The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

COMPTON HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

The before very extensive premises of Messrs. Jeffery
and Morrish, in Church-street and Basnett-street, have
recently been much enlarged ; the enterprising proprietors
having, after some years of necessary delay and negotia-
tion, purchased the land at the corner of the two streets,
which was occupied by an old and respected tradesman,
now retired. The ground in question is not only in the
very centre of the greatest " shopping" thoroughfare of the
town, but formed an hiatus, or awkward separation be-
tween the main entrances to Messrs. J. and M's buildings,
facing, respectively, the two streets named. Their in.-
it-lens° ranges of shops, (all communicating), are already
so well known as a mart for cheap and elegant commo-
dities, in which ladies and house-keepers especially delight,
that we are spared the trouble and the space which we
would otherwise bestow upon them in description. We
cannot, however, do less than state that the whole estab-
lishment has now become one of the lions of the town,
and we may add that. there is none of equal magnitude
and containing such a variety of drapery and other wares
even in the metropolis itself.
The new building, at the corner of the two streets is in
the Roman style of architecture, designed by Mr. thigh,
and highly decorative in itself, as well as in keeping, so
far as that could be accomplished, with the adjoining
buildings of the proprietors. It is four stories in height
from the street, presenting below, in the facade in Basnett-
street, five tall windows with round arches above, and
including two stories in height ; and two stories above a
cornice which divides the building in height,—the first of
these upper stories having square windows, and the
highest or upper one round-topped windows, with inter-
mediate pilasters, decorative architraves, &c. The facade
to Church-street presents two similar tall windows below
(rising to two stories in height), one on each side of a
main and wide entrance, which is surmounted by a round
topped window to correspond, and enriched by a projecting
stone ballustrade or balcony. The corner portion o
the building is rounded, and in the second story there
is a similar ballustrated window. Over the attic windows,
in both frontages, there are pedimental cornices, the
centre one in each being segmental, and those on each
side of it triangular. The building terminates, in height,
with these pediments, or window cornices, and we should
prefer the addition of the blocking usual in the Grecian
and, generally, in the Roman style ; but this resolves
itself into a matter of taste. The windows are of great
size, and are glazed with huge plates of glass set in polished
brass mullions, with polished mahog ny frames. The
building, in fine, is a commanding and ornamental object
in the street, and is, as such, highly creditable to the
enterprising parties concerned. The lower, or ground
story of the new building, gives an interior addition to the
premises of a " Shawl and Cloak Room," about 70 feet
in length, and 38 in width. It is lighted from windows
facing both streets, as well as from two large sheet-glass
sky-lights. The roof is divided into square compartments
between the beams, (which are of iron, though representing
stucco work,) and these are supported in the centre by a
row of six handsome empanelled pillars, with elegant
foliated capitals. The panels of these will be finished in
verd antique, and the mouldings in porphry. This large
apartment is unobstructed by counters, and round the
windows (on the two fronting sides) there is handsome
panelled work in mahogany, formed in embayments. The
whole floor is covered with elegant carpeting, and, front
its extent, forms a fine promenade. The rooms above it
are yet in an unfinished state.
On a casual visit to the premises, on Saturday, we were
politely shown through the entire of the buildings, from
top to bottom, including the domestic department; and
we were surprised by the extent and magnificence of the
business portion, and even more so by the domeciliary.
The building (for it may now be said to be one block) oc-
cupies the greater part of the ground, or oblong square,
from the frontage in Church-street back to Leigh-street,
and covers nearly 1,500 square yards. The decorative
frontage to Church-street is about 31 yards in length, and
that to Basnett-street 40 yards, besides back buildings,
including a tall goods receiving warehouse. We may state
that, on Saturday last, there were employed about 117
assistants and servants on the premises ; that there are
separate well-furnished sitting-rooms and bed-rooms for
the young gentlemen and ladies, nearly all of whom dome-
cile in the house ; that there is a fine library at their service,
and that every inducement is held out to render the whole of
the inmates, moral, happy, and domestic. No fewer than.
126 beds can be made up. The culinary department is appa-
rent perfection ; and gas is employed with great advantage
(in place of smoky coal), in preparing the best of English
fare for the tables, at which the assistants take their meals
at three relays. Ventilation is greatly attended to, and
the whole of the large family employed, appear to enjoy
the best health and spirits. In the cellar apartments
there is a quantity of curious machinery for the rapid
measuring of pieces of cloth or other fabrics ; also ma-
chines for stamping the goods, &c. It would require
nearly a day thoroughly to inspect the whole of the pre-
mises, and our rapid run through them, by numerous
stairs, passagq, and apartments, up to five stories is
height, can enable us only to state that we were both
pleased and astonished. There are other commercial and
trading establishments or buildings in the town which
have, of late, been originated or greatly improved, which
we shall have pleasure in noticing in succession, for with-
out individual preference, we feel proud of all increase in
architectural improvements or domestic comforts in " the
good old town."

