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PRO PINCIAL BANKS. ‘II:NTWORTH AND CO.'S BANK. 1 1 ;2 venerable Lad FitswiMem offered to advance the if the sum of Yoo,ooob, which Mr. Rishworth, the is gin.z partner, thought would be more than necessary '; ;;e ica all demands. On this point Messrs. Dennison, : e len, and Baring were consulted, when the former of ,se eminent commercial gentlemen gave it as his opinion, it would require no less than 300.0001, and the two ,:er stated it as high as between 400,000/. and 300,0001. .etfonl effectual and permanent relief. On this difference 1 .,' ow Mr. Rishanrth's estimate at:d those of the Lon -0 c ommercial gentlemen being made known, added to ditficnlty of rasing such a sum in these times, the ne riation failed. It appears from Mr. Rishworth's state rof the affairs of the house, submitted to Messrs. r•G:i.;on, Barnett, and Baring, that their property and • hts owing to the bank, independent of the life-interest side entailed estates of Messrs. Wentworth and Chaloner, pent :o 934,0001., and that the bank was indebted, on o t n otes issued by them, together with deposits and ba os in their hands, in the sum of 607,000/., thus leav g • balance in their favour cf 237,000/. From this brief f iteiutilt, it will he seen that the &Tars of the bank of lows. Wentworth and Co. must he wound up by assig ri; sod if the operations of the persons on whom that .;tlly important duty may devolve be prompt and judi sls, dividends will speedily be made, and an essential r yi c e rendered to the commercial and trading classes of t's aunty. —Sheffield Iris. STAFFORDSHIRE BANKS. The Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford, dating the ring time of public credit, has come forward in a way rOrtliv his rank and character, and put his name at the ind of a most respectable list, pledging himself to support . h e provincial banks of the neighbourhood and receive ;heir notes ; and the Most Noble the Marquis of Anglesea, ad Dartmouth, Viscount Dudley and Ward, Lord Dept, with otitis Noblemen, have given the high respectability J their names for the same purpose. AVe can also state from authority, that the Most Noble the Marquis of 9taf fsul and the Right Hon. the Earl of Darlington have, for the accommodation of their tenants and tht ir connexions, Postponed the day for receiving their rents which fall due it this period of the year. These are instances of noble 3.id patriotic conduct which cannot fail to be applauded by ertey one who feels an Interest in the welfare of his coun rry.-IVolverAumpion Chronicle. LINCOLNSHIRE BANKS. We exceedingly regret to 'announce that the firm of Messrs. Ingelow and Son, bankers. of this place, stopped - payment on Saturday night last. We understand that the parties are engaged in snaking out z. statement for the in spection of their creditors; and that sanguine hopes are entertained that no loss nil: be eventually sustained. In consequence of the declaration of the above-mentioned sus pension, a respectable meeting of the inhabitants of this town assembled yesterday at the Police-office, when a de claration of confidence in the other two batiks, viz. Messrs. Claypon, Garpit, and Claypon, and Messrs. Gee and Son, was agreed to. Declarations signed by the Nobility, Gentry, and prin cipal inhabitants of Grantham and Newark, expressive of the fullest confidence in the stability of the banking esta blishments in those towns, have been issued, and not the slightest inconvenience has been experienced there. The banking-house of James Hill and Scn, of Wished], wLich suspended payment on Wednesday week, in conse quence of the stoppage of Messrs. Williams and Co., and ti-at of Messrs. Wentworth and Co., have given notice of tbdr intention to pay off their notes in full to all who require it, and yesterday they commenced with the one pound notes. A meeting of the principal creditors of Messrs. Simpson and White's bank, Peterborough. was held on Thursday hit, when a full statement of the affahu was laid before them for investigation. The highly satisfactory fact was ar.rtaincd, that when all the demands of the bank were paid, which will be in shout twelve months, there will be a surplus of 40,0001. The advances made by the bank, ail still . 01Witpritliqg u due, are stated to amount to lOSstook Through the noLle liberality or Tart Fltxwft-• Paw, payment of the one pound notes of the bank is already ng.—Bosun Gazette. HEREFORD BANK. On Thursday a ;;;;ting of the creditors of Messrs. Gar rett and Son, of Hereford, took place at the Black Swan, in this ciry ; a large number of persons attended, and the 100 M was so crowded many were obliged to remain without the door. A statement of the situation of the affairs of the bank was read by Mr. J. E. Gough, which was comprised in a balance sheet, and gave a most flattering assurance to the creditors of the liquidation of all their claims. From this document it appeared the notes of the firm in circulation amounted to 21,7001. and the other claims, including ac elited bills, to about 2,1.501., making a total of 23,8501. To meet these demands, after allowing for bad debts, there appeared sufficient funds, and a balance will remain in fa your of the firm, independent of the private property of the pirtners, to the amount of nearly 7001. after all claims are paid. This statement gave general sarisfaction.—Here;orel Jburnal. CHELTENHAM BANK. . . . . When, in last week fulfilling the very painful duty which devolved upon us of noticing the suspension of the pay ments of Messrs. Turner, Turner, and Morris, we asserted that " of their absolute solvency no doubt was entertained," we did but candidly declare our own thorough conviction of the favourable state of their affairs; yet we were not san guine enough at that moment to entertain a hope of being so speedily enabled togratify our townsmen and our readers in general, by the indisputable proofs we have now the bsppiness of - laying before them), not only of the solvency of the Bank of Messrs. Turner, Turner, and Morris, but of the Toresession by the Bank in itself f sufficient assets to meet the full demand of all its creditors, leaving a very cstensive balance in its favour—without in the slightest degree involving the private fortunes of the respective part ners. We feel no small degree of gratification, and we may say of pride, in having t he most unquestionable autho rity for stating, that all the claims that can by possibility be made upon the firm amount to 947,139/., and the amount of available assets, exclusive of all doubtful debts, has been ascertained to exceed 383,2811.