The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

SHIPPING

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ON Tuesday next, the parishioners of Liverpool,
in vestry assembled, will have to perform a duty to
PLAN OF THE PROPOSED ACCOMMODATION themselves and the public, upon their judicious
FOR OUR TIMBER TRADE AT THE NORTH discharge of which will depend, in a great measure,
END OF THIS TOWN. their own interests and those of the public. Dur-
ing the past few years they have allowed them-
icussion of the question as to the locality in
selves to be made. the dupes of a clique, pro-
icreasing timber trade is to be best accommo-
fessedly the advocates of "fair play," in the selec-
neular to find such a preponderance of anti-
tion of members of the Select Vestry, hut, in reality,
With the single exception of the seeking to transform that body into the nucleus of
6landard, our local journals are loud in their advocacy cf a political power. As the result, we have had
Birkenhead as the place to which this important trade hoisted into authority in the vestry a number of
should be transferred ; and we believe that not only they, crotchetty individuals, as innocent as their own
but a considerable portion of their readers, would rejoice
hoots
of all knowledge of parish business; and
we
lerpoul. The few advocates for retaining the trade at the
in a consummation so detrimental to the interests of Li_-
have had, as a natural coneequence, to pay for nu-
south end of the town, even seem disposed to carry their rnerous bubbles and experiments, sufficiently cost-
feeliug of hostility to its removal to the north to the ex- less to their authors, who are generally small rate-
treme of desiring its loss to this side of the river alto e_ pavers : but most onerous to those who, from their
ther, as the alternative of their own particular predilec- extent of property have to pay largely towards the
tions being disregarded. MI of a sudden new limhts seem
to have dawned upon the ratblic mind with respect to this support of the poor of our town, and still more
question ; and the superior accommodation which will, in onerous to those who, little removed from the state
a year or two, be afforded for the timber trade at the of pauperism themselves, are ashamed to plead ina-
northern extremity of our existing docks, are forgotten by bility to pay their quota of local taxation.
some even of those who, at the time the project was
first We must implore of the parishioners of Liverpool
brought before the public, were loudest in their al
of its superior merits. We propose now to recal attention
to consider their own present position, and that of
to the leading features of the project in question ; and we the inhabitants of the town of all classes, in giving
think that we shall be enabled to show that the timber their votes on Tuesday next. It is not a question
docks, now in progress at the north end of the town, are now of politics, or " fair play " between political
not only infinitely superior to those of which the advo- parties
cater of Birkenhead boast, but are calculated to render
t. ei. We want, to conduct our parochial affairs,
f experience in local business ; large rate-
country.
Liverpool the leading mart of the timber trade of this nen
payers, interested in keeping down local ex-
On the 4th of August, 1817, Mr. Bramley-Moore, then penditure. We must throw overboard crotchetty
our dock chairman, for the first time brought his proposal people—small smatterers in political economy,
before the public of converting the no: th shore into an and men wedded to some favourite notion, in
extensive depot for this important trade. The strand,
upon which docks in this locality were to be constructed educational or other matters. The expenditure
,
was secured at literally no cost to the dock estate, of the parish must be kept down to the very
inasmuch as it would have been required as a place of lowest limit. The necessity of the times de-
deposit for the excavated earth and stone taken from the rnands it. The most influential members of the
docks then forming. Here was one great element, at present Vestry desire it. All that the parishioners
least, of the greatest desideratum in the locality for a have to do is to give them determined and able
trade requiring extensive storage room—cheapness. And
although Liverpool, at the time in Question, offered, by colleagues, ready to co-operate with them in the
her existing accommodation at the south end, superior effort to arrest the rapid decrease which is going
advantages in this respect to most other ports, those on in the rateable yield of the property of the
advantages have since become considerably reduced ; and town.
the increased trade which we now carry on in timber is Another subject we must touch upon. An
very inadequately accommodated. In 1847, the following
attempt will be made at the Vestry next Tuesday,
was the comparative statement given by Mr. Bramley_
of the expenses of a ship arriving with timber and to absolve from rates the bulk of the property,
going away in ballast, with storage, &c., for twelve consisting of cottages. This attempt must be de-
months, at the following ports :
feated. The hardships alleged are mere moon-
Birkenhead £4B 2 11 more than Liverpool.
Lancaster 143 0 0 less shine. There is no reason why a man having a
ft
London 145 0 0 more few thousands invested in this species of property,
Bristol 25 0 0 more should he absolved from liability, to contribute to
"
public burthens, than that another, having the
Gloucester
1 I
Hull..
fl The Clyde .. 162 0 0 less same amount invested in superior property, should
1 t
Since this calculation was made, however, a change has he so absolved. All property should pay alike;
been rapidly going on in the size of the vessels employed and a firm determination of the Vestry to insist
in the trade, which renders the dock accommodation pro- upon this, is the only course by which the general
vided for it very insufficient. At that period the average burthens of the town can be lessened.
tonnage of the vessels discharged in the Brunswick Dock
was rarely above 600 tons ; and they could be moored
stern to stern, in order to have their cargoes hauled •
out at each side of the dock. We have now, however, a
large number of above I,oootons engaged in the trade ; and
these cannot be moored stern to stern. As the result, the
dock is no longer so easily worked, and does not accom-
modate the same amount of tonnage, small vessels having
to be packed in to fill up the quay space left vacant by the
larger ships having to be moored at a greater distance
apart.

