The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-06 00:00:00

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%ted capital of every sort, is in the same
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commodity and pr(
the wealthy man's money ; restrict the circulation
of the paper of his class by but a few millions ;
threaten restriction even ; and we see the prices of
labour, of goods, of produce, of vendible articles of
every kind, diminished, and stagnation and bank-
ruptcy spread over the land.

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A Protectionist Government, if it aims at any safe
remedy for the evils and the disorganization which
are, around is), must. commence by giving to the
industry and enterprise of the country a full circu-
latipn of money. When we have that we have pros-
perous trade, remunerating prices, labour employed,

in strong terms, the course which he had previously en-
joined the rev. gentleman to adopt. He positively refused,
and, as it afterwards appeared, had that morning repaired
to the Cathedral Church, and, by virtue of his receipts
or briefs there read, assumed the duties of Roman Catho-
lic Archbishop of Corfu, thus superseding and displacing
the Bishop then officiating, and who had been appoint'd
by the temporal power on the recommendation only of
the spiritual power.
The local government, the Senate of the lonian Islands,
thereupon sent for the Bishop who had thus been illegally
displaced, and reprimanded him for having ceded to this
illegal assumption, and directed him to attend in his place
in the Cathedral Church at vespers, and so resume his
sacred duties. The Bishop stated, that seeing a person
present himself in full canonicals as Archbishop elect, he
could not doubt that all the formalities and concurrences
requisite to make the appointment of the claimant good
and valid had been complied with, and that therefore,
however strange it appeared to him that he should be so
unceremoniously dispossessed, he deemed it his duty to
yield to the powers by which this had been done ; but
that, seeing that the person who had assumed to act i❑
this aggressive manner would scarcely be deterred from
persisting in the course he had already taken, he (the
Bishop) requested precise instructions from the Senate
how to act in case of an altercation taking place in the
church between the rev. gentleman who asserted the
sufficiency by the spiritual power exclusively, and the
Bishop who
.was :directed to resist this, on the authority
of the temporal power. This very possible contingency
startled the Senate, and the President resorted to the
Lord High Commissioner for advice and instructions.
The Lord High Commissioner saw at once the necessity
of adopting some other course to prevent very serious
evils. He sent for the Inspector of Police, and directed
him to wait upon the aggressor, and acquaint him that,
under all the einumstances of the rase, he was requested
to withdraw from the lonian States ; that the Austrian
steamer which had brought him the day before must take
him away on the morrow; that the Lord High Commis-
sioner's orders were peremptory, and must be obeyed;
that he (the Inspector of Police) would be loth to commit
any indignity upon the rev, gentleman's person, but that
if he declined to comply with the Lord High Commis-
sioner's decision, he (the Inspector of Police) would be
under the painful necessity of having recourse to personal
force to compel the rev. gentleman to depart from the
lonian States. And be was sent off accordingly.
The Lord High Commissioner having reported this
extraordinary transaction fully to His Majesty's Govern- I
merit, received their full and entire approbation of his
conduct in thus promptly and effectually resisting that
aggression, and preventing the deplorable evils which
mutt otherwise have ensued.

THAT the millers of this country have shewn
a little selfishness in their demand for pro•

tection to themselves, whilst leaving the agricul-
turist to be ruined by unrestricted importations, is
a fact not to be denied; and they have in so doing
deprived themselves of the full amoUntof public sym-
pathy which_would-otherwise have been accorded

to them. We cannot, however, allow so important
an interest to he utterly destroyed, because the
fact is palpable that the advantage possessed by the
foreign miller in importing a manufactured article
at a scale of duty, and with charges much lower
than he would pay upon grain itself, is seriously
beating down the prices realised by the home
grower. As a class there cannot be a doubt that
the corn millers of Great Britain have as large a
capital invested in machinery, buildings, and stock
as that of the cotton manufacturing interest, to
whose suicidal cupidity both themselves and the
agriculturists are being sacrificed. If we could ar-
rive at the precise statistics of the trade, it would
be found that it employs, and has hitherto main-
tained, as large a population as the cotton manu-
facture. There is not a village or a hamlet in the
empire without its mill, upon which two or three
families are dependent ; and in many it is the capi-
tal and the enterprise of the miller which supply
funds for the farmer in his emergencies. Let this
interest sink, and a further and crushing blow will
have been dealt upon every other class engaged in