—Chelfenhans Chronicle. BRIGHTON BANKS. With the banks nothing new has transpired. The three firm houses, IVigney and Co., West and Co., and Mills and Co., are enjoying the full confidence of the public. The houses which have suspended payments, Lathmat and Co. and Tamplin and Co., remain in :tutu quo. The se-ac tion on the middle and lower classes of society, by the sus ptlision of lab . ur, has not been so severely felt as had been anticipated. At present, perhaps, the distress experienced here is less than is almost any other place where similar disasters have oecurred.—Brimlon Herald. xertsa FACT.—During the last fortnight there has not been a single debtor iri the gaol of Dumfries ; a eir comitance that never occurred before in the memory of the ales' man of business in the town. During the last six years, the highest number of commitments for debt was twriity ; the lowest, two ; and the average, about seven. I lefective as it is in the means of classificatien, our gaol is reckoned the only perfectly safe one in a pretty wide dis trict of country ; and for the better half of it to be without 3 tenant for weeks together, is indeed' somewhat new un r the sun. What is still more consoling, there has been ..n!y one criminal committed since the 23d of July ; and things go on at this rate the lawyers will literally want job, and our Magistrates will have to exhibit a huge t .:;rr, with the words painted on it—" A Gaol to be 1.-t. - -Dumfries Courier. A most disgraceful riot took place on the High-street of I) .riAce late in the night of Saturday last, which originated .. ;to attempt by some blackguards to rescue a fellow whom the watchmen were conveying to the Police-offlce for a cli of the peace. The riot continued till two o'clock ~t , t-ititlay morning. (Inc of the watchmen was danger , hurt in the head by a stone, numbers of which were tknmt t by the crowd on the streets, and also, it is acid, cloy, aril windows. Twenty-six individuals were taken emto.ly by the police in thecourse of the tumult, against '' of whom convictions were obtained on Monday, .t , .1 they were fined in various sums of from to,. to 31. and bountt liver to keep the pace. The tines altogether .i . iitututetl to 33!. 106. .11. A-_ he 1 ouze 'ad Seel 24. Lau an. of filfflin: le sin nce, din i n "11l und o :;ement be'm naious if is let , 0 Sir N., of their :of; aid r Irenineia ne aid wink, e xaminatio; that eapre 3 " the eta >ant and el 'Wildly, am Awe, we al her wi t h 0 will, flora th e r desi ri least e-ip mi. that the diree ail the ach p er trust, to and equal 'rem lingo cove. G. XILLIt. PPARD. follow it be en to t tely. added ailli ; tlt icb is flail =l3. 1823, le to inf o? ortwors el lull. excb t 1 the Firs s of rvtirit h: W4;41 the earrn ita , of the dl riction th -c host th rot ecuh o w:thdri honoon recent into, D CO. y last 11 one of 11 le coast mint) Sept. Il rat OC.III the At! ured. I : -- Tv :ted to le, and , isiOne i the I pm, I V.I. e of of 1 del lb I recll Y• ed by nd an py re t of .ougt iblic easui cited the I TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sra—Your correapondent, who subscribes himself " A CALM OBSERVER," and whose letter appeared in the British Press of IVednesday, states his object in address ing yuu to he that of " free and impartial discussion," than which nothing can be more desirable ; but in the course of this discussion he has run into some errors, which though I willingly admit them to be unintentional, I think it of some importance to remove. The present condition of the silk trade and its impending fate, should the new law take effect, is beginning to excite a very general share of the public attention; and it is fit therefore that no mistate ments should get abroad at this juncture which could give a colour of justice to a measure fraught with so muck in jury, or which may tend to induce a belief that our appre hensions from it are—as he asserts them to be—unfounded, and that we are petitioning against it without a cause. He, in effect, affirms this when he puts the following question " How can you suppose that the manufacturtra of France, who even during the time of the prohibitory system in England, have been as actively employed as they could be, can all on a sudden be prepared to supply the full con sumption of the English market, which, I doubt not, is nearly as great as that of the whole continent?" _ - 7 . Now, Sir, it is proved by the documents which appear in the leading article of your paper of the same date, that the consumption in FRANCE of raw and thrown silk was 3,050,0001ba.; and of ENGLAND 3,382.3571b5. Now, if to this excess of consumption by France we add 1,000,0001b5. more, as we may very fairly do fur the con sumption of the rest of the continent, the demand of the English market is doubled by that of the continent, so far from being nearly as great. As to France, too, we ma; Judge of the capability of her further increase from what et appears by the same documents she has effected in four years, via.: from the year 1820 to 1424, both as respects the production of raw silk, and of the manufactured article. But it must be perfectly known to the" Cahn Observer" dist the continent of tamp': is not the only quarter from which an influx of wrought silk will glut the English market. "If," says he, " your readers concerned in the silk ma nufacture reflect for a moment, that before the continental manufacturers can with certainty employ any great number of their looms for the London matket, it must be the work of time, and not a short