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ANIMAL MAGNETISM. THIS EVENING, (Tuesday,) the sth April i an LAFONTA/NE will give A CONYERS lOIs tIIS•MIEDICAL INSTITUTION, Mount-pleasan ad sub the Public a series of Experiments. Tickets to be bad at the Medical Institution, 2s. Gd. To commence at Eight o'clock precisely. kNIMAL MAGNETISM CONTRASTED/WITH N EURO H YPNOLOGY' MR. BRAID, Surgeon, will deliver anoth LECTURE IYI. on the above subject, at the MUSIC- Li Bold-street, TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 6th instant, at Eight o'Clock in the evening. Front Se s, 2s. 6d.; Back Seats, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, is. The Lectnre will comprise Mr. Braid's recent investiga tions, and will be illustrated by experiments, showing the relative value and importance of the different modes of ope rating for the induction of the phenomena, and their applica bility to the cure of what have hitherto proved to be intracta ble and incurable diseases. Three brothers, and others, born deaf and dumb, will be exhibited, all of whom have been restored to permanent h ear ing in a few minutes, and several to the use of speech by this agency. Mr. -B. will show the transposition ( sense, and the supposed magneti without contact, with the true andhithertoincomprehensible L drawing patien n of these wonderful Mr. B. will also explain the mode of mesmerising animals; and that it was by this agency Van Amburgh gained his won derful ascendancy over the wild animals he exhibited. The young lady who exhibited a degree of clairvoyance at Mr. Braid's form er lectures will appear on this occasion • i A -? • t!'/Ar, - ~.4 /TO THE PUBLIC. General Post-office, March, 8-12. A s it is not age to transmit Letters containin Coin or ni, Articles of Jewellery through the Post, Pa es having occasion to remit small sums in Cash, ari make use of the Money Order Office, wh NOTICE no hazard, Money Orders, for sums under e Pounds, are granted and paid by every Post Town in t United King dom, and by the Chief Office in St. Mar 's -k-Grand, the three Branch Offices, Charing-cross, C endish-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, Dates, 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 command, W. L. MABERLY, Secxetar UNITED STATES, The packet-ship Sheffield, Captain Allen, arrived at this port on Friday morning, from New York, aler a passage of only 17 days. She has brought papers from that city to the IGth ult. On the 18th ult., the House of Representatives received from the President a special message. It related to the financial embarrassments of, the country.. It set forth the condition of the treasury ; the impossibility of meeting the demands on it ; the pressing wants of the navy, army, &c.; and suggested the necessity, as the exchequer bill would not pass, and as the government would have no means of anti cipating the revenue or postponing debts, of speedy, provision being made by law for the extension and increase of the loan, or for authority to issue treasury notes to the extent of .the emergency. The secretary of the treasury, in his statement of the means of the treasury on the Ist of March, acchmpa nying the message, estimates the total expenditure far the current three months at 9,574,040 dols., and the deficiency of estimated means at 3,254,686 dols. 47 cts. After a brief conversation the consideration of the subject was postponed. With respect to Hogan, whose arrest had induced the Pre sident to bring his case by special message before Congress, it now appears that he did not elude justice, so to speak, by escaping from gaol, but that after a long argument before Judge Ransom, he was discharged on the ground of the in sufficiency of the warrant. The Niagara Courier says, that " there was sufficient evidence to have detained him for trial, had it not been for the defect in the warrant." The news of the arrival of the Acadia at Halifax, and the safety of the Caledonia, had been carried to New York by the West India steam-ship Clyde. The latter vessel, in going out of New York on the 13th, grounded on the upper middle, where she remained about two hours. Ih working her off an accident happened to her air-pump, and she re turned to the city to repair. She was to leave New York on the 17th. The habeas Corpus brought by Nicholas Biddle, Cow perthwait, and Anderson, had been dismissed, and bills would be at once sent up to the grand jury. The state of trade at New York is described in the journals as ♦ery bad. A complete stagnation prevailed; and, though the spring was commencing, business showed none of the signs of improvement incidental to the season. English and French manufactures had gone at the auction sales at ruinous prices. Money could be obtained without difficulty on good personal security ' • but there was scarcely any demand f or it, so limited bad business transactions been for some time. Little was doing in stocks, The exchange on England re mained unaltered. The legislature of Maryland had passed a bill, requiring the banks to resume cash payments on the Ist of May. The banks had, meanwhile, virtually commenced paying in coin and specie, and bank notes were at a par. The legislature of Pennsylvania had also, at length, passed a similar bill. Several of the banks of Philadelphia bad par tially resumed, but others had refused compliance with the law. The Hibernia Transient ship, from New York, arrived here the same evening, bringing papers one day later, but the contents are unimportant. SPAIN Advices from Madrid, to the 26th ult. announce, that no negociations for a treaty of commerce with England are on foot, but the Spanish Government intends presenting to Con gress, the project of law authorising the importation of for eign manufactured cotton goods, on payment of an ad valorem duty, varying according to quality, from 20 to 25 per cent. The Ministry then hopes to be authorised by the British Go vernment to hold out to the Cortes the probabilities that it will, in fair retribution, to make such reductions from the present import duties in England on the wines, fruits, oils, &c. of Spain. _ It is Understood that £60,000 will be sent next M ay to to England to pay off legion claims. THE INCOME TAX Our metropolitan contemporary, the Standard, has done an acceptable service by reprinting Mr. Pitt's speech on the Income Tax, on the 4th Dec., 1798. It is an unanswerable argument against those who are so assiduous in cultivating that small field of hostility to the governmeut plan of finance which comprehends the tax upon terminable annuities and the proceeds of trades and professions, and we present our readers with the following extract : " As to the criterion of the general tax, it has likewise been objected to the details, that the application is unequal in respect to the nature of income, its duration, &c. Although Ino not intend to enter so much into the discussion of the provisions of the bill, I am anxious to remove those errone ous conceptions which are entertained upon this subject. Here I cannot help remarking, that the arguments of the bon. gentleman on this branch, suppose that it is necessary to correct the inequalities which distinguish the mode in which all taxes are