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TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. . , The first 'meeting of the- Town Council, for the present municipal year, was held on Saturday last, at twelve o'clock, in the Town-hall, being a Special Council for the several purposes of electing a gentleman to fill the office of Mayor, of re-enacting the standing orders, re-appointing the com mittees, and of receiving several communications addressed to the Mayor. There was a full attendance of members, the whole Council being present with the exception of two individuals, namely, Messrs. James Lawrence and W. Lassen. ELECTION OF MAYOR. "9th November, 1839. Mr. BENN proceeded. The Council would perceive, that there had been an attempt to deprive a burgess of his rights, and it - erai, therefore, due to them to investigate the case, and - find out who were the other parties concerned. He was sure the members of St. Anne's Ward, and all the Council, would be as anxious as himself to trace and punish the of fenders, and, therefore, he should move that the case men tioned in the memorial be referred to the Town-clerk for full investigation, and that he be requested to report the result to the Council. Mr. SEGAR seconded the motion. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, believed, that it was not a solitary instance of personation that had occurred at the late election, but that there had been a great many. He thought it de sirable to ask whether there were not more cases to be brought forward, or were they determined only to punish this man, who, it appeared, bad been brought before the magis trates and acquitted ? He believed he could bring forward, from Great George's Ward, one or two cases of a similar description. Mr. T. HARVEY said, that the only remark he should make would be to suggest, that, if Mr. Lawrence knew of other such grievous offences, and did not bring them for ward, he was neglecting his duty to the Council. Mr. none-sox judged it to he the object of the Council to obtain substantial justice, and, therefore, they could not con fine their investigation to this case alone. He did not happen to know the names of the offenders, but he believed there were several. If the object of the Council was to punish all dellnquente, he should certainly join in the motion of the worthy alderman, and, he had no doubt, the Town-clerk would be furnished with many such cases. He was glad that the OEM had been brought forward, and, as an amendment, should 1730 Te, that the investigation should extend to all other persons who 'might have offended in a similar manner. Mr. JOHN SMITH seconded the motion. Mr. Eva NS was never more surprised than that a reason able gentleman should make use of such logic as that of Mr. Lawrence. According to that argument no murderer could be executed as long as one murderer was at liberty. Here a man was caught fiagrang delieto, and was handed over to the authorities. In the other cases alluded to, the individu als were scattered abroad, and no one knew how to bring them to light. One case happened within his own ward, but he did not know the name of the man who personated, nor whether he were a tory or a liberal. The majority in that ward was very decided, and, when he discovered the circum stanoe, the man was gone many hours before, and he did not know where to look for him. He asked the Assessors if they wished to make a case of it, and if they were inclined to try to 'discover him, to which the Conservative Assessor an se/erect!' no. Now, if the arguments brought forward by Mr. Leverence and the member for Everton were worth a straw, aiky other eases to be brought forward must nearly resemble tone of Bond's, but all of them were quite otherwise ; the Men who committed the fraud were gone and were nowhere to; be fotoad they had no means of dealing with them. As he had before observed, neither murderer nor thief could be punished Under such arguments as those, so long as one of them remained abroad. Mr. %tenni:me hoped the council would think too much of themselves, to allow anything half so foolish as this amend ment to be put, unless the movers would give names and cir cumstances. If they would, like the other gentleman, bring these forward, he would give them his support. He wanted principle, not party ; he wished to see the council immacu late, and those who came into it should, at least, have clean hands. (Hear, hear.) He cared not whether the offenders were conservative or liberal, but was afraid that, in many instances, the purity of election had been grossly violated, in some of the wards, during the late election. He intended, from such a conviction, to give notice that, at some future period, he would move for a committee to consider of a pe tition for legislative enactment to prevent the abuse ; and, in the meantime, he hoped the council would do themselves and the town honour by dealing with the case before them de idedly. Mr. HODGSON wished that the Town-clerk should also investigate any other cases notified to him by the council. Mr. EVANS observed, that such cases should be accompa nied by probable evidence. Mr. EARLE asked why could not those who had cases bring them forward? He did not like these sidewinds. Gentlemen whose consciences were so tender ought to be particularly desirous to bring them forward. Mr. SMITH did not think that the amendment did any in jury to the original motion. It was only making the inquiry more extrusive. Mr. BLACKBURN said, there were two sorts of cases. They might prove that a man had personated another, but unless they could prove that he had made answers to the questions put to hun, that he was the person named in the register, and that he had not voted at the election previously, they would gain no object whatever. Therefore, if the gen tlemen opposite limited their cases to those of mere persona tion, where could be the advantage of the amendment ? The TOWN -CLERK said, the council seemed to have over ooked the fact, that, in this case, the man had not only per sonated, but had gone the length of answering the questions put to him. It was provided by the Municipal Act, that any person committing this offence was guilty of a misdemeanour, and could be indicted and punished accordingly. Mr. HODGSON said, he merely desired that the individuals 'who had personated others should be punished; and, there lore, he wished for an investigation by the Town -clerk. ' Mr. CASE hoped the amendment would be withdrawn, as, without doubt, the council were willing to go into any case g -- ~ Y , `!1 ..... --r , _.. -,:; •,. #: V' ', ^.,), e4 . •ft, .:. '- ,7 _ ",- , : 4. , ..:,- .41 -...• ' The MAYOR (HuellHamby, Esq.) briefly stated the course pursued, last year, in the election of Mayor, which was as follows the event of more than two members being put in nomination, it was determined that there should be a clear majority in favour of one candidate. If there should not be a clear majority in favour of any one gentleman, they would proceed to fresh divisions on each nomination until there was So. If only two gentlemen should be nominated, of course no difficulty could arise. Mr. F. JORDAN said, having had the honour of proposing the first reform Mayor, and having been so successful as they had been under that nomination, he should take the liberty, for the last time, of proposing a gentleman for the office of Mayor. (Hear, hear.) He said for the last time, because it was not likely, that a man who had lived in five reigns would ever see another. Mayor chosen in that room. He should take the liberty of saying, that he had got some little credit from the town at large, for *the brevity of his addresses — (Hear !)—and he should not lose that character, he hoped, but would, as briefly as possible, state the qualifications of the gentleman whom he was about to propose. He should take the liberty of mentioning one who, in the various committees on which he had acted, and particularly on one committee, of which he himself (Mr. Jordan) bad been a member, had exhibited zeal, assiduity, knowledge, talent, and good feeling while he was president thereof, as he (Mr. Jordan) could bear personal testimony. He should say no more ; but leave the other part of his (the candidate's) character to those who could more minutely describe it—he referred to the members of the Watch Committee, and begged leave to propose Mr. Joshua Walmsley. Mr. BLACKBURN said, he had great pleasure in seconding the motion. In doing so, he agreed with Mr. Jordan, in the necessity and propriety of a very brief address. He thought they were in a condition to render any lengthened observations unnecessary ; and, as his (Mr. Walmsley's) merits were so highly appreciated by the Council and the town at large, there did not need any arguments to induce the Council to elect that gentleman as their chairman. By doing so, they would place in that station, one who was in every way worthy to follow in the track of the four gentlemen who had filled the office since the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, and afford another proof that it was possible for a gentleman to entertain very decided political opinions, and yet conduct himself with impartiality and fairness towards all parties in the discharge of his duty. He begged leave, with these ob servations, to second the nomination of Mr. Walmsley. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE said, it was not his inten tion, not that of those gentlemen who usually acted with him, to offer any opposition on this occasion, seeing that such a line of conduct might, very probably, be considered as vexa tious. At the same time, he was anxious that their silence should not be misconstrued into an approval of the nomina tion of Mr. Walmsley, and as joining in the recommendation stated by Mr. Jordan. He should not press the matter to a vote; desiring only, on behalf of himself and many of the gentlemen who sat near him, that it should be distinctly un derstood that, so far from acquiescing in, they disapproved of the nomination of Mr. Walmsley as the Mayor. As no opposition was offered, the MAYOR, after a short pause, said-, he considered that the Council had unanimously elected:Mr. Walmsley. Mr. Hornby immediately vacated the chair, to which Mr. Walrnsiey was led amid loud cheers from the liberal party. The oaths were administered to the new Mayor, by the Town-clerk, and the other usual forms observed. The MAYOR then said, that he should not attempt to ex press the sense which he entertained of the mark of confi dence which had been conferred upon him. Permit me, said he, simply to return my thanks, and to assure the Council that no efforts of which I am capable shall be wanting to justify your good opinion. They woul pardon him if he es teemed the honour more highly, as a tribute to that portion of the community with which he was more immediately iden tified. It was well known to many of them, and had been very justly expressed through his friend Mr. Blackburn, that he had strong political opinions, and that he had ever advo cated them with firmness and zeal. He trusted, however, that he should be able to show them, that he felt it to be the duty of the Mayor of Liverpool to know no particular party whatever in the position in which they had been pleased to place him. He was conscious that the best guide to their support would be to follow that strictly impartial line of con duct which had so emineutly distinguished his predecessor in office ; - and he entered en the duty with a fervent hope, that he should be able, at the close of the year, to return the trust into their hands, not only pure, but unsuspected. (Cheers.) The Minutes of the last Council, and the communications addressed to the late Mayor, were read, and the latter re ferred to the Finance Committee. QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. Aldermen BENN wished to draw the attention of the Conncil to a circumstance that occurred in the election of St. Anne's Ward, over which he presided, on the Ist of No vember. A person named John Bond then tendered his vote, but circumstances occurred that induced him to believe that this was not the same John Bond that was on the register. The usual questions were put to him, and