The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1853.

LOCAL I\EWS.
T" SOCIETA ARMONICA. gave their thirteenth dress
Concert on Wednesday, at the Mechanics' Institution.
tno
TH rT,1 IRIBITION MEETINGS of the Liverpool Floral
dune 30, and Horticultural Society have been fixed for May 19,
September 1.
THE MODEL of Mr. John Grantham's " improved
et method of working the Liverpool docks " is now on view
the Underwriters'-rooms.
SDIER, beloning to the 23rd Fusileers,
Plug OLd
into the river from the north side of Welsh
the landing-
stage, on Monday, and was drowned.
d TIE REV W. POLLOCK, the incumbent of St. Mark's,
4
..eli? vered a lecture on Tuesday evening, at the Church of
ngland Institution, on " Rome, and her Paintings."
NAMES TAYLOR, of Sutton, near St. Helen's, has a
en, which has laid an egg measuring inches round the
toiddle, 8i inches round the length, and weighs 4 ounces.
T" 'engine of a luggage train for London went off the
Lt(?ndon and North. Western Railway in Northampton-
uire, on Thursday, by which the London six a.m. train
"as an hour and a half behind time in reaching LiverpoolTHx .
Rgv. DR. RAFFLES lectured at the Concert-hall
pri Tuesday night, nn " Isaac Watts and Nonconformist
Psalmody. Mr. D. James occupied the chair.
CABIN PASSENGERS per the ship Falcon, from
e,"eY, have pesented an address to Ctain Taylor,
-:`Pressing theirs satisfaction at his care, and for his exer-
tions to make them comfortable.
atiIIETSY M`CARTNEY, the nurse of the unfortunate
Barbour died at the Manchester Infirmary lte on
Tuesday night.
This is the sixth death arising froam the
late accident on the Bolton Railway.
4,Mit. JOHN CALVERT, a geologist and a passenger by
113oe Falcon, who has been eleven years in Australia,
Pings with him maps, drawings, and 730 nuggests of
gold, one weighing 23 lbs.
on MR. CHARLES FIELD delivered an historical lecture
Wednesday evening to the West Derby Institute.
'Piny resident gentlemen have given, or are about to
give, lectures.
THE Svse ov £3OO has been raised for Mr. Howard,
the Manchester jeweller, whose shop has been plundered
so often. It is proposed to present Miss Howard with a
testimonial.
HENRY MAIovELL was, on Thursday, committed for
trial at the Liverpool assizes, for the late extensive
robbery at Mr. 011ivant's shop in Manchester. His
sister, Lucy'Stronach, was discharged.
AT A FIRE, which broke out at midnight on yesterday
Week at Sonthworth Hall, near Warrington, twenty-nine,
cows were burned to death. Little additional damage
Was done.

THERE are 11,000 husbands in Australia whose wives
I have been left behind.

SPURIOUS NUGGETS, ingeniously plated, are manufac-
tured in England and sent out to Australia.
A SEAMAN fell from the mizentopmast of the Western
World, on Wednesday, and-was killed.
HYDRO-CARBON GASES have answered so admirably at
Southport, that we are told they are being adopted in other
places.

JOHN MTRIDE, a sailor on board the Western
World, lying in the river, fell from the mizen.topmast,
on Wednesday, and was immediately killed.
MR. CARDY, master of the Berenice, his wife, and all
the officers, have been murdered by his crew in the Straits
of Gaspar, and the vessel burnt.
THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP SARAH SANDS arrived at
Melbourne, all well, in 84 days, including ten days' de-
tention at the Cape of Good Hope.
ON Thursday a spirited ploughing match took place in
the immediate vicinity of Fazakerley, in one of the fields
of Rosebank farm, occupied by Mr. Charnock.
A: PETITION against the solicitors' annual certificate
duty was presented on Monday, by Mr. Mackenzie, from
this town.

HONOMOGIBBONS,a young Irishwoman at Stockport, is
now in custody, charged with poisoning her female child,
aged nine months. The mother was a member of a burial
society,
Ma. CHARLES LAMONT was on Saturday presented by
his fellow-clerks, at the Albert Dock warehouses, with a
gold pencil case, accompanied with an address, as a mark
of esteem.

ONE of the West Derby [paupers, Elizabeth Currie, is
now 109 years old. At the age of 105 she walked from
Toxteth park to Aigburth, and returned with a stone of
apples on her back.
JAMES BREMNER, owner of the paddle steamer
Washington, has been fined 40s. and costs for conveying
passengers on the 15th ult., without having -the requisite
certificate on board.
A Gruo MANUFACTURER, at Penistone, named
Hodgson, has recovered £lOO at the York Assizes, from
the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company, for da-
mages sustained by him on that line.
LMERPOOL WORKHOUSE.—At this time there are not,
out of upwards of 2,000, more than twenty young men
and about ten young women pronounced by the medical
officer to be capable of working the mills.
CAPTAIN BROWN, of the steamship. Roscommon, who
was instrumental in saving fifty-three lives from the un-
fortunate Queen Victoria. has been presented by the pas-
sengers with a handsome gold chain.
TWELVE SEAMEN have been sentenced to one month's
imprisonment each for violating their agreement to serve
in the British ship Jenny Lind, on a voyage from Liver-
pool to San Francisco.
THE Preston Chronicle states that a rich and extensive
vein of copper ore has lately been discovered in the Earl
of Lonsdale's royalty, near Gillerthwaine, and not far
from the head of EnnerdaleLake.
Two MEN in custody, M''..Nlahon and Robinson, have
been identified by witnesses as the parties who perpe-
trated the brutal assault and robbery at Mr. Howard's
shop in Manchester.

JASIES VIACKA.Y, tailor, lodging at -29, Mount- plea
taut, was found suspended by his wife's drawers from the
Mount-plea-
toot' of his bed on Thursday morning :he had bee dead ;five hours. Three empty laudanum bottles were
'found in his pocket, and a number of pawn-tickets.
I:ittoti,
If r. T. BOOTIIMAN has received twenty small bags of
tnrwagrown upon the estates of the Pacha of Egypt,
rded as samples of the improvement already effected
''Y Mr. Edward Swinglehurst, the young man who was
Sent out through tAfarzchesterhe instrumen
ian.tality of the chamber of
enrccaerce— Gkard
va:CF• CAMPBELL, the diver employed in operations for
l4tising the hull of the steam-ship -Victoria, in a letter to
Papers, denies that he saw any persons in the cabin
:
ell down he was unable to do anything in the way of
, lnsPection from the muddy state of the water, and
au a narrow escape of being carried down the funnel.
Roe
e the
''While BERT AND VIOLENCE.—On Sunday evening week,
,
family were at service, a farrn.house was
Only.l_ pert Hurlstop, near Nantwich, and Miss Lee, the
n in
charge, was so severely beaten that it is
OattLexPected she will recover. Thomas Wright and his son,
v''ATROM neighbours,L
have been apprehended on suspicion.
HO second birth
Right R 0 day of
teP-----Testerday week being the eighty-
People 0..0 'II:. Lo that much respected nobleman, the
a hOSpitab IS /Ordshz
I'd Skelnaersdale, the servants and Work-
A: ".P's estate were invited to partake of
the • le ‘4Lauer at Latham-house, to commemorate
JoYcus occasion.
T. pA
aa.._ TIIICICS DAY IN LIVERPOOL.—This anniver-
'4‘N,'Jswas celebrated by a soiree at the Concert-hall, Lord
oV;otai.street, on Thursday night. The party numbered.
She.' ~rldr after tea, addresses were delivered by Richard
Job
.' '4sq•, the chairman. and the Rev. J. Nugent, Mr.
_ Yates, Mr R. H. Sheil, Mr. 'D. Powell. Mr.
n Yates, Messrs.. G. Smyth, H. Cullen, and J. Welsh.
,kr
keeper- AGISTRATES who convicted Morgan, the light-
con at Point -Lynas for having in his possession and
ha4ealing geods„-par'of the wrack of the ship Fairfield,
title issued a lithographed statement, contradicting
.an
of gation contained in a communication read at a meeting
tracesth Li ver pool *dock committee, that one of the magis-
(lir.
—parrow) had " expressed his regret that the
conviction had taken place."
a TnE Mancheatar Guardian relates thatnnadfe.wawdayas
rat,ago
sleek rfrray Passenger in that neighbourhood -
now alld sl antique and
y velture out of his hole-in an
di bl '• - ' cmb one of the wheels of
~sa ed railway station,
;carriage in the train, dexterously raise
the spring lid of
bt see if he was o s b ervd, enjoy a
hearty meal,o a;wl then coolly betake himself to his old
Quarters.

