The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1853.

A PAIR OF IRON GATES are to be made for the
entrance to St. George's-hall, which will cost 209 guineas.
JOHN Guw, a joiner employed at the Freemason's-hall,
Lime-street, while in a state of intoxication on Tuesday,
fell from the " hall" to the floor and was killed.

A HANDSOME SILVER INKSTAND has been presented
to Miss Stephenson, the very efficient and highly respected
matron of the county asylum, Rainhill.
A LIVERPOOL AUCTIONEER, the other day, received
the subjoined orthographic curiosity from a client :
" Tree pere of camp beds steds and matress alf dson cares
tw arm chare three rocking chores alf dson katchen chers
katchen table katchen table three roud tables cradol clock
tw close medens and fire irins one set of drors other other
howsel gods."

THE REV. Da. M'NEILE was one of the speakers at
the annual general meeting of the British and Foreign
Bible Society, held in Exeter-hall, on Wednesday—the
Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. The report stated that
the receipts for the year ending March 31, 1853, exclusive
of the jubilee fund, amounted to £109,160 10s. Bd., being
an increase of £7ll 9s. 10d. on those of last year.

RUNCORN IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS.—A meet-
ing was held at the Town-hall, on Monday week, Mr. John
L. Wright, chairman, On the motion of Mr. Cowley,
seconded by Mr. T. Johnson, the following resolution
was unanimously agreed to :—" The commissioners desire
to record their regret at the sudden and untimely end of
their secretary, Mr. John Buckley, who was accidentally
killed on the London and North-western Railway, when
performing his official duties ; and they desire to express
their sympathy to his widow and family for the loss which
they have sustained."
ISLE OF MAN.—In the House of Commons on Monday
evening, Mr. Ewart asked whether the measures proposed
to be adopted in reference to the fiscal changes in the
Isle of Man were yet prepared, and if so, when they
would be laid before the house. Also whether any mea-
sures had been adopted to promote a more frequent com-
munication by mail with that island during winter. Mr.
Wilson was understood to say that the proposed changes
with regard to the import duties in the Isle of Man were
in a state of great forwardness. He was not yet prepared
to say what they were ; but the increase of duty would
be exceedingly small. The other matter, as to the mail
communication, was under the consideration of the post-
office authorities.

AT THE COUNTY COURT, the other day, before J. S. T.
Greene, Esq., Luke Finnighan, the plaintiff, a beerhouse-
keeper, claimed from Daniel Lynch (a rough-looking
labourer) the sum of 13s. 10d., for beer. His honour,
suspecting that part of the drink had been supplied to the
defendant whilst intoxicated, asked the witness how many
pints he (defendant) could drink before he became tipsy.
Witness : He can drink as many as ten pints, and be as
sober as he is now. (Laughter-) She afterwards ad-
mitted that she had supplied -the defendant with seven
pints on one occasion.—The judge said he had a notion
that when a man had taken more than two or three pints
he must be drunk ; and thcrefore the defendant could not
recover for supplying the defendant with beer whilst in
that state. The idea of a man drinking seven pints 'He
would reduce the claim to one-half.
THE LIVERPOOL LUNATIC ASYLUM.—The report of
this institution for the year ending Ist of January, 1853,
has just been issued. There were in the institution on
the Ist of January, 1852, 50 patients ; admitted during
the year, 39; making the total under care, 89; of these
the number discharged and died during the year was 31,
leaving 58 in the house on the Ist of January, 1€53. In
the majority of cases, insanity is supposed to have re-
sulted from intemperance. Considerable changes have
been made in the building and in the laying out of the
ground. A commodious avartment has been appropriated
exclusively for divine worship. As circumstances per-
mitted, some of the patients have been taking excursions
into the country, and treated to exhibitions of paintings,
and other suitable amusements, a course of treatment
considered highly useful to those suffering -under certain
classes of mental disease. Fourteen had been discharged
cured during the year, at ages ranging between 20 and 60.

THE QUEEN V. THE JUSTICES OF LANeItSHIRE.—Mr.
Bodkin applied, in the bail court on Tuesday, for a man-
damus directed to two of the justices of Lancashire, com-
manding them to issue a warrant of distress to enforce
the payment of a sum of 195., which was alleged to be due
under an order of affiliation which had been made on the
application of Elizabeth Grimes, a married woman, whose
husband had been transported for some years, and during
his absence she had had a child by a person of the name
of M'Cue. She had applied in the usual manner for the
order, and it had been granted, and M4Cue had paid the
money for more than a year and a half, at which time
the husband returned, and, finding the child at his house,
he sent it to the father, where it remained for six weeks,
at the end of which term the husband again left his wife,
and M'Cue sent the child back to the woman, and refused
to pay any more for its maintenance. She then applied
to the magistrates to grant a warrant, but M'Cue ap-
peared and denied his liability, on-the ground that the
husband returning had absolved him, upon which the
justices refused to grant the warrant. Application granted.
MR. BRADLEY AND THE POLICE.—At the Council
meeting last week, Mr. Bradley said there was a very pre-
vailing feeling out of doors that the course taken with the
men was not a fair one, They said they were required to
bring a certain character, and that character must be
from a minister of religion under whom they attended ;
and unless the character came from a clergymen of the
established church.—[" No no," -from Mr. Brancker.]
He had certain reasons for mentioning this. He wished
a distinctive answer to come from the chairman of the
Watch Committee on the point. It was alleged that a
preference was given to one who brought a character
from•a clergyman of the Church of England. Mr. Tobin
replied that he could give a most decided answer. One
gentleman had told him it was the prevailing opinion that
a man could not get into the force unless he was an
Orangeman ; and another had, a short time since, said
there was a prevailing opinion that a man could not get
in except he was a Roman Catholic. That showed that
the committee steered a clear course between the two.
(Hear, hear.) But the fact was, they never asked the
question, nor did they know the religion of any man.
A-SUGAR HOUSE DESTROYED-DY FIRE.—On Thurs-
day night, shortly after eight o'clock, a fire was discovered
in a building used for the office and works of Mr. James
Leitch, sugar refiner, Wellington-street, Scotland-road.
The premises are several stories high, and extend from
Wellington-street to Ellenborough-street. The-fire com-
menced in the upper part of the main building. As soon
es possible three engines, under the direction of Mr.
Hewitt, were taken to the spot. An engine belonging to
the West of England Fire Insurance. Company was also
early in attendance. The greatest difficulty which the
firemen experienced arose from the height of the building ;
and. as the conflagration soon assumed an alarming
appearance, some of the inhabitents of the adjoining
houses began to prepare to remove their furniture. How-
ever., by the effective and well-directed efforts of the
firemen, the flames were confined to the building in
which they broke out. The floors of three of the upper
rooms ,were completely burnt, and also the roof to a
great extent. There was a large quantity of sugar on the
premises ; a great portion of it was in vats, in process of
manufacture; and most of the stock must have been
either totally destroyed or considerably damaged. By
half-past nine o'clock the flames were effectually subdued,
and shortly after ten the engines ceased playing. The
property destroyed was insured in several offices, to an
extent which will probably cover the damage.
Livuttrooe Tows COUNCIL.—At the monthly meet-
ing on Wednesday—Mr. Alderman d.. H. Turner, in the
absence of • the Mayor, presiding,—Mr. Gladstone ex-
plained, in regard to the recent appointments to the
magistracy., that the list of names submitted by-the Cor-
poration to 'Mr. Walpole were sent •by that gentleman
privately to one of the members of parliament for this
borough. That party never returned the list to the
Home-office, although he had been written to for it. It
therefore happened that Lord Palmerston, the present
Home Secretary, had never seen the list at all. The party
to whom he had alluded was Mr. Forbes Mackenzie.—The
Health Committee recommended that money should be
borrowed for the purposes of paving, in the following
proportions, the amount to be liquidated in twenty-two
years :—Parish of Liverpool, £40,000; Kirkdale, £5,000;
Everton, £3,000,; West Derby, £12,000 ; and Toxteth-
park, £12,000. They also recommended that £lO,OOO
should be borrowed by Liverpool for the sewer-rate;
Kirkdale, nil; Everton, £5,000; West Derby, £1,000.;
and Toxteth-park, 0,000. They then recommended
that the following rates be laid :

