The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

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Derby
At a meeting of the Board of Guardians of the West
Union on Tuesday week, C. S. Walkor, Esq., was
appointed surgeon to the township of West Del uy.
NORTH HAYMARKET.—The value of the. hay, straw, pota-
toes, &c. sold at this market in the course of the psst year
amounted to X 149,744 19s. 91d.
SHERIFF OF LANCASHIRE.—We understand that Wm.
Garnett, Esq., of Lark Hill (in Salford), and of Quernmore
Park, is to be the high sheriff for this county for the ensuing
Year.

TRESPASSING ON THE SHORE.—Joseph Rawden was
Yesterday fined 5s and costs, by the magistrates of Birken-
head, for taking away. a quantity of gravel from the shore
near Tramnere-quay.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We understand many per-
sons
are under the impression that the wal:s of this institu-
tiontr are not sufficiently dry • there can be no ground for this
, as all the schools are'
merely whitewashed, and the
walls are more than usually dry from the very fine summer
experienced last year.
BIDEFORD.-011 Thursday last, the 19th instant, a very
fine brig, named the Sarah Louisa, was launched from the
building-yard of Messrs. Leans and Co. Shs is intended
tßell o trade betwe_ en Liverpool and Valparaiso ; this vessel is
worthy ofinspection, as a specimen of Messrs. Evans
and Co.'s building, on whom she reflects great creclitfno;
1004 el and neatness,' and strength of workmanship.
L/VBRPPOL 'RIENDLY LOAN SOCIETY.—We understand
that, during the past year, the money advanced to trades-
men_ and others by this society, in small sums, amounted ton.) less than £9,350, and that of this sum the hole with the
exception of
about £1 is., has been repaid with interest. In
three years since its establishment, about £lB,OOO have been
lent, the loss on which has been only £3. The profit made
by the society during the year, after paying all expenses of
clerks, offices, printing, &c., has been about £5O, out of
Which the sum of £5 each has been presented to the In-
firmary, the North and South Dispensaries, the Strangers'
rriend Society, and the District Provident Society.
LIVERPOOL ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—This body
Held their first annual meeting on Wednesday evening, in the
Susie-ball, Bold-street, which was considerably crowded on
the occasion. Mr. Thorneley, M.l'. for Wolverhampton,
Was in the chair ; and after he had made a speech in favour of
free trade, Mr. C. E. Rawlins read the report of the com-
Mittee. Mr. J. T. Crook, the treasurer, next read a state-
Ment of his accounts, from which it appeared that the ex-
penditure had exceeded the receipts by upwards of £BO. The
Meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. William Wood,
Mr. Charles Robertson, Mr. William Rathbone, Colonel
Williams, Mr. Charles Holland, Mr. Shiel, Mr. Thomas
-Blackburn, and Mr. Francis Boult ; and resolutions were
carried of the nature usually adopted by such assemblies.
Rev.
SERMONS.—it will he seen from an advertisement that the
J. H. Stewart, of St. Bride's, has published the two
discourses preached by him at St. Bride's Church, on Sun-
laY, the Ist of January instant. The reverend author states
a preface, that they interest
In published " with the view of pre-
P9tinm gin a ore detailed form, to those who take an
te the subject, the urgent reasons mentioned in the author's
§Pventh annual invitation for united earnest prayer for the
°utPourin,g of the Holy Spirit, on the first day of the new
Year." These reasons are connected with " the days of
rebuke and blasphemy," in which our lot has fallen; the
Present state both of the Church of England and the Church
of Scotland • the high position in which the Great Ruler of
the universe has placed our nation, more especially since the
"IVY termination of the war in China and Affghanistan ;
and the peculiar circumstances in which Isis ancient people
the Jews now stand.

The Bath Chronicle of yisteiday (Thursday) says " We
hear that Mr. Jenkins, a merchant of Liverpool, has taken
on a long lease, Sydney Gardens and premises, for the pur-
pose of being converted into an institution in which the
cold water system' is to be practised on a large scale."
COMAIITMENTS.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a female,
named M`Gee, was committed for trial for stealing a top.co4t,
and pledging it. A boy was also committed for stealim;a
pair of boots from the shop door of Messrs. Frost, Ranelagh-
street.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BALL.—The annual ball in aid
of the charitable objects, supported by the Licensed Victu-
allers, took place last night, in the Town-hall. The Mayor
was present. At the time we went to press the company
numbered between 500 and 600, and dancing was going on
with great spirit.

