The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 1853.

LOCAL NEWS.

FIVE EIVNDRED GERMAN EMIGRANTS have sailed du-
ring the last week from Hull to America.

MACHINERY is now being erected in Liverpool .for the
manufactory of casks by steam. This must prove a
4` sore discouragement " to the coopers.
JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., has, in addition
to a valuable present of books, given is donntion of five
hundred pounds to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution.

ON GOOD FRIDAY, Mr. Bolton sat a short time in the
morning at the Police-court, disposing of the over-night
accumulation of " drunk and disorderlies."
MR. T. W. HUGHES delivered a lecture on the works
of Alfred Tennyson, on Tuesday night, before the Literary
and Dramatic Society, at their rooms in Wilton-street.
EASTHAM FERRY was reopened on Thursday last, and
during Good Friday the boats were crowded with plea-
sure seekers.

CORNISH SHOEMAKER named Rowe, who had come
,to Liverpool to sail for Australia, was cheated out of .£6,
by a man named Bailin, on Monday last. BeiLis has been
committed for trial at the present Assizes,.
A BOY NAMED SLOANE was brought up at the Pone-
office, en Tuesday, and committed for trial, for picking
Pockets at the jubilee of the Bible Society, at the Philhar-
monic-a-mil.

Trre. A.N,Num. TEA PARTY of the Sunday School teach-
ers, connected with the Baptist Chanel, Shaw-street, was
held on Good Friday evening, the Rev. Mr. Kershaw, of
Rochdale, in the chair.

MIL ST. ALBIY, whose demise is noted in our obituary
`of to-day, was for many years a fashionable teacher of
dancing in Liverpool ; and the Wellington Rooms bear
testimony to his taste and.slzill.
Alit, J. F. TAFE, a member of the Liverpool Literary
and Dramatic Society.
_has been lecturing with great suc-
cess at the Pimlico Mechanics' Insti,ution, on " The
Ballad Poetry of Ireland."
WILLIAM ItEnstogo, a coloured man, stabbed a wo-
man named Marctfret Smith, in a disreputable house, in
Clement-street, Vauxhall-road, on Motvdav night. The
wound inOicted is a very dangerous one. Redmond is in
custody.

A CASNIE StorcnNtAx, named Donald Gunn. cal;tain
'of the slip 4yrshire Lass, just arrived in the river from
Isten-fotndland, was fined in a pretty smart nenalty,.at the
Police,office on Thursday, for smuggling 221 b. of foreien
manefactured tobacco.
A ILOCAIICONTEMPORAnY of Saturday states that on
Good Friday " the whole of the churches, and many
otFeer places of worship, were open tor service aurine the
recrning;ond several Dissenting establishm enh (1) in the
evening also."

3ITLEOURNE JAMES, Esq., ..C., Vice.
-.chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, held a court on
`Thursdhy, at St. George's Hall. There were very few
'cases, and the business wag confined almost entirely -to
'the examination (viva voce, for the first titrtc) of witnesses.
"^Tim ORIGIN OF Music." a handsomely framed
`engraving, was presented, on Wednesnsy evening last, to
ie.l. Toms, EN by the Liverpool Amateur Glee and
)fadrigal Union." Mr. Toms has officiated as conductor
`d!lfing, the absence of Ms. Lidel.

OF MAN.—A tri-weekly communication will corn._

Thence between Douglas and Liverpool, on the 'lBth of
,next month. The days of sailing will then be—from
•Liverpool every Tuesday, Wednemday, and Friday. and
f!lnla Douglas every Monday, Wednesday, and-Saturday.
liTtutA:l/41 DuntwY, an American, the secand•mate of
.the ship Hemisphere, was fined X 6. at the-Police-court,
:!:'n Wednesday. for biting savagely 'file ear and-nose of
"E 3 Samuel Hate. The Yankee -pleaded in extenuation
'that Hale had been calling his wife improper names.
THE CORONER'S JURY, en Tuesday last; Mtn-fled an
„
the
verdict in the case of Vicento 'Antonio,- contain of
Brazilian brig Providence, who-was found'dead in bed
,?:1 Sunday morning week, under very- mysterious circum-
stances.
ances. The deceased, it appeareti, died of congestion of
the brain.

PATRICK RATTAKAN, -who presented a frightfully lace-
rat'd appearance, his wife,‘SarAhltattakan, Mary Harris
110PuIceErdNowa. ,65
rd FO7, committed a brutal assault noon police-
on .Moisdny night last; in-V,7iiton-street.
130
Tuesday, at the pc:dice-court, .Rattakan- was fined in
and Fox in 10s.
HF L
ADY EWAN-T. a -new iron screw
'meTnd from LiverpoolON'
tOLonden, on 'Wednesday afsteamer,ter-
/.,1,0n on got OH Trefusis Shore,- in going from 'Falmotell.
i ;-) Friday she was get mfr; but as she was found to leak
adly the captain determined to-beach her, which, having
been accomplished, -the passengers were safely landed.
The cargo is 1.1:ely to be discharged.
THE TIDE OF VIIGRATIONT FROM LIV,ERPOOL.--
presuming that each vessel to sail for Australia, during
the next month, will take out2oo passengers—which is
fiery much under the average—this will give.-4;60O passen-
gers a month=; and, including -the Government emigrants
from Birkenhead. 4,robably-2;000 more, we have 6,000
Persons leaving Liverpool alone for the great colony at
the Antipodes.
THE ANNUAL EASTER:-ITESTRY 14.1gErr4c. for this
Parish is to be held to-day,-at noon in St.-Nicholas's
Church. Owing to the continued indisposition: of the
Ven. Archdeacon, it is understood that the Rev. Rector
Campbell will preside. The new churchwardens are to
be Mr. Caine and lir. Hutchinson, the latter ct whom is
not at present a member of the board.

SACRED HAThMONFC 'SociErY.—The annual admission
of amateur inenibers for the ensuing year will•close this
day (TuedaY), as will be seen by advertisement. The
Sacred Harmonic not only provides elementary vocal in-
struction for its member 4, but gives them an opportunity
of becoming conversant with the works of the great
masters.

