The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

GEIVE.R.A.L INTELLIGENCE.

TILE PRESENT TRUST capital of the Corporation of
Queen Anne's Bounty is. £2,400,000.
POSTA.GE.-1,230,000 letters passed through the London
district post on Saturday week. This is the largest
number ever known, even upon St. Valentine's Day.

SUNDAY EMPLOYMENT ON OMNIBUSES.—It is esti-
mated by the census tables that the number of men en-
gaged in London alone upon omnibuses, on the Sunday,
is as many as six thousand.
RARE AND PLEASING GIFT.—At the re-opening of
Harrington Church, Evesham, Worcester, a few days
since, Mrs. Wyld, formerly a poor girl of the village, con-
tributed £l,OOO to the collection.—Eddows' Journal.
SIR AuCnIBALD .A.LisoN wishes to inform the detrac-
tors of Glasgow that, although there are 2000 spirit shops
in that city, there is also a sum of £646,000 at the credit
of the working classes in the Savings' Bank.
THE FORTHCOMING SESSION OP PARLIAMENT.—There
are already, as appears by a parliamentary document, 38
notices of motions in the order book of the House of
Commons for the ensuing session.
A JUVENILE SUICIDE.—On Wednesday night, Jacob
Da.venport, aged 13 years, a tenter of power-looms, hung
himself to the door of an out-house, near his parents' re-
sidence, at Kearsley.
Miss ROSE SOANE, granddaughter of the late Sir John
Soane, the celebrated architect, is now the leading tragic
actress at the Exeter Theatre. Her performances have
created quite a sensation.
IN NEW YORK there were no fewer than 2,589 coro-
ner's inquests held during the past year, which certainly
exhibits a fearful loss of life by accidents and sudden
deaths.

A MARITIME SCHOOL is about to be established in.
Belfast, in connection with the National Board of Educa-
tion, and with the co-operation of the mercantile com-
munity.
AN INCORRIGIBLE.—A young woman, aged nineteen,
who was sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to six
months' imprisonment, has been in prison no less than
twenty-one times, for frequenting houses with intent to
steal.

DEPUTY SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—We
understand the Hon. E. P. Bouverie, MP., is likely to be
the Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons to be cre-
ated by virtue of the act of parliament of last session.—
Sunday Times.
THE NUMBER or FIRES in London, from the Ist of
January to the 31st of December, 1853, was as follows :
Fires at which the premises were totally destroyed and
considerably damaged, 261 ; ditto, slightly ditto, 639 :
making a total of 900.
A DONKEY has just died at Fornham, All Saints, hav-
ing attained the venerable age of 70 years and upwards.
It formerly belonged to the Cornwallis family, and lat-
terly had been fed on bran and soft food, in consequence
of its inability to eat grass, the teeth being completely
worn away.
CHEAP COALS.—The Great Western Railway have com-
menced a coal-traffic from the Forest of Dean and South
Wales. The broad waggons of this line will hold-a large
quantity Orcpals. It is expected that London and the
towns on the railway will be supplied with coals at a great
reduction on the prices they have paid for fuel from other
sources.
THE 'METROPOLITAN' POULTRY Snow.—The winter
slow of the Metropolitan Poultry Club took place last
week, at the Baker-street Bazaar. The show contained
• 1,800 pens of birds, &c. The Queen availed herself of the
regulation that any pen of birds may be claimed at the
price-affixed to them after one o'clock on the day of the
show, by claiming, at the price affixed to them, viz., £lO,
the beautiful pen of gold-laced (Seabright) bantams, bred
by Mr. Uriah Spurey, Dunstable, hatched in 1853. Prince
Albert also claimed the splendid Dorking cock, bred by
Mr. Fisher Hobbs, which obtained the first prize in class
7. Prince Albert's pen of Brahmalipootra fowls, and to
which his Royal Highness had affixed a price of £25, were
claimed, although they had received no prize, by Mr. Fox,
of Skinner-street, Snow-hill. Lord Robert Grosvenor
claimed, at £l5, a Dorking cock and two pullets, which
obtained the second prize in the class, bred by Mr. Edward
Terry, of Aylesbury.
NEW RAILWAY BREAK.—Last week, an experiment
for the purpose of testing the efficiency of a self-act-
ing break, invented by Major Robins, took place on
the South-Western Apd Windsor line. The merit of this
invention consists in its being able to effect a stoppage
of the train, without manual labour, within the short space
of from 15 to 20 yards, the break being self-acting, said
worked entirely by the engine-driver. The experit
on this occasion- was witnessed by several officials con-
nected with the different railways out of London, who
travelled by the train, which consisted of 16 carriages,
drawn by a powerful engine. H. R. H. Prince Albert
came expressly from the castle to see the result of the
experiment, which proved completely successful, and
elicited unqualified expressions of approval.
THE WATER-WORKS AT THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.
—The water-works of Versailles have been hitherto the
finest in the world. They are but rarely put in motion,
the cost being, it is said, 2500 each time. From an in-
teresting article in Fraser's Magazine, it appears that
the waterworks at Sydenham will be five times as exten-
sive, and will play fifty times in the year. The water will
be brought through an artesian well from a depth of 500
• feet. While the spectator is gazing, the unseen flood will
be driven upwards of 900 feet to the reservoirs. At a
given signal the fountains will play, and the grand ter-
race, for two thousand feet, will let fall a living fringe of
silver from dolphins' mouths into the long drawn basin at
their feet. The central fountain will shoot up 230 feet,
and its 1,000 jets are contrived to form a moving constant
pyramid, like some Arctic glittering peak of ice. So ex-
traordinary will be the circulating system of this magic
garden, and such the force of-the pressure, that 2,000 tons
of water will be forced _through its entire frame every
minute.
A QtlA-cs named Joseph Gray, alias Walter Marshall,
Esq., M.D., C. Morris, M.D., &c., was brought up at
Lambeth Police-court, on Friday, charged with a whole-
sale system of fraud in obtaining money from different
persons at a distanee,'on pretence of curing thenfof their
various disorders. The prisoner had been in the habit,
for many months past, of presenting post-office orders at
the Norwood post-office, from his victims, and was arrested
in the act by the police. A vast quantity of advertise-
ments had been inserted by "Doctor Marshall" in country
newspapers, only too ready to make a show in their ad-
vertising columns, without inquiry as to the ability of the
advertiser to pay for his puff. Cures of everything and
everybody for the trifling remuneration of 7s. 6d., by post-
office order to Dr. Marshall, M.D., M.R.C.S., forty-five

