The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

THE CHARITIES.

EASTERN DISPENSARY, ROSE-HILL.
REPORT OF CASES FOR THEWEER ENDING FRIDAY, MAY 26.
—Persons relieved at the Dispensary, 75; Patients visited at
their own homes, ; Total, 109.
Physician, Dr. Imlack ; Consulting Physician, Dr. Ash-
croft; Surgeons, Messrs. Lockwood, Harris, and Dodd;
House-Surgeon, Sir. Ball ; Apothecary, Mr. Lloyd.

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT, JUNE 3.
DISCHARGED: In-patients cured, 34; Relieved and at OMB
request, 8 ; Made Out-patient, 1 ; Irregular, 1 ; Dead, 3.
ADM ITTED : In-patients, 32; Out-patients,3 ; Casuals during
the week, 11 ; Remaining in the [louse, 194.
Consulting Surgeon, J. Dawson, Esq. ; HonseSurgeon, Mr.
C. B. Wilson ; Apothecary, Mr. J. Newton ; Douse
Visitors, W. M`(7ra,han and John Lomas, Esqs.;
Chaplain, Rev. W. Blundell ; Treasurer, Richard Gibson,
Esq.

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NORTHERN HOSPITAL REPORT, JUNE 3.
An FITE : Accidents, 20; Medical and Surgical Cases upon
recommendation, 22; Total, 51.—DISCHARGED: Cured, 18.;
Relieved and at own request, 2; Attending as Out Patients, 144
Irregular, 2; Died, I ; Remaining in the Hospital, 90.
Consulting Surgeon, J. M. Banner, I.lsq. ; Physician and
Surgeon for the ensuing week Dr. Ashcroft and Mr.
Tones ; House Visitors, H. J. Sanderson and dohs
Bighficld, Esqrs.; House-Surgeors, Mr. T. B. Gilder-
sleeves ; Treasurer, B. 11. Jones, Esq. ; Chaplain, Rec.
Wrn. Hughes.

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL, MAY 31.
WEEKLY REPORT.
INDOOR: Cured and relieved. 16; Dead, 2; Entered, 13;
Under treatment, 51.—Orrnoott : Cured and relieved, 56;
Dead, 0; Entered, 52 ; Under treatment, 40.
Chaplain, Rev. Thomas Nolan, A.M.; Treasurer, B. Platt,
Esq. ; 'Visitors, Mr. C. Clialitnor and Rev. IL Robberda;
House-Surgeon, Mr. Thos. Morris; Assistant House-
murgeon, Mr. Thomas Armstrong Catnmock ; President,
.Tos. B. Yates, Esq.

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WEEKLY REPORT OF THE FEVER AND WORK-
HOUSE HOSPITALS.
Remaining per last week, 402; Admitted, 120; Cured and
relieved, 103; Died, 10; Remaining under treatment, 451;
Fever cases included in the above—Remaining per last report
139; Admitted, 34; Cured and relieved, 24; Died, 4; Re-
maining under treatment, 63.
Apothecary, Mr. Linsley; Resident Medical Officers, Mr..
Taylor and Mr. Steele ; Non-resident Ditto, Dr. Burgess,
Dr. Gee, and Mr. Leather; Chaplain, Rev. D. Anderson;
Governor, Mr. .1. W. Em s.
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, MOUNT-PLEASANT.

[MONTHLY REPORT.]
EYE DEPARTMENT: New Patients admitted in the month af
May, 398 ; Patients prescribed for, and who have received
Surgical assistance during the month of May, 1683: total
since the commencement, 53,523.—EAR DEPARTMENT: Pa-
tients prescribed for, and who have received Surgical assistance
during the month of Slay, 413; Total since the com-
mencement, 20,601.
Surgeons, Dr. Edwards and Mr. Neill; Assistant-Surgeon,
Mr. J. B. Barrow; Treasurer, Henry Crosslield, Esq.