THE ECONOMIST AND THE LIVERPOOL CUR-
RENCY REFORM _ASSOCIATION.

The Glasgow Examiner this week contains the follow-
ing remarks upon a controversy on the subject of foreign
exchanges, which is going on between the above associa-
tion and Mr. James Wilson, of the Economist, in which
the latter has exhibited thus far a disposition to hang fire,
and is observed generally to have had the worst of it :
" The Liverpool monetary reformers are taking up the
view we have long held, that gold being both a commodity
and a money, renders it impossible to have our foreign ex-
changes permanently on an easy footing while our imports
of foreign commodities exceeds our exports, as they are
likely to do, under Sir Robert Peel's irreciprocal system
of free trade. Our Liverpool friends reply very cleverly
to the shallow article of the Economist, showing that the
export of every other commodity is a benefit to this coun-
try, or an evidence that our labour is being employed,
while the export of gold is just the contrary in every re-
spect; so that the assertion of the Economist, that under
a system of barter the effect on prices would be the same
as under our present system of currency, is not correct."
After giving some of his own opinions, our contempo-
rary continues :—" Since writing the foregoing we have re-
ceieved the Economist of Saturday last, which publishes
the letter of the Liverpool Currency Association, and
makes a most feeble attempt at a reply to it. Mr. James
Wilson is. in fact, cornered, and his only chance of escape
is the Liverpool men being soft enough to let him change
the subject; but from what we know of their secretary,
there is no chance of this."

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 11.

(Sittings in Banco, before Justices COLTMAN, MAULS,
and WILLIAMS.)
OGDEN V. STANDISH.

This was an action brought for a false return against the
late Sheriff of Lancashire, which was tried at the spring
assizes at Liverpool, in which a verdict was found for the
plaintiff, damages £l5O. The rule nisi, in arrest of judg-
ment, was granted on the ground of misdirection, and be-
cause the verdict was against evidence. It appeared that
a person named Koeller, an exhibitor of poses plastiques.,
against whom a ca_nias ad satisfacienduni had been ob-
tained in London, went down to Liverpool to exhibit, and
the writ was backed to the Sheriff of Lancashire, the
plaintiff accompanying the bailiff to point him out on the
stage of a theatre in the Liverpool Zoological Gardens,
where he was exhibiting. He was pointed out, and the
officer thought it not then prudent to effect the capture,
fearing a rescue, and several subsequent attempts at capture
failed, different persons of his company, who had disguised
themselves, being mistaken for him. The Sheriff there-
upon returned non est inventus. The plea was " .Not
Guilty." The first question raised was, whether under
this plea the defendant could give in evidence circumstances
justifying the Sheriff for not making the arrest in the first
instance. The Court held that he could not. The second
question raised was, that the learned judge, Mr. Baron
Rolfe, who tried the case. in directing the jury that the
Sheriff ought to have taken care to have had a sufficient
power to make the arrest in the first instance,.he having
the posse cornitatus at his back, had laid down the duty of
the Sheriff in too wide terms ; but the Court were of opi-
nion that he had not, It was for a long time doubtful
whether a return of a rescue could be held to be a good
return, and sheriffs were so little favoured that it had been
held that if a debtor were lodged in gaol, and on habeas
corpus were ruscued on his way to chambers, the sheriff
was held liable (" Crompton v. Ward," 1 Str., 430). That
case had a distinct bearing on the present. The principle
laid down in the book was, that a sheriff was bound to
provide such a force as would enabie him to capture the
debtor in spite of any reasonable resistance that he might
expect. In the case referred to it was argued that by a
parity of reasoning the sheriff ought to be provided with
force enough to keep the prisoner when arrested ; but the
answer was, (in indulgence to the sheriff), that he could
not always have the posse comitatus with him, and that,
therefore, the return of a rescue was a good return. But
that indulgence ought not to be extended. The only re-
maining ground was that the verdict was against evidence ;
but the Court agreed with thelearned judge who tried the
case, that the verdict was not unsatisfactory. The rule,
therefore. ought to be discharged.
Rule discharged accordingly.

