The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

NT FOR PRICE

GLASS, CHINA, AND EARTHENWARE
• WAREHOUSE,

9, DEAiVE-STRRET, T. JOHN'S MARKET.
(ESTABLISHED EIGIFITEN 'YEARS.)
71-OHN STANTON respectitlly begs to inform the
'0 Inhabitants of Liverpool and the neighbouring districts,
that having enlarged and made extensive erations in his
Premises, he has been enabled to m very- considerable
ADDITIONS to his STOCK, thereh • snring to the purchaser
every facility and choice, togetl ith all the advantages ob-
tainable iu any house in the gdom.
The principles of econ obviously require' that articles of
daily use and of the descriptions should be obtainable at
the lowest price est which the proprietor strongly invites
personal examination previous to purchasing.
The Stock consists of every article manufactured for domes-
tie and general use; Glass, both-plain, cut, and ornamental.
Also, a rich and varied assortment of China, Toilet, and Din-
ner Ware, and all other descriptions of General Earthenware.
S. S. takes this opportunity of returning thanks tohis friends

es, by pursuinetae same steady

for so Many years, and 11
to•msrit a continuance of their favours

OLD-ESTABLISHED FAMILY TEA. GROCERY,
FRENCH AND ITALIAN WAREHOUSE.

H. SYERS, in returning most sincere thanks
••• to his numerous and respectable connexion for their
long-continued favours, begs to announce his determination,
by personal exertion, to maintain that superiority amidst com-
petition which his commercial advantages place in his power.
. Attention is invited to a class of Articles which (notvrith-
standing assertions in Advertisements) are sold in this town

ertirelyinithont SPECIAL AGENCY.
T. H. S. is enabled to offer PRICE'S ALMER'S, and
*Aber CANDLES to the Public-on th owing advantageous
terms:—

PRICF):S_,AtO

Belmont Wax andtS,?lo)7
Best Patent Compo'
Belmont Compose.,„.

eribr..lls. 6d. per dozen
10d..per lb.. 9s. 6d. per dozen
9d. per dozen

PALMER'S CANDLES

74d. .per lb.. Is. 9d. per packet
e3d. per lb.. 4s. 3d. per packet
04. per lb.. 6s. 3d. per dozen.
ADEERT'S and Ciiitn's Night Lights, 6d. per Box

Metallic Moulds
Midsize
Decimals

ss. 9d. pee 'Dozen,
And further Reduction to Exporters and large Consumers
16, RANELAGII-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN GLASGOW,
CHESTER, LINCOLN'S-INN, &c.
MILNEIt'S " lIOLDFAST" and FIRE-RESIST-
-ING SAFES are the strongest, best, and cheapest safe-
guard in the world against fire, robbery, and fraud ; 20,000 of
them 'keep the books, deeds, and cash of the practical men of
Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, &c., who know their superi-
ority tunny others. Five of them have brought their contents
unscathed ont of the ruins of large -ores in Glasgow alone this
year, wherein scores of other safes have been burnt out.
Twenty-five offices were burnt out in-Lincoln's-inn in January,
in one alone of which the title-deeds of thirty large landed
estates were burnt, which would all have been preserved in
Milner's Safes. From some hundreds. of certidcates, the fol-
%wine* is ,selected,- as one out of many inatinces in wb,

MAN

everything was consumed in the bail- • -gs excepting what
Milner's Safe contained:—
'f Clyde-street, Anderst Cdasgow, May 7, 1849..

" Gentlemen,—At tile caiamit s fire.yesierday morning, by
which our premises, and stoc of oil, tallow, were totally
destroyed, our books were eserved inthe Milner's Fireproof
Safe, purchased from y . We have -great pleasure in thus
bearing test:km:my to t great efficiency-of these Safes.
" CHARLES,.BOYD and CO."
This Safe seas St severely tested; the brass knob;and brass
'work about the. ock were melted off. ^ .

wtkFebruary, 1849.
lers *bleb we bad in your

Fire-resisting Safe, which was subjected -to a most intense heat
for several hoursaat the late fire in Gordon,street, on Thursday
last, were whollyreserved—the property saved being of ex-
treme importance to us. We have, therefore, great pleasure
io•communicatingthis fact, deeming your Safesinvaluable as
a imatection against fire, and an invention -with.which the pub-
lic cannot be too well acquainted.—We are: gentlemen, your
obedient servants, " KER, DOERING, and CO."
The outside of the Above Safe was completely burnt through.
Triumphant Resistance to Robbers :
" Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son. Liverpool.

