The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

FINES ON ALDERMEN

Mr. HonnsoN said he had given notice of a motion,
to the effect that the fine paid by Mr. 'William Earle, on
that gentleman having resigned the office of alderman,
be refunded to him ; and that he regretted the notice did
not appear in the summonses. He submitted it upon the
ground that he considered it improper that aldermen
should be subjected to so heavy a fine, when they were
obliged to resign from circumstances, as in the present
case, over whi(•h they had no control ; and he promised
that he would bring the subject before the council on an
early day.

The Town-clerk said that Mr. Earle bad paid the fine,
and that the bye-laws had fixed the sum conclusively ,at
£5O.

Mr. HORNEY said the course Mr. Hodgson had pur-
sued was highly creditable to him, and showed that that
gentleman was not influenced by personal considerations
—considerations by which he never supposed Mr. Uodg-
son to be influenced. (1-lear, hear.)
The subject here dropped.
THE DISPENSARIES.

The MAYOR acknowledged the receipt of a memorial
from Messrs. Morrall and Fosberry, vice-presidents of
the Liverpool dispensaries, praying for an increase of the
Council subscription.
It was referred to the Finance Committee.

MEMORTAtS

A memorial from Isabella Watt, of Cases-street, pray-
ing for pecuniary assistance, was ordered to lie on the
table ; another from the inhabitants of `Glover-street,
complaining of a disorderly house, was referred to the
Watch Committee; and a third, from the inhabitants of
Whitechapel and Leigh-street, in reference to Holden's
exhibition, was laid on the table.

The council adjourned at five minutes to four o'clock

No fewer than 45 vessels left the Mersey on Friday for
foreign ports.

THE " As FIBURTON."—This fine packet ship sailed for
New York on Friday. She took out 20 Cabin passengers.
Her freight was considered good. The cargo consisted of
general manufactured goods.
The steamer Great Western, Lieutenant Hosken, which
would leave New York on the 19th instant, may be ex-
pected to arrive here on or about Wednesday. This is her
last trip this season.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURTS.-Mr. Reynolds, one
of the commissioners for the relief of insolvent debtors,
will hold courts in this county next year, as follovis:—At
Lancaster, on the 7th March neat; at Preston,'on the
21st March; and Liverpool, 22d March.
The magistrates of Liverpool have granted, under the
new theatre regulation act, a licente to Mr. Copeland for
the Royal Amphitheatre for twelve months, and one to
Mr.'Holloway for the Queen's Theatre for four months,
commencing on Monday next.
BIRKENHEAD AND HOYLAKE ROAD.—Sir E. Cost,
Bart., at the meeting of Cheshire magistrates at Knuts-
ford sessions, last week, again brought forward his motion
for a grant of £l6O to rebuild the bridge upon the road
leading from Birkenhead to Hoylake, but, after a great
deal of discussion, the motion was lost by 21 to 12.

CLOTHING FOR THE POOR.—We understand that up-
wards of X7O was realized at the-sale of clothing for the
poor, in the Caledonian Schoolroom, on Tuesday last, a
most gratifying instance of the spirit by which the desire
to klo good is prosecuted and sustained by the Ladies'
Clothing Society in connexion with the Scotch churches
of Liverpool.

RAPHAEL TAPESTRY.—We feel certain that the pub-
lic are not sufficiently aware of the extraordinary works
of art now exhibiting in our town, otherwise we should
have found, on our visits to the gallery, crowds, instead
of stragglers and connoisseurs inquiring the greatest treat
which cati be offered to an intellectual people. The name
of Raphael to those professing a love for art, should rouse
the strongest feelings of delight. But the fact of having
at our doors original works, the genius and skill of the
great master himself—works which actually adorned the
Vatican palace by the side of Angelo in the 16th century—
works that defy any quibble in regard to originality ; and
not binding crowds flocking to see them, must proceed
from the public not being aware of the facts. We urge
them to visit these works and satisfy themselves.
SALE OF AMERICAN CHEESE AT LIVERPOOL.—About
2;500 boxes of American cheese were offered at public
sale here this week, of which fully 1,600 sold chiefly from
40s. to 525. 6d. per cwt., with a few inferior and out of
condition at rather less prices. Such of the parcels as
were in good condition and possessed quality were spi.
ritedly competed for. The-Cambridge, which arrived on
Friday, brought upwards of 3,900 packages, and a further
supply is reported to have arrived in the George Washing-
ton, from New York.

