The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The first of Mr. Chipp's
organ performances will be given this (Tuesday) evening.
On Thursday evening Father Mathew left this town (per
steamer) for Dublin.
According to the Sunday Times, Mr. Buckstone and
Mrs. Fitz william realised £BOO by their four weeks' en-
gagement in this town.
The colliers in the districts about Ashton, Oldham, &c.,
have turned out for an increase of wages. They have
formed an extensive union for this purpose.
Two respectable druggists in this town have been fined
£lO each, for vending made-up medicines without the
government stamp.

The Bishop of Manchester is announced to pay a
friendly visit to the Archbishop of York, at the palace,
Bishopthorpe.
The Rev. P. W. Brancker is about to resign the curacy
of St. George's Church, having been presented to a living
in the south. _ _

The visiting justices of the gaol at Lancaster have
appointed a committee to inquire into the duties and
salaries of all the officers of Lancaster Castle.
The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain
Nye sailed for New York on Wednesday. The Pacific
took forty-five passengers, amongst whom was Mr. Rives,
late United States Minister at Paris, and Dr. Baird.
On Wednesday, a young man named Isell, a clerk in
the employ of Messrs. Earle and Carter, of Oil-street,
absconded with £250, which he had received at the Union
Bank for two cheques.
Mr. Fletcher, car proprietor, has been served with no
less than eighteen summonses for allowing car drivers to
drive without badges, in his anxiety to serve his customers
during the car-drivers' strike.
Mr. Edward Higgin exhibited a very beautiful artist's
work-table, of his own invention. which elicited the ad-
miration of the members of the Architectural and Archaeo-
logical Society, on Wednesday evening.
In the list just published of the gentlemen elected to
the scholarships in St. John's College, Cambridge, we ob-
serve the name of Mr. C. T. Hudson, late of the Royal
Institution School. _ .

On Thursday, the body of a seaman named William
Thomas, late of the Emma Steers, which was wrecked
last week, was found, on Burbo Bank,. by a boatman
named George Rudd.
In consequence of the shortness of time intervening be-
tween this and the assizes, and the unfinished state of the
Assize Courts, the Council have resolved to withhold all
admission to strangers.
The British and North American Royal Mail steam
ship Niagara, Stone, commander, sailed from the Merger'
at noon, on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, with the
usual mails and a fair complement of passengers.
The Liverpool and Philadelphia steam-ship Company's
screw steam-ship City of Pittsburgh, Stotesbury, com-
mander, sailed from the Mersey, on Saturday, for Phila-
delphia, with a full complement of passengers, and a large
and valuable cargo of manufactured goods, &c.
It is a remarkable fact that the past week has been
colder, by seven degrees, than any November week dur-
ing the last six years ; and Friday was ascertained to be
colder, by thirteen degrees, than any 28th November for
several years past.
On Wednesday evening last, as Thomas Higgins, a
ship-carpenter, aged 59 years, was employed on board a
ship in the Brunswick Dock, he suddenly fell down in a
fit. He was conveved: to the Southern Hospital, where
he expired almost immediately afterwards.
The judge of the Oldham County Court has awarded to
a passenger by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway the
sum of lls., the amount of expenses incurred by him in
reaching his destination in consequence of the delay for a
quarter of an hour of the train in which he was travelling.

There are now building, and about to be built, in the
port of Liverpool, shipping to the extent of 10,000 tons;
to this may safely be added 3,000 more, building in
Birkenhead ; giving a total of 13,000 tons building on the
Mersey.

The'Rev. W. Carpenter, D.D., formerly of St. Jude's,
in this town, now of Christ Church, Mosside, Manchester,
preached charity sermons in aid of defraying a small debt
incurred by alterations, an organ, &c., after which the
sum of £268 lls. 6d. was contributed.

