The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

DIED

On the 24th ovember, on board the Catherine Mitchell,
hence for Australia, of consuniption, aged 20, Thomas CattaloWs
late of Castle-street, Everton.
On the 10th January, at Port Jackson, Sydney, aged IS,
Gabriella Neil, fifth daughter of John R. Miles, late of Tran-
mere, Cheshire.

On the 11th February, at Melbourne, Australia, aged 19,
Isaacs, son of Mr. J. Stevens, Park-road.
On the 6th ult., at Lagos, on board the Forerunner, Mrs.
Paley. The deceased and her husband, a clergyman of the
Church of England, attached to the mission at Abeokuta, went
out with the Bishop of Sierra Leone in December last. Her
husband died there on the Ist of April.
On the 24th ult., aged 90, Mr. It. Wilson, White-hall,
Killington, near Kendal, father of Mr. W. Wilson, merchant,
Pembroke-place.

On the 25th ult., the Rev. S. Hall, rector of Middleton-
Cheney, rural dean of Brackley, and formerly chaplain to the
Duke of Clarence.

On the 25th ult., Miss Elizabeth Mitchelson, of this town.
On the 25th ult., at her residence, Elm-house, Wootton, aged
42, Elizabeth Ann, relict of the late Mr. Jonathan Phillips.
On the 26th ult., at London, aged 79, Mr. Culling Smith,
brother-in-law to the late Duke of Wellington.
On the 26th ult., at Lancaster, aged 54, the Rev. J. Hocken,
superintendent of the Lancaster Wesleyan Circuit.
On the 26th ult., at Claremont-terrace, Kirkdale, aged 64,
Elizabeth, wife of William Henderson.
On the 27th ult., whilst taking a warm bath at the Corn-
wallis-street Baths, aged 22, Mr. Frank Brough.

On the 27th ult., at Eastbourne, aged 74, Vice• Admiral Sir
F. Mason, K.C.8., of Wheler-lodge, Leicestershire.

On the 27th ult., suddenly, aged 56, Joseph Rylands, Esq.
On the 28th ult., aged 37, Mr. Robert Hughes, slater and
lasterer, Gill street.

On the 28th ult., at the house of his brother-in-law, Gaskelt
Johnson, Robert Jones, formerly of this town.

On the 28th ult., at Lisbon, on board the steam-ship Tagus,
on his return from Malaga, aged 28, Hardman Earle, jun ,
Esq., second son of Hardman Earle, Esq., of Allerton Tower.
On the 28th ult., at his residence, Breckfield-road South,
Mr. George Moore.

On the 29th ult., aged 44, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John
Brazier, cooper, Kent-square.
On the 29th ult., at the residence of his son, Mr. G. Lunt,
132, London-road, Thomas Lunt, aged 87, late of Maghull, in
this county.

On the 29th ult., at her residence, Park Cottage, St. Mabyn,
Cornwall, Sarah, relict of the late Joseph Harry, Esq., and
sister of the late Mrs. Miller, of this town.

On the 29th ult., at his residence, Richmond-row, aged 42.
Captain► Isaac Fletcher.

On the 30th ult., aged 47, Mr. S. D. M`Causland, master of
the Clarence Half-tide Dock.

On the 30th ult., aged 67, Mr. N. Scholefield, Fairclough-lane.
On the 30th ult., aged 75, Mr. J. Duckworth, Juvenal-street..
Ou the 30th ult., in Cemeas-street, aged 39, Mr. Robert B.
Taylor.

On the 31st ult., after a short illness, aged 47, Mary, the
wife of Mr. Wm. Grocott, letterpress-printer.
On the 31st ult., at Birkenhead, aged 34, Elizabeth, wife of
Mr. Wm. Thomas, New Market Inn, Birkenhead.

On the Ist inst., Alice Rose Haselwood, infant daughter of
Mr. James Parr, of Kenyon-terrace, Claughton, Birkenhead.
On the Ist inst., at Lessey-villas, Rock Ferry, aged 51, M.
Francis Morrish.

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Hon.
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Dutton, eldest daughter of Lord Sberborne,
On the let inst., at her residence, Chatham-Place, Edge-hill,
aged 64, Hannah, relict of the late James Crosfield.
On the Ist inst., at his residence, Norfolk street, aged 46,
Captain John Harrison, of this port, greatly regretted by his
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on the 3rd inst., at Waterloo, aged 32, George Etches, Esq.
On the 3rd inst., at the residence of Mrs. Caine, Chatham
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aged Mrs. Sproston, formerly of Chester.
the 3rd S 3, Mrs.
Jane Basil, infant daughter of Mr. T. S,
solicitor.
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On the Gth inst., at his residence, 57, Hamilton-square,
Birkenhead, William Stevenson, Esq., surgeon, aged 61. The
deceased gentleman had practised in Birkenhead for a period
extending over nearly forty years, having commenced at a time
when scarcely more than two or three houses represented that
great and increasing community. It was not generally known
that in early life he had served his country in a military capa-
city, having for several years held a commission in the 60th
Rifles, and having been present in some of the most important
engagements of the Peninsula, ending with Toulouse, for which
he had received a medal and several bars. At the conclusion
of the war, he settled at Birkenhead, where he practised both
as surgeon to the public institutions,, and in his private capacity,
with uninterrupted success. Though of exceedingly retiring
habits and great modesty, and one whom it was necessary well
to know before he was appreciated, he 'had won a large circle of
admirers, by his skill and kind attention—had attracted to him
his professional brethren, by his distinguished aid and counsel
—and has left a large social connexion to lament a departure
as much deplored as it was unexpected, lie has left three Soll§
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OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENI

MONDAY MORNING.
THE great and important event of the week has been,
as you can readily surmise, the breeze in the Ministry
occasioned by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Anti-Popery speech
on Wednesday morning, and the tendered resignation of
their offices in the Administration of Mr. KEOGH, Soli-
citor-General for Ireland, Mr. SADLEIR, junior Lord of
the Treasury, and Mr. MONSELL, Clerk of the Ordnance,
three as choice spirits as the Romish Church ever fur-
nished to the British House of Commons. Lord JOHN,
naturally incensed at some violent declamation in the
course of the debate on Mr. MOORE'S modest motion for
the utter annihilation of the Irish Church establishment,
and the appropriation of the revenues of that institution
to the purposes of the POPE and his clergy, took occasion
to declare his conviction that if the priesthood of the sons
of Rome were armed with more power and privileges than
they now possessed, both the one and the other would be
used to check the spread of those principles which it was
the proud boast of the British Constitution to propagate,
and that their best energies would be devoted to check the
progress of civil and religious liberty. Consequent on
this declaration, the Irish triumvirate sent in their re-
signation, embodied in a letter to Lord ABERDEEN, but I

