The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-26 00:00:00

EGREMONT Ity/G TA. ( - 111 IE DINNER take pla • THIS DAY at Four e'eloek, when the prizes wilt be &livered ; Tickets 3.5. 6d. e ach , to be had at the Bar of the Hotel. BEAR'S PAW CHOP AND ST i tAK HOUSE. TO LLEN COBHAM begs leave to return thanks to her ..1.12.4 Friends for the kind manner in ich she has been sup ported in the BEAR'S PAW, Ch9rl street, and to inform teem that she bas REmovEn to the House lately occupied b y Thos. Pee:, Fenwick-street, (entrance from the Old Ropery) where she hopes, by assiduity and attention, to merit a con tinuance of their favours. CHINA TRADE. A Gentleman of respectability and active habits, accustomed 4 /3 to the Tea Trade, and now acting a Sworn Tea Broker in London, is desirous of an engagemen to proceed to China to select and pur4ase Teas for one or m re houses, or he would have no objection to make arrangem :s with any respectable Broker's house in Liverpool for the sale of this article and other general produce with which he is acquainted. The most re &pet:table references will be given, and security, if required. Applications, with real Signatures, addressed Y. Z., standard Mice, will have immediate attention. LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. C HARL ES HORSFALL, ESQ. Mayor , Patron. THE SHOW of CARNATIONS, 7 LANTS, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, &c. will take ace on WEDNESDAY next, the 31st instant, at the Corn 'xchange, Brunswick street, when Ladies and Gentlemen, on-subscribers) will be admitted between the hours of Two and Four,o'clock, on pay ment of 2s. 6d. each, and the public generally will be admitted between the hours of Four and Six o'clock, on payment of is. each. Subscriptions will be received at J. and J. MAWDSLEY'S, Castle. street. The Harmonic Band will attend during the time of Show. Non-Subscribers desirous of showinc , Flowers, Fruits, &c. will be admitted to do so on payment of entrance. KENYON AND LEIGH JUNCTION RAILWAY. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN t t a SPECIAL GE- Tl a ll NERAL MEETING of this C mpany will be held at our Office, in Union-court, Castle-str t, Liverpool, on Ttices- DAY, the Ist of August next, at Tvvehe o'clock, for the purpose of declarin ,, a Dividend, and on other special affairs. Dated this 16th day of July, 1813. ' C. W. CLAY, J. SWIFT, S. Clerks of the Company. V.B.—The Dividend will be paid at the Meeting. PARISH OF LIVERPOOL. CONTRACT FOR COALS. "IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, th• t the Churchivardens y N are ready to receive Tenders, for t e supply of the Work house with best and common. Coals, fro the Ist of August next, to the Ist August, 183-1. Tenders to be left (addressed to the Secretary, at the Parish- Offices, No. 33, Water-street) on or before Monday next, the 29th instant. Any information that may be required, will be given by the Governor, at the Workhouse. By Order, JOHN MACKINLAY, Secretary. Parish-Qfficec, July 24, 1833. T i CAPTAINS, MERCHANTS, and Others.—The HYGEIAN or invaluable CULINARY ZEST, for Chops, Steaks, Curries, Soups, Fish, Game, Sauce, Made Dishes, Gravies, Hashes, &c., imparting to the viands an ex quisitely agreeable flavour, and preserving the digestive organs ia full vigour ; and a friendly auxiliary in repairing them, when their tone has been weakened from age or climate, &c. N.B. A bottle of Culinary Zest will allow half a pint of vinegar or wine, which will be a very economical mode of using it, and prove more grateful and cheaper than any sauce ever vet offered to the puolic for all kinds salads. This Sauce will retain its virtue Jri 100 years, i y climate, in half-pint bottles, 2s. 6d. each. Prepared only by T. COCKING, o. 19, Great Portland street, Cavendish-square ; sold wholesale by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; Evans, 407, and Front, '229, Strand; Ben nett, Covent-garden ; Wingrave and Co. St. Paul's ; Pilby, 2, 'Holborn Bars; Mayho, 4b, Fleet-street; Clark, Clerkemiell; Nanny and Co. 63, add Beare, 267, Oxford-street; Crisp, 13, Queen's buildings, Knightsbridge; Snelling, 30, Fenchurch street; Robertson, 32, Aldersgate-street ; Newsome, Welling ton street, London Bridge; Slodden and Co. High-street, Marylebone; Fentom, ai, Marchmont-street ; Butler, 3. Hay market; Hamond, 17, Blackfriars-road; Hickson and Co. 72, Welbeek-street; Fricker, 93, Bishopsgate-street, London; and may be had at most respectable sauce and Italian Warehouses in the United Kingdom. GENUINE PATENT BRANDY.—This exquisite spirit, which has attained such high celebrity, and vanquished every prejudice, was first introduced by retail. to the public, on distillery terms, by BRETT, of Drury-lane ; who having had experience of the amazing improvement which it derives from MATURITY, has made arrangements for securing a successive supply of THE OLDEST BRANDY THAT CAN BE PROCURED: and, as a guarantee for his integrity, a certificate under official sea], is displayed in his counting-house, declaratory of the con fidence which the Patentee reposes in H. BRETT'S vending the pure Patent Brandy, in precisely the same genuine state in which he receives it from the Distillery. 11. BRETT has, moreover, made affidavit before the Lord Mayor, that every ar ticle in the Wine and Spirit Trade, sold by him, shall be per fectly free from deleterious adulteration. Ladies and Gentlemen to whom heal and economy are ob jects of consideration, are respectfully • vited either to transmit their orders, by post, or to direct, th servants or carriers to No. 109, Drury-lane, and not to be isled by servile imitations, at other houses iu the neighbourhood. Imperial Measure. I Gallon. I Sealed Bottle. 1 - 3 —67 I Pint. The Pure Patent Brandy Wine Brandy, of equal strength and purity London Cream Gin lO 6 ' 2 2 1 4 Old Jamaica Rum Superior Overproof Whiskey l6 0 3 0 2 0 Prime Cognac Brandy, as imported 31 6 5 6 I 4 0 Spirits of Wine, highly rectified BRETT'S much approved SAMPLE HAbIPERS of WINE, 175.; of SPIRITS, 17s. lid, each, packages included. CONDITIONS. — Cash on delivery of goods in London or the suburbs. Exchanged in case of disapproval,—forfeited if in ferior to sample. Country postage and shipping charges (if any) payable by purchasers. Discount only to the trade. HENRY BRETT, Wine and Brandy-merchant, No. 109, DRURY-LANE, Londat.—N.B. No. 109. IMPORTANT TO ALL WHO `'WRITE, T"I'EItRYIKNPiNgI; universally admitted to be the best; and the following list of I'rices will show to every writer that they are cheaper than any other Pens ever offered to the public. s. d. Nine Patent Perryian Varnished Pens, with Holder 0 6 Niue Patent Perryi a n Office Pens, with Holder Nine ditto ditto line Office, ditto 1 0 Nine Double Patent Perryian Pens, with two holders Nine ditto ditto, Fine or Extra Fine P ints, ditto Nine ditto, Broad or Extra Broad Poi , ditto 2 0 Nine School Pens, for Large, Ron ,or Small Hand, 2 0 with two Hold ers Six Drawing, Mappin g , and Lithographic Patent Per ryian Pens, of th e mast exquisite fineness, with 3 6 Holder _ __ (*z' Valuable improvements in the " PENS:" most interesting to the admirers of the Fine Arts, and to Writers in general, have recently been effected. The Lithographic Pens are rendered capable of producing Drawings and Writing on Stone, Paper, or Ivory which can scarcely be distinguished from e most elaborate. Engravings; and which exhibit a beau tiful delicacy and steadiness in minute delineations, where the Camel's-hair Pencil has hitherto been found too coarse or too uncertain. Specimens of Writing and Drawing performed with the Per ry►an Pen may be seen at the Manufactory, 37, Red Lion-square, London, and with most Stationers and Dealers in Metallic I'ens, where these Pens are sold on Cards or in Sealed Packets, each bearing the signature JAMES PERRY. MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, FOR FILLING DECAYED TEETH WITHOUT PAIN, HEAT, OR PRESSURE, AND INCORRODIBLE MINERAL TEETH, I Mthout Wires, Springs, or any other Ligatures, Patronized by the Royal k'amilies of England and France. 4 ONS. J. M. and A. MALLAN, No. 45, BOLD -STREET, i L.J.I Liverpool, and 82, KING-STREL Manchester, Su kG KO DENTISTS, of the Firm of Malian nil Sons, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, and Half-moon- reet, Piccadilly, London, where they may be consulted d y,) ardently thank their Friends and the Public, for the d tinguished support which they continue to receive. Monsieur J. M. and A.M. continue to restore decayed Teeth, however large or small the cavity, with their celebrated MINE RAL SUCCEDANEUM, so universally recommended by the Faculty of England, France, and other 'Continental cities; the operation of stopping . decayed Teeth is performed in a few seconds ; the Mineral is put into the cavity in an almost liquid state, without pain, heat, or pressure, hardens into Enamel, allays the most excruciating pain, making a stump into a whole Tooth, and lasts for many years, preventing the necessity of extraction. ---- Messrs. M. during their course of study have adopted a mode of fastening Loose Teeth, particularly of aged persons, whether arising from neglect, or the use of Calomel, or disease of the Gums. .._ _ _ _ . . . , . lncorrodible Mineral Teeth placed, from one to a complete set, which are incapable of discolouration or corrosion, fixed without wires or ligatures, renders it impossible to distinguish the Artificial Teeth from the natural ones, and warranted to answer every purpose of articulation and mastication, and will be found in every respect amply competent to supply the place of their predecessors. Natural Teeth fixed on the above im proved principle. The Faculty are constantly welcome to witness the applica tion of the MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, which they so universally recommend. Messrs. M. recommend to parents, and others having the care of children, to be particular in having the Teeth examined pre vious to their second growth, as various diseases of the mouth have arisen from that neglect. Charges as in Paris. CA 11 rioN.