The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

s invented an improved 'gun car-

safety of loading and disch

ging guns of

calibre. Mr..Woollett has also made Inlniprove-
n the screw propellor which commands the perfect

gage of

sels Proi)elle

on that principl

HE3L CommiTriE.—This committee met on Tues-
day. Mr. Saunders waited on the committee to. suggest
that if the piece of waste land at the corner of West
Derby-road, opposite the Necropolis, were purchased and
added to the street, it would greatly convenience the pub-

liclt was generally agreed that it would be desirable to
have the land; and it was determined that Mr. Moss and
Mr. Beckwith, in company with Mr. Saunders, should wait
upon Mr. Plumpton, the owner of the land, on the subject.
—Mr. Rose waited on the committee to request that they
would obtain for him permission from the Dock Corn-
mittee to shoot the night soil into the flats at Harrington
Dock basin for the next three months. The committee
agreed to ask for the permission.—The medical officer of
health reported that the health of the town, for the week
ending Saturday last, was, on the whole, favourable, in so

far at least that there has been no increase, but, on the
contrary, a slight decrease, both in the general mortality,
and the mortality from diarrhoea and cholera. The deaths

were 276, six fewer than in the preceding
week, and twenty more than the average of the same week
of 1848-50, 1851-2, and 1853, after correcting for increase
population. Of those who died from diarrhcea, 46 were
ldren, and 4 adults. The mortality was one below the
ge of the corresponding week of former years, ex-
; 1849. Of the 21 who died from cholera, 10 were
Nine of the deaths occurred in the immediate

from all cans

onrhood of Scotland-road, and of these 4 were in a

in Grenville-street North, one of the worst con-
ditioned in the district. The district is under thorough
sanitary inspection. He also reported that he had in-
spected the figure of eight pit near Windsor, and that he
found the matter complained of was not night soil, but
street sweepings and apparently foetid deposit of sewers.
In a particular state of the atmosphere, and when the wind
blows from the south, the houses of the complainants are

filled with the offensive effluvia. The chairnian said that
he was convinced that the nuisance proceeded from the
sewers, and his opinion was, that in a few years they
would be driven out of the town by them. Mr. Fresh
said that it was his opinion the nuisance arose from the

le offensive matter coming from the houses

. in Lodge-lane, and from the sweeping being thrown
ato the pit, by which those offensive odours were stirred
ap. They had been long endeavouring to have the pit
Filled up, and it was only lately that they succeeded in
inducing Mr. Lathbury to consent to its being done. Mr.
Duncan thought that for the next two months no deposit
to be allowed in this pit, though in winter time the
might be deposited there with safety.
After a brief conversation about the too frequent burials
in St. John's churchyard, the committee rose.
MEETING OP THE GAS COMPANY.—On Tuesday, the
half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Liverpool
United Gas Company was held at their rooms, Newington.
The attendance was numerous, and the chair was occupied
by Mr. C. W. Reade. Amongst the gentlemen present
were the Mayor, Mr. Alderman Cooper, Mr. G. H. Law-
rence, Mr. S. H. Thompson, Mr. W. Earle, Mr. Mather,
Mr. Fosbery, Mr. Mann, Mr. Radley, Mr. Andrews, Mr.
Carson, solicitor to the company, Mr._Steel, manager, Mr
Millard, &c

_. The chairman expressed the satisfaction felt
)3- the directors in proposing that, after the Ist of January
't, a reduction of 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet of gas should.
',wed to the ordinary consumers ; and that a propor-
-'duction would be made in the rate for supplying
lamps. They felt confident that, in making
though their reserve fund was £3,000
lcting strictly in accordance with the
~ent. Allusion was made in the report to
-ge which had been made as to inferior gas ' • but,
nat had been retracted, he need not further allude to
The report was read, and ordered to be printed and
`od. On the motion of the chairman, the dividends
'-o report were declared and made payable on
Ith instant, less income-tax. He also moved the re-
Lon of Mr. Brandreth, Mr. Jas. Bateson, Mr. Joseph
er, and Mr. Daniel Mather, as directors, and Mr.
Grant Morris as auditor. These motions were
ed, as was also another proposed by the chairman,
the allowance to the directors he £5OO, as before. In

short, they we

answer to a question put by Mr. Radley, it was stated
that the pike of gas in the out-townships will not be re-
; and in apswer to another question from the same
',man, the chairman stated that the directors had no
.e appointment of a public officer to inspect
indeed, they would be glad to have the re-
taken off their shoulders. They inspected
_....refully, and Were desirous to do what was
) the public. In reference to the examination of
Mr. Earle stated that the directors would require
disputing their correctness to pay their gas bills
ny examination was made. After some further
in the course of which the chairman stated

mat the company paid no dividend on the premiums for
hich they had sold shares, which amounted to £lOO,OOO,

ing broke up.