am in a position to state, that not only have those re-
signations not been received, but that Lord ABER-
DEEN, in his capacity of Prime Minister, has repudiated,
disavowed, and condemned, on the part of the Cabinet,
Lord JOHN'S " offensive" language, expressed regret that
it should have been used, and requests that it has not
been considered as in any manner receiving the sanction
or support of the Government. Lord JOHN, too, has
been brought on his marrow bones. lie declares that he
went further in the heat of debate than he intended ;
moreover, that his language has been misunderstood, and
that he withdraws all that the least Papistical member of

the House could object to in his speech. What a humilia-
ting position for the ex-Premier of England ! Forced to
eat his own words by three subordinate officers who, not
twelve months ago, kicked him from the high position of
Prime Minister. But even here the determination of the
triad does not stop. They must have a public apology for
the insult offered to the Church of Rome, and they
suggest this should be made either in Parliament or by the
publication of the correspondence with Lord ABERDEEN.
THE list of distinguished individuals selected by the Earl
of MIRBY, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to
have the honour of scarlet gowns conferred to grace the
installation, was much canvassed at the Athenmum Club
when it—the list— came to town from Oxford the other

day. It is a wise and unwise selection—questionable here,
sensible there, but all through is predominant " Caw me
and I'll caw thee." They stuck by him in his Govern-
ment, and he acknowledges it. Mostly all of them are
scholars—some not severely so,—and hence I think not
entitled to the " Red." In the heap we find J. T. F.
MFrFORD, Lord REDESDALE ; he is, certainly, one of the
most unaccountable beings I have known during the last
twenty years and more. We call him " the waiter." He is
the son of the first baron, who was Lord High Chancellor
of Ireland some thirty years ago, of whom more anon.
The epithet " waiter," above bestowed on the late Lord
Chancellor's son, is entirely due to Lord REDESDALE'S
manners and mode of dress. No offence—far from it—to
our thousand and one friends who minister graciously in
hostelries. Winter and summer Lord REDESDALE'S
daily costume comprises an indifferent hat, ditto pair of
shoes, white cotton stockings, black trowsers (apparently
slops), yellow waistcoat,—these vulgarities having over
them a blue coat and brass buttons. No gloves—red
hands. This is Lord REDESDALE, Chairman of Com-
mittees in their Lordships' House, with a salary of £5,000
a-year. He is a fine, fresh-looking lad ; though close
upon fifty, the greatest physiologist that ever traced exis-
tence animal, from Zoophyte to Man, would say that
REDESDALE is not more than half the fifty aforesaid.
There he is in the House of Lords, from day to day, the

same verdant youth. He belongs to a family of some
literary position—l may not hesitate to say distinction.
His uncle was the historian of Greece ; his sister, the Miss
MITFORD, made village life popular wherever circulating
libraries are to be found. The present lord's father was a
good old Conservative before that honoured appellation
was found necessary by the degenerate character of later
times. He loved the Crown of England and the Irish
people—the latter to a fault. He was, however, a great
dawdle sometimes in the House. During the last stage
of the proceedings on the Roman Catholic Emancipation
Bill, old Lord RCDESDALE came forward to the table of
their Lordships' House—he was then about SO years of
age,—and, as I have hinted, very loyal. " My lords," he
said, " I like the Trish people—l have lived a long time
among them (he weeps—boo-hoo !)—I say I have lived a
long time among them—they are good-hearted people
(boo-hoo again); but I cannot (boo-boo) vote for this
bill." Such was the first baron when I knew and res-
nected him ; his son, the present baron, about to receive
the scarlet gown of the doctor from Lord DERBY, is in-
comprehensible.
I referred to Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE in
recent communication, not, I beg to assure your readers,
in terms of disrespect, far from it ; although I considered
it by no means complimentary to the cause of slave eman-
cipation that she should appear evidently the " observed
of all observers," doing a little paltry knitting, the value
of which could not all the evening amount to a groat.
Well, she has had plenty of " lionising" since at concerts
and confabs, city meetings and meetings of the legislature
—take, par example, the first working day of the week, li
Monday. In the morning she was to be found at that
noisy scene in the Guildhall, where Sir JOHN KEY, who
has worked for the corporation for thirty years without
receiving a halfpenny of wages, was trying to get in his
old age—time out of mind the boon to aldermen—the
city chamberlainship, was opposed by one of the Guildhall
clerks, Mr. B. SCOTT, who all through, as well as his father
before him, had received and still receives a thumping
salary for his clerkship work ;—however the alderman has
got in, and Mrs. H. B. STOWE was there to see. After
that she had a bit of luncheon ; and, at five o'clock, we
have her again in public in the House of Peers, under the
shadow of the Duchess of SUTHERLAND'S wing,—that
noble lady's brother, the Earl of CARLISLE, having a
bootless petition to present from the women of Kingston,
Jamaica, against Cuban slavery. Petitions on this nefa-
rious subject to our houses of legislature are so many bits
of useless parchment. The question of slavery at Cuba
is blinked ; the treaty—that word of promise—is affected
by the court of Spain to be kept to the ear, but it is
broken to the hope, and will continue to be, so
long as Cuba appears to flourish like the wicked. The
ladies of Kingston and their lords are now impoverished
by the legislation of the last twenty years ; the Cubans
are wallowing in ill-gotten wealth. We all know it,—
deplore their practices, yet can't prevent them. The Earl
of CARLISLE made a good speech on the occasion ; he
could not do otherwise, considering the question and the
man ; he got very little from CLARENnoN, the minister,
in answer ;—the cruisers were at work,—they had taken
certain slave ships lately,—the present Captain-General
of Cuba was a good sort of man enough. and was deeply
alive to the iniquity of the trade. Of course he is ; but, if
there were twenty such Captains-General at Cuba, so
long as the riff-raff of the world, from the crimp to the
murderer, is allowed to reside and trade in Cuba, the slave
will find he is purchased. The average price is about
£lOO a head ; when such a bonus is held out, good-bye to
your treaty and protocol ! There will be a row in that
part of the globe before long. Lord BROUGHAM, who
looked remarkably well, had a word or two to say, and
the petition was laid on the table. _

