The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1853.

MR. FORBES MACKENZIE presented a petition, on
Wednesday, from the working men of Liverpool, against
the opening of the crystal palace on Sundays.
JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., of this town, has
given a site for a school and parsonage-house at Willas-
ton, where it is intended to erect a new church.

FOUR BEAUTIFUL STATUES, by the English sculptor
Gibson, are being exhibited in Berlin, at the Royal Exhi-
bition, and have met with much commendation from the
artistic world.

CONTROVERSIAL LECTURE.—The Rev. J. R. COIIOT
will deliver the next lecture on the Romish controversy,
on Thursday evening, in St. Paul's Church, Liverpool.
Subject, " The Four Scapulars."
A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE exploded at Longsight, near
Manchester, on the London and North Western Railway,
on Tuesday morning last. Sixty workmen were at break-
fast in the shed at the time; four were killed on the
instant and ten or twelve seriously wounded. The driver
and fireman miraculously escaped. The locomotive was
old, but sound.
MR. E. W. THOMAS.—Notwithstanding the appre-
ciation of Mr. Thomas's spirited exertions to give the
public of Liverpool first-rate music at a low price, the
returns have pioved insufficient to meet the expenditure,
and he is at present a pecuniary sufferer to a considerable
amount. This circumstance has induced several gentle-
men to take steps for making him a suitable acknowledg-
ment, and a committee has been formed for receiving
subscriptions in order to present him with a testimonial.
It is also proposed to give him a benefit concert on the
occasion of presenting the testimonial.
THE SHIP ANTARCTIC—FEARFUL MORTALITY.--The
New York Herald conveys intelligence of the fearful mor-
tality on board the ship Antarctic, which sailed in Novem-
ber last from Liverpool for New York. An inquest had
been held in that city, on the body of a child of one of the
passengers, John Mc.Carthy, a child about four weeks old,
who died of convulsions. Winnefred McCarthy, being
sworn, says—l am the mother of the child ;be was born
nt sea; we sailed from Liverpool on the 16th of Novem-
ber last, in the ship Antarctic. There were 500 passengers on
board, and we were 14 weeks and 2 days at sea before we
arrived at New York ; we ran short of provisions, and
there was a scarcity of water ; we only received three pints
of water for myself and daughter during each day ; there
was much sickness on board. and 130 persons died during
the voyage; the ship was in a most filthy condition • all
these passengers, with the exception of a few in the cabin,
were steerage passengers, and there was scarcely a berth
that had not some one sick in it I never saw the Captain
enter the steernae but once, and then he made no remarks
about the condition we were in, nor did he speak to any of
the sick ; many died of fever, cholera end small-pox ; the
air in the steerage was very offensive, and there was not
sufficient care taken to keep the sick clean end comforta-
ble ; my child was in delicate health, and died this morn-
ing from convulsions.
THE WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS, at their
weekly meeting, on Wednesday—Rev. W. Badmill in the
chair—received the governor's report, to the effect that
there were 717 paupers in the workhouse, being a decrease
of 30 on the number of last week. In a discussion on the
case of a poor man who was found in a state of utter des-
titution in Toxteth-perk, it was stated that he had been
sent to Liverpool by the Dublin authorities : it was de-
cided that he should hare work given him at the new
Hospital. Mr. Shaw suggested that the annual subscrip-
tion of £2O to the Liverpool infirmary, now due, be dis-
continued, as they were founding an hospital themselves.
The matter. however, was deferred. In the case of the
death of William Buchan, Mr. Gilmour, the medical
officer at Toxteth-park, was exculpated from the blame
laid to his charge by Captain Greig, inasmuch as the
deceased was not a pauper. The Labour Test Committee
recommended that Mr. Downes, the out-door superinten-
dent (whose appointment at £BO a-year has been sanc-
tioned by the Poor-law Board), report every Wednesday
the amount of work performed by each pauper, This
was adopted. Mr. Shaw withdrew his promised motion
for a fresh Labour Test Committee. A committee was ap-
pointed, to meet on Monday, to consider a bill to be pre-
sented to parliament, called " an act to abolish the re-
moval of the poor, and to make provision for a more
equitable system of assessment for the purposes of local
taxation in England and Wales." Mr. Shaw moved a
return of the expenditure incurred under the Nuisance
Act, which was agreed to.

SALVATION 1,011. A PENNY A MONTH.—The Preston
Pilot publishes the following curious document, from
which it appears that the Romanists of Preston have
now the chance of obtaining "assistance to their suffering
souls" when in 'Purgatory by subscribing a penny a month
to a new association called the " Saint Walburge's Pur-
gatorial Society." The document is printed in the form
of a handbill for distribution, and its contents are as
follovv1—"1- A."3,1.D.G Saint Walburge's "Purgatorial
Society. ' Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least
you my friends, for the hand of the Lord is heavy upon
me.'--Job, chap. xix, ver. 21. A society has been estab-
lished, entitled ' Saint Walburge's Purgatorial -Society,'l
for the laudable and charitable purpose of rendering as-
sistance to the suffering souls in purgatory, 'for ' It is a
holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that
they may be loosed from their sins.'-2 Mac. chap. xii.
ver.-43, 44, 45, 46. What Catholic is there, who has
not some relative, friend, or enemy, who has departed
this life, and who knows but that some of them are now
suffering in purgatory to satisfy the justice of Almighty
God, and who cannot help themselves, but must stay
there until they have paid the last farthing, and where
God will render to every one according to his works.'—
Matt. chap. x. ver. 36, and chap. xii. ver. 32.; 1 Cor.
chap. ii!, ver. 14, IS. Every one should bear in mind
that he must die, but how, or when, is Very uncertain ;
but,when that day comes he most likely will stand in need
,of the prayers of those he has left behind, and what a
consoling thing it must be to know that the prayers
offered to Almighty-God, through this society, will be
offered for him daily. What act of devotion can be more
efficacious, or more pleasing to God, than the holy sacri-
fice of the mass, which will be offered up as often as
means will allow to move the clemency of God in behalf
of the suffering souls in purgatory. How very few (con-
sidering the number of the faithful who die) have masses
said for them on their anniversary ! Their surviving re-
latives neglect that charitable work, some through parsi-
mony, some through negligence, and others through want
of means. To obviate these causes, and to render assist-
ance to our departed brethren, this society proposes to
collect a small monthly subscription of one pennror up-
wards, and to devote it to this purpose, which will re-
move our anxieties about our friends and others .of the
faithful who have gone before us. The objects of this
society are i—lst. To render assistance to the suffering
souls in purgatory, by having masses said as often as
means will allow.-2nd. To decorate the altar suitable
for such occasions.-3rd. To have a mass said at the
death of each collector.-4th. To have two masses said
at the death of each collector. The terms are
One penny entrance, anti one penny, or upwards., per
month, for which collectors will call.-2nd. Each mem-
ber to say one ' Our Father,' and one Hail Mary,' daily,
for the -suffering souls in purgatory.—lt may be hoped
that many will join this society, for the above object; it
is to be feared that many of us are remiss in this duty,
arid perhaps our friends are now suffering on account -of
our sins, by being either too indulgent in our faults, or
too negligent of our education in our religious duties.
May they rest in peace. Amen. For further informa-
tion apply, Stc."