ROBBERY OF A CHILD.---On Friday afternoon last a
little boy, aged five years, who resides in Great Nelson-
street North, was returning along Scotland-road from
school when, opposite St. Martin's Market, be was ac-
costed by a girl, about fifteen years old, who decoyed him
down Lawrence-street and into Nash Grove, pretending
that she would buy him some apples. She took him to a
piece of vacant ground, and there deprived him of his
cloak,, which was of blue cloth. The moment she had se-
cured it she ran off, leaving the poor little fellow crying
bitterly for the loss of his garment, while she was utterly
regardless how or when he might find his way out of that,
to him, unknown locality.

LONDON PICKPOCKETS.—Mrs, Highton, the wife of
the governor of the Borough gaol, appeared before Mr.
Rushton, and charged a respectably dressed fellow, named
Daniel Newton, with having followed her, in company
with two others, through Ranelagh-street and up ('op-
peras-hill, and with having made a tug at her shawl while
endeavouring to pick her pocket. The prisoner stoutly
denied the truth of the charge, and pretended that he
had merely jostled against her accidentally. Mr. Dow.
ling said there was no doubt he was one of the London
gang, whereupon Mr. Rushton ordered him to be impri-
sioned for three months, and expressed a hope that the
sentence would be a warning to those who had come to
Liverpool with him,
APPROPRIATING WRECKED GOMM—Yesterday, at
the Police-court, five men, John Canavan, Jeremiah Mor-
gan, James Kehoe, and Spencer Lugh, and a boy named
William Harper, were charged with carrying off respec-
tively quantities of oatmeal from the North-shore, near
Mr. Birch's, which had been washed up in sacks from
the wreck of the brig William, Captain George Newton,
which went to pieces on the Great Burbo Bank, during
the gale on Saturday. The men had carried off many
stones of it in sacks of their own, and some of it in a da-
maged state was found in their houses, and some in the
fields ready for removal. The boy had only taken about
51b. weight. The prisoners generally said they had waded
in to save the meal which would otherwise have been lost,
and that they did not think they were doing wrong. Mr.
Maxwell, the sitting magistrate, said they must have
known that it was some person's property, and they had
no business with it. Had the informations been laid
under one particular act, they might have been fined £2O
each ; but they were laid under the local act, which was
more lenient. The act required that they should give
proper information of any property they might save, but
here no information was given at all, except by one man,
who told a police-officer that he was taking it for his
fowls, and another fora neighbour's pigs! The men were
fined ss. each, or to be imprisoned seven days; the boy
3 19s. 6d., or five days. [A great quantity of the meal had

been thrown up by t
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DESTRUCTIVE STORM, AND LAMENTABLE

LOSS OF LIFE.

