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Xtill Mb' icationo. Just published, FISHER'S DRAWING-ROOM SCRAP BOOK f or 1834 containing 36 highly-finished Plates, with Poems, &c., by L.E.L. Demy Quarto, tastefully bound, 21s. The " Fallen Temple and Lonely Tomb' of India, conjoined with English Landscapes, Portraits ofdistinguished Individuals, which may possess a general or pcculiai interest, and some few fanciful subjects, give the charm of variety to the pictorial de lineations of this volume. London : Fisher, Son, and Co.; sold by W. Grape!, and Lin neear and Co., Liverpool, and all Book - sellers in the T.jnited Kingdom. BRUSSELS lIOUSV, / 9 1. a 5, CHURCH -STREET, OPPOSITE T ' POSTOFFICE. DKt N T respectfully anuoun his return from the • London and other markets, wit) a well-selected STOCK in every branch of his Establishment. The MILLINERY, carefully selected from the first houses, in London, will be ready for inspection on THURSDAY next, the 21st instant, and following days. 33, Church-street. ROYAL INSTITUTION. A COURSE of TWELVE LECTURES on the PHIIO - SOPHY of the ATMOSPHERE, in which its Mecha nical, Chemical, and Vital relations are popularly and experi mentally explained, will be commenced at this Institution, on MONDAY, the 25th instant, at Seven :o'clock in the Evening, by Mr. ELLIS SWEETLOVE, &c., and Mem ber of the " Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society." The Lectures will be continued at the same hour every MON DAY and FRIDAY evening, to the end of the Course. Subscription to the Course, One Guinea. Ticket for a Sin gle Lecture, Half-a-Crown, to be had at the Hall of the Insti tution. THOMAS MARTIN, Secretary. Colquitt-street, 14th 2Voremb . er, 1833. B. RICHARD DAWSON has constantly on sale, and L 1.71 Orders for the purchase of, SHARES in all the various JOINT STOCK COMPANIES, awt begs to announce that Ilia Quotations of the Market I'rices will appear in the Standard Newspaper on Tuesdays and Fridays, Weekly. An y Orders from the Country with whi c h he ma y b e f a voured will be punctually attended to. -Exchange-alley. Liverpool. RAILWAY SHARES, &c. rriFIOMAS BARBER begs leave to inform the Public, that he will he kappy to Purchase and Sell Shares in any of the Public Companies, on the same tetras as other Share Brokers; and to conduct any of the business of an Accountant, on moderate charees. T. B. has on Sale, Shares in the l i ondon and Birmingham, Grand Junction, Wigan Branch, Preston and Wigan, Bolton and Leigh, St. Helen's and RuncornGap, and Leicester and Swannington Railways, &c., and has also orders to Purchase in these, and in the Bank of Liverpool, Manchester and Li verpool District Bank, &c.- Commissions from Parties residing at a distance will be punc tually attended to. ueirgrave . s-buildings, Exchange-street East, Liverpool, 4th November, IE4I MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, sort FILLING DECAYED TEETH WITHOUT PAIN, HEAT, OR PRESSURE, AND INCORRODIBLE MINERAL TEETH, Without Wires, Springs, or an y other Ligatures. TESSRS. 3. M. and A. I',IALLAN, 46, BoLD-STREET, ..1.11.1. Liverpool, SURGEON DENTISTS, (of the firm of Malian and Sons, Grcat Russell-street, Blooitsikry, and Half Moon street, Piccadiliv, London,) contin4e,i to RESTORE DE CAYED TEETH with their celebrstfed MINERAL SUC CEDANEUM, applied without heat or pressure; also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising from age or fr.cin the use of Calomel. ARTIFICIAL and NATU RAL TEETH fixed from one to a complete set, without ligatures, warranted for mastication and articulation.—Charges as in Paris. J. M. and A. MALLAN respectfully announce to the No bility and Gentry, that in consequence of the very NUMER OUS ENGAGEMENTS for their professional Assistance, they have been compelled to place in the hands of the under mentioned Agents the DETERGENT GUM and TOOTH TINCTURE, a safe and effectual CURE for all diseases of the gums, also a specific remedy for the immediate RELIEF of TOOTHACH, &c. &c.; also the EGYPTIAN ODONTAL GIC TOOTH POWDER for preserving the Enamel and for Cleansing and Beautifying Teeth, Natural as well as Artificial. Sold, by appointment, by Messrs. Danson, Perfumer, May nard, Druggist, Jones, Druggist, and Clay, Druggist, Bold street; Deane, Druggist, Castle-street; Ross and Nightingale, Printsellers, Chronicle-office, Priestley, Chemist and Drug gist, Lord-street; Ellison, Druggist, and Johnson and Sons, Druggists, Church-street ; Cooke's Medical Repository, Clay ton-square ; Roberts, Chemist and Druggist, and Reynolds, Chemist and Druggist, Ranelagh-street ; Wood, Druggist, 168, Dale -street; and by the most respectable houses in the United Kingdom. The DETERGENT GUM and TOOTH TINCTURE, sold at 2s. 9d.; 4s. 6d.; and 111. per bottle ; the larger bottles containing three times the quantity of the 4s. 6d. bottles.—The EGYPTIAN ODONTALGIC TOOTH POWDER, 21. 9d. per box, duty included. Dental Operations performed at the above Establishment daily, upon those improved principles. ECONOMIC AND FASHIONABLE HAT ESTABLISHMENT. THE ROSS SHAPE. WARD'S, 9, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL, AND 146, STAND, LONDON. WM. WARD respe c tf u lly i n f orms hi s Friends and the Public, that he has just received the LAST NEW FASHION in Gentlemen's Hats, called THE ROSS SHOE, which only appeared in the early part of this month, and is already unir.irsally worn at the west-end of the Metropolis. It is a r..ntv and olerraut Hat, and, with slight alteration in the prim, adrniraktly suited to almost every style of countenance. Wm. Ward's brother, in London, had the honour of furnish ing the celebrated navigator, Capt. Ross, with the first Hat of the Shape, on which occasion that gallant and enterprising officer condescended to honour it with his name and Patronage. Was. WARD continues to sell his best London Hats at the manufacturing prices, namely, 21s. cash, being, through the agency of his London connexion, enabled to place them on his premises in Liverpool at from 15 to 20 per cent. below the usual terms. Those who HAVE Favoured him with their orders are aware of the excellence of the g oods he supplies , _ which have been found, upon trial, equal to Hats of exactly the same quality, constantly sold in Liverpool at 265. and 2Ss. He asks but for one trial from those who HAVE NOT already honoured kim with their commands, as he is certain it will be sufficient to induce them to become his constant customers. Wed. WARD also requests the attention of - his Friends and, the / 'ublic to the new-fashioned TRAVELLING CAP, just re ceived; and assures them it shall be his ambition to be the first to constantly submit to their inspection the most recent Inven tions and rashions in HATS, CAPS, and BONNETS, which he also pledges himself to furnish considerably lower than any eithilar establishment in Liverpool. N.B.—Fancy, Grotesque, F.ccectric. and Theatrical Hats and Caps made to order, and supplied (from London) at three days' notice. LA DlEn' and CHILDREN'S WINTER BONNETS, IU oreat Taviety: 0:::P A SHOPWOMAN WANTED. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. We continue to have little alteration in the Consol Market, 88 to 881 being the general price for the ac count and for money. Exchequer bills are 42 to 43 pre mium. In the Foreign Market the speech of King Leopold has had a favourable impression on the Belgian Bonds, which have advanced to 96 1 ; 96. Russian Bonds are 102! 1031, and Dutch 21 per cents.:are at 494 There has been an Improvement in Portuguese securities, the Old Bonds having been at 691 70, and the New Loan is 61±. Spa nish Stock is also rather buoyant at 23-. Brazilian Bonds are 65166. A dividrnd of 101. per share is now in course of pay ment on the Imperial Brazil Mine Shares. Barbados papers have reached us as late as the 12th alt. They conlain a proclamation of his Majesty to the colonists, stating that until the let of August, 1834, the lrws at present in force in the colonies for the government of the slaves would remain in full force, but that upon and after that day, all persons who shall be duly regis tered as slaves in such colonies, and who shall be actually within the same, and six years old or upwards, will be come apprenticed labourers in the service of those previously entitled to their services as .slaves, and be bound by law to the terms and conditions of the Emancipation Act. The proclamation recommends all his Majesty's subjects-to demean themselves to the law, and especially calls upon the slaves to perform their duties with correctness and diligence. The wea ther at Barbados was very hot but favourable for the crops of cane and provisions. The accounts from Gib altar of the 24th ult., states that in consequence of accounts from Cadiz of some very suspicious cases of sickness there, Cadiz had been declared a suspected port, and all vessels from thence to Gibraltar would have to perform a quarantine of twenty-one days. LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. Lloyd's, Five o'clock, Saturday. By the advices from Pernambuco to the 