years consulting physician to various hospitals. Deafness,
singing noises in the ears, &c., were to be cured, as
thousands had been cured, by Dr. Marshall, fifteen years
physician aurist to the Ear Infirmary. Send Is. 6d. in
postage stamps to Dr. Marshall, M.D., F.R.C.S., professor
of surgery, and lecturer on anatomy, and receive in return
the means of the most speedy and certain self-cure.

Johanna Bennett, aunt of the prisoner's wife, deposed
that he was connected with insurance offices ; he had never
graduated as a surgeon or physician, or practised as an
aurist, to her knowledge. The case was remanded for
further inquiry.
MOIL Lirs BELOW STAIRS.—AnnPage, formerly house-
maid in the service of Miss Spence a Royal-crescent, Addi-
son-i oad, London, sued that lady in the Marylebone County
Court, on Saturday, for wages in lieu of warning. Plaintiff
said she supposed she must tell his lordship why she left.
On Christmas-eve a friend called to see her, and, as they
had a party up stairs, she thought there was no harm in
keeping her friend down stairs :—" Well, about half-past
twelve o'clock, Miss Spence actually came down stairs into

the kitchen, and found my friend, and made a great piece
of work ; and in the morning cook and me were discharged
without warning."-" Miss Spence : Now tell the judge
how many policemen you had in our house to supper."-
" Ann Page : I only had one ; the other policeman was
the cook's, not mine." (Laughter.)-" Miss Spence : Were
not two policemen supping off our mutton in the middle
of the night P" (Laughter.)-" Ann Page : Cook asked
them to have a little mutton, and they are not the men to
refuse."-Miss Spence then gave her version of the
rencontre :-" On Christmas-eve, your honour, I had a
party of friends, and by mere chance, about twelve
o'clock, I left the drawing-room, and on getting down
stairs I saw two men at supper in the front kitchen, and
as soon as my footsteps were heard, out went the lights,
and I heard a great scuffle, caused by their hiding them-
selves in the back kitchen. (Laughter.) I called for
lights, and whilst I was groping about in the dark I caught
hold of one of the policemen's buttons. The man then
called out, ' Don't be alarmed, Miss ; I am here to protect
you. Don't shriek out, for I'm a policeman.' (Shouts of
laughter.) The other man then said, ' No, no, there's no
fear, Miss, for I am another policeman, and will protect
you too.' (Continued laughter.) They each begged me
to forgive them ; admitted having had supper, and said
they were very sorry that the girls should have `overcome
their sense of duty.' (Increased merriment.) The dis-
covery quite upset our merry party, I assure you, sir.
We took the policemen's numbers, and reported them to
the Commissioners of Police, and Sir Richard Mayne
fined each of them 2s. 6d., and severely reprimanded them.
We instantly discharged the cook and the plaintiff."-
" The Judge I think enough has been said to satisfy me
that the plaintiff as well as the police grossly misconducted
themselves. I shall only make an order for 19s. 6d.,
without any costs."
THE TRADE WITH TILE EAST.-The East India and
China Association have published their usual comparative
statement of the number of ships, both British and foreign
with their aggregate tonnage, entered inward and cleared
outward with cargo from and to places within the limits
of the East India Company's charter in the years 1852
and 1853. According to the statistics of vessels entered
Inward, the increase in the case of the port of London has
been 7 vessels and 27,909 tonnage-the difference between
711 vessels, with 384,531 tonnage, in 1853, and 704 vessels,
with 356,622 tonnage, in 1852. The return for Liverpool
shows an increase of 52 vessels and 46,672 tonnage-the
difference between 255 vessels, with 155,741 tonnage, and
203 vessels, with 109,069 tonnage. There is also an in-
crease in the case of Bristol and Hull of 6 vessels and 2,356
tonnage, the arrivals in 1852 having been 30 vessels,
with 11,813 tonnage, and in 1853 38 vessels, with 13,969
tonnage. The return for the Clyde exhibits a decrease of
7 vessels and 3,281 tonnage-the difference between 39
vessels, with 14,577 tonnage, and 46 vessels, with 17,858
tonnage. The increase on the whole statement is 58
vessels and 53,656 tonnage-the difference between 1,041
vessels, with '568,818 tonnage in 1853, and; 983 vessels,
with 495,162 tonnage, in 1852. Of this increase the prin-
cipal consists of. arrivals from Sydney, Bombay, Madras,
and Ceylon, The statistics of vessels cleared outward show
the large increase in the ease of the port of London of 312
vessels and 143,412 tonnage-the difference between 954
vessels, with 485,972 tonnage, in 1853, and 642 vessels,
with 342,560 tonnage, in 1852. The return for Liverpool
shows an increase of 139 vessels and 62,498 tonnage-the
difference between 515 vessels, with 2.80,054 tonnage, and
376 vessels, with 227,556 tonnage. Bristol and Hull figure
for, an increase of 18 vessels and 2,894 tonnage, the clear-
ances in 1853 having been 21 vessels, with 4,888 tonnage,
while in 1852 they only comprised 3 vessels, with 1,994
tonnage. The return for the Clyde exhibits an increase of
103 vessels and 20,138 tonnage-the difference between 188
vessels, with 61,552 tonnage, and 85 vessels, with 41,414
tonnage. The increase on the whole statement is 572
vessels and 218,942 tonnage-the difference between 1,678
vessels, with 832,466 tonnage, and 1,106 vessels, with
613,524 tonnage. Of this increase, nearly the entire
=pat arises from au augments tra,4 with the Auatra-
ligt Enid New.zealand,

