The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

A munificent donation of £2OOO has been made by the Rev.
Thomas Halford, M.A. to the University of Cambridge, for
the purpose of erecting a new wing to the library.
RUGBY ScHooL.—The Rev. Dr. Kennedy, head master of
Shrewsbury school, is one of the candidates for the head
mastership of Rugby school, vacant by the death of Dr.
Arnold.

ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY ].-Up to the 13th June, 550
merchantmen had arrived in the ports of Riga, and 301 had
already left. The value of the imports was 1,522,216 silver
rubles, and that of the exports 4,559,685 silver rubles.
The 211oseow Gazette gives the details of a great fire which,
on the night of the 2d of May, destroyed more than 200
houses, with all their contents, in the town of Bolschoe-
Pitaievo, in the government of Tamboff.
The vacancy in the royal circle, left by the departure of the
King and Queen of the Belgians, has been filled up by the
arrival of the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, on a visit to her Majesty.
A contemporary states that at " the last vestry meeting
the names of 452 rate-payers of the parish of Stroud alone
were taken off the parish books, as being unable longer to
pay their rates."

The Great Western sailed on Saturday from Bristol, carry-
ing between sixty and seventy passengers, moot; whom was
his Excellency Air. Everett, the celebrated and accomplished
Minister of the United States in this country. She carried
out also an average cargo of manufactured goods.
The Gazette of the government of Pskoff announces that,
on the 10th of June, a fire broke out in the town of Ostroff.
In the space of a few days there were six fires in that town,
which destroyed about twenty houses.—Journal of St.
Petersburyh. •

The much admired white hare, daily seen feeding on the
lawn in front of Lowther Castle, some time ago paid the debt
of nature ; but the breed, it appears, was not lost in its death,
as this season a full-grown leveret, perfectly white, has fre-
quently been seen sporting in the park near that noble
mansion.

The expense of collecting the post-office revenue is about
sixty per cent. in Great Britain, and a little beyond ninety
per cent. in Ireland ; thus, it will be seen that the " penny "
humbug in Ireland, is almost wholly unproductive of revenue,
and that in England, more than one-half of the entire
postage receipts are swallowed up in the expenses of the
establishment.

TORIES AND WHIGS.—A spirited London radical paper,
in its honesty, says—" We repeat for the hundreth time,
that we prefer the tories, simply because they are men of
business. They openly tell us what they will do, and they
do it. The whigs everlastingly talk of what they were
anxious to do, but they never did anything but a great deal
of evil!"

THE TWELFTH OF JULY IN IRELAND.—The confidence
of Earl de Grey in the good sense and loyalty of the Pro-
testants of the north has not been misplaced. In the city of
Derry the anniversary was ushered in by the usual discharge
of cannon and ringing of bells, but not the slightest disturb-
ance took place, as there was no attempt at processions or
any other illegal species of demonstration. In Newry, all
was perfect, uninterrupted tranquillity, the Protestant popu-
lation manifesting their respect for the suggestions of a pa-
ternal Government and their regard for the laws, by attend-
ing exclusively to their ordinary avocations. The Newry
Telegraph gives favourable reports from Warrenpoint, Ros-
trevor, Armagh, Charlemont, May, and Dungannon.

MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY'S NEW WORK.—A new
work is about to make its appearance, which it is understood
will excite no less attention in the political and fashionable
than in the literary circles. It is a narrative of recent
travels and voyages through Germany, Austria, on the
Danube, into Turkey, Greece, the lonian Islands, Italy,
Spain, and Portugal, by the Marquess of Londonderry,
G.C.B. The reputation the noble writer enjoys in the dif-
ferent courts of Europe as a distinguished diplomatist and
general officer, could not fail to produce for him a flattering
reception wherever he appeared. The volume, it has bee:,
stated, will contain the substance of various conversations
the writer held at Vienna with Prince Metternich ; also
curious anecdotes of this and other illustrious characters
with whom his lordship associated.