DANCING.---Mr. Harwood's first dress (pupils') ball was
extremely well attended on Tuesday evening last. Soon
after nine dancing commenced, and was continued till the
usual hour—half-past twelve. These balls partake more of
the character of private parties than of public entertainments.
We refer those who wish to commence a course of instruc-
tion in this polite art to Mr. Harwood's address elsewhere.
THE INCENDIARY FIRE.—Mr. Parsons, solicitor, yester-
day applied to the bench at the Birkenhead Town-hall, to
allow Peter Evans, who was lately committed to Chester
assizes for setting fire to the stack-yard of R. W. Barton,
Esq., of Caldy, to be admitted to bail, but the application
was refused. It was intimated that application will be made
to the Court of Queen's Bench, the prisoner being, we un-
derstand, very respectably connected.
SMUGGLING.—Joseph Gallaghar appeared before J. D.
Case and J. R. Shaw, Esqrs., at the Birkenhead Town-hall,
yesterday, having been taken into custody by Mr. Oakely.
an excise officer, whilst coming on shore from one of the
Government steamers in the river with three gallons of Irish
whiskey in his possession. He was fined £25, and in default
committed for three months. James Wilkinson, who was
caught committing the same offence yesterday morning, was
convicted in a similar penalty.

TRESPASSING IN PURSUIT OF GAME.—Mr. Seymour
Willoughby, of Birkenhead, Mr. Thomas Rawlinson and
Mr. John Johnson, of Liverpool, were summoned before the
magistrates at Birkenhead, yesterday, at the instance of
Mr. Chamberlain, of Oxton, with trespassing in the township
of Tranmere in pursuit of game. The defendants stated that
they were allowed to sport over the property by permission
of the tenant; but on calling the latter, it turned out that he
had no power to give them permission, and in consequence
they were convicted in a penalty of 40s. and costs.
POACHING.—John Hill was charged yesterday, before the
magistrates at Birkenhead, by the keeper of Mr. Parry, with
poaching in the township of Tranmere, on Wednesday last.
The keeper stated, that he saw the prisoner in a field, behind
the hedge, with a hare in his possession. The keeper took
him into custody, on which the prisoner knocked him down,
and a scuffle ensued, when the keeper was induced to allow
the prisoner at liberty, on his promising to accompany him
quietly. No sooner, however, had he gained his liberty but
he drew his knife and took up some large stones, and threat.
ened to stab the keeper, on which the latter seized him, but
not before he had received a severe blow from a bludgeon on,
the head, from which he bled profusely. He, however, suc-
ceeded in securing his prisoner, and, on his being searched,
two skeleton keys were found on him. He was, therefore,
committed as a rogue and vagabond to the House of Cor-
rection for three months.
THE Loss OF THE JESSIE LOGAN EAST INDIAMAN.—
The following extract of a letter, dated Boscastle, January
21, gives the latest particulars respecting the loss of the ill-
fated ship Jessie Logan :—" Every tide portions of the cargo
and wreck of the Jessie Logan, East Indiaman, are being
picked up and conveyed to th stores here (Boscastle.) The
owner, Mr. J. Logan, of Liverpool, has arrived here, super-
intending the saving of as much as possible of the cargo and
wreck. The day previous to the intelligence of her loss being
received in Liverpool, the owner, Mr. Logan, was in the re-
ceipt of a letter from Captain Major, from St. Helena,
stating that all was well. The cargo she had on board when
she sailed from Calcutta was of a general nature, and valued
at £35,900, the greater portion of which was insured in Cal-
cutta. The Jessie Logan was insured, but not to the full
amount of her value, and consequently Mr. Logan will be a
sufferer by her loss."
HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL.—On Monday night last, at
the Victoria Hotel, a valuable silver snuff box was presented
by a few gentlemen to Mr. Samuel Jones, one of the hands
of No. 4 Pilot-boat, as a token of their high estimation of
his conduct on a recent occasion, when the donors were ex-
posed to great peril on board the ship Grace. That vessel,
the property of Messrs. W. and F. Shand, put to sea for
Antigua on the 24th of October last, Jones being her pilot.
She was towed out by a steamer. Soon after she left the
river a gale sprunc, up, which increased to such a violent ex-
tent, that when the time arrived for the steamer to put hack
that vessel was unable to approach her. The pilot and the
gentlemen to whom we have alluded were compelled, there-
fore, to remain on board the Grace, which was buffeted about
during the whole of that tempestuous night, and was, in the
morning, compelled to put back. To the coolness, skill, and
intrepidity of Jones, it was believed the safety of the ship
was in a.great measure owing. The passengers who sailed
with the Grace entered into a subscription, which was in-
creased by the gentlemen who had accompanied her round
the rock, and the box mentioned above was purchased with
the proceeds.