THE WFIITEHAVEN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
have disposed of their steamer the Earl of Lonsdaie, which
is henceforthintended to ply between ports in the Medi-
terranean.

IN a case at the'Police-court, the other day,'the magis-
trate recommended the ejection of that large class of
vulgar and immodest women who are employed at some
of the stalls in St. 'John's and St. James's market.
MR. JOHN AxicrNsoN, the collector of government
taxes for the municipal district of West Derby, is now in
Lancaster Castle, and it appears that he has failed to pay
up certain sums received by him 'on account of taxes for
the municipal district of West Derby.
Mu. PYPER, master of her Majesty's steam ship En-
counter, lately stationed here, has been dismissed from the
service for drunkenness. The Encounter has left Ports-
mouth for a cruise in the Irish Channel, and will perhaps
pay another visit to the Mersey.
THOMAS DERBYSHIRE, cheesemonger, Toxteth-park,
was committed for trial on Friday, charged with forging
a figure in a bill presented to him by• Mr. Mansell, smith,
Simpson street, whereby £7 paid on account by the per-
son was changed into £l7.
SEVERAL JEWS, it is said, have realized £200,000 by
exporting goods from London and Liverpool to Australia.
A member of parliament has cleared ;X90,000 by some old
Australian Agricultural Company's: shares, which he be-
lieved to be nearly worthless.
ON the 7th and Bth instant, 5,263 horses and vehicles
passed Wapping, opposite the railway. In Regent-road,
Great •Howard-street, Walter-street, Blackstone-street,
and Boundary-street, there were counted 10,543 carts and
2,055 coaches.

Somme OF AN EMIGRANT.—On Friday morning,
Alexander Wood, who had arrived, in Liverpool that day,
intending to sail in the Constitution, committed suicide
with a razor in the house of Richard Plunkett, 44,
Stewart-street.
JABEZ DAVENPORT, in whose possession 300 oz. of
melted gold and silver were found, has been allowed to
go at large by the Manchester authorities : he has not
ventured, however, to ask for the metal or the crucibles,
which are, of course, in the hands cf the police.
THE CLIPPER SHIP FALCON, Captain Taylor, arrived
in the Mersey, on Tuesday, from Sydney, whence she
sailed on the 17th of November. She has brought 14,655
ounces of gold dust and 13,000 hides on freight, and ten
cabin passengers.

ANN TnosipsoN, a Liverpool girl and an orphan, was
recently taken into the house of Mrs. Rowen, of Eccles,
near Manchester, and treated in a kind manner ; she had
not been many days in the house of her benefactor, how-
P,er, before she returned the kindness with the basest
algratitude, ,and ran away with a quantity of wearing
Ili:Tare!, the property of her mistress. On Thursday, at
the Manchester New Bailey, she was sent to jail for 7 days.
THE AFRICAN MAIL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY have
announced their intention to commences bimonthly line
of steamers from Liverpool to Madeira, Teneriffe, and
the west coast of Africa, commencing on the 10th of
October. The vessels to conduct the Liverpool trade,
namely, the 'Northern Light, the Southern Cross, and
,the Pleiades, Are to be of 1,000 tons burthern and 300-
alorse power-; so that the largest, the most pow,erful, and
~the fastest sailing ships will be appropriated to Liverpool.
The vessels just named are building by Mr. Laird, and
kr. Hamilton-Laird will undertake the agency of them.;,
THIRD REGIMENT OF THE DUKE OF 'LANCASTER'S
OWN MlLlTlA.—Captain Montague JosenloSielden to be
snaier, rice Hinclie, deceased ; Captain Thomas Townley
barker to be major, vice Hornby, resigned; the Hon.
dward Henry Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley,
toward
captain, vice Fielden, promoted ; Lieutenant Wm.
tN,lcholson to 'be captain, vice Parker, promoted ;
vi Townley Parker, gentleman, to he lieutenant,
Ice Meads, retired ; Ensign Thomas Woodcock to be
~,Ilt
nesenant, vice German, promoted ; Ensign 'Thomas
Withington to be lieutenant, vice Worthington,
nt, vice Clarke, resigned.slgned ; Thomas -Harre aves, gentleman, to -be lieu-
-1.1 ila
TaR
DOOMERANG. NSCREW-PROPELLER, invented by
ov„utColonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, surveyor-general of
1,„';4 Australia, is coining into extensive requisition.
},:,est the principle, the Genova, an iron steamer, has
ii7n fitted up by Messrs. James Taylor and Co., Britan-
v. iron-works, Cathcart-street, Birkenhead. The Water
80 itinech, another iron steamer, which has been lengthened
of 45 feet by the eame,firm, and supplied with engines
or,.FlTater power, is also to be propelled on the same
l'4,4e'Ple, but an important improvement is introduced.'
any shaft and fan extend beyond the rudder, so that, if
chl accident should happen either to the screw or ma-
deenY, the fan can be readily detached and hauled upon
can. In anything like moderate weather, and the vessel
4
h,;" Proceed on her voyage under sail. The government 1
that _ordered the construction of an iron stea
Principle by Messrs. James Taylor and Comer upon.

CONSCIENCE MONEY. Mr. 'Robert Arrowsmith,
banker, of Preston, on Monday last received through the
Post-office a sum of money for a small debt owing to
the late Dr. Parkinson, of Lancaster." Who sent the
money is .a mystery. It was all in gold.
THE BODY OF JOHN SHORROCK, a celebrated fortune-
teller, was interred, on Thursday, at Padiham Church.
His house in Preston was crowded with foolish people
during his lifetime, who came to test his skill. He was
59 years old when he died.
A GALVANISED PIPE, according 'to the Blackburn
Standard, has been led from the stoves in Holy Trinity
Church, Over Darwen, to the top of the steeple • hence
the architectural beauty of the structure is sadly dis-
figured.

GROSS SUPERSTITION was manifested lately at Rick-
mansworth. A child had fallen into the river ; some of
the inhabitants endeavoured to disccver the body by
putting quicksilver into some bread, and,floating the loaf
down the river.
EDWARD MILLER, an out-door pauper of the West
Derby Union, died on Saturday week, atGarston, at the
advanced age of 105. He was able, until the last few
years, to follow bis business as a fisherman. He has left
a wife aged 96.

LIVERPOOL COOPERS.—There are upwards of 500 ope-
rative coopers in Liverpool (about 500 in ,the trade so-
ciety, and only about 50 out of it) ; and wetave in Seel-
street one of the largest cooperages in the kingdom. As
to the men, the hours of work are from six to six, and
the fixed wages have been about 265. a week, but are now
30s.

AT THE WARRINGTON PETTY SESSIONS, on Monday,
275. 6d. each had to be paid by Hugh Williams and
Edward Jones, of Toateth-park, Liverpool, for being
drunk and misconducting themselves in a carriage of the
London and North-Western Railway Company., .on the
previous Saturday.