LIVERPOOL Towsr Cou:ecta.a—At the adjourned meet-
ing on Wednesday—his worship the mayor presiding—
Mr. Moss, before the council -proceeded to the ordinary
business, made a statement, exculpating himself from
the charge of having improperly interfered with Mr.
Cloueh. the police-officer, in the case of two men, Doran
and Gibbon, marine-store dealers, who wished their
licence transferred from the neighbourhood of Vauxhall
to Regent-road. Mr. Bradley, who charged Captain
Greig with harbouring an anirnue against him, corrobo-
rated part of Mr. Moss's statement, and denied that the
parties were justified in dragging his name into this
matter. The mayor said it was Bub judice, and at pre-
sent, therefore, it was better to let the matter rest where
it was. Mr. Bradley protested this was not the proper
way of doing it. He considered Captain Greig as their
officer : he had had aspersions cast on him by several
gentlemen, and he would not permit it unless there was
some just reason or cause for it. The mayor ultimately
put an end to the discussion.—On the motion of Mr.
Hornby. seconded by Mr. Alderman Turner, the council
approved of the proceedings rreparatory to levying a
library and museum rate.—From the proceedings of the
Education Committee, it appeared the attendance at the
north school was 912 ; number on the books, 1,342. The
attendance at the south school, 947; number on the
books, 1.109. Miss Lees, third mistress of the south
infant school, was appointed second mistress in the room
of Miss Stretch, resigned.—Mr. Alderman Dover moved
the confirmation of the Health Committee proceedings,
which contained recommendations for the alteration of
the public offices, Cornwallis-street, at a cost of from
£3,000 to £4,000 ; also to permit the East Lancashire
and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Companies to
cross on a level, Walter-street, Blackstone-street, Boun-
dary-street, and Regent-road, on certain special condi-
tions. On an amendment by Mr. Alderman Bennett it
was carried by 28 to 12 that the expenditure of £4,000
be postponed. In regard to permitting the railway com-
panies to cross the streets, the Town-clerk said that no
member either directly or indirectly interested in the
railway in question could speak or vote on the subject.
Mr. Alderman Dover observed that if such were the law,
then half the council could not vote. Mr. James Holme
stated that had he been aware of it he would have sold
out his shares to be in a position to vote. Ultimately,
after a motion and amendment had been proposed, it was
agreed that the matter be postponed.—On the motion
of Mr. Stewart, the sanitary bill was withdrawn.—The
minutes of the Water Committee included a report from
Mr. Hawksley, as to the state of the Rivington-works,
which, both as to the progress of the works and the con-
tracts in land, was favourable. A recommendation that
ance
an additional £lOO per annum be paid to Mr. Ashlin, as
treasurerre-
spect of the water account, making his salary in
as to his
services
anc of
aoafter committees, £7OO, was postponed in pursu-
under the watch, lighting, [health,
the standing orders. Mr. Alderman Bennett
state in which they complained that there was an absence of proper informa-
James Ho, state of the water affairs generally. Mr.
that, without th
had
visiteinethand Mr. Bradley, who, with Mr. Langdale,
council should works, bore testimony to the efficient
they had been found. Mr. Bigham said
report, as written Toe
ehrstscript furnished by Mr. Holme, the
nothing more than a had no report before them. The
the books of the committee, was
men had of uttering nu of the talent which some
H. Banner complained
words without expressing ideas. Mr.
manufacturers for water.° the exorbitant prices charged
driven to sink private wells. In many cases they bad been
a were then confirmed.—
related to Mr. Ashlin's he proceedings, except as
The proceedings of the salary,Library ItIeeMUSCIIER Committee,
notedee
of the Finance Committee, of J-lackney-coach and
Baths' Committees, were confir At present the
Hackney-coach Committee do
apply for further powers from parliammeittadvisable to
they
punish
drivers or owners exacting larger fairs thann
au-
thorised to charge.—A memorial from the Meessyrsarle
ul-lins, praying the council to defray the expenses they had
incurred in defending themselves from an unfounded
charge of assault made on the police, amounting to £5B,
was dismissed, as it could not be legally entertained by
the ccuncil, Tie eopcloded the business of public
interest.

THE POOR-RATE FOR THE PARISH, this year, will be
2s. in the pound.
THE SCREW STEAMER CLEOPATRA, hourly expected
at Valparaiso on the 14th of January, would sail a few
days after its arrival there for Liverpool, via Brazil.

THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP ATLANTIC,
Captain West, sailed for New York on Wednesday, with
a fair complement of passengers.
MR. GEORGE WESTLAKE, principal coast officer at
Sheerness, has, by order of the Board of Customs, been
promoted to serve as tide-surveyor at Liverpool.

A VALUABLE CIGAR CASE was lost on Friday by a
gentleman between the Exchange and the landing stage :
the case contained £5O in Bank of England notes.
MESSRS. ROE AND JACOB are executing a very elabo-
rately engraved silver snuff-box, which will shortly be
presented to Mr. Thomas Eccleston, late surgeon-super-
intendent of the Lancaster County Asylum.
THE MARINERS' FREEMASON LODGE, at their monthly
meeting on Thursday, resolved that testimonials should
be presented to Br. Mark Marks, P.M., and Br. Samuel
Lewis Caffe, P.J.W., on their leaving for Australia.
THE REV. W. POLLOCK is announced to deliver a lec-
ture to-night to the members of the Church of England
Institution, exposing the audacious assumption that
Popery is a promoter of Arts and Sciences.
A NOTORIOUS POACHER.—Thomas Ball, of Chorley,
has been committed for trial at the Liverpool Assizes,
charged with shooting at Richard Tootal, with intent to
do him bodily harm.
CLITHEROE ELECTION.—There are two candidates in
the field. viz., Mr. J. T. W. Aspinall, of Standen-hall,
on the Conservative interest, and Mr. R. Fort, of Rend-
hall, who is a Liberal of the Manchester school.
MR. 11. BYRTH, of Brazenose College, Oxford, and
Iliff scholar of the Royal Institution School, was, yester-
day week, elected to a Hulme exhibition by the trustees
of the Hulme estate.

MR. JAMBS FLETCHER, of this town, formed one of a
deputation of tobacco manufacturers that had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exphequer on Saturday
week.

A LIVERPOOL DRUGGIST, Mr. Pugh, has found among
some old books purchased the other day, in the country, a
life of the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots, by her confessor,
printed in HU, and a work on medicine, said to be writ-
ten by the medical adviser of Henry VIII.

REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE TO ROYALTY.—It is
said that a young lady at present performing at the Theatre
Royal is extremely like our gracious Queen. In the
opera of the " Crown Diamonds," and in reading, the
similarity of face, figure, and voice is very striking.
Snor ROBBERY.—On Friday night, three watches were
stolen from the slicip of Mr. Lambie, watchmaker, Red-
cross-street. The thief had cut a hole in one of the win-
dow panes with a diamond, and by introducing a wire with
a hooked head effected his purpose.
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.—On Thursday, Mr.
R. P. Stephens, one of the partners in the Liverpool and
Dublin Screw Steam-ship Company, was refused a certi-
ficate without protection. The investigation lested several
hours, and the chief opposition was from the Union Bank
of Scotland.

A KNOCK-DowN ROBBERY was perpetrated on Thurs-
day, in Maguire-street, by Thomas Cunningham, who
felled a man named Alacquinnes to the ground, cut his
pocket out, and ran away. The pocket contained 17s.
The villain was apprehended, and sentenced at the police-
court to two months' imprisonment.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—A charge
against Captain Grebow, late master of the Pemberton,
for drunkenness while in the command of that vessel, was
heard before the Liverpool Marine Board on Wednesday;
the charge was preferred by Mr. Colburn, one of the
owners. Mr. Gray, who resided at Bombay, in 1851,
was the leading witness against the captain. The case
was adjourned till the Bth of April.
THE NEW STEAMER MONA'S QUEEN arrived at Liver-
pool from Douglas on Thursday, having made the passage
in four hours. On Friday she went on an Admiralty trial
trip, with Mr. Waterman, draughtsman, and Mr. Hughes,
engineer, from Somerset-house, on board of her. Not-
withstanding the adverse current, she accomplished from
14 to l - miles an hour each way. The surveyors ex-
pressed their entire satisfaction at her performances.

THE PASSENGERS OF THE STEAMER AVSTRALIAN
have sent two protests to the directors of the Australian
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, remonstrating
against the vessel having been sent to sea without under-
goins a thorough repair in hull and machinery. Three
times has she left- Plymouth, and three times put back
leaky and disabled.
THE WEATHER A?:D HEALTH.—The very injurious
influence of the recent severe weather is shown by the
progressive increase of mortality during the last five
weeks, in which the deaths were, respectively, 196. 219,
247, 263, and 272. Should the present mild weather
continue, a considerable decrease in the mortaiity may be
expected.

