The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

THE PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL COMPANY, it
laid, seriously contemplate giving up their mail contracts.
Tim FRIENDS connected with the Wesleyan Sunday
ochool, Pitt-street, held a tea meeting in the school-
t°°lti, Grenville-street South, on Tuesday evening.
JAMES WARD, a landscape gardener, has been com-
mitted to the assizes, on a charge of uttering a forged
inquest for the delivery of six seal skins of leather.
DURING 1852 the St. Ann's Dispensary and Eye and
'Xar Institution relieved 9,283 persons, at a cost of £350.
lie cost of each case was only 7d.
YOUNG MAN was drowned on Tuesday night, whilst
proceeding in a boat towards an emigrant vessel lying in
the Mersey.
MR. JOSEPH ICITCHEN, honorary secretary and tree-
!!lrer of the St. Ann's Dispensary and Eye and Ear Institu-
non
, was presented, on Wednesday, by the subscribers
and friends, with a service of plate.
IT was decided at the County Court, on Friday, in the
ter of " Richard Thomas, tailor, v. James Sutor, cap-
,"m that a shipmaster is responsible for the orders
Liven by his apprentices.
sk LADY on board the Isle of Man steamer Tynwald,
Whilel on her voyage from Douglas to Liverpool, on Wed-
4411daY evening, was delivered of a fine healthy female

SzAmAN, named Sohn Smith, died at the Northern
41°sPital on Wednesday morning, in consequence of burns
received by him two weeks ago, while in a state of intoxt-
Cation at a lodging-house in Union-street.
•TRE WAVERLEY DRAMATIC SOCIETY will shortly
give their third annual performance of the series, the
Proceeds to be ptesented to the fund now raising for the
relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the Queen Victoria.
A. SPECIAL SESSION was held in the Session-house,
'haPel-street on Thursday fort he removal and transfer
of licenses before Mr. J H. Turner and Mr. Geore Holt.
There were but two applicants for transfers refused.
TIIE NEXT ANNUAL SHOW of the Royal North Lan-
Ipashire Agricultural Society is to be held at Blackburn,
In August. Lord de Tabley is president for the current
rear. The sum of £286 is to be offered in premiums.
A lAREWELL SERVICE was held in the Seamen's
Church, Rathbone-street, on Tuesday evening, to bid
farewell to several Primitive Methodist missionaries pre-
`ons to ther departure'for Canada West and Illinois.

THE FOUNDATION STONE of a Roman Catholic Educa-
tional Institution was laid in Hope-street, on Tuesday.
MR. JOHN BOVEs and Mr. John Easton have been
elected overseers of Wavertree for the ensuing year.
DURING the past year, £5OO of the money borrowed
for rebuilding Runcorn Church has been liquidated.
THE ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING at Runcorn, held
on Monday, voted a rate of 3d. in the pound for the
ensuing year.

CAPTAIN COLLIS, of the steamer Times, was fined
at the police-court, on Tuesday, for assaulting police-
officer 487, on Saturday night, at the Clarence Dock.
MR. CARATTI, the Greek merchant who was injured
by the recent accident, it is stated, claims pecuniary com-
pensation from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to
the amount of £20,000.
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT has been Set on foot in
Liverpool, chiefly by several captains of American mer-
chant vessels, in favour of the abolition, on both sides of
the Atlantic, of the present practice of giving advance
notes to seamen.

THE BOARD OF TRADE deem it desirable that the fines
on seamen for not taking due care of their register
tickets, or not giving satisfactory account of their loss,
should in future be enforced by the officers who issue the
renewed tickets, without the intervention of a magistrate.
THE CUNARD STEAMS- SHIP ARABIA has been thoroughly
overhauled previous to her summer cruize. The spon.
sons surrounding the paddle wheels have been made more
than a foot higher than they were, so that the water may
be more freely liberated from her wheels in a rolling sea.

NEW MATERIALS.—The Manchester Guardian de-
scribes two new materials for textile manufacture, one
from the south-west coast of Africa, a new species of
silk, dyed red, sent by a missionary at Abbeokuta; the
other a description of wool of fine quality and a pale buff

colour.

