The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-06 00:00:00

wooLttN croons tment of PLA s BROAD CLOTHS, in all Colours, from ' s FLUSHINGS. BEAVERS, PILOTS and well de 99, LORD-STREET JOHN OVERTON, J SOLE AGENTS foi Co. ha and Cheshire, t supplied with any quantit 3an two gallons, at the same pnc, Bs. per Gallon, delivered free of c 11, CABLE-STREET, LIVE N.B.—lmporters of F RPOOL 'eign Cigars CHUBS'S NEW adapted to every rom the heads of Families, Schools, &c. LIVERPOOL CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT BURN'S FRENCH DISTILLED COGNA( BRANDY. _ SALE of thg above Article viz., ALARGE and DOESKINS mad CASSIMERE JUNI la 300 41-IARRS, at £2 2s. SUBSCRIPTION, £2 2. 417 er Peb.lft, £4 48. Subscription, £2 2,. . . JAMES ASPINALL, HENRY HOLMES, I JAMES I NRTAUR No POOL BAN THE and CI lent of G COMPANY, of Admis ach as to In a more extended, usef object, t in one last inor featur The attention in this In! on, tilos, ?üblic is dire - cted to Tb :ombine atine in its ing Libra- MODERN CIRCULATING LIBRARY Ne • Nispapers or the use had at all hours of the day ROOM, Metropolitar EFRESEIMENT SALOON erg thing in this departme t is intended to be supplied on the mere c t of tt affording th, ,nt alone, equal to double their subscriptioi Those Gentlemen (o shares have been grant GuINE ie bankers r 3 of the propriety) to who re requested to pay the sum of at, may ha access to the PATENT DETECTOR; LOCK ~,•......,. that a Lock can be applied t CHUBB'S PATENT for Front Doors, Countir CHUBB'S PATENT FIR! CASES, CHESTS, & OMBINATION LATCHES use Doors, &c. &c. PROOF SAFES, BOOK ' of strong wrought ;e of Fir CHUBB'S CASH and DEED BOXES. The PATENT PORTABLE WATER-CLOSETS, not able to get out of repair, the best and cheapest made. ' C. CHUBB and SON, No. 28,•LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL I N 1' E R FASHI O N S. TOP COATS PATENT WATERPROOF TATTERSALLS, TAGLI ONIS, CHESTERFIELDS, D'ORSAYS, & MANY OTHER NEW STYLES OF TOP COATS FOR GENTLEMEN, AT THE CIVET CAT ESTABLISHMENT, FOR GENTLEMEN'S TAILORING, A,ND NAVY AND ARMY OUTFITTING; 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. DANIEL MYERS, TROUSERS MAKER AND TAILOR h every I the bank of Applications for Shares, and Payment for Shares already granted. will, on and after the Ist February, be charged Four Guineas, and Two Guineas Subscription, and non , admitted but by a ballot in committee of informing his Application for t remainder of the shares to be made to MAN, Stock and Share Broker, BENJ. COL 3. 0 0 MORRISH O A K , SATIN, I MANTLI AND OTHER VELVETS In cat( J. and M shall combine Utility with E adapted to the colder Wintei hitherto so much sought aft( the present month, Month's than tt !r, and more CARDINAL, Season, varyir in Price from Two Guines to Four-and-a-Half Guineas. - The Stock of WOOLLEN CLOAKS, in all their varied will be found, if not to exceed in extent, at least quite Styles equal to a r the best Patterns ted with. Good Travelling IA AVAILS himself of this opportunit Friends and the Public, that he his Purchases for the present S Ma* rial for Gentlemen's first -class Dress, cons is Superior Waterproof Beavers, Waterproof Plaids, Doc Pilots, Devon Kerseys, and AlbertTweeds,Constitut Mixed Tattersall Tweeds, for splendid Top Coats. Black and Blue Kers .milled ( s Trouser West of England Broad C lothsl for Gen tlem e from the first Makers in I warranted tc Englaud colour, A Foreman being engaged at this purpose of cutting out Gentlemen': Breeches, this very important part of Gentlemen's Dress has proper attention ; and those Gentlemen who have no already experienced this benefit of D. MYERS'S Tailoring will immediately upon the first trial acknowledg improvement, both in fit, style, and ease. D. MYERS, in submitting the following list of _ assure his Friends and most respectable Connexions, that s Riding Trousers and this great all the Materials at his Establishrn r entare selected from the first Houses in England and Paris ; that no Job or defective Goods are tolerated, and that they are manufactured entirely from New Wool : £ s. d. The New Waterproof Tattersall . Ditto Silk Lined anti Stitched .. Pilot Wrapper Coats Waterproof Pilot, Tweed, or Beaver Chesterfields Superfine Cloth Great Coats, with Silk Velvet Co' tars, Cuffs, and Facings, &c., beautifully mac' - Livery Top Coats, with Cape ......... Superfine Cloth Dress Coats, in Black sible, or any other colour 3 18 0 310 0 Blue, Invi- 3 0 0 0 15 0 0 18 0 1 4 0 Cassimere Vests Stout Waterproof Tweed Trousers Double-milled Constitutional Do. Splendid Qualities, in Plaids, Albert Mixtures, and all the Newest Patterns The very best Trousers that can be produced, in Black, Blue. Milled Drab, Devonshire Fine Cas simeres, double-stitched, and fitted beautifully to the boot, in French or English Styles Real Genoa Silk Velvet Vests Rich French Figured Velvet Waistcoats, of the newest and most beautiful designs.. £1 16 0 to 2 Figured Shawl Vests, most Fashionable Patterns, both in English and French Fabrics £0 16 oto 1 8 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 The first order at this Establishment will prove that it is not only more moderate in prices than any respectable House in Liverpool, but that it is also conducted with precision and attention equal to any of the most noted Tailoring Esta blishments of the West End of London. NAVAL AND MILITARY UNIFORMS, To the latest regulation. Maclntoshes,- and Waterproof A variety of Top Coats, Clothing, kept ready made. CONTRACT Three Suits, any Colour ..... Four Ditto, Ditto. ... Five Ditto, Ditto Six Ditto, Ditto _ Large Sizes Extra. The old Suits to be returned. Merchants and Captains supplied with Clothing suitable for any climate, at prices unprecedented, owing to the now prevailing depression of Trade in the Manufacturing Dis- tricts. OBSERVE, 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, -72 CAUTION.—HALL'S PATENT STARCH. MR. LAWRENCE HALL begs to acknowledge that liberal patronage he has received for so many years, and deems it a duty to himself and the public to guard them against the many spurious imitations which are daily foisted upon them under the various denominations of " BEST PATENT STARCH, " BEST W HITE PATENT STARCH," " PATENT GLAZED STARCH, SATIN-FACED STARCH," " SUPERIOR PATENT STARCH," &C. &C. These invariably disappoint the consumer, and greatly injure him (the only Patentee) by an inferior artict"--- his make; an chasing to caution them against pnr, i article now offering for Salt Dwder, and from Potatoes, is in the ... __ distinguished from HIE PATENT STARCH from Pi )tatoes _ hich, being mach thus b( s of very inferior Alllivls LW. Al strength, and will not retain its stiffening qualities when exposed to the atmosphere. It is a fact well known, that it was a few years after Mr. HALL took out a Patent for his invention before he brought the article to the perfection for general use to which it has now attained ; and it is better known still, that all the imita tors have utterly failed in making a Starch at all similar or equal to HALL'S Patent Starch, o ther makers being ig_ . of his present mode of preparing and if such were not th case, their premises and situation would not be suitable. Purchasers of Starch are therefore particularly requested not to be deceived by a spurious article, and they are re requested to ask for HALL'S IMPROVED PATENT STARCH. No other Makers of Starch ever bad a Patent for it. Wholesale Agents, J. and R. RAIMES and Co., Edinburgh Sold as usual by all respectable Grocers and Italian Warehousemen, &c. in the Kingdom. PATENT STARCH WORKS, SANDIACRE, near Nottingham ;norant .s pectful I v Just published, the 12th edition, Sold by T. Newton, 16 and 29, Church -street , Liverpool, Price 45., and sent free to any part of the kingdom on receipt of a Postoffice Order for 55., THE SILENT FRIEND; a Medical Work, on nervous Debility, and Disorders arising from an Impure State of the Blood, embellished with Engravings, representing the deleterious effects of Mercury on the Skin, by Eruptions on the Head, Face, and Body ; followed by Observations on Marriage. By R. L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Sur geons, LONDON and BIRMINGHAM- Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Wilson, 18, Bishopgate-street ; Parkin, Compton-street, Soho ; Jackson and Co. 130, New Bond - street , L ondon ; Buckton, 50, Briggate, I:eeds; Steward, Oldham-street, and Courier-office, Manchester; and by all Booksellers in town and country. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is, therefore, calculated to afford decided relief I n such e w ho have fallen into a state of chronic debility. persons the appetite is generally defective, and the relish of l if e i s almost subdued; they are wanting in that activity of mind and energy of conduct which their affairs require ; and partly from conscious weakness, partly from excessive appre hensions, are liable to sink despondently into a premature grave. It is for these that Messrs. PERRY and Co.. Surgeons, particularly designed their CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM. Whatever enriches the blood, without inflaming it ever braces without stimulating t oo violently the n system ; whatever frees and disburdens the viscera and other important organs ; whatever resolves obstructions, and throws off viscid humours ; whatever strengthens the general habit, and brings back the muscular fibres to their natural and healthy tone ; whatever is calculated to produce in a cons id e rable degree , all or an y of thes e e ff ects , mu st be, under certain modifications and restrictions, equally adapted species of decay. dise Hence, — though th e C or di a l Balm to eve: of Sy] hydra in one quarter on ly, it w itsefoniLd to apply indirectly inner ; i ll sh ort, the OT collaterally, of nature can be completely reinstated by this excellent me dicine, for its reanimating powers exceed almost credibility ; N fine, rich, stimulating balsamic stomachic nnnlities—its of the blood—and, aboy^ lebility all. the complete invi