The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD:

ADULT BAPTISM AT CHRIST CHURCH.—On Wednes-
day evening, a lady was publicly baptised at Christ
Church, in presence of a large congregation, by the Rev.
Fielding Ould, who preached a sermon appropriate to the
occasion. The baptism was by immersion in a large ves-
sel of water placed in the centre aisle, in front of the read-
ing desk. The lady was Mrs. Griffiths, wife of the late
keeper of the Athenaeum News-room. We believe that
sbe was for some time a member of Comus-street Baptist
Chapel, but, still retaining her belief regarding adult bap-
tism, preferred being received into the communion of the
Church of England by the administration of the ordinance
in that way.

THE BLUE-COAT BROTHERLY SOCIETY.—The sixth an-
nual report has just been printed. It says the number of
boys who have left the school since the formation of the
society is 273, being an increase of 59 over the number
of last year; and all within its reach have been regularly
visited, and the reports which the visitors have had the
pleasure of presenting at their monthly meetings, afford
good evidence of the beneficial result of their labours.
On almost every occasion they have received from the
employers an expression of perfect satisfaction with the
general conduct o the boys, and in many instances the
good behaviour of one boy has been an inducement to
the employer to take another apprentice from the school.
We are glad to perceive that they have in the Savings'
Bank £ll9 14s 6d, and in the treasurer's hands £3l 7s 2d,
while they have in other hands £27 Os 7d.
NORTHERN HOSPITAL.— 011 Wednesday, a special
meeting was held of the trustees of this institution, for
the purpose of considering law No. 19, with regard to its
alteration or confirmation. The question for discussion
was, in effect, this—whether the medical officers of the
institution should be elected for fifteen years, or, as at
present, According to law 19, for a shorter period, ten
years. After Mr. William Gill had handed in the reso-
lutions passed at the medical meeting on Monday, Mr.
Elias Mosley moved and the Rev. Mr. Lawrence seconded
a resolution for the alteration of the law. Mr. James
Aspinall, seconded by Mr. W. Gill, moved the confirma-
tion of the law. Mr. Mosley eventually consented to
withdraw his motion, seeing, as he said, from the tone of
the discussion, that additional surgeons were required at
the Hospital, and that some salutary improvements in
this respect were likely to be effected.

MEETING OF COTTON IMPORTERS. —On Tuesday a
meeting of the importers of cotton, who bad signed the
declaration agreed to at the public meeting on the 15th
ultimo, was held in the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange-
buildings, for the purpose of considering a modification
of the proposed plan, suggested by the Cotton Brokers'
Association, as to the practice of removing samples fiom
the selling broker's office. Mr. W. Stewart moved a re-
solution, " That in lieu of the plan proposed at the meet-
ing in question, the following plan be adopted, viz.:—
That of every parcel of cotton on sale, duplicate samples
shall be drawn : that one set of the samples (to be dis-
tinguished by a red ticket, and to be called the office
sample) shall always be retained in the office of the selling
broker, so as to enable the seller to exhibit his cotton to
all buyers, and to give the opportunity to any buyer at
once to purchase the parcel." This resolution, having
been seconded, gave rise to considerable discussion, but
was ultimately carried. The meeting was about to sepa-
rate, when Mr. Hugh Duckworth said he would move,
as an additional resolution, " That samples be not allowed
to go out from any broker's office before ten in the morn-
ing"; but this was eventually withdrawn, and the meet-
ing, which only lasted about half an hour, separated.
HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—The Head Constable
reported that an explosion of gas occurred a few days
since in Preston-street, which blew off the stone which
covered the eye of the sewer. Mr. Cunningham, the
surveyor, stated, in reply to a question put to him by the
chairman, that the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Proc-
ter again referred to the state of the pavement in Great
Howard-street; he had inspected it; and Mr. Cunning-
ham bad made an estimate of the expense which would
be incurred by having it done as he proposed, namely,
with twelve feet of macadam in the centre of the street,
and twelve feet of paving on each side : the cost would
be £330. Some discussion ensued relative to proceeding
with the repairs at present, as the street would shortly
have to be sewered, and would also be interfered with by
the new dock works, when the pavement would require
taking up. In connexion with this subject a letter was
read from Mr. Hartley, the Dock Surveyor, to the effect
that if the Board would furnish him with sections of the
sewer running near the dock works, he would make a plan
for effecting what was required in a way that would be
satisfactory. Some further conversation followed, and
the matter was undecided.

LIVERPOOL ART UNION.—We are bappy to learn that
this association is progressing most favourably, its funds
exhibiting an increase of nearly £2OO over the amount
subscribed last year. The distribution of the prizes
(thirty-two in number) took place in the Exhibiti, n-
rooms on Thursday, and the following is the list of the
fortunate subscribers:—
J. H. Syers
Geraldine
Mrs. Jenkinson ...... 40 D. M'Viccar
W. Humphreys ...... 30 William Dalgleish
Allan Potter 3O John Brittain
J. F. Goodwin 25 Thomas Bouch ........ 10
John Bent 25 J. E. Wright .... 10
Edward Gri1fin........ 20 Harry Cook .. 10
Elias Arnaud
Mrs. John Walker
George Casson 2O Robert Harrison ...... 10
Edward James., 2O Mrs. Unsworth
M. S. Cisme ...... 15 Josh. Shipley ..... ... 5
J. Atkinson ..... Fairhurst........ 15 John Houghton 5
Miss . 15 John Ru55e11.......... 5
T. H. Hornby ..... ... 15 Edward Littledale .... 5

SUFFERINGS AT SEA.---011 Saturday week, Robert
Quayle. a seaman of very emaciated and sickly appear-
ance, appeayed to substantiate a claim for wages. He
said he was a seaman on board the Falcon, belonging to
Agett and Hemingway, of this town, and had signed arti-
cles for a voyage to Africa and back. Before they reached
the coast the captain died, and the mate got somewhat
out of his reckoning. He and four others of the crew
were sent in a boat to look for Benin river. During
their absence the ve.sel drifted from her anchorage, and
made for Fernando Po, and, of course, on the return of
the boat, she could not be found. The men, who had
only a day's supply of food at first, were left exposed in
an open boat, without provisions or compass, for five days
and nights, during which they subsisted on the rain. water
that fell and collected in the bottom of the boat. They
at length drifted to Bimby Island, where they were de-
tained by the natives till released by the intervention of a
missionary, who found means to communicate with the
captain of the Lady Paget, then off the c inst. The com-
plainant arrived in Liverpool by the Orozimbo. A clerk
from the office of defendants said they declined paying
the wages, as the Falcon had not arrived, and they had
had no accounts from her, or. any other means of verify-
ing the statement of complainant. Mr. Rushton ordered
the wages (X 9 10s.) to be paid up to the arrival of the
man in Liverpool.

