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CiMPLAII46IIIP OF TIM BOROUGH GAOL► DI. DllGleil I•43YLNCI I now pr I to in my my resig eve, is to Make the iet on foot against me pdb by t acid It ante of the evidence good clue to the persecution laboured to state, that Captain inspector, is bigotted in his 'ens of gaol discipline; that I am is being contrary both to the laws of. God and man ; as being in itself a punishment greater under Willia attach, and as necessarily le nes a s and tyranny which none could suppo'se who are not eye witnesses of it; and against this system and its cruel inflic tions 1 have borne testimony in a pamphlet which was pnblished at the dose of the year 1839. Captain Williams has had the good fortune of making converts of several of the magistrates of Liverpool—of men who profess to be guided by the benevolent feelings of Howard, and yet can tolerate, as parts of their silent system, cruelties which that amiable man did not witness in his day—for they have since come into existence. To the pamphlet to which I have just referred, and to my undisguised hostility to the silent system, and I may add, to my Christian sympathy for several unfortunate offenders against the petty tyranny which results from it, I am fully persuaded that I have to ascribe the accumulation of charges made against me, and the rigour and pertinacity with which they were pressed. I take comfort to myself, in the hope that at no distant day some influential philanthropist like Lord Ashley may be induced to seek a revision of the system of gaol discipline arid gaol inspection, so that humanity may proceed hand in hand with the appropriate execution of the sentence upon the offender.—l am, Sir, your very faithful servant, J. BUCK, D.C.L. REPLY OF DR. BUCK TO THE CHARGES PRE FERRED AGAINST HIM BY CAPT. WILLIAMS. GENTLEMEN ,—I am happy to think that the time has at length arrived when I am permitted to answer for myself. I had thought of obtaining professional assistance when first I read over the evidence for what I must call the prose cution ; but I soon found that that would be in vain : that however unequal to the task of grappling with the legal acu men of the clerk of the peace—however unequal to a contest with the inspector of prisons —accustomed, no doubt, to such matters—that no mau was so proper to defend my reputation as myself. The charges tardily produced against me, after all the evi dence against me had been taken on oath, thus depriving me of the real power of cross-examination, constitute an arrow aimed at my heart—an arrow dipped in poison of the dead liest kind. I can truly say, the poison of asps is under their tonFue.. Your letter, requesting my attendance, says— " At an adjourned meeting of the Gaol Finance Committee and Visiting Justices, on Monday, the sth day of Octo ber, 1840, at the Town-hall, an Mgt" PRESENT " Hugh Hornby, Esq " Christopher Rawdon, Esq " James Aikin, Esq. " Rd*. Vaughan Yates, Esq. " James Haywood, Esq. R. E. Harvey, Esc rk of t xe your ace communicate the following ned it expedient to institute alarities in the Borough pri . an inquiry into matters be- ent, they now proceed to irtment as chaplain may assist their inves. .ing that may pith the inquiry at the •se of the proceedings, instead of being an was to reader assistance, has, from first adeavour to establish cases of guilt against me, all the evidence having been previously prepared with consummate skill, and every disproof, which 1 foolishly put into the hands of the inspector before I fully saws into the nature of the proCeeding, most unfairly turned against me. If I was thought to have offended, I could and ought to common privi ,,efore his trial s indictmen 1, my protest against such roceedings, was disre that my words hurt the feelings of m a words .t of taking Allowing remarks !ceive that solemn :r exalted in rank to the communications of a minister .esent standing and future prospects ations I bad encouraged yester :Aeration that no moral guilt was charge, nor, indeed, necessarily nit that the present was simply an in and irregularities, I find, by the line iton adopted, and from the previous preparation idence intended to be produced, that I am, in fact, upon al, and am refused a copy of the charges to which I The method adopted involves me in —lf I make no reply. I'must be treated s guilty, though innocent : if I do give in any tuture prosecutors, already armed with almost eder) possible advantage against me, will become acquainted With my line of defence, and be enabled, however complete that nefence may be, to fritter it to nothing. _ _ have to answer this unfair dilemma " The chaplain thinks, that if a mode of investigation known to Englishmen and English law had been employed on thi- occasion, rather than that practised in France, and perhaps even in this country in the time of the First Charles, the whole proceedings, whatever may be their result, would have been more satisfactory." I shall feel it my duty io *tate my sentiments with free dom, not on the whole number of accusations together, but separately, distinctly, and without the slightest evasion, chewing, even out of the mouths of the evidence brought up against nie. the utter groundlessness of each charge, its worthlessness, and its venom. If I had not felt confident I could have satisfactorily answered every charge, at least to an unprejudiced mind, I should have quietly slunk into that disgraceful retirement which I should have deserved : I should not have dared to stand before you this day. . Let me intreat a patient attendance. I will endeavour to be as little tedious as possible. We may probably, in the midst of weightier matters, find something to dispel sadness; for I am not yet quite willing to believe of any gentleman before ice, but that he will wo re re j o i ce t o f ee l it hi s para mount duty to acquit me with honour, than, by a sentence of guilty, to assign me and mine to ruin. With these preli minary remarks, I enter on the consideration of the first charge Ist —Whether the statements contained in a pamphlet, published by the chaplain, and admitted by him to refer to the discipline enforced in the Borough Gaol, particu larly the passage commencing with the words " third" and " fourth," p. 5, and the one ending with " coffee drinking washhouse," are founded.on facts ; and, if not so, whether such statements have not tended to weaken the proper authority of the officers over the prisoners, and to create division and disunion in the gaol. I commence my reply to this charge by reminding the gentlemen assembled, that on the 25th of October, 1839, according to the provisions of the Gaol Act. I addressed to the magistracy of the Borough. of Liverpool, in sessions assembled, an annual report in which many important sub jects were brought before them. That this report called forth the serious thoughts of the justices there there can he no doubt, as will be manifest from circumstances to be men tion,' ' amongst other subjects brought to your remain in the pl the sufferers are s a cler prison of hereafte the prison management then in my opinions, as to the propriety October .—ln conclusion, allow me to suggest connected with really bard labour ; ?"fiiivzi'rd's prisoners, instead of habitual hope, of reward held out, instead of ing punishments, might go far towards reformatory rather than a receptacle of whereat ciuded- n reason to suppose, ,vember, of the In a pri I thought that they -6 in a way of duty frequently in the of the justices, I could not from what I myself to suppose that they were cogui • t from all the common feelings of hu pposed that they really did not know, because abhorrer. stipendiary u governor of t had no opportunities of Cll less of rules of their o wn sanctioning. I had no harsh tits of their purposes, bnt really believed they knew hat was transpiring, and that it was my duty as a mi- the distressing and their cha to bring before them, t; fully possible, the whole si bj Christian the hands of ne as the trans- ye no one a copy to . .., • officer of the prison, thinking way, my conduct might appear copies of it within a few d4's of of several officers of the prison, cularly of tt. governor. d, private or official, was taken of the. printed aubt of its accura,: was whispered, no denial was pted. The.officers of the prison, from the highest .. es, frequently conversed with me on the subject, s in th e way o f commen d at i on . • The w itness Law :hat he is squirting under a suspension from his inkey, with the loss of £lO yearly in his wages, upposes, through my instrumentality, in having for profane conduct, says, when speaking of " I have doubt there is a good deal of truth Unhappily, he is quite correct in that part of his testimony. No magistrate spoke to me concermog the o doubt of its accuracy ggp I lira 'Won t stiOt Oa I' rnportant tutitspvott t did he write to me on the subject--uor, as far as I have yet heard, to any gentleman connected with the prison. In fact, no statement had been made, the truth of which was doubted, for I cannot for a moment give way to the suspicion that this silenc twelve months having left tl cases would be the p ay. L id the pr n babe been p iping tears aie the turnlil wernor who must have punished s. A very slight knowledge of nature is needful to see through the utter fallacy of . opinion. My pamphlet had its effects: it in_a great,. on law degree excited attention ; it aroused the dormant feelings of humanity ; it brought about a state of mind incapable of deeming prayer and penitence matters for punishment :—it went further ; it has led persons who previously acted with out thought on the subject, to shudder at oppression, and to induce them now to think that they never could have done such things ; never could have been parties to carrying on the principle of aiding towards the damnation of their fellow men. In truth neither present turnkeys, nor former, nor governor, are unprejudiced witnesses in such a case. The monstrous wickedness of thus acting has been brought before their eyes in such colours that they shudder at the possibility of such atrocity being imputed to them ; (though after all they are in no proper sense to blame, they only act according to the rules by which they are bound). They think themselves in directly attached by my remarks, by my thorough exposure of a system which is against the laws of nature, of God,—and if I am not in great error—of man also, in this and every other country under the canopy of heaven. I may be here reminded of the latter part of the first charge whether such statements have not tended to weaken the pro per authority of the officers over the prisoners, and to create division and dissension in the gaol ? I shall reply to these doubts specifically, and in order. Not one word has appeared in evidence to show that the officers have been in the slightest degree daunted in the per formance of their duties by this publication. No evidence to show that there has been any