The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

TILE ATLANTIC, United States mail steam-ship, Captain
West, sailed at half-past ten o'clock:on Wednesday, with
a full cargo, for New York ; and, at the same time, the
screw steam-ship Andes, with a large and valuable cargo,
for Halifax and Boston.
LAW AND PIIGILISM.—A fine of £2 and costs was im-
posed by the magistrates, on Tuesday, upon Mr. John
Yates, sen., a solicitor of this7town, for an assault com-
mitted by him on Mr. Walter Robert Crouch, a surgeon
to theNorthernHospital. The dispute between the parties
arose from the refusal of Mr. Yates to pay the fee of a
guinea, which Mr. Crouch claimed on the part of a me-
dical friend of his, for evidence given in a case in which
Mr. Yates was concerned.
THE PRESTON MASTER COTTON-SPINNERS BESEIGED
AT BLACKBURN.—The strike at Blackburn, it would
appear, is not yet at an end ; and the turn-outs, it seems,
are receiving countenance and aid by physical-force-men
from Preston. On Wednesday afternoon a mob of opera-
tives surrounded the Bull Hotel, in Blackburn, in the
belief that many of the Preston employers were in the
house. These they threatened with summary vengeance
if they could lay hands on them, in the meantime threaten-
ing to burn the hotel. Several of the Preston manufac-
turers, who were in the house at the time, were forced to
escape by the back way, and the mob only dispersed after six
of their number had been permitted to search every room
'in the house, and satisfy themselves that none whom they
regarded as obnoxious were in the house,—a lawless free-
dom entirely opposed to every maxim of English law, and
highly daugerous to public safety.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—Mr. J. Harrison presided
at the usual meeting of this board, on Wednesday, at the
Workhouse. The other members present were the Rev.
W. Badnall, and Messrs. Allpass Hayes, M`Gee, Lunt,
Craig, Mountfield, Abrahams, Carter, G.Harrison, Roskell,
Wensley, Molyneux, Horsfall, Shaw, Jeffries, and Catterall.
The balance in the hands of the treasurer was stated to be
£216 6s. 9d. Orders were given that application should
be made to the overseers of Everton and Thornton, re-
quiring them to pay the balance due from them to the
board by Tuesday next; the respective amounts due born
them being, Everton 5.420 18. 2d., and Thornton £4 Os. 2d.
The wages of John Taylor, tailor, and Isaac Mullock,
shoemaker, at the Workhouse, were ordered to be 255. a
week respectively, and Messrs. John Getty atid Thomas
Brereton accepted as sureties for Messrs. Hood and Scour-
field, contractors for alterations in the hospital. The
tender of Mr. Shaw, of London-road, for looks,was accepted,
and Mr. Stephens, medical officer, requested to attend the
next meeting of the board, with reference to the case of
Mary Clare.
DENSE FOG AT MANCHESTER.-011 Thursday night
Manchester and Salford was visited by a fog so dense as
to be absolutely alarming. It appears to have come on
about half-past seven o'clock, and to have continued until
half-past ten. In the vicinity of the canals, and of the
rivers Irwell and Medlock, it was extraordinarily dense ;
and at the Bridgewater Via(lll4, and at the Crescent, in
Salford, it was found necessary to lead the horses in the
omnibuses, as from the middle of the streets the gaslights
at the sides could not be seen, and there was the greatest
danger of the vehicles running upon the footpaths. One
of our reporters states, that in proceeding to a lecture
delivered that evening in =tare Town-hall, Salford, he found
much difficulty in finding the square in which the build-
ing is situate, and that lie actually got upon the steps at
the entrance before ho could make out whether the Ilarge
room of the hall was 'lighted up or not. The large light
in the centre of the square assumed the appearuneeef a
flickering lurid something overhead ; and the common
lamp-posts could not be distinguished a yard from them.
We have not heard of any accidents occurring during the
continuance of the fog, though it seems wonderful that
such is the case.—Manchester Courier.
