The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

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In support of the alleged fraud by the directors, it was
proved that advertisements had been inserted in the
papers stating that the committee had completed the al-
lotment of shares. and issued the usual letters, and that
in order to get a large share of legitimate influence, the
committee had been nbliged to give a preference to per-
sons locally interested, over other persons possessing
strong claims on the gr and of wealth and respectability.
On the faith of this announcement, the plaintA.had paid
his deposit, and exchanged the bankers' receipt fur scrip.
It was then further proved that the committee had only
allotted 58.000 out of the 1201.00 shares (although there
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shares to send into the market whorl any advantage was
to be gained by it. Owing to a failure in depositing plans
a meeting was called in December to consider the pro-
priety of proceeding with or abandoning the projpet. when
it appeared that the company had expended £32,309, and
that after providing for outstanding claims there remained
an available balance of only £492.
Mr. Justice Erle, in summing tiro, said, it was therefore
for the jury to say whether what had been stated as done
was a material inducement to the plaintiff to ry his de-
posits. There was, on the second point, a question of fact
as to whether the asso iation was substantially at an end,
and whether there was any probability whatever that the
scheme would have been carried on ; or whether it was
not, in fact, an abortive &theme on the 6th of January,
1846, when the action was brought. If the jury should
be of the latter opinion, they would find for the plaintiff.
The jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff
for the sum claimed.

EXTRAORDINARY CONVICTION UNDER
LORD CAMPBELL'S LIBEL ACT.
Maria Fountain, aged twenty-one, a quiet, modest-
looking young woman, described as a morning governess,
was indicted at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday.
under Lord Campbell's Libel Act, for attempting to ex-
tort money from the Rev. W. Nivin by threatening to
publish libels concerning him.

The prosecutor said he did not know the prisoner until
he received a no'e from her, stating that she had some-
thing to cornrounica'e to him of great importance, and
begged that he would call upon her. He replied that it
was not his cusZorn to call upon persons with whom he
was unacquainted. He received another letter, stating
that some slanders had been utterred by a Missßichard-
son, residing in Brompton, to the effect that he had been
observed to pay several visits to her sister Caroline, stay-
ing several hours; that this slan ler was going the round
of the neighbourhood and was doing her great injury ;
that she meant to bring an action against Miss Richard-
son, but thought if his name were mixed up ire the affair
it might injure him asa clergyman of the Church of Eng--
land, and that unless 4he gut his consent she would pro-
ceed no further in the matter. Knowing Miss Richard-
son very intimately, he took very little notice of that and
several other letters which he received from the pri-
soner, until he received one which he thought required
some attention. He, with a confidential friend, went to
the prisoner's house, and they were there told again that
Miss Richardson had uttered some gross slanders con-
cerning them. His friend then called on Miss IL, and
made her acquainted with the charge which was made
against her; and, on her denying having uttered a word
concerning them, he took his leave. Sonic other letters
pas,ed, after which prosecutor received a letter threat-
ening him with an action for libel, and stating that hie
wife and Miss Richardson having uttered slanders of her
sster, proceedings would be commenced. A; writ was
served on him a short time after, and at different times he
receivedthese
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pursue towards us." This letter he did not answer. The
n-at letter, hinting that prosecutor had paid improper atten-
tions
many parts of
to prisoner's sister five year's previous, said, "I
shall advertise our case, with our names (as wen h%vse.Og
family to disgrace), in the Times, Chronicle, a Post."
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and accusations
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complained of,
The following is an extract from one of her letters :—"
ask you, calmly and dispassionately, what were your at-
tentions to my sister five years ago ?" The prisoner,
after these letters, threatened to communicate and lay the
whole particulars before Archdeacon Sinclair and the
Bishop of London, which she did.
The letter to the Bishop of London was then read. It
contained charges made against witness in connexion with
prisoner's sister.

The prosecutor deposed that, except as one of his con-
gregation, he had never seen the prisoner or her sister,
and had never spoken to either.

Miss Richardson and Mrs. Nivin were afterwards called,
both of whom stated that they had never spoken to the
pri,oner or her sister.
Juhn M'Naughten, formerly beadle to the prosecutor's
church, said that on the 27th of May a vounz man came
to him, and offered him money on condition that he would
aff,rd Miss Fountain al: the information he was master of
in regard to Mr. Nivin, which he refused to do.
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_ be Court of Exchequer has decided that if a man vo-
luntarily kills himself, whether sane or not, a policy of
assurance on his life, containing the usual clause relative
to persons dying by their own hands, is void.' A verdict
given in favour of the widow on five policies fur £909
each, effected in the Argus office by a gentleman wbo cena
milted suicide whilst labouring under insanity, was, there-
fore, set aside.
THE NEW INSOLVENT COMMTSSIONER.—Mr. Charles
Phillips, a Commissioner of the Liverpool Court of Bank-
ruptcy, has received the appointment. The learned com-
missioner, by accepting the situation, will lose £3OO a- year,
his present salary as a country Commissioner in Bank-
ruptcy being £l,BOO per annum, but it is said he has been
influenced mainly by consideration of health. The va-
cancy thus created in the court at Liverpool will be filled•
it is understood, by Mr. Henry James Perry, the Lord
Chancellor's se,:retorv.

Capitalists and others desirous of making safe and pro-
fitable investments in land and household property, will do
well to consult the lists of both, which may be had on
application at the office of Mr. Williams, Itanelagh-streett
Liverpool.
Determination of blood to the head, apoplexy. &C"
effectually prevented by the occasional use of "
ton's Pill of Health," which, by strengthening the action
of the stomach, and promoting a h all by
gestion of the food, prevents a recurrence of those
on
toms of this alarming disorder, giddiness, oppress
the brain, singing nose in the ears, head-ache, &c. 111?e,'
are an excellent aperient, without griping or Pr"straitwo..
of strength, create appetite, relieve languor, and inci3o,
rate the spirits; while to the free liver or sedentary li„rs
offer great and irnoortant advantages. Sold by .11 ven
of medicine, Price Is. per box. See the Liam e illy
" Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Ove :,
ment stamp. and regular di-

Loaf nub ignAtnrial 11.t1U5.

THE LATE CAPTAIN EMERSON.—This much respected
gentleman died a few days since, at Booterstown, near
Dublin. For years he commanded one of her Mijesty's
mail steam boats between Ois port and Dublin, and his
gentlemanly bearing, great goodness of heart, and a dis-
position always eager to oblige, recommended him to all
who knew him. lie was a skilful and experienced naval
officer.

