The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

ADVANTAGES OF EARLY CLOSING TO THE
SHOPMEN AND THE PUBLIC.

From Toil and Trial, by bars. Newton Crosland, (late Camilla

Toulmin.)

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" Well, my dear Sir," said one of the ladies, addressing
Mr. Denison, during a pause at dinner, " I hope you have
quelled the rebellion in - Street, and made an ex-
ample of the impudent creatures ?"
" Oh' yes," replied Mr. Denison, " that was easily
done. I have discharged the half•dozen who set the
agitation on foot, and have vowed to keep open till eleven
o'clock instead of ten for the next six months, as a les-
son for the remainder."

"Quite right !" exelairned lady the second; "and I
suppose the places of the half-dozen were soon as well
filled—no doubt they were the idlest in the house ?"
" No, I cannot say that," returned the host ; " the
worst of it is, they are generally the best servants who
make the greatest stir about the Early Closing ; they
know their value, I suppose, and fancy masters will give
way raffier than discharge them : but not when they have
me to deal with, I can tell you."
Mr. Warder had dropped his knife and fork—perhaps
involuntarily—at this discourse, and Mr. Denison, per-
ceiving., addressed him, saying—
" I hope this spirit of mischief and discontent has not
travelled to Liverpool. Yet, we have had quite enough
of it in London, I can assure you."
" Do you mean the exertions which are being made to
establish an earlier closing of shops in all trades ?" asked
Mr. Warder.

" Yes, of course."
" Then, however much we seem to differ in opinion, I
must confess that I am proud to say, I have been an active
and succesgful agent in the Movement. In the provincial
towns the evils appear to me scarcely so great and cruel
as those existing in the metropolis, yet they have been
sufficiently deep to call for vigorous and determined mea-
sures."

"And is it possible," asked Mr. Denison, in a tone of
real astonishment, " that you have given way to the
clamour, and sacrificed your business, that a set of idle
young men may have a few more hours in the week for
smoking cigars and indulging in dissipation ?"
" I have listened to no clamour but the clamour of my
own conscience," returned Mr. Warder. " I hope that
I should have obeyed even at a pecuniary sacrifice ; but
I have not been so tested,—the most accurate calculations
have convinced me that no loss is to be apprehended, were
business hours to be greatly curtailed."
"My dear Sir !" seemed the only exclamation Mr.
Denison's astonishment would permit.
" Indeed I mean what I say," pursued the other.
" Were it thoroughly understood that shops closed at
six or seven o'clock, purchasers would make their arrange-
ments accordingly, and by no means go without the a. ti-
des required. It is necessary to insist on thi, point,
before we discuss the other question—how additional
leisure is likely to be employed. Indeed, I am assured
there would he no loss to trade were the early closing
generally adopted."
" Aye, if all shops closed together."
" And how is this ever to be brought about, unless they
who have the power make the first bold stand ?"
Mr. Denison shrugged his shoulders, as he murmured
something about "having no wish for the honours of
martyrdom."
" I deny there is any martyrdom in the case." said his
guest, with a smile. "The better educated of the com-
munity are in the mass the better people, in more senses
than one. It is they who have the most money to spend,
at the same time that their hearts are the most open to
good feelings, and their minds to common-sense argu-
ments. When the case has been fairly laid before mem-
bers of this class, I have ever found them warm and eager
in their support of those who were fighting the battle of
the oppressed ; and I hope to live to see the day when it
will be a disgrace for a lady to enter a draper's shop in
the evening, or send a person to make purchases of any
description at unseemly hours ; for though the hardships
of the present system are felt the most cruelly in estab-
lishments like ours, they fall sufficiently heavy in all
trades, to call loudly for redress."
" You forget the numbers of persons, servants and
others," interposed Mr. Denison, who have no other
time for shopping than the evening."
" So far from forgetting them I hold that, next to shop-
men and shopwomen themselves, they would derive the
chief benefit from the change we propose. Were shops
universally closed in the evening, no mistresses or em-
ployers could reasonably refuse their servants proper op-
portunities for making their purchases ; and. I cannot
conceive any circumstance under which, with proper
method and arrangement, this could not be easily done."
" But, my good friend," said Mr. Denison, " how
many people in the world, do you suppose, are methodi-
cal and considerate ?"

" Fewer, certainly, than we could wish," exclaimed
Mr. Warder, hopefully, " but for that very reason, we
should hail any necessity which would inculcate such
habits. It is a curious fact in social ethics, that whatever
positively and permanently benefits one class, is of ser-
vice to several others more indirectly. Thus, I appre-
hend that from the facility there is in making purchases
at all hours, a vast deal of time is lost, which a little fore-
thouaht would economise. How common it is to send to
a shop three times for three several trifling articles, for
which one message and one messenger might have suf-
ficed. Time, that universal and most precious heritage,
thus saved from waste, would be generally gained."
" But you forget the thousands who live from hand to
mouth, and who may not have the money to make their
three purchases at once."
" Alas, I have examined the condition of the poor very
narrowly, and am painfully aware that they of all the
community live the most expensively. For ever the turn
of the scale' is against their ounces of tea and butter—so is
the fractional loss whenever the miserable division be-
comes lower than the coin of the realm. And for this
reason it would be well for them to be forced, even at the
price of some seeming inconvenience, to provide for their
necessities on a better system. There is, too, another
fact, which should not be without its weight. It is noto-
rious that, in our business, purchasers by gas-light are
often deceived, not only in the colour, but the quality, of
the articles selected; and if we are to admit that these
evening shoppers belong to the poorer classes of the com-
munity, so much the more lamentable is it that their little
means should miss the objects they had in view while
making their outlay. I will not say that it is absolutely
a part of their system for shopkeepers to pass off inferior
articles by artificial light, but I fear there are too many
instances in which the sellers permit purchasers to deceive
themselves."

Mr. Denison again shrugged his shoulders, thought his
guest a little mad, but, paying the customary homage of
hypocrisy to virtue, felt it prudent at least to conceal his
opinions.
" And I have always thought," continued Mr. Warder,
" that small derelictions from perfect integri:,y usually
lead to large ones. This passive deception is very likely
to lead the way to a more active sort ; and my experience
has certainly shown me that what are called shrewd and
sharp assistants are very often only cunning and unprinci-
pled ones, quite as ready, when opportunities offer, to
cheat their masters as to deceive a customer." _ _

" But let us come to the question," said Mr. Denison,
" of the manner in which shopmen do spend that portion
of theevening which they call their own."
" You mean," returned Mr. Warder, " the hour or
two which they steal from the Night, when with minds
and bodies enervated and exhausted, they are at last re-
leased from their toil ? I must confess they too often
resort to the stimulants of dissipation; but before we
judge them harshly we should remember that they are free
only at the hours when Lectures are over, and Reading
Rooms closed ; when a social circle round a friend's
hearth is breaking up for rest, and when only the tavern
or casino opens its wide portals. Let us not judge poor
humanity by a standard beyond its grasp ; but rather
remove the temptations to evil, and give scope to the
the nobler faculties. The wearied mind is unfit to receive
religious, moral, or intellectual instruction, while aching
from the monotony of its protracted tension it rushes to
some strong excitement for oblivion or distraction. Nor
are the physical sufferings whieh result from over-toil
without their moral influences. They work together,
bringing death and destruction to tens of thousands.
But wherever a fair chance has been given, the results
have been most gratifying and encouraging. Healthful
energies have been restored, moral• and intellectual pro-
gress has been made, and all but an insignificant minority
have proved themselves worthy of the exertions we are
making for them."