NEW GAS AND COKE COMPANY,

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday. Joust HOLMES, Esq., took the chair.
W. FOSBERY, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of
Management, read the following report :
"Your committee, in submitting for the consideration
of the proprietors their proceedings since the general
meeting in July last, have to observe, that the company's
amended act alters the business to be transacted at the
present period, the act requiring that the accounts shill
be kept and made up to the 30th June, in lieu of the 31st
December, in each year; consequently, there will not be
any accounts to pass at this meeting ; but the committee
are b ippy to say, the company's rent-roll justifies them
in recommending a dividend for the half. year ending 31st
December, 1844, of £5 on each share of £lOO, and £1 Is.
on each share of £25, being at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, subject to the deduction of the income tax,
and payable on the 6th February next.
The committee are gratified in reporting the steady
prosperity of this undertaking, owing to the extension of
the town and suburbs, and consequent increased con-
sumption of gas ; indeed, so rapid has this improvement
been, that. notwithstanding the reduction in price from
is. to Gs. per 1000 cubic feet, within the last year, the
further objects contemplated by Parliament in the strin-
gent clauses of the act granted last session, rigidly con-
fining the profits of the company to 10 per cent. (allowing
a reserved fund of £5,000 to guarantee this and to meet
other contingencies), and equally securing all further ex-
cess of income for the benefit of the public, in the reduc-
tion to a proportionate amount in the price of gas, will
eventually be fully realised ; to effect which, the accounts
of the company are filed in court annually, and audited
by an accountant named by the Recorder on behalf of the
maeistra'es, who examines the company's books and other
documents, the correctness of which be attests, the Re-
corder ha.ving the power to lower the price to the extent
of the overplus of profit ; and in no case could the com-
pany raise their charge without first showing sufficient
grounds and obtaining the sanction of the court. It will,
therefore, be evident, that if there existed a wish or motive
for evading the intentions of the act of parliament, the
power to do so would be found wanting, whatever insi-
nuations to the contrary may have been made by inte-
rested parties.

LIABILITY OF TUG-BOATS.—.On Friday, Charles
Fryer, master of the Egerton steam-boat, appeared at the
police-court in answer to an information, charging him
with the amount of certain damage done to the Neapoli-
tan brig, the Immaculate, on the 31st December last.
The commander of the brig, whose name is Stefano Tra-
fani, stated in the Italian language that he engaged the
Egerton when inside the north-west light ship, to tow his
vessel to the mouth of the dock for £6. On their way
there was a schooner, which the Egerton was desirous of
also towing in. for which purpose he neared it. The pilot
hailed the defendant, and told him that if there was any
damage done in consequence of this proceeding he would
be held responsible, out no attention was paid to the
caution. As soon as the vessels got near each other,
whilst the steamer was taking hold of the schooner, in
consequence of the weigh upon the Immaculata, there
was a collision with the schooner, the consequence
of which was damage to the Immaculata, amount-
ing to £l6 10s. This statement was corroborated by
John Talmasi, boatswain of the Immaculata. The de-
fendant is reply called Samuel Webster, captain of the
Sir William Stanley s earner, who was in company at the
time; and also made a statement himself, the substance
of which was that, when the pilot called out to the man
at the wheel " helm a starboard," Ire pot it a port, arid
thus caused the damage. Mr. Rushton said the defend-
ant ought •;ot to have gone to the other vessel. The de-
fendant said there was no agreement to tow the Immacu-
lata alone. Mr. Rushton said that did not signify; he
was bound to tow carefully, and in the best possible man-
ner, whereas he had done it carelessly and thus wrought
the damage. Eventually, the defendant being held liable,
survey as to the amount was directed to be made by
Mr. Askew, the south harbour master.

" Your committee, perceiving by their accounts made
up to 31st December last, a continued improvement in
their revenue, arising from tt e great extent of consump-
tion of gas and other causes already named, since the last
reduction in price, have resolved to anticipate, as on a
former occasion, the overpius that may be realised when
their accounts are filed in July next, and to announce a
further lowering of price from Gs. to ss. per 1000 cubic
feet, from the Ist of April next, trusting to the probably
still further increase of the use of gas yielding such a
compensation as to insure the company from any perma-
nent loss—a measure which they hope will be equally
satisfactory to you as to the public ; and if the company
is not obliged to waste its funds in an unnecessary par-
liamentary contest, there is every prospect, of a further
reduction hereafter. The superior quality of the Liver
poet gas is not questioned by any party. Mr. Cooper, an
eminent chemist of London, in his evidence before the
House of Lords, in 1843, proves its illuminating power to
be 22J per cent. more than that made in Manchester,
where the price graduates in proportion to the quantity
consumed ; say to all persons burning below 200,000
cubic feet, or £6O worth annually, 6s. per 1000 ; above
that quantity, and under 400,000 cubic feet, or £ll5
worth, ss. 9d. per 1000; and so .on down to ss. to con-
sumers of 800,000 feet, or £2OO annually,--averaging ss.
9d. to 6s. to the general body of consumers, to which 20
per cent. at least should be added for the difference in
quality, which, on a comparison with the gas made in
Liverpool, would give the rate charged id Manchester as
is. 2d. per 1000 feet. Notwithstanding the price being
actually lower than in any other considerable town in the
kingdom, you are menaced by a third company, origina-
ted by the very parties who, only last year, were the
means of introducing into your bill all its restrictive
and stringent clauses, and who now, without giving time
for their operation, expect parliament to undo that which
already promises so fairly, even to an extent of benefit to
the public far beyond any that a third company could
afford, it being now well ascertained that the multiplying
of companies only increases expense, to be borne by the
public.