time either, you will be forced to adn.it that the British silk trade has nothing like imme diate ruin to dread." lint has be forgot the Company's factories in Bengal? Has he forgot the ruinous competition from China, and the inexhaustible supply which these are capable of prepar ing for our market? Let us first look to die produce of Bengal. Dividing the raw material into four parts, one part—on the average of several years—comes to England ; two parts are con sumed within our territorial possessions in India; and the fourth part is disposed of in the different provinces of the East. We have here a producz, one part only out of four of which is sent to the supply of our market, but does not this prove the extent to which that supply must be ex tended under the encourszement which the opening our ports hold out to it, and how great its capability is of effec tually silencing the looms of the British manufacturers ? Then, as to CHINA, there is scarcely any standard by which we can measure the extent of her silk manufactures, and the quantity of silk goods which she is at any time capable of consigning to the British market. It is, and has been from time immemorial, one of her staple maim factures. The dress of the women and children of all ranks in China is, for the most part, composed of silk : it may then be easily conceived, that not only a vast stock must always be on hand, to meet the demand of a popula tion the meat numerous of any empire in the known world, but that she can at any time enlarge her capacity of pro duction to any extent which the calls of our trade could require, had she even the exclusive supply of it. China is the cradle of the silk manufacture, and her silk possesses some qualities which no other silk possesses, and which will for the most part procure for her articles a preference over every other. Any attempt to persuade the British silk manufacturers that they have nothing to feg from an inundation of foreign goods, for the reasons assigned by the " Calm Observer," must fail of its effect. The opposition on their part does not arise, as lie would have it supposed, from an unfounded alarm, but from an investigation made in the different manufacturing districts on the Continent by many of our manufacturers themselves—from inquiries on the spot, as to their power of production and the cost of labour—and from a thorough conviction, thus obtained, that they are capable of supplying the English market upon terms which we could not compete with, even with this thirty per cent. protection duty, supposing it could be faithfully collected, which it cannot. As to the foreign ma nufacturers being unprepared, the fact is not so. They are preparing while we are not, because they look forward to the prospect of certain gain, and we to the prospect of certain loss. As to " good advice" to the manufacturers, there is no lack of advisers, but the object of too many of them is to mislead. Abundant advice is given to them to work up their raw material ; but this counsel proceeds from those who arc buyers of silk, not manufacturers, who would suffer no loss should their advice bring ruin on those who followed it, and who cannot be so able to judge what, under all circumstances, it is prudent for the manufacturers to do, as they are themselves. The British silk manufacturers are fast adopting the im proved looms, to which the " Calm Observer" refers, but the progress of improvement will be wholly stopped by the new law, for no manufacturer will expend his capital in the improvement of machinery with the chance of never being able to repay himself even for the cost of it. But for the new law the improved looms would have been daily getting into more general use, and the time would have come when the new system might have been tried without danger, while in the present state of the trade the intro duction of that system can produce nothing but ruin, and every day is bringing fresh proof of it. As to the 500,000/. adverted to as having been given back to the silk trade, it was not given by Go vernment as a boon, but as a return of duty. Ido not mean to detract from the liberality of Ministers, but this measure ought not to go forth to the public as being any other than what in reality it was, an act of justice. It is well known to be the ordinary practice, when the duty on an excisable article is reduced, to make an abatement of elle duty on the stock on hand ; and this policy it was that dictated the return of the amount alluded to. I am, Sir, yours, Ike. A SILK MANUFACTURER. PRISON DISCIPLINE or SCO'll,l ND.-Itie are glad to learn that the Lord Advocate, in pursuance of the very li beral and beneficial measures which he has already taken for improving the Police, and administration of justice in Scotland, has recently applied to the Sheriffs for a parti cular return as to the state of the different gaols in Scotland, And requesting remarks from the Sheriffs as to the state of the prisons in each county, and suggestions as to their im provement. his Lordship's queries comprehend, amongst other things, whether there is any airing ground connected with the prison • and whether the nutnbcr of gaols might with advantag.r be reduced, either by the establishment of one prison in each eounty, or by the establishment of one prison at each circuit town for the reception of all prisoners belonging to the district?—Scotch Paper. . . WORKS IN LANC•SIIIRE.—The following is a list of the public works, for which the requisite plans have been deposited at the office of the clerk of the peace for this county at Preston : ---..., Rsil.roaefa—Liverpool and Manchecttr ; Bolton and Illanches ter ; from Bolton to join the Liverpool and Manchester at Eccles; Extension of the Bolton and Leigh Hail-road, to join the Liver pwl and Manchester at Kenyon. near Winwick • Oldham and Manchester; slanchestcr and A udle , y. in Staffordshire. Vl'atertrorka—Preaton and Fiahwirk. Turnpike-rnads.