A Fii broke out, •on Tuesdav night, in the warehouse
of Mr. Bolton, on the third :floor of the lofty range of
warehouses
eated at the corner of lirunswitk-street and
Back Goree.
The West or- England engine was early on
the spot,' and the ,conflagration kept from extending
to the surrounding buildings. The stock of Mess7s. Yates,
enxt and Co. vvas insured in the West of England office.
IRON STITPs: THE'MEDSEL, AND THO Tr z.—The
&older/anti News says, " Our neighbours. the builders
of iron ships•on thervne, must look to their.craft. The
Strathmore a :large new iron--ship, of about INt3O tons,
built there for Lindsay, has just beencondemned
in London, by the-Government emigration agent, as un-
LerPrthY• "This is the. seoond Tyne-built iron ehip be-
longing to this gentleman that has met the fame fate."
A COSIMITTI3E. or THE ARcIitTECTURAL SOLCOTY, ap-
pointed last spring, has been engaged for some time in
IPaturing a project lotere-arranging some of the principal
leatures of the town, and so disposing leading routes of
areat traffic es to 'render them available for the modern
taquirement s of the- town and port. The Project will
greatly exceed in extent and importance the recommenda-
tion
of the committee of the. Town Council. The-report
—the Architectural-Society-will be made pu'elic shortly.
„SFOTTISII EMIGHATIO'N TO titaLAND.—We learn from
-"" Ayrshire contemporary of Thursday, that the Countess
?iGalloway steamer leftlCirkeudbright on Saturdayll9th,
I°l' Liverpool, having on board. upwards of 100 fat te,
IttOnTriber of )sheep, and a general-cargo. Among other
- a"°Fa, Were observed on board, horses and merle, arith
furniture, &c., for Tipperary,--in Jecland. These were
,r°rt Nlr. David Tennant, the spirited tenant of Howell.
'IA were destined as part of the plenishing of a levee farm
IA
he has recently taken in the Green Isle.
zTan FIRST GENERAL MECTING(OF IRE LIVEMPOpL
4PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, held at the Royal Institution,
a Tuesday night, was presided oveieby Mr. Pictos. Mr.
r,i,°iti.f_est, the secretary, read -the. rules. Ladies age ad-
members ; and -the subscription is to be half .a
pio;ra• There is to be,a. gallery for tlle sale of pictures
givenued by the society, and a photpgr.aphic print is 43 be
on ,' ,0 each member annually. The .societ yis to meet
th=e first Tuesday in every montb, and papers are to be
the
Z Oci" by the members. The list of members began 'rah
. name of the Mayor, whowas elected president of Citeety.
GUN ACCIDENT ON GOOD .FRIDAY.-- Tr. Hayman. si
OUng man in the employment of -,Mr. Christoplift•
-"aWdon, of this town, in company with a few friends.
`Arent out shooting in the neighbourhood of Cabbage-hall,
Goodirriday. As Mr. Hayman was getting through a
hedge, having at the time a glut in his hand wi:h the
-muzzle to-yards him, the trigger caught a thicket, and
:Unfortunately the contents of the gun were di3eliarged,
-and lodged in the gentleman's leg. Mr. Hayman VMS
-conveyed to.his residence at Cabbage-hall as quickly as
possible. It was found necessary to amputate the limb,
which wag effected by Mr. Chalmeg', of Everton, assisted
by two other professional gentlemen. Mr.-Hayman re-
'mains in a very precarious state, but hopes are entertained
recovery.
• 'MULLINS, HIS WIFE, AND -1,1, HE POLICE.—At
twivicjlice-court. on Wednesday, James iklullins, grocer,
517. g cirprzmutnees
whose name has obtained some publicity
in eonnitret,
follawin 11°.n .with the police, was charged .under the
raorni On duty in Mill- Palice-constable Towneend,
Mill-street at an early hour on the
restedrtt of. the 13th instant, when his attention was
murdarYjile screams of a female, who was shouting
Dread • murder; and calling loudly for assistance. .On ap-
ki_ nng the shop of the defendant, the oacer found
berLat the door in his shirt, with a poker in his hand,
cover his wife. Mrs. Mullins, whose Lace was
theered xvith blood, begs,ed the officer to protect her.
,L defendant demanded-the business of the officer, then
as4l7!ttened to break his head with the poker, and made
te,°;°w at him. The officer, however, evaded the in.
wacted blow, and seized the poker, when the defendant
smearing that he mould break the head of any police-
tobiet who attempted to enter his dwelling. Townsend
1301 i the defendant-that if be had any grudge against tlae
pe ce, beought not to lay it to his charge. '
„, that they were all alike, and then further abused
tt;"1 threatened sthe officer.—The defendant was ordered
113' a fine of 403. and costs.
To
.LACICBURII E,LECTION.—The nomination took
l'ter on Wednesday, amid excitement. The candidates
on Vii• J. Feilden, on the Liberal, and Mr. Hornby,
taC'e Conservative interest. Upon a show .of hands being
Nazi. the Mayor declared it to be in fevour of Mr.
cor,,hY, a decision, however, which Mr. Feilden's friends
de...`ataered resulted from partisanship ; and a poll was
Bcetenended- After the nomination the town was the
Lavrie °f a series of brutal and long-contested fights.
ise " Proceedings prevailed throughout the night like-
Lott' and electors were forcibly carried off from their
tes that they might not be able to record their veerveerp,se following day. Information was lodged at the
qi7ice-office on Thursday morning, by the wife of Duncan
the er. a tinrnan residing in Darwen-street, that during
hantrght their house se had been broken into, when her hus-
fron3 ,7as dragged from his bed, beaten, and forced away
Vittib,°;:une. The windows of the Bridge Inn, a Censer-
this's° house, were completely smashed to atoms, and the
took and liquor casks in the bar were destroyed. Riots
Attn.,' lace about the same time in front of the Hornby
mined and of the Pump-house. The magistrates deter-
o'el",_lo send for military aid; and a little before eleven
the °l?,K,,a COMpant? of the 4th Infantry, and a squadron of
esto,;Pragoons, entered the town; order was ultimately
the --"• Mr. Feilden was at the head of the poll from
88 f inlo7r
oarnenceement to the close, when the timbers users ,
• nueni liernbY, 574. m

SIXTEEN vessels are novr being built in the Clyde for
the Liverpool trade.
THE EARL OF CARLISLE has appointed the Rev. T.
Darnton Milner, L.L.8., incumbent of Bulford, to be
his domestic chaplain.

THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ARCTIC,
Capt. Luce, sailed on Wednesday, with the usual mails, a
very large cargo, and a fair complement of passengers.
THE THIRD INSTALMENT of £2 per share has just
been paid by the shareholders of the Ramsay Steam-
packet Company.
JOHN DUFFY, the old and indefatigable messenger of
the Underwriters' Rooms, died on Monday last. A sub-
scription has been set on foot on behalf of his widow and
children, one of whom is a cripple.
SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE.—On Tuesday evening,
the concluding lecture of the seventh series to the mem-
bers and friends, was given at the Concert-hall. The
lecturer was the Rev. Dr. Nixon, of Birmingham, and
his subject, " Wesley and Whitfield."
THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL, Rector of Althorpe,
Lincolnshire, has been invited to give a lecture on the
Uses and Advantages of Mutual Improvement Societies,
on the 29th instant, at Lincoln. The Mayor of Lincoln
has lent the Guildhall, and promised to preside.
OWNERS OF COTTAGE PROPERTY should not forget
that if they wish to compound for the poor-rates, they
must give notice to the overseers within fourteen days
after the 25th instant, of their intention to do so, or they
will be excluded the privilege for next year.
PAPER ROBBERY.—At the Police-court, on Wednes-
day, Thomas Brown, an errand boy, in the employ of
Mr. Richardson, printer, Lower Castle-street, was com-
mitted for trial for stealing about thirteen reams of paper
from his master's office. Mr. Ovington, grocer. 17,
Soho-street, to whom some of the paper was sold, was
also committed for trial on the charge of receiving,
GERMANS TN LIVERPOOL.—During the past week four
hundred and fifty Germans passed through Helier Liver-
pool en mate, chiefly to New York. It is calculated
'that mote than twenty thousand emigrants will pass
through Hull this spring for the United States and the
colonies. The greater number of these will sail from
Liverpool.
BIGAMY IN LIVERPOOL.—At the Carnarvon assizes,
Henry Dixon was charged with intermarrying a second
time, his first wife, Elizabeth Davies, the daughter of a
respectable tradesman at Carnsrvon, being alive. It ap-
peared that the prisoner took his wife to Liverpool. and
there contracted a second marriage with a woman of light
'character, he being at the time in a state of intoxication.
'He was found guilty. but recommended to mercy. Sen-
lenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour.

