The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

• .„4.4.11r: "trcyi GENERAL POST-OFFICE . CAUTION Against illegally sending, collecting, conveying, or delivering Letters. BY the Act of the Ist VICTORIA, c. 36, sec. 2, every Person who despatches or sends, or causes to be sent, or tenders or delivers, in order to be sent otherwise than by Post, a Letter not exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General, forfeits for every Letter Five Pounds. Every Person who receives, takes up, or collects any Letter not exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General, forfeits for every Letter Five Pounds. Every Person who conveys otherwise than by Post, or de livers a letter not exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General, forfeits for every Letter Five Pounds. Every Person who makes a collection of exempted Letters for the purpose of conveying or sending them otherwise than by Post, or even by the Post, forfeits for every Letter Five Pounds. And every Person who is in the practice of committing any of the above-mentioned acts, forfeits for every week during which the practice is continued One Hundred Pounds. By the 13th section, pecuniary penalties incurred under the Post-office Acts, not exceeding £2ll, may be recovered in a summary way before a Justice of the Peace, by any Person who will sue for the same ; one moiety whereof will belong to the Crown, and the other moiety with full costs of suit, to the Person who informs and prosecutes. Magistrates, Clerks of the Peace, and Town Clerks, are to pay over and remit the Crown's share of the penalties in strict conformity to the directions• of the 16th section. The following Letters are exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General, viz. : Letters sent by. a private Friend in his way, journey,. or travel, if delivered by such Friend to the party to whom they shall be directed ; Letters sent by a Messenger on purpose; Commissions or returns thereof, and Affidavits and Writs, Process or Pro ceedings, or.returns thereof, issuing out of 'a Court of Justice; Letters sent out of the United Kingdom by a private Vessel ; _ _ Letters of Merchants, Owners of Vessels of Merchandize, or of the cargo or loading therein sent by such vessels, or in charge of any person employed by such Owners. for the car riage of such Letters, according to their respective directions, and delivered to the respective persons to whom they shall be directed, without paying or receiving hire or reward, or other advantage or profit for the same ; Letters concerning goods or merchandize sent by common known Carriers to be delivered with the goods without hire or reward, or other profit or advantage for receiving or de livering such Letters. But the following persons are expressly forbidden to carry a Letter, or to receive, or collect, or deliver a Letter, although they shall not receive hire or reward for the same, vi z . : Common known Carriers, their Servants or Agents, except a Letter concerning goods in their carts or waggons, or on their pack horses ; and Owners, Drivers, or Guards of Stage Coaches. By command, W. L. MABERLY Secretary dividend of £5 per share declared, payable in the months of April and October. The Lord Mayor (Mr. O'Connell) leaves for Cork on Thursday, to attend to his own affairs, declining to hold a court for-the purpose of passing claimants for the freedom of the city, well knowing that the majority are opposed to him and to his pretensions as its representative. Two courses are open to those who are thus illegally deprived of their rights, and to the benefit of the elective franchise, consequent upon their establishment. The one, by civil action against his lordship ; the other, by petition to the House of Commons; and we hope either or both may be resorted to.—Dublin paper. There was much excitement among the gossips of Cardiff on Tuesday, on which day, it was said, some old soothsayer had predicted many years ago that a railway, a canal, a large dock, and an earthquake would visit us ; the latter in 1842, after the completion of the three great works named. Now as the railway, canal, and dock " came to pass," why should not the earthquake ? especially as our Llandaff friends were to be benefitted thereby ; their " Aunciente Citye," so said the Seer, was to be rebuilt from the ruins of Cardiff. Tues day, however, passed off quiet:y. Those who fancied that Cardiff was to be swallowed up, and there were hundreds who did, must have had very large swallows indeed.—Car diff Advertiser. At Dorchester, Mr. Drax, the member for Wareham, was indicted for bribery at the last election. Mr. Drax was ac cused of having given a bribe of - X5 to Thomas Hutchings, a publican, with the understanding that he would vote for him. Hutchings, who actually voted for Mr. Ctlcraft, stated that he received the money to show the world how Mr. Drax ob- tained his election, intending all the time not to vote for him.. He could not deny that he had uttered a solemn declaration that he would vote for Mr. Drax. He wavered a good deal in his testimony, and the whole of his evidence was loose and unsatisfactory. The jury returned a verdict of "'not guilty." THE NEW TARIFF.—The Bucks Herald, which has the credit of being the Duke of Buckingham's organ, thus speaks of the new measures of finance :—" The prbposed tariff is a master-piece of financial industry, and full evi dence of the labour bestowed and the system carried out ; and those who most bitterly oppose it must own that it re fiects the highest credit on the heads and hands that devised and perfected it. We believe that there is no question but there must be fresh taxes, not only to meet. increased and increasing expenditure, but to pay those millions of arrears which the Melbourne Administration bequeathed to the country as evidences of their recklessness in disbursement, and their incapacity to provide for it. By the mode which Sir Robert Peel proposes that debt will be paid. And when that is to be effected, and a surplus left, we think that the people of England should consent to suffer some temporary annoyance to arrive at so desirable and so honourable a con summation." TB; LATE DR. AINGER.—A bust of this distinguished ornament of the Church of England has just been erected in the Parish Church of St. Bees, as a tribute to his great worth and usefulness. It is a noble work cf art, and an agreeable likeness, executed by J. G. Lough, Esq., from a cast taken after death. The cost of the bust (£200) was de frayed by a subscription raised among the friends and late pupils of Dr. Ainger, by the active exertions of Professor Sedgwick, aided by Mr. Archdeacon Todd, Mr. Canon Par kinson, Mr. H. H. Norris, and other attached friends of the late Principal of St. Bees. We understand that, at the request of his friends, some of his sermons are about to be committed to the press, with a memoir by Mr. Canon Par kinson, and an engraving of the bust just erected, which will be an acceptable memorial of him to many of his old pupils now dispersed in the discharge of their religious du ties throughout almost every corner of the globe. The fol lowing is the inscription on the monument, drawn Up by Professor Sedgwick " To the memory of William Ainger, D.D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Canon of Chester, and for twenty-four years Incumbent of the Parish, and Principal of the Clerical Institution of St. Bees, who died October 20th, 1810, aged fifty-five years. " Exemplary in all the relations of domestic life, gifted with a kind temper, of sound learning and high principles, he gained the love and respect of all who had the privilege of his friendship. As a Parish Priest he was faithful in preaching the doctrines, and steadfast in upholding the discipline, of the Apostolical Church ; and he continued, during the best years of his life, to sustain the cause of religious truth, by his writings and his public teaching ; above all, by his unwearied devotedness to the good of the Clerical Institution, which was begun under his superintending care, and where he trained for the Ministry of the Church, both in England and its Colonies, several hundred labourers, who entered on their sacred duties strengthened by his lessons of wisdom, animated by his zeal, and guided by his example, " To commemorate such important services, and labours so largely blessed, this Monument was erected by a subscrip tion of his sorrowing friends and pupils. •• • May I die the death of the righteous, and may my last end be like his.' " EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY.—On the 9th of July, last year, a woman of regular gipsy appearance, (who calls her self Bridget Phillips, but who is better known by the name of Bryant) called at the house of a lady at Henwick, with whouri are living, in the capacity of household servants, two respectable girls, named Lloyd, and solicited them to allow her to " tell their fortunes." Esther Lloyd was simple enough to be prevailed upon by the pretended sybil's repre sentations, and inquired what she would charge for her trou ble. To this the gipsey answered that, as she should have to search a great many books in order to arrive at the desired object, and as this would cost money, she could not do it under £6, which sum the girl actually paid to her out of her savings. Bryant then turned to the sister, and requested her to give her some money also, in order that she might " cast her nativity" as well. The latter said that she had only a shilling, but this, Bryant said, would be sufficient with what the other sister had given her. She then departed, stating that 4 some time would he required to look into the neces sary bo oks, ithrinake - thelre'quiiite - calcillatibiia; s i bs should not call again for some time. About a fortnight ago, the woman again called at Henwick, and represented to Esther Lloyd that she had had a great deal of trouble in endeavour ing to " rule her planet," as she called it, and that she was unable to proceed in her work without more money, and at length persuaded the poor girl to give her another sum of £6, together with some clothes, a silver spoon, silver sugar tongs, and other articles. The woman also took from the other girl an apron, which she was wearing, saying that she liked it -much, and wrapping up her bundle and placing it under her cloak she walked off, promising to pay the infatuated girls another visit in the course of a few days. One would have thought that here she would have stopped her proceedings, and have remained contented with the booty she had so easily ob.; tained ; but no, after spending the money in drunkenness and riot, she again waited on the Lloyds, on Monday week, told them her books were behind. and that she wanted them " ba lanced," in order to which she must have more money. The girls said they had no more. She then said, if they did no t g et it her, she would cause Esther to lose her situation the next day, and succeeded in so