THE RECEVT ATTEMPT OF THE Two YOUNG WO-
MEN FROM HULL TO BECOME SAILORS. In the ac-
count we last week furnished of this freak, we stated that
when the girls were brought before Mr. Craig, sure,eon,
and inspector of volunteers for the navy, they were re-
quired to strip, and took off their jackets, but being
pressed to go further in the process of denuding, they
confessed their sex. We afterwards stated, as taken from
the lips of the girls themselves, and consequently their
opinion only, that " had not a second doctor (a young
man) been called in, they would have passed inspection
by the first" (this is by Mr. Craig). By giving this last
expression of the girls, (who were of course greatly mis-
taken,) we find we have given some unintentional offence
to Mr. Craig, who, baying had long experience as an in-
spector of seamen, immediately detected the sex of the
impostors, and so expressed himself to his son, who was
the young man alluded to. Mr. Craig also gave them the
most moral and earnest advice, urging upon them the im-
propriety and indelicacy of leaving their homes in such
attire, or so foolish an adventure, and impressing on them
the impossibility of escaping detection, should they make
any future attempt, as complete personal inspection of all
candidates for the service was imperative. As nothing
was further from our own intention than to impugn the
professional discernment of Mr. Craig, we trust this ex-
planation will be satisfactory, esnecially as we cannot be-
lieve that his reputation has suffered in the siightest de-
gree by the crude conclusion of two servant women.
Docx COMMITTEE. THURSDAY. —The consideration of
a synop-is of the routine duties at the Albert Dock ware-
houses was deferred for a week in consequence of the
absence of some of the members, who had expressed strong
opinions upon one or two of the clauses. Mr. Mann, in
reference to a list which was submitted of parties recom-
mended for the various offices at the Albert Dock Ware-
houses, said the warehouse sub-committee, in considering
the applications for the situations, had met 35 times, their
sittings frequently occupying three or four hours. There
were 423 applicants, all of whom, with very few exceptions,
had a number of testimonials, all of which were gone
through, All the clerks recommended were persons of
considerable experience and great re-pectability, and the
wonder was, that men of such respectability and ability
should be induced to offer their services to the Dock
Committee on such terms. The Secretary then read the
following list, and the committee confirmed their appoint-
ment :—Warehouse-keepers, Superintendents, Clerk,
Warrant Issue Clerk, Manifest or Ship Ledger Clerk, at
salaries of £l5O per annum each : Thomas Inman, aged
44 ; Leonard Simpson, 32; Ebenezer Allen, 44; J. A.
Cunliffe, 27; A. S. J. Pomperoy, 30; John G. Gilks, 28.
Ledger Clerks for Warehouses and Vaults. at a_.salary. of
£lOO per annum each: Elkenah Healey, 22; John Goodall,
25; Alexander Gordon, 39; Thomas H. Glover, 25.
Warehouse Clerks, at a salary of £BO per annum each : S.
T. Nicholson, 29; Richard Williams, 24; William Wright,
23. Landing or Check Clerks, at a salary of £BO per
annum each: George Clare, 24; Henry Fox. 26; James
Williams, 27; J. W. Fairclough, 22; E. R. Tillet, 22;
W. F. Pennington, 21 ; H. J. Orme, 24; C. M. Machell,
22; J. D. Pennell, 25; John Marsh, jun., 28; James
Askew, 26 ; William Eaves, 22 ; R. Evans, 21 ; Cornelius
Beattie, 28. Landing or Check Clerks, at a salary of £5O
per annum each : Wm. Owens, 22; A. C. Laughton, 19 ;
George Thirkell, jun., 18; Edwin Walley, 20. Managing
Foremen at 455. per week : Silk—William Stokes; East
and West India produce—James Ayre. Mr. Molvneux
said that Mr. H inch and Mr. Card were highly recom-
mended for the two last appointments, but alter sending
in applications they had since withdrawn. Mr. Rankin
was understood to say, there were many of the rejected
parties as deserving as those who were approved, and, it
was probable, should an addition to the present staff be
necessary, that a selection would be made from the un-
successful candidates without giving public notice. Mr.
Ripley (who was much affected) proposed that the Chair-
man should write a letter of condolence and sympat.iy to
the family of the late Mr. Charles Horsfall. The Chair-
man said he should t.e glad to comply with such a request.
He felt himself very much indebted to Mr. Hors'all, for
the information he had given to him whilst a member of
that board. When applied to, he afforded it with that
courtesy and willingness which so distinguished him
through life.

The last stone of the Branch Bank of England, King-
street, Manchester, was laid on Tuesday.
On Thursday. a young man, named John Farrell, was
drowned whilst bathing at the south shore.
It is expected that a public meeting will be held in the
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Thursday, to celebrate
the passing of the Corn Bill.
The bells of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, rang
merry peals on Friday, when the news was received that
the Corn Bill had passed.
A black man, the other day, who was summoned for
-allowing his dog to be at large, pleaded that it had no teeth,
but the magistrates fined him. nevertheless, ss. and costs.
The children of the West Derby Union Workhouse, at
their examination on Tuesday, acquitted themselves very
creditably.
On Tuesday evening a female named Paulson, while
under the influence of liquor, threw herself from George's
Pier into the river, but was fortunately rescued.
On Tuesday John Goldie was fined ss. and costs. or be
imprisoned ten days, for endeavouring to evade the Wood-
side Ferry toll on Monday evening.
On Wednesday, the axletree of a carriage broke on the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway, while the train was in
motion, but no damage was done.
Ibrahim Pacha has placed the sum of £4O in the bands
of the Mayor of Liverpool to be distributed to the public
charities.

EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS.-Tt is intended to pull
down the whole of the south side of Shaw's Brow, and the
east side of the Old Haymarket, including the mass of
small tenements called St. John's village. Handsome
buildings will succeed the present old fashioned and un-
sightly houses. It is probable that the proposed salt
water baths will be constructed on the site of St John',
village. All the masses of old buildings at the bottom of
Water-street, forming part of Tower-gardens, are to be
immediately removed, and the site occupied by stately
and handsome edifices for business purposes.
WATER.-We believe we may now congratulate the
town on the prospect of an abundant and speedy supply of
water, the purest in the world. The Corporation is aware
that the plan is being prepared for them by Mr. Robert
Rawlinson, the engineer, of Manchester, who, availing
himself of his opportunities while engaged in the hydraulic
and other works of the Bridgwater trust, has perfec'ed a
plan, simple, cheap, and efficacious. This plan will requir3
neither steam-engine, pump, or turncock ; the supply of
water will be inexhaustible and constant ; it will flood the
sewers, keep a thousand public founta,ns in eternal play,
and give every householder, poor or rich, an opportunity
of having always on, from high pressure, abundance of the
purest water.-Journal.
LAUNCHES.-On Tuesday morning a beautiful iron
steamer called the Fenella (the cognomen of the interest-
ing dumb girl, characterised in Sir Walter Scott's novel
of " Peveril of the Peak") was hunched from the building
yard of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, South Shore
The Fenella was constructed from a model by our towns-
man, Mr. John Grantham, and is truly a fine specimen of
naval architecture, of very fine lines, and light flotation.
She was built for Messrs. Kemp and Laidlav, of the new,
and now thriving, town of Fleetwood; and she is intended
to run, chiefly with passengers, between that port and the
Isle of Man.-On the following day, a fine new vessel
called the Georgina, was launched from the building-yard
of Nlessrs. Peter Chaloner and Sons, Baffin• street. She
is of 600 tons burthen, of a beautiful model, apparently
adapted for combining speed with the capability of carry-
ing a large cargo, and intended to be employed in the
Calcutta trade. The vessel was built for John Worrell,
Esq.
LIVERPOOL DOCKS.-A comparative statement of the
rates and duties received in the years ending on the 24th
of June, 1845 and 1846:-In the year 1846. duties on
tonnage, £114.709 15s. Bd. ; on goods, £98.714 Os. 6d. ;
lighthouse, £8.732 15s. 2d. ; floating light, £3.775 Iss. Id. ;
graving dock, £12,338 4s. ; graving block. £2,308 12s. 6d. ;
extra dock rent, £483 I3s. 6d. ;-total, £211.062 I6s. sd.
In 1845. duties on tonnage, £118,046 Ba. 8.1. ; on goods,
£103,200 15s. 9d. ; lighthouse, £8,632 Os. 9d. ; floating-
light, £3.897 3s. 2d. , graving dock, £11,660 17s. ; graving
block. £2,239 3s. 6d. ; extra dock rent, .£66a ss. ;-total,
£250,541 13s. 10d.,-showing an increase on lighthouse
duties of £lOO 14s. sd. ; graving dock, £677 7s. ; graving
block, £69 9s. ; and a decrease of duties on tonnage of
£3,335 13s. ; on goods, £6,486 15s. 3d. ; floating light,
£l2l Bs. ld. ; and extra dock rent, £3Bl lls. 6d. ;-total,
decrease, £9,478 17s. 5d.-Number of vessels in the year
1846, 19,951: tonnage, 3,095.444. In 1845, number of
vessels, 20,521; tonnage, 3,016,531; increase on tonnage,
79,913; decrease on number of vessels, 570.
FATAL AND SINGULARLY SIMILAR ACCIDENTS.-On
Saturday week, a young man named Burton, a native of
Birkenhead, employed on the Holyhead Railway at Pen-
manmawr, was ordered to take his horse and cart into
the sea to wash them. He did so, when the animal be-
ginning to plunge and kick, got beyond his depth, and
Burton was thrown off and drowned, being carried away
by the tide. His body was afterwards found.-On Wed-
nesday last, a young man named Myers, a carter in the
employ of Mr. Hitchmough, Higher Tranmere, took his
two chain horses to an old stone quarry filled with water,
near the Park Hotel, Birkenhead, to wash their feet. One
of the horses slipped into a deep part of the quarry, and
deceased clung to the reins to endeavour to get him out,
but the horse became restive, threw him on his back in
the water, and kicked the poor fellow so severely that he
sank and was drowned. The vicious horse was drowned,
but the other was got out. The body of Myers was not
recovered until an hour had elapsed. His brother was
drowned last year, and was pulled out by the same grap-
nel. His father was killed by a cart a few years_ago.