WARRINGTON..--PRESEI.ZTATION.TO A CLERGYMAN.—
"On Tuesday, the 15th instant, the Rev. Henry Pigot,
incumbent of Horwich, was presented by his late pa-
rishioners at Winwick with -a 'vett, elegant communion
service, in silver, as a memorial of their deep affecti,,n
for him, and their high appreciation of his ministerial
labours on their behalf. The rev. gentleman was, at the
time of the presentation, a •visitor at Winwick Cottage,
the residence of the Misses Hamby (sisters to the rector),
in whose drawing-room a deputation waited upon him.—
Manchester Guardian.
ARCHITECTURAL AND AT:CHIEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—
At the fortnightly meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Verelst
presiding, it was stated that the committee, appointed in
May last to suggest a scheme of town Improvement, would
report to the society on the 6th of April. The president,
Mr. Picton, Mr. Frank Howard, and the secretary, were
appointed a committee• to investigate a charge of plagiar-
ism of plans brought by the London committee of baths
and wash-houses, against Mr. Newlands, the borough
engineer. Mr. Arerelst-read an eloquent paper on archi-
tecture, entitled, ".Comr.notlities, Firmness, and Delight."
THE PAVING 'RATE for the past year was 6d. in the
pound. In the usual course, it would be requisite, so
heavy is the amount-of necessary work, that a rate of
something like 10d.- or Is. should be raised ; but, if the
plan of borrowing money, on the security of the rates, as,
proposed, be approved of by the Council, which would
enable the Health;tommittee to put the whole ,of the.
leading streets in a thorougly efficient state in a short,
space of time, then the amount need not exceedSd.in the
pound, and possibly'; d. might be sufficient. Thneffect of.
this would probably be, that the succeeding rate will not,
perhaps. exceed.6d. for the year following.
THE Ceurexs, and indeed every person .ernployed by
the London and-North-western Railway, will be rejoiced
at the determination of the company to release their
employes at 'reasonable hours, in order that they 'may
have suitable time for recreation. Hitherto a very im-
proper custom has existed in this town amongst-the car-
ters, who have been in the habit of leaving goods nt, or
bringing them away from, the railway-stations at very
late hours•in the evening, causing the men and clerics 'to
work until•midrright. This practice is much indulged in
by the .kmerican-merchants, who ship goods -bytbe steam-
ers up to twelve o'clock at night.

TFIE'CONFERENCE OF CONGREGATIMAL MINISTERS
.thIRST ER,- en Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
last, convened to take counsel together 'upon the state of
religion in thElr -tacks, was attended by Dr. Riffles,
Liverpool A. -James, Birmingham • .J. Kelly Liver-
pool.; J. Fleming, Lancaster; W. 1,. 'Brown,
Bolton; B. Beddovz, Barnsley ; J. Gwyther, Mancheiter;
E. Jukes, 'Blackburn ; J. Marshall, Over.; Mann,
Birkenhead; 'J.' Raven, Manchester; J. R. ginith, Ches-
ter; J. Spence,"7.4.A., Preston ; R. Spence, M.A.; Liver.
pool; -J.. Glyde;.-Bradford ; D. E. Ford, Manchester;.;.
Griffin, Manchester; and S. Sleigh, Wavertree. 'There
was notone address•of a sectarian character, but the all-
prevailing solicitude-seemed to be the glofy of Christ and
the salvation of souls.
.A.Tr-Acx BY• THE PATAGONIAN'S ON .A LIVERPOOL
Strip.--Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, dated
Stanley,-Ealkland ;Islands. January .5,.0f a most daring
attack:by the Patagetiians. on the ship Porcupine, of this
port. Millinger.. master. In passing through the Straits
of Magellan, on her way to California, the 'Porcupine
grounded. :Early-the next morning the ship was sur-
rounded 4by numerous canoes, full of natives. 'Hostile
clemonstrations•beirig made, and the-captain observing a
fleet•of canoes.approa2hing nearer. many •bearing lighted
pine branches,. gave-orders to the crew -and passengers,
most of schom had revolvers, to arm -tbemselves. _A
terrible- eoriflict ensued. The savages fought desperately,
and-tried ..to burn the ship. After a severe struggle:and
great-slaughter, they-were beaten off, and:ZlG bags of oats
being thrown overboard, the ship floated. Two of the
eatigrants,-Georgaßowell and Henry Boyle, were killed,
and -several others severely wounded. The ship returned
to the: alkland Islands greatly disabled.
FAT*L :NI EGLI G-EMIL'i: OF A Nwasa.e—OreaSundar week
a fine:boy, aged eight months, son of Mr. iDoubleday,
Brock.-road,-was taken out by Ann Ellis. •the nurse girl,.
into the garden, and -while there she fell, -by which the
child sustained injaries, which she concealed. On re-
turning•to the house the child refused the breast, and
daily became -worse,. azntil death ensued. Mn;' Stutter,
surgeon, •on emaking a _post modern -examination, found
that the deft-side was-crushed inwards:; and on opening
the chestle,discovered that the child had died from in-
flammation -on the left lung and side. The coroner
ranimadverted.strongly cn the conduct of Ann.... Ellis who,
if she had irvtime ode fitted the cause of the.child.'s
would hve'been the: means of inducing the parents to
procure the,ne•cessary,Advice and assistance. The jury
were of eviction that the youth of Ann Ellis shielded her
from the crime c rmanslaughter.

AUSTRA.GAMC ' COBieldtt ENTS TO lars,..nroot...—At
grar.d fete on =board the Great Britain, previous .to her
departure from.Australia;--Sir Charles Nicliolson_proposed
as a toast :--,“lrite'Town and Commerce of liverpool."
This was a toast whichz.would be appreciated .on that
occasion, as it Ayes to the-energy end enterp4-ise of Liver-
pool skipowness,tbat they owed the presence of the Great
Britain in this &arbour. ,There was no cammunity.in the
world characterised by greater spirit and lii;erality,than
rthe Liverpool merchants. ildr. Thorpe responded. .1-le
had been a resident in 'Liverpool for thirteen lears, and
he was proud of the title of,a Liverpool shipowner. The
••;C-neat Britain war .owned .by one firm in Liverpool, and
was not aapported 'by any., government contracts. Her
sayage to this colony4vas the result of individual enter-
prise, and to the colonists they looked for support to
make the undertaking pay.
F: 07FICI AL aileron'', .on the wreck of the 'Queen
Victoria by Captain Walker, the conduct of Captain
Church is cxeiderntisd most strongly. Captain Church
was not heard to giveany orders,. He had lead and log
3ines,pn board, but he „neither. sounded nor ascertained
Chow fast she was going, nor did he sleeken speed, or
adopt any precaution to prevent,thedeartui accident which
tool. place.. Atter the vessel struck, his presence of mind
appears entirely to have deserted :him. If, when ,;.be
thick weather came on, the direction of the steamer's
bead had been altered, and the engines slowed, the dia_
aster would not, most probdaly.,.have taken place. The
conduct ofTbornas Davis, the!mate, was greatly to blame.
The reporter .comments on the fact, that six years had
elapsed since. the ordering of a iiell.for the head, and also
upon another fact, that four 'hours :before the Victoria
struck there .was no person on -watch in the Lighthouse,
and that one.ot the keepers, from infirmity of age, could
scarcely be expected efficiently to perform the duties of
his station..