A meeting of the Early Closing Association was held on
Thursday. It appears that three of the leading firms in
the town have consented to close at six for the three
winter months, and some others had agreed to close at
six o'clock for the months of December and January.
A very fine painting of the Crucifixtion, attributed to
Ruben!, has just been presented to the Town Gallery of
Art:(which is in connexion with the Free Public Library
and Museum), by Henry Steele, Big., Abercromby-sq.
It was purchased by him at the sale at Hooton-hall.
On Tuesday, the foundation-stone of a Mechanics' In-
stitution, which is to cost £4,500, was laid at Burnley.
The Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Carlisle, and other dis-
tinguished persons, took a part in the ceremony. Lord
Carlisle delivered an eloquent address on the occasion.
In former years, at this period, the British and North
American royal mail steamers have ceased their weekly
passages, and have run only once a fortnight. There will
now, however, be no break of this kind, and the vessels of
that line throughout the winter will continue their depar-
ture from Liverpool every Saturday.

A sum of upwards of £250, lost a few days ago in
Dublin, was found in the possession of two parties, a man
and a woman, in this town, on Tuesday last, by detective
officers Patrick and Sullivan. They were about to emi-
grate to America when they were taken into custody.
They have been since sent to Dublin.
On Thursday a court of session, for the removal and
transfer of publicans' licenses, was held in the Nisi Prius
Court, before his worship the mayor (Thomas Littiodate,
Esq.), and Messrs. Holt, J. H. Turner, R. V. Yates, and
John Holmes. The list contained five removals and fifty-
four transfers. _ . .

INCREASE OF PRESTON.—During the present year not
less than six hundred and seventy new houses have been
erected in Preston, and there never was a time when so
few houses were unoccupied. One is scarcely empty before
it is retaken, and many of the new ones have been let be-
fore they have been roofed in.

THE LATE CHIIRCHWARDENS OF MANCHESTER.—The
services of Messrs. R. Birley, Clegg, and Morley, church-
wardens of Manchester, in procuring the Rectory Pro-
vision Bill and other exertions for the good of the church,
have been acknowledged by the presentation of three
pieces of plate to them, each value one hundred guineas.
FORBIDDING THE BANS OF MARRIAGE.—At the close
of the service at the Parish Church, on Sunday, the 16th,
a gentleman forbade the marriage of two parties whose
names had been read by the Rev. Henry Burgess, on the
ground that the wife elect was a deceased wife's sister.—
Blackburn Standard.

WEST DERBY RATES.—From a return, just published,
of the amount of the poor and county rates in nineteen
of the townships of the West Derby Union, it appears
that, whilst the amount r4sed in those townships dur-
ing the last three years, for the support of the poor, was
£10,456 165.. the amount raised for county rates was
£11,572 lls.
On Wednesday last, Elizabeth Downey, a young mar-
ried woman. twenty-eight years of age, died on board the
screw-steamer Grecian while entering the river. The
deceased was cook in the service of Sir Stratford Canning,
the British ambassador at Constantinople. Her husband
was coachman to the ambassador. On Thursday the
deceased was respectably interred at St. Nicholas's Church
burial ground.
MNEMONICS,—On Thursday evening, a lecture was
delivered at the Sunday School Institute, Mount-pleasant,
on this interesting subject, by Mr. Younghusband, who
explained a beautiful system invented by himself. The
lecture was delivered to the members of the " Liverpool
Junto," a society lately formed by a few young men for
mutual improvement, who meet every Thursday evening,
at the Sunday School Institute.

On Friday' evening, Mr. John Stewart entertained a
select number of his election committee, at his house in
Mount-pleasant ; and it is said that the lately elected
member for North Toxteth ward, Thomas Royden, Esq.,
purposes following the liberal example of Messrs. Samuel
Holme and Gregson last year, by giving a public dinner to
those gentlemen (his constituents) to whose exertions he
owes his successful return. _