—Me.s3rs. MALLAN conceive it necessary to caution .the Public against imposition—they are the only Proprietors and Discoverers of the Mineral Succedaueum. N.B. All letters sent to either of the above-named Establish ments will be attended to. Owing to the numerous invitations the Messieurs Malian have received from the first families in Dublin to visit that City professionally, one of the above firm will devote a few weeks for that purpose. In consequence of which, attendance will be given in Manchester (for the present) on TUESDAYS and RSD AYS. and daily in Liverpool. July 12, 1833. PRICE OF- IlioN.—A steady demand; £6 10s. is asked for new orders; but, we believe, not more than £6 ss. has been obtained. Unfortunately for the iron masters, large orders at the old prices are not quite yet. worked up.—Merthyr Guardian. HERRING FISHING.—The inhabitants of our Western High ' land isles, and those situated on the banks of the various lochs, ,frequented by the salmon and the herring, are in high spirits at the abundant take of the finny tribe this season. Thousands of people are at presentengaged in taking and curing, and bringing to market, great quantities of both herrings and salmon. In one of the Western Isles, where a species of stake net is used by the laird only, (his tenants being confined to the drag net,) the take was so abundant that tie chieftain thought he had aught all the salmon, and felt keenly for his tenants, exclaim ing, " how would they be able to pay their rents when there were no salmon to catch." Ile very generously ordered his nets to be cut, and the tinny prisoners to be liberated, so that his tenants I,:ight have fish to catch, and be thereby enabled to pay their rents. The herrings are extremely abundant everywhere, and are of tile finest quaiitc ; aud are very cheap on the fishing ground. Severai of our citizens have embarked in the herring fishing and curing speculation this season, and we have no hesitation in saying, that it will prove very lucrative to them. Fresh her riugs.in our market, and even in that of Greenock, are, notwith standing the price being low at the fishing stations, still keeping high.--Clavuoa COW. ier . -•- • • Intl3criat HOUSE OF LORDS, MoNDAy, JULY 22. ' The Earl of Minto l.ook the oaths. On the motion of Lord SUFFIELD the Dwelling-house Rob bery bill was read a second time. PoRTUGUESE BLOCKADE. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved for "copies of all papers received at the Foreign-office before the 15th instant which conic front a competent authority, and which have in duced his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to issue a letter to the committee of Lloyd's, announcing the blockade of the Portuguese ports." Earl GREY said, so well as we could hear him, that he would not enter into any discussion on the different points intioduced by the noble earl. With respect to the subject which formed the chief point of the noble earl's speech, a proper time for dis cussion would arrive. He was most anxious that the papers should be laid before their lordships ; and he should be ready hereafter to answer any objections that might be urged against the course which his Majesty's government had taken.—Motion agreed to. IRISH CHURCH BILL. Lord KENYON said, as several noble lords were out of town who wished to take a part in the discussion on the third reading of the Irish Church Bill, he should be glad to learn front the noble earl when the bill was likely to arrive at that stage? Earl GREY said he certainly wished to bring on the third reading of the bill as soon as possible, but the noble lord must be aware that the period for the third reading would depend on the time which the bill occupied in committee. Lord KENYON observed, that several noble lords, who were then out of town, were anxious to know what course the noble earl meant to take in proceeding with the bill? Earl GREY answered, that if the bill went through committee this week, he should propose the third reading for Monday. The Thelluson's Estate Bill vas read a third time and passed. CHURCH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND) BILL. The house went into committee on this bill, and agreed to the first twenty clauses, with some verbal amendments, with the ex ception of the 11th clause, the consideration of which was post poned. The house then resumed, and it was agreed that the commit tee sit again to-morrow.—Adjourned- HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JULY 22. The gallery was opened at the usual hour, Mr. WI Lxs presented a petition from the classical and theo logical tutors of Stepney College, praying for the removal of the dissabilities of Dissenters, particularly with regard to the registration of baptisms; also, a petition from the congregation of 'Zion Chapel, Liverpool, for the reformation of the church. Mr. INGHAM presented a petition from the merchant seamen of South Shields and Newcastle, praying to be relieved from the monthly payment of (id. for the maintenance of Greenwich Hos pital; and a petition from the churchwardens of Westoe, against the bill for rating small tenements. The whole of this sitting was occupied in the reception of pe titions. At five o'clock the house resumed. On the motion of Sir H. FERGUSON, the issuing of a new writ for the borough of Warwick was further deferred till the 15th of August. Mr. BARRON presented a petition from Carrick-on-Suir for the transfer to it of the franchise of Carrickfergus. Mr. EwAnT presented a petition from the Liverpool Anti- Slavery Society for the aholitiog of negro slavery. SLAVERY ABOLITION BILL. Mr. F. BUXTON wished to know whether the right hon. gen tleman was prepared to lay before the house the order in coun cil which was to be the model in the Crown colonies for carrying the provisions of the present bill into effect. It was most im portant that this information should be afforded them, as they would otherwise be entirely in the dark as to the manner and certainty of the working of - the bill, particularly as it applied to the system of apprenticeship of the negroes, a system which was plainly neither absolute freedom nor absolute slavery, but a compound of both. Then, again, the orders in council now in force in the colonies, were in many respects mere favourable to the negroes thin the bill would be. For example, the bill .proposed that the apprenticed negroes should work ten hours a day, while the old law only required nine hours, besides bestow ing forty days of rest and entire freedom from labour, which the present hill would deprive them of. Then, again, the bill went to invest the local assembly with a discretionary power of punishment, while the order in council actually in force in the colonies strictly prohibited the flogging of females under any circumstances. It was highly necessary, therefore, that they should have the new order in council before them when discus sing the provisions of the present bill. Mr. STANLEY was sure that the house would see-that it was actually impossible to produce an order in council* not yet in existence, inasmuch as the measure (the present) on which it was to be founded had not yet passed into a law. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman, besides, was in error as to the order in council being the model for the colonies for carrying the provisions of the bill into effect. No order in council could be such a model as the hon. gentleman had stated. All that the bill went to effect was to lay down a maximum, beyond which the master shall not advance, and an outline for the total abolition of negro slavery, the details and filling up of which must necessarily be left to the colonial legislatures. If there was any law or order in council in existence more favourable to the negro than the present bill would be, it, of course,, was never meant that it, should be superseded by it. (Hear, hear.) As to the objection that the apprenticeship plan would be a mixed system of free dom and slavery, all he need say was, that the same thing might be alleged of apprenticeships in every country, and under every circumstance; for it was neither absolute freedom nor absolute slavery, but, as the hon. gentleman had alleged, a mixture of both. The order of the day having been read, Mr. STANLEY said that as the bill was founded entirely on the resolutions which had been agreed to by both houses of parlia ment, he thought he should best consult the wishes of the house by not offering any observations on the question at the present moment. He should therefore content himself with merely moving the second reading of the bill. After some discussion the bill wa's read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday next, provided the discussion on the East India Charter Bill did not prevent it. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER BILL, Mr. BERNAL brought up the report on this bill. On the question that it be agreed to, M r. WILBRAHAM said that he now proposed to move a clause prohibiting the exclusive manufacture of salt by the govern ment of India. The hon. member proceeded to support his proposition by stating that the salt manufactured in India was bad, and that the manufacture of it was dangerous to the health both of those who manufactured and of those who used it. He likewise showed that it would be a valuable boon'to the inhabi tants of the vale of the Dee, and to the merchants of Liverpool, to allow the importation of salt from this country into India.; but the details into which he entered were quite inaudible in the gallery. He was preparing to submit his proposition for mally to the house, when he was told that the amendments made in the bill must be first agreed to. Mr. EwART rose to second the amendment. The SPEAKER informed him there was no amendment before the house. _ _ EWART said he would avail himself of that opportunity to declare how beneficial the alteration which the hon. member for Cheshire proposed would be to his constituents. Lord SANDON con curled in the suggestion to the hon. member not to press the amendment, after what had fallen from the right hon. gentleman, though he admitted the great inconveni ence of such a monopoly. It gave rise to a sub-monoply in smuggling, which was carried to a great extent. By admitting the importation of salt to India they might give the people a better and cheaper article without any loss to the revenue. The question, that the amendments to the bill be read asecond time, was agreed to, and the amendments of the committee were read seriatim; in the course of them Mr. HOME gave notice, that on the third reading he would take the sense of the house on the creation of two new bishop rics in India. The bill, with amendments, was then ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time on Friday. Mr. SHELL postponed his clause, declaring all forms of Chris tian worship equally entitled to the protection of the state, and to provide for the maintenance of churches dissenting from the episcopal Protestant church, of which he had given notice, till the third reading, when he expressed his intention of proposing it by way of rider to the bill. THE JEWS' CIVIL DISABILITIES BILL. Mr. R. GRANT moved the third reading of the Jews' Civil Disabilities Bill. Mr. FINCH opposed the, ill. As far as any prote ,lion that did not unhinge the constitution, he should be as ready as any one to give relief to the Jews. Many persons thought this measure of small importance; but the principle was of great importance. Christianity was part and parcel of the law of the land. Blasphemy was a crime by the common law, because it was an offence against Christianity, as part of the. law of the land. If this was to be a Christian country, was it not a strange anomaly that its Parliament should be composed of Jews, Mahomotans, and others? (A laugh.) Those who wished to support the church as by law established were bound to vote against this bill, which tended to overturn the established prin ciples of the constitution. It had been contended, that treat ing the Jews with kindness was the best mode of making them va,uable citizens; but he r Mr. Finch) thought that by showing an indifference to our religion, we should tempt them to feel less respect for it. Ile did not impute any wrong motives to those who supported the bill, but he thought it one of the most de- StrtiOivernbasures 'ever proposed. Sir C. Br iiRELL said he should vote against the bill on prin ciple. He took this course not out of any disrespect to the Jews, but considering this as a Christian House of Commons, they had no right to enter it. The prophecies contained in the Holy Scriptures respecting the Jews had been fulfilled to the very letter. That people had been scattered to the winds, and they had gone to portions of the earth which no Christian had ever vet reached. He contended that the present proposition could not be compared with that of Catholic emancipation. Here some expression, not heard in the gallery, fell from an hon. member behind the hon. baronet. Sir C. BURRELL, turning round to the quarter whence the observation proceeded, exclaimed, "Whoever made that state ment said that which is most unjust and most untrue." Colonel Fox here rose, and disclaimed having made use of any observation which could apply to the hon. baronet. The expression which fell from him was "those canting • hears.'" Lord SANDON could not agree with the gallant officer oppo site in thinking that the opposition to the present bill was a canting opposition. He believed it to be conscientious and sincere. (Hear, hear.) But he thought that those who ob jected to admitting any . portion of their fellow-countrymen to a participation of civil rights were bound to show good reasons for their opposition. He was told that as Christians they could not permit time Jews to enjoy equal rights with them? It was most presumptuous for them to suppose that they were to carry into execution the divine prophecies. However they migh t act, they might be assured that those prophecies must be - fufilled. (Hear, hear.) He should support the bill on the broad prin ciple•that religion did not require any religious test to be applied to persons previous to their enjoyment - of political power in any state. (Hear, hear.) Mr. R. GRANT shortly replied. He contended that the main tenance of every civil disability for which no reason could be shown was oppression and persecution, which the religion he professed taught him ought not to be inflicted upon any one. The same arguments which were now used against the present bill, were formerly advanced against granting the Jews the rights of citizenship. The supporters of the bill might be com pared to the good Samaritan, who did not stop to inquire whether the man whom he relieved by the way side was of a different race and creed from himself' In conclusion he ex pressed a hope that the question would be settled on the basis of charity, and in conformity with that sublime principle of time founder of the Christian fait - h —glory to God, and good will to men. (Hear, hear.) The house then divided, and the numbers were— Ayes lB9 Noes 52 Majority The bill was then read a third time and passed SCOTCH AND IRISH VAGRANTS BILL. After a few words from Colonel Perceval, and Mr. Aglionhy, The house resolved itself into committee on this bill. On clause 4 being put by the Chairman, Mr. O'DwYER moved an amendment, to the effect "that there should be provided fui all persons removed Ly sea a suf. ;,,nd commodious space beloW deck, and that such porso`ni so remov able should be found with wholesome diet, to be regulated by the jiistices of the peace at quarter sessions." Mr. Hawes, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Aglionby opposed the amendment, and the committee divided, wheu the numbers ap peared : For the amendment AgaiLst it 5l Majority The original clause was then agreed to, as ivre the remaining clauses after several verbal amendmenti. The house resumed, the Chairman reporteraeess, and tile report was ordered to be received on Tuesdff. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the ouse adjourned at a quarter to three o'cloCk: THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JULY 23. On the motion of Lord Suffield, the Dwelling-house Robbery Bill went through a committee. The bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed, and the report to be brought up on Mon day next. On the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the Bankruptcy Court Bill was read a second time. Mr. S. Rice, Admiral Adam, and others, from the Commons, brought up the Jews' Civil Disabilities Bill, and the Shall Debts' Court (Scotland) Bill.—Read a first time. THE BISHOPS. The Earl of RADNOR rose to present a petition from the Po litical Union of Glasgow, praying that, in consequence of the course which the bishops had taken recently ou the decision of some most important questions in that house, their lordships would repeal the act of Charles IL, by which they had been restored to their seats in Parliament. The Earl of HADDINGTON doubted very much whether they could receive any such petition. It applied personally to certain members of that house; and its prayer was, in effect, that those parties should no longer he allowed to sit in Parliament. And for what ?