The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

GENERAL _INTELLIGENCE.

INCREASE OF ATTORNEYS.—There are 131 applications
to be made in Michaelmas Term by persons to be admitted
attorneys.
SALES OF POULTRY.—In Aylesbury, the sale of ducks
realises £15,000 a year. In Norfolk and Cambridge the
small farmers pay their rents with the produce of their
poultry.
THE FOUNDATION STONE of the monument about to be
erected to the memory of Dr. Moir, of Musselburgh,
(Delta) was laid'on Tuesday, at the end of Bridge-street,
in that town.
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FATAL PASSION.—OR Friday William Appleby, an in-
mate of the Wolverhampton workhouse, quarrelled with
another inmate, and worked himself into a violent fit of
passion, during which he fell down, and instantly expired.
TRIAL BY JURY.—It appears from an official document
just issued, that out of 474,149 plaints entered in the
County Courts last year, in only 796 causes was the
assistance of a jury required, out of which in 404 of the
causes the verdicts were in favour of the parties requiring
a jury to be summoned.
A FEDERAL UNION of the British North American
colonies, it is said, is engaging the attention of, British
statesmen, Lord Elgin, late Governor-General of Canada,
being actively engaged in the movement. It is said that
the Federal Union, when effected, is to be presided over by
a Viceroy, but that each province will have the privilege
of electing its own Governor.—Nova Scotia paper.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL NESllAM.—Admiral Christopher
John Williams Nesham died on the sth instant, at Ex-
mouth, at the advanced age of 95 years. He entered the
navy in January, 1782, as first-class volunteer, on board
the Juno, frigate, and in June in the following year was
present as midshipman in the action fought between Sir
Edward Hughes and M. de Suffrein, of Cuddalore. Ad-
miral Nesham received the War Medal in 1849, with two
bars for Camperdown and Martinique.
FOOLISH FREAK.—On Tuesday, Mr. D. Thomas, of
Newcastle, took his boat, the Faugh-a-Ballag,h, and en-
deavoured to go over the falls above Newcastle-Emlyn
bridge, in the river Tivy, which had swollen very much
on account of the late heavy rains. As he was in the act
of going over the falls his boat was upset ; he, however,
succeeded in getting on the bottom of it, and was carried
in this manner some way down the river, when the boat
stuck on a piece of rock, and Mr. Thomas safely landed.
Ouu FUTURE SEAMEN.—Seamen and boys under train-
ing are now sent out every week for gun and, general
exercise, cruising between the Nore and the Mouse. A
target being placed at a distance of six hundred yards
from mid-channel, the boys are engaged as hehnsmen,
leadsmen, and captains of the gun (an eighteen-pounder)
in turn. Their progress in gunnery is the admiration of
their officers. On repeated occasions the target ,has been
shot away by the second shot laid by the boy gunner!:

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--The direc-
tors recommend that the application to parliament in the
next session shall be for powers to construct, within five
years from the passing of the act, a single line of railway
from Dorchester to Exeter, to be there connected with
the Bristol and Exeter, and the Exeter and Credition
lines, with land for a double line. The Company's en-
gineer is of opinion that a single line of railway from
Dorchester to Exeter, with land for a double line, and
with proper stations and slidiugs, may be constructed for
£700,000, and that a connection with the Exeter and
Credition and Bristol and Exeter lines may be completed
for £lOO,OOO.
PHYSICAL DEGENERATION IN PRUSSIA.—The last bal-
lotings for recruits, or relief men, for the Prussian active
army, have disclosed some remarkable and interesting
facts, which show a falling off in the city of Berlin in the
height, health, and conformation of the male population.
It appears from the statistical tables, that 10,323 adults,
between the ages of 20 and 24, were liable to ballot for
the classes of 1853 ; of which number 946, or about one-
tenth, were required for the contingent. But of the
10,323 above mentioned, 4,957 or nearly half, were declared
unfit for service ; and when the ballot took place, 219 out
of the quota of 946, or nearly 24 per cent., were rejected
Ara physical defect or short stature.
SERIOUS Acanms.—On Wednesday the following
extraordinary explosion occurred in the dwelling-house of
Mr. J. B. Buckstone, in Suffolk-street, East,
adjoining the Haymarket theatre. For some time past
a number of men have been repairing and painting it.
They experienced a strong smell, as if the gas were
escaping, when one of the men who was standing on a
board swung about midway between the flooring and the
ceiling drew a congreve match across the upper part of
the wall, when a loud explosion took place. The windows
were forced out, three of the painters at work had their
clothes set on fire, and a number of vessels containing
turpentine and oil were soon in a blaze.' The screams of
the men brought assistance to the spot, and after some
trouble the flames were extinguished. It was then found
that the three men were much burnt, two so seriously
that it was deemed prudent to remove them to the
Charing-cross Hospital. . .