ARTIFICIAL MAHOGANY.—The following method of
giving any species of wood of a close grain the appearance
of mahogany, in texture, density, and polish, is said to be
practised in France with success. The surface is planed
smooth, and the wood is then rubbed with a solution of
nitrous acid ; one ounce dragon's blood is dissolved in
nearly a pint of spirits of wine; this, and one-third of an
ounce of carbonate of soda, are to be mixed together, and
filtered, and the liquid in this thin state is to be laid on
with a soft brush. This process is to be repeated, and in
a short interval afterwards the wood possesses the external
appearance of mahogany.
DAVID'S NEW MASTER—D. STRONG.—But the Doc-
tor himself was the idol of the whole school ; and it must
have been a badly composed school if he had been any-
thing else, for he was the kindest of men ; with a simple
faith in him that might have touched the stone hearts of
the very urns upon the wall. As he walked up and down
that part of the court-yard which was at the side of the
house, with the stray rooks and jackdaws looking after
him, with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knew how
much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he,
if any sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his
creaking shoes to attract his attention to one sentence of
a tale of distress, that vagabond was made for the next
two days. It was so notorious in the house, that the
masters and head-boys took pains to cut these marauders
off at angles, and to get out of windows, and turn them
out of the court-yard, before they could make the Doctor
aware of their presence •, which was sometimes happily
effected within a few yards of him, without his knowing
anything of the matter, as he jogged to and fro. Outside
his own domain, and unprotected, he was a very sheep
for the shearers. He would have taken his gaiters off his
legs, to give away. In fact, there was a story current
among us (I have no idea, and never had, on what au-
thority, but I have believed it for so many years that I
feel quite ce: tain it is true,) that on a frosty day, one
winter time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beg-
gar woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neigh-
bourhood by exhibiting a fine infant from door to door,
wrapped in those garments, which were universally re-
cognised, being as well known in the vicinity as the Ca-
thedral. The legend added, that the only person who did
not identify them was the Doctor himself, who, when
they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a
little second-hand shop of no very good repute, where
such things were taken in exchange for gin, was more
than once observed to handle them approvingly, as if
admiring some curious novelty in the patters, and con-
sidering them an improvement on his own.—David Cop-
perfield, by Charles Dickens.

Orneral -111t5rellanv.

The Earl of Liverpool has made a return of ten per cent
on his rental.

The hills in the Forest of Radnor were on Friday co-
vered with snow.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has contributed £lOO to
the Lambeth Anti-Cholera and Dwellings Improvement
Committee.

Among the bankrupts in Friday's Gazette is " The
Rev. Thomas Frederick Paul Hawkins, of Hereford, cider
and perry merchant."
A whale was caught alive, in the river Thames, off the
village of Grays, on Tuesday. The captors of the not-
them monster value their prize at £2OO.
A little boy, about three years old, was suff)cated at
Codnor Park, Derbyshire, on Thursday week, by falling
into a tub filled with wash intended for Swine.

There has oeen, during the week, a very large spot upon
the sun's disc. It was upwards of twenty thousand Eng-
lish miles in length, and of kidney shape.
The Historic News—a beautifully illustrated newspa-
per—of Saturday last announces that Conway Castle, a
noble monument of the taste of the mid dle ages, is to be
restored at the public expense.
. . .

The hills round Kendr;l and the lake district have been
rather thicKly mantled with snow during the past week,
and the temperature is much lower. At Stainmore, the
snow had drifted a yard deep.
The Mayor of Durham. accompanied by the town clerk,
waited upon the Earl of Durham, at Lambton Castle, on
Wednesday, and presented an address of congratulation
to his lordship from the corporation of that city, upon his
attaining his majority.
The Builder gives a baker's dozen of tenders for the
draining of an estate at Kennington Cross. The highest
offer was £l,o36—the lowest (a very nice calculation)
amounted to just £274 4s. 2d. ! One man, particular to
a penny, tendered for £398 Ils. Ild.
Charles Thomas Pearce, an unqualified homoeopathic
practitionPr, has been committed for trial in London,
charged with the manslaughter of his brother, who was
alleged to have been starved to death whilst under the
homoeopathic system o: treatment for cholera.
The Lady Jane, one of the Davis's Straits whalers,
which have been lost this year by being nipped in the ice,
was built in 1772, so that she had been afloat 77 years,
during 40 of which she had been regularly employed in
the whale fishery at Greenland and in Davis's Straits.
The town council of Leeds, which but a little while ago
dismissed the sewerage question by a sine die postpone-
ment, has now, with only two dissentients, resolved to
have the whole of the town, including the townships of
Ilunslet and Holbeck, thoroughly drained, at a cost of
£BO,OOO.

At the Macclesfield Theatre, last week, during the per-
formance of the second act of the Forest Foundling, Mr.
Ackerman inadvertently uplifted his dagger, and stabbed
Mr. Calhaem through the cheek, the extension of the
wound being only prevented by his teeth, one of which
was broken.•

On Thursday night, William Holliday, a chaise driver to
Mr. Geldred, of the King's Arms, Patterdale, Westmore-
land, and the horse which he was driving in a sociable,
were drowned in Ullswater Lake. It is supposed that he
had accidentally fallen over Stybarrow Crag, a dangerous
part of the road.
George Nelson, the celebrated jockey, died very sud-
denly at Doncaster on Wednesday. Whilst in the Turf
Tavern he was suddenly seized with an apoplectic fit, and
dropped on the floor. He never rallied, and died in a few
hours. He was a great favourite with both King George
the Fourth and King William.
The Rev. Thomas Bellas, Vicar of Bongate, has been
elected mayor for the borough of Appleby, for the en-
suing year.—Westmoreland Gazette.— [The municipal
bill especially disqualifies all clergymen and dissenting
ministers from becoming members of a corporation; so
we presume there is some mistake here.]
Mr. Macready appeared for the first time in London
since his return from America, at the Princess's Theatre,
on Monday. The great bulk of the audience rose from
their seats to greet Mr. Macready as he entered, the la-
dies bent forward from the dress circle to wave their
white handkerchiefs, and hats were whirled in all parts of
the house.