ot the nervous ?ystem, whereby the whole faculties become reat o d to their pro per power er li a e n a ci nty fu , a c c o t n . sisten a cv nd the fallen fabr ic of life i s . raised up an d duration, upon the ruins of an emaciated an d premature decay, to sound and pristine health. As nothing can be better adapted to help an d nourish the consti tu ti o n, so there is notbing more generally acknow ledged to be peculiarly .eescious allinward w ast i n ffi l o ss of appetite , indigestion, depression of spirit s , tremblin g o r o r shaking of t he hands or limbs, obstinate cough, shortness of breath, or consumptive habits. It possesses wonderful efficacy in all cases of syphilis, fits, head-ache, weak ness, heav i ne ss and lowness of spirits, dimness of sight, conf use d wanderings of the mind, vapours, and melancholy ; purific,t kinds of bysteric comp! by its use. Constitutions relaxed, weak, or decayed, in men or women ' are under its imme diate influence. Old coughs, asthmas and consumptive habits ar ' ---.A Pnverty of blond. soon relieved, and speedil ad emaciated limbs, will, er - - long, meet the happiest chang, become rich and balsamic, and flesh, firm and healthy. Sold in Bottles, price Hs. each, or the quantity of four in one Bottle for 335., by which one Hs. Bottle is saved_ Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by' limbs be covered with fee of one pound, without which no notice whatever can be taken of the communication (postage pre-paid.) PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIPIC PILLS Prim. 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11- per box, or Mercury ) contain Copaiba, Warranted not options in any } mi. • J • , Taint, Pimp, Sm., being justly calculated )lood from all foulness, c ounteract every morbid ---t- .Tid emaciated constitutions to tions or Scrof9!o to cleanse tt affection, and tore weak alth and .ons, may Messrs rind Co usual, at No. 4, Great Cha I. as I Only one nrsonal vis to enable Messrs. Perr : London, and 71 Easy-row,) Bir _be Morning until ona Eleven till One. from a country patient, ;OP such advice as will ter all other means have N.B.—Country Druggis I—eiectual cure, I Patent Medicin h e I b e suppyed Wit h Balm of Syriacum, with the usual allowance to tne zraus,,.,J most of the principal Wholesale Patent Medicine Houses in London. Sold, Wholesale, by Messrs. EVANS and Co., Druggists, Lord-street, Liverpool. .pper CLOAK Fine Saxony Woollen - Ditto .. 225. 6d. to 355. AN ASSORTMENT OF CHILDRENS' CLOAKS CLOAK ROOM, COMPTON HOUSI MANCHESTER. SPREAD EAGLE COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL, HANGING-DITCH, BACK ENTRANCE FROM CANNON-S 7 STALL respectfully acquaints ies Visiting Ma n the above spaclon ate Hotel, (lately occupied by M erly of the Thatched House Tavern, Ma from the liberal system he intends to ag for the taste and comfort of his guest share of public patronage and support , Snacks, &c W F. WI V V • cial Public, and Fa be has taken and entered t nient, and centrally s E. Hold •eet,) and hop, to receive a f Mutton Broth, Soups, Chops, Steal Daily, from Ten till Two o'clock. A liberally-provided Table d'Hote on Tuesday, Thursda) and Saturday in each week, at Half-past One o'clock pre- The Wines, Spirits, and Cigars ha the greatest care, and will be found of first-rate qualiti Capital Stabling and Coach-house. peen selected with WHEREAS a Petition of CHARLES WARD, of No. 116, Saint James-street, in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, baker and flour dealer, having been filed in the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, and the interim order for protection from process having been given to the said Charles Ward, under the provisions of an Act of Parlia ment, passed in the parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors," the) said Charles Ward is hereby required to appear in Court before WALKER SKIRROW, Esq., the commissioner acting in the matter of the said petition, on the 7th of February next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, at Liverpool, for the purpose of being then and there examined touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to the pro visions at_ the said act. All persons indebted to the said Charles Ward, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. WILLIAM BIRD, the Official Assignee, nominated in that behalf by the commissioner DOMESTIC A poor fellow being laughed at for wearing a short coat, said, No matter, it will be long enough before I have done with it." editor, at one of the lat as the male Chartist meetir iz la nder w Oh, thin, THE CH ,n Pak, am to the Deanery of St yman, has been appointed to the Archdeaconry 1 the Rev. John Brownlow, a connexion of the to the valuable living of Ardbrae- of the Hon. A 's are t emplary el, of Emly ; SUNDAY TRADING.—For some time past the inhabitants of the populous parish of St. Pancras, London, having com traffic allowed to be carried on, not only on but throughout the entire day. During _ s the various paving boards have, ho wever , subject into their consideration, and having issued ,o the effect that any person opening shop on plained of t the Sunday mornir the last few c taken t printed notic Sunday for th with the utr _ . . articles, will be proceeded against .he . law. The itinerants who sell cewise cautioned not to offend, as zainst them. streets are li SHIPPING OF KINGSTON, THE CAPITAL OF CANADA.— We have been at some little pains to ascertain the amount ort (Kingston) during it our distant readers _ . . and those who may be interested in our trade with some idea of the business transacted here in the shipping department. The result of our labour is the ascertaining of the fact, that from the Ist of April to the Ist of November inclusive, shipping employed in the carrying trade has entered this port to the extent of 708,196 tons. There are yet five weeks, perhaps six, of active business before navigation closes, which will increase the amount about one-sixth. When to this is added the fact, that the present season has been one of un usual depression, and that one-fifth of our tonnage has been for some time unemployed, the carrying trade which calls into action such a commercial marine will not be deemed un- important. On h that to the 28th n 1 ver th a Quebec Gazette, we find of vessels arriving at that port from sea and from the low - er parts amounted to 308,792 tons. The contrast will speak most favourably for the com merce of our inland seas.—Kingston News. A paragraph, which we believe originated in the imagi nation of the London correspondent of a Scotch paper, has been so generally circulated, and so generally reproduced in various forms, that it may be as well to give it the flat con- tradiction it deserves. The report stated that the increasing infirmities of the Duke of Wellington, in addition to the cares of his new office as commander-in-chief, had induced that venerable statesman to declare his intention of not re suming the leadership of the house of lords, and that it was proposed to supply the place of the noble duke t imme- iiately calling Lord Stan ley to the upper house_ nsinuated that this course was objected to by some nr It was ers of the cab ould dispute Lord Aberdeen, especially enabled to state approachintr oar; rernment the Duk t, as in th We are Wellington will, in the der of 'ten tion exist or has ever nley's elev 3n to the peerage by the ordinary pr THE BAN MA NCFIES' —Times J. F. Foster, I to the s ]., 011 t of the as held ntended that the ( er ultituatelv decided that the creditors were entitled to a balance-sheet made up from the commencement of the joint partnership of Raleigh, Holland, and Good, in 1836, in order to show how i 6 6s. 9d, which appeared on the ie clef books at the date of the partnership of Raleigh and Holland, was explained. After Mr. Foster had stated that he had up wards of 200 objections to the balance-sheet an adjournment took plat VALUABLE SUGGESTION.—A. correspondent of the Times, Mr. Wm. Bevan, alluding to the death of the young woman Holland, and the serious injury of her sister in jumping out of a window duri last we( the ffre iii Little Prescott twenty feet scpiare be deposited at all thipolice-stations, ;Inc with the different fire-brigades and Fire-engines, to be callec the Fire-net.' Such nets being lig'ht would be very portabh and could, on any alarm of fire, be instantly conveyed to tht scene of the conflagration, and of course made use of if ne. cessary ; not bystanders to the person in danger ju t hand in the cas :tout - on all sides, and then k . Had such a netting beer I have no doubt that botF the young women would ha , / Generally, in cases of fire, I moment is to be lost ; and th vantage, that it scene of the calm HAYDN d with a few bru peril be the folic eminent organ, and of music in ge applied on arriOr which the artisans Frankfort-on-the- . r of this great man err, and exex ait-fr the habits of concerts came 'afore his parer Of which I as a v Augrian loaded with year be difficult tofinc of this sort, musical education as genes is in Gerdiany.