disunion amongst them. None to shew that the governor has felt aggrieved, or that he and the chaplain have not been on the very beat terms possi ble, considering the difference of their education, their man ners, their pursuits ; twice and only twice since the publica tion has the slightest difference arisen between them, and on those occasions the justices thought the chaplain in the right, the governor in the wrong, and so recorded their opinions on the minutes of their proceedings. So little misunderstanding arose—nay so entirely free from every unkindly feeling were these parties that in February last the governor intrusted the education of his youngest daughter to Mrs. Buck, where she remained under mlt roof for four months, experiencing every equality of comfort, kindness, and attention, with my own daughter. Nay, so decided was the feeling of confidence and amity that the very week before the inspector of prisons ar rived in Liverpood, the governor of the gaol wishing to be ab sent from his charge for a while, applied to the committee of visiting justices for their sanction to my acting for him as his deputy during his absence, on the express ground that he bad more confidence in the chaplain than in any other officer of the prison. So much for the speculative part of this first charge, the disunion, &c, &c, created by the pamphlet. The only dis union I have known has arisen from the arrival of a gentle man armed with power of taking secret reports from all de scriptions of persons, of bringing any individual against whom he entertains an unkindly feeling to trial, without affording him a copy of the charges intended to be advanced. Observe, I pray you, the injustice of such a proceeding.—The prosecu tor is seeking for, not proving a case , he produces, unex pectedly, as it regards the accused, all the evidence within his power, and out of that part of it, which is not shattered by a random cross-examination, he frames charges which be thus makes to be very difficult of answer. The party incul pated, ignorant of the matters intended to be laid to his charge, is in a constant state of suspense, as to the importance or bearing of evidence adduced against him. And where he is subject to roaming charges, who can tell the effect upon the judges of the accumulation of petty charges. In the next place, and which is perhaps more important than all, the ac cused is necessarily all abroad in cross-examining the wit nesses. Whereas, if he knew what was to be alleged,against him, he might shew from the witnesses themselves, that the matters to which they bear testimony, were done, or said, under circumstances of innocency, justification, or extenua tion.—The arrival of Captain Williams has caused a spirit of disunion which no time will heal—has taught each officer of the prison that he may to-morrow be the victim of espionage —has shown him that in England, so boasted of for its open administration of equal justice, he may be tried, condemned, punished, degraded, and ruined, in a way unknown to Eng lishmen, unknown to the principles of the British constitu- yman, f mired with education, and not altoge ther unacquainted with the laws of my country, as a sincere and ardent friend of rational liberty and improvement have now, for the first time learnt. that in these days of boasted liberality, a power contrary to and overbearing the established laws of the kingdom, is tolerated and upheld by men who haue always professed to advocate the cause of liberty. Job, who lived long before the schoolmaster was abroad, before the march of intellect had made such rapid strides, said, " Oh that my adversary had written a book," or, as the words ought to be translated, had let me have a written indictment—had specified his accusation! I join with him in his complaint, and can only now regret that the lapse of perhaps 37 centuries has tended so little to the improvement -• peculiarly to Liverpoo. f justice There is not a word in my n to suppose it related ambridge, writing Mr. Pryme, of ( I had ained my views from the in the state of the Newgate prison, in London. rove that my pamphlet had a peculiar reference to the hich I was chaplain was needful, ere I could be accused of evil in bringing - my opinions of prison discipline before the magistracy, and, through them, to the knowledge of the public. As already stated, no remark in my letter could shew this. It was written in the most general terms against what is technically called the silent system. Artifice, therefore, became needful : a seaching question must be pro- Aposed : it might, through the known habits of the chaplain of at once expressing his feelings without a care for conse quences, be acknowledged by him, that scenes he himself had witnessed had led to some of his conclusions. _Hence, in the midst of conversation, on a subject far removed from 'prison life, the interjectionalrernark was made—" By the way Dr. 8., your instances of severity under the silent system, were, of course, drawn from what you have witnessed ?" " Certainly, was the reply ; I have supposed nothing. Every case I have pictured has passed under my own observation." Enough, —the bait had taken, and hence the power of accusation— the gravamen of the charge now brought against me being and admitted by him to refer to the discipline anforced in the Borough Gaol. Through fear of giving offence, I ab stain from saying one word on the subject of espionage in a free state. It has, however, gentlemen, been brought to m y remem brance that a line of conduct somewhat similar led to the condemnation of the bishops in olden time ; and paved the way for the subsequent loss of sovereignty by one of the former rulers of this land of liberty. I proceed to shew that the publication of my sentiments on prison discipline has not tended to make the government of the prisoners more diffi cult ; and on this point I need only remind you that, so far from the conduct of prisoners being worse than it was, it has greatly improved—the number of punishments for offences against prison rules a year since was nearly 5 per cent. daily. I take the governor's statement, they are now a little more than one per cent. ; and, if their severity be taken as a test, I have only to say that the dungeons were then always full — they are now for the most part receptacles for brushes, brooms, and stones for cleaning cells. I now turn to the principal part of the charge, and read my report dated 26th October, 1839. "The great—the crying evil of a prison, and which is amply sufficient to account for the little good effected by incarcera tion, is that it is regarded as a place of mere coercion and punishment, not as an atmosphere where moral feeling may be engendered. So long as the tendency of prison discipline is to annoy, distress, wound, and irritate the mind, it is impos sible that a beneficial moral change can be effected. So long as it is known that the minister of religion is clothed with no authority, is under no circumstance the channel through which mercy can flow or advice proceed, the inmates of a prison must almost necessarily suppose that his appointment is rather a form which the law obliges to the observance of, than a mean expected to be productive of good. So long as the rule is acted on that no prisoner can speak to the chap lain without first obtaining the leave of a turnkey, the natural impression must be, if I express a wish to speak, I become a marked man whether to officers or to prisoners, and must therefore expect ridicule and contempt from those amongst whom I am doomed to associate : from the effects of which the chaplain cannot screen me. " Wliat value, I would respectfully ask, can the prisoners really suppose is attached to the reading of the scriptures, when, during six months in the year, they may indeed read them before rising from their beds in a morning, or after they retire to bed at night, if the light in the cells be sufficient, and the presence of those do not deter them, whilst,, during the six winter months, even this liniited power is taken from them by want of light? " The fact that in this prison are two schools, under the care of persons (certainly of most unblemished and valuable characters) differing as to their religious tenets, the one es sentially, the other in a lesser degree from the chaplain, and that he is not allowed the slightest oversight superintendance and controul, appears to be an anomaly. It has, however, frequently been brought by me under your notice, but whe ther it be supposed that a clergyman of the Established Church must be necessarily a proselytizer, or, though thought fit to be trusted with the 'religious instruction of adults, is unfit to superintend the education of children I know not, the evil, for such it undoubtedly appears to me to be, continues unredressed. This benefit at least would arise from a change. Had the chaplain the superintendance, one essential part of his duty would be, to see that every boy and girl irrespective of character should be under instruction, under the present regimen, bad characters are ex precisely those who have most need of moral training. the largest save one in Great Britain, multi ust arise in which the direst scenes of poverty I apprehend it will be readily allowed, likely to hear of these cases, nay to it is remarkable that the ttee of magistratess, the strate, the con prison, have all funds whence they can mi nister to such wants as come to their knowledge, whilst the chaplain, echo meets with ten heart-rending cases to one over all these parties, has not a single shilling at his disposal to relieve any one. Unlike the minister of religion universally, whether in charge of parishes or chapels who have some means of relieving distress, the chaplain of your prison has to witness cases of woe and misery almost without number, and Burn a deaf ear against all applicants, it being utterly out of his power from his own most slender means of subsistence to spare the merest trifle: he is thus debarred the opportunity of cultivating the best feeling of human na ,ssential tore, the ministering to the wants of the necessitous. a minister of " Ia conclusion .1 1 - "egest " I allow me to that moral discipline, !ally hard labour, kindness of demeanour habitual harshness, and the hope of reward held out instea, of the fear of accumulating punish ments, might go far towards rendering a prison a reformatory rather than a receptacle of villany . and a nursery of crime." From this letter you will perceive that I seriously and so lemnly, as chaplain of your prison; called your attention to what appeared to me to be great evils Om onth afterwards the body of magistrates, through the mayor, received the letter from which the pamphlet was In the month of January following, a report, greatly re flecting on my character, and making severe strictures on the October report, was forwarded to government. At the end of the same month, at your command, I waited on you in the Town-hall—explained