Mr. William Crawshay, the eminent ironmaster, has
addressed a letter to the editor of the Times, stating that
he is ready to subscribe his name for £3OO towards a fund
to be handed over to the Sultan of Turkey, to assist in
defending himself and his country against the hostility of
Russia, if any should be shown in consequence of her hu-
manity.
LENGTH OF A KENTMERE SUMMER.—On a farm oc-
cupied by a friend of ours, in Kentmere, the snow this
year lay as far down as the house door until the 11th
June, and again made its appearance on the same spot on
the 3d of the present month. The length of our friend's
summer this year may thus be stated at sixteen weeks and
two days. We believe, nowcver, we can state that he has
finished his haymaking.—Westmorland Gazette.
While a labourer, named Stead, was thrashing in a barn
at Church Fenton, Yorkshire, on Saturday week, a man
entered with a loaded gun, and laid it down. Stead's
nephew, a boy nine years old, shortly afterwards entered
the barn, and while examining it, pulled the trigger, when
the charge of shot was lodged in his uncle's breast, who
was so frightfully wounded that he died within a quarter
of an hour.

The Boston Herald reports two deaths by threshing-
machines. At Whaplode, a man who was tending the
machine, while jesting about the effect of a pipe of tobacco,
attempted to ride on the shaft, but fell, and was crushed
to death. At New Leake, a laiourer noticed that some-
thing was amiss ; in leaning over to inspect the works,
his jacket was caught by the wheels, and he was drawn
between them, and dreadfally lacerated by the spikes. He
was taken out in a few minutes, but quite dead.

SENTENCE OF DEATH.-At the Jalburgh Circuit Court,
on Thursday week, Thomas Wilson, John Brady, and
Peter Rafferty, or Lifferty, alias the Switcher, were
chatged with mobbing, rioting, assault, and murder at
the last St. Boswell's fair. They were found guilty, and
sentenced to death. The murder had its origin in a riot
by Irish labourers. Brady wept bitterly when the sen-
tence was passed, but Wilson heard it without betraying
any emotion.
. _ _

Within the last few days a poor man, a tailor at Inver.
ness, received tidings of a brother's death in Canada,
leaving a fortune of £lO,OOO. besides a large amount of
property. The lucky tailor is a hard-working, but illi-
terate man. In his younger days he was a noted smug-
gler, and for many years defied the excise to discover the
whereabouts of his booty. At last an informer led them
to the spot, and poor Donald was pounced upon, and
suffered durance vile for many months.
The Cheltenham .Examiner states that Mr. Dixon, of
the Red Lion, Henley-on-Thames, was lately entertained
to a benefit dinner by a number of his supporters, and
among the dishes was a haunch of venison. The meat
was so " high" that it was sent from the table untasted ;
but, on the following day, a portion of it was hashed up
for the family dinner. Immediately after partaking of it,
Mr. Dixon, his two brothers, together with the cook and
boots, were seized with sudden illness, and all of them
died in the course of a few hours.

THE TRACY PEERAGE.—A new candidate for this peer-
age has made his appearance in the person of Lieutenant
Benjamin Wheatley Tracy, K.N., whose professional rank
is dated in 1829. It appears that the life of the defeated
claimant, who died lately, was insured for upwards of
£14,000, which sum has gone towards the liquidation of
the costs incurred in prosecuting his suit. The estates
attached to the ancient Irish peerage of Tracy are worth
upwards of £40,000 per annum. The property is princi-
pally situate in Gloucestershire.
SINGULAR FACT.—On Saturday one of the crew of the
Defence, a vessel in Newport harbour, was attacked with
a severe type of cholera, and notwithstanding every effort
made by a medical gentleman to save him, the poor man,
who had been a good sailor, sank under the violence of
the disorder. The ship dog, a short time after, exhibited
symptoms of illness analagous to cholera, and died ; and
on dissection by a surgeon of the neighbourhood, the vis-
cera presented precisely similar appearance of disease to
the intestines of persons who die of the prevailing epide-
mic.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Thursday evening week, a
widow woman, named Alice Wolfenden, resident in
Middleton, put several quarts of warm water into a bottle,
corked it up, tied the cork to the bottle neck, and then
placed the bottle in the oven, which was hot, intending
to heat the water in the bottle in order to keep her feet
warm with it in bed. In a short time there was an ex-
plosion like that of a large cannon, the iron oven was
shivered to pieces, and several portions of it went through
the window into the street. Several persons were in the
house at the time, but received no injury.
GREAT FLoon,—A great deal of property was destroyed
at Sheffield and Rotherham on Sunday last, and much
inconvenience was experienced by the inhabitants, owing
to the heavy floods which occurred at those towns and
other places. A good deal of damage was done in the
neighbourhood of Doncaster, and the Great Northern
railway was injured, but not so as to stop the traffic. We
have not heard of any loss of human life by the flood,
except that of a boy, nine years of age, the only child of
Mr. Harrop, shoemaker, Doncaster. The little fellow
was drowned in a goit near Masbro'.
DEATH FROM A BITE BY A LEOPARD.—On Friday
week, a hrassfounder, named John Deval, residing in
Lawrence-street, paid a visit to Batty's menagerie in an
intoxicated state. Whilst inspecting a fine leopard, he
incautiously leant his arm on the framework of the den
in which the animal was confined. The beast immedi-
ately started up, and in an instant seized hold of Deval's
arm, which protruded slightly between the bars of the
den, with her teeth, and before he could extricate it,
lacerated it in a shocking manner. He progressed fa-
vourably at first, but expired on Wednesday.—Birming-
ham Journal.

In the drainage of Leeds, but especially Hunslet, great
difficulties have always presented themselves, in conse-
qUence of the flatness of those parts contiguous to the
river Aire, which runs between the townships of Leeds,
Hunslet, and Holbec, not allowing of a sufficient fall from
the street-drains into the river; but this will be over.
come by the plan of drainage laid down by Mr. J. W.
Leather, C.E., who proposes to form a main trunk sewer,
which will be carried under the bed of the river,
and extend beyond the boundary of the borough towards
the south east, where it will have an outlet for the sewage
in the lands belonging to Meynell Ingram, Esq., of
Temple Neusam.
Two men of the name of Riddells are charged with
robbing their employers, Messrs. Pontifex, proprietors of
the chemical works at Poplar, London. Evidence was
given that the prisoners had had thirty-six casks filled
with sulphate of lime—a worthless compound, but repre-
sented that they contained tartaric acid. On taking stock,
the clerk valued these barrels at £l9OO, and thus the de-
falcations were not apparent. The magistrate did not
think that this evidence went for much, as there was no
proof that the tartaric acid had ever been on the premises.
The counsel for the prosecution rejoined that the priso-
ners had been abstracting two or three hundredweight of
the acid yearly, to the extent of £l,OOO.