FATHER NEWMAN, of the Oratory, Birmingham, was
to have attended the Romish soiree, at the Concert-hall,
on Tuesday last, but he did not, on account of indisposi-
tion. In his epistle apologetical, he says :—" I trust I
will have St. Philip's forgiveness if at this time I remain
at home instead of coming to you."
COMMISSIONS signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County Palatine of Lancaster: Ist Regiment of the Duke
of Lancaster's Own Militia—Lieutenant Clarence Horatio
Cary to be Captain. Lancashire Hussars—Adolphus
Monbert, gent., to be Cornet, vice Hawarden Gillibrand
Fazackerley, deceased.
DR. INMAN,THE DLECTION has been disgraced by
serious riots, which BLACKBURN of this town, delivered, at the Collegiateappear to have been shared in alike
Institution, on Friday evening, the first of a series of two by both parties. The Scottish (" liberal ") inhabitants
interesting lectures on the " Philosophy of Sensation." of Brown-street and John-street were assailed on Saturday
its Ruins!, '
lie Will be succeeded by Mr. Scharf, on " Nineveh and evening week. Two lives were lost, and £lOO worth of
property damaged.
HOUSEKEEPERS are cautioned against a set of persons, JOHN Hp, Peter-street, the cap-
" respectable appearance, who are in the habit of calling taro of acoasting smack, was committed to the sessions,
'lender pretence of having business with some one of the on 'Wednesday, for a ruffianly assault upon his wife, to
decay. and, during the temporary absence of the servant, which he was instigated by jealousy. It was proved that
'''`eaculs with whatever article they can lay their hands upon, the surly-looking wretch had kicked and struck the poor
seek SPECIAL SESSION of the justices of the peace for woman savagely—even lifting up her clothes to make his
;Le Kirkdale division, was held on Thursday, for the pur- kicks more severe.
se°ese°f aP-pninting overseers, receiving the names of the ELIZASETIZ CURRIE, a native of Cromarty, in Scot-
state constables for the ensuing year, and receiving a land, and who resides in Mary's-place, Duckinfield-
'"rnent of the accounts of the surveyors of highways. street, has completed the 109th year of her age. The
AA TentsrtApx from New Orleans mentions that the parish' of Liverpool allows her 9s. 6d. a week, and this is
le: rica, as well as the Belmont, was burned on the 7th eked out to the sum requisite to keep her tn life by
k;„`ac,t• The cargoes of both were 6,000 bales. There friends connected with the Scotch Church, Oldham-
,sio7 o,n some mistake in this, as the owners of the street, of which she is a member.
cerrtea here have received no information of it. It is
A Mn.. ALLIES, in his speech at the Romanist soiree,
teetered that it may refer to the American ship Maine. in the Concert-hall on Tuesday night, said-:—" When he
let POLICE COURT on T'riday, a charge was pre- said religion was the only safeguard for the faith and
elee-r", cgainst Robert Pope, an attorney, for having been morals of a people, he addressed them haying the strongest
/eon while pleading a case in court on the 24th March. conviction that religion, in the mind of-a Protestant, was
eio;„tlefendant having been summoned in a wrong notyet that thing which enabled a man either to live well
et oVe,en name, a resummons was issued, to be disposed 'or die well."
ekTidaY next.
ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS TOR WAVERTREE.—
lea . A_PY PICKPOCERT, named Mary Ward, wearing a The election for this township, under the public health
teon't?in dressed in sober-sable, was committed for three act, took place on Monday last. The numbers stood as
TOO( 8 oft the Police-office, on Friday, for picking the follows :—Mr. J. A. Picton, 243 votes ; Mr. J. Kenyon,
.I.rs et
..1 an American lady, making the tour of Europe, '160; Mr. P. Hill, 122; Mr. J. Bowers, 158; Mr. H.
bus Lewis- Thompson, while' the fair Yankee and her Davies, 120; Mr. J. Wignall, 64; Mr. J. Finland, 84;
band were looking in the window of Compton-house. Mr. J. Bradburn, 40 ; Mr. W.
_Coward, 37; Mr. T.
Ile „
'Urquhart, 97 ; Mr. H. Halhead, 72 ; Mr. J. Bourne,
for • Rose's TENDERS with the Health Committee 83 ; Mr. W. C. Casey, 67; Mr. Wm. Hope, 50. The
ran emptyingo the middens, under specification No. "3, first five were elected.
the sa follows;-44 To remove the refuse (and deodorize
AN ELOQUENT CORN PORTER —At the meeting of
To r me) to depots within the borough, £9,000 yearly.
bourrnve the refuse by cartage 400 yards beyond the , Liverpool
.corn-yorters, - on. Wednesday, one of the
. ' art' of the borough, £19,000 yearly." speakers said : ' It was said that the French were going
IN THE
to invade us, and that Napoleon was going to land an
11°tOrio .TRONi., PLACE.—On Wednesday night, 'a army on our shores. He did not believe it; but suppose
tectiv 49 thief stealthily walked up the stairs at the de- Napoleon were to land with '50,000 troops on the shores
qrei ? Police•station, and endeavoured to enter Captain of old England, was it the merchants who would have to