frightening her that Esther at length borrowed other six p oun d s o f h er m i s t res s, and paid it over to her merciless persecutor, together with a pair of bracelets, a brooch, a silver watch guard, and a silk cloak. On Satur day last she again honoured get on with her prognostications more money, and tel r lin The girl said she ha no money, and the st T iti i lr men with a call, demand inghLe c l r o o yubdl books o t h kn a so t t sh e were couldbo r rowh i g ba n en o ry. t more, whereupon Bryant told her th a t if s h e did not she should have no " rest on the face of the earth," and that she should leave her place the next day. Esther replied that if Bryant told her that shepwaoeuelds!ewould get another, but she could not live in that place she went to." This very much dono dwoman's frightened threats the silly good in whatever and thereupon she mentioned the ol re w te i n t c h e a of little bou m o gt under endowed tit o girl, her re sense than poor ;ther, sister, ther 7 w h o en b t e o il u i re turned with a policeman, who immediately°ng money, but custody, and on Monday she was taken beforetook Bryant into strides, when the above facts were sworn to the city magi ters. On being asked what she had 'to say in by her two sis the infamous impostor, in revenge, declared liat Esther Lloyd had given her the money to get some poison by Lloyd which she might kill her mistress. The poor girl was naturall in dignant and much affected by such a base insinua y ti v o erY n and the bench at once stopped the mouth of the slanderer , bv telling her they did not believe a word that she had said, and that she bad only aggravated her offence by telling such alie, adding that they were unanimously agreed in giving h er , great a punishment as the law would allow them, viz., six months' imprisonment and hard labour. The value of the articles obtained from Esther Lloyd, with the three instal ments of £6 each, amounted altogether to about £25. Worcester Guardian. • . TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1842 The patriotism and regard of the Whig party for the suffering interests of the people of Great Britain are signally evidenced by the factious course which was last week successfully resorted to, by Lord John Rus sell and his confederates, to obstruct the progress of the financial measures of Sir Robert Peel. But a few months ago that minister was visited with the most vi rulent objurgations was denounced as unfeeling, heartless, and tyrannical because, upon entering office, after ten years of Whig misrule, he demanded a brief respite, to enable him to examine into the exact position of the various disorganised interests of the state, before he proceeded to legislate for their restora tion to health and prosperity. "The people are starv ing," exclaimed these considerate statesmen; "how then can we afford time for a minister to deliberate ? The commerce, the manufactures, the industry of the nation are pressed to the earth by accumulated embar rasstnents ; the entire social fabric of the country is on the eve of disruption; how then can parliament pause for an instant in the adoption of a remedy ?" And yet, when at length a series of well-considered mea-; sures are brought before the legislature measures which, however opinions may differ with respect to a few of their minor details, are admitted by all parties to contain important ameliorations of our existing commercial system, and to be eminently calculated to afford a stimulus to our declining industry--we are insolently told that, in despite of all their previous as= severations with respect to the urgent necessity of le gislation, the progress of the measures proposed is to be delayed by every paltry expedient which the forms of the House allow, notwithstanding, too, the declared wishes of the majority of parliament and of the coun try for their speedy adoption! And to gratify what patriotic object is this dishonest and wicked course pursued ? Is it hoped, for a mo ment, that such course can by any possibility be ulti mately successful ? It is not. The wildest and most truculent opponent of Sir Robert Peel cannot point to one symptom, out of the doors of parliament or with in them, that such a result is even probable. To em barrass the government—to foster the bad passions of the ill-disposed--are objects in themselves quite com patible with the purity of Whig statesmen ; and we defy the utmost efforts of the most frantic agitators to raise any amount of popular excitement against the proposed measures. The everlasting talk of all the talkers ore the opposition benches cannot uplift one sympathising hand against Sir Robert Peel's government upon this question ; and nothing less than a visitation of mental oblivion and confirmed idiotcy upon the heads of the entire British people could induce that people to con sent to take again into their confidence the paltry and for the fleshpots of offi ce pitiful alo nei t b n e p i enlg thems %t h o t s o e tlhoengaidnogption of their present ob structive policy. The proceedings of Lord John a nd his venal pha lanx will not damage one iota the go vernment or the measures against which they are directed ; but at the same time they will not be without thei r effect, al though a somewhat different one from that which has been contemplated by their authors. The country has calmly examined into the nature and tendency of the. new taxes and the ameliorations of the tariff by which We have a word or two of remonstrance to offer to two of our metropolitan contemporaries—the Times and Morning Herald—with respect to the course which they are pursuing in their opposition to the govern ment proposal of an income tax. We do not object to these journals opening their columns to such of their subscribers, and of the public, who fancy themselves aggrieved by the imposition of a tax upon the incomes of the trading classes. There is much in the objections urged by these correspondents, with respect to the un equal pressure of such a tax, in which we cordially agree; but we really cannot go the lengths which they go ; we cannot feel the grievance which they feel; and as a proof that such grievance is not so felt by the Conservative public in this locality—(and it is no un important one)—we can conscientiously state that, al though our columns have ,been ever open to the cor respondence of our friends upon this subject, we have bad addressed to us but one letter complaining of the tax in question ! We cannot therefore hut think that our contemporaries, by the warmth with which they have taken up the advocacy of an exemption of the trading classes from direct taxation, have stimulated a factitious outcry which, after all, is sympathised with by a very inconsiderable section of the community from which it purports to emanate. There always will exist in any country, and there always has existed in this, " J an impatiece of taxation" —an " ignorant impatience" if you will ;—and espe cially is this the case with respect to direct taxation. Now it is admitted by both our contemporaries that the necessity for direct taxation has arrived. But it is urged by our contemporaries and their correspondents that such direct taxation ought to be modified in its pressure. The trader, the annuitant, the salaried ser vant, and others, Who have no realized property to fall back upon, ought not to be taxed in equal proportion with those whose incomes are derived from the rental or interest of property so realized. In the abstract, we are quite prepared to admit that there is some justice in the arguments by which these objections are urged. As affecting individuals, many cases of hardship can doubtless be brought forward; but can any one main tain that an income tax can possibly be accom modated so as to conciliate every interest ? It must, we think, by this time be plain to our contemporaries that if an attempt be made to accommodate any one class of objectors there can be no defensible limit drawn. We must, in that case, absolve from taxation all incomes not derived from property. We must re lease capital and the profits of trade from any direct contribution to the public revenue; and will our con temporaries, we ask, go the length of arguing, what is 'indeed the inevitable conclusion of a concession to their present complaints, that upon property alone must devolve, in any extremity similar to the present, the duty of upholding the credit and the security of the country ? . We believe that our contemporaries will not attempt to maintain any such absurdity. Already we can discern in their tone symptoms of a Conviction that they have mistaken alike the strength of the opinion, out of doors, which has impelled them to the course of opposition which they have pursued, as well as the tendency of that course to embarrass Government, and to stimulate the hopes of returning power in a faction, towards whose irremediable fall into the abyss of public contempt—if such an event has not already been consummated—they would far rather be con tributing the weight of that influence upon the public mind which they deservedly possess. We trust that they will nut shut their eyes to this tendency of their present course of proceeding, or•hesitate in that which it is now their duty to adopt. The alternative is plainly before them. The policy Of Sir Robert Peel, if it be carried out at all, must he carried out as a whole, or abandoned as a whole. There can be no material con cession to the demands of any particular classes. We believe, from the best attention which we have been enabled to bestow upon the • subject, that no material concession is in justice required; and we confidently expect that we shall, ultimately, see one or both of our contemporaries giving their strenuous and unhesitating support to the proposed measures of Government, in tact and unimpaired by concessions which, whilst they may conciliate individual classes, will inevitably disap point others, equally, in the abstract, entitled to be relieved. We give in our columns to-day a report of the meet ing of the Botanic Garden proprietors held yesterday. It will be seen that the funds are in a lamentably de pressed condition ; and the supporters of the institu tion, as a last resort, are to solicit contributions from their friends in order to relieve the committee from their present unfortunate position. We trust the ap peal will be liberally responded to, as it will be a posi tive disgrace to the town if these gardens, so well adapted for the promotion of horticulture and so agreeably situated for the purposes of recreation, are discontinued. The directors have, however, no other resource, if. the inhabitants still exhibit the same cal lousness on the subject which they have hitherto ma nifested. It is perfectly ti3ie, as Mr. Brooks justly re marked, that there are numerous claims from the cha ritieS pressing heavily upon the public, and these claims are urged during a season of almost unexam pled commercial gloom ; but we apprehend