STATIONERY Rasa/am—ln the eleven months end-
ing- the sth ult., the value of stationery exported was
£572868 against £375,996 in the previous year.
REWARRABLE CONJUGAL LIFE AND DELTII.--On
Wednesday was interred, at Bowdon, John and Fanny
Sumner,. of Hale. John died on Sunday, and Fanny on
the Tuesday following. They were each born in August,
1772, had each attained the age of 81 last August, and
have been man and wife 56 years.
REWARD OF CIVILITY.—A resident of Goole, formerly
of Leeds, not long ago received a letter from the executors
of Mr. —, informing him that that gentleman had left
him £lOO, for having some years ago left his place of
business to show the said Mr. the way to a warehouse
he was in search of.
A BRONZE MEDAL—At the late annual meeting of the
Brighton Branch of the Royal Humane Society, the secre-
tary stated that the society's bronze medal had been
awarded to Thomas Atherell, a fisherman, for having, on
the Ist of November, rescued a person named Richard
Stainforth, of Clapton, from drowning in a rough sea.
Atherell was called in, and the medal was tendered to him.
He refused, however, to accept, stating that it was only
copper, and that he could get a better at the top of North-
street for a penny. He would prefer wearing a scollop-
shell round his- neck to a piece of copper like that.
DR. Cnnaca's BREECH-LOADING CANNON.—A final
trial was made on Friday week of two cannons that have
been prepared to send to Woolwich. They were fired 50
times with heavy charges of powder and ball with perfect
success. No detect in any respect could be pointed out
by the best judges. Upon this plan heavy ship guns can
be loaded and fired, and brought into position, by two
men, five times in a minute, and a field piece eight times
in a minute. The gun heats very little. Birmingham
Journal.
MANNING THE NAVY.—On Tuesday, by command of
the lords of the admiralty, placards were extensively cir-
culated throughout the metropolis inviting landsmen to
enter for the royal navy. The description of men to be
entered is as follows :—They must be between 19 and 24,
active, stout, and able bodied, 5 feet 7 inches in height,
and in all respects healthy and fit for the naval service,
the preference being given to those young men who have
been used to boats. In addition to the royal naval ren-
dezvous on Tower-hill, and the Crocodile receiving ship
off the Tower, men will be received and entered by their
making application on board the flag ships at any of the
naval ports, or at the rendezvous at Liverpool and Bristol,
and to the agents for transports at Leith.
GREAT FLOOD AT DONCASTER..—OR Wednesday Don-
caster was visited by one of the greatest floods which have
occurred in that town during the last sixty years. Owing
to the rapid melting of the snow, the river began to rise
on Tuesday night, and long before daylight on Wednesday
morning many of the houses in the lower part of the town
were inundated ; and by eleven in the forenoon every house
in Marshgate was flooded, and the water continued to rise
throughout the day. During the night the water began
to diminish, and by nine on Thursday morning it had
fallen a foot in height; and by the evening of that day
the streets were almost relieved of its pressure. Great
damage had been sustained in several portions of the
town, and large quantities of farm produce were carried
away in the neighbourhood.
SENTENCE OF DIVORCE.—At the Consistory Court, on
Wednesday, Dr. Lushington gave judgment in the extra-
ordinary case, " Ciocci v. Ciocci." The learned judge said
the case had been fully discussed at the bar. The veracity
of many of the witnesses had been questioned, and the
evidence was very contradictory. The marriage took
place on the 15th of January, 1851. The plaintiff was an
Italian refugee, who resided at Brighton, and taught lan-
guages. The lady was older than the husband, and as the
lady was possessed of a large fortune, it was manifest that
the marriage would-not prove a happy one, and in a very
short time a separation took place, and the wife charged
the husband with cruelty and adultery. With respect to
the count of cruelty, he was obliged to come to the deci-
sion that it had not been made out. He then went over
the evidence, which was very voluminous, in support of
the charge of adultery. The learned judge said, that after
looking carefully at the evidence, he must pronounce
sentence of divorce on account of adultery.
AN INSTRUCTIVE LzssoN.—The celebrated strike at
the New Houses of Parliament lasted eight months, and
cost the union, it is said, £5,000 in sterling money, and
the men £lO,OOO in lost labour, and was productive of no
good whatever, but, on the contrary, an incalculable
amount of evil. Such a strike, we hope, will never occur
again in London. It opened a breach between employers
and workmen, and especially between foremen and jour-
neymen, which ten years of uninterrupted prosperity have
been scarcely sufficient to heal. We wish the working
classes in the north of England, who are now pursuing a
similar course with much greater recklessness of conse-
quences, would take a lesson from the history of this un-
happy feud. And let us give them another note of warn-
ing. During the twenty years of its existence, the
Masons' Union, we are credibly informed, has spent up-
wards of £100,000; but their wages have remained at the
same uninterrupted level.—Builder.
A CHANCERY SUlT.—About twenty years ago a retired
tradesman at Bedminster died, leaving various legacies to
his family, but the bulk of his property to his niece,
Elizabeth Waters. Disputes, however arose, and a suite
in Chancery was instituted, which is not yet terminated.
Meanwhile the large house, of which the neice retained
possession, without any income to keep it in repair, fell
rapidly to decay ; the furniture, by degrees, was disposed
of to meet the necessities of the occupant, till at last
nothing remained but an old sofa, a chair, and a table, in
the one room which was still habitable. Lately the woman,
who gained a precarious sustenance in the decayed mansion
by taking in needlework, began to complain much of hav-
ing no food or fire, and for more than a week she was lost
sight of, till a few days ago she managed to crawl to the
house of a neighbour in a dying state, and beg for a morsel
of food. Something was immediately given her, and fire
provided for her, but she died shortly after.
THE PAPER DrTY.—The exportation of many sorts of