)uridilnet's Safe was attempted. toy be bro-
bnt, notwithstanding the great and per-
hich the robbers have worked at the
both of which are beaten in and cut

" Gentlemen,-4
ken open last nigh
severing violence with

isq4,- ev yea, ester tut holes remedies had
SION, re,l4,rte's, end all pof recovery abandoned.'"
"NI 1)1, s '
i es she c_,
;If h,_ ,714 is, siehritted Protestor of Chemistry ,ead
'ti'tii Los 'Andrew Ure, M.D,, F.R.S., &c., dzc,s—
lt'!t lie Yee . don
t 1444._ Po, rtifir , 24; Bloomsbury-square, June 8, 1849.
ii, , ii4e, . (Is j ;r, that %hat ing examined ' Du Barry's Health
.;PeN7lokii,`,'„Til-it babe a pure yegetableFarini.perfectly ,
At littliihtSli %I'm',
_gestibk, likely to pro:note a healtbv action '
;'ii,Nkbii°ll, sn'uwela, and thereby to counteract dyspep-
,7l,ll Area AV sjit?heir:nervous consequences.
Qile,e,oeiss.ioPi;LF..R..,., Analyticl Chemist:" •
%„' ,q, ity 0 •—sn late many ignorant persons, sic-
sl,. ist it Dowd
.ome, have attempted; io foist Barry e
l-tioittvelent:l .0f Lentile, in imitation of Du s
tt'4,4lNies't pri;!trai ica Food (a farina possessing the -",Woollen yerohant, Ne
p? s'llotsrlirl elmeo of any
Co.
ever discovered, " Messrs. Milner :and Son."
C1`.,%, si• 4, , 77, • )11 Barry:ls Co. are the sole proprietors In the. nutnerC.'us accidental fires and experimental testa
C., ic"st,'‘'erti 'e" imitative impostors have not hesitated which Milner's Safes have been exposed to, every description
1 ' 5 Itet' "mein of safe in usl—firepiroof (so called) or otherwise—have,, been
Ll% y kr.,.,. 1013,1 i E, Stud puff' iti CURATIV4 that which,
sil si,tliewle en le as toed .when properly prepared pos- burnt out beside them, confirming the recommendations:if the
t:'ll,!ity'llis. .1! eiurlll-ve virtsses thin a piece .of Is-ead ' Nor scientific and practicatauthorities who have tested them; and
,lii.orth i; rood xie be
effect, whilst Do...Bir'ry's'Re'va- the Patentees, during seven years' active working of their
'itlyNte-T4set 1111 cured 50,000 Persons of hiffli respect.- patent, on.a.rapidly extending scale, have spared no pains :nor
0,1, e 4, es,,s, atwhere all other remedies hart failed and all cost in effecting improvenie.nts, by which they are enabled:to
IN '•/•fellet as '"doned But they invariably pledge themselves at all times to supply the most complete
,4,,i,4 sc 5 si. their •
, Is_ oL. ere _ great autkorityl forgetting that the and secureA
ito ~.. at' ',.itle to Lentils is Emau's fraudupee kis dent). sitories for books, documents, and valuables•;
including thessfrongest wrought•iron safes .and closets in the
6;r4iriss,Yone„ire,Public is left to infer that these heft& world, need with their unequalled fire-resisting chambers.
Olt to 404°1t no °'9ng Beau's example, 'deli to perpeVate Out of upwards of 20,000 ,of their safes in use amongst the
q 4 fritlitikt or on invalids. ' manufacturing anti commercial houses in Gseat Britain—ths
it s -14, is-4 .isn.„._
class best able to appreciate their value—numerous cases. of
ttot gt,,),,,it. , ,mt,ortant cures of the obeys and many
N. kttni aZr 41;e„, Of .17„: i.ePPious extract from 50 000 teatime- severe trial in ar'cidental fires have occurred, from which
1,: it Ils qrt,' Co, ~'," 'BOW respectability, i; sent gratis Thomas Milner and -hop
.select the following as 4tistances, in
ta.l4-, ispieus—` receipt of two stamps' in Canisters which they are of ,opinien that no other safe than their own
c%1411 1)„.•1,,,Ls itt i.j"/ghing 11b. at 26. 9cl" 21h.,at 4s. 6d would have preserved its contentannburnt
yq., ~,, ihr.biy „. ; —lllPer •re fined quality, 10Ib. at iSS:' Fire at Mr. J. B. Blackener's Ship Chandlery Mtore,parling•
41,1 fNlyNer, •narry*,:cl,,,ed for all climates. Canisters for- 'street, Liverpool : a strong and fierce fire; safe most severely
Viis•„iteii ; (ths 'and CO. or receipt Of tm- et•office or burnt outside; contents unsinged.
bi- I 41..12/, "f.oosn''`th•sstid ;01b carriage-fre's to.any tow.' fire at Messrs. J. and W. Walker's, the extensive buftders.
pilliy 1 IN efr viteted by rail 'with London.) Du Bart y Birkenhead: buildings entirely gutted, everything burnt in
4"044%,' 11 c'• P% ""d-atsincluding the contents of large iron safe and drawers,
11/444S t(l Nliei l'/eYOrs eet' London; also of Fortnum, them,
standing beside Milner's; the contents of klilner's uninjured,
, 4_1%., s, ok., etud ,
.to her Majesty the Queen, lit,
,v, 4, 4 (I,zreet
.; 4ntier, 2,35 and in use now.
, Resent-street ; Barclay,
.pq1,:,..,,,1 e,()Xf-(;),Tl,Atrett „lard,' 07 St. 'Paul's Church-yar • Fire it.liessrs. Garniss and, Co.'s,
. Park-lane : a very strong
l 4l' -- T'lllst "Fiace • Snit . Newberry;
t°,,,,,k1t 'LAI' !ibil • Nixr"t, lona .gn '
.4.; .3 'A, '',treet on and c 2rls—T Lrrerpool ef. Evans,
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers, of Plymouth : a very extensive
ki'l44ii;. kit, 47, 11 ' r• itOb "., 1, .‘astle-street ; AN. W
s h see 1... ola. . erts, 2i, Raneliteli-street ; Clay and destructive are; a large iron safe, covered with brickwork,
with double iron doors, burnt out; Milner's entirely ?reser-
ItslS W. street,Vie,77ll. greet
„. ; M`Guffie, 24' Castle-street •
(4titt,lt%;l,est`b , .14,. James Chesney, I,'
Commutation! vin its contents.
liNtetlee;o 4:3;--its '''ll, Artqle•street,—Ckester : Gee. Fire in Queen-street, Glasgow : a great number of safes aid
t‘t 'ti it* '; J tbucceche,ter TT. Nash, 'John nallei..st. ; closets. burst out; ne .books saved throughout the buildings
'Os ', 4k "to , Mar
4 4,ll44),Atriury ac , ketsplace ; Sharp end Scott, 6, excepting Messrs. S. it, oral Thomas Brows's, ii Milner 8
Vi44.l,Ql2elnt
yeet
....._ ...sown. chemists ;—Wstrriketen Safe'
+4' 41". 4stnder:llll through all reapectable grocers, Milner's Fire-resisting Safes; Chests, aid Boxes, liftable
44' I.s' 1)os to !",(1 bseksellers in the kingdom for all classes of buildings, Impregnable Locks aid Cask Boxes,
, ~_t its, lenpesu ••• • is 't at tke Works, 50A and 54, Lord-street, Liverpool, and 47 t• ;7,
"'Tees -, hut 11,0 n pan spurious ot a-
,
; Per . rather "elite te DU pAgur cable.striet, Lilferrelil, ii# Leltdept Pepdt, 47e, MOArpite-
?sail' is ' street.

