The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

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late a machine-maker
appeared before Mr. Commissioner Perry, on Tuesday
last, and passed his final examination.—ln re Alexander
Smith, a dealer in galvanised iron, appeared before
Commissioner Perry, on Wednesday

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to the extent
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.ees. His Honour said it was the duty of the

Ithought the certificate should be suspended for twelve
and should be of the second class, and as he also

should be withdrawn:
being no balance sheet

pretence, protection for the present
—ln re Robert Lambert : There
filed in this case, which came be-

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err. Commissioner Stevenson, on Thursday, the from St. Thor...
adjournment was fixed for the 28th of December.-In re covery lately made in that vicinity at a spot ease- _
Joseph Fletcher : No opposition was offered to the last or Bird Island, stated to belong to the Dutch government.
examination, and the certificate was appointed for the The deposit was found by the master of an American ship,
28th of December.-In re Edward Kegg : This bank- called the Kentucky, and the quantity is said to be equal
rupt carried on business as a coal-dealer at Birkenhead. to 300,000 or 400,000 tons, while its quality approaches
After a long investigation, on behalf of the assignee, the that of the Chincha Islands. Ayes Island is one of the with it, and sometimes the ~,,...-_
last examination was adjourned.-In re William Jones : leeward group of the West Indies, and lies between the perceived, which totally disappears afterwaras.
On Friday, before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson, an imme- 15th and 16th degrees of north latitude, and 63rd and 64th A SHOAL OF WHALES IN THE THAMES.-At about 12 led woman
diate first-class certificate was granted to this bankrupt, a degrees of west longitude. o'clock on Wednesday, the people on the waterside and in cams
shipwright of Liverpool and Seaombe.. the vessels lying off Gravesend were surprised by the ap-
UNSTA.MPED NEWSPAPERS.-On Tuescley, a deputation t h
LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.-On Sunday, waited on the Chancellor of te Exchequer' toi complain of pearance of a shoal of between 40 and 50 young whales,
September 3, a number of individuals presented them- the conduct of. the Board of Inland Revenue in issuing the some of them apparently 30 or 4A) feet in length, disport- reif
eta
selves at the Oxford-road Station of the Manchester South ing themselves in the middle of the river, between the
following notice to the newspaper trade :-" Inland Re- a
Junction and Altrincham Railway, and took tickets fortown and Tilbury Fort. They proceeded up as far as off
venue, Somerset House, London, Nov. 17, 1854.-Sir,- Rosherville, then reversed their course, having come in were t..,
different stations on the line, intending to travel by the lam directed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to
train announced to start at nine p.m. ; but, from some call attention to the provisions of the 17th, 18th, contact with two steamers coming down the river. They cf 1,
cause, the train did not start until half-past ten p.m. At 22ndyeauL 23rd sections of the Act 6 and 7 William IV., c. were of that class of whales called by the fishermen "fin- e the .
76, and to inform u that it is their intention to put in justie -.Lig eves. cased
twenty minutes to ten o'clock, however, four gentlemenners"-a name, judging from the immense dorsal fin, and disneiee•-3" . eh-
(Messrs. Belhouse, White, Grant, and Mason) took a coach force the summary powers contained in those enactments which, when they rose to the surface, appeared to be from . th-.
against the publication of unstamped newspapers con-e
to Sale-moor ; and on the following day they applied to Bto 10 feet in length, most appropriate to them. The
tining news and intelligencet of universal interest.-I..es,'
n
the company. for Bs. Ved. the cost of the hire of the vehicle.appearance of these "monsters of the deep" in the river
sir, your obedient servan -Tnoetas KEOGH, Secretaram'''' hickness
This the company refused to pay ; and an action to recover
-The Chancellor of the Exchequer. justified the conduct shigh up as Gravesend created the greatest surprise, as r -bile
the amount was, therefore, brought in the aunty court.
of the board, and the deputation retired without their a similar one, as the watermen and fishermen averred, had win
The defendants did not put in appearance ; and the plain- never before been observed. One of the largest of them, w hay
tiffs obtained a verdict, with an order for immediate exe-
thographer, has written to from his plunges out of and on the surface of the water, ae
iule
cution. On the following day, bailiffs, with their writ of request
QTR.
DAY,hviutgli
eb been
celebrated
the Athencer na, warning persons against an advertisement and the constant lashing of his tail after one of the a
an(
distress, appeared at the Oxford-road Station ; and the
offering to teach ladies lithography for the small sum of steamers passed through the shoal, was supposed to have at ail
amount for which they were authorised to levy was at once
oneb ig li guinea,weekl y and
wagesp r promising ixs i3n
