The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

On Wednesday, the usual monthly meeting of the
Town Council was held, at the Town-hall. . _

The proceedings of the Finance Committee comprised
recommendations to appoint John Robinson as assistant
surveyor, in the room of Mr. Holt, deceased, and ofJohn
Bunbury, as temporary assistant surveyor, in the room of
John Robinson. In reply to a communication, the
committee stated that they would not be responsible for
any damage which might happen to the roof of the
Custom-house, if persons were permitted to stand upon
it during the time the foundation-stone of the " Sailor's
Home" was being laid by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert.
The proceedings were confirmed. .

It appeared fr-om the proceedings of the Dock Com-
mittee that, at a special meeting, the surveyor was
directed to construct the walls round the new north
docks, of sufficient strength to support warehouses, where
required. The proceedings were confirmed, it being un-
derstood some inquiry is to take place as to one of the
appointments at the Albert Dock warehouses, Mr. G.
H. Lawrence stating that he had a most serious charge
against one party, but, although of the same name, he did
not know whether it was the same party.
In reply to Mr. Robinson, Mr. MANN said the whole
of the rates for porterage, cooperage, and warehousing,
were nearly ready, and, after being submitted to the
Magistrates and Council, would be duly published.

Mr. EARLE said there was an intimation on the notice
paper that the proceedings of the Courts of Law and St.
George's Hall Committee would comprise a consideration
of the model, and an estimate for sculpture, for the south
pediment of the Assize Courts. This was put on the
notice paper, it being expected that the model would have
been down on Saturday ; but, in consequence of the
ereat press of business at the railway, Messrs. Pickford
did not send it off till Monday, and it was only put up
that morning. There were, therefore, no proceedings of
the Committee, but the Mayor had the estimate.

The model is a very beautiful piece of workmanship.
In the middle sits Britannia enthroned. On her left she
holds out the olive branch to the four quarters of the globe.
On her right she points the spear, as protecting her own
agriculture and arts. At her feet is Neptune. To the
left of Britannia, Ceres and Apollo are in a car, the
horses controlled by Discretion. Domestic Ilappiness is
represented by a labourer holding a plough, and his wife
a distaff, with a child at her feet. The Manufactures,
especially metallurgy, are figured by labourers at the
anvil, who have been employed in the fabrication of arms,
&c. To the right stands Peace. Mercury presents
Europe, America, and Asia, and lastly, Africa on her
bend d knee, and with a young negro, acknowledges the
liberty she owes to Britannia. There are other devices
which fill up the frontispiece, the number of figures being
thirty-two in all. The model is designed by Mr. C. R.
Cockerill.

The MAYOR read a letter stating that the execution of
the figures would cost £3500, in addition to which, the
stone and .sheds for the execution of the work, and the
raising them to their several places, would have to be
provided by the Council.
It was proposed that the letter should take the ordinary
course, and be referred to the committee.

Mr. BIRKETT objected to incurring the great expense,
and also to referring the letter to the committee. Great
addition had been made to the ordinary expenses of the
Corporation this year, and even now they would go far
beyond their surplus revenue for the yeir. First, they
were told St. George's Hall would cost £85,000. Already
it had exceeded double that sum, and " the Lord knows
where it will stop." As to the model itself, he was not a
good judge, and did not wish to say anything against it;
but it appeared to him more fit for an academical building.
He concluded by moving that it was illegal to expend the
sum of £3500 in ornamenting St. George's Hall when
so much remains to be accomplished for the benefit of the
inhabitants.
Mr. RATBBONE seconded the motion. He said, it
would be in the recollection of the Council that, at the
time the desn was first mentioned, he expressed a hope
that nothing would be done to place the Council in an
Improper situation with Mr. Cockerill, for then, as now,
he objected to the expenditure of money in ornamental
work, and he thought the committee had gone out of their
way to place the Council in an improper situation. He
admitted the model to be a very handsome one, but they
had no right to ornament their public buildings, until the
town was in a very different state, in a sanitary point of
view, to what it was at present. All their funds would be
required to put the town in a proper state, and until that
was done, they could neither be liberal nor ornamental.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE stated that if the motion were
pushed to a vote he should support it, because the surplus
income was already exhausted, and he had no right to
pledge any subsequent Council to expend its surplus in
ornamenting the ball.
Mr. H. HORNBY moved, and Mr. TURNER seconded,
an amendment, that Mr. Cockerell's letter be referred to
Courts of Law Committee to report to the Council.
The Council divided, when there appeared for Mr.
Hornby's amendment, 3'); against it, G; namely—For,
Messrs. Atherton, Shaw, Thornhill, Chalmer, Preston,
Hill, Middleton, Aikin, H. Hornby, Tirane, Henderson,
Stewart, Robinson, .G. Hornby, Boyden, Reade,
Kilshaw, Higgins, Earle, Booker, Plumpton, Glaze-
brook, Jones, Mann, Lloyd, Houghton, Turner, Crook,
Molyneux, and the Mayor. Against, Messrs. Rathbone,
Holmes, Birkett, Lawrence, Brancker, and Swainson.

