The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The present mayors of London, Lancaster, Cambridge,
and Carlisle, are all natives of Cumberland.
The Committee of the Birmingham Musical Festival
have paid over to the General Hospital the sum of £2.916
10s., being the surplus receipts of the late Festival beyond

Iria is QUEEN AT DitTZY:L;Wi' . Majesty ho-
noured this theatre with her presence on Thursday even-
ing, on which occasion the opera of the " Bohemian Gni"
was represented. The theatre was very crowded, but her
Majesty maintained a strict privacy.

Caroline Harris, the midwife, at Wolverhampton, who,
as we stated last week, had been under examination on
the revolting charge of destroying infants at their birth,
for sums of money, has been committed to take her trial
at Stafford assizes.

On Saturday week, the operative cotton-spinners of
Glasgow and neighbourhood gave, pretty generally, a
notice of a demand for an advance of 10 per cent. on their
wages. It is uncertain whether the demand will be corn-
plied with ; but if not, a turn-out is exceedingly probable.
THE TAUNTON PARRICIDE.—Mary and Faith Sealey
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give been committPd for trial for the wilful murder of
their father and their aunt by poison. We gave the cir-
cumstances briefly in our last. Faith, the younger sister,
has made a confession which is criminatury of her sister.

Last weeks at Marlborough-street Police•oflice, Wm.
Adams, a lame young man, was sentenced to pay a fine
of £5, or two months' imprisonment, for damaging with
his crutch one of the pictures in the National Gallery.
The picture was stated to be worth £159.

ROBBERY.—On Wednesday, a tobacconist belonging
to Greenock had his pocket picked of a sum of money,
amounting to £127, in bank notes, while travelling in a
third-class railway carriage between Paisley and Glas-
gow.

The Duke of Wellington has conferred an Ensigncy in
the Fifteenth Foot, without purchase, on Mr. Christopher
Sayers, whose brother, Mr. Henry Knight Sayers, of the
Thirty-first, gallantly led the storming party through the
Tezeen Pass, in Affghanistan, and lost, through his death,
the promotion which he had earned.
LONGEVITY OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.—The Ja-
nuary number of a periodical, connected with the Society
of Friends, contains a longer list of deaths among that
body than usual. The average age is upwards of G 2 years.
The age of the youngest in the list is 2 years and 4 months,
and of the oldest 93.

THE GADDESBY MURDER.—After having been re-
manded no less than five times since his last apprehen-
sion, Mr. Messenger, the master of the murdered Gar-
ner, was once more •his morning discharged from gaol,
the magistrates being of opinion that the evidence would
not warrant his further detention.—Leicester Mercury.

We find the following rumour in the Germa.i papers,
under date Dresden, January 20 :—" Queen Victoria will
visit Germany in the spring—first the Prussian court. She
will come to dresden in the beginning of May, and then
go to Gotha to visit ber father-in-law. So much is no ,v
decided, but it is possible that her journey may be further
extended."

The Tablet, a Roman Catholic journal', announces that
Dr. Baggs, President of the English College at Rome, has
been appointed by the Pope Vicar Apostolic of the West-
ern District, vacant by the death of Bishop Baines. Dr.
Baggs has intimated his intention to reside at Prior Park,
Bath, and his determination to carry out the works of his
predecessor.

THE TEA TRADE, MONDAY, JAN. 29.—There have
been some further public sales since our last, which, al-
though not large, have served to show that the feeling is
rather in favour of getting into stock at the current quo-
tations. The consumption is going on very steadily, and
has been increasing since Christmas. Last week there
was again a larger quantity taken, viz. 651,767 lb.

REMARKABLE CHANGE IN PROPERTY.—When Law-
rence Sheriff, grocer and citizen of London, left the third
part of a field of 24 acres, in the parish of Holborn, for
the endowment of a grammar-school at Rugby, it pro-
duced no more than £8 a-year. This field was called
Conduit-close, and was nearly half a mile from any house.
It is now covered with buildings, and the rental exceeds
£lO,OOO a-year. The field has risen in value from £8 to
£lO,OOO and upwards.
The anti-leaguers have had two terrible defeats during
the past week. The first was at II ull and the second at
York. Vast preparations had been made to give an eclat
to the proceedings in two places of such eminent import-
ance, but the attendance, notwithstanding the deputation
consisted of Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Thompson, was
very small. At Hull, scarcely a single shopman or mer-
chant condescended to be present. At York no man of
particular standing could be found to take the chair.