A room has been hired in Greenland-street, for the
purpose of trying a raeged school ; but the principles on
which it is established do not augur %ell for its success.
The assistants of the late firm of Richardson and Cow=
burn, in this town, on leaving their employ, presented to
Mr. James Cowburn a handsome silver cup, richly chased,
and of elegant design, as a mark of their respect.
A strong reinforcement of police are required in the
new streets in Windsor. Every Saturday night the fight-
ing is brutal, especially in Harding-street, and the police
Yar too weak.

STEALING STRAWBERRIES.—On Tuesday, a young
lad named William Halliwell, was fined ss. at our Police-
court. charged with stealing strawberries from the gar-
den of Mr. Scarsbrick, at Kirkdale.

On Thursday, George Jackson, a flatman, was fined ss.
and costs for beating a boy, his son, in a brutal manner
with a rope, knotted at the end. He was in the habit of
"correcting" his wife with the same instrument.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, an inquest was held
on the body of Thomas Corkhill, aged 40, a rigger, who,
while at work at Mr. Peter Cato's ship-building yard,
had his skull fractured by the falling over of a timber
truck.

Mr. James Gordon Bennett. proprietor and editor of
the New York Herald, arrived by the Hibernia, and re-
mains during his stay in Liverpool at the Adelphi Hotel.
We understand that it is Mr. Bennett's intention to visit
London and make a tour upon the continent.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—On Friday, at the Police-
court, a servant-girl, named Ann Kelly, was committed
for trial, charged with stealing various articles of wearing
apparel. the property of Mr. and Mrs. Tinley, of Vine-
street, with whom she lived as servant.

A correspondent suggests the propriety of the figures
on the dial of the Infirmary clock, in Brownlow-street,
being regilt. At present they are almost invisible, and
for the convenience of such a thoroughfare, the trifling
expense of restoring it is scarce worthy notice.
Last week two little boys were drowned in an old marl
pit on Bartington-heath, Cheshire. They bad gone in to
bathe, and no doubt had got out of their depth ; their
clothes were found lying near the spot, which gave the
first intimation as to their melancholy fate.
A public meeting will take place at Chester on Friday
next, for the purpose of promoting the erection of public
baths and washhouses for the poor. The Mayor will take
the chair ; and the fund already subscribed being £225,
there is every prospect of success.
The bakers of bread have run their stocks of flour so
fine that it was difficult to obtain bread in some of the
villages in this county at the beginning of last week. Even
in this town some of them are so completely nut of stock
as to require that the flour bought by them shall be sent
home the same afternoon for immediate use.
The Mayor of Bordeaux is at present in Liverpool. He
was at the Police-court about an hour on Saturday, and
sat alongside Mr. Rushton on the bench. He seemed to
watch the proceedings at the court with great interest.
On Sunday he was waited upon by William Brown, Esq.,
and other merchants of the town.
During the week, a number of parties have been sum-
moned for keeping pigs in the vicinity of dwelling-houses,
allowing ash pits to be in a defective state, and refuse mat-
ter to flow into the streets, &c. In all cases where the
offence was proved the parties were fined, in some cases
205., and others 10s. and costs.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—On Thursday, the
anniversary of the national schools connected with the
Established Church, was celebrated in this town, by the
children walking in procession, headed by a number of
clergymen, members of the Town Council and others, and
afterwards attending divine service at St. Peter's Church,
where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Thos. W.
Peile, D. D., High Master of Renton, and late fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge. During the service, the
psalms and hymns were sung by the children in a
very beautiful and correct manner. Mr. Edmund Stott
presiding at the organ. His Worship the Mayor
was prevented from attending, in consequence of
sudden indisposition. The collection amounted to £4O
2s. sd. ; hi-t year it was £44 Is. Iod. The subject of the
reverend gentleman's sermon was taken from the three
last verses of the 48th Psalm. In drawing a parallel between
the providence of God over the ancient Jewish Church,
and his merciful dealings with our own Established
Church, the pride and protection of our land, he took
occasion to advert to the glorious Reformation, the Res-
toration, and Revolution, in which our religion was re-
formed, established, and confirmed, and also to the in-
creased zeal and energy of her clergy and laity in the
present day as causes of devout thanksgiving and good
hope for the future. In saying this, however, he was not
blind to the dangers by which she was assailed, more
from the divisions by which she was weakened from with-
in, than even from the enemies by whom she was menaced
from without. Tares had been sown among the wheat ;
an enemy had done this : and " such tares, too," he ob-
served, " as one would have thought that neit her the craf t
nor subtlety of the devil or man could have reproduced in
the Church of Protestant England." However, as the de-
solating tempest only restored health to the atmosphere
by which we are surrounded, even so this lamentable de-
fection might also be overruled for good in His hands who
ordereth all things, to whom therefore thanks should be
given, and in whom confidence should be placed. The
following is an account of the number of children in the
schools connected with the Established Church, within
the parliamentary boundary, on the day of the anniver-
sary, 25th June, 1846 :

REMOVAL OF PaueEns.--The House of Commons
have directed the publication of a return, showing the
number of paupers removed to their places of settlement
from the manufacturing towns of Lancashire, Yorkshire,
and Cheshire, during the years 3841, 1842, and 1843.
The total numbers of persons removed from twenty-five
manufacturing towns enumerated in the return were :
in 1811, 718 families, comprisine 2,254 persons; in 1842,
1,393 families, comprising 3.922 persons; and in 1843,
1,745 families, comprising 5,168 persons. No returns
had been received from Stockport, Bury, Blackburn, and
Leeds (township.) The return states that from Man-
chester there were removed, in 1812. 414 families, com-
prising 928 persons ; in 1843. 587 families, comprising
1,553 persons. From Salford (including Fendlebury and
Pendleton), in 1841, 156 families, comprising 419 persons ;
in 1842, 183 families, comprising 470 persons; in 1843,
229 families, comprising 614 persons. From Chorlion-
upon-Medlock (including Ardwick and Hulme.), in 1841,
32 families, comprising 90 persons ; in 1842, 65 families,
comprising 166 persons ; iti 1843. GU families, comprising
186 persons.

CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH.—On Wednesday, Mary
Bell, aged 17. servant of Mr. D. Scurfield, shawl dealer,
Bold-street, was committed for trial, charged with secret-
ing the birth of an illegitimate child, and biding the body
up the chimney, where it remained undiscovered for six
weeks.

Edward Murray was on Wednesday committed on a
charge of bigamy. Tne prisoner was married in Ireland
in the rear 1837, to Catherine Bennett, and again in Oc-
tober, 1837, to Margaret Parry, at St. Nicholas' Church,
Liverpool, the first wife being then alive. Both wives
appeared in court and gave evidence.

