The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION. 18s. I On Credit.. .. In Advance CM: ilibtrpool &tanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1848. WE have been requested to warn the Conser vatives of a snare which it is said is being laid for them in anticipation of the approaching municipal election in November. The Reform party arc already taking advantage of the Water question, with a view to eject several supporters of the Pike scheme from the Council on that occasion, and to elect others of their own party. If this be so, is it not desirable that we should at once be ready with well qualified gentlemen from our own ranks, who are able and willing to advocate the most econo mical plan of confining ourselves, at present at least, to the local resources for our water supply ? We now merely throw out the hint. We may have lomething more to say on the subject by and bye. WE were extremely surprised to hear yesterday that it is the intention to stop the working of the engine at the Soho-street Water-works, for several weeks, with a view to the repair of the machinery ; more especially when we are assured that the repairs could all be readily effected during the night, and the daily supply of water thus continued to the inhabitants as at present. This is of considerable importance, as we believe that several hundred thousand gallons are pumped daily from the well n Soh o-street, and the stoppage of this water for a day will cause serious inconvenience to the rate payers. THE Parliamentary session of 1848 may now be regarded as nearly at its close, so far at least as the business of legislation is concerned. We have an arrear of routine business, of which the passing of the estimates is the most important, sufficient to occupy the attention of members for as long a pe riod as a House can he induced to sit; and the sacrifice of Bills, in esse and in posse, must be tre mendous. And what has been the result of all these months of long debates and late sittings—for Mr. Brotherton has been in abeyance all the session? What are the distinguishing measures—which is the measure of the session ? There is no such measure. The time of Parliament has been frittered away without any useful legislative result at all. A contemporary—the Manchester Guardian—w observe, attempts to throw the blame for this non legislation upon the Protectionist party; and seems particularly to deplore the sad fact, that "the pro posal for the Repeal of the Navigation Laws has not yet assumed the form of a bill; the most im portant portion of the Trish Encumbered Estates Bill is still undiscussed in either House ; not a sin gle clause of the Irish Franchise Bill has been con sidered ; the Bill for the alteration of the Parlia mentary Oaths exists only in the imagination of the Premier (1); and some minor Government measures have made no more satisfactory progress." Our contemporary is conveniently oblivious, however, as to the circumstances attending some of these hills. Take the first mentioned—the Repeal of the Navi gation Laws—it was not until Government had been badgered from all sides of the House that the country was allowed to know what were their real opinions on the subject, although it was one of the most important of those mentioned in the Speech from the Throne, and although its settlement was alleged to be one of the conditions upon which our colonists were willing to accede to the Ministerial propositions with respect to the Sugar duties. There are not wanting people who suspect, with no slight warrant, that Lord John Russell never in tended, in bringing forward his motion, any thing more than a mere demonstration ; and that if Par iament should sit for six more months to come, no bill embodying the propositions contained in that motion would he laid upon the table. The war rant to which we refer, is the more ultra Free Trade views upon the question expressed by Mr. W. E, Gladstone and a section of the Peel party. With respect to the other bills, a portion of which our contemporary admits to be altogether in nubibus, we do not see how blame can attach to any other party than Ministers themselves. The more rational conclusion to be drawn is that deducible from all past experience, that, out of office a Whig states man has a panacea for every ill under the sun, which, when in office, and called upon to make good his bragging, he can scarcely ever produce. Our contemporary forgets, also, how miserably the commencing months were frittered away in the consideration of their abortive financial project—a project which did more to shake the confidence of the country in their capability to conduct its affairs, and to reconcile it to the retarding, no matter how, of any other measures of their concocting, than the Most damaging efforts of their most bitter oppo nents could have done. We remember, too, the time thrown away in the discussion of their Jewish Disabilities Bill, which might have been devoted to the pressing forward of the Navigation Laws, a question certainly more important to have settled in some way or other, as affecting the entire corn- merce and a large portion of the industry of the empire, than the question whether Baron Roths child was to take his seat in the House of Corn mons as the colleague of Lord John Russell. Our contemporary, however, urges against the Protectionists, that— " During the present session, they have carried to an extreme the practice of repeatedly adjourning debates, which has been gradually increasing for several years past ; and they have constantly obstructed the progress of mea sures to which they are hostile, by almost every means which the forms of the house would allow. Four or five nights have been occupied in debates which might as well have been concluded in one or two ; discussions that might have been brought to a termination before dinner, have been spread over a whole evening ; and many an hour has been wasted in preliminary discussions upon the question whether the business of the day ought to be proceeded with." We are not at all aware that the party in question have carried this practice to any greater extreme than it has been carried by the Whig-Radical party before them. Indeed we remember Lord John Russell himself used to be an adept at the same kind of thing. But, let us ask, what the major part of these obstructions and adjournments have been founded upon. Several of them, it is well known, have arisen out of the well-merited in dignation of the house at suppressions and per versions of evidence upon important questions before the house itself, or its committees. The proved trickiness of the Board of Trade and the Colonial Office have driven honourable members to pause and to sift facts; and the country owes them a debt of gratitude for so pausing, before consenting to sacrifice important interests on un orted grounds. WE are, it seems, to have an Irish rebellion in Liverpool as well as in Ireland, with the most modern accompaniments of barricades, &c., and, as an addition, a little incendiarism—burning down of warehouses, of shipping, and other pro perty. Authentic and tolerably detailed evidence of the intentions of the parties is in the hands of the authorities, who are very properly taking steps to place the town in a posture of defence; which object our would-be insurgents will perhaps find to have been more completely achieved than will be quite pleasing or convenient for them. The pre cise time only when the rebellion is to commence is not yet ascertained. All we know at present is that it has to be determined by the time selected for the head movement on the other side of the channel ; for ours is apparently only to be a kind -. of flank movement—a diversion, an Irish sort of a one, to distract our attention and that of govern ment from the movements of the main army in the sister country. A stranger, unacquainted with the eccentricities of the Irish character, would naturally ask the question, what has rebellion to do here ? What have the merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool to do with the question, for the advancement of which our Irish friends are so anxious to fight—tile Repeal of the Union ? How are these men so aggrieved by us that we are to have their pikes at our throats, or their muskets pointed at our breasts ? We have taken them from a country which had no lab our t o offer them, and no bread to give them. We have employed them in preference to our own industrious poor. We have placed them in trust over our prop er ty ; enro ll e d th em a mongst our police-force., given to th e i r c hild ren th e advan tage of educa bon, provided hospitals and dispen saries for their relief in affliction, and from every charitable effort undertaken by us as a community they have been large and welcome recipients. Whence this ungrateful return?