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of t Asamassimmo s hould ha ve that as ample and full compensation ; but let )Ltection be given in a clear, direct, and equitable-form, and e ( o as at present) by the oppression of particular branches of e ree and shipping, and by forcing valuable sources of e, Wealth and revenue into the hands of foreigners, so FtLy 1 410 _ e pre uging to the British merchant and shipowner. By i tei k . system, I estimate the loss to the country, directly ,neat Ire tlY, at three times the amount of that which it may vered7 colonist, and that if such a system be longer per t belluportant branches of manufacture and commerce I tirretrievably lost to the country. Already the refiner at gast°l(l°.hre(.so.far as regards the export trade) are at their being now (as stated in a memorial lately pre -413 atwwtne Board of Trade by the London refiners,) only 61 Ali . 41 ‘ there against 216 at this time last year, and f I s a oo m tris Y Informed that at one period there were upwards o B a er nPloy ed. Y , 1 would recommend to Mercator, and to all West India gees, nlerchaots, or planters, candidly and temperately to u stde t 11.15 question, and to reflect upon the great and growing nc 4o !l ee of other branches of foreign commerce, and of their t they 4uParativei nsio•nifican ce • they may lament the change, bu ikesZllttlwet resist the course of eve nts. The energies and neces kit eaty-five millions of people will not much longer they ol restrained for their exclusive benefit, and although . Z t4 fo a t Y tatl slt o e t e h e e e r d hi preserving their present artificial auvan session or two, owing to the . pressure of other itteckott• questions on the attention of Parliament, the day of 144 ,„ 41u5 t Come and the longer it is deferred, (as with h lilel,tan',,'"tioa,) the more excited will be the feelings of t e ettlibt. they the Worse for them will be the settlement.. Let Qri vile~ sea have no longer seventy monopolists, 41 the House of Commons, to support their unjust ') but a Parliament that sits pledged to remove . all iriiti'lle,),°ruulercial as well as political. If, therefore, in place w . t h the petitioners in their prayer fora h fair and 0t,4 ditshle adJustrttent of their contending interests, they eys opposethose t . .lier eo e t eti4 , and by such language and arguments they Will convert the present sympathy of the . p . e- 1 4L 'if. 4 ' l `i th , t h e ki sea e country, into hostility, and their artificial 1 Ybtlried 111 l c orruption, will be crumbled to the dust, and 4. ts ruins. —Yours, &c., MERCATOI BRAZILIENSES. 0 the` e , P l ,„ erg/ to 1 , 4 --- 8 1 , EDITO R OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. w 't " 1. hold and persevering exertions in the great cause ' t ts ° -111°11 count v in which is involved that of her long e p e a l) rt l Y i injured colonists, tempt me to communicate to you p rKal l eulars of Mr. Borthwick's animated and eloquent te th e good sense, honour, and patriotism of the citizens Borthii has, in the course of the last f ew w ee k s , ad ' re 8 . - Bev eral Um ' es, immenselrcrowded audiences of the et:`_eahle i n h a bi tants of this city and its neighbour talk,'" Present state of our West India colonies, and the t6eit'eennspira which has been so long in active progress utt et „. 11) ss a nnihilation. With one only exception, the ad -6.4413c-ve been gratuitous on all these occasions, the ex ho:kg aid of the funds of the Royal Infirmary. ite 'wieks addresses having embraced a vast variety of ‘ t lat ill3 i h tta nt matter connected with our colonial interests : 115 i mpressed the deepest conviction on the minds the ' d itp e ," him impartially, that we were sacrificing to . t e ii:gnorance of a band of enlisted zealots and agita °ll,,,ti 4 e ' l(l ever been held by our ablest statesmen, to be 4t4 . t4 h vii , let sources of our naval strength and commercial Cis conviction has gathered strength daily, and is liNb; d eci d e conviction as it is almost universal, among our educated '511 3 4; I. ' l o not hesitate to say, that the subjects which ; 44 '1 i • cl t has treated have, more than any other, occupied t t l t ! , and engrossed the conversation, of the intelligent t t Place during his entire residence among us. nit :4tereies of the colonists, and of their country's coca thei't°BPerity and naval ascendency, have not been with . - 4 1, rNBtWace under this new and humiliating aspect of their (W. `r . li orthwick's arrival here was quickly followed by Qf