DR. SHORT. Bishop of St. Asaph, having been the
diocesan of :odor and Man, previously to his translation
to his present see, was appealed to to aid the funds being
collected for behoof of the sufferers by the blowing-up of
the Lily, at the Isle off-Mani awl transmitted the noble sum
of ONE THOUSAND :POUNDS ! Such munificent liberality
ought not to pass unnoticed, and we have the most
unfeigned pleasure in recording that one at least of the
bench of bishops is not " given to filthy lucre."
LtvEr.PooL Tows MtssioN.—The twenty-fonrth an-
niversary was held in the Concert-hall, on Wednesday
evening, the Rev. Dr. Raffles in the chair. The number
of visits paid by the missionaries during the year was
90,887. They bad distributed in that time 149,849 re.-
ligious tracts, and lent 57,548 other religious books.
There was a balance to the credit of the institution of
£505 14s. sd, which included an extraordinary donation
from the late William Lassell, Esq., of £l,OOO.
MRS. SHANNON, nurse at the Liverpool Workhouse,
was committed for trial on a charge of "manslaughter"
on Wednesday Inst. On the Sunday previous she had
received a poisonous embrocation from Dr. Gee, to rub
on the back of Mary Wainwright, a pauper woman aged
80 years. She straightway administered the embrocation
in a galiipot, and the patient had no sooner swallowed it
than she became sick. She was seized with convulsions,
and died about midnight.
IMPORTANT DISL!LLERY CASE.--At the police-court,
on Friday, Mr. Edward Benn, distiller, Vauxhall-Toad,
was convicted by Mr. Smith and Mr. William Earle in the
mitigated sum of one-fourth of the penalty on each alle-
gation for three important infringements of the license
laws, namely, for removing spirits of a less quan-
tity than eighty gallons, whereby he had incurred a
penalty of £200; second, for removing spirits without a
license, which rendered 'him liable to the same penalty,;
and, third, for removing spirits without having paid the
duty, for which he had forfeited to her Majesty £lOO.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.—At the Police•office, on Fri-
day,' an old man, Michael Al`Kenna, charged Hannah
Hepburn with stealing from him a quantity of bedding
and wearing apparel. The prisoner, on being asked what
she had to say to the charge, exclaimed energetically,
" Sure, sir, he's my lawful husband, but I'm not married
to him !" (Inughter).—M`Kenna " Not at all, your
honour; she's only my housekeeper."—Prisoner, ad-
dressing the magistrates : ".Oh, then ! hear that, now,
yer banner, and him told me we were to be married in
the inside of a month" (roars of laughter). The magis-
trate evidently considered that the title of " husband" in
such a caee•was somewhat questionable, and ordered the
prisoner to pay 18s. 2d., the amount for which the
articles bad been pawned, and a penalty of £l, or one
month's imprisonment.

A MEMORIAL from this port has been addressed to the
Admiralty by different merchants, shipowners, proprie-
tors, and others connected with and trading to the West
Indies, British Guiana, Venezuela. New Grenada, Mexico,
. west coast of South America, and California, complaining
that, notwithstanding the repeated assurance of improve-
ment, the mails subsequently brought by the steamers
continue almost invariably to arrive after the stipulated
day. and to be anticipated by the duplicates brought by a
route indirect, and under the further disadvantage of
having frequently to wait some days in New York for
conveyance forward to England. That the memorialists
have reason to believe that other responsible parties
would contract with the government for the performance
of this service, not only with efficiency, but with a con-
siderable caving in time, and for a much less sum than is
now paid by the government to the Royal Mail Company,
as well as less charge for freight on treasure and for con-
veyance of passengers. The memorialists, therefore, urge
the Admiralty either to make the Royal Mail Company
fulfil their contract, or throw the service open to the com-
petition of others.
THE POLICE AND THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.—On
Monday a meeting of magistrates was held to consider a
charge, preferred by Mr. Clough, against Messrs. Moss
and Bradley, the representatives of Vauxhall ward, the
former, it being alleged, having held out a threat to the
officer in regard to the transference of a marine-store
license from a person named Doran to his son-in-law
Gribbon. The magistrates passed a resolution that there
had been an improper -interference, but adjourned the
matter ti.l Thursday. On Wednesday Mr. Moss explained
in the Council that be had gone only for imformation,
that he certainly did not mean to hold out any threat, and
that he had spoken to Mr. Bradley only as he was acci-
dentally passing at the time. On Thursday, at a meeting
of magistrates, Mr. Inspector Kehoe requested to be re-
moved from the office of having to report respecting the
keepers of the marine stores, " as it so often brought him
into collision with the local authorities and the rate-
payers." On being examined. Mr. ttehoe said he did not
wish to mention names, as it would make him enemies.
He, however, stated that members of the Town Council
ahadsuibn.tcoermfemreidttweeitwh
absima. On
prointteh
de suggestiontoreceive ofvi trb.eicMehaoyeors,
statements, and report to the general body.

DISPATCH AND COMFORT.—Who has not
. wasted much m
time at the toilet attempting to put to il's a collar of
inferior finish, the laundress having been careless of her
selection of that most important article, starch ? And
who has not been teazed by this or that article of dress
not being finished to taste ? And bow uncomfortable
wnen such articles do not please the wearer ! To prevent
this, direct the laundress to secure such starch as pos-
sesses the greatest elasticity, strength, and transparency.
These combined qualities are possessed to a very eminent
degree by the Glenfield Patent Starch, manufactured by
Mr. Wotherspoon from the finest quality of
Queen
East India
sago. The laundress of her most gracious majesty
Victoria has issued a testimonial proving the inherent
excellences of the Glenfield Patent Starch, and further
stating, " that it is the best she has ever used, and that
she intends to use no other." Our readers would do well
to ask for the " Glenfield Patent Starch," and see that
the name of R. Wotherspoon, 40, Dunlop-street, Glas-
gow, is on each package (none other is genuine), as cer-
tain parties, seeing its wide-spread celebrity, have so
very closely imitated the out.side appearance of the original
and genuine article, that casual observers might be im-
posed on if they did not take the precaution to see that
the maker's name, i
R. Wotherspoon, is on each package.
We observe that the Glenfield Patent Starch is sold by
most of the shopkeepers in town and country. We would
now close this short notice, with expressing the hope that
our readers, interested in this article, will confer an ob-
ligation on themselves, by adopting in their laundries
this useful auxiliary.

STRIKE AT THE DOCKS.—The extra labourers at the
Albert Docks have struck for an advance of sixpence per
day in their wages. The subject was to have been
brought before the committee yesterday.
THE Manchester Examiner states that there will shortly
be exhibited in Manchester models of a new mode of
screw.propulsion, calculated to sail at a very high speed,
and a new description of boat for the preservation of life
in cases of shipwreck or fire. The inventor is a Manchester
manufacturer.

