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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court remains at Windsor, where the Duke of
Wellington and a perfect galaxy of illustrious foreigners
have been staying. On Wednesday, the Queen and
Prince Albert, attended by their guests, were present at
Ascot Heath Races, and afterwards the Queen gave a
grand banquet in St. George's Hall to the Grand Duke
Constantine of Russia, the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of Lucca, Prince
George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
the Prince of Leiningen, Prince F. Liechtenstein, and a
large number of illustrious and noble persons.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—It is her Majesty's intention,
at the sidvice of her physicians, to pass the next winter
at Madeira for the advantage of the climate. The
Dowager Queen will be accompanied by the principal
members of her court and a limited suit of domestics ;
and a vessel of the royal navy will convey her Majesty to
her destination.

The Duchess of Kent will leave England to-day for the
continent.

The Countess (Dowager) of Sefton, who has been se-
verely indisposed, is rapidly regaining her health.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton have returned to
town from visiting the Dowager Countess Craven, at her
seat in Berks. _ _

His Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden, third son
of the King of Sweden, arrived at Portsmouth on Satur-
day, and proceeded to the metropolis by the South-Vies-
tern Railway.

Mrs. Hudson the wife of the Railway King,:had a grand
evening party and concert, at Albert-gate-house, on Mon-
day. Most of the vocalists of the Italian Opera took part
in the concert. The Duke of Wellington was one of the
early arrivals amongst the guests.
The Duke of Wellington purposes to give a grand
entertainment on the 14th instant, at Apsley House, in
celebration of the baptism of the infant daughter of Lord:
and Lady Charles Wellesley. The Queen has been pleased
to signify her intention to stand sponsor to the infant.
Count D'Orsay has completed a full-sized picture of
is
the Queen on horseback. The horse, an iron grey, In
the act of bounding forward ; the Queen, in a red
riding
habit and a black hat, sits confidently. It is said that
the likeness of the Queen is good, but that the action of
the figure too much resembles that of a riding master.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.—A correspondent sends
us the following :—" Painful rumours are afloat as to
matters at Stowe-house, the residence of the Duke of
Buckingham. The result of the circumstance is said to
be a determination on the part of his Grace and the
Duchess to leave England for a few years. It is said that
Stowe-house will be shut up, and the gamekeepers, &c.,
dismissed. We understand the Marquis of Chandos will
forthwith form an establishment, and take up his resi-
dence at Wotton-house."—Globe.

A COUNTRY PARTY GOVERNMENT.
(From the Oxford and Cambridge Review.)
There are ample materials left uncorrupted for the for-
mation of an able and honest Administration, as such an
assignment of offices as the following, for instance, abun-
dantly testifies :
First Lord of the Treasury—Lord Stanley.
Chancellor of the Exchequer—Lord George Bentinck.
Secretary of State for the Home Department—Mr.
Gladstone. _ _ _ _

Secretary of State for the Foreign Department—Lord
Ashburton.
Secretary of State for the Colonial Department—Sir
R. R. Vyvyan.
First Lord of the Admiralty—Duke of Northumberland.
Lord Chancellor—Mr. Stuart.
President of the Council—Earl Talbot.
Lord Privy Seal—Lord Feversham.
President of the Board of Trade—Earl of Lonsdale.
President of the Board of Control—Earl of Powis.
Postmaster-General—Duke of Buckingham.
Paymaster-General of the Forces—Mr. Colquhoun.
Woods and Forests—Lord John Manners.
Secretary for Ireland—Mr. Disraeli.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—Sir R. Inglis.
(The above to form the Cabinet.)
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland—Duke of Cleveland.
Master of the Mint—Marquis of Granby.
Secretary to the Admiralty—Mr. Stafford O'Brien.
Secretary at War—Hon. H. T. Liddell.
Junior Lords of the Treasury—Lord March, Lord Os-
sulston, and Hon. F. Scott.
Under-Secretary for the Home Department—Mr. New-
degate.
Under-Secretary for the Foreign Department—Mr.
Milnes Gaskell.
Under-Secretary for the Colonial Department—Mr.
Christopher:
Junior Lords of the Admiralty—Lord Ingestre, Mr. J.
N. Gladstone, Hon. A. Duncombe, and Hon. C. Hams.
Joint Secretaries to the Treasury—Mr. T. Baring and
Mr. R. Hodgson.
Attorney-General—Mr. Pemberton Leigh.
Solicitor-General—The Hon. Mr. Talbot.
Vice-President of the Board of Trade—Mr. P. IL S.
Miles.
Joint Secretaries to the Board of Control—Mr. Grogan
and Lord Clive.
Master-General of the Ordnance—Sir Howard Douglas.
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance—Lord Hotham.
Clerk of the,Ordnance—Mr. W. Bcreeond.
Lord Chamberlain—Lord Warde.
Lord Steward—.. Earl of Ilardwicke.
Master of the Horse—Marquis of Waterford.

LECTURE BY THE REV. DR. APNELLE ON THE
TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF 'THE SEVEN
BISHOPS.