the a.ents of the Agency A n ti-Sl aver y S oc i e ty, ° t e tb at Pee table office it has for some time been, diligently, ~° l . e ,( lan gerous p erson f rom t own t o town, w i t h t h e de - Ntibi:nleracting by vulgar and abusive declam a tion, the me lt of ' truth. This agent has not been without tiitb - : h is masters: he has perseveringly placarded the NtL invi tations t o his chapel harangues, in spite of the aFr(ipt and disgust expressed by the h ones t an d think .4e,l,asses ; and he has shamelessly sold his impotent , t- pricefo r a d m i ss i on , l eve l w ith t h e means o f t h e low ,. the 4 ; 411 , w ick's last address has left a l as ti ng impression D ote of Edinburgh. For five hou rs , an d w'th L 'ller e : the slight es t h es it a ti on , h e poure d f ort h a torrent manly, and convincing eloquence to an assem i '44, l :Ward s of fifteen hundred persons, the most select litti ) ,. lsl ever did a champion or a cause prevail more tri ee 4 a ()il l rse of this address, Mr. Borthwick had occasion to to the individual of whom I have spoken 41, whom h e characterised as " the hireling of an asso klieclt!NY engaged in propagatin g th e mos t ma li gnan t 4 t hil;gainst our colonists." He then proceeded to prove 'lb as the fact, by p ro d uc i ng th e pr i n t e d " Report" eet t „, Niit 4,-/ Anti-Slavery Society," and reading the ' plain ss. Messrs. Thomson, Knibb, Burchell, Philips, ide 4 e., were "stipendiary le c t urers " o f th e soc i e ty ; !kid,' rec eiving a specific salary, thei r t r a ve lli ng ex p enses t c ; a nd a r oute was furnished to each, with a list of the ens, and even villages, at which they were to hold I°lli r the ! th ey were au th or i se d t o ma k e co ll ect i ons on t h ese °n e" ln , und er d ue d iscretion, to use all their influence to of .provincial and other newspapers to their cause. o f , k ° Patient and clamorous disapprobation, from the 114 nritish honour and manhood, followed every clause 111, tt ,xposure ; but, as if the disgrace were not complete p: futther appeared, from the same " Report," that (I.:t.s-rnliary le c t urers were b oun d b y the terms of their I tlet s 84 3, in their preachings and harangues, whatever I t b Y Which they served should at any time dictate; and nanifested, by the formal minutes of the society kb oldtheir agents were bought and sold hypocrites, and . kor intercourse with honest men. e disclosure, made by Mr. Borthwick on this occa -4,lBoerve to close this long communication. He , observed .h lep 4 11 his hand a statement signed by three Edinburg 11 N - the highest respectability, declaring, that a person Ito n the m , a few days before, with an offer of his p e , 4 ; , i , " 4 ha procu r i ng s i gnatures for t h e " gradual eman toinn," then in th e course o f s i gn i ng b y the friends tt,l°:_iists; and th at , on quest i on i ng this person, he had nin e ,;! that h e h ad obtained six thousand signatures for 14 "'late abolition petition," a few weeks ago, at RN. 6d. 't though from them he intended to have a better .0 0P 1 • I°`' e A Of 1 h e f O. :01 :0 114 11, ? epa~ ve t sea ° 0 ° o il ose ' ate r $ 1305'.4 ~Uo J aO f g le° ,bey, ropl". if 00 teir 4hr lu re s l arP , ee ; the 1 , jo t . 0 1 di titl e o r cos, be id 4 13fi t " , ; the ti Loi s )1 La eq 44, o es was concluded amidst tumultuous cheering, from r 4 Ned t o excess. Hats and handkerchiefs were waved, 4t : l r ! of the most animated excitement was exhibited, t hth for r a ee full qua r t er o f an h our, w h en t h e assem b ly cheers f or th e co l on i es, followed b y as many iti,l tth wick, and for the gentleman who had presided at 6 t, B ce• P4/4, - 4 prit 6, 1833. FAIR PLAY. THE LIVERPOOL EXTRACTS from the INFORMATION received by HIS MA JESTY'S COMMISSIONns to the ADMINISTRATION and OPERATION of the POOR-LAWS. FRAUDS ON THE METROPOLITAN PARISHES. The following is from Mr. Chadwick's report:— "In the metropolis I have found this cause—the fear of vio lence from the out-door paupers—in direct operation, as an obstacle 'to retrenchment, in only three or four parishes. In most town parishes the chief causes of profusion are, Ist, an uncontrollable facility and temptation to fraud, which appears to be unavoidable in the administration of any out-door relief in towns, when not given in the • shape of wages for labour; next, the ignorance of the annual officers, and often the opera tion of interests on their parts at variance with their duties. The frauds committed in consequence of