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.
Rate recommended Rate laid
for 1853.4. for 1852-3.
s. d. ~s. d.
Paving..o 8 in the pound 0 6
Sewer.. 0 2
Water.. 0 I
General 0 4

1 3
EV ERTON.

Pnving..l 0
Sewer.. 0 3
Water.. 0 1
General 0 4

1 S 1
TOXTETH-PARK.

Paving..o 10
Sewer.. 0 4
Water.. 0 1
GeneraL 0 7

THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB have voted the
sum of £2OO to be given in prizes for the sailing matches,
&c., to take place during this season.

SINCE the opening of the Derby Museum, 60,000
visiters have passed through the rooms, or an average of
over 7,500 persons weekly.
THE NEW WAREHOUSES at the Stanley dock are now
commenced, and the work is proceeding, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Jesse Hartley. The warehouses will be
vaulted, dry and commodious vaults forming the base.
ment of the structure.

LIVERPOOL PATENTS.—Patents have been sealed for
an invention by Mr. W. Rowett, called the cylinder pad-
dlewheel, and for an invention by Mr. R. L. Bolton, of a
new mode of obtaining and using motive power by the
explosion of gases.
Two CAB-DRIVERS, named respectively James Judson
and Samuel Church, were fined, the first in £1 and costs,
the other in ss. and costs, at the Police-court on Thurs-
day, for being drunk and using abusive language to the
police.
OUR AUSTRALIAN FLEET.—The Condor, one of
Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s well-known " Eagle" line of
packets, arrived at Melbourne, after an excellent passage
of 98 days, all well. The passengers speak in the highest
terms of the provisions, arrangements, ship, and captain,
to whom they presented a piece of plate for his unre-
mitted attention during the voyage.
INGENIOUS MODE OF VENTILATING SHIPS.—The
ship Evangeline, recently launched by Messrs. Jordan
and Getty, has been fitted with iron masts, which are
hollow cylinders, and which have been fitted with trap
doors at either end, to open or shut at pleasure, for the
ventilation of the ship. A perfect ventilation can be ac-
complished by these masts, even when the ship is
stationary.

AT SALFORD, on Tuesday, a boy was riding upon a
cart containing a number of heavy barrels of ale, and one
of these, slipping, fell to the ground, taking with it the
unfortunate lad, and a second falling immediately after
caught his heed, before he could rise, and crushed him to
death on the spot. The driver of the cart, who was in a
state of intoxication behind the vehicle, has been com-
mitted for trial on a charge of manslaughter, as, had he
been at the head of his horse, guiding it, the accident
would not have happened.

DETECTIVE VENTILATION Or THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.
—Mr. Gladstone brought this subject before the Council
on Wednesday last, and said, that, in consequence of the
double windows and other causes, the air became as
vitiated as that of a charnel house before the council had
been more than two hours assembled. He recommended
to the Finance Committee, the propriety of enlarging the
chamber by the addition of the ante-room, forming an
ante-room of the apartment now used as the keeper's
sitting-room, placing that functionary in the surveyor's
office, and removing the surveying department to Corn-
wallis. street.

AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Archi-
tectural and Archeological Society, on Wednesday—Mr.
Verelst presiding—Mr. Huggins read a paper on " The
application and treatment of porticoein modern buildings,"
by Mr. IV. H. Leeds, of London. The students' designs
were exhibited, and the first-class prize was awarded to
Mr. F. H. Price, and the second to Mr. A. levons.—The
president, at considerable length, then reviewed their
proceedings daring the last session.—Votes of thanks
were accorded Mr. Boult and Mr. Verelest.—Mr. Forrest
read an able paper on photography, after which the pro-
ceedings of the session were closed, and the meetings of
the society were adjourned until October.
EnwAut DAVIS. bookkeeper and salesman to Mr.
;lames Crompton, paper manufacturer, Manchester, was
apprehended on Tuesday last at Liverpool, on board a
ship bound for Sydney, which was to sail on the following
morning, charged with embezzling 49, the property of
his employer. He had paid £7O for the passage of him-
self, his wife, and his daughter, who were found on board
with him ; and amongst his luggage the officer who appre-
hended him found £25 in a tea caddy. The prisoner said
he should be able to show that he had paid away the
money which he was charged with embezzling on his
master's account.