replied to in the affirmative; but, still believing that he was not the man who had a right to the vote, he caused him to be given into cus tody, and he was taken before the magistrates, but subse quently discharged. He (Mr. Benn) had drawn up a state ment of the circumstances, which he requested the Town clerk to read. The TOWN-CLERK read the repert as follows : "TO THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. " As the alderman, and one of the returning officers, for St. Anne's Ward, I feel it my duty to report, that, at the St. Anne's Booth, a t a quar t er a ft er th ree o'clock, a person ap peared and tendered a voting paper, in the name of John Bond. The assessor, Mr. Rayner, immediately told the man that he was not John Bond—that John Bond was out of town. He , replied, that he had arrived that day, and insisted on voting- One or two other persons having declared that he was not Bond, the usual qmestion, as to residence, &c., were , put to him and answered in the affirmative ; but I still insisted that the vote should not be recorded. Being convinced that he was not Bond, I caused the voting paper to be re tained; and the person tendering it to be taken into custody. "This person was brought before the Stipendiary Magis trate, when it appeared his name was James Connor. The case was tally proved against him, except that it appeared, in the - judgment of the Stipendiary, that, the questions had not been required to be put by two burgesses ; in consequence of which, in the opinion of that magistrate, upon the evidence before him, the offence (which by the Municipal Corporations Act is an indictable misdemeanour) could not, in law, be es tablished. This decision, however, leaves the party still open to indictment, if inquiry and legal advice shall warrant the proceeding. " No doubt whatever existing as to the moral guilt, I sub mit, in conclusion, that the case demands the special notice of the Council and the strictest investigation, extending to all other persons, if ally, concerned ; and the first legal opinion should be obtained, upon the result of the investigation, be fore so serious a fraud upon the franchise of the burgesses can be considered as having been perpetrated with impunity. " ROBERT BENN. _ _ _ . 4 ) *AO \ , , \ that was regul g rly brought\ re them ; but it seemed to him incorreetthat they should send their Town-clerk about the town fishing, as it were, for..individuals who had perso nated voters. He wished justice to be done in any case that could be substantially brought forward. Mr. I. HOLMES said, the case of Bond scarcely differed from one in Everton, where the individual certainly knew that he had not paid his rates. He wished the Council to punish, wherever they saw personation or other impropriety of conduct constituting a violation of freedom of election, whatever might be their bias in favour of particular political opinions. The act said, that any person offering a bribe, whether it was accepted or not, should be punishable. The gentlemen who addressed the Council said they did not know of a case. lie would support the amendment. Mr. BOLTON said, as no practical good could result from the adoption of the amendment, unless it could be proved that the preliminary questions had been put by the alderman, he could not support it. If that had been the case. he should have been glad to have done so. Mr. JOSEPH HORNBY said, there was a broad distinction between the case at Everton and that before the Council. In that ward there were two persons, both named John Davies, living in Prince Edwin-lane ; and one of them, who was not really the John Davies on the register, but fully be lieving that he had a right to poll, gave his vote. This was very natural. Afterwards the real individual came up and tendered his vote, when the error was discovered. There was no attempt at deceit in this, as the man came openly forward, on the following day, and stated his firm conviction that he was entitled to vote, when all was explained. His name was taken off the poll and the right one put on. Mr. COGLAN said, if the amendment had proposed to go into any particular case, and had given the name and circum stances, the same as the original motion, he should not have objected to it ; but he hoped, for the honour of the town and the Council, it would not be published, that they were about to send their town-clerk on a Quixotic expedition to discover offenders. Without having previously brought before the Council the name of the offender, he should disapprove of amendment. He was sure, that no party feelings ought to step in here. The peculiar features of the case were, that the party who personated Mr. Bond, who was then in Lan caster, was dressed up for the occasion—he was a seafaring man—be lived in a cellar in Gildart's-garden ; and this per son, he was instructed by a respectable portion of the con stituency, who considered it a disgrace to the ward, as it was to the• Council, was brother-in-law to the successful candidate, who was present in the polling booth when he voted. — (No, no!) The MAYOR suggested, that this question would more properly be left to the Town-clerk. Mr. COOPER, with regard to the case of Davies, said, Mr. Hornby, the alderman for Everton Ward, should have told the whole of it. He (Davies) must have known that he had never paid his rates, that be was rated, that he was not on the register, that he had no right to vote, and thatle was called on to personate another man of the same name and living in the same street.—(lnterruption, and cries of " Order.") The MAYOR interfered. He had allowed Mr. Hornby to speak on the subject, and must hear Mr. Cooper. Mr. COOPER said, Davies knew as well as he did, that he had not a right to vote. Mr. WOOD intimated, that there was a case of personation in his ward, which Mr. Loch was determined to persevere in until he could bring it to light. Mr. R. JONES said, he laboured under considerable em barrassment, in consequence of the attack of Mr. Coglan, and as it was unexpected, be was almost unprepared to reply. Mr. Coglan had stated, that he was in the booth at the time when the personated vote was tendered by a member of his family. This assertion, he begged to say, was entirely un founded. The person was, unfortunately, a relation of his, being the husband of a cast-off of his family. As to any knowledge of the circumstances mentioned, he had none whatever. Had he seen the man at the booth, he should have ordered him off. Mr. CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL observed, that this was a question with which party feeling ought to have nothing to do. Their object should be equal justice. The Mayor knew, from his experience in municipal elections, that many cases of personation might be brought forward on either side. On the pledge of the Council that equal justice should be done to both parties, he thought that the amendment should not be persevered in, but should be withdrawn. Whether con servative or radical, if guilty of flagrant injustice, they should punish him if they were able. From his appearing there for the first time, he did not know whether he should be in order in putting a question to the Town-clerk, at the request of his constituents ; but the Mayor would set him right. He wish ed to know whether, at the ward elections, when the hour of four arrived, the voting papers at the window should be re ceived, or the window shut? He remembered that, when Alderman Barclay was in office, and he acted as assessor, he shut the window at four, by that gentleman's directions. On a recent occasion, thirteen votes had been received after four o'clock. He wished to know which was the law ? The MAYOR observed, that Mr. Bushell would see this was not the time to put the question. Mr. BARCLAY denied that any vote had been received af ter four o'clock. Mr. BUSHELL replied, that he was not present, and could, therefore, only speak on the ipse dixit of his friends. Mr. RIGHT suggested, that, after what Mr. Jones had said, Mr. Coglan ought to withdraw his assertion. Mr. COGLAN said, Mr. Benn was present at the time, and would, if questioned, confirm his assertion. The MAYOR thought it was very well understood, that the Council was pledged to give due consideration to further cases brought before them. Mr. BLACKBURN considered the Council would dishonour themselves by giving any such pledge. Mr. HODGSON replied, that if theunderstanding was that the Council, when other cases were brought forward on the opposite side, should investigate them in the same way, he would withdraw his amendment. Mr. HARVEY declared, that that was nothing less than asking the Council for a pledge, and he should protest against it. Mr. MELLOR had no hesitation in pledging himself to this effect. There were two cases in his ward, and he was most anxious to detect the villains. The MAYOR thought there could be no question that both sides would be alike investigated. This was not a question of party. Mr. GLADSTONE withdrew his motion, so far as Mr. Mel lor was concerned, and the motion for the appointment of that gentleman was carried. Mr. HODGSON, on that understanding, withdrew his amendment. The original motion, that the case of John Bond should be referred to the Town-clerk for full investigation, and for him to report to the Council, was passed. The TOWN -CLERK, in reference to the question of Mr. Bushell, suggested, that questions had much better be pro posed to him in writing, and replied to at the next Council. It would be more satisfactory to him, and, he thought, also to the propounders of the questions and the Council, that he should give his opinions deliberately. DOCK COMMITTEE. The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Dock Committee were read. The MAYOR called upon the Council to confirm them so far as the existing acts of Parliament were concerned. Agreed to. The minutes of the committee embodied the notices to Parliament respecting new docks, warehouses, &c. brought before the last Council. The MAYOR called upon the Council to confirm the pro ceedings of the Council in respect to the resolutions relative to these notices. Mr. EARLE thought it was rather too much to call upon them to decide upon such weighty matters at once : surely the adoption of tbe/o resolutions could be put off till the next monthly meeting of the Council. The TOWN-CLERK said, the only effect of the present adoption would be a confirmation of the notices given. Agreed to. The MAYOR said, it would be. the next business of the Council to appoint two members of the Dock Committee in lieu of Messrs. Brocklebank and Higgins. Mr. LEATHOM said, he would beg leave to propose Mr. James Mellor and Mr. Thomas Bulley. He would, first, propose Mr. Mellor in lieu of Mr. Brocklebank. Mr. JORDAN seconded the motion. Mr. GLADSTONE said, he would, as an amendment, pro pose Mr. George Hall Lawrence. Mr. Woon seconded the motion. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, he could not but feel flat tered by the nomination, but he begged leave to decline the honour, as he felt that the Dock Committee was very pecu liarly situated. There was a minority of members who had been chosen by the rate-payers, and those members, princi pally, represented the political opinions of the rate-payers also, while the Council had chiefly sent gentlemen who were of their way of thinking. - Last year, however, they seemed to have thrown overboard their political feelings, and bad sent his friend, Mr. Robertson Gladstone. He hoped he should be allowed to retire in favour of Mr. Mellor; and he hoped, further, that the system which had been too much pursued, of excluding individuals on account of their political feelings, would be done away with. Mr. RATHDONE would recal it to the recollection of those who were present, and would state it for the information of those who were not, that a similar accusation had been brought forward before, and that it had been proved, in reply, that the individuals of the party alluded to were elected in more than proportion to their comparative numbers in the Council. Mr. ISAAC lioLikiEs denied that the tories had been chosen to the committees in fair proportion, and quoted a statement, showing that they had only been elected in the proportion of one in six. Mr. LEATHOM moved that Mr. Bulley be a member of the Dock Committee in lieu of Mr. Higgins. Mr. COGLAN seconded the proposition. Mr. GLADSTONE moved, that Mr. George Hall Lawrence be appointed to the committee. Mr. JOHN SMITH seconded the motion. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said, there were eight aldermen al ready on the committee, and now they were proposing ano ther. And who were the aldermen ? They were chosen by the lights of the Angel, and had no light of their own but merely what was borrowed. They were nothing but a set of moonshine Councillors, who reflected the light of the Ra dical party of that assembly. (Loud laughter.) Another alderman was now proposed, and the reason was, that they •wished to place gentlemen on the committee who had not to meet their constituents as the other councillors had. Yet this was the greatest committee that had to be appointed in the Council, as it had the laying out of upwards of £170,000 per annum. He hoped they would allow Mr. George Hall Lawrence to go upon the committee. A few other remarks were made, and the amendment was put, when there appeared in its favour Messrs. Hodgson, Isaac Holmes, Houghton, Case, Sandbach, Wright, Barton, Cooper, Robinson, Wood, Gladstone, Bushel, Rigby, R. Jones, Leigh, and Smith. Against the Amendment—Messrs. J. Holmes, Quayle, Thornhill; Preston, Frankland, H. Holmes, Mellor, Pilcher, Bolton, Priestly, Woollright, Bright, tathbone, Hugh Hornby, Yates, T. Harvey, Blackburn, Morecroft, Segar, Coglan, G. H. Lawrence, Platt, M`Kee, Jordan, Duncan, Currie, Mather, Sheil, Booth, T. H orn by, Roskell, Leathom, G. Holt, C. H. Jones, Benn, Earl, Moon, Evans, Barclay, Bulley, T. Holt, Freme, E. Harvey, and the Mayor. For the Amendment 16 ' • against it 44 ; majority 28. The motion in favour of Mr. Bulley was put and carried. ALLOWANCE TO THE MAYOIi. On the motion of Mr. JOHN HOLMES, seconded by Mr. PLATT, the usual allowance was voted to the Mayor. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said, he thought if a sum of £250 per annum were voted to the Mayor, it would be sufficient, and he might be first and foremost in every charity in the town. THE QUARTERLY COUNCILS. The three ensuing quarterly Councils were fixed to take place in the first Wednesdays in February, May, and August, 1840. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. Mr. Wybergh was re-appointed Treasurer, and Mr. Cor rie Receiver of Town Dues. All the other appointments of officers under the Corporation were renewed. The appointment of a new crier was postponed, and left in the gift of the Mayor. The old standing orders were renewed, and several new ones instituted and ordered to be printed. PRESENT FROM LORD SANDON. Mr. CURRIE said, that, some weeks ago, he received a let ter from Mr. Wainewright, of the Liverpool Office, stating that, before Lord Sandon left England, he stated, tnat he was anxious to place the parliamentary library of his father at the disposal of the Council. He (Mr. Currie) communi cated with the Mayor and Town-clerk, who were of opinion, with him, as such a gift would be for the benefit of the town, it should be gratefully accepted. He had since received from Mr. Wainewright a letter, which was as follows : " Lord Sandon, before he left Lngland for Italy, committed to my charge a collection of parliamentary reports, returns, and other papers, belonging to his father, the Earl of Har rowby, and to himself, with a request, that I wsikkatiTtra. ~_ ~\~ venient opportunity, place the entire collection, in, his name at the free and full disposal of the Mayor and Town Council of Liverpool, with a view to the foundin&of a parliamentary library for the use of the local community, if, indeed, it might upon due consideration, be deemed by the Mayor and Coun cil to be adviseable for them to give their sanction air isup port to such an establishment. "In furtherance of his lordship's wish, I now take the liberty of requesting that you will, on a suitable occasion, have the goodness to brillg this offer under the notice of the Mayor and Council for their consideration. "If the Corporation should determine upon accepting the collection, I will give immediate directions for its transmis sion to the address of the Town-clerk, or any other corporate officer who may be appointed to receive it. " For the guidance of the Mayor and Council in their de liberations, I send you a catalogue of the books and papers in question." Various opinions were expressed as to the expediency of accepting this gift, trammelled, as it would be, with the con dition, that it should form the nucleus of a library. Mr. CURRIE moved a resolutionto the effect, that the offer made of the Parliamentary library of the Earl of Harrowby and Lord Sandon, to be placed at the full disposal of the Mayor and Town Council of Liverpool, be cordially accepted, and that the Mayor be requested to convey to their lordships the appropriate acknowledgements of the Council for this li beral and useful gift. Mr. RATHBONE thought, as they could not receive the gift otherwise than with conditions, it would be proper to post pone the consideration for a short time. He moved, that the very liberal offer or Lords Harrowby and Sandon be referred to the Finance Committee, to report upon. Mr. Rathbone's amendment was put, and lost by a mi nority of 7 against 51. Mr. BLACKBURN proposed, that the liberal offer of the Earl of Harrowby and Lord Sandon be gratefully accepted; but with the understanding, that this Council cannot pledge itself to the establishment of a Parliamentary library for the use of the local public. The amendment was lost by a minority of 19 against 38. The original motion was put and carried by a majority of 41 against 13. THE NEW FINANCE COMMITTEE. Mr. CURRIE moved, that the Finance Committee, for the ensuing year, should consist of fifteen members, as hereto fore. Mr. CASE seconded the resolution. Mr. CURRIE then proceeded to read the names of the fif teen members whom he proposed should be appointed, re marking, that, notwithstanding the observations of Mr. Law rence and Mr. Holmes, there were no less than five of the fifteen Conservatives. The following gentlemen will com pose the Finance Committee for the ensuing year: Messrs. Currie, Bolton, J. Holmes, Houghton, Leigh, Moon, Thornhill, Blackburn, Filcher, H. Hornby, Case, G. H. Lawrence, Wood, E. Harvey, and Roskell. IMPROVEMENT COMPIITTEE. Mr, BARCLAY, seconded by Mr. JORDAN, proposed the number of the:lmprovernent Committee, for the ensuing year, to be ten. The following were appointed : Messrs. W. Earle, H. Holmes, H. R. Sandbach, E. Evans, T. Booth, C. H. Jones, J. Pl a tt, J. W oo ll r i g ht, T. B. Bar clay-, and J. Hornby. WATCH COMMITTEE. Mr. THORNHILL proposed, that the members of this Com mittee should be twenty-five. The first name which Mr. Thornhill proposed was that of Mr. Houghton. Mr. HOUGHTON begged to decline the honour, as he was on the Finance Committee. Mr. I. HOLMES, seconded by Mr. HOUGHTON proposed Mr. Cooper in lieu of Mr. Houghton. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE could not see why there should be such strong objections to receiving Mr. Cooper on this com mittee. He was sure it was a very fair committee, and why could they not take Mr. Cooper on it ? After some conversation, the point was put to the vote, when Mr. Cooper was elected by a majority of 26 against 23. The following gentlemen constitute the Watch Committee for the ensuing year :—Messrs. Joseph Cooper, Wm. Pres ton, Thomas Bulley, Thomas Case, James Mellor, Enoch Harvey, John Barton, John Woollright, R. V. Yates, James Lawrence, George Quayle, Richard Bright, W. P. Freme, C. Bushell, William Lassen, Thomas Morecroft, Thomas Robinson, William Earle, Thomas Coglan, G. H. Lawrence, F. Jordan, W. M. Duncan, John. Smith, D. Mather, W. Thornhill. MARKETS COMMITTEE. This committee, on the motion of Mr. HENRY HOLMES, it was resolved should consist of eight members. The fol lowing were appointed ;—Messrs. H. Holmes, Evans, Dun can, Jordan, Thornhill, Bright, Wood, and Freme. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. Mr. BLACKBURN proposed that this committee should consist of fifteen. The following gentlemen were appointed : —Messrs. Earle, Bulley, G. Holt, C. H. Jones, Roskell, Sheil, Barclay, H. Hornby, Rathbone, Quayle, Priestly, T. Harvey, M' Kee, R. V. Yates, and Blackburn. TOWN-HALL ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE. This committee is to consist of five members, Messrs. H. Hornby, Earle, Houghton, Benn, and Barclay. BOROUGH COURT AND COURT OF REQUESTS COMMITTEE. On the motion of Mr. T. HARVEY, it was resolved, that the committee consist of eight members. The following were appointed for the present municipal year :=Messrs. Morecroft, Evans, Rathbone, Bright, Duncan, John Smith, T. Harvey, and Cooper. CHURCH EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE. Mr. EARLE proposed, that this committee should consist of six members, and all those whom he had to nominate were churchmen. The following were appointed :—Messrs. Earle, Platt, Woollright, Benn, Case, and Hugh Hornby. OBSERVATORY COMMITTEE Mr. BLACKBURN said, it would tiWessary to appoint another permanent Committee for the Observatory which it had been determined to erect. He moved, that it consist of nine members. The following gentlemen were appointed to constitute the Observatory Committee :—Messrs. Leathom, Roskell, Case, Platt, G. H. Lawrence, W.*Lassell, H. Sand bach, Carson, and Blackburn. The TOWNICLERK said,i;e gad received a report from Mr. Whitty, in which that gentleman recommended that certain clauses in the Metropolitan Police Act should be in troduced into the new local acts of Liverpool. The TOWN-CLERK submitted, that the meeting on Extra ordinary Expenditure should take place on Wednesday, the 20th inst. The Council adjourned at four o'clock, to Wednesday morning, the 20 instant, at eleven o'clock. INQUESTS. On Friday, an inquest was held 'before P. F. Curry, Esq. coroner, touching the death of a labouring man named Pat rick Fishburit. It appeared from the evidence, that on Sa turday afternoon the deceased, with others, was engaged in the loading of the steamer " Mermaid." There was a stage erected from the quay to the steamer, and, wllilst Fishburn and others were engaged in putting a case of machinery, about a ton weight, down the hatchway, the stage.slipped off the horse, and crushed the unfortunate man up against the case. He died almost immediately. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. SINGULAR CASE. An inquest was held on Friday afternoon, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of MargaretCheetham, a married woman. Mary Ann Wilson stated that she was the daughter of Henry Wilson. The deceased, who was her aunt, resided with her father, in Houghton's-buildings, Dale-street. On Tuesday night last, witness and the deceased fell asleep by the fire-side, there being then no one else in the room. Wit ness was awakened by a blaze coming in her face, and then saw the deceased in flames. She went up stairs immediately, and called her grandfather, who went down to the deceased. Witness remained up stairs. The husband of the deceased was in bed. The deceased used sometimes to take a glass, and had been out that day ; but witness could not say whe ther she was sober or not. She and her husband never used to quarrel. William Wilson, a weigher in the customs, said that the decased was his daughter, and she and her husband lived with him. About eight o'clock on Tuesday night last he went to bed. Some time after he had been in bcd, the last witness came up stairs and cried out that the house was on fire. He went down stairs immediately, and found the lower part of the house on fire, and the deceased crawling about on the floor. He tried to get the door open, but the smoke was so great that he could not find it. A policeman came and got the door and window open. He carried the deceased out into the yard, and put the fire out. The deceased was not in the habit of drinking, and she and her husband lived on very good terms. The husband of Mrs. Cheetham was up stairs in bed, but witness could not waken him, he was sound asleep. There was no other man in the house but himself and the hus band of the deceased. He (witness) was the first to find the deceased after the alarm of fire, and he never left h er un til the officers arrived. The deceased was about forty-one years of age. Air. John Hustead deposed that he was a confectioner, and resided in Dale-street. The front door of Wilson's house faces the back door of witness's house. He (witness) generally goes out into the yard every night, before going to bed, to ascertain that all is right. In doing so on Tuesday night, about half-past , eleven o'clock, he heard a singular sort of noise proceeding from the house of the deceased. At first he thought the noise proceeded from some persons fight ing, and he heard an exclamation of " Good God ! Damna tion l" which was repeated several times in the course of a few minutes. Fancying that all was not right, he went round towards the door, and heard the same noise. He then went for a policeman, followed him to the door, and found the lower part of the house on fire. The policeman went for further assistance. He (witness) saw the deceased when she was brought out by the policeman, and she was then one mass of fire. William Brockbank, the police-officer who was called by the last witness, said that he had been up the court about 20 minutes previous to having been called by Mr. Hustead, and all was then quiet. He went up again, and found the door open, and the deceased lying on her back on the floor, with her head close to the door, all in flames. He saw a man standing near to her, who did not appear to be doing anything to extinguish the fire. He went to the bottom of the entry, and knocked for further assistance. On return ing, he found a man whom he believed to be the one who described himself as the father of the deceased, standing on the outside, having on nothing but his short. A doctor was called in, and, the fire having been extinguished, the deceased was sent to the Infirmary. Mr. John Nottingham, surgeon at the Infirmary, said that the deceased was brought there on Tuesday night, severely burnt all over, from head to foot. She only lived till the following morning. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that the deceased died of scorching and burning, but how or by what means her clothes caught fire, no evidence appeared. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-THURSDAY. VAUGHAN V. FITZHUGH AND'IANOTHER. This was an action to recover the sum of £896, advanced by the plaintiff to the captain of a ship, the property of Mr.-, deceased, whose executors the defendants were. It was tried at the late Liverpool assizes, before Mr. Baron Maule, when the jury found for the plaintiff for the sum claimed. Mr. CRESSWELL now moved for a rule nisi to reduce the verdict to £2OO. The plaintiff was a merchant in Demerara, whose brother chartered the vessel in question on his ac count for a voyage to Honduras and back. By the charter party the plaintiff was to advance to the captain to the extent of £2OO. The ship met with a variety of accidents, and the plaintiff had advanced the whole sum of £869. The question was, was not the plaintiff bound by the charter-party, and excluded from recovering more than the £2OO therein specified At the trial the judge was of opinion that the charter-party compelled him to advance the £2OO, but did not take from the captain his power to raise a sum sufficient for the pur poses of the ship. The COURT were of the same opinion, and refused the rule. Mr. CRESSWELL would then move for an arrest of judg ment upon a misjoinder in the pleas. SEWELL V. RABY. This was also an action which was tried before Mr. Baron Maule at Liverpool, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £22. Mr. Cresswell now, by leave re served to him by the learned judge, moved for a rule nisi for a nonsuit.—Rule granted. The Duke of Sussex, accompanied by Lady Cecilia Under wood, the Earl and Countess of Durham, and the Ladies Lambton, visited the City of Durham on Monday last. The Duke received an address of congratulation from the Corpora tion, and was entertained in the College, by the Rev. Prebendary Ogle. After attending Divine Service at 'the Cathedral in the evening, the distinguished party returned to Lambton Castle.--Newcastle Journal. v N ~~ MISCELLANEOUS. Bath is rapidly filling, and there is every prospect of a flourishing season. We have authority to contradict the report that Sir Thos. Lethbridge will be a candidate at the next election for our city.—Bath Gazette. A smart shock of an earthquake was experienced at Gratz, in Styria, towards the latter part of last month. No acci dent, however, is recorded. Mr. Villiers, M.P. for 'Wolverhampton, has lately been confined to a sick bed, but is now so much better as to be enabled to attend to his important local duties. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Col. Cornwall, will make a short sejourin Paris, en route from Berne. The prince has been 15 months performing the grand tour. Spohr is composing a symphony for the Philharmonic concerts, in which he will give specimens of the styles of various composers from S. Bach to the present time. Mrs. Fitzwilliam has made her courtesy to the Americans, at the Park Theatre, and has proved a decided favourite. Every night she played the house was crowded. Rodwell, the composer, son-in-law of Liston, has a new opera, accepted by the lessee of Drury-lane. It is to be called the Maid of Saragossa, and it is to be produced after Christmas. CHATSWORTH.—The intended visit of the Duke of De vonshire to his estates in Ireland is postponed sine die, and it is doubtful whether his grace will go to Ireland until next year. A bill to abolish capital punishments has been introduced into the house of representatives of Vermont. Bone manure is now extensively used upon grass land, par ticularly in Cheshire ; and the improvement it makes on clay soils is wonderful. A new bank, called the Alliance Bank, has this week com menced business in Manchester. It has arisen out of the ashes of the Northern Central. Robert Dale Owen, son of Mr. Robert °vim, the social ist, is spoken of as the probable candidate for governor of In diana, at the next election.—American paper. M. Litz, the celebrated German pianist, has given the sum of £2400 the produce of his savings, towards completing the subscription opened for a monument to Beethoven. Lord Rolle on Wednesday attained the 89th year of his age, upon which occasion the neighbouring gen t ry congratu lated his lordship at Bicton Park. Thalberg, on Tuesday last, had the honour of performing some of his most admired productions before the queen, and the whole of her majesty's distinguished visitors and suite. VERY PA CIFIC.—We have been told that a house in this town has received an order from the Paella of Egypt for 200 tons of bullets to be sent out immediately.—Glasgow Chron. A Swedish government schooner has arrived at Havre, bringing some magnificent porphyry, vases, and other valuable objects, which have been sent as p resen t s by the King of Swe den to King Louis Phillipe. A man has been discovered in Alabama who is so short that he cannot see the sun shine. Another man in New Orleans has drunk so much and so habitually, that his throat has been entirely worn away. Too BAD.—A shoemaker at Lynn, Mass. the place where they shovel so many shoes together, and so fast, lately whipped one of of his apprentices almost to death because" he could not hang up the shoes as fast as his master made them ! There is said to be a woman in Centre-street, New York, who takes in children to wash. She gives them a good scrub bing with soap and sand, and then sets them in the sun to dry. She washes at four shillings per dozen. A new list of subscription to the metropolis church fund has just been published, to the amount of £5OOO, making a total of £136,000 already subscribed towards the erection of fifty new churches. It is rather curious that the chairman and secretaries of the meeting to erect a splendid theatre in this city, to cost £350,000 dollars, were editors. The subscribers to the stock we fancy will come from other professions.—New York "Era. The Cheltenham Free Press, which has shown itself well informed on many similar occasions, asserts that the hoax of Lord Brougham's death was, beyond any doubt, a ga►nbling affair, and that immense sums of money changed hands on the occasion. Cuiuous IDEA.-At the last 4th July the following toast was given at a western celebration :—" The wretch who would refuse to defend the liberties of his country—Shod with light ning, may he be condemned to wander over a desert of gun powder.' REMARKABLE PRODUCE FROM A SINGLE POTATOE.— Mr. Thomas Slater, of Withington Cottage, near Manches ter, has grown this season, from a single potatoe of the French kind (which was cut into ten sets), the enormous weight of 8-llbs, which were grown upon four square yards of land. The late Duke of Argyll has died far from wealthy. His grace's entailed estates descend to the present duke ; but his personal property has been bequeathed to Miss Campbell, a relative, who resided with his grace at the time of his unex pected demise. ARCHIBALD BOLAM.—It appears from the report of the finance committee of the borough of Newcastle, made on Wednesday, that the costs incurred in the prosecution of Bolam amounted to £3,580, which must be paid out of the borough fund. Mr. J. Fennimore Cooper has a work in press in Philadel phia, entitled, " The Patte Finder • or, Our Inland Seas." It would seem that he proposes t o dabble a little in his old trade, notwithstanding his new vocation as supervisor of the. press.—New York Paper. IMMENSE POTATO.—The largest potato we have yet heard of this season, was sent to our district office on Friday last (Ist inst.) It measured 16/ inches by 14 inches, and weigh ed 2/ lbs. It was of the White Martin kind, and appeared to be quite sound. It had been grown on the farm of Clen dry, in Kirkcolm.—Dumfries Times. RE-OPENING OF THE MONUMENT.—The Monument, which has been closed since the last melancholy suicide, was, by order of the City Lands Committee, again thrown open to the public on Tuesday morning. Two men are in future to be placed opposite the door at the top of the staircase, whose duty it will be to keep watch upon the visitors. One man will remain from eight till four o'clock. The' 'iron' railing has had no addition made to it. DEVONPORT ELECTION.—Mr. Tuffuell,the whig underling, is to be opposed. The conservatives have publicly announced the speedy appearance of " a gentleman well known to the electors" as a candidate on " conservative principles." This gentleman is reported to be Mr. George Dawson, who, when secretary of the admiralty, in 1835, unsuccessfully contested the borough with Sir George Grey and Sir. Edward Codring ton.—Hampshire Telegraph. LUXURIANCE OF THE YAZOO SOIL.—The ordinary height of cotton on the Yazoo praires is six feet. It is com mon to see thirty pods on a stalk. An average crop is from one bale and a half to two bales an acre. As many as three bales have been raised on an acre. Other plants grow with like luxuriance. Corn grows to a prothigious height, yield ing a double abundance. The Yazoo Union boasts of a sweet potatoe, raised in the neighbourhood, which measured 13 inches in circumference, and 1.2 in length. All of the vegetable productions are on the mammoth order.—New fork Paper. STEAM VESSELS.—A short time since we noticed an in vention of Captain George Smith for saving the lives of the passengers and crews of steam-vessels in cases of wreck, burn ing, &c., by means of extra boats, which, by this contrivance, steam-vessels are enabled to carry without being in the least incommoded, the boats forming a covering to each paddle box, and easily lowered in case of necessity. The Firefly steamer is now lying off Woolwich Dock-yard, fitted on Captain Smith's principle, with a life-boat over each pad dle-wheel, capable of containing 50 person's • she is a man of-war steamer, and is bound for the West Indies.—Times. DUKE OF ARGYLL.—BREACH OF: PROMISE.—As Lord John Campbell has now succeeded to the Dukedom of Ar gyll, we understand he requires to pay to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Logan the sum of £5OOO, in addition to the former sum of £lO,OOO, awarded against him for breach of promise of marriage.