Shortly afterwards the head of the Government, the
Earl of ABERDEEN, entirely lost his temper. They were
talking about that almost worthless borough, Maldon ;
and the Earl of DERBY, who never loses an opportunity
of twitting the coalition Cabinet, charged ABERDEEN
with allowing his subs. to laugh and sneer, when they
ought to be quiet. " What do you mean ?" said ABER.
DEEN, very wroth; "I have no subordinates that I know
in this house, who have not a right to laugh or cry if they
like." The scene was capital, and Mrs. STOWE appeared
to enjoy the brawl. In the House of Lords the Earl of
DERBY ought to have remembered that there are no
subordinates—they are all peers—not even recognising
the LORD CHANCELLOR as more—the lowest baron sitting
on the woolsack, if be so like, alongside the CHANCELLOR.
The same question about the aspect of affairs between
Russia and Turkey was in both houses on the same even-
ing. The Earl of HARDWICKE had made a long speech
when CLARENDON came in and gave an answer containing
nothing. In the House of Commons, Mr DISRAELI
made a long speech on the same subject, his question
being contained in one line at the end. L7d JOHN
RUSSELL'S answer was the Earl of CLARENDON S. Ni'!
Concert and confab ! Of the former let me give you a
specimen from the " true avouch," &c. No one surely
can find fault for shooting folly as it flies ; if any there are
so thin-skinned, so mercifully sentimental, let him or her
come forward and condemn me. I hate what we English
know well by the term humbug ; I hate the semblance of
it in man or woman,—seldom we find it in the latter; but
when it occurs among the fair sex, there's no standing it.
Now, somebody ought to tell Mrs. STOWE the meaning of
the word humbug ; whether she is a clever woman or not,
I cannot tell ; and, indeed, care not. Of this lam cer-
tain, she shows herself to be a most sensible woman, by
holding her tongue in public. We have it on the highest
authorities, Scripture and SHAKESPEARE, that a fool is
^minted wise when he holds his peace. Mrs STOWE
. • oubliO, and up to a certain point
truth referred to, of
.„) gives the converse at a
market dinner, when a lusty specimen of the English
farmer sat down to the roast beef and pudding—ate—said
nothing, till the Norfolk dumplings came on—confound
them, they nearly choked me one day after snipe-shooting
-the farmer rent the veil of his respectability ; for,
ing the aforesaid indigestible balls, he exclaimed, in
-y, " them's the jockies for me." The illusion
instanter. Now, Mrs. STOWE holds her tongue
That's right. On Tuesday morning she came out
strong. No mistake. A black female, named in the bills
Miss GREENFIELD—how English !—had got herself ad-
vertised for a concert. To everyone acquainted with the

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" divine art," it is a stern fact, that all natural talent, as
it is called, without cultivation, only renders the singer
ridiculous,—that, in short, there must be musical edu-
cation, as well as a mind capable of receiving it. I know
little of the capabilities of the black people's minds,—l
dare say their hearts are soft and kind occasionally, though
I would rather not try them ; but we'll let that pass.
Miss GREENFIELD came out under the auspices of Mrs.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, and eke the Duchess of
SUTHERLAND, and Lady PALmEnsroN ; the two latter I
know are musically given. The dingy debutante sang
something to begin with about " Little Eva," of course,
and of course also at the request of Mrs. H. B. S. After-
wards Miss GREENFIELD sang two or three other bits—
among them BISHOP'S simple ballad, " Home, sweet
Home !" I cannot describe the singing, because I can-
not call it music, any more than I designate the tom-tom
of the pestilential islands equal to that drum of the
Guards, which in the March in Saul made all hearts wail
at St. Paul's, last November. Some musical critics of
experience say that Miss GREENFIELD'S voice has a range
of three octaves ; by St. CECILIA she did not measure by
octaves ! Again, they say Miss GREENFIELD went from
Din the bass clef, to Bin alt. Perhaps she did. I have
heard of sounds resembling something between a spit
and a whistle. I make no application in the present case.
One thing is quite certain, that when Miss GREENFIELD
came out with her low notes, you certainly would have
taken her fora man ! I have known British voices do th 3
same, a fortune having been laid out in all the adventi-
tious aids of education—their owners withered and died !

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, my little man, I injured you
much last week by slightly referring to your apparent ig-
norance of the provisions of Lord LYNDHURST'S Altera-
tion of Oaths Bill. Now since it has been propounded—
debated—it is valueless. During the whole of last week
it was stated that it was a bill to open a side door for the
admission of the Jews. At the clubs, among M.P.s
and Crown lawyers, this was understood, but Lord JOHN,
when spoken to about it, answered that he did not know
its provisions. This was well on the part of his lordship,
and does not negative my expressed feelings last week in
reference to the proceedings of the deputation, the mem-
bers of which being aware of Lord LYNDHURST'S marital
Jewish connexion, fancied it was to let the " ancient
people" in at the fag end of the session. This was made
entirely manifest on Thursday night, by the amendment
of Lord ELLENEOROUGH, to be read a second time that
day six months, being carried. The debate was coldly
historical; BROUGHAM, during its continuance, contented
himself by jumping like a grasshopper from one side of
the house to the other, and finally resting himself beside
CRANWORTH on the woolsack, for which he seems to have
an undying penchant. Lord LYNDHURST looks remark-
ably well, and his friends are glad to look at his still
manly face, now not disfigured by the ugly black barnacles
which he was obliged to wear for the sake of his eyes in
the early part of the session.
Most commonly on Wednesday, if it be dry, hon.
members, with the exception of your MIALLS, HUMES,
PELLATTS, let me add the honoured name of JOSEPH
BROTHERTON—SPRING Rice, as he is sometimes called,
for his love of the Asiatic fare—and two or three minis-
terial hacks, red tapists,—honourable members. I say,
with these exceptions, prefer the newfangled Arcadia of
Regent's-park, or the dusty rides about Rotten-row, to
visiting the House of Commons. The Lords, being
gentlemen, never meet on Wednesday. Thanks to his
Grace the late Duke of WELLINGTON, who, for some
good cause or another, had such a repugnance to meet
his peers on that day, that their lordships, in deference to
the DUKE,' made a " rule absolute" not t) sit at all.
Some said that the illustrious Duke had had a great de-
liverance—memorable—on that day of the week. hence
his consecration of it. I know, personally, he held it
almost sacred. The Commons, however, always meet,
and on last Wednesday there was a brave muster, the
third reading of the Judges' Exclusion Bill being fixed for
that day. This is an absurd title for a bill which only
goes to exclude Sir JOHN ROMILLY, Master of the Rolls,
from a seat in the House of Commons. Lord HOTHAM,
its author, is a popular fellow in the house, and carried
the bill through every stage up to the third reading, much
to the annoyance of Ministers. Without discussing the
points of the bill in these conversational lines, I at once
say it is a foolish, uncalled-for, and useless bill upon
that I will pledge my forensic education, long parliamen-
tary experience, and what is more, stake my conservative
principles. Never mind. Lord HOTHAM, as I have
stated, carried the measure up to the third reading. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL was determined to do something great—
to kick the bill to Tophet. He did so And by what
means ? Those not in the secret could not comprehend
the fun of the thing ; rusty supporters of the Govern-
ment, over their shy green pea soup, at the Reform Club,
chuckled and laughed ; what's the rig ? Out it came,
and, oh, to what base uses may we come, Horatio !
Lord JOHNNIE had sent a circular note—a bill of the play,
in short, setting forth. in good Victoria theatre style, that
at four o'clock Mr. MACAULAY would rise in his place, in
the House of Commons, and make a magnificent speech,
and that hon. members were expected to be there to wit-
ness the performance. Now, anotherJonNri te—MITCHELL
of the French plays—had RACHEL on her legs at his bijou
theatre thenight before, and JOHNNIE MITCHELLdid in the
first instance whatJoHNNIE RUSSELL did in the second —he,
the entrepreneur, sent his circular, stating that the MA-
CAULAY of the French Theatre, RACHEL, would appear as
Ph&tre, precisely at nine o'clock. Time was thus saved
by parties coming in at the nick. Lord JOHN succeeded,
and Lord HOTHAM'S exclusion of the Master of the Rolls
Bill was, for the first time, voted out of the house. MA.
CAULAY made every decent speech, but itwas to oblige the
leader of the house. MACAULAY did the thing per order.
He is still looking very ill—a world too fat ; and then the
whites of his eyes Saffron-Waldon t What lots of
ha'pence he must come out with of a morning ; though
he don't belong to the lacquered boot-school, he rarely
uses a crossing without giving the bare-legged varlet who
keeps it a halfpenny. One likes to see this. He still
continues his solitary walks—l mean alone, for you will
find him reading his little tome—generally a latin author
—in the most densely-populated and " unkempt" parts of
London.