—this savage eager ness to shed our blood and to destroy or plunder our property ? It cannot surely be the result of unprompted malevolence. Human nature is surely not so base. A people, known to be susceptible in the extreme of generous emotions, cannot of them selves have determined thus to turn upon the hands that have fed them in extremity. The idea is pre posterous. There are, we feel assured, emissaries of sedition busy amongst our Irish population, from whose teaching and preaching flows the poison which has so deeply impregnated their hearts—men whose task it is to misrepresent every action of English men towards their Celtic fellow-countrymen, and to attribute every throe of pain which agonizes Ireland to the direct agency of the people of England. It is time we were setting about the inquiry, who are these men. Who are the leading agents in the formation of these clubs, which we hear of as form ing, for the most desperate purposes, in every quar ter of the town ? If they were strangers, surely our police would know something of their persons and their whereabouts. Men possessed of the in telligence and influence required to enable them to become the leaders and title contrivers of a rebellion, are not likely to steal amongst us in the garb of paupers, or the patchwork freize of agricultural la bourers. The emissaries of treason must be resi dent amongst us, to enable them to acquire the in fluence, which is required for the task of inciting men deliberately to peril life in what is worse than a forlorn hope ; and what if it should be found that some of these are men for whom we are pro viding weekly, by the confidence which we have unwisely reposed in them, and the ample wages which we pay them, the means and the position to inflict upon us a deadly injury ? It may appear uncharitable to entertain such a supposition, but it may possibly be too correct. There is a way in which the loyalty of every member of the community, and at all events of every resident of Liverpool, may he tested. The authorities have called upon all, without distinction of country or religious creed, to present themselves and be sworn as guardians of the public peace. Have the Irish Roman Catholics employed in our docks, and in the warehouses of our merchants, responded to the call with the same promptitude displayed by their Protestant and English brethren ? Are they prepared to stand between the lives and property of their employers and the outrage with which they are menaced ? It is their plain duty to do so; and we trust that the test will be applied. It is the duty of every employer of labour to satisfy himself of the loyalty of those in whom he has to repose such a weight of confidence. When this is done—if we can be assured that the em ployed portion of our Irish population are sound at heart—the task of repressing the efforts of its migratory refuse will be easily accomplished. We cannot readily believe that any large portion of these men—that any more than a small minority of them—are mixed up in this projected effort of ruffianism. It is altogether too wild and hopeless. We cannot think that any body of men—intelligent working men—would throw away the prospect of future employment and good wages for the scram ble of a day and companionship in outrage and plunder with the scourings of their own country. Such men, one would think, would be able to estimate the advantages which the commerce of England offers to the industry of Ireland, and foresee too clearly the issue of the mad course in which they are prompted to embark. In what can it result except certain defeat, and the oustin g of every Irishman from the'. labour market of Great Britain. The English working classes have for long enough submitted to have the bread snatched from their mouths by the competition of the pauper labour of Ireland. At this moment our agricultural parishes swarm with her shoeless and shirtless peasantry, who are permitted to pick up and carry away with them to • their own country what would have made comfortable the cottage home of many an industrious English peasant. Thousands of Irish families have located them selves, and are yearly increasing their numbers, in our manufacturing towns and villages, to whose arrival amongst them our operatives attribute their reduced wages and partially unemployed condition. And is it to be conceived that, in case of outbreak amongst the Irish in Liverpool, or elsewhere, that their intrusion amongst us will be tolerated any longer ? It is not probable. Our Irish brethren are at present—it is no use concealing the fact— not popular amongst Englishmen of their own class. Their squalid habits have bred unequivocal disgust and dislike. And the certain result of such an outbreak as is anticipated will be the com pulsory removal of every Irish family to their own country, desolated, as in all probability it will be, from the effects of a futile attempt at rebellion, drenched with blood, and trampled down by the hoof of military power. There is one body to whom, in Liverpool, we ought really to be able to depend upon as willing to exercise some controul over this misled people. Their priesthood, at least, one would imagine, are capable of discerning the madness and wickedness of any resort to violence. We are told that it is the peculiar characteristic of Romanism that the laity are in the hands of, and respect implicitly the counsels of, their spiritual advisers. We tell the Romish clergy of Liverpool, therefore, that we look up to them for the exercise of their authority on this occasion. The anathema from the altar has been found to be unfortunately too efficacious for evil ; let us now learn that it is equally powerful in the cause of peace and order ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stn,—As Dr. Reynolds is reported in the Journal of Saturday last, to have stated at a Rebel club meeting held in Liverpool, on the 22nd instant, that there are many Repeaters in the ranks of the 89th Regiment, I wish re spectfully to inform that Rebel-in-chief, and his compa nions in iniquity, that if he succeed in getting up an excitement, as he terms it, ho will find to his loss, that the ranks of the 89th are not so tainted with foul air as he imagines ;—that they are faithful and loyal, as they have ever been, to their Queen and country, and that they are not only ready, but anxious at any moment, when re quired either to repel the aggressions of foreign enemies, or to suppress domestic rebels. If the Doctor would apply to this regiment, whenever he feels the pike and vitrol complaint coming on, they will administer to him, and to all such, free of expense, and without delay, a sufficient quantity of their purifying pills, which though nut patent medicine, yet have stood the test of long experience,—particularly having done much execution in '9B. They will be sure to give the Doctor almost instant relief, and to do away with the necessity of his being sent to Bermuda for change of air. Respectfully asking you to give this letter insertion in your next paper, I remain. Sir, your obedient Servant, A PRIVATE 1N THE 89TH REGIMENT. Barracks, Bevington Bush, Liverpool, 24th July, 1848. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—Two seamen were yesterday fined £lOO each, or to be imprisoned, for concealing to bacco in the shins to which they respectively belonged. Several other smugglers of the same article (under 61b. woight) were fined £5 each, or to be imprisoned one month. ASSAULTS ON POLICE-OFFICERS. — SeveraI cases of assault upon police-officers were yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, who fined the aggressors in considerable amounts—remarking that in some parts of the town there were lawless fellows who took every possible opportunity of attacking the police, and inviting attacks from others, with sticks, stones, bricks, &c. He expressed his de termination to protect the force from such assaults to the extent of his powers. ROBBERY FROM TILE PERSON. — A man named John Mullen, lately arrived from America, appeared yesterday, et the Police-court, against a young man, for robbing him of his purse. It appeared that complainant had gone to Mr. Pritchard's public house, at the New Quay, and after treating all the company round, went up stairs when he became rather inebriated. The prisoner followed him. and was seen to drag from his breast the purse, which was tied round his neck with a string. He made off with the booty, but was afterwards captured in Denison-street. He was sent for trial. PRESENTATION OF A SERVICE OF PLATE.—The les sees and tenants of the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, at Bootle-cum-Lytham, are about to present to Mr. Moult, of Knowsley, a splendid Service of Plate, consisting of a chocolate, coffee, and tea service, with waiter, bread basket, water-pot, slop-bowl, castors, salts. water-jug, spoons, &c., forming a full and complete service for the breakfast or tea-table, of a very elegant form, and richly ornamented. The pieces are very chaste and beautiful and have been manufactured by Mr. Mayer, of Lord street, at whose shop they may be viewed until Thursday morning, when they will be sent to the school-room at Bootle, prior to their being presented on Thursday even ing, at seven. o'clock. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The Night to Scotland, post poned from Friday, came off last evening, when the at tendance was numerous, not only of the natives of the Sister Isle, but of the general public. The whole per formance went off with more than ordinary eclat. Ma dame Warton, in conducting the representations of the characters in the poems of Robert Burns, was perfectly at home—and each successive personation was hailed with most enthusiastic plaudits. The concluding tableaux, in honour of the realms of Great Britain, is magnificently got up ; indeed, these classic representations, many of which are from the paintings of the ancient masters, though splendid in grouping, serve but to show the su periority of nature over art. The fireworks were con cluded with a temple representation emblematic of Scot land. Madame Warton remains only this week, and those who have not yet seen her poses plastiques should not for a night omit an opportunity o: re occurrence. TRE LIVEIPOOL STANDARD. EXCITEMENT IN LIVERPOOL. ARRIVAL OF THE MILITARY. It would seem that the crisis has commenced in Ireland; and we are sorry to find that the troublesome demagogues are not inclined to allow us, if they can prevent it, to be quiet in this country: The mayor and magistrates of this town, have been in consultation for some days in reference to the alarm excited by the formation of Irish clubs in Liverpool ; and in the discharge of their delicate and im portant duty they have thought fit to provide, in an es pecial manner, for the peace of the town. For some time a body of 500 military have been stationed here; the pen sioners, a most effective corps, hold themselves in readi ness ; several thousand special constables have been sworn in, and for the last few days the police have been excercised in the use of fire arm•, in addition to the sword exercise, and liking the task, have attained great efficiency. About six hundred additional policemen have been appointed. All this body are fine active young men. The additional soldiery who have already arrived are, the entire regiment, with the exception of one company, of the 9th Infantry, three companies of the 31st Infantry, and three or four troops of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons. A brigade of Artillery has also arrived from Chester; and an official communication has been received that another body of 1,000 men (the regiment is not mentioned) will arrive here direct from London. A military camp at Everton will be pitched to-day, op posite Waterhouse-lane, and the novelty and picturesque ness of the sight will doubtless attract thousands of spectators. The 9th Regiment, which arrived here by railway in the course of Saturday afternoon, and which numbers nearly 1000 men, is one of those that has been encamped for the last few weeks on ICersal-moor, near Manchester, and the only force left there consists of one company of the 9th and two or three companies of the 3C*.h. The whole of the 9th Regiment that have arrived here, under the command of Col. Davies, acre bivouaced for the present in the large cotton sheds or warehouses belonging to Mr. Molyneux, near to thy Potteries, Tox teth-park. Their tents were expected to arrive at a late hour on Saturday night : they are of a circular form, about six tents, we believe, accommodating a company of 100 men. The regiment does not expect to stay long here, and is in expectation of a call to Dublin. A body of the 81st are stationed for the present at Birkenhead. and another company of the same corps have arrived. The Dragoons, which arc under the command of Captain Costa, are located at Mr. Lucas's Repository, in Great Charlotte-street. Several hundreds of the servants of the Dock Trust have been sworn in as special constables, and a stror-g extra guard has been placed round the docks. _ _ Several thousand stand of arms have been received fiom Chester. General Sir W. Warre and General Arbuthnot have been in communication with the authorities, and, in fact, every precaution has been taken to ensure the peace of the town. The Mayor and magistrates have been in daily attendance at the Town-hall, and we believe his Worship has remained in town for several nights, rather than be absent at his house in "West Derby, lest his presence might be required. The aldermen and councillors of the respec tive wards have issued circulars to every respectable in habitant, calling on them to attend at specified places, for the purpose of being enrolled as special. constables. Large placards have been issued by the Mayor, urging the in habitants to place themselves at the disposal of the au thorities, and stating that every necessary step has been resorted to for the safety of the town. We may mention in this place a fact reflecting favourably on a body of men who have been shamefully misrepre sented and unjustly aspersed. We mean the Orangemen of Liverpool. The leaders of this noble institution having ascertained that the authorities were apprehensive about the peace of the town, summoned the members together at a few hours' notice, and a very numerous meeting took place on Friday evening, when the Deputy Grand Master took the chair, and the speeches breathed the most de voted loyalty to the Sovereign, and the strongest deter mination to assist the local authorities in maintaining order in the town. Resolutions were passed, amidst tremendous cheering, pledging every member of the body to furnish his name and address, and to act in all respects as they may be directed by the authorities. We are sure that the recollection of such a proceeding as this will secure for the Orange order a little more respect than has been hitherto shown towards them. On Saturday afternoon, the following petition was placed in the various public offices, and was headed im mediately by the signatures of the Earl of Sefton, the Mayor, the magistrates, and an immense number of the inhabitants. It remained during yesterday, and received many hundreds of additional names. The petition, pur pOrting to proceed from the merchants, bankers, &c., of Liverpool, is as follows : " That your petitioners I ail with gratitude the an nouncement made by her Majesty's Prime Minister to your honourable house of the intention of the Govern ment to introduce a measure for the immediate sup pression of rebellion, and for the better protection of life and property in Ireland. " That your petitioners, deeply sensible of the urgent necessity of such a measure as being applicable to