tog continuouse4 .
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Dayemploymentsays
"the
t then f been struck by one of the steamer's paddles. He, how- rh
et.
paid, under protest, by Mr. Kirkham, the secretary of the !ever, contrived to overtake his companions, and, followed te(
company. Subsequently, the company sought and ob-
drawing on stone is an exceedingly difficult tediousdrawbigonies by a couple of boats that put off, he joined them, and all ed vat teat
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tained a new trial, which took place at the county court,took their departure down the river. ;ht
on Monday last, when R. Brandt, Esq., the judge, con- to acquire, and a good previous knowledge ANEW STRAWBERRY.-We have just received front sot ,TOl
absolutely-' necessary, ninety-nine out of one hundred of M. Jacob Makoy, of Liege, some trusses of fruit of a new o: a tl.
firmed his previous decision, and allowed to the plaintiffeTito,
the costs of the new trial.-Manchester Guardian. those who might learn the art for 21s. would never earn a strawberry, called the De'lices d'Automne, produced in get
the open ground, that we think so highly of the variety as ing dis,
THE HEALTH COMMITTEE held its weekly meeting on farthing from the knowledge they would thus gain." to judge it worthy very special notice. It is said to have if F. rob,
Thursday, • Alderman Langsdale presiding. Messrs. Another contemporary publishes the secret of earning £2 er
been raised from a kind of Alpine without runners, known ass,
Dover, Moss, Beckwith, Godfrey, Crosthwaite, Nicholson, a week, promised by another advertiser in return for among the French by the name of the Perpetuelle rouge, .dy
Holme, Bigham, M`Guffie, and Halhead were present. thirty postage-stamps. It was obtained by several vie- rout
sans coulans,.erossed with the British Queen. Its stapes con
Mr. Newlands, borough engineer, reported numerous par- tiros who previously sent the necessary enclosure. " Buy 'boa
are tall, somewhat hardy, but much less so than those of e th
titulars of the work done and in hand, in his department. a hundred weight of potatoes, wash them well, bake them, -hick
the British Queen. Its frui.t is most abundant, middle- 4.-rot
Mr. Fresh reported the inspection of many nuisances put them in a basket, and sell them in the streets. This bon' \ed
sized, ovate, red, with the grains prominent, or but slightly
complained of by inhabitants, and the reference of 51 done for six nights, Cocker was called in to witness thatangt ews
embedded; the calyx is rather small. The flesh is solid
others to the borough engineer for remedy by drainage, the result must be a profit on the transaction of 40s !" toir, eat i
throughout, juicy, and as rich as that of the male parent, ;
&c., with a detail of the other operations of his staff, in- COLONIAL POSTAGE. - There are now thirty-three ster f, as
but more acid. The truss has more of the habit of growth 1
eluding particulars of a sanatory examination of 553 British colonies, to and from which the letter postage has of the Alpine varieties of strawberry than of the British 1 As to eetur sam, . -
court houses, 139 lodging houses, and 438 cellars, formerly been reduced to 6d. In fourteen of these colonies the Queen. M. Malloy states that he saw, on the 6th of No- to an explanation, and the shopman learnt, to his consterna- \-• -- ins of a population are occasionally met
with, such as the tongues and clasps of buckles, betokeninm
cleared of inmates, in the lower parts of the town. From postal arrangements are under the control of the local vember, old plants of the in the open ground as tion, that his customer was only known from having come
the report it appeared that the sanatory officers had made colonial authorities, viz., Ceylon, Trinidad, Barbadoes, •
much covered with flowers and above,ruit as if it had been the there within the last two three days to take
special examinations during the week of 1229 different Bermuda, Canada, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince
apartments in street houses, and 1649 rooms in court Edward's Island, St. Helena, the Gold Coast, New Bruns- month of June, although the weather had been previously and that he had been the dupe of an artful thief, who, in roctinyxtctvr:erys•heatezievne,3 andet inn Aearifneleranesedrztimoinci
executing the trick, also had gratis an excellent dinner."
houses, in the districts named, for the purpose of rooting wick, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria ;
onb-vmheelthineee therefrom, besides the cellar inspections in the remaining nineteen colonies the arp. controlledo 1 u
very cold. In September and October the fru't was m ch 160 feet in length. These could never have been grown.
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better, larger, and more coloured. The plants, though Tux WAR EXPENDITURE.-The Queen's Proclamation
abovenamed. The Medical Officer of Health reported by the British Postmaster-General posts
-very productive in fruit, are said to make but few runners, calling Parliament together on 12th December for "the
as might have been anticipated from the nature of the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs, has given i * *
li from the present
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that the mortality of the borough, which in the previous Antigua, Gibraltar, Granada, Malta, Be