ROBBERY.—On Tuesday last, at the Police-court, Mary
Gribbin was placed before Mr. Rushton charged with having
been concerned in a robbery in the counting-house of Messrs.
Hamilton, Jackson, and Co., Tabley-street. On Saturday
night last he locked up the office and delivered the keys to
the warehouseman. On Monday morning he received in-
formation that the premises had been robbed. He went
thither and found that the office had been entered. The iron
safe was broken open, and from it he missed two quart de-
canters of spirits and twenty-six samples of rum. He also
missed a watch, his own property. From a box which had
been broken open he missed one piece of silk taffeta, two
pieces of silk handkerchiefs, forty-seven worsted caps, and
six Guernsey frocks. Constable Kehoe stated, that he
received information of the robbery. He went to a house in
College-lane and there found the prisoner. He asked her
where she lived. She told him No. 11, College-lane. He
went with her and she pointed out to him her room. He
searched the bed, and found between the mattresses the
watch produced, which was claimed by Mr. Frankland. She
said she had had it five years : on the way to bridewell she
said, `• I told you a lie ; I never saw that watch before."
The prisoner declared she knew nothing of the robbery. She
was committed for trial.

THE AGRICOLA.—COLLISION.—In the Admiralty Court
on Tuesday last, an action was brought by the owners of
the Don, a schooner of Jersey, against the barque Agricola,
to recover the amount of damage sustained by the schooner
by a collision with the barque. on entering the basin of the
King's Dock, at Liverpool. The Agricola had arrived from
the east, and discharged great part of her cargo in London;
whence she proceeded with the remainder to Liverpool, on
the Bth of September, having taken aboard a duly licensed
pilot, under the Liverpool Pilot Act, to carry her up the
Mersey. When near the entrance to the dock basin, which
she was about to enter, the Don was lying close to it, being
required to remain there by the dock-master, in order to
allow an outward bound vessel to come (At. The Agricola
was coming in with a strong wind from the N.W., and a
flowing tide, at the rate of six miles an hour, and not seeing
the Don till when near, and when she could not drop her
anchor, the collision in-question took place. On behalf of
the Agricola it was alleged that the collision was occasioned
by the position which the Don had taken athwart the en-

trance to the dock, so that it was impossibleiOoiastrik-

ing her. On behalf of the Don it was argued that she was
placed in her position by the direction of the dock-master,

and that the Carque did not keep a good look out or proceed
with proper caution. After hearing the Queen's Advocate
and Dr. Addams for the Don, and Dr. Haggard and Dr.

Bayford for the Agricola, Dr._Lushington. addressed a few

observations upon the facts to Captains Loch and Wyndham,
the two Trinity masters by whom the court was assisted,
who declared their opinion that the Don had acted properly ;

that the Agricola was solely to blame, and that the pilot On

board that vessel was alone in fault. This decision raised a

question of law, how far the owners were exonerated under

the Liverpool Pilot Act, which remains for further argu-

DEATH FROM A GUN-SHOT WOUND.—An inquest was
held, yesterday, in the board-room of the Infirmary, before
John Heyes, Esq., borough coroner, and a respectable
Liverpool jury, summoned by the beadle, Mr. Balfour, on
view of the body of a young man, named George Whittaker.
Alexander Smith, being sworn, said he lived in Falkner-
street, Liverpool, and•was a clerk. The deceased, who lived