THE SCREW-STEAMER PERSIAN, which left the Coburg
Dock on Monday, the 28th ult., arrived in the harbour of
Valetta, Malta, on the morning of the 9th inst., at nine,
.1.t..4R...,.,.• HORSFALL AND THE ELECTORS OF DERBY.-- having performed the entire distance, 2,400 miles, ino
eight days fifteen hours. This is the shortest voyage
ei.,`_.-I.'• B. Horsfall has issued a parting address to the
Malta on record.
kricylobra of Derby, in which, after stating that he cheer-
the e
ihouwase toot
Coln
decision of the Election Committee of AMERICAN GRANTS TO STEAM LINES.—New . -ES —New York
ommons he says.;—," Nor is it necessary,
! hope, to Peat to
otonsyou'what I have already stated in the t_e_,
_L•iv,erpool, 5858,000 ; ditto
.to C$
h3a4gBreoscoor
Charleston
Aspinwall,
douse 000 • Panama to California, „
tiouse of
as wet! as before a committee ofaprleston'
that house, that I was to Havana,' 5',50,000 ; across the Isthmus of Panama,
cognizant of, nor did I sanction #120,000 ; Bremen and Havre lines, S-350,000 ; New
',1,1 any way, the proceedings which led the committee to Orleans and Vera Cruz, .8'65,000.
that conclusion, To those who took an active part in A PRIZE of £5 has been offered by the Institutional
°Pposing me at the election, or in any subse
ef.e.dings, I do-rot entertain a vestige of unkincliuyePeelpinro" Associationil .00fLa,nwcTahsahtirewoaunl(d1 Cbehetshheirem,
ofsotrsuthoceesbsefostl
—vl the contra, I willingly concede to them, what gi
eies.seaayn's sofosweeugring a better and more useful disposal of the
elm._ .. -•-, ,
And ;I or
myself, a sense of duty, as my motive of action. leisure hours of the working classes, in regard to their
earnest
it oaly remains for me to express my sincere and
—Nest h
and
seetati hope, that your present any future repre- studies and amusements ?"
I can ves may serve you with more zeal and ability than byTAHrrE. STAR OF THE EAST clipper haebeen purchased
se
Ivi.presurne to claim, though lam sure they cannot do James Beazley., the owner of the clippersseissbeipngAimiled
Barton, the Constance, andtsreavdeer.al 4theer
Starl
of the East,
Your to a greater desire to promote the
.best interests of in the Australian passenger_
1, "re, or the general welfare of its inhabitants.
-4,,i'l AMERd C ANS ,IN AUSTRALIA.—The Aewi Kork !Isa.,
1%511.1
Lineform eofni,eneokfetApsrs. Millers and Thompson's
te,,,g'd of the sth says: --;l3y the British barque Large from Golden
3.e o'l,ol, via Callao, some I 7 passengers arrived in our port a United AMERICAN
st
States
es,,(S.W learn
Ceos ou t
li fromern
14:11PaY from Australia. These passengers came sori CONSULpaper, T 911 e *ja.l
,GreenvillelrE i ' '
°te %lie to Callao in company with about three hundred Patriot,
President thatre.rce
,G canned. rahltas Bonhamrec eireceived
sthbeeenon appointment a
f
pert's' in the ship Miltiades which sailed from the former t thl th T ' . dmade fifty days' passae
Major a 0• 0 eau e 27th November, an a
" l The best offices within the gift of the Administration, and is
the Consulship at Liverpool. This is one of the very
The Miltiades is ,boasnd for Liverpoo .
44„.. 3' of the passengers who came up in the Larne are THE BOROUGH
d on Tuesday
rorth fifteen or twenty thousand dollars per annum."
BOROUGH SESSIONS were opened !I•ls,4"t'eaa,nes,lrwahoemenated from California
ttoatActiosutrnatlriay
fb37 have been'prinnipcaen their landing in. h
the Recorder, being indisposed.s
last, by Mr. Blair, barrister,GilTberhet
caHleennddaerrscoonn,thEinstd,
erine home with the Y engaged in mining, and all
satisfied. Nene of
tT a goodly pile, and are perfectly
thousand dollars, and eeme,....hav3 less than two or three charged.thenam ewsiothf foferltoyn.syl,x
andpr is prisoners,
w, i forty,th
misdemeanour. on one o f whom were The
pounds weight of the pura""the nave Upwards of twenty
his
h,ighest terms of the counir
etal. They all speak in the so far recover
business elosededonhTishuhresadlatyh aafstertnooobne.abTlleietorerceosrudmereha.d
and climate,
their only duties.
Nection being to some of rh:revenue far, Which the THE LANCASHIRE SPRING AsszzEs.—The commission
thin rather stringent, and the want 0 protectio
Petty.lisohe emigration into Melb
nd the United Staten issaid to average
kit •- '
rn dere toa will be
we e
loipaennde dm thisßaron
m(Taurteisnd.ay )1, beforecalenAdlarr. Justicetsatiinces
thousand daily,
of importance. Th
about one 106 cases, which are rather above the averagee neuffmeebeeere; but
there are no eases
144 FtETURNED GOLD-DIGGER, who arrived in
the cwliatshsedinatseefotlitoewsm:
rr.sey on Tuesday last, says of Melbourne --.. that dle;r, ,
stabbing
a;
bmanslaughter, 1 ~
wounding,assault 6 ;
har,in, g last winter thousands of persons were encamped rape 5 ; robbery,bigamy, 7 ; orgery., 9 i burglary,
—urlearr,
k.,"" outskirts of that place literally in a
thestate of starve.
12.1; s'aciilege, 1 ; hou'sehreaking 2;f stealing in a dwel-
of,l and subject to great suffering frominclemencyat 2 conspiracies to defraud, 5 •;total , .
was a
stealing
16.
retLeF'e weather. Some working men wer.e.earni ng the .2n.g-hous., 1 : mint cases, 2; 'bills of exchange,
ve. of 4500 a year, and yet, from the high price of pro. MERCHANTS' 4NING-ROOMS.—Ttlere .
iktcrsi, '0 and other neeetearies, they were barely able to very full attendance of tors' on Tuesday last, to La.r
POrt themselves and families. The publicans, he says, take of the fine baron of beef dressed on that day. T.he.
Bee,,eloSt extravagant in their demands, and care not for, ll.lTOrtallt operation of cooking this royal dish occupied
dtitntiodating persons unless they have been at the thirteen hours, having commenced at midnight; and
to
tioe'' Vs, and have large sums of money of which they was generally admitted that the beef did ample credit
Ilse. he Plundered. Three or four hundred bob- ueen known to land at the Queen's wharf, at Mel- purchased, and also to the capabilities of the cuisine.
the, and, there being no place of accommodation for One of. the attractions at this establishment is a caps-
irefo,nth,.they have been compelled te remain on the wharf cious divan, which has been recently fitted up, where the
' !light, exposed to heavy rains ; and under such lovers of the fragrant weed ono indulge, and also enjoy
Itlifstirtnss•lances some of the females have given birth to the eupwh hcheers, but t inebriates, or the more
file ae,.. Should the emigrant be able to bear up against potent compound.
he is
..`llllulating inconveniences and annoyances to which POLICE SU.PERANNUATION FUND.—A special meeting
loti,niueiected, he has before him 70 miles of a toilsome ef the Council was held at the Chamber, on Wednesday,
the (11' ak'ng almost impfianssdasbnle roads,. before he reaches to consider a motion which Mr. Tobin made at the
eedged field, where he
dreadful state, unanimous request of the Watch Committee to the effect
,Iltitiercl.ur froln £2O to £4O a saZ. Aralllnoras, who can best that so much of the proposed. sanitary bill as relates to
~,:veatee°. the necessary fatigue and exposure to inclement tile establishment of a Poltce Superannuation Fund, and
tteroin' , are generally at first most successful ; but on to amendments of the Police
tAct, pow in force, be pro-
,,; tires itszitot Melbourne laden with gold they soon become ceeded with during the present session oftptarliament ; and
to promote
Zste. '4 he
marriage,rifice of the abandoned women of the that it be referred to t
4 his
en real or imaginary, is got up ; Jack
and the tipantons forget themselves are easily robbed, t which •_ .r. Ferni-
was ultimately cas-
tle her are then turned adrift, 2 • '
.. hough moved an.
otelof"the Mayer,-16'voting for,
Comets
_mplices golde
'elt acco •the bill, so far asad
jroeuihranetemsetno
,these objmecl tsee
eaving the fancied wife seed by Lain castleg Y . 1'
4 similar fraud on the and 16 agst.
wets !torn the Adds."

Mr. ROBERT GRUNDY, of St. Helen's, has been ad-
mitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
MR. JOSEPH REED WALKER has been appointed a
deputy-lieutenant of Lancaster.
Two PERSONS died last week in Liverpool from deli-
rium tremens, one from excessive spirit drinking, and one
from opium eating.