The letter is therefore referred to the committee,
The proceedings of the Health Committee contained
reports, of which the following are extracts :

CELLAR OCCUPATIONS

On the 31st March, 1841, there were 7325 cellars
separately occupied in streets in the borough, containing
a population of 24,072 souls; and, of these cellars, 488
were conformable to the provisions of the Health Act,
and contained 1706 souls, leaving at that time about
23,364 persons living in cellars in streets not in con-
formity with this act. There were also at that time 1252
cellars in courts, separately occupied, containing about
5008 souls. That portion of the Health Act relating to
cellars in courts, came into operation on the lUth of No-
vember, 1842, and shortly after nearly all the cellars in
cousts were cleared of inmates, and attention being lately
called to the subject, very few cellars were found re-
occupied in courts. The clause relating to cellars in
streets, came into operation on the Ist of July, 1841, and
shortly afterwards a special survey of cellars which were
separately occupied was made, and it was found that the
total number of cellars inhabited in streets, both con-
formable and not conformable to the Health Act, was
6630—namely, cellars not conformable to the act, 6011 ;
cellars conformable to the act, and altered, 619. And,
assuming the same amount of population as was exhibited
in 1841, when the ascertained number of inmates ran
about 31 to each cellar, the total number of persons then
living in cellars in streets, would be about 23.205, and
the total number living in cellars not conformable to the
Health Act, remaining separately occupied in streets,
with a population of about 12,670 persons. In clearing
cellars, hitherto, the worst and most unhealthy ones, in
the closest streets and lowest neighbourhoods have been
taken first. The report added that 372 informations had
been laid against patties who have allowed cellars to be
re-occupied, and the whole of the streets cleared are
now under the notice of the police, to whom lists have
been furnished.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarke we're appointed superintendent
and matron of the baths in Paul-street, which, it appears,
will cost £6500. The salary of Mr. and Mrs. Clarke,
who are removed from the baths in Frederick-street, will
be increased from £9O to £l2O, with house, coal,
candles, &c.

Mr. TINNE moved the confirmation of the proceedings,
and in doing so said that, during the past year, the baths
had been used by 20,567 persons, being an increase of
6763 over the preceding year. During the last four weeks
the number of bathers have averaged about 100 per week.
The receipts for the year had been £383. being an increase
of £lO3. lie gave notice that he should move at the
next, or one of the following councils, that ad.litional
baths be erected in other parts-of the town, on the same
principle as those in Paul-street.
Mr. EARLS said he had a question to ask; rather an
affecting one to some of the gentlemen present. He
wished to know whether the Highway Board was defunct..
The MAYOR said he believed it still existed.

Mr. EARLS.-1 fear some people's necks will be
broken between the operation of the act and the death of
these gentlemen. (Laughter.)
The MAYOR read a letter from the King of the French,
acknowledging the address of congratulation lately for-
warded by the Council to him.

A lever from the Highway Board, calling the attention
of the Council to the de,itability of providing tanks for
supplying cattle with water, and fountains for the use of
the public, was referred to the special committee on the
Sanitary Bill.