. .
in the same street, was a striker at a railway-smith's, but
had been some time out of employment: He was twenty

years of age. On Tuesday last, about half-past one o'clock

in the afternoon, deceased and witness went out together to
go to the country to shoot small birds. The deceased had

borrowed a gun from a person named Davies, who keeps a
milk-house in Trowbrideg-street. It was a single-barrelled
gun, with a percussion lock. Witness had no gun. They
went in the direction of Wavertree. The deceased told wit-

ness the gun was loaded, and it had a cap on the nipple.
They went into the fields on the south side of Wavertree-

lane, and about two fields from the crossing of the road.
The deceased, who had the gun, got some distance before

witness

It was about half-past.tv;o o'clock

As soon as I

got over a fence which deceased had passed; witness saw him
thrusting at the hedge with the but end of the gun, and called
out to him, " George for God's sake don't do that ;" and

,
instantly the gun went off and the deceased fell. Witness
ran up to him. He said he was not much hurt—that he
would walk home—would be well in a day or two—and that

witness must not tell his father. He tried to get up, but
could not, and fell down again. 'Witness got help, and he
was conveyed to the Infirmary. Mr. Brandreth, house-
surgeon of the Infirmary, said the deceased was brought there
about half-past three o'clock. He immediately found that
the deceased was wounded in the abdomen. There was a

wound two inches from the navel on the right side, and ra-
ther higher up. The wound was mortal, and he died at half-
past two on the following morning. On a post mortem

examination, it was found that the shot had penetrated the

stomach, wounded the ascending colon, fractured the hip
bone, and lodged in the right buttock. It was impossible to
save him. The shot went together as it had been a ball.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," with a
nominal deodand on the gun of one shilling."

Loss AND CURIOUS RECOVERY OF £6O, IN Two BANK
OF ENGLAND NOTES.—At the police-court, yesterday, a
poorly-clad elderly female, named O'Hara, was placed at the
bar on suspicion of having become feloniously possessed of
two Bank of England notes—one for £5O and the other for
£lO. The prisoner, it appeared, was in the habit of taking
away, without permission, the ashes and sweepings of several
offices. On Tuesday she went to Mr. Franklin's, bullion-
office, Lord-street, and offered that gentleman a £5O note,
stated that he must give her no light sovereigns, and adding
that she would give him £5 to change it. From her appearance,
he suspected all was not right, and, he questioned her about
it. She at first said it was her own, but afterwards that she
had found it. He detained it, and afterwards showed it to a
police-officer, telling him the circumstances. He did not
detain the prisoner—she being at the time very tipsy. A
gentleman connected with the firm of Messrs. Hodgson and
Ryley, cotton brokers, Exchange-street West, said that the
prisoner was in the habit of getting the ashes, &c., from their
office. He had been in Manchester on Saturday, when he
received several payments from different parties. These he
put into his pockets in separate sums as he received them,
taking a memorandum of each on a piece of paper. On re-
turning to Liverpool he entered the sums in a book, with the
exception of a sum of £6l, which appeared in the memo-
randum, but which he missed, and, thinking he had left it at
Manchester, he wrote to enquire about it, and had just re-
ceived an answer to the effect that it was not there. The
prisoner came to the office on Saturday, and said she had
found a pound note amongst the ashes. The person who
swept out the ashes usually placed them on the opposite side
of the street. The sum he missed was a £5O note, a £lO
note, and a sovereign which was wrapped within them. He
conjectured that lie had dropped them in the street when he
arrived on Saturday from the railway station and was paying
the carman.—police-officer Thomas Ainsworth, sen., said
that on apprehending the prisoner, she said she had found
the note offered to Mr. Franklin amongst the ashes ; and
that she had also found another note along with it; and she
handed him a £lO note. Though the numbers of the notes
were not given there could be no doubt of their being the
same that were lost. Mr. Rushton said the prisoner had
had a narrow escape, but he should not send her for trial.
It it had been shown that she had any reasonable cause to
suppose that she knew the owner, the case would have been
most serious. At the same time, money found did not be-
long to the party finding it, who should take means to find
out the owner. Though her conduct had not been strictly
honest, she must be discharged. The gentleman enquired if
he should pay her a reward ? Mr, Rushton.—" No ; not a
farthing,”

SURETIES TO LOAN SOCIETIES. ...Yesterday, Several
parties who had been sureties for parties borrowing money
from a loan society, were brought before Mr. Rushton, to
show cause why they refused to pay, the borrowers having
become defaulters. Orders were made upon them for the
l'wo sureties are requite I by such
stated that loth were cqually

pective amounts
!ieties ; but Mr.