DOCK COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting on Thurs-
day. Mr. Turner, M.P., presided. It appeared that the
average expense of the new-street at Wappiiig, so far as
it had gone, was eleven guineas a yard.—Mr. Robinson
moved, and Mr. Gladstone seconded, that Mr. Langsdale
be put upon the warehousesub-committee.—Mr. Brockle-
bank moved, as an amendment, that Mr. Barber be ap-
' 'pointed. The amendment was seconded by Mr. Evans;
and it was agreed that the question should stand over till
next week.—The Marine Department Sub-Committee re-
' ported that the bell beacon, which was run over and sunk
by an American steamer, had been raised and brought
into port; and that the offer of Messrs. Cato, Miller, and
Co. to repair the same be accepted.—Mr. Gregson, re-
ferring to the speech of Mr. Bigham at the Council meet-
ing on Wednesday with regard to the non-attendance of
the chairman and members of that commiitee, stated that
Mr. Bigham himself only attended the Dock Committee
once, and in March and April he only attended three
times. (Hear, hear.) The members who were charged
with non-attendance bad attended most regularly at that
board.—Mr. Bigham explained that he never had been
absent from the committee, except when he war out of
town.--The Chairman could not help thinking that Mr.
Bigham went much. out of his way to mention his (the
chairman's) name in the Council the other day, knowing,
as Mr. Bigham well- did, the reason of his absence. It
was not an absence caused by his own private business,
which was the case when Mr. Bigham himself was absent
during four months -in last year, but it was an absence
owing to public duties, and no one could say, and he did
not pretend to say, whether those duties were of a tempo-
rary or a permanent nature; because, as everybody was
aware, there was a petition hanging over his head, and
until he knew the result of that petition he did not think
it right to resign the post he occupied as chairman of that
committee. It was well known to Mr. Bigham and to
other gentlemen in the town that, upon that question
being decided, he should have no hesitation in determining
what course he should take with reference to his occupa-
tion of that chair. Therefore, Mr. Bigham was throwing
an imputation upon him which had no foundation in fact.
During the whole of the time he had occupied that chair
he had attended to his duty as constantly as any gentle-
man, and he did not think it necessary, until the question
of the petition war decided, that he should resign the
office. If he had thought it was the opinion of the town
that he ought to resign, he would have done it long ago.
He should not have thought it worth while to allude to
the matter if Mr. Gregson had not mentioned it, because
his character was well known in the town.—Mr. Bigham
said the chairman would recollect that he put a question
to him in the Council as to whether he was likely to con-
tinue to act as chairman of the Dock ,ornmittee when he
was holding a seat as member for Liverpool, and he stated
that until the Easter recess he should continue his seat,
but immediately after the Easter recess he should be quite
prepared to say what course he would take. Now the
Easter recess had gone by, and he was surprised that a
representation was not made by the chairman.—The
Chairman : Does not Mr. Bighana know that the petition
was presented subsequent to those observations ?—Mr.
Bight= said he should have been perfectly well satisfied
if the chairman ,had made that representation.—The
Chairman said there was no gentleman at that board,
except Mr. Bigham, who was ignorant on the matter, and
he repeated that Mr. Bigham had thrown an imputation
upon him which he was not justified in doing.—Mr.
Gregson remarked that Mr. Bigham had cast reflections
upon other members of the committee who were absent
under the same circumstances as Mr. Bigham himself had
been.—Mr. Bigham: They may have been. Then why
grumble at the facts being stated ?

THE DUBLIN GREAT EXHIBITION.—THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE AT LIVERFGOL.—In accordance with an in-
vitation from our respected Mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq.,
the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Lord Gough, the Hon. Mr.
Vereker, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Roney, and the members of
the committee for the Exhibition, arrived here, on Tues-
day morning last, by one of the City of Dublin Company's
steamers, and, under the guidance of the Mayor, spent
the morning in making the tour of our local lions. Re-
turning to the Town-hall, Lord Gough, the Lord Mayor
of Dublin, Mr. Haliburton, and a number of other gentle-
men went on 'Change, and were heartily received. At
two o'clock a d6euner was provided by his worship, at
the: Town-hall. There were present Lord Gough, the
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hon. J. Vereker, George Roe,
Esq., William Dargan, Esq., Mr. Lentaigne, Mr. Benson,
architect, Mr. King, (Sounder's Newsletter,) Mr. Grier-
son, (Dublin Express,) Mr. Stirling, Mr. Ball, Sir J.
_Kingston James,• Mr. Deane, Mr. Roney, Judge Hall-
barton, (Sam Slick,) Mr. E. Larcener, Captain Bour-
geois, (French Navy,) Mr. Potter, Mr. Livingston, Mr.
Chilton, Mr. Banner, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Preston Mr.
Brocklebank, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Kaye, Mr. W. Rah-
bone, Mr. Duckworth, Mr. Middleton, Mr. Kelso, Mr.
Axisou, Mr. Bushby, Mr. Rounthwa ite. Mr. Hull,
Winch, Air. Gregson, Mr. Price, Mr. 6erjeantson, Mr.
T. C. Archer, Mr. Draft, Mr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Doering,
Mr. Anderson, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. A. Gladstone, Mr.
J. C. Fernihough, Mr. Baines, Mr. Anderson, Mr.
Grantham, Mr. Clowes, Mr. Whitty, Mr. Crosbie, Mr.
Thacker, Mr. T. M. Myers, Mr. J. A. Tobin, Sir Thomas
Deane, Mr. Shand, Mr. J. C. Deane, Mr. N. D. Bold,
Mr. Torr, Mr. Chapman, Mr. R. H. Sherlock, Alderman
Parker, and Mr. B. Corrie. Previous to the lunch an
address was presented to Lord Gough, through Mr.
Arbuthnot, from the Liverpool East India and China'
Association. Mr. Roe, in his speech at the de:leaner,
said that, judging from the encouragement which from
all quarters they had received, the Exhibition would be
crowned with brilliant success. In the evening a grand
banquet was given at the Town-hall by the Mayor to the
following guests c—Lord Gough, Lord Mayor of Dublin,
Mayor of Manchester, Mayor of Warrington, Mayor of
Bolton, Hon. Mr. Vereker, Sir Thomas Deane, Mir,
Haliburton, Sir J. K. James, Sir E. M`Donnell, Admiral
Grenfell, Mr. Bazley, Mr. J. A. Turner, Mr. Roe, (chair-
man,) Major Fairfield, (deputy-chairman,) Mr. Ball, Mr.
Dargan, Mr. Foote, Mr. Lentaigne, Mr. Murland, Mr.
Pennefather, Mr. Stirling, Mr. Deane, Mr. King, Mr.
M'Donald, Mr. Gladstone, Captain Bourgeois, (French
Navy,) Rev. Thomas Branclier, Colonel Grant, lion.
Judge Haliburton, Mr. M'Andrew, Mr. Lace, the Town-
clerk, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Bramley-Moore, Alderman Darcy,
Mr. Benson, Mr. W. Roney, Mr. Griot-son and friend,
Mr. R. Horsfall, Mr. Bold, Mr. Jackson, Dr. Raffles,
Colonel Derinzy, Mr. Hall, Mr. Tyrer, Mr. Bushell,
Rev. A. Knox, Mr. Patten, Mr. M'Cormick, Mr. J. H.
Turner, Mr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Fairburn, and Mr. Tinting.
The speeches were mostly of a eulogistic and after-dinner
character. Thd toast of the evening, " Success to the
Industrial Exhibition of Ireland," afforded our Mayor an
opportunity of dilating upon the vast industrial resources
of Ireland, as yet only very partially developed, and of
hoping that the approaching exhibition might tend largely
to promote native industry. Lord Gough, in one of his
speeches, expressed the gratification he felt that their
host had become an Ir.sh proprietor. Mr. Dargae's
health was drunk with great enthusiasm, and his short
reply showed that he is as modest and brief spoken as he
is large souled and liberal. Mr. Judge Haliburton, in
responding to his health, stated that he was the descen-
dant of a Scotch family, but professed his especial attach-
ment to the scenery of old Ireland. In proposing pros-
perity to steam navigation, a toast which was coupled
with the name of Sir J. Kingston James, the Mayor pro-
phesied that, within a few years, iron steamers, 400 feet
long, would make the passage between Holyhead and
Dublin in three hours, or less. Among the other t4a§ts
drunk was the boalth of the indefatigable Mr. Roney,

PEDESTRIAN FOLLY AT BLACKBURN.—OR Wednesday
afternoon last, James Yates concluded his " extraordinary
feat" of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 half-hours.
THE TRISH EXODUS via LIVERPOOL.—The Water-
ford Chronicle states that, during the past week, 1,148
' emigrants left that port, and the port of New Ross, for
Liverpool, to take shipping to America.

