The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-14 00:00:00

MUSIC' AND THE DRAMA.

AT THE Tazamar ROYAL we have had a new aspirant
to histrionic fame,, in. the person of Miss Anderton, who
has enacted the characters of Julia in the " Hunchback,"
and Pauline in the "Lady of Lyons," both of which
characters she has repeated. Her impersonations of both
were more than merely respectable. She possesses in
good degree that qualification indispensable to theatrical
success, respect forher, author, and a wholesome belief in
the propriety of understandtrig what he means, and
clothing his ideas it; has own words. In other phrase,
she reads her parts with care, and renders the dialogue
with readiness and fidelity. In person she is pleasing,
and her deportment is ladylike as well as easy. Good
natural rendering of her part appears to be her study ;
and in devoting her attention to that she takes the surest
way to win renown and merit favour. Her personation
has been so good upon:the whole, that we are gratified to
learn she returns, after a brief sojourn in London, to fulfil
a more protracted engagement in Liverpool. The " But-
terfly's Ball" continues a leading attraction at this house,
and still commands a.host of enthusiastic admirers. Miss
Glyn, we are glad to perceive, commenced a short engage-
ment at the Theatre Royal last night ; her appearances
are to continue during the present and next week.
THE MARIONETTES AND MASKS AND FACES at the
Clayton Hall continue their allurements. Of Mr. Cole-
man's own performances it would be difficult to speak too
highly. His versatility and representative powers are
great, and he does not scruple to employ them. In imita-
tion of well-known characters his personations are capital,
while the combinations of mosaic framework, in which
his characters are set, are of a highly intellectual order.
The Marionettes are very good in their studied drolle-
ries. As a whole, the exhibition is a clever one, and
merits public favour.. The hall is neatly as well arcom-
fortably fitted up, and the amusements, though varied,
are not too protracted in their duration',

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT.—
The first subscription concert for the season, took place
on Tuesday evening. The audience was numerous
and fashionable, and testified the pleasure they re-
ceived from the performances of the different artistes
by loud plaudits. The concert was opened by Weber's
jubilee overture, which was given in admirable style.
Madame Amadei, a vocalist new to the Liverpool concerts,
made her first appearance, and created a very favourable
impression. Her style is of the legitimate Italian school;
her voice is powerful and sweet, her execution being
markedly artistic. The piano-forte performance of Miss
Arabella Goddard formed a leading attraction in the even-
' ing's entertainment. This lady, along with M. Sainton,
a violin player of great excellence, played a brilliant duet,
on the pianoforte and violin, which was deservedly
applauded. M. Sainton in a violin solo afterwards elicited
a well-deserved burst of approbation. The succeeding
concert is fixed for Tuesday, the 7th of March, on which
occasion the " Elijah" will be performed, and in which
Miss Birch, Miss Huddart, and Herr Carl Formes will
take part.

POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—Among the scandalous
abuses of the Post-office is the systematic purloining of
newspapers by the officials. Whenever intelligence of
particular interest is expected,—as for instance, last week,
the opening of parliament, and the speech from the
throne,—numerous complaints are made of the non-arrival
of papers regularly posted in the usual course. The
increasing irregularity of this department, and its utter
indifference to private and individual remonstrance, loudly
call for a public inquiry into the entire system of Post-
office management.—John Bull.
NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTERVOR RAIL WAY
The sixteenth general meeting was held at the Clarendon
Rooms, on Friday, Francis Shand, Esq., Chairman of the
Directors, presided. The Secretary, Mr. Robert Cochran,
read the following report :—Beyond submitting the an-
nexed balance sheet, for the past half year, your directors
have little to report. No further steps have been taken
towards a junction between the Newry and Enniskillen
and your lines, but your Directors are (as they have ever
been) desirous of seeing such a junction made upon a fair
and equitable basis,—being convinced tkat the traffic on
neither line can be fully developed without it. The pas-
sengers' traffic on the line continues to increase, and your
Directors look for a further improvement, now that the
line from Newry to Goragh Wood is opened. Should the
present movement fox a harbour of refuge, on the west
coast of Ireland, result in Government fixing on Carling-
ford Lough as the most suitable for that purpose, another
very considerable impetus would be given to the traffic on
your line. Three directors, Messrs. Reilly, Vandeleur,
and Bushell, retired by rotation, and being eligible, offered
themselves for re-election. Another vacancy at the Board,
caused by the death of Mr. W. Cochran, also requires to
be filled up. The Chairman stated that the passenger
traffic, notwithstanding the severe season, had exhibited a
considerable increase, and that a further increase might
be looked for now that the line to Goragh 'Wood Was
opened. The Government had sent a commissioner to ex-
amine and report upon the Carlingford bar, and the prac-
ticability of converting the lough into a harbour of refuge,
which, if carried out, would act as a feeder to their line.
He concluded by moving that the report be adopted. Mr.
Holland seconded the motion, which was unanimously
carried. The retiring directors, Messrs. Reilly, Vandeleur,
and Bushell, were re-elected without opposition, and the
vacancy in the direction was filled up by the appointment
of Mr. Edward Heath.
ATROCIOUS GAROTTE ROBBERY IN TOXTETJI-PARIE.—
, At the Police-court, on Friday, two young men, Thomas
Brown and John Brady, and threie women, Elizabeth Raf-
ferty, Mary Stanley, and Jane M`Kee, were charged with
committing a garotte robbery, with extreme violence, on
the person of Mr. Thomas Bibby, of 11, Warwick-street,
Toxteth-park. Mr. Bibby, who was lately a clerk in the
Wapping railway station, but was about commencing
business for himself as a master carter, said he was going
home about ten o'clock on Thursday night, when, within
a few yards of his own door, one of the female prisoners
came up to him and took hold of him. He pushed her off,
when he was almost immediately afterwards assaulted
from behind, something thrown round his neck, and him-
self knocked down, beaten, and robbed, by a number of
other parties, of whom there were three or four men and
two women. His pockets were turned inside out. There
was stolen from him a £lO note, £8 10s. in gold, 6s. in
silver, and a large clasp knife, and a stamped receipt for
£lO. He could recognise one of the men and Rafferty, as
among those who attacked him. The prisoners had been
apprehended by Inspector Horn and Police-officer Cousins,
of the detective force, who produced the following eon-
cluSive evidence against them :—Margaret Bennett, Eliza-
beth Williams, and Maria Fowler, three young women
who live in the neighbourhood and know the prisoners,
were in Warwick-street at the time of the robbery, and
saw the whole transaction. They stated that Mr. Bibby
appeared to be slightly influenced by liquor ; and the girl
Rafferty followed him to his own door, and then laid hold
of him, when the two men, with Mary Stanley, attacked
him. Rafferty, they stated, rifled his pockets, while the
others held him down, and then they all ran off. Margaret
Connor, keeper of a house of ill-fame, stated that all the
prisoners came to her house on Wednesday, and Brown
gave a £lO note to get changed for them. They had also
a stamped receipt in their possession, which was burned.
The £lO note she took to Mr. Woods, a neighbouring
publican, who, however, refused to have anything to do
with it. Mr. Woods stated that Connor offered him 10s.
to change the note, when he immediately suspected it had
not been honestly come by. The magistrate, Mr. Booth,
said he should certainly send the case to the assizes, but
would remand the prisoners till Saturday, in order to give
the police an opportunity of apprehending their accom-
plices, as the witnesses had spoken to seeing four men at-
tack the complainant. M`Kee was discharged, as the only
evidence against her was that of being in the other pri-
soners' company next morning.

