The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

But pass va e from the one friend to the other—our amusing friend Mr. SHEPHERD. He tells the public that he has ever entertained a very high opinion of the Liver pool Corporation, and that his prophetic intimations of their purity and honour have been fulfilled. Very good; but how comes it that Mr. SHEPHERD, entertaining these opinions so long, should have been one of the incessant revilers of the Corporation ? How came it that a sealed letter was addressed to him soliciting his interference in order to make the inquiry "perfect ?" He has been an M used gentleman indeed, if, cherishing such favourable no tions of the Corporation, he has been courted and looked up to as an enemy of the Corporation. His literary admirers have evidently been at fault,—they have not known their man ; for one of them went so far as to beg the assistance of his brilliant pen in supplying a commentary upon the evi (Ince. This, Mr. SHEPHERD says, he declined on the ground that the newspaper editor who sought his aid was a "vio lent anti-corporation man !" What ! too violent for Mr. SHEPHERD ? We should like to know who he is. A friend of his also " wished to bring an action against the STANDARD for libel." Mercy on us ! what have we clone ? Have the Whigs not had enough of prosecutions, or is the conduct of Lord DURHAM infectious ? Perhaps we are indebted to Mr. SHEPHERD for advising his friend not to proceed. Perhaps his friend was well advised ; and yet we hardly know how to express our thanks, for we are unconscious of having given offence. So much fer small beer, - and newspaper editors who are violent anti -corporation men. It is very comical altogether. DECEMBER 17, 1833. are of the greatest importance, inasmuch- as they furnish a key to the whole proceedings. What a pity he did not 'flake them sooner ! Had Mr. Chief Commissioner de clared the object of the inquisition only two months ago, he would have saved the commissioners much trouble and the corporations a considerable sum of money. Knowing the object, they would have been less scrupulous in resist ing the inquiry, and more emboldened to stand upon their rights. To extirpate the rotten system ! To em- Ploy such commissioners is - to extend and continue the rotten system. To countenance such star-chamber prac tires is to establish a . tyranny in England. To send men. abroad to seek information from parties who are to be condemned on . the . very information thus extorted, is to sanction a mode of criminal procedure which is repugnant to justice, and which would reflect disgrace upon an age of barbarism. In the Spanish Inquisition men and wo men were tortured into the admission of ecclesiastical crimes—compelled to plead guilty for the sake of mercy, inasmuch as the punishment awarded to the guilty was less cruel than that inflicted upon suspected innocence— but this is the first time ,in the modern history of England that public men have been dragged before an illegal tri bunal to furniSh information against themselves, to put weapons in the hands of their enemies, to open their books 'and unfold their accounts, thereby placing them selves at the mercy of a set of lawyers who had already prejudged them, and who declare that the extirpation of the corporation system is the primary, if not the exclusive object of the inquiry. Mr. BLACKHURNE may disguise his venom- under the name of the "rotten system," the " rotten branch," & c . ; b u t we a ll know his meaning. Why is he anxious to legislate—why is he prepared to legislate, while that inquiry is still pending ? Because his mind is made up ! He. knows that the inquiry is a mere pretext. As a job, it 'answers the purposes of the needy persons employed; and as a piece of patronage, it attached to himself the favoured nominees of the LORD CHANCELLOR ; but, in all other respects, they might as well have pursued the inquiry in dark alley in Lon don, anereceived their evidence from their friends by post ! These admissions on the part of Mr. BLACKBURNE Will, no doubt, be considered candid by some and impru dent by others. We leave his friends to settle that among them.* It is enough for us to know that he has revealed the secret object—boldir—fearlessly—in defiance of pub lic scandal—and regardless of ministerial. conclepanation. Will Mr. BLACRBURNE persist in asking a judgeship from Lord BROUGHAM after this ? or will the noble and learned lord still continue to patronise his intimate friend, Mr. BLACRBURNE ? LONDON LATEST NEWS. - Saturday Evening, hall-past Seven.o'clock. W e have had no animation whatever in our Cousol market since we wrote last, and 881 may be considered the average price of ,Consols for Account. Excheqtier Bills are 43 to 45, and India Bonds 22 to 24 premium. In the Foreign Stock market the various securities are within a fraction of our last prices. Belgian Bonds are 951 Rus sian 1021 103, Danish 721 73, and Dutch 21 per Cents. 49 / T to 50 . In Portuguese Stock scarce any transactions have taken place; the Old Bonds are 56 57, and the Regency 561 1. Spa nish Bonds are 231 1. The advices from Portugal,—and we consider that they aro entitled to credit,—state that Don Miguel had positively refused the armistice solicited .by ColoneL Hare. We, in our last letter, anticipated this; for it was scarcely to be supposed that the Prince would accede to any negotiations tending to compel hire to renounce his right to a country of nine-tenths of which h e -is in possession. In the. accounts received from Bayonne this morning, it is stated that Irun is again in possession of the Carlists. This requires confirmation. We have had accounts from New Zealand, which state that his Majesty's President among the savages of .that island, J. Bushby, Esq., had been duly received, and installed on the sth MaY, on which occasion twenty-two chiefs assembled to hear the letter of Lord Goderich read. While the letter was read all the Europeans remained standing, with their hats off. After the President had delivered an address, about fifteen chiefs succession, with great animation and gesture. A eianket and several pounds of tobacco were then delivered to each chief, and the natives, to the number of full 600, had divided .among them a quantity of beef, flour, potatoes, &c. We have had accounts from Swan River to the 9th of June. A Government notice had been issued, that unwarrantable ag gressions having of late been committed on the aborigines by some evil-disposed persons of the white community, the settlersy 'were informed that offences against the natives were leg all as criminal as if committed against any other of his Majesty's s ubjects. We learn from the Perth Gazette of the Ist June the lfollowing prices of different commodities there :—Fresh butter s. per lb., sa l t ditto Is. 9d. per lb., bread, 4 1 bs., Is. 4d., candles . 9d. per lb., cheese (Sydney) 2s. per lb., coffee Is. per lb. eggs 4s. per dozen, salt beef 9d. per lb., salt pork is., fresh ditto Is. 64., kangaroo ls. 4d., bacon Is. Bd. per lb., milk Bd. Per quart, f ow l s 3s. to 55., oil 10s. per gallon, rice 6d. per lb., ruin 12s per gallon, brandy 155. to 20s. per gallon, moist sugar G d• per lb., tea 55., potatoes 21d., Onions 9d., flour 31d per lb., aleb 25., porter ls. 6d. per quart, soap 9d. per lb., wheat 10s. per bushel, beef, per barrel, £5, pork £7, working bullocks £2l to 130 each, cows £l5 to £25, sheep 30s. to 40e., pigs £3 to Z. LONDON LATEST-SHIPPING NEWS. Lloyd's, Pine o'clock, p.m., Saturday. in ßy accounts received here from Bearhaven,.dated the 9th Otaet, we l earn t h at the Orpheus, Glover, from Charleston to 4 'lverpool, h av i ng bean got off the rock, proce e d e d on th e 6th, 4 4 had put into B antry Bay. • , t, Th e stern of a ship's boat, with "N ancy, o f L i verpool, " on sevi_laS been d r i ven on shore on • the coast of Killybegs, with w ° rat pi eces of wreck and it is feared that veisel has been 4",,elted. Thi s i ntellig e nce has been received front Kiilybegs ,rr date the 10th instant. fitiiteb Mari a , f rom Liverpool to Limerick, is wrecked near I , ,Y.exs. The cr ew and cargo saved. ~,,tiebrew, Carr, and the Merchant, Lombard, have arrived Live r p oo l at Batavia. on t u i! ua, Pietrane ro f rom L iverpool, arrived at Genoa th e p g i a n dth instant, a ft er a ' passage of thirty-six clays; and on afte r .. th" Em ma, Parry, f rom th e same port, arr i ve d t h ere, pa.sage. of twenty-si x d ays... 1 , 041 " . 0 tliber and thenia, Smith, h as arrived at Singapore from Liver ;l,llll4. Lion, Dougl as, f rom Li verpoo l , h as arr i ved at ftt:liSandon, who is at present on a . visit to his venerable stitueot mends, we understand, to pay exp eet 3 in the beginning of January. his r i e l si e ve n t o s b t l o e h l i o s r e d on t.; A ed to remain in Liverpool about a week. vit io arrived from EXFEDITION.—The George Canning, which has most recent ac eounta ...ram Fernando Po, has brought the t and (4 4 ' , the African e xpedition. At that da e, the Columbin e havi o °rra steamer had arrived at Fernando . Po the former to a i if On board Mr. Laird, who was to return in the . Columbine whi e L Port. This gentleman had suffered much in his . health, mano eAeprev© him from prosecuting his discoveries u i p ii the the Tschnerd_ile could have desired. Ile had ` pr9.c.edecd h h deseribes as me mos i lAs 11. r as Fonda, tho country round . _ mr. ant and beautiful. 'ln coming down tlke river, he went on board proceeding up in an open boat. M. Lander proceed up d the iron steamboat Alburkah, determined , to report o f the Nun river as far as might be Kaclicable. sor_haer from that6°°l° °f the crew lower ~, bein g having been shot, is untruef part o r % we feel the e occurred • the case, they met with every attention_ at the expveerditi:Sniiice the last accounts, no deaths had nOO OOi L 1 . , he ordinary degree of pride and pleasure . in th at e ver in our advertising columns the sailing of the first ship thence left the- port of Liverpool for CHINA to bring i f i r s ord „. we lnist:kearg° o f Ta, "or other Chinese produce." 