THE HEALTH COMMITTEE transacted no business on
Thursday, the members in attendance not being sufficient
to form quorum. The four members present waited
ten minutes, and they had scarcely gone when a fifth,
Mr. Beckwith, entered the room.

THE STEAMER GREAT BRlTAlN.—Already supplies of
coal have gone out to anticipate this leviathan vessel ; and
depots will be established both at St. Helena, Ascension,
and the Cape, so that she will certainly meet with fuel
wherever she may require to take in a supply.

THE GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION RETURNS show that.
in the month ending Saturday week, between 27,000 and
28,000 emigrants sailed from the Mersey. By far the
greater proportion of these have been shipped for America,
the passenger-trade to the Australian ports having ex-
perienced a decided check within the last few weeks.

AN UNRULY LODGER, named Daniel Joliffe, broke the
arm of his landladf, Mary Plunkett, Limekiln-lane, with
a poker on Wednesday evening, and also bruised her on
the head with the same dangerous weapon. He was
brought up at the police-office next morning, and re-
manded for seven days, as he was supposed to be insane.
The woman lies in a precarious state.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the
meeting yesterday evening week, a proposal to raise the
subscription from 10s. 6d. to 15s. was negatived by a
majority of 1i to 14. The motion to discontinue the pro-
ceedings of the society had not a single supporter, though
one gentleman voted for it by mistake. The society is
narrowed to two courses, the curtailment of the ordinary
expenditure, or union with some stronger society.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The United States mail
steamer Atlantic, Captain West, sailed on Wednesday
morning, at half-past nine, for New York, with 100 pas-
sengers and a full cargo. The British and North Ame-
rican mail steam-ship Africa, Harrison, commander, took
her departure hence for New York, on Saturday after-
noon, with a large number of passengers, a full cargo,
and the usual mails on board. She also took despatches
froth the Colonial-office to the governor of Canada.
THE ADVOCATES OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS met on
Thursday, at the Clarendon-rooms, Mr. William Earle
in the chair. There was a thin attendance. The Chair-
man expressed his conviction that there was only one way
of effecting improvements, and that was by an improve-
ment-rate.—Mr. Alderman Bennett moved, and Mr. H.
C. Beloe seconded, a resolution, calling upon the mayor
to convene a public meeting to consider the improvement
measures.—Mr. Verelst moved the appointment of a
committee to obtain signatures to the requisition, which,
like the preceding motion, was agreed to.
THOMAS ROWLANDS, apparently a captain, was
charged at the Police-court, on Wednesday, with com-
mitting a felonious assault on Elizabeth Perry, a servant,
about 17 years of age, in the employ of Mrs. Jones, a
publican, in Gerard-street. The evidence was of a most
disgusting character, and exceedingly contradictory. The
girl having been seized in court with a convulsive fit, the
case was adjourned till Thursday, when the prisoner was
ordered to pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned two months.

THE DIJ.BLIN EXHIBITION COMMITTEE, while the
guests of the Mayor of Manchester on Wednesday,
attended a large and brilliant dinner party : they were
also conveyed through the chief lions of the cotton
metropolis. The Mayor accommodated the party at his
own residence. The Lord Mayor of Dublin and the
other gentlemen officially connected with the Dublin
exhibition returned to Liverpool on Thursday. and took
their departure for Ireland that night, in the City of
Dublin 'Steam-packet Company's steamer Trafalgar,
which sailed from the Prince's pier at nine o'clock.
THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT
CLVB met on Tuesday, at the Marine station, Birken-
head Hotel, and partook of an excellent dinner. Several
members were elected—Mr. Robert Walkinshaw, Man-
chester; Mr. J. H. Thomas, broker; and Mr. Behrend,
surgeon, of this town. There are to be two separate
matches, the first to take place on the 4th June. The
second will take place on the 18th July, for a magnificent
prize challenge cup of £lOO value, open to be sailed
for by all royal yacht clubs of the world. The opening
cruise was aim) fixed to take place on the 21st instant, the
yachts to start from off Birkenhead at 11 a.m.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting
on Wednesday—Mr. Joseph Harrison presiding—a letter
was read from Mr. W. E. Eaton, containing a resolution
of the commissioners of waste lands, offering to take land
on the West Derby-road from the guardians at 6s. per
yard. The offer was accepted.—A discussion arose on
the subject of the hospital clock; Mr. Jeffreys and others
being of opinion that they should get a " striking" clock,
or no clock at all. Ultimately it was resolved that Mr.
Penlington should supply a time-keeper which did not
strike, at the tender of £66 ss. Mr. Roskell moved that
£5 a-year be given for a room in which to relieve the out-
door poor at Kirkdale. This was not agreed to ; but it
was decided that Mr. Steins and Mr. Lythgoe should in
future relieve the paupers in the rural districts at their
own houses.

