The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-29 00:00:00

THEATRE-RpYAL, LIVERPOOL. THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 29th instant, will be performed the Comedy of the SCHOOL OF REFORM; OR, HOW TO RULE A HUSBAND. Mr. Ferment, Mr. Vandenhoff—Mrs. Ferment, Miss Seymour. After which, for the first time here, a neiv fa,ce, called UNCLE JOHN. Uncle John, Mr. Baker—Niece Hawk, Mrs. Clarke—Eliza, Miss Seymour—Mrs. Comfort, Mrs. rooks. To conclude with the musical F ce of NO SONG, NO SUP Frederick, Mr. Frazer—Margaretta liss George. MR. BRAHAM, of the Theatres-Royal, Drurv-lane and Covent-garden, is engaged for Five Nights, and will make his first appearance bete these two years on MONDAY neat, when will be performed the Opera of THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE. Count Belino, Mr. Brahain—Rosalvina, Miss Turpin, who is re-engaged expressly for Mr. Braham's nights. After which will be repeated the new Farce of MY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. _ Mr. Braham's other Nights of Performance next Week, will be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Z'br kibripool A,tanbartr. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1833. We received, yesterday, a file of Jamaica papers to the lsth October. The House of Assembly, after nu merous prorogations, in consequence of the agitated state of affairs, met on the Bth, but up to the period when the packet sailed, no business of any importance had been transacted. The Ktso's speech on the proro gation of the last session of Parliament had been re ceived, and also a copy of the slavery abolition bill. The address of Lord MULGRAVE contains the following clauses, which, in point of fact, are the most important : " I have lately made a personal inspection of all the most populous districts of the Island, and I am happy to assure you that I have nowhere seen any reason at present to apprehend the slightest disturbance. I have uniformly taken pains myself to explain to the negro population, wherever I have had an opportunity, that whatever good intention his Majesty might have in their behalf, it was by their own good conduct alone that they could insure its ultimate fulfilment; that, in the mean time, nothing could interfere with their masters' still undoubted right to their services; that, even after the projected change, they could only expect legal protection, under a system of mo derated work; and that, whatever might be their country or their colour, those who are born to labour must live by industry." " It is but justice to you to state that you have never expressed any desire to perpetuate slavery, provided compensation could, as at present, be secured. To the principle of the change, Ido not therefore anticipate any objection; upon its details, I shall most gladly avail myself of your judgment and experience. cordially invite the most unreserved communications with m-- self upon whatever points you may wish for further information, assuring you that, upon all occasions, you rill find the mast anxious desire on my part to meet your views, convinced, as I am, that whilst you well know a continuance of the present sys tem to be impossible, you will feel that uncertainty is itself an evil. That delay can only increase danger, and expense can only aggravate loss, and that though the actual operatians of the new system may not be immediate, its settlement shonld, on every account, be final." The answer of the Assembly is simply an echo of the address. Among other things it says : '• The people of Jamaica have never advocated slavery in the abstract, but as connected with their rights of property. Upon the principle of compz..risatiou, they are ready to relin quish the system, and will be proud to show that they have feelings as favourable to the improvement of the labouring po pulation, as their fellow subjects in the mother-country. All they claim is, to be fairly dealt with. " The house can confidently assure your Exceilency, that it will be their endeavour, as it is their duty, to promote the wel fare of all classes of society, and it will be a subject of rejoicing (should the period ever arrive) when the present agitated and perilous condition of the island shall be settled into permanent prosperity." In noticing these proceedings, the St. /ago Gazette observes:— "It is a bill which, we fear, it is impossible for the house to adopt in all its provisions, as our readers would perceive by our observations upon it last week. In the meantime, Mr. Watkis has given notice of his intention to move for a committee to prepare a bill for the abolition of slavery in this island, which we trust will be so framed as at once to satisfy Government, to ensure prompt compensation, and to remove the complicated and impracticable machinery of Mr. Stanley's bill. In addition to any act which may be passed, we have no doubt such steps will be taken by the house as may be necessary to enter our protest against an experiment too suddenly forced upon us, and to throw the whole responsibility of any evil conseauences that may arise upon the British Goverum..t, with whom it will rest, after our bill passes, to carry its enactments into effect; and, in doing so, we cannot doubt every aid in our power will be most cheerfully contributed, God willing, to make it a safe and salu tary measure.t' The Honourable Mr. ALLWOOD was unanimously elected Speaker of the Hou se o f Assembly. We yesterday received the following from our private correspondent at Falmouth:— Falmouth, November 26, 1833. His Majesty's packet Plover, Lieutenant Downey, arrived here last night from Mexico. She left the Honduras Septem ber 11th, Vera Cruz 2.3 d, Tampico October 4th, touched again at Vera Cruz October 12th, and left the Havana the 27th. She brings on freight 140,000 dollars. A conducta had left the ca pital with a million of dollars for Vera Cruz, to be shipped for this country, which will come by the next two packets. This packet brings the important intelligence that, on the 6th ult., a great battle took place between General Santa Anna's forces 10,000 strong, and th e insu rgen t s; th a t th e l atter were com pletely routed with great loss. Great rejoicings had taken place at Mexico in consequence, and there was every rJason to suppose that the country would shortly assume a state of perfect tranquillity. The Real del Monte mines are in a very pros perous state. The cholera had ceased in the city of Mexico. The roads from the sea-coast to Mexico are infested with rob bers. Amongst the passengers by the Plover is General Ba sadre, who went out in a civil capacity from the Russian go vernment. The Plover was driven from her anchorage at Tampico on the Ist October, and regained it on the 3d. H.M. ships Magnificent, Pallas, Larne, Despatch, and Rha damanthus, steamer, were at Port Royal Ist September. The brig James Hudder, from Liverpool, arrived at Vera Cruz 21st September. The St. Croix, of Jersey, from the same port, arrived at Be lize 10th September, in 51 days. We earnestly call attention to the opening part of the able, eloquent, and unanswerable reply of the TOWN CLERK upon the evidence embracing the charges brought against the Corporation before the commissioners. It will be found in this day's STANDAND. We have not room to say a word more. When the proceedings are finally closed, it will then be our task to offer a few ob servations, whiCh we have studiously abstained from doing, pending the inquiry. A gentleman---=We'beg his pardon, but we really forget his name—who is, according to the newspapers, a " Ca tholic barrister," and who has condescended to instruct his learned friends of the municipal commission on various topics of grave interest, has made a discovery which throws quite a new light upon the science of statistics. He has found out, by an ingenious process of calculation, which COLQUHOUN, we venture to say, never heard of—and which Lieut. DRUMMOND never dreamt of—and which, we are equally confident, never could have entered the feli citous mind of Miss MAR . TlNEAU—that more than one fourth of the whole population of Liverpool are Roman Catholics ! But how ? Have patience, reader, and you shall learn. He has consulted the register of baptisms in the different Catholic chapels of this town during a given period, and he finds that they bear a certain proportion to the whole popu lation. He has also, he says, consulted the Protestant re gisters, and the baptisms there, he finds, bear a less pro portion to the population than the former ; and having made this astonishing discovery, he speedily estimates their relative proportions, and jumps to the conclusion that up wards of 62,000, or more than a fourth of the population, are Roman Catholics. A certain illustrious person, it is said, once invented a machine for discovering the right hand from the left, which, upon being tried three times, only failed twice. This machine beats the device of the " Catholic barrister" hollow ; for his, notwithstanding his remarkable ingenuity, has