The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

rjEA rErjr, D STATES' ement. , e perfon3,6l 's 1( " n. ker. Mr. 10 r.Slaiter. :.idgwaY• Sir itten b) , 0 S o; Kean• d. W. Hoax ad. r. Baker• ,arke• be ekes maY o n Ten tio' ted Ame ricsil t n engage io e a pe rforra El. Sir Jabi l e T t hese th l re ir. ress lv for. a lonef brmer °I the' 00 g aged f° l 1. 00 s Theatre , ry evolution`. el* 1339' ) ropvr uire jut° the Jama ica" rt, strilciugli whic h 've 4 o n the ac tu of the sugare ,in the sal° iod inte rve : , !.e.SII/1 1 sY ste , sent year. manage rs veers were re : t. n the repo , 'espectiOg tb a mos t cop nd mons trous ye so lav ishl t estion, a t the " iiderah le ue : of its basil c ussion whic e m inistrY , ` v o , we in our c lg the aPP ren ; .341 labo urers James, on til t ' d. Sincetbae W3l. In tii r in the istt e , of the 5 6 e ,h L bout the 15' , aken two c°ll3_, 's nothing ) n i estates n 4 >eptemb er- 1 on a nothe rli o ) to the oida f S t. e parish 0 to s . worked 1 10 ge number :4 en. The ci s, ry of the aPP r c e i ; r e labourers ba._, for culti va re ated their 05 ood, gra ss ' a er , ,ours n m 4ur 710 , bu il abouring Po 3ritish Gaee,t, ieneficial en:; erfect a te that they If, it i ons that thirel show a total at. e employ other n, who, in is .:upations .of ao age,) excite 13 ) Luct. ° I4 , $ all, and on 3j ii. artially at Wti b r ot have been 4, inefficien t or in cu ltis t y tributing W dl es and gr ow ng a tingg e ‘ i ,iv f them thatcolle-, nor e likely, _.;ee m the proPer''re 3 thousand tba nemployed .0 ;t. James' whey whewheyl. per d a y , and medicioee orted to the f°l' r ! aning canes Pe stures per acre, 1. per 100 hole6' labourers, Where :IT, h a ve e arod s high as 60. landed. On 19 )111 3s. 4d. to 01+ 5 . ; b u t afrsOste quence of th • On 49 estate; seven , the to ds two Ailli9l ;n recovered fro° )tion of 15, BS, t es o [by 25 e sta —Bad advice rnagistrates-'lP stipendiarY Ifir ndustriously s, that t he PO; their house9°l; nnlent was 81711:i scion of the P' se ver Ticulture, ° ckward99.,...? . u l y dePl orable. ads dug' pot ho t fl c ith Po l Mures very l Ln t of labour. ° minutioo o f al prenticesbip I'l3 , z three prececlio op is r e p reseoo4 O g sheads of duce 11°' tif a to pro _ - to which th e I lr on the 1061 itivation of theft L to b e very let, a nd wasted catid ;rear darn id g el , trespasd s of ness an inatteive ,states there V i ' "'ages. ourers have yell r e ir g riev had th , liar,' wasistrateg. ligs of the latter oency to p rove tgl L ot, on t 3 P g ti ' j S uch, then, is the present condition of the island of p at arnal i o Ca * Such is the result of that complete eman.ci -44411,, for 'which so many good and well-meaning , 0 I "uals in this country were, a short time since, the clamorous. Has the final enfranchisement of tionne,gro apprentices realised their sanguine expecta bot,n''' Have they shown themselves grateful for the 'Pontaneously bestowed upon them by the p1an ,1•,5 2tatters are already bad enough in Jamaica ; but cii:erY much fear, from the present disposition of the die4lltred P o pulation, an d f rom the unjustifia b le expe atir4:6°rted to i n order to excite their feelings of h t • B 'tY agai nst the planters, that the crisis has not C ' t : .riv ed• We s i ncerely pray that the advent of a ' t ervativ I lla s admi c ist rati on ers to office wavert from fin e colony the dang by whi I i tsit threatened. ely•I ilar e b South \Nales papers to the 2d of December Svd o ee n receiv e d , from which it would appear that chli ar e 'Y was visited with an epidemical disease of a pe 4t4llaracter, to w hi c h that colony seems to be an kat..r cu ll. neat. Th e mortal i ty is described to be very 1, 51 ) . 4 ' - 'he weath er , a f ter being for some time remark kitthsrene, had become mild and propitious. The bl eg we 't country had been infested with a forrnida -144 een e o f armed b ush-rangers, whose depredations xtended over a district of 200 miles in ex ittroelhese robberies had been so frequent that it was of poiie necessary t o sen d Li eut. Co b ham w i th a party 'te r, tlil e to protect the settlers. They had been, how- Sh it I nlc pr ose in their efforts to apprehend the nif hcikeu I°llB continued to be very dear at Sydney. The f kit B 4 . ller aid of the 22d of October quotes potatoes 40 1. t° 128 . per cw t. ; ca bb ages, f rom 4 d. to is. b litt e c ti : r niPs and carrots, 4d. and sd. eac h : f res h 4 1 7 8 * Per lb . 1 ; salt outto,:3s. 9d. ; colonial wheat, 4' Per l bush e l ; V an Di emen ' s L an d di tto, 7s. 6d lbe . ; oaten h a y, 12s. to 1 6 s . per cw t. e laL ° P 4 lrl Van Di emen ' s L an d are d escr ib e d as 4oda t h --n t , so much so as t o ena bl e th e growers t o is \e deficiency in the crops of wheat and pota ile e l"' South Wales. kthberilkltralian gives a statistical account of the Pounds of wool exported from :New South ' 4 ee t : V an Diemen's Land from 1820 to 1837. 1 1 62 5 7 4 fr Om both co l on i es i n 1820 was 99,415 lb s . oki u i cta ., tea increased to 323,995 lbs. In 1830 it u Ne 1 1 ; ti1 1, 967,309 lb s . Si nce th a t year the in -4)3 ( *ea enormous. In 1834 the export amount ,436, ti 3 77, 538 lb s. ; i n 1835, to 4,210,301 l b s.; i n 1450 - .25 4,991, 8 08 lbs. ; and in 1837 it reached t ° B . N a ut be i n f erred from the preceding, there has thtt e4 t increase in the number and tonnage of er g wh ich have arrived at New South Wales and I mtil lthe r - . °l °nY duri ng t h e same per i o d. I n 1820 th e g):123 of sh iPs Was 8, and the amount of tonnage -a 1 829 the number of ships had increased to ' 4 ) ktia tonnage to 27,623. In 1837 the ships were eitt4 the.tonnage was 47,240. From these state- Ni t : 1114 y form some opinion of the rapidly in- T he 6 Pro s „,_,, r'uty of these important colonies. 1411 0,. 4, 11 .8 fr om South Australia is of little impor ""abo 'e settlers appear to be on good terms with Nines. N-i ea t West arrived at Bristol on Tuesday t o ° ll (ia t ita ving accomplished the voyage from New i'lliph r l d aYB. She has brought 110 passengers, a : 4 1 a15 - ta will be f oun d i n ano th er co l umn . Among fr o g ,8 the nam e o f the a m bassador extraordi tOt of e w Grenada to the Pope. The outward • ` L) "e Great Western occupied 22 days, during I to -e the language of the New York Morning ' "Perienced " sq ualls, head winds, heavy 4 ,14 1 7 . 1 and lightning, and every obstacle that he c ` f er could create.,, th, 22 4 ea t Western has brought New York papers to C' e ~1 1th ilo, inclusive. The news contained in ClktteheZnParativel unimportant. It is said that t 4 0 , 1 -7 had been Y forwarded to England, both from .h minister ad the government of the United i l (l 4 ls „ . : ie h leave no doubt that the question about L 'llt es:o7l territory will be settled on the principle of n ge, so as to give to the province of New • wi e- t t is err itory enough to form a winter commu e%;' Quebec and the Canadas. Ora alleged papers of the 22d ult. give an account 11 1e 4 41 44 e -; ged outrages on the Canadian frontier, the °1 which we have given in another column. must be taken cum yrano salis. Incen qqe 'Vs seemed to be prevalent on the borders. cL i . -8 from Mexico is of a highly satisfactory • 2; A letter f rom V era C ruz , o f th e d a t e of ,741 t„Th st ates that th e difficulties had been termi iltilos' mutual satisfaction, the treaty between the i t li kti r n ' e O f Vera C ruz and Admiral Baudin having 4e N °Y the Mexican government. it, ll fro m , 1 Era of April 22 gives the following tk k e l'exas :—'` A report had reached Houston OPl et. : l 4, that the federal forces under Urrea had the defeated the central army, and that Busta "et e°rlltnander, was captured and beheaded, h re e a lso s e veral other officers. doe t ot Pect to the crop of cotton in the United illlo v tite l ast season we have been favoured with Liire - r , e xtract of a letter addressed to a respect -4ito7°l ho use iced ec *6,, a duplicate of my respects per Vir- O t t,• i ' l Lt Probably may not reach you before the tq " ' '' a e opinions therein are entirely confirmed c11:14:1..s t his day (22d ult.) from the south. The a k ,„ 4tba tt , • . ' 1 .4 4 he Is ; probably not more than 10,000 401 v \ received for the remainder of the season. 4 it fo r 2-irle ans the most sanguine bale-men do not r ul e. ° e re than 80,000 to 100,000, in addition to k e llet w el pts, and the estimate by this day's post kii,..4ektileen 1,30 0,000 and 1,450,000 bags." .1) 1:1 4 et iS appended from a Grand Gulf (Missis or' to the following effect : kttitlltcot el toP.—lf we estimate the crops through tt 4 11 (4% ,: t°4 states by the following tabular state itig the crops for the years 1837 and 1838 4ttil4 tiO ltitati°nB in Claiborne county, (and from tll t tl4 le, e ll fr om various parts of all the cotton states, Pepe th e d . enciency is general), it will be seen t• N 4; 15 ,, P of ear last year will be but half of that of the conseqnently cotton must advance esin i W hen the manu f acturers o f E ng l an d be eto n eed of th e f act. " 1/,t(2.1) fed the pl an t a ti ons a ll u d e d to amoun t e d, 11 1e 144 11, 11,88 7, and, i n 1 838 , t0 •6,7 0 5— a f a lli ng 1 „,, -ay be taken as an aveaage for the rest of eoti N I no, cleared from all parts of the United 1 9 ' 4 4 t° APril 13, in the year 11 lB3B, .amounted to ' t o 57 1 ' and during the corresponding period in 11)t ' 38 5 bag s . k tt t tela o. ° f th ia . t3 t w hieh are daily occurring in different th - 'ingdorn serve to strengthen our convic- Ak t) , lvit 3 / 4 e chartist -. agitation is not a matter to be Y e kle . T he more the objects of the incen ip 10_ - t h • developed, the more cnartists are 'ip t 4 ti ek t i te we feel alarmed. That we arc not seek litt4t that fears of our readers without adequate 14 % 41 .44 we do not indulge in exaggerated state -I\4led i ti a a ppear very evidently from the language . /t , b lYia ß h it a PPeal to the labouring classes which 4 '4 t :llei - i t i. ef°r e us, and which is said to be printed Abe 4 '4 . 