29th Septem ber, we learn that the Hutchinson was repairing at Pa raibo, and ! -would reload there for Liverpool : a consider able part of the cargo was totally spoiled. The Montague, Turnbull, arrived from Liverpool at Pernambuco on the 19th Sept., in 45 days. On the 27th, the Justinian, Reay, arrived off Pernambuco from Liverpool, after 43 days' passage : she was bound for Rio Janeiro, but had put into Pernambuco in consequence of having carried away her fore-topmast. On the 24th, the Niagara sailed from Per nambuco for Liverpool. The Janet Izat, Poe, from Batavia to Liverpool, has been spoken off the Cape of Good Hope. The Arnphion, Wallis, and the Ferdinand, Geuk, have arrived at S..vinnemunde from Liverpool. It is said of a certain lord, who lives by the law, that he once wrote three letters, made three curates read three newspapers, and drank three bottles of wine in three quarters of an hour. This is a special piece of useful knowledge, and should be en rolled in Chancery. A notice has been issued to the inhabitants of the district of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, signed by the minister, assistant mi nister, and churchwardens, stating that St. Martin's Church had been carefully surveyed, and that no danger need be appre hended from the state of that building, which has been re-open ed for divine seivice. _ _ TarLon'siilusEPlT.—We have been requested by this lady to convey to her friends and the public her grateful sense of their kindness towards her on Wednesday last, which she would have acknowledged in person, had she not been pre vented from doing so by the enfeebled state of her health. The gross receipts for admissions amounted to £144 55., to a moiety of which, after deducting the extra expenses of printing, ad vertising, Itc.; she was b y her engagement entitled. We have great pleasure in stating, that these expenses were Voluntarily and generously paid by the lessees of the Theatre, thils plac ing et her disposal the full half of the receipts, undiminished by the expenses which would otherwise have been deducted from her share of the profits of the night. CORONER'S INQUESTS-LON DON. TIIR MunnEa AT PLUMSTF.AD.—The circumstances :of this extraordinary case, which has occupied a coroner's jury for six or seven days, are shortly as follow :—On Saturday, the 26th of October, Mr. George - Bodle, a farmer of Piumstead, near Woolwich, together with his family, was taken violently ill after eating his usual breakfast, and - died on the following Monday morning, with symptoms that left no doubt on the minds of his medical attendants that he had been poisoned. It appears that on Saturday his grandson, a young man, went to Mr. Bodies residence at an early hour, long before the ser vant had arisen, and offered his services to light the fire, the coffee, and clean the hearth for her. This he 'ut nev. - 1 done before, and when desired by the girl to go away, refused to do so. After placing the coffee-pot on the fire, he left the house. The deceased and his family, consisting of six persons, partook of the coffee, and shortly after became ill and retched violently. Mr. Butler, a surgeon of Woolwich, was called in, and on being made acquainted with these particulars, con cluded that poison had been mixed with the coffee. An exami nation of the contents of the coffee-pot confirmed this impres sion, as he discovered that they had been impregnated with arsenic. One of the witnesses was a dumb girl, whose evi dence was explained by one of the gentlemen from the Loudon Deaf and Dumb Asylum. On Friday last, after the Coroner had summed up the evi dence, the jury retired for a short tune, and, on returning into Court— _ _ _ The foreman said—" The verdict of the jury is that John Bodle, the younger, the prisoner in custody, is guilty of wilful murder as against George Bodle." The prisoner, who was removed before the verdict was re turned, was here brought into court. The Coroner said—" I am sorry that it falls to my lot to an nounce to you the verdict which has been returned by the jury sworu to investi g ate the cause of the death of your grandfather, George Bodh•. The verdict is wilful murder against you. It will be my duty therefore to commit ycu to Maidstone gaol for trial, and - I trust that better success will attend you there than it has here." The_prisoner did not evince the slightest emotion, or make any reply . . Ile sl►ook hands with some of his friends, and quitted the room in custody. Mr. Nokes said he hoped the Coroner would now call upon the executors to prosecute, as it would be a great hardship if the parish were burdened with the expense. The Coroner said he did not think he could call upon the ex ecutors to prosecute. Mr. Nokes observed, that the 78th Geo. 111. gave the coro ner the power to call upon any party he thought proper to pro secute. The Coroner remarked that there was no proof that the executors were appointed, as they had not proved the Will. The only person he could call upon was Mr. Baxter; and, con aid?ring the manner in which he was related to the family, it would be very indelicate to impose that duty upon him. He hoped, after what he 'said on the first day of the inquest, that the relations of the deceased would come forward and aid the inquiry. The coroner then sent for Mr. Mason, one of the deceased's executors. On his arrival, he inquired what he was sent fof ? Coroner.—To hind you to appear as a witness, and prosecute. Mr. Mason.—Why am I to be selected to prosecute? Coroner.—Because I think it necessary. Mr. Mason.—Then I shall protest against it. Coroner.—The law decrees it nece ,- .--ary that some one should be selected to prosecute, otherwise felons would escape. Are vou content? Mr. Mason.—No, I do not feel content. Coroner.—You must say you are content, or I have no other alternative than to commit you to Maidstone gaol. Mr. Mason.—Under those circumstances I must submit. Several other witnesses who were in attendance were also hound over to appear at the assizes, and the court was ad. journed. The decision of the Coroner, with respect to Mr. Mason, we think, is rather an extraordinary one. The fact of his being named in the will of the deceased as an executor does not necessarily make him one until he has taken out letters of ad ministration under that instrument. The persons generally se lected to fill this office by testators are either very intimate friends or near relations, therefore the ends of justice are more likely to be furthered by a public than a private prosecutor, who may he interested in the conviction or acquittal of the ac cused. We do not know that Mr. Mason is in any way related to the Bodies, or has any of the interests we bare hypotheti cally assumed; but, we should like to know how the expences of this prosecution are to be paid, supposing the funds of the deceased are insufficient for that purpose, or that Mr. Mason should deem it an act of prudence to decline any interference with them. We should have preferred seeing this onerous duty thrown upon the parish, the hundred, or the county. DEATH BY POISON, AT OFFTON. (From the Ipswich Journal.) A most painful sensation was caused at Offton, a village situate about eight miles from Ipswich, on Friday the Sth in stant, by the discovery that a respectable occupier of land, Mr. Robert Minns, his brother William, his sister Susan (all of them above sixty years of age), and Susan Minns, niece to Robert, and daughter of William Minns, aged thirty-seven, were suffering from the effects of poison, which had been mixed up in a pudding of which they partook at dinner. William Minns and his sister Susan are since dead. These four unfor tunate individuals formed a family, and were living upon a farm of about thirty-four acres, the property of John Goodeve Spar rowe, 'Biq a of Gosfield, Essex • they were co ns id ere d quie t, inoffensive, simple-minded people —the niece—it is a remarka ble coincidence with the melancholy tragedy at Plumstead—was deaf and dumb. The house in which they lived is an old fa shioned farm house, close by the roed leading to Bildeston, and it is a singular fact, that there was no shutter to any window of the house. On Friday, immediately after dinner, which took place about twelve o'clock, which coesisted of a pudding, some pork, and a few potatoes, the sister Susan was taken violently ill, with excessive vomi'ing and inter: eet pain, when she leftehe room and hastened to the bed-chanrer, where she died in about three hours. Robert Minns and his niece were alsoaffected in the same manner and went to bed. While they were lyiug st:. et.