—Diversion of Duxbury and West Houghton Road at Illaekrod ; Diversion on the Wigan and lore Road ' • Di version of the Road from Manchester to Salthouse Brook. by Mot tram ; New line of Road from Manchester to Bess's o'th' Barn in Pilkington ; the same, with the addition of a short Branch ; Re newal of the Pendleton District Trust, with sundry Diversions ; Diversions in the Road from Lancaster to Richmond, in York shire ; Diversion of the Road from Bury to Whalley ; New line of Road from Ilidgehill. in Ashton-under-Lbw. to Saddleworth ; Converting the Road front Hindley to Stirrup Brook. near Wore ley, into Turnpike, and making a new Road, under the same Trust, from Bedfo rd. through Titidesley, to Over Holton; New Branch of the Haslingdon and Whalley Road, commencing at Path Brow, in Blackburn, and ending In Accrington. THE BRITISH PRESS. LITERART GLEANINGS. No. I.XXIII. DRESS 01' ova FOItRFATIIRRS.—There is hardly ety subject that is matter of more curious interest than the dress and habits of our forefathers; it is amusing to con trast them in imagination with their accomplished sons of the present clay. " Foz gives us a curious account of the dress of Bishop LATIM en, when he attended the commissioners appointed by Queen Mn•v at his la.t examination. His appearance on this most serious occasion has been justly attributed to humility ; but that virtue might surely have associated with neatness, and could not certainly derive any addi tional merit from old garments. ' He bowed his knee down to the ground, holding his hat in his hand, having a handkerchief on hi s h ea d, an d upon i t a night-cap or two, and a great cap (such as the townsmen use), with bread Baps to button under the chin, wearing an old Bristol Prize threadbare gown, girded about his body with a penny leather girdle, at which hanged, by a strong string or lea ther, his Testament, and his spectacles, without case, de pending about his neck upon his breast.' " When MART Queen of Scotland was led to the scaf fold she was liabiteil thus :—Her head-dress was lawn, edged with bone lace; a veil of the seine material, and edged in th 7. same manner, flowed from the caul, bowed out with wire; her gown was of printed black satin, with a train and long sleeves, and had acorn-shaped jet buttons, with a trimming of pearls ; part of the sleeves were open, and beneath appeared others of purple velvet; her kirtle whole of figured black satin ; her petticoat and upper hoddice Of crimsok unleood in the heck, and the skirts or crimson velvet; her Woe' Bpanish leather, the inside outward; a pair of green sa garters; watchet silk stockings, clocked and edged on the top with silver, and under them a pair of white Jersef hose. She wore a chain of pomander, and an Agnes Dci round her neck, and beads at her girdle, with a golden cross at the extremity of them." " Elizabeth, than whom no one could be more vain and fantastic in her garments and ornaments, as will be per ceived from the following sketch of her dress, felt the ne cessity of preventing her subjects from injuring their families by the riclmess and expense of their apparel: to accomplish which she issued repeated sumptuary proclama tions, and eves commanded that persons should he stationed at Me most frequented places in London, to examine the dresses of the passengers, and to ascertain whether the limits she prescribed were exceeded. This Queen, in a picture of her, painted from the life, is represented in a head dress, set with jewels, very nearly resembling that called a cushion, worn a few years past ; a ruff richly laced, and laid in plaits, diverging as if from centre back of her neck, extends on each side of her face, of consider able breadth, and the extremities lay on her breasts ; from those, two wings, piobably of lawn, edged with a border of jewels, and stiffened with wire, rise in two semicircular sweeps as high as the top of the cushion, and, turning down to the cars, form the general shape of a heart, with the face and ruff' set in the midst; a short, clumsy, and ill-contrived cloak, covered with embroidery anti jewels, hides all the body of her gown, but displays small curs, ruffs on her wrists, and a very pretty ornament of lace above the former ; the strait and formal stomacher leaves great part of her bosom exposed, and in recempence for want of length in that direction, makes an enormous long waist on the opposite: it is covered with jewels and embossed gold, and she wears a beautiful necklace, but an extiemely uncouth velvet lower garment, not to be called in this instance a petticoat." " In the reign of Queen MARY, square toes were worn to a meat extravagant breadth, which produced a procla mation limiting them to six inches. An author who wrote in the Interregnum reminds his readers of an opposite ex cess, ' when sharp piquant toes were in request.' After making a ridiculous comparison between the expanded toes of the aloe, and the spending of the foot of a bear, Dr. Flecweit proceeds,' Like the ovcrpaired, uneasy, and gig-like heels of our ill-set-up gallants, which puts them into so tottering a condition, that, when they have spun a while ilk the atiega,, ustialy,qome hotibling down, and in this fshion are emblem/Wally presented to be unstable in all their ways.'" Much curious information as to the dress of the common people may he obtained from the advertisements of articles stolen at different times, and described for the purpose of leading to their restoration, and to the apprehension of the offenders. In 1680, in the True Domestic Intelligence, a Mrs. HAWSIISON mentions "a black cloth serge gown, stiff bodied; a farandine skirt; a crape skirt; inswing petti coats; another of mohair ; a serge and damask morning gowns, the latter lined with red and white cheequered silk ; a riding hood ; two large black flowered silk skirts ; a white silk petticoat laced; a mantua, lined with pink coloured silk; a white mohair petticoat, laced; and a yellow silk net petticoat, with bone lace." The same year an advertisement was published respect ing the loss of a watch, which the owner was informed had been found by a gentleman " that goes in a sad-coloured cloth suit, with a green shoulder-kart, figured with