The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

iating 0300 1,7 fabric of the cat repo klexandr astantinc ;re too 111 yGwa,. """ • ~a uLtatmg army appears to have sill severely ; some accounts estimate the loss at 4,000 men Bill for Fria he belie sing a 11 a 12 the ER I that I ( 9th Januar half of ti ,ore desirable to obtain the than ti .t of tt a all pa as by the liamson stated Ghehad known the decei ml customer coming to the id ever ierved a lead them to think that he w last he had his dinne very ti IVlathe% ;ceased for .dieted to drinkir in that tness ne W i tnes a farms t he had had a f( Leath , clischarized him words with tb . at gentl He was quite dead, binv in the ut with the good deal of a Mr. Little, who lived at whom he had lived ; he said they had had a went to bed ,table keeper erPereeived any appearance got him into the employ of ing at Knowsley, and had turned !Li his order for ly betwE Toner is SPURIOUS COII A. MAN FINED £2412 Mr. I .—A remarkable case was yesterday shton, at the Police Court. A man keeper of a beerhouse, was placed at coin, in br iofast. nt statute of George ice that tt prisoner had )anish and American dollars .nd were fastened two and two to- a single oblong link, inserted through a stalk each, like old-fashioned sleeve-buttons, but ntended to be used for keeping together a tight : —Mr. Ortt, a master butcher, said that the ht th,! large quantity of coins produced to and that he had stated that they were to £3OO. He had accordingly put them ey. They were called for by the police, by him id refused to y when the man repented of his 3 appeared for the defence, called Joseph :wer's clerk, whose employer served the pri whn stated that he had frequently seen the ,t the prisoner's house; that he made no se- •e, silvc atm never passed them off for, or said they He (the prisoner) stated that he had bought ho had bought , in exc a a man p, and v fret Eaton, the pri , also stated that she had seen them lying at the children were allowed to play with oner never represented them, or sold any lver ; and that he seemed to put no value upon had given some of 'them to orange -girls and exchange for oranges an d o th er trifling articles. — :on said, the statement that theprisoner considered ins representation to vere worth. from £2OO to £3OO. He wisoner under the statute for having i. He must pay a fine of 40s. on each number of five nould convict the p iece found a ur ne imp r i sone d for number of coins found was 1 226. De lucting 5 the flue from this, left 1221, which, at 40 s . eac h , made the 'mount 0r £2442 sterling! had th e f u ll fi ne of £5 required, in place of the minimum amount the•amount would have been £6,105 ! The )ner, of course, was, in default, sent to gaol.-111r. ` , ll remarked, that it was well that the coin had been would no doubt have been disposed of to Lo had no perfect knowledge of Ameri can _..cy, and might be deceived by it. He gave orders that o f Lieut. Henry, of the government emigration-office, should be informed of the case, so that. emigrants might be put upon , Inglis's speech as intole- the ir guard. 10— "^ z . .hOuld already have gone ahr , ald reserve hi mse lf ou t h e su bj ec t ,e - here it will doubtless be destroyed. u , the buttons " will be sent rt. lterests of this c 1 if the Je ) be well exempted train .ed ; for ,t any of 1 zu pcact of prop} L. iviu larger number of c xi escape owing to e they knew that d g in -other asion, that reed in Sc had actually viclat, I to pay the After wl postponed nswer the As original! some technic d Sir ( d, who •• aauyJVaa v 4.11 U kJlu 111a1 1D .1111.4 Mr. PRYME thought that such a provision a separate bill. Mr. HUME objected to that a witness shall not be obliged to criminate him ich rule the . ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported, ob- ,s that of .th had the c o extricate the to coutmer The Bo proval of the pro- OXFORD TRACTARIANS ig been called to No. 90 in. tl Tracts for the Times, by Members of the Unive, lit are ti ❑ds by its contents is c D painful a to intrude Oul This publication is entitled ty-nine Articl tniver- certain very importan that those Teover, tha rIIEATRE-ROYAL, LIN gement of 111 r. CLARKI Sole Lessee EMT OF MR. J. S. BALLS VANDENIIOFF, I PRI DA KINU Earl of Kent.. Mr. %aker ‘lrs. BaX Mrs. 'V for the first • time in this Theatre THE RAILROAD STATION v, Ofe 1 k Robins.. - played by him at the Olympic entre, London Samuel Jones 'Mr. akar. Mrs. William Smith Uadai To conclude with, by particular desire, and for the first tin at this Theatre, an origina Mr. J. S. Balls;'entitled PAUL THE BRAZIER Tama, written express. .actor).. Mr. J. S. Balls, TO-MORROW (Saturday).- Shakspeare's Tragedy. of RICHARD THE TEIIitD. Richard, Duke of Gio ster, Mr. Elton ; Earl of Richmond, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Queen Elizabeth, Miss Cleaver ;.Lady Anne, Mrs. W. H. Bland. With the new Drama of PAUL'THE BRAZIER. PriceS of Admission :—Boxes, 4s. ; Unner Boxes. 3s. 6d.; Gallery, is , . Doors to be opened at Half- .st Si::, and the Performance lice will be opened daily, when Places in the Boxes may be taken of Mr. MINSTER, from Ten until Three. A limited number of Season Tickets to be disposed of.