The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. The patron of St. David's Church is, we believe, George Earns den, Esq. •We have noticed the remarks of the Tim e : on the alleged de crease of pauperism, but the government returns on the sub ect are so artfully "cooked" that no corre 3 deductions can be made from them. A very intelligent correspondent in London. who has devoted years to the examination of par liamentary tables says, "The returns of th poor-law reports are so artfully drawn up, that the cost of the poor is mixed with workhouse loans, salaries, and other expenses connected with the establishments, and it is from these the decreiise has arisen, and not from the actual cost of pannfirism." We certainly cannot recomme ui " A Young Tory" to join the society to which he refers, hut it is quite competent for the Conservatives to organise a similar association, which w uid, probably, outstrip its competitor. Would it not, however, be more constitutional to effect the same ends by more • private means? Ebt Eiberpool gPtanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1850. THE proceedings of the Town Council, on Wednesday last, although, perhaps, a little too lively in their tone, as often happens when men are in earnest, manifest an awakening of that body to a sense of its duties and its importance, ueou which we cannot refrain from congratulating our fellow-townsmen. We have on previous occasions expressed our opinion that the Council deferred a little too much to the recommendations of commit tees, and that it was most desirable that every question affecting the great estate placed under its management should be carefully weighed in all its bearings by every individual member before it receives the confirmation of he collective body. It is for the want of this careful attention to the details and merits of every question that gentlemen are continually driven to deplore the effect of measures, the initiation of which either received their full sanction, or was passed over with in difference, arising from want of information. Thus they have looked on for years, whilst the ship building trades have been driven from pillar to post, and are only awakened at last to a sense of the importance of those trades being located within the parochial boundary when there is not an easily available site left them, and we are threatened with their removal from the town. For years we have seen the coal trade of the port totally neglected. notwithstanding the remonstrances which have from time to time been addressed to the Dock Committee. With the exception, however, of the pamphlet published by Mr. Braithwaite Poole, a couple of years ago, we question if any one of such remonstrances have come before the Council, or been noticed, save amongst the members of the particular sub-committee to which they have been referred. One great mischief of the practice of the Council hitherto has been the meagreness of the in formation given in the reports of the various com- Matees, and the fact that too many gentlemen have been in the habit of voting anti affirming the decisions of the committees upon important questions without having had the opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the grounds upon which those decisions have been come to. We had, on Wednesday last, the opinion of the Town-Clerk that it is indispensible that important written documents should he fully given in the reports of the various committees, as furnished to the Council ; and we trust that in future, when this is done, the municipal representatives will he at the trouble of reading them carefully over before every meeting, in order to enable them to form their judgments deliberately, instead of jumping hastily at conclusions• during the excitement of debate, to be repented of at leisure when the evil result is accomplished and irreparable. We have no wish to enter at length into any of the questions upon which, on Wednesday, the Council thought proper to overrule the decisions of com mittees, although we may have strong opinions with respect to some of them. But that the course pur sued was a proper one is obvious from the circum stances. Take, as an instance, the proposal of the Dock Committee to fill up the situation of superin tendent vacated by the appointment of Mr. Redin to a situation in another town. It is well known we were indebted for the introduction of Mr. Redin into the force to a change in its management, which was made when the present Head Constable was appointed to his office. Before perpetuating the system, laid down by Mr. Dowling, of a division of responsibility, the question naturally suggested it self,—How has it worked ? and certainly, when Mr. Superintendent Quick, Mr. Redin's colleague, offered to undertake the whole duties; and affirmed that he could perform them more efficiently by himself than they would be by the responsibility and authority being divided, it might very naturally have suggested itself to the Watch Committee that the opportunity was a favourable one for instituting an inquiry into the relative merits of the two systems, as proved by experience. We had before us the condition and efficiency of the force under Mr. Whitty, and under his successor; and here let us guard ourselves against the imputation of being actuated by any desire to weigh the individual abili ties of Mr. Whitty against those of Mr. Dowling. We are canvassing only the respective merits of systems. Under Mr. Whitty we had no division of authority ; under Mr. Dowling we have had a north division and a south division, the superin tendence of which has been separate. Until, then, it was proved that the general efficiency of the force under Mr. Dowling's system was superior to that of his predecessor, no such appointment as that recommended by the Watch Committee ought, in our opinion, to have been confirmed by the Council. The Council, moreover, was fully warranted in the step which it adopted, by public opinion, which loudly declares that the police force of Liverpool is by.no means what it was. The wholesome dread of being pounced upon at any hour of the day or night no longer exists. Our present police have more power to insult those who pay them than of old; and do much less service for their increased immunities. To a great extent we attribute this, within the past few months at all events, to the ill ness of Mr. Dowling from which, however, we are glad to observe that he is fast recovering. But mainly we refer it to the division of authority and superintendence which we have now established. It is notorious that the system has been fertile in creating jealousies and cross purposes amongst the force; that the favour of one superintendent has been pitted occasionally against the disfavour of the other; and, as the result, that discipline has been weakened, and by the almost universal con sent of the people of Liverpool, the police force of the borough has seriously retrograded in its prestige. The Council were not strong enough to carry Mr. Dover's amendment against affirming the proceed ings of the Dock Committee, a majority of two thirds being required. It is perfectly clear, however, that the Committee's report was informal, not con taining the letter of their solicitor by which they had been guided in their refusal to buof the South port Channel. With respect to the justice of the case itself we entertain a strong opinion in favour of the claims of the Southport people. If it be the fact, as represented by the Solicitor to the Dock Committee, that Southport is not within the juris diction of the committee, we cannot perceive by what right we levy dues there. In any event the Channel ought to be buoyed by some authority as a portion of the coast to which Liverpool-bound ships are occasionally driven to resort by stress of weather. It is comprised within the annual survey of our pilot boats; and' we ranch question whether government would not be glad of such a course as the Dock Committee are now pursuing as an ex cuse for stepping in with a measure t o con t ro l our local jurisdiction. An unbuoyed channel ought not' to exist between two such ports as Lancaster and Liverpool. THE result of the first half-year's e x p er i ence o f the working of the Navigation Laws R e p ea l A ct i s certainly not one which is likely to be very gratify ing to the British shipowners. The following is the tabular statement : TONNAGE ENTERED INWARDS,-6 MOS. ENDING JULY 5, 1848. 