—because they had performed their duty. Surely such a petition ought not to be received. The Loan CHANCELLOR said there might be good grounds for refusing the prayer of the petition ; but, if a petition were couched in respectful language, if it were decorous to that house, their lordships had no right to reject it, unless some spe cific grounds of objection were fairly stated for taking such a course. It was nut a good ground for rejecting it at once, because it reflected on the conduct which individuals had pur sued in that house, in their public capacity. That, however, to which he objected in this petition was, that the petitioners had taken notice u that of which they could have known nothing without a breach of the privileges of that house. They could not know, strictly speaking, in what manner individuals had given their opinions, or how they had given their votes. lf, however, the conduct of a member of the legislature, in pre senting a bill, for instance, which did come regularly before the public, were animadverted on, however severely, in a petition, still, if it were couched in language decorous to the house, the subject of the petition itself did not oppose a good objection to receiving it. (Hear.) Whatever appeared on their votes ad mitted of public animadversion and petition. He certainly, for his own part, never wished to see the day when a respectful petition with reference to matters occurring in either house of Parliament, to which the public had regular access, should be rejected on account of its prayer, however proper it might be to refuse that prayer. The Earl of ABERDEEN agreed as to what the noble and learned lord had said with respect to the informality of alluding to the votes given by members in that house; but he denied the noble and learned lord's proposition, that any petition not involving that consideration might be received )iy the house, provided that it was respectfully worded. The noble and learned lord said it would be sufficient not to comply with the prayer of any objectionable petition. He differed from that opinion. At present the petitioners confined themselves to calling for an exclusion of spiritual Peers from that house; but they might require the abolition of the house itself , or they might demand that the crown should be taken from the King's head. Now, he asked, could their lordship's receive such pe titions as those, however respectfully worded? (Hear, hear.) He contended, that the mere refusal of the prayer of the_peti tion was not sufficient, it ought to be rejected altogether. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of HADDINGTON said he could not agree with the dictum of the noble and learned lord, that every petition which was worded with decency should be received. The one now before the house Said it was improper and unfit that the bishops should sit and vote in that house; the next step would be to abolish the house altogether. He must state to the house the words of that petition. It set forth, " that the systematic oppo sition of the - lords spiritual, on several recent occasions of great importance, in that house, was contrary to the spirit of that religion which they professed to teach : and the petitioners therefore pray your lordships to repeal the act of Parliament of Charles 11., by which the lords spiritual were restored to their seats in your lordships' house." Such a petition, he maintained, could not be received. Petition withdrawn. On the motion of the Bishop of London, the bill for legal izing all marriages contracted at Hamburgh before the English chaplain, or any clergyman in his stead, was read a second time. CHUP.CH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND) BILL. The order of the day for resuming the proceedings in com mittee on the above bill having been read, The clauses, from the 20th to the 31st, inclusive, were agreed to with a very few strictly verbal amendments. On the 32d clause, for reducing ten bishoprics, by uniting them to other bishoprics or archbishoprics, as specified in sche dule B, having been read, The Duke of WELLINGTON rose to call their lordships' at tention to this clause, to which he meant to move an amend ment. When the bill was under discussion, be had stated his opinion with respect to this clause, and the alteration which he wished made in it; but his suggestion was not approved of by the noble earl. Without, however, altering the principle of the bill at all, or altering any of its essential provisions, he thought it was possible so to arrange that part of the bill as to remove Ore objections which were now urged against it. lie proposed that his Majesty should be empowered by law, upon the lapse of any one of the bishoprics pointed out, to grant it, in commen dam, as he should think fit. He therefore would propose as an amendment to leave out all the words in the original clause after the word "that," and to insert others in subztitution of them. The original clause began thus,—" And whereas his Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify that he has placed at the disposal of Parliament his interest in the tem poralities and custody thereof of the several bishoprics and archbishoprics mentioned in this act, and the schedule B thereto annexed • be it therefore enacted, that" Here he . proposed to insert the following words, instead of those in the original clause :—" Whereas his Majesty has been gra ciously pleased to signify that he has placed at. the disposal of Parliament his interest in the temporalities and custody thereof of the several bishoprics and archbishoprics mentioned in this act, and in the schedule B thereunto annexed. Be it therefore enacted, that in case his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, shall be minded to grant in commendanz the bishopric of Waterford, now vacant, and the Other bishoprics named in the first column of the said schedule, when, and as they may respectively become void, to be held in commendant with the bishopric or archbishopric mentioned in conjunction therewith respectively in the second column of the said schedule, it shall be made lawful for his Ma jesty, his heirs, and successors, at the same time to grant to the • ecclesiastical commissioners, and their successors fiir'ever, the temporalities of the bishopric so to be held iii commendam ; a n d from and after such grant all and singular the lands, tenements, and hereditament; belonging or appertaining to such bishopric, together with all and singular the tithes, rents, and emouinents whatsoever thereunto belonging or appertaining, shall become vested in and transferred to the said ecclesiastical commissioners and their successors for ever, subject to all leases, rents, charges, and incumbrances now, or at the time of such transfer, legally affecting the same, save the annual tax, rate, or assessment by this act to be imposed and levied; to be by them received and applied to, for, and upon the several uses, trusts, and purposes in this act mentioned; and under the like rules and regulations as are herein expressed and declared , f and concerning the said annual tax vested in said commissioners and their successors for ever. Provided always, that such grants or any of them shall not be liable to stamp duties, or fees of office, or any other charge whatsover." The house divided on this amendment, when the numbers were : For the original clause 9O For the amendment 76 Majority —l4 The clause was then agreed to. Clauses 33 to 37 were also agreed to, with some verbal amend ments. _ .„ Clauses 38, 39, and 40 were also agreed to. Clauses 41 and 42 were postponed. Clauses 43, 44, 45, 46, and 47 were agreed to. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, JULY 23• The gallery was opened at a quarter past twelve. On the motion of Mr. S. LEFEVRE, the house resolved itself into committee for the further consideration of the report on the Highway Bill. The First to the Eleventh clauses were agreed to with some verbal amendments. At Three o'clock the house resumed, the Chairman reported' progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Thursday next. The Speaker then quitted the chair. The Speaker resumed the chair at five o'clock. THELLUSSON'S ESTATE BILL. A message from the lords brought down this bill. SEPTENNIAL ACT. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from the Livery of London against the Septennial Act. Mr. GiLLoN presented a similar petition from West Stirling shire. CRIMINAL LAW. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in reply to a question from an hon. member, stated that a commission for inquiring into the state of the criminal law had passed the great seal. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH FRANCE. Sir H. PARNELL, seeing his right hon. friend in his place, wished to know from him'if the report of the commission for in quiring into the state of our commercial relations with France was ready, and, if so, whether it was intended to lay it before the house? Mr. P. THOMSON said that the commissioners had reported their proceedings in a first report, but that since that they had acquired possession of a quantity of evidence and of documents which they considered so valuable, that they proposed to publish them in an appendix; and he stated that as soon as this was ready the report, together with the appendix, would be laid before the house. He farther explained that the delay in pro ducing the report had been occasioned by the great change of ' opinion which had recently taken place iu France with respect to the commercial relations with this country—a change which would prove to be highly beneficial to our manufacturing inte rests. As au earnest of this, he might mention that France had, within the last week or two, agreed to suffer the export of thrown silk from this country, at a duty considerably lower than that originally demanded, and which it was complained in the evi dence before the silk committee here amounted to a prohibition. The first concession upon the part of France he considered a matter of the greatest importance. WEST INDIA BILL. Mr. GODSON begged to ask if it was intended to suffer the planters to be heard bv counsel at the bar of the house?? Mr. STANLEY