— Application to be made at the Box-office. The new Farce now performing with great success at the Theatre-Royal,\Haymarket , called 808 SHORT, in which Mr. J. S. Balls will sustain the character of Bob Short, will be produced on Ai ONDAY next. In addition to the list of auxiliaries already announced, an arrangement has been made with the popular performer, Mr. JAMES WALLACK, of the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, who will commence an engagement for a limited number of nights immediately upOn the close of the Haymarket Theatre, being his. first ::11 - e : I his return from America ,ppearance here since Ebt Eibrnmot tailbarb, 12, 1841 tart' for Ireland made use of an argument imilar in in the debate on Mr. Colquhoun's illation, but not then for the first time, which tion. He content led that it was of po use to say any think deservir ,g of atten- thing on the doctrines tau nooth,. unle tenets which are some- thing 'ra—something contrary to thos it was understood would be. taught there when the col lege was founded. This argument has been treated popish one. You were institnted,, he would say, to teach disloyalty, irreligion, and immorality; do you continue to do so ! Right, very'right ; stick to your principles, and however bad they may be, nobody can fin d fault with you !" Ndr. Colquhoun has, however, taken the right method to meet th ;ort of argumentation, by laynooth institution )sine their repeal. That is the was •founded, and prc Ang back to y which proper . way to meet it. It goes to the root of the mat ter, and brings the question back to first principles ; and though we grant it may he fairly contended that these statutes did not pledge Parliament to continue the grants, Yet, as the question to be discussed is essen tially the same, whether we oppose the mere grant. or seek a repeal of the statutes, we think the latter- mode of proceeding is, on this ground, preferable. We have again and again urged upon the leaders of the Conservative party in the House of Commons, the necessity of throwing off the lethargy by which they appear to be actuated in their conduct towards Lord Melbourne's administration; and at once, in their full power, and in th€ name of the people of England, as serting their claim to be entrusted with the destinies of this great nation. We.reptuliate, with all respect, the views of those of our contemporaries and of at: with contempt by some of our brethren of the press but, we think, erroneously d undeservedly so. To us it appears to be a fair, legitimate, ment, which ought to be ans‘Nc contumely, but with substanti is and Devote of Reinfenstuel, of as the arch fiend hirnsett hing to do with them, unless you prove to me that they inch cate dogmas W ;loos not sanction and approve of Th ese ex- ,ounders of Romanism are no new teachers—their names were known when Lord "Castlereagh and Mr, Perceval vot annual grant which I and, indeed, with re gard fo Popery itself idem, we have nothing new to learn matter then is tt n the College of it would be shewn that they w -Our ty of Oxford, of wi t auth prejuu I'. UHL person, RTON, ALA ,111. A UICID Wednesday.) \ . . Mr: Alcock, superintendent of police, who happened to he passing at the time, went into the house, and found the poor woman weltering in her blood, with her throat cut in a fright ful manner, nearly from ear to ear, by a man named William Hampson, who had made his escape. Alcock sought for n in one corner of t pit, with tied to pair of braces, which appeared _ I to something ; and it was evident that he had been endeavouring to hang himself, but the id not say anything, 'e been When taken, h Mcock did not ask him any ques The pri said he would not have done it but for wright by trade, but .ocerces in Smithy Door s ago, his wife Oman still r held yesterday, Vlr. Curry, touching the death of Margaret Davlin. but two years and a half old, lived ). 78, Freeman's-row. On Friday iced was left in a room eating her break- ku inquisition 1, who . v with her parent .ds heard to scream . ; and found e never appeared to g better, and died on Tuesday lg last. The jury rettrned a verdict—that the de- I died fr ,er clothes became ig- :e to she sterday an inquest was held before F. Curry, Esquire, coroner, on view of the body of Wm. oth, who had been found dead in his bedroom. Margaret or Suicir !r, being lid 'she was niece to M William ad. The 1, who keeps the I ;s went Dor, but receiving no I saw the deceased up had her s in a very rt the floc ere a littl k great crow spool RoaC pf Man Tavern , apparently h the alarm, and one [own. She afterwards s !ten o'cl on a ci: nd his le He wa of the ostlers was sent up, and cut him.lving dead on the bed- she nor t lose Cc GRIFFIT adham Cot Lnd. On ,nd talked ration o Ltion pref a takes the .rch of 11 ,ur church which call Soli tion to ted in abject i which in k). It inti- appear to us to have 1, the' very serio turd character 'of ices of the Church of lecture.4oons of the Considerin Principal and Tutor id Tutor Owen, I have nc and proper argu- red, not with railing or nd 'solid reasoning. not to me of the class f Me- 1 14ahlonatus, e they as false ald make them, sts of being semper The Sum of the Pe endowed a Popish col- lege, and, having done so, you have nothing to do with what the professors in it teach, provided it be good Popery—provided it be not repugnant to the spirit and genius of the Roman - CathClic religion, or what you had a right to expect they would teach as professors of that religion fo whose support and encouragement you instituted the college." Such is the substance of the argument of Lord us, should be to this effect ek to withdraw .nt .trorn Maynooth, not on account of ny recent discoveries with regard to its class books— loyal, or immoral tenets ascertained to be maintained therein, being con- quite congenial withoit; •we seelcto withdraw the grant, simply because we repent of the original act, because the college is Popish, anti because we committed a grievous error in ever having instituted or endowed a lain and broad ground, Lord Mor peth is answered—and