The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

BRIEF HISTORY OP THE WAR

'NEVER, perhaps, in any war, did so many amateurs ac-
Tampany, at least one of the belligerent armies, and, per-
haps, never did any war disappoint the military world so
much as this one. The campaign of 1853 reduces itself
'to one small combat (Oltenitza), between three battalions
'entrenched, and a brigade in the open country—a fight
which, in the wars of Napoleon, would have been looked
upon as an every-other-day affair, and which, in the pre-
sent instance, would have been of no importance, but for
being the first time the Turks had tried their arms against
the Russians since their new European organisation. The
winter was employed by them in looking at each other at
Kalafat across indifferent entrenchments, and in making
and resisting one ill-managed sally at Csitate ; the want
of information on the part of the Turks during the whole
period being so ridiculous -that they imagined they had
constantly 30,000 or 40,000 men in their front, whereas it
turns out that there never were much above 12,000. How-
ever, during the winter, every one prognosticated fighting
in earnest—no child's play in the spring. Month after ,
month slipped by. The great bugbear, the Russian army,
would be across the Danille, and the fate of Turkey, or ,
Bulgaria at any rate, would hang on the chances of one
great battle. At length the bugbear is roused from his
lair, and crosses the Danube. Every one anticipates that
long marches and skilful strategic manoeuvres, on the one
hand or the other, will illustrate some principle which
had been discovered and-recognised during the last war.
Nothing of the sort. The bugbear advances most " gin
gerly" on Silistria, and Iwys siege to it in the most unen-
terprising manner. Every one wonders at the extent and
beauty of the works whieb the engineers' department exe-
cuted, but all of a 'defensive nature; the offensive ones
being ill-directed, and the siege of a wretched earthen
redoubt, defended by an =disciplined body, ending in a
failure, after losing a very great number of men and
officers, and expending an enormous amount of ammuni-
tion and labour. Then =rives the Anglo-French contin-
gent. They break ground by throwing up a series of
field-works near Gallipoli, hundreds of miles from the
theatre of actual war. At length they embark for Varna,
whcnuc cl cry oue auticifiates a series or -Drilliant manteu
ores, ending in a tremendous action—won, of course, by
the allied armies. Wren once more. The only aid sent
to Silistria, whose garrison was in expectation of being
relieved by the united armies, is two engineer officers, who
arrive the very day the Russians raise the siege. Then
succeeds a bungling; ill-conducted passage of the-Danube
by the Turks, ending in their forcing the Russians to
retire a day or two sooner than they had intended. Nor
have the navies done more. The bombardment of a few
unimportant places is all 'that, •up to the present, they
have to boast of. The French and English armies are
thoroughly disgusted, and2-the general wish is to be out of
the whole affair, if there were only any means availdble of
getting out of it with honour. The amateurs are not the
least so. To have to undergo all manner of privations
and disagreeables, whose name in Turkey is legionovith-
out a single thing to repay them for it, is more than was
bargained for. Nor will sinlitary history or the military
art have been the gainers by one single fact. We-shall
never see any occurrence of this war, up to the present,
quoted in any book, except, perhaps, as an example to be
warned by. It will have done two things, however, were
affairs to be stopped at theyresent stage, viz., Russia will
no longer be a bugbear, and the world will be completely
desillusiond as to Turkey.—Morning Chronicle.

