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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1853.

they were fortunately extinguished before any damage of
Importance was done. The banking-house of Page,
Bacon, and Co., had been robbed of 81,000. New dis-
coveries of gold near Negro-hill were reported. The
agricultural prospects were in a very flattering condition.
The grand jury of the District Court of San Francisco had
ignored the bill brought against Captain Sampson, of the
steamer Independence, for manslaughter ; but said if they
had the power they would bring bills against the owners
and agents of the Vanderbilt line, on account of miserable
outfit, unseaworthiness, and other acts, and the unjusti-
fiable negligence which entailed the loss of 100 lives.
Three men were executed at Sacramento on the 28th
April, for murder. Their names were, Thompson, aged
25, a native of Southampton, and Stewart and Ackerman,
Americans. The two latter smoked cigars until they
mounted the scaffold.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, MAY 31.

THE OATH OF ABJURATION.—Lord LYNDH URST
moved the second reading of the Alteration of Oaths Bill,
the object of which he described as being simply to strike
out from the oaths taken as qualification for seats in par-
liament, or other offices, such portions as were inope-
rative and absurd. fie proceeded to illustrate this pro-
position by examples drawn from the oaths of allegiance,
supremacy, and abjuration.—The Earl of DERBY had no
objection to the alteration of the oaths, but regarded
with considerable suspicion the use which might be made
of such a measure, if passed at FO advanced a period of
the session, especially by the introduction of amendments.
After some discussion, the bill was read a second time.

The Aggravated Assaults Bill was reported, with
amendments.
The Burial.grounds Bill was read a second time.
The Sales of Bullion Bill went through committee.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2.

COUNTY COURT EXFENSES:—Lord BROUGHAM pre-
sented a petition, complaining of having had to pay
19s. 7d. as expenses in a suit in the county court for a
balance of £4 6s.—being 24R- per cent. upon the sum
recovered—and this without including any expenses for
professonal assistance.—The LORD CHANCELLOR said he
was quite alive to the importance of this subject, and that
it was his anxious wish to have the whole matter sifted
with the least possible delay.—• Lord CAtkiPBELL said, that
the monstrous evil brought under their notice did not
arise, he believed, from the fees alone, but from the fact
that, according to the present constitution and procedure
of the county courts, there could not be a judgment
without trial.
CONVERSION OF STOCK.—The LORD CHANCELLOR
stated that, owing to the unfavourable state of the money
market, no further assent would be given to the accept-
ance of the new 2. per cent. stock on behalf of suitcrs in
Chancery.
OATHS.—On the order of the day being read for going
into committee on the alteration of Oaths Bill, the Earl
of ELLENBOROUGH said that, though he was anxious to
be relieved from the mummeries of some parts of the old
oath, still he regarded the wording of the new oaths with
great suspicion. Besides, it was not desirable that ano-
ther opportunity for a debate on Jewish disabilities should
arise during the present session. He therefore moved,
as en amendment, that the bill be committed that day
three months.—Lord DERBY expressed his suspicion of
the bill in its present shape, but was willing, if a similar
measure were introduced at an earlier period next session,
to give it his support.—Upon a division, the amendment
was carried by 84 to 69, and the bill was accordingly lost.
The Common Lodging-houses Bill, the Aggravated
Assaults Bill, the Sale of Bullion Bill, and the Evidence
Amendment Bill were severally read a third time and
passed.

Certain returns connected with the accounts of the
Ecclesiastical Commission were then agreed to on the
motion of Lord Powis.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a petition from the
citizens of Bristol, praying the house not to legislate per-
manently for India till full inquiry had taken place into
the condition of the several presidencies.—The petition
was ordered to be referred to the Select Committee on
Indian Affairs, and their lordships adjourned.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3.
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THE RIVER PARANA.—III reply to a question from
the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of CLARENDON said,
that owing to the great skill and exertions of Sir Charles
Ilotham, the representative of Her Majesty's government
at Monte Video, a treaty had been effected for the open-
ing of the communications with that part of the world by
means of the River Parana. _ _