goods from England is rendered impossible by the cost of
the paper it would require to wrap them in ; and in these
branches of trade the Americans have completely cut us
out, owing to the cheapness of paper in the United States.
Paper is rapidly getting dearer in England, and it is ap-
prehended that the entire profits of some rising popular
publications will be cut off by the advance. Paper for
printing must be dried at great expense and trouble by the
manufacturer, for the purpose of being weighed by the
excise, and then with equal trouble re-damped for the
printing press, owing to the existence of the paper duties.
English paper is deteriorating in quality through the op-
pressive operation of the tax ; compare it with French
paper—the one is either so rough as to spoil every pen
used upon it, or, if smooth, invariably greasy ; the other
is smooth as ivory, and " thirsty for ink."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon, the in-
habitants of Old Broad-street, London, were alarmed by a
noise resembling the discharge of artillery, repeated three
times in rapid succession, and found that a great portion
of the Old Excise-office, contiguous to premises forty feet
high, running parallel with Broad-street, had fallen down,
200 workmen being at the time employed upon it. As
soon as the immense cloud of dust had somewhat subsided,
it was found that nearly a dozen of the workmen were
buried in the debris. Owen Daley, a man who had only
just left the hospital from the effects of a similar accident
at the same place, 'a few months ago, was first extricated,
dreadfully injured, and taken back to the institution he
had so recently left. Another man was extricated bleeding
at the nose, mouth, and ears, and died immediately. A
third was frightfully mutilated, and a fourth again was
quite dead. Several others were removed in the course of
the evening to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where an extra,
ward had to be fitted up for their reception. The catas-
trophe is supposed to have arisen from overloading the top
floor with bricks taken from the walls, as that floor fell
first, and afterwards the two beneath it, causing the three
successive reports.
OPERATION OP THE SUCCESSION DliTY.—Aris's Bir-
mingham Gazette furnishes the subjoined example of the
practical operation of the Succession Duty Act upon the
poorer classes of freeholders :—The following case, in the
parish of Rowley Regis, in the county of Stafford, is
among the first that have occurred since the passing of
the above-named act :—E. W., a labouring man, died in
June last, possessed of seven freehold cottages, which he
bequeathed (subject to a payment of four shillings per
week to the widow) to his three infant children, a mort-
gage of £220 being on the property. The amount of Suc-
cession Duty levied and paid by the executor at the rate
of one per cent. only, is no less than £5 Os. 10N . over and
above the usual heavy charges upon the probate of the
will. Certainly no very strong inducement is now held
out to the poor man to make any provision for his family.
In the present case, when £ll have been paid for interest
upon the mortgage, £lO Bs. for the widow's annuity,
£5 Os. laid for Succession Duty, and the usual extor-
tionate charges - for the probate, a noble balance truly
will remain for the orphan children. But how will it be
where a testator leaves no children, and the Succession
Duty is levied at the rate of ten instead of one per cent P
Had it been so in the present case, £5O 8s: 9d. would have
been the sant required, and only by a ruinous sacrifice of
the property could the amount have been raised. Let the
small freeholder just reflect what must be the effect of this
admirable equivalent given him by Mr. Gladstone for the
present low price of bread, and the comfortable prospect
of the annihilation of our foreign trade by a general war.
CANINE FIDELITY.—on Wednesday, the 3rd inst., Mr.
Collinson, farmer, of Grainside Beck, in Teesdale, left
home with the intention of driving a flock of sheep over
the fell to Dutton. Not having arrived at his destination
the following day, and a violent snow storm having raged
the whole of Wednesday night, the greatest anxiety was
felt for his safety, and a number of men started in search
of him. They prosecuted their arduous task ineffectually
for three days, but on Monday morning his body was
discovered in the snow by means of his faithful dog. The
searchers had passed the place where the deceased was
lying, when they were attracted by the actions of a dog,
which started up from among the snow. The dog they
recognised as having belonged to Mr. Collinson, and it
by degrees led them to its master's corpse. They found,
by the man's track through the snow, that he had several
times fallen, but had battled manfully for life, until at
length, having become exhausted, he had fallen for the
last time, and died. The poor dog had scraped away the
snow from his master's face, and then nestled in his
breast, and had never forsaken him until he heard the
voices of men in search.—Durham Advertiser.
ARIEL'S GIRDLE-. 4 TWO-CABLE ACROSS THE ATLAS.
TIC.—We like to see the speculative faculties at work
among the multitude, even though the efflorescence be
somewhat barren—not very likely to bear available or
practical fruit—or even a little wild in its luxuriance. A
correspondent, " Revile," proposes " an entirely new sys-
tem of navigation upon the great ocean routes,' on " the
advantages" of which we need not enlarge. " I propose,"
he says, "that upon some convenient coast point of the
United Kingdom—say upon the coast of Donegal—a
winding-machine be erected sufficiently firm (aye, there's
the rub !) and turned by an engine of five thousand horse-
power, a similar one being erected, for example, at New
York. The next element of the apparatus would be a
cable of the best material, 8,000 miles in length [!], to act
as an endless band, passing over the two machines. It
next being mutually arranged by those directing to
despatch their vessels in regular succession, they would be
attached to the moving cable at intervals of one mile or
less, according to the state of trade, of course, by some
simple apparatus capable of detaching the cable, if neces-
sary. Being so disposed, the vessels would sustain tlei_l
cable, while the trifling deflection would allow any veee.
sailing across the route to pass." The cooleese of this
proposal is iuimitabler--Buikler,