The lecture upon the above subject; as illustrated by the
splendid painting by J. R. Herbert, R.A., which has been
looked forward to with such intense interest by the Pro-
testant community of Liverpool, was delivered on Tues-
day evening last, at the Amphitheatre, to one of the most
numerous and respectable audiences ever collected within
the walls of that building. Upwards of three thousand
persons must have been present; and probably half as
many more were disappointed of getting admitted, the
tickets issued having been taken up two days before the
lecture. The money realized—a large sum—is to be
handed over to the St. Jude's Fund for the relief of the
destitute in Ireland and Scotland. Amongst those present
on the platform and in the house, we noticed the fol-
lowing:—Revds. F. Parry, David Anderson, Drummond
Anderson, Wm. Pollock, F. Ould, W. Warr, Hell. Hig-
gins, Wm. Hughes, John Jones, (St. Andrew's,) J. Jones,
(St. Paul's,) Groom, Carr, (St. Helen's,) David
James, Benjamin Clarke, J. R. Connor, W. Gibbon, C.
H. Watling, Thos. Irwin, Geo. Cuthbert, and S. Fenton;
S. Holme, R. Harbord, T. T. Glazebrooke, J. Edwards,
Win. Jones, J. A Tinne, J. H. Webster, Wm. Maples,
E. L. Fallon's, Duckworth, C. J. Townley, Charles
Cotesworth, J. K. Rounwthaite, Thos Forsyth, Win.
Rowett, C. S. Parker, Esq., Dr. Vose, and John M`Neile,
Esq., of Belfast.
After an appropriate prayer had been offered up by the
Rev. Fielding Ould, the Rev. Dr. M`Neile rose amidst
great applause to deliver the lecture, and, in the first in-
stance, drew a distinction between the use of pictures as
aids or illustrations of historical facts and pictures em-
ployed in religious devotion. The former, Protestants
were prepared to sanction, whilst the latter they rejected
utterly. Ha then drew attention to the subject of the
picture. The trial of the bishops was not, in itself, one
in which any religious question was directly involved,
although its result decided the question whether this coun-
try, at the arbitrary will of the monarch, should be sub-
jected to the domination of popery. It turned upon two
points --a point of law and a point of fact. The point of
law was as to the prerogative of the crown to suspend the
laws in force against Roman Catholics and Nonconform-
ists, and a point of fact as to the publication of an alleged
libel by the bishops, which publication was construed by
the law officers of the crown to amount to the commission
of a misdemeanour. The rev. doctor then entered into
an able and detailed history of the steps by which
King James had pressed the nation on, by the exercise of
his prerogative, in favour of popery, until the crisis in
which the resistance of the bishops was the occasion of
arresting him. On ascending the throne, it at once be-
came clear that his design was to papalize the nation. It
was avowed by him to the French ambassador; and all
his subsequent acts confirmed the avowal. His appoint-
ments to offices of trust were for the most part exercised
in favour of papists. He made strenuous efforts to pro-
cure a parlianient that would consent to repeal the test
acts ; and when lie failed, he kept the country a year and
a half without a session, by successive prorogations. To
get his friends into professorships in the universities,
where they might have an opportunity to poison the minds
of the youth of England, was another cherished object,
which the honour of having first thwarted belongs to
Cambridge, which university, through its vice-chancellor
refused to admit a Benedictine monk to the degree of
master of arts, without the oaths prescribed under the
test acts having been duly taken. For this conduct the
vice-chancellor was summoned before the ecclesiastical
commission ; and it is worthy of being knoarn, that one of
the deputation from the university who accompanied him
on the occasion was the then professor of mathematics,
afterwards Sir Isaac Newton. Ili the following year, an
attempt was made by James to force upon the university
of Oxford a Roman Cathblic as president of Magdalen
College, which was resisted successfully, and a fitting
party elected. The fellows of the college were suspended
by the king ; their president was ejected by force, and the
king's nominee inducted by force. At this time, Stilling-
fleet, Tillotson, Sherlock, Wharton, and other lights of
the church were exercising the ministerial office, and were
popular, and hence unpalatable to the court. An example
was therefore to be made; and Dr. Sharp, rector of St.
Giles's, was the party fixed upon for attack. The Bishop
of London was desired to suspend him, and refused,. for
which he was himself deprived of his spiritual office, the
king not daring to touch his temporalities, which could
not have been done without an outrage upon the law.
The event which precipitated the crisis, for which these
encroachments had prepared the public mind, was the re-
fusal of the bishops to obey the mandate of the king,
which required of them to cause to be read in all the
churches the declaration of liberty of conscience—a decla-
ration ostensibly directed for the relief of dissenters, but
universally recognised as being for the aggrandisement ul-
timately of Popery. A memorial, conveying that refusal,
was presented to the king ; and as the result, the bishops
were summoned to appear before the privy council on the
Sth of June, and after undergoing an examination were
committed to the Tower. Their journey thither was a
triumphal progress, the populace pressing forward to sa-
lute them along the whole line of their route. Of the
trial itself much need not be said, the only interesting fea-
tures being the speech of Mr. Somers, one of the counsel
for the accused, from which the reverend lecturer quoted
some passages. The conclusion of the lecture. describing
the effect produced by the delivery of the verdict, wo give
in his own words _