The sturdy men who work in clay,
Scanning with eager eye and quick
The Budget speech, will 'urely say,
" Bless us ! but isn't Wood a Brick ?"

GENERAL

TRADE REPORT,

which our increasing timber

dated, it

Liverpool feeling,

Economy is, therefore, more required now than in 1847 ;
and by the formation of the north docks this advantage to
the trade of the port will be fully secured. It was com-
puted by the Dock Chairman in 1847, that the charges
upon timber discharged and stored in these docks would
be reduced to less than half their then amount. The
expense of removal would be considerably reduced by a
canal and railway being formed to communicate from
every yard, with the railway termini in the neighbourhood,
the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the other docks of the
port. The cost of labour would be greatly diminished—
(in proof, the chairman stated that, Mr. S. Holme had
informed him that two horses would do the same work
for which five are required at the south end,)—and cartage
through the streets in the unwieldy conveyances at present
used would be almost abolished. The timber here could
be either piled or floated ; and buyers would be enabled to
inspect in one locality, and within a distance little more
from the centre of the town than the present timber
docks, the whole stock in the market. Another important
advantage afforded by the carrying out of this project, will
accrue to the trades which at present, more than any other
in Liverpool, require assistance, to protect them from the
effects of recent legislation. We refer to carpenters and
shipwrights. At present these parties are paying on the
average from 15d, to 18d. per yard annually for the large
premises which they occupy. They will be accommodated
at the north shore, as Mr. Bramley-Moore informed us,
at the rate of 2d. per yard.
As little appears to be known of the plan of these
docks, and their future working, whilst the plans
of the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners have been
brought before the public at every available oppor-
tunity, we shall endeavour briefly to describe them.
The Timber Docks, at present contemplated to be
formed, will extend from the new fort erecting on
the shore nearly opposite the first toll bar on the
road to Bootle, to a point on the shore opposite to the
second toll bar, and a little beyond Bootle Church, and
will occupy a length cf shore of about 5,100 feet, or nearly
a mile. A space, however, of 1,500 feet between their
southern end and the Sandon Graving Docks is left unap-
propriated, and may be used either for the formation of
timberor other docks, as theextension of the tradeof the port
may require. The principal entrance is into a dry basin
opposite the Derby Arms Hotel, and a little south of
Miller's Castle. This basin is about 500 feet wide by 550
in length ; and the entrance, which is about 220 feet in
width, is admirably shaped for vessels entering with our
prevailing westerly winds. From this basin is an entrance
to a dock or basin 3,500 feet in length by from 600 to 700
in width, and extending southwards towards Sandon Basin,
from which there is also an entrance available in stress of
weather.
From the principal basin is an entrance eastwards to
the southernmost timber dock, which is 2,250 feet in
length by 300 feet in width ; and there is another entrance
to the south end of this dock from the large outer dock,
which we have spoken of, as extending 3,500 feet to the
Sandon basin. Northwards, there is an entrance to a
larger dock, 2,550 feet in length, 650 feet in width at one
end, and 850 feet near the other. Of this, the eastern
portion, averaging about 400 feet in width, is to remain a
permanent dock. The westward side is to be used as a
timber pond, or filled up as required. There is a commu-
nication between this dock and the southern dock. Fur-
ther westward, towards the river wall, and at the north
end of this dock, is a space, 300 feet wide, for ship-build-
ing, timber or deal yards, to be made as required. There
is also, beyond this, 100 feet quay space to the west, and
60 feet to the north. On the east side of both docks is a
public quay, 150 feet wide, on the eastern side of which
is a railway running along the whole length. There is
also a quay space of 300 feet between the entrance basin
and the land set apart for ship-building yards on the
westward side of the large timber pond ; and quay space,
averaging about 140 feet in width, between the southern
open dock and the smaller timber dock. The western
sides of both the timber docks are to be formed without
walls, until required.
We have had a great deal said of the advantages offered
to the timber trade by the docks of Birkenhead. In
particular, the fact of the Lancashire and Cheshire Junc-
tion Railway being brought to the Birkenhead docks has
been dwelt upon. We have, however, by this North
Dock scheme, the London and North-Western Railway,
for the supply of the south of England, and the whole of
the communications to the north of England, opened to
us ; we have cheaper yard room for the storage of timber;
and it is not an unimportant matter that the dock dues on
vessels importing timber are cheaper in Liverpool by 3d.
per ton than in Birkenhead. Some objection, too, has
been raised as to the danger to shipping likely to be
awed by tzsuaraitting timber in rafts upon the rinri

