The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-31 00:00:00

COLONIAL I rELLIGENCI 1 Hope Several n. and declar mpanied b Englis mlv on D uld em iv Jude, ad been received on on the east bank of 3 had collected for the territor; roperty of the Volksraad from the land all who tsoers, In oath of allegiance to their cause, M Majesty's flag xplained to them the responsibility conduct they were pursuing. In the which was of the most pacific charac- f Council of 4 Vic., ties, and of the capi- worn re- anks of New South Wales, I Pa December 31, 1842, t The New Soutl appear to be in a Wales Bank, with a capital £lB The Comme )f Australa £64.2)3. I aid a dividend of 10 pe FOREIGN iNTELLIGENCI UNITED STATES wo arrivals frog new packet-ship Ashburton, Captain H uttie- Mersey for the first time, bringing New stant, and, in the afternoon, the New York on the which left 1, after a Of less than fifteen days had interrupted the proceeding Year ss. Ti nt of the Oregon ter [dent of the Daily Expre if Mo., w e mad provision for the occupation nry had passed to an en ays the Wash- is a monoma e bill from a )ugh already to and honest faith is, that the countr energies : and ct of negociation at ;cm came t came up in the shape of a mo-.. )f the Co - mmittee of atrma ,ort from t s awakened to the 3 Mr. Fillmor I always 1 sudde soldiers to a, s exceF f Dick n Thavies'-inn . leaped ovei r • 4 7 78 is n ,t; ganding v4i.o, k ra t 4r..) ery pre - . l lili - 62ai.Ris F ond they would be omission. It Ist debate on the bill ti sion taicen The ringlet ort of a con- t the Exchequer . It the Cl _us, to print a ru,. majority of the adverse to the Exchequer system recommended by Aent, and which said that the bill " ought not to be ' A long debate followed. The impression was, e plan would be rejected. On the 10th, Mr. Botts it forward a series of resolutions impeaching the lent for unconstitutional conduct. Several divisions and the affair was finally disposed of by a vote of After the discussion, Mr. Botts said he wiped his peachment for ever , into the mutiny on board the United Somers, was still sitting. All the officers of the ig been examined on the subject ! the court was the examination of the seamen. The enquiry Court of Enquir ,veriest attention. Governor Porter to the legislature of Ivania had been published. It clearly sets forth the kl condition of that important state, which is described ;althiest, and most populous states purees of the state, the Governor meet all the demands against as well as the interest, of its enormous debt 3 do, and to pa promises 4•••• .•- ..• - f her distinguishing charac lebt of Pennsylvania is nearly thirty ...., above seven millions sterling. The I interest on this debt punctually till , , 1 idea of repudiation. 1g affair had occurred in Columbia, Geori )burn and General M`Dougal had quarrel] t M`Dousal a note, intended fora challen nally to ti said, " Ge rat, I ha come," when natters were without any material ind trust office, had o a large, but Le Euro m Canada report an improvement in toe es Bagot, and his ultimate recovery was me government having rovincial left the choice e latter had fix government .-- - - Mr. Papineau was expected to retur: as late and important. Genera it of San Luis, had, by a militar) I;lpreparation some time, declared s, and announced the convocation f Cong: a Ana, to frame a constitution for the .taio.n had - made the same declaration he news of these movements express. General Tomei, the it, immediately made the event dy, it is stated, at once took a they would not listen to threats )uld continue to sit un- • of War, on receivi o Congress. That ed stand, declaring ,mmander, driven from t The movements ,asation in the capital. it was expected, declare :11 - 1) - 37 - force of ara generals had caused a great se oops at Vera Cruz would, against Congress. Commodore Jones, with the United States frigate Potomac and the corvette Cyane, had, in consequence of a report which 'ad reached him, that war had been declared by the United ates against Mexico, occupied Monterey, a town in Cali ,ia. He gave up the town in two days, after having been -d of the falsity of the report. The Commodore had for -^t been recalled by his Government. hold out against the Mexican land .snes, which did not lead to important ..es, were of frequent occurrence. The e said to have been thinned by the ravages .• yellow fever. Campeachy continued to ea force Mexican ranks an FRANCE After a powerful speech from M. de Broglie, the address to the Throne was carried, on Wednesday, by 117 to 33. The draft of th e a dd ress o f the Deputies was read in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. It includes a aragraph Df the refus a l t o rat if y t h e s l av e-trade treaty of 1 p B4l, and uggesting the abrogation of the treaties of 1831 and 1833 ; , t is coughed in as delicate language as possibler Chamber of Pee rs h av i n g nega tived the proposi tion of immendati on t o th e G ove rnment to negotiate for the cation of the treaties of 1831 and 1833, the efforts .of the iosition, in the wa y o f exc it e ment, are now directed, with oubled enery, to th e Ch am ber of Deputi es. This is, essanly, the to uc h s t one o f th e Ministry, and, consider in g extent to which th e cr y o f "No right of search" has been rried, we shall not be surprised if the struggle should be en greater than the anticipations of the Cabinet. We un ;rstand, however, th a t M. G u i z ot is confident of a m a j ority lual to that which he has hitherto considered sufficient on then occasions, to enable him to carry on the business of the lover Iment ; and it is not improbable that ma n y deputies isapprove of M. Guizot's policy, but whop that M. ,ers so much that they would oppose anything, that could he slightest tendency to restore him to office, will vote Ministry, for the purpose of preventing any chance i a result. it TRAVELLED CAT.—There is at present in this to w n, in possession of Mr. Lucey, on the Loudon-road, a re rkably fine cat, whose travels may almost lay claim to a ice in the records of history by the side of the celebrated tigator, Captain Cook. Originally from China, his native d, he has made four voyages to the East Indies, and twice led rounct•the globe, having altogether travelled upwards inn 000 miles ; a circumstance, we should suppose, unpre in the annals of the feline species. Puss is very e and docile, his colour gray, marked with dark in d his age between 10 and 11 years.—Derby rSPIRACY TO TAKE A CONVICT SHlP.—lntelligenc e at been received of an intended massacre of the officers vilians on board the Eliza, Government transport,which from her Majesty's Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, a few s ago, with convicts for South Australia. It appears, .el neared the line, a murderous conspiracy existed me of the convicts, which would have terminated, certain destruction of those marked down as There were 267 convicts on board, among tier who had been transported for 14 years He privately sent a letter to the stir intended outbreak on the morning w as to put to death all the sol and such of the crew as offered o steer for the Brazilian coast. to the cabin, so as not to Nas a s that tt of the desig Ln was prudently Uvas : d cion, where be was minutely examined by the sur captain. He never varied in his statement, and so • nut to him as left no doubt Extra UI I,a r:__ of the intended horrors osted, and, at three o clock on morning‘ ers n was explained to them, nrdered to defend their our correspondent writes,was .per was heard on the mighty announced the hour when Ace. The prisoners were d other weapons with all the gal- Iv eigt fe of the Lu n the convicts gate at fonr ie surgeon un: a - couple of desirin the first p t once per d to their berths, and e ports the loss of lit( young ;On, who had been an apothecary 1. Holborn. He was a desperate opium rtpr the discovery, Ilim, he. was I xertion to say aution was adopted for tt security of were handed ove civil power on 1 UNIVER (7 1., r R 1 An Election will be held in Corpus Christi Coll day the 3rd day of Mach, to two Sco' -- :ives of the dioceses of Bath and 'Wells Ind Exeter res- holden on Thursday last, The Rev. Benjamin Thomas tialeott uoie, ,i.,-,.., u lege, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem In a Congregation holden at the same ti s were conferred Robert Jackson, Fellow of New Physicians to the Radcliffe Infirmary Rev. William Bedford, Fellow of New College. Rev. William Judd Upton, Fellow of New College _ _ BACHELORS OF ARTS Jonathan Dawson, Exeter College, grand compounder. George Henry Greville Anson, Exeter College. Henry Worsley, Exeter College. Edw. Sampson Eardly Cousins Eardley, St. Edmund Hall, The Rev. "Walter Kerr, M.A., Fellow of Merton College. Prebendary of Wells, and Canon of Salisbury, has been appointed Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral. On the 13th inst., the Rev. Augustus A. Bagshawe, 8.A., resignation orpus Christi College, was p“.„..__ .:y of Wormhill, Derbyshire, vacant by tut. or the Rev. Wm. Baghawe, MA. ; patrons, Trustees. The Bishop of Lichfield has returned to Eccleshall Castk in a very improved state of health, and with every prospect of final recovery.—Derby Mercury. The Rev. J. Turner, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, has been collated by the Lord Bishop of Ely to the Rectory of Fen Ditton, in this county, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Haggitt. PROMOTIONS Rev. Matthew Vicars. Rector of Allhallows, Exeter, to the Perpetual Curacy of Nether Cerne, and the Rectory of God manstone, Dorset; patrons, R. B. Sheridan and J. Good- Th'orOas Allen Southwood, Esq., of Emmanue Cambridge, to the Mastership of the Modern Department at the Cheltenham Proprietary College. James Taylor, Esq., 8.