not proved right once. To judge of the aggregate population of a large town by the number of baptisms in two or three small chapels, is as ridiculous as if a man were to count the number of persons who pass London and Westminster bridges daily, and thence infer the respective numbers of men and wo men who live on the east and west sides of Temple-bar. The estimated number of Roman Catholics in Liverpool is considered to be about 30,000, of whom nearly 10,000 cannot be taken to have any thing more than a family connexion with that religious communion. England," said old TALLEYRAND, the other day, in his usual dry manner, " is in full gallop to a revolution !" The truth of these words is not impaired by their proceed ing from the lips of a man who is, and has ever been, the most rancorous and unrelenting enemy of this country. We fancy we see the satanic smile which slowly passed over the inperturbable.eountenance of the representative of LOUIS PiIILIPPE—the shadow of the delight which was revelling within the man—when he thus rather un guardedly gave rein to his ruling passion. When TALLEYRAND, as one of the ministers and agents of NAPOLEON, was pampering the resentment of his master with his series of foul libels upon England and the merchants of England—when he was gloating over the insane policy of the Berlin and Milan decrees —we could then afford to laugh at. his insolence and his imbecile wickedness, for we were the lords of the ocean, the arbiters of Europe, the only nation upon ea‘th who set BONAPARTE and his compatriot slaves and scoundrels at defiance, and pursued him to the end of his dynasty through a =tinned series of victories, until we left him a throneless and powerless tyrant, to digest his bile and do penance for his atrocities upon a lonely rock amid the billows of the Atlantic. It has, however, been the misfortune of England to forget the triumphs of that revolutionary war, and be consenting parties to the abrogation of those acts of settlement which we com pleted in 1815. We have permitted the fragments of the atheist bands of 1793 to gather strength in 1833—we now tolerate the faction which we had spent millions of money to subdue—and recognise in France a puppet sovereign placed on the throne by the restless dema gogues of Paris, who will never forgive us for the " crowning conquest" of Waterloo. TALLEYRAND per haps imagines that we are about to do that of ourselves which he and his. master, NAPOLEON, attempted but failed to accomplish. : He seems still to dream and doat upon the ruin of t ngland. The canse of reform triumphed in France, and it led first to a fiery and sanguinary repub lic, and secondly to an imporial and military despotism. The sun of freedom rose in brightness and set in a night of blood. The contaminating taint and the demoraliz ing effects 9f this revolution spread over the greater and fairer portion of Europe. England alone maintained her principles—proud, prosperous, and unpolluted ! Her internal enemies were easily crushed, and her fo reign foes, backed by millions of armed men, durst not meet her on the seas, or attack her upon her. own soil. BONAPARTE soon saw that his great antagonist was in vincible, and in the anguish of his heart he exclaimed, " England will never be destroyed except by her own Parliaments!" Fatal words! and true as if dictated by inspiration ! Well may the Prince of BENEVENTO, Bishop of ATJTUN, now the favoured ambassador of the Son of EGALITE, "King of the French," ponder on these words, ruminate upon recent events, and give his inward monitor a holi day in honour of the progressive realization of his hopes. We have had o!sr reform !—the democracy have triumph ed—the church has been partly dismantled—and the mine is already chnrpied which is to blow its remaining towers and buttresses into the air. We have had our reform ! and no institution in the land is safe—the public creditor reposes upon a barrel of combustibles—chartered rights are trampled upon with impunity—jobbing, profligacy, and injustice go hand in hand; and the very ministers who led the van in this revel of confusion, seem to shrink from further responsibility, inasmuch as they are unable to provide for the necessary expences of the government. We have had our reform ! and, God help us! we are, as TALLEYRAND (rays, " in full gallop to a revolution." Well, who have we to thank but ourselves ? We can not say that BONAPARTE did it. We cannot blame the "Holy Alliance" for these lawless oppressions, or this frightful tyraniy on the part of the mob. No. The stone was set in moo floe by the Whigs on the top of the moun tain. Noblemen, who profess to stand by their " order"— the Whig aristocracy, who have broad lands, and noble parks, and splendid mansions to lose—sober bankers who, like ALLAN-A-DALE, have "bright gold for the winning" —staid citizens, who have warehouses to plunder —re tired trades Men, who have money in the funds : these the pr--rts who began the movement. and tog.eri their caps into the air on the triumph of reform. They have got it, the fools! and TALLEYRAND laughs in his sleep—a long, loud, shrill laugh, like a fiend! From what we see passing around us, we cannot ima gine that the struggle will be protracted. The church, we suspect, is hardly in a condition to make a good fight, and the corporations have too readily kissed the ground before an illegal commission. It may be otherwise, but no harm can arise from viewing the matter in the worst light. Let us assume, then, that these great questions are settled, and that the revolutionary and cburch-hating party are momentarily appeased by a tremendous sacri fice ;—what is to come next ? We cannot stand still for the momentum of the stone is increased the fur ther it descends the hill. We have no wish to say a single word calculated to give offence to any fundholder ; but chartered property is private property; and, when charters are violated, in what way are titles, or mort gages, or bonds, or debentures, to be respected ? And here we have at hand something which will serve as a substitute for the shadows of " coming events." At one of the London police offices on Tuesday last, Mr. BARRON, an eminent builder, waited upon Mr. CONANT, the magistrate, to ask his assistance to sup press a riotous and threatening combination among his workmen. He stated that he was executing some exten sive building Work in Pall-mall, which he was bound by contract to do in about a week. A number of his brick layers and other labourers were members of a union, and on Saturday night they came to a resolution not to return to their work unlest he, the complainant, should engage not to employ any more handy than he then em ployed! These men actually mustered to the number of a hundred, obstructed the entrance to the works, and by that means prevented the builder from engaging other workmen. He had other men willing to work pro vided they could be protected! The following collo quy then took place between Mr. B%aaos and the ma gistrate:— Mr. Conant. —Dues any one in particular create a disturb ance or an obstruction ? Mr. Barron.—There is no further obstruction than what up wards of 100 men assembled together under such circumstances would be likely to create. They defy me to send for the police to dtsperse them. ' - - Mr. Conant.—Did the man who appeared to be the ring leader cause an assembly of persons in consequence of what he said ? Mr. Barroa.—No, because the crowd was already there. Mr. Conant.—Did they obstruct any person ? Mr. Barron.—lt is impossible I can briny any fresh hands to work while they are there. Mr. Conaut.—lt appears very evident that a combination exists among them ; but before I can act I must have some case to proceed upon. _ _ Mr. Barron.—The foreman told me on Saturday he would take care that I should get no men to work. Though the crowd outside the building now do not use any violence or threats, there can be no doubt what their intentions are. I want to have them dispersed. Mr. Conant.—A crowd may assemble before a theatre, and if the present assembly conduct themselves peaceably, and com mit no unlawful act, I cannot interfere, for the mere assembling does not constitute an once. Will you go so far as to chase any one directly with entering into a conspiracy to deter others from workicg ?" Mr. Barron.—! cannot go so far as that. All I want is to have the assembly removed from before the building, and pro, tection for the workmen. Mr. Conant.