SELECT Vestny...---At the usual meeting, on Tuesday,
the Rev. Reetor.Campbell presiding, Mr. illughes, with
regard to remarks made by Mr. Meilor at the previous
meeting, as to his qualification. said all Mr. Mellor had
stated was inoorreet.—Mr. Hughes thought it a most
dastardly proceeding to bring charges against members of
a public board in their absence. The subject dropped
just as Mr. Mellor entered the room. The report of the
;Finance Committee stated that an offer of four.gnineas
per square yard had beet ;made for the parish premises in
Lime-street, but bad been refused, the committee asking
£4 10s.—A letterhad been -received from the Emigration
Commissioners, in answer to some application from the
board,—that they were not in the habit of taping' any
number of women from workhouses in large towns.-
-Mr.,Gardner moved that a .copy of Mr. Mansfield's
Letters, and the reply read at the last meeting, should be
sent to the Secretary of State, that lie might know what
Mr, Mansfield was doing.—Mr. Bradley seconded the
motion ; but, while all who spoke censured the conduct
of Mr, Mansfield, they did not concur in the proposal.
and the subject was allowed to drop.—lt appeared that
the matron had taken 7s. 6d. from the body of a deceased
female pauper, and divided it between Jane Andy and
Margaret Shannon, two other inmates. She pleaded that
it was done at the request of the dying woman. On this
she had been called before the board, reprimanded, and
told that a second such offence would be visited with
committal.—Total number of inmates in the house, 2,060;
admissions to the vaerant sheds during the week, 794.—
There were reported to be 1,088 children at present in the
Industrial Schools. They had passed a creditable exami-
nation ; but both boys and girls were deficient in arith-
metic. The present average cost per bead, per week, was
reported to be is. lop. A communication was read from
the Poor-law Board, sanctioning the appointment of the
three medical officers lately elected, at £2OO per annum.—
Mr. Meacock wrote, withdrawing his name as a candidate
for re-election at the general vestry, which is to be holden
to-day.—Mr. Kitchen also intimated that he would not
consent to stand as overseer.—Mr. Hughes withdrew the
motion of which he had given notice respecting the admis-
sion of Romanist children to the house. The governor,
in whom he felt perfect confidence, had promised to per-
sonally supervise that part of the establishment.—A vote
of thanks to the chairmen concluded the proceedings.

A DESPERATE ATTEMPT was made at Wakefield, on
Friday week, to garrotte Johu Barff, Esq., a West Riding
magistrate.
- -

THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE has been removed from
South John-street to the Revenue Buildings, opposite the
Sailors' Home.

AT THE MEETING OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE, the
tender of Mr. Rose, for the removal of refuse from the
birough and out-townships, was accepted. The tender
was for Liverpool £7,550 ; for Toxteta-park, £1,460.

ROBERT CATRAEL, the breaksman on the incline lead-
ing from the coal works of Mr. Samuel Stocks, Billinge,
to the pierhead, died in extreme suffering, on Sunday
week, from the effects of an accident which took place on
on the previous Saturday, by which his left leg was
completely severed and the other mangled.
THE LIVERPOOL ASSIZE. COURTS were closed on Good
Friday, an unusual circumstance; indeed, the first occa-
sion of the kind which hawcurred here since 1835, when
the first commission was opened in Liverpool. At that
time the judges were Sir Nicholas Tindal and Lord
Abinger, and at all the subsequent spring assizes the
judges sat on Good Friday, immediately after the morning
service.—Chronicle.
TEE NUMBER OF DEATHS in the borough for the week
ending Saturday last was 213, be!ng a decrease of 13 as
compared with the previous week. The change of weather
in the middle of last week would probably cause an in-
crease of mortality during the present week. Diseases of
the lungs caused nine deaths more than in the week pre-
vious, the total number, including 32 from consumption,
being 93. A. shipvrright, aged 27, died from delirium
tremens.

TILE WIFE OF A FLATMAN, whose boat was lying in
the Collingwood dock, was returning on Monday week
from her sister's residence, in Tosteth-park, with her
infant, about a month old. The child was alive when
she reached the Exchange, but on arriving at the Coiling-
wood dock she discovered that it was dead. The mother
had the child wrapped in a cloak so secure!y that the poor
child was suffocated.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED ty THE LORD LIEUTENANT
OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.—OIiver
Ormerod Walker, Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant; Ist
Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's o..vt, Militia, Lieut.
Clarence Horatio Carey to be captain ; 4th Regiment,
John Ireland Blackburne, jun., Esq. (late lieut.-col. in
the 2d Regiment), to be lieut-col. ; sth Regiment,
Charles Townley, Esq., to be lieut.-col.

IMPORTANT TO SPRAM-130AT AGENTS.—A case tried in
ae Liverpool County Court a few days since, will be found
of interest. The plaintiffs ware consignees of goods for-
warded by a steam packet Company, of which
defendant is agent. The claim was for loss sustained in
consequence of .defendant's detaining a portion of the
consignment unthr a supposed lien for freight. Defend-
ant gave an order for delivery, but subsequently sent
word to the dock that all the goods were not to be deli-
vered until the freight was paid. Plaintiffs skewed that
the freight had Leen sent in, but not paid, in consequence
of deferidant instructing them not to pay the cffice-boy.
His Honour stated that no lien existed after the delivery
order had teen given, and that the freight would have
been paid but for defendant's instructions not to pay the
office-bost. Plaintiffs were not bound to call until they
could :find a responsible person to receive the money.
He shmild, therefore, give them a verdict.
MR:BRAITHWAITE POOLE says that, of the total mis-
cellaneous merchandise traffic in the port of Liverpool,
that• is exclusive of the coasting trade and minerals; nearly
one-half consists. of two commodities-only, namely. cotton
and timber; and it is remarkable that, during the last
year, 1852, the imports of each averaged 1,000 tons daily.
Theirnports of cotton into Great Britain last year, 1852,
were as follow:

Into 2,205, 738 bales : 365,000 tons.
„ London 48.7u0 „ 8,000 „
~ Hull and Bristol 27,200 „ 5.000 „
„ Scotland

Total.. 2 357=9 ~ 391,000
The cotton imported into London, Hull, and other sea-
ports, if not sold direct to the spinners, or re-exported, is
frequently sent to Liverpool for sale, and the number of
bales so brought by inland communication, last year,
rather exceeded 4,000. The -number sent by railway,
from Liverpool to Hull, for exportation, was 120.000;
and the number to Scotland, for consumption, 33,000 by
railway, in addition to the samoquantity by sea.
A " Pl.TeLic BAKER." is the technical name for the
owner of a public oven, to which poor people send their
dinners or their bread occasionally to be baked, and there
are, we are told, nearly &30 in Liverpool. On the even-
ing of Good Friday a considerable gathering of the trade
assembled at a room in Liroe.:Areet—Mr. Hugh Kinrade
in the chair—for the purpose of forming a union. The
Chairman said : Some might say it was easy work. It
was not, for they had to work-on a Sunday the same as on
a Monday. Look at the expenses they had to contend
with—coals, chaffers. peels, and tins. How many did
they lose in a year; and, if they were not paid for their
labour, there was no living at all. (A. Voice ::I lost £lO
last year.) They wanted to unite, in order that they
might bake on one scale, from one end of the town to the
other, and charge a fair, honest price for their labour.—
Mr. Cruickshank, the honorary secretary, said women
ran, like black sheep, from one bakehouse to another ;
and it only required that the public bakers should be
united. The trade had :grown worse since the duty -bad
been taken off flour; and' the loaves had grown uncon-
scionably big. Flour was now horribly cheap. -There
was not a more suspicious lot of men than the public
bakers ; and the reason -was, that when they offended a
lady, she went with her tale to another baker. For his
part, he never believed a woman in any tale at all. (Loud
applause.)—lt was agreed that en association be formed;
and, by a majority of -36 ton, that the secretary be paid.
One of the rules is to the effect, that the baking of a loaf
weighing Gibs. be ld.; above-1015., lid.
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A NOBLE ExAmpm—On-Wetlnesday last an incident
took place in Liverpool-which we have sincere pleasure in
relating, as it sheds a -lustreon the character of the British
merchant, and imparts a true nobility to trade. It appears
that, in 1847, a certain 'house in this town, like many
others, felt the influence of the untoward circumstances of
the time ; that it was prepared to encounter and triumph
over undoubted diffiotilties, if not pressed too far; that
the majority of the-creditors had faith in the man who., at
the moment, expected forbearance; that there were others
less confiding; thattherthought-the worst, and pressed
for settlement: that stoppagewas the inevitable conse-
quence ; and that the result of a bankruptcy left el-aims
unpaid. The bankrupt emerged from his fallen state,
once more solicited fortune, ventured, and won the prize;
and his former creditors were. invited, on Wednesday
morning last. to his office. He produced to them a list of
his debts; told them these were ignored by act of parlia-
ment, but that be looked- beyond legal relief; that no man
should reproach his memory by telling his children that
their father died in his debt; that, in casting up the list,
he found £lB,BOO was -still due to them ; that he held inq
his hands cheques on his bankers•for,that sum, and that
,be then begged to hand to each creditor a cheque for the
amount formerly due to-him. Amazetalent, mingled with
• delight, sat on every 'face; and it was agreed simul-
taneously to deduct five per cent. from the sum received,
and expend it in a testimonial, as an enduring monument
of the opinion entertained.of an act so worthy.