DOCK Cosestirrat.—The weekly meeting was held on
Thursday, Mr. Charles Turner in the chair. A recom-
mendation's read from the sub-committee of works to
let 1,443 square yards of land at the north side of the
canal lock; fronting Lightbody-street, to Meesrs. Brandreth
and Co.,'coltfur manufacturers, at ls. 6d.' per square yard
per annuna,*for a term of five years. After 'some conver-
sation the recommendation was agreed'te.—The surveyor
received-the authority of the committeatollet the Clarence-
dock dry after Sunday, the 27th instant, Ifor the purpose
of icleaneing it.—The sub-committee reported that the
terms• of the apprenticeships of Chas.rEdevard Shackleton,
JolniiE. Leyland, Edward Bowring, -and Peter Campbell
had expired, and their conduct 'having `been satisfactory,
the flub-committee recommended 'that the secretary be
authorised to put an engrossment en Itlheir indentures to
that effect. Agreed to.—The sub-committee recommended
'that Messrs. Leyland and Bowring, who have been for
.some time acting as landing-cleths,lie confirmed in their
appointments, at salaries of £Bonlear ; and that Camp-
'hell and Alexander Gordon he appointed to the office of
landing-clerks, at the same Imlay. They further recant-
'mended that Messrs. Oldfield, .Itinnersley, and Williams
'be appointed as additional landing-clerks, at the same
-salary. Agreed to.—Mr. Langsdale complained that :a
man named Kean had beentpassed, through Mr. Cowan
=being prejudiced against him. Along conversation ensued,
but ultimately the appointments of the sub-committee
-were confirmed.—The reeignation of Mr. Goldman, one of
'the landing-clerks, was accepted, and the appointment of
'three additional landing-clerks was ordered.—An applica-
• tien from the men on the laliiiing-stage for an increase-in
'their salaries, which amount to 20s. per week, was refused.
—On the recommendation of the Harbour-masters' Sub-
committee, the fog bell was •ordered to be rung at intervals
•df two minutes, when required, for the safety of • the
;•steamers arriving at the .quay.—lt was ordered that in
future the established firmsin the town should be allowed
'the use of the large tranese(for fifteen tons or upwards)
on receipt of the signature of a clerk, and without
requiring the deposit of a sovereign, as formerly.
WARRINGTON DISPENSARY BALL.—The annual ball'
:in aid of the funds of the'Warrington Dispensary, took.
• #lace in the Assembly-roam, Lion Hotel, Warrington, on
"Tuesday. The assembly, 'owing to a variety of causes,
was not so numerous as on former occasions, but it em-.
braced members of the most distinguished families in the
district, and the company presented a most brillianteap-
pearance. The following were amongst the number-
present :—Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., Sir Humphrey de
Trafford, Augustus de Trafford, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
Cutaiffe, Mr. and MrS., Breoke, Major and Mrs. Brooke,
' Captain and Mrs. Robert Parker, Mr. Antrobus, Mr. John
Antrobus, Captain Rowley, Mr. France, (77th Regt,)
Hon. Gilbert Stapylton and lady, W. G. Walmeley, Esq.;
Mrs. and Miss Tempest, Hon. A. Lascelles, Mrs. Laseelles,
• Sir Philip Grey Geaton, Mrs. and Miss Geaton, J. J.
Blackburne, Esq., and lady, Miss Blackburne, Miss E,
Blackburne, Miss F. Blackburne, Captain Wombwell, Mr..
Wilbraham Mr. E. Wilbraham, Colonel Blackburne, Mr.
F. Corbett, Miss Corbett, Mr. G. Shakerley, Mrs. and Miss
Dora Shakerley, Mr. Hannan, Mr. Bali and Mr. Scott,
(34th Regt.,) Lieut. MostyneOwen, E. H. Grey, Esq., A. i
Potts, Esq., John Sharp, Esq., Mr. and Lady Adelaide de
Trafford, the Misses Alderson, Alderman Perrin (ex-
Mayor), and the Misses Perrin, S. B. Chadwick, Esq., and '
Miss Whiteway, Jas. Matson, Esq., and party, Rev.
Eaton and Miss Eaton, Miss Robinson Appleton (Widnes);
John Litton, Esq., Alderman Bierpoint and lady, Mrs. and
Miss Gaskell (Birchdale), John Broadhurst, Esq., Chas.
Broadhurst, Esq., Mr. John Haddock, the Misses Haddock,
George Arkingstall, Esq., Dr. Kendrick and lady, Mr. C.
White, Alderman White, Mr. .and Miss Churton, Mr.
Spinks, Mr. Al. H. Seed and lady, Miss E. Green, Mr. lohn
Crosfield, Mr. S. M. Webster, :Mr. S. Reynolds, Miss
'Thorpe, the Mayor, (P. Rylands,',Eeq.,) Miss Wraf Thos.
-Giddes, Esq.., and lady, Win. Niebolson, Esq., lady, and
malty, Jas. Nicholson, Esq., and wady, T. F. Lawe, Esq.,
, Jas. Stanton, Esq., Miss Stanton, Henry Stanton, Esq.,
and lady. --The refreshment rooms, under the superin-
tendence of Mrs. Thorpe, of the ,hotel, were thrown open
shortly before twelve o'clock, and fully sustained the repu-
tation of the hostess. Horabin's quadrille band was
attendance.

