The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-15 00:00:00

Xay 1.1, 1849, 5 1 1W' tever there.l_o;l: e to be °l.rl total Rt 1135. 'rPS for prisonn?eXemptiOrl Irvv r ) minister or u le annual toc at • 5 Evetet.b. n the ocoso, d t he v i n diestr, t if the au wa s at pre;: c i great N;A'oo.pair, not to cie,rw-ere hich ter them sop labours: 0 1 ieir n 0,0011114 rorld cler,f o, ears, fo rl or knovilegfieno, dice and 19i, mastereci• of hoe uld Ple P ? s ' he believe. dished In a jo hat Weer 110 The S e " e pts of t.shetbosi !as e orl ": 00 . The_egrl! ePI rp lus 05 D riOUS Y ea t r iii port w hicllo s ort s ed. .P O O iptions o t he tr ib u tedi .. . l o r to the bh`:„ts ) le, Ina i e rtge id an °v r no parson k e pt oP e oe the exP wo - e ..:biP. üblio ace , =l ent, F hroughotlit ort be q' l c ' e l itir my to t c e e on the (1 0 1° . e0 (1 esolutil at salt wit! A y t iltn. , ge n the Den d eo 0- bet vulation, of the 01t74 ? re circi t . l9 0 1 000 c °l3l ''ble considero_ it sJ manyr oe o r y i the th 0. all thesereo d with greet ,atient wealthy t 1; 6 lbjects 0 1 , 0 01, tdoor s c lio its h tivra„ . c ieti ,f the';, t io r o of the n'The .smen. Mr. 13 qof i n suPP °r ü be Lnd afte td'' nting to lace re- 8 0 k J e Orir s next, 0, •pang lande' vi tinAu Pro' r ye I . a ffic for 1)77 14s;;;. .at cerPP B ,;• a ll 9 of l Prn he ex ce l le the a ck, an of d togecof t the r i tthe lance r , s re al 6 it, th at r ' 3 COrollbree two or r 00 , 1 i n gjLeppoi day L tiji' lurs . 00 , k vero , d the di f dig ' ores ° 1.. s tation e r t of he rer l tr t o they ` 0 1 the o ' ll o o Lid mous e° it but,,. ;ing b ~ ; Les,o-0,j0: ey 1e ti p; 1 o 0 dwel t "itee conk i n e li the ailed lope Hon., e he son, 8 ' el ill he )f No° , g iis riot t/.., s es) the b . ° es). nd ot livid , fIP JO i de Ti!n vp -, tia airma a dot firemen 31f, which j ,ll l le Ic °r ion, be gr: red• tors f Dir` t o -nt.l4 t so ,ll ' s' )5. 14 - )tr' ; 1 11 1 ; I)lk,.foi , t irY tj;.% Potiti o t aur sdaY a man named Butterworth, aged 32, drop- La hn j,u dead whilst following his employment at Mr. se4ro!twery in Oriel -street. liarti ri ,: t r ,w,otnen were engaged digging sand up near St. one o f ti", C h men on Thursday, when a large mass fell . on 0,`,1e,13, named Mary Kennedy, who soon after died. of w oman, named Charlotte Cragie, eighty years Weein-1_1:410 lived in Lower Tranmere, died suddenly on on after partaking of a hearty tea. in Regen t da Y week, Ann Feeney, wife of a person living tip; and was put to b ed i n a state o f intoxica liiti',e next mornin g was found dead. of h eci, e case of the death of a child caused by falling out tt he he ion, returned a verdict of accidental death, hav e rgeo ll statin g th at a piece of earthenware might Tprodueed the injuries of which de:eased died ClinA a i nn ual meetin g of the Preston Auxiliary . to the Rev f i t,, ssie riarY Association wa s h e ld l a st night. The Prose j ni — parry and H. Carpenter were announced to be Th e f 5 east er, ce of 'Vice-Chan ce ll or o f th e D uc hy of Lan- ItyL,4ocant by the death of Mr. Twiss, has been given Q ueen , Campbell, the Chancellor, to Mr. Page Wood, Sir Counsel, an d M.P. for Oxford. torah e ' r go Grey has written to the senate of the Uni t% bof London, authorising them to receive certificates 416 4• Mus Pratt for the purpose of graduation in me- T RE • NT 1 1•Or tA) ',on? BLOWING CEREUS (CACTUS GRAND'. Zeali sPecimen of this wonder of the vegetable ' 4 4 () U . is growing in the gardens of Charles Tayleur, State field House - - 11 01: i‘' e u of the 44-inch conduit pipes, intended for the tived heeirtinguished " Rivington water scheme, have ar tee of re ' an d may be seen by the curious on a vacant th el i rd near Wallasey Pool, hired for that purpose dab s„,, ate Committee. ua t i e tx THE AMPHITHEATRE.—On ith Saturday night, the gVie Performance in the Ampheatre, a man . in rott, wh et: , suddenly dropped down dead. He was carri itnd th e n it was found that his name was James Sco t e t d of` at he li ved in Norris -street, in the neighbourhood T h t ingto ri B ush. V e l s h team shiP Caledonia, Captain Leitch, sailed from of - "Ro ti e t " e Y, on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, carry passe pa sse 4 7 , 5 ,000 specie on freight, and a fair complement •oo hi veers Y r e Th Caledonia has been recently tho- T ePaired. p e ty ko„ v. Charles Henry Burton, M.A., incumbent of ana,a,,'"P's Church, inthis town, has had presented to ;Ilerahn'enYmously, for the use of the above church, by a alril,'„.oe members of his congregation, el t eg x a t n s seleciarl,olles," elaborately carved in oak ! and . wi h e e , roar g i n t: from the " offertory sentences," inscribed on h at'd beautifully illuminated. !filieltu4'erioN FROM MANCHESTER.—In the ship Blake, uked ~,s a iled hence on Friday for New Orleans, were a t d 4O Youthful adventurers, chiefly clerks mid shop- !heelssit Manchester, many of whom have relinquished ,h -Pe i es and, with all the funds they could collec l t, t P e r ceedinv• via' N Orleans to Texas. They ar . e . near y AN z et°tali e 4 , and appeared ew full of health and spirits. , ta st‘ we ED S IMPLETON.—At Carmarthen workhouse, ; `Qat lv a Major Bowen, the auditor of accounts, observed 41 (lti t Z a uPer of Llangedeirne parish, aged 92, had been Rioat i — ",to leave this country for California ! ! ! The old ti ve ' t w oo was a Mormonite, or Latter Day Saint, reached 4 °l . in safety, and is, doubtless, now on the high lon et ii' ins way to this celebrated emporium of wealth and pk keti l '• tE ßlDAN CARGO.—Speaking of the splendid ew 1 04 iill°11) Constellation, recently launched, „the N am. , t° °th ib l i ) ,,Ping List of the 14th ultimo say . s, m 'Ph D . ''.et leaves our Dort this morning on her first 'or Liverpool, with the following enormous cargo, V °lll , 37 463 bushels • wat, 8,800 bushels otton, 1,697. barrels; potash, 53 barrels; pork, 480 ti -re 's ; bread, 190 barrels ; rosin, 541 barrels ; beef, 8 ,4 :l e es; cedar, 100 logs; bacon, 332 bales, 111 boxes, o c k casks ; hams, 189 casks ; cheese. 623 boxes ; vi s ' 9,,, ; staves 3,000 ; gun-stocks, 2,000; fine goods, liorv4^nees. The' great bulk of this cargo, it will he t ob- f i' s composed of heavy goods, the dead weight ''lrr e i a bout 2,000 tons, and equal in bulk to 1 , O t I'4, inss The ship however, is not full, her owners nn 'eet, ~,,0 make her draught greater than twenty-three Iniv e - " 4 1 she now draws." This magnificent vessel d at Liverpool on Sunday.] toIv, IL A N ERS' SAFETY BOXES.—In reat fiye at Gins tisiqnislcssrs. Boyds saved their books, owing Messrs. s t r h a e 3 til hei , e ,"?e powers of resisting heat possessed by Je w s in oth., s Invaluable safety boxes. We find t ‘ he fo of the loa p - of the fact in the Glasgow Herald:— " Some . o t th e sp ans • in Messrs. Boyds' works, and a small piece a 'lcluW - a-cast end of their works, are saved, but all else, the ling W right's large five-story sugar house. 4 ted e . Btc., ain ar w e destroyed._ T . he Messrs. Boyd . s' ot e of ‘eir books. by reason . of their being enclosed in \ ,. t hese „Iliners' safes—a testimony to the us . efulees of 4 os e ,.lLicieB which we have much pleasure_ at r' all day, the firemen were engaged in throwing th ey Ott t he smoking, and still partially blazing ruin; ttooa Presented a most lamentable spectacle. Nothing hi stan aue ve ground b u t the bare outer walls, and in some the hit these h a d crum bl e d awa y f rom the intensi▪ ty of t _ ll4 o t while below lay charred beams and rafters, tI L - P t ring material, and masses of iron machinery, Tu—v, twisted into every conceivable shape." the itI t t n YEATHER.—The present—the virgin—month of rbti m iler, has hitherto presented few or none of those_ sh t il e a features in sunshine and warmth by which she ettlsn—v"Y distinguised. We have had generally a cloudy 14 %4 B kY, and a degree of e cod, cold, from winds smacking 1/ 1 1 ruts of the east, which form an exception to the gene n; „ Indeed we may here remark that, taking the g et N't ule Present year from its commencement. we do Noliee'rnsioentab(eir having . ex te p rr er u ienced, in this quarter, such a pted) of harsh easterly winds. ter oo B44d aY a =in n v inn however, a favourable change of Il e ra tul'e took place. The wind fell almost to a calm, Fi tch soft showers fell till about midnight ; soon . after . , 13 , 4 : e avY rain fell till daylight yesterday, when it thtn -44 ' 4 Y,. The wind had changed to the western hemis i?opn',4 puring the day, vegetation, so long retarded, took t . ' —l start nd it might be said that things migh 71d h t i fairly to gr a ow. The wheats pusses, and other %%Prince look beautifully' verdant,' and, with a succes sulishine and showers, we may anticipate fine crops. `P Orela HOUSE FOR CALIFORNIA.