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School, Kim bolton Rev. G. W. White, M.A., to the Rectory of Darlaston, Staffordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Hugill, D.D. ; patrons, the Trustees of the late Rev. Chas. Simeon. Rev. William Renwick Bowditch, of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to the Curacy of Waddington, Yorkshire. Rev. James Hutchinson, B.A„ of St. John's Col Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Pleshey, Essex. Rev. James Gavin Young, 8.A., of Trinity College, C ' ' • bridge, to the Curacy of 80 - Xwell, Gloucestershire. Rev. John Dobson, to the Rectory of Wivenhoe, Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Ind. wark. Rev. Richard Evans, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John, Llantrissant, Glamorganshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Rhys . M.D., Fellow of King's has been elected Physician to the St. rt Gordon Latham, Esq College, Cambridge, Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D., of St. John's Col lege, Cambridge, Head Master of Shrewsbury School, to the Prebend of Gaia Major, in the Cathedral of Lichfield, vacant by the death of the Rev. S. Clayton ; patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. From the Cambridge Chronicle The Lord Bishop of Peterborough his instituted the Rev. Granville Sykes Howard Vyse, 8.A., to the rectory of Boughton, in Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Hon. and Rev. Richard Carleton; on the presentation of R. W. H. Howard Vyse, Esq., of Stoke-place, Bucking- hamsbire Wm. Henr: Bishop of reteroorougn nas —• Newbolt, M.A., to the rectory of Paulerspury, tonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Walter J. Kerrich; on the presentation of Harden of Winchester College, Oxford. The Rev. John Stoddart, D.D., has been instituted to the rectory of Islip, in Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. M. Vane; on the presentation of the Duke If Dorset. • licensed by ti The Rev. Thomas Storer, 8.A., has been licensed oy Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the perpetual curacy of St, Andrew's, in the town of Northampton. . The Rev. Charles Dodgson, M.A., formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford, perpetual curate of Daresbury, Cheshire, and examining chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Ripon, has been presented to the rectory of Croft, York shire ; patron, the Crown. The Rev. Thomas Stringer, M.A., formerly of Queen's College, Oxford, curate of St. John's, has been presented to the perpetuel curacy of St. Ann's, Liverpool, vacant by the death of the Rev. William Blundell. The Rev. William Ward, of Horncastle, to the perpetual curacy of Asgarby, Lincolnshire ; patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The Rev. Mr. M`Kan, to be chaplain of the Bridewell, at Marlborough, Wilts. The Rev. Walter J. Clarke, M.A., late minister of Rode Chapel, Cheshire, to the vicarage of Swinderby, Lincolnshire. The Rev. Robert Shirley Bunbury, to the perpetual curacy of Ecclestone, Lancashire. The Rev. Sharp Mossop, to the perpetual curacy of St. Bridget's Berkermet, Cumberland. The Rev. Edward Neville Valentine Boydell, to the per petual curacy of Wingate Grange, Durham. The Rev. John Pickwood, to be chaplain to the Bishop of Antigua. The Rev. James Neville Heard, curate of Hitchen, to be domestic chaplain to the Earl of Winterton. The still undecided election for the vacant Professorship of Divinity is the general topic of conversation amongst the graver members of the University. It has happened now and then that it was Trinity against the University, as in the contest for the High Stewardship between the present Lord High Chancellor of England and Lord Lyttelton ; but it is now Trinity against Trinity, and not two but three members Cuitew,c it,. the contest. Dr• mat ,ory high members a Theologian, and his labours in the East, in conjunction with Middleton and Heber, are well known and universally oken of. With respect to Drs. 011ivant and C. Words • " 'ends are enumerating their acade o the calendar it appears s follow : Honours Chancellor's Medal. Members' Prize..... Sir W. Browne's Briz Porson's Priz Chancellor's English Prize Craven Scholarship Tyrwhitt Dr. 011irant. Dr. Wordsworth The death of Dr. Le Blanc, Master of Trinity Hall, has caused very deep regret, not alone in his own college, but throughout the University. The appointment to the vacant •, in the hands of the Fellows of the College. The following dignitaries of the Established Church died in 1842 : Y0rk.......... L. Hird London ....... R. Watts. Bath & Wells.. J. Williams ditto .. •• . ditto. T. S. Escott ditto .. ... ditto. S. Blackall ditto .. ... ditto. Chester....... F. Wrangham ditto ..... Chichester.... Dr. Shuttleworth Bishop..... H. Atkins .. Canon..... Non-resident. Exeter C. Chichester.... ditto ..... ditto. E. R0dd..... ..... ditto .. ... ditto. Hereford R. Wetherell ..... ditto ..... ditto. Lichfield.. F. Buick.. T. Blomfield .. ditto ..... ditto. Linc01n....... J. Pretyman ditto ..... ditto. Norwich Dr. Fisher.. Peterborough.. Dr. Strong.... ... ditto ..... ditto. Salisbury ......W. Kerrich . G. Montgomery ditto ..... ditto. H. Majendie.. St. Asaph.. ... R. Wingfield.. St. David's.... E. Griffith ..... Woreester.. ... J. Meakin ditto ..... Dr. Singleton Westminster.. Dr. Ireland Dr. Causton Canon The produce of the valuable and indispensable article of salt, at Droitwich, is likely to be considerably extended ere long, from the approachinz completion of the works of the new company. A shaft has been sunk to the depth of 165 feet, and in the course of sinking it, a rock of pure salt, of considerable depth, has been arrived at; and the workmen are now engaged in boring through the rock for the brine, upon the plan of the Artesian Wails, with the expectation that it will very shortly be met with. THE OUTBREAK AT GREENWICH NAVAL SCHOOL. — Thirteen boys of the Upper Naval Asylum Schools, Green wich, have been expelled for their insubordinate conduct on Thursday week, when they did considerable damage to the windows, &c. On Sunday last there was another outbreak, which was, however, easily repressed. The damage done on the two occasions is estimated at £lOO. 100 boys are to be added to the present number in the upper school in lieu of the girls' school, which was done away with some time since. RADICAL FALSEHOOD.—We inserted, in our last, the speech of Dr. Marsham, delivered at the Buckinghamshire Conservative Festival, a few days previous. The Morning Chronicle, the chief organ of the Leaguers, wincing under the chastisement administered by the Dr. to Anti-Corn-law agitators, thus notices his address. " Dr. Marsham's name," it says, "is not, perhaps, well known to the public. But it ought to be. Dr. Marsham is one of the greatest pluralists of the Church. We forget how many ecclesiastical sinecures he enjoys; but the sum which he pockets from the revenues of the Church amounts to somewhat about £5,000 a year." Previously to this, the League writer had made great preten sions to local knowledge of Buckinghamshire and of the speakers at this dinner. The reader will, therefore, be better able to estimate his assertions when we state, that Dr. Mar sham, of Merton, IS A LAYMAN, " and, of course, is neither pluralist, sinecurist, nor receiver of one penny of ecclesiastica l income." The lie is set afloat, however, and no doubt the Liberal papers will abound with philippics against this " clerical" assailant of the League, and the clergy generally ! Thus the game is kept up. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The adjourned special general meeting of the proprietors of this company took place on Thursday, pursuant to adjournment, at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of balloting the votes of the proprietors for and against the resolution that the lease of the Cheltenham line be confirmed, Mr. Sturge having, at the last meeting, moved that it should not be so. The directors also proposed, in case Mr. Sturge's motion should be carried, to move, as an amendment, that the line be pur chased, and upon that motion also the votes of the proprietors would have to be taken. Only two scrutineers werelappointed —Mr. Bailey, for the company, and Major Wayth, for Mr. Sturge. The voting of the proprietors was then proceeded with. Shortly after three o'clock the two scrutineers entered and delivered the following report : " We, the undersigned, being appointed scrutineers, do hereby declare that the under-mentioned have voted: — For the amendment—Presnt Proxies 234 representing 13,467 shares, and their voting amounting to 6,871 For the orig inal motion—Present, Proxies Total votes for the original motion, 352, making a majority for the amendment of 6,519 votes, representing 14,894 shares." The announcement of the numbers was received with loud A ~.cnititiflll- givinz Dowers to the directors, if they jeers. It resoiuuu.•, should think fit, to exercise the option of either leasing or purchasing the line of the Cheltenham Railway, thereby amalgamating the two lines, was agreed to, after a few ob servations from Mr. Vousley. On a resolution being put to enable the directors to carry the two previous resolutions into effect, by creating a sufficient number of shares to raise the £900,000 required, and to pay interest while the works ' were going on, Mr. Sturge said that the directors had not oower to do what they proposed. The Chairman said that id. The resolution was then carried, as was also a -n adopting the report, ordering it to be printed, and the resolutions circulated among the proprietors. resolutic INQUEST ON IRE BODY OF THE LATE MR. DIUJMMOND An inquest on the body of the late unfortunate Mr. Drum mond was held this afternoon, at the Lion and Goat Tavern, Lower Grosvenor-street. It was at first intended to hold the inquest at the private residence of Mr. Drummond, but at the requ man, the st of the amictect tarnily of the deceased )Toner ordered the inquiry to take plat tioned. tavern above-rn Shortly after four o'clock Mr. Gell, the coroner for the city and liberties of Westminster, and a respectable jury, composed of 20 inhabitant householders residing in the vi cinity, had assembled in the inquest-room. Mr. Alaule, Solicitor to the Treasury, was in attendance to watch the evidence on the part of the government. Mr. Higgs, Deputy Coroner, was also preaent to assist in wiry. The jury having been sworn in the usual form, retired to e residence of the late unfortunate gentleman to take a view of the body. On their return, The Coroner asked if any party appeared on behalf of the accused? Mr Maule saidlle appeared on behalf of the Crown The e — oTonei.