SPraiors GOLD-in-sr.—Persons are attempting to dis-
pose of spurious gold-dust by offering it to money-changers
in London. It consists of small pieces of some kind of
earth, electrotyped so as not to be discoverable by chemical
tests. A parcel was brought on Tuesday to Messrs.
Spielman, in Lombard-street, which was completely un-
distinguishable from genuine gold dust, except by its fria-
bility and want of weight.
A REPORT has been prevalent that the French govern-
ment have purchased six vessels belonging to the fleet of
the General Screw Steam Navigation Company and three
of the Australian Mail Company, but it is incorrect. A
purchase of the kind is however, understood to be in ne-
gotiation by the French company for establishing a Tran-
satlantic line of mail steamers.
"AWE REGRET to announce the severe indisposition of
the Marquis of Londonderry. His lordship has been
suffering for some days from neuralgia, in a very bad
form. The latest accounts describe the noble marquis to
be in a state of great exhaustion from the continued palm.
consequent on his malady.
LONDON AND WESTMINSTER RINK. -At the half.
yearly meeting of the proprietors of this bank, held on
Wednesday, it was agreed to allow out of the net profits of
the last half-year, amounting to £61,617 4s. 9d., a divi-
dend for the half-year, at the rate of six per cent. per
annum, and a bonus of four per cent., declared payable on
the 23d instant.

