The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

3,;, a Meeting of I the Protestant faith of their fathers. He exhorted those
Sr. James's Cerfietete.-On Thursda
around him to go and do likewise, that such a declaration
the proprietors of pews writ Veld in the aboi'e
On Saturday,in ' the new orders
consider the best means of repairing the root and venti-
!Cburch, to
esnd Mr. Tent, a.meeting of the scrip-holders in the Mold June- 1 parliament would make or mar England---the next parlia-
lating the building. Mr. Hampton presided,
peeinted tleil Railway Company was held at the Adelphi Hotel, in went would either recover their lost ground or said them
Royden was called to the chair. The chairman this town, for the purpose of submitting to their consider- further down the inclined plane of religions ertor ; but be
out the insecurity of the roof of the church, and mentio."ed
several improvements that might be made in the interior,
ation a bill now pending in parliament, entitled "A 'bill it that Anti-Christ was about to pretail ; its temporal tri-
to make it more commodious, and afford more accomrno- for making a railway from Mold, in the county of Flint, umph would be but the prelude el its everlasting over-
dation to the poor. The proposed alterations would cost to the Hooton station of the Chester and Birkenhead throw.
about £6OO. During the last four years £7OO had been Rai, way." Mr. J. BAI EFTA:NY in proposing the next resolution,
expended in repairing and improving the church ; only Aboiet a dozen of the meat substantial shareholders quoted the testimony of Sir R. Peel, to allow that the
about £lOO of which had been contributed by the seat- were present, including Edward Oakeley, Esq., Philip mysterious visitation of Providence, which had deprived
owners. He suggested that a rate of one year's pew rent Davies Cootie, Esq., John Wynne Eyton, Esq., Thomas a great portion of the poor in Ireland of food
had was the
be levied on the proprietors, to be collected immediately, Jones Wilkinscro, Esq., &c. punishment of Heavens for the concessions which
and that the repairs of the church be commenced without Mr. OALaLEY, Chairman of the Previsional Directors, been made last year, and foe the neglect of the petition of
delay. The course pointed out by the chairman was ap. presided, and made am interesting statement, sbewing the 1,500,000 of our Protestant fellow-subjects. It was also
proved of by the meeting. It was stated that in case the prospects of the company to be highly favourable. He singular that when Sir R. Peel was last thrown out of
plan proposed did not produce a sufficiency of funds, a said that the bill which they had met to consider had been office by the late Whig government, it was by a majority
subscription would be made. read a second time. The capital proposed to be raised was of 32, exactly the number of members which, under the
PAVING AND SEWERAGE.—At the usual weekly meet- £280,000, in 5,600 shares, and one call bad been made—a Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Premier had treacherously
ing of the Commissioners, on Thursday, a letter having deposit of £2 15s. per share—which had been paid on the admitted into the House of Commons. Again, Sir R.
been received from Mr. Duncan as to some new taps and whole of the shares. In consequence of a few of the al. Peel bad deceived his Protestant supporters, and again he
pipes required at the water-works in Green-lane, a long lottees not having paid their deposits, such shares had was tottering to his fall, and when be fell, be trusted that
discussion ensued, several members being of opinion, been sold at a premium, the profit of which would go to he would "fall like Lucifer, never to rise again."
that from the present circumstances in which the Board the credit of the company. The prospects of the concern The Rev. Mr. Mgt:weenie seconded the motion, and
was placed as regarded the Corporation, it would not be were, in every respect, very promising. Independent of the resolution, which was a protest against the principles
desirable to incur further expense at present. It was ul- the general traffic, the contiguity of the line to the Vale of of the Maynooth grant and the public encouragement of
timately decided to wait until the law clerk's return from Clwyd afforded a certainty of great returns from parties Popery was then put and carried.
London. The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Deane, going on pleasure excursions from this and other localities. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting.
the law-clerk, as to the position of the Board in reference The mineral traffic was of the hest description. They ,
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to their bills in Parliament, from which it appeared that, could supply coal to Birkenhead and its neighbourhood,
after a lengthened discussion with the gentlemen in charge and to the steam-boats on the Mersey. They could also
of the Corporation Bill, the latter' in consideration of all supply excellent building-stone, limestone in a calcined
opposition to the Corporation Bill being withdrawn, con- state, bricks, &c. ; and many circumstances would give an