COMMERCL4L AND MONETARY NETT S.

MONDAY NIGHT.
AT the very time when every branch of industrial
activity is enjoying an almost unexampled state of
prosperity, when employment is ample, and yet
speculation kept within the verge of safety, when
there are no foreign loans to drain the country of
its surplus capital, nor gigantic railway operations
to exhaust the resources of small shareholders,
when apprehensions have been entertained more
for the consequence of a plethora than a defi-
ciency of the precious metals, there is, notwith-
standing, a degree of alarm among our leading
capitalists, which has led to another tightening of
the screw by the great money corporation of the
Bank of England. It is not easy to find an osten-
sible cause for this movement, but it is clear that,
in spite of the successive benefits of gold from
Australia and other places, there is a gradual dimi-
nution of the stock of bullion in the Bank coffers,
as shown by the weekly returns ; and at the usual
meeting on Thursday, the Directors raised the
maximum rate of discount on good paper to three-
and-a-half per cent., making a third rise of half
per cent. within little more than six months. There
was a time when such an announcement would
have created but a slight impression out of doors,
but the money market has become more sensitive
to such changes, and their effect is felt in multifarious
operations. The Funds have sensibly diminished in
value until Consols are below par, and the hope of
effecting a Financial saving by a reduction of the
interest of the National Debt has been, for the pre-
sent at least, set aside. It is now placed beyond a
doubt, that the scheme of the CHANCELLOR OF
THE EXCHEQUER to effect a conversion of a por-
tion of the National Debt, is a positive failure, and
the mode by which he has attempted to carry it
out will tend to increase the difficulty. Of the
petty stocks, amounting to nine millions and a half,
the voluntary acceptances of the proposed new
stocks do not reach one million and a half, so
that he will have to provide more than eight mil-
lions to pay off the dissentients; and by this
means add to the embarrassment. It is in vain
that The Times invents a lame excuse in the non-
arrivals of expected gold from Australia, and the
unsettled state of the affairs of Turkey ; to such
contingencies we are always subject. Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S inability for the task he has undertaken
is self-evident, and we are now—in the midst of
plenty—feeling the effects of a tightness in the
money market. The decline exhibited in the public
funds is also felt in other descriptions of invest-
ment, and must ultimately have an effect upon
commercial operations, though it is said that the
course pursued by the Bank Directors has not been
generally responded to by the discount houses, and
that money for commercial purposes was compara-
tively easy.
The reports from the manufacturing districts
show that, although the unsettled state of political
affairs on the Continent has tended to lessen the
demand, prices continue firm. The slackness,
however, chiefly applies to the Foreign trade, as
the demand for the Home trade has been compara-
tively active. Much apprehension is, however, felt
of a threatened strike of the operatives for an
increase of wages ; and, should the men persist in
their insane intention to turn out, it will prove a
serious obstacle to business. At Stockport the
demand is for an increase of wages to the extent of
ten per cent., while in several other places the
movement is for short time, and the hands have
threatened to cease labour at six o'clock.

The reduction of the Tea duty to Is. 10d. per lb.,
according to the resolution of the House of Com-
mons, has led to great activity, and clearances at
the Customs have been effected to a very large
amount. The increased demand has, however, led
to an improvement in price, which has been still
further augmented by the intelligence of the rebel-
lion in China; so that the public will not enjoy all
the benefit of the reduction.

The return from the Bank of England, for the
week ending the 28th of May, gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits .. .. £5,606,412; Decrease £209,065
Other deposits .. .. 11,935,583 ; Decrease 17,915
Rest .. .. .. .. 3,110,204; Decrease 46,373
On the other side of the account—

Government securities £13,124,653 ; The same as before.
Other securities .. 14,021,714 ; Decrease 346,549
Notes unemployed .. 8,871,860; Increase 137,830
The amount of notes in circulation is £22,582,030,
being a decrease of £56,725 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,944.547, show-
ing a decrease of £5,977, when compared with
the preceding return.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued .. £31,453,890 Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin& bu1n.17,431,736
Silver bullion .. 19,154
--
£31,453,890
BANKING DEPARTMENT

£31,453,890

Prop.'s eapita1.£14,553,000 Gov. seeurities.£l3,l24,6s3
Rest 3,110,204 Other securities 14,021,714
Public deposits. 5,606,412 Notes ........ 8,871,860
Other deposits. 11,935,583 I Gold & silt'. coin 490,657
7-day, &c. bills. 1,303,685

£36,508,884_1

£36.508,884

Events have been hard upon our Sisi
MARKET this week. Though there has been but
a small amount of business in the aggregate, yet
the fluctuations in prices have been great. The
raising of the rate by the bank on Thursday coming
quite unexpectedly upon the market, produced
something like a panic, from which it scarcely
recovered on Friday. A depression, however, still
more serious, was caused on Saturday by the war-
like news from the east; this second shock had the
effect of inducing several bear sales, but from
what we can learn very little real stock has been
sold. To-DAY prices have advanced from one to
two per cent., owing to there having been a small
amount of real buying ; the tone of the market,
however, is not strong, and the feeling fidgetty.
The demand for our local stocks continues, and
some extensive transactions have taken place in
them. We annex this day's prices :—Blackburn,
6 15-16; Caledonians, 331 4:=l 4; Chester and
Holyhead, 224 ; Eastern Counties, 13 1-16 13 ;
East Lancashire, 18 3-16; Lancashire and York-
shire, 7744 4 81;- n 4; London Stock, 115' ;
Midland Stock, 711 724 4 4 4 1-; North British,
; Dover Stock, 214 4; York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 174 4 ; York and North Midland,
30 ; Shrewsbury and Chester gar. S per cent, 18.
COTToN.—Until within the last two or three
days there was an active demand at full rates, but
owing to the uncertainty of affairs in the East, and
the apprehension of a turn-out in the manufacturing
districts, there has since been a lull, and but little
business doing ; but prices are not lower, except
in attempts to force sales, which could only be
accomplished at a decline of about 1-16 d. per lb.
To-DAY the market was firm, and the sales
amounted to 5,000 bales, of which about 500 were
for export at previous prices. From Messrs.
HERMANN Cox and Co.'s report, we extract the
following:-
- -