The MAYOR read a portion of a letter received from
Mr. T. B. Horsfall, thanking the Council for the vote of
condolence on the death of his father.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The import duty on wheat is now 53.
A testimonial of £3,000 has been subscribed for Mr.
Waghorn, the discoverer of the overland route.
'I he Rambler steamer, which struck on the Maiden
Rocks, Ireland, will prove a complete wreck.
On Saturday week, a flock of 74 sheep were killed by
lightning near Priddy, in Somersetshire.
In London, there were lately 996.000 females to 878,000
males, or an excess of 118.000 ladies.
The personal estate of the late Col the Hon. F. G.
Howard has been valued for probate duty at £120,000.

On Thursday, Ibrahim Paella paid a visit to Woolwich,
and was much interested with everything he saw.
The abandonment of the proxy system in the House of
Lords is now considered a necessary act of reform.
The Duke of Sutherland has subscribed £2OO to the
fund for the family of Mr. Haydon.

Upwards of 78,000 quarters of wheat and 4000 of oats
were liberated at Hull last week. At Preston, upwards
of 30,000 quarters of wheat were also taken out.
On Thursday, a boy, named Joseph Wood, aged 14,
whilst sculling a boat in the river,Feryd, Flintsbire, fell
overboard and was drowned.

A handle of the coffin that contained the unfortunate
Mary, Queen of Scots, was sold at the sale of the curiosi-
ties of W. Upcott. Esq., for two guineas.
The father of Major-General Littler kept a grocer's
shop at Nantwich, in which town the late Lord Kenyon
served his articles to an attorney.
Three men were killed in the most shocking manner,
on Saturday week, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way, by the train of waggons getting off the rails.
Mr. Marsh, the celebrated chemist of Woolwich, and
inventor of the test for arsenic now generally used in me-
dical jurisprudence, died on Sunday week.
Fresh herrings are now plentiful in Douglas market,
and of prime quality. The price in retail for the last few
days has been from 14 to 20 for a shilling.

A worthy contemporary records, under the head of do-
mestic intelligence, nothing but births, deaths, and mar-
riages. A man of the world, that !o editor

Mr. R. Greig, recently appointed midshipman on board
the Dido, at Sheerness, committed suicide with a pistol
on Thursday.

A bull, and a pigeon which, at the moment, happened
to be flying over it, were both killed by the electric fluid,
on the farm of Mr. John Proud, at Car House, near Dur-
ham, during the thunder-storm of Thursday week.
Lieutenant William Peel, the son of Sir Robert Peel,
has been promoted to the rank of commander in the royal
navy. His lieutenant's commission was dated on the
13th of May, 1844.
In the year 1844, the number of public-houses and
beer-shops in England and Wales was 93,606, and in that
year alone no less than 147 public•houses and 272 beer-
shops were added to the previous number.

John Edwards, who is upwards of 107 years of age, and
lives in a cottage on the Wilton-road, near Salisbury,
was, on Thursday week, observed at work in a hay-field
near his residence.

Forty new bishonrics were created during the Pontifi-
cate of Gregory XVI. In England, the deceased Pontiff
erected four new apostolic vicariates, committed to bishops
in partibus.
On Saturday week, a woman in Abbey Closs, Glasgow,
fell into a sleep, and up to the following Thursday she
only once opened her eyes, but closed them again to sleep
on. The disease is called dumb palsy.
Parliament-street was crowded with persons on Monday
afternoon, and the Duke of Wellington and Fir Robert
Peel were both greeted with the most enthusiastic cheer-
ing on their respective arrival at the Houses of Parliament.
BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE.—The number of
bathers in the week endinc, on Sunday last, was 226,183.
Two persons were drowned, and eighteen were rescued.
The highest point of the thermometer was at noon, on
the 22nd ult., when it reached 81.