—But I must act cautiously under the circum stances. I will request some of the police to go to the spot and endeavour to reason with the labourers, so as to induce them to dis perse. Mr. Conant then spoke to Mr. Baker, an inspector, and the applicant quitted the office. This is another splendid specimen of stipendiary po• lice law! It is scarcely possible to believe in the accu racy of the report, but we take it from a morning minis terial paper, that one which was lately the advocate of the brickbat and the bludgeon system. Here, however, the brick bats have it all Their own way. Would any magistrate, under any other ministry than the present, have hesitated a moment in dispersing an assemblage of this nattre ? An " assembly before a theatre," indeed ! Tea pots, ten old women, and Mr. CONANT ! The meeting of the reformers in Calthorpe street was not a more lawless assembly than this, and yet'the former was dispersed and cut to shreds by the police. The idea of k s% sending a police officer to reason with the workmen is highly comical. These gentlemen in blue are not recog nised as reasoners, or teachers, or preachers, by the mob. The men were assembled clearly for the purposes of intimidation—they were obstructing the works—and the business of the magistrate should have been to re move and disperse them in the most summary way. The law went to sleep, and the police constable went to rea son ! Oh, dear ! At the same police office, on the same day, before the same Solon, another singular scene occurred. " A batch of nine male paupers from the parish workhouse of St. George, Hanover-square, was put to the bar for having re fused to work. They were, with one exception, all strong healthy men, in the prime of life. " Mr. Randford, .the master of the workhouse, said there had been a general strike amongst the paupers in the workhouse that morning. When they were called to wcrk at the usual hour, eight o'clock, the nine prisoners refused to comply with the order. He asked them their reasons fur refusing, and wrote their answers down at the time. They demanded to have over and above the workhouse allowance the " labouring diet," Which was an addition of a pint of beer and five ounces of meat, with a proportionate quantity of bread. " Mr. Conant asked the ringleader, a strong bricklayer's labourer, named Flynn, what he had to say? " Flynn replied, that he could not do his work on the food allowed him by the governor; it was nothing but bread and water. " Mr. Randford handed to Mr. Conant the table of food, ap pointed by the Board for each pauper. The table showed that an allowance of twelve' ounces of bread, a pint and a half of gruel, a pint and•a half of excellent pea-soup, and two ounces of cheese, were given to each pauper each day, and three days in the week they had five ounces of meat, with an allowance of potatoes. The labouring diet was also given in addition in those cases where anything like labour was required from the paupers. The extra allowance had been withheld from the prisoner Fly nn in consequence of his misconduct. If he was set to work, and the slightest complaint made of his inactivity Or slovenliness, he would throw down his tools, and say. He'd b. d---. 41 if he'd work any more.' " One of the governors of the poor begged to point out to the notice of the magistrate the shameless ingratitude of the pauper Flynn. His wife, and either four or five children, be sides himself, were wholly supported in the parish workhouse. What the man wanted was to run away from the workhouse and desert his family, as he had done several times before. " The next was a hale old man, who said he was 75, but did not look more than 65, and he, it appeared, had refused to work, because he had heard the labouring diet was to be stopped. He considered himself overworked. " Mr. Randford said the pauper's extra allowance had never been taken off, nor was it intended to withhold it when he worked. In consideration of his age he was allowed to work when he pleased, and leave off when he pleased. " The third was a very fat young man, who gave as a reason for refusing to work, that if he had-gone into the factory - he should have been alone ; so lie had agreed to strike. "Mr. Randford remarked that the strike was the result of a preconcerted plan. At night the house 'was in a state of disor ganization, for the men kept up a continual cheering, which was returned from the wdruen's side. "The fourth pauper, a young man about 25 years of age, said he was overworked, and had not sufficient food. He was ob liged to chop firewood fur the workhouse from eight o'clock in the morning till four o'clock in the afternoon, with only an in terval of one hour for relaxation. He admitted he was provided with a seat and a block to chop upon. " The fifth said he too was overworked. His employment was to tie up the wood, which the others chopped, from eight o'clock till four o'clock, and as he was lame of one leg, the work was too fatiguing. He confessed that he was at liberty if he chose to sit at his work. "One of the overseers said this last pauper had been received into the workhouse some time back from motive: of humanity. He was perishing from hunger and cold in Lambeth, when the committee took compassion on him, and sheltered, fed, and clothed him in the workhouse. " Mr. Conant observed that the paupers received the bread of charity, and they had no right to expect that they should be permitted, not only to eat it in idleness, but to dictate the terms upon which the parish bounty should be dispensed to them. "As Flynn and the fat pauper (Burton) were considered as the ringleaders in the strike, Mr. Conant made a distinction by sentencing them to one month's imprisonment, and the remain der to three weeks, with hard labour for all." Some people will call these trumpery proceedings, and , so they are; but they are also signs of the times. Cer tain sages may not deem them worthy of notice; we, who are plain persons, consider them of the deepest import ance. Here we have it right and left—operatives com bining in the streets, paupers striking in the workhouse; the one blustering and menacing their employeri—the others growling and spurning the hand of charity which feeds them. The moral degradation of the system is still more revolting than is the physical condition to which its victims are reduced. A pauper, of the name of FLYNN, a bricklayer's labourer, and questionless one of O'Coisr- NELL'S beautiful peasantry; has, beside himself, a " wife and four or five children wholly supported in the parish workhouse." He complains that the nature and quantum of his food are inadequate to his toil. Let us see, there fore, what his allowance is. He has twelve ounces of bread, a pint and a half of gruel, a pint and a half of pea soup, and two ounces of cheese, per day ; and on three days of the week he has five ounces of meat, with an al lowance of potatoes! Such fare as this, we contend, is liberal in the extreme: it is better than he ever had in Ireland, under any circumstances; it is as good as any even O'CONNELL himself ever had in his youth, or his father be fore him. But we find a "fat young man," also a member, if not a leader in the strike. What has a "fat young man" to do in an English workhouse ? He has no business whatever in a poor-house; it was not for him that the poor-laws were framed. Mr. CONANT, therefore, did right in sending this rogue and his fellow pauper to the tread-mill ; and if instead of one he had given them six months at this philosophical employment, the sentence would have been more salutary. But our principal object in calling attention to these acts of insubordination and reckless demoralization is to show that there is a precoßcerted and deliberative scheme of fraud and aggrandisement on the part of the opera tive and labouring classes, and a desire to live in idle ness at the cost of the industrious portion of the commu nity. The conduct of the bricklayers is unpardonable and highly criminal. They not only refuse to work themselves, but they gather in masses in order to pre vent other and better disposed men from doing that work which they refuse to execute. They have no sym pa thy with the master, to whom the non-fulfilment of a contract is always a serious matter. They care not though he should be beggared. This injustice has been tolerated too long, and if the reformed Parliament do not, early in the next session, pass a law to restrain such insolence and such excesses in future, they will by theirapathylend themselves to the guilt, and do much to accelerate and precipitate those horrors and that reign of terror to which all thinking men look forward with fear and trembling. The Duke and Duchess of Gordon arrived at Pitfour on Fri das last. His grace, with Captain Ferguson, of Pitfour, and a small party, went out and killed 143 head of game on the same day. from an authority upon which we can place reliance, we learn that some light has been thrown upon the horrid circum stance of the murder of Mrs Jeffs, in Montague-place, some years since. It will be recollected that this horrid deed was attributed to some relation of the murdered lady, and for which a man named Jones was tried at the Old Bailey, and acquitted but, for another offence, he was transported, and some months back he was hanged for some crime in Van Diemen's Land. The night before his execution he rent for the Sheriff of the .Colony, now in England, and confessed himself guilty of many crimes, and several murders ; amongst others, that o f the unfortunate Mrs. Jeffs.—( London paper.) EXPORT OF Bt:LLIoN.