121 e n n 7 0 ; a3t , ..e not, will speedily be followed by others. The Load . bri o i t enla and he ships can be beneficially employed in Th e g ng some of the Company's tea warehouses to Liverpool. Y will soon be wanted here: On Saturday last a public meeting of the merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool was held in the Sessions-house, to take into consideration the propriety and best mode of testi fying their approbation of the conduct, ability, firmness, and moderation displayed by Thomas Foster, Esq., the Town clerk, in the late laborious investigation before the municipal commissioners. The meeting was called in consequence of a requisition having been presented to the Mayor, numerously and most respectably signed. The business of the meeting was opened at two o'clock, by which time the Court-house presented a numerous and highly respectable assemblage of gentlemen. 'I he Worshipful the Mayor in the chair. The Chairman stated that he held in his hand a requisition from a large and respectable body of gentlemen, which had been presented to him, requesting that he would convene a public meeting for the purpose specified in the requisition, which the clerk would read, and he felt much pleasure in com plying with the request. Mr. Topham, who officiated for the Town-clerk, here read the requisition, and the names of the gentlemen attached to it; after which, The Chairman revs , and said that, when he complied with the wishes of the requisitionists, he entered so completely into their sentiments relative to the admiration entertained for the ability and zeal displayed by the Town-clerk in the late in quiry, that he need not say what pleasure it had given him to second their purpose. He would say but few words himself; but he wished it to he understood that the present meeting was wholly unconnected with politics or party, and he hoped that, as the municipal inquiry was at an end, that no gentleman, whatever might be his opinions of the inquiry, as it had passed over, would bring forward the subject there, but that all would hear the speeches and endeavour to promote the views of the gentlemen who had signed the requisition. (Applause.) It was his wish that the gentlemen who addressed the meeting should confine themselves solely to its object. James Moss, Esq., rose and said that, in rising to propose the first resolution, he beg g ed leave to say that he did so with very great satisfaction, for he was convinced that the object of the meeting would not only accord with the views of the gentlemen present, but with the approbation of the inhabitants of the town of Liverpool generally,. (cheers,) as he was sure the ma jority cordially joined in lauding the merits of the. Town-clerk for the ability he had displayed, and admitted that the best thanks were due to him for the able, judicious, and temperate manner in which he conducted the late investigation. Mr. Moss concluded by moving a resolution to the • effect • that the best thanks of the inhabitants of Liverpool were due to the Town-clerk for the judicious and able manner in which he con ducted the late inquiry_as the public officer of the' corporation. Mathew.Jamieson, Esq., said that the gentlemen present had done him the honour of permitting_ him to second the resolution just read, and in doing which he begged to abserve that lie •had never undertaken a more gratifying duty. He thought that there never was an occasion when a public officer was more de serving of public gratitude. He felt his own inefficiency to do justice to the reselution, and was reminded of the saying of a great lawyer, who had observed, that he was always more timid in advocating a right and good cause than a had one, as the claims of his client being just, he was afraid of injuring the cause by anything ho might say ; but, when employed upon a bad cause, he had no such fear. Such was his (Mr. Jamieson's) situation at present. (Cheers.) No one could say but. the ut most praise was due to Mr. Foster for the great judgment and the consummate ability he had evinced before the municipal commissioners. Mr. Foster had not by any artifice defeated the late inquiry, nor attempted dexterously to evade it; but he had, he might say, laid open with great temper and talent every particular relating to the affairs of the corporate body, and for such ability and zeal the gratitude of the town was due to him; and he congratulated him and the Corporation for the manner in which the inquiry was entered into, and for its satis factory conclusion. He could not help thinking that there was something exceedingly disheartening at the commencement of the inquiry to Mr. Foster, as the public impression at the time appeared to be, that the object of the Corporation, in con senting to the investigation, was to defeat the inquiry, and that the whole proceedings were farcical, and merely set on foot to give the semblance of justice to what had already been pre determined; and whilst such a sensation was abroad no one would gainsay - that Mr. Foster had conducted himself with the greatest moderation and talent. He hoped, now the inquiry had terminated;that the absurd stories which had been circulated, and which they had so long been accustomed to hear of the cor porate body, would now be at au end, and that by the acts of the Corporation becoming now more publicly known, the re sult of the inquiry would be far different to the anticipations of many, and would tend to a great public benefit. ( Hear.) It had been his intention to have alluded to the nature and con stitution of the commission of inquiry, but he should refrain' from doing so, in consequence of the prohibition of the chair man ; but he would just allude to one circumstance. The accus ers of the Corporation had been driven from everyposition they had taken against that body, and they now took their stand upon new grounds, and urged the necessity of a separation of the Dock Estate from the C o rporation. It was now alleged that the Dock Estate should be under the controul of the merchants, as it was their property, and they were best able to manage it. Now he begged to state that there was a flaw in the argument, as the Dock Estate did not belong to the merchants, but to the public; it was the property of the bondholders, the widow, and the minor, who depended upon it for subsistence. (llear, hear.) The qualifications of the merchants of' Liverpool were excellent and noble, but they were enterprising and speculating, conse quently the bondholder would say that they were not the most fit administrators of the property. He was convinced that.the present system would not be changed until one of two things took place—either until the bondholders petitioned for a separa tion, or, until right and justice being at an end, a convulsion would be the cause of such'change. In again adverting to the subject for which he rose, Mr. Jamieson said that the stare he took in the question of paying a tribute to the Town-clerk did not depend altogether upon the public services he had rendered ; but he felt, as well as many others in the meeting, a high pri vate regard for him, and he was convinced that the subscription made to the tribute would fall far short of what his merits de served. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Foster, in his eloquent address on the part of the Corporation, and in his conduct throughout the inquiry; had, he was convinced, displayed talent which eminently qualifieslshirn for a.shigheraiphere in his profession than he at present moved in. (Applause.) Mr. Jamie Son concluded by expressing the gratification he felt in seconding the resolution. The Chairman now put the resolution to the meetin g , which was carried unanimously, (a di s se n tie n t h an d no t b e i ng held up against it,) amidst loud acclamations. Mr. Thomas Tobin briefly proposed the second resolution, to the effect, that a subscription should be immediately entered into for the purpose of affording the inhabitants of the town an op portunity of testifying their sense of Mr. Foster's exertions, by presenting him with some public testimony of their approba tion. (Applause.) • George Green, Esq. had great pleasure in seconding the resolution of Mr. Tobin, but said that he felt considerable em barrassment in doing so, as those who had preceded him had dwelt with much eloquence and eulogy on the gentleman, whose talents and services had given rise to the present meeting, and therefore it would be little more than a matter of form in his attempting to do justice to Mr. Foster, by eulogizing his merits : the newspapers had also very properly and candidly paid com plimentary tributes to the impartial and talented manner in which Mr. Foster had conducted the affairs of the Corporation in the late inquiry; even those opposed to him had ren dered this justice, consequently any eulogy that he (Mr. Green) passed upon him would come with less effect, and would rather take Mr. Foster's character from his enemies than his friends, for if they spoke well of him there appeared no favour. (Hear, hear.) He was happy to find that all those charges which had been brought ! against the Corporation had been so satisfac torily rebutted, and that the Corporation and Mr. Fos ter had come from the inquiry pure and unsullied. He thought nothing • could be more gratifying to honourable men who had : brought charges against the Corporation, than to find all the allegations disproved, (hear,) and he wished he could see those gentlemen present who had come so nobly