my conduct by reference to my journal—and, as I believed, and still believe, fully satisfied even those gentlemen who bad previously thought me very culpable, that I was really free of blame and had acted uprightly; and, as I expected from English gentlemen and justices, yon treated me with every mark of attention and kindness—requested nie to attend your clerk of the peace, and arrange with him `for the drawing-up of a paper which should be satisfactory to my feelings, and which, when approved by me, you agreed to sign by the clerk of the peace, and to forward, in the name of the magistrates assembled in session, to govern:, ent, to be appended to, and to be consi dered as an integral part of, your annual report ;—thus pass ing an act of oblivion over the past, commencing anew with original mutual confidence : and I appeal to you, in all the , b o ldness of innocence, whether, from that d ay t o t h e time ON DISCIPLINE TO THE .EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. stit,--The time appears to me to have arrived when I can lity for and myself under multiplied accusa ne, although I have laboured iicions. I have thought it e would yet be r disappointed ; pial, any now gottroci of offooot and I am iiow before yoll, expe tin, by your sentence, to be degraded from my ministry, subjected to the pains of an ecclesiastical sentence, deprived of my appoint ment, abandoned as an outcast without character, and held up to ti Cons he public as undes r, I beseech you, your own proceedings in January last—that is, two months after you received the original of Iphlet, into the statements of which you had had full le to inquire, and since which no new cause of offence has Allow me to read your y At a special meeting of the G the Mayor's room, on Thursday, th Finance Committee, in )th of January, " Joshua Walmsley, Esquire, Mayor; H. Hornby, Chris. Rawdon, Thos. Bolton, Robt. Roskell, }Visiting :Justice 11 " R. V. Yates, " The chaplain, Dr. Buck, attended the committee. " The Mayor referred to the general annual report of the Court of Justices, of which the chaplain had had the perusal. " Resolved,— " That, upon taking into consideration the representations of the Rev. Dr. Buck, chaplain of the borough prison, it does appear to the magistrates that be has been under the impression that he was excluded from any control over the school, and that he was ignorant of the orders of the justices on that subject, notwithstanding his general attendance at the meetings of the magistrates at the prison during the period in question. " That it appears to the magistrates that to those circum stances is to be attributed much of the misunderstanding on other matters which has existed between the chaplain and the justices. "That, under all the circumstances, the magistrates are of opinion that the benefit of the public would be best pro moted by a return to the cordial understanding which ex isted between the magistrates and the chaplain upon his original appointment, and prior to any difference of opinion. " That the chaplain having expressed his regret that any misunderstanding should have taken place, " It is further resolved, " That it be recommended to the justices, at their next quarterly sessions, to adopt these resolutions, and to order a copy of them so adopted to be transmitted to her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. (Signed) " RD. RADCLIFFE " Approved 19th YebiUary, 1840. (Signed) " JOHN BUCK, D.C.L., Chaplain." On this part of my argument I will only say, is it gene rous—is it gracious, after such a proceeding—nay, is it in accordance with the most sacred and well-established prin ciples of justice—to take up matters sat at rest, as was to have been hoped, for ever? Res judicata pro veritate acci pilur. I cannot think you will he prepared to stultify all that was then well done, and condemn me now on charges which you had then the opportunity of bringing forward, hut thought it more expedient to allow to sink into oblivion. But, gentlemen, I am obliged under my present circum stances, as accused of crime, to enter fully upon my own justification.—and trust you will bear with me, and follow me, in the reasoning I shall now employ. And here I must observe, that of a printbd letter, occupy ing 20 pages in octavo, and containing many grave statements, lam accused in three instances of incorrectness. One of these instances, however, touching the washhouse, was clearly set at rest by the cross-examination of Mr. Batcheldor : " Is the washhouse as much under the silent system as the rest of the prison ? " No, nor can it be. " Is there a paid officer present in it throughout the day? " No, there is not. " The number of reports of the washroom would not be a fair criterion of the number of reports of the prison ? "" Certainly not. The washwomen are left alone for the greater part of the day ? i ` They are, but under the casual superintendence of a resi dent paid officer close to. " Have they not the power of talking upon any subject they please without being detected ? " They have frequent opportunities. " Have they a better opportunity of conversing than any other class ? " Yes, excepting one other class—the oakum stovers. There can be more conversation in those classes than in any other ? " Yes. By Captain Williams—' from the best characters ? " Are not the washwomen selected " Yes, it is a reward for good conduct By Dr. Buck—" Are they all felons ? " Yes." If in a prison, over every ward of which a paid officer is stationed to hinder evil communications—nay conversation of every kind, with one exception—in that one ward six or eight women convicted of felony being left together, having all power of uninterrupted conversations, that must necessarily be the place of greatest demoralization—plans of wickedness may be there concocted with impunity, and that I should de signate it a coffee-drinking washhouse is not to be wondered at, when it has been proved in evidence that each inmate is allowed a quart of coffee daily over and above a regular break fast, dinner and, supper, allowed to other prisoners, these persons being supplied with food five times daily. Enter their ward at 8 o'clock, at 10, at 12, at 3, at b, you will find them always eating.* You, as magistrates, know what value to attach to their being considered the be - st characters in the prison —that is to say, the most accustomed to imprisonment, the most expert in avoiding detection as to prison offences. I shall consider more fully the two other two extracts oc cupying the space of eleven lines. Arguing that as these alone have been blamed, the residue of the pamphlet has the impri matur of the prison inspector, for could he have advanced any other charge, I have no reason to doubt his willingness to have extended his accusations. That the tendency of the pamphlet as a whole is to do good has not been denied, and as containing important suggestions and highly needful to be maturely considered, I have no doubt, from the testimony of barristers, judges, bishops, and members of both houses of parliament. It is of course of importance to any defender of the silent system to prove that the author of a work which has made its way into the cabinets of the influential should be branded as an outcast, not worthy of belief—but I have yet to learn that it is a crime in the chaplain of a prison to express his sentiments on any subject in which the welfare of man is concerned.t , I did not, as you are aware, think it consistent to cross examine any one of the officors of the prison as to that part of their evidence which related to the truth of the two portions of my letter which I am now about to speak of, because I be lieved the pamphlet was illegally and improperly before you instead of my letter addressed to the magistrates, because the fair time for the investigation has long since passed away, because all the witnesses were interested, and acting under mental compulsion. It has since been elicited in cross examination, that at least four turnkeys have been suspended from their offices, and restored by Mr. Batcheldor, without any reference to the justices. I have therefore, to meet their statements unmodified by the effects of cross questioning. ' Now, gentlemen, the first paragraph attacked as untrue ofeads thus—Third, " Should an unhappy being, cohscious of his offences against God and man, think of prayer, and ad dress aloud one word of ardent prayer (and prayer, I trust, we all know, cannot at all time s b e r e s t ra i n ed to ought), the same dole of punishment awaits him; no excuse can avail; he has broken the law of the prison, and must take the con- sequences A startling, an horrific statement ! What shall we say if conscience should whisper in the ear of each magistrate I am now addressing, " Thou art the man" who hest uninteniion ally caused such barbarity by hastily agreeing to rules which must necessarily lead to such results. lam happy at the pre sent moment in the reflection that I am in the presence of gentlemen of education, who know the force and power of words, whether taken separately or combined. Lend me your attention whilst I read the following rule to which every con victed prisoner in your gaol is subjected : " Sixth.—As to prisoners under conviction—silence night and day must be observed by all ; any breach of it will be punished by the stoppage of a meal, or part thereof, and a repetition of the offence by increased stoppages, or by solitary confinement on bread and water, or by such other punish ment as the law has provided." The only other punishments provided by law being, so far as I have ever heard, fetters and flogging. These words cannot be frittered away. Silence night and day must be observed by all—any breach of it will be pu nished—any breach of silence, will be punished. What !no exception ? None ; silence must be observed night and day —any breach of it will be punished. Gentlemen, read now my third paragraph—compare it with this sixth rule, and laying your hand on your breast, looking up to that God be fore whom we must all appear in .judgment, —say whether I am that base and guilty falsifier of my word, which it has evidently been the intention of my prosecutor to insinuate. That the governor did not allow in his written instructions any discretionary power in the way of mitigation to the turn keys, will be evident from the following extracts of orders issued by him. " On Sunday the prisoners will attend to the services in chapel. • " The officers are strictly enjoined to enforce a due observ ance of the rules and discipline, as laid down in the printed regulations. " Every offence, however trivial, must be reported to the governor. " Every offence, however trivial, must be reported to the governor" ! Third.—" Should any unhappy being, conscious of his of fences against God and man, think o f prayer and address aloud one word of ardent prayer, (and prayer, I trust, we all know, cannot at all times be restrained to thought), the same dole of punishment awaits him : no excuse can avail : he has broken the law of the prison, and must take the consequences. " Sixth.