silver, and the facing: of his coat of green velvet ; he wears a light-coloured perrywig, with a grey bat, and a green taffety riband round it, and a sword-knot of the same." The above and following extracts demonstrate that green was the then favourite colour. THOMAS TAYLOR, a boy, who wandered from his home, was described by his friends' as wearing " a grey cloth suit, lined with green, with plate buttons, a [erten vest, a grey cloth monteer cap, lined and edged with green, a green pair of stockings, and a lace neckcloth." A young gentleman guilty of a similar set of indiscre tion, aged fifteen years, was advertised in August, 1081, who wore " strait long brownish hair, a suit of sad-co loured cloth, lined with flowered silk, the ground buff colour, with peach-colour and green flowers, and a waist coat of the same silk ; a pair of silk stockings, of the same colour of the cloth, and a sad-coloured cloth cap, turned up with sables, and laapd down the seams with gold breed. ' Soon after, " a light-coloured cloth coat, lined with blue serge, the cape and sleeves faced with blue shag, gold and silver buttons, and silk, gold and silver loops, and the cap? bound round with broad gold galloon, above three inches broad; was left in a coach," and di rected to be returned to the MASTER OP THE ROLLS, in Chancery-lane. Blue plush caps were worn in the same year, and cloth coati, lined with red, and satin ri bands of different colours round the hat. The female ser vant of that day, in one instance, had on a red petticoat, a grey cloth waistcoat, a linsfy woolsey apron, a red hand kerchief, a black hood, and a white hat. Campaign coats of cloth had mixed silk and silver buttons, and three frost loops at each pocket fl ap, the cravats were laced, and waist coats were made of "balloon, faced before and at the bottom with flowered silk, sometimes of a sad-coloured ground, with the flowers of yellow and white, the buttons small and of silver. A fellow who robbed Lord Wnensoa in April, 1682, had on " a sad-coloured cloth suit, lined with a striped crape, with silver buttons and loops; a white hat, with gold twisted bat-band, sal a dark-coloured hair camblet coat, lined with bine, the sleeves turned up with blue plush, with silver buttons and loops." The GA Z ETTIL of July 20, 1682, gives the contents of " a large portmantle full of women's cloaths, lost or stolen:" those contents were, " a mantua and petticoat of grey silk and silver stuff, with broad silver lace; another mantua and petticoat, flow ered with liver-coloured and some flesh-coloured spots; a quilted petticoat of lead-coloured satin; a gold-coloured tabby trnilet (toilet), and pin-cushion, with silver lace ; two point coifs, two pair of point d'Espagne ruffles ; a laced night rail and waistcoat; one pair of point de Venice ruffles; a black laced scarf; three black satin caps, and some little bands and cuffs." Another parcel that under went the same fate contained a striped silk mantua ; a light-coloured gown, striped with yellow and white ; a blue flowered silk petticoat ; a pair of blue striped stays; a black fresener hood, and a yellow-spotted gauze howl. The Princess Ann, the Countess of Pembroke, and seve ral other ladies, are described in the Lnyal Pmtestant In telligence of March 13, 1682.3, as having taken the air on hotseback, " attired very rich in dose-bodied coats, hats, and feathers, with short perukes." The extreme richness, if not taste, of a petticoat lost between Hackney and Lou don, in 168$, renders it a most magnificent illustration of that part of the female dress. This petticoat was of " musk-coloured silk, shot with silver on the right side. the floVers trail silver, and the wrong side the ground silver, the flowers mietk-coloured, with a deep white thread bone lace; a white fringe at the bottom, and a gold one ofer it; six breadths, lincd with Persian silk of the same colour." The article thus described should have been combined with the following :—Lost, in 168.5, " a blue satin petticoat, laced with a broad gold and silver lace ; a white satin gown, lined with black and white silk, and a pair of silver tabby boddices, embroidered with silk and gold." NEW CEMETERY AT LIVERPOOL. The public are well aware that, from the present crowded state of the churchyards in Liverpool, it is scarcely possible to obtain a grave. It has, therefore, be come a matter of public Intl pressing importance to pro vide that further accommodation, as depositories for the deceased, which the casualties of our vastly increasing population require ; and, if this can be accomplished in the outskirts of the town the advantage will obviously be increased. Impressed with a conviction of the necessity of such an additional establishment, a number of gentle men. a few months since, memorialized the Common Coun cil to grant the reversion of the extensive excavation or stone-quarry, at the top of Duke -street, for this purpose. The Council, with their characteristic public spirit, granted the request of the memorialists. The laud, which is at present an useless anti unsightly waste, will thus, by the formation of the projected burial-place, be appropriated to the use of the public. It presents, at present, the ap pearance of a deep ravine, or romantic glen; the eastern side being nearly perpendicular, the opposite side a steep and rough ascent from a rude and irregular bottom, cover- ' lag, we are informed, a apace of nearly nine statute acres of ground, with room for upwards of 13,000 tombs. In accomplishing the proposed plan, it is intended that the hollow should, in part, be filled up, and that the ap proaches to the sacred ground slieuld be made from the eastern side, by inclined planes, commencing north and south, running diagonally, and intersecting each other as they proceed downwards. On the line of these planes catacombs are to be excavated in the solid rock, similar in construction, we suppose, to some of the endless variety of tombs which arc to be found in the romantic grounds of Pere la Chaise, at Paris. Opposite to these, on the side under the Mount