the present melancholy condition of that portion of her Ma jesty's dominions, do, nevertheless, feel that Liverpool, from its contiguity to Ireland, and containing, as it does, in its population so large a proportion of Irish, who are known to sympathise with the disaffected in their own country, ought to be included;. and it having been ascer tained that they are already organised in clubs and arming, your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your honourable house will extend to this important sea port town a similar measure, accompanied with that permanent military protection which has been so long afforded to the other large and important towns of the United Kingdom." It will be seen that several arrests have taken place in this town, and we trust that the bold front displayed by our faithful authorities will have the effect of preventing the contemplated outbreak. It may be stated here as a circumstance showing how much on the alert are those who are endeavouring to re press the rebellious movements of the disaffected, that in formation was received yesterday morning by the Mayor, that two sons of Hyland, the notorious pike-maker of Dublin, had left that town for Liverpool, and almost whilst his worship was perusing the advice, the police of this town communicated to their superiors the fact that the two men had arrived. Of course the police were un aware of the intelligence transthitted from Dublin. We learn that the magistrates of Birkenhead have re quested the Inhabitants of that town " to act as special constables for six months." A summons, signed by four magistrates, Col. Glegg, W. Hall, Esq., J. W. Harden, Esq., and J. S. Jackson, Esq., was served on Sunday to every householder, requiring them to attend yesterday at the Town-hall, and take thenecessary oath, and we are glad to find that by half-past ten every respectable inhabitant was sworn. Accompanying the summons was a notice, signed by Messrs. Townsend and Kent, clerks to the ma gistrates, informing the parties that, " by disobedience to the precept, a penalty of £5 would be incurred." We think that there will not be two opinions as to the propriety of the steps taken by the authorities. We may say, in the language of the President of the Council, the Marquis of Lansdowne, in the House of Lords on Friday night,—" We have arrived at a state of things, and at such a period when the loss, of time is the loss of power—and the proper use of that power would not have the effect of destroying life, nor of impairing liberty, but tend to the better preservation of both." THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—We have had con siderable downfals of rain during the past eight days, ' which has been to some extent against the general finish ing of the hay harvest in late localities, and not over favourable for wheat and other grain. But the greater part of the hay has been well got in, and is on the whole a fine and large crop. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the Police-court yesterday, a respectably-dressed young man, named Wrn. 11FNichol, was placed at the bar chaged with having received certain sums due to his employers, and which he had not accounted for. He had been in the employ of Messrs. Smith, Handley, and Co., coal merchants, Crown-street, but had left them in May last. It was subsequently found that he had received several amounts which he had not paid over and entered in the books, as it was his duty to do. Various parties had paid for loads of coal to the carter who took them, and who paid the money over to the prisoner. The sums were from £1 2s. to £1 10s., and though some of them were entered as paid in the day book, no entry was made of them in the cash-book or the ledger. In one instance a sum of £1 Bs. in the day-book was posted as £0 Is. BJ. A Mr. Lawrie had the charge or superintendence of the concern, and appeared as a witness against him. A defence was at tempted founded on the alleged systematic manner in which the books were kept, by which, it was contended, Mr. Lawrie might himself have received monies from the prisoner without entering them. The prisoner was com mitted for trial at the present Sessions. It is rem:•rkable that Thomas Handley, one of the partners, is but 14 years of age. THE VAUXHALL DISTRICT.—The claims of this dis trict, which were stated in January last in the form of plain facts, have not yet been forgotten by the public; but the period through which we have just passed, has been one of very unusual depression, national excitement, and domestic insecurity. These causes have cperated unfavourably, by postponing. those expressions of sympa thy which otherwise would have been prompt and cor dial, for the unparallelled destitution of our poor. In, the month of February, an effort was made to o bt a i n th e use of a large building, with the view of fitting it up to serve as a school-room, and as a temporary place of wor ship. One which would have suited could not be ob tained; and the ordinary houses did not admit of adapta tion for such purposes. An effort was then made t o ra i se funds for the erection of school buildings, for which it was calculated that £l3OO would have been required from private sources. In this matter, a respectable commence ment has been made ; but, acting on his own judgment, and the advice of expericrced friends, the incumbent thought that it would have been. imprudent to press the subject in the spring or early part of the summer. The commercial improvement which has since taken place will justify him in resuming his visits, and he hopes to be able to bring them to a close during the autumn. In the meantime, the wants of the poor are attended to as far as possible in the circumstances. The district has be en sub-divided into fifteen sections, nine of which are visited by the incumbent himself. and the remainder by six Scripture readers. Every family, in which there is any protestant member. is looked after; the sick are visited; and the poor are instructed in their own cottages. Dona tions of bibles, testaments, and prayer books are thank fully acknowledged, from Mrs. Greig, the lady of the staff-officer, Mrs. Hausburg, Church-street, Mrs. Mor ris, West Derby, Mrs, Claypole, Kensington, Miss Richardson, Belle Vue House,Wavertree-road, and friends in London and Manchester, through Mrs. Richardson. In addition to sums of money formerly acknowledged, for the relief of the poor, the members of Mr. Hausburg's establishment, Church-street., /taw kindly contributed £1 9e. 'id, PROFITS OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE Although the production and export of cotton manu factures has been on a decreased scale this year, it is tolerably clear that the trade has been a very profitable one during the past six months, as con.pared with the corresponding period of 1847. This fact we arrive at by examining th margin left between the prices of the raw materials and of yarns and goods in the two periods. In the week ending June 26th, 1847, we find that the price of Upland cotton was 61d. to 74d. ; and that on the 27th June, 1848, the same cotton was worth only 311 to 51d., — a decline of from 20. to 21d. per lb., or about 33 per cent. The price of good seconds No. 40 water twist, on the 30th June, 1848, was 10id. per lb., against 131 d. on the same date of 1847,—a decline of 3d. per lb., or about 13 per cent. In cloth, however, there is no decline; for we find that the following were the prices on the Ist of June, 1847 and 1848 of the following descriptions :7- 1847. - 1848. 7 8 printers, 27 in. 72.. ss. 41d. to ss. 9d. ss. 4d. to 6s. 3d. 9-8 do., 36 in. 72.. 6s. Od. to 6s. 9d. 6s. 6d. to 7s. 3d. 40 in 60 siirtings .... Bs. 11d. 9s. 3d. There must he a tolerable per tentage left for labour and profit upon these prices; for, take the difference in the price of yarn at 21d. per lb., npon the first article, weigh ing, say the extreme weight of 5 lbs., at the extreme price of 63. 3d., there is an excess of ls. 61d. for the ma nufac tunr, for work and profit, over what would be af forded by the prices of 1847. CHELMSFORD, SATURDAY, JULY 22. CIVIL SIDE.