S TEALING BUTTER.—Yesterday at the police court
two young men, John M`Manus and John Macdonald,
were charged with stealing from a shop,—Mr. Barrett's,
in Cheap-side, a crock of butter worth 10d. per pound.
They declined to say anything in their defence, and both,
as the case was proved against them, were committed for
trial. _ _ .

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day, the hills, fields, and house-tops exhibited a snowy
mantle nearly two inches in thickness in some places.
On Friday, the temperature relaxed; the thermometer at
noon rising to 46 degrees. The barometer soon after in-
dicated nearly "set-fair," to the surprise of many parties,
who, from the then,pppearance of the sky, and the damp
chillness of the air. expected a fall of rain or snow. We
looked at several barometers, doubting the accuracy of
the first we saw, and found them all nearly alike, and, as
it turned out, perfectly true ; for the hazy clouds soon
after dispersed, and the air became gradually mild. We
have since enjoyed pleasant sunny weather, rarely so mild
(Ind dry at this period of the year.

Eibtrpool &tantarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 14, 1848.

THE straw is moving in every directiOn upon the
question of the currency, which a Liverpool con-
temporary has just termed most truly " the most
important question of the day." Another jour-
nalist, the Manchester Guardian, one of the staunchest
of bullionists, seems to feel that our present system
is making its pinching power felt by the commu-
nity,' when he admits in his last paper that " ques-
tions connected with the currency are by no means
likely to lose their importance for some months to
come." The sneer with which the advocates of any
system, which had not gold for its basis, was wont
to be received is everywhere abated. We have
now to direct the attention of our readers to a
further evidence of the growing feeling of the re-
flecting portion of the community that things are
not well with us, and that the continual tampering
of the Bank with the circulating medium of the
country is opposed to our true interests, which ap-
pears in the form of a letterlin the columns of the
London Times ; and we quote a portion of it here,
inasmuch as the writer admits to a considerable ex-
tent the principles upon which the Liverpool Cur-
rency Reform Association base their proposed new
system.
The object of the letter is to censure the policy
of the recent reduction of the minimum rate of in-
terest by the Bank, which, he remarks, has in all
cases been the precursor of a period of g extravaant
speculation and subsequent suffering. The extravagant
he observes, is privileged to create currency to the
extent of 14 millions beyond its reserve of specie;
and thus differs from ordinary bill brokers, who only
deal with the currency actually afloat. But the
Bank ought not to be permitted to employ this
surface at any rate of interest it may choose to fix.
" A privilege so vast for evil or for good was never
meant, and ought never to be administered, for the ex-
clusive benefit of the holders of Bank stock. If the
profits of the establishment can only be maintained by
rates of discount subject to finctvations so great and
capricious as to defy ordinary foresight and derange the
calculations of the shrewdest, it becomes a grave question
whether the issue of notes cannot-be managed on some
principle that will have more regard to the interests of the
community at large.
"When the country places fourteen millions of notes at
the disposal of the Bank of England, which virtually it
does, the country has a clear right at least to name the
lowest price at which those notes shall be issued. It has
a right _to prohibit the issue of those notes at rates of dis-
count that may create a la!se confidence or stimulate the
dormant energies of speculation—even if the prohibition
should have the effect of rendering the Bank at times a
heavy holder of its own notes ; for we are under no pledge
to the Bank that employment shall be found at all times
and under all circumstances for every note it has a right
to issue. _ _ _