ONE OF THE PASSENGERS FROM SYDNEY, by the
Falcon (not Mr. Calvert), is said to have brought home
with him 300 ounces of gold.
GEORGE GRIFFITHS, aged 20 years, engineer on board
the screw-steamer Albatross, died suddenly on Tuesday
morning, after arriving at the Nelson Dock from Dublin.
THE CONGREGATION OF ST. THOMAS'S, Toxteth-park,
have presented a beautiful pocket communion service of
silver to the Rev. J. 0. Powell, the incumbent, and a
similar one to the Rev. J. W. Brown, the curate, as
tokens of their esteem.
THE COLLINS steamers appear to have adopted the
same style of rig as the Cunard steamer Arabia,—that of
a brig, rigged man-of-war fashion. They used to carry
three masts, but now they have only two, which will be
of great service when driving head to wind.
A MEETING of bankers, merchants, and manufacturers
of London will be held to-day, to consider what, sugges-
tions that community ought to make to the government or
to parliament for the better development of the resources
of British India. This week a meeting with the same
object will be held in Manchester.
THE Mercury published an erroneous statement the other
day of the attendance at the day schools in connexion
with St. Thomas's, Toxteth-park. We have authority to
say that, instead of 300 being the attendance, the average
for the last four years is from five to six hundred, exclu-
sive of the attendance at the Sunday school.
ON WEDNESDAY a package was delivered by one of the
porters connected with the London and North-western
Railway, at the office of a gentleman in this town, and on
being opened it was found to contain the body of a full-
grown child. It appears a young woman left it at the
Euston-station, London.

AT THE MANCHESTER BOROUGH COURT, on Friday,
Harriet Barker was charged with stealing a £5O note
from her employer. She passed the note at the shop of
Mr. Stafford, Church-street, in this town. Remanded.
THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM-
SHIP NIAGARA, Lang, commander, sailed hence, on
Saturday, at 3, p.m., with 106 passengers and a full cargo,
besides the usual mails on board.
AT THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, on Wednesday, Jas.
Oliver, formerly a draper in Byrom-street, received a
second-class certificate, subject to a suspension for twelve
months, with protection during that time.
PHOTOGRAPHY.—A society for the formation of this
interesting art has been established in this town, and a
meeting will be held this evening to settle the constitu-
tion of the society.
THE REV. DAVID JAMES.—At the anniversary of the
" Yorkshire Welsh Society," its published report con-
cluded by paying a graceful and well-merited compliment
to the zealous and respected incumbent of St. Mary's,
Kirkdale, upon his recent election to another sphere of
labour, the headship of the Llandovery Institution.
HEALTH or THE TowN.—The registrar's return for
last week.shows a decrease in the mortality, consequent
upon the change from severe to genial weather. The
deaths registered were 226, against 272 in the week pre-
vious. The decrease was almost exclusively in diseases of
the lungs.

THE AUSTRALIAN.—The Post-offioe authorities gave
notice, on Wednesday, that the mail for the Cape of
Good Hope, which was on board the steamer Australian,
was transferred to the steamer Lady Jocelyn. The mail,
therefore, that will be detained by the return of the Aus-
tralian consists of all newspapers for Australia posted
between the 2nd of January and the 10th of March, and
all letters for Australia posted between the 4th and 10th
'instant.

THE AMELIA, the first iron steam-ship ever constructed
at Chester, was launched on Saturday week from the ship-
yard of Mr. Cram, in the presence of the mayor, magis.
trates, and clergy. She is to be rigged at Cheater, which
port she will leave during the next spring tides for Liver-
pool, where she will be fitted with her engines and made
ready for her first voyage. She is intended for the coast-
ing trade between Liverpool and Bristol.
GEORGE SMETHURST, beerhouse-keeper, Leigh. street,
whose house is said to be a favourite resort of thieves,
entered a claim at the County Court against William
Russell, a detective police-officer, for the sum of £l5,
damages for false imprisonment. The Judge ruled that
Russell had no good ground for suspecting the plaintiff
was guilty of felony. The verdict must be for the
plaintiff, but he would take time to consider what amount
of damages he should give ; and he intimated they would
be small, owing to the character which the plaintiff bore.
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR MANCHESTER.—At
the inquest on Monday week, the jury found " that the
deceased Thos. Croston, Richard Simmons, and George
Barbour were killed on the 4th day of March instant, by
the engine, No. 13, running off the line and upsetting
near the Dixon Fold station, on the Manchester and
Bolton Railray, caused by the excessive speed at which
it was driven by the deceased Thomas Croston, against
whom we return a verdict of ' Manslaughter.' " They
further state that the economy of the line endangers the
safety of the public.

ON SUNDAY, the Rev. Verner M. White preached an
eloquent discourse in Islington Presbyterian Church, on
" The Divine Institution of the Sabbath, and the Nature
and Necessity of its Due Observance," with special
reference to the projected opening of the Crystal Palace on
the Lord's Day.
LIVERPOOL ENTERPRlSE.—Messrs.Vianna, Jones, and
Chapple, have established a line of steam-packet commu-
nication to Oporto. The first vessel despatched to the
new station was the screw-steamer Rattler, Benson, com-
mander, which took her departure hence on Saturday
evening, with a fair cargo on freight.
MESSRS. IRONSIDES, the owners of the barque Irene,
which vessel was upset on Pluckington Bank, on the
26th ultimo, and eleven lives lost, have presented Capt.
Edwards, of the steam-tug Powerful, with a handsome
silver salver, for his meritorious services in rescuing the
people (ten in number).
LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT BILL.—In the minutes
of the House of Lords, issued on Saturday, we find under
this head the following memorandum :—" Brought from
the Commons; read la; and referred to the Standing
Order Committee on the fourth sitting day after the recess
at Easter; and a printed copy of the bill referred to two
English judges to consider and report."
A MERCILESS HOAX was committed near Lancaster,
the other day, by which a widower was not a little sur-
prised at finding his dwelling entered by a number of
friends from a great distance, attired in mourning, who,
in accordance with a letter received by them, had come to
bury him. The poor people had been put to the serious
expense of a long journey, to say nothing of the pain of
mind which they were made to endure.
ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.—We have to announce
this week the election of two gentlemen of the above
school at the universities. Mr. G. Abram, son of the
late Ralph Abram, Esq., was elected, on Thursday last,
to the open sizarship at Clare-hall, Cambridge ; and on
'Saturday Mr. R. Duckworth, son of Robinson Duck-
'worth, Esq., of this town, was elected to the first open
scholarship at University College, Oxford. There were
twenty-one competitors from the universities and from
the leading public schools.
MERSEY V. CLYDE.—THE " AUSTRALIAN" DISAS-
'IERS.—Iron boat-building, at least as pursued on the
Clyde, has experienced a heavy blow and great discourage-
ment by the continuously accumulating disasters that
have befallen the vessels of the unfortunate Australian
Mail Company, whose mishaps have been before the public
and Parliament all the past week; and the rival builders
of this class of craft on the Birkenhead bank of the Mersey
are naturally elate at the total exemption of their ships
from all reproach on the score of being turned out in
such slop-shop fashion as was disclosed by the examination
at Plymouth of some of the crazy tubs constructed in the
northern waters.—Birmingham paper.
THE STAR OF THE LEAST fetched a higher price than
has ever been realised on a colonial-built ship ; a fact
which speaks well for the character of her builders,
Messrs. R. and W. Wright, of St. John's, New Bruns-
wick. Messrs. Wright have now on the stocks a ship of
similar class to the Star of the East, but 30 feet longer
and 14 feet more beam. We hear that the Star of the
East has been chartered for £lO,OOO. It is intended that,
after landing her passengers at Melbourne, she shall pro-
ceed to China. This makes the third ship which Mr.
.Beazeley has bought of Messrs. Wright, through the
agency of Messrs. Fernie Brothers and Co. ; namely, the
Constance, the Miles Barton, and the Star of the East.
TERMINATION OF RAILWAY HOSTILITIES. The
traffic agreement entered into by the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway directors, some years ago, with
the London and 'North-western and Midland Railways,
which has proved so baneful to the traffic of the former