viz.
r i cell ciikntornags ' mother of the strawberry.-Gardener's Chronicle.
week amounted to 236, fell to 207 in the week ending the Demerara, Bahamas, Cariaco, Jamaca, Tobag' o, St. Via-, rise to some surprise at the very early day named, and to '
taken 3,000 years toilleiave:%ned the least requiredevealttherefore]
25th ult. The deaths in the parish having been 146, and cent, Montserrat, St. Lucia, Nevis, St. Kitt's, Tortola, and CONTRIVANCES FOR WINDOW PLOWER BEDS. - The various surmises as to the " weighty and urgent reasons"
~
faorrt, wyheaora,hardeeekllnenotedwn ttlibee.
in the extra-parochial wards 61. As compared with the Dominica. The whole of the 6d. private-ship letter-rate thing really required has not yet been invented, at least I which have induced the Administration to recommend • tan el 2 oi
corresponding weeks of the preceding six years, the last belongs to the British Post-office for letters to or from the have not seen any advertisement on the subject, The this step. On Tuesday last the Times announced to the
. public that "it must have occurred to everybody who has floaet•iiige.light to mile.,
einleaanknteg.g"t
week's mortality shows a decrease of 20. Forty deaths latter-mentioned colonies; and on letters to and from the object to be attained is to provide space for a little flower
only were caused by diseases of the zymotic or epidemic other colonies the 6d. private-ship letter rate is divided bed, extending all along the outside of the window, and thought about it, that with preparations continually in- the testimony of various persons upon the subject of the
ecnheer.soharlei mceonast st.
class-being a smaller number than in any week of the equally between the local, colonial, and British Govern- projecting as far out as the taste of the amateur gardener creasing to a larger and still larger scale, the resources of
previous sixteen months. They included, from typhus, mrits. may suggest. This bed should be filled with fine leaf the Exchequer must be almost exhausted. That, in fact, f L Castle '
~ e The present gateway o easowe being half-a-mile from
11; scarlatina, 8 ; hooping cough, 5 ; diarrhcea, 3 • roes- A FLOATING- ISLAND IN THE CHA.NNEL.-Th Paris mould, and, if planted with bulbs in the winter months,
CHANNEL.-The . is the ease, and Government must want money.
the sea, and the intervening land being covered with nine
forM nearly.
day " we are told, " has arrived fora bolder finance than
sles, 8 ; cholera, 1; small pox (unvaccinated), 1. Diseases corres ondent of The Field mentions that an extraordinary and geraniums the summer, would become a very . ,
in
the nation would have borne so late as last spring. We
of the lungs caused 73 deaths, 30 of which were from Americanp invention is just now being submitted to the pretty object, affording a constant subject of interest and
consumption. Of the total deaths, 110 were below five French government by two gentlemen from New York, employment to the ladies of the family. A large slab or must have either increased war taxes, as, for example; a Partly without, or beyond the line of stone embankmen4
years of age, 75 between 15 and 60, and 22 above 6 the trial of which, whether it succeed or not, wil stone, or slate, should be first firmly set, and on this a bed ten per cent. income-tax, or a loan. The sudden meeting a
1 it Intiallel lastbillial years the sea
rt. wicettir?lehrougla_
years of age. Of these last one was a widow, who died certainly create much curiosity and interest, both in Eng might be formed of tiles of earthenware, or terracotta, .of Parliament,so long before the expiration of the financial _
~ ya a • •ty a great po ml of
most
i of the
Wallasey race, one of the fashionable
from the infirmities of age, in her 110th year, being the land and France. It is intended especially for the service expressly made for the purpose. The tiles might be made Year, points to the latter expedient, and the public are !once-famed
races in the olden time in this part of. the country, is now-
greatest age at which any death has been registered since of voyageurs between the two countries, which it pro- in pieces, so as to be capable of fitting to window-sills of Probably quite prepared for an addition of five or even ten
u merged. In the year 1828 Mr. Nimmo, whilst survey-
the sanatory act came into operation.-The mean tem- poses to unite by a kind of floating bridge,
or sea-way, by any size: some s o ea , o ers a rig ang es, o millions to the funded debt." In another part of the 13
perature of the week was less than 392dg., more than which the voyageurs may cross the Channelliterany n'on form the sides, and the outside tiles should have holes, or paper "the time-honoured expedient of a loan" is again dente entraenrce chaeenneLts to the Mersey, discovered an
sidg. below the average. On Saturday, the 25th ult. the land; at least it is so stated by the prospectus. The plan a gutter, terminating in a hole, conveniently placed, to referred to. The next day (Wednesday) our contemporary nsuhm gee
te thepresent lighthouse,
burial-ground, on tba
re opposite . and about NA yards
temperature was 10dgs. below the average.-A deputation consists in the construction of a gigantic raft, of half -a- allow of the surplus water draining off. Iron castings changes his tone. "We are informed," he says, "on Ull- 4