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's new iron
steamer Lima, Captain John Williams, one of the new
fleet of the company for performing the mail service on
the coasts of the republics of Chili, Bolivia, Peru, Ecua-
dor, and New Granada, sailed on Tuesday from the Mer-
sey for Valparaiso. For that port, Madeira, 'and Rio de
Janeiro, at which she will touch, about 50 passengers and
£lOO,OOO in specie were embarked.
ARRIVAL OF THE SERAPFUNA, FROM PERNAMBUCO.—
The Seraphina, Captain Gething, arrived here on Wed-
nesday, from Pernambuco, which port she left on the
23d Gctober. She brings no additional political news of
importance. Freights were low. She spoke the Wm,
Fisher, from Madras, in long. 221, lat. 48, out 150 days.
The Wm. Fisher reported that, in lat. about 22, they
bad been boarded by a ship which, on the preceding day,
had picked up, in an open boat, the crew of the Monarch,
of Glasgow, from Callao to England, which ship had
foundered.
" A SAD BAD LOT."—At the Preston sessions, on
Thursday last, a youth named Holden was sentenced to
six months' imprisonment for felony. He had previously
been in Preston, Knutsford, and Kirkdale gaols as a
" smasher," or passer of base coin. At the present time,
his father and brother are undergoing twelve months' im-
prisonment in Preston gaol for that offence, and the mo-
ther is also incarcerated in Lancaster Castle for a like
Period, and for the same crime. To make up the total of
the family, three daughters have been convicted and im-
prisoned in Preston, Lancaster, and Salford gaols, on si-
milar charges.—Preston Pilot.

THE REFORM CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER, though
chiefly confined to delegates from Lancashire and York-
shire, will be attended, there is reason to believe, by Refor-
mers from Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham,
Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The evening meeting will bead.
dressedibyMessrs. Cobden, Bright, Gibson, and other gen-
tlemen. A deputation from Yorkshire held a preliminary
interview with the Reformers of Manchesteron the subject
on Saturdaylast, but its proceedings have been kept strictly
private. The Yorkshire deputation included Mr. Carbutt
and Mr. Edward Baines, of Leeds; Mr. R. Leader, jun.,
of Sheffield ; Mr. Milligan, M.P., of Bradford ; Mr. T.
Crossley, of Halifax, who represented, on this occasion,
the West Riding Registration Association. The gentle-
?Alen who received them on the part of the Manchester
Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association were :
Mr. G. Wilson, Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Henry, M.P.,
Mr. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. H. Ashworth, of Bolton; Mr.
T. Ashton, of Hyde ; Mr. T. Baxley, president of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Wm. Rawson,
Mr. John Platt, Oldham ; Mr. H. Rawson, Mr. McCart-
12eY, Mr. S. P. Robinson, Mr. Royle, Mr. C. Walker,
Itoehdale•, and Mr C. E. Rawlins, of Liverpool.—Daily
Net's.

THZ ASSIZES.—The winter assizes will be opened on
Saturday next by Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Erle.
The calendar is very much lighter than usual, not merely
lighter than the previous assizes, but considerably lighter
than the assizes held at the corresponding period last
year, which of course comprised the same interval as the
present calendar. Tie number of prisoners on that oc-
casion was 127 ; the number now awaiting their trial is
only 63, which is made up as follows :—Murder. 3, stab-
bing and wounding, 4 ; burglary, 6; intent to murder, 1 ;
rape, 4 ; bigamy, 1 ; manslaughter, 10 ; riot, 4 ; robbery,
19; night poaching, 1 ; house-breaking, 2; forgery, 2;
fraudulent bankrupt, 1 ; stealing a post-letter, 1 ; cow.
stealing, 1 ; embezzlement, 1; horse-stealing, 1 i and
stealing money, 1.
RETURN OF A CALIFORNIAN GOLD-DIGGER.—About
two sears since a young man, formerly in the employ of
Mr. R. Matley, at the Hodge Print Works, as a block.
printer, set out to California. He was in America at the
time, and wrote home to his parents, to inform them that
he was setting out for the " diggings;" but from that
time to the present nothing had been heard of him until
last Thursday, when he made his appearance at home,
bringing with him 54 ounces of very clean gold dust, be-
sides other valuables. He was about 500 miles beyond
San Francisco, and during the last nine days he was at
the mines he earned 1200 dollars. He intends, it is
stated, setting out again in a few weeks for another trip.
—Manchester Guardian.