DESTRUCTWE EIRE NEAR BoorvE.—On the night of
Thursday last a firehroke out in the-fleur-mill in Bootle-
, lane, occupied by Mr. Thomas Bollard„,p.nd known in the
neighbourhood as Bollard's MilL The mill was a very
extensive one, grinding by eleven pairs, of stones, driven
partly;by wind and partly by steam power, the windwill
portieneonsisting of a lofty tower nine stories in height,
closely ad4oining to which was an extensive granary five
stories high, and at the north-east side of this was the
steam-engine and boiler-house, and on the farther side
was an..additional granary and stables; the whole occupy-
img part . a a field. At about a quarter :before eight
o'clock smoke was observed issuing from one of the win-
dows on the fourth or fifth floor of the circular tower,
when an alarm of fire was immediately given,,,and mes-
sengers were despatched to Liverpool for assistance.
With the least possible delay, Mr. Hewitt and ithe fire
brigade, and .the agents and :superintendents of ~the fire
insuranee offices and their men, were on the spot; but,
before their arrival, the fire-hadattained such ascemieney
as to defy all efforts to extipgglsh it. Exertions were,
therefore, in the first instance, .directed to saving .some
valuable horses, which were in the stables, and in doing
this the assistants were happily successful, as well as iii
saving some pigs. About nine o'clock the fire had,
reached its greatest force, and was ,i)urning with terrific
fury. At this time the four upper stories of the mill
tower, together with the machinery ov its top, including
the sails, presented a dense and glowing mass of raging
flame, ever and anon bursting out with increased vigour
,and volume, as the timber and other combustible matters
on the different floors successively gave way, the fiery
mass being greatly augmented by the gallery and stairs
which externally surrounded the tower, and also by flames
from-the large granary first referred to. Long after every
vestige of combustible matter had been consumed in the
four orfire upper floors of the tower, the ponderous arms
of the huge sails continued poised on the summit of the
building, swaying in such a manner as to convey an idea
of imminent peril to the under buildings, and those work-
' ing beside them : at length, the supports, gradually
weakened, gave way, and the massive arms, drawn back-
wards by the weight of the tail-wheel and its connecting
machinery, fell over, and rested securely across the roof-
less wall of the tower. Shortly after this, the tail-wheel ,
and some of its fastenings fell to the ground with a crash,
thus removing every immediate source. of danger, and
allowing free scope for the exertions of those who were
labouring for the safety of the remaining property.
Shortly before eleven o'clock the fire had nearly exhausted
itself, and became gradually extinct. Soon after the
fire broke out, Captain Greig, the head constable, was on
the spot, and rendered valuable assistance by his advice
and directions to the police, who exerted themselves most
vigorously on the occasion. There were about thirty
police-officers present, headed by Superintendent Ride
and two inspectors. Mr. Duncan, the engineer to the
water works, also rendered valuable aid. Mr. A. Stone
and Mr. Warburton, of the Norwich Union Fire Office,
and several other gentlemen connected with fire insurance
companies, were present. Mr. Coutes, of the Industrial
School, had the boys belonging to that establishment out
with their hose, but it not being of sufficient length they
were unable to render any assistance. A great portion of
the flour had been removed from the building, and un-
principled parties were carrying it off. Mr. Warburton,
agent of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company, informed
Mr. Coutes of the circumstance, when he immediately set
the boys to carry it inside the gates of the school. The
damage will be only partially covered by insurance ; in
the Norwich Union office to the extent of £3,000, and
about £2,000 in the Phceniz. Nothing is at present known
as to the origin of the conflagration. The mill was burnt
down about twenty-three years ago, and at that time it
belonged to Mr. J. Shaw. We have heard that it is not
intended to refit that portion of the motive power which is ,
dependent on the wind for its action ; but that the four ,
upper stories of the tower are to be taken down, awl the
whole of the machinery to be adapted to steam-power.

DEATH IN THE BOROUGH GAOL.—On Tuesday Mary
Irving, a prisoner under sentence of eighteen months'
imprisonment, for felony, died of pulmonary consumption.