EFFECTS OF THE LATE STORM

boiler room were destroyed the thick iron beam ends
being broken like grass. Part of the roof of the foundry
shed was destroyed; as also part of some premises ad-
joining another side of the mill, and belonging to Messrs.
Livesey and Rodgett. The damage done to Mr. Dickin-
son's property cannot be calculated at less than £2,000.
Upwards of .C.:90 worth of glass was destroyed.
At Yarmouth, two or three colliers were wrecked and
the lives of seven men were unfortunately lost out of a
yawl which was sent from that port to assist the crew of.
.one of the wrecked colliers, and was lost in the attempt.
The crew of the collier, six in humber, were also drowned.
A melancholy shipwreck happened on the Cornish
coast, all bands on board. excepting one seaman, meeting
a watery grave. The unfortunate vessel was a. brig called
the William Pitt, belonging to Sunderland, Bowser, mas-
ter, laden with 3.190 arch-bs of beans, bound to Glouces-
ter from Alexandria. On Sunday morning last the ship
made Scilly and Long Ships Light. She then passed up
the Channel, when she encountered the storm, and sus-
taining considerable injury, the master was determined to
run into the first harbour. That of Padstow being the
first,•the ship was brought before the wind in order to
run her in, when, unhappily, she struck on the rocks on
the Miners side, and, afterwards on the Dunbar, where
she almost immediately went to pieces. One of the crew,
named James Hewson, was saved by lashing himself to a
spar, which vies carried by the waves ashore. The rest
of his companions, however, 10 in number, including the
captain, met with a watery grave.
The smack Greyhound, which sailed for the Isle of
Man on Saturday, has put back. Capt. Waterson reports
having experienced a tremendous gale on Sunday from the
N.W., which carried away sails, 'and did other damage;
bore up for Liverpool at dusk; in the evening observed a
ship or barque attempt the Victoria Channel ; saw her
strike on the tail of the bank to the S.E. of the Bell Buoy,
and go over on her beam ends, the sea makigg a complete
breach over her ; she was boarded, and after—being in that
situation about five or six minutes, she went down. A.
small vessel like a plot-boat was near her at the time.
During the severe gale of Sunday, several vessels
broke from their moorings in the Queen s Dock, and sus-
tained damage, some of which are the Jos. P. Dobree,
lost maintopgallant-mast ; the Emma, her jib-boom ;
Bosphorus, rigging damaged, and bulwarks stove ; Eblana,
tafrail and stern damaged ; Fairfield, stern slightly da-
maged.—Liverpool Telegraph.
lln our last we noticed the Robert Burns, which had
been abandoned, having been towed into Greenock by the
Robert Napier steamer. We have since learned from a
letter frc.m Londonderry that the mate, his wife, and
eight of the seamen were saved by the Perseverance,
M`Ghee, and landed at that port. The master had been
washed overboard.

BRAVERY R
EWARDED.---.A.n interesting ceremony took
place in the Police-court, on Friday,—the presentation of
a gold and silver medal to two brave British seamen from
the King of Sweden, through the hands of Mr. Gustavus
Adolphus Liilev, her Majesty's Consul at this port. The
recipients are Mr. Charles Nixon, commander, and Mr.
Andrew Cooming, mate of the British ship Brockett,
of Newcastle, by whose intrepidity a boat's crew belong-
ing to the Swedish corvette Nayadan, were saved. The
Swedish Consul-General in London desired that the pre-
sentation should be made in public : and with this view
Mr. Lilley wrote to the Mayor, requesting his permission
to present the medals in his presence, to which he readily
acceded, but was himself, from indisposition, unable to
leave his house. Mr. Nixon and Mr. Coorning having en-
tered the court, Mr. Lilley, who sat near Mr. Rushton,
addressed the auditory, stating that he had been instruc-
ted by his government to present a gold medal to Captain
N., and a silver one to his mate. He then read a letter
from Baron Shre, the Swedish Minister for Foreign
Affairs, dated Stockholm, 14th July, 1843. From this it
appeared, that on the 13th of December previously, one
of the Nayden's boats employed in carrying coals on board
in the roads of Monte Nideo, was in serions danger in
consequence of a sudden hurricane ; that the crew and
boat were saved from destruction by the parties named :
that the captain refused any compensation for the care he
had taken of the Swedish crew, and for the provisions
consumed by them while they were detained on hoard the
ship during the continuance of the storm ; and that his
Majesty, in proof of his gracious satisfaction, was pleased
to confer on the captain and mate the medals stated, bear-
ing the inscription " For commendable deeds." Mr.
Rushton remarked that these were very honourable testi-
monials from his Majesty, and hoped they might long live
to possess them. Captain Nixon expressed his sense of
the honour done him. He thought he had merely done
a common act of humanity, which he trusted he should do
on all possible occasions, and he felt greatly obliged to the
Consul for his kindness. Mr. Cooming also returned
thanks. Mr. Lilley said he should communicate their ex-
pression of thanks to his government. The Brockett be-
longs to Newcastle, to which the medals were forwarded,
but as the ship had left that port and recently arrived at
Liverpool they were sent on here. Mr. Rushton said the
whole proceeding was highly creditable to the captain and
mate, and the parties left the court.

" Perhaps it may not be irrelevant to observe, that the
two existing companies have already laid 240 miles of
mains only, exclusive of branches, more than 200 miles
of which are within the borough ; and a third company
would require at least 100 miles of the pavement to be
taken up and relaid, further crowding the streets with a
sixth line of pipes without any necessity, or any benefit
to consumers, who have now a certain prospect of ob-
taining gas lower from the existing companies, before any
third party can accomplish the extent or work and expen-