—As to prisoners under conviction—silence night and day must be observed by all ; any breach of it will be punished by the stoppage of a meal, or part thereof, and a repetition of the offence by increased stoppages, or by soli tary confinement on bread and water, or by such other pu nishment as the law has provided." I pass to the next quotation from my pamphlet excepted against. " Fourth.—lf a man to relie ve his present sitting posture when at work, move his body or his head, and be seen to do so by the officer on duty ; or if when in chapel he be seen to move a brawny hand to wipe away the tear trickling from an eye e , not much accustomed to weep—a deprivation of food, or lonesome darkness must be his portion. The silent system can make no allowance for mental sufferings." Now, gentlemen, dreadful as this passage must sound to ears sensitive to tales of oppression and wrong. Appalling as is the question, have I lent my sanction to such abomina tions. Yet read your own rules, and judge whether your chaplain vilified and aspersed as he may have been, has not acted the part of a man of honour, of feeling, of humanity, in exposing such things, in bringing the secrets of the prison house to the broad glare of day? Whether he does not de serve at your hand a better fate than that of standing before you to answer charges affecting all that is most dear to him and his. Your prison rule thus reads :—" The following are de clared to be acts of disorder and punishable as such, namely, as to prisoners under conviction, any unnecessary looking round or about, (each prisoner being required to look before him) either at Divine service, or at work and meals, or in passing from one part of the prison to another." You will no doubt remember that speaking on his oath, one of the witnesses acknowledged that he himself as a turn key formed the judgment of whether the movement was ne cessary or unnecessary. How innocently on his part may he report a man for speaking, who was praying, or for mov ing the hand, when the action was involuntary. This is a point on which I produce evidence taken on oath. Law I have often known a prisoner t o ma k e excnse of praying, " when reported for talking. I have known the officers to have proved, on such 'occasions, (e. g. denied) the words made use of b, the prisoners in their cells. I have proved them myself.' The governor's statement.—" In those cases where a pri soner set up,a praying,pleaof to provel have (i.e. a not punished, e u unless the was prepared I read the passage (in Dr. Bu c k' s fourth,' ending sufferings.' As fa r as moving his body or head — mo v ing about , it would be re paLmapwhlect) ° re ported; as far as wiping away a tea r, I should think it was n beginningt continues. — " e s.— " * A curious secret was brought to light on ibis subject, on Tuesday, Nov. 3d. Amongst stores required for prison use was 241bs. of coffee, 561bs. of sugar : on looking back exactly three weeks, it was ascertained that 2llbs. of coffee and one hundred weight of sugar had at that time been supplied. What, it was asked, has occasioned the present want in so short a time.—The coffee has been used by - the washer women, was the reply. A tolerable supply of coffee this for seven women in three weeks, over and above the usual allow ance of food granted to other felons! t A few copies of this pamphlet are still e t the office of the STANDARD. outqepptuti rriydoty to repl?rt Tioqnar, I seldom did us etioupf the office, ing about, wotild be reported in the G I always. understood I had a.discretion to use. Remember the governor's instructions,—" L however trivial, most be reported to the governc ks to the site making no allowance for mental ugs, I have only in proof to refer you to the paragraph pamphlet, next following that which I am now defend paragraph which not being attacked, is allowed to be whether cor slight or tne'r'al conduct :d, he loses the ►owever excellent his heavy, a prism may have been, shall have been once repc privilege of seeing the one only solitary relative,- otherw allowed to visit him at the expiration of each thi•ee months I ought rather•to have said—the innocent, the afflicted, the heart-broken husband, wife, father, mother or child, without the walls of the prison, is punished for the offence against prison rules committed by the party within, although he has previously been punished to the full extent of his de merits." So much for the allowance made by the silent system for mental sufferings. Allow me, gentlemen, to observe, that no ingenuity .of man can explain away the stringency of your rules. Unva rying silence night and day —no movement of the body being allowed—the certainty of punishment following—all prove that if your turnkeys do their duty (and you have in these rules given them no discretionary, no dispensing power), they must report, and the governor must punish, all praying aloud, all moving of hands to wipe away a tear, or, I repeat it, they will grossly neglect their bounden duties. Now, gentlemen, if you consider the almost universal ha bit of even the most depraved of men, to say (as they call it) their prayers at night, can you—with 1087 cases of men re ported and punished for talking in their cells at night (the turnkey using his discretion, and settling the point of prayer or no prayer)—can you, having before you a return of 85 punished on this charge within the compass of a single week, and 55 in one and the same night, really say that the turn keys never mistake—that no man ever prayed aloud, and was punished for so doing? The drunkard, when taxed with neglect of prayer, swore with a mighty oath that, drunk or sober, he had never omitted saying his prayers night and morning during twenty years. The record might have been true, as it regarded the use of words. Shall we, than, has tily arrive at a conclusion that when kept in a state of so briety he will neglect his accustomed'forms ? No, gentle men ! Many cases of such men, as well as of others in a much more hopeful state of mind, having been punished for no other fault, have passed me in review. They were too frequent to call for specific entry in a private journal. They were so notorious, I could not have expected that in follow ing years . I should be called upon to produce individual proof. If, therefore, gentlemen, you consider the immense num ber of persons who have been reported for speaking at night, and who have been punished for the same ; or if you look to the number reported under the head of chapel offences, can you, deliberately acting as judges, say that your chaplain has made unfounded assertions on these points, is untrue in his statements, that men for praying aloud and wiping away a tear, are by the plain evident tenor of your rules, siOjected to punishments of loss of food, and all the dreary horrors of a dungeon ? I have met with so many cases of the kind that unfortunately I did not specify particular names, or I could now bring before you such cases as, with all your natural dis inclinationto receive the testimony of persons who have been in prison, would fully satisfy you that dreadful misery has, contrary to your better desires, but in strict accordance with your own regulations,-been inflicted in many, too many cases. Within a few days last past, a case in point has ac tually occurred. A man was found speaking, his cell door suddenly opened, the man found to be on his knees, his two c , mpanions in bed, fast asleep. 'The turnkey charged the prisoner with talking. He said he had been engaged in prayer. The reply was, " D—n your prayer! I shall report you." He was reported. The man told the whole case to the governor, who (the present proceedings, according to my in formation pending) discharged the case, but no minute of the affair is to be found in the Incident Book, although on speaking to the governor myself, he told me he remembered something of the circumstance. It may be thought by some gentlemen present, surely the turnkeys, even with our rules and regulations before them, must always, even before this, pamphlet appeared, have ex ercised some judgment in reporting, they surely would use discretion. I beseech you, gentlemen, to consider the edu cation of a turnkey, the usual habits of his life, the state of his feelings from constantly witnessing crime. He receives his orders as the private soldier, forms no opinion of them, but if good for any thing obeys them to the letter, you would have no discipline in your prison if each one of thirty offi cers was allowed to put his own interpretation on the orders you issue. Your words are intelligible, they cannot be mis understood ; they were literally obeyed, and much oppres sion followed. " Sixth.—As to prisoners under conviction, 'silence night and day must be observed ; any breach of it will be punished by the stoppage of a meal or part thereof ; and a repetition of the offence by increased stoppages, or by solitary confine ment, on bread and water, or by such other punishment as the law has provided." " The following are declared to be acts of disorder, and punishable as such, namely, as to prisoners under convic tion, and any unnecessary looking round or about (each pri soner being required to look before him) either at divine service, or at work and meals, or in passing from one part of the prison to the other." • I have already said Ido not think-at the present moment that these monstrous evils would be knowingly carried out ; the change is due to me., The officers also, in the evidence they have given on this subject, have, no doubt, stated the present feelings of their minds, supposing they never could have been possessed by others. This is, however, clearly a common operation of the human mind, and no reflecting man will, I am convinced, with your gaol regulations before him, think it possible that a b o dy o f o ffi ce rs, no t p rover bi a l for he kindest feelings in the world, not being entirely free of your reproofs for their harshness of manner, and even of conduct, should be so tender towards the mental sorrows of a guilty miserable being under their controul, as to soften down rules solemnly approved by magistrates, and to act to wards Criminals with an overflowing measure of kindness. Look in particular to one—the strongest witness against me—profanity, and using the prisoners' food, he acknow ledged on oath, as charges under which, and for which he had suffered, and was even now suffering. With your know lege of the man, can you say from the heart he will certainly interpret rules which are severe, in a kind and gentle man ner? I might instance another, but it is needless, the rough manner of life of such persons as I have been doomed of late to be joined with, will account for the absence of every ap pearance of kindness and sympathy for human suffering. Before I quit this part of my argument allow me to