The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS. We beg respectfully to • call the attention of 3ferfants,. Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, to the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE • ' ON Ll' NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, which can be read on that day by the thousands of Maniffacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN MANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and respectable Inns in that town and the srurounding n2anvfacturing district. A SECOND .EDI7ION is published at Half-past Two, in tine for the North Mails, containing the ivIARKETS, and any news of importance that may arrive in the course of the morning. Ethrrpool &,tai)bari). TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1848 IT may be premature as yet to speculate upon the amount of influence, v.-hich the unprecedented demonstration, made on Friday by the mercantile body of Liverpool, will be permitted to exercise upon the decision of the legislature, with respect to the bill to be brought in last night for the repeal of the Navigation Laws; hut there can be no ques tion as to the weight which it ought to have. For let us see of what materials it was composed. The wealth, the intelligence, the enterprise of the lead ing port in the world were there arrayed against the rash and ruinous proposal of government; representatives, or members of firms, trading to every port of the known earth, East India mer chants and West India merchants, Canadian and Australian, South American and African. the owners of a commercial marine spread abroad over every sea, and of property and produce in every clime ; the shipbuilder and the artizan, with the evidence drawn from life long experience, prepared to argue the whole question with a temper, and an amount of ability which has rarely been witnessed in any public assembly, before whom so vital and mighty a qUestion was placed at issue. With what chance of success can the distorted evidence, deduced from Board of Trade statistics and one-sided blue books, compete in the minds of impartial men, against direct and personal testimony like this ? What claim have the theoretical and crotchetty notions of the Ricardo's, the Labouchere's, and the Milner Gibson's of the House of Commons to be regarded as approaching to anything like the weight of the mass of practical experience, with which they have been here inet by the merchant princes of Liver pool ? None whatever; unless we are to believe that the capacity for legislation is Heavenborn, or that questions of great political and social import are best decided by those least acquainted with them. We ask of the community to read through the elaborated speech, with which this proposition was introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Labouchere, and to compare it with the able expose, with which it was met on Friday by Mr. James Aikin. Has it a leg left to stand on, a shadow of a pretence, a solitary sophism, or per verted fact, which that gentleman did not scatter to the wind ? Will the mcst bigotted disciple of the - Cobden school ever again dare to plead for this as a free trade measure, after the crushing and masterly repudiation of the notion that it can be regarded as such, which it received from Mr. John Aikin ? 'We suspect not. The question must henceforth be argued upon a changed ground. The ministerial speakers must come down from their position, that this is a measure designed for the strengthening of the mercantile marine and the commerce of Great Britain or a legitimate exten sion of the free trade principle. The confession must he made that it is a measure of confiscation, resorted to with a view to bolster up the declining interests of a portion of the community, at the expense of the great interests and the security of the nation ; a measure to plunge the shipping interest into the same suffering which is being endured by the manufacturing and the trading classes. But the meeting, we may be reminded, was not unanimous. There was an amendment moved. True ; but that very amendment amounted to a condemnation of the government scheme. It admitted the fact that the shipowner and ship builder were proposed to be submitted to an unfair and unequal competition with the foreigner, inas much as the former is more heavily taxed in the cost of his labour and materials. Moreover, the arguments and the statistics produced in favour of the amendment went only to strengthen the case of the British shipowner. What is proved by the statistics of Mr. Wylie, except that the maritime power of this country has grown in prosperity under the very system of protection which it is sought to destroy ? We have increased our carrying trade precisely with those nations most between whom and ourselves the existing laws are recognized as binding. We have extended to the foreigner privi leges fully equal to those which he has been willing to give us in return. We have invited him to a competition with us upon equal terms; and have not been losers in the race. But it is no such measure which we are now called upon to sanction. We are to give all and get back nothing ; and the evidence that we have not lost in a fair and re reciproca: struggle cannot with the slightest show of reason, be urged as conclusive proof that we shall ndt lose in an unfair and unequal struggle. Let the public look too at the very different position in the mercantile world occupied by the opponents and the advocates here of this measure. The mer cantile experience of Mr. Wylie, Mr. Francis Boult, Mr. Charles Rawlins, and Mr. Lawrence Heyworth can scarcely be weighed against that of Mr. James Aikin, and his talented son, Mr. Brocklebank, Mr. F. Shand, Mr. George Grant, Mr. Josias Booker, Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. William Sandbach, Mr. William Mann, Mr. Thomas Moss, Mr. George Horsfall, and the hundreds of influential merchants, shipowners, brokers, and others, who afforded them the sanction of their countenance at this meeting. We cannot conclude our notice of the proceed ings of Friday, without offering our hearty thanks to his worship the mayor, for his very proper and spirited notice of the insult recently offered by Lord Pahnerston to the mercantile community of Liver pool through their representatives in the House of Commons. It was worthy of the chief magistrate of this great town ; and must be felt by the flip pant foreign secretary, if there is such a thing as shame in his composition. CHORAL SOCIETY. A Grand Concert was given on Thursday evening by the above Society, at the Music Hall, Bold-street. The room was well filled, and the audience appeared to ap predate the efforts made to please them. The first part of the concert was a performance of Handel's " L'Allegro it penseroso ed it moderato," the different airs and recitatives were executed in first rate style by the three talented vocalists, Mrs. G. Holden, Mr. Ryalls, and Mr. Armstrong. The air and chorus, " Haste thee Nymph," was loudly encored. The cho ruses through the piece were well executed and loudly applauded. The second part of the bill of fare was a choice selec tion of jems from the works of Sir H. R. Bishop, Balfe, W. V. Wallace, &c. Balfe's beautiful duet and cho rus, " Country Lasses," by Messrs. Armstrong and Ryalls, was encored. The next song, " Sleep baby, mine, by Mrs. G. Holden, was well sung, and called for a second time. Benett'p Madrigal, " Thyrsis, sleepest thou," gave great satisfaction to the audience, who testified their ap probation by a second call for the piece. Our townsman, Mr. Armstrong, sung J. L. Hatton's song, " Revenge" — this was loudly applauded and encored. The concert ended with the new National Hymn, " Queen Victoria, God protect ;" and all departed evidently much pleased with the even;np'p pntertamment. THE BLUE lioox.