GENERAL MISCELLANY

TUESDAY EVENING CONCERTS—COMMERCIAL HALL. diture which the magnitude of the town would require,
—The cancert on Tuesday evening was most respectably and which parliament would compel them to give.
and numerously attended. The various pieces were rap- "In July last, the company's paid-up capital being
turously applauded. Mr. Ryalls is a great favourite, and exhausted, the committee directed a sale by auction of
upon his finishing "Ye Mariners of England," the whole 330 new £5 shares, which realised, after deducting ex-
audience in one spontaneous burst called for " I'mafloat," penses, £16,550. Of this sum the gas consumers benefit
which he very kindly sang. Miss Joseph's song, " I to the extent of £8,300, being expended in the extension
would I were a Fairy," was as a matter of course encored ,• of works upon which no dividend is paid, or, in other
how could it be otherwise with such a beautiful ballad and words, the consumers pay 5 per cent. only on the capital
such a beautiful voice. " Come forth with me," by Hime, raised, the dividend payable to the proprietors upon that
was delightfully sang by Mrs. Hiles, and was also" Should sum being £825.
be upbraid," which was loudly encored. Mr. Andrews' " The offices and fitting department in Queen-square
fine deep voice suited " Friend of the Brave" admirably. being found totally inadequate to the increasing business
As a pianist few in the town can equal Mr. E. F. Smith, of the company, more eligible premises in Newington
and the projectors of these musical evenings have done welt have been purchased on taeourable terms, and, when
to secure his services. Another treat has been prepared ready for occupation, will leave the former property for
for this evening. In addition to Mrs. Hiles, Miss Linacre, sale."
Mr. Andrews, and, we understand, Mr. Crank, is also The CHAIRMAN moved the confirmation of the re-
engaged.
port, and
FAREWELL DINNER TO MR. JOHN NICHOL, JUN.—
Mr. HARMOOD BANNER, in secondine the motion, af-
The friends of this enterprising young builder having ter stating that the reduction in price, had not been made
in consequence of any pressure from without, but of the
heard that he was about to leave Edinburgh to go into
business in Liverpool, resolved to mark their sense of his fair advancing prosperity of the company, said he was
talents, and their regret at his leaving them, by inviting quite certain that so far from the establishment of another
him to a farewell dinner. Accordingly, on Thursday af-
company tending to a reduction in the price of gas—they
ternoon, upwards of sixty gentlemen sat down to an ex-
talked of having it at 4s. 6d. per 1000 cubic feet—that it
cellent dinner in the saloon of Gibb's Royal Hotel—Bai.
would most materially retard the fair and gradual reduc-
lie Gray in the chair, supported on the right and left by
tion which must necessarily take place as the present com-
the guest of the evening, by Bailie Duncan, Councillors pant' were now going on. The present company had an
Johnston, Dick, and Duncan ; Dr. Fairbairn, A. Fyffe,
establishment which did not increase in expense as the
S. S. C., Rev. John M'Gilchrist ; Mr. Robertson, City
operations of the company increased. And this was im-
portant, because any new party coming in must have a
Chamberlain; Mr. Brown, superintendent of public
works; Mr. Nixon, Queen's Architect, &c. Alex. Ja- new establishment, and the cost of a considerable esta-
mieson, Esq. officiated as croupier, supported by Francis blishment to pay ; whereas the present company, with
Richardson, Esq., James Burgess, Esq., and George their establishment, would be enabled to increase the
Meikle, Esq , merchants, &c. In proposing the toast of
consumption of gas so largely that that of itself would en-
sure a further red uction.
..11uminating power of the gas,
'1 he town was indebted to the
the evening, the Chairman, in very feeling terms, adverted
company for the
to the excellence of Mr. Nichol's character, and the re-
increased ias they were the first to manufacture gas from cannel.
gret which all his friends, whether public or private, felt
at losing him
This was of great consequence so far as price was
,con-
southern neighbours,and complained of the rapacity of our
in carrying off, one after another, all cernedp and those who taunted others with the price in
in
our best men in this northern division of the island. In
Liverpool being higher than elsewhere, should bear
returning thanks, Mr. Nichol expressed his regret at the mind that the illuminating power had a great deal to do
he fact was ascertained, as stated
prospect of being separated from so many friends, and as- with the question ; for if t
cured the meeting that their kindness would never be
in the report, that the quality of gas differed in illuminat-
ing power to the extent of 22 per cent it was clear that
absent from his memory. Several other appropriate
toasts were given by the Croupier, Mr. M'Gilchrist, and when 6s was charged in Manchester, and 6s. in Liver-
others.—Scotsman of Jan. 22.p001, the gas was 20 per cent. dearer in Manchester than
Docw COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The application of it was in this town—(hear, hear.) There was one other
point on which the public were interested. It had ap-
Mr. E. Morris, for compensation for injury done to a peered in the public prints that the public bodies were de-
car was declined.—The Parliamentary sub-committee re- sirous of getting into their hands the supply of gas to the
commended that authority should be given to the chair-
man to affix the dock seal to a petition for leave to intro- town. He would simely state, for the satisfaction of the
duce the proposed dock bill, in order that it might be proprietors, that, on the part of this company, no
transferred as as early as the forms would allow. The re- 'on fair terms.
commendation was adopted.—The Parliamentary com-
mittee were authorised to present petitions against the The motion passed unanimously.
George Batley, Harwood Banner, Lawrence Hey Worth,
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, and the Bolton, and Joseph Henshaw, Esqrs., retiring by rotation, were
Wigan, and Preston Railways, and also against the Val- unanimously re-elected; arid after a vote of thanks to the
lasey Dock Warehouse Bill, merely to obtain a locus chairman, the meeting separated.
slandi, should anything in the proposed schemes be con-
sidered detrimental to the dock estate.—The receipts of
dock and light duties for vessels entering Runcorn, dur-
ing the past month, were stated to be £49 4s 9d. on 174 The Dundee, Craig,
vessels, of 9736 tons, being an increase of £6 7s 10d. over master,
the corresponding period of last year.--A letter was read Dundee to Liverpool, encounte 86 tons burt henred the gale between the
from the Commissioners of Highways, for Toxteth-park, D'tull of Galloway, and the Irish coast, and was driven
granting permission to the Dock Committee to lay down
ashore on Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, about four
rails across certain streets in that township.—An applica- miles to the south of Jurby Head. The crew were res-
cued in a greatl exhausted state, by means of a boat
than from the Commissioners as to the want of landing
from the shore, aty three o'clock in the afternoon. The
g vessel, however, is a total wreck. Manor, a picture gallery, one hundred feet in length, for
slips at the north end of the town was referred to the
Sir Robert Peel is adding to his mansion, at Drayton
cargo has all been saved, but in a damaged condition.* The
sub-committee of Works.—A letter from Jas. Livins-
ton, as to the rent of the wrecked shed, was referred to the sub-committee for warehouse management.—An ap- On Sunday morning, a large schooner, supposed to be the reception chiefly of portraits of the most eminent
plication for an annual grant for the maintenance of a life- the Wilhelmina, of Glasgow, was seen approaching the men of the present day. Sir Robert's present collection
boat at Southport, and the payment of the crew, was rocky-bound shore a little to the northward of Fleshwick, of pictures at the Manor is already among the largest, if
referred to the marine sub-committee, as was an appli
it is not the largest, of modern date in this country.
cation from the Magazine life-boatmen for an increase of about half way between the Calf of Man and Dalby-
head, on the south-west of the island. About ten o'clock Unless unforeseen circumstances should hereafter occur
the vessel
approachedthe shore, when the crew must have to give a different turn to affairs, no chance exists of the
wages.—A letter from the Lord Provost of Perth, as to
the erection of a railway bridge over the Tay, was oidered been sensible of their inevitable fate, and the poor men duty on foreign grain falling below the maximum ; at
to lie on the table. were seen by a number of persons assembled opposite present the averages are receding, the last return for the
INQUESTS.—On Friday, four inquests were held before
crowded in the rigging in a state of nudity ;it was sup- kingdom being 455. 7d., which is 3d. per quarter lower
posed in the hope of being able to swim ashore. In a than the return for the preceding week.
the borough coroner. The first was on the body of Wm. few seconds the vessel struck with a fearful violence, the
Leander, an orphan, living in Banastre-street, four years masts instantly falling by the board, the hull was parted The extent; of human life
T lost at the
ctlaiernlaatenndißstar%esswing
shipwreck of the William Turner, in and three months old. It appeared that he was asleep on and dashed in a thousand pieces. At this time the a chair a few nights since, and that he was left alone in piteous cries of the poor men were distinctly heard, but
greater,been
nas regret
neBrn
correctly
say,et l reported. e3do.
persons l.t, haa ss
the apartment. When the family returned to the place they were instantly overwhelmed among the wreck and in some time after, they found him enveloped in flames. tremendous sea, and were speedily either drowned or ewretai htat non
fewerretphoar
and her
ashore. The ship was nearly 500 tons t
perished, out of the 30 only 3 bodies have been washed
bur hen,
He died of the injuries the following morning.—The dashed against the rocks, every soul on board meeting a
second was on Bernard Daly, of Nash-grove, a man forty- watery grave. The wreck speedily broke up, and a great cargo consisted of guano.