The trial lasted ten hours ; and although, as I have
already admitted, the question of the reformed religion,.
the question of the Church of England, whether she
should still be preserved as a national establishment, or
whether the law that protected her as a national establish-
ment should be relaxed, suspended,—although these
questions were not actually before the court, who does
not see that all this was involved in the issue of the trial ?
(Hear, hear.) A verdict in favour of the King would have
cast the Church of England without the power of resist-
ance, without the power of remonstrance, without help,
and without hope, at the feet of a Popish bigot. Hence
the awful excitement concerning the trial. The jury re-
tired at seven o'clock. They were overheard in loud
words at midnight, and towards three o'clock in the
morning. It was a night much to be remembered in
England ! The whole difficulty was afterwards ascer-
tained to have arisen from one juror, who held out a long
time against the rest. His name was Michael Arnold,
brewer to the King's household. At last, however, he
was convinced, and at six o'clock in the morning intelli-
gence was sent to the Chief Justice that the jury were
agreed in their verdict. The court sat at nine. All the
benches were covered with the nobility and gentry. The
hall was crowded. All the streets leading to it were
blocked up with an immense concourse of people, eager
and anxious expectants. And was all this for a mere dry
point of law ? Was there nothing connected with our
religion about it, nothing connected with the preserva-
tion of our national church ? Oh ! yes ; everything ; as
regarded the public feeling—everything.! The people
were persuaded, thoroughly persuaded, that their religion
and their liberties were in danger. They believed that
the enemies of their country had found a friend in their
King. They believed that the bishops of the church were
standing in the struggle, heading the true fight for the
defence of the dearest privileges of the nation. (Her,
hear.) eus took
citement. Between nine and ten o cloe justices hear.) Hence it was that all were in state
.of
jury were summoned into court ; the
crier theirt
smadeeas ;
proclamation for silence. Sir Samuel Astrey,
the officer appointed to form the jury, asked—" Are you
agreed in your verdict ?" The jury said " Yes." " W
ho
shall say for you ?,' " The foreman." Sir Samuel As-
trey called on Sir Roger Langley. The foreman stood
up. That-is the moment arrested by thepainter. lam sorry
you are not near enough, all of you , to have an adequate notion
of the power of the painter—his power over his own
art, and the knowledge of our common nature, in the ex-
pression he has thrown into the various countenances and
attitudes at that eventful moment. Here [pointing to
the picture] sit the bishops, and there the judges ; here
are the counsel for the crown, and the bishops, and behind
here the jury, and there stands the foreman. Though you
cannot see it close enough here, 1 am informed.it will be
at your option to see it in Bold-street, No. 82, on pre-
senting your cards. (Hear.) It was a moment of breath-
less suspense, and the next was a moment of tumultuous
victory. The foreman said, " Not guilty !"—(applause)
—"Not guilty !" shouted the dense crowd—" Not guilty !"
reverberated the roof, as if Westminster-hallhad partaken
of the joyful sound—" Not guilty:!" issued out of the
windows—" Not guilty !" ran along the streets—hats,
caps, bonnets, were thrown into the air—[here the rev.
gentleman was interrupted by deafening cheers]—and as
they arose they were followed by the sound of " Not
guilty!!" The ready bonfires and fireworks showed the
tone of the public mind, and the state of expectation they
were for this anticipated triumph. They blazed—they
burst ; and the very rockets, as they rushed towards
heaven, seemed to explode to the tune of " Not guilty !"
(Great applause.) Eye encountered eye—hand was
grasped in hand—men, women and children ran, and
shouted, as they ran, " Not guilty !" (Continued cheer-
ing.) The sound rolling across the city, reached the
inhabitants of Whitechapel ; thence it reverberated to
Kensington, and along the suburban road to Hounslow ;
where, caught up by the troops there encamped under
their royal master, it sounded like a knell of death in the
affrighted ear of the King. All England felt it. " Not
guilty !" our Protestant Church is safe ! " Not guilty !"
our Popish King is beaten!! " Not guilty !" our laws are
preserved ; our constitution has escaped ; our noble Pro-
testant defenders are " Not guilty !" (Immense ap-
plause.) But stay ! Amidst the boisterous clamours of
a triumphing nation, a gentler, a tenderer, a holier in-
cense is arising, from the penetrated bosoms of the bishops.
" Not unto us," I can imagine them feeling and saying,
" Not unto us," however steadfast in the hour of trial ;
not unto our clergy here in London, however faith-
ful in that debate; not. unto our counsel, however com-
petent ; not unto our jury, however honest ; not unto
man at all but as a secondary instrument, 'but unto
thy name be the praise, 0 Lord, for thy glory and for
thy name's sake !" Yes ; there was the deepest triumphs
of all, in the meek, the penetrated, the humble gratitude
of those men of God. (Applause.) Now, I cannot, I may
not, attempt any very extended application of this cubject ;
but this I must say, that for several years last past our
parliament have been effecting against our church and
constitution what James 11. could not effect. (Hear.)
Liberty of conscience has been on the forefront of their
measures, considered legally ; while substantially encou-
ragement to Popery has been the issuo of those measures
considered politically. (Hear, hear.) And now a crisis
is at hand. Not the trial of a few champions in a court of
law, but the triumph of the masses at a general election.
Let Protestantism be the ruling word—Protestantism in-
dependent of all difference in secular politics. The time
'has come for mutual sacrifices in defence of Protestantism,
or you will have Protestantism sacrificed while you are de-
fending your private interests. (Hear, hear.) Whatever
,we have, Whigs or Tories, Protectionists or Free Traders,

June 8, 1847.