On Friday and Saturday last this part of the coast and
country were visited by a gale of wind, (accompanied by
successive heavy downfalls of rain) which though not so
severe as some of the storms we have had to record of late
years, has yet been destructive of many valuable vessels—
the crews of which have in some instances totally, and in
others partially perished on the English and Welsh
shores and the outward banks ; and we fear we shall yet
have to learn of similar disasters on the outer coast of Ire•
land, against which the tempest, sweeping as it did from
the westward, would more especially direct itself. The
wind on Friday prevailed from the southward and east-
ward, and increased throughout the night, veering more
and more to the west, at about which point it settled at
at four o'clock on Saturday morning, and continued to
blow more and more fiercely throughout the day, with
heavy continuous showers, which together with the haze
and spindrift outside prevented all communication with
the more distant telegraph stations along the Welsh coast
to Holyhead.
The tide—as indicated in the almanac—was at the full,
at 35 minutes past two o'clock ; and in calm weather
would have risen to a height of 15 feet 10 inches : but,
driven in by the pressure of the gale, it flowed some mi-
nutes beyond the hour stated ; attained a greater height,
and, as might be expected, was more than usually tardy
in its reflux after it had gained its maximum. The river
presented an animated, and—though wiihout an immedi-
ate accident that we have heard of—we may add a some-
what painfully interesting appearance, from the presenti-
ment naturally entertained of the accidents that might
have occurred outside—more particularly as a consider-
able mercantile fleet, of perhaps forty sail, had left the
port on the previous day, and would be caught in the
storm before they could clear the channel. The sea at
high water washed over portions of the quays •, and the
steamers from the opposite ferries, had some difficulty in
landing their passengers, many of whom, both male and
female, from farms in the neighbourhood—it being mar-
ket day—did not venture to return until Sunday morning
when the storm had abated. Several large vessels that
had put back came up in picturesque style under close
reefed topsails; minor craft also appeared almost under
bare poles; many of various classes rode it out at anchor,
and all being in motion in the wide turbulent waters,
formed a picture for the pencil of the marine artist which
few ports can afford. Great numbers of the curious con-
gregated on the quays, or sheltered from the rain in the
round-houses and other buildings, or behind the walls, to
witness the elemental commotion. The river, however,
was not so rough as it would have been had the wind been
northerly, and consequently contrary to the down-going
tide. It blew right across it, and though the waves
rose pretty high on this side, and distributed a con-
siderable portion of spray along the tops of the sea-walls,
it was comparatively smooth on the opposite side, which
was, of course, a weather shore.
A good deal of anxiety was felt by the appearance of
two small gig boats, under easy sail, approaching from the
direction of Wallasey Pool, with several men in each. A
man was also seen behind them, borne up on something
at first invisible. It turned out that they were towing
across for salvage a large raft of balks that had broken
loose from the Magazines, and been at first carried up by
the tide. The boats were frequently lost to view in the
trough of the sea as they neared this side of the river, but
the men stood sturdily to their prize, and eventually,
though at apparent eminent hazard, reached with it, in
safety, the Prince's Dock Basin.
In the course of the day intelligence was received of
several vessels being lost, and others stranded; and the
life-boats and steam tugs were put into requisition, as well
as small boats manned by speculators. and proceeded out-
side the Rock to render assistance. Their exertions were
most praiseworthy, and, it will be found, in several eases
succe-sful. Several vessels that had been at anchor out-
side, or beating down channel, came back into the river
for shelter. Amongst them was the ship St. Petersburg,
which had sailed for New York some days before, and
could not get clear of the land owing to the westerly
winds that had generally prevailed ; she had also, it is
said, sprung a leak, and before she arrived a fire burst ont
in her forecastle, which caused great alarm, but was for-
tunately extinguished by the great exertions of those on
board before it had done much injury. The Caledonia
timber ship, from North America. the property of the
Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming. and the Britannia, from
Bahia, belonging to Messrs. T. and J. Sands and Co.,
both of which vessels had been at anchor off the Crosby
Light-ship, parted their cables, and ran into the
river. The Caledonia afterwards parted from her an-
chor off the Potteries, and took the ground, but was got
afloat again. The Brttannia, which sailed on Thursday,
after being aground near Formby, was also obliged to re-
tuin. The brig Nile sunk at eleven o'clock on Saturday
forenoon, about ten miles from the Great Ormshead, and
all the crew perished. It was stated, too, tha; the Lady
Bentinck, a Whitehaven vessel, was stranded at Formby ;
that the crew were lost ; and that the vessel had become
a total wreck. Several other vessels went on shore near
the same part of the coast—of which some details are
given below from our own reporter, whom we yesterday
despatched to Formby to gather information.
We have seen the crew of the Magazine Life-boat, and
from the captain (Evans) and his brother have obtained
the following particulars:—
On Saturday morning, about half-past six o'clock, the
boat started, under sail, from the Magazines, and soon
afterwards saw a brig on Burbo Bank, or what is better
known to boatmen as " The High Bank." When they
got within 400 yards of her, they saw two Liverpool
"speculation boats" taking off the crew, who were five
in number. The Magazine boatmen boarded het• with
the intention of getting her off. She proved to be the
William of Workington. but last from Limerick, and had
on board 150 bags of meal, and a quantity of wheat. The
boatmen ran out about 80 fathoms of chain from her with
an anchor, with a view to swinging her head tc, and
heaving her off; and ran out a warp to their boat,
that they might board her in the event of her swinging
off, provided they could not pull up to her. They re-
mained there about three quarters of an hour, before the
Liverpool life-boat, which was towed out by the " Presi-