--;., eset., W. mi . ..., who had been working up on the farm, came home and teat into the house to get his dinner. Seeing his brother upon the bed, he asked him what was the mat ter; Robert replied that they had been all suddenly taken ill after eating their meals. William asked if there was any thing the matter with the victuals, and upon Robert's reply, " No, he didn't think that there was," sat down and ate heartily of the pudding. He then went to the stable, saddled a horse, and rode doe n to Bricett, the adjoining parish, for a nurse ; he was gone rather more than half an hour, and on his return he went intolthe barn where a man, named Piper, was at work, and said, I' Piper! for God's sake go make a fire, for I am dying;" he then went into the house, and soon after to bed, where he continued in a very distressing state, till death relieved him from his sufferings on Sunday morning. When William Minus returned home, his sister Susan was dying, and a messenger was despatched to call in a medical man. Mr. Grouse, of Had leigh, as soon as he received intimation, made all possible dis patch, and rendered every assistance medical aid would afford ; he immediately saw that the unhappy people were suffering from having taken some deleterious matter, which, on examin ation, he found to be arsenic. So potent bad been the mix ture that some fowls and two cats, which came and fed at the yard door where one of the sufferers had emptied his stomach, almost immediately died. The pudding, it appears, was made by the elder woman, Susin Minns, who kept house, from flour which was contained in a sack standing near the window at the back of the house— a pudding had been made from the same flour on the Sunday previous, and there had been a baking on the Tuesday: the window was about four feet from the ground outside, a small casement window about two feet high, with an aperture nine inches wide; the sack was placed about three feet from the window, the mouth being left untied, and it is supposed that an entrance was effected at the window on the previous night, and the poison put into the sack. Suspicion has fallen upon a young man of loose character, who a short time since, on the 3d inst., assaulted Robert Minns upon the high road and robbed him of his purse, containing £7 18s. A warrant for his apprehension was granted, but he has managed to keep at large. Robert Minns and his niece, we are happy to say, are fast recovering from the effects of the poison. A coroner's inquest sat at Minn's house on Thursday and Friday last. Mr: Sparrow, the coroner, in summing up said, " that there was no doubt how the unfortunate individuals came to their death—by poison administered to them ; there was no reason for the supposition that the poison was mixed by the unhappy woman who made the pudding, but there was strong reason to believe that an entrance was effected into the house, and the poison put into the sack by some evil-disposed person, with in teut to take the life of one of the family. The question then arose, who that evil-disposed person could be ; the jury had evidence that a young man, Joseph Sayer, had been charged with robbing Robert Minns upon the high road • what was termed malas animus on the part of Sayer was fully proved; yet there was nothing to warrant a conclusion that he com mitted the act; only there was cause for suspicion. The safest course for the jury to pursue would be to return a verdict of— Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown, leav ing it to the county magistrates further to examine the subject if at any time further evidence could be procured." The court was then cleared, leaving the jury by themselves ; they almost immediately agreed upon a yerdict—that the de ceased, William Minns and Susan Minns, died from the effects of poison adrainiste.r4bv some Derean or germ-le 11 nit r..urn _ TRAGICAL EVENT AT BARNES. On Thursday, at twelve r; clock, a coroner's jury assembled before Mr. Carter, at the Old R e d Lim Barnes, to hold an in quisition on view of the body of Miss Mary Watt, aged nine teen. . It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the daughter of Mr. Watt, the respectable proprietor of Byefield house Academy, situate at Barnes, and who had necessarily in his establishment some persons to superintend his school; one of them was au usher, a I renchman of the name of Dumas, and of whom it is reported . that he intruded his attentions on the deceased, which were rejected on her part, but which led to the catastrophe that caused the ueceased's d ea th. O n M on d a y last, between ten and elexen at night, the dece a s e d retiredto bed, having been playing at chess with her father. Sh e wished him and her mother "good night," and taking a can dle went into her own room, from whence, soon after her en trance, the house was alarmed by a fearful scream. Dumas had previously hid himself behind the door of the room, u p on going into which he started before her , holding out an un sheathed razor in his hand. The deceased's screams being repeated, Mrs. Watt hastened to her daughter's assistance, whom she found almost frantic with fear, and tremulously ex _ claiming " There's the wretch behind the door, with a razor i n his hand to murder me!" Upon saying tins, she dropped i n a hysterical fit into her mother's arms. By this time Mr. Watt having arrived, he seized Dumas by the collar, and taking him down stairs, asked him what he meant by such conduct; but no explanation was given. Every n.csns Pere 1 , 11, oto sooth the agitation of the deceased, ss ho that night slept with her mother; previously to which, however, white the servant was undressing her, she took a draught of eau-de-Cologne for the purpose of raising her spirits. The servant urged her not to do so, but the advice was unheeded, and she repeated the draught shortly after, and went to bed about 11 o'clock. In two hours after the deceased awoke. and said, " Oh ! mother, I have had such a frightful dream !" Mrs. Watt kissed her daughter, and said to her Go to sleep, my dear, and you will be better." After passing a restless night, from the ap pearance of the symptoms on the deceased, between 7 and 8 in the morning, Mr. Scott, the surgeon, of Barnes was sent for, who immediately attended and used the stomach pump, when a portion of eau-de Cologne was ejected, but no in g r e di en t s o f any poisonous nature. The deceased . relapsed int o a s t a t e o f stupor, and shortly after died. '1 he body was exami ne d b y Mr. Scott and Mr. Howell, of Wandsworth, in whose opinions the deceased died from having taken eau-de-Cologne, being at the time in a state of much excitement. The jury shortly consulted together, by %Thom (as it appeared in evidence that the liquid was taken for the purpose of remov ing a severe depression of spirits, I,ut which was drunk in too large a quantity) the following verdict was returned :—" That the deceased died from having taken inadvertently a consider able quantity of eau-de-Cologne, being under a degree of ner vous excitement at the time. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1833, The accounts from Spain continue to be contradictory, and involve in great uncertainty the pretensions of the respective parties. The French government observes the greatest secrecy with respect to the exclusive information which they receive by the telegraph. This silence may be observed for speculative purposes, for it is notorious that LOUIS PHILIPPE and his respectuble ministers are huge gamblers in the funds ; but as these persons are all deeply interested in the events passing in Spain and the success of the QUEEN'S party, we may infer that the infor mation they so carefully conceal is adverse to their wishes. Where Don CARLOS is no one seems to know. Since our last publication we have received, by various arrivals from the West Indies, files ofpapers from Jamaica to the 3d, from St. Kitt's to the sth, and from Demerara to the 13th of October. At those respective periods the fact of the slavery abolition bill having passed the Lords had become known in each of those colonies; and at De merara the royal assent to the bill, and the prorogation of Parliament, were also announced. As was to be ex pected, the question had been received by different parties with very different feelings, and on various grounds.