The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1853.

IT will give pleasure to many of his friends to learn that
Air. Hugh Neill, surgeon, has returned to town in restored
health, and has resumed his public and private duties.
THE VARIOUS REGIMENTS of the Lancashire Militia
will be called up for inspection and drill on or about the
Ist of May.

THE FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION of Liverpool
are petitioning against Mr. Gladstone's scheme in refe-
rence to the national debt.
THE LATE RAILWAY STRIKE IN LIVERPOOL.—The
directors of the London and North-Western Company
have decided that there shall be an increase of wages to
the goods' porters, but the details have been left to the
local boards.

ELI KNIGHT, a clerk in the service of Messrs. Moses,
Levi, and Co., of this town, was apprehended the other
day by detective-officer Patrick, and was on Wednesday
remanded by the magistrates, on a charge of embezzling
a large amount of property from his late employer.
A PUBLIC MEETING of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the
London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the
Jews, was held on Tuesday. The revenue of the society
was last year £853, and a Liverpool mission had been re-
established, the Rev. J. D. Hirsch being chosen as agent.
THE LOVERS OF CRICKET IN LIVERPOOL will be glad
to learn that a repetition of the match with the Eleven of
All England will take place on the 30th and 31st of May,
and Ist of June next. The only difference will consist in
its being a match between the Olympus and the Eleven,
whereas last year it was a general town game.

MRS. CHISHOLM arrived here on Thursday last. She
has gone to Glasgow, but is expected to return to Liver-
pool this week, to hold group meetings in this town. On
Saturday next, the 23rd inst., she will attend the Saturday
Evening Concerts, and address the audience. The Mayor
' has consented to take the chair.
LANCASTER ELECTION.—The nomination of candi-
dates took place at Lancaster on Monday ; the candidates
were Mr. Green, a Peelite Conservative, and formerly
member for Lancaster, and Mr. Armstrong, the brother
of the ejected member. The polling took place on Tues-
day, and at four o'clock Mr. Green was elected by a ma-
jority of 132, viz., Green, 686; Armstrong, 554.
A YotrsG MAN attempted to swindle Mr. Beswick,
music-seller, Berry-street, on Friday, by purchasing on
credit, a piano-forte, worth £45, which he represented to
be for Captain Gib'is, governor of the Kirkdale house of
correction. Fortunately Mr. Beswick grew suspicious at
the right time, and on finding that the order was a false
one, he of course retained his property.
MURDER AT GARSTANG.—On Saturday night week,
in a drunken brawl at the Horns Inn, Garstang, a young
man, named John Wilding, murdered his companion,
Pendlebury. The now-fashionable knife was
the instrument of slaughter. The deceased and his mur-
derer, with the others engaged in the row, were factory
operatives. Wilding has been committed to the assizes.
A NUMBER OF GENTLEMEN, resident in the township
of Tarbock, invited Mr. William Roscoe, steward to the
Earl of Sefton, to a public dinner at the Hare and
Hounds, Tarbock, on 'Wednesday evening last, on the
occasion of his leaving that township to superintend a
more extensive portion of his lordship's estate. Mr.
George Fleetwood, of Tarbock, occupied the chair, and
Mr. John F. 011ard, of Prescot, the vice-chair.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Mining Journal says :
" No place in the world (and I speak advisedly) is better
adapted for the establishment of extensive works for the
smelting and reduction of all kinds of ores to their respec-
tive metals than are the shores of the Mersey. particularly
the Cheshire side of the river, near which Messrs. John
Bibby and Sons' works are situated. The greater portion
of ores and metals, as well as other articles of import into
this country, from the west coast of South America, come
into the port of Liverpool. The trade is almost monopo-
lised by Liverpool, just as the tea trade, the silk trade,
and the opium trade, from China, is almost, in like
manner, monopolised by London."
COTTON FROM INDIA.—Mr. Hugh Fleming, secretary
to the Manchester Commercial Association, has received
information from the secretary to the East India Com-
pany, that Mr. Wm. Rathbone, of Liverpool, has been
instructed to forward to him, for disposal in Manchester,
122 whole and two half-bales of cotton, received per ship
Anglesey, from Bombay; and that Messrs. Tetley and
Son have been directed to forward, for a similar purpose,
40 bales, shipped from Cochin to London, per Rubicon.
The 144 bales are all Belgaum-grown ; 32 bales being
from New Orleans seed, 18 of a similar kind, but bearing
a different mark ; and 74 from indigenous seed, all the
produce of the season 1850-1. The 40 hales have been
grown from New Orleans seed.—Manchester Guardian.

PORTRAITS LIKE LIFE.—One of the most astonishing
of modern inventions is the instrument called the stereo-
scope, by which a flat picture has all the rounded appear-
ance of solid reality. It was, however, an inelegant ap-
pendage to the drawing-room, and in no way suited for
the pocket. This objection has been overcome by an in-
genious invention of Mr. Beard, the celebrated daguerreo-
type artist, who has designed an instrument to fold for
the pocket, and which may be carried without the slightest
inconvenience. By its means we have a fac.simile, either
of a friend or a landscape, exquisitely minute—true as
the reality, and of such extraordinary beauty of finish,
that it is difficult to describe the ernotions of those who
witness it for the first time. A visit to Mr. Beard's esta-
blishment in Church-street would afford as much surprise
as delight.

SELECT VESTRY.—At the first meeting of the new
vestry, on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell presiding,
the tender of Messrs. Arthur and George Holme, for the
construction of a mill house, (so that the labour test may
be applied,) at a cost of £4,060, was accepted. Messrs.
Holmes' tender was stated to be £9OO below the highest,
and £320 below the lowest of the other tenders sent in.
It was agreed that the Finance Committee should con-
sider and report whether arrangements cannot be made
by which the present official's staff can perform Mr.
Litherland's duties as cashier. The committees were
constituted as follows :—Finance : Messrs. Banner,
Clarke, Bradley, Moss, Luff, Mellor, and Whitby.
Workhouse : Messrs. Blain, Denton, Earle, Johnston,
John Jones, and James Whitty. Schools : Messrs.
Troughton, Pemberton, Hughes, Sumners, Wm. Jones,
Crawford, and Mason.