sented to the introduction into that bill of a clause to advantage to the shareholders. It was gratifying to state
legalize the costs incurred by the commissioners in re- that the landowners throughout the line were almost una-
spect to their two bills, and to authorise the same to be nimously in favour of the undertaking, including Sir Ste-
deducted out of any moneys which may come into their phen Glenne, the lord-lieutenant and member for the
hands previously to the surrender of their powers to the county, who would have been present, at the meeting, but
Corporation. The letter also stated that the committee was detained in London by his duties in Parliament. The
had announced their unanimous decision that the pream- lord-lieutenant, the high sheriff, and the grand juries of the
ble of the Corporation Bill had been proved, and that the counties of Denbigh and Flint, had petitioned in favour of
resolution of the committee was unanimous, which, of the bill. He concluded by saying, that if any gentleman
course, disposes of the Toxteth-Park Bill as well as that wished for further information, he would gladly supply it.
of the Liverpool Commissioners. In reply to a question put by a Scripholder, the CHAIR.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—James Gent was MAN said that the parliamentary and other expenses so
appointed assistant at the transit sheds, at a salary of 255. far did not exceed 255. a share. He explained that the
per week; James Thom and John Harrison, as foremen utmost econcmy had been observed by the directors, but
coopers at the Albert Dock, at a salary of £2 per week that the parliamentary expenses were the same for a short
each. The Harbour Masters Committee recommended line like theirs (of about 14 miles) as of one much longer.
the following appointments :—Mr. M'Bride, as dock- The expenses of the proposed Birkenhead and Llangollen
master, to the Albert and Salthouse Docks, at a salary of line (which had since fallen through) were much greater.
£3OO per annum, with £4O for house rent, until he is pro- On the motion of Mr. WYNNE EY lox. of Leeswood,
vided with a residence; Mr. Herbert, as assistant to Mr. seconded by Mr. JosrEs WILKINsoN, it was then
M'Bride, at a salary of £l6O per annum. Jeremiah " Resolved nnanimously,—That the shareholders pre-
Griffiths, one of the gatemen at George's Dock, was sent having heard the statement of the Provisional
ordered to he dismissed for being intoxicated while on Directors, do hereby fully authorise them to proceed in
duty, he having been several times reported. The Parlia- their application to Parliament for a bill to construct the
mentary Committee reported as to the present position of said railway, subject to such modifications or arrange-
the Dock Bill ;it had passed the standing orders of the ments as they (the directors) may deem expedient ; and
House of Lords; and, with regard to the opposition of resolved unanimously, that the directors be empowered,
the Liverpool and Bury Railway. the committee up stairs if they should deem it to the interest of the company, to
had decided, and made good the objections taken by the postpone further proceedings in parliament until the next
trust to the making of works on the north sides of their session."
northermost docks, the necessary notices not having been Mr. COOKE said he believed their traffic table would
complied with. The line of railway the company pro- exhibit most favourable features. They could carry coal,
posed to make on the east side of those docks would stand lime-stone, building-stone, brick, tiles, pottery, lead, &c.
good, and would have to be opposed on its merits. It was at a cheap yet advantageous rate. There would be no
stated that several dock gatemen would be required at the tunnel on the line. One bad been in contemplation, but
Albert Dock, and the appointments would be made on it was decided that an inferior gradient at that point was
Wednesday. preferable. A tunnel would cost £lO,OOO, and the extra
nse of loco
PUMPING OPERATIONS.—On the 31st July, 18-13, the expert
coal mines of John Fitzgerald, Esq., at Pendleton, were abou £lOOO a-motives to work the gradient would be
year only, so that the latter was fixed
stopped by a large influx of water, which stopped alto- upon.
gether the getting of coal at Pendleton, which suppl ed Mr. RIGBY (we believe), said he was now carrying
Manchester market with that article to the extent of 3,000 tons a-week from the district of the line—that he
nearly a thousand tons daily. Mr. Fitzgerald having re- was about to open three new coal-mines, and that the
solved to get rid of this water, set several pumping engines whole of that traffic would fall into the line.
to work, equivalent altogether to that of 260 horses. The Mr. COOKE said the directors had no individual interest
quantity of water pumped and otherwise raised from the in the line, beyond having property in the district. Their
pit is calculated to have averaged from 3,000 to 3,500 chief object was, that the railway should open out the mi-