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ARREST ON A SUNDAY.—A case came before the Court
of Queen's Bench last week, in which a writ of habeas
corpus had been issued by Mr. Justice Crompton, direct-
ing the keeper of Stafford gaol to bring up the body of
one Eggington, in order that he might be discharged,
upon the ground that he had been illegally arrested, as he
was taken upon a Sunday. The gaoler, in his return,
stated that, after the prisoner's arrest, a second warrant
had been issued by the justices of Lichfield, under which
he was now detained. Mr. Gray contended that the return
was no answer to the writ, as the gaoler could not take
advantage of the illegal custody of the prisoner to detain
him under a new warrant. Mr. Pashley, in support of the
return, submitted that, as the prisoner had been arrested
and kept in custody in consequence of his alleged illegal
detention of certain books and papers, the charge against
him was of a criminal, and not of a civil, nature, and he
was, therefore, not privileged from arrest on a Sunday.
Mr. Cole, on the part of the Town Council of Lichfield,
which had instituted the proceedings against the prisoner,
also supported the return. Lord Campbell was of opinion
that the prisoner ought to be discharged, on the ground
that the commitment was not for any indictable offence,
and, therefore, the warrant under which he was arrested
ought not to have 'been executed on a Sunaday. It
necessarily followed that the detention under the second
warrant was illegal, the arrest under the first warrant
having been illegal. The other learned judges concurred.
Rule absolute for a habeas corpus.
SUICIDES IN PARlS.—Suicides in Paris continue to be
frequent. One, which occurred on Thursday, was attended
with singular circumstances. A young man, M. Augustus
D—; living in the Rue St. Denis, employed in a mer-
cantile firm, did not appear at his office at the usual hour.
His employer went to see after him, and learned from the
concierge that he had gone out shortly before finely
dressed. The' following morning he again absented him-
self from his duty, and his employer went again to seek
after him. The concierge told him that' he was in his
own room. He went up, but received no reply to his
knocks. The employer then sent for the youth's father,
and the door was opened. He was found lying dead in
the bed—he had committed suicide by means of the
fumes of charcoal. A letter, addressed to his father, left
open on a table, requested that no attempt should be
made to discover his reason for committing suicide—it
was, he said, a secret, and should die with him. It turned
out on inquiry that, after leaving home grandly dressed,
he went to pay visits to all his friends. They asked him
if he were engaged to figure in any important ceremony,
since he was so fine ; but he gaily answered, " Oh, dear,
no ! The whim of going to see all my friends seized me,
and lam come to shake your hand !" In the evening he
went to his café, and played at
cards as gaily as usual
until ten o'clock. He then went to a hairdresser's shop,
and had his hair cut and dressed. On going home, he
carefully pasted paper over the crevices of the door, win-
dows, &e., of his room, to prevent the entrance of the
slightest portion' of air ; and he then lighted the pan of
charcoal which he had previously prepared.—Another
young man, a shopman employed in a linen-draper's
establishment, also committed suicide the same day by
means of charcoal in his lodgings in the Rue Blanche.
To prevent any pain he stupified himself by drinking the
liquor produced by boiling down a quantity of poppies.—
Galignani.
THE BunNEAst MURDER.--The inquiry into the cir-
cumstances attending this dreadful tragedy having been
adjourned from Friday until ten o'clock on Tuesday
morning, at that hour the proceedings were, for the third
time, resumed before Mr. Chearsley, the coroner, and a
highly respectable jury, at the Mile-house, a small hostel-
rie on the Old Bath-road, about one mile from the
Maidenhead station of the Great Western railway, and
half that distance from the scene of the murder—the Old
Abbey farm. Moses Hatto, the young man charged with
being concerned in the inhuman deed, has remained in
custody at the Eton lock-up since Friday. He made no
allusion to the murder in his conversation with the
officers appointed to watch him, nor has his manner dis-
closed any thing calculated to fix with certainty the
dreadful crime upon him. Inspector Langley, of the
London detective police, has succeeded in tracing Hatto
to have gone to the Maidenhead railway station on the
Monday night after the murder, between ten and eleven
o'clock, for the alleged purpose of inquiring for a parcel
which he says he expected. To go there he used one of
his master's saddle horses ; and it is now conjectured
that while absent he may have taken opportunity to dis-
pose in some manner of the missing property or any
other articles the possession of which might infer a
guilty knowledge. It is a lamentable fact that every
opportunity seems to have been given the murderer to
escape. Although within twenty miles of the metropolis,
and four of the royal borough of Windsor, news of the
tragedy occurring on Tuesday night did not reach either
place until the following Thursday. It is not too much
to say, therefore, that all the intervening time might have
been devoted by the guilty party to destroy the traces of
his crime. The removal of the prisoner on Tuesday
morning occasioned considerable excitement in Eton and
the neighbourhood. He was conveyed handcuffed in a
light chaise cart, between the superintendents of the Eton
and
BurnhamSlo anughpcidi;ast Abbey Farm was purposely. route through the village of
avoided, owing to the excited state of the inhabitants of
the district, who, it is said, are so satisfied of Hatto's
guilt that, if set down amongst them, he could not pos-
sibly escape "lynching." Hatto is a man of small sta-
ture, but of well-knit frame, with a countenance rather
pleasing than otherwise. On reaching the Mile-house he
got out of the police cart with a light step, and held his
manacled hands aloft with an expression of bravado. The
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the horrid deed, he could not have avoided hearing the
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struggling, scuffling, and running, which it was but too
apparent, had preceded the close of the fearful tragedy. It
is also said that he had made overtures of affection to the
victim of the barbarity, which she rejected, as coming
from one in an inferior position of life to her own. After
all the witnesses had been examined, and the coroner had
summed up, the room was cleared, and after a lapse of
about ten minutes, on the court being re-opened, the fore-
man announced that the jury were unanimous in finding
a verdict of wilful murder against Moses Hatto. The
verdict appeared to have been anticipated by the majority
of those present, and it was stated that the prisoner ma-
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pared being communicated to
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pared by Mr. Chearsley, Hatto was conveyed, in custody
ington and Thomas, to Aylesbury
of superintendents OM
gaol, there to await his trial at the ensuing assize,,

THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—
The Conservative Association, at a crowded meeting, held
on Tuesday night, in the College, came to a resolution
pledging themselves to re-elect the Earl of Eglinton to the
' Lord Rectorship. Great hopes are entertained by his
supporters of the success of Mr. Tennyson. Citizen.
THE SEA. EAGLE.—We have just seen a most splendid ,
specimen of the sea eagle, which was caught the other day
in a trap at Strathgarve. The extended wings measured
7 feet 9 inches ; length of body 3 feet 2 inches ; weight 15
pounds ; the outstretched claws covered as large an extent
as a man's hand. Who would not go a journey to see such
a noble fellow hooking a salmon from the lake, and carry-
ing it on his broad pinions to his home among the cliffs ?
Inverness Courier.
Two HUNDRED MILES IN A QUARTER OF AN HOUR.—
Mr. Richardson has satisfied our capitalists that it is
entirely practicable to build an atmospheric tube from New
York to Boston (200 miles) through which mail bags or
parcels of any description may be regularly, certainly, and
safely sent in fifteen minutes. He has perfectly obviated
the most apparent difficulty, which consisted in the colli-
sion of the parcel despatched on reaching its termination.
This he has accomplished by the counter pressure, arising
from the elasticity of unexhausted air,- thereby reducing the
shock until it becomes absolutely imperceptible. A con-
siderable part of the stock for the building of this mail
tube has already been subscribed.—Times' Correspondent.
FOREIGN CRIMINALS IN PARlS.—Amongst the natives
of foreign countries arrested for crime of some kind or
other in Paris during the last year (1852), there were only
thirty-three natives of Great Britain—a very small num-
ber indeed, when the large number of English who visited
and resided in that capital is taken into account ; and
which, as compared with the proportion of natives of other
countries arrested for crime,gElts us no cause to be ashamed
of our national character. Of other foreigners arrested,
the following numbers are given : Belgians, 441; Saxon
Germans, 314; Hollanders, 136 ; Prussians, 106 ; Swiss,
104 ; Italians, 84 ; Bavarians, 65 ; Austrians, 39 ; Poles, 36 ;
Spaniards, 29 ; Hessians, Hungarians, Danes, of each 16 ;
Swedes, 14 ; Persians, 6 ; Egyptians and Greeks, of each 2;
and one Turk.
PUBLIC HEALTH.—LEAD, COPPER, OR ZINC PIPES.—
The minister of commerce, agriculture, and public works
in France, has just issued a circular to all prefects, calling
upon them to put a stop to the use of lead, copper, or zinc
pipes in breweries. The minister in his circular states
that " experience proves that beer,b7 simple contact with
lead, takes up an appreciable quantity of the metal, and
thus acquires poisonous properties." Leaden pipes are not
only used in breweries, but a custom has arisen in taverns,
and in houses where wine is sold, of using a small pump,
which communicates with the barrels in the cellar by
means of a leaden pipe. The use of the pipe in this
instance is peculiarly objectionable, inasmuch as the action
of the pump is at intervals only. A whole family was
poisoned by using for some time a pump of this kind for
drawing up their ordinary consumption of wine.—Journal
of the Society of Arts.
REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—In Midsummer, last year, a
merchant fitted out a vessel from the Clyde for Mel-
bourne, he being owner of both ship and cargo. She
carried out a number of passengers, and among the crew
was a poor boy who was taken out free for his labour.
When the vessel arrived at Melbourne the owner sold the
cargo, and shortly afterwards the vessel, and remitted
the proceeds to his friends at home. This poor boy got
employment in one of the numerous lighters that ply be-
tween the large emigrant ships and Melbourne, carrying
cargo, a very profitable trade, and he last week remitted
£lO of his savings, accompanied by a letter, in which he
says, " I am well employed, and saving money. You
may, perhaps, be aware that the ship I came by was sold
here, and the owner is driving a cart through Melbourne ;
the captain is employed as a labourer about the wharfs ;
while a young gentleman, a relative of the owner, is car-
rying a hod in a brick-store."—North British Mail.
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTION.— An extraordinary
transaction took place on Wednesday week, at the Red
Lion Inn, in this town. Two travelling hawkers, with
their wives, and some other persons, were drinking toge-
ther, when the conversation turned upon the proceedings
at the fair on the previous Monday, and the merits and
qualifications of the men's wives became also the subject
of discussion. The debate was waxing strong, when a man,
who formed one of the company, apparently enamoured
with the appearance of the women, expressed a wish to
purchase them. The husbands at once assented to the
proposition, and a bargain was struck. The price fixed for
one was £5, and for the other 10s. The money was in-
stantly paid by the buyer, and so far as he was concerned
the matter was settled. The parties continued to sit and
enjoy themselves, but at length their husbands deemed it
necessary to take their leave of the town. At this point,
however, a most langhable scene occurred. The women
declared they were not beasts, and would not be
sold as such, and determined to follow their hus-
bands. The purchaser asserted they were his property,
and he would stick to them. The women, however, were
resolute, and the man, finding that he was in a fair way
of losing them, wished to withdraw his bargain. To this
the husbands would not agree, and they departed, their
wives taking care to follow them, leaving the buyer a
poorer but a wiser man.—Cheltenham Journal.
DEATH BY EATING MONS'S-HOOD FOR HORSERADISH.
—Considerable excitement has been created in Bristol by
a case of poisoning of a somewhat extraordinary descrip-
tion. Some time since Mr. Joseph Russell, a wine mer-
chant at Bristol, died, bequeathing, among other legacies,
one to a distant relative, named also Joseph Russell, a
bookseller, residing at Chard, Somersetshire, and who
came to Bristol respecting it. On Sunday, he dined with
.one. of his brothers, a coachmaker resident in Bristol, and
partook of some roast beef, he being in excellent health.
As he remarked that roast beef was nothing without
horseradish, his brother's wife stated that there were some
horseradish roots in the garden, and the servant was sent
to dig up one. The root was scraped in the usual manner,
dressed with vinegar, and placed on the table ; both his
brother and the deceased partook of it. Soon after dinner,
Joseph Russell complained of a peculiar tingling sensation
in his hands and arms, and this feeling rapidly increased
till he said he felt it creeping round his neck. He rapidly
sank, and died in about an hour afterwards. The other
brother, who had taken much less of the supposed horse-
radish, was much affected, but is now recovering. On an
examination it was found the root was the aconitum
napellus (wolf's-bane, or monk's-hood), which, particularly
at this season of the year, strongly resembles horseradish,
but which is a strong narcotic poison. We believe we are
right in stating that this is only the second case known of
a person having been thus poisoned. The other and first
case is recorded by Dr. Pereira.
BALDERDASH OF RELIC WORSHIP.—The following
specimen of rhapsodical and blasphemous trash is from
the sermon of Dr. Wiseman at Amiens, on the occasion' f
the " translation" of the relics of St. Theodosia :—" Along
those obscure corridors, in those mysterious caverns, of
the catacombs of St. Hermes, I hear resounding, but with
sweeter accents far, that same powerful voice which shall
one day raise the dead from the depth of their graves :
Consurge, consurge, executere de pulvere, consurge
solve vincula colli tun, captina, filia Sion. `Arise, arise,
shake thyself from that sacred dust in which thou hast
reposed for fifteen hundred years in the arms of that
affectionate mother, the eternal depository of the faith and
its faithful witnesses. Break, daughter of Amiens, the
bonds of thy sweet captivity in the land of thy former
enemies. Bid adieu to thy blessed companions in the
dormitories of the just ; for consecrated hands have sought
and received thy sacred ashes, and borne them back with
joy and love to thy native soil ! Come Theodosia, come to
gladden us by thy presence, but come likewise to our help,
in order that our triumph may be worthy of thee. Display
thy power, that is, the power of Jesus Christ, which mani-
fested itself even in the ashes of His martyrs. Call
together then, in thy name, an assemblage of venerated
bishops, who form a majestic procession in honour of thy
holy remains. Cause them to assemble, not only from
our dear France and from Belgium, countries so fruitful
in ecclesiastical virtues ; but also from Ireland, ever faith-
ful to her God and her faith, despite ages of suffering and
persecution ; and from England, still struggling with the
powers of the world; from the western shores of Guada-
loupe ; from the centre of Asia; from the extreme limits
of eastern Siam ; from the bounds of that vast ocean
which the fleets of the ancient world never visited, but
where, nevertheless, the banner of the cross has been
planted by the intrepid missionaries of France on the
summit of their highest mountains. Call the pastors of
the church, and they will obey thy voice."
LOVE AND DEATH.—An event of a most painful and
melancholy nature has just occurred in a small village in
Cornwall. A young woman respectably connected, named
Ellen Macartney, by trade a milliner and dressmaker, was
engaged to a your).g man about her own age, named
Thomas Hardy Aldis, who was an assistant to a provision
dealer in a town a few miles distant. The courtship—
which is described as having been an uninterrupted source
of happiness, and which appears to have given the utmost
satisfaction to the friends on both sides—had extended
over a period of something under seven years, and both
the sued and the suitor having saved a sufficient sum of
money to commence house furnishing, and to set up in
a business as a small grocer and provision dealer, an early
day was named for their nuptials. A house was looked
at and approved of—wedding garments were examined
and chosen—friends of the bride from a distance were
invited and promised to come—the license was applied for
and obtained—cards, gloves, dresses, bridecake, everything
arrived as ordered, and "all went happy as a marriage bell."
The father of the betrothed was to give her away at church
—her brother was to officiate as groomsman, and the sister
of Aldis was bespoken as bridesmaid. The young couple
were greatly respected, and everybody looked forward to
the day that should unite until death those who through
life had been so faithful and so true. The fated day arrived.
The sun shone joyously out, and the village gossips were
up betimes to record every circumstance connected with
the interesting event. Half-past seven o'clock came, but
no bridegroom—" How late he was, an uncommon thing
for him." Ellen's uncle, a neighbouring farmer, alighted
at the door, and taking the bride aside, pressed into her
hands a bank note for 201. Eight o'clock was here, but
no bridegroom—" What could be the matter ? Had not
some one better go in quest of him ?" A messenger hurried
in from the church to say the clergyman was waiting.
Hope had given way to anxiety—now anxiety was sup-
planted by fear. " Something very serious must have
taken place—what could it be ?" A strange presentiment
took possession of all present. He had been murdered or
was ill. But in the latter case, " some one would have been
sent to say so." All was mystery and disappointment.
There was no alternative, the ceremony "must be deferred,"
and then came on that anxious yearning which maketh
the heart sick. The symbols of married bliss were hastily
laid aside, and an envoy, the girl's uncle, started to ascertain
the cause of the truant's absence, In about three hours
he returned to the residence of his niece, with the intelli-
gence that Aldis had left his employer's house at six o'clock
that morning, since which time nothing had either been
seen or heard of him. The day wore on heavily, and no
tidings were received of the "lost one." The next day
came and went, and yet not a line, not a word arrived to
clear up the extraordinary and unaccountable mystery.
Ellen, all this while, had been growing paler and paler
still. Like Rachel, she refused to be comforted. Food
was spurned ; she secluded herself in her room, and wept
such tears as are known only to the angels, and those who,
like her, have been compelled to drink of that bitter cup
whose ingredients are unto death. Early on the morning
of the fourth day from that on which the marriage was
appointed to take place, poor Ellen Macartney was found
cold and lifeless floating upon the top of a mill-dam, a few
yards from her own door—a photographic miniature of
her lover suspended round her neck ! Nothing has yet
been heard of Aldis. The village is in a date of the
greatest excitement. Hull Advertiser.