TrIE CIRCUITS.—A greater number of fashionably attired
scamps, classed in the police sheets as the " London swell
mob," are now prowling about the various assize towns than
has been known for many years past. They act in the double
capacity of robbers from the person and passers of counter-
feit coin. The respectability of their exterior and the know-
ledge which they have acquired in town of the talents of the
respective counsel on the circuits, afford them facilities of
introducing themselves generally as clients into the society
of persons whom they but too often victimise. The thronged
courts of justice present an ample field for these depredators,
and one gentleman, while intent upon hearing the judge re-
cently summing up the evidence at Oxford, was relieved of
his watch, at the same time that another was robbed of his
purse.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Tuesday afternoon a postboy,
who had taken a party from Edinburgh to Haddington, when
on his return, rode his horses and chaise into the water be-
tween Fisherrow harbour and the Magdalen Foundry. The
shelve of the bank here is very steep, and the horses were
soon up to their necks, the postilion appearing to the spec-
tators on shore to be sitting on the water with the reins in
his hands. Another man was on the top of the carriage, and
within two or three inches of the water. On their awkward
and dangerous predicament being observed, a fishing-boat,
with six of a crew, put off from Fisherrow, and succeeded,
after cutting the harness, in hauling the horses and postilion
safe ashore. They then fastened a rope to the pole of the
carriage, and thereby pulled it to the beach, thus saving the
chaise as well as the lives of both men and horses. It is
alleged that the driver had taken too much whisky, and but
for the timely assistance of the fishermen, he would soon
have had too much water also.—Caledonian Mercury.
NATIONAL MONUMENTS.—We are disposed to ascribe
considerable force to Sir Robert Peel's objections to opening
the National Gallery and the British Museum on Sundays.
" He did not see," said the right hon. baronet, " why
' the officers of such institutions should be debarred of their
only day of rest, after six days' labour." We are convinced
of nothing more thoroughly than we are of this—to de-
stroy the habit of Sunday observance would take more rest,
than it would add pleasure. Compare the mode of keeping
the Sunday in English and French towns ; and, whatever
opinion may have been formed of radical overstrictness, say
whether even London has not greatly the advantage over
Paris. There is no Sabbath of rest in the latter; no inter-
mission of work-day turmoil. There may be more of holi-
day spectacle ; but there is less of mental and bodily relaxa-
tion. To be sure, the gallery of the Louvre is open ; but it
is open only on Sundays to the people. It is a very possible
thing to make a toil of a pleasure ; and in those countries
where Sunday pleasures are most indiscriminate, so are Sun-
day toils. We are for keeping the sacred day most promin-
ent, as a day of rest ; and we doubt exceedingly whether
those who make it a day of drink, would be reclaimed by
by opening the National Gallery and the British Museum.
—Globe, radical paper.
SIR CHARLES METCALFE.—The Jamacia Morning Jour-
nal mentions several parting presents which Sir Charles
Metcalfe made on leaving that island. He gave his splendid
carriage to Mr. Gayleartl, the president of the Council; a
pair of his carriage horses to Mr. Panton, the speaker of the
Assembly :—" We understand that Sir Charles Metcalfe
has directed the receiver-general to carry on the credit of
the Island a sum of £B,OOO and upwards, which was due to
him, being his third of the property escheated since he has
been in the island. Upon no former occasion, that we are
aware of, has any governor abandoned his claim to escheated
property in favour of the colony. We know that in some
rare instances the amount has been given to the natural chil-
dren of the party dying intestate ; and to the credit of Sir
Lionel Smith it may be remarked, that he abandoned his
claim in a case of the kind. Eight thousand pounds, how-
ever, is a very large sum to relinquish; and few, indeed, we
apprehend, would be found so ready to desire the officer to
carry that amount to the credit of the public as Sir Charles
has been. Sir Charles Metcalfe has directed, on leaving the
island, that no portion of the personal property which he has
left behind should be sold, but that it should remain and
form part of the establishment of the King's house belong-
iug to the public. He has esides made presents to the
clerks in his private secretary's office, and directed £3OO to
be divided between the domestics of his late establishment."

At a sale last week some capital property, situated at Ast-
fey and Areley, Kings, Worcestershire, realized forty years'
purchase !

A correspondent of the Railway Timm says, the Manches-
ter and Leeds Company will save from £3,000 to £4,000 a
year by the modification of the government duty on passen-

THE IRON TRADE.—Most of the Welsh works have now
a sufficiency of orders, the demand for iron having become
comparatively brisk during the last fortnight. We do not,
however, perceive that the market has yet exhibited any im-
provement in prices.--Silurian.
The supply of silver coning forward from South America
is now larger than it has ever been since the separation of
those colonies from Spain, upwards of twenty years ago., It
will prove very serviceable in the present depressed state of
commerce in Europe.

It is a singular coincidence, that the first communication
between Glasgow and Edinburgh, by stage-coaches, was
opened under the provostship of a James Campbell ; and the
first communication by steam has been opened under the
provostship of a gentleman of the same name, 164 years
afterwards.—Scolch Reformers' Gazette.
Should Mr. Solicitor-General Jackson succeed to the
Puisne Judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland,
a vacancy will be occasioned in the representation of the
University of Dublin. The friends of Mr. George Alexander
Hamilton are already on the alert, and his election is pro-
bable, although some opposition is threatened by Professor
Longfield.

A pretty little girl of Erin presented herself at the post-
office, and, handing in a letter, modestly asked how much
was to pay, as the letter was for her mother, and she wished
to pay in advance. The clerk, on receiving it, asked the
usual question, "Single or double?" when she replied in
the most bewitching manner, at the same time blushing up
to the eyes, " Double, sir ; I was married last week."
MUNIFICENCE OF SIR R. PEE.—We feel much pleasure
in announcing another act of Christian liberality on the part
of the Premier, in addition to the many similar instances of
generosity, for which he is so justly eminent. That which
we at present allude to, is the donation of ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS, to the funds or the erection of Trinity Church in
this town.—Blackburn Standard.

We cannot resist mentioning a coincidence interesting to
ourselves at the time it happened, and still more so at the
present moment; and 'we will but do so in the words in
which a member of our establishment has recalled it to
our recollection :—" The late-Duke of Orleans-called at the
Times-office to see the printing-machine in the morning on
which the French express was received, 'containing, the
ordinance of Charles X., which occasioned, the
,revolution,
and seated the present King of the French on the thrOrie."
—Times.

A NOVELTY IN inELAND.—At Dunkirk, on Thursday
last, judge Perrin addressed :the jury in these terms