THE HOUSE OF Commoss.--Since the general election
there have been forty-seven changes in the House of
Commons, three of which have been caused by elevations
to the Upper House, three by elevations to the judicial
bench, twelve by death, four by retirement, three by
acceptance of office, and twenty-two by the decisions of
election committees.

OLD Age.—Frol4 the census table on religious worship,'
it appears that the number of persons in England and
Wales, in 1851, aged 70 years and upwards was 503,305,
aged 75 and upwards there were 253,143, aged 80 and up-
wards 107,041, aged 80 and upwards 107,041, aged 85 and
upwards 33,201, upwards of 90 there were 7,796, above 95
there were 1,545, and 216 were upwards of 100.
LEMON DIIMPLINGS.—With ten ounces of fine bread
crumbs mix half a pound of beef suet, chopped extremely
fine, one large tablespoonful of flour, the grated rind of
two small lemons, four ounces of pounded sugar, three
large eggs, beaten and strained, and last of all, the juice
of the lemons, also strained. Divide these into four equal
parts, tie in well-floured cloths, and boil them an hour.
More sugar may be added if they are liked very sweet.
A RIVAL TO TEL.—The Singapore Free Press recom-
mends the use of the coffee leaf as a substitute for the
berry. The writer appears to be an English planter of the
Dutch settlement of Padang, in Sumatra, where the coffee
plant has been cultivated for several generations, and
where it is now produced in larger quantity and better
quality than in any country of the Malayan islands, Java
excepted. The coffee plant is an evergreen large bush,
which yields a profusion of leaves, and bears fruit for about
twenty years. The leaf and even the twigs, have, in a
miner degree, the same stimulating and exhilerating, pro-
perty as the berry ; and its habitual use by the natives of
the country, agricultural Malays of very simple habits and
little amenable to innovation, shows that they at least
find the coffee leaf to make a wholesome and agreeable
beverage. _