--_-Not . O;1 behalf of the accused —Certainly not. .—Then, I think the inquiry will he a very uoe—it is merely to investigate into the cause of Mr. Drummond's death. Another and a more competent tri bunal will judge of motives, and the circumstances under which the act was committed. He (the coroner) had applied to the governor of Tothill-street gaol to produce the prisoner at the present inquiry, but he had refused to do so, and on that refusal being made known to Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary said the governor of the gaol had exercised a proper discretion. He (the coroner) should, therefore, proceed with the inquiry, although he was aware that Mr. Wakley bad refused to do so unless the accused was present Mr. Alanle.- The coroner at the inquiry. Policeman James Silver, A 63, was the first witness examined.—His testimony was exactly the same in all respects as that given at Bow-street, on Saturday last, when the pri soner was examined before Mr. Hall. The witness, however, added that be had since examined the ball which was ex tracted from Mr. Drummond's body, and it exactly corres ponded with the bore of the pistol - found on the prisoner. The weight of the bullet was 2 drachms and 35 grains. The ball which was extracted from the body of Mr. Drummond was here produced, and examined by the coroner and jury. By the Coroner.—The prisoner could not have been four yards from thfrdeceased at the time he fired the first pistol. He was confident that the prisoner in custody was the man who fired the pistols. The deceased party was Mr. Edward Drummond, and the prisoner at the station-house gave his name as Daniel MiNaug,hten ; he said that he was a turner, both warm when witness took them iron' me There was no person between the prisoner and deceased at the time the first pistol was tired. 7 _ nrcl I" 1-1111-P found ? Witness.--In a loose table-drawer of the prisoner's lodg ings. After I first seized the prisoner it required all my strength to prevent his escaping. Robert Hodge was next examined. This witness stated, he was passing Charing-cross at the time the prisoner It Mr. and then proceeded to detail the /rutin_ Au, circumstances of the melancholy case, which did not, how ever, in any particuular, differ from the evidence previously published. At the time the prisoner tired, he was about three yards behind the deceased. At the time Mr. Drum mond was shot there was no person near him except the prisoner. Mr. Charles Guthrie, Jun. was next called and examined. I was first called in to see the deceased about eight o'clock on Saturday evening. I remained in attendance upon him every evening until late on Tuesday night. When I saw Mr. Drummond he had a wound in the part of the abdomen which had been made to extract the bullet ; he had also another wound in the back, near the spine. It was a small unu WOULIU. The Coroner.—Did the deceased ever speak to you on the ,übject , ~...„„ him to speak. I have made the post mortem examination to-day in the presence of several medical gentlemen. The witness then read a written statement, which was of a technical character. It stated, in substance, that a serious injury had been inflicted on the abdomen, and no doubt could exist but that the death of Mr. Drummond was caused by a pistol shot. This writ ten evidence was signed by Dr. Chambers, Dr. Hume, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Bransby Cooper, and Mr. Jackson. The wit ness said the size of the wound was exceedingly small when he first examined it. It was smaller than the size of the bullet. It was made larger for the purpose of extracting the ball. It was the unanimous opinion of all the medical men that the pistol wound was the cause of death. The Coroner said he thought the evidence was so exceed ingly clear that it would not be necessary to call further evi dence. The firing of the pistol was proved, and the identity of the prisoner had also been proved. He did not object however, to further evidence if any of the jury desired it. William Parrott, footman to Mr. Drummond, proved the christian and surnames of the deceased. The Coroner.—You will now, gentlemen, consider your verdict. The jury, without leaving the room, immediately returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Daniel M'Naughten. The Coroner inquired who prosecuted ? Mr. Maule.—l attend here to-day, Sir, by directions of her Majesty's government to watch the proceedings, but not to take any part in them. I have, however, received instruc tions to prosecute the prisoner on behalf of the Crown. The Coroner.—Then you will undertake to prosecute ? Mr. Maule.—Certainly, Sir; but there is no objection to your binding over the witnesses who have given evidence to appear at the trial. The several witnesses' were then bound over in recogni sauces of £4O each, to appear at the next Old Bailey Ses sions to give evidence against the prisoner on a charge of wilful murder. The inquiry then terminated. Mr. Gurney, the short-hand writer, was in attendance to take notes. Several of the relatives of the deceased were also present. The inquiry excited the greatest interest. FINAL EXAMINATMN OP THE ASSASSIN, In consequence of the melancholy death of Mr. Drum mond, it was decided that the prisoner, who was originally remanded till Monday, the 6th of February, should be finally examined on Saturday, in order that he might be at once committed to Newgate to take his trial at the Central Cri minal Court sessions which commenced yesterday (Monday.) The prisoner was brought from Tothill.fields, between eleven and twelve o'clok, in a hackney-coach, in the custody of the chief turnkey of the prison, and was locked up in one of the cells attached to the court till the hour appointed for his examination arrived. Mr. Hall took his seat at half-past twelve. Mr. Maule appeared for the prosecution, but no legal adviser appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Cooper, the surgeon, was examined at length, but the substance of his evidence will be found in the depositions at the inquest given above. The prisoner was dressed in the same manner as at the former examination, and looked very well; his incarceration did not appear to have had the slightest effect upon his health. Throughout the whole of his examination, he seemed to pay extreme attention to what was going forward. After proof had been offered, which was legally required, Inspector Tierney stated that he had had several interviews with the prisoner in his cell, and at one of them he gave the prisoner a caution not to say anything to criminate himself, and he said I had acted towards him very fairly. I first asked him where he came from, and he said from Glasgow, but had been from there about three months, and had remained at Liverpool seven days, on his road to London, where he had since remained. He said he had been in business at Glasgow, on his own account, as a taller ; that he gave up that business, and was going into another line, but was pre vented. I said, " You have a good share of money ;" to which he replied that he had, but that he had wrought hard for it ; that he used to do the work of three ordinary men daily. I then told him I had been in Glasgow three or four months previous, and had brought back with me a prisoner of the name of Ellis, and asked him if he knew Mr. Richard son, of the Gorbals police. He said be knew him, though not intimately, but he was considered a more clever man than Miller (meaning another officer). I said I did not re collect the name of the vessel I went over in, but thought it was the British Queen. He said "No ; it must have been the Princess Royal." I then recollected that that was the name of the vessel, and told him so. I then asked whether that was the same vessel he came over in, but he said it was not ;he came in the Fire King. I next asked him whether he had ever been at Paisley? He said he had. I remarked it was a great place for shawls; and he replied they were nearly all weavers there ; but a great many of them were out of employ. I asked him whether he would take any food, and he expressed a wish to have some tea or coffee, and some coffee and bread and butter was supplied to him. In the course of the conversation I asked him whether Drummond was a Scotch name ? He said it was ; that it was the family name of the Earl of Perth ; but the title had died away. Nothing further passed that evening. Mr. Maule.—When did you see him again? Witness.—About 9 o'clock on the following morning. I then asked him whether he had taken his breakfast, and lie said he had. He also asked what o'clock it was, and 1 told him. He then asked if I would allow him to have some water to wash with, to which I consented, and sent the con stable who had remained with him all night to get it. When the constable had left, I said to the prisoner, " I suppose you will assign some reason to the magistrates this morning for the act you have committed ?" He said he would—a short one. I then told him lie might have said anything he pleased to me on the night previous after the caution I had given him. Mr. Hall here asked the prisoner whether he heard all the witness was saying ? Prisoner (nodding his head).—Yeg . , sir. Witness continued.