— (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN and a Com mon Jury.) ROBERTS (CLERK) V. TUCKER (CLERK). ' • This was an action brought by theßev. IVIr. Roberts, the stipendiary curate of St. Botolph's, Colchester, against the Rev. Mr. Tucker, the incumbent of that par ish, to recover damages for a breach of contract. The declaration alleged that an agreement was entered into between the parties, by which, in consideration of the plaintiff duly performing the duties appertaining to his office of curate, and to the satisfaction of the bishop, &c., the defendant undertook to pay him a certain sti pend derivable from the Queen Anne's Bounty Fund ; and also to take the necessary steps required to be adopted by the incumbent of a parish to obtain from a certain so ciety called the Curates' Aid Society an additional allow ance of £7O per annum, and that the defendant neglected to perform this latter portion of the agreement, and eon sequently the plaintiff had been deprived of the additional stipend ; and this action was brought to recover the amount of that stipend for the period for which it had not been paid through the alleged neglect of the defendant. There were several pleas put upon the record by the de fendant, but the principal one was a denial that any such agreement as the one alleged in the declaration had been made by him. After the plaintiff's case had been heard, Mr. CRAM nEas submitted that the contract was void by the statute of frauds, no consideration being set out in it. Sergeant SHEE said, that in such a case as this the statute of frauds did certainly come upon him by surprise. He should submit, however, that there was sufficient con sideration disclosed in the agreement to take it out of that statute. The consideration was the performance of the duties of curate, which were perfectly well defined and understood; and he submitted that this was sufficient to take the agreement out of the statute, and that it was not bad by reason of no consideration appearing on the face of it. Mr. Justice COLTMAN said, he had no doubt the agree ment in question came within the statute of frauds. There might also, he considered, be a doubt whether the plaintiff had proved the contract he had set up, bat it was not necessary to discuss that point as he was clearly of opinion that it was within the statute of frauds, and that upon this point he must direct a nonsuit. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) EXECUTlON.—Yesterday (Monday) at 8 o'clock pre cisely, George John Hewson, the murderer of Turnk3y Woodhouse, in the Coldbath-fields House of Correction, underwent the extreme penalty of the law, in front of Newgate. The crowd assembled to witness the awful ceremony was less, much less, than such crowds usually are, there not being, at most, more than 3,000 persons present, and of them the majority was composed of the worst class of society. MONEY MARKET—Y E sTI RDAY. The funds are heavy this morning, and the dealers are anxi ously waiting the upshot of affairs in Ireland, the deranged state of which is the assigned cause of the. depressed and tor pid situation of the market. Consols are• quoted 87 to I V for money and the account. Reduced Threes, sfri to 7. Three and-a-Quarter per Cents, 87i to . Exchequer Bills are lower, at 445. to 48s. premium. Bank stock, 198 to 200. LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YBSTERDAY. The market is very quiet this morning, and business chiefly confined to the more spec ulative shares. We quote London and North W esterns, 125 to 127 ; Eastern Counties, 14a to 141; London and Brightons, 311 to 32/; Caledonians, 28 to 28/; Birmingham and Oxford, 2:0 to 24 ; North Staffords, 2/ to 2i dis. ; Great Western 3 to 1 dis. ; London and South Western, 47i to 48i ; South Eastern, 25* to 25g. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY Our market was tolerably well supplied with English Wheat this morning by land-carriage samples from the near counties, which (owing in a great measure to the unfavourable accounts received respecting the potato crops) was readily taken off by the town millers, at an advance of fully 2s. to 3s. per quarter upon the rates of Monday last. Foreign Wheat was also 2s. per quarter dearer, and the few parce:s of bonded Wheat on sale were held for a still greater improvement. Barley, for grinding purposes, sold for rather more money, and other qualities were quite as dear. Oats were in improved request, at previous prices. Beans and Peas were the turn dearer; some new white Peas, from Essex and Kent, were sold at 38s. per qr., quality sound. Floating cargoes of Indian Corn have advanced in value 3s. to 4s. per qr. SMITHFIELD CATI'Lh. MARKET.-YISSTER DAY. We have a large number of Beasts on offer to-day, but the average quality is very indifferent; consequently, there is not much reduction in the best qualitie ; but second-rate are lower, and several remain unsold. The supply of Sheep has considerably increase d; we are not, however overdone with choice qualities. Buyers are plentiful, at Friday's quotations. There is a very large supply of Calves, especially of foreign ; middling kinds are fully 4d per 81bs lower, and the choicest about 2d. We have a slow trade for Pigs. M INCING-LANE.-YESTERDA Y. The only movement in the market to-day is that Rice is selling freely at an advance of 6d. on Friday's public prices. A speculation chiefly founded upon, the potato blight is the cause. THE POLICE-COURT.—There were yesterday no fewer than 139 persons brought up at the Police-court, the gathering made from Saturday to Monday. Several of the cases, as will be found by our report elsewhere, re quired considerable time and patient attention, yet, not withstanding, Mr. Rushton effected his daily gaol delivery by half-past four in the afternoon. A DEAD CHILD FOUND.—On Sunday, a gentleman residing in Shaw-street observed a great crowd of women on a vacant piece of ground adjoining that street, and on going up found that they had discovered the dead body of an infant under a cart that was "kecked" or turned upside down. None of them, however, appeared desirous of giving information to the police, and he himself sent an officer from St. Anne-street, so that the case will be investigated by the coroner. The Rev. Moses Margoliouth has just returned from his interesting missionary expedition, which he undertook about this time last year. We understand that the reve rend gentleman is in possession of most interesting infor mation about the state of the Jews in France, Italy, North Africa, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine, the countries he visited in a missionary capacity. Mr. M.'s early edu cation peculiarly fitted him for such an expedition. We cannot help expressing our enest wish that the result of his researches may ere long be laid before the public. MORE CHILD POISONING. On the 17th instant an inquest was held at Misson, Nottingham, on view of the body of Joseph Roberts, a child two years and a half old, who died from the effects of a mixture, prepared by the mother, which she called " anodyne," and composed of portions of opium, treacle, and carraway seeds. The mixture was taken by the mother in a bottle into a field where she was at work, haymaking, in order to give to a younger child, which she had been in the habit of drug ging from its birth. MURDER.—A few evenings since a woman, named Re becca Gill, in the company of another female, was walk ing along the South Parade, Bath, at which time a num ber of persons were passing towards the railway. She asked her companion whether she knew where the people came from ? A man, named Edward Smith, overheard her, and said she " had insulted him, and he was deter mined to break her head." Having followed her for some distance, he gave her a blow under her left ear, which knocked her down, and deprived her of her senses for some time. She was taken bleeding to the hospital, where she eventually died. Smith was fully committed for trial at the next assizes. COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE-COURT. — Yesterday, a considerable number of thieves and riotous characters were charged with violently assaulting or inter cepting persons in the streets, with a view to plunder, loitering about dnring the night, robbing people of their money, and the like. They were all either committed for trial, or sent to prison and hard labour for two or three months. Mr. Rushton remarked that many parts of the town were so infested by these marauders that they were scarcely passable, but he was resolved so far as the law was available to put down a practice so dangerous and dis graceful. John Nutman, for robbing a man named John John Hughes, of his watch, (value £3,) was sent for trial at the sessions. EFFECTS OF SOCIALISM IN FRANCE.