Churchmen or Dissenters, let us by all means have a Pro-
testant. Let us have men who know that the utmost tie
be expected from Popery is that when brought in by a ge-
neral toleration, she will get power for a general persecu-
tion. And then there may be some hope still that the real
sinews of our liberty and national strength shall be again
firm, and that the cry, the triumphant cry, of our nation
again shall be, " Our Protestant defenders are not guilty !"
(Applause.) There is a movement in this direction—
I have heard of it in several parts of the country. Only
this dee, I got an account by a newspaper from Berkshire
of a movement there, where some faithful Protestants
brought the two members for Reading to the test. And it
appears that Mr. Russell and my Lord Chelsea have taken
the Protestant declaration very handsomely. Now amongst
ourselves. (Laughter and applause.) I very sincerely
regret that anything should happen to render it advisable
for our noble or gallant representative to retire. A better
member than the noble lord, with respect to all the com-
mercial interests of the town and kingdom, it would be
difficult, I may perhaps say impossible, to find. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Courteous in his deportment, obliging
in his disposition, affable in his manner, clear in his intel-
ligence • diligent, regular, punctual, persevering in his-
habits of business, he had entitled himself to unfeigned
respect, while at the same time he had won the cordial
affection of all who were thrown in contact with him. I
do sincerely hope that white, er disappointment may be
experienced in the events of the last few days, that. no
such feelings, no such irritations may arise, as shall in-
duce the slightest want of cordiality among ourselves, or
create any needless divisions of which our enemies would.
speedily take advantage. Let no crimination or recrimi-
nation waste precious time, and disturb precious harmony..
If there be a large section of tile town that wants
a man to represent them, well, let -us have fair
play, and let us have peace and quietness. lam going to
take upon me a great proposal,—that two respectable
men, varying in politics, but at one and determined
for Protestantism, shall be sent to Parliament without a
contest. (Hear.) Let our Reformers and our Conserva-
tives, as they call themselves, agree in this matter. " Let
them each have a respectable, high-conditioned, and com-
petent man to represent their secular interests; but as far as
Protestantism is concerned ,both Conservatives indeed. And
why not both Protestants ? Why should we suppose that
the Reformers in this town, or in the country, are opposed
to Protestantism ? Why should we suppose they are such
great fools as to be duped with an appearance of liberty of
conscience, which is only a prelude to universal per-
secution. Why should we imagine that th y, who ac-
cording to their accounts, stand the farthest from Popery,
should he willing to have it in the country ; when we,
whom they accuse of having a little of it about our-
selves, are anxious to keep it out ? (Hear, and cheers.)
But I must not persevere in this strain : I must come to a
conclusion, by a,kini tt'question to which the subject na,-
,
turally leads,—" What is to bp done with Ireland ?" The
first thing is what you have been engaged in for some
months, and which I entreat you to continue doing a
little longer—feed her, for she is starving still. It was to
add to our funds for doing this that your admission to this
place this evening has been paid for, that there might be
no expenee attending the meeting, and a fund to add to
our supplies for our poor indigent brethren. But what is
to be done to Ireland politically ? Why, I ask you to
listen to what Lord Ashley says. Hear him when he
spoke to the electors of Bath. the other day. " Insteadof
attempting—vainly attempting—to govern the people by
the priests, govern the priests by the people.". (Loud
cheers.) But, how is this to be done. I quite grant it no
easy matter to govern the priests. (A laugh.) Per they
have laws of their own and a sovereign of their own, and
an allegiance of their own, which takes precedence of their
allegiance to Queen Victoria. Theref%)re it is no easy .
matter for our laws to govern them. But this is the mode
by which we should try to 'govern them. Educate the
people. (Hear.) Educate them well: educate them
scripturally, without fearing the bugbear of proselytism;.
carry out sound and efficient Protestant measures, to the
mortification, no doubt, of a few thousand priests, but to
the substantial movement, every way, of the social and
moral condition of millions of the people (Applause.)
If we had a Protestant parliament and a Protestant go-
vernment, that would put an end, at once and for ever,
to all hopes of success to the conspirators against our
established religion—that would show them that there
was no prospect of success for them in overthrowing the
Established Church and Te-establishing Popery—that they
must give it up for ever—and that would educate the peo-
ple in all the departments of civil knowledge, but especi-
ally in the word of their salvation—why, we should soon
have Ireland completely emancipated. We should have
her native millions freed from a foreign yoke. We should
have her native language made the medium of Gospel
blessings instead of Papal curses. We should have her
native resources drawn out—her mines and fisheries effi-
ciently wrought by a capital which would then be safe.
We should have Englishmen going to trade there, and
finding a fit reward for their labours. We should have a
real union—an intercommunion of interest and religion.
(Hear.) Only let the Bible—the Irish Bible—have fair
play, and what the Bible in English did for England—'
what the Bible in Erse did for Scotland—the. Bible. in
Irish can do for Ireland. (Cheers.) Then we shall have
the vision verified, not as he would have had it who
wished to see her in the Pope's tiara, but as we would
have it who wish to see her an ornament in the diadem of
Protestant England—
" Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea."
The rev. doctor sat down amidst a tumult of applause.

THE FALL OF THE MUDGE AT CHESTER.

The inquisition into the cause of this memorable acci-
dent took place on Wednesday. A painter, of the name
of Clegg, proved that, when employed to paint the girders
of the new bridge in April and May last, he observed a
deflection of 1 to 271 inches in the middle girder when a
ballast train went over, and of 31 to 4 inches when a
passenger train passed over.
Two or three painters gave similar evidence.