%Its gi, room- When captured, his excuse was, that-he repel the enemy ? Certainty not. It would be the
It)a • " quest of a midwife. He was taken before 'the brawny, sinewy, working men of the country who would
tel:&nitrates, and sent to gaol for a month. have to meet them in deadly conflict, and chase them
~I!lt Cotter-Potereas, at a public meeting on Wed- from our shforaeks;l (Tremendous app.laustee.). Then,
c h wasa
e
..uatOeveningeresolved that in future they should fa.at
a.l.' niforna rate of wages, 3s. 6d. per day, and h wa
titieangemn3erho? Ceretainnly noyt.weVeoeirnsg.) They must be
L.tktatio
,Queeti n communicate their wish to the employers. A well fed and clothed, and theirs children instructed and
ir,, 'Qg was held last night to select a deputation. It morally brought up."
THE GREAT BRITAIN LANDING HER SPECIE.—At the
.! likewise resolved that they do not work longer on
.iora„ than five
meeting of the Dock Committee, on Thursday, a letter
diat,,,~ey
„osir after that hour. was read from Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.. in which
teeiol!.n Shipping Gazette insinuates that the City of they stated that they would esteem it a favour if the
a '',lo Company care for nothing but quick passages ; committee would allow the Great Britain to land her
r.,•••tid that the melancholy occasion of the loss of the specie on the north side cf the Sandon Dock, next the
es'teeen Victoria,'' ia ''' Captain Church knew that 'the' Iron graving-dock, and give instructions to their officers not
selike, belonging' to a rival company, was making the to allow any person to pass that way immediately before
him,"
passage that night, and was a little way astern of or during the time of landing.—Mr. Evans : They should
°tin." and that a desire not to be passed was the cause of get a detachment here.- Mr. Rankin : I think we should
,the imprudence which led to the melancholy catastrophe, give every encouragement to the landing of specie.—
The Dublin 'Evening Post takes the Gazette round:y to Mr. Gregson thought the communication had better be
41t, both vessel's belonging to the same companay, referred to the chairman of the Watch Committee, who
would see that Messrs.- Gibbs, Bright, and Co., were
hTEANE?T' kr-rc STEAM-SHIPS.—The Liverpocl and
....'hiladelnh'i Steam-ship'' Compan's steam-ship, City of provided with a sufficient number of the police.—The
letter was referred to the harbour-masters' sub-committee.
raearicileitera, Captain R. Leitch, left the Mersey fcr Phi-
s.: e'Phia at a quarter to two on Wednesday afternoon, A PERSON, calling himself " the Very Rev. Canon
hard 1e47-'ssabin
.p-assengers, and a small cargo.—The Cu- Goss," one of the Liverpool Popish Brigade, in a recent
redompany's screw steamer Alps, Capt. Wickman, speech at the Concert-hall, said " there was a variety-of
on Wednesday afternoon, on her second vo:age to clerical mountebanks, who went through the. country, no
i'il'i'eve' York,matter whether it was the debauched Achill' or the bad
hn•eirth a very full cargo.—The Pacific, Capt.
;Tay (totteseew)
departure about nine o'clock on Wed- Gavazzi, and no where eveze they more certain of an en-
morning, for New York. The British tiaisiastic audience than in the bigoted town of Liver-
en North
kmerican mail steam-ship America, -Leitch, pool. (Applause.) He (Ar. Goss) had the misfortune
Wintnander, took her departure hence, on Saturday, for to listen to Gavazei, who wore the habit of his order—
tialstnn, with 140 passengers and a large cargo, besides once his honour, but now his shame—and he must confess
' usOal mails, on board, that, were it not for the cross which he wore on his gar-
,a st th -11
0-3' A SCREW-STEAMER.—()n Wednesday
eexe _
ments, from seeing the manner in which he shook his
ar-
ia
hair and contorted his countenance, he should have
eeessrserPe --was launched from the building. yard of
thought he was one of the old furies conjured up for the
tulothe"; chomas Vernon and Son, Brunswick dock,
• occasion. In the course of a short time, he had no
1)/ that of those beautiful iron screw-steamers, building
doubt, this town would be blessed with two other epos-
tell Carlo firm for the Austrian Lloyd's. She is called the
ties, for he believed Lord-Shaftesbury had sent for the
can
oLs of 250 tons, and sixty-horse power, fled is blessed' Rosa, who was about to exchange her pattens for
IS4OI Iti• to the two former vessels, the San Guisto and
pumps, and would shortly appear on the English boards."
eeeree,eacco, lately launched for the same company. The (Laughter.)
goseelnY ,of christening was performed by Miss-Mary
're, tg.--, line niece of Mr. Wm. Morgan, of Clifton, who DUCHY OF LANCASTER.—The annual statement of the
vorep-ancynn. stlting engineer for the Austrian Lloyd's revenues and expenditure of the duchy of Lancaster for
the year ending Michaelmas, 1851, has been laid before
1114" *LE 111 Parliament. Income : Rents due at Michaelmas, 1851,
Pieersd_ s EZTING OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE, OR including £B.lBB 18s. Old. arrears due for 1850, £35,07,4
