The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STALNDARD, TIJESDAN, APRIL 26, 1853.

AUSTRALIA.—We have advices to the 15th January,
received by way of Valparaiso and Panama. Business Of
every description was thriving, and the arrivals of emi-
grants constantly on the increase. The Government
escort which arrived at Melbourne from Bendigo and
Mount Alexander on the Bth of January, brought down
20,007 ounces of gold. The quantity received from the
same places by a previous escort amounted to 17,500
ounces. At Melbourne gold was firm at £3 103. 6d. per
ounce. Flour was held at, for old, £2O per ton; new,
£l9 ; seconds do., £l7 ; bran, Is. 4d. per bush. ; old
wheat, 7s. per bush. ; new do., 6s. 9d. Groceries were
also firm at the following quotations :—Hams is. per lb. ;
butter, Is. 24d. ; lemon syrup, 225. 63. per dozen ; half-
gallon pickles, 375. 63. per dozen; sauces, 7s. to 13s.
per dozen ; vinegar. 10d. per gall. Gold was still being
received in considerable quantities, although a large pro-
portion of the miners were engaged in prospecting, or, at
least, in surface digging, seeming, as in the early history
of gold hunting in California, to have an aversion to ex-
pending any great amount of labour in sinking deep shafts,
or pushing tunnels into the hills. Several correspondents
from the gold fields complain that exaggerated reports of
the productiveness of the placers are published in the
Melbourne papers, which tend to delude many into the
belief that they can do better by digging than by following
their legitimate business in the towns and cities, thus
causing much distress and suffering among the new-
corners. Bush•ranging is carried on to a considerable
extent, and in many instances with the most daring
impunity. An instance of this occurred within three
miles of Forrest Creek, and in full view of several tents,
where a man was robbed of £4O by two men well armed
and mounted. An occasional arrest is made, however,
by the patrols, who are quite numerous, and range the
country both on foot and on horseback. Some very
heavy swindling operations have been carried on for a
number of months past in Australia, in the manufacture
of spurious gold, which, for a long time, passed quite
currently among all classes without the least suspicion as
to its genuineness. It is said that £lOO,OOO had been
made in five months by operations in the gold frauds, one
bank alone having been mulcted in £50,000.
The Kate had sailed for London on the 12th, with
28,977 ounces of gold, worth £115,000; and the Cuth-
berts on the following day, with 445 ounces. The John
Taylor had sailed with 11,847 ounces, the Joshua with
5,732 ounces, and the Sir Robert Sale with 13,836 ounces ;
all from Victoria. The steamer Sarah Sands was to sail
from Sydney for Liverpool on the 27th of January.
Among the sailing-vessels about to depart for England
were the Washington Irving, on the 17th ; the Lydia,
Windsor, and Waterloo, on the 20th ; and the Cheapside
on the 21st of January ; the Cyrus, on the Ist of Feb-
ruary; the Anglesey, on the 10th; the Templar, on the
12th ; the Carnatic, on the 20th ; and the Vimiera, Black
River, and Catherine Jameson, at dates not specified.
The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Shanghai
was expected from Singapore about the Ist of February,
and would be despatched during the same month.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Niagara, Capt. Lang, arrived in the Mersey on
Sunday, at 11 25 p.m., we have advi,es from New York
to the 12th, and from Boston to the 13th instant.
The Niagara brought the following 123 passengers, but
no specie.

PASSENGERS FROM BOSTON : The Hon. W. Cagley,
lady, and infant, the Hon. Judge Washburn and lady,
Mr. H. Whale and lady, Rev. E. Squire and lady, Mr.
B. F. Kendall and lady, Mr. Griffiths and lady, Miss
Griffiths, Mr. J. Brown and lady, Miss Brown, Miss
Hobbs, Mrs. Simmonds, infant, and nurse, Mr. W.
Perch, Mr. G. M'Keand and lady, Mr. P. Spitin and
lady, Captain Vidal and lady, Miss Vidal and nurse, Miss
Montgomery, Mr. Tingle and Miss Tingle, Mrs. Buchan,
two children, and nurse, Mrs. E. W. Williams, Miss
Boultbee, Mr. A. 0. Bigelon and lady, Mr. Chandler,
Rev. E. P. Peabody, Mr. C. Griffiths, Mr. S. Salisbury,
Mr. A. Pitt, Mr. R. Simmonds, Mr. Jarvis, Mr. W.
Hinks, Mr. J. M. Keipfer, Mr. H. I. Parker, Mr. J.
M`Lean, Mr. J. Haddock, Mr. A. H. Davidson,
Mr. Jones, bearer of despatches, Mr. Bruce, Mr.
Samuel Dickey. Mr. R. Stilt, Mr. P. W. Price,
Mr. J. Hawes, Mr. G. K. Hannay, Mr. G. Brandt,
Mr. J. Holmes, Miss Palser, Mr. J. March, Mr. J.
Mitchell, Mr. J. Brettaigh, Mr. Dufond, Mr. J. Rus-
sell, Mrs. Day and two children, Miss Rowlands,
Mr. J. Copeland, Mr. R. De Newville, Mr. H. Kift, Mr.
J. Fisher, Mr. W. Wheeler, Mr. James Graham, son, and
servant, Mr. E. Tamer, Mr. S. Webber, Mr. Cordukes,
Capt. J. H. Lefroy, R.A., Mr. F. Adams and daughter,
Mr. J. Chabot, Mr. R. Ledward, Mr. Goldsmith, Mr.
W. H. Samson, Mr. J. B. Cook, Mr. G. H. Carpenter,
Mr. A. Dessommes, Mr. P. Mallard, Mr. J. Badnall. Mr.
A. Campbell, Mr. J. Legrello, Mr. A. Rufin, Mr. W. B.
Partridge, Mr. Vendryes, Dr. H. H. Atkinson, Mr. J. W.
Wright, Mr. J. Day and lady, Mr. G. H. Boughton, Mr.
G. Wood, Mr. W. Hook, Mr. Bennet, Mr. L. Lace, Mr.
L. Relim, Mr. Zainlart, Mr. G. Schnape, Mr. S.
Ormandy, and Mr. Crombeke.—FßOM HALIFAX: The
Bishop of Nova Scotia, Ray. Geo. Hill, Mr. Millett, Mr.
Dickson, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Hood, Mrs. Evans.
The steamer America, hence, arrived at Halifax on the
12th instant.