A long investigation-, involving the conduct of two or
three police-officers, took place on Wednesday, respect-
ing an alleged assault committed on Mrs. Morris, who
lives with her husband and family in the neighbourhood
of London-road. The evidence was conflicting. Mr.
Rushton was unable to adjudicate, but he dismissed 283
for being intoxicated.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Friday, three middle
aged men were brought before Mr. Rushton, and ordered
to pay a fine of 30 each, or to be imprisoned for three
months, for baying been detected in the act of making
preparations to work a still in Ennerdale.street, back of
St. Martin's market. Their names are Patrick Traynor,
Ratrick Percival, and Jas. M`Bride.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH" SCHOOLS, HACKIN'S HEY.—
The children of these schools were era mined before the
Rev. Robert Davies and a number of the congregation
and friends, on Tuesday last. The examination gave
great satisfaction to the company assembled, and the Rev.
Chairman declared himself much satisfied with their at-
tainments, and delivered an impressive address to the
children.

HI.,IIWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—On the recommen-
dation of Mr. Walthew, the law-clerk was directed to
write a letter to the Town-clerk, requesting biro to call
the attention of the Council to the desirabili. y of erecting
troughs for supplying cattle with water, as the Board ex-
pect that the water-works at Green-lane will be in opera-
tion in about three months.—A conversation took place
as to the laying of pipes from the new mains, for the pur-
pose of supplying the new north baths, but the opinion
generally expressed was, that the Board had not funds to
lay the pipes, and that, therefore, the Corporation ought
to undertake that work.—Mr. Tirane said they expected
the baths at the north end would be ready early in July.
The law-clerk announced that the Liverpool Sanitary Bill
had passed through committee on Friday last, with a
clause inserted authorising the continuance cf the present
commissioners in office till the act came into operation.
Mr. Higgins alluded to what took place last week, when
on his stating that a motion relative to the Sanatory Bill
had not been put, Mr. Birkett gave his statement a flat
denial. As that statement had since been corroborated,
he called on Mr. Birkett to retract the offensive expres-
sion. Mr. Birkett refused to withdraw the expression
which referred to the assertion that the motion had never
been put. A long conversation and some explanations
took place, c‘hich ended in both parties withdrawing all
they had said, and shaking hands with each other. It
appears that Mr. Higeins's version of the affair was the
right one. He had said " the motion was not put," and
intended to add, •" while I was in the room," (which he
afterwards called out aloud) when he was repeatedly in-
terrupted.

SCHOOLS

CHRIST CHURCH SCH 00L.—On Tuesday the half-
yearly examination of the boys of Christ Church Schools,
took place. The object is to select the cleverest boy, to
be educated free is the Lower school of the Collegiate
Institution. The boys acquitted themselves creditably,
and were surprisingly quick at their arithmetic. he
principal examiner was the Rev. Dr. Hume, of the Col-
legiate Institution. After the selection was made, a gen-
tleman present made a handsome pecuniary present to the
six best boys.

Blue Coat Hospital

Daily. i Sur

0
N i 0

Fetna'e Or. Asylum .. 91 ..
Old Church
II unter.street
St. James's
Welsh Charity ... ,;g6 104 ..
Everton &z Kirkdale} 186 110 20

St. Mark's
St. Andrew's l3B 181 36
St. Paul's
Edge-hill
St. lude's
St. Augus'ine's
St. Jonn theßaptist 157 24u 36
N. Church of Eng 268 205 28
St. Bride's 144 120 42
St. Catherine's 79i 76 6
Mill-lane
S. Church of Eng l3Bl 150 4
St. Luke's 6Ol 4
St. Mary's Kirkdale
Christ Church ..
Mariner', Church

A BET TO THE BENCH.-011 Tuesday, an old gentle.
man appeared before Mr. Rushton, to answer an in-
formation charging him with allowing offensive matter
from his premises to ocze through to those of his neigh-
bours. He denied the statements of the informant, and
(turning to Mr. Rushton) offered to bet him, or any one
in court, £lOOO that the inspector had been mistaken.
Mr. Rushton quietly informed him that he did not bet, and
fined him £1 and costs—warning him of the probable re-
petition of the fine, if the nuisance was not removed.
CHESTER REGATTA.—The ensuing Chester Regatta, in
August n-xt, is likely to be an unusually interesting and
spirited affair. Mr. Jervis, M.P. for the city, gives a cup
value £25, which will of course be enhanced by a sweep-
stakes. The " Royal Rowing Club" have a new boat
building for them by Searle ; and have already a very
efficient crew in training upon the Dee, under Maynard,
of London, who took them in hand last week. Crews are
expected from Lancaster, Liverpool, and Dublin, to con-
tend for the prize.
During the voyage of the Roscommon steamer from
Dublin to Liverpool on Saturday week, a fight commenced
amongst the harvest men, some hundreds of whom were
on deck. The combatants being armed with stout shille-
laghs, it was not long before some dozen were stretched
insensible upon the deck ; and the fierce, mad yells of the
men, together with the screams of the women by whom
they were surrounded, were only quietened by a wat r- pipe
being brought to play upon the " boys." During the row
a poor wotnan was prematurely delivered.
A YOUNG CANNIBAL.-4t the Police-court, Black-
burn, last Wedntsday week, Henry I-lope, of &Hinge
End, was charged by Alice Hindle with having assaulted
a little boy, her son. During the inquiry as to the cir—
cumstances of the case, the singular tact was elicited that
the child in question had art irresistible propensity to taste
human flesh. Nearly every little playfellow's nose, ears,
and fingers, that came within reach of his mouth, would
this young cannibal seize between his teeth, and endea-
vour to make them meet. The mother admitted that her
child was " rather given to biting;" and as it was for the
exercise of this uncivilized inclination on the dafentlant's
son, that defendant had chastised the juvenile savage, the
magistrates dismissed the charge, with a recommendation
to complainant to get her child muzzled.
EXTRAORDINARY DE ATII.—On Wednesday, an in-
.quest was held before Mr. Curry, touching the death of
a man named William Newall, aged 25, who lived in
Sparling-place, Everton. Deceased was in the employ of
Messrs. Critchley and Co., manufacturin:r. chemists, Can-
ning-street, and on Monday last was engaged there, with
the foreman of the establishment, in drawing off some ni-
trous acid from an earthenware receiver with an earthen•
1311 C ton into stone bott'es, when the tap came out, and
the arid gushed out. They both got away as quick a,
possible. The deceased afterwards complained of a light-
ness of the chest, caused by the fumes arising from the
acid. In half an hour he left off work, and went home.
Next morning he became worse, and was taken to the
Northern Hospital. where he died soon after. The house-
surgeon, Mr. G ldersleeves, ascertained. on a post moriem
examination, that death had been caused by asphyxia,
from engorgement of the air tubes, the result of inhaling
the gas from nitrous acid.—Verdict accordingly.
CROPS IN THE Pr LDS —The late rain has been of great
service; its beneficial effects bring visible through vege-
. wheat crop, generally speaking, looks
and fully average an
land it "produce is anticipated. Oats, on
aood heart," look well inferior soil, are
short and bad in colour. Beans will be a sorry affair;
there will neither be straw nor pods. Potatoes of early
sorts are pretty fair; but late crops present a somewhat
gged" appearance, and in sonie instances the banetul
effects of the rot are visible. A great der.l of the turnip
seed, sown in the drill a month ago, has not yet made its
appearance. in consequence of the hot and dry weather, but
is just now beginning to braird. In some instances the
fly has done much damage. Many farmers are busy in
their hay,although it is a month before the usual time of
cutting. In brook or low lying meadows the crop is fair,
but the generality of fields will cut up " thin," and. taken
y
as a whole, the produce of hay will be below average.
Fruit of all kinds will be a failing crop this season.
Wit TING.—We have alre rdy borne personal testimony
to Mr. Ttiompson's excellent system of teaching writing,
and need now only refer to his advertisement.