" Gentletnen, you are discharged from your attendance at
these assizes, and I am happy to inform you that I think I
am entitled to a pair of gloves, as there has not been a single
conviction at the assizes of the county of Loath." Viscount
Jocelyn, the high sheriff, who was beside his lordship' said,
he was delighted to know that such was the fact. At Wex-
ford assizes there were but eleven persons in prison for trial.
A few days ago, the envoy from the Imaun, or Sultan of
Muscat, was formally introduced to. the Queen, and had the
honour of subsequently dining at the royal table, when the
Queen wore one of the costly shawls he had presented to
her Majesty. . The envoy was. seated near. the Queen, be-
tween the King of the Belgians and Lord Aberdeen. Her
Majesty frequently addressed herself to him, and it is said,
completely won the heart of the old Arab statesman by her
affability and condescension.
The Sad of Marseilles gives the following account of the
late eclipse, 'as seen in that latitude .—" At 50 mintues 50
seconds pilit five in the morning the sun's disk was complete-
ly veiled by the moon's orb, and left the earth in obscurity.
The transition from light to nocturnal darkness was so sud-
den, that it drew an astonishing acclamation of surprise from
4000 spectators collected on the Coline Bonaparte. The
domestic birds, and a great number of the quadrupeds, were
observed to show signs of terror, and to hide themselves in
their retreats. A certain number of stars appeared in the
firmament, which to the east and west were illuminated by
a small luminous fringe. A keen cold was felt during the
obscuration, which lasted two minutes, at the end of that
time the brightness instantaneously re-appeared and filled the
whole immensity of the heavens. No idea can be formed of
the magnificence of the spectacle."
A WEST COUNTRY AUCTIONEER.—At a recent sale of
lands not one hundred miles from Bristol, the Knight of the
Hammer, though perhaps not in the metropolitan language
of a Robins or a Simpson, after endeavouring to make his
audience believe that the lands were so rich that they would
almost produce cheese without cows, and wheat without sow-
ing, thus ended his panegyric :—" And now, my good gentle-
men, I be told that cheese is fell, and I puts the question,
' Why ?' and I be answered, 'Tis all because of this here
trafficking bill of Sir Robert Peel's • but I. do tell you that is
all nonsense; and wait a bit, for bin as bow, I tell you as
English land is English land, and they can't make good
cheese or fat beef anywhere else, or good cider to wash it down
with either; and I do tell ye that Sir Robert Peel has plenty
of this good land himself, and he knows it too. Waiter,
hand the gentlemen the punch." Of course our readers are
aware that good punch is as requisite as a good auctioneer at
a country sale.—Devonport Telegraph.

A POSER.—We have received the following from a cor-
respondent, in reference to the doings of a naw sect of reli-
gionists at Oldham ; at least, we presume this to be the gist
of the communication ' • if the reader can make more of it, he
is more enlightened than we :—" Conferrence of the United
Churches of Christ held in Oldham during Whit Monday and
Tuesday in the Independent Methodist Chapel George Street
thees are a number of Churches bearing different names such
as Independent Methodist Quaker Methodist Gospel pilgrims
&c Name matters nothing they all hold the same doctrines
and are intirely free from an bird Ministrey freely they have
received the blessings of heaven and they sell them not but
such as the have from the gospel of Christ they offer to the
world without money and without price. they delegates be-
gan to assemble from different parts on the Satuarday evin-
ing when divine services was commenced and continud
through the Sabath in the open air and in Great George
Street Chapel. teetotal meetings was also held in different
parts of the town on Sunday, and diner hour on Monday
and in the evining a great part of they delegates being tee-
totairs. on Monday Morning they delegates asembled for
bisuness when reports was read from they differnt Churches
most of them giving a pleasing account of the work of the
Lord amongst them the cause appears to 'be spreading and
they principles of a free gospel to be more admired and va-
lued. the meeting concluded on Tuesday amidst the great-
est harniony their beingneither money nor power to fall outt
for. they are all brethren and usurp no authority over God's
heratage.''—Stockport Chronicle,

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAI 1.-
ROAD.—A frightful accident happened at Alne, within ten
miles of York, on this line of road, on Wednesday evening,
about six o'clock. It was entirely occasioned by the neglect
of the servants of the company. At the Alne station there
is a branch railroad of about 200 yards in length, formed for
the purpose of placing coal-waggons and moving carriages
that are not wanted from the regular line of road, at the end
of which is a precipice of about ten feet. These waggons,
&c., are of course. removed on this branch line by means of
the usual slips. When they are removed there the slips are
turned back, so as to guide the engines and train along the
regular road. On the evening in question the person who
attends this slip had most culpably neglected to remove back
this slip, nor was he at his post on the train. The conse-
quence was, that the engine and train proceeded full speed
along this branch line. The engineer immediately perceived
the danger, let off the steam, and put the brake on the engine.
The guard, with great presence of mind, also put the brake
on the carriage; but such was the force at which the train
was proceeding, that the engine struck against a coal-car-
riage which was laden with coals on this branch road. and
sent it several yards over the precipice at the end of the road.
The coal-carriage struck with. such force against the ground
as to cause it to be imbedded a couple of feet. The engine
and tender, and the next carriage to the engine, went over
the precipice, and several parts of them. were smashed by the
concussion. There were twenty-four passengers in the car-
riage next the engine, and to describe the scene would be
impossible. Several of them were severely injured, but
most pro-videntially there were no lives lost. Three gentle-
men were conveyed to the station-house close by, and re-
ceived medical relief.

THE JEWS.—Great anxiety is felt as to the expected
legislative measure announced at Berlin for regulating the
affairs of the Jews, by organizing them into a separate corpo-
ration throughout Prussia. The following passage is from
a circular which has been addressed to the civil authorities
on the subject :—" Although the ordinance of the Ist of
June, 1833, does not confer upon the Jewish communities
the rights of corporations as regards their properties, yet the
fundamental principle of that ordinance has this tendency,
and it declares that the internal religious affairs of the Jews
are beyond the control of the state or of the existing corpo-
rations. It results, however, in the general tendency which
the legislature has to follow, that the Jews should have the
means of establishino• religious worship, and that both their
religious establishments, as well as the persons employed in
them, should be suitably observed • further, that Rabbis
should be trained in accordance withl the present system of
education, thus opening to them views of Christian religion
and morals without suffering Jewish superstition to degene-
rate into unbelief of empty materialism, as is so frequent
amongst educated Jews at the present day ;. finally, that a
properly controlled system of religious instruction be intro-
duced into the Jewish communities. It is not easy to make
proposals for satisfying the demands here enumerated without
consulting the parties interested. The Landrathe are there-
fore hereby authorised to consult several Jews of eminence
on account of their morals arid intelligence, and to submit to
us, as far as possible, written statements of their views and
wishes respecting the before-mentioned points. Should a
Rabbi be found in any of the corporations of sufficient merit
to warrant confidence, his opinion is to be required in
writing." In Bavario the Jews arc very harshly treated.
They are only allowed to train up a certain number of their
children to trade, without being allowed the privileges of
Christian landowners. The followers of the Talmud are the
only Jews recognised, and they are 'obliged punctually to
observe many of their old superstitious rites, which they
would willingly abandon.—Private Correspondence from
Frankfort.