1849. 1850. 1,537,803 1,766,174 1,601,167 265,030 333,464 253.341 358,007 441,159 567,758 months of 1848. In the clearances outwards we have an increase in British shipping of 139,066 tons, or about 71 per cent., a decrease in American of 27,143 tons, or 15 per cent., and an increase in other shipping of 122,272 tons, or 27 per cent., as compared with 1849, and 176,651, or nearly 45 per cent. as compared with 1848. We can readily account for the falling off in American tonnage, by referring to the partial failure of the cotton crop, and the diminution of our im ports of bread-stuffs from that country. A large number of United States vessels have also been taken up by fhe trade to the Pacific, California, &c. A further portion has no doubt gone out to seek freight for this country, in our Colonial and other distant ports. But with respect to the ship ping of Europe, in which we find so amazing an increase, the conclusion is irresistible, that it is rapidly superseding our own marine. The grain and timber of Europe are coming almost altogether in foreign bottoms. It was doing so previously to the repeal of the Navigation Laws; and it has doubled its increase since. With respect to British chirping, the decline would be still greater if we were to exclude from the returns the frequent passages inwards and outwards of our sea-going steamers. As those returns are at present made out, a Boulogne or Havre packet of 200 tons regis ter, going out and returning weekly, counts for 5000 tons in the half-year. A single Halifax steamer making ten trips a-year, counts for from 5000 to 6000 tons in the half-year, inwards and outwards. Now does the coasting trade display any great indications of progress? We find that the tonnage entered inwards was 6,369,161 in the half-year ending July 5. 1848, 5,801,571 in the same period of 1849, and 6,106,635 in that of 1850. The clear ances outwards were 6,686.274 in the first half of 1848, 6,221.486 in that of 1849, and 6,632,458 in that of 1850. There is a falling off here in the past six months, as compared with 1848, in the tonnage both inwards and outwards, although we have a slight increase over that of 1849. To what circumstance we are to attribute the apparent rally made by the trade this year we know not; but the fact of its being still below that of 1848 is not at all consolatory. Mere statistical returns, however, convey hut a slight idea of the real • effect of the repeal of the navigation laws upon our shipping interest, or of any legislation affecting trade and commerce. The true test is th.e profit or loss at which it is carried on. If we had a state ment of the aggregate amount lost to our ship owners, both in the foreign and coasting trade, by the fall in freights, and the depreciation in the value of vessels, it would probably startle our free trade philosophers. The latter is estimated on good authority at not less than 15 per cent. upon every ship brought into the market for sale. A reduction of a pound per ton has been compelled to be submitted to by most of our shipbailders. The reduction in freights is still more ruinous. In fact it may be safely said that nine-tenths of the foreign going shipping of the country has been working during the past six months at a loss to the owners. Shipping engaged in the coasting trade has been doing even worse, and has become, as property almost valueless. So much for free trade ! THERE seems just now to be a disposition on the part of her Majesty's Whig Government to goad with insult and injury every portion of the community ; and Liverpool is selected as an object of especial disfavour. We are obnoxious in Down ing-street. Every petty interest is allowed to vent its spite at us ; and every petty official can flout us with impunity. A glaring instance of this fact is to be found in the shameless proceedings of Go vernment with respect to the selection of a site for a new postoffice. Two months ago, on the occa sion of a mere rumour that it was the intention of Government to choose, as such site, the ground upon which the Blind Asylum stood, a most in fluential meeting of the inhabitants of the town was held, his worship the Mayor presiding, at which it was resolved that such a site was most inconve nient. It was fully understood, that before coming to any conclusion upon the subject s Government would communicate with the Mayor; indeed, we may say that a direct pledge was given to that effect. Yet we are now told that the matter is settled. The postoffice is to be erected on the site of the Blind_Afiyluro, a most inconvenient one for the mercantile interests of the town, however con venient for the postoffice authorities themselves and the London and North-western Railway. Central the locality is not. A postoffice in London road will entail immense inconvenience upon the whole trading community. The access to it is through some of the most dangerous parts of the town ; and, in short, it does not possess one single claim to be adopted for the purpose. It will be seen from the report in another column, that our mercantile and other classes have very promptly and emphatically spoken .out in reproba tion of this monstrous proceeding. A more una nimous feeling of disgust than that which is felt with respect to the proceedings of Government in this matter we never remember to have observed in our town. It is regarded as a studied insult to the town, as well as an injury. At the least we might have expected that faith would have been kept with our chief magistrate; that the rules of common courtesy would have been observed towards us ; but neither good faith nor courtesy appear to be amongst the attributes of the present minis terial clique. Hollowness, falsehood, and inso lence, appear rather to be the leading characteristics of modern Whig Radicalism ; and the being—a gentleman—an obsolete portion of the Whig sec tion of creation. THE occurrence of the disaster recorded in our last—the wreck of a pleasure steamer bound from Preston to the Menai Straits—suggests strongly the necessity of some sort of supervision being exercised by a responsible authority over every vessel which leaves a British port carrying pas sengers. We insist that the vessels which carry out our emigrating population shall be strictly surveyed and he of the best description, well found in every necessary store, and provided with good boats for any emergency which may arise. We keep our hackney coaches and other public con veyances under strict surveillance. Can we then, as a sensible people, permit those whom pleasure or business induces to embark on a trip by steam, upon an element acknowledged as most fickle, to be exposed to the extra peril caused by unseaworthy and ill-found boats? We limit the number of pas sengers in our land conveyances and in our emi grant ships, yet we allow steamers to carry as many passengers as can he crowded into them, to the hazard of upsetting, and often to the serious incon venience of the crews which have to work them. We have often brought before us instances of this practice, in which the slightest mischance—a sud den terror causing a rush to one side or the other — would result in a serious calamity. Is the legisla ture doing its duty when it neglects to protect the public from the consequences of their own folly, and the unprincipled greed of men who regard the safety of human life as nothing when set against an opportunity of making money. Another practice connected with our excursion steamers is most disgraceful. The principal day chosen for pleasure trips is the Sunday, a fact objectionable enough in itself, and which we fear, in the present temper of the public mind, must continue to detract from our character as a religious people. In Liverpool, we regret to learn, that this abuse of the Sabbath is aggravated by the charterers of excursion boats allowing, or providing, on board hands of music, whose strains are much more pro vocative of the quadrille, than of that devotional feeling which ought to exist in the mind of every Christian on that sacred day. It is awful to con template the effect upon the giddy and the thought less, and humiliating to think of the opprobrium which it is calculated to bring upon us as a nation. We are not aware whether the unfortunate vessel recently wrecked was thus provided with music on board ; whether her passengers, whilst within a few hours' prospect of eternity, were indulging in the dance, or listening to strains never meant for the Sabbath. But we may imagine such revelry cut short by the hand of God ; and the lively music, the laugh and the jest awfully succeeded by the i call for help, the shrieks of the drowning,— "The bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony." We can imagine, too, the shocked feelings of many a crew, both foreign and British, as on entering some of our channels on the Sabbath they are met by such sad evidences of our decline from the paths of our fathers. Surely such a practice might be put dawn ; and on the Sabbath bands of music be excluded from boats of every . description ! British vessels . United States' vessels Other countries .... , 2,160,840 2,540,797 2,422,266 The clearances outward were :- 1848. 