The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-05 00:00:00

~...~ , *mptrial VarTiamtnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAY. The royal assent was given, by commission, to forty pub lic and private bills—namely, two public—the Bishops' Re sidences and the Windsor Castle Stables Bill—and 38 krivate bills. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved for various pa pers, returns, treasury minutes, &c., already submitted to the House of Commons, on the subject of national education, The most rev. prelate intimated, moreover, that on Friday (this day,) he should submit a motion thereon. Lord BROUGHAM observed that, as his Education Bill differed from the government plans, he should defer its second reading from Friday until Monday, in order that it might be kept distinct from those plans, and from the Arch bishop of Canterbury's motion. The Marquis of NoRMANBY moved the second reading of the Jamaica Enactments Bill. The Earl - of HAn.woon opposed the motion, and moved, as an amendment, that the bill should be read that day three months. Lord BROUGHAM urged that the noble earl's opposition would be better directed in the committee on the bill, as it was necessary that parliament should do something in refer ence to Jamaica. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he felt bound to sup port the second reading, and all measures calculated to carry out that emancipation of the negroes which had been enacted by the British legislature ; but he considered the Marquis of Normanby's speech as threatening the destruction of the House of Assembly, and consequently as ill calculated to con ciliate or create confidence. _ ___...... After remarks from_ .... Lord GLENELG (who was unusually animated and energetic,) &c., The Earl of HAREWoon consented to withdraw his amend ment, and to reserve his opposition till the bill was in com mittee. r. The bill was then read the second time, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from John Thoro good, confined during the last six months among felons in Chelmsford Gaol for ss. 6d. church rates ; and asked whether it was with the sanction of her Majesty's government that such a prisoner was confined among such persons ? Mr. Fox MAULS declared that he had never before heard of the case. Mr. BAINSS remarked that this was extraordinary, inas much as he had some time ago presented a petition from this same John Thorogood—a petition, which had given rise to a considerable discussion! Mr. WOOD (in answer to Lord Ingestrie's inquiry) entered into explanations regarding an alleged outrage on the British flag on the coast oeMexico. The " explanations" were (as usual, when whig officials make them) of a very unsatisfac tory nature. Mr. P. THOMPSON (in answer to Mr. G. Palmer) said that, as the last report on shipwrecks had not yet been printed, he could not state whether it would be possible to introduce this session any measure on the subject. Lord J. RUSSELL (in answer to Mr. Miles) said that he intended to defer the further proceedings on the summary jurisdiction bill until the week after next. The house afterwards resolved into committee on the fac tories bill, in which considerable discussion on several clauses and amendments took place. TURNPIKE ACTS. On the motion of Mr. Fox MAULE, leave was given to bring in a bill to continue until the Ist day of June, 1841, and to the end of the then session of parliament, the local turnpike acts for Great Britain which expire with this or the ensuing session of parliament.—The bill was afterwards in troduced, and read a first time. CORPORATE TOWNS. On the motion of Mr. Fox MAULE, leave was also given to bring in a bill for giving additional powers to the councils of corporate towns. Under the present law, the town coun cils could only tax themselves for particular purposes ; and there were many other purposes for which it was very desir able that power should be given to the towns to tax them selves, such, for instance, as the building of a town-hall, pro viding fire-engines, and other similar objects. This additional power it was proposed to confer by the present measure. BILLS OF EXCHEQUER BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that some amendments had been made in the other house to this bill which would render further alterations necessary ; and, as the bill, after all these amendments, would be but an incom plete measure, he would ask leave to bring in a bill which should carry out the intentions of both houses of parliament in a perfect manner. In the meantime he would not discuss the amendments made by the lords ; but when the house had both bills before them, they would be able to determine which was best.—Leave was accordingly given, and the bill, having been introduced, was read a first time. The house adjourned at a quarter before two. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. JAMAICA ENACTMENTS RILL. Their lordships having resolved into committee on the Jamaica Enactments bill, Lord LYNDHURST moved, as the wisest, most politic, and most conciliatory course, the omission of the first clause, that which empowers the " Governor and Council of Ja maica to make laws, ordinances," &c. Lord GLENELG (who was again unusually animated and energetic) supported the clause, contending that with the present temper of the House of Assembly it was absolutely requisite. The Marquis of lc ORMANBY opposed such proposition, and added that, though he had been charged with having uttered unconciliato►y and not wisely-tempered sentiments, after reflection on them he did not regret anything that he had said on this subject. He would not say that the time might never arrive when the House of Assembly could legis late on these matters, but he held that it had not yet come, and that, therefore, the generous people of England would not consent to leave the emancipated negroes in such hands. A long discussion followed, in which the Earl of Harewood, Lord Brougham, Lord Melbourne, Lord Seaford, and Vis count St. Vincent, took part. The committee then divided. The numbers were— Contents Non-contents Majority against the clause 69 The chairman returned the bill, with amendments, and the report was ordered to be received on Thursday next THY ECACATION FLAN. The Bishop of LINCOLN, on behalf of his most reverend friend the Archbishop of Canterbury, gave notice that, on Friday, the most reverend prelate would move an humble ad press to her majesty on the subject of the government plan of education, praying that a measure so deeply affecting the highest interests of the people of these realms may not be finally adopted without affording to their lordships' house an opportunity to express its opinion. Their lordships adjourned at eleven o'clock. HOUSE 'OF COMMONS,—TITESDAY. Some petitions having been presented, the house was counted out. HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY. The House of Lords met, this day, but merely for the pur pose of reading the third time and passing the Sugar Duties Bill, and forwarding some private bills a stage ; which being done, their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. On the motion of Mr. BERNAL (!) a new writ was ordered for Ipswich in the room of Thomas M. Gibson, Esq., who had vacated his seat by accepting a Stewardship of the Chil tern Hundreds—a notification that was greeted with cries of " hear, hear," by the opposition. Mr. SHAW gave notice of a series of amendments that he intended to move in the committee to night on the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he should this evening first move the Canada government bill, and then the Munici pal Corporations (Ireland) bill ; and he proposed that the house should proceed with public business at half after four o'clock, and at the like time on each day of meeting during the remainder of the session. Mr. HUME said, that he should bring forward his motion regarding the Bank of England (to meet which there appeared to be an indisposition on the part of the government) on the first supply day. He asked when the Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion on the subject of the Bank of Ireland would be brought forward ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that he could not name a day. Sir F. BuitnErr renewed the inquiry (made by Lord In gestrie on Monday) respecting alleged further outrage on the British flag in the Mexican seas? Mr. C. WOOD answered that there was not the slightest foundation for the report on that subject. The Prisons (Scotland) Bill was re-committed, and again called forth considerable desultory discussion on its details. The report was ordered to be received on Thursday. The third reading of the Supreme Courts (Scotland) Bill was opposed by Mr. GILLON, who moved, as an amendment, that it be read a third time that day three months. After much debate Mr. Gillon's amendment was negatived by 51 to 21—majority in favour of the bill, 30. The bill was then read the third time, and (after disposing of Mr. Wallace's amendments) passed. The house afterwards adjourned. BLACKBURN NEW BARRACKS.—The plan, long in con templation by government, to make Blackburn an important military station, is now about to be carried into effect. Land for barracks has been purchased since 1830 ; the site is nearly twenty statute acres in extent. The erections are to be of a very handsome and commodious description, and sufficiently capacious to accommodate an entire regiment of infantry and a squadron of cavalry—the amount of military force which it is intended shall be kept up in Blackburn for the future. FLRETWOOD-ON-WYRE.--On the embankement from Bainnage to the terminus at Fleetwood, at least 100 men are employed ; Captain Denham, R.N., the marine surveyor to the Wyre, has also a steamer and several barges at work in deepening and straightening the river, also cutting away part of the knott end sand-bank. The business-like appearance which it now assumes leaves no doubt that the directors are now determined to have the whole of the undertaking com pleted as early as possible, including three light-houses and a boat-house.—Preston Chronicle. DEATH or THE EARL OF LUCAN. — We regret to announce the death of the Earl of Lucan. He was in his 74th year, having been born in December, 1765. He was married in May, 1794, to the Lady Elizabeth Bellaysis, third daughter of Henry, second and last Earl of Falconbridge, whose former marriage with Bernard Edward Howard, Esq., now Duke of Norfolk, was dissolved in that year. She died in March, 1819, leaving issue the present peer, late Lord Bingham, who is in his 40th year, and married to the Lady Anne Brudenell, daughter of the Earl of Cardigan. His eldest son, now Lord Bingham, was born in May 1830. By the death of the late earl there is a vacancy in the Irish representative peerage. THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.—What is the reason that the young men of the present day are so heartless ? so irreligious ? so profane ; so unfeeling ? so unacquainted with all the great sympathies of God and of nature ? We verily believe it is from banishing the Old and New Testaments from primary schools, and supplying their places with the affected, cold, artificial, unnatural school books of the present day. Our first lessons in reading were in .the New Testament, and the examples of feeling, virtue, and natural pathos, recorded in the history of the beloved Saviour, have exercised an influ ence over the imagination that nothing can erase—nothing destroy. On this have our character, resolution, and career been founded. For God's sake—for the sake of nature and humanity, take back the Bible to the early school room. — New York Paper. VALE GWYNANT.—High as my expectations had been, they were at length more than realised ; for the sudden view of Vale Gwynant, bursting full upon me in the radiant beauty of a moonlight light was one of the most wildly picturesque I had ever beheld. It seemed well denominated at the mo ment the Vale of Waters—the most lovely of all Snowdon— comprehending within itself some or other charm peculiar to all its less favoured sisters. As magnificent as beautiful, at no hour could it have been seen under a more favourable aspect—in its richest autumnal hues and softest touches of the season's fall. The majestic calm and beauty of the hills appeared mirrored in the waters at their feet, which glowed with that mellow radiance never seen by day ; while afar off the music of the flashing falls alone broke on the deep solitude and silence of the night. Innumerable mild and variegated hues, caught from the serene refulgent skies, contrasted with the dusky shadows of the rocks, painting every object—now bright, half hidden, or deeply obscured—some changing feature continually surprising the eye. And soon, to the eastward, where the mountain begins to recede, came a bolder stream of light, through the opening which revealed the distant peaks of Snowdon, arrayed in all the richness of rainbow hues, from the deepest purple to those gray, brown, and darkening masses which invest the foreground and the b age ....