below the flow of the tide. John Edwards, a fisherman,
from Kirkdale attended, and complained of the state of mile in length, and nearly the same in breadth, the f -n-
-ou - should be adapted to the support of these tiles, so that, questionable authority, that the belief we expressed yes-
who owns and lives in a cottage within fifty yards from
the foot-path from Bootle-lane to Claremont-place, it being dations being made of the trunks of cork-trees, when all laid, there should be a firm flower-bed, of not
strongly
he resent li hthouse can remember that, sixty years ago
impassable. The subject was referred to Mr• bound together. The surface is to be covered with earth, less than say six inches in depth. Might not a thriving of a loan, and the opinion we also avowed as to the scale of P..
t f the coast' now solely protected by the --
Newlands, to see Mr. Hall, Lord Derby's agent, and re- and laid out in grounds like a nobleman's park. It is to be branch of industry spring up in the supply of these flower- our earlier preparations having been unfortunately stinted theba lei or iotnwoes
be
girt by sand-hills, which then em-
almostextendport at the next meeting of the committee. Mr. Evart provided with an hotel, cafes,a billiard-room, a library, and beds, to assist in gratifying so universal a taste as a fond- by an undue anxiety to keep expenditure within the limits
in one eunnbroken •Chain,from New Brighton to Ho Lake
was appointed to collect an arrear of debts of upwards of in fine, all kinds of accommodation. The colossal mass is news for flowers P-Correspondent of the Builder. of income, are both unfounded." Alluding to the enormous Another operation of nature to which Mr. RolletYdr -
£l3OO standing over since 1848.-After the transaction of to be moved by steam,and the expenses which the war must evidently require, the Times
passenger walks from the WAGES IN AUSTRALIA. -In a long article in the ;; attention was the combined action of the atmosphere and
some routine business, the committee adjourned. shore into splendid grounds, laid out with trees, roads, and Melbourne Argus upon the alleged difficulty which im- proceeds to say, We hope and trust we are not to be told the tides upon a portion of the beach delineated in his map_
that the war is paid for at this moment out of our income,
OBJECTIONS TO VOTERS.-IMPORTANT DECISION.- promenades, the large extent of which will prevent the migrants now experience in obtaining profitable employ- not only because we do not believe it, but because we The depression of 72 inches in the foreshore, observed tee.
In the Liverpool County Court, a ease was heard last week, motion of the water being felt, even in the roughest went in Australia-a difficulty which the writer is unable should think it a most misplaced and disastrous ambition take place in thirty years, was owing to the tide at every
in which Joseph Pollock, Esq., the learned Judge of that weather. The as travellers may amuse themselves, read, to comprehend-he gives the following the current recess carrying off portions, either in solution or suspension;
to attempt it." All this is rather mysterious.-Derby- the effect of frost upon clay being to swell, break up, and
court, gave a decision fraught with considerable interest walk, or even ride, if so disposed, precisely as upon land. rate of wages :-With rations-Married couples, without shire Courier. , disintegrate it. To this cause, also, was to be ascribed
to a large number of the community. Thomas Kinnealy, The great object of the inventor is to get rid of sea-sick- family, £BO to £lOO per annum; ditto, with family, £7O to IMPORTANT TO BUILDING SOCIETIES.-An appeal the continual, thought intermittent, supply of far-carried
house and shop keeper, 87, Marybone, brought an action ness-that fearful enemy of most travellers, of even the £75 ditto; shepherds, £4O to £45 ditto; hutkeepers, £3O from Vice-Chancellor Wood, "Fleming v. Self," came -on "erratic" boulders, which, owing to the wasting away of;
against Mr. Henry Buckmaster, to recover compensation shortest distance, by sea. According to the programme, to £35 ditto ; general useful servants, £1 ss. per week ; for argument before the Lord Chancellor on Wednesday the diluvium, or red clay, in which they were embedded'',
for lossfof time in attending before the Mayor and Asses- the plan has been tried in severe storms on two of the bullock-drivers on farms, £1 15s. to £2 ditto ; ditto for week. The plaintiff was the solicitor, at one period, of the were constantly protruded on the surface. During the last
sors, at the last revision of the municipal list of voters, to great American lakes, on a scale little less than that now the roads, £3 10s. ditto;' stock-keepers, £5O to £75 per Camberwell Building Society, and became the owner of three years no less than 10,000 cart loads of boulders had
answer a notice of objection lodged against his name being proposed, and with so much success, that a large capital annum • good farm labourers, £1 ss. to £1 10s. per week ; fifteen shares, making the stipulated payments. He sub- been picked up and carried off the beach. The shore had
retained on the burgess list. The notice of objection was was at once advanced to carry it into execution on thisploughmen,'£l lOs. to £1 15s. dittogardeners,£7s