COLLISION AND DAMAGE SUIT.—At the Admiralty
Court, on Wednesday, there was heard a damage suit
instituted by the owners of the Daniel Webster, an
American ship, against the owners of the barque Alert.
There was a cross action in the case. It appeared that
the American vessel was on her voyage from Liverpool to
Boston, and the barque bound from Waterford to Cardiff.
About two o'clock on the 17th of January last, the two
vessels were approaching each other in the Irish channel,
the American being close hauled on the starboard tack ;
under these circumstances she at first kept on her course,
in accordance with the general rule of navigation, but
finding the Alert did not give way, and that a collision
was inevitable, she ported her helm in order to lessen the
shock. The Alert, on the other hand, alleged that the
Daniel Webster starboarded instead of keeping on her
course, and that the accident was the unavoidable result.
The trinity masters were of opinion the barque alone was
to blame. The court pronounced for the damage.
STRANGE REVELATIONS OF CHILD MURDER.—The
police at Rivington, in this county, have been engaged in
the investigation
.of an extraordinary case. A widow,
named Ellen Sumner, recently lived near Rivington
church, whose husband died some years ago, leaving her
with a family of six or seven children. On Sunday week
she was missed by her neighbours, and one of her chil-
dren said she was confined to bed by the dropsy. On
Monday she was sufficiently recovered to leave her bed,
and was visited by some of her neighbours. Oa Tuesday
she was again confined to her bed, and during that day
it was discovered that she had died. An examination of
infant,
under bed-room led to the discovery of a newly-born
under a bundle of clothes, which had evidently died from
loss of blood, owing to neglect. Other investigations
led to no doubt that the unfortunate woman had sacrificed
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leading to the discovery, in a tub of sawdust
or two, and a further search of -the premises wasinsti-
tuted,standing in her bedroom, of the skeleton of another in-
fant. The woman's conduct had been apparently so
irreproachable that even the prying eyes of neighbours
had detected nothing up to her death leading to a suspi-
cion of her real condition.
THE PROPOSED UNION OF THE LIVERPOOL AND
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—At the meeting of the Dack
Committee, on Thursday, Mr. Turner, M.P., chairman,
said lie had to report, on the part of the committee who
were appointed at the instance of Sir Joseph Bailey to
meet that gentleman, Baron Goldsmid, and his son, in
London, with reference to the Birkenhead affair and its
proposed transfer to this trust, that they had had two
meetings with Sir Joseph Bailey, Baron Goldsmid, and
his son, at which the eery important question was dis-
cussed at considerable length. They understood from
those gentlemen that, though they were very large indivi-
dual proprietors. and had partly been allied with the
management and the conduct of the affairs at Birken-
head, yet they had no authority from the other proprietors
in the matter, but were acting for themselves as large
individual proprietors; and there could be no doubt that,
from the station they held, and the influence they pos-
sessed, any proposition of theirs would meet with very
favourable consideration from the other parties inte-
rested. The committee stated to those gentlemen that
they had no authority from this committee to make an
offer in any shape or way whatever, and that it was
expected that some offer would come from them, and not
from this committee. The thing was conducted in a
friendly spirit, and it was suggested by those gentlemen
that the amount of money they had paid for those works,
including the interest due on the bonds, should be reck-
oned up, They calculated that, it so reckoned, without
binding themselves to a particular sum, tho probability
was it would amount to £1,400,000 for the warehousing,
and about £700,000 for the water space, making £2,100,000
altogether. Their opinion was, that they ought to have
20s, in the pound upon that property, or whatever it
amounted to, and they considered that that would be
about the amount ; and they were willing it should remain
in the hands of this trust for twenty-five years, upon the
bonds of this trust, at interest of 3 per cent. It was
suggested by Sir Joseph Bailey that he would be willing
himself that the interest should be 21 per cent. for the
first ten years, 3 per cent. for the second ten years, and
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3- per cent. for the last five years. He (Mr. Turner)
understood that that suggestion met with the concurrence
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20s. in the pound upon the amount which they had
expended upon the works and land, and the back interest
which was due upon the money they had borrowed, which
they estimated would amount to £1,400,000, and £700,000
for the water space ; and that the money should remain
with this trust twenty-five years. The committee were
also asked, to satisfy the persons on the other side of the
water, whether, if the works at Birkenhead went into the
hands of this trust, it would be the interest of this trust
to shut them up. He replied, "By no means; but that,
on the contrary, if the works at Birkenhead went into the
hands of this trust that they would be made available in
the best way they could be for the trade of the Mersey—
that there was no intention to shut them up." In reply
to a question, the chairman said the committee made no
counter suggestion, not considering themselves autho-
rised to do so.—Mr. G:adstone remarked that there cer-
tainly was an early indisposition to give the committee
information, for at the first meeting he asked Baron
Goldsmid if he would be good enough to state whether
the present revenue and receipts covered the expenditure,
and his reply was, that there was no occasion to answer
that at all.—Mr. Barber : I think the duties of your com-
mittee, Mr. Chairman, will end in smoke.—Mr. Brockle-
bank said the question was whether they could lay out the
money to better advantage.—The chairman suggested that
the committee should meet on Saturday, to consider the
subject and express an opinion.—Mr. Molyneux proposed
that the authority given to the special committee be with-
drawn.—Mr. Bigham seconded the motion.—Mr. Glad-
stone said the deputation certainly did promise Baron
Goldsmid, his son, and Sir Joseph Bailey, that they
would forward to them a report. Now, under these cir-
cumstances, it was necessary to adjourn ; and, perhaps,
it would be better, and more satisfactory, to defer the
consideration of it to next week. It was then agreed to
that the nutter should Maud over to next Thursday.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
THE 'COUNTY OF ANGLESEA.—Rd. Williams Prichard,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieut.
THE LIVERPOOL SWELL Mon are at present unusually
busy. On Thursday afternoon a man and woman entered
the Commercial House, 5, Canning-place, and stole a
desk and four £5 notes.

THE SECOND ANNUAL SOIREE in connexion with the
Myrtle-street Chapel Mutual Improvement Society was
held in the school-room underneath the chapel on Thurs-
day evening. Mr. Edward Mounsey presided. and the
proceedings were wound up by the Rev. H. Stowell Brown.
REPORTED FINDING OF SKELETONS IN HULME.—
Some labourers, while excavating foundations in Malt-
street, Chester-road, Hulme, the other day found four
skulls and some portions of vertebrae. The bones had
been buried about a yard deep.
ST. HELENS. COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
week, Joseph Wright, aged 19 years, was killed at the Black.
brooke Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bromilow and Co.,
by a portion of the roof of the mine falling on him, which
broke his back.

A FATHER AND HIS SON SUFFOCATED.—On Tuesday
morning last, at Swansea, a poor man named Thomas
Tucker, aged 47, and his son, John Tucker, aged 18, met
instant death, in consequence of the sudden fall of a wall
which they, with other men, were engagedjin pulling down.

THE BOOMERANG PROPELLEB. —A. trial of the
boomerang propeller was about to be made on Wednesday,
on board of her Majesty's ship Conflict, at Portsmouth,
when, just as she was entering on the measured mile, one
of the blades of the propeller snapped, and prevented the
trial from being concluded. Another trial will take place.
LOVE AND ARSENIC.—On Tuesday last, Grace Butler
died suddenly at her residence near Padiham. The de-
ceased, who was a weaver at Mr. Wildings, Padiham, had
been keeping company with Richard Low, a collier, but
had quarrelled with him. She took the affair much to
heart, bought an ounce of arsenic on Monday, and on
Tuesday was seized with violent vomiting, and shortly
afterwards died.

THE PLATELAYERS ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.—On Monday the whole of the
platelayers between Liverpool and Manchester on the
North Union, on the Bolton, and on the Clifton junction
lines, were paid off, in all about 200 men. The wages
paid to the platelayer% is 14s. to the under men and 18s.
to the leading hands in the country districts, and 18s.
and 20s. in the towns and tunnels. The company offered
to raise the pay of the 14s. hands to 155., but refused to
make any further advance in the wages of the platelayers.
SANITARY IMPERFECTIONS are prevalent in Liver-
pool. The practice throughout the town is to consign all
the refuse of a household to the ashpit, and three or four
times a year this is removed, on application to the in-
spector of nuisances. In the west end of London a
number of persons earn a subsistence by calling every
morning with a small cart for the accumulated filth of the
day. As the accumulated filth of the best-regulated
house is sufficient in a few days to generate disease, it is
argued that the contractor for removing the contents of
the Liverpool ashpits should do so daily.
THE SCREW-STEAMER WATERWITCH, which has been
lengthened and rebuilt, and also supplied with powerful
engines by Messrs. James Taylor and Co., of Birkenhead,
sailed for Genoa and Leghorn on Wednesday afternoon.
The Waterwitch is fitted with the " mutilated" boinerang,
propeller, which will be taken off on arrival at Leghorn,
and replaced there for the homeward voyage by the full
bomerang, which she carries with her. The properties of
both will then be fairly tested. The cabins, which are
entirely new, from designs by the Messrs. Hay, architects,
are very tastefully and elegantly fitted up, by our towns-
men, Mr. Blain, upholsterer, and Mr. Muir, joiner.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A distinguished party of
the aristocracy assembled at St. George's Church,
Hanover-square, London, on Saturday week, to witness the
solemnisation, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, of the nuptial rite between the Lady Edith Maud
Hastings, eldest daughter of the Marchioness of Hastings,
and Frederick C. Clifton, Esq., brother of Talbot Clifton,
Esq., of Lytham-hall, Lancashire. The bride wore a
dress of Honiton lace over poult de soie. The head-dress
a wreath of orange flowers, a Honiton lace veil of great
beauty falling over the shoulders. Early in the afternoon
the happy pair left town for Lytham-hall, where they
would pass the first few days of the honeymoon.