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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1848:

SINCE Our last, the neirociations in progress for
the purchase of the. Birkenhead Dock Estate by
the Dock Trustees of
,Liverpool, have assumed an
altered aspect, arising. from the rejection of the
bill, empowering the Coinmissioners of Woods
and Forests to advance £150,000 for the comple-
tion of the works. Previously to this decision,
there appeared little prospect of a decision of any
kind heini' arrived at. the leading bondholders
asking- terms to which the Dock' Trustees could
not possibly agree. Since the rejection of the bill,
however, the bondholders, it is said, have become
more rcaitonable ; and the negociations have been
resumed, with a greater prospect of agreement be-
tween the parties. So many rumours, however, have
been cir.ulated as to the precise basis upon which
they are conducted, that we do not think it safe to
state what has come to our ears with respect to
them upon what wc conceive ;to be good authority.
Probably, from what may take place to-day, we
may be able to do so in a second edition.

THE case of the gentlemen, whose meeting on
'Wednesday, in the Scssiors-house, is reported in
our columns, is an undoubtedly good one. The
income of the nation is not equal to its expendi-
ture. We are living above our means; and every-
prudent man will admit that our first duty, in such
a state of things, is to economize.—to overhaul our
housekeeping accounts, and to set about the reduc-
tion of our establishment. Having • done this,
perhaps the next best thing would be to ascertain
what has been the cause of our inability to meet
our engagements ; and whether we cannot by •
exertion, or by a change of system, increase our
incomings to their wonted amount. This, at all
events, would he the case
,in individual cases; for
however proper it may be to take care that we do
not wantonly sqnander—and the time when we are
driven to such thrift is generally when we find
that we can no longer afford to squander—it is
equally wise, and especially when we see that the
lessening of our earnings has precipitated the
difficulty upon us, to direct our attention earnestly
to this branch of the subject.
With these views, we complain of the logic of
the majority of the speakers at the meeting in
question. They draw so closely together their
narrative of suffering and their remedy as to lead
us to infer that the suffering has been caused by
the absence of the treatment proposed to be re-
sorted to. For example, Mr. John Taylor reminds
us that for the last two years the trade of Liverpool
has been carried on at a loss; that cotton has de-
clined in price 40 per cent. within the last six
months, and that manufacturing operatives in
Manchester are almost at a stand-still. He might
have gone further and told us that the prices of
all commodities have declined, and that every
industrial interest in the country has been pros-
trated. But over-taxation has not been the cause
of this ; and even a " large efficient retrenchment"
will not remove it, or prevent its recurrence. The
sources of our suffering lie deeper than this. They
lie beyond the last few months of revolutionary
movements upon the Continent ; for they were
felt as acutely as now, commercial disaster was as
rife two years ago, before we bad ever dreamed of
revolutions, and whilst the crown of France
appeared as securely fixed upon the head of Louis
Philippe as the crown of Great Britain upon that
of her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Judicious re-
trenchment of our expenditure, we repeat, is a
good thing. It is galling, at a time when the
commercial and industrial body of the nation is
enduring the throes of mortal disease, to watch the
complacency with which a set of conceited inca-
pables lavish its heart's blood in rewards amongst
themselves and their useless followers—galling, as
it is to the dying lion to listen to the chattering of
the birds of carrion, assembled to prey upon his
carcase ;—but we must not, in meditating an
onslaught upon the selfish perpetrators of this
pilfering, allow ourselves to be led for a moment
away from the real and vital cause, which has
rendered this last featherweight of the burthen no
longer endurable.

We have been paying, for the last few years,
two, three, or even we may admit ten millions per
annum more for the maintenance of the machinery
of the state than is required. But how much more
have we paid in another shape, and from other
causes! Will two' hundred millions pay for the
depreciation which has taken place within the last
few years in the value of the national and other
securities, of produce, mills, mines, land, houses,
ships,—in fine, in every man's property. from the
peer's to the artizan's, whose only estate is his labour,
now unemployed ? Will the most sweeping re-
form in Downing-street, the most wholesale cutting
down of places and salaries, army and navy, diplo-
matic and otter expenses, restore the fortunes
which have melted away in the hands of our ruined
merchants, or bring back a single stick of the fur-
niture, or a rag of the clothing, which has been
snatched from the working man's cottage ? The
cause of this wholesale ruin is the first and great
problem, to solve which the intelligence of this
important community should be directed. What
is this unseen power which, in a moment, prostrates
the work of years; which robs us of the results of
toiling days and sleepless nights; against which
the most prudent cannot guard, and the day of
whose coming the wisest amongst us cannot fore-
see? It will be found in a false system of legis-
lation ; and chiefly, as pointed out by Mr. Church-
warden Ferguson, at the meeting on Wednesday,
in an erroneous and cruel currency law. It is this
law which alternately raises us to the height of
prosperity, which leads us on headlong to all the
extravagance of speculation, and then dashes us
down again, involving in one common abyss the
prudent and the imprudent, the man of capital and
the man of straw; which renders unavailing the
exercise of caution, of saving, of industry, and of
enterprise, and offers instead a premium upon
improvidence.