THE SHIPWRIGHTS AND THEIR APPRENTICES.—On
Wednesday, Gray, Martin, and Watmough, apprentices to
Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., shipbuilders, appeared to
answer for refusing to work. Mr. Cato said that on the
Bth of this month a great number of apprentices 50 or
60 of them—assembled at the yard gate, having discon-
tinned working. He asked them the reason, and they
said it was because Mr. Audley, one of the partners, had
discharged one of the apprentices who had refused to be
bound. They said they would not allow him (Mr. Cato)
to bind his apprentices, as it was contrary to the regula-
tions of their society. He replied that he would see who
was master then, for he would have no apprentices in his
yard who were not bound. Since that time they had ab-
sented themselves from their work. Mr. Booth said the
defendants deserved to be severely punished, and sent
them to prison for 14 days.
THE RESERVOIR AT BURY.—In the Court of Ex-
chequer on Thursday, in the cases Mucklow v. Whitehead,
and Openshaw v. Whitehead, Mr. Gray appeared to show
cause against a rule obtained for the purpose of obtaining
an order to the Master to review his taxation. The actions
arose out of circumstances connected with the Bury reser-
voir, and the same attorney had acted for both plaintiffs,
there being but one defendant. The Master, on taxation,
had divided the charge for " drawing brief," which was ls.
per folio, between the two plaintiffs, and allowed for two
copies. The learned counsel contended that this was the
proper course to be adopted, seeing that the circumstances
in both eases were alike, and that one brief was only a copy
of the other. The question was an important one, and
had not yet been settled.—The Chief Baron said it re-
minded him of the Baltic risks some years ago, in which
there had been twelve actions against one defendant, the
same attorney appearing for all the plaintiffs. Could it be
supposed that he could fairly charge for drawing twelve
briefs, each of which was precisely the same ? He thought
not.—The Court would consult the other judges before
they gave judgment on so important a question.
ALLEGED CONFESSION OF MIIRDER.—A paragraph
has been making a round of the newspapers to the effect,
that a young man, named Thomas Jarrett, residing in
Smithdown-lane, Edg-e-hill, Liverpool, surrendered him-
self at the Sack•ville-place Station-house, in Dublin, and
said that he had shot a young man, named Thomas Wil-
liams, also residing near the Edge-hill Station. We have
been requested'to state the following, which are, we under-
stand, the facts of the case :—On Wednesday week, the
young man, larrett, a mere youth, went over to Dublin
on a pleasure excursion, and on the following day, while
walking -about the city, he felt fatigued, and entered
an eating-house, where he had some refreshment, and also
some drink. He recollects two or three men being
resent while he was drinking, and, also, of maidenly feel-
mg a giddiness come over him, when he rushed into the
street. Beyond this he remembers nothing, for from that
moment he lost all recollection of what took place, and
'remained unconscious up till'Saturday se'nuight, although
attended by two medical gentlemen. On recovering his
senses he gave the address of his relatives, some of whom
went to Dublin for
.blitt,-• and, .as he was immediately
given up to them by the Dublin authorities, by whom he
had been detained for salty, he was hrought home. No
murder, such as alleged, has been-committed.
FAGGOT VOTES DOR NORTH LINCASHIRE. —ln the
Court of Common fleas, on Thursday, the case of Moor-
house and others v. Gilbertfion, was heard. This was Sis
appeal from the'deasion of the revising barrister of North
Lancashire. The appellants were the owners of undivided
shares in freehold property in 4)reston. A portion alibis
property was het underagreetaent that the tenant should
pay 40s. a year for it to the 'landlords, on the terms that
they shoula pay the poor-rates, water-rate, and locaYboard
of health rate. The revising-barrister held that the annual
value did not amount to `4es. a year, but that the reatan-
nual value was 405., minor the rates. On this decision a
numbeed votes now depended, and the joint 'owners ap-
pealed from it. The counsel for the appellants contended
that the revising barrister was wrong : that n clear yearly
value of 40s. give the vote, from which the public rates
and taxes' were not tolie deemed to be charged. The Lord
Chid Justice.—What would the tenant have paid, if he
had .to pay his 'own rates ? He would have paid, less the
rates. The value; then, taking the rental paid as the value,
is under 405., and the landlord has not 40s. -a year to dis-
pead. 'Mr. James contended he had; for, 'though he paid
the tenant's. rotes, he had the money to dispend in so
doing. The Lord Chief Justice... That might be a good
argument agianst complaints of agricultural distress.
“ Whitt de yen let your land for F" Oh, only. 15s. an
acre," siva the complaining landlord. The answer would
'be, " That means 20s. with the poor-rates." That would
lie another fallacy on behalf of the agriculturists—the
higher the poor-rates, the more they would get for 'their
rent. The Court were of opinion that the tenant's' rates,
being paid by the landlord, must be deducted. All the
landlord got was 40s. for the land and for air agreement to
pay the rates, which was the same thing as thoughhe had
agreed to pay for the tenant's beer. He did not receive
40s. a year for his land. The revising barrister '.had no
very difficult task in deciding on this question; and that
moderately difficult task he had performed very well, and
had tome to a right conclusion. Judgment fiar the re-
spondents, with costs.