—This is the title of a little work written by Mr. Auty, of Bradford, and published by Mr. ibbetson, of that town. The author states that the work would never have been published if the author of a some what similar work called The Black Book, " had stated both sides of the question fairly." Mr. Auty has done good service in the compilation of his interesting little work, and it deserves an extensive circulation. Wherever the Black Book circulates, the Blue Book ought also to he read, for the purpose of making the public thoroughly acquainted with the true state of the case, and also to ex hibit the enormous amount of taxation which has been inflicted upon this country by a government loudly pro. owing " economy and retrenchment." A SPECIMEN OF THE KIND OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE NAVIGATION LAWS. At the meeting called in Sunderland, on Friday last, to petition against the proposed repeal of the Navigation Laws, Mr. Joshua Wilson, a worthy quaker of that town, who was recently examined before the Navigation Laws Committee, in the Lords, defended the measure, and ar gued that the shipbuilders of Sunderland had no reason to fear competition. "He was proceeding," says the re port, " to quote the evidence of Mr. Phillips before the House of Commons' Committee. to the effect that ships were built in Prussia at £lO odd per ton, and the evidence of Mr. Richmond that they could be built in Sunderland of the same, if not a superior class, at £7 per ton ; and to state also that he had himself had ships built for him at this rate in Sunderland, when he was met by a general contradiction from all parts of the room. " Mr. Jim. Brunton and Mr. I'. B. Simey, Lloyd's sur vevors at the port, as well as Mr. M. Lowie, Mr. W. Ord, and Mr. It. Brown, emphatically denied the state ment of Mr. Wilson as to Mr. Richmond evidence, and that ships could be-built in Sunderland at so low a rate.. They charged Mr. Wilson with alleging before the com mittee of the Rouse of Lords that Mr. Richmond stated £7 per ton as the rate in Sunderland, of both hull and outfit, leaving out of sight that Mr. Richmond himself had given that price fr;r the hull only, and that £3 more would be required for the out f it, thereby imposing anon the Lords' committee a wilful misrevresentation. They stated also that the vessel which Mr. Wilson had bought at the depreciated price he had mentioned to their lord ships had been purchased from a ship-builder on the point of failure, and severely censured him for setting up an isolated instance of this kind, and leaving their lordships to draw the conclusion that the average cost of the build ing and outfit of vessels was at this loss rate in Sunder land, instead of at from £lO to £l3 and upwards per ton. " Mr. Wilson attempted, but failed, to explain to the satisfaction of the meeting." If this is the kind of evidence which gentlemen, pro fessing an especial regard for truth, are in the habit of . palming upon parliamentary committees, the statements in blue books and reports ought to be very lightly received by the public. PROBABLE LOSS OF THE WEST INDIES. At a meeting of the West India Association of Liver pool on Alcniay, thanks were voted to the inhabitants of George Town, Demerara, for passing a series of explicit resolutions detailing their grievances, and withholding for the present any grant for the cur t :—.:,ses of the colony. The act of 1846 having :.c continu ance of cultivation impracticable, and ti., s_: having announced their intention to grant no direct relief, the people of Demerara plainly announce that they " cannot/proceed to vote the estimate, or to take any part in raising the supplies, the sources of income whence the colonial expenditure has hitherto been defrayed having ceased to be productive." Commenting on the system of legislation which has led to these resolutions, the Liverpool Association observe — "That the Association cannot believe the inhabitants of England would, if the matter were fairly brought before them by Government, restrain their fellow-sub jects to an expensive and unremunerative cultivation by free labour, making it felony for a British colonist to own a slave, and at the same time allow the foreigner to work slaves for the production of sugar and coffee for con sumption in the markets of this country." They also added a paragraph which of course will be regarded and excused as the mere impotent recklessness of despair, but which still conveys a painful impression of the wearying injustice by which alone it has been called forth : "That as it is impossible for the inhabitants of the West India colonies to continue the production of sugar and coffee on such unequal terms of competition with foreigners, this Association see no other course left, if effective relief be not immediately afforded, than for the West India colonies to appeal to the Crown for a release from their unprofitable allegiance, in order that they may attach themselves to some other country willing to extend to them the protection of a parent state, and not to deny to them all the advantages enjoyed by the foreigner in the markets of this country." torai .41.etbs. The Finance Committee have resolved to recommend Mr. Bally to the Council as auditor for the borough. On Thursday afternoon, the body of a new born female infant was found in a brickfield, near Great Howard-st. It was proved to have been still born. A labourer named Hanlon, sixty years of age, living in Northampton-street, was found dead in a privy on Thurs day night. He died from disease of the brain and heart. A child, three years old, named Simon, living in Hague-st., Everton, was killed on Thursday through a pile of curb stones falling upon him. The annual dinner of the Liverpool Chess Club was held on Wednesday evening, at the Adelphi Hotel, Mr. J. S. Spreckley in the chair and Mr. Duguid in the vice chair. Only thirty members attended. The Adele, Comelissen, from Liverpool for Ostend, which went on shore near Cape Cornwall, on the 21st instant, was completely destroyed by the ground swell on Tuesday. NEW BRIGHTON.—This delightful and fashionable watering-place is now filling very rapidly. The weather being so fine has induced many families to avail them selves of the beautiful marine view, tine shore, the light house, fort, &c. MR.. GAGE AND THE CowronAnos.—We understand that Mr. Naysmith, the arbitrator, has decided in favour of Mr. Gage's claim against. the Corporation for services rendered during the time that the question of a sufficient supply of water at home, and from a distance, was under discussion in Liverpool. The balance claimed by Mr. Gage was £159, which has been awarded to him with all costs SUICIDE.—On Saturday, Betsey Davies, who kept a stall in the Fish Market, in Great Charlotte-street, com mitted suicide by throwing herself into the river from one of the Birkenhead steamers. The tide was running out rapidly at the time, but it is thought she might have been saved if her bonnet and cloak had not come off, and risen at different parts in the water, in that manner deceiving the persons who were trying to save her. It is not known with any certainty what was the cause of the suicide. BODY FonNn.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, on the body of a man unknown. It appeared that as two boatmen were in a boat on the river on Monday last, when opposite to ; Wallasey Pool they saw the body of deceased floating on the water, and took it ashore. The body appeared to have been a long time in the water, and the features were not at all recognisable. He had on a pair of beragan trousers, check shirt, white singlet, and laced up boots, but without either coat or waistcoat. The jury returned a verdict found drowned. DEATH FROM BEING KNOCKED DOWN BY A LORRY. —On Wednesday, an inquest was held on the body of a . woman named Phoebe Perry. It appeared that on Mon day last, as a lorry was passing along Bath-street, the deceased accidentally fell between the wheels, but the vehicle being stopped, they did not pass over her body. She was picked up quite insensible, and conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where she died in about a quarter of an hour. The surgeon who had made a post mortem ex amination of the body, said that the cause of death was rapture of the liver and spleen, the result of external vio lence. The jury returned a verdict according to the evidence. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held on the body of John Cook. It appeared that the deceased, who resided in Rice-street, went to bed with his wife on Monday night, apparently quite well; in the morning, the wife was awoke by hearing the deceased breathing very heavily. She roused him, but he said nothing; she then went to sleep again, but in al)out an hour she was again awoke by hearing a similar noise. She then got up, and called in the assistance of a neighbour, and sent for a surgeon, but deceased was then quite dead. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict of died from natu ral causes. WOOLTON FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI TION.