DENMARK.—Lord BEAUMONT moved fora copy of a
certain treaty with respect to the succession to the crown
of Denmark, and for the production of papers relating
thereto.—The Earl of CLARENDON said it would be im-
possible to produce the correspondence moved for, owing
to its volumnious character. A portion of that corres-
pondence it would be improper, under any circumstances,
to produce ; but he had no objection to the production of
a copy of the treaty as moved for.—After some observa.
tions from the Earl of MALMESBURY and Lord BEAU.
MONT the subject dropped, and their lordships soon after
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, MAY 31.
BLACKBURN ELECTION PETITION.—The SPEAKER in-
formed the house that he had received a letter from the
agents of the petitioners against the return for the
borough of Blackburn, stating that it was not intended to
proceed with the petition.
PETITIONS.—Th.CHARLES TURNER presented petitions
from the bookbinders of the town of Liverpool, from the
letter-press printers of Liverpool, from the journeymen
coopers of Liverpool, from the operative tinplate workers
of Liverpool. from the sailmakers of Liverpool, from the
operative millers of Liverpool, and from the engineers of
Liverpool, in favour of the Combination of Workmen Bill.—
Mr.TOLLEMAEHE presented a petitionfrom the aaltboilers,
flatmen, and tradesmen of Northwich, in the county of
Chester. and Mr. PILKINGTON, from Blackburn, to the
same effect.—Mr. PILKINGTON presented petitions from
Blackburn against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays;
from the solicitors of Blackburn against the Registration
of Assurances Bill ; and from Darwen, in favour of
granting members to the University of London.—
Mr. CHARLES TURNER presented petitions from the
operative ropemakers of the borough of Liverpool, pray-
ing that no further reduction be made in the import
duties on foreizn cordage, cables, cable-yarn, or standing
and running rigging.
CusToms' Ac.,..—Mr. Hot, vkutfr. brought up the re-
port of the Committee on the Customs' Acts, and the re-
. solutions were read and agreed to.
THE IRISH CHURCH.—Mr. G. H. MooEE, in a length-
ened speech, moved for a select committee to inquire into
the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland, with the view of
ascertaining hog far they are made applicable to the
benefit of the Irish people. He enlarged upon the evils
he attributed to the Irish Church Establishment, upon
its vast revenues, exacted from Romanists, and generally
upon the religious policy pursued in Ireland, which was
worse, he said, in principle than in practice, which
endowed the religion of the rich, and handed over that of
the poor to the uncontrolled operation of the voluntary
principle.—The motion was seconded by Mr. M. O'CON.
NELL.—Sir J. YOUNG inferred that the object of Mr.
Moore was the total abolition of the Church establish-
ment of Ireland, which a Romanist might be expected
consistently to advocate; but in ascribing all the evils
of that country to its Church establishment, be had over-
looked its bad commercial system, and other agencies to
which those evils were really attributable.—Sir R. INHus
opposed the motion, the object of which he considered to
be, not the gratification of abstract curiosity, but, as dis-
closed by the speeches in support of it, the overthrow of
the Established Church of Ireland, though its existence
was guarded by the Act of Union and by the oaths of
members of that house, and it was an integral part of the
institutions of the whole empire.—Mr. LUCAS supported
the motion, which he remarked was said to be unconsti-
tutional ; but how could they talk of a constitution in
Ireland when they were discussing the monstrous iniquity
of the Established Church there, and when inquiry into
this despotism was refused ?—Lord JOHN RUSSELL
opposed the motion, and after some further discussion it
was negatived by 262 to 100.
Mr. KERR obtained leave to bring in a bill to prevent
the spread of the contagious disease commonly called
glanders.—(A laugh.)
DURHAM ELECTION PETITION.—Tbe adjourned de-
bate on the motion for a select committee upon the Dur-
ham election petitions, was resumed, and ultimately the
motion was agreed to.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. -