ACCIDENT AT THE RAILWAY WORKS, GLOUCESTER-
STIV. ET. —On Friday afternoon, about half-past two
o'clock, an accident took place in the excavation, now
approaching towards completion, for the extension of the
yard-room, or station, of the Grand Junction Railway
Company, between Gloucester-street and Sidney-street.
Two borings had been made in the yellow freestone rock
at the east end of the excavation, and both being charged
with gunpowder, ignition was effected by slow matches in
the usual way, and the overseers and workmen retired from
the spot to await the effect, at what they considered a rate
distanm—about forty yards. Contrary to expectation,
the low r part of the stone bored into was softer than the
upper stratum, and gave way first by the fume of the two
explosions, sending in the direction where the men were
standing a terrific shower of large and small pieces of
stone. They saw the coming missiles, but had not time
entirely to escape. One man named Jones was struck by
a stone on the leg with such force that a compound frac
ture was the effect. He was sent to the Infirm try, and is
doing well. Three other men were seriously wounded by
other stones, one on the back of the bead, another on the
back, and another on the shoulder, which was disl cated.
These were take-' to the surgery of Mr. O'Gorman, in the
immediate neighbourhood, and were attended to by that
gentleman, and afterwards sent to their homes. They are,
we learn, in a fair way of recovery. There were from 30
to 40 persons, including casual spectators, at the time in
the excavation, and it is wonderful, such were the size and
quantity of stones projected, that a great fatality did not
take place. The houses in the neighbourhood were sha-
ken by the explosion, and the inhabitants considerably
alarmed. The blasting of the reek is no doubt resorted to
to save time and labour, or, in other words, to expedite
the work ; but as the site is in a populous and central
p,rt of the town, it is to be hoped that the remaining part
of the operations will be accomplished without blasting,

5
72
297 131 73
10 '7..

St. Bartholomew's 170 150 25
St. Clement's l42' 98 55
St. i'imon's 1311
St. Barnabas' 29S 16 ..
St. Silas'
St. Martin's
St. Thomas', Paik 451 130 25

I -
St. John's 152 132 22
W. Derby Werlais. 55 42 13
Liverpool Ditto 299 160 ..

14t5g 3907

561 270
601 266
551 204
70 254
162.
60, 208

571 271'
60 256
iO7 3,6
56: CO
1..51 3,15,
78, 158
521 148
1001 254
40 125

1001 2-5
84' 296
751 194
96 Bilil
6 1 2"11

132 475

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MURDER BY TWO BOYS.—Last week the Manch
magistrates were engaged in investigating a case involving
circumstances of an almost unparalleled descrn tion, as
tending to prove a deliberate act of murder against two
boys named James Seddon and Joseph Dean, the one 17
and the other only 14 years of age. The victim is a boy
named George Wray, 13 years old, the son of a blacking
maker living in Deansgate-street, Manchester. Seddon,
the elder of the accused parties, has for some time occu-
pied a small coal-yard near a str, et called Tuer-street,
Chorlton-upon-Medlock. but both he and Dean seem to
bare led a sort of vagabond-life. existing rather upon
what chance placed in their way than from any regular
means of subsistence. The circumstances of the horrid
affair are these : On Friday week the deceased and his
brother were sent out by their lather with a donkey and
paniers to hawk blacking for sale. As they did not re-
turn home at the usual hour in the evening, the father'
went in search of them, and succeeded in finding the de-
ceased's brother and the donkey, but the deceased could
not be met with. Late on Friday night the father cave I

especially as the stone is of a soft nature
easily quarried out i►► the usual way, by
wedge.

up toe searcn, intenling to renew it on the following
morning, but on that morning he received the news of his
son's death. It nnnenred ihnt Ahnnt

ANNUAL SESSION.—The annual meeting of the ma-
gistrates for this county took place at Preston, on Thurs-
day last, Richd. Earle, Esq., in the chair.—Mr. Alderman
od e son, on behalf of a committee who had been appointed
for that purpose, reported that a site for a new lunatic asy-
lum for the West Derby hundred had been selected by
them in the neighbourhood of Ra'nhill ; its cost would be
5.000 guineas.—The Rev. J. S. Rirley said the Poor-law
Commissioners havhg been consulted, bad given it as
their opinion that Manchester and Liverpool would be
bound to contribute to the new asylums proposed to he
erected, in the same proportion as they now did to the
•asylum at Lancaster.—On the motion of Mr..l. F. Foster,
it was resolved that a committee be appointed to consider
the order made on the county treasurer for the payment
of the special constables employed in that borough during
the disturbances in 1842.—Mr. T. B. Addison, in a speech
of considerable length, proposed that a committee should
be appointed for tie purpose of taking into consideration
the general state of the prisons in the county, and repott-
ing to the next meeting, with the view of introducing the
separate system. Ile referred to !he new cells for wale
prisoners erected in the House of Correction at Pteston,
and said the separate system there had caused a great
decrease of prisoners in the gaol, and thus effected a saving
of £3274 to the country. lie expressed approval of the
principle of the model
prison of Pentonville, and con-
sidered that the prisons at Preston, Kb kdale, and the
New Bailey were sufficiently ample for the wants of the
county, and said Lancaster Castle was not only unfit for
a prison, but incapable of bving made so. The Rev. J.
0. Parr seconded the motion, and Colonel Rawatorne,
Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Netid expressed their
general concurrence in the resolution. which was passed
unanimously. A motion to erect an office and storehouse
at Preston for the constabulary force, at a cost of £5OOO,
was, after some discussion, defeated. Mr. Superintendent
Fanning's salary was increased from £lOO to £l3O, and
the salary of Mr. M'Guire, second clerk in the chief
constable's office, was increased to £9O per annum. The
meeting then adjourned till the 10th September next.

morning, ,Lmes Hughes, ostler at the Golden Eagle, in
Tuer•street, went to the stable connected with the inn,
and, on opening a window which overlooks a stream
called " Black Brook," he saw the body of the deceased
lying in the brook. The depth of water in the brook was
only shout three inches, and the upper part of the de-
ceaaed's dress was quite dry. The body was removed
into a stable, and the police were informed of the circum-
stance. Inquiries were immediately set on foot, and o
the d

eceased's body being examined by the police sur-
geon, it was found that death resulted from a severe blow
received on the forehead, and which had injured the
brain. The blow appeared to have been inflicted with
some heavy blunt instrument, though with sufficient edge
to cut through the deceased's cap, as a hole was disco-
vered in it at a part corresponding with the wound on the
forehead. There were also some slight marks on the
deceased's neck, as if an attempt had been made at
stranguLttion. He had no money in his pockets, although
he was known to have sold blacking to the amount of two
shillings or three shillings in the course of Friclly. The
principal facts which tend strongly to fix the boys Seddon
and Dean with the murder, are that between ten and
eleven o'clock on Friday ni,ght they were seen going with
the deceased into Seddon s coal-yard, and shortly after
that time a man who was passing heard a noise in the
yard, and called the attention of the policeman to the cir-
cumstance; but the policeman, on knocking at the yard-
gate, could obtain no answer. Mrs. Bridge, a small shop-
keeper in the immediate neighbourhood, states that the
deceased borrowed a candle from her about eleven o'clock
that night, saying he was going to look at Seddon's
" dandies," and she also states that the candle was re-
turned to her about half an hour afterwards by the prisoner
Dean, but she saw nothing of the deceased at that time.
Matthew Mills, a shopkeeper near the same spot, saw the
two prisoners leaving the coal-yard alone about a quarter
before twelve o'clock the same n•ght ; and some time after
midnight, Jane 'Williams, who occupies a house in Tuer-
street, heard a struggle on the ground below her back bed-