DEATH *FROM SCALDING.— On Tuesday an inquest was
held before Mr. Curry. on view of the body of a tine child,
aged nine years, daughter of Mr. Mitchell, railway agent,
St. Vincent-street East. It appeared that on the 22d Dec.
ult. the deceased was much scalded on her right side and arm
by the contents of a kettle which accidentally fell off t

tie nre.
She was attended by Dr. Manifold, but lingered on and be-
came gradually worse until Saturday last, when she expired.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
A BRIG -ABAN DON ED AT SEA.—(Extract from a letter
dated Holyhead, Jan. 23.)—" On Saturday night, the brig
Caroline, belonging to Newcastle, bound from Liverpool for
the Cape of Good Hope, with a general cargo of merchandise,
was brought in here (Holyhead) by a portion of the crew of
the Emily, Captain Nicholas, from Liverpool for Terceira.
The Caroline was discovered by the Emily near Arklow
Banks, and is supposed to have struck on some of the
numerous sands on the coast of Ireland, and to have been
abandoned by the crew. They are supposed to have left with
the boats, as not any were to be discovered, and that they
succeeded in getting safely into some other port, or had been
picked up by some vessel at sea. Too much praise cannot
be bestowed on Captain Nicholas and his crew (five in num-
ber) for the task they undertook, it blowing strongly from
the S.W. when the Caroline was boarded, consequently the
navigation of both vessels by six hands must be considered
wonderful, and that being done without any material damage.
The Caroline seems complete, hut leaky. The Emily lost
her jibbotm, and had her boat stove, also her mainchains on
the starboard side damaged."
THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Some of the trans-
actions in the Stock Exchange to-day were of a large amount,
and threatened at one time completely to change the aspect
of prices. The Bank broker appeared early as a seller, and
got rid of £35,000 Consols, at a reduction in quotatio❑ of
about Ili to 4 per cent., but when the jobbers found he was in-
clined to carry his dealings to a much greater extent, they,
to use a technicality of the fraternity, " cut" the market un-
der him, and hence he discontinued his operations. The
greatest decline prices suffered was 4 per cent., Consols for
money and the account receding to 94+ to 4. As, however,
an increased demand for money stock shortly followed, con-
fidence revived, and the latest quotation was 944 sellers for
money, and 944 buyers for the account. Bank Stock closed
172 to 173; India Stock, 262 to 263; Exchequer Bills, 645.
to 665. premium; Three per Cents. Reduced, 9a4; Three
and-a-half per Cents. Reduced, 102:1 ; New Three-and-a-
Half per Cents., 1004 to 101 ; Long Annuities, 12 13-16;
India Bonds, 58s. to (;M.. premium; and South Sea Annui-
ties, 934. In foreign stocks, Spanish Actives were quoted
184 to 11 ; ditto, New, 234 to 4 ; Mexican, 31+ to 4 ; Dutch
Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52+ to 4; Dutch Five per
Cents., 1024 to 1034 ; Brazilian, 74 to 75 ; Belgian, 1024
to 1034 ; Colombian, 23+ to ; and Portuguese Converted,
36 to 15.