imposed. If such be the sentiment of the honourable gentleman, his objection goes a great deal further than the bill before the house. The inequalities of which he complains arise out of the nature of society, and the distribution of its ranks, and the classification of its property. If he attempts to remedy what he in this con siders as unjust, he will attempt something which has never yet been done by any system of taxation—something which springs from theories of legislation neither founded in wis dom nor justified by experience. I proceed to explain my meaning more fully. The honourable gentleman says, that if two persons have each £5OO per annum, one of whom de rives his income from land, the other from industry, they ought not to be both taxed equally at £5O. He assumes, that each having £4.50 a-year left, the impost is unequal. What does the new tax do ? Are they not left in relation to each other precisely as they were before? The tax creates no new inequality. The justice or injustice remain precisely. as they were. To complain of this inequality is to complain of the distribution of property : it is to complain of the con stitution of society. To attempt to remedy it would be to follow the example of that daring rabble of legislators in another country from whom the honourable gentleman bor rowed some of his political principles, and which, though lie now reprobates, be still seems inclined to follow up. To think of taxing these two species of incomes in a differ ent ratio would be to attempt what the nature of society will not admit --what has never been practised in the course of four thousand years. But on what foundation does this principle, which the hon. gentleman has broached, rest ? Where is the clear inequality on which he so vehe mently insists? Is the industry of the artist, the manufac turer, the mechanic, less the creature of the protection of the law, less involved in the g reat contest in which we are engaged less likely t o be overthrown in_any disasters of the- 7 state, than the income which arises from land ? I heard with satisfaction t h e „argument of the honourable baronet behind me, th oug h perhaps, go along with him to the extent to which he cannot, perhaps, it ; of this, certainly, I am that if all classes int r W s hoi sure, country are not strictly equa s l sharers in the advantages _constitution o f . _ this country affords, there are none who ought not to contribute i n proportion to their means for the public defence in a q uarrel, n w hich the comf orts and h appiness of all are so deeply involved ; unless when the compassion of the legis lature forbears to ex tend the scale of taxation to those who entleman are in the lowest c la ss of income. The Principle of the Y unfou n d e d . In im honourable g then is entirel puting to him that extravagant principle which strikes at the am sure I d o whole distribution of p ro p ert y in society, s no thing which his own arguments do not justif y ' nor do I think I am mistak en in stating those principle, for t he honourable gentleman was particular careful to repeat his monstrous propositions over and . over again, in. proportion as he saw that they were disgusting ot her he feelings of the house. That industry ought to be encaged and pro- moted, is a settlement which n obod y will disput e. It s h ou ld be remembered, however , tha t this, among many others, is a case in which virtue is its own An income of £5OO from reward. What, then, i; the true state of the argumen t ? land may be equal to about c l. his c apital. In the funds, 3,000 i so that a man is con tented to take three per cent. for according to circumstances, and in the different funds, a man may have five or even six per cer?t. If he lays out his capital in trade, and adds to it his own industry , he gets from 10 ``• 15 per cent. Now, if you leave the proport i on undisturbe what is it th a t f orms th e encouragement to lay out money trade and manuf a ctures, but the improved pro duce derive from industry ? This is the incentive which inflam es ente prise and sti mu l a t es i nzenu it v . Allow that or d e r, and which your commerce and your arts have risen to such al unexampled height of prosperity, to remain undisturbed and you preserve that incentive, that encouragement, am that reward on which industry depends. I much doubt indeed, whether any table which the hon. gentleman could form from all the new political lights which he ever received, could lay the foundation more secure or more permanent for arts, commerce, and every kind of exertion than that on which they have grown so great, and flourished so long." THE STA NNA.RIZS.—We have great satisfaction in an nouncing that his Royal highness Prince Albert will be forthwith appointed by her Majesty Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall, vacant by the decease of the Marquis of Hertford. From what we have heard, we have no hesita tion in congratulating the county on this appointment of his royal highness, who, we believe, will apply himself vigorously to the reformation of the business at the Duchy-office, and direct that the appeals now pending from the Vice-Warden's Court here, shall be immediately disposed of. This announce ment will, we feel assured, be received with pleasure by the suitors and the county at large.—Falmouth Packet. & ._ p vl I manded the body of John W 1 roof of t tre-like g, above which ti sharp mid spect nature wear gloomy spot on which he stood, for a moment sent the blood mantling to his cheeks, but the glow was succeeded by the palor which the face had worn during the morning. He a verted his eyes from the thousand countenances that were bent, upon himornd lent his head to the voice of Mr. Young, the task -master, to whose whispered sounds of comfort tie responded with unmingled fervour and humility, exclaiming, " Lord have mercy upon me! Lord have mercy on my soul P' rwo turnkeys were in attendance, but their services were in 1 -d, as the prisoner'walked .with apparent ease to his last landing place. The light fetters no wise ne and firmn he had worn had been struck off in the top room of the lodge. The rope which had been dangling from the gallows for some „ time, was now adjusted by the executioner, who just before the cap was drawn on the eyes of. Williams pressed his hand, and exclaimed, ” Stand firm when I leave you ;" to which the other firmly replied, "Yes," and again repeated, " Lord receive my soul" incessantly, till the bolt was drawn, when the drop fell, and he expired with scarcely a struggle. Williams made a confession, in• which he acknowledged that he cut the throat of the poor wolpan in the presence Slawson, who was tried with him. On Saturday morning Joseph Wilkes, who was indicted with four others for the wilful murder of Matthew Adams, at Delves Bank, near Wednesbury, paid the forfeiture of his crime on the drop in front of the county gaol, Stafford. Throughout the night, and indeed up to the moment the drop fell, the unhappy youth maintained the same firm demeanour which had marked 'his behaviour ever since his condemna tion. He slept several hours during the night, and at an caily.hour was awakened to attend to his devotional exer- As