a lare ox
was roasted, and afterwards distributed promiscuously to
all (with bread and beer) amounting to 100 persons, who
behaved most decorously. But the chief attraction was
a private dinner given to the oldest persons in the neigh-
bourhood, who were regaled with roast beef, plumb pud-
ding, and ale. Fifteen sat down and enjoyed with a relish
the good things given ; and their united ages averaged 81
years and upwards. These, and the sires of the sons of
the soil, who form the wealth of the nation, and the
longevity of the party, bespeak the salubrity of the neigh-
bouring hills. At the bublic breakfast, given the same by
the High Sheriff, great profusion was spread on the large
table; and, as of course much valuable silver plate was
there in use, and hundreds of persons from all parts were
admitted, not one article was injured or lost.
BIRKENHEAD PARISH AFFAlRS.—Numerous corre-
spondents has complained to us lately of the arbitrary
proceedings of the parties who manage the parochial
affairs of Birkenhead. They are accused also of wasteful
expenditure, and of useless and costly litigation, the ab-
sence of just grounds for which has been acknowledged by
their having at last to submit to pay both debt and costs.
As an example, the payment of the trifling salary of the
governors of the Bridewell was withheld by them, and
only paid when steps had been taken at the Quarter Ses-
sions to indict for the recusancy. Numbers of the rate-
payers have had to complain of being over-assessed, and
have been compelled to undergo the expense and inconve-
nience of going to Neston to appeal. If the magistrates
before appointing, on Thursday, the gentlemen proposed
as overseers, would institutean enquiry, we feel convinced
that they would find a strong feeling existing against their
re:,election. We intended to have gone fully into the
subject-to-day, but must reserve a few curious particulars
• cooneethd with it until nest week.