BLUE COAT BROTHERLY SOCIETY.—The fourth annual
report of this valuable society has just been published. It
states that there are 177 boys in connexion with the society,
who have been regularly visited, some of them for nearly
four years, and yet, during that period, and out of so large
a number, there have only occurred three instances of mis-
conduct of such a nature as to call forth the regrets of the
society. It appears from the visiters' reports that the boys
are generally honest, industrious, and obedient at their places
of business ; orderly and well-behaved at home, and regular
in their attendance at divine worship on the Sabbath. Their
almost uniform good conduct must, under divine Providence,
without whose assistance all human means would be utterly
unavailing, be ascribed to the instruction they received whilst
in the school, and may be considered as a decisive proof of
the advantages of a sound religious and moral training. It
is to be hoped that the success which has hitherto attended
the society will encourage the members to the most diligent
prosecution of its objects, and that the impulse given by the
visiters of the past year will spread until it pervades the
whole body, and render each member individually anxious to
further its operations. It appears from the statement of
accounts, that during the year three members have had cash
advanced to them amounting in the whole to £55, and that
five other members have been presented with various articles
of clothing, whilst the whole amount of the year's expenses
is only £2. 6s. The society has stock and cash in the hands
of eight members amounting to £127. Bs. Bd.
A BOY FIRED AT WITH A PISTOL AND HIS EYE SHOT
OUT.—On Tuesday last, (the case being postponed for fur-
ther evidence) a boy named John Healey was placed at the
bar of the Police Court, on a charge of having fired a pistol
at another boy, named Patrick M`Maher, by which the
latter lost his right eye. It appeared that the two lads had
known each other for some time, and that on Wednesday
fortnight the prisoner beckoned the injured party (who has
lost an arm) out of the cellar where he lived, as if he wanted
to speak to him. The latter came out accordingly, not ex-
pecting to meet with any harm. The prisoner asked him,
" How do you do?" and he replied " Pretty well." The
prisoner then said, " Will you have a chew of tobacco ?" to
which M'Maher's reply was, " Yes, if you please," upon
which the prisoner put a pistol to his face, instantly dis-
charged it, and handing it to another boy ho was by, ran
away. The contents, or rather the explosion of the weapon
took effect on the right side of the face, destroying his eye
and otherwise injuring him. Mr. Cameron, of 'the South.
Dispensary, soon afterwards attended him in that Institu-
tion, but the evidence of the surgeon who first saw him after
he was fired at, was required; and Mr. Leech surgeon,
being in attendance (on Wednesday) described the injuries.
He said, the boy's face on the right side was much blackened,
and the eye quite obscured. The patien., told him he had
been fired at, and the appearances bore out such statement.
There was no trace of shot. but some particles of gunpowder
were found in the skin. The prisoner admitted that he had
fired the pistol, but said, he did not think it would have
done such injury. He was committed to take his trial at the
assizes for the felony.

We understand the Jerusalem Bishopric Endowment
Fund already amounts to little short of £lO,OOO.
One of the prisoners confined in Morpeth gaol, escaped
out of prison on Tuesday week, and has not since been
captured.

A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against
four poachers for killing one of the keepers of Mr. Phil-
lips, at Tean, in Gloucestershire.
VINTNER.—The derivation of this name would seem to be
from " wine-tunner," by which name the company of vint-
ners in the city of London were incorporated by Edward 111.
Their arms display three wine-tuns.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—From a statement of the
voyages performed by the royal mail West India steam-ships
during the year 1842, it appears that the average length of
the West India voyages, both out and home, was 18i days.
The longest outward passage was made in 20 days 17 hours,
and the quickest in 16 days 19 hours, the distance steamed
over being nearly 4,000 miles.

We have seen a letter from a tory county member to an
influential constituent, in which he expresses his conviction
that Sir Robert Peel will in the ensuing session meddle with
the corn laws only so far as to make some adjustment of the
sliding scale, with a view to the more accurate taking of the
averages. And is this really all that Sir Robert Peel purposes
to do ?—Glasgow Chronicle.
DETERMINED SUICIDES.—On Tuesday last, Mrs. Benton,
the landlady of the Prince Regent public-house, in Globe-
lane, London, committed suicide by hanging herself to a
bedpost by a cord.—On Sunday last, a travelling hawker of
boxes, named Crew, and residing in Woolwich, got up out
of his bed and cut his throat with a razor, and died shortly
afterwards. lie had been labouring under a severe fever for
several days.

There are few, if any, instances of increase of population
so rapid as that of Berlin. In 1650, it reckoned 6,100 in-
habitants; in 1700, it had inereased to 29,000; at the birth
of Frederick the Great, in 1712, it contained 61,000 ; at his
accession to the throne, in 1740, his capital contained 90,000;
and at his death, in 1786, there were 107.000. On the ac-
cession of Frederick William 111., in 1797, he found 165,000
inhabitants in Berlin ; and on the accession of the present
monarch, in 1840, the number was 330,234.

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress gave a splendid ju-
venile ball, on Wednesday last, at the Mansion House, the
alterations and improvements in which have been so far corn-
pleted that his lordship's family were able to remove into it
from his private dwelling on Monday last, There were up-
wards of 250 present at the ball and supper, amongst whom
were the children of some of the most eminent merchants and
bankers in the metropolis, Members of Parliament, &c. The
dancing did not conclude till past two o'clock.