ACCIDRNTS.—On Thursday afternoon, as. Arthur Kerr,
in the employ of Mr. M'Fie, sugar manufacturer, Tem-
ple-street, was attending to some portion of the machi-
nery, his apron was caught in the cog-wheels. He was
drawn partially in, and his arm fractured, and severely
injured a tender part of his body. He was conveyed to
the Northern Hospital.—On Thursday, William Grogan,
a porter. fell into the George's Dock. He was rolling a
cask of hardware along a stage on board the ship Ellen,
when one of the spars supporting the ship gave way, and
he fell with the cask into the water. He was got out and
conveyed to the receiving house at the Prince's Dock,
where he was placed in a warm bath, and recovered in a
short time.

STRANGE AvgAut.—One day last week a gentleman
arrived at Southport by the train from Liverpool without
a ticket. He paid the fare, however, and offered to re-
turn, but was refused. There was a strangeness about
his manners, and he walked about Houghton-street until
midnight, when the inspector of police took him into cus-
tody. On being searched a brace of revolving pistols
were found upon him, and it is thought he intended to
commit suicide. He did not struggle on being examined,
but would not allow the police to examine or take off his
gloves. He refused to answer any questions, but a letter
was found in one of his pockets with his address upon it.
The gentleman was very respectable in appearance ; and,
proving to be of unsound mind, he has since been sent to
the asylum.—Preston Chronicle.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT HINDLEY.—On
Saturday night last, a very dense fog hung over Hindley
and the surrounding neighbourhood, and it was with great
difficulty that many persons could find their way from one
point to another. An agricultural labourer, named Bat-
tersby, was walking from Dover, across the fields by
Abram to Hindley, on his way home, and when a few
yards from his own house, at a point near the Cross-lanes,
he unconsciously walked into a pit of water. On Sunday
morning he was found standing in the pit quite dead. It
is said that cries of distress were heard by several persons
on Saturday night, and amongst others by his own wife.
There can be but little doubt that he walked into the pit
in consequence of the dense fog, as he was a very sober
man.—Wigan Times.
LAUNCHES.—On Saturday week, a new ship was
launched from the building yard of Messrs. Cato, Miller,
and Co.. for the Brazilian trade. This vessel is the pro-
perty of Captain Kelley and Messrs. M'Tear and Vining,
of this town. She is a clipper built ship, of about 440
tons, and is in every respect adapted to the services of
a trade in which great competition is likely to take place.
A splendid and successful launch was made.—On Monday
last, a fine ship, called the Wild Flower, was launched
from the building yard of Messrs. Rennie, Johnson, and
Co., Brunswick Quay. She was built for Mr. Ander-
son, of Aberdeen. Her dimensions are as follows :
Length on deck, 135 feet : length on load line, 130 feet ;
breadth on lead line, 27 feet; depth of hold, 18 feet 6
inches ; register tonnage, 478 tone ; displacement on
launch line, 310 tons ; displacement on load line, 1100
tons.

SHIP-BUILDING IN DUMBARTON.—The fine steam-
ship Cleopatra, the property of Messrs. M'Kean,
M`Larty, and Co., Liverpool, and destined to form the
first of the Anglo-Brazilian Steam Navigation Co.'s
vessels in the trade between Liverpool and Brazils, is in
rapid progress, and, when finished, we anticipate
will add largely to the fame already won by those
enterprising builders, Messrs. Alexander Denny and
Brother. She is 1,500 tons burthen, and will be fitted up
in the most elegant and comfortable style. The keel of
the Miranda, a consort for the Cleopatra, is about to be
laid down, and it may be expected that a third will
speedily follow. It will be remembered that Al'Kean,
Al`Larty, and Co., were the first to engage in the Aledi-
terranean trade ; and, as it was to their foresight and
energy that the splendid results arising therefrom are
partly due, it may be safely augured that the present
adventure will be attended with suceess.—Dumbarton
Herald.