MIL BRADLEY AND THE 'SELECT VESTRY.—At a
recent meeting of the parochial finance -committee, the
following resolution was paseed Mr. Bradley having
called the attention of the-committee to the following
statement, reported to haveheen made by Mr. Hodson, in
a speech delivered by him -at a meeting of the Town
Council ; resolved, that the.iturchwardens be requested
to convene a meeting of the general board as early as
practicable, for the purpose of considering 'whether any
and what steps should 'be taken by the' board with re-
ference to the foregoing Statement.' , In pursuance of
this resolution, a special meeting of the -Select Vestry was
Iheld on Tuesday, in the Parish-offices at Brownlow-hill.
The Rev. Rector Campbell -presided, and the ether mem-
tens were Messrs. Came, 'Hutchison, Gardner, Shaw,
Blain, Hand, Mellor, Denton, Bradley, Moss, Hughes,
'Witty, Crawford, and Savage. The resolution of the
-finance committee havinitheen read, Mr.. Bradley stated
that he wished to put himself right-with the board, on
public grounds, inasmuch .es Mr. Hodson had charged
him, in his public capacity, with using his influence at
elections. He thought 'that the charge was one which,
in a certain sense, involved the character of'the board,
and he thought it was incumbent on them to form a sub-
;'committee to inquire into the allegations. The-Chairman
gave it as his opinion that `the charge was of so vague a
-character that it was almost- impossible for the board to
take notice of it—that .it specified nothing, and that, if
'the board were to take up an inquiry of that nature, it
ought to be upon some specific charge. He thought Mr.
Bradley should apply to Mr:llodson for the particulars of
the charge against him, andthat then the board -would be
in a position to take the matter up, if he felt that his
character was affected by it. Mr. Came and Mr. Hutchison
"both expressed similar 'views. Mr. Moss said that he
-viewed the matter in the sameelight that Mr. Bradley had
done, and that Mr. -Hodson's- charge would reflect upon
the board if they did not make an inquiry into it. He
thought the case of Mr. Bradley and the attack on the
'reverend chairman were not at ail parallel, inasmuch as
the remarks made by Mr. 'Gladstone were merely advanced
as an opinion—an opinion in- Which he (Mr. Moss):-en-
tirely agreed. A general conversation followed as to-the
course which the vestry Should <take ; and Mr. Denton
moved, seconded by Mr. Carne, "'That no question, affect-
ing-this board, or any member thereof, being at present
:der; followinthis gmeeting, resolved that ;it be now adjourned
sine. die." More conversation mowed; and, eventually,
was unanimously :earned :--" Certain obser-
vations having been made by Mr. 'Hodson at the last
coupail meeting, which are believed ,by Mr. Bradley to
affect his character as a member .cf the select vestry,
resolved that this meeting cannot entertain the question
in its present form." The vestrythen adjourned.
Sourirpour TOWN-HAIL.--The Judge of the Liverpool
County Court gave judgment, on Tuesday, in the case of
Mr. Stanley. He said, "This was an-action heard at the
last eitting of the court, and it was brought to recover
the amount •of certain work done by the plaintiff in and
about the erection of the town-hall and police-offices in
Southport, .under the following eircumetaeces :--By the
Southport Improvement Act the defendants were elected
a body corporate, and were authorised -to make the erec-
tions above-mentioned; and by see. 43 they. were autho-
rised to enter info the necessary contracts,-but it was
provided that every such contract should -be in writing,
and under the common seal of the corporation. On the
18th of June, 1852, by articles of agreement the defend-
ants entered into:a ...contract with the plaintiff' for the
erection of the town-hall, police-offices, &c. And the
plaintiff agreed -thereby to complete such works,. and to
find all the materials and labour, and execute the
works according the drawings and specifications
prepared by Mr. Withnell, and signed by the chair-
man of the improvement committee. The articles
of agreement were under the common seal -of the
corporation, and the specification signed by the chair-
man, and identified by the signature of the plaintiff, -was
also proved. Whilst the Wilding was in progress the
defendants resolved to make use of a new warming and
ventilating process, and contracted with Mr. Leigh, -an
ironmonger, to heat and ventilate the sessions board-
room, cells, &c., in the town-114 for the sum of £B6.
The adoption of this apparatus involved certain alterations
from and additions to the original plan and specification.