AMAZING DEPRAVITY .—An extraordinary and most
infamous case of bigamy came to light, on Saturday week,
at one of the London police-offices, where a man and his
wife were committed for being concerned in a number of
robberies. It also appeared that they had both conspired
to rob about £l2 worth in cash and clothes from a young
female, by pretending to her that the man was unmarried,
and brother to the female prisoner. They succeeded in
their design, and the victim of the conspiracy was married
to the male prisoner, his real wife assisting as witness at
the ceremony. After a few days they robbed and aban-
doned their victim.

DESECRATION OF TILE SABBATH BY ORDER OF Go-
VERNMENT.—A large deputation, consisting of the Bishop
of LonElon, the Lord Mayo Mr. Masterman, Mr. Bevan,
Ml. Cotton, Mr. Powles, and about thirty clergymen,
waited on Lord John Russell, by appointment, on Thurs-
day, to present the memorial agreed on at the recent
meeting of the merchants, bankers, &c., of the City of
London against the Post -office Sabbath desecration
scheme. The reply of his lordship, after a long inter-
view, was, that he could hold out no hope of any change.
It remains to be seen whether the Christian people of
England will submit in silence to the Sabbath-breaking
resolve. It appears, however, that the Post-office autho-
rities have consented to postpone the intended alteration
for a week.

In moving an almshouse of the Livery Dale, at Heavi-
tree, near Exeter, the charred and iron-mounted remains
of an execution-stake were discovered ; inquiries shows
the stake to be that to which, in 1531, " Bennet, the
Torrington schoolmaster, was tied up in a cowskin, and
burnt with all the furze and faggots the parish of Heavi-
tree could supply," for denying the divinity of the Virgin
Mary, and denouncing transubstantiation. "The stake
is of elm, slightly charred ; and there has also been found
the iron ring which went round the apex of the stake, into
which a stout staple. clamp, or bold, somewhat in the
guise of a ship's anchor, with transverse prongs or flukes,
was inserted, having a ring or circular hole at the top,
through which the chain went which confined the sufferer
to the fatal tree." The relics are to be deposited at the
" Institution" at Exeter.

The news which we published last week, of the proba-
ble safety of Sir John Franklin and Captain Ross was
calculated to cheer the heart of every humane man. We
would warn our readers, however, not to take it for
granted that the safety of the navigators is assured, or
even that the intelligence published concerning them is
strictly accurate. Unfortunately complete reliance cannot
be placed upon the reports of the Esquimaux, who are
apt to be:influenced by interested motives, in seeking to
represent that which they think will give satisfaction.
Moreover, there are some discrepancies in the accounts
that have appeared, It was stated in the first report of
Capt. Parker, that the missing ships had been seen by the
Indians in " Prince Regent's Inlet," those of Sir John
Franklin in the northern part of the inlet, and Sir James
Ross's in the southern part; whereas, in the last report,
it is represented that Sir John Franklin's ships were on
the north part of Barrow's 'Straits, and those of Sir
James Ross on the southern part of those straits. This
is so melancholy a view of the case, that we are glad to
find that an opposite one is entertained by those who
may be considered the great Arctic authorities. We have
caused inquiries to be made—and such is the result. Sir
George Back, who has bad great intercourse with the
native Esquimaux, declares " that he never knew an In-
dian or an Esquimaux tracing to fail : and after deliber-
ately weighing all the information, he is of opinion that
four ships answering to those composing the two expedi-
tions were seen some time in the spring of this year by
the Esquimaux; but whether in Prince Regent's Inlet or
to the westward of Boothia is uncertain." Captain Parry,
Col. Sabine, and Admiral Beaufort, are all in favour of
the Esquimaux report.
Loss OF LIFE IN A LONDON SEWER.—The pestilent
condition of a sewer in Pimlico has caused the loss of five
lives. Along a street of new houses under the builder's
hands, called Kenilworth-street, runs a branch sewer,
which is bricked up at the end farthest from that which
connects it with the main sewer. On Friday morning
three labourers entered this sewer to make arrangements
for flushing it : they never returned. Towards the even-
ing Mr. Henry Wells, a surgeon, John Walsh, a young
policeman, and Richard Sherwan entered the sewer at an
aperture broken for them in the bricked-up end. In two
or three minutes Walsh reappeared bearing the lifeless
body of Mr. Wells. He returned to the sewer and
brought out Sherwan, apparently dead ; and once more—
unconscious, it is supposed, of what he did—he returned,
and himself perished in the sewer. When his body was
recovered, a short time after the skin was turned blue,
and every piece of metal on him was blackened. Sher-
wan was resuscitated by medical remedies; but both Mr.
Wells and Walsh were irrecoverably dead. On Saturday,
the air in the sewer having been purified, the bodies of the
three workmen were recovered, about fifty yards from the
place where they entered. . _

AN HONEST INSOLVENT.—At the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Charles Gill was bronght up
on his petition to be discharged. He had been a grocer
in Devereux-court, Strand. He bad offered to pay his
creditors Gs. in the pound out of a sum of £llO, realized
by the sale of a policy of insurance effected on his own
life, but the offer was refused ; and it was suggested that
a fiat in bankruptcy should be taken out. The insolvent's
solicitors, however, considering that the expenses of a fiat
would consume the whole assets, advised the insolvent to
go to prison by means of a friendly arrest, and let the mo-
ney be distributed by this court. Upon this advice he
acted, and thero was now £l3O paid into court, with a
prospect of about £4O more.—Mr. Nichols, who opposed,
objected that an insolvent was not entitled to choose his
own time to take the benefit of the act. Mr. Commis-
sioner Phillips said, he thought the insolvent had acted
very honestly, and on very good advice, the result of which
would be that the creditors would recei7e nearly 103. in
the pound. He thought the insolvent was entitled to the
benefit of the act. and ordered him to be discharged forth-
with.—[Every honest person will wish him more success
in the future.]
THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—Shortly after the Man-
nings had entered into the house at Kingsland, Manning
called upon Mr. Moore, the well-known sporting print
publisher, and, in a pompous manner, ordered several
valuable engravings to be sent .to his house, as he wished
to have the parlour decorated in a first-rate sporting style.
Upon the understanding that the pictures were to be paid
for on delivery, Mr. Moore was induced to send the pic-
tures to the house, when, instead of the ready cash being
paid, an excuse was made by Mrs. Manning to the effect
that her husband was out on business at Sutherland-
house. On Mr. Moore's calling a few days after he saw
Manning, who, in answer to the request for the payment
of the money, called Mr.. Moore by the vilest of epithets,
and told him "to do his worst, for he'd be d—d if he
would pay him." Mr. Moore subsequently took pro-
ceeding's against Manning in the County Court, and ob-
tained judgment. In consequence of this an execution
was put in the house, and, just as the goods were being
removed, Mrs. Manning rushed up to Mr. Moore, and,
shaking a purse of gold in his face, exclaimed that he was
"a poltroon," and that she had lots of money and would
pay him. The money was then paid, much to Mr.
Moore's gratification, who states that he never met such
a " tartar" before in his life.