COMMITTEE.—The weel

y meeting was held on

Turner in the chair

—The tend

Angard, Merrick and Co., for whitewashing, paint-
at the Stanley dock warehouses, was accepted.

is to be completed by the 30th September next.
man read a statement relative to the amount of

on the dock property, from which it • appeared

ing to the dock trus-
stores, £22,633. The in-

e value of the buildings belong
s estimated at £613,17

71 uninsured ; on tl

;tores the insura- ne

100, and the amount uninsured £21,450. In repl

to a question by Mr. Bigham, the Chairman enumerated
some of the details, showing that the Albert and Stanley
Dock property, valued at £410,000, was insured to the
extent of £lOO,OOO, leaving £310,000 not insured. The
dock-masters' houses were estimated at £15,648, but only
£3,400 was covered by insurance. There was a certain
amount of insurance on the dock-yard property, the dock-
office, the customs depot, and the transit sheds, but none
on the open sheds, the telegraphs, lighthouses, &c. The
Chairman said they were paying at the rate of 6s. 6d. per
cent., including premium and duty, on the warehouses for
—nce, and for other places the common rate of 2s.
un, and 3s. duty. In the course of a conversation,
vans said he thought that the money paid for in-
was entirely thrown away. Ultimately the sub-
vas referred to the sub-committee for consideration.—

ad sustained damage to the extent of £lO, owing to an
verflow of water at Beacon's Gutter, caused by neglect of
ne.of the servants of the trust. The matter was referred

..—ln reply to a question by Mr. Bigham,
the surveyor stated that the contractor had promised him
that the two east stacks of warehouses at the Stanley Dock,
with the hydraulic machines, &c. would be ready in a
week or ten days.—A letter was read from Mr. C. Bushell,
to the effect that the model of the proposed high-level
railway for the docks was ready for the inspection of the
dock committee. Without expressing any opinion as to
dock extension at the north end, the committee which he
(Mr. Bushell) represented, felt strongly that the subject
was equally important, whether such scheme be eventually
adopted or not. By the'application of a railway, and the
necessary machinery, &c. on the quays, the working
power of the docks would be increased, and, in the event
of a lineal extension of the docks, a railway for goods and
passengers would become an imperative necessity. He
urged on the dock trust to consider well before projecting
any works on the east side of the docks which might
hereafter have an effect as regarded that on any similar
undertaking. After some conversation, the matter was
.eferred to the sub-committee. An application from
^s. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., to make certain alterations
;ses occupied by them at the bottom of Parliament-

to the surveya

) the trust, was referred to the coin•

yvaaa.-
ttee of works. lt was agreed that the committee
mid meet next Thursday at twelve o'clock, to resume
debate on the proposed scheme of dock extension at
north end. This closed the public business.

THE NEW Cur Ken AT GREAT CROSBY.—On Wednes-
y last the commissioners appointed by the Consistory

to inquire into the rights of the holders

of pews in the old parochial chapel of Great Grosby, met
in the new church recently erected there. The commis-
sioners were the Rev. Jno. Brooks, Archdeacon of Liver-
pool; the Rev: A. Campbell, jun., Rector of Liverpool;
the Rev. Joseph Bush, Vicar of Ormskirk ; Mr. Mason
and Mr. Sharman, of Liverpool. The three first-named
being nominated by the Bishop of Chester, and the two
latter by the churchwardens of Great Crosby. The pro-
ceedings were opened by the Rev. A. Campbell, who read the
commission, which it appeared was rendered necessary in
consequence of an application from the churchwardens for