THE TBETH.-1. new and very curious invention con-
nected with Dental Surgery has been introduced by Mr.
Howard, of 17, George-street, Hanover-square, London • it is
the production of an entirely new description of Artificial
Teeth, fixed by his new patent system of self-adhesion and
capillary attraction, without springs, wires, or ligatures.
They so perfectly resemble natural teeth, as not to be dis-
tinguished from the originals by the closest observer. They
will never change colour or decay, and will be found very
superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not
require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation what-
ever, and from the nature of the materials used, the most
perfect fit is obtained, and the y are guaranteed to restore ar-
ticulation and mastication. The invention is of importance
to many persons, and those who are interested in it, should
avail themselves of Mr. Howard's skill as a dentist.
The sales of Holloway's Pills and Ointment have wonder-
fully increased lately ,• we presume, therefore, that the well-
known virtues the medicines possess are becoming universally
appreciated, thousands of persons of both sexes testify
diurnally that their effect is miraculous; they act conjointly
so directly upon the system, the one internally and the other
externally, that the most serious cases will readily yield to
their wonderful power.
BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PlLLS.—Extract of a
letter, written by John Mollard Wheeler, F:sq., collector of
customs, Jamaica, having been handed. by his brother, at
Swindon, to Mr. Trout, for publication i--.• I know you have
never had occasion to take Illair's Pills, but let me empha-
tically tell you, in mercy to any friend who may suffer from
gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, or any
branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their
using them. In this country they are of wonderful efficacy ;
not only am I personally aware of their powers, but I see my
friends •and acquaintances receiving unfailing benefit from
their use. I would not be without them on any account. If
taken in the early stage of disease they dissipate it altogether ;
if in a later, they alleviate pain, "
—S
and effect a much speedier
cure than by any other means within
my knowledge. Old
by Thomas Prout, 229. Strand, London ; and by all respecta-
ble medicine vendors throughout the united kingdom. Price
26. 9d. per box.
SPECIAL CAUTlON.—Numerous imitations of the original
and genuine preparations known as " Brande's Enamel,"
" Brande's Bronchial Sedative," and " Brande's Tooth Pow-
der," are now being manufactured and sold. The public are
respectfully informed that. to guard against imposition,
these preparations have the signature of the original manu-
facturer, "John Willis," on the outside of every packet,
without which none are genuine. It is the more necessary to
look to this, it having come to the knowledge of the proprietor
that some of the wholesale houses are supplying, these imita-
tions when the genuine preparations are ordered.
TREASURES OF NATURE.—It has been well remarked
that there is not an imperfection that flesh is heir to, for
which a remedy is not at hand, to discover which we have
only to search the vast laboratory of nature. A more apt
illustration cm scarcely be offered, than in the application of
a natural product:on, of American growth, namely, the Balm
of Columbia, in cases where the human head has been de-
prived of its becoming and natural ornament. As a promoter
of growth, strengthener and restorer of the hair, C. and A.
Oldridge's Balm of Columbia is unrivalled, and in cases of
baldness its virtues are inestimable. The further advantages
of the Balm may be summed up in its freeing the hair from
scurf, producing a beautiful curl, preserving it from prema-
ture greyness, and its excellent adaptation to the nursery,
which should never be without it, no climate destroys its
efficacy, and it has proved a most valuable article of trading
speculation.—Sold wholesale and retail by the proprietors,
13, Wellington-street North, Strand, London, and byjnost of
the respectable perfumers and medicine vendors, price 3s. 6d.,
65.. and Ils. per bottle; no other prices are genuine.—N.B.
The public are requested to be on their guard against coun-
terfeits ; ask for Oldridge's 8a1m,13, Wellington-street North,
Strand, London.
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lish-street, Armagh ; Major Sheppard, Victoria Cottage, Rom-
ford; Thomas Richard, Hill Top, West Bromwich; David
Goodridge, Portfield, near Haverfordwest ; Williarnpavies,
Dolgelly ; William Hi 11,48, Northampton-street, Clerkenvrell ;
Eliza Woodley, Gibbons-street, Plymouth ; Mary Ibigers,
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TEE Wawa CILARITY BALL is announced to take
place at the Town-hall, on the 27th instant. It- is• under
the patronage of the Mayor and Lady Watkin Williams
Wynn, and is expected to be a very brilliant assemblage.
The proeeeds will be given to the Welsh Charity Schools.
TIM ANNUAL BANQUET of the Electric Telegraph
'Company's Staff was held on Saturday, at the Brunswick
Hotel, where upwards of forty sat down. The pmeeed-
ings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chair andvice—
chair, and the meeting broke up shortly before twelve
o'clock.