gallons per minute, during about twelve months! 180,000 neral wealth of that valuable part of Wales. If formed, it
gallons an hour; 4,320,000 gallons per day of twenty-four would also undoubtedly command a great traffic for plea-
hours ; or, in a whole year, not less than 1,576,800,000 gal- sure parties, particularly on Saturdays, as they could
lons of water must have been raised and got rid of at the spend the Sunday in delightful and salubrious localities to
lower estimate of 3,000 gallons a minute. On the 24th which it would convey them.
December last, it was found that the surface of the water The scrips, which were of large amount, were then
in the pit had been lowered to the level of the aperture by noted and returned, and the meeting, which was marked
which the influx from the other mines had flooded the pit by the utmost unanimity, broke up.
in July, 1843, at the depth of 148 yards from the surface,
and thus enabled the workmen to commence what is tech-
nically termed " tubbing." The pumping engines have
now ceased, but the level of the water is still more than
350 yards below the surface, and the coal as yet above 100
yards below water. It is expected that coal will be again
got about June or July next. The expense of these ope-
rations is not known, but it was said, at the time of the
accident, that Mr. Fitzgerald would sustain a loss of
£50,000. The total quantity of water pumped out would,
it is said, form a canal of thirty-eight miles in length,
twenty-one feet wide, and six in depth.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday
wee. a very extensive robbery took place at the Royal
Bank, in this town. It is an old-established custom
amongst the commercial firms here, for the purpose of
security, to send their cash, bills of exchange, railway
scrip, and other valuable documents, in tin boxes, to the
bank and other places, there to be kept in strong iron
safes until the following morning. Upon the afternoon of
Saturday week, a highly respectable firm sent their box by
one of their clerks, to be deposited, as usual, until Mon-
day morning, in the Royal Bank. The box contained at
the time it was despatched from the office, bills of ex-
change to the large amount of £22,000. Most of the
bills will become due in June, July, August, and Sep- of that. tee..
tember. Their particulars are known, and their payment duct of her Majee.,
stopped. The box also contained the manifest of the fence of expediency had same—
ship Passenger ; and scrip, estimated at £40,000 in se- country, and to drown the cry of juste:., _
veral railways. The clerk states shat he took the box di- attempted the destruction of the church. The .
rect to the Royal Bank, laid it upon the counter, and re- government had followed in the path of their preileces. ..
turned to the office. The clerk at the bank states, upon sors, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious Opini- I energy
the other hand, that the box. if left upon the counter,
was not seen by him, and that upon looking over all the
other boxes which had been sent in upon Saturday
evening, and missing the identical one from the number,
he reported the circumstance. Nothing further was
heard of the matter for some hours afterwards, when the
missing box, emptied of the whole of its contents, was
found in one of the streets leading from London-road to
Islington. It was immediately conveyed by the police-
man on duty to the Central Police-station, where a re.
port of the robbery was subsequently made. Placards
have been issued, offering £2OO for the apprehension of
the thief or thieves, and other necessary steps taken, but
no tidings have yet been heard. Circumstances which
have since transpired completely exonerate both the clerk
who conveyed the box, and the clerk at the bank, from
all suspicion, if any ever attached to him.
CAUTION TO EMIGRANT AGENTS.—On .Thursday,
Lieutenant Hodder, the government agent, appeared be-
fore Mr. Rushton to prefer a charge against John Keenan,
an emigrant agent in this town, for having fraudulently
obtained money from six persons who had come from Ire-
land, and had taken their passage to New York, by re-
presenting himself as J. W. Shaw, emigrant agent. It
appeared that the complainants, together with a number
of other persons, had paid a deposit of £1 each to Mr.
O'Neal, agent at Cork for Messrs. J. W. Shaw and Co.,
in order to secure berths on board the ship Mayfield, for
New York. A printed ticket, with Mr. Shaw's name in
large letters, was given to each of them by Mr. O'Neale,
to show they had taken their passage. The parties arrived
in this town on Sunday evening, by the Cork steamer, in
company with 150 other emigrants. When they landed,
they were met by a person in Mr. Keenan's employ, who,
upon the tickets being shown him, directed them to Mr.
Keenan's office. Whilst there, one of them asked for Mr.
Shaw, arid he was then shown Mr. Keenan. The man,
on coming up to hi.., inquired if he was Mr. Shaw, to
which Mr. Keenan replied in the affirmative. The tickets
were presented to him, and £4 each additional was exacted
for their passage. This was paid, and another ticket
given to them for their passage in a vessel called the Ash-