a faculty to pull dOwn the old chapel; the Bishop of
Chester having refused to grant it until the pew rights
were ascertained, the commission was issued.—Archdeacon
Brooks then explained that the object of the commission
Ttain whether the holders of pews in the old
such rights in them as would justify the
commissioners granting them pews in the new church,
before the churcwardens provided for the general accom-
modation of the parishioners. He observed that such
rights could only exist by virtue of a faculty from the
Consistory Court, or by prescription ; and, in the absence
er of these titles, each of the parishioners had a
) a pew, or such accommodation in the church as

was to as

'cliiiardens could best furnish. The Archdeacon
then called on the parishioners in attendance to put for-
ward their claims.—The first claim was made by John
Myers, Esq., of Crosby-house, who stated that his family
had occupied a pew for a great number of years in the old
chapel; but he had no faculty, nor could he show any
prescriptive right, but merely that the pew had been
occupied for a period of years co-equal with the existence
of the chapel, which was erected in 1769. The Archdeacon
at once decided against his chim, on the ground that no
prescriptive title had been proved.—The next claim was
presented by Mr. Almond on behalf of Mr. Humfries, who
had become the purchaser of a property in Crosby, two
pews in the old chapel having always been occupied in
connexion with it. Mr. Almond also stated that the sur-
renders on the court rolls would prove the change of
occupation of the pews, with the ownership of the pro-
perty. Mr. Sharman (who is the deputy steward of the
manor) confirmed this portion of Mr. Almond's state-
ment, and also said that to most of the copyhold tenements
pew rights were apparently attached. This Mr. Almond
contended was very strong evidence of a title by prescrip-
tion, and asked for an adjournment of the commission to
enable him to complete it by production of the court rolls.
The commissioners seemed inclined to grant this, if Mr.
Almond could produce evidence of the repairs of the pews
having always been done by the occupiers for the time
being. Some discussion took place on this point, when it
appeared that church-rates had been levied for a long
period of years for the purpose of repairing all the pews
in the old chapel, and since then that all the pews had
been repaired from a subscribed fund. These facts having
been proved to the satisfaction of the commissioners, they
at once expressed their opinion that no private rights to
any pews in the old chapel could be proved to exist by
prescription, and under these circumstances, and in the
absence of any of the inhabitants producing a faculty, the
commissioners decided that they could not grant pews in
the new church to any of the claimants. The inhabitants
seemed generally satisfied with this decision, and the pro-
ceedings terminated, the Venerable Archdeaeou observing
that he considered it much better for the parishioners that
individual pew rights should not exist, which would
always interfere with the disposal of the pews by the
churchwardens for the tinle being, for the general benefit
of the pariah,

Two NE w WATER FOUNTAINS, similar to those found
so useful to the poorer classes, at the docks, have been

placed near the Sessions House and St. John's. Mark,

EARLY CLOSING.—On Saturdays, the Underwriters'
Rooms are to be closed at two o'clock ; and the share-
holders of the Exchange newsroom are about to petition
their committee to shut the shutters at two o'clock ou the
Saturdays, and finally close the room at five o'clock.

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—Mr. Brassey and a num-
ber of other gentlemen have, it is said, offered to purchase
the Birkenhead Docks, and to complete them.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Saturday last, policeman 69L
observed a man unknown vomiting blood exceedingly ; he
conveyed the sufferer to the Northern Hospital, where he
died.—William Allcock, of No. 3 Court, Pembroke-place,
fell down suddenly and died on Sunday.—Caleb Albin, No.
2 Court, Forest-street, a man who has been troubled with
disease of the heart, died suddenly on Sunday.—lnquests
are appointed for to-day on 'all the bodies.
DROWNING.—On Saturday last, James Hilton, a man
who has lately been employed in removing furniture by a
firm in New-street, was sent with a barrow for that pur-
pose into Great Howard-street; and, as he did not return,
inquiries were made, when the body and barrow were
found in the canal, but how they got there is not yet
ascertained. An inquest will be held upon the body this
day.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.—A man, named Peter Wright,
was passing along Stafford-street on Saturday last, whilst
in a state of intoxication, and staggered against the horses
of a country cart, which was turning into the London-
road, when he was knocked down, and the wheels passing
over him, caused his death.—James Stirling, a man who
was working in one of the chambers of a warehouse, on
Saturday, fell from the door to the street, and was killed.
A man unknown, who was working on a ship in the Bruns-
wick dock, fell into the river on Saturday, and was
drowned.—lnquests are appointed in the above cases for
this day, before the Borough Coroner.
ATTEMPTED SITICIDE.—On Wednesday morning James
Maher, who arrived here about six weeks since from Dub-
lin, attempted suicide, at his lodgings, Regent-street. He
had recently purchased a gun, which he loaded every
night, and drew the charge in the morning. The wife and
three of his children saw him take the gun, but supposing
he was about to act as on previous mornings, entertained
no suspicion, till they saw him put the muzzle to his chin ;
but before they could interrupt him in the commission of
the rash act, an explosion ensued, which lacerated his
right cheek up to the eye, and shattered the bone. He
had taken passages for himself and family to Australia,
and was proprietor of a dairy in Dublin. On his person
was found a large sum of money. He was conveyed to
the Northern Hospital, where very little hope was enter-
tained of his recovery. • _