—lbid. IT IS TO BE!—We stated some time ago that Mr. Lock hart was about to lead to the hymeneal altar the celebrated Miss Burdett Coutts, daughter of the late " Old Glory of Westminster :" we have great pleasure in now stating that the arrangements are nearly complete, and that the worthy heiress is devoted to the accomplished author.—She ield lris. A CONVERT TO CHARTISM.—A change has taken place in the editorship and in the principles of the Perth Chronicle, which are now declared to be those of chartism. Last week, the new editor, in making his bow to his readers, unfurls the banner of universal suffrage, which, he states, is henceforth to form the sumnium bonum, to the attainment of which the efforts of his paper are to he directed. —Strathmore Journal. The intended divorce of a baronet's widow, wife of a foreign marquis, is much talked of, and occa s i ons t h e re fl ect i on t h at it would have been quite as well had the parties decided on the legality of the marriage before the solemnization; particu larly as we are 'credibly informed that her ladyship is already " a fiancle" in anticipation of the decision of the gentlemen of the long robe and his Holiness the Pope. The gentleman, who also is deeply interested in the result of this fashionable cause, is the son of a noble earl, and brother to a noble countess who reigns predominant in the coteries of Almack's. —Morning Post. NORTHERN AND EASTERN AND MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.-Mr. Robert Stephenson, having been called upon to report upon the present and future prospects of the former railway, recommends that, instead of continuing it directly northward to York, through a thinly populated dis trict, it should be carried from Cambridge by Peterborough, Stamford, Oakham, and Melton, and form a junction with the Midland Counties Railway ; about half way between Loughborough and Leicester ' thus connecting the manufac turing towns of Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, and Lei cester, with Cambridge and the eastern agricultural districts. A del - h PAPIST LIBERALITY.—Lord ..as refused to re new the lease, about to expire, of land on which a dissenting chapel, at Tisbury, in Wiltshire, is built. This refusal, which is supposed to arise from vexation at certain attacks upon the abominations of popery from the pulpit of the cha pel, is stigmatised by the Morning Chronicle as excessively Illiberal. "We will suppose (says the Chronicle) the coun try Ireland, and the estate belonging to a Protestant, who refuses to renew the lease of a Catholic chapel. We ask Lord Arundel, or his father confessor, if that refusal would not be a piece of injustice? lf, for instance, the Duke of Devonshire were to say, There shall be no Catholic chapel suffered on my estates in Ireland,' what an outcry would justly be raised! But is it one whit less unfair, if the coun try be England, and the owner a Catholic peer, who refuses to renew the lease of a chapel in which the dissenters of the neighbourhood have assembled for centuries? Tisbury is situated on a small stream, one of the feeders of the Avon, and some thirteen or fourteen miles from Salisbury ; and the chapel is an interesting object to all who visit that delightful part of Wiltshire. To the descendant's of the Puritans, who worship under its roof, it must be endeared by the most powerful associations. Shame, then, on Lord Arundel, we say, for this violence offered to the feelings of his dissenting neighbours !" A CORN-LAW AGITATOR DEFEATED.—Mr. Something (we forget what) the secretary to the Manchester Anti-Corn law Association, is at present performing a tourin the Midland Counties, with a view to agitate the public mind on the sub ject of the corn-laws. It is not a little remarkable, however, that be studiously eschews the very threshold of any impor tant town, his orders and labours being evidently confined to the villages, the clod-hoppers and ale-house politicians of which he is endeavouring to instruct as to the effect which would result from a repeal of the corn-laws. On Friday last, however, he encountered a signal defeat at Smethwick, near this town. Mr. Fussell, the late leader of the Bull-ring rioters, repaired to Smethwick, and having heard the Man chester lecturer on his favourite subject, he replied in such stringent and convincing terms, and displayed the fallacy of the lecturer's reasoning so vividly that the " sweet-voices" of those who had previously applauded the corn-law agitators were turned in a different direction. The lecturer was sig nally overthrown, and was compelled to retire amid the hisses, groans, and laughter of the assembly. Only three hands were held up in his favour. We hear it is his intention to visit Stourbridge, Dudley, and Kidderminster. If he values the safety of his manuscript we would advise him to keep from the latter town. The carpet weavers of Kidderminster have an inveterate antipathy to gentlemen of his calibre. Two unfavourable harvests have tested the vision of the cheap labour, cheap manufacturing schemers. A two year's free trade in corn has drained England of eight millions of sove reigns instead of our manufactures.—Ten Towns Messenger. It is said that the first cabinet council will be held on the 18th inst., and that all the ministers will be assembled in town on that day."—Sunday Organ of the Whig Ministry. The Cambridge Press says that there is no truth whatever in the rumour that the Marquis of Tavistock intends to con test the county of Cambridge at the next election. It is confidently reported in well-informed circles, that orders have been sent to India for the ships of war on that station to proceed at once to China. The Druid, and some other frigates, are, it is said, ordered also to join the squadron and blockade the Chinese coast, seize upon their junks, and harass them in every possible way, until redress has been obtained, in the shape of £2,000,000., for the opium lately taken possession of and destroyed by the Chinese govern ment ; and that since the issuing of these orders, , Lord Palmerston has invited all persons who have been lately re sident in China, but are now in this country, to give him their opinions in writing, as to the course which they would individually advise to be taken by the British government, as his lordship confesses himself unable to understand the question.—Correspondent of the Morning Herald. DIED.—At Madras, on the 15th of August, Lieut. Colonel Edward Lloyd Smythe, of the Madras cavalry. After 36 years' residence in India he had revisited his native land in 1836, to comfort an aged mother and two beloved sisters, and was just returned to renew his military services in the hope of obtaining higher rank within a few years, and then re tiring to spend his last days in the bosom of his family, but he was carried off, after a short illness, by the rapid progress of dysentery. He had witnessed the success of the British arms in India for many years, having served at the battle of Assaye under the Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wellesley. He was descended from an ancient family at North Nibley, in the county of Gloucester. He was an ex cellent officer, an affectionate relative and friend, a highly talented man, and a sincere Christian.—Standard. BOROUGH BANK OF SHEFFIELD.—We observe that all the notes of the Bank of England, sent into circulation by this bank, are stamped on the face of them thus—" Re-issued by the Borough Bank of She f field," thereby attesting their genuineness. We think this another proof of the utility of the system upon which this bank is founded; in addition to which we find, upon inquiry, that the Borough Bank will put their stamp upon all Bank of England notes (without charge), brought to them for that purpose, or passing through their hands. The recent determination too of the Bank of Eng land not to discount any bills, drawn or indorsed by any bank of issue, either joint stock or private, must have con vinced every man of business that it is much better to have the friendship than the enmity of that powerful corporation, for powerful it will be, notwithstanding the fierce attacks made upon it by some portion of the public press.—Sheffield Patriot. SEIZURE OF ARMS IN BELFAST.—OD Wednesday, in con sequence of private information, A. M. Skinner, Esq., police magistrate, and Mr. Lindsay, chief constable, proceeded to Donegal Quay, and seized a chest and a small barrel, which had been recently landed from the Reindeer, Liverpool steamer, and which was found to contain eleven double-bar relled guns, five single-barrelled pieces, one bayonet, thirty five bullet-moulds, twelve powder-horns, and a large quantity of percussion caps: The arms were packed up with a num ber of snuff boxes. The officers already mentioned immedi ately removed their seizure to the P o li ce - o ffi ce . The Pack ages were directed to Mr. M'Kiney, hardware merchant, Rosemary-street, Belfast.--Northertt Whiy, LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY TRAFFIC.— The Saturday Magazine states, that the gross sum received by the company for the carriage of goods and passengers has amounted to from £200,000 to £250,000 per annum. The shareholders have, for some time past, received ten per cent. dividend on their shares, and £lOO a share will sell for more than £2OO. The passengers and merchandise conveyed on the railway, from September, 1830, to June, 1836, amounted as follows : Year. 1830 (Sept. to Dec.)....... . 1831 1832 1833 .. ......... . .... 1834 1835 1836 (to June) Merchandise. Coal. Passengers. Tons. Tons. 1,433 2,630 71,951 . 43,070 11,285 445,047 . 159,443 69,396 356,945 . 194,704 81,509 386,492 . 210,736 99,337 436,637 . 230,629' 116,246 473,8-17 . 117,617 68,893 222,848 1,023,120 449,296 2,393,767 A PITCHFORK IN PRISON AND WHIG LORD IN LIMBO —A bill in chancery was filed a little time ago by the Rev. Mr. Girdlestone, rector of Alderley, in Cheshire, against Lord Stanley (not the excellent Lord Stanley, eldest son of the Earl of Derby, but one of the late new pitchforked peers), for tithe. This the noble and right hon. lord refused to pay. Not caring for a poor parson, or frowning lord chancellor, the pitchfork peer even refused to put in an an swer to the bill, and treated the mere matter of justice and law with the most lordly indignity. Whereupon a tipstaff from the Court of Chancery, a few days since, walked into my lord's breakfast-room, and carried him off, without any ado, in his custody to London. On the arrival of the pair in town, my lord wished to go to his own hotel. But no. Tip would not consent to part with his bird until the answer was filed, and all the costs paid. My lord threatened him with the vengeance of the House of Peers, and everybody, and everywhere, and everything else, but all to no purpo se , as Tip would not budge, but slept, ate and drank, et cetera, in the same room with his whig prisoner for three entire nights and days. The niggardly lord, thus ignobly treated by Tip, is brother to the notorious whig Bishop of Norwich, and father to the flagelliferous placeman that whistles and works for the whig ministers in the House of Commons. The clergyman thus driven 'to legal proceedings, in order to bring my Lord Pitchfork to his senses and make him pay his debts, is the Mr. Girdlestone . so distinguished for his piety, his learning, and his mildness, as to be known and respected throughout the whole Christian and literary world. Altoge ther the case illustrates what we have often said, that there is no tyrant like a whig tyrant, and no one so eager to tram ple upon right, as your brawler about liberty, when he thinks he has the power to injure and oppress. Lord Limbo has, however, just received a lesson, which we trust will not be lost upon his lordship, or his lordship's whig fraternity.— Northampton Herald. THE BROUGHAM UPSET.