the facilities which the system of granting out-door relief affords are such as these : parties receiving relief as being out of work when they are iu work; parties who have received relief in consequence of being actually out of work continuing to receive relief after they have obtained work ; parties who have received out-door rend in money on account of sickness continuing to receive that relief after they have recovered; women receiving relief on the ground that they have been deserted by their husbands, whilst their husbands are living with them; women receiving relief for theihselves and families on the pretence that the husband is absent in search of work, while he is absent in full work; par ties continuing to receive pensions for children or relations, as if they were alive, when they are dead. The following extract from the evidence of an experienced and able parish officer, (Mr. Huish, assistant overseer of St. George's, Southwark,) will afford examples , " The most injurious portion of the poor law system is the out-door relief. Ido not serve a day without seeing some new , mischiefs arise from it. In the smaller parishes persons are liable to all sorts of influences. In such a parish as ours, where we administer relief to upwards of 2,000 .out-door poor, it is utterly impossible to prevent considerable fraud, whatever vigi lance is exercised. " Has the utmost vigilance been tried ? • " Suppose you go , to a man's house as a visiter ; you ask where is Smith (the pauper) ? you see his wife or his children, who say they do not know where he is, but that they believe he is gone in search of work. How are you to tell, in such a case, whether he is at work or not? It could only be by following him in the morning; and you must do that every day, because he may be irk work one day, and not another. Suppose you have a shoemaker who demands relief of you, and you visit his place, and you find him in work ; you give it him on his de claring that he is out of work ; you say to him, as I have said to one of our own paupers, Why, Edwards, I thought you said you had no work ? and he will answer, Neither had I any ; and I have got a little job for the day.' He will also say di rectly, owe for my rent; I have not paid my chandler's shop score; I. have been summoned, and I expect an execution out against me, and if you stop my relief I must come home' (that is, he must go into the workhouse). The overseer is imme diately frightened by this, and says, What a family that man has got ! it will not by to stop his relief.' So that, unless you have a considerable number of men to watch every pauper every day, you are sure to be cheated. Some of the outdoor paupers are children, others arc women ; but, taking one with another, I think it would require one man's whole time to watch every twenty paupers. " Some time ago there was a shoemaker, who had a wife and family of four children, who • demanded relief of the parish; and obtained an allowance of ss. per week. He stated that he worked for Mr. Adderley, the shoemaker, who now lives in the High-street in the Borough. The man stated, on applying for relief, that, however he worked, he could earn no more than 13s. per week. A respectable washerwoman informed me, that the way in which this family lived was such, that she was con . - vinced the man earned enough to support them honestly, with out burdening the parish, and that it was a shame for him to receive relief. In consequence of this information, I objected to the allowance; but one of the overseers, taking up the book, said, But here is the account, signed by Mr. Adderley himself. Can you doubt so respectable a man ?' Still I was not satisfied ; and I watched the man, and found him going to Mr. Pulbrook's, in Blackfriars-road. When the man quitted the shop, I went in and asked whether the man who had just left worked for them. Mr. Pulbrook stated that he did work for them, and had done so during the last 12 months; that he was one of the best shoemakers who had ever worked for him; that he earned only about 12s. a-week, and that he (Mr. Pulbrook) regretted he had not more work for him. The man bad left his book, which I borrowed. • When the man came to the Board, I said to him, Do you know Mr. Puibrook, of Blackfriars-road? Yes, I do, I know him very well." Do you ever work for him ? I have done a job now and then for him.' I then asked whether he had not earned as much as 10s. or 11s. a-week for hits. His reply was No never." I then produced