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS,—The weekly meeting was
held on Wednesday. Present, Mr. Joseph Harrison, (chair-
man, Mr. Edwards, (deputy vice-chairman,) Messrs. Appleby,
Lunt, Abrahams, Siddeley, M`Gee, Morris, Alpass, Medcalf,
Ledger, Kirkus, Pitts, Mountfield, G. Harrison, ensley,
Heyes,
Jas. Birch, and Daly. The balance in the hands
of the treasurer was found to be £1,218. 4s. 2d. Mr. E.
Lister, of Low Hill, having been nominated as substitute
for Mr. Lister, medical officer, Low Hill, was unanimously
approved. Mr. Eden, of Dingle Hill, was also approved
as substitute for Mr. Barrett, medical officer, Toxteth-
park. Mr. R. Bradshaw was approved as deputy for his
father Mr. Richard Bradshaw, registrar of births and
deaths, Kensington. Mr. George Edgar was approved as
deputy for Mr. Roskell, registrar of births and deaths,
Toxteth-park. An order of the Poor-law Board, autho-
rising the loan of £l,BOO to complete the hospital, was
received. Mr. Pitts (the newly elected member for Kirk-
dale) was added to the Visiting Committee. The number
in the house was 598, against 609 in the corresponding
week of last year. The number in the hospital was stated
to be 54.

PREVENTIVE AND CURE OP CROLERA. - Provide
yourselves with a bottle of spirit camphor, a bottle of
veratrum, 3rd dilution, a bottle of cuprum, 6th dilution,
from a homcepathicchemist.—lst. Under whatever form the
disease presents itself, camphor may be given during the
first hour with every probability of success. Dose

drops in a little water every ten minutes. 2nd. Veratrum
is the principal remedy in all cases of cholera, with sudden
evacuation upwards and downwards, coldness of body,
great weakness, &c. Dose : One drop of the tincture in
a spoonful of cold water. If the symptoms • increase
after several doses of veratrum, recourse must be had to
cuprum, a drop in a table-spoonful of cold water alter-
nately with veratrum. Veratrum is a specific in many
cases of bowel-complaint. Dr. Marenzeller, Physician
General of the Austrian Army, of Vienna, states that he
gave these medicines to 150,000 persons, and that not one
of them fell victims to the disease. The same striking
results were obtained among 80,000 people in Poland.
Preventive treatment. —Six drops of veratrum in a tum-
bler of cold water, a table-spoonful every morning ; rest
two days, then mix the same quantity of cuprum—dose
the same. Do not keep the camphor with the other medi-
cines, or it will spoil their effects.—See Dr: Laurie's work,
page 174, Homcepathic Physician to the Hahnemann

•
Hospital, London:
NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK.—The annual meet-
ing of the shareholders in this bankin

Chtirman a

[on-rooms, on Frit

Griffit

;ors, presiding,

numerous attendance of the shareholder was also pre-
sent. The report, which was reael by the manager, Mr.
George Rae, was very encouraging. It showed that the
nett profits of the bank, for the year ended 30th June last,
after deducting all expenses, and making allowances for
bad and doubtful debts, amounted to £15,832 lls. 7d.
Out of these have been declared and paid two half-yearly

er cent. per annum-, and free of income tax, £9,695 5s

Leaving a surplus of £6,137 Os. 7d. Of this amount the
directors have applied £l,OOO in reduction of the cost of
the bank building in Liverpool ; and the balance of sur-
plus, Viz., £5,137 Os. 7d., they have carried to the credit
of reserved fund, which will now amount to £10,168 4s. 11d,
The report was unanimously adopted,' and ordered to be
printed. Votes of thanks were passed to the Board of
Directors, to the Manager, and other officers of the bank.
Mr. Hugh Price was elected and Mr. Cristopher Bentham
re-elected as directors, after which thanks were voted to
the Chairman, and the meeting separated.