8 Printer." The following is a literal k it% N e ess En gland was heard to say : your civil !Beries----your physical, moral, and intel liti:e,,,ayesuotations theare WAGES OF INJUSTICE fit of Creator gave to man—the LAND for " 11 1;:en tob .A 1 -1-, and endowed him with powers of Itit, I ne the thi ngs he gave for the support , his creatur es , w i t h t h e injunction -4 1114' NOT STEAL." The land has been st,,llotakaontrieziiola,ting the will of God, and bring (4 t.,„,„ th • the h o ld ers o f t h is property are Ilk e eer d s ' who hold th e "people's l an d f or k i: 1 1 4 1 147 t,',,,!Privin g man o f hi s r i g h t to t h e eart h , y t 14w$"ur gave for th e support o f h uman li fe, iL " It ennillel ma n to exerc i se hi s m i n d an d EN eens u al 1 1,4 6 ! . 14.. , aggrandis ement o f t h at un j ust l y Illora and Ns I think upon and discuss N I 10 4 ; ' and civil right of yourselves and h h „ n a, th„, e the a You ar e convinced of the judgment tt ( 4 L t Your profit of the earth is for all,' then k tit e t: t fro k t:vernors to redeem the land to the io qd 411 d a who hold it f or ever and ever, that e - L. Or G A • _ Of 44. r ' , rust by the people's trustees, for ou is no respecter of persons,' and hath said the LAND shall NOT BE SOLD for ever, for the earth is mine, ye have it for a possession, and while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest shall not cease.' When you have read this, please give it your neighbour, that he or she may also think of the cause of the evils, and call out for relief; and be assured the great cause of poverty, want, and oppression, is the individual ownership of land." The blasphemous perversion of scripture in the above address is calculated to do mischief, not only among the ignorant, but even among those who have received what is popularly called " a liberal education." It is useless to laugh at the " absurdity" of such appeals as the pre ceding. There are hundreds of thousands, not only among the uneducated peasantry of the country, but even among the more polished artisans of our manu facturing towns, who have been cursed with an educa tion devoid of religion, that entertain sentiments akin to those expressed in the diabolical placard which we have reluctantly transferred to our columns. The lan guage of the Chartist speakers, echoed by assembled thousands in various parts of the kingdom, abundantly proves the truth of our assertion. The cry for " equal rights" involves a demand for a community of pro perty, for how can the rights of all men be equal, when the most important right of all remains intact in the hands of a few ? It is of no use to disguise the truth. The Chartists have an " ulterior object" in view, even after achieving their present enterprise, and obtaining their " charter." They only want the charter as a means to obtain an end. That end is the equal division of all the land and capital in the country. The self styled libe.rals or reformers, as far as they clamour for " equal rights," are urging the Chartists on in their ca reer of spoliation and plunder. Let the liberals beware ! They may, perhaps, find it inconvenient to be caught in their own net. If such objects are really entertained by the revolu- tionists of the present day, it is important to consider how they may be frustrated in their plans. How are we to defeat the Chartists ? There is only one way in which this may be accomplished, and that is by sup porting with heart and hand a Conservative administra tion. We see no other mode of saving this country from the horrors of a revolution like that which deso lated France. Every man that refuses to render this support is a traitor to his country. The last straw has broken the creature's back. Long will our readers bless the day that brought them the tidings of this " crowning mercy." Born in per jury and nurtured in corruption, the Melbourne minis try has out-whigged whiggery, and out-Walpoled Walpole. Their days are numbered, and the legion aries of Lichfield House have fallen to that region of dark exclusion, (saddest sorrow to a liberal soul,) " where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ;" and they know that they have fallen, like Lucifer, never to rise again. For this event we trust the readers who have attended to our observations, since Lords Melbourne and John Russell inflicted upon themselves the so-called crisis of last Easter, have not been wholly unprepared. From no hostile quarter, from no impatient adversary, has the fatal blow pro ceeded. The inherent rottenness of the wretched cabinet, their utter insufficiency and incoherency, have worked their dissolution. The only wonder is they have held together so long. There was acid enough in Lord Howick, jealousy enough in Hobhouse, stu pidity in Palmerston, vacuity and insincerity and mu tual distrust in each and every of them, to have split the administration to shivers at the first. But liberal ism in fact, like reason in fable, has been suspended by a golden chain; and marvellous is the ductility and strength of these mysterious links. But there must be an end at last. The estate was bankrupt. Every thing that could be laid hands on was already in pledge : their credit itself (never very good) was gone to pawn. Creditors were clamorous. Men had sold their constituencies, their character, their consciences, (what little of these two last they had to sell,) to their Whig employers, and they became obstreperous on the score of wages. They had sold themselves to Satan, but they had not got Satan's pay. They desiderated the consideration. The bargain was an Irish one : it had no mutuality—the reciprocity was unilateral. They began to find that while they thought they were making catspaws of the whigs, they were burning their own claws, and the roasted chesnuts were grasped by the wily whigs, who lauded them in public, and winked knowingly at radical and philosophic simplicity behind their backs. The court was a whig-sty : all the offices of importance or high emolument were thrown into the Whig-trough : the radical portion was that of the man in Horace, whose Calabrian entertainer pressed him to eat pears that were too sour for his swine. This game has been admirably played, but it is now up. The bank is broken, the dice are detected, the tables are overthrown, and the rascally gamesters have met with their due deserts. Outraged Justice, then, has vindicated herself at last. Men now turn round and ask each other, What is to be done next ? Finality, it is studi ously asserted, has been the death of the whigs : there must be a new agitation, and a new reform bill. Our readers have long been prepared for these assertions. We have considered them at some length, and given our reasons in detail in several former papers. We trust we have not left their nakedness a rag to cover them from the cold winds of popu lar indignation and contempt. Was it because more radicalism was wanted, that the lying whigs (O'Con nell auspice) surrendered the apprcpriation clause, to which they had solemnly and repeatedly pledged their public and their personal faith ? Where is the church rates bill ? Where is the pension-list ? Where is the ballot ? Where is the extended suffrage ? Where, the corn-laws ? Gone' one and all, to the tomb of whig professions. Where they were radical, they were forced to retreat. Where everybody knows they would have been radical if they dared (for instance, ballot), they dared not advance. Was it finality lost them Devonshire ? Mr. Buller hoisted conservative colours, but he supported the ministry, and the men of Devon shire would have none of him. Was it objected in Leith to Mr. Rutherford that he supported finality ? Was it finality that lost them Ayrshire ? Campbell of Craigie was no man for finality; but conservative Ayr shire rejected him for his liberalism. We will venture to say, that if whiggery be low, radicalism is lower. Men have come round to Johnson's view, and see that patriotism has been the refuge of every scoundrel in the empire. Want of character must be made up by extraordinary professions of public zeal. It answered once to be extreme in liberalism, for in 1830 the libe rals were better trusted than known : we can tell them that in 1839 they are better known than trusted. Well, then, the blow has fallen ; and the next con sideration is, how did it fall ? 'What ! even Mr. Hume ceased to pat the ministers on the back,— " Via prima salutis Quod minime reris, Graid pandetur ab urbe." He will understand our allusion, just as we pretty well understand that honest Joseph had his own very ex cellent reasons for his vote. The real truth is, the cabinet itself was wofully divided. There were too many screws loose, and the machine could not have been kept on its wheels any longer. And we hail it as a circumstance of very considerable interest, that Ire land and Jamaica should have been the battle-fields on which these two decisive contests have been fought. They speak volumes for Lord Normanby and his chance of patching up a new reform coalition. Why, Lord Normanby brings into the cabinet the selfsame principles on which he acted when unhappily the exe cutive of Jamaica was in his hands before. He was a partizan governor. He cared not for constituted au thorities ; he would suspend governments, whether monarchical or popular; he would carry out his own party views—he would depress his opponents. This the cabinet, liberalised by his accession,, have endea voured to do in the Jamaica bill. And they have failed :—so much for Lord Normanby. Twice has the battle been fought in his person, and on the ground of his government ; and twice have the Whigs experi enced the blessings of his suicidal counsels. Once again let him try, and, like the wrestler of old, the third fall will seal his fate. Ter cecidere manus. But honest Joseph is the sworn leader of the prac tical radicals, as Mr. Grote is of the unpractical or philosophic. It is facetiously said, that Mr. Hume voted against ministers, because every body acknow ledged that the blow was aimed exclusively at the white population, and he was afraid of being entrapped into an y acknowledgment of a distinction between, black and white, which he has pledged himself never to discrimi nate. So say the jokers of. jokes. For our parts, we think it highly satisfactory that he, whom the radicals delighted to honour last week by a public banquet at the Crown and Anchor as their chosen leader, should have committed himself to opposition against this dar ling concoction of the impartial Normanby. The practical