It is not at all difficult now to trace the opera-
tion or rather the combination of operations by
which we have been reduced to our present posi-
tion. Two years ago, we were at the fever height
of prosperity. We might almost be called insane
in our anticipations of the permanence, and even
of an m:rease, of the national wealth. We had
just entered upon a new fiscal policy, had opened
our ports to the produce of the world, and were
about to increase vastly our foreign commerce and
our home manufactures. Whence caused the cheek
upon our exertions ? What hand at one blow
stopped our railway making, and swept away at
once one half of the visionary property which we
had fabricated ? The unseen hand of our vicious
system of currency. We had been attempting to
carry on a double trade with a restricted capital.
We had created paper money to ran enormous
amount; and, when we were required by the stern
action of the bill of 1844 to base it upon real value,
to make it convertible, and to deposit gold in the
coffers of the bank to meet its increased issues, the
whole fabric came down at one crash. The mer-
chant, the manufacturer, the speculator, and the
holder of railway shares, were then reminded that
it is not in them to fix prices or the rate of profits;
that direct their enterprize or make their invest-
ments with what forecast they will, the directors of
an irresponsible monopoly, the Bank of England,
has the sole authority to determine the result.
It was the application of the screw by this body,
and the sudden contraction of monetary supply,
which ought never to have been allowed to be so
largely and recklessly expanded, which gave the
first shock to commercial confidence. The conse-
quences, which we are now enduring, followed na-
turally, and have been aggravated by the recoil
created by our free-trade policy. We have ruined
our West Indian colonies ; damaged materially the
position of our East Indian sugar colonies; struck
a heavy blow against the Canadas, and brought
the cheep labour of the continental manufacturer
and artizan into competition with the highly taxed
labour of the British artizan. Hence the falling
off of our export trade to these possessions, and the
stagnation which is spread throughout our manu-
facturing districts, facts teaching us the wholesome
truth that we cannot touch injuriously any interest
in this great community without bringing down a
retributary punishment, which is felt by every class,
and often most by those whose selfishness has sdic-
tated the blow.

It is towards this broad view of our position that
the attention of the people, and especially of the
mercantile body of a town like Liverpool ought to
be directed: Economy in conducting the affairs of
Government, we repeat again, is a good thing in its
way : but we must arrest the working of the great
sources of our disordered ccreition, if we wish to
redeem ourselves This is not the first time in

which we have had periods of disaster similar to the
present : they have come upon us periodically ; and
they will re-visit us periodically, so long as we keep
up the iniquitous machinery—the Bank Acts—
which seems to have been devised especially to
produce them.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE IN AID OF THE
FUNDS POR THE ENDOWMENT OF A PER-
PETUAL CURATORSHIP OF SHAKSPEARE'S

HOUSE.