NOVEL TRICK.—A few days since some vagabonds ap-
peared in the villages of Blyth and Sutton, Lincolnshire,
and endeavoured to tempt the inhabitants to cheap pur-
chases of contraband goods, silks, &c. They were un-
successful until they met with an unlucky wight on the
road between Barr.by Moor and Sutton Lane End, who
was foolish enough to be induced to taste a drop of " pure
Cognac" (smuggled of course,) and which could be sold
a bargain. The stuff being the real thing, and the flavour
right, he agreed to purchase three bottles at 3s. each, and
repaired home in great glee at his bargain. After partak-
ing of supper, he and and his worthy dame determined to
regale themselves with a drop of the "real thing ;" and
tumblers and hot water being procured, one of the bot-
tles was broached, but for some time only about a wine
glassful could be extracted, although the bottle appeared
full. The good wife thought there was some obstruction
in the neck, and obtaining a skewer, proceeded to probe
most vigorously, after which the liquid poured forth more
plentifully, but instead of being brandy, it turned out to
be nothing but cold water. The bottle was then examined
and it was found that it had been filled up to within an
inch of the neck with the coloured liquid, upon which
was poured a little melted deer suet, which setting firmly
upon the liquid, the bottle was filled up with genuine
brandy. It is needless so say that all the bottles were
similarly treated.—Stamford Mercury.

THE AUSTRIAN LOAN.—On Monday, a public meeting
was held at the London Tavern, " to• consider the adver-
tisement recently issued by the Austrian Government for
a loan of £7,000,000 sterling, and to• agree to an address
to the friends of peace and disarmament throughout the
world, on the general question of loans for war purposes."
The large room of the Tavern was crowded, but the vast
majority of the audience,—judging from their appearance
—were more likely to require loans themselves than to
afford the Austrian Government any pecuniary assistance.
Mr. G. W. Alexander presided, and among the gentlemen
on the platform were Lord D. Stuart, M.P.. Mr. Cobden,
M.P., Mr. J. Williams, M.P., and Dr. Pve Smith. Mr.
Cobden, in a lengthy speech, moved the first resolution,
inviting capitalists to investigate the financial position of
Austria, and the probability of its repaying the proposed
loan, and declaring that, in the opinion of the meeting,
no valid security could be offered in the present state of
the Austrian Government which would justify prudent
men in taking any part of the loan. Mr. Cobden argued,
that as Austria had already committed three several acts
of national bankruptcy, it was not improbable that she
might again avail herself of the same means of avoiding
new engagements; and warned persons disposed to con-
tribute to the loan that, although it might prove a profit-
able speculation to the great capitalists and bankers by
whom it was originally taken up, and who would dispose of
it in stock, the loss which he considered inevitable, would
eventually fall upon the small capitalits who invested their
£lO or £lOO in the purchase of such stock. He also re-
peated the assertion lie had formerly made, that the
system of Russian finance is a gigantic imposture. and
asserted that the Autocrat could afford no aid to Austria
in her pecuniary difficulties. He concluded by a strong
appeal to capitalists not to lend their money to defray the
cost of the cruel and remorseless war which Austria had
been carrying on against her Hungarian subjects. The
motion was seconded by Lord Dudley Stuart, in a long
declamatory speech on the wrongs of Hungary and
Poland, and was then agreed to. Mr. C. Gilpin moved
another resolution, declaring loans for war purposes and
for the maintenance of standing armaments, unsound in
principle, and injurious to the interests of nations. This
proposition was seconded by the Rev. J. Burnet, and was
unanimously adopted. Mr. Cobden then made a second
speech, in the course of which, (somewhat inconsistently
with his peace principles,) he stated, that if Russia
assumed a hostile position towards this country, a six
weeks' blockade of the Russian ports by a British squad-
ron would soon induce the Russian nobles to " dispose of
the Czaes eccentricities," as they had done in other cases.
No "address to the friends of peace and. disarmament"
was proposed,

Oct. 16, 1549,_

that
CHILD MURDER.—It has just been discovere- „of
young woman named Hannah Taylor, about 20 Y.el:tier
age, a farm servant out of place, but who lived sot"Tite
uncle, an old man named Taylor, in a cottaelooe
thorpe, near Driffield, was secretly delivered of a e
or about the 20th inst. ; and that sbe died from nrr;dis
on the 29th. The body of the child was found intetbees4'
a plantation near the cottage; and according t° gone'
dence of a medical man, who made a post morlem born
nation of its body, there is no doubt it bad been ewe
alive, and in all likelihood it had been murdered. hoe
women, named Mary Taylor and Sarah Brltlir this
been committed for trial at the next assizes shots
county, county, charged with the murder. Mary Toler, other
about 40 years of age, is cousin to the childslooill
Sarah Britton is a hawker of small wares ; sbe
50 years old. rest
POISONING WITH STINKING FISH.—On Sundar'holeee
alarm was excited in the town by a report that the c_ese
had broken out with intense virulence in some building"
in Eastover, known by the name of Mogga-uu
a greet
u .
b
thatnum sixer
wereperso hntsheand
lyingdied er
night,in theill.
and
3ths nssell t
tore
inspector of nuisances, found that illness prevailedre ins
to an alarming extent, and that the buildings weit est
most filthy and disgraceful condition. On inquiry, mbe
learnt that a man who had brought some large Al°,itber
oysters to the fair had met with a bad sale, and ha" in
his
given or sold at small cost these oysters to the poor:, of
neighbourhood: and that every one who had eateho,
them had been attacked with violent choleraic diar„fee
No time was lost in endeavouring to mitigate tbe ;: ope
ings of the poor people; workmen were got togelbe. too,
or two of the families were removed to the old ,A1:00
house, where fires were lighted, beds obtained, 08
and comfortable food procured for them ; and tbetr kith
lings, although it was on Sunday, were whitewasbe.bl the
hot lime. The attack was undoubtedly induced ole
incautious use of stale fish, and accelerated by their
of living.—Bridgewater Times. i;,p tlOUrtt:
CHARGE OF MIIRDER.—At the Lambeth Poi,--" bep
on Tuesday, a man of juvenile appearance, named Stelf4t*
Alfred Jordan, alias Dowland, was charged with rifle
oed,
ing to murder Sarah Frances Ewings, in Dulivichl
on the 19th of last month. The prosecutrix, who the
ciente by the prisoner, met him at his request coded
evening of the 19th ult., at Brixton, when he pens iodg'
her to go to Croydon, where he said he had taken end
inks. He was provided with paper, pen, and the
induced the girl to write two letters (which she did hp
light of a lamp), one addressed to her landladY, 811 her
other to himself, stating that " they would hear frooeleg
in a few days." The prisoner possessed himself of
(118, 00
letters, and they then proceeded into Dulwich-wt pri'
their way to the railway station. In the wood, th'''',od,
soner suddenly put his arm round the girl's nect".esl
whilo kissing her, stabbed her in the throat with the
instrument, which proved to be a.razor. She {ell tlsto/,
ground, and on her endeavouring to rise he drew toe
with which he beat her on the head, and then - and
Although severely wounded about the throat, face, sbe
hands, she walked to a neighbouring cottage, whe'.ibeee
obtained assistance, and medical aid having been nob
afforded to her, she was conveyed to Guy's 11°5(ferse
where she remained for some time in a state of e 5
danger.—The attempted assassin was committed for dog
A MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.—SOMe a•ferin the,
since, a rather romantic circumstance came " .1; bee
neighbourhood of Wells, which has occasioned rtlYe,-e, a
amongst lovers of gossip. It seems that Mr. .111— the
grocer of that town, had for a long time been ivooingino
affections of Miss a lady occupying a situatiel.er,
draper's establishment. On Monday last, the grvie ect
tired of single blessedness, summoned a party B,f, 50,0 of
friends to accompany him to the neighbouring vtua'ter'
Cheddar, with his " fair one," for the purpose of en re,
jointspr i
puddings,
dg
d ai
nngd
weres
ing into the marriage state. Previous to their deP.,BllllO,
p dressie pies,
,
all preliminaries were amicably arranged : the we', wet
selectedhtaardt longtarts
aron
md
obttehheeenr
butcher'sdraeiandtyi
e;
dainties,
now the ca 0..! e
state of preparation. The invited friends were PI pro'
the weather was favourable, and everything seemed bed'
pitious for a day of pleasure. The party arrived at 7roly
dar in high spirits, and after partaking of some re' Ott
ments, all were soon in readiness to repair to churcb• rot
their way thither, the grocer's intended met ar;fter
lover " more loved," who gave her the wsbheeracekm,binisensillectil:toti
proceeding a little further, she returned at full epee
the outskirts of the village, where she met her real t.B,°°lol
ite, leaving the whole party in sitter astonishmen,„" and
her poor forsaken swain to return to Wells as joYl'„orti
wifeless as may be well conceived. The eloping roil'
proceeded to Weston, where we believe they are noe's
ing.—Bristol Times. col'
AN INTREPID GIRL.—On John
asleep