—G. frogart, :e tenor voic al. On one of those journe b of .1 1 the c Out of dignitate the reflecting there are TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot insert the letter of " A Subscriber," u statements are authenticated by his signature. application further. I Oar Etherpool tintbao unerring A" piece of ma FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1843 piece of machinery rhe impression grows in strength, in well-informed quarters, that, amongst the measures of the forth coming session of Parliament, will be one to place on a satisfactory basis the currency of the country. As a portion of such a measure, we trust.to see an attempt to correct the -hitherto mischievous working of the system of joint-stock banking. To the enormous facilities imprudently afforded to favoured individuals —and principally to the scheming and the reckless— by these ill-managed concerns, is to be attributed a vast portion of the suffering and disaster which have recently pervaded the commercial community through- out Great Britain. In our own town we are proud to say that hitherto the operation of the system, in the cue of our local joint-stock banks, has produced no such disgraceful crises as we have had to notice in some other towns. We have had, in Liverpool, no " Northern and Central Swindle ;" no " Imperial Swindle;" no " Bank of Manchester Swindle." But it is sheer folly to imagine that the merchants and brokers of Liverpoolthe importers and factors of the great staple of manufacture of the neighbouring dis tricts, can have passed uninjured through the dis arrangements and disasters produced by these dis graceful affairs. We have suffered—as the whole com munity has suffered—from the revulsion of credit and the stagger which confidence has sustained by these failures; and we can never count upon a year's un checked prosperity of our commercial affairs until the entire system be revised and placed upon a totally different foundation. As a system, we conceive that joint-stock banking is alike unsound and unsafe in Principle. We have watched the rise and progress of many of these insti- tutions ; and we know their organisation to have been dishonest, and their subsequent operation baneful. It is unsound in principle and unsafe in practice, that such an undertaking as a bank should be conducted with a view to immediate divisible profits, by officers tempted, in order to curry favour and exact praise from proprietors, to make those apparent profits large, by running unjustifiable risks. It is unsound in prin ciple and unsafe in practice, that the arbiters of credit to be given to the customers of a bank—the arbiters of the mode and extent to which its funds should be advanced to this or that tradesman—should be rival tradesmen, themselves, in too many instances absort ing its favours. Experience, we think, has fully prove these positions. The principle, too, that shares i these undertakings should be transferable, ' is, w think, not calculated to lead to steady and safe busi rho temptation to declare large dividend which circumstances do not justify, is thus kept up; and whilst we may imagine that some particular con cern is rapidly progressing in prosperity, it may occur —and such has occurred—that its proprietors are only draining the store-room and emptying the strong box, before deserting the sinking ship. It is said, indeed, that joint-stock banks are safe for the public. The private hanker, if he fails, may pro bably not pay more than a dividend of ss. in the pound, whilst the joint-stock bank, consisting of a large number of proprietors, satisfies every claim. Be it so, as far at least as the public creditor of the bank is concerned. But, we ask, is the amount of suffering and ruin incurred less from the failure of the joint stock banker than from the failure of the private banker ? We say, unhesitatingly, NO ! The number of poor shareholders —of industrious tradesmen, widows, and orphans—robbed of their little depen dencies by the failure of such undertakings as the Bank of Manchester and similar bubbles, is greater than by the failure of any private bank; and there is this additional injustice connected with the former, that whilst the private banker gives up every shilling of his property to satisfy, so far as it will go, his entire defalcations, the rich shareholder of the joint-stock bank—who has been, in fact, the banker—who has be come rich from the facilities which he has been enabled to appropriate to himself, and from dabbling in the shares of the concern —can, if no further loss than that of the entire banking capital has been sustained, snap his fingers at the sufferers, and, in the " otium cum of his suburban villa, laugh, over his pOrt nd claret, at the gullible qualities of the world, in which he has raised himself from the position, say of a cow-jobber, to that of a prince, or a pawnbroker, amongst merchants. I am, Sir, We shall not of course presume to speculate upon the particular course to which the government of Sir Robert Peel may have recourse, to meet the difficulties of this question. We may suggest, however, as one step by whiclr safety to the public from the malversa tions of bank directors may, in some measure, be secured. Let transfers of bank shares be gazetted as dissolutions of partnership; and we shall have, we feel assured, sounder and more honest proprietaries. We shall, moreover, know them. At a meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Leaguers, held in Birmingham on Tuesday last, Mr. Richard Cpbden is reported to have delivered himself after the following fashion :—" There was not a class of men in Birming ham who, if compelled by necessity, could not, abroad, either in America or on the continent of Europe, maintain themselves respectably. He could not say the same thing, however, of the aristocracy, whether members of the House of Commons or House of Lords. (Cheers.) The members of the British aris tocracy of the present day were not like the old French noblesse; if driven abroad by adverse circumstances, they could not emigrate and turn dancing and drawing masters. (Laughter.) They were only fit for grooms, jockeys, or coachmen; the business of the stably-yard or the chase was their principal occupation; the aristo cracy of this kingdom POSSESSED NO HIGHER AC COMPLISHMENT, that he (Mr. Cobden) knew of. (Loud cheers.)" It has been well said that " there is nothing in the Creation which, by a wise man, ought to be regarded as contemptible." The most loathsome reptile, the most noxious insect, exist for some beneficent purpose, known to the mighty hand which formed them ; and, if we would examine it rightly, scarcely a sentence or a sentiment falls from the lips even of a fool which is not susceptible of being made to convey a moral. • To " Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, And good in every thing ;" and though, on a first perusal, the reader of the above balderdash of Mr. Cobden may see in it only an in stance of the pert puppyism of the utterer, and the coarseness and stupidity of the male and female bibbera of tea and guzzlers of bun-loaf,' by whom it was re ceived with " cheers" and " laughter," it will be found, on examination, to present a tolerable index to the mind and the philosophy, as well, of the League body. We pass over, for the present, the puppyism, the falsehood, and the insolence, which characterise the passage ; and proceed to examine the argument which it is intended to convey. The British peer, if com pelled to emigrate, could not make a Brummagem tea tray, a plated candlestick, a gun, or a pair of snuffers; the Brummagem artist could, and thereby " make a re spectable living :" ergo, the British peer is a less va luable member of society, and his well-being less to be regarded than that of the artisan. The members of the British aristocracy cannot expeditiously convert themselves into " dancing masters and drawing mas ters ;" the French noblesse have proved their aptitude in both these distinguished professions; ergo, the former is to be regarded as inferior to the latter. The concluding portion of the sentence would only entitle its utterer to have his nose pulled, if there could he found amongst the slandered any one who did not consider the office beneath even his groom or the lowest help in his stable-yard ; and we therefore leave its consideration. In Mr. Cobden's estimation, then, and that of his fellow-agitators, a man or a class is only valuable in roportion to his, or its, ability to produce, or to per- form some office by which, if cast upon any society or nto Any country, a respectable maintenance can be All classes above such are, in the new state )t society ivnic luperfluous and valueless. The intellects, the tastes, he ill-requited occupations and pursuits, by which ig about, existing society is humanised and elevated, a less weeds when compared with the craft which can fashion a shoe or weave a piece of calico. Carry thi ve•-y /itt/ this philosophy a littl inery can weave with more skill than a human being : it does not eat it does not tire ; it " does not get drunk :" ergo, a of -the League is a more valuable member of society than the human weaver, the most gifted sage, the learned historian; the poet, or the statesman ! This is not an exaggerated conclusion. 'lt is the heart, the marrow, the soul, of the utilitarian philoso phy which is gaining ground amongst us. That philosophy regards man as a machine, or the raw material of a table, a chair, a pair of stockings, or a printed calico, rather than as a being with an immortal soul to be saved,—with an intellect capable of grasping the universe,—with passions to be subdued,—with feelings, tastes, and appetites to be elevated above the grossness of a mere earthly nature. In such a spirit it would legislate ; and we ask our readers what a world that would be into which the ascendancy of such a philosophy would convert this mingled and varied scene in which we live, and in which, if there is much deformity and suffering and grief, there are also alter nations of beauty and quiet and joy, to enable poor human nature to support its lot ! Such a world would be one arid desolation ; a landscape without a flower; a smoke-enveloped scene of toil and strife, without a glimpse of blue sky or sun to cheer its dark ness ! But let us briefly glance at the concluding sentence of Mr. Cobden's insolent slander. The aristocracy of England, he says, •` are only fit for grooms, jockeys, or coachmen. The business of the stable yard or the chase is their principal occupation ; they pc sess no higher accomplishments, that he knows of " ! Pray, does this pert smatterer wish to bring his order—the Cottonocracy of the manufacturing districts—into a comparison with the aristocracy of England, in intel- lect, in virtue, in learning, in manners, in tastes—in any qualification, moral, physical, or intellectual ? Surely even his insufferable impudence would not go thus far; for we do not hesitate to say that a class more inferior in all these qualifications does not exist, as a class, throughout the United Kingdom, than is to be found in the agitating body to which Mr. Cobden belongs. The house stewards and butlers of many of the gentry only of England are infinitely the super,iors of the bulk of them ; and the assistants in many a draper's shop are, in all but the possession of money, the equals of many that we know—aldermen, mayors, or coun cillors of new corporations, though they may he. The cottonocracy of Manchester and Bolton 'and Stock port and Rochdale and Wigan and Chowbent and Oldham—men grovolling still in the sordid quest of money, whose possession alone dignifies them above the wretched slaves who toil for them—men who wor ship it as a god—dream of it, waking and sleeping, daily and hourly ;—compare such men with the chival rous aristocracy of England ! As a sane man, Mr. Cobden, you could Hot intend any such suicidal folly ! The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday contains an announcement, which we copy, verbatim et literatim. " PRINTED VELVETEENS.