"Now, the average rate of discount in London on first-
class commercial bills during the twenty years ended
December 1, 1844, was 31 per cent. within a minute
fraction. This is a fair basis and a fair rate. Let us
adopt it, and say to the Bank of England—' You shall
continue to enjoy the privilege of issuing notes as at
present, but on this understanding—that your rate of
interest in future on discounts or advances shall never be
less than 3} per cent. to the public, nor less than 3 per
cent. to the banks.' "

The approach here to the principles of the Asso-
ciation is obvious, but the means provided are
clumsy. The fact, however, is recognised that a
fixed rate of interest is indispensible. Another
paragraph, however, comes nearer still to our views :
• "The operation of such a law—a fted minimum rate
of interest at the Bank of England—would do more, I
humbly conceive, to give a sound and equable action to
the currency than the nicest relations which you can es-
tablish betwixt the circulation and the bullion. Its ef-
fect would be to keep the circulation consiantly adjust-
ing itself (so to speak) to the actual monetary require-
ments of the community. When the market rate fell be-
low the Bank's minimum, the private securities held by
the Bank would gradually become diminished, and the
circulation contracted, until the market rate rose to the
level of the Bank rate. On the other hand. when the
market rate rose above the Bank rate, the variation would
speedily be adjusted by an increase in the private securi-
ties, and a consequent enlargement of the circulation.
Under such a system as this, the rate of discount, instead
of indicating a range of from 2 to 10 per cent., would pro-
bably range within limits of which 3 and 5 per cent.
would be the extremes."

Of course " there would thus be an approach to
an equable value of money. To a certain extent it
would be self-adjusting—in fair weather times. But
there would be wanting any effective security
against a drain of gold and considerable consequent
contraction, accompanied with high rates of interest.
We welcome the approximation, however, in such
a quarter. The Times not unfrequently throws up
straws in this way, which intelligibly indicate its
subsequent course.

COMPARATIVE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF

PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURE.

The " Accounts relating to Trade and Commerce " just
published, for the nine months ended the 10th ultimo, ex-
hibit some features which are not unworthy of remark.
It would have excited no great surprise, considering the
depression which has prevailed throughout the manufac-
turing masses, and the almost total suspension of many
branches of industry—such as the building trade and
others, which are only prosperous during periods when
money is in abundance, and the rate of interest reasona-
ble—if we had observed a great decrease in the consump-
tion of those articles of produce which form the principal
food of the people. We do not, however, find this result,
as will be seen from the following return of the quantities
of coffee, sugar, teas and tobacco, taken for consumption
in the first nine months of 1846, 1847, and 1848:

Coffee 27,386,336 29,019,486 28,248,052
Sugar 4,020,488 4,580,491 4,887,960
Tea 35,962,670 35,744,518 37,356.222
Tobacco 20,288,816 20,193,427 20,427,817
The returns of several other similar articles exhibit a
similar result. The question, therefore, arises, how far
does this state of things indicate prosperity existing
amongst other classes of the labouring community, and
which are those classes ?

To some extent it does indicate an increase of ability to
consume amongst those classes not dependent upon de-
pressed commerce and manufactures. The agricultural
portion of the community have been able to avail them-
selves of the extremely low prices, at which these articles
have been pressed upon the market. But before we
plume ourselves greatly upon their consumption, we must
bear in mind that the articles referred to are those which
are most frequently resorted to when more substantial
food is placed oeyond the reach of the labourer. We
would augur more of prosperity from an increased con-
sumption by these classes of beef and mutton, and a cor-
responding increased purchase of woollens, cottons, and
an increased activity of the shoemaker, the hatter, and
the tailor. We have no satisfactory evidence of such
increase.