A FATAL ACCIDENT happened on Tuesday, at Park.
Iron-ore Mines, near Ulverston, occasioned by the.
breaking in of a pond, formed by the sinkingofthe ground
above some old workings, the water in which had been
greatly increased by the late rains. There were 12 men=
in the drifts, one of whom came to the surface, the others
only to- the foot of one of the shafts, alarmed by premoni-
torysy mptoms of danger. The latter, under the impression_
that it was. a false alarm, returned to their work, and.
shortly after the water rushed in, bringing with it a large
quantity of sand. With great difficulty, six out of the 11
managed to escape, leaving five of their companions in the.
drift. After several hours' had labour, two were extricated ;
the other three perishd soon after the water broke in, for•
one of the two men saved states that he crossed over their
bodies, several times. The three men have left large.
families, nineteen children in all.
Acxroce FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—In the Court of
Passage, on Friday, an action for damages for false im-
prisonment was brought by a Miss Buckley against Mr:.
Scott, the son of a Liverpool merchant. Mr. M'Aubrey
was for the plaintiff', and Mr. T. Atkinson for the de-
fendant. The plaintiff, Mr. M'Aubrey said, was an un-
married woman, residing in her " private residence,"
Crown-street, Liverpool. For some time before the corm-
mission of the offence charged, the plaintiff and the de-
fendant had been on terms of intimacy. This intimacy ap-
peared to have been diminished; and on the 14th December.
last the defendant, in company with a foreign gentleman,.
went into the house and conducted themselves very dis-
orderly, the defendant making several passes at the com-
plainant with a sword stick and presenting pistols at her-.
The defendant afterwards committed the plaintiff on a
charge of assault and stealing a ring from the defendant,
which had been presented to . Miss Buckley by the-de-
fendant. Mr. Atkinson described his client as an exces-
sively simple young man, and maintained that the greatest
injury in the case had been done to the defendant and the
feelings of his family. The assessor having addressed the
jury, they returned a verdict for the plaintiff,—damages
ls. The assessor gave also, costs on the lowest scale.

THE LATE MR. JouN HOLMES.—By order of the exe-
cutors of the above well-known gentleman, Mr: Branch
has sold by auction the valuable household effects,, at the
house, Everton-brow. The attendance was highly respec-
table and numerous, and the bidding throughout spirited.
The following are the prices obtained for some of the
principal items :—A bin of port wine sold for £8 158. per
dozen ; another, £7 10s. to £8 per dozen; and the others
from £3 to £5. There were but few books- Roscoe's
Monandrian Plants brought ten guineas • Greg-son's
Fragments, a 17s. 6d ; a black, letter Bible, from the
late Mr. Roscoe's collection, £6 10s. A portion of the
plate was elegant, and good prices were obtained .for it,
the massive salvers producing from 7s. 10d. to Bs. 7d.
per ounce ; entrée dishes and covers, 7s. 9d. ; embossed
tea and coffee services, 103.; sauce-boats, 9s. ld. ; the forks
and spoons, from 6s. to Bs. 3d. ; pair of plated ice pails, 12
guineas ; and the set of 17 peated dish-covers, 55 guineas.
Amongst the paintings sold was a splendid picture by T.
Webster, R.A., which was purchased by Mr. Grundy for
310 guineas. It was originally bought for £4O. A beau-
tiful pair of statuettes, "Innocence," and "The Play-
mates," by Gott, fetched seventy-eight guineas,—the sale,
in the aggregate, producing a far larger amount than had
been anticipated.
EMBEZZLEMENT AT THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY OFFICE.—As stated in last week's
Standard, William Caitchen, who stands charged with
extensive frauds on the London and North-western Rail-
way Company, at their offices in Lime-street, was brought
before the police magistrates. On Friday last he was
again brought up on remand, and the case was gone into
with much minuteness. He was, in the first instance,
charged with conspiring along with Mr. Goalen, auditor
of the company, now in custody in London, to defraud
the London and North-western Railway Company by
altering balances in the books of the Liverpool stations,
in order to cover alleged deficiencies. The only additional
evidence brought forward was Mr. Henry C. S. Chancey,
the travelling inspector of the station accounts, who de-
posed to finding, when examining the prisoner's books, a
charge of £596 10s., stated to have been paid to the East
Lancashire Railway. He asked the prisoner by what
authority he had paid the money, when he stated he had
received instructions from the audit-office, and that Mr.
Goalen would explain. When Mr. Chancey returned to
London circumstances rendered it necessary to pay another
visit to Liverpool, and again examine the prisoner's
accounts. When Interrogated respecting the alleged pay-
ment to the East Lancashire Railway, he stated he had
remitted £250 to Mr. Goalen, and the remaining £316105.
he had lent to a friend, who would repay it in a week.
The prisoner was fully committed on the charge of
larceny.—Mr. Humphreys, who conducted the case for
the railway company, applied to have the examination into
the charge of conspiracy remanded till Friday next, at
which time he said he should be able to bring forward
ten cases, amounting in the aggregate to a fraud of £5OO,
and two amounting to £145, in which the prisoner was
implicated. The remand was accordingly granted.