TATTERSALL'S.---MONDAY.
NORTHAMPTON STAKES.—Osterley, 4 to 1 tkn ; Belus, 30 to
1-35 to I tkn ; Ballinalad, 16 to 1 tkn ; Mounseer, 7 to I tkn
freely; Sylvan, 35 to I tkn. Osterley and Mounseer in great
demand ; Belus reported amiss.
ALTHORPE PARK STAKES.—Prestige, sto 2 taken ; Buck-
hound, 3 io 1 ; Olivia, 8 to I iaken.
CHESTER CUP.—Roland, 30 to 1-35 to 1 tkn ; Fngleman, 22
to 1-25 to 1 tkn : Cossack, 20 to 1 ; Ellerdale, 30 to 1 taken to
.t 100; Horn of Chase, 1000 to' 30 tkn ; Mounseer and Besta,
each 50 to 1 tkn; Minimum, 1000 to 1 tkn.
DERBY.—Ghnlie Callum 6to 1 ; Bolingbroke, 13 to 2 tkn ;
Nigger, 10 to 1-11 to 1 tkn; Voltigeur, 16 to 1 ; Mildew, 25 to
1 tkn ; Lady Geraldine colt, 45 to 1.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Sugar: A fair extent of business was done in rened to-day, and at firmer terms. Brown Lumps, 48s. to 48s. 6dfi. ; and fair
and good Grocery, 48s. 6d. to 50s. per cwt.—Coffee : The mar-
ket was firmer to-day, and there were free buyers at 465. for
good ordinary Native Ceylon on the spot, and 455. for arrival,
but no sellers. 2,000 bags sold afloat on Saturday at 455., and
to-day 350 bags low ordinary on the spot.—Tea : Prices remain
the same, but there is little disposition shown to make sales.—
Cotton : The market remains in a dull state, and nobusiness.—
Tallow : A moderate business done to-day, and prices steady.
P.Y.C. on the spot, 375. for fine, and 38s. 3d. to 38s. fid. for
last three months. The Town Tallow is steady at 378. nett
cash. The stock continues to exceed that of last year, and
deliveries on the increase.—Little change in Metals.—Shippers
and home dealers of Colonial Produce continue to act with
caution, and speculators refrain from operating. The general
impression is, that a further fall in the value of some articles
will take place.—At Rotterdam, there were rather more buyers
of Coffee; Sugar was quiet.—Tin further fallen.—At Antwerp,
Coffee was taken sparingly, buyers only taking for immediate
wants. In other articles little doing.

LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS.—YEsTERDAT

CLOSING PRICES.
&Nob for Accounts 04 f; Consols (Money), 93* 4; Three-

The arrivals reported to-day at Lloyd's were moderate. It
blew a violent gale the whole of last night and yesterday,
accompanied with heavy squalls of snow, in consequence of
which the accidents are rather numerous.
At Stockholm, on the 15th March, the opening of the navi-
gation was shortly expected. Memel advices of the 14th say
the ice had left the coast, and that the harbour was open.