ITEAVII COMMITTEE.--7At the .:weekly meeting on
Thursday, after the reports of the sanitary and medical
officers had been read, it was. stated that the stib-corn-
.mittee had had several meetings to consider the subject of
estimates for works to be executed, and the rates to
he-laid, but they had not, et come to ,a4ecision.—Mr.
-Gladstone wished to be understood that-though there
, might be a small increase in the rates, stilirthere was no
:intention to lay an excessive rate. It .wes agreed to
makeedditional crossings in tinskissonrstreet.—A petition
from4S shopkeepers and others in Vauxhall-road was
read : the memorialists sought that the man:'e deposits
in that neighbourhood might not be removed. they being
a fruitful source of business.—The chairman thought the
alteration could not cause any ;pecuniary losk; the only
difference would be that the manure would go into the
flats instead of being laid upon the quay. .The matter
here dropped.—Mr. Gladstone read a letter from Mr.
.Grantham, relative to some remarks he had made in re.
ply to Mr.;:Newlands upon the subject of the high-level
railway question at a meeting of the Polytechnic Society.
He could :ally say that the remarks of Mr.- Newlarrds still
cppeared to warrant the impressions he then received,
and he was -therefore happy to feel that they were,erro-
neous. Alr.-Newlands explained that be did not report
in favour of tba low level crossing., neither did the-council
grant it.—Ttie committee then proceeded to consider-the
tenders for the removal of the refuse from the borough and
out-townships. The tender of Mr. Rose was accepted.—
Tbechairman said that £lO,OOO wag paid, under the former
contract and four more for seavengering, and that was
within the borgugh. The difference now was £11,40
against £14,000, being a gain of £2.540, with the advan-
tage.of;6aving the manure sent outside the borough.

INQLTPT ON, THE;,tATE MR. BLUNDELL.—:On Tuesday
an inquect was held before C. E. Driffiehi, Esq., touching
file death of It. Benson Blundell Hollieghead
Esq., late-of ,Deysbrook, West Derby, an extensive coal
proprietor, and a county magistrate, who, as we stated in
the last .number of the,Standard, was found drowned in
a pond about three hundred yards from his own residence,
on Sunday morning last. The first witness who was exa-
mined at the inquiry, which took place at Bulmer's
Hotel, 'West Dezby, was Peter Webster, the butler, mho
deposed that thedeceased was first missed about half. past
eleven o'clock on _Saturday morning. It was at first sup.
posed that he had gone into town ; but, as he did not
return that night, inquiries were made at Pemberton,
near Wigan, where his mines awe situated. They were
without effect. however
.; and, on Sunday morning, his
hat was seen floating in the pond in.question. The pond
was then dragged, .and the body found. There were no
marks on the body, and the witness, who wiped the mud
off the face at the pond, perceived no scratches upon it.
No money whatever was found upon the body, but it did
slot surprise the witness, as the deceased a. as in the habit
.of going without money. His clothes were not at all in-
terfered with, and his coat was buttoned up. There were
workmen draining the field within sight of the pond. Mr.
Parke, surgeon, was then examined, and stated that he
had attended Mr. Blundell several times, as be was
labouring under an affection of the liver. Some years
back, Mr. Blundell had an attack of jauncice, and had
been obliged to go to the continent for the restoration of
his health. The liver complaint was a very depressing
one. But he had never seen any manifestation of insanity
in the deceased. The coroner asked if Mr. Blundell had
been a high Hirer, and to this Mr. Parke replied in the
affirmative, stating that Mr. Blundell had taken his bottle
and a half .of wine in his younger days, which, of course,
be felt afterwards. Once or twice they took away a quan-
tity of wine from the deceased, reducing his allowance.
Mr. Blundell was very odd in his manner to strangers.
He was reserved, and a shy man, and did not like com-
pany, even from a child, and, therefore, he thought that
strangers would mistake his manner for something worse.,
He was so reserved that those who, did not know him
would think he was out of his mind. The coroner left
the jury to consider their verdict ; and, after a delay of
about an hour and a half, they returned a verdict " that
the deceased was found drowned in a certain pond of
water contiguous to the lands of the said deceased, but
how or in what manner he became drowned does not ap-
pear to the same jurors." The majority of the jury, we
are informed, expressed an opinion that the cattse of death
might bare been accidental.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE CELEBRATED ASTRONOMER, Mr. J. Russell Hind,
discovered a new comet or, the 6th of the current month,
which presents strong indications of identity with that of
1664.

MR. JOHN PRITCHARD, of the firm of S. and G. Prit-
chard, bankers, of Brosely and Bridgenorth, has been
elected for Bridgenorth, in the place of Sir R. Pigott,
unseated.

OUTLAWRY.-0a Thursday a county-court was held at
the Sheriff's Court, London, when the Duke of Bruns-
wick, by the name of Charles Frederic William Guelph,
was called for the fifth and last time.
DYKES.—The first Dutch fort on the Scheldt has just
been completed by Mr. Winder, an English engineer, and
the same gentleman has constructed an immense dyke
in Zealand: the obstacles were great.
A GOOD SHOT.—On Thursday one of the convicts em-
ployed at the prisons on Dartmoor endeavoured to effect
an escape. He ran off, but was pursued, and other at-
tempts to catch him failing, a sentry fired, and hit him
in the leg at 250 yards.
MAILS FOR NORWAY are now clnveyed direct by sea
between Denmark and Norway. The rate of postage is
ls. 4d. the half-ounce, and so on, according to the scale
in operation in the united kingdom for charging inland
letters.

THE NEW SOUTH WALES AND PORT PHILIP portion
of the mails disembarked from the steamer Australian
has been despatched from Plymouth in the sailing ship
Albemarle, and the South Australian portion has been
despatched in the sailing ship Orestes, from Gravesend.

ARCHIBALD HUNTER, blacksmith, Newyards, Maybole,
Ayrshire, in a drunken affray with his wife on Sunday last,
(both being in a state of inebriation,) was knocked down
stairs by his better-half; and, alighting on his head, his
neck was dislocated, and he died instantaneously. Mrs.
Hunter has been lodged in jail.
Ma. THOMAS APFADZEAS, a native of Newton-upon-
Ayr,-N.8., and master of the schooner William Henry,
of Preston, was drowned at Killybegs, west of Ireland,
on the night of Monday the 14th instant. The vessel
was lately launched from the ship-yard of Messrs. Sloan
and Gemmel!, ship-builders, Ayr.
THE FORCE OF HABIT.—Mr. Gladstone was once
asked by a little boy to tell him something about
Cerberus, when the great orator, clearing his throat,
eloquently begant---"Why, my little dear, we must
divide the subject into three heads." The little boy
instinctively ran ont of the room.—Punch.