1 ier, Selston, went to work, leaving his children ,ted
bed. His family consisted of a girl, named Hannah, d'
eleven years, Joseph, aged three years and a half,
younger boy still. His wife had gone from homel-09
benefit of her health. About six o'clock the gir„ visS
awakened by the cries of her brother Joseph, Tanupa ia
alarmed to see him standing by the bed envelop the
flames. The fire had also communicated itself Tortil
bedclothes, which were beginning to assume a f.; fh
aspect. With much presence of mind she rush" wit
vessel in the room containing some water, and thre the
over her brother, which fortunately extinguishe'cli bet
greater portion of the flames. She then pulle
„o,
younger brother out of bed, and sent him dowas.ol.
Under the bed was a cask containing about a stelleliast-
a-half weight of gunpowder, used by her father in "ned
in..; at the pits. This she dragged from under and calLitg,
into an adjoining room. She then went dowl:l,s'"bel
alarmed the neighbours, and returned to the ei'a.13641.
with a pitcher of water, which she threw upGn the it
The fire was subdued, but not totally extinguished,;e of,
was, however, entirely put out by the neighbours, °."O of
whom stripped the little boy of the remaining portiLle
night-dress, which was yet slightly on fire. The Cste
little girl's hands were much burned, but her first otos
was for her brother, and she ran to the coal-pit,
distance off, to fetch her father. Every attentierli, ate
paid to the little sufferer, but he died at two oeloc'
same day.—Notts Guardian. otscB
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—At Southwark Ponce--
tog
on Thursday, William Mew, a respectable looking lieu
man, who described himself as a commercial tra°:
bl
was charged with attempting to murder Helen Fain,' to,
administering poison to her. About three weeks ago'-,t,
couple took lodgings in Bennett-street, Stamford -570
as man and wife; but the man was married to 01301'
woman. It appeared from the evidence that, on 010
nesday se'nnight, the woman cooked a dinner aftelrioa
she and Mew had some words; then Mew came
stairs, told the landlady that his wife had left the 110.4
and that he was going to seek her. Mew had lecketyll
doors. and he did not return till Saturday morning.,; ;0%.
he asked if his wife had been home ; and on receo; of
reply in the negative he left the place. His mannered
cited suspicion, and the landlady's daughter ,
through the key-hole of his bedroom, and saw the 911 e
lying on the bed. The door was forced open. 3”,,,w
was found slowly recovering from a state of le,,'
apparently produced by some powerful narcotic'
would seem that she had been lying on the bed iaserc,oo4
from Wednesday to Saturday. The surgeons
nothing to prove what drug had been administered bet
woman told the landlady's daughter that Mew peuT4o/c.
out a glass of beer on the Wednesday, and that on
ing it she was immediately overcome. Mew was,„:101,
quently traced and taken into custody ; but, as EaAl7otr
not sufficiently recovered to appear at the Police'
he was remanded. vegorf.

CoNsumpTioN of SMOKE,—A short time ago, -, chimp
Chambers, of Glasgow, erected a new furnace aeuive
ney for a ten-horse-power steam-engine, which foil
their printing machinery ; and, with a view to releeoo,
challenge respecting smoke, they applied Juckess Pt 01.0_,T
smoke-consuming apparatus. It consists of vil/ssarr
be called an endless chain of bars, disposed not ere
~,00,0
but lengthwise ; and this chain of bars forms the
of the furnace, on which the live coal blazes. to
moves very slowly forward—not more than at the of
an inch in the minute—from the front to the bacti:y
furnace, carrying the fire along with it. At the VA. apd
bridge of the furnace, the chain of bars moves wow',
comes back beneath. Thus it goes on endlessiLial
morning till night. The apparatus is fixed on 8_1°1: sr
which is run into its place on a species of raike;;--efill,4
the whole—that is, the whole bottom of the furo efri„
be dragged in or out at pleasure, by which mese' V,
facility is presented for cleaning, renovation, 842;01
chain of bars is moved by connecting gear from t"'" ftl/4
engine. The coal is laid on a hopper at the moutP:th
10
furnace, and is carried forward by the bars, the 10,
coal that enters being regulated by an iron door, 400:
depressed or raised like a sluice. The principle or_:001Pi
consumption consists in the slow and regular edel: to >t
of the coal. Instead of being heaved with a 81391:il:tit
to produce continual gusts of smoke, it is admit'''- 4.4
were, by hair-breadths. The ignition is therefolef tyi
at a time, and what smoke is raised having to gO§otl/1:,
bright fire beyond, it is necessarily consumed.
Pew i>°
gets up the chimney but a slight fume, scarcely Pp
ble to the eye. The apparatus, we are told, i hes,.,. Ob
ther advantage of economising fuel and attendae.:lo
it sustains the steam equally with the common P ft
firing.
s,
ViLAlt •
THE FINE ARTS IN ENGLAND, AND THE -EF.irojt
IN FRANCE.—Englishmen excel in constructing 'f rear.o.
tial, useful, and lasting works. In this respeettuoio.ol
men are deficient.. We have been told that "the te,o4
don't pollute the waters of the Seine with the c 0.5 • ,;t
their water-closets." This is true, and there 199•10.,:i
good reason for it, and that is, " The Parisians Peotl,7ol
common sewers" to convey this pollution to the Old
waters of the Seine : deficient as London is ii!3t re51;41
sewerage—we are much better situated in te.
than our neighbours. But, as a substitute le'retin;)
they construct large cesspools as reservoirs of web steak
for the use of their barrack-like dwellings. emP be
from these, when undergoing the process of being pot,,
is unbearable; besides this, the water closets 't;f ivoltd
properly cleansed , for if a large quantity of Ifa
re 4 i 0
used, the cesspool would soon be filled, eueose'ote,
emptying too often. From this cause water-dtbeid
Paris are flushed with a small mug of water, an conlik
besides, deficient of an abundant supply. Water the roe
by pipes the Parisians have to some extent. fortheirfoAl
pose of washing their pavements and supplYie far'
tains. This water is obtained from M. Argo flarfolV
Artesian well, and is unfit for drinking and...retif fortet'
poses, and nearly as warm as new milk. Ave''`by
ing and drinking is brought to their houseeloyottl4
of
carriers—a laborious occupation, giving wet/ cono4
many thousands in Paris. With all this, the_ fp!,
the Seine do not go unpolluted, for there ertvolte;
wash-houses on them,_ in which may be seeo__4llcloth
washerwomen scrubbing diligently the dirty if
tbeer
Paris, and mixing soap suds with anything 0 001
lucid waters of the Seine. Such is Paris, d 900040,
London : in both there is much to admire MI% bore
to decry. The English cannot be evalleci.; o°4
factories and shops—in constructing maehie%ch 50
ways; let us see, then, if they cannot aln"..„,Arg
nearer to equality in respect of the fine arts'
and Build* Operative.