through :the outer plates in numerous places), the lock and
bolts remained true, and saved the contents. You may send
us another Milner's Holdfast Safe,
" JAS. RICHARDSON and CO.

" Glasgow, 28th December, 184 S

Manchester, Augn•st 13thi :lE!f7

" Gentletnen,—ln the late fire in Market-street,-which en-
tirely gutted the whole block:of buildings of which my.warv-
house formed ,part, Lhave sincere pleasure in informing. you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were.preserved ,uninjured in one of .y.our. Fire-
resisting Safes.../alitch I strongly recommend to the pubic.--rI
am, your obedient servant,
" THOMAS HAIGH,
Brown-street, and Market-street.

EXHIBITION OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.

POLICE INTELIIG.E'NCE.

FOURTH NOTICE. I TEE PLATE ROBBERY.—Sirrell has been admitted to
By accident we turned over a few days ago, some of the bail, himself in £lOOO. and four sureties in £lOOO each.
back numbers of Blackwood, and in that for July hit upon William Jeffrey, a well-known poacher, has been sent
an article, "The pictures of the Season." the pages of to gaol for three months, for plying his vocation at Brom-
which, we are a little ashamed to confess, had not been borough.
favoured with the good offices of our paper knife. We had A few days since, as Mrs. Bretherton, of Fairfield, was
imagined it, in fact, to be a notice of the Edinburgh ex- walking up Woodside-slip she felt a hand being withdrawn
hibition merely, forgetting the übiquitous character, and from her pocket, and instantly mentioned the matter, and
range of observation of our august contemporary. The the man was secured. He was committed to gaol, being
article in question. however, we found to be a notice of a well-known London thief.
the four London exhibitions, amongst the paintings in On Wednesday, a respectable-looking man named
which were several which have since been transferred to Hollis was committed for trial, charged with embezzling
our own exhibition in Postoffice-place. One critique in various sums of money which he had received as mort-
this article particularly attracted our notice, not only as gaged rents. He was in the employ of Messrs. Stockley
expressing our own opinion of a particular picture, almost and Thompson, solicitors.
to the letter, but as showing that it has received the same On Friday, Mr. Rushton suspended a policeman for
unjust treatment in the metropolis which we complained taking a poor woman into custody wrongfully. She had
of as having been shewn to it here. The writer says : gone to one of the parish doctors to ask him about her
" Diving into the gloom of the Octagon, we are struck by husband, and instead of advising with her he gave her
the very remarkable merit of two pictures which ought never into charge.
to have been placed there. Only by kneeling or sitting on the A SAILOR'S RETURN.—Anne Young was charged with
ground is it possible to examine Mr. Van Schendel's Pacher illegally pledging her brother's wearing apparel to the
Detected, No. 633, tin Braconier au moment peon vient le
prendre"—the same picture, No. 485 in our catalogue, which amount of 19s. The brother, who was a sailor, stated
we remarked upon in our notice of the 15th instant. "Of that he had left his things in the charge of his sister, who
ordinary visitors to the exhibition, not one in five will notice was so greatly rejoiced at his return, that she pledged his
the existence of the picture—not one in twenty probably will clothes and got drunk wi h the money. Mr. Rushcon
go through the painful contortions requisite to get even a bad ordered her to be committed for 42 days.
view of it. Very few, if any, critics will have sought it out or
EXTENSIVE THEFT.—On Wednesday night, an Irish
written a comment upon it. let this is a picture on which
greater talent and labour hare been expended than en dozens cattle dealer, named Richard Cassidy, visited a disrepu-
that hang is, conspicuous places and good lights. A dark pie- table house in Ben Jonson-street, where he fell into the
tore too—a night scene—it required a strong light ; and it was company of George Williams and Bridget Kelly. the first-
mcat unjust to put it thus in the very darkest n ok, and in the named of whom induced him to place in his hands £l6O,
lowest range of the whole academy. For hospitality's sake to
with which he immediately decamped. On the following
a. foreigner, this excellent painting should have been differently
placed." day, Kelly was brought before Mr. Rushton, but re-
From the first opening of the Exhibition we expressed manded.