—This show (the first of the season) took place on Friday in a marquee erected at Woolton village. The attendance was numerous and highly respectable ; and the plants, flowers, &c., produced, exceeded in number, choiceness, and variety, those of former years. A mu sical band was in attendance. Amongst the successful competitors were Mr. T. Davies, of Wavertree, Mr. P. Ellames, Esq., Mrs. Jos. Ashton, S. L. Phipps, Esq., R. Alison, Esq., and Messrs. J. Harrison, J. Molyneux, B. Donald, C. Wilson, T. W. Blundell, T. R. Healey, F. H. Fovea, P. Gore, G. Bennion, J. Green, A. Dunlop, Rev. J. S. Phillips, Musgrove, &c. The decision of the judges gave entire satisfaction, and the whole exhibition went off with ecicit. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—Last week, we en joyed a succession of delightful warm sunny weather, with little or no rain ; but the dews of the night made up to a great extent for the want of other moisture, and ve getation proceeded with great rapidity. The country at large never looked more charming. Before and after sun rise yesterday morning several s r.art showers descended, and greatly refreshed and improved the fields and gardens. The wheats have recovered much, and may be said gener ally to look well. Oats never gave more abundant pro. mise, with the exception of a slight patch here and there. The potatoes ( ear li es ) are i n a mos t thriving condition, giving promise of early and sound crops. The hay-grass has greatly improved, and much of first crop of Italian rye-grass has already been cut and used as green fodder. The air yesterday, after the rain, was delightfully pure and balmy. On Sunday evening we had thick mists, but they were soon dissipated by the breeze. Yesterday afternoon we had one or two delightful showers, and the day throughout was a fine " growing" one. SPLENDID LABURNUM TREE.—There is now on the grounds of Mr. Meadows, of the Manor House, Poulton cup:Seacombe, a lab urnum tree i n f ull b loom, which, for brilliancy of size, and thickness of bloom, surpasses all we have ever before seen. The branches ( the leaves on which are unusually large) cover a circle o f mea d ow groun d o f i about nineteen feet n diameter, and the tree is nearly of the same height. It is completely loaded all round and within with golden honours, in luxuriant tapering pend ants, averaging from fourteen to eighteen inches in length, and it presents the appearance o f a h uge chandelier en riched with bright precious stones, but so fashioned by the band of nature, that an attempt at its resem bl ance b y art would be altogether futile. It was originally planted on another site, about seven years ago, and about thr e e years afterwards was blown down in a gale of wind, when it was removed to its present position, with no certainty of its flourishing to the extent it has attained. It has been visited by many ladies and gentlemen of th e neigh bourhood, and not a few from Liverpool. Mr. Meadows will show it, as well as his delightful grounds and gardens, to visitors who are curious in such matters, but no tim e should be lost, for this magnificent shrub is of the pea genus, and, " all that is fair must fade," THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. EXHIBITION OF MODERN PAINTINGS, BY MEMBERS OF TIIE ROYAL ACADEMY. On entering the rooms in Post-office Place, the work which first meets us is the Cartoon, •` First Trial by Jury." by C. W. Copeland, R.A., which carried off the 360 guinea prize at Westminster Hall. It is a noble design, simple and classically correct, yet graphic. The murderer —a bondsman as pointed out by his wearing a collar round his neck—is placed by the side of the prostrate victim, apparently on the spot where he fell, and his wife, stooping over the corpse, is detailing to the feudal Baron and, an attentive Jury the circumstances of the murder. Tho grouping and drawing of the various figures intro duced is most artistical and clever. The painting, No. 1, in the large room, " Giving Alms," by C. Landseer, R.A., is an excellent specimen of the artist's style. The subject is taken from the following passage in " Styles Annals of the Reformation,"—" This Knight nod his daughter had the character of very good alnisgivers, in respect of their great liberality to the poor ;" and the painter has given the worthy knight in the act of distributing alms at the porch of his Hall to a crowd of supplicants, whose various characters and conditions are forcibly depicted. The knight. himself is a fine rep resentative of his class ; and, amongst the other figures that of a negro and the sturdy Flemish-looking kitchen wench, who is bringing out a supply of provisions, are most striking. No. 3, "The Deluge," by F. Danby, A.R.A., is a wonderful painting, striking in its conception, and most masterly in detail and execution. The artist has intro duced as his principal object a towering rock, around whose base the mighty flood is surging, and whose steep sides are studded with a multitude of human beings, frantically struggling to attain its summit. The figures and features of the crowd stand out clearly in the wild white light of the tempest ; and those who have already reached the top are painted with surprising force and, at the same time, almost the minuteness of minatures. In the foreground, on the left, a terrific scene is intro duced, in which a number of figures are seen clinging to a tree, which is giving way beneath their weight and the force of the waters. The sky and the pouring clouds are fiinely ccnceived and full of grandeur; and through an opening the ark is seen riding tranquilly in the distance. A fine effect is produced by the blood-red sun, settling at the left hand corner. This noble work of art deserves to be studied, and will amply repay frequent visits. No. 5, " And Christ was subject to his parents," by Herbert, is a beautiful specimen of the artist, chaste and simple in its details, and solemn in conception. The youthful Saviour is represented as entering the work shop of Joseph, carrying a basket of chips, in a heap of which upon the floor a cross has been accidentally formed by two intersecting pieces of bark. He is in the attitude of one startled by some dim remembrance or passing thought ; and the painter has suggested, by the quotation of some lines, that possibly at times his destiny was thus suggested to him. The Virgin Mother has her eyes fixed upon her son with a mournful and solemn expression, as if she herself were conscious of the feelings which were passing through his mind. His figure is the most strik ing in the picture, which throughout is full of genius. We observe that an engraving of this work is in prepara tion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THROWING STONES.—About a dozen boys have been fined 2s. 6d. each for throwing stones in the streets. SERIOUS CHARGE.—A young woman, named Ellen Griffiths, was committed for trial, on Wednesday, by Mr. Rushton, for having attempted to drown her illegitimate child, and afterwards herself. The unhappy woman made the rash attempt at the canal, but herself and her offspring were rescued by the exertions of a wheelwright, named Burns. _ _ PERMITTING DOGS TO CO AT LARGE.—On Friday, no fewer than thirty-se; en persons appeared before Mr. Rushton, for having permitted their dogs to go at large in the streets. In every case a fine of five shillings or up wards was inflicted, and Mr. Rushton expressed his deter mination to carry out the proclamation of the Mayor. Mr. Rushton : " It is not of the least use putting a muz zle on,—it only makes the thing worse ;it makes no dif ference whatever in the law. It is a matter of cruelty to put on a muzzle : they perspire through the tongue." A MAN STABBED.