dent," steam-tug, came up. The President stopped with
the Magazine boat till the brig, which was on a steep part
of the bank, capsized and sunk. The chain unfortunately
snapped, otherwise she would probably have swung off,
and might have been got into port. There was a fine dog
left on boird, of the bull and terrier breed, which the
boat's crew were anxious to save, but the poor creature
could not be induced to leave the vessel, and on one of
the men attempting to take hold of him he bit him, as if
in protection of the ship from any interference on the
part of a stranger. They then thought of removing
him in his kennel, but it was too unwieldy to be handled
in such a storm, and they reluctantly left the noble animal
to his fate.

From what they learned and observed, the brig drove
from her anchor out of Formby Channel on Friday night,
and was thrown about 700 yards on the bank, " the
Great Burbo," close to the spot where the schooner " Ver-
non," and the " Baba,?' were w'ecked in former gales,
when the same boat saved the lives of several of both
crews. The William let go another anchor, when she
drove from the first, but dragged from it. Soon after she
grounded, it being on the ebbing tide, she was left dry at
low water, and the crew were taken off before it returned.
The vessel broke up. A portion of the wreck got foul of
" Askew's Beacon Buoy." and held there until Sunday,
when it was brought up to New Brighton, by the Thomas
Stanley steamer, and the Kitty fishing-boat.
On Sunday the same life-boat again started. The cap-
tain had been out in one of their smaller boats " looking
out for squalls," and observed the signal flag at one of the
light-ships. He reached the life-boat about seven o'clock,
and proceeded down to the sloop "Adam," of Glasgow,
which was dismasted, and riding close to " Taylor's
Patch," but finding two steam-tugs there, they did not
remain. The north, or Formby, light-ship still kept her
flags up as signals of distress ; and as they could not pull
out themselyes, they proceeded to the Albert steamer,
which towed them out according to their own directions,
until they fell in with the ship " Albion," from St. John's,
N. 8., about four miles N. by W. of the Bell Buoy. There
was a pilot on board of her, a young man belongiag to
boat No. 5. The ship had lost all her sails, and had cut
away two masts, by the pilot's orders—as " she would
not look at it"—so that the foremost alone was standing.
They boarded her, and gave all the assistance they could
under the pilot's direction, whose conduct, as well as that
of the captain and mate, they represent as being most
manly and judicious. The crew and all on board had suf-
fered dreadfully from cold and exposure to wet, the sea
having cleared e7el ything fore and aft, even washing out
the men's chests, and smashing up the place where they
had their berths. The life-boat men got the cables out to
the two steamers that came up, and the vessel was towed
up the river and docked, in the afternoon, in the Toxteth
Dock

About the same time, a brig, apparently a foreigner,
came up the river, with the whole of her bulwarks and
stuneheons washed away.

In addition to the particulars we have given, it will be
found by reference to our usual shipping news, that many
other serious casualties have occurred. The Duke of
Wellington, from Honduras, fell in with the brig Nile,
(before noticed as lost,) remainded by her some time, and
those on board saw her founder, with all hands, without
being able to render her any assistance.

We were favoured last night with a letter dated, Pwll-
- Sunday morning, in whicn the writer says :—" 1
have just returned from Portynllaen where the result of
the late tremendous gale, which lasted 24 hours, has been
most disastrous. There are nine vessels ashore on the
beach, viz., the Gleaner, schooner, which left Liverpool
on Fridry, bound to the West of Ireland with salt. The
brig Hooton, from Fleetwood for Portmadoc, with coals,
(a complete wreck) ;-The Mary Anne, of Aberystwith
the Anne, schooner, of Barmonth ; the Swan, Jones, of
Barmonth ; the smack Providence, of Jersey ; the Two
Brothers, of Barmonth ; the Catharine, of Aberdaron ;
the Rosamond and Jane, of Falmouth. Up to the mo-
ment of my leaving no lines have ben lost."