Gardens, the ground will be appropriately laid out, and planted with trees and shrubs, and the whole arranged with reference to the picturesque and irregular appearance of the ground. On the rock, which is still standing at the north end of the ravine, an oratory or chapel will be erected, after a chaste and beautiful Grecian design ; and not far distant another rock will be surmounted by a house, for the residence of a minister. These situationa will command a view down Duke-street, from the lower part of which the buildings, by forming the termination of the vista, will be seen with fine effect. At the south end a house for the clerk will be erected, and on the lower part of the ground suitable dwellings will be placed for the sexton and other assistants. A substantial wall will surround the whole, and every ne cessary and requisite arrangement will be made, adapted for the convenience and protection of such an extensive establishment. IVe are of opinion, that the above plan, when carried into effect, will render the intended Ceme tery one of the most useful, interesting, and beautiful ap pendages connected with the town, reflecting not less credit upon the character and taste of LiVerpool, than upon Mr. J. Foster, jun. whose plans and drawings have been ap proved of, and will furnish still further specimens of the elegance and variety of a taste to which the town is already greatly indebted. The ground will be consecrated, and, of course, con nected with the establishnaeat; and what will give an ad ditional interest to the plan, any surplus profits arising from the sale of the graves, after discharging the interest of the money laid out, will be applied to Increase the salaries of the clergy belonging to the . Established Church in this tottn, many of whom are very inadequately remunerated. —Liverpool Courier. LIVERPOOL. Dec. 28.—The demand continues fair and prices steady for Cotton ; about 15,000 bags sold to-day. Counterfeit sovereigns are now showing themselves in frightful niunlent ; and have proved tp bitty thaT "it is not all gold that glitters." They afe " bran new," and every thing in the shape of gold is taken. One shop has had the benefit of six. They are said to have shown themselves in many places, and that the manufacturers thereof are rivalling in activity the Mint.—Shcjfie/.1 NEW KIND OF STEREOTYPE.—The Gazette of Munich ,announces the invention of a new kind of stereotype, by M. Lanefelder, to whom the art of lithography is due. A sheet of ordinary printing paper is covered with a layer of stony earth (terre pierreuse), to the thickness of half an inch, and sufficiently moistened with water. In half an hour it assumes the consistency of paste, when it is put in frames and on types composed in the usual manner, but not blackened, and the paste becomes impressed with the characters. The sheet is then dried on a stone flag, and melted metal poured on it. The metal becomes a thin plate, and has all the characters standing out on it, as well formed as the original types. The proofs from those stereotype characters do not differ from those taken from moveable types. The author of this discovery offers to explain it fully for a subscription of 100 florins, as soon as he shall have thirty subscribers. He estimates the prepar ation necessary for the casting at 100 florins, and the paper covered with the stony paste at six kreuss (2d English) a sheet. Russian LONOEVITV.—The last Annual Obituary of the Russian Empire, published at St. Petersburgh, records the death of a man at the very advanced age of 168, near to Poked:, on the frontier of Livonia. He had seen seven Sovereigns on the throne of' Russia, and remembered the death of Gustavus Adolphus. Ile had been a soldier in the thirty years' war; at the battle of Pultowa, in 1709, he was 51 years of age. At the age of 93 be married his third wife, with whom he lived SO years; the two youngest sons of this marriage were 86 and 62 respectively In the year 1796; the oldest of his other sans in the same year were 93 and 92 respectively. The entire family of this patriarch comprises 138 descendants, who all lived together in the village of Pollatzka, which the Empress Catharine the Second caused to be built for them, granting, at the same time, a considerable tract of land for their support. In the 163 d year of his age this modern Nestor was in the enjoyment of the most robust health. Sm NG.—The object of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in introducing cheap whisky was to put down smuggling. Smuggling, however, still exists. Early on the morning of the 2341 December curt., Messrs. Macdo nell and Rollo, officers of Excise, Busby, accompanied by a party of the sth Dragoons, discovered a private distillery at work in the muirs of Eagicsham, conaisting of a still of 80 gallons contents, a mash tun 250 gallons contents, four fermenting tuns, the content of each 220 gallons, one cooler, 160 gallons contents, 243 gallons of worts, 363 gal lons of fermented wash, six spirit casks, and 16 bushels of ground malt, with a variety of other articles, which, along with the distillery huts, were effectually burned and destroyed. The distillery having been carried on in a re mote part of the hill, and the smugglers keeping a watch, discovered the approach of the parry, in consequence of which they made their escape.—Glagsose Chronicle. On Monday the Sth instant, a man of the name of Ham M'lntosh, a workman to Mr. Leadbetter, merchant, Lanark, discharged an old gun at some birds, when the same having been, as is supposed, double charged, burst in his hands, anti the breech, with a screw-nail attached, 'truck him on the forehead, and was nearly buried in it, l penetrating two inches from the surface. Ile lingered in great many till Friday following, when he died, On 'Tuesday, when the Huddersfield, for Jamaica, was hauling out of the Prince's Dock, a fine snipe dropt upon the deck, quite exhausted, which was taken alive by some of the sailors.—Liverpool Courier. POACHTNO.