--As proof of the extent to which the exportation of bullion is at present going on, it may be men tioned that one vessel alone in the course of last week-conveyed to Calais 40,000 ounces of gold, and 277,000 ounces of silver.—. The operation cannot be a profitable one, and is most prob a bl y, therefore, a precautionary one, entered into to prevent the threatened decline of the exchanges. We have every reason to believe that the state of the coinage, or circulating medium, in some of the West India islands, affords a profit to the export ers of bullion ; it is no new circumstance, but we find that, within a day or two, silver, in bars and coin, has been entered outwards, for the island of Nevis, to the amount of 100,000 Ounces. This fact is worthy the attenti on o f the government, and especially of the colonial department, at a . periad when it is considered that an excessive drainage of coin for the conti nent most materially affects the circulation of the Batik of England. It therefore appears highly necessary that the cir culation cf the colonies should be placed upon a footing to support, rather than to draw upon, the monetary resources of the mother country. This remark may safely be concluded by inquiring whether our modern free trade theorists have ever turned their attention to the important question of improving the condition of the circulating medium of our colonies? TAXATION OF COSTS.—This process, as now carried on by the officers of the courts, under the directions of their superiors, affords anything but that protection both to the suitor and the sued, which it was intended to convey ;- for by striking out of the attorney's bill charges for acts absolutely necessary, and payments unavoidable in the krogress of a cause, it enables and in common justice entitles aim to make out a fresh bill of extra casts upon his client ; whereas were taxed costs more liberal, and allowed to include all that is actually and unavoid ably done and paid, means might be taken to snake extra costs illegal and irrecoverable.—londoe paper. THE LI VER POOL STANDARD. INSOLVENT DEBTORS, EXAMINED BEFORE W. J. LAW, ESQ., COMMISSIONER. Richard Cook, dealer in salt fish, &c., remanded for twelve months from the date of filing petition. Robert Platt, butcher, case adjourned until the next circuit. Alexander Lawson, victualler, to be discharged when he shall have given possession of public house, license, &c. James Atkinson, grocer, discharged by the plaintiff's attorney. John Daney, block-maker, discharged forthwith. John Allen Moleneux, book-keeper, ditto. George Shaw, joiner, ditto. Thomas Thompson, victualler, ditto. James Nicoll, broker, • ditto. John Mellor, flour-dealer, ditto. Robert Shaw, butcher, ditto. William Guy, wheelwright, ditto. John Nyron, assistant landing-waiter, ditto. LOCAL NEWS. SURVEY OF LIVERPOOL.—Mr. M. A. Gage is engaged in a trigonometrical survey of the town and port of Liverpool, in cluding its environs, for the purpose of preparing a new map, which 'will be shortly published, under the patronage of his Majesty and the pr inc ip a l no blemen and gentlemen residing in this neighbourhood. We are informed that great care has been taken to include all the streets and courts into which the town is divided and sub-divided, in order to render the work as extensively useful as possible. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A fortnight ago, an old man about eighty years of age, who lived at Chowley, near Barnhill, died after a long confinemeUt to his house. It is a very singu lar circumstance that about three months before, his right leg came off at the knee, as he lay iu bed, without causing him the least pain. He had been a very hard-working man in his time. DEATH OF A FACTORY CHlLD.—Yesterday week an inquest was held at Ma cc l es fi e ld u p on th e b o d y of a girl, Sarah Stubbs, twelve Years of age, who had worked' in the cotton factory of Mr. Thorp, and met her death under the following circum stances:—On Friday afternoon, while the deceased was at work, the overseer, whose name is James Walker, beat her over the head with a strap of leather about sixteen inches long, and about an inch and a quarter wide. She cried a little, and soon after complained of a pain in her head. She went home and renewed her complaints, stating that the overseer had flogged her. She died on Sunday. Th e surgeon s t a t e d th a t d ea th had been occa sioned by a concussion of the brain; and the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the overseer, who has been committed for trial. The jury likewise expressed their regret that any child should be beaten with such a weapon in any fac tory.—Chester Courant. TH. LIVERPOOL EXPRESS.-Another accident of a lamenta ble nature occurred to the Liverpool Express Coach. It will be remembered that the same coach was upset a few months back on its way to London, and several persons seriously 'in jured. On Sunday afternoon, when it arrived at Horncliffe; near Dunstable, in its course to town, the coachman, Warde, on mounting the box, had not secured the reins, and the boy who had the care'of he leaders left his hold, when the horses immediately took fright, and, after plunging furiously for a short time, the coach was upset, and the coachman and the passengers were precipitated to the ground. The passengers were much injured, and the coachman lies in a dangerous condition. It is a singular circumstance that the late accident took place near the same spot, and the coachman had only a short time resumed his duties. He has a family of six children to support.—Lon don paper On Wednesday, All Saints' Church, Grosvenor-street, was opened under license from the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, by a sermon by the Rev. R. P. Buddicom, from 132 d Psalm, 15th and 16th verses : and, notwithstanding the unfavourableness of the day, about 8(X) persons were present. This spacious edifice contains 1700 sittings, of which 500 are appropriated to the use of the poor. Passengers by the packet ship Napoleon, from New York:— Count A. d' Eternoulle and suite, French Minister to Colombia; Monsieur Tategrain, of France; Colonel Wilthew ; Messrs. Keeling, Clues, Hounstield, Sherriff, Eberhard and servant, of England; Mrs. and Miss Leslie, of Montreal; Mr. Seeley , and Lady, Miss Davison, Miss Wlntosh, Messrs. Huggins, Fellows, Bokee, Ashton, Ward, and Mulholland, of New York; and Messrs. Burnett and D. W. Hale, of Boston. Roper RlC—The auction rooms and offices of Messrs. Win 'stanley and Sons, in Church-street, were entered on Tuesday night last, and several lots of drapery goods intended for sale on the following day were stolen. The robbers also entered the offices, and broke open the locks of the desks and the iron bookcase, but were disappointed of their booty, the cash, plate, and valuables being always removed to a place of safety, with the exception of a small sum in silver and copper, which was stolen. Every drawer was forced open and examined, and the contents strewed upon the floors. It is supposed that the robbery was effected by some person or persons who had concealed themselves on the premises, of which they evid e ntly h a d a knowledge, and they escaped over the wall and by the back door of the Athenaeum. NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.—A figure of this extraordinary character, as he appeared at the age of thirty-five, in the uni form of a captain of the National Guard, sleeping on a couch, when his repose was, most probably, undisturbed by that dream of universal empire which, a short time afterwards, deluged Europe in blood, is now exhibiting in Bold-street. The artist has not only contrived to give motion to each joint and limb, but has, also, by the aid of mechanism, caused him to breathe so naturally, that we were almost afraid of disturbing his apparent peaceful slumbers, lest we should call him again into existence to re-enact the frightful tragedies of which he was the author. That his admirers, daily such there now be, may be able to say that they have seen and touched some relic of his departed greatness, the hat which he wore at the battle of Marengo, and the sword which once sus tained itself upon his puissant thigh, are placed on either side of him. That these were a part of his habiliments we no more doubt than we do the genuineness of the wood of the "'['rue Cross" and other relics which we have had the good fortune to see on the Continent. However, the exhibition is an ingenious one, and well worth seeing. THE OXFORD UNION.—At a meeting of this society, (which comprises the elite of the University,) on 'Thursday, the 19th instant, it was determined by a large majority 4 ‘ that the Com mission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations involved an attack upon private property."—London paper.