there is sufficient spirit left amongst us to emancipate not only these from their pecuniary embarrassments, but also to carry out the intentions of the supporters' of the Botanic Gardens. Let the effort be made, and we have little fear of the result, even under the disad vantageous circumstances which will surround the progress of the good work. Surely the gardens must not be relinquished. • MATRIMONY. - A GENTLEMAN of the highest respectatility and-eon nections has two Establishments, called the M XTRI MONIAL ALLIANCE, one of which is conducted by him self, to give interviews to Gentlemen, and the other by a Lady, exclusively for Ladies. Portfolios are published monthly, containing copies of Letters, without name or serted by Gentlemen of rank and fortune, by Gentlemen the Army and Navy, and by Professional and other gent" men of property, who are desirous of entering into the Hot . ESTATZ Or MATRIMONY. It is impossible to appreciate the utility of these Establishments, their beneficial results,or the delicate manner in which they are conducted, except on a perusal of the Rules and the explanatory Pamphl ' ' ' will be found a thorough explanation of the whole _ may be obtained by applying personally or by letter to A. B. care of Mr, Proudjoot, 63, Mortimer-street, Cavendish square, London. The price of the Pamphlet is one shilling, and the Rules arc charged ten shillings, as some guard against idle curiosity and the applications of ineligible persons. The Monthly Portfolio is now ready, and contains many Letters of Gentlemen, from the ages of 24 to 55, possessing property from £4OO to £2OOO a-year, extracts from which can be for warded to Ladies, their Parents, or Guardians, on being fur nished with the age and circumstances of the parties applying. The best references will he given if required, and the most implicit secrecy and honour will be observed. m, and TO MERCHANTS AND OTHERS AS CLERK.—A Young Man, twenty-three years of age, respectably connected, &c., wishes to engage himself in a Merchant's Office. The situation he is about to relinquish he has held near three years, the latter portion of which time he has had the Management of the Counting-house and Cor- respondence. Address, H. M., Standard-office TITLE DEEDS LOST £5 REWARD pHE Two undermentioned DEEDS are MISSING from 1 the Depository of Deeds belonging to the Victoria Park Company, Manchester; viz., a Demise, dated Ist August, 1836, made between Joseph Denison, Esquire, of the one part, and Edivard Stanhope Walker, of the other part. And an Assignment, dated 26th December, 1836, made between Edward Stanhope Walker, of the one part, and Thomas Harbottle, Joseph Adshead, Henry Byrom, John Westhead, and Richard Bealey, of the other part. These Deeds are of no value except to the parties thereto. A Reward of Five Pounds will be paid to any Person who may bring them to the Office of Messrs. BAGSHAW and STKVENSON, Solicitors, Brown-street, Manchester; or of Messrs. H UM PHREY'S, CUNLIFFES, CHARLEWOOD, and BURY, Solicitors, Princess-street, Manchester. • tT„, NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. General Post-office, March, 1842. As it is not ssfe to transmit Letters containing Coin or Articles of Jewellery through the Post, Parties having occasion to remit small sums in Cash, are recommended to I make use of the Money Order Office, where they will incur no hazard, which Orders, for sums under Five Pounds, are granted and paid by every Post Town in the United King dom, and by the Chief Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, the three Branch Offices, Charing-cross, Cavendish-street, and the Borough, and also by the principal Receiving Houses within the Twelve Mile Circle. Those who may desire to remit Bank Notes or Drafts payable to Bearer, may Register the Letter on payment of a fee of Is. in addition to the postage • in this case, the safest course will be to cut such Notes, &c. in half, sending each half, if possible, by two different Posts. In the case of Bank Notes or Bank Post Bills being sent, the Numbers, Ddtes, and Amounts should be carefully taken. With the great convenience thus afforded for transmitting small Sums at so low a charge, and the power now given of Registering Letters containing value, it is hoped the Public will no longer forward Letters of value, except in one or other of these methods. By. eommand. W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. hat 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 re ceipt of a Post-office Order, for 55., riIHE SILENT FRIEND ; a M e di ca l W ork, on nervous 1 Debility, and Disorders arising from an Impure State of the Blood, embellished with Engravings, representing the de leterious effects of Mercury on the Skin, by Eruptions on the Head, Face, and Body ; followed by Observations on Marri age. By R. and L. Pectur and Co., Consulting Surgeons, Bir mingham and Leeds. Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Wilson, 18, Bishopgate street ; Purkin, Compton-street, Soho ; Jackson and Co., 130, New Bond-street, London; Buckton, 50, Briggate, Leeds ; Steward, Oldham-street, and Courier-office, Man chester ; and by all booksellers in town and country. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is a gentle sti mulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is, therefore, calculated to afford decided relief to those who have fallen into a state of chronic debility. In such persons the appetite is generally defective, and the relish of life is al most 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 apprehen sions, are liable to sink despondently into a premature grave. It is for these that Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, parti cularly designed their CORDIAL BALM of SYMACUNI. Whatever enriches the blood, without inflaming it; what ever braces without stimulating too violently the nervous 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 considerable degree, all or any of these effects, must be, under certain mo difications and restrictions, equally adapted to every species of decay. Hence, though the Cordial Balm of Syriaeum makes a direct attack upon the many-headed hydra in one quarter only, it will be found to apply indirectly or collate ry, to al most every other • in short, the debility of nature can tl ' be completely reinstated by this excellent medicine, for its reanimating pow ers exceed almost credibility • its tine of the blood— balsam ic stomach qualities—its ' purification o all, the complete invigorator of the nervous system stored to their wher eby the whole faculties become re-, fabric of life is proper raised power and functions. and the fallen tion, upon the ruins of up to bea u ty, consis t e ncy, and dura emaciated and premature decay, to sound and pristine health. As nothing can be better adapted to help and nourish the cons titution, so there i s officacionasgin.more generally acknow.. l e d g ed to be peculiarly o f a ppetite, indigestion, depression' of inward writings, loss re !kits, trembling or shaking of the bands or limbs, obstinate cough, shortness of breath, or consumptive habits. It possesses wonderful effi cacy in all cases of syphilis, fits, head -ache, weakness, heaviness and l owness of spirits, dim ness of eight, confused ' thoughts, wandering ofthe minld., vapours, and melanchol • and all kinds of hysteric comp l a i nts are gradually renioje c i by its use. Constitutions relaxed, weak, or decayed, in men or women, are under its immediate influence. Old coughs, asthmas, and consumptive h abits are soon relieved, a ou !, spe ed ily cured. Poverty of blood, and emaciated limb s w i ll, ere long, meet the happiest change ; the chill, watery fluid will become rich and balsamic, and the limbs be covered with flesh, firm and healthy. Sold in Bottles, price 1 Is. each, or the quantity of fo ur i n one Bottle for 335., by whic h one lls. Bottle is saved. Messrs. Pecan expect, when con sulted by letter, the usual fee of one pound, without which no notice whatever can be taken of the communication (postage pre-paid.) In cases of emergency consult the TREATISE given Gratis with each box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. per box , Warranted not to contain Copaiba, Cubebs, or Mercury. They are of the utmost importance to those afflicted with Scorbutic Affections, Eruptions in any part of the body, Ulcerations or Scrof u lo us Tai n t, Pimp, &c., being j ustly cal culated to clean se t h e bl oo d f rom a ll fou lness, ness, counteract every morbid affection, and restore weak and emaciated con stitutiops to pristine health and vigour. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons. may be consulted, as usual, at 4, Great Charles -street, (four doors from Easy-row), Birmingham, and 44, Albion-street, Leeds, punctually from Eleven in the Morning until Eight in the Evening, and on Sundays from Eleven till One. Only one personal visit is required from a country patient, to enable Messrs. Perry and Co. to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent; and, effectual cure, after all other means, have proved ineffectual. - N.B.—Country 'Druggists, Booksellers, Patent Medicine Venders, and every other shopkeeper can be supplied with any quantity of Perry's Purifying Specitid Pills, and Cordial Balm of Syriacutn, with the anal allowance to the Trade, by most of the principal Wholesale Patent Medicine Houses in London. Sold, Wholesale, by Messrs. EVANS and Co., Druggists, Lard -street, Liverpool. Dl/!'H AND VANUFACTURI RESPI that they , cies at the Spoons, Forks, &c 35, Bold-skeet. ; DISMORI SILVER. 0 HER MAJI firms the Nobilit LLER W. FRANCE t . London- a ENGRAVER, COPPER-PLATE, LETT AND LITHOGRAPHIC PRIM No. 71, LORD-STREET, BEGS 'respectfully to inform his -,-• onened th generali for the purpos , Trade, in the I of executing all orders c rst style of the Art. shment nected with the Coats of Arms, Crests, and Cyphers, engraved on Stone Steel, Silver, &c. Door and Window Plates made and engraved. A respectable YOUTH Wanted, as an APPRENTICE. No. 71, Lord•street. 