MELANCHOLY DISASTERS DISASTERS ON THE FORMBY

SHORE

LOSS OE THE BRIG

" MARY" OF LIVERPOOL

The brig Mary, Captain James Turner, sailed from the
Bay of Honduras—with a valuable cargo of mahogany,
logwood, and cocoa nuts for stowage, and called at Cork
for orders, proceeded towards this port. Until she reached
Holyhead, she held a favourable gale, and on Thursday
morning took a pilot. On the afternoon of that day, it
came on to blow, and she was laid too until two o'clock
on Friday afternoon—when the gale moderated they run

a short distance—and let go both anchors; unfortunately,
however, the best gove way—and as the larbourd anchor
was only an inferior one, and could not in any probability
hold—it was shipped, and the crew reefed the fore-topsail
with the intention of again laying her too; but, so violent
was the gale at this time all attempts to set it after it was

reefed proved abortive. With the fore-topsail shaking,
she, was held as•_close, to it as she could.go„.but, making,
great lee way, she touched the shore about ten o'clock on
Saturday night. As the tide rose, she again floated, but
only to drive fnrthtr up, as she was now pei tectly un-
manageable—the sea making a clear breach over her—
until daylight the crew suffered greatly. The agent at
Lloyd's, Messrs. Tyrer and Eccles, who with a person of
the name of Meadows were on the alert at daylight, suc-
ceeded by the assistance of a pony in conveying the crew
on shore. One, however, was missing, and on the agents
returning, he was found lying dead on the deck. His face
was dreadfully mangled, and from all appearance he had
been washed by a heavy sea beneath some loose spars on
deck, which on the water leaving them had crushed him
to death. An inquest will be held on the body this day.
The unfortunate individual was cook and steward, and we
learn belonged to Sheffield. The crew, inclusive of the
captain, consisted of twelve persons, all of worn are con-
siderably injured, and have lost all their clothes. Atter
the crew were got on shore, the principal, portion of them
were taken to the receiving house, where they were most
kindly treated.

A number of sails and other articles have been got on
shore, as also have a quantity of the cocoa nuts. The
vessel herself has every appearance of becoming a total
wreck, her hull having parted near the bends. She is the
property, we believe, of Mr. Morrison of this town.

TOTAL LOSS OF THE LADY BENTINCK AND ALL HANDS

Early on Sunday mor.iiog a large portion of grain and
other cargo were washed on shore between Southport and
Formby, but principally near the latter place. From the
marks it bears it is evident that it is part of the cargo of
the Lady Bentinck, which sailed on Thursday last from
Waterford for Liverpool. The crew must all have
perished, but none of the bodies have yet been recovered,
nor has a vestige of the wreck been seen. The cargo was
insured, but we could not learn whether the vessel was or
not.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF ANOTHER VESSEL

• ---.
We learned that a large qumaity of butter had been
washed on shore near Southport, and as the Lady Ben-
tinck had little or no butter on board, it is to be feared
that some other vessel has shared the same unfortunate
fate.

LOSS OF THE VERNON OF CASTLE-TOWN, ISLE OF

The sloop Vernon, with a cargo of potatoes, the pro-
perty of Mr. Cain of this town, was driven on shore about
two miles to the northward of Formby Point. She was
much damaged, and will no doubt go to pieces. She was
from the Isle of Man. Such was the force of the gale
that she was driven up on the beach into three feet of
water, so that the crew waded on shore.

The Formby life boat was out during the gale, but was
unable to render any great assistance to the distressed
vessels that were seen, owing to the frightful state of the
surf.