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—In our paper last week we gave
full particulhrs of the accident which occurred at the Wee-
don station, on the previous Saturday. We regret to
state that one of the passengers, Mr. Currie, of Warring-
ton, has since died from the injuries he received. An in-
quest was held on the body at Weedon, which terminated
on Friday, when the foreman read the following as the
verdict of the jury :—" The jury are of opinion that the
deceased, James Currie, met his death by a cattle train
running accidentally into a passenger train at Weedon,
but without blame to the driver, on account of the eneine
getting out of order and the rails being slippery. The
jury cannot let the opportunity pass without recommend-
ing, for the better safety of the public, an alteration and
enlargement of the Weedon station forthwith, it being too
small for the quantity of traffic, without a siding." It is
to be regretted that, although progressing favourably,
neither Captain Huish nor Mr. Bruyeres was sufficiently
recovered to enable him to attend the inquiry.

THE TREACHERY OF ICE—Two BOYS DROWNED.—
On Saturday a most distressing accident occurred, which
caused considerable excitement in the vicinity of Upper
Parliament-street. It appears that the pond in Parliament-
fields, as it is called, and known as " Cat-pit," from the
number of the feline species drowned there, was partially
frozen over. A youth named Brown, nine years of age,
son of the Rev. J. L. Brown, of Falkner-tarrace, was
returning from school between twelve and one o'clock at
noon, when he was tempted on the pond. He had not
been on many minutes when the ice gave way, and he was
immersed into the water. The poor little fellow struggled
desperately to save himself, but without avail. AnotLer
youth, fourteen years of age, named Henry Baines, whose
mother, a widow, we understand, resides in Grey-street,
heroically went to the assistance of the drowning boy, but
he also fell into the water, and both of them were drowned.
The bodies were recovered about half an hour afterwards
by the aid of grappling-irons, when life was extinct. The
distress of the parents on learning the sad tidings was very
great. _

- MYSTERIOUS ROCBERY OF £Bo.—On Friday, at the
East Lancashire Railway Station, Blackburn, a robbery of
a rather mysterious character was effected. Mr. W. Ec-
cles, jun., of Bamber Bridge, had procured from the bank
of Messrs. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co., £80; £6O of which
sum was in silver, and £2O in gold. The whole was put
into a common canvas bag, which he carried to the station,
intending to return to Bamber Bridge by the 10 15 a.m.
train. The young gentleman placed the bag on a chair in
the first-class waiting-room, in which a lady was sitting,
the wife of a respectable cotton-spinner in the neighbour-
hood, and took a walk upon the platform. On returning
to the waiting-room the bag was missing. The lady was
still in the room, and she stated that a gentleman had
come in, who had taken up the bag, and walked into the
water-closet, from which he had not returned. At the
end of the closet is a window, which was open, and through
which the thief must have escaped. Information of the
robbery was conveyed to the police, and from the descrip-
tion given of the thief by the lady who was in the room at
the time, hopes are entertained that the robber will speed-
ily be brought to justice.—Preston Chronicle.
IMMENSE SHOALS OF HERRINGS AT BLACKPOOL.—
During the last few days, the " shrimp-fishery" of Black-
pool has been quite superseded by one of a much more
productive nature. After an absence from that part of
the Lancashire coast for at least twelve or thirteen years,
herrings are again beginning to resort to it in vast num-
bers ; it is conjectured in consequence of finding some
favourite food there, the absence of which led them to
desert the coast in by-gone years. A number of the
poorer inhabitants are entering into this new fishery, and
it is very beneficial in finding employment for many, and
cheap food for many more. On Wednesday morning last,
one individual, with three stake nets of very primitive
construction, took at one tide no fewer than 2,500 her-
rings. His plan was this—At low water, these stake nets
were set in the line of the tide : at high water, the her-
ring shoals passed over them; but the ebbing tide, as it
flowed out, left the fish caught by the gills in the meshes
of the nets. The sight attracted crowds of the visitors as
well as the inhabitants ; for there were many hundreds of
herrings, literally hung by the neck, the bright and varied
hues of the dying fish glittering and glistening in the sun-
shine.—Plackburn Standard.
REMITTANCE OF SMALL SUMS FROM AMERICA.—
A Liverpool banker has published a letter in The Times,
in which he alludes to the frequency with which small
sums are transmitted from successful emigrants in the
United States to their relations in Ireland, the aggregate
amount of which remittances he estimates at more than
halt a million sterling per annum. These remittances are
made through the agents of the Liverpool emigration
offices in this town. The failure of one of these offices on
this side, of course, occasions much distress. The Liver-
pool banker suggests the establishment of an international
post-office money-order department between the two
governments for the transmission of small sums, so that
the poor Irishman in the United States may be certain
that his hard-earned savings will reach the relatives to
whom he addresses them. The Times says the suggestion
is open to the objection which every day increases in
strength among business men, of throwing further duties
into the hands of government. It would be much better
that a committee of merchants, consisting of parties who
have distinguished themselves by a desire to promote the
safety and welfare of the humbler classes passing between
the two countries, such as Mr. R. B. Minturn, of New
York, and Mr. W. Brown, of Liverpool, should take the
matter up, and establish the desired plan. Whatever mode
of carrying it out may be deemed best, there can be no
duestion that tome step of the sort is imperatively called for.