HORRIBLE MURDER.—The hitherto quiet ne;ghbour-
hood of Dunster was on Wednesday thrown into great
excitement by the. perpetration of a horrible murder,
committed on a girl about 12 years old, named Cole. She
resided with her mother (who is a widow) and brother, a
lad about 17. On Tuesday the mother and brother went
out to work, and left the girl at home in care of a lonely
cottage, situated in the parish of Cutcombe, near Dunster,
Somerset. There are two dwellings under the same roof;
1 the other being occupied by an old woman more than 80
years of age, who, on Tuesdey morning, about ten o'clock,
saw a young man named Baily in the house with the girl.
He soon after left the house, and did not again return.
On the return of the mother and brother they made a
search for the girl, and at last found her in an old barn
close by, with her throat cut, and quite dead. The man
Baily is in custody.
TnE WET SEAsoN.—The following is the amount of
rain-fall at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the last
three months of 1852, and the first nine months of 1853,
with the averages, in inches, of corresponding periods, for
thirty-seven years :
October, 1852 ... 3.B—Average of 37 year5...2.6
November, „ ... 6.0 ~ 73 .3
1.9
December, „ ... 2.2 ~
January, 1853 ... 2.o—Average of 38 years...l.B
February, „ ... 0.9 ~ ~ 1.7
March, „ ... 1.5 9 If 1.6
• April, „ ... 3.1 ,/ ~ 1.8
May, P, •• . 1.6 ~ 2.1
June, I, •• . 2.8 , /3 3.7
July, ~ ... 6.0 7, ,2 2.6
2.6
August, „ ... 3.2 ~ 3,
September, „ ... 2.4 ~ ~ 2.5
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THE MARCH or MATRIMONY.—Ten young couples
are on the books of the Gateshead Union for marriage,
their respective ages being 22 and 20, 20 and 22, 20 and
18, 26 and 27, 30 and 25, 30 and 21, 21 and 19, 22 and
20, 20 and 19, and 24 and 25. So great, indeed, is the
demand in Gateshead for wives, that a young widow, who
lost her husband by the epidemic in September, was
nominated on Sunday in our parochial church as the bride
elect of a young bachelor ! There is a line in Hamlet
which will rise to the reader's mind; but, before he
quotes it, let him listen to the recital of another domestic
romance, 'the remembrance of which has been revived by
the occurrence of Sunday. There was once a coalmine
explosion on the Tyne, and many lives were sacrificed.
The bodies of the dead could not be. recovered until some
weeks had passed away ; and the corpse of one married
man, when it vas carried home, found the widow lying by
the side of another husband ! She had wedded her new
spouse before burying his predecessor. Shakspere " ex-
hausted worlds, and then imagined new ;" but he never
dreamt of "the marriage baked meats coldly furnishing
forth the burial tables!" Real life is more than a match
for fiction.—Gateshead Observer.