In the Town Council of Leeds, on Wednesday week,
by a majority of 25 ►o 2, a motion was carried for em-
powering the Street Committee to carry out an efficient
system of sewerage, and for placing a sum of not more
than £30,000 at its disposal for that purpose.
SOWING HALFPENCE FOR CORN.—Last evening, a
more than moderately eccentric citizen of Salisbury
evinced his enthusiasm on the passing of the Corn Bill
by parading the streets, and scattering halfpence broad-
cast amongst the mob, who of course accompanied him
in large numbers.—Salisbury Herald.
Between one and two o'clock on Thursday morning, a
ball, about the size of an orange, apparently fire, was
noticed at Woodbridge, moving through the air from the
west to the south-east, with a long train of light after it.
It greatly illumined the atmosphere during its transit,
but disappeared in a few seconds.—Bury Post.
The prospects of the grouse season in Perthshire are
represented to be of the most flattering kind. The young
birds a fortnight since were strong enough to find their
way to the burns, under the guidance of the parent bird,
and covies of 8 to 12 each were started every thirty or
forty yards.
Thirteen houses were destroyed by fire, at Sobam,
Cambridgeshire, on Friday. Among them is the old
Globe public-house. The loss is said to be £5,000. The
fire is said to have broken out in various places at the
same time, from which it is thought that it has originated

in incendiarism.
The London Peace Society have forwarded an address
to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the settlement of the Oregon
question, in which they express their satisfaction that the
long pending negotiation between the government of this
country and that of the United Statos, respecting the
Oregon territory, has been amicably adjusted.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A man named George Hocker has
been committed for trial at the next Stafford Assizes,
charged with the manslaughter of Joseph Macduff, a butty
collier, who met with his death in consequence of alleged
inattention by Honker to his duties as under engineer at
a coal pit at Rowley Regis.
Messrs. Bunn and Oxbury of Wicklam Market, coach
builders, undertook for a trifling wager, to go to London,
a distance of eighty-three miles, on velocipedes, during
the hours of daylight. They started at three in the morn-
ing, rested six hours on the way, and arrived at eight in
the evening. .

On Saturday, a live toad was found by some of the
workmen employed in making the tunnel through the
mountain in the neighbourhood of Bangor, in a solid
rock, eighty yards from the surface, and about the middle
of the mountain. It is very large, and was living two
hours after it was found. . __

On Thursday week, a boy, named Stewart, son of Cap t.
Stewart, R.N., went out to shoot, at Croydon, with 'ano-
ther young gentleman. Going under a shed, to take off
his boot, he laid his gun on his shoulder, the muzzle
pointed towards him. He accidentally touched the trigger
e
with his foot, and his head was blown to pieces.
A SHOWER OF Fnocs !—During the heavy thunder
storm of yesterday week, a shower of frogs fell from one
of the surcharged clouds over the Humber, several dropped
o n
the
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nearofK
vesselsi navigatingghoitothe river, and a portion
of
lights was for a time
covered by myriads of the strange arrivals.—Hull Adver-

User.
SERIOUS AccIDENT.—A married lady, named
Bur-
tenshawe, was waiting, on yesterday week, at a station on
the London and Brighton Kailway: The train was in
sight, and as she was crossing the rails, the whistle of the
engine produced such an effect upon her that she fell
down. The station-clerk attempted to drag her away,
but, in the attempt, the buffer of the engine struck him
on the head. almost severing it from the body. The lady
was also killed upon the spot.