DRUIDISM.—The second anniversary of the Good Sa-
maritan Lodge took place on Monday last, at the house of
Host Tyrer, Clement-street; Dr. Marsh, the surgeon to the
club, occupying the chair, ably supported by P. A. Robin-
son and P. A. Tyrer, the vico.chair being filled by R. A.
Hivey. Several excellent speeches and songs kept the
company in good humour until a late hour.
FORESTERS' FESTIVAL AT ISIRKENITEAD.—Yesterday
fine streets of Birkenhead resounded with the din of a
land marching at the head of furocession formed of the,
members or several lodges of -the " Ancient Order of
Voresters" held in Birkenhead and its vicinity. The pro-
oessionists met opposite the Craven-rooms, at ten o'clock
in .ibe forenoon, and after parading the streets of the
township, they dined together at Mr. Wingfield's, George
and 'Dragon Hotel, Grange-lane. `The day was wound up
by ai.ball at the Britannia-rooms, Lower Tranmere.
THE Minn.—A wretched monomaniac, styling himself
" The'Rev. Joseph Barker, formerly Methodist Preacher,"
desirous of emulating the infamous notoriety of Tom
Paine, has been delivering lectures during the week at
the Nev.- Music Hall, in Bold-street, to prove that the
Bible is. not divinely inspired. This 'blasphemous attack
led, of -course, to opposition, and the meeting became so
disorderly-that the interference of the-police was rendered
necessary. the proprietor of the hall permit it to be
used for purposes of profanation, and in open violation of
the bad of our belief, he may find that, when devoted to
a less objectionable purpose, the public will be-inclined to
refuse their patronage.
THE CIIINTZA. IN EDINBURGIL—After several months'
cessation, cholera has reappeared in Edinburgh within the
last few days. „It seems to have arisen from the simulta-
neous importation of it by persons coming from different in-
fected districts. in consequence of the outbreak a meeting
of the Sanitary Committee, consisting of representatives
of the police aud!parochial boards, was held on Wednesday..
Up to that morning 12 cases were reported as having
occurred in Edinburgh, and one in Leith. Of the 12
easel, the three that :first occurred were imported, and
were all, we understand, fatal. One was a passenger,
seized on the way from London, on board the steam-ship
Trident ; another was master of a small vessel plying from
Alloa or Limekilus to ;Leith; and the third was a man
coming from Airdrie, who 'bad taken lodgings in the Ca-
nongate, and whose case was followed by six others In the
neighbourhood, three of them proving fatal. In two other
spontaneous cases death had .ensued after a few hours' ill-
ness. In only four cases were the patients reported as not
yet dead, or as likely to recover. The case in Leith was
fatal after a brief illness. With regard to the state of the
ielty, the Lord Provost expressed his belief that the city
bad during the past three or four months been cleaner ex-
ternally at least, than it had ever.before been in its history.
Medical reports as to the very healthy state of the town
before this outbreak were also referred to.

Ma. PENNY'S DAVIS' STRAITS EMPECIITION.—ACCOIIIItS
have just come to hand from Captain Penny, of the Lady
Franklin, that his expedition to Davis' Straits, in fur-
therance ,of a project of a resident whale fishery, has been
most successful. He is now at Aberdeon with the Lady
Franklin full of boiled oil, and the Sophia 'is expected to
follow, also a bumper ship. It will be remembered that
the crew of an American whaler, wrecked in Davis' Straits
three years ago, had succeeded in killing daring their
residence at Kumsooka some eight or nine whales. This
fact, coupled with Captain Penny's large experience in the
Arctic regions, led him to propose that a resident fishery
should be established there, and that a commercial com-
pany, under royal charter, should engage in the enter-
prise. It was intended, also, to work some plumbago
mines which were known to be in the district ; but the
project was not sustained by government, and fell through.
Captain Penny, however, was supported by a few commer-
cial gentlemen who had the fullest confidence in his specu-
lation, and the Lady Franklin and Sophia, Arctic explor-
ing ships, were purchased and fitted out in Aberdeen for
the expedition last year. Both ships were supplied with
tanks for the oil, and the necessary arrangements were
made for encountering a winter's residence in the Straits,
in order to be ready for the first opportunity of getting at
the fish in the spring. Two hardy crews were engaged,
and provision was also made for the moral and spiritual
good of the natives among whom Captain Penny ex-
pected to have to reside. The ships sailed in July last
year, and this is the first news we have of them since that
time. In a commercial point of view, the speculation
will be a most profitable one, the oil alone being worth
t1x8i7.41, wwallingef large e Sum will by realised for some ten or