CORONER'S INQUEST-MYSTERIOUS CASE

On Friday last, and, by adjournment, on Saturday, an
inquisition was held before M r, Statham, deputy coroner,
on view of the body of Ellen Wareing, a respectable young
woman, who was found early on the morning of Friday
week in a stone.quarry in Toxteth-park, apparently a good
deal injured, and after a lapse of some hours conveyed to
the Southern Hospital, where, it since appears, she died
ou the following Monday.
_ .

Mrs. Emma Billinge ;aid her husband kept a I),er-house
in Mill-street, and deceased, who was 26 years of age,
lived with her and her family as servant. On the night
of Tursday the 19th instant, the deceased went out with a
pint of ale in a bottle, for her brother, a youth who was
working at the Mersey Iron Works, near the Potteries.
Her nearest way (and by which she was frequently ac-
customed to go) was by a toot-road across some fields, and
which is at ne part about forty yards from a quarry& in
one of the fields. Witness expected her soon home, and,
as she did not come, sat up for her until one o'clock,
when, as she did not make her appearance, she conjectured
she had gone to the house of her father, who was poorly
at the time—particularly as she sometimes went there and
stopped all night. On the following morning, about nine
o'clock, they heard that she had been found in the dell in
question; and, on going towards it, they found her seated
on some balks, a short distance from it. and apparently in
great pain. On askinc, her what was the matter, she said
she had been abused" by two men, carpenters, one of
whom she knew by sight but not by name. She also
stated to Miss Billinge, witness's daughter. (who went to
her,) that one of the men was in the habit of frequenting
their house ; but she showed an aversion to be then ques-
tioned, saying she would tell her more in the afternoon.
A coach was procured, and she was immediately taken to
the Southern Hospital. It was there at once found that
her left collar bone was fractured, that she had also two
or three ribs broken, and that her left ear was slit. She
was carefully attended to, but died on the following Monday
afternoon. Witness said that deceased was a sober, well-
behaved girl.
John Whalley, a quarryman, employed at the delf, said
-that on going to his work there on the Friday morning,
soon after six o'clock, he discovered deceased sitting on
the rock below. There was blood on her face and ear,
and her dress was disordered. He then asked her if she
had fallen, or if somebody had pushed her down. She
said, two men had abused her on the top, but did not say
they had pushed her down, or that she had fallen herself.
Witness did not think she knew well what she said at the
time. He thought she was a woman from the town, as
he had seen such thereabout before, and that she was in
drink. He pressed her to go out of the delf, as he and
another man were going to let off a shot, but she did not
comply or speak. He raised her and helped her, and she
could walk with his support. He set her down on a plank,
where she sat for fifteen or twenty minutes, and he went
to work. He next helped her on a few yards further, and
she then walked some yards herself, and then kneeled and
remained on her knees seven or eight minutes, and ap-
peared to be " fettling" her hair. She then got up, and
went on of herself. He took her to be a woman out of
the town, and in liquor, otherwise he would have called a
policeman, and rendered her more assistance. There was
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sitting, but he did not observe it until afterwards. Her
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Another man, who was working in the quarry with the
witness, gave nearly similar evidence.
_ _

Mr. Metcalfe, surgeon of the Southern Hospital, said,
that when deceased was brought in she was insensible.
There was a bruise on the left hip, and the legs were dis-
coloured from the knees downwards. On a post mortem
examination he found a fracture of the skull, (correspond-
ing with the injury to the ear,) which extended right across
the base of toe, skull to the opposite side; and on lifting
the fore and back parts of the bone., a fissure was distinctly
seen. Two ribs were also fractured. These injuries were
the cause of death, and might have been occasioned by
Ler falling down, first on her feet, and then falling side-
ways.

Mr. Rigg, of the Sea View Inn, in the neighbourhood
of the dolt, was several times out that night, but heard no
struggle or cry for assistance.