Does COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on Thurs-
day, there were present Messrs. C. Turner (in the chair),
Barber, BrocklebAnk, Chaloner, Evans, Gladstone, Gregson,
Holden, Holme, Lantsdale Littledale, Lockett, Malcom-
son, Rankin, Robinson, Rounthwaite, Smith, Steele, and
Tobin. The Sub-committee of Works reported that the
subject of the rate of rent to be charged for storing timber,
for permanent occupation, on the Harrington estate had
been again considered, as referred to them on the 19th of
January. They had an interview with Mr. Stewart as to
what would be a fair rate of rent to be charged, and they
recommended the rate of rent for storing timber, for per-
manent occupation, by 10d. per square yard per annum,
the parties occupying to pay all rates and taxes, and to be
subject to six months' notice of removal ; and that the rate
of rent for temporary occupation be id. per square yard
per week. In answer to a remark by Mr. Tobin, it was
explained by the chairman that the id. would be sub-
ject to the payment of the rates and taxes by the com-
mittee. Mr. Smith said his impression was, that from
30,000 to 40,000 square yards of land would be taken, not
leaving more than 10,000 yards in the hands of the com-
mittee. The recommendation was confirmed.—The Chair-
man said the question of bricking up the Prince's Dock
sheds was brought before the committee last week, and
the plan was confirmed by the committee, and referred
to the surveyor to carry out. The subject had since
come before the Sub-committee of Works, and they had
tient a recommendation that the extension of the sheds
on the east quay of the Prince's Dock should be re-
considered, and referred to the surveyor to carry out.
After a conversation, in which several gentlemen took
part, it was decided that the subject should not be re-
considered. Mr. Holme was of opinion that whatever the
committee did now, it would be only a temporary outlay.
It was quite certain, he said, that a further outlay would
have to be gone to before long. A report was read from
the sub-committee appointed last week, consisting of the
deputy-chairman, the solicitor, and the surveyor, to wait
upon the London and North-Western Board of Directors,
on the subject of the continued neglect of the latter body
to give the Dock Committee possession of property at
Wapping long since purchased by the committee as land
for the docks. The report stated that the sub-committee,
accompanied by Mr. Stewart, attended a meeting of the
London and North-Western Directors on the 3rd instant,
and it was finally arranged that the railway company
should wholly give up possession before the Ist of March
next ; and, in the event of their not doing so, the Dock
Trustees, in the words of one of the railway directors,
were to be at liberty to take possession vi et armis.—The
sub-committee produced aplan of alterations recommended
at the Office of the Albert Dock Warehouses, for the pur-
pose of obtaining better light. The estimated cost of the
proposed alterations was £640, using plate glass. The
plan was approved, and estimates were ordered to be
obtained for the work.—A memorial from the crews of
the North-west, the Formby, and the Crosby Light-ships,
asking for an advance of wages, on account of the high
price of provisions, was referred, after a short conver-
sation, to the Marine Sub-committee.—The Harbour
Master's Committee submitted a report of alterations
which they recommended for adoption in the time to be
occupied by vessels in berth, after having been re-entered
for loading outwards. To avoid the inconvenience arising
from vessels re-entering constantly for the same number
of days they originally had for loading, it was proposed to
reduce the time for such vessels according to a certain
scale. The committee decided that the plan should be
tried in order to see how it worked.—A communication
from the Shipowners' Association was read, containing a
resolution of the association declaring it to be highly
important that the Dock Committee should provide stages
for loading and discharging ships, the shipowners paying
a charge for the use of the same. Referred to the Ilar-
bour Master's Sub-committee. A resolution passed by
the Shipowners' Association. with reference to a high
level railway along the docks, and greater facilities for
shipping fine goods, was referred to the Special Com-
mittee on Dock Arrangements.
Slows or THE TIMES.—On Friday, the Rev. Fielding
Ould gave a lecture in St. John's School Room, Oliver-
street, Birkenhead, in aid of the School Fund. In the
course of his lecture, the reverend gentleman expressed
his conviction in the fidelity of the calculations of those
expounders of prophecy who agreed that the world would
come to a close in twelve or thirteen years from this date ;
and pointed out twelve signs as tending to elucidate this
subject. The first was, signs in the sun, moon, and stars ;
the second, disturbances by sea and land ; the third,•
" wars and rumours of wars." On this point the lecturer
expatiated very fully on the relative position of each
nation engaged in the present Eastern dispute, and
quoted the prophecy in Revelations relative to the pouring
out of the seven phials. He stated that he was certain
that the fifth was poured out during the time of Napo-
leon Bonaparte's attempts on the East of Europe ; and
that the sixth, which related to the pouring out upon the
River Euphrates and drying it up, was about to come to
pass. The Euphrates was the chief river in Asiatic Tur-
key. So he came to the conclusion that Russia, although
it would never obtain the mastery over Turkey by arms,
would be the means of drying up the resources of that
country, and thus it would fall, in course of time, through
internal decay. The fourth sign was the peculiar position
of the Romish hierarchy, which, according to Scripture
prophecy, was to raise itself up to a certain pitch for a
time, and would then fall, never to rise again. At that
pitch, the lecturer conceived, that hierarchy had arrived.
The fifth sign was the diffusion of infidelity ; the sixth
sign, the increase of immorality ; the seventh sign, reli-
gious fanaticism ; the eighth, the disorganization of the
social compact as shown in the tendency to strikes and
combinations; the ninth, the increase of religions de-
ceivers, as instanced by the embarkation annually f
about 30,000 people to join the Mormons at the Great Salt
Lake•Yalley ; the increase of Romanists, Swedenborgians,
and such sects ; the tenth sign was the present restless
state of the world, everybody seeming to have an impres-
sion that something was at hand, and looking anxiously
for it ; the eleventh was the increase of missions to the
heathen; and the twelfth:and last was. the wonderful dif-
ftision of knowledge, as shown, in, the 'discoveries of
science and the: application of set. The proceedings
cmated anAmarent thoughtfulneal.iii the audience.