The plaintiff performed the extra work ; but no written
instructions were given for such alterations and addi-
tions. The action was brought to „recover the expense
attending these alterations and additions, and no ques-
tion was raised as to the amount. But the defendants
objected, firstly, in fact, that the contract for these
alterations and additions was made not with them,
but with Mr. Leigh. On this point, however, lam clearly
of opinion on the facts proved, that the contract for
these extras was with the defendants ; and I should have
no difficulty in saying that the defendants were liable, if
there was nothing in the special contract or the general
law to prevent the plaintiff recovering in this action. The
defendants objected, secondly, that by the terms of the
special contract, the plaintiff could not recover ; and a
clause in the specification was relied on by the learned
council for the defendants. That clause provided that, if
the commissioners should be desirous that any alterations
or additions should be made, and should give to the
contractor written instructions to that effect, the con-
tractor
should execute the building so varied, and the
value of such alterations and additions should be added
to the cost price. But the . contractor should iii no case
be entitled to any payment .in respect of alterations or
additions unless such written instructions should be given.
The plaintiff's advocate objected that that contract did
not come within the meaning of the word " specification "
referred to in the articles of agreement But I can have
no doubt, after reading that document, that the parties
intended the whole of it to be incorporated by reference
in the articles. It commences by the term, 'A Specifica-
tion,' and each page is signed both by the plaintiff and the
chairman of the commissioners. I therefore think that,
in accordance with the doctrine laid down in Morgan v.
Morgan 9 Bingham, the written instructions were a condi-
tion precedent to the recovery for the extra work, and such
written instructions not having been given, I can come to
no other conclusion than that the plaintiff cannot recover.
Indeed, if the written contract had not been so precise,
this being the case of a corporation, there might have
been difficulty in saying the plaintiff could recover. But
it is unnecessary to enter into this point. I therefore
direct a non-suit to be entered." The learned judge subse-
quently added, addressing Mr, Johnson, "Of course, Mr,
Johnson, you will understand that this decision is given
upon that 1)944 of law, and not upon any question of fact."

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

INCENDIARISM.—SeveraI cases have lately occurred in
Devonshire of a somewhat extensive character.
The Sun calls the Times " England's notorious and
brazen weathercock."
THE OLDEST VrssaL in the French fleet is the Ocean.
She was launched in November, 1790, and is consequently
63 years old. Her last thorough repair took place in 1836.
AN INFORMATION has been filed by the Attorney-
General against the Archbishop of York, in his character
' as visitor to a charity at Hemsworth, in Yorkshire.
How Is IT USED ?—The Lancet states that in 1840
only 5501b5. of the poisonous and bitter drug, nux vomica,
were imported, while in 1852 nearly as many tons reached
our market.—Daily Paper.
THE POULTRY MANIA,—A cock has been sold within
this year for £lOO, and twenty-two fowls have realized by
auction £420. A pair of Toulouse geese have fetched £5O,
and ducks proportionate prices.
A MEETING or EDITORS, authors, publishers, and
printers, was held at Philadelphia, on the 19th of October,
to deliberate upon the ways of raising money to erect a
monument over the grave of Benjamin Franklin.
ANOTHER VACANCY ON THE SCOTTISH BENCH.—Lord
Fullerton, Judge of the Court of Session, has resigned.
The vacancy, it is said, will be filled up by the appoint-
ment of Mr. Hercules Robertson.
"IT will be recorded," says the Gateshead Observer,
"among the memorabilia of the epidemic of 1853. that
the three months within which it occurred yielded but
four cases and four prisoners for Newcastle quarter ses-
sions."

THE POPVLATION or BRITAIN, it is calculated, has de-
creased during the summer. In the quarter ending Sep-
tember 30th, 87,467 emigrants sailed from the ports of
the 'United Kingdom ; of these 63,600 sailed from Liver-
pool.

- LORD RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.--011
Tuesday last, the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton was
re-elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, in
opposition to Mr. Alfred Tennyson, who was brought for-
ward by the Radical party.
BRITISH ARTISANS IN RUSSIA,—A gentleman holding
A situation in the Russian dockyard at Cronstadt, who has
st arrived at Portsmouth, states that the whole of the
British artisans in that and other goverMental establish-
ments in Russia, of whom there are a large number, have
been discharged.
THE TIMBER TRADE has so rapidly increased in Van
Diemen's Land that orders have been sent to England for
as many as fifty sawmills. Cutting and splitting, says the
local Colonist, is a mode more remunerative than gold
mining. The average of the weekly earnings of diggers
bears no comparison with an equal number of our Huon
sawyers. This is a well authenticated fact.