—EArtictafroris Roxoe'll EXCUMOI6B its Walet. MISCELLANEOUS. One Augusta Legault, a Lower Canadian habitan, was lately murdered by his own wife, while on his knees, at prayer, by a stroke with an axe. The accounts from Naples to the 14th instant, state the barley and oat crop to be very backward. It was also ex- pectic' that wheat Would be late. A Coot, PROPOSITION.—The editor of the Boston Atlas who has been sued for a libel—damages 20,000 dollars—by the managers of the late Chelsea Bank, offers to pay the damages down, in advance of the trial, provided they will take Chelsea Bank notes in pay. Very accommodating. Advices from Oddessa, to the 28th instant, mention that grain generally remained calm, although during the last few days a number of vessels had arrived ; about 30 being wait ing for loading, among which were 13 Austrians. The wheat crop wore a very favourable appearance, and -the arrivals from the interior were abundant. We understand a gentleman named Plitt, has come over to this country as a special agent of the United States Post Office, the object of his mission being to obtain such parti culars as he may be able from the Post Office in London, with a view to the establishment of a uniform penny postage throughout the States.—Morning Post. THE PROJECTED COLLEGE AT BATH.—The plan for the erection of the new Protestant College at Bath, to be called Queen's College, has been decided on. It is a very beautiful specimen of the Elizabethan style of architecture, with an elegant square tower in the centre. Lord Powerscourt has given another donation of £5O towards the erection.—Bath Gazette. DEATH OF THE HON. RICHARD BA.RRETT, SPEAKER OF THE JAMAICA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.--TIIIS hOH. gen tleman paid the debt of nature at Mundego Bay, on Satur day the 18th May. He had been transacting business at the stores of Messrs. Dewar, when he was taken suddenly ill, and, being removed up stairs to the lodging-house of Miss Catharine Shaw, shortly afterwards expired there, in conse quence of an attack of apoplexy. THE GLASGOW BANKS.—We understand that the banks of Glasgow have this week advanced the rate of interest upon bills of four months and upwards to 5A per cent., and have also intimated to some of their customers that there is every probability of its being next week raised still further. They have not, however, as yet announced any determina tion to give more than 3 per cent. on deposits.— Glasgow Courier. CONVERT FROM POPERY.—The Bishop; of London has ordained, as a minister of the Church of Englaud, a gentle man who had been born and educated in the Church of Rome, and who had been studying at Rome eight years to qualify himself as a minister of that church. His residence at Rome has led to conviction of the errors of Papacy, which he has in consequence renounced, and is now a zealous de fender of the faith once delivered to the saints.—Windsor and Eton Journal. A SHERIFF RUN AWAY WITH.—On the 23d ult., Mr. Brotherton, the sheriff of St. Lous, attached the steam boat General Brady. On the night of the 24th, the deputy-sheriff, Mr. Lacy, slept on board. About four o'clock in the morn ing, discovering that the boat was raising steam, he rushed to the pilot-house, and took possession of the wheel ; but the pilot and hands over-powered him, put off with the boat, deputy-sheriff and all, for New Orleans. A considerable distance below, Mr. Lady was put on shore.—American paper. RADICAL GRATITUDE.—The Radical town-council of Birmingham, in consideration of Mr. Charles Maddock's thirty years' services and martyrdom in the course of reform, have appointed him door keeper to the corporation, at a sala . ry of twenty shillings per week ! On the other hand, in consi deration of Mr. Douglas's services, as a hired writer in a news paper for two years and a half, be same town-council have appointed him a snug and easy birth, which, upon a moderate calculation, will be worth from three to four hundred per annum ! Poor Mr. Boultbee, notwithstanding his eminent services as a leader of a Political Union for nearly ten years, is still worse off than Mr. Maddocks. He has been appointed High Constable, at a salary of £0 0 0!! All the good things are now prett y nigh disposed of.—Birmingham Ad vertiser. THE CROPS. — Some solicitude begins to be felt at the present state of the weather, and not without reason. The heavy rains of the past week have put an entire stop to the hay harvest ; and in some districts the barley plant has as sumed an unfavorable appearance from their effects, especi- allly on the cold lands. The wheats happily, although in the critical state of their blossoming, do not appear at present to have sustained any injury, but Tor the inaiining cif all des criptions of grain, as well at the getting in of the hay harvest dry sunny weather is now anxiously looked for. In some of the situations, the brooks have overflowed their banks, and flooded the adjacent meadows.— Worcester Herald. LOVE AND LEARNING. -7-It is announced in the Irish pa pers, that " the junior fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, have drawn up a petition to the Queen, praying that her Ma jesty would be graciously pleased to repeal the statute of celibacy, which prevents them from marrying. The petition will be presented to her Majesty by D_ ,r Lefroy, one of the members for the university." Her Majesty will scarcely be so ill-advised as to grant the prayer of this petition. Imagine the consequences !—grave divines jostled by children riding cock-horse in college cloisters, balls flying through the painted windows and pelting the pates of professors, infants squalling, nurses scolding—all the hubbub and distraction of a 'line family," in recesses intended for lonely contempla tion, discussion ou the folic aigamma, and the philosophy of Aristotle ! A letter from Perigueux, of the 20th ult. given by the Nou velliste, says—" Probably no department has snflered more from the storm than ours ; nearly one hundred communes have been ravaged by the hail. In the memory of man no similar disaster has been known. We have seen hailstones weighing 71bs. each. A miller who was driving two mules on road to l3rantome, had his arm broken by a hailstone and his two mules were killed. The hailstones actually en tered the bodies of the mules ! The form of the stones was that of wedges with which wood is split. Entire roofs have have been destroyed, and tha morning after the storm the hail was lying on the earth two feet thick. The vines and crops are ail cut up, the trees are bare, and we have all-the appearance of winter in a temperature of suffocating heat." "THE DUKEAND THE MINISTRY.—The patience of Englishmen is proverbial, but it is certainly not inexhaust ible ; and if ever there was a time when it drew near a close, the time is now at hand. A succession of measures, equally crafty in their origin and mischievous in their practice, have characterised the existing ministry. Tile country grows more alarmed, indignant, and astonished hour by hoar.— Yet the leaders of the opposition, the chosen and able indi- viduals to whom the British empire has virtually given the national guardianship, can see no danger, and adopt no de fence! The boldest, most decided, and most sagacious man of living Europe, sits on the height, amusing himself with the game in which kingdoms are the stake ; and, like Homer's thunderer, looking down on the struggle that covers the plains below, lets ;the bolt grow cold at his feet, and suffers the havoc to go on, in the easy consciousness that when it shall be his pleasure, a shake of his sovereign curls can de cide the day. Let the Duke of Wellington but pronounce the word, and the Melbourne minstry is at an end.—The Britannia. The American Fur Company has just sent a trade expe dition (with a dozen clerks, and some 110 artizans) up the Misouri river. This is done every two years or so. What makes the present voyage unusually interesting, is the con nection of science with it. In this expedition are M. Nico let, of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, some of our topographical engineers, &c. This looks well. The party will mount far above the mouth of the Yellow Stone—say 2,000 miles of the Missouri—by steam ?—Correspondent of Athenaeum. A letter from Carlsbad, June 20, says " The season has commenced very early at this place. Divine service is now performed for the first time in the English language, by the Rev. Mr. Mackie, of Oxford. Several American, Swiss, and Prussian Protestants attended the opening of the rooms for that purpose on Sunday last. There is a report this morning that we are to be visited early in August by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who is coining here with his duchess to meet Prince George, who returns from the east through Triest and Vienna." PAWNBROKERS' PROFITS.—At an inquest held on Sa turday, on the body of an unknown infant that had been found dead at a pawnbroker's shop in Tottenham-court road, Mr. Wakley observed, in the course of conversation with the jury on pawnbrokers' profits, that he had read in a " Report" of a committee of the House of Commons, that one blanket had been pawned 285 times in one year. It was regularly pawned in the morning, and redeemed in the even ing. The parties pledging it had paid, it was calculated, on all the moneys obtained on it, at the rate of £2,000 per cent. STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE IRON TRADE.—We learn from a very elaborate paper read by Mr. J. Johnson before the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, that there are at this time in Scotland 5.0 furnaces in blast, five out, seven build ing, and 91 contemplated. In 1740 the annual produce of the kingdom was 17,350 tons cast iron. Mr. Johnson thinks it probable, from the above data, that in 1842 Scotland alone will produce upwards of 360,000 tons, and• that within five years 1,000,000 tons will he produced annually in South Wales. SOMEWHAT PERSONAL TO THE HON. E. J. STANLEY The Spectator of Saturday, in noticing the recent debate on the colonial waste lands question, says :—" Of Mr- La bouchere's speech, the best that can be said is, that it dis played modesty, becoming, but rare in an under secretary — usually a personage whose flippancy is on a par with his igno rance." Odds, guns, and blunderbusses," exclaimed the Hon. E. J. Stanley on reading this passage ; " the writer deserves to be pickled or laid in the abbey. Bullets and triggers, but I'll have satisfaction, or I'm no loner member for North Cheshire and whipper in of the whigsl Have we not been reformed? If any doubt, let them read the following advertisement, which appeared in a London paper of last week :—" Parliament. An eligible opportunity presents itself for a gentleman of liberal politics to secure a permanent political ipterest in a borough within less than 100 miles of London, by a safe purchase, or by lending money upon mortgage, upon ample security. The sum of money necessary for this object will not be large in amount. Mind, reader, this is addressed to gentlemen of " liberal politics." Wherever there is any dirty work to be per formed, your liberal, with his purse well lined, is the man against all the world.