PROPOSED ►SCHOOLS IN ST. PHILIP'S DISTRICT.—
It is in contemplation to establish schools for the
education of about 400 children in a part of the district
appropriated to St. Philip's Church, lying on the north
side of Mount-pleasant, and extending to Brownlow-hill.
The difficulty of obtaining a suitable site appears to have
been the great barrier to the erection of schools. This
difficulty is now overcome. The promoters of the present
undertaking have the opportunity of purchasing, for the
sum of £9OO, the chapel known as Providence Chapel,
Pleasant-street, situated in the centre of the poorer popu-
lation of the St. Philip's district, and which, at a small
expense, can be converted into excellent and substantial
schools, capable of accommodating about 400 children.
This chapel, which has only been erected eight or nine
years, cost originally nearly double the sum required for
the present purchase of it. There is also a residence for
master or mistress, attached to the building, included in
the above amount. The building is to be altered and
adapted for a school, from plans by Messrs. J. and A.
Holme.

A SHREWD POLICE-OFFlCER.—Strange stratagems are
often resorted to by creditors in pursuit of dishonest
debtors. At a meeting at Leeds, last week, of a Society
for the Protection of Trade, one of the speakers related
an instance in point. A poor fellow arrived in Liverpool
from the West Riding in pursuit of a fugitive, who had
carried away £3OO of his money. He applied to an attor-
ney, to the magistrate, and to the chief of police in vain.
Turning sorrowfully away, a police-officer offered him a
bit of service :—" Go you to the ship's side to-morrow at
ten o'clock—the vessel sails at twelve—and ask your
debtor ashore, civilly. Will he come, do you think ?"
" Oh, yes, he'll come, for he says I can't touch him."
" Well, that's all right. Ask him to come to you on the
quay. As soon as he comes, knock him down. I'll be
close at hand, and take you both into custody for a breach
of the peace. You will get to the police-office just as the
magistrates are gone. The next day is Sunday, and he'll
have to stop till Monday. You'll have time to force him
to give up your money." The man took the policeman's
advice ; knocked the runaway rogue down ; both were
taken to the station-house, and the fellow in the end was
glad to discharge the whole £3OO.