The intended structure is to occupy the corner of
Roszoe-street and Back Knight-street and will be large
enough to contain daily, infant, and Sunday schools, to-
gether with a house for the master. On reaching the
site of the intended edifice, the minister will read some
portions of Scripture, and offer up a prayer suited to the
occasion, after which a hymn will be sung.
At the conclusion of the hymn, the Rev. W. Pollock
will address the mayor, and, in the name of the building
committee, will present him with a silver trowel, and his
worship will proceed to lay the first stone of the building.
Another prayer will then be said, and the assembly will
be addressed by a memher of the building committee,
after which the National Anthem will be sung, which
will complete the ceremonial.
In external appearance the design has considerable
architectural merit, and is an attempt to adopt the geo-
metric decorated style of the middle ages to domestic pur-
poses, retaining the necessarily compulsory essentials of a
street frontage. The site, which is in many respects
peculiar, and the area being confined, it presented unusual
difficulties of arrangement, and caused much trouble in
obtaining a sufficient quantity of light. The principal
front presents several windows, filled with geometric
tracery of a light and tasteful character; the principal
staircase is surmounted by a tower whose upper stage is
pierced with similar tracery. The tower is covered by a
pyramidal roof of high pitch, which imparts character to
the whole design. The upper portion of the tower is in-
tended to be used in aiding ventilation.
The school buildings consist of three floors, the infant
school occupying the ground floor; the boys' school will
be on the first, and the girls' school on the second or
upper storey. Each of the schoolrooms has an area of
1,600 square feet, and will accommodate '2OO children.
Adjoining each school is a classroom and entrance-lobby,
a portion of the latter being devoted to the reception of
caps, bonnets, &c. The height of each of the two lower
schools is 14 feet from floor to ceiling; the girls' school to
have an open timbered roof, which is 11 feet high to the
eaves. Access is obtained from Roscoe-street to each of
the schools, so that the children will be kept out of the
narrow side Street almost entirely. An airing yard is
provided for each school.

Adjoining the schools is a residence for the muster, to
consist of three bedrooms, parlour, kitchen, scullery, &c.,
with a separate yard.

The buildings-
are to be constructed of gray brick, with
quoins, dressings, and wrought stonework of the local red
sandstone. The architect for the edifices is Mr. T. D.
Barry, of this town, and of Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
The contract for the bolding has been taken by Mr.
Thomas Hughes, Brownlow-street, and the cost is esti-
mated at £2,200.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS.

(Before GILBERT HENDERSON, Esquire, Recorder.)

YESTERDAY, the intermediate sessions for the borough
were opened in the criminal court, at the old 'Sessions
House, Chapel-street. The calendar was unusually light,
there being only -26 cases, and 38 prisoners, of whom 16
could neither read 'nor write ; 4 could only read ; 23 could
read and write imperfectly; and 1 could read and write
well. Two of the prisoners (one a ..servant girl) were
under 16 years 'of age ; eleven were older Than 16 and
younger than'2l; and the remainder were of various ages
up to 63.
The fenowm* g gentlemen were sworn upon the
GRAND JURY:—
Mr. Thos. Brittain Fonvood, broker, foreman. '
Mr. Joseph Armstrong, jun., merchant.
Mr. James Henry Butter, merchant.
Mr. Thomas Boyd, merchant.
Mr. Francis Boult, merchant.
Mr. John Carmichael, merchant.
Mr. William Carson, merchant,
Mr. Richard Derbyshire, merchant.
lltr. Henry Glynn, broker.
Mr. Robert Girvin. merchant.
Mr. Michael Harnett, corn-broker.
Mr. James Howell, broker.
Mr. John Herd, corn merchant.
Mr. Charlton Robert Hall, wine broker.
Mr. Edward Hatton, anchor-smith.
Mr. Charles Melhuisb, merchant.
Mr. Richard Andrew Mould, wine merchant.
Mr. JOhn Blayds Molyneux, broker.
Mr. JOhn George Woodhouse, wine merchant.