Henn HIT.—An old bachelor, who edits a paper some-
where in the western country, puts " Melancholy Acci-
dents" as a head for marriages in his paper.
Rats cannot burrow through shingle. To secure the
foundations of any building against them, it is only neces
sary therefore to lay the foundation in a bed of shingle or
rough gravel, from 6 to 10 inches thick.
Monday Night.
Tonecco.—ln the year 1848 eight million one thousand
four and forty-nine pounds ne shilling and We have have little to report of a cheering nature in the pencehun were tred
spent by the people of this o
kingdom in tobacco.
•ommercial world, eithc. A home or abroad. At home, ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.—Madame Sevign, who knew
trade stagnates • abroa , rase is want of confidence. the saint well, says, on hearing of his death, that he was
The affairs of France are still looked upon as very unset- an agreeable man—only he cheated at cards.— Quarterly
tied ; and the democrats of Europe are ready to take ad- Review. vantage of any bouleversment which may take place in PRESENT TO A SCHOOLMISTRESS.—The mistress of a,
the French capital.
parochial school in this county, retiring from her charge
Tee share market has been quiet all week. In Londons has been presented (says a contemporary) with a " hand-
and Midlands there has been an increasing firmness from some lady's companion." We leave the reader to guess
a continuance of small investments; but in other lines, what that may be.—Gateshead Observer.
with few exceptions, prices have declined a little. North " SERMO.NS IN STONES. "--A Scottish geo, wile
Staffords have advanced over
.£1 per share in consequence in the country, having his pocket hammer withlogi histm, took
of the settlement of their disputes with the London and it out and was chipping the rock by the wayside for exa-
North-western. Birkenheads and Dovers have declined urination. His proceedings did not escape the quick eye
materially, the former, it is said, from having lost their and ready tongue of an old Scotchwoman, " What are
power of making calls, the latter in consequence of some you doing there mun ?" "Don't you see, I'm breaking a
of the shareholders, who objected to the late report, having stone." " Ye're doing mair than that; ye're breaking
succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent the pay- the Sabbath."
meet of the dividend. There is no change of consequence THE VICTORIA BLUE.—In " Labour and the Poor," in
in our local stocks. Fire, and Life and Commercial banks the Chronicle, we have the curious history, the odd sta-
are slightly influenced 'cy the fall in Dovers, and these tistics, of the doll trade. A dolimaker says, "The eyes
are in demand at the quotations. The prices of this day's that we make for Spanish America are all black. A blue-
business are : Caledonian preference 6; Leeds stock, 35 ; eyed doll in that country wouldn't sell at all. Here, how-
London stock, 1051 4- -1 6/3 dis. ; Sheffield preference, ever, nothing goes down but blue eyes. The reason for
6i ; Midland halves, 416 3; North Staffordshire, 1043/9 this is, because that's the colour of the Queen's eyes, and
dis. • Shrewsbury preference, 9 ; Dover, No. 4., 41; New- she sets the fashion in this, as in other things."
castle preference, 15/ • Borough Bank, 101.; Fire and Life Dr. Chalmers used often to tell of a scene he witnessed
iold, 3 8/9 par, 2 paid ; new, 21 par ; Royal Assurance, at the Westminster hustings when Sheridan was a candi-
- par.
didate. An ugly fellow, raised on the shoulders of the
Since Thursday last Cie markets for colonial produce mob, said to Sheridan, "if you do not alter your ways,
have presented a very gloomy aspect; there is no disposi- I will withdraw my countenance from you." Sheridan
tion to buy, although merchants generally have been replied, "I am very glad to hear it, for
an uglier counters
more willing to meet the trade. The sales in Sugar are nance I never saw!' The countenance slunk quickly out
of little importance, say 2500 bags Bengal and 1800 mats of sight.—Dr. Chalmers' Memoirs.
Mauritius, of new crop, at reasonable prices. For Ruin DOCTORS ON THE BORDER.—When the Great Un-
there is little inquiry, and previous rates are barely main- known was at one time travelling in Northumberland, his
rained ; the stock in first hands is much reduced, and the servant was taken ill, and the village surgeon sent for :
imports of good quality are expected to be high. Rice when this worthy made his appearance lie was at once
very flat. Nothing doing in Molasses. The transactions recognised as a quondam-horse doctor in Melrose, whose
in Dyewoods of little moment. Campeachy Logwood sole qualification to cure the ills which human flesh is heir
being at present very scarce,there are no sellers under £7. to, consisted in his having crossed the Border. When
Some small parcels of Jamaica realised £4 7s. 6d. per ton rated by Sir Walter for his presumption, he confessed he
ex ship; and 30 tons of fustic, £5 7s. 6d. The tea mar- had killed a good many of his patients; but added, with
ket very quiet.
a naivete which must have won the heart of any Scotch-
There was no change in the value of Cotton on Satur- man, more especially so national a man as Scott, " AY,
day, and the market closed firm at Friday's quotations : Sir, but it i'll lang before it mak's up for Flodden."
sales, 4,000, including 1,500 on speculation and for export. BANKRUPTCY PRACTICE. —ln a bankruptcy cause,
To-day the demand has been exceedingly dull, especially tried before Mr. Baron Alderson the other day at York,
from the trade, but no quotable change can be made in the charges of the official assignee were being discussed,
prices : sales, 4,000, 1000 for export and 500 on specula- when it was observed that they had run up to £lO in about
tion included,
an hour. The witness replied, in justification, that in the