SAILING AND ROWING REGATTA.—The regatta, held
under the auspices of the Liverpool Yacht Club, takes
place at Birkenhead Ferry, to-morrow and Thursday, and
will, particularly if the weather prove fine, be very at-
tractive. Several yachts from adjoining clubs are to
compete in the races, and, among the model yachts, an
American stranger is expected to bear off the palm. The
new boat was brought over in the Pacific, from New York,
where she has been built for Mr. Thomas Littledale, the
commodore of the Royal Mersey Club, by Mr. Fish, the
builder of the celebrated little Truant. The boat, how-
ever, is a very different and curious model. She has a
fixed keel, instead of a centre board. Her dimensions are,
length on the keel 11 feet, over all 24 feet. She has an
overhanging counter, and a long projecting stem, like the
bow of a canoe. Seen on the shore she looks a singular
craft; but afloat she has a graceful appearance, and her
sailing qualities, both in beating and running free, are
said to be extraordinary.

THE EMILY CLOSING MOVEMENT ON 'CHANGE.—
The insurance brokers at Liverpool have issued the fol-
lowing notice, which has been posted in the Exchange and
Underwriters'-rooms :—" With a view to prevent disap-
pointment, arising from the non-execution of orders for
insurance, the brokers connected with the Underwriters'
Association desire to remind their friends that the room
is closed for business at four o'clock, and to inform them
that, in consequence of a resolution recently passed at
Lloyd's, by which that room is closed at two o'clock on
Saturdays, it has been thought desirable, as far as prac-
ticable, to adopt the same rule ; and they would, therefore,
beg to recommend that all orders for insurance should
be sent in before two o'clock on Saturdays, and four
o'clock on all other days. Underwriters'-rooms,
pool, 10th August, 1854." The shareholders of the
Exchange News-room have also made a request to
the committee to close the shutters of that estab-
lishment on Saturdays at two o'clock, and the room
be finally closed at five. A memorial to the Exchange
committee on the subject has been very numerously
signed by the subscribers to the rooms.

Melbourn

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT COMPTON HOUSE.—On Wed-
nesday Fanny Lees, Mary Ann Lees, and Adelaide Thorn-
ton were brought before the police-court, charged with
having in their possession a quantity of silks, satins and
other goods, stolen from Messrs. Jeffery, Morrish, and Co.,
Compton-house, Church-street. From the evidence it ap-
peared that a few days ago William Lees, a porter in the
service of Messrs. Jeffery, Morrish, and Co., absconded,
and it was ascertained that he had stolen a large quantity
of silk and satin goods. The prisoner, Fanny Lees, is the
wife of William Lees, and Mary Ann Lees is his mother.
The other prisoner, Adelaide Thornton, is a sister; she
was married about a fortnight ago. On the Saturday
previous Messrs. Jeffery and Co., missed a piece of satin
valued at 95.6 d. per yard, and this led to an inquiry, when
it appeared that a variety of silks, satins, and other goods
could not be accounted for. Subsequently information
was given at the police office, and the matter was placed in
the hands of detective-officer Carlisle, who proceeded to the
house of William Lees, in Trowbridge-street. Lees had
then absconded. The officer, on making a search, dis-
covered some pieces of silk and pawn tickets, relating to
other silks and satins which had been pledged at various
pawnbrokers' in town. The officer then proceeded to the
house of Mary Ann Lees, in Gill-street, and asked her if
she had any silks, satins, or other property. The pri-
soner deniedthat she had any, but, on a search being made,
several pieces of silk and satin were discovered in various
parts of the house. At first she said she had obtained
them from a Scotchman, but afterwards admitted that her
son had given them to her. A number of pawn tickets
were found relating to goods which had been pledged.
Mr. Joseph Willey, the purchaser of silks, &c. at Compton-
house, identified some of the silks and satins produced in
court as having been in his employers' shop ; some of
them had been cut up into dress pieces. Mr. Meadows,
pawnbroker, of St. James'-street, produced a piece of silk
that was offered to him in pledge by Fanny Lees ; she had
been detained at his shop and given into custody. On
being questioned, she said she had received the silk from
the West Indies, but she afterwards confessed that it
came through her husband, who was a porter at Compton-
house. Mr. Parley, pawnbroker, London-road, produced
a piece of silk pledged at his shop a short time ago. This
was identified by Mr. Willey as the property of his em-
ployers. He also identified some other silk, pledged at
the shop of Mr. Woodruff Pembroke-place. The two
younger prisoners, Lees and;Thornton, were spoken to by
the pawnbrokers as the parties who. pledged the silks.
The whole of the property stolen is valued at about £6O,
The prisoners were remanded, to allow time for further
inquiry. A reward of £lO has been. offered for the appre-
hension of Lees.: On Friday William Lees was brought up
in custody charged with the robbery. Mr. Clough applied
to have the evidence of the detective officer, who arrested
the prisoner at Knutsford, received, and then remand him
until Wednesday, when the other prisoner charged would
be brought up, and the case he hoped against them would
be completed. Evidence was then given of his arrest at
Knutsford, in bed in a lodging-house, the previous evening.
In his defence, the prisoner stated that he had not stolen
the articles,—that they were given him by a party to get
pledged, but declined to name the person. He was re-
manded until Wednesday. He is described as a man 33
years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, black straight hair,
ratherlong, and extends low on the forehead, flat but not
long face, prominent chin, wiskers 'shaved off, stoat made,
and stoops a little in the shouldres. He was formerly in
the 16th regiment, and eialgrequently in the Manchester
Police force.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