—EarIy on the morning of the 13th inst. James Drake, gamekeeper to Earl Nelson, accompanied by two assistants, surprised three poachers on his Lordship s manor at Stantllynch, near Salisbury, and a dreadful affray took place, in which IVilliam Bailey, one of the poachers, had his head so dreadfully fractured that he died two days afterwards, anti his brother and the keeper were much bruised. An inquest was held on Bailey, when one of the keeper's assistants deposed, that after the scuffle had com menced Bailey retired a short distance from Drake, and discharged a gun at him, but without effect.—Verdict— Jurtifiebk Horxie dc. - • *O. -,••••1116..-• LAW NOTICES. ROLLS' COURT. General Petitiqn Friday, the 20th of January, at six in the evening. Petitions must in set down, and copies left with the Secretary, by tear o'clock on t"e preceding day. COURT OF RING'S BENCH. The following is a eorerat list of the Causes on Bills of &- change and Promissory 'notes that will be tried on Sati..:(laf, the 7th of January, by order of the Lord Chief Justice. Sherwood v Jones Booker • Stringer 51ackintosh • Hay- Knight • Ilarvey Wall • Potter don Holland • Illockeil Still v Wood Goodman • Phillip Bainbridge v Good- Wyatt, Amtrak Tanner • 'DOE% fellow Marna T.Winter Hulland v Pagett Wyatt t'Jiill Henderson • Hall Gould v Haworth Wyatt • Meek Lewis • Russell Dutton • Dolly Wright, Robinson Hart v Hills S an d e ll v Rossiter Jacobs v Townsend Barclay • Wettnan Howse vJarman Boulnois v Williams Same • Willis Henry v Nestor Cleashy • Truckett Evelyn •C. Jones Isaac v Li ere p I Richardson v Macey Sharkall • Kearney Gamson • Gee Loxley • Ratcliffe Pow e ll • Fifi e ld Lidd e ll v P ates Artwell v Hortoo Hamilton, Mahoney ' Wright, Evans Earwater v Groves %Wiliam, • Dolan Simpson vLe Cren Edenborough v Max- Collin son • SilTa Henry v Easton field Thomas • Sharpe Cockburn v Barreck Howell • Solomon- Batley•Christopher- , Cockburn v Chettia son son Herring • Wilmer If any of the above Caus es are defended, application to post. pone the trial must be made to th•Cbief Justice by summons, supported by affidavit, at least two days before the 7th of January. Ahy undefended causes not in the above list, may be,tried on the said 7th January, if due notice of their being undefended is given. at this Office. . 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. • • IiqSOI,VENT 15EBTORS' COURT, Tautsiaar, D*c. 29. John 31itee Winnington, cemmonlyealled Sir John Miles Wine nington, was brought up to be heard ets his petition. The petitioner was before the Collet several weeks ago, when it appeared that he had not properly described himself ; he was there: fore ordered to advertise a second time. By the present petition it appeared that the insolvent resided at a numberof pines (Brussels and Paris amongst the rest), during the time his debts were contracting ; and also that he was sued by the plaintiff with Henrietta Antonia, his wife. Mr. PoLLoc opposed the insolvent's applicatirm at the in. stance of creditors named Gass and Sargerson ; snit Mr. Botsford and Mr. Riley opposed in person. Mr. COOKE supported the petition. The insolvent, in his examination In chief, commenced by state iog, that in December, 1818, he sold a reversionary interest to hie. mother (contingent on her life) far 290/., it being 1401. more that I had been offered for it by other parties. Mr. Poet.oce, on referring to the balance-Meet, said that there was no mention made in it of the sale above stated. The Learned Gentleman said he would make a few remarks ota the schedule before he proceeded in his inquiries. The debts its. the Insolvent's schedule amounted to 03611., but the insolvent had taken credit for several items, with a view to reduce the amount. It was stated that debts were contracted by his wife to the amount of 4001. previous to her marriage, and 14001. since they had sepa rated, beyond which there was an item of 14411. debts contracted by his wife and her sister in the prosecution of a commission of lu nacy. These items, together with some of a minor description, re duced the aggregate sum to 5237/. 19s. for which the insolvent had received consideration, or, ie other words, debts contracted by him. self without reference to hie. wife. He (Mr. Pollock) made these ' remarks on account of the allegation oa the schedule, setting forth the cause of his insolvency, which was couched in the following words:—" I attribute my insolvency to the extravagance of my wife." t therefore ask what the insolvent means by it ? Insolvent--I have been frequently arrested, and had a suit in Chancery, but I do not wish to set up an Improper plea relative to the debts contracted by myself. Mr. Potence—You make your wife's debts about 30001., and you have got into debt upwards of 60001 notwithstanding you have received large sums from friends; therefore I think you ought to have attributed the cause of your insolvency partly at least to your own extravagance. The insolvent proceeded to state, that during the ten years his debts were connecting he received 3,3001, from his mother; that ha is entitled to 5,000/. worth of property in the West Indies in right of his wife, and that a decree had gone forth from Chancery for Ito sale. lie and that he woe an attorney in the Court of King's Bench, and took out his certificate until' 1820. In the lummer of 1822 (or 1823) he opened an account with Messrs. Morel and Co. bank's", in Pall-mall, by depositing 2001. in their hands, but he overdrew their account, and never made a further deposit. He would not swear that the account was not orerdrawn within sit weeks after it was first opened. Mr. David Class examined.—The witness stated that he is jeweller. The insolvent was first introduced to hint by a Mr. Thompson, when he made statements which ultimately induced him (witness/ to Or! Mtn eredtt - fort - gvt* watt+ andappernagea, together with articles of jeeeellery, amounting in the whole to 1034 13s. The insolvent gave him a check on his banker for 27!. 