in......Y, IVlr.4ohn Nicholson presiding, it appeared that 9s. 7-td. ; out-standing arrears due at Michaelmas, 1851,
etoeeiVaseti severity of the weather, by generating £8,935 Bs. ad. The following are the receipts during
Ittgreoe." and other diseases of the lungs, had raised.the
the year ending Michaelmas, 1851 :—Rents and arrears,
weeo tot! deaths in the borough from 215 in the preclons
£26,139 ls. Lid ; sales, grants, &c., £425 lls. 4d. ; di-
&est erif,-, in the week ending last Saturday. As oom-
vidends on stock, £253 19s. 10d. ;casual revenue, £2,777
,"ars th 11.tue torrespom?ing week of the preceding-five
2s. 104 d. ; balance over 1850, -£6.402 14s. 71d. ; total in-
;tote e increase is 45. Mr. Ashlin stated that the
come, £35,998 2s. 91d. The expenditure was as follows :
n ee„°ne in 'Canning-street and Fleming-street, about
—Salaries Salaries f principal officers, £6,500. Ss. 4d.; of the law
vale oce,cae of which complaints had been made, was not officers, £845 7s. 10d. ; of receivers and agents, £177
t , 1. Q 7 the public, but by private funds.
the t riOL4 19s. sd. ; of stewards and bailiffs, &c., £466 6s. 4d.
ere pest Rg have been busy at work in Liverpool during I annuities and retired allowances, £951 10s. ; donations
Weskto 7ee-ln at midnight, on Wednesday, the shop and charities, including stipends, &c., £1,363 Bs. ld. ;
14_, arael .it midnight,
outfitte Great Howard_street, law charges. £233 16s. 5d.; surveys. &c., and repairs,
;tots9o4piek,t, into, and property tort
he value of £5 stolen. £2,688 10s. 6d. • wages, payments to the Commissioners
4 tOursday night, a panel was cut out of the back of Woods and Forests, expenses of manorial courts, land
hat
or[hates/;-at pawnbroker, 61, Hill-street, Park. tax, rents and audit expenses, -Sec., £4,603 13s. 11d.. ;
orate th.n had bean raised from the roof of the kitchen, purchase of stock. £832 14s. Bd. ; payments to Privy
woeves could not get further, as the inside was Purse, £12,000; balance at Michaelmas, 1851, £5,287
iron. During the night of Thursday, the .3, eire ;
efrlt ee attach
arrears discharged, £46 15s. 71d. ; total ex-
OfPitt deo the shoe manufactory of Mr Cartmel peediture, £35,988 2g. 91d.
to ghlassl•tri;ebiet,asvwaisnedntweredmbyontheievenso,twhooedtsookwoe.uutlda
seem pane .
GIRL SHOT IN A SHOOTING GALLERY.—At midnight
Betezrbeen the ob'oect. of the depredators, for although on Tuesday, Vivian O'Keefe, a respectably dressed young
drawers werjerausacked, no property was' taken: ~ -kay,,man, about 18 years of age, accompanied by another
young man, paid a visit to Maclarert's " Glasgow Shoot-
,asio,esePoor, CLOCIC.S.—The disagreement between the ing-gallery," under Mercer's snuff-shop, 7, Murray-
%teas. Public clocks in Liverpool has ceased to excite street, Williamson-square. They were both in liquor at
tiled al" Only from the apparent hopelessness of a re- the time, and were followed by a girl. On entering the
septeeeT• A hint, however, may be supplied from what the
.prisoner took up a rifle, which bad been loaded with
94ic of Birmingham are doing. From twenty designs powder and ball, and, putting it to his .shoulder, said to
6,',„11 far competition, a committee have selected one, the girl, Jane Riley by name, "By G—, I'll shoot you!"
tit °"ed by Mr. Francis Whishaw, who, having in view to which the girl replied, in a laughing tone, "0, don't."
e forth
ii slat eer ornamentation of the town, considered that 1 The prisoner on this fired
. the gun, and lodged the bullet
jeci",lle would best fulfil the purpose, and chose the sub- 1 in her-shoulder! the wife of the proprietor of the gallery,
fic,.Qf Hercules relieving Atlas of his burden. The who was close behind her, narrowly escaping being shot
:rare of Hercules is eight feet-high, bearing on his shonl- in the head. The prisoner
immediately turned very pale,
;a celestial globe (a four,faced clock to be illuminated and ran off; but his companion was seized and kept in
i,': bight) five feet in diameter —the whole standing on a 1 the gallery until the police arrived. The girl was imme-
e;assive-looking pedestal, five feet in height. The clock 1 diately conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, when the wound
17:::!ka (Shepherd's electric, as used at Greenwich Obser- ! was found not to be dangerous. The police arrested
IS toll &c.) are to be placed within the pedestal, which O'Keefe at his lodgings in Islington about two o'clock.
tlf gas Wit pt at all times at a uniform temperature by jets At the police-office on Wednesday morning, the
for the tit, in connection with the pipe supplying gas prisoner stated that he had been at the Amphitheatre and
;lithe globe6io the shaft from the works to be carried up the St. George's -Vaults, where he got very drunk. He
e hands, jooftithO Purpose of communicating motion to had no recollection either of going into a shooting-gallery,
in, the adoption
bronzed
metal, end t?„ tue figure, which is intended to be cast or of shooting any one. The person who
.accompanied