PETITIONS.—k;:CHARLESTURNERpresented petitions
from the shipwrights, shipjoiners, and journeymen tailors
of Liverpool, and from a meeting of the industrious classes
of the borough of Liverpool, in favour of the Combination
of Workmen Bill.—Mr. T. PARKER presented a petition
from Preston to the same effect.—Mr. THICKNESSE
presented a similar petition from the painters of Wigan.—
Mr. TOLLEMACHE, from the weavers of Congleton, in
the county of Chester ; and Mr. CROOK, from the opera-
tive members of the trades at Bolton—viz., the cotton.
spinners, stonemasons, ironmoulders, tobacco manufac-
turers, engineers, millwrights and smiths, carpenters and
joiners, brushmakers, sloggers, tinplate-workers, boot and
shoemakers, cabinetmakers, bedquilt weavers, curriers,
bricklayers, coachmakers, and brassfounders.
CRIMINAL APPEALS.—Mr. I. BUTT, in moving the se-
cond reading of the New Trials (Criminal Cases) Bill,
represented the present state of the law, which, by a
fiction of modern times, had departed from the ancient
principle, as full of anomalies, denying to a party whose
honour or life was in jeopardy an appeal which was granted
in the most trivial civil cases. He proposed to give a
right of appeal from the finding of the jury in matters of
fact as well as upon points of law, without the consent of
the judge, providing that it should not interfere with the
execution of the sentence, a special tribunal of appeal
being appointed in capital cases. He had framed his bill
with reference to Ireland only, but he submitted this as
an imperial question, equally applicable to England.—
The :motion was opposed by Lord PALMERSTON, who
said punishments were not intended as vengeance wreaked
upon the accused, but to protect society by deterring from
crime, and the sentence of the law should be certain, and
as rapid as was consistent with the ends of justice. His
opinion was that the present state of the law afforded to
an innocent man every protection against an unjust sen-
tence ; judges could reserve points of law, and, as to facts,
recourse could be had to a quarter where a remission or
commutation of the sentence was never refused in proper
cases. After some further discussion, the bill was thrown
out without a division.
EXCLUSION OF JUDGES.—The third reading of the
Judges' Exclusion Bill being moved by Lord Hotham,
Mr. DRUMMOND moved to defer it for six months, re.
marking that the bill, though it professed to be a measure
of reform, did not look to history as a guide for the future,
but sought to surrender many present advantages on a
mere speculation of what might hereafter occur.—Mr.
MACAULAY said he would throw open the house not only
to the Judge of the Admiralty Court, but also to the
Lords Justices of Appeal and the Vice-Chancellors, who
would, in his opinion, add to the credit of that great
assembly, and render it far more efficient for the dis-
charge of some of its duties.—Upon a division the
amendment was carried by :226 to 125, and the bill was
consequently lost.
COMBINATIONS.—On the order for the third reading
of the Combination of Workmen Bill, at the suggestion
of Lord PALMERSTON, who, on the part of the govern-
ment, did not object to the principle of the bill, it was
read a third time, and further proceedings were post-
poned for a fortnight, in order to afford time to prepare
amendments.

total of :X3,487,000. The outstanding bills amounted to
.C 750,000.
THE INCOME-TAR.--The re-committal of the Income-
tax Bill was then proceeded with, the house having re-
solved itself into a committee for that purpose. On the
13th (reformed) clause, making the duty under schedule
A, in Ireland, on rateable hereditaments, payable in the
first instance by the landlord or immediate lessor, Mr. I.
BUTT moved an amendment, to limit the immediate liabi-
lity of the landlord to cases where the annual value was
under £l5, and beyond that value the occupier to be
liable in the first instance. The amendment was nega.
tived on a division. Several other amendments met a
similar fate. The several new clauses were agreed to,
and the bill was ordered to he reported.
CrsToms DUTIES.—The house then went again into
committee on the customs, &c. acts. The deferred items
underwent much discussion (many being again postponed),
and the resolutions were ordered to be reported.

GREAT' FIRE IN LONDON,
AWFUL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.