General Sir Charles William Pasley said, J was inspec-
tor-general of railways at the time this line was opened.
I surveyed the bridge previous to its being opened to the
public. That was on the 20th of October last, and my
report, in which I pronounced it to be safe and efficient,
was dated on the 22nd of the same month. I did not ex-
amine all the smaller details of the bridge. I inspected
carefully all the drawings and dimensions of the various
parts, and examined it as much in detail as I considered
necessary. I compared the drawings and dimensions
given on the plan with the actual building. This is an
iron girder bridge, in three openings or spans of 98 feet
each ; wrought-iron tension bars are used to truss or
strengthen it. I always was of opinion, and am so still,
that these wrought-iron tension bars are not of great use,
because I think that the expansion of wrought or cast
iron, from heat, differs in some degree, though not very
greatly, but that the iron girders being very massive, and
the wrought-iron tension bars thin, and of much smaller
dimensions, that the sun may act very powerfully upon
the wrought-iron tension bars, and not much upon, the
iron girders ; and that therefore even supposing them to
be adjusted for a moderate temperature, intensely hot
weather coming on may destroy the proportion, and do
away with the benefit of these tension bars. It may be
asked, therefore, what was my reason for approving the
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Joseph Locke, Esq., C.E., said—l have inspected the
fallen part of the bridge over the Dee. I have been there
this morning for the first time, and we examined all the
evidence which is furnished to us by the fragments, and
I coincide very much with Mr. Stevenson that this acci-
dent did not occur from the vertical pressure, but from a-
side blow. Without going into the question of the ten-
sion bars as an aid to the girders, I take it that the girders
would not have themselves given way from the weight of
the train passing over them at the time ; and I therefore
directed my attention to the fragments with a view to Rs-
tablish that a side blow had been struck. I believe that
the part of the girder which is broken out could only have
been fractured by a side blow; and I am confirmed in
that opinion by the fact, that, at, the point where the girder
was struck, the leaf of the tension bar has been cut in
two. I have no doubt that the axle-box of the tender
struck that blow, for I find the paint from the tender on
the bar. I have no doubt also that the tender ran up the
tension rod, stripping off the clips, and struck the masonry
at the termination of these bars. The axle-box would
come underneath the pillar-cap, or cornice stone, which I
find is broken off and thrown into the bed of the river-
I then trace the mark of the axle box along the inner side
of-the masonry ; and the tender in passing along has dis-
placed the whole masonry about ten inches, by the force
with which it was acting against it. To prove that this
was caused by the axle-box, I find a great mark above
this correspOnding with the wooden part of the tenders.
Believing that the tender bad got off the rails before the
point where the fracture in the bridge took place, I en-
deavoured to find whether there were any marks upon the
road of anything having been off the rails on the par 4
that is standing ; there is no such indication. Upon hear'
ing that some chairs had been found in the river, I el
amine(' them, and I found that some of them were sniPPe
by the flanges of the wheels, in the ordinary way 81101
by a carriage thrown off the rails. I .found a heap °
twelve or twenty chairs, and out of the lot four of tne°
were snipped by the flange of a wheel. [They were pr'.
duced in court.) Ido not think that mark could be 131;°:0
duced in any other way than by a carriage wheel off t'
line. I can account for the tearing away of rods or anYti
thing of that kind by the falling of the carriages, but 114
for the mark in the chair. I believe the supports of
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bridge were quite adequate, but I frankly state that 1n.,`,`,0
not like cast-iron girders in any shape myself. [The
Coroner : They are cheaper I suppose ?] No ; they erei
more expensive ; a' brick or stone bridge could have i
constructed much cheaper. Sometimes the Admiralty'
the Board of Trade, and the Commissioners of Railwart
require bridges of large span to be adopted, without &Ts
sidering the safety of the public travelling on the railli;
or the convenience of the company. I am not aware'ator
the present bridge was constructed at the request of
I of those bodies. Ir• Laic°
Charles Vignolles, Esq., C.E., said he joined A •
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in the examination of the fragments of the bridg3. e.*.cie
coincided with him most fully and entirely, that tho:,_to,
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The deputation from the Church of Scotland to Canada
sailed from Liverpool on Friday.
It is said that the Great Britain steam-ship is to be
launched on the Ist July.
Mr. Whitley, of Islington, one of our district parish
Burgeons, died of typhus lever on Friday.
On Friday John M'Cann died of erysipelas, in conse-
quence of an injury received on the Saturday previous, by,
being knocked down by a cart.
The barque Eliza Johnstone, arrived on Friday, brings
intelligence from Paraiba to the 20th April. Nothing of
moment, bad occurred from the previous advices.
The Halifax and Boston steamer Cambria, Capt. Jud-
kins, sailed at one p.m., on Friday, with a great number
of passengers and £15,000 in specie.
Mr. William Wood, head boy of the Royal Institution
School, under the care of the Rev. Dawson Turner, M.A • ,
has been elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Ox-
.ford. - . _ _

SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, Edward Gavine, a pensioner,
• aged 71, residing in Finch-street, was found suspended by
a piece of carpet edging to a nail on the closet door of
his bed-room.
DISTRESSING CASE.—On Tuesday evening, an Irish
family of four persons were found lying ill of the fever in
a field near the Potteries. They were removed in a spring
cart to the fever ward. The poor creatures had lain there
Since the Saturday previous, with only a blanket to cover
them.
Mr. Thornhill was elected for Scotland Ward on Thurs-
day. His opponent was Mr. Nicholson, the tanner. At
the close the numbers were, according to the official re-
turn, for Mr. Thornhill, 154 ' • for Mr. Nicholson, l l 1 ;
majority for Mr. Thornhill, 43. Mr. Nicholson was only
brought forward on the morning of the election, and
hence his defeat.
The " SwedisL Nightingale," we understand, has named
as remuneration for her services at Liverpool for six nights,
the small sum of £5OO a night. She has been offered, it
is said, by a private individual, £6OO for two performances
here. Report says that her engagement at her Majesty's
Theatre brings her in £5OO weekly, for three nights' per-
formances, besides being provided with a house to live In,
a carriage for her own use, and covers being laid daily at
her own mansion for twenty persons !
On Wednesday morning, the body of a female child was
found in the dead-house. There was a piece of paper
pinned to the dress, on which was marked in black-lead
pencil, the name "Anna Maria Toiz." Every inquiry
was made with the view of ascertaining where the body
waa brought from, but without effect. It is supposed the
parents or some friends of the deceased have sailed in
some vessel from this port, and deposited the body there
before their departure.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, as Mr. W. B.
O'Donnell, brother of Dr. O'Donnell, was passing along
Rodney-street, on horseback, from some cause which
cannot be clearly ascertained, he fell from his horse, and
severely injured his head. He was taken into the house
of Mr. Bickersteth, surgeon, where he received every
attention. He was afterwards removed to the house of
his brother, and died there the next day. He was forty-
six years of and was out of business.
A fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Whitehead, cutler,
South Castle-street, on Thursday night. It was not ex-
tinguished until the shop was completely gutted. The
damage is about £5OO, and fully insured. The fire, at
one time, assumed a very threatening appearance; it ap-
pears that the police officers, who first arrived at the
place, acted with great indiscretion, having forced open
the doors and windows of the shop before the arrival of
the engines, thus giving vent to the flames, and endanger-
ing the whole of the adjoining property. The West of
England engine was the first to arrive on the ground, fol-
lowed shortly after by one from the fire station, under the
direction of Mr. Hewitt. Mr. M`Donald, and other of the
Harrington Company's officers, were promptly on the spot,
and a stand-pipe being inserted in their mains a powerful
stream of water was thrown on the flames which soon
Yielded to its influence. An effort was made to obtain
water from the Green Lane mains, which was, however,
•unsuccessful, until long after the fire had been got under.
ALLEGED MURDER AT BIRKENHEAD.--On the 24th
ultimo, a young man, named Frinnigan, aged 19, who had
been present at the anniversary procession and meeting of
the Tranmere Benefit Club, did mot reach home, and
nothing was ascertained respecting him until Friday
morning last, when his body was found in the 141orpeth
Dock, so marked that death appeared to have been the
result of violence. He had, on the day in question, been
in company with a stonemason, named Edward Silk, and
the latter having given contradictory accounts as to where
the deceased and he were together, and his handkerchief
and hands being moreover stained with blood, the police
took him into custody on suspicion. On Friday afternoon,
the inquest was held before H. Churton. Esq. The body
was found floating in the water. The left side of the face
was bloody, and a black silk handkerchief was stuffed into
the mouth and down the throat, and there were some
other bruises. The left hand pocket of his trousers was
turned inside out ; and it appeared that Silk had heard it
mentioned that deceased had 355. The handkerchief in
deceased's mouth was one which he had worn round his
neck. Silk did not go to his lodgings on the night in
question. Dr. Vaughan, who had examined the body,
attributed death to suffocation, from the handkerchief
being stuffed in the throat. The deceased could not have
pushed it down himself. There being ne further evidence
to be had- of those present, and in order that further
information may be obtained, the inquest was adjourned
.until Friday next.
THE NEW LANDING STAGE.—This leviathan structure
has been at last fixed to its moorings, and henceforward
will be used as the landing point for passengers from the
other side of the river. It was towed up on Tuesday.
shortly before high water, from the north end, where it
had been constructed, and it presented a very singular ap-
pearance as it came up the river, headed and flanked by
seven steam-tugs, which were engaged for its transport.
There were a great number of people on board, which
gave it somewhat the appearance of a floating island. It
has been permanently moored about one hundred feet from
the pier-head, in front of the baths at St. George's Pier,
and by means of iron bridges, 150 feet long (which are
being constructed by Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester), it
will be available both at high and low water. The struc-
ture is based on 39 iron pontoons, which, though the
Stage weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, are not more than
half"immersed in the water. It is 507 feet long, 80 feet 9
inches wide, and contains 49,000 cubic feet of wood. It
affords accommodation for seven of the river steamers,
and it is calculated that 40,000 persons could stand upon
it. The decking is five inches in thickness. The iron
work has been constructed by Mr. Sanderson, of War-
rington, and the woodwork by Mr. Tayleure, and others,
under the superintendence of the officers of the dock com-
mittee. When the bridges are completed, the total cost
of the stage will be about £40,000. Mr. Bramley Moore,
the chairman, and other members of the dock committee,
sailed up the river with the stage. The edges of the stage
are not protected by any bulwarks or chains. It has been
thought that this would interfere with the facility of land-
ing or embarking. Massive oaken stanchions, a foot
• square at the base, and secured on the inside by strong
iron knees, encircle the deck at intervals of ten feet, with
low mooring posts in the intermediate spaces, well
strapped to the:deck. Near each bow are four longitudinal
timbers, 35 feet in length, to serve as mooring-bits, and
-bearing evidence of a capacity ;for sustaining the utmost
strain to which the mooring chains may be subjected.
BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first ex-
hibition of this society for the season, appointed for
Friday, was held under the most favourable c
auspi .
The weather was delightfully fine, and there was conse-
quentlyes a numerous and fashionable attendance. The
Rock Ferry pleasure grounds, which are in beautiful
order, afforded a charming promenade, and relieved the
marquee where the flowers were shown from inconvenient
pressure. The collection was varied and the most mag-
nificent which we have for some time had the pleasure of
-viewing. The stand, extending the whole length of the
-tent to the left, was occupied by a rich and rare display of
ericas, roses, verbenas, calceolarias, petunias, and cine-
rarias, of every description and colour, with an elegant
azalia, full of bloom, from the conservatory of Sir Wm.
Massey Stanley. The second table presented several
beautiful baskets of plants, one of which, supplied by C.
Rawson, Esq., was immensely admired, and some fine
fuschias, including two of great merit belonging to G. J.
Wainwright, Esq., (who as well as Sir W. M. Stanley,
Bart:, took a great number of prizes), and R. M. Beck-
with, Esq., whose competition was little less successful.
The third table, to the right, was occupied with a brilliant
collection of pelargoniums and fuschias, and a fourth
-table, at the back of this (an extension of the tent) of-
fered the attraction of a basket of plants, with numerous
fuschias, and calceolarias—all choice productions. A
small table at the entrance to this compartment was filled
with calceolarias and petunias, to each of which had been
awarded prizes. The right side of the large centre table
was wholly occupied with magnificent fuschias ; the left
side exhibited a greenhouse plant the " acacia pulchella,"
with a redundancy of bloom, belonging to Sir W. M.
Stanley. A splendid specimen of the " Irish Susannah
Major," for which G. Woodward, Esq., received the gold
medal, a gigantic cactus in full bloom, some exotic orchi-
dacise, and other stove and greenhouse plants of infinite
variety and beauty. At each end of this table were some
splendid baskets Of plants belonging to Sir W. M. Stan-
ley, C. Stanley, Esq., and other contributors. A device
in flowers, representing a chandelier, attracted much at-
tention, and had the prize awarded
tent,
ar ded to it. It was suspended
gracefully from the top of
and had a very tasty
and elegant appearance. In adeaFent sheds were placed
a
collections of plants of high m
the nurseries of
Mr. Kellock and Messrs. Hendernstc'ti from
Brown, at Ox-
ton, and fruit and vegetables wereexhibited.
of the latter was small, but contained some good cucum-
bers and asparagus.
WRITING, BOOKKEEPING,
taken occasion to speak favourably of Me.
Thompson'-
keeping, °tnh' the
mode of communicating instruction in writ
keeping, &c.; and, in again directing writing, book-
-same subject, we feel that we can, with the confidence
which the long familiarity with that gentleman's admirable
system induces, recommend the advertisement inserted
,elsewhere to the serious consideration of those wh
must
o
inevitably suffer, in an active commercial community like
-ours, from a deficiency in the all-important requisites
-taught by Mr. Thompson.—See adv.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The visitors to these beautiful
gardens, so full of interesting objects, have again been
numerous and they have enjoyed a week of splendid wea-
ther. It is not one visit, nor a dozen, that can exhaust
the varied attractions of this favourite place of resort. To
the contemplative mind, especially, there are always fresh
materials for pleasurable observations, either in noticing
new habits abits and instincts in the animals, or in paying re-
newed or closer regard to some which, had received but
cursory
attention. One of the black swans is again rear-
ing a brood of young cygnets. A couple of fine herons
have been added tothe-inhabitants of the pool. Mr.
Atkins has also purchased a splendid tiger, which arrived
here by the ship Bellaire,
Indies. Also a l ideeerbtlen,nflryonmightht e East
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ELECTION OF BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.--The
election commenced at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning,
with great spirit, the opponents to the Laird party rushing
numerously to the poll. The election closed at four
o'clock, the "Jackson party;" consisting of the following
gentlemen, being returned by a majority of nearly 1000.—
Joseph Mallaby, gentleman, Church-street; Christopher
Bentham, merchant, Hamilton Square; John Howe
Greene, merchant, Canning-street; William Pike, gen-
tleman, Parkfield; Henry Fox, shipbroker, Claughton;
John Hicklin, gentleman, Camden-street; Henry James
Nicholls, gentleman, Camden-street.—The announce-
ment, on the close of the poll, was received with tremen-
dous cheers, and a procession was afterwards formed.
which chaired Mr. Mallaby and paraded the principal
streets of the town.