—The " Brougham Mystery" still remains one. A statement, purporting to be made by Brougham, but unauthenticated by any signature, has ap peared in some of the newspapers, and denies that his lord ship was cognizant of the hoax. lam disposed to doubt the genuiness of the document, because, on comparing the for ged letter from Mr. Shaft° with MSS. in Lord Brougham's handwriting, there remains no doubt of the perfect identity of the two. The forgery, indeed, is written' in a disguised hand; but wherever the word " Brougham" occurs, it is clearly the same as his habitual signature. The seal might, perhaps, assist in clearing up the mystery; for, though a good deal thumbed while the wax was warm, there still re• mains enough of the impression visible to shew that the en graving is that of an antique head. It is odd, too, that Lord Brougham should not yet have instituted any inquiries with a view to discover the author of the forgery. Nay, I would respectfully ask whether, when an offer was lately made to him to commence such an investigation at Penrith, he did not decline, on the ground that premature investigation might possibly frustrate the ends of justice ?—Correspondence of the Glasgow Constitutional.. WANTON AND BRUTAL CONDUCT.—On Thursday even ing one of those diabolical acts, for the commission of which it is not easy to account, was perpetrated, by which the life of a respectable individual was jeopardized. The mail train which-leaves this town about half-past six in the evening, and of which it was the turn of Frazer to be guard, was pro ceeding at a quick pace, and when passing under the " Three lane bridge," (the second from Preston,) a heavy stone, thirty-two pounds weight, was thrown over the battlement just at the moment when it was expected, no doubt, that Frazer would be under it. He was seated in his proper place with his back to the engine, and near to the break, the car riage which next followed having also a guard's seat on the front. The stone fell upon the footboard of this seat, and the weight of the stone with the velocity at which the train was going actually drove it into the body of the carriage, and it was with some little difficulty it was extricated. The dis tance between where Frazer sat, and where the stone fell, was not more than twenty-four inches, so that it is evident he had a very narrow escape. Of course it was useless for the engineer to attempt to stop the train for the purpose of trying to find the miscreant, and nothing has yet been heard to lead to the detection of the guilty individual, though every exertion is making, and which, we hope, will prove successful. Preston Pilot. It may be recollected that a gentleman named Hemmings, who, about four years ago, was an u; s Iccessful candidate for the hand of her Majesty, came down to Lincoln, and slightly surprised the citizens by riding on horseback into their shops to make his purchases, and by doing other eccentric actions. Mr. Hemmings has again made his appearance amongst us, coming, as he assures us, from hunting, in the following manner :—he sits on the box of a chaise by the side of the driver, having two lusty horn-blowers inside to announce him. On Monday he declared himself a candidate for the honour of representing Lincoln on the Liberal interest, and marched into town at the head of a procession formed of two old soldiers, a lot of idlers, and a band playing " See the Conquering Hero comes." This exhibition gave great de light to the rising generation, and as Mr. Hemmings pays like a prince for all he has, and those whom he employs, little discouragement is offered to his strange pranks.—Lin coin Herald. RIBBLE NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT.—The excavation of the rock within the coffer darn is proceeding rapidly, as thoSe of our readers who have visited the scene of the opera tions, must have seen for themselves. The average quantity of work quarried and cleared out per day is one hundred and eighty cubic yards. At this rate, should the weather continne favourable, the excavation of the present length will be com pleted in about three weeks. When we use the term " com pleted," we mean it in a most effectual sense, for the depth to which it is now determined the excavation shall be carried, is three feet lower than was at first proposed, which will give us eighteen feet depth of water at spring tides—the same depth as they have at the docks at Liverpool. Under this arrangement, therefore, the Liverpool tide table will always be applicable to the Preston navigation. Preparations are commenced for erecting the coffer dam for the next length. The. iron rods, &c.,, are already in a forward state ; and Mr. Bowd expects to bewin putting them down next week. We - are'happy to'state, that the dredger has completed one cut, entirely through : Peg-hill, and will commence another cut in a few dav:So as to' give it full width. The steamer has come up the Ribble every tide this week, and has regularly voyaged between Lytham und Preston within the hour. On Thurs day she towed up the Ilrothers to the Preston new quay, whiCh vessel only left Liverpool the previous day. On the whole, the progress. of the undertaking is in fully as auspici ous a state as when we last reported on the subject.—Preston Chronicle. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. — On Tuesday evening last, as the last train from Liverpool and Manchester was pro ceeding along the North Union Railway; between Parkside and Preston, when crossing Ince Moss, near Wigan, the en gine struck a man named Thompson, who was walking across the Elie, knocked him down, and killed him on the spot. Tha deceased was placed in one of the carriages, and con vey dto Wigan. On the following evening an inquest was held on the body, before Mr. Rogerson, at the Saracen's Head, in Wigan-lane, when the following evidence was ad duced : Thomas Guttridge, an engineer on the North Union line, said he was on the St. George engine, en the line from Parkside to Preston. The train left Parkside about nine o'clock. The speed of the engine is about thirty miles an hour, but it was not going quite so fast at the time of the ac cident. The night was very dark —and just coming to Ince Moss the engine struck a man, and knocked him down. Witness immediately stopped the engine, and turned back. The deceased was found lying on one side, near the other line of rails, apparently dead. He was placed in the car riages, and brought to Wigan. Believes the accident hap pened at Inee.—William Thomson, son of the deceased, a forge-hammer-man at Haigh Foundry, said his father was the same business as himself. He would have been 55 years of age that day. They had been together at Bolton, and were on their way back to Wigan. They took their fares at Bol ton, and on reaching Parkside it was found that the deceased had lost his ticket. He was therefore ordered out of the carriage. He said to his son, " Never mind, I have sixpence, and we can walk." Both got out of the carriages, and walked down the line. At Golborne Gate they called, and had each a glass of ale. There they were informed that it was con siderably nearer by the railway than the turnpike road, and they determined to proceed along the line. When the train was near them, witness desired his father to come towards him, but in the confusion he jumped on the line where the train was, and the engine knocked him across the road. Witness went to him, spoke to him, and attempted to move him, but found he was dead. Neither witness nor his father were sober, but the latter was the more sober of the two. The jury, after a short consult a ti on , returned a verdict of Accidental Death, and levied a deodand of J. on the engine. ---Preston Pilot. NEWPORT RIOTS-FURTHER PARTICULARS. DISCOVERY OF AN EXTENDED CHARTIST CONSPIRACY (From the Morning Herald of Friday.) NEWPORT, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6.—Thanks to the pre sence and bravery of the military, and the indefatigable and judicious exertions of the magistrates, the night has passed over without any further disturbance. The presence of the 10th hussars'has already produced the most salutary effects, and the crowds of idle and ill-intentioned fellows from the mines, who, up to 10 o'clock last night, were to be seen in considerable numbers hovering a ,out the outskirts of the town, are no longer visible, having, as is supposed, become acquainted with th e p resence o f the cavalry, and retired to the hills. Public confidence is now in some measure restored, many of the shops which have been closed from the com mencement of the insurrection are opened this morning, and business has been partially resumed by the different trades men of the town. I stated in my last communication that Frost immediately upon his commitment, was, together with his companion in guilt, sent off to the county gaol. This statement, it now appears, was incorrect, and had only been made for the pur pose of guarding against any attempt at rescue. Both the prisoners were this morning conveyed to Monmouth under an escort. In the evidence communicated to you yesterday, upon the examination of John Frost and Waters, you will find that a seizure of papers from the house of the former prisoner, as well as from that of Partridge, the chartist printer, had been made by Mr. Phillips, the clerk to the magistrates. The precise nature of those documents is not known, but I am informed, in a quarter likely to be correct, that they are, for the greater part, of a most treasonable and seditious charac ter, and tend to confirm the information previously conveyed to the magistrates of the existence of a deeply-laid and ex tended plot for the subversion of the constituted authorities, and the advancement of the revolutionary principles of the " people's charter." Fresh accounts of the operations of the chartist lodges in the mining and iron districts continue to be received, all of which confirm the previous statements of the treasonable conduct of Frost, who has established, as far as time and op portunity admitted of his so doing, a system of Military, or perhaps I should rather say brigand discipline. Throughout the places where he has instituted his revolutionary societies the most absolute tyranny prevails. Every ten men have a captain placed over them, to whom they are expected to yield implicit confidence. Every division has its secret place of meeting, whilst this bawler of liberty has his head-quarters, it is said, in the neighbourhood of Rieca, from which he is sued his mandates, exercising the more despotic sway over the whole. This horrible system of lawless despotism has been rigidly acted upon in the late outbreak. I have already informed you that the peaceably disposed were dragged from their beds and compelled to join the ranks of the insurgents, and I have this morning received positive intelligence that two men, at a place called Llanyshell, were absolutely murdered in cold blood because they refused to aid the chartists in their attack upon Newport. A singular occurrence has come to the knowledge of the authorities here, which, independently of its interest, is pos sessed of great importance, inasmuch as it is calculated to show the sway which the demagogue Frost had obtained over the minds of his besotted followers, and the systematic man ner in which the business and operations of the brigand associations have been conducted. Two gentlemen, one of them a Mr. Bruff, who resides at Pontypool, and carries on the business of a wine -merchant, were on Sunday night last travelling near Cross y Creilly, in their gig, when they were attacked and taken prisoners by a party of armed chartists. They requested to know why they were thus detained from the prosecution of their lawful jour ney, and demanded to be released. This was refused, and they were taken to a room and locked up for several hours ; afterwards they were told that they must be taken before Mr. Frost. Mr. Bruff told them that he was acquainted with Mr. Frost, and again begged to be set at liberty, but they refused to comply with his request, stating that they could not do so, and he was accordingly dragged with some violence across the mountains, and ushered into the presence of Frost, at Risca, of whom he again demanded his discharge. Frost told him that he knew him, and would discharge him, adding that he was induced to do so for other reasons, and not on account of his politics, which were hateful to him. This occurrence has excited considerable interest here ; indeed it possesses so much of the air of romance, that