forward on the last day. It had been said, in reference to the Corpora tion, that the days of that body were numbered; that the por tentous hand-writing had appeared upon the wail, for they had been weighed in the - balance and found wanting. He would not say whether this prophecy was presumption or not, but he hoped it was, as he was satisfied that no Corporation had ever managed its affairs mere beneficially to the public. With re gard to the origin of Corporations he would say a few words: If he read aright. the history of his country, these Corporations had been organised with a view to protect the people from tyrannical power, and to prevent the encroachment of great and noble families; or, in fact, to repel at any time an unjust exercise of the Kingly Prerogative,—(lowl cheers.) The Cor porations held these rights delegated to them by the ',people of the nation for their good, and the time might come when they would have occasion to exercise those rights again. (Hear.) He was one wholly unconnected with the Corporation, and called upon that body to exercise those rights, which were a part and parcel of the law of the land, for the good of the commu nity. (Hear.) The Corporation held their rights by the peo ple ; they were the people, and the people would support the Corporation, and nothing could touch the property of the Cor poration that did not touch the property of the people. Many anticipated that the result of the late investigation would pro duce a change in the constitution of the Corporation ; he thought that nothing of the sort would take place, as the result chewed there was no necessity for a change. • (Hear.) The Corporation, at a trifling sacrifice of their consistency, had submitted to an illegal inquiry; but although • they • bad made that sacrifice, they had dime, good, having come out of it ex onerated and perfectly free from those grievous charges which had been alleged.againsa them. Not one of those allegations,. he was happy to say - , had been substantiated. Mr. Green con.; eluded by stating that there was not one throughout the whole of the investigation more anxious to promote the inquiry, and to further the interests of the .Corporation than the Town clerk, and the admissions of his enemies had proved it. He had great satisfaction in seconding the resolution. • • The clerk read the resolution, after which it was put to the vote by the chairman, and carried amidst loud applause. Air. Samuel Holme, in rising to propose the third resolution, said that he should not in the course of his observations depart from that rule which had very properly been laid down by the Mayor, but confine himself to the object of the meeting. He had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Fosterin his private character as well as in his public capacity, and had long been aware of the brilliant talent possessed by that gentleman—latent talent he might call it, from the circumstance of its having been brought rot ward and dig :toyed on the late occasion. In the re cent investigation Mr. oster. had " won go ld en o pi n i o n," for he had ck,,`, —, ul with him the congrat u l a ti ons o f men o f ever y shade of i;incical feeling. He (Mr. Holing) had had an op portunity of conversing very generally on The subject of the late investigation with . persons of various political creeds, and all had agreed in admiring the talent, the ope nness, an d t h e a bilit y altogether, that he h a d shown in defending the Corporation as their advocate. Ile did not mean to say that it was not the duty of every public servant to discharge the duties incumbent on him to the hest of his ability, but on extraordinary occasions, when extraordittaiy-exemplification of talent was exhibited in the service of the town, especially by a fellow-townsman, he thought there was a call for some proof of their regard. He thought, that under such circumstances, public men should receive an acknowledgment for public. services more than •what fell to . them - in the mere line of business. (Hear.) If not, he would ask, what meant the tributes that were frequently given to the great and talented men of the day, the gold cup not long since given to the Lord Chancellor, but as an acknowledgment for their high talents? Propter alios vixit ought to be the motto of every servant; but. when great talent was displayed he thought public gratitude was called . for in the most substantial way. Civic crowns were bestowed on the Romans, and statues erected to them for extraordinary displays of abilitylana at the present day they hid weekly tributes of gratitude imid to those who brought the passenger . safely across the trackless ocean ; he meant the captains of packet ships, and he thought that the in hlibitants of Liverpool, who were famed for their magnanimity and public spirit, would not b e b ac k war d in c. and to g f testity, in a substanti a l manner, to t h e A bi l i ty of one who had reflected such credit and honour on the ,•bwn at large. (Cheers.) Mr. Holme then moved. that a commjitee be formed to carry the resolutions adopted at the meetinA into effect, the committee to consist of those gentlemen who bead signed the requisition, with power to add to their number., Mr. M. D. Bold seconded the resolution, briefly observing that he considered some testimony ought to be given to Mr About the same time, Lieutenant Pickersgill was sent in the armed brig Lion to ex am i ne th e western parts o f Batlin's Bay; but the choice was unfortunate; he never once entered Baffin's Bay; and Lieut. Young, who su,Trseded him, and proceeded under similar instructions the following year, reached only the 72d degree of latitude, cruising along the eastern instead of the western side of Baffin's Bay, and, consequently, among the ice, which almost always clings to the shore. The Hudson's Bay Company were again left free for many years from the apprehensions of a discovery of a north-west passage. Fortunately, however, for the world, it rarely hap pens that a generation passes away w ith ou t pro d uc i ng men zea lous for their country's. weal, and the honour of science. Mr. Dalrymple, hydrographer to th e Ad m i ra l ty , a f ter care f u lly ex amining the question of the north-west passage, was decidedly of opinion that the problem was still to be solved; and, conceiv ing with Mr. Douglas that "the governor and committee of the Hudson's Bay Company had.made amends for the narrow pre judices of their predecessors, and that no further obstruction would be thrown in the way of those who might be sent on dis covery," he prevailed ou them to employ Mr. Duncan, a master in the navy, who had exhibited considerable talent on a voyage to Nootka Sound, on thi s serv i ce . M r . D a l rymp l e h a d l o p g been of opinion that not only Greenland, but all the land Mid to have been seen by Baffin on the northern and eastern sides of the great bay bearing his name, was composed" of ekusters of islands, and that a passage through tlf&" Fretum Daris,'2 roand the northern extremity of Cumberland Island, led directly into the North Sea, from the 70 to the 71 of latitude. Never was man more _sanguine,. of success in any undertaking than Mr. Duncan. In 1790 he went out in the company's ship the Sea-horse, to take the command of a sloop in Hudson's Bay, called the Churchill. He found, on his arrival, a crew who affected to be terrified at the idea of going on discovery; the Company's servants told.him the vessel was totally unfit for such a purpose, and that she could n o t b e ma d e sea - wor thy in that country ;" though Mr. Duncan afterwards learned she was constantly employed f0r.20 years subsequently. Seeing nothing to be done there, he immediately returned to England, resolv ing to have no farther concern with the Hudson's Bay Com pany; but the governors, expressed so. much regret and disap pointment, and Mr. Dalrymple was so urgent for .following up the discovery, that he consented to take the command of a well built ship of 81 tons, called the Beaver, fitted to his mind, and stored for 18 months. He left the Thames on the 2d May, 1791, but did not reach the height of Charles's Island, in 63 lat., till the 2d August, nor Churchiil River till the sth September, when all hope of accomplishing anything that year 'was at an end. Mr; Duncan remained in Churchill River till the 15th July in the following year, got into Chesterffield Inlet, and returned to Churchill about the end of August, his crew having mutinied, encouraged, as he states; by his first officer, who was a servant of the company. Here grief and vexation so preyed on his mind as to render a voyage, which promised every thing, com pletely abortive. 'thus terminated, for that period at least, the last and leaSt efficient of all the expeditions (excepting that of Gibbons) for the. discovery of the - north-west passage. --Aire shall briefly state the results of the modern voyages in a sub sequent paper; and, if space will admit, the theories best enti tled to the notice of our readers, who will then have before them, in one point of view, all that has ever taken place in regard to the discovery of a north-west passage, from the earliest attempts to the present day. MR. FAITLIFULL'S NOSE. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS, LONDON. MARTIN v. SILLS.