room window, which overlooks the brook where the body j scene of the preacher's dying labours. He strongly urged Preambles in Commons—Oldham, Manchester, and
was found. She states that she looked oat at the window the claims of India both upon missionaries and medical BirkenhTad. proved •, Oldham district line, nor proved;
and saw two persons going away, but she could not Wen- men, and stated that the medical practice of the ilindoos Caledonian ( Clydesdale Junction, deviations ), proved;
tify them. A cabin in Seddon's coal yard was searched is in the same barbarous state now that it was two thou- Midland (Leicester and Swanninztnn). proved; Caledo..
by the police, and in a box in the cabin were found a 1 sand years ago. The bishop thanked the University for nian Extension, not proved; Blackburn, Chorley, and
handkerchief belonging to the deceased and 2s. 4d. in I its liberal contribution to the cathedral of Calcutta, where, Liverpool, not proved ; Llinvi Valley and South Wales
copper. On these being shown to Seddon he said they he said, he was going back to die, and rest with his pre- Junction, proved.
were his own, and that be had received the money for decessors in his episcopate, among whom was the !amen- Bills rejected in Commons' Commillees.—Dover and
coals. A purse containini, 6s. 81 in silver was found be- ted Heber, whose life bad fully home out the high exPec- Deal ; London. Hounslow and western ; London and
neath a fire-grate in the cabin, and three of the coins were tations formed of him by his University prize poem of Windsor; Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland (Wakefield.
marked with blacking. A poker, a short thick piece of " Palestine," which (the bishop said) he heard delivered Pontefract, and Goole Junction); Huddersfield and Shef-
wood, and a Mackintosh coat were also found in the ca- in the theatre forty-three years ago. We may add, that field line ( Darfield Branch).
bin, and two or three small sums of money were found in the same year, the bishop himself gained the prize Bats read a third time.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
hidden in different places in a stable adjoining, of which essay—t. Common sense:, The collection after the set.- lisle; the Cornwall Railway Bill; Edinburgh and Bath-
Seddon had the key. At the close of the examination the man amounted to £97, being £lO more than last leaf*. gate Railway; Ipswich and Bury St. Etlmuoils (Norwich
prisoners were fully committed for trial for murder at the often Es.—The following is an outline of the Bill to Extension) ; Belfast and Con.,ty Dow, Leicester and
ensuing Liverpool assizes. provide fur the erection and repair of churches in. con- Bedford; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole.
solidated ecclesiastical dsstricts (just introduced into the
Hou-e of Commons by Mr. R. Hodgson, and Mr. H.
Elphinstone.) The preamble recites the several Acts for
building additional churches, from 58 Geo. 111., c. 4,5, to
8 and 9 Vic. c. 70; and then the bill proceeds to enact,
" That it is expedient to provide for the erection and re-
pair of churches and chapels in consolidated ecclesiastical
districts ; and that consolidated ecclesiastical districts be
considered distinct parishes." Churchwardens or other
officers are to be appointed for new parishes. Clause 3
relates to the rate for building new churches •—That it
shall be lawful for the rate-payers in any such new sepa-
rate parish (provided always that the consent in writing
of the ordinary shall be first duly obtained) to make a
rote for the building of a new church, or for the repairing,
or for the enlarging any church or chapel now existing,
for the. use of the inhabitants of such new separate parish ;
provided always, that no such rate shall be valid unless
rate-payers occupying at the least. three-fourths of the
property rated to the relief of the poor in such new parish
concur in making such rate ; and no such rate shall be
valid unless due notice be given of the intention to make
such rate for such purpose, by an advertisement published
during three successive weeks, in some one newspaper
pub ished in the county or counties wherein such parish is
situated, signed by the churchwardens. overseers, and ten
rate-payers ; or where there shall be fewer than ten rate-
payers, by rate-pryers to the amount of one. fourth of the
rates levied for the relief of the poor. Clause 4 declares
that churchwardens may raise money for building new
churches by mortgage—provided always, that it shall be
covenanted that not less than one-tenth of the sum so
borrowed shall be annually paid off, in addition to thein-
terest agreed to be paid tor such sum. Clause 5. Pro-
viding sites for new churches.—That it shall be lawful to
erect any such new church or chapel on any such glebe
land on any part of such new separate parish ; and it shall
be lawful to take any quantity of such glebe land, not
exceeding in the whole t.wo acres, for the purpose of form-
ing a churchyard for the burial of the dead ; and the glebe
land so taken for the site of such new church, and for
such churchyard, shall thereafter be vested in the ordinary
for the use of such separate parish ; provided always that
such glebe land shall not be taken unless the ordinary and
the clerk in holy orders, who may be in the possession of
the glebe land, shall give their consent thereto in writing.
Clause 6 provides that funds now applk-able to repairs of
churches may in certain cases be applied for the purposes
of this Act

CORRhSPONDENCE.

EARL GREY AND THE IRISH CHURCH

THE PRESENT CRISIS-FACTS AND RUMOURS
IN THE POLITICAL WORLD.

The royal assent was given, by commission. on Friday
afternoon to the Corn Bill arid the Customs Dories Bill.
Viscount Falkland has relinquished the governorship
of Nova Scotia, and Major General Sir John Harvey bas
been appointed his successor.
Lord George Bentinck is to be invited to a public din-
ner at Lynn, as a mark of the esteem of his constituents
for his public conduct.
It is said that the conservatives of Preston will invite
Lord Stanley's son to become a candidate for that borough
at the next election.
The Britannia says, that if Lord John Russell takes
cllsursceceteodaindigsse,ttliuntgi,,tnhrough the
soeffisscieo,ni twiisthout probablehavilnie will
having
re
It is said that the able and active chairman of the South..
Eastern Railway Company, James Macgregor, Esq., late
manager of the Commercial Bank, in this town, is to go
into Parliament for a Kentish borough.
Mr. G. F. Egerton. eldest son of Lord Francis Eger-
ton, has announced his intention of coming forward as a
candidate for Newcastle•under-Lyrae, in the event of a
dissolution of parliament.
Tlo, address to Sir Robert Peel, approving of his com-
mercial policy, which was exhibited on Friday, in the Li-
verpool Exchange News-room, received in the course of a
few hours, upwards of GOO signatures.
Lord Stanley's protest against the Corn Bill was on.
Thursday laid on the 'able of the House of Peers. It re-
capitulated all the points that have been urged against the
measure.
The Hon. E. R. Littleton, the son of Lord Hatherton,
in a circular to the electors of Walsall, has announced his
intention of offering hiinself as a candidate for their suf-
frages whenever a dissolution of Parliament shall occur.
It transpired in the city on Friday that a considerable
quantity of baggage, under the charge of Sir Robert Peel's
domestic servants, bad passed through Paris to the south-
ward. This is significant of the course the Premier in-
tends to pursue for the present. and also that his mind has
been made up to retire from office for some time.
LEAGUR REJOICINGS.—A few of the members of the
Anti-Corn-law League had guns fired at Leeds. yesterday,
in celebration of passing of Corn Bill ; but generally the
news of the event was received with a feeling little short
of apathy. The League party threaten to inflict an illu-
mination upon this and other large towns at no distant
day. Would it nut be wiser to " wait a wee ?'' The
good (?) of free trade has yet to be realized.—Leeds

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Our opponents misrepresent our position; our hostility
to Papery is quite consistent with our love for Papists.
It is not against Roman Catholics but against Romanism
we protest ; it is not against those unhappy victims of
Priesthood and hypocrisy in the sister island against
whom we protest, but against those men and that religion
by whom and by which they are victimised. We protest,
and by God's grace we will protest, till we have not left a
voice to lift up against its enormities a system, than which
all the ingenuity of Satan and his infernal councils could
not have devised one more effective for the perversion of
humanity, the destruction of nations, and tha everlasting
ruin of immortal souls ! A system, which, wherever its
infecting presence is found. blights commerce and pros-
perity, roots up communities and nations, and spreads
devastation around it. A system, a more terrible engine
in the hands of Godlike vengeance for the punishment of
a nation's sins, than all the plagues, calamities, and woes
ever issued from the quiver of eternal wrath ! This is strong
language, and we are decried for using expressions incom-
patible with Christian charity and moderation; but, Sir.
I ask with what other diction are we to suit our subject?
Would that I could speak on such a burning topic in
" words that burn." When we read of the cheats that
are practised by the inheritors of that truth which Christ
gave unto his disciples, upon the very calamities of a
starving peasantry. When we read of men, priest's for-
sooth of Christ's holy religion ! and in this enlightened
age, trading with the mummery of their perverted office,
utahnnoadseleremntwbraetg-tcdliseisTn:d3a3
and whose
u as
d beingsemees
necessities
t h:e;sa
favoured
u predr i diseaseperishing nttheirgo
helpless credulity. When we read of ministers wearing
the badge of the deity of the Bible denouncing that holy
volume a " damnable book," and consigning the trem.
bling spirit who shall dare to consult its divine precepts
to " eternal damnation ;" when we find the ambassadors
of the Prince of Peace sowing the seeds of dissension
amongst their people, and encouraging them to acts of
violence, robbery, and bloodshed, by extending to them
God's pardon beforehand ; when we read of these things
not one tithe of the fearful class of enormities which stain
that horrible confederacy of the powers of darkness,
whilst in public, decency and conventionally step in to our
restraint, in the private musings of one's indignant spirit
the whole vocabulary of Saxon vituperation is utterly
unable to furnish language capable of expressing our just
abhorrence of such wicked, such blasphemous, such horri-
ble abominations!