The Moniteur has published a comparative table of the
principal results of French commerce with her colonies and
foreign countries during the years 1840 and 1841. From this
table it results that in the " general," as well as in the
" special," commerce there has been an increase in 1811
over the imports and exports of 1840 of 123,0001. As re-
gards the general commerce, the imports and exports of 1840
amounted respectively to 1,052,0001. and 1,011,000 f. ; whilst
those of 1841 amounted to 1,121,000 f. and 1,065,0001. As
regards the special commerce, the imports and exports of
1840 amounted respectively to 747,000 f. and 695,000 f. ;
whilst those of 1841 amounted to 805,000 f. and 760,000 f.
Upon the tables published in the Moniteur, of which the
above is merely an abridgment, the Journal des Debats
founds an article on the subject of French commerce in gene-
ral. The Debals refutes the assertions of those writers who
have lately been accustomed to lament the depression of
trade by giving a table of the progressive increase of foreign
commerce during the last ten years, from which it appears,
that in 1831, it was 1,131,000,000 f. ; in 1832, 1,349,000,000 f. ;
in 1833, 1,459.000,0001. ; in 1834, 1,434,000,000 f. ; in
1835, 1,595,000,000 f.; in 1836, 1,866,000,0001. ; in 1837,
1,565,000,000 f. ; in 1838, 1,950,000,000 f. ; in 1839,
1,950,000,000 ; in 1840, 2,065,000,000 f. ; and in 1841,
2,186,000,0001. The 2,186,000,000 f. of 1841, are thus di-
vided, viz., imports, 1,121,000,000 f. ; and exports,
1,065.000,000 f., making the exports 56 millions less than the
imports ; but it appears, on the other hand, that the imports
of 1840 and 1841 were principally for raw material for the
supply of national industry and home consumption. From
the tables published in the Moniteur, it further. appears, that
the principal increase in consumption has been in cotton,
wool, silks, coal, metal, wood for manufacturing, and cattle.
In the export trade, the French woollen and silk manufac-
tures have considerably improved. The sale of linen cloths,
on the contrary, has diminished—a fact which the journal
des Debals urges in justification of the late ordinance, by
virtue of which an increased duty was imposed upon our ex-
ports of linen thread and yarn. A decrease. has. also been
perceptible in the exports of PI each cotton goods. A marked
increase has taken place in the exportation of French ma-
chinery, as well as millinery, furniture, gloves, crystal, porce-
lain, and refined sugar. The exports of wines and brandies
also considerably increased in 1141 ; but the Debuts observes,
that it is principally to the amelioration of their own internal
regulations that the French wine trade must look for aid, and
that if the French Government wish foreign Powers to loner
their duties on Frenah wines, they ought to set them the ex-
ample by doing something of the same kindat

Mr. Richard Potter, late M.P. for Wigan, died at Pen..
zance, on Wednesday last, in the 65th year of his age.

EcoNomY.—" Jack, your wife's not so pensive as she used
" No, she left off, and turned tarnation expensive."

A few days since a passenger to Cheltenham per railway
fell asleep in the carriage, and when he awoke he was muck
surprised to find he had reached Birmingham ! consequently
he had the pleaxure of paying for his ride there and back!
His wife had been anxiously waiting:at the railway station
for him ; but was obliged to return home, wondering at his
absence.

IjALF FARTHINGS—DECIMAL COINAGE.-=There can be
no doubt, says the Railway 'Magazine, that the ultimate ob-
ject of the issue of half farthings is in aid of a decimal
coinage. There arc 91$ of them in a shilling, and 100 being,
by proclamation, made equal to a shilling, the shilling will
be decimalised. However desirable-a decimal coinage may
be, we cannot approve of decimalising the shilling instead
of the pound.

DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED MURDER.—The remains of
a man, with the head severed 'from the body, but within a
short distance of it, was found on Friday, by some men cut-
ting turf on the bog of Thornfield, near Ballygar, Tuam.
The separation of the parts appeared to have been effected
with a sharp instrument, and the body, which was in a per-
fect state, was supposed to have been at least 50 years in the
bog !—Limerick Chronicle.

MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.—On Tuesday night, a woman re-
siding in the Castle Hill, who bad twin children, aged six-
teen months, which were indisposed, applied at a dispensary
for some medicine. She received a bottle containing a tinc-
ture of soap and opium, to apply externally. It happened,
however, that the woman was the worse of liquor at the
time ; and instead of applying it externally, she administered
two tea-spoonfuls of the mixture to one child and one to
another. In consequence, theY- both became 'very ill, and
one died a few hours afterwards ; the other, by means .of
antidotes promptly applied by the surgeon of police, is likely,
to recover.—Edinburgh paper.
THE HALNABY HALL ESTATE, NEAR CROFT.— Lady
Dorothy Milbank was the favourite of Mary Queen of Scots,
but got into disgrace on the affair of the murder of David
Rizzio, in which ber husband Was concerned. She soon
afterwards fled, and sold gingerbread upon the bridge
.at
Berwick-hpon-Tweed,' by which, and the additional bouiaty
of her customers, she actually saved .gBOO, wit& whichLsbA
purchased the Halnaby Hall estate, in YoFk.shiref Pow in,ttA
Milbank faihily ;' and with the proceeds .of ne (for
lived-very.iyaringly, dying at the age of:83), .she purchased,
the estates in Durham and Northumberland, the ,rental gf
which, a few years ago, was £12,000 per annum.

THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAM-SKIP.—Ills Belgian Mitt
jesty's steam-ship the British Queen sailed on Sunday, the
10th" instant, for New York from the Motherbank, where
she had arrived on the Vriday night from Antwerp. Captain
Keane, R.N., who commanded her the last voyage, does
not do so the present one, as the Belgians were desirous that
she should be commanded by one of their own naval officers,
and not a British one. She is therefore, now under the com-
mand of Captain Eckholt, an officer in the Belgian navy,
who holds a rank in that service similar to that of commander
in the English navy. The King of the Belgians is about to
bestow the Order of the Cross of Leopold on Captain Keane,
in approbation of his services. As no official or public notice
has been given by the Belgian government of thiichange of
command, and as even up to the present honr she is adver-
tised to sail under the command of Captain 'Keane, should
any accident bad the ship or cargo, that country will be
liable to pay up to the shippers the full amount of freight,
the insurance being rendered invalid.—PortsmOuth Letter.

HOPEFUL CLAIMANT TO A PEERAGE.—RoIiert Lindsay
Crawford, claimant to the peerage of Crawford Lindsay and
Garrock, in Scotland, was brought before Mr. Trail!, ou
Tuesday, at Union Hall Office, on the double charge of
bigamy and returning from transportation before the expira-
tion of his sentence. It appeared that the prisoner had been
convicted of horse stealing, in 1837, at LondOiiderry,-and
was sentenced to be transported for life. He was accordingly
transported to Sydney, and remained there in the employ of
Chief Justice Dowling till 1838, when he made his-escape.
He, however, denied the charge of bigamy, and also. was
prepared with documents to prove that he was in this country
with the permisoion of the Australian authorities. ' The
prisoner was remanded. On Wednesday the prisoner was
again brought before Mr. Trail!. No evidence was produced,
and the prisoner was remanded. It certainly appears singular,
that this person, after having announced, in the Sydney
Gazelle, that he was about to leave the colony for England,
and remaining at Edinburgh for the last three years, _prose-
cuting, his claim openly, should be. arrested in London as a
returned convict.

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM DRUNKENNESS.—About half-
past four o'clock on Sunday afternoon; a woman named
M`Kinnon, the wife of a tailor residing in King-street, Glas-
gow, fell from the roof of a house in which she lived, a height
of five storeys, and was killed on the spot. The unfortunate
deceased, who was a woman of very dissipated habits, had
been out the most of the day drinking, while her husband
remained at home, and a little after four o'clock she knocked
for admittance, which was refused by the husband to prevent
disturbance. She had then, it appears, opened the door of
a neighbour's house, on the same stair-head, and there being
no one in the apartment at the time, she made her way, to
the sky-light window, for the purpose of passing along the
slates, and then descending by another window into her
husband's house. Being intoxicated at the time, she had
failed in the effort, and was seen by some of the neighbours
to slip down from the roof, and fall in the court below,
where, as we have said, she was killed. , 7
AFFECTING INCIDENT.—Previous to the Affghanistart
warfare, Miss Walker, a highly accomplished Scotch Wy.,,
posseSSing great personal attractions, was engaged in triae.'
riage to Mr. Munro, surgeon of a regiment serving itylndia;'
which, on the first outbreak, was ordered to proceed to
Cabool. Before the order was issued, young Munro arranged
that his intended bride should leave her home 'for theltdies,
in order that their future destinies might be linked together
in wedlock. Bit*Ore her 'departiire from ScOtland, Misa
Walker apprised, Mr. Munro: of it by letter, which reached'
him on his route to Cabool, when his colonel gave him leave
of absence, that he might be enabled to nieetAier.on her
arrivr!. !T had scarcely obtained that leave when necessity
compelled the copirnandino• officer to recal it, and order hire
to rejoin his regiment, which had such an effect upon him
that he shot hiMself through the head. Miss Walker has
arrived, and is at present residing with Mrs. Ramsay, com-
pletely ignorant of the fate of her intended.—Extract from
a private letter.

LIABILITY OF STAGE COACH PROPRIETORS.— In the
Court of Common Pleas a few days since, an action was tried,
brought by an attorney named Curling, against the proprie-
tors of the Yeovil and Exeter mail-coach, to recover com-
pensation in damages for the loss he had sustained through
an injury received from the negligence of their servants, and
for -Milting improperly used restive and unmanageable horses.
The;defendants paid £3O into court as compensation for the
injury sustained. It appeared that on the 16th of October,
1840, the plaintiff, who is a solicitor in Southwark, went by
the Yeovil and Exeter mail to Brutton. He was an outside
passenger, and when the mail-coach was descending Ulverton
Hill, about seven miles from Basingstoke, the near leader of
the mail became restive and fell, and the off leader afterwards
,falling, the mail was overturned. The plaintiff received an
injury in the arm.• He had a few leeches applied, and al-
though in great pain, he did not apprehend that he was
seriously injured. He attended a meeting at Brutton, but
on his return to town, the arm became swollen, he was
obliged to have medical aid, was confined to his house for
some days, and was subsequently obliged to carry his arm in
a sling for five or six weeks. The whole question in this
case was, whether the £3O paid into court was sufficient com-
pensation. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, da-
mages £2O, beyond the £3O paid into court.