— An extensive iron l l it o se' a l n se d hze o just been a m leted by Messrs. E. , of M e n o che n ster, for Messrs. Pyßand °f Liverpool, who are about to establish a branch Z l 4O. 8 areasco The dimensions of the etalli ll i feel ; ,_ . follow :— . Extreme length 60 feet ;width, ;b i t o g .r e ght to the under side of the eaves, 10 feet ; leeh f ..l: 7a ak of roof 17 feet. There is an iron division irdea frab~,e, one end, and the . smaller compartment is in oe used as a dwelling-house or office. A strong )hick f eat- e forms the foundation, on the top edge of ;Poili b i:7_ screwed down moulded base plates of cast iron. *ltli e - 2, end s , partition, and roof are made principally t7eitt'u r light ir n of the T section, set at distances of teet " rt e. ; to these are bolted sheets of iron one i;htit;er, an in a ch in thickness, which are joined to each s l Ottki;," inP joints, by bolts. The whole of the doors . and a re j made' f wrought-iron, and the windows, .entilat il o , rain-pipes, and gutters are of cal ~e v ‘ le believe t at the . entire structure has been fitted uP in a fortnight. It is now at a yard in A ttoa Bush t,led : 4 11 1 , • j: T REATRE.—During the past week a gentleman ci -e wes has been performing some of the principal lf,' e t"rii e y rs of Shakspear's tragedy. Mr. Lewes has some tl, 4l lilibes au author, and is also favourably known to ti lp i Li ve no one of the amateurs who performed in Lon Cr ani elsewhere to prom u o u t s e e. the design of the ev eli ? . e the Warwickshire bard's house. On Thurs hr,Oart the play was . " The Vlerchant of Venice," vOr in ,"' Shylock being played by Mr. Lewes. The oh'Y lii,„nee was respectable, but never exceeded what a 4° l l4,°.ere actor might achieve. Considering the few witi ities the debutant has had of familiarising him -41,0v,:`4" the foot-lights, and an assemblage .. of people ft... °l 4,,,Plinci, and above those mystic jets of gas, he " t ench aptitude for the higher walks of the pro- Oli at Still, looking at the performance as an earnest Otis We cultivated genius proposes to offer a i publ a ic dv who t ° essed the displays of a Kean ands A. acre , i k„-'15.4 h e looked n a failure. Mr. Lewes may have a ' e ePti o f eh s era n cter, and be able to give a tolerably C . I . g ° , T t o ut he lacks many of the essentials of the W.t top is j il , otcP.nSED M URDE RER, JOHN GLEESON WILSON. , lt it isknown,is in custody at Kirkdale, Tot ,"yo jY,riurdered Mrs. Henrichson, of Leveson-street, l't l. 4l 4ldren, and servant maid. Since his committal !)1 A f e w conduct generally has been peaceable in pri -144 into days since, however, one of the keeers w t a o_o k k . N' the ,4 0 the yard to have a walk. As tliey were 1 11 10 1 01, 1380 11er observed some hammers left by I . abou_r- N'e a h ,"a i d been working in the yard, upon which he pt ed~" s a and seized one of them. The keeper instanty t he b asPed him by the back, and held him fast ; she began - tO kick, strike, and bite, and was in ea "erPowering the keeper. when two ofthewprti i e llity tn reef=rtunately to his assistance. The three and h s„ained him until further help came, an . on ti l ' a tt t t e.d he lamented much that he had not a knife, e; Il e he had had one be would have ripped them w as then m anac l e d, upon which he stated that ( n Mi nn not eat anyt hi ng f or t h ree d ays . H e k e pt hi▪ sex_ . - lit k ithe feu re solve, and for three days never tasted t fuud _ a. tl i tt h day, however, he demanded his . vie ua t l i , ah:kled it:Usual allowance being brought to him, he e -14d h "le arrears, and that the three days' supply e give I t N en to him at once ! thl k • MEASURES.—The first yearly report of them, ha be, —, ‘ugh, 'ell, detailing the proceedings of his establish -Ist and measab lish ures - to4'st ion been _published. The report extends from tin le . p•Pril, 1 848, to the 31st of March, 1849. During t,14,70X244 weights have been adjusted, and these p r ° Pounds weight of lead and iron to bring them te kt com, °Per 11_ Weight the average deficiency being t (1 4 10 11% out-doo; inspectors visited 10,213 shops and tot:thou:B, mid examined . 9l,3B9 weights and measures. t'tat the ma ns and six persons have been summoned be- Wei. a Yor for being in possession of false or unequal ro,.ests "to, and measures, and amerced in penalties 1p ou 11,410untin to £919 Gs Gd. Of 2157 grocers and de outing visited, g 403 'have been convicted for 11 %1 4 1. oli g t weights orsca les • of 673 butchers, 78 have desi of 433 bakers; 35 were convicted ; of 117 Itt,ei.meale-resro3,‘lB were convicted`; of 95 fishmongers and Z t lY t e °4l4 f ,t, Were convicted • and of 39 brewers, 10 'll -4(171"'"• Amongst 1321 9 licensed victuallers, we ip pa, convictions, and only one amongst 306 milk koti'eotin„"l looki ng further into the report, we find that milk ofd Lime. Ward there were 257, in Vauxhall Ward 110, V l l ‘4 es t t ae ' st reetWard 106 convictions. The expenses ol 4114shrnent last year were X 27,08 12s. 10d. ; 4 8ti ., 18 were for alterations, and other matters out ourse. The receipts anlo/lotecl N 43050 ss. 6d. We are sorry to learn that the Bishop of Madras is compelled, by delicacy of health, to relinquish his inten tion of attending the anniversary of the Church Mission ary Society in Liverpool, on Sunday, the 20th instant. We understand the Bishop of Chester will preside at the public meeting, on Tuesdey evening, May 22nd,. in the Collegiate Institution, and that the Bishop (elect) of Rupert's Land, the Rev. T. K. Birks, and the Rev. A. Boyd, are expected to preach some of the missionary sermons. BIRKENHEAD HOTEL.—We have already noticed the opening of this beautifully-situated hotel ; but having since had an opportunity of thoroughly inspecting it in every department, we feel convinced, as our cursory no tice but faintly conveyed an idea of the numerous im provements, we need offer no apology for again reverting to the subject. The Royal Birkenhead Hotel has for years been esteemed, not only for its situation, its beauti ful marine view, but for the excellence of its management; but latterly it has fallen into the bands of Mr. Jones, a gentleman in every way qualified to add importance to its character as a place of public resort. The Birkenhead Hotel, as the property of the burgesses of Liverpool, cer tainly deserves their support; but it is still more com manded by the exertions of the enterprising host. There is not a room in the house that is not splendidly furnished, yea, some of them elegantly. - The viands are of the choicest kinds, and the wines are not only of first class, but are cellared most admirably, and all charged at prices below many common taverns. The green is in excellent order ; the gardens (public and private) are completely altered, and equally improved ; and to them are added excellent quoiting grounds. Indeed, nothing is wanting to secure the success of this hotel but constant boats ; and we are sorry to learn that, after the investment of so large a capital, the running of one of the boats was discontinued on the very day that the hotel was opened. DINNER AND PRESENTATION TO MR. COUNCILLOR HARBORD. — The electors of Great George Ward, and other burgesses of this town, friends and admirers of the independent, manly, and straightforward conduct of Henry Gordon Harbord, Esq., since he accepted the office of representative of Great George Ward, invited that gentleman to a public dinner on Thursday evening, for the purpose of presenting him with a substantial mark of their esteem, in the shape of a handsome service of plate. To Mr. Joseph Mayer, of Lord-street, the com mittee appointed by the subscribers entrusted the design and arrangement of the plate. It consists of a complete coffee and tea service, which is of the Egyptian form, and beaded round the edges, with parcel engraved and bright tables ; six pint drinking-cups to correspond, and eighteen pairs of very elegantly-formed dessert knives and forks, in a satinwood case ; also a large-sized round salver or waiter, standing on feet, the border of which is formed of rich scrolls and shells, alternating with each other ; the table of the waiter is engraved with portions of the acanthus and scrolls, leaving a space in the centre on which is the following :—The crest, a lion couchant on a cap of maintenance, and under it the inscription— " PRESENTED TO " HENRY GORDON HARBORD, ESQ., " As a mark of the esteem in which he is held by the Electors of Great George Ward, and other Burgesses of Liverpool, for his manly, honest, and unflinching advocacy of their interests in the Town-Council. " JOHN SMITH, ESQ., Chairman. " WILLIAM WAGSTAFF, ESQ., Hon. Sec. " April, 1849." The dinner was served up in the large room of the Great George Tavern, Upper Pitt-street. Mr. Lawson proved himself a liberal caterer, the tables literally groaning under the weight of good things provided. About 70 gentlemen sat down, and great justice was done to the edibles. The chair was occupied by John Smith, Esq., and the vice-chairs by William Beattie and Joseph Cooke, Esqs. There were also present—John Taylor, William Hand, John Belshaw, William Rigby, R. T Reeves, Escott Richards, J. Rowlands, Daniel Baugh, Charles Callis, Richard Jackson, W. 0. Harbord, Thos. Thistle, Michael Alexander Gage, John Rea, Charles Batten, Ralph Knowles, Thomas B. Troughton, W. H. Ogden, Hugh Pierce, Thomas D. Halket, William Lawson, Thomas Pearson, and George Etches, Esqs. SPLENDID DEJEUNER ON BOARD THE GUY MAN NERING.