A-s-urveyor, employed by the coroner, described the delf
as being forty yards from one footway, and seventy from
another. The part of the quarry where deceased was found
sitting was about two yards from the perpendicular steep
side, which last was fourteen feet in depth. It appeared
there was no projecting rail at that place.
The jury found a verdict to the effect, that there was
no evidence to show how the deceased got into the quarry.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE.—During the past week that
old favourite of the Liverpool public, Mr. Baker, has
appeared in several of his best parts, and, with the other
attractions which Mr. Raymond has provided for the
gratification of our playgoers, the house has been well and
fashionably attended, notwithstanding the late inclement
weather bas operated somewhat against full houses. This
week we have additional force in the engagement of Mr.
Phelps, and our townsman, Mr. Hime. The company
improves upon acquaintance. Mrs. Raymond, in "The
Young Devil," a lively little piece—with an ugly name,
by the bye,—translated from the French by herself, has
drawn down nightly applause during the past week ; and
the graceful acting of Miss Treble has been much ad-
mired. Mrs. Gordon, we may mention as a great ac-
quisition to the company. We observe that Mr. Baker
takes his benefit on Wednesday, which we need not say
will be a bumper house.

ELECTION OF GOVERNOR OF KIREDALE GAOL.—A
meeting of the magistrates of the county was held on Fri-
day, at the Court-house, Preston, for the purpose of
electing a Governor for Kirkdale Gaol, in the room of
Mr. Amos, who had resigned. There were seventy ma-
gistrates present, the Rev. Jonathan Brooks in the chair.
Thei e were twenty-six candidates. On the votes being
taken, forty-two magistrates voted for Mr. E. G. H. H.
Gibbs, Governor of the House of Correction at Preston ;
nineteen for Mr. William Martin, superintendent of po-
lice; five for Mr. John Godwin, of the 46th Regiment;
and one for Mr. C. Stewart, also a superintendent of po-
lice. The chairman and two others did not vote. Mr.
Gibbs was consequently appointed, and a vacancy has,
therefore, been occasioned in the Governorship of Preston
House of Correction, which will be filled up on Monday.
the sixth of November. The salary is fixed at £250, with
the house and other privileges. A retiring pension of
£2OO per annum was granted to Mr. Amos, and £5O to
Mrs. Herd, the late Matron of Kirkdale House of Cor-
rection. The grant of £8,500 for extending the County
Asylum was voted.

THE SHIP ST. PETERSBURGH.—The passengers on
board this ship, bound hence for New York, have pub-
lished a statement, dated 25th Oct., in which they say,
that " in consequence of the violent gales, head winds,
and heavy seas which we continually experienced since
our departure from the port of Liverpool, the ship sprang
a leak, and kept the pumps continually going, without
gaining on the water; and after five days and nights beingtossed about in the channel, during which time we did
not make more progress than one day's sail, at length, on
the fifth night, a most terrific gale arose, together with a
very heavy sea, which repeatedly washed the deck, where
it was dangerous to remain. The seamen on board, and
others long inured to the sea, said that they never beheld
a vessel in a more perilous situation, (the weather being
very thick,) than was the St. Petersburgh on the whole
of the day of the 24th inst. Th.. sea raged mountains
high ; the winds whistled with tremendous violence, (lash-
ing the foaming billows, momentarily, over the bulwarks
of the vessel, rendering it dangerous for any other than a
seaman
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~..,... iutsL., narrowly escaped total
shipwreck, she having dragged her anchors in Bootle
Bay, when no steam tug would venture to give her any
assistance.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN

RAILWAY

We have pleasure is directing the attention of onr
readers to the Parliamentary Notice, in our columns this
day, by which it will be seen that, notwithstanding the
virulent and ignorant opposition of our Contemporary,
the Railway Times, the Directors of the Edinburgh,
Leith, and Newhaven line are enabled, by the confidence
of the public, to proceed to the actual carrying into exe-
cution of the proposed Branch undertakings, upon the
advantages of which we have previously remarked, and of
which our opinion is in unison with that of every Jour-
nalist who has noticed them with the single exception of
the Railway Times!

