The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

THE TIME BALL over the Electric Telegraph-offices, in
Castle-street, now falls daily at one o'clock, Greenwich time.
PRICE OF GA.s.—Mr. Beloe has been appointed auditor
of the gas accounts, by the Recorder, with the consent of
the Gas Company and Guardian Society, with a view to
seeing whether there should be any, and what, reductions
in the price of gas.
ANN WEBSTER, who had been twice previously re-
manded on a charge of throwing vitriol in the face of her
"liege lord," was again brought up on Thursday, and
further remanded for seven days, her husband being still
unable to appear.
THE EMPIRE, Captain Stirch, 729 tons, which' sailed
from Liverpool on the Ist of March last, with 291 emi-
grants for Sydney, Australia, arrived there on the 27th
July last, after a protracted voyage of 141 days. Much
sickness prevailed on board, and fifteen died on the pas-
sage, including Dr. Hyams, Mrs. Hyams and child, and
twenty-six remained sick on arrival. Scurvy was the
prevailing disease.
Gnoss OUTRAGE.—During the performance of " Vir-
ginias," on Wednesday, at the Amphitheatre, and whilst
Mr. G. V. Brooke was delivering one of the most pathetic
parts of of it, an extra sensationwas created bysome person
in the crowded gallery throwing into the pit a porter bottle.
No serious result followed, though the formidable missile
struck a gentleman a violent blow on the back of his hand,
slightly abrading the skin. He immediately picked up the
bottle, and having found a police-officer, went in search of
the pOrpitrator, in order to give him into custody, but was
unsuccessful in discovering him.
WARRINGTON.—The annual election of councillors for
'the borough took place on Tuesday, and passed off with
less excitement than usual. The south-east ward was the
only one in which the contest was at all spirited, the
three candidates being nearly even the whole day. The
following was the state of the poll at the close, in the
several wards. South-east.—Mr. John Evans, 198; Mr.
Josiah Whittle, 177; *%lr. C. J. Hulme, 174. South-
west Ward—Mt. C. Heathcote, 172 ; Mr. Jas. Lee, 136 ;
*Mr. Leftwich, 65. •North-east Ward.—Mr. Jno. Bur-
gess, 429 ; Mr. Thos. Worrall, 411; *Mr. John Litton,
255. North-west Ward.—Mr. . Jones, 302 ; Mr.
Richard Peers, 288 ; *Mr. James Bentley, 196. Latch-
ford Ward.—Mr. William Lamb, unopposed. Those
marked thus * are thrown out, and the election, as a
whole, gives seven new members to the council.

TII‘STRIKES.—Wc have no improvement to notice in
the position of the question now agitating between the
employers in the manufacturing districts and their work-
people. At Preston, Wigan, Bacup, Burnley, Padiham,
and Accrington, all the mills are at a stand. In Man-
chester, at the present time, we believe all the mills are
at work, but a resolution come to by the members of the
Manufacturers' Association, at a meeting held on Monday
last, is likely to lead to a turn-out here also. The wages
that have been paid in Manchester for some time are, it
appears, larger than those agreed to be paid at Stockport,
on the conclusion of the late turn-out, and also larger
than the amounts in other districts. It was therefore
agreed, on Monday, that all the advances made to the
hands during the present year should be withdrawn after
the 3d of nest December, and notice to this effect will be
given in each mill as soon as the requisite signatures to
the resolution have been attached by the employers.—
Manchester Courier.

DISTURBANCE AT BLACKBURN.—A disturbance of
rather a serious character took place on Tuesday, at Black-
burn, during the municipal elections there. The principal
contest took place in St. Peter's ward, where a collision
took place between the Conservatives and the Liberals,
during which several persons were severely injured, two
of whom are not expected to recover. Some windows
were broken, which caused the tradesmen to shut up their
shops, and there was a good deal of excitement in the
town. Whilst these proceedings were going on, the houses
of several inhabitants in the neighbourhood of King-street
were subjected to the violence of the mob. About half-
past one o'clock the Fieldenite" party marched down
King-street in a body, and drove the " Hornbyites" from
the front of the hotel, inflicting very severe injuries on
several of the conspicuous leaders on that side, and taking
complete possession of the polling booth. Several isolated
contests took place in the course of the afternoon, in which
sundry houses, including the St. Ledger Inn, were singled
out for vengeance. The town of Blackburn was, during
twenty-four hours, entirely at the mercy of a mob just as
much as Wigan has been. The shops and banks were
dosed, and business was completely suspended. The result
of the election has been to place the radical party in a
large majority in the town council. During Tuesday
night a portion of the mob proceeded to Limefield and
attacked the house of Mr. R. R. Jackson, and entirely
demolished the windows in front of the house. Several
uhots were fired.