1849. 1850. 1,751,158 1,838,388 1,977,454 222,840 310,075 262,932 398,969 453,348 575,620 British vessels United States' Vessels, Other countries.. 2,372,968 2,601,811 2,816,006 There has thus been a falling off in the tonnage inwards of British vessels of 165,007 tons, or nearly ten per cent. this half-year, as compared with the first six months of 1849 ' • and of 80,123 tons, or twenty-four per cent., of American ship ping. We have, however, au increase in the ship ping of other (European) countries of 126,599 tons, or nearly 30 per cent., and of 209,751 tons, or nearly 60 per cent. over that of the first six 1 111 STAIIIO4III. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES. Mr. Justice Wightman arrival in Liverpool on Saturday afternoon, and immediately proceeded to the Court-house, where he opened the commission in the usual way. The court was then adjourned until yesterday morning, at ten o'clock. There are 106 prisoners for trial: 25 are charged with burglary, 2 are to be brought up for judg ment. 24 are charged with felonies, 6 with intent to murder, 2 stabbing, 7 bigamy, 4 forgery, 11 manslaughter, 4 mint eases, 4 rape, 4 poaching, 3 murder, 1 for horse-stealing, 1 for cutting and wounding, 1 remanded from last assizes, and 1 for robbery on the high seas. One case of general interest will be that of Mr. Threlfall, manufacturer, for alleged forgeries at Leeds and Liverpool. None of the murder cases are likely to end in a capital conviction. James Dwerrybouse. for killing a woman, named Leyland, in 1847, near Knowsley, since which time he has been in the County Lunatic Asylum, will be brought up, but in all probability returned again to his present domicile. Owen Kehoe, charged with murdering his wife, is also a lunatic; and the third, Mary Ann Ball, is charged with infanticide at Southport. Seven Custom-house officers, accused of stealing tobacco, and with conspiracy to de fraud the revenue, are amongst the list of prisoners for trial. On Sunday, Mr. Justice Wightman attended ser vice at St. George's Church, and was accompanied by the Mayor, several members of the Council, and the usual officers of the Corporation. The sermon was preached by the Rev. John Royds. chaplain to the High Sheriff, the text being selected from the book of Ecclesiastes, 9 c., 18 v.. " Wisdom is better than the weapons of war ; but one sinner destroyeth much good." The church was very crowded, so much so that many were unable to ob tain seats. His lordship remained to partake of the holy communion. The real business commenced yesterday, Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN presiding in the Crown Court and Mr. Jus tice CRESSWELL in the Nisi Prins. The Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman took his seat at ten o'clock ; he was attended by Clement Royds, Esq., the high sheriff of the county, and the sheriffs chaplain. The usual formalities were gone through, when the grand jury were sworn; the fol lowing is a list of their names ; GRAND JURY. Sir Thomas Bernard Birch. Baronet, Foreman Thomas Bourne. F.sq. John Bentley - , Esq. Edward Buckley, Esq. ltichard Watson Barton, Esq. Henry Butterworth, Esq. William Atherton Crosse, Esq. John Crossley, Esq. John Fenton, Esq. Montgomery Gladstone, Esq. John Holme, Esq. William Henry Hornby, Esq. David Hodgson, Esq. James Lawrence, Esq. John Blaydes Molyneux, Esq. Thomas Moss. Esq. Robert Needham Phillips, Esq. John Potter, Esq. Theodore Rathbone, Esq. Thomas Rodick, Esq. Henry Boyds, Esq. Albert Hudson Itoyds, Esq. William Edward Royds, Esq. This part of the routine business being performed, the Rinds proceeded to address the Grand Jury as follows: He said the printed calendar of persons whose cases would be brought before them at the present assizes con tained the names of 109 prisoners, but he had rec .ived depositions in several other cases which increased the number to upwards of 115 persons for trial at the present assizes—a number somewhat greater than usual in the summer—and a great proportion of whom were charged with offences of the most serious character. There were three charges of murder and fourteen of manslaughter, making a total of seventeen distinct cases of homicide. There were ale° twelve cases of malicious wounding, thirteen charged with burglary, five with bigamy, twenty-one with robbery, two with uttering base coin, three with malicious shooting, seven with night poaching, three with rape, seven with conspiracy, and four with forgery. In two of the cases of murder one was alleged to have been committed ten years ago, and the other three years ago. The question upon the trial of those two pri soners would, no doubt, be the state of mind in which the prisoners were at the time the alleged offence was committed, and whether they were responsible agents. That, however, was an inquiry upon which they, as grand jurors, would not enter. If the evidence was sufficient to warrant the finding of a bill, they ought to do so, what ever might be their opinion of the state of mind of the parties at the time the offence was committed. There were several cases of manslaughter arising out of the neg ligent driving of carriages ; and in these cases, the ques tion for the consideration of the grand jury was, whether the cause of death arose from mere accident, or was the consequence of the want of proper care and attention on th pa-t of the accused. There was a charge against a person named Dickenson, for the manslaughter of James Joynoon. It appeared from the depositions, that the ac cused was superintendent of a warehouse, and the death of the decased arose from a bale of cotton falling upon him, owing to alleged deficiency in the tackle, attributed to the negligence of the prisoner, and contrary to his duty. This was a charge which appeared to him (the learned judge) hardly supported by the evidence. It did not appear to be any part of the duty of the accused to superintend the hoistine of bales of cotton, or to sea that the tackle was in proper order, and therefore he could not see anything to make him responsible for the death of the deceased. In another case a person of the name of Wright was charged with having fired a pistol, and having wounded several parties with intent to commit murder. It appeared to him that in this case there was no such necessity for the use of fire-arms as would justify their use, either in defence of himself or of his property. The question, therefore, for the consideration of the grand jury would be whether the prisoner fired the shot, or whether he was ignorant of its being fired from his house. Upon this point there was much conflicting evi dence, but if the grand jury were of opinion that Wright either fired the shot, or that it was fired with his know ledge and approbation, it would be their duty to find a true bill against him. There was also a charge of mali cious shooting against a person of the name of Fenton, who it appeared had gone into a brick-field, along with a number of other persons, and there being a dispute with the owner several guns were fired. It did not, however, appear that the prisoner actually used, or that he had any, firearms in his possession : hut if it was proved to the grand jury that he was one of the party who went to the