On the 17th instant the Niagara passed the stam-ship
Arabia, and on Sunday the steam-ship Asia, hence for
New York.

In the State senate, a spirited debate took place between
Messrs. Taber and Babcock, concerning the bill intro-
duced by the former for the benefit of certain Romanist
associations. A proposition was introduced to protect
the press in fair and correct reports of trials. Both houses
were in session till a very late hour, hurrying through the
work, in order to be ready for the adjournment on the
11th inst., previous to which the nomination of Mr.
Buchanan as minister to England was confirmed.
We learn from Providence that the British bark Robert
Kerr, with a cargo of iron, from Ulasgow for New York,
was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition, on the 4th
ult. Her passengers and crew were all rescued by the
British bark Douglas.
CUBA.—The steamer Isabel had arrived at Charleston
with Havana advices to the Bthi nstant. The lives of the
political prisoners had been spared. They were taken to
the scaffold, when their pardons were read.
Advices of the 30th ult., from Rio Grande, state that
Caravajal had again crossed the river and taken possession
of the town of Reynosa. A rumour was current in
Brownsville that the town of Edinburg had been destroyed,
from some cause growing out of a new filibustier move-
ment. Edinburg is an American town, situate in front of
the Mexican town of Reynosa.
CALIFORNIA.—Advices of the 16th ult. are to hand.
A difficulty took place between the Indians and miners
in the vicinity of Tohama, growing out of sundry thefts
and depredations. The Americans rose in a body, and
slaughtered some fifteen or twenty belonging to ono tribe.
Gold in considerable quantities had been found east of
the Cascade Mountains, Oregon. A number of new and
very rich diggings have recently been discovered near
Nevada, and aso in the vicinity of Coloma. The town of
Weaverville, near Shasta, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 7th ult. Loss estimated at about $lOO,OOO.
Miss Hayes gave her last concert in San Francisco on the
12th ult. A report was brought into Sonora on the 12th
ult. that the famous robber Joaquin was seen at a fan-
dango house, in the vicinity of Quartzburg, a day or two
before. He was recognised by some one who cried out
"Joaquin," when the robber rushed upon him, and a
desperate fight ensued between Joaquin't men and the
citizens, in which two or three Americans were killed
and others wounded. But the robbers are said to have
escaped.
HATTI.—Port-au- Prince advices of the 28th ult. state
that the fever was raging to an alarming extent, with no
signs of abatement.
CENTRAL AMERICA.—From San Juan de Nicaragua,
we learn that everything was quiet on the 31st March.
H. M.'s steamer Genser had arrived there.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, APRIL 12.
MoNEY.—The aspect of the Money Market continues
to improve, and confidence is in a measure restored
throughout the business community. Leans among our
moneyed institutions and private bankers are confined at
present, and will be for a short time longer, to first-class
customs. The immense accumulation of capital in this
metropolis, from foreign quarters, is greater now than at
any former period ; and the accumulation going on at an
increased ratio. The demand for foreign Exchange has
been moderate to-clay, but rates are firm. London
1091 to 1091; Paris 5.121. to 5.131; Amsterdam, 401 to
41 ; Frankfort. 401 to 401; Bremen, 791 to 791 ; Ham-
burg, 361 to 361.
(From the New York Courier of April 12)