JONES v. ATTWOOD.—Mr. Atherton moved, at the
Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, by leave of Mr. Jus-
tice Erle, by whom this cause was tried at the last Liver-
pool assizes, to increase the damages from 40s. to £6,400.
This was anoction for the breach of a contract entered
into by the defendant with the plaintiffs, for the supply of
5,000 tons of iron rails during the two shipping seasons of
1853, and 1854, at £8 per ton, and the contract as declared
on contained a stipulaEon that the defendants should fur-
liish the plaintiffs with a pattern section in March, 1853,
and that, failing that, after request made, he should pay
the price of 400 tons of rails monthly, from May in each
year, until he should have paid the sum of £lO,OOO, being
one-half of each year's supply. The only plea was that no
request had been made, bait it appeared that the plaintiffs
had made one in proper time, and the only question at the
trial was, what the measure 'of damage ought to be which
the plaintiffs had sustained by the breach of the defend-
ant's contracts,it being a fact that they had delivered no
iron to the defendant, and that if they had been called
upon to complete their contract they would have been
losers by Its completion, a s the price of iron had risen
greatly. The jury, 'under these facts, found merely no-
minal damages, .and it was now contended for the de-
fendant that he was entitled to the sum mentioned
in the contract ;as the liquidated damage in The event
Which had in fact arisen. Besides this, it was stated that
there was a demurrer pending between the same parties,
which would raise the eame point. The Chief Baron, after
intimating doubts as to the success of the rule, stated that
as the motion was made by leave of the lemmed judge, and
the demurrer would enable the parties to take tile case 'to
a court of appeal, the rule to go as prayed. Rule nisi ac-
Tordingly.
DRAINAGE OF SOUTHPORT.—Mr. Newlands, the Liver-
pool borough engineer, has submitted his report to the
authorities at Southport, on the subject of draining that
town. lie says that Southport may be drained into the
sea directly.; but as the foreshore, by affording facilities
for bathing, is the main support of the town, there should
be no detefioration of it, by permitting offensive matter
to flow over it. The sewage, however, may be .conveyed
in covered conduits to a point below low water mark, and
this at 'first view may appear to be the most direct and
feasible plan of getting rid of it ; but experience teaches
that such conduits, even when they have a rapid fall and
a constant supply of water to flush them, 'are in a short
time so silted up as to become useless ; and as at 'South-
port such conduit must, from the relative tlevdis -of the
streets and foreshore, have very little fall, their silting up
at every 'tide wouldbe inevitable. But, begides this prac-
tical difficulty, the flow of the sewage into the seaoppo-
site the town, even at low water, would create a
nuisance detrimental to the interests of Southport as a
watering place. 'Under these circumstances he con-
ceives that any means of getting rid of the _sewage 'by
allowing it to be discharged into the sea opposite the
town either at 'high or low water would be attended.by
injurious results, and should not, therefore, be attempted.
He also considers the proposition to convey the sewage
inland directly, and by gravitation to Fine Jane's Brook
objectionable, as a sufficient fall could not be obtained.
The plan by which he proposes to effect the object most
effectually is to convey the sewage by drains to a well or
sumph, whence it might !be 'raised by steam power to such
a height as would cause 'it to low by gravitation to the
distance required. He says that the sewage may 'be cal-
lected in three different ways-Ist, bk making an inter-
cepting sewer along the sea shore, into which the sewage
from all the streets would be conducted, and from which it
might be raised et any convenient point by steam power ;
2nd, by making an intercepting sewer along the bed 'of
the Nile, with a pumping station in some convenient part
of it, and conveying into this sewer the sewage from the
streets running at right angles to it; 3rd, by making a
pumping station in the 'neighbourhood of Hill-street,
thereby obtaining better gradients with the same depth of
sewer. Of the three plans the borough engineer recom-
mends the third, which involves the erection of a central
pumping station, and which he conceives would be fully
adequate to all the wants of the town. The cost of the
main sewer, outlet pipe, &c., would be £8,040, and that
sum borrowed at four per cent. would involve a payment
for interest of £321 12s. per annum ; one-thirtieth of the
principal, as a sinking fund, would amountto £268, making
The annual charge on the permanent outlay, when the
-works are completed, £589 12s. ; annual cost of pumping
station, £400; making the total annual charge £989 12s.

BOILER EXPLOSION AT BLlcgmyßif.-SEVIN PERSONS
MILLED.-An accident of the most appalling description
occurred on Wednesday morning, at Blackburn, on pre-
mises occupied by Mr. W. Hesketh, cotton-manufacturer,
by which seven persons were killed, and several others
were injured. The premises are situated in Starkie-street,
and toteprise a cotton factory, four stories in height, ad-
joining -which was a weaving shop, two stmies high at the
back, and one story in the portion fronting to the street.
The boiler-house fills up the space between this building
and two cottages at the corner of Penny-street. Behind
the boiler-house was the engine-room. Mr. Hesketh em-
ploys about 100 hands, of whom rather more than half
work at the looms. The boiler which exploded was in the
boiler-house J'tst alluded to. On Wednesday morning the
engine was started at six o'clock, and worked till tight,
when it was stopped for the breakfast hour. At half-past
eight o'clock it was started again, and almost immediately
afterwards the boiler exploded with a tremendous report,
the back plate flying through the engine-house into a
yard behind the houses in a street called Salford; whilst
the boiler shot in the opposite direction a distance of
about 20 yards, right across Starkie-street, imbed-
ding itself in one of the lower rooms of the Fleece Inn,
at the corner of Penny-street. It penetrated three
walls in its passage—first, the outer wall of the boiler-
house, (nine inches thick,) then a 14-inch boundary wall in
front of the public-house, and, lastly, through the wall of
the house itself, also about nine inches in thickness. The
effects of the explosion were of the most widely-spread and
disastrous character, the whole of the boiler-house being
levelled with the ground, as also the one-story portion of
the weaving shed ; and the upper story of the remainder,
the lower story of the back part of this building, and also
the engine-house were completely gutted. The nearest of
the two cottages before spoken of was shaken entirely
down, scarcely a fragment of a wall being left standing.
Fortunately, only fourteen or fifteen of the hands had
returned from breakfast when the explosion took place.
The engineer, Edward Sharpies, and the fireman, James
Walmsley, were in the boiler-house at the time of the
explosion, and also Thomas Sharpies, the son of the fire-
man, all of whom were afterwards brought out. Mr.
Hesketh was in the weaving shop when the accident took
place, and escaped unhurt. Great numbers of people were
speedily assembled round the place, and as soon as possible
about 100 men from the crowd were set to work by
Mr. Withers, the town surveyor, to disengage those who
were buried under the ruins. On Saturday an inquest was
held on the bodies, and, after several witnesses had been
examined, the inquiry was adjourned till Saturday next.
In the meantime Mr. Fairbairn, or Mr. Naysmith, engi-
neers, Manchester, is to be consulted as to the condition of
the boiler. In the course of the inquiry it transpired that
Sharples, the engine-tenter, had been repeatedly cautioned
as to having the steam too high.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Of 590 SOLDIERS stationed at Gateshead barracks, not
one was seized with cholera during the late fatal outbreak
in the district. _