— The organs of government, so far as they spoke of it at all, had eulogised it as an act of unbounded wisdom. The independent portion of the community viewed it in ano ther and less enenurciging u.o r . In the St. Christopher Gazette of the 4th October, we find the proceedings of the legislature of that island on the preceding day. The resolutions passed by the House of Assembly are of too important a character to be slightly passed over; we, therefore, gi -e them at length in another part of our paper. In Demerara the impression existed that the sum voted by Parliament, as an indemnity to the planters, would be speedily divided, on the compound ratio principle of num bers of negroes multiplied into value of exports. We fear their anticipations on this head will be met by disappoint ment, both as to time and amount. Sir James CARMI CHAEL SMYTH, Governor of Demerara, issued a procla mation, on the 2d Oct., addressed to the slave population, upon which we will not make any extended comment. If we were to do so, we fear a sense of justice would compel us to denounce it as a document in which the small modi cum of wisdom that it may perchance contain is over whelmed by indiscretion of language of no ordinary cha • racter. The pressure of matter, of local and momentary interest, compels us to omit its publication. At the date of the last papers from Jamaica, the packet had only just arrived with the account of the bill having passed the Lords. There had, consequently, been no time to discuss its merits in the shape in which it waa to be come law; but the indications were clear and intelligible of the mischievous results likely to flow from the dimi nished term of service, and the ridiculous distinctions into priedial and non-prmdial classes; all which changes tend to augment the disappointment of the planters, and must, in practice, lead to great confusion and discontent. Since the foregoing was written, we have received_ ad vices and papers from Antigua ; which, if not as late as those from the colonies above mentioned, and not, on that account, acknowledging the receipt of intelligence announcing the passing of the Bill, are still of consider• able importance, as indicating the state of feeling among the planters with respect to the measures recently before Parliament. The Weekly Register of the 24th'Septern ber contains the details of a meeting held in the town of St. John on the 11th of that month ; at which it was resolved, "that a period of apprenticeship, as proposed by Mr. STANLEY in his Bill now before Parliament, would be one of most auxionsirritnticuen ell.narties...landir4f to the moral degradation of the negro, and the grievous oppression of the present slave.owner ; and that any pro portion of compensation which might be allotted, would be rendered abortive by the expensive and complicated machinery of commissioners, &c. for its distribution." A subsequent resolution declares the willingness of the meeting "to accede to the entire and unconditional emancipation of their slaves, and to use every influence in forwarding the passing of such Acts by the Colonial Legislature as may be requisite to provide for the con sequent change of circumstances, upon there being vested in Government securities, for their use, the sum of thirty pounds sterling, per negro, and upon an ex emption to this island from the payment of the 41 per cent. duty." Of course both these resolutions are ren dered nugatory by the final acts of.the Legislature at home. They are, however, deserving of notice, as prov. ing the conviction of the Antigua proprietors, that the plan will not work well in the first place; and, in the second place, marking their• apprehension, as natural as it is well-founded, that the awarded compensation is likely to be greatly diminishedin amount by the com plicated machinery necessary for its distribution ; and that the adjustment of the interests involved will be a work of extreme difficulty, if not of impossibility ; and will, at all events, he attended in many cases with ruin ous delay, and irreparable injury to the parties concerned. There must be some unknown, and therefore unexpect ed comet, much nearer this old earth of ours than astro nomers have any notion of —some minister of confusion in the voids of space—some broken-down and excommu nicated star, sent adrift like an intoxicated Whig from a temperanc e society, and reeling along in our wake, or athwart our course, sending forth a noxious vapour which has a morbific effect upon the mental and physical powers of a large portion of our population. This is a postulate which we should like to see handled by one or other of the learned authors of the D-idgewater Treatises. We THE LIVERPC)OI. STANDAIta assu►ne it on the ground .that it is impossible to account for the madness which prevails in any other way. What but some extraordinary convulsion, or mysterious de rangement in the system of nature, could have produced such comical, but at the smile time melancholy, effects upon the tailors of Paris They have struck work, and declared war against that portion of their fellow-citizens who have hitherto been their employers, and whom an in solent and ignorant world has styled their " masters." They have hoisted the goose, as PETER PARKER did the red flag in the'rnutiny of the More, and they have nailed the scissors to the board ! Under these circumstances the eyes of all Europe are fixed upon the tailors of Paris. They have published a declaration of rights, in which they demand-Ist, that they shall be allowed two hours per diem, in the middle of the day, to read the newspapers and discuss the affairs of nations ;--2dly, that they be permitted to smoke an unlimited number of cigars in their workshops, and during the hours of labour ;—and 3dly, they insist that no employer, hitherto called "master," shall be allowed to enter any such workshop without first knocking re spectfully at the door thereof, and standing uncovered in their presence. The working jewellers of Paris have also struck for a diminution of labour, and have demand ed a charter ! What has taken place nearer home among the same orders of Men is known to all our readers. The Journeymen plasterers, painters, and bricklayers lately de manded, like the King's commissioners, a perusal of all contracts. The hatters of London claim the new privi lege of spoiling as many beavers as they please with im punity. Some oyster-mongers in this country have re cently concocted measures to prevent all persons from cheating the public who do not belong to their order ; the tinkers of Birmingham have declared themselves the sole authors of wealth ; and to complete the climax, the re fortners of Glasgow, and the successors of BAILIE NICOL .411%1E, have proclaimed perpetual enmity against three cornered hats! The comet has, therefore, much to answer for, it be ing unreasonable to assume that the schoolmaster alone is responsible for such folly. But the tailors of Paris, the plasterers of Liverpool, the hatters of London, and the tinkers of Birmingham, are fairly eclipsed by another prophet who has appeared, and who styles himself a JOURNEYMAN BOOTMAKER. This man of leather certainly soars above the rest of his compatriots. He has written a book, which is entitled an "address to'the members of trade unions and to the working classes generally, being an exposition of the relative situation, condition, and future prospects of working people in England, Scotland, and Ireland.' The "Bootrnaker" disdains to walk in the h um bl er p a th of faction with Lord FITZWILLIAM and M r . W ILLIAM BROUGHAM. He does not slay the slain, as the news papers are doing in the case of the assessed taxes. lie does not poach upon the outskirts and by-ways of the political domain, but enters the manor house at once, claims his right to a slice of the baron of beef, a seat at my lord's table, a share of his burgundy and Tokay, and an equitable proportion of his rents! We admire this fellow vastly ! There is no cant, spe cial pleading or hypocrisy about him. He asks nothing on the score of benevolence. He does not make beg ging a cover for stealing. He does not place his hat on the middle of the KING'S highway, like a Spanish robber, and stand at a respectful distance with a long loaded rifle pointed at the traveller as he passes by. No. He takes higher ground, and contends that as the source of wealth is labour, the rent of land and houses belongs in natu ral equity to the labourer. On the part of the opera tive mechanics, of whom journeymen bootmakers are presumed to stand the highest in the scale of art and utility, he first asserts their right to a participation in the profits of merchants, manufacturers and capitalists gene rally—next in the salaries of judges and official persons, then in the incomes of clergymen, preachers, teachers, and distributors of useful knowledge—in short, he claims for these artizans, the authors of all wealth, a right to a share of the profits of even shopkeepers and retail dealers, and of persons " of every description who accu mulate wealth." After this he commences a most formi dable assault upon landowners and fundholders. His principles of justice, although not quite original, are nevertheless so elaborate and ingenious, that we are tempted to give them in his own words : " Next comes the independent class, commonly denominated ladies and gentlemen. The means of accumulation which these possess arc commonly derived from rents and interest on money. Like all other non-productive classes, they are, notwithstand ing their title, dependent solely upon human labour for every article of wealth they enjoy or possess. Of course, the only natural method by which they could become possessed of wealth would be to go to work and make it; but they tell us they are enabled to live upu the income of their rents and the interest of their money. Now we who produce everything have a right, I think, to examine these sources -of their enjoyment. Let us first notice the income derived from rents. "The nature of rent is two•fold ; that which is obtained for the use of land, and that which is obtained for the use of houses. The absurdity and injustice of the former is so completely ex posed by Mr. Gray, in his ' Essay on Happiness,' that I would rather refer the reader