NIGHT TELEGRAPH TO THE CONTINENT.—In reference
to the statement which has appeared in some of the
metropolitan journals, to the effect that the Governments
on the continent have not extended to this country the
advantages of the night service which they had established
with each other, it appears that the Submarine and Euro-
pean Telegraph Companies have already concluded arralige-
ments with the continental Governments for a night
service between the various countries and • England. All
the most important towns of France, Belgium, and
Germany, will in future be open both by day and night
for the transmission of despatches, and henceforth conti-
nental messages will be received at the Submarine and
European Telegraph Companies' office, in Cornhill, at all
hours, including the entire Sunday, for direct transmission
to their destination.

NATIONAL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION CONFEBENCB.—The
conference of this body was held in Manchester on Wed-
nesday, at the Town-hall, and was largely attended.
The Hight Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., was present, and
addressed the audience, as did also Mr. Cobden and others.
Resolutions were passed recognizing the necessity of pro-
viding primary instruction for every child ; that the pre-
sent number of institutions are inadequate for this pur-
pose : that the funds necessary for the purpose should be
raised by local rates, the control of such rates, and the
management of the schools to be supported thereby, being
vested in committees elected for that purpose by the
ratepayers ; that no system of schools which confers
sectarian advantages, or invades the rights of conscience,
can prove permanently satisfactory to the country ; that
no system of public instruction can be complete without
provision for the establishment of industrial schools where
required by the exigencies of the population ; that the
National Public School Association should take steps for
the introduction of a permissive bill into parliament at
the earliest possible period of the ensuing session, and
that they should employ their utmost efforts in pressing
it forward ; that the conference recognises the necessity
of embracing existing schools in any system of national
instruction, and approves the provison made by the bill
of the National Public School Association, to include such
schools, by which the conscientious convictions of the
managers and of the ratepayers are fully protected.
SINGULAR 'HEROISM UNDER THE PROMPTINGS ow
HumeaciTy.—The following heart-stirring narrative is
communicated from Rio Janeiro :—The Pernambucana,
one of the vessels of the Brazilian Steam-packet Company,
was wrecked near St. Katherine's on the 11th of October,
and upwards of forty of her passengers were drowned.
This disaster afforded an opportunity for a display of
heroism and bravery rarely equalled. A black sailor, be-
'longing to the vessel, succeeded, with many others, in
reaching the shore ; numbers had perished in the attempt,
and but few of the passengers remained upon the wreck.
All these, including a mother and six children, did Simao
save. Twelve times had this noble fellow swam through
the furious breakers on the coast, and each time returned
bringing a victim from destruction ; then wearied, as he
well might be, from his almost superhuman efforts, he
threw himself exhausted upon the sands, when a cry was
raised that one human being still remained upon the
wreck. No one was hardy enough to attempt the rescue
of the poor passenger, a blind man, whose piteous cries
for succour were faintly heard on shore. But Simao, the
brave Simao, again dived into the furious surf, reached
the vessel, and brought the poor blind man safely to land,
thus saving, by his noble and unaided exertions, no less
than thirteen lives.

SIB ARCHIBA.LD ALISON AND THE WORKING CLASSES.
—At the annual meeting of the National Securities Sav-
ings, held in Glasgow last week, the above gentleman
remarked that "it was now eighteen years since he was
first present at its commencement, and he then ventured
to express a hope that he himself, or at least many of
those who were present, might live to see a million of
money deposited ; and the prospect they now had of that
hope being realised fully justified its expression. Not
many years had elapsed since the country had been gene-
rally plunged into distress, and the depositors, among the
humbler
.classes in this bank, felt the effects of frugality
and provident habits. lie was happy that the excess this
year was greater than formerly. We had heard much in
different quarters of the intemperance and drunken and
Ndirwr,dherelywisconndoutcotneofoftthheose
vvhworking,o classes of Glasgow.
ever attempted to dis-
guise what was well known to be the fact ; but he was
equally well aware that the report of this institution
afforded a memorable and gratifying proof of the fact that
if there were classes who brought discredit on the city.
there were also those—more numerous, more intelliFent„
and far more active—who reflected the .highest credit on
the community. If the detractors of Glasgow told the
world that there were 2,000 spirit-shops, he hoped it
would also be mentioned that there £646,000 to the credit
of the working classes deposited in the savings-bank."