1 lANO-FORTES, New and Second-hand, only a little more than half the usual price: A fine Cabinet, 6/ oc taves, in Rosewood ; Ditto, Ditto ; an excellent Cabinet, by Wornum, 6 octaves, second-hand ; a delightful Cottage Piano, in Rosewood; a Ditto, Ditto, in Zebrawood; a Ditto, Ditto, in Rosewood, elegant; a Ditto, Ditto, in Ditto, 6 octaves, second-hand ; a Ditto, Ditto, in Mahogany, Do., Do.; a Square Piano-forte, with all the new Improvements ; Square Piano, second-hand. _ _ _ The above Instruments have been selected with a view to Exportation, and are warranted fit for any climate.. CAslt given for Second-band Instruments, or taken in Exchange, by GEORGE SHADE, 4, BERRY-STREET, Liverpool, where may be had NEW MUSIC and all the new and popular Songs, on Hire, by Day, Week, or Month. A Second-hand Chiroplast to teach on the Logierian Sys tern, for 30s. cost 5 guineas.' SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDEN FRUIT, FOR PRESERVING, MARMALADE, Sre. TN addition to the 46 Barrels per the "Amens, J. M IDDLE -1. WOOD has received several small lots which will be sold, Wholesale and Retail, at unprecedented low prices. For bidden Fruit, 375. per barrel, and 3s. to 6s. per dozen ; Shad docks, 50s. per barrel, and 12s. to 18s. per dozen. This Fruit. has arrived in excellent condition, will keep, and is little inferior for Preserving to the garden, or first quality fruit, and at half the price. FOR DESSERTS, INVALIDS, J. M. has 50 Barrels of SHADDOCKS & FORBIDDEN FRUIT, selected from the same gardens as those sent from his establishment to her Majesty the Queen, and so highly appreciated at the Roya trees, is the earliest frui from it is now in high perfection, and serts to any Fruit grown in or imported Bland. Forbidden Fruit, Is. to 2s. 6d. each ; Shad- able ; being produced from grafted sported, and arrived in the. Sisters, ,ssau, in December for for 11 is aOristantly supplied with first-quality St. Michael's Oranges, American Apples, Grapes, Chesnuts, Walnuts, large Filberts or Cob Nuts, Raisins, Almonds, fine Nonpareil Figs, Portuguese and French Plums, Pines, and every choice Fruit in season. Fine Orange and Shaddock Marmalade, East and West India Preserved Ginger, Tamarinds, &c. AT J. MIDDLEWOOD'S FAMILY FRUIT WAREHOUSE, 6, PARKER-STREET, TABLISHED UPWARDS OF THIRTY YEARS, AND NOTED FOR SUPPLYING TH2 BEST FRUITS IN THE KINGDOM. BOTANIC OIL, for the growth and embellishment of the human hair. J. M. is the sole proprietor of this inestimable Oil,; and, in addition to the many proofs of its superior effi cacy, he begs to observe he has used it thirty years, and his hair has not experienced the least decline during that period, and is now more healthy than for a considerable time previous to its use: J. M. can with confidence recommend the Bota nic Oil for clearing and rendering the hair and scalp cool, soft, and healthy. Sold in pot boxes, 25., 3s. 6d., and 55., and fourteen for a dozen. ?HEAT!' ROYAI LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Messrs, J.. H W. J. Hammond. derBo4 ah,l THIS present TUESDAY, the 29th instant, will be per formed, roe the second time, Shakapere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Which was received last night with tumultuous applause, and will be repeated every, Evening this week. To conclude with LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN. Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, Is. . SECOND PRICE will be taken at the end of the Third Act of the Midsummer!Night's Dream. Lower Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. .NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The annual ge neral meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at Newcastle, The retiring directors were re-elected, and a ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH -STREET, LIVERPOOL, MAGNIFICENTLY DECORATED. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. R. M. RAYMOND. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 29th instant, the Entertainments will commence with the lunch-ad mired Romantic Drama, called THE FLYING DUTCHMAN; •ORS THE PHANTOM SHIP. Lucy...... After which, • SIGNOR STANISLA.US, The unrivalled Fire King, will go through his wonderful and extraordinary performances. To which will be added a new Interlude, entitled THE CARD CASE. Barney Flinn Mr. R. M. Raymond. Jenny Rosebud Mrs. R. M. Raymond. To conclude with ' • THE SPANISH BRIGANDS. OR, THE ROBBERS OF ASTORIA, Gil Blas Mrs. R. M. Raymond. Tickets and Places for the Public Boxes to be had of Mr. J. FoGG, at the Box Office, from Eleven till Three; also for the Private Boxes for Full Dress Parties. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.: Gallery, 6d. (to which the number will be limited). Second Price.—Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. Doors to open at Half-past Six. Performance to begin at Seven. Second Price at Half-past Eight. This THEATRE to be LE►T for Concerts, Lectures, Meetings, &c., after the 9th of April, on which day it closes for the season. , ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET MASONIC CHARITY. On TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, April 5,1842. DV DESIRE AND UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF JOHN DRINKWATER, R.W.D.P. Grand Master, AND THE GRAND OFFICERS, MASTER MASONS, AND OTHER:BRETHREN OF THE WESTERN DIVISION OF LANCASHIRE. THE Entire Receipts of the Evening will be appropriated (without any deduction) in aid of the _ FUND OF BENEVOLENCE, For the Relief of Distressed Freemasons, their Widows, and Orphans. The Entertainments will commence with NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. Brother HENRY DODD has kindly consented to sing " PROSPER THE ART," the music by George Hargreaves, the words by Brother James Stonehouse ; dedicated, by per mission, to his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Grand Master of the Order of Freemasons. After which, MILITARY PROMOTION. To conclude with ROBERT MACAIRE. The following will be the Prices of Admission for the above benevolent purpose (on this occasion only) :—Boxes and Stalls, 3s; (no Pit on this occasion) ; Second Price to Boxes and Stalls, 2s. •, Gallery, ls.—no Second Price. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had (on and after Thursday, the 30th instant) of. Mr. J. Focc, at the Box office, and of Mr. WALMSLEY, Bookseller, Church-street. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS !-TREMENDOUS OVER • FLOW TO ALL PARTS OF THE HOUSE! ! THE AMERICAN COMPANY! THIS present TUESDAY, the 29th, and TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 30th instant, the Evening's Enter tainments will commence with a GRAND WALTZ AND GALLOPADE, By a number of beautiful Horses, handsomely. Caparisoned. Mr. Sweeney will introduce a number of Negro Songs, accompanying himself on the Banjo. Master Smith, the Juvenile Performer, will appear on a Single Horse, and take many surprising Leaps, §4.c. Wonderful VAULTING, by the Aerial Troop. A Grand Classic Act of the POLISH GYMNASTICS, by Mr. Sands and his Pupil, Master Burnish. The WARRIOR of the WILD PRAIRIE, by Mr. J. Buckley. Mr. C. Rives, Mr. F. Rivea. and Master R. Rivea will appear in their GRAND GROUPINGS. 1,2, 3, 4 FIERY STEEDS, rode, drove, and managed by Mr. R. Sands. Mr. Derious will exhibit his wonderful feat of LA FRANCA HISPANIOLA. The Indian Pony, OCEODA, will likewise perform. - ' CORDE CRESCENT, by Master Smith; HORSE MANSHIP, by.Mr..Buckley ; WI R,GINNY MELODIES and BREAKDOWNS ; and a variety of other Performances. The whole to conclude with the MILLER and COAL MAN! Doors open at a Quarter-past Seven, and the Performance to commence at Eight o'clock. Admission throughout the Performance—Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. TO PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN AND OTHERS. JB. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER AND PRINCIPAL • REPORTER TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, begs to offer his services to_ Legal Gentlemen and others who may wish to obtain SPECIAL REPORTS of any Cases for Trial at the ensuing LIVERPOOL ASSIZES. • Standard-office. - . TO CORRESPONDENTS correspondent, who states that Dr. Butler announced from the pulpit of St. Anthony's Chapel, on Sunday last, that two dissenting ministers have been received into the bo som of the Catholic (!) Church, is anxious to know, if not the names of these gentlemen, at least the chapels where they officiated. " A Friend of Missions" should have ascertained a little more accurately the precise circumstances in which the Committee of, the Churcn Missionary Society have been, placed, before animadverting so strongly oil their conduct, for permitting one member of the deputation to attend here in May nsxt, to advocate the interests of the association. We were almost inclined to enter a little more fully into the subject, but forbear at present. We are really unable to furnish the information desired by " Justice." Ebr Eibtrpool &tanbarb. accompanied. The inconvenient nature of the former is admitted, but the benefits to be derived from the latter far outweigh the sacrifices to be made to secure them. The people of Great Britain see a great good within their reach dashed back from their expectant lips by the hand of Faction ; they see the industry and commerce of the country restrained by that hand in its panting effort to emerge from a state of unparalleled suffering ; and whilst these paltry im beciles are hugging themselves and chuckling in their little souls in the idea that they are working out for themselves a. harvest of renewed 'power and pay, by their unprincipled course of opposition to Sir Robert Peel, the nation, fretting under the continual goading of hope deferred, is preparing to sweep them aside and overwhelm them in the mire of disgust and contempt, which is their congenial habitation. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c, Our Cotton Market, during the past week, has presented no new features, and the business done has been less than an average one. In part this may be accounted for by the un certainty which still prevails with respect to the settlement of the financial measures of government, and by the circum stance that the present week is one of partial holiday through out the manufacturing districts. The sales for the past week were 19,750 bags, of which 1800 were taken bypeculators, and 800 for export, leaving only 17,150 to the trade. For better classes of American the prices were fully maintained, whilst lower classes were heavy of sale, at last week's quota tions. On Saturday the sales were 2500 bales, and yesterday 3000 bales were sold, at last week's prices. The market is well supplied, but holders are not anxious to press sales, although willing to realize at a fair market price. The advices received from the United States by the Acadia and the Patrick Henry are not of an encouraging description to trade generally, although, with respect to the raw material, Cotton, they' do not materially influence our market. No change is made in the estimate of the crop, and the bulk of it appears to have come forward. Freights had advanced at New Orleans to 5-Bths of a penny upon Cotton by American, and 9-16ths had been refused by British ships. Exchange was difficult to negociate, and good bills scarce at 10 per cent. premium. The internal trade of t he States appeared to be thoroughly disorganized, and holds out little prospect of immediate revival. In the Manufacturing Districts we have no improvement to notice, and regret to have to announce the continuance of efforts, on the part of spinners, to reduce wages. A general impression of satisfaction prevails throughout these districts with respect to the proposed amelioration of the tariff by the government; and the distressed classes look forward to considerable benefits to arise from it, of which, however, thanks to their especial friends in the House of Commons, they are destined for awhile to be disappointed. NEW Ciiiittcx IN MANCHESTER. -Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the foundation-stone of the fou?th church of the Ten Churches Association, was laid by Robert Gardner, Esq., in the presence of 5000 persons, and the whole of the clergy of Manchester. The church will be dedicated to St. Barnabas, and will accommodate 1100 people. It is situated in a very densely populated district, called Islington, and the site for it, in Rodnev-street, was given by W. Faulk tier, Esq. SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.