• A woman murdered her-own child, six months of age,
in the Brighton Workhonse,-on Tuesday last, by cutting
its throat, and then committed suicide by cutting her own.
The name of the murderer was Norman, and she was
about thirty years of age, and was the wife of a man
named Norman, who is now in the House of Correction,
undergoing a sentence for felony.
FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—A' few days ago some
members of the celebrated Wakefield Angler's Club were
plying their art in one of the reservoirs of the Wakefield
Water Works, when one of them caught instead of fish a
full-sized wheelbarrow ! Had we been present we should
have advised the gentleman to have baited his hook with
the wheelbarrow in the hope of catching a railway carriage !
THE LATE MR. HATDON.—The subscriptions in aid
of the proposed fund for the relief of the widow and chil-
dren of the late Benjamin Robert Haydon, the historical
painter, now amount, together with the donations re-
ceived, to nearly £7OO. This sum is exclusive of the res-
pective pensions of £5O from the Qneen, and £25 from
Lady Peel, already settled upon Mrs. Haydon.
There died, throughout England and Wales. between
the Ist of July, 1839, and 30th of June, 1840, 5247 females
aged 85 and upwards ; whereas, of the same age, there
died only 3954 gentlemen, leaving, what is called in the
city, a " balance" in favour of the old ladies of 1293.
Among the females who died, 71 had passed the age of
100, but only 40 males.
SAGACITY OF A LAMB. —Mr. Thomas, of Gilvach,
having sold at Carmarthen Fair a number of lambs, went
into the Three Compasses for refreshment. He was sit-
ting at the window when the lambs were driven past; one
of them recognised his late master, sprang through the
window, breaking two panes, and fell at his feet. The
little creature was removed, but not without casting many
a pitiful look at Mr. Thomas.—Hereford Journal.
UNUSUAL CHARGE.—On Friday, Leman Cohen, a
jobber in furriery, was committed for trial at Guildhall,
London, upon the unusual charge of being an accessory
before the fact to a felony, which was committed in his
absence, but which he abetted, as it was alleged, by seek-
ing out aforehand a buyer for the stolen goods, to pur-
chase them immediately upon their being stolen, so that
the thief might more easily escape justice.
A ROBIN'S NEST IN AN ORGAN.—On Sunday, during
divine service in St. Michael's Church, in this town, the
organist found some obstruction in the organ that pre-
vented him playing, and, on searching for the cause, after
the congregation were dismissed, discovered, to his no
small astonishment, a robin's nest, with three young ones
in it. They were not disturbed in their singular retreat.—
Shropshire Conservative. _ _ _

It is proposed to erect, in St. Giles's, London, on a site
recently obtained from the Woods and Forests, a lodging-
house for one hundred labouring men, in which, at the
lowest rate ever paid for lodgings, they may have accom-
modation of a perfectly clean character. The whole cost
is estimated at X5OOO. Among the subscribers are Prince
Albert, the Bishop of London, Duke of Sutherland, Earl
Harrowby, &c.
OLD ALE—At the celebration of the coming of age of
Lord Burghley, at Stamford, last week, the tapping of
the " Great Lord Burghley Vat" excited much interest.
This immense yessPl of ale, which was tapped at twelve
o'clock by Lord Burghley, contained 1200 gallons; it was
brewed in October 1825. Each of the 600 tenants who
dined had placed before him, besides wines, a quart of old
" John."

The setting in of the wool-season is again effecting a
change in the nature of the cargoes of the Hamburg
steamers. The Queen of Scotland, last week, had only
room for two cows on deck, and the Helen Macgregor,
which arrived on Sunday last, was piled up with as much
wool as her tarpau'ings would secure from the sea—hav-
ing no less than eight hundred bales on board. Since
writing the above, the Victoria has arrived with a full
deck cargo of wool.—Hull paper.
CONSISTENCY.—There was great rejoicing in Hasling-
den on Friday night last, on the arrival of the news that
the new corn bill had passed. The btlls rang, and a mob
assembled opposite the Commercial Inn, and (after being
requested !) gave three cheers for Sir R. Peel. It was ob-
served that there were amongst the mob many persons
who not more than five years ago assisted to burn Sir
Robed in effigy. What will they do next ?—Blackburn
Standard.

NEW WAY OF RECOVERING DEBTS.—On Friday, a
mob assembled near the Archbishop of Canterbury's
palace, at Lambeth, in consequence of a man walking
backward and forward opposite a house by the water side,
with the following inscription printed on a board :—" I
am waiting here to be paid the sum of .£1 13s. 6d. for one
dozen of wine, or else to have the bottles returned." On
the board was also mentioned the name of the party oppo-
site whose house the man was parading. The debt was
understood to have been paid, and the mob dispersed.
Ertnosts OF THE PRESS.—Our contemporary, the
Silurian, has the following :—" Owing to a column having
been accidentally laid on the press uncorrected, several
errors passed in a few copies of last week's impression
before they were noticed. Among others, our devil,'
with his head, we suppose, full of Irish matters, had stated
that refreshing showers' had given an impulse to ' agita-
tion,' instead of vegetation and, worse still, toe
impious wretch had, in the same column, thrown the
' altar,' instead of a halter,' at a horse's head.