NEWBY PARK has been purchased from Mr. Hudson,
for £190,000, on behalf of Viscount Downe, already a
large landed proprietor in Yorkshire.
THE MIDLAND COUNTIES POULTRT SHOW.—The en-
tries closed on the 29th October, and numbered 362 pens,
amounting to upwards of one thousand birds. There are,
we understand, entries in every class and section.
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION took place on Wednesday in
the premises of Mr. Woodin, firework maker, Shadwell,
and Mrs. Woodin and a boy were so seriously burned that
their lives are despaired of.
A PROVIDENT MOUSE.—In an allotment garden at
Loughborough, the other day, there was found a mouse's
nest, in which were 181 broad beans and an onion, stowed
there, undoubtedly, as food for the approaching winter.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The winter session was
opened on Tuesday, by Principal Lee, who delivered an
able and learned inaugural discourse, which was heard
with much attention by a numerous assemblage.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.
THE LONDON NECROPOLIS is about to be begun at
Guildford, the commoners having been arranged with and
paid £15,000 for their rights, which they valued at
£22,000. Lord Onslow is also arranged with for 2,118
acres for the cemetery.

PRICE OF BREAD.—On Monday the bakers throughout
the metropolis again raised the price of the 41b loaf one-
halfpenny. The first-rate bakers at the West-end, who
have been charging 111 d., now charge is. to is. Old. for
the best, the second rate from 91-d. to 10d. per 41b. Many
of what are called "cheap bakers" charge Bd. to 9d.
MARRIAGE PORTIONS.—On Wednesday the trustees of
Archbishop Laud's and Theodore Randue's charity met at
the Town-hall, Windsor, and elected eight young maidens
as the recipients of the marriage portions provided by the
benevolence of Archbishop Laud and Mr. Randue, two
centuries ago.
A CASE FOR ARBITRATION.--We think it might be
fairly expected of Messrs. Cobden thid Bright, and the
Peace Society, that they should offer their services to ar-
range terms, on peace principles, between the turn-outs
of Lancashire and their employers. The opportunity ought
certainly not to be let slip.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
THE ELECTRIC Loom.—lt is stated in the Piedmontese
Gazette that one of the first manufacturers of Lyons, M.
Bezon, having visited Turin expressly to examine Cheva-
lier Bonelli's new invention of an electric loom, has again
set out for Lyons with drawings, and a description of the
apparatus, which he is to present to the Chamber of Com-
merce of that city, together with his report on the inven-
tion, of which he has expressed the highest approbation.
SCOTCH LAW.—The wife of a musician, in Edinburgh,
eloped with a foreign flute-player in his band. The in-
jured husband commenced proceedings for a divorce,
whereupon the wife sued him for alimony pendente lite.
The sheriff awarded her 12s. per week, for non-payment
of which her husband was sent to prison. As the poor
musician had no means of support, he made in his turn
application for aliment from his creditor ; and the sheriff
this time awarded him eightpence per day.
AN AMERICAN BISHOP ON ENGLISH MORALS.—Mr.
Caswall states that in conversing with the Bishop of Con-
necticut, and comparing the morals of the agricultural
parts of our southern counties with those of Connecticut,
as described by the bishop, he had reason to be ashamed
for our agricultural poor :—" A few statistics respecting
unmarried mothers and disgraceful marriages among this
class, fairly horrified the worthy prelate ; and he stated
that such things were unknown within his diocese equally
among churchmen and among dissenters."
THE BELLOT TESTIMONIAL.--A densely-crowded meet-
ing was held al Friday, at Willis's Rooms, to carry out the
above object. Sir Roderick Murchison presided ; and Sir
James Graham, with a number of gentlemen of eminence,
were present. Resolutions were passed for erecting a
statue to Lieutenant Bellot's memory at Greenwich Hos-
pital, and for investing the surplus of the subscriptions for
the benefit of his family. The sub-committee were in-
structed to render the subscriptions general throughout
the kingdom. Subscriptions exceeding £l,OOO were
announced, the list including the names of several mem-
bers of the Cabinet.

DISGRACEFUL PROSECUTION.—At Wakefield Quarter
Sessions, last week, Isabella Heuland, head woman in the
milliner's shop of Thomas Searle, was tried for having
stolen a handful or two of " clippings," which she had
given away to the assistants in the shop. She was in
London, upon her master's business, when this serious
offence was discovered, and a police-officer was sent from
Wakefield to apprehend her ! The value of the goods was
a mere nothing, and the chairman stopped the case as
soon as the prosecutor had given his evidence, believing
that there was no case. The decision was received with
applause by a crowded court.
LUMLEY v. GYE.—The curious case of " Lumley v. Gye"
is still pending, and will be tried at the sittings after the
ensuing Michaelmas Term. It is an action against Mr.
Gye for inducing Miss Johanna Wagner to break her al-
leged contract with Mr. Lumley, who lays his damages at
£30,000. The principal witnesses, including Mis Wagner
herself, being beyond the regular jurisdiction of the
English courts, a commission has been issued to take their
evidence at Berlin, where their examination will be con-
ducted by English counsel, through the medium of an in-
terpreter. Mr. Hayward, Q.C., has been named sole com-
missioner, and will discharge the duties of a judge at a
nisi prius trial. The commission was to be opened at
Berlin on the 7th inst.