the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (which is - red on the morning of execution) had been usually ad partaken of on the previous Sabbath; that solemn service w Up to the arrival of R. Hand, Esq., the un er-sheriff, Wilkes appearetrto'be silently - engaged in'religi ous contemplations and mental prayer. At, a, few Minutes before eight o'clock the last functionvy of the, law entered tl4 cell, and having pinioned the ands of the youthful cul prit, the mournful procession set out. Wilkes walked with an,unfaltering step, .and without betraying any visible emo- His Countenal exhibited no Liations either of _ _- sensibility or of apathy. As the mournful procession moved along, the Rev. R. Buckeridge read the burial service with much feeling and so lemnity, and on the arrival of the procession at the lodge, the unhappy youth shook hands with the chaplain, the go vernor, and the other officers of the prison, and ascended the drop without assistance. He gave a hasty glance at the crowd whilst the rope and cap were adjusted, and at a few minutes past eight the drop fell, and dosed the world upon him for ever. He struggled for some time, and appeared to die,with difficulty. SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY. SOUTH WESTERN SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.—Great consternation pre vailed here this morning, in consequence of its being reported that a portion of the stupendous tunnel, near Warren Farm, had fallen in just at the moment a train was passing beneath, and that a ;great number of lives were sacrificed. I imme diately proceeded to the terminus of the railway, and after waiting till one o'clock the seven o'clock down train from London arrived, confirming, as far as the giving way of the tunnel, the information. It appears, however, that the acci dent happened soon after the seven o'clock train from South-, ampton had passed through, 110 that several workmen were busily employed in it at the time. On the arrival of the seven o'clock train from London at the tunnel, the passen gers were taken on to the next station in carriages, which had been prepared with the greatest promptitude by the rail way company. One of them told me that he went to a cot tage near where the accident happened,fand there lay the dead bodies of three remarkably fine young fellows, much muti lated, and that workmen were at the time busily engaged in digging out a fourth. These are all, the lives sacrificed at present, but there are three or four more so severely injured, that it is supposed they cannot recover. Mr. Dixon, the resident engineer to the line, was soon on the spot after the occurrence, and rendered his valuable assistance in directing the men employed in digging for the lifeless bodies of their unfortunate fellow-workmen. I can state, on very good au thority, that the accident will not cause a greater delay than ten days • and till it is repaired the passengers will have t o b e conveyed short distance in carriages. The father of one of the unfortunates, John Gambell, while suffering the greatest apparent agony, related the fol- lowing facts He (Gambell) stated, that for the last month or six weeks a soft chalky substance was observed to drop freely from the roof of the tunnel (the largest on the line, being upwards of 500 feet) and particularly about 30 feet from the mouth or entrance, on the Winchester, side, and, within the last fort night the surface of the earth over this particular place was found to be giving way.or slightly sinking, and it was then ascertained that previous to the formation of the tunnel, a bor ing had been made in this precise spot, to ascertain the depth of soil, and this caused a fissure, which being filled in, was of Course by no means, so firm as that around it, and to this was attributed the sinking at the top and the dropping at the bot tom above referred to. The attention of the engineer having been drawn towards it, eight or ten men were set to work to remove the pressure from above, and from that period until yesterday morning, when the melancholy accident happened, they were so employed. At the usual hour James Wpat more, aged 58'years, his two sons, the one one 30 years and the other 18, Charles Nyas, aged 20, James Allet, James Batchetoryl9, Thomas Batchelor,2?, Daniel Laws, 23,William Knight, 24, and John Gambell, went to work, and nothing. particular was observable in the cutting until ten minutes to eight o'clock, when they were talking about going to break fast. At this moment, as poor Gambell describes it, the pace about them began to close in like a whirlpool, and \V at more, Nyas, Allett, and James Batchelor, were hurled into an abyss beneath, of from 40 to 50 feet, the tunnel underneath giving way to a distance of two lengths, as he describes it, or about 30 feet, and burying them in the immense mass of falling material. Lows, T. Bachelor, Knight, and a son of \Vat more, fell from a considerable height, and the two former were so severely injured as to be obliged to be removed to Winchester Hospital, where they were promptly attended to by Mr. Lightfoot, the surgeon. Gamhell states that he must have immediately shared the fate of the four unfortunate men who bad been crushed to death, had he not fortunately grasped hold of a piece of rope which hung from the scaffold ing ; but this giving way, he fell a depth of 40 feet, and re ceived a severe hurt in the spine, had his right cheek, arms, and hands severely lacerated by the rough material or chalk stone in his fall, and was carried to his home, at Mitchel Be- I von, where he at present lies. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From the Herald.) The Rev. E. H.' Sawbridge, 8.A.: formerly of Ballio College. Rector of Thelnetham, Suffolk; has been appointed by the High Sheriff of Devon to be his Chaplain. The Rev. G. H. Somerset, M.A., of St. Mary Hall, Rec tor of St. Mellion, Cornwall, has been presented to the Rec tory of St. Mabyn, in the same county ; patron, the Earl of Falmouth. . . . , The Rev. Stanlake Lee, 8.A., of Queen's College, has been appointed to the Rectory of Broughton with Bossing ton, Hants; patron, H. Lee, Esq. The Rev. J. P. Munby, 8.A., formerly of Lincoln Col- lege, has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Roving_ ham, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Prowde ; patron, the Earl of Carlisle. PROMOTION Rev. Thomas Walker, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, to the Mastership of Clipstone School, North amptonshire, lately held by the Rev. Edward Baines. Rev. H. C. Smith, Lecturer of Kingsbridge, Devon, to the Perpetual Curacy of Trinity Church, Plymouth ; patron, the Vicar of St. Andrew's. Rev. C. Bullen, M.A., of Corpus Cbristi College, Cam bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. George's, Chorley, Lancashire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Todhunter ; patron, the Rev. J. W. Master. Rev. R. Hildyard, M.A., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Winestead, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Hildyard ; patroness, Mrs. Hildyard, of Wine stead Hall. Rev. R. Leeder, M.A., formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of West Barsham, Norfolk ; patron, C. W. M. Balders, Esq., The Bishop of Chichester will hold his first Ordination in the Cathedral of that city, on Sunday, the 19th of June COLONIAL BISHOPRICS —The success which has attended the appeal on behalf of the fund for the endowment of addi tional bishoprics in the colonies and dependencies of the Bri tish empire, in compliance with the pastoral letter of the Bishop of London, will induce the committee to nominate another clergyman for consecration without delay. He will have charge of the cong,rezations in connection with the esta blished chtirili of England in the islands of the Mediterranean, and in the countries borderingupon that sea. The position of Malta, it•is thought,is such as will render it thena9st contve nient point of communication with them, as well as with the ancient churches of the East. It is intended that the see shall be fixed at Valetta, the residence of the English governinent, and that its jurisdiction extend tp all the clergy Of our church residing within the specified limits. Someof the bishops are of opinion that it would be more advisable to found the new see at Gibraltar. A report has been extensively circulated that the Rev. Dr. Robinson, late Archdeacon of Madras, would be appointed to the next colonial bishopric ; but there does not appear to be any satisfactory ground for the rumour. When a bishop for the islands of the Mediterranean shall have been appointed, measures will be taken, it is laid, as soon as the funds permit, for establishing sees at New Bruns wick, the Cape of Good Hope, Van Diemen's Land, and Ceylon The Bishop of Worcester has subscribed £50., and Joseph Bailey, Esq., M. P. a like sum, towards the restoration of Hereford Cathedral. The total amount at present collected is £12,000. THE IN STALLATION.—We believe it is finally arranged that the Installation of the Duke of Northumberland, as Chancellor of this University, should take place at the en suing Commencement. Amongst the distinguished visitors named a s lik e l y to be present are His Royal Highness-Prince Albert and His Grace the Duke of Wellington.—Cambridge Advertiser. DREADFUL SUICIDE. —A melancholy case of self-destruc tion occurred, on Thursday evening, in Ordnance-place, Chatham. The Rev., J. Porter, head -master of the Pro prietary-school, after attending to his scholastic duties, as usual, throughout the day, and without evincing any appear ance that would indicate the premeditation of the rash act, returned to his apartments in Ordnance-place, and having retired to bed, he with a penknife opened an artery of the thigh, and is supposed to have died in the short space of two or three minutes. istlie I WEST INDIA STEAM SH IFS.--The Royal Southampton West India Mail Company's steam-ship Medina arrived at Friday morning , about a quarter past eight o'cloc on Me dina brought home three passengers only, one of whom wa the Hon. Capt. Cadogan , of the guards. The Medina The secon d vessel only belonging to this company that has yet b roug ht the mails from the West India Islands, and had she not been detained at Nassau on the 3d, would have been here ten days earlier. She left Havana on the Ist March, and ar rived at Nassau on the 3d, where she was detained in conse quence of the non-arrival of the inter-colonial mails. Left Nassau on the 13th, and arrived at Bermuda on the 19th, which she left on the same day, and was 14 days home to Southampton. She did not call at Fayal. When the Medina left Havana, it was reported that the Dee,• another of the company's steamers, was on shore at Turk's Island, but the rumour was not creditecf.. . .. , *EST MIDDLESEX INSURANCE COMPANI EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1842 Our contemporary the Journal has some remarks upon a manifesto which has just been issued to the elec tors of the united kingdom by the council of the Anti- Corn Law League, in one portion of which, at least, we cordially coincide. Amongst other insolencies, this patriotic body, which " claims to be heard as the ac credited representative of all the great trading and ma nufacturing interests of the kingdom," (?) maintains that " a small minority of earnest men in the House of Commons can prevent the imposition of new taxes, however powerless they may be, in the face of a mo nopolist majority, to remove existing abuses;" and urges upon the various constituencies throughout the country 'to instruct their representatives to discharge this " patriotic duty," (!) or, in other words, to ob struct, by every factious manoeuvre which the forms of the House of Commons allow, and in defiance of the majority of the representatives of the national will, the progress of public business, unless their own particu lar nostrums be adopted by government. With re spect t o thi s a d v i ce , put f orwar d b y the league, we per fectly agree with our contemporary, that it is " irra tional and contemptible;" and we would even go a little further, and designate it as disgustingly factious and incorrigibly wicked." With respect to the policy of the income tax, how eber, our contemporary expresses an opinion of perfect accordance with that of the league; and it is to this portion of his remarks that we wish to direct the atten-_ _ tioti of our readers We fully agree," observes the Journal, with the league in thinking everything bad of the income tax. It is impos sible to speak worse of it than it deserves. It is the very wickedest and most vexatious of taxes which the ingenuity of man ever conceived. Yet in its' very badness lies our consolation. We sae only astonished at the folly which pro poses it. It is the very thing that was wanted to bring all the inhabitants of the towns, and especially those of the metropolis, to a full sense of the nature of Toryism, of its eternal alliance with oppression, and of their duty to them selves and their country, which so many of them so shame fully forgot at the last election." We are afraid that our contemporary is a little out in his calculations, with respect to the tendency of the proposed tax upon income to effect the restoration of the defeated and despised Whig faction to the confi dence of the people of Great Britain. The Journal urges that such a tax is " the very thing which is wanted to bring all the inhabitants of the towns to a full sense of the nature of -Toryism," and, at the same time, of course, to a proper appreciation of the ex ceeding wisdom and purity of Whig-Radicalism ; but we look around us in vain for any manifestation of such a feeling. We hear of no great convulsions in society, no overpowering demonstrations of hostility towards the government measures, and of returning affection towards Whig rule. " All the inhabitants of the towns" have maintained, thus far, a most provok ing quiescence ; and, althou g h a f e w small people have exhibited a little restiveness upon the subject of the proposed tariff—although the boot and shoemakers have waxed hot upon the subject of their own particu lar trade, the building-club people worked themselves into an awful perspiration, the timber trade exhibited symptoms of having played a wrong card, and several other branches of industry prophesied their own speedy extinction,--the country exhibits, upon the whole, a