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'ears 13
Oct.

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October,
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t
c . 16 IS4O.
THE REVENUE.
fib`nact of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great
18 ?in,
in the Years and Quarters ended October 10,
°, andthOectober 10, 1849, showing the Ir.crease er
reof.
ENDED OCTOBER 10.
1848. 1849. I Incr. Decr.
£ £ £ £
tin°4lS. ..... 18,358,827 18,657,563 298,736 ....
Tamps •s• •
...... 12,825,861 12,381,916 .... 443,94. a
Tax '••• • • • 6,203,105 6,328,213 125,108; . •
Pr ... . 4,308,474 4.326,901 18,427
P:si`a lax- 5,385,498 5,383,119 ...__ 2,299
-'ee• 786,000 852,000 .66,000: •• •
Land.s.. 91,000 130,000 39,0001 ....
Chicellaneous . 91,203 212,543 121,340,
ney. 455,021 84,284 .. . . 3'0,737
,merest,oher
liekpaaviyesnis..o.f 392,103 558,265 166,1621 ....
`ces• • • 347,604 565,383 217,779 ....
Taal
Ioco7fle. 49,244,696 49,480,26711,052,552 816,981
Deduct Decrease
on the Year £235,571
s's------.._____QUARTERS ENDED OCTOBER 10.
1848. 1849. 1 Incr. Deer.
Ctisto
Seise.lllB• ••• • • 5,406,483 5,253,272 .... 153,211
Tips.' ••• • • 4,102,574 4,287,577 185,003 ....
b e 461 942 1,686,747 224,805 ....
••• • •
Nesrt• • 1,
215,656 203,057 .... 12,599
02 ax. . 1,892,890 1,914,006 21,116 ....
. 221,000 224,000 3,000 ....
kis 41 Lac
nd's: . 20,000 20,000 •• • • Collaneous . 13,923 21,902 7,979 •• • •
Al
41' oney
oest other
er •• • •
•
itehyritie" •• • • 168,437 120,134 .... 48,303
erltS of
I -sqvances. .. 112,605 166,199 53,594 ....
T
° 1ne0rne.113,615,510 13,896,894 (495,497 214,113
Deduct Decrease 214.113

13,615,510
Ict Decreas

495,497
214,113

Increase on the Quarter .. £281,384

LThe
NI), Ordinary Revenue" for the October quarter, for
e4r9 Past, has been as follows :-
10, 1846.... £13,889,103
1847 12,612,191
1848.
r,1849 13,610,561
4tOefle compare the whole year's accounts, as made up
-"Jet', they will stand thus :
1846 .
1847..
184848,129,763
loth 1849
cn the whole, whether things are a little better
4;r481.e than they , were in the days of Protection, so
(itiit'ue Chancellor of the Exchequer is concerned, that
tut e another affair
where is the promised 4 " prosperity" ? does not
4t'a e a very long memory to recollect, that, in former
from the growth of wealth and population, there
4 t;;continual advance perceptible; so that, every year
o
we were accustomed to see some obnoxious tax
'We now have plenty of taxes that are justly
;oli`u• Such an one is the duty on hops—a tax levied
1? home product, and one which falls on the drinkers
Trltistt! a class which embraces at the very least nineteen
INlti°llB men for every ono of wealth or competence.
Itklef,,'" frightful tax is that on insurances—a tax utterly
,Tsible. But with such accounts as these before us,
,Ns(7ll we expect the repeal of any tax ? Four years
or leer--the population has grown in that time some
,
Per cent.—but the produce of the taxes, as paid
exchequer, appears to be in the October quarter
1846 £13,889,103
I,howi„ 1849
m°4 1,,"g an actual decline at the rate of nearly one mil-
tQr year
taxation ! This must extinguish all hope of a speedy
lon of .