It accurate' t rsonzed externally, as also the pedestal. the prisoner to the shooting-gallery had since gone to
o the electric clock, Greenwich time may Manchester. He .was remanded . for seven days.
. The
j3(t, other 4 of to Birmingham.; and, moreover, father of the prisoner offered bail, stating his son was
totlgh,
muaocks belonging to the corporation of the quite a stranger in Liverpool, and had fallen into bad
Heins atteY tl3e replaced simply by clock-faces ; thus company. The application was dismissed.
Asseeated in rs'
,lon only to the parent clock, which may AT THE WEEKLY ALKET4:NG OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE,
qof I,_ Jo Otte case in a house in the centre of the on Thursday—Mr. Turner, M.P., presiding—a report
44 :'uro.t mai operations.
bete • Ancooß was produced, and read from the Dock Surveyors, dig. the in the n NED ANNUAL COUNTY SESSION is to be approving of Mr. Grantham's proposed high-level rail.
soitamojeweseourt House, Preston, to-morrow. Amongst way. The report advocated a system of constructing
thefts to, '5 for consideration are the report of the corn- 1 warehouses on the dock quays, with communication
of ,o„„r:9illted sth January last, as to the division of between those warehouses on the low-level—only between
lioeetnisoi into coroners' districts ; the case and opinion warehouses on the dock estate. Mr. Holden, Mr. Robin-
teeskas ohilS to the expenses of the funeral of drowned son and others thought Mr. Grantham's plan could never
te t`et of "tecuwn; the representation by the lord lieu- be carried out satisfactorily. in reference to the plan of
kc he Dupe connty and the colonel of the 3rd regiment the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Rail-
no'' of the Of Laueaster's own militia, of the insecurity, way Companies for approaching the north docks, and how
t 'es ue s e of Place for keeping the arms, clothing, and far that plan would interfere with any other which might
SsBoiele some reeinseee, with an application for an order be adopted in future, a long discussion of a desultory
heroeseoosrce Proper
,Flaca for the purpose. Numerous character ensued. Two plans were laid before the com-
, f.._. relative to the county constabular moved rnittee, one of a high level railway to two docks to
tk,4l-tke chum the sth January last), are also to he accommodate the coal traffic ; and the other of a low level
oady of ol'eiracan of the finance committee. The chair- railway, to the Stanley dock. Ultimately a resolution
,90 3' ree• county constabulary committee is to move was passed, by a majority of 16 to 2, to the effect, " that
40111 the
.. ring allowances and gratuities, to be granted the plan of approach from the railway to the Stanley
ktt ill ai'aPerannuation fund, to disabled police officers ; dock, upon the low level, be approved, the high level
tolele r? sea move a recommendation for holding a special having been previously approved." It was decided that
count of the magistrates of each police division Mr. Hartley'a report should be d•
plan of pro-
to 17es of tr, to examine and audit the contingent ex. posed alterations in the dock offices was approved.—The
Ne'Retit 'e Police of that division, such audited accounts Warehouse Management sub-committee produced an ap-
a, th_tror allowance to the constabulary committee, plication from the delivery foremen, for an increase of 1
444ht4b41:1. resolutions relate to an increase of the county wages. The sub-committee thought these men ade-
11e;.7,11este,!n the Higher Blackburn, Ormskirk, and quately paid by 245. a week. The warehouse-keepers
Latistlsle, boilvvisions, the providing a lock-up at New. also craved an advance in their salaries, with which the
et.. he at ti IN. a police-station's lock-up at Blackpool, committee did not think it would be proper to comply. A
OsiendisoeeYwood, near Bury, and a third at Stretford. recommendation to increase the salaries of the warehouse
totllltliilttilitct-helr motion relative to the order of pro- clerks from £9O to £lOO was confirmed. The sub-com-
to sec he cow. . eseotation of any memorial or petition rnittee recommended that the ledger clerks be classed in
4 ~eot,t9mo!!,oeratlon thereof. The committee on pre. three classes, and that the first class should have their
toeskniee to.etlon and discipline are to be empowered salaries increased from £llO. to £l3O per annum, the
Ouiteellotero teu• sittings till the annual session in June ; second class from £llO to £l2O per annum ; and that the
re ,Cf pej.the secretary of state and petitions to both salaries of the third class should be continued as they had
11,444Ci11, ar`latoent, against the county rate and expert- been. The recommendation was confirmed. The salary
tee oheorn to be submitted for adoption, and the con- of Mr. Austin, principal of the general office at the Albert
"Ilstoh.,tue resolution relating to the constitution of dock warehousee, was, on the recommendation of the
"'417 conanaitto 14 to be ituther postponed. sub•eonunittee, advanced from 4350 to 4440 per annum.