The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read, the Recorder proceeded to deliver the charge :
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, said he, when parliament
rises, the attention of the General Quarter Session is natu-
rally called to those enactments by which its labours are
to be guided in the administration of justice. In looking
at the recent acts, I find one for the suppression of gaming
houses, but I an happy to believe that the habits of this
community render the operation of such an act of little
consequence here. I think it is only at particular times,
during the races, that such practices prevail to any extent
in this town. With the assistance of this, statute the
magistrates will be enabled to put down any at-
tempt of that description. There is, also, an Act to
extend, beyond the district of the metropolitan police, the
provision against the-use of dogs for drawing trucks or
carts. Here, again, it-is to the credit of the people of
Liverpool, that such practices have not prevailed in this
town. There is, further, an Act which has in view the
extension of the benefits which have arisen from abridging
the hours for selling distilled and fermented liquors on Sun-
days. It has been connitiered that this had a beneficial effect,
and that further restriction will prove useful. I hope it may
be so. Of course it ought to be the duty of the magistrates
to enforce this law ; and the penalties are extremely rigo-
rous, because for each separate infringement of its provi-
sions the beerhous&keeper is liable to a penalty of £5.
Undoubtedly, anything that could lesson the amount of
drunkenness is particularly desirable in this town. I find
that in the course of last year 5,250 persons were appre-
hended in Liverpool. as being drunk and disorderly, and
4,185, as being drunk and incapable of taking care of
themselves. Now, this is quite sufficient to show how
greatly the offence -of drunkenness prevails in this town ;
and here I take the opportunity of saying how much I
think the public are indebted to the discretion with which
the magistrates have recently exercised their powers of
licensing fresh public-houses. There was a time in the
history of this town-when, as it seems to me, too great a
latitude was used kr that department, and the consequence
was that a greater:number of public-houses beyond what
was usual were licensed ; and to this circumstance may be
attributed a considerable portion of the drunkenness
which prevails in the town. The magistrates, however,
have of late been more sparing in the exercise of their
licensing powers. Last year, only fifteen new public-
houses were licensed, and, as seven were forfeited,
the increased number of additional licenses was in
reality only eight. Now, of course I am quite aware that
it is not to the enactment of any law, so much as to an
improvement in the moral feeling and intelligence and
habits of the people, that we mast look for amendment
in this respect. But still •the law may assist; and I do
not think that efforts are •to be neglected with reference
to the discreet exercise of the licensing power. Therefore,
I fully admit that we cannot make people sober by act of
parliament. Yet, I still think that the provisions of the
enactment may be exercised with beneficial effect in pre-
venting drunkenness. I hope, therefore, that the same
-course will be persevered in, and that, though the magis-
-trates may think fit to grant some licenses to districts
which an increasing population may require, they
will still recollect that public-houses are already far
too numerous in the older districts, and that nothing
mere will be done than the necessities of the public war-
rant. Gentlemen, there is also an act recently passed for
the purpose of bringing into -more extensive use the
reformatory schools for youthful offenders. It is impos-
sible to touch this topic without a passing tribute to the
excellent magistrate who was the first to move in the
subject ; and without stating that the petition of the
Liverpool justices, drawn up by him, has from the first to
the last been one of the most important grounds on which
this measure has been founded. The scheme of this act
is that schools should be established for young offenders
by voluntary subscription ; that every such school should
be visited and examined by an inspector of prisons, whose
province it should be to report upon its condition and
regulations:. that the Home Secretary should then cer-
tify the school as useful and efficient ; and that a
magistrate or judge of any court may, on conviction of
any offender .under sixteen years old, order him or her to be
sent to such a reformatory school for a period of from two
to five years ; and the: Treasury may arrange the expenses
for such maintenance and education. But the school
must be named ander the direction of the magistrate or
the court; and it must be ascertained beforehand that
the directors are zvilling to receive the offender. Now,
you will observe that this act is rather preparatory, than
that it can be at once acted upon. This court, for instance,
is In no condition to .act upon this statute : there is no
school established ; and there is no school of which the
Home Secretary has approved, and to which the directors
have empowered me to send persons committed here. It
is, therefore, clear that much must be done by voluntary
efforts before this system ,ean be carried into more general
effect. For my part, I think it would supply a want that
is very deeply felt; but ,st the same time, I do think
that suet provisions must lie very carefully exercised ;
and that no encouragement should be given to children,
to take them from that natural support which they should
find in their parents. However, gentlemen, I mention
the state .of the law to show that, although the legislature
has declared its willingness to act upon such a system, we
still require the voluntary efforts of humane persons to
obtain power for carrying this design into effect. The
only case, gentlemen, to come before you, that requires any
special direction from me, is one of housebreaking. In
this particular case entry into the house was effected by
lifting up the grid of the coal-cellar. There was a fasten-
ing to the grid, but It was out of order, and so it was only
necessary to lift up the grid, for a person to make his
entry into the house. But I should tell you that in
a similar case that occurred, the judges were equally
divided in the opinion whether an entry so effected
was a breaking into the house or not. But the
case, in this instance, does not stop here ; because
you will find that, having so got into the house, the
offender broke into a room in the house. You will find
that the staple to the lock was forced out of the door,
which had been secured, and so opened; and if you find
this to have been so, you may properly find a verdict for
housebreaking, because it is not essential that it should
be the outside-door—the breaking of any inside-door is
sufficient to constitute the offence as defined by the law.
Therefore, if you find that the inside-door in this house