ROBERT 'CLARICE, Esq., formerly of the Liverpool
Theatre'Royal, has already followed his departedwife to the
grave. In ex ellent health at the time of Mrs. Clarke's
death, a change suddenly came over him. He declared to
his friends that he would soon join his beloved wife in
another and a better world. He had only one wish, before
he died, to see his old friends, Mr. Manifold, the surgeon,
of Rodney-street, and his family ; and he arrived here
about ten days since. Every effort was made to rally
him, but without effect; and at a quarter to four o'clock
on Friday afternoon he breathed his last, at the age of 76.
A PASSION FOR SACRILEGE.—The only case possessing
features of a peculiar character to be brought before the
approaching assizes is that of Charles Seddon, commit-
ted for sacrilege. On the 23d of February, he broke into
the Ir.dependent Chapel, Farnworth, and stole some pen-
dants and other gas fittings ; on the Ist instant he broke
into St. Paul's Chapel, Little Hulton, and stole several
bronze candlesticks and other articles. This criminal
seems -to have a peculiar liking for this sort of robbery,
having been -five times previously committed, and once un-
dergoing twelvemonths' imprisonment forrobbing a chapel.
THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-HUNTERS, who are returning
to their native land with fortunes, advise persons emigrat-
ing to proceed to Sydney. There order prevails:; the
necessaries of life are comparatively cheap.; and, being an
old town, there is proper accommodation for persons ar-
riving in the colony, and for a much larger number than
is likely to reach that place for some time to come. The
gold fields of Sydney are quite as valuable as those of
Melbourne.; but as the diggings at the latter place were
discovered at a later period, emigrants have unwisely
overlooked the riches of the Sidney diggings.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIPS.—The Alps, the second
of the Cunard line from Liverpool to New York and Cha-
gres, arrived at this port on Thursday morning, from New
York, after a very rapid run, from port to port, of 12 days
and 12 hours mean steaming time. She brought .8'200,000
in specie on freight. The Liverpool and Philadelphia
Steam-ship Company's screw steamer City of Manches-
ter, Captain R. Leitch, arrived in the Mersey, on Friday
forenoon, from Philadelphia, with 143 passengers, (24 of
whom occupied cabin berths,) and 4;15,000 in specie. She
left Philadelphia on the 3rd instant, and on the night of
the 16th breasted Cape Clear, since which time she en-
countered strong easterly winds, with thick snowy wea-
ther, making the passage from port to port in 14 days 8
hours.

WEST DERBY UNIoN.—At Wednesday's meeting, Mr.
H. B. Farnall, poor-law inspector, said he saw from the
returns that there had been in that union, in the year
ending last Lady-day, a decrease of paupers to the number
of 763, as compared with the previous year. This was a
much greater diminution than was shown in the general
averages of this district. The annual average cost of a
pauper was £3.95. 54d..; so that there would be a saving,
in the decrease of 763, to the extent of £2;649 per annum.
To meet the relief, he said that a levy of Bd. in the pound
upon the rateable value of property was sufficient. The
average amount required in this union was just 101 d.,
which, when added to the cost of administering, &c,,
would only be about 1l d. The average of the district
was Is. 2d.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We learn from the Sydney
Morning Herald of Tuesday, December 21, that the
Great Britain sailed punctually at two p.m. Her depar-
ture was watched by crowds assembled on the shore.
" Every one connected with the vessel who arrived in
Sydney in her hare gone away with her, Some of those
who ran from her at Melbourne have written to the cap-
tain, expressing their contrition, and begging that they
may be allowed to rejoin the vessel. She has on board
35,000 ounces of gold; the consignees are not stated.
The following is a list of the passengers for Liverpool :
First claes : Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Griffiths, family, and
servant; Mrs. Mathews, Mr. Mathews, jun., Mr. and
Mrs. Haigh, Mr. and Mrs. P. Solomon, family, and ser-
vant, Messrs. M. Anderson, F. 3l`Nab, W. Grieve, J,
Inches. and Edwin Hickey. Second class : Mr. and Mrs.
Robley, Captain Spence, Messrs. Parrott and J. Rawson.
Third class : Messrs. L. Wilson, John Mabson, and John
Tully. For Melbourne—First class : Mr. and Mrs.
Byrne and child, Mr. J. B. Darvall, M.L.C., Mrs. H. B.
Smith, Mrs. Bell, son, and daughter, Miss Hawkins,
Mrs. E. Elson, Mrs. Devlin, Mrs. Jones, Dr. Smith,
Rev. L. Hogg, Messrs. H. Thorp, Swan. Mankerville,
Eyde Manning, E. Gildea, Morse, Brown, C. T. Mac-
lachlan, Alfred Smith, L, Barber, J. Clark, A. C. Hood,
Isaac Levey, Pemberton, H. M. Smith, E. B. Davis, E.
P. Colquhoun, P. de Costella, L. Brodziak, R. Cherry,
and R. Bright. Second class : Messrs. Bradley, Feather.
stone, Griffin, Bardsley, and T. Towers."
AT THE DOCK COMMITTEE, on Thursday, Thomas
Littledale, Esq., presiding, the sub-committee reported
that the coopers' wages had been raised from 265. to 30s.
a week. When the trade became slack, the wages were
to be reduced back to 26s.—Mr. Langsdale : Very like a
hook !—Mr. Robinson informed the committee that on
Monday last they were in want of about 700 porters for
the docks, and only about half a score offered themselves,
who required an advance of sixpence a day, their former
wages having been three shillings; owing to the emer-
gency, they had been obliged to employ men at this
increased rate.—Mr. Robinson recommended that, if they
demurred to their present wages, they should be resisted.
—A report was read from the marine-surveyor, estimating
that the damage done to the Crosby lightship by a vessel
piloted by Thomas Jones, No. 11, amounted to £7B 10s.
—ln a conversation on the propriety of establishing a
superannuation fund for the police, the opinion seemed
to be in favour of the men providing for themselves by
joining benefit societies. The matter was ultimately
adjourned.—A letter was read from Mr. James Baines
and Co., applying for a permanent dock situation at the
Salthouse Dock, or in the Canning Dock.—A letter was
read from Mr. William Fisher, asking what would be the
rent of 5,000 or 6,000 square yards of land with a water
frontage for seven or fourteen years : a central situation
would be preferred.—Mr. Evans: What is it for ?—The
clerk : He does not state.—Mr. Evans : Well, that is a
strange application.—Referred to the Harbour-masters'
Committee.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—OnThursday, Alderman Langs.
dale in the chair, a deputation was appointed to visit the
various towns where streets are crossed on the level by
dock railways ; Hull, Sunderland, Dundee, Gloucester,
&c.—By a re-arrangement of clerks, it was stated that a
saving of £4O per annum would be made.—An application
from the Select Vestry was read, asking that forty -two
able-bodied paupers now in the Workhouse might be
employed as scavengers. It was agreed that the borough
engineer should employ them as far as he had power.—
Mr. Gladstone observed that it would be much better to
have all the parish affairs under the Corporation. (A
laugh.) That would keep the clergy in their proper
sphere, and we should have them in the back streets look-
ing after the sick and poor, instead of engaging themselves
in secular affairs. By having all matters under one
management there wouid be greater economy.—Mr.
Newlands stated that the cost of scavenging in 1847 was
£17,400. Last year it was just half that amount, and this
was attributable solely to the substitution of square-set
paving for macadam.—Mr. Gladstone thought it proper
to say, in regard to an insinuation thrown out by Mr.
John Grantham, at the Polytechnic, that Mr. Newlands,
borough engineer, so far from favouring the interests of
the railway companies, had shown himself rather opposed
to the crossing on the low level.—Mr. Newlands observed
that Mr. Grantham had even gone the length of insinua-
ting that he was bribed by the railway companies to sip.
port their interests.—A. memorial from Hygeia-street,
praying for sewerage there, wa* referred to the general
purposes sub-committee.
The cost, it appears, would
not be less than £l,OOO.

company, as well as forcing them into hostility with-their
only natural ally, the Great Northern, is now on the eve
of expiring.; and the Great Northern directors have passed
a resolution appointing their chairman and two of their
body to open a communication with the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, with power
to conclude arrangements, accompanied by an expression
of their opinion that it is most desirable amicable arrange-
ments should be entered into.