AN ORDER has been• received in Dud:

the construction of w

for 20,000

works -at

Tau CONTRA.CTOES for an enormous steamer at New
York recently entertained a dinner-party of twenty-two

persons in it _
IN PHILADELPHIA. there. is a. system of perpetual
insurance. In consideration of the payment of 2 per
cent., the company insure for ever any house, the in-
surance expiring only when the house is burnt down.
THE SCOTCH Bin.—Of the 462 advocates at the Scot-
tish bar, 92 are authors ; six are, or have been, editors of
newspapers, and four others have been connected with the
newspaper press. Twenty are regular or occasional con-
tributors to the provincial press. There is only one artist
on the roll— an historical painter in London.
ANTI-CnnismILECTITRES.—The judge of the Derby
County Court decided, the other day, that proprietors of
lecture-rooms cannot be sued for refusing to comply with
an agreement to let their rooms in case they find that the
lecture is to be a diatribe against religion and morality.

Ma. TALFOURD, eldest son of the late lamented Judge,
who obtained his first brief at the Berks Assizes, in a
civil case of some importance, acquitted himself in a most
satisfactory manner, and at the close of the trial received
the warm congratulations of his friends.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT ROBERTSON, who ?ISIS for several
years past had the charge of the steam department afloat
at Woolwich, has been appointed, with the sanction of the
Admiralty, Surveyor of the Mercantile Marine, under the
Board of Trade.

THE Elul, OF ABERDEEN' will pass the greater portion
of his time at the Ranger's Lodge, Blackheath, during the
remainder of the summer. Public business requiring his
Lordship to be within easy access of the metropolis.

COMPETITION FOB PUBLIC OFFICES.— The medical
appointments in the East India Company's service will
very soon be thrown open to unlimited competition of
properly educated men between 22 and 28 years of age.
The best men will be selected for the appointments, with-
out any other recommendation than character and merit—
Medical Times and Gazette.

HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT PA.D9TOW.—An important
scheme has been set on foot in the west of England, to
promote the formation of a harbour of refuge at Padstow
on the coast of Cornwall. This is most desirable for the
shipping interests of the Bristol Channel, as well as the
Irish traders. At present there is not a single harbour of
shelter on the English coast 'from Penarth Roads and
Kingroad down to the Laud's end ; and the main feature
of the movement is the formation of a harbour which shall
be accessible for vessels in all winds varying from the
south-west to north-west.