THE BOMBAY MAIL-PACKET SERVICE.—We are en-
abled to announce 'that the terms of a contract for a mail
service between Bombay: and Aden are agreed to between
the Government and the Peninsular and Oriental COM-
pany. The payment "for this line has been fixed at the
same "rale, viz., 29. M. per mile, that the company reeeiVe
for the other branches of their mail contract between this
country, India, China, and Australia.—Sdandard.
'GREAT ,PorrurnYe EXHIBITION AT DERBY.—The first
annual exhibition of poultry, for Derbyshire and the Mid-
land Counties, was held on Wednesday, in the Comity
Hall, Derby, which was fitted up in double tiers of pens
for the purpose. The buff and cinnamon •Cochin Chinas,
of which there were no fewer than ninety-six pens. formed,
with the Dorkings, Spanish, and geld and silver Hamburg
fowl, the chief features of the exhibition. The 'company
was numerous and brilliant, and great interett•seemed to
be excited by the show.
MADLrB. SOPHIE CRIIVEIGIA has signed an'engagement
with tho Opera for two yearsmt a salary of-f 54,000 sterling
a year. She is to choose her own parts, to:play only twice
a week, and to have four months' vacation each year. In
case she is called upon to sing three filmes a week, the
extra:night is to be paid 160, A separate engagement is
entered into for two months of her eonii, during the uni-
versal exhibition of 1856, at the rate of £l,OOO per month,
so that the salary for the second year will, in fact, be
£6;ooo.—Galignani.
COST OF A PICKPOCKET TO •THE PUBLIC.—The Rev.
Mr. Clay, the Chaplain Of the Preston House of Correc-
tion, estimates the loss caused-to-the public by fifteen
pickpockets, whose careers he has 'traced, including the
value of the property stolen, expenses of prosecution, and
maintenance in gaol, 'at '226,500. that is to say, the
country has been at an expense of £1,766 for each of these
worthies : a sum, one tithe of Which, if judiciously applied
at the proper time, would probably have sufficed to make
them useful members of society,
COLLISION .ON THE GREAT .NORTHERN
RAILWAY --
On WednesdiV morning, avert' dangerous collision occu.red
on this railway, about five miles south from Doncaster.
The axle of a goods truck having broke while the train
was in motion, the truok was thrown across the line of
rails. Almost at the same instant, the express train from
London dashed into the dislocated train, at full speed.
Its engine-was capsized, and three of the passenger car-
riages were thrown off the line. Great alarm was neces-
sarily excited, but fortunately no life was lost, nor was any
very serious injury sustained.
A PARISIAN CELEBRITY.—One of the celebrities Of the
public balls of Paris was buried on Tuesday, having -been
carried to the grave from her hotel in the Rue Caumartin.
Mademoiselle Olympe, employed as a boot-binder, about
two years ago, never missed a ball at Asnieres or 14111iMe's,
and at the former place she-so captivated a German baron
that he married her. He died about eight months ago,
leavi4 her from 30,000 f. to 40,000 f. a year. After his
death 'she became melancholy, and her health declined.
She went .out on Sunday to drive in the Bois de Boulogne,

and, on the return of the carriage to the hotel, the foot:
man, on letting down the steps, found that his mistress
did not alight. She was lying dead on the seat. She had
only reached her 22nd year.—Galignani's Messenger.
DARING BURGLARY.—The family of Mr. Young, South-
street, Peckham, all went .to church on Sunday night
week; leaving only a servant girl in the house. A gentle-
manly dressed young man called, inquired for Mr. Young,
and, being told he was out, expressed a wish tos.write a
note to him. The servant
.girl, who was alone in the
house, hesitating at this, he seized her by the throat and
carried her into the parlour; threatening to cut her throat
if she made an outcry. He then let in two men, who
bound the girl hand and foot. They made her tell where
the plate and other property, to a large amount, were de-
posited, which they succeeded in carrying off. an the
return of the family they were unable to get into the
house, and a ladder having been procured; the servant was
found thrust into a cupboard.