A DANGEBOITS SOURCE OF INFECTION.-Our attention
has been called to a dangerous source of disease which has
hitherto escaped the notice of the conservators of public
health in seaport towns. From his statement it would
seem that when a seaman dies during a voyage either at
sea or in any port, his property, consisting of a chest of
clothing, and perhaps some bedding, is secured, sealed up,
and carried back to the port whence he shipped, and there
handed over to the shipping master, who retains it until
the claim of the relatives to receive it is clearly established,
when it is given up. It is well known that sailors are a
migratory class of men, and in the majority of cases ship
from ports in which they have no relations. The conse-
quence is, that quantities of unclaimed property are con-
stantly accumulating in the hands of shipping masters,
and are kept lying over for years without being exposed
to the air. The original owners of this property have died
of every description of known and unknown diseases, in
various quarters of the world, some of these diseases
perhaps of a most .malignant and contagious character ;
and when to this is added the fact that bundles of dirty
clothing are thus kept, in a state calculated to induce dis-
ease, the danger will be at once apparent. The opening
of a bale of goods has been known to carry with it disease
and death to an alarming extent into a community, and
nothing less might be expected from the opening up a
package of wearing apparel that had lain long over in an
unwashed state. 'This subject, then, is one worthy of the
notice of sanitary committees, and if the allegation prove
correct that a dangerous stock of the kind referred to is
lodged in the hands of shipping masters calculated to en-
danger the health of seaport communities, then is it time
that they should interpose the authority which is vested
in them by Act of Parliament in searching out and put-
ting an end to the evil.—North British Daily Mail.