—The prisoner then said the tories had adopted a system of persecution against him ; they followed him from place to place, and continually persecuted him. I then said, I suppose you are aware who the gentleman is you shot at. He said, " Sir Robert Peel, is it not 1" I said, " No" at the moment, but instantly recalled the word, and said, " We are not aware exactly who it is yet ;" but recol lect the caution I gave you last night, for anything you say may be used against you. The prisoner, who was sitting down at the time, looked up at me, and said, " But you won't use this or these words against me." I said, " I don't know ; I gave you a proper caution." I said nothing more, but immediately left him. Mr. Hall then told the prisoner he might make any state ment he wished, but he declined doing so. Mr. Hall then committed him to Nwgate to take his triai for wilful murder; and told him that the Sessions would commence on Monday. The prisoner, whose demeanour was extremely calm and collected, bowed respectfully to the court, and was removed from the bar. M'Naughten on Sunday maintained his usual composure through the whole day. As yet he has said nothing about being defended. The witnesses for the prosecution will go before the Grand Jury on Thursday, and the trial is expected to take place on Friday or Saturday next. The Post of yesterday says " scarcely the vestige of a doubt now exists that (and we ourselves have all along dis claimed any doubt,) the murderous bullet which closed the good, valued, and honourable life of Edward Drummond was designed by the miscreant assassin for the person of the Prime Minister ;" and the Herald says that the statement of the prisoner to the Inspector, as given in the preceding evi dence, has produced a profound and most painful sensation tiroughout the metropolis. M`Naghten looked much better on Saturday than he d on his first examination. His complexion was more clea r , and greater attention appeared to have been paid by him to his toilette. He wore a black coat, black double-breasted waistcoat, and pepper-and-salt trousers. He is of the mile dle height, rather slenderly made, and seemingly about 30 e rtof age. His hair, which is of a light brown colour, was ramped on one side, in accordance with the prevailing fashion. Fl t wniskers, which are rather lighter than his hair, are somewnat scanty. His face is of the angular form, and the expression of his countenance is not unpleasant, if we except a slight squint, which is occasionally discernible in one of his There is nothing like ferocity or even determination' in his appearance. Mr. Edward Drummond, the unfortunate !gentleman who has been hurried into eternity by the hands of the assassin M'Naughten, is believed to have been the same person who was mistaken for Sir Robert Peel, as he passed through this city, to meet her Majesty in Edinburgh, in August last.— Durham paper. FARTHER PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO WNAUGHTON, THE MURDERER the Glasgow Constitutional of Saturday.) It appears, from the statement of Mrs. Pattison, the per son with whom he lodged in Clyde-street, Anderston, that his mother. who was a dressmaker in Glasgow, died about twenty years ago, when his father took him home, and that they continued together till about ten years since, when, in consequence of frequent misunderstandings betwixt them, the seperated. M'Naughton, as already stated, then entered into business for himself, and, in the course of a few years realised about £lOOO. Two years ago he went to lodge with Mrs. Pattison, and paid the paltry sum of Is. 6d. a week for his room. He occasionally went from home for months at a time, and never gave his landlady any intimation of his departure or return. In the month of August last, as ap pears from a letter found in his chest here, his attention seems to have been attracted by an advertisement in a Lon don newspaper, wanting a partner who could advance from £BOO to £lOOO, to be embarked in a " profitable business" connected with the oil trade. He made application by letter, stating that he could advance the money, and received an swer, requesting him to go to London to treat personally in reference to the matter. Immediately after this, he ap • pears to have proceeded to London. On leaving Glasgow, his landlady states that he took no shirts nor clothes with him, and that what he left behind were mere rags. Indeed, his wardrobe had all along been of the most wretched des cription—a circumstance which is to be ascribed to the ex treme parsimony of his manners. She farther states that, about a year ago, he became very incoherent in his language, and had an uncommonly wild appearance about the eyes, which impressed her with the conviction that he was more or less insane. He Was generally very quiet—but on one occasion, when she challenged him for injuring her furniture, he got into a dreadful rage, seized her by the throat, and manifes ted such symptoms of frenzy as deepened her impression that he was labouring under insanity. He told her on another occasion, after a return from one of his wanderings, that he was so beset with devils from Glasgow that he could not get a situation. The devils, he said, were " just men from Glasgow," and, while making the complaint, he ap peared to be under great terror and alarm. In the latter end of July, or beginning of August his landlady found a pair of pistols, abo u t n i n e inches in length, upon a shelf att ac h e d t o the wall Daonfiehli,swbheadt a re you going t o d o w ith t h e pistols ?" -closet. She ex c l a i me d, " I n t h e name of God, when he replied that he was going to shoot birds with them. Her fears were excited lest he might intend to shoot herself, or some one else, a nd she asked hi m to ta k e t h em away, which he afterwards did and she had n e ver seen th em s i nce. Soon after he disappeared himself. Sinc e th e mont h o f December, 1811, he frequently lay in bed the whole day with his clothes on, reading books in science and the like, and got ~JaP about nine or ten at night, went out, and generally returned in an hour or so, saying he had walked ten miles. He then undressed and went to bed. The landlady bad no doubts latterly of his being insane, and was " wrong in the m i n d." t o w hi c h "you know nothi ng a b ou t i t. " w hich were left by M'N aug h ton i n hi s hiss o Amme usualt o i m n ge reply te h t p o el l y d b wo h oa i k m s s, lodgings are a number of French works, including a Gram mar and Dictionary, which bear marks of having been a good deal used ; a number of volumes of plays ; pamphlets relating to the currency, and other topics of public interest; volumes of travels, &e. His connection with the stage is evidenced by his being possessed of a pair of sandals of red leather, Which bear the stamp of a boot-maker in London. It has been ascertained that the pistols were made by Mr. Martin, gun-maker in Paisley, and sold by him to M`Naugh ton about the end of July last, along with a number of bul lets. The pistols not being entirely matched, M'Naughton several times called upon that point at Mr. Martin's shop, and on none of these occasions was there anything in his ap pearance or manner to indicate insanity. Among the papers found is a scrap, apparently part of a journal or diary, in which he describes his room, and every article within it, with the greatest possible minuteness. At the close of his description, he adds—" I forgot to say that there are two umbrrellas, with handles, hanging one on each side of the eight- y 'clock." ct v4 In the months May, June, and July last, he attended the anatomical lectu es of Dr. James Douglas, lecturer in the Portland street Medical School, and the ticket he then used has been found among his papers. It appears that he did not join the class till a fortnight after the regular time of opening the course, and was, consequently, so far behind the other students; but, in order to make up for this, he was in the habit of spending an hour every day in the dissecting room, studying anatomical works, and especially those por tions of them which related to that section of the science which had been expounded before he joined the class. Dur ing the session the class met five days a week, and the students were examined every Saturday. These M`Naughton did not attend, because he was unacquainted with the Latin, and could not pronounce properly ,the Latin names; but in no respect was it observed that there was anything peculiar about him, talking perfectly rationally on the subject of his study, and attending the lectures with much regularity and apparent interest. . Nothing of this looks as if he should not be.made answera ble for his crime, but as his plea of insanity will be tho roughly sifted, we refrain from any reflections on the subject. We understand that a person of the name of Daniel M`Naughton was confined in the Lunatic Asylum here some years ago. If this be the assassin, as we have heard he is, who committed the late murder, the authorities must surely be aware of the fact. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN MANCHESTER.-SIX WAREHOUSES DESTROYED. MANCHESTER MONDAY NIGHT On Saturday night the inhabitants of Market -street, Brown-street, and their immediate neighbourhood were thrown into an alarm in consequence of a fire which broke out in the extensive pile of buildings situate ,in Norfolk street, close to the Postoffice. About half-past nine o'clock a fire was discovered to have broken out in these warehouses, which has proved to be one of the most destructive conflagra tions we have had to record for sometime. The building was erected in 1836, a portion of which is in Brown-street, Essex street, and Norfolk-street. It is in the form of the letter L, was six stories high, and occupied as warehouses by Meesrs. Clayton and Gladstone, commission agents ; Messrs. Ackard and Co., general merchants; John Hayhurst, merchant; Andrew Hall, manufacturer and spinner; and Lowe and Law, yarn dealers. All these houses are extensively engaged in their respective businesses, and the stock in hand was very considerable. The warehouses, at th e ti me of the conflagration, were crowded to the ceiling with calicoes , yarns, counterpanea, fire originated on th e secon d floor, in ladstone's ware h ouse. By eleven o'clock the flames had so f ar p rogresse d as to Messrs. damasks , y c .tonT andh e G leave little hopes of preserving the building, which, at one o'clock, was one mas s of lurid blaze. The flames having reached the upper part of the building, where the goods were of a more inflammatory nature, raged w ith great fury, and about half-past ele ven the whole roof was on fire, and shortly fell in with a most tremendous crash, carrying with it two of the upper floors. The cellars we re densely filled with calicoes, a gr ea t port i on though not without • of which was saved, considerable injury and some of the men engage d were seriously injured, many o them much burned.. All hopes of saving the building being now at an end, the attention of the firemen was directed to the preservation of another building, which completed the square, two sides of which were formed by the building on fire. The building saved was occupied on the ground floor by Mr. John HonaPson and J. Sewill, Esq., as a discount bank, in w hi c h there was much valuable treasure. The