CoTrox.—The sales of the 9th amounted to upwards o
4,000 bales, and to-day (the 11th), 1,230. The excess at
all the ports, as made up at New Orleans on the 9th inst.,
is now reduced to 360,000, the receipts having been at
New Orleans 27,000 against 43,000 last year ; and at Mo.
bile 5,000 against 12,000. Prices on this side are now
(assuming 101 c. for middling Orleans, freight 5-16 d.,
exchange 9 per cent.) -id. above the last Liverpool quota-
tions, (53/4d. to 53d,) and are sustained in the absence of
favourable advices from abroad by the continued decrease
in receipts combined with the unfavourable advices rela-
tive to the planting season.
Strict Liverpool classification :
New Orleans Other
and Texas. Gulf Ports. Atlantic.
Inferior nominal. nominal. nominal.
Low to good ord 9i to 10 9i to 10 93 to 9}
Low to good
Mid. fair to fair 12 123 113 121 113 113
Fully Fair l3 123 12 121
(From Mr. W. P. Wright's Circular.)
Since my circular of the 6th instant, we are in posses-
sion of Liverpool dates to the 26th ult., per Europa; the
market was without change from our previous advices per
Arctic. During the past week here we have had a less
active market, and in some cases a slight reduction in
price, not sufficient, however, to warrant a change in
quotations. The business, which amounts to 7,500 bales,
has been done for export to the continent, a fair proportion
for Liverpool, little or none for Havre. Home consumers
have taken more freely of the better qualities. The export
for the same time has been as follows :—To Liverpool,
7,861 bales ; Havre, 635 ; Bremen, 597 ; Rotterdam, 56.
Total, 9,149 bales.

The table of receipts, &c., for the week reduces the
excess to 380,000 bales. Next week the total receipts at
all the ports will be about 55,000 bales, against 90,000
bales for the same week last season ; and the excess will
be further reduced to about 345,000 bales. The exports
are again considerably less to Great Britain and France
than in the corresponding week of last year ; the increase
to the former is now reduced to 145,000 bales, while to the
latter the decrease is 59,000 bales.
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The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since
the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three
years:- 1853 1852 1851 1850
Receipts at the ports 2,818,000 2,438,000 1,936,000 1,758,000
Exports to Great Britain 1,138,000 993,000 812,000 624,000
France 263,000 322,000 248,000 205,000
other for. ports 214,000 207,000 106,000 107,000
Total exports 1,615,000 1,522,000 1,226,000 936.000
Stock on hand
Of which during the past week, included in the above :
1853 1852 1851 1850
Receipts at the ports: 59,000 97,000 44,000 30,000
Exports to Great Britain 38,000 63,000 55,000 32,000
~ France
otherfor. ports 10,000 18,000 3,000 2,000
Total exports
BRRADSTUFFS.-Towards the close of last week a
decline of 61c. per barrel for flour was in some coo sub-

mitted to, but since the receipt of the Liverpool advices,
per Europa, the decline has been fully recovered, and the
market closes firm at our quotations. Wheat is in fair
demand, without change in value. Northern round yel-
low It Alan corn, 64c. to 65c. per 56 lbs. Southern yellow,
65c. to 69c. per 56 lbs.; white, 64c. to 65c. ; mixed, 61c.
to 63c. per 56 lbs. • barley, 64c. to 63c. per 48 lbs. • rye,
90c. to 92c. per 56 lbs. ; corn meal, 43'3 12c. to 43 62 c. ;
rye flour, B'3 75c. to -.8'4 50c. per barrel.
PROVISIONS.—We have no alteration to notice in the
market • holders are firm. A few hundred bare* mess
pork soft! at 4315 ; prime, 43'13 25c. ; country mess, 23c.
to S'lo 25c. ; prime ditto, 84 50c. to £5 ; city mess, £'l3 ;
prime ditto, 43'6 to 43'5 50c. ; prime mess, £'2o to 43'21.
Llrd, in barrels, 94c. to 9i-c. ' • kegs, 10Ic. to 10i1c.
NAVAL STORES.—SaIes of 300 barrels of spirits of tur-
pentine were made at 53c. ; rough turpentine and rosin
remain dull, at previous rates.

IRos.-Scotch pig was in demand at 37 dols. to 38 dots.,
and held at 35 dols. to 40 dols. per ton, from yard.
FREIGHTS.-To Liverpool : Cotton, 5.16 d. ; flour and
meal, per brl., 2s. 6d. ; rosin, 2s. 7i-d. to 2s. 9d. ; heavy
goods, per ton, 275. 61. to 30s. ; grain, in bulk, per
bushel, 61d. to 7d. To London : Tobacco, per hhd.,
30s. to 325. 6d. ; flour, per brl., 2s. 9d. to 3s. ; turpen-
tine, per 2801b5., 3s. 63. ; measurement goods, per ton,
30s. ; heavy goods, oil, &c., 30s. to 325. 6d.; cheese, 303.
to 355. ; beef, per tierce, Es. to 6s. 6d. ; oil cake, per brl.,
3s. To Havre : Cotton, sq stare bales, per lb., c. ; ashes,
per ton, 8 dols. to 10 dols. ; rice, 10 dols. ; measurement
good s, 10dols. ; whalebone, per lb., ;c.
NEW ORLEANS, April 11.-Cotton has been very live
to-Jay, and the business amounts to fully 14,000 bales,
at an advance of itc. to te. Strict middling is quoted at
91-c. to 10c.