we stand on good Protestant taking this terra firma —avowing, indeed, a great mistake commit ted, but deriving from that avowal the immense ad- vantage of carrying on the contest afterwards in the best possible position cretary J roc eecled to illustrate his But the noble and did so in the following terms, according meaner. " He (Lord Morpeth) would state a case by way of illus. tration. Suppose the College of Maynooth was not a Catho- lic, but avowedly a Protestant establishment, for the purpose ministry, not of the Roman Ca- tholic Church, but of the Established Church ; and suppose it were alleged, - and could be proved by clear evidence, that cote of the preceptors in that establishment, so far from pursuing the proper objects and avowed ends of the establish- were constantly employed in disclaiming the doctrines of the Protestant Church, to which they belonged—(cheer- reformation—(hear, hear) ;—that with these notions some of their pupils (as'there was no wonder) had become imbued, detaching themselves in fact from the pale of the Established Church, and embracing the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church-then he (Lord Morpeth) thought it might be suc- cessfully contended th, swer the purposes for which it such an establishment did not an- as instituted, and that there ld system of tuition which was much in its management called for, and would justify, the interference of parliament." (Hear, hear.) Then his lordship takes a case exactly the opposite of what he supposes to exist at Maynooth, and says, here are Protestant professors teaching Popish doc- Protekant. university inculcating the youth of England With Papistical heterodoxy ; the col lege has therefore violated its charter, arid forfeited all In this instance I agree that right to further grant a good case of forfeiture has been established, and I shall vote.for the abolition His lordship was at once understood to allude to Oxford and the Puseyite school of teachers in that uni- verity ; but he overlooked the trifling fact that the " Oxford Tracts" are not Oxford class books, and that of the gentlemen whose names have come before the public as leading men in the school, two only, (as we learn from a London contemporary,) Mr. Sewell and Dr. Pusey, are in any way connected with the instruc- tion of youth, Dr. Pusey having only a very limited class of stude s In Hebrew losed does not exist in fact i'lle press, as Sir Robert Inglis observed, is free at Oxford as it is I,ondon or verpool, and gentlemen at Oxfordmay certainly publish whatever corn memaries their fancy fDrovided they he dictates on the Church of I „land, not seditious or blasphemous,) without fear of punish- ment, or making either the CI urch or the University responsible for their opinions. But, of course, we may suppose the case described by the noble lord for the sake of illustration, 'without reference to realities; w h a t does it illustrate ?- and then the que s ti on is, There, then," h e would argue , "is a cl ear case o f " forfeiture. The college is Protestant —the teaching is tweea what it was intended which actually is that we are bound to extinguish taught, is so glaring, the institution itself:" But, in the case of Maynooth can you, do you show anything of this kind ? lordship, Lwe quote his exact words,] "no such allegation brought against the Col lege of Maynooth ; whatever faults might be imputed to it, laxity of discipline, and opposition to the doctrines of the church which it professed to uphold, were not I," said h against it.—(Bear, bear,") amongst the charges alleged Thus, for all the exposures made of IVlaynooth in- demoralising, and de- truction—however shocking testable such instr uc tion may have been sh ewn to be— his lordship has one short, cut-and -dry answer : " Oh r it's ONLY POPERY I" The name of popery is his salve for every iniquity—his universal remedy. It s very sanctum of unsocial and demoralising principl es i s hi s tower of defence ; and by skewing that it app roves o f all that is abominable in the Maynooth class-books, you only furnish him with the better excuse for con tinuing the grant. He would have all institution s pur sue the design of their founders, and punish only the one which • departed from it. If a Protestant univer- sity taught popery, he would come down upon it with recal of its charter and muniments, and so far he would he right; but—even-handed and impartial gen tleman—he would act precisely in the same way by a RPOOI trvmen who maintain that the Conservative v I con- stitutional party are gaining strength—moral and per manent strength—by delay. On the contrary, firmly of opinion, that during the present sessio notwithstanding the little progress made in the of Liberalism within the walls of Parliament, the Minis terial party have \ tucceeded—and their attempts have been artfully directed to this very object—in laying the fOundation of a fresh career of agitation ,c:out of doors, the result:Of which may be to fasten upon the country for years to come the evils of a mob-directed govern b the finality of measures which but yesterday were considered as settled portions of the ment—to distu constitution, and to scatter the seeds of disruption amongst institutions and principles which the hand of the leveller and the democrat had not hither dared to touch As a proof of the justice of this opinion, let us exa mine only two questions which have been introduced by government during the present session—which have been brought forward, not with the most remote ex pectation of their being passed into a law, but with a view simply of their being thrown upon the turbid waters