—On Wednesday, in the House of Commons, Lord Sandon presented a petition from the members of the Literary and Scientific Society of Liver pool, calling the attention of the house to the burden under which literary and scientific institutions laboured in being subject to the window-tax, if they had a person within the walls for the purpose of taking charge of their property ; they therefore prayed that the house would take measures for the exemption of such institutions from local and assessed taxes. THE PROPOSED EXPORT DUTY UPON COALS.—We no ticed in a recent publication, whilst calling the attention of the public to this injudicious measure, that deputations from the coal trade and the shipowners in the North of England had proceeded to London to remonstrate with government, and to represent the injurious effect which the imposition of the duty would have upon their interests. The deputations in question, we learn from the Newcastle Journal. were treated with marked respect and courtesy by the Prime Minister and his colleagues, their case arid opinions in refer. ence to the threatened tax being urged with great ability and energy by Mr. Bell and Mr. Hodgson Hinde, who conducted the conference in behalf of the respective bodies. They pointed out at considerable length, by facts and calculations, the injury that, in their opinion, would arise if the proposed tax on coal was adopted. Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Gladstone, and the Earl of Ripon, asked several questions of these gen tlemen, and appeared to take a great interest in the inquiry. Mr. Gladstone, in particular, exhibited great acuteness in the matter, and throughout the interview was actively engaged in committing to paper all that transpired. Eventually, Sir Robert Peel assured the deputations that no further progress would be made in the measure until the Bth of April, and that, in the meantime, the fullest consideration should be given to their representations. Beyond this the Premier made no promises, but some of the members of the deputa tions entertain the belief that, from the facts laid before them, his views on the subject would undergo modification, and that, at least, a beneficial change will be made in regard to the duty on small coals. The deputations almost immedi ately set out for the North, strongly impressed with the great service which their case had received from the zeal and able expositions of Mr. Bell and Mr. Hinde, and with the con sideration and attention which had been' exhibited towards them by the Ministers of the Crown. We have reason to believe that, at least, a higher rate of duty will be charged upon coals shipped in foreign bottoms to ports not their own, and not belonging to countries having treaties with Great Britain, than in British vessels. In reference to this subject, and confirmatory of the views which we took upon it at its first proposition, it appears, from a statement recently put forward by the mercantile bodies in the North. that of 1,155,487 tons of coals exported from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunderland in 1841, 865,500 tons were shipped in Eng lish vessels. The returns from the whole of the United King dom have not yet been received •, but the relative proportion of coals shipped in British vessels will be larger in the other ports than in the two above referred to. The maritime strength of the country has been increased by the employment given to British sailors. The raw material requisite for our manu factures has been imported at a cheaper rate, in consequence of British ships loading coals as an outward cargo, and foreign vessels, when employed in bringing such raw mate rials to this country, taking back coals as a homeward freight. The constant communication with foreign countries to which this large export has given rise, and the opportunity it has furnished of shipping goods has given great additional facili ties to the sale of British manufactures. The revenue and trade of the country have been greatly benefitted by the im portation of articles requisite for the mines, and the popula tion dependent upon them. The customs' duty at Newcastle has risen from £288,777 in 1833, including the then duty, to £409,815 in 1841, without any coal duty. In no other ar ticle of export does labour form so large a portion of the value as in coals. These advantages have been realized without in jury to the English manufacturer, the great bulk of the coal exported being for steam, gas, and household purposes. A reference to the places export will show that the countries whose manufactures compete with those of England are not large coal importers, they being supplied from their own mines. We may add, that in the opinion of the same par ties the effect of the duty of 4s. will be to strike a heavy blow at this important trade. THE MASONIC FUND OF BENEVOLENCE.—The fund of benevolence in conuexion with the Provincial Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the Western Division of Lancashire, to which we lately adverted, as intended to be raised and designed for the relief of widows, orphans, and decayed members, seems likely to be greatly aided and aug mented by the free benefit to be given at the Royal Liver Theatre in its behalf, on Tuesday evening next. Many of the brethren of the various lodges in Liverpool, and some unattached members, have already put down their names for handsome subscriptions, others have undertook to defray all the necessary expenses, and the tickets are plready in high demand. In order that the public generally, as well as the craft, may be accommodated, that as much money may be raised for the charity as possible, and that the affair may go off with ecldt, it has been determined that the pit and boxes shall be thrown into one, after the plan observed at the sub scription concerts, and that the price of admission to the gallery shall be raised from sixpence to a shilling for that evening only. No tickets will be issued for the gallery. The plan will be opened from Thursday next, for those who have taken tickets to select their places in the boxes or stalls. A BATCH OF PICKPOCKETS.—Five well-dressed men were placed before the magistrates, on Saturday last, charged with having attempted to pick pockets. Police-officers Maguire and Grisenthwaite stated, that between six and seven o'clock, on the evening of Good Friday, when numbers of persons were returning from excursions in Cheshire, they saw the prisoners prowling about Chapel-street in company, attempt ing to pick the pockets of several ladies. The following was stated to be the modus operandi:—Two of the party placed themselves before one or more females, and, by walking directly in advance of them, contrived, not only to regulate their pace to the desired deem of slowness, but also to at tract their attention. One walked immediately behind, and he, covered by the other two, rummaged the pocket or pockets for money or valuables. In this manner several pockets were tried, and at length the officers pounced upon them and took them all into custody. They were committed for three months to the House of Correction. A DISHONEST SERVANT.—Margaret Hughes and Ellen Smith were, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having robbed Mrs. Spears, of St. Jude's-terrace. It appeared that on Good Friday morning, Mrs. Spears got up between six and seven o'clock, and looking from her window saw her servant, Margaret Hughes, in conversation with the other prisoner, Eliza Smith. She saw sufficient to render her suspicious. She went down stairs, and found that her servant, Hughes, was intoxicated, upon which she ordered her to quit the house. The girl went out, but shortly after wards returned for her shoes, when Mrs. Spears heard a silver spoon fall. She immediately sent for an officer, who brought with him Eliza Smith, and a bundle which, on examination, proved to be filled with provisions, wearing apparel, plate, &c., the property of Mrs. Spears. The prisoners, it ap peared, had been making exceedingly merry that morning at Mrs. Spears's expense, having drunk half-a-dozen bottles of porter. They were committed for trial. A WARNING FOR THE EMISSARIES OF PASSENGER BROKERS.—TWO men s of the names of Rae and Frankland, the former a car-driver, and the latter a clerk in the service of Messrs. Robinson, were placed before the magistrates on Saturday, charged with having obtained, under false pre tences, £7 from Thomas Jacob Clithero, a very simple fel low, from Clitheroe. The complainant had sent a pound to Mr. Byines. passenger broker, to secure a passage on board the George Washington, for himself and child, and arrived here on Thursday, as the vessel was advertised to sail on the Thursday. He engaged the prisoner Rae to drive him to Mr. Byrnes's office, in Waterloo-road, pointing to the address on his luggage, and giving him particular directions several times over. Rae, instead of doing as he was or dered, drove him to the office of Messrs. Robinsons, also passenger-brokers, where Mr. Clithero was introduced to the prisoner Frankland. Believing that he was in Mr. Byrnes's office, he opened his business, and expressed his readiness to pay the whole passage-money. Frankland said, Mr. Byrnes was engaged just then, making a motion as if to indicate that Mr. Byrnes was within and close at hand. The passage-money was demanded at the rate of £3 10s. per head. The complainant demurred to this, and reminded the prisoner, whom he took for Mr. Byrnes's clerk, that the agreement was for £3 3s. per head. He was producing' the letter in proof of his assertion, when Frankland said, " Oh, never mind the letter ; I know all about, that, as I wrote it myself." In his hurry the complainant paid the whole £7, forgetting to mention the £1 which be had ad vanced. A ticket was drawn out for him which, on examin ing, he found was for the Hope. He pointed out this as a mistake, as he was to go by the George Washington. That, they said, was an error, as there was no such vessel as the George Washington in port. Finding, subsequently, that the Hope was not to sail `fora long time to come, he was induced to make further inquiries, when he discovered that the office to which he had been taken was not that of Mr. Byrnes, but of Messrs. Robinson. It was shown, that the Hope has not yet cleared, while the George Washington was in the river at that moment, ready to put to sea. The prisoners were committed to take their trial for the misde. meanor. As the offence is bailable, Mr. Rushton said he should require from Rae two sureties in £25 each, and him self in £5O, and from Frankland two sureties in £5O each, and himself in £lOO. MORTALITY OF LIVERPOOL.