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a lithographer, against the defendant, an artist, at Brighton, to recover certain charges for lithographing a portrait of the Radical M.P. for that place. It appeared that the de fendant had painted a likeness of Mr. Faith full, and, speculating upon selling an immense number of lithographed copies to that gentleman's admirers in Brighton, which may, for aught know to the contrary, include the courtiers as well as the fish fags of that royal-radical place, employed the plaintiff to engrave and strike off 150 copies, This was accordingly done, but, somehow or other, the prints did not go off this, of course, could only arise from the want of skill in the lithographer, who, it was alleged, had failed in depicting the peculiarities of the original's face, and that the likeness of Mr. Faithfull was not a faithful one, more especially the honourable member's promontory, which was considered more prominent and of larger dimensions than either the picture or the original warranted, or ought of right to;. belong to a king-and-parson-hating attorney, preacher, and M.P. Hence the defendant refused to pay the plaintiff's de mand of £25 for engraving the stone, and £-/ a hundred fort, striking off the prints; he paid him £l5 on ly, an d contended o.' that he was entitled to no more. These were the points of the case :—lt being admitted by the defendant's witnesses that the, engraving was satisfactorily executed in other respects, and would be worth the sum charged were it not for that defect, which, however, as it affected the likeness, reduced the value of the work to a comparatively trilling sum. On the other h an d , the witnesses for the plaintiff declared it to be a well -executed engraving in all respects, and an accurate copy. of the portrait. They considered it of considerably higher value than the sum charged by the plaintiff., There was also contradictory evidence as to whether the defendant, when he called to see the engraving at the plaintiff's, did or did not express approbation of the way in which it had been executed. Even the defendant's witnes s however, admitted that upon first l oo ki ng a t it , h e sa id " I t l oo k s very well on stone," although he curled his lip and looked dis satisfied. One of the plaintiff's witnesses said that he found the dimensions of the nose accurate when he tried them with a pair of compasses, but they appeared "a th oug ht" t oo l arge t o hi s eye. The defendant's witnesses fou n d th e nose t oo l arge w h en tried both by the compasses and the eve ; but the latter admit ted that some parts of the portrait itself, the arms for instance, were not correctly drawn. It was deemed, however, by Mr. Faithfull's friends, a good rkeness, whilst the prints were con sidered very indifferent likenesses of that gentleman. After an investigation, which lasted to a l a t e h our , th e j ur y re t urne d a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £l7. What will become of these prints we know not. "Though 'tis very well known that the prejudice goes Very strongly in favour of wearing a nose, Still a nose should not be a snout." Therefore, to publish to the world an unfaithful representation of Mr. Fulthfull's proboscis—to describe it as enriched by ge nerous port—to insinuate that the honourable member keeps good company, a thing of all others that Radical s h o ld in the greatest possible abhorrence—would be, if not. libellous, at least a breach of his parliamentary privilege. Should any attempts be made to se//their member, we recommend the Rads of Royal Brighton to petition for a parliamentary or King's commission of inquiry into 'the subject. We abstain from any lengthened 'commentaries on this important affair, because there. is no one thing on the face of a Radical M.P. that we are so little disposed to meddle with as hi s n o se, whi c h, ev e ry b o d y k nows , i s - but a queer sort of thing to handle ; and because the case of Mr. Fadoe Hunt versus " The True Sun" is fresh in our recollection. We have no plrticular relish for farthing damages, so we shall dis miss the subject at once. :. PUBLIC MEETING.-TESTIMONIia TO THE TOMTN-CLERK Thomas Foster for the talent, perseverance, and moderation he had displayed during the late municipal investigation. The Chairman having put the resolution to the meeting, it was carried. The Mayor now stated that the business of the meeting was at au end, and it only remained for him to thank the gentleme❑ present for the kind attention they had paid to the chair, which he did most cordially. He then stated that books would be open at all the public places to receive subscriptions for the purpose of carrying the resolutions of the meeting ►nto effect. The Mayor then left the chair, when James Ackers, Esq. moved that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Mayor for calling the same, and for his urbane con duct in the chair, which was seconded by James Irving, Esq. and carried amid loud cheers. The Mayor briefly returned thanks, and the meeting sepa rated, prev►ous to, which, " three times three" was given for the Mayor. . . EPITOME OF POLAR EXPEDITION'S. (Continued from our paper of the 13th inst.) After so many failures to the northward, it was decided by government to employ the celebrate'd Cook to determine. the exact situation of the two continents of Asia and America, or, in other words, to examine the Strait of Anian. On'this occa sion a new act was passed; (16 Geo'. III.) granting a •reward of twenty thousand pounds to any person or persons who should discover anv . northern passage for'vessels by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in any direction or parallel to the northward of the 52d degree of northern latitude. lii the same year Cook sailed from the Thames, with the Resolution and Discovery. On the 9th August, 1778, he determined the western extremity of America (to which he gave the name Cape Prince of Wales) to be in 65 46 N. 10ng.191 45; and, when in lat. 66 5, the width of the strait which divides the two continents of Asia and America to be about fourteen leagues. Standing to the northward, he named a point of land on the American coast Point Mulgrave, the lat. of -which was 67 45. Me continued up the strait till ho was in lat. 70 33, in an open sea ; b u t soon atter, in 70 41, found himself close to the edge of ice, which was as compact as a wall, and 10 or 12 feet high. In return ing to the southward, .he saw, on the American side, a low point in lat. 70 29, to which he gave the name of Icy Cape. As the ice was still near•the ships,-. in lat. 69 32, while there was none in proceeding to the northward, he concluded that the whole was a moveable mass, though he could not detect any current. To a point of high land, in lat. 69 5, he gave the name of Cape Lisburne.. It being now near the end of August, Captain Cook repaired to Oonalashka, and from thence to the Sandwich Islands, with the intention of renewing the exami nation of the strait the following year; but, by his unfortunate death, that task devolved on-Captain Clarke, who entered the strait toward the end of June, 1779, on the Asiatic side. On the 6th July be reached the 1at...67 N., and, after .encountering_ much ice,' filet of 70 33. On the 19th, in 69 31, he got sight_ of the land on the American side to the S.E.; but could not come near it; and this, with Cape Prince of Wales, viewed from the middle of the strait, were the only two points he saw on the coast of America. After some further attempts on the Asiatic side, he returned to Kamschatka, though the month ()fluty, had not yet expired. It is known that Deschneff succeeded in passing the strait from the north side of the Asiatic continent. It seemed, therefore, unfortunate that the attempt should so soon have been abandoned. T V. LI V Eli POOL STANDARD, turned iO this country. WRECK OF A STEAMER, AND LOSS OF HER CR E AND PASENGERS. It is again our painful duty to record the ravages of the tem pest. The gales which commenced with such destructive fury on Thursday fortnight, and which, on the following morning, caused a lamentable loss of property and life, have continued to blow almost unremittingly ever since, with more or less severity. Ou Tuesday afternoon a succession of sudden and violent squalls came on, which lasted till noon on the following day. Eariy on Wednesday morning the northwest Floating-light Ship sna pp e d one of the rings of the chain cable which held her to her moor ings. This vessel is stationed in the channel, close to the com mencement of the Banks; about fifteen miles from the town, for the guidance of vessels approaching the port. She is secured by two anchors, head and stern, .which are attached by strong chains to a massive ring to which her, cable is made fast. One of the chains, as we have stated, gave way, and, the captain un fortunately not being on board, the crew became alarmed. The Dolphin, Postoffice packet, Lieut. Sarsfield acting-commander in the absence of Captain Smithett, made the Liht-ship at five a.m., but the flood-tid e no t h av i ng m ad e up, s h e lay to until Gh. Win., when she wore and proceeded towards Liverpool. When within a mile of the Floating-light, Lieut. Sarsfield observed her drifting, and .overtook her near the N.H. buoy, (a very heavy sea running at the time,) when he succeeded in heaving the lead line, with a hawser attached, threw it on board, and towed her in safety to the Clarence Dock. But for this it is very pro bable she would have gone on shore at Mockbeggar, not being adapted for sailing. As soon as it was known in Liverpool that the Floating-light Ship was not at her station, the i n f orma ti on w a s co mmun ica t e d by Telegraph to the pilot-boats on the different stations. By this means, however, the important information was still very inadequately diffused, and the commanders of the inward bound vessels were thrown into a state of the utmost uncertainty and confusion by the disappearance of the light. 