—Morning Herald. CAPTURE OF HANSON . , A NOTORIOUS HIGHWAYMAZ•I. It will he recollected that on the 26th of April last a person, named Hanson, was taken into custody at Lincoln on suspi cion of committing a highway robbery upon the person of a cattle-dealer, named Queenborough, at llowden, in York shire, from whom he succeeded in getting between £4OO and £5OO. Hanson was put into the station house in Lincoln for security, previous to his removal to Howden, but about five o'clock in the afternoon he effected his escape by break ing through the skylight. Nothing was heard of him from that time until information was was received at Lincoln from the police authorities of Northampton, who suspected that a person in custody on a charge of highway robbery at the above-named town answered the description of the individual who had escaped from the Lincoln station house. On re ceiving the intelligence Mr. Ashton, the inspector of police for Lincoln, went and recognised Hanson, who gave his name Brown- —he is called the captain of the gang, and has twice attempted to escape from the gaols at Northampton. Hanson is the same individual who was convicted of a rob bery on board a packet, for which offence he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Kirton Bridewell. He is also well known at Hull and its neighbourhood.—Doncaster, Nottingham, and Lincoln Gazette. STATE OF THE CROPS.—The late rains have had the most beneficial effects on every description of produce. Even the clover fields, which were at one time considered to be be yond 'all hopes of improvement, have changed their ap pearance. It will be deficient ; but when submitted to the scythe will not prove near so light as anticipated. Wheat is strong, and so far advanced, that dry weather can now do it little injury. The same may be said of beans, which have seldom exhibited a more promising appearance than at the present moment. Oats and barley promise fair, and even in cold exposed situations have lost that stinted sickly appearance so much complained of some time ago. But none of the crops have benefited more from the warm weather and the late soft growing showers than potatoes. The same remark applies to turnips, which are now a most important part of the farmer's produce, and of which a great breadth has been planted. The breadth of potatoes is also considered to be beyond an average. The accounts agree in representing the shaws to have sprung up with a degree of health and vigour that cannot fail to become strong productive plants, with even ordinary weather. It is gratifying to find, that not only are the accounts throughout the kingdom equally favourable with the above, but that the accounts from Ireland, and• even different parts of. the Continent, and from America, are-of a most cheering description.—Stirling Journal., ~ • 111 / 4 , HOBART Toww, FEB. 3.—Lord Glenelg has announced to Sir George Gipps that in future no ecclesiastic is to have a seat in the council.—Austraksiatic Review. The public may judge of the destitution amongst the po pulation of Ennis by the fact, that seven hundred and fifty seven persons we're fed iu the House of Industry on Thus- day last.—Limoick Standard. ATTENTION TO THE SIGHT YOUTH.—III order to see well, it is necessary to begin early in life to take care of the eyes. Many children have their sight permanently weakened by the carelessneas of nurses, in exposing them soon after birth to a strong light, or to the bright glare of a fire, &c. These cannot, therefore, be too stronglyimpressed on nurses and servants by those who regard the welfare of their off spring. The eyes of infants should be gradually accustomed to exercise themselves in scrutinising distant objects ; but this should be done in the most careful manner, without in- ducing them to strain their tender sight on such things as are too remote or dazzling for them to see without causing a for- cible contraction of their immature organs, which May lay the foundation of permanent or irremediable debility.—Curtis on the Preservation of Sight. SINGULAR ARREST OF A COUNTY TIPPERARY MUR- DERER.-Ou last Friday, a man, calling himself Peter Bolton, was arrested for riot anClaffray in the streets of Belfast. On being brought before the bench of magistrates, he underwent an examination, the result of which'was, he was fined two pounds or two months' confinement. On leaving the court he gave a leap, uttered a yell, and shouted, " Here's sweet Tipperary and the sky over it." Our active and intelligent chief constable, who was by during the trial, thought that he recognised in the prisoner's features, figure, and form, a per son not unfamiliar to him, but he could not bring to his re- collection any connectin g circumstances of identification. The magic exclamation "Sweet Tipperary" operated on the chief's memory like the touch of lthuriel's spear ; he sent for the ' Gazette.' for there it was he became acquainted with the particulars of Peter Bolton's appearance, but then the name attached was John Quin, who stood charged with the murder of Michael Grace, near Nenagh, 26th of May. The chief followed Peter Bolton to the cell, and calling out, "are you there, John Quin ?" Bolton answered " here I am"— " why do you call yourself Bolton?" said he " that's my travelling name, your honour," returned the prisoner. John Quin, alias Bolton, having undergone additional examination, matters transpired corroborative of his havingbeen concerned in the crying crime. He is to he transmitted back again to " sweet sweet Tipperary," to take his trial at the coming as sizes.—Northern Paper. • To MAKE A HOLY MEMBER OF THE " CHURCH UNI VERSAL,"—Take the herbs of bigotry and the root of pride, • of each two ounces ; bruise them in the mortar of contention and discord ; take as many drops of the spirit of Satan as he permitted to give, and one ounce of extreme unction •, boil these in three quarts of holy water, put them over the fire of seditipu, until you perceive the scum of falsehood, and schn it with the cup of blindness ; strain all through the cloth of rebellion, put it into the bottle of envy, and stop it up with the cork of malice ; take three drops of it before going to bed; stay an hour grunting and grow ling, until it begins to operate, then lie down in the sleep of darkness—it will have such an effect on you, that you will raise the rent, curse the church, despise the authority of bishops, behead kings, and set up knaves to rule the nation. This valuable recipe was found amongst the papers of a late Titular Bishop.—Warder. COAL PIT EXPLOSION AT SOUTH SHIELDS—FIFTY LIVES LOST.—A most dreadful explosion, attended with a vast sa crifice of human life, occurred at St. Hilda's colliery, the pro perty of Messrs. J. and W. Brandling (from which are pro cured the coals known by the name of the " St Hilda's Wall send," on Friday morning. The first notice of the explosion given at the mouth of the pit was about a quarter to nine o'clock, when the banksmen were alarmed by seeing the smoke from the pit furnace, mixed with fragments of small coals, ascending the down cast shaft. A short time after, the men and boys to the number of about 100 were brought to the mouth of the pit ; but the only thing they could tell was that an explosion had taken place, in what is called the west working of the pit. Many of these were nearly ex hausted from the effects of the choke damp, but those who were sufficiently well, again in a short time descended the pit, accompanied by some other of the men who had not been down, for the purpose of making what exertions they pos sibly could for the rescue of the men and boys who were left behind. However, none were found alive ; and about eleven o'clock the bodies of the sufferers began to be brought to the bank. As the pit is situated almost in the centre of ; the town, the inhabitants felt the full force of the dreadful event, and the groups and crowd that were collected together, and gathered about the scene of the explosion, seemed deeply to feel this sudden and awful stroke of death occurring at their own doors, and coming hoine to the firesides and families of some of them. The spectacle was extremely affecting and solemn. Mothers waiting for their children, children for their parents, relatives for those who should no more appear in life before them. All this presented a scene which no words can portray, but which no eye that beheld it could see without tears. One by one the lifeless bodies of the sufferers, to the amount of fifty at least, were brought out from the shaft, and as they were carried by their comrades down to the carts which were waiting to receive and convey them away, they were recognised by a father, a mother, a brother, a sis ter, a wife, or a child, and the air was rent with their ago nising shrieks.—Abridged from the Tyne Mercury. SEIZURE OF FIRE-ARMS AT ASIITON.—In consequence of information received by the Ashton police, Robert New ton, jun., the deputy-constable, accompanied by Ashworth an , : Keyes, the officers, and other constables, proceeded, about half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, to the house of Timothy Higgings, secretary to the Ashton chartists, in Portland-street, in that town. On knocking at the door, a lodger opened the chainber windOw, and, at the request of the officers, opened the door and admitted them. On pro ceeding up stairs, they found Higgins and his wife in bed, and, in the same room, perceived two long narrow chests, one of which was open. On examining the contents of these boxes, the officers found seventeen muskets, with bayonets, and a spare bayonet ; four double-barrel guns, a rifle, one large horse pistol; four common-sized pistols, besides a quan tity of bullets and cases. The fire-locks were placed in layers, with thin pieces of board between, and were apparenly quite new, hearing the name of Thompson, the maker.— Upon asking how he became possessed of these fire-arms, Higgins told the officers that he had them from the manu facturer for the purpose of sale. He was desired to get up, and, having done so, was taken to the police-office; and, a cart having been procured, the chests and their contents were taken there likewise. It having been reported that Higgins had been taken, a large mob assembled in the streets on Monday morning, in the neighbourhood of the court house, where the prisoner was brought up before James Jowett, Abel Buckley, James Lord, and William Wright, Esqrs. Mr. Richard Cobbett, attended as solicitor for Higgins. Newton, the constable, having stated the facts of the capture, and the finding of the fire-arms, Mr. Cobbett wanted to know what authority he had for entering Higgins's house, and whether he had a search warrant or not.—Newton replied that he certainly had not a search warrant ; but, hav ing reason to believe that a disturbance was contemplated. and that these arms were intended to be used in that disturb ance, he thought himself justified in taking possession of them, in order to preserve the peace.—Mr. Cobbett submitted to the magistrates that there had been no ground stated which would justify the conduct of the constables in entering the prisoner's house, and seizing the arms. Higgins did not give any account of the way in which he had become pos sessed of the arms, The magistrates, after deliberating a few minutes, said, they would adjourn their decisionuntil 'S'atur eay week ; but, if sufficient bail were offered in the mean time for the prisoner's appearance on that day, it would be taken. In reply to a question from Mr. Cobbett, the magis trates said, the securites they would require were, Higgins himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each. William Aitkin, schoolmaster, who is in the habit of speaking at the different •meetings of the chartists, and John Williamson, of Stamford-street, a cotton spinner, who has latterly followed the printing business, entered into the required sureties ; and the prisoner was discharged. Higgins is by trade, we be lieve, a cotton spinner, who has for some time past acted as secretary to the chartist association ; and his conduct has in j some wa or other fallen under the censure of one (the Ste phensite portion of his former friends in the cause of chart ism. e has frequently been employed as a delegate to re present the Ashton chartists at meetings of those worthies in the neighbouring towns—perhaps finding it more profitable to do so than to follow his legitimate business. NEWSPAPERS.—A newspaper taken in a family seems to shed a glance of intelligence around. It gives the children a taste for reading—it , ommunicates all the important events in the busy world b ; it is a never-failing source of amusement, and furnishes a fund of instruction which will never be ex hausted. Every family, however poor, if they wish to hold a place in the rank of intelligent beings, should take at least one newspaper ; and the man who, possessed of property sufficient to make himself easy for life, and surrounded by children eager for knowledge, is instigated by the vile spirit of cupidity, in neglecting to subscribe to a newspaper, is deficient of the duties of a parent or a good citizen, and is deserving of the censure of his intelligent neighbours.