the cultivation of the soil. -
It is sinking at the present moment, let the Cob-
dens and economists say what they will to the con-
trary. There is not a miller in England, Scotland,
or Ireland who is not now losing money. A few
facts, which we quote from the Circular to bankers,
exhibit the condition of this interest in every county

kingdom

ng, in Lincolnshire, two mills built in 1845-6,
of millstones, by steam power, with
-,;On—are totally

ost large si

these mills was
At T.rnti. a

taxation ungrudgingly paid, and a contented popu- I OPENING OF THE NEW BATHS AND WASH-
lation. When we have it not we are enduring HOUSES IN CORNVirALLIS-STREET.

..
calamity, and becoming dangerous to the institu-
tions under which we live. It was the change from Yesterday, the building erected for the purpose of sup-
a full to a restricted currency which commenced plying baths and wash-houses, for the population residing
in the district around Cornwallis-street and Duke-street,
the downward progress of the farmer, the labourer, was formally opened by the -Chairman of the Health
the small trader, and every class immediately Committee, James Parker, Esq., to a select party of the
dependent upon industry for support. It neutra- influential gentry and inhabitants of the town. Eleven
lized the effectof the protection afforded to industry; o'clock was the hour appointed for the assemblage of the
and a persistence in the same policy—the restriction party at the Public-offices, in Cornwallis-street; and in a
of our currency, and the rendering it dependent
few minutes after that hour a procession was formed, and
proceeded to the baths ; his Worship the Mayor of Liver-
upon the supply and price of the precious metals— pool, accompanied by Mr. Parker, taking the lead.
will still neutralize any measure of protection which Amongst those present, in the procession and subse-
a Government can with safety propose for the qnently, we noticed the late Mayor, John Holmes, Esq.,
people. Messrs. J. A. Tinne, A. F. Jones, J. H. Turner, Thomas
Bolton, A. Henderson, It. Woodruff. Peter Wright,

Clerk of the Peace, Dr. Neill, Rev. Dr. Raffles, R.M.
WE believe the following to be the exact details
Beckwith, J. A. Tobin, W. lialthew, R. W. Preston,
of the case alluded to by Mr. Horsfall at the recent John Wilkinson, - Simons, Alderman Cooper, Messrs.
meeting on the subject of Papal aggression : Picton, Bigham, and other gentlemen, with Mr. Newlands,
When Sir Howard Douglas was Lord High Commis- the engineer of the Council, Mr. Capes Ashlin, &c. On
sioner in the lonian Islands, be received, to his great reaching the building, the party proceeded to inspect
surprise, an announcement from the Aid-de-Catep in the various internal arrangements, which were lucidly
waiting, that a dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church, explained by Mr. Newlands, under whose superintendence
styling himself Roman Catholic Archbishop of Corfu, they have been from the first ; and the satisfaction ex-
had come to pay his respects to the Lord High Commis- pressed by every party present was most unequivocal.
sioner, on appointment by the Pope to that see; and that We gave a fortnight ago a description of the general
the rev. gentleman was dressed in the full robes of his construction of the baths, it will therefore not be neces-
office. On being introduced, he stated to Sir Howard sary for us now to trespass further upon the attention of
Douglas that, having been so appointed by the Pope, he our readers. Since that time, however, the near approach
waited upon the Lord High Commissioner to inform him of the works to completion, has developed a few features,
of the nomination, holding in his hands some documents not before noticed. The first-class baths, in the upper
which, be said, were the instruments by which he had story of the building, which it is expected will be exten-
been nominated. _ sively used by the more wealthy portion of the community,