CLERICAL VoTEs.—At the late registrations for the
city of Gloucester, objection was made by the liberals to
the votes of the Very Rev. the Dean, and the Revs. Sir J.
H. Seymour, Bart., Edward Bankes, and H. Wetherell,
canons of the cathedral, on the score of their paying no
rates.. It appears that the dean and canons have been in
the habit, from time immemorial'," of paying a " dona-
tion" of £lO annually in lien of the poor-rate, which is
entered pro rata against their names in the parish book.
The objectors contended this did not amount to being
rated. This was the third or fourth occasion on which
the same question has been raised ; and it was again deter-
mined by the revising barrister that the votes were valid,
inasmuch as the parties objected to paid all rates de-
manded of them.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW FOE 1863 will be
held, as usual, at the Baker-street Bazaar, Portman-square,
London, and will commence on Tuesday, the 6th of De-
cember. The beasts are to be arranged in nineteen classes,
according to their respective breeds, and for each of the
four classes of the Devon, Hereford, and short-horn breeds,
prizes to the amount of £l2O will be awarded ; to the
Welsh, Scotch, and Trish breeds, £l5 ; to other pure
breeds, under certain restrictions, £2O ; and for cross or
mixed breeds, £3O ; making the total amount of sums to
be paid in prizes for approved cattle £425. The prizes
for sheep amount to £lB5, while £45 will be adjudged to
the best pigs shown, thus making the total in money
prizes amount to £665, with five gold and five silver
medals. _ _

AFFECTING Scimr.—On Tuesday se'nnight the curate
of St. Margaret's, Westminster, officiated in the morning,
it being the festival of St. Luke ; whilst engaged in the
service, his wife was seized with cholera, and died in the
short space of thirty hours. On the following Sunday,
the same gentleman preached a funeral sermon over the
remains of his wife, and took his text from Ezekiel, xxiv.,
15 to 19. " Also the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying, ' Son of man, behold I take away from thee the
desire of thine eyes with a stroke, yet neither shalt thou
mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run. Forbear to
cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of
thine head upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet,
and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.' So
I spake ' unto the people in the morning, and in the
evening my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was
commanded, and the people said unto me, Wilt thou not
4AIII us what these things are to us, that thou doest so ?' "
'From this text he preached a most impressive sermon ;
there was scarcely a dry eye in the church, and the only
.one who seemed perfectly unmoved was the preacher him-
self, such was the complete command which he possessed
over the expression of his own feelings, necessarily acute.
EXEEAORDINA EY Drenprionr.—A man and his wife,
named Airley, flax-spinners, were living at Garngad-hill,
Glasgow, and also another family named M`Donald. The
Airleys were childless, the wife being some years older
than the husband, who was nevertheless very anxious to
be 'blessed with a child. Some time ago Mrs. Airley
quitted her flax-spinning, and set herself to attend to her
domestic arrangements, which included an occasional
Application to sundry trifles of baby-linen—shadows of
an important coming event which was to fulfil her hus-
band's whales. On the evening of Wednesday, Mrs.
Airdley, who had been out all day, returned, accompanied
by a midwife; and when the husband came home from his
work, " a thumping boy, with its eyes open, the picture of
its poor dear father,, ' was put into his arms. Meanwhile
the 31`Donalds, who had been absent at work all day,
returned in -the ,evening, and found that their son, a boy
of five weeks old, had suddenly disappeared. A female
acquaintance had been loitering about the house all day,
fondled the child, fed it with a spoon, and finally, in the
dusk of the evening, disappeared with it. Immediately
after an infant had been seen by two men lying under a
hedge in a field,but a woman came up, claimed it, and
carried it off. The NrDonalds immediately applied to the
authorities, by whose assistance the missing child was
traced to the Airleys, and, while the happy husband was
making merry with his neighbours over the birth of his
supposed firstborn, the police-officers came in, accompanied
by a medical man, who declared the young stranger to be
at least five weeks old, and the birth a hoax. The child
was therefore restored to its mother, and the pretended
mother taken off to prison. The real mother of the child
has been prostrated on a bed of sickness, in a state ap-
proaching to raving madness, ever since her boy was first
missed, raising terrific screams on any attempt to remove ,
her child from her close embrace. 1

A RELIGIOUS MENDlCANT.—Cambridge at this mo-
ment
hi! prenocfh,vsagwriaana,saoef mall
ran
, and English to boot, are
to be met with, levying contributions on the charitable
public, and every artifice is resorted to by the mendicants
to evade the law. Amongst the most "gentlemanly" of
these beggars is a Mr. Ross, who MACS the following
petition:— The petition of Donald Ross, servant of God,
unto the nobles in London. v
-our petitioner humbly
showeth, asketh, and telleth the reward which shall be
given at the last great day of judgment. That I went
forth to Franee last past winter to preach and to teach the
things which Christ the Son of God commanded his dis-
ciples to preach and to teach to all nations, having his
wordlearn fnogr
,not becausego I
am
through the course of
poor. In France
I was cast into prison on the last past Bth day of March,
in college pelrfe°ecutlldy,
and brought out of prison on the last past sth day of July,
and leave was given me by the French Government to
come to England; leave was rejected me to go forth from
France to Spain, according to the command of Christ,
because I am poor. Your petitioner humbly asketh your
compassion on me, who am poor, and seeketh anything
your compassion nioveth you, nobles, to give me, which
shall ever be remembered by me, and Christ the King
shall remember it, when he shall come in his glory, and all
the holy angels with him ; when he shall sit on the throne
of his glory, the King shall say, ' Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done
it unto me.' The reward shall be given, then is life eternal
—St. Matthew, 25th chapter.
Your humble petitioner
shall ever pray. I am, Nobles in London, your humble
servant, DONALD Ross, Servant of God."—Other docu-
ments, equally " religious," were found upon Ross when
he was apprehended. We trust that the really benevolent
will not encourage these MIA c Impostors.—Cambridge
Chronicle,