CHARLESTON, April 11.—The sales of cotton to-day
have been 1,800 bales, at prices ranging from 81c. to 11e.
Prices are quite full.
MOBILE, April 11.—The sales of cotton, during the
week, have been 13,000 bale, and the receipts of the same
period foot up 5,000 bales, with experts of 12,000. The
stock on hand now amounts to 97,000 bales. Middling
is quoted at 91.
HAVANA, April B.—Sugars were active. Assorted,
Gr. to 94r. ; whites, Sr. to 10r. ; yellows, 6r. to 7ir. ;
browns gr. to 61,r. ; and" Muscavadoes, 4ir. to 6r. The
stock of sugars at Havana and Matanzas amounted to
200,000 boxes. Molasses scarce, and readily brought 21r.
Exchange on London had advanced. British bills were
quoted at 91, and for small amounts 10 per cent.. Freights
were unsteady, and small vessels were wanted. Quota
tions :—To Cowes, Z 2 15s.

ARRWAT, OF THE FRANKLIN.
By the United States mail steam•ship Franklin, Capt.
Wotton, which arrived off Cowes lust before midnight
on 'Wednesday, we have advices from New York to•the
9th instant.

The steamers Daniel Webster and Philadelphia had
arrived at New Orleans virith a fornightrs later news from
California.

The Pacific mail steamer Tenessee was totally lost near
San Francisco by running ashore in a fog. Her passengers,
600 in number, and the mails, were saved.
Great anxiety was manifested for the safety of the
Vanderbilt steamer Independence, which vessel was 30
days overdue. A steamer had• been sent in search of her.
The California mining intelligence was favourable.
Gold mines of great value had been found in Oregon.
The steamer Prometheus had put into Charleston short
of coals,- and reported the San Juan difficulty to be all
settled.

Dates from the city of Mexico to the 21st of March
state that on the I.7th the ballot-box containing-votes for
the President of the Republic had:been opened, and Santa
Anna was duly elected.
The town of Weaverville, in California, had been
destroyed by fire ; the damage was estimated at 5100,000.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

LARGE DTAMOND.—In the last news from Rio Janeiro
we find the following statement :—A diamond, valued at
£200,000, of superior quality, and as large as a pigeon's
egg, was discovered in one of the miner's district, by a
female slave, the property of a poor lame man, who em•
ployed her in searching for stones of value.

TELEGRAPH TAX.—The government of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin being of opinion that the use of electriatele-
graphs is injurious to the post-office revenues, reluires
that a tax shall be paid to the state for-every despatch by
the railway company; and the company not beingl..im-
mediately disposed to acquiesce in this view, the wires
remain, for the present, unused.
SHIP•DES'PROYED, LIGHTNING.—By advices from
the United States, we learn that a splendid merchant
trader, called the Goldsn Light, was struck by lightning
within the limits of the north-east trade winds, in the
early part of last month, and totally- destroyed. The
captain and crew escaped in the boats,. Two boats, how-
ever, are still missing. The loss to the Boston ruder-
writers, where the ship was principally-insured, is about
£60,600.

ROME has been full of visitors, including as many as
35,003 -foreigners. Oar correspondent informs us of the
discovery of tombs near the Via Appia, that fruitful-mine
of antiquarian interest, containing the ashes of the' free-
men of Nero, Pompey, and Caesar._ Dr. E.. Braun hasH
nearly completed a guide to the- monumental relies of
Rome. The gasworks now being erected for the illumi-
nation of. Rome, under the direction of • our energetic
countryman, Mr. James Shepherd,. engineer, are-rapidly
progressing.
AN ORATORICAL_ NEW YORK_ WAITER. —The. white
waiters of New York have been out on strike. it seems.
At one of their gatherings a Mr. Adolphus Swin.was ap-
pointed president. Mr. Swin spoke pithily. lee- said :--
Many amongst you are prevented from marrying, and
thus adopting a barrier against rice and dissipation, owing
to the impossibility of sustaining a family upon twelve
dollars a month. YOur Sundays and your week days are
all alike. If you-ask the religious hotel keeper, who heaps
in his twenty or sixty thousand dollars a year, " if vou
can go to church or to mass,"'what does he reply ?' Just
this, " I do not employ you Ito. go to church.;, I pay you
to work." And yet perhaps this hotel keeper is a mem-.
ber of a Bible Society, or subscribes to send missionaries
out to the countries, of the far Pacific, or the desert of.
Sahara, at the moment he refuses you ai rat remunera-
tion for your time, and thus contributes to your moral
and social degradation.
MORAL FORCE IN. THE UNITED STATES.—A Case of
Lynch law, not, however, of a very severe character, has
lately occurred in. Woodstock, New Hampshire. A ,
letter from that place states the facts as follows :—A man
of the name of Tucker, alias " Colonel,,',' who has a wife
and several fine children, took it into his head to make.
love to a young girl about two years since, and has from
time to time taken her on journeys with him, and ontheir
return would leave her at the house of her father.
Finally, he informed his wife that he-should live with her
no longer, and took the girl to live with him. Fiske and
Norcross, of Lowell, have a large number of men.near
this place during the winter season cutting andhauling
logs. These men,, hearing of the-matter, met from the
different camps, and, after consultation, agreed to pro-
ceed to Colonel Tucker's house and make a demonstra-
tion. As it was well known that Tucker usually went
armed with revolver and dirk, there was some hesitation
as to who should " bell the cat,." or, in other words, who
should take the lead and enter the house, in search of
Tucker. Finally, one of the oldest hands of the gang,
named Jenkins, stepped forward and said that, as he was
getting old,, and was without wife or child to cry for him
if he was killed, he would volunteer to lead in the matter.
On Saturday, March 19th., the loggers to the number of
about 100, according to agreement, surrounded the house,
and Captain Jenkins entered, while the others stood out-
side, Colonel Tucker was made prisoner and placed in
. the centre. The girl tried to escape but was prevented,
and taken back to her father's house. They then took
Colonel Tucker and marched him to. the home of the
father of the girl, to whom they introduced him. After
this they took him to the house of Colonel Brown, who
told them not ta kill him, but to punish him, as he de-
served it. They then marched him to the village of
Woodstock, where they formed a line, and ordered him
to march and countermarch in front of them. Finally,
after keeping no this exercise until about midnight, they
gave him some good advice, obtained a promise from him
that he would take his wife and children home and treat
them well, with the alternative that if he did not they
would visit him again in two weeks, and then they allowed
him to depart.—Boston Paper.

