The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

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RICHARD CROSS, aged 50, who was lately postr
Whitchurcb, pleaded guilty, at Shrewsbury assiv
charges of stealing post letters, containing bills
and securities to the amount of £2,000, and was si
to ten years' imprisonment.

PORPHYRY FOR THE CRY

specimens of Swedish porphyry
at Elfdal has arrived in Englan
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PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—The Govern-
ment balance-sheet has been published of the public in-
come and expenditure for the year ending the sth of July
last, with the balances in the Exchequer. The income
was X 54,249,141 33. Bd., and the expenditure £50,680,516
75., leaving an excess of £3,568,624 16s. Bd. On the sth
of July, 1852, the balances in the Exchequer were
£6,492,731 6s. 10d., and on the sth July last, £5,112,639
ss. 9d.

TRANSPORTATION.—A new clause has been added to
the Government Bill by the Lord Chancellor, the object
of which is, that Her Majesty may grant licenses to be at
large to convicts under sentence of transportation ; the
holder of the license is not to be imprisoned by reason of
his sentence, and, if the license is revoked, the convict
may be apprehended and committed to prison. By the
bill as it now stands, penal punishment is to be awarded
in the cases of persons liable to transportation for 14
years. The new law is to take effect from the Ist of
September next.

EMPLOYMENT OF CRILDREN IN FACTORIES.—The bill
brought in by Lord Palmerston and Mr. Fitzroy, further
to regulate the Employment of Children in Factories, and
just printed, provides that no child shall be employed
before six in the morning nor after six in the evening,
except between the 30th September and the Ist April,
when they may be employed, under certain regulations,

between seven in the morning and seven in the evening
Children are not to be employed, under 7 and 8 Vie., it

recovering lost time, after seven in the evening

hours of employment of children not to b© in Any case
extended beyond what is at present lawful.

MAILS TO AUSTRALIA.—The next mails for Australia
will be forwarded by the Vimiera sailing vessel, the owner
of which has entered into a contract for that purpose with
the postmaster-general. This vessel is appointed to be
despatched from Plymouth on Friday next, after the
arrival at that place of the north mail, and all letters and
newspapers for South Australia, Victoria, New South
Wales, and Van Diemen's Land reaching Plymouth pre-
vious to her departure, and not addressed to be sent by
any other vessel, will be forwarded by the Vinare. The
packet-rates of postage will be charzeable on letters trans-
mitted by the Vimiera, but no charge will be made upon
newspapers. The mails to be conveyed by this packet
will be made up in London on Thuisday, and at Plymouth
on Fliday.

MANSLAUGHTER AT LEEDS.
has just taken place on the pre
Kirkgate, Leeds,. the result of

—A painful occurrence
raises of Mr. Barker, of
which is the death of a

journeyman plumber, named Wallace Waddington, aged
21. On Saturday morning the deceased made use of some
annoying and irritating expressions towards an apprentice
named Peter Dawson ; a war of words ensued between
them, and, in a moment of passion, Dawson seized a
long brush, and struck Waddington over the head with
it, thereby fracturing and indenting his skull. The in-
jured man was at once removed, and medical aid pro-
cured, but he only lingered until the following day, when
death put a period to his sufferings. Since then a coroner's
inquest has been held on view of the body, and, after
hearing the evidence, which showed that the deceased
was the aggressor in the first instance, they returned a
verdict of manslaughter against Dawson, who was forth-
with committed to York Castle for trial at the assizes.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF THREATENING has oc-
cupied the magistrates of Corshain, Wiltshire, occasioning
some protracted investigations. The prosecutor was the
Rev. Dr. Horlock, vicar of Box, and the prisoners were
Henry Sprague. son of Dr. Sprague, late of Box, and
Benjamin Bullock, sexton. Anonymous letters of a most
insulting and threatening kind had been, for a length of
time, mysteriously conveyed to the vicar and his family,
and to persons in the neighbourhood. One was ad-
dressed to a young woman named Elizabeth Smith, " If
you will make a cake, and buy at a chemist's one drachm
of arsenic, and put it in it, and send it to Miss Horlock,
with a note from yourself, I will give you £lOO, which
will make you and your relations quite rich, and you will
need not remain in service no longer." A similar letter
was sent to another woman. A number of witnesses
were called to prove the handwriting ; and the magistrates,
after a private consultation, discharged Bullock, and com-
mitted Sprague to take his trial at the next assizes.
TAXATION OF THE CLERGY.—Mr. Apsley Pellatt, the
Dissenting minister for Southwark, having complained
that the clergy do not bear their fair share of the public
burdens, three letters have appeared in the Times, from a
Norfolk rector, a Suffolk rector, and a Kentish vicar,
giving the following statement of the amount to which
their incomes were charged in 1852 with state and local

taxes :

Norfolk 1 Suffolk 1 Kentish
Rector. I Rector. I Vicar.

X. s. d.l X. s. d. X. s. d.
319 13 10,475 0 0 268 0 0

INCOME

STATE TAXES.
Property Tax on Glebe &
Ttthe.Rent Charge 9
Ditto,on Rectory House 1
House 'fax
Land Tax .
Assessed Taxes
Duty on Insurance
LOCAL TAXES
Poor Rate....
Highway Rate

6 6 12
9 21....

6 1
0 26
2, 12
91 4

10 0 1
8 0 5
0 0 8
10 0 2

16 7
17 6
0 0
17 6
12 6

22 16 101 67 10 3 17 12 6
8 1 71 8 8 9 4 19 6