THE NEW CLIPPER SIP

" GOLDEN ERA."

TITS new clipper ship Golden Era has been built at St'
John's, for the owners, Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson,
who, have determined that their " White Star" line of
Australian packets shall in future be composed exclusively
of their own vessels, expressly constructed for the passenger
trade, and to sail them only between Liverpool and the
colony. To carry out this principle, by which the whole
control of ships as well as passengers will be in their own
hands, they have made arrangements with a leading house
in Australia to become their agents, and to superintend
their unloadinF, and despatch them back direct for this
port. They will thus ensure for the public a fleet of first-
rate vessels, whose sailing qualities, and the ability of their
commanders and officers, have been thoroughly tested by
actual experience. The model of the Golden Era is very
fine; being sharp below with good bearings above, and
gradually falling off from about midships to her quarter—
s form which has been found by experience to combine to
the greatest extent the qualities of rapid sailing, ease of
handling, and comfort for those on board. Her entrance
is sharp, and her stern is almost yacht-like. The following
are her dimensions :—lnside, her length, 208 feet; breadth,
36 feet ; height between decks, 81 feet. Burthen, 3,000
tons. She has on deck a very capacious poop cabin, which
is- being fitted up in a most superior manner for the con-
veyance of a select number of cabin passengers. She has
also a roomy house on deck, which will afford very liberal
accommodation for respectable families and single persons,
as second cabin passengers. It is not intended to carry
her full complement between decks; and hence the berth-
ing is being provided on a more than usually liberal scale,
both for intermediate and steerage passengers. She is
being thoroughly ventilated, and provided with every
requisite accommodation. A very valuable feature in the
arrangements for the comfort of passengers during the
voyage has been resolved upon by the owners of the
Golden Era. She will carry an adequate number of paid
stewards and stewardesses, who, being thus immediately
under the control of the captain, may be depended upon
for the performance of their duty more efficiently than it
is done under the ordinary system of allowing these parties
thus to work out the whole or a portion of their passage
money. At a considerable number of berths in the ship
are already engaged, she may be depended upon to sail
towards the end of February. The Golden Era will be
commanded by Captain James T. Peat, a gentleman well
acquainted with the trade, and of known high character
and abilities. We have before us the following most grati-
fying document respecting him :—" Ship Isabella, Novem-
ber, 1852. Captain James T. Peat. Dear sir,—On this
prosperous termination of our voyage from England, we,
the undersigned cabin passengers, feel the utmost pleasure
in expressing to you our most sincere thanks for the
courtesy, kindness, and attention we have uniformly
received at your hands, during the passage ; and also in
testifying to the great judgment, prudence, and caution
evinced by you in all matters connected with the manage-
ment of the vessel. We also feel gratified in stating our
entire approbation of the efficient, orderly, and seamanlike
conduct of your officers and crew at all times ; and more
particularly on perilous occasions incidental to a long
voyage. Tendering you our most sincere wishes for your
future welfare and prosperity, we remain, &c." Signed by
thirty cabin passengers, evidently, if the character of hand-
writing goes for anything, highly intelligent parties. An
equally gratifying document was presented on the same
occasion by thirty-six " heads of families, and captains of
intermediatemesses." We have no doubt that with such
a ship Ai the Golden Era in his hands, Captain Peat will
justifiMe high opinions formed of him as a gentleman
and a sailor. As the vessel takes but a very limited quan-
tity of freight her draught of water will be light, and
afford the vessel a chance of proving her extraordinary
sailing qualities. The owners have likewise determined,
in the event of the wind not being very favourable on her
sailing day, to take advantage of steam down channel, and
we doubt not such a course will be materially advantageous
to the ship's passage, and the comfort and safety of the
passengers. The cabin accommodations of the Golden
Era are of the very highest orier, embracing among other
comforts, baths for the use of passengers, the entire
arrangements in this class are such as cannot be excelled
on any vessel afloat. Those who have been in the cabins
of American packet ships, will be able to form an idea of
what is to be found in the Golden Era, she being in every
respect equal to the best of those celebrated ships.