—[No one, who takes the trouble to think on this subject, can doubt that it must lead to these consequences—to what else can it•lead ? Here we have an instance of wisdom, which older heads will do well seriously to ponder upon—ere it be too late. It is an extraor dinary fact, that a large majority of the rising generation of the nobility and gentry of England are free from the mental intoxication that has so completely bewildered the reason of many of their sires on the subject of reform.—Editor of the Liverpool Standard.] MExtco.—Liberalism according to the modern acceptati on of the ter m , a ppea r s t o be the same in all quarters of the globe. It virtually means an attack upon property of all parties which are without the limits of its protection; for the Liberals in the old and the new world ate equally careful in guarding their own. The enlightened and patriotic Congress of Mexico have deemed it expedient to seize, for the use of the state, the posses sions of the Duke of Terra Nova and Monteleone, the lineal descendant of Ferdinand Cortes, whose family has enjoyed these estates for upwards of three centuries. This event has, as it might be expected, created a deep sensation in Mexico, and rendered every high-minded man in that country the enemy of a legislative assembly that could so abuse its powers and cast off even the mask of common honesty. The only plea set up by the Congress is, that the Duke is an absentee ! If this, then, is to be the apology of Liberalism for the confiscation of pro perty, it may come in its turn to be applied to English and Irish abientees, who are squandering their money in Paris and Naples, and other parts of the continent. It may be well for Mexican bondholders to bestir themselves in this affair; and it is on their account we allude to this nefarious transaction. The dividends upon these bonds have never been paid with regu larity; and public authorities that can bring themselVes to confiscate in one instance, can hardly be expected to be nice about it in another.—A Word to the Wise. SIGNORS VOLPE AND Al ALGARINI'S CONCERT —These gen tlemen gave their promised entertainment on Tuesday evening, at the Adelphi Hotel, which was honoured by the presence of his Worship the Mayor, and an audience sufficiently numerous to fill the room. " Between the sublime and the ridiculous there is but one step," was a favourite expression of that great charlatan, Buonaparte, of which we were forcibly reminded by the announcement of this "grand concert of vocal and instru mental music," where the vocal and instrumental band con tained only two singers, accompanying themselves on two instru ments the least capable of " discoursing excellent music" that could have been selected--the guitar and mandolin. In the hands of a wandering Savoyard, or the peasantry of France, Spain, Switzerland, or Italy, where they are almost univer sa lly played upon, they produce a pleasing effect ; and, were they more generally known in England, where there is a lamentable deficiency of rustic music, and such a miserable paucity of rustic amusement, we think they would produce a good effect on manners, if not on morals, for, - to borrow the language of Moore, " Though love and song may f a il a t l as t, To drive life's cares away, At least, 'twill make them lighter pass, Or gild them if they stay." The concert was altogether a novelty; the signors did a vast deal more with their instruments than we thought possible; but we should- have been much better pleased if we bad been less astonished, and, should they give another concert, we would recommend them to dispense with the elaborate compositions of Rossini, and substitute for them the simple melodies - of their country, with which, as good musicians, they must be well acquainted. ON MORTUARY.—We insert an anecdote which we recom mend to the consideration• of deans, chapters, and other mor tuary receivers. It is known that in the feudal times, the pa rish priest, on the_ death of the head of a family, claimed his mortuary, (or a sort of ecclesiastical beriot,) and was generally paid in money: and that the landlord .claimed his her tot also, which consisted of the best cow, or other beast of the dead man's stock. In the 15th century, a tenant's boy, on the death of his father, was driving an only cow from Ashton-under-Line to the manor-house, at Duckinfield, when he was met by Sir Robert Ashton, lord of the manor, with whose person he was unacquainted. Feeling interested by the melancholy counten ance of the lad, Sir Robert asked him whither he was taking the beast? "I am drivi ng it t o D uc ki n fi e ld f or t h e h eriot, ' said he; "my father i s d ea d , we are many c hi l d ren, and my mother has no cow but this which Sir Robert is takin g f or heriot; don't you think, sir, that when* Sir Robert dies, the devil will make an heriot of him ?" The lad was fortunately ad dressing a humane landlord. " Return home," said the knight; " take the cow back to thy soother; I am going to Duckinfield myself, and I will make the matter up with him." PEDIGREE OF AN ARABIAN HORSE.--All Arabian horse offered for sale is usually provided with his title of nobility. The pedigree is often put into a small piece of leather covered with waxed cloth, and suspended round the animal's neck. Burckbardt has given one of these curious documents, which he I translated from the original in the handwriting of the Bedouins. It is as follows :—" God. Enoch. In the name of the most merciful God, the Lord of all creatures, peace and prayers be with our Lord Mohammed and his family and his followers until the day of judgment • and peace be with all those who read this w r iti ng , and understand its meaning. The present deed relates to the greyish-brown colt, with four white feet and ' a white mark on the forehead, of the true breed of Saklawye , called Obeyan, whose s ki n i s as b r i g h t an d unsullied as milk , resembling those horse s of which the prophet said `True riches are a noble and pure bre e d o f h orses, ' and of which God said, , The war-horses, those which rushed on the enemy with full blowing nostrils—those which plunge into the battle early in the morning. And God spoke the truth in his incomparable book. This Saklawye grey colt was bought by Koshrun, the son of Emheyt, of the tribe of Zebaa, an Aeneze Arab. The sire of this colt is the excellent bay horse called Merdjan, of the breed of the Koheylan ; its dam i s the white Saklawye mare known by the name of Djeroua. According to what we have seen we attest here, upon our hopes of felicity and upon our girdles, 0 sheiks of wisdom and possessors of horses! this grey colt above mentioned is more noble even than his sire and dam. And this we attest, according to our best knowledge, by this valid and perfect deed. Thanks be to God, the Lord of all creatures ! Written on the 16th of Saphar, in the year 1223 (A. D. 1808.) Witness," &c.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. XIV. History of Arabia, Ancient and Mourn, vol. 2. I LIVERPOOL CORPORATION INQUIRY. TWENTIETH DAY. This day (Tuesday, Nov . 26) the commissioners for inquiring into the municii)al corporations of England and Wales resumed their inquisitorial duties into the affairs of the Corporation of this borough. The commissioners took their seats shortly after ten o'clock. Mr. Johuvier, the gentleman who has several times ad dressed the commissioners during the investigation, was the first person "to break the ice." He rose to offer some sugges tions which, initis opinion, should be embodied in a new bill for the improvenient of the town*. He thought that in the first place a portion of the- money received as town dues and dock rates ougut to be set apart for the institution and maintenance of a free school for the teaching of merchant seamen and ap prentices reading, writing, and practical arithmetic ; also, that a further sum should he appropriated for the erection of a pub lic observatory in the vicinity of Liverpool, to be kept in - effi ciency, and provided with keeper, &c., out of the same fund. It was well k nown th a t seamen were liberated from their avo cations at six o'clock at night, after which they were thrown on the town, and exposed to all the evils of dissipation, which too frequent4y ruined them. From these they might be rescued by a proper education, and made more suitable for their profession, and more useful to those individuals in whose employ they might be. lie considered that the expense should be borne by those who were to derive the greatest benefits, those who paid the town dues and the dock rates. With respect to the other question, the erection of an observatory, it was hardly neces sary to say anything of the importance of such an establish ment, and at present there was actually not the means of know ing when it was twelve o'clock. It would not only be an advantage to Liverpool, but to the kingdom at large : Mr. Radcliffe, the solicitor, rose to call the attention of the commissioners to two acts relating to the Dock Estate, which he had not previously alluded to. It appeared by the 39th of Geo. 111., sec. 130, power was taken by the Corporation to make, at their own expense, certain improvements of great extent in Bridge-street, Bromfield-street, and Darwen-street. He mentioned this in explanation of what had been stated by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Myers, who contended that the Corpo ration ought to have gi ven th e Dock Estate the reversion of the property; and that it had been given as the opinion of the lit , ter gentleman that the Corporation should have borne more than half the cost; and it would be rereembered that those im provements had been stated to be of great advantage to the town at large, as well as to the Dock Estate in particular. Now, from the evidence, of the secretary, Mr. Wm. Foster, it appeared that the Corporation had sold the reversion of that land for the sum of £1,219 19s. These imprOvements were perfectly distinct from those made under the act of 1825,10 r the purpose of makinci e _ which, it was also stated by Mr. William. Foster, the Dock' state had paid to the Corporation on ac count of purchases £87,563 4s. 3d. The Town-clerk stated that the improvernessis inetrornfield street and Darwen-street were under the act of sth Geo. IV. Mr. Radcliffe.