The Globe of Thursday last quotes from these tables a
monthly return of the declared value of our exportations,
in order to show the connexion of the falling off with the
disturbances caused in Europe by the French revolution.
We give the table, with a portion of our contemporary's
remarks :77

" DECLARED VALUE OF EXPORTATIONS.
1847. 1848.
.€3,077,910 .43,227,138
3,446,307 3,597,842
4,826,900 4,240,317
4,812,852 3,345,735
4,657,403 3,535,394
4,578,871 3,625,513
5,062,452 4,137,168
4,1,53,103 4,313.722

" Month ending sth February
IP March
• PP April
PP ➢1 ay
PP June
~ July
~ August
„

1oth October
"Thus, in January and February, the trade of 1848 showed
an increase upon that of 1847. In March there was a falling off
of £'6CO,OOO; in April of £1,500,600; in May of £1,100,000;
in June, and again in July, of £900,000; in August of about
£500,000; and in September (the official month extending from
the sth September to the 10th October) of scarcely £60,000.
These figures seem to lead directly to the conclusion that the
effect of these disturbances upon the aggregate value of our ex-
ports is to be merely temporary. If the return of the next
month follows the order of the series, it will show at least as
large an increase over the corresponding period of last year as
could have been expected from a continuance of the steady
progression shown by the two first months of the year. In the
common course of things, the month of largest exportation
seems to occur about July. This year, the monthly order has
been one of stein), increase since the shock received in March,
and which exhibited its greatest effect in the return for April
(the month ending sth May.")

The total falling off to the very serious amount,
in the nine months, of £5,350,000, or upwards of an eighth
of the entire exports of the country ; but, notwithstand-
ing the coincidence of the dates, we are not satisfied that
the whole mischief is attributable to the interruption of
our continental trade entirely and directly. We rather
fancy that it has been caused by the interruption of our
trade to all markets, occasioned by a fear of our currency
being further contracted as the result of disturbances in
Europe.
There has been one circumstance connected with the
recent events, which our Free Trade commentators rather
studiously omit to remark upon. Whilst we have undoubt-
edly decreased our exports to Europe, we have been largely
increasingour itn portsof m anufactured corn m oaities thence,
and superseding the labour of our own population. From
this cause, aided by decreased exports, we may anticipate on
the return of European tranquility, a drain of capital to
Europe, at present employed here as more secure, which,
if any material portion of it is taken away in specie, will
seriously incommode us.

TRi •‘ OCEAN MONARCII."—It will be interesting to
our readers to learn that her Majesty's Government has
been pleased to present Captain Joaquim Marquis Lisboa
(of the steam-frigate Affonzo, and who rendered such
important service .to those on board the burning ship
Ocean Monarch) with a valuable gold chronometer, mlde
by Mr. Charles Frodsham, of Arnold's establishment, 84,
Strand, London. Its size is that of the ordinary waist-
coat pocket watch, and it has the peculiar application in
it which renders it capable of resisting rough usage.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO BRAMLEY MOORE, ESQ., MAYOR.

Sir.-1 fear, from what transpired at the last Council
meeting, that the spirit of street improvement will still
remain dormant. Ido not approve of a lavish expen-
diture on questionable schemes of utility, whilst more
important matters are in abeyance from the want of
adequate funds, as alleged by Mr. S. llohne. May we
not hope, however, under your auspices, that the striking
contrast now exhibited between our splendid docks and
the 'miserable internal arrangements of Liverpool, will
speedily be removed, or abolished, by causing dwellings
of a superior class to be erected for the working people
in lieu of the wretched hovels now existing, and the
formation of new and capacious roads, and the amend-
ment of the old throughout the length and breadth cf the
borough of Liverpool.
Another important topic, I would introduce to your
notice, is the establishment of " itar.7,ed Schools,' in
connection with a view to the ulTimate transit to the
Australian Colonies of the yee.th of both sexes, now in a
state of utter destitution, wits which unfortnnateiy our
town abounds. This would confer a benefit, if properly
carried out, on both the merchant and shipowner, as well
as be an act of kindness and charity to the forlorn beings
themselves.

I think the subject matter worthy of the consideration
of a public meeting of our townsmen.
I would also direct your attention to a serious offence
against the bye laws—that is, the wheeling loaded bar-
rows over the flagged parapets, to the great detriment of
the same, which should engage the special attention of
the police.
am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A. L.
Liverpool, 11th Nov., 1848.