--A beautiful specimen of printed velveteens has been produced at the Ancoats Vale Works, by Mr. W. Barlow. The cloth is entirely cotton; bnt so beautifully dressed as to appear like silk. Th 3 design represents a stalk and ear of wheat, grouped, or rather thrown together, very tastefuly, with a small scroll peeping from be neath, bearing the word FREE. Mr. Barlow presented two pieces of it to Sir Robert Peel, who, in acknowledging the New Year's Gift, returned Mr. Barlow the following hand some letter." Possibly the small scroll peeping from beneath the "ear of wheat, grouped, or rather thrown, together very tastefully," and the occurrence, has furnished a fund of amusement to Mr. W. Barlow's acquaintance. Sir Robert, however, has apparently no suspicion of the jocose intent of the velveteen presentation; as, indeed, will be apparent from the following reply which he has written to the before mentioned Barlow ' Drayton Manor, 3181 Dec., 1842 Sir,-1 am much obliged by your kind attention, in send ing a specimen of the beautiful manufacture which accom panied your letter. Lady Peel admired it so tnu^h that she will convert one of Me pieces into a cloak for her own wearing : the other 1 . will apply to my own use. i- o ur obedient servant, Robert Peel." The instruction intended to be conveyed to the Pre _ mier by this, must, we th ink, be tolerably apparent. We have a strong persuasion that t he gentleman in question is a member of the league; and, no d ou b t, t h e recital of "bearing the word FREE," is so very sma l l a scroll, that it has escaped th e e y e of Lad y Peel or of the Premier. Otherwise, we really cannot see w i th what ts,ho however her ladyship can a pp ear, cloaked i n the livery of the League, or Sir Robert present a jack et o f t h is h "beautiful ing haPPen occasionally in thi s wor l d udfao c ture" to the stable boy. Strange of ours ; and if the C onservative p ublic s hould be in ve a r n , startled, some of these days, by the vision of Sir Robert's tiger, passing down Parliament -street, clad in cotton velvet, with a "small scroll hearing the word FREE" beneath his waistcoat or his jacket pocket, we trust that none of her Majesty's lieges will take liberties with the pocket in question, but rather attribute the invitation to the temporary blindness of his illustrious master. William Barlow, of Ancoats Vale Works, take care that you be not indicted as aiding and abetting ! As much anxiety is felt to know the interior arrange ments at the opening of the Collegiate Institution to day, we subjoin a programme of the proceedings to take place within the building Previous to the arrival of the procession , the gentle men composing the Philharmonic Society, who have kindly offered their services to conduct the musical performances, will play the Jubilee Overture (by Weber), and a variety of other music. Before the entrance of the individuals forming the procession, a voluntary will be performed as a duct on the organ. The following Anthe►n, by Mozart, will then he 'Judge me, 0 Lord, according to thy righteousness; and let them not triumph over me. " I will give thanks wit° thee, 0 ! Lord, among the peo ple, and I will sing unto thee among the nations ; for the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens, and tl y truth unto the clouds." Prayer will then be offered up by the Rev. Rector Campbell The Rev. Rector Brooks will make a few intro ductory remarks. The Inaugural address will follow. The Principal will then make a few observations descriptive of the princi ples in which it is intended to conduct the educational department of the Institution. The National Anthem. " Lord of Heaven, and Earth,-and Ocean," will thun be sung. The Bishop will pronounce his benediction, which will close the proceedings, As the company are going out, the Hallelujah Chorus, " Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reign eth !" will be performed. We had prepared a few remarks upon the proceed ings of the Paid Officers' Committee, as laid before the last two meetings of the Council, and the debates thereon. The pressing demands upon our space in the present number c ompe l us , though reluctantly, to withdraw our observ a ti ons until Tuesday. In the meantime we may say that the Committee deserve un qualified praise for the searching investigations they have instituted — investigations which cannot fail to be of great practical benefit to the welfare and manage ment of the corporate estate. EW PATENT.—Ainongst the new patentljor Deeembe, last, is one granted to John Grantham, Esq.. civil engineer, " for certain improvements in the construc tions and arrangements of the engines and their appendages, for propelling vessels on water." We understand that the March Assizes are likely to be extremely heavy. There are now in Kirkdale gaol upwards of 130 prisoners for trial ; there are also between 60 or 70 prisoners in the same gaol, who will take their trials at the sessions on the 19th instant. —a power-loom—in the estimation THEFT BY A SERVANT.—A woman named Jane Johnson, )f this town,. was yesterday charged at the Police-court with having com mitted several acts of theft in her master's house. She had been about three months house-servant with Mr. and Mrs. Dickenson, Upper Dexter-street. About a week ago Mr. Dickenson missed a child's silk scarf from the kitchen, and the prisoner being questioned denied all knowledge of it. Soon afterwards, however, several small articles belonging to a lodger in the house were found in the prisoner's box, and a brooch being also missed, she was given into custody, when the brooch was found amongst her clothes, and in her pocket a gold ring belonging to the lodger. She was committed for trial at the sessions. A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Han nah Parks, a child of threeand a half years old. The parents of the deceased occupy a room in a house in Cheapside. On Tuesday week the mother had occasion to go down stairs for a jug of water, and left the deceased and her brother (a child of only two years old) in the room. The fire bad been lighted only about five minutes. Before she got down stairs she heard a scream, and on running up found the deceased all in flames. She called for assistance ; the fire was extin guished, and the child was carried to the dispensary and dressed. Deceased was much burnt on the right side and face, and though afterwards regularly attended at home by a surgeon, she declined, and died on Monday. TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT FOR A CLERGYMAN.—Last evening the congregation and Sunday school teachers attached to St. Simon's Church, in Gloucester -street, assembled in the School-room, for the purpose of presenting to their elo quent and esteemed minister, the Rev. J. R. Connor, a testimonial of their gratitude for his pastoral labours amongst them, in the shape of a magnificently bound folio edition of Bagster's Polyglott Bible. The proceedings opened with prayer, after which an address was read from the congrega tion to the rev. gentleman, and the Bible presented to him. Mr. Connor acknowledged the gift in a brief but excellent speech, in which he observed that he had preached to his flock no other doctrine but Christ, and Him crucified. The rev. gentleman was evidently much affected at this token of the esteem in which he is held by his congregation. A hymn was then sung, and the proceedings terminated by Mr. Connor pronouncing a benediction. THE FUNDS, EDNESDAY EVENING.—The funds con tinue to exhibit an upward tendency. There w ere some f ew purchases of 3 and 3 per Cent. Reduced Stock, which gave an impulse to prices, and they were well supported to the close of the day. The final quotation_of Consols for the r. .1 • .• account was 94k to t; 3 per:Cent s . R e d uce d. 954 ; a Ex chequer-hills, 595. to 61s. premium ; Bank Stock, 172 to 173 ; India Bonds, 54 to 55 premium ; 34 per. Cents. Re duced, 102; and Long Annuities, 12 11-16 to i; Canadian Debentures were quoted 2 premium. Mexican Stock was a shade firmer, but little or no alteration took place in the other foreign securities. The last price of Spanish Actives was In to 19; ditto, New, 231 to ; Portuguese Converted. 351 t 0,61 ; Dutch 24 per Cents., 52 to 4-; ditto 5 per Cents., 1014 to 4 ; Danish, 844 to 85i ; Colombian, 231 to 4 ; Bra zilian, 72 to 73 ; and Belgian, 1014 to 1024. DREADFUL DEATH OF A BOT.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Julius Borrowscale. A married female named Daulby, said that on Sunday morning last, as she was passing along Waterloo road, she saw the deceased falling from the top of a house there. He fell on his side into the street, chise to the chan nel. The deceased never moved, and was found on being taken up to be quite dead. She first saw him in the act of falling—and he was then about half-way from the top of the house. The right side of his bead was terribly smashed. A brother of the deceased, a stone-mason, said he lived in St. George's -place, Williams -street. The deceased, according to the evidence of one of the witnesses, kept pigeons, and had a place for them on the roof of the house. The deceased might have gone up there, as he was frequently in the habit of doing. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." TRUST FOR THE SUPPORT OF SICK AND DISABLED MERCHANTS' SEAMEN, Sc.c.-011 Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, a meeting was held in the Committee-room of the Under writers-room, for the purpose of choosing fifteen persons to be Trustees for the ensuing year for putting into execution, for the port of Liverpool, the provisions of an Act of Parlia . ment, 4th and sth Wm. IV. amending an act of the 20th Geo. 11. for relief and support of sick, maimed, and disabled seamen; and the widows and children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the merchant service; and for other purposes. On the motion of George Grant, Esq., se conded by Alexander, Esq., the following - gentlemen were appointed the trustees :—Messrs. Charles Horsfall, Samuel Sandbach, William Dixon, William Potter, Edward Sephton, William Phillips, Henry Holmes, John Nelson Wood, N. D. Bold, Edmund Brock Lyon, William Dixon, R. Rankin, W. Rotheram, William Nicol, and Richard Willis. FlRE.—lntelligence arrived in Wigan, on Wednesday noon, that Whitley Hall, the residence of Alexander Fowden Halliburton, Esq., was on fire. The report caused a great sensation, as the ball is one of the finest mansions which add interest to the scenery in the neighbourhood of Wigan. Fire engines were desp a t c h e d as speedily as the required arrange ments could be completed. Fortunately, their aid was not required, owing to the prompt measures which had been taken on discovery of the fire by the inmates of the hall. The fire was occasioned by some lighted coals falling from the fire-grate in the study down a back flue, constructed for the purpose of increasing the draught in the chimney, from the cellar. Some straw, which was in the cellar underneath the study, caught fire; and had a tired:: discovery not been made, it is more than probable that the noble mansion would have been soon enveloped in flames, from its elevated situa• tion and the strong breeze which was blowing at the time. The damage done is trifling. INQUEST ON A NEW-BORN CHILD.—On Wednesday an inquest was held, at the borough coroners office, on view of the body of a new-born male infant. It appeared that the mother of the child, Eliza Cummings (who is in the work house) had on Thursday the 29th ult. gone to her Aunts in Frederick -street, and asked for lodgings there for a few days, as she expected a place. This was complied with, and her aunt did not then suspect that she was pregnant. On Sa. turday afternoon the prisoner complained of being ill and went to bed. Soon after she got up and went into the yard. On her return, being no better, she wished to lie down again. Her aunt th en o b served an alteration in her and asked her if she was in the family way ; when she began to cry and and acknowledged that she was. A surgeon was sent for but it did not appear that any one came in time, and witness afterwards saw a full-grown male child on the floor. Mr. Taylor. surgeon, said he had made a postmortem ezamina tion, and found that the child had been still born.—Verdict accordingly. A FORTUNE -TELLER.—A. fair sister of the Norwood tribe called at the house of a woman named Barton, in Lamber head Green, Wigan, on Tuesday last, and wanted the occu pant to allow her to tell her her fortune, which she would d o for a " sill er bi t. " The silly woman was induced to apply at the shrine of the fickle goddess to know her future des tiny, and, after undergoing certain mystic ceremonies, as directed by the gipsy queen, was told th a t t h e c h arm could not be compl e t e d without ie aid of half-a-sovereign. Bar ton, anxious to hear the remainder of the decree, soon pro cured the required coin, which was tied in a handkerchief. She was then told by the gipsy to turn her back whilst she tied it more securely, and the handkerchief was put in a drawer and locked, the stranger taking away the key, which she promised to return in the evening. Soon after her de parture the poor woman thought to have a look at her mo ney, to see that it was safe ; but, to her consternation, she found that the half-sovereign, by some strange metamor phosis, had been changed to afarthing DESPERATE ASSAULT IN LACE -STREET.—Three Irish men, Michael Burns, Martin 13urns, and a man named Kelly, were yesterday brought before Mr, Rushton, on a charge of having committed a dreadful riot and assault in Lace -street on Christmas-eve. The prisoners were brought up on the 26th December, but in consequence of a female who had been so severely injured that her life was considered in danger, they were remanded until she was able to appear, which was not until yesterday, and even then she appeared to he very ill and feeble. A considerable number of wit nesses (all Irish) spoke to the,facts, and it appeared the pri soners had, amongst several others, been most active in an unprovoked attack in the first instance upon a countryman named Hanly, whom they finally drove from the street to seek shelter in the house. They afterwards made an attack upon the house, and pulling down a small building in a yard, and also, arming themselves with pokers, &c., broke in the door, shashed in the windows, and threw in bricks at the in mates--one of which struck the female Mrs. Lahey on the side so violently, as to produce the consequences stated.— The case being proved, the prisoners were fined £3 each —or, in default, to be imprisoned two mon th s . INQUEST ON A Niiw BORN CHILD. --- AO inquest was held, before Mr. Curry, borough coroner, on Wednesday, on view of the body of a new born female child, A young woman, named Sarah W e b ster, t h e mother, is at the work house. It appeared, from the evidence, that the mother was one of two female servants in the service of a gentleman in Prince Edwin-street, where she bad been for about twelve months. About three months ago, her mistress suspected she was pregnant, and charged her accordingly on two occa sions, but she solemnly denied it. On Monday morning last, however, when the prisoner and her fellow -servant were called up, the appearances with regard to the former were such as to indicate the recent delivery of an infant. The testimony of the other servant as to the conduct of the prisoner, who had got up in the night and complained of toothach, tended to confirm the fact. A policeofficer was called, and the prisoner was given into custody. Mr. Yates, surgeon, was also called in, and confirmed the fact. In his presence search was made, and the body of a female child was found in the privy, His opinion was, that the child had breathed, and had died from want of proper attention after the birth. The jury returned a verdict to that effect, and the prisoner, when sufficiently recovered, will be pent before Mr. Rushton and committed for trial. We are indebted to Mr. Court, of the Underwriter's-rooms for the following extract of a letter, dated Lima, 15th October. " The news from the south is, that two vessels that deserted General Terrico's cause, had arrived at Islay on the 2d inst., and taken his vessel which was blockading that port, so that the port is now open again. The populace in Inaquegua rose, and attacked General Castilla, and the troops from Tacna, who had marched there after the defeat of La Fuento, had totally routed Castilla's forces, and killed mqst of the officers, Castilla making his escape to Arica, when' he embarked in the steamer for Callao. Gen. Vidal was Yea on the 12th instant, and it seems there will not be any peace, as it ap•. pears Crovel D'Estua, of Vidal's advanced guard, discovered in the luggage of the Secretary of the Envoy a quantity of blank commissions, signed by general Terrico, to be given to the officers that might be gained over to his party, in con sequence of which he was secured, and will no doubt be shot —the Envoy was dismissed. Vivanca was to embark at Islay with 400 to 600 troops, and come down the coast either to Callao or Pisco, and it is generally considered that Terrico's position is very desperate —one way or other the war will soon be settled unless Terrico gets into the interior, and then he will lose the cipital and the coast." MEETING OF THE DOCK COXIMITTEK.---The Dock Com mittee held their weekly meeting yesterday, when the following members were present :—Messrs. Sands (chairman), Hors fall, Middleton, Molyneux, Bulley, Bold, Barclay. Holmes, Holt, and Nicol. The Sub-committee of Works recom mended that the agreement with Mr. Bray, for excavating Albert Dock and Half-tide Basin, be abandoned; and that until fresh tenders be obtained the surveyor be instructed to proceed with the work, in order to prevent delay. The recommendation was agreed to, with the understanding that Mr. Bray would not be permitted again to make a tender. The mode of arranging the maps and plans in the committee- room was referred to the Finance Committee. The solicitor submitted a letter from Mr. Mallaby, solicitor to the Birken head Commissioners, giving the dock trustees notice that the commissioners intended to take power, in their bill about to be submitted to parliament, to purchase some land on the Cheshire side, belonging to the trustees, for the purpose of a cemetery. The solicitor also submitted an application from the Paving Board, requiring the trustees to pave the street on the east side of Salthouse Dock. Both these matters were referred. An application from Messrs. William and James Brown, for the return of £l5 which had been charged for damages done to one of the piers by the ship Isabella of Baltimore, was referred to the Harbour Master's Subcom mittee. The committee then transacted some financial busi ness, after which they separated. SittagalNG Toitieeo.