OPENING OF THE COASTING TRADE.

A BILL TO ADMIT FOREIGN SHIPS TO THE
COASTING TRADE.

PREAMBLE.—Whereas by the one hundred and fifty-
second section of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, it
is enacted, that no goods or passengers shall be carried
coastwise from one part of the United Kingdom to ano-
ther, except in British ships : And whereas by the one
hundred and ninety-first section of the same act it is en-
acted, that no goods or passengers shall be imported into
the United Kingdom from the Channel Islands or ex-
ported from the United Kingdom to the said islands, or
carried from one of the said islands to another, or from
part of any of the said islands to another part thereof,
except in British ships. And whereas it is expedient to
remove the restrictions contained in the said recited enact-
ments : Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this
present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows :
I. The enactments herein-before recited, that is to say,
the one hundred and fifty-second and the one hundred and
ninety -first sections of the said Customs Consolidation Act,
1853, shall be repealed from the passing of this Act ;
provided, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty to exer-
cise, in respect of foreign ships employed in the coasting
trade as aforesaid, and of goods carried coastwise in such
ships, such or the like powers as are conferred on her Ma-
jesty by the three hundred and twenty-fourth, three hun-
dred and twenty-fifth, and three hundred and twenty-
sixth sections of the said Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,
iu respect to foreign ships employed in the oversea trade,
and of goods exported or imported in such ships.
11. Every foreign ship which after the passing of this
act is employed in carrying goods or passengers coastwise
from one part of the United Kingdom to another, or from
the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man,
to the United Kingdom, or from the United Kingdom to
any of the said islands, or from any of the said islands to
any other of them, or from any part of any one of the
said islands to any other part of the same, shall be subject,
as to stores for the use of the crew, and in all other re-
spects, to the same laws, rules, and regulations to which
British ships when so employed are now subject.
111. No foreign ship which, after the passing of this act,
is employed in the coasting trade as aforesaid, nor any
goods carried in any such ship, shall, during the time such
ship is so employed, be subject to any higher or other rate
of dock, pier, harbour, light, pilotage, tonnage, or other
dues, duties, tolls, rates, or other charges whatsoever, or
to any other:rules as to the employment of pilots, or to any
other rules or restrictions whatsoever, than British ships
employed in like manner, or goods carried in such ships,
any law, charter, special privilege, or grant to the contrary,
notwithstanding ; nor shall any body corporate or person
having or claiming any right or title to any such higher
or other rates, dues, duties, tolls, or other charges as afore-
said, be entitled to any compensation in respect thereof
under any law or statute relating thereto, or otherwise
howsoever.
IV. And whereas it is expedient to provide for the safety
of passenger steamers : Be it enacted, that every foreign
steam-vessel carrying passengers from one place to another
on the coasts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland and the Channel Islands, shall be subject to the
provisions of the Steam Navigation Act,,,1851.