remind you, (it has come out in evidence,) if a man speak—if he move—the turnkey is the sole judge whether the words be of prayer, and the motion necessary. If, having formed his judgment, the prisoner say one thing—the turnkey another— the prisoner is punished—the prisoner's statement, in fact, amounts to nothing: because he has committed one offence against the laws of his country—though he may be penitent, nay, broken hearted, and most sincere in ceasing from evil, and learningto do well—his word is disbelieved —the turnkey's thought outweighs the prisoner's strongest assertion. Hence, as I have frequently seen, 30, 40, or more prisoners are brought before the governor—under report—the process called a trial, by which the whole of the cases are settled, does not occupy more than a few minutes. There is no written statement—no defence. The turnkey does not say you spoke in prayer—you wiped away a tear; but you spoke— you moved unnebessarily—the matter is over, and the loss of a dinner atones, for the moment, for the offence. I say for the moment, for it also cuts his friends off from their three monthly visits ; and two or three such reports constitute what is in prison called a bad character. I do not by this statement impute any evil motive to the officer ; he may have heard a voice, and not know it was a voice directed to God in prayer; he may have seen a move ment—not the tear trickling from the eye; the man is, under such circumstances, according to your rules and regulations, necessarily punished. To hide the fact may be attempted, but in truth the very nature—the essence of the silent system requires that every reported offence against prison rules, supported by the mere word of an officer, shall be punished. Under such circumstances, to impute unfounded assertions to a clergyman honestly expressing his belief, would be most unjust. It may be thought necessary to give a denial to my book—to check its influence—to impeach a small part with the hope of overthrowing all. But it is not right to attempt this by imputing evil and wicked motives. It is not right to ruin the character of a minister simply because he has had sufficient moral courage to expose evil. On this charge, therefore, in conclusion, I will only further say, that whether you consider the sense of duty by which I felt myself compelled to address you in my quarterly report of Oct. 1839, and by letter in Nov. 1839 ; the fact of my forwarding printed copies of that letter, without delay, to the Mayor of Liverpool and the Inspector of Prisons ; that no confutation at the time was attempted ; that officers of the prison are not proper witnesses on such a subject ; that the sufferers are dispersed abriad in all di rect i ons an d out of my reach, even if I knew their names; that your own regu lations, fairly interpreted, and witho u t any varnish on the words, teach the same truths as I have made public ; that no ill effects in a way of disunion amongst the officers followed, but, on the contrary, the best p oss ibl e understand ing ; that prison punishments did not increase, but decreased most wonderfully ;--you will be constrained to acknowledge that my statements are not unfound e d, b u t t h a t f r om the very nature of things those evils must frequently have occur red which I have asserted to have come within the range of my own knowledge. If, moreover, you give place to the consideration of that solemn act of amnesty which took place in January, by which all former acts were declared to be buried, you will not, you cannot, condemn me on the charge which has now been replied to ; nor, indeed, to most of those which I have yet to consider. , tTO BE CONTINUED.) COLD-BLOODED MURDER AT NEWTOWN HAMILTON, IN THE COUNTY OF ARMAGH. We have this day the painful duty of recording a murder which has occurred within a few miles of this town—and which, in point of daring and savage atrocity, is perhaps un paralleled in the north of Ireland. The facts, as communi cated to us, are as follows : " On Saturday evening last, between five and six o'clock, six men, armed, approached the house occupied by a Mr. Powell (land-surveyor to Mr. Quinn), situated convenient to the Roman Catholic chapel of New townhamilton in the county of Armagh, and a quarter o f a mile distant from the latter village. On rapping at the door, it was opened by the servant-maid, who, in answer to their inquiries, said her master was at home, but that he was engaged. Four of the party then rushed forward, and, entering the parlour where Mr. Powell was at the time sitting with his two daughters, peremptorily demanded what he was doing about the School-house in the Planting?' [We understand that a School-house—for some reason or other, unexplained to us, obnoxious to certain parties—had been in progress of erec tion on . Mr. Quinn's estate, under the superintendence of Mr. Powell.] To this interrogatory Mr. P. replied, by asking the fellows how they dared to enter his house in the manner and at the hour they did? Upon which three of the ruffians, the fourth having been coura g eously held b ac k b y one of the young ladies, s e i ze d bold of Mr. P., and not withstanding that he, being a powerful man, struggled des perately, they at length succeeded in dragging him outside of his hall door, where, deaf to every appeal for mercy, they inhumanly shot him through the heart ! The ruffian who remained inside struggling with the daughter, at length freed himself from her desperate gripe by brutally striking her on the forehead with the butt-end of his pistol, frac turing her skull, and prostrating her senseless at his feet ! This horrible tragedy occupied but a few moments ; in the interim, however, the second daughter, having escaped by a back door, ran to the adjoining village and alarmed the in habitants. But, alas ! assistance came too late. The assas sins had decamped. The body of the unfortunate father was found, where it had fallen, at the door; his death, from the nature of the wound, must have been instantaneous. The The heroic daughter, though still in a state of insensibility, was by surgical aid restored to consciousness—her life is not considered in danger. " These are the - only particulars that have as yet reached us. We understand, however that four fellows are now in custody, charged with having been concerned in this foul and cold-blooded inurder.--N ewry TelegraPh• We understand his Royal Highness Prince George of Cam bridge, will, in the course of a few weeks, be promoted in the army.—Morning Herald. During the year 1840, the Earl of Stamford and Warring ton has contributed towards the increase of church accom modation the munificent sum of four thousand two hundred pounds. Were all other churchmen to give in the same proportion to their means, th ere wou ld soon be no cause of complaint on this subject.--Ten Towns Messenger. 4blli ping frittitiqtwe ---- Wind S.S.E. moderate Aartlvan.—Sweden, Homan, from Adamson, from the Cape of GJod Hope— from Lisbon. SAI xx):—Rocket, Bishop, for Africa—Merlin, Richards, and Lady Mansell, Grace, for St. Michael—Heroine, M'Lagan, for Vera Cruz—Flora, Flora, and Myrtle, Martin, for Terceira—end Asia, Sears, for New Orleans. New Orleans—Governor, and Espudarte, Setubal, Cambvses, Hutchinson Banks, hence at Calcutta Caledonia, Lawson, and Blorenge Columbian, Wakeham, hence ;,,t Anjer Ann Laing, Hudson, hence at Batavia • Navigator, Lefevre, hence at Messina Worston,hence off Seskar - Eclipse, Mullyart; Irmp, Verstraute, and Charles, Rickrners, hence at Ostend Geerdina, Boer, hence at Ilelvoet Lady Bute, Mg.:inlay, hence and Batavia, at Siucapore SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 —Wind S. moderate AnnivEn.—Elizabeth, —, from St. John, N.B.—Ann Mary Ann, Lane, from New Orleans—Falkland, —, from Naples— and John & Thomas, Meßluish, from Lisbon. SAILED. —Lynx, Watson, for Gibraltar—Ocean Queen, Wilson, for Savannah—A°lus, Domaile, and Ace of Trumps, Lidstone, for St. Michael—Bombay Packet, Caine, for Africa—Montezuma, Sel kirk, for Valparaiso, Sic.—Belvidera, Spear, for Baltimore—and Jane, Temperley, for St. Thomas. Ann, Salkeld, sailed from Bombay for Liverpool 30th Nov. Julius Cmsar, Mitchell, from Bombay for China, off Cochin 2gth October Gredada, Miller, (23rd Oct.) ; Amazon, Holmes ; Enterprise, Robertson ; Jessie Logan, Major, and Corinna, -, hence at Calcutta Wm. Jardine, Crosbie, from London, at Calcutta Agricola, Grayson, from Rio Janeiro, ditto • Mauritian, Laing, from Mauritius, ditto Volvnteer, ditto ditto, and sailed on her return 14th November Otterspool, -, sailed from Calcutta for Liverpool 11th Nov. Beet°, Johnson, sailed from Saugor I4th October Novo Born Fim, -, hence at St. Michael Andrew M'Kean, Thompson, hence off the Elbe Auguste, Kirkhove. hence at Ostend , John O'Gaunt, Robertson, hence at Sincapore in g. days, and sailed 4th October for Manilla and China Prima Donna, -, from Penang, at Sincapore, and sailed 26th Sept. for Macao SUNDAY, J ANUARY 16, S.E. light. ARRIVED.—Esk, Adamson, from Paraiba, at this port; sailed 30th Nov.: left there the Lima—Hoseberry, Mowbray, and John Brooks, Smith. from Marseilles—Hanover, —, from Baltimore —and Flamer, Binet, from Jersey. SAlLED.—Cynosure, Yalisley,for Beirut—Mary, Kemp, for Syd ney—and George H. Harrison, Weatherall, for Hobart Town. John Campbell, White, from Bombay, at Cochin, and sailed 21st October for Liverpool Orixa, Ager, from Rio, at Sincapore Clifford. Sharp, and John Blake, Churchward. hence at Sincapore Falcon, Viacent, and Scotland, Onrust, Dik, and Geerdina, De Boer, hence at Helvoet Gipsey, Cresswell, hence at Maranham Andrew M'Kean, Thompson, hence at Crookhaven John Woodall,Williams, from Rio Janeiro, at Batavia, and sailed 15th September for Samarang and England WrceLow, January s.—The flat Elizabeth, Ellis, of Liverpool, was driven on shore yesterday during a gale at N.E. crew and materials saved MONDAY, JAMIJARY 11 —Wind East. ARRlVED.—Sheffield, Allen, from New York ; sailed 17th Dec.— Elizabeth Radcliffe. from Lima; sailed 11th Sept.7ldritannia, from New Orleans—Jamaica, irom . —, from Nassau—Pembrokeshire Lass; Ariel, Smith; Abbay, Barr; Mary, Jones: Margaret, Jones; Elizabeth Ann, Patten , Ann Rt Elizabeth, Roberts ; Hebe, Horatio, and Susan, James, from London—Active, Moore, and Mary, Richards, from Ipswich —and Garland. Howe, from Woodbridge. SAlLED.—Higginson, Hogg, for Barbadoes. Plumstead, Sym, from Lima, at this port; sailed Ist Oct. Left the Kestrel, Abbots Reading, Minstrel Boy, Lady Lilford, Isabel, and Champion. She brings on freight about 330,000 dollars. New York, Barstow, from New York, oft this port The Thames, (steamer) from Dublin to London, was wrecked on the Scilly Rocks 4th instant, during a heavy gale; about 60 persons drowned—only 4 saved. BEAUMARIS, Jan. 30.