— American Paper. CALCUTTA.—Commercial accounts from Calcutta to the middle of April state that no rain had fallen since January, and that on the Ist of April intense heat had set in. If this weather continued it was calculated that the indigo crop would fall very short, the most favourable accounts estimat ing it at 115,000 in. In Benares the plant had likewise suffered much, and Tirhoot, Lower Bengal, the drought had been excessive. Not more than 22,000 maunds remained in store, and these were 'of a very ordinary description. The letters from Loquipoor complain much of the draught, and the weather at Decca had been extremely prejudical. Little business had been doing in cotton, and the price was lower by one rupee'per maund compared with the last year. The exports of indigo from the Ist November, 1838, to the 31st March, 1839, were 33,013 maunds to England, 25,3% to France, - 2,537 to the United States, and 6,909 to Bombay and the .Gulf--a total of 67,855, maunds. ANTICIPATED OUTBREAK IN LlMERlCK.—Provisions rate so high at present—poverty and misery—destitution and dis tress—are so lamentably prevalent, that very serious apprehen sions were entertained on Saturday that the lower classes would rise en masse, and break open the.stores in search of something to appease their feelings of hungti. It was, there fore, thought advisable to have the military in garrison under arms during the day, and this very necessary order having been issued, other preparations were made to subdue the outbreak, should it be commenced. However, no disposition was evinced by the people to create hostilities, and for the present the alarm has subsided. How long peace may con tinue no one can tell, but the authorities should he in mo tion, as the people are loud in complaining of their suffer ings. —Limerick Standard. NATIONAL CONVENTION, BIRMINGHAM. Monday, being the day appointed by the manifesto for the delegates re-assembling in Birmingham, the people looked with some anxiety or, curiosity to witness their return. At eleven o'clock a small crowd assembled in front of Laurence-street Chapel ; but the doors not having been opened, and not a delegate making his appearance, they separated. Between twelve and one o'clock, about half a dozen of delegates, including Messrs. Lovett, Hartwell. Moir, Neesom, Deane, and Browne, met at the Yellow T Lion, Aston-street. After much time occupied in very uninteresting, but somewhat recriminary discourse, it was resolved that they should adjourn to four o'clock, for the purpose of giving an oppor tunity-to the absent delegates to make their appearance. Mr. O'Connor arrived at two o'clock, and appeared greatly cha grined at the little interest excited by the pompous announce ment of their intended re-assemblage. It is the general opinion of all delegates, that their departure from London was a most " untoward event." There were only three visitors in the room at, the Golden Lion. Money is said to be the subject matter of quarrel. Morning Chronicle. AWFUL CATASTROPHE,—About four o'clock on the morning of Monday, the 24th instant, a little girl, fourteen years of age, the daughter of William M'Elroy, a labourer residing in the neighbourhood of Loughbbrickland Lake, went in company with her brother to take fish from a net which unfortunately had been placed in a bog hole on the verge of, and covered by, the lake ; and, having incautiously ven tured in, became entangled in the net. The lad ran for his mother to come to her assistance, who, when she came to the spot, immediately plunged in to relieve her daughter. This melancholy scene was witnessed by M'Elroy himself, who was then in a field convenient, moulding his potatoes previous to commencing his day's work ; he instantly ran to the spot for the purpose of extricating his wife and child from their perilous situation ; he plunged in, and being una ble to swim, went down also. The wife, after struggling a short time in the water,, gained the edge of the pit, when, seeing her husband lying in the water, she went to his assist ance, and being unable to afford him relief, sunk to the bottom. The three persons, after remaining not more than five minutes in the water, were drawn out by Mr. James Cupples and his servants, at the peril of their lives. Some time having elapsed before surgical aid could be procured, means were used for their resuscitation, but unhappily the vital s~arSc was extinct—Newry Telegraph. A type-founder of Clermont, named Colson, has obtained a patent for a new material for printing types, which is harder, capable of more resistance, and yet less expensive, than the ordinary composition of lead.and antimony. It is well known that types cast from the latter soon become worn, especially since the introduction of machine printing. Colson asserts that the material is so hard that the types themselves will serve for punches in striking matrices, and that it will last 10 years without being more worn than the usual composition in one year.—Foreign Monthly Review. WHITE BAIT IN SCOTLAND. — We hear that white bait have now begun to make their appearance for the season in the Firth of Forth ; if warm weather continue, there will soon be abundance of them. The apathy of the gourmands of Edinburgh is to be wondered at in not taking measures for having this delicate article of food supplied in large quantities. A young naturalist of our acquaintance last summer, with no better means than a small silk net, which he carried in the crown of his hat, took on several occasions draughts of se veral pounds meight. Some persons for .a time affected to doubt that the genuine Clupia alba had been, caught, and founded their opinion on some attempts which were made in the market to pass off other species for them ; but no point in natural history has been more strictly investigated and set tled by competent judges, than the identity of the white bait of the Forth with that of the Thames.—Scotsman. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. — We know no more substantial proof of confidence in the prosperity of South Australia, and of the value of her soil, than that which is exhibited by the payment, in hard cash, of a sum o' £4OOO for as many acres of land. Yet within these last two weeks no less than five special sur veys have been demanded, and £20,000 paid into the colo nial treasury as their stipulated price. The survey taken during the past week by Mr. Robert Cock, land agent, on behalf of Matthew Smillie, Esq., has been selected to the northward of Mount Barker, and in one of the most fertile of the many fertile.tracts of that rich neighbourhood ; and a second, special, demanded by Mr. J. B. liack, one of our oldest and most enterprising colonists, includes a singularly beautiful tract south of Mount Barker. We learn that his excellency the resident commissioner has determined to offer certain surveys to public contract; and we rejoice very sin cerely at this trial of a system which' cannot fail to be less expensive and more expeditious than that hitherto followed. •— } South Australian Gazette. FREE TRADE IN CORN. — England has now had nearly a twelvemonth's experience in the "benefits" to be derived from the admission of corn free of duty. What is the result? Has bread been cheaper? Have foreigners "taken our ma nufactures in exchange for their corn ? ' We answer these inquiries with the simple negative—No. We have had to pay a high price to foreigners in gold (and not in goods) to such an alarming extent, that the Bank of England has been under the necessity, in consequence of the great scarcity of money in the country, to advance the amount of interest to the high rate of 51 per cent per annum ! Thoughtful Eng lishnien will deduce from this simple fact what anti-corn-law theorists will in vain attempt to gainsay. They will ,require no further illustration to convince them of the obvious fact, that if either Providence were in succession to inflict upon this nation two.more unproductive harvests, or the shallow anti-corn-law liberals were to succeed in subjecting it to five years' experience of the effects of a free trade in corn, Eng land would become a nation of bankrupts.—Ten Towns' Messenger. RE-DISCOVERY OF THE AURORA ISLANDS.—From a let ter, communicated by Colonel Cohen, United States, dated Rio de Janeiro, 9th March, 1839, it appears that two vessels, the Medina and Mary Jane, belonging to Mr. Burrows, of New York, had, during their recent voyage to the South At lantic, re-discovered the Aurora Islands, six in number, and of which Mr. Burrows had made drawings. These islands, which lie about half way between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, were discovered about 80 years since by the ship San Miguel ; 40 years afterwards the Spanish govern ment sent the Atrevida to search for and examine them. Since this time many persons, and amongst others Weddel, the well-known antarctic navigator, have sought for them in vain, and they have been generally erased from out charts. Mr. Burrows describes these islands as six in number, about 300 feet high, extending north and south for a distance of 21 miles, without any ship passage between them, and 26 miles to the southward lie some rocks called the Shag Rocks. The Aurora Islands are stated to be in lat. 53 deg. 22 min. S. long. 44 deg. 18 min. W. The longitude usually assigned to them in our charts is 48 deg. W. of Greenwich. FAILURE OF THE FRUIT CROP.--:-The sharp frost and the heavy fall of snow which occurred in the middle of May last, has, as we feared, produced an almost total destruction of the fruit crops. Gooseberries, currants, cherries, plumbs, and pears, are almost a total failure, and apples are very nearly as bad. One gardener in the vicinity, who usually brings to market 5000 pints, does not think his garden will this year produce forti. A great many bushes have not one solitary berry on them, and even the best of them have a mere gleaning. An individual, who has been a gardener for twenty five years states, that there was never a year during that long period in which he had not seen some years, but this year he had not got his eye on one. The only exception to this failure is the strawberry crop, and that to all appear ance will be luxuriant. We understand that at Donoon, Rothsay, Largs, and other places on the coast within the range of the sea air, there has been no failure.—Paisley Advertiser. THE LORD MELVILLE PACKET.—We have hitherto re frained from any allusion to the supposed fate of this Packet. Now, however, there can be unfortunately no doubt upon the subject. Another heavy sacrifice has been made to the disastrous voyage to Halifax. The Melville sailed from this port with the American Mail, on the 9th of February, but she never reached her destination. It is supposed that she foundered in consequence of falling in with an iceberg. No one could be more generally or more deservedly esteemed, than her Commander, Lieut. Webbe. By this disaster . twelve wives and forty children were deprived of their means of support. There were also five young men on board who contributed to the maintenance of their aged parents. The liberality of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood, has un happily been often appealed to under similar melancholy cir cumstances, and we are sure they will not be wanting now. A committee has been formed for obtaining subscriptions towards the relief of the widows and orphans of the ill-fated crew, under the auspices of Captain Plumridge, who has him self given a liberal donation. We beg most earnestly to ap peal to our readers to assist, both by their own contributions, and by mentioning the subject among their friends.