" The political disputes on the Continent, and the
Bank raising their rate of discount from 3 to n per cent.,
have momentarily checked business ; however, as there
is every prospect of peace being preserved, and as the
higher rate of interest will only check dangerous specu-
lative undertakings, and keep money in this country,
trade will ultimately benefit by it. There is no doubt but
for these causes we should have had an advance in our
market. Our stock of American Cotton is now 549,500
bales against 413,700 last year ; but the quantity afloat
being much less than at the same time last year, from this
time forward there will be a gradual decrease, and in a
few weeks hence it will be again below that of last year."
PRODUCE.—The market for Sugar has been
rather quiet, and a slight decline in prices has been
submitted to; the sales amount to 600 hhds. 8.P.,
7,000 bags Bengal, and 4,000 bags Mauritius. Of
Foreign, the sales on the spot are confined to 600
bags yellow Ceara, and 60 hhds. Surinam. The
arrivals of Molasses have been considerable, and
buyers requiring a concession in price, the sales on
the spot have not been large. The Coffee market is
very dull, and the only sales reported are a few
bags St. Domingo at 445., and Rio at 41s. 9d. per
cwt. Of Rice, 150 tierces Carolina sold at 245. to
245. 6d., and 3,500 bags Bengal at 11s. to 11s. 6d.
Rum is somewhat firmer. In Tea, there has been a
firm but not an animated market, the time and
attention of the trade being taken up with
clearing at the reduced duty, (Is. 10d. per lb.)
Speculators have operated to some extent in com-
mon and blackish leaf Congous, at full previous
prices. Saltpetre is heavy of sale, only 350 bags
sold, 41 refraction, at 275. per cwt. For Rosin
(American), there has been a good demand, and
3,700 brls. have been sold at 4s. 6d. to 1 ls. 6d. per
cwt. Hides exceedingly dull, and only a small
portion found buyers ; wet salted Ceara at ti-d. to
Calcutta Kips at 91-d. for good dry salted, and
Sineapore Buffalo at 3d. per lb. Olive Oil, in
limited request, and in some instances some conces-
sion in prices has been submitted to. Nothing
done in pale Seal Oil; Cod Oil quiet at previous
rates; Sperm, £9O per tun. Linseed Oil in mo-
derate request, at 28s. 6d. per cwt. ; pale Rape Oil
dull of sale. American Spirits of Turpentine, 475.
per cwt., in bond ; British, 48s. to 495. There has
been a good demand for Palm Oil, and 850 tons on
the spot sold at £34 10s. to £35, and 150 tons to
arrive at 435 per ton, Tallow dull at 4Th, 6d, to

to 475. per I

48s. for Petersburgh Y.C., and at 45
cwt. for South American. Baltic Hemp offering at
lower prices. 2,000 bales Jute have been sold to
arrive at previous prices, and 500 on the spot at
£l7 17s. to £2l 12s. per ton. TO-DAY, Importers
continuing to meet the demand for Sugar rather
freely, the sales, including Saturday's business,
consist of 200 hhds. Barbadoes at 335. to 395. 120
hhds. Trinidad at 325. 6d. to 355. 6d., and 500
bags Benares at 37s to 375. 6d. per cwt. Nothing
has transpired in Molasses, Ruin, or Coffee, but
600 bags Bahia Cocoa are reported at 275., and
800 bags Para, of an old import, at 275. 6d. per
cwt. 2200 bags Bengal Rice sold at los. 9d. to

1 le. 3d., and 100 bags Saltpetre at 275. 6d. per
cwt. We have less doing in Tea, but quotations
remain unaltered. From Messrs. T. and H.
LITTLEDALE and Co.'s circular we extract the
following :
" SUGAR.—We have taken some pains to arrive at the
probable supply of Sugar from all the producing countries
for the present year, and find that it will little exceed that
of last, whilst the stocks in this country show a deficiency
of nearly 40,000 tons, and those on the Continent of
20,000. The consumption of this article is greatly on the
increase, from the improved condition of the lower classes
in this country and in America—so that we may reason-
ably look for present prices being maintained. From
Porto Rico, Brazils, and Louisiana, we may look for an
increased supply of some 50,000 tons ; but from our own
colonies, east and west, there will be a deficiency of
30,000 tons, which would leave a surplus of 20,000 tons ;
but it is generally admitted that there will be a consider-
able falling off in the production from Beetroot, probably
fully to this extent.
" TEA.—During the past fortnight we have had a firm,
but not a very active market; speculators have purchased
common and blackish leaf to fine Congous. Fine Moning
kinds are held for advanced prices. Second Orange Pe-
koes in good request, but few offering. Common to fair
Scented Capers more sought after : quotations have an
upward tendency. Of Greens, holders, generally, are
unwilling sellers, unless at extreme prices. During the
last few days spurious Gunpowder has been in better
request. Further advices from China state that the rebels
were still threatening Nankin, and that there is no pros-
pect of a speedy improvement in trade. The reduced
duty, say ls. 10d. per lb., was received by the Customs'
authorities on Wednesday last : on that day duty was
paid in this port on 435,394 lbs."
WooL.—The market has again been inactive
during the week, The tightness of the money mar-
ket, and the political news from Constantinople,
has tended to diminish the little activity evincible.
The recent arrivals being nearly all held for the
auction sales of Thursday and Friday next, there
are no transactions of any moment to report.
Prices, so far, are pretty firmly maintained. Im-
ports for the week, 1656 bales, viz., 28 Mediterra-
nean ports, 262 United States, 701 East India, 480
Buenos Ayres, 139 Irish, 40 Scotch, 6 Coastwise.
English and Irish—for the former there was a fair
amount of competition, and prices very firmly
maintained at the York and Doncaster markets :
for the latter the market is a little easier. Skin—a
few inquiries, but not much doing. The clip of
Yorkshire Wool is now beginning to come to mar-
ket, and is taken freely at 17d. to 18d. for farmers'
parcels.
Messrs. W. GREAME and Co. say :
There has again been an active demand for most des-
criptions of Wool, and—considering the lightness of
stocks—a fair amount of business has been done, at prices
fully supporting the late advanced rates. The new clip of
British and Irish Wools is now beginning to come into
the market, the few parcels sold have realised very high
rates, from 20 to 30 per cent. advance on prices current
this time last year; it is, however, too early to give any
decided opinion as to the result of the new clip generally,
but from the extreme lightness of stocks in the market of
old Wools, and the very large consumption going on in
the manufacturing districts, it is probable that high prices
will rule for some time to come.
Messrs. HUGHES and RONALD Say :
A healthy tone continues to pervade every branch of
the Wool trade, and sales to a considerable extent have
been made in this market of foreign, both on the spot and
afloat, at well-supported rates ; there has, however, not
been quite so much done during the last ten days in con-
sequence of the public sales going forward in London.
A general impression had prevailed that a higher range
would be established at the opening, but, while there is
little quotable deviation to notice, still, taking into ac-
count that the condition on the average is defective, prices
are certainly higher than at the previous sales for all good-
conditioned parcels. The present high prices of all kinds
of home Wools has necessarily led to an extended demand
for foreign, which to some extent may be considered a
substitute. Good long-stapled Egyptian and Oporto have
been much inquired for, and are readily saleable; as are
also all Wools of a similar class, but the stocks are only
limited.
Messrs. ABRAM GARTSIDE and Co. say:—
" The consumption of Wool continues on a general
and extensive scale, and as stocks are decidedly low, and
receipts moderate, prices have been on the average firmly
maintained, and in many cases in favour of the seller.
That portion of this season's clip of the home-growth
which has already been shorn, has met with considerable
competition, at 10 to 20 per cent. advance upon the value
at the commencement of the year. Our next series of
sales will take place on the 9th and 10th June, when 3 to
4000 bales will be brought forward."