REMOVAL 05' MANCHESTER COLLEGE TO LONDON.—
Manchester has lost its College. In the Court of Chan-
cery, on Wednesday morning, the Master of -the Rolls
delivered judgment in the case of Manchester College,
which came before the court -on petition, to restrain the
trustees from transferring the college from Manchester to
the University College, London. The foundation was
not originally created either by deed, will, or royal charter
of incorporation ; but as long back as the year 1754, a
school for the education of youths as divines had existed
in Manchester, which, in a few years, was discontinued.;
and in the years 1783-4.5 attempts were made through
Dr. Barnes, a divine of the Church of England, and Mr.
Harrison, a Dissenter, to revive the school for the pur-
pose of the education of youths as divines, and preparatory
instruction for other learned professions, as well scientific
as commercial, of all religious denominations ; and ulti-
mately. at a public meeting, held at Manchester, on the
.22d of February, 1786, for that purpose, resolutions were
agreed to to carry out the design. In 1803 the academy
was removed to York, and some years afterwards again
removed to Manchester, where until lately it was estab-
lished ; but the majority of the trustees, having come to
the resolution to remove the foundation to the London
University, the present proceedings were taken— the
question being whether the trustees had power to divert
or alter the foundation from Manchester, where it was
first established, and to appropriate the funds for that
purpose. His Honour said he was of opinion that the
trustees had full power to do so. His Honour made a
declaration to that effect, and directed the costs of all
parties to be paid out of the fund.
MR. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH A-ND Ma. T. B. HORS-
FALL.—A correspondence has passed recently between
these gentlemen. In a speech at Derby, Mr. Heyworth
had said After the committee had decided that he
(Mr. Horsfall) was the unseated member, and that the
seat belonged to me, that very afternoon Mr. Horsfall
met me, and, with the greatest possible effrontery, said
he was about to attend the levee of Prince Albert as one
of the representatives for Derby."—Mr. Horsfall, on this,
begs to 4:now if the report be correct.?-17r. Heyvrorth
replied it was substantially correct, except that he did not
say Mr. Horsfall was to he presented as one of the repre-
sentatives for Derby.—On the 4th of April Mr. Horsfall
again wrote.:---" My having attended the levee, though
coincident with, was not consequent on, any connexion
with the borough of Derby. It arose from .circumstances
into which it is not necessary to enter. What I complain
of is, that you should charge me with having ' met you
and with the greatest possible effrontery told you,' &c.
As I am not aware of having acted discourteously during
the whole
.election, or its subsequent proceedings, much
I•. 1. • . . .

LAUNCH AT ABERDEEN.— On Saturday last, WaS
launched from the building yard of Messrs. Alexander
Hall and Co., a ship of 629 tons register, classed A 1 for
thirteen years at Lloyd's, the property of Messrs. Barnes
Brothers, merchants, Liverpool, and destined for the
Australian trade. It was named the " Leichardt." The
Leichardt was designed by the Messrs. Hall, with a
view to combine fast sailing qualities with as much stow-
age capacity as to the best of their judgment could well
be united, for beauty of form and equipment.—Aberdeen
Journal.—[This vessel is expected here in a few weeks.]
THE ROMANISTS AND " UNCLE TOM'S CABIN."—On
Wednesday last, at the presentation of the Liverpool
testimonial to Mrs. Stowe, the Rev. C. M. Birrell said
he had been told a few days ago that an edition of
" Uncle Tom," circulated in Belgium, had created an
earnest desire on the part of the people to read the Bible,
so frequently quoted in that beautiful work, and that in
consequence of it a great run had been made upon the
Bible Society's depositories in that kingdom. The priests
of the Church of Rome, true to their instinct, had pub-
lished another edition, from which they had entirely ex-
cluded all reference to the Word of God.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting on
Thursday, Mr. Langsdale presiding, a report was read re-
lative to the proposed alteration in West Derby-road,
with a view to make it more commodious for the public
use. During a conversation which followed, it was stated
that 12s. 6d. per yard was demanded for the land, but it
had since been reduced to 10s. Mr. Moss asked what had
been done in reference to advancing the wages of the
workmen employed under the committee. The engineer
replied that he had written to different masters on the
subject, but he had not yet received replies from all of
them. He thought it better to deal with the subject in a
comprehensive form. Mr. Moss said that if the men were
entitled to it, the sooner they had it the better.
CAREER OF A LIVERPOOL CLERK.—SWINDLING Ex-
TRAORDINARY.—John Steeple Kitchen, aged 19 years,
a respectably connected young man, is in custody in
Sheffield, on a charge of having obtained £3OO from
Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and Co., of that town, merchants,
by means of a forged letter. The prisoner is an adept at
fraud. Some time ago he was a clerk in the respectable
house of W. R. Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, ship.
ping and general merchants, and is a relative of the junior
partner of that firm, whose name he bears. Having left
their employ, he commenced a bold career of fraud upon
their mercantile connections, in which he has been only
too successful. Some months ago he drew £6lO at the
Bank of Liverpool, in the name of his late employers, by
means of a forged checque, we understand, and afterwards
succeeded in eluding a most vigilant and close pursuit. The
prisoner has resided in the interval chiefly at Rumford,
in Essex, under the assumed name of Henderson.

MRS. BEECHER STOWE quitted Liverpool by the 1.15
train, on 'Wednesday, for Glasgow. On Monday, the
children attending a charity school in Miles-street were
introduced to the distinguished authoress. On Wed-
nesday, she was presented with a purse containing £l3OB
collected in this town in small contributions, principally
pence, by a committee of ladies. Mr. A. Hodgson presided.
We learn from the British Mail of Thursday, that Mrs.
Stowe arrived at Glasgow at half-past ten o'clock on
'Wednesday evening, and was greeted at the railway sta-
tion by an enthusiastic crowd. On Friday evening she
appeared at a soirée in the City Hall. It is understood
that Mrs. Stowe, after leaving Glasgow, will proceed to
Edinburgh, remaining in Scotland until about the end of
the month. In the beginning of May she may be ex-
pected in London. The authoress of Uncle Tom will not
quit England to return to America before August, having
engaged to visit Cork and other towns in Ireland.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting
of the board on Wednesday, Mr. Alpass presiding, a long
communication was read from the Poor Law Board,
exculpating Mr. 1114 Govern from any breach of his con-
tract in supplying out-door paupers with bread, but finding
the contract defective, and recommending that the
guardians should take into their immediate consideration
the subject of administering relief in kind, so as to
secure to the poor a due supply of proper provisions under
adequate responsibilities. The sum of £5 was granted for
the purpose of purchasing books for the use of con-
valescent patients in the hospital.—Mr. Roskell, as that
was the last day the old board would sit, moved a vote of
thanks to their chairman, the Rev. Mr. Badnall, which
was cordially carried.—Mr. Shaw : I hope he will be
unanimously elected next year.—Mr. Miller : That is
going too far; I do not think he will be unanimously
elected.—Votes of thanks were carried to the vice-chair-
man and deputy vice-chairman, and also to Mr. Cleaver.
THE PROGRESS OF WEST DERBY.—At the laying of
the foundation-stone of the new parish church on Wed-
nesday, the Earl of Sefton indulged in a few reminiscences
of West Derby as it was fifty years ago. "It was fortu-
nate for them," he said, " that they did not remember
the circumstances of the village half a century ago, and
he feared he had too strong a recollection of its situation
at that period. West Derby was then a small village,
with paved roads, ugly brick houses, and other circum-
stances which required very great improvement; and in
the centre of that unbecoming erection of buildings there
stood the chapel in which they had so long offered up
their prayers, and in which he had occupied one corner,
and which he would quit with some reminiscences which
would make him look back with great regret, although he
might be placed in a more elegant and convenient pew.
They had seen great improvements. The roads, instead
of 'rein; roughly paved, were now macadamised. They
had elegant villas erected in the neighbourhood, all show-
ing taste and elegance, They had the convenience of
corning from Liverpool in elegant public conveyances. In
short, they had every convenience that accrued from the
increase of wealth and population."