—A most magnificent champagne lunch was given, on Tuesday last, on board this monster packet ship, at which nearly one hundred of the leaders of our mercantile marine were present, amongst whom we observed—R. S. Henderson, Esq., Chairman of the Dock Committee ' • Thomas Sands, Esq., Spooner Sands, Esq., J. Lockett, Esq., Admiral Grenfell, R. Houghton, Esq., R. Bateson, Esq., Wm. Jacques, Esq., John Finch, Esq., Francis Archer, Esq., Thos. Stitt, Esq., Jno. Shaw, Esq., W. S. Bird, Esq., Henry Barnes, Esq., Henry Higgins, Esq. Mr. Fisk, of Castle-street, was the caterer; and as no expense was spared by her highly-respected commander, Captain Edwards, or the outward consignee, Mr. John Taylor Crook, a collation was provided which for excellence, plenitude, or taste, is not outvied by anything we have hitherto had the pleasure of recording. The vessel was lying in the graving dock, for the purpose of being coppered ; and though the circumscribed space be tween her and the outer walls of the dock in some way prevented a free admission of light to her 'tween decks, which were thrown open for public inspection, it afforded the advantageous opportunity of viewing her beautiful mould—a theme of general conversation and approval. Even under the disadvantage of being hemmed between two walls, her main and lower decks were, we may say, better lighted than most ordinary dwellings ; and the mode of ventilation, which was explained by the com mander, left no doubt on the minds of those present that, in her construction, duo value had been entertained of those important tributaries of health at sea—light and air. After the profusion of viands that piled the tables had been removed, a variety of toasts conducive to the cultivation of the commerce of this and our sister country, and appropriate to the festival, were proposed and responded to by the gentlemen present. Success to the Guy Mannering and her noble commander," "The consignees and owners," and " England and America," were amongst the most important. The replies of Captain Edwards (who is so popularly esteemed as the successive commander of the Sea, the Ivanhoe, and the Marmion), Mr. Bird, Mr. Spence, Mr. J. T. Crook, and others, were listened to with much attention, indeed the proceed ings throughout were not only gratifying, but had the marked character of conveying the truly liberal feeling of reciprocity and respect which exists between the English and the American merchant. At about five o'clock the com pany separated, all expressing their delight of the mam moth ship, the excellence of the entertainment, and the intellectual hilarity that had pervaded the meeting. A description of the Guy Mannering appeared in our paper of the 2d inst., and she is one of the largest vessels that ever entered the port—being calculated to carry nearly 1,000 passengers, in addition to cargo—we may state that she may now be seen in the Prince's-dock until Monday next, her appointed day of sailing. THE LIVERPOOL TOWN Misstort.—ln the autumn of 1848, two of the missionaries, in the south end of the town, through the kind and munificent aid of two bene volent ladies, were enabled to establish in their districts two Ragged Schools, in which food is supplied to poor boys and youths, in addition to education. Each of these schools is held on two evenings in the week, and the rooms are open in the day time as reading-rooms—a privilege of which many of the scholars avail themselves, one of them generally reading, while the others listen. The class of persons benefited by these schools may be judged of from the following fact :—A few weeks ago, an aged female, of abandoned character, was apprehended by the police on the charge of receiving stolen goods. On being conveyed in a cart through the streets in a state of intoxication, she shamelessly boasted to her neighbours that she was going to have a sail at the Queen's expense, alluding to the punishment of transportation. This wo man was a mother, and her children were eyewitnesses of her degradation. The missionary, in reporting this case, says, " This old woman has a son, about fourteen years of age, at the school. He has just finished his letters." The other missionary says, " My Ragged School has been very encourag ing , the average attendance being about seventy. I have had to dismiss two boys. I found that, with all entreaty and kindness, they were bent upon mischief. This is discouraging ' • but there has been a wonderful improvement in the habits and manners of the boys since the commencement of the school. Addresses have been delivered, and anecdotes have been related, and they have listened with deep attention. lam fully convinced of the necessity of such schools, and would be glad to find the Christian public heartily taking up this good work." That which constitutes the distinguishing characteristic of the labours of the Town Mission is the system of visiting from house to house. Fourteen hun dred visits, on an average, are weekly made to the dwel links of the poor, for reading the Scriptures, religious conversation, and prayer. And thus multitudes, who never enter a place of worship, hear those divine threat enings against sin, and those invitations of the Gospel of peace, which would otherwise probably never engage their attention from the beginning of the year to the end of it. The weekly number of meetings in rooms and dwelling houses is about eighty. The attendance at some of these meetings, of persons who probably attended no place of worship, is greater than in some of our stated places of worship ; and the efforts of the people who have been benefited by them to confer similar benefits upon their poor neighbours show the value they attach to them. In one meeting, at which the attendance often amounts to two hundred, the poor people have, within the last twelve months, contributed, out of their abundant poverty, up wards of £26 towards the funds of the Town Mission. — Report. LOCAL MEETINGS. CHURCHWARDEN AND SIDESMAN.—A special general vestry was held on Thursday, when Mr. Thomas Dover was elected churchwarden, in the place of the late Mr. Poole ; and Mr. Harmood Banner was elected a sidesman, to supply Mr. Dover's vacancy. SELECT VESTRY.—On Tuesday the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the charges b roug ht aga i ns t th e late Workhouse Committee, in connexion with articles supplied to the Workhouse, met for the first time. Nearly all the members of the committee were present. Air. W. Earle was appointed chairman. Mr. Callis appeared be fore the committee, and the various charges were gone into. After a sitting of upwards of two hours, the com mittee adjourned. The report will be presented, to-day, at the Select Vestry meeting. WAVERTREE.—At a meeting of ratepayers on Tuesday, it was resolved to form a main sewer from the lamp-post in the centre of the space near the pond, and to be con tinued towards Liverpool, along the main road, a length of 800 yards, without any junction with the sewers of Liverpool, and under the present management of the Highway Board. The cost of the sewer, with all the contingencies, including a large tank for the reception of the refuse of the soil,. was estimated at £l,OOO, which sum it was proposed to spread over three years' collec tion. A committee was appointed to carry out thareso lution. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—It was ordered that the Brunswick, Union, and Coburg docks s/ c. 0.41. be run dry on the 20th instant, subject to the usu*.notice,being gpien.—The Committee of Costs wore ordgrea to..proceed. with the construction of sheds round the Nelson and.. Bramley-Moore docks.—The men employed at the land ing-stage were ordered to be sworn in as special consta bles.—A memorial was received from Mr. W. R. Col borne, and numerous inhabitants of New Brighton, Egre-- mont, and Seacombe, complaining of the inconvenience and danger of the present arrangements at the new land ing-stage ; the memorialists suggested that the northern ferry-boats should have the berths at the north end of the stage, and not be, as at present, changed about according to the state of the tide. Mr. Mann thought the great evil was from the Woodside boats running at short inter vals, and not keeping the half-hours. The matter was, after a short conversation, referred to the Marine Com mittee, and that Mr. Mann's suggestion be taken into consideration. Mr. Holme said the irregularity, as it was called, of the Woodside boats, was a great accommoda tion to the public, and every facility should be hfforded to them.—On the motion of Mr. Nicol, the accounts of the Albert Dock warehouses recently laid before the council, were referred to the Committee of Warehouse Manage ment for them to report upon. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday the usual. weekly meeting of the above board was held at the Work house, Everton. Present, Messrs. Roskell, (chairman,) W. B. Jones, Harrison, Shaw, Ledger, Isaac Edwards,, Betteley, John Birch, Smith, Sidney, James Birch, Bol shaw, Medcalf, Pilkington, Walker, Lightbody, Burton, Batten, and the Rev. Mr. Badnall. A long, warm, and noisy discussion took place respecting the opposition of the overseers of the West Derby township, to the appoint ment of Mr. Whitehead as assistant-overseer, during which Mr. Sidney said that he was of opinion that such objec tion tended greatly to lower the usefulness of the board. —Mr. Walker said they had the example of Toxteth park to guide them. In 1843 or 4 the guardians appointed an assistant-overseer for that township. The appoint ment, however, did not meet with the approval of the overseers, who petitioned the Poor Law Commis sioners, and they allowed the overseers to set aside the election of the guardians and to choose their own officer. He thought it would be quite consistent and legal for them to follow the example of Toxteth-park. He (Mr. Walker) was of opinion that by making such appointments the board was doing much to lower itself. —Mr. Badnall rose to order; he could not allow such expressions to be made use of.—Mr. Walker with drew the term, and explained that Mr. Whitehead bad for some time been canvassing for a situation under the board. A short time since, when Mr. Shaw's situation, as assistant overseer, was likely to become vacant, Mr. Whitehead was canvassing. Had the rate-papers of West Derby known earlier of the choice about to be made, they would have strongly objected to it. He thought that the honorary overseers ought to have something to say in the matter, as the assistant overseer was to them in the light of a private secretary.—Mr. Smith objected on the same grounds.—Mr. Ledger also objected to the appointment, contending that it was not fair or legal that any appoint ment in the gift of the guardians should be given to an individual member.—The Rev. Mr. Badnall was of a con trary opinion.—After some further discussion of a perso nal, angry, and noisy character, the subject dropped.— The clerk said that there was a great deal of statistical in formation to be furnished by the returning officers of the Union to the Poor Law Board. He had not been able to get the necessary statistics from Mr. Allen, the relieving officer for the township of West Derby. This arose from the greatly increased nature of his duties. The clerk then read a note from Mr. Allen, which stated that he had weekly to visit no fewer than 612 families, consisting of 1973 persons, expending a sum of £lO3 18s. It was agreed that Mr. Allen should procure an assistant, for one month, at a salary of one guinea per week, and the mat ter was referred to a committee to be formed of the guar dians of the district in which Mr. Allen's labours lie. It was moved by the Rev. Mr. Badnall, and seconded by Mr. Sidney, that the Rev. Thomas Moore be appointed chaplain to the workhouse. It was moved by Mr. Bat ten, and seconded by Mr. Betteley, that the Rev. Mr. Matthias be appointed chaplain. On a show of hands, Mr. Matthias was elected chaplain, the numbers being, for Mr. Moore 7, Mr. Matthias 11. The board then adjourned. SPECIAL METING OF THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.-THE WATER DEBATE. A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the Polytechnic Society was held on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of Messrs. Simpson and Newlands on the subject of water supply for the borough. The president, WM. MILNER, Esq., presided on the occasion ; and, after a few remarks from him and Mr. BENNETT. on the importance of the question, Mr. C. F. SALT, the secretary, read a pretty lengthy abstract of Messrs. Simpson and Newlands' re port, and the discussion was commenced by Mr. C. J. SMITH, who defended the society from im putations and sneers which had been cast upon it by cer tain parties at the Town-hall for its interference on this important subject. He also demonstrated, from various papers read and discussions held in that room on this question, that the opinions expressed by the society were quite in accordance with, and fully borne out by, the able report then before the meeting. He cordially agreed with the report, and trusted that the Council would adopt those portions of it which bore upon an immediate im provement in our present supply, leaving the ulterior measures proposed an open question for future considera tion. _ _ _ Mr. GRANTHAM, C.E., next addressed the meeting. He was of opinion that the able and lucid report of Messrs. Simpson and Newlands—a report which was in every way worthy of the men who had drawn it up— would put an extinguisher on the Rivington Pike scheme for ever. (Hear, and applause.) He, however, did not approve of their putting down one plan merely for the purpose of propagating another ; and therefore he was of opinion that they should first ascertain to a certainty what amount of water their present works, if put into an efficient state. both as regarded machinery and manage ment, could raise, before they proceeded to spend even the £300,000 alluded to in the report. He thought such an expenditure was quite uncalled for; and Mr. G. entered into some calculations to show that with a very moderate outlay, say £60,000, we could make the present works yield us an abundance of water for the next eight or ten years. He warned the public not to be led away by the convenient handle made of the water required for watering the streets and flushing the sewers,; they had ample means at their hand to supply any quantity of water for that pur pose. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. R. JEFFERY said that in considering the scheme submitted by Mr. Hawksley, it presented itself under four heads. The first was that when reservoirs were formed, would the water be there ? secondly, would the quality of the water be as good as that we had enjoyed for years ? thirdly, could the works be constructed at the expense set down ? and fourthly, was there any man breathing could estimate the compensation we would be called upon to give. year by year, and every year, to the end of time ? (Loud applause.) These four questions had presented themselves very powerfully to his mind, and he had not been able individually to solve any of them. He had felt that to sacrifice the beautifully pure water we had here, would be to make a sacrifice not to he estimated. _ Mr. JOSEPR BOULT, after v. few general remarks, ana lysed at length and replied to Mr. Hawksley's strictures on the report of Messrs. Simpson and Newlands. He quite agreed with Mr. Grantham that it would be wrong to enter into any new project now, or until the efficiency of their present wells had been fully tested. (Hear.) Mr. SPENCER said no one who knew the geology of Liverpool ever doubted that a much larger supply of water might be got from the red sandstone. (Hear, and ironical applause.) It was not the first time he had stated so. (" Oh !oh !") In the report he drew up for the Corporation in 1846, he had stated so emphatically. But, at the same time, he had showed, from long experience, that the water was always becoming less and more dete riorated in quality. Mr. BENNETT was glad to find that Mr. Spencer altering his views on this subject. (Hear, and appla w as Mr. SALT was glad to hear from Mr. Spencer tha use.) could get plenty of water from sandstone. (Applaut they Mr. SMITH then made a few observations, which se.) the discussion, after it had lasted for three hours closed half. and a- TUE LIV`•R'ILP'OOL STANDARD. in the pound in the shape of churchrate. The produce of this was not sufficient for the ordinary repairs and in cidental expenses of the church, and, if it were collected by itself, would certainly not cover the expense of collec tion. Accordingly, the churchwardens did not cAlect the rate, but defrayed their expenses out: of various other resources,—among the rest, out of the: revenue arising from the hire of four parish hearses. Three of these hearses were in use at a time, and therefore three only were taxed. But being compelled to apply the profits of the hearses to the current expenses of the church—the provision of bread and wine for the sacraments. and so forth—the churchwardens were unable to pay the govern ment taxes for 1848-9, amounting to £lo`: l 4s. 6d. The consequence of this has been that the other day the four hearses—certainly three of them were not in the best condition—were seized and sold for £lO 114. 24 ! And thus one decent, and, in bad weather and for long dis tances, almost indispensable means of conveying the remains of their deceased relative, and friends to the parish grave yard, is denied to the people of Rochdale by the patriotic haters of the church, at whose head is Mr. Bright. One would have supposed that the church wardens might have prevented this final and most dis gusting outrage; but we are not to forget the recent successes in the parish vestry of " Tom Livesey" and Mr. Bright's other subordinates in agitation. The con sequence of that success is, that with the exception of the vicar's warden, the churchwardens now in office are Socialists and Chartists, or little better. The ~ t could not, therefore, be expected to protect the church from insult, or the feelings of churchmen from outrage. They have another and a totally opposite part to play,—probably, among other things, to provide Mr. Bright with " facts" for the ears of a parliament. Well, now here is a " fact," " damning," not to the church, but to its enemies in Rochdale. We wonder whether friend Bright will be moved to make use of it when next the subject of church rates is broached in the House of Commons !