be estimatedless than £30,000, including the cannot at ing the building. The whole of the losses, we understand, will be covered by insurances. We are happy to state that no lives have been sacrifised although much danger was appre hended from the falling in of the walls. FIRE AT LORD HILLSBOROUGH'S RESIDENCE (From the Observer.) On Saturday, at a quarter before six o'clock in the morn ing, a fire brokeoutin LonordtheHsilolusbth side,orough and four'smansio mansion, 15, Upper Grosvenor-street, q Bart.,ua r e , h e man sionwithfm r 0 att h re rseos Lei n t h t .. o uz c s u t p c i c e -.. c r i n b e y r s o i f r G G r . o L s v a e r n p ° en r- t s , his family, had started but half a n h our b efore for Bristol, to visit a sick daughter. The fire was first discovered by police constable C 62, who immediately sprung his rattle, and commenced giving an alarm ; but before he could successfully do so a thick body of flames burst through the second floor windows; and so rapidly did the fire extend over the splendid building, that the exertions of those persons who first assembled to reseue any portion of the costly furniture, Sze., weae altogether un availing. Several engines were soon on the spot, but, owing to a want of water, some time elapsed before they could be put into operation. By this time the flames were spreading through the lower part of the premises, and the glare of the conflagration might haue been seen for several miles distant. A more plentiful supply of water was shortly after obtained, and the effect of the engines began to be visible in arresting the progress of the flames to the adjoining houses. Shortly before seven o'clock the roof fell in, carrying the back floors with it, with a tremendous crash ; but the second and draw ing-room floors in front still remained. About eight o'clock a second crash was heard, and instantaneously the front floor ings also gave way, carrying with them two men (Brigade men M'Leau and Goddard, who had carried up the branches of two engines into the drawing -room) into the ball under neath. Active measures were immediately taken to clear the entranee to the hall, which being effected, Goddard was the first that was got out, and, on his being removed, M'Lean was discovered lying close to the same spot. The former on examination. was found to be comparitively but slightly injured, while the latter was burned all over, and appaared in a very exhausted state. M'Lean was immediately con veyed to St. George's Hospital, where every attention was paid him by Mr. Pollock, the house-surgeon. He is dread fully burned about the lower extremities, and his face and left hand are completely blackened by the force of the fire, every particje of skin having been burnt from it up to the wrist. Goddard was also conveyed in a cab to his apart ments at the engine station in George-yard. Crown-street, where every attention was immediately paid to him. Sir G. Larpent had only occupied the mansion (which comprised 26 rooms, besides capacious offices) five weeks, having taken it for six months, during the stay of the noble owner and family at Bexley-hall, Atherstone, Warwickshire. On Friday Sir G. Larpent received an express, via' Bristol, from Ireland, with information that his daughter, who is re siding there, had, subsequently to her accouchement, been seized with an alarming attack of scarlet fever, and he im mediately gave orders for the departure of himself, Lady Larpent, and family, for Bristol, vie/ the Great Western Railway, by the six o'clock train on Saturday morning. The household were in consequence up nearly the whole of the night engaged in making preparations, and about a quarter past 5 o'clock Sir George and Lady Larpent, having par taken of coffee, &e., left the house in their carriage for the Paddington terminus, whence they departed by the train, unconscious that their residence was at that moment en veloped in flames. How the fire originated cannot at present be ascertained. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the firemen succeeded in extricating from the smouldering mass a massive iron -chest, supposed to contain Sir G. Larpent's plate, Sze.: which was removed for security to the residence of the Marquis of Downshire, in Hanover-square. The Earl of Hillshsrough's mansion is insured in the Westminster Fire-office for nearly £5,000. The late Coun tess of Carysfort's mansion is, with the furniture, insured to the extent of £7,000 in the County-fire office. It has been just taken by the Lord Chancellor (Lord Cottenham), whose servants took possession only on the previous evening. It is, however, but slightly damaged by the fire, although the effects of the water will prevent its being occupied by his Lordship's family for some days. Mr. Lyon's mansion (No. 44) is insured in the Alliance Fire-office, but the damage done to ft is principally confined to the roof and the effects of the water. _ _ _ On inquiry at a late hour on Saturday night at St. George's Hospital as to the state of the poor fireman, M'Lean, we learned that he was in a very precarious state, and fears were entertained that the excitement occasioned to his system by the nature of the f ear ! u l i n j ur i e s he has received may pro duce inflammation, th e conseq uence of which will most pro bably be fatal. He was, however, perfectly sensible, and had been several times v i s it e d by Foggo and others of his officers. There is a man in St. Andrews who is so great a liar that he even lies When he's asleep. - - - - A down-easter has invented a patent coat which he can al ternately turn into a hat, vest, or pantaloons, as occasion re quires—at least it is said so. THEATRE.ROYAL, WILLIAMSON•SQVARE. Mr. RAYNER ftnd Mr. STUART., : , :,' Second Night of THE TEMPEST.' Last Week of the COMIC PANTOMIMI THIS present TUESDAY EVENING:IIIe 31st instant, will be performed Sbakspeare's Pla)i-Of THE TP,MPEST. With New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, 8,-c To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Zbe Eiberpoet ;t.tanitarb. KING IN N pnfiprpA Soul 14 NI want to ti tant, ar average assets and Ea G Ipnrl 11 fford for w York TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1843 It is really a rich sight to witness the utter con fusion which reigns just now in the camp of the free trade opposition. On the one hand, we have Mr. Richard Cobden and his congregated noodles, " tear ing passion to tatters," and shouting " repeal" at the top of their 'lungs. Then we have a repealer of ano ther sort, sitting sore and sulky in his den in Dublin— watching, with fishy eyes, the gold as it drops into the begging-box of the League, whilst he hands round his own empty wallet, and whines his " date obolum," in the ears of the shirtless and shoeless, who compose hts morning levees. Next comes the Pahnerstonian sec tion, represented by the Morning Chronicle, building . their hopes upon foreign embroilments, and clinging to their fixed-duty proposition and their sugar budget. Then the enlightened aristocratic whig party, pro claiming, through the columns of the Globe, that their free trade consists in reciprocity treaties. Added to these—mingled with them—we have the complete suffrage men; and last, the Chartists, led on by that profound aristocratic leveller, Mr. Thomas Duncombe. A pretty lot, truly ! An agreeable confraternity ! A crew about as well calculated to man a first-rater in a gale of wind, and bring her to a safe anchorage, as any similar number of land-lubbers and sea-lubbers, land-sharks and sea-sharks, half pirates and whole horse-marines, you could pick up in Ratcliffe-highway, Rotherhithe, St. Giles's, or the Mint. Anti yet our amiable contemporaries talk of the dissensions of Conservatives ! picture the premier worried on one side by the farmer's friends, snapped at on another by the mighty men of the League, and pressed, from behind, by free traders within his own cabinet ! That cabinet, they would persuade us, is a chaos of conflicting opinions. The Conservative pha lanx by whom it is supported in power is a rope of sand;—worse, a discordant band of hostile elements. Gentlemen, we ask you to wait one week to have proved to you the fallacy and the folly of your asser tions and prognostications; and in the mean time we should be happy if you would point out to us one dozen members of your party in the House of Com mons who could hang together for as many days, upon any other question, but some such merely fac tious and speculative question as that which may pos sibly be concocted by Lord John Russell as the groundwork for a division on the address to the throne, or a debate, of a week or so in length, about every thing and every body under the sun ! What a government would that be, which could be made up out of such choice materials ! Why its very first attempt to grapple practically with any of those great questions which agitate the community would be a farce as ludicrous as an attempt to stop a 64 H. ball with a china punch-bowl, or cog the wheels of a loco motive, steaming it at the rate of thirty miles an hour, with an eye-glass or a lady's fan ! The ricketty thing would drop to pieces with its own weight, or be blown to pieces by the first opponent who sneezed or coughed in its puny face ! We have succeeded, at some expenditure of pa tience, in wading through the mass of blockheadism perpetrated on Wednesday last by the members of that distinguished body, the Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association ; and slightly indeed have we been re warded. A discovery of that venerable patriot and scold—Colonel Williams —that Mr. Cobden is "worthy of a diadem ;" an assertion of Mr. Charles Holland, that the tariff of Sir Robert Peel has effected nothing for the commerce of the country or the promotion of the comforts of the people; and a complaint of a very chivalrous young gentleman—Mr. F. Boult, jun.