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE.—
Last week an inquest took place before Mr. Wak ley on
the body of William Chantry, Esq., aged 23, at his resi-
dence, Mornington-crescent, Hampstead-road. The de-
ceased was entitled to large property, and had only just
completed his studies. It appeared in evidence that John
Locklock was passing the deceased's house, when the
female servant rushed out, exclaiming that her master
was cutting his throat. He followed the servant upstairs,
and found deceased in his bed•-room standing before a
looking glass, cutting his throat with a razor ; the glass
and the person of the deceased were covered with blood.
The deceased then staggered and waved his arms to and
fro, after which he fell down and died in five minutes.
The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased had des-
tr .yed himself, but there was not sufficient evidence to
prove the exact state of his mind at the time he did so." ;

EXPLOSIVE POWER.—The Globe neNspvcr gives an
account, on the testimony of a party in whom it places
confidence, of a newly discovered explosive powder of
dreadful efficacy. It is described to be a chemical combi-
nation, perfectly safe for carriage, and capable of being
aimed at its obj.-ct, from the size of rhu,kerbidlets to that
of cannon balls or bomb-shells. It is further added that
works of immense strength ate now erecting at Woolwich,
by which it is to be tested, under the inspection of expe-
rienced officers.

FATAL ACCIDENT.-ft is with deep concern we have to
state, that the Right Hon. the Earl of Kintore has met
wiatthe'ano•ter painful bereavement in he death of one of
his daughters—a most interesting child, about ten years
of age, who, while amusing herself near the top of the
staircase at Keith-hall, fell over the ballustrade, and
alighted on the basement floor, a very great height. She
was taken up in a state of insensibility, and died in little
more than an hour. This distressing accident, occurring
so soon after the sudden and lamented death of Lord In.
verary, renders the affliction doubly severe.—Aberdeen
Journal.

DISASTERS AT WHITBY.— On Monday night last,
about twelve o'clock, the brie Malton, of Whitby, struck
on the Whitby bar, in taking the harbour, and was driven
beyond the east pier by a heavy sea and strong northerly
wind, and has since become a wreck : crew saved. On
Wednesday last the brig Earl Bathurst, of Scarbro',
broke from her anchor, in the Whitby roads, and came
on shore near to Upgang : crew saved. About eight
o'clock the same night the Siren, of Shields, also broke
from her anchor, and was driven on shore near to the
other brig : crew also saved.

ATROCIOUS M URDER.—A murder of a most diabolical
nature has been committed in the neighbourhood of
Conwil, in the early part of this month. The parties
concerned in this affair are, Hesther Howell, aged 18,
of Heol Bill, and Rachel, her mother, together with David
Howell, as accessory after the act—be standing in affinity
the husband of the one, the father of Hester, and sup-
posed to be the father of the murdered infant. The
parties had sold off, at Conwil, and decamped just as the
affair got wind; but Rachel, the grandmother of the
infant, has been apprehended by the rural police in the
neighbourhood of Llanwinio, under a warrant from Capt.
Davies, of Green-Hall, and strong hopes are entertained
that the other delinquents will not long escape the punish-
ment due to their unnatural deed.—Carmarthen Journal.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— A fatal accident occurred,
on Saturday last, under the following circumstances, to
Mr. John Bell, of Gill-house, Baldersdale. He had been
at his sou-in-law's, Mr. Ralph Dent, steward to Jobn
Bowes, Esq., of Streatlam Castle, on that day, and set off
home about six o'clock p.m. Nothing more was heard of
him:until next morning, when he was found by Mr. Adam-
son, Streatlam, in a field near Mr. Dent's house quite
dead. It seems that the horse he was riding had fallen
and thrown his rider, who must have been killed instan-
taneously, as his forehead was laid open. The knees of
the horse were broken from the fall. The deceased was a
gentleman highly respected amongst his neighbours, and
was perfectly sober on the day in qtitstion. An inquest
was held on the body on Monday, when a verdict of " Ac-
cidental death" was returned.—Durham Advertiser.
SHEFFIELD OLD BANK.—In the Leeds District Court
of Bankruptcy, on Monday last, Mr. Commissioner
West gave judgment as to the granting of certificates of
conformity to the bankrupts under a fiat of bankruptcy
issued on the 16th of January, 1842, against Mr. Hugh
Parker, Mr. Miley Shore, Mr. John Brewin, and Mr.
John Rogers, of Sheffield, bankers. The Learned Com-
tni.;sioner went through the principal transactions proved
under the fiat, in the course of which he not,ced the
different circumstances which had been urged on a pre-
vious day against granting certificates to the bankrupts.
He concluded by saying—" Under these circumstances, I
think their certificate should be delayed until the 16th of
April, and in delaying it until that time, I take into con-
sideration the period which has elapsed since the issuing
of the fiat."