replied that this did not appear to be necessary, when there was the hon. gentleman, in common with so many other hon. gentlemen, to protect their interests in the house. SEPTENNIAL ACT. Mr. TENNYSON seriously hoped this question would not he regarded as a party question, but would be discussed calmly and temperately, and that every body would give his opinion as he should his, uninfluenced by any bias or consideration except the desire to promote safe and rational reform. The hon. gen tleman then stated that the Septennial Act was passed in 1716, and that under its operation we had had 22 parliaments, the average duration in the course of 117 years which had elapsed since the passing of the act was about five years. But throw ing out sudden dissolutions from demises of the crown, and changing of the ministry, and such like causes, the average du ration of each parliament would be increased; for there would be fifteen parliaments for ninety-one years, which would give an average of six years each. Ile did not mean to say that they should have short parliaments because they had them before, but he contended for them upon the ground of the imprescrip tible right of Englishmen to call their representatives to ac count alter a shorter period of service than seven years. This they should have,' he maintained, in order to secure good go vernment to the people. It might well occur that the represen tatives or the constituency would have reason to change their views, and seven years was too long a period to keep the con stituency and the member apart, and without a proper explana tion. Therefore provision should be made for their meeting at shorter intervals. The Septennial Act, he admitted, was passed upon good grounds at the time, but his quarrel with it was, that being made for an emergency, its principle was yet applied un der different circumstances, and to an altered state of things.— The right hon. gentleman concluded his speech by moving the repeal of the Septennial Act, which w 4 seconded by Mr. H ume. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the previous question. After a debate of considerable length, the House divided, when there were : For the motion Against it Majority for Ministers l9 CHINA TRADE BILL. On the motion of 141r:R. GoatioN, the China Trade Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. The Stage Carriage Act Amendment Bill went through Committee.—lteport to be received on Wednesday. The other orders of the day being disposed of, the House adjourned at half-past one a:clock. LONDON POLICE. WORSHIP-STREET. On Saturday John Chislet, between 40 and 50 years of age, and Mary, his wife, who appeared to be several years younger, were re-examined before Mr. Broughton, having been in custody since the beginning of the week s charged with being "idle and disorderly persons and common drunkards, wilfully neglecting to provide necessary food and clothing for their children, and leaving them in a state of destitution and want, whereby their health had been much impaired." The prisoners were first brought before the magistrate under the following circumstances :—They had been met with in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, just turned out of a public house where they had been drinking, and followed by a crowd, hooting and threatening them. The woman then had an infant in her aims in a most wretched state; and another of their children, a little boy, was found upon some steps, crying. Teakle, a police constable, having learned where they lived, went home with them, and found in their apartment two other little boys nearly,naked, and apparently in a famishing . condi tion, and surrounded by a mass of filth, the only futnitnre in the room being a wretched bed, upon which they were lying. The poor infant which the mother had in her arms was found to be in such a wofully neglected state that (as was stated to the magistrate) worms were actually crawling through its skin. It was soon ascertained that the sole cause of their miserable con dition was the drunken and dissolute habits of the parents, who made away with everything to procure drink ! , The man was stated to be in expectation of a very large fortune, and in the mean time he received a quarterly, allowance sufficient for the support of his family from an aunt, who was said to be related ' to a noble family. The money, however, it appeared, was squandered away almost as soon as received. He and his wife had some money about them when they fell into the hands of the police, and the landlady of a public-house produced a sove reign, which the male defendant, when in liquor the day before, -had placed in her hands to take care of. The defendant, how ever, assured the magistrate that he had quite forgotten the cir cumstance. It came out also that he had applied to the parish for relief on account of the children, and had that day received 2s. from one of the parish officers of Bethnal-green, who had no previous knowledge of the facts disclosed to the magistrates re specting the defendant's rich relatives. On Saturday the whole family had much improved in appear ance. 'The infant had been in the prison with its mother, and there properly cleaned and taken care of, and the three boys were brought from the workhouse, where they had been kept during the week, and fresh clothed. The woman now denied that the miserable condition in which her children had been found was occasioned by her intemperate habits, and said that she herself suffered with them. Mr. Broughton called the eldest boy into the witness-box, and questioned him on the subject. The poor boy stated, in answer to the magistrate's questions, that he sometimes went out to sell a few things in the streets to procure food for the family; but his mother commonly met him, and if he had got any money took it from him, ana went directly to the gin-shop to spend it; and she always wanted gin as soon as she got up in the morning. Mr. Broughton, after some further inquiries, severely lec tured the worthiess parents, and committed the man to the House of Correction for three weeks. It was arranged that all the rest of the family should be received into the workhouse, where the parish officers would take care that any money re ceived should be applied to their support. QUEEN-SQUARE. SATURDAY, JULY 20.—Charles Reynolds, the young man who attempted to murder Sarah Parry, and afterwards made an attempt on his own life, was brought from St. George's Hospital to undergo a vublie examination. Sarah Parry was conveyed to the office in a cabriolet, and detailed be- fore the magistrates the facts which we gave shortly after the occurrence. When taken into custody and conveyed to the hospital, a letter was found in his pocket addressed to his father, imputing the crime of infanticide to Sarah Parry. This she solemnly denied, and said that it was impossible she could be guilty of the crimes he imputed to her, when she had been only acquainted with him three mouths. It was a stain upon her character, and she particularly urged the necessity of its imme diate contradiction. . . The medical gentlemen at the hospital have also proved that that part of Reynold's statement was unfounded. All the witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the pri soner was committed to Newgate for trial. 10%, ‘sc % SHADWELL CORONER'S INQUEST. This inquest, which has been sitting for the - last ten days on the body of John Peacock Wood, the waterman, was after a sixth adjournment, closed on Monday. Mr, BAKER, the Co roner, summed up the evidence at great length, after which he proceeded to read the depositions of the several witnesses, in doing which he was frequently interrupted by the Jury, and particularly by the Foreman, who complained that he had not taken down the evidence correctly. They referred in several instances to their own notes, and said they differed materially from the depositions. '[he Coroner said the depositions were correct; they were the statements signed by the witnesses, to whom they bud been read over. In his charge to the Jury he concluded his address by saying—" It will be for you most seriously to consider whe ther any real or satisfactory evidence has been adduced, prov ing that such an extreme wilful and deliberate act of outrage has been committed as to justify the verdict of murder. You will further consider whether the death may not have been caused by a want of due caution, iu the discharge of a duty requiring caution, and from the neglect of which caution it was probable that death has thereby ensued. In which case it will be your duty to find a verdict of manslaughter. And here you will recollect on the one hand that the evidence of the medical gentlemen proves it to be improbable that death should have been occasioned by the fall from the door of the White Hart. Ou the other hand you will well consider the conflicting testimony of the witnesses as to what took place after the fall. You will most seriously and impartially weigh the compar ative credibility of their testimony,—the one party stating that after the fall the deceased was treated with violence on his way to the station house; the other declaring that, from the time he was taken up from the ground until he was deposited in the station house, he was treated with every care, and received , no injury. If, however, after this long and careful investigation, you should