The Lord High Commissioner, not having received are -beautifully fitted up; indeed, we may almost say,
any notice whatever of such an appointment, expressed luxuriously. The floors are eovered with rich carpeting,
his extreme surprise at the announcement which the rev. and the rooms themselves, which are of ample space, are
gentleman had made, and replied that he (the rev. gen- replete with every convenience. The baths are composed
tieman) should wait upon the Secretary of the Govern- of zinc; and the apparatus for supplying them with hot
went, and leave with him, for the placet of the executive and cold water, works admirably. A shower-bath upon a
power, the papers which he held in his hand ; and not in new principle, invented by Mr. Newlands is attached to
any way assume the duties of that office until he received each. The price of the baths in this department will be
the sanction of the temporal power. one shilling. The second class baths contain the same
The rev. gentleman replied, that this he declined to do ; apparatus and appliances for comfort and convenience,
that he did not tender his papers or receipts to the Lord but aro notquiteso luxuriously furnished, as to rich carpet-
High Commissioner for his placet, but for his informs- ing, &c. These, however, are very superior to any which
tion ; and that he would not, by sending his papers in for we find at our most fashionable watering places or hotels.
the consideration of the Government, subject the spiri- The charge in them for each bath will be sixpence. The
tual power by which he had been appointed to the revi- third clqss baths are very excellent, and must be most
sion and placet of any temporal authority. gratefully regarded by our working population. The
The Lord High Commissioner replied, that that indeed charge in them will be twopence. The large tepid baths
was an assumption that concerns all the powers that be, will be respectively fonrpence and twopence. In these,
but that if the rev. gentleman did so act, he would place the temperature of which will be about 70 degrees, the
the Lord High Commissioner in a difficult and highly- arrangements for filling, heating and keeping up a con-
responsible predicament, and get himself into some trou- tinual supply of fresh water, are working most satisfac-
hie ; and therefore the Lord High Commissioner repeated, torily._
_ . . .

In the washing-room, which contains about 90 troughs,
the various inventions of Mr. Newland to facilitate and
expedite the work of those using them are very ingenious.
There is attached to each an apparatus by which clothes
washed are nearly wrung dry in three or four minutes,
and stoves, &e., by which the operations of the washer
are rapidly completed. The feeling of the visitors on
inspecting the entire arrangements appeared to be one of
unqualified approbation. Indeed, it was frequently ex-
pressed, that no town in the world possessed an establish-
ment so complete ; and that Liverpool might fairly lay
claim to have constructed a model for the world to
imitate.
After the company had satisfied themselves with an in-
spection of the baths, a party of gentlemen, including
many of the Health Committee and the Council, with the
engineers, the contractors for the building, and the sub-
contractors, partook of a slight entertainment in the
Committee-room, at the Public-offices, provided for them
by Mr. Parker. After the health of her Majesty the
Queen, had been given by that gentleman, who was in
the chair, a letter was read from Mr. Wm. Rathbdne,
expressing regret that his magisterial duties prevented
his being present, and asking. at the same time, if ladies
would be permitted to attend on that day. It was stated
that Mr. and Mrs. Rattbone had been invited, and had
been shown through the building.
Mr. PARKER then rose, to express his great satisfaction
with the building which they had just opened. He was
persuaded that the baths would be remunerative and a
source of revenue to the Corporation. The shilling baths
would do well, and were fit to be used by the first ladies
and gentlemen in the town. He proceeded to pay a high
compliment to Mr. Newlands, under whose superintend-
ence they had been erected ' • and, in proposing his health,
remarked that his staff had been engaged for three days
and nights to get ready for the opening on that occasion.
Mr. NEWLANDS returned thanks. It was very gratify-
ing to him to find that the committee had been satisfied
with his exertions. He could promise them, however,
that the next building of the kind, which he had to erect,
would be better than the present one. The experience
which he had now acquired would enable him to simplify
and cheapen its arrangements. He had told them that
the cost of the building would not exceed £9,000; and he
believed he could say that it had been completed for £5OO
less than that sum. He had no doubt that it would pay
its own working expenses of staff &c., with four per cent.
interest upon the capital expended.
In the course of a conversation which followed, and on
the construction of the baths as fitted up in the building
being referred to in laudatory terms, Mr. Newlands ex-
plained that they could be adapted to the service pipes in
any dwelling-house supplied with water from the corpo-
ration works ; and that the
_cost of the necessary appa-