—At the Police Court, yesterday, a miserable looking old woman, named Ellen Roberts, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of smuggling a con siderable quantity of leaf tobacco. So far back as the 10th of August last the prisoner was observed, by a police officer, coming from one of the docks with a large bundle, which, on seeing him, she dropped and made off. A little boy, who had, no doubt, been employed by her to keep a look out and take advantage of chance, immediately went and picked up the bundle, saying " It was a little child she had dropped, and that she'd certainly kill it some day." The prisoner was soon afterwards taken into custody, and the case, the weight of the tobacco being I 5 lb.,was referred to the Excise Board, in London,who, as the prisoner had been an old and inveterate offender, as agent for others, in this way, left the case to take its course before the magistrates here. The facts being proved, the prisoner was convicted in a penalty of £lOO, or to be imprisoned six months. An application was made in the prisoner's behalf to Mr. Rushton to sanction such a memorial to the board as might conduce to a mitigation of the imprisonment. He, however, said, that the revenue was so often defrauded in this way, by unprincipled parties acting for others of a higher grade in life, that he would leave the question of mitigation of punishment to the Excise Com missioners themselves, without offering them any recom mendation. A. JUVENILE THIEF.—At the Police-court, on Wednes day, a little boy, apparently of eleven or twelve years of age, was placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a purse containing a considerable sum of money. The complainant, Ann M 4 Kenna, an elderly widow, said she kept a coal-yard in Shaw-street. On Monday afternoon last, she was in the but ; and, having given change to a person wlio called, bad her purse in her hand, when a customer called. The purse contained £5, and she put it down on her seat while she went to serve the party. The prisoner, who was occasionally employed to wheel coals from her yard, was standing pretty near, and must have heard her say that the money was for her rent. On returning to the hut, after serving the cus tomer. she missed the prisoner, and also the purse and its contents. She gave infor nation to her son, and did not see the prisoner again until Tuesday night. The son, it appeared, found the prisoner, on Tuesday, in a cellar in Trueman street!' On his being searched, only sixpence was found upon him, but with a new suit of clothes. Being questioned, he first denied he took the money, but afterwards acknowledged that he bought a suit of clothes in Trueman-street, and that "he had taken only £4." He also admitted that he had lent a man named Brady, who keeps a table-beer cellar in True man-street, 255. He was given into custody ; and the con stable discovered that in addition to the new clothes, he had that morning bought a donkey. which was found in Margaret street ! He was committed for trial. The donkey (which cost 35.) was ordered to be giver, to the poor widow, and would be all she would receive in lieu of her money. DANGEROUS ;MANNER OF THRUSTING OUT SHOP SHUT TERS FROM CELLARS UNDER THE PIiEMISES.--OD Wed nesday last, Mrs. Elizabeth Coker, residing in Bold-street, appeared in the police-court, at the instance of a Mr. Rears ley, who had suffered serious personal injury, from a practice wnich cannot be too highly reprehended. It appears that a fortnight ago. Mr. Kearsley was passing along the footway in Bold-street, while one of Mrs. Coker's servants was em ployed in putting up the shop shutters. The latter was in the act of drawing out the shutters from beneath the window, as is usually done by all parties in that and many other streets, in a very careless and hasty manner. Mr. Kearsley, was knocked down by one of the projected shutters, and was so severely injured, that being still• confined, he was unable to attend the court; and as the case could not bolegally sub stantiated without his evidence, the complaint was necessarily dismissed—though not without an expression of regret from the bench, that it could not be duly dealt with. We may here remark that a frequent, and one of the most dangerous, forms of the practice complained of, is for some one or more persons in the cellars of shops, (who are naturally in a hurry to get home,) thrusting the shutters, in an inclined position, up through a small opening, and over a friction roller into the street—without having a person above sufficiently active to receive them, and to warn and protect passengers,—who, taken unawares, are often exposed to severe blows from these projectiles. It is somewhat remarkable, that while we have numerous clauses in our local acts for personal protection, or annoyance, there is none that goes expressly to put down this nightly and (from the increase of shops) growing nuisance. The only responsibility incurred by shopkeepers is in the event of inflicting personal injury, and even then, it appears, and in serious cases, too, they may sometimes escape without incurring penalty or damages. Surely this is an omission which ought, as early as possible, to be remedied. WAGES CLAIMED BY A MATE.—The chief-mate of the ship Rosebury (Captain Mawbray), yesterday claimed, be fore Mr. Rushton, an amount of about £l2 of wages, stated to be due to him. He said he had gone as chief-mate of the vessel on a voyage thence to Cronstadt and back, but that while there the captain had ordered him to go on shore on pain of being kicked out of the ship, with other abusive language. The complainant felt himself compelled to obey; and on afterwards applying to the consul, and stating his case, was provided with a passage home. He claimed, de ductions being made for advances, &c., the sum stated, at the rate of £4 a month, as per contract. He was corrobo rated as to the main facts by two of the seamen. A long de fence was attempted on behalf of the captain, who sought to prove that the mate had deserted the ship at Cronstadt when she was on the eve of sailing • and he produced an ent r y on the log-book signed by all the crew, and also a certificate from the deputy-consul, which seemed at first to bear out the allegation of desertion ; but on the case being thoroughly in vestigated by Mr. Rushton, it turned out the mate had been ordered out of the ship, and threatened as stated ; that the entry in the log-book was signed by the crew by the captain's order, while they were in fear of similar treatment them selves ; and that the consul had signed the certificate merely from seeing the entry in the log-book, which he no doubt considered to be genuine. It was then set up as proof of de sertion, that the captain, when the ship was ready for sea, had gone on shore to search for the mate, but could not find him. It appeared, however, from several of the men them selves, that the applicant was standing on the quay, at a short distance from the ship, just before she got under weigh, in Cronstadt Roads, and that the captain might easily have got him on board if he bad chosen—he being, moreover, quite willing to return home in the ship. Mr. Rushton, after com menting on the gentlemanly and respectful conduct due by captains to their officers, said the complainant had very pro perly left the ship after the treatment and order he had re ceived, and that the full amount of wages claimed must be paid. THE NEW BRIDGE ACROSS WALLASEY POOL.—The bridge (the opening of which we noticed in our last publica tion) is a neat structure, crossing the pool at right angles, and principally- constructed of wood. It consists of ten arches of 25 feet span each; namely, a centre arch or span in the middle of the pool, supported on two stone piers, and live arches of wooden frame-work on the east, and four on the west. Although plain, it presents a very neat, and even handsome appearance, and is a great improvement to the sur rounding scenery. In the stone piers there are 15,000 feet of good red freestone, Between these piers there is a clear waterway of 25 feet wide, with a life bridge on a new con struction, particularly as regards the working- iron -work, which does away with the compensating part in the usual lift bridges. This is the contrivance of Mr. Alfred Yarrow, of Birkenhead, the engineer for the whole ',cork. The bridge is 340 feet in length, by about 25 in width. In the wood-work there are 6,000 feet of timber ; and, in the whole bridge, about 50 tons of iron have been used. There is a footpath on each side, somewhat similar to those on our dock-gate bridges, and the whole is protected by a neat wooden railing. The new road leading from the bridge towards the south-west or the direction thence to Oxton, is about three-quarter of a mile in length ; the distance to Bidstone being, from the bridge, a mile and a quarter. The new road terminates at a small public-house on the high road from Birkenhead to Bidstone, but is to be carried through to Oxton and other neighbouring localities. This is a capital macadamized road, with a footpath on each side. There is a handsome lodge and gate at the Poulton end of the bridge. The structure was commenced so recently as the 28th of June last, and is now completed, to the entire satisfaction of the committee of management. The contractors for the whole work `were Messrs, Walker and Craven, of Birkenhead. The machinery for the lift bridge was furnished by Messrs. Murray and Brown, of this town. About ten years ago an attempt was made to construct a bridge at the same point, but before it was finished it was washed away by the tide. In the present instance, the engineer has taken care not only to preserve the old waterway, clear across, but even to give it greater width of run, so that no such accidents may be anticipated. The main or stone piers are 45 feet in height from their founda tion to their top. The tide here rises occasionally so as to give a depth of water of 21 feet; and the height, from the lowest part of the bottom to the superstructure or roadway, is about 30 feet. AFFRAY BETWEEN SOME OF THE POLICE ANDS r SOME OF THE MILITARY.