—On Friday even ing, Mr. Brindley, principal of Tarvin-hall School, deli vered a very interesting and Cvle lecture on this subject, in the Liver Theatre, which was crammed to suffocation by a highly respectable audience the moment the doors were opened. The Rev. F. Parry, incumbent of St. Cle ment's Church, Windsor, took the chair, and among the other gentlemen present were, the Rev. J. R. Conor, Rev. W. Hughes, C. S. Parker, Esq., John:Hay, EN., G. G. Watson, Esq., &c„ &c. Mr. Brindley first drew the attention of his audience to the fearful consequences that have resulted from the unchecked dissemination of socialist or communist doctrines in France. He then showed that such principles must always produce such re sults: whence the propriety of having counteracted their evil influences in this country before they arrived at ma turity. He then contended that the extinction here of socialist or communist bodies is matter of congratulation —should excite in us increased gratitude towards that good Providence that has sustained us amidst such at tacks upon onr religion and laws—should keep alive in us those sentiments of loyalty that have ever characterised Englishmen, and have been the marks of their regard for those civil and religious privileges which, united with a wholesome restraint upon licentiousness, keep England peaceful and great amidst the convulsions that so fearfully agitate the rest of Europe. Mr. Brindley met with a most enthusiastic reception from all parts of the house. Every portion of his admirable address received the most voci ferous cheering, and at the close the audience rose with one accord and as if by concert, and sang with great effect the national anthem, THE LIVERPOOL JULY SESSIONS. YesteMay these Sessions commenced in the Crown Court, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Recorder. The calendar is much heavier than usual, and contains the names of 139 prisoners, 140 of them being charged with felonies, and the remainder with misdemeanours and as saults. The following is an analysis of the calendar with respect to the state of education of the prisoners : Neither read nor write, 53; read and write imperfectly, 61 ; read imperfectly. 33 ; read and write, 5. The Grand Jury were sworn as follows : Harold Littledale, broker, Exchange-buildings, (Foreman.) Henry Booth, gentleman, Bedford-street South. John Campbell, cotton broker, Exchange-court North. John Gibson, distiller, Dale-street. William Henry Dobie, merchant, Fenwick-street. Thomas Philip Dawson, cotton broker, Exchange-alley North. William Edward Thomas Duncan, merchant, Exchange alley. Matthew Gregson, merchant, Lower Harrington-street, Tox teth-park. • Thomas Haigh, cotton broker, Exchange-buildings. Robert M'Andrew, fruit merchant, North John-street. Robert Mather, gentleman, Mount-pleasant. Henry Murray, merchant, Rumford-street. Joseph Parton, broker, Exchange-buildings. Braithwaite Poole, agent. Water-street. John Smith,wine merchant, South Chapel-street. William Stock, glass merchant, Dale-street. Richard Johnson. The RECORDER, in addressing the jury, remarked on the heavy state of the calendar, and said that although they could not entirely subdue crime, still it was their duty to make every effort to keep it within reasonable bounds. There was, as all would agree with him, a con nexion between the vice of drunkenness and the com mission of crime, and he wished to place on record his opinion that the number of public-houses in this town was far too great. He congratulated them on the prospect of returning prosperity, and complimented the working classes for the patient manner in which they had borne their sufferings during the late depression of trade. He wished some better mode of employing porters at the docks could be carried out, so that persons might not be induced to come here, when there was a sudden demand, to be subjected to severe distress and privation, when a reverse state of things came to pass. If they could employ permanent hands and do away with casual assistance it would be desirable, but he did not know whether the exigencies of commerce would admit of, anything effectual being carried out. One thing had contributed materially to prevent the suffering in this town being so severe as in many other places, and that was, that we had been preserved from internal commotion and convulsion. He regretted that the public mind should be harrowed by seditious agitators, who recom mended the commission of acts of violence, tumult, and treason. Such persons ought to be brought to justice, and he also begged to intimate that the hearers of such agitators are not safe, as the law on these points was exceedingly severe. All persons belonging to secret clubs, such as were supposed to exist in this town, were liable to imprisonment, and, if convicted, to transportation for seven years ; even the places where such meetings were held were prohibited, the owners liable to penalties, and, if publicans, their licenses might be forfeited. Meetings for training to the use of arms, except sanctioned by the Government or the magistracy, were forbidden, and per sons giving such instruction liable to imprisonment for two years. H e considered it necessary that all persons should know the state of the law on those points, in order that those who knowingly entered upon such proceedings might be aware of the danger. He was glad that every precaution was being used for the preservation of the peace, as serious consequences might arise from neglecting to take the necessary measures ; and though he had no in formation himself on the subject, those magistrates more immediately connected with the matter had, no doubt, sufficient grounds to cause them to act in the prompt and energetic manner which they had done. He concluded by dismissing the Grand Jury to their duties. The petty jury were then , sworn, and the court pro ceeded to the trial of the prisoners. The following were the sentences yesterday : —John Markland, three weeks hard labour; Mary Pearson, one calendar month, not hard labour • Patrick Brennon, seven years' transportation;- Charles Brannigan, one month hard labour—one week solitary; Jane Clare, four months' hard labour; Bernard Riley, four months' hard labour, and twice whipped '•- Johanna Hartley, ten days' hard labour—three days ' solitary ; Thomas Maguire, five calendar months' hard labour. COURT OF PASSAGE.-YESTERDAY. Before Charles. Crompton - , Esq. MC. CANN V. CROOK.—.ACtION AGAINST A SHIPPING AGENT.—This action was brought to recover the sum of £l5 Is. Od. alleged to be due to the plaintiff, Bernard Mc Cann, by the defendant, John Taylor Crook, an emi grant shipping agent in this town. The plaintiff was a passengers runner on commission for the defendant. In April last he met a person named Jones at the docks, who told him that he wished to ship himself and other persons for America. Jones was then introduced to the defend ant by the plaintiff, when a contract was entered into for the shipment of 63 emigrants. After the contract had been signed, the plaintiff applied for his commission, but was refused on the ground that it had been paid to Jones. For the defence it was contended that the plaintiff had nothing to do with the matter, although he had intro duced Jones to the office—that two contracts had been made and £lO paid to Jones on the second omtract—that at that time Mc Cann claimed commission as well as Jones, and on a clerk of the defendant's stating that if two com missions were demanded the contract would be cancelled, Mc Cann said he would not claim, and Jones also said at the time that Mc Cann ha' nothing to do with it.