Mr. 'Wm. AI`GEE and Mr. J. R. CHAMBERS have been
appointed overseers of Everton for the ensuing year.
THE ROYAL CHARTER, declaring Manchester a "city,"
was received by the mayor of that place from the Home
Office on Friday.
MARY CURREN BIRKHEAD, sixteen months old, was
found dead in bed, on Friday morning, at the residence of
her parents, Gomer.buildings, Mann-street.
LETTERS for any of the Officers, seamen, and marines
serving in any of the ships now in the Arctic seas, will be
forwarded by her Majesty's ship Phoenix, if sent to the
Admiralty on or before the 14th of April.
THE STEAMER CLARENCE, which sailed hence recently
for Australia, and sold for £29,950 there, though her
value was not more than £11,500, is now plying between
Launceston and Melbourne.

WARRINGTON.—The following gentlemen have been
re-appointed overseers of the poor for the year ensuing :
—Charles John Holmes, Thomas Glazebrook Rylands,
James Hepherd, and Isaac Picton.

THE FRIENDS of the Sunday schools connected with
the Baptist chapel in Myrtle-street, celebrated their anni-
versary on Wednesday evening, by a tea-party in the
school-room under the chapel. The Rev. H. S. Brown
presided.

THE ANNIVERSARY BALL in aid of the funds of the
.Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Institution was held, on Tues.
day evening last, at the Assembly-rooms, Great George.
street. The attendance was large and hizhly respectable.
The orchestra was occupied by Mr. Gribbin's band.
ON FRIDAY morning, Thomas Moore, carman, was
walking along Great Howard-street, when he was observed
to fall heavily. Immediate assistance was rendered, but
before medical aid could be obtained he expired. An
inquest was held upon his remains on Saturday.

SEVERAL CASES have arrived by the steam-ship Arctic,
from New York, containing machinery for the manufac-
ture of Col. Colt's fire-arms in this country. They have
been forwarded to London for delivery to Col. Colt, for
the desired purpose.

THE ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING at Warrington took
place on Easter Tuesday, in the large room of St. Elfin's
Institution ; the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys in the
chair. The accounts, which showed a balance of £l3 due
to the churchwardens, were unanimously agreed to.

- -
A GRAND BANQUET was given at the Mansion-house,
London, on Monday night, by the lord mayor. Several
members of the government were present, and those who
responded on its behalf were the Earl of Aberdeen, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Cardwell.
THE MAYOR entertained the Judges, Mr. Justice
Cresswell and Baron Martin, together with the grand
jury, Queen's counsel, and several of the magistrates, at
the Town.hall, yesterday evening week. The part ynum-
bered 50. The high-sheriff was absent, not having reco-
vered from a horse accident.