SELECTION OF TUE WELLINGTON MEMORIAL FOR
MANCHESTER.—On Friday week the judges appointed by
the Wellington memorial committee—the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of Manchester, the Right Hon. the Earl of
Ellesmere, and the Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton—pro-
ceeded to the suite of rooms forming the south gallery of
the Royal Manchester Institution, which were filled with
the competing models for the Manchester memorial to the
late Duke of Wellington, and, after a careful examination
of the whole, gave their united judgment in favour of the
model No. 7. On opening the letter superscribed with
the sculptor's mark—an inverted triangle within a double
ring—the name of the successful artist was found to be
Mr. Matthew Noble, of London, the same sculptor upon
whom, in competition, the choice fell in the award of the
committee for the Salford statue to Sir Robert Peel, now
placed in Peel-park. The endeavour in this design has
been to take a higher and more comprehensive view of the
I subject than is given in memorials of the kind. This view,
it is hoped, has been realised in representing the duke in
his civil as well as military capacity, by personifying those
salient qualities and results through which he attained
so high a position in life, and influenced the destinies of
so many nations ; and by illustrating five of the chief
crowning events in his public career, through which, in
the twofold capacity named, he will be best and most
illustriously known to posterity. The salient qualities re-
' ferred to are Wisdom and Valour. They are personified in
the design by the figures of Minerva and Mars, composed in
Isuch a way a 9 to impart to the mind a high and honourable
feeling. The results of these great qualities were Victory
and Peace—the victory of Britain over her foes, and a
peace given to Europe perhaps unparalleled in history.
These two main results are personified by an abstract
figure of each, designed to correspond and accord in sen-
timent with the two former figures. Of the chief events
in the public life of Wellington, illustrated in the design,
four are represented in bas-reliefs on the large plinth sup-
porting the column, giving respectively the battle of
Assaye, the battle of Waterloo (in each of which the duke
is seen on horseback, and in the first with the horse just
shot under him), his presence at the congress at Vienna,
and his receiving in person the thanks of the House of
Commons, on the memorable occasion in the year 1814.
On the summit of the column is placed a colossal statue of
the great duke himself, designed to give an idea of the
moment when he stood erect and calm after having de-
livered the following impressive words in the House of
Lords:—" I am one of those who have probably passed a
longer period of my life engaged in war than most men,
and principally in civil war ; and I must say this, that if I
could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of
civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would
sacrifice my life in order to do it :" words not likely to be
soon forgotten. In a small design of this kind there is
of course little more than a bare idea of the intention given.
LORD Me.yon's DAY.--The customary inauguration
' of the Lord Mayor of London city took place on Wednes-
day, with even more than the usual amount of pomp and
pageantry. The absence of any display last year, owing
to the then recent demise of the Duke of Wellingt;on, and
the extreme fineness of the weather, combined to render
the pageant of Wednesday one of the most successful
that has taken place for some years past. The number of
spectators was far greater than usual. The " show"—
thanks to the co-operation of Mr. Cooke, of Astley's
Amphitheatre—was well arranged; and the good humour
everywhere prevailing left nothing to be desired. The
novel part of the procession, in which Mr. Cooke's
equestrian troupe was seen to very great advantage, ex-
cited general admiration. One of his best riders, attired
in handsome Tyrolese habit, mounted on a beautiful pie-
bald charger, and bearing the banner of " Peace," led the
way. He was immediately followed by a car drawn by six
fine horses, three a-breast, on which was mounted, at a
considerable height, a female in white classic robe, balanc-
ing scales in her hand, having before her a city mace, and,
though rather pretty looking, "as stern as Justice."
Then came horsemen clothed in the garb of different
nations, a varied and interesting sight. There was a
groan at the Russian, which the Turk mistook for him-
self, and turned round to see from whom it proceeded, but
this resulted in a loud and enthusiastic cheer. The
Chinese participated in the good wishes of the spectators,
and seemed proud of it. The representatives of North
and South America were amusingly tattooed, aud occa-
sioned much merriment. What, however, brought the
laughter of the people to a climax was the Australian
digger, with his red woollen smock, his sunburnt counte-
nance, his huge over-grown beard, about to split asunder,
with his pickaxe, a giganticF piece of quartz. Last of all
in this troupe came Peace and Prosperity," two young
females, appropriately attired, and mounted on a large
globe, which was drawn by nine horses, *hree a-breast.
The Lord Mayor was very well received all along the line
of the procession. Flags were suspended across Thames-
street, and every house and warehouse was thronged with
spectators. The embarkation in the civic barges having
been effected, they were taken in tow by above-bridge
steamers, which brought them up the river to West-
minster, where the Lord Mayor and sheriffs, and the
leading officers of the corporation, landed, and proceeded
into the Court of Exchequer. After the customary
formula had been gone through, the judges of the various
courts were invited to the banquet at Guildhall, by the
Recorder, in the names of the chief magistrate and Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Wire. The civic authorities then
re-embarked, and returned by water to Blackfriars-bridge,
where the land procession was re-formed,
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on hav-
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the Lady Mayoress, proceeded,
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tions of an enormous crowde of sPecatanitiodrs ttohe
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and the invitations
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and Sheriff Wire. A little before
Alderman seven o'clock
the lord mayor, in full municipal costume, and preceded
by his mace and swordbearer and other civic officials, the
principal officers of the household following in his
train, walked in procession through Guildhall, and am
id
the amid
the cheers of the company, took his seat on the dais. The
members of the Government, as they entered,
re-
ceived with great cordiality. On the were n right of the lord
mayor were the late lord mayor, the lord chancellor, the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord John
Russell, Lord Canning, Mr. Sheriff Wire and Mrs. Wire,
Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles Wood,
Sir James Graham,
the A • • •
American minister, the Danish chargé d'affaires, the
minister of Paraguay. On the left, the lady mayoress,
the late lady mayoress, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, Lord and Lady Manderville, Sir William Moles-
worth, &c. Among the company were Lord Hatherton,
Mr. Cardwell, Sir John Patteson, Mr. M. T. Baines, M.P.,
Sir John Pakington, M.P., Mr. Walpole, M.P., Mr.
Cornewall Lewis, Sir C. G. Young, Sir John Dodson, the
Recorder and Mrs. Stuart Wortley, Mr. E. Ball, M.P., Mr.
Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P., Mr. Master-
man; M.P., Mr. James Wilson, M.P., Mr. Chaplin, M.P.,
Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., and many of the aldermen and
members of common council.