—Pal- mouth Express. EARL OF DURHAM'S GRATUITOUS SERVICES. — S ir Strat ford Canning has, by a careful examination of returns, ascer tained that the gratuitous—mark gratuitous—services of the .lActator Earl of Durham are to cost the country at the rate offifty thousand pounds per annum for his Highness's " per sonal expenses,"—Shakespeare says there is nothing in a name—surely he is in error. The name is every where mo ney is concerned. Father Foigard has well defined the dis tinction between " bribe" and a "gratification." So Lord Durham marks the just difference between " salary" and " personal expenses." " Salary"—" a fico for the phrase"— it sounds almost as low as wages,—but " personal expenses" rings on the ear almost with the dignity of " a civil list." — Then there is another difference, and one not to be despised, between the tradesmanlike " consideration," " salary,' and the quasi royal honorarium ",personal expenses." The first must be definite and moderate. Thus Sir Francis Head's salary for saving the provinces was £2,800 per annum—the Dictator's " personal expenses" were £50,000!!! a year—the Baronet too, was no better than any poor drudge working for wages ; while the Peer, who went near to lose the same pro vinces, had all the glory of giving to the ;country his unre quited services. The preference is all to nothing to be a warded to " personal expenses" which one may enlarge ad libitum, and play benefactor all the while.—Oxford Herald. THE LAW OF STORMS. The labours of Colonel Reid have so directed and riveted general attention to the momen tous questions involved in the law of storms, that every con tribution of facts connected with the phenomena has become of public value. In this light the following may he received: " On March 30th, 1836, at 4 p. m., being in the brig Matilda, of St. John, New Brunswik, off the. Bay of Naples, the island of Ischia bearing east, and distant ten leagues, it blowing hard N.W.and thick weather, I observed a very curious appearance in the N.W. It seemed columnar, and like a lighthouse, enveloped in a white blaze of fire, and con tinued so for 15 or 20 minutes, and then disappeared, Im mediately after, the wind fell to a moderate breeze, and the weather cleared up, when we hada fine pleasant day." This is authenticated by the signature of John Buckley, mate of the barque Barlow, and was recently sent to Colonel Reid, the recipient of a number of similar communications respect ing remarkable waterspouts. The gallant and intelligene officer, we are happy to state, has arrived in safety at his goyernment in Bermuda; and we may add, that the men posted at the signal stations there are ordered to observe the mode of action of waterspouts, which are of frequent occur rence in these latitudes, and to describe them in their own manner, which descriptions will be published in the news papers: The example ought to be followed wherever an opportunity is offered. There was an instance lately seen at Bermuda, which is described as having appeared of a reddish colour in the middle, although the sun was not shin ing at the time. A collection of data is likely to lead to very curious and very interesting discoveries in this new and important branch of science.—Literary Gazette. SMITHFIELD PREACHING. During the last few weeks, an addition has been made to the polemics exhibited in Smithfield on Sunday evenings, which, by the utmost tole ration, cannot be considered creditable to the city. The toleration of religious preaching there led to what the actors in it called political preaching • and the toleration of the latter has led to what, by a stidfurther strain upon the term, is denominated social preaching. The doctrine of the Smith field socialists is not, like that of the mistaken 0 wenite, that men might live in common, but they ought to do so, and that the inferior should compel the superior to it by for cibly taking from him just so much as would render them equal. "No man' has a right to have too much while another has too little ; and you meet with a man who has more than he wants while you have less than you want, help yourself without asking him, and if he resists knock him down." This is verbatim the exposition given by one of these new levellers in Smithfield last evening, and the strain in which he enforced it to'll - numerous crowd was of a still more disgusting and outrageous character. To add to the offensiveness of the exhibition; while outpouring every sort of blasphemy and filth against everything connected with religion, declaring that if a poor man ever thought about any religion except giving as much as he could to eat and drink he deserved to starve in a ditch, he held .a f3ibie in his haild in ridicuie, taking a text from it as the ground of his " dis course," and even going further lengths, which it would be as revoltin g to read as it was to hear., That such wretches will ever do any harm there is no fear ; but that is not the question. Every civilized community has higher and better reasons for repressing open indecency, blasphemy, &c., than the danger to arise from them. The city authorities, how ever, do not seem to understand these sort of refinements.— Correspondent of the Morning Herald. AWFUL VISITATION.—On Wednesday morning, Hertford and its vicinity were visited by one of the most terrific thun der storms we have known' for several years, and we regret to add, that it has been attended, if not with loss of life, at least with very serious consequences. Between eleven and twelve o'clock Mr. W. Cannon, a respectable farmer re siding at Tewin, about four miles from Hertford, was in a field at the back of the mill, in company with his son Henry, a lad about eleven years old, a ploughman named W. Han chett, of the age of twenty-one, and three other individuals. Perceiving the approaching storm the former three very ink imprudently repaired to an ash tree for sheltei. They had not, however, been in the situation many moments before the electric fluid slightly grazed the bark of the tree, and Struck each of them, 'throwing Hanchett to the ',ground in a state of insensibility. Mr. Dickens, a surgeon, residing at Hertford, was immediately called in, and on examination of the sufferers, found that, with the exception of the boy; they had received great injury. A wound was discovered in the right foot of the ploughman, and he was also burnt down the left side in a frightful manner, his countenance bearing a pur ple hue, as though blasted by gunpowder. The case of Mr. Cannon was of an equally alarming and singular nature. — The whole of the upperleather of the left shoe was left on the foot, with the exception of a small oval piece near the ankle, but the sole was completely removed, and was found at a considerable distance in the field. A nail had been driven out of the shoe into the heel of the sufferer, and about the middle of the sole of the foot was a dreadful laceration, suffi ciently large to admit the hand, nearly separating the foot, and exactly corresponding with the incision in the sole of the shoe ; there was also a wound under the toe. He was se verely burnt down the right side, and there was a laceration below the calf. The boy was severely scorched down the back, but we are happy to understand that he is rapidly re covering. Four horses were also struck, but escaped without material injury. We understand that hopes are entertained of the recovery of Hanchett; but that little or no encourage ment is given in the case of Mr. Cannon. --Hertford County Pt am. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The usual monthly meeting of the Town Council was held on Wednesday, at eleven o'clock, in the Council Chamber, Town-hall. The proceedings of the Finance Committee having been read, Mr. BOOTH said he believed there was an order standing from the Council to the Finance Committee to watch the pro gress of the Inland Bonding Bill. He believed Mr. Poulett Thomson was proceeding with the measure, and he wished to know whether any steps were contemplated. The MAYOR said he had received , a communication on the subject, and he would suggest to Mr. Booth the propriety of reserving any thing which he might have to say on the sub ject till that was brought forward. Mr. BOOTH acquiesced. PLANS OF TEE ASSIZE COURTS. On the motion, that the proceedings of the Finance Com mittee should be confirmed, having been put, Alderman EARLE rose to ask whether it was understood that the plans of the assize courts were to be advertised for, or left to the selection of the Finance Committee ? Mr, W. W. CURRIE replied that they must be advertised for. Alderman EARLE said that he was sorry for it, as very great inconvenience would result from so doing, as they had found out in advertising for plans for St. George's Hall. More than seventy plans had been sent in, and it would he very difficult for the committee to select the best. The plan of advertising was very good in theory, but very bad in practice. Mr. T. CASE was surprised to hear such an opinion, and particularly from such a quarter. Advertising was resorted to for the purpose of preventing anything like monopoly, against which there had been so much said. As to the diffi culty under which the St. George's Hall Committee were said to labour, from having a multitude of plans, he could not see it. Plenty of plans had been sent in, and, no doubt, many good ones ; and if the committee did not select the best, they would doubtless select a good one. Alderman EARLE did not care a farthing whether Mr. Case was surprised or not at the opinions he had put forth. He had often been surprised himself at the opinions of Mr. Case. The opinion he had expressed was the result of experience. The proceedings of the Finance Committee was then con firmed. SCAVENGERING. The motion for the confirmation of the proceedings of the Watch Committee having been put, Alderman SHEIL moved the following amendment :—" That the proceedings of the Watch Committee be confirmed, with the exception of the part relating to the purchase or renting of land on which to deposit the soil taken from the streets ; that that part of the report be referred back to the Watch Committee, with instructions to advertise for tenders of con tract for the removal of the soil from the streets, taking such precautions as are necessary for the proper performance thereof, and to report to the council." Mr. Sheil maintained that until the contract system had been tried, the Watch Committee would not have performed the whole of their duty. The failure of that system, under the old Watch Committee, was no proof that it would not answer now. Alderman BARCLAY seconded the amendment. _ _ Mr. WALMSLEY said it was quite true that no means had been taken to ascertain whether contracts could not be en tered into for the carting of the manure from the streets, but it was equally true that the subject had bad the consideration of the Watch Committee, who agreed, after mature consi deration, that the present plan was the best. There were forty or fifty superannuated watchmen employed in sweeping the streets, who, if not thus employed, would become charge able either to the corporation or the parish. These men swept the streets, and carts followed them, clearing away the soil immediately, so that the renowned " corporation beds" were now completely done away with. The committee, in fact, contracted for all that it was desirable to contract for. One-horse carts, including a driver, were employed at a rate of 7s. 6d. a day, and two-horse carts at 10s. a day, and pro per inspectors were appointed to see that the carts took.away a certain number of loads of manure per day. The whole quantity carted away in a year amounted to 12,000 tons, of which 7,000 were sent to the depot at the canal, and 5,000 to the Hope -street depOt. For that sent to the canal yard the committee got 2s. 6d. per ton, while for that sent to the yard in Hope-street, only Is. 2d. was obtained. The differ ence arose from the greater facility with which the soil could be taken away when deposited at a place contiguous to the canal ; and this showed the desirableness of hiving a yard so situated, that they might obtain the greater price. Mr. THORNHILL said that when the contract system was formerly tried, there were nothing but complaints on the part of the public against the contractors. Mr. T. CASE said that there was one material point on which he wished to have some explanation. It was recom mended that 2,000 square yards of land should be bought, for the purpose of forming a depot for street manure. Now, he should like to know whether any situation had been fixed upon, because, when they were removing nuisances, they should be careful not to make any themselves. Mr. WALMSLEY replied that the yard recently occupied contained 1,750 yards, and, as far as he could learn, there was no offensive smell arose from the manure, nor was the depOt likely to be objected to. The manure consisted merely of the sweepings of the streets - there was no night soil amongst it. If the committee' idnot purchase the land they had in view, and thus secure a place near the canal, where they got 9d. a ton more for the manure, they would be driven away to places where they would lose that advantage. The additional 9d. a ton would more than meet the expenses of rent for the yard. Mr. SHEIL'S amendment was put to the vote, and lost by a majority of 32 to 11. The proceedings of the Watch Committee were then con firmed, EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The chief subjects of consideration in the proceedings of this committee were-1. A grant of £lO to Mr. Nelson, the head master of the North School, and an increase of his salary • from £llO to .1:320. A grant of £lO each to Mr. Buchanan, the head master, and Mr. Lewis the under master, of the South School. 