THE ALBATROSS.--INTERESTING PARTICULARS.—
Letters have been received from passengers by the Alba-
tross, for Melbourne, which vessel sailed from this port on
the 15th November last. On the 20th January the vessel
was three days past the line. They were all well. A
young gentleman from this neighbourhood fell overboard,
and was in imminent danger of being drowned, when his
brother jumped overboard to save him.; but both were
placed in a very perilous situation, when a sailor, seeing
their danger, boldly jumped into the sea after them, and
succeeded in getting a rope round the two brothers, and
towing them to the vessel's side, when the whole party
were hauled on board ; and at that instant a shark made a
grasp at them with open mouth, but fortunately missed
his aim. The monster was afterwards caught, and, of
course, killed. He measured nine feet lang.
DR. Fisgeit's EXHIBITION.—On Tuesday evening, the
large School-room, Cornwallis-street, was inconveniently
crowded by persons anxious to see the numerous and
beautiful views, sacred, classical, and astronomical, which
Dr. Fisher so kindly and generously represented for the
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IT was stated by the Rev. IV. Pollock, in a lecture to
the members of the Church of England Institution, on
Tuesday night, that Rome was multiplying her institu-
tions in Liverpool " every year—he had almost said
every month." " They had got in Hope-street," he con-
tinued, " the new Catholic Institute, a large house that
lately belonged to a member of his own congregation,
with extensive garden ground behind, and offices; and, ,
from the moment that they had got possession of it, he '
had seen people working night and day (for he often
passed that way at night on sick or other calls), to get
those offices ready as a school. Afterwards he saw a
large placard stuck up that the Catholic Institute would
be re-opened, although the fact was it never had been
opened before. This was the deceit the Romish priests
practised. He dared say that by and by they would per-
suade their dupes that the institution was as old as the
Apostles." (Laughter.)
ADVANCE OF WAGES.—There has been a great advance
of wages in Liverpool during the past week. The extra
porters at the Albert Dock have been raised Gd. per day ;
and the seamen engaged on the various steam-boats plying
to and from this port have obtained an increase of 2s. 6d.
per week, with peculiar exemptions. The nightmen are
on strike for an advance of 4s. per week; the plasterers
have given notice of a strike if their wages are not
increased to 265. per week, from 245.: and the journey-
men bootmakers, watchmakers, and paper-hangers are
also demanding increased wages. On Friday the porters
at the Tithebarn-street Station struck for an advance ;
and yesterday the carters of the town were to strike unless
their wages are raised to the uniform rate of 245. a-week.
The journeymen bootmakers, not satisfied with an increase
of wages, now insist upon their employers discharging
the apprentices. The cabinet-makers have obtained an
advance of 2s. per week ; the upholsterers have given
notice that they expect a similar increase, to commence
yesterday; and the corn porters have respectfully requested
their employers to advance their wages Gd. a-day.
INTERFERENCE WITH THE POLICE.—A meeting of
magistrates was held on Friday, to hear the report of the
committee of their body upon the complaint of Inspector
Kehoe relative to the alleged interference of different
members of the Council with him while in the perform-
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of unblemished character. In 1843 he was appointed,
under the local act, to report upon marine-store dealers,
previous to their receiving a license, as licenses were to
be granted by the finance committee to such only as had
supported a tolerably good character for the three pre-
ceding years. In the discharge of this duty he stated he
had been interfered with by Mr. Alderman Parker, Mr.
R. Harbord, Mr. Toulmin' Mr. Thompson, and Mr.
Woodruff. The report concluded by saying that whether
they regard the interference of members of the Council
with the police, or the granting of marine-store licenses
to unworthy persons, or in improper localities, as disclosed
in the information before them, your committee are of
opinion that, from the joint operation of these causes, the
administration of justice, in this borough, is seriously
endangered. The appropriate remedy for this evil must
be sought in an alteration of the statutes, both of com-
paratively recent date, which give the power of dismissing
the police and of licensing marine-store dealers, to a po-
pularly elected and fluctuating body like the Town Coun-
cil. It seems only reasonable that the law, which secures
the independence of the higher, should be extended to
the inferior officers of justice. Nor, as it seems to your
committee, is it compatible with the pure administration
of justice, to give the power of granting licenses to judges
who owe their position to the votes of the applicants for
those licenses, lest the probable result follow that the
license is made the condition for the vote, and the Vote
the consideration of the license.—After some discussion,
in the course of which Mr. Hugh Hornby, as chairman
of the finance committee, denied the insinuations which
lie thought were cast against the members of that body,
and declared that none of the cases to which reference
was made had ever come under his notice, the report was
received, and a copy of it ordered to be sent to the finance

committee, with a request that they would co-operate
with the magistrates in adopting some measures which
would destroy the abuses of the present system of grant-
ing marine-store licenses.

GENERAL NEWS.

A RIFLE CORPS is about to be organised in Greenock.
THE SEAMEN AT AYR, N. 8., have struck for an advance
of wages. They ask £4 per month.
THE SENTENCE ON MARY ANN PARR, convicted of in-
fanticide at Nottingham assizes, has been commuted to
transportation for life.
THE POLICE FORCE OF NEW YORK amounts only to
1,040 officers and men, while that of London is between
7,000 and 8,000.
ROMAN PAVEMENT.—In the course of making a drain
in Tanner-row, York, a very beautiful Roman tesselated
pavement was discovered about ten feet below the surface.
JOHN WILLIAMS was executed at Greenlaw, on Mon-
day, for the murder of Andrew Mather, toll-keeper at
Cleikumin, near Lauder, Berwickshire, on the night of
the 4th December, 1852. He was an merican by birth.
AT Worcester assizes, Mr Porter, who received injuries
of a permanent character from an accident on the Mid-
land Railway, was compensated by a verdict, by consent,
for £l,OOO.

THE COURT OF CHANCERY has issued orders for com-
pelling the Earl of Mornington to pay the annuity of
£l,OOO a-year settled by him on his wife. The case has
been several times before the police-courts, the Countess
applying for maintenance in a state of destitution.
" EXTREMES MEET."—The Derby Reporter says,
Messrs. Bass and Heyworth are to have a public recep-
tion on entering the town on Easter Monday. What
a pleasing picture to the ardent teetotaller ? Heyworth,
the son of temperance ! Bass, the embodiment of the
bitter-beer interest ! in friendly conjunction.
THERE IS A BIBLE still preserved, written on palm
leaves, in the University of Gottingen, containing 5,367
leaves. Another Bible, of the same material, is at
Copenhagen. There were also, in Sir Hans Sloane's
collection, more than twenty manuscripts, in various
languages, on the same material.
A MISER, named Jameson, died at Newby, Westmore-
land, a few days ago, in abject wretchedness. He made
his own clothes, washed his own linen, and lived on the
sparest diet. He sat in his lonely cottage without fire or
candle. His property has been estimated at nearly
£30,000, the principal nart of which will go to a nephew
in London.

SCARCITY or COALS.—The late snow storm, having
closed the roads in many districts in the north, occasioned
a great scarcity of coals. In Eilon, neighbours, to make
their fuel last as long as possible, agreed to have but one
fire between them : and there was also a case, where two
women, the one with three children under her roof, and
the other a pauper 80 years of age, sat for two days without
fire in their dwellings.
MR. JUSTICE WILLIAMS left Oxford, on Saturday
night week, for London, and was returning, by mail train,
on Sunday night, but instead of getting out to change
carriages, at Didcot, he kept his seat, and did not discover
his mistake until he reached the Steventon station, where
the learned judge alighted, and was accommodated at the
inn, in the village, until tier Majesty's royal mail-cart
started, when his lordship was taken on, and reached Ox-
ford in safety about one o'clock on Monday morning.
A MAN DECAPITATED.—On Friday, a shocking acci-
dent occurred at Kirkstall-forge iron-works, near Leeds.
William Merritt, aged 28, was employed in a room where
there is a revolving shaft, and at the top is a circular
piece of thin metal. It is supposed that his clothes caught
the revolving shaft, and whirled him round it, for after
the accident he was found in the room without head and
minus one arm, the head being in one part and the trunk
of the body in another part of the room. He was most
probably drawn up the shaft, and his neck coming in
contact with the piece of circular metal, it would be severed
from his body instantaneously.
EXTRAORDINARY FIRE.—On Wednesday week, about
three o'clock in the morning, a fire broke outin the house of
a chemist, at Holborn-bars, London. The firemen, in their
anxiety to clear the place of combustible substances, threw
a quantity of phosphorous into the road, when it ignited,
as it commonly does in contact with the air. A constable
rushed forward and began to stamp on it, to subdue the
flame, when a quantity of phosphorous adhered to his
boots, and his clothes were soon all on fire. A soldier,
who was passing rushed forward and endeavoured to ex-
tinguish the fire about the officer, and in so doing his
own clothes came in contact with the phosphorous, and
in less than a second, he, too, was on fire. By great
perseverance the fire was subdued about the policeman
and soldier, but they were terribly burned:
THE WESLEYAN CONTROVERSY has brought forth
bloodshed at a place called Yeadon, near Leeds. On
Sunday, Mr. Everett, an expelled minister,-was announced
to preach ; but was prevented by a legal process served upon
him. A mob of the reformers, becoming exasperated,
attacked the house of Thomas Mann, the keeper of the
meeting-house, declaring they would turn him out; and
as the mob began to break the doors and windows with
stones, some one from within threatened to fire. In about
half an hour after the disturbances had begun, a gun was

discharged by some one from within, and the shot entered

the leis' of -Hiram Yeadon, who is now under medical
treatment. After this the constables were called in, and
took five men who were in the house into custody, who
have been remanded by the West Riding magistrates for
a fortnight, that the wounded man may be able to appear.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY IN YORKSHIRE.—
This society having been invited to extend their operations
to Yorkshire, a deputation, consisting of the Rev. Dr.
Worthington, Mr. Harrison, one of the solicitors, and
Mr. Gruneisen, the secretary, visited Leeds, Wakefield,
and Bradford, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and
attended large and respectable meetings of the inhabitants
of these towns. The deputation at each place was cor-
dially received, and the statements with respect to the ad-
vantages of the movement, morally and socially, were
listened to with attention and general approval. It was
intimated that immediate steps would be taken to pur-
chase eligible Yorkshire estates, and that the committee
were prepared to undertake, if desired, land purchases in
almost any county in England. In the course of their
tour, the committee made a large addition to the members
of the society.