—CHARGE OP MANSLAUGHTER. — On Friday, about noon, a manslaughter was committed in Simpson-street, corner of Kitchen-street, by Parker Unsworth, a butcher. It would appear that the wife of Unsworth had been giving evidence that morning, before Mr. Rushton, against two boys who had been fighting on the previous evening, and creating a disturbance in the street. On her evidence the boys were convicted. and the neighbours were so exasperated that they collected in large numbers round the shop of Unsworth. This so pro voked him, that he roughly desired them to disperse ; but as they paid little attention to his request, he threatened them with serious consequences if they continued to annoy him. Amongst the crowd so collected, attracted by curio sity to see what was taking place, was a person named John Clarke, a stevedore. Unsworth, greatly excited at the refusal of the bystanders to move on, rushed from his shop, armed with a knife, and coming in contact with Clarke, plunged it into his side. The man staggered a few paces, fell, and was taken to the Southern Hospital, in the vicinity, but was found to be quite dead on his arri val. Unsworth was much agitated when he heard of the consequences of his rashness. On Saturday the inquest was held before the borough coroner, and the court in Lord-street was crowded to excess. Mr. Blair, barrister, appeared for the prisoner. A witness (Vallaly) said he caw prisoner in his shop on Friday, and talked to him about the two lads. Prisoner said he could not help it. Deceased came up, and asked witness to " come away. The prisoner said, " There is another Irish scoundrel there now." He lifted a large knife off the bench, came outside of the door towards Clarke, and ran the knife into Lis bowels. Deceased said, " God have mercy; I'm killed !" He walked some way up Bridgewater-street, supported by the people, but dropped down dead on the way to the Southern Hospital. The prisoner immediately returned into his shop, and witness observed him wipe the blood off the knife with his finger and thumb, and then cut some meat with it. Another witness said that he was present, and that Vallaly was violent and insulting to prisoner, calling him "an Orange b—." Deceased came up to get Vallaly away, and soon afterwards the prisoner came out of his shop, seized hold of Clarke, and stabbed him in the right side. The knife was produced. Vallaly appeared to be intoxicated. Other witnesses spoke as to the prisoner having been exasperated by Vallaly and a crowd. The prisoner, in a voluntary statement, said, I was in my shop yesterday, when Vallaly and two other men and some women came in. Vallaly said arfirst, " I will take your life !" and threatened me, and a crowd col lected. He and some women cried, " Pull him out and smash his brains." I said I could not help what had oc curred with my wife. Some one came rushing into the shop. I was cutting something at the time. I turned round, hut how the man got the stab I cannot tell. I neither saw deceased before nor after he got stabbed. Mr. Morris, surgeon, stated the wound might have been inflicted by a person turning round suddenly. The Coroner very ably summed up, an the jury, after some consi deration, brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and the prisoner was committed to take his trial for the offence. The Jury coupled with the verdict their conviction that Vallaly's evidence was unworthy of credence. THE ROBBERY AT MR. STOCKDALE'S SOAPERY. On Thursday, at the Quarter Sessions, before the Re corder, the prisoners were tried who were the week before committed as parties to the robberies at the premises lately occupied by Mr. Stockdale. James Hartley was the first tried. Mr. Brett prose cuted, and Mr. James defended. The case against the prisoner was, that he had taken from the premises in Blackstock-street, testing apparatus and other articles, subsequently found in his possession. It was proved that the prisoner had been, for some time, in the employ of Mr. John Stockdale, and that he took the articles for a sum of £7 or £8 which was due to him for wages. He took them away in the presence of Mr. Powell. and stated frankly, when asked about the matter by a police man, that he had done so. Mr. James argued, and the Recorder supported the view, that if the goods were taken away under a supposition of right, however erroneous that view might be in the eye of the law, the case would not be one of felony. Several respectable witnesses, to whom the prisoner had been known for many years, said he bad borne an irreproachable character all his life time, and his late employer, Mr. Phillips, of Lord-street, said that, notwithstanding the present case, he should have no hesitation in placing the utmost confidence in him. The jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty, and he was at once ordered out of custody. Abraham Turbott was next placed in the dock. The case against him was, that he had stolen some chrome, and attempted to sell it to Messrs. Casey. By the advice of his counsel (Mr. Simons) he pleaded guilty to the charge, after the case had been partially gone into. Abraham Turbott was next indicted with William Pres cott, who had been placed on the premises by the Borough Bank to protect their interests. The charge was, that they had taken a large box, containing thirty-eight ac count books, from the premises, and placed them in the house of Mrs. Simpson, living opposite Stockdale's yard. The case was clearly established by Mrs. Simpson, and a verdict of guilty was returned against both prisoners. Abraham Turbott was charged a third time with John Riley, for stealing three cisterns and a wheelbarrow. These articles were also removed from Stockdale's yard and placed on the premises of Mrs. Simpson. The RECORDER said he should disallow the expenses both of young Simpson and Mrs. Simpson. He thought it was a case of considerable suspicion that her house so conveniently situated should be made a receptacle for stolen property. The answers which the son had given to questions put by himself (the Recorder) and the jury were not at all satisfactory. Therefore the expenses of both must be disallowed. _ The Counsel for the prosecution said every information had been given by the Simpsons to the officers, but the learned Recorder repeated it was a case of great suspicion, and he could not do otherwise than disallow the expenses. The RECORDER, in passing sentence on the prisoners, said it was quite clear that much of the property belong ing to the bankrupt, had been improperly and dishonestly dealt with. Prescott was particularly culpable, because he was placed as a responsible person in charge for the bank. With regard to Turbott, he must have been well aware those thingi should not have been removed. It seemed to him (the Recorder) rather a mysterious trans action. Why these account-books were removed, he could not understand. Both of them (Turbott and Pres cott) had received good characters, and it was very sad that either they, or their own heads, bad done this, or had lent themselves to other persons. In order that pro perty, under such circumstances, might be protected, it was necessary to punish them, and they must each be sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. Riley was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. LOCAL MEETINGS. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. On Tuesday evening last, the adjourned meeting of this society was held at the Collegiate Institution, upon which occasion the spacious lecture hall was most densely filled in every part by a most respectable audience. The Mayor presided ; and on the platform we noticed a numerous body of clergy. The MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, was hailed with loud cheers. He said it was a high honour to him to preside on an occasion like the present. He regretted that the funds of the society had fallen off during the past year, but he accounted for it by the immense pressure which had characterised the state of the commercial world during the last twelve months. The Rev JOHN JONES proposed the first resolution, to the effect that the remarkable facilities that now existed for sending the gospel to different parts of the world called for the expression of the most earnest gratitude. He spoke at some length upon the mild tolerant, and prayer ful spirit which in his opinion should pervade the minds of speakers and hearers at these missionary meetings, de precating the use of harsh and irritating language, and re ferring, in support of his views, to the example of our Saviour, who wept over Jerusalem, and of his apostles, who were men of a meek and gentle spirit. He concluded by passing a glowing eulogium upon the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel for the sacrifices he endured in leaving his church and people and coming down to Liverpool and other parts of the country to advocate the cause of mis sions. The Rev. G. SMYTH, late missionary in China, se conded the resolution. After having referred to the late revolutions on the continent, and the tranquility with which England was blessed, he stated it as his belief that this country had been mercifully preserved, during the recent commotions, in order that she should still continue to sustain the standard of Protestantism, and propagate the religion of Christ. He referred at length to China, and said that, although education prevailed in that coun try to an immense extent, and civilization also, still she was a standing monument of the evils resulting from se cular apart from religious instruction. Female infanticide prevailed to an alarming extent there. In one part of the country, half the females were put to death, immediately after birth. Women were despised there ; and, indeed, in all the heathen countries of the world women were