PAUL CULLEN AND THE LIVERPOOL ROMANIST
SCHOOLS.—The Popish Archbishop in Dublin, Dr. Cul-
len, in a sermon delivered in this town, on Sunday week,
contended that the Romanist religion was always in
favour of education and the development of the mind,
although it had been falsely asserted to the contrary.
He alluded to Protestant schools, and said there was
great danger in Romanists sending their children to such
establishments, because there was great fear that the
mind would be estranged from the true faith. Papists
should not send their children to be educated at Pro-
testant schools, bemuse Protestants differed widely in
point of faith, whilst there was no difference whatever
between Roman Catholics on this important point. The
system of mixed education had produced infidelity in
Germany, and in France bloodshed and atheism followed
it. In the United States of America, persons who were
educated in such schools knew nothing about religion or
God. These schools sought to entrap Romanists by
bribes of clothes and money, but he warned all Catholics
not to go near such places with their children for education.
PROFESSOR Srown, the husband of the distinguished
novelist, in a speech at Liverpool, on Wednesday, said :
" It was our intention, as the invitation to visit Great
Britain came from Glasgow, to make our first landing
there ; but Providence ordered otherwise. It was ordered
by Providence that we should land here, and surely there
is no place in the kingdom where a landing could be more
appropriate, and no place in the kingdom where the re-
ception could have been more cordial. (Hear, hear.) It
was wholly unexpected of us, I can assure you. We
knew that there were friendly hearts, for we had received
abundant testimonials to that effect from letters which
had come to us across the Atlantic—letters wholly unex-
pected, and which filled our souls with surprise and admi-
ration; but we had no thought that there was such a
feeling throughout England, and we know not how to
conduct ourselves under it, for we are not accustomed to
it, I can assure you. In our country, unhappily, the
feeling is very much divided, and the preponderance of
feeling expressed is very much in the other direction,
entirely in opposition, and not in favour. (Hear, hear.)
We knew that this city had been the scene of some of the
greatest, most disinterested, and most powerful efforts in
behalf of emancipation. The name of Clarkson was indis-
solubly associated with this place, for here he came to
make his investigations, and here lie was in danger of his
life, and here lie was protected by friends who stood by
him through the whole struggle. The name of Cropper, ,
the name of Stephen, and of many others, were very
familiar to us, and were associated with this place—(hear,
hear)—and it was in connexion with this city that we re-
ceived what to our feelings was the most effective testi.
trionial ,ef.all, a most unexpected letter from Lord Den-
man, a name which we have always venerated, which we
have always loved."

THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF THE NEW PARISH
CHURCH AT WEST DERBY was laid on Wednesday last.
The subscription for the new edifice, headed with a dona-
tion of £5OO and the gift of a site from the Earl of Sefton,
was commenced two years ago ; already £6,500 have been
raised. Mr. Georze G. Scott, of London, is the architect.
The new church will be of the geometrical Gothic style of
architecture, with a tower ornamented with turrets. It
will be built of red sandstone. The following will be its
eternal dimensions :—Nave. 72 ft. G in. by 97 'slf '79

IL It, LI ; aisles,
ft. 6 in. by 13 ; transepts, 26 ft. square ; chapels, north
and south, 16 tt. square ; chancel, 41 ft. by 25 ; and tower,
30 ft. square. The erection of the church will take place
under the direction of Mr. Alfred A. Walton, Mr. Scott's
clerk of the works. Mr. Barker, of West Derby, will he
the builder, and Messrs. Jones and Jump will execute the
joinery and carpentry work. The total cost is expected to
be about £B,OOO. There were present at the interesting
ceremony the committee, including the Earl of Sefton,
Messrs. T. B. Horsfall, Anthony, J. H. Macrae, J. Stew.
art, Rogerson, R. H. Lowndes, the Rev. John Stewart,
rector of West Derby ; Rev. Rector Campbell; Rev. J.
F. Greene, rector of Knotty Ash ; Rev. Mr. Leigh, rector
of Walton; a large and respectable assemblage of ladies
and gentlemen, the school children, and the churchwar-
dens. The members of Lord Sefton's family were pre-
sent. After the singing of a hymn, and the reading of
appropriate texts of Scripture, the Rev. J. Stewart, rector
of the parish, handed the trowel to the Earl of Sefton,
whom he addressed at considerable length. The .noble
lord, in his reply, expressed his hope that the new church
would tend to the moral and religious improvement of the
neighbourhood. He hoped, and was assured, that the
services of the church would be carried on in a moderate
style, so congenial, be felt assured, to the feelings of all
present, free from the mingled frigidity and extravagances
of dissent, or the semi-idolatrous ceremonies which form
the attractions of Pusevism.—His Lordship cordially
thanked the Rev. Mr. Stewart for his excellent address,
and the advice he had tendered him. He assured him
that it was in the full spirit of what he (Mr. Stewart) had
attributed to him that he was going to perform the cere-
mony of laying that stone. He would lay it with the
viewof doing a good service to the community, forhewas no
more interested in the matter than any other person. He
had not a spot of land in the parish, except the spot on
which his house stood ; but he bad been long their
neighbour, and he was happy to come forward in such a
good work, under the hands of their parish priest—and he
knew of no more worthy member of society than the
priest who fulfilled the office entrusted to him to con.
tribute to the religious instruction, the moral instruction,
and the comfort of all his parishioners. As Mr. Stewart
bad truly stid, it was hot the church, it was not the
elegance of the structure—it was the living stones of
which it was formed that made the internal body of it.
He knew of no better member of society than a parish
priest, whose duty was to relieve sin and to comfort sor-
row ; and what he knew of the Rev, Mr. Stewart, that
was his conception of his duty, and there was no doubt he
would carry it out. The foundation stone was then
laid by his lordship in the usual manner, after which
appropriate prayers were offered up by the rector, the
ceremony concluding with the singing of the National
Anthem, and three hearty cheers for " The Queen"
and " The Earl of Sefton."