FATAL. ACCIDENTS.—On Monday, as a man unknown,
was walking along Wapping in a state of intoxication, he
missed his footing and fell between the cellar-lid and sill
of a warehouse. He died soon after.—On Wednesday,
in consequence of the breaking of one of the bearers to a
scaffold, John Catterall, aged 27, fell into a well in course
of formation at the Liverpool and Harrington Water
Works, Rock-street, Toxteth-park. The well is fifty-
two feet deep, and had nine feet of water in it. The poor
fellow was taken out in about an hour's time quite dead.
—On Wednesday, Thomas Hoy, a painter, fell into the
Waterloo Dock, and was drowned. He was engaged with
another man in putting the name on No. 12 pilot boat,
and was in a small boat under the stern, when he over-
balanced himself and fell into the water.
THE REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS.-31R. HIGGS' SHOW
ROC/Al.—No act of government has tended more to ad-
vance the taste of the country than that of giving protec-
tion to the producer Of any design. It has given a field
for enterprise ; it has created a spirit of emulation in every
important establishment, and each artist or mechanic
vieing with his neighbour, behefits the- public by some
new and elegant production. In the Birmingham districts
it has been most available. A manufacturer is now in-
duced to spare no expense in ornamenting an article, as
he is protected in its sale by registration ; and to this we
owe a share of the credit for the recent improvements in
iron work. We were not a little surprised, in visiting Mr.
Higgs' show-room, in Lord-street, a few days since, to
see the wonderful perfection to which many manufactures
are brought. The grates, though various in design—some
elaborately beautiful in workmanship, some plain—are
principally registered. • The shower baths are of various
kinds, but the registered one is decidedly the best and
handsomest. The exterior is gothic, the casting imitating
carving in oak. The interior is square, and the water is
raised by an easy rotatory motion applied to an ordinary
piston pump. For standing in the bath there is a plat-
form raised in the centre, and beneath this a receiver, so
that you never stand, as in ordinary baths, in the water.
There are registered washing and ringing machines, most
excellent inventions, that should be used by every family,
particularly where fever is so prevalent that infection may
be communicated in " things sent out to wash." Dean's
protected Indian corn mill is another of the articles inMr.
Higgs' show-room. It is worked by hand, and produces,
with one motion, fine Indian flour, meal, and hominy, all
completely dressed and ready for use. To those who are
about to purchase, or those who are interested in the im-
provement in articles manufactured of metal,' there can
be no greater field than that exhibited by Mr. Higgs.
Everything new that is good he receives as it comes out.
It is impossible in the limits of a paragraph, to do justice
to the good effect, in this particular branch alone, that
has been produced by the protection, at a small expense,
of designs. You have a registered shaped tea-tray, a
stove—in fine, everything from a window shutter to a
gridiron.