—lt is quite immaterial to my case. I say that by the 37th Geo. 111. the Corporation took power to make those improvements at their own expense, and by the act of the 51st they threw it on the Dock Estate. It matters nothing to my point whether that is confirmed by the 6th of Geo. IV. or not. Mr. Irving, on the subject of the change proposed to be made in the system of obtaining freedom, said that lie had availed himself of the method appointed by the charter to obtain his freedom, by deriving it from a burgess, though lie was not free by birth, and if others had not been so prudent in their younger days to avail themselves of the door by which he entered, it was their own fault, and he held that it would be an act of injustice and oppression in the legislature to pass a measure whereby , his privilege would be deteriorated. He did not envy Messrs. Bol ton and Thornely their property, and he did not think they had any right to envy him his privilege. James Thompson, a boatman, said he had a complaint to make against the conduct of the policemen on the pierheads, and that they were open to receive bribes and drink. One of them, when looking after something of the kind on board a steam-boat, had been carri e d o ff t o Hoyle. (A laugh.) Com plaints had been made to the head constable, Gaskell, but lie would not attend to them. On the contrary, the man who-had been carried to Hoyle had since been promoted to be deputy keeper of Bridewell. The Town-clerk.—That was certainly a left-handed promo tion, for it has put him a step down. James Thoinpson continued, that he thought it would be a very useful improvement if the constables were changed from time to time. He had not made any complaints himself to the magistrates. Mr. G. Barnsley wished to be examined on the subject of the constables on the pierhead and the borough police establish ment. He thought that the constables of the borough were equally inefficient, and to his certain knowledge they were open to the receipt of fees or douceurs when in the discharge of their duty. In fact, though he pretended to very little skill in the law, he considered those constables, as a general body, to be utterly unacquainted with the efficient discharge of their duties. A person going to the police-office at nine or half-past nine in the morning, would be sure to find the constables, from six to twenty of them, as it mi g ht b e , l o it er i ng away their time,_ in stead of being two hours ear li er a t pos t s w h ere t h ey might be of service. He had also experienced a want of courtesy at the police establishment, although, he must admit, the cause of complaint in that respect had considerably abated since he had become connected with parochial affairs, and consequently somewhat more notorious. (A laugh.) It was well known also to all who walked the streets that the constables allowed persons to transgtess the laws with impunity, and unless there was an absolute row which they . could not avoid, they never gave themselves the trouble to interfere. To remedy this he submitted that a di ges t o f th e i r d u ti es s h ou ld b e furnished to every constable. Another subject of complaint was the want of a person who understood the law to advise with the magis trates, for at present the only practical man for that purpose was his worthy friend Mr. Topham, who had to be appealed to on all occasions. He complained, moreover, of so young a man as Mr. Statham presiding at the Court of Requests. He believed hint to be a very estimable young man, but the scene of confusion which any one would find who went eo that court, would show that those remarks were not made without reason. The next evil which he had to advert to was that of five indivi duals, brothers, being placed in situations in the affairs of the Corporation exposing them to temptations which he,was sure would be too much for himself, though there was no one who colrld say that he wits other than an honest man. One of those brothers was the person who had articles to furnish which might be the subject of dispute, another had to pass the pledge whether they were faithfully supplied, another had to pass the accounts, and supposing an action to result, there was another brother by whom that action was to be maintained. There was scarcely a committee in the town where one of those gentlemen was not either secretary or solicitor, and he begged to state and declare, on the oath he had taken, that he had no personal hostility to any memher of the Corporation, but was rather under personal obligations to them, vet a more complete senate of Venice had never existed since the senate of Venice did exist. (Laughter and applause.) The Town-clerk.—As I stated before, I am perfectly willing to answer any charge that may be brought against me or any of my family, but when gentlemen come forward to make state ments of thit kind, he thought it hut right that they should be called upon to name the fact. (Hear. hear.) The gentleman who had just sat down had stated, on his oath, and constantly referred to it, that there were five Fosters; he might, however, say, that while he was perfectly willing to answer for those who did exist, he must be excused doing so for these who did not. Mr. Foster, the secretary to the Dock Estate, stated, that silence on. his part might be construed into a passive acquies cence to the correctness of Mr. Barnsley's statements, which he denied. It was true lie was secretary to the Exchan g e Build ings and the Dock Estate, but he at th e same ti m e distinctly disclaimed owing the slightest obligation whatever either to the Dock Committee or the Corporation. With respect to the bu siness done by Foster and Stewart, as builders, the bills of the firm were never sent in until they were submitted to the in spection of persons competent to judge of their fairnesS, and the business in which he was concerned was open to the competi tion of others in the same trade. (Hear.) Mr. Barnsley said lie was not aware that the bills sent in were so submitted before the present time, but he must say that the situation in which the family of Mr. Foster were placed did not place them above temptation. Mr. William Parlour, the superintendent of police, in allu sion to the remarks of Mr. Barnsley on the management of the police, stated, that during the whole time he had been connected with the Liverpool police, he had never known a single case of bribery, and he challenged Mr. Barnsley or any other person to prove an instance in which he or any of his officers had been wanting in civility and respect. As to the constables loitering away their time, he would only remark, thdt in a town like Liverpool, where they had thirty or forty cases to bring before the magistrates every morning, it was imperative to have th e constables in readiness. He - had a book in which their names were entered, and also the places to which they were sent out, under the orders of each district head -constable, • They were on duty from nine in the morning until ten at night, and the eighth part of them, in rotation, were on duty the whole night. This he, Considered quite as much as men could do. He had had great experience both in the army and municipal force else where, and he believed the efficiency of the Liverpool police as perfect as any he had known, and that there was no town in the kingdsrm so free from depredations, notwithstanding it was a seaport. (Hear, hear.) Mr. William Neighbour, the governor of the Borough Gaol, was here examined as to the state of that prison. He said there might be at present about 168 debtors in confinement, and ac cording to the rules of the establishment they were allowed one quart of ale per day. The price of the ale was sd. and 7d., and he was aware that they were in the habit of selling it one to another. One- publioan supplied it, -buts.ouly solong as.it was approved of, the surgeon regularly tasting it. Every debtor came down and received it for himself, so that if there was any abuse it rested with themselves. lie did not know that 100 per cent. wes made upon the ale : there were weights and scales always within the reach of the debtors. He had been charged by a 'foreigner some time ago with making a profit by conniving with the indiViduals suplying provisions. veg e t a bl es, & c. to t h e gaol, and that person had selected various articlds which he asserted to be fraudmilently suppliell, but which were all proved to be full weight. It had also been reported t o the Magistrates that he was regularly paid a certain sum of money by time wo man who supplied the milk. The magistrates had expressed their disgust at the complaint; and he was happy to say that such was the feeling of the parties supplying the different articles, that they each went voluntarily to an attorney, and made affidavits in very strong terms of his entire innocence of anything which had been lam to his charge. Mr. 