The demand for Wool continues very languid, the event of a bankruptcy being annulled, the official assignee
stocks in the spinners' hands being heavy. would ' lose a turn.' Then, said the examining counsel, The weather has continued exceedingly favourable for if he ' loses a turn,' the cause is to fall upon the unfer-
out-door operations since our last ; and farmers having tunate bankrupt ? The Judge : Well, that's something
taken advantage of this circumstance, have made consi- like a doctor, whose patient recovers quickly, charging
derable progress in getting seed into the ground. The him for medicine which he might have required, had he
supplies of native produce Into most of the English not so soon recovered.
and Irish markets have consequently been on a limited CURIOUS EPITAPHS.—In Lavenham churchyard :
scale, and the firmness noticed last week, which we
,‘
Qued fuit esse, quod est, quod non fnit esse, quell esse,
attributed solely to this cause (and which must, of course, Esse quod est, non ease, quod est, non est, erit ease."
be tempsrary in its operation), has become m0re1694.
general in this country • but in Ireland, with the excel). The following, engraved upon a stone in the churchyard
tion of Belfast, the markets exhibit a further decline. of Amwell, Herts, appears to bear a very close resem-
ST. SILAS'S CHURCH.—On Sunday last, after sermons Up to Saturday night the imports into Liverpool since blance to the above.
ay the Rev. Fielding Ould and Rev. W. H. Wright, the Monday amount to 6000 quarters European Wheat ; with " That which a being was, was it, show ?
sum of £23 ss. was collected in this church in aid of the but very little coastwise and from Ireland. From the That being which it was, it is not now.
To be what
was, shall a being be."
is,
u
funds of the excellent schools attached to the church. latter source the arrivals of Flour are also trivial, but is not to be
It will be seen that Mr. Charles Whitney will deliver nearly 5000 barrels have beenn received from the States,
the first of three interesting lectures, enlivened with a and 5500 sacks from Europe. 11,000 quarters of Indian COLOUR, ,yo
That which a being
COURTSHIP, AND CONSCIENCE IN AMERICA.
good deal of humour, on Thursday next, at the Concert- Corn are reported from the States. Before a
marriage can be legally solemnized between a
hall, on the popular oratory and poetry of the new world. In Brunswick-street, with a moderate business doing, white and a coloured person, the former is required to
ST. JUDE'S CHURCH.—We understand that the Rev. the demand for the leading articles of the trade has per- make oath that he has coloured or negro blood in his
Dr. Carpenter will preach his farewell sermon at this ceptibly improved since Friday; but looking at the rela- veins. The difficulty to a white man taking his oath, lies
not only in its absolute falsehood, but in the melancholy
church on Sunday evening next, and that the Rev. J. B. tive state of the various markets throughout the country,
fact that, by acknowledging the existence of such a stain
Lowe will enter on his duties as incumbent of the church we cannot expect any material improvement with regard
on his escutcheon, he voluntarily shuts himself out of the
on the Sunday following. to prices.
pale of communion with his countrymen for ever. Great,
Messrs. Josias and George Booker, preparatory to sail- Owing to the recurrence of Good Friday, the second
however, as is the natural repugnance to this step, it was
ing for the West Indies, handed into the Bankruptcy Liverpool Corn Market this week will be held on Thurs.
once taken, and that not very long ago, by a young Arne-
Court, on Friday last, a petition praying to be relieved day next.
rican, who was resident in New Orleans. A rich mer-
from the assigneeship of Barton, Ham, and Higginson's At the sale of Port Wines in London on Thursday
chant and sugar planter, of, I believe, Jewish extraction,
estate, and appointed Thursday next for the purpose of very few were sold, the principal portion being withdrawn
choosing two others to succeed tnem. at £l7 to £lB. had an only child, a daughter, and moreover a quadroon,
of great beauty and accomplishments, to use the most
IMPORTANT TRIAL.—The trial of the Rev. Moorhouse
James, Vicar of Bedford, for refusing to marry, is ap-
received term. The young lady was the acknowledged
pointed by Mr. Baron Alderson to be taken immediately L ATEST INTELLIGENCE- heiress of her father's vast wealth, but be refused to be-
morning.on the sitting of the Court to-morrow (Wednesday)
stow either his fortune or his pretty quadroon on any but
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) a white man, and that in lawful marriage. In spite of the
The case is looked forward to with much
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interest, more particularly by ministers and members of
mighty bribe held out there was found but one man who
the Established Church. The Queen and Prince Albert and the royal family left was daring enough to demand the hand of the lady in
SUDDEN DEATHS.--A person named John Scholefield, Buckingham Palace this afternoon for Windsor Castle. marriage, and to be willing to take the oath which was
residing with his wife, at the Star Vaults, in Milk-street, PORTUGAL.—Southampton, Monday afternoon.—The necessary to make that marriage valid in law, With a
kept by a person named Platt, was found in bed dead, on Iberia steamer has arrived. Left Lisbon on the 19th view, in some sort, to satisfy his scruples of conscience,
Saturday morning; he had complained some time of ill instant, Gibraltar on the 15th, and Oporto on the 20th. the suitor of the maiden, previous to his appearing before
health,—A man, named Robert Collier, residing in a Quarantine was still in force at Vigo and Cadiz. The the authorities, pricked the finger of his fair fiancee, and
court near Shaw-alley, expired in a neighbour's house on Duke of Saldanha has been dismissed from all his posts, insered some of blood which trckled fro twound