THE BELGIAN DOG MARKETS.—The following ex-
tract from a letter of Dr. Forster, foreign hon. secretary
to the Animals Friend Society, to L. Gompertz, Esq.,
hon. secretary, will, we hope, be found serviceable to
persons who value their dogs :—" The police of Belgium
have long been devising plans to obviate the following
mode of theft. There is a dog market held every Sunday,
in all the great towns, .at which all the English sports-
men, and others who fancy dogs, attend ; and it has been
discovered that most of the valuable dogs sold here and
in Holland are brought from England, in the different
vessels and packets, and are disguised, shorn, &c., and
sold here at high prices, particularly the small breed of
spaniels. On a fine Sunday, after church, at Brussels,
you may see thirty or more English gentlemen and ladies
purchasing these curs. Now, it may be as well for the
police in London to know this, that they may watch what
goes on board the vessels; since there is an almost gene-
ral complaint of losing valuable dogs in London at pre-
sent."

TRANSFERS OF STOCK.—At the Bank of England,
owing to the late will forgeries, it has been found necessary
to renew former precautions ; and, as a few of the Brokers
of third-standing, in their anxiety for business, have not
been sufficiently particular in ascertaining that the parties
for whom they were making transfers were the individuals
they actually represented themselves to be, the Notice
issued many years since, has again been circulated by the
Directors, and will now, evidently, be more strictly acted
upon. The following is a copy :—" Bank of England,
21st July, 1808. The Governors and Directors of the
Bank of England give this public notice,--That as it has
been determined by a Court of law, that every broker or
other person is responsible for the identity of the party
he vouches for,—the Governor and Directors will, upon
every occasion where the identity is falsely attested, en-
force such responsibility in due course of law." In con-
nection with. than nal:dant. probably. the Corporation of
London has given notice that certain city brokers, whose
bonds bad become void by the parties to them having
become insolvent, and taken the benefit of the Insolvent
Act, had been removed from that office, to which they
can only be re-admitted on renewal of their bonds.

CAPTURE OF A SMUGGLER AND SIX MEN.—The Stag,
revenue cruizer, being off the Wight on the night of the
22d, sent her boats along shore on the look out. One of
them being off St. Catherine's, and close under the cliffs,
just after midnight, saw a sail standing in from the S.E. ;
the smugglers did not perceive the boat till they were
close in upon her, when they immediately cut away their
crop of tubs, which were lashed round their vessel, out-
side the bulwarks, when they fell into the water. The
cutter's boat was within fifteen yards of them ; the cutter's.
men threw over their mark-buoy, and flashed for the cut-
ter; the flash was seen, and returned ; or it might have
been awkward, as the smuggler had more hands than the
boat. After securing the vessel, they went to their buoy
and creeped for the tubs, which they soon succeeded in
capturing ; but the stones attached to them were so heavy,
they could not get them till they got the assistance of
another boat from the cutter. They then got the crop,
consisting of seventy-nine cavks of spirit of brandy,
which, with the men and vessel, they took round to Cowes.
The men, six in number, were taken before the magis-
trates at Newport, and committed for trial. Captain
Clark is but newly appointed to the Stag, and has thus
made for himself and crew a fortunate commencement.

THE HORRID AFFRAY AT HARROW.—In the Court
of Queen's Bench, on Monday last, Patrick Leith Stra-
chan, found guilty of an assault upon a Harrow boy, with
intent to commit a horrible crime, was brought up for
judgment. An affidavit by Lieutentant-Colonel Camp-
bell, formerly governor of Sierra Leone, was put in,
stating that Strachan, when in that place, had caught a
malignant fever, that his arms and hands were shattered
by a paralytic injury, that he was incapable of labour, and
that a lengthened imprisonment would endanger his life,
and that he was sometimes of unsound mind. Counsel
on both sides having been heard, Mr. Justice Pattison
passed sentence, saying,—" Patrick Leith Strachan, you
have been found guilty of an assault with the intent to
commit a horrible offence, for which, if completed, your
life would have been forfeited to the laws of your country.
It appears, from the evidence, that you went down to
Harrow for the purpose of attempting something of this
kind with one or two of the boys you might meet there.
You can never be sufficiently thankful that you were de-
tected before you had committed the detested offence, and
that your life has been spared fnr repentance. The sen-
tence is that you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
in Clerkenwell prison for eighteen months.

MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER AT WHITRY.--Between
one and two o'clock on Tuesday morning, John Moffit,
head gamekeeper to the Marquis of Normanby, along
with an under keeper and several watchers, were on the
look out for poachers on his lordship's estate, in the pa-
rish of Lyth, when in a short time they observed two men
on the brow of a hill, armed with guns, and in pursuit of
game. Moffit left his party for a short distance, and
walked towards the poachers, inquiring what they wanted.
The men, it seems, at that moment returned no reply;
and as they and the gamekeeper advanced towards each
other, one of the poachers called out " Stand back ! "
Moffit, however, either not hearing what the man said,
or paying no attention to it, still kept advancing, and one
of the poachers, whose name afterwards turned out to be
George Lowther, deliberately levelled his gun and fired.
Moffit immediately cried out, " Oh, I am shot !"—stag-
gered a few paces—and fell to the ground. The under
keeper then attempted to seize the ruffian, but was pre-
vented owing to his receiving a severe blow on the tem-
ple, which was severely wounded, from the butt end of
Lowther 's gun. The watchers, however, closed upon
him, and instantly secured him, the other man making
his escape. Poor Moffit expired the same evening. The
companion of Lowther, whose name is Matthew Pearson,
has since been apprehended, and he and Lowther have
been committed to York Castle for trial.

A FootasH YOUNG WOINIAN.—A young lady on a visit
to Glasgow, was accosted, a few days since, in the street
by a genteelly dressed young man, who pretended an ac-
quaintanceship from having formerly seen her in the
" fair city." He politely offered her his services in es-
corting her to view the lions of this locality--services
which were inconsiderately accepted ; and the young man
having succeedeed so well at the outset, proceeded to make
love to' the lady, and then to her gold watch. The latter
he got into his possession, and desired that he might have
the delight of wearing it for even the shortest possible
period ; but as the result proved, it was not intended that
the'owner was to get it again. When the pair were about
to wpart after their stroll, the lady naturally wished her
watch to be returned, but the other explaining that it
would look exceedingly awkward to take the chain from
his neck in the middle of the street, be was allowed to
retain it, on the understanding that it would be returned
the same everting at seven oclock at the house where the
lady lived. The wooer, however, did not keep his word ;
and the police beinginformed arrested him, but he had
parted with his prize, and when it was discovered it was
parted into many fragments. The man remains in cus-
tody on the charge of theft ; but really one feels less sur-
prised at the audacity of the prisoner than at the simpli-
city of the Maid of Perth.—Glasgow paper.

Feb. 6, 1844.

„, regret
DEATH Or PRINCE ALBERT'S FATHER.—W- Ia
to state, that letters have this morning been rrceiveu,'”,
Buckingham Palace, from Germany, announcing the an.
mice of his Serene Highness the Grand Duke of SO'
Coburg and Gotha, the father of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert. In consequence of the receipt of tats
melancholy intelligence the Council, which was to hal
been held to-day by the Queen, has been postponed, an
her Majesty has been unable to receive the addresses la'
tended to have been presented. We believe that the
departure of the Court for Windsor has, for the same
reason, been indefinitely postponed. The intelligence has
proved a great shock to the Queen and her illustrioni
Consort, inasmuch as no previous intimation had been rc
ceived in London of the illness of his serene highness!
Saturday's Globe.—The Grand Duke was in his 61st
year, and has left two sons. the younger of whom is the
illustrious consort of her Majesty. His Royal Highness
is the eldest brother of the Duchess of Kent, and taa
King of the Belgians. His Serene Highness expired at
five o'clock, a.m., on Monday, the 29th instant. 04
Serene Highness, who retired to rest on the preceding nig°
in his usual health, was seized with spasms in the intestines
shortly before four o'clock, and although medical aid vas
immediately at band, such was the violence and severiti
of the attack that his serene highness was a corpse witbitt
an hour.