— that he and his fellow anti-monopolists can " find nobody to fight with ;" are the only novelties we can . discover. We mu s t en d eavour to qu i et the minds of these three most talented personages ; and first, turn we to the gallant soldier. We regret much that we can discover little chance of a diadem for his distinguished friend, the great o'Cobden ; but the next best thing to that ornamental head-gear is quite within his reach, and, if the worthy colonel is sincere in his professions, will not be denied to such deserving. Let our venerable acquaintance resign to his use his beloved white ducks, and his pro togee would be from thenceforth irresistible in the House of Commons, or an any platform within these realms. The unsullied purity—the shadow even—of those venerable garments, encasing the lower extre mities of the member for Stockport, as he trod the floor of St. Stephens', would " Strike more terror to the heart of Peel, Than could the substance of ten thousand leaguers." What can we say of the unadulterated folly displayed in the assertion of Mr. Charles Holland ? " The tariff of Sir Robert Peel has done nothing for the commerce of the country or the comforts of the con suming classes." Assume for a moment that it has done nothing for the commerce or the consumers of the country. It has at least done this. It has shewn to his fellow-townsmen what a charlatan was a certain Charles Holland, who, some eighteen months ago, was wont to expatiate, at Whig gatherings in Liver pool, upon the wonderful results which would flow from the adoption, by whig statesmen, of measures not one-tenth part so comprehensive as the tariff in ques tion! But this tariff has done " nothing for corn merce"—nothing for the consuming classes : has it not, most veracious philosopher ? Oh, Charles, Charles—. what strange absurdities men commit—what staange assertions they hazard—when their eyes are blinded by partizan spite, and their weak intellects addled by overweening self-conceit ! In mercy, we pass over the sillinesses of Mr. Francis Boult, jun., and proceed to remark upon the universal genius displayed on the occasion before us, by Mr. Thomas Blackburn. Let it not from henceforth be imagined that, to a great man, there is any incom patibility between a perfect knowledge of the particu lar art which he professes—be it surgery, midwifery, chemistry, astronomy, or the science of thimble-rig or pricking the garter—and the trade or craft exercised by other men, however apparently irreconcileable in ,character. The worthy doctor is no doubt profoundly skilled in surgery and the materia medica ; has Gregory and Celsus at his finger ends, and the phar macopoeia by heart. He is learned as a pundit upon the subject of education. He has just assured the world that he knows all the ins and outs of the science of commercial and financial legislation; and we have not a doubt, should ever such questions be agitated, that he could discourse learnedly upon the subject of the orthodox mode of patching a pair of unmention ables, cobbling a shoe, tinkering a kettle, or making Scotch brose. Should our worthy mayor ever be pushed for aid in the culinary department of the Town-hall, he may depend upon it the doctor's the man whose aid he may safely put in requisition. Should it ever be found desirable to drive a tunnel under the Mersey, Blackburn, not Brunel, is the man to drive it. Nothing is too great, nothing too humble and insignificant, to escape the comprehension of his mighty mind. Well, then, we have before us the doctor's views upon the subject of free trade. He would have unre stricted, universal freedom of commerce between Great Britain and other nations. He would wait for no re ciprocity on the part of foreign countries; but at once invite that reciprocity by opening the markets of Great Britain to all countries alike, AT EQUAL DUTIES. It will be said, this is free trade—the true free trade. There is at least nothing one-sided here. Not so fast, good reader ! at least examine the proposition awhile before you decide. The doctor tells you that he will open your markets to all countries alike—allowing no preference to your colonies—on payment of equal duties. But those colonies now favour the importation of British goods by discriminating duties. Are you willing to throw open the markets, which they afford, to your foreign rivals ? You must do so, or your boasted free trade is one-sided ! Again the agricul turist is to have no protection. There are to be no duties upon the commodities which he produces; and you cannot, therefore, tax any article which the agri culturist consumes—you cannot tax his clothing, his cottons, silks, hat, shoes, boots, stockings, glovet:, lace, &c.—for there your free trade would be one-._ He must be permitted to go to the cheapest market for these necessaries, as you do for your food. A-- prepared for such a free trade ? Again the doctor cries, "No monopoiy !" Yet he is a monopolist ; for the world maintain to-morrow that no man who is not a licentiate of the Apothecaries Company and a membe r of the Royal College of Surgeons has a right to bleed and blister, mangle or set a leg, give a pill or a draught, purge or poison any luckless being in these realms. You may import your singers, your artists, your - actors, your dancers and fiddlers, from the cheapest or the dearest market, at pleasure ; but doctors are prohibited, and, if caught exercising their art in Great Britain, are declared contraband! Are you There is really, when you come to examine it, vast absurdity and infinite injustice in this perfect (!) theory of universal free trade, as prated about by such smat terers as our learned doctor and his anti-monopoly friends. For only concede what they demand ; sweep away our entire fiscal code ; let the right to exchange freely with foreign countries every commodity be recognised; let us have no customs duties, which are all taxes upOn food or articles of necessity or comfort ; let us have nothing in the shape of a duty to restrict our dealings with the cheap markets of other countries: —how, let us ask the philosophers of the League, is the revenue of Great Britain to be raised ? - Are we to have direct taxation—a poll tax—a more stringent income and property tax—increased window taxes—an inhabited house duty, or what ? Will they oblige us at their grand display to-night with a reply ? Will they tell us how they mean to patch up the dilapidated revenue, which the success of their mad schemes would create ? Is the debt to be sponged out ? Or what is to be done ? We submit to these gentlemen—" all honourable men"—all talented men—that these ques tions it is their duty to solve; and we cannot conceive an opportunity more favourable than is offered by the Amphitheatrical conglomeration of all the wisdom of the nation, which is to be exhibited this day. In conclusion, we hasten to correct an error into which we have fallen in the course of these remarks. We have said, in effect, that there was no undertaking so mighty as to be beyond the reach of the eminent abilities or conceit of Doctor Blackburn. There is one such undertaking—one such office. It is the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the duty of providing for the wants of the State, and the claims of the national creditor, after the adoption of universal free trade. But perhaps those gentlemen who exhibit such violent longings for increased commercial intercourse with America, accompanied with no peculiar distaste to her republican institutions, would not have any inordinate dislike to imitate her mode of settling with her public creditors ! There is one department, —and that a .most import ant one, of the business of the Dock Committee of Li verpool, which is conducted in a manner to us per fectly inexplicable. We have had repeated occasion to refer to it, and we need scarcely explain that we allude to the Engineering Department of that Committee. With the knowledge which we possess of the duties of the Dock Committee, we must confess that we have viewed with some dislike and surprise a portion of their proceedings on Thursday last, with respect to the exca vation of Albert Dock. By a reference to our Friday's publication it will be seen that " the Sub-committee of Works reported that Messrs. John Orrelll and Co. had relinquished their contract for excavating Albert Dock, and recommended that an offer to make the excavation from Mr. John Waring be accepted." Where, pray, is such a system as we have described to be recognized in the course of proceeding here revealed ? Messrs. John Orrell and Co. relinquish their contract. Why ? They had discovered, we are informed by the Chair man, " a mistake in their calculations, in consequence of which they stated that they could not afford to do the work." We are told, moreover, by the same gen tleman, that " if they took the work they would sustain a loss of £4OOO or £5000." But where, we ask, are their sureties ? What, asks Mr. Tobin, becomes of the penalty for the non-fulfilment of their contract ? To both these questions the reply is perfectly conclu sive : no contract has been signed ! Really 3 really, this is a very loose way of doing things ; a very haphazard way . orletting the execution of any important work ; for such the excavation in question must be considered, when an oversight to cal culation could make the difference of four to five thou sand pounds in its cost. LOCAL NEWS. LIVERPOOL. BOROUGH SESSIONS.—An intermediate ses sions of the peace will be held on Monday next before the Recorder The calendar will contain about 120 prisoners for trial. EUTERPEON.—This fine instrument at Mr. Child's, con tinues to attract crowds of visitors, who all express their de light at listening to its powerful music. There are at present six barrels which play a great number of tunes, besides overtures to Massaniello, Semiramide, and Der Freischutz. BANK OF •MANCHESTER.—The adjourned special meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Manchester is announced to be held on Monday next, when in all probability some de cisive step will be taken with regard to the business of that mismanaged establishment. MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I.—Yesterday being the anniversary of this memorable event, the service ap pointed for the day was read at the parish church of St. Nicholas, in this town, and the Rev. Thomas M`Gill preached an admirable and suitable sermon on the occasion. WILLMER AND SMITH'S EITROPEAN TIMES.