THEFT.—On Saturday William Watson was committed
for trial, charged with stealing a galley and two founts of
printer's types, the property of his employer, Mr. Heath,
of the Colosseum Concert-room, Paradise-street.
FINE ARTS.—A rare opportunity is afforded to the
lovers of pictures by the collection of paintings and water
colour drawings which has been consigned to Mr. J. R.
Isaac, the agent of the Art Union, and announced for
sale by Messrs. Winstanley and Sons.
THE RESTORATION OF THE CHIMES OF ST. PETER'S
CHURCH was a subject brought before the Select Vestry,
on Tuesday last, by Mr. Moss. The churchwardens,
overseers, and also the board, have approved of the res-
toration. Mr. Carne said, when he was sworn in as
churchwarden, he should be very happy to take the matter
into consideration. The subject dropped, on the chairman
intimating that it was a matter with which they had no-
thing to do as guardians of the poor.
SAVINGS BANKS.—It is believed that measures are
contemplated for effecting some new arrangement with
regard to the vast amount of stock held on account of
savings-banks. By a return just issued, it appears that
the total is £33,263,273, and as large losses occur to the
nation from the fact that depositors usually claim repay.
ment when prices are low and bring in money when they
are high, thus putting the government in the predicament
of having to buy or sell always at a disadvantage, it is
considered that the present moment is opportune for a
reduction of the rate of interest allowed, or for adopting
such other remedy as may appear desirable.
FORTUNE-TELLING IN LIVERPOOL IN 1853.—At the
Police-office, on Thursday, Ann Green, a woman with a
child in her arms, and a servant girl named Catherine
Cantwell, were charged with obtaining 7s. 6d., by false
pretences, from a girl of the name of Higgins. The girl
Higgins, having lost a portrait of her sister in America,
was lamenting her loss in the street, when she was met by
Cantwell, who said that her mistress (Green) was a
fortune-teller, and could find the portrait, as she had
found some silver spoons for another person. " The
charm would not work" without money, and first of all
she induced Higgins to give her a shilling, and subse-
quently obtained from her other sums, amounting in all
to 4s. 7d. Green was sent to prison for a month, and
Cantwell was discharged. Police-officer (272) was sus-
pended, upon the evidence of three witnesses as to his
having received a pint of ale from the fortune-tellers.
EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—The total number of
vessels now preparing for the various ports of Australia is
55, and the total amount of registered tons is 28,506. The
sailings from this port to the Australian colonies during
the past week have been 9 vessels, of an aggregate tonnageof
5.192 tons, as follows :—For Port Philip, one vessel, of 403
tons ; Melbourne, five vessels, 1,645 tons; Melbourne and
Geelong, one vessel, 1,000 tons ; and Sydney, two vessels,
2,144 tons. From the official returns at the Government
Emigration-office, made up to Friday afternoon, we per-
ceive that during the past fortnight the departures of
emigrant vessels have been, to the United States, twenty-
five vessels, with 11,482 passengers ; Canada, two vessels,
615 passengers ; Australia, one vessel, 380 passengers :
total, twenty-eight vessels, 12,477 passengers. This list
of course only includes vessels that come under the Go-
vernment Emigration Act for ships carrying steerage
passengers.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTERS AND LIVERPOOL: A
COTTON DEPOT.—The Philadelphia correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle writes :—" A very singular conven-
tion of southern planters is to be held in June next, at
Memphis, Tennessee. The avowed objects of the meet-
ing are to establish a continental depot of cotton in op-
position to Liverpool, and thus to do away with Liver-
pool agencies, middlemen, he. by a direct exportation.
The call complains that by the present system the sub-
stance of the planters is eaten up, and the exports are
concentrated at Liverpool. And then other objects are,
to build up a southern importing market in opposition to
New York, to have one or two lines of steamers to
Europe, new railroads, to educate southern children at
home, and, in a word, to aim at commercial and industrial
independence. So far as Liverpool is concerned, the
gentlemen who convene the meeting seem to forget the
proximity of that port to the vast cotton region of which
Manchester is the centre—to say little of its wealth, en-
terprise, and shipping. So long as the Lancashire manu-
factories flourish, Liverpool will be not only a depot, but
also an entrepot for the great saVple."
THE HERO OF A HUNDREIt FIGHTS.—The elegant
statue of Wellington, by Signor Grispi, is now complete,
and has been visited by many gentlemen of taste within
the last week at his studio, Lord-street Chambers. It is li
about half the life size, or three feet in height, and re-
presents the warrior in the act of sheathing the sword of
the soldier, that he may resume the duties of the states-
man. He stands upon our own quarter of the globe,
whose convulsions are thus put to rest, and leans against
the olive, the admitted symbol of peace. There is a
pleased expression on his countenance, as if conscious
that war should only be resorted to as a stern necessity,
in conformity with his own memorable saying, that
" nothing can be more unfortunate than to win a battle,
except to lose one." If this statue were executed in
marble, of the full life size, it would be one of the most
suitable ornaments for St. George's Hall, and a memorial
of departed greatness worthy of our important town. 1
Yesterday the mayor paid a visit of inspection, and,
struck with the beauty of the model, remarked that it
would form a very appropriate figure to crown the column
for the projected Wellington monument in this town ; he,
however, feared that the funds would be inadequate. We
recommend our readers to see the model and judge for
themselves, as it may influence further contributions to
the Wellington Monument Fund.

HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
—The sixth ordinary meeting of this society for the
session was held in the Collegiate Institution on Thursday
evening last, Dr. Thom, vice-president, in the chair.
Six new members were elected, viz., Charles Turner,
Esq., M.P., Dr. Toile, and Messrs. Arthur Ellis, Richard
Houghton. Thomas Henry Lyon, R.N., and Thomas B.
Ryder. The donations to the society included the trans.
actions of a society at Abbeville. in France, for three
years and a half, silver coins, autographs, books, manu-
scripts, &c. Among the articles exhibited were en
ineuisitio post mortem of the date 15th March, 15th
James 1. ; elastic sandstone from India, original and most
accurate portrait of Gilbert Wakefield, several manuscript
letters, an ancient book, and a curious tobacco-pipe. The
Rev. P. S. Dale, at the request of the chairman, accom-
panied his presentation with some appropriate remarks.
Dr. Hume announced that there will be a day meeting in
May, and that the meeting in June will probably be held
in Manchester. A communication was read from Mr.
Boardman, suggesting the insertion of an inscription at
the site of Roscoe's nativity, which is still confounded
with another position in Mount-pleasant, near the Eye
and Ear Institution. Two additional letters from Felicia
D. Browne (afterwards Mrs. Hemans) were read, and the
society concurred in the arrangement that had been made
for inviting the British Association for the Advancement
of Science to meet in this town in 1854. The following
Papers, as announced in the circular, were then read :