THE VICTORIA DOCK.—The contracts for the excava-
tion and construction of this dock—by far the largest
which has hitherto been made at Hull, and which will
have its own independant entrances, both from the Hum-
ber and the Old Harbour or river of Hull, and be, accessi-
ble at a lower state of the tide than any of our present
docks—has been taken by Messrs. Bowers and Murray,
who have just completed the Albert Dock, at Liverpool,
and are on the eve of finishing the Railway Dock at this
port.—Hull Packet.
A CANINE MESSENGER.-At the present time a little
black bull-headed terrier, belonging to Mr. Powell, car-
pet-manufacturer, of the Cross, comes to Deighton's li-
brary every evening of publication for the Journal, with-
out an attendant, and fetches the paper, which it duly
conveys, with all punctuality and dispatch, to i.s master.
If the publication has not commenced, it will leave the
premises and return ; and on one or two occasions it has
dropped the paper in the street, when it immediately
started back to the• shop, and would not go without a se-
cond copy.—Worcester Journal.

MELANCHOLY RESULt OF UNBROTHERLY CONDUCT.
—Two boys, sons of T. Williams, residing at Tyddyn
Celargan, Anglesey, quarrelled, as brothers often do, and
in his passion, one kicked the other in the eye. The
complaints of the injured child induced some severe
threats from the mother, which caused the offender to de-
camp. No more was heard of him, and all search seemed
fruitless, until the evening cf Friday, the 19th, when he
was found dead, and in a putrified state, in the parish of
Llanfairmathafarneithaf. There was grass in his hands,
and he had obviously fallen over the cliffs in the dark.
The poor lad had reached his twelfth year.
THE NEW CORN DUTIES.—The following is the rate
of duties now in operation :—When the six weeks average
is under
48s. the duty i 5.......... . 10s.

Above 53
Below this it never recedes. This scale remains in
operation until the Ist of February, 1849, after which a
nominal duty of ls. per quarter is to be levied.
Tire POPE.—Dr. Wolff, in a letter to a friend, says-
-" It is curious that the present Pope, when only Conte
Ferretti, was my fellow pupil in the Collegio Romano, at
Rome, from the year 1816 to 1817, when I went over to
the Propaganda. He is an amiable, zealous, talented,
shrewd, pious, and liberal gentleman, and it is therefore to
be hoped that he has transferred these qualities from the
simple Conte Ferretti to the throne of Benedict IX."
Thus goes the world ; one of two students. on almost
equal ground, becomes a " Sovereign Pontiff," the other,
though filling toe world with his name, is the humble
vicar of the small parish of Isle Brewers, in a retired part
of the county of Somerset; where, however, he has the
sweeter reward of ministering to the spiritual wants of an
attached congregation, anxious to be taught.
RELIGIOUS PEACE.—The following, from the Tablet
Roman Catholic newspaper, contains more truth than
our contemporary find it convenient always to disclose.
"There are worse things in the world than religious ani-
mosities—bad and uncomfortable as these are—and what
is equally certain is, that the road to a baler state of
things lies through a course of conduct which s enders re-
ligious animosities certain. When a large part of the
world is unjust, and only a small minority so much as
struggling towards justice—when piety is the exception
and demoralisation is the rule—when the faith is broken
into a thousand pieces, and the enemies of truth are la-
bouring to suppress it altogether—when some of the profes-
sors of that which is true are its bitterest enemies—how
can religious animosities he avoided ?—unless, indeed, all
the guardians of faith and justice are asleep at their posts,
and there he none to lift up his voice or to wield a battle-
axe in behalf of the oppressed cause of God."
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday morning last,
the bodies of two young men, brothers, of the name of
Collyer, joiners, at Nottingham, were found hanging by
the neck, under the shed of a rope-walk. One body was
suspended to a beam by a brace, and the other with a cord,
which had been found in the rope-walk. Their residence
was adjacent, and search being immediately made there,
it was found that their father was absent, and strange sus-
picions were induced. Search was made in every direc-
tion for him, but no tidings could be heard. He was last
seen walking in a direction towards Beeston, which is
three miles from Nottingham. The last information from
Nottingham was that old Collyer had been found at Len-
ton, two miles from the town, in the lock of the canal,
with both his hands tied behind him. The circumstance
points to the btlief that he has been murdered by his sons,
and they have afterwards committed suicide. The family
lived in a secluded way. and were possessed of some
building property, but bad for many years been detested
by their neighbours for ill-treatment inflicted upon a
female member of their family, who was insane.
On Saturday week, a numerous and highly respectable
meeting was held in the hall of king's College, London,
for the purpose of raising a fund for the enlargement of
the hospital attached to the institution. The Archbishop
of Canterbury presided, and there were also present the
Duke of Cambridge, the Bishop of London, the Bishop
of Oxford, Viscount Sandon, M.P., the Bishop of Litch-
field, Lord Ashley, the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir R. H.
Inglis, Bart.. M.P., the Hen. Beresford Hope, M.P.,
Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Alderman. Copeland, M.P.,
Archdeacon Robinson. the master of the Temple. It was
stated that since 1840 the number of. out-patients bad
increased from 4,056 to 15,933. Subscriptions amounting
to £2,500, were handed in, among which there were the
following :—Miss Burdett Coutts, £500; the Archbishop
of Canterbury, £lOO ; the Executor of Viscount Sid-
mouth, £206 ; the Duke of Cambridge, £lOO ; the Bishop
of London, £100; Mr. Alderman Copeland, £100; the
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of Ldanchsff,
Sir R. H, Inglis, Bart., £lolos., &c.