; to sequently borrowed money from the society at the rate of been time after time denuded of them, yet after a frost, or
signed by Mr. Buckmaster. Kinnealy attended the Asses- side of the Atlantic ; the principal places at present in £lOO per annum • cooks, male, £1 10s. to £3 per week •andexecutedmortgage to the t
, £45 lOs. per share,
sor's Court from ten in the morning till about one O'clock, view are between Dover and Calais and between England '
waiters, £1 lOs. to £1 15s. ditto ; grooms, £6O to £7O per tees, by which, in consideration of the advance, he assigned
.
and after several questions had been put to him and and Ireland, in St. George's Channel. The inventor of annum. The weekly rations consist of 101bs. of flour, certain leasehold premises upon trust, as long as he should , , strewed over the beach as plentifully as before. Within.
answered, the objection was repelled, and the plaintiff's this extraordinary plan is provided with ample funds to 101bs. of beef and mutton, 21bs. of sugar, and Vb. of tea.
make the payments and observe the regulations of the
name was retained on the burgess list. No attempt was carry it into effect. The great difficulty which presents Without rations -Compositors, 2s. 6d.' per thousand
; society in respect of the shares, and perform the covenants, dimensions had been taken off the beach, and were now-
made to prove malice on the part of the defendant in the itself is the finding of a locus in quo sufficiently extensive ditto, £7 7s. per week ; good house carpenters, town work to permit him to receive the rents of the mortgaged pre-
deposited within the gateway of Leasowe Castle. Few
present action ; but it was contended for the plaintiff that to try the experiment. It is hoped, however, by the san- £1 ss. per day ; masons, £1 ss. to £1 15s. ditto ; plaster- miles. The plaintiff subsequently sold the mortgaged boulders in the kingdom exceed these in size. Having
malice was to be inferred from thegroundlessness of the
property to a Mr. Seagrove, and a was filed to re-objection.-His Honour said this was a very important be constructed and put to the test, early in the ensuing ditto • woodsplitters and fencers, 12s. ed load • black-. perdeem, on the ground that there was, tinder the true con- had been going on for centuries along the whole line of
question to be determined. He could not shut his eyes to spring. smiths for country work and shoeing, £1 per day • labour- struction of the rules, a title to do so, if the sum advanced the Cheshire and Lancaster coasts, Mr. Rollet came to the
question, what became of the great bulk of disintegrated.
the fact that a great number of objections were made, A LADY'S PECUNIARY PRUDENCE.-Last week, the ers on the roads, with wood, water, d tent accOmmoda- was repaid less the amount of subscriptions and the pro- matter which was not returned again to the laud. Nco.
without any expectation, on the part of the objectors, that case of " Barrow v. Barrow," (heretofore spoken of as , tion, 10s. per day. Seamen-For London, for the run portion of the profits to which the holder
_of the shares
sand-
they could be sustained.-For the defence it was contended "Barrow v. Williams") was heard before the lords justices home, £3O to £35 ; for Calcutta, £25 to £3O for Callao, doubt portions of it went to form and increase the
became entitled out of forfeitures and other gains of the
that the only mode by which the burgess list could be of appeal. The facts of the dispute embodied in the suit are, £25 to £3O ; coasting £7 to £8 per month. Female' banks at the mouths of the Dee and Mersey ; and others
,
purged of bad votes was by applying the provisions of the that in the year 1849 a widow lady, then admittedly 44 Servants-Thorough servants, £3O to £35 per annum ; • • to the formation and increase of sandbanks within the
alleged that the sum received by the society was in anti-
society. This claim was resisted by the trustees, who .
statute; by which every man whose name is on that list, years of age, was asked by a legal gentleman, aged between housemaids, £25 to £3O ditto ; laundresses, £4O to £52 rivers, and to close up the heads of the latter. It became,
cipation of that to which the plaintiff would be entitled
was entitled to object to the name of every other one on 28 and 29, the question whether she intended to marry ditto ; nursemaids, £2O to £25 ditto ; cooks, £45 to £lOO. then, a matter of most vital importance, whether the
a future tine ;that the. mortgage was a security for
that list if he thought proper so to do. The value of that again, which elicited from her this declaration :-" I shall While these wages are rather attractive, the following is afurther encroachments of the sea were likely to be advan-
the payment of the subscriptions ; and that the holder of
right., it was maintained, had been proved in the last make no promise. If Ido marry I shall have all nay pro- somewhat startling set-off in the way of prices: -Lettuces,tageous or disadvantageous to the port of Liverpool, and',
the. shares_nieusremaina contributor. till. the end of the
revision of the burgess list, when the names of two perty secured to myself, and any gentleman I marry must 4s. to 6s. per dozen ; cauliflowers, 6d. to 2s. per head;if the latter, whether it was possible to stop them. Thist
socie.--Th Lord Chancellor, in delivering judgment,
subject, however, with the nature of the embankmenC