THE PUPILS OF MR. FLEMING'S SCHOOL, Bootle,
have presented Monsieur J. Loth, author of the Elemen-
tary French Grammar, with a valuable gold
pen Speaking
pencil
Icase,as a token of esteem and of their high consi-
deration for his pleasing and successful method of teach-
ing languages and drawing.

MAN DROWNED AT THE BRAMLEY-MOORE DOCK.—
On Thursday last, George Bentley, a blockmaker, in the
employment of Mrs. Garner, Hurst-street, aged about
26 years. fell from the ship Hemisphere into the Bramley-
Moore Dock, and was drowned. His body was not re-
covered till Saturday. Yesterday an inquest was held on
the body, before Mr. Coroner Curry, when a verdict of
"Accidentally drowned" was returned.
PLEASURE TRAIN.—A meeting was held, on Friday
evening, at Mr. Lovelady's, Derby-street, to form a com-
mittee for the purpose of assisting Mr. Ewing in arranging
a grand railway trip from Liverpool on Whit-Monday next.
Full particulars of the excursion will shortly appear in our
columns, and the names of the committee will form a
sufficient guarantee for the proper management and suc-
cess of the trip.
AT THE COUNTY COURT, yesterday, held before Joseph
Pollock, Esq., judge, the cases were few and uninterest-
ing. The principal case was that of Mullins v. Kirkpa-
trick. The plaintiff, Mr. James Mullins, Mill-street,
sought to recover from Mr. Andrew Kirkpatrick, grocer,
Vauxhall-road, the sum of £2O 10s. 9d., the balance of
an account for groceries. Mr. Rime appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Daly for the defence. The question
was purely one of account, and ultimately the Judge gave
a verdict for the payment of £lB Os. 7d., including a
small sum of money paid into court. The court rose at
a few minutes past four o'clock till to-day.
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Da. Fisaaa's EXHIBITION.—This evening, the above
exhibition of dissolving views will be given in the Corn-
wallis-street school, at seven o'clock. It is seldom the
public have an opportunity of seeing such rich add varied
views of renowned places at home and abropd as Dr.
Fisher's diagrams. present. The Duke of Wellington's
funeral car. the interior of Walmer Castle, as it appeared
with the Duke in it the Sunday before his death, are
among the views to be exhibited. We consider this to
be the most interesting and instructive way of spending
an evening, especially for the young, at the same time
those attending contribute to a religious object.

SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.—
An inquest will be held to-day on the body of Emily
Davis, aged two months, the illegitimate child of Eliza-
beth Davis, and the circumstances connected with whose
death are of a rather suspicious complexion. It appears
that the infant had been put out to nurse with a woman
named Mary Ray. It became poorly some time ago, and
continued to grow worse, but no doctor was called in.
At length, on Saturday evening, the child died in convul-
sions, no inclination having been exhibited by the nurse
to obtain the assistance of a medical man.
THE LADY EGLINTON, one of the new screw steamers
being built in the Clyde. by the British and Irish Steam
Packet Company, for their London, Plymouth and Liver-
pool line, made her trial trip on Thursday last, and was
eminently successful. Her average speed, in the run
from the Cloch Lighthouse to the Cumbrae and back
again, was fifteen geographical miles per hour. The
Lady Egiinton is a fine, clipper looking vessel, of nearly
800 tons, carpenter's measurement, and engines of 150
horse power. Both engines and hull were built by Mr.
Robert Napier, Lancefield Works. She will immediately
take her station on the Liverpool line, in conjunction with
the Nile, just purchased from the Mediterranean line.
REFUSAL. OF SAILORS TO PROCEED TO SEA.—On
Friday last the crew engaged in the Fytho, bound for
Africa, twenty in number, were brought before Mr.
Mansfield, at the Liverpool Police-court, charged with
refusing to proceed to sea. The defence was that there
was not sufficieat accommodation, and the case was ad-
journed until Saturday, in order that Lloyd's surveyor
might inspect the vessel and report. On that day he
reported that the accommodation was in every way suffi-
cient. Seven of the crew agreed to go in the vessel, but
the remainder (thirteen) were committed for trial. The
crew had received £5 each as wages in advance.
JUVENILE REFORMATION.—SCHOOL-SHIP IN THE
MERSEY.—We have pleasure in intimating that the Lords
of the Admiralty have acceeded to the wishes of the com-
mittee of the Soho-street Ragged Schools, in this town,
and will place a vessel at their disposal, to be moored in
the river for the reception of boys, who are to be trained
for sailors. Those who feel an interest in the subject, or
desire to further the object in view, by donations or other-
wise, should place themselves in communication with Mr.
Joseph Huhback, the honorary secretary of the schools,
who will be most ready to afford them every information
in his power.
FIVE.—On Friday night, about eleven o'clock, a fire
broke out in the northern extremity of the sugar-refinery
of Messrs. Macfie and Sons, Batchelor-street. It origi-
nated in the large wingrecentiv erected inTitheloarn-street,
which was devoted to the boilers and stoves, used for the
purpose of drying. The flames shot out alarmingly ; but
as Messrs. Macfie's men were abundantly supplied with
hose and water, they took possession of the portion not
yet quite built up, and not only prevented the fire from
extending, but quickly checked it. In this work they
were promptly assisted by Mr. Hewitt and the fire-police,
and in a quarter of an hour all apprehension of further
danger was removed. The loss was trifling, owing to the
nature of the building, and is amply covered by insurance.

ROYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
—A meeting of the council of this society was held on
Wednesday, when it was arranged to hold the show
meeting at Blackburn, in August. Lord de Tabley is the
president for the current year. The sum of £286 was
agreed to be offered in premiums for horses, cattle,
sheep, pigs, poultry, and dairy produce. The premiums
offered for competition amongst tenant-farmers only, are
considerably increased, and to effect this object £l5 was
subscribed by members of the council at the meeting.
The council have cancelled all the restrictions as to male
animals having to remain within the society's limits for
stated periods after the award of the prizes. The sum of
£lOO will be offered for improved implements. £64 was
also voted to the local agricultural societies within North
Lancashire,. to be offered by them in addition to their pre-
miums for crops. Charles Towneley, Esq., N.1.P., has
offered two premiums of £lO for the best male and female
animals respectively in all the short-horn classes, but de-
barring the Towneley herd from competition.—Preslon
Pilot.
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ENGLISTI BALLAD Mustc.—Mr. Ceorge Barker, of
London, delivered his second lecture at the Collegiate
Institution, on Friday evening last. The audience was
somewhat larger than that of the previous Friday evening ;
but the numerous attendance of boys connected with the
schools was a source of great annoyance both to the audi-
ence and the lecturer. These lads posted themselves in
groups in different parts of the theatre, end kept up an
'incessant commotion, which was very ungraceful and not
at all creditable to their sense of propriety. We should
not have alluded to this matter, but for the fact that no
steps have apparently been taken to stop the disorderly
proceedings which have prevailed at every lecture since
the course began. Mr. Barker's second lecture was de-
voted to melodies of Moore and Shakspere, and the
vocal illustrations were rendered with the greatest delicacy
and taste. The entertainment concluded with Topsey's
song, " I specs as I never was born," at the request of a
number of ladies wbo had heard it on the previous even-
ing, and were desirous of hearing it repeated. This
song, we believe, is the production of Mr. Clifford Crau-
fords a Scotch gentleman in London, whose brother, one
of the ablest lawyers in Scotland, was some time ago ap-
pointed sheriff of Perthshire.

SCREW•STEAMING is daily becoming a more prominent
feature of our local lines. The efforts of builders Pre pro-
ducing their legitimate results in the formation of new
steam companies. We have witnessed the success of the
Andes and the Alps, belonging to the Cunard Company ;
the Liverpool and Philadelphia line ; the steady progress
of the various Mediterranean companies ' • and the large
increase of the traffic to Lisbon, .Rotterdam, and other
places, by means of screw-steamers. Then we see that
the African Mail Company have announced a bimonthly
branch from Leverpcol ; and the successsul performances
of their first boats, the Forerunner and Faith, promise
well for the future efficiency of the company. Another
company, to the Brazils and River Plate, start in Juno
next with their new line, the departures to be from Bir-
kenhead on the 24th of each month. Their first vessels,
the Braziliera, Lusitania, and Olinda, are to be com-
manded respectively by Captains Daniel Green, James
Brown, and George H. Harem. When open, the new
line will offer a monthly communication between this
port and the Brazils and River Plate, and we shall have a
return mail from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video in 72
days. With such a fleet of steamers selling from our
port, we should suppose that the advantages to our own
immediate locality, and the manufacturing districts of
England generally, must be immense.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERIES AT MANCIIESTER.—In
last week's Standard we gave a few particulars of a dar-
ing robbery committed in Manchester on the afternoon of
Monday week. Miss Howard, a girl eighteen years of
age, having been left in charge of her father's shop, at the
corner of Market-street and Corporation-street, was as-
sailed by a gentlemanly person, who got behind the coun-
ter and gagged her mouth, while another villain entered
from the street and cleared the window of jewellery to the
value of £3OO. Having effected this, the man holding
Miss Howard threw her down, and left the shop with his
companion, who had the booty in his pockets. They
hailed a cab as soon as they got into the street, and were
soon on their way to London. Mr. Howard was so much
affected when he heard the news (this being the second time
within twelve months that he has been robbed), that he
was obliged to be placed in the hands of a medical man.
Although there were a number of persons standing close
by the shop, from whose statements the above facts were
elicited, no one seems to have suspected that a robbery was
being committed until the men had departed. The man who
was on guard outside the door ordered awayseveral persons
who stopped to look in at thewindow,as though he had been
legitimately stationed there to prevent a crowd collecting.
A public subscription has been set on foot on behalf
of Mr. Howard. Manchester will get unpleasantly famous
for its dexterous robberies. On Wednesday morning
some thieves entered the establishment of Messrs. 011i-
vent, St. Anne's-street, and stole a vast amount of valu-
able property ; including 81 gold watches, maker's name,
" 011ivants," and other property, amounting to the
value of about £2,500. This robbery, following that of
Mr. Howard's in less than forty hours, led some of the
authorities to see the desirableness of making a sweeping
capture amongst the haunts and resorts of known thieves;
and on Friday morning a score of thieves were accordingly
apprehended. A man named Henry Maxwell, with his
brother-in-law James Stronach, and Lucy Maxwell, the
wife of the latter, have been apprehended at Newton.
Maxwell, who was formerly employed at 011ivant's, has
the appearance of " a man about town ;" Stronach looks
like an ordinary mechanic. The stolen property has been
found in boxes belonging to the prisoners. On Thursday,
Stronach was discharged from custody, but Maxwell and
his sister were remanded till Thursday next.

GENERAL NEWS.

Ma. BORROWS. the master of the Cottesmore hounds,
has sold two hunters, Guardsman and Evergreen, to Na-
poleon 111., for £4OO.
DINNERS.—It appears from an official report that the
directors of the East India Company have spent £53,000
in house dinners during the last eighteen years.
CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The sixth purchase
of the society was made on Tuesday in Hertfordshire,
between the towns of Ware and Hertford.

COMPVLSORY VACCINATION.—There is a bill in the
House of Lirds, by which it is proposed that vaccination
of children shall be compulsory.

THE ESTATE OF FAIRGIRTFI, Stewartry of Kircu-
bright, has been purchased by private bargain, by W.
Hilton, Esq., Manchester, for £22,000.