of democracy, to excite and to madden with wild hopes those restless and reckless agitators whom the settlement of the great measures of parliamentary and municipal reform had reduced into a state of tem porary quiescence. With respect to the first of these —the bill of Lord Morpeth--will any man have the hardihood to maintain that such a bill—a bill which engrafts upon the representative system in Ireland a franchise little removed from universal suffrage—was demanded, or even dreamt of, by any considerable por tion of the k v • eople ? -Assuredly not. For what object, then, was so open a breach in the finality of the Re form Bill proposed, if not to be carried into execution? For this, we reply : to give an impetus to agitation for a similar boon to be extended to the constituencies of the entire kingdom —to enlist under the banners of the Melbourne administration, or of an administration to succeed it formed of still more ultra materials, the ac tive sympathies' of the whole body of democratic re formers; and to throw insuperable difficulties in the way of a practical and common sense administration of the existing constitution of the kingdom by any other hands. Again, with respect to another bill, which has been too little noticed by the public and the press—viz., the bill to amend the system of registration in England and Wales—will it be maintained that the enactments con tained in that bill—the abolition of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act, the shortening of the period for which a voter must have been in occupation before registry, and other provisions of a similar nature — have been loudly demanded, or are necessary ? It will not. The entire measure has been introduced solely to unsettle what was previously settled—to bewilder the public mind, and to call the attention of the people of Great Britain to a comparison between the system of registration and the franchise in this country, and those proposed to be introduced into the sister king dom; and we defy any man, no matter of what party, to produce a satisfactory reason why the boon which such a comparison would spew was about being con ferred upon Ireland, should not be extended to the people of England and Scotland. • The country at large, it is notorious, is dissatisfied so far with the working of the Reform Bill-and with reason. That measure has confessedly disappointed the expectation's of even the most sober-minded of its promoters, and will continue to do so, so long as the government is administered by a faction which is nei ther able nor willing to legislate for the practical ad vantages of the community. Is it wise, then, we ask, for the Conservative party to allow the present race of incapablei to turn against the . constitution itself, as settled by the Reform Bill, the dissatisfaction which is due to their own incapacity and to their own dishonesty alone ? We humbly think not; and we would im press upon the consideration of Sir Robert Peel and the Conservatives the fact, which we believe to be un deniable, that every hour in which the Melbourne ad ministration is allowed to usurp the seat of government is pregnant with danger to the best interests of the country. We might have adduced, in corroboration of our views upon this subject, other and perhaps more im portant evidence contained in the proceedings of party out of doors, acting doubtless upon the prompting of government and its satellites. At present, however, we are obliged to be satisfied with merely glancing at dan gers which we cannot but fear are approaching the constitution; and which—unless arrested by a timely intervention on the part of Conservatism, and a return to sound principles of government—will shortly assume a more startling aspect. On a future occasion, how ever, we may be tempted to treat the subject more at length than our space at present allows us. It may be well to repeat, that at the meeting on im port duties, • held on :Monday, it was understood that the corn laws should not be discussed, and that many gentlemen, decidedly opposed to the repeal of those laws, were induced to take part in the proceed ings, or to permit their names to be mixed up with them, expressly on this condition. This is necessary to be borne in mind, because if the resolutions alone were looked at, it might be inferred that the, meeting included the corn duties in that tariff whose revision they were seeking for. Such an inference would, be warrantable from the general terms in which the resol lutions were couched ; but the meeting took place ex pressly upon an agreement. It was thought desirable to collect gentlemen of all shades of politics ; and in order to insure this object, it was stipulated, and gene rally concurred in, that the corn duties should not be alluded tO, nor in any wise included in the topics dis cussed. The resolutions are, therefore, to be read with this understood reservation. This is the key to their facile adoption, and it must be seen that the con dition " corn duties . excepted," though not expressed, does as truly belong to them as if the words were set forth at length, by way of superscription or postscript. They were " in the hand" previously executed, and we are bound to look at the execution of the treaty by the light of the preceding stipulation. This view of the business is,confirmed by what took place at the Court-house. There Mr. Charles Holland, who is a great anti-corn man, felt the temptation so strong upon him to wander into his favourite pastureS, that at last he fairly leapt the hedge, and took a small nibble just along the boundary. But the trespass being so mani fest a violation of