SITGili-XIIEING MACHINERY POR THE BRAZILIIIC
GOVERNMENT. The machinery consists of a 30-horse
power high-pressure steam-engine, with steam boilers of
60-horse power ; the engine works the cane-grinding mill,
which is made of extra strength, so as to express at least
75 per cent. of juice from the canes. It also works pump's
for exhausting two large vacuum pans for finishing the
sugar. The heating and boiling operations on the cane
juice will be entirely done by steam in vessels of a peculiar
construction and arrangement. The cane juice, on passing
from the grinding mill, goes through a series of copper
pipes fixed in chambers, which form the conducting chan-
nel for the latent vapour drawn by the engine pumps front
the vacuum pans. The cold juice, passing through these
pipes, is thus partially heated before entering a battery of
defacating pans, which are heated by steam direct from
the boilers. In these defacating pans, the syrup is boiled
to the proper density, and then passed through filters
filled with animal charcoal, from which it runs into re-
ceivers to supply the vacuum pans. The exhaust steam
of the engine boils the first vacuum pan, and the exceri
of engine exhaust, along with the latent vapour raised in
the first pan, is used for boiling the second pan. These
pans have a much greater amount of pipe-heating surface
than usual, and the pipes are fixed vertically. .Ve learn

from Brazil that great operations in the manufacture of,
sugar are now being in progress, and the gentleman who
ordered this machinery, which is now about ready for
shipment, says, in a recent letter, that orders will soon
follow the present one to an extent may frighten our
engineers by their oppressive magnitude.—North Brills&
Mail.
AN ICEHOUSE BURNT.—One of the most singular fires
ever recorded happened on Saturday evening at our rail-
way terminus, when a large building, used as an icehouse,
was entirely destroyed. The building was about 120 feet
long by 40 or 60 wide, and 26 feet in height, with a
thatched roof. It was divided into four compartments,
three for stowing ice, and one for packing fish. In the
interior supporters were placed at about eight inches fronl
the brick wall, covered with boarding all round the house)
from the floor to the roof, the space between the brick-
work and the boarding being filled with sawdust. The
house was let to Mr. Coates, who had 800 tons of ice
housed, the building when full containing 1,800 tons. mir-
ing Saturday some men were packing ice, working with 4
candles near the roof, and early in the day some tallow:.;
appears, had run on the woodwork, and caught firoe,;;:.
the flame was extinguished, and the house was CI
apparent safety about 4 o'clock in the afternsclon..laily
after 5 o'clock a lurid glare was seen in thein Kr, 1'
tbe north
indicating the existence of a fire somewherey
1 sent for the
part of the town. Messengers were spere lad
engines, and the alarm was at once 5P through the
ems'ressed as to the
town, but considerable doubts were
„., on fire, but few
truth of the report that the icehouse
hat any
amount of
`caity. An engine was
in so cold i
b hundreds of people, the
quickly on the spot, followed Y
pweoarpmlethgi eiisvingwcredence to thea Pe
inc!'ard, marshes, and every bit of
eased to thousands, who lined
rikofofwthheellirhs•el,ntrf3was
ntshtuanembditng
room.
then blazing furiously at
ea roof blowing from the west by
n were vainly endeavouring to get the
north. The firell,lift could not from its frozen state, and it
engine to
the west side,
before any supply of water could be ob-
tained.was some time roof had fallen in and the flara go
w
al opinion was that th es
-
• 'engineth oP e fire would be
to the lee,
but the melting of the ice
produced no other
extinguished,
that of occasioning
effect than
__, dense clouds of suffocating
ke and steam. B 9
with
y o clock the most dangerous period
smo
of the fire was over,bnt the factory engine continued play-
ing for several hours afterwards, the fire continuing to
blaze till the middle of the night The amount of d
done is about £7OO for the loss of the househouseami:Aral
500 for the iet—Norfoik Neve
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