- THE WATER BlLL.—After six weeks, or nearly, of
patient and wearisome labour, the select committee on
the Liverpool Water Works Bill have arrived at the pros-
pect of release, and this day, or to-morrow, will see the
bill emerge from the ordeal in a state not very satisfactory
to any parties except the two existing water companies,
who have secured the power of selling themselves to a
tolerably good customer. The bill, however, will not be
allowed to pass through the Lords—should there, indeed,
be time for it—without a strenuous opposition from the
town of Wigan. It is possible, too, that other parties
will secure their rights to appear there in the character of
opponents. As to Wigan, it was decided early in May
that that town should be secured 800,000 gallons of water
per day, to be delivered down the Douglas, from the in-
tended reservoirs ; at least, this was the understanding of
the parties representing the interests of Wigan, and
solely upon that opposition to the preamble was with-
drawn. It appeared, however, that the understanding of
a bare majority of the committee on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, was that this quantity was to be the exact amount
of supply and no more; so that, supposing the natural
drainage of the Douglas to send down, as it occasionally
does, considerable quantities of water, those quantities
were not to be plus the 800,000 gallons, but an auxiliary
and contingent part. The discussion was animated when
this interpretation of the resolution was disclosed, and
after it had been affirmed, the short-hand writer was re-
quested to take down many most peremptory protests, to
be available hereafter, to the manifest annoyance of the
promoters. There the case rests for the present. Sooner
than risk the loss of the bill in the lords, there is little
doubt the promoters will yield the claim of the people of
Wigan, who are admitted on all hands to want all the
water they can get to scour the town, especially as the
produce of the natural drainage of the Douglas, which
was intended to reduce the 800,000 gallons, belongs to
the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, who have con-
sequently a powerful voice in the matter, but who are
willing to accommodate all parties, provided no injury is
done to themselves. Too much' expense, indeed, has
been incurred, lightly to risk the chances of a strong case
of bond fide opposition before a tribunal which; though it
has the character of being a remarkably summary juris-
diction, is not exposed to merely local influences, and is
incapable of being operated upon by the sudden importa-
tion of votes and voices from members who have not
heard the whole case.—Manchester Guardian.
INQUESTS ON SATURDAY.—On view of the body of
William Hilton, a young man about twenty-five years of
age, who worked at a soapery in Earle-street. He ap-
peared in his usual good health during the day, but towards
evening he was found lying on the floor behind the ware-
house door quite dead. For a fortnight previous he had
been complaining of a palpitation of the heart, and at times
he had been obliged to leave his work. The post mortem
examination showed that the immediate cause of death
was disease of the heart.—The second was on Michael
Welsh, a young man who was employed as a coal-trimmer
on board the steam-tug boat Powerful. It appeared that,
a little after twelve o'clock on Friday night, he went to
the Albert Pierhead for the purpose of boarding the tug
in the small boat, which was lying at some little distance
from the wall. He hailed the boat, but, not having re-
ceived any answer, he laid hold of the stern rope, which
was fastened to the pier, and endeavoured to get on board
by means of that rope. When about half way down he
missed his hold and fell into the river, and swam to the
paddle wheel of the tug, where he hailed one of the hands,
who went down to his assistance. But the assistance ar-
rived too late, for the poor fellow was drowned ; and, in
some time after, his body was found and conveyed to the
dead-house.—The third was on Nancy Doherty, a woman
about fifty years of age, who was found dead in the passage
leading to the Night Asylum, 'in Soho-street. Charles
Arnett, one of the police, deposed, that on entering
the passage, on Saturday morning, he found a number of
wretched people lying there, and in their midst the dead
woman. It appeared that the deceased and her daughter
went to the asylum the night before with the view of
staying there for the night, having no money to procure
a lodging elsewhere, and that they were disappointed in
being able to procure admission, the place was so
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the lungs, the result of natural causes
Thefourth and
last was on a woman with the somewhat singular Christian
name of " Sibby" Flyn. She occupied a cellar in
Bird-street, and was confined to her bedduringNtehwe
early part of the week with a slight cold. She continued
to get worse, and on Tuesday morning last she died of
disease of the lungs, the result of natural causes.
INDIAN RUBBER DISSECTING GLOVE.—We have much
pleasure in drawing attention to the above valuable and
ingenious invention, by Mr. John Jones, Cutler, of Lime-
street, ip this city, which cannot fail in meeting with the
approbation of the surgical and medical profession in all
climates. Having inspected most minutely the gloves in
question, we are of opinion that they must be generally
adopted. We having in our columns so often to deplore
the loss of so many valuable lives, by a simple puncture
or scratch while operating upon putrid subjects, leads us
to believe that their general use will be the means of pre-
venting so many lamentable deaths, which it has been
our lot of late years to record. We heartily wish the
ingenious inventor every success.—See Advertisement.
EASTIIAM FERRY.—But a few years have elapsed since
Birkenhead was visited by parties anxious to behold its
rustic beauties, but its abbey, the priory and chapel, have
become obscured by the progress of modern enterprise,
and it is now viewed only as a striking instance of the
rapid strides of the growing commercial importance of
the Mersey. At Eastham, however, which has ever been
considered the most lovely ferry on the river, though
time has worked wonders—though improvements have
been made in every direction—no alteration has been
made that could at all deteriorate the rustic and natural
elegancies of the vicinity, and in every movement there
has been that care and taste displayed that produces a
uniformity so necessary to harmony and beauty. The
new hotel, though replete with every modern improve-
ment, is so surrounded by lovely lawns and time-grown
trees, that it bears rather the aspect of an ancient than a
modern mansion. The new public Gardens, which have
just been completed, and which will be thrown open for
pit-nit parties, are most beautifully laid out. Rural
oaken bowers are available in every direction, and a new
room, 60 feet long and 30 feet wide, has been erected im-
mediately under the wood, in which companies finding
their own-" provision" will be supplied with liquor at the
same cost as at the generality of Liverpool houses. The
original gardens will in future become more select, as
they will have no communication with the new ones, and
will be exclusively for those visiting or staying at the
hotel. New coach-houses and new stabling are erecting,
and the whole of the old buildings are removed for the
purpose of giving an uninterrupted view of the noble
estuary of the Mersey'. A new road will be cut through
the wood that skirts the river, to the new slip, which now
obviates the difficulty, hitherto existing, of landing at
low water. This
slip, which is principally built with
crooked and rustic-looking oak, was completed on Satur-
day. It is nearly 700 feet in length ; and will, no doubt,
induce many persons to visit the ferry who hitherto ob-
jected in consequence of obstructions to disembarkation.
One other important consideration has been effected by
the spirited proprietor. Two excellent and fleet boats
have been placed on the station, so that a boat leaves
each side every hour : in fine, nothing has been omitted
to render this favoured spot Of nature a scene of beauty
and of comfort.