surprising and gratifying desire to submit to any tem- porary inconveniences rend!red necessary for the car- rying out entire of the policy of the government. It is not a little instructive to watch the proceedings of the Manchester free-trade cottonocracy at the pre sent moment. But a few months ago, in their ardent appeals to the working classes, these gentlemen were loud in their protestations that the reductions which they contemplated in the price of food were not sought for to enable them to lower wages to a corresponding extent, and that they would not be attended with that "The price of food has no connexion with the price of labour" was reiterated, again and again, by the organs of the league, in parliament and throughout the country. "We shall give to the working man the full benefit of the cheap loaf," was their constant rejoinder to those who, acquainted with their selfish and grasp ing avarice, maintained that the benefit in question would•be transferred at once into the breeches pockets of the millowners. And what do we see going on around us now in the cotton manufacturing districts ? result Let us examine. A bill is before the House of Commons which, al though not that "total and immediate repeal of the corn laws," which has been the object of the frantic quest of the leaguers, it is acknowledged, will be at tended by a considerable reduction in the price of bread. A new commercial tariff has also been intro duced, which will lower the cost of beef, mutton, ba con, timber, coffee, and a number of other necessaries of life to the working classes. And what is the course which the free-trade millocracy are pursuing with re, spect to these measures and to the wages of their ope ratives ? Are they endeavouring to secure to the working classes the benefits which they hold out ? No. They are, on the contrary, endeavouring, by every fac tious opposition, to retard the passing of these mea sures and 'to prolong the existing commercial disorga nization, whilst, in the mean time, they are eagerly and actively engaged in an effort to appropriate to them selves the full measure of benefit which ought to ac crue, from them, to the depressed and wretched labour ers whom they employ. A Manchester contemporary (the Courier) of last week informs us that "the reduction in wages proceeds at a humming rate, and must be highly gratifying to the liberal heart of every corn-law repealer. Indeed it should appear we shall very soon rival our continental neighbours in the matter of lowness of wages. We have heard of large spinning and manufacturing con cerns, here and elsewhere, in which, during the last fortnight or so, a saving of nearly 25 per cent. has been effected in the cost of production." A reduction of 25 per cent, in the wages of the fac tory operative and the starving hand-loom weaver! We knew that it would do so. We told the wretched dupes, who were clamouring for cheap bread and cheap beef, that not a penny of the saving would be permit ted to come into their pockets; and not a penny will they receive from these measures ! The millowner has the working classes at this moment completely at his mercy. The limit between subsistence and starvation, and below which the working man cannot be depressed without becoining dangerous, is the present regulator of manufacturing wages. Reduce that limit by de creasing the cost of food, and the working man must descend too, and occupy that debateable ground be tween mere existence and famine, in which, by a few days' or weeks' privation, he may be reduced into the condition of an abject and dispirited slave, an incendi ary or a frantic rebel. It will be said, we know, by the millowner— have no other resource except a reduction of wages at the present moment. We - are not resorting to that step on account of the reduction by Sir Robert Peel's tariff in the price of food, but on account of the depre ciation in the price of our goods and of the embrrassed state of commerce." The world, however, knows you better, gentlemen, than to credit your asseverations. And when your organs in the House of Commons— the Cobdens, Gibsons, and Bowrings of your tribe — get up, night after night, to retard, by every factious motion within their reach, the progress of the govern ment measures, we trust that some public-spirited member will rise and tell them that these dishonest and disgraceful proceedings are only resorted to in order to retard the returning prosperity of the country, and to give a colour to the efforts of the millocracy to grind down the working man and to divert from his expect ant lips the good which a wise and beneficent govern ment offers to his acceptance. •" We In the notice paper of the council we perceive that on Wednesday next Mr. Alderman Evans will move " that the inspectors, appointed by the Council of Education acting under government authority, be in vited, at their own convenience, to inspect the Schools of the Corporation." Why, what Jesuit proceeding is this, Mr. Alderman ? What earthly business has " the Council of Education, acting under government autho rity," with the schools supported by the Corporation of Liverpool ? None ! And at this moment, notwith standing the lofty opinion which we entertain of the plausibility and cunning which are the distinguishing characteristics of Mr. Alderman Evans, we have not the most remote expectation that he can establish any tenable ground for an interference so impertinent and uncalled for. If we remember. right it was but a few months ago since this same enlightened gentleman was loud in his complaints, that to municipal constituencies, such as ours, much larger powers of legislation than they at present possess were not committed. " Why trouble the state legislature"—was the exclamation of the Alderman—" with matters upon which the local legis- latures are equally, or even better calculated to de cide ?" And, in the abstract. there was much reason in the question. If municipal bodies could be per suaded to lay aside their petty personal squabbles—to legislate for the welfare of the population around them, and not for the indulgence of party spleen ;—we might admit that they were perfectly fitted to deal with ques tions far more important than those which at present belong to them. But though we cannot admit that greater powers than they already possess may be safely entrusted to local bodies, constituted like our own, we were scarcely prepared to find Mr. Alderman Evans— the advocate of local legislation—conceding, as by this motion he does concede, that the collective wisdom of the borough of Liverpool is unequal to the management of a charity school ! Hide your diminished beads, aldermen and councillors of Liverpool—fellow -towns men of a Ewan and a Thornely—of men who would experience no difficulties, which their consummate modesty would not enable them to overcome, in un dertaking the professorships of poetry, rhetoric, moral philosophy, or political economy at Oxford, Cam bridge, Glasgow, or the modern Athens itself—hide your diminished heads, for you are unfit—(Evans seipse testante)—to direct even the initiation of little boys and girls into the mysteries of A. B. C., the Horn Book, the Multiplication Table, and the