de graded, and it was only where the Gospel flourished that females were considered as the fellow heirs with man of immortality. Superstition and immorality also prevailed to an alarming extent in China ; so did suicide, lewd ness, dishonesty, and lying. But there were now five opulent cities open to the missionaries, and to these cities merchants from the interior were constantly resorting. He then referred to the various other openings which ex isted in the country ; and as a proof of the cordial respect with which the missionaries were treated there, he said that during his stay the whole of the missionaries at Amoy were entertained by the mandarins at a public dinner, consisting of fins of sharks, and other sea and land ani mals fattened for the table, every morsel of which the missionaries were expected to eat, as a mark of respect to the donors. The people asked many questions about re ligion in England and America, and expressed their sur prise and delight that missionaries belonging to various religious communities could live to g eth er , in unity, for in foreign countries the missionaries of the various churches harmonised together, and forgot all their differences. (Hear.) He was happy to say, that though the Chinese were a bigoted and superstitious race, neither their bigotry nor their superstition seemed to have any very consider able hold on their minds. He was happy to say that both Confucianism and Bhuddism were on the decline in the country, and that scepticism was fast taking a hold on the minds of the Bhuddist priests. He concluded by making a powerful appeal in favour of Christian missions. The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL moved the next resolution, to the effect that, while we desire to acknow ledge the band of God in the peculiar opportunities for diffusing the light of the Gospel, which the long-continued peace among the kingdoms of Europe has offered, we would at the same time impress on ourselves and others the necessity of availing ourselves of such opportunities with renewed energy lest it should please God to permit such convulsions and troubles to come as would dose many effectual doors now open for publishing the ever lasting Gospel. He believed he might say that in the stations of the society some progress had taken place, not perhaps to any very large extent, but still to an impor tant extent. He guerded the meeting against being led astray by any misrepresentation which might be propaga ted upon the subject of missions, and he related one or two instances to show how much of misrepresentation was abroad upon this very subject. Sometimes it was said the converts were all from amongst the lower classes of foreigners ; but this was untrue, for some of the very highest and wealthiest classes had embraced Christianity. But supposing the converts were poor, they were not to be despised. Why, here in England, riches did not al ways make men useful and religious, whereas many of the poor of the land possessed many of thel virtues, and much of the fortitude, of the Christian. And were not Franklin, Henry Martin, and Luther, all per men ? Was not the Saviour poor ? Were not the disciples poor ? And were not some of the greatest revolutions effected by these poor but devoted men ? Then let the work of conversion go on among the poor of India, and let the tens of thousands of idolaters there be brought to the religion of Christ here, and to a glorious immortality hereafter. Nay, let the work go on among the very poorest, among the Parias of India, for it was a work so pure, so holy, so excellent, that it was one in which every humane man ought to bear a hand in its accomplishment. There were now 8,000 religious meetings held in England annually for the purpose of diffusing religion among the inhabitants of the earth. He proceeded at some further length to advocate the cause of missions, and to urge upon all to support it with their money and their prayers.. _ . _ The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE on rising was hailed with enthusiastic applause. He said he had been thinking of the concerts which were sometimes held in that room ; but concerts were not performed on one instrument. There were diversities of tones, but all was harmony. They had heard that evening what he might call—though he was not a musician, and he might call things by wrong technical names—(hear, and a laugh)—they had heard a very sweet alto, giving an account of China—(hear, and renewed laughter)—and it was harmonious, and he had enjoyed it amazingly, and it went andante. And now they had heard a sweet tenor, a soft, musical adagio. Was he right ? Would the concert go off well without a bass ? (Laughter.) Were there those who were so enamoured of the treble and the tenor, and who felt that their own tastes should be always consulted, and who had little taste and feeling for those who were anxious to have a full diapason at times ? (Hear, hear, and great laughter.) He rejoiced exceedingly in those softer tones which became those who gave them utterance in all that was gentle, tender, and affectionate, and he delighted Some times to utter such tones his rude self ! (Great cheers and laughter.) But he did this that he might seem, by contrast, a little more staccato; and all that he pleaded was, that his friends should cultivate a musical taste, and remember that if all were tenor, where were the treble : and if all were treble where were the bass I (Continued laughter, and cheers.) Now, they might all understand perfectly well what this strange introduction had a gentle reference to—(hear, hear)—and it was only a gentle reverence he wished to make, for he thought that was not the proper place for one clergyman to lecture another; if he had any lecture to give he would do it aside, and not before a large assembly at a public missionary meeting in Liverpool. (Cheers.) The world was larger than their individual observations conceived : let them, then, be more catholic in their views not only about what they liked, but anout what they did not like,—(hear, hear,) — and let them sacrifice the individuality that belonged to the man and put in abeyance personal preferences. (Hear, hear.) He liked plain speaking of what he be lieved to be truth, and therefore he said that false reli gions threw the sable mantle of their superstitions over the fair face of many lands in which Christian missionaries were labouring. Now, the Protestant principles of the Church Missionary Society were its glory. (Cheers.) Interfere with them, or interfere with the free, bold, and satisfactory declaration of them, and they cut the sinews of this society through England—(cheers) —nay, more, in that case they deserved to he cut. Interfere with those Protestant principles, and he would be a champion for cutting those sinews —(hear, hear,)—although he was, and ever had been, a zealous friend of the society. These great Protestant principles were set out by the society in array against the mummeries of the Rornish superstition. He believed himself that the peculiarities of Romanism cameinto the Christian Church from Paganism, Platonism, and Pythagoreanism ; and now we were called upon to contend against that system, and to sustain our true Pro testant principles,—those principles by which the early Christians held fearlessly, by which our Reformers stood, firm as a rock, before fire and faggot, and stake, and dungeon, not counting their lives dear to them. (Cheers.) These were the principles by which Et:gland and Ger many started into life, and by which our slumb er i ng universities and the careless ministry of former days were "startled into life again by Whitfield and Wesley. (Tre mendous cheers.) These were the principles by which the missionaries were sustained abroad and the church was strengthened at home. Where was our strength ? In timid men ? No ; look at the men who had carried these principles into the territory of Satan ! Look at the boldness with which they encountered error ! Look at Henry Martin, and Carey, and Duff—these were the men under whom missions had prospered. (Hear, hear.) These were none of your temporisers—your soft men - your men who, under the name of mildness, screened apathy and left people in ignorance. Who were the men under whom sound doctrine flourished, here and else where ? They were the bold men, the undaunted, the outspoken, the plain, the Protestant men ! (Vehement applause.) The Rev. Mr. JUNES said it was with extreme regret he found that some words he had spoken had been mis understood by some of his brethren. and above all by his very dear friend Dr. M'Neile ; and therefore he had