THE SCREW STE AIt•SHIP OSMANLI, which is to sail for
Port Philip on the 7th instant, has just been fitted with
-Beattie's patent screw, which has given such favourable
results in the last eight trips of the Frankfort. On Wed-
nesday she made a trial trip round the Crosby Lightship,
which proved highly satisfactory, her steaming being at
the rate of nine knots per hour.
Two EXPERT THIEVES, named Ellis and Wilson, who,
with a small book, thrust ingeniously through the bolt-
hole, attempted to steal gold watch chains, from the shop-
window of Mr. Owen Owens. No. 4, South Castle-street,
were brought up on Thursday, at the Police-office, and
committed to trial. Mr. Owens has lost eight watch-
chains, it is supposed, in the way described.
JAMES CAHILL, a suburban robber, and his wife, have
been committed to trial at the sessions by the Kirkdale
magistrates, on a charge of committing burglaries. Mr.
Owens, saddler, Vauxhall-road, who had purchased
riding whip from Cahill for 35., its original cost being
seven guineas, was allowed to depart on bail, although he
will take his trial at the sessions on the charge of receiving
stolen goods with a guilty knowledge.
DIOCESE OP MascriEstert.—On Tuesday the Lord
Bishop of Manchester licensed the Rev. Peter Fox, 8.A.,
to the stipendiary curacy of the Parish Church of Ley-
lend, on the nomination of the Rev. Thomas Rigbye
Baldwin, the incumbent. His lordship has appointed
Friday next for the consecration of the new church at
Holcomb, near Bury,
A YOUNG ISRAELITE, about 22 years of age, a native
of Poland, and educated in the College of Rabbles at
Warsaw, was baptised on Good Friday, in St. Bartho-
lomew's Church, Salford. The Manchester Courier
remarks, on the coincidence, that the clergyman who
officiated, the Rev. Moses Niargoliouth, curate of that
church, is himself a converted Jew.
•A HINT TO WORKMEN ON STRIKE.—At the Romanist
soiree in the Concert Hall, the other evening, Mr. D.
Parsons, M.A., of Oriel College. Oxford, said : " He
was of opinion, if the Roman Catholic faith was predo-
minant in this country. they would not have the strikes
which they now heard of ; they would not have masters
set against men, and men against masters, for the church
would step in and settle the matter."

ELECTION OF GUARDIANS FOR THE WEST DERBY
Union.—The voting papers will be delivered on this day,
Tuesday, collected on the 7th, and the votes cast up on the
9th. The result will be declared in a few days after-
wards. The opposition is confined to five townships,
namely, West Derby, Toxteth-park, Kirkdale, Orrell
and Ford, and Thornton. The candidates nominated in
these townships are as follows :—West Derby : Robert
Wandby Kirkus, James Barton, Thomas D. Walker,
William Bowman, Samuel Lunt, John Abrahams,
Thomas Tattersall, James Wensley, Thomas Corkhill,
and John Pownall. Toxtetk park : Joseph Harrison,
Abraham Horsfall, Charles Batten, David Craig, George
Gragg Samuel Sititicluy, William ',Smith, John Kidd,
Arthur Grindrod. Horace S. Aipass, Joseph D. Carter,
William Mountfield, Richard Miller, John Lathbury,
Thomas Smith, and Gilbert Harrison.—Kirkdale:
Thomas F. Roskell, Thomas W. Taylor, and Thomas W.
Thornton-: Christopher Richmond, jun., and
Joshua Bolshaw.—Orrell and Ford : Edward B. Barton
and William Knowles.

AT THE WEST DERBY ANNUAL VESTRY, held on
Monday in the church—the Rev. John Stewart, the rec-
tor, presiding—the accounts showed that the total amount
arising from the church-rates, on hand, at the commence-
ment of the year, was £279 19s. 11d., of which there had
been an expenditure of £155 16s. 10d., leaving a balance
of £123 12s. 3d. This sum, it was stated, would, in all
probability, meet the expenses of the ensuing year, and
thus prevent the necessity of levying a new rate. Mr.
Chisnell and Mr. Ledger, the churchwardens of last year,
were re-elected. The annual Easter Vestry of the rate-
payers was held on Tuesday morning, when Messrs. John
Whitby, James French, James Wensley, Thomas Tat-
tersall, John Abrahams, and Thomas Brakell, were
elected overseers. Mr. Thomas Crosby, of West Derby
village, was appointed honorary assessor of the rural
division. The following gentlemen were appointed the
highway surveyors : Messrs. Bold, Anthony, Jones,
Johnson, French, M`Knight, Shaw, Molyneux, Bevan,
Mather, Orred, Fletcher, Harrison, Crosby, Owen,
Kenyon, Wagstaff, Lowndes, Chisnell, and Leather-
barrow.