Saturday, from the effects of the bursting of a blood- even that of aide-de-camp to the King. The Duke is be- into a
t gash whichthe he had previouslyi made in his own hand.
vessel.—Bridget Gill, aged 40, who lived in 10 court, loved by the army, and serious consequences were pre- After performing this delicate operation, he fearlessly and
Thomas-street, on Wednesday morning, fell down stairs, dieted f.om this ill-advised measure. A large party de with an open front, took a solemn oath, that, within his
and fractured her skull; she continued in a state of suffer- mended a regency. The troop ship Athol, from Mauri- own veins, negro blood was flowing, and was then allowed
ing until Saturday, when she died. ties, with two companies sappers and miners, had put into to claim his bride. But after such an avowal America was
EXHIBITION' OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS, 1851. Eisben short of provisions and water. The Prince Join- no longer a country for him, so he lost no time in carry-
The executive committee for this town met yesterday in ville had gone to Seville. The experimental squadron ing off his rich and lovely bride to far-off (and, in this
the Town-hall, when, amongst other business, it was sug- left Gibraltar on the 10th. case, more liberal) Europe, for there wealth always ob-
gested that a comprehensive collection of all articles im- GREECE.—The Austrian papers contained the following tains consideration, and shades ef colour are not too
ported into Liverpool should be made, and exhibited in telegraphic advices from Trieste :—Pirteus, 12th March. closely investigated.—Hesperus.
one large case, and that, attached to each article, should The affairs of Greece are still in state quo. The British MARABOU.—The visitors to e
be a short description of the quantity imported, and where fleet
h THE ADJUTANT OR ad not sailed from the Dardanelles. The Hellenic Garden in Regent's Park will have
scabrous-headed feathered noticed a
form, queewith r, un
an
un-
it
, ,
couth bald
was produced. Specimens of the various kinds of
Una- government persists in its refusal to negociate, previous to
her alone will form an extensive and interesting collection. the recall of the British fleet. England has broached
enormous beak, now marching in comic stateliness, at
Any gentlemen who have fine specimens of articles of some fresh demands, which dated from the war of libera- another time stauding on one or two stilts of legs with an
produce would assist the committee by offering them, and tion. Other accounts state that an energetic Russian air of drunken gravity, and again seated with the whole
at the next meeting it is intended to consider the best note had been received at Athens on the 9th and on the length of legs stretched out and resting upon them. It is
mode of carrying out this valuable suggestion. 10th an English courier had started for Constantinople. now some sixty years since this odd form was first intro-
THE BRUNSWICK CLUB.—A very moderate subscrip- GERMANY, PRUSSIA, AND WURTEMBURG.—A tele- dosed to they nithologists of this country. At first it
tion entitles the members of this club to numerous privi- graphic despatch from Berlin, 23rd instant, in the Cologne was commonlknown by the name of the " Adjutant,"
Ines which enable them to pass their leisure hours in the Gazette, corroborates the late news of the revocation of the title conferred on it in Calcutta. Dr. Latham first
pursuit of useful knowledge or agreeable relaxation. For the Prussian Ambassador from the Court of Wurtemburg, described this Bengal adjutant, the argala of the natives,
refreshment there are the resources of a first-rate cuisine; Barpn Sydow has been instructed immediately to leave in his general synopsis, as " the gigantic crane." But,
for pastime a fairly stocked library, with an abundant sup. Stuttgard with all the members of the embassy. The in truth, there are no less than three species of these vror-
ply of newspapers and periodicals, from Punch to Black- Prussian Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Baron Schleinitz. thies, forming a natural group of gigantic storks, not only
wood; and, for recreation, chess, draughts, billiards, had addressed a note to the Wurtemburg Ambassador at cherished, like the white stork, for their services to man,
bagatelle, athletic games; and, in short, all descriptions the Prussian Court, notifying to that diplomatist the total but valued for the beautiful plumes called " marabous,"
of games which depend on skill rather than chance, and rupture of all relations between the two Governments, from the Senegal name of the African species. The ex-
do not trench upon gambling, which is strictly forbidden. ITALY—TUSCANY.—The Tuscan ]Monitor of the 16th treme lightness of these long downy feathers, which are
Dissipation is discountenanced by the sober hours which instant, states that the return of the Pope to Rome had transferred from the sides beneath the wings and from
under the tail of the bird to wave over the brow of beauty,
are kept, the lights being inexorably extinguished at been officially announced to the Corps Diplomatique at
eleven o'clock each evening. Mr. Whiteman is making Florence. under
where they float with every breath of air, may be con-
arrangements for largely increasing the comforts and at PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.--Fives were offered at 90 ceived from Latham's experiment. He weighed one of
- tractions of his club. francs 43 centimes. them, which .was eleven inches and three-quarters in
OLD ENGLISH HOSPITALITY.—On Thursday last, to
length and seven in breadth, and balanced only eight
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celebrate the departure of the High Sheriff of the county
grains. Temininek. •Ps
from his mansion at Falinge, near Rochdale. Jars,-