—This is the title of a newspaper expressly adapted for readers on the other side of the Atlantic, and published on the morning of the sailing of the steamer. The second number will appear on Saturday next, prepared for the Acadia, which sails that day ; and we imagine that those who have friends in the western world, could not send them a more acceptable remembrance than one of these papers. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—APPOINTME NT FOR THE SPRING ASSIZES, 1843.—Judges :—Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Coltman, and Mr. Baron Rolfe Lancaster.....yiir.. . . Wednesday... Wednesday lst Ma rc h Ist March. Appleby .... .. Wednesday Bth March Carlisle . . . . .. Saturday llth March Newcastle . . . . Saturday lBth March, Liverpool . . . . Wednesday 22d March, Durban 1.... . . . Saturday 25th March THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING. -At the Stock Ex. change to-day business has not taken an extensive range, though quotations were steadily supported. Consols for money and the account closed at 94 to ; Bank Stock, 1721 to 1731 ' • Exchequer Bills, 635. to 65 5 . prem. ; India Stock, 263 to 264 ' • India Bonds, 60s. to 61 s . prem i um ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 95f, ; Three-and-a -Half per Cents. Re duced, 102 , New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011 to 4 ; and Long Annuities, 13. In forei gn secur i t i es, Spanish Actives were quoted 18:1 to 19 ; ditto New, 231 to 24 ; Por tuguese Converted, 36 to 1; M ex i can, 3 11 to n ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 to 3 ; D u t c h Fi ve per Cents., 1031 ; Colombian, 23;a- to ; Brazilian 74 to 75 ; and Belgian, 1031 to lon. TOWN Couscm.—The usual monthly meeting of the council will take place to-morrow, but the proceedings for consideration do not appear to comprise matters of more than ordinary interest. The principal subjects appear to be, the proceedings of the Paid Offi cers ' C omm i ttee on the legal question relating to the office of Serjeant-at-Mace, and " the laying a watch-rate upon the parish of Liverpool, the town ships of Kirkdale and Everton, and those parts of the town ships of West Derby and Toxteth-park which are within the borough," from the infliction of which we confidently hope the council will spare us. We perceive that Mr. Thomas Boothby is recommended as inspector of hackney coaches, Mr. Thomas Ashbrooke as assistant clerk in the Treasurer's office, and Mr. Robert Topping as Mr. Shuttleworth's prin cipal clerk. We believe the new arrangement recommended by the Paid Officers' Committee, for adoption in the Town. clerk's office, will come into operation the week after next. THE DEAD ALIVE.—UNEXPECTED RESURRECTION.—A man sailed from this port about fourteen months ago as steward of a vessel, bound to Calcutta, having a short time previous to his departure taken to himself a wife, He left with a mercantile firm in the town a sum of £4O, and about two months ago his affectionate spouse called upon them in great affliction for the money, stating thet she had received intelligence of his having died abroad. They declined to comply with her request until they had some evidence of the fact alleged ; but the disconsolate widow took out letters of administration and compelled them to surrender what pro perty they held of her deceased husband. The accounts were accordingly settled ; but on Monday, letters were re ceived announcing his arrival in London, and that he should be in Liverpool in a day or two. Whether the meeting be tween the happy pair would be a joyful one to the wife on account of his resuscitation, or the husband on account of the loss of his money, is a point which must be left to time to decide. FIRE.—On Sunday morning, at about half-past one o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the spirit vaults (a shop) occupied by Mr. Thomas Ilignett, Cockspur. street, corner of Westmoreland-street. No one was on the premises at the time, and the flames, from the combustible nature of the interior, speedily assumed a very menacing ap pearance. The alarm was given, and in a very short time two engines and four water-carts with a strong body of fire police under Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, reached the spot, though not until the flames had burst through the windows and doors and spread half across the street. By great exer tions the fire was completely got under in about an hour, the loss being co n fi ne d c hi e fl y to t h e groun d fl oor or shop, which was entirely gutted of its woodwork, the stock in the casks, &c. The premises are three stories high from the ground, and the upper two were saved. The effect of the fire on the pannelled woodwork and frames of the doors and window s , &c., in the s h op part was remar k a bl e , muc h o f it being left in a charred state, resembling curious and regularly waved carved work, running in a direction with the grain of the wood. A. considerable quantity of spirits in casks and kegs —and which greatly added to the fierceness of the blaze--- was consumed, as also the fixtures, only fragments of which in a charred state now remain. The origin of the fire is not yet known, but an opinion is entertained that it arose from an escapement of gas. The premises were we understand insured. SITDD7.N DLATI33.-011 Saturcia, Esq., Coroner, inquests were told on the miies of two in fants, Catherine Smith, Eleven woe!:uhi, ‘v,s found dead bed on Ft fore P. F. Cap' ay mom e Wn) it appeared that the dee( Whitehouse, seven weeks old, died suddenly on Thursday The post mortem examination showed that death had 1.(,. suited horn disease of the lungs. V;trdiets were returned la both cases accordant with the evidence. —We have reason to believe that the in , out the militia this year is to supersede, by the due equipment and discipline of that constitutional force, the county constabulary. The staff of each regiment will be stationed at Lancaster, Liverpool, :ind Preston, and the three, regiments will combine and as enable for a short period 01 permanent duty some time in May. The officers of each re' giment Are determined to do the thing with spirit, and hav e made most liberal arrangements fur music, &c., and other requisites to military parade and grandeur. • Sc IcinE.—On Friday morning last, at half-past nin e o'clock Louis Lapbenburg, who lodged at the house of Mr. Wilkinson, Union-street, was found lying dead on his bed room floor, in the midst of a pool of blood. Near him wa, s a razor, with which he had cut his throat, or, more proper l y speaking, nearly severed his head from his body. Alm .inque st was held on the case on Saturday. It appeared that the de; ceased went to bed, on Thursday night, in his usual g 0 01; health. He had lodged at Mr. Wilkinson's a fortnight, an d had been frequently observed to be in a state of apparent, despondency. The jury found that the deceased destroy ed himself during a fit of temporary insanity. THE MILITIA. tention in callinz MARK or ESTEEM.—About fifty young gentlemen, for merly students in Kingston College, have united in a volun tary subscription to present to the Rev. J. H. Brown, M.A.: of Liverpool, and late vice-principal and mathematical and classical tutor in the above college, an elegant silver salver , (manufactured by Mr. B. Jacobs,) and bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to the Rev. John Henry Brown: M.A. by the pupils, late of Kingston College, in grateful acknowledgment of his kindness and services to them while" vice-principal of that institution. Hull, 18th January, 1843. —(Eastern Counties Herald.) Mr. Brown is the Head Master of the Middle School, in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. ROBBING A CHILD.—STREET ROBBERY.-A m an re spectably attired named John Edwards, alias John Pritchard , was placed at the bar of the police -court yesterday on a charge of having stolen a basket containing provisions, from Mary Ann Wilson, a child about ten years old. It appeared that the girl had been sent by her parents, who reside in Spading street, between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday night, t° buy some provisions, and she was on her return with a bas ket containing a loaf, half an ounce of tea, and some sugar and butter, when she was met by the prisoner at the corner of Kent-street. Ile asked her what she had in the basket , and she replied that she had been buying the provisions for the week. On hearing this he immediately charged her w ith having stolen the articles from M'Caskey' s s h o p, an d taking the basket forcibly from her he ran off with it. A sailor be longing to the steam ship Acadia, and another man, tortu nately witnessed the occurrence, and pursuing the prisoner , apprehended him in Frederick-street. The prisoner, in an' swer to the charge, said he was not the man. Mr. Rushton said this was a most cruel robbery ; the whole of the week's provisions for a poor family had been stolen, and there could be no doubt he was the thief. The prisoner was then com mitted to take his trial at the ensuing sessions. THE WORKHOUSE.—ProbabIy some :of our readers rnaY have been surprised that we have taken no part in the dis cussion in which some of our contemporaries have recently indulged, with reference to alleged insubordination and hal' morality in the workhouse in this town. We have purposely abstained from doing so as we have ascertained that an quiry into the whole of the circumstances is now p en ding i before the select vestry and we shall, until thei r r e port s published (which we understand will be in the course of a few days), maintain the silence we have hitherto observed . We may, however, remark (as the result of our own obser vation) with reference to the general conduct of the chaplain who is spoken of by our contemporary the Journal in lan guage most uncalled for and disreputable, that Mr. Cragg manifests the greatest solicitude for the spiritual welfare of the inhrbitants of the workhouse, and we assent, and can be borne out in the assertion by every one who has taken the trouble to enquire into the circumstances that the exertion s of :that gentleman have been productive of incalculable benefit to numbers of the inmates but it can never be expec ted that he can exercise the same control over them as maY,_ be used in a gaol, becasue the discipline i n the l a tt er i s much more stringent. It is perhaps necessary to remark that the story about the refusai to give one of the paupers a is a gratuitous falsehood. The man referred to had a bibl e belonging to the institution, in his bedroo m , a t th e momen', he preferred his request for another (for reasons which he can best explain). The authorities of the workhouse never we understand, refused to comply. We will, ho.