THE LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE CLUB.—The annual din-
ner of this body, under the presidency of G. C. Schwabe,
Esq., took place in the fine saloon of the Club-house,
Castle-street, on Thursday evening last. The vice-chairs
were occupied by W. K. Tyrer, Esq., J. Galt Smith, Esq.,
and John Heyworth, Esq., and there was a numerous
company of members and their friends; the large room
being all but completely filled. The proceedings com-
menced shortly after six o'clock, and did not terminate
until past eleven. The speeches delivered were highly
flattering to the club. The members were congratulated
upon the success of their experiment; every department
of the club was reported to be in an effective state, and
so thoroughly systematised that an abstract of its position
could be obtained at a glance; and the advantages of such
an institution to merchants, and other men of business,
confined to the commercial part of the town for the
greater part of the day, were highly appreciated and ex-
tolled. The dinner, which was served up in an exceed-
ingly sumptuous and elegant stye, did infinite credit to
the resources of the club, and to the taste and management
of Mr. and Mrs. Mead, the house-steward and matron,
who had produced it without the help of any beyond the
ordinary staff of the establishment. Many toasts and
sentiments were given and responded to throughout the
evening : and an additional charm was given to the enter-
tainment by the performances of a ♦ocal and instrumental
band, under the experienced leadership of Mr. Stubbs.
Altogether, the proceedings went off admirably, and
appeared to give universal satisfaction.
Loss or THE SHIP UNICORN.—On the 9th instant
the Liverpool Tip Unicorn, Captain Gray, hence for St.
John's, New Brunswick, with 280 emigrants on board,
was fallen in with by the Boston packet-ship Daniel Web-
ster, Captain W. H. Howard. The Unicorn was dismasted
and in a sinking condition. The brig Harriet, of Port-
land, from Bordeaux to New York, was lying near, and
several of the passengers from the Unicorn had already
been placed on board of her. They had suffered much
from exposure and want of nourishment, and the decks
were so much encumbered by the dilapidated rigging that
they could not move to and fro without danger. Captain
Howard reports that when his vessel was alongside the
Unicorn the passengers, all of them poor and destitute
Irish people, most of whom had been shipped by their
Irish landlords, were being thrown over the ship's side
into the boats in the most inhuman manner. Some fell
into the water, some on the rail of the boat, and all were
more or less bruised ; several had their limbs broken. All
the passengers who remained were taken on board the
Daniel Webster, and as many were taken from the
brig as chose to change their quarters. Captain Gray
and the crew of the Unicorn were offered a passage to this
port in the Daniel Webster, but they chose to go on to
New York in the brig. Captain Howard took in all 175
of the passengers on board his ship, treated them with
great kindness, and brought them to this port. They are
now at the Sailors' Home, in a state of complete destitu-
tion, but with all their immediate wants carefully attended
to. On Wednesday, Mr. G. P. Oxley, one of the owners
of the Unicorn, presented Mr. Warburton, of the Ex-
change News-room, with .£lO, as the commencement of a
subscription on their behalf. Donations of clothes will
be particularly acceptable, as the poor creatures are in
want of everything. We trust this appeal to the benevo-
lent will not be made in vain.

PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN HOWARD.—A
proposition has been made to present Captain Howard, of
the ship Daniel Webster, who so nobly rescued the pas-
sengers of the ship Unicorn, with a testimonial of his
humane conduct; and Mr. Warburton, of the Exchange
News-room, has undertaken to receive subscriptions.
Mr. Warburton has received £1 on behalf of Captain
Howard, from an anonymous correspondent.
HOMEWARD PASSAGE OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW.—
The screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, which left Phila-
delphia at noon on the 6th instant, reached the Mersey
early on Sunday morning, having made the passage in 16
days 14 hours and about 15 minutes mean time. If,
however, we consider that the first ten or eleven hours
were occupied in steaming down the river, that she arrived
off the bar here at half-past three, and was detained there
four hours, we may fairly set down her passage at 16 days.
We find by her log that the moment she got clear of the
Delaware, she was met by north-east winds and a heavy
sea. On the Bth. 9th, 10th, and 11th, she had moderate
weather, with variable wind, chiefly from the eestward.
She ran on each of the above days respectively, 200, 206,
207, and 229 miles. On the 12th, with squally weather,
and variable winds, from the west north-west, northwest
and north, she ran 224 miles. On this day she exchanged
signals with the British brig Kirkwood, hound eastward.
On the 13th she had light breezes, variable from SW.,
SSW., and SSE., with a heavy westerly swell. She ex-
changed colours with the British ship John Bull, sailing
eastward. She also spoke the British schooner Conquest,
from Gaspe, bound eastward. At midnight she still had
light breezes, but the weather looked threatening, and
there was a heavy so ith-east swell. She ran 222 miles.
On the morning of the 14th the swell was still heavy,
and the wind variable from south-east to north. In the
afternoon the wind shifted suddenly to south-east, with
rain and a very high sea. In the evening the wind had
freshened to a heavy gale, which continued to increase,
with a very heavy sea. This day she ran 184 miles. On
the lfsth she had heavy gales from the south-east, and ran
104 miles. On the 16th the wind was still chiefly from the
south-east ; but in the afternoon it moderated, and in
the evening got round to the south south-west ; distance
run 171 miles. The 17th was squally and unsettled, and
in the afternoon a southerly swell. She ran 215 miles.
On the 18th, with moderate but variable winds, and an
interval of calm, she ran 205 miles. At half-past five on
the afternoon of this day she spoke one of the Cunard
steamers, bound westward. During the 19th the wind
was light, but from the eastward : distance run, 178 miles.
On the 20th, with light breezes from the north and east,
she ran 227 miles. On the 21st she sighted Cape Clear,
and ran, in the 24 hours, 211 miles. On the 22nd, with
northerly breezes and swell, and hazy weather, she made
Point Lynes, by 10 o'clock, p.m., and took in a pilot. In
the morning she had exchanged signals with the British
barque Andover. On Sunday, the 23rd, at half-past
three o'clock, a.m., she stopped her engines to wait for
the tide. At half-past seven she proceeded, and passed
the Rock Lighthouse at a quarter-past eight.
DISTRICT COURT OF BAN KRUPTCY.—Re John Lilly.—
The bankrupt came up for judgment on Thursday, before
Mr. Commissioner Stevenson, when his honour put a
question relative to the ship Eliza, on which the bankrupt
had borrowed £5OO from Messrs. Shand, Higson, and Co.,
who held security to the amount of the value of the ves-
sel, which was said to be more than £1,300. Mr. For-
shaw, the bankrupt's solicitor, said Mr. Lilly required the
money for immediate relief, and at the time was in hourly
expectation of arrivals which would have enabled him to
repay it. The commissioner expressed his intention of
deferring his judgment; but in the meantime requested
that Messrs. Shand and Higson might be examined rela-
tive to the security they held in the ship Eliza. In the
course of the day, a member of this firm came before his
honour, from whom it appeared the security was given
in the usual way—on the balance of account; and that the
advances made by Messrs. Shand and Higson on the
ship, in one way and another, amounted to £l,OOO ; her
real value they bad no means of ascertaining, as she was
at sea; the sum named as her value was her original cost.
Having heard these statements, his honour adjourned the
case.—Re Sidney Sherlock.—The bankrupt, who is a
wine merchant, well known in Liverpool, and whose case
has excited some interest, came up, on Thursday, for final
examination before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson. Mr.
Rymer, solicitor and agent to Mr. Dymock, the solicitor
tor the London creditors, complained that, although a
considerable time had elapsed since the previous meeting,
no balance sheet had been filed. The commissioner, on
inquiry, ascertained that this omission had arisen from
the indisposition of Mr. Blease, the accountant. It was
finally agreed that the meeting should be postponed for
five weeks, the balance sheet to be filed a fortnight prior
to that period. There will he a private meeting of credi-
tors on the sth instant.—Barton, Irlayn, and Hig-
ginson's Affairs.—At the Bankruptcy Court on Friday,
Mr. Simon, barrister, applied on behalf of Sit Osboerne
Gibbs, Bart., of Bristol, to compel the assignees to refund
to Mr. Jonathan Higginson a sum of £4,500, which had
been appropriated by them in payment of principal and
interest on the mortgage of certain warehouses, the pro-
perty of Mr. Higginson, who was personally largely in-
debted to Mr. Simon's client. The learned counsel also
applied for an order for the payment of £6,000 due for
rent on the separate estate of Mr. Irlam and Mr. Higgin-
son, from the assignees, who had occupied the warehouse
since the bankruptcy, without having paid any rent. It
was ordered that the £4,500 be repaid to the separate
estate of Mr. John Higginson. The commissioner de-
cided that the question of the rent must be left to petition
and cross petition.