—The learned assessor having summed up the evidence, thejury, after considerable deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. On the verdict being given, the learned assessor remarked that it was a somewhat difficult case. Ha had been considering the matter, and had come to the same conclusion as the jury. Three other cases were tried, but they were of little interest. REVIVAL OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER. The following extracts from the circular of Messrs. Gibson, Ord, and Company, dated 21st• instant, give a flattering'. account of the favourable turn which has at length taken place in the cotton manufacture : `• Manchester, 21st July, 1848. " It is highly satisfactory to be enabled to call attention from the depression of many months past to a favourable change, which, during the last fortnight,. has manifested itself, not only in this, but throughout the manfacturing districts, accompanied by a generally improved feeling amongst all classes of our commercial community. This change is mainly attributable to a revival of demand for Germany, consequent on the armistice agreed upon be tween the confederation and Denmark, and to the pros pects we have for an early and abundant harvest, aided, in a degree, by the confidence everywhere apparent that this country will not be subjected to the anarchy which has of late prevailed so extensively in other parts of Eu rope, and that the law will triumph over the spirit of re bellion so rife in some parts of the sister kingdom." " Our home-trade demand has, in the past ten days, become very large--unusually so for the period of the year ; giving evidence of the confidence entertained in the ability of the country to consume. Our export demand has also been very extensive, much more so than during any corresponding period for the last twelve months. China, Mexico, and the- Levant have occupied most at tention ; for the former heavy purchases have been effected, and to a large extent for American account, the low prices for our staples forbidding competition in their own manufactures;: and this should be borne in mind when comparing shipments to that quarter, in reference to those of some years preceding. Our trade to the Le vant is yearly on the increase, and has already become one of our most important outlets, both for goods and yarns." • In all the most important Fabrics an advance in prices is quoted. " Yarns : The remarks made on the state of our mar ket generally apply in their full force to this article. The past ten or fourteen days have produced an extent of bu siness unequalled for a very long time, at a progressive advance." There is a similar improvement in the Woollen Mar kets of Leeds, Bradford, &c.; and a very cheerful feeling with respect to the future. RIOTOUS CONDUCT OF THREE SOLDIERS.- COLLISION WITH THE POLICE. At the Police-court yesterday, three soldiers of the 9th Regiment of' Foot, recently arrived here, named John M l Mahod, Michael Carroll, and (strange enough) another Michael Carroll, also two females, were placed at the bar of the Police-court, charged with violent and riotous con duct, and with defying the police authority and assaulting several of the officers. _ . Mrs. Sarah Birmingham, who keeps a public-house in Mill-street, Toxteth Park, said that on Sunday night the three soldiers came to her house and called for some ale, w'th which they were served, but were very noisy over it They got into a room and began to sing a song, upon which she remonstrated with them on :the ground that the day was not one in which songs ought to be sung. They stated that all days were alike to them, and continned to be very noisy, knocking the floor with their feet. Some police officrs were called in, and found them so very dis orderly that they took them into custody. In going with them down St. James's-street, a crowd gathered round. The police-officers were struck by them, and when they reached the Brick-street Station, a crowd of women, amongst whom were the temaleprismers, cheered the sol diers and annoyed the police. Nothing having distinctly come out against the females, who appeared to be re spectable, they were discharged. The soldiers it appeared had defied all the magisterial or police authority to con trol them. A sergeant of the regiment by command of his superior appeared in court, to learn how Mr. Rushton would deal with the delinquents. Mr. Rushton finally said that the evidence against them should he taken in writing, and that he should probably hand them over to their commanding officer either that afternoon or to-day, (Tuesday), to be dealt with as he deemed proper. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, (Dr. Maginn}, with ninety of his priests, have joined the Repeal League. SH AM EFUL OFFENCE.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, James Robinson, aged about 16, was brought up on a charge of attempting an indecent assault upon A female child of about three years old. The case was heard pri vately, and being proved, the prisoner was fined £5, or to be imprisoned for two months. MAN FOUND DROWNED.—On Thursday last the body of a man (name unknown) was found oa the shore near Formby Point. He was dressed in a blue pilot-cloth jacket and trowsers, and on him were found a sixpence, a penny, and a roll of tobacco. It is supposed that lie had been in tb9 water about fiYe weckz, 25,1545. DISCOVERY AND SEIZURE OF PIKES IN LIVERPOOL. APPREHENSION OF TWO PARTIES IN POSSESSION. Much curiosity, and no little excitement were caused yesterday, by the fact becoming known that a number of pikes had been seized in this town, and that two men in possession of them were in custody, and would be brought before Mr. Rushton for examination. The police-court was consequently crowded during the day, and the room, in Exchange-street East, (both the usual courts being occupied by the Recorder and the Assessor,) was suffocatingly warm, and far from odorous. The examinations in this case were deferred until a long list of police cases was disposed of, and did not, therefore, commence until nearly four o'clock. There was a fun bench of magistrates, as listeners only, and round and about it many of the most influential of our citizens. Mr. Rusirrow conducted the examination himself, and Mr. John Yates, solicitor, defended one of the prisoners, a rather good-looking, light-complexioned youngish man, named Joseph Curdy, (or Cuddy), as some of the wit nesses denominated him. The other prisoner was a very tall, stout, and also good-looking young man, named Henry Bannin, against whom, it will be found by the se quel, the case was apparently but slight, if not, indeed, untenable. The first witness called was Inspector Burrell, who gave his evidence as follows :—About six o'clock on Saturday evening last I was in Byrom-street, when I saw the pri soner, Henry Bannin. carrying a sack. I overtook:hi:re in Scotland-place, and asked what he had got. He said " pikes," and that he was only carrying them for another' person. I told him I could not allow him to pass on with them, and that he must go to Bridewell. The. other prisoner, Joseph Cuddy. came up and said they were his pikes; that he had only employed-the other man• to carry them ; and that, if there were any blame, it should fall upon him, and not upon Bannin. I asked: Cuddy his name, and who and what he was. He said in reply, " Are you a magistrate ?" I took him to the Bridewell. On examining the contents of the sack, he found' it to contain thirty-one pikes—those then on the table. [Here the instruments were examined. They were enclosed in a strong coarse sacking bag or covering, and some of them had been exposed during the day, before the examination came on,—as, it appeared to us, a theatrical display of, revolutionary "properties," which might as well have been dispensed with. These pikes were of apparently four various sizes, like large halbert or spear heads, with sockets, and double rounded iron, all in a piece, and holes for rivets, for the security of the shaft or handle, with which none of them was provided. The length varied from 21 to nearly 21 feet, including the socket. The blades much resembled those of the halberts carried by serjeants of regiments,—some of these blades being from nine to ten or eleven inches long, and others rather short of this. The blades were ground smooth, and would no doubt make a very respectable probe if thrust into the body of any one of her Majesty's lieges. The lower or shaft part of the implement, was rough, yet strong, and it appeared that they had been manufactured rapidly by aid of steam or other such machinery as is employed in forging establishments.] Mr. Burrell continued :—Cuddy, when in Bridewell, stated that he had employed the other man to carry the pikes from the saw mill in Slater-street, where he had employed a man to grind the blades.