the articles, did not pass unnoticed, and our excursionist got immediately pulled up for the same by a gentleman, of whom it may suffice to say that he is no member of the "Anti-corn Law League." This is a pretty strong proof of the existence of the treaty of which we have been speaking, and of the strict enforcement of it that was looked for, and, we may say, insisted'upon But there was more evidence of this kind; for ano ther great anti-corn law man, Mr. Duffey, the tailor, one of the " giants" of Clayton-square, having, in the same way, broken loose from the trammels of law and equity, and shewn an evident disposition to give his goose an airing on the common, got very properly checked by his worship the Mayor, who presided. The Irish tailor actually began to reproach the mer chants, of Liverpool with having entered into such a compact, and with keeping their pledge. He said it was •" shameful." The merchants of Liverpool, how ever, have not, in general, had the benefit of a May unfortu- nately for Mr. Dutfey—under .an obligation, both of hormur and conscience, to keep faith with all parties, 1 circumstances, even though it should be to their own loss, when once they have passed their Mr. Rosson, indeed, attempted to pacify this valiant knight of . the thimble, by a jesuitical gloss on nooth education, and conceive themselve nd under the resolutions. He said that nobody who heard them could suppose for a moment that they did not include the corn duties—and he begged the angry artist to smooth his ruffled feathers, and console himself with this assurance. Two or three other gentlemen of the liberal school also adverted to the matter, with obser vations of nearly similar import ;—from all which we draw . the obvious and indeed necessary inference, that the party would convert this meeting—which was de signed to be a perfectly open one, and one in which the dismission of the corn question was distinctly pro hibited—into one at which the repeal or modification of the duties was directly or inferentially recommended ! Now we say that this is unfair, and, moreover, a breach of faith. It is a mere " keeping of the word of promise to the ear"—and scarcely that—but a " break ing of it to the sense"—and calls for reprehension. We do not mean to charge all the whip gentlemen with so insidious a policy; but it is manifest that some have practised it, and that their acts, therefore, tend to the discouragement of• meetings convened under con ditions such as were Pnnexed to the one in question. Our look-out abroad is by no means comfortable this week, and is such as leads us to fear that the luck of the Whigs. is nearly run out. We regret this, we need scarcely say, not so much for the sake of our ca binet directors, as on account of our beloved country. The China expedition proves to be something very like, if not in reality and altogether, a failure. We have been humbugged, grossly humbugged, by the Longtails—that's the truth of it. The fellows might have been brought to their senses easily at the first; but a spirit of conciliation—a beSetting sin with the Whigs—came over our commander, and the mandarins completely got round him with ,their palaver. 'What is the consequence? 'Why,', that our expedition ,is treated with contempt, and.no longer feared—that our i.oldiers are dying off by hUndreds at Chusan—and that nuprogress.whatever 'has been made with the ne gociations. Nay, it is an incident among the latest events of which we have tidings, that the Queen steamer was fired at from the battery when entering the Bogue, having the Captain Plenipo Elliott on board, bearing .a diplomatic chop for the Emperor's high commissioner. It is true some apology was af terwards made for this, as a mere inadvertence; but the occurrence, trifling as it may seem, leads us exactly to the same conclusion with that drawn by a writer on the spot, who .says,• I • have always been of opinion that we, Vegan . at the wrong end. ,We should have well cudgelled .the Longtails at first, and reasoned .(treated) with themlfterwards." Admiral Elliott has resigned his command to Sir J. Gordon Bremer, and set sail for England, on board the Volage, on the 29th of . November. It remained a matter of the utmost uncertainty whether our " com plications" with this extraordinary people Would be settled by negotiation, or whether their movements would noihave tO be quickened at last by active mea- The Egyptian news is also in a slight degree embar rassing. The Pasha vows that he will never submit to have the hereditary successor to the government ap pointed by, the Sultan—a nomination which the Em peror' seeks to retain in his own hands. And in this we think the Pasha only insists on what is reasonable. If his pashalic is to be hereditary, it would be a strange and unnatural power to give the Sultan, to select such member of the Pasha's family as he might choose to prefer to the government. As to our western complications, they get more and more perplexed and perplexing, and leave us nothing but to prepare for the worst. The hopes of the French war party have been revived by this business, which perhaps may be owing to an influence exerted by them in the States. The Sikqe of Monday gives the first in timation of their hopes, and contends that France ought to be more than ever cautious in signing any treaty, as it was evident, from the late debate in the House of COmmons, that the friendly language used towards -France was induced by apprehension of a war between Great Britain and America. It is pretty plain, then, that we are surrounded by enemies willing and anxious to find an occasion of quar relling with' us. 