—The Mountaineer, (steamer) has become a total wreck and sunk in deep water; very little of the cargo saved. Thomas Mellor, Palethorp, hence at Pernambuco in 27 days Heroine, and Resolution, from London, ditto Jane Erskine, from Cardiff, ditto Magnolio, from Rio Janeiro, ditto Intended, and John Romley, from Newfoundland, ditto Heroine, I\l' Lagan, hence for Vera Cruz, at Warren Point Mar, saiied from Chusan, with a mail for Calcutta and England, and also the despatches saved from the Indian Oak, lost at Loo Choo. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) NEW SOUTH WALES, Margaret, II W Tomkins, 185 Sydney, J Poole & Co WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Lydia, J Rartley, 477 Antigua, C W & F Shand John, F Davis, 182 Barbadoes, Kirkby & Watson . SOUTH AMERICA. Nerio, W Jarvis, 7211 7 1(70t;Viieo - Z(3Lores, J Glynn & Son Highlander, F P Carrell, 147 Vera Cruz, H Smith & Co EUROPE -- -- —. Nancy, W Gifford, _ 75 Azores, J Glynn & Son Jane, D Evans, 109 Gibraltar, ' H Smith &Co Pearl, J Luckham, 79 Havre, Bahr, Behrend &Co Hannah Grayson, E Penrice, Malta and Smyrna, Eshelby & Co Emparts. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Ste . Governor, (149) B Adamson, from the Cape of Good Hope, 2703 bags coffee, 3 bags coffee sweepings, 1 keg pine apples, order—Q D UNITED STATES. Sweden, (680) W Homan, from New Orleans, 928 bales cotton, Humphreys and• Biddle-282 do, G Green and Son-903 do, order -5 hhcls tobacco, W H Gilliat-22 do, J Maury' and Sons-3 do, W Modsleyl-27 do, 2 brls flour, J Ramsey and co-2 brls flour, order —about 80. db old ropes, Humphreys and Biddle—K D Anne Mary Anne o (380) S Lane, from New Orleans, 313 bales cotton, R Zwilcheubart and co-82 do, H Selleim-56 do, W D Wild-6g do, F Rtith and co-83 do, Carne . and Telo-98 do, Coil mann and Stolterfoht-147 do, M Blandin-262 do, 16 bags cotton seed, order-34 hl►ds tobacco, J Maury and Sons—W D BRITISH AMERICA. Elizabeth, (950) C Hare, from St. John, N.B. g3l pees pine and 120 pees birch timber. 443 pees deals, 5400 pees ash hogshead staves, 18 cords lathwood, Bold and Starkey—i trunk contents unknown, Garnock and Bibby -2 spars, exportatipn—B D Packet, (121) J Briggs, from Smyrna, 25 tons emery stone, A Sinclair-1780 drems figs, the master-2 do, no consignee -252 bales madder roots, about 10 tons boxwood, 5 bags yellow berries, order—S D EUROPE Falkland, (284) J N Appleton, from Naples, 150 bags liquorice paste, 2 boxes royals, 98 casks cream tartar, 93 bales madder roots, 104 bales wool, 1 bag walnuts, 1 box maccaroni, J Pownall—l case a picture and bedstead, J Clow-1 box soap, C Purnell-7 cases picture frames, Molyneux, Taylor and co—K D John 0: Edward, (86) E Melhuish, from Lisbon, 310 chests 358 hf chests oranges, order-2 hf chests do, the master—S D Espudarte, (150) F ft Setubal, frOm Lisbon, 270 chests 222 hf chests.oranges, order-32 chests 16 hf chests do, Van Zeller and co —B4 chests 68 hf chests do, Hadfield and co-12 hf chests do, Carne and Telo-2 do, Vianna and Jones—K D NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JANUARY 9 ADMITTED Accidents Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation 11 Cured l4 Attending as Out Patients . . 19 Irregular Died 30 1 Remaining in thi Le Hospital . . . 79 Honse Visiters, Rev. Thomas Hornby and Thomas Irlam, Esq Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—:—House Surgeon, Mr. Woodward. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester:— TIMgS OF DEPATURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 6 0 a.m. Mixed „ 12 8 15 a.m. First Class 1 15 p.m. 10 30 a.m. First Class 4 p.m. 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class g. 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 6 0 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. _ _ _ 3 30 p.ni. Mixed 5 0 p.m. First Class ' On Sunday the Departures will be FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM. 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. /1 8 15 a.m. Mixed Pt 30 p.m. 10 30 a.m. „ 7 0 p.m. „ . 0 9, 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 245 p.m. , The Trains on ' Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. FROM CHESTER TO. CREWE. 7 0 a.m. Second Class, to meet ti a.m. Train from Liver pool and Manchester. 5 a.m. First Class, to meet 10 30 a.m. Train from Liver pool and Manchester. FROM CREWE TO CHESTER 2 0 p.m. First Class, on arrival of 11 30 a.m. Train from Birmingham. 6 30 p.m. Second Class, on arrival of 3 30 p.m. Train from Birmingham, and 4 p.m. Train from Liverpool and Manchester. There will be no Trains on Sunday until further notice. BIRKENHEAD AND CH ESTER RAILWAY (FROM GEORGE'S PIER HEAD.) Morning 8' 0;,-;.-10 0 12 0 1 Afternoon 2 0 FROM CHESTER TO BIRKENHEAD Morning 8 15 .. 10 15 .. 12 15 I Afternoon 2 15 .. 4 15 ON SUNDAYS.—FROM GEORGE'S PIER HEAD Morning 9 0 I Afternoon 4 45 FROM CHESTER TO BIVENHEAD. Afternoon 6 0 4 0.. 6 0 Morning 9 15 LIVERPOOL AND MA: 'CHESTER RAILWAY FROM L'POOL TO MANCHESTER. FROM MANCHESTER TO epooL. First Class Second Class First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning - Morning.. 730 Morning 9 45 „ 9 0 ..10 0 11 45 „ 11 15 „ 11 45 „ 2 30 Aftern. 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 445 „ .. 530 „ 5 0 .. 530 „ 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed l I 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Miged Stop only at Newton & Prkside I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I * Except on Saturdays, when this Train does not start till Three. ON SUNDAYS. First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I AND WIGAN. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. Mixed 11 15 „ .. First Class 245 Aftern. Second Class 5 0 .. Mixed 715 „ .. First Class NDAYS. 8'45 „ 1 0 „ 2 0 Aftern First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 4 45 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 i 5 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I TO PRESTON FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. Mixed 11 0 „ .. First Class 2 30 Aftern. Second Class 4 45 „ .. Mixed 7 15 „ .. First Class 7 0 Morning.. 4 45 Afternoon 7 15 Evening.. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 0 Afternoon 7 15 Evening First Class Fiiit Class. 'CASTER. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... Mixed 11 15 „ First Class 2 45 Afternoon . • Second Class 5 0 „ .... Mixed OLTON. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 „ .... 9 9 TO LAN PROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.... Mixed 11 0 „ .... First Class . 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 4 45 .... Mixed FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.... First Class 11 0 „ 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 „ .. •• lf 7 0 Morning.. 5 30 Afternoon 'ROM LIVERPOOL 7 0 Morning.. 0 45 „ , , 11 45 „ .. 2 30 Afternoon 5 30 ~ , , 7 r Morning.. 5 39 Afternoon ON SUNDAYS Second Class 2 45 Afteinoon .. Secou — d Class 5 30 ~ .... ~ 7 0 Morning.. 5 30 Afternoon . Second Class lELENS. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 11 45 2 45 Afternoon .. PP PP 5 30 NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. „ TO ST. I- Second Class ON SU Second Class ar k e t -..em5..-... LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, JAN. 8. There hos been an improved demand for 8.P., and 500 hhds. sold, with 2400 bags Mauritius, at the quotations, and 1700 bags and 100 casks Bengal, •at 54s to 56a 6d for low brown, 68s for yellow, and 84s for good white. Foreign.—There has been some inquiry for brown descriptions this week, without, however, as yet leading to business. The sales are confined to about 70 bils. Brazil and Laguayra. Bonded Refined.—A fair inquiry for Crushed, at the London quotations. Treacle still in damand for Spring delivery. 260 puns. Demerara Molasses have been sold at our quotations. Coffee.—The sales of Plantation have been quite un important, comprising only 70 casks of Jamaica; no change in prices. Of Foreign, 50 bags were sold; Laguayra at 50s, and African at 428 per cwt. Nothing done in Ginger or Pimento. 20 brls. Trinidad Cocoa sold at 408 per cwt., 180 bags of good black Pepper at 44c1 to -lid per lb, and 1660 bags good Bengal Rice at 163 per cwt. in bond. The sales in Rum are confined to a few Leewards, 7 0. P., at 3s id, and stronger at Is 5d per gallon. Tea.—There had been a steady demand, at improving prices, previous to the arrival of the account, by way of Marseilles, that our disputes with China were in a train of settlement, which bas caused a complete panic in the market, and prices have receded considerably, and our quotations may be considered nominal. There has been but little business done in East India Drysaltery articles this week; about 60 chests of Lac Dye reported at 9d to Ild per lb, and 1500 bags of Satpetre at 275 to 28s, with 500 bags of Nitrate of Soda at the quotations. Dyewoods.—The Sales in Logwood are confined to 119 tons Campeachy at .e 9 lOs to .eg 12s fid ; a few tons solid Nicaragua Wood are reported at 10, and some Gaboon Barwoodat 10s per ton. There are no sales in Turpentine to report. 1000 brls. of Stockholm Tar have been sold at the quotations. Although there has been no general inquiry for Pot Ashes, 300 brls. have been sold, at 30s for new, and at 28s for the brands of 1838. Pearl Ashes are dull, but without variation in price. There has been nothing done in Hides, and the market remains without alteration. Tobacco.—The sales amount to '230 hhds., of which about 40 were for export and the remainder for the Trade at steady prices. The Brimstone market remains in the same dull state as noticed for some time past, and the present quotations are with difficulty maintained. Scarcely an inquiry for Argols or Cream of Tartar. Small sales have been made in Sicily Sumac at 12s 3d; other des criptions are neglected, No inquiry for Madders or Roots. 30 casks Quercitron Bark are reported at 12 3d per cwt. The business in Olive Oil is limited to a few tuns Galipoli, at £64 per tun. About About 100 tuns Cod Oil were sold at the close of last week at about £26 10s, off the quay; 30 tuns Pale Seal have brought £33, and small lots .e 33 105 per tun. Pale Rape Oil continues steady at the late advance, and Linseed Oil has been sold at 30s, which is a con, siderable improvement. In Palm Oil a little more business has been done this week ; the sales amount to 150 tons, (part from the quay,) at £35 lOs to .. 36 per ton. 10 tons Petersburg clean Hemp are reported at £4O, but not of the finest quality, and 350 bales of Jute at £l4 10s, at which there are more sellers, Tallow.—On Saturday last, a cargo of damaged Yellow Candle, consisting of about S2O casks, was sold by auction, and upon the whole realized good prices, ranging from 445 6d to 413 9d per cwt., according to quality and condition ; on the same day, upwards of 500 casks Peterburg yellow Candle changed hands at 495 6d ; but on Tues day, 700 pipes of South American were offered by auction and withdrawn for want of buyers ; a considerable part has, however, since been sold, although at low rates, tiamely,from 36s for very dark and inferior sorts, up to 45s 6d for the finest quality, and yellow Candle has also within the last day or two been sold at some little reduction. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN 8 The week opened with a fair demand from the Trade, and full prices were paid; the arrival on Thursday, however, of the over land mail, with intelligence of the China dispute being all but settled, caused the withdrawal of several stocks from the market, and has enabled those who are disposed to sell to obtain an ad vance of 4d to id per lb on American and Surat. at which the market closed firmly. Brazil and Egyptian remain without altera tion. Speculators have taken 11,000 American, 3,000 Surat, 200 Maranham, 250 Carthagena and 50 Egyptian. 110 Bengal were taken for export. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 18th instant, to this day, inclusive. Prices paid I 11IP in the week.lThisWk sgo , Sea Island % I3d 6) 26 i 20 , Stained g 11 1 1 5611 7260 Bowed Georgia 6420 f Mobile 1 Alabama and Tennessee -5i 6.} 1 } 17862 1420 New Orleans 680 { Pernambuco & Paraiba. Aricati and Ceara ... 340 j Bahia and Maceio Maranham 630 { Sawginned ' Minas .... 1 Para 20 , Demerara, Surinam, &c , 740 . Egyptian stBi —9 i t if - I / 12 12ii Barbados 160 Peruvian Bahama - 180 Laguayra. Common West India, &c 270 Carthagena 20 Smyrna Manilla 6160 Surat 10 Madras 110 Bengal 64 - 7 .r) 55020 bales _ 4 l , j 1 1 3366 ;this year 17862 i 30 1 1561 3366 t 1638 28430 1 28430 SATURDAY EVENING The market opened at a fair demand, and about 4,000 bales were sold at Friday's prices, if any change, the feeling was in favour of the buyer. _ _ MONDAY This morning the market appeared quiet, with but a moderate demand, as the day advanced, the enquiry became more general, and the arrival of the letters per packet of the lyth ult., with later accounts from America, confirming previous advises of a short crop, brought several speculators into the market, and caused a large business to be done, say from 8,000 to 10,000 bales at prices quite equal to Friday, and in many instances id dearer. Several holders refused to sell at the close of change at this advance. 600 Pernams, 80 to pd; 500 Bakin and Macin, 7id to Sid; 160 Egyptian, yid to 12id; 500 Surat, 4id to srid are qeported to-day. 4,000 to speculative account; remainder to the trade. LONDON OURTM-FRIDAY, JAM. I. -.11111b. , PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED Einett and Hall. Liverpool, furriers—C. and A. Masper, Bolton. le-Moors, Lancashire Opticians—Finley, Alston, and Co., Liverpool, merchants—Dieseldorff, Hahn, and Co., Liverpool, commission rierchants— Harrison and Wainwright, Church, .Lancashire, ngravers to calico-printers—J. Richardson and J. Holliday, ml, tailors—J. and E. Evans and W. Crossley, Royton, s ; as far as regards W. Crossley INSOLVENTS. Joseph, Fearnley, Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstapler. Thomas VVatkins,jun., Tr edegar-iron-works, Monmouth- Lancishire, iroufoun Jan.B.—George Hanmer Bailer, Bristol, commission-agent. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Joseph Nicholson, Halifax, Yorkshire, innkeeper, from Jan. 12 to Jan. 23. RUPTCY ANNULLED William Nicholls Wright, Nottingham, tailor. BANKRUPTS. • Mary Evans, John Evans, and Thomas Howard Evans, Pump row, Old-street -road, London, paper-manufacturers. Richard Perkins, Upper-street, Islington, London, upholsterer. Elias Lindo, Matson's-cottage„ Kingsland, coal-merchant. James Bingley, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, London, brush-maker. Thomas Jackson, King's Lynn, Norfolk, corn merchant. George Wilson, and Jonathan Badger, Birmingham, victuallers Jonathan Hainsworth, John Oldroyd` Jonathan Clegg, Joseph Bailey, Mathew Healey, and John Bromley, jun., Batley Carr, Yorkshire, woollen.naillers. Joseph Ankers, Birmingham, grocer. Henry and Joseph Hindley, Halshaw-moor, Lancashire, cotton spinner. John Higham, Birmingham, victualler. James Pope, anti Joseph Beech, Manchester, brush-makers. DIVIDENDS. Jan 29. A. J. M. la Baume, Argyle-street, Regent-street, London, medical-galvanist—Jan. 30. T. Willcocks, Bristol, cabinet-maker— Feb. 2. G.. Owen, Penmorfa, Carnarvonshire, malster—Jan. 30. J. P. and P. Jackson. Manchester, wool-dealers—Feb. 11. G. Eld, Coventry, miller—Feb. 1. J. G. Bond, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, draper—Jan. 29. S. Williams, Bristol, apothecary—Feb. 1. S. Price, Blackburn, Lancashire, machine-maker—Feb. 5. W. Maybury, LaucashiTe, merchant—Feb. 3. J. Robertson, Wooton under-Edge, Gloucestershire, draper. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before January 26. J. P. and P. Jackson, Manchester, wool-dealers—A. Duff, jun.. Spitalfields, London, silk-manufacturer—W. J. Bridgewater, Somerset, hackneyman—W. Kay, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, draper. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 11 We have not had quite so large a supply of things to-day, nor has the quality been quite so good as last week, consequently prime things rated a shade higher than our last quotations; prime Beef 6d; middling and inferior sid to bid; prime Wether Mutton 7d ; middling and inferior 6d to 62d, sinking the offal. Number of Boasts, 1248 ; Sheep, 4237. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, JANUARY 9 We have to report a liberal supply of Wheat, Oats, Flour, and Oatmeal into this port for the last seven days. The principai im ports, however, were on the 2d and 4th instant, duringwhen 15,000 barrels of Flour were entered from Canada. Easterly winds have since prevented any material arrivals. The trade in Wheat has not been very extensive : still, there has been a good, steady demand for consumption, and, latterly, very full prices have been obtained. The recent arrivals from Canada not having been pressed upon the market, Flour has quite sustained previous rates : best brands of United States 365, Canadian 35s to 36s per barrel. On Tuesday last several parcels of Oats were cleared off at Id per bushel decline, There was a fair demand also for Oatmeal at a reduction of 6d per load. There has since been little or no change in the value of either; and, where any has occurred, it must be reported in the seller. Barley remains as last noted. Beans and Peas have sold only in retail at previous quotations. LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT. MADIICR, as , cwt. S. d. s AsnEs . . Montreal, Pot.. 30 0@ 30 6 i Dutch, crop 70 0 —BO Pearl, new .. 29 g —3O 0 Ombro 50 0 U. States, Pot.. none. Gamene 32 0 Pearl none. Mull lO 0 BARK, Quack. .. 12 0— 14 0 French, S.F. Oak, ii ton .. 45 5 7 0 S.F.F 48 0 German 4 15 5 0 E.5.F... 54 0 BRIMSTONE, V ton E.5.F.F.63 0 Sicily, &c glo— 10 0 Spanish Tuscany lO 0 10 10 MOLASSES, V. cwt CASSIA LIGNEA, S. d. s. d. Trinidad, &c -65 0 -40 0 -80 0 -46 0 -52 0 8 0 -66 o 42 0 —5B .0 ao cwt. in bond 80 0— 85 0 Demerara, &c CLOVER -SEED, V cwt. Bar & Antigua American, red none MUNJEET, v cwt.. 12 0 Dutch 70 0— 30 0 OIL, Olive, v 252 galls. French & Germ.7o 0— 80 0 Gallipoli COCOA, V cwt. Trieste 61 0 —63 Trinidad 49 0— 52 0 Sicily 60 0 —6l Grenada .... 132 0— 36 o Mala g a 59 0 —6O Brazil Portugal, &c .... 58 0 —sg COFFEE, V cwt, in bond. Leva- L 58 0 —6O Jama. triage .. _ 0— 82 0 , V on Palm, t 35 10 —36 ordinary .... 150 Fish, 19 , 252 galls. good& fine ord. 86 0-106 0 Seal, pale 33 0 middling llO 0-125 0 brown 23 0 good mid. .... 128 0-140 0 Cod 26 10 fine mid. &c... 142 0-154 0 LINSEED, .V cwt 2g 6 Dutch, triage.. 60 0— 70 0 Rape, pale do. 47 0 1 ordinary .... Turpen. V cwt 53 0 good &fine ord. 75 0— 82 0 RICE, V cwt middling B4 0— 90 0 Carolina, dress. 36 0 good mid. 192 0-100 0 in bond 22 0 fine mid., &c. I Bengal, ord. do.. 13 0 Mocha Ceylon Java 30 0 -32 0 30 0 -32 0 85 0 -37 0 -14 0 -33 10 -31 0 -30 0 -48 0 -54 0 9 - 4 8 -6 0 -6 8 -37 0 Havana Jamaica, good& fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 12 to 16 0. p 4 St. Domingo.... 42 0— 44 0 stronger 4 10 Brazil 4O 0— 44 0 choice marks.. 6 2 Laguira 3B 0— 0 0 SAFFLOWER, 2e , cwt. DYEWOODS, 11. ton X. s. £. s. Bengal, Logwood, Jam... 6 5 6 15 good & fine.. '5 0 7 10 Hon. & Dom. 7 0— 7 10 ord. & mid .. 2 10 4 10 Campeachy .. 9 0— 9 15 Bombay Fustic, Span 4 15— 5 0 SALTPETRE, 10 , cwt. s. d. s. d Tampico 6 10— 7 0 East India 25 0 —3O 0 Brazil Cuba NICARAGUA WOOD Rio de la Hache orange 56 0 —BO liver and black 33 0 —5O solid rough 6 0= 7 10 Neutria, v doz .. 6 0 —l3 0 small 6 10— 8 0 Chinchilli, do. .. 10 0 —25 0 Lima, solid 12 0— 13 0 Seal, each Barwood, Ango. g, 0— 9 0 SnumAc, le , cwt. Gaboon 6 10— 7 0 Sicily Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Malaga none Red San. Wood.. 8 0— 810 Trieste , 6_ 8 6 FLAX, 19. ton. Verona ' 6 6 -- . 7 0 Riga. P.T.R. .... 43 0— 43 10 'Tyrolese P'burg, 9 head .. 40 0— 41 0 [SUGAR, 49. cwt. Archangel 44 0— 55 0 i B. P. Muscovado Dutch & Flem. Go 0-120 0 moist browl7.. 68 0 —69 0 GALLS, 114 , cwt. dry brown .... 70 o —73 6 Turkey, blue 6.5 0— 72 0 good & mid.... 77 0 —Bl 0 mixed 60 0— 66 0 fine &d. fine .. 82 0 —B5 0 East India 6O 0— 72 0 Mauritius, GINGER, 19 , cwt. dabs and moist 60 0 —65 0 Barbadoes 45 0— 50 brows 6B 0 —7O 0 Jamaica 6O 0-200 0 yellow • 74 0 —77 0 E. India, in bond 12 0— 19 0 fine yellow 7g 0 —B3 6 Gum, :ip , cwt. East India, Bengal Arabfe, Turkey 7O 0-140 0 ord. whiie .. 7. 78 0 --82 East India 24 0— 55 0 good and fine.. 84 0 —B7 G Barbary 5O 0— 0 0 extra fine 84 0 —B7 o Senegal 75 0— 0 0 Manilla, in bond 20 0 —23 0 HEMP, 14 , ton s. s. Havana, do. P'burg, clean 40 0— 41 0 brown 23 0 —23 6 outshot.. 39 0— 39 10 yellow 24 0 —26 0 Riga, Rhine .... 41 0— 42 0 white ord 32 0 —33 0 outshot.. 40 0— 0 0 good & fine 34 0 —36 0 Archangel Manilla 3O 0— 31 0 brown lB 0 —22 0 Bombay lg 0- 21 0 yellow 22 6 —24 0 Jute l4 0— 14 10 white ord. .... 22 0 —23 0 HIDES, Ox and Cow, yfr lb good and fine.. 24 0 —26 0 B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry. TALLOW, 913. cwt. inferior & mid. 0 7- 0 Si P'burgh, Y.C. 49 3 —49 6 good & prime.. 0 9—o 10 Odessa 49 0 —49 6 Do. salted .... 0 42 0 5 Archangel 47 6 —4B 0 N. Amer. salted 0 3i— 0 4 Buenos Ayres 38 6 —46 0 Brazil dry salted 0 si— 0 6 Stockholm 2O 0 —2l 0 Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 7 0 8 Carolina Odessa, &c. dry 0 61— 0 7 Virginia W. India, dry.. 0 64 0 7 TARTAR, 33 cwt. salted.. 0 4i— 0 ai Cream of Tartar 76 0 —SO 0 East India . .. 0 8 1 0 brown and yel 50 0 —6B 0 Kips, B.A. dry. 0 7i-- 0 g TEA, 9f) , lb. in bond. Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 0 Bohea, Canton HORSE HAIR, 19 , lb. Fokein Short mixed 0 10 0 13i mid. to fine. 1 10 2 4 long tails 1 4 1 10 Twankay, corn... 1 g— combed INDIGO, v lb. in bond. Pekoe, Orange .. 1 9 2 9 Bengal. Campoi, pur. & violet blue & violet blue violet, g. & fine 6 6 7 0 Souchong, corn... 1 8— I 0 ord. & mid. 5 3:— 6 0 good to fine.. 2 0 2 9 violet & cop. 1 5 0— 5 9 Pekoe, flowery .. 2 8— 3 0 mixed .. I Hyson, com. 2 2 2 4 Cop. g. & fine. 5 0 — 5 6 fine.. 2 g— 4 0 ord. & mid. 4 0— 5 0 I Young Hyson .. 