be of opinion that the act which occasioned the deceased's death is still involved in mystery, and that no sufficient evidence has been adduced to satisfy your minds as to the manner in which the deceased met his death, you will give your verdict accordingly." The Jury having retired to consider their verdict, returned into court after a short consultation, when _ The Foreman addressed the Coroner as follows :—Mr. Coroner, it becomes my painful duty, after investigating the whole facts of the case which bear upon the evidence, and many of those facts are so familiar to our minds, that we can repeat them by rote, to come to a conclusion, with deep regret, that the deceased was murdered by a policeman unknown to us, and therefore we feel bound to find a verdict of wilful murder against a policeman of the K division of the metropolitan po lice, unknown, and we strongly recommend the government to use some means whether by reward or otherwise to elucidate this very mysterious case." Coroner—Very well, gentlemen, it is your verdict, and not mine, and I shall therefore take it of course. WARWICK ELECTION. The Secret Committee appointed to iuquire into the last election for the borough of Warwick have just made their Report, which, after confirming the charges of gross bribery, treating, intimidation, &c., concludes with the following . recommendation : That to prevent the recurrence of the above corrupt and illegal pi actices, and to secure the purity and freedom of elec tion ►n the Borough of Warwick, your committee recommends an enlargement of the boundary, and an increase of the con stituency by the addition of the adjoining parish of Leaming ton Priors. _ _ _ _ _ That a petition, numerously and respectably signed of inha bitants of Leamington Priors has been referred to your Com mittee against the union of that town with the borough of Warvvick, in which the petitioners state, that being in the exercise of the county franchise, such union would be of no advantage to them; and that another petition, also respectably and numerously signed, has been referred to your Committee in favour of such union ; but that it appears to your Committee, on inspecting the printed registry of voters for the southern division of the county of Warwick, that not more than 76 electors would exchange their county franchise by the annexa tion of the parish of Leamington Priors to the borough of Warwick—a considerable number of persons entitled to county votes in respect of Leamington property appearing on the register to be non-resident—other country vote's not occupying the property for which they are registered, andothers possessing duplicate county qualifications. Your Committee cannot conclude their report without calling the attention of the House to the profligate and wasteful ex penditure in treating at the public-houses by all parties con cerned in the election before the test of the writ, thus demoral ising the voters and other inhabitants of the borough ; and they beg to recommend to the House, that the laws relative to treating before the testing of the writs be revised. LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY,• JULY 23. BANRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William and John Terry, Bath, hardwarcmen. BANKRUPTS. John llart, Liverpool, tailor. Aug. 10, Sept. 3, at 12 o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row. George Edward Clark, Bath, linen-draper. Frederick I'out, Surrey-street, Strand, and Battersea-fields, attor nev- at-law. Williamßrown, Wilmington, Kent, cattle-dealer. Jared Terrett Hunt, Prince's-street, Lambeth, bone-merchant. Henry Legh, Shrewsbury, butcher. Joseph Brecknell, Blackbrook-park, Monmouthshire, miller. Henry Hall, Doncaster, grocer. .Tohn and Griffith Jones, Tywyn and Llandegwning, Carnal'Yon shire, cattle-dealers. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 5, W. Perachon, Whitechapel-road, baker.—Aug. 15, J. Bid dle, London-road, Surrey, oil and eolourman.—Aug. 10, Wollett, Newbury, Berkshire, tea-dealer.—Aug. 15, .1. Forbes, Mark-lane, wine-merchant.—A wt. 14, R. Reed, Lothbury, merchant.—Aug. 14, J. Nichols and T. Walter, Skinner-street, ironmongers.—Aug. 14, .1. Vize, Crawford-street, Bryanstone-square, stationer.—Aug 14, E.W. Falk, Vine-street, Minories, chocolate-manufacturer.—Aug. 14, T. S. Barnes, Cheanside, warehouseman.—Aug. 15, J. Bumps, Holborn, bookseller.—Aug. 13, G. Swire, Norfolk-street, Strand, bookseller.— Aug. 13, J. E. and T. Walton, Bread-street, factors.—Au. . 16, J. Wil day, Birmingham, hotel-keeper.—Aug. 14, B. Marshall, Selbridge abbey, Kildare, Ireland, woollen-manufacturer.—Aug. 20, J. Single ton, s R mreley, Staffordshire, ehemist.—Aug. 15, 11. F. Hindle, Bo roughbridge, Yorkshire, innkeeper. Aug. 15, J. Ilollingsworth, Southsea, Hampshire, printer.—Aug. 15, C. Keet, Ryde, Hampshire, grocer.—Aug. 16, W. Earce, Birmingham, victualler.—Aug. 14, J. and It. J. Matchitt, Derby, grocers.—Aug. 19, C. R. Butter, Bruton, So mersetshire, apothecary.—Aug. 27, J. Baker and W. Harper, Over Darwen and Manchester, calico-printers. CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 13. J. Baker and W. Harper, Over Darwen and Manche4ter, cailco printers.—G. Frasi, sen., Goswell-street, engineer.—R. B. Sidford, Wilton, Wiltshire, baker.—F. load and J. Wadey, Prospect-place, St. Georr , e's-Relds, Surrey, bricklayers.—S. Almosnino, Bevis Marks, dealer in feat :m . .3.—A. INreller, Blacluneor, Yorkshire, clothier. )' r ~!~ CONTEMPORARY PRESS. The most important article of news in the Paris Jour nals of the 20th is contained in the Journal des Debuts, which announces with all due solemnity, that the King and Madame Adelaide left Neuilly for Paris at fifty -jive minutes past twelve o'clock. It is a pity that the exact journalist did not add whether it was solar or mean time, by the dial in the garden or the clock over the stables. It is a lesson for our Court Newsman to mind his P's and Q's in this respect, and, not be behind his French brother in accu racy. The subscription for Lafitte the banker proceeds slowly. Fresh appeals are made to the public in his favour for Louis Philippe is a'rigorous creditor ; he has foreclosed his mortgage on Lafitte's property, in return for his pav ing the Duke of Orleans' way to the throne. We never liked either M. Lafitte or his principles, but Louis Philippe always professed to admire both; besides, it was at Lafitte's house that the resistance to the ordinances of Charles X was organized ; it was his money that consolidated the revolution,- it was his funds that afforded the first relief to the sufferers ; it was he and Dupin who raised the Duke of Orleans to the throne. It was the revolution of 1830 and the accession of Louis Philippe that ruined him, but the Harpagon King has forgotten all this--a striking example of the virtues of a Citizen King ! Yet Lafitte obtained for him a civil list of eighteen millions of francs, twelve millions of which he put into his sav ings bank, and if the journals tell truth, he sent it for safety to England and America. The French ministerial journals declared that the con struction of detached forts was abandoned; to this asser tion the National gives the lie direct, . and publishes the certificate of several inhabitants of Bagnolet, a village close to Paris, and which is attested and certified as true by the deputy ulayor. This document proves that go vernment up to that very day (the 19th) was sending every 'day aye i mmense quantity of materials for con structing the fort. The editor adds that in a day or two he will give several similar certificates. So much for ministerial assertions. _ Yet both the National and the Tribune have been seized for having asserted that the construction of the forts was not abandoned. The colony of Algiers is in the most dreadful state. A committe of eight men " unknown to fame" are to be sent to inquire into the cause, and to see what is to be done. _ _ The Courts of Vienna and the Turneries do not seem to be very cordial. The Augsburgh Gazette, the semi official journal of the Austrian Government, does not spare Louis Philippe; and the Journal des Debats at tacks the German paper and tries to rouse France to avenge the insults offered to the Citizen King. It says, " A people cannot remain a stranger to the humiliations and the reverses of those who preside over its destinies." As to the humiliations, certes the Citizen King has his daily share of them; and as to reverses, the Journal des Debats is inspired with the spirit of prophecy, Alas, poor France! we thought she presided over 'her own des tinies; but no, they wait the nod of the Citizen King. If this be not humiliation, we know not what is.—Guar dian and Public Ledger. LIVERPOOL BURGESSES.