THE LEAGUE IN AVE:YANCE.-Tht Council of the
League have agreed that although they will not at once
dissolve, their operations and functions- shall cease, unless
in case of future emergency the League- should be recalled
into existence. 11r. Cobden is stated to have been in fa-

your of immediate dissolution, but it was considered by
the majority that it would be impolitie to break up the

association so long as the object for which it was orga-
, nised—namely, the repeal of the Ccrn Laws—had not yet

been fully and entirely accomplished. It was, therefore,
ultimately agreed that the act of dlesolution should be
postponed, to be rendered coeval, perhaps. with the ex-
piry of the Corn Laws in 1819. Mr. Cobden has inti-
mated to his friends that he shall altogether retire from
public life for at least twelve months. His health, it is
said, requires much recruiting, and he is anxious, also, to
devote some additional attentio❑ to the management of
his large print works.
SAFETY IN A THUNDER-STORM. - The following
maxims as to places of greatest safety during thunder-
storms may be useful to many :-1. All metals and most
fluids attract and conduct lightning—therefore contact
with them is to be avoided. 2. It is infinitely more dan-
gerous to go under a tree during a thunder-storm than to
remain out in the open road or the fields. Persons
also been killed when sheltered under the eaves of a house,
or by the side of a brick kiln. By the same rule corn and
bay stacks are to be avoided. 3. A large room is safer
than a small one, and it is always better to keep in the
centre of it. Since a current of air will, in some measure,
conduct lightning, a position between a door and a window,
if open, or a window and chimney, should be avoided. 4.
Persons whose clothes are wet are more free from danger
than those whose garments are dry. Travellers inside of
railway or other carriages, are in little danger compared
with those outside.

EXTENSION OF FREE TRADE PRINCIPLES TO THE
NORTH OF EUROPE.—We stited some months ago, on
the authority of the Hull Packet, that a disposition was
evinced by Russia to reciprocate the principles of free trade.
The announcement of our contemporary took most persons
by agreeable surprise in that locality. The same paper
(which was correct in its information) now furnishes an
official document, issued at S., Petrrsburgh on the 20th
ult., and transmitted to the Packet for publication. By
this it appears that the duties in Russia on exports are
reduced on tallow (per ton) about £.l 2s. 63. ste, l•ng ; on
hemp lls. 3d. ; and on flour 16s 10},d. On imports, red
dyewoods, reduction, (per ton.) £1 ss. 2d. ; fustic and
yellow woods 12s. 7d.; indigo 21d. per Ib ; coffee (per
cwt.) £1 ss. Gd. ; earthenware, according to quality, from
2s. 7d. and I2s. to £1 Ils. Other reductions have also
been made, the example of Sir R. Peel having been fol-
lowed so far by the Emperor of Russia.