Last evening a performance for the above object was
given in the Royal Amphitheatre, on which occasion
pieces selected were " The Merry Wives of Windsor,"
and Mr. Kenny's farce of " Love, Law, and Physic."
The characters were filled by the eminent literary gen-
tlemen advertised in our last, with the exception, that
for Mr. John Leech, who was announced to appear as
Master Slender, was substituted Mr. Compton, an actor
favourably known to the frequenters of our Theatre-
Royal during the lesseeship of Mr. Webster and Madame
Celesta. The house was a bumper. The spacious pit,
converted into stalls, was filled, as were the boxes, With
the rank and fashion of the town and neighbourhood :
and we heard of numerous cases in which large premiums
had been given for seats. The rest of the home was
equally well filled, notwithstanding the greatly advanced
prices charged for admission. The arrangements were
under the management of the box-book-keeper of the
Amphitheatre, Mr. Shuttleworth, and were conducted
most excellently throughout.
The costumes, of the time of Henry IV., were furnished
by Messrs. Nathan, of Tichbourne-street, LoOdon.
We have seen the play many times put on the stage,
but we do not ever remember seeing it so excellently sus-
tained throughout, even by the best company of nrofes-
sional actors. Of course, considerable interest was ex-
cited to witness the persons of the gentlemen who
played on the occasion. The identities, however,. of the
parties were lost on the occasion. Mr. C. Dickens, it
struck us, was peculiarly unfortunate in this respect.
Excellently as the character was performed, there was no
chance of recognizing the author of the " Pickwick
Papers" •in Justice Shallow. Mr. George Cruick-
shank was an excellent Pistol, dressed the part ad-
mirably ; but as an ordinary man, divested of the prestige
of his name, would have achieved nothing. The Sir
John Falstaff of Mr. 111 ark Lemon was, indeed, a first-
rate impersonation. It was clever throughout. Next
to this was the Dr. Otitis of Mr. Dudley Costello ;
and perhaps the best of all was the Mr. Ford, by Mr.
John Forster. The scenes in which this gentleman ap-
peared, with Falstaff, as Master Brooke, were most pow-
erfully sustained. With respect to the acting of Miss
Montague, as Mrs. Ford, we need say nothing in praise.
Mrs. Page was very excellently personated by Miss Ken-
worthy, a lady we have not had previously the pleasure
of seeing. Anne Page was well played by Miss Ann
Romer, who gave us besides some excellent singing.
In the afterpiece of " Love, Law, and Physic," George
Cruikshank and C. Dickens in particular shone. We
have not, however, space to enlarge, as we should have
wished to do, upon the acting of all engaged The or-
chestra was full of the best talent of the town, and worthy
of a metropolitan stage.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(By EXPRESS.)

NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION.
STATE OF THE POLL,
MONDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.
Leyh (C.) Astley (R.)
Macclesfield, 4 o'clock .... 706
Knutsford, 11 „ .... 343
Grappenhall, 1 „ .... 317
Altrincham, 1 „ .... 365
Runcorn, 12 „ 182
Stockport, 4 ~ .... 516
Mottram, 4 „ .... 213

2642 2057
2057

Majority for G. C. Legh, Esq. bB5
The poll will close this afternoon at four.

Cape of Good Hope papers, to the 13th April, report
that severe hurricanes had been experienced by various
vessels arrived in port outside to the eastward. Among
those most damaged were the Sutlej, the True Briton, and
the Prince of Wales.

We have received the Madrid mails of the 30th. Ano-
ther diplomatic expulsion bas been effected. The Count
Hamal, the Belgian minister, received his passports on
the 28th, and a post carriage was ordered the same
evening to take him to Bayonne. The cause assigned
for this was, of course, a plot to upset the government.
CHARTIST RIOTS.-It appears from the returns made
to the Secretary of State, that upwards of 100 chartists
were arrested on Sunday night. It is reported that
meetings would be held in various parts of the metropolis
last night. Precautions have been taken to maintain
order, and it is understood that the police will have the
aid of detachments of military.

MEETING ON THE CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE

FROM FURNACES.