re mained at some inconvenience in the meeting in order to offer an apology to him or the audience if he had, by words or phraseology, conveyed any wrong meaning. He could recollect what he said, but his dear friend was the last person in the world he would willingly offend, and certainly he had not the Doctor particularly in his view when he spoke. His friend had gone, perhaps, at times a little further than he (Mr. Jones) would ; but this was a matter of opinion,—each of them was entitled to hold his own opinion,—they loved one another, and he ho noured his dear friend Dr. M'Neile. (Hear.) He be lieved him an honest, straightforward, thorough-going Church of England divine. (Cheers.) He honoured him as a champion for the truth, and he hoped he would kindly forgive him if any feeling whatever existed in his mind. [Here Mr. Jones held out his right hand to Dr. M'Neile; the Doctor grasped it in his right hand, and a cordial shake was given amid the enthusiastic plaudits of the meeting.] Dr. M`NEILE, amid renewed cheers, said that he most cordially accepted the explanation Mr. Jones had given. But the audience would bear him witness that he had not spoken without reason ; and if Mr, ilOneB delighted in the tenor or counter tenor, let him be quiet in future when he (Dr. M`Neile) gave him a little bit of his bass. (Loud cheers and laughter.) A vote of thanks was here passed to the Mayor by ac clamation, and the meeting separated. DOCK COMMITTEE, TIIURSDAY. — Present, Messrs. Ni col, (in the chair,) Molvneux, Chilton, Horsfall, Kendall, Wood, Mann. Rankin. Holt, Tobin, Shand, Henderson, Sandbach, Royden. The plans for open sheds and police stations on the quays of the new north docks, submitted last week, were approved.—The receipts of dock and light dues for the past month were reported to be £79 15s. 6d., on 347 vessels, of 18,928 tons.—Mr. William Maddrell, master porter, sent a letter to the committee, informing them that he had given up his house, and removed from the premises. —The sub-committees, with one exception, had nothing to report, and the proceedings occupied only a few minutes. SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—On Thursday, the annual examination of the children receiving educa tion at the School for the Deaf and Dumb, was held in the Lecture-room of the Royal Institution. Richard Rathbone, Esq., occupied the chair. Mr. Rhind, the master, conducted the examination ; and the children dis played great proficiency in the various branches of instinct to which their attention had been directed. Several of the scholars were able, by placing their fingers on the throat of their tutor, and watching the motion of his lips. to articulate distinctly. There was a very large company of ladies and gentlemen present, who appeared to be highly gratified by the very interesting proceedings. At the conclusion the chairman complimented Mr. Rhind and the matron, for the zeal and ability displayed by them in their arduous task. The Rev. W. Maynard also bore testimony to the efficiency of the teachers, and the kind treatment the pupils received at their hands. The children were regaled with buns, &c., during the meeting. We regret to find, that, owing to the depression of the times, the list of subscribers has decreased. No institu tion is more deserving of support, and we hope our towns men will not allow the. funds to suffer materially. MEETING OF PORTERS.—On the evening of Tuesday a meeting of the porters took place in the Adelphi.Theatre, Christian-street. The chair was taken by Mr. O'Hanlon. Mr. Adair, the Secretary, reed a report of the proceed ings of the deputation which went to London. They had had interviews with Mr. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch, Mr. Brown, Sir' Le Marchant, Sir G. Grey, and Mr. Porter, from all of whom they had received every attention. The report was warmly received, after which Mr. H. Tindal Atkinson addressed the meeting.. He said the French had a proverb, that Heaven helped those who helped themselves ; and this the Liverpool porters had done. He bore testimony to the diligence of the deputation, and testified to its impression on those who had received it, intimating that Mr. Bramley-Moore who was in London, had received information from the deputation on the sub ject of the porters' grievances, with wnich he had not been acquainted before. He also expressed the peculiar obli gations the porters were under to Mr. Brown, who had spared no pains to further their interests. Having shown the meeting how favourable the government were to them, he urged them not to relax in their endeavours. There was a great distance between the porter and the merchant, and the porter singly could do nothing, but, in combina tion, as he saw them, they could not only speak, but be heard ; and, if their requests were right, the realization of their wishes would only be a question of time. Mr. At kinson, at the conclusion of his address, took his depar ture for London ; and, after a vote of thanks had been tendered to him, and some other routine business dis posed of, the meeting separated. The theatre was about two-thirds full. Btstrirt getus. Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of Colne. It is now pretty well ascertained that the convict Mawdesley, who accused himself of having robbed the Rev. Mr. Germon, is not the man who committed the offence. _ On the 4th inst., at Hulme, near Manchester, while a female, named Forshaw, was about lo wash and dress her child, twenty months old, she was seized with a fit (to which she was subject), fell against the fire, and upon the child, and each were so much burned before assistance ar rived that they died a few days afterwards. Oneof thesigns of thetimcs, as exhibited in our borough, is the issue of a printed placard. In the Market-place and other principal streets, many of the best shops are closed and trnantles3, and upon which is affixed the fol lowing significant notice ;—" These premises to Let—well adapted for a Free Trader. Enquire of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, Manchester."—Stockport Advertiser. SUDDEN DEATH, DECEASED FRIENDS WANTED.—On Sunday week, a man named William Henderson, who hed been working at the new Hotel erecting at Bury by the Earl of Derby, suddenly expired ; he had worked at Bury for two or three years, and stated he was an illegi timate child, and was brought up by an uncle at Portobello in Edinburgh. There was J.:15 in money on his person, there was also found at his lodgings, one box filled with books, one box with clothes, and a box of valuable Joiners' Tools. There was no paper that would lead to the discovery of his friends. The property is left in charge of Mr. Sellers, Superintendent of Police, Bury, until his friends are heard of. TARLETON.—On Sunday week, two sermons were preached in Tarleton Church, in behalf of the Sunday - Schools and the Girls' Day School, by the Rev. George Dover, incumbent of St. Bartholomew's Liverpool. The collections after the sermons amounted to £9 10s. The children's feast was held the day after, when the weather was most favourable for such a purpose. Two hundred and ten children were in attendance, who formed a pro cession and walked to the parsonage, where they sang most loyally the National Anthem, after which they re turned through the village to the school-room. At four o'clock they were treated with an abundant supply of buns and coffee. CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS IN LANCASHIRE AND CHE SHIRE.