ADVENTURES OF A CAT.—A fine large gray tom-cat
was, in November last, brought in from Inner!e then per
carrier, packed up in a basket to a family residing in Leith
Walk. It remained there about three months, and had
become thoroughly domesticated and reconciled to its new
abode. At the end of that time, namely, early in February,
it was transferred to a family in Scotland-street, but with
whom it remained only two days, when it found an oppor-
tunity of escape. No more was heard of Tom till about
three weeks ago, when to the utter astonishment of his
or:ginal owner, he made his appearance at Innerleithen,
worn end weary, but bearing unmistakeable tokens of his
identity. How he managed to subsist through the inter-
val of four months, or what guide he had through the 30
miles of country between Edinburgh and Innerleithen,
over hills and streams, and cultivated fields, and barren
moors, which he had never traversed before, save in the
covered basket, must, we suppose remain for ever among
the mysteries of natural history.—Caledonian Mercury.
Tire GLone NEWSPAPER.—In our columns of this
day, it will be perceived that Mr. George Robins has an-
nounced the sale of the Grote journal ; that is, the iotin-
ential and important share which has given the whole con-
cern of this ponderous machine, for good and for evil, to
a single individual. The proprietor whose shares are the
subject of the following remarks, has arrived at the pa-
triarchal age of eighty-two; and, as Mr. Robins fitly
says, a time when he becomes justly entitled ton few
years of peaceable enjoyment and repose, unalloyed by
literature, turmoil, and the fatigue of getting rich. The
opportunity will,'no doubt, create a very great sensation.
It is one of the oldest: and certainly moq respectable,
prints that adorn our daily journals, and is an extraordi-
nary instance of self-devotion to its party and principles.
In looking over this unpretending recital of facts, nothing
is extenuated, nor is anything set down in malice, nor in
the slightest manner exaggerated. 'I he statement of pro-
fit is to accompany the full particulars that are in prepa-
ration.

THUNDER STORM IN LINCOLNSHIRE. A thunder
storm appears, from the Stamford Mercury, to have vi-
sited the greater part of Lincolnshire, on Thursday week.
At Laughton, near Falkingham, the electric fluid struck
the buildings of Mr. T. Everatt, and did considerable
damage to the roof of a granary ; it also entered a stable,
and knocked down three men and two horses ; all, how-
ever, recovered after a short time. A little girl, the
daughter of a cottager, residing at a short distance, was
so affected that she lost the power of speech for some
time. At Great Steeping, near Spilsby, the electric fluid
struck the roof of an outbuilding on the farm of Mr. An-
thony Baker, and in a very short space of time the whole
building was burnt to the ground. About the same time,
two ewes and one lamb, of the s,me place, were killed,
as were also some sheep at Boothhy. the property of the
Nev. J. Walls. At Langton, near Gainsbro', two men,
who were at work in a barn were struck down by the
lightning, but not very seriously hurt. Mr. Toynbee, of
Howell, near Heckington, had a beast killed by lightning,
in a close in that parish ; and Mr. Sardison, of the same
place, had four sheep killed. A farmstead belonging to
Mr. Benton, of Frampton, was struck by lightning, and
the waggon-hovel and crew-yard fencing, with a long
ladder, sheep-troughs, and many other articles, which
could not be got out, were totally consumed. Luke Tay-
lor, a labourer, of Moorby, took shelter under an ash tree
during a storm, when the electric fluid pas ed down the
tree, doing it much damage. Taylor was standing with his
back to the tree, and the lightning burnt the whole length
of his back, took away the use of his right hand, singed,
his legs and feet, and quite destroyed one of his great
toes. The same storm also visited the neighbourhood of
Alford. Mr. Hardy, of Beesby, had a valuable mare
killed ; and Mr. Budibent and his wife, of Dangham, had
a narrow escape ; the latter was knocked down by the
lightning, and Mr. Budibent, who was smoking his pipe,
had it dashed from his mouth. The house was injured.