'With a laudable zeal for the safety of the shippin g , Mr. Richardson, the agent for the Postoffice steamers, gave instructions to Captain Emer son, of the Etna, f or D u bli n , (the only steamer leaving Liver pool that night,) to inf orm all inward bound vessels of the dan ger, either by burning blue lights, or making other signals. Most fortunately, he succeeded in warning the Nottingham and another steamer of the risk. The respective captains took the warning, (although p o t w ithi n h a il of the Etna,) and stood off until they made the lower lights, (Bidston and .Mockbeggar,) by which means they avoided the danger, and reached the port on Wednesday night with the high flood. The Dolphin (also a Postoffice steamer) had similar instructions on Thursday night, but did not meet with any vessels. It is supposed she would be at sea before the Lord Blayney would arrive off the Light-ship, or the melancholy loss of that steamer might have been averted. There is no doubt, however, that many vessels escaped shipwreck, and Mr. Richardson was complimented by several ship and steam vessel owners for his very praiseworthy attention. Among the vessels which coutrived to enter the port in safety, in the abSence of the Light-ship, were the Mail, Bennett, from Valpiraiso, the Meg Merrilies Holmes, from Africa, and the Mercury, Pearson, from Cape Breton—all ships of great value. Unfortunately, however, it was impossible to warn every vessel that .approached the port of her danger, and to this is attributed the loss of the Lord Blarney, steamer, with all ou board. That vessel left Warren Point, Newry, about eleven o'clock on Wednesday forenoon, with a valuable cargo. Her crew consisted of Captain Stewart and sixteen hands, her bur then per register being 201 tons. At her usual rate of sailing,_ she would reach the stati o n of the Li g ht- s hip a b ou t two o ' c l oc k on Thuisday morning. It is impossible to speak with certainty as to the time the Lord Blayney struck, and the only way . in which the deviation from her course can be accounted for is, that sufficient allow.- ance had not been made for her drift, which, from the heavy N.W. gale, and the sea setting to the southward, would be con siderable. If this was the case, she would,. instead of being to the northward of the Light-ship, have made the point of Air light, when abreast of the bar laud; and, the night being dark, with heavy sqtialls 'at times, would naturally deceive the com mander when making the light a-head; he would then run on confidently until the vessel struck on 'West Hoyle, when she would immediately go to pieces. We are informed, that only at intervals the lights at Bidston and Mockbeggar were dis tinct, owing to the dark squalls of rain, which induces us to lay some weight on the above conclusion, as, from the com mander's long experience out of this port, but for the mistaking the Point of Air light he would, doubtless, have been able to run into Liverpool in safety. The first intelligence of this unfortunate event reached Liver pool in the early part of Friday afternoon, by the Telegraph. The announcement was to the effect, that a trunk, belonging to the captain of the Lord Blayney, was - washed up at the Point of Air, in the forenoon, and, on bein g opened by Mr. Dawson, of Gronant, (agent to Si r Ed war d Mostyn, of Talacre,) was found to contain, amongst his wearing apparel, &c., the register of this ill-fated vessel. Soon after, a considerable portion of the hull and cargo (consisting , principally of butter and pigs) was washed up at the same .place ' with two dead bodies. The Lord Blayney- was a very fine boat, and was built about eight years ago, by Messrs. Rathbone and Co., of this town, under the inspection of Captain Stewart. She waS considered one of the finest models belonging to the port, and was in ex nellent trim, having lately received new boilers, and undergone a thorough repai r . Sh e was usua l ly commanded by Captain Wilson; but Captain Stewart, who bad the William the Fourth, being a lieutenant in the navy, was prevented from navigating that vessel to Portugal, on her being chartered by Don Pedro, and ho exchanged vessels in Septeniber last with Capt. Wilson. This was to have been his last voyage, however, in the Lord Blayney, his own vessel, Willi am t h e Fourth, having now ro . A GOLDEN EXAAIPLE, Communicated by Mr. G. W. Perry, agent to the Labourers' Friend Society, who took down the report from the man's own mouth:— " Edward Richards, aged 0.8, the father of six children, the son of a poor man, and the youngest of eleven children, has resided in Cirencester parish fifty-two tears, and during the early part of his life was a common lab . ourer. About thirty five years ago he agreed with a farmer to clear out and improve an acre of tough quarry land, on condition of having it three years rent free, and then to give it up to the owner. On this unpromising spot he and his wife expended their surplus labour to such advantage, that during these three years he cleared £4O. He then purchased two acres of then poor land, for which he pave £BO. l'he.e two acres are now, and have long been, in a highly productive state. Sion after he entered on the cultivation of this land, he raised in one year seven quarters of wheat from it; and he has refused IWguineas for it. He has now been lord of this littl e m a nor f or thirty-two years.. "By the kind offices of a worthy medical gentleman, who had attended him when unwell, he obtained from Earl Bath urst seventy-five perches of poor waste unproductive land, subject. to be overflowed with water, at a quit rent of ten shil lings per annum. This spot, which th e wr it er o f thi s ha s see n, he has possessed about thirty years, and has brought it to a state of value and productiveness that must be seen to be rightly appreciated. " For the last ten years this laborious and industrious man has rented five or six acresali land, besides the two plots already referred to, and during that period has kept two, and sometimes three cows, as also several sheep, pigs, &c.; and it may not be uninteresting in these times to state, that he has long been a rate-payer, but never a rate-receiver. In short, by honest in dustry, sobriety, and good conduct, he is a man of substance_ an independent Englishman, respectable and respected; and the writer, with feelings of sincere pleasure, remarked, that he set a high value on what it was never his good fortune to possess— a sound and useful education." • The Henry Bell, 'from Newry, arrived on Saturday. She reports, that on her arrival at Warren Point she met the Lord Blayney coining out. Her deck appeared to be crowded with cattle and passengers, apparently ch►efly pig-jobbers. Tho captain of the Hero steamer, from Mostyn, reports hav ing seen a plank floating near the mouth of the Dee, with the words "Blayney, of Liverpool." A seal known to have belong ed to Capt. Stewart has been picked up between the Rock and the mouth of the Dee. More authentic particulars of the melancholy loss of the Lord Blayney steam-packet are expected to arrive by the George the Fourth packet this day. We understand that the body of William Darlington, the engineer of the Lord Blayney, was washed ashore near the Point of Ayr, on Sunday last. Tidings of the vessel are also expected by the Postoffice packet from Dublin, this morning. LIVERPOOL POLICE.-WEDNESDAY. SATURDAY. James Williams, an individual of questionable character, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a loaf of bread under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that the prisoar savv a carter standing in the street with a cart laden with bread, in tended to be taken into the country. He entered into conver sation with the carter, and induced him to take some-liquor, durin g which time he jumped into the cart and stole the loaf. He was detected, and several persons came forward to state that the prisoner had previously been seen attempting to rob a female in the streets the same evening. The prisoner, in his defence, said "he was drunk," and imagine?' at the time it was a loaf that he had purchased. In order to give an opportunity of bringing witnesses forward against the prisoner for other offences, the Mayor remanded him.—All the cases that came before the court to-day' wlpe entirely void of interest. MONDAY. A nymph of nave, ciilliiii;rself Olivia Saunders, was charged by a gentleirrav from the sister country with robbing hire of his watch in the street the night previous. The corn nlainant stated his case, which appeared to be conclusive against the prisoner, but he said that, being intos:irat.d at the time, he thought that it was as much his fault as her's ; in consequence of which Sir George Drinkwater discharged the prisoner with a severe reprimand. Robert \Vardleworth, a fellow whose appearance was perfectly consistent with the character given him by th e p o li ce ,—th a t o f a determined scoundrel, was brought before the sitting magis .trate chared with kno c king an o ld man on t h e h ea d i n t h e street, and rifling his pockets. A watchman stated that he saw the prisoner following the complainant in Byrom-street„ and knowing him to be nothing better than he ought to be, he ivatched his motions, and perceived him tracing the old man's steps up Shaw's-brow, -and when near a gateway knocked him down. and commenced rifling his pockets. He (the watchman) -immediately went up, and heard the complainant say " that he had no more money." He seized the prisoner and took him into custody. The complainant, who said that he was perfectly sober at the time, corroborated the statement of the watchman, and the prisoner was committed for trial. A disorderly female, named Thomson, was charged by a watchman with lying speechless in the gutter, making a great noise, on the nig ht previ o us.