3. Report respecting additional schools. Mr. COOPER asked whether it was legal to grant away money without regular notice being given. There was an increase of salary proposed to one of the masters, and that, he thought, should stand over, as no notice had been given. As to the erection of additional schools, he should enter his pro test against it. He objected to the appropriation of the cor poration funds for the building of new schools, unless those schools were such as the protestant population of the town could avail themselves of, which they could not do at present. A real protestant could not conscientiously send his child to those schools. , _ The TOWN-CLERK said that the recommendation as to in crease of salary would of course stand over until the next monthly meeting ; but that did not apply to the schools. MR. JOHN Sigrrii rose and said, that he held in his hand a memorial from the inhabitants of West Derby Ward, praying that schools conducted on the principle proposed by the Edu cation Committee might not be erected in that ward. The memorial was most numerously signed, and he could safely aver that the respectability of the signatures would bear even the close examination of the penetrating and scrutinising eye of his friend Mr. Alderman Earle. The memorialists sought no favor at the hands of the council save and except this sim- pie one, that they (the council) would leave them to them selves and not interfere with them in the education of the poor. There were several establishments in the ward for this express purpose, liberally supported by voluntary sub scriptions, and if it should at any time, appear that an in creasing Population required additional accommodation, he had no hesitation in saying that it would be promptly and cheerfully afforded. In making these observatious, he could assure theth he had not the slightest desire to provoke a re- ligious discussion on the present occasion. Such discussions generally speaking, he regretted to say, were too much taint ed with angry and acrimonious feeling, and not unfrequently displayed on the part of those who took a lead in them, too little of Christian charity to be at all palatable to his mind. He would therefore content himself with laying the memorial before them, and as the Education Committee had recom mended the erection of a school in West Derby \=v and on their favorite system—a system which he knew to be greatly re pugnant to the wishes of a majority of the inhabitants, he would move an amendment to the effect that that portion of their proceedings be not confirmed. Mr. COOPER seconded the amendment. Alderman EARLE observed that the schools would be useful to the poor, who were wallowing in the mire. He himself had had the benefit of an education, and he was anxious that the poor should have the same advantage. As to real protestants, he should like to have a definition of the term. What were real, and what were sham protestants ? Such stuff! The MAYOR then read the memorial which had been pre sented by Mr. John Smith, of which the following is a copy To the Worshipful the Mayor and Town Council of the 80. rough of Liverpool. The Memorial of the Committee of the Edge Hill Schools, the Municipal Voters and others, residents in West Derby Ward, Showeth,—That your Memorialists learn, with much concern, that the Council contemplate the establishment of Ward Schools, to be conducted on .the plan now pursued in the North and South Corporation Schools in this Borough. Your Memorialists deeply regret that a system so obnox isous to a large majority of the inhabitants aria burgesses should be attempted to be extended to this Ward.. Your Memorialists avail themselves of this oppartunity to show to the Town Council, that, apart from their aversion to the system adopted in the Coiporation Schools, the establish ment of such a School in West Derby Ward, is at present unnecessary. In the Edge Hill National Schools there are now one hun dred and tell boys ; in the Infant School one hundred boys and girls ; in a school called Miss Mason's, sixty girls ; in a schoo: lately established at Windsor, in connection with the above, there are fifty-five boys and thirty-five girls, and in the Infants' School seventy boys and girls. During the winter months, an evening school was opened at Edge Hill, for those boys who were engaged in various occupations of the day, at which about one hundredattended to receive in structionin reading, writing, and arithmetic. In addition to these the school of St. Jude's and Brunswick Chapel are so .near the other extremity of the ward, as to leave no excuse for the non-attendance of any children at one or other of them. There will shortly be erected at 'Windsor, a church, briefly for the accommodation of the poor, and to which also, schools capable of containing three hundren children will be attached. The expense of maintaining these schools has been prin. eipally defrayed . by annual subscriptions, and from the wil lingness evinced on all occasions by the inhabitants of Edge hill and the neighbourhood, to aid and assist the children of their poorer neighbours in their endeavours to obtain a sound and useful education, based upon the sacred volume, (and such as your memorialists hope, with the blessing of Almighty good Christians, loyal subjects, and membersuGseedfillwilimake them ofsociety,) no doubt can reasonably exist, that, if required, a still larger annual amount would be forth coming. On these grounds your memorialists respectfully, but earnestly request, that the town-council will not establish any school in West Derby Ward, but that they may be allowed to continue their pleasing duty of attending to the moral and .religious wants of their poorer neighbours as they have hitherto done, in connexion with their respective pastors, without the agitation which the introduction of what must be considered rival schools, will inevitably occasion. Mr. RATIIBONE stated that the Rev. Augustus Campbell was at one time prepared to join the council, in the conduct ing of the schools on the system now pursued, if certain diffi culties could be removed. He wished to deal delicately by the rev. gentleman, who knew him too well to fear that he (Mr. Rathbone) would put forward anything that had passed between them confidentially ; but he must state that it was not on account of the principle that the rev, gentleman re fused to go and give religious. instruction to the schools under the corporation. It was on account of certain difficulties, and an invitation was sent to him to remove these difficulties, but he (Rector Campbell) afterwards changed his mind, and would not join the council. The Rev. A ugus t us Campbell, however, had agreed to join the system, and in now condemn ing it, he condemned himself. Mr. T. SANDS had always understood that the Rev. Mr. Campbell objected to join because the schools were not opened with prayer. He begged leave to ask whether the schools were opened with prayer. . . Mr. RATnsoNE replied that they were opened with a hymn, which was prayer and praise united. According to his defi nition of the word, they were opened with prayer. Mr. T. COGLAN said that if the proposal of the education committee would at all militate against the interests of reli gion in the West Derby Ward, or would fetter the laudable efforts of individuals to promote the education of the poor, it would be a matter of serious consideration to propose any measure that would clash with those endeavours. He could not conceive, however, how this could possibly be the case. By the erection of a school in . that district they would provide for the education of a large body of children whose parents could not conscientiously send them to schools where they would necessarily be taught the dogmas which those parents did not believe essential to salvation, or, rather, which were opposed to their belief, and by so doing there could be no clashing of interests, but on the other hand, the introduction of an honourable rivalry, and all those who were actuated by the principle of Christian benevolence would join in the fur therance of the plan. . Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE could not pretend to say under what feelings the Rev. Mr. Campbell had been induced to break off all connexion with the schools ; but he could un- derstand that it was with great reluctance that he (the rector) had thrown up the superintendence he had so long been ac customed to give. He (Mr. Lawrence) should like to see such a modification of the system es would lead to the intro- duction of the clergy ; but tiiat, he was afraid, was now im- practicable ; and it was;invain' to discuss the question over and over again. It had now be better left to the sound sense of the country. Mr. SANDS.—If the council would only give up the catho lic catechism, he would give up his opposition ; but he would never consent to teach acatechism a; much opposed to scrip ture•as light is to darkness. _ _ Mr. RATHBONE.-Mr. Sands will give us his vote, then ; for we do not teach either the catholic or church catechism. We allow the children to stand under shelter while they learn either the one or the other from their religious teacher, but we, the school committee, do not teach either the one or the other. Mr. SANDS said that he had gone to the North School, and had seen the catholic catechism there taught by the teacher whom they (the council) paid. Mr. ISAAC HoLMEs.—Certainly. The catholic catechism is taught them. Mr. WALMSLEY said that Mr. Sands was perfectly correct in saying that one of the teachers did teach the catholic catechism. That teacher was a Roman catholic, and he taught the catechism at the hour set apart for that purpose. But, at the same time, one of the teachers was a protestant, and when the clergyman was not there, that protestant teacher gave instructions in the tenets of the church of Eng land. When Mr. Sands said that he would join the council in these schools, provided the Roman catholic catechism was entirely withdrawn, let (Mr. W.) ask whether Mr. Sands would consent to the withdrawal of every other catechism ? Mr. SANDS.—I should not wish to do so, but I would con sent to do it. Mr. WALMSLEY.—Very well. I shall be very glad to see the day when nothing but secular instruction is given in the schools. Mr. SANDS.—No ;that is not what I want. I want re- ligious instruction to be combined with secular instruction. The Bible must be taught. As a matter of compromise, I would consent to the withdrawal of all catechisms ; but I said nothing to warrant Mr. Walmsley in supposing that I wished nothing but secular instruction to be given. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said that he had attended the North Schools, and when he first went the church of England catechism had not been tauglitifor many months. ' The master stated that since the appointment of Dr. Buck to the chaplaincy of the Borough Gaol, the Rev. Mr. Stokes had taken offence, and there was no catechism taught but the Roman catholic. Since then, however, the church of Eng land catechism had been resumed. He (Mr. Holmes) would at once accede to the proposition of the councillor for Castle street Ward, (Mr. Walmsley,) and should be pleased to see the withdrawal of all catechisms from the schools, as he had often said ; and he hoped, indeed, that such a measure would be ultimately adopted. They took their very name of pro testants from the fact of their having protested against the doctrines of popery ; and he did therefore say, that there was a complete insult offered to protestants of all denomina tions, in having Roman catholic catechisms taught in the corporation schools, and he would not waver in his opinion until the teaching of that catechism was given up. Either give up the teaching of all catechisms, or have schools for the instruction of Roman catholics, and other schools for the instruction of protestants. Mr. CURRIE said that Mr. Sands, in consenting to give up catechisms, had consented to give up nothing at all; for he went on to insist that the Bible (the Rhemish Bible, of course) should be taught, and that, as Mr. Sands knew well, was absolutely repugnant to the great majority of the chil dren brought up in the corporation schools. The proposition, therefore, was worth nothing. A compromise, if it were to be effected, must either be by the abandonment of all religious instruction, or, if that was objected to, by admitting the in struction of all sects from extracts. Mr. Sands was not willing to do that, and he had therefore placed himself in a dilemma. Mr. SANDS did not consider that he was in any dilemma in offering to give up the catechism, and persisting that the Protestant Bible should be given to Protestant children, and he was surprised that Mr. Currie, a Protestant, should think so. Alderman SHEIL said that Mr. Sands had no right to say that the Catholic catechism differed as much from the scriptures as light does from darkness. He believed that the doctrine of Mr. Sands was not right, but it would be a want of courtesy in him to go out of the way to say so. And yet, judging from a common way of deciding questions, he would be more. justified in saying that his (Alderman's Shell's) wee, because the great majority of the Christian world thofght as he (Alderman Shell) did. The question about the authorised and Douay versions had been in dispute for many hundreds of years, and was no nearer a termination now than it had ever been. He was as much opposed to the authorised version as Mr. Sands was to the Douay. He him self was the father of a family, and was as anxious about the morals of his children as any man ; but he would not give one farthing for all the religious instruction given in day schools. Mr. T. HARVEY expressed some surprise that statements and arguments which had been so often refuted in that room should be brought forward again and again, with " damnable iteration." Mr. PLATT said, that if gentlemen on the other side would bring forward some specific proposal, they might arrive at some point when this painful and oft-recurring subject might be done away with. Mr. T. CASE thought that there was only one way by which they could get out of the difficulty. He fully agreed with Mr. Alderman Sheil, that, as all sects contributed to the funds, all ought to participate in their distribution ; and. he was of opinion that there would be little difficulty in the con cocting of a plan which would please all parties. He should have no objection to the erection of a school in Windsor, which was in Toxteth Park as well as West Derby, for the exclusive accommodation of the Roman Catholics, who were stated to form nine-tenths of the population of that district. Probably the School Committee would take this into their consideration, and throw out some proposal which would do away with the difficulty. The MAYOR seemed to think that there was some misap prehension as to the nature of the report. The report which had been presented was -merely a first report, and would be followed up by another and then it would be for any gentle man to make any amendment he chose. Mr. BLACKBURN said that the confirmation of the report would not pledge the council to the erection of schools. The committee merely stated their opinion, that it was advisable to erect schools in certain places ; but with respect to the building of schools, that was a question which would be brought forward again, and would have to be considered in connexion with the necessary funds and other circumstances. The provision spoken of by Mr. Smith, did not at all meet the wants of the Roman catholic population. The council did not interfere with the church ; they wished merely to edu cate those who were willing to go and be educated. He thought that the councilor for Exchange Ward (Mr. Sands) was in a hobble, and had not got out of it. He stated, that if the catholic catechism were removed out of the schools, his objection to them would be done away with ; but then he insisted on the continuance of another thing in the schools which was just as objectionable to Roman catholics as any thing else—that is, the scriptures, in the authorised version, being read by all the children. Did he not know that fact ? and why, then, did he persist in the carrying out of a plan. that would virtually exclude all Roman catholics ; In con tradiction to what had been asserted by Mr. Cooper, that protestant parents would not send their children to_the cor poration schools, and that they were excluded from them, he would mention the fact.that two-fifths of the children in those .schools were protestants, and that they rejoiced in the pri velege of being allowed to attend them. He thought that the gentlemen who were anxious to have a change of system should first of all agree among themselves in proposing some system, before they called upon the council. They had al ready a system in existence which was, both theoretically and practically, fair for all. Churchmen had no more reason to complain of it than any other class, either Roman catholic or dissenter. Let the gentlemen on the opposite side pro pose some plan better than that, and they might then ask the committee and the council to give it a patient hearing. A few of those gentlemen had agreed to the erection of schools for the education of the catholics by themselves ; but would the councillor for Everton Ward agree to that ? The mo ment that they (the members on Mr. Blackburn's side) en deavoured to get a vote for St. Patrick's School, or to build a new one for the exclusive use of the catholics they would be met by the mosrforcible of the objections which had been urged against the present system, because then they would be truly and literally teaching popery. Let them (the gen tlemen on the opposite side) agree among themselves • let them have a preparatory meeting at the Angel, if they chose. (Laughter.) Such a plan as they proposed would do no more in composing the differences in that council, or amongst the public at large, than the system now proposed; the most ac tive of the council's opponents would oppose as strongly the grant of funds to Roman catholic schools as they do at the present moment. If the council departed from the plan now pursued in their schools, they would depart from the safe neutral plan on which they stood. Mr. Blackburn said that the Roman catholic teacher alluded to was not bound to teach the catechism of his church ; he did it as the representative of the priest; and so also with the protestant master. Both would retain their places if they said, " We do chose to teach the catechism of our sect." The council were therefore safe on that ground. They did not teach the catholic catechism. The vote was then taken. For the amendment of Mr. J. Smith, there were 8 votes ; against it, 33. The following is a list of the division : For the amendment—lesase Holmes, W. Shand, J. Barton, T. Sands, J. Cooper, J. Smith, G. H. Lawrence, and J. S. Leigh. Against the amendment—J. Holmes, W. Thornhill, W. Preston, T. Case, H. Holmes, T. Bolton, E. Pilcher, J. Walmsley, W..Rathbone, C. Lawrence, T. Harvey, V. Hig gins, T. Blackburn, T. Morecroft, T. Coglan, F. Jordan, J. Platt, W. M. Duncan, W. W. Currie, R. Shell, T. Booth, .T. Hornby, R. Roskell, G. Holt, R. Benn, W. Earle, .1. Moon, E. Evans, T. B. Barclay, T. Holt, W. P. Freme, E. Harvey, and the Mayor. Absent—J. Heyworth, D. Hodgson, .R. Houghton, B. Frankland, G. Wright, J. Mellor, R. aright, J. Priestley, J. Woolright, J. Bibby, J. Lawrence, J. N. Wood, W. Lassell, T. Brocklebank, J. Carson, R. Gladstone, J. Mason, E. Segar, J. Cropper, jun., G. Ramsden, T. Leathom, C. H. Jones, and T. Bulley. DOCK COMMITTEE. In the proceedings of this body there was a resolution au thorising the building of a floating light for Formby Chan nel, of 100 tons burthen, to be completed, by the person whose tender was accepted, in four months, at the cost of £1750. Mr. PLATT inquired from the deputy chairman of the Dock COmmittee whether, as the alterations at the south end of the town were fast progressing towards completion, the Cumberland steamers were to be allowed to return there ? Alderman BENN replied that there would be no difficulty in the return of the Cumberland steamers, if they wished to do so ; but he thought there was no desire on the part of their owners that they should return. The dock had been made for the accommodation of large steamers, and the Cumberland steamers would not be refused admission. The proceeding were confirmed. BOROUGH GAOL CHAPLAIN. The TOWN-CLERK read his report respecting the appoint of Dr. Buck, as chaplain to the Borough Gaol. Mr. PILCHER moved an increase of £lOO per annum to Dr. Buck's salary. Mr. SMITH and Mr. BLACKBURN thought an increase of £5O per annum would be sufficient, and said if that amount were proposed they would support it. It was suggested that Mr. Pilcher should withdraw his motion till the fate of the bill now before parliament were ascertained, to which Mr. Pilcher agreed. A letter was then read from Lord Sandon, stating that he should have great pleasure in supporting the prayer of the petition from the Town Council of Liverpool, in- favour of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan for a uniform rate of postage. The following letter from the Rev. James Aspinall was then read by the Mayor : Abercromby-square, June 10th, 1839. My dear beg to acknowledge your very kind letter conveying to me the resolutions of the town-council, passed at their meeting of Friday last. I cannot but feel highly gra tified at such an appreciation of my humble endeavours to co-operate with them in the establishment of the truly Chris tian system of education which they have adopted in their sc hools—a system which, while it requires no sacrifice of ' , o f t en. principle from any, opens a fair and bright prosPc,_ ea i ch t y,s ing down and removing much of that prejudice,tion3 j 0 lack of charity which persons of different denomina M ot o• religion now feel towards each other, from the I nutua i s t ; an rance of each other, in which they are brought .tro. experiment well worth trying—and it is one, l am e0ny. c ,„,., r 0 working on towards a happy consummation in the s n ut supported by the town-council—to ascertain whethi our people cannot be so trained as firmly to hold and, n 1 ,011 the views .of their own church, without looking withat_44 an evil eye and uncharitable disposition upon those ; t i t le conscientious adherence to different opinions should f p er- them to respect, instead of making them the objects of sonal hate and antipathy. Such, at all events, is 111 Y ow. on the subject. I never feared to express it , nor do I Once more thanking the town-council for th eir vote:ailed, probation, I 1)...g to add, that as, from certain repairs, ing, &c., in m new place of abode, I find that some time snit , y g elapse before I can remove to it, I hope, in th e inter`Yallsitss to to have the leasure and rivilee of continuing instrong YooLl the corporation schools, for whose welfare I feel a anxious interest. Believe me ever, my dear sir, &e", JAarns AsP The annexed petition from the master stevedo res was ' and referred to the Finance Committee and . To the Worshipful the Mayor, and the Aldermen , Councillors of thr Borough of Liverpool. jog The Petition of the undersigned Master Stevedores belong to the town and port of Liverpool , e of a Most respectfully Showeth,—That, in consequencageF, combination among the workmen for an a dvance 0 t the master stevedores have been under the necessieYa creasing the rates hitherto payable for the loading an shir charging of vessels ; and, in-stating to the merchants',. t tie owners, and others connected with the trade of this Pn: iito ry circumstances that compel them to increase their ° I. jrn• rates, they expressed a desire that a license s hould be un der posed on all the master stevedores, binding thano..ohat rood security, to a proper per f orman ce of their durY ' de gree capacity, thereby affording to all parties interes ted, at of despatch and security not to be attained, or esPeut-e uir der the present system. iieen se That the master stevedores, believing that such , on would not only be strictly legal, but be attended witensool siderable advantages to the commerce of this port, r. o e on. to petition the town-council on that subject ; mil , ' res ent, formity with that resolution, they now respectfallY P. on) this petition, with an ardent hope that early mea sure' be taken to effect that object. That your petitioners are desirous that a comenittee,,,ati; most competent master stevedores should be annuanbop pointed, either by the town-council or by their ownitemiti for the purpose of ascertaining the capability of rin°Pees eo'' for a license, and of reporting thereon to the a utho powered to grant the same. „ so b. May it therefore please the town-council to take the 0 ject of this petition into early consideration, and to 1 0 10 bye-law imposing a license on the master stevedores port, and your petitioners will ever pray. INLAND BONDING. ' lr by The Mayor having read a communication from -N A , r' on the above subject. Mr. John Holmes, seeonde-,bl Platt, moved, that upon taking into consideration tiotros. lution of the association of land and warehouse ownerastetra: mitted to the Mayor, communicating the announce. bill f° ; ', tion of the Right Hon. C. P. Thomson to bring l i n .