13a. and a bill toe (lel at six weeks, after date, payable at the tame place, but the last was never paid, it being returned, with a note of "No effects" attached to it. The insolvent's check was however honoured by Messrs. Ilemmereley's, they having at that time money belonging ro hire. At the first interview between the insolvent and witness the tanner represented that he was an ate honey ; that he had a suit on head on the part of a lady, which was likely to be a lucrative concern; that he was a man of fortune; and that at his mother's death he had a residuary interest in consie derable property, adding, that his mother was in the habit of mak ing him frequent and liberal advances of money. I n consequence of - these and similar representations the witness declared that he was induced to give creme The transactions took place in the be. ginning of the year 1819. A considerable time af ter th e bill *as returned unpaid - the tneelvent brought another for 2001. accepted by a Mr. Bracebridge, but that person was since dead, and the witness held the bill in his possession ever since. In his cross-examination by 31r.CooKE, the witness admitted that- he gave Thompson 21. for recommending him so good a customer. He bad some knoviledge of him, and believed he was a performer. After the insolvent was missing, Thompson came to witness, and said, " if you will make ete a present of five shillings,. I will tell you where lWinnington is, that you may serest him." (Laughter). By theCouag—When I first gave the Insolvent credit I only knew him as Alr. Icinnington, an attorney. I did not then know that he was knighted. The insolvent gave his address " No. 10, Bunton-place," but he had kit there before the bill became due. Mr. Sargerson examined.—The witness said that he lives in the Colonnade, Pall-mall, end is a wine-merchant. In the month of June, 1822 the insolvent came to hint, and slid he wanted a parcel of wine and some spirits, observing that he could give ree spectablc references,and mentioned the firm of Hammereley and Co. his bankers. Witness afterwards went to the bank, and found thee he kept cash there, and learnt that he was trustworthy for 271. The. articles were therefore supplied, and taken to the deferment's reside ence in Clifford-street, Bond-street. Shortly after this he clime again, and said he wanted more wine and other liquors, as he was going to have a large party that evening.. Ile came in a chariot, with his coachman, and everything appeared respectable. On this occasion credit was given to the amount of 33!. On the 27th July, 1822, witness drew a bill on Sir J. M,M'innington, at two monies after date, which he accepted, and made payable at. his bankers*. By the COURT—I never saw the insolvent from the time he CLEM in his carriage until he was arrested. Mr. rOLLVICK observed, that upon the bills given to this gerttlea man actions were brought against the insolvent in the Palace Court, but he had removed the cause into the King's Reach, and pleats: the general issue In that Court. The Care,. COMMIS3IONER considered that the insolvent bat: not proceeded far enough in his defence to bring himself within the operation of the clause of the Act. In hisexamination by 31r. Cooxt, the insolvent stated, that when he gave the fkl bill to Mr. Gass he had not the most remote idea but that it would be paid, for at that time he possessed 5001. worth of property, and did not owe 1391. fns and dee li ability. Cuter Coetxtesiowaa— You state that you had boa when yategave the bill, and did not owe 1301., what )appened between ' the date of the bill and its arriving at maturity, to prevent yea from taking it up 7 Insolvent—" I lost by the sale of borne, and made some tad debts ; and (he spoke hesitatingly) I was certainly extrema:eget. - Ile proceeded to state that he pledged the articles bought or Mr- Gass for 301, but denied that he did so soon after the purchase. The bill for 200!. of which the Court had heard was one presented to him by Mr. Bracebridge, a respecieble gentleman, connected with the Pelican and Phrenix Offices. Ile had since died, but his tins belief eras that the bill would be eventually paid by this executors. Mr. Bamford then entered upon his case; and after pattieg several questions to the insolvent, he wasted that he is der! Adlington end Gregory, and had been professionally 'swaged ConaistoriAl suit connected with the insolvent, and had a employed to collect witnesses; he had also used same Rai,' procure evidence relative to the ease then before the Court. opponent complained that the insolvenes schedule was e of mistatements, inasmuch as he had put his wife's debo sums by guess, instead of ascertaining the exact amounts. Several witnesses were examined, by ♦hose testimony it that the insolvent had over-rated the debts contracted by and In one instance the difference was as from 2tlt. to 7s. The insolvent said be had advertised and sent to the ), could not obtain the necessary informetion. Mr. Boon produced the Morning I feral,' of the ." at or t r,,, t of No•. contained a letter, dated the 21st of that month, rennin* • explanstcry statements relative to the insolvent's se/Win John did not deny but that it was sent by his ceders. And . . ter of the Court was ordered to 'rad it. to conthaion, stelad that his spore rhi (the inso:rent's wire) and ha 0- dissipstA a consi . derahle sum of nioney in legal proceedinj (Laughter.) To a question by Commissioner BARR'', the insolvent be wee committea to the King's Bench in February, and • within the walls early in September last. The evidence having terminated, Mr. Pot.t.oce addressed the Court foe the opposing and contended that the insolvent had connected debts fr with his respective clients, and he should confine himsei point in the observations he would make to the Court. tog= extended vitt,/ of the case, the beamed Qentl _ a 1. • le is eterltt; In in s ad also been e activity to • 'ourt. This ma made up Da at rogritt its. f it appeared try his wife, t. 6d. parties, bus smford theta Nov.. shirts • 'Ming some liedule. Sir And the ofil— talon it was er titer Nut proceedings. rest said that was locked ng creditors, fraudulently used to this 't • After tak. derma 0304 • .4trAir 7.• _ _..