place, and that he had the same object in view as the others, namely, an illegal one, then he was, in a legal point of view, the party firing, and ought to be responsi ble for the acts of his companions. In another case, a person of the name •of John Atkin was charged with shooting at Thomas Sixsmith, with intent to murder him, Upon that case it was likely that some legal points might arise, but if there was reasonable evidence to satisfy the grand jury of the intent, it would be proper for them to find a true bill, leaving any legal questions which might arise to be dealt with at the trial. There was, in another case, a charge of rape preferred against a prisoner. In this case it would appear that the party making the accu sation was pregnant by another man, and that the pri soner came to her in the dark, and she thought it was that person, though it did not appear that the prisoner had taken any measures to deceive her. It was at one time doubted whether a man who succeeded in deceiving a woman into the belief that he was her husband, whether the fraud would not supply the force, so as to convict him of the rape; but independ, nt of that consideration, it appeared to him (the learned judge) that the better opinion, even in the case of a married woman yielding to such to representation, was to consider the case not as a rape, and in the case alluded to he would recommend the grand jury not to find a bill. There was a third case of murder, which he had not yet adverted to, and that was a charge against a female for the murder of her own child. He thought in this case that the grand jury would not find enough to warrant them in his (the learned judge's) judgment in finding a bill for the murder, but there would be a bill preferred before them for the concealment of the birth. He had now mentioned, he believed, most of those cases which appeared to him to require remark; but he had no doubt there were others which had escaped his notice in the short time he had for reading over the depositions. If, there fore, the grand jury should meet with any case on which they required advice, or assistance, he should be very happy to afford it. Before he concluded, however, he was anxious to gain the attention of the grand jury. He had no doubt that in nine cases out of every ten the primary cause of crime arose from associations, formed in public-houses or beer-shops. It was a matter of regret that such places as beer-shops should be allowed to produce that evil communication of the idle and dissolute, which too often contaminated the honest and indus trious. No one would regret the means taken for the encouragement of beer-shops, where the beer was not to be consumed on the premises, but the practice of a man spending his time and his money in such places, apart from his family, was to the utmost degree selfish and demoralizing, and almost always at the expense and injury of his family. The depositions laid before him at the present Assizes exhibited some most striking instances of the fearful consequences of the evils to which he had alluded. Where parties frequented such places, all do mestic feelings were set at naught, quarrels were frequent, the unhappy children were too often neglected and aban doned, wives were ruined, aad frequently kicked and aLused for no other offence but endeavouring to reform the husband from habits of drunkenness, leading to dis tress, and often to the very lowest state of degradation and crime. That which he had then stated was no ex aggeration ; and he was aware that it was easier to con demn than to correct. The habits of a nation were not changed at once ; but whilst on the one hand they con demned the system, on the other he trusted they would consider it a matter of the highest importance to encom rage, by every means in their power, domestic habits. It was no doubt commendable to countenance the recrea tions and holidays of the people, but those recreations were worse than useless if attended with the selfish mode in which they were usually spent, by habits of drunken ness and idleness, instead of that rational mode in which a man ought to enjoy himself with his family. This was a subject upon which he (the learned Judge) felt strongly, and must therefore form his excuse for thus noticing it. The Grand Jury then retired to their duties. The following petty jurors not answering to their names, were respectively fined £5 :—Mr. Thomas Glad stone, of West Derby ; Mr. B. Hyam, of Broughton ; Mr. E. Hardy, of Hulme ; Mr. Richard Barlow; and Mr. Ralph Lyon. The Grand Jury having retired, soon returned into court with a true bill against Samuel Great head for arson. ARSON.—Samuel Greatheadwas called up for judgment The Judge, addressing him,. said,—Samuel G rea th ea d, four years ago, you were indicted for arson, for setting fire to the premises in connexion with the prison i n w hi c h you were then confined. At that time your state of mind was such that no sentence was passed upon you. I am now informed that you are restored in mind and health, and rejoice that such is the case. I am also informed that your family are about to emigrate ; and that there is reason to hope you will accompany them, which is very much to be desired. In the meanwhile, I feel that a no. minal punishment will answer the ends of justice. I therefore sentence you to one day s imprisonment. BURGLARY AT LIVERPOOL. — John Croft, 18, was in dicted for having burglariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of Thomas Dixon, and stolen therein a bottle, a piece of gas piping, and a show glass. Mr. Raffles prosecuted. There had been a previous convic tion, and the prisoner pleaded guilty. STABBING AT LIVERPOOL.— Wm. Sullivan and Patrick 111`Donough, labourers, were indicted for having on the B'h April feloniously stabbed, cut, and wounded Patrick Tracey. Mr. Simon prosecuted ; the prisoner was unde fended. The counsel for the prosecution stated the case ; from which it appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoners jointly occupied a room in a house in Lace street. Prosecutor went home at a late hour on the night of Monday, the Bth April last ; he found no one in the room but Sullivan's wife, who demanded money of him in payment of the common charges of the apartment; in about five minutes after the prisoner came into the room ; they found the prosecutor and Mrs. Sullivan, who had menaced Tracy with a poker. The parties it seems all came from Dublin a short time prior to the commission of the outrage. The facts elicited furnished a deplorable picture of the bloodthirsty dispositions of the uneducated , portion of the Irish population. His lordship having summed up, the jury found both prisoners guilty of the common assault. His lordship ordered the prisoners to stand down. STABBING. — CharIes Roberts, a man of colour, was indicted for having stabbed Robert Hamilton. Mr. Rushton. (the son of our stipendiary magistrate,) appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner was cook on board the Ivanhoe, an American emigrant vessel. On the 2nd of of April the vessel was clearing the river with a comple ment of passengers, among whom was the prosecutor Rob rt . . Hamilton. A person went into the galley to lint his pipe; the cook assaulted and ordered him out, when Hamilton interfered, and was stabbed by the cook on the head ; he bled profusely, and was brought on shore by means of a steamer. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. COINING. — John Riley, Mary Healey, Ellen Burke, and Elizabeth Casey, were indicted, the two former for having in theirpossession certain moulds or making coun terfeit sixpences, and the latter with having in their possession moulds for making counterfeit half-crowns and shillings. John Riley was further charged with having in his possession thirty-five counterfeit sixpences. Burke and Casey were found guilty, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour. Healey and Riley were then charged with having in their possession thirty-five base sixpences, and in the house a mould of corresponding figure. Mr. W. Foulk s, of Shaws'-brow, the landlord of the house, stated that the house was let to Healey and her husband, Patrick Healey, about De cember; she generally paid the rent; but one week in April, Riley, the male prisoner, brought the rent, half of which consisted of bad sixpences. This led to the parties being suspected and apprehended. The jury found Riley guilty, and acquitted H ea l e y MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVERPOOL- -Peter Harris, a labourer, 34, was indicted for having f loniously killed and slain Elizabeth Harris. Mr. Blackburne appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner's mother was the only witness, excepting the surgeon. The case which has appeared in our columns, is one of a peculiarly cruel cha racter, as regards the conduct orthe deceased towards her husband. She had deserted him twice, and durim: his absence had cohabited with another man ; her husband had, however, forgiven and received her into hiS house. She was in the habit of misapplying the money intrusted to her to pay the rent. On Monday, the 24th June, her husband asked her who was going with her to pay the rent ? she replied nobody, and when lie told her that she should not go alone, she applied provoking language to him, and threatened on the morrow to absent herself, and go where " she had been before." In ang rhe struck her on the nose ; the blow was slight, but erysipelas set ting in death was the consequence. The jury acquitted the prisoner. MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.—Owen Kehoe, labourer, thirty-six. was indicted for having wilfully murdered Ann Kehoe. Mr. Blair appeared for the prosecution. The act, by which the unfortunate woman (his wife) was killed occurred ten years ago. He was then a ship scraper, and since the period of the murder has been confined in a lunatic asylum. On two occasions, just before the per petration of the deed, the prisoner had been observed using cruelty towards his wife, but his conduct on those occasions was such as to lead to the opinion that he was insane. The prisoner and his wife lodged in the house of a person named Fillmore. On the 23d September, 1840, Mrs. Fillmore heard a cry of " Murder," and imme diately after deceased came down stairs bleeding from the head. Shortly after this the prisoner came down stairs with two or three scrapers in his hand. One of them had blood upon it, which the prisoner wiped off with his sleeve, observing that he had struck his wife with it, and that it he had not killed her then he would do so. Mrs. Fillmore went out to apprise deceased's son of what had occurred. The prisoner was taken up, and deceased was conveyed to the hospital. Here she stated to a witness that she was clearing out the ashes from the grate when her husband raised the sharp scraper to her head and struck her; she placed her hand to her head, and three of her fingers were cut through, and a de p wound inflicted on her head. The evidence of Mr. Edward Toy Wood ward, a surgeon at the hospital at the time of the occur ence, was read from the coroner's depositions (Mr. Woodward being now dead.) From this it appeared that death was caused by abscess of the brain. The skull was fractured in more than one place, and there were several minor wounds about the head. Mr. Chalmers, jun., surgeon at Kirkdale prison, considered the man was in sane when the deed was committed. He was acquitted on the ground of insanity. At this period the Grand Jury came into Court with true bills against William Threlfall, for felony ; Robert Reid, for felony ; and John Hurter, for felony. Throe or four indictments are laid against Threlfall. Reid is the man charged with the manslaughter of his wife on Thursday night last. Mr. Blair applied to his Lordship to appoint a day for the trial of Threlfall, as many of the witnesses required to attend were merchants, whose time was very valuable. His Lordship declined to name a day, as he had invariably found when he had complied with such re quest, the day had been a " lost day." He would take the case on Wednesday week, if nothing intervened to prevent; but he would !A specially name Wednesday as the day. In the course of the day a true bill was found against Charles Pemberton. ASSAULT.--Thomas Conville was indicted for having feloniously cut and wounded Bryan Shields. Mr. Preston prosecuted. There were three counts in the indictment. The case will be fresh in the memories of our readers ; the prisoner occupied a house in Princes'-court, Porter street, and the prosecutor and his wife and child were lodgers. The twofamilieshad quarrelled, and Shields went to the Police-office and complained against Mr. Conville; this was on the evening of the 16th of July, and when he returned home as lie entered his room up stairs, the pri soner struck him on the head with a hammer; he was prostrated by the blow, and then the prisoner dealt him another blow ; the man was taken to the hospital, and lie remained there three weeks; at first the injury was con sidered to be of a dangerous character, but a cure had been made, and the prosecutor is now in a convalescent state. The hammer, which was produced, is a most deadly in strument. The prisoner was undefended, nor had he any witnesses in his favour, owing as he said to their not being apprised that his trial would occur that day. Guilty on the third count. Sentence deferred. BlGAMY.—Margaret Austin was indicted for bigamy. This case also was recently detailed in our columns. The prisoner was married seven years ago to Frederick Austin, a seaman, who, soon after the marriage, abandoned her. According to her defence she had heard that he was dead, and, acting on this information, married again in the March of last year one Henry Matthews, who, upon finding that the first husband was still living, gave the woman into custody. She was found guilty, but recom mended to mercy on account of extenuating circum stances. One month's imprisonment. STABBING.—John Hunter was indicted for stabbing Robert Wilson. The particulars were given a few weeks since in our columns. Mr. Fletcher prosecuted. The occurrence took place on Sunday evening, the 31st July, in Scotland-roid. Guilty of the common assault. Sentence deferred. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. Monday Night. The space occupied by our Assize Intelligence compels us to condense our remarks under this heading. The following comprises the only news of importance with respect to our leading markets : The activity manifested in the Share Market at the opening of the week continued until Wednesday evening. Since that day, however, this market has been singularly quiet, notwithstanding good traffics and some very favourable reports. The Great Western pays four per cent.. with £25,000 surplus on the half-year, and the London and North-western five per cent., with £145,000 surplus (sufficient to pa, nearly seven.) In the present plethora of money, there can be little doubt but that, after reports like these, the attention of capitalists will be attracted to railways. The quotations in our market to day are—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 38 ; Ditto Fifths, 9 8 9 I d. ; London Stock, 1114 to 1124 ; Ditto Quar ters, 18/9 4 p. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 154 ; Midland Stock, 331; Ditto Halves, 10 4 8/9 11/3; Dover No. 4, 44 13/9 ; Ditto Scrip, 5 ; Gas Shares A, 195 ; Leeds Canal, 350 to 360. • _ Since Fridly's circular the improved demand for Colo nial Produce has continued, particularly for Sugar, of which 500 hogsheads, chiefly Barbadoes, and 2000 bags of Benares, have been sold at an advance of 6d. per cwt. The inquiry for the middling descriptions of Tea conti nues. In Rice there has been a speculative business, owing to the bad accounts of the potatoes from Ireland, and on Saturday 12,000 bags changed hands at rather better prices. The demand for Cotton has also improved. On Saturday the sales reached 10,000, and to-day 8000 hales, at very firm rates. The steamer is hourly looked for. There has been very little passing in the corn trade since Friday last, notwithstanding the more unfavourable accounts of the potatoes in this country as well as in Ire land, and advices from nearly all quarters of the wheat crop being likely to prove of inferior quality, and very deficient in the yield. Such accounts as these in ordi nary years would have produced a material effect on prices ; owing, however, to free trade, the general feeling is that whatever deficiency there may be in