Rule of Three ! You are incapable of directing the charity schools of the corporation, without the distinguished supervision of Doctor J. P. Kay, and the paid com missioners of the Council of Education ! quite agree with the journal that the impoSition of an income tax is one of "the very wickedest' s acts of which Sir Robert Peel could have been guilty, al though scarcely for the reasons urged by our contem porary; for nothing, we are satisfied, could have been devised which is calculated more effectually to impress upon the minds of the liberal middle classes—the shopocracy of the large towns—the tendency of Whig rule, than a direct appeal to their pockets for the cost of that expensive plaything ; and hinc dice lachryme Raise money by taxes upon consumption; raise it in directly to as great an amount as you please, and let Whiggery fatten upon the vitals of the community, squander the resources, peril the safety, and sacrifice the honour of the country; but it is wicked—" very wicked" and very "vexatious"—to compel the pure and patriotic gentlemen, for whose exclusive amuse ment and profit the play has been enacted, to contri bute directly to the expenses, when they could so easily be extracted, without a disclosure of their amount, from the pockets of the hardworking and industrious, who have no participation in the pleasure or the profit of the scene. An income tax is very wicked, not, however, however, because it will "bring all the inha bitants of the towns to a full sense of the nature of Toryism," but because it will drive these sensible and sensitive people to an examination of the exact cost to the community and to the individuals of which it is composed, at which a dishonest and imbecile Whig faction may be permitted to riot in place and pay, and exhaust alike the patience and the resources of an abused country. There is soinething so supremely ridiculous ire this proposition, that we should be fully inclined to treat it as only a contemptible atten: ft to throw dirt at the present School Committee, were it not that the astute cunning of the gentleman who brings it forward will not permit us to treat as harmless a missile directed by his hand. Mr. Alderman Evans would, we have no doubt, gladly take the initiatory in any step calculated to obstruct the proceedings of, or to overthrow alto gether the Conservative Education Committee of the council. Such we confidently believe is the object which this eminent utilitarian has in view ; and we would therefore impress upon the Conservative body in the council, to offer their most strenuous opposition to the present motion. It will not he sufficient on this occasion for Conservatives to argue that no danger can ensue, because they cannot see the wires which the alderman has within his fingers. The proposition, in itself, is one which no body of men, with the slightest portion of self respect, can entertain ; and we trust that no absurd and disgraceful concession, on the part of Conservatives, will permit its jesuitical author to chuckle over the success by which it will thus have been attended. By the same paper we observe that Mr. Councillor Platt will move, on Wednesday, " that a special com mittee be appointed to take into consideration the pro priety, or rather the necessity, of having two additional schools, one in the south and the other in the north district of the town, for the accommodation of the lower classes, (of which the Catholics form a consider able part,) and to give them a good secular and moral education but no religious instruction." (!) Excellent, Mr. Councillor Platt) A somewhat different kind of personage are you to the redoubtable Alderman ; and, therefore, we little fear your assault upon the principle of Scriptural education ; , —seconded, although doubtless it will be, by that eminent -arid enlightened Conserva tive, Mr. John Smith ! MORAL EDUCATION BUT NO RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION." Will there be no Romish catechism taught in these schools, Mr. Platt ? If not, we greitly fear' that their reverences, although the council should be willing to play "the Prince of Denmark, with the part of Hamlet omitted," for their amusement, will scarcely thank them for the perfor mance. We may he in error, however. The next good tiling to being a Roman Catholic, in the estima tion of the priesthood of that schism, is to be of no religion at all ; and, therefore, "moral education" with "no religious instruction" may be the next best thing to being educated under the immediate tutelage and in the creed of Rome. A mind trained up—educated —morally educated (!) —without a knowledge of religion, of a Supreme Being, or of a future state of rewards and punishment— what a scroll will there be presented for superstition to trace her dark imagery upon ! What a society would that form whose youth were cursed with such a system of education ! Reflect upon it—think of it—good Liberal gentlemen of the council. What fruits could you possibly anticipate from this moral education with out religion ? Is not that charity worthy of being ac cursed which would take into its keeping the children of the poor and deny them the knowledge of the God who made them;—which would impress upon the youthful mind merely secular knowledge, and leave the fair table, which it presents for receiving religious instruction, A BLANK, to be impressed in after life with the hideous falsehoods of Infidelity, of Deism, or of Socialism ? Oh ! gentlemen, discard this odious, destroying, soul-debasing attempt to reconcile possi bility and impossibility, truth and falsehood, right and wrong ; discard it ! That every true Conservative in the council will do so we trust; and we entertain a sanguine anticipation that, with the exception of a few gentlemen, of the peculiar mental conformation of Mr. Councillor Platt, there will not be found many, even of the Liberal portion of that body, who will stultify and degrade themselves by giving such a proposition their support. We have heard much, of late, from liberal lips with respect to the " symptoms of repentance" which have been displayed by some Conservatives upon this ques tion of scriptural education; and more than one ru mour has reached us, pointing out the course which will be pursued by certain gentlemen, whose defection we should be sorry to see, upon one or both of these We trust sincerely that calumny has misre presented the ,opinions of those to whom we allude ; and that they will not, on trial, be found wanting to those great principles, the undeviating maintenance of which has contributed so mainly to their present posi tion in the confidence of their fellow-townsmen. Should it be, however, that the cunning plausibilities, by which they are insidiously surrounded, have shaken the mind of any Conservative members of the council, we implore. of them to tear from before their eyes the film of error throug:i which they have been seduced to view this question, and to look at it boldly, and exercise upon it their native good sense and integrity of judgment. Let them do this only, and we are confident that we shall not have to regret the loss of one voice with whose support Conservatism may not readily dispense. motions