* He added that he and the man were on their way to Bevington-bush, where the man who bad ground them lived, and which was nearly opposite to the (Corporation) School. Cuddy added that he had 100 pikes more than these, which he intended to send to Waterford on Tuesday, for he had received two orders from thence, and had sent some off already. He also stated that they cost about 2s. 9d. each.. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. YATES, to show that Cuddy evaded no questions put to him, lint was candid throughout. He wished to elicit from the witness that Cuddy had said that he had supplied some pikes to a clergyman at Edge-hill, but this met a negative reply. The pikes, witness said in replies, looked to him like a premration for open rebellion, worse than gunsor pistols. The big prisoner was, he believed, a joiner.. Cuddy was, or had been, connected with Dr. Reynolds,. formerly of Leeds-street; and he told witness that he himself had sold similar things in Leeds-street. He had,. it appeared, lived with a Mrs. Champion in that street,. where they sold knives, and pikes similar to these, and' were not prevented by the authorities. Mr. Inspector John Eaton was next called, and gave testimony with reference to what he had heard Cuddy say, to nearly the same effect as that of Mr. Burrell. The principal additions were, that he had seen a bill for grinding the pikes produced, the amount of which was 6s. Bd. ; that prisoner had told witness that after a com— plaint made by Dr. Reynolds before Mr. Rushton, he• considered himself justified in selling the pikes. Prisoner said he did not know for what purpose the pikes were; but that more of them were being made, and'that he was employed to get them made. The witness also stated_ that he had not heard the prisoner say he had supplied' soma to a clergyman. Mr. Yates contended that there was no offence what ever on the part of his client, for it was not shown that he intended the pikes for an improper purpose. He agreed that seditious meetings in which such or similar weapons were advised to be used, should be stopped in the bud, but here there was no proof of evil purpose on the part of his client. _ Police-officer Thos. Halo (160) was next examined. He had, it appeared, had several communications with 6idiy,. who hld been salesman of pikes, swords, pistols, cutlasses, &c. to Dr. Reynolds, He knew this from being on the beat. The shop was now closed, but he had twice visited it at night, and he had there seen pikes, with staffs ten' feet long. Witness had once been called into the shop by Cuddy, and had conversed with him, when he stated he had two large orders to supply some sacred " (mean ing " secret") clubs. (A laugh.) Cuddy said he was going to remove to Manchester. to which he had heard Dr. Reynolds had gone, and that he was going to send , pikes to the Doctor there. He said, in cross-examination, that he had not told all these facts to his inspector, that he had accidentally been in court ; had not been asked to , give his.testimony ; and expected no reward whatever for doing so. . . . The prisoner Bannin said, in his defence, that he was perfectly innocent of any evil intent, and gave a reference to his employers in Church-street. On Saturday, he was out of work, and on a promise of 6d. agreed to carry the bag. He did not know its contents. Mr. RUSHTON said inquiry should be instantly made, and if his story were true he should be discharged. Meantime both must be remanded, and Cuddy until the case were fully sifted. It was the duty of all who had' the public peace to guard, to be nary and alert at these perilous times ; and his brother magistrates and himself were determined to use every means to preserve the pub lic tranquillity. The court then rose. *Of course, although this faet was stated, it is impossible to suppose that the respectable owners of these mills-knew any thing of their grinding apparatus being used for such a purpose. —Ed. Standard. In the thunder-storm of Friday a farmer, at Henley, in Oxfordshire, lost 50 acres of wheat out of 70. On Sunday evening week, the sugar. house of Mr.-Parker at Greenock, was Lurnt to the ground. On Wednesday, a fight took place in a field at Finchley, between two haymakers, when one of them received a blow from his adversary which killed him on the spot- The dispute was about a loan of 51-d. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the- Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess. Alice, left Buckingham Palace in a carriage and four, at. 25 minutes before three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. MONSTER STRAWBERRIES ! ! !—The- Bradford Obser ver says,—" A few days ago we were shown two fine strawberries, grown by Mr. W. Tuke,, in his garden at Hill-side, weighing three quarters of an house ! and the other a trifle less." We wonder what was the weight of the house ?' THE KIRTON. MURDER CASE.—At Lincoln assizes on Saturday, Joseph Travis, who at the previous assizes after a protracted trial was acquitted of the wilful murder at Kirtonovas indicted for a highway robbery on that occasion, accompanied with violence. He was found. guilty and sentenced to transportation for life. A,SUHAR REFINERY IN MaxonEsTEn.—The factory in Chester-street, Chorlton-upor.-Medlock, formerly oc cupied by Messrs. Samuel and Henry Marsland, is about to be converted into a sugar refinery, having been taken for that purpose by Messrs. Binyons and Hunter. We are not aware that sugar refining is at present carried on in any inland town. FREE TRADE IN OPERATION.—A eood deal of ill-feel ing has been exhibited at Birmingham, in consequence of the dismissal of a number of the hands hitherto employed at an extensive manufacturing concern in that town, and the engagement of a body of French operatives in lieu of them. Great apprehensions are entertained that a colli sion and riot will take place between them., THE POTATO CROP.—The accounts of the failure of the otato crop in some parts of Ireland, and particularly in the south and west, are of the most alarming description. It has occurred to some gentlemen, that the contribution to a fund for the purchase of turnip seed for sowing im mediately might still be in time to palliate a calamity, Which it is to be apprehended cannot again be relieved by any government measure. On Friday, at Lincoln assizes, Elizabeth Garner, little girl of pleasing appearance, only 13 years old, was capitally indicted, for administering to Mary Smith, her mistress, some arsenic, with intent to kill her. She was put as servant to a bed-ridden old woman, and wishing to be relieved from the place, she gave her mistress the poi son. The judge told the jury,. that infants under 14 were not criminally resp,nsible for felony, but that malice might supply the deficiency of age, and he left it to them to say whether there was sufficient evidence of malice to , supply it She was found? guilty, sentence of death re- , corded. The judge told the prisoner he had no doubt her. life would be spared. The old lady is now out of danger. TIDE TABLE. DAYS. I MORN, 'EVENO.I LIGHT. I HOLYDAYS, wr,c. July.l h. in.. 1 b. m. Tuesday....2sl 552 1 6 32 Wednesday.26l 7 11 1 749 Thursday ..27 1 S 24 8 57 Friday ....281 926 954 Saturday .29i 10 19 10 43 Sunday 1,0 1 11 7 11 29 M0nday..,,311 11 50 - ft. in. 13 11 13 10 14 5 15 6 16 9 17 5 18 1 LIVERPOOL: TUE,SDAY, JULY 25, 1848. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING* By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53 G ro ve street, anci LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. 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