MOLD JUNCTION RAILWAY.

GENERAL MISCELLANY

Northampton is the successful candidate for the show
of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847.
The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young
man in Drury-lane, expired last week.
A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial
for the manslaughter of his wife.
At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the
only two steam-ships which bear the United States' flag.
There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues-
day's Gazette.
A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late
week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax.
An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Ellsler,
lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States !
Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish "martyr," is seen some-
times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He
lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit.
Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green,
at Crawcrook, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, were destroyed
by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary.
RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent,
an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, "The
Prince of Rails."
A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of
Commons, praying for the release of Mr. S. O'Brien
from the Tower
The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the
railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the
whole of the winter.
The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become
one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building debt of the
city of Westminster Mechanics' Institution.
At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse
on which the Marquis of Waterford was riding, fell, and
his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured.
The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply,
writ ten with his own hand, to the address of the Town
Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination.
In Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, up-
wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and
sixty mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped.
PILOTAGE.—The Admiralty have ordered that the ser-
vices of pilots are in future to be remunerated according
to the draft of water of the vessels of which they have

the charge

THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting of this society was held on Wed-
nesday in the large room at Eaeter•hall.

Mr. PLumpTig, who occupied the chair, expressed his
satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so-
ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish
on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or
unkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners,
but as to the system of the Church of Rome, he felt
bound constantly to protest against it. He bad had
many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which was ex-
ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries.
He was sorry to say that in the Established Church of
England there were men who were propagating the prin-
ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to
avow their connexion with the Roman sect. He looked
upon the concessions which had been made to Romanism
as a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would
therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces-
sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying
and sifting times before them, he had very little doubt
that the cause of truth would ultimately triumph.
The Secretary then read the report.—The first portion
of that document was employed in denouncing the con-
duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pre-
tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the
country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had
attempted the destruction of the church. The present
government had followed in the path of their predeces-
sors, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious Opini-
ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward
by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re-
port then referred to the vigorous efforts made by the so-
ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the
number of petitions then presented against it being more
than 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million
and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the
year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the liabi-
lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand
might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at
once be made available for the society. The number of
additional subscriptions during the past year had consi-
derably increased. Several standard Protestant works
had been added to the publications of the society, and nu-
merous grants bad been made for the cause at home and
abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the
satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of
the college at Malta, the National Club and the Evange-
lical Alliance fur the maintenance of Protestant principles.
The report concluded by stating the confidence which the
Protestant world had reason to feel in the ultimate tri-
umph of the truth.
Sir D. MACKWORTH moved the first resolution that
the report be adopted He regretted that the Romish
church met with so sad an ally in this country, not in
those who were at present inclining to its doctrines, but
in the general apathy and indifference of the people.
After adverting to the doctrines contained in the charge
of the Archbishop of Lyons, and the state of religious opi-
nions in France generally, he concluded by saying that he
spoke in no spirit of enmity to Roman Catholics, and that
he relied upon the distribution and reading of the bible as
the ultimate and great support of the Protestant princi-
ples.

On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston
with a cargo of oats from Holland. This is the first ves-
sel of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great
number of persons witnessed its arrival.
At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wed-
nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were
voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord
Gough respectively.
_ _

A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane
Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from
drowning at Granton Pier in November last. The collar
bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver.
The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mas-
ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men
are to declare verbally that they do notsupport any branch
of the building trades that is at present " out on strike."
STRIKE FOR WA GES.—The shipcarpenters and sawyers
at Maryport made a general strike on Friday morning for
an advance of wages. They have hitherto had 18s. per
week and demand 20s.—Cumberland Pacquet.
SEAMEN IN LONDON.—The number of unemployed
seamen in London is less than for many years past, there

not being above 200 in the Sailors' Home, 'neatly the
whole of whom have but just returned from distant voyages.

Captain E. A. Somerset has consented to stand for
Monmouthshire, on protection principles, at the first
opportunity. Lord Granville Somerset is the present
member, and has displeased the electors by voting for
free trade.

Nine persons went through the ceremony of initiation
into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick, by wading
through a muddy pool, called the " Freemen's Well," and
perambulating the boundaries of the moor, on St. Mark's
Day.

The Rev. Mr. STOWELL said that they were there a
body of men much misunderstood, very much maligned,
but by the blessing of God they were there unshaken in
their principles, and undiminished in their confidence.
The candle which was lighted by La'imer and Ridley was
not to be put out because there were traitors in the camp.
No, it would shine out, and never be extinguished till it
was lost in the blaze of eternity. The retrospect of the

A haptha Company has taken a portion of the Dart-
moor prison, which was formerly inhabited by the French
prisoners, for the purpose of erecting a chemical apparatus,
and extracting naptha, ammonia, tar, &c., from the peat
with which Dartmoor abounds.