A TOUCH OF NATURE.—A car full of passengers re.
cently passeover the ester n Railroad, n whichoccurre
a simple but
touching scene, worthy of i
record. One of the passengers was a woman carrying in her arms a child
who annoyed every one by its petulance and cries. Mile
after mile the passengers bore the infliction of its noise,
which rather increased than diminished, until, at last, it
became furious, and the passengers nearly so. There
were open complaints, and one man shouted " take the
child out." The train stopped at a station, when an old
gentleman arose, and made the simple statement that the
father of the child had died recently, away from home,
that the mother had been on a visit, that her dead body
was on board the train, and that the child was in the arms
of a woman who was a stranger to it. It was enough.
There was a tear in nearly every eye, and all were melted
into pity and patience. All selfishness was lost in think.
ing of the desolation of the poor little wanderer, who
would have found a warm welcome in hands that a
moment before would almost have visited it with a blow.
—Springfield Republican.

CURIOUS CASES OF SOMNAMBULISM.—On Saturday
the quiet village of Hoff, near Appleby, was thrown into
an unusual excitement by a report that a married lady
had, during the night, disappeared in a mysterious
manner from the bed of her lord and master, while wrapt
in balmy sleep. All places, likely and unlikely, were
explored, with the hope of discovering the missing fair
one ; but, as the day wore on, it was suddenly announced
that an old bachelor of Hoff, on the dark side of 60, had
also been stolen, or had strayed, or had been otherwise
conveyed away in a similar manner. About three o'clock
on Monday morning the lost ones returned to their re-
spective homes. Of course, as neither of them has the
least recollection of anything that occurred in the interval,
they must have been in a state of somnambulism ; but
their simultaneous seizure by the fit, and their not having
suffered in any material degree from the excessive cold,
or from want of food or rest, during a period of 51 hours,
are knotty problems which our magi have not yet been
able to solve.—Carlisle Patriot.

STRANGE SCENE IN A COURT.—At Bedford, on Friday,
John Saunders, John Leonard, and Joseph Morrell were
indicted for burglary and violence. William Saville, a
fine intelligent old man, in his 89thyear, proved that heand
his wife, who is 84 years of age, lived alone in a cottage
at Eyworth. On the night of the 17th of January three
men came up stairs, one having a bludgeon, another a
gun, and the third a lighted candle. They demanded his
money, and struck him on the head in a brutal manner.
The wife interposed, and one of them struck her on the
head and knocked her back in bed. The poor old cren,
tures were both bleeding from their wounds, and the
villains made them strip to sbew they were not concealing
any property. The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The Chief Baron then directed judgment of death to be
recorded against the prisoners. This being the last case,
the judge rose from his seat, and as he was about to re-
tire, a man in the court, related to one of the prisoners,
called out to his lordship that he had committed murder
in sentencing him. He repeated his calls, and the three
prisoners became violently excited, and shouted "murder"
in the most terrific manner. The court became a scene
of great excitement, the cries of murder continued, and
terrible denunciations were dealt forth. The prisoners
resolutely refused to leave the dock, but swore they would
die there first. At last additional officers sprang over
the bar, dragged the men into the cell, and ironed them.
The van was then ordered, and the prisoners were con-
veyed to the gaol amidst great excitement. The trial
lasted until an advanced hour.

INTERESTING TO NAVIGATORS.--THE FALKLAND
ISLANDS.—Under this head we find in a recent number
of the New York Express the following remarks in re-
ference to the Falkland Islands, now attracting much
attention in this country, because of their exceeding eli-
gibility for purposes of transportation, when the dispatch
of convicts to Australia shall cease. The importance of
these islands to Great Britain, in a commercial sense, is
strengthened from the fact of the rapidly-increasing num-
ber of Australian vessels coming home by way of Cape
Horn ; and we believe it is the intention of the proprie-
tors of some of our great lines of steamers to establish a
coal depot there, in which case, there will, necessarily, be
a vast augmentation to the advantages already specified
by our American contemporary, namely:—" For the I
interest of American and other shipowners, whalers, and
all other vessels, it cannot be too generally made known
that the Falkland Islands, off the coast of South America,
now afford an excellent station, with many good and safe
harbours at which vessels, of every class, may find supplies.
Ships proceeding to or from the East Indies, China, or
from the Pacific coast and Polynesia, round the Cape of
Good Hope or Cape Horn, will find at the Falklands
the means, in ordinary cases of damage, of repair, suppliesi
d
of provisions, &c., in short, all such stores as arere
required
by
by merchant vessels. There are no port or
custom-house
charges, whereas, at all the South American continental
Plate, ports, whether in Brazil, or on the River. ate, the
charges are very high, delays and vexationsfrequent,
labour, and the articles required for repairs exorbitant.
But the most serious objection to the Brazilian ports is
f B
the prevalence of a malignant yellow ever, particularly
dangerous to the ship's companies on board vessels in the
harbours. From these reasons, as well as from the con-
veniences and facilities afforded by the authorities, and by
the new settlements at these islands, the number of vessels
touching there has been very much increased, and will no
doubt continue.to increase in every succeeding year."

FROM a return to the House of Commons, printed on
Tuesday, there are 50,170 electors for counties in Scotland
and 133 polling places.
CAPTAIN CHEVALIER, of the port of Nantes, has been
presented by Lloyd's with a piece of plate, for having
navigated an English steamer from the coast of Africa to
England, the captain of which had died.
SEVERAL GROCERS in Melbourne made last year from
£24,000 to £27,000, and are now making at that rate per
annum. An itinerant knife and scissors-grinder—the first
seen here—and a locomotive shoeblack, have also made
their £4OO or £5OO a year.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The seventh
purchase of land for allotment amongst the members of
the society, has just been made in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, at Leeds, close to the railroad, on the River
Aire, on the Kirkstall and Bradford road.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The dividend declared at the
half-yearly court was 4 per cent., free of income-tax.
The profits for the past six months amounted to £563,049,
and the " rest," after this distribution, will remain at
£3,012,113.

CHARLES COOKE AND JOHN SMITH, two poachers,
were convicted at the Worcester assizes, of deliberately
firing a gun at the head of a gamekeeper in the preserves
of Sir John Pakington, at Westwood, and were sentenced
to fifteen years' transportation.

THE REFORMATION.—At St. Matthew's, Great Peter..
street, Westminster, the Rev. R. Malone, incumbent.
six males and two females publicly and formally renounced
the errors of the Church of Rome, at the Sunday evening
service. The rev. gentleman also, during the evening,
baptised an adult Jew.
AT BRIGHTON, the body of a child was found in a field
strangled with a handkerchief. Inquiries show that the
child was the daughter of a servant named Sherwood.
Before her arrest, and after the murder was known, she
actually attended a public ball. In prison she tried to
strangle herself.

IRON SHIPBUILDING IN HULL. —OR Tuesday wag
launched from the ship-building yard of Messrs. C. & W.
Earle, into the Victoria Dock, an iron screw steam
schooner, called the Minister Thorbeck, 220 tons re-
gister, and 300 tons burthen, the property of the Zwolle
Shipping Company, and intended for the trade between
Zwolle and Hull.

ABSURD PROSECUTION.—At the assizes at Bedford the
other day, a woman, having a baby in her arms, was ar-
raigned on a charge of stealing a piece of muslin. When
the article was produced, it was a small white rag, ap.
parently a slip off a white frock ! There was a auestion
to whom the rag really belonged, both prosecutrix and
prisoner stoutly claiming it. The jury acquitted the
prisoner.

STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.—The General Screw Steam
Shipping Company's steam-ship, Harbinger, from South-
ampton to Sydney, arrived at St. Vincent on the 24th ult.
all well. It was intended at starting to go direct to the
Cape, but the continuance of contrary winds induced the
commander to put into St. Vincent's for a fresh supply of
fuel, whence she sailed on the 25th. The new ship Argo,
belonging to the General Screw Company, is announced
to leave Southampton on the 4th of May.
CALORIC ENGINES are expected to be soon in opera-
tion on the Ohio and Mississippi. The Buffalo Courier
anticipates the speedy universal adoption of the new
principle, and continues :—" We shall then have no more
wholesale scalding of men, women and children ; no more
mangling and disfiguring them for life; in short, no
further chronicling of those horrible disasters and explo-
sions, which are of such frequent occurrence on the
western rivers, and which cause the blood of the nation to
run cold."

INTERESTING FACT.—The following singular and au-
thentic case of restoration of the human hair is worthy of
observation, more particularly as it relates to an article
of high and universal repute during the last half century.
Mr. A. Herrmann, of Queen-street, Soho, had been quite
bald for some time past, and had tried various prepara-
tions for the recovery of his hair, but without any benefi-
cial result. He was then induced to try the effects of
" Rowland? Macassar Oil," and after daily applying it
for about two months, he, much to his gratification, had
his hair quite restored, and now possesses a beautiful
head of hair. This fact speaks too strongly for itself to
require comment.—Bell's Weekly Messenger.
THE FLUES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The fate of
Doncaster Church holds out an impressive warning, by
making evident the necessity for extreme caution and
vigilance wherever buildings are heated by flues. After
that deplorable occurrence, who will say that the British
Museum is safe ? The prohibition of open fire-places and
candles or gas is an insufficient precaution against such
an accident as that at Doncaster. It is not, indeed, at
all likely that if a fire were to break out the whole of the
structure would be destroyed ; but great, and of course
quite irreparable, injury might be done to the contents
of that part of it where a fire took place. Wherever
there is a flue, fire may be hatching without any
symptoms of it to create alarm.—The Builder.
FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—A frightful colliery ex-
plosion took place in the Risca Vale, near Newport, Mon-
mouth, on Saturday week, by which 7 young men and boys
were killed, and thirteen more or less injured, so that four
are not expected to survive. The seam of coal is known
as the Black Vein, from which the proprietor has for
some time past supplied the West India mail boats. It
aas in this seam" that about seven years azo a great
explosion took place, when between thirty and forty per-
sons were Wiled ; and since that period occasional ex-
plosions of a minor character have taken place, by which
one or two lives each time have been sacrificed. It is to
the negligence of a collier, who survives to admit the
truth, that the present frightful catastrophe is to be at-
tributed. It appears that he neglected to place a " sheet,"
used for the purpose of regulating the admission of air
from the wind way of the heading into the upper part of
the stall where the gas is supposed to have accumulated,
and coming into contact with the naked candles, caused
the explosion.

EXPLOSION OF A LOCOMOTIVE.—On Thursday morn-
ing, shortly before seven o'clock, an accident of a frightful
character took place at the Brighton station of the London
and Brighton Railway, by which three men lost their
lives. The engine had just emerged from the shed, to be
attached to the train, having on it the driver, stoker, and
engine-fitter, when the boiler blew up with a terrible re-
port. Upon the clearing away of steam and smoke, it
was discovered that the three men had been killed, and
the bodies frightfully mangled. The engine-driver had his
head blown off from his neck, and it was found some sixty
yards from the engine, while the body of the stoker was
found dismembered of both rms, and the head smashed
into a shapeless mass. The engine-fitter had both his
legs blown off, and his body dreadfully shattered. The
remains were collected, and the force of the explosion
may be imagined from the fact of portions of the bodies
having been picked up three hundred yards from the
station. A piece of the engine—a heavy iron mass—was
driven through the roof of the station, and fell at the
distance of two hundred yards. There is cause to believe
the accident arose from the driver having screwed down
the safety-valve shortly before the explosion took place.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.-At Clifton, near Bristol, a
most appalling tragedy has been perpetrated by a respect-
able master shoemaker, named Isaac Tucker, who, after
having murdered his two children, aged respectively five
and three years, by cutting their throats with a shoe-
maker's knife, put a period to his own existence in the
same way. The deceased had recently taken a house upon
Prince's-place, near the Royal York-crescent, Clifton, and
entered into possession only a few days since. On Thurs-
day, between twelve and one o'clock, his wife went to
Bristol on some business, and he was left at home in the
house with his children and a female servant. Soon after-
wards he was observed to come down stairs, go to the
street door, look up and down the thoroughfares, and then
go to a looking-glass and survey himself, putting out his
tongue and working it about in a somewhat strange man-
ner. He then went up stairs, and soon afterwards his
eldest little girl went up also. Nothing subsequently was
heard of any of them, but soon after the door was dis-
covered to be locked, and upon its being broken open, all
three were discovered quite dead, their clothes saturated
with blood, and their throats cut in a shocking manner,
the head of the youngest being all but severed from his
body.

PERFECTION. -- We are always happy in directing
the attention of our readers to whatever is of general
utility. On the present occasion, we would refer to art
article which has reached the enviable state of perfection,

and that is in regular use in every family, viz., starch,
the qualities of which depend not only on the ability and
experience of the manufacturer, but also on the superiority
of the article from which it is manufactured. We refer
to the Glenfield Patent Starch,
_manufactured by Mr.

Wotherspoon,of Glasgow, at the Glenfield Starch Nirorla
-• •

It is now in almost universal use, and recommended by

I,
the most eminent authorities. The Queen, Prince Albert,
and the nobility and gentry of Britain have the finest of
their goods finished with it, while its merits are equally
appreciated, and in daily use, by the middle and working
classes of the community. In proof of the varied and
superior excellencies of the Glenfield Patent Starch, we
here insert a copy of the testimonial, of Her Majesty's
Laundress :—" The Glenfield Patent'Powder Starch has
now been used in that department of the royal laundry
where all the finest goods are finished for Her Majesty,
Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, and I have much
pleasure in informing yori that it has given the highest
satisfaction. M. Weigh, Laundress to Her Majesty.
Royal Laundry, RiAmond, near London, 15th May,
1851." We could also copy similar recommendations
from most of the laundresses of the principal nobility and
gentry, beside's a testimonial from 1,500 of the retailers
of the artjefe in the principal towns in this country. lire
have therefore the greatest confidence in recommending
all our readers to make a trial of this very
_ tosuperior
article, which we are certain is all that is required
con-
vince every one of its rare qualities, so clearly
in the royal testimonial, and which we think set forth
will induce
as all articles brought
manufacturer
our readers to adopt it for daily use,
to perfection by the skill and industry
object in view
other
is imitated by such as have noof the
d•. to the •
"mposing upon the unwary
article, with the intention of Imposing palm off a worthless article, labelled similar genuine
havebeen many obscure
who have endeavoured manufacturers of starch .
their inferior productions by ' •
or casual purchaser. There ' ,
upon the public giving the
outside appearance of their packets a colourable imitation
y make even a colourable
of the original (they, owever, fall very far short of
Starch).he The Lord Chancellor,
strech
Glenfieldwhich t
however, last session granted the maker (Mr. Wother-
spoon) two injunctions to restrain these fraudulent
igmiviitnagtiotnheof
practices, with costs against the ff d
o en ers. The report
of these trials appeared in the • Tones and other London
papers at the time, July 29 and 30. Our readers, to
prevent imposition, should see that the maker's name
(R. Wotherspoo ) n is on each packet. We see this starch
is sold in every shop in town.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, A UNIVERSAL
REMEDY FOR OLD WOUNDS AND OBSTINATE SORES.
Mr. John Mackie, proprietor of the Northern Ensign.
Wick, informs Professor Hollow y, Water, dated April
3d, 1851, "That he is aware ni,rfilinerous instances in
which Holloway's ointment,and pills have been of the
greatest service to sufferers in that part of the country,
more especially as regards wounds of long standing, and
that lie could, if erinitted, give the names of many re-
spectable partie who have been entirely cured by their
sey
use." No f ily should be without a supply of these
excellentcrnedicines, which are so justly celebrated
through t the civilised world.