THE LIGHTING OF WEST DEBBY.

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YESTERDAY morning, at nine o'clock, the annual public
meeting of the ratepayers of West Derby (the village dis-
trict) was held at the public office, in Mill-lane, for the
purpose of receiving the accounts for the lighting of that
portion of the township, and for other
.business. The
attendance was very limited, the proceedings being of
little more than a formal character. Mr. Alderman 'Thos.
Bold was called to the chair. Mr. T. H. Anthony, the
treasurer, then produced his accounts. These showed that
£268 19s. 3d. had been paid for gas and other expenses,
and that on last year's rate (Md. in the pound) there was
a balance due to the treasurer of £3l 6s. 4d. It appears
that the amount collectable for the Md. rate is £214, and
from a sixpenny one about £2Bs.—Mr. Thomas Harrison
and Mr. Henry Holt, the retiring inspectors, were re-
elected—The Chairman said the next question was the
amount which would be required for the •ensuing year.
Mr. Anthony said that the amount collected last year
would not see them through, as they wanted some new
iron lamp-posts. It was then resolved to ask for £3OO,
and the overseers will lay a rate to produce that amount.
The meeting then adjourned.

LIVERP OOL CITA _VBER OF

COMMERCE.

TEE monthly meeting of the council was held yesterday,. •
Thomas Bunch, Esq., Vice-president, in the chair.
After the formal
proceedings, a recommendation was
brought up from the committee on the subject of certifi-
cates of survey of ships, which was adopted. A memorial
to Government, relative to the short supply of Peruvian
guano, was submitted by the special committee, and
agreed to.
Among the communications were letters from Mr. James
Wilson, M.P., Secretary to the Treasury, presenting to the
Chamber a handsomely-bound volume. containing the
Customs' Consolidation and Tariff Acts, for which the
best thanks of the council were voted. From the Singapore.
Chamber of Commerce, on the differential duty on wild
and cultivated nutmegs : referred to the customs' com-
mittee. From the Royal Commissioners, on the law of
bankruptcy ; also, from the Royal Commissioners, on the
law of partnership : referred to a special committee.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.-
YESTERDA

(Before JosEru PoLEocz, Esq., the Judge.)