A Bun CASE.--It seems that the fact of bugs being,
plentiful in a tenement, voids the lease or taking : a verdict
to that effect was given on Friday in the Exchequer. The
following was counsel's statement on this head :—" In thl
upper apartments especially, these visitants swarmed, slit'
the morning after the defendant and his wife had slept':
no, he could not say slept, for they had passed a alas
horribly sleepless night—the sheets of their bed were,
covered all over with the carcases and blood of bugs. le
the other rooms, though not to so great an extent, Per'
haps, those insects had been found to revel in multitudeo4
and one of the witnesses would state that she bad killed
them by the thousand at a time. If ever the jury had
known what it was to have spent the night in the companY
of bugs, they would at once feel a sympathy with the de•
fendant and bis family. On the first night it would seal
that as many as 1000 or 1500 had been slain."
EXPORT OF COALS.—The following are the statistic§
of the export trade in coals from Sunderland during the
year ending January sth, 1844 :
Tons. Vessels. Duty.
Qr. ending April 5, 1843.. 61,527.. 257.. £3,891 0 0
„ July 5, 1843.. 87,292.. 454.. £6,501 4 9
„ Oct. 5, 1843.. 107,093.. 534.. £8,267 15 0
„ Jan. 5, 1844.. 49,899.. 247.. £3,880 13 9

Total for the year.. 305,811.. 1494—£22,540 10 9
The relative quantities expo' ted to foreign countries (ex-
clusive of those shipped to colonies) by British and foreign
vessels respectively. during the last quarter, are as under
By British vessels
By Foreign vessels

Excess by the foriner .... 27,704 !
And this notwithstanding the boon recently granted br
Sir Robert Peel to foreign shipowners, to convey coals
to their own and other countries on payment of the same
duty as is paid by the British shipowner.
A meeting of the friends of Mr. Richard Oastler visa
held at Birmingham on Wednesday night, for the purpose
of adopting measures for promoting the liberation of
that gentleman, and of providing an annuity for his future
support, and that of his family. Mr. Edmund Heeler
was called to the chair : when resolutions were passed,
recognising the services which Mr .Oastler had rentiered
in defence of the factory classes, and on behalf of the
poor, and appointing a committee to take measures for
promoting the fund for his liberation. The Rev. G. S.
Bull read a letter from Mr. Ferrand, M.P., stating that
several noblemen and gentlemen bad come forward and
guaranteed the full amount of the debt for which Mr- •
Oastler had been imprisoned, and that he would, there-
fore, be liberated. The announcement was received with
loud cheering by the meeting. The sum already subscri-
bed amounts to about £2,000, and it is understood that
upwards of £1,500 remains to be subscribed. A meeting
of the central committee was held yesterday (Monday),
at Brighouse, when it was expected measures would be
adopted for Mr. Oastler's liberation.
AN HONEST YEOMAN.—It rarely falls to our lot to
record a more noble example of honesty than that exem-
plified in the conduct of an individual in this county, who,
though devoid of wealth, possesses, it would appear, a
greater share of that right principle than is usually found
under similar circumstances :—Mr. George Payne, late of
Frieze Hill farm, in the parish of South Weald, having
lost about £3,000 by farming and bad luck, was so re-
duced in his funds that last year he was sold out of his
farm, and sinee that time he has been nearly penniless,
living on his friends, and doing what he could at farming
work for a living. A few days since, some friends who
have known him in better days, sent him some money-
Instead of keeping this for his own maintenance, he in-
vited his creditors to dine at the White Hart Inn, Brent-
wood, on Tuesday last, and then most generously gave up
the whole of the money which would pay them about ss.
in the pound, leaving himself entirely bare. Such con-
duct needs no comment, and we cannot for a moment
imagine that he will be permitted by his neigbours to want,
the surrender being made without the slightest solicitation,
and entirely of his own free will.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
LORD MORPETH ON THE CORN LAWS.—At a dinner
of the Leaguers of the West Riding of Yorkshire Lord
Morpeth was present; indeed, the great object of the de-
monstration was to elicit from his lordship a full avowal
of his concurrence in their views in regard to the total
abolition of the corn laws. In this, however, they were
disappointed, his lordship declaring that he was not yet a
total and immediate repealer- a declaration which mate-
rially damped the ardour of the meeting. The expressions
made use of by Lord Morpeth on this particular subject
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hereafter, either if I should think it necessary or brtielre
that the interests of the public revenue absolutely required
it, or if I should see no other way of effecting a better
settlement of the question than that which now prevails;
or if I thought it was making a great advance in the right
direction ; in these, or in such like cases, Ido not debar
myself from the power of acquiescing in a fixed duty of
low amount." His lordship subsequently qualified this
unpalatable announcement by declaring that he would
" infinitely prefer a repeal, a total and immediate repeal,
to one short year's continuance of the law as it now sub-
sists."