Joseph, then, and the theoretic Grote, stand outside the coalition, and increase the embarrassments of the discomfited and despairing faction. But we distinctly repeat, we have no confidence whatever in any disunion among the liberals. Fresh terms will soon be agreed on : fresh distribution of posts will be made : and the plunder will be promised anew. There will be a Pan-Hellenicum, a gathering of Greeks, at the reform club. And where the gather ing is, Mr. Grote will assuredly be found ; and we will peril our very existence, that as Mr. Hume bears no resemblance to the martyr Philopoemen, so will he never deserve, when plunder is to be shared, the title " Last of the Greeks." No, the liberals will re-assem ble their scattered forces, they will re-unite in the common bond of a common hatred. But the people of England will have recorded their differences —will have noted down in the stern book of public justice, that these lying accomplices have been telling different tales. We shall revert to this subject in our next. Be it remembered meanwhile, that a liberal ministry has been ejected for conspiring to suppress free insti tutions, and a popular form of government ; and above all, that the final blow has not been dealt by the impa tience of a faction, eager for office,—but that the wretched creature has perished, like the scorpion, from a self-inflicted blow. " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the scorpion girt by fire : In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly searched by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows— The sting she nourished for her foes." The liberal faction has been signally disappointed in their expectations that a more democratic cabinet would succeed that of Lord Melbourne. Already have the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel been in com munication with the Queen, and it is probable that we may have to announce, in our second edition, the formation of a conservative administration. We learn that the Queen sent for the Duke of Wellington on the suggestion of Lord Melbourne himself! The organization of a new ministry could not possibly have devolved upon better or fitter men than the illus • trious Duke and the " first statesman of his age." We have no doubt that they will select as their asso ciates and colleagues men possessed of the highest powers of mind, and thoroughly conversant with the details of public business —men who are the very opposite in every statesman-like qualification to the miserable blunderers who have just resigned. The conservative side of the House of Commons possesses many men of the character which we have described. The only difficulty will be to select from so great a number of first-rate statesmen as are now found adorn ing the conservative ranks. It would be, perhaps,' invidious to enter upon a detailed enumeration, but Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Mr. W. E. Glad stone, Mr. Goulburn, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Wm, Follett, Lord Sandon, &c., stand forth in great promi nence as men of the most distinguished abilities. Thus the confident prophesies of the radical press have been utterly falsified. Thus have perished the last hopes of the most degraded faction that ever dis graced this country. With the resignation of the whig ministry, O'Connell must resign all hopes of riding roughshod over the people of England—his tail must resign all expectations of being provided with any further share of official patronage—and the Irish priests must resign the long-cherished scheme of pros trating in the dust the protestant church, and of erecting on its ruins the foul tyranny of the papacy. Briefless banisters may now bid a long farewell to Whig-created commissionerships. Ambitious com moners, who have abased themselves, for the sake of anticipated coronets, by doing the dirty work of the shabbiest ministry that ever existed, may now despond ingly exclaim, that " the grapes are sour." The dis senting agitators throughout the country must hence forth content themselves with rendering obedience to the law. Their plans for overturning the church, and carrying into execution their utopian scheme of " reli gious equality," are signally frustrated. We shall hear no more of their darling system of national educa tion. Protestantism is now in the ascendant, and un christianising modes of instruction must be left to the sole support of the enthusiasts and the infidels, who have been their only advocates. We can well imagine the consternation with which the announcement of a conservative administration will produce in the ranks of the radicals. What a dis cordant yell will be raised by our " liberal" contempo raries ! Our . ancient friend of the Mercury is, at the present moment, horror-struck at the gloomy intelli gence that the Queen has consulted Sir Robert Peel, and this day he will probably pour forth his doleful lamentations over the untoward fate of the party to which he has so fondly clung. We can offer him no consolation. The star of liberalism has set for ever. Henceforth let him either repent and turn conservative, or betake himself to his interesting speculations on spinning-tops and life-preservers. What furiously rabid tirades shall we see in the Chronicle of to-morrow ! How the slop-pail will be agitated, and send forth a more intolerable stench than ever ! With what assi duity will the editor of this stamped edition of Paddy Kelly ransack the Billingsgate vocabulary for terms of abuse to lavish on the devoted heads of the "hero of a hundred battles !" With what deep and tender pathos will the classical Journal bewail the discomfiture of its cherished and immaculate friends the whig ministry ! But what shall we say of the Albion ? From the ba boon-like grimaces of our contemporary of Castle-street it will be difficult to say whether he will be found in dulging in a fit of laughter or a fit of melancholy mad ness. But it matters not whether he deals in bad jokes or in serious pasquinades on this occasion. The con servatives will be in office, and the Albion may be merry or moody, as it pleases. A short time will prove that the liberals are not one whit better than the chartists. The Morning Chronicle, under the tutelage of Lord Durham and his convenient tool Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, has already ad vised large concessions to the revolutionary demagogues of the national convention. 'We shall soon find this base and profligate journal "going the whole hog" in favour of the five principles of the chartists, and em ploying in their defence the bludgeon style in which it is so distinguished a proficient. The provincial press, in the radical interest, will echo the ruffianism of the Chronicle, and urge the people to rebellion. The whig press, provincial and metropolitan, will probably be come conservative after a fashion, adopting for their political creed the modified system of conservatism pro fessed in Lord John Russell's letter to the electors of Stroud. As far as regards the organs of public opinion on the radical side, these conjectures will very probably be realised. But let us look a little into ,the general effects which may he reasonably expected to follow the advent of the conservatives to office. In the first place, there must be a thorough purgation of the court of Queen Victoria from the antiquated roues by whom it has been so long infested. The Queen must be sur rounded by attendants of unblemished virtue. Then we may expect to find the British court once more graced by the presence of the high-minded aristocracy of England. Then shall we find ample reparation clone to insulted modesty, and foul-mouthed slander visited with punishment and disgrace. The Queen will then filly regain the alienated affections of many of her subjects, who have hitherto felt disinclined to make sufficient allowance for her inexperience. The formation of a conservative cabinet must be the prelude to a general purgation of all the public offices from the radical creatures by which they are now de filed. A general revision of the magistracy should also take place; and sundry Unitarian and dissenting justices of the peace, who have prostituted their office to subserve the meanest political ends, should be sent back into the ranks of private life. Fas est ab hoste doceri is a sound maxim. The Whigs have consulted the interests of their party in the appointment and suspension of magistrates—the conservatives must do the same. One of the first acts of a conservative ad ministration should be, as we have before urged, the re-instatement of the venerable Duke of Newcastle in the lord-lieutenancy of Nottinghamshire. This will be taken as an earnest of the line of policy intended to be pursued in reference to the magistracy generally. Among the more conspicuous benefits which may be expected to result from a conservative administration may be enumerated the following :—England will be tranquillised, by the suppression of the Chartist agita tion—lreland will be tranquillised, by the suppression of the Precursor agitation—the Protestants of Ireland will receive that protection in life and property to which their devoted loyalty so richly entitles them—our colo nies will be tranquillised, by the firm administration of justice—our foreign relations will be placed on a better basis, and, of course, the formidable aggressions of Russia will be successfully resisted—the national flag will no longer be insulted with impunity—the financial affairs of the country will be managed with greater pru dence and economy —and a far larger proportion of practical, but strictly constitutional reforms will be carried into effect. Perhaps we might add that, after the first ebullitions of radical rancour are over, the political excitement which has so long distracted the country will subside into that calmness and contented ness which is naturally attendant upon general confi dence in a wise and patriotic administration. Neither the Times nor Morning Herald of yesterday contains any definite information respecting the new ministerial arrangements. The former states that "as to the arrangements of the new ministry, which are committed to Sir Robert Peel, nothing was known at midnight, except that the right hon. baronet was busily engaged in forming them." The Morning Herald has the following paragraph, which is a little more ex- plicit : " (FRom A CORRESPONDENT)-Sir Robert Peel, after having had an interview with her Majesty, at Buckingham Palace, had a long conference with the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House. Lord Francis Egerton also had an audi ence of the duke. A select party, consisting of Lord Ellen borough, Sir James Graham, Bart., Lord Stanley, and Sir Henry Hardinge, assembled at Sir Robert Peel's last even ing, and did not separate until a late hour. The Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Lyndhurst also visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday. It is said the arrangements of the right hon. baronet are to be submitted to iher Majesty. to day." From a private source we learn that the following appointments were likely to take place : Sir Robert Peel Chancellor of the Exchequer, and First Lord of the Trea- sury. Earl of Aberdeen. .. Foreign Secretary. Lord Stanley Home Secretary. W. E. Gladstone, Esq Colonial Secretary. Earl of Haddington. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Sir James Graham First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Sandon President of the Board of Trade. The Duke of Wellington to have a seat in the cabinet. The resignation of ministers, and the prospect of the conservative party coming into power, had exercised a beneficial influence on the market for the British funds. With resnect to a dissolution of Parliament the Morning herald remarks—" A dissolution of Parlia ment would, in all probability, secure to Sir Robert Peel at least one hundred to the list of his present sup porters in the House of Commons. The fear of a dis solution will operate, undoubtedly, to the repression of factious opposition to the government of Sir Robert Peel. A new House of Commons must, of course, be summoned, at no distant period, to grapple with the difficulties which Lord Melbourne's government has created ; but the present representative body may easily (according to ordinary calculations) be managed during the remainder of the present session." In our second edition we shall furnish such additional nformation as may reach us in the course of the morn- THE MINISTRY. It is said that the Queen was deeply affected when the Lord Chancellor and Lord Melbourne definitively informed her Majesty that the Whig government was extinct. She wept for a long time, and deplored her situation. The Queen proposed to send to Lord Normanhy ; but Lord Melbourne had the good sense, and the manliness, to recommend her to send for the Duke of Wellington, and place the country un reservedly in his hands. Her Majesty consented to do so, and the duke, with that straight-forward and manly bearing which distinguishes his political as well as military life, ex pressed his deep devotion for the honour of the crown, and suggested that Sir Robert Peel should be charged with the formation of an administration. Sir Robert was at once applied to, and he, as well as Lord Aberdeen, had the honour of an audience with her Majesty in the course of the day. It is said that Sir Robert purposes to place himself again in the Home-office, as the internal situation of wile country requires at this moment a practical and strong timid. Lord Aberdeen is to resume the part of foreign minister. Lord Stanley to go back to the colonies, and Sir James Graham is spoken of as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The law appointments are the source of some embarrass ment. There is a demur as to the return of Lord Lyndhurst to the woolsack, and Sir Edward Sugden would decline the peerage, which has in latter times been associated with the office of lord chancellor. Sir William Follett's name has been mentioned, but he is too young for that high and diffi cult station, and his studies have been limited to the com mon law. Most probably Lord Lyndhurst will resume the seals. The Duke of Wellington declines active office, but will give his countenance to government by becoming presi dent of the council. Some of the leading whigs have pro mised to support Sir Robert Peel, provided he does not dis solve parliament. The club-houses at the west end of the town were yester day crowded, and authentic intelligence was anxiously looked for in them all. The Carlton was overflowing with members at an early hour, andiduring the whole afternoon a crowd of curious people were collected before it, in Pall-Mall, watch ing each arrival and departure with anxiety, and speculating on the appearance of Sir Robert Peel.—Herald. WELLINGTON CLUB.—We understand that a club, under this denomination, has been formed at the Crane Hotel, St. Vincent-street, to ceiebrate the anniversary of the illustrious hero's birth-day. Several members have been already en rolled. The fancy fair and bazaar, for the benefit of the Botanic Gardens, is to be held in August next. We have much pleasure in directing attention to the ap proaching meetings and sermo ns on b e h a lf o f th e Chur c h Missionary Society, announced in this day's publication. We know of no society which is more deserving of public support. THE EARL or. DERBY.--it is finally settled that, in con sequence of his lordship's continued illness, he will not visit town during the present season. The earl's mansion in Grosvenor-street, is occupied by the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Charles Stanley. The Rev. Frank and Lady Eleanor Hop wood have arrived at Knowsley, on a visit to the earl. In common, we are sure, with every friend to the mission ary cause, we feel much gratification in announcing that the Rev. Dr. Duff, the highly gifted and distinguished missionary of the Church of Scotland to India, pays a visit to Liverpool next week, to afford to his countrymen, and the friends of Christian missions generally, an opportunity of hearing one or more of his thrilling appeals in behalf of the benighted heathen. SALE or PAINTINGS.—We perceive that Mr. Closs will sell by auction this day, at the Assembly-rooms, Queen's Arms, a choice collection of paintings, chiefly of the Dutch and Flemish schools. He will also dispose of some fine specimens of favourite English masters, particularly a grand landscape by Calcot, of the Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius, and surrounding country. The collection em braces several pictures of first-rate merit. The Rev. John Bury Bourne has been instituted by the Bishop of Winchester to the rectory of Colmar cum Priors Dean, Hampshire. Patron, John Bourne, Esq. FASHIONAKLE ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL. — The Lady Harriet Dunlope and family, Rev. H. Newman, G. H. Godley, Esq., C. Ryan, Esq., H. Kemp ston' Esq., J. Roberts, Esq., W. Rich, Esq., Hon. C. Pon sonby, Sir J. Colquhoune, C. A. Walker, Esq., Lord Hen niker, R. Price, Esq., M.P., W. Doddington, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Glare, M. W. Gee, Esq., Sir G. Clarke, -- Eger ton, Esq., J. Davenport, Esq., M.P., C. Gibson, Esq., H. Gordan, Esq. Mr . and Airs. Onslow, C. Sinclare, Esq., W. Nixon, Esq., Dr. Lamer, J. Dunmore, Esq., C. Thornhill, Esq., W. Johnstone, Esq., and General Johnson. LYCEUM NEws-Room.—The annual meeting of the pro prietors of this institution took paace on the 7th instant, to receive the report of the committee, and pass the accounts for the last half year. After a few remarks from Mr. Richard Sandars, Mr. Isaac Holmes, Mr. Boult, and Mr. S. Holme, the report was unanimously agreed to, and the accounts were passed—showing a balance in favour of the institution of up wards of £230. The proprietors then proceeded to elect ten gentlemen for the committee for the ensuing year. The rad icals, as usual, showed their political feeling by canvassing their friends by circular to vote for a list concocted by them of ultra radicals. They were however, defeated by a large majority, and the following gentlemen were elected :—the Rev. John Cheetham, Messrs. Issac Holmes, King Ellison, J. J. Hatton, Ed. Horley, John Hodgson, W in . Houghton, John Rimmer, Richard Sandars, and J. G. Swainson. The average number of votes for the above gentlemen was 68, and for the radicals only 44. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER GREAT WESTERN.-Mr. H. G. Wheeler, Miss Priestley, Mr. R. Watson, Mr. Jackson, Mr. G. Brock, Mr. Pierce, Mrs. Herring and servant, His Excellency Mons. Pontois, Ambassador EXtmordinary from the King of the French to the United States, and servant, Mr. J. S. Petrie, Mr. Cowell, agent of the Bank of England, Lady of ditto, child and nurse, Mr. Sampson, Lady, and two servants, Mr. A. L. Levi, Mrs. Morrison, Mr. J. P. Cronk hite, Mr. T. Bailey, Mr. J. Robertson, General Lopez, Am bassador from New Grenada to the Pope, Mr. E. Wreebe, Mr. T. Wreebe, Mr. J. Wreebe, Mr. T. Williams, Mr. T. Dickinson, Mr. F. Leclerc, Mr. Berney, Lady, and servant, Mr. F. A. Lohse, Mr. Charles Arms, 'Miss Wetmore, Mr. Gaultry, Mr. Fairmsn, Mr. J. Slagg, M r . S. crookes, Mr. Henry, Mr. Duer, Mr. Hurst, Mr. Thompson and Lady, Mr. J. S. Adie, Mr. W. Scott, Mr. E. B. Gracbe ' Mrs. Langbois, Miss Langbois, Mr. T. A. Davies, M r . T. Cush ing, Mr. F. Burrett, Mr. J. M. Folbv,Mr. It. Singleton and servant, Mr. D. Draper, Mr. J. Boorhaern, Mr. W. C. Pickersgill, Mr. W. A. Hadden, Mr. J. B. Murray, Lady of ditto, and Miss Murray, Major Van Buren, Lady, and ser vant, Mr. R. A. King and Lady, Miss King, Master King, Mr. J. H. Bill and Lady, Rev. Mr. Wait, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Marx and servant, Mr. S. Felix, Mr. J. A. Delano, Mr. Gihon and Lady, Master R. Gihon, Miss Margaret Gihon, Miss Elizabeth Gihon, Infant, and two servants, Mr. Charles Fay, Mr. Maman, Mr. G. Ward, Mr. A. Large, Mr. J. Goodband, Mr. B. Sumner, Mr. Richard Battersfield, Mr. H. M'Corqundale, Mr. Shaw, Mr. P. Allesandro, bearer of despatches from the government of Chili, and servant, Mr. A. Bencotle, Captain Byron, 34th Regiment, Major Hall, Staff of Sir J. C. Colborne, Mr. Wallack, Mr. J. Wallack, Mr. H. Wallack, and sons, Mr. Saltenstall, Mr. E. E. Dunbar, Mr. Pattieson, an d M r . Hamilton. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, TUESDAY. THE CHYMICAL NUISANCES. Friday last was appointed for hearing four informations, preferred by Mr. Superintendent Tyrrell and Inspector Cot tam, against Mr. William Hill, manufacturing chymist, for committing a common nuisance within tuis borough, by making, generating, sending forth and dispensing, and by causing to be so made, &c., in and through the said borough, and in and through one of the public streets of and in the said borough, being a common highway, called Eaton-street, and through diMers shops and dwelling-houses, certain noxious, offensive and injurious gases and vapours, being destructive and prejudicial to the health and comfort of the liege subjects of the realm, and injurious to the goods, wares and merchan dise, and furniture of the inhabitants of the said borough. The offences were laid under the by-law whereby each offence is punishable on conviction by a penalty of £5. The parties did not appear on Friday. Without any representation on the behalf of the defendants, indulgence was shown, and the case adjourned till Tuesday, at one o'clock. At one o'clock on Tuesday, accordingly, the case was called; Mr. Hall and Mr. Houghton on the bench. Mr. Lawrence said he had a commission of.bankruvtcy to attend to, which would detain him till half past two o clock. However, he had a proposal to make which, in all probabi lity, would have the effect of settling the matter. His clients were but little inclined to fight the cases under so great dis advantages. They had tried their utmost to do away with the nuisance, and now the escape, though there was an es cape, he believed, from one of their chambers, was very little. In fact, there were but very few complaints of nuisance from their works, and many persons averred that they experien ced no inconvenience whatever. The proposal they had to make was this : they were willing to plead guilty—to pay all the expenses of the indictment, including fees to counsel, &c. ; and they wished judgment to be respited for six weeks, so as to give an opportunity to try certain experiments, whereby they were in expectation of being able to put an end entirely to the escape of the vapour. Dr. Reynolds had, in Cheshire, informed him that he had succeeded in a method of obviating the effluvia, which he could carry into effect in a few weeks ; he had been over to the Chester sessions, and had there succeeded in obtaining a respite. He now appealed to the liberality of the parties, who were aware that by trying under the by-laws they had their cakes decided under great disadvantages, much greater than they would be if tried be fore a jury, and he (Mr. Lawrence) was persuaded that the other party would be unwilling to adopt a course that would entirely drive a profitable business from Liverpool, and end in the ruin of the party. If this proposition were not agreed to he should request that the case might be adjourned till half-past two o'clock. He repeated the proposal ; it was to plead guilty, and pay all expenses. He understood that their non-appearance on Friday had given some offence, and he was instructed to say— Mr. Hall—lt did not give the slightest offence to me, I assure you. Mr. Venables said he gave himself great credit for not going on on Friday last, as Mr. Carter (the defendant's solicitor) was not prepared with witnesses at that time, though he per haps might have procured them since. Mr. Hall asked what Mr. Venables said to the proposal offered by Mr. Lawrence ? Six weeks he (Mr. Hall) thought was not an unreasonable time. Mr. Venables said Mr. Crooke (the Deputy Town-clerk) was placed in a very unpleasant situation. He was called upon by the neighbours and inhabitants generally to suppress what was to them a nuisance, and he was expected.to do so. He was blamed by all parties. Mr. Lawrence said, his clients pledged themselves to re move the nuisance at the end of the six weeks, if that time were accorded to them. Mr. Hall (to Mr. Venables.)—Would you not make a better bargain for the public if you were to accede to this proposal? Mr. Venables said, the nuisance had existed a considerable time, and the defendant had made promises repeatedly, which he had not kept. He had even been convicted of the offence before. Mr. Lawrence said, Mr. Hill had expended £5OO in his en deavours to keep the works from annoying the public. Mr. Hall sad, the defendants did not ask that the matter should be quashed. They only required time ; the complain ants would be not less in a condition to enforce the penalty. Mr. Venables.—Will Mr. Hill enter into a rule of court that the nuisance shall be removed ? Mr. Lawrence.—No ; for that would prevent us from try ing our experiments. We must have afvolute forbearance for six weeks. Mr. Venables.—But we cannot suffer you to go on creating a nuisance. Mr. Hall.—They must, of necessity, try experiments for the purpose of arriving at the result desired ; and it is possi ble that, in doing so, they will create some little nuisance. Mr. Venables.—lt would be improper for us to allow them to go on creating a nuisance. Mr. Hall.—lf they should unfortunately create some nui sance, they undertake that, at the end of six weeks, they will cease making a nuisance. Mr. Venables, (to Mr. Lawrence.)—Will you undertake to plead guilty at the sessions to the fact of having made a nui sance, if you do make one at the end of a month? Mr. Lawrence.—We have no objection to try the matter at the sessions. We wish you would leave it to a jury. Mr. Venables.—Will you plead guilty, and throw yourself on our mercy? We cannot leave the case without something definite. Mr. Hall.—lf this were a solitary nuisance there would be something in what you say ; but they are in every street. You should first have suppressed those against which you had indictments. You have not done so. While you permit others to go on creating nuisances, who have been convicted, I do not see—(some noise in the court prevented us from hearing the conclusion of the sentence.) Mr. Crooke.-1 don't know of any that are still carried on. There are not any permitted to carry on their works, or to make a nuisance. Is it not so? As the proposition of Mr. Lawrence was not acceded to, the case was at his request adjourned till half-past two o'clock. At half-past two o'clock the parties again took their places in the court. Mr. Lawrence said he would renew his offer—and he had 42 witnesses to call. Mr. 'enables said, he had already communicated to his friend what terms he could accede to. There was an indict ment hanging over Mr. Hill for the next assizes ; let Mr. Hill withdraw his plea of not guilty to that indictment and plead guilty, and undertake not to commit any further nuisance. Mr. Lawrence said the case might proceed. The defendant was called upon for his plea. He pleaded not guilty. Mr. Venables said, this was an information against Mr. Hill for a nuisance in Eaton-street, which he created by car rying on certain chymical works. He would show that it was a nuisance, in what manner it affected the people in the vicinity. He did not know what defence his learned friend could possibly offer. The by-law, service of notice, &c., were admitted. Mr. Thorns's Forrest was called and sworn. He stated that he was a shoemaker, and resided in Eaton-street. He knew Mr. Hill's works which were carried on in that street. He recollected that on Monday, the 22d April, he observed Mr. Hill's chambers from which issued a vapour, which had a very suffocating sulphurous smell. He had opened the door of his house, and the vapour was so intolerable that it caused him to shut it. The smell from the vapour was very bad. It annoyed him exceedingly, and he had a wife and family who were equally annoyed. Cross-examined by Mr. Lawrence.—He was sure it was Monday the 22d of April. The smell from the vapour was a very sulphurous, suffocating smell. He shut the door in consequence of it, and then opened it again, and went to see where the vapour came from. He was at the court before, and was examined. He' was anxious to make a complaint, and his landlord, Mr. Carson, came to him and asked him if the nuisance were not continued-, notwithstanding the conviction which had taken place. He (witness) had ob served it several times since. John Miller, Eaton-street, stated that he lived near Mr. Hill's works. On the 22d of April he got up in the morn ing and found his house full of a suffocating vapour, which caused his eyes to smart and made him cough. He had fre quently seen a similar vapour come from Mr. Hill's works. His wife was equally annoyed. Cross-examined.—He was sure it was the 22d of the month. No person made application to him to come and give evidence. He (witness) made application to the police officer, because he was so much annoyed. He had com plained repeatedly. James Pughy stated that he resided in Eaton-street, near Mr. Hill's works. On the 22d April he observed a white vapour issuing therefrom. It had a most disagreeable smell, and he saw plainly that it came from Mr. Hill's chambers. There were no other works near. Cross-examined.—He took a note of the time. William Jopson, turpentine-distiller, Carruthers-street, stated, that his works were about 150 yards from those of Mr. Hill. He never experienced any nuisance in the neigh bourhood. Cross-examined.—He thought the manufacture of alkali could be carried on very well without creating a nuisance, if the vapour were carried up a large chimney. If the cham bers suffered the vapour to escape, it would be a nuisance ; it would cause coughing, and such sensations as had been described. James Holmes knew Mr. Hill's works. Had known them during the last eight years. He never found any nuisance from them but once. He had formerly works of the same sort. It was not exactly of the same sort, it was muriatic. It was complained against. Cross-examined.—He pleaded guilty. He did not sell his works. He wished he had them yet. He pulled them down and sold the materials. Richard Armistead stated that he was a coal-merchant, and had resided next door to Mr. Beckwith for the last ten months. He often went up and down Elton-street, and had never felt any nuisance nor seen any white vapour. Mr. Venables.—l am glad to see you here, Mr. Armistead. So you are a coal-merchant, are you? Witness (laughing).—Yes, sir. Mr. Venables.—Formerly a straw bonnet-maker, and ma nager of a theatrical company in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and Lancaster? Witness.