THE C

URT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Queen and the Court still remain at the Royal
marine residence in the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the youthful
Royal family, intend to prolong their sojourn at Osborne
House until the 6th proximo, according to present ar-
rangements. The Royal christening is expected to take
place she third week in the ensuing month.
On Tuesday a handsome horse, estimated at the value
of 2,000 guineas, arrived at Brighton, as a present to her
Majesty from Mehemet Ali, and was immeniately for-
warded to London by railway.
The Marquise D'Harcourt died at Windsor, on Monday
morning, from the effects of poison which she had swal-
lowed in mistake for a dose of medicine.
By a regulation of the new club established in London,
at Coventry House, Piccadilly, no professional man can
be a member.

And, Sir, who is it that is favourable to this dangerous
religion; who is it advocates its brawling claims? Not
only Earl Grey and his reckless party, but our own, or
sure our own leader and ally, the Premier of England. It
is Sir Robert Peel who has fed the pollution of May-
nooth, and who has threatened the destruction of the Pro-
testant University and that now pants to dispense the
money of Englishmen to the maintenance of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland!
It is lamentable to contemplate the sad wreck of former
prosperity and greatness, exemplified in that degenerated
man. " But yesterday, and Peel might have stood against
the world ; now, none so poor as do him reverence."
Apart from the considerations of party, this fallen man is
a terrible lesson to his compeers and successors; he will
be for ever a monument of favours lost, and advantages
thrown away. In the political history of his country, his
own life will form a melancholy episode, pointing, for the
warning of future generations, to that rock upon which
no statesman can steer with honour or with safety. veri-
fying the truth which one day, if the terrible time of rec-
koning has not yet arrived, will flash across his con-
science, with all the force of thirty years' experience, that
though the arts of duplicity and cunning may for a while
succeed on the credulity and weakness of a parry, yet, like
water, the dishonest statesman must at last find his real
level. Ile has been termed by a master hand our Fabius
Maximus ; but now, we find a far less enviable, though
riot less notable, character of antiquity will only suit his
crimes. When we reflect upon the many advantages
showered down on this misguided minister by a lenient
providence, perverted to thwart the very will of that gra-
cious providence, we are' afflicted with regret that we
should have trusted in his hands our best and most impor-
tant interests, as his day of remorse will come for betraying
them. Whilst he might have retired from the active arena,
upon which he has so long played his part, covered with the
laurels of success and a gratified ambition, followed by the
endless gratitude of his own party, and the forced admi-
ration of his political opponents, he has now bighted
every hope, but the paltry prospect of a wickedly earned
coronet. He bas not one satisfaction meet for an honour-
able man to entertain, and the only anxiety he occasions
a betrayed country is, that for the good of prosperity he
has grown tired of his troublous existence, if not from a
conviction of its turpitude, still from the desire of repose.
There can be no peace for a detected deceiver on the stage
where he practised his deceit ; and that party into whose
arms he has thrown himself, only despise him for his
weakness and distress. As soon as they have accomplished
the dirty work in which they have employed him as their
tool, they reject his help as an incumbrance, and laugh
whilst he writhes under the contempt of one party and the
ridicule of the other. Without one friend in the wide
world who would vouchsafe him a character, this helpless
wanderer is at the mercy of every tide and blown by every
wind that caprice, cunning, or revenge may raise to his
destructiop. Once the cherished hope of a nation, he is
now the miserable object of scorn and detestation of every
party ixt that nation : once the recognised leader of the
greatest party England ever saw, now cast out from alle-
giance, a pitiful deserter to a faction whom even he taints
by his adhesion : once the great premier of England, now
the apostate hireling and tool of a rabid and revolutionary

Lord Lindsay, son of Earl Balcarres, will shortly marry
1111ss Lindsay, daughter of Col. Lindsay, of Balcarres,
Fifeshire.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have left town for
Worsley Hall, there to reside until autumn. The noble
lord has paired off for the remainder of the session.
The Hon. and Rev. Reginald W. S. West, has been
appointed by his father, Earl Delawarr, the lord chamber-
lain, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, lit the room of the
Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville.
A marriage is determined on between Viscount Seaham,
eldest son of the Marquis and Marchioness of London-
derry, and Miss Edwards, only daughter and heiress of
Sir John Edwards, Bart , of Machynllech, Montgomery-
shire. The fair fiancee is said to have a princely fortune.
It is reported that the Duchess of Orleans received from
Queen Victoria an autograph letter requesting her to
stand as one of the sponsors to the young English Prin-
cess recently born, and replied that she most willingly ac-
cepted the honour proposed to her, but that she would be
obliged to act by proxy, on account of the solemn vow she
had made not to leave her children.

THE BARONY OF PRESTON.-011: the subject of the
paragraph in Saturday's paper. copied from the Globe,
and headed " Absurd Rumours," a corre,pondent calls
our attention to the feet that Sir .1 antes Gramm could tint
be elevated to the title of Lord Preston whilst Sir R.
Graham Eves, as he is the son of the elder brother, and,
as a matter of course, the elder branch. The estates be-
longing to Preston were confiscated to the crown, but it is
believed much was returned in after years, and, if our
correspondent is rightly informed, they lie somewhere in
Berks.—Times.

Maxime quis non Jupiter, exelamat, simul atque audirit ?

RAILWAY

The subject has carried me too far : I have touched
upon it very slightly : I must recur to it and my Lord
Grey's speech on the earliest opportunity.—Your (Medi-

ent servant,

IN u CE.

NIGEL.

The North Union Station is to be greatly enlargeZ.
When completed it will be one of the best in the king-
dom.

June 19th, ]846

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

The new church at Elwortb, in the parish of Sandbach,
was consecrated on Tuesday.

The diocese ut Australia is to be immediately subdi-
vided into three distinct bishoprics.
It is Miss Burdett Coutts who has expressed an inten-
tion of founding, at her own expense, two colonial
bishoprics.
On Friday the Bishop of Chester consecrated two new
churches at Longsight, near Manchester. His lordship
preached on each occasion.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday. Mr. Rey-
nell, advertising agent, recovered £568 from Mr. Lewis,
provisional committee-man of the Central Kent Railway,
for advertisements.
There were no fewer than five accidents last week on
the works of the Caledonian Railway. two of which were
fatal. The sufferers were William Bouscer and Robert
Carlisle, both labourers.
In the Nisi Prius Court on Thursday, the case of Gar-
wood v. Moore came on for hearing, and was, in its most
important features, similar to the case given elsewhere. In
this case the plaintiff had paid to the Directors of the
Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
£lO5 as deposit on an allotment of shares in that Compa-
ny, the capital of which was represented in the prospectus
as £300,000, but it turned out that only £lO,OOO of that
sun, were subscribed for. The defendant was one of the
Provisional Committee-men of the Company. The only
point to which the Lord Chief Baron thought it necessary
to call the attention of the jury was, whether the defend-
ant, by consenting to act as a Provisional Committee..
man, engaged to pay the preliminary expenses of the pro-
jected railway. The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff.