to that information than attempt an il lustration of it myself. On strict .examination, however, I think it must apiwar avidotzt to ovary ono not ;,.torc.ied in fa vour of falsehood, that every human being who is excluded by any of his fellows from an equal participation in the proprietor ship of land, is sobbed of his natural inheritance; and that birth right to an equal use and possession of the earth s which the Creator has besto..ved upon hint in common with all others, though it may be leya!ly, is nevertheless forcibly and unjustly oetoined from his use and enjoyment ! But I shall proceed to notice the income of rent from houses. "Although it will be found upon investigation that there is no foundation either in nature or Justice for individual or exclusive proprietorship in land, nor thereibre fur demanding rent for the me of it; ya I think it will appear plain to every one accus tomed to reflection, that property upon land, produced there by labour, must in justice belong to the individual whose labour has produced it, and, consequently, that such individual has a right arising out of and based upon 1113 LA noun, to require from any other individual using and enjoying that property, a compensat►on equivalent in value to the quantity of labour which such use or enjoyment consumes or demolishes. This is a principle of equity, and it is upon this alone that any just sys tem of rents can be established. "Now then, in relation to the class under consideration, passing over the question, whether by th e i r l a b our th e y ac t ua ll y created the property of which they claim to be the proprietors ; and admitting for argument sake the justice of their claim, let us inquire for a moment into tke nature and tendency of that system of rents, through which, under the present institutions of society, they are enabled to accumulate. " We will suppose an individual to be the proprietor of a number of dwellings, say ten, and £3OO, the original cost of each dwelling. Now, admitting the proprietor to receive, in the form of rent, what is customary in London for such dwel lings, that is about fifteen pounds per annum for each; he will in twenty years have received the whole amount of their origi nal cost. But we may suppose that during a term of fifteen years from the commencement, the taxes on the said dwellings, together with the cost of wear and tear naturally arising from use, and the compensation justly required by the proprietor f or services rendered as an agent in superintending these matters, will amount to a farther sum of £l5O on each dwelling. This will make the entire cost of each equivalent only to the amount of rent received during the term of thirty yea?-s. Yet, at the end of this term, the said proprietor, after having received from his hard-working tenants the whole original cost of the dwellings, together with all the subsequent expenses attendant on them ; besides having been amply remunerated for his own labour as an agent in superintending, still claims, and lejally, ton, but not justly, to be the proprietor; while he and his suc cessors possess a legal privilege to accumulate for ever after, from the occupants of these dwellings, the usual quantity of wealth or its representative to the amount of £l5O yearly ! It matters not, therefore, whether we speak of reut from land or horn houses, the true principle of equity, that is, labour Jim la bour, is entirely lost sight of; aud the whole system being re moved from this foundation, is nothiv more than a system of leyalize4 . fraud and oppression, which will 'live and flourish' till the working classes begin generally to perceive its enormity and injustice, and then it must wither and die.' " Gentlemen of the penny magazines. and advocates of cheap instruction, these, are your works! This Journey man Bootmaker is a " teacher and preacher" among the people, and his ideas of meum and tuum are well, suited to the condition and desires of those_ amid the It reek of nations and the spoils of property, might gain something but could lose nothing. It is easy for any rogue to devise a theory, the practical enforcement of which would be f o r hi s own private ad vantage. The Bootmaker does not inculcate the expe dieney of resorting to the highway and robbing coach passengers .of their money. That is the old way of ac quiring wealth; but its antiquity is against its adoption in modern practice. A more moral scheme of robbe!y is projected, in which the appropriation of the goods and chattels of our richer neighbours to the uses of the idle, tile dissolute, and the unprincipled, is reconciled to the beautiful maxims of liberalism and patriotism. If this scheme of plunder is to be carried into execution, we trust that the assessors will begin with the property of the Whigs in the first instance, and first of all with the patrons of the Penny Magazine. It is but reasonable that those who set the example of fraud and pilfering should be made the initiatory sacrifice to their own principles. We hope that the Journeyman Bootmaker - will bear this in mind ! • Reader, picture to yourself the large room of the Crown and Anchor tavern, in London, in the days of Whig opposition, when the hated tories were in power— fancy that you see this room crammed full of flaming pa triots, old BURDETT in the chair, wine sparkling upon the double row of tables, oratory here, froth there, port before the dons, and porter before the negroes—and fancy. moreover, that you see a tawney-fooking jesuit in a black coat,, and with downcast eyes, standing upon the cross table, and that you hear him, in a cracked voice, propose the following toast :—" The liberty of the press ; it is like the air we breathe, if we have it not we die I" This is, of course, followed by " tremendous cheers," after which Mr. JAMES PERRY, of the Morning Chronicle, returns thinks in " gude braid Scotch." Now change the scene, and contemplate the fine spec tacle of the hated tories out, and the beloved Whigs in office ! Old BURDETT is forgotten, there are no brilli ant assemblies of the majesty of•the people, the pewter pot is empty, the eloquent orator is dumb, the glory bath departed from the Crown and Anchor tavern, and JAMES PERRY, in his cerements, alas ! that it should he so, walks the Strand, a silent and moody ghost amid the " discontented spirits" of London. He, however, who in those days toasted the press, and held its liberty to be as valuable as the air he breathed, still lives, a " prosperous gentleman," translated into a noble earl," holding in high disdain the professed principles of the opposition Whigs: Where do we find him now ? In the Court of King's Bench, speaking by the mouth of his MAJESTY'S Solicitor•general, and instituting no less than three cri minal prosecutions, under the sanction of laws which he has repeatedly condemned, against that press which he formerly delighted to honour! This - is a true picture of a genuine Whig taken at two distinct periods, the first when he was a star among the political mountebanks of the day, and the second when he stands before us a father-in-law-made earl, an ex member of the cabinet, who, with his family, has made the tour of Europa at the expense of th.i nation, and who, at the present writing, is an expectant of office and of ad ditional emoluments. What would old GEO. TIERNEY say, if he were alive ? Shade of RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ! what a pity thou art . not amongst us, in mortal clay, to write some new comedy in honour of JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, now Earl of DURHAM ! It is the fact that this illustrious nobleman, who once took the press under his special patronage, who has availed himself of its influence as much as any other man, who has long indulged in bitter and personal invectives in his place in Parliament, who, on a recent occasion, attacked the Bishop of EXETER in a way which no noble man of less personal courage than Lord DURHAM would have dared to do towards a gentleman ; and yet, with all these frailties to answer for, we find that the noble lord has commenced prosecutions for an alleged libel against the Durham Advertiser, the Standard, of London, and the John Bull. The alleged libel originally appeared in the Durham paper, so that the other papers -ate mere extractors of the offensive article. This procedure against the extractor is another admirable illustration of what the Whigs mean by the " liberty of the press." The Durham Advertiser has accused, falsely we hare no doubt, and upon the faith of preconcerted misrepre sentation we strongly suspect, the lord of Durham of having threatened the demolition of a village, on the ground of vexatious interruptions of his lordship by the inhabitants. It is clear enough that the Advertiser has been imposed upon, and there are many reasons for surmising that the imposition has been practised as a trap. Lord DURHAM is, of course, exempted from all sus picion. Meanly as we think of him, we say it in perfect candour, that we do not believe him capable of resorting to any such paltry