—Yes —no, not at Lancaster. Mr. Venables.—No ?—what !—l'm sure I've seen you act at Lancaster, have I not? (Laughter.) Mr. Lawrence.—Did you ever see any other gentleman round this table on thes!age at Lancaster? Witness (looking archly at Mr. Venables).—Yes. Mr. Lawrence.—l need not ask who that is. The evidence of several other witnesses having been taken, Mr. Hall said, at present he would merely make one or two observations, because himself and his brother magis trate, seeing that there was such a mass of evidence, and much of it of a most conflicting character, would let the case stand over till morning, that they might have an opportunity of weighing their testimony before they gave a decision. He had before convicted Mr. Hill, and he must therefore endea vour to divest himself of whatever had occurred on a former occasion. They would also have to use the utmost care in endeavouring to divest themselves of any impressions that might be created by the attempts at compromise. There fore, whatever had been said before, or said that day, must be thrown out of consideration. They had merely to consi der the facts as they were put before them, and so they should, to the best of their power, consider them. It was a matter of great importance to the community, and it was of great importance to the proprietors. They would carefully consider the evidence, and give judgment on the following day. It was agreed that the other three cases should be decided by the result of this. WEDNESDAY. This day Mr. Hall, according to promise, pronounced. judgment. He stated that, though the evidence was con flicting, there was on the side of the defendant such a mass of evidence tending to show that the nuisance was neither continuous nor extensive, that they could not by any means prevail upon themselves wholly to discredit it. They fAt themselves in a state of considerable embarrassment and difficulty; but, under all the circumstances, they felt justi fied in giving the defendant the benefit of the doubt which existed in their minds. The defendant was then acquitted on all the informations. THURSDAY. SERIOUS CHARGE OF ROBBERY. Ellen Roberts, wife of Owen Roberts, was placed at the bar with a child in her arms, and appeared during the exa mination against her to be impressed almost to fainting, with a sense of her humiliating situation. Mrs. Martin, a res pectable-looking elderly female, the wife of Robert Martin, residing in Shipwrights' Buildings, Bond-street, said that she sometimes went from home for weeks together, and on such occasions locked up the house (with the furniture, &c. in) and left the key with a neighbour. She had left it oven for aix and twelve -months together, and had found all safe on her return. - She left it last so locked up on the 19th of February, and on her return (a day or two ago) had found it stripped of about every article it contained. She had as usual left the key with a neighbour, and the prisoner, who was also a neighbour, having spoken to her just before, she had instructed her to know if any one came to the house, or called while she was absent. It appeared from the further evidence that the prisoner had borrowed a house key from one of her neighbours, (the same keys fitting several of the doors,) saying that she had locked herself out ; that she had borrowed another similar key, and also a bunch of small keys. With these she had found access to the house of the prosecutrix, and also to her drawers ; and some suspicion having been awakened, search was made, and in the cellar of the prisoner's house were found a bed and bedding, and some articles of wearing apparel,—and a large quantity of wearing apparel was also traced to pawnbrokers. The whold of the property found and identified might amount to from 4:7 to £8 in value. The prisoner on being apprehended said she was led to the act from want, and that when her husband got a little job the things would be redeemed and returned She repeated, in want—that want had induced her to do it ; and the prosecutrix, who, throughout, appeared disinclined to press the charge, said she believed it was want. On her examination being read over, Mr. Hall remarked that as she had evinced great reluctance to prosecute, he should have her bound over to appear in the sum of £5O. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. INTIMIDATION AND HINDRANCE OF WORKMEN. A joiner named Thomas Wilson, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a chest of joiners' tools, the property of a man employed by Mr. Lynn. It appeared that there had been a turn-out amongst some of the journeymen joiners against others who chose to work on different terms, and that the complainant's chest of tools, which the parties had since found means to restore, had been taken, • not with a view to steal it, but to intimidate and prevent him from working. The evidence did not bring the charge home to the prisoner. Mr. Hall said, that as there was no clear proof of the charge of robbery or intimidation against the prisoner, he should discharge him ; but he wished it to be fully understood by the trade, that should any case of obstruction or intimidation of workmen be brought before him, be should put the law in force against the aggressing parties. A FEMALE TORY VOTER. Isabella Gibson, a young married woman, was placed at the bar, charged by a police-officer with having been found in the street on the previous night, disturbing her neigh bours by loud shouts and disorderly language. Prisoner, in a serious and dauntless manner—" All that I said was that I was a tory, and should die one. (Loud laughter.) I belong to the church." Police-office.—" Why, even your husband complains that he has no peace with you." Prisoner.—" My husband ! He always votes for Ew art, and I vote for Lord Sandon—that's all; and I'll do so as long as I live, let what will be the punishment here." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall said, that whatever were her political feelings and opinions, she must not express them to the annoyance of persons in the streets, and hoped she would not repeat the offence. The prisoner, who appeared in her enthusiasm for the cause she had espoused, in defiance of her spouse, to be quite reckless of the risibility which she had excited, said she would not; and being discharged, left the court with becoming political dignity. A DISTRESSING TALE NOT QUITE VERIFIED. Two sisters, young women poorly attired, named Carroll, appeared before Mr. Hall, at the instance of a police-officer to whom they had applied, with a view to their being assisted in their necessities, and passed on to Dublin. One of them said that they belonged to that city ; that they had come here in expectation (from what they had heard) of finding good places as servants, or at washing ; that they had been disap pointed ; had pledged and sold all their good clothes, and finally were turned out of their lodgings destitute and penny less. Their box with the pawn-tickets, &c., was detained at the house where they Lad lodged a fortnight ago, for lodg ing, and had since been at the night asylum. They wished to be passed - to Dublin. Mr. Hall inquired for what sum their clothes had been pawned, and being told about 10s., ordered some inquiries to be made at their lodgings, with a view, doubtless, should their story be true, to assist them. Before the rising of the court, however, it was learned by the police that one of them had obtained service in a public house, but had been discharged for her penchant for whisky, not only for herself, but others ; and that the other had got washing to do, but was too lazy to proceed with it ! REMARKABLE DETECTION. Two girls, Mary Jackson and Christina Terrington, were placed at the bar, charged with stealing a silver watch from the person of an elderly man, who had been so foolish as to commit himself to their loving salutations and kindness in the streets, while he was in a state of inebriety. As, how ever, the complainant could not swear that he saw either of them take the watch, although he felt them fumbling about his person, and as nothing was found upon them when ap prehended soon after, they were necessarily discharged, and, making their courtesy at the bar, with all apparent guiltless ness and decorum, left the court. In a very few minutes afterwards, one of the police-officers went to a pawnbroker's with a bill describing the watch, so that it might be stopped if offered in pledge, and had no sooner entered than he found one of the prisoners (Jackson) in the very act of pledging the watch, which she had handed over the counter, and for which she wanted £3. The prisoner was immediately brought back to the Police -court, where the watch (worth about .£6) was produced and identified. She was committed for trial at the assizes.—Mr. Hall remarked to the prosecu tor, that though the ends of justice would be sati,fie,l, he was more lucky than deserving in recovering his watch. INQUESTS. Taken before PHILIP FINCH CURRY, Esq., Coroner. DEATH FROM DRlNKlNG.—Yesterday an inquest was held on view of the body of Robert Gittens. The deceased, it appeared from the evidence, was 44 years of age. He was a whitesmith, and worked at Mr. Munroe's foundry. On Tuesday afternoon the deceased came to his work, and worked up to five o'clock, when he went to his tea. He had com plained of being ill the day before, and was not at work. When he came back from his tea he sat down close to a fel low-workman, (John Melling,) and soon after got up and said he was fainting. Some water was brought, but he was unable to drink. He was carried into the yard, and assist ance was sent for, but before a doctor arrived he was dead. Mr. George Clarke, surgeon, said that on his arrival at the works he found the deceased had ceased to breathe, bat .his heart was still beating. He made a post mortem examination of the body, and found an accumulation of about two quarts of fluid on the right side of the chest, which was the cause of death. This, he added, was probably caused by excessive drinking. His liver was nearly double the size of that of a healthy subject. The widow of the deceased said that Ee was in the habit of drinking very hard, and that he afterwards used to complain of a pain in his right side. The verdict of the jury was to the effect, " that the deceased died from the effects of excessive drinking." DEATH BY ACCIDENTAL DROWNlNG.