A meeting took place yesterday afternoon, at the Cla-
rendon-rooms, (adjourned from a preliminary meeting
held last week,) of gentlemen, owners of manufactories,
mills, steam-ships, &c., who considered themselves ag-
grieved by the mode of administering the new local act,
requiring owners of steam-engines to consume the smoke
from their furnaces, under Certain penalties; which
have been enforced with, in their opinion, a rigour
not contemplated by the framers of the bill. There were
upwards of forty gentlemen present, nearly all principals
in respectable firms. The object was to consider certain
resolutions, which had been prepared by those who
attended the former meeting, for the consideration of all
parties interested.
Mr. WALTER F. MACGREGOR was called to the chair.
He stated that the fines imposed upon them bad become
a great annoyance, and the object of the meeting was to
ascertain whether they could meet the views of the Town
Council, which they had a wish to do as far as in them
lay. He then read the resolutions which had been pre-
pared, and which (as amended) will be found inserted in
another part of our paper. On inviting discussion upon
them,
Mr. M'IvER, (of the Transatlantic Mail Steam-ship
Company. &c.,) stated that he thought the resolutions
were rather wanting in point. He knew that no effectual
smoke-consuming apparatus had yet been discovered. It
was in fact utterly impossible for them to consume the
whole of their own smoke-. He knew this from his own
experience. He and his partners had tried two of the
apparatus, and Mr. C. W. 'Williams's own man in that
department had superintended their own construction,
and placing in the vessels. One of the ships was the
Admiral, and there was certainly but little smoke; but
at the same time little steam. It was still believed,
however, that the desideratum could be accomplished,
and his friends in Glasgow had put another similar smoke
consumer (as it was call 0) into a smaller vessel at Glas-
gow. After a trial of twelve months, (as he thought) he
found the apparatus had been removed, having proved to
be of no advantage. They had tried the apparatus on
this cold air principle, and it was defective and would
prove deleterious to the boilers, so that accidents might
in time be the result. He declared that the evil of the
smoke might be much mitigated by care and attention
on the part of the stokers He and his friends had
not employed Mr. Joseph Williams's plan ; but they
had fully carried out the principle of using hot
air and found its advantages to be little or nothing
They had it in their American ships. The speaker here
quoted a letter from a Liverpool paper, signed J. 8.,
author unknown, evidently written by a scientific man,
in reply to other letters in the newspapers, and which
bore out his (Mr. M'lver's) opinions. It was to the
effect, that numerous inventions had been brought out,
and seemed to answer to some extent on a small scale,
but not in extensive practice. An improvement had
certainly been effected by reducing the smoke from fur-
naces, but this was not due so much to any apparatus as
to care in stoking, and to the proper and proportionate
construction of the boilers, flues, &c., which would do it
when no apparatus could do it so well, for none of the
latter were certain. All who used Liverpool coal must
make smoke. some description of Welsh coal emitted
much less smoke, but none was altogether free from it.
The public had erroneously been led to think that great
results would be attained ; but he was convinced nothing
would reduce smoke so effectually or so well as well con-
structed boilers.

The CHAIRMAN said they would willingly adopt the
Corporation plan, provided it were really practicable, and
would relieve them from the responsibilities laid upon
them.

A gentleman remarked that the bill was overstrained
in its construction, and was never meant to be so severe
against them.
Mr. NORTH (of the North Shore Cotton Mill) said that
the difficulties of smoke prevention were gretaer in steam
vessels than in engines on shore. In the concern to which
he belonged he had used every known plan, at great ex-
pense. All depended upon the stoker. He had made
alterations for admitting air at the back of the furnaces,
which had cost £l5OO. He had also given up the use of
slack, and used coal alone. He believed the additional
cost would be £5OO a-year. The furnace bars were, by
the new plan, consumed much more rapidly then by the
old. Mr. Grantham had said that he could for £2O cure
any furnace of smoke ; but this appeared to him prepos-
terous, for how could a furnace with several boilers. and
of varied construction, be fitted at the same cost as one
simple one. He thought Mr. Williams, too, was in error
when he stated that there would be a great saving in coals.
In fine, under the present construction of boilers, much
more smoke might by care be consumed, but that would
be at the expense of the boilers, the fire-bars and the
steam.

A gentleman stated that one of his reasons for removing
his works to Wales was the grievous operation of the new
law.

Mr. MgvER remarked that he had gone to the Clarence
Dovk to witness the operation on board the Dublin boats
in the Clarence Dock, where some of his own Glasgow
boats were ; and he found that the Dublin boats emitted
fully as much smoke as the others.
On that clause of the resolutions being discussed
which required " that the best practical means" should
be used by owners of furnaces to consume their smoke,
and which words had in the police-court been construed
to mean that the consumption could in all cases be
effected, so that parties were fined for not accomplishing
an impossibility,
Mr. NORTH said that these words had been introduced
by the parties who framed the bill—one of whom he had
conversed with—for the purpose of protecting parties from
an arbitrary administration of the law.
A GENTLEMAN said that when Mr. McKinnon, who
had for years given his attention to the smoke question,
brought in his bill two years ago, Sir Robert Peel (and
this was on the Parliamentary record) had opposed the
measure, on the ground that he had consulted the most
scientific men in the country ; and that they were of
opinion that it was a thing impracticable, and that to
endeavour to enforce it would be an injury to trade and
manufacture. _