—The site of Liverpool is low; and we regret that, upon examining the returns of the, population for 1841, and comparing them with those of the births, marriages, and deaths, we should have found such a, startling result, a result not so surprising to us as it would be had we not seen some of the older returns. In 1662 the bap tisms were 30 and burials 30 ; in 1700, as above, the former 131, the burials 125 ; in 1800, the baptisms 3033, burials 3157. The births registered in 1839, when a close approximation to correctness in the returns took place, were 7128, deaths 7437; in 1840, with a population of 223,054, the returns showed 9990 deaths to 9925 births. We then went further, and made cal culations upon a base every way favourable ; for we applied to the population returns of 1841 the registrar-general's re turn of births and deaths for 1840 in Liverpool. Conse quently we applied them to nearly the tenth part of a clear in crease more than we ought ; and the result, compared with the mortality of England, exclusively of Wales, made from a table in which the decimal surplus population was deducted from England alone, gives the following figures : Birth Deaths Marr. Births Population of all Eng-1 to pop. topop. to pop. to mar. land,reduced to June 1 to 31,07 lto 44,45 1t0125,29 4,03 30, 1840, 14,767,751. JJJ Liverpool, 223,054 .... 1 to 22,47 1t022,82 1 to 60,6 2,6 Here are puzzling anomalies,—double the deaths and mar riages, and little more than half the number of births ave raged in the totality of England. This statement we have been the first to give so minutely on the returns of 1841 ; and we submit it with regret to the high-minded and public spirited inhabitants of Liverpool, for they may, perhaps, probe the cause. It is evident that the increase of 4821 in habitants in the last ten years must have arisen from the in flux of new residents. Manchester and Salford increased nearly 26,000 in the same space of time, on a population of 262,000.—England in the Nineteenth Century; Lancashire. MEETING OF THE BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS OF LIVER POOL TO OPPOSE SIR ROBERT PEEL'S NEW TARIFF.—A meeting of the masters and journeymen boot and shoe makers was held yesterday, in the large room annexed to the York Hotel, to express the sentiments with which the proposed reduction of the duty upon importation of foreign boots and shoei is viewed by the trade in this town. Upon the plat form we counted about eight individuals, chiefly the movers and seconders of the resolutions; and the body of the room might contain 300 or 400 masters and journey men, princi pally the latter, connected with the trade. On the motion of Mr. Heywood, seconded by Mr. Cadley, Mr. Thomas Turner was called to the chair. After this gentleman had briefly detailed the objects of the meeting and particularly dwelt upon the importance of the various speakers abstaining from the introduction of party politics, 19 r. Sumner read to the meeting several co.nmunications which had been received from the organs of the trade in London, expressing their opinions as to the course to be pursued in the present crisis. Mr. Harris also read a letter from the Journeymen's Asso ciation in London upon the same subject. Mr. Stout then rose to propoSe the first resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Harrison. In the course of his address the former gen tleman dwelt particularly upon the injustice of interfering with the boot and shoe trade whilst the corn and sugar duties were left untouched ; hut intimated an opinion that, as in the case of the reduction of duties upon silk goods by Mr. Huskisson, the trade would not sustain the amount of injury which in the first instance they dreaded. He repudiated as unfounded the assertion that the public had derived no benefit • from the reduction in the duty upon leather. The trade assembled would agree that although, quality taken into con sideration, little difference in price had taken place, yet that goods had been sold since much lower than before that duty had been reduced. They had not much to fear from the introduction of French goods, for since they had come into this country the style of English goods had materially im proved, owing to emulation which had been incited, although .the quality of the goods made had deteriorated. After three or four years of free trade, lie had no doubt the English manufacturer would be able to compete with the French. The resolution was seconded in a,rambling Chartist speech by a Mr. Harrison, a journeyman. Tile second resolution was moved by Mr. Robinson, who intimated that those who talked of free trade ought to be prepared, as this meet• ing was, to reduce the expenses of royalty, and to " go the whole hog for a new constitution." We should state that a master tradesman here protested against the conduct pUrsued; by the speakers, and called upon the chairman to keep them from , party politics, but was put down. The remainder of. the meeting partook of thO character above described ; but in the end, notwithstanding that one 'or two remonstrances were offered to the party tone in which they were urged, the resolutions, which will be found in our advertising columns, were passed. A Chartist amendment was moved by a jour neyman named Jones, upon which, and in consequence of the irrelevant topics gone into by other speakers, Mr. Turner vacated the chair in disgust, and was succeeded by Mr. Stout. The amendment, after some stormy proceedings, was ulti mately negatived and the original resolutions carried. The meeting occupied upwards of three hours. THEFT FROM A SHOP.—At the Police-court. yesterday, a little girl, apparently a mistee, named Susan Gaskell, was charged with stealing some handkerchiefs from a draper's shop. A boy in the service of Mr. Poynton, draper, Para dise-street, said that about nine o'clock on Saturday night he saw a piece of carpet hanging from Mr. Beckwith's shop window opposite, and in which there was a broken pane. The prisoner and another girl were standing near the window, and he saw the prisoner take some handkerchiefs out of the broken pane. The other girl covered her with the carpet whilst she took them. The prisoner ran away, and witness gave information which led to her being pursued and secured in Peter's-lane. Afterwards, whim in School-lane, she dropped the handkerchiefs, which were identified, and stated to be worth £4. She was committed for trial at the sessions, being an old offender. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held yester day, before the borough coroner, on view of the body of Mrs. Sarah Atterby. It appeared from the evidence that the de ceased, who was the wife of the Rev. Atterby, (of, we believe, the Primitive Methodist Connection,) was; about a quarter before four o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, in the act of crossing from the bottom of Dale-street to Shaw's. brow, when a shandry was passing in the transverse direction, from the Old Haymarket towards Byrom-street ; and the deceased, in endeavouring to get out of the way, was struck by the breast of theilorse and knocked down. The off wheel of the shandry, in which were Mr. Barnes, his wife and child, passed over her body. She was immediately carried into Mr. Rogers's, the Earl Gray Tavern, Dale-street : me dical assistance was instantly procured, and she was shortly afterwards conveyed home, but died in about two hours after the accident, which it was found had caused a mortal rupture of the liver. NO blame was attributable to Mr. Barnes, who drove the machine, and who, it appeared, did everything he could to avert the catastrophe. The jury accordingly re turned a verdict of "Accidental Death' The deceased was forty-one years of age. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A Cart-prtivEn.—Yesterday a car driver, named Davies, was charged at the Police-office with retaining a certain sum received for a fare, and not account. ing for it.—Joseph Smith, car-owner,, said he had employed the prisoner for the first time on Sunday to drive one of his cars. He saw him at eight o'clock that evening in Bate's public-house, Elbow-lane, and asked him what fares he had taken. His reply was, " only one fare to Vine-street, for which he had received ls. 8d.," and he tendered 2s. in pay ment, which was refused, Mr. Smith having heard that he had also got a fare from the Clarence Dock.—Joseph Pen dleton, another driver in the same employ, said that he and the prisoner were plying at the Clarence Dock ; that each got a fare thence to the same house in Hope-street; and that he received six shillings for the two, half of which he gave to the prisoner. The. officer who apprehended the prisoner found 3s. 9d. upon him.—He was committed for trial. EVERTON TOWNSHIP MEETlNG.—Yesterday morning a meeting of the inhabitants of the township of Everton was held at Mr. Holiday's, the Everton Coffee-house, for the purpose of examining the accounts of the surveyor of the highways fyr the last year, and electing officers for the ensu ing year. About 20 gentleinen were present. Mr. Rallford was called to the chair, and having briefly opened the busi ness of the meeting, requested Mr. Shaw to read the sum mary of the accounts, which was printed, and distributed amongst those present. In the overseers' accounts, the prin cipal items were the payment of £650 to the treasurer of the West Derby Union, and of £999 18s. to the high constable of Liverpool, for watching rates for two years. The amount of poor rate collected in 1841 was £llO2. The 'balance due to the township is £312. On the surveyor's account the ex penditure had been for the year ending 25th instant £2073, and the collections, &c., to £1591, leaving a balance dile to the treasurer of £485. Mr. Blundell moved that the accounts read do pass. This was seconded by Mr. Lightfoot, and car ried unanimously. The meeting then proceeded to the'elec tion of overseers, and the gentlemen who had servad the of fice in the past year (Mr. Ledson and Mr, Ledger) were re appointed as was Mr. Shaw, assistant overseer, and Mr. Griffiths, collector. The same auditors were also reappointed. Mr. Marshall then proposed that Mr. Thomas Carter should be the printer for the township during the ensuing year. This was seconded by Mr. Tory. Mr. Blundell proposed Mr. Thomas Taylor as printer, which was seconded by Mr. M‘George. Mr. Ledger proposed Mr. E. Shaw, seconded by Mr. Baines. The chairman received the votes for each respectively, and the numbers were :—For Mr. Carter, 1.0: for Mr. Taylor, 7; and for Mr. Shaw, 4. The work will conse quently be given to Mr. Carter. The business here con cluded, and the meeting, after passing a vote of thanks to the chairman, dispersed. ROBBERY OF A DRUZKEN MAN. —yesterday, at the po lice court, a woman named Emma Minton was charged with robbing a young man named Charles Rothwell, of several articles of wearing apparel, taken from his person:- A female who lived in Redcross-street said that about eleven o'clock on Saturday night she heard a noise in the yard, and on look ing out from her bedroom window saw the prisoner and a drunken man in the yard. He was sitting on some mats, and she saw the prisoner put her hand into his pockets, and she afterwards took his boots and stockings frotn his feet and his hat from his head. The person robbed was the witness then present. A bricklay er, who lived on the p re mises, heard a scuffle, and on going u p the y ard found the witness (Rothwell) on his back, wi thout hat, stockings, OF boots.