•
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident occurred
on the evening of Friday week, at Lanehead, the Stanhope
terminus of the Stanhope and Tyne Rail Way, at present oc-
cupied by the Derwent Iron Company, by which James
Keriap, eight years of age, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Kemp,
gardener to the Rev. W. N. Darnell, Rector of Stanhope,
unfortunately lost his life, and the inhabitants of Stanhope
were thrown into a painful state of excitement. He and two
younger companions, unknown to their parents, were pro-
ceeding to Stanhope Burn, and had rambled about half a
mile from the village, to the side of the railway at Lanehead,
where the public footpath crosses it, upon which they had
scarcely stepped, when three waggons loaded with lime, which
the Crawlaw stationary engine was drawing up the steep in-
cline, became retarded in their progress in proceeding through
the tunnel beneath the Edinondbyers road, the steepest part
of the ascent, in consequence of a deficiency of steam ; upon
which the bankrider and three other persons who were along
with him leaped off the waggon, apprehensive of danger, and,
had scarcely done so, before the iron work to which the wag-
gon rope is attached, bloke, and the waggons immediately
ran amain down the incline with frightful velocity, scattering
the lime in clouds in the descent, and, becoming disengaged
from each other, were forced off the rails, at different points,
near the bottom ; the last of the three passed immediately
over the children,—cut and bruised the head and face of a
little boy, son of Mr. George Teasdale, now recovering, and
caught Mr. Kemp's son by the neck, and completely severed
his head from his body, whilst the third miraculously escaped
almost uninjured.

ABDUCTION EXTRAORDINARY.—The Irish peasantry have
been long addicted to the practice of running away with
young ladies, reputed 'to be possessed of large fortunes; but
we have been told this week, for the first time, of the abduc-
tion of a very old man, not, indeed, for the purpose of mak-
ing him happy in the bonds of wedlock, but from touch the
same motive as that from which the fair heiresses are spirited
away—namely, to obtain possession of his fortune. The
venerable abducted was a military pensioner, who was in the
receipt of £36 10s. per annum, and two nephews disputed the
advantage of having him to reside. The younger (for they
were brothers) determined to take him from the elder by
force ; mustering his faction by night at Abbeyleix, in the
Queen's County, lie proceeded thence to Castlecomer, in the
county of Kilkenny, to execute the intent; and the feat was
successfully performed. Old Corccaan was carried off, and
has not since been heard of. His life, however, is in no
danger, and at quarter-day there is little doubt but that, so
far as depends on his dutiful nephew, he will be forthcoming.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE AT WARRING..
TON.—We regret to have to announce a most dreadful acci-
dent which took place, at Warrington, on Saturday. It
appears, that the Old Quay Company have, for some time.
past, been employed in repairing their locks at the terminus
of the canal, at Warrington, joining the river Mersey ; and
for that purpose, had erected a temporary railway upon balks
of timber, to convey the blocks of stone. On Saturday dur-
ing the operations, the foundation gave way, and the whole
machinery, carriage, enQine, &c., fell into the excavation,
upon the workmen bt•luw. Two men were instantly killed,
and nine others had their backs, legs, or arms broken, in the
most shocking manner. Several of them, it is feared, cannot
recover. One of the unfortunate men killed has left behind
him a wife and nine children.

- -
ORIGIN OF THE BANK -OF ENGLAND.—The general
convenience and utility of the banks, or lumberoffices, as
they were called, of the free states of Italy and Amsterdam,
seem to have been first paid attention to in England during
the Protectorate of Cromwell, and several projects were
published for establishing something of the kind about the
year 1650. A land hunk, or one whose assets should be
invested in landed property, seems to have been the favourite
sceme, from the idea, perhaps, that the stock of such an
institution was less liable to deprecation, than if its funds
had been invested in any of the more fluctuating and less
secure speculations of the day. In 1651, two individuals,
named Potter and Robinson, proposed the scheme of a land
bank, to have perhaps a hundred branches scattered through-
out England, all centering in the bank at London. In this
bank it was proposed that all payments above £lO or £2O
should be made in bank credit ; but, like many others, this
scheme was unsuccessful. In 1657, a merchant of the name
of Samuel Lamb addresustedhe,aa.tlartd little or no attention to it.
folioigleattinie pamphlet oh ohnanthdes
subject to Cromwell ; b
full of more urgent business, Pai
In 1683, a Dr. Hugh Chatiiberlin, who seems to have had
a mind teeming, with banking projects, made a strong push
along with a Mr. Robert Murray, to establish a bank for the
circnlation of bills of credit on Merchandise, and for lending
money to the poor at 6 per cent. interest ; " yet," according
to Anderson, in his History of r.
uammerce, It came to
nothing." The Bank of England was established by a
charter under the great seal of William and Mary, dated the
27th July, 169-1. The projector of this, now the most
powerful bank in the world, was William Paterson, a native
of Dumfriesshire, in. Scotland. lie was much assisted in
the formation of his plans by a person of the name of Hol-
iand, a very talented merchant in London. He took for his
model the Bank of St. Genoa, It being proposed that the
Bank of England should be established not only for the
convenience it would afford to commerce, but also for the
emolument of the proprietors, the intention being that it
should be a bank of discount, deposit, and circulation.—
Correspondent of Atlas.

THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE

SECOND APPEARANCE OF MRS. R. HONNER

THIS EVENING, (Tuesday,) July 19, will be performed,
for the second time, the new Drama of

GISELLE;
With new Scenery. Dresses, and Appointments, and extra.
ordinary novel effects of
REAL WATER.
Mrs. R. Hornier.