THE PHILHARMONIC AND THE EXCISE.—At the
Police-office, on Friday, George Cook was summoned
before the magistrates, to answer the following charge :
John Frew and John Rowlands, excise officers, stated
that on the 11th of March they attended Mr. Joseph
Robinson's concert at the Philharmonic-hall ; between
the parts they went into the refreshment room, as they
called it, but which appears to be the kitchen, and
called for two glasses of brandy and two glasses of ale.
They were served from bottles in the room by Mrs.
Cook, and paid for the same. Were quite certain the
refreshments were not sent out for. La his defence, Mr.
Cook stated that as housekeeper to the Philharmonic-
hall he had been requested to furnish refreshments to the
performers on the occasions of concerts. From the length
of time which had elapsed he had no recollection of the
evening in qeestion, but any misconduct of which he had
been guilty had been inadvertent, and without any inten-
tion of defrauding the revenue. Under these circumstances
the magistrates inflicted the lowest penalty in their power,
viz., £5 for the ale, and £l2 10s. for the brandy, but
with a representation to the Board of Custom for a
mitigation of the penalty.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.—Thomas Ro-
dick, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieut. John Rosson. Esq., to
be Deputy. Lieut.-4th, or the Duke of Lancaster's Own
Light Infantry Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia :
James Fort, gent., late of the sth Dragoon Guards, to be
Lieut. ; Samuel Renshaw Phibbs, gent., to be Lieut.;
Thomas Knott, gent., late Lieut. 4th Foot, to be Lieut. ;
Robert Arthur Mather, gent., to be Ensign • Thos. Byron
Whitehead, gent., to be Ensign.—The Artillery Regiment
of the Royal Lancashire Militia : Henry Thomas Fyers,
Esq., late Capt. and Adjutant Royal Artillery, to be Capt.;
Charles Creagh, Esq., late Capt. 80th Foot, to be Capt. ;
Archer Barton, Esq., late Capt. 16th Lancers, to be Capt. ;
Henry Masterton, gent., late Lieut. 20th Foot, to be
Lieut. ; John Railton, jun., gent., to be 2nd Lieut.-2nd
Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia : Robt.
Hamilton, jun., gent., to be Ensign.—The Duke of Lan-
caster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry : John
Jacson, gent., to be Lieut., 'Wigan troop ; Alex. Fowden
Haliburton. E.g., to be Capt., Wigan troop.--Lancashire
Hussars : William Edward Hughes, gent., to be Lieut.,
vice F. A. Farrell, resigned ; Thomas Barnaby Legh, gent.,
to be Cornet, vice Hughes, promoted.
THE SCREW FOR THE GREAT BRITAIN.—WHICH IS
THE BEST PROPELLER ?—A model of the screw which is
now being applied to her, and also one of her former
screw, both made to the same scale, and represented as
fitted in the stern of the ship, now lie at the office of Mr.
Hamilton Laird. Every one, comparing the two screws,
will be at once struck with the great disproportion in their
sizes, and the different principles involved in their con-
struction. Mr. Griffiths the inventor of the new screw,
describes the first effect of this invention, (independent
of its giving greater speed to the vessel, and diminishing
the disagreeable and destructive vibration vessels fitted
with the ordinary screw are subjected to,) that it offers
little, if any, resistance to the water when the vessel is
under canvass. The leading feature is, that iastead of
continuing the blades down to the shaft, and keeping the
centre boss as small as possible, one-third of the entire
diameter of the screw is fitted with a ball or sphere ; and
the second important feature is the form of the blades,
which, instead of being larger at the extremities, are pre-
cisely the reverse. The propeller which is to be fitted in
the Great Britain has two blades, fixed, as before-men-
tioned, on a spherical centre of nearly one-third its
diameter. These blades, at their extreme points, when
they are nearly at right angles to the vessel, are only
twenty-two inches wide, getting gradually wider towards
the centre ball, where they measure five feet; but these
parts of the blades are fixed at such an angle that they
offer no more resistance to the water than they do at the
points, nor even in the slightest obstruct its passage to
the helm. With these improvements there is no doubt
that the Great Britain, being now fitted with masts, &c.,
equal to a full-rigged ship, and made as perfect a screw
steamer as possibly can be, will make an extraordinary
quick passage this time; and we shall not be at all sur-
prised to see her accomplish what has been talked of so
long, and reach Australia under. sixty days. With any-
thing like favourable weather she is quite capable of
doing it.
THE LOCAL CRICKET CLUBS AND THE COMING
MATCHES.—The past week having been so beautifully
fine, the various local clubs have all been " up in arms"
and eagerly preparing for coming contests. Liverpool is
rapidly gaining a better position among cricketers. The
local clubs are, generally speaking, in a very flourishing
condition. The Liverpool Club has latterly had a strong
competition for the claim of being the best playing club ;
and this season we are inclined to believe that the
Olympus Club (Prince's-park) may compete for the palm
on that " score." The Roscoe Club (Hall-lane) per-
haps ranks next to these two, and the Liver Club (Bark-
hill) is also very strong, several of the members having
had the advantage of Cambridge practice. The Bootle
Club is likewise very much strengthened this year by the
addition of several members of the Olympus. The Athe-
nieum, the Canning, the Sefton, and others, are rising
clubs. On the Cheshire side of the river the clubs are
also in full play. The three clubs that play in Claughton-
park have taken advantage of the mild winter, and all
have had their grounds relaid. The really pretty grounds
in which these clubs, the Birkenhead-park, the Birken-
head Victoria, and the Hamilton, are located, have been
further ornamented lately, by the erection of neat refresh-
ment rooms. The Birkenhead-park Club is not so strong
in numbers as usual. " The plucky little Victoria" is in
close practice. A juvenile club commenced its career on
Saturday in the fields adjoining Conway-street. The
Tranmere Club is again resuscitated. A " Seacornbe
Club" has just been established in that locality, under
favourable auspices. The first of the matches about to
come off in this neighbourhood will be played at St.
Helen's, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next,
when the "All England Eleven" will play twenty of that
town and two bowlers given. On the Wednesday of the
following week (the 18th instant), the Liverpool Roscoe
and the Manchester Longsight Clubs will engage in a
friendly contest. But the most important match of the
season will certainly be that of the All England Eleven
against twenty of the town of Liverpool and two bowlers
given, on the 30th and 31st instant, and let of June:
the Liverpool side will be considerably strengthened.
On the fourth day (Thursday) the Olympus and Preston
Ciubs will play a match on the same ground.—Journal.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL ST4ND4RP.
SIR,—In the Journal of Saturday last an article ap-
pears, headed " Local Cricket Clubs," which has been
doubtless inserted for the information of those who know
little or nothing about the game, clubs, or players ; allow
me, as one of that benighted class of men, to ask the
writer of the aforesaid article—firs!, upon what grounds
he bases his belief that the Olympic Club will this year
be able to compete with the Liverpool,it being well
known that the former will this year be deprived of the
services of several of its hest players
; and, secondly,
why he states that the ground of the Birkenhead Club
is the finest in the neighbourhood. Has he ever seen
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Sr. HELENS WATERWORKS.—The Commissioners are
proceeding very rapidly with the new waterworks, on the
top of Liverpool-road.
COUNTY COURT.—In consequence of the continued
illness of Mr. Pollock, Mr. Segar and Mr. J. S. T. Greene
have presided at the County Court during the past week.
A GOLD COIN or VEIPASIAN has been found in the
neighbourhood of Kirkham, Lancashire. It is a middle
gold coin, heavier than a half-sovereign. This coin con-
tributes an incidental testimony to the belief that there
was. not only a Roman road, but a station, near Kirkham-
mill.—Manchester Guardian.