the yield of the crops of this country will be made up by impor tations from abroad, and, therefore, does away with all apprehensions as to the future. We do not particularize any article, as there is no change to note. The arrivals were, up to Friday and Saturday, as follows : —6.260 qrs. wheat, 131 qrs. barley, 611 qrs. malt, 1,048 qrs. oats, 2.633 qrs. Indian corn, 27 brls LC. Meal, 68 loads.oat meal, 5,700 sacks flour, 5,490 hrls. flour. Exports :- 197 qrs. wheat, 2.551 qrs. Indian corn. 40 brls. I.C. m e al, 336 sacks flour, 190 brls. flour. Messrs. Makin, in their circular of Friday, say, " most of our present advices lead to the conclusion that the harvest will not give a quantity much more than the half of last year's production. Scotland, however, appears to be an exception, the weather there having been throughout much more seasonable." Such a statement as this from a house of the respectability and long standing of Messrs. Makin is well calculated to excite gloomy apprehensions as to the prospect of our agricultural friends. But we presume they will he left to weather the storm as they best may. The following remarks from the Birmingham Gazette of this morning, on the iron trade are not very cheering. In this trade like many others a period is approaching when the operatives must submit to a reduction in their wages or cease to be employed : " We have delayed our usua) notice of this trade with the hope that we might have had the pleasure to report some de cid d improvement: but the progress towards such a desirable position is not very satisfactory—indeed, it 'appears to be heavily retarded by some unusual drawback, and so fluctuating, that it is almost a matter of doubt whether any ground has yet been gained Light orders for manufactured iron are more plentiful, hut yet by no means sniliciently abundant to afford employment for full time, even to those portions of our works which have been partially in operation ; while in prices no alteration has taken place. We still find that bars and rods are to he bought under £5 10A., and hoops and Aims are being delivered in Liverpool at £6 ss. per ton; though some iodi nation has latterly been manifested to refuse orders for future I delivery at these rates. In pig-iron a slight advance has been made, more furnaces have been put o' to blast, and it is now considered that the consumption is quite equal to, if not in excess of, the make. There has also within the last fortnight been a considerably better demand for this article, and makers hare become much more firm in tneirquotations. Sales arebeing made from 50s. to 70s. per ton, according to quality—prices which it is asserted, in most instances are far below the actual cost of production. Some months since we ad occasion to re mark that if the present low range of prices should become permanent, as an unavoidable consequence of free-trade policy. either a great reduction in the scale of wages here most he submitted to. or the iron trade of South Stafford shire will become mere matter of history. The experience of every day more clearly demonstrates the soundness of this position. It is acknowledged on all hands that both manufac tured and pig iron are now being sold at prices altogether unremunerative to the Staffordshire makers, and yet they can be obtained, the produce of other districts, at much lower rates. The facilities of transit in all directions are increased, and the iron elsewhere made is improving in quality, while our own is becoming gradually mor• uncertain; so that Staffordshire is fast losing that peculiar market which, by . the properties of its metal, it has hitherto exclusively enjoyed." That portion of the Cheshire Junction Railway, be tween Chester and Warrington, will be opened on the first of October. On Saturday a child, named Mary Ann Johnson, died of a scald, which she had sustained ten days previously, from having pulled over her body a cup of hot tea stand ing on the table. Messrs. Armstrong, of Newcastle, and Messrs. Burli son, of Sunderland, have obtained the premiums of one hundred guineas each for the best scheme of delivering coals from barges into ships. After an exceedingly short run of 141 days, from port to port, the Boston packet-ship Parliament reached Liverpool on Saturday morning. This splendid ship is remarkable for the swiftness of her voyages across the Atlantic. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.—Mr. Copway will again deliver a lecture to-morrow evening, when we trust a committee will be formed for the purpose of effectually carrying out his humane project for ameliorating the condition of his persecuted and expatriated countrymen. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.— It is a fact worth noticing, that at present the Leith Docks are crowded with ship ping, and that almost every vessel is foreign. The opera tion of the repeal of the Navigation Laws is therefore evi dently to supplant British-built ships by those of other countries. PRESENTATION.— On Friday, the members of the Finance Committee presented, at their usual weekly meet ing, to their excellent chairman, Hugh Hornby, Esq., a magnificent gold snuff-box, as a token of their esteem for the courtesy and ability displayed by him on all occasions during the period he has presided over their important deliberations. DEATH FROM LAUDANUM.—Yesterday morning R seven months old, named Margaret Currie, died at No. 1, North-street, from an overdose of laudanum administered incautiously by its mother. by the advice of a party whom she had met with in a beerhouse, for the purpose of stop ping purging of its bowels. A surgeon was called in, but every effort made to save the child failed. ACCIDENTS ON SHIP BOARD.—On Saturday a man named Lawrence M`Guinese, one of the crew of the schooner Midas, when near the Bell Buoy, homeward bound, fell off the main crosstrees upon a barrel of tar, which was upon deck, and died at noon from the injury sustained.—On sunday morning a seaman named Wm. Cooper, one of the crew of the Astrologer, screw stea mer, in Trafalgar Dock, fell from the funnel to the deck of the vessel. lie was taken to the Northern Hospital and died five minutes after his arrival. Yesterday, when the grand jury took their seats in the Crown Court, prior to being sworn, it happened that the mayor of Manchester occupied the next place to our own worthy chief nsagistrate. The two gentlemen cordially exchanged compliments, and appeared from the contrast each presented to the other, to attract some attention. The mayor of Liverpool might, probably, challenge the kingdom to furnish a more venerable municipal president than himself; and Mr. John Potter might, perhaps, with as much safety, give a challenge of the opposite character. MNzmoNtcs.—We are extremely glad to find that the system of mnemonics, introdced into this town by Mons. Zaba, has been carried out with great success at the Col legiate Institution. It is extremely simple, and enables a person to retain in his memory, through the medium of his eye, all the leading facts in history, without the smallest mental effort. The facility with which the learner is able, in a very short time, to remember dates, facts, and localities, is most surprising; and no doubt Mons. Zaba's successor will meet with the support to which he is well entitled. The system will no doubt be adopted at all our educational establishments. Of course we have ourselves been initiated into the mysteries of the plan, to enable us thus confidently to speak of its merits. ACTION FOR RAILWAY CALI3.