THE " HERMANN:P—On Thursday, the United States
Mail steam-ship Hermann, Lieutenant Higgins com-
mander, arrived off Cowes with mails and passengers.
She sailed from New York on the 21st ult. After landing
her mails she proceeded to Bremen.
ABOUT 1,700 operative cotton porters held a meeting at
the Concert-hall, on Wednesday, when they agreed to
" strike," unless their demand of 4s. a day, as wages, was
agreed to in the course of the next week.
REDUCTION OF THE TEA DUTlES.—Wednesday was a
busy day at the Liverpool Custom-house, owing to the
reduction of the duties on tea. Permission to admit tea
at the new duties was received the evening before ; and,
though the Custom-house was opened an hour earlier
than usual, the clerks were kept busy all day. Amongst
the advantages of the new duty, one is that it gets rid of
the additional five per cent., and thus simplifies all calcu-
lation as to the duty, both at the merchant's office and the
Custom-house.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The Rev. Adam S.
Farrar, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, who
eight years ago gained the first M'Neile Exhibition at the
above institution, which entitles the holder to four years'
education at Oxford, is coming down to examine the can-
didates for the same exhibition this term. This is a cir-
cumstance which cannot fail to prove most agreeable and
interesting to all parties. Mr. Percival, who was edu-
cated at the Upper School of the Collegiate Institution,
stands first in classics, in the second year, at Emma-
nuel College, Cambridge, and has been elected a scholar.
We have just heard that the Rev. A. S. Farrar has recently
obtained the Senior Theological Prize for an essay on the
Trinity.
COMMITTAL OF A MARINE-STORE DEALER.—Patrick
Martin, a marine-store dealer, in Bridgewater-street, was,
on Friday, charged on suspicion of stealing sixteen yellow
metal bolts, the property of Messrs. Ashley, Clayton and
Co. It appears that twenty-seven bolts, which had been
taken out of the Ebba Brahe, were given out by the fore-
man yesterday week, to be repointed and headed. They
were finished that evening, and in the morning were sent
for by the master carpenter ; but in the course of the day
a message was sent up that only eleven had been received.
Inspector Kehoe stated that, from Mr. William Penn
Smith, Hanover-street, he ascertained that, on Wednes-
day, Martin had sold, along with a small quantity of
scrap metal, sixteen bolts, broken in pieces, weighing
altogether 3 qrs. 9 lbs., and for which he paid the market
price of 6d. per lb. The prisoner, in his defence, stated
that his boy had bought it in his absence, and brought
him forward as a witness; but he made such a rambling
statement, that the magistrates utterly discredited him,
and committed Martin for two months for not account-
ing, and also ordered his license as a marine-store dealer
to be taken trom him.

LANCASHIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.—This company
have applied for an injunction from the Vice-Chancellor's
Court to restrain Mr. Reddish, actuary, from prosecuting,
for £750, the sum alleged to be due for three-quarters of
a year's salary. It appeared that Mr. Reddish had en-
gaged with the British Insurance Company for seven
years, in 1847, at a yearly salary of £l,OOO. The busi-
ness of this company had been transferred to the Lanca-
shire Company, and the defendant having.notified his in-
tention to resign in 1852, it was accepted. He, however,
afterwards made a claim for the three-quarters salary.
The case was adjourned to Friday, when the Vice-Chan-
cellor said he could not possibly doubt that there might
be a very important question to be determined at the
hearing, if the plaintiffs could establish the equity stated
in their bill. Already it appeared that there was very
conflicting evidence as to what had passed at the time of
the agreement between the two companies. The order
which it would be proper to make would be, that the
British Assurance Company should give judgment in the
action which Mr. Reddish had brought against them, and
should undertake to deal with it as the court might direct ;
and that Mr. Reddish should be restrained from suing
out execution without the leave of the court.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.--At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided. There
were also present Messrs. Gladstone, Moss, Beckwith,
Nicholson, Johnson, and Halhead.—The medical officer
stated that the remarkably uniform rate of mortality.,
noticed in the last report, still continued, the deaths re-
gistered in the week having been 187, and the mortality
during the last six weeks having varied only from 185 to
190. The deaths in the parish, last week, were 140, and
in the out-townships 47. In the corresponding weeks for
the preceding five years the average was 199.—1 n the
proceedings of the sub-committee was given a list of
persons applying for additions to their salaries. Mr.
Gladstone asked how they could refuse those increases to
poor labouring men, after, on the previous day, the Coun-
cil had granted to the town-clerk an addition of £5OO per
year. Mr. Beckwith thought they had better throw the
public purse on the table, and let all help themselves. To
obtain any grants of money to improve the town was im-
possible, and the more they attempted to check the cur-
rent of extravagance, the more it increased. The Chair-
man : The more we do in that way, the Finance Com-
mittee does in the other. Mr. Beckwith observed that,
during the last year, the amount of the increase of salaries
to the servants throughout the Corporation amounted to
about £2o,ooo.—An application was read from the widow
of a poor man who had been in the service of the Corpo-
ration as a watchman, and who had died suddenly, to be
furnished with the means to go into some small way of
business. It was stated that there were no funds for
such a purpose. Mr. Beckwith : Of course not ; but
there is to give to the town-clerk an addition of £soo—a
yearly salary of £2500 ; There had been a poor market-
man, who had been in the service for fourteen years, who
made an application for an increase of £lO to his salary.
This, of course, was refused; yet to the town-clerk they
had given an addition of £lO per week,