—Yesterday, an in quisition was held on view of the body of Thomas Ryan, late a labourer for Mr. Holmes, in Sparling-street. The body of the deceased (who was 36 years old,) was found yesterday morning (by John Finley and other boatmen) floating in the river opposite Brunswick Dock, and, being in a state of de composition, was drawn gently along the wall to the Seacombe Slip, whence it was conveyed to the dead-house. The body of the deceased was recognized by his brother, who had heard that he was drowned on the 17th of last month at the Pot teries. A fellow-workman of the deceased stated, that they were employed on that day in breaking up an old ship at the Harrington Docks; that he and deceased and another man got into a small boat to make fast a hawser to a buoy in the river. The boat was drifted down with the tide towards the buoy, and witness called out to the deceased to take hold of the buoy with the boat-hook : he did so, and made the hawser fast to the buoy. The deceased was standing in the middle of the coil of rope, which wound round his legs. He called out to witness to save him, and he laid hold of the hawser to pull ahead, and, in doing so, the tide was so strong, the boat was filled with water immediately, and was carried away by the tide, and they were all three left in the water. The deceased was drowned, and witness and the other man were, with difficulty, saved. Witness had often had the management of a boat. Verdict--" Accidentally drowned." CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of the City of Dublin Steam Company was held at the company's office, Eden-quay, Dublin, on Friday last, and a satisfactory repcirt read, stating the increasing business and progress of the company. The report stated, that the contract which the company had entered into for the conveyance of one of the mails to Li verpool had rendered it necessary that no further delay should take place in providing means for obtaining additional vessels to carry on the increasing intercourse on their several lines, and also in connexion with the inland navigation by the canal and river Shannon. The directors stated, that they had matured a plan by which a new company would be formed in alliance with the old company ; the business of the former being to build such vessels as might be required by the latter ; the whole being based on a contract to be entered into be tween the two companies, and by which the old company undertake permanently to charter such vessels, with a condi tion of continued maintenance and insurance—the proprietors of the new company to have equal personal privileges in the old company's vessels with their own proprietors. The report stated, that it was intended that The Prince, then at the North Wall, and The Princess, should be the first property of the new company, by which arrangement a pro fitable return would at once accrue to the new proprietors. With respect to the proprietors' personal privileges, the directors had determined on giving the advantage of half-fares on board the vessels actually carrying the mail and her Ma jesty's pendant, with entire free passage in all not actually having the mail on board. Priority of subscription to the new shares, at par, is given to the proprietors in the old company. Mr. WILLIAMS stated, that dividends had been paid by the City of Dublin Company to the amount of £213,941 is. 3d., in addition to which, within the last ten years, the amount of repayment to shippers and importers, in reduction of freights; amounted to no less a sum than £86,305 13s. 6d., besides the parliamentary and reserve funds which had been appropriated to the building and purchase of ships and other property by the company. Mr. Williams read some passages of a letter from Sir John Burgoyne, on the subject of the happy orga nisation of the company in the combined action which united the interior of Ireland with the Liverpool navigation, and by which means, as the inland navigation acted as a feeder to the latter, the produce was conveyed to Dublin, for shipment to Liverpool, on the most moderate terms. The report was favourably received, and the announcement of the new company, as growing out of the necessity for providing means to meet the increased intercourse of the company, met the entire approbation of the meeting. [ADVERTISEMENT.] CIRCULATION OF THE CHRONICLE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-Our attention has been called to a statement in the Courier, of this day, from the official return, which professes to give the number of stamps issued to each of the Liverpool papers in the months of January, February, nd March. This return, as regards the Chronicle, is gr y inaccurate. We are stated to have taken out only thirtee housand stamps during that quarter,—namely, four thou nd in January and nine thousand in March, whereas, ought to have had credit for thirty-one thousand, bein the number taken out and paid for by our agents, Messrs. Wrigley and Son, of Bury. We subjoin a copy of their invoice, the original of which we submit to your inspection : January 7, 4OOO „ 12, 6OOO „ 21, 4OOO Feb. 4, , 18, 4OOO March ' 4, 4OOO „ 14, „ 18, 4OOO Total —31,000 This number, divided by thirteen (the number of publica tions in the quarter), exhibits a weekly average of 2382. The actual sale of the Chronicle during that period has been 2288 weekly. We are unable to account for the blunder in the stamp re turn, nor can we ascertain its cause until we hear from our agents, to whom we have written on the subject. But similar injustice has been done on previous occasions to more than one of our local contemporaries, and in imitating their example by placing the matter correctly before the public, we only perform an act of justice to ourselves and that-portion of the public by whom the Chronicle has been a) liberally supported. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, ROSS and NIGHTINGALE. aitecoacle OffreG, Wetheeiday Nurrraxg. - THEATRE ROYAL. Mr. C. Kean's engagement terminates this evening with a strong bill. The "ady- of Lyons" as an afterpiece, pre faced by Colman's play of the " Iron-Chest," judiciously shorn of those patchy musical makeweights, and other heavy busi ness, which . made it worse than. stale, flat, and unprofitable, in the pahniest days of Kemble and his Satellitea. The per formanceS being for Mr. Kean's benefit, we do hope that the house will be crowded. From a concurrence of causes, we regret to learn that this professional visit has not been as suc cessful as was expected. - The fact of his spiritectperformance in the "New Way to Pay Old .Debts" being played to a honse, the receipt s o f which could not have much exceeded those of any average Saturday, night during a..nine months' season, must have been as disheartening to his admirers as to Mi. Kean himself. HoWiver, the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Stars and their employers must, with others; occasionally suffer from the eclipse and preca riousness of, the times. Of energy and enterprise there has been no lack. This is at least satisfactory. , During the past fortnight full plays, embracing the strength of the company, have been the attraction. Richard the Third has-been per formed twice—Hamlet repeated . oftener-Rolla ; once—Sir Giles, once, and Claude Melnotte twi ce . -A n d- t h oug h true that neither Shylock, King John, Richard 11., Lear, Macbeth, nor Reuben Glenroy have been personated ; yet those who, on that account, ,industrionsly seek or affect to attach blame to the management, expose their presumption by-obtruding an arbitrary decision on a subject;of whose fluctuating merits they are, by ignorance, incompetent to judge: - Hackett, the American comedian, is:to . commence his en gagement on Monday. The houses will be good. His countrymen in town, from the docks, and hotels alone, ought to make a show in two of the three parts of the most tasteful theatre anywhere out of London. To their credit be it spoken and recorded, the Americans not-only- profess them selves proud of their country, but, actively support the cause of their countrymen, and in respect of actors honour their " bills," not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous. What sort of Falstaff Hackett makes of Shakspeare's hu morous Jack. we do not know. In such, pieces as, on a for mer visit, the people of Liverpool had the pleasure of seeing him, he made a most favourable impression. He is by-far the- chastest, most .sensible and -,quiet comediap.the-Uni ted States have grown, and spared as a visitor' anaong.,us. 'His school; or style, reminds us : of the veteran Dorton ; and it .. is Dowton's withbut being sullied with that cldSta.,ver's ob jectionabje indulgence, verbally and by, suggestion in lan guage—or gaggery by looks and gesture—trenching_ offen sively upon the obscene. Why such a high-low-game-and the-jack artist as Placide.does I.ot come this way, across the Atlantic, is best known. to himself.- Is be afraid of sea sickness, or of the hen-cocp life of the voyage ? Ability such as he is the reputed possessor of, would find great love amongst us . This is said advisedly, and apart froth . that reciprocity of courtesy which is duo to American performers for the generous reception, untinetured . with jeakiuSy, which the natives of the States.c.xtend -enthusiastically. to:British talent.