our dislike of Mr. F. R. Pickerszill's picture of " Sam- SCANDALOUS ASSAULT.—On Tuesday two men, named
son betrayed," than which we conceive there are many Michael Healey and Thomas Munroe, were charged by
pictures in the exhibition more worthy of the prize Patrick M`Gowan with assaulting him. The prosecutor,
awarded to it. In this opinion we feel assured that we who is a salt heaver, stated that the prisoners alleged
are borne out by nine out of ten of those who have against him that he was heaving salt at a lower price than
visited the exhibition, a few admirers of what is often they did, and for this reason they assaulted him in a mob,
facetiously styled " high art" excepted. That it contains with spades, and their fists, inflicting upon him serious
some good painting must be admitted, or it would not be injuries. This was the second time the salt heavers had
the production of an artist so able as Mr. Piekersgill has made an attack on this man, and attempted to take his
proved himself by many of his past efforts; but it is life. The magistrates fined them forty shillings and
-extremely wanting -in all else that can render a picture costs.
attractive, or stir .ap those lofty emotions, with which it ROBBERY OF WATCHES.—On Thursday Joseph Woolfe
ought to be the province of high art to deal. Of this was charged with being in possession of six watches which
picture the same writer remarks:— had recently been stolen from various persons. On
"Mr. Pickersgill's " Samson betrayed" is, there is no deny- Wednesday officer. Bates met the prisoner in Clayton-
inFr it, a very unsatisfactory composition. His red-haired square, and was induced to search him, and upon lie per-
Delilah is graceless and characterless. Samson recumbent in son was found a watch case, some marks upon which had
an attitude in -which no man ever slept soundly, seems pre- been obliterated. The case was identified as belonging to
vented only by a miracle from slipping off ker knees. Two
a watch stolen from a person named Williams. A watch
girls, instead of getting to a safe distance, are hugging each
othor in terror within reach of the giants's arm. There is maker, named Hayes., met the prisoner, a few days ago,
scarcely an attitude in the picture that is not strained. In at the house of Maguire, the man charged with being
the conception there is an utter want Of novelty of circum- concerned in the late plate robbery. Prisoner asked him
stance. The whole picture is deficient in originality. The eye if he would alter some watches for him, and after some
wanders over it, seeking some feature of special interest or
hesitation lie agreed to do so ; five watches were then
striking beauty whereon to dwell, and finds none. Mr. Pickers-
gill has good qualities; but the spark of fancy and genius, given to him for that purpose. The watches were found
which atone can complete the great 'painter, is, we fear, want- at Hayes's house. They were identified as having been
ing in his composition." stolen recently from the following persons : Mr. Keight-
Strange diversity of opinion there must be when a ley, Mr. Lewdley, Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Corlett. The
committee of taste in Liverpool is found to award the prisoner was remanded
prize of preeminent merit to a picture of which a critical
writer in a periodical of the high reputation possessed by
Blackwood's Magazine, and whose remarks throughout
the article from which we have quoted, display both taste
and an intimate knowledge of the art and of painting,
speaks thus disparagingly 1
19. " Noon.' Alfred isa pleasing
specimen of landscape painting by a member of a very
talented family, who has contributed largely to this and
former exhibitions: The subject is a lake or pond, over-
bowered with trees, wearing a rich autumnal tint, and over-
hung in the back ground with a precipitous hill, which
we conceive is a little too -darkly painted for the period—
noon—in which we are understood to see it. The water
in the pond, in whose cool -depths some oxen and cows
are refreshing themselves, is transparent and well painted;
the landscape itself is warm in tint, and the foreground
especially very clever. 'The cattle, however, are rather
so-so productions.
23. " Nottingham. from the Grantham Canal Lock."
H. Dawson.—This is a-very clever little picture, and we
are glad to observe, is sold. The foreground is bright
and well painted.; but the distance is obviously the portion
of the picture .upozi which most value has been set by the
artist