and disgraceful stratagem. But while we freely acquit his lordship, we are ndt equally bound to exempt from suspicion every vile person who surrounds him, or every shabby and needy Whig attorney in that part. of England. We infer that the conductor of the Advertiser hasbeen imposed upon, because we take for granted that no man connected with the press, and responsible for its errors, would willingly give circulation to a libellous statement. It is in the power of any scoundrel to impose upon the press, and expose its conductors. ta serious injury, if not total ruin, and that such scoundrels abound is too true. Judges, who in general are not men of the world, are in the habit of ruling, that carelessness on the part of an editor in admitting into his paper charges of an un founded nature, is as great an offence as if he were the author of the libellous paragraph. But judges who talk in this way know nothin g o f our bu s i ness . It i s fre quently impossible to guard against imposition. It is equally impossible to decide what is true and what is otherwise. The conductors of, newspapers are obliged to.cater for news, aye for gossip, for affairs of love and murder, and for other passing accidents by flood and field ; and in the pursuit of these, which most readers are ever anxious to see, it is impossible but that some mis takes should occur, some errors creep in, some unfounded misrepresentations take place. Newspapers are held responsible for every word spo ken in jest, and for every unintentional mistake, or con strued grievance. Lawyers are always to be found who trade upon these errors, and make a living of inadvert ent slips of the pen, or by fraudulent inventions con cocted and furnished by unknown, but in all probability, interested persons. Why s h ou ld thi s b e ? What would Lord DURHAM himself say, if lie were held responsible for every idle word spoken at a Whig feast, when the wine is in and the wit out ? Has he always been of that smooth speech which means nothing, and inflicts no pain? A mighty change has taken place on thi s sub ject in public opinion, and we are surprised that Lord DURHAM should be unconscious of it. The public have an idea that he who is the readiest to rush into court, on all occasions, is not the most innocent of mankind. POPE says, that he cannot be called a great man, who would not subimt to be buried in a winding-sheet formed of the libels written against him, and Mr. Jo- SEPH HUME is of the same opinion. What man has been lampooned by the press more incessantly, or with more severity than Mr. HUME, and yet he has never in stituted a single prosecution against the 7'imst or any other of his assailants. Lord DURHAM, without lower ing his. dignity, might take a lesson from the honoura ble member for Middlesex. He may depend upon it - that the lord or commoner whose simple contradiction of a newspaper paragraph is noebelieved, will not gain any renown or appear more innocent by a successful crimi• nalyrovcation. • - • But while these legal proceedings are going on, pro ceedings of a very different description have occurred at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in which the name of Lord Dt7a tam is made still more conspicuous. The Durham Ad vertiser it seems is not the only offender in the north. The Newcastle Journal has invoked upon the head of its proprietor a few illustrations, with cuts, of the bludgeon system. We dare hardly trust ourselves with any com ments upon this lastarJly proceeding, and shall, there fore, allow the Newcastle Journal to tell its own story : "In the exercise of our vocation as printers, we printed a squib, which, so far as we can comprehend it, is intended to ap ply to the Sunderland gathering and t o raise a smile. We scarcely need ray that the MS. and the order to print came in the customary way, and that the work was executed without a wish to injure any persons or patties, and was, indeed, merely one of those paper pellets which are commonly tired off when party feeling is up. It would he an insult to common sense to say that as a transgression of the pounds of decorem it is at all comparable to the language employed at this very dinner with reference to individuals who were not present, Personally, in short, the editor of the journal had no more to do with it than Lord Durham has to do with true dignity, or my Lord Grey with disinterestedness or patriotism. "On Wednesday morning, however, the Journal-office was invaded by some half-score of ruffianly persons, armed with whips, sticks, Sze., at the head of whom we recognised Mr. John Coul Carr, Lord Durham's coal agent; Mr. J. P. Kid son, Lord Durham's solicitor; Mr. Jonassohn, a llamburgh Jew, resident, we believe, at Sunderland ; a man-servant at the Earl of Durham's coal-fitting office; a person of the name of Galley; and others, evidently hired and got together for the purpose of committing a vulgar breach of the peace. "These redoubled champions of the new order of things de manded the name of the author of the handbill adverted to ; a demand which we necessarily but calmly refused to comply with, for we are not the habit of betraying our friends at the call of our enemies). We intimated to these physical-force men, that if any breach of law hail been committed they knew their remedy, but that we never yielded at word of command. "'Phis was the signal for the execution of a preconcerted pur pose. The magnaniamns half-score, with suck and whip, fell upon the proprietor of this journal, and perpetrated an assault, the result of which is considerable personal injury on one side, but everlasting disgrace on the other; for a more cowardly proceeding has, perhaps, never taken place, considering that the leaders in the affair were the legal and business agents of a nobleman who preaches forbearance and love of order. It so happens that there was a witness of the whole transacti on . No retaliation was attempted. Indeed, the outrage Was - com mitted under circumstances which tendered resistance imprac ticable ; and the ruffians retired as soon as they had wreaked what, we suppose, they consider their ven g eance." Can all this he true? If the Newcastle Journal were not a most respectably conducted paper we should hesi tate in giving currency to an outrage so disgraceful to the English• character. Is this what the whip - call the liberty of the press ? Is this the " air we breathe," with out which we die It appears to us that the less of this " air" the better, if we Wish _ t.n is'va esveh- attacks should become common, and if the patrons of the n liberty of the press" have determined to resort. to the bludgeon in the dissemination of their principles, it will he neces sary fur the conductors of newspapers to carry fire arms. But the affair cannot end here. Mr. SHEPHERD appears resolved to have the last word, and as his twaddle does not merit the name of controver sy, we have no objection that it should be so. He con cedes that he has no claim to the title of " reVerend," in n hich opinion we have no doubt that the public will rea-: dilv concur. He is content, he says, t o h e d es i gnate d a " teacher and preacher," and would Open a l etter so ad dressed, " especially if it contained a good remittance." Boatswain SMITH could not be more modest, and he is also a "teacher and preacher"—we think the-more useful one of the two! We know not what Mr. SHEPHERD calls a "good remittance," but it is clear that he has his price. We have no employment for him at present, but would recommend him to apply to Lord BRouoirAm's friend, Mr. JosEPH PARKEs, of the Birmingham union. He is pleased to insinuate that, we have yet to learn the diTer ence between "politics and statistics." We pretend to no learning on the subject of definitions ; hut, as: one of the agents of the Penny Magazine, does Mr. SHEPHERD know the difference between appropriation and theft ? If he have any misgivings on this point, Mr. Commissioner RUSHTON', we presume, would favour him with an opinion upon receiving a "good remittance." • TUE FORTHCOMING CoNCMP.T.S.—To-morrow night that sweet little vocalist, Miss Johnson, intends giving a concert at the Adelphi, to bid her friends an adieu preparatory to her leav ing Liverpool. The farewell part of the business "we like nut," notwithstanding our anticipation of being mightily pleased with her music —b ecause " we like not" ihe idea of parting with an accomplished singer like Miss Johnson. We are ignorant of the soil that she is going to he transplanted into, but we hope that it will prove favourable to the growth of her interests in every respe c t. The concert, we have just adverted to will be followed by another on the following night, (Thursday,) at the Liver Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. George Eyton, who will be assisted on the occasion by the strength of the Liverpool Musical corps. He has our best wishes for the success of his enterprise. While on the subject of music we may as well notice ano ther entertainment, announcedfor this day week, (Tuesday,) the 26th instant, at the Adelphi Hotel, by Signors Volpe and Mal garini. Report speaks highly of their professional talents ;- the selections will ha from the works of Rossini, Cimarosa, Passiello ' Moretti, Volpe, and Malgari n i, O ne o f t h e p i eces will be a Fantaeia oa the guitar. 1 17 those gengePell• THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MISS TU 11 PIN, of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, is ENGAGED FOR FIVE NIGHTS, and will make her Se c ond Appearance here these two years, ripHIS present TUESDAY, November 19, when will be presented the Musical Drama of GUY MANNERING. Henry Bertram, Mr. Frazer; Colonel Manneting, Mr. Lacy; Dominie Samps o n, M r . 13/11,fr. Meg Merrilies, Mrs. Brooks; Julia Manpe'ring, Miss George; Flora, Mrs. Clarke; Lucy Bertram, Miss Turpin. To conclude with the favourite Comic Opera, called BROTHER AND SISTER. Don Christoval de Tormes, Mr. Andrews; Don Sylvio. Mr. Frazer Pacheco, Mr. Baker. Rosauthe, Miss George Donna Isidore, Miss Turpin. On WNONNSDAY, Mozart's:celebrated Opera of THE MAR RIAGE OF FIGARO. Count Almaviva, Mr. Cooke; Fiorello, Mr. Frazer; Figaro, Mr. Baker. Cheiubino, Miss Seymour; Countess, Miss George; Susanna, Misi Turpiu. To conclude with the Musical Drama of THE SLAVE. Gambia, Mr. Varidenhoff. Zzlinda, Miss Turpin CONCERT AT THE LIVER THEATRE. 1 - 11. EYTON respectfully anno unces t o hi s F r i en d s an d ilk the Public. that lift; annual CONCERT will take place at the LIVER THEATRE, on THURSDAY EVENING next, the 21st instant. VOCAL PERPoRMER4, Miss Leach, Miss Usherwood, Mr. J. *Ott, Mr. H. Dodd, Mr. Davies, with the addition of/ Select Chorus. INSTRUMENTAL 010RMERS, Leader, Mr. Eyten; Second Violip, Mr. Brandreth; Violon cello, Mr. R. Davies; Clarionel, Mr. Leonard; Double Drums, Mr. Blennerhasset ; Conductor, Mr. Maybrick. The Orchestra, consisting principally of Gentlemen Ama tures, will he formed upon the stage, and, with the Chorus and principal Singers, will comprise upwards of fifty performers. Tickets, fur the Boxes at 45., Pit 35., and Gallery 25., with Schemes, may be had at the Music Shops, and at Mr. ErroN's Academy, 16,' Portland-place, Roscommon-street. Places for the Boxes may be taken at the Theatre on the day of the Concert, and the - day before, from eleven until four o'clock. Doors open at Seven o'clock, and the Concert will commence at half-past seven. Books of the Works may be had at the Theatre, price six pence. PATRONIZED BY THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR. SIGNORS VOLPE and MALGAIONT, from Naples, most ►7 respectfully inform the Nobility and Gentry, that they will give a GRAND EVENING CONCERT of Vocal and Instru mental Music, at the ADELPHI HOTEL, RANELAGII - Liverpool, on TUESDAY next, the 26th instant. Tickets ss. each.—The Concert to commence at Eight precisely. Tickets to be had of Mr. Weiss, Music Seller. Church•street; and of Signora Malgarini and Volpe, No. 7, Duke-street.—The Guitar taught by Signor Volpe. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot possibly make room for the long and disjointed let ter on the subject of the agricultural society, and the culti vation of potatoes. *,* In a few numbers of our early impression of Friday last, in the report of the proceedings before the commissioners, the name of, Mr. Alderman Bourne was, by inadvertence, introduced instead of Mr. William Brown. The error was soon dkeeted and corrected, but this explanation is due to those into whose hands the uncorrected copies may have passed. rbe Eiberpool .tanriatt, NtivEmßitit 19, 1833, LIVERPOOL CORPORATION INQUIRY. EI AVENTH Dar. - to This morning (Prid e% ) the commiseiouers resu me d wa d inquiry, being the clove/till day of their sittings. They e lcga' the court a tew minutes before ten o'clock, when tu s - 0 to clerk handed some papers promised the day before, reel/ the Duck Trust. Betere the proceedings commenced, state Mr. Brown, the gentleman exemiimed yesterday, ros e to act' that in reference to what ha was reporte - el to have said roP t h e ing the bribery of dock-:casters, he begged to state theme, vessels alluded to, whose captains had been said to buy s f i r m, engaged in bribing the d o ck-ma s t e r s , did not belong to h" es) The ships were forei g n, a n d consigned to his (Mr. Browtheir firm, and they orths furnished money to aftaptains for be d disbursements, or to pay the bills sent in, r which the , ' no control over the appropriation of the money. th. Mr. Augustus Woodward request e d that Mr. Purn ell ' dock-master, might be sent for. teli d Mr. Commissioner Wilkinson, addressing Mr. Brown. he, that the court yesterday did not understand there was " 4 . - putation conveyed against him, ( Mr. Browne) Mr. Purnell, the dock-master, having arrived, ea' Mr. Wilkinson inquired whether there were any of th e 10 denten upon the present Dock Committee who had give w o er money fur what he termed extra services. He might tiO the question generally, without mentioning names. t pil Mr. Purnell said that he had received money in di° from present members of the committee. sp a! Mr. A. Woodward wished to know whether thrw' e f„ e m who offered the bribes were rate-payers or Common t;e s ''' -' inen M eds' Mr. Brown interrupted M r. Woodward by saying, fora s sultation he had had with that gentleman on 'Change Yes t lo ol it appeared evident that the allusion was made to him- . a u to that circumstance, fearing lest any money had Wet r e, be the dockmasters by his firm without witness's knowledVottey had inquired from 'his partner, Air. Shipley, whether emY 1 %04 had been paid for that purpose. Mr. S. mad had the alimost is management of the business since 1825, and he informed 0 0 that the firm had not paid any money. Ile though! it Pe e r the that as he (Mr. B.) was placed upon the Doek Coreintttee fo ot cf express purpose of correcting such abuses, the PaYbl money for purposes alluded to might hate been conceal° the him, he had made the most strict inquiry and ascertain see fact. Ile trusted that every gentleman who heard hint ea the declaration would give him credit for possessng e,l l , e ,"" e tn common sense not to have brought forward Mr. Purnell demo himself, if he (Mr. Brown) had been really guiltY practices. eel s ' Mr. A. Woodward said that his question must not b - ; 1 ,00 sity refer to Mr. Brown, as he was not the only rate-pay er the M Dock Committee. r. Radcliffe, the solicitor, rose and said that he felt k e , Mr. Woodward had put the questions he had, as it had rot( Mr. Brown an opportunity of completely exonerating ht tW os e from the insinuations thrown out against him. lie a le , 9 with greatly obliged to Mr. Woodward for assisting him to es` . .! e re the fact that even gentlemen on the Dock Committeess, obliged to pay money for the accommodation of their caplttool, Mr. William Myers, one of the rate-payers of tbe voe Committee, sworn and examined by Mr. Itadcliffe.—W s d ip $ of the audit commissioners for the Dock Estate who joine ali report into which a committee of Dock Trustees afterwnee quired. In 1822 there was a bill about being brought tend the docks. The merchants expressed fled with the heavy expenditure of the Dock themse_l .2 tce t s a ri te i s Te s resolved to oppose that bill unless they were admitted n iii greater share in the management. The 'bill was withdratfho consequence of that threat. Ii was notorious that the i e u a to had been grossly mismanaged, and the merchants res oir j e io revive the office of audit commissioners, which had Wig „ e re dormant. The deputation of merchants wished for mor e s, —more control over the expenditure. The audit cow-I°l%o ers being appointed, looked over the accounts, and requen tbel Dock Trustees to allow their officers to be examined— sow declined at first, but finally consented. The examination op tinued for many months, and reports were then made shs ee ss neously to the rate-payers and the Dock Trustees. Witneo,7,o6, stated the various frauds as to the supply of stone and limestwooe, which have been previously meutioned. In the artic%.e Intr e olw , there were " errors" on the payment of dock dues by W e en ie tractors. The pamphlet report, signed by the eight rategal fo r • commissioners, contains the result of their inquiries- ih e o ted Common Council commissioners attended the meeting'', la upon the questions, but were not asked to sign the rep or neeeit 1824 the object of the bill of 1822 was revived by the 1. 