POLICE COURT. :ESTERDAY

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—A man named Thomas
Quin was charged by Henry Jones with assaulting and
robbing him in Byrom-street. It appeared that, on
Saturday night last, about half-past eleven o'clock, the
prosecutor was standing in Byrom-street, when the
prisoner went up to him, and asked him to go with him
into a public-house and have a glass of ale. He consented
to do so, but soon after entering the house he got
frightened, and came out. The prisoner followed him,
and snapped at his watch chain, he then robbed him of
six shillings, and afterwards threw stones at him. The
prisoner was committed for three months.
ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Thomas Horrage, a man re-
siding in South-street, Toxteth-park, who had been re-
manded on a charge of attempting to cut his wife's
throat, was again brought up, but upon the production of
a surgeon's certificate that the prisoner's wife, although
convalescent, was still unable to appear, the prisoner was
again remanded. The particulars of the case are, that
about a week ago the prisoner went home, and his supper
not being ready when asked for, he took up a knife and
drew it across his wife's throat, inflicting a serious wound.
She was removed to the Southern Hospital, where she has
since been confined; and it is supposed that the shock
produced upon the system caused premature labour.

STEALING A GOLD RING.—A woman named Ann
Kenny was charged by Mr. Benjamin Rowland, pawn-
broker, of Vauxhall-road, with stealing a goad ring from
the prosecutor's shop in Vauxhall-road. She went into
the shop, and pretended she wanted to buy a ring ; but,
after looking at some, she left the shop without making a
purchase, and on doing so she dropped one of the rings
which had been submitted for her inspection. Committed
for three months.

COMMITTALS.—Ann Riley was charged by Mrs. Mary
Kewley, residing in Hill-street, Toxteth-park. with steal-
ing four quilts and a blanket from a bed-room in her house
on Saturday night last. She was committed for trial.—
CharlesHain, William Durye, and W. Kelly, were charged
by Mr. Lewis Hayman, a pawnbroker in Park-lane, with
cutting a pane of glass out of his shop window, and stealing
a£l note on Saturday last. They were all committed for
trial.

ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH.—The whole of the gallery is
now converted into free sittings for the poor.
MR. H. H. ROGERS'S series of piano-forte soirees con-
cluded on Tuesday. The performance was well and
fashionably attended.
THE PRINCE OF WALES steamer having undergone a
thorough repair, has resumed her station between here
and Bangor. Her speed is very much accelerated, and
she has twice made the passage in 3 hours and 55 minutes.
A MAN named Burnley, late butler to Jacques Myers,
Esq., Fazakerley, has been remanded by the magistrates,
before whom he was charged, on Tuesday, with having
robbed his master of a quantity of property when about to
leave his service.

TESTIMONIAL.—On Friday night a mother-of-pearl
purse, silver mounted, enclosing ten guineas, was pre-
sented by the members of the Apollo Glee Club, meeting
at the Adelphi Hotel, to Mrs. George Holden, as an
acknowledgment for her musical services.
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE TRAFALGAR DOCK.—Yester-
day morning, a man named Thomas Williamson, a rigger,
died suddenly in the rigging of the ship Balmoral, now
lying in the Trafalgar Dock. An inquest will be held
upon the body to-day.
RADICAL PREPARATIONS.-4t is rumoured that Mr.
Hankey, Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, or
Mr. Horseman, will be brought forward by the Liberal
party in the event of the unseating of Messrs. Turner
and Mackenzie.
MONEY ORDER OFFICES.—The following notice has
been issued from the General Post-office :—" On the 10th
of June major money order offices will be opened at the
receiving offices at Brownlow-hill, Mill-street, and Scot-
land-road, Liverpool." This arrangement will enable
parties to obtain money and money orders from the offices
above-named without the trouble of going to the General
Post-office.

THE LAMMAS ASSIZES.—North TVales and Chester
Circuit : The Lord Chief Justice of England, the Right
Honourable Lord Campbell.—South Wales and Chester
Circuit : The Hon. Mr. Baron Platt, his lordship joining
Lord Campbell at Chester, after proceeding through the
circuit of South Wales.—Northern Circuit : The Hon.
Mr. Justice Wightman, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Erle.
MARRIAGE CELEBRATION.—OR Wednesday, a sump-
tuous dinner was served up at the Brunswick Hotel, in
celebration of the marriage of Mr. George Holme, of the
firm of Arthur and George Holme, architects, &c., of
this town. About forty of the heads of departments in
connexion with the extensive establishment sat down, and
the evening was spent in a social and convivial manner.

VENTILATION OF ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—At the Coun-
cil meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Gladstone intimated that
he had received a letter from Mr. Cunningham, the
architect, whose acoustic arrangements, as well as plans
for ventilation, in the Phiharmonic-hall, have met with
such commendation. The letter had been temporarily
mislaid, but the information it contains is to be brought
before the Council at their next meeting.
LANCASHIRE MlLlTlA.—Artillery Corps : Adjutant
William Campbell, to serve with the rank of Captain ;
James Chambers Ferguson, A.M.M.8., to be Surgeon;
John Eneas Deans Campbell, gent., to be Second Lieut.
—Lancashire Hussars : Lord Otho Augustus Fitz-Gerald
(late of the Blues) to be Lieutenant.-3d. Regiment of
the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia : Thomas Arthur
Brandt, gent., to be Surgeon.
MERCANTILE LAW.—The Queen has appointed the
Right Hon. T. B. Smith, Master of the Rolls in Ireland ;
Sir Cresswell Cresswell, one of the Justices of the Court of
Common Pleas in England ; John Marshall, Esq., one of
the Senators of the College ofJustice in Scotland ; G. W.
Wilshere Bramwell, Esq., Q. C. ; James Anderson, Esq.,
Q. C. ; Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Thomas Baxley,
Esq., and Robert Slater, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Com-
missioners for inquiring into the expediency of assimila-
ting the Mercantile Laws of the United Kingdom.

THE BIRKENHEAD CONTEST has produced some strange
transformations and contrasts of colour. While the flag-
staffs of the various inns have rivalled the sky in their
exuberance of blue, many of the ratepayers have fluctuated
between the opposite hues of blue and red according as
they were influenced by the announcements which were
issued daily. We have heard of several electors decidedly
red who gradually faded until they became pink, and then
received such an infusion of blue that before the polling
day they were lilac, and this elegant flower became their
favourite breast knot.