On Sunday forenoon, shortly after ten o'ciock, the
neighbourhood of the City-road, London, was visited by
one of the most extensive conflagrations that has occurred
in that locality for many years, which in less than half an
hour fired premises containing property valued at nearly
half a million sterling. The whole was not destroyed ;
but the damage done, it is feared by those well able to
form an estimate, will considerably exceed £lOO,OOO.
The fire broke out in the premises belonging to the
Patent Gutta Percha Company, situate at the edge
of the Wenlock-basin, City-road, and extending about
100 feet into the Wharf-road—a thoroughfare filled
with warehouses and stores of vast extent. The
premises of the Gutta Percha Company, although
not more than from 80 to 100 feet in depth,
yet stretched in the other direction upwards of
200 feet, and could not fail from being observed by any
one passing over the City-road bridge, on account of a
lofty and massive chimney shaft, which towered high
above the surronnding house-tops. The building was most
substantially built of brick, and was considered fire-proof,
each compartment being shut off by means of heavy iron
doors ; but the contrary proved the fact, and scarcely any
portion of the factory now remains except a few of the
bare walls, and even these are expected to fall, and if not
they will have to be pulled down.
The factory was divided in the following manner, so as
to afford sufficient room for 300 hands to work :—The
machine-room was in the centre of the premises, extend-
ing from the front to the water side. Adjoining this
portion was a wing on the left, used as the engine-
houses, and which contained three powerful boilers for
driving the machinery. Over the machine-room, in the
centre of the premises on the ground floor, was another
extensive range of buildings, occupied as cutting-rooms
and band-houses. On the ground floor to the right was
another wing used as the rolling-houses, containing ma-
chinery valued at several thousand pounds. Above the
last-named was another extensive building, termed the
press-rooms and manufactory of gutta percha articles,
whilst the fitters' and carpenters' shops,. and the pattern-
makers' stores adjoined them. Behind the premises
already enumerated stood the manufactory for picture
frames and articles of that description, each portion being
stored with tons weight of the gutta percha, an article
equally as inflammable as spirits of turpentine.
Adjoining the gutta percha company's works on the one
side, or rather separated from them by a space of not
more than two feet, were the extensive factory for making
Edwards's patent fire-lighters, belonging to Mr. W.
Gorton. In the yard of these works stood a pile of wood
(and so close to the premises on fire that it became
ignited) containing 140 fathoms, or about one ship load
and a half.

From the fact of the Wenlock Basin, which was 100
feet wide, being besides filled with water, not the least
fears were at first entertained of the flames being able to
attack the wharf and warehouses on the opposite side,
but such was the extraordinary progress of the fire, that
several buildings on the opposite side of the water were
ignited.
Two vessels lying in the basin near the factory were
destroyed, and many miles in length of wires in gutta
percha for the Electric Telegraph Company were also
consumed. As soon as the firemen had obtained the
mastery over the fire in the cpposite warehouses the
whole force was brought to bear upon the main factory,
but in spite of which hour after hour was spent, and mean-
while the flames continued to roll upwards in immense
bodies, and even as late as half-past 7 o'clock on Sunday
evening the fire was far from being entirely extinguished,
but all danger of any further extension of mischief was
over.

The total loss will amount to many thousand pounds;
the damage done at the gutta percha works alone will
reach to between £60,000 and £BO,OOO. The loss will
principally fall upon the Royal, the Imperial, the Scottish
Union, the Yorkshire, the Sun, the Hand-in-Hand, the
County, and other offices.

Upwards of 300 men will be thrown out of employ by
this disastrous event.

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FRIGHTFUL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.

A most lamentable and fatal accident occurred on
Thursday on board the Times screw steamer, one of the
vessels belonging to the Dublin and Liverpool Steam-
packet Company, and commanded by Captain James
Collis. She left the North-wall, Dublin, for Liverpool,
at six o'clock, p.m., having on board 330 deck passengers,
chiefly emigrants, and seven cabin passengers. She also
carried, as part of her cargo, a number of cattle. When
nearly opposite the Pigeon-house, at about seven o'clock,
a partial explosion of one of her boilers took place, causing
a rent, through which there was an immediate and destruc-
tive escape of steam. A scene of the greatest confusion
and terror ensued. A number of the passengers who
crowded the deck were instantly overwhelmed and fright-
fully scalded by the steam ; and those who escaped its
destructive effects were in the greatest alarm fcr their
lives. The condensed steam and boiling water shot up
from the midship batch and the window of the engine-
room, and descended on the deck passengers who were
gathered in the waist of the vessel. Scarcely anything
could be imagined more appalling than the sight which
the deck presented—men, women, and children, rushing
to every side for shelter from the scalding steam •, others
—many of them women—screaming in agony ; the terri-
fied cries of their friends, and of numbers who were in
search of, and apprehensive for, the safety of their friends,
added to the bellowing of the cattle and the bleating of
the sheep and lambs, with which the vessel was laden,
rendered the whole a scene of horror almost without
.
parallel