A pauper named Patrick M`Cartby, aged 68, committed
suicide by inflicting wounds on his person with a knife, in
the Newington Workhouse last week. The deceased was
sensible after the injury, and wrote on a slate, "The devil
tempted me."
FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took place on
Sunday last, in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South
Devon Railway, between two " navies," when one of them
fell a corpse on the spot, just as he received a blow from
his antagonist.—Devonport Telegraph.
A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon, has been
committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The
prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beards-
worth, and the latter reeeived such injuries during the
affray as to cause his death.
The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to
foreign countries in 1843. was 12,946,452 bushel. ; in 1844
13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,182 bushels. By far
the greater part of this quantity was exported from Liver-
pool. _ _

burton, which would not sail for some time after. The
poor fellows not being able to detect the fraud, walked
away, and did not find out the trick which had been played
upon them until they sought a passage on board the May-
field, which left the port on Wednesday morning last, with
a number of the friends of the complainant. Mr. Rush-
ton, after carefully investigating the case, said the magis-
trates would not be doing their duty if they did not mark
the case by the utmost penalty the I;tw could inflict. The
defendant was accordingly fined £lO, and his emigration
license revoked.

past year presented to their view the most severe shock
which Protestantism had received since the fatal year of
1829. It was not intellect that would save the Maynooth
priesthood from the blackest doctrines and blasphemies
of the dark ages. The staple of the education would not
be improved, but the amount of production would be
greatly increased, and from it would go forth to the colo-
nies, and over the country, men who would labour to
subvert the settled foundations of the Protestant faith.
There was another feature of the past year in the secessi-
ons which had taken place from the church of England
to the church of Rome. Now they had gone to their own
places, to which in honesty they should have gone at the
beginning. They would mark the benumbing effect
which Romanism exercised on the heart of every one,
however gentlemanly, however sensible or good previ-
ously. He alluded to the conduct of Mr. Newman—for
no Protestant Englishman could ever have drawn the
principle of construing the articles of the church in a
" non-natural " sense. He then alluded to the conduct
of Mr. Faber, who, he hesitated not to say, notwith-
standing the correspondence which had appeared in the
papers, had kidnapped two lambs from the fold of Christ
to hand them over to the ravening wolves of Rome. We
should be consoled for such secession if they served as
beacons to the church. If the University of Oxford did
not proceed as she had begun: to root out heresy from her
borders, she would lose the confidence of Protestant Eng-
land. And if Dr. Pusey, and those who thought with
him, did not soon go over, there would be a brand of dis-
honesty on them also. He did not hesitate to say that if
Mr, Newman went over to the house of Rome, Dr. Pusey,
and those who agreed with him, ought to do so too, and
if they bad both gone to the verge they ought both to
share the dark abyss of Romish heresy. They must do
so unless it was intended that hereafter there should be a
bridge across the gulph a hich used to separate Popery
from Protestantism, and that one learned professor was
intended to be the foundation stone on one side, and an-
other the foundation stone on the other. Mr. Stowel
then adverted to the conversions from Popery to Protes-
tantism in Ireland, where the true spirit of our faith had
been transported from this country, and where tractarian-
ism had made very little progress. The progress of the
Reformation on the continent, in Germany, lerance, and
the Swiss Cantons, was another interesting feature of the
past year. It might be that Ronge and some of the other
leaders had entered on a devious course ; but it was not
likely that those who had come out of the dark should
see clearly at first. But he would now turn to the future,
in which he saw fresh concessions to Rome boldly put
forward. The Roman Catholic Relief Bill was ill omened,
and the Religious Opinions Bill would so far repeal the
oath of supremacy. And what would they get for these
concessions ? Hollow thanks and base perfidy. There
was another prospect before them, viz., either the despolia-
tion of the revenues of the Church of Ireland, or to endow
the Roman Catholic clergy there. He had been told, on
good authority, that either one or other of these measures
was seriously contemplated, and if so, he did not care which,
for both were equally to be apprehended. We were on
the eve of another election; and though he had never
asked nor influenced a vote hitherto in Manchester, a
declaration had been got up and signed, binding the elec-
tors not to support any candidate who would not defend