— We are not generally in clined to enter upon the politics of other boroughs, but we cannot avoid offering a few remarks on the late pro ceedings towards the old Freemen of Liverpool, out of consideration to those of our own town. There may have been malpractices at former elections in Liverpool, but the original understanding was, that if the Commit tee of the House of Commons appointed to investigate the Petition presented against the result of the last elec tion in that borough were satisfied that no bribery ex isted on that occasion, no ulterior proceedings were to take place. It is in proof that a more immaculate elec tion never occurred in any borough, and yet the old free men, in contravention of a previous specific understand ing, are to be further harrassed by parliamentary pro ceedings. It does appear to us that this step can only have been taken by certain parties at Liverpool for the purpose of annihilating the municipal freemen there, in order that more influence may be given to the ten-pound householders. If the object by a certain class of politi cal adventurers be to destroy the old const ituencies of the kingdOm, which we more than suspects in order to give more power to the new ones, it behoves this and all the ancient boroughs of the kingdom to be on the alert and make the case of Liverpool their own, for they know not how soon their turn may come In the work of spoliation. Why are not the old and new constituencies to work together ? That was a main object of the sup porters of the Reform Bill, according to their own state ments.—Salopian Journal. It is a piece of supererogation to set about finding whether bribery and corruption, to such an amount, has long existed in Liverpool ; nobody doubts it: the mys tery is, how this is to be connected with the present race of burgesses, and what it has to do with being brought as a make-weight to transactions acknowledged to carry no penalty with themselves. The chief reason why it is now right to accumulate these with the faults of the last elec tion is one, we must allow, which shows the party far above the vulgar ambition of being noted for common sense. It is alleged, on the proof that I:4 or £5 were the utmost expended in bribery under the new system, while tens of thousands have been spent at one election under the old, that there is not, and cannot be, any change in the corruption of Liverpool, without the entire removal of those on whom that corruption has been practised ! This only shows that minds may be as impervious to facts as they are to reason. But surely, if the practice of bri bery remains the same, it must be as liable to the punish ment on recent charges as on any so long ago as 1823, so that the very fact of seeking evidence so far back re futes the assertion that the freemen are as corrupt now as they were formerly. And if the practice is not the same, as the result of the laborious inquisition must sa tisfy every common understanding, there is not even the shadow of their own argument left, for confounding the offences of the two periods together, in order to heap up destruction to those freemen's privileges. Why it should be supposed, also, that amongst a body of ten or twelve thousand electors, all exercising the same rights, and in the same manner, the old burgesses are the only indivi duals who stand in the way of this being a perfectly pure constituency, we are at a loss to conceive, unless it be that a majority of them have generally been found in op position to a certain party, for which they are to be got rid of by any means. As far as the law could take away the power of exacting bribes it has done so; and if they are given from a voluntary perversion of principle, cer tainly the vote of a householder is worth as much as that of a freeman. By what rule, then, are the burgesses of Liverpool more susceptible of corruption than all the other electors, who are precisely in the same situation ? We are far from urging this as an argument against the possibility of bribery ; we only bring it forward that peo ple may know how much value to attach to the smooth pretence, that the burgesses are only to be struck out be cause they hinder the borough from becoming perfectly pure. With respect to the honest design of condemning a body of men on facts so long gone by, we have only this to say, that as many of the persons whose offences are to be visited upon the heads of the present freemen have been dead for years, and many of the present free men were not in existence at the time when those offences were committed, we are promised a kind of proceeding, for the benefit of English justice and purity, beside which some of the outrages of the inquisition or the star-cham ber might hide their diminished heads.—Liverpool Courier. . _ We are glad to see that there is some prospect of an end being put to those alarming _combinations, the Trades' Unions. The masteri; in`different parts of the country, appear to be at last bestirring themselves. Those of Liverpool and its vicinity have resolved not to employ workmen who are members of any of those Unions, and have published an address to that effect. The Leeds master-dyers have unanimously come to the determination not to employ a single workman any way connected with the Trades' Union; consequently about eight hundred hands are thrown out of employment. These men had a meeting on Woodhouse Moor on Mon day last. We are informed that the workmen engaged at the various cloth manufactories resolved to " turn out" in the course of this week. There was also a meeting on Tuesday, at Leeds, of the master bricklayers, masons, plasterers, and builders, to determine upon the best steps to be taken in this emergency; and similar measures are contemplated by the manufacturers, both in cloth and stuffs, in this neighbourhood. We heartily wish that the masters, all over the kingdom, may have the good sense to adopt a similar course, and the firmness to persevere in it. By such a course only can they hope to save them selves—and not only themselves, but the misguided men whose conduct drives them to it—from the most fearful consequences. There are thousands upon thousands of workmen, in the counties of York and Lancaster alone, now living in a state of rebellious idleness, and the licentiousness which necessarily attends it—squandering the earnings of their forgotten industry, while their wives and children are depending for subsistence on the funds raised, by the nefarious organization of these Unions, for the purpose of enabling them to stand out till their ends are accomplished. The contagion is spread ing, and if not effectually checked, will continue to spread till it pervade the whole operative body ; and then, what must be the state of a country filled with an idle, starving, and desperate population, ready to listen to the suggestions of the tempters who are always busy, at such seasons, and ripe for every kind of disorder and violence ?—Halifax Guardian. We have just seen a letterfrom MOntrose, which states that twelve sudden deaths have recently taken place at Ferryden, in that neighbourhood, from a disease which had all the symp toms of malignant cholera.—Edinburgh Evening Post. • An insolvent debtor, of the name of Wm. Longstaff, bread baker, Durham, who intends to apply for his discharge at the next sitting of the commissioner, states, -in his schedule, that the cause of his insolVency arose from the following facts, viz. : —" in having a large family to support, and entertaining the primitive methodist or ranter preachers."—Newcastle Journal. ' ' \ '1 JULY 26, 181:,•ed KENTUCKY SPORTS. We have individuals in Kentucky, kind readet,a;a-, even there are considered wonderful adepts in th e feat, agement of the rifle. To drive a nail is a comnionii, not more thought of by the Kentuckyians than to e , _'; . , 15 , a wild turkey's head, at a distance of a hundred ~°lrsa, Others will iarh off Squirrels one after another, to n tisfied with the number procured. Some, less i nt ari e a destroying game, may be seen under night alizl e. ir t candle at the distance of fifty yards off-hand, night"' tinguishing it. I have been told that some have P f r a foe so expert and cool as to make choice of the eve ° are' at a wonderful distance, boasting beforehand of the fully ness of their piece, which has afterwards bee proved when the enemy's head has been exaininlavi:ig Havin resided some years in Kentucky , and Pr e more than once been witness of rifle sport , I s ha-- , volt sent you with the result of my observation , leavittb tha t to judge how far rifle shooting is understood In State. ert Several individuals who consider themselves exP t, fur the management of the gun are often seen to to tr i• the purpose of displaying their skill ; and betting 4 ,. 00 . fling sum, put up a target, in the centre of which a_u f iti mon-sized nail is hammered for about two-thirds °cow length. The marksmen make choice of what theY fa eh cider a proper distance, which may be forty Paee s ,', err man cleans the interior of his tube, which is ea"eSuring ping it, places a ball in the palm of his hand, P t ' T his as much powder from his horn as will cover it A . ;.taa ce quantity is supposed to be sufficient for any cle se within a bundled yards. A shot which comes ve i r.o r ebt to the nail is considered as that of a very s ole' marksman; the bending of the nail is, of course, - 0 tbe what better; but nothing less than hitting it tig ht °t' the bead is satisfactory. Well, kind reader, one out _ O , t he three shots generally hits the nail; and shoulaeo shooters amount to half a dozen, two nails are fretladrire needed before each can have a shot. Those wl to 4 the nail have a further trial amongst themseice'o'fflit the two best shots out of these generally settle al s pell' when all the sportsmen adjourn to some house, 1 1 .,,b" an hour or two in friendly intercourse, appoillt1;11e fore they part, a day for another trial. This is cally termed Driving the Nail. s'° li Barking of squirrels is delightful sport, and in a '„' nion requires a greater degree of accuracy th a- sq ei' other. I first witnessed this manner of procurinf, rels whilst near the town of Frankfort. The Pe r t or was the celebrated Daniel Boon. We walked Otl t t A ther, and followed the rocky margins of the h oov er river until we reached a piece of flat land thickly c'eperl' with black walnuts, oaks, and hickories. As the g mast was a good one that year, squirrels were 0 13 . 