—Manches ter Courier. WHO'LL BE A MEMBER ? OR, A KEW MODE OF RAISING THE WIND Every age and community has had its peculiar impos ture—its particular mode of raising the wind. The unwary have been duped by all kinds of false wares, from popish indulgencies down to painted sparrows, from the elixir vitae to galvanized rings. We have lived, however, to see a new sort of commodity dealt in by the clever practitioner in the art of humbugging—to see a seat in our reformed House of Commons hawked from door to door, or counting-house to counting-house, of our mer chants and tradesmen, with the same insinuating mystery as " real lace" and " French silks and gloves, warranted smuggled," are occasionally offered to the notice of their ladies. " Nice snug constituency, sir—only four hundred voters—majority safe—your eloquence, sir, great experi ence in public business—sure to make a hit in the house," and similar persuasions, are breathed into the ear of the intended victim, whilst he blushes, and his heart beats at the honour paid him by the discerning deputation, and the equally discerning constituency who sent them. " Must have read my last speech," is the flattering thought of the assailed ; and for awhile he is, in imagination, walking down to the honk, just dropping in on the way to speak to Palmerston, at the Foreign-office, or Sir James, at the Exchequer, or exchanging how d'ye do's with the Premier himself. The deputation, having tickled their trout, try to hook him. " Expense a mere trifle, sir—the hustings— twenty or thirty down for placards and address—a mere trifle, sir—sure to be returned," &c. A few parting bows on both sides, and the first interview terminates, to be followed up or not, according to circumstances. In nine cases out of ten the intended victim goes home an inch or two taller. He has been offered a seat in the house ! A case of this description has recently come to our knowledge, in which a gentleman of our town was thus obligingly offered parliamentary honours. He was not ambitious, however; and fancied that he smelt a rat. In short, be thought that the privilege of contributing the " mere trifle" to the deputation was that chiefly sought to be conferred upon him, and he declined the offer. Another gentleman of similar political opinions —conservative, we understand—was in the same way waited on, with the same result. So far, we might have regarded the transac tion as legitimate; and the borough offered—Rochdale — did itself no discredit in either of the selections. But we remembered that the same borough was recently said, by one of our contemporaries, although since contradicted, to have been offered to two whig-radicals, Messrs. William Rathbone and William Earle ; and the question therefore arises, is this constituency really thus hawked, like had mackarel, to be sold at any price, to any buyer—is Roch dale really in the market, crying, after the Scotch fashion, " Wha wants me ?"—or are the alleged deputation Jere my Diddlers, playing a new version of " Raising the wind ?" FACTS AND CONSEQUENCES, DEDICATED TO THE ADMIRERS OF FREE TRADE That capital or wealth is accumulated labour. That the government taxation in this country is much heavier than in any other. That the local taxation is ditto ditto. That the poor's rate is ditto ditto. That the capital of this country is increasing every year. That, therefore, the taxes cannot he paid out of the capital ; consequently, it must be the labour that pays them. . . That, consequently, labour in this country cannot com pete with that in countries where the taxes are light, and where there are no poor-rates. TLat almost the only articles in which we can success fully compete with the foreigners are Manchester goods, and that is only owing to the superiority of the machinery, which has been brought to a degree of perfection to which foreigners have not yet attained. That the comparatively untaxed foreign labour must supplant our heavily-taxed labour, even in the home market. That, therefore, the only classes which can possibly benefit by free trade are — The fundholders, who, receiving the same amount of dividend, will purchase foreign labour at a lower rate than British. The Government officials, and pensioners of every description, for the same reason. The MANCHESTER MILLOWNER, who may have more foreign demand for his manufactures, but who will most certainly procure labour cheaper, in conse quence of the thousands of men its other trades, that will be thrown out of employment. His agents in Liverpool, or elsewhere. BALLINGRY. EttWirt I/MO. The Earl of Ellesmere has directed the building of a commodious church for the seamen visiting Runcorn. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant - of Lancashire (Lancashire Hussars), William Edwards Hughes, gent., to be Cornet. MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF DESIGN.—A Henry, Esq., M.P. for the southern division of this county, has headed a subscription now raising in aid of the funds of this useful institution. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM.—At a quarter past one o'clock on Monday morning, a young man, 17 years of age, the son of Mr. John Topping, but cher, was met by Police-officer Pollard, in a state of nu dity, on the Bolton and Bury road, walking towards Bol ton at a rapid speed. He was so fast asleep that when the policeman stopped him, he was unable to awake him. A happy thought struck him, however, and turn ing the sleeper's face towards Bury, he walked him to the police station, where he was placed before a warm fire. Here every means likely to awake him was carried out without success, and at last he was taken home by his mother and servant still asleep.—Manchester Courier. INGENIOUS FRAUD.—A person, named John Hartley, was brought up at the Manchester Borough Court, on Sa turday, charged with carrying on an extensive system of fraud. It seems that he has written to great numbers of the nobility and gentry, claiming .£1 ls. from each as the amount of their subscription to a work which he dubbed " The Beauties of Yorkshire," and threatening legal pro ceedings if the money were not paid. This produced de nials that they had ever wen or heard of such a work or subscription list, and further correspondence ended in an offer to cut out the person's own autograph signature from the subscription list, though spoiling the book, as proof positive. This challenge was in several instances aecepted. Mr. John Hartley then quietly cut the signature from the letter of his dupe, (or cut the name from the commence ment of the note, if written in the third person)—took some precaution to prevent its being detected whence it came—forwarded it to the writer, and in return received, by postoffice order or otherwise, the quota claimed. The officer, Mr. Beswick, stated that another mode of fraud adopted by the prisoner was, to select advertisements of notices to the creditors of persons deceased, and to send in claims, for goods delivered, to the executor or solicitor, as the case might be. There was reason to believe that by these means he had, in many cases, obtained different sums of- money to which he bad not the- slightest claim. The prisoner was remanded. ENMITY TO THE CHURCH IN RoannAvg.—The bitter hostility towards the church in Rochdale of the party at the head of which Mr. John Bright, delighteth to place himself, is-at length beginning to tell upon the people in a manner to shock the feelings,and rouse. the indignation of even the-most callous. Cur,readers are possibly aware that the. church-haters havklatterlyellowed.bet.Aarthing, THE IRISH IMMIGRATION. Our stipendiary magistrate, a few days since, addressed a letter to the secretary of State, in which, after alluding to the immense number of Irish paupers landed here in 1847, and the immediate results of this accumulation of misery, he says :—" I believe I have, in my former letters to you, stated my conviction that the pressure of this miserable population would materially affect the health and character of our own labouring classes; my worst anticipations have been realized. I am unfortu nately enabled, by the result of my daily experience, to show you how much the health of the people has suffered ; and I am also enabled, by exact details, to show you how graatly the Irish misery has increased crime in" Liverpool, In the year 1846, 18,171 prisoners were brought before the Police-court; in 1847 the number increased to 19,719; and in 1848 a further increase took place, and the num bers were 22,036. In the year 1845 the number of per sons committed for trial and summarily , convicted for fe lony amounted to 3,899 ; in 1846 the number increased to 4,740 ; in 1847, to 6,510 ; and in 1848, to 7,714. Ido not possess the means of accurately distinguishing the countries to which the criminals belong before 1848. Previous to that time I had, however, directed my atten tion to the subject, and I saw from day to day that the poor Irish population, forced upon us in a state of wretch edness which cannot be described, would within twelve hours after they landed be found among one of three classes ; namely, paupers, vagrants, or thieves. Few be came claimants for parochial relief, for in that case they soon discovered they might at once be sent back to Ire land. Many of these forlorn creatures became beggars, many of them thieves. The number of Irish brought into the Police-court as prisoners during the year 1848 was 8,794 ; the number of Irish sent to trial or summarily convicted of felony during the same period, 4,661 ; the English during the same period were 5,104. Now the Irish form but about one-fourth of the population, and yet they give very nearly half the criminals. The truth is, that gaols, such as the gaols of the borough of Liverpool, afford the wretched and unfortunate Irish bet ter food, shelter, and raiment, and more cleanliness, than it is to be feared many of them ever experienced else where ; and hence it constantly happens that Irish va grants who have offered to them the choice of being sent to Ireland or to gaol, in a great majority of cases desire to go to prison; the fact being that the English gaols are excellent winter quarters for starving Irish paupers ; and, in consequence, the gaol of Liverpool, which ought never to contain more than 500 prisoners, has now 1,100 within its walls. The cost of all this to the people of Liverpool, both in the augmentation of parochial and of legal charges, is absolutely enormous. It cannot be surprising that the people of this place. who find the rates for the relief of the poor daily augmenting, can be satisfied under the pressure which they sustain : and the parishioners of Liverpool think they have a claim to such relief from their present intolerable burdens, as may be fair and practicable. Beyond all doubt the towns on the seacoast in Ireland, and many of the landed proprietors in Ireland, furnish the wretched Irish with the means of coming to Liverpool. I have often discovered this from the exami nation of the poor; and only the other day an Irish offen der, when asked where he came from, said he was sent with is. from the Irish workhouse to Liverpool. These poor people are brought from Ireland in crowds, on deck, even in most inclement weather; unfortunately few of us remember more severe weather in April than during the last week ; yet, from the 14th to the 19th instant, 4,412 deck passengers arrived in Liverpool from Ireland. " The people here think it right, under these circum stances, that they should have more protection than the existing law affords. In the first place, they think that the provisions of the Act for the. removal of Irish poor should be enlarged, so as to render all Irish persons who have been once removed to,lreland under the powers of that Act, and who again return to England and become chargeable, liable to ba punished as rogues and vaga bonds ; and they also think that powers ought to be given to remove to Ireland not only those who become charge able by receiving parochial relief, but also all who are found begging, or who have been convicted of felony. It is also deemed absolutely necessary that the Board of Trade should at once enforce, by the granting of certifi cates under the ..ket 11 land 12,.Vict. c. 81, the limitation of the number of xleck'passengers brought in steamers from Ireland. Thissis a measuretdemanded by common huma nity, as we as by sound: policy, as regards the towns of . ilcashimud.Yorkshires!" CORRESPONDENCE. THE ELECTION IN ST. ANNE'S. WARD , A:ND THE NATIONAL CONFEDEZATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. your last publication there is an article on the late election in St. Anne's Ward, in which. it is made to appear that the Confederation used its influence to return Mr. Freme because he was a Whig. This-statement is not consistent with the fact; and the Council of the Con federation are satisfied that you require only to be cor rectly informed on the subject to induce. you , to contra dict it. Referring to the circumstances of Mr. Driver having been named as a candidate, you say that "at the last hour we saw Mr. Dover's claims set aside, and a Whig candi date, Mr. Freme, adopted in his stead. Mr. Avison, a Whig, and quite as respectable as Mr. Freme, had been previously in the field ; but on Mr. Dover's name being announced, that gentleman's name was withdrawn. Mr. Dover, therefore, stood unopposed ; and,. upon his own merits, would have been triumphantly elected. Why a crusade was immediately commenced by the Confedera tion to procure a Whig candidate for the ward, and a por tion of the Conservative party were assenting parties to his nomination and return, we cannot fathom." The circumstances connected with the election, so far as the Confederation were concerned, are these. Mr. Avison was thought of in the first instance,. by several of the electors of St. Anne's Ward, as a fitting candidate. Mr. Freme was afterwards thought of ; and the Confede ration Ward Committee (composed of all classes of poli ticians, and representing all the interests in the ward), while fully recognising Mr. Avison's merits and general fitness, and having also Mr. Dover's claims before them, resolved on giving Mr. Freme the preference. Mr. Avi son at once withdrew, as he could not think of interfering with the choice of the Committee, or of attempting to create disunion. It was not, therefore, on Mr. Dover's name being announced that Mr. Avison withdrew, as stated by you, but on Mr. Freme having been determined on by the Ward Committee ; and it is to be presumed that Mr. Dover's name was withdrawn for the same reason, Mr. Dover. as the Council of the Confederation have occasion to know, being entirely averse to the taking of any steps which would lead to collision among the elec tors, or in any way peril the great local objects which the Confederation have in view. With respect to the general question of politics to which you refer, you may rest quite assured that the confedera tion entirely repudiate any sympathy with the one class or the other. They look on politics as the great 'Jane of social existence ; as " the madness of the many for the gain of the few." and they rejoice to find, what they have no doubt you will appreciate, that the electors have re solved on dealing with men and measures on some more intelligible ground than the worthless distinction of tory, whig, or radical. The present sufferings of the people, from heavy taxation and extravagant expenditure, remind them of their folly in being the dupes of the one or the other ; and their intention is, in time to come, to cast politics to the winds, and see to the management of their business, national and local, on an intelligible principle, as men of business should. _ The council of the confederation gladly avail themselves of this occasion, to tender to you their best thanks, for the able and valuable aid which you have uniformly afforded them in promoting the objects for which the electors_of Liverpool have confederated together to realize ; and I am, sir, yours respectfully, J. M. MACDONALD, Secretary. Confederation Rooms, Liverpool, May 11th, 1849. [We shall offer only a very few words of reply to the above communication. In the first place, with respect to the selection being the work of the Ward Committee and not that of the Confederation, we believe it is a generally well known fact that the former is only an offshoot of the latter. The Confederation operates through its ward committees, which are composed of members of the cen tral body. Next, with respect to the selection made, Mr. Avison, a Whig, " was thought of, in the first instance ;" mind, to succeed a Conservative. The total absence of political bias would have suggested that a Conservative in general politics should succeed a Conservative, his opinions on local questions being in accordance with those of the Confederation. " Mr. creme," also a Whig, we are told, " was afterwards thought of ;" but we are not told that Mr. Dover was not at that time in the field. We believe that be was : and, at any rate, it is acknowledged that at the time of the final selection his name and claims were fully before the Committee. That;Mr. Avison only with- drew after Mr. Frame had been fixed upon is an error of ours, it seems, but of little importance to the bearing of our remarks. The " distinction of Tory,',,Whiz, or Radi cal" may be quite as " worthless" as the Secretary of the Confederation terms them. But we must say that, in this election, they do not seem to have been very studiously disregarded. Mr. Dover, upon all the points of local politics, so far mooted by that body, was equally as fitting a representative for St. Ann's Ward as either the rejected or the approved Whig candidate.] ...