On the vessel being stopped, the boats were lowered,
and the sufferers conveyed ashore. Nothing could be
more frightful than the appearance some of the poor
creatures presented as they were taken from the boats.
On examination, it was found that thirty-three persons
were injured, many of them severely, and that two, a boy
about four, and a girl about three years old, were dead.
Inspector Finnemore had stretchers brought for the
conveyance of those who could not be taken on cars to
the different hospitals in the city. Some of the passen-
gers who had escaped uninjured were sent by a float up
the river and landed at the wharf ; and those who had
received partial injuries, which did not render it necessary
to send them to hospital, were treated with the greatest
humanity by numbers of citizens, who exhibited the
utmost amount of sympathy for them. None of the
cabin passengers were injured. The second engineer was
severely, the first engineer slightly scalded.
As soon as the accident became known to Mr. Middle-
ton, the agent of the company, he immediately despatched
the Mona steam-tug to the vessel in order to afford any
assistance that might be required, and directions were
given that no expense should be spared that might be
necessary to procure proper treatment for the passengers
who were injured.

The engineer, William Galway, gives the following
account of the accident :—" At about half-past six the
vessel was going at about nine miles an hour against the
tide, which was then flowing—the pressure of steam on
the boiler at the time being ten pounds to the square inch
less than it was calculated to bear. When the v, ssel had
proceeded down the river to the point nearly opposite the
Pigeon-house, he was going up the ladder from the engine-
room, after having left the machinery in charge of Patrick
M'lntyre tthe assistant engineer), when the explosion
took place. He immediately rushed down, seized the
safety-valve and stopped the engines, and in doing so was
severely scalded on the hands. He also states that at the
time the vessel started the water in the boilers was fifteen
inches above the level of the action of the flame from the
furnaces. In accounting for the cause of the accident he
states, that in one of the landings, or compartments of the
boiler, a portion of the rivets had been frayed, and when
the pressure was put on, the part that was thus indurated
gave way. The pumping gear for supplying the engines
with water was in perfect order, and at work at the time
of the accident."

Nine of the sufferers are dead, and several others are in
a hopeless state. At the time of the accident there were
620 passengers on deck, of whom 36 were scalded by the
steam as it escaped from the fractured boiler. They were
all of the labouring class. Of six women who could not
be removed from the Pigeon-house Fort, owing to the
severity of their injuries, one died on Friday morning,
and two others are not expected to survive.

MR. Plump PUSEY has been elected President of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England for the ensuing
year. The receipts of the last year were £6,816, and the
expenditure £5,685, giving a balance of £1,131 in favour
of the society. The Gloucester meeting will be held in
the middle of July.

PLYMOUTH ELECTION.—The candidates were Mr.
Roundell Palmer, Peelite, and Mr. Braine, Liberal. The
polling took place on Thursday. Palmer, 944 ; Braine,
876. The ejection of Mr. Mare, the late member, was on
the petition of Mr. Braine, who paid all the costs. •
Ersom RACES.—The total number of passengers con.
veyed between London and Epsom during the four days
over which the races extended was 41,164. On the
Derby day alone 26,926 persons availed themselves of this
means of transit. This enormous amount of traffic passed
over the railway without accident to a single passenger.
HYDROPHOBIA.—The inhabitants of Eyam and th e
surrounding villages in North Derbyshire have been hor-
rified by the ravages of a mad dog. The rabid animal, it
is stated, had bitten probably upwards of fifty dogs,
besides other animals, before it was killed. The extent of
the danger is, therefore, incalculable.
A MONSTER YACHT.—The American steam-yacht
North Star arrived at Southampton, on Wednesday, after
a passage of ten days, eight hours, and forty minutes,
from New York, which port she left early in the morning
of the 21st ult. The North Star is a beautiful new steam-
yacht of over 2.000 tons burden, belonging to Commodore
Vanderbilt, of New York, the pioneer of the various lines
of mail-steamers between that city and the Pacific. This
steamer has been censtructed specially for the private use
of that gentleman, and the present is her first voyage.
She was built by Mr. Simonson, of New York, and her
dimensions are—length of keel, 260 feet; length of spar-
deck, 270 feet ; beam, 38 feet. The engines are from the
Allaire Works, the cylinders being 60 inches diameter,
with 10 feet stroke, and the paddle-wheels 34 feet in dia-
meter. The steam is generated in four boilers, each 24
feet long and 10 feet diameter, with single return flues.
Ast
to eaexcite re
m -yahtgofastlcni gigantic proportions as these is
likely interest in this country. Her cabins
and interior arrangements are of the most commodious
and elegant description, and fitted up entirely for the
convenience of the family of the owner, by whom he is
accompanied. The North Star will shortly proceed to
St. Petersbureh, and thence to the Mediterranean, touch-
ing at several European ports, merely on a visit of pleasure.
Some idea of her size may be formed when we state that
the North Star is of larger tonnage and greater power
than the Victoria and Albert Royal- yacht. She cost
-F500,000, and her weekly expenses are about £350, ex-
clusive of fuel. The crew consists of nearly 100 men,
including officers, seamen, engineers, firemen, &c. The
vessel, after coaling, will be thrown open to the public,
and her stay is expected to occupy ten or twelve days.
The rapid voyage of this vessel from New York toSouth-
ainpton is an evidence of her great speed,. particularly
when the newness of the machinery is taken into account.
During one twenty-four hours the log of the ..North Star
shows that she ran 344 miles. Her consumption of coals
has been 500 tons.

