Spanish colonies, in consequence of a para-
dozen were mentioned as having peculiar interest in con-
nexion with diseases of the eye:— graph which lately appeared in the Shipping Gazette re-
lating to the proposed of navigation and commerce
1. Mrs. C., now of Annalong, near Kilkeel, in Ireland, bad between Spain and this country, that such treaty was
the sight of one eye restored in Sept. 1850; and in June, 1851, definitively agreed upon, and would only embrace the
she came again to Liverpool, in accordance with advice given Peninsula and adjacent islands, Mr. Robert Rankin, the
to her at her first visit. The other eye was then operated on,
anti chairman of the Shipowners' Association at this
port,
its sight completely restored, and she now enjoys good vi-
addressed a letter to Lord Granville, the Secretary for
sion in both. Her elergN man writing about her case,
" she can new read the smallest' says,print." Foreign Affairs, on the subject, requesting some further
2. Mrs. P., Almshouses, Mount-pleasant, had the sight of particulars of the treaty, as it might be of importance to
one eye restored by operation n the autumn of lust year. In a the members of the Association in regulating their trading
note dated Oct. Bth, 1851, she in ys—" I have been enabledonce
more to read, a pleasure I had not experienced for more than operations with Spain ; and at the same time expressing
four years."
their disappointment that the Royal Decree of the Spanish
government, by which foreign vessels were placed on the
3. M M., rs. Raymond.street, applied at the Institution, blind
from cataract, in both eyes. The sight of both was restored by same footing as Spanish vessels in the Peninsula and the
operation.
adjacent islands with respect to navigation, harbour,
I 4. Mrs. C., a coloured native of the West. Indies, was led lighthouse, and anchorage dues, does not embrace the
from Burlington-street, quite blind, with cataract in both eyes. colonies of Spain, a more free trade with which the A. 8.-
She was operated on, restored to sight, and enabled to read.
sociation have long considered of the highest importance
5. Mrs. H., from Galway, Ireland, now in Hill-street, Tex-
teth-park, was totally blind at the time of her first coming; to the interests of the country, and an advantage to which
and has been restored to sight by operation for cataract. site is justly entitled upon those principles of reciprocity
6. Mary P. a young woman of 23, required the formation of which the repeal of the Navigation Laws was intended to
artificial pupil, as well as the operation for cataract. Before promote. This letter was dated on the 15th January.
these operations, she was led to the Institution quite blind ; in
a fortnight after the cataract operation she was enabled to be
and Spanish'
On the 27th Lord Granville replied that
as soon the
uegociations between the British
Govern-
her own guide. The details relatingto thisinteresting case were
Hall of Manchester,
be brought to a definite conclusion, his lordship would
se
read before a meeting of professional gentlemen in the Town ments on the subject of reciprocity in navigation should
of 7b.liEn.dEne.s,sa ni
ne
bothngi n engine-drier,
eyes,driebr,yliving
cataractat operations Windsor, has b
recentlyee n c upreerd. the shipowners of Liverpool to be informed thereof.
formed.
8. W. M., a tailor, in Gore-street. line es

NAVIGATION LAWS,