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ESSAYS ON THE SABBATH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In your last publication I observe a paragraph, to
the effect that fifty extra prizes have been added to the
three originally propoied, for "Essays on the temporal
advantages of the Sabbath, by working men," and that
"many of these additional prizes have already been of-
fered." Your readers will, no doubt, be glad to learn
that the whole of the subscriptions for so praiseworthy an
object have been contributed, and that the award of the
adjudicators is expected to be announced in the December
number of the Working Man's Charter, a monthry pub-
lication connected with this movement, and entirely de-
voted to Sabbath consecration.

Yours, obediently,
November 13, 1848. A COMPETITOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

DEAR Sin,—On looking over the Mail of to-day, I
perceive an attempt made on their part to confute the
statement contained in your last paper concerning Mr.
Bourne. Now, instead of candidly confessing his error
he has attempted to bolster his misstatement by an
allusion to Mr. Beckwith's speech, to which I did not
make the slightest allusion. The error (if such a mild
term may be applied to it) did not arise at all in Mr.
Beckwith's speech (for that the Mail could not be re-
Nonsible) but it was in the list that the Mail made of the
Raters and Anti-Raters who composed the candidates for
the last election.

There were three columns—one for the Retiring Mem-
bers, one for the Pro and one for the•Anti-Raters' and
Mr. Bourne's name is placed in the latter column. This
is the intended error I meant, and the Mail cannot get
out of it by trying to evade the question by alluding to
Mr. Beckwith's speech. lam sorry to give you so much
trouble, though I hope you will excuse.

A CONSTANT READER.
Liverpool, lltli November, 1848.

Liral

BIRKENHEAD INFIRMARY.—Dr. James Craigie and
Dr. F. Stevenson have been elected honorary surgeons in
the place of Mr. Dixon and Mr. Lingard, resigned.
It is the intention of some gentlemen in Hull to form a
Financial Reform Association there, to co-operate with
Mr. Robert Gladstone and the Liverpool Finance Com-
mittee.

On Saturday night, Sarah Stewart, a child three months
old, living with her father in Barter-street, died suddenly
from suffocation, caused by being covered with the bed-
clothes.

On Thursday se'nnight, Martin Duffy, of Park-lane,
was going up stairs to bed, when he fell and injured his
head, which injury caused his death about a week after-
wards.

Mary Sales, who lost her husband, brother, and other
relations in the Ocean Monarch, has been comfortably
settled by Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel,
Liverpool, in which establishment she has resided ever
since.

On Monday week, a man and his wife residing in Char-
ter-street, quarrelled ; the husband left the house, taking
his two children with him, with the alleged intention of
jumping into the Mersey. Nothing more was heard of
him till Thursday evening, when he returned from from
" a trip to Wales," much to the delight of his nearly
heart-broken spouse.
On Saturday night, Julia Hughes, of Chisenbale-street,
sat up till about twelve o'clock, and then went to bed to
her husband. In a short time they heard a noise, when
the husband, in a state of terror, covered himself up with
the bedelotheS, and said he hoped, he might be delivered
by his guardian angel froth the terrible and impending
danger he apprehended. The deceased anxious to know
what had caused the noise, got up and left the room, but
on arriving at the top of the stairs she fell headlong down,
and was taken up quite dead.
. .

IHE YACHT CLUB DINNER.—The Courier is entirely
in error in saying that the report of this gratifying festivity
found its way into our columns " indirectly." It was
furnished by our own reporters in the usual way. Whilst
we are on the subject we may observe that we inadver-
tently omitted to state that Lord Sefton, in proposing
" the Lancashire witches" coupled with the toast the
health of a lady who 'nobly distinguished herself by ad-
ministering to the wants of the poor creatures saved from
the Ocean Monarch, Mrs. Lynn, wife of Mr. Lynn, of
the Waterloo Hotel.