— He called a police-officer, who had him conveyed to Bride well for safety. The officer said that after sending the wit ness to Bridewell, he found the prisoner at the top of the street with the hat in her hand, and the boots and stockings in her apron. Mr. Rothwell said he was out of business, and lived in Birkenhead. On Saturday he got intoxicated, and was in the prison er's com p auy, but re collected nothing more until he found himself on Sunday morning in Bride well., The prisoner was committed for trial. The CHAIRMAN said there were many most valuable and rare plants in the Garden ; and he should the more regret its abandonment as they had received many valuable specimens, and had a promise of additional donations from the first botanists. The Rev. Mr. BROOKS said, that no doubt there were in the nurseries many of what might be called " popular" plants, but he considered the Garden aimed at a higher object. as, in fact, being appropriated to the promotion of botanical science ; and in this respect it undoubedly stood at the head of all the provincial gardens in the kingdom. It was deeply to be regretted that it was not adequately sup ported. The committee had put invention to the rack to save it to the public ; and the only way was by additional subscription's. They had exerted themselves to the utmost ; but so far as his own experience had gone; be had found parties extremely cold-shouldered towards it. He looked upon this not only as a misfortune, but as a disgrace to the town. Three-fourths of the proprietors did not seem to care one farthing about it, and many continued to subscribe merely from public feeling. He did not relish the idea of toandoning it; but when he found the 1,8 shares had b e en forfeited, and that every year increased the number of de faulters, the conviction naturally forced itself upon them that it mu:A be disposed of. He had rather, however, that the proposal to that effect had proceeded from any other quarter than the committee. The CHAIRMAN said that their last appeal to the public in its behalf, produced little more than £lOOO. A gentleman remarked that that was the fact; but that many hed promised their support if they saw that the requisite funds could Le raised to carry it efficiently. Dr. DICKENSON, M.D., noticed the great advantage that would accrue to young merchants and others, by raising tro pical productions, such as the tea-plant, &c., in portions of the ground ; but fi om the want of funds nothing could be dolle in this way. Mr. 11oLTSala that the exitting debt was now only X 2700, whereas, some years ago it was about £4OOO. Their present position was, therefore, an improved one. If the uncertainty of carrying it on were removed, he thought something might be'done by a strong application to the public, and he still thought it likely that the corporation might be induced to double their grant. Sometimes an effort, even in despair, proved to be effectual.' The Rev. Mr. BROOKS remarked that they were certainly mainly indebted to Mr. Holt for raising the sum of £llOO on the last appeal ; but he apprehended that gentleman, in his praiseworthy anxiety for the preservation of the institution, was too sanguine in his expectations. The money already raised had, it might be said, been wrung from reluctant par ties ; and what were they to do with the bank,,whicla was urgent for its money? Air. TURNER said that some parties objected to subscribe under the mistaken impression that in becoming proprietors they rendered themselves liable for the debt already •con tracted. The CHAIRMAN said the committee had taken every pains to explain to the public that no such liability would be in curred. The Rev. Mr. Baoogs observed that the establishment could not be carried on without considerable expenditure, at present exceeding the income. Repairs of glass, &c., af ter a hail storm, were wanted, and the general expenses were necessarily considerable. If they could obtain an income of 13000 a year they might go on, and gradually pay off the debt. The interest taken in the garden was, however, la. mentably lukewarm. The CHAtdmAN, in reply to a question, said that the num ber of proprietors was 400 this year, and that they contri buted .±630 at a guinea and a half each ; and there were but twenty subscribers (not proprietors) at a guinea each. A conversation here took place between Mr. Falkner, Mr. Holt, and others, as to the respective proportionate privi leges enjoyed by proprietors who annually paid ai n guinea and a half, and subscribers who paid only one gninea. It was the general impression that the mere subscribers had privi leges quite equal to those of proprietors who paid the higher sum, which was considered impolitic, as holding out a pre miutn to the latter to relinquish their shares. The Rev. Mr. BROOKS noticed the pressing calls on the pablic at the present time for the support of the public cha rities, (which could,scurcely be kept up,) as militating against their hopes in making a further appeal. Mr. HOLT then moved a resolution (for which see the ad vertisement) to the effect that a final appeal should be made by the proprietors amongst their friends, before it was finally resolved to sell the garden,—the result to be laid before the next (adjourded) meeting on the 2d of May. This was se conded by Mr. Yates, and unanimously carried. After some further discussion; in which Mr. Isaac Had wen and others took part, Mr. Robert Mather moved, and Mr. Joseph Dickinson, M.D. seconded, a motion to the ef fect that no sh are b e so ld under ten guineas ; and that each proprietor should henceforth pay an annual subscription of a guinea and a half ; and subscribers (not proprietors) be ad mitted on payment of two guineas per annum. This was also unanimously carried. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman for his conthict in the chair, and the meeting adjourned to the 2d of May. THEATRE. ROYAL.--A " Midsummer Night's Dream" was produced last night at the Theatre Royal. It is• splen didly got up. The scenery is extremely beautif u l. W e s h a ll notice it at length on Friday. Nothing equal to it, in splen dour and general effect, has yet been seen in this town. OPENING THE LOCK OF A SHOP DOOR, W I T H INTENT TO COMMIT ROBBEILY.—A man named Henry Bailey was yesterday charged at the police court with this offence. It appeared that the front shop of Mr. Jones, in St. James's street, was on Saturday night, between.eleven and twelve o'clock, locked up and secured as usual, none of the parties residing on the Premises. On Sunday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, Mr. Jones's daughter happened to he near the shoji; when she saw the prisoner standing at the door, close to the lock. She went quietly behind him, and saw him operating in some way on, the lock with a piece ,of iron or something resembling a key, and she clearly beard the lock turn. The door, which was fastened by a small bar inside, as well as by the lock, was not opened. She asked the prisoner what he was doing, and he turned and spoke to her, so that she knew him, as she had often seen him before. Another man came up, and she was afraid to attempt to de tain him, she having a little child with her at the time. The prisoner left the shop door, and she went to her father's for the key, with which .she locked the door. She afterwards gave information to a police officer, who apprehended him. On hearing the charge against him, he said, " Is that all ?" and when in court he said that he had nothing in his hand when at the shop but his pipe. He was committed for trial. " REVOLUTION "'A HE ORDER OF THE DAY.—The times are decidedly " revolutionary" ; yet, though we are sanguine of many national and individual advantages, we by no means imply a sanguinary acceptation of the term. Everything is, however, taking a " turn," we trust for the better ; and a turn is, ceteris paribus, a " revolution." The conservatives have, in our recent municipal and parliamentary elections, gratefully felt the influence of the movement. They have been re-" turned" by all intelligent constituencies. They have not, however, " turned " their coats, which are still " true blue " that never stains. They have not, Jim-Crow like, " turned about," but stuck to their colours like men. The whig s (always fond of " revolution ") should be equally grateful : they too have been " turned " — that is, about their busin ess . The " principle " has affected the physical and mechanical, as well as the moral world ; and " the great globe itself," by its diurnal motion, acts as gran d " revolu tionary" fugleman. A man cant get up of a morning. in deed, without "turning" out, nor retire to repose without '• turning" in. Huge ships navigate the ocean by the " turn " of a paddle-wheel, and boxers cannot fight without " turning " to (too). Merchants and brokers watch the " turn " of the market. A gentleman has just taken out a patent for a "revolutionary " or rotatory steam-engine. Even with shopkeepers things are taki ng a " turn. " Th e goods in Mr. Woolfield's windows keep '' turning " all day s , perpendicular'' an d those in our neighbour Mr. Eastee's " turn " horizontally, — all with a view of " turning the penny." We have seen also a handsome "turning" or re volving gas-lamp in Cable-street, which is no inconsiderable attraction to a dram-shop. We hope these novelties will " turn " to good account, and th a t, as one goo d " t urn " deserves another, the industrious classes will feel thankful to Sir Robert Peel, who, revolutionising in his " turn," has spared them by " turning " the cannon of taxation exclu sively against those only who can pay the shot. LOCAL NEWS, There are one hundred persons for trial at the pm assizes. Of these, five can read and manner ; seven can read and write well; twent imperfectly; thirty-three can read and write and thirty can neither read r five ca❑ Tfect HIGH TlDE. — Strangers who may ,be here during the assizes will have an opportunity, to-day, of viewing, from the various piers, a fine sheet of water, as there is one of the highest tides in the year. It will be high water at half-past twelve, and if the wind blows strong-from the west the height will be above twenty feet, and the scene will be rendered ad ditionally interesting by the sailing and arrival of numerous vessels. . . CHESHIRE ASSIZES.