was broken, you may safely find a bill for housebreaking.
The number of the cases in the caledar is but small-44,
small even for the length of period since last sessions ;
but nevertheless I am by no means sure that that is a clear
ndication that the town is in a healthy state in respect to
crime. I might be led into a great mistake by taking the
state of the calendar as a guide, for, though I don't find a
single case of pocket picking, I do not suppose the offence
has ceased to operate here; and, though I do not find a
single case of stealing from ships and from the docks, I
cannot, therefore, conclude that such an offence has ceased to
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YESTERDAY, at noon, a number of members of the
corporation, and some of the most influential merchants
in the town, attended at the office of the Liverpool Dock
Committee, to inspect an elaborately and beautifully-
wrought model of Mr. Grantham's proposed high-level
railway for the town and docks. Among those present
we observed Mr. Stewart, Mr. C. Bushell, Mr. Alderman
Bennett, Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Ald. Gardner,
Mr. J. Hubback, Mr. T. Baines, &c., &c. The model,
which is on the comprehensive scale of one-sixteenth of
an inch to the foot, exhibited the advantages of the pro-
posed scheme much more clearly than auy verbal or
written description could possibly convey. It will remain
for several days on private view at the Dock-office, when
it will be removed to a convenient place for public in-
spection.
At the request of Mr. C. Bushell, and in reply to ques-
tions put to him by gentlemen in the room, Mr. GRANT-
HAM, C.E., described the main features of the scheme.
He said, in the first place, the railway, as projected, was
to be as long as the working parts of the docks, whatever
they might be ; at present they were four miles long, and
ere long they would be five miles. It was proposed to lie
placed on the east side of the whole line of the docks, to
consist of iron frame work, supporting two platforms ;
the lower about 52 feet wide, and 20 feet above the present
quays, entirely for goods; having four lines of railway,
the two nearest the docks to be used as sidings for trucks
while loading and unloading, and the other two as up and
down lines for trucks in motion. Theltwo used for loading
and unloading would be so arranged as to sweep the ships
and the cranes at the same time. The upper platform
would be about 23 feet wide, would have two lines of
railway, and would be entirely for passengers. The
height to which passengers would have to ascend would
be 35 feet, or less than the height of many existing rail-
way stations. The lower platform would be provided
with hydraulic cranes, which would transfer goods either
from or to the vessels or the trucks, as well as work
through the hatchways in the platform to the quays. The
quays would be used as at present, the railway occupying
the position of the present sheds on the eastern quays. The
greater part of the space under the lower platform might
be enclosed, and by these means greatly increased shed space
would be gained; and ample light being given as required,
excellent lock-up transit or deposit sheds would be avail-
able. The continuous length of docks made them peculiarly
adapted for the construction of the railway, as there was
only one curve, and that not of a serious nature, in the
whole range. At every great inlet from the town there
would be stations for the reception of passengers, the most
important one being at the bottom of Chapel-street, where
it would be found of great convenience to people coming
from 'Change and wishing to go northward. That build-
ing in the model was larger than it need be, if used merely
as a station ; but he also proposed that it should supply
the purposes of the Custom-house depot, which he proposed
to remove. Other passenger stations along the line could
be provided by projecting the space 10 feet out, and thus
making room for a platform. For the accommodation of
passengers getting on at the central station, he proposed
to throw a bridge, to be approached by a staircase from
Chapel-street to the station, in order to avoid the cart
traffic on the highway. He proposed to construct
other bridges near the Custom-house, James-street,
and one at the Canal Bank, in Ball-street, to com-
municate with Oldhall-street and other places. Covered
bridges at Chapel-street and . James-street would
provide safe access to the pierheads for pedestrians. The
goods department he proposed should be entirely worked
by horses at present, as the goods had only to be removed
short distances at a time ; and he suggested that the pas-
senger trains should run every ten minutes. Before pro-
ceeding to the mode of connecting the docks, by means of
the railway, with the private warehouses inland, he wished
to draw attention to the fact that the scheme was entirely
independent of warehouses, private or public; and he
wished to keep it so. But his object was to show by what
means such a connection could be obtained. He then
explained, and referred to the model in illustration, that
the railway could be connected, by a high-level bridge
across Bath-street, with the warehouses in Brook-street,
Launcelot's-hey, and the Goree ; that lines of high-level
railway could run round them, or in such places as
would be found most convenient ; that they could readily
be extended to the warehouses behind ; and that,:by means
of bridges, the high-level railway could be connected with
our great railways, and with the private warehouses in
the town; and that the proprietors of private coal-yards
might avail themselves of this simple mode of obtaining
easy communication with the docks. Having shown what
facilities the scheme would furnish for the use of the most
approved machinery, which could not be generally worked
under thepresent arrangements,he stated that the proposed
scheme wouldenable the Dock Committee toestablish auni-
form rate of carriage for all the distance—tending to effect
that centralization of the work of the docks, so much re-
quired. It had been stated by some that the omnibusses
would be.able to meet all the wants of the town ; but if they
were to widen the streets considerably, and increase the
kind of accommodation they at present had, they would
never be able to comply with the wishes and demands of
the public; whereas by the adoption of this scheme, the
more they went northward, the more their dock property
was improved. He proposed to widen out Strand-street,
and to erect a station there of about 800 feet long into
which the passenger line could run, coming from north
and south ; and the rails could be so placed that they
could run the carriage into a siding, and so keep the main
line clear. There was only one place where the proposed
railway would cause more than existing obstruction, and
that was at the Old Church Yard, where the space allowed
for traffic was even now allowed to be much too narrow.
Mr. Alderman BENNETT asked if Mr. Grantham could
tell them what would be the probable cost of constructing
the railway ?