—From a. parliamentary return recently laid before the House of Commons, it appears that the number of convicts under sentence of transportation on Ist January last, in the county prisons in Lancashire, was :—Kirkdale 31 • Lancaster Castle 1; Liverpool 44 ; Preston 11 ; and Salford 10; making a total of 97. The return for the nine years, 1839 to 1847 inclusive, was respectfully for the same places, 57, 19, 29, 34, 44, 91, 39, 43, 58. This the year 1848 (or rather 1847) exceeds all the other years. In Cheshire the number of convicts within the same period was respectfully 29 (in 1839), 31, 14, 19, 19, 12, IG, nil, nil, 15 (in 1848). The total number in England and Wales, Ist January last, was 6523, showing a consi derable increase. In Wales there have been only 27 con victions within the whole ten year:, ORMSKIRK. — The remains Of Henry Pennington, Esq. , late Captain in her Majesty's 29th Regiment o f F oo t, were committed to their last resting-place on Wednesday morning last, at the parish-church of Ormskirk, the neighbourhood of his birth ; the funeral service being read by his friend, the Rev. R. Battersby. chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Skelmersdale. The gallant officer entered the service at an early age, as ensign in the 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia, and volunteered into the 29th Regiment, prior to the first campaign in Portugal, under his Grace the Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wel lesley ; was present at the battles of Robeia, Vimiera, Talavera, Albuhera, Oporto, and other minor actions in the Peninsula. He also served with the 29th Regiment in North America, and entered Paris with the allied armies in the year 1815, after the battle of Waterloo. Without an expression of regret for the death of this gallant officer, we cannot permit his eminent military s2rvie_s to be passed over. His amiable disposition, his honourable principles, and kindly feelings, endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his society. In life he was highly respected. and in death is regretted by all who knew his worth and integrity. As a soldier and Christian he had ever lived, and as such he died, at his residence, Scarth-hill, Bickerstaffe, in the 73rd year of his age. This short sketch is given by a brother officer of many yea's' acquaintance.—Correspondent. CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, NEW ZEALAND We have been favoured with a sketch of the plan which is proposed to be adopted in carrying out the objects of this settlement, to which we have previously referred. The committee includes the names of the Bishop of Ox ford, Lords Littleton and Courtenay,, Sir William F:.rqu har, C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., Honourable R. Caven dish and F. Charteris, M.P., Rev. G. R. Gleig, J. It. Godley, Esq., Rev. Ernest Hawkins, E. Halswell, Esq., T. S. Cocks, Esq., M.P., J. Simeon, Esq., M.P., and John Hutt, Esq. The Archbishop of Canterbury is president, and the association embraces the .Dames of many of the bishops, many noble lords and eminent clergymen. The prospectus states : We intend to form a settlement, to be composed entirely of members of our own church, accompanied by an ade quate supply of clergy, wits all the appliances requisite for carrying out her discipline and ordinances, and with full provision for extending them in proportion to the in crease of population. As, by preserving unity of religious creed, the difficulties which surround the question of edu cation are avoided, we shall be enabled to provide amply and satisfactorily for that object. The Committee of Management will have the power of refusing to allow any person of whom they may disapprove to become an ori ginal purchaser of land,, and, as that power will be carefully exercised, it is hoped that ineligible colonists may be al most entirely excluded, and that the new community may have at least a fair start in a healthy moral atmosphere. The purchasers of land will have the selection of labour ers to be recommended for a free passage ; such labourers to be also, exclusively, bond fide members of the Englfsh Church. As a site for our projected colony, we have fixed upon New Zealand, which offers greater advantages of soil and climate, combined with the greater amount of available and unoccupied land, than any other British possession ; arrangements are accordingly in progress with the New Zealand Company (which stands in the place of the crown, as regards the disposal of waste lands in that country) for the acquisition of a territory of 1,000,000 acres (about the extent of the county of Norfolk) in a fa vourable situation, apart from older settlements, and from the vicinity of the natives, to be devoted exclusively to the purposes of our settlement. By means of the muni cipal institutions lately granted to New Zealand, the col onists will have the power of managing their own local affairs without interference. In order to provide funds for carrying out the objects of the association, every pur chaser of land will be required to contribute a sum pro portioned to the extent of his purchase, and all such con tributions will be expended, through the instrumentality of the Committee of Management, according to the wishes and directions of the colonists, from among whom those who are fit and able to take part in the proceedings of the committee will be from time to time added to their num ber. The principal sources of expense will consist in re ligious and educational endowments, in the importation of labour, in surveys, and in those public works (such as roads bridges, and buildings) which may be absolutely necessary to the establishment and maintenance of the Nay 30, ISA settlement. These are things which every colonist must. wish to see well done; but they are such as the isolated efforts of individuals cannot do, and therefore it is neces sary to make a contribution to them a preliminary requi site to the purchase of land in the settlement which will benefit by their existence. Ten shillings per acre will be charged for the rural land ; and every purchaser of land will contribute to the purposes above mentioned in the following proportion :—£l per acre to the Religious and Educational Fund; £1 per acre to the Immigration Fund ; 10s. per acre to the Fund for Miscellaneous Pur poses, such as surveys, roads, bridges, &c. When the whole territory reserved for the purpose of this settlement shall be disposed of, the sum of the contributions to the objects enumerated will be as follows : Religious and Educational Fund: £1,000,000 Immigration Fund 1,000,000 Fund for Miscellaneous purposes . The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has cordially adopted the views of the Association, and undertaken to become trustee of the Religious and Educational Fund. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOATRACES. These races commenced on Tuesday, and on Wednes day the celebrated Derby Stakes were run for. The number of subscribers was 215, the stakes being 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for 3 yr. olds. The start was not so nume rous a one as in some former years, seventeen " high mettled racers" being all that were brought to the post, of which the following three were all that were placed by the judge:-- _ _ Lord Clifden's Surplice, by Touchstone .. (Templeman) 1 Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack (F. Butler) 2 Mr. B. Green's Shylock (S. Mann) 3 Betting at Starting.—Even on Surplice, 4 to 1 agst Glendower, 4 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum, 14 to 1 agst Shylock, 15 to 1 (and in some places 20 t o l) agst Springy Jack, 40 to 1 agst Great Western, 40 to 1 agst The Fidd ler, 40 to 1 agst The Fugleman, 50 to 1 agst The Fowler, and 50 to one agst any other. Precisely at the time fixed, one of the best starts ever witnessed was effected, Great Western taking the lead, followed by Loadstone, Fugle man next, with Surplice, Fern, Glendower, Sprin g y Jack, and Shylock in their wake. They came to the Craven post in this order; Loadstone then joined Great Western, headed him in a few strides, and went on with the run ning Great Western dropping astern, and Fugleman tak ing the second place, Surplice, Fern, Glendower, Shylock, and Springy Jack following. Loadstone carried the run ning on until half way between the road and the distance, and where, having had enough of it, he was passed by Surplice, Fugleman still keeping the second position, with Springy Jack and Shylock in close waiting. Fugleman gave way at the distance, and Shylock, and Springy Jack were left to finish the race with the favourite. Shylock kept the favourite's friends on the tenter hooks, until half way up the distance, where he was beaten ; Springy Jack then came, and a desperate race ensued between the two horses that of all others were the worst for the book makers. Springy Jack made a gallant effort at the last, but never was able to get up ; Surplice, not without shak ing, winning by a neck ; Shylocka v er y goo d thi r d , Glen dower a bad fourth, The Fiddler fifth, and Fugleman sixth. The race was run in 2 min. 46 sec., from which it may be inferred that the pace was not very great. The value of the stakes was £5500, from which the owner of the second horse was entitled to receive 100 sous., and the winner was required to pay 100 sous. towards the expenses incurred by additional police-officers. On Friday the Oaks Stakes were run for, and the fol lowing is the return : Mr. Pedley's Cymba. (Templeman) 1 Mr. Quin's Attraction. ..