the book between him and Mr. Pulbrook, from which it appeared that he had earned from 10s. to 12s. a-week for the time stated. This took hint by surprise, and he had no answer to make. The relief was re fused him, and he never came again. I afterwards ascertained, that in addition to the 13s. a-week which he earned from Mr. Adderley, and the 12s. a-week which he earned from Mr. Pul brook, his wife and himself worked for Mr. Drew, the slopseller,. living at Newington-causeway, and earned 7s. a-week from him. On the average of the year round, they did not earn less than 3Js. per week. Besides these earnings the wife was in the re ceipt of a pension of 3s. a-week from a lady of the name of Ro berts, who resides at No. 1, Paragon. The man was afterwards spoken to about the loss of the parish allowance, when he said, did not like to lose it; it was a d—d hard case; it was like a freehold to me, for I have had it these seven years.' "No inspector would have found out such a case, except by constant watching or favourable accidents. It might be sup posed strange that a shoemaker could have earned no more than 12s. a-week ; but his answer was, that his bodily infirmi ties were such that he could not sit long enough to enable hint to earn more than such a sum. This morning . I said to a man of the name of Taylor, a tinman, who is receiving 4s. a-week, 'Taylor, how can you come here and waste your time to get your lazy shilling, whilst, if you stayed at home, you might earn your honest eighteeupence, and set your fatuity a good exam ple ? His reply was, I have no work ; I can't earn anything.' answered,' Why, every time I pass your house, except on relieving days, I always find you hammerin g ' Yes, so I may be—penny or twopenny jobs; will you find . me work ?' I re plied, That I could not seek pans to mend for him.' He went away with his money. Had I positively challenged this man, the first question with the annual officers would have been, What is your family ?" There are six of us,' it would be re plied. What a family for a poor man to maintain !' exclaim the overseers • let him have the money.' overseers are in perpetual fear of a man with his wife and family coining into the workhouse. They usually say, in such a case as this, We pay 4s. per head for their keep in the workhouse; here is six times 4s.,—what a difference this is ! Let us keep them out at all risks.' We have bad instances of sawyers leaving their work and paying men to work for them whilst they came and got relief. 'Within these few days we found out the case of a cabinet-maker named Baylis, working for a Mr. Edwards, in Lambeth-walk, and at the same time receiving 6s. lid. per week from us, under a pretence that he was, out of work. In fact, such discoveries are perpetual." "Does the practice of obtaining out-door relief extend amongst respectable classes of mechanics, whose work and means of living are tolerably good ?—I am every week astonished by see ing persons come who I never thought would have come. The greater number of our outdoor paupers are worthless people; but still the number of decent people who ought to have made provision for themselves, and who come, is very great, and increasing. One brings another ; one member of 'a family brings the rest of the family. Thus I find, in two days' reliei, the following names John Arundell, a sawyer, aged 55, his son 'Wm. aged 22, a wire -drawer; Ann Harris, 58, her hus band is in Greenwich Hospital; her son John, and his wife also come separately, and so does their sou; a lad aged 18, a smith. Thus we have pauper father, pauper wife, pauper son, and pauper grand-children, frequently applying on the same relief day. One neighbour brings another. Not long since a very young woman, a widow, named Cope, who 'is not more than 20 years of age, applied for relief; she had only one child. After she had obtained relief, I had some suspicion that there was something about this young woman not like many others. I spoke to her, and pressed her to tell me the real truth, as to how so decent a young woman as herself came to us for relief. She replied that she was gored' into it. That was her ex pression. I asked what she meant by being gored into it.