59. " Linlithgow Rilace, from the Island." J. W.
Oakes.—The artist here has very cleverly given us Lin-
lithgow, as seen in the hazy atmosphere of a red sunset.
A boat and boatman in the right foreground, and the
flight of a flock of wild ducks on the left, relieve the
otherwise over-stillness ofthe scene. .

75. "Flowers:" Miss I;utrie.—A beautiful specimen,
scarcely excelled by any similar subject in the exhibition.
The camelias and the painting of the damask table.cover
are triumphs of art. 'We observe that the picture issold.
76. "The Tillage of Longridge, with Preston in the
distance." H. Dawson.—Those of our readers who
attended the last exhibition of the academy, must re-
member -a painting by this artist of, what at first
sight was -very generally considered as merely a stone
quarry, that being the object which prominently occu-
pied the foreground. On more close examination, how-
ever. the eye was struck by a very clever distance, in
which were the grey towers of John o'Gaunt, and the
town of 'Lancaster, on the left, and Morecambe.Ba-y and
sands stretching ont into a vast expanse on the right.
The picture before us is a similar subject :—the same fore-
ground —a-stone quarry—is introduced, but, with .great
judgment; the artist has not given to it so vivid a tone of
colouring. A few straggling cottages in the right centre
of the picture compose the village of Longridge, and in
the distance, indistinctly seen on the far verge of the in-
tervening landscape, are the spires and chimnies of:Pres-
ton. 'Altogether, the picture is very clever; and the sky,
as usual in Mr. Dawson's compositions, is the concave sky
of nature, and not, as with many inferior artists, a mass of
blue and cloud plastered perpendicularly against the
canvas.

ENTERTAINMENT FOR A WET DAY !—A few hours of
such a day as yesterday could not be more agreeably
spent than at Mr. Colles's apartments in Bold-street,
where, seated by a comfortable fire, his visitors are both
surprised and amused. Those who desire to obtain one of
his dancing-figures should lose no time, as his stock is
again very nearly exhausted, owing to the numbers pur-
chased by passengers sailing in the last American packet
as presents for their friends on the other side of the
Atlantic. 'The evils of procrastination could not be better
exemplified than in the case of a gentleman who had
decided upon taking out a number of Mr. C.'s magical
novelties ; but on calling some weeks since Mr. C. wasso
engaged that he could not attend to him ; he did not
renew his visit until late on Friday evening, when, much
to his disappointment, Mr. Cellos was from home, (his
rooms closing at dusk,) and, as passengers were obliged to
be on board at ten on Saturday morning, be was com-
pelled to sail without the means by which he anticipated
enlivening many a winter's evening on his return.
CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE.—At a meeting in Manches-
ter, on Saturday, Mr. Councillor Howard made some im-
portant remarks. He said that he lately waited on Mr.
Hugh Beaver, and ascertained that the quantity of coal
formerly used inhis manufactory was 78 tons per week,
whilst by the consumption of smoke and the improve-
ments consequent on the adoption of the system a weekly
•saving is effected of 28 tons. " I vitited Messrs. George
-Clarke and Sons",manufactory," continued Mr. Howard,
" and they told, me the saving they effected by consuming
the smoke from their fires was upwards of 40 tons per
week. They formerly used 140 tons per week, now they
consume less than 1.00 tons. They have.expended upwards
of .X 1,200 on new boilers to their steam-engines, in order
to abate the smoke nuisance, and they expect the outlay
will be repaid by the saving of coal effected in a year and
a-half. 1 asked them," continued Mr. :Howard, "If
they, did not thank us for enforcing the system ? the reply
was, 'Undoubtedly ; and I wish you would enforce it
more-strictly upon ourrneighbours, it would save no trifle
as pave beneficial to