(Robinson) 2 Mr. Foljambe's Queen of the May (Bumby) 3 26 ran. At starting the lead was taken by Hope, followed by Lola Montes, lodine, and Do it Again, with Tisi phone, Queen of the May. Cymba, Wiasma, and two or three others in the wake, and behind them Attrac tion and the ruck. At the Craven post Do it Again took the third place, but no other change of moment was observable until they c ame t o the turn, and the lead was then tagen by Camphine, followed by Do it Again and lodine, Cymba, Wiasma, Miss Orbell, the Miss Lydia filly, and one or two others whose colours we could not make out, lying very forward. After crossing the road, Queen of the May took up all the running, Cam phine and Cymba waiting on her, with Attraction, Wiasma, lodine, and half-a-dozen others close at hand ; so they reached the end of the Stand, where a decisive change took place. Cymba went up to the Queen of the May, headed her, and although Attraction, who came immedi ately after, made the race look doubtful for a moment. she won cleverly in the end by a length ; Attraction beat ing Queen of the May by half a length ; Wiasma, Cam phine, lodine. Miss Lydia filly, and three or four others , were close at the finish, and so nearly abreast that we cannot undertake to speak with any certainty as to their relative positions ; we fancied Wiasma had a shade the best of it. 'I he pace was fast up the hill, but not sustained throughout. Run in 2 min. 48 sec. Value of the stakes £2.400. TfIE DERBY AND OAKS.-It will be remembered that Templeman rode the winners of the Derby and Oaks las t year ; he rode the winner of the Derby on Wednesday last, and piloted Cymba first to the post for the Oaks °I " Friday. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—We have had a continued dull and heemil market since Tuesday, with a further inclination to deN e i r fi r nan prices. There has been some little inquiry from houses, but without leading to any transactions the tion. The orders cons equent on the late arrival f ront vaat leave only partially come upon the mtteitet;-terittnitat has been done has been effected at the lowest rates p rev i ou sly accepted. Very little is doing for th e M e di terranean an d Levant, and sales can only be m a d e a t very l ow prices. On the whole things have been exceedi ng ly qu i et d ur i ng the w h o le of the week. worth men- LEEDS.—There is no change to notice in the staple trade here since our last. A fair average amount of business con tinues to be done, and stocks are neither heavy nor much on the increase. Manufacturers, in many instances, are making to order. BRADFORD.—WOO 7: In the demand or consumption of combing wools, which is now comparatively small, there is nothing of interest to note. The stock in the market is very limited; and there is no disposition on the part of the staplers to increase the supply, the prices sought by the farmers being too high to .meet current rates here. Noils and Brokes are more active to-day, and late prices are. realised. Yarns There is scarcely any demand except for home consumption , and so wretchedly low is the price of yarns, that in most cases the cost of labour has to be forfeited. The quantity of unem ployed machinery is on the increase, and without decided ' change we see no chance but that of further curtailment, until • the raw material can be had at a price corresponding to that of • yarns. Pieces: There was an unusually large attendance 0 • merchants at our markets on Thursday, many of whom have arrived by the last steamer from America ; but we regret to learn that their business is not directly to purchase, but to seek consignments. Owing to the demand for fancy goods for the spring having been active, and chiefly made to order, there is less than an average stock of goods in the market, and it is hoped that the demands of the home merchants, with what may be done on American account, will k ee p thi ngs from fur ther depression. HALIFAX.—The same dulness which we have for some time past had to notice as prevailing here still continues. The de mand for worsted goods is very limited, and the same is the case with both yarns and wools. HUDDERSFIELD.—We have had a dull market, with a small attendance of buyers. More is doing in the home trade; And as the results of the London wool sales are now known, it IS probable our manufacturers will display more activity, and that a variety of patterns and increase of stock will induce buyers more frequently to visit our market. ROCHDALE FLANNEL IVIARKET.—The demand for 'middle qualities of grey flannels has been equal, if not better than las t week.. Strong Yorkshire goods remain rather dull, and 011 much the same as last week, Prices of both goods and WO ( remain stationary. There is by no means the quantity' ° business transacted as is usually the case, but trade is slowly improving. NOTTINGHAM.—There is at length a considerable reaction and improvement in the cotton hosiery manufactures, stocking s ' gloves, and drawers, but especially the two former, both being very brisk ; we have not seen such a general stir since the Ye a ,`, 1836. Some of the houses assert that they have advance. prices, and give a premium to have their orders complete d ' The silk glove trade still keeps pretty good, principally making habit gloves—mitts, long arms, and extra long arms being out of fashion. The silk hose trade of every kind is very depress,,, The bobbin-net (trade in some departments has considerably improved. New manufactures and new i mprovemen t s , some of them of considerable importance, are springing up. MUSICAL ANECDOTE.—About seventy years ago, 85 the late Sir Watkin W. Wynn (grandfather to the presen t baronet) was riding in the neighb our h oo d o f W re xham, h e heard some one sing in a cooper's workshop, with whose voice he was very much stru c k. It was M r . Meredith , who possessed a splendid bass voice. Sir Watkin ha a t him instructed, and he became cel e b ra t e d as a singer 01 sacred music; he was engaged at the Ancient Concerts, Oratorios, &c. ; but he resided chiefly at Liverpool. 1 21 following anecdote is told of hi m : —H av i ng h e ard that a parish clerk of a village in the Vale of Clwyd, of the M!: of Griffiths, could sing down to double C, he was det i r e d mined to visit him. He accordingly started, and tapin abopt forty miles. When he arrived at the village ' - toes quired for Griffiths. A very little fellow, digging PO D ,„ g ht in a garden, was pointed out to him. " What ! (th o u ? Meredith) that shrimp of a thing to sing lower than f upwar d ` Impossible ! Meredith was a tine tall man, six feet high. He walked around the garden, eyeing 9- 0, Griffiths disdainfully ; at length he said upon lo w de, "Good day to you Sir." Griffiths, resting on his eP e , replied on double low C (five notes lo wer ), 4 , G o od (W it h you, Sir." Upon which Meredith mar c hed oft; I ' double C ringing in his ear all the way to Liverpool. er Ma. LABOUCHERE.—A Halifax, 'Nova Scotia, IPT, says, that the following is the singular history ei. Labouchere, at present a membe r o f the British Cahul e , —" In 1822 he was-a clerk in the banking-house of . 8 4-i r , Hope, at Amsterdam, and was sent by his patron te' Thomas Baring, the celebrated banker of London, t ( is y , . t -- , gotiate a loan. He displayed in this a ff a i r so much ue n . that he attracted the attention of the- English " e :Ou "Ah 1" said he one day to Sir Thomas Baring' her have a charming daughter, will you accord to Ine., ' O 3 , hand ?" " Young man I no pleas a nt r y. I loveyou re m 00 but how could Miss Baring become the wife of a en l 'ented clerk ?" " But," said Labouchere, "If I were aes Pel ;--ld with Mr. Hope ?" " Ah, that is very different, that w materially lessen the inequality between you." M r ' n, bouchere returned to Amsterdam, and said to his lo thin u " I must be your partner !" "My friend, do Ye u u t if I of that ? you are without fortune ! and "-- • L ' ll g , The were a member of Sir Thomas Baring's fmilY 1 ,. o shiP devil! Why, in that case,l would give you a pat l -e„ sr. on the spot ! On the strength of the two prom l ,se.' a fter Labouchere returned to England, and two InePt P !4. Mr. married Miss Baring, because he had the promi?er to he r ' Hope to make him a partner when he was marrie _ os s and became associated with Mr. Hope because he married to Miss Baring. % king XTRAVAGANZA XTRAORDINARY.—•Charkes X. of France, was xtravagantly xtolled, but le .x e xig . e ncYl xecrated. He xhibited xtraordinary xcellenee 111 ' in ' a tion; he was xemplary in xternals, but xtrinsic on ?tam _ nt sou he was xtacticuhder xhortation, xtreme in xciteine 4 striate d xtraordinary in xtempo xpresses. can was for his 'messes ; and to c re ate his xtravage, %)," xpireti xilo. 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