rat us would be only £6 10s., for the hot and coldOhinge
bath, and 15s. for the shower bath.
Mr. PICTON, in a neat speech, in which he claimed for'
Liverpool the honour of having set the example to moderns
by constructing baths and washhouses for the poor,—than
which there could be no more philanthropic object,
—paid a high compliment to Mr. Alderman Parker, for
his indefatigable exertions in promoting the cause of
sanitory reform and cleanliness, and concluded by pro-
posing his health.
Mr. PARKER was highly gratified with the compliment
paid him, but repudiated the statement made by Mr. Pie-
ton, of lr.s having been the first to direct attention to the
baths and washhouses for the poor. Mr. Tinne and Mr.
Rathbone had been the first to apply the public money
to this useful purpose. To the committee, whose organ
he was, the great merit was due ; and in their name he
accepted the compliment they had paid him, and would
propose the health of the members of the Baths and
Washhouses Committee and of their chairman, Mr. Lloyd.
Mr. LLOYD briefly replied ; and after stating that a
Perfect unanimity prevailed amongst all the members in
forwarding the works, proposed the health of Mr. Tom-
kinson the contractor, and the sub-contractors, who se-
verally returned thanks.
A very interesting conversation followed upon the sub-
ject of bringing salt water into the town for the purpose
of supplying it to bathing purposes.
Mr. NEWLANDS explained that an outlay of about
£lO,OOO for a reservoir or reservoirs, would enable them
to supply the wants of all the present and prospective
baths. To work these, a 30-horse engine would be re-
quired, which, we understood, would cost about another
£l,OOO. Mr. Hartley, the dock surveyor, had stated to
him that morning that a site for such engine could be
afforded near the tobacco warehouses.
It was suggested by Mr. PICTON, as very desirable for
the town, that places for salt water baths should be pro-
vided, from which Liverpool might regain the advantages
conferred by visitors in search of health, and bathing, as a
means of recovering it, which she enjoyed before the
North Shore was so completely occupied by docks ; and
it was explained by Mr. Newlands that the finance com-
mittee had ne less than four eligible plots of land in the
Park, in Everton, near to Kirkdale, and in another loca-
lity, which might be laid out for the purpose.
Mr. BIGHAM, and several other gentlemen, strongly
urged the question of salt water supply upon the Company,
which concluded a very pleasant meeting about one
o'clock.

The second meeting of the Liverpool Hunt Club will
take place at Hoylake on Wednesday and Thursday next.
The Rev. Thomas Nolan, M.A., of Trinity College,
Dublin, has been admitted ad eundem at Cambridge
University. _ __ . . . . .

Mr. James has denied that he ever had any intention
to become a candidate for the stipendiary magistracy of

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCIT, OXTON.—The Bishop of
Chester has fixed Monday. May 19th, for the consecra-
tion of this church, which has been for some time open
by licence. _ _ _ _ _

MUNIFICENT COLLECTIONS.—On Sunday week, after
two sermons by the Rev. Canon Stowell, incumbent, the
splendid sum of £3OO. 10s. 4d. was collected in Christ
Church, Salford, for the schools attached to the church.
THE WEATHER.—We continue to be visited by most
ungenial weather, accompanied by occasional frost, and
the month of May has set in more like mid-winter than

spring. The wind has blown piercingly from the north
and north east, and we have had heavy falls of hail, snow
and rain.