- E x p ress i ng h er p en it e nce, the prisoner was diserharged. Lloyd, the constable, brought up a man in a seaman's dress, who had been imposing up_on the benevolent of Evcrton as "a shipwrecked mariner." Lloyd stated that whenever a wreck took place, the prisoner, and others of a similar character, made a practice of imposing themselves upon the public as a portion of the crew "providentially saved . ' The prisoner, promising not to offend again, was discharged. Jathes Watt, the sailor alluded to last week a 3 being re manded until to-day for smuggling tobacco from the ship Augusta, was again brought before the Mayor, when Mr. Brooks, the excise .solicitor, stated the facts, which have pre viously appeared, and the case being - fully made out against him, he was convicted in the penalty of £lOO. There wore no less than seventy persons "on the. books" this morning, but the cases altogether did not possess the Slightest interest, and the majority were for being disorderly in the streets. CORONER'S INQUESTS. A FEIIALE CHILD FOUND IN THE RlVER. — Yesterdav, an inquisition was taken before James Crosbie, Esq., one of the borough coroners, on view of the body of a female child which was picked up in the Mersey, under the following circumstan ces :—John Williams, a boatman, stated that, on Sunday after noon last, he was out in a boatat. , with three other men, Wallasey-hole, when they observed something floating on the surface of the water; they immediately pulled off towards it, and found it to be the body of a female child, apparently about the a ge - o f f o ur years. They brought the body on shore, and delivered it to a policeman. From appearances,' witness would Judge that the body had been in the Water about two days. It was dressed in a green frock, blue cheek pinafore, .and nankeen bonnet. The policeman stated. that he put the body in the Dead-house, to await the present inquest. The body is sup posed to have been washed from the wreck of the Lord Blayney steamer. A link of blue glass beads was on the child's neck, which, at present, are in the hands of Mr. Ty3on, the beadle: Verdict, " found drowned." . Another inquest was held yesterday, on the body of Richard Ashley Lowe, an infant of the age of three years, the son of John Lowe, an engineer ? in Bevingtou•street, who was burnt to death by its clothes igniting at the tire, and a verdict of accidentatdeath" returned. TITHES. (An Official Circular.) "Downing-street, Dec. 9. " Gentlemen,—l shall feel much obliged to you if you will fill up the enelbsed return, and send it back to me as soon as you conveniently can. " It will not be necessary that the return should be precisely accurate ; all I should wish is, that you would make your answers as correct as your present information will enable you to do. A duplicate sheet is enclosed, which you are requested to place in the hands of the reverend incumbent, the impropriator, his manager, or agent, or such other person as you may deem most competent to assist you in procuring the required information. "I have the honour to be, gentlemen, "Your obedient humble servant, "To the Churchwardens." " ALTHORP." The tables annexed to this circular require the number of acres of arable, meadow, or permanent pasture land, woodland, or coppice, hop plantations, and gardens—the average rent per acre—and the amount of money payments for tithes. or ►tip Mr. Adolphus opened the case, and called a considerable number of witnesses whose evidence was all of a circumstantial character. This part of the case occupied the whole of Friday. On Saturday morning, the trial of the prisoner was resuined; and, when called upon for his defence, he said, " I am perfectly innocent, and my defence is embodied in this paper," handing in his defence, which was read by the officer of the court. The defence commenced by protesting his innocence, and declaring that the crime imputed to him was one from which his heart recoiled with horror and detestation. Of the circum stances embodied against him, some were the result of mere accident; others had been fabricated in pursuance of a delibe rate design to mix up truth with falsehood, so as to make him the victim of an unjust accusation, and, by sacrificing the inno cent, to screen the really guilty from judicial investigation. The defence, after acquitting the executors of the deceased of any vindictive feeling towards him in the institution of this prose cutioe, stated that he would not dispute the fact, although he was in utter ignorance of it, that the deceased died from tue effects of poison ; that the poison was arsenic; and that it was administered in the coffee taken for breakfast. After combat ing the inferences drawn from his conduct by the servant of' his grandfather with respect to his filling the teakettle, the defence proceeded to notice the second cause of suspicion under which he laboured, viz., his absconding three days :titer the morning on which he was supposed to have committed the crime. Instead of flying from justice he said that he went to Loudon on a visit to his sister, in pursuance of a long standing engagement,—that no secrecy was observed as to where he was going, —that, but for a letter from his sister, changing the day on which ehe wished to see him, he would have been in London when the event took place,—and that, when it was thought necessary to apprehend him he was at that sister's house, where he was taken into cus tody, and without any advice, professional or otherwise, brought before the coroner, as a criminal who had fled from justice. If, gentlemen, I have explained the circumstances of that sup s , posed flight in a manner that defies contradiction, and brings home conviction to your minds, will you not, in common fair ness, admit that my absence was one of those strange coinci dence's which occur in this case, and which are so powerfully calculated to give to innocence the worst appearances of guilt ? Do you not see in this one of these facts, which, unexplained, have placed me where I now am? Another unfortunate coin cidence in this unhappy case is the discovery of arsenic in mrbox. I propose next to consider, and I entreat your serious anti indi vidual attention to what I have to offer in explanation of that fact, fol. the records of our criminal courts abundantly prove that what is called circumstantial evidence may lead to the most erro neous results. Seine years ago it was my misfortune to be subject to an attack of the itch, which was brought home to the family by my father, who then cohabited with a woman of the name of Warren. While thus suffering Laccidentally heard that the best way to eradicate it was, by applying poison to the parts most af fected. For this purpose, from that time, I had been in the habit of using hellebore and arsenic, and from the disgraceful nature of the disease, the jury will readily believe that I did not wish it to be more known than I could -help. When before the co roner, I remembered upon several occasions having sent a man, who worked for me when I was in London, to purchase these poisons for me. I then stated that the name of that man was Brett, but that he was dead. I, however, expressed my belief that his wife knew the fact as well as himself. Crentleinen, that woman has now,been traced out, and she will be called before you, and will prove the truth of my assertion" After commenting at considerable length upon this part of thnevidence, and upon the evidence of Mary Higgins and his father before the coroner's jury--he said (in his defence) "MY father and Mary Higgins were examined separately before the coroner. They had nu opportunity of knowing what each other said, and therefore you will find that although they agree, even to the letter, in two expressions, and two only—those expres sions which they attribute to me—they contradict each other in every fact, and in every circumstance attendant urn that sup posed conversation. When you reflect upon the falsehood, the contradiction, the evasion of these two witnesses, and the im probable nature of the conversation itself, I should be insulting your judgment if I thought vou could believe one syllable of recollecttheir story. You will that say own father is the first to accuse me of this dreadful crime. He it is that goes to the magistrate and puts this charge in motion against me. He it is who, after an interview with Mary Higgins at five o'clock in the morning, produces her as a witness to insure my condemnation, by swearing to a conversation that never occurred, and, in the relation of which, they falter and equivo cate in the manner you have heard. But; gentlemen, I have no doubt that you and every person possessing common feeling will here be desirous of asking what can possitily be the motive that has induced a father thus to conduct himself tows rds his child ? Even if he really knew me to be guilty, -W.:aid not a father, under ordinary circumstances, abstain from being the first to prefer an aecusatiote ralculated to bring his own son to a speedy and ignominious death? Gentlemen, my father has no; I-gnore to say. it, set a fit or worthy example to his family. He has been imprisoned for malicious injury, and guilty ofpro -R.;gacy of all kinds. Still,.he has not been entirely devoid of some regard for his.offspring. What, then, could have induced him to thrust himself forward, uncalled for, to take away my life through the medium of this prosecution ? I would fain have avoided this topic, but a sense of duty and eat preservation compel rue to enter upon it. Can any adequate reason be sue gested excepting the desire to avert from himself the horrible consequences of this horrible offence. Gentlemen. you sell have observed in every stage of this proceedinss eee ordi nary desire, on the part of my father, to show his oe..i eiencence of this crime, and my guilt. Before suspicion attached to any body you find him the first to ask who filled the kettle that morning . ? . A fact which he already knew, and which could only be inquired of in order to direct the thoughts of others towards me. You find him proclaiming the fact of his