THE EDUCATION BILL.—A deputation from !the Na-
tional Public School Association had an interview with
Lord John Russell, on Friday, for the purpose of stating
their views in relation to the subject of national educa-
tion. Among those who accompanied the deputation
were the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, Sir Joshua Walnas-
ley, Messrs. R. Cobden, W. A. Wilkinson, John Cheet-
ham, Richard Gardner, James Heywood, Jas. Simpson,
Foxhill Bank, Lancashire, and Walter Ferguson, Liver-
pool.
DISTRESSING CASE.—Much public sympathy has been
manifested on behalf of the widow and five 'children of
Thomas Williams, the master of the Speculation, who
was drowned on his voyage to this port. They are entirely
unprovided for; and as the poor woman is seriously af-
flicted with cancer, it is a case of real distress. A sub-
scription list has been opened in their behalf, and contri-
butions will be received at any of the newspaper-offices.

TfIE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.—The announcement
of the engagements for the Grand Concert of the Phil-
harmonic Society on Tuesday next has created quite a
flutter of expectation for the musical treat. Bottesini,
the greatest of players on the double bass, is on this in.
strument what Paganini was on the violin, and there is
something marvellous in the ease with which he produces
tones soft, sweet, and musical from such an unwieldy
thine. Herr Reichardt is a celebrated German tenor of
much sweetness and purity of tone. Mad'lle Bury is the
favourite of Queen Victoria's concerts, and can have no
better recommendation. Herr Pischek is a host in him-
self, and is too well known to require any introduction.
A PRUDENT (?) MAN.—At the Police-court, on Wed-
nesday, a dissipated-looking young man, named Alfred
Sturges Prudent, preferred a charge of robbery against
Margaret Hawthorn, a notorious woman of the town.
The prosecutor met the prisoner at the Albion public-
house, in Fox-street, where he became drunk and in-
sensible,. In the evening he got into a cab with the pri-
soner, who told the driver to go to Everton-road. At the
time he had about £45 on his person. The prisoner
ordered the driver to stop in Church-street, Everton, and
was getting out of the cab when officer 162 took her into
custody. In Bridewell, fuur X 5 notes, and a quantity of
gold, were found upon her, as well as several articles
claimed by the prisoner. The case was sent to the ses-
sions for trial.

POLICE INSPECTION.—On Friday, his worship the
Mayor, accompanied by Mr. Admiral Parker, visited
Seel-street station, where the constabulary were mus-
tered to receive him ; Captain Greig and the superintend-
ents were present. The men formed into two bodies, in
open ranks; and the firemen formed themselves at the
extreme end of the station. The force were in their new
clothing, recently issued, and a finer body of men were
perhaps never brought together. The Mayor, having
completed the inspection, complimented them on their
appearance, cleanliness, and obvious admirable discipline ;
and addressed them at some length on their duties, effi-
ciency, and the conduct expected of them. He afterwards
paid a well-deserved compliment to Captain Greig ; and
alluded in feeling terms to the reciprocal good feeling
which always subsisted between himself and the men is
his employ, numbering at times thrice that of the police
force. At the conclusion of his address his worship was
loudly cheered, a la police, by a loud and long rattling of
the sticks against the floor. The head.constable then
introduced the divisional superintendents, Messrs. Quick
recognised each, and
p assed
high om
iatntd,
tßoidheis SuperintendentsklNnadllkyer, Murphy, and Hew-
services of Mr compliment upon the efficiency and long
A LIVERPOOL GENTLEMAN AT NAPLES.—A corres-
pondent, writing from Naples on the 24th ult., says :
A Mr. William Henry Wilson arrived here recently
from Liverpool, by the screw•stearner Tiber, and, on
giving his passport to the police, he was inforeaedd he
could not be permitted to land, as he was suspected of
being a revolutionary emissary. Now, it appears the
police at Naples have the name ' Mr. William Wilson' in
their books as a suspected character (which has probably
been handed on to them by the Austrian or French
police,) and, without caring to inquire further than ob-
serving the similarity of names, they take upon themselves
to say to this gentleman, ' Thou art the man.' Mr. Wilson
is the son of an eminent manufacturer in Liverpool."

RESIGNATION OF KEOGH AND COIF ANY.—The ultra-
montane papers give credit to Messrs. Keogh, Monsell,
and Sadleir, for throwing up their respective situations ;
but their praise is qualified by the observation that not
one of these representatives of Romish priests should
have accepted office from the minister who gave a leading
position in the cabinet to the " Durham letter-writer," as
Lord John Russell is generally designated here. These
gentlemen are at the same time taunted with their votes
in favour of the budget of Mr. Gladstone, which will tax
Ireland to the extent of £600,000 a year more than she is
subiect to at present ; and furthermore, they are accusedof breaking up the Irish liberal party.

DR. WHALE is dangerously ill
tained of his recovery.

, but hopes are enter-

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 6.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
EASTERN AFFAIRS. •

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.—The Times' Paris corre-
spondent writes. " What the mission of M. de Nesse'rode
is, I have no positive information, but I have reason to
believe that Leuis Napoleon is in favour of the mediation
of England and Austria. Since yesterday morning, par-
ticularly, it has been remarked that the tone and 10:
guage of the Russian ambassador, in Paris, are much
more pacific than for some days previously." . _

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TURKEY--Constantinople letters of the 23rd ult. fur'
nish some details not given in the telegraphic despatches.
The Austrian charge d'affaires, at the request of the Eng:
lish and French ambassadors, had made several attempts
to effect a reconciliation between Menschikoff and tne
Porte, but the former was inexorable. The Turks were
making great warlike preparations. .

- - . •
The Standard says that the news received from the
Continent this morning is considered to bear a more
satisfactory construction than that previously to band'
with regard to the affairs of the East. • at
The Sun also states that the letters from the Continent
are of a decidedly more favourable complexion. From
Paris it is reported that money was very abundent las,
week on the Bourse, and that so many orders to purchar,
railway shares were seldom known to have been receive,'
within the like period, from small provincial capitalists..j
The Times' correspondent writes that the Sultan is sal,:
to have latterly shewn the greatest perturbation at t%
state of affairs, with symptoms of yielding to the demallud
of Russia. Should such an event occur, there vrove
be great fears of an outbreak in the Capital, since a strong
fanatical feeling has been aroused, owing to the late negc.
ciations with Austria and Prussia.
English ships were much wanted, and would be greeda
caught up at Ils. Exchange rapidly rising.
The Globe's correspondent reports that the despate,ll'
stating that the mediation of Austria in the Turkish affag'
is believed to have been fabricated in Paris for stock.'
jobbing purposes.
The Journal Pays has an important semi-officJili
article on the Eastern question. It states distnet;
that the Emperor of the French will not go ",
war with Russia alone; that the other Powers have the
same interest as himself in the Eastern question, and the
same obligations ; and that if there be a war, it must 11,
a war in which all the protecting powers of Turkey wou!
co-operate. The whole of the French Cabinet was
favour of a pacific policy.