THE COUNTY COURT.—We regret to say that the con-
tinued indisposition of the highly-respected judge of the
county court prevented him from presiding yesterday.
The consequence was that the court did not sit, and the
insolvency, inter-pleader, and fraud summons cases fixed
for yesterday, stand adjourned to this day week.
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—On Wednesday, at the
Southport Police-court, before .1. Glover, Esq., Mary
Ann Wilson, a Scotch girl, was charged with robbing her
mistress, Mrs Smalley, Marine Cottage, of a gold brooch,
a pair of stockings, and a pocket handkerchief. The girl
had only been in Mrs. Smalley's service about a month,
and during that time several sums of money had been
missed. On Tuesday morning she decamped with the
above articles. Information was given to the police, and
she was apprehended at Ainsdale station, where she had
walked, and from whence she had booked for Liverpool.
She was committed for trial.
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THE EVERTON ESTATE.—On Satorday, Vice-Chan-
cellor Sir W. P. Wood delivered judgment in the case of
Haynes v. Forshaw, in which the question was, whether
Jonathan Higginson, an executor, with power to dispose
of real estate in payment of debts, and who was connected
with the firm of Irlam and Higginson, of Liverpool, had
effectually charged an estate at Everton, near Liverpool,
which belonged to the testator in the cause, with a debt-of
£7,000, or whether the charge, instead of overriding the
whole estate, was merely a charge upon the interest which
Jonathan Higginson had as legatee or representing legatees
under the will. His Honour held, under the circum-
stances of the case, that the mortgage must be taken to
be made, not as executor dealing with the testator's
estate, but as dealing with his own interest only.
A DISGRACEFUL BRAWL broke out in Marybone on
Sunday night, about eight o'clock, which at one time
assumed a serious aspect. Several disorderly characters
were settling a public-house quarrel by a fight in the
street, when the preservers of the public peace interfered,
and succeeded in taking one of them into custody. The
friends of the opposing combatants at once made common
cause against the small body of police. The loose stones
that lay in convenient piles in the gutter, were used as
missiles, and hurled against the representatives of the
law. Several officers sustained severe bruises, and the
prisoner was finally rescued from their custody. It was
some time before tranquillity was restored. The prime
movers in the disturbance are known to the police, and
will, protably, have to suffer for their mad tricks.
AT THE COUNTY COURT. last week, the case of James
B. Windle, of the firm of Windle, Gardner, and Broom-
hall, wine and spirit merchants, Redcross-street, against
Captain Henry Richardson, created considerable interest.
Mr. Simon, instructed by 'lessrs. Fenwick and Aspinall,
appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Almond conducted the
case for the defendant. The action was brought to re-
cover £42 -is., being the amount of a quantity of sherry
and brandy which the plaintiff shipped in the barque Fairy
Queen, of which defendant was Master, in December,
1845, for Calcutta. After the case had been argued, his
honour remarked that he would consider the case, and
lay the several points that had been urged before the
learned judge of the court, and judgment would be given
at a future day. The court was not held yesterday, in
consequence of the continued illness of the judge, Mr.
Pollock.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—A deputation
from the Executive Committee paid a second visit to
Yorkshire last week, to explain the objects of the society.
It consisted of the Rev. Dr. Worthington, R. N. Fowler,
Esq. (of the firm of Dimsdale and Co., bankers), S. E.
Lewis, Esq., L. S. Grierson, Esq., and G. Morgan, Esq.
Mr. R. B. Fowler, in the course of an able address, in
explanation of the principles and plan of the society, said
it was not their intention to disguise the fact that this
was a Conservative Society, and that their object was to
further Conservative principles. If stronger efforts on
the part of the Conservatives were not made ere long, all
the county constituencies would be in the bands of their
opponents. The society formed a remarkably safe invest
ment for any man's savings, because any one had the
power of calling in his money at a few days' notice, and
no member could be held responsible for the debts or
engagements of the society. It was announced that the
committee were taking measures for an early purchase of
land at Halifax. Branches of the society, with influential
local committees, are in course of formation in the prin-
cipal towns of Yorkshire.

THE STRANGERS' CHARITY AT SOUTHPORT.-.-ThB
foundation stone of the new building intended to accom-
modate in-patients on the Strangers' Charity, was laid on
Wednesday. The building committee and their friends
(including the Revs. C. Hesketh, B. S. Clarke, and G.
Greatbach,) formed a procession opposite the Town hall,
and proceeded to the site of the intended building, in Sea
Bank-road. Here they were met by Mr. 'rhos. Withnell
the architect of the building, and Mr. Thomas Stanley,
the contractor for the erection. The Rev. C. Hesketh
opened the proceedings with prayer, and introduced the
Rev. G. Greatbach, who gave an account of the origin of
the institution in 1845, and its progress up to the present
time. Mr. Longton, senior medical officer of the charity,
then presented a silver trowel to James Darwell, Esq.,
who proceeded, with the assistance of the architect anti
builder, to lay the etoue, during which the " Doxology "
was sung. Dr. Wood then delivered an address of some
length, in the course of which he alluded to his former
connexion with the Manchester Infirmary and the bene-
ficial results to patients sent from that institution to the
Southport Strangers' Charity. The proceedings occupied
about an hour and a quarter, and were witnessed by a
considerable number of persons. In the evening Mr.
Stanley's workmen sat down to an excellent supper, at
the Victoria Hotel, to the number of about fifty.
MEETING OF TAILORS YESTERDAY.—Yesterday at
noon. a meeting of the operative tailors of the lower or
" outside " class, met in the Assembly Rooms, Circus-
street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
formation of a union, to eff ct some improvement in their
present oppressed condition. Mr. Smith, secretary of
the Tailors' Institute, occupied the chair. and in his
opening remarks indicated the position of the moleskin
hands, by stating that he had known cases in which they
were obliged to work eight hours for Bd., 9J., or Is., the
prices given for making a pair of moleskin trousers, and
that many could only make two pairs in a day. Various
speakers addressed the meeting on the character of their
grievances; and ultimately it was resolved that the follow-
ing committee should be appointed to organise an associa-
tion ; and that when the entire trade, both at the north
and the south ends of the town, had been organised, then
a united effort would be made to raise the prices to a
proper standard :—Messrs. P. Smith, W. Finnigan,
James Cocklin, M`Cabe, James Kelly, Martin Coleman
(secretary), and Michael Murray (president). The secre-
tary stated that two or three of the chief masters in Great
Crosshall-street had complied with their demands, but
that the remainder absolutely refused to do so. Ha also
mentioned that the association, first formed by himself
and a few others, now numbered 53 members, each pay-
ing 3d. a-week.