M. HERMAN, chief engineer on the Orleans railway,
by a happy application of the electric telegraph, has in-
vented a simple machine for making known an accident
of any kind which has occurred to the railway train to the
guard, while the guard maintains a constant means of
communication with the driver in front. The accident is
announced to the 464 by the ringing of a ball

which they would be able to suggest improvements which
would make the whole plan still more desirable.
After some further discussions, the papers were ordered
to be printed.

PILOTAGE BILL.
MR. CARDWELL having presented two petitions in
favour of this measure from merchants, masters of vessels,
and others of Liverpool, moved that the House go into
committee on the bill.
MR. C. TURNER moved, by way of amendment, that
the bill be referred to a select committee. The interests
at stake, bath as regarded the persons immediately con-
nected, in one way and another, with pilotage, and as re-
garded the lives and property of the public, were so vast,
and the question itself was so complicated, that a select
committee could alone properly investigate the subject.
The hon. gentleman had presented, indeed, petitions in
favour of this bill from certain merchants, masters of
vessels, and others of Liverpool, but he was prepared to
state that the very large majority of the merchants of that
port, and of the masters and mates of vessels there, were
decidedly opposed to the measure as it now stood, and
assuredly the opinion of the port of Liverpool, so greatly
exceeding in business as it did the port of London, was
entitled, on such a matter, to the serious consideration of
the House. The underwriters at that port, men well
qualified to give their judgment on the subject, were also
decidedly opposed to the bill, and, indeed, it might be
said that almost the only persons connected with the trade
of Liverpool who advocated the measure vere the masters
and mates of the steam.vessels. He was ready to admit
that the pilotage charges to which these vessels had been
subjected in the port of Liverpool, were too heavy, but
the Pilot Board there had agreed to reduce those charges.
The Pilot Board of Liverpool was not composed of pilots,
of persons connected with the pilots, hut of merchants,
whose obvious interest it was to keep the pilots and their
I charges under proper control. Whether and in what way
the composition of the focal pilot boards might be im-
proved was a point which a select committee could effi-
ciently consider. The centralizing of the authority under
the Board of Control seemed a most extraordinary thing,
without any good ground, and against the opinions of
those who thought that instead of 39,000 vessels going
out of the port without a single loss, the probability would
be they would have a tremendonoilass of life and property.
The only objection to the present system was, he believed,
the charges, and that point he was quite willing to leave
to the decision- of the Board of Trade. He hoped, there-
fore, the Government would accede to the proposition he
had made, or, if not, that the parties whom he repre-
sented would be heard before they proceeded further with
the bill.
This motion was seconded by Sir E. DiarivG, who in-
sisted that if ever a bill required the strictest inquiry it
was this, which affected the great maritime interest of the
country, as well as the vested interests of the pilots of the
united kingdom.

Mr. GEi;RGE gave his•hearty support tothe bill, which
in his opinion did justice to the important steam interest
connected with the port of Liverpool. Ile- warmly ap-
proved of the power of appeal to the Board of Trade in the
event of the local boards refusing to license- competent
masters and mates ; and tc• show the injurious operation
of the existing system, he- referred to the case of the
Di2blin and Liverpool Steam-Company. The masters and
mates employed by the company were experienced men,
and knew every crevice of the part of Liverpool, but the
local board refused to license them. In the last three
years the company's vessels had made 2,736 voyages from
port to port. In only 245 cases had they employed the
Liverpool Pilots, and they had been compelled to pay for
that service no less -than X 4,500:, being at the rate of
.£1,5","/ a-year.
Mr.- CAnnwnen observed thatthe House had assented
to the second reading of the bill without a division, and if
they intended the shipping interest to enjoy the benefit of
this reform they would pass it through this stage. If it
were sent to a committee upstairs, and witnesses were to
be examined, it would be long before-it re-appeared. The
principle of the measure was, that no, bodies should levy
compulsory taxation upon the subjects of tho realm,
rendering no account to Parliament of the manner in.
which the funds were disposed of.
Upon a division the amendment was negatived by 22r.
to 85, and the House went into Committee, but imme-
diately afterwards adjourned.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22.
MAIDSTONP: ELLcirtox:—Mr. HALfp reported from
the Select Committee that Mr. George Dodd was not.
duly elected.