Giselle

WITH
THE WATER2VAN
AND

FALLS OF CLYDE

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS popular and pre-eminently attractive Resort is open
Daily, kona Seven A.M. till Dusk. The
GRAND EVENING FETES
take place every Monday and Friday during the Season, with
THE ROMAN FESTA.

At us.
THE D GRAND ILLUMINATkION OF ST. PETER'S.
This inconceivably magnificent Spectacle is succeeded by the
Pyrotechnic Wonders of the
GIRANDOLA. OF ST. ANGELO,
With all its splendid incidents, terminating with the gorgeous
Cascade of brilliant Fire, and tremendous Flight of Rockets.
To en the Eng's Promenad,
MR. STUBBSliven' ROYAL HARMONICe BAND
will perform a favourite selection of Music.
The Gardens are Illuminated with Gas Lamps.

Elie Itbrrpool &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19

We do certainly deplore, in common with nine-
tenths of the constituency of Liverpool, the talking
mania appears to have taken possession of a
large section of the Town Council of Liverpool. A
deliberative-body that council can no longer be called.
Representatives of the community, met to legislate for
the advancement of local prosperity and order, no im-
partial observer of their mofithly proceedings would
deem its members to be. And yet, so long as we know
that its various committees do their duty,---that the
town is governed and its property justly administered,—
we can reconcile ourselves to the eternal speech-
Making which attends every meeting of the general
body better than we could its lapse into that state of
indilference and apathy, with respect to the manage-
ment of the estate committed to its charge, which ap-
,pears to have fallen upon another body in the port.
It will be long, we trust, before we shall be condemned
to see the powers of the Corporation of Liverpool ad-
ministered by the town-clerk and some three or four
gentlemen. only, as those of the Dock Committee ap-
pear at present to be regulated by the absolute will of
the surveyor and a small knot of dictatorial and busy
people who neither represent there the dock ratepayers
nor the constituency of Liverpool.
The Dock Committee is or ought to be a representa-
tive body, and, as such, to defer to the loudly expressed
Wishes of the constituency of the town, and especially
of its merchants and shipowners. And yet is this the
case ? Decidedly it is not. The committee defers in-
finitely more to the convenience of its surveyor or to
the dicta of any of its sub-committees than to the
most loudly expressed wishes of the entire trade of the
port. We referred last week to the neglected state of
the queen's Graving-dock, ordered months ago to be
altered. And what was the reply to a request for ex-
Planation upon this subject which way made at the last
meeting of the committee ? Why that the works com-
mittee and the engineer had their hands full ; that they
had taken no steps to fulfil the express requirements
of the general body; that in point of fact they had
vetoed that requirement, and consulted only their own

convenience 1

We ask of our mercantile readers, who are aware of
the demands for increased accommodation which have
for months past been made of the committee by the
builders and shipowners of the port to pay a visit to
the southern extremity of the estate. We have at pre-
sent no increased accommodation at our disposal, is
Practically the plea by which these demands have been
met ; and yet see the large space at the southwest cor-
ner of Brunswick Dock converted into a mere wharf
for stone_ and old timber. Go along the sea-wall at
the south of the dock-yard, and there you have a large
quantity of valuable space, upon which the surveyor is
hewing his granite, when it might just as easily be
hewed in any other locality, or even before it leaves the
quarry. Engineers have ordinarily, for works such as
those going on upon the site of the Canning-dock,
such things as SPECIFICATIONS. Stonemasons, we
Presume, know tolerably well the dimensions of every
block they have to hew; and if such be the case—and
it is in most works which we have ever seen—there can
be no sound reason why every block of granite wanted
for these or any other docks should not before arriving
at this port be ready, with the exception, perhaps, of a
alight dressing, for placing at once into the position in
which it is to remain. The appropriation, therefore,
by the engineer of this large space of valuable land to
the purposes of a granite-yard is a positive waste of
the capabilities of the estate, and ought not for one
Moment to be tolerated.
BY a judicious disposition of the resources of this
portion of the Dock Estate we have no hesitation in
affirrei/ig that much, very much of the difficulty which
is felt by the shipowner, the builder, and the merch-
ant, might be obviated; and yet there appears a down-
right perversity of management somewhere, which
will not permit the requirements of commerce to be
conceded. The pet schemes of Mr. Alderman Evans
and the Liberal members of the committee must be
pressed forward at all hazards, whilst every other im-
provement is suspended. The omnipotence of the
board of works and the surveyor must not be even
qnestioned, whilst the committee, as a body, may have
their most pointed directions neglected with perfect
impunity. Costly schemes of the most questionable
usefulness, although undertaken in contrariety to the
"Pressed wishes of the constituency, are obstinately
Persisted in, whilst improvements which suggest them-
selves to every observer and can be carried into execu-
tion at the most trivial expense are entirely over-
looked.