1 0 Trustees. The merchants, at the same time revived the ir xel to obtain some power over the dock expenditure. TheY e 64. appointed deputies to watch the bill. The solicitor of the. oi Estate submitted the heads of the proposed bill to them• halt inquiry of the audit commissioners took two years and s s pa-. There were great negotiations between the Dock TrusteertivA the deputies as regarded the purchase of Strand-street — t he ' v o ile, Trustees would not consent. The merchants thought that co, lA . improvements should have been made by the Common Count'oa. the aeth Geo. 111. By these improvements the Dock Eetate w s v ees e have been benefited, as regarded the accommodation oft be roo chants, but not of the ships. These improvements would *lse here, benefited the town. Ihe Council gave up their reversioo;so, interest in the laud in Strand-street, bat would not 1 1 1 3 tre et any thing as to the land in Bromfield-street and Bridg e rne - cite As regards an alteration in the constitution of the Dock h e re' some negotiations took place. The merchants wished to ne d; twelve of their body on the committee to eight of the con op, the merchants then gave way to an equality, ten to ten i4 W iff eve Mr. Leyland moved in council, that the rate-payers shu n ' the eight. On this the council took their stand; and, whe, w d tfie bill, 6th George IV., was in committee, the council' t o ' idle merchants, that if they did not consent to it, it should be t drawn. At this time all the money authorised by c l the 51 .0g e • , George was expended, and no part of the wo rks tbs . pleted. In point of fact, the dock accommodation, excel ) ; to elongation of the Queen's Dock and the building Prince's Dock, was in the same situation in 1524 as it 7 1 - e ferl . , 1812. It was the want of dock accommodation which in the )merchants to submit to the terms of the Dock Tett.!`;', Witness became one of the new committee, on the Ittio lt heie the . 6th Geo. IV. Witness here detailed the failur e ° seer: attempt to admit reporters to the meetings of the Dock eh t i s tf, tuittee, as stated in 111 r. R. Gladstone's evidence. As reere'to-tel the appointment,of the deputy chairman—on the first roes nee(i of the committee, Sir John Tobin moved that Mr. La as. should be the , deputy-chairman. Witness nominated'.7,,,e, Fletcher, a rate-payer. The Mayor, Mr. J. Holinsheed , and warmly stated that the Common Council owed the rt;tes„. payers no courtesy. Mr. Fletcher then begged that his H ate s'.ce should be withdrawn, and there was no division. The inirvh,ses meats in Strand-street formed an early matter of discussilto„ fore the new committee. It was etaterlearly in 'Novembe r ' f tie" that the purchase' should be made at once, in pureuance act. When the purchases were made, iteppeared that the eh o le Trust had no power to lease, and the pmintees were accorihpi , pulled down. Thinks that the Dock Committee, as now c 0 i re toted, act thus—when we have to deal with third partq the, have no reason to complain, but when we have to deal "r 1 .. „ 1 se er Common Council, (in any matter relating to property, ?emit privileges, or old associations,) it is a far dfilifent case . 030. solicitor was appointed one of the Common Council ip. to es" The committee bad a discussion on this appoiutmeot, --I V,iten suggested a motion that it was improper that the Dock gt,-, e, se' with whom the committee might have to confer on anatee specting the Corporation, should be a member of that ho the with whom the committee might be in colbeion. motion, in March, 1830, seconded by Mr. Shand, to th e - tor that Mr. Foster, now being a trustee of the docks, was leers proper person to he solicitor to the Dock Committee. me the were 14 of the committee present—nine against, and five, i' e her) motion. In the majority there was one rate-payer, (Mr. stet job° —in the minority there wee only one of the Council, SirAsd Tobin. The resignation of Mr:Foster took place when h a of elected Town-clerk, in August, 1832. In the general divi sor the committee, the Common Council commonly voted ° ti e., side, and the rate-payers on the other. There tnlght so r°e s o* • • be a sprinkling ou either side, but they generally lied t se° etii 4 The witness wee here questioned relative to a epochs' l' ae the of the Dock Committee held on Saturday last, referring teires pending inquiry, from which it appeared' that there vious motion to the effect, that as time Common Counci l "" t i is rein on the proceedings of the Dock Committee, and sewesestr majority of their own body, the estate, came within th e in" of the commission of in, airy. bt Examination resumed. ''n 182.5, when the bill we' be l g ese - - into Parliament, if it had not been for the want of dock ado c oi ,eitt dation, the nierchants would have opposed time bill, and i t se i t ' have been in consequence thrown out by the merchentla he el" had been postponed until the last moment. The delay ha • • partly caused by the discussions on the bill. Mr. Myers cross-examined by the 'sown-clerk.- 1 1,,1 th e gates were bound to acquiesce in the conditions propole" : iiest e bill would have been withdrawn. 'rime delay did not Orli , f or with the delegates, for they were anxious to go as early a e d hetOh • sible into committee. Mr:Fletcher, to whom allusionit, soee made, was one of the committee for auditing was also a rate-payer of the Dock Committee Does I T erit l es' .: member whether Air. Fletcher ever /Laid that he shout 'until a collision arose hafcre resigned. No collieicaetie.s arise from . the appointment of Mr. Fletcher to his Tilignlettr as by resigning prevention was better than cure. Th e le dge's', hers of the Dock Committee had not, to witness's know. vonle, ever occasion to call Mr. Bourne, the solicitor to tb e ; e tbs •: Trust., before them since his appointment. Was not aut . °, f ief/. ' his services had been required, with the exception of his a' s ee rce drawn up an opinion for counsel. Witness never had etl ite les munication with Mr. Bourne, Is not aware thee any e" resulted from the solicitor to the Dock Trust having the accounswntA, the Common Council. Is not aware that during the nein, tire; liollinshead being chairmen of the Dock Estate, up to to o e ve ee of the act of Parliament passing, any practice.' inc e e neiti mice arose to the Dock Meate from his being connected, re the Common Council, nor was he aware thee inconle!`„oh arose from Mr. Lawrence's appointment to the situstrooe f deputy-chairman after the passing of the act. The q ;M o e was merely a matter of principle as regarded the constitu ofte the Committee. Mr. fluskisson was one of the menthe" 0 ,01 borough, and he wa s n o t. the opinion of witness, like's,' one thing and write another. e n The Town-clerk i n ti ma t e d that he had a tinily of sn e r 'etots' Itisson's opinion relative le the constitution of the ID'oc. e , mince, which would tie broil forward at the proper t d gV ,D Examination reeuinede—Considetable diseuesion he , L e o,. place in the Dock Committee reepectiug the purchase 01 4 s oir and the planning of the decks. Wlien the bill was ti e d r ev; cited, Lord S e ft o n w i s h e d some clauses to be introd uc, . th e ties to building th e smi th d oc ks ; and the coiti m ittee,;, tb j introduction of those clauses, were obliged to conioh e n eet e , buildings in th e s o uth. There were several persons iuroe eel, in the buildings adjacent to the docks. and there was ab test whether the docks should be built at the south or thf e et end. The Dock Trustees were of opinion that they re i l"deev; built cheaper at the south than the north. There was roil dot; in the Dock Committee to commence building the no i r t a ;br io first • hut Lord Sefton's compulsory clause comPebeerti - to build at the south. Mr. Hollinshea.d bad pro' l eigi the north ; and the discussions in the Dock Corareitteeeoth, rise from time confliction of private interests and not a bc t to the interests of the Common Council. There b. ' ld ea t) repeated dietemesions in the Dock Committee ; but o °' - fe eee t t, state whether there was one relative to how little s oll, the they were compelled to lay out in the building of - th at docks, nor that counsel's Opinion had been taken on h , cO7 O ject. Cannot say that Mr. Hollinshead had said to t t i a a inittee "that it would be better if they paid more site ht be b tr ' their Surveyor and less to their Solicitor." There - m'gd deo been counsel's opinion taken on the subject of the 13 , 1313 0 ( I of the Estate, but cannot say there had. The ec' e iol l b ( prayed for p o wer t o f urn i s h additional dock space , ; o o4 greater power should be given to the merchants in the, arot meat of the Dock Estate. Cannot say that the w ant,o , ere Docks was the principal complaint made in the petiticiseeto The Tows-clerk read some clauses in the act of pash a 1 and the minutes of a meeting of the Common Cowie' t o° referring to the introduction of clauses into the act. fee t ofiltS Witness recollected a discussion upon the sub): - tetS Graving Docks in the Dock Committee at that pelletinttoo plan produced witness did not recollect, but remembe rs 01 .A:l7 e ~ bill was dropped. paper was handed to the wittles t s h , by, at the above period, which ho stated was a clause i n (het Tit writing of Mr. Fletcher. There was a d e p u t a tion at Ape d " • from the rate-payers to the Dock Committee on the T here that bill, but dries not recollect the particulars of it. ;m a desire expressed by the merchants at the passing c'',ito"Leo ; Act, but there was no record of such a desire that Le eV aware of, The widening of the Salthouse and 0 ";e0 was a general imprAyeaseut to the town, Is o w TA Piii Cd Di, too t he 4144