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL,

The monthly meeting of the Council—also a special
Council—was held on Wednesday, the Mayor, Samuel
Holme, Esq., in the chair.

THE APPOINTMENT OF MAGISTRAIES.
Mr. GLADSTONE recapitulated what had taken place
upon this matter, and said that the statement which ne
had already made was essentially correct. The papers
were sent privately by Mr. Walpole to Mr. Macken-
zie, and, from that time to this, they had never been seen
at the Home-office. The whole thing rested entirely
between Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Walpole, as it wg
utterly impossible for the Government to know what bad
taken place between these two gentlemen. It was, how-
ever, clear and indisputable that neither the papers, " the
strong expression of opinion," nor the " box"
which Mr. `Walpole said he had placed the list for his suc-
cessor, were forthcoming at the present hour. itself, in
W

THE TOWN CLERK'S SALARY.
The proceedings embraced the following recommenda-
tions :

I.—To grant an increase to the salary of the Too'
clerk, of £5OO per annum, the consideration of which
was postponed at the last monthly Council.
2.—ln consequence of the resignation by Mr. M• ri°
Lowndes of the appointment of clerk to the justices for
parochial business, that the additional duties be performed
by the present clerks to the justices, at £lOO per annumeach, and that one of the clerks lately employed by Mr;
Lowndes be engaged permanently in the magistrates
clerks-office, at the salary of £lOO per annum.
3.—To adopt the report of the surveyor on the ventila-
tion of the Council-chamber.
4.—To purchase, for the sum of £19,000. the freehold
property of the United Gas Company, fronting Dale;
street, bounded by Hatton-garden and Cheapside, and
containing in the whole 6,617 square yards of land, or
thereabouts, together with the messuages, shops, build-
ings, and erections thereon.

s.:—To purchase freehold property in Shaw's-brow,
from the trustees and executers of the late Wm. Hughes,
for the sum of £645.
Mr. JOHN. HoLmEs moved the increase of salary to
the Town-clerk, remarking that, since the Highway Board
had been abolished, he had been very much employed at
home in the evenings, in consequence of the increased
duties imposed upon him.
Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE seconded the motion.
The letter which the Town-clerk had previously sent tO
to the Council having been read,
Mr. T. H. TURNER supported the advance, alluding
particularly to the admirable mode in which Mr. Shuttle-
worth managed the business of the Corporation in Lon-
don, and stating that, in many cases, he had disarmed
opposition where another person would not have been
so successful. The Council was mainly indebted to him,
also. for the Government allowance for the cost of prose-
cutions.