neh, in Planchees colorie' Sti el
pointed out the differencehis between the marabou, of Africa,l the argala of the Asiatic continent, and the insular spe-
cies—probably the boorong-cambing or boorong-oolar of
Marsden—inhabiting Java and the neighbouring islands.
The Javanese bird separated by Dr. Horsfield, is probably
identical with the Sumatran species. Second only to the
vultures in the eagerness with which these feathered sca-
vengers turn the most disgusting substances into nutri-
ment, the adjutants and marabous are safe from all annoy-
ance, and stalk about amid the dwellings of man, the pri-
vileged abaters of all nuisances. Carrion, flesh, and bone,
everything, in short, that offends the eye and the nose,
enters the omniverous maw of " the large throat," "the
bone-eater," " the bone-taker," as this
voracious utilita-
rian is in some places termed. Snakes, lizards, frogs, and
small quadrupeds and birds, have small chance of life
when they fall in its way ; and as the size of the devourer
calls for a vast supply, its consumption of both living and
dead things is enormous.—. Frazer's Magazine.
THE BUFFALO.--It would be as pedantic in America
to call this animal bison, as to speak of " the earth bring.
ing the sun into view," for " the sun rising." " Buffalo"
is often used independently for " buffalo-robe," whence
they tell a good, story of two Englishmen just arrived in
Boston. They ordered a sleigh, having heard of such a
thing in a general way, without being conversant with the
particulars of it. " Will you have one buffalo or two?"
asked the hostler. " Why," says Cockney, looking a
little frightened, " we'll have only one the first time, a
we're not used to driving them.—Frazer's Magazine.
It reported of the poet Camoens, author of the
" Lusiad," that when in a state of extreme misery he was
supported by his slave, a negro boy, whom he had brought
from the West Indies, and Rho earned apittance by play-
ing music in the streets.