On Monday last, Thomas Sharpies, an innkeeper at Bol-
ton, was brought before the magistrates, charged with having
a dramatic performance at his house. The piece performed
was Mazeppa. The case having been established, the ma-
gistrates retired, and, after a lengthened consultation, the
mayor said, " Our opinion is, that there has been an enter-
tainment of the stage within the meaning of the 10th Geo.
11., c. 28 ; and we convict Mr. Sharpies in the penalty of
£50." Mr. Sharpies intends to appeal against this decision
to the sessions.

NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Saturday the
citizens in immense crowds flocked to all parts of the city
to witness the daring feat of Mr Hughes driving 15 horses
in hand. This singular and hazardous exploit he performed
to the surprise and admiration of thousands who witnessed
the spectacle. The horses were harnessed to a vehicle re-
sembling a mail coach ; and he handled the ribbands and
turned the different corners with as much seeming ease as
if he was only driving a tandem. The horses were re-
markably beautiful and docile animals, and obeyed with
singular precision and unanimity of purpose the movements
of their able whip.—Cork Examiner.
DEATH OF Two FISHERMEN FROM STARVATION.—A
small yawl put to sea on Friday last, with six hands from
Lurgan-green for the purpose of fishing, but were unable to
return back in time in consequence of a brisk gale blowing off
the shore. However, on Sunday the boat was observed from
Clogher-head, when a fisherman named Cunningham and his
sons put to sea, and succeeded in bringing the boat and hands
ashore, two of them having been found dead from cold and
want of food, while two more were in a very exhausted state.
The inhabitants of Clogher treated the survivors in the kind-
est manner. We understand that a boat containing six Clogher
fishermen is missing.---Drogneda Conservative.

STORM IN THE BLACK SEA.—According to a Russian
journal, the Black Sea was visited, towards the close of last
year, by the most awful storms. During the month of No-
vember and the first fortnight of December 30 vessels of dif-
ferent sizes were completely lost, and 75 very seriously das
maged. A letter, dated Genoa, the 18th inst., published in
the Journal des Debals, announces that the agitation of the
sea continued and even increased during the 13th, 14th, and
15th instant, and had caused considerable damage in the port
and neighbourhood. .Two French vessels were lost in the
waters of the Spezzia, and much injury was done to the new
mole and the ramparts of Mala Paga, where the foundations
of the barracks appropriated to the Custom-house troops
were considerably shaken. On the evening of the 15th the
Archbishop, together with the chapter, and accompanied by
all the clergy of the place, the municipal authorities, and a
great eoncourse of people, blessed the sea, from the heights
of the mule.

MUSSOOLAH BOATS.—During the late gales, in which so
many human lives have been sacrificed for the lack of means
of putting out boats to sea, to render assistance to the crews
and passengers on board vessels which have been wrecked on
various parts of the coast, Mussoolah boats, constructed
upon the same principle as those in common use at Madras,
which are employed in approaching ships riding at anchor in
that roadstead in tempestuous weather, would have proved of
incalculable service. These boats are built upon a large
scale, and are remarkably broad in the beam, and are so ex-
ceedingly buoyant that they may, without any extraordinary
degree of labour, be made to pass through a succession of
terrific surfs, which extended for upwards of a quarter of a
mile from the shore, and to reach the seyeral ships in perfect
safety, returning back again to the beach with the passen-
gers. These craft are composed of very
esotpopuetr toirmibreorns‘naapilds
the planks of the same are muted together with strong
lacings of leathern thongs, instead of
and fastenings. They are each of them conducted by eight
oar .men, denominated " dandees," besides a steersman,
styled the " mangee." They are capable of being shoved
with ease into the most overwhelming breakers, and, with
proper management, of effecting a passage through a rapid
succession of surf-coronetted surges, amid which no Euro,.
pean boat could possibly live, let her be constructed upon
the most approved modern principle as a life-preserver, It
may be considered somewhat surprising that the subject in
quertion has not yet attracted the attention of nautical men.

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yes.

terday, when the following members were present:—Messrs
Sands (chairman), Horsfall, Holmes, Middleton, Nicol,
Swith , Molyneux, Bulley, Evans, Boyden, Bold, Shand,
Martin, Moon, Aikin, Chilton, Tobin, Barclay, Ripley, and
Holt.

EXCAVATION OF ALBERT DOCK

The Sub-committee of Works reported, that Messrs. John
Orrell and Co. had relinquished their contract for excavating
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excavation from Mr. John Waring be accepted
Mr. RIFLED inquired why the contract had been relin
quished ?