Mr. Moss opposed the advance as an extravagant,-
ridiculous, and wasteful excess. He moved a negative.--
Mr. GODFREY seconded the amendment of Mr. Moss.
Mr. DOVER thought that £2,000 a year—an income
not exceeded by our merchants, taking one with another
—was quite a sufficient remuneration, particulariy when
it was understood, at the time the salary was voted, that
it was to be a fixture. As to the Government allowance
for prosecutions, Mr. Cardwell claimed the credit of gain-
ing that.—Mr. PARKER supported the increase.
Mr. AVISON, who, after the most serious considera-
tion, felt bound to oppose the increase. reverted to the
first meeting of the council after the Municipal Reform
Bill, when the salary of £2,000 was fixed as a maximum,
Looking at the salary relatively, Mr. Avison deemed that
very few of the solicitors in Liverpool were individually
in receipt of £2,000 a year ; while the remuneration of
the other legal functionaries in the town did not amount
to that sum. Mr. Mansfield, the stipendiary magistrate,
for instance, received £l,OOO a year; the judges of the
Bankruptcy Court, barristers of high standing and great,
ability, £l,BOO a year each; and Mr. Pollock, judge el
the County Court, £1,200 a year. Mr. Heron, the town"
clerk of the Manchester Corporation, received now £1,500,
but only recently he was paid but £l,OOO. The strongest
reason in favour of the increased salary was Mr. Shuttle-
worth's being overworked. He was overworked ; and
the Council was negligent of its duty in allowing this ;
but it could not be cured, or his life extended, by addi-
tional salary to the Town-clerk himself. Let him have
additional help.
Mr. TYLER thought that there was no parallel between
there
:s ir. LiverpoolwGero were
it E
ando crapsnaocirdha etteshtafeutr:ii idnnss. regard to the duties of the
1101 Town-clerk :in the case of the latter town he believed
sonal duties had positively dectreeaadseodf, iannedreathsiinsghatdh e
been
admitted by the Town-clerk himself. Why, at present
they had five deputy town-clerks, at an aggregate salary
of £1,850. He had been materially relieved, too, by the
appointment of a clerk of the peace, at a salary of £Bo'
a year. Mr. Shuttleworth had (the speaker believed)
entered the Town.hall at £lOO or £l5O a year, and before
he was thirty-four he had arrived at the top of the tree, as
Town-clerk, with £2,000 a year. How many of his Pro-
fessional compeers had been so successful in Liverpool
Mr. Godfrey opposed the advance.
Mr. H OLT was favourable to the increase, since so
many different interests, which eighteen or twenty years
ago did not extst, had now become engrafted on the cor-
poration, each imposing more labour on the Town-clerti!.
Mr. BENNETT followed on the same s;aa..e, advocamg
the advance on public grounds. Mr. Shuttleworth was a
perfect slave to the corporation.
and justification.
£5OO a t Mr.
Mr. BANNED. was against the augmentation of salary.
Family reasons were amongst those urged in its favour,
GaLtaimnesrtooNaanyWoaffiS official, without conside-
ration
wpitrheopaurtetdhetofalvleosttesumsof
but, where he had adopted the same plea lately on behalf
of two clerks, the Chairman of the Finance Committee
would not recognise them.
Mr. PICTON, under all the circumstances, was in favour
of the resolution, as the duties of the office had materially
increased since the salary of £2,000 was fixed, seventeen,
years ago. The Town-clerk showed in his letter that, if
the remuneration of his department remained upon the
former footing of fees, it would amount now to £14,000,a
year. If the Town-clerk, who never shrunk from ad-
ditional labour imposed upon him, was still willing t°
undertake the whole work, he (Mr. Picton) did not think
the Council ought to object to the arrangement; but that
it would be advisable, under all the circumstances, to
sanction the resolution of the Finance Committee.
Mr. BIGHAM recommended gentlemen to think °f
their constituents. Ninety-nine out of every hundred in
the town were opposed to the increase. When Mr. Shut-
tleworth performed extra duties, the Council had voted hirn,
a present of £5OO ; but don't let them saddle an additional
£5OO for ever upon the Corporation, when there was n°
specific list of increased duties established by the Finnnee
Cornmitteee.

Mr. HODSON supported the advance, as did also Mr'
STEWART, who dwelt upon the fact that the Town-clerk,
unlike some of the Government officials enumerated by
Mr. Avison, had no retiring pension to fall beck upon,
should illness unfit him for duty. The fact cited by Mr'
Godfrey, that the Town-clerk had once been receiving but
£lOO in the same building, and that he was cow receiving
£2,000, was all to the Town-clerk's honour. A roan must
not stay at XlOO a-year forever.