- The promise incidentally made in our .last notice of the Theatre Royal, cannot be fulfilled at•present : it tnust.estand over. Meanwhile it is satisfactory tohe able to statdi with out any just ground for conscientious contradiction, that Van Amburgh's noble and astonishing exhibitions with' hii forest of trained animals, have drawn crowded and fashion able audiences at Manchester. There the result of the first night of their appearance was such •as to remove all-preju dices on the score of fear, and to cause every one whose own - eyes entitled them to judge, to circulate an unqualified ex pression of their indisputable merit in every circle of their acquaintance. Such has been the attraction of the " lions," and such the nightly throng, that Van Amburgh has been preised into a re-engagement, and has inconsequence de layed his necessary departure for Dublin to the latest moment. We must again have them at our Theatre-royal on their return from Ireland : people outnumbering • six full audiences at least, are anxious to enjoy the rational treat of which others here, lost no time in hastening to participate. Be tween this and their re-appearance in Liverpool, we shall return to the subject ; and since the topic has been mooted, we .are pre. pared to show, as far as our limited space permits, that in the engagement of Van Amburgh,• as in. other illustrationsof their " ways and means," • the enterprise. of the present con ductors of the theatre is exceedingly•to be desired, and very much to be commended. This was ,stated. respectfully. in the Standard before, and it is respeetftilly reiterated now. The issue and the public voice have been with the opinion, as most probably it will be. again, in ; spite, too, of the trying interference of a great political crisis. • From time to time, as leisure and opportunity allow, it is proposed to review the, merits of. the .Stock-company as at present constituted, and therewith to •give .an . analysis, with occasional notices of the decided talent possessed .by several of its members. CHESTER RACES. - TUESDAY. , • The LATE STAND Cur, value 100 says, the gift of the Hon. E. M. Ll. Mostyn, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. One mile and a quarter. Three to start or no race. Mr. Flintoff names ch h Harkaway, 5 yrs • Calloway . 1 Sir T. Stanley's br c Gasparoni, 4 yrs .. Ternpleman 2 Mr. Price's br g Captain Pops, 4 yrs M..Jones 0 Mr. Ogden's br c Harptirhey,4 yrs • • Marlow 0 6 to 5 agst Harkaway, 5 to 2 agst Captain Pops, 4 to 1 agst any other.—Captain Pops took the...lead at a. good pace, Harkaway next to him, and the others close, up. At the distance Captain Pops fell back, and narltaway and Gaspa roni ran a splendid race, head and head, Harkaway, after some severe punishment, winning by "half a Leek.. HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 gs: Thrice round. Captain Lamb's ch li Chit" Chat,. Connelly 1 Sir R. Bulkeley'sb f 'Plecotee,'4 Mr. Barrow's b m Catherina, Templeman. 0 Mr. R. S. Johnson's br h; Job Trotter., 0 12 to 8 agst Catberina, 2 to 1 agst ,Chit 4liati,4 to 1 agst each of the other two. Piceotee led of alet . i.s.low pace; Job Trotter second, Chit Chat third, andilte mare; in the rear ; at the ship yard, the second time roina,•job : made the run ning at a better pace, and at the workhouse. weitt• off in good style, the three leaving the noire a greater length, behind at each stride ; a good race took place from the, Castle-pole, Chit Chat winning by half a neck. . A SWEEPSTAKES, of' d 2 2 5 sot's each, for two .ysar_ old. colts. ' Halra mire. Mr. FoWler'ilh.qit; liOdgson : 1 Sir T. Stanley's' ;t' Silsanetta,-,by tledoxe.-TernPlemon, ; 2 Sir R. Bulkeley's ell t Jenny Jones,,by.fre4tcher.Dacling , 0 Mr. T. Walter's ith'f The Rose, 1)y Priam , Alarkw. 0 . Mr.!l o .'ll.'Price r s br f The Rose of ; IN:X'aelp,e.',. s -0. TWO _paid. 2' to 1 agst each of the Roses, 3to 1 agst Mr. '. •„; Fowler's, 3 to 1 agst Susannetta, and 4:to 1 agst - any -otlinT.- This was a smart race with all except Cornuto and Captain Lamb's, which two appeared not to have : the least pharice in any part of 'the race. The other four came all togetherpat a quick pace, at the distance chair,, from whence, the race was very spiritedly contested; the - winner coming infirg by a neck. Jenny Jones was third and The gosefourth, though I, 4 th, neither were placed. Jenny lost several lengths at the•start.,: Kid SIXTY GurNtas (clear) the gift of the Members for : the City.—Heats, once round and - a dirt rove, • Mr. Buckley's ch c Charley, 3 •yr 5..... G. Whitehouse- 1 w o Mr. Meiklam's hr c The Drone, 4 yrs... Templeman 2 dr Mr. Price's b f The Lady Abbess, 3 yrs... Mr. Ogden's b c St. Leonard, 4 yr 5..... .............. dr Capt. Lamb's br•c Speed, 3' yrs— 0 -dr. Four were drawn.. L.-tdy - Alitess carried Sibs-Browne's filly 211)s, and Charley -fibs over weight. 6 to 4 agst The Drone, 2 to 1 agst St. Leonard, the two against the field. Charley lad'the whole length; and won easily. • WEDNESDAY. . . - The DEE STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. To start at the Castle-pole, go once ,reund, and finish at the, Coming-in chair. Sir T. Stanley's•b c Apothecary by Physician Terripleman Lord Westminster's eh e•The Ree0rder.......... HOimes 2 Mr. T. Walter's ch c Sir Mark, in). to Rococo... Marlow 3 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b c.Owen- Swiftby Jerry, ... DarlinK 0 Mr. F. Price's ch c Dalcinlir by Muley M. ;Jones Two paid. 7t04 on Apothecary, 4 to 1 agst .Duleimer, 4to 1 agst The Recorder, sto 1 agst Owen Swift, and 6to I . • agst Sir Mark, who took'the' lead for about a quarter of.a mile, after which The Recorder took it up at an improved pace, and maintained it to .the distance, ,where ,a splendid race ensued between the , three. placed,horses, • -was . eventually *on at the finish by a head. Only. .. The STAND CITP, value 100 sovs. added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; twice round and a'distance. If walked over • . for the cup not to be given. • Lord Westminster's br h Cardinal : ruff,s yrs,- -Holmes w o G. Calloway weighed forilarkaWay, and the horse was on the ground, but after waiting more than a quarter of an hour, and considerable betting having taken place rather in favour , of the Irish tit, Mr. Ferguson sent word hiS horse should not , 0.-13 drew. • The CESTRIAN STAKES of:, sovi..eaCh; with 30 soya. added ;. second to receive 11l sovs; heats once and, a distance. Sir T. Stanley's b g liarboni, Ityrs T. Lye 0.1 1 Captain Lamb's chic Nimrod; 4 yr 5..... I ... Connolly 1 3 2 Mr. James's ch g Corinthian.. W. jones 02 0 . Mr. W. Denham's b f Query, 4 yrs.. G. Whitehouse 2 .0 TI 6 to 5 on Query, 5 to 2 agst Barboni. and 32 to 1 against Nimrod. First heat—Query led at a fair pace to the distance, Nimrod then challenged her and won very cleverly by. a. length. 2nd beat—ch g took the lead to the distance, where Barboni went past him, and won easily. 3rd heat--Nimrod led to near home when he was beaten without a struggle. Owing to some unaccountable accident our rep9rter had .; not returned from Chester, with , the account of yesterday's . racing, up to the time of our going to press. ~\Ve puderstand , that for the Marquis orlArestininSter's plate Caratan came • in first, Harkaway second, 'and Cowboy third : • • ~ • ..„ . = ,i; MEETING OF THE ftEroaatastidw a general meeting of tiffs" i ' iattp old et the Music-hall, Joseph Wahrialey,''Esir. - 11T a at tendance was very slender at thecanitnen*ricatr and not withstanding the curiosity -ezrcited t 0 leptrp ! in; what manner. the members would expresi themselve,Snuqr;.tie.}i,alexpected crisis, caused by the resignatiot of Mellaaaii,Jrussell,,&e., and the -advent to power of a sound 'fort.,a'dfiiiiiiStratiou, the room was at no time frill during the pideecdings. The report was read, and announced a slightaeassion of mem bers since the last meeting, and an amount received in Sub- . scriptions for the - year of £9OO and odd: It noticed one of the objects of the meeting- 7 -the petitio4ng, in favour' of time cheap transtnission of letters by post,' tht adverted to gene ral topics of " reform," hitliertO advocated by the zissocia tion' and concluded by expressing a hope' that the principles laid down would finally triumph. The proceedings were not • altogether so harmonious as was 'expected. The chairman' addressed the meeting on the present crisis of affairs, and • called on the assoeiation to come forward in opposition to the Tories. A Mr. Smith made a pointed attack on the origitial declaration of faith of the association, which he thought was not sufficiently explicit, and so equivoCal, indeed, that even Lord'. Sandon might sign it Mr. Egerton . Smith rebutted this assertion, and after some altercation the subject merged in the postoffice question, which was lis tened to with no little impatience: • Finally, a postoffice reform petition was agreed to, and also a " magnanimous" resolution to the effect that the-association should endeavour to return two members to parliament next election (if they can?) One person wished that Lord Nugent should be pro posed as one of them, but this was deemed premature, and the meeting dispersed. • New ZEALAND COLONIZATION.—A party of gentlemen , interested In the colonization of New Zealand went on 'Satur day to Blackwall to inspect the barque Tory, a vessel of 400 ' • tons, in which the new company's first exploring and survey- . Mg expedition will go out, under the command of Colonel Wakefield. The Tory is equipped in the - most perfeet man- • tier, and is provisioned for two years; she carries eight guns, with abundance of ammunition, and a numerous crew. There are to be no passengers exceptthe persons entrusted with the conduct of the expedition, and some scientific gentlemen. Her cargo consists of articles tit for barter in New Zealand. It is intended that the vessel shall proceed in the first instance to Okianga, on the Kiapara river ; hutattention will also be directed to various other parts of the three islands., The company, under whose auspices'this new attempt at colOiliza tion will be made have raised £20,000 to begin -with and.. have (it is said) "purchased 600,000 acres of l an d, fr om th e native proprietors. After examining the Tory, lying in the West India Docks, the party proceeded to Lovegrove's hotel, t. 41 where luncheon was provided on a large scale. Mr.. Hutt. x ao”d one of the directors of the company presided, and mr.,Q, Young was vice-chairman. Amone- the other- g0,4 1 .411 , 415 1 1i0-da present, were the Earl of Durham, Lord Petre, .'ir,,%egroti`g bill Sinclair, the Lord ProVOSt of" GlasgoW Mr': Sheriff 'ood, ladarti Cap. Stockton, of the United States Navy, and halfcivilised New Zealander, who la 'is resided 14,,I,qvaimaa;Oorm* nearly twO nears and is well known aboatOvit. '. l Nlr; - Wantis, Baring visited the Tory, but was unable to attend the luneheOn. Many ladies also were present, and ituleed'forMed the litrzes . , • portion of the company.— Spectakr. • ' —• • It , 1 K • e • , • 4, • • ‘ „, 3 , • / ( 1 ..- ■ I