C
LASSIFICA-TION OF. OAVPPORTS. —ln answer to ai
question from Mr. W. Brown, Mr. WILSON said, that
he omitted last night to state the intention of the Go-
vernment with respect to timelassificatisa of the outports.•
It was intended to abolish the present system altogether,
and to have no- special classification, but to deal with
each port from time to tine according to its circum
stances, taking into account the amount of trade in con-
nexion with it and the amount of revenue' levied thereat.
The•salaries of the officers and the different charges con-
nected with them would be fized in future i•n reference to
the circumstances of the port, and not in reference to any.
general classification.

REDUCTION OP' THREE FER CENTS,..— The House
having resolved itself into a Committee upon the South
Sea and other Annuities' Commutation Mil, on arriving
at the second clause, which provides that proprietors of
the South Sea Stock and other, minor 3 per cent. stocks
may for every Xlef): receive 4Et2 10s. new n per cents.,
or £ll4 new 21 per cents., both guaianteed for 40 years ;
or an Exchequer bond for -ClOO, bearing interest at 24_,
per cent. until 1864, and 2i per aent.:until 1894,—Sir F.
Kea:A-characterised' the whole scheme contained in the-
bill as inconsistent, impracticable, mischievous, and un-
just, and declared he should oppose this part of it,. as -
making.a large and substantial .addition tee the national-
debt,. under circumstances which .led to a reasonable ap,_
prehension t hat the principle would be applied to•the
whole debt, unless Mr. Gladstone consented so far to
modify the bill as to strike out the seeond alternative,
and he moved an amendment to, that effect.
Mr. DISRAELI observed, that.the plan. of the Govem-
ment, if completed,, could, at the utmost, save no more
than, £600,000 a-year, with a guarantee that might entail.
a loss, and contrasted very unfavourably with preceding,.
financial arrangements, especiallysin respect to the gua-
rantee,. the most important feature of the present plan..
He objected that the Chancellor of the Exchequar had
settled the terms of the operation,. whereas it was hisduty
to have thrown upon the public creditor the responsibility
of offering terms. A2l per cent. stock could be created
at any time ; its policy depended upon terms and time,,
and., in his opinion, Mr. Gledstone,thomeh ingenious,liad
been premature. Theprospeets, of the rate of interest.were
uncertain; new phenomena were hourly appearing,; and al-
though before these great changes, which had confounded
the greatest financiers, the most successful of our, chan-
cellors of the exchequer had never contemplated a gua-
rantee beyond twenty years,,aa guarantee of ferty,years.
was now proposed for a conversion which, if perfectly
fulfilled, would save only £600,000 a-year.—The Cu AN
OELLOR of the Exenectuee. defended the measure; and,.
after some discussion, the amendment was negatived by
236 to 177, and the whole of the clauses were agreed to.
CusToms REFORM,—Tho report of the Customs, 80-.,
Acts Committee was agreed to, and a bill was ordered to
be brought in.

REMARKM3LE DELUSION OE:A,DERBY

FAMILY.

At the Derby County, Court, on Monday week,, a man
named Thomas Baynton and his wife made a claim for
.£24 165.,10d., in the name of board and wages, against
Miss Emma Hunt, a young lady of Derby, who, with the
other members of her family, would appear to have been
a victim to the most remarkable delusions, unparalleled
in the wildest tales of fiction. The plaintiff and his wife
were induced to. leave a good situation in the isle of
Wight on representations made by, the defendant, and
at her, instigation, by her father and sister, to the effect
that she, the defendant, was about to be married to a
duke, and that he, the plaintiffi, was to be engaged as
head, gardener, while his wife was to sustain the impor-
tant office of housekeeper in the ducal establishment.
The household of the duke was, to be on a scale of ex-
traordinary magnificence. The lady was to have four
gardeners, of whom the plaintiff. was to be the chief ; she
was likewise to have four grooms, four coachmen, four
housekeepers, and, in short, a very noble establishment.
The movements, as well as. the /ocia in quo, of his grace,
were supposed to be very uncertain, as his intended
duchess did not know exactly when the wedding was
to take place, or where the ducal residence was ultimately
to be reared. However, as a make-shift and, tem-
porary dwelling-place, St. Helen's House was fixed
on, while a magnificent mansion was to be built on
the Ashbourne-road, some idea of which domicile might
be formed from the fact, that it was to have forty rooms
on the ground floor, four of which were to. be dining-
rooms, and four to be drawing-rooms. Saint Helen's
House having been found inadequate to the. requirements
of the noble pair, even for temporary purposes, was
abandoned, and the more suitable mansion of Brocklesby
Hall, in Lincolnshire, the seat of the Earl of Yarborough,
was fixed on, its noble owner having, as the lady stated,
kindly placed it at the service of the fair affiance; and her
noble bridegroom. Still, no duke had been seen, and no
precise day or hour had been fixed for the wedding, of
which important event, the lady stated she herself would
not, in all probability, receive six hours' notice, only one
or two interesting events being certain as to the joyous
ceremony. The first of these was, that the nuptials
should be graced by Her Majesty and Prince Albert, in
addition to whom, was a mysterous foreign nobleman,
who, having come from "some place far abroad," had un-
expectedly, as well as unfortunately, been placed under
quarantine, in Liverpool. This little contretemps, how-
ever, was more than compensated for, by the condescend-
ing kindness of Her Majesty, who, in addition to counte-
nancing the marriage of the Derby bride, had graciously
consented to waive the rigour of the law,: on so august an
occasion, and allow the duke and his fairy Hunt," to
drive eight horses in their state carriage. Preparations
for the expected, but unconsummated marriage, continued
off and on, from the end of November, till near the close
of February, when the expectant bride,. " like Niobe, all
tears," was dragged before the magistrates, to answer the
demand of one of the plaintiffs, who, besides having seen
no situation, had been unexpectedly, as well as involun.
tarily, exalted to the position of private banker to his
grace's future father-in-law ; that gentleman, with a con-
descension which certainly was remarkable, having
borrowed several small sums of money to meet present
necessities with. On being taken before the magistrates,
Miss Emma, the defendant, said, on account of the illness
of his grace, the marriage had been indefinitely postponed,
but that she would settle all claims within a fortnight.
Subsequent to this, the sum of £7l 10s. was paid to Bayn-
ton, that being the amount advanced by him to the defend-
ant's father ; no more being forthcoming, on account of
the illness of his imaginary grace. Under these circum-
stances, the plaintiff and his wife, having lost a good
situation, without having received another, as they had
been engaged to have bad, brought the present action.
In the cross-examination of Baynton, he stated that nego-
tiations had been opened with witness, by the father of
the defendant, so long ago as the month of July, last, in
a series of letter 3, which were read. In one of these it
represented, in a roundabout way, that defendant had
been left £40,000 a year, by a Mr. Bell, in the county of
York. In another, reference was made to the splendid
mansion about to be built, and requesting witness to ob-
tain the dimensions of the principal apartments in East
Cowes Castle ; it also stated that the new mansion was to
itttve five dialog-rooms. Another of the old gentleman's