—On Wed n e s d a y, th re e men b e l ongin g h to arr t a h e e ks d i e n ta D eb o m k e e n .s t tre o e f tf_n r a e m gi e m iy e , nt s , er n g o ea w nt st D a t . o io d n d e , cl an a d t p th i c . v at a ttehse Hall police d e o W n r i t n , s o t n e a t d h , ewere seriousbr charge ug ht be o f o f re e s A i l s r t o R g u s s e h v t e o r i a i 1 , C o o f m th r e ad p e o s l f i r c o e m -offi e c u e s rs, tndy e , n a d n ea d v a o s u s r a i o n l g tin t g o rseesvceurealsoomf them of hem tlei i i na r p v i e o a l r e e n d t t m h a a t n n o e n r t , h e a t p r t e h v e i e o n s t r e a v n e c n e i n gt soon t r r e a r backs. I ten o 'cl o ck , ,o t l H e p k Inspector Savage saw the three prisoners in Canni ng - place, in company w ith some p ros tit utes , an d behaving in a noisy and disorderly manner. He requested them to go away, and succeeded in dispersing the women. The prisoners, how ever, refused to go quietly, and he threatened to take them to the barracks if they continued to be disorderly. He saw them afterwards at a later hour, and as they still persisted, and used bad language —particularly Dodd—he found it ne cessary to call the assistance of several officers to see them to their barracks. When they got to the entrance and knocked, Dodd said, " Sentry do your duty ;" upon which several soldiers rushed out, with their side arms, (which, however, did not appear to he drawn,) and struck at and de ' fied the police. Police -officer Fox, who endeavoured to ap prehend Dodd, was struck by him ; and a soldier who came out (not, we believe, yet known) struck police-officer Smith, with what appeared to he a bright instrument, several times on the head. Dodd cried, " The police have exceeded their authority, do your duty," and he also struck the in spector. Another constable also received some blows ;_ but constable Smith was the most severely hurt in the affray. An endeavour was made to take the soldier whose name is not known, but he was got inside by his companions, and the gate was closed. A corporal named Neville, who was on duty at the gate, afterwards refused to deliver up to the inspector the man alluded to, or tell his name, though he admitted that he knew who he was, and he also refused to give his own name. He (Neville) appeared in court, but not (while the case was being heard) in custody. Several gentlemen, who happened to be passing near the bar racks at the time of the affray, (about twelve o'clock) corro borated the principal facts stated. The risoners, peared, had been d r i n ki ng i n a house, in Paprk-lane, short ly before, and the language used by some of them while the assault on the police was going on was of a most threatening and improper description. Mr. John B. Hiams, surgeon, Duke-street, stated, that constable Smith was brought to him soon after the hour stated. He had one large wound on his head, which reached the bone : the edges of it were of a jagged appearance, as if inflicted with a heavy instrument. He had also two other wounds on the head of minor import ance. Mr. Rushton said that Sergeant Dodd was the prin cipal cause of the whole disturbance, and he should send him to be dealt with by another tribunal,who would probably de grade him from his rank. He then asked Corporal Neville if he had anything to say in his defence. Neville said he had told the inspector he could not let him in, as he had orders to admit no one but those belonging to the barracks, who had been out on duty ; and that he had only been asked who he was, not his name, and had replied that he was coporal of the guard ; so that, as he was on duty at the time, he might be found if wanted. Mr. Rushton ordered him to be placed in custody with the other prisoners, and then said that Dodd must be handed over to theecu, custody of the officers of the detachment to which he belonged at the barracks ;to whom a copy of the o should, at the same time, be transmitted, so that dep ositionsgh take such steps against him as they deemed proper. The prisoner was accordingly put down, and the magistrate addressing the corporal, said that his conduct had been most improper; for he had told the inspector that he bad the soldier who was yet wanted in his custody in the barracks, which was not true; and had also refused to give that man's name or his own. The two privates had also been active in the assault and rescue. They must all be taught that it was their duty to assist, not to thwart the civil force. If they considered that force acting beyond their authority, it was their duty to go for their officers, not to resort to violence on their own re sponsibility. It was only when under military orders that they could so act; at all other times they were but citizens, and must respect, the civil power the same as other subjects. They must each pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for one month. The case, from .its - novelty, excited much interest in the court. Paid Office Mr . . G. B. LAWREN( resulted. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDING lourned meeting of the Town-council, for the con' sideration of the fifth and remaining resolutions proposed Committee, in pursuance of their re port on the department of the Town-clerk and Deputy Town-clerk and the Clerk of Committees, was held 00 Wednesday, in the Town-hall. The MAYOR presided Mr. LLOYD, Chairman of the Paid Officers' Committee, proceeded to move the fifth of the resolutions submitted by that committee, as follows : " Resolved,—That the provision of the Municipal Act with reference to the charge and custody of the charters, deeds, and muniments, be carried out ; and that the protec tions advised by the Town-clerk, in his statement, ought to be observed." It might be considered that this resolution was an inter ference with the municipal act ; but it only went to declare that the municipal act should not be interfered with by the council, and that the proper officer (the Town-clerk) should take upon himself the whole charge of the deeds, muniments, and records of the corporation, which the 65th section impe ratively placed upon him. There would have been no ne cessity for this resolution if the Paid Officers' Committee had not found that the first time when the council had acted upon the provisions of the act, and stated where their deeds should be kept, was in 1839. The council then passed the following resolution—" The Municipal Corporations Act hav ing provided that all charters, deeds, and muniments, shall be kept in such place as the council shall direct, and the Town-clerk be responsibl e f or th e sa f e custo d y of the same; it is directed that the strong room in the Town -hall called the repository shall be the place for keeping the deeds, mu niments, and records, and that the Town-clerk be authorized to make such arrangements for access thereto as may con sistently with their safe custody be necessary for the facility of business, approved by the Finance Committee, and con firmed by the council.' The committee found that to the present time this resolution had not been acted upon; and they thought it was now high time for the council to relieve itself from any responsibility ; and they were of opinion that some resolution should be framed which would so far super sede the resolution of 1839, that not the slightest responsi bility should be placed on the shoulders of the council, which responsibility the Municipel Corporations Act, placed on others. The proposed re so l u ti on , th ere f ore, only stated that the law should be carried out ; and it must be observed that if the resolution of 1839 had nut been upon the books al ready, there would have been no occasion for the one now proposed. It was clear that hitherto the Town-clerk had never taken upon himself the custody-- Sir THOMAS BRAN CICER.—Then it is high time he should. Mr. LLOYD added, then let the Council declare that what the act stated, and gave the Town-clerk power to carry out, he should carry out without interference. Mr. BIRKETT.—W ho has interfered with him? Mr. LLOYD replied, that it was in evidence that, from a feeling of delicacy towards others, the Town-clerk had not carried out the act. Mr. BiaxErr.—You are stating that from the evidence? Mr. LLOYD.—Yes. I have stated nothing in this room but what is founded upon the evidence. Mr. HORNBY said it ought to be stated what interference there had been with the Town-clerk. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE contended, that, if the Town-clerk would state to the Council what he proposed to do with regard to the custody of the deeds and muniments, that state ment would be sufficient without the resolution proposed. The Council, indeed, could not lay down any rules of the sort. If the law had not been carried out, it Was not the fault of the Council ; and, if it was not carried out for the future, the responsibility would fall upon the Town-clerk, and upon him atone. All the Council could now require was that the Town-clerk should satisfy them as to what he was prepared to do Mr. DACE said he should oppose the resolution because it seemed to convey a reflection upon the Town-clerk ; but be would ask the committee whether the Town-clerk had made any proposals in pursuance of that resolution ? Mr. LLOYD admitted that the resolution would have been unnecessary if the previous resolution of 1839 bad not ap peared upon the books. Mr. LACE rejoined, that it was a vote of censure upon the Town-clerk. Mr. LLOYD said it was a mere declaration that the law should be carried out. The committee had asked the Town clerk why it had not been carried out, and his reply was, through the influence and interference of others. It was on these grounds that such a resolution was necessary. Mr. KitsitAw suggested that the Town-clerk should now be heard. The TOWN-CLERK commenced by saying there could be no doubt that in deference to feelings, which, perhaps, in law, ought not to have been paid, the Municipal Corporations Act had not been carried out according to the spirit or letter of its provisions. His determination was—and as to which he was bound to state he ought