NAPOLEON VISITING BUCKINGHAM PALACE. —Al-
though the entente cordial is not sufficiently advanced
to allow Queen Victoria to receive from the French a visit
of ceremony, or to bestow one, a sort of half-way arrange-
ment is said to have been made, which will prepare the
way for her Majesty receiving the Emperor and. Empress
of the French at Buckingham Palace at no distant day.
Louis .Napoleon is said to have invited Prinee Albert, th
King of the Belgians, and the King of Portugal, to meet
him at Boulogne on his return from the Pyrenees, and
the invitation is said to have been accepted.
A DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THE CZAR.—Government are
sending a ship of war to the Clyde, for the purpose of
removing the two pair of engines constructed for the
Russian Government by Mr. Napier before the present
hostilities commenced. The engines are not quite finished,
but we presume they are. intended to be completed at one
of the national dockyards, and fixed on board two of our
new men-of-war. Like all Mr. Napier's engines, they are
splendid specimens of mechanical skill.— Glasgow Chron.
LAUNCH OF THE TYNE.—Last week a very noble iron
steam-ship was launched from the building yard of Messrs.
Ravenhill, Miller, and Salkald, at Walker, near Newcastle-
on-Tyne. She is for the West India Royal Mail Company,
and is four feet longer than the Great Britain. Her
length is 320 feet, breadth 36 feet, depth 30 feet, and burden
in tons 1,859. She will carry 2,600 tons, and will have
accommodation for 300 passengers. She has four decks,
is a paddle-wheel steamer, and is 40 feet longer than any
vessel hitherto built on the Tyne.
RAILWAY DIVIDENDS.—The undernamed railway com-
panies have declared the following dividends :—North and
South-Western Junction, 2s. per share for the half-year;
Great Western, one-and-a-half per cent. on the half-year ;
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 3 per cent. for the half-year ;
Midland, three-and-a-half per cent. per annum, on con-
solidated stock. The half-yearly accounts of the Eastern
Counties Railway are before the auditors, but it is under-
stood that the dividend will be 3s. 6d, per share, carrying
forward about £5,000.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BRUSSELS DT AN ENGLISIC-
mAN.--An attempt to commit a double murder was made
on the evening of the Bth, at Brussels, in the Rue des
Grande Carmes. About a quarter past ten, just as a gro-
cer named Delarocca, aged 65, was on the point of closing
his shop, a well-dressed man entered and asked for some
articles. They were given•iiim and he paid for them, but
in place of immediately taking his departure he continued
any was ; talking in a wander, "NOT

mann,. At last the grc._
observed to him that it was time to shut up, and going
round the counter proceeded towards the door, as if to
close it after the customer. The moment he came near
the stranger, the latter pulled a hammer from under his
coat, and gave M. Delarocca four dreadful blows on the
head. The servant of the grocer, a woman aged about 50,
on hearing the noise of her master falling to the ground,
hurried out, and was received by the stranger in the same
and fell immediately bathed in her .blood. The
_ „Lien rushed round the counter to get at the money
in the till ; but this dreadful drama had not passed un-
observed, as the cries of the servant had attracted the at-
tention of some persons on the opposite side of the way.
They hurried over to the house, and, with the assistance of
a police agent who happened to come up, arrested the
man. He was immediately interrogated by the nearest
commissary of police, and declared his name to be Alexan-
der Henderson, a native of Great Britian, and following
the calling of a coachman. He declared that he was urged
to the crime by want. The next morning the grocer and
the servant were both alive, but scarcely any hope is en-
tertained of their recovery. Henderson lived in the
house opposite, and probably conceived the idea of the
crime from seeing the grocer from his window. The
prisoner is well known at Brussels as a man of bad
character, who had reduced his wife and family to such
distress by his misconduct as to force them to apply to
the depot of mendicity.
BONA.-FIDE TRAVELLERS.— On Sabbath last, an old
man and a lad called for refreshments at a snug country
ffiblic house. " Are you a bona"-fide traveller ?" asked
the mistress. " The deil's in the woman," replied the old
man; " how can a body be bonny at 75 ?" Oh, but,"
said mine hostess, "if you're no bond-fide ye canna be
here." Just as the old man was about to launch an angry
rejoinder, a person on a crutch arrived, and asked for
adinission and refreshment. " Are you a bond" fide
traveller P" inquired the landlady. Ah, a real bondlide,
a real bond fide," replied the new customer ; and he was
admitted. 'The old man looked astonished ; but observed,
at length, that if the chiel on the crutch was a bonny
feedie, he and his young friend were bonny feedies too.
In a moment the magic word gained them admittance,
the smiling dame remarking that " bond-jide travellers
were turned a great deal rifer than the auld kind afore
railroads were heard o' "—Perth Advertiser.
PROSPECTS OF THE COMING HARVEST.—The following
are the results of an analysis of reports from 134 corres-
pondents of the Daily News, spread over the 40 English
counties :—Wheat : Very good, excellent, average, 31 ;
good, full average, full crop, &c., 49 ; average, pretty good,
&c., 32 ; near average, 4 , under average, thin, &c., 12 ;
middling, doubtful, or various, 6. Totals—Favourable,
112; unfavourable, 12; neuter,- 10. Barley: 127 reports
resolve themselves into—Very good, over average, abun-
dant, &c., 33; good, full average, full crop, &c., 40; average,
pretty good, &c., 30 ; short, light, indifferent, &c., 12 ;
various, irregular, &c., 12. Totals—Favourable, 103 ;
unfavourable, 12 ; neuter, 12. Oats : 128 reports give—
Excellent, over average, very good, &c. 26 ; good, full
average, &c., 46; average, fair, pretty good, &c., 33; near
average, tolerable, middling, various, &c., 11; under aver-
age, short, light, &c., 13. Totals—Favourable, 104;
unfavourable, 13 ; neuter, 11." Partial inquiries made in
the Irish, Scotch, and Welsh counties give similar favour-
able results.