STRANGE EXHIBITION.—On Monday the funeral of
Dr. G. Swiney, an eccentric gentleman, residing in Cam-
den Town, took place. An immense concourse of people
attended, every person being anxious to view such a strange
sight as a funeral the whole of the paraphernalia of which
was to be yellow. About a quarter before two o'clock the
funeral cortege made its appearance, and, agreeably to the
will of the deceased, the coffin was covered with yellow
cloth, studded with white nails. On getting into the
street, a yellow velvet pall, edged :with white silk, was
thrown over it. Immedidately after the coffin, came
three young girls, the eldest about 14 years, and the other
two about 12 years of age. They were habited in white,
(according to the will), with violet-coloured cloaks. Their
head-dress consisted of straw bonnets, trimmed with
white satin. The dresses had a most singular apuearance,
the wearers appearing more like a party proceeding to
wedding than mourners to a funeral. After these came
mutes, and then the real mourners, habited not in yellow
cloaks, as previously announced, but in the usual mourn-
ing habit. In this order the cavalcade proceeded to the
burial ground, the crowd being so dense that it was with
the greatest difficulty it could proceed, police officers
going first to clear the way.
EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS—On Thursday an in-
quiry was held at the Feathers Tavern, Waterloo-road,
before Mr. Carter, touching the death of M rs. E. Donally,
aged 35, who on Tuesday committed suicide by jumping
off Waterloo-bridge into the Thames. The deceased was
the wife of a respectable mercantile clerk, with a salary
of £250, who had separated from her at Christmas last,.
and not having been seen or heard of since, there wasl.it-
tle doubt entertained but that he also has made away with
himself. Deceased's sister, said that deceased had been
married ten years, and since Christmas had been living
with witness. She was an inveterate drunkard, and it was
through her dissolute way of life that her husband separ-
ated from her, although be was extremely fond of her.
They had also parted three times before, in consequence
of her love for ardent spirits. He left her on the 4th of
December last, and on going out of the door he kissed her
and said, " Betsy, you don't act right towards me. You
will certainly make me make away with myself." De-
ceased never saw him since, nor has he been seen by his
employers or friends. She had disposed of everything
she was posse' sed of, including articles of dress, even
to her very stays, in order to supply herself with liquor-
The last time witness saw her was on Tuesday morning,
when she left to go into the Strand Union-house. She
was then in liquor, and was heard to say that she would
destroy herself if she had the courage. When in liquor
she appeared to lose her senses, and would wander about
the metropolis for miles and miles.
PROJECTED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE POST-OFFICE:"
The Lords of the Treasury have. decided to increase the
public accomodation by an extensive change in the admi-
nistration of the Post-office department of the public ser-
vice, and intimated their intention of devoting the whole
of the surplus revenue in carrying out the remaining de-
tails of the id postage measure. Accordingly Lord Vis-
count Lowther has caused to be established a permanent
board, consisting of the heads of the Executive Depart-
ments, for the purpose of arranging the plan. The fol-
lowing are among the. principal propositions :—Pre-par ment in all cases of
.thland correspondence by the medium
of stamps; the institution of the more frequent despatch
and delivery of London district post letters, and the
abridgment of the letter:carriers' walks, so as to facilitate
both ; and an increase in the number of officers tanta-
mount to the projected extension of the duties of the
office. These prelimin
into operation
.early in the spring, Other and more im-
portant measures, we hear, are to come
por.tant alterations. have been suggested, the chief of
which are the following
the foreign correspondence, so as to secure simplicity in
all the working arrangements, by obtaining a uniform and
-The separation of the inland from
rapid delivery.. of all inland letters inland ; the eventual
consolidation of the two corps of letter carriers, general
in the metropolis; the increase of arrivals from
and twopenny ; the establishment of additional receiving-
housesthe provinces by the morning mails ; and the establish-
ment of. post-offices throughout the United Kingdom in
proportion to the density of the letter-writing population.
As it is manifest that the extensive alterations are
calculated materially to affect the income of all officers
connected with the department whose salaries depend in
a great measure upon their realization of fees, and gra-
tuities from the public for what is called the "early deli•
very," we are informed that it is in contemplation to sub-
stitute fixed salaries in lieu of the present sliding scale of
%ages, proportioned to the length of service and amount
of duty performed by each officer. It is estimated by
Colonel Maherly that the carrrying out of this proposi-
tion alone will involve an additional outlay of £4,500 per
annum, and that the adoption of the whole of the pro-
jected alterations will absorb all the present net revenue.

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