--•-...4,11.-•-.-.-.. ANONYMOUS CIRCULAR. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST THE JEWS TO TEE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. DEAR SIR,—You would confer a great obligation upon the undersigned if you would kindly give the following a place in the next number of your journal. A few weeks ago a circular made its appearance, headed " The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. The object of the circular was, according to its statement, to submit to the principal office-bearers of that association several particulars, in connexion with the society's operations at home and abroad, for consideration and timely reformation. The circular is most studiously anonymous. Though it professes to emanate from " A Committee of Clergymen and of Subscribers to the above Society," still it eyes PC? Paw ;Cnatever so as to lead to the ascertaining of authors. Even the printer's name is unusually omitted. Copies of the circular seem to have been widely circulated, through the medium of the post, in different parts of the kingdom. I was also favoured with a couple of them. One, according to the post mark, came from London, and another from Liverpool. Under the dark and mysterious circumstances that the circular made its appearance, it was but natural that a spirit of conjecture should be excited. Some members of the pa rent committee of the above society received intimations, from some of their correspondents, that I was likely to have been a party to the printing and circulation of that document. Two very estimable and pious clergymen of that committee candidly wrote to me on that subject, and as I was totally ignorant of its origin. I answered their communication accordingly. I fondly hoped that my an swer would have set the question of my being a party to it at rest, and I should have heard nothing more about it. I am very sorry to say that I have been sadly disap pointed. Some parties seem to have taken particular pains, by letter and otherwise, to palm upon me the authorship of the circular in question, and I am daily sur prised by some communication on the subject. I feel it, therefore, my duty to state publicly that I solemnly pro test against the imputation of my having had anything , to do, either directly or indirectly, either with the print ing or circulating the document in question. The great Head of the Church has been graciously pleased to em ploy my fleeting moments more usefully than in scanning the reports of charity societies, and writing strictures on them. My high and holy office is to win souls for Christ, which pursuit is far more grateful to my feelings, aS a Christian minister, than to waste my time in inditing such suggestions as the circular contains, which can yield no other fruits than those of discord and strife. The fact is, that for the last two months I could not find half an hour's time for any other purpose but for parochial and ministerial duties, this being the largest district in the neighbourhood. Moreover, 1 positively aver that I never printed anything anonymously. and never wilt do it. I feel the most intense antipathy to anything done clandes tinely. I would not be a party to anonymous publication, even if the principal authors were of the highest order of the clergy. Should any of your readers happen to be connected with the issuing of that circular, they will now see, very plainly, their duty to come forward, and tell us who they are, in order to prevent innocent persons suffering for their work. A little reflection will convince the authors, that if they are indeed anxious to improve the condition of the management of the committee, their exertions will be more likely to prove successful if they fight with the supposed abuses openly, than when doing so in am bush. Verite sans peur is my motto, and should be the maxim of every Christian. I am sorry io be obliged to trespass so much on your valuable space, but I trust you will kindly bear with me when you take into consideration the seriousness of the charge against a Christian minister.—l am, Dear Sir, your obedient servant, MOSES MORGOLIOUTH, Curate of Tranmere, Higher Tranmere, May 11, 1849. STRIKING SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS The London correspondent of the Albion, after giving a most impartial opinion upon the speech ofLord Stanley upon the Navigation Bill, furnishes the following graphic ac count of the concluding portion of it. " The passage," he says, " where he mourned over the Duke's secession from the Protectionists, amounted to decided pathos; though undoubtedly much of the effect it produced arose from the broken voice of the speaker, the accents full of emotion, the frame under the influence of strong, sincere, and impromptu excitement, and, above all, the presence of the man addressed, rather than to any felicity either of idea or phraseology, for the words read tame. " This was the ' scene' of the debate. Every eye, every glass, in that vast and unsurpassable assembly—abounding as it did in all possible elements of inspiring thought and ennobling association, past, present, and future—was con centrated in the "focus alone of all the rays of fame"— the aged warrior on whose nod hung the fate of his Sovereign's Ministry, and who shall say what beside, in volved in that fate, at a moment like the present, when all the crowns his valour was supposed to have consolidated have crumbled and are crumbling into dust, and the Tiara itself, type of immutability as it was, is but the bauble of a mocking _rabble ? This was the scene of the night, and such ..a, scene as none may hope to see again till another Wellington and another Stanley enact the same parts. The Duke himself was moved :—" gnarled and unwedge . able oak" as he is ) he now at least exhibited some traits of "the soft myrtle." He sat on the cross benches below • the throne., Qn•one side the Duke of Devonshire; on the other (that next Stanley,) Londonderry, holding a paper in• his hand, but looking like one transfixed at the speaker,, who was within a couple of feet of him. The Duke,. in the attitude that has become as classic as that of his immortal antagonist, arms folded, hat pulled down on " the beaked promontory" that overhangs the mouth of the Victor of Waterloo, and pointblank gaze, was also eying the speaker with equal intentness as was his unso phisticated Irish neighbour, the dragoon marquis ; when Stanley,. stretching out his arm, and almost touching the veteran hero, apostrophized him in a strain that thrilled the house, and stirred the old F.M. too ; for after c hasty flirtation with his cravat, and a sudden wheel round in his seat, he as suddenly wheeled back again ; and snatching the paper from Londonderry, who, all unconscious, sat still open-mouthed, he laid it before him on the table; and placing his head between his hands, affected to be reading with absorbing earnestness, (forgetting, however, to use his spectacles,) and did not look up again till. Stanley. sat down, amidst a tornado of applause." POLICE INTL TLLIGENCE, CIMRGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—JERIeS Patrick Morley, an Irishman. was put up. yesterday, on the charge of em bezing the moneys of the St. Patrick Burial Society, of which he was the collector. It transpired that he held £1 166., which he refused to give up, on the ground that there was no legally appointed officer, to whom to deliver rho money, which he was prepared to give up to properly authorised persons. The charge fell to the ground, and, the prisoner was discharged. THE BANK NOTE FORGERY.—George Moore and a ma•i named Smith, both of respectable appearance, and one of them wearing a moustache, were put up for the second time, yesterday, as accomplices in the case of the forged ten pond notes, particulars of which appeared in the papers about a month ago. In the absence of Mr. Rushton, a second adjournment was deemed necessary. Mr. Daven port appeared as the prisoners' attorney. They were ap prehended in London about ten days ago. THE STONE THROWING NUISANCE.—This abominable nuisance is still unabated. A number of lads charged. with the offence were brought before the magistrates yes terday. The practice is pursued on a scale of magnitude that will surprise those who are not apprised of the fact_ On Sunday morning last, an inspector of police stopped. a lad proceeding with a wheelbarrow load of stones, to the field of action—the brickfields, Vauxhall-road. Ano ther fellow was provided with a quantity of plaisters, is case of need. It seems that it is no unusual circumstance for the police to be seriously injured by brickbats when in. pursuit of these marauder s. SINGULAR CASE.—JaneClayton,a servant girl, from Sut ,rged yes'erday with having robbed a gentleman, who gave the name of Joseph Fox, of a gold watch, eight sovereigns, and some silver. From Mr. Fox's statement, it appeared that on the 9th instant, being in Liverpool, he was induced to accompany the prisoner to a brothel is Pellew-street, and while there she rifled his pockets of the property referred to. It seems she carried the spoil to her lodgings at Sutton, near St. Helen's, where Superin tendent Storey, of St. Helen's, found the watch and one sovereign on Friday, the watch being secreted between the mattress and bed. The prisoner had the appearance of a decent girl. The complainant resides at Newcastle under-Line, and is a farmer. She was committed for trial. ni, wasel IRISH BEGGARS.