ONE hundred plaints were heard yesterday, but scared y
any of the cases were possessed of public interest.
ALLEGED FALSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS.—HEWITT
WAINWRIGHT.—This was an action by Mr. Henry Hewitt
against John Wainwright, Ash-road, Knotty-ash, tailor,
to recover a sum of £3 13s. 10d., for goods supplied. Mrs.
Wainwright, who appeared for the defendant, handed in
an account book, to show that the greater part of the
money had been already paid. His Honour, on closely
examining the books, said that he found that there were
two places in the pounds column where the figures had
been scratched out, and a £1 inserted. On this he gave
immediate judgment for the plaintiff, and said he was not
quite satisfied that he should not direct Mrs. Wainwright
into custody, as there had been apparent forgery. Prompt
payment was ordered.

NEGLECT TO GIVE CHANGE.—THOMPSON V. HALL.--
The plaintiff, Captain Thompson, is a master mariner of
this port; Mr. Hall, the defendant, a butcher at North
Shields, and the action was brought to recover £5 and
costs, under the following transaction :—The plaintiff had
a chronometer to dispose of, and the defendant wished to
purchase one for his brother, who .is .a master mariner.
They met together at Mr. Daniell's shop, when £27 was
asked. Defendant agreed to give that amount. He paid
over five £5 notes, and the plaintiff agreed to change him
another, giving him £3, and taking the other two
sovereigns with him wrapped up in the notes. On getting
to the George Hotel, he recollected that the sixth note
had not been paid over, and he then went, accompanied
by detective officer Murphy, in search of the defendant,
whom they found at Harrison's public-house, opposite the
Custom House, and who said that he had paid the full
amount, although he did not, as requested, count over
the money that he had in his pockets, alleging that he
was ignorant of what sum he had on setting out in the
morning. The case was undefended, and a verdict was
given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.
A FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER.—A young Frenchman,
named Ernest Farrington de Bouglinval, summoned Mr.
Parsons, photographic artist, of Bold-street, for £3, being
a month's wages for service. He also claimed for some
portraits and music, his property, which Mr. Parsons re-
tained ; but, he being a minor, this portion of his claim
could not be entertained. It appeared that, in April last,
the defendant was in want of an assistant, when the
plaintiff, then in Paris, was engaged to him by his fatheT.
He was to be boarded in Mr. Parsons' house, and to be
paid from 15s. to 305., according to the talent which he
might exhibit. He entered on the service on the Ist
of April, and on the Ist of May was paid £3, being at the
rate of 15s. a week. On the 20th of May the plaintiff
returned home at ten o'clock at night, when he found that
his master had locked the door on him. The plaintiff, in
examination, stated that the likenesses he took had been
found fault with; but that the defendant's apparatus
was imperfect. On cross-examination by Mr. Hime, who
appeared for the defendant, he stated that he had
gone, when with Mr. Parsons, under a wrong name.
Questions were then put, with a view to show that after
the month had expired a fresh engagement was made with
him, by which be was to be paid only for the pictures that
he coloured.--By mutual consent, after the case had pro-
ceeded a certain length, it was leftto the arbitration of the
French consul.

A LANDLORD'S LIADILITY.—Mr. Rawle, of Kensing-
ton-terrace, Upper Parliament-street, summoned Mr.
Stephen .Fletcher, his landlord, for £1 18s. 3d., the amount
of bills paid for repairing gas pipes, opening the pipe of
the water-closet, &e. Mr. Rawle stated that on the 22nd.
of December last he became a tenant of Mr. Fletcher;
The house was 245 a-year rent, and he was told, on taking
it, that it was in perfect order, and that gas and
water were laid in every room. Ile found, however,
that the gas pipes were not connected with the main
pipe, and that they also leaked, so much as to
require extensive repairs. He sent for workmen to the
office of the Gas Company, and had been charged for their
services £1 Bs. The defendant on complaint afterwards
sent one of his own workmen to open out the pipe of the
water closet, which was filled with shavings, but for that
the man charged him (the plaintiff) 10s. As the evidence
was defective in some material particulars, the case was
postponed.
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CLAIM AGAINST AN AUCTIONEEIL—AdSITIDoyIe, cotton
waste dealer, summoned Mr. Joseph Parker, auctioneer,
for £2 10s., the value of an iron chain which he alleged
that he had bought, but which had not been delivered. A
sale, it appeared, took place in December last, at the office
of Messrs. Johnston, at which the plaintiff was a pur-
chaser. One of the lots that he so bought consisted,
according to the catalogue, of " cotton waste, isinglasss,
pumice-stone, and brown paper, &c., &c." He had pre-
viously inspected the lots as arranged at some premises
that had been burned down in Leeds-street, and with the
lot in question at that time was an iron cable chain, the
non-delivery of which formed the ground of the present
action. It was alleged for the defence that the chain was
never intended to be sold, and that this had been inti-
mated to intending purchasers on their inspection of the
goods. That more satisfactory evidence on that point
might be supplied, his Honour adjourned the case till the
215th instant.
The court rose soon after four o'clock.