\ ever, Wai t patiently, and perhaps when the case is thoroughly sifted our radical friends will ffnd much less cause to chuckle than they exhibit at present. STABBING IN THE STREETS.—Yesterday Frederick Ken' dal and Mary Robinson were examined at the Police-court , on a charge of having stabbed a youth named Edgar Sandal's, fifteen years of age. The complainant and his brother wer e passing along Warwick-street, on their way home in Teal, perance-court, Heath-street, Toxteth-park, about half-pa" eight o'clock on Sunday night, when he saw the two prisoner s sitting on a step together. The boys looked at them for moment as they were passing; and the male prisoner asked them what they were looking at. They replied, " Nothing at all ;" and without any provocation the male prisoner at tempted to strike them. The female prisoner, on seeing th e attempt, cried out, " Out with your knife." and at the sam e moment offered her companion a brick to throw at the boYs' but instead of taking it, he drew his knife and stabbed the complainant in the left hip. A policeman was called, Nl° apprehended the girl, but the male prisoner made his escape ,; arid was not taken for two hours a ft erwar d s . Th e woun d was examined by Mr. Caw, surgeon, and he stated that it was about an inch and a half in length, superficial, and n° l dangerous. The female prisoner made no d e f ence ; Kendal, in; answer to the charge, said he had not been oat of his mother's house from four o'clock in the afternoon ; b e called his mother to prove this statement, and, in answer t°,, the first ques ti on put t o h er , s h e sa id h e did not arr i v e " home till nearly nine o'clock. Robinson, after being severely reprimanded by Mr. Rushton, was convicted in the penal! ) : of £3 and costs for the assault, in default of payment to be i n m o p u ri s s e o o n f ed co t w rr o ec m ti o o n n t a h t s ki a r i k r d da K ie e t n o da ta l k u e •a h s is co t m ria m l i a t t te t c h l ie to th e net assizes. „ STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY. —The annual meeunt , .,, °l ~ this society was held on Friday, at the Charitable InstitutT, House, Slater -street. The report stated, that in the ea r 'j c part of the year, the season being rather inclement, an d wor t scarce, the exertions of the visiters were called into ge e !, activity, from the very numerous cases of distress and sickness recommended to their notice by the subscribers generabYj A very large number were, consequently, visited and relieve to the utmost ability of the society. 61,080 quarts of the greater part of which was generously granted by the So °p were distributed i n th e most care f u l an d j u dicio manner; and a great number of special cases were particl larly recomme n d e d t o th e S e l ect V estry, wh i ch were generatle attended to with promptitude and kindness on their part : tP t able-bodied were recommended and directed to the likelie, g quarters in whi c h emp l oymen t m i g h t, at least for a time , e obtained, and the sick and the dying encouraged to look aa„ l i . Him who cloth not despise the de s i res o f th e sorrow f u l, o vi v o the sighings of the contrite. At least seven hundred vvid°,, e and fifte en h un d re d fatherless children have part a ken of r e bounty of the s u p por t ers o f t hi s c h ar i ty during the last twel ve months, many of w h om h ave b een f oun d i n deplora bl e e!t , 1 „ cumstances of poverty and affliction, but who have haplo o 'f learnt th a t th ere are hearts who can feel for the woes ds others, and w h o are w illi ng to do something, at least, towa rd their allevi a ti on. ” U pon reference to the Treasurer ' s reP° „ it will be seen t h at the total income of the society does nit much fall short of that of previous years, which, however , „/ would have d one — ow i ng to the d ecease and remova l several subscribers and donors—but for the timely soP I9 l e afforded by th e payment of two handsome legacies, t h e ?0 er of £l5O f rom th e l ate M rs. Elizabeth Johnson and the ot n of £lOO f rom t h e l ate William Lawson, Esq., , e both of !Pa warm friends and firm supporters of the Strangers' Fr . e% Society f or many years. After the distribution by the visit ors, ending 21 s t December, the Treasurer has a balance in 1 0 0 of £64. 18s. 3d., a sum, however, only equal, in this se a , s° of the year, to meet the usual calls for a very short time. TESTIMONIAL TO Mit. CROWE.—On Tuesday eveni n g, the inhabit an t s o f Ed ge -hill were favoured with an oPI),1 tunity of witnessing the effects of the Wilhem sYsten'ar• vocal music, lately introduced into this town and neighbo hood, by Mr. Crowe. The pupils of the adult class, w . he have just completed their course of instruction under, l' o g able and efficient direction of that gentleman, concel v : he that they were under great obligations to the trustees for Ill y free use of the National School, which had been so kit it lent for their accommodation for upwards of six monthsTrt. desirous of manifesting their gratitude by giving a C" e er fur the benefit of the schools. The Rev. Frederick B ark t he presided. The a tt en d ance consisted of the elite of ea neighbourhood, i nc l u di ng C harles Lawrence, Esq., tid party, Mrs. Earle of Spekelands and party, Mrs. Barkers party, Mr s . D. Willi s, Mr. and Mrs. Dirom, Mr. and INI; Houghton, &c., to ge th er w i t h several clergymen belorig`., oo ( 1 to the to wn an d ne i ghbourhood. The room was well 1;1:0 most respectably filled. On thi s occas i on th e Edge - 03 , class was ve r y effi c i ent l y supported by a considerable o ° 4 ber of the members of the Cornwallis-street class who 11:06 kindly offered th e i r ass i stance for the occasion. There Was also a number of children from the different schools W l ' Mr. Crowe has established his classes, who went throult,o their exercises with credit to themselves and satisfactio rl ier the audience. The performance consisted of a se te ts, tion of sacred and secular music, • including 13 , — a s• madrigals, &c., which were executed in a vigorous and In terly style. Before singing the national anthem, which on to conclude the evening ' s performances, the rev. chaire l ' n o in an appropriate and feling speech, presented to Mr. C i fr o at two splendidly bound volumes, as a token of respect, ' f a u lt the pupils of the Edge-hill and Cornwallis-street ,e„, e l classses ; one was the Manuel, or" Wilhem's System of Music," bound in vellum, and most chastely and tnag i ' t he cently illuminated : th e ot h er contained a selection 0' at, songs, duet s , t r i os , &c., of that great master of the "itit Handel, bound together in one massive volume, covere d p vi re: red moro cca , an d most elegantly decorated. Mr. Cr°w-A4 ceived the p resent with mingled feelin gs o f em otion - ag e pleasure, a n d i n very affectionate and appropriate languey returned thanks to his pupils for this mark of their est e h e ee tt We are very much gratified to learn that Mr. Crowe has 1 a • appointed instru c t or i n vocal music at the Collegiate stitution. b of ti T r t t li h h e e E n N, A e SIIBUR u p o TON PAC KET S HlP. —Thi s sp l en did e . ef i e , ship, whi c h arr i ved here on Sunday, is thus described iaoo a w n d Y c o a r n k c a p i a T p y e r fo s ' rry " fi S rs h t e construction of thi s s hi p, her owner e s and others ass every modern i m p rovement in spip building, and have stir ee the is and ns seleven passengers ha have. e. ado i o n t ; Litt l out a ne w pat h i n the arrangements and decorations °I in, cabins. About her hull are to be seen the beauty and e r Yi e l‘, rnetry of the R osc i us, Siddons, Stephen Whitney, Ge r sod Sheridan, and New York, with their flattish bottoms ea rs poop decks, as introduced by Mr. E. K. Cellins a few Ytiove ago. On deck we noticed the same excellent accommod a t ot for cows, pigs, poultry, and sheep, so necessary at se a b o ilt• were introduced onboard the Cambridge when she was . for e In between decks there is plenty of cargo room, aann in ,,,' ore' and aft, equal to three thousand bales of cotton, or for 1, 4 In between decks also there are large berths and clear.a,..aot the steerage passengers, so much needed by the poor enliz?„, 0 0( 1 , Down in the hold is a water tank that will take four thaS c ola, gallons of water feom the Croton, and keep it pure 6rle all the time. In the bows of the ship the sailor svl" cre eP every thing dry and comfortable, and warm berths ts' w ipa' into after a f a ti gu i ng day ' s work on deck in a bale of a OP Added to these, there are plenty of boats, inCludief, n efe f boat, to use in case of emergency, which we trust will he occurr. But her captain wisely thinks that it is bes a t ie t : s to prepared for every contingency. " It is, perhaps, ne e o .. a tieft , give a full description of the cabins. So far as the dec , ut ifo! go, it is perhaps enough to say, that they are very be au del l ; and in the style of Louis XIV. of France. There ? co o are cacy about the finish that is really fine. In the winu to n panes of richly stained glass, with psrtraits of Ashbur_ e so f Western in the ladies' cabin, and the cotte ara England and America in the gentlemen's cabin• o f:, use d mahogany, bird's-eye maples, and satin wood, usa f,a ta t : , sides painted, as in the cabins of the Great Western, wilds in the cabins of our packets, have been discarded , w e r t b 0 00 tional sketches, not including, however, the little I, _ to u r ai eoifa the doors. All, excepting these Cupids, is in the,e,! :ta io a: ‘ ,l ration of the recent treaty of peace between Great tiow! . ., e the United States. In the state room, the berths al e co!, up as in the Stephen Whitney, and the entrances to:tut-00_00i a la Anglais. They connect by doors, so that,. a nd 1 :0 in crossing the Atlantic, can have a suite of rooln° l9 ,,, r eeav be separated night or day, which is not the most " thing in the world.