Mr. J. HOLMES having very briefly replied, the motion
for or against the confirmation of the proceedings of the
committee, and the sanction of the additional £5OO, was
put, and the confirmation carried by 35 to 19. Tll6
numbers were—

For—Councillors Mellor, Anderson, Tyrer, Holt,
James liolme, Fernihough, Jeffreys, J. Gladstone, jos'
Toulmin, Clayton, Wagstaff, Tobin, Brancker, Gardner,
Picton, Hodson, Wood, Stewart, Horsfatl, Gregson'
Royden, Hothead, Alderman Bennett, Preston, Job?
Holmes, Lawrence, Parker, Robinson, Cooper, Wood'
Procter, Molyneux, Bent, Turner. and the Mayor.
Against—Councillors Woodruff, Thompson, Bighato,
Nicholson, Bradley, Moss, Holden, M`Guffie, Godfrey',
Avison, Banner, M‘Nicoll, Fleming, Robertson Glad.
stone, Nicholson, Beckwith, Henderson, Aldermen
Langsdale and Dover.

Tile TOWN-CLERK, who entered the room shortly after
wards, expressed his acknowledgments to the Council.
The second recommendation was not confirmed, tlie
Town-clerk being instructed to refer to the minutes 0';
the Council for 1847, in order to obtain further infornat"
tion as to the case.

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The other recommendations of the committee weit,e
carried tthat relating to the surveyor's report exceptow
as were those also of the Watch Committee, Dock Core'
mittee, Coutts of Law and St. George's Hall Committee.
The Council then adjourned until to-morrow.

THE SHIP BLOOMER FROM LIVERPOO

FOR AUSTRALIA.

Charles Pay? B'
who sailed from Liverpool in the ship
eEßa,r—e
allltagkeetti this o unity Bloomer, belongia"
aThee, followingputnrries. lefrtoteni r hhaiss
brother,en receivedi‘ rr.
Pyn
to Gibbs, Bright and Co., Liverpool, in March last
Ship Bloomer, April 13th, 1850:
Holyhead. One man, aged 55, died of heart disease °nyoDu EkAnoßwßhßoOwTwH
the 23rd ult., another died of decline on the 28th. There
is a young man laid up in the hospital also with decline,
who Ido not think will get better. The other passer'
gers on board are all in good health. It blew a-fearni
hurricane on the 28th and 29th ult., and carried away our
ngon.ppoWrte of lettinr
mainsail. There are six sea-captains on board as passel:.
gers, who say they never saw a ship behave herself in tP.;
manner before. The gale could not lay her down.
are in very warm weather at present. In ten days f_
passed Madeira with a fair wind, and are now got into tef
trade winds. Though we are 19 days sailed, it seemsgot well rand
me as if it were only one. There is plenty of music he
board, singing, dancing, and all sorts of games.•
passengers are the finest sort of people that could be ed
board of any ship. We have sacred music every day, an
,i_
sermons on Sundays. There are two clergymen on boar;
one belonging to the English Church, and the other— ,
the Wesleyan body. There is also a doctor of medics is
Captain Allen is one of the finest men I ever met, 013" of
continually with the passengers. There are pleritYy.•oo
provisions on board, far more than we can ever use. ,e;
can get ale, but no spirits, on board without the doctgreo
order. I can get anything on board I wish, which rea 1‘
it very pleasant.
We are now passing the island of St. Antonio, and efi;
pect to cross the line in eight days. You will pertthe
where we are when I em writing, but I will not Mee oil
letter until I see a sail. Jane and the children ar,
well ; she was sick two days, but has recovered• of the
and Mrs. Pringle are also both well. A great part are
crew are from the neighbourhood of Dumfries, wu° r 0

very kind to us. A great many of the
Passengers c'•;,s
from Ayr, Kilmarnock, and Glasgow, and various Platch'e
in Ayrshire, There are 28 cabin passengers. Onn`o
7th inst. ae,
small yacht of about 60 tons, with five rae—iro
board, passed us, bound for Geelong. We are now 'it
miles from the line, and having a fair wind, will cres
on Wednesday. I got 10s. from the captain for clip,lnaef
the sheep on bomd, 13 in number • so, von see,
wages are commenced with me 'alreailv. Ma" ° riS
passengers have left their wives and families at home," ,e
should Ivuot
they intended to return in a few years • and
spared and keep my health T do not see whY I may and
do the same.—Read this to, rev father and mother,
give my respects to all friends.—'Your brother tillPA d :_t7
e
CHARLES I•Nr
ow
P.S.—Ship in sight this day, 13th April; to-raor
we cross the line.