A fatal accident on the South-Western Railway occur-
red at the Farnborough Station cn Friday night. A gen-
tleman who had been out shooting with a party of friends
approached one of the trains, when he slipped and fell
headforemost into the narrow space between the wheels
and the wall of the platform. The unfortunate gentle-
man was eventually got out, but the injuries he had sus-
tained were so severe, that he had expired before he was
extricated, We deeply regret to say that the gentleman
who has lost his life in this painful and distressing manner
is Mr. Stephenson Tennent, of Liverpool and Harwich.
THE HEADS OF THE BEAST.—In a sermon by the Rev.
Joseph Baylee on the sth of November, the rev. gentle-
man in lucid but solemn strains, went rapidly over the
prophecies connected with the state of the world, the
apostate Church of Rome, and the downfall of Babylon.
He argued that the Austrian empire was the seventh head
of the beast; that, most probably, the Russian empire
would swallow up the Austrian, and become tne eighth
head, under which it would be destroyed by the bright-
ness of the Saviour's appearance ; and that events now
occurring seemed to be hastening the event.

THE STEAMER " WIRRALL."---ThiS Woodside steamer
was brought to auction on Friday, by order of the High
Court of Admiralty—for running down the " Flambeau "
—and was sold for £3,250. But the ratepayers of Bir-
kenhead will be glad to learn that she has been purchased
by Messrs I. H. Hind and Co., with the view of hiring
her to the Birkenhead Commissioners, at a reasonable rate
per diem, until the commissioners are in a position to re-
imburse to them the bare purchase money, when the boat
will again become township property. She was almost a
nev, and a very favourite boat, and bad cost nearly
£7,000.

'lnn DOCKS OF LIVERPOOL.—The extreme length of
the river wall, which forms the line of the Liverpool
docks, is within a few yards of four miles. The total
water area now available amounts to upwards of 195 acres,
and the total quay space to more than fourteen miles.
There are in all twenty-one docks in operation, exclusive
of graving docks, half-tide docks, and basins. Of these
five, comprising about thirty-three acres of water area,
and nearly two miles of quay space, have been opened
within the last few weeks. Two others, and a half-tide
dock, which will yield together twenty-one acres of water
area and one mile of quay space, are in a state of great
forwardness.
APPREHENSION OF A CLERK FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.—
On Thursday night George Breary Jackson, late a clerk in
the employ of Messrs. Pearson and Co., Marsden-square,
Manchester, was apprehended at the Amphitheatre, in this
town. The prisoner absconded from Manchester on
Saturday week, taking with him £5OO which belonged to
his employers. A portion of the money (X 200) was re-
covered, being found at his own house in Manchester.
After leaving Manchester, the prisoner was traced to
Dublin, and thence to this town, where he was taken by
Inspector M`Mullen, of the Manchester police-force, and
conveyed to Manchester for examination before the
magistrates.
DEATII FROM WANT AND EXPOSURE.—On Wednes-
day last, a wretched being, apparently in the last stage of
want, was observed near the Northern Dispensary. He
was taken in, but his case being one of sheer destitution,
he was removed to the workhouse the same day. He was
admitted to the workhouse about noon, and was then in
a state of collapse • notwithstanding the efforts that were
made to restore the wretched man, death took place the
same evening. A post mortem examination was made by
Mr. Leather, one of the surgeons of the establishment,
who gave it as his opinion that the cause of death was ex-
posure to cold, and the want of the common necessaries of
life. Deceased's name was Thomas Jones, he was about
fifty years of age, and was a single man.
Bat. NSWICK CLUB.—The distribution of the seven
prizes, value ten guineas, announced in our last publica-
tion, took place on Thursday evening, after a spirited
contest between sixty members of the club, the success-
ful members being Messrs. Hall. Darbyshire, Robinson,
Daish, Smith, Ramage, and Evans. After the presenta-
tion of the various prizes by Mr. John Walker, the mem-
bers sat down to the first harmonic supper of the season,
the duties of the chairman and vice being ably sustained
by Mr. Whiteman and Mr. Darbyshire. On the with-
drawal of the cloth, a number of loyal patriotic, and com-
plimentary toasts were given and responded to, interspersed
with many excellent songs. The festivities of the even-
ing were prolonged to the latest moment allowed by the
rules of the club, the members separating highly delighted
with the evening's proceedings.
LECTURES ON EGYPT, THE DESERT, AND JERUSALEM.
—We are happy to perceive that that truly excellent
clergyman, the Rev. H. H. Higgins, minister of St. John
the Evangelist's Church, Hope-street, will deliver three