five years of age. On Wednesday afternoon last, he came portion washed ashore. The cargo appeared to have been PROFITABLE HOAX.—After the fall of snow in Lon-
home from work, sat down on a chair, was seized with a general, consisting of cottons and earthenware, some por-
don, on Friday list, very formidable and official-looking
fit of coughing, and continued to vomit blood for half an tions of which were, during Sunday, Monday, and Toes- circulars were delivered, threatening the vengeance of the
hour, dnd then died. The cause of death was rupture of day, washed ashore, but coe-pletely damaged. During law against all who should fail to sweep the snow from
blood consequent on the laceration of the lungs.—The -the same time several bodies, six in number, have been before their doors. Shortly after the delivery of this mis-
third was on James Wills, a child, four years old, residing washed-ashore. sive, sweepers offered their services to clear the footways
with his parents in Albert-place, Saltney-street. His The Tryall, Stowell master, from Ramsey for Liver- in front of the respective houses. The trick was most
elder brother filled a tea-pot with hot water, and while he pool, with a cargo of potatoes, unable to hold out any lon- effectual, and realised an abundant harvest to the pro-
was in the act of bringing it to the table, the deceased ran ger, was run ashore near Ramsey, and the crew were jectcrs.
against him, upset the tea-pot and was severely scalded saved; but the vessel immediately went to pieces, and MR. GLADSTONE'S RETIREMENT.—We are disposed
with tie hot water over the left shoulder and breast. He the potatoes were strewn about the beach in every to think that Mr. Glads' one retires on account of his dis-
died of the injuries in a few days after.—The fourth was direction. approval of decided measures, to be taken either by the
on Edward Williams, fifty years of age, who, while in a The smack Mary, Skillicorn master, belonging to Dou- Archbishop of Canterbury, at the instigation of Govern.
state of intoxication, fell asleep in a house in Naylorsstreet, glas, with a cargo of slates, and the H aslewood, from went ; or more likely, by the Queen in Council, with or
and the next morning was found dead. The immediate Sligo for Liverpool. laden with butter and bacon, came in without the concurrence and assistance of Parliament, for
cause of his death was disease of the heart. On Saturday contact on Sunday, and the former went down soon after, the re-establishment of uniformity of worship within the
six inquests were held. The first was on an old female, and the latter, in order to save the lives of the crews of church, according to the unexceptionable model which
seventy_nine years of age, named Catherine Cameron, of both vessels, was compelled to run the vessel ashore. This generally subsisted throughout the kingdom a dozen of
Lionel-street, who became insensible onThursday evening, vessel struck a few hundred yards to the east of the Tryall years ago.—Record.
and died the following morning. The second was on John about five o'clock ; and the crew, after launching the GREAT BULL.—Mr. Elliot of Hardgraves's bull, which
Mason, a child sever, weeks old, who died of suffocation,' boat, and endeavouring to save themselves by that means. attracted so much attention in this quarter for his size
most probably, in the opinion of the medical man, from were all precipitated into the surge, the boat having cap_
hiving
been overlain by its parents. The third was on sized before they were enabled to leave the vessel's s•de
Dorab Williams, sixty-eight years of age, residing in The hands of both vessels, however, succeeded in regain-
' • weight at nnan, before s »pmen , was 178 s ones, o
and fatness, was sold and killed
i int Liverpool
tHis live
Leeds-street, who died suddenly of some internal disease, ing the wreck, but both the masters shared a water 141 b. to the stone. Be was sold for £29 10s. We have
The fourth was on Richard Hannah, a child five
years. grave...persons up. The beef weighed 104 st. 131 b. The weight of the
of age, who went to the fire during the absence of his on the spot, who did everything in their power to render 100
a letter from Liverpool in reference to his cutting
ose tallow was 13st. 61b. ; that of the hide was 9st. 101 b.
parents, and was severely burned in various parts of the assistance. A line was floated from the wreck to the His heart weighed 141 h. The letter described his flesh as
body- The fifth was on James Kirkham, a child three shore by means of a small buoy, followed by a halser, byquite like that of bullock beef :in quality, there had been
.. . . .
, .
years of age, who, whilst reaching for a pipe on the chim- means of which the hands of both vessels were landed in a nothing like him in Liverpool for some time.—Dumfrzes
ney, was severely burned in the abdomen and arms. The state of great exhaustion. sixth and last was on Elizabeth Nichol], five years of DERBY.—On Sunday morning forty feet of a sixty Courier.
age, of Pleasant-view, Kiikdale, who was also severely feet chimney (with the scaffolding still round it, it not At a meeting of the Berwick Council, on the 11th inst.,
burned over her chest and left arm by a cinder falling on being quite finished) fell with a terrific crash on one side to take measures to prevent the premier's threatened in-
her clothes. Verdicts accordant with the evidence were of the roofs of five houses, literally cutting them in terference with the currency of Scotland, the following
returned in the several cases. two, and demolishing them to the very foundations, and among other resolutions were unanimously adopted :
destroying every piece of furniture they contained ; break-
" I.—That long experience has shown that the system of
ing the chairs, tables, beds, chests of drawers, &c., into currency in Scotland is speciallynsnutittendhtsoalttehreecdirocrutmn-
stances of the country, and ought
fragments as though they had been so many mere twigs.
Never was wreck more complete. It was most provi- -
stricting the present circulation of
•rculation of bank notes, and par-
when that the accident did not occur during the night terfered with.' 2.—That any measure for altering or ie--
when the inmates were in bed ; for, had such been the
to e
meeting, be attended with ruinous consequenc •the
case, the loss of life would have been frightful. As it titularly the £1 notes, would, in the estimation
ts of th
was, no one experienced the slightest personal injury. various branches of trade and manufacture.
CHESTERFIELD.—On Sunday morning three or four CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN OF ABANDONING ONE
pinaclea were blown down from the tower of St. Thomas's OF His CREW.—At the Thames police-office, London,
Church, Brompron-moor, and burst through the roof, on Tuesday, Cup'ain Alexander Simpson, master and
destroying the gallery, and doing considerable injury to part-owner of the barque Elizabeth, appeared before Mr.
the church. Fortunately divine service had not com • Broderip to answer a charge of having wilfully and wrong-
menced, otherwise a fearful loss of life must have ensued, fully left Wm. Burgess, a seaman, at Quebec, contrary to
as the children of the Sunday school occupy that part of law, by which he had rendered himself liable to be in-
the edifice, dieted for a misdemeanour, and, if convicted, to fine or
DUMFRIES.—In many houses the inmates felt the imprisonment, or both. After hearing evidence, and a
beds shaking under them, and when daylight dawned it great deal of argument, Mr. Broderip ordered the defend-
became obvious that devastation had been widely at work ant to fine bail, himself in £BO, and two sureties of £4O
in the shape of smashing chimney cans, tearing the roofs each, to answer the charge at the next sessions of the
of houses, more particularly old tenements, &c. One Central Criminal Court.—Bail was immediately tendered
corner of St. Michael's Church has been a good deal da- and accepted.
waged, both as regards the lead and slates ; and in the case HOUNDS ON A RAILWAY.—Last week, Lord Gifford's
of the latter, a heavy fragment descended with such force hounds were on the point of being destroyed on the rail-
that it cleft an upright tombstone in two parts. In the way, between Cirencester and Swindon. The fox had
country the woods have again suffered, and even close crossed the railway, and the hounds had come to a check
to the sown not a few trees have been broken or blown upon the very rails, when the cry of "A train ! a train !"
down, including a venerable saugh at Tinwald Downs, that made every one shudder, was heard, and a passenger
containing 80 cubical feet of timber.
train was seen bearing down upon the pack, at full velo-
Beeeesee—This town felt seriously the effects of the city. The wild screams of the alarm whistle evidenced
storm. Mete is scarcely a street or lane that does not that the engine-driver was aware of what seemed about
bear evidences of its violence—slates, chimney-tops, and to happen ; bat it was plain that, if the hounds could not
bricks, &c., being strewn in all directions. In North be removed, the pace of the train could not be slackened
Queen-street, a range of stables were levelled with the to preserve them. In an instant, one of the " whips "
ground. Twelve horses were buried in the ruins; of was upon the line, and, by the greatest efforts, the hounds
these, two were killed on the spot, and the rest were with were preserved, though the last of the pack that quitted
great difficulty rescued, some of them seriously injured. ther.ii was so near one of the wheels of the engine that
DESTRUCTION OF A MILL.—On Sunday week, during for a time it was supposed to have been destroyed.
the violence of the gale which seems to have been felt LIBEL.—A singular case was heard at the Mansion-
more or less all over the country, a spinning mill, at house on Tuesday, before the Lord Mayor. Mr. R.
Bank Top, near Blackburn, entirely new and unfinished, Forbes, jun., ship and insurance broker, of Broad-street,
belonging to Mr. Dickinson, was blown down. Tile de- was charged with publishing defamatory libels, concerning
striiction was instantaneous and complete; part only of -
some of the walls remaining. The roof, first floor, beams,
supeorters, and the walls that fell with the roof were all
smashed to pieces. The roofs of the engine house