'l. B. Horsfall wished to call the attention of the court to a few remarks made yesterday by Mr. William Brown on the subject of bribing file dock masters. He (Mr. Brown) had stated that at the period when Mr. Brown's house had given the bribe of £5O to a dock master, it was the universal custom with the merchants to do so. Such a statement he did not hesitate to say was a libel upon the merchants Of the town, and certainly not founded on fact. Since he had heard that such an observation had been made, he had communicated with some of the principal merchants and shipowners in the town, who had authorised him to give the statement the most unqualified contradiction, as such bribery, if it did exist was confined to Mr. Brown's house and the party w ith whom he acted. (Ilear.) Mr. Commissioner Wilkinson.—Of course you can positively state that your house has never bribed the dock masters ? Mr. Horsfall.—l can. The dock masters never received a bribe either from ourselves or our servants. 1 have been in business as a merchant myself for seven yea rs , an d th e h ouse i n which I am a partner has been established thirty years, and from my experience, I believe that the principal merchants in the town are equally as free from Mr. Brown's imputation. I am sure that I speak the sentiments of the gentlemen whom I saw on the subject this morning,. when I state, "that had I been a merchant who had descended to bribing a dock roaster, I should have considered myself disgraced as a merchant of Liverpool, and certainly should never have continued to sit as a member of the Dock Committee. (CheerS.) Mr. Radcliffe, the solicitor, remarked that the court would re collect. they had upon their minutes the resolution of the Dock Committee, threatening the dismissal of all the dock masters for receiving bribes. Mr. Commissioner Wilkinson, with reference to the purchase of the land from Sir John Tobin, (before alluded to,) inquired the rental now produced by that land to th e Corporation ? Mr. Sudlow, of the treasurer's office, replied that he could not exactly state, but he understood the rental was very small.— He would, however, endeavour to ascertain b y the follOWiti day. % -• • . . Mr. Neighbour here'handed up a coy of the regulations of the prison, relative to the allowances 01 food, &c. to the Prison ers, which were rea d. Th ree a ff i d av it s were a l so rea d w hich "8 voluntarily been ma d e by tradesmen supplying the borough g aol with ale, vegetabl es , m ilk, & c . , s t a ti ng, in plain terms, that no fee, reward, or gratuity had been given to the governor by them or any othe r p erso n on th e i r part f or t h e pr i v i lege o f supPlYwg the articles alluded to, or any other articles. Mr. Ellis, of the Town-clerk's office, here stated, with refer ence to the selection of juries, that it was the right of the bai liffs to select juries, and when he officiated by selecting them, he considered that he was only acting for the bailiffs, and not for the Town-clerk. The reason he was deputed by the bailiff was, that they considered he (Mr. Ellis) was better acquainted with those most fit to serve than themselves. Many persons who had been selected by himself to serve on juries, had com plained to the bailiffs that it was not their turn to serve, when the bailiffs invariably consulted the book, and if it was not, they were not summoned. _ _ The,- Commissioner said that he understood there was a large vessel in the Prince's Dock, called the John Bull. He wished to know how many tons b ur th en it was , an d w h et h er it wa s likely to go again to sea ? Mr. Foster, the Secretary to the Dock Estate, replied that there was such a ves se l i n th e P r i nce ' s D oc k , a b out fi ve h u ndred tons burthen. It had been in the West India trade, and be longed to Ewart, Myers, and Co. He did not know whether the vessel would go to sea again. It had been lying there some, years. The rent, dockage, &c. upon it, amounted, he believed', to about £3OO. Was not aware that application had been me" for payment of the dockage. One of the owners i s a member of the Dock Committee. Sir George Drinkwater observed that had the ship belonge, to the Mayor, Mr. Rhiley, or Sir George Driukwater, it woula have been removed l ong since. He supposed the reason of Rl' not being removed, might be attributed to the preponderatiug influence of the merchants in the D oc k C omm i ttee . (A laugh.) Mr. Morrall had very justly remarked that it was better to have men of business instead of men in business, on the Dock Celn mittee. The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, of Trinity College, Cambridg e, examined.—ls rector of the pari s h o f Li verpoo l , and one of the mediety. There are national schools in Liverpool, but none at tached to the church itself. There is a Blue Coat School, at Whicl! 350 children, boys and girls, were educated. Has been on all the committees of the schools connected with the Establishment' At the schools of the Establishment about 5000 children wer e educated, in which number he included the Workhouse schools;- and those of the Establishment without the boundaries of the borough, although within the parliamentary borough. The , mode of educating the c hild ren an d th e genera l managemen of the schools met with his approbation. At the Blue Coat School the system of education was in as great a state of Per' fection as at any school in England; and he had the authority • of Dr. Bell (upon whose system the children were taught) f or forming that opinion. The churches of, the gitablishrneut Liverpool were generally well attended, as far as his obseivaticl a went. Ilis (Dr. Brooks's) church was well attended, and he had four services in the day. Mr. Commissioner Wilkin son i nqu i re d if M r . B r ooks h a 4 had an opportunity of judging of the effects of the beer sholt e • and public houses upon the community. Mr. Brooks replied that, as Chairman of the County Quarter Sessions, he had an opportunity of witnessing the effects of the numerous beer shops from the cases that came before him. He could state them to be a decided nuisance in the town, as they multiplied the temptations to drinking. In the country they were to be found in retired situations, and as Fr ceptacles for all kinds of loose and di sor d er ly c h arac t er s. Vit u i regard to the cases that came b e f ore hi m i n hi s ca pacity °f chairman of the sessions, he had taken great pains to tra ce them td their sourc e ; and he spoke within compass when b ° stated, that the ori g in of cr i mes , i n e i g ht cases ou t o f t e n, vras to be traced to the effects of frequenting publi c houses and he e , be shops. Boys of tend er age f requente d suc h p l aces ; but could not say whether they frequented beer shops more tha n public houses. His Worship the Mayor here said that, from his own obsW vation, thirteen children had been brought before him front beer houses, not one of whose ages amounted to twelve. es Mr. Rathbone be gge d t o as k th e rector if t h e d ra m were not more injuriou s t o th e p eo pl e th an th e b eer - s h o ps, est - daily to the female population. The rector replied, that so far as he knew of the spirit -shops' he understood that persons went in to take a glass and aw a Y ; and as a glass of spirits went further than ale, he thought they, might be more injurious. Th e use o f i n t ox i ca ti ng li q uors ha. a increased to a great extent in th e t own , an d, h e wa s sorry ` t? add, amongst the females. The commissioners inq u i re d th e rector's opinion of the "JO tf of the Liverpool poor. The rector said, that considering the large population of tb e „ town, he thought the poo r were tolerably comfortable ; fact, more so than in oth e r t owns o f a similar size, and more orderly in their conduct. Th ere was a prov id en t soc i e ty e star o belied for the poor. One of its objects was to induce them ° a u something for themselves anothergi them to supersede, sums for exigencies; and of its objects was to as much as possible, indiscriminate c h ar ity, by sending all Ob jects of charity to the society, so that