Description of Mains's Hall, neat Poulton, the hiding-place
of Cardinal Allen, temp. Elizabeth, by the Rev. William
Thornber, 8.A., Blackpool ; Memoranda, referring to the
register of baptism, marriage, and burial, of William
Roscoe, by James Boardman, Esq.; Additional Letters
and Papers respecting the Bateman family, by Thomas
Doming Hibbert,
AFRICAN MAIL STEAMERS.—The following letter has
been addressed by the passengers to Captain Parsons :
" Steam-ship Faith, at sea, April 12th, 1853. To Cap.
tain Jas. Parsons. Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned, pas-
sengers on board the African mail-steamer Faith, during
this her first passage home, wish thus publicly to express
our satisfaction at the arrangements which were made for
our comfort, and our thanks for the kindness and libe-
rality displayed towards us by yourself ; and we wish also
to express our full appreciation of your talents as an able
and experienced seaman. With respect to the vessel,
although there has been much to contend with, we have
great pleasure in bearing testimony to the good working
condition of the engines, &c. ; and, as a sea-boat, the
late tempestuous weather has been sufficient proof that
she ranks A 1. The culinary department, under the
management of Mr. Painter, has given us every satis-
faction ; and we shall have much pleasure in recom-
mending our friends to your ship. Wishing you health
and many prosperous voyages, we remain, yours, &c.,—
Thomas Gregory, J. G. Sanderran, Lorenz Diederichson,
Capt. E. C. Townsend, Capt. G. Maunsell, A. Hook,
Sidi Mahomet Benani. Capt. Lynch, United States Navy ;
Lieut. Robinson, 3d W. I. Regt. ; Lieut. West, R.N. ;
Lieut. Kingsn3ile, 3d W. I. Regt. ; Dr. Fitzgibbon, Dr.
Pinkerton, Auguste Hardison, Herbert W. Day, T. W.
Remington, N. Alfaro." The Faith's passage out and
home have certainly been most satisfactory. She has not,
we are informed, required pumping out since she sailed,
and generally is in first-rate condition, both as to hull
and machinery, after a run of from 10,000 to 11,000 miles.
The steam-sbip Northern Light is also in a forward state
in Mr. Laird's yard, and will open the branch of the
company's Liverpool line on the 10th of October next.
She is to be 1400 tons, and is calculated to carry about
1000 tons of palm oil.

THE LATE JOHN JUST, ESQ., OF BURY.—At the an-
nual general meeting of the British Archaeological Asso-
ciation, held on Wednesday last, Mr. T. J. Pettigrew,
F.R.S.F.S.A., treasurer, read an elaborate and most
interesting memoir of the members of that association
deceased during the past year. Amongst the most pro-
minent of the members thus lost by death to the society
he noticed the late Mr. Just, whose valuable labours in
connexion with philology, science, and antiquities are so
well known to our readers. Born in Westmoreland, and
educated in that district, the leisure of his life was spent
in the pursuit of his favourite studies in this part of
England, to whose history, botany, and language he
made many valuable contributions. Mr. Pettigrew traced
the history of Mr. Just's contributions to the Manchester
Literary and Philosophical Society, the Historic Society of
Lancashire and Cheshire, the British Archaeological Asso-
ciation (in connexion with whose congress at Manchester
and Lancaster his labours were most important, and justly
and adequately valued), up to his last paper on the West-
moreland dialect, read before the Rosicrucians at Manches-
ter, not long before his lamented decease. The success of
Mr. Just as a teacher and lecturer, his indefatigable zeal in
the prosecution of his favourite studies, his wonderful
memory and facility of reference to his well-stored acquire-
ments, his childlike simplicity, and the kindness with which
he rendered his great acquirements useful to his fellow-men,
were admirably and fully dwelt on ; and the meeting testi-
fied, in the warmest manner, their sense of the just and
excellent estimate which Mr. Pettigrew made of Mr. Just,
as a man and a scholar.—Mr. Gould, F.S.A., moved that
Mr. Pettigrew's paper be printed, a motion which was
seconded by Mr. Pidgeon, who said he felt, as a friend of
Mr. Just, that it was impossible for him to omit his slight
test imon y to the zeal and acquirements of his deceased friend.
As secretary to the Historic Society of Lancashire and
Cheshire, he had long been associated in their kindred pur-
suits with Mr. Just, and he could not but feel that the
paper just read would prove most agreeable to the friends
of Mr. Just.—The Rev. J. Hugo, M.A.F.S.A., rose and
said, that during his residence in the North of England
he had reckoned Mr. Just amongst his most valued friends.
They had together traversed the whole line of the Roman
Road, in the illustration of which Mr. Just had so success-
fully laboured, and he could add his testimony to all that
had been said of his late friend's untiring labours. On one
point only could he add a word. Mr. Just was much ce:

lebrated as a brother of the angle, and his well-stored
basket, when other men in vain tried to fill theirs, was
often a witness to his success in that pursuit.—Manches-
ter Guardian.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE BISHOP-ELECT OF LINCOLN, Dr. Jackson, is ex-
pected to be consecrated at Lambeth on the sth of May.
DONCASTER CHURCH.—The cost of an entire restora-
tion is estimated at about £30,000.
A NEW WEEKLY PAPER is about to be started in
London, called the Protestant Standard.
THE SHOEMAKERS AND BUILDERS in the West of
Scotland have received an advance of wages.
THE MASONS at Dumbarton, on the Clyde, after pro-
curing an increase of ls. a week in their wages, are now
working at the old rates.
STEAM-BOAT PUNCTUALITY.—A memorial has been
addressed to the Admiralty, by the merchants of Bristol,
on the inconveniences sustained from the repeated failures
of the Royal West India Mail Company to fulfil the en-
gagements of their time table.

STOPPING THE SUPPLIES.—The managers of St. Paul's
(Episcopal) Chapel, Aberdeen, recently resolved to " stop
the supplies," until the rival clergymen, Sir W. Dunbar,
and Mr. S. A. Walker, should cease their quarrel and
regularly perform duty.
A NAKED MAN IN THE WOODS !—The Duke of Beau-
fort's hounds, on Wednesday, were in full cry after a fox,
through the woods of Spye Park, when they turned out a
man entirely naked (with the exception of half-boots).
He was a lunatic, who had escaped from a private asylum.
DR. R. PHILLIMORE, M.P., has given notice that on
Wednesday, the 20th inst., he will introduce a bill to
alter and amend the law relating to Church Rates. On
the same day Sir William Clay will propose their total
abolition.