—At Chester assizes, on Friday, an action was tried before a special jury, in which Mr. Webster, the barrister, was sued by the Cheshire Junction Railway Company, for £2,000. being a call of £lO per share upon 200 shares held by the defendant at the time the call was made ; and also the sum of £4,000, for interest and money paid by the company on account of the defendant. The defendant pleaded, first, never indebted, and that the company had abandoned the origi nal undertaking for which the capital was to be subscribed ; that they had not purchased the land for the purpose, and had now lost their powers to do so, and, consequently, were unable to make the railway. The amounts specified were due for calls made by instalments—the first payable on the 16th March, and the second on the 16th April, 1849. The action was commenced nearly twelve months after the call was made. His lordship (Mr, Baron Parke) said he could not understand why the directors split their calls in that way. Mr. Crompton said, one object was to tie gentlemen to their shares, for none could be transferred until the calls were all paid. Mr. Gibson, secretary of the company, stated, in cross examination, tl at their original intention was to form a communication between Birkenhead Dock, on the Cheshire shore of the Mersey, and the manufacturing districts, by making the line from Hooton to Altrincham, and thence to-Manchester, whereas the company were at present making the branch only between Chester and Warrington. He also stated that at the time the call was made the company only owed to Mr. Brassey for work done the sum of £3,500 for survey ing, and £lO,OOO for other work, and that they had £40,000 in the bank. He also admitted that the chair man of the directors had stated at a meeting of the share holders that the object of making the call was to keep respectable parties on the register. Mr.Cromptonap prehended that a call by instalments bad. His lord ship direct a verdict for half the sum claimed. After some co n sideration his lordship said the better course was for the second said he was looked bad. upon Th i t e as first t was a distinct s g t o m o c d t , calls,aod he and n e t o t l a d t him to direct a verdict to be entered for the defendant on the plain tiffp part liberty t o f he tom amount ov claimed, e to either par enter ty to have liberty to tender a bill of exceptions in case the court sho uld be of the same o p inion as him arerfidrisottis forsu et,hgei wholeing the him self. Upon the seco nd p lea there would be a verdict for the plaintiff. Two other cases , in which a party name d Barclay was defendant , and another named Lawren ce, v orany shared the same fate. . . NISI PRIUS COURT. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL took his seat in this court a few minutes before twelve o'clock, when the entry of causes closed. The entry is the least, so far as numbers are concerned, ever known in this county, there being only sixteen entered for the Salford hundred, and forty nine for the hundred of West Derby. The first cause being called on, and the parties not being ready, the Learned Judge ordered it to be struck out. It was, however, subsequently restored. On the second case being called, it was stated that Mr. Sergeant Wilkins. who led for the plaintiff, was ill, and unable to attend, and it was fixed for the first to-morrow (tins day.) HIRD AND OTHERS U. GOODIER AND OTHERS.—This was an undefended action to recover the sum of £lOO on account stated. The plaintiffs are merchants in Glasgow, and the defendants were Messrs. Goodier, Owens, and Peacock, In October last Mr. Owens was in Glasgow, and having to pay a bill which had been dishonoured he borrowed from the plaintiffs £lOO.. A few days after Mr, Owen destroyed himself. The only questions in the case which his Lordship left to the jury were, whether any meney was lent to Owens, and. if so, whether it was lent for his own use or the use of the firm.—The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff on both points—debt, £lOO ; da mages Is. ; costs, 40s. A VETERINARY SURGEON'S BILL.—MCORE v. DYKE. —This was an action to recover the sum of £162 19s 6d for work and labour done, for goods sold, and on two Bills of Exchange. The plaintiff is a veterinary surgeon, having establishments in Leeds and Manchester, and the defendant is a gentleman residing near Bradford. The case was undefended.—Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. The Attorney-general for the Palatine (Mr. Knowles,) stated that he had just receved instructions to defend in the case of Hird and Goodier, and he thought it right to name the circumstance, as he was aware he could make no use of them ; but it might be of importance hereafter. RAWDON V. FOSTER.—This . was an undefended action to recover the sum of £5OO upon a mortgage deed. Ver dict for the plaintiff for £5OO and £ll9 10s. for interest. GILL U. CHEETHAM.—In this case a verdict was entered by consent—debt, £10,000; damages, £5O; costs, 40s. — subject to a reference to Mr. Foster, of Manchester. Some discussion then took place between the bar and the learned judge, in consequence of no case being ready for trial, in the course of which his lordship complained much of the conduct of the attornies, observing that peo ple complained of the costs of legal proceedings, whereas those costs were frequently increased by the want of dilli gence on the part of those who prepared the proceedings. Eventually, his lordship ordered that no allowance should be made to parties who were not ready to proceed to trial in any case called on on Wednesday, except in case of illness or accident. It was also fixed that the special juries should be commenced on Friday morning, and pro ceed in their regular order. The court then adiouraed. Aug. 13, 1850,. Office. 5 fiTA The Privy a b i n BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII. -- ---. 6 r 3 0 , LATEST Parliament will be prorogued by the QUM. ' __,,,, Thursday. lth . instant. 11 Ite Councilet Council,a w t 1 speicto take Pla session of parliament will be settled, is f"ei 'clock.• Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, at three ° to• No commercial news of importance has transpired and at Lloyd's the returns of losses area rill • FLOODS IN BELGIUM.—GRUSS EI,S, dations are reported. Owin , to the heavy rainarsr. , „ ta y, awshiheehldotebilisoarfti., erne° tity of new flax lying in afields had been c ,le !Von; at Bruges the hospital for aged persons was a' h i; ight of t e icf n h a f t or th e el: ; certain districts the water had risen to t i lt: in e - s BS ,,, e . l e 'r r ir ! u l estiqi)::l: of rye, but by last accounts was fast subsiding • of tY i had been broken. me mbers d .jp.. PARIS, SUNDAY.—The manifesto a the Girardie ' ,k( Mountain has excited no attention. Emile de pea„001.000 sign it. He has left, for the Peace Coligress t 'Officers as Oil the President's dinner, on Saturday, to the. ... ea joio slo t , commissioned officers of the line, it was specialoty_,losloo 11., no political cries should be uttered, and that e ll or a : ` rib al d", " ever should be made to the empire, the e leries. These injunctions were strictly ad , s ot political cry was heard nor toasts given. n . ...„A roll fe SCHLESWIG.HOLSTEIN.—HAMBRO, Atm. . 1 h ff .: AN . - °l otto ( current that the Hungarian General Klapkata ~_._ „ y itat 4 , Sell'', Ga. days since incognito, and had leis for Keil a f l t 7; 5 " the Stadtholderate, to take the cominand ° the _e' l lee ril Holstein forces. A telegraphic despatch instates wet ,-- pit zette, dated Rendsburgh, Bth instant. onoiterea. „it Willisen had caused the entire line to he rec. , no i t ap i p. led to several severe outpost skirmishes, but psa ed bY t - e r a., 0 " results. Frede,rickstadt and Flasun are occuP. l , 2 s. . 4 .e. Hamburg advices of the 9th report that . : ea the s oo• I ap tl to e2rias.ipossessionn that nay the whole of the Holstein armY wuS,,,t ay so ' O lO Eighty-five persons have been killed and Wolin eaccoa at rl ,. s it sion of a shrapnel' factory at Rendsburg. 0 ., 0 d t hat ne., Ve upwards of eighty bodies had been 'ivied, B ,7 ie victir e l i ' e NO the cadets in the artillery school are among L doe ot . t. 0 0 loss of powder and projectiles and the damag e to a d lii °s is much larger than General Willisen choose!..oossa ispace; 1 the coestof Schleswig the Danes are landinsti; ant e te,: h ole e t 1 They Have thus occupied all the island of • ds, l o _., de lo f coast,., tahh o s: e f fna t w h rat e s,ooi i Is s uei l it a ohp n f o d atsh s si et w r: ooli i t nh t os t r i i u tss t eeii i ,i n n: e aKrt e hear t an ie t i n its eyri,. g li.e.uv, ; ;si7rs,.l , he, t yr.arsd t e,:er,:t l. l,otizp n ev.3,o. t . ,,s‘ o ,:te r ,n 1: ~tef i.: 0 1 :011 i t o ohf f atathilae the m gr e e ß aNir n t s ens o ut f rci dieaefsertnoffse waggons a b an y gdg s s e na a nss t ihievrHei toralebsciti e e . 1 . 11 e .,n , acecovoix7,ls: rtA 1 General Willisen making a strong' reconnoptirobane!,"t"e, place, but leading to no important resit' . the Wi t isatl b bit pushed their advance I posts close down 0.. sa d t .0 „. 