The CHAIRMAN replied, that Messrs. Orrell had found
out a mistake in their calculations, in consequence of which,
they stated, they could not afford to do the work.

Mr. HORSFALL observed, that no mistake had been pointed
out.

The CHAIRMAN added, that Messrs. Orrell stated that if
they took the work they would sustain a loss of £l,OOO or
£5,000.

Mr. TOBIN asked whether there was no penalty for the
non-fulfilment of the contract?

The CHAIRMAN replied, that the parties had not signed the
contract.—The conversation on this subject then terminated.

LIFE-BOAT SERVICES, &C,

The Sub-committee for the Marine Surveyors' Depart-
ment recommended the following rewards to be granted in
consideration of services rendered during the late severe
storm :-30s. to the master, and 20s. each to the crew, of
the Magazine Life-boat; a double day's wages to the crews
of the Formby, Point of Ayr, and Liverpool Life-boats ;
30s. to the second mate, and 20s. each to the four seamen of
H.M. steamer, Princess, and that a letter of thanks be ad-
dressed to her commander, Captain Saarsfield, fur their ser-
vices rendered during the late storm.
Mr. AIKIN said he did not know a more able officer than
the commander of the Princess, and he only regretted that it
was not proposed to give to him some more substantial mark
of the approbation of the committee than a mere letter of
thanks. He had frequently had communication with Capt.
Saarsfield, and received from him many valuable suggestions.
One he received from him the other day he thought
so valuable as to request him to put it on paper, which he
had, and sent to the Secretary.
The SECRETARY then read a letter, dated the 25th inst.,
from Captain Saarsfield, in which he pointed out the cause of
the North-west Lightship's parting from her moorings on a
recent occasion. He was sure she would always part from
them whilst the present system was adhered to of giving a
certain length of chain to ride to, without reference to the
state of the weather. He recommended strongly that the
lightship should be furnished with sufficient length of bridles
to clear away in heavy weather, which should be hove away
when the weather moderated. _

Mr. AIKIN said that Captain Saarsfield agreed with him,
that the vessel broke from her moorings by the heavy iron
chains being embedded in the sand.
Mr. HOLT and Mr. RIPLEY said that lighter chains of the
very best description of iron were now adopted.
Mr. TOBIN said that Captain Saarsfield bad frequently
rendered services to the dock estate. Some days ago he
called upon him (Mr. Tobin) with a letter of thanks, ten
years old, from the committee of that day, for services which
he had rendered. The North-west Lightship had broke
loose from her moorings, and she would have inevitably have
run on the banks if the steamer he commanded bad not in-
stantly gone to her assistance. Captain Saarsfield, at that
period, was not the permanent commander of the Princess.
Mr. ATKIN begged it might not be supposed that Captain
Saarsfield had been canvassing the committee. The letter
which the Secretary had read had been written at his (Mr.
Aikin's) request.
The rewards were ordered to he paid, and Captain Saars-
field's communication was referred to the Marine Surveyor's
Sub-committee.

COLLISION WITH A LIGHT-SHIP.
The Sub-committee for the Marine Surveyor's department
reported that, on the night of the 18th instant, about ten
o'clock, the Crosby light-ship was run foul of by the steamer
Blanch, having the American ship Powhattan in tow, whereby
the light-ship's bowsprit and anchor-davit were carried away,
her starboard bow severely injured, and the north-west arm
of her moorings broken at 30 fathoms from the box.
Mr. H OLT stated that one of the crew of the light-ship had
lost two fingers by the collision, and another had since been
amputated.

Mr. RIPLEY said that, connected with the damage to the
light-ship, there was the consideration of who was to blame.
It appeared to the Sub-committee that the pilot was to blame.
The consideration of the expenses incurred by the injured
man was referred to the Marine Sub-committee, and the
question as to the damage to the Solicitor.

CUSTOMS' DEP6TS

The Harbour Master's Sub-committee reported that they
had considered the memorial of the landing waiters for bet-
ter accommodation, and they recommended that suitable
places be built upon the site of the Customs' depots, or
wherever there might be room.—On inquiry it appeared that
no estimate of the cost had been obtained, and it was re-
ferred back to the sub-committee to ascertain the expense.