Tilt LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COINIMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

Two WOMEN STABBED.- An American sailor, who
gave his name Cocklin Jones, has been arrested at Bristol,
charged with wounding two young women, named Mary
Ann Dingly and Mary Ann Sanders. The sufferers were
conveyed to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and the prisoner
was shortly apprehended, and he stands remanded to
await the result of his atrocious violence.
PROPAGATION OF SALMON.—The committee appointed
by the salmon fishing proprietors of the Tay have already
eommenced operations ; the spawning boxes and one pond
have been commenced, and under the direction of Mr.
Ramsbottom, who has had so much experience in this way
in Ireland, a first effort will be made in the neighbourhood
of Stormontfield this season.—Perthshire Courier.
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DESTRUCTIVE STOR3I.—On Thursday night a terrific
storm visited Chelmsford and its neighbourhood. At the
expiration of the first half hour it was thought its fury was
expended, but after a short comparative cessation, the
storm burst forth again with all its original force; the
lowlands were inundated before many hours had elapsed ;
and considerable loss has been sustained.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.— A large meeting has been
held at Nottingham to memorialise the Queen on our
foreign policy. This assemblage passed only one resolu-
tion, viz., " That her Majesty would he pleased to com-
mand that all foreign communications should cease
instantly, that a new Parliament should be summoned to
inquire into the conduct of her Majesty's servants and
the system on which foreign affairs were conducted, with
a view to the rectification of abuse." A similar meeting
has been held at Derby.
THE ANNIE JANE.—The Barra correspondent of the
Inverness Courier writes from Barra, the scene of the
wreck of the Annie Jane :—" The shore is strewn with
dead bodies, many having their limbs broken or dissevered.
Among the corpses is that of a French Protestant minis-
ter of Montreal, M. tVernier ; and it is affecting to see
three young missionaries who were with him, natives of
Switzerland, shedding tears over his remains. A Captain
Rose and his lady are also among the drowned; and near
them lies the body of a little girl, well-dressed, her eyes
still remaining open, and expressing the agonies of terror."
MURDER OP A CHILD IN DERBYSHIRE.—On Tuesday
morning a girl of about two years old, the illegitimate
daughter of a woman named Martin, was drowned in a
well, by its unnatural grandmother, in the village of Loscoe.
From the evidence adduced at the inquest, it appeared that
on the morning above named, Ann Martin, the grand-
mother, aged sixty, took the child out of the house in
which she and it dwelt, and deliberately threw it into the
well where it was drowned. The jury returned a verdict
of " Wilful. Murder," and the prisoner was committed for
trial at the next Derby assizes.

EXPLOSION OP A FIREWORK MANUFACTORT.—A ter-
rible explosion took place, on Wednesday, at the work-
shops of Mr. Henniker, a gun-maker, at Chatham. He
and his three sons had been engaged for some time past
in preparing fireworks for the 6th of November. Mrs.
Henniker was leaving the workshop with a large quantity
of squibs, when they became ignited, and the roof and one
side of the workshop were blown away, and the furniture
demolished. Mrs. Henniker was found fearfully burnt
and scorched, and apparently dying. A son, aged four-
teen, was greatly injured by the explosion, and lies in a
precarious state. The other sons, though much injured,
are progressing favourably.
ST. MARGARET'S, NEAR RICHMOND.—The beautiful
estate on the banks of the Thames, a short distance from
Richmond-bridge, comprising the noble mansion, built by
Cubitt, from the designs of Mr. Vullamy, for the Earl of
Kilmorey, and the picturesque park of seventy-five acres,
has just been purchased for the Conservative Land Society.
The estate has a magnificent river frontage, affording
most picturesque and extensive views. It is immediately
opposite Richmond Gardens, and is within a short distance
of three stations on the South-western Railway. It is
proposed to ensure, as far as poasible, the erection of first-
class houses, in order to render the purchase a real public
improvement to this charming suburb.

RECOVERY OF A WIFE THROUGH THE ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH.—A few days since a telegraphic message
was received at the Strood station of the North Kent
Railway, to the following effect Please detain two
ladies, the one short and the other tall, and a man very
much marked with the small-pox." The parties were
stated to be in a first-class carriage. In consequence of
this communication, on the arrival of the train at Higham,
the carriages were locked, and the parties were detained
on their arrival at Strood. A message back to London
brought down a gentleman, who claimed one of the
ladies as his wife, who, it was said, had eloped with
his managing main. After some parleying the lady joined
her husband, and the parties depaited in cabs, taking
different directions.—Kentish Observer.

I" ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.—The Chester and Holyhead
steamer Cambria, which left Kingstown yesterday morn-
ing week, had a rough passage, and, when approaching
Holyhead, a heavy sea struck the vessel, carrying away
the starboard bulwarks, and the corresponding side of the
saloon on deck, which was then occupied by several pas-
sengers. Several people were injured by this catastrophe;
one lady, a Mrs. Nugent, from Leamington, received a
simple fracture on the right leg. Two servants of Major
Hart, 49th regiment, were also badly injured. Mr. D. J.
Dinjam and Mr. J. W. Wilson, assistant-surgeons, R.N.,
who were passengers, relinquished their journey to London
until night, in order to afford medical aid to the sufferers.