Bishop Brown has already sounded a note of retreat in
his controversy with Mr. Bayleo. It seems that the
" pure minds" of the readers of the Catholic Standard
are shockel by Mr. Baylee's unflinching exposures; and
the Bishop wr►tes to the editor, that. if Mr. Baylce again
" sends a letter revolting to honourable and pure minds,"
he cannot require its insertion.

sermonsr
Sr. Juox's SCHOOLS.—We understand that the annual
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scripture a
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J. B. Lowe and F. Barker. No fewer than 400 children
are receiving an excellent scriptural education in these
schools, and many more of the rising generation are
anxious to obtain admission, but there is not room to re-
ceive them. We are sorry to hear that the excellent trea-
surer is now in advance, and a strenuous effort should
therefore be made at once to free the schools from debt,
and place them on a permanent footing.
COUNCIL MEETING.—The usual monthly meeting of
the Council will take place to-morrow, when the lighting,
watch, and fire-police rates for the year will be laid.
Mr. Piston has given notice of a motion to have a clause
Inserted in the Liverpool Royal Institution bill, in strict
conformity with the arrangement by which the committee
of the Royal Institution agreed to transfer their property
to the Corporation ; namely, that a sum not less than
£7OO per annum should be expended in the maintenance
and support of the existing depart meats of the institution
irrespective of the contemplated library.
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co. have published an ex-
cellent Guide for intending Emigrants to Australia. The
steerage passage is now reduced to £lO, and these gentle-
men add :—" The result of our experience has been, that
the majority of passengers who have gone out in our
vessels to America, have been landed in better health and
vigour (under the dietary scale allowed by act of parlia-
ment)
than when they embarked. Hence our object in
reducing the expense of getting to a country like Australia,
where there is the certainty of immediate employment,
to a figure which will induce passengers to go there instead
of seeking a new home in the far west of America."

AMERICAN VISITORS TO THE GREAT WORLD'S

FAIR

The New York Herald, received by the last mail, gives
the following flattering account of the sort of visitors
whom we shall receive from the model republic. After
telling us of a host of socialists, bankrupts, and spend-
thrifts, most of whom are to come in order to bring about
some revolutionary crisis in Europe, he adds,—

" We learn also, from the police, that there is another class
going out to Europe, consisting of gamblers, thieves, burglars.
pickpockets, and the like, who expect to find London and other
large cities favourable fields for the exercise of their genius
and the peculiar mysteries of their trades. On the whole, the
broken-down fashionables, the gamblers, pickpockets, burglars,
and the more theoretical robbers, the socialists and infidels,
will present a pretty strong preponderance over the respectable
persons who will leave this country. However, the movement
is a very excellent one in many respects, and particularly as it
will give the two lines of mail steamers between New York
and Liverpool valuable returns upon their capital, such as
have been realized by the California steam-ships during the
last eighteen months."

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

Monday Night

The Share market has-been very inactive all week, and
prices have in consequence declined. There has not,
however, been any pressure of stock ; the lower prices
have been altogether caused by attempted speculative
sales on the part of the dealers in the absence of buyers.
A very slight demand from the public would cause an
immediate advance. We annex this day's quotations :
Birkenhead L. and Chesh. 8 7-16 d ; Caledonian, 15 141 ;
East Lancashire. 171- ; Old Leeds, 64 631 ; Do. Fifths,
61c1 ; Do. do. (West ft U) sid ; Leeds and Thirsk, 18 ;
London stock, 129 t 9; Do. new Quarters, 8
M'chester Shef and L'ccln, 35; Do. preference, 12; Mid-
land, 64 631 z ; Do. Halves, 121 d ' • North Staffordshire,
6111: Shrewsbury and thester, ISt ; Old Dovers, 28
271 871 ; York and North Midland, 27.
Our colonial markets have rather improved, particu-
larly for the article of sugar, and prices are generally 6d.
per cwt. dearer. Since the circular on Friday, 3,000 bags
of Benares, 2,000 mats Mauritius, and 200 hhds. West
India, chiefly Barbadoes, have been taken by the grocers
at very full prices. For coffee there has also been more
inquiry, but holders are shy sellers at present low prices.
Tea is quiet. 500 bags saltpetre realised 245. 6d. fcr
per cent. ref. There is a general absence of animation in
business, which it is difficult to account for, though no
doubt the miserable position of the ministry cannot tend
to inspire confidence.
The steamer Africa arrived early yesterday morning
from New York. The receipts of cotton for the week,
though still in excess of last year, were comparatively less
than they bad been for some weeks previously, which,
coupled with bad weather in the Southern States, gave
more firmness to this market this morning. In addition
to which, in taking the stock which was declared at noon,
there appeared a deficiency of some 29,000 bales, as com-
pared with the regular weekly tables, which gave a further
firmness; and the sales of to-day are 5,000 bales, at rather
stiffer rates. The deficiency in the stock is accounted for
by the large quantity of cotton which has been forwarded
this year into the country direct.
The accounts from India show no material alteration
in the state of the markets, although on the whole the
prospect seems rather more favourable. At Bombay there
has been a revival in the demand for our manufactured
goods, with an improvement in quotations, while at Cal-
cutta, notwithstanding a diminution of activity, prices
have been fairly maintained. The rate of exchange ap-
pears to have assumed a more satisfactory tendency,
which will henceforth most probably be further mani-
fested from time to time, nettle specie despatched during
the past few months shall arrive out.