— She stated, that where she was living there were only 5 cottages, and that the inhabitants of four out of five of those cottages were receiving . relief, two from St. Saviour's, and two from Newington parish. They had told her that she was not worthy of living in the same place, unless she obtained relief too. — I was completely satisfied of the truth of her statement by in -quiry. Her candour induced me to give her 55., and I offered her a reception in the house for herself and child. The Conse quence was, we never heard any more of her. " The most experienced witnesses declare, that the only test of the merits of such cases is, by taking them wholly on the parish. The parish officers of St. James's, Westminster, state, that on one occasion, in the month of November last, up wards of 50 paupers were offered admission into the workhouse, in lieu of giving them out-door relief, and that of that number only four accepted the offer;' and that since then the same sys tem has been pursued in a number of instances, and attended with a similar result. STANDARD. " Mr. John Myles, a very experienced officer, states, that the city parishes are in general very wealthy, and do not make the requisite inquiries. The frauds, too, are of a nature which can not be detected in the present state of things, except by . acci dent. One mode of working' the fraud is by a combination of this sort:—there are three oul_women, for instance, one residing in Cripplegate, one in St. Sepulchre's, one in Bishopsgate, or in a different part of the town. These hree women will lay their heads together, and agree to acknowledge each other as resi dents, by which they are enabled to obtain relief from several different parishes by giving a different residence to each pa rish where they claim relief. Thus when the officer makes inquiry at the lieuse of the old woman in Bishopsgate, whether Mary Jones, the old woman of Cripplegate, lives there? the old woman. at Bishopsgate say, Y es, she does; we live to gether; she is a worthy creature, and in a very necessitous condition, and has suffered very severely.' The old woman of Cripplegate will go and kidge, at times, with her friend at' Bishopsgate, in order to give a colour to her statement, and make other persons corroborate it ; and so on with the others. By accident I once detected a man who was an .inmate of Lambeth workhouse, and at the same time receiving a pen sion of ss. a week from our parish, and ss. a- wee k from St. John's, Hackney. I constantly hear of these frauds in the other parishes." MELANCHOLEY OCCURRENCE AT DEWS BURY. On Saturday night - last a poor man of the name of Joseph Baxendale was shot by Mr. Edward Hague, of Dewsbury, under circumstances which will appear from the following aLstract of the evidence given before Mr. Thomas Lee, jun. coroner, on Tuesday : George Baxendale, the son of the deceased, stated that he and his father had been shopping at Dewsbury on Satin-day night, and afterwards went to several public houges, the last of which they quitted between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday Morning. When they had got within a few yards of Mr. Edward Hague's house, Dr. Thornton came up to them, riding Very fast, and when he got to the small gate of Mr. Hague's house he got (Allis horse, and desired the witness to take hold of it. Dr. Thornton then walked up the causeway to Mr. Hague's house, when the dogs came out of the house, and Dr. Thornton began to tease them • the dogs made a great noise. At this moment Mr. Hague opened the window, and Dr. Thornton ran behind. the kitchen among some boughs. Mr. Hague then said, "Mind your heads," and immedi ately fired a pistol, and his father instantly fell. Dr. Thornton then came running down the • causeway, and strode over his father, who was lying in the gateway, .and got on his horse and rode off. Witness then asked his father if he was shot, when he said—"Ay, lad, it has shot me enough." Assistance was immediately pro cured, and Mr. Hague was called up, who sent to Dews bury for a doctor. It was near 2 o'clock on Sunday morning when the pistol was fired. Dr. W. B. Thornton, of Hosking, stated that he had been at Dewsbury on Saturday, and that he left between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday . morning. He was riding quick. When he came to Mr. Hague's house lie hung his horse to the gate, and went up quickly to the door. He pulled the bell and knocker, when two or three terrier dogs came barking round; a large dog was chained, which made a noise, and he went to try to quiet him, and hit him with a stick, which made him worse; the dog seized hold of his stick, and when he was trying to get it away from him, a window was thrown up, and Mr. Edward Hague called, but the Alogs made such a noise that