not hav ing been at my grandfather's house that morning ? And yoti find him lying in bed that morning much later than usual,, as if on purpose - to be ready to show where he then was. But how is it shown that he was not at my grandfather's the day before, when arsenic might so easily have been put into the coffee-jar, and the more easily, because Sophia Taylor was out the whole of that day? The coffee was kept in a cupboard, the lock of which did not catch. My father had completely the run of the house; he knew every part of it. He had it clearly, therefore, in his power to open that cupboard, and to do what lie pleased with the coffee. That lie must have gone to that coffee-jar, for, if I am permitted, I shall distinctly prove to you that he was aware of its contents. His statement is, that he went to the deceased's house on Saturday evening, about six o'clock; that he then found the family ill; that he had no idea of their having then taken poison ; and that it was the first time he learned that they were in any way unwell. What will be said, gentle men, when I show you that, as early as ten o'clock on that fatal morning, he had a conversation with two persons named Jacobs, to whom he stated that his father's family were poi soned with something they had taken for breakfast, and that it was not the.coffee,,for the coffee used that morning was the last that remained in the jar. This was said many hours before he had been to the house; many hours before, as he says, lie knew any one was even ill, and in direct contradiction of his own representations, repeatedly and deliberately made. I have before told you that the cot e° used on that morning was found to be the last which the jar contained ; and how could he know, at ten o'clock in the morning, that the family were sick and vomiting, when he has sworn that his first knowledge of their being even ill was obtained by his visit at six o'clock in the evening ?" These are the principal and most striking mints in the de fence; and as they were distinctly proved by the prisoner's witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of Not _guilty. UsiattELLAs.—The first person who used an umbrella in the streets of London was the benevolent Jonas Hanwav, who died in 1786. The first sold in Glamorganshire was at Reath : a respectable shopkeeper of that town sent to London for one, for Sir Herbert :Nlackworth, about seventy years ago. BHANDy.—The celebrated Bishop of Berkeley used to call the few who drank spirituous liquors with impunity for a series of years, the Devil's decoys. WHALING EXPEDITION.—A paragraph, entitled "Extraor dinary Preservation," has found its way . into the columns of some of our south-country contemporaries, in which are de• tailed the marvellous adventures of two seamen belonging to the Middleton, of this place, who are said to have cruised about for ten or eleven days in the northern ocean on the back of whale ! The story, unfortunately, is not true, but the real fac...tv of the case are worthy of publication. On the 2lst July, Capt.' Kerr, of the Middleton, had a boat and crew employed in watching two fish, which it was found impracticable to get along side of the vessel, in consequence of their being at some 6.p, tance in the ice. The fish were distant from each other andet a mile and a half, and two men were on the ice near one of the fish when it came on to blow a gale of wind, which drifted the boat and the other fish out of their sight. They remained about fifty hours after all the provisions were exhausted, excepting what they obtained from the dead body of the whale, and at this time another dead fish floated up alongside of the one which they had in charge. On the 26th July the men were picked up by the Lord Gambier, of Newcastle. Captain Kerr, under standing by a signal made from the Lord Gambier that his two men were on board of that vessel, immediately sent a boat for them, and this boat's crew discovering . that the Lord Gambier's boats were endeavouring to get at their two fish, the harpooner and another man jumped upon - the ice, and got to the whales just whew they were outside of the ice. These two men did actually embark, each on board of one of the whales, and were a considerable distance from the ice and in the open sea when Captain Kerr picked them up. They we THE HORRID EFFECTS OF NEGRO SLAVERY. In one of the early debates in the reformed House of Cominons, on the slave emancipation question, some of our readers may perhaps remember the outpourings of the Lord Viscount How•ick's indignation against the proprietor and managers of a particular estate in Demerara, whose conduct towards the " un happy blacks" was described, in the stereotyped phrases of the Anti-slavery Association, as diabolical, cruel, &c. &C. &c. &C. and that such conduct would effectually destroy the negro popula tion of this estate in particular. The arrival of the Milian Chief; Captain Williams, from Demerara, has supplied us with an ex cellent commentary on his lordship's harangue, in the shape of an order from one of the ill-used, and therefore unhappy slaves belonging to the very estate that was the theme of his lordship's discourse. The order is in the hand-writing of the slave, which we copy verbatim et literatim " MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN WILLIAMS. " A blue dress coat, second quality. " 7 strings of large coral beads. " 7 pair earrings, a little larger than the pattern, and a fellow for the pattern. I piece cotton cambric. " 8 pieces calico gown pies . " 3 lockets, (ladies'.) " 3 strings black garnet beads. " 1 piece common white drill. «; piece coarse Linnen for shirting. " Air. and Mrs. Vincent's compliments to Mr. Williams, and wishes him success and a happy passage home, and they hope you will not forget them. " P.S.—A blue dress coat for my brother, to be a size larger." This order was given by a slave who is neither a driver nor a manager; one who is employed exclusively in out-of-door work on the plantation. The funds to purchase these articles were supplied by an order on the agent of the estate. The pattern GOLD earring and pendant, together with the paper which we have described, may both be seen by any person who will take the trouble of calling on the Publisher of the LIVER POOL STANDARD, in whose possession they are. We have only to add that we hate great pleasure in exhibiting this irrefragable proof of the cruel and inhuman treatment of West India slaves. THE PLUMSTEAD MURDER. HOME CIRCUIT—MAIDSTQNE, lohn Midle, a young man aged 23, was placed at the bar, charged With administeting poison to his grandfather whereof he died. TO THE EDITOR or Tirn LirEEPOOL ST4.7VD.4ED Sta.—As there appears to exist miAnnderstnncling ort the subject of the delay in sending the Light Slip back to hi r station, I take the liberty of o' , serving that, as none could be more anxious ou the suhjeel than thos:3 conne:led with our ' company, we lost no time, on it laing ascertained that the vessel had broken her moorings, in volunteering to tow her back gratuitously. The report, - However, brought - ia by the commanders of fly, company's vessels, the Nottingham, (Hen derson,) and the Mersey ; (White,) of the tremendous sea run ning on the Thursday morning, induced us to intiolete to the Harbour-master the utter impossibility of cd'ecting: the object we all had in view, and we were reluctantly to defer, until the following day, the towing the Light Ship ,- hark to her station. I need not say hiw anxious we were to have her back, seeing that we expected one or more of our oWn steamers in the following tide, and which might probably hive been deceived, as was the lamented commander of the Lord Money. I do riot, sir, under all the ciWtinSTarieeSZiceC:ise, believe that any thing further could have been done to lessen the risk incurred by the unforeseen accident to the Light Ship. It would, indeed, be great injustice to Mr. Richardson, the krent -of the Postoffiee, not to admit the willing proorptitude with which ho assented to our application to instruct the connii:inders of the mail packets to make every po-isible exertion to warn the incoming vessels of, the danger, and the efficient manner in which he directed the service, although against the strict letter of his instructialls, which are, not to allow the mail packets to deviate from their course, except with the view of saying life. To both Captain Emerson, of the Etna, and Captain Phi!ips, of the Comet, our thanks are especial;y doe, fur the services they performed, and their excitions in such severe weathu-, Yours, &c,,. C. W. WILLIAMS. City of Dublin Steam Packet Office, PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS The performances at the Theatre Royal are now drawing to a close. Mr. Lloyds, the prompter, takes his benefit on Frid,y next, and as his is by no means a sinecure office, we hope that the public will not need prompting—in ifs part, which is to come forward promptly, with that boon or reward which all who mi nister to its pleasures have something like a right to demand. The bill of fare is good—and, moreover, this will be the last night of the season. Of the concert, on Friday next, we have spoken in the last num. ber of the STANDARD. We have now to notice another to be given on Mondarnext, at the Liver Theatre, by Mous. Devin, who has called to his assistance Miss Cassidy and Miss E. Cassidy. from the Dublin school, and Miss Johnson—who, it seems; will then really issue her last notes to a Liverpool audience—and Mr. Davies. The leader of this concert will be Mr. Cudniore, and its conductor, Mr. C. H. Quarterman. The selections ace from the works of the best English and Italian masters. AMong the instrumental pieces Quarterman gives a concerto on the piano forte, and Ciza m ore a solo on the violin. STATE OF TRADE. Business still continues flat in the lower descriptions of cloth goods, but at the markets on both Saturday and Tuesday there was a better demand for coloured cloths of superior qualities.