if I had not received it upon highly-respectable authority I could not have ventured upon stating it. Fresh arrests are hourly taking place, and one or two more bodies are stated to have been found in the fields, at a little distance from the town. 1 have just seen a person from Pontypool ; he states that many of the furnoces are re kindled, and that the men have returned to their labour; the greater part of them say they have their sick of chartism, and lay all that has occurred to the account of Frost and Vincent, but for whom, they say, they should never have in terfered about the charter. It is reported here, but I cannot tell upon what authority, that meetings of the chartists were held yesterday at Merthyr, Crickhowell, Abergavenny, and places ; they were largely attended, and the propriety of ad vancing upon Newport discussed ; but it having been stated that large reinforcements of military had arrived here, they determined to abandon that intention ; some said the time was not come, and others thought that they had better dis solve their societies and return to their work. Two more of the bodies have been identified this morning ; one of them is that of a man named Thomas, who, it is said, was earning from £8 to £9 per month at the iron works at Nantyglo ; the other is a man named William Evans, but of what place I have been unable to ascertain ; he was a married man, and his poor wife, who claimed the corpse, is frantic at his loss. To my inquiries after the health of the mayor this morn ing, I was informed that he had passed a bad night, but was better this morning. I trust he will speedily recover, for all accounts concur in representing his public conduct as being of the most exemplary kind ; nothing could be more collected and firm than his bearing during the riot. Despatches have just been received from the home-office ; their contents have not transpiretl, but a meeting of the ma gistrates and the military commanders has been summoned. A detachment of lancers will be here to-day, Since the committal of Frost, the magistrates have conti nued their examinations into the proceedings of the rioters. This morninc , a than named James Aust was placed at the bar, upon charges of high treason and sedition. The first witness called was a shoemaker, named John Richards, who deposed that he lived at Caerleon, and knew the prisoner by sight ; had known him in Caerleon for more than three years. Saw him on Monday last. At between nine and ten o'clock he came to Pwrhy hill, where witness was at work. He had a gun in his hand, and there were 20 or 30 other men with him. Two of them came into the shop, and, addressing witness and his fellow workmen said, "Lads, come along with us." We asked them for what we were to come. They replied, " 0 come along lads, and you shall see what." They were all armed with instruments some thing like butchers' cleavers. Witness and two of his shop mates then went out with them. Did so because they were afraid if they refused that they would injure them. Prisoner did not come into the shop, but when they went out they saw him and the other men waiting for them. They asked wit ness if h's master had any arms in the house, and upon wit ness's replying that he did not know, they said, " 0 let's go and see." They then went in and took a gun out of the bedroom. There was another there, but as it had no lock upon it they would not take it. All witness saw of the pri soner was that he was armed with a gun, and was with the others. The one th a t t oo k th e gun said he would bring it back again the same night. The two men with the axes ap peared to be the leaders of the rest, and they took the others through a common to a hilly field, and then into the Ponty pool and Newport-road. They afterwards went to a farm house, where they met a great many other armed men going up a lane. Witness there heard it said there was shooting at Newport. The men with the axes led them on to the bottom of Malpas-hill, where the men were marching towards Newport. Some persons then came and said. " There is shooting in Newport." The leaders then said, " Follow us," and instead of going on towards Newport, they took them up a lane. Aust came with them as far as the house of Mr. Cordes, the gardener, into which he went. The men then missed him, and called out, " Where is Aust ?" The lea ders repeated this and said, " Where is he?" and the others replied "He is gone." They then went to the turnpike, on the Pontypool-road, and inquired for him, and then they searched the house for him and could not find him. Just before they got to the farm-house witness got into a field and tried to escape, but was prevented from doing so. Soon afterwards witness and his shopmates escaped, and returned to their homes. The prisoner, on being asked if lie wished to interrogate the witness, replied that he did not, as he had stated that which was true. He also added that he should be glad if they would send for his master. John Dallymore, a shoemaker, employed in the same shop with the last witness, confirmed his statement as to the chartists coming to the shop armed. Witness saw the pri soner Aust load his gun ;he put a bullet into it. He must have heard the leaders order witness to follow them. When the prisoner was missed the men with the axes said, " Where is Aust, the gauger?" meaning the leader ; they did not find him afterwards. Whilst the prisoner was with him he stopped behind, as witness supposed, to see that no one escaped. When Aust loaded his gun a man stood by with a bag of powder, and another with a bag of bullets. John Mathews, a gardener in the service of Thomas Pro theroe, Esq., deposed to having in the course of the summer had a conversation with the prisoner about the chartists. He said they were going to have a revolution. Witness ob served that if a revolution took place, the Russian would come in and take the government of the country. The pri soner replied that it would be better to be under the Russian than under the British government as at present constituted. He added that he believed he should lose his life in the cause of the chartists. On Monday morning a number of chartists came into witness's master's stable-yard ; they were armed, and insisted on witness and the coachman going with them. They resisted at first, but finding it was no use, and that the party we►'e well armed, they were obliged to go. Upon leaving the yard they saw Aust; who, upon seeing witness, said, "0, you are come." Aust continued with the party, and did not seem to be acting at all under coercion. The men were differently armed. Some had pikes, and one had an implement having a sharpened axe at one end and the blade of a knife at the other. The examination of this witness is being proceeded with, but I am compelled to close my parcel, as it is otherwise doubtful whether any messenger will be able to cross the passage. . - I forgot to state Frost's wife and daughters were yesterday admitted to an interview with him. I have since ascertained that the statement with reference to the seizure of Mr. Bruff by the chartists has been sworn to before the magistrates. LATEST PARTICULARS (From thel l: lW 2 2iniiiiraii;:igaturday.) NEWPORT, THURSDAY.—The night has again passed over quietly, and the terror which had taken possession of the townspeople is now beginning to subside. The arrival of a troop of lancers in the neighbourhood, and the promise of troops and artillery which the magistrates had received from the government, have induced something like public confi dence. Business, however, is nearly at a stand-still, and it is not an easy matter to estimate the injury which this gross political outrage has inflicted on this town and its neighbour hood. I am told that the reign of terror prevails in the mining and colliery districts to a much more alarming extent than it does here—the life-liberty democrats grasp at the shadow of freedom, but trample her substance under foot, and a man does not dare to avow his principles, as opposed to those of chartism, without exposing himself to the most imminent peril. I do not know that I can offer you any better proof of this than by referring to past proceedings, —to the murder of the men mentioned in my yesterday's communication, and to a letter which has this day been received by the authorities from the manager of some extensive mines and collieries, who states that most of the men are well disposed and anxious to return to their work, but they are deterred by threats, and are afraid to do so. Accounts continue to be received from the hills of meetings of the men, but no violence has since been perpetrated. At Tredegar, Abergavenny, and other places, the magistrates are actively engaged in tracing out the extensive conspiracy which is known to exist. The magistrates have just received a letter from Mr. Humphry, magistrate of the Merthyr district. It is addressed to their clerk, Mr. T. J. Phillips, who has obligingly per mitted me to make the following extract ; •`All is now quiet at Merthyr, and the neighbouring works. The colliers are returning to their work." I have just been informed that a boy about 15 years old, son to Mr. Frost, has been apprehended, as well as another member of his family, whose name I have been unable to obtain. Several otherarrests have also been made. A coroner's jury has been sworn, and have examined the bodies now ly ing in the yard of the Westgate Inn, but the evidence will not be taken until Monday next. A countryman, who came into Newport this afternoon, states that six chartists, wounded in the late riots, have died of their wounds at Caerlson. The following is the continuation of the examinatieri Aust, a part of which I sent you yesterday : Examination of John Matthews continued—l after7y, saw the prisoner Aust at Pentonville. He said to me t know that I was pressed to go." I replied that I d id no , he was with them when I first saw them. He the.li " You know that I was not a l ea d er ." I replied I did te • see you leading, and cannot say you were or were n ot. so : prisoner here req u e s t e d p erm i ss i on t o as k the Witn es collf questions.] He said, upon cro ss - exam i n ation, that t he versations about the Russians and the government took P by Mr. Guard's house on the turnpike-road. re ~ Henry Chapel, a police officer, deposed to having aPP hended the prisoner yesterday, at his house at MalP as e Ve the house, which he searched, he found a loaded gun. 111 4 he found it the prisoner told him to be careful of it, as loaded. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was pressed' and so were nearly all the others. He called doer; William Simpson, who deposed a s f o llows :—I am gar ri4 to Mr. Cordes. The prisoner came and hid himself ,in t ie cottage, after I had seen the mob pass. Did not see Illinr ee after 11 o'clock. When I we n t i n t o m y house I fouo d , B e l o , there. He left his gun there till night. He left reY somewhere between one and two o'clock. He did n° me whether he had or had not been to Newport that day: eo ,, Examined by Mr. Blewitt—l do not deny that I Ilacf_ s e, rolled myself as a chartist. I h ave me t the prisoner at ell to ist meetings. I have attended the chartist lodge room uP the present time. he The prisoner having been asked if he had anythingotete wished to say, said lam as innocent as you. I P r n e e ple out of my cottage to go ; they w ere ab ou t to press a hour named Davis, who was coming to me at six the morning; he came knocking at my door; I was but I got out of bed, and I looked out of the window' " ee e, asked who was there. As I was not up he went aw a Yieree came again in about half an hour ; he then told me that be. or four men had been handling him roughly on the road'e fo cause he would not go with them. What he wanted eo l t he was to bring him some iron from Newport. I told him ming not like to go to Newport, as there were so many men e°, on the road ; and we went together to the lane leading 'f o e house, and 1 then heard that my young man said that ; ro d' one should say that there were 4,000 or 5,000 men a e r a at coming on the toad. Davis wanted me to come to breae m with him to get off the road, and then we heard trenna,"„ei,e, cheering and firing of guns in Newport, at about eight o clock„' and I told him my wife would miss me, and that I s houlr! to go to the Three Horseshoes beer house to hear eillo t te go: going on in Newport. I asked Davis if he would like, .2e'ei o'cloetesp, that far. He said he would rather I would come and 01 0 - o le , fast with him ; and as we were talking so long, I said 1 I rather go home, as I knew my b rea kf as t would be rea told Davis that I wished my cottage was where his w° se ee of the way—as my wife and child would be frightene d at o e t• ing the people with such weapons. I wen t to my hre 0 4 and my wife stood at the windows to hid e me, and to ld ,' of the persons I as gone, fearing they would press nn og , -- they said " No, he is not, for th ere he isbring Win 3. ` Four There were two men with hatches. I don't know thew., e the. or five of them came into my house, and wanted to 13 :', s hot gun, which was over the fire-place, loaded with sinr you el: and powder. I said they should not have the gun, for . ' and take it myself if they would allow me. I took the felln' y life came out with it under my arm. I was in danger 01 Tireat if I had not come out, or I should not have come. , ev er). out, and some of them told me that they had press e " earlie r ' one as they went along. They said they had pressed but eel, who had offered them a sovereign to let him go would not do so. ore' Mary Simpson, wife of Wm. Si m p s o n , was then s' y ee st and examined.