entirely to relieve the coun cil, because he had the legal power —to take upon himself and his immediate assistant the actual charge and custody of the deeds, muniments, and records of the corporation ; and, in doing so, most steadfastly, without delegating to any one but his immediate assistant, to give the most extensive access, that by law he could give, in favour of the clerk of committees, and any other proper officer of the corporation. He could not delegate beyond his own immediate assistant; but to the extent of any access that the law would, upon the most liberal construction, enable him to grant, he should be ready to grant it, and with every anxious respect towards the feelings of the officers of the corporation with whom he might have to deal upon this part of the subject. In doing so, he was only doing his duty to the council, which required that every facility and harmony should exist between their officers. After he had taken upon himself the actual charge and custody, and when be had made such arrangements for granting this access, (as to which be should be glad of the suggestions of any member of the council) he proposed to submit them to the Paid Officers Committee; and through the Paid Office's' Committee he should hope they would come to the council. He did so, not to relieve himself from responsibility, because that attempt would be vain, for the council had not the power to relieve him. The law, indeed was so stringent, that to none other but a succeeding Town clerk could the custody pass. The law was, that the council should appoint the place, but that the custody should be in the Town-clerk. He should hope that this explanation would, perhaps, render it unnecessary to proceed further with the resolution. Mr. ASPINALL said the Town-clerk had told the council what he meant to do in 1843, but not why the resolution of 1839 had not been carried out. The council wanted to know that. • Mr. G. H. LAW RENCE .--H e h as told you. _ Mr. ASPINALL.—NO, indeed he has not. The TOWN.CLERK.---I said, in too much deference to the feelings of others, and which, by law, ought not to have beerl —And from which no harm has The TwN-CLERK.—And" from which no harm has re sulted, o scan result, if the precedent be corrected. He had the most unbounded confidence in the honour of the gentle man who had charge of the repository, and he should pay the greatest respect to his arrangement of the deeds. He wished, however, to make the system, as far as arrangement was concerned, more perfect. It was requisite, and he intended to extend the arrangement which Mr. Okill had made, by adding a great many important things in the repository which were not now included in any list. Mr. BinaErr thought that the council having heard the statement of the Town-clerk ought certainly to pass the resolution, because it was merely verbal, and the recollection of it might die away in five or six years. The MAYOR said the substance of it would appear upon the face of the Paid Officers' Committee's report. Mr. BIRKETT explained that be meant the statement just now verbally made by the Town -clerk rendered such a reso lution necessary. The MAYOR repeated that the same thing was said in the report upon the arrangement of the Town-clerk's office. Mr. BIRKETT still thought the council would be perfectly justified in placing upon their books a solemn declaration that the recommendations which the Town -clerk himself had made should be carried out. Sir THOS. BRANCKER said the adoption of the Town clerk's scheme by the council would suffice to answer Mr. Birkett's purpose. --- was of oinion that y to press this resolution, becapuse although it the was law had not unnecessar been carried out from 1839 to the present time, it was imperative upon the Town -clerk t o ta k e such measures as would ensure its being carried out. It now devolved upon the conserva tive majority to shew that they would not wink at the law being set aside from deference to the feelings of others. The Town-clerk had frankly declared why he had not carried it out, and he had not shrunk from passing censure upon him self for not allowing the law to take effect ; but the council were now called upon to see the law carried out; and he sub mitted to the chairman of the Paid Officers' Committee whe ther the object would not be answered by the report on the Town-clerk's department. Mr. NORTH had two objections to the resolution. In the first place he was unwilling that any thing should be done to interfere with the present excellent and judicious manage ment. of the rep os i tory b y Mr. Okill. He wanted to retain hun in that office because he thought it was possible consists ently with the legal custody of the deeds, muniments, and charters being, as by law it must, in the Town-clerk. Such a management of the repository was quite consistent with the acknowledged le ga l custody. He was also unwilling, without meaning any reflection upon the Town-clerk, to commit the management of these documents to him. It was almost in consistent with his other business. Attornies were, at the best, but ill-calculated and ill-disposed for such employment; they were, he might say, a disorderly set. (Laughter.) They had not, perhaps, the same respect for their own handi work as other men ; and he believed, in spite of the order and system that the Town -clerk would introduce, they m ust fail unless there was a sep ara t e off i cer to attend to this pad of the corporation business. For these reasons, he should submit, as an amen d ment, " That the Town-clerk is the legal custodian of the records and muniments of the ccrpora tion ; but that, consistently with and without prejudice to such legal custody on his part, the management of the repo sitory may be specially deputed to Mr. Okill as heretofore, and is hereby, with the consent of the Town-clerk so deputed accordingly, subject to the following regulations :—namely, that no deed or muniment shall be removed from the reposi tory (even for use in any other part of the building), nor ins pected there, nor produced to any person whatever, except in the presence, or with the written authority of the Town• clerk (and in his absence), the Deputy Town-clerk, and Mr. Okill, shall alone have access to the muniments in the repo' sitory for any purpose whatever." With these regulations, he thought the objects of the council would be fully carried out. If this am en d ment was passed, Mr. Okill would be retained, and thepresent excellent system preserved. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, he once thought the plan suggested by Mr. North the best suited for the council; but it was not for them to say whether it was good or not, s°, long as the T own-c l erk felt that the deeds, muniments, and records were not i n hi s custody. By adopting this amend ment he really th oug h t they would be flying in the face of the act of parliament. The TOWN -CLERK rose and said, his duty there was, u pon every occasion, to pay the most implicit obedience to the resolution s o f t h e council, except when those resolutions_ should. which th e y never yet h ad done, apply to matters o principle, as to w hi c h, i n h onour and conscience, and w i t h o ut f forfeiting his repu t at i on as a l egal man, he could not subnr; He did d ec l are , on th i s occasion, that if that resolution [amendment] were passe d, an d h e were to submit to the . controul of it, he should di sgrace hi mse lf as a professional man for ever. He co u ld not cons id er, f or a single mome nt, that he could do otherwise on this occasion than declare that he would take the actual charge and custody of the dee ds , t muniments, and records, as some small compensat i on . for o . e error he had allowed hitherto to prevail. There were occasions, he trusted the council would allow . him . to 07_ when the individual who should pay implicit obedience In general to the commands of those by whom he was appointed , when a question of principle might arise, as to which, if. n°, were to submit, he must forfeit his own esteem,. He had declared, on the one hand, that he would satisfy the require mentso, of the Municipal Corporations Act, the charter the present Corporation of Liverpool . ; and, on the other hand, he would satisfy it by having himself the a ac tual charg e an d custo d y of " the deeds, muniments, avail I n d o i ng so , h e h a d a r i g h t, he trusted, to av himself of the assi s t ance o f th e gent l eman provi d e d f or him by i the liberality of the co unc il, at a sa l ary o f £4OO, who w a to be a m an o f b us i ness , w h o was to b e a methodical trou_fi, ld and surely an officer of th a t ki n d, un d er his direction, c assist him in the charge and custody of the deeds. W the s he ystem saw that th e s y s t em o f an attorney was contrasted with systemsy s t e m o o ff attorneysaootii er party, was referred h e must, t 0 7h o i o l e theon theoth other one a h n a d ld4 ib b ee : to the system adopted with regard to . the Repository. Town-clerk then proceeded to show in what respect he uh' Loa d r, NEWS. DEATH BY DROWNING.—We noticed, in our last publi a piece of water, only s i x cation, the finding of th e b ody o f " ft woman unknown", in inquisition was comm ence d on Satur d a y, b u t was po s tp one d, there being no eviden ce to show the id en tity of the d ecease d. inches deep, near Windsor. The It was resumed on Tuesday, w hen it was shown that the de ceased's name was Margaret MlNatty ; that she lived in Peach street; was about sixty.fi ve years of age; received some pa rochial relief, and eked out a su b s i stenc e by charring. Mr. Park, surgeon, said, th at, when ca ll e d to the deceased on Saturday, he found her to be quite dead, and to have been so for some hours. Ile had made a postmortem of the body, and found that death was caused by drowning. There were no :marks of violence. A small quantity of mud was found in the stomach. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was found drowned, but how she got into the water there was no evidence to show.