YESTERDAY

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST CHILDREN.—CharIes Bell
and Thomas Makin, two children, respectably dressed,
were placed before Mr. Rushton. The parents of the
children reside at Field Villa, Bootle, and on Saturday
afternoon last they strayed into
in which they reside, ar

field opposite

seven years old, lighted a lucifer match, and in that way
set fire to a stack of bay, the property of Mr. Johnson,
the lime-burner, of Tlatton-garden. file flames raged
with the utmost intensity, and, but for the timely arrival
of the fire-brigade on the spot. the entire stack, valued at
about £4O, must have been consumed. As it was, by
cutting away the burning portion, the damage was limited
to probably £lO. Mr. Johnson was present in the court,
but bad refrained from making a direct charge against the
children. 'Under these circumstances, Mr. Rushton said
he could not adjudicate in the case, which appeared to
him to 'him to be one of a most serious character. He
would, however, direct that the boys be kept in court un-
til Mr. Johnson should determine on the course he should
'take. The complainant stated that he had repeatedly
suffered from trespasses on his field, and attributed the
principal blame in the present case to the parents of the
two children. Mr. Johnson very considerately refrained
from bringing any specific charge forward, and thus pro-
cured the dismissal of the children upon payment of less
than one-third of the actual damage, for the payment of
which he has allowed the parents considerable time.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—An Irish fellow, who gave the
name of Edward Laney, was observed, on Saturday, to
leave the ship Siddons under suspicious circumstances.
He was accordingly taken into custody, when three new
shirts were found concealed round his person. The fellow
had contrived to get on board the ship and lay his hands
on the shirts, which were the property of the captain.
The prisoner, who has been committed before, was sent
to prison again for three months.
ROBBING AN EMPLOYER.—A youth, named William
Parr, was committed for trial for robbing his master, a
Mr. Erwen, the proprietor' of a spirit vaults in Pitt-
, street. The prisoner had been about a month in Mr.
Erwen's employment, and was suspected by the latter of
filching money from the till. On Friday night Mr.
Erwen marked several pieces of copper money. On Satur-
day night the lad was arrested, and on his person several
coins which had been marked by his master were found,
also in his carpet bag, a part of which also bore his mas-
ter's mark.

leaning of windows, us well

HousEaREARING.— On Sunday morning, at an early
hour,'lnspector Nl'Donald, while on duty in the neigh-
bourhood of Scotland-road, apprehended a man named
Peter'Hunter, a returned convict, who is suspected of
being concerned as a principal in robbing a house in Wel-
lin.,gton-street, which had been broken into during the
night, and a quantity of goods abstracted. A woman,
passing by the name of Mary Hunter, was taken with the
prisoner. Both were remanded to afford time for an in-
vestigation into the circumstances of the robbery.

• Cunteus ADDRESS.—A few days since a letter passed
through the post-office, Tunstall, Staffordshire, with the
following unique address :
"Thomas B—, Esq.,
"Immense Contractor
" For railways & tetras,
" Adam Street No. 7,
" or thereabout Near St. Paul's,
" Prepaid London."

THE IRISH AMERICAN SEA SERPENT.—The Irish
seem to be taking the American sea serpent " quite in-
tirely" out of the hands of the Yankees. It is a difficult
labour to imagine an Irish-American sea serpent. The
only picture we can draw of him is with a short pipe in
his mouth, brandishing a shillelagh with one of his fins,
shouting out, " Will any jintlernan just tread upon my
tail ?"—.Punch.

Westmacott, the sculptor, once undertook to make g
king in twenty minutes. The tempered clay was placed
before him, and, after cutting off some big slices with a
wire, he set to -work with his fingers. In ten minutes
royalty began to-shine through the mud. " Now," said
lie, -"I think it is like the Duke of York." other
squeeze, and another touch or two, and it was a very good
Duke of. Sussex. .In half-an-hour there was no mistake
—it was,George 111.
A STRANGE BEQUEST.—In bridewell died Madame
Cresswell, a notorious procnress of the days of Charles
the Second. "-She desired by will," says Granger, " to
have a sermon preached at her funeral, for which the
preacher was to have ten pounds ; but on the express con-
dition that he was to say nothing but what was well of
her. A preacher was with some difficulty found who
undertook-the task. lie, after a sermon preached on the
general subject of mortality, and the good uses to be
made ef it, concluded by -saying ,--" By the will of the
deceased it is expected that I should mention her, and say
nothing but‘what is well of her. All that I shall say of
her, therefore, is this : she was born well, she lived well,
and she-died well,—for she was born with the name Cress-
well, she lived in Clerkenwell, and she died in bridewell.' "
--Jesse's London and its Celebrities.
SCOTCH PRISONERS AT WORCESTER.—I cannot think
that the extract from the acccounts of the churchwardens
of St. Margaret's Westminster, at all justifies "C. F. S."
in supposing that the Scotch prisoners were massacred in
cold blood. The total number of these prisoners was
10,000. Of the 1,200 who were buried, the greater part
most probably died of their wounds ; and though this
number is large, yet we must bear in mind that in those
days the sick sad wounded were not tended with the care
and attention which are now displayed in such cases.
We learn from the Parliamentary History (xx. 58) that
on the 17th of September, 1651, " the Scotch prisoners
were brought to London, and marched through the city
into Tothill-fields." The same work (xx. 72) states that
" Most of the common soldiers were sent to the English
plantations ; and 1,500 of them were granted to the
Guiney merchants, and sent to work in the gold mines
there." Large numbers were also employed in draining
the great level of the Fens (Wells, History of the Bed-
ford Level, i. 228-244). Lord Clarendon (book xiii.)
says, " Many perished for want of food, and, being en-