AT THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING, On Saturday week,
of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, the
balance at the disposal of the meeting amounted to
£27,528. A dividend equivalent to 94 per cent. was
declared, reserving £2,288 interest on debt, and leaving
a balance to the next account.

THE NEAVSPAPERS in the West of Scotland state, that
the letters. received by people in that part of the country
from relations in Australia, are of the most cheering kind.
One Girvan man had cleared £6O in a month. Another,
a blacksmith, received £9 per week and rations. A.
" quicds ening. of the emigration spirit" is expected in
Scotland.

STOODIL ON TILE NORTHUMBERLAND COAST.—On Mon-
day forenoon a northerly gale came on very suddenly on
the 'Northumberland coast. Several fishing cobles were
out at the time, and the fishermen were obliged to leave
their lines and run for the shore. Two boats were out
from Blyth, one of which in taking the bar upset, and,
before assistance could reach them, the three fishermen
belonging to her were drowned. Several fishermen be-
longing to Newbiggin had a narrow escape from death on
the same day.
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THE GLEN TILT CASE.—This celebrated and impor-
tant case has, " of consent of the defender," resulted in
a findinc, that there is a public road through Glen Tilt,
and in the duke being found liable in the whole expenses
of the process. We believe that this termination of the
case has been reached on an understanding that the pur-
suers will not resist an intended application by the duke
to the road trustees for leave to make a new road de-
viating from the present track in its lower part for two or
three miles.—Scotsman.
STRANGE OCCURRENCE AT HAMILTON.—The Rev.
Mr. Scott, of Bookie, was preaching last Sunday week,
in one of the United Presbyterian Churches, when the
clock struck eight; he stopped short, and said.:—" Time
flies, and death hovers near. I have just bad one of the
most striking notices put into my hand I ever read from
the pulpit, sod I have been 36 years a minister. A lady
in her usual health, and in the prime of life, while pre-
paring to come to church thi4 evening, dropped down,
and instantly expired. She is Mrs. Dr. S. (wife of a
medical gentleman in Hamilton)." The effect on the
congregation of this announcement, improved in .a few
solemn and appropriate sentences by the minister, was
very marked. " Death can make more giddy tremblers
in a minute than press or pulpit."
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred on Wednesday
morning on the Midland Railway. The train from Derby
to. Leeds reached the Masbro' station (five miles from
Sheffield) between eight and nine o'clock, and was pre-
paring to pull up th, re,' when a middle-aged gel' dressed
man was 'observed to open the carriage door and spring
out. The train was in slow motion, but he stumbled and
fell between the edge of the platform and the-train. The
wheels in the first instance ran over his legs and mutilated
them terribly. 'His body was then twisted into a posture
more nearly parrallel to the train, and the wheels of
several carriages ran along his chest and abdomen, literally
opening the trunk from end to end. Assistance was un-
availing. 'All that could be done was to gather up the
remains and remove them to the Prince of 'Wales
Hotel (adjacent), there to await the coroner's inquest.
The dead body has not been identified. There was no
luggage, or anything else bearing the name of the
deceased, and he was not known to any one present.
ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF CONVICTS--On Mon-
day last week two notorious criminals named Maggs and
Wilson, the one under sentence of transportation for 15,
and the other for 10 years, made their escape from Wilton
gaol, at "Taunton, but were recaptured in the course of
the same evening. They had been confined in separate
cells, but on Monday morning about four o'clock they
succeeded in breaking out of their respective places of
confinement, and, by means of a rope formed from
oakum, which they had secreted during their daily labour,
assisted each -other over the prison wall. When they left
the gaol they had no other clothing than their shirts; the
morning .was, exceedingly cold, and snow had fallen in the
night. In this state, and with a small portion only of bread,
they concealed themselves until half-past four in the
afternoon, when a labourer observed them emerging from
a wet ditch, and immediate information being.given, two
officers, withessistants, secured their prisoners and lodged
them in•their -old quarters. Maggs is 46 years of age,
and John Wilson, though only 16, is an adept in villany.,

•SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION.—A novelty in this
Sway has occurred at Worcester, the person abducted being
an old gentleman between E 0 and 60, and the object of the
forcible capture being to compel him to marry a widow of
nearly his own age. Mr. Davies. a farmer of Broadwas,
a few miles 'from Worcester, went to the market in that
city, and put up 'his horse at a farmers' inn--the Green
Dragon—in Newport-street. In the afternoon a rues-
•senger brought him the intelligence that his housekeeper
-had been taken dangerously ill, and that his presence was
crequired, at home. lie at once got into a fly, which had
been provided for the purpose, and his capturers (Messrs.
Dobney and Wilson), instead of taking him home, con-
veyed him to an inn. at Ombersley, a village in a contrary
direction. Here he ,was detained until next day, when,
after much research, he was discovered by the police, just
as he vas about being forced—according to his own ac-
count—into a marriage with Dobney's mother. A license
had ;been procured, and to induce him to consent to the
match threats and entreaty had been used, and a pair of
handcuffs had been exhibited. He has been delivered
over to his friends.

A BOLD STROKE FORA WIFE, AND AN ACQUISITION
TO ME .DIGGINGS.—A hawker by profession, named
George Bartlett, after being "refused" by a number of
young women at Cheverell, hetook himself on Tuesday
last to the Devizes union workhouse, in search of a wife.
At this critical moment, .the matron of the workhouse
passed by, and to this excellent woman George Bartlett
told his want, and begged her assistance. Mrs. Hassell
(the matron) immediately repaired to the female ward,
and proclaimed -to .the inmates that there was a man out-
side in want of a wife to go with him to Australia. and
•asked if acy one :would accept him as a husband ? "
have him !• simultaneously exclaimed half a dozen voices. I
" Shew him up. let's have a peep at him !" But there
was one voice wore vociferous that: the others, and that
was the voice of Sarah Early, and. Sarah Early insisted on
the first refusal. Now, Sarah Early stands six feet high
without her shoes. She has six tees upon each foot ; and
she has a child, we are told, with •the same number of
toes. She is a perfect Amazon. She can break a square
of glass with her fist, or a man's head with her patten.
She leads the " Opposition" in the workhouse, and where
tbere is either mischief or frolic to he,performed, " I'm
your match !" said Sarah Early. " Then pick up your
traps !" said George Bartlett, and the matter was settled
in less time than it is written. Aye, and in Jess than half
an hem Sarah Early and Sarah Early's child and George
Bartlett turned their backs upon the Devizes union work-
house. Within three weeks, or as soon as the banns can
be published, Sarah Early and George Bartlett will be
married, and directly afterwards they will be off for the
diggings.
LETTERS OF CREDIT.—A case was determined in the
Lord Mayor's Court, London, last week, involving a
question of.great commercial importance. An American
gentleman bought for cash a circular letter of credit from
a mercantile firm in the city, addressed to their agents on
the continent, and this document authorized the various
houses to whom it was addressed to honour his draughts.
Shortly afterwards, a house at the west-end, which had
some disputed accoents with him, lodged an attachment
with the London firm on the funds which they had thus
received for the sale of the letter, upon the plea that the
transaction was a simple deposit, and that the money so
attached still belonged to the person who had paid it to
them, and that they, the garnishees or issuers of the
credit, incurred no responsibility until they came under
acceptance. It was also contended that after the attach-
ment was lodged, the garnishees could not accept and pay
the defendant's bills, except in their own wrong. The gar-
nishees, on the other hand, maintained that the sum
banded them was the purchase-money for the letter of
credit; that it was as complete a sale as if the article.
bought had been goods ; that there is no essential dif-
ference. between giving an acceptance at once for the
amount and an engagement to accept and pay whenever
called upon, and hence that the money ceased to be the
accredited party's directly he received the garnishees' en-
gagement in exchange. Three points were submitted by
the Recorder to the jury, all of which were decided in
favour of the garnishees, but the only one of any public
interest was the finding by the jury that the money passed
absolutely to the garnishees in exchange for their credit ;
that it simultaneously ceased to be the defendants', and
consequently was not attachable. This result is very
satisfactory, since, if the suit had gone the other way, it
would then be held that the article acquired, and the
money paid for it; both remained the property of the pur-
chaser—that an engagement to accept and pay is only
binding, if a subsequent claimant floes not step in—and
that a person who 'fancies he has a demnd, can, by a
simple affidavit of debt, make the issuers of the credit
break their engagement to the accredited party, •