lie could not hear what he said. He immedi ately heard the report of a gun or pistol, and soon after heard a voice call out "I am shot." On turning his head he saw a man and boy within Mr. Hague's pre mises, about two yards from him. The man was standing on the causeway leading to the stable-yard, and the boy near him, on the grass. He took no notice of the man, not-supposing he had been shot. He did not ask the boy to take hold of his horse, or meak to him at all. He did not attempt to speak to Mr. Hague; he was alarmed at the suddenness of the shot, and ran to his horse, and immediately rode away. Joseph Clegg, of ''hornbill, got up in consequence of being called by the son of the deceased, who told him that Mr. Hague had shot his father. When he got on the road he saw a man lying on his back; and witness at first thought that he was drunk, but afterwards found that he was shot in the right breast. Mr. Hague came in in about a quarter of an hour, and said, " I am very sorry for you, Baxendale; I hope you will be no worse ;" and immediately sent to Dewsbury for a surgeon. The deceased was stripped and put to bed. He appeared to be quite drunk. The surgeon arrived in about three quarters of an hour. Mr: John Savage, surgeon of Dewsbury, after de scribing the manner in which he had treated the wound, stated the result of a post mortem examination. A ball had penetrated through the pectoral muscle on the right side, and through a portion of the right lung, about an inch from the bottom of it, and entered the spine between the tenth and eleventh vertebrae. Witness found the ball in the spinal canal. The wound was quite sufficient to cause death. Mr. Hague had ordered a bed to be prepared in his own drawing-room, but the witness did not think it desirable to move him. Deceased told him that Mr. Hague had been the kindest friend possible. The Jury returned the following verdict :—" We are of opinion that Mr. Hague fired the pistol with an intention to frighten the persons in the ground, and not to shoot them; and that the deceased was accidentally killed by the shot. We think that Dr. Thornton was very blame able in not remaining to render his assistance." We understand that Mr. Hague is deeply affected by this fatal accident, and that it is his intention to make a provision. for the wife and family of the deceased.— Leeds Mercury. Among the number of petitions presented to the House of Commons on Tuesday week, was one from Mr. George For wood, of this town, presented by Lord Sandon, upon a subject of considerable interest to numbers of the industrious classes, and.' their families, viz., the payment of wages at public-houses. The consequences of this pernicious practice are fully exposed in the.petition, and we hare the strongest confidence that the subject. will excite au inquiry among those who, having the power, we have no doubt will, with pleasure exercise it for the benefit of the persons they employ, and instead of intrusting the money to the care of any individual to be paid elsewhere, to cause their workmen to be . paid upon their own premises. The interest of the tradesman is sa intimately connected with the sobriety of his work Men, that we feel assured the importance of the subject will attract the attention of those who may not hitherto have had it brought under their consideration. Many respectable tradesmen have long been aware of advantages de rived by their men being enabled to lay out their money upon the best terms, and with this view have paid them their wages on leaving their work ou Fridays, thus giving their families the opportunity of the Saturday's early market, a practice which cannot be too strongly recommended. Our mercantile friends will, we trust, excuse our endeavouring to interest them also in favour of the subject we advocate, as their inquiry may prove beneficial to a numerous class often suffering severe privations. We allude to the porteis and labourers employed in warehouses under those merchants or brokers who do not employ a master porter to do their work. If, upon inquiry, it should be found that not only is the employment of those men left to the selec tion of the warehouseman, but that he is also intrusted with making up the pay-list, and receiving the money from the cash keeper, to be paid at the place most convenient or profitable to himself, which may be his own public-house, where the men who spend the most money . obtain a preference of work,—or that from which he can derive an advantage from taking the men to be paid there ; they will see that they will be rendering an essential service by directing their men to be paid on the spot, and thus so far prevent the continuance of a practice so pernicious in its consequences. When the public-house is made the pay-table, the intoxication of the Saturday night, leads to the profanation, if not to the total disregard of the Sabbath day, the proper observance of which is so essential to social or der and the well-being of society; we, therefore, most earnestly recommend the subject to the attention of our xeaders.