'The popish agitator in the House of Commons—our great domestic' foe—does not fail to take advantage of these signs of the times. All his demands are now made, not as favours that he hopes to win, but as con cessions that we should tremble to deny. The act of '29 is forgotten. He is still as much as ever the Papi neau of Ireland, but a far more cautious and skilful hero of the school. On last Sunday evening he reviewed his male troops in a repeal gathering at some place in Theobald's road, London, and told the assembled Patlanders that on that day week he would review a hundred thousand of them on the Curragli Gf Kildare, in Ireland. Can miscreant, treasonable audacity go further ? But let not Eng land be alarmed. She has One above to protect her; and with a just cause, she will, if it please God, fear none of her foes. We are sorry that the length of our report precludes us making any observalions upon the speeches deli vered, yesterday, at the meeting convened for the pur pose of preventing the infliction of the grinding tyranny of the bashaws of Somerset House, upon the poor of Liverpool. The petulant outbreaks of Mr. Earle, under the rebukes which were administered to him for his foolish exposure of himself and party, and for his second-hand misrepresentations of the working of the new poor-law, will afford us a little amusement for an idle hour before Tuesday, whilst the taking up of the subject by the public will afford us an oppor tunity of showing the real principles and working of this abominable, unchristian, un-English, devilish measure. In the meantime we recommend the perusal of the speeches which will be found in other columns, together with the letter from a correspondent on the same subject. We must, however, offer up our hearty prayers that the objects of the deputation will be realised, and the poor thus saved from the bloWs aimed at their comforts, their religious scruples, and their moral feeling MELANCHOLY Loss OF THE BARQUE HECTOR.—WC deeply regret to state that intelligence was yesterday received by the schooner Flora, Captain Warren, from Terceira, of the total loss of the barque Hector, East Indiaman, of this port, off that island on the 17th of February, and of the cap tain, the mate, and another man. The Hector recently un derwent a thorough repair here, and was considered equal to a new ship. On her homeward voyage from Calcutta, with a cargo of sugar, she touched at the island of St. Helena, and afterwards encountered a, gale of wind, which induced the captain, as she had become leaky, to make for the island of Terceira, in the Azores. She came to anchor off the island on the 15th February. The gale continued violent, and as the leak increased, the crew abandoned the vessel next day, in the long-boat. leaVing on board the captain and the mate, and, it is supposed, the steward, both of whom were much attached to him, and resolved to remain with him to the last. The leak at length defied all their exertions, and the ship be came in a sinking state. They did not, however, leave her until the water had reached the deck, and there was no longer a hope of saving her. They then took to the remaining small boat, and the vessel went down in 50 fathoms of water, at her an chors. The distance to the shore was but short, but the gale was still severe, and the sea running high, and, lamentable to relate ! the boat swamped, and the three faithful fellows found a watery grave together. , Capt. John Johnson was a man highly respected by all wbo lenew him, and much be layed by his friends and intimate acquaintance, for his manly disposition and general good qualities. He was but 38 years of age, born in England, and was an admirable and fearless man. His father is an interpreter of this town, a respectable old man ; and his distress on learning the melancholy fate of his son, as may well be conceived, is most poignant. He has left four sisters, two of whom kept his house here, and two others are resident in Dantzig, the birth-place of his father. His memory will long be affectionately cherished by a large circle of friends, who were strongly attached to him as an excellent man, and a cheerful and engaging companion. The Hector was a ves se l of 395 tons burden, th property of Mr. Close, of Nottingham, whose agent here is Mr. James Aikin. We have not been enabled to ascertain the names of the mate and steward, who perished with their gallant com mander. THE BILITIstt QUEEN. —This vessel left London on the 10th instant as advertised, but we understand orders have been despatched from the Foreign Office to detain her at Portsmouth for a short time, in order, we presume, that she may carry out the despatches of Lord Palmerston's inten tions, with reference to the important and warlike intelligence recently received from America. The British Queen carries out nearly seventy persons, and an extensive and valuable cargo of merchandise, and upwards of fifteen thousand let ters and newspapers, which will acquaint Brother Jonathan of the feelings entertained by Englishmen of his war brag gadocia. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT (From our London Correspondent) LONDON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT The proceedings in parliament on Monday and Tuesday evenings present nothing particularly worthy of comment, with the exception, perhaps, of the announcement made in the House of Commons on Monday, by Lord John Russell' of his intention to modify the terms of his new poor-lawt measure: The public were, however, to some extent pre pared for an abatement of the ministerial demands upon this question, by a leader in the Morning Chroniclelast week, the Writer of which professes to have discovered that many fea tures of the existing system, as administered by the Somerse House officials, are " distasteful" to the feelings of the grea mass of the people, and are too grinding to be endured with patience —a discovery which nine out of every ten men, who are not either malthusians or images of stone, have made many years ago, and which, I imagine, the ministerial writer has only made " upon compulsion" at last. The concessions in question do not after all amount to much, but, I suppose, we must be thankful for what we can get. It is no easy matter to screw humanity out of a whig. The duration of the poor-law commission is limited, in com pliance with the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, to five years instead of ten, the period fixed in the original draft of the bill. An English pauper, too, is to be allowed Christian burial beneath the shadow of the church in which, perhaps, he may have worshipped in the better days of his existence, and not, as at first proposed by this tenderhearted faction, to be interred like a dog, in some hole attached to the bastile in which he has breathed out the last hours of his miserable life. It will be scarcely credited, perhaps—it is indeed as tounding—that such a proposition could have been seriously made in a Christian age by the government of a Christian —that a portion of the sentence inflicted by our criminal law upon a convicted felon after execution—viz., the burial of his body within the walls of his prison, should be attempted to be forced upon the wretched victims of poverty, age, and disease, who crowd the union workhouses. Yet such is, or rather was, the case. The bill of Lord John Russell propoSed to enact this monstrosity—to deprive the surviving relatives of the unfo r t una t e pauper o f t h e tr ifli ng consolation of following the ashes of their father, their mo ther, their brother, or their sister, to their last resting-place in that spot of consecrated ground where they have hoped through life to take their last sleep—by proposing that the union workhouses should be provided with grave-yards— (having been already well supplied with pork broth and cheap doctors)—in which' the punishment and degradation, awarded to poverty during life, might be extended beyond that period where all earthly punishments and distinctions should ter- Anil, it is a concession (I) we are told, that such a provision —so devilish and' harrowing in its position—is not persisted in by " the friends of the people—the libel ty-loving whigs ! countr urinate It will be observed in addition, that the bill is not as yet to be extended to those towns which already possess local acts for the government of their poor—in which category, I pre sume, Liverpool will be included—a fact which, I have no doubt, will b.; hailed with satisfaction by your comtn unity, and for which their thanks are due, above ad, to the conservq live press throughout the kingdom, which has so unceasingly protested against the entire principle of this inhuman and wicked measure The arrival, last night, of the overland mail from Egypt and India, has dashed the cup of hope and exultation from the lip of Whig-radicalism most effectually. But a few hours ago did any daring night presume to doubt the sagacity of whig statesmen—to imptign their principles—to impeach their honesty, or to question their success, he was told forth with by the " uppish" and stilted supporters of the faction to admire the superhuman genius displayed in their foreign policy. " Have we not settled the Syrian question ?" mere asked— " Have we not got over our 'misunderstanding with France? Have we not frightened his sublimity, the brother \ of the sun and moon, out of his seven senses, dum-foundered all his mandarins, scattered his great warriors, and planted the British flag triumphantly upon the walls of the capital of Chusan." Alai for the mighty ! Alas for whig-radicalism. The boasted settlement of the affairs of Syria is found at length to be no settlement at all. Lord Palmerston's Egyptian acquaintance has still a lingering fancy for a kick up ; and has provided as pretty a ground for the interference of French bobadilism as could be wished for. His 'sublime highness, after our indulging him with the sight of a British man of war, within the waters of Pekin. is not frightened at all: His mandarins are laughing until their very tails shake, to see " the barbarian islanders" dying like sheep in a murrain amongst the swamps and mias mata of their magnificent conquest, the island of Chusan, whilst commissioner Ke.shin is amusing them with " chops." Admiral Elliott has got the heart-ache ; and is coming home to narrate the story of a British steamer being fired upon whilst conveying his own " chop " to Canton, and to publish, perhaps, the written apology which was " promptly {Wade" by this conquered and humbled people for the commission of such an indignity. Altogether as pretty an assortment of glorious news as ever blessed the eyes of a cabinet m i n ister is, by this time, in the possessiiin of the guardian - genius o f the foreign office ; and Lord Palmerston is, I have no d o ubt, as heartily sick of himself and his " genius" (t) as the people of Great Britain have been of the same valuable arce or articles years ago It is perhaps scarcely fair to attribute to Lord Palmerston or to government the impediment which has been thrown in the way of the settlement of affairs in the Mediterranean. But in the case of the failure, so far, of the Chinese expedi tion, it is impossible to lay the blame upon any other shoulders than those of the