„" t 51 0 ,:," the extension of the privilege of bonding to inlanu to the should be resolved that the subject should be refer to her Finance Committee, with instructions to represent. ore' invested l a . • e Majesty, the great amount of property houses in Liverpool, on the faith of the bonding . I) , ero tio° granted to sea-port towns, and to take into CO whether the extension of the bonding system to inlanu o ge would be a measure attended with any material ael v , Bl3 t he those places, or such as would bear any comparison lbonJ"" jury that would be inflicted on the proprietors 0 4 00' warehouses in sea-port towns, and to make such rePr e : s e) tions thereon to her Majesty's government, and tal ' e t measures in Parliament as might appear advisable. s te s ( ed After some discussion, it was discovered, dint could not, according to the rules of the Council , be al-,feeiP without notice. It was therefore agreed that 4 , 11 tY Council should be summoned on Monday ne%" cl purpose. The Council broke up at twenty minutes past three ° • MOST HORRIBLE AND REVOLTING MU It DECEMBER LAST. ugg' CONCEALING 01? THE BODY BY THE MURD- (From the Limerick Standard) ii bablY 7g! FURTHER PARTICULARS.-01.1r readers ma)'Pr:, se ; h e collect the particulars of the case of Bryan Norm e i w ei as they were known at the time, which aPI Standard of December last. He cted in the c3P ' f f servant to a farmer of the name of William Butler, of duffahan, in this county, and was not seen after e that 41 that month. The suspicion then ga i ne d ground 010.,A murdered, and this suspicion amounted almost t r ° oo l s, certainty, when it was for months previously ," resi' rs l through the whole district of country in which that he had given such information to the police t oiallT, occasions as led to the detection of murderers, and other outlaws, and also that he had been linu n ")le . i; mental in bringing to justice the ruffians who sile"wite!',it Cooper and Weyland. Indeed, it appears that/ of liquor, the man himself used to boast in the o'°,4ol'o associates of what he had done, whether trulY we cannot say, in those respects, and that thus "1'40114 an " informer" ran like wildfire among the P` t her n to Eight days after he had been dismissed, namely' °d 0f,;',..c of December, the Lord Lieutenant offered a retr a: ,bs t`';(1 0 to any person who should, within six calendar nie u 'acto,',4, from, give such information as would lead to t t ile,,i.ty Ar e' and conviction of his murderers • but, up . to 3.1°) ,,..ee ‘ his place of concealment, and murderers; the circuillst't t liv A r nected with what now appears to have been a 10 °11 0 ;'oc cal deed of blood remained a perfect mysterY.,te stabulary of the neighbourhood, it is true, m` but search for the body as well as for the mur d e rers , e a...-t:„‘ all in vain; there was no information to be obtaintbey was no clue discovered—and latterly, we .believe•.,l up the search as hopeless. The following facts 1?7,11, the manner in which the body was at lengtll;Fl'eci wounds of which the unfortunate man must 11 °104 died, and se in ine other particulars of a trulY " -o sl e ' revoing character : / 64 Monday last, an intelligent servant boy 0 1 ' 1 °F 4 , 05v' t jOg though in our possession, we are not for obvious se er , rt liberty to give,) observed his master's cows strong," rifP e 4f• a small spot of ground situated on the bed of tn e ft ios er ta Monashanock mountain, within about 14 miles ' l , i i.. o t bat Attracted to the spot by this circumstance , he ""80000 that it had been previously rooted up by the cows,tii 1 0 some rags were visible on the surface. He instn n his stick into the earth, and, to his ea t terror ' trc te le' l partly exposed the head and body of ahuman on its hack, and partially covered with a tattered allope shirt. Covering the earth over the body wit h ,h3tYpe shoes, he came off to this city, and reported " ta ble seen to Mr. Fokes, S. M. who despatched co nf ;pot' lips and sub-constable Campbell with him to the iprr.ro their way they called for chief-constable Bret t, g ton's-bridge, who, with a strong reinforcement of i o ' tit et t y Murroe, accompanied them, and at the early befteli•i4ls) o'clock on Tuesday morning the whole party uvtai place, which is situated three miles across the 11- , 1 . ° ,, o°' o ll l in a most lonely and deserted part. Here, ltf ; e S 0 15 .0! arose, they commenced to disinter the body, "7 di 6 ;,!ol e . f about 12 inches under the surface, and a W s ," e Of t operation it appears they had. It having lain taf ba ce five months, the effluvia that issued from it Not, llr et rendered altogether unbearable, if Chconsta'7,o4dr, not stuffed the nostrils of the constables with ti tlyrtlo; the pith of bread. It was, of course, in a very P"f o lia, i ' l 1 0 : state .of decomposition. On inspecting it, they .berbe t " the left arm, from the elbow down, had heel' 03E . , with some sharp instrument—that this joint P I , aiir, it w er- 1 , 8 0. tb e buried with the body, and that no traces of able—that the entire lower part of the under ei also chopped off with somet,hing sharp, and th' s ,:e s c " . ,, found lying at the feet of the body—that an t r A as if inflicted with a scythe, appeared in the bac ' t baa an d tb, coc ere i 1) 1 head which had split the scull asunder. legs had been broken at the ankles. The) . ' i. e.(' f r° ,l ° 4 agents Dei hanging from the neck, and they leg% ha" tlit;, people of the neighbourhood that the deceari about 30 years of age. Raising the body, We- 0 .1 shoulders, they conveyed it alternately betl e St Murroe, where an inquest was held before 3 ' 1.. of IY4 S.M., and Thomas P. Evans, Esq., and a verdi e , r sor r e ful murder" returned aainst known. It may not be unnecessary sone to Pe a r r B l ° d T , l ti 3 r rt ,:if to the identity of the deceased exists, as alir t - he knew him by the clothes and the appearance of tie 1° ,0.4 And now, having detailed the facts of this horr i i Y t o fr; r it;', o so far as they have been yet known, we have 011 ,, conclusion, that no exertion will be spared by to bring the perpetrators of it to justice, an d t° It amenable to' the outraged laws of their conntrPuch te r appalling to think that we live in a land wher e 5 wa tte i, -- cal villains are harboured, as those who, ri n d 0 1,t"?0,1 , what pretence, imbrued their hands in the 1) 10° n f fortunate man. But alas! so it is—the voice,. dered cries aloud for retribution, and men a re * ° tbe ter from the hands of justice the fiends, ini . human beings, who have been the perpetrators. .........................5...•••••••,......are,• •.... LANCASHIRE ASSIZES . 04 all 1." The next assizes will commence at Lancaster.,, t 1,17 day, the Bth August, and at Liverpool, on l'ue o ,14 11 0 , , , t er, August. The Records in Causes to be tried at 14 11, . 5 . 11 ,. ° 4' Issue on or before Wednesday, the 24th of , - „t 1-''',o l ' ordered on that day ; and in those to be trielL -,,. sily and at Issue on or before Monday, the -o9th J'''''' `lv 's`. ordered on that day. for 0 The last days for making up Issues in tinge the i the next assizes, will be day' , es • t In Causes to be tried at Lancaster , Tn th e r e. , of July. c turorll,V, In Causes to be tried at Liverpool , ' e- .4 D e j,,,l . of August, on which days the Records ti'''",.soo - ior Eight exclusive days' notice of Trial in all pet fig must be given for the next Assizes in Causes at A •ter'i for Trial at the last Assizes. I.4sh e A o of The Jury process for the Trial of Causes at, e ttth ',, s l° be issued at Preston, on Thursday morning, t * l l,- , , e'tl e: if and for the Trial of Causes at Liverpool ,- 0 " '''' 1 * w : i te Ing, the 13th of August. IStb ° teO r Rule day before the Assizes Thursday, the - f seP o t Rule day after the Assizes, Thursday, the 12th P s ceit,Vryt Declarations against Defendants in Gaol o"oo,si'tey piss, must be filed on or before Saturday, the I_,. d Se,V d ea' In pursuance of the General Rule of Corded of 1)1' Assizes, 1824, the Causes intended to .be Vi e ' - will be entered in the following order ": .icilbl Ist List—West Derby Hun dred. 41 1 ' - 2d List—Salford Hundred. „ he til e ' The Business of the Public Offices will - Preston during the Assizes. 'f 4 ..............,...............sr 11 7 ',) STATE OF T RADE • • le s ' o s ,fi b lol ' O f ft M was rather more , i , ja , e ,./1,/ yesterday than on the preceding Tuesday, I°‘t ,Mill goods ; but the prices of both were solnewh3,,tistilipy about a farthing per pound, and power -1000' ,`,:rel°,,lit'',?, from Lid. to 3d. per piece. Good 7-Bth print," iisasocit,l. sold at Bs. 6d. in the month f A *1 could 13e die 1 0 t!' i o pri , f o r ~ t i yesterday, a fact quite sufficient to accoun t o vie'vr, of short time amongst the manufacturers by P, 0 1 '11% 11 0 '',. going on to a considerable extent, as wel l , e t r i st, 6 D e o ti l'' spinners of yarn for export.. We understali" oinotliiejeo,4 ing of spinners in Bolton and the neighb°,ntbst t. 5 1 1,6 Monday last, it pre unanimously o b s erve°,,,o o) OA should not, for the pent, work more than „, a' „,i6`,0,,, At Wigan, we understand, there are now to of coPeseel,toi, parties state, eleven factories, some of theq' t h til e es 6e t O P size, entirely standing ; and all the rest, t t i, thr A it# of one, are working short time. Indeed , rosy ' ,1) of some large isolated establishments, it ' s - P' re .1 11 ,;(00 1 yersal.—Manchester Guardian. , , 4 0, Y , OP,ery ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, i‘i o **,.., MP 0 0 ,00 1 Flannels have met with a ready sale aga i n ~...-i o s a a ; oi A steady prices. The wool market is ratbe r dia tel, l e ' t ,! o i l ? state, manufacturers buying only for itiwiee mart in t d new clip ready soon to be brought into di m o n, oi o ,1 present state of the money.market wake t he et A s , . niaY •e A s cautious in their purchases. The prices sr l ' . 0 0 1 illeoc,i same as last Monday's.—lbid. , __The an d d o , ,,r j HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JOLT '' Inol ll- 11 0 •0 much the same as last week; the save V re titt l i i o,,el inactivity prevailed. Neverteless price 5. n , Citeboll," low, great caution regulating the proceedlitrid e i s •" and sellers. Orders are pretty .nuinerous:lo,3te low winter goods; so that the operatives are fei o ; $ employed. Wools remain stationary en prick business is doing in the warehouses.' SPORT /No r The eti„„ TATTERSAI naft„""ges which arose tat 4 are, wit htne itere.iindicated be be tio,;TAni_be seen, keads ta4, Prarty IN:as very II t th ett:otrti, i t ied s d i r .o tti r fi n ts%r: e t s s, t°atwl `light::nntr as l l: l e k t co i t :e oshi a ent t t da l i a to 2,rather the .!veit tw b Pont acked at the a more than d, Litas titterly friendles: ~ 9t the iinproved prices, 14,1 1i ,.,n:41, , t1 1 / 4.7oll,44 : ll.ll : o,tt th eral,ask e ee otn to c s i d at3 obi e ee ri n, 0 11 , 0 I etd c : q favoar last week ii4lkY tear}}. recovered h :4,1 4 0 , re9uired an exidam troyeol has Leger h , Il lat tk e at ol The Commo, it'freel odds as or The betting lei t a4 a ,„„ JULY 4, 1 LordG. Ben ti " Exeter's to " Mr. Knight's " ,Lord Albi:mona vrueifix wiuni Leve r 101, 000nwoc Itol't Mr. J. Bell's :tot " Lord West to , INTeiklam' Itoi Ntr. 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