the public health.' "
LIPE BQAT.—A s considerable discussion ,has recently
taken place relative to the conduct of some of the life-boat
men in -Isoarding a vessel;which was in Jaeger of going to
pieces, we think it right to bring before our readers a new
description of life-boat, built by Messrs. Whiter of Cowes,
used with
.great efficiency at Cardigan and other places,
under circumstances of the greatest peril. In these boats
the arrangements adopted to insure buoyancy are at the
same time conducive to the strength and stability of the
boat. The air vessels form a trunk round the inside of the
boat, rising -as high as the gunwale, but only extending
down on each side as far as the bilge, by which means the
centre of buoyancy is kept so high that it is impossible to
swamp or capsize the boat ; the.upper part of the air,trunk
is rounded inside to permit the boa; to be emptied of
water as she roils, And to facilitate the use of the oars ;
and the air-trunk is divided by partitions into several
watertight compartments, so that no great injury could
result from one or-more being stove. Several certificates
from experienced .nautical gentlemen have testified to the
advantages which these boats possess. They can be used
for the ordinary purposes of a ship's boat, when so re-
,quired, without any alteration whatever and do not weigh
heavier, and can be launched from the ehip's deck without
the use of tackle. Under canvas they are remarkably
. sthT, quick in stays and easily worked. An experiment has
been made with one .of,these boats full of water, when
twenty -three men:stood .on'; the gunwale, but with their
. united weight they were ;unable to capsize her, or even
immerse the gunwale more ,than about four inches, and
from :her peculiar internal -shape she cleared herself every
roll -until the water was completely below the thwarts.
TUE ,VOLISII BALL.—The -Times of yesterday thus
concludes a telling article on-this subject charity is
determined to dance, if the ivory horn .of ;Oberon has
seunded•in her ears, let her remember that the cause of
Poland is net the only one that has been gallantly sup-
ported.; that there are thousands in fthe humbler ranks of
this country:to whose valour die owes that preservation
which the .Polea, with all their gallantry, were tillable to
achieve for their own; and let her remember that ne one
ever yet proposed a ball for the benefit of the survivors of
Salamanca, Vittoria, and Waterloo—the conquerors of
the conquerors of Russia; and if she cannot exercise her
function without the assistance of kid gloves
and pumps, let her lead up her first dance in
Guildhall to the tune of " The British Grenadiers."
Surely the period of twenty years, which is long enough
to bar the right to an estate, ought to extinguish a claim
to charity. The man who in this busy hive of industry
can find no employment after such a time is unworthy of
compassion. If some statute of limitations do not bar
the claims of these long-lived-patriots, we shall be dancing
all the year round for the benefit of all the exiles of the
earth, from Cain down to Ledru Collin. But, alas ! the
maxim Nullum temptia occurrit seems as true of charity
as royalty, and we are actually at this moment supporting
out of the public funds the descendants Arnold, the
American traitor, and pensioning the remote posterity of
French Protestants driven to theme 'bogs by kkg frOCII•
ON of the Edict a Nantes, in 10.

chised in little room till they were sold to the plantations
for slave-, they died of all diseases.—C. 11. Coop En—
. and Queries.
ACTRESSES RAISED BY MARRIAGE.—The first person
among the "gentry" who chose a wife from the stage was
Martin Folkyes, the antiquary, a man of fortune, who,
about the year 1713, married Lucretia Bradshaw, the re-
presentative of Farquhar's heroines. The next actress
whose husband moved in elevated rank was Anastasia
Robinson, the singer. The great Lord Peterborough, the
hero of the Spanish war, the friend of Pope and Swift,
publicly: acknowledged Anastasia as his countess in 1735.
In four years after, the Lady Ilenrietta Herbert, daughter
of James first Earl de Waldegrave, and widow of Lord
Edward Herbert, bestowed her hand on James Beard, the
performer. Subsequently, about the middle of the
eighteenth century, Lavinia Bestweek, the original Polly
Peachuns, became Duchess of Bolton. The next on record
was Miss LinillWs marriage with Sheridan.; and, before

the eighteenthcentery closed, Elizabeth barren, a perfect
gentlewoman, bccarna countess of the proudest Earl in
England, the representative of the Stanleys. She was
Lord Derby's second. consort,. and mother of the present
Countess of Wilton. AA 1807 the beautiful Miss Searle
became the wife of Robert Heathcote, Esq., brother of
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart..; and in the same year Louisa
Brunton was married to the late Earl Craven. Her son
is now Earl Craven, and her niece, Mrs. Yates, the
actress, still exhibits the dramatic genius of the Brunton
family. The " Beggar's Opera" again conferred a coro-
net.; Mary Catherine Bolton's impersonation of Polk
Peachum captivated Lord Thurlow. She was married to
his lordship in ISI3. In more recent times, the most
fascinating of our &dresses, Miss O'Neill, wedded Sir
William Wrixton Beecher, Bart.; Miss Foote, the Earl
of Harrington • Miss Stephens, the Earl or EssU and
Aim Nisbet, sir Wx. Poatiabb Bart.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT,