HEALTH COMXITTE2.—The weekly meeting was held
on Thursday, Mr. Langadale in the chair. A conversation
took place relative to the removal of the night soil by Mr.
Rose, from the places of deposit at Sefton-street and
Kensington. It was agreed that the Town-clerk should
give notice to Mr. Rose, that if the manure was not re-
moved within 14 days, the terms of the contract would be
enforced.—The Town-clerk read a comparative statement
of rates collected in 1852 and 1853. The returns showed
an increase in 1853 over the previous year of £3. 2s. 2d.
per cent., or £2,930. The medical officer reported that the
more genial temperature of the last fortnight having
caused a considerable decrease in the prevalence of inflam-
matory affections of the lungs, the mortality of the borough
had fallen below the average for the first time since the
month of November. The deaths, from all causes, in the
week ending Saturday were 209, being 35 less than in
the previous week, and twenty less than the average of
the same week of the preceding six years. Diseases of
the lungs, with consumption, caused 86 deaths, a decrease
of 22 as compared with the previous week. From diseases
of the zymotic class the mortality was lower than in any
week of the previous seven months. The total deaths
were 42, of which there were from typhus fever 13, hoop-
ing cough 11, diarrhoea, &c., 5, scarlatina 5, measles 3,
croup 3. Of the total 209 deaths, 112 were below the age
of 5, 71 between 5 and 60, 28 above 60, and 1, age un-
known.—ln reply to a question by Mr. Moss, the medical
officer said he believed the cholera had left the town.

HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.—
The fourth monthly meeting was held in the Collegiate
Institution, on Thursday. Samuel Gath, Esq., in the
chair. The Earl of Harrowby was elected an ordinary
member ; also • Alfred W. Hunt, Esq., A. 8., and Samuel
Wood, Esq., F.S.A., of Shrewsbury. The late Mayors
of Liverpool, Manchester, and Lancaster, were also en-
rolled as permanent members, without election. The
curator announced as donations the List volume of Pro-
ceedings from the Literary and Philosophical Society ; the
Atheneum for 1853, from David Lamb, Esq. ; the Liver-
pool Photographic Journal, No. 1, from the society; Essay
on the Rock Salt formation in Cheshire, from the author,
G. W. Ormerod, F.G.S. ; several reports for the Board of
Health, from Robert Rawlinson, Esq., including that for
Garston ; Hall's Chronicle, 4to. blk. letr., 1549, from John
Clements, Esq. • and a complete copy of his Essay on
Churches and Chapels, from the Rev. Dr. Thom. The
Rev. Peter Steel Dale exhibited the account of the curious
Runic Cross at Ruthwell Manse, Dumfriesshire, written
by the Rev. Dr. Duncan ; and Dr. Kendrick exhibited a
peculiar shaped halbert-head, which had been discovered
in the ceiling of a house at Manchester. Mr. Clements
handed round a curious ancient spur, which had been
found near West Derby. The most curious article exhi-
bited was a horn-book washing tablet, arranged for fifteen
kinds of domestic linen, and for twelve of each. The
names—which are runes, bandes, cuffes, handkerchiefs,
capps, shirtes, half-shirtes,bootehose, topps, sockes, sheetes,
pillouberes, table clothes, napkins, towels—appear through
the horn ; and a circular disc under each moves round, a
hole in its margin standing over the number of articles
sent to be washed. Dr. Hume appealed to the society for
subscriptions to the Newton Monument at Grantham, in
Lincolnshire, to which he had become local secretary in
Liverpool, at the request of the committee. A letter was
read from Mr. Boardman, giving some additional particu-
lars respecting the late Mr. John Holt, of Walton. Two
interesting papers were read, each of which was illustrated
by drawings or engravings. Biographical Sketch of Mr.
John Wyke, with notice of the condition of arts and
manufactures in Liverpool, from 1760 to 1780, was edited
by H. C. Pidgeon, Esq., from the materials of W. J.
Roberts, of Aughton. The second' paper was by Mr.
Mayer, giving an account of Shotwick Church, near
Chester, with remarks upon the curious arch there, and
Su= arches in general,