Mr. M'IvER said that no apparatus could be applied to
well-constructed boilers that would reduce the smoke,
without decreasing the creation of the necessary steam,
besides insidiously injuring the boilers. He considered
that it would be quite fair were any party compelled to
use the apparatus, and a blow-up took place, where there
was no accounting for it in a scientific way, to turn upon
those who had insisted upon the change, and tell them,—
" It is all your own doing: you compelled us to use your
destructive and dangerous apparatus, on the plea of con-'
suming smoke which it did not accomplish !"
Mr. SHAW said, with respect to police summonses,
served long after the alleged offence, he had called upon
Mr. Dowling and remonstrated, along with two other gen-
tlemen. He was afterwards called upon at his works by an
officer, who told him he had just seen his chimney smoking
most densely. He said, in reply to the charge,—" Let
us go out and look at it." The inspector said,—" It is
of no use to go now, for it is all out !" (A laugh.)
Mr. BANKS suggested an addition to one of the reso-
lutions to the effect that manufacturers and others would
be compelled to move their works to other localities if
the system were persisted in. They had quite enough to
pay in taxes and rates without being subjected to fines at
the whim of the police. The suggestion was in substance
adopted.
Mr. Ross said, that in March last Messrs. Fawcett had
been fined for an alleged offence, committed in the pre-
vious October.
The several resolutions were moved, seconded, and
passed unanimously, without a show of hands.
On moving the Bth resolution, in which the engineer
employed by the Corporation as against parties charged
with infraction of the new law was alluded to, Mr.
M'lver stated that in doing so he entertained no feeling
of personal hostility whatever towards Mr. Grantham.
The question was a public one of great importance, and
he but wished to do as he would be done by. In like
circumstance:he should expect, were their places changed,
the allusion to be conveyed to himself by that gentleman,
who should at all times have free access to any of their
vessels upon application to him. Neither would he pro-
pose the motion as conveying any imputation upon the
decisions of Mr. Rushton, or the convicting magistrates,
who were merely performing a duty according to the act.
The appointment of the deputation to the Mayor hav-
ing been moved by Mr. NORTII and agreed to, thanks
were voted to the Chairman by acclamation, and the
meeting, which was unanimous throughout, dispersed.
Another meeting, to communicate his Worship's decision
when it becomes known, will be called by Mr. Macgregor.

THE FERRIES.—The Finance Committee of the Cor-
poration have recommended the reduction of the ferryage
at Birkenhead to one penny for each person, with a like
reduction in respect of cattle, carriages, &c. The subject
will be taken into consideration at the monthly council
meeting to-morrow.

STEALING MONEY IN A SHOP.—At the Police-court,
yesterday, a woman, named Catherine Ellis, was charged
with having, in the shop of Mr. Cummins, in Byrom-
street, p3ssessed herself of a halfcrown, which another
woman had put on the con r ter in payment for some butter
and bacon. She was sent for trial.
THEATRE ROYAL.—This establishment was opened last
evening for a period of six nights. Van Amburgh was,
with his trained animals (which are certainly highly tu-
tored), the principal attraction. The piece went off well,
and the house was tolerably filled.
SCOTTISH MINSTRELSY.—Mr. Sherers will deliver a
lecture on Saturday at the Concert-hall, on the general
Minstrelsy of Scotland, illustrated by a selection of several
favourite Scottish songs. We observe that Mr. Sherers
is highly spoken of in the Manchester, Bristol, and other
papers, as presenting his illustrations with much power
and discrimination.' His songs are given with great taste
and feeling. His voice is a beautiful tenor, of great vo-
lume and compass.
THE CENTRAL-FIRE GUN.—The shooting season will
soon be here, and our sporting friends will do well to call
on our neighbours, Messrs. Bentley, of South Castle-
street. Prince Albert, last July, had a gun made
by them on their patented principle, and they have, in
consequence, recently been appointed gun-makers to his
Royal Highness, a proof that the Prince, who Is an excel-
lent shot, must have been pleased with their work. We
repeat, our sporting friends will do well to call on Messrs.
Bentley.
THEFT OF MONEY FF.OM THE PERSON.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, a man named Samuel Caulfield, a car-
driver, was charged by the captain of a vessel, named
Mawdsley, with having forcibly taken from his person the
sum of 193. 6d. The complainant it appeared had in
some frolic got into the car driven by the prisoner, and
after a long route from place to place, left him without
paying his fare, but giving him a reference. Some days
after; prisoner met complainant, who treated him, and
while the latter was in the back yard of the public-house,
and unwell, prisoner forcibly took from him the money
stated. He was sent for trial.

ARCHES' COURT, SATURDAY, JUNE 3.
(Before Sir H.. 1. Fust.)