MR. WILLIAM JACKSON, M.P. it is said, is about
proceeding to Canada with 15,000 labourers, to carry on
the railway undertakings in progress and projected there.
STRIKES.—The yachtsmen at Cowes have struck for
higher wages. A large number of agricultural labourers
in the neighbourhood of Andover, Hants, have just
struck for higher wages.
IN CONSEQUENCE of a strike amongst the workmen in
the smiths'-shop of the factory of the Great Western
Railway Company at New Swindon, their wages have
been advanced.
The claim of Lord KENSINGTON to be admitted to vote
at the election of Irish representative peers, has been ad-
mitted by the House of Lords, on the unanimous recom-
mendation of the Committee of Privileges.
SIR JOHN CAMPBELL, late Licut—Governor of
St. Vincent, died on the 18,h January, after s short illness
of two or three days, of confirmed yellow fever, aged
forty-four years.
THE BOWYER BIBLE, which has been the suLject of
two lotteriei, and was valued at £3,000, has been disposed
of by auction, for £405, to Mr. Willis, bookseller, of
Covent-garden, London.
A SHARK, nearly eleven feet in length," was recently
caught off the East Neuk of Fife. The shark had swal-
lowed a codfish, which was hooked, and became so entan-
gled among the tackle as to be secured by the fishermen.

THE SUBSCRIPTION for a monument to Thomas Hood
having reached £4OO, has been closed, and a bronze bust
of the poet, on a granite pedestal, embellished in relief
from his writings, resolved upon. The subscription for a
monument to Thomas Moore has nearly reached £3OO.
THE Heron? OF TNIPUDENCE.—On Sunday last, says
the Nottingham Journal, a lad walked up to a lady in the
market-place of that town, snatched the veil from her
bonnet, and, notwithstanding an instant pursuit, escaped
with his booty.
MR. JAMES HOPE, the well-known parliamentary bar-
rister, has just added Scott to his name, in compliance with
the provision in the entail of the estate of Abbotsford, to
which estate his wife lately succeeded, upon the death of
her only brother.
A RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, recently pub-
lished, shows that the expenditure for the relief of the
poor in Ireland, for the year ended the 29th September
last, had decreased £280,700, compared with the preceding
Sear, when the total sum disbursed was £1,166,954.
THERE IS A MAN IN BLOONIFIELD, Ontario county,
who in April next will, if he lives until that time, have
seen his 112th birth-day. His name is James Knight,
and he was born in Queen's county, Ireland, in April,
1741. He resides with his son, who is 72 years old.
Ir IS STATED that in the Dead Letter Office, in
Washington, five millions of misdirected letters are
annually opened and burnt. All letters containing money
are retained and filed. The amount recovered last year
exceeded 540,000.

THE Kott-t-Noon diamond has now—after an expen-
diture of £2,000 'in bringing it to light—been set. in an
exquisite circle of small diamonds, and made the Moun-
tain of Light" on a most graceful tiara of diamonds for
the brow of Queen Victoria.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-071 Friday, the materials of an old
building called the Mint, in Soho, Birmingham, which
had been sold for the purpose of pulling down, were being
removed, when a brick wall fell in and buried several of
the labourers in the ruins, killing two, and seriously, if
not fatally. irjuring three others.
GEORGE WELLBORN, the driver of a goods train on the
Stockton and Darlington Railway, has been found guilty of
inattention to the signals, by which a collision took place
on the Clarence and Leeds Railway with a passenger
train, and Mr. Grainger, an engineer of eminence at
Edinburgh, was killed, and was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment for the manslaughter.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The village of Framlingham,
Suffolk, was thrown into excitement on Saturday by the
discovery that William Goodwyn, a man in comfort.
able circumstances, had. in a state of insanity, murdered
his daughter, a girl of four years old, and then cut his
own throat. His wife gave the alarm, rushing out of the
house too horror-stricken to articulate.
RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.—It is said that a remark.
able change is in progress among the Jews in every
country, owing to a MS. being extensively circulated by
an influential rabbi proving from Scripture that the time
has come when the Jews must set about making prepara-
tions for returning to the land of their fathers. The
manuscript has been printed in Hebrew and English, and
a society has been formed to further the movement pro-
posed by the learned rabbi.
AWFUL SUICIDE.—On Thursday afternoon, a man,
named Tennant, the keeper of a low beershop, in Abbey-
street, Barnwell, Catubsidr, fell out with his wife, and
finally left the house. saying that he and she would never
have words more. He then proceeded to divers public.
houses, and having drank deeply, went on to the Eastern
Union Railway, and deliberately laid himself down before
an approaching train, with his neck on the rails, so that it
completely severed his head from his body.
THE NEW YORE YACHT CLUB has offered a priza of
500 dollars, to be sriled for on the 13th of October next,
open to yachts of all nations. The course to be from
Robins' Reef Light, in the harbour of New York, around
a vessel to be anchored 12 miles from the beacon on Sandy
Hook, passing to the southward and westward of the
South-west Spit, and to the eastward of the buoy on the
west bank, going and returning. The entries to close on
the 22d of September.

DEATHS OF Two CENTENARIANS.—On the 15th Feb.,
at the workhouse, Chelsea, an army pensioner died of
"natural decay" at the age (as stated) of 102 years. Mr.
Lamer, registrar, mentions that " this was a man of co•
lour, who had been for mtray years cymbal player in one
of the regimental bands." At 24, Duke-street, Aldgate,
London, on 19th Feb., the widow of a fruiterer died from
" decay of nature" at the great age of 104 years. She
came from Mentz in Germany to England in 1770, at the
age of 21 years. She retained her faculties till the last,
and never had medical advice previous to her last illness.
A COURT-MARTIAL at Devonport has passed an extra-
ordinary sentence on Francis Stapleton, boatswain's mate
on Her Majesty's ship Vulture, for disobeying the orders
of his lieutenant, and knocking down a sentry, charges
to which he pleaded guilty. The court have adjudged him
to be disrated to the rank of able seaman ; that he receive
thirty-six lashes from the cat-'o-nine-tails on his back,
on board the Vulture, at such times, and in such ptopor-
lions, as the commander-in-chief at the port shall direct;
that he be imprisoned in the Devon County Gaol for
twelve months ; and. finally, he be dismissed from Her
Majesty's service with disgrace.