Monday Night

From America there is nothing new. The frost spoken
of as haring occurred at Memphis must have been very
local, as by accounts from other parts no mention is made
of it. The weather was fine, and the estimates of the
crap as wide as ever, from one and-a-half million bales
to two and-a-half. The receipts were heavier than the
previous year, as well as the exports, particularly to this
country. To-day the Cotton Market has been steady
and the sales reach 5,000 bales at full rates.
We have not had quite so much doing in our com-
mercial markets the last few days, but prices for sugar
have been fully supported, the deliveries of which staple
article are on a large scale. Tea and Coffee have been
in less request, and prices have slightly receded. The
political news from the Continent has rather thrown a
damper over affairs, and the Funds and Shares have rather
gone back. It is thought that Prussia will see the neces-
sity of assisting in settling the Holstein dispute, and so
avert the possibility of a collision with her formidable
neighbours.

The market for Scotch Pig Iron has been fiat all the
week. Some sales have been male at 425. for mixed
numbers f. o. b. at Glasgow ; and tha quotation to-day
is 42/3 to 42/6 ' • Bars in Wales, £4 10s. to £4 12s. 6d.
Our Share Market continued to progress favourably
until Thursday, when it received a shock from the Con-
tinental news. These induced some real and more specu-
lative sales, which caused a decline of from two to three
per cent. generally. The Market today is steady at the
lower prices, and has shown during the day some symp-
toms of reaction. The quoted prices are :—Leeds stock,
48 71 11; Ditto fifths, 71 d.; Ditto Pref., ln ; London
stock, 117 ; Ditto quarters, 211 3. p ; Ditto fi
3 6 3 p. ; Midland stock, 42 11; Ditto ht Ives, 211 16/3 ;
North Union B, 170 ' • Oswestry, 81; Shrop,hire Union,
3 13 9 d.; Dovers, old, 201; Sheffield, Ro•herhatn, and
Goole, par; Newcastle pref., 41 d.; York and North
Midland. 221 3k 3 ; Belfast Junction, 271 d.; Midland
.Great Western. lit d.

The bullion in the Bank of England has again consi-
derably decreased, but the bank has still above
£16,000,000 in its c)ffers. The weekly diminution is
probably caused by a continued export to the continent ;
but surprise is expressed in some quarters that the re-
ceipts from California do not exercise more effect on the
stock of gold in this country and other parts of the conti-
nent.

The iron trade does not manifest any improvement,
and the following report, from the Birmingham Gazette

of this morning,-affords a gloomy prospect for the coming

winter :

"The circu?ar alluded to in our report of the late quarterly
meetings, issued by the firm of George Thorneycroft tool Co.,

the trad

last quarter's
.11.ur

on the faith of the decision at the pre:
liminary meeting, consider themselves unfairly treated, and
are loud in expressing their 'dissatisfaction. Still most of the
first-rate houses adhere to the prices at which they were sup-

contend
vantage

the Mess

self into nothing More t
of what has for some tiro
Still it is throwing the a
the customers of this urn
per ton on present contra

ii:tend to test r
ion of Rs. a to

lon that

quarter's net payments; in
other masters may he to adopt a si
self-interest, a further reduction ii
peeled to ensue. But little business
and that with Cifficulty on the one si

c in possession
ng the initiated.

Issert that

ement of 105

other. 1
home co

unately, also, the demand for bath exports and
Mon stems inclined to flag, while the resources
already been too far tempered with to allow of

ig for stock ; Eo that t
,ert of dismay, rather

ioned a.few months agc

THE CORPORATE ACCOUNTS

The financial statement of the affairs of our Corporate
estate is now before us, and contains nothing of a very
remarkable nature, as compared with the results of former

,eing. surplus income over ordinary

expenditure, earri,:d fo

,rd to "extraordinary accounts

£25,447, against £21,227 last. year, being

This amour

has been nearly absorbed by

the payments on account of the new assize courts. which
this year have been £21,809. We have another large

ccount opened this year for the erecting of the
vhich has absorbed £16,G90, and proves to be a word

successor, so far as relates to the exhausting of any
surplus that we may have for some years to come, of the
New Law Courts. The purchase of the Yellow. house
Estate has also swallowed up the sum of £20,278 16s. ld. ;
the four new baths erecting hare this far cost £7,746.
The excess thus caused over the surplus at our disposal
appears to have been covered by an increase of the bonded
debt from £908.627 in 31st August, 1849, to £934,770 on
31st August, 1850; and by a sale of reversions amounting
to £25,346 The law and parliamentary expenses of the
year are £1,534, against the sum of £2,711 in 1849. The
weights and measures department, instead of yielding a

profit, a:
the Corr

'ion. The markets afford a balance of £7