2 2 3 0 con. quality O u d e . , 2 0— 4 9 Gunpowder, Madras .......... 2 6 5 0 good and fine ~21 0 _ 4 6 Guatimala, V IS. TonAcco, 191 h. in bond. Floras ........ 5 6 6 0 J. River, Leaf.... 0 4 0 7 Sobres ........ 3 9 5 0 Stemmed.. 0 4 0 7 Cortes .. . ..... 2 0— 3 9 Kentucky .... . .. v 3i— 0 81 Caraccas, Floras 5 6 6 0 Maryland ...... 0 4i— 7 Sobres ........ 4 0— 5 3 TURMERIC, TY cwt . i n bond. Cortes ........ 2 6 4 0 8enga1.......... 20 0 —3O 0 LAC DYE, V lb. TURPENTINE, * cwt. D.T. and prime. 1 6 2 6 American lO 6 —l3 3 mid. to good.. 08— 1 4 VALONIA, 19. ton. a £ 0 ord. & inferior 0 4 0 7 Smyrna, picked 14 0 —l9 10 MADDER ROOTS, ig. cwt. Morea Smyrna .. 54 0— 57 0 WAx, BEES' la cwt. in bond. Galipoli & Syria .. 42 0— 46 0 African 6lO 8 0 French 45 0— 47 0 East India Naples 45 0— 46 0 American 7 0— 8 0 SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS ... —..—. David Davinson, Eninburgh, brewer, and New. wharf, Whitefriara, insurance -broker, Jan. 13, Feb. 3, at 2 o'clock, at the Old Signet hall, Edinburgh. William Low, Newford-park, near Forfar, wright, Jan. 13, Feb. 8, at 12 o'clock, at Morgan's Inn, Forfar. James Somerville, Cannongate, Edinburgh, spirit-dealer, Jan. 12, Feb. 2, at 12 o'clock, at the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh. William Rodger, Forfar, shoe-maker, Jan. 16, F e b . 13, a t 12 o'ctock, at Petre's County Hotel and New Inn. Forfar. James Bissett, Schoohill, Aberdeen, confectioner, Jan. 14, Feb. 4, at 19 o'clock, at Machray's Royal Hotel, Aberdeen. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. JANUARY. HOUR :3, John Jones.. Clarendon Rooms, 1 14, Joseph Dobson, Ist 15, Parke and Keririck, 2nd Ditto, 1 16. Richard Benbow, (proof and div.) ii, Wm. Bentley, sen. & Co. (proof and final div.) Ditto, 12 WESORSICSMOMTWICIF7X9WICIMINSOIXIXIMR.MAINiIa PRICES OF SHARES, JANUARY 1] RAILWAYS, &c 'rices. This day Last Per Share. Prices Bolton and Leigh 100 paid Bristol and Exeter Birmingham and Gloucester 90 paid 34 0 0 77 10 0 77 0 0 36 0 0 16 12 6 o o Birkenhead and Chestel 50 paid Dublin arid Drogheda 10 paid Eastern Counties Ditto, Debentures Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 20 paid Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 30 paid Greenock, and Ayr 23 paid 9' 7 6 5 17 6 29 5 0 29 5 0 Grand Junction .. Ditto half shares 2,14 10 0 95 10 0 Ditto quarter shares (late Chester and Crewe) Quarter Great Western 53 10 0 29 1.5 0 94 10 0 63 10 0 10 17 6 41 15 0 53 15 0 26 10 0 15 7 6 186 10 0 45 0 0 90 5 0 174 0 0 Ditto new shares Ditto Fifth Shares Hull and Selby Leicester and Swannin gtor Lancaster and Preston Liverpool and Manchester Ditto - quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birr4ngham, Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto and Southampton Ditto & Brighton Manchester and Leeds Ditto half shares Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Ditto, quarter Newcastle and Carlisle' Ditto quarter shares .. North Midland New North Mid1and......... Paris and Rouen ............. South Eastern and Dover .. 10 0 North Union York and North Midland ..... St. Helen's and Runcorn Gas, BANKS. 50 paid Bank of Liverpool .. - Borough Bank 50 paid £l2 Los paid Commercial of Liverpool 1; 10, Commercial of England. 5 .. , East of England lO .. , of Mancheste M'chester 00l Dsct. 15 rid Central North and South Wale Norther I of Liverpool - Liverpool Union lO .... - Liverpool Banking Co lO .... - Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings ..t100 paid L'pool and Harrington Water 350 .... Works 51 5 0 div. 50 10 28 10 0 58 15 0 43 15 0 82 10 0 31 0 0 41 15 0 26 0 0 5 2 6 83 0 0 15 15 0 92 10 0 27 15 0 81 10 0 37 7 6 3 5 0 14 0 0 83 10 0 ex. 83 0 67 10 0 .... 0 0 0 .... 20 0 0 ex div. 14 15 0 .... 18 0 0 .... 3 2 6 .... 7 2 6 .... 8 26 3 with div, 10 2 6 .. . 3 7 6 .... 4 5 0 .... Bootle Ditto Stock.... L'pool Coal Gas Company.... Stock. L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .4'loo Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES Liverpool Marine Assurance 741 0 0 di v -5 4 0 .... 21 5 0 .... 12 12 6 8 10 0 153 0 0 4 77 10 0 25 paid 3 10 0 Company Ocean Assurance Company.... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 Ios. DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company .. 16 ss. 80 0 Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company Harrington Docks .... Apothecaries' Compare Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry Asphalte (Liverpool) (Polonceare 0 13 9 2 3 0 20 20 10 100 7 5 0 7 0 0 57 0 0 6 2 6 Tuesday 12 Wednes. 13 Thursdayl4 Friday ..15 Saturday 16 Sunday.. 17 Monday 18 TIDE TABLE Mon. I Eon. ; Height, 0 14 0 1 0 0 Sundays, Holydays, r. lf.l R. M. F. I. 210 230 16 0 Clock before sun Bm. 435. 250 311 14 10 Cambridge Term begins. 333 4 0 13 11 Oxford Term begins. 430 5 2 12 10 536 612 11 8 Battle of Corunna, 18og, 644 716 11 1 2nd Sunday after Epiphany 752 826 11 0 Battle of Missolonghi, 1823 BIRTHS On the 29th ultimo, at Runcorn, the wife of the Rev. SAMUEL HILLYARD, of a son. On the 31st ultimo, at Glynnllior Castle, near Carnarvon, Lady NEWBROUGH, of a son and heir. The auspicious event gave rise to a manifestation of rejoicing unusual in that retired part of Wales. Cannon was fired, and all the craft in the harbour dis played their different flags. In the evening earnarvon was parti. ally illuminated. On the 7th instant, the wife of Mr. S. EMERY, of the Royal Amphitheatre, of a son. On the eth instant, the wife of Mr, F. CARMAN, of the Royal Amphitheatre, of a son. MARRIED On the '2nd instant, by the Rev. Charles Lucas Reay, Vicar of Swanbourne, Bucks, the Rev. KENNETH MACKENZIE PUGHE, BA., of St. John's Coilege, Cambridge, to HARRIET, daughter of the late WILLIAM LUCAS REAY, Esq., surgeon, of this town. On the 3rd 'instant, at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. Cyrus Morrall, Mr. ROBERT WKIRGAN to Miss ELIZABETH JONES. On the 4th instant, at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. H. Car penter, Mr. JOHN FOLEY to Miss MARGARET CAMPBELL. On the sth instant, at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. H. Car penter, Mr. JOHN BREARLEY to Miss LETITIA NICHOLSON. Same day, at St. Saviour's Church, Manchester, by the Rev. Edward Birch, B.A. Mr. CHARLES P. ALLEN, of Manchester, to CAROLINE MATILDA, youngest daughter of the late THOS. BARNES, Esq., 9f: this town. Same day, at Winwick, by the Rev. R. Tagart, Mr. GEORGE LENOX, of this town, to CATHERINE, second daughter of the ate J. SHE A RSON, Esq., Newton-le-Willows. On the 6th instant, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, GEO. TOWNDSON ATHERTON, Esq., New Brighton, to SARAH, second daughter of CHARLES OPENSHAW, Esq., Cheetham-hill. On the 7th instant, by the Rev J. Tobin, Mr. GEO. HUTTON, to FANNY, eldest daughter of JAMES BANNISTER, Esq., ship builder. Same day, at St. John the Baptist's Church, by the Rev. J. Hassall, Mr. WM. FREDERICK WILLAMS, of North Petherton, Somerset, to Miss HANNAH LENNAWAY STOWER, of Upper Warwick-street, Toxteth-park. DIED On the sth September, on an island at the Bay of Andaman, Calcutta, Capt, GOLIGHTLY, of the Brig George and Mary, son of the late Mr. Mathew Golightly, of Whitehaven, aged 26, deeply regretted by his numerous friends and acquaintances, having earned the situation he held by steadiness, perseverance, ability as a seaman, and anxiety for the welfare of those by whom he has baen employed. At Leeds, 20th ult., Mr. EDWARD SIMMONS, in his rostra year. He served 22 years in the 25th Regiment of Foot, and was an out-pensioner of Chelsea Flcrspitarsince 1792, his age being then stated at 57 years.—Also, in live days afterwards in her §oth year, ANN, wife of the above. They had been married 65 years. On the 2nd instant, at her house, Netherton, Miss SHARPLES, sister of the late Mr. Sharpies, surgeon. On the sth instant, after a long and paintul illness, borne with Christian fortitude and resignation, aged 40, MARY, wife of Mr. H ODS ON, Islington. Same day, after a tcdious illness, aged 67, Mr. WM. BASTABLE, watch dial-maker, Leigh-street. Same day, suddenly, in Key-street, aged 34, Mr. JOHN DOB SON, spirit-dealer. On the 6th inst., aged 35, Mr. THOMAS MAIN, formerly of Stone haven, N.B. Same day, aged 76, MARY, relict of the late Mr. J. WAR RINGTON. Same day, in Park.street, Westminster, aged 28, EDWARD RUSHTON PRESTON, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law. On the 7th instant, ELIZABETH, wife of Mr. A. CRONE, Great Orford-street, much and deservedly respected. On the 81h instant, aged 87 years, HANNAH, relict of th e l a t . JAMES MARSDEN, brush manufacturer—he died on the 10th u l t. - aged 85 years. They had been married 58 years. Same day, aged 1 year and 9 months, WILLIAM ROBERT, infant son of Mr. ROBERT EDWAStDS, Old Haymarket. On the 10th instant MARIA, LOUISA, youngest daughter of Mr. REYNOLDS, Berkley-street. Sa me day, very suddenly, at an advanced age, PETER WAIN WRIGHT, Esq., formerly of this town. Yesterday, after a few days illness, aged 48, Mr. JOHN WILKES, ship-smith, 'Spar] in g. s;reet. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1841, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY MORNING, JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 88, Mount Pleasant, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. GEonicies CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. Orders and Advertisements are received by Messrs. Newton an Co Warw ick -square; Barker, Fle e t- s t reet; Deacon, Walbrook Reynell, Chancery-lane; Lawson and Barker, Birchin-lane Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill; Munden Hammond, q Lombard -street ; Mitchell, 8, Red Lion-cdurt, Fleet-street : Clarke and Lewis, 4, Crown -court, Threadneedle-street, at Garraway's; at the London Commercial Coffee-house, Mincing_ lane; at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill; Chapter Coffee house, Paternoster-row; North and South American Coffee house, Threadneedle-street ; and Messrs. William Frend, Le Maitre, and Co., Sise-lane, London; by Messrs. Johnston and Co., at their Newspaper and Advertisement Agency Office, Eden Quay, Dublin; Mr. M`Phun, Glasgow; Mr. Wheeler, Exchange. street, and Mr. C. 11. Lewis, Market-street, Manchester; Mr Haddock, and Messrs. J. and W. Booth, Booksellers, Warrington. Mr. Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston; and Mr. Coope, 30, Unica. street, Birmingham. Terms of Subscription for this gaper :—On credit; one year, £2 6s. ; half-year. £1 3s. ; quartet lls. 6d.—lf paid in advance —one year £2 2s. half-year, £1 Is ; quarter, lOs 6d, Has alb -1-1 510 tons and ace( sailer.— BOGGS, 436 ton for good Messrs, zRi Burthen good cat STONE a Loading, —For fr SON, or T!'arran For 141( 'k~ i~ and a f 13 iiii il e I; Prince's ~ ~~ I ra>,.. Is inten4 and to c is to lea The GI: „, ~ Pik tw,s, ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL Enoch street, I Passe will sail „ I From t ACHIT. 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