5 '; holing on every tree around us. My companinnt:otio hale, and athletic man, dressed in a homespun, P fi — g o' l shirt, bare legged, and moccasined, carried a twroc,,, t " heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said hal,l e b 7 efficient in all his former undertakings, and w",„" o ci hoped would not fail on this occasion, as he felt Prfoei," show me his skill. gun was wiped, the powe i % sured, the ball patched with six-hundred-thread line,:tibu" the charge sent home with a hickory rod. We 111 ,gr I) ,I 0 0 ° a step from the place, for the squirrels were so 0-5 that it was unnecessary to go after them. Boon rd to one of these animals which had observed 70 0 was crouched on a branch about fifty paces„hit, and bade me mark well where the ball show', hejo' He raised his piece gradually until the head (t ha :of the name given by the Kentuckians to the sight), be barrel was brought to a line with the spot wili e di P rO II F, tended to hit. The whip-like report resounde d 'AI the woods and along the hills, in repeated e choes . ; b illy. of my surprise when I perceived that the ball haundo,,r piece of bark immediately beneath the squirrel , a" V' vered it into splinters, the concussion produced hri,` had killed the animal and sent it whirling thr o i oi l air, as if it had been blown up by the -explosie'ltri powder magazine. Boon kept up his firing , ai t fore many hours had elapsed, we had procured asesg squirrels as we wished; for you must know, kindhr,ttif that to load a rifle requires only a moment, and t loti r ., is wiped once after each shot, it will do duty W I be Since that first interview with our veteran Boon , seen many other individuals perform the same ferotry, The snuffing of a candle with a ball I first ba°, r , 7 1 , poitunity of seeing near the banks of Green R iv :iol';' far from a large pigeon -roost, to which I had Vr e i ' t ,oy.: made a visit. I ieard many reports of guns du r ,; e ll l ' early part of a dark night, and, knowing them to c f; of rifles, I went towards the spot to ascertain the o f ~ On reaching the place I was welcomed by a dozelityr, stout men, who told me they were exercising for, t lie pose of enabling them to shoot under night a ', 0:1 fleeted light from the eyes of a deer or wolf, 1 ; 1 4 r;,. light. A fire was blazing near, the smoke of NO: e t $ curling among the thick foliage of the trees. ` - t0 ) ,, ,j tance which rendered it ,scarcely distinguishable e r burning candle, as if intended for an offering t° t ':at 3 'd dess of night, but which in reality was only fifty Y",etit d e which we all stood. One man was within a few, or .- 1 3 t it, to watch the effect of the shots, as well as to candle should it chance to go out, or to replace ''' ; ieyr the shot cut it across. Each marksman shot in h'i" $1; Some never hit either the snuff or the candle, at'Leats congratulated with a loud laugh ; while others ltei snuffed the candle without putting it out, an d ' rs it e compensed for their dexterity with numerous hu r or y One of them, who was particularly expert, was tunate, and snuffed the candle three times o ut :b; or c whilst all the other ca shots either put out the nu e I it immediately under the light. Of the feats performed by the Kentuckians ‘ l ,op rifle, I could say more than might be expedie t tiof present occasion. In every thinly peopled P t °i t het4 the state, it is rare to meet one without a gun °' scription, as well as a tomahawk. By way of tecteb'd they often cut off a piece of the bark of a tree, oar ot . l get of it, using a little powder wetted with waterilebt liva for the bull's eye, and shoot into the mark all m t they have about them, picking them out of t' again.—Audubon's Ornithological Biography ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE• y CROWN COURT, BUCKINGHAM.- , L 3 ' J 9 ii . 13 Edward Tavernor, William Millard, and Catha rl to , lf / Thomas Herbert, were capitally indicted for felon i° ti rnr ing a certain letter, containing twelve £lO country baeral from and out of a letter-bag transmitted from the Ge n office. It e Ol Mr. Serjeant Storks (with whom was Mr. 5 18 -, l )ecor, the case. It appeared iu evidence that on the 16th 0 ' . 0 last, the banking-house of Messrs. Cobb, atßanburY , h i e shire, had occasion to transmit twelve £lO notes of "`:„.,l3 o ` i r / of Messrs. Oliver and Yorke to them at their baal‘jar t he l ii Stoney-Stratford, in this county. These notes werf 13 , 1 5 1,; enclosed in a letter, which was put into the post 3 ' of,Yi; directed to Oliver and Yorke. The letter was for,' s oori i i London on the day above-mentioned. and on the fol' ° le tte f ( was sent to Stratford by the Liverpool mail. r"toi t 4 contained in the Stoney-Stratford bag, which was 1 0 tb e e i i . other bags) enc l ose d i n a l e athern sack, and put on t,,.611,0 When the mail passed through the Highgate arch w %Oy and its impo r tant contents were safe, but it was otd the coach arrived at Finchley. The guard dismoo°,ll7 diately, and ran back to Highgate archway, dilige a ing for the lost sack, and inquiring of every 0 11 0 t met or overtook whether he had seen it, but wit' fb ris e c y j any tidings of it. Months passed over, and no 11 / 1 ,, tow the bag or of its contents could be obtained. At t••" - e o f t,,p loss, the prisoner Tavernor was lodging in the bou s v eryi band of the female prisoner at Newport Pagnell, bill a t ga t( afterwards he quitted that town and went to resil o r.y , in Bedfordshire, at the house of one Wagstaff , a to °d at that time in a state of the utmost destitution a of C having scarcely clothing sufficient for the pUrpOS eS „ On the 15th of January, however, he gave WagstaocilAo;,: of the bank of Oliver and Yorke, which he requestee, changed for gold, which was accordingly following day he purchased a hat and some stof that ~4d. for which he paid with another of the £lO notes ° and a few days afterwards he parted with a similar aitbow, picion being raised by this unlooked-for display of W e . r police-efficers went to Potton ; butt e prisoner Ta' e otiitr i . left that place, they followed him from county to ~ 0 last he was discovered at Southampton. He bad the / Stratford notes on his person at this time. All ve d. r e„ri• passed by or found on Tavernor were clearly l'r t ° „ OP formed part of those which were in the letter sent pi t Yorke, and lost in the manner before mentioned' to this evidence against 'ravernor, it was show" i 0 tte l y given many contradictory accounts of the mann er ilslote• acquired the notes. In one of his statements he lo t t oy he opened several of the letters which were in the, iti that the bank-notes were taken out of one of tvi a olorl sence ; but he on no occasion admitted that he h a w Die bag of letters and taken from it that iu questions offence with which he was charged. As agaill st b , / whom none of the notes were found, it appeare° ."bo c. ,Yr fession that he and the husband of the female Pr" Vi i , e l; the evenin of the loss, travelling in a cart fol' that near Finchley the wheel of their vehicle Pas se l. o s 4 o ' l l , they got out of the cart, and discovered the lost d code,,A bags and letters. Millard put it into the c art,, a' re se t io,;',4 to Herbert's house, where it was opened in the°l l l , l o`. s e'Yer that of Tavernor ; and in it was found the letter 0 -0 04 1 0 / its valuable enclosure. The whole of the alone:Y.l 1)°,0'?,) Tavernor, who stated that " he had a friend l ' o f would dispose of them, if there were a thousaoadeesalvi6 instead of sharing the booty with his fellows, b e tte rs , e s? it to Potton immediately. The whole of the le to some hundreds, were burnt when the ba r Stiog ha sP only evidence against the woman was that of a s ', her Y the letters, but that was done in the presence oi , The prisoners were undefended by counsel. e f l y; The Lord Chief Baron, in summing attention of the jury to the statute and t°°, tha . r '0 0 ,4 which the prisoners were arraigned; obserroW he ' le tr i; t i t,„ convict them, it was necessary that they shoul„,„ the prisoners, or one or more of them, actoo'NeieljeclocPi, in question out of the letter-bag; it was not 5 '4 )0 0 11 ,0' stole out of the letter the money which wa s " t he tf After minutely and carefully recapitulating e a Wr e et ii se" lordship was of opinion that he offence 0 10 hos v elf/ indictment was not satisfactorily establishes',,loo, c o, ci soners might be amenable for having stolen toietter4,, of the letter. The charge was for s tealing tlich " 4 , I money from and out of the letter-bag lett' gip offence,) and not for stealing the money in t" for 9te e (rh P Pi The Jury acquitted the prisoners. a . f t $ 1,) Airte , 0 • The two male prisoners were then in__4. 0 0 ,1 0 ,01 1 4 , ' ten-pound country hank notes, and the hi-7, t hat,,l , prisoner for receiving part of them, known, 0, • stolen. The same evidence was offered a i l i bertd Millard, and the voluntary concession of 1-I „ :j a stc' and- the i julT returned a verdLt of Goi!tl/ al";