AMONG the gentlemen who passed their examinations
at the Apothecaries'-hall, last week, wbs one named Death.
THE BODIES OF Two CHILDREN were found dead the
other day in a jar floating in the River Lea, but how or by
what means they came there there is no evidence to show.
ACCELERATION OF MAILS.-011 the first of April a
great acceleration of the mails to and from the north will
take place, which will enable letters to be delivered two
hours earlier, and dispatched two hours later, than at the
present time at York, Newcastle, and other places.

ABD-EL-KADER has addressed a letter to Lord Lon-
donderry, thanking him for his exertions on his behalf.
It is addressed "To his lordship the magnificent, the
highly exalted, the man of heart, the key of happy issues,
before whom misfortune flies, tlie General Vane London.
derry, the Irishman."
WHALE AND SEAL FISHERY.—The vessels from the
port of Dundee, engaged in the Davis' Straits fishery,
appear to be relay for sea. Those from Peterhead, where
the trade is principally carried on, have sailed some time
ago. The total number of vessels this year for Greenland
and Davis' Straits is 56, equal to 14,783 tons.
RAILWAY DIVIDENDS declared during the week :
Caledonian, £4 4s. per cent. per annum on the preference
stock, and £2 103. on the ordinary stock ; North British,
6 per cent. on the £5 guaranteed shares; and Scottish
Central, 4 per cent., with a bonus of 10s. per cent. paid out
of the monies received from the southern companies.
AN AMERICAN-IRISHMAN, John Eyre Johnson by
name, was, on Saturday, at the Marlborough Pclice-court,
London, charged with having stolen jewellery, at various
times, from the show-rooms of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell.
New Bond-street, of the value of upwards Of £l,OOO. He
was apprehended in Paris' greatly disguised, after having
been missing several weeks. He was remanded.
Fool' HURDLE RACE.—A foot hurdle race, between
two of the most celebrated performers—Fenwick, of Lan-
caster, and Patterson, of London—came off on Monday
afternoon last, in the Eton Brocas. The distance was 200
yards, over ten hurdles. The race was admirably con-
tested, both men taking their leans together until they
reached the eighth hurdle, which Patterson failed to clear
and fell, leaving Fethvick an easy winner.
PRAYERS FOR A CONVICTED MURDERER.—George
Sparkes having been found guilty of the murder of Mr.
Blackmore, of Clayhidon, the murderer was prayed for in
many of the churches at Exeter on Sunday ; and some of
the churches hare been opened half-an-hour before the
service, and kept open half-an-hour after its close, daily.
until the day of execution, to enable persons desirous of
doing so to offer up their prayers for his soul.
CAMPS OP INSTRUCTION.—For a few days past stores
and equipments for the formation of an extensive encamp.
ment have been forwarded from the Tower of London to
Chatham, on the race ground of which place troops are
to assemble for the purpose of forming a camp of instruc-
tion. Ascot-heath, and some ground near Sandhurst,
have also, we hear, been selected for the summer camps
of instruction.— United Service Gazette.

WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Saturday forenoon
Mary Rowley, aged 50, a widow, residing at Fartown,
who had tong been subject to fits of apoplexy, was ob-
served cleaning her windows. On one of her neighbours
going into the house shortly afterwards, she was disco-
vered laid with her head and body upon the fire, her
clothes and body being burnt literally to a cinder, except
a small portion of the lower extremities of her stays.—
Leeds liztelligencer.
THE LATE FIRE IN DONCASTER CHURCH.—The judi.
cial investigation into the origin of the late fire at the
church of St. George, Doncaster, was brought to a close
on Tuesday evening, in the council-chamber of the Guild-
hal!, after seven different adjournments. :The verdict
was to the effect that the cause of the fire might be as-
signed to the state of the north flue, and the defective
and unsafe construction of the heating apparatus, and to
the negligence of those parties who had charge of them.
'Z he jury censured the conduct of the officials of the church
for their want of care and. attention.

DECAY or FEARGLTS O'CONNOR.—A gradual paralysis
is said to be stealing over the frame of poor Feargus
O'Connor. He is treated as one of the family, and spends
his time at billiards, in playing with the children of Dr.
Tuke, arranging books, &c. He told a late visitor that
he knew he was in a lunatic asylum, but he was under no
restraint, and all the people were mad there but himself.
He could go away if he chose, and did not know why he
did not. Reference being made to the Chartists, he asked,
" How are you going on ?" and sung his old stave of
"The Lion of Freedom," asking, with exultation, " Do
vou know how I thrashed the blue lambs in Nottingham
Market-place ?"

A NEW DESCRIPTION OF STEAMER, called the Rota-
tory, commenced plying on the Clyde, between Glasgow
and Dumbarton, on Wednesday. The engines are said
to be more compact than other engines, consume
about one-fourth less fuel, and require no engineer; the
steersman, by a peculiar valve, moves the vessel a-head or
astern, without communicating with anyone. The steers-
man stands before the funnel, and there being no paddle-
boxes to interrupt his view, he sees every object a-head.
and can stop or reverse the engines in an instant, without
leaving the wheel, or applying to any second party. The
inventor is Mr. David Napier.
STRANGE. DISCLOSURE.—At Lambeth Police-court,
last week, the presiding magistrate was engaged for some
time in investigating a case of a delicate character. There
is every reason to believe from the disclosures made that,
at a lodging-house in Waterloo-road, respectable-looking
females were in the habit of taking up their quarters, for
the purpose of being, with the help of medicines admi-
nistered by a surgeon, prematurely confined. After hear-
ing the evidence the magistrate, Mr. Norton, thou.-1M
enough had been shown to prove the necessity for further
investigation, and directed Hoy es, the officer, to call on
the medical man and tell him that his professional
character was very much involved in the disclosure, and
that be (Mr. Norton) wished him to attend at the court
to explain his conduct in the matter. Thus the matter
rests.