Sir T. Freemantle. Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Baring had
interviews with Sir R. Peel on Thursday.

The Hull Dock Committee last week declined to admit
reporters to their meetings.
The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine has refused to ad-
mit the League advertisement for the forthcoming bazaar.

AMERICAN Hags.—Another result of the operation of
the new tariff has been seen, the last few days. in the im-
portation of hops from the United States.
On Wednesday a young man at Bethnal Green delibe-
rately shot dead a young woman to whom he had for some
time been paying his addresses.
The whole marriages before the superintendent regis-
trars do not exceed a fifty-seventh part of all the marriages
in England and Wales.
The proprietors of the New Docks at Hull were yester-
day to present their chairman with a piece of plate valued
at three hundred guineas.
The highest tide since 1816, and, with one exception in
that year, unparalleled during the last 50 years, visited
Hui! on Sunday evening week.
A poor silk-weaver of Bethnal-green, the father of eight
children, has lost six of them by death within the last
month, arising from scarlatina, and one of the two sur-
vivors is so ill that it is not expected to recover.
Last week, Mr. Woolley, paper-stainer. of Birming-
ham, was suffocated by the fumes, supposed to be car-
bonic acid gas, arising from some ochre which he was
moistening.

The eminent civil-engineer, George Stephenson, Esq.,
has lately been spending a week with Sir Robert Peel, at
Drayton Manor, in company with several eminent scien-
tific gentlemen.

John Gladstone, Esq., of Fugue, has become the pro-
prietor of the estate of Phesdo and Pitnamoon, at the
price of £32.000. This beautiful property lies nearly ad-
jacent to Fasque, and will constitute Mr. Gladstone one
of the principal heritors of the parish of Fordoun.
A man named Kendall has been apprehended on sus-
picion of having murdered his mother, a poor old woman
of sixty years of age, at a low house in Lambeth. He had,
previous to his apprehension, attempted self-destruction,
by throwing himself into the Thames.
STABBING.—Evan Jones, the young man who was so
brutally stabbed during a pugilistic contest with John
Harries, at Merthyr Tydvil, has died of his wounds, and
the coroner's jury has returned a verdict of manslaughter
against Harries.

On Wednesday last, John Clements, a wool-stapler,
in Grange-road, Be-mondsey, suddenly drew a razor
across his wife's throat, whilst she was toasting a piece of
bread, and then destroyed himself with the same weapon.
The poor woman is in a very precarious state.

M. Jullien, gave three concerts and travelled upwards
of 300 miles with all his band, a week o: two ago, within
about 50 hours ! Two of the concerts were given at
Manchester (on Wednesday and Friday), and one before
the Queen at Stowe (on Thursday.)
FOREIGN CATTLE.—The following is the official return
of the importations of beasts and sheep during the past
year :—London, 2,531 beasts, 1.814 sheep ; Hull, 1,690
beasts, 775 sheep; Liverpool, 81 beasts, 9 sheep; South-
ampton, 193 beasts, 5 sheep. Total, 4,495 beasts, 2,603
sheep.

the firm of Messrs. Rickards, Little, and Co., East Indi;
merchants•, and particularly respecting Mr. L. M. Rate,
one of the partners in that firm. Several letters had been

mating that they were in a E tate of insolvency—and also
to the family and fiends of a young lady to whom Mr. L.
M. Rate was paying his addresses, containing most serious

imputations on his moral character. A number of wit-
- nesses deposed to their belief that these letters were in the
handwriting of the defendant, between whom find Mr. L.
Rate a quarrel had taken place. Mr. M. Chambers, the
barrister, on the part of Mr. Forbes, denied all knowledge
of the libels, but the Lord Mayor called uFion'the defend-
ant to find bail, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in XlOO

each, to answer any charge that may be brought against
him'at the Central Criminal Court.