AT THE MEETING OF THE WALTON EASTER VESTRY,
on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Leigh presiding,—the ac-
counts showed a balance in hand of £5 3s. Did. Mr.
Pitts stated that there was -not sufficient room in the
body of the church for the accommodation of the
parishioners. The chancel and the galleries were taken
up by the faculty-holders, to the exclusion of the general
body of ratepayers. He introduced the subject with the
;view of testing the right of the claim made by the
faculty-holders. Ultimately it was decided that a depu-
tation should wait upon the archdeacon, for the purpose
of consulting with him on the steps necessary to be
taken in the matter. The deputation to comprise the
rector, the churchwardens, and Mesara, North, Johnson,
Statham, Pitts, and Tristram. Mr. Pitts next complained
of the inefficiency of the choir of the church. He did
not grumble at paying them 100 guineas ; he would like
to see it 120. But-the parish had been taken in by them.
It was decided to provide the organist with some music
books, and the matter dropped. The allowauce to the
beadle was increased from £l2 to £lB a-year. Mr. Ros-
kill, and Mr. Henry Harrison, of Walton, were elected
churchwardens. A penny rate was carried, in order that
the churchwardens might adopt means to strengthen the
roof of the church.

AT THE ANNUAL EASTER VESTRY of the parishioners
of Liverpool, held on Tuesday—the Rev. Rector Camp-
' bell presiding—the churchwardens' statement of accounts
was adopted, although Mr. Urquhart moved that they be
referred back to the churchwardens, and when his amend-
ment
was lost demanded a poll. The accounts showed a
balance to the debit of the pariah of 1,848 19s. They
could not propose the election of members of the Vestry
till April. so that the vacancies would have to be filled up
at an adjourned meeting (which wiii be held to•day). Mr.
C. Frederick Came, and Mr. Robert Hutchinson, were ,
elected churchwardens for the ensuing year; and Messrs.
John Brancker and Peter Bourne Drink water, sidesmen.
Mr. Charles Willmer, Mr. Joseph Gardner, Mr. Shake-
shaft, and Mr. John Hand, were elected overseers. Mr.
James Brownbill and Mr. John Williams were chosen
churchwardens for St. Paul's Church, and Mr. George
Nickson and Mr. Thomas Gregory for St. John's Church.
The vestry resolved to grant a rate of 2d. in the pound,
the same as last year. An amendment by Mr. Urquhart,
that the term voluntary rate "be substituted for
"church-rate" was not put by the chairman, as it was
contrary to law. The grant of £7O in aid of the V
services at St. Paul's Church was increased to £9O. Mr.

Roberts proposed that the salary of the curate of St.
John's Church be raised from £lOO to £lBO per annum.
This was strongly opposed by both Mr. Dover and the

chairman, and the matter WBb ultimately adjourned. It
was stated that nothing bad been done for the restoration
of the chimes of St. Peter's Church.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. J. WRIGHT.—The super.
intendents and teachers of the Sunday school connected
with St. James's church, Latchford, Warrington, on
Thursday evening, presented to their esteemed pastor,
the Rev. J. Wright, 8.A., a pleasing testimonial of their
affection for him. A large party assembled in the school-
room at the tea party, and found the room tastefully de-
corated with evergreens, artificial flowers, &c., the work
of the female teachers. 'Various texts of Scripture, formed
of leaves, &c., were arranged along the wails, and a dis-
criminating use had been made of flags and draperies.
The Rev. Mr. Wright, with his family, attended as in-
vited and honoured guests, and found themselves sur-
rounded by many who were made happy by their presence.
Mr. Smith was called to occupy the chair, and after he
had very briefly stated why they had met, Mr. Hill ad-
vanced from the body of teachers with a copy of Bagster's
Comprehensive Bible, handsomely bound in antique
purple morocco, with a silver shield on the back, bearing
the following inscription .—" Presented to the Rev. James
Wrigiit, 8.A., incumbent of St. James's Church, Latch-
ford, as a testimonial of esteem and affection, from the
Sunday school teachers. March 10, 1853." Miss Smith,
Miss Robinson, and Miss Dowling, next handed up a
neat pocket communion service of silver, bearing a similar
inscription, cushion, and a lengthy address, beautifully
written on parchment, with ornamental gilding, &c.
These were presented by the chairman to Mr. Wright,
who addressed the assembled teachers in terms of affec-
tionate response. Several short speeches were then de-
livered, a number of hymns were sung. Mr. J. W.lsher-
wood presiding at the piano.forte, and the proceedings of
avery pleasant evening were CIOSed abort lialf-past ten
o, elock.—Nancheder Courier.