DESPERATE ASSAULT UPON AN UNDERGRADUATE.—
At the Cambridge Borough Police Court, !on Wednesday,
a man named John Willis, aged about 23, was charged
with an assault upon Mr. P. J. Woodgate, of Queen's
College. The prisoner is a denizen of a low locality, and
has been several times before the magistrates for felony
and assaults. From the evidence it appeared that the com-
plainant was walking round Parker's-piece on Tuesday
evening, about half-past five, and was accosted by the pri-
soner just opposite the town gaol, a lad being in the com-
pany of the latter. Prisoner asked him to stand some
beer, but he declined, and proceeded on his way. The
two followed him down Regent-street, and, just after
passing the Prince Regent, the prisoner stepped up to him
and dealt him a violent blow on the head which felled
him to the ground insensible. When he recovered he
found he had received a most severe contusion, which,
from its desperate character, appeared far more likely to
have resulted from a weapon than a fist only. In answer
to the bench, the prosecutor said the prisoner did ask him
for money, but denied that he threatened to expose him
on refusal ; a female had previously accosted prosecutor,
but he repulsed her advances. The prisoner here asserted
that Mr. Woodgate threatened to give him "a poke on the
head " if he did not go away, and that prosecutor actually
' struck him first ; but this Mr. Woodgate denied, as also
that he promised to treat the prisoner at the Prince
Regent. The Mayor, after some suitable observations on
the atrocious nature of the assault and the character of the
defence, sentenced the prisoner to pay a penalty of £5, or
two months' hard labour, and, as he had no money, he was
sent to gaol. There are a number of fellows, of a similar
character to the prisoner, continually lurking round
Parker's-piece to entrap the unwary.
SHOCKING} MURDER NEAR WINDSOR.-031 Tuesday
night a murder, attended with circumstances of peculiar
atrocity, was perpetrated at Burnham Abbey Farm, about
four miles from Windsor, on the person of Mary Anne
Sturgeon, a young woman, housekeeper to Mr. Goodwin,
the occupier of the farm. That gentleman, returning
home about, half-past eleven at night, and letting himself
into the house by a latch-key, found on the stairs, as he
was proceeding to his room, a human tooth and a hair-pin.
He likewise perceived a dense smoke, and a strong smell
of burning, which seemed to proceed from the bed-room
of the deceased. Calling for assistance, he entered the
bed-room, and discovered the body of the unfortunate
woman lying near the fire-place, with her legs on the
hearth-rug ; on the legs and body of the deceased was a
mass of fire still burning fiercely and consuming her re-
mains. On examining the body, it was found that both
legs had been burned off close to the trunk, from which
they were completely separated. The head and upper
part of the body had not been touched by the fire, but
they exhibited marks of great violence. One of the teeth
had been knocked out, and had been, as already stated,
found by Mr. Goodwin on the stairs. The head was in-
jured as if by blows from a heavy blunt instrument, and
near it was a large pool of blood ' • while on the floor of
the apartment and on the hand-rail and stair there were
also marks of blood, and from various appearances it was
evident that deceased bad been murdered down stairs, and
that her body had afterwards been carried up to her bed-
room,where the attempt to destroy it by burning had been
made. To facilitate the destruction, a dressing table and
some linen had been employed as fuel ; the fire had burned
through the floor of the chamber, and was consuming the
joists when it was discovered. Plunder appears to have
been the object of the murderers, some valuable rings, a
gold pencil-case, and other articles, having been stolen
from the bed-room of Mr. Goodwin. Circumstances at
first seemed to throw suspicion on the groom of Mr. Good-
win, a man named Moses Altow, but the early steps of
inquiry tended to remove that suspicion.
THE LAST SESSION.—A summary of the attendance of
members of the House of Commons during the past ses-
sion has just been published. The gentleman most punc-
tual in his attendance has been Mr. Duncan, member for
Dundee, who has been absent from only 11 divisions, and
present at 246; on the other hand, Mr. Horsman has
attended only one division. Colonel Gilpin, member for
Beds., has been present at only two ; Sir R. Lopes (North
Devon) at only seven ; T. B. Macaulay at only nine. The
two members for Bodmin, Mr. Sawle and Dr. Michell,
have been, after Mr. Duncan, most punctual in the house.
The Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam, (Mahon) Colonel Powell,
(Cardiganshire,) and Mr. Roebuck, have not attended any
divisions. Of the Ministry, the two whippers-in, W. G.
Hayter and the Hon. G. L. C. Berkeley, have been present
at 224 and 222 divisions respectively, having both been
surpassed in punctuality by Lord Alfred Hervey, who has
attended 225, and the latter whip equalled by the Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Earl of Mulgrave,
an occasional whip, has been present at 207, while the
Secretary for Ireland has attended 221. The attendance
of the other Ministers ranges as follows :—Mr. Jas. Wilson
at 201 divisions : Mr. R. Lowe, 197 ; the Secretary-at-War,
and the President of the Board of Trade, at 183; the Pre-
sident of the Poor-law Board, 175 ; the First Lord of the
Admiralty, 171; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 170 :
the Attorney-General, 169 ; the Hon. W. F. Cowper, 168 :
the Chief Commissioner of the Public Works, 162 ; Lord
Elcho and Mr. Monsell, 161 ; the Home Secretary, 160;
Lord E. Bruce and the Hon. H. Fitzroy at 158 ; Mr.
Frederick Peel, 158 ; the Judge-Advocate, 152 ; the Secre-
tary to the Admiralty, 147; Lord John Russell, 136; the
Solicitor-General for Ireland, 134; the Solicitor-General,
(Sir R. Bethell,) 131; the President of the India Board,
106 ; Mr. Sadleir, a member during only the last two
months of the session, 64. Of the independent supporters
of the Ministry, the most punctual has been Mr. H. W.
Wickham, (Bradford,) who has attended 187 divisions ; Sir
R. H. Inglis has attended 84; Sir Thomas Acland, 83;
and Mr. Goulburn, 32. Sir George Grey, the most pro-
minent of the Whigs not in office, has attended 79. The
attendance of the chiefs of the Opposition present an average
much below that of the Ministers. Mr. Spooner
Stanley, stands
first, 187; Mr. Frewen, 167; J. Napier,l39 ; Lord
128; Lord Naas, 116; J. W. Henley, 110; Sir J. Paking-
ton 107; Mr. Newdegate, 103 ; Sir J. Trollope, 101; S.
H. Walpole, 91; B. Disraeli, 89 ; Lord J. Manners, 87 ;
A. Stafford, 84 ; Colonel Sibthorp, 66; R. A. Christopher,
67; Sir Fitzroy Kelly, 51; Major Beresford, 50; Sir F.
Thesiger and Mr. Loftus Wigram at 39. Of the Radicals,
Mr. Wilkinson (member for Lambeth) has heen most
punctual; he stands first, having attended one more
division than Lord Alfred Hervey, after whom and the
Treasury whips comes Sir George Goodman, (member for
Leeds,) who has attended 204 divisions. Mr. Brotherton
has attended 161; Mr. Cobden only 110 ; Mr. Bright,
100 ; Mr, Hume, 9/ ; Mr. H. Drummond, BR ; And Mr.
Thomas Duncombe only O.