CONFESSION OF MURDER.—On Friday a respectable
looking young man entered the central police-office, Glas-
gow, stating that be wished to deliver himself up to justice
as he could get no puce in his mind from having recently
committed a murder. Some eight months ago, while at
Longbank, about fifteen miles from London, an illegiti-
mate child was born to him, and he killed it by holding
its head under water, and then tossing tke body into the
stream. He came to work at Bar rhead, near Glasgow, as
a calico printer, some ten weeks ago, but remorse would
not let him rest, and he resolved to surrender himself.

ASSIZE NEWS.—At Lincoln, John King, aged forty-
three, subject to epileptic fits, and who had been obliged
to have a man to watch him for some time past, was
tried for the murder of his mother. He was considered
better, and his keeper left him, when he knocked his
mother down, and beat her till she was dead, calling it
" a spree." He was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
At Nottingham, Mary Ann Parr, aged 25, a miserable-
looking creature, halt idiotic, was found guilty of suffo-
cating her child by pressing it against her bosom till its
breath was out of the body, whilst in Bingham work-
house. She was sentenced to death, but the judge pro-
mised to forward a recommendation of mercy to the
proper quarter. At the same assizes, Mary Antliff, aged
25, was indicted.for the murder of her husband's child, a
boy only two-and-a-half years old, whom, having been
married to its father only nine weeks, she kicked, beat,
and starved to death. The body was in a very bruised
and wretched state, and some special injuries on the head
were stated by the surgeon to have been the immediate
cause of the child's decease; but there was no evidence
how they were occasioned. The jury returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter," and she was sentenced to be tran-
sported for life.

STATISTICS OF EMIGIIATION.—A parliamentary paper
has been published of all vessels belonging to the United
Kingdom cleared outward with passengers at the custom-
houses of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 16th of
June to the 31st of December, 1852, under the inspection
of emigration officers. The totals are given for the year
1852. From London, in the course of last year, the
registered tonnage of the emigrant ships was 124,856;
the officers numbered 762 ; the cooks, carpenters, and
stewards, 825; able seamen, 2,€69; ordinary seamen,
638; landsmen. 251; boys, 661 ; the total number if the
crew was 6,006; of the emigrants from Londe there
were 15,257 men, 7,964 women, and 8,026 children,
making 31,247. From Liverpool, in the year, the
registered tonnage of the ships was 368,294; the crews
numbered 11,954 ; and the emigrants—men, women, and
children, 137,331. From Plymouth the registered tonnage
of the ships was 50,957; the crews, 335; and the emigrants
numbered 8,443. From Glasgow and Greenock the
registered tonnage of the ships that sailed in the year was
27,850 the crews, 1,278; the emigrants, 11,542. From
Belfast 1,560 emigrants sailed • from Dublin, 4,101 ;
from Galway, 774 ; from Limerick, 7,007 ; from London-
derry, 4,662; from Queenstown, 7,468; from Sligo and
m
ontports the number of emigrants was 1,816; and gr
Waterford and New Ross, 5,135. The total number of
emigrants last year from Great Britain and Ireland, under
2
the inspection of emigration officers, was 21 V 8
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SECOND EDITION.

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

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

PARIS, MONDAY.—In the Legislative Assembly, the
votes for calling out 80.000 conscripts, and other mea-
sures, were carried unanimously. The budget will be
presented on Wednesday or Thursday. Funds closed at
a fall. Threes, 80.80. Four-and-a-halves, 103.70.
GERMAN-Y.—An American has been arrested at
Heidelberg, with printed revolutionary documents in his
possession.

ITALY.—The town of Cremona had been put in a
state of siege ; a sentinel having been killed by a musket
shot. The report that Mazzini is on board a British
man-of•war is contradicted.
SWITZERLAND.—Rigorous measures were still car-
ried out against Tessin.

ST. PETERSBURG.—The last advices quote Exchange
on England 381 to t, being rather more favourable.
ODESSA, Pea. 28.—Business was generally quiet. with
the exception of wool, of which large sales had been made.
LONDON MONEY MARKET.—The Times says,
there was a slight diminution in the demand for money on
Monday, and in some cases discounts were obtained at
21. It is stated from Paris, that the influx of gold has
latterly been resumed.
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SHIPPING NEWS.—Georgian, and Duke of Lancas-
ter, from Mauritius ; Nonpareil, from St. Michael's ;
Panama, from Hobart Town ; and Julia v Pepita, from
Havana, all at Gravesend, 14th instant ; Wilmore, from
Madras, and Windsor, from Callao, at Deal, 14th instant;
Mazcppa, and Gem, sailed from Charente for Liverpool.

LONDON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.
THIS DAY, ONE O'CLOCK.
THE FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 1001; Ditto for
Money, 1001 ; Exchequer Bills, L and S, March, 3-12 ;
Mexicans, 251 6.
RAILWAY SHARES.—Great Northern, money 81, 81&
2 account ; Great Western, money 911 11, account 911 2 ;
London and North Western, money 1191, account 1191 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, money 30 ; Mid-
land Stock, money 76, account 761; North Staffordshire,
money 13:1 ; York and North Midlai.d, account 60.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tins DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 78.4 ; Midland, 764-;. North
B:affords, 44- dis.; North Westerns, 83-16.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Taus DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 761 ex div. ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire New Pref., 7 pm., ex div.;
Midland, 76i ; South Eastern and Dover, 239.16 1.