As an example of this kind of management we may
refer to the transit sheds on the west side of the
Princes Dock, which must have cost already an im-
mense outlay; and yet we have again and again paid
a visit to this site without ever having seen them in
working. Possibly they may at this moment contain
°few goods waiting for shipment; but we venture to
say that they are never likely to realise to the estate
one Per cent per annum upon their cost. Yet whilst
these expensive sheds have been swallowing up a heavy
amount of the funds at the disposal of the committee,
wiarge quantity of quay space at the southern docks.
I ieb, is
timber sc
ihow no longer required for the discharge of
..ips, is still unprovided with even the ordi-
nary open
th
are • eds, and valuable goods discharged there
entirely unprotected from the weather. Although
the Sion d
loading
' e quays here, originally constructed for the tan-
for other
of timber, are now no longer required, and are
eve
purposes entirely useless, inconvenient, and
n dangerous, yet no effort appears making to re-
edy the evil. Only last week a horse and cart backed
down one of these and was immersed in the dock.
Casks of valuable wares
are daily exposed to the dan-
ger of similar accidents ; and it is surely the duty of
the committee to see that, here, private property is
protected and public usefulness considered.
We do not bring these forward as isolated cases of
mismanagement. On the contrary, we challenge th whole system as one to which it is
full time h t at the at-
e
tention of the community was directed. r
ior the gen•
tlemen who compose the majority of the Dock Com-
mittee we have every respect. As merchants, as
ship-
could have in view in their dock manageement any
other than the interest of the trade of the port: Ti
ut
there is an " imperium in imperio" in that body.___,, a
Power behind the throne greater than the throne it-
self"—which must be checked by the majority of the
committee, if it is not by the public. The commerce,
the shipping of Liverpool, and the important trades
connected with it, must have a helping. hand held out
to them to save them from the inconveniences to which
they are at present subjected, if not from entire pro-
stration. The shipbuilders of the port must not be
driven to carry on their business in back streets or at
the very extremity of the Dock Estate, whilst valuable
river frontage is monopolized by the surveyor or the
board of -worke. We demand, in fine, from the Dock
Committee, on behalf of the public, some more satis-
factory explanation of their present and late proceed-
ings than are contained in the meagre and confused
conversations which come weekly before
eekly us.
There can be no question that appalling distress ex-
ists amongst our working classes and amongst our
tradesmen, and that even our merchants are not with-

out their severe sufferings. A portion of that distress,
and no inconsiderable one, it is within the power of
the Dock Committeeto alleviate. Let the same policy
which has actuated the present government in their
revised tariff be imitated by the trustees of the Dock
Estate. Let the scale of rates levied upon the mer-
chant and especially upon the shipowner be also re-
vised and its pressure lightened. Let the anomalies
which exist throughout that scale be removed, and the
tricky evasion too largely practised be put down. Place
the shipwrights of the port upon a fair and just foot-
ing, with respect to the facilities for conducting their
business, as compared with the shipwrights of other
ports; and we shall then, at least, not have to com-
plain that in Liverpool the noblest arm of our land—
her maritime power—is verging to decay.

Well, we were spared yesterday the infliction of Mr.
V. 'Yates's motions in the Council, in consideration,
We presume, of the " GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW DE-
MONSTRATION," to be held in Clayton-square. Two
such affairs.in one day would have been the death of
us ; and, moreover, those eminent Whig-radicals,
Messrs. W. Earle and 11. V. Yates, would have found
some difficulty in being in two places at once. The
Council meeting, therefore, is postponed until to-
morrow, and the great demonstration has "come off!"

And well may the ex-ministry, for whose behoof
it was got up—well may the millocracy of Man-
chester and the rabble agitators of Birmingham and
Sheffield—well may the Thompsons, the Aclands, and
the leaguers great and small, exclaim, "Defend us
from William Rathbone and our Liverpool friends."
Pitiable as has been the plight of Whiggery in this lo-
cality for years—" small by degrees and beautifully
less" as have become its shabby musters—seedy as
have been its spouters, and unsavoury their listeners—
it was left for the abortion of yesterday to proclaim to
the world that the thing is at last stone dead, beyond
the.power of galvanism or the skill of a conclave of
humane society doctors to bring a flutter to its pulse,
or a twitch into its rigid features.
Yet paltry and pitiful as was the whole affair, we
shall, no doubt, have a new version of the " three black
crows" attempted, to mislead the guileless and credu-
lous world with respect to its importance. We shall,
therefore, attempt to furnish an accurate statement of
the members and kind of people present. The names
of the various speakers on the platform, from roaring
Rathbone to the small unknown vendors of "four-and-
nines" and other equally important commodities, who
brought up the rear, will be found in our report of the
proceedings. The body of the meeting was contained
in a corner of the square, and might consist of at most
700 or 800 persons. At least, one-fourth of these
were Conservatives, who went to look on and laugh at
the exhibitors; another fourth were decent working
men, who certainly viewed the speechifying with some-
thing very like disgust. The remainder, a motley
group of hodmen, scavengers out of work, discharged
cabmen, and other equally enlightened personages,
may be set down as the Whig portion of this meeting,
which is to annihilate the ministry of Sir Robert Peel,
and bring about a free-trade Milleniurn !
Setting aside, then, the Conservatives present, and
the working men who refused their sympathy to the
spouters, the whole affair may be said to have been
about as respectable as the assemblage collected by a
Punch and Judy show, or the crowd which gapes in
the front of a third-rate booth at a country fair. The
material doled from the balcony, in Clayton-square,
was of a description little above the quality of that fur-
nished by the before mentioned respectable performers.
Alas poor Whiggery ! This was verily thy funereal
exhibition in Liverpool—the last of thy Clayton-square
gatherings—the ultimate and hopeless pump up of the
mud which is all that remains at the bottom of thy
exhausted cess-pool !

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &-c

We have had an increased demand for Cotton during the
past week, which however is met freely by sellers, at former
rates. Although the market closes very firmly, the sales, up
to Friday, amount to 30,550 bales, including 4,300 on specit-
lation, and 12,000 for export.
On Saturday fully 7,000 bales were taken, of which 2,000
arc on speculation, and yesterday 6,000 bales, most of which
were taken by the trade.
The demand in Manchester, for all descriptions of printing
cloth, has been good, and a large business has been done
during the week, at prices, however, little improved as yet,
although evidently looking up. The calico printers are busy,
preparing for the autumn trade, and are very bare of stock.