CHOLERA'S HIDING-PLACES. —Notwithstanding the
sharp look-out which has been kept for breaches of the
lodging-house regulations, a considerable number of the
Irish who burrow about the • east end of the town have
contrived to elude the vigilance of the police • for some
time. On Monday last the keepers of ten of these houses
were brought before the magistrates, and fined in sums
varying from five to twenty shillings, which, in every in-
stance, was paid. They were all Irish, and brought for-
ward every sort of excuse for the state in which their
premises had been found ; but the lucrative returns of
their vocation would have been :the most honest reason
they could adduce for crowding seven, eight, or ten human
beings into the space which should 'have been allotted to
three or four. From a calculationanade by the clerk, and
not objected.to by one of the defendants, it was plainly
shown that for two rooms, each about the size of a sentry-
box, not less than one guinea per week was drawn ! One
of these holes had not even a window, and yet two beds
were stuck into it. In many of the •beds four sleepers
were found, "ail lying," as the officer •said, "head and
tail," and in other cases "shakedowns," and beds were in
the same apartment, filled with both sexes and all ages.—
Sunderland Herald.
LORD BYRON'S ESTATE...-110BHORtg,47. BLAND.—This
was a suit to administer the estate of Lord Byron, and it
came before the Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, on Wed-
nesday, upon further directions. The question argued
was whether the coats of the incumbrancers (seventeen in
number) ought to come out of the residuary estate, or out
of certain accumulations of income. A second point arose
out of a passage froma,a letter written by .Lord Byron to
Mr. Leigh Hunt, in reference to a legacy coming to him
from Mr. Percy B. -Shelley. This passage was asfollows
—" I sinew you long before Mr. S. knew either you or me,
and you,and one or two more of his friends are the only
ones whom I can at all 'reflect upon as men whose ac-
quaintance was honourable and agreeable. I have one
thing more to state, which is, that from this moment :I
must decline the office of acting as his executor in any
respect, also all other connection with his family or any
of its branches, now or hereafter. There was something
about a legacy of £2,000 which he had left me. This, of
course, I decline, and the more so that I hear that his will
is admitted valid, and I state
,this distinctly that, in ease
of anything happening to me, my heirs may be instructed
not to claim if.—Yours ever truly, N. B." It was doubtful
whether Lord Byron's executors, to whose knowledge this
letter had come within a comparatively recent period only,
were justified in net receiving the legacy therein men-
tioned. The argument was not concluded when his honour
rose.—lt was continued on the following day, when the
Vice-chancellor directed certain inquiries relative to the
legacy left to his lordship by the will of Mr. Percy B.
;Shelley, and respecting the costs of the carious encum-
brancers on the shares of the appointees of Mr. Leigh, the
residuary legatee.
RaVELATIONS OF LoNDQ/c CITY EXPEND.ITURR.—The
following items of information were given before the City
Corporation Commission on Tuesday, by Mr. J. H. Elliott,
a member of the Court of Common Council :—The City
Sewer Commissioners are a separate body. They are, to
some extent, at present, subordinate to the Metropolitan
Commissioners. The area of the city is not above a square
mile. Our sewers amount to about fifty miles. Our
paving is unrivalled throughout the world, and the gni-
missioners sit upon the spot, and are readily accessible.
In the metropolis each of the police-courts cost £2,000
a year, but our two police-courts, with unpaid magistrates,
cost £2,600 a year each, which would be ample to provide
for the payment of two police magistrates. It appears,
from a recent return, that the corporation has 151 officers,
commencing with the recorder, whose gross salaries
amount to £46,000, or an average of £3OO a year each
officer. The expenditure of the city in the year 1852, for
municipal purposes alone, amounted to about ss. in the
pound upon the whole rental of the city, reckoning the
rental at £1,000,000 per annum ; or, in other words, it
amounted to a rate of £l7 per house. About £146,000
of that sum was derived from [the city tolls, and various
sources of city taxation, and about £120,000 from rates
and direct taxation. In 1852 the paving, lighting, sewers,
and police in Marylebone amounted to 2s. 3d. in the
pound, arid the rates in the city for the same purposes
were a trifle more than 2s. 3d. in the pound. It is the
custom of the corporation, whenever a tax is becoming
unpopular, to make it fast by
act of parliament, and to
devote the proceeds to some good purpose. Thus, the
sheriff's fines are now devoted to the establishment of a
Freeman's Orphan School. The coal-tax of ls. ld. per
ton yields pretty nearly £200,000 a year, but the corpora-
tion has not the control and expenditure of that large sum
of money. The corporation only retains for its own use
about as much as is yielded by a fourpenny tax out of the
is. id. The rest goes, I believe, under the control of the
Woods and Forests, for improvements beyond the city.
In answer to the question, Are you aware of any public
improvement which has ,been promoted by the corpora-
tion ? •Mr. Elliott said : I am not aware of any great
public improvement that has ever been suggested or
carried out by the corporation of its own accord. In
fact, of any great comprehensive scheme of public im-
provement they appear to be incapable. The only new
street of any importariCe 474yp undertaken is
that of New Cannon-street.