Mr. GRANTHAM replied that it would be almost impos-
sible to give estimates until the principle and details of
the seheme were affirmed. The present high rate of money,
and the increased cost of labour and materials, also ren-
dered any correct approximation very difficult. But
making due allowance for these, it was believed that, in
its working state, including hydraulic cranes and plat-
forms, with stationary steam-power to work them, the
cost would be under £250,000 a mile. Then it should not
be forgotten that the quays were the property of the Dock
Estate, and that, consequently, no land would have to be
purchased, and no compensation made to private owners.
It was probable, therefore, that .a company could be formed
to farm the passenger traffic upon advantageous terms,
leaving the goods lines, the sidings, the cranes, and the
additional covered quay space entirely free, and under the
control of the Dock Estate. There was another important
consideration in the fact that, estimating the value of the
space gained by the platforms of the railway at the low
rate of £5 a yard, there would be a gain of about £210,000
a mile, or nearly equal to the cost of the proposed scheme.
The Corporation would also, by the adoption of the plan,
be spared .a great part of the sum contemplated for widen-
ing the streets.
After some further information had been elicited, in
the course of which Mr. Grantham stated that the erec-
tion of any large building or works on the route of the
proposed line would prove fatal to the scheme, and ought,
therefore, to be prevented, the visitors withdrew.