ECCLESIASTICAL

DIOCESE OF CHESTER:

CON'SECRATION:—SCARISBRICK CHURCH, PARISH
OrtMSKIRR.—The Bishop of Chester consecrated there/
Church of St. IVfark, Scarisbrick, on Tuesday last, as
Chapel of Ease to the Parish Church of Otraskirk, from
which it is distant-45 miles. in a situation where the 1013/
of church accommodation was much felt. It contaio
sittings for 408 persons, including children, of whiff
number 294 are altogether free. After a sermon by th
Bishop in aid of the fund for defraying ere -cost'of tb6
Church, a sum of nearly £5O was collected.
IrscE.—The Bishop has licensed a room in-this parisl!
for the performance of Divine Service and other sactel
offices during the Hare the Church is closed; nmacootsill
of the repairs it is abbut to undergo.

PREFERMENTS AND A PPOINTMEM
Rev. W. Acworth, M.A.'. Rector of Rothley, near Lo
borough, to the Rectory of Plurapstead, near Woolwich,• Ken;
Rev. .1. Baker, NBA.; Chaplain of Christ Church; 000"
to be Master of the Cathedral School.
Rev. H. M. Birch, Rector of Prestwich, Lancathire, to Deil
Surrogate for the diocese of•Cheser.
Rev. J. C. Llewelin„ to the Curacy of Narbeth with 'Robe'
stone Wathen, Pembrokeshire.
Rev. M. Collyns, 8.A., to the Curacy of Honiton, DEvo.nsbiff;
Rev. W. Cooper, M.A:, to • the Rectory of Rippingait
Bourne. Lincolnshire..
Rev. W. J. Deane, M.A., to the Rectory of Ashen, net
Halstead, Essex.
Rev. J. A. Frere, Fellow, Senior Dean,. and Assistet
Tutor at Trinity College, to the Vicarage of Shillington, pc'
fordshire.
Rev. T. R. Govett, M.A., late Curate of St. Stiviour's,--N°'
wich, to the Rectory of Alby, near Aylesham, NOrfolk.
Rev. A. 0. Hartley, Fellow of Magdalene CO/lege„4
Cambridge, and Curate of Holy Trinity Church, Bungay,_,;i,
the Head Mastership of the Fauconberge Free Grammar Sollu
Beccles.
Rev. S. Hornebrooke, ILA,. to the Curacy -of -Aslactell,
Norfolk.
Rev. E. 0. Hughes,to the Rectory of Llanddeiniolell, Nat'
narvenshire.
Rev. Jackson, to be Chaplain-to the Sheriff ofDenbighkh.,irate;
W. E. James, Esq.„ 8.A.., of Jesus College, Gxford, ant,Mce,
Assistant Master of the Grammar School, Ludlow,, to-he Vibe'
Pr of the Training College, Carmarthen._ -,
Isle °f
Rev. 3. W. Kewley, 8.A.,. Incumbent of FOxdale. -
man, to be Diocesan Inspector- of Schools for the dioee"
Sodor wadi Man.
Rev. T. B. Ludlow, Chaplain and s€bo.arnaS.--
tAr of
Christ Church, to the Rectory of Slapton, Bucks.
Rev. D. C. Moore,. to the Chracy of Borley, Essex.
Rev. J. H. Moran, 8.A., to be-Chaplain to the -Female Convict
Prison, Brixton.
Rev. J. Murrell,. ra.A., to the Curacy of. ;bestow, near
Malton, Yorkshire..
Rev. J.J. Nash, MIA-4 to the Curacy of St. Michael's Church,
Macclesfield.
.orarY
Rev. J. 0. Parr, M.A.., Vicar of Preston, to-be an-
Canon in the Cathedral Church of Manchester. ear
Rev. J. D. Pigott, MA, to the Rectory ot,Cuxharch-
Tetsworth.
Rev. G. W. Robinson,.B.A., to the Curacyof-Briston,
Dereham.
Hon. and Rev. 11.. z W. V. Stuart, to the Curacy. of 10.05
Bromley, Lichfield.
Rev. It. S. Sutton,.. It Fellow of Exeter,College, Oxfc.'lll:
late Curate of Beg,brooke,. Oxfordshire, to the Rectory of RlP-
near Hurst Green, Sussex.
Rev. F. Trevor, 8.A., to the Rectory of Wiliand, 11
eat
Collumpton, Devon.
Rev. J. Turner, MtA., Vicar of Lancaster,-to -be an NonOrall
Canon in the Cathedral Church of Manchester.
Rev. J. S. Whiteford, M.A., to the Rectory.of -Taxan, P
Macclesfield.
Rev. A. to the Stipendiary Curacy of SLQatberl
Church, Tranmete,. Ghee ire.