' LOST, A DUKE !—A somewhat singular scene took
place at the Victoria station, Sheffield, on Friday after-
noon. By the train which arrived from Grantham, about
half-past two o'clock, there came the valet of the Duke of
Rutland, three of his grace's private carriages, and a num-
ber of attendants, en route for the duke's shooting-box,
at Longshawe. It was believed that his grace was also in
the train, but when preparations had been made for him
he could not be found. His attendants were in great
consternation. It was at first thought that his grace had
by mistake gone forward in a train to Manchester, and
the telegraph was immediately set in order. No tidings
of the duke could be gathered in that direction, and there-
upon a message was forwarded by the same means to Ret-
ford, in order to learn whether he had been left there on
changing carriages. Still no tidings ! The telegraph was
then put in communication with Doncaster, and at length
it was found that his grace was at Knottingley, near
Pontefract. He had neglected to change carriages at
Retford, and his attendants were too busy about their own
personality to give a hint to the duke that it was necessary
to alight there. His grace arrived from Doncaster the
same afternoon and proceeded to Longshawe.
THE PLthuE ANL. THE CHOLERA IN LONDON.—The
plague at three different times attacked the parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, and left the rest of London untouched.
This circumstance is suggestive. It is the popular opinion
that the disease was imported from abroad; but the fact
that it broke out at intervals during a period of upwards
of four months, goes far to prove that, like the cholera
and typhus fever, the plague was influenced by local
causes. During the whole time of the visitation of the
plague, this particular parish was not for a single week
clear ; and although the population at that time w.as
small compared with that of other parishes, 3,216 persons
perished there of the plague. The number of deaths from
plague in some of the other London parishes in 1664.65,
was as follows :

St. Clement's Danes
.1,391
St. Giles's, Cripplegate 4,838
St. Botolph's, Aldgate .
.4,061
Andrew's, Holborn ..............3,958
• St. Margaret's, Westminster ......3,742
St. Mary's, Whitechapel 5,583
Stepney parish 0,583
St. Saviour's, Southwark 4,235
And so the population of the•parishes were swept away by
the pestilence—a scourge so great as to be but feebly
understood even by the aid of these figures. Within the
metropolitan bills of mortality, says the parish clerk's
report, 68,506 persons perished ; and at that time, it is
almost needless to say, St. Pancras, Marylebone, Isling-
ton, Paddington, and other immense districts were not in
existence. A comparison of the present with the past is
cheering. We see how enormously even the too slow
progress of improvement has tended to the preservation of
life. The ravages of the cholera in 1849, with an enor-
mously increased population, were small as compared with
those of the plague in 1664. Nevertheless, it then carried
off 14,000 persons in London, to say nothing of those who
have fallen victims to this disorder in Newcastle, Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, and other parts of the kingdom. It is
a frightful thing to think of—but, nevertheless, a fact—
that these deaths were caused mainly by our own
ignorance and perverseness. We say this, however, not
as a complaint, but t a a reatiOn for acting dificrentinniT.
—Mc Builders