5 t . i ii Lake. They have occupied Frederickstac.,nstaet,bn;oo.t.'tj telegraphic despatch dated Hatiaburgh, 0t1.1.150at,1'e,.."4411 that another battle has been fought. The,,Paoital•Aoll' thyt 1350 Danes still remain in Flensburg 11•1.01stu cTol,infeshiedMenerdealrctaailne pdoaogi Charities W and 456 privates had been buried. I. ' vel% and 148 privates The re Nfo ilf. 3 111 4 1. "Wlered , HOUSE OF LORDS.---ILAsT parlo,o Their Lordships met at five o'clock. • T h t • e ate 0 14 05' hour apHnodiatßuorefsaEtkhueoastFetdaers,lttßdoii.Bnllgiwl as read a thir", l Theol. t G h a ir ll d er t y im E e d . i n n i b u u i r p g a h ss ß ed il . l was read a third tun ----- T, i S t6lll. ' o ,l l'. The Speaker took the Chair in the new 6 1, 0 „id . pill D ili to 0 ta s n ~, n a ee i d en: , ,,md t they ihe:yodn, amendment, a .di d n itm,: alwaysr2.cl M. ii.baglP .;o• The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver , e (. s o. was read a third time, and passed. 'le gal of 'lle Lords' Amendments to the Mercano „ 0 , o lie Bill, which Mr. LABOUCH ERE declared w er s e .. l . 1,... ...0n: 5r , stantial importance, were agreed to and ss c 'l3 ll ' s 'l' i ' i bs. CRIME AND OUTRAGES ACT CONTIOA• „ oo s o r ~,,o1„) . motion for the third reading a or Harbour it.huaisrs alPitli°lasl.tP°P;olre.tle,la,l'dtliPelil°.Col. 'be SON moved that it be read a third time tha.f,Var P ot ki jo a ARMSTRONG said the The hon. member , in a len g thened s peecb , .7d. Is ofe r',sl past policy of the government towards frel s a bile in , to . ii k resr . ‘i ire eetP t ; - s reltbe they were the first to resist it. If the nonce tr ea os',be ,n c o i s o e ; i ,.; .o .l j o s ig seci o r , o : o3s t: l lo ;:ie: ; this bill i ought to be Ito , on the understa,eurrnbet toondcdp the whole question of Ireland. ---31r. n e bill , A sea m d Mr. Williams, the new member for LaMPtooveili cr . 41 4 COMMONSOrders .R .--" e Rev oso .. :03,5:eere; , (fta b lron e ja. e edni n lreath s nel o aidstie v d.l i ßd_ c , i i tt o lT blihi u ewe s yena t isih h ni onarueuitssastitdetrsyteai then thirdteidi, nae u t c l ith e i d evetf7iico: ns r ibie e ;ei(ei t i I rp;a i c e rinoia r o:j, sigoitppierhiiiie:t_ pent then toes c r4 i . o g ! rol Ineep e j re 1 1:010 ', tai l : o oi r , against,e loe d g,ci soli lsupported ,;oe nll ether oCo(f) p e t r i i h e p then read a third time and payed The Union of Liberties with 0 fly " . 4 0 i The Lough Corrib Imriscu'imnt gon l ' - ;0. ~, 0 5 ," The Copyright of Designs -Act Astient''" sa lo l 4 o o third time and passed. "rd t rae rd g iaj* The Holyhead Harbour Bill was read a Ono a thl d o The London Bridge Approach Dill was r e d) Bill passed. • a o° 3o te OP4 read a third time and passed. 011 O a The Improvement of South Ireland time, and ordered to be committed. _.--- •0 4 " t. - TING- , ifo a q , LATEST BE T TIN 0, , :T, • oil' - 1 „..,-EitteA ~ s ot t o go TA 1 ' ,6 to t o w; FBOR HANDICAP.-3 to 1 agst Canezraothiv° wood .6 to 1 agst Cantab ; i ' to 1 ags t 3 14 agst Mark Tapley t oil cl eta i BERKSHIRE ' * t Co '0 0 - STAKES.-5 to 2 asst 6to o . ,40 t, 4 / Sr.E . ais IL-6 to 5 agst Voltiater ; , to rna , I sr agst Windischgratz; 7 to 1 agst Clincher,. ss . a t .to I 0 DERBV.-8 to I agst Grecian ; 30 to b o liati l agst England's Glory; 40 to 1 tag ° Marlborough Buck. _______-------- cfs Ic srdedt° gSA ~e 0 58 Ae WOLVERHAMPTON fa— 00-- ' , o Iv ~,,T TRIAL carried Jer u ell, t. , / ,.,a re.• 2 ' k", Jereed. Spot having over 1", of .' -e rio' - t PRODUCE STAKES.—AIonso 1, 1,9 " - 0 ( i3e o °ss tina ~ lob'! ~....6 .... . tio. WOLVERHAMPTON STA K ES..-1101i..ed pet f• Stock, 331, i; Castle 3. Won by a neck. Five sta rt . ite A Roland. l's ----------- ^ .-- 1" Of Caledonians aggr . ' pr ee n LONDON MONEY AND SHARE ''''' TterP - 3 0 . 4 CLOSING PRIC°,(I4-12030,191011511. Consols for Account, 96, t } ,} • Three4,-sleda 0 `1.; 3 1,1 0 : ever, i per 931, 99; Exchequer Bills, 6i, de prent• , ~, i pre . „0,, 61,1,, Countie rod 15 London Stock, 110 i, 11li ; quarters., )t . 0 0 Po o ' n ' a tieS , e, p er wice• . iii , a ceu ti ete I•, preference. 5, I rils , " 3 4 ' t fifths, 9t, i dis. • . ,71 1:1 , orth Stafford, 11g1,* dg's,,s'tern oi . Oil ( IP Great Northerns. 151, f dis. ; Great'WeSte,, n ot , ' 4 ,0 Stock, 37. 33 ; York and North Midland, 153-, 6. theinil toesoeP an der it e re it Consols opened weak and declined o de• v ; po 1 weather, upon which a few sales were ili aft tiaras' °ll' qu ota Money easier. , 4 00 s nada)" Railway market dull, at about a closes flat, with no improvemen t. Weather gloomy. --------------- s ito.k f ' claq Pound above its lowest point, with gs . r . goo op LONDON CORN MARKET --11 a t to I° l the 5 t)o d. ts , Rates obtained for English Wheat eV - te a IA OP opera ' Dan tO but millers evinced little desire to t sa les lovi rs 0 limited. Foreign held for full prices, b.ll rat A frill . ferIOP la r fetcb` - set e attracted little attention, but in Barley e t Cot trade quiet at last Monday's prices. nd e ase v. , but little done. In the value of Bean s a d or 1 0( :. 1 0 s. 435. t° ° s's. 41s. t° 4 t i. nAI ..... • change, an E d u t g r i a is d b e qvviihieitte. WAhselaotw .d.ein. a.n. , Red 0 .. Qor ' ARRIVALS. / .• Irish Oats Qrs. Itt ''' yore' .... English Wheat 3320 ...... f 9 • Li .. 6. 4 ,1{. ~ Barley 34 .... ~ ' 3'o u ' I 9 Oats 5123 229 ........... 0 ..., 00 . ..... . 2_9 5 I .i .g i in . n ' Corn .• • ' . 0 5 ... / , Malt ~ Peas - ..... • / ~ Flour sacks. „ Beans .... .06' „ Malt 43 mo rel the I r atti o e szcose R EPORT. .dote 4t iC ~ Little doing in British or Foreign No particular change has /Aiken place f f . o ther '.. 5 of' 0:opo t: 820; 00, Heavy rain, with thunder, but there a A P A ing up shortly. _______--- 00 - fie _______— ET — 1.651. es ; 0 0 : SMITHFIELD CATTLE MA: 205 ; Dutch Beasts, 3,320 • Calves, I , B 'd a ffollt m- 2,5 0° 1t, 44; Scotchßeasts , 200; ilorfolk i a"' hire Oe asts s ' s. 2d ' ; 4 8 ' et Leicester, Northampton, and Lincolas _,. to ~i. t o . e 0 Beasts, 4,129 ; Sheep and Lambs, 31,t2? Beef, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 3,S.4.l"b,ss.le"ceolc 2s. 6d. to 3s. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 45.; 1 -•,u_ „i c es. Supply large. Trade steady at Friday a v brisk sale. Prime sorts 3s. 10d. .__.-------- ,_, * SHIPPING INTELLIG E '. ,.Co :' A iv A RRIVAL S FROM LIVER POOL,— SIS . Egide hence at Ostend Bth instant. 30t1 1 A"' Livorno (steamer) hence at LegliOrn . 1 Messina and Palermo 31st. 4 551:e, Regulator hence at Messina 23d July. v 50 Silenzio hence at Trieste 2d instant. a 26t0 PI. / 't ll Slater Rebow hence at Civita Vecchia 0. for Brimdisa 30th. Aen I P t sP ~ 14° Undine hence at Galati 26th July ! t i t instal' l a t. i Antigua Planter hence at Helvois ft, toy, i t , . Laronet, of this port, to Shanghae, 21 I' rr,,, f --__--_—_—_------r ss voe 0 .0,, The deanery of Waterford, of the gf ) ~. .„ 0 1 1 , yearly, in the gift of the Crown, is livingvacant: at li ti lo,s;, Miss Sophia Beard, aged 30, a ladf i t is s w io 6 1 5 ton, near London, was, on Thurstio,e _ r , 01 on , !t o, outside the h d 0!.., ral attending to some flowers outs fell thrO l T oo 11 when she, in some mysterious WaY, ea rly neP' 1 ,14 killed. She was not found until . 0 ydress. .0 0 to when she had nothing on but her e17 1 1. 1,.., e ted I 4 1 0 ,00 The late Mr. W. Mellor, an old and cfr , f r o 11 1 ' . ..,, , , y ,1 of Wolverhampton, has made bequq,s_,itutio : we Ci ii duty, to the following charitable 0107. the ,; SOO South Staffordshire Hospital, £ 2, d e orge il aci School, Wolverhampton, £lOO ; t• 0 , , School; £2O • St. James's Sunday Scho , Aberystwith 'Dispensary, X2O• o a,01,1; pvf" MA RRIED. „ o gia l'ii.iil. o On the Bth instant, at St. Helens, Mt. 1, - e , r of Air. su rgeon, to ELIZABETH, eld est daught VEIL, both of that place. -----" LIVERPOOL : OA By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, TUBSDAY, AUG. 13, if r 1 ‘,' PAINTED AND PUDI.ISOI) it > le of or 53, ---; gi,sre.i, oi EVERY TUESDAY, g ar vest ree t ' )rders for Advertisements received by LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Oy'fd.ss_ltoot2ds At N.. 4. Sr. Gsonos's CrocscsNT. so . 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