Nothing but an inspection, we can assure our readers,
will satisfy them as to the wonderful perfection which the
French have attained in their imitation of fruits and
flowers. An hour spent in this delightful way, at Mrs.
Girvan's establishment, Upper Arcade, will satisfy them
that we have not hinted idly.
KIRKDALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW.—
It is with pleasure we refer our readers to an advertise-
ment in our paper of to-day, announcing the first horti-
cultural exhibition for the season, at Kirkdale, on Tues-
day, the 26th, and not the 25th, as errononeouely stated
by a contemporary. The arrangements are such as will
not only surpass those of previous years, but are entered
into with such spirit by Mr. New and others, that we feel
satisfied that they will not only be an auxiliary to the
growing horticultural and botanical taste, but that they
will meet public approbation. A spacious, and we may
add elegant marquee will be erected, and every accommo-
dation will be provided for visitors ; and, as the future
prizes depend upon the encouragement given to this show,
we trust the attendance will be numerically great.
EXTRAORDINARY CHEAP TRIP TO LONDON AND
BACK —A fortnight ago we gave our readers to under-
stand that a contract had been entered into with the pro-
prietors ofthe Grand Junction Railway for a cheap excur-
sion train to London, to take its departure some day in
Whitsun Week, and that the charge for the trip to and fro
would be fixed at the astounding low charge of one
guinea. An announcement to the same effect appears this
day in our advertising columns, with this addition, that
there wia be, two trains despatched from Liverpool,—one
on the morning of Saturday, May 30, and the other on
Monday, the Ist of June. The trains will consist of
second and third class carriages, the fare by the latter
being a guinea, and the former 30s. As the third class
carriages will be covered in, and the journey being guaran-
teed not to exceed nine hours, either conveyance offers the
same degree of comfort and celerity of movement. Parties
availing themselves of this excursion, will have the option
of remaining in the metropolis either seven or fourteen
days, at it may best suit their convenience.
CONSUMPTION.—AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE BY
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mary Gilmore,
aged 21, the daughter of Mr. Henry Gilmore, residing in
Church-street, Shoreditch, was in the second stage of
consumption, and considered past recovery, when, as a
last resource, large quantities of Holloway's Ointment
were rubbed twice a day into her chest and left side,
which were imbibed into the lungs, and there stop-
ped the ravages of this otherwise fatal disease as
effectually ss though the remedy had been applied to
an ulcerated sore palpable to the eye. The pills were
taken as directed, and the young person was perfectly
cured in three months.

William Richardson, 49, and Anne Maria Richardson,
22, his daughter, were tried at the Central Criminal Court,
on Wednesday, for the wilful murder of an incestuous il-
legitimate child, of whom they were the parents. They

were acquitted.
FOOD FOR ENGLAND.—There have been shipped from
Baltimore to London, this week, over thirteen thousand

barrels of flour, besides as many bushels of corn, and a
great quantity cf beef, pork, lard, &c.—New York He-
rald, April 31.

Last week, a boy fourteen years of age, living at Lam-
beth, destroyed himself by hanging whilst showing his
younger brothers " how Tapping was executed at New-
gate." The deceased was continually speaking of execu-
tions, and frequently trying the effects of hanging.
EFFECTS OF TRACTARIANISM.-At Kilmore, on Sun-
day, Mr. Mussen preached to his clerk, his sexton, and
his son. These three persons composed the congregation,
which last year consisted of as many- hundreds.—Down-
patriek Recorder.

The pupils of Mr. Hullah, as a testimonial to their in-
structor, are endeavouring to raise funds for the erection
of a music hall in London. Among themselves they have
raised £5OO, and the proceeds from the choral meetings
amount to about £3OO more. _ _

The British Association for the advancement of Sci-
ence, has fixed the period of the next meeting to be held
at Southampton, for the week commencing Thursday,
10th September. The president, appointed at the last.
meeting at Cambridge, is Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.
Douglas Jerrold is " off " Punch ; and the presiding
genius of Bradbury and Evan's famous periodical is Mr.
Thackeray, the Michael Angelo Titmarsh of Fraser.
Washington Irving has just completed a " Life of Maho-
met." The principal scenes of Dicken's new story are
I
laid in the West of England ; he s now Lis own publisher.
An inquest on the body of a young woman, that was
found in a privy attached to Verulam Chapel, at Bromley,
and which has been proceeding for three years, was
brought to a conclusion on Thursday, the jury having then
met for the sixteenth time, and returned a verdict of
wilfulmurder against some person or persons unknown.
Mr. Green, the noted remnant, ascended from Ipswich
on Tuesday last, this being his 321st ascent. The descent
was in safety, but a spring car employed in carrying the
balloon afterwards upset, and Mr. Green was thrown out,
the silk and cordage, weighing four cwt., falling upon him,
but he was not much injured.

ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS.—The architects from all
parts of the world talk of holding a general congress of
architects once every three years, the first to take place at
Athens.
Lord Worsley, M.P., has been appointed Deputy Grand
Master of Freemasons for England. This highest office
but one, is generally considered by the craft as pointing
to a future election to the masonic throne.
ANCIENT ART.—It is a singular fact, that the pattern
now most common upon Paisley shawls, and which had
always been a favourite, was in use among the Hindoos
three or four thousand years ago.
It is a startling fact, that when the " Religious Opi-
nions Relief Bill" is passed, the Pope will have more au- 1
thority, and Romanists more license in this country than cultural changes which have so conspicuously improved
in any of the Popish countries of the continent! ! the appearance of the country during the present and pre-
FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place ceding centuries, died at his place of residence. Balmac-
the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of lellan Village, on the 30th ult., at the ripe age of ninety-
Manchester) for £5OO, at a place called Withy Green, near one years.
Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor. During the case of an application, last week, to Vice-
The number of fires that have taken place in the metro- Chancellor Knight Bruce, respecting the infringement on
polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year, a patent right to pencils, a question arose as to the num-
according to the records kept by the brigade authorities, her of gross that had been sold, when his Honour, after
amounts to more than 300. apparently weighing some knotty point in his mind, said,

" I am ashamed to my ignorance, gentlemen, but
In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the
year 1840-44, there were 347; being an increase of ten per Ido not know how many dozen make a gross." The diffi-
cent. ; while the increase of the population would account culty having been solved, the case was proceeded with.
for but six per cent: The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week
The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Coventry, bas been ap- receded to 16s. per quarter. There has been a fall in the
pointed Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic of the western price of grain throughout the country, and no one can
district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. Dr. Ulla- doubt that under the influence of fine weather, which
thorne is a member of the Benedictine order. prevailed last week, and the measure now pending in
On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five, Parliament, the price of wheat, ere the lapse of many
p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropo- weeks, will be at ruinously low rates to the home pro-
lis, some of which were attended with considerable da- ducer.
image.

—On Tues-

EXTRAVRIIINARY THRESHING MACHINL.
Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by day the trial was made of a pony threshing machine, at
which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from Trefullock, in the parish of St. Enoder, built by Mr.
common type, may be printed so as to be read by the Thomas Staple, of Blue Anchor, and the result was the
blind, threshing of a hundred sheaves of barley, quite clean, in
Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year, the very short space of seven minutes. The horses em-
walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh, Ployed were a couple of ponies, walking at a steady pace
two miles. She appeared in good health and full of --Falmouth Packet.
er ----Dorsct Chronicle. THE OREGON QUESTION.—The Times. of TI

says—" The packet which will sail from Liverpool in a
few days will convey to the United States the real im-
pression produced here by the late intelligence. If the
resolution was intended as a threat or a hostile measure,
it has totally failed to have any effect whatever, except
that it is probable Mr. Pakenham will be at once em-
powered to briny the controversy to a prompt and final
issue.

CURIOUS PETMON.—In the House of Lords, on
Thursr!ay evening, Lord Normanby presented a petition,
the prayer of which was of a singular nature. The pe•
titioner stated that be had invented a new medicine for
diseases of the chest, arid he prayed their lordships to
appoint a committee to investigate the merits of his in-
vention. The noble lord facetiously remarked, that he

mitiee should try the medicine themselves.
A COUNTER FACT FOR FREE TRADERS.—At a recent
land-letting by auction at Kirton, near Boston, not a sin-
gle lot was disposed of. One of the best fields was
bought in at 265. per acre rental ! This speaks whole vo-
lumes. The land thus offered for public competition com-

prised 67 acres of the finest feeding land in Lincolnshire,
and situate in the best part of the county. amidst the most
spirited and enterprising graziers, and offered on the cus-
tomary terms.

Dickens, Jerrold, and Mackay, and others of our popu-
lar writers, dine with the nobility every now and then.
Sir Robert Peel had Charles Dickens the other day to
dinner ; so had the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Mor-
pea), and Lord John Russell, The Duke of Devonshire
takes them in a heap, and keeps them two or three days
at a time, enjoying their society, and leaving the " boys"
to roam at leisure over his noble grounds, on the under-
standing that they all meet at dinner time.
Wwo WANTS A CHILD ?—The Western Times contains
a letter, offering to any persons who may be desirous of
adopting a child, a little boy between three and four years
of age, " whose mental and bodily developments are of
the first order," but whom the parties in charge of him
" cannot afford to support and educate without proper
remuneration." Prompt attention will be given to any
communication addressed to the editor of the Western
Times, who says that " his own hands are full of small
life."