—The multitudes of these miserable beings to " be seen prowling about the streets, literally in search of what they can devour," is truly frightful. Yes terday, a considerable number were brought before Mr. Booth, the sitting magistrate, charged with begging in the streets. Some of them presented the most destitute appearance it is possible to conceive. The fallacy of swarming to this country, with no other object than to beg, seems to be beginning to break in upon them, as several eagerly accepted the offer of being sent home. During the hearing of these cases, an incident illustrating the strong affection of this warm-hearted but unhappy people occurred. An old man, who refused to be passed home, was adjudged a term of imprisonment. Upon being put down by the officers, a boy, who had been standing at the back of the dock, uttered a loud and piercing cry, and attempted to surmount the barrier which separates the dock from the body of the court. The old man was his father, and he in the most piteous manner implored to be permitted to accompany his parent to prison. His cries caused a cessation of the proceedings. and he was at length forced out of the court. The magis trate, however, directed an officer to see that he was transferred to the overseer. Another incident less cre ditable to the national character followed upon this. A. lad, named Michael M'Cabe, was put up, when the officer who apprehended him stated that, upon being taken to bridewell, a sum of thirteen shillings and sixpence was found upon him. Mr. Booth adjudged the impostor thirty-one days imprisonment, and directed that his hoard be applied to his maintenance while in prison. MAINTENANCE OF DETAINED EMIGRANTS.—On Sa turday a number of intending emigrants to North America appeared before the magistrates, supported by Lieut. Hodder, to complain against Mr. Roderick M'Lcod„ merchant, of this town, for having neglected to pay theca subsistence money, &c., consequent on detention. It appeared that the vessel sailed from this port on the 28th ult. ; that subsequently she was wrecked off the coast of Scotland; that the passeng -rs were removed here and offered passages on board another ship ; but were refused any maintenance during the time they remained in Liver pool, and hence the cause of complaint. The case was adjourned. THE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF WATCBES IN DALE STREE.T.—OH SattArday Joseph Wolff, a respectable, looking man was committed for having been concerned in the extensive robbery of watches and plate which re.. cently took place in the shop of Mr. Sorton, pawnbroker, Dale-street. On the 3rd instant, it appeared, the prisoner had offered a watch in pledge at Mr. H. J. Sy red's, of Park-lane. An assistant of Messrs. Parley, pawnbrokers, of London-road, proved that, on the sth instant, the prisoner had pledged a watch at their estab lishment. A third watch, pledged at Mr. Pridsley's. on the 30th ult., was also produced. Although all of the watches had been considerably altered, still they were identified by the owner, or his assistants. Where the backs were originally engine-turned they had been made smooth. The maker's name was in each case erased, and that of " Tobias and Co." engraved instead, the forgery being neatly executed. CHARGE - OF ASSAULT AT SEA.—William Lawrence, st aman on board the Georgiana, summone d t h e capta i n of that vessel on Friday, for an assault.—Mr. Davenport appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Owen for the defendant.—The complainant stated that on the 16th of March last, while at sea, he fell asleep daring his watch, and that while being remonstrated Ntith by the surgeon, (who was the officer of the watch at the time,) the cap:. taro, hearing the noise, came up ; and, on being informed of the state of the case, he and the surgeon dragged com plainant to the fore-part of the vessel, when the captain immediately knocked him down, and struck him several times with a rope's end. After that complainant was sent aloft to scrape the mast, which he had to do till eight next morning. Several witness were called, who said that all that the complainant had stated was perfectly true. The magistrates said that the charge of assault been clearly proved, and fined the captain £5. THE FORGERY OF BILL STAMPS.—On Wednesday, at the Birkenhead Police-court, the prisoners Thompson and Morgan were brought up before the magistrates. It appeared that in Thompson's house was a chest of drawers with a false top, which had a secret drawer very neatly fitted up, and containing about fifty bill stamps for various amounts. One of the cupboards had also a secret drawer, let in at the top, besides which there was an electrotyping galvanic battery, in full operation upon a die for a bill stamp, and which was then incomplete; but upon exami nation with a magnifiyng glass, there could be no doubt that a five shilling bill stamp was in process of being made. In addition to these there was a perfect die for stamping, which had been affixed to a large iron hinge, and there could be no doubt that the impressions were produced by means of a letter-copying press, which was found in another part of the house.—lt was proved that the prisoner Morgan had the care of the drawer in Mr. Mawdsley's shop which contained the stamps, and that for one hour and a half each morning he was in the shop by himself, and consequently had opportunities of dealing with the stamps in any way that he might think proper. A quantity of perfect forms for bill stamps, not stamped, had been found in his drawers at his lodgings, as well as some shipping notes. The latter, it was quite clear from the printed form which was upon them, had been stolen from Mr. Mawdsley's, as the lithographer who had printed them stated that none had been issued from his premises since 1847, and then all the impressions were sent to Mr. Mawdsley's shop. The prisoners were committed for trial. A GHOST.—The Westmoreland Gazette has a story of a ghost, in a gentleman's house at Orton, in that county_ It says :—" On Tuesday, the 17th ultimo, loud knocks were heard in the house, and various articles placed on the shelves fell on the floor in rapid succession, which alarmed the inmates. On 'Wednesday, at half-past eleven o'clock, a.m. ' two small stools placed in the cradle were thrown out, and the cradle clothes thrown under the fire grate : the chairs moved on the floor of their own ac cord. and went over with great velocity ; the churn, standing on the floor, was also upset, &c. Next day, Thursday, nothing particular occurred till afternoon. The family consisted of Mr. William Gibson, his wife, two children, and a servant girl. Mr. Gibson's brother, Mr. Thomas Bland, of Bybeck, paid them a visit; when about to sit down to tea, Mr. B. placed his hat on a din ing table, when it immediately took flight towards the fire place. Clothes and other articles moved about in the house ; and Mr. Bland, being much affrighted, thought that they had better all proceed to Bybeck. They did so, and there they are at present remaining. On Saturday, the 21st, a company of young men from Orton proceeded. to Cowper-house (the residence of Mr. Gibson), to ascer tain the fact. The family not being there, nothing par ticular transpired. On Tuesday last, Mr. James Elwood, grocer, Mr. Torbock, surgeon, and others, went in order to explore this strange occurrence. They arrived at the spot a little before the family, and searched every corner of the house in order to find out the cause, but found none ; yet, to their astonishment, no sooner did the family enter, than loud shrieks were heard ; their hats moved from one place to another ; a large dining table moved from its place into the middle of the floor; and, as before. one thing after another was in disorder, and moved about of its own accord. What can be the precise meaning of this, we are at present unable to determine."—[The ghost has since been " laid" by a policeman, who, after visiting the spot and cross-questioning the servant girl,„ elicited from her that she, with the connivance of the " missus," had played the pranks which had caused so much alarm, their motive being a dislike to the house, which is very old.] THE MYSTICAL NUMBER.—A correspondent has sent us the following explanation of the number of the apocalyptical Beast, which is, at least - - equal to any of the other explanation given of it. On certain occasions, it wears a breastplate inscribed with Ulf Filii Dei," the letters of which used I Roman Alphabet make up exactly the VICARIV's FILII DaL—John Bull t ' -.-,l:c ...z ga '- ,'44 „..... Z 'Aillis'..4 ........._ t, curious, and quite is yillich :a 74 - , -,titt Le sit - as s ili t ti''- a nlll2 lv •,-. .