authorities at home, and of the officers who have had its chief direction abroad—upon Lords Palmerston and Minto, and the Elliotts. The whole Chinese affair ought to have been, and might have been, settled within a week of the arrival of the British force off Pekin, in June or July last ; and yet, so late as the date of the last arrivals, December, the negociations had not advanced one step, and the whole of the work (?) of six months was to be commenced anew. In the meantime, the troops on board the fleet, and those located in Chusan, have been decimated by the miserable unhealthi ness of the climate ; and we arc informed, from the letter of an officer on the spot, that of a force at Chusan numbering originally 3,420 men, " only about 500 or 600 men could now be collected for service !" " The 26th regiment," says the same authority, " exists but in name. They muster only 100 men for duty, and 500 are still in the hospital ; the cases of many, too many, are quite hopeless." Another authority (a military officer) writes of the regi ment to which he is attached--" We brought 900 men on shore, and never were men in better condition ; all we have now remaining, taking off the non-comtnisioned officers, band, and servants, is about 100 mess for duty, and many of these more or leis ill. Graves are for ever open, and those who assist in paying the last duties to their ill-fated Companions seem as if they would soon follow." May not her Majesty with justice echo the language of the Roman Emperor, and exclaim to Lord Minto and his imbeciles=" Vare redde mild Legiones ?" The British flag floated proudly enough, I dare say—to use what was the language of the admirers of whip-radicalism a few months ago—from the walls of a city of the imperial empire; but it waves now only over the mouldering ashes of the dead, or the sickly and ghastly forms of miserable ague-stricken men who have scarcely strength left to defend it against the onset of a battalion of women. Will the country contemplate such a calamitous state of things, without requiring a strict and a severe reckoning with those by whom it has been brought about ? Surely not ! It will scarcely be wondered at that the feeling which has been excited to-day in all circles by the general tenor of the advices. is one of gloom mingled with the deepest indigna tion. Only two days ago the British people were insulted by the publication of one of the most malignant and men dacious documents ever put forward by the government of any civilized country. The democracy of America dared openly to vindicate their right to commit, under the forms of law, the cold-blooded and deliberate murder of a subject of her Majesty ; and the only source of hope in which we could indulge, for the preservation of peace between the two coun tries, was the expectation that by the speedy settlement of affairs in Syria and China, we should be placed in possession of such an imposing force, by the withdrawal of our fleets from the Mediterranean and from the Chinese seas, as would effectually deter attack, even from a country which no other consideration except prudence could restrain from letting loose upon us the envenomed feelings of the people towards the very name of Great Britain. Can we indulge in such a hope now ? Dare we venture to withdraw one ship from the Mediterranean or from China, to beat back the assault which threatens us from the other side of the Atlantic? Assuredly not. Hedged round as we are with enemies on every side, we have nothing on earth to look to for support but the spirit and idomitable resolution of the people of England and Scotland—would that I could add of Ireland too !—and that spirit, it is to be feared will not be put forth, until some nobler hearts are found to direct its energies than those mean and mercenary ones which beat beneath the breasts of her Majesty's present advisers ! MURDER.—A driver, of the name of Billane, seized some potatoes for rent, belonging to a man named Magrath ; an a lt erca ti on i m mediately ensued, when Magrath, who held a mallet in his hand (with which he had been breukine clods) struck'Billane in the temple, and he never spoke after. David Duff. S.M., and the chief-constabl e , s h ort l y a f ter atten d e d to take Billane's depositions, but he could not speak ; be lingered for five days, and died. Magrath was taken the same and will be tried at the ass i zes o f N enag h, w hi c h day,commence the 15th of this month. The occurrence took place at Redwood Castle, the property of Major Bloomfield -Dublin Evening Mail. A REASON.—At our assizes, a woman from the " far west," somewhere about Stainmoor, on being asked how l o ng she lived in Barnard C as tl e , rep li e d t h at she really could not tell because " she was no scholar."—Durham Advertiser. EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—On Friday last, a fine cow, belonging to Cornelius Riordan, of Johnstown, near Mac room (a tenant and driver to Sir Richard Cox, Bart.), when about to calve, became so very unwell, that her owner was obliged to send for a " cow-doctor," who resided in the neighbourhood. This man drew from her, on Friday even ing, ,bur calves, and a fifth on the following evening !! The poor cow died very soon after, and was buried in a pit along with the five calves on Monday morning.—Kilkenny Mode- Should the £5 qualification clause in Lord Morpeth's re gistration bill for Ireland become the law of the land, it is understood to be an instruction apolitical unions, to petition parliament immediately for an extension of the franchise to all the parliamentary boroughs of Great Britoin.—sterford shire Gazette. , on u cation