gentlemen occupying the important position of members settle all my property on myself, and must insure his life cabbages, 6d. to 2s. ditto ; peas, 2s. per quart ; celery, 2s. said that, whatever persons had framed the rules of the itself, at Wallasey Leasowes, Mr. Rollet intends to dwelt_
of the Town Council had been expunged from the list as for £l,OOO, and settle it in the same way." In the follow- ,to 58. per head ; spring onions, 6d. per bundle ; carrots. society, they had very much misunderstood their duty.
upon in future papers, in which the practicability of pro--
not entitled to be on it.-His Honour thought he was ing year the lady and gentleman "arranged" to be mar- I Bd. per ditto; turnips, 6d. per ditto; parsnips, 6d. per He also' observed that these societies, in general, appeared setting the coast from further encroachments will be
bound to say that a voter ought not to make an objec= ried, the lady being possessed of ample means and "without ditto ; radishes, 6d. per ditto ; potatoes, sd. per lb. • new to be formed for the purpose of enabling persons who had
explained ; how, by novel and simple means, the sea irs
tion on the mere chance of being able to support it. incumbrauce," the gentleman, a solicitor, having the potatoes, 7d. ditto ; onions, 3s. 6d. per ditto ; leeks, is. per money to lend to those who wanted it to obtain a much
made to feed the beach, not wash it away ; and how the
All that was proved was that Mr. Buckraaster served a undisputed honour of the paternity of an octave of living 1 bundle ; cress. 6d. per bunch ; beet, ls. per head ; lemons, higher rate of interest than that which the law allowed. wind is made to increase the sandhills, not destroy them;
notice of objection which he did not appear to support ; children by a triad of co-existing mothers, and well known ' 4s. to Os. per dozen ; pineapples, scarce, 10s. each ; The order of the court was, in the present case, that the
or, in other words, how nature is enabled to do her own
and, therefore, he must take it that the questions asked by the lady to enjoy that privilege. The first settlement oranges, 3s. per dozen.; apples, 2s• per lb. ; geese, 255. to work, and restore the equilibrium between the encroaching-
by the mayor and the assessors were because they wished made on the first marriage of the lady was of £5,000 con- 30s,each ; hen turkeys, 30s. ditto ; cock turkeys, 40s.
to have some conversation with Mr. Kennealy, for he did sols,very soon increased to £lO,OOO like stock, thedividends ditto ; ducks, 245. per pair; fowls, 20s. per pair; wild order
eVnitcietiedClat;iceerlltller:gebseazialbuynti(e;ltnfifs the
and destructive power of the sea on the one hand, and the
resisting power of the land on the other.
not know any reason why they should ask any questions of which were secured to her for her life, but during the ducks, 14s. per couple ; teal, 6s. per couple ; eggs, ss. per allowed to withdrawing b • and that the plaintiff
highly An interesting discussion followed, and Mr. Rollet wart
at all, as, by the 18th section, unless the person opposing joint lives of herself and her then intended husband, to dozen ; butter, 3s. 6d. to ss. per lb ; milk, 2s. per quart. . share as at the time of his
members
the notice to redeem was
appear to support the objection, the name is to be retained. be for her separate use :so that, upon the decease of that RETRIBUTIONS OF HISTORY.-When Napoleon Bona- as could become payable during the existence of the so-
complimented on the completeness and importance:
of his paper.
The plain, ordinary course was,. that as soon as such a per- husband, the lady became absolutely entitled to the divi- parts had arrived at the dignity of Emperor of the French, •
was liable to pay' all future redemption and. other moneys
this time, in other respects, ac-
son's name was called out, the inquiry was, or ought to be deeds for her life. This fund is the subject matter of the considering himself the founder of a dynasty, it became
a ording to the decree of Vice-Chancellor Wood.
made, "Does anybody appear in support of this objection?" suit, having been omitted from the second settlement. matter of importance to decide how and by whom it was ciety. No costs up to
ANCIENT Sines OF WAR.-Among the most cele.
If the objecting party appeared, they knew what to do; if The lady, by her bill, complains that she and her second to be perpetuated. "He had himself no offspring, and,
brated ships of antiquity is that of Ptolemy. Philopater,
not, they should retain that name on the list, and call out intended husband were both under the impression that, therefore, must choose a collateral heir. In the first place, which is said to have been 280 cubits long, 38 cubits
the next name. The gentlemen who sit in the revision by her first settlement, she was entitled, for her separate the imperial crown was settled on. Napoleon Bonaparte and
broad, and 48 high ; it carried 4,000 rowers, 400 sailors,
court had no business to make any inquiry of the voter at use for her whole life, to the dividends of the £lO,OOO, and his direct issue in the male line, with the power of adoption and 3,000 soldiers-in all, 7,400. That which the same
all until the notice had been proved, and somebody ap- that the omission of that fund from the second settlement under certain restrictions ; secondly, on Joseph Bonaparte, Prince made to sail on the Nile, we are told, was also of