HISTORIC SOCIETY.—The seventh meeting for the ses-
sion was held on Thursday, in the theatre of the Royal
Institution, the Rev. Dr. Thom, vice-president, in the
chair. A very interesting collection of letters was
brought to the meeting by John Ireland Blaclc;urn, Esq.,
of Hale, all of them having reference to the Liverpool
election of 1670. The first paper read was one on the
History of Naval Terms, by the Rev. J. S. Howson, M.A.
It gave rise to an interesting discussion, in which Mr.
Tinne, Mr. Heath, Dr. Hume, and the chairman took
part.—The second paper was by Dr. Hume, and bad
reference to the men of Lancashire and Cheshire of the
early part of the sixteenth century. It embraced a popular
rather than an antiquarian account of the battle of Flod-
den Field, fought in 1513, when the men of Lancashire
and Cheshire bore so conspicuous a part.—A third paper
was read by Mr. Stonehouse, descriptive of the early his-
tory of theatrical performances in Liverpool.—Thanks
were voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned
to inspect the Egyptian Museum in Colquitt-street, which
Mr. Mayer, the proprietor, had kindly thrown open for
the inspection of members and visitors. After the close
of the meeting, the beautiful Norris brasses arrived, which
are suspended in the vestry of Childwall church. They-
had been lent for exhibition at this meeting by the vicar.

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SUCCESS FOLLOWS MERlT.—Where there is merit
there is success. In support of this proposition we
might instance many productions of British skill and
industry that have been attended with distinguished
success. On the present occasion, however, it is
our purpose to advert shortly to an article of a kind that
is in regular use in every family, and which has com-
manded more encouragement from the " voice of the
people," that any other at present known in the market.
We refer to the GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, the fame
of which has, in a comparatively short period, become
quite universal and completely established. i\lultitudes
of other starches have of late years been thrust*upon our
notice, but the majority of them fail in gaining a standing
in the market, and alter a despicable struggle for a short
time they vanish, and we hear no more of them. The
cause of this is manifest enough. They don't give satis-
faction to the public—but there are two reasons why they
fail in doing so. Either the individuals who engage hi
the making of them are so unfortunate as not to under-
stand the business they embark in, or they commence in
it with no intention of taking up tlteir position as perma-
nent bona fide starch manufacturers, but merely to carry
on the business as long as they can procure low-priced
materials, such as diseased potatoes, farina, Indian corn,
damaged wheat, &c., and palm off the miserable trash
they -manufacture from these materials on the public.
who adopts the making of
to
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time,
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t, requires
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world
to
and as it were
sTtahrechmaasnh,isolnegtiltiiemacotentbruarsyin,ess,
stakes his
reputation on the quality
pr)ceed in a very different manner' His aim is not to
but to have a character established in
ohafonwrdt h
ascsmoo ''';'''tknheeeetclgitsiritnoeaganrtewh else,profits
imta it
liiusffoa for
au trade,re r. This we consid,:r th pro.
prietor of the Glenfield Patent Starch has fully succeeded
in doing. We are informed that his arrangements for
carryingis m
a nua
tocntutrheed
iroai
t businesshe are
finesttruly},,
East sago. Indeed,dt
In
treble. The starch
thirteen years' practice with the adoption of every im-
provement that science and experience sanctions, has
brought everything in connection with his establishment
as near as possible to perfection. The Glenfield Patent
Starch cannot be too highly recommended, and every lady
who wishes to have her laces, &2., beautifully and elegantly
finished, and every gentleman who appreciates a finely and
comfortably dressed shirt, would do well to see that their
laundresses make use of this excellent article. The
Qleen, Prince Albert, and the other members of the
royal family, have the finest of their goods finished with
it, such is the declaration of the laundress to the royal
household. Tile laundresses to several of the highest
nobility in the realm bear similar testimony to its match-
less purity, strength, and every quality for which starch
can be recommended. From the number of hands em-
ployed and the quantity of sago he imports, we would
infer that Mr. Wotherspoon's establishment is the
largest of the kind in Britain. Saccess follows merit. The
Gichficld Patent Starch is bold by nearly all :bopkeeper..

LINE OF PACKETS FOR RIO DE JANEIRO.
Loading in the Prince's Dock.—Can receive no
goods alongside after To-morrow, the 11th, and
" `will be punctually despatched on the 131 h inst.
The magnificent first-class Baltimore Clipper Ship
CORA,
Captain JOHN LLUFRIO,
(Who has had great experience in the trade, having
made twenty-two voyages to that port
431 tons register; built in 1851 • fitted and found in the best
manner; her cabin accommodation being of a superior descrip-
tion, combined with extraordinary speed, renders her a most
desirable conveyance, as well for passengers as goods. The
rate of passage is moderate.—Apply to
COTESWORTH, WYNNE, and LYNE.

STEAMERS BETWEEN

LIVERPOOL, CONSTANTINOPLE and SMYRNA,

CALLING AT GIBRALTAR, MALTA, AND 87RA.
The first-class Screw Steamers
otor.• • BALBEC Capt. T. Coox,
" "M TAURUS Capt. .1. R. BELL,
-t— MELITA Capt. W. F. MILLER,
BRITISH QUEEN Cant. H. DUBBINS,
are intended to sail, (with or without Pilots,) from Coburg
Dock, Liverpool, with Goods and Passengers, as follows :
MELITA ....THURSDAY MORNING, 19th May.

Bills of Lading for Goods sent per AILLITA are required to
be at the Office here for Signature on WEDNESDAY, the 18th
instant.

Goods for any of the abovenamed Ports must have the place
of their destination distinctly marked on them, in letters of
not less than two inches, otherwise the Agents will not be ac.
countable for mistakes.

Shippers will please send a Shipping-note along with each
Cart-load of Goods.
For freight or passage apply to G. and J. BuaNs,Glasgow,or
here to BURNS and MAC INTER,
1. Rumford-street, Liverpool.