THE QUICKSAND UNDER THE NEW HOUSES OF PAR-
LIAMENT.—The foundations of the New' Westminster
Palace actually float on a quicksand. Westchinster Hall
and the Old Palace for many centuries—upWaHs of eight
—have dine the same, so there would seem to be no rea-
son for apprehension. The quicksand, unless confined,
has a tendency to rise, spread, and shift itself. It is
thoroughly surrounded by walls of solid cbricrete, and
above it, keeping it down like the cork of a' bottle, is a
deep bed of concrete. The foundation, however, of the
Victoria or Record Tower, as it is called,' have passed
through the quicksand because of the great weight the
tower will have to sustain. A very ticklish operation was
performed last week near the ventilating shaft of the pre-
sent houses. To prepare for new buildings it was necessary
to excavate immediately close to this shaft, and even
below it. The workmen proceeded almost inch by inch,
stopping down the quicksand the instant it began to rise.
Fears were eiitertatned for the safety of the shaft, which
weighs 200 tons, but no'accident whatever happened—the
danger is past and the works are nearly cine.
EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE.—The following state-
ment, the accuracy of which may be relied upon, will add
another proof of the words of Byron "that truth is
stranger than fiction." John Youngs, a native of America,
was in March, 1844, shipped on boardtheschooner Superior,
of Haverill, in the state of New Guernsey, boundto one of
the West India Islands, and from thence to New York.
In October she struck on Cape Hadras shoal, 19 miles
from land, and the captain (Martyrs Cook) and one man
were drowned. The vessel became a perfect wreck, after
which Youngs and Thomas Libby, the mate, took to the
joilyboat with only a barrel of bread on board, and no
water. After being 14 days on board Libby died ; Youngs
continued in the boat seven days hinger, and was nicked
up by a Dutch ship. He was then taken to 'a small vil-
lage 57 miles below Amsterdam ; he got on board the
schooner Mary, of Ipswich, bound to Hartlepool; find-
ing he could nit get a berth there, he walked to Middle-
borough, and got employment in the Sylph, bound to
London, which vessel, after having been 10 days on her
passage, put him ashore at Yarmouth, on Friday night,
being unable to proceed further.—Ipswich Express.

DEPTFORD.—Orders have been rece;yrd that imme•
diate preparations shall be made for building another
steam-frigate, of 1,840 tons burkhen, to be built upon
the same principle as the Terrible, to be called the
Odin. The improvements now in progress in this once
desolate but now flourishing yard will cost the Govern-
ment nearly 70,000. The Spitfire is nearly ready for
going off the stocks; and the Havannab, which has been
lying in ordinary in the Medway for some time, Fes off
the dockyard for the purpose of being cut down, and af-
terwards sent to sea as a corvette.
ROMANCE OF REAL LTFE.—Fifteen years back, a man
belonging to Bedford, deserted his wife and children, and
no intelligence could be gleaned of him atter-war-di. The
poor woman struggled on, and supported herself and fa-
mily until about two years ago, when, taking for granted
that her husband was dead, she married a widower. Last
week, to her great surprise and to the discomfiture of her
new husband, she received a letter from her original part-
ner, requesting her to meet him eta neighbouring town.
Thither she went and met him ; be accompanied his wife
and friends to Bedford, when he made his conjugal claims
in due form, and succeeded in winning her back. It is
said that the truant husband has been engaged in theatrical
pursuits during his mysterious absence.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.—The diminution in the
number of prisoners for debt has likewise decreased the
charges incurred by the country in their maintenance. It
is stated in a document in the recently issued report of
the Inspector of Prisons (Captain Williams,) " that the
new act will doubtless lead to a salutary caution on the
part of shopkeepers in giving credit, but it will not pre-
vent credit tieing given when it is necessary and proper,
and that it will work a very great good, in checking the
improvident habits, and in preventing a large amount of
moral misery and moral contamination incident to im-
prisonment in a debtors' gaol." From a return printed
in June last it appears that there were in England and
Wales 2.154 persons confined for debt; 85 in Scotland,
and 1,113 in Ireland; making in the aggregate 3,352.
Exclusively of law costs, 210 were in custody for debts
under £1,'794 for debts under £5, 438 for debts under
£lO, 922 for debts under £5O, 249 for debts under £lOO,
298 for debts under £5OO, and 104 for debts above that
sum, and 104 for amounts not stated. Of this number,
256 were Crown debtors, and of the aggregate 85 had re-
mained in prison upwards of five years! The total amount
of charges to the country for two years, ending 1843, for
prisoners for debt was £21,091 Bs.