peered in support of the objection. If nobody had ap- was a mistake and ought to be rectified and settled upon and the heirs male of his body ; and, thirdly, on Louis large proportions. Yet these ships were nothing in corn-
peered to support this objection, and the court had gone her, according to what she represents was the contract Bonaparte, and the heirs male of his body.' Had this parison with Hiero's ship, built under the direction of
on and struck the plaintiff off the list, there would have made upon her second marriage. At the bar her case was arrangement remained undisturbed, the domestic happi-
Archimedes, on the structure of which Moschian wrote a
been some difficulty. They had no right to make any in- treated as one of fraud by the omission of the £lO,OOO I ness of Napoleon would apparently have remained unin- whole volume. There was wood enough employed in it to
quiries of him. There was no doubt the question was of from the new settlement, so as to leave the £3OO a-year lured, and the whole of his subsequent career been totally •. - -mesa. It had all 1-6,
an importance very far exceeding the sum at issue. He dividends to become the property of the husband. The different from what it was. But in an evil hour, listening
-' hound to say that he entertained very great doubts gentleman's case is, that the representation of the bill is ' he suggestions of an r"?'""""-'-- ' •
sus- true, while that at the bar is untrue; and on this part of .ght towers
`v the case the lady's counsel, in answer to a question put to .0-
him, said that it was intended to call upon reasonable men Ay
to believe that a London attorney could marry a widow er
having a provision without seeing her settlement, although .aa
such a theory seeemed almost as improbable as that " r A-
horsedealer should marry the widow of another horse
dealer without looking into the stable:" The bill y .19 e '
'
that the settlement might be reformed by including the kency, Only to be betrayed and rumen iv Iv, ~.......... ‘,.
£lO,OOO, or that the court would decree that the wife had his falling fortunes. The heir, so fondly hoped for, was
stuck fast. The Romans,
CarthaginianhA.avey,b9eenn verynt
xi. r i n g
.L
,e, .pr'
au equity for .a further settlement out of that fund, and denationalised by an Austrian education, and died in early Ital - se
-.... , the Master of the Rolls acted upon the latter part of the I life ; and the wife for whom Josephine was deserted dis-
prayer, and gave the lady one moiety of the dividends of graced her imperial marriage by the most shameless
dent, seized the vessel before the crew had time to g,..-- . . m
idduceu, and he denataa i
that sum; and from this decree the lady appeals. The licentiousness. But the most singular part of the whole
plaintiff's evidence went to show that the intention that affair, and that which seems to render the retribution as off; and it was on the model of this galley that their first e
natiles, hiritirkey, anu e
the lady's whole property should be settled on her own complete as it is signal, is, that the original line of suc- fleet of ships-of-war were constructed. .The Roman shi
separate use was notorious among her friends-indeed, so cession indicated by Napoleon while under the influencetiersr f . security for the due payment of the principal and interest'
much so that, on the lady and gentleman returning from of his well-merited regard for Josephine, is now literally ceived different names, according to the numbero o
1 of the loan to be contracted. 3. The contract for three
their wedding trip, a friend addressed her saying, "I am and exactly carried out. The present Emperor of the oars they were calculated to employ. The Danish es
d other objectsyses millions of the loan made with the Baron de Gold.smid and
sorry to see you look so unwell, and lam surprised at it, French (Louis Napoleon) is the son of Louis Bonaparte of war were richly ornamented with d
go% latelyn had been Mr. J. H. Palmer, dated 24th August; 1854, duly executed.
of-war were long in proportion to their breadth, and Pe-- the Pasha of Egypt, amounting to 30,000,000 piastres as
as all your property is Settled on yourself ;" and, further, and Josephine's daughter Hortense-thus, the grandson of great value. The keels which until
that on applying to a gentleman to.become a trustee, the of Josephine. It would seem that the will of Providence used on the river Tyne for many centuries,
dated October 3, assigning 1 333 333 pillar dollars
of the rapacious north- man, ~ ,
husband wrote a letter to him, saying, " The duty of has punished the injustice of Napoleon, by taking the been of the same model as those
vessels, round at each annually of the tribute above-mentioned, in conformity
trustee will be merely a sine, quii non, as all the pia successionto the throne of France from the heir of the men. These were clumsy-looking
n.
mast single with the instructions given to Messrs. Black and Du dr
perty is settled on herself." Their lordships reserved their proud and unjust Emperor, and giving it to the lieir of end, and rather flat-bottomed, ham, a and
are
.said to have by all the persons abOve-mentioned. 4. The imperial fir-
for the negotiation of the whole loan,"
judgment. the wronged and repudiated Empress, svare-sail.- The Builder.