..A.wFur. Loss OF LIFE.—A. melancholy occurrence took
place at Deal on Thursday, three brave and hardy men
having met with a lamentable death in the Gull stream.
Their boat was the borelling lugger Victoria, and the
names of the men were Thomas Bowbyree, George
Thompson, and another, with Thomas Thompson (father
of George Thompson, about 50 years of age, and an ex-
perienc,d boatman,) and Edward Greigs. Thu pushed
off in the lugger about nine o'clock in the morning.
About eleven they were cruising in the Gull stream, when
a brig was observed to heave to, and hoist her colours.
Another boat, the Fawn, belonging to Deal, happened to
be close on Thompson's boat, and, requiring a hand,
Edward Greigs jumped in, and the Fawn immediately
bore up for the brig. On approaching within hail of the
brig. the captain beckoned to something that had befallen
the Victoria, and, on looking astern, they saw the lugger
foundering. They made all haste to the spot, but only
arrived in time to save the elder Thompson, the others
having disappeared with their lugger.
PARLIAMENTARY COGNOMINA.—The following names
will toe found constituting the members of the House of
Commons returned to sit in the present parliament,
which, when put together, appear somewhat strange
aliquot parts of the Constitutional body at large :—A
Court with two Kings, with Grace, a Duke, a Hale
Knight, and a Haslie French Marshall. A Portal, two
Halls, and two Chambers, with a Guest, and one Bell.
A Wall with a Walpole. A Forester, a Roebuck, a
Buck, besides a _Nue Fox and a Talbot. A Monck, a
Goodman, and a Shee-Hayter. Cocks, and a Vane
Peacocke. A Masternzan, two Carters, with a Mare and
Packe. Currie and Rice, with Green Lemon Peel. A
Butler, with two Butts. A Collier, and Prime Yorke
Coles, with two Prices. A Woodhouse and Hutt. with
Barnes, and a Freshfield with hill and Wood. A Miller,
with two Mills, two Brookes, besides Wells. A Coote,
a Swift, and a Martin. A Wise Child. A Potter, with
Clay Balls. Six Smiths (Bright Fellowes). A Taylor,
a 7 yler, a Sadleir, and a Palmer. Milton, Thompson,
Cowper, and Shelley. Power, North, East, and West.
A Hogg, with Lowe Manners. A Scott and a Kirk ;
and, by way of winding up the list, two Dunnes and a
Baillie.

BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A DAUGHTER.—On Monday,
Joseph Swales, a small farmer, residing at Swilliagton,
was charged before the magistrates at Wakefield, with ill-
treating his daughter, nine years of age. On the night of
Sunday the 13th inst, Swales went home about twelve
o'clock, when he asked the girl if she had got his supper
ready, and on her replying that he had not told her to get
it ready, he struck her and kicked her in the mouth with
his foot, having his shoes on ut the time. He then threw
the carving-kniteat the girl which stuck in her hand, cut-
ting it in a frightful manner. He afterwards seiz,d her by
the throat and held her until she was choked. Not satis-
fied with this,
.the inhuman parent. took her by the hair,
threw her down, and dragged her on the floor into the
kitchen. He said he would kill her, and inquired where
the hedging-hill was. . hedging-bill is a sharp instru-
ment with which the hedges are cut. He went up stairs
to fetch it, when the poor girl managed to get the.back
door of the house open and make Ler escape, or there ap-
pears little doubt but her life would have been sacrificed.
Cut, bruised, and bleeding as'she was, and in the dead of
the night, she managed to get to the house of her aunt,
Hannah Nicholson, of Woodlesford. When her aunt saw
her she was scarcely able to recognise her, her face was so
bruised and covered with blood, her eyes black and cut,
and her hair matted with blood. The prisoner. who was
organist at Swillington Church, was committed for trial at
the assizes.

COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.-011 the
Bth of March, Colonel Mure moved for a committee to
inquire into the management of the National Gallery ;
also to consider in what way the collective monuments of
antiquity and fine art possessed by the nation might be
most secureiy preserved, judiciously augmented, and ad.
vantageously exhibited to the public. The system of
management of the National Gallery, the sitially-ss of
our collections, the want of an architectural genet. , and
of space for a national collection of sculpture, and for the
exhibition of prints and drawings, were dwelt on with
emphasis. The present time was spoken of as a crisis in
the history of art in this country ; and any further unne-
cessary delay in providing sufficient and tfficient space for
a really national collection of works of art was strongly
deprecated. Ministers (i.e., Lord John Russell and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer) indorsed most of the com-
plaints and recommendations; raised the question so
often and so fully discussed of the re-arrangement of the
various national collections, and narrely supported the
proposition. They declared, however, that no detc_rtuina-
UN
na had been arrived at as to the retention of the ational
Gallery in Trafalgar-square, or the removal of the collec-
tion to another spot. On the 18th of March the com-
mittee was appointed, to consist of the following gentle.
men :—Colonel Mare, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Charteris,
Mr. Sterling, Mr. R. Currie, Mr. Milnes, Mr. Marshall,
Lord Seymour, Mr. Vernon,iri,tr
,Lord.Ai
Brooleolstweo, Gi‘oirti.lbnuarnr:
Mr. Ewart, Mr. Wall, s
Binge, Lord Graham, and Mr. Hamilton.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, AN EXCELLENT REMEDY FOR
IMPURITY
or BLOOD, AND GENERAL DERANGEMENT OF
HEALTH.—Many persons of robust habits frequently suf-
fer from a dangerous determination of blood to the head,
benumbed feelings in the limbs, heaviness and drowsiness,
„rising from the blood being in a had state ; the stomach
in such cases is generally out of order, with little or no
appetite. Such individuals should take a course of Hollo-
way' s Pills. Thousands who had been given up as incurable
by the faculty, have been thoroughly re-invigorated in
constitution, and restored to the uninterrupted enjoyment
of good health by this admirable remedy.

Standard Office, Three o'clock, p.m.

OVERLAND MAIL.
TRIESTE, MARCH 2S,
The steamer Bombs} arrived this morning from
Alexandria in 23 hours.

Ambassadors from Aye, accompanied by two mission-
aries, had reached General Godwin's camp.
The Emperor of Ave was besieged in a small fort by
his younger brother, who had the whole army on his
side ; he was sure of reducing the fort, and desired peace
with the British on any terms.

In consequence of orders received from Ava, Burmese
troops had evacuated the province of Pegu, and General
Steel had occupied all the strong positions in the district.
The Province of Bassein bad been cleared of the enemy
by Captains Fextch and Rennie; but an expedition sent
against a robber chief, near Donahen, bad been repulsed,
with a loss of two guns and 88 killed and wounded.
Among the officers killed were Captain Loch and
Lieutenant Kennedy, R.N., ,and Captain Pryce, 67th
Bengal Native Infantry.
Among the severely wounded were Lieut. Bushnell,
R.N., and Messrs. Hindle and Wilson, mates of the
Winchester.

Trade was brisk at Calcutta and Bombay.
The rebellion in China was growing more and more

serious every day.

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LOADING WEST SIDE PRINCE'S Docii,
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it)\.
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Apply to Messrs. MINAIn and Durrorr•, or to
- JOHN S. PRICE.
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Delivering Goods at the City Wharf; will have quick despatch,
having a large portion of her Cargo in course of shipment,
The splendid new Clipper-brigantine,
ADOLPH US,
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LOADING WEST SIDE GEORGE'S DOCK.
Apply to JOHN S. PRICE, 5, Tower-chambers.

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tr,

LIVERPOOL
" GOLDEN LINE" OF PACKETS

TO
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Tons Tons

Ships. Reg. Bur. For To sail
ALDEBARAN
MILES BARTON (new) 995-1500— MELBOURNE sth April
MARTABAN (new).... 850..1300..MELBOURNE.20th April
IVANHOE (new) lO5O-1500..MELBOURNE.To follow
STAR OF THE EAST 1600..2500..00.&5YDNEY.1n May.

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N.B.—The MILES BARTON is now ready for iiiiiection, in
the Prince's Dock.