On Wednesday, the Bishop of Chester consecrated the
beautiful little church at North Rode, Cheshire, and on
the following day he performed the same ceremony at
Rainow, in the same county.

AN " ALLOTTEE."—A person named Wyse applied to
the London Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Monday, to be
discharged on sureties till his hearing. The Chief Com-
missioner said he doubted whether bail should be taken in
such a case. Ile saw, from the schedule, that the debts
without consideration were upwards of £12,000, and the
consideration debts only £53. What are these debts. ?
asked the learned Commissioner," without consideration?"
Insolvent.—They are railway liabilities, sir. Chief Com-
..

`fire Manchester Courier says, that when it was publicly
announced, by Mr. Greg, on Friday. in the Exchange
Newsroom, in that town, that the Corn Bill and the Cus..
toms Bill had passe,' the House of Lords, and that minis—
ters had been defeated on the Irish Coercion Bill, " Not
a single cheer, or even the whisper of a cheer, followed the
announcement. It was received in solemn, and almost
breathless silence." The Times says, that " The division
on the Irish Coercion Bill was received by the House of
Commons in silence."

In the Arches Cour, on Saturday, the Rev. James
Shore was admonished and condemned in costs of suit for
celebrating divine worship in an unlicensed chapel within
the diocese of Exeter.

At a consecratiim a few days since, by the Bishop of
London, his lordship alluded to the number of churches
he had consecrated (upwards of 150), and said, there was
a friendly rivalry between hirnselt and the Bishop of
Chester, who had consecrated upwards of 160.
The valuable vicarage of St Pancras has become vacant
by the death of the Rev. James Moore, LL D., one of
the most eloquent preachers in London. It is said that
the Rev. T. Dale, canon of St. Paul's, will be his sue-
ces•sor.

JESUITS IN TUE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Archbishop
Magee, the predecessor of the present Archbishop of
'Dublin, made the followiog assertion to some clergymen
of his diocese, some time previous to his death There
are, (said be), at this moment, many Jesuits—concealed of
course—but still acting as Church of England clergymen,
and in the possession of parishes, who are silently but
surely working its downfall."

mission r —Flow did you incur so large an amount? In-
s ,Ivent.—l wrote for lettt rs of allotment, which I received.
Chief Commissioner.—Pray what are you ? Insolvent.—
A clerk in the General Redstrar's-office, Somerset-house.
Chief Commissioner.—Why, in the name of common
sense, did you d.ihble in such matters? Insolvent.—l saw

The vestA is built of iron, perfectly fiat underneath, the
one end formed ;After the fashion of a bow, and the other,

- - -
feet, breadth 23 and depth of iron 41 feet. The area of
the church has a fine, roomy, aid most comfortable ap-
pearance. The height from the floor, which is level with
the base of the imat, to the top of the c web, is 17 feet,
and in the middle of the roof there are three cupola win-
dows which light the whole houe, and these have their
centre pieces moveable to act as ventilators. There are
as vet no seats formed in either aria or galleries, and it is
'-übtful if any will be pliced till the church arrives at its

Chief Cornmissioner.—Thai is. you saw so many mad men
that you would be mad too. The insolvent made no an-
swer. Chief Commissioner.—What has become of the

sh,+res? It was stlted that there were no s'lares obtained,
only letters of allotment in various railways, which had
been filed in court. The court accepted the proposed bail.

PROGRESS OF OF RAILWAY BILLS LAST WEEK

pv-ao-encee Ago nr• gre;,,,r. DJ
and Northern (Dunfermline division); Strathearn devia-
tion; Great Western and Uxbridge; Norfolk (Yarmouth
Extension)' and Lowestott Railway lease; Dunblane,
Donne, and Callander ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock

(Pollock and Govan branches) ; Glasgow Southern Ter-
minal; Caledonian (Mid Lothian branches); Lesmaha-
gow, Dalsert, and Coatbridge Mineral Junction ; Grand
Junction (Huyton and Warrington branch); the same
(Huyton,_A,hton, and other branches); Yorkshire and

destination, which is not yet definitely fixed. It is inten-
ded to ace mmodate about 700 persons.
THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA.—The appearance of
Bishop Wilson, on Tuesday morning, in the Oxford IJui-
versity pulpit, attracted an unusually crowded audience to
hear and see a man so distinguished in the religious his-
tory of the last thirty years. Long before service com-
menced. the spacious edifice was crowded in every part.
His lordship took his text from Titus. chap. ii., v. 14. It
was evidently a great exertion to the bishop, worn Out by
his labours in India, to deliver a discourse at all, much
more so on this important occasion, when the public cu-
riosity and interest were so highly raised. His lordship's
physical powers, formerly so vigorous and energetic in de-
livering his great message, are no longer equal to the t,,sk
of preaching, and those who recollect what be was twenty-
five years ago, in the zenith of his fame and popularity.
listened wish saddened feelings to the ,übdued and altered
voice once so thrilling and impassioned. The most strik-
ing passages in the sermon were his lordship's brief ad-
dress to the young men of Oxford, urging them not to
fritter away their too brief academical term in attending
to the mere externals of religion—the traditions of men—
and the Popish and semi-Popish teaching of the last ten
years. The people of England, the bishop said, detest
Popery, and are strongly and firmly attached to Protest-
ism ; and there was no fear for the Church of England,
provided the bishops and the nobles were true to their
duties. The bishop's charge. however good, is not
enough ; be must follow it up by the whole of his conduct.
Another striking passage related to India, the chosen

61asjiiw Union

In—a
" select committee on merits

," the following bill

were declared to have passed, and ordered to he reported :
—The Midland (Nottingham and M atifield branch);
London and Birmingham ((.:atnden and Euhtoti Stations
enlargement) ; Midland (Clay Cross to Newark) ; Wil-
sontown. Morningsido, and Coltness (Bathgate branch);
ditto (C,ledonian Uraneh); ditto (improvement and
brancher); Slamannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig branches).

Standing Orders complied with in Lords.—Sr. Helen's
Canal and Railway; Birmingham, Lichfield. and Man-

chester ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole (Methley,
Askern. and oa;ceirshaw branches ; Gloucester and Dean
Forest Railway ; Wishaw and Coltness (Greenhill branch)
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction ; Ilud-
der,field and Manchester Railway and Canal ; Hudders-
field Diversion and Cooper Bridge branch ; Sheffield.

Ashton-under-Lyne, and *Manchester (Dukinfield, Wors:
borough, and other branches); Dublin, Belfast, and Cole-
raine Junction ; Eastern 4.3ounties (Manchester and Lin-
coln Extension).
Bills rejeclrd by Lord's Committees.—Swinton and
Lincoln ; Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds; 13uckingham-
shire ('l'ring to Banbury).
Bills passed committees of the Commons.—Exeter.
Yeovil, and Dorchester : Board of Trade to determine at
whose expense the double guage should be laid down and
maintained; London and Richmond (Kew Branch);
Bristol and Birmingham (Gloucester and Srorrehouse
junction) ; South Dever] (excepting branch from Plymouth
to Tavistock); Great Grimsby and Sheffield; Liverpool
and Bury, and Manchester and Leeds amalgaint.lway,
ition ;
Manchester and Bolton. and Bury Canal and Railway,
and Manchester and Leeds Railway amalgamation ; Nr_irth
Kent (South-Eastern line); London, Salisbury, and ) eo-
vil ; Lancaster and Carlisle (extension to the Caledonian);
Caledonian (Carlisle division); Cockerniouth and Work.
invon ; Bristol and Gloucester, and Birmingham and
Gloucester; Blackburn. Preston, and East Lancashire
Junction ; Caledonian (purchase of Garnirk, Edinburgh
and Glasgow) ; and Clydesdale Junction ; Pollock and
Gavan amalgamation ; London and Bil-mingham and Canal
arrangement; Manchester, Huddersfield, and Oldham.