THE MAYOR AND MR. R. GLADSTONE.

The following correspondence will explain itself :
Union-court, 2d November, 1853.
the course of the observations that fell from
you in the Town Council, at the meeting on Monday last, I
understood you to say that you had, on several occasions,
been provoked to retort, but that you had been determined
to bear in silence the remarks that had been made by me.
You must be aware that it would have been in vain for
me to attempt to reply to this statement at the moment;
but I am not aware, in fact I deny, that, on any occasion,
I have made use of language inconsistent with the fair and
legitimate rules of debate, or such as was unbecoming the
appointment I hold as a representative of the people.
You will oblige me, therefore, by informing me what it
is you refer to, when I will take an opportunity of pointing
out another error you committed, as well as the irrelevancy
of your observations in so far as they relate to the real and
main point at issue.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE.
Samuel Holme, Esq., Mayor, &c., &c., Town-hall.

Town-hall, Liverpool, Nov. 3, 1853.

,
SIR,—I have neither time nor inclination to enter into
a correspondence on the subject to which your note refers.
When I have vacated the position which I now hold, I
shall be quite prepared in the Council-chamber to answer
any questions you may be pleased to put, and to vindicate
any opinions which I have ever utttered.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant, SAMUEL HOLME.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq.

Union-court, 3rd November, 1853.
Sin,—l have received your note of this day's date. In
it you inform me that you have neither time nor inclina-
tion to enter into a correspondence on the subject to which
my communication refers ; but that when you have vacated
the position you hold, you will be quite prepared, in the
Council-room, to answer any questions, or to vindicate
any opinions you may have uttered.
Permit me to remark, that inasmuch as neither time
nor inclination were wanting, on your part, to make a
statement, which I contend is an unfounded one, it
appears to be not only your duty, but an act of justice
towards the individual to whom that statement refers,
that you should, whenever called upon, be prepared to
verify it, at an sacrifices, either of time or convenience.
You have no pretext for attempting to shelter yourself—
you have no fair grounds on which to procrastinate until
a season more convenient should arrive. A plain answer
is required to a plain question ; and, as the party con-
cerned, I cannot recognise any right or authority you may
claim to defer answering, for a comparatively indefinite
period, that which ought now to receive a prompt and
decisive reply.
But since silence is the course you have marked out for
yourself, it will be for me to appeal to a competent tri-
bunal—the public—who, I cannot doubt, will be able to
form a correct judgment between us, and to determine
whether the only and proper inference to be drawn from
your conduct is, or is not, that you have made a statement
which you have no means of substantiating.
Before I conclude, I will endeavour, though somewhat
hurriedly, to redeem the promise I made in my first com-
munication, that I would take an opportunity of pointing
out another error you had fallen into, as well as direct
attention to the irrelevancy of your observations, in so
far as they relate to the real and main point at issue.
In the course of your remarks at the Council meeting
on Monday last, you said that when I was Mayor of
Liverpool I had assisted in laying the foundation-stone of
the Collegiate Institution, and on that occasion had in-
vited you to a dinner at the Town-hall. You are mis-
taken : I was not Mayor of Liverpool when the foundation-
stone was laid ; but I was so when that institution was
opened : and inasmuch as one of my brothers was spe-
cially invited to take a part in the ceremony, I did give a
dinner at the Town-hall; and I would have done just the
same thing for the Mechanics' Institution.
But the case is altogether foreign to the point I brought
before the notice of the Council : what took place, in re-
spect of the Collegiate Institution was within the pre-
cincts of the borough, where if anything was said or done
that was wrong, it would of necessity be at once known,
and a remedy be speedily applied ; but the objection I
raised referred solely to your travelling beyond the pre-
cincts of the borough, to your visit to the Mayor of Lon-
don, without the knowledge or sanction of the Council,
and where and when you, in the capacity of Mayor of
Liverpool (and it was to be presumed, as representing the
views of the Council), did discuss the subject of education,
in what form or manner is immaterial—thus establishing
a precedent which I believe to be dangerous to the best
interests of the Corporation, and opposed to the rights, in-
dependence, and freedom of the members of the Town
Council.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE.
Samuel Holme, Esq., Mayor, &c., &c., Town-hall.

LIVERPOOL STEAM-BOAT PROPRIE•
TORS it THE PILOTS' COMMITTEE.