PROGRESS OF AMERICAN IMPORTATIONS
INTO THIS COUNTRY.

Upon this subject the New York correspondent of the
London Times says :—" When the English markets were
opened it was natural that the largest supplies should be
received from that country which could furnish them
on the most favorable terms. But the new States, even
then, were by no means in a position to meet the pro-
bable demand, on account of the heavy cost of transpor-
tation from the interior, which precluded the possibility
of delivering their surplus produce abroad at prices remu-
nerating the cost and labour of doing so. Since then a
large amount of capital has been expended in providing
the requisite means of transportation. In 1840, the
length of railroads in operation was 2,270 miles, at a cost
of 60,000,000 dollars ; while, in 18)0, this number had
increased to 8,200 miles, which had cost 205,000,000 dol-
lars. During the same period four routes had been opened
for transportation between the Atlantic ports and the
country west of the Alleghaines.
The effect has been to open an extent of agricultural
country to the demands of the seaboard many fold larger
than ,that from which the supplies had been drawn in
1840, and, as a necessary consequence, to render much
larger quantities of produce available for export. The
increase in many of these articles is shown by the official
returns to be as follows :

Beef barrels
Pork, barrels.

Butter, pounds
Cheese, pounds
Hems ..

1850.
95,387
188,141

Increase.
75,756
122,500

1,171,633
723,217
1,643,897

3,876,175 2,704,536
13,020,897 12,297.600
41.014,528 39,370,631

7,418,8♦7

54.925;546 47,506,699

Flour, barrels
Wheat, bushels
Corn ..

922,151
96,325
162,306

1,385,443 462,297
601,661 512,336
6,595,092 6,432,786

The year 1849 having been one of short crop abroad
was of course a year of large exports from the United
States, but the trade has, nevertheless, gone on to in-
crease in the astonishing manner here indicated. The
heavy exports of 1850 were made in the face of lower
prices in Western Europe and England than had ruled in
any previous year of the present century.

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—About 24,000 per-
sons have sailed from this port for the United States
during the past month, and of these no fewer than 6,800
have been sent out by W. Tapscott and Co.—a number
probably as great as has ever before been despatched by
one house from this or any other port within the same
short space of time.
Inisn POPLlN.—During the Queen's visit to the Exhi-
bition, her Majesty expressed herself greatly pleased with
the needlework of her Irish subjects, and our readers,
especially the fairer portion of them, have an opportunity
of following her Majesty's example, by examining the
specimens of Irish manufacture on view at Mr. Nadine's
shop, in Bold-street.
THE SUICIDE FROM THE LANDING STAGE.—The
body of the unfortunate woman who rushed upon her fate
in so daring and reckless a manner, from the landing stage,
on Saturday se'nnight. has not yet been found. It ap-
pears her name was Mary Ann Richards. She lived in
Torbock-street, and gained her living by making rolls.
For some time prior to the commission of the rash act,
she had been labouring under lowness of spirits. The
linen she wore at the time was marked " M.C."
OVERLAIN INFANTS.—Yesterday there were no less
than four cases for inquiry at the Coroner's Court, every
one of which was that of an infant found dead in bed—
in other words, overlain by the mother. The mortality
of infants, from this cause, in this town, in the course of
a year, is immense, scarcely a week passing that does not
produce several such cases. The circumstances attend-
ing the four deaths referred to were precisely those of
similar casualties frequently given in our paper ; the par-
ticulars, therefore, would be mere repetition,.