A SUITABLE STATUE will shortly be erected to the
memory of the celebrated Henry Bell. The situation
fixed upon for its erection is Row church-yard. The
entire expense of the statue is borne by a celebrated ship-
builder and engineer on the Clyde.—Dumbarton Herald.
LAW REFORM.—The Commissioners for the Consoli-
dation of the Statutes are Mr. Bellenden Ker, Mr. Chis-
holm Anstey, Mr. Brickdale, Mr. George Coode, and Mr.
Rogers. It is stated that Mr. Bellenden Ker is to receive
£l,OOO per annum, and the rest of the commissioners
£6BO per annum each.

GUTTA PERCHA.—At the weekly meeting of the insti-
tution of civil engineers, it was shown that although gutta
percha tubes, whilst under water, were very durable, yet
that on exposure to the air for a few years unpainted, the
substance laminated, and could be rubbed to pieces. The
gutta percha covering of the wires of the submarine tele-
graph was very dtivable under the sea, but on the face of
the Dover cliff it had been soon destroyed ; it was then
buried under ground, and had proved perfectly successful.
A CURE FOR YELLOW FEVER has been discovered at
C. Bolivar by Mariquita Orfila, by means of which several
persons have been completely cured after a consultation of
doctors had declared that the cases were quite hopeless.
The remedy is the juice of the pounded leaves of the
" Verbena' given in small doses three times a day, and
injections of the same every two hours, until the bowels
are emptied. The " Verbena" is a wild shrub, to be
found growing almost everywhere, and particularly in low,
moist ground.

VULCANISED INDIA RUBBER. —At the last weekly
meeting of the institution of civil engineers, it was stated
that the vulcanised india rubber would bear, perfectly,
almost any amount of compression, for an indefinite
period, but that on being subjected to repeated extension
for a lengthened period, its elasticity became impaired ;
this, it was suggested, might arise partly from a portion
of the sulphur, which was only held in mechanical com-
bination, being thrown off, and also from the substance
absorbing heat in contraction and giving it out on disten-
sion, and thus producing "eremacausis," which eventually
caused its disintegration.

LAUNCH ON THE CLYDE.—The Greenock Advertiser
of Friday states that there was launched, on Wednesday.
from the building yard of Messrs. William Simons and
Co., Whiteinch, Patrick, a small screw steamer called the
Theresa, owned by Mr. H. L. Seligmann, of Glasgow,
and some friends connected with the iron trade. She is
intended chiefly to carry pig iron from Clyde to Runcorn,
Fleetwood, and the Welsh ports, along with her consort
now building at Renfrew. She was originally built for
Messrs. D. and G. Brymner, of Greenock, and intended
to be employed in the coasting trade.
DR. CAHILL'S PROFANE SPEECH AT GLASGOW.—At
the celebration of St. Patrick's day in Glasgow, Dr. Ca-
hill was so clamorously received, that he almost imagined
himself surrounded with a batch of rale "Tipperary
boys," shouting " Erin-go-bragh." Among the other
thoughts and expressions of this clerical braggart, he
thought that he could never forgive Lord John Russell
and Lord Palmerston till that night, but he did forgive
them, and if he died before them he would do a good
thing for them—he would let them into heaven, or if he
had not the power to do that, perhaps if he had the keys
of the other place, he would do a better thing for them—
he would let them out.—(Roars of laughter.)
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.—The following appear in
that popular corner of the Times devoted to strange
announcements :—M. N.—You are right in your conjec-
tures, there is a difficulty. It may be necessary to lessen
the time by a month. Write exactly what you feel on the
subject; and arrange, if you can, for me to communicate
direct. The name of your Mercury will be sufficient.—
S. T.—W.B.B.—How absurd it is of your parents to
anger me, and to threaten me with law, when one word
from you would answer every purpose. You cannot have
received my letter of Saturday. How shameful to mis-
trust, you who have ever been so dutiful a child, and who
now sacrifice your feelings to satisfy them.—W. B. B.
DAGUERREOTYPE LIKENESSES OF PRISONERS.—Mr.
Gardener, governor of Bristol gaol, has introduced the
system of taking multiplied copies of daguerreotype like-
nesses of notorious offenders in custody, which, with
written descriptions of the prisoners, are forwarded to
the principal gaols and police stations in the kingdom.
As daguerreotype likenesses of the most accurate charac-
ter can now be taken on paper, the only expense is the
triflng cost of the apparatus. The first likeness taken in
the gaol by this process are those of a notorious and
daring burglar, an utterer of forged Bank of England
notes, and a female criminal suspected of having been long
" wanted " in other parts of the kingdom ; and on Mon-
day they were dispatched to various gaols, &c., in the
northern and midland districts.
A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ENGINE DRIVER
AND THE GUARD.—A simple and efficient method of com-
munication between the engine driver and the guard
of a railway train has been adopted by Mr. Finnigan
upon the South-eastern Railway. it consists of a plaited
silk line, rendered weather proof, attached to a reel,
within reach of the guard, and passed through swivels
between the bottom of the carriage doors and the steps,
along the whole line, until it arrives at the engine, where
a communication is effected with the steam whistle. In
case of accident, the guard can sound this shrill instru-
ment, which will certainly attract the attention of the
driver; and no passengers can be alarmed, since it will
be impossible for them to discover whether the whistle is
sounded in the ordinary course by the driver or by the
guard. No fog, noise, or other impediment can possibly in-
interferewith the signal effected by this simple contrivance.
Sr. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The following is the plan
of scaffolding adopted by Mr. Parris, for the purpose of
restoring the paintings of Sir James Thornhill, in the
dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. 220 feet from the pavement
underneath :—lt comprises two galleries,—one on a level
with the great cornice, and the other some thirty feet
above it, in the spring of the cupola. The flooring of
each is sustained by poles, firmly secured, one end riveted
into ring-bolts inserted into and through the solid
masonry of the cupola (two feet and a half in thickness),
and secured with iron plates on the outside, while the
further end is supported by strong wire ropes secured
above through the upper gallery to the framework of the
over dome. The present platform only occupies one-
eighth part of the circumference of the cupola, so that when
one compartment is finished the gallery is shifted round
to the next compartment, and so on till the restoration of
the whole paintings is completed. It is said to be the in-
tention of the Dean and Chapter to follow up the ideas of
Sir Christopher Wren to the fullest extent.
CHURCH REVENUES.—The principal points in the fifth
report of the. Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England,
recently published, are these :—ln addition to the four sees
previously subjected by act of Parliament to fixed incomes
(to which Lincoln must now be added), the Bishops of
Salisbury. St. Asaph, Ripon, Ely, and Worcester have
consented to receive only the incomes prospectively an-
nexed to their sees—the future Dean and Canons of
Durham have been similarly limited—the Dean and
Chapter of York have surrendered that eapitular estate
(subject to existing leases) to the commissioners, in con-
sideration of an annuity calculated on their past average
receipts, until a capitular estate in possession of the same
value shall be provided ; ninety-nine reversions have been
sold, and seventy-seven leaseholds purchased. The value
in fee of the property so enfranchised during the past
year exceeds £550,000; the total charge upon the com-
mon fund in respect of 825 augmented benefices, and 235
new districts and parishes, amounts to £77,967 yearly, or
a capital sum of .C 2,598,700 ; and, in consequence of such
liability already created, nutm rows applications (exceed-
ing 1,500) still remain unsatisfied.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. •-• A general meeting
of this society was held at the Freemason's tavern, on
Monday, for the purpose of making certain alterations in
the rules. Viscount Ranelagh presided. The proposed
alterations, which included the abolition of fines for non-
payment or unadvanced shares, the more easy withdrawal
and transfer of shares, &c., were unanimously adopted,
subject to the approval of the barrister appointed under
the statutes to certify. Lord Ranelagh, the Hon. Col.
Lowther, Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., and
J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., were appointed the trustees.
A good deal of discussion took place with respect to the
question of a reserved allotment on the rating clause, for
a public house, and it was ultimately resolved that it
should he offered to tender by the highest bidder amongst
all the members having rights of choice. A drawing took
place for 42 rights of choice, and it was stated that 21
shares would be added by seniority to the Register of
Rights. In the course of the proceedings the noble
'chairman gave a very satisfactory account of the financial
proceedings of the society, and announced a fact almost
unparalleled in the history of these institutions—that
although the society had been only six months in existence,
it had been enabled to form a reserved fund of £S,OOO.
THE TEETH AND BREATIL—HOW often do we find the
human face divine disfigured by neglecting the chiefest of
its ornaments, and the breath made disagreeable_ to com-
panions by non-attention to the teeth ! Though perfect
in their structure and composition, to keep them in a pure
and healthy state re4uires some little trouble; and if those
who are blessed with well-formed teeth knewlw soon
decay steals into the mouth, making unsightly whaterteaenro-
wise are delightful to admire, and designating unhealthi-
ness by the impurity of the breath, they would spa
expense to chase away these fatal blemishes. But al.
a alsluoffiocxiieot y
or aware
mineral
though most ladies are careful, and even particular in
these delicate matters, yet
few re
the imperative necessity ofavoiding
substances of an acrid nature, and of Which the greater
part of the cheap tooth-powders of the present day are
composed. It is highly satisfactory to point out Messrs.
Rowlands Odonto, or Pearl Dentifrice, as a preparation
free from all injurious elements, and eminently calculated
to embellish and preserve the dental structure, to impart
a grateful fragrance to the breath, and to embellish and
perpetuate the graces of the mouth.--Court Journal.

I SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, a.m.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

THE BUDGET.

The Chancellor's speech occupies fifteen and three-
quarter columns of the Times, and took five hours in
delivery.

The Times says the reduction of duties on tea, the
abolition of the taxes on soap, and the gradual reduction
of the income tax, would alone give importance to
the financial statement, and would make the year memo-
rable in the history of finance ; but the budget includes
also a reform of the tariff, which renders it worthy of
being ranked with those of Sir Robert Peel. It is pro-
posed to reduce the duties on butter, cheese, eggs, fruit,
and on many articles of more or less importance, while no
less than 133 articles are to be struck out of the tariff
altogether.
In the Assessed Taxes, all progressive duties are to be
abolished ; so that each article pay the same, whether
there be one or a dozen.—The duties on private and
hackney carriages, horses, and dogs are to be reduced.—
The license duty will he the only duty on post-horses.—
The tax on servants is also to be reduced.—The draw-
back for waste spirits on hand is to he conceded.—ln
stamps, receipt stamps are to be abolished; a Queen's
head franking a receipt as it does a letter.—The stamp
duty on Life Assurances is to be reduced ; attorneys'
certificates and admission stamps lowered.—The duty on
advertisements is to be reduced to 6d. ; stamp on news-
papers a penny, without regard to size and without addi•
-
tional duty on supplements.
The Times says, " Such is an imperfect summary of the
long list of remissions, without a parallel, it believes, in
any previous budget. Mr. Gladstone proposes to make up
the deficiency by raising two millions a year by extending
the legacy duly to all successions, and abolishing the
exemption enjoyed by real property; to increase the duty
on Scotch spirits by ls., and on Irish by Bd. a gallon.
The income tax to extend to Ireland for the next seven
years, but the consolidated annuities, long the subject of
Irish complaint, is to be remitted."
The Times considers " it would not be easy to point out a
class that is not greatly interested in the success of Mr.
Gladstone's propositions; and, on the whole, it cannot
but congratulate the British people on the great enterprise,
the rare opportunities, and the high favour of Heaven, to
which they owe the possibility of these great, it had
almost said unexpected, reductions from their now here-
ditary burdens."

The Herald says, " Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues
have elected to stand or fall by the unmitigated
Income Tax. There can be little doubt which of the two
it will be. The acceptance of the Budget as a whole
seems to the Herald as unlikely a thing as can be con-

ceived."

The Daily News says, " It is a Budget of compro-
mises, as a whole: it has boldness and weakness, merits
and demerits ; a forward action and a backward action.
At first blush, it seems likely to be popular with the
House ; but the more important verdict of the country
has to be taken."

The Chronicle says, " An opinion would be premature :
the speech was one of the greatest parliamentary efforts
the present generation has witnessed. The applause of
the House, and the congratulations of Mr. Gladstone's
colleagues and friends, will, the Chronicle cannot doubt,
be confirmed by the deliberate approval of the com-
munity.''

The Post is pleased with the Chancellor's comprehen.
sive views of our fiscal system, hut objects to his creating
a distrust by concessions of indirect taxation, and to the
further use of the Income Tax.

LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—Tms

NOON QUOTATIONS

THE FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 100 A 1 ; ditto for
Money, 1008 a ; Bank Stock, 2261 6 ; Three and a
Quarter per Cent., 10311.
RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonian Preference, 1071-;
Eastern Counties, 131; Great Northern, S3l 21; Great
Western, 92k ; Leeds Northern, I 61; London and
North Western , 120 a ; London and South Western, 9U 1 ;
Midland Stock, 75 48; North British, 35; York and.
North Midland, 591.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIs DAY,
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 771 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire pref., 10 15-16ths; Midiand, 751.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Leeds Northern Fifths, 5 dis. ; Midland, 751 ; North
Westerns, 8 3 16ths ; York and North Midland, 29g.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
Traffic returns, £9,566 2s. 81d. Corresponding week
last year, £8,558 Bs. 94d.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Britain's Pride, from Alexandria, at Gravesend the 18th

instant

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET
The market this morning was steady, and a fair amount
of business was done at the prices of Friday last, in all'
descriptions.
The arrivals into this port since Tuesday last, include
a good supply of Oats from Ireland ; those of other arti-
cles thence, and of anything coastwise, being small ;
whilst, owing to adverse winds most of last week, the
foreien imports comprise merely 240 qrs. of Wheat, and
22,415 brls. of Flour, both from United States.

-THIS DAY

MR. GIBSON, R.A., has completed his statue of Venus,
at Rome, and aroused the criticism of connoisseurs by
giving a slight flesh tint to the figure, blue eyes, yellow
hair, and a delicately-coloured border to the drapery.
There is much difference of opinion as to the judicious-
ness of this proceeding.
EXPERIMENTAL SUICIDE.—An extraordinary act of
accidental suicide was perpetrated on Friday, at Messrs.
Coutts' banking-house, in the Strand. A father and son,
named Jones, were engaged in whitewashing one of the
rooms, when the father left for a short period in the mid-
dle of the day, and, on his return, discovered Lis son a
corpse, suspcnded by the neck from a line attached to a
pane of glass used for ventilating purposes in the window.
The line merely passed under the chin and at the back of
the ears, without encircling the neck, and as the feet were
upon the ground and the knees within two inches of it. •
it appears very remarkable that the deceased, if inclined
only to try the effect of experimental banging, failed in
saving himself. However, animation was suspended, and
although the body was warm when removed to Charing-
cross Hospital, all attempts at resuscitation proved fruit-
less. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

A BELLIGERENT ATTORNEY.—In the court of Queen's
Bench, on Saturday, a rule was applied for on behalf of
Mr. Rolt, Q.C., calling upon Mr. John Maynard Clayton,
an attorney, to show cause why a criminal information
should not be filed against him. Mr. Rolt, in conducting
a defence to a suit in Chancery, stated his belief that the
proceedings were instituted for the mere purpose of ob-
taining costs, and that they were of a vexatious character,
and could not produce any substantial benefit to the
plaintiff himself. The Vice-Chancellor, in deciding upon
the case, expressed his opinion that it was a vexatious and
unprecedented application. Mr. Maynard, who was the
plaintiff's attorney, took offence at the language used by
Mr. Rolt, and called upon him to apologise. Mr. Rolt
answered that he had stated no more than, in his pro-
fessional capacity, he was justified in doing. Mr. May-
nard, upon this, sent a friend to Mr. bolt with a formal
challenge, and requested him also to name a friend. Mr.
Rolt said the only friend he should apply to would be the
nearest magistrate. After this, Mr. Rolt received a letter
from Mr. Maynard, couched in very offensive languaze,
and thereupon the present proce

were ta

Mr. Ma

,rd. The court granted the rule

ECONOMY AND UTILITY.—In addressing our readers
this week, we are desirous of bringing under their notice
a peculiarly useful article of daily consumption, which is
intimately connected with the comfort and well-being of
families. You are aware that adulteration of many
articles is, unhappily, by no means uncommon. Amongst
other articles ,hick have been lately exposed by chemists
and other Competent judges, we observe that the useful
article, Starch, has had its share of exposure. You can-
not fail to perceive that it is your interest, in making pur-
chases of starch, to patronise that kind which has ob-
tained an established and well-merited reputation. It is
Var that where fine linens and laces are to be finished in

a superior manner, that starch of . superior qual
be used. We have, therefore, the most
pleasure in recommending our
Glciifi:la Patent Starch, and r
_..._ ~,,lowing
very conclusive reasons :—lst. That it is used in her Ma-
jesty's laundry, where the laundress in her testimonial to
the manufacturer of the Glenfield Starch distinctly says,
that it is the best she has ever used. 2d. We could quote
ten similar testimonials from the laundresses of the prin-
cipal nobility, besides from many of the leading gentry
end many public institutions ; also, from 1500 of the
principal grocers in the three Kingdoms, declaring that
it pleases their customers better than any other they ever
had. With these very satisfdctory reasons, we leave it to
our fair readers to make a trial of the Glenfield Patent
Starch and prove it for themselves. We see it is for sale
by most of the shopkeepers in the town.
A BUCCANEER IN THE CLYDE IN 1853.—The Greetroc
Herald of Thursday last relates a good story of. a
.bold
craft, in which he
who was. lately lodged in limbo
buccaneer, on a small scale,
utisieedre.toHmeatheadranidlsittloer
cerrcuy;s79ltlitsngt'hrough the West
Highlands, on pretence of dealing in deif. He was
assisted by two boys. He used to return from these with
cargo of every conceivable thing--
a general as planks
of wood, eggs, shell-fish, braxy, bones, cow and cheep
hides, sometimes a live porker or two, poultry, rags, old
iron, in short every conceivable. thing : and the i' • impression
was that he was driving a trade in a
whispered primitive
fashion by
means of barter. But stories werell uspercd abroad that
if our buccaneer valued his safety he
found among the creeks of the Gael
, e should. not be again
lest Elspa M'llvolev should ael with his rotten craft,
be found looking for her six
lost favourite hen;'
,a
or T a 1 Al' Taggert his two lost
lambs, the firstlings uof 1 •
iis flock. So our buccaneer went
into a new trade. He would leave Greenock harbour in
the dusk of the *
,evening, and return at day-oreak from the
north side of the •
river a cargo of broom.
these excursions in the night, because the cutting of
broom was forbidden. The small value of the article he
carried made people wonder how it would recompense
him ; but a circumstance came out that explained an.
He was observed early one morning, on the opposite
shore. after having shipped a quantity of broom, surrep-
titiously dragging a something on board, which proved to
be a ram from an adjoining field. He set sail for Greenock
but found he was hotly pursued. Knowing that to some'
into the harbour would be certain detection, he hastily
attached the horns of the ram to his anchor, and casting
anchor in the offing, lighted his pipe, and coolly awaited
his pursuers. They came, searched the vessel, and find-
ing no sheep on board, concluded it was a mistake,
occasioned b. y the grey of the morning, and left the bucca-
neer chuckling a laugh at their expense. Scarcely were
they gone when the anchor and booty were lifted ; and
the mutton did not eat much the worse for the short im.
merslon in salt water.

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