Liverpool Steam-ship Association,
3, High-street, Liverpool, 14th October, 1863.
am desired by the Liverpool Steam-ship Asso-
ciation to inform you that several members of the associa-
tion are now prepared to bring forward their masters and
mates for examination by the Pilots' Committee, that they
may have certificates granted to them, in pursuance of
" The Pilotage Law Amendment Act, 1853," and to re-
quest that you will inform m • at your earliest conveni- •
ence, at what time and p 1 • • Pilots' Committee will
examine such masters and .. I shall also be obliged
to you to inform me of any regulations of the Pilots' Com-
mittee of which it is necessary that masters and mates
applying to be examined should be informed.—l am, Sir,

join: obedient servant, BEN. J. Tuomsort.
D. Rowland, Esq.,
Secretary to the Pilots' Committee, Liverpool.

Pilot-office, Liverpool, 26th October, 1853.
am desired by the Liverpool Pilots' Committee
to inform you that they do not intend to grant any
licenses to any persons who have not been apprenticed,
and regularly brought up in the Liverpool pilot service,
and are not meaning to continue in that service as their
only pursuit ; and that, therefore, they have not made
any regulations, nor do they intend to do so, for the ex-
amination of any masters or mates of steam vessels who
might be willing to offer themselves for the purpose.
In coming to this determination, the Liverpool Pilots'
Committee have had singly in view the public interest, and
an anxious desire for the protection of the vast amount of
lives and property in charge of steam-vessels resorting to
the port of Liverpool; and because they are satisfied that
there are peculiarities connected with the pilot service of
Liverpool which apply to no other place, so that it is not
sufficient for a Liverpool pilot that a man should be a the-
oretical and a practical seaman, or be experienced in the
pilotage of vessels in any other port, or even possess a ge-
neral knowledge of the coast and harbour of Liverpool,
acquired from long experience in the coasting trade. All
or any of these qualifications do not ensure the knowledge
and aptitude essential in the Liverpool pilot, for the follow-
ing amongst other reasons :

Because the approaches and entrances to the port of
Liverpool are extremely difficult and intricate, and subject
to continual and considerable change, and the requisite
knowledge of such changes, for the purposes of safe navi-
gation, can only be kept up by uninterrupted and almost
daily observation, as Capt. Evans, R.N., the conservator of
the river, and Lieut. Lord, R.N., the marine surveyor of
the Liverpool Docks, have, in their printed reports, abun-
dantly demonstrated.
That it is an essential part of the education of a Liver-
, pool pilot to acquire the knowledge of a large extent of
coast • and before a pilot's license is granted to him, he is
subjected to a strict examination in this respect, because
in the way of his calling it may be necessary that the ship
under his charge should run for shelter to the Isle of
Man, to Beaumaris Bay, to Chester Water, and to Wyre
Water, as far as the Pile of Foundry ; and the knowledge
' of safe places to resort to, according to the point of the
winds, can only be gained by such apprenticeship as the
Liverpool pilots are compelled to undergo, and by the
knowledge of currents and sandbanks, which can only
be acquired by unremitting observation.
That the bringing up and education of a pilot from
early life, in a particular locality, where danger is to be
apprehended to ships, and cargoes, and passengers ; his
being inured from a boy to all the hardships, trials, and
difficulties of the stations, and the sense of personal res-
ponsibility under which he acts, and the conviction that
he is constantly under the observation of an executive
body, having great powers to punish any misconduct—all
these circumstances give him a status which is eminently
calculated to ensure sobriety, vigilance, and promptitude,
on which the lives and property placed in his charge
mainly depend.
The position of a pilot is so essentially that of a middle-
man, between the shipowners and masters on the one
hand, and the owners of cargo and the public on the other,
that, as soon as a vessel receives him on board in his pilot
ground, the authority of the master is superseded, and the
responsibility of the owners is at an end.
That this position of the pilot as the recognised public
guardian of lives and property, at the mouths of ports and
havens, should not be interfered with, except for the most
cogent reasons, and only in deference to the public interest
generally, and not of private interests of a particular branch
of shipowners.
That such is the necessity for skill, founded upon expe-
rience in navigating vessels through the channels during
the winter season, that the Pilots' Committee formed a
by-law twelve years ago, and which has been in operation
ever since, restricting themselves, under any circumstances,
from granting a first or second license to any one, though
regularly brought up in the Liverpool pilot service, between
the 25th of September and the 25th of March.
And that the Liverpool pilotage authorities having,
in the rates of pilot-
recently, made a very great reduction
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Sir your most obedient servant,
Pursuit'—i DAVID RoWLAND ,Secretary.
B. J. Thomson, Esq., Secretary to the Liverpool
Steamship Owners Association, High-street.

ALEXANDER M'CLINTocrc Esq., has been appointed by
William Blundell, Esq., of Crosby-hall, near Liverpool, to
the agency of his estates in the counties of Louth and
Meath.—Drogheda Conservative.
THE ROYAL REGIMENT of Lancashire Militia Artillery
has finished its tour of twenty-eight days' duty, and was
inspected, on Friday week, by Colonel Brereton, R.H.A.,
when the manceuvring of the regiment in battalion, and
the proficiency of the gunners in working the field and
garrison guns, was such as to elicit the warmest commen-
dations. On the following day the regiment, with two
field guns, marched to the North Shore for ball practice,
and proved, by the accuracy of their fire, that the lessons
given in the barrack square had been carefully studied.
The strength of the regiment, at the training, was about
380 present, with their guns ; the officers—Colonel-Com-
mandant Sir Duncan M'Dougall, K.S.T. ; Majors Atchi-
son and Bourne ; Captains Hall, (brevet-major,) Fyers,
Crigan, Benton, Lediard, and Creagh ; Ist Lieutenant:
Middleton, Raon, Furnivall, and Campbell; Captain and
Adjutant, Campbell; Burgeon, Ferguson, M. 13. ; ass"li
surgeon, )3ehrend.