—Liver, pool Courier. LOCAL. THEATRICALS.—That agreeable actress and accomplished singer, Miss Fanriy Ayton, is performing at the Liver ThOatre. Her style of singing is peculiar, and her execution is very beautiful, and sometimes brilliant. She warbles through pas sages of considerable length with great rapidity and delicacy of tones, sounding each note distinctly, an d generally ending in a swell of the voice that is at once ric h and powerful. The comic burletta of Cupid the God of Love, was well got up; and the opening scene, which discovers Jupiter holding his court on Mount Olympus, is exceedingly good. The wit of the piece consists in making the Gods use the slang phraseology of St. Giles, and we must do the a uth or th e justice of saying, that he has culled the choicest flowers of that classic region of taste and refinement. This does very well in cockaiyne, where vulgar conceit is conspicuous, and, therefore, better understood than we hope it will be for many a day in Liverpool. Mr. Hammond is a good actor, but has no voice, and, therefore, should not attempt to sing even comic songs and we hope, for the Jionour of the provincial stage, th a t a better Apollo than Mr. Brandon is to be had for love or money; bad the God of Song been.be hind the scenes, on Wednesday night, we should not' -like to have been his bail for any serious amount, that he would not have broken Mr. Brandon's head, and his Majesty's peace at the same time. Mrs. Raymond dressed the part of Psyche prettily, and performed it very well. She is a clever actress, and a pretty woman into the bargain. PARISH EcoNomv:—We are credibly informed that at the Easter Vestry, in the neighbouring parish of Chifdwall, a Dis. senter proosed a new Communion cl o th i n p l ace o f t h e o ld , faded, moth-eaten one, which had covered the table for the last huridred years, and that the Churchmen present out-voted him -and refused the grant! A FlRE.—About one o'clock yesterday morning one of the bed-rooms in the Golden Lion Inn, Dale-street, was discovered to be on fire. Although the flames presented a most alarming aspect, /et, by the most strenuous exertions of some of the fire men, particularly the captain of the West of England engine, assisted by Mr, Parlour, they were soon got under. The acci dent, we understand, occurred through the carelessness of a gentleman - who put up at the hotel, who had left his candle burning after he had gone to bed. DAY OF THANKSGIVING.—Sunday next is the day appointed for a general thanksgiving to Almighty God, to acknowledge his great goodness in removing from us the grievous disease with which several places in this kingdom have been lately visited. We are requested to correct a statement made in the Vestry on Tuesday, by Mr. Turner, one of the overseers, relative to the Low-hill Workhouse. lie stated that the cost of each pauper there was 2s. lid per week; instead of the fact, that the whole cost of 55 paupers for the last ye a r was £450 ll s . 3d., or 3 s . 14d . each per week, and that if the West Derby Workhouse ac counts had nut been credited with £4O 15s. 11d. for water rents received from the neighbours, the actual cost of each pauper to the parish would have been 3s. 51. each per week. The pau pers in our Workhouse, we see from the report, cost 3s. each per week, including eve r y ex p ense , suc h as F ever Hospital, repairs of building, insurances, &c. MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT.—PubIic attention has been fre quently of late directed to a- publication hitherto but compara tively little known to the community at Yarge. We allude to the Mirror of Parliament, being a full rep:at of the debates in both houses, avid exhibiting, during each session, a complete his tory of the sayings and doings of the British legislature. • At a vast expense, and by perhaps the perfection of the stenographic art, this work has been matured to a pitch of accuracy scarcely susceptible of farther improvement, and although not yet of ficially recognized by government, it is by tacit a,greement of all parties, bOthin the Lords and Co mmons , invariably referred. to as an authentic record of parliamentary proceedings.. These reports remove a strange anomaly in our political literature, there having previously existed no perfect collection of the de bates to which the public could refer with implicit confidence and satisfaction. This national want is now supplied by the Mirror of Parliament; and wh e th er f rom th e un i versa li ty o f t h e i topics t embraces, or the fund of information elicited in their discussion, we know of no work so well calculated to enable a man (to use Burke's phrase) "to read up to the times." Every man, indeed, who aspires to superior intelligence in this intel ligent age, will find it well worth, not merely an occasional re ference at the club or the news room, but frequent study and consultation in the library. As a record, the Mirror of Parlia ment is invaluable, and will derive increasing interest from the present period, an sera in our parliamentary history, when so many questions of paramount importance are on the eve of dis cussion. A gentleman, we are informed, has arrived in Liver pool on the part of the proprietors, with a view to promote the circulation of the work, and we gladly avail ourselves of the op portunity to offer our testimony of its merit. We hope so spi rited an undertaking will meet with encouragement from the public spirit of our town, of which we have no doubt the leading men will become 'subscribers. The work is published twice a week during the session. DISTRESSED IRISH CLERGY. Additional Subscriptions. John Fletcher, Esq £ 1 0 0 A Friend by Miss Wainwright, 1 0 0 Mrs. Moss, Otterspool, Miss Moss, Master J. Moss 0 a_ 0. Spencer Steers, Esq. Rev. John Fearon, Per Rev. IL Leicester, Per Rev. Thomas Hornby, Per Rev. T. Tattershall, Charles Okill, Esq. Amount received, Remitted to London, Advertising, &c CLOSE OF THE POLL, AT 5 MIN. PAST THREE, AT THE SESSIONS-HOUSE, 11th 1833. MOTIONS. P 1. Mr. Barnsley' s mo ti on , that the accounts do ersons. Votes. - • pass . • • • . 169 , 779 2. Mr. Davies's motion, that Mr. W. B. Colton . be churchwarden . . . 175 810 3. Mr. James Foster's motion that Mr. Ray mond W. Houghton be an overseer . .. 177 818 4. Mr. Davies's motion, that Mr, John Kilshaw, Mr. Thomas Wright Watson, Mr. William Dowson, and Mr. John N. Wood, be 'select vestrymen . . • • . 177 821 5. Mr. James Foster's motion, that Mr. M. D. Lowndes be continued vestry-clerk . . 189 873 6. Mr. James Foster's motion, that Mr. Wm. Dickson be continued Treasurer, with the same duties and salary as last year . . 180 817 AMENDMENTS. Persons. Voter, 1. Mr. Wotherspoon's amendment, that the consideration of the accounts be postponed until the 30th instant . . . . 2. Mr. Joseph Dawson's amendment, that Mr. Joseph Cooper be churchwarden . . 3. Mr. Ellis's amendment, that Mr. Robert Turner be an overseer . . . 4. Mr. Robert Ellis's amendment, that Mr. Wm. Dewhurst, Mr. Charles Worrall, Mr. Barnabas Waugh, and Mr. Wm. Walthew be select vestrymen . . 5. Dr. Collins's amendment, that no person be appointed vestry-clerk who is a lawyer Mr. Riding's amendment, that the salary of the treasurer and his clerk be reduced to £405 73 222 60 196 64 184 57 161 32 62 60 173 I AR_?I£D. On Monday last, at St. Anne's Church, Mr, Wm, Lewis, pilot, to Betsey, eldest daughter of the late Josiah Pendleton, of this town. On Tuesday last, at Snenton, near Nottingham, Mr. S. Atherton solicitor, of this town, to Miss Boote, of the former place. Yesterday, at Warrington, Mr. William Gill, corn miller, to Miss Isabella Ilatton, daughter of the late Mr. Geo. Hatton., of that town. Yesterday, at St. Philips' Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bowatead, M. A., the Bev. Thomas Carter, 8.A., of Worcester Colleg e, Oxford, to Evelina, third daughter of th e l a t e Thom a s Barnes, Esq., Can ning -street. DIED . On Saturday last, Fanny, daughter of Mr. William Freer, Byrom, street. On Sunday last, Amelia, infant daughter of Mr. George Jones, carver, Tempest Hey, of this town. On Monday last, Mr. Peter Richardson, aged 66 years, universally respected. On Wednesday last, after a short illness, Jane, the only. daughter of W, R ["snipe, bookseller, St. James-street, of this . Pown, aged 4 years an l months. Same da after a long illness, Mr. Thomas Nichols. agent, aged 44 years.