STRANGE, IF TRUE.—A circumstance the most ex-
traordinary that ever fell under our notice occurred in
the lower part of Exeter on Sunday last. A person, liv-
ing in Sherman's-court, having occasion to draw some
soft water from the cock, was surprised to find it of a
reddish brown colour, and still more surprised, on tasting
it. to find it like good beer! and beer it was beyond all
doubt, though evidently it had been very lately brewed.
He could not conceal his good luck, the news of which
soon spread throughout the neighbourhood. Other cocks
were tried, with the same result, and the police have in
their possession the particulars of seven different houses
the tenants of which, for soft water, most unexpect-
edly obtained general home brewed. There must have
been a considerable quantity of it, too, for the drawing
atrnnl beery notd
muste
s i sg o n
eb d have
easy,vten been
butee n
d
and drinkinecontinued on Sunday and part of Monday,
and the denizens of the quarter made the most of the
chance, by getting gloriously drank. How to aci ount for
it is,
that
atb
w t present,ebee
bringi it
the seemsr
wn
a offte b r i n
quitey
.c tilelAea r that
drawn some brewer in the neighbourhood must have suffered,
and
At pi Pr
ee s
which -
sent no brewer can be found who will confess to having
lost any beer at all. Perhaps the same pipes that emptied
his vats of their contents have by this time filled them
again with the pure fluid of the reservoir.—Local Paper.
HARBOURS OF REFUGE.—The report of the commis-
sioners appointed by ,a treasury minute, dated April, 1844,
has been laid before the treasury ; and, after adverting to
the state of the different harbours along the coast, and to
the various recommendations which have been made to
provide harbours of refuge at different places, the com-
missioners conclude by recommending—Firstly, That a
harbour be constructed in Dover Bay, with an area of 520
acres up to low-water mark, or 380 acres without the two-
fathom edge, with an entrance of 700 feet wide on the
south front, and another of 150 at the east end. Secondly,
that a break-water be constructed in Seaford Road, in a
depth of about seven fathoms of water, one mile in ex-
tent, and sheltering an area of 300 acres. Thirdly, that a
break-water be constructed in Portland Bay. If only one
work is to be undertaken at a time, they give the prefer-
ence to Dover, next to Portland, and thirdly to Seaford.
The cost of either mode of construction having been
stated to be nearly the same. whether it be masonry or a
llong slope of rough stone similar to that of Plymouth
break-water, the commission give the following as an ap-
proximate estimate of the works at the several places, viz.
—Dover, £2,500,000 ; Seaford, £1,250,000 ; Portland,
£500,000; Harwich, £50,000. The military members of
the commission are of opinion that there will be no diffi-
colty in providing for the defending of the proposed har-
bours. Without any, except tidal harbours along the
whole coast between Portsmouth and the Thames. and
none accessible to large steamers, there is now, when
steam points to such great changes in. maritime affairs, an
imperative necessity for supplying, by artificial means, the
want of harbours throughout the narrow part of the chan-
nel. Mr. Symonds, the admiralty engineer, protests
against the report, as, in his opinion, Dungeness was pre-
ferable to Dover.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Friday, a mat named
Barry, surgical instrument maker, Finsbury, and his
wife were found dead in bed weltering in their blood.
The only parties residing in the house were the man
Barry and his wife, and their youngest son, a lad, about
fifteen years of age. The wretched man had been absent
on business the greater part of the day, and on his return
home, about ten o'clock at night, after sitting a short
time in the parlour, in company with his wife, with whom
he appeared to be on the best of terms, he told her to go
up stairs to bed and that he would soon follow her. The
woman complied with his wish, and the husband remained
a considerable time after, apparently asleep in a chair by
the side of the fire ; but on being roused by his son, who
urged him to retire to rest, he started up, with a look of
Peculiar wildness in his eves, and wishing him a hasty
grod night, repaired to his sleeping apartment. Shortly
afterwards the son also went to bed in a room on the story
above, and on awaking at nine o'clock the following
morning and proceeding down stairs, he was surprised to
find that neither of his parents had yet risen. He went
up to their bed-room for the purpose of calling them, but
received no answer, and finding that the door was locked
on the inside, his fears became greatly excited, and on
looking through the keyhole he was horror-struck at dis-
covering that the upper part of the sheets and bed which
stood close against the window were completely saturated
with blood. He instantly hastened in a state of extreme

terror to the next house, which was occupied by his two
elder brothers, and on apprising them of what he had
just witnessed they ran back with him and burst open the
bed•room door, where they found their parents extended
side by side on the bed, with their throats cut in a horrible
manner, and both of them apparently lifeless. A surgeon

was sent for, but it was tonna that they had been dead some
hours. They made a minute examination of the room in
which the shocking occurrence bad taken place, and on
searching the floor at the foot of the bed found two razors,
both of them open and covered with blood, one lying close
to the foot of the left foot post of the bedstead, and the
other between the opposite valiance and the wall adjoining
the window. Beside the spot where the first razor was
discovered the officers found a chair, on which was
placed an open razor-case, greatly discoloured with
the recent impressions of bloody fingers; and it was,
therefore, supposed that after cutting his wife's throat
with one of the razors, the wretched man had returned
to the case for the second weapon, and getting into
bed with it, afterwards destroyed himself in the same
manner. From the unruffled appearance of the bed-
clothes, and the placid expression of the unfortunate
woman's countenance, it was likewise manifested that she
kid not been disturbed by her husband's movements, and
that he must have murdered her in her sleep.

CRUELTY OF A STEPMOTHER.—On Wednesday, at
Clerkenwell Police-court, London, John Marks, a smith,
and Ann Marks his wife, were brouEht up on a' warrant,
charged with cruelty towards Anne Marks, aged ten
years, the daughter of the former, and stepdaughter of
the latter prisoner. The child when found by the police-

officers had no covering but a threadbare shift, black with
dirt, and a piece of sack, quite filthy, about her shoulders.
There was an ulcer on one of her feet, and a brui,e on her
back, and another sore on her neck. Her skin was
literally covered with scales of dirt, and the smell pro-
ceeding from her was intolerable. When brought into
the presence of her parents, she cried, and seemed terribly
frightened. She refused to say a word. Upon enter ing
the room where the child slept, the officers were so dis-
gusted with the smell as to be obliged to retire. Upon
re.earering it, they found the- floor covered with human
( xcrement, and the only thing it contained was a small
heap of carpenter's shavings, which had been picked from
the dust-holes and huddled together into a corner of the
room, and on this heap the prosecutrix and her three
brothers slept, with no other covering than part of a filthy
old sack. The child said that they strove to keep them-
selves warm by cuddling one another when the nights
were cold. There was only one small window to the
room, which was closed, and the constables declared that
it would be cruelty to put a dog or a pig in it. The house
contains but three rooms, and that in which the female
prisoner and her husband slept and lived was rather a
comfortable apartment, was as well furnished with food
and furniture
,as most mechanics' dwellings. The child
cried bitterly on being brought into court, and seemed
to regard the female prisoner with the gr atest terror.
She was lame from the ulcer on her foot. Mr. Coombe
determined on sending the case fur trial for the assaults
inflicted on the child on Saturday, and hence the child's
testimony was confined to what occurred on that day.
She deposed—l shall be eleven years of age next April.
my mother sent me for a kettle of water on Saturday
morning, and- when I returned with it she met me at the
door, and saying that I had been idle, she seized me by
the hair, and dragged me into the passage. She lifted me
up in her arms and threw me 0..0wn as hard as she could
on the floor, and kicked me on the body. I screamed,
but she took me up and " chucked" me down again. She
kicked me on the side and on the thighs, and when I was
lying on the ground she poured the kettle of water on me.
1 lay there crying. As soon as my mother saw me she
ran at me and kicked me again, but my father beat her
for doing s.. The child added that she did not wish to
hurt her father, who had given her bread and butter. All
the clothes I had on was a shift and a bit of a sack. and
sometimes the skirt of a petticoat, fastened upon me with
a rope. The poor child who as she proceeded with her
testimony, was becoming more and more convulsed with
grief, at length swooned away in a paroxysm of grief, and
was removed from the court in a state of insensibility.
The male prisoner burst into tears, and seemed deeply
affected, as was almost every one present. The female
prisoner did not seem in the least moved. The female
prisoner
was committed for trial. Her husband was dis-
charged.

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