UTIONS crament to the cm T that might ir a momet hateful Ir. Cunlif e been expected from his to a minute obse id sinist of the the fainte ived it in a rocinrau there was vi- T with tl A few minutes before twelre, the - c ms sounds of the funeral bell rang With startling emphasis -ough the corridors of the prison; and immediate! under sheriff, attended by his assistants me and d ams for execution. The enl- When he had reached the ibbet frowned in spec- sness, t y breeze from the all round th HOME CIRCUIT- " Sir,—During the time of my secretaryship the following sums were paid by me:—Knowles, £4,040; Mr. Williams, £4,038 ss. ; Ditto, as solicitor for office business, £1,857 4s ; Mr. Hole, £7,857 ; ditto, on retiring, £lO,OOO, in manner following : houses in Glocester-place, Surrey-street, and Maida-hill ; to Hole, the freeholds, £8,900; total to Hole, £26,257. I have the checks to prove the sums I have paid to Knowles and Williams; therefore whosoever said I had more than this is a liar, like unto Peter, who denied his Mas ter, and afterwards went and wept, or like unto Judas, who betrayed bis Master, and went afterwards and hanged him self. All that I have said•or written I can prove. " April 23, 1840. Yours, &c., " W. HOLE." . I insured my life in the concern for £loo,'and allowed dis count for present payment, and I received £93. I got the money immediately after I insured ; the defendant gave me . the amount. Three checks for £5OO each were then put in, they were signed " William Hole," and made payable to Mr. Wil liams. One check was on the Bank of England, and the others on the Western Bank of Scotland. ' ___ William Edward Taylor said,—l was one of the directors, and was appointed when the association was first established; previous to that period I was a journeyman locksmith and bellhanger, and was in the employ of a Mr. Greathead. The defendant married my wife's sister. I was applied to by the defendant and Knowles to become a director. Was in the habit of attending at the board on Fridays. I received 2s. 6d. for each attendance for a year and a half. I afterwards re ceived a salary of XBO per annum, though I only attended as a director to sign my name to policies. Knowles was chair man of the directors. I was desired by the defendant to sign my name. I signed all documents laid before me. It was at first arranged that I should sign for three years, as Mr. Williams was then to take my place ; but at the expiration of that time he said I might as well continue signing, as it was all the same. Mr. •Platt.—Did you receive any directions with respect to your dress and appearance ? Witness.—Oh, yes • we were to dress well, an d were or dered to wear rings and jewellery. Mr. Platt.—Did you do so? Witness.—Yes; as the defendants gave rings to wear. A paper in the defendant's handwriting was here read, upon which was a memorandum, dated Sept. 13,1839, to the following effect :--".Taylor fined for not having on his ring." The witness said they were often fined for a similar offence. Cross-examined.—Many fines were levied and exacted. Was ordered by the defendant to sign'the documents. Mr. Baron Gurney observed that the witness and his col leagues appeared to be the " directed," instead of the " di rectors.' Re-eXamined.—Knowles and Mr. Williams acted as sec retaries after the defendants left the concern. I had no sus picion that anything was wrong. I placed great reliance in the defendant. Williams, Hole, Hustler, and the defen dant used to be in a private room together, except on board Joseph Packer, a law-stationer, stated that be was em ployed to engross the deed of the company, which was dated 26th September, 1837. Saw the first nine names on the list of shareholders signed on that day. He was afterwards de sired to obtain other signatures to it. He did so during the vacation of 1840. He applied to persons indiscriminately to put their signatures to it, and it remained at his office for the purpose. He was employed by Knowles and Williams. Re collects being at the company's office one morning when the defendant and his wife were there. The post had just been delivered, and he saw the defendant open some letters and take some bank -notes from them. He made some observa tion to his wife ; believed the words were " look here." He then put the notes into his pocket : and went away with his wife. Whenever he got any persons to sign the deed, a num ber of shares were always placed opposite their names. Cross-examined.—Knowles married his (witness's) wife's sister. Knowles employed him to engross the deed. The deed creating the company was then read, and it ap peared that the defendant was appointed secretary and ex officio a director for life ; it further stated that he was to be allowed, besides his salary, 70 shares, and his wife, as a pro vision for her and for her absolute use and benefit, was to be allowed 700 shares. Another letter, of which the following is a copy, was then put in:— " France, Jan. 1, 1811. " Knowles,—Thou art a scoundrel, and thy son no better. I shall print and publish all the by-laws and proceedings which relate to any transactions which I had with the com pany, and expose your villainy to Mackenzie and others, and I give you and your lying rascal of a b— notice, that if you or he should dare to publish any slander relative to my cha racter, I shall instruct my solicitor to prosecute you, you d—d perjured scoundrel—you base wretch ; swear against your own handwriting? what! swear you never borrowed any money of use for the office ? Oh ! wicked wretch ; I have your signature, and my solicitor has seen it. Base, base, base; hang thyself with your friend Williams. Truth. " WILLIAM H." " P.S.—I have h ear d you h ave again plundered the OLE office. Oh ! how many times, wretch ? Addressed to " Mr. Thomas Knowles, 44, Cambridge terrace, Paddington, London." This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Chatnbers then addressed the jury for the defendant. He argued that there was no evidence to show that Hole had not originated the speculation believing that it would be pro fitable to the public as well as to himself, and that the break ing up of the establishment was attributable to the miscon duct of Knowles and Williams. And although he admitted that it had been the occasion of great distress and misery, yet the defendant was not responsible for it, and he ought not to be ruined because the speculation lie had promoted bad not proved successful to those who embarked in it. The learned counsel then proceeded at some length to comment upon the facts of the case, and concluded by stating that the charge of fraud had not been proved, and that the defendant was entitled to a verdict. ' Baron Gurney addressed the jury, tinQ said that the pldin• tiff in this action sought to recover from the defendant a sum of money of which he bad, as was alleged, deprived her by . fraud ; and if the jury believed that the money was obtained by fraud by the defendant; or by others acting in concert and conspiracy with him, the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict. The jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, £9OO. Eleven other actions of the same description were brought against this defendant, for sums varying from £2,500 to £6O, and all with a similar result. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week —that is to say, up to the date to which the respective re turns are made :—Birmingham, £14,112 ; Great 'Western, £11,033; Brighton, £2,821 ' • South W estern' £5,075 ; York and North Midl an d, £1,669; Blackwall, £736; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £1,628; Midland Counties, £ 9 ,316 ; North Midland, £3,725 ; G r eat N or th of England, - £1,067 ; Bir mingham and Derby, £1,033 ; Northern and Eastern, £1,266 Croyden, £320 ; M anc h ester and Birmingham, £471 ; Eastern Counties, 876 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,517 ; and Hull and Selby, £953. MURDER AVD SUICIDE.—On the morning of Thursday last, the hamlet and vicinity' . of Kingswood, principally in habited by colliers, about two miles from this city, on the Bath road, was thrown into the most appalling state of con sternation by the tragic occurrences which we have now the painful duty of detailing. Amongst its inhabitants was a roan named Samuel Cook, between 40 and 50 years of age, unmarried, and who resided with his sister, Edith Cook, said to have been a few years older, in his own freehold cottage. Samuel, who formerly was a collier, had by industry and frugality realised a competency, and his income consisted principally of the rents of his own freehold cottage s . Hi s habits were serious ; he was a regular attendant at th e metho dist chapel ; perfectly sober, even to being a member of th e teetotal society ; and through lif Thursday mornin g , s h ortly e was considered to be of a most kindly disposition. On after seven o'clock, the milk-man, Abraham Fry, came as usual to the cottage with milk, when in passing through the little garden in front, he was struck with horror at beholdi ng the body of Edith C oo k lying in a pool of blood, life quite her body. An in voluntary extinct, and h er h ea d near ly s evered from . Cook on th e fl oor, with nearly as ghastly a wound on his own they found Samuel , g neighbours, when on enterin the cottage rapidly cry whi c h b ro k e f r om him ray collected th e throat, an d a razor in his hand. The wretche d man , w h o was fast h urry i ng to eternity , had barely strength to articu late " I h ave murdered my sister, and now I have murdered myself." M e di ca l assistance was sent for, and Mr. Biggs, surgeon of Kingswood, was sp ee dil y on th e s pot; he sewed up the wou n d an d rendered every possible attention, but the unhappy victi m o f, we hope, some sudden impulse of insanity, died about nine o'clock. Of the causes which have led to this horrid perpetration, we can learn nothing that fully clears the mystery hanging over it.—Bristol Journal. KINGSTON ASSIZES, APIUL 1 NAPPER V. HOLE. (Before Mr. Baron Gurney.) This was an actionbrought yt ep plaintiff against the de .- 1 - if • fendant, as the originator and principal in the establishment of the West Middlesex Insurance Association, to recover from him the sum of £9OO, which she had paid to that company for an annuity of £76 10s., and of which sum it was alleged that she had been defrauded by the defendant ; and also that the association had merely been got up for the purposes of Mr. Platt and Mr. Gurney were for the plaintiff, and Mr Chambers for the defendant. _ . Mr. Platt, in opening the case, observed that in the year 1836 the defendant set on foot an establishment which was called the West Middlesex Assurance Association, and from which the public were to derive great advantages. Prospec tuses of 4 most alluring description were circulated, and in the course of a short time sums to a very considerable amount were deposited for the purchase of annuities. The prospectuses set forth that the capital of the company was £1,000,000, which had been raised by the sale of 20,000 shares at £5O each ; and the names -of fifteen persons, all bearing the title of " Esquire," were duly advertised as directors ; and it was further announced that the bankers were the Bank of England, the Bank of Ireland, and the Western Bank of Scotland. For about four years the concern appeared to be going on prosperously, and the annuities were regularly paid ; but at the commencement of the last year the bubble burst, and it was then ascertained that the whole was a fraudulent scheme, concocted for the purpose of entrapping the unwary and plundering them of all their property. It would be dis tinctly shown, that of the fifteen directors announced in the prospectuses, ten or twelve of the names were entirely ficti tious, and the others were persons in a ;very humble station in life • that not only was there no capital whatever, but th a t none of the shares alleged to have been taken had ever been paid for. The learned counsel, after alluding to the alluring character of the prospectuses, concluded by saying that it was evident the defendant at the time he commenced the under taking was aware that it would not be profitable—that he embarked in it for the purpose of defrauding the unwary— that the whole scheme was founded in fraud, and for the ex press purpose of applying to his own use the money invested with the alleged company. After someeevidenOe to prove that the defendant was secre tary and principal in the company, Mr. W. Wilson was called and said—l was one of the directors of the company in question. When T first became connected with it I kept a school in the Edgeware-road. I solicited employment as clerk in the office. The defendant said I should be in the office, and he at once placed my name in the list of direc tors. lt was subsequently arranged that I should receiee ss. per week for my services. I was only required to attend one day, in the week ; that was on board days, for the purpose of signing policies. I used to sign all the policies and annuity deeds which were laid before me. A number of shares was allotted to me when I was appointed a director, b u t I never . paid anything for them. The company never had any capi tal that lan aware bf. I continued do Oct as a director until the breaking up of the concern. The defendant was secre tary and manager nearly the whole of the time. I signed the deed of partnership previous to the opening of the office, in 1836. Amongst the directors are the names of H. Alex ander, Esq., Bedford, Esq., R. Ayre, Esq., Hopei and Fergusson, Esq. Ido not know any such persons, never saw them at the board, or at any of the meetings. There are also the names of W. Wilson, Esq.. and T. P. Price, in the list. I am the person first alluded to as W. Wil son , E sq . and T. P. Price, Esq. is a youth about 16 years of age, who was employed in the office as writing clerk, and to go on errands. A certain number of shares were allotted to each of us, which of course we never paid for. The defendant always paid me my salary ; he also paid all other persons employed in the concern : it was agreed that I was to have ss. a-week for signing the policies, &c., for the first year, and Ws. a-week afterwards. After I had been a director for two years I was promoted to the situation of clerk, at £75 per annum ; but still retained my seat at the board. For my last year's services I received £3OO ