The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-06 00:00:00

BEPTEMBEP. 6, 1833 cr aved . tim e for the purpose of trying their fortune in the Bee rid• To accomplish this praiseworthy' object they ha ve il accordi ng l y entered upon the journals of the THIRT Y - FOUR of Com mons no less than ONE HUNDRED AND I ... Hurr y - FOUR notices o f mot i ons f or t h e year 1834. These notices embrace all sorts of subjects, from the ex pulsion o f bishops from the House of Lords, to regula tions for th e sweeping of chimneys—from O'CONNELL'S 1. 111 fur a repeal of the union, down to Mr. SILK Bucx- INorrAm's bill, w hi ch proposes that the " survivor in a duel s h a ll be compelled to m a i n t a in, as his own, the family and dependants of the slain"—rather a curious "s', upon the whole, of preventing duels ! We have not time to wade through the long list Of t hese notices, but shall content ourselves with selecting a few of them at random, chiefly to show the prodigious Work Which is already carved out for the next session. , F irst and f oremost stands the member for Ireland, Mr. ° CuNNELL, who is to subrc.it a declaratory motion, ''that the evils inflicted upon the labourers in Ireland and the operatives in England are caused by the legisla tive,, union b e t ween t h e two countr i es. " Secondly, Mr. " CONNEL L is to move for the re-establishment of a " do mestic legislature in Ireland." This is pretty good for a .. e g i nuing. A domestic legislature is out of the clues uon ; but as to a repeal of the union, that we consider t° he repealed in part already, and we see no objections t( , ) a total rep ea l , prov id e d I re l an d wou l d keep at home those myriads of starring beggars ydro annually infest tp,i , country, and eat the bread of the English lab ourer . In e Peasantry indeed ! Rags, filth, ignorance, cunning, treachery hypocrisy, dishonestythese constitute the be st sPecimenxof the " finest peasantry in the world." . r these be your best, Mr. LIBERATOR, what must your secondary and -worst grade be ? After O'CONNELL comes Sir WILLIAM INGILBY, who 18 to move that " it would promote the religion and mo "ilty of the country if the right reverend bishops were 110 longer summoned to -the House of Lords !" Mr. GAIL " has given notice of a motion to the same effect. Mr. RUTHVEN is to move for the abolitiOn of all sine t.lll.e Places. M r . M ETHUEN h as a s i m il ar mot i on on t h e uooks. r. .:RYEa is to move for the total repeal of the corn .aws. Nlr . . t • § HEIL moves for the admission of Roman Catholics °, 14 3' fellow s hi ps, professorsh i ps, an d sc h o l ars hi ps i n .1 ri nity College, Dublin. Mr• JOS EPII P EASE has two motions; one f or t h e repea l of th e duty on the ex p or tati on o f coa l s , an d a nother for e repeal o f th e duty on bricks ; in both of wh i c h mot i ons w i w e sincerely h ope t h at honest J O SEPH has not over l oo k e d 18 worldly interest. i Mr. FAIT HFUL h as a motion for regu l at i ng and equal- Zi ng th e i ncomes of bishops, and another to prevent all :Penditure b y - can di dates at elect i ons. Thi s l ast i s can did at a ny rate. Take care of your money, friend FAITH -11,,L, by a ll means. h.,11.1r• BUCKINGHAM is to move for the reduction of the onal debt.—" All debt whatever" would be the better r eadin g. „ Ni r• E WART i s to move for the repea l o f t h e act i n wil k ie ll empowers judges to order murderers to be hung cuai es." How very considerate ! c eolon e l WILLIAMS moves for the reform of the United ~.,l ltireb of Engl an d an d W a l es , an d f o r the repeal of the "Yal marriage act. When do the electors of Ashton I" : to move f or th e re f orm o f Mr. WILLIAMs? Btsit is to move that parliament be occasionally ,;'" in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. "is ticket, we suspect, will turn up a blank. BuexisionAm moves the repeal of the usury laws. MURRAY is to move the repeal of the foreign en 161..trnent act. 41 • r- Too xu h as a mot i on a b out c hi mney - sweeps, an d i‘ I r• EWART one about the London police. thThe above are tolerably fair specimens of the notices on e books. Of the whole 134 motions, it is curious to ob rrve that nearly four-fifths emanate from new members. eONNELL and WHITTLE HARVEY, and one or two more, 41 'e the only members on the list who have sat in any pre /1011s parliament. To the honour of HUME he is not to b e found in it. Mr. Buexixclusi, Colonel Wiipams, 41 1 . • EWART, Mr. PEASE, Mr. FAITHFUL, Mr. RUTIIVEN, Ire FRYER, Mr. PARROTT, Mr. PETER, Mr. FINN, and various other amphibious names never before heard of, Inonopolise the great mass of recorded promises and future °t • i° l ls. These embrace, as we have said before, such a the m , of subj ec t s , th a t s h ou ld any attenti o n be p a id _t o 'ern, the whole time of the coming session must be al ready forestalled. The object of these motions is plain enou gh ; and it is quite possible that many a simple elec t 4 will be d ece i ve d b y th e os t en t a ti ous p ara d e o f busine ss hllB made, and attribute that to zeal and industry which is d l lennly to quackery and imposition. In the case of O,CON NELL, for instance, why did he shuffle off his repeal C k s tion durin g l as t sess i on , a lth oug h re peatedly urged t h, ur ing.it on? Why, for no other reason on earth than he had not made his peace with ministers—he had 4 (4 b een silenc e d by th e c h arms o f o ffi ce —h e h a d received -„Q.aPPointment equivalent to the estimated loss of the ae tll4 " - -he had not succeeded in nominating the chief st ere tary for Ireland,'or removing the Marquis of ANGLE ,II These motions, then, were only motions in terro beni*e Since he made them, how ever , hi s p ros p ec ts have w ay more c h eer i ng —h e sees film-ugh the wicket the t " 47 t° his ambiti on — an d if m i n i ster i a l rumours spea k , r r ne, the Office of Attorney-Ge nera l i s a t hi s re f usa l. The .t or tity papers now announce that Lord ANGLESEY is la t ree ° ll ed, and we all know that M r . L IT TLETON, the f ac el Y - appointed secretary, is O'CONNELL'S nominee. In t . ministers seem resolved to buy this impudent trader tir r . ebellion o n any terms, an d I re l an d i s to be placed en „Y at hi s mercy. Who the new Viceroy is to be is not het4e tl e d. but we can have no difficulty in conjecturing that tie "' be some seventh-rate statesman, whose qualifica tells for governing Ireland are in the ratio of his total ig norance of every thing connected with that unfortunate a Ilt ry. It would not surpr i se us if L or d TEYNHAM were PP O i rated, With do res pect to th e other. originators cf future mo \vitt% t hey are p r i nc i pa ll y th e i m it a tor s of O'C ONNELL , • l ? l it exactly comprehending his drift, or being in a ,Rion lik e hi m to ma k e t h e i r specu l a ti ons p ro fit a bl e . lZ'l ,Rion conduct, however, is equally reprehensible, and ' w e suspect, p ar ti cu l ar ly as regards those who are wh gl , isli m em b ers, meet with a very different reward di s ' 4 th e day of trial comes. If we could only have a the solution of Parliament, it would be rare sport to see th gambellings, contortions, and dying speeches of 'se hu man jackalls of the reform bill. c ttir_"temptible as th e y are , s till if it were p oss ibl e t o 40 :1 their exertions to any good account, we should be we r3 : to see th em expelled from Parliament. when tion :ook at the nature and character of. their several mo lave and consider the pitiful and personal object they at th : 11 view by these motions, it is impossible to look tinisa,, in any other light than that of an honourable i n%tit u ti c t - Their united strength is directed against the of the country-. Like vermin in vegetable IbifeeyotniFidsestiny is eatin to destroy. They have not an idea g*, sapping, undermining, and levelling. dead in the green leaf, and they revel in it till it church —the antid withered. The Socinian worm . gnaws at the the b eggar fly of Ireland sucks Protestant blood Whi Court s of 1g caterpillar and the Broom ant infest the aw ' and equity, and destroy parchment—the tlx.ro • • .N snail feeds upondestroys sugar canes—tile • radtcalism d horse-leech garden s the I l rivate parks, cornfields . and Gthe KEY grub feeds REY glow-worm sets fire to towns iletts 'in I upon foolScap at the national ex g virtue, is in . lort, destruction, without one solitary redeem tl ie work of these vermin. Is there no Illod e by which they could be induced to eat one another ? —_,„„„ a ,„,...._ Duke ,We have elsewhere published the protest of the t ~°I WELLINGTON and some other peers against the Wes 4ntlia slavery bill. The party who extracted this docu- Ili t . e nt from the archives of the house for public inforrna ii°ll, whatever may have been his motive for' so doing, legible', entitled to our thanks. A paper more clear and intel e one exhibiting in fewer words the merits of the 4lies tinD, or the demerits of the measure to which it re 4, fermia more statesman-like and comprehensive view of 14 act whiqh 11FIR liai dIY -a - redeeming point in th e 0 '' . ...dimi....._ 1111■.— - folly of its details, or which presents scarcely a single chance of escape from overwhelming ruin, it has seldom fallen to our lot to peruse. Were there no other mo tive for our concurrence in its reason-frig it would almost suffice for us to esteem it as a valuable document, that it has excited the hostility of the most venal and, :we are happy to say, the most falling of all the ministerial journals. The Times of Tuesday last punished its readers, and con firmed, for the thousand-and-first time, its full claims to ignorance of such questions, through a column and a half of as puerile trash as ever flowed even from Printing house-square. We would fain hope, for the credit of the " leading journal," that the people who generally " do" the paper were indulging in the cockney luxury of a trip to Margate, and that the duty of " perpetrating" the first leader for the day had devolved upon one of the penny-a-line reporters connected with the police office department. If so, we congratulate him on his chance of rising to the head of that branch of the profession, since he has proved, beyond question, his powers of creating two or three hundred lines of matter out of one or two fancied objections to a paper, which is chiefly objection able in that quarter, because it comes home plainly to the understanding of every other man of common sense or common honesty. To attempt an analysis of such trash at any length would • be to expose ourselves to a retort of the charge, and we shall therefore content our • selves with observing that nearly the whole article is de voted to cavilling at the first reason assigned in the pro test, that the measure was objectionable, " Because it is attempted by this bill to emancipate a nation of slaves not prepared by a previous course of education, of re ligious instruction, of training to habits of industry or of social intercourse, for the position in which they will be placed in so ciety." Does any man who has spent a month of his life amongst the negroes question the force and applicability of this reasoning ? We say no. Or, we ask, would any man desirous of being thought to be possessed of plain understanding confess himself so thoroughly ignorant as to imagine that in the Ivilds . of Guiana, or in the Blue Mountains, or other uncultivated portions of the interior of Jamaica, the unwilling negro will care one stfaw for " severe laws which may be enacted and enforced to compel residence, and to repress vagrancy " ?—Or that on "the free negro refusing to work, and wandering without the visible means of subsistence," he will dread being "punished as a rogue and vagabond as in our own free country " ? If such a man exist, we would recom mend him to take a trip to the two colonies we have named —and if, at the end of a week's residence in either of them, he did not confess himself cured of his vagaries, we should be inclined at once to admit his claims to de scend to the level of the writer of the article in the Times. One quotation more from this sapient production, and we have done. " The present.framework of society." says the Times, "may be preserved by a vigorous magistracy and a powerful police, with only the exception of the abolition of the cart-whip and the substitution of motives of personal advantage for the dread of brutal punish ment." We wonder the writer of this was not afraid of thus libelling his masters so keenly—" A vigorous ma giStracy and a powerful police !" By the measure of ministers one hundred magistrates are to be assigned to the nineteen colonial possessions of the British crown. Jamaica and British Guiana will, consequently, be en titled to ten between them. Now, these two colonies happen to have a population of 550,000 souls, and a superficies of somewhere about '20,000 square miles ; giving an average of 55,000 persons and 2,000 square miles upon and within which the vigour of each magis trate is to be displayed. It will not be denied that there is scope enough for the display, both in numbers and space ; and we humbly suggest that, as the faculty of übiquity will be a very convenient one, Mr. STANLEY would do well to fill up the magistracy from the other side of the channel ; since, as Sir BOYLE ROCHE used to say, "Nobody could be at two places at the same time, barring he was a swallow or an Irishman." This, kind reader, is the sum of the objections made to the protest against this most mischievous measure, by that most honest, most veracious, and most able journal, to which we will not again refer, further than to remark that the writer- -in it forgot to overturn his Grace's arguments about the want of value in the estates of West India Proprietors when the negroes did not work,—about the examples afforded in St. Domingo and the United States of the absence of all reliance on the labour of emancipated negroes ;—hbout the staking of so insignificant an amount of British capital as two hundred millions sterling, in estates, and in the 250,000 tons of British shipping, and 25,000 seamen, engaged directly in that trade; or of the endangering of our sup plies of sugar to the value of live millions sterling—of duties derived from that single commodity to the amount of five millions more—of exports of British manufac tures and produce to nearly the same annual amount; or of the endangering the fortunes and existence of thou sands of our fellow -countrymen, hitherto in a state of wealth and independence ;—of these, and numerous other questions, both of fact and reasoning, we hear nothing. But they are all embodied in the protest in question, which we will not weaken by further quoting. We have only most sincerely to express our desire, for the sake of the country, that the issue may not bear out the pro phetic character of the document; although in this re spect we are free to declare that our wishes far outrun our expectations. In our Tuesday's number we copied from the Police reports of the London papers, an account of certain pro ceedings before Sir PETER LAURIE, the Lord Mayor, in which it appeared that a swindler, or band of, swindlers had been in the habit of addressing letters to mercantile houses in Bristol, and elsewhere, ostensibly for the pur pose of inquiring the character of individuals stated to have been in their employment. It turned out, on the inquiry, that the parties inquired after were totally un known; and it further appeared, that the inquiring par ties, although they dated their letters 175,. Fleet-street, were not to be found. It was accordingly and very na turally considered, under these suspicious circumstances, that the correspondence was a fraudulent attempt to ob tain the signatures of respectable mercantile houses, for the purpose of committing acts of forgery. That forgery has considerably increased since the abo lition of capital punishments, is confirmed by the expe rience of every day. • Instead of this offence being corn -mitted by some needy or desperate. wretch, or by some victim of sedUction in tee hour of temptation, it is now committed systematically, carried on by roving bands, by confederacies of swindlers, who carry on the trade by whole Sale, and who havee - procured the signatures of al most every respectable commercial establishment in the large, towns. An instance has occurred in Liverpool, the fraudulent object of which has been brought to light by the rigid inqui r i es a nd resear ches of the c hief magis trate of London. An eminent mercantile house here re ceived a letter on the 28th April, 1833, of which the following is a copy: "178 - , • Fleet-Street, London, April 25, 1833. "GENTLEMEN,---I am referred to you by a Mr. John Spencer, who has applied for a vacancy in my counting-house. He states having been in your employ for eighteen months, commencing in the early part o f 1830, s i nce w h ic h time he has been abroad. A candid statement of his abilities, integrity, and general con duct, during the tim e he was with you, will much oblige, . "Gentlemen, "Your most obedient servant, "`V. H. MORRIS." The firm thus addressed, not knowing anything of the man named, but thinking some mistake had occurred, returned an answer to that effect, and they have heard nothing of their correspondent since. Now, it will be remarked that the words of the above letter are almost word for word the same as those which compose the letter addressed the other day to the Messrs. Fuidge, of Brist o l, w ith the exception that in this, the name pencer is substituted for Stephenson, and Morris for Bennett. They are both dated from the same place, viz, 178, Fleet -street. But the most curious and mysterious part of the story remains to be told. Mr. Fuidge, of Bristol, in his let ter to Sir Peter Laurie, states that the postage of his letter, and that of others received in Bristol, was paid. In our Liverpool case, however, the letter is franked "J. Campbell", and purports to be the signature of his Majesty's Solicitor General. We do not say that the frank is bona fide the hand writing of Sir John Camp bell; all we know is, that it appears to be his frank, has passed through the Postoffice as suck, and was received by the gentl emen to w h om i t was a dd resse d, postage free ! If it b e a f orgery, w hi c h i s probable, that con cerns the Post o ffi ce, its acute inspectors, and the public revenue ; if it be Sir John Campbell's frank, the frank of the Solicitor General, that concerns him ! It is unnecessary to add that the letter is in our posses sion, and that we beg to call Sir Peter Laurie's atten tion to the facts, 'l'll E LI VER POOL STAN DA RD. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half:past Seven o'clock. Since we last wrote the business of the Consol Market has been upon a limited scale, and 83a, alternately buyers and sell ers, has been the quotation for the Account. The Foreign Bonds generally have been less affected than during the preceding week. Portuguese Scrip has been done at 17% pm., but has since ral lied to 201. Belgian Bonds as a 941 95; Russian, ex dividend, 1031; Dutch 481 49, The intelligence from Brazil having been favourable, the Bonds here have advanced to 691 70, and have since fluctuated between 69 and 691. Lloyd's books and the board at that establishment have exhi bited, - during the last three days, a most fearful record of the loss and damage sustained by the shipping during the hurricane of Saturday, and we regret to add that, in many, instances, all on board have perished. Among those noticed to-day, we find the Ulster, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, was driven on shore on the 31st July, on Little Egg Island, and bilged : the crew and part of the cargo was saved. We have letters from Leghorn this afternoon to the 29th August. They state that vessels from Liverpool were subject to a quarantine of seven days. No pe riod had been fixed on to those from London, but it was sup posed it would be for 21 days where the goods were suspecteQ. LOCAL NEWS. FIRE.—On Tuesday night a file broke out in sqrne stables at the back of Abercrombie-square, which were speedily destroyed. The, horses were with difficulty got out. It is supposed to have originated from a man taking a lighted cigar, and carelessly suffering some sparks to fall among the straw. Yesterday, Mr. Thos. Tobin and Mr. Richard Dawson, at the head or a deputation of twelve of the free burgesses of Liver pool, waited on Mr. Nicholl, at the private residence of the Mayor, to thank him for his exertions in their favour before the committee of the -House of Commons. _ _ _ LAMENTABLE Suicint.—On Sunday Mr. John Tattersall, jun., the son of Mr. Tattersall, cotton-manufacturer of Old ham, put an end to his existence by hanging himself in the attic story, above his father's warehouse, at Lyon Mills, near Oldham. He was about' twenty-two years of age, and of rather a religious turn of mind for one so young. He had been ob served for some time to labour under a depression of spirits, but no apprehensions were entertained by his friends that he would commit so rash an act. He was found on the Monday forenoon after a diligent search, his absence, having created much alarm in the family and neighbourhood. He had a prayer-book beside him when discovered. An inquest was held on the body at Mr. Tetlow's. publican, in Manchester-street, before T. Farrand, Esq. and a very respectable jury, and a verdict of " Destroyed himself in a fit of lunacy" was returned. FORGERY.—This species of crime will, in future, be punished with increased severity from which the delinquents can have no chance of escaping. The judges have now been empowered to. order those convicted to four years' imprisonment, and to be kept to hard labour in this country before the term of transpor tation for life begins. The same punishment is provided for horse-stealing, &c. Vide the recent act for repealing the penalty of death for housebreaking, &c.—Horning Herald.—{Perhaps the Herald can inform us how long it will be before modern phi lanthropy will make the discovery that to imprison culprits for four years and then to transport them for life is cruel, unjust, and tyrannical—and how long it will be before the sufferings of those criminals will furnish a fine theme for declamation against the sanguinary character of our criminal code.—Edit. Liverpool Standard.] • SIGNOR PAGANINL—This singularly gifted musician, who has been taking a round of the intermediate towns, on Wednes day evening last gave a farewell concert to the inhabitants of Manchester, in the Theatre Royal of that town. The prices of admission were, Lower Boxes five shillings, Upper Boxes four shillings, Gallery one shilling and sixpence, and Pit two shil lings and sixpence. At an earlhour every part of the house was crowded to excess, even to the Box lobbies, and several hun dreds departed disappointed of adMission. The receipts were £3so,bemg the greatest sum ever known to be taken at the doors of the Theatre since its erection. It is thought from the un paralleled success of the Signor, that he will be induced to give another farewell musical soiree prior to his departure- FATAL ACCIDENT AT• ECCLES WAKES.—On Monday even ing last, a gloom was thrown over the rustic sports at this cele brated " wake," by an accident taking place, which suddenly deprived an interesting young girl about fourteen years of age of life. It appears that the unfortunate creature (who was em ployed as nurse-maid in the family of Mr. Edmund Lord, silk manufacturer, of Eccles,) in company with some other girls about her own age, was siding in one of the swing-boats, which are always to be seen at wakes and fairs, and when elevated at its greatest height, the hinge at the top which supports the car or boat suddenly gave way, and the beat and passengers came with a dreadful crash to the ground. The deceased and her companions were hurled some distance. None were seriously injured but the deceased, who was pitched upon her head. She was taken up senseless, and conveyed to the shop of Mr. Langstaff the druggist, but expired in a few minutes afterwards. In the evening an inquest was held upon the body, at the King's Head, g ccles, and after a minute investigation a verdict of "accidental death" was returned. From the evidence it appeared that the owner of the swing-boat had had the hinge examined that day by a blacksmith of Eccles, who had pro nounced it perfectly safe. The crowd of people at the wakes was immense, and several other accidents took .place. During the disgraceful exhibition of " baiting the bull," one of the stands, forming an amphitheatre around the scene of brutal sport, fell down when filled with people, but happily none were materially injured. The bull, also, when gored to madness by the infuriates dogs, broke loose amongst the spectators, but was secured and pinned to the stake, again to be tortured for their gratification, before any injury was sustained. Ca ouzcnouc.—This article, familiarly known as Indian rubber, and formerly scarcely employed for any other purpose than the obliteration of blacklead peacil-marks, has, of late years, become of very considerable consumption for many novel and useful purposes. It owes this increased consumption to its qualities of elasticity and tenacity, in which respects it has no equal among the vegetable prOducts. The thinnest coat of caoutchouc, aud, like the more valuable commodity, gold, it may be worked out to an almost impalpable body, is capable of ex cluding both air and water, the latter most effectually. Hence its value in rendering every description of wove fabric water proof; and, for the same reason,- it is invaluable in that essen tial of comfort and health—the preservation of the feet from damp. There are many other purposes for which it is exten sively employed—as a substitute for less flexible materials in that part of the female dress which gives form' to the body; but in nothing is it more valuable than as a protector to the feet. BREACH OF CONTRACT BY A UNIONIST.--A journeyman plasterer, named George Burns, was brought before the ma gistrates at the New Bailey, on Thursday, charged with having refused to fulfil the terms of a mitten contract, by which he agreed to serve Mr. Simmons, plasterer, Fetter-lane, for two years. Mr. Simmons stated that he sent the prisoner on Wed nesday to work at a certain building, but, in cousequcuce of some engagement into which he had entered with the Trades' Union, he refused to go. Mr. Simmons had no other man whom h e could send to do the work, which he had engaged to complete within a given time, under a heavy penalty, and therefore lie had brought the prisoner before the magistrates, to ascertain whether he was at liberty to choose. his own work or not. The prisoner, in his defence, said; that in the opinion of an attorney, who h a d been consulted, his contract with Mr. Simmons was not binding, inasmuch as it was on unstamped paper. Mr. Foster- told hi m that this plea was of no avail, as the contract was quite as binding as if it had been stamped. The prisoner then said that if his master would protect him against the consequences of another engagement he had entered into (meaning with the union) he Would complete his contract. Mr. Foster said he must get rid of that engagement as well as he could ; but he was bound t o fulfil his contract. As he refused to give an unconditional pro mise that he would go back to his work, he was committed to the tread-mill for one month; Mr. Foster intimating that he would be liberated if in the meantime. he satisfied his master.—Man chester Herald. 1311A;II — FACKETS.—The merchants of Liverpool seem dis posed to abridge extensively the government packet establish ments. For a long time past the packet-ships from hence to the principal ports of the United States have almost entirely superseded the Postoffice packets to that part of the world; and, for the last ten years, the system has been extended, with equal advantage, to the eastern coast of South America. During that period nearly 300 vessels have been despatched from hence to Rio Janeiro in the packet service, averaging one in twelve clays through the whole term ; which have sailed with a punc tuality not exceeded by the Postoffice packets. The ships are of a fine class, well found in every respect, and make their iDas sages in S. short time; often in less than the vessels on the Fal mouth station. The four last arrivals here come under this description, having severally made their passages as follows: The George Canning in 46 - days; Columbia in 46; Statesman 55 ; and Margaret 48 days. The packet-ship system is rapidly extending, and nlll shortly embrace every country with which this port is in extensive connection. The Board of Excise and Customs mean to buy up next month all the Irish tobacco now on hand, at a valuation made by their own officers. The Crown will apply it for the use of the navy. All Irish tobacco is to be forteited from the Ist of January next, and the holder incurs a penalty of I:lo3.—lrish paver. THE APOLLO VOCAL CONCERT. The fourth, and, we believe, the last (under the late arrange ments) of these Concerts was given on Wednesday night at the Adelphi Rooms, under the management of Mr. G. Holden, as conductor. The performances commenced with Mozart's grand symphony, " Jupiter," which was brilliantly executed b a Mr. Holden and Mr. Comber on the piano. This piece was followed by Mozart's sestetto, " Dove Son," " Cosi fan tutti," which Messdames Johnson, Potts, and Leach, anal Messrs. Caird, Aubrey, and Pemberton, contrived to murder in a most ruthless manner • at any rate these ladies and gentlemen, or our ears were sadly out of tune. To make amends for this act of bar barity, we had shortly after the delight of hearing Fioravanti's terzetto, " Io Diro se n e t Gestire," sung beautifully by Miss Johnson, Miss Potts, and Mr. Pemberton. This, we thought, the best of the Italian p er f orm ances, was honoured with an en core. We must not omit adding, that Rossini's quintetto, " Incerta. L'Anima," deserved a similar compliment. Miss Johnson, a sweet little songstress by the way, sang " With verdure clad," from Haydn's Creation, in very good taAe. The solo an d chorus of nuns, "Turn Holy Piither," with an accompaniment on the organ, was well executed, but much of the effect was lost from the smallness of the room. The best of the English pieces was " See the chariot at hand," a glee by Horsley. As these beautiful lines are from the pen' of "The Rare Ben Johnson," and may not be familiar to some of our readers, we transcribe them:— SEE TIIE CHARIOT AT HAND HERE, OF LOVE, Wherein my lady rideth ; Each that draws is a swan or a dove, And well the car love guideth. As she _goes all hearts do duty Unto her beauty ; And enamoured do wish, so they might But enjoy such a sight, That they still were to run by her side Thro' swords, thro' seas, whither she would ride. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have pluck 'd it? HaVe you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it I Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the briar, Or the nard in the fire? Have you tasted the bag o' the bee ?- 0 so white, so soft, so sweet is she The music in the last two lines is exquisitely softened down, so as to give expression to them, in a way that we can scarcely , find words to express. Mis s P o tt s sang " Th e S o ldier Tired;" and we were very angry with her —no, we do not mean that ex actly, for it is contrary to our nature to quarrel with a lady, particularly if she chance to be like Miss Potts, la young, and, moreover, an accomplished singer ; but, on the part of Dr. Arne, who is not alive to defend the credit of his compositions, we do enter our most solemn protest against her attempts to palm any notes upon us that are not genuine. If she does this again we will petition for a re-enactment of the old forgery laws. As a whole, the performances were very creditable to the talents of the performers, and went off with treat eclat. Some of the pieces might have been omitted, or better substitutes u fo s u t n o d h f o o p r them a lh m ' o e r r e o c o o m m w m a o s d c io r u o s w p ded lace to m e i x ll ce b s w e s, se h le i c el t i e l d e a e ds re these performances are resumed, which, we hope, they shortly will be, with the addition of some instrumental music. INTERCEPTED LB.TTER ! A certain London paper has for some time been delighting its erudite readers with extracts of letters written by certain tubordinate agents of Don Pedro, or Don Miguel (it matters not which,) and their emissaries in this country. In point Of diction these letters arc curious enough; but neither in diction, nor in point of information are they at all equal to the very elegant epistle which has found its way into our hands. Our letter we admit is not written on Bath post, rose scented, and gilt edged, fur, in good faith, it savours of baying been in some pothouse broil, and smells rank of porter and tobacco. It is ne vertheless a sensible letter, and worthy of these enlightened times. Here it is ;-- " Kirkdale Jail 11 Septr 1833. "Gentlemen Brothers " frite to you from this beautiful place to congratulate you on your great success in the Union and to tell you that you have many friends heer. Jack Thomas who coined heer a few days ago brought some of the placards with him and they are so Mo dest and the frazeologey is so Temperate that we have clubbed 20s to support the Union which we have got in a One Pound Note so as it may be got out safe. We are hall glad to hear that You are so sanguinary of your purpose, for you have nothing to do'but to stick out firm till next summer and you are sure to beat employers. It is a grate pity the public bodies and all the gentlemen wont help us. Confound em, they are a set of asses. But we'll teach them better before long. As one of our cirkulars tould them "they are hily culpable and deserving of being ceverely chastised." 'What bizuess Has any gentleman to know how much is work was to cost him ? If we allow them fellows to know too much we shall be obligated to work again, and that's what none of us intends You knows, and no man has a rite to Work and be the slave of another man. Is not all men Hequal, as Tom Paine says? Is there not men in our Union as Clever and Telligent as any of them fellows what Wants to control us ? Stick to the union I say, there's nothing Like union. It is the only way to get our beds and traps out of the hands of the Rascally pawnbrokers, and compel a Hignorant Public not To bild at all. Stick to It I say! The parish will Be like to keep us, and the hoyerseers have sent a great many slupes to pen man Mower to fetch stones for us to break next winter, so we shan't want work. I wishes You'd Take care that this Money does not get spent in heavy Wet. There's one or two of the Committee does no thing but swagger, and drink all day, and if they gets bacco that's all they Care for, for they don't mind whether any of the junior brothers gets anything or Not, so as they gets plenty of swig. This here is a very pleasant place, and we are very happy grinding our Own corn, what they make the skilligalee off, only Mr. Ainas is Tighter than master was, but any thing For mee rather than submit to work and be trampled upon like a slave in Swizierland. But as the Manchester lads tould the Master joiners, " we wont be sattisfied as afore with a barren victory." Every boil:1y here says that The plasterers are a sett of Dungs, that there placards and letters were not half spirited enough; but they'll pay for it if the masons get the Day. We'll sus pend them chaps and shelf them for 12 mouths, as we did their Too masters at Manchester. lam Gentlemen brothers of Lodge No 1 District 2 yours always at command (Signed) Bob Cox. Noto Beney I wish you'd till our Nelly to heave a loaf over the wall tomorrow with a Tickett stuck in it for mee. Heave it over that wall next the river, and jist tell Foord to strike my name off the Prowl as I think I shant pay no more to the union when I gets bout. THE LIVERPOOL CUSTOM-HOUSE. It will be remembered that, in one of our numbers of last month, we hinted at some evils connected with our Custom house business, which we thought admitted of a remedy. These hints have drawn from head-quarters an expressed desire for information. That desire we have thought it right to meet, by promptly furnishing some details. There we should have been content to leave the matter, as we have no wish to make a pa rade of our humble exertions to advance the interests of the town of Liverpool. But it seems some people are not conteni that it should be so left. Amongst the information we have re ceived on this affair, there is evidence of a disposition to deny the existence of these evils, and something like threats held out for "daring" to touch the question. This, the parties will now perceive, is a rather dangerous course to pursue towards us; — for, be it mere denial, or be it menace, we meet it by a simple course—the publication of the correspondence on the subject. We shall not be misunderstood in certain quarters when we say, that, although " much is said here, yet more remains he hind,"—and we shall have as little scruple in sending that forth, if need be,. as we have in publishing the following corres pondence _ - Custom-house, LivetTool,2lst August, 1833. The Collector presents his compliments to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, and, with reference to the paragraph commencing with " Let us hope, then," in the fifth column of page 95 of his journal, requests to be informed what specific regula tions they are he alludes to therein, as being new and vexatious to the merchants as well as prejudicial to the commerce of this port, although they are unnecessary for the protection of the revenue, and the substantive topics for complaint, which he in timates as now existing at this port; as the chiefs of the customs, however so disposed, cannot apply the proper remedies with outfirst making themselves acquainted with the disorder. Liverpool Standard 08;ce, August 31, 1833. The- Editor of the Livr.aroor. STANDARD presents his corn plipents to the Collector of Customs, and with reference to his requeSt'ilf tiro 21st instant, desiring to be informed what specific regulations were recently referred to in that paper, as being new and vexatious to the merchants, as well as prejudicial to the commerce of this port, although they are unnecessary for the protection of the revenue, begs to state, that he has been furnished with numerous details which are deemed by the mer cantile interest of this port to bear out those declarations; some of which details the Editor has now the honour of communi cating to the Collector. In makirig . this communication, the Editor considers it ad visable to divide the causes of complaint advanced by the mer cantile interest into two clases;—those which tend directly to their inconvenience, from what they designate as vexatious and unnecessary regulations, or changes in the previously existing practices of the Customs' department ;—and those which result from the inadequacy of the numbers of practical officers for the convenient management of the inci cased and increasing business of this port. Besides these leading causes of dissatisfaction, there are others within the cognizance of the complainants, from which considerable inconvenience is stated to be sus tained, although such causes may be beyand their right or wish to controul; and which the Editor of the STANDARD will also snore particularly notice before he concludes his statement. To revert, however, to the leading grounds of dissatisfaction, the merchants allege, That, when property is transmitted from the King's warehouses in London or elsewhere under the - Customs' seal, and is again deposited, with certificates of weights or quantities, under the charge of that department, until shipped, the refusal to permit the shipment of such property without breaking the seals — opening the packages for the examination of the contents — and, in many cases, compelling the re-weighing or estimating of the same, is productive of delay and expense, and is conse quently "vexatious" to them, whilst they contend that it is " unnecessary for the protection of the revenue." That, as the advancement of science has induced the exemp tion of objects of natural history from the payment of duty, all impediments to the most prompt admission of live plant's, introduced by them (the merchants,) at great expense and trouble are contrary to the intention of the framers of those laws by which such objects are admitted " free"—and that instances of vexatious impediments of this nature are of not unfrequent occurrence, when theloss of a single day in their removal may be, in this climate, destructive of the plants. That it was formerly usual, when bonded goods had to remain on the quay all night, for the searcher on the station to ap point an °Meer to watch them, and then sign his bill for so doing, which was immediately paid by the merchant ; but that now a written application must be made to the inspector general to have such goods watched. If the merchant or his agent, for want of time or other sufficient reason, does not go through this form, the searcher appoints an officer to watch the goods, and havin,, , * received his instructions from the in spector-general, sends the bill to the clearance clerk, with orders not to allow the vessel to clear until—What ? Until the charge for watching is paid ?—no; but until a written application is made to the Inspector-General, and his permis sion obtained for an officer to watch goods that were watched a week or two before, and are then stowed away in the hold of the vessel, totally out of sight ! The written permission of the Inspector-General is also necessary to make a deposit to cover the probable expense of watching goods, the exact charge for which is stated in a bill in the merchants' posses sion, which they are prepared to pay. When the detainer from the searcher, lodged under such circumstances, is per haps not discovered until the vessel is on the eve of com pleting her clearance, and the Custom-house is about to be closed for the day, the merchants deem themselves justified in charging this as an act productive of unnecessary delay, and consequentiv of expense—and as being " vexatious" to wards them, whilst it is " unnecessary fur the protection of the revenge." That, on the arrival of a British ship in this port from a foreign voyage, her stores, instead of being sealed.up on board, are removed to the Custom-house. The merchants state that they should have less cause to complain on this head, were the stores sent from the vessel to the Custom-house under seal, and returned on board the ship with the seals unbroken ; which they contend would be amply protective of the reve nue. But that, instead of this course being pursued, they are first packed on board in the presence of an officer ; and on their being delivered at the Custom-house they are un packed by an officer, guaged, counted, or weighed, according to the nature of the stores, and deposited in the warehouse; where they are again unpacked, guaged, counted, or weighed; packed up again—sent down to the vessel—once more un packed hi the presence of an officer, and stowed away in the lockers. That many articles, tea and wine for instance, sus tain great injury, and are exposed to extensive destruction by these repeated, and, as the merchants insist, unnecessary in terferences with the property; which, at the same time, leads to considerable expense. That all these formalites are re quired, however small the quantity of any particular kind of store on board, although, probably, the.vessel may be depart ing on her outward voyage again in a few days; and that the trouble and, inconvenience thus attending the reshipment of stores, not iinfrecoently presients vessels from obtaining their clearances with despatch; which has led to their being sent to sea without a part of their stores, in order to avoid delay ;, and, on such stores being subsequently claimed, heavy charges have been - paid for rent before they could be obtained. The merchants state that foreign vessels are exempt from this inconvenience; it being permitted to them to have their stores sealed up on board. This distinction, they maintain, is highly unjust in principle—" vexatious" to themselves — and wholly "unnecessary for the protection of the revenue." That they, the merchants, are called upon to pay for the expense of the Custom-house officer,—which frequently amounts to a considerable sum,—after the expiration of a fortnight from the arrival of the vessel, although the want of despatch in un loading is in no way chargeable upon themselves; and that no difference, in this respect, is made between a vessel of one hundred tons and the largest ships that enter this port. That the existence of the Bill of Entry" office is prejudicial to their interest, and productive of frequent delay; inasmuch as before the clerks of the customs can make any use of the searchers' bills, they have to be delivered to a clerk in that office, by whom they are often detained so long that ware housed goods cannot be passed until the following day, lieteby ships are also prevented from clearing. It is further stated that the person filling the office of inspector general has, from time to time, introduced regulations which, nut being found to work well, are withdrawn, and others equally absurd and unnecessary are substituted, apparently on his individual dictation, which are a source of constant annoyance to them, the merchants. Without going into further details on this head of their com plaint, the merchants contend that the course pursued in the cases above stated, and in many others which could be adduced, I is in dir ec t con t ra diction to the spirit of the circular of Decem ber, 1832, sent by the commissioners of customs to the outports, in which it is laia down to the effect— That the merchants' business is not to be needlessly impeded; That unnecessary labour and expense are not to be created, but that increased facility and despatch are to be afforded; And that all changes of a speculative nature are to be avoided. On the second head of complaint,—the inadequacy of the numbers of practical officers for the convenient management of the increased and increasing business of this port,—the mer chants allege,— That, in the year 1798, there were four clearance clerks, and seventeen landing waiters exclusively employed in discharg ing ships, when the year's foreign trade amounted to only about 1 ,000 vessels and considerably less than 200,000 tons. And" that, at the present time, although the foreign business of the port has reached 3,000 vessels, and 650,000 tons per an num,—the vessels generally being of much higher tonnage than at the former period named,—and, although the clear ance of ships is rendered more difficult by new and harrassing regulations, there are still only four clearance clerks; and of the whole establishment of landing waiters, about thirty five only are employed, on the average, in the discharge of ships; whilst it not unfrequently happens, that the number of vessels which cannot discharge for want of landing waiters is so considerable as to impede extensively the transaction of business, and, consequently, to operate " prejudicially to the commerce of this port." To repair which evils a great in crease of the actual number of landing waiters on service is considered) indispensable. That, in consequence of the vexatious, many of them new, regulations to which they, the merchants, are thus exposed, and the altered system of clearances, they are frequently subjected to an expense of ten or fifteen pounds for a steam . vessel to convey the oaptain, with his papers, on board his ship; which, to - save the tide and wind, may have gone to sea at high water. They maintain that the localities of this port aud that of London are so totally different, that a sys tem of clearance which may be productive of very trifling expense or inconvenience in the latter, is attended in this port with great inconvenience; and, as here stated, fre quently with heavy expense. That the difficulties here detailed arm much increased by the change of regulations with regard to the working hours; since, in the year 1798, the landing waiters, if required, worked from sunrise to sunset; but, now, their time of attend ance is limited to the seven houri from eight to three o'clock; thus, during a considerable portion of the year, causing a loss of the most valuable parts of the day for the performance of heavy labour. The Editot of the STANDARD having thus, in compliance with the request of the Collector of Customs, set forth sonic of the leading causes of complaint which the merchants have com municated to him, feels that he is not overstepping the bounds of propriety in repeating what the merchants declare has, in their judgment, tended to produce, and is well calculated to in crease, to a great extent, those evils. They allude to the prac tice which has prevailed of late years, of passing over the heads of active and eff ic ient officers of long standing, well versed in the business of.the port, (which is, in many respects, different from that of London and other ports,) and placing above them men of little general, and no local experience, brought from re mote parts of the country; by which practice the:transaction of business is oft en very ex t ensive ly d e layed. The merchants declare, that they are not unapprised of the fact, that, from certain quarters, charges have been insinuated to the higher authorities, of collusion between themselves and the officers for purposes of fraud upon the revenue; all which insinuation s they indignantly repel, as base and unfounded. The Editor of the STANDARD would not be doing justice to the Collector of the Customs if he (lid not distinctly state, that, in the numerous representations which have been made to him, in evidence of the complaints that he has felt himself called upon thus to detail, at some length, for the information of the Chiefs of the Customs, there has been one uniform declaration, on the part of the merchants and others who have occasion to transact business in that department, that the personal demean our of the Collector has been invariably marked by a desire to afford every possible facility to the conduct of official business, which is consistent with the faithful discharge of those duties that devolve upon him as guardian of the revenue. OUR CONTEMPORARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS. We are glad to perceive that whenever anything like idea tity is fastened upon any individual supposed to be connected, whether truly or erroneously, with the rabid Whig newspapers of Liverpool, the utmost anxiety is manifested to disclaim the connection and forswear the personalities in which these jour nals too frequently indulge. This is a good omen. It is a wholesome symptom to see persons who have hitherto taken a deep interest in these papers, and have lent their name to them in the former days of violence and faction, come forward now to disavow their sentiments and disclaim-their scurrilities. An instance of this has occurred in consequence of a para graph which appeared its the STANDARD of Tuesday last. A Saturday journal, which we are not conscious of ever having alluded to, far less of having named, was pleased to direct against us some personal - rancour as flippant as it was false. We were led to understand that the writer of that paper was a gentleman holding a responsible situation in the nightly police, and we took occasion to remind him that such displays of per sonality in a newspaper were inconsistent with his station and the proper discharge of his duties. This gentleman has disclaimed the authorship and the con nection in the following extract of a letter to Our contemporary of the Courier:— "'lila general application of the doctrine laid down by the editor of the Standard might be fouud inconvenient to more persons than one; but I owe it to him to state, that his notice of me originated, as I learned from himself this morning, in a misconception, i n a sm u c h as he had been assured, that - I was the author of an article in last Saturday's Journal personally offensive to him. To my connexion with the Journal I owe an introduction to many good, kind friends; but, on being ap pointed to my present situation, I ceased to be the editor of that paper, and have not contributed to it since the arrival of my suc cessor. It is only due to him to state, that I have not written a line in the Journal during the last five weeks.. 6 " lino, Sir, yours truly, " M. J. WiIITTY, " Superintendent of the Liverpool Nightly Watch. Liverpool, Sept. 3, 1833. So far well, and we are glad that Mr. Whitty is in a situation which enables him to occupy a more useful position in society, and we should regret if any thing thnisve have said could hypos_ sibility do him an injury, which after this we feel confident will not be the case. As he was not the writer, our imputation falls to the ground; he stands completely exonerated, and we have much pleasure in saying so as openly as we made the original charge. Uad we known, as we now do, the character of the person who has incurred the responsibility which Mr. Whitty has thus shaken. off, we should have addreved ourselves to his masters , Rot to him, for reasons which we shall explain when necessary' To a few of the gentlemen who support the paper in question we beg to say, that we hold them as their.townsmen generally do, in profound respect; but these personal invectives, uncon_ nected as they are with politics, or public men, or even known men, are unworthy of their bearing in society, and must do in jury to any journal. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. The monthly meeting of the Common Council took place on Wednesday last, when a.variety of business, from there having been no Council last month, had accumulated for their consi deration. The Mayor presented a petition very numerously signed from the members of the Liverpool Mechanics' insti tution, praying for the grant of a piece of land, for erecting a suitable building for the purposes of the institution. It was unanimously agreed, that the further consideration of the sub ject should be postponed until the final settlement of the town dues question had taken place. A letter from Mr. Lamb, the Secretary to the Home Office, and addressed to the Mayor, being read, inquiring what accom modation the Council would be disposed to afford, in the event of the assizes for the western division of the county being re moved from Lancaster to Liverpool, both as to courts and suit able apartments for the judges, as well as the defrayment of the extra expenses for the sheriff, a resolution was passed, without dissension, expressing the ready disposition on the part of the Council to meet the wishes of the government, by affording every facility in their power, for carrying the object into effect, inclUding the use of the courts, and the provision of suitable ac commodation for the judges; but, that they were not, at the present period, from the litigation they had been involved in respecting the town dues question, prepared to incur any greater outlay. The TOwn-Clerk was directed to give notice for an Act of Parliament for next session, for effecting sonic improvement in the practice of the Borough Court, particularly to prevent the removal of causes by certiorari, and to authorise actions of ejectment to he brought in that court, which would secure a very considerable benefit to the owners of houses in Liverpool. A petition was read by the Town-clerk, praying for the re moval of the oyster-market in Itoe-street.—Referred to the Select Finance Committee. Also a petition praying for the renewal of the market in PoWnall-square, for the sale of vege tables.--Declined'. The'Mayor brought forward a motion, of which he had given notice at the preceding, Council, for enlarging and appropriating a portion of the North School, belonging. to the corporation, for the instruction of infants. Ilis object iu giving that notice was to afford the members of the Council an opportunity of making som e inquiry with a view to satisfy themselves as to the propriety and advantage of such an establishment, with the bene fits of which he expressed himself deeply impressed. The probable .cost of such alterations as would be requisite for the purpose, being stated ,to be limited, his motion was at once agreed to. It was moved by. the Mayor, seconded by-Mr. Alderman Lawrence, that the freedom of the borough be conferrelon J. Nicholl, Esq., which passed without any opposition.* Mr. Nicholl's services in the def e nce of the rights of the freemen, throughout the late investigation, were deemed to be of such a character as to merit the fullest testimony of the sense enter tained of them by the corporation, Mr. Nicholl being in the Mayor's room at the time, two gTutlemen were deputed to re quest him to come into the Council room, at the termination of the business, to receive the honour bestowed on him, and to take the accustomed oaths. A discussion took place respecting the projected works at New Brighton, which it was considered might be injurious to the river, but which was postponed until a communication was received from Government, in reply to one made to them on the subject. A petition was read from the inhabitants of Woodside and Bir kenhead, praying for more extended accommodation. for land ing from steamboats at low water; and also for the establish ment of an illuminated clock. Referred to the select finance committee. The Mayor presented a petition of a most extended form, and most numerously . and respectably signed by the burgesses of the borough, expressing their warmest thanks for the exertions which had been made by the Corporation in defence of their rights and privileges and in their endeavours to overcome the machinations of their enemies, when it was resolved that the Council would pursue the course they had hitherto followed and do all in their power to support the intwests of the freemen: A letter from the chairman of the festival'eommittee, rc questing the use of the Town-hall rooms at the approaching festival, was immediately complied with. - - A communication from Messrs. Smith and DOlier, for the in troduction of their system, in the North School, was referred to the school committee, with power to act as they may deem ad visable. A letter from Mr. Cragg, respecting his premises in Tithe barn-street,.was brought before the notice of the council by the Mayor. Mr. Cragg in that letter appeared desirous of remedying the nuisance, of which there is at present so much reason to com plain; his terms, however, were such, that the council could not consider themselves justified in acceding to. Mr. Nicholl was then introduced, and sworn in by the Town Clerk, when he was warmly congratulated by the Mayor and other members of the Council on his appointment. Mr. Nicholl, evidently impre sse d w ith a feeling of gratitude orrespdnding only in extent with that of pleasure which had just been manifested by th e C ounc il i n marking_ their sense of his conduct and serv i ces, acknowledged, ith a degree of modesty creditable to him as a gentleman, and equally so as a statesman, his gratitude for the manner in which the Council were pleased to notice the humble exertions he had made in defence of the freemen of Liverpool, Assn! ing them, that it would at all times afford him the most sincere gra tification, to render any service whatever on his part, in tor warding the interests Of Liverpool. LIVERPOOL POLICE. ASSAULT UPON A JotAINRYSIAN PA INTER:—Yesterday, three journeymen painters were brought before the Mayor and Alderman Leyland, charged with an assault of a most atrocious character on Stewart M‘ Water. The prisoners went into the room where M'Water was working, took. his brushes from him, and then painted his face, hands, and clothes, in a most unspar ing manner, threatening him at,the same time that if he con tinued to work for Mr. Thompson, his present master, they would murder him, and that he might expect to be a corpse in less than two days. After they had quitted the house, buzzing, and calling out " black sheep," one of them had the audacity to return to repeat the operation; but a woman who was scour • - iug the house, pitying the deplorable situation in which poor M'Water was left, locked the room-dcor, and prevented Wein from re-entering. The following is the substance of the evidence brought for ward by the prosecutor:— Steward M'Water.—l am a painter, in the employ of Mr. Thompson, but do not belong to the trades unions. On. Monday I was at work at a house in Bedford-street, Abercrom bie-square, when the prisoners, George Ncwsham, Joseph Carson, and Daniel Goodwin came up to me. Carson said, " You have nothing to do with working in this town at all." I did not say any thing. Carson then took a brush and daubed me with paint all over my face and clothes. Ile then daubed my work over, and spoiled it. The other two assisted Carson in painting me and spoiling my work. They then went away, and Carson came back and said, " If you lift another stroke we will murder you." Jane Redman was present. I know that the three prisoners belong to the Union. Jane Redman.—l am a char-woman, and was at work in the house in Bedford-street, where M'Water was employed on Monday. Saw the , prisoners come into the house, when they called out " bear.' Saw the prisoners daub M'Water with paint, and spoil his work. John Thompson proved that M'Water was in his employ, as a painter, on the day in question, in Bedford-street. heard that he bad been abused ; went up to Bedford-street and 'found that his work had been. spoiled, and it was in consequence obliged to be washed off. The prisoners are painters in the employ of Mr. Goore, and belong to the trades' unions. The magistrates, after commenting with great severity upon the atrocious character of this outrage, sentenced each of the three aggressors to three months' imprisonment and hard labour at the treadmill in the Kirkdale prison. The young matt so wantonly assaulted is a native of Scotland, and is remarkable for his industry and peaceable disposition. Had he made any resistance it:is not improbable that the affair might have ended in murder. Before the passing of Mr. Hume's bill, for repealing the combination laws, this offence Would have been visited by transportation. 'We think, from the peculiar circumstances of the case, the punishment is not adequate to the offence, although to the full extent which the present law allows. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (Written expressly for the Liverpool Standard.) There are few alterations to notice in the betting upon the St. Leger, which is the only matter of interest on the tapir. Mulev Moloch has improved a point, and is now quoted at 4 to Rockingham has taken the place of Belshazzar as second fa vourite, and various rumours about the latter horse have been propagated since our last, one of which is that he will not go, but we believe there is no foundation for the report. The War wick Races were the scene of great attraction, and Trepidation winning . the Guy Stakes it is anticipated will again place him in the betting. He is a good horse, and Revenge beating him at Goodwood passes for nothing, as Trepidation was not at all right at the time. The following is the latest state of the odds : 4 to 1 agst Muley Moloch (t) ; 6 to 1 agst Rockingham (t); 8 to 1 agst Belshazzar (t); 10 to 1 agst Marpessa (t) ;l1 to 1 agst Illussultnan; 12 to 1 agst Anne (t) ; 18 to 1 agst The Mole (t) ; 2:) to 1 agst Revenge (t); 20 to 1 agst Tutor (t). None others named. WARWICK MEETING.—These popular races commenced on Tuesday last, the Stewards were the Right Hon. Earl Craven and W. P. Thornhill, Esq. The Guy Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, half forfeit, one mile, were won by Lord Warwick's b. c. Tre pidation, by Centaur, (J. Day,) beating Lord Exeter's b. c. Sir Robert, Mr. Giftard's ch. f. Miss Charlotte, Mr. Tome's b. c. by -Sir Gray, and Mr. Cooke's Tarantella; nineteen paid. Th - e betting upon this race was considerable. 6to 4 was laid agst Sir Robert; 7 to 4 agst Tarantella; 5 to 1 agst Miss Charlotte, and sto 1 agst the winner. The Leamington Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 sovs. forfeit, with 100 sovs. added by the town of Leamington. two miles ; were won by Mr. Owen's b. m. Diana, beating - Lord Craven's Swing, Mr. Robinson's Windcliffe, Mr. West's Exile, Boy Blue, Lely, Changeling, Chester, and lAicy ; four paid. The betting was even on Exile ; sto 2 agst Diana, and 4to 1 agst Swing. The Match for 200 sovs, h. ft., T. Y. C., was won by Lord Lichfield's gr. g. Gab, beating Sir George Gerard's br. c. Billings. The Sweepstakes, of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added, were won by Mr. Hick's b. g. Harry, beating Mr. Tome's Graceful. M.4NCHESTER AND SALFORD SESSIONS. A YOUTH OF PaosiisE.—John Wolstencroft, a wicked young urchin, whose head just touched the top of the bar where he stood to be tried, apperently about the age of ten or eleven, was convicted of picking the pocket of Mary White, on the 7th of August last, at Great Bolton. The case against the prisoner was fully proved, and prior to passing sentence, the Chairman inquired it' there were any witnesses to the young fellow's cha racter? Oh yes, cried Itollison, the Bolton beadle, I can gise him a c haracter. Young as he is, sir, he has been three times convicted of felony, four or five times he has been committed for vagr ancy, and whipped, and frequently he has committed felo nies, and escaped with a good drubbing, the parties being un willing to prosecute. After receiving this excellent character from the beadle, the Chairman sentenced the urchin to seven years' transportation. Thomas Horseft eld, aged 16, was convicted of stealing a basket, c ontaining wearing apparel, the property of Elizabeth Wilkin son, of Ashton-under-Lyrae. The prisoner, it appeared, in com pany with another lad, named Little, since transported, entered the house of the prosecutor in the day time of the 16th of Au gust, and stole the property in question. The prisoner, in his defence, said, they saw the articles near a haystack, and Little said, "Let's bone 'em, so we did." He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Thomas Gibson, the man who was chareed with breaking into the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Stocks, of Norris, on the 17th of August, and stealing therefrom twenty pieces of calico, was acquitted. SINGULAR CASE.—Daniel Lennerd, a schoolmaster, residing at Ashton, was indicted for stealing ten bricks! the property of Joseph Buckley Raynor and others. Dr. BROWN stated the c, sa for the prosecution, and Mr. TOWNSEND appeared for the de fence. It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel that the prisoner had not taken the bricks himself, but had en couraged his scholars, young boys between five and six years of age, to do so, who were not amenable to the law for their con duct. The witness for the prosecution was a man in the em ployment of the prosecutors, who stated, tlsat on the Ist of Au gust he watched three boys, scholars of the prisoner, and saw them carry away from a heap of bricks, belonging to his master, ten new ones; he followed them to the school, and saw a man, whom he believed to be the prisoner at the bar, receive thern ; but as soon as he (witness) came in sight, the receiver popped behind a screen ' and disappeared through a hole in the floor. Witness looked down the hole, but the prisoner was gone, and he there saw fifty-two new bricks, which were built into a rab bit's hut. Witness immediately went for the constable, and on their return they found the . prisoner removing the bricks from the rabbit hut, and he believed, to the best of his knowledge, that the prisoner is the man who disappeared through the hole. The constable spoke to his taking the prisoner into custody, and finding mortar on his haude. The learned Chairman here stopped the case, and said, that he did not perceive that there was any evidence to criminate the prisoner. It was not shown that he had encouraged the boys to steal the bricks. They might have had them given, and he thought the case must entirely: fail, and the prisoner be entitled to an acquittal. The prisone . r was accordingly acquitted. Mr. TOWNSEND, the prisoner's counsel, stated, That he had witnesses present who could prove that they .had given the prisoner both old bricks and new ones to build a rabbit hut with. The Chairman replied, that he thought it unnecessary to call them, as the prisoner left. the dock without any imputation from what had occurred in court. DARING AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FROM A WAREHOUSE. — Benjamin Robinson, a labourer in the employment of Messrs. Ogden and Co., of Oldham, stood indicted for having on the night of the 20th of Aug. broken into and catered the warehouse of Robert Ogden and others his employers, and stealing there from 50 crowns, 100 halfcrowns, rsoo shillings, and 100 sie pences. It appeared from the evidence adduced, that on 'the lit of August Messrs. Ogden received the money stolen from Mr. Renshaw, tobacconist, of Manchester, who was in the habit of supplying them weekly with change to pay wages. The box contaimug the mone was deposited in the counting-house, and was seen safe by the book-keeper when he closed the warehouse on the evening of the Ist of Auimust. On the 2d of 'August, on opening the warehouse, he found the box open and the money gone. A window* at the back of the premises had been cut, by which means the thief gained admission. Suspicion fell upon: the prisoner in consequence of his having been seen in the counting-house about closing time on the previous evening. He was apprehended, but only f.:2 10s. was found upon him. The prisoner having been seen at work in his father's garden on the morning previous to the robbery, which he was not ac-. customed to do, and, from something which came out from his sweetheart, the constables were induced to search the garden on the 7th of August, and they fortunately .discovered the greater part of the booty, having dug up £4 163. in copper and £63 12s. lid, in silver. 'Sono of the money was wrapped in au apron of the prisoner, which was identified. The prisoner subsequently sent for Mr. Ogden and confessed that he bad committed the robbery about ten o'clock at night, and Implica ted John Lawton, a witness against him at the trial, who proved that the prisoner gave him £2 10s. to keep until ho wantedit, but witnese having . spent some of it, asked how it was to he made u p, w h en the prisoner replied " Never mind, send Harriett here, ' meaning his sweetheart. Th e p r i s o ner now denied that he ever hadimplicated Lawton, but Mr. Ogden's testimony was corroborated by the constable. The case was fully proved against the prisoner, and evidence of it previous.: conviction was put in, after which the jury, without hcsitatiou, found him yitilty, and the chairman sentenced him to 14 years' transportation. • GIVING SATISFACTION...IIIC Premier was so Much annoyed by conflicting interests during the discussions on . the • SiaYe Question, that he one day, in the presence .of a Deputation, exclaimed, with suppresses agony, " It is impossible :to please the people;_ if I do this I offend ne party, and if• 1 do that, the other declares itself injured. What shall Ido ?" Mr. Buxton, who happened to be present, replied, " My Lord, you had better follow the example of dUrllist," " IlOw's that, my friend ?" itiquired Grey. "Go out," rejoined Buxton ; " ana your Lordship will surely girt satiiptat:vo!" - •