— In the, white cloth trade-there is no material alteration: Bradford market, on Thursday, was again very flat. The manufacturers say wool must come down ere they can make any reasonable profit. The merchants also complain heavily that they cannot afford to give the prices asked. On the whole this market is considered at present in a very unhealthy stale. At Huddersfield market, on Tuesday, there was no material alteration in thedematul for goods. • At Halifax market, on Saturday, low priced stuff goods were in better request, but superior kinds were little asked for. No alteration in prices. - Rochdale flannel market, Dec. 9, was moderately attended. Low goods for dyeing were much in request, but finer goods were rather slack. Considering the season of the_ year the mar ket may be said to have been pretty good. There was no variation in prices. I~ THE CONSERVATIVES OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE The Manchester Courier, of last Saturday. contains the fol lowing paragraph : "CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT NEWTON.—WO are informed that the South Lancashire Political Union had a dinner at Newton, on Thursday week; but we have looked in vain to the Tory journals for a report of the proceedings, and we do not even find that they mention the fact. Herein, no 'doubt, their wisdom is greatly to be commended; for if the members of the union can produce nothing better than the farrago of nonsense and sedition which was spouted at the preceding dinner, the fewer persons who hear of it and the better." We suspect some one has been hoaxing our contemporary. We have heard of no such meeting as that which he mentions; and we think we should have done so, if any had been held. We are also of opinion that when the Conservatives .of South Lancashire do meet, they will display so little of the " wisdom" which, in the Guardian's judgment "is greatly to be com mended," that, even at the risk of having their speeches stig matised as "a farrago of nonsense and sedition," - by our acute contemporary, they will venture to express, and even to publish, their opinions on the proceedings of the reform ministry and the reformed Parliament. We are happy to add, for the in formation of our contemporary, that there is every probability of the next general meeting of the association being at least twice as numerous as the last. —Manchester Courier. THE LATE GALES. On Sunday, about twoi. p.m., the Bristol steamer being then on her station at Swansea, went off to the Mumbles for the purpose of towing in the Elizabeth Clark, belonging to Messrs. Francis, Richardson, and Co., of this place, laden with timber, from St. John's, New Brunswick, which vessel encountered a severe gale of wind off the banks of Newfoundland, whereby both her masts were carried away. From thence she was navi gated under jury masts, notwithstanding which she riiade her passage in twenty-six days. In the tremendous sea which car ried away her masts, two of the crew were washed overboard and the captain (Alder) much injured; fortunately, however, the men were soon picked up. Much praise is due to the master and crew fur their very arduous exertions and able conduct. The brig Amethyst, from Montreal, which was stranded about a fortnight ago; in Swansea Bay, laden with flour and grairj, for Liverpool, was warped off the sands and towed in by the steam tug belonging to this port. and entered the harbour nearly the same time with the Elizabeth Clark. The Hier and sands were thronged with spectators, all anxious tosituess t.hc - gratifying sight. On Tuesday a brig, wrecked off the Munble Head during the late gale, was brought into the hat3our, with loss of-he's main-mast and bowsprit. The winds during the past wee. have been very boisterous, but we are glad to hear that the shipping from this port has not been seriously inicredl-- .The only disaster is the wreck of a collier at the moan of the river on Saturday last ; the crew were saved. It was gmerally reported to have been the Ceerleon, a regular trader to and from Bristol; she however arrived safe on Sunday. A distressing tecident occurred at Blackwood: about ten miles from Nevyporl i _ra Saturday last, to two little girls about the age of ele'veu s ixteen, by crossing the river over a temporary w ooden a for the convenience of workmen. It - is sup- ed s udden gust of wind. they were blown off the sth b a r t, id b g y e, a p bridge when retur?ing, from taking their father's di nner , w ho was at work in one orthe neighbouring collieries. No one saw them fall in, and it wlO late before their parents felt any anxiety for them, thinking they'were loitering with the neighbours. As night drew near th „,_ became alarmed, and, conceiving the result, traced footsteps to the middle of the bridge.. and there we•e mar ks o f the slipping of the feet. They were tound the net morning about half a mile down the river, which was flood -A by • the rains a great depth; at other times it is very shanow.—Merthyr Guardian. We make the following extract from the city correspondent of the Morning Herald :—" To the shame of our tb au partment, we learn from the Liverpool papers that the convey ance of letters to foreign countries at fixed periods, once exclu sively under the affected direction of the Postoflice,• as far as regards the communication with the Northern ,Contiuent of America, haaeen superseded by the enterprise (Attie merchants of the United States, ably seconded by those of that port, and similar arrangements have been made by the latter for other portions of the western World and the south of Europe. Their Majdsties continue in the enjoyment of their customary health, at the Marine Pavilion. On Monday the King held a :• court, and afterwards a privy council, at which Parliament was further prorogued to Thursday the . I th of February. In the even ing theirajesties gave a grand dinner to the Princess Augusta, Duchess of Gloucester, and the cabinet ministers. ,Their Majesties are not expected to come to town for the season unfit the end of February. The King will, hoWever, come from Brighton the early part of the month to open •the . session of Parliament in person. The rumour is revived in the Law Courts that after next Hilary Term Mr. Baron Bayley retires from the bench ; his , successor will, it is added, fie Sir William Horne, who will divide with the'Cliief Baron the equity dutidiqn the Conti. of . ' Exchequer. This, would, of course, cause a vacancy in the representation of Marylebone. By the death of Mr. Robert Alderson, of Norwich, at it - very advanced age, the Recorderships of Norwich, Ipswich; and Yarmouth are vacant. Mr. Alderson was father ..of the. Jtidge. The friends of Count Adam i'llatuszewic, the Ex_Russian. Special Minister, we understand, positively deny that he was , removed from his post at our Court, on representations which had been made to the Embeier. his mission was temporary, and was never intended by Count Nesselrode (Russian Ft..* reign Mini s t er ) to be permanent. -The Count is pursuing• the sports of the field at Melton. ORIGIN OF THE WORD DUN.—Sorno-have derived this word from the French word done:, signifying give, implying a de mand of something due; and others, among . whom is Dr. John son, from the Saxon word (lotion, to clamour. Both aye wrong. The origin of the word is simply this :—ln the reign of Henry VII., a famous bailiff, named Joe Dun, lived in the town of Lincoln. This man was so extremely dexterous - in his,. rough business,_ that it was usual when a person refused to pay, to say, ..Why don't you DUN bias ?"--tbat is, svity don't you spr i tt DUN to arrest him ? And hence the custom of calling a person who presses another for the payment of money, a Dun. now TO FURNISH NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPHS : MARCH OF INTELLECT. — Dating a dearth of news, we do. not think we . have seen a greater stride in improving the manufactory of pa ragraphs than that exhibited by Mr. Bill's imputation open one of forty persons, of having been guilty of an act of treachery. ' In former times, when An editor was at -a loss, he could scafd an old woman to death at Watefford, and afterwards contra- • I diet the report ; but this was only two paragraphs—ten or a dozen beggarly lines. More recently, there was a tolerably fair expedient tri ed i n Lon don. Capfain Ross (who might be smothered under the reports that have been printed about hint as deep as under the polar snows) first lost his papers in a cab, circumstantially, coming from the Admiralty, &c. &c. &c.; then the cabman read them to his fellow knights of the ,Bole in Pic cadilly :. then he most honourably restored them ; then he. was , h a ndsomely rewarded ; and last of all, there was a touch-wanted' puff general about the exceeding public spirit and honesty of cabmen. Well, let it be confessed that all this pretty fabric rested on pure invention; for Captain Ross were,• lost a single scrap of paper, either per cab or any other way. But what is this to the ingenuity of the Dublin press, which, it would seem, is still toiling up Hill, and, like Sisyphus with his stone, are never likely to get to the end of their labours ? There is the . challenge ; the denials called for; such denials as are given ; • lists of those that are not given; reasons why they should - should not be sent; opinions touching Mr. conduct,; ideas as to the proper mode of refutation, &c. &c. &c. Aireah; about four hundred paragraphs have sprung out of this . bitypy • idea ; and the public are exactly as wise as they were te.ore, By and by, somebody may say, • I can nrove titer. , ifs - •