th e i r case should be Ind quired into, and, if found d eserv i ng , relieved. The society ha been found of great serv i ce . One gentleman of the committee sat daily, at twelve o'clo c k, t o i nquire i n t o th e cases o f the Pu' d , There were at present s ome th ousan d s o f pounds in the b an f of the treasurer of th e soc i e ty. Th e charitable institutio ns i ) the town were ex cee di ng ly numerous. Th ere was a friend 11 society, of which he (Mr. nrooks) was president, and its Mel?: hers Iced increased rapidly within the last five or six years. is its first establishment the people were exceedingly jealous 0 1 l' e managers, and seemed to think they could manage their cat' affairs as well as any body of gentlemen,- but they were 1 1 °I satisfied that the managers h a d no thi ng b ut t h e i r w elfare a heart, - and the members continued to increase. Mr. Brooks, in ans wer t o a question put by the Town -c• °- said he had known the Rev. M r . Johnson, as curate of Lil; pool, for many years, and he h a d no h es it a ti on i n seeing thl t aee 1 " - was the best curate he ever r e c o ll ec t e d ( a p p l ause ), and paid. greatest attention to his parochial duties. Lieut. Morrison wished to ask if £4OO or £5OO, which had been collected so me y ears ago f or th e re li e f o f the starvi n g al so_ Irish, had not, without the au th or it y o f th ose f or w hom it was collected, been appropri a t e d t o th e use o f th e Provident - ciety? Mr. Brooks replied, he was not aware that such was the fact , but he did know that the majority of the applicants fur relief at the Provident Society were Irish. Mr. Rathbone said that it was true a sum of money, for the use of the starving Irish, which was in hand when t i t r e extreme distress in that country had . ceased, was applied to , er use of the Provident Society, but as one of the committee r,st the distribution of the money collected, he begged to say s tn.% before the money was handed over to the Provident Society' an advertisement was inserted in the newspapers, stating t e n,, a ., those persons who had subscribed, and did not wish the mo ne y to to be sq appropriated, could receive back their subscriptions euei, applying to the committee. No persons applying, the mu g was banded to the Provident Society. fore Mr. Duncan, the solicitor, who subscribed to the fund collected Irish, recollected the advertisement, and corroborated Rathbone's statement. Dr. Collins insinuated that the distress had not ceased "'I; the money was kept back f rom th e I r i s h, an d attributed,etros. money's not going to the Iri s h to th e m i ss tat emen ts of the r testant clergy in Ireland. is Lieutenant Morrison said his object was to show that in tb case the Provident Society was the tool of a political par (Hisses.) Mr. John Finch, an iron dealer, nod a member of the Te c n ' o, perance Society, drew a picture of the benefits of ternper al f 3 t ee and stated it as his opinion that five-sixths of the crimes t' t hat people were attributed to d run k enness . H e com plainea eitst public-honses should be allowed to be open on Sundays , oi ,le the Cemetery and the Zool og i ca l G ar dens, where the P i e t L a t might rationally enjoy thems e l ves , were c l ose d. He stated led the advantages of temper a nc e wou ld b e s h own w hen he Sis t ee that 3,2(X) people of the town of Pr es t o n were members 01. Temperance Society, and that, at the last Lancaster as` Tau not a single criminal from that town (containing a popula, ,o oo of 30,000) appeared on th e ca le n d ar . Th ere are about 0 members of the Temperance Society in Liverpool. lie Lieutenant Morrison said that, from his own observat ie d a ys, could not state whether public-houses were closed on S un da but he could say that the p um p s were l oc k e d u p on Sun t A wag , here observed that he thought h e h a d se en Lieut eno Morrison at large on the Sabbath. Vi e° Mr. R. Shorthouse, secretary to the Stranger's . to the Society, said that he had principally devoted his time education of children, and he tho ug ht th e system of eu nc o iesa pursued at the public schools w as ver y defective. He ee i n c ot the that the children, in their re li g i ous instruction, had si Scriptures sufficiently expounded to them to render the S ols telligible. He also Tho ug ht th a t c hild ren i n c h a rity s e ie ete• should be instructed in English grammar and the more educe' fie exercises of arithm e ti c . H e con t ras t e d th e sys tem of e t ors, tion pursued by the establishment with that of the dissa and drew an inference in favour of the latter. COP Mr. Radclifie here said, by the 2d Geo. 111., sec. 9, the e the lector to the Dock Estate had the fullest power to levy uP ° , vessel herself for arr ears , an d a l so a p ower t o rem ove. ; ti me Mr. Robertson Gladstone here rose, and stated that he w hi ch to make some ob serva ti ons i n rep l y t o t h e o b serv ations 0 t he had fallen the previous d a y f rom M r . J ames Brown, °, W hen subject of bribing the do c k mas t ers . H e was no t in courLooght that evidence of Mr. Brown's was tendered, an d he now, ' r ol a , the earliest opportunity o f an ex pl anat i on . H e hadunde . that Mr. Brown, when tendering his evidence on the sub) the the bribery of dock masters, had stated that in 1825 it Y las tb o universal practice to do so, and presuming that by using ass termeno exceptions were in c l u d e d, h e cons*red that n e je ct. perfettly justified in asking permission to refer to the SlT oa r Having met with Mr. Bro wn a t the meeting of the Doe. oat mittee that day, he t oo k th e oppor t un it y o f a s king him 03 . t i o ' -- manner he intended the s t a t emen t t o a pply,whethe r ? 1 eV , . ' 'eluded every mercantile house in business at that time • e s sa Brown replied, that his re mar k a ppli e d only to AlP e ese' l ' houses. but saving this, Mr. Brown put a note into his e ar intimating, at the same time, that there seemed to be Int re t g lOr ties interested than he was aware of. The note stated t . ° 0 gis° Purnell, master of the George's Dock, would be in court % tee d, important evidence, and had requested several parties to aL t jpe o o and amongst them were the house of Gladstone and Co. ding t t inquiring of Mr. Purnell what grounds he had for inte n tio a th,e, bring forward th e i r h ouse as par ti es i n t h e system , he 1° . his surprise had been in some measure caused by an e rr . ° , r tl ifYi v .' note was from Mr. Radcliffe to Mr. William Brown e , s ' es eler„ / `i that he had seen a letter from Mr. Purnell 'to the „wt stating, that he (Mr. Purnell) was to be in court, at t v acc ou Yesterday, to give important information, and on th a t ger-o: he wished the Town-clerk to procure the attendance s'," essee e ' o , tlemen he named, including himself, (Mr. Brown , ' is ersu' e r Gladstone and Mr Brocklebank, and several othe r r olief Zf The fact was, that Co., Mr. Purnell wished either the ovetinseet.e any member of the house to which he belonged to be pre y s ing e the purpose of proving that they had never given him to the .e, bribe, and that he had nevertheless done ample j ustiee_ se yea c i: o ships. He had been a partner in the house for nearly n s " ser b and he did protest most solemnly, that no bribe had' e bous e., o , given by a member, or any one connected a ith thei_ r s a oY (Cheers.) He thought it a peculiarly hard case thal d, a hoe et , dividual, in attempting to extricate himself from the nin nee ce a e endeavour to bespatter the character of those who Wer e b a to Mr. George Grant said, no bribe, directly or indirev. to s t .oo ever been paid by his house, and he begged Mr. Pur" e s iderat i if he had ever received a shilling from them, as aOn ha d for prei ence. Mr. Purcell. —Never; and he would mention, thatebeeereect only reque s t e d th e orer l oo k ers o f th ose h ouses w hich wer odes in his note t o b e i n a tt en d ance, as th ey h a d t h e su perint l e oe eis of the v esse l s , to state, that though he had nev er ( his Co anything from them, th e y had no reason to complain o t he duct. AA ess etl ie Mr. Radcliffe said, h e wou ld exp l ain h ow h e au- r i v g note in question to M r . B rown.. O n M on d a y .n orl' i l he be t i le Foster, no doubt for the purpose of espeditinee: to .1 ness of the inquiry, had shown him the note writtei Town-clerk by Mr. Purnell; [Mr. Radcliffe ;Tad ti' e . pro' c li A, and in communicating it s con t en t s f rom memor y to A li r ca cl i be which he did to reli eve the Town-clerk from any `l ei ' for the sake of dispat c h, . an d wr i t i ng h ast il y , ac know al oe, had named Messrs. Gladstone and Co. instead of the o v ee te, ei s, of Messrs. Gladstone and Co. He explained why th„ e ese e-c 1 D o c again in his possession: it was given to him by the 'i s u it v ies that-ht. (Mr. Radcliffe) might satisf Mr. Brown th a t in the Town-clerk that the further inquiry originat e :o' pl al ' Mr. R. Gladstone.--I did not come forward to 1 IF •-••