With a sincere wish to enlighten our splenetic contem-
porary with respect to hit isolated position upon this sub-
ject and the inference:; which some people may draw from
it. we beg to place before him and the public, the follow-
ing judicious remarks from the Caledonian Mercury of
the 28th inst., the just ice of which, so tar as Liverpool is
concerned, we can fully verity. Itt-ferring to the antici-
patOns contained in the prospectus of the Directors, the
writer says :—" Our opinion of the widertaking is even
in advance of theirs ; not from a consideration of what
actually exists at present , hut of what may and assuredly
will, happen, as soon as the Forth is connected with
the Clyde by a continuous line of railway, passing in the
immediate neighbourhood of the mineral districts of the
west. We happen to have before us at this moment a
plan of the city and docks of Liverpool in the year 1728,
and a plan of the same city and docks in 1842. At the
former period the whole of Liverpool occui,ied an area of
not more than a mile and a half in circumference; at the
latter, it extended over a space of more than nine miles,
while the magnificent docks alone, second perhaps to none
in the world, are nearly four miles in length. It is per-
haps not generally known that this unexampled increase
in the size and importance of Liverpool proceeded mainly,
if not entirely, in the first instance, from t:tat port's
being able to furnish to traders discharging there, back
cargoes of salt and coal. Leith has nothing of this kind
at present to offer. Vessels discharging there must seek
their return cargoes at Grangemouth or St. David's.
which they receive in the shape of coals or pig iron,
actually leaving the port of Leith for this purpose in bal-
last. It thus requires but little foresight to predict that
when by means of a railway communication, with the
minerals of Airdrie, &c., coal and iron can be shipped at
Leith as cheap or cheaper than they presently are at Grange-
mouth, the trade of Leith will Increase to an extent not
at this moment easy to contemplate."
In some observations addressed to ourselves, our con-
temporary says that we have " declined a defence of the
Ed'nburgh, Leith, and Newhaven scheme and its Board
of Management ; " and further that we have "suggested"
a prosecution for libel, as the proper course for the direct.
ors to pursue in reply to his injurious aspersions. With
respect to the first item of his complaint, we can only say
that we never declined ar•d t‘ ill not decline, when we see
it attacked by anything more worthy of notice than foul-
mouthed abuse, a defence of " the Edinburgh, Leith, and
Newhaven scheme." We only declined to answer the
insolent questions which our stilted contemporary, with
such an ex-cathedra air chose to cut to us; and our re'
son for so declining was our acquaintance wit's the
less source from which his eaves-dropping inf nation was
derived, It was quite within our contem
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y's power

to satisfy himself, if truth and not the gratification ox
unworthy spite had been his object, that i he Board of the
Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway is composed
of men, tar above the suspicion of unworthy practices, or
irregularities. With respect to our suggestion of a prose-
cution for libel and its apparent incompatibility with the
sentiments which we have expressed upon the law of libel
generally, we have only this-explanation to give. When
a journalist offends only as we had offended at the time
when the article quoted by our cont?----- -
the law of libel as it then existed was

porary was written

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and tyrannical ; but our contemporary's sweeping con-
demnation of a body of respectable men as "disreputable"
and dishonest is not 1 case in which we could wish the
rigor of the law to be one tittle relaxed. In the perform-
ance of its duties we Mould gladly see t
for a harmless to.,quin,ide, or a mere p _ _ into an imputation, we should not wish to see it
crushed, at the call-ice of a fool or a pettifogging attor-
ney ; but when a Jour, alit sits down to slander a num-
ber of men, and erects his editorial chair into an inquisi-
tion, a court of Law is the only fitting place in which
respectable. people are justified in replying to his impu-
dent queries and rebutting his designing falsehoods.

st tortured

SINGULAR EXPLOSION
Thursday morning last, an exvlo-ion, of an unusual de-
scription, took place on a lorry, at the corner of Canning.
p lace Salthouse Duck. It had taken up, at the Railway-
station, in Wapping, amongst other goods, a puncheon of
porter harm, consigned to dr. Daniel Bannon, broker,
to be forwarded to Newry. When the lorry reached the
end of the Salthouse Dock, on its way to one of the
northern docks, the pun: eon burst with a report like
that of an immense pi7'ce of ordnance, and the barns flew
over the lorry and the adjacent pavement. Every stave
in the puncheon was separated, and the hoops which had
bound them, though wade unusually strong for the pur-
pose, rent to pieces.

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