THE DIVISION ON THE INCOME-TAX.—The division
lists of Friday night present some curious features. Mr.
Hume appears to have been deserted by the Financial
Reformers, and nearly all the Lancashire members voted
against him ; the minority in favour of the government
included Cardwell, Birch, Henry, Heywood, Walms-
ley, Thorneley, Heyworth, Ewart, Bright, Cobden, Gib-
son, Kershaw, Fox, Molesworth, Colonel Thompson, Sir
R. Peel, andF. Peel. In the majority were Viscount Anson,
Sir J. Duke, M`Gregor, Locke King, Walter, Muntz, Sir
P. Egerton, Lord J. Manners, J. Tollemache, J. W.
Patten, G. C. Legh, R. Stephenson, Col. Sibthorp, &c.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The monthly meeting of
the Council was held yesterday, T. B. Horsfall, Esq.,
president, in the chair. After the routine business had
been disposed of, reports were brought up from the spe-
cial committee on the sound dues, and on commercial tri-
bunals. It was resolved to memorialize government in
favour of an equitable adjustment of the sound dues. The
committee on customs regulations also reported progress,
and their resolutions on the subject of customs reform
were read and adopted, copies of which were ordered to I
be sent to the various commercial associations of this
town. The communications included letters on the Pa-
tent Law Amendment Bill, on the Liverpool Dock Bill,
on Customs Reform, on the Law of Principal and Agent,
and many other subjects. A present was announced from
J. Graham Gilbert, Rig., of a valuable portrait of Can-
ning, for which the best thanks of the chamber were voted.
" KITTY," THE MATRON AT THE DEAD-HOUSE.—
Many humble individuals have performed valuable public
services without the community so indebted being aware
of their obligation, much less have they rewarded such
services. A case, may be cited near home. It is probably
pretty well known that a female named Catherine Rush,
but whose more common appellation is " Kitty," has the
charge of the dead-house at the Prince's Dock, but the
value of Kitty's services and her onerous duties are per-
haps not so well known. It was chiefly owing to this
woman's unremitting exertions that the late Marquis of
Hastings was restored, and during the past week Kitty
has had the satisfaction of restoring to animation no less
than five apparently lifeless corses, one body for each
night except one, having been taken out of the different
docks in the vicinity of the dead-house, and put under
Kitty's care. One of these was the mate of the ship Tal-
bot, who fell into the George's Dock as he was going
to his vessel on Friday night. Another was a fiatman
named Mann, who fell into the Salthouse Dock, on
Thursday night, and a third a woman named Anti Kearns,
who lived in Oriel-street, and who in a drunken fit jumped
into the Prince's Dock on Saturday night. This woman,
nn being restored to animation, instead of thanking poor
Kitty for her humane exertions, abused her for her pains.
It seems the terms of Kitty's situation are these : she is
required to have a supply of hot and cold water ready
night and day, and in cases of suspended animation
brought to the dead-house to lend her aid in reproducing
animation. She receives no salary, but is allowed to live
rent-fee, and is supplied with coal and gas. Does she not
merit some further remuneration ?
An application made on Wednesday to Mr. Hardwick,
at the Marlborough Police-office, in the character of
Pere des malhettreux, led to the discovery of a system
which has it appears been in operation for some time, of
deporting into England from France and other continen-
tal countries, not only political refugees, but vagrants and
vagabonds of all descriptions. There have long been
grievous complaints made of the importation of Irish
paupers and vagrants by ship loads ' • if to these are to be
added similar cargoes from abroad, the result can be but
one, to make England, and London especially, the ccm..
I mon receptacle of all the vilest refuse of mankitid, •