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
"ldb. Itntwtsx —Thpool committee of share-
have at length succeeded, after a otracted
it b e of three years. in removing the head direction.
h,,°4l(er Curtius, the advocate of the shareholders,
eri named, ro tern chairman of the board, and
t 4 Lippman resigned Nei Inman has his seat of advocate to
k' aatill'a?Y• At the adjourned meeting, to be held on
icklelti '3' November, it is intended to completely .re-
;et% le laws of the company, and to appoint new di-
'eLtit n On the principle of a certain number of them
T 6 nt of office annually by rotation.
dimensions of the Pigmy Giant, which is now
1e4% F the Bow branch traffic of the Blackwall Railway,
:ehes
.01101" :—Cylinders, 8 inches diameter ; strake, 12
,driving wheels, 4 feet 6 inches; four carrying
misted u, fFet diameter ; eighty tubes, 11 inch diameter,
rde Inches long. The engine and tender are con-
kbie upon the same frame, with six wheels. and she is
wt °f carrying coke and water-in her tender sufficient
tltil6l, order, !Poar of
is about ten 30 9r 40 n-atpsto. Her weight, when in full
iOl ns.
ll the $I OF RAILWAY CoarrANlEs.—A passenger
4C.ltstern Counties has just recovered the sum of
held4f,fton2 the company, for not running their trains in
h;,"'itY with their official time tables, which the court
od ere in the nature of a public contract. The Mid-
;eta '4llPany have had to pay the value of eighteen bas-
-I,hl herrings, sent from' Yarmouth on Priday, and
f' erect fas contended were spoiled, they not being de-
tejlee in Leicester till the following Monday. The de-
:fts that the company were not bound to deliver
t
te:2
, Sunday ihkitir NEWda CASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY. A
tfleeting of the Liverpool shareholders on this line
atsZSni Friday, for the purpose of -appointing
.a de-
,klectgeneral meeting at York, on the 25th inst.,
ulrectors. Mr. A. H. Wylie was called to the
t;..44 P'4 opened the proceedings. After some remarks
Alellur, in opposition to paid managing direc-
rt444::: E. Mozley said, he objected altogether to the
ti,,ment of any motion for such an appointment. A
p
of Mr. Mellor, which was seconded by Mr.
th'tkqe'cloat no paid directors be appointed, having been
1-,4e Mr.. Sydney moved, as an amendment, that
,tl'l:l4"zi directors be appointed, at a salary of £7OO.
tiZtly" 4,11° a long and rather warm discussion ; and Bid-
A e chairman decided that both the motion and
r4;t7rldment were out of order and could not be put.
kiete,l,l°lt for the appointment of a delegate was then
k°l'ed after which Mr. E. Morley objected to it and
ofht4 as en amendment, that there be no delegate
After some further conversation, in the course
R tolt was stated that the delegate was not necessa-
ipt tort tee with the other delegates, but that his duties
41. ° rather negative than positive-; the chairman
tk,' the Ylle) was appointed the delegate from Liverpool,
meeting was adjourned:to 'Friday next, to receive
wYlie an account of -the meeting of delegates.
FZelle.l4' meetings were also held in London and in
hope and at the former Alderman Sidney and Sir J.
were appointed delegates.
t
rly ,EATHert has, during the past week, been se-
-41,;1110°Id, especially in the country. Portions of the
we'trantains are covered with patches of snow,
Vttirehave had, even in this town, so low a tem-
that a little freezing of water has resulted in '
N.,`q the'nts. The winds have been piercing, chiefly
Ihl lit" oorthward and eastward. Happily we now hear
'ft 'e of the ravages of cholera in our town, and still
Ih °to
4„„, other neighbouring quarters.
ite;; PORTABLE GALVANiC APPARATUS.—From
iNkalva.eYartn, ,—" That Mr. Halse stands' high as a inedi-
I)
of I,.st, and that he is generally considered as the
1,4‘'4.
,-1',4 profession, are farts which we have long
ofd twe did not know until very recently that he
411'ett'ePt the galvanic apparatus to such a high state
4 Ibbst `loe, that an invalid may galvanize himself with
eittkelvaeerfect safety. We happen to know something
Mhsis',4l ourselves, and we can truly say that his ap-
te9l ;,1' superior to anything of the kind we ever
eiaLfeei ,to those of our invalid friends, -therefore, who
tt,7l, 'lesirons of testing the remedial powers of galva-
eto4re be 94Y, apply at once to the fountain head. To
,Iltelieell.cficil results, it is necessary, as we can from
Liobeted „' assert, to be galvanized by an apparatus con-
eltieet4 the best principles ; for, although the sensa-
-111,4 eo,B,ance.difrom the smallest machines of the. corn-
eke cape unction during the operation is very similar to
~f4arde need by Mr.
vastly machines, yet the effects
,ito lilt
_produced are different, the one producing
t exhaust:on, and the other a feeling of renewed
oq
Whe "Ir. Raise particularly recommends galvanism
oration of muscular power in any part of the
he deficient of it." •

Ativtw‘ THE CHARITIES.
SktiAZOl3:3lOL INFIRMARY REPORT, Ocr. 13.
th4:41:11: ; Bade 1 utiiiir Q c patients,ueod: IL:1r ;eo.lllrte:,
icli;
Dead,
2.
htitilk ,1::): ilk-Patient-4.30 ; odt-p'atiena, 2 ; Casuals,during
2:turg:onail%l in„ g i.i r ttoi ussoe, . 8.
I nl7
Apothecary, Mr. J.
Nom"; Cliaplain Rev W. Blundell; Treasurer, Alfred
Vt'oppi'erE.B4. ; Ilotise Kist.tors, Thos. Bourne and.lohn
, Jun., Esqrs.
pAp 0 rt,r, """
0.0.............................•
k 1. 4 HERN
kki'lti 'ttr, . HOSPITAL REPORT. OcT. 13.
I,,,,itv4leladai. Accidents, 36; Medical and Surgical Cases upon
't't:(l iirld'2,l2 16; Total 52.--DISCHARGCured, 10;
1,41., 0 -.own request: 3; Attending' as OUt Patients, 26 ;
"ill '-led I.—Remaining in the Hospital, 82.
ktlrg-Z4'Suirgeon, J. M. Banner, Esq. ; Physician. and.
`4„04. ter the week, Dr. Scott and Mr. 13ambrigge ,
..i.t41:7.. V,ipitors, H. J. Sanderson and E. G. Deane,
ii.eatiul.e!louse Surgeons Mr. Teams and Mr. Wall ;
qt hes s, 13• H. Jones, 'Esq. ; Chaplain, Rev. Wm.
Rot
(:, h, l'ilf t D'"-----‘, oo
kiN N. ''''' & TOXTETH HOSPITAL, OCT. 10.
lttleityed „ . P.A 1 1E x•re. Under treatment
Nt1141!•
and ii• i ... . ......... 4 otu-riertENTs.
iitt . ..... 0% 0 request 3 I Cured and relieved
,I, rt,i • • ... •• • .......... 0 Entered 3l
N,i'erti,' • .
,•• • • ........... 0 Under treatment
11,111 t'ter.... ' . 16 1 ,ti A , .1r ... -
,iepdte .51 . ,;. Benjamin Platt; Honorary Chaplain, Rev. T.
'0 a tirke" house Surgeon, W. P. Harrison; Junior
sks eitl Apt), Mr. G. C. Shalira. n , Visitors, Rev. J. Rob-
ttv r• ctr.,,.0. Harrison ; Plrysicia. n and Surgeon for the
trti,,,
. J..,'run and M Mirnull.
by POOL
INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS,
Qt n
:et -4 ti, w,,„8, SOHO-STREET.
't kke tio„,._r•r.KLY REPORT, OCT. 13.
1) tally a',KE .... 91 I Boys on the Sick List 1
iton4ran":ndauce.. 82 Obtained Situations
t. 4 Seeret'arEs6l, Treasurer ; Joseph HUbbaCkp YRI',
eath and y,.; J B. Orriss, Superintendent ; Visitors,
a, J.
Anderson, Esqrs.