COLONIAL isriorstics. A meeting was held St
Willis's-rooms- on Wednesday, or the invitation of th
Archbishop of Canterbury, to take measures. for raisifloi
contributions towards the endowment of additional colons
bishoprics. The report of the council for colonial bishop;
was read, from which it appeared that there were nog 2
bishoprics in the British colonial ampire '• that the numb
of clergy ministering within the limits of the 15 bishoPrio
founded within the last twelve years had risen from 2744
502 ; that, negotiations with her Majesty governrov,l
were pending relative to a bishopric at the Mauritius, ali
that it was thought desirable to establish bishopricg o
Graham's. Town and Natal,, in Africa, at Perth, /,
Western, Australia, and at Kingston, Canada -OA
Taking the necessary expenses into account, the cou,M
appealed to the church for. a contribution of £45.5
The Bishop, of London moved the first resolution, whiPo
having, been seconded by the Earl of '
Chichesterlie
agreed,to and resolutions moved by the Duke of r4e
castle and the Bishop of Oxford, and seconded or girt
ported by the Bishop of Cape-town, Sir J. Pakingn,
R: MI, and Mr. Cardvrell. M.P., were also adopte
Thanks having been voted to the Archbishop of Cantu on the motion of the Bishop of Quebec, sena°
4,
by the Earl of Harrowby, the proceedings torminatvj,
after an announcement that £3,000 had been subscriber

THE LONDON MAY MEET/NOS.

April 2G -British Reformation Hanovvr-squarert.-0005
Female Aid Society
Baptist Irish Society Albion Chapel „„,j
King Edward Schools
27 Female Emigrant Society
Metrop. Training Institute lnstitution, Highbu
28
Prayerßatist Missiona
an
Book dry
Homily
Scripture Readers' Hanover-snuareßoor„,
Female Philanthropic .
inn-fieV
Ch. of Engl. S. Sch. Institute Exeter Hall
Col. Training Institution Freemasons Hall
29 Irish Church Missions Exeter Hall
May 2 Wesleyan Missionary
British So. Prop. Gosp. Jews, Freemason's Hall
Naval and Milita Bible.— Willis's Rooms ,id
Home and Col. School Soc lnstitute, Grays-inn
Aged Pilgrim's Friend London Tavern
Ch. of Scotland Missions Exeter Hall
3
▪ Exeter Hall
▪ Exeter Hall el
Christian Instruction
4 British and Foreign Bible
Church Church
Missionary Missionary
Soc. for Evangel. Foreigners. 7, Newman-street
. 5 London City Mission
Irish Society Of London
Sunday School Union
Ch. of England Young Men's Freemason's Lull
G Jews Society Exeter Hall 000
Governesses' Bene. Institute. Hanover-squarelto
Shipwrecked Fishermen
Religious Tract Society
Col. Church and School
7 Naval Female Schools
9 British and Foreign Schools Borough-road Sclw
Ragged School Union
Colonial Missionary
10 Church Pastoral-Aid Exeter Hall 06
Domestic Servants' Institn Hanover-squareBoo
Home Missionary
11 Protestant Association Exeter Hall
12 London Missionary
Sailors' Home and Asylum, Sailors'llome, We
London Missionary
Female Servants' Home
Evangelical Alliance Freemasons' Hall
13 Operative Jewish Converts'
16 Irish Evangelical
Brit. and,For. Anti-Slavery Exeter Hall „0,
18 Foreign-Aid Hanover-squarePw ,5
19 National Temperance
Female Philanthropic
27 Society Building Churches
June 2 Prey. of Cruelty to Animals

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