GORHAM (CLERK) V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.
This was an application to the Court to decree a moni-
tion to issue under its seal to the Lord Bishop of Exeter,
to show cause why he refused to admit the Rev. George
Cornelius Gorham to the vicarage and parish church of
Bramford-sperce, in the county of Devon, diocese of Ex-
eter, and province of Canterbury, vacant by the death of
the late incumbent, Mr. Gorham having been duly pre-
sented to the vacant vicarage by her Majesty, the true and
undoubted patron thereof. We Lave already given the
particulars of the case. The judge directed the motion to
stand over till next session.

THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY FREELAND

V. NEALE (CLERK.)
This was a proceeding brotwlit to this court by letters
of request, against the Rev. Mr. Neale, for having read
prayers, preached, and administered the holy ordinance
of the Lord's Supper, in an unconsecrated chapel con-
nected with Sackville College, East Grinstead, notwith-
standing the injunctions of Bishop of Chichester to
desist from the exercise of his clerical functions in the
diocese. A libel was given in, charging, the offenc.• to
have occurred on the 9th of May, 1847, and to have been
repeated to the present time. No defensive plea was
offered by the rev. gentlemn ; but interrogatories were
addressed to the witnesses examined in proof of the libel.
After the advocates of the respective parties had ad-
dressed the Court, the Judge said, that the question was
one not confined to Sackville College, hut of general
importance. He should like to have had some authority
stated to him upon which the court could rely, for saying
that any clergyman had a right to perform Divine offices,
save to his own private family, without the license of the
bishop. There was nothing to satisfy him that the
inmates of this college formed one family establishment.
There was, however, something in this case behind what
appeared on the face of the papers. He collected it from
an interrogatory addressed to one of the witnesses, who
stated in reply that the parishioners of East Grinstead
were composed of two parties, the high and the low
cLurch ; that by the former Mr. Neale was highly
esteemed, and by the latter equally disliked. The 71st
canon was conclusive on the point before him. There
was nothing to satisfy him that the inmates of this col-
lege formed one family establishment. There was, how-
ever, something in this case behind what appeared on the
face of the papers. 'He collected it from an interroga-
tory addressed to one of the witnesses, who stated in
reply that the parishioners of East Grinstead were corn-
posed of two parties. the high and the low church ; that
by the former Mr. Neale was highly esteemed, and by
the latter equally disliked. The seventy-first canon was
conclusive on the point before him. There was
no proof whatever that there was in this college
any chapel dedicated and allowed by the ecclesiastical law
of the realm. Mr. Neale, according to the evidence, was
the warden of the college • but why the Court was not to
have laid before it in the usual course of pleading the
foundation of the college, and why Mr. Neale claimed to
himself a right to officiate in spite of the bishop, he (the
learned judge) could not conjecture. After some further
remarks, he said that the Court would be satisfied with
admonishing Mr. Neale; but he must be condemned in the
cost of the proceedings.

THE WATER QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR-Mr. Dawson, the councillor for Lime-street Ward,
states, in a published letter to his constituents, that " the
quality" of the Rivington Pyke water, " according to all-
able and unprejudiced persons, is undeniable."
The good quality of the Riviington Pyke water is not so
" undeniable" as Mr. Danson, a thorough-going " Pyke"
man, would wish to make it appear. Carried away by his
enthusiasm in its behalf, he stated at the last meeting of
the Polytechnic So.iety, that it was " the finest water in
the world," though two gentlemen, members of the so-
ciety, had just stated that they had been, a few days
before, over to Rivington Pyke, to see and taste the water
and judge for themselves, and they found that the water
of the running streams had a strong odour, and was any-
thing but what they would select for themselves to drink.
They also stated the remarkable fact, which is worth
more than a whole host of theoretical arguments to the
contrary, that the inhabitants of the district will not drink
of the water of these streams, even when passing their
very doors, but will invariably go " fields off" to obtain
the water of any chance spring there may be in the neigh-
bourhood.

The opinion of the resident inhabitants is worth some-
thing; and an opinion which they prove by their practice
is surely worth more than that of a London geologist and
an Edinburgh professor, both strangers in the district,
and will be considered by most persons as " an able and
unprejudiced opinion of the qUality of the water which is
undeniable."—l am, sir, &c.
A MEMBER OF THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.