had be,
of , miles c

ive some

must be noted;

s to stand three weeks or a month before

If it is sooner opened, the salts are not sufficiently blended

Welsh had deserted his wife for seven years, ma oiw,
allowed her £1 during that time, and had lived for fon

years with another m. . The priests, accord-
ing to the complainant, came to him on Saturday, made
him go on his knees, beat him with a stick, searched his

'rom him

pockets, and took a sovereign .-
they gave to his wife and returned the rest to the woL_
with whom he lived. The assault was not denied, but
Mr. Davi. c4"--' • . n I
ften called on to settle v

disputes, and adopted this mod
•

a repro

TnE TURKISH LOAN.—The following communication
has been addressed by the contractors of the Turkisitthteeefoormf tanhetiSetsoeckonEnxecehtedangweithonittshefull
Turkish_
nego-
tion. As its amount is £3,000,000, and the firman, fix
lteo thetion of all marl
accordancetedfQr
INvVihtehnevteh original
re
the
emrkish notification,gorernment
manatyhodrieenzseci
Loanetoramc
p
£5,000,000, a further sum of £2,000,000 may be eon-
such a step desirable ; but it is understood that the lowest
4-"- " 4" ^AA: •••••...1 :cane. ig 90 per cent., and that there
price the agents have hitherto been authorised to enter-

whether the action was sustainable at all. - ff it wab
'ainable it must be manifestly on proof by the plaintiff
f the absence of reasonable and probable cause for the
-lion. He thought that that
character, and that tb
..Ae an objection and did not a-
not to be taken, in proof

to t..„ _„,
appears in too many of his acts—he resolved to divorc€
his lovely and noble-minded consort, the accomplished and
fascinating Josephine; and this for the sole and avowed
object of having an heir to the throne who should be

proof must be
simple fact th

directly descended from himself. The retnoution ior 1,1115
act of heartless injustice to Josephine was signal. The
'alliance into which it led him with Austria made him
. • ___4 rry•LlO+ arriar.

make sixty ganeyb. __ ,ne variety of apartments ram tor tne additional issue Lo
in rtention to reduce it :---
of a palace—banqueting-rooms, galleries, gardens, fish- has been no intimation of any
ponds, stables, mills, baths, a temple of Venus, &c. It " The contractors deem it right to communicate 'to the
was encompassed with an iron rampart and eir committee of the Stock ExExchange that the
gotiatio under-men
the
with walls and bulwarks, furnished with machines v. tioned documents, appert aingthat g of
particularly one, which threw a stone of 300 pounds, or a Turkish Loan, have been deposited in the Bank of Eng—
dart 12 cubits long, the space of half-a-mile. It was as land, under certificates duly signed by Messrs. Venn and
...nublic, :in the presence of his Excellency
...

late as 8.0

_. 261, before the
mined on building a fleet of ships-of-w,_
resolution was formed, so ignorant were t

Sons, now.. r,
C. Musurus, the Turkish ambassador, the Baron de Gold—
Mr. J. H. Palmer, Mr. J. N. Black, and Mr. P. Du-
- The firman, dated June,_lBs4, authorising the

for the objection. His strong impression was, that
the evidence before him the action was not sustain-
nclined very much to doubt whether it
He believed there was no prece-

glace de

that Rower it

Led nava

architecture, that the tt

n all that sul

would lac

a accic

with tt

nd he was

1
n a cruise off the coast of ' £5,0(
the shore, she grounded, and amba
mailing themselves of this aeci- instr
- • ---t her 1 man

ciorsat th"e'courts of I

le at all

approval of to!
mdon and Paris

..,nd Durand from the Otto—
it at Constantinople, dated the 10th of
-;sing them to pledge the general reve-
- portion of the tribute payable by

dent for sucu
'stainable upon the evidence , and he doubted
it could be sustained even if proof was given that
'mit was actuated by malice in making the ob-
had no reasonable cause for so doing. There
linnour trusted that he might

whether
the defer

there was n

f. objections for wt

ground.
uttered
man. on

He should be very sorr,
should lead to the conclus
any side i

to Messrs