SUDDEN DE4.M.—A woman, named Martha Freeman,
aged about -51, while engaged in washing her floor, in
No. 3 Court, Boundary-street, Kirkdale, on Saturday fore-
noon, fell down and suddenly expired. On a post mortenz
examination it was found that the cause of death was
aneurism of the aorta.

SUDDEN Dmair.—On Sunday morning, about ten
o'clock, as a man, aged 29, named William Savage, was
assisting in removing a flat from the Queen's Basin, to go
into the river, he, while pushing with a pole, suddenly fell
backwards overboard. On being assisted up, he gave
three groans and almost instantly expired. The cause of
death has been ascertained to have been aneurism of the
aorta.

SUICIDE IN TICE RIVER YESTBRDAY.-About eleven
o'clock yesterday morning, a eoal-heaver who was working
on board a flat alongside the steamer Iron Duke, moored
just off Birkenhead Ferry, deliberately threw off his
jacket and waistcoat, saying "here goes for a dive," and
jumped into the river. For some time he swam remarks•
bly well towards the shore, and then suddenly disappeared.
A small boat with two men in it was in the immediate
neighbourhood, but as they supposed the man merely
wished to escape on shore they did not proceed towards
him until too late. His body was not recovered.

SPECIAL MEETING OP THE TOWN COLTNCIL.—A
special meeting of the Council is to be held to-morrow
(Wednesday). The business fixed for consideration of the
meeting is :--1. The Report of the Special Committee
appointed on the 7th day of June last, for making arrange-
ments for the opening of St. George's Hall by the Conn
and to pass such resolutions and instructions with reference
to that subject as the Council may think proper.-2. The
Mayor's communications.

CHILDREN OVERLAIN.—On Sunday morning Mary
Beattie, wife of Joseph Beattie, residing at Gerard-street,
on awaking about six o'clock, found their infant daughter,
about four months old, dead in bed. Deceased had been
quite well when its father and mother went to bed, about
one in the morning. The mother, who keeps a stall in
the market, had been much fatigued, and during her sleep
she had accidentally overlain the child, which was quite
dead when the mother awoke.—On Friday morning, Mary
O'Hare, an infant, ten weeks old, residing with its mother
in No. 18 Court, Albert-street, Toxteth-park, was found in
bed dead, under nearly similar circumstances.
DANGEROUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about
two o'clock, as a young lady, accompanied by another lady,
was bathing on the beach near New Brighton, she, from
some cause, was carried off her feet, and out of her depth.
An alarm was' instantly given, assistance was promptly
rendered, and, with considerable difficulty, she was removed
from her perilous position. The young lady, whose name,
we understand, is Miss Rogerson, from Fazakerley, and
was residing with Mr. Harrison, South-hill, Toxteth-park,
was, under the direction of Mr. Lyth, surgeon, Claughton,
conveyed to the Marine Hotel, where, under his care, she
was, with some difficulty, restored to consciousness.-
FARSGITS.—The Cheshire magistrates have given
great umbrage to the people of Parkgate, by having
granted an additional spirit-license there, in opposition to
a memorial, signed by nearly all the resident householders
around. We hear that a public meeting is to be held on
the subject, r.7-.d a memorial to the Secretary of State is
talked of. There are already five or six public-houses in
that small village, which offer quite temptation enough
to the bibulous propensities of the fishing population, who
indulge in excesses very annoying to visitors, by whom
the place is chiefly supported.

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VARNA, AUGUST 13.—A fire, supposed to be the work
of incendiary Greeks, broke out here on Thursday night,
and destroyed a number of houses appropriated as quarters
for the troops, together with stores and magazines.
Everything moveable, however, was fortunately saved,
except the hay, wine, and some camp utensils. Several