—l was in the cott ag e w h en the prison er ied came in with his gun. I saw a large quantity of mead made were pressing people. The prisoner told me be red r° his escape from them into the l o d ge . He endeaeo ° , tec ee hide. When I first saw the p r i s o n e r it w as half-Pas t t e, the, by our clock. He said he had m ad e his escape f r Ae eri° men, for that they had pressed him i n the morning. , le tola nothing more. He left the gun and went away. me he was going to Newport. bil e By Mr. PROTIIEROE.—I had no conversation nitllfrog' about what was going on at Ne w po r t. I did not h e 'i errs him that the chartists had been defeated at Newport. n e not present at the conversation b e t ween the prisoner ao hock husband. I don't recollect w h a t h e sa id w hen he ca te it we° in the evening. He left our cottage at five o'clock• bile at not quite dark, but we 'had lit candles. I did not see that any time between eight o'clock and half-past eleveueeee morning. I had not seen him for three weeks befor,e,..shaaa he came about some plants. I don't know that my n r u ne e was a chartist. He never told me he was. I 11 , eve t teed e nor had any reason to suppose my husband had aft chartist meetings. lam not a chartist myself.' The magistrates having consulted, e „, Mr. Beewerr addressed the p r i soner , and told hi or the the court did not consider that either his s t a tement, o f his deposition of his witnesses had at a ll a ltered the statuteial• case, and that he was therefore committed to take his The prisoner was then removed in custody the dis c ' 'rIP The next prisoner examined w a s J o h n Partridge, o to a tist printer. Having been b r o ug ht i n t o the room in ° b ore he was informed that he was charged with having h at a traitor, with a full knowledge of his treason. veilliP s ' The first witness called was Mr. Thomas John e l se i e clerk to the magistrates, who deposed as follows fo rk solicitor of this town. I was not present at the a t ',. fro' the Westgate, but arrived shortly a fte r , that nior i n. ,, l Vtlie r e e Tredegar Iron Works, at about h a lf-p as t ten. %ali° o had been an attack on the West ga t e by the bullet ea °- e . the walls, and other things. 1 also saw a dead body t of the ' the step. I saw several other bodies lying in fr °° , e se' e ' e ; Westgate, and when I entered the Westgate I also e q ;p s. te, ral dead bodies. I went up stairs and saw Mr. P° l '; t ed mayor. I saw that he had been wounded. I asstodell ee f magistrates, and I was present and took down the e lid e . of several parties who inculpated John Frost as the l e se fe t a the riot. The propriety of searching Frost's h e u a gg este a papers of a treasonable and seditious character wasteer e d to the magistrates, and a warrant was issued. I v ole e areb my services to execute the warrant authorising the s his premises. I went to his house, attended by the,s,uvras hed tendent of police and some special constables. fi t f i re tween five and six o'clock in the evening. If` to ld' Frost there. I proceeded to search the house, having e all j Frost my object in coming. I possessed m yself 0 papers answering, as I thought, the description orriePolorlf was authorised to seize. The magistrates offered a erost and bills offering £lOO for the apprehension ofJobntin p; high treason were issued. I know the prisoner .1 ° t be l? tridge. I have known him many years. I know t, s ole pe o, been intimately connected with Frost for years, an d tha t ,I sf ter of a great number of his publications. I knoic eee et some of those publications, printed by Partridge , ;e e a 'l e r, been convicted, fined, and imprisoned for libel. `,: tr idg e , b r occasion, since Vincent's apprehension, I went to 1 1 " 1 4 li e g I attended the mayor there for the purpose of demo: 11 ,0 0 . o ' manuscript of a paper which had been published in ell er I signed " John Frost." It was a grossly libellous P e hich,,, the mayor. Partridge produced the manuscript, _ ett tel e , knew to be in John Frost's hand-writing. He r efas ol liver up the paper, but said he would produce it at ..subs3o He said he was very poor, and was obliged to print fo r e, which was brought to him in order to get a livelihooyiesrob; wife and children. On Monday evening last, after ;e i 1 Frost's house, about seven o'clock, I proceeded to ; u icee.ce wt of the prisoner. I attempted to open the door , ap tne ss V re fastened. I then knocked at the door. (The ari;ee detailed the particulars of his entering the hous e, t . tr o e 'p s • hending Frost, as given, on hi s p rev ious examina tl° F r ost v el prisoner appeared as if he had not been in bed• efe s pearedto have been, out, and his shoes were ye t i ' eel ri oe e me that he had taken off his trousers to dry, 3n` d fattel' pair of Partridge's. Frost appeared harrassed e eon I have no doubt that he and Waters were there 1° e lf , meat from justice. la gs Cross-examined.—Prisoner had his coat and s he ode• Frederick Wood proved the publication of file 0,0 p°' offering £lOO for the apprehension of Frost, :thine • ed about the town. ( 13r/ ' Michael Daly proved that he posted one before The e pic 100 yards of the prisoner's house. There were 3 The P the ber of people about it, and one read it aloud• of seeoei said, " There is enough of that sort up." D id This by Prisoner that day, and left no bill at his house' 13° closed the evidence, t . r is The prisoner was asked if he h a d anything t° ° " e defence? e of , 5 0) 111 ; He said that he had t a ke n a p arce l to the house f lea s g son named Hilman, w h om h e saw an d promise d lea s e so have some more in a very short time. As h s home, he met a man name d Willi am Legg, e ari ,;• a iii i vy talking to him, th e crow d came d own f ro m f1" . ,, , 5e , e t ° said to Legg, " W e h a d b et t er get ou t o f their d ge t v e, added, he sho u ld lik e to have a glass of beer , n° e ere'rld' the way. Le gg sa id th e houses in Llanarth-strejt,sea-eop and they went to Isaac William's house, in 1 1 to g ° t ee ° where they had a pint of beer. They were 0. 11.1 l'beY and stopped there drinking a considerable tirne' e lled let t went out, and went to another public-house , r - r o'c - a t ,' and Pilot Boat, where they stayed till nearly "V s bolo . e' e the afternoon. He (prisoner) then went towe l k, vi be tio e, called at a beer-house kept by William Merric k i hoet te eee t ; had a pint of beer. After he had been ther e t he Charles Waters came out of a back room into we ll, per, and asked him how he was. He replied .. very, bo arr . which Waters said he was very tired, anil ei y ee? tet ort . ' e I to s p He (prisoner) replied, "Very well, my wife 13 b e oel e r° sycham for a fortnight, and if then v i e ou ea n to geth e in e down in my house. ' They then went hoe, , e r eell ee nr,' sat down for a few minutes, after which they (P ri- ele e l r : same bed. This was befoee six o'clock, an," be en , sth e t e left his daughter down stairs. After handbraid, an d his daughter came up and awoke him, u p v Mr. Frost is down stairs." They then g ° :' podiaea, r s e, down stairs. Frost said he was very wet and ti c e bing e eee ed something to eat, and asked if they had an' eat or u o ij ,) house. He (prisoner) replied that he they rea4 te e e! s ' oe er 4 , nothing but bread. Mr. Frost then asked his (pi"' e e i e him some cheese, and something to drink, and e che er be daughter then went and got half a pounl,t°' edos of tee , a quart of beer. Mr. Frost then began to eat doing so Mr. Phillips came into the house. boo' „ This having brought the business up to ! I a.!! ee , day, the proceedings were adjourned to this d Joe THURSDAY .—At eleven o'cicck this morning' dePosearli tridge was again placed at the bar. . r te a n ' era'. s 1 Mr. Thomas J. Phillips was then recalled. 5 00 ) e ol e i so follows :—Mr. Frost's house is 400 yards or cote si coe lr the prisoner's. I believe Mr. Frost's garden F r ost ri e with Pentonville, where the prisoner lives. tier 's. 0 0 fie , easily have gone to his own house as the pris9 og bee e n se l ttt Isaac Evans, a clerk to Mr. Withers! ha r l ig hior deposed to seeing the chartists come by the vve : t thele He afterwards met the prisoner going to ln e 'r a rrrt a d ness saw the chartists attack the Westgate• have seen them do so as well as he did. 'w ore ° the jog' Jeremiah James deposed that he lived in to , oe at ito r s it On Monday morning, at seven o'clock, Ile et irl a s t ee t. );• 0 10 and Pilot Boat. The prisoner came in cursing l4 th „ jo t and said there would be such work at Newli ° , , was never known before. He then went away' hO u jilg ea- e fo r there had ben no riot at Newport. the e al ) ? Mr. Blewitt here told the prisoner that, he ha d t ri ll sumed quite a new feature, and asked him 11 ee I,ls e to to say why he s h ou ld no t b e com mitted to 13 high treason and sedition. be she° is The prisoner said he had some witnesse s s er t 's call. 5 0 ° 0 6 0 as, en be t l eo and gave a similar statement with reap ;titer trot' coming afterwards and calling him 1113 ' Amelia Partridge, the prisoner's d au. t w e I*: tteo 3 r._ b . e it.i r eciti f; coming home and retiring to rest, with t het g l . s e t te prisoner. Her father appeared surprised as if be did not expect him. Waters had be e at S e e o , ol o vi i ,;yer s le ie P or Ice; hr re house before. Had known her father go to Fate e eel . ' 11 , 0 o'clock when tipsy. He was then sober vi ea y? 13 0 in the morning. It was light when ile.„,,Xidgei see 0 person came to the door and called ` n° of° Henry Frost ; he is son to John Frost. 5° .cite e 5 0 the house that day or the day before. The - frahicift (I am here obliged to close my parcel. , ra cr , 0-, to under examination.) unstamped chartist newspaper, called tne e ' ss bcef d itlo'oll y under the very nose of the governrnent,"_oet ee„lboll The printed paper attached -- to this is a i n ein e Yie'nt s o tt r ie'e . r s e % l be printed week after week full of the t ha t OD' der L i ' 1B of blasphemous matter, we cannot wonder i on „v . place when such things are tolerated :--e iEvet er pa ti en t , " REVOLUTION, A MOST AWFUL n' othe r ebtain j inn ° ele , to - v eep 0 . valsing this kingdom from one end to t people are resorting to the last exeEDl E ' o , o et g ° _ o rld. o d e ° to to free themselves from the yoke of the sei the a .ber n eo ing, and damnable tyrany that ever curs e euri . ` o e's, tete' " When we reflect upon the state of e t iole it bai t , t Sider how our friends have been cast in e at wile of en 1 3,0( die of starvation, we are not surprii.r N ic e r!: 0 0, D er , place near our borders. We warned i n th°,auot t heeded not the warning. They persyst e e s ' e _ t he c o " lowed line of conduct, and now we witn —A FEARFUL AND BLOODY RSVairrig' A, r o five)