—The assizes commence on Saturday next, before Mr. Justice Coltman and Baron Manic. The following are the particulars of those for trial :—murder, 2 females, one of whom is charged with poisoning her brother And sister at Malpas, and the other for destroying ber child at Macclesfield ; receiving stolen goods, 4 i arson, 2 ; forgery, 1; perjury, 1; unnatural crime with a man, 1; rape, 2; stabbing with intent, 2 ; bigamy, 2 ; base coin, 4 ; horse stealing, 3 ; burglary, 21; highway robbery, 7 ; manslaughter, 8 ; sheep stealing, 7 ; manslaughter, 5 ; sentence for murder of the Sandys' children deferred from last assizes), I. LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—No cause in the second or West Derby list will be taken until Friday next. The total number of causes entered in the Salford hundred list, was 58; in the West Derby hundred list, 90; total, 148. Professional Gentlemen and Strangers attending the Assizes, are 'respectfully informed that every description of BATH, Warm, Shower, Sulphur, Vapour, and Medicated, as used so generally in London and on the Continent, may be obtained on the shortest notice, at the Victoria Baths, Cases-street, three doors from Clayton-square, near the Railway Offices and St. John's Market. Edward Cardwell, Esq., who has been declared the sitting member for the Borough of Clitheroe, vice Matthew Wilson, Esq., ousted, is the nephew of Joseph &ATl:date, Esq., the Ate in a superior Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway Compsny. Mr. r ea d - Cardwell is a conservative of high promise. As a barrister be is in most deserved repute, and, from his high and com manding talent, bids_ fair to occupy a pro►ninent position in THE PROPOSED. DUTY ON FOREIGN STARCH.—In answer to a memorial presented to the Lords of the Treasury, Mr. Macgregor has informed the memorialists that the duty on foreign starch imported will be lt per cwt BEWARE* OF PICKPOCKETS !--Gangs of pickpockets now regularly station themselves at the doors or gates of churches and chapels, where there is evening service, whether on Sun days or week-days. They carry on their vocation as the congregations come out, and' then follow parties particularly of ladies, whose pockets they pick while proceeding along. Each gang consists of from five to seven individuals, young nnen—and boys, and their depredations have of late been very numerous. TH E CII URCll. — During the season of Lent, just terminated, many of the clergy of the metropolis adopted a plan, which, if generally followed, would be productive of the most bene ficial Jesuits. They have opened their churches twice or thrice a week, and have explained, in a series of lecture sermons, the fundamental doctrines of the church. Some of them have taken the Articles, some the Homilies, others the Liturgy, &c. We should be glad to see this excellent prac tice followed in other parts of the country. THE COUNTY CONSTABULARY.—At the annual sessions for the county, to be held at Preston, on Thursday next, a 'motion is to be brought forward for the abolition of the county constabulary force. The magistrates for the Kirkdale division, :at a recent meeting, resolved that such abolition is inexpedient, and they determined to support the resolution of Lieutenant- Colonel Austin for remodelling the force. - - COMMITMENT.—Yesterday, a man named James Grey, was committed to prison for three months, for obtaining a quantity from a seaman's chest on board the Lord Seaton. He would have been sent fir trial to the sessions, but the vessel is on the eve of sailing. - - IMPORTANT TO MASTERS AND APPRENTICES. —Magi strates have for some time refused to interfere in cases of dis pute between masters end apprentices, unless a premium had been paid upon the binding of the apprentice. On the 23d instant an act received the royal assent which gives magistrates power to adjudge in such cases, though no premium has been paid. STREET ROBBERY.—A woman named Margaret Williams was, yesterday, charged at. the police court with robbing a man named Henderson of his watch. Police constable Robin son, about ten' o'clock on Sunday night, saw the prisoner and Hendersn struggling together in Hackin's-hey. The prisoner ran off, but he secured her, Henderson having said she had robbed him of his watch. He took her to bridewell, and re- turned to the spot at which he had caught her, when he found a watch without the outer case.. He got a candle, and on searching, found also the case. The complainant owned the property, and the prisoner was Committed for trial at the ses sions. Mr. John Dixon, who, for the last five - or six years, has been engaged as engineer on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, has been appointed general manager of the Bir mingham and Derby Railway. The success of Mr. Dixon is the more honourable as the number of candidates for the vacant situation was very large. MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning„a man unfortunately fell overboard from the ship Mersey, lying off Egremont, and though a boat was immediately put off to his rescue, the tide was running so strong that he was taken rapidly up the river and met with a watery grave. BODY FOUND IN TILE RlVER.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the remains of a man found on Sunday floating in the river near Seacombe. The features, from long immersion, were scarcely distinguishable ; but the body was recognized by his mother, through the clothes, to be that of Richard Thomas, one of the poor boat men who, it will be remembered, were drowned about nine weeks ago, by the upsetting of a boat opposite the Clarence Pier. He was 19 years of age, and resided in Fisher-street, Toxteth-park. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. MEETING OF TUF PROPRIETORS TANIC GARDENS. OF THE B 0 Yesterday, at t,velre o'clock. a special general meeting of the proprietors of the Botanic Gardens. was held at the Cla rendon• rooms, to receive the answer of the Common Coun cil, relative to the proposition made to them, nitd to consider the propriety of selling the whole or a portion of the gardens. The attendance, though highly respectable, was but slender, there being only twenty gentlemen present. • George Freckleton, Esq., M.D., president of the commit tee of shareholders, was called to the chair. soil opened the business of the meeting. The committee being empowered to communicate with the council, had proposed to atil the gardens to them at a price that would cover the existing debts. This had not been acceded to, and appiication was then made to sell them the reversion of the leas-, for the sum of 4000 guineas. This was also declined, as was shown by the fol lowing resolution, passed at the meeting of tl.e Finance Com mittee, had out the 11th Febv. last :—" Rcsolved,—That the committee • regret that they cannot recommend the purchase on the terms proposed." Toe committee of the proprietors exceedingly regretted this, for they were of opinion that un less they could devise some means to liquidate tile debt of the institution, they could not efficiently carry it on. The sum required to be raised (we understood him to say) was between £3OOO and £4OOO, and the expenditure exceeded the present income. They had also the pain to announce that CS shares had been forfeited in the last year; and that, though the com mittee had viewed the subject with the most anxious atten tion, they were not prepared, after their unsuccessful efforts to redeem the institution, to submit any specific plan of pro ceeding. The only alternative seemed to them to be to dis pose of the gardens, as the best step they could take under the circumstances. A proposition had been made to dispose of a part of them ; but this they conceived they could do only to a disadvantage as regarded the property, and to the injury of the gardens. They, therefore, thought that the best course would be to offer them for sale. A PROPRIETOR remarked that he considered the Common Conncil did not contribute a proportionate sum for the opening of the gardens two days in the week to the public. The total annual income was, it appeared, about £774, in cluding their £lOO. They ought to contribute one-third for that privilege, and the closing on Sunday ' • for many parties declined to subscribe in consequence of that arrange ment. They ought to give £3OO annually towards it. The CHAIRMAN said it would be difficult to sell any part of the land, as proposed on the east or north sides. They would require a road on the east side as an approach to houses built there, which they must purchase from the neighbouring proprietor ; and on the north side the houses would be at the back of the hot-houses, and would not there fore. be popular. Mr. BARCLAY said, that on the north side they could spare a depth of only 40 yards, and great part of the ground was wanted for the manure and composts. The building of houses or. the ground was, moreover, a strange proposition. They had leftanother site to avoid the smoke ; and they now proposed to bring the smoke back to the Garden. A GENTLEMAN remarked that he saw no prospect of con tinuing the gardens, unless some private individual would purchase it, and' dedicate it: to the public use and enjoyment. Mr. YATES thought no injury would accrue to the garden by a strip of forty yards in depth being s taken off for build ing. The parties who built them would require no gardens of their own, as they would have the use of the grounds. It was here remarked that a survey had been made of the disposable land for building, and that the whole amount that could be got for it was only about £7OO. Mr. T. B. BARCLAY was of opinion, thSt if they sold the Garden at all, they should sell it at once. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to inquiries as to whether any estimate had been made of what the Garden would bring, said that Mr. O'Kill considered it an exceedingly valuable plot, suitable for the site of ten or twelve good villas, and that together with the sale of the plants, &c., it ought to re aliie £B,OOO. Mr. HoI.T still considered that something effectual might be done to enable them to continue the institution. It oc curred to him that before they abandoned it they should make a strong and final appeal to the public ; and that they might even prevail on the corporation to double their grant for its support. Mr. BARCLAY said there was not, it appeared to him, the same necessity for the garden that had existed some years ago. There was now a great many priVate gardens in which there were plants equal to those in the Botanic Gardens ; and there were several line nurseries in the immediate neigh bourhood replete with choice plants, so that hs did not see why they should feel any excessive anxiety for its continu ance.