A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the
city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet
61 inches. He measures round the. chest 41 inches ;
round the belt 46k ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf
16. ; and turns the beam against 14 stone! His name is
Kenneth M`Caskill ; is o native of the island of Soa, one
of our western Archipelago, between Cana and Skye, in
the direction of Spar Cave, and brought hither by his fa-
ther, who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibition.
The boy's sole language is the energetic language of Os-
sian.—.S'eolch paper.
THE WEATHER IN THE MIDLAND COUN'TIES.—
During the last week, there has been a most gratifying

..dly
nich prevailed during the previous fortnight having ben ~
in the west part of the county of Dorset. I know it to be
succeeded by fine southerly breezes and genial sunshine ; so in the parish of Bettescorn be andthe adjoining parishes."
the wheat, which was looking sickly and stunted in March
—Mr. Sheridan declares his conviction that such is the
has already in a great measure recovered its wonted fresh-
ness, and, except on cold hard ground, promises to yield fixed state of the Dorsetshire labourers ;—that, be the
well. The orchards are in full blossom, and, if the nightsprice f wheat ht it may, the verag amount o wages
remainos alwaysw thea same-7s. aa week e .
Their disf tressed
keen free rind irPch fer the r‘ovf tor. ‘1....,0 i 1,..., ....:11 1,,,,

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more than an average crop of fruit.
SALE OF PICTURES.—The collection of Mons. Duval, of failure of their potato crops ; and upon this ground, in one
case, that of Sor, aon made to the
Geneva, was on Tuesday brought to Mr. Phillips's ham- Poar Law Union Willi foram 'a pair halfa
of boots ;was but it was re-
rrier. Some of the pictures fetched great prices. A
" Karel du Jardin" brought £1,150 to a private purchaser, fused, and an order for the "house" granted instead. So-
per refused to accept the order, since it would separate
who also bought a single head ( one of those wonders of him and his family, and subject them to a sort of disci-.
elaborate finish for which Denver stands, and perhaps ever pline and restraint from which they revolted. 11r. Sheri-
will stand, alone) for £490. " The Pleasure Party, by dan wrote to the Poor Law Commissioners, stating the
Weenix, so well known from Delauney's engraving, was
hardship of the case, and enquiring if the Board of
disposed of for £393 odd. A "Watteau," consisting
of I Guardians had acted in accordance with their instructions:
several figures in theatrical costume, fell to a dealer for
the reply of the Commissioners not only sanctioned the
£2lO, and a Rembrandt, from the Winckler collection,
conduct of the guardians, but was accompanied by the
was bought by another gentleman connected with the
trade, for £204. Unions of England, which precludes the guardians from
RATHER NEW.—A few days ago, a lady visited one of copy of a "prohibitory order" now in force in the several
exercising any discretion in the, case of "an able-bodied
the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow, man," even "with a wife and seven children," who may
and made purchases to the extent of £BO. On examining be overtaken, as Soper has been, by severe and unexpected
the contents of her purse, she found she had only £5O, privation.
and suggested that one of the shop-boys should just step
into the carriage along with her, and receive payment at IMPROVED SIGNALS, &c.—On Thursday, Mr. R.
her mansion. Instead, however, of arriving at a fine Rettie, civil engineer, exhibited at the Underwriters'-
mansion, judge of his surprise when the officials of a room, in presence of several gentlemen, some improved
limatic asylum seized him and held him fast. The lady plans for signals of distress, steering lights, &c. ; also, a
had, of course, specially prepared a warrant for his corn- tidal harbour lamp. The latter possesses considerable
mittal. Before he could procure liberation, the fair one ingenuity, as, by a simple contrivance, the rising and
and goods had disappeared, and have not since been heard falling of the tide is indicated with the greatest exactness,
of.— Glasgow Argus. a knowledge of which must be of incalculable advantage
laox.—A letter received this morning from Birming- to vessels entering a harbour where the state of the tides,
ham, announces the important branch of manufacture of owing to stormy weather and other causes, cannot be cor-
iron as still continuing prosperous—there being many redly ascertained by the ordinary tables. The steering
large orders on hand, which cannot be executed for a long lights appear to possess a great advantage over those ill
time to come. The demand for locomotive engines is so general use, as the course of the vessel is shown with the
very great, that the large makers will not engage to utmost certainty, thus preventing the possibility of colli-
execute fresh orders under three years. The agent of an sion. Mr. Rettie has also invented a new lamp, to be
extensive colliery proprietor, near Dudley, lately tendered used as a signal of distress at sea, the light indicating
a considerable order for engines, for mineral purposes ; whether the vessel requiring assistance be a steamer or a
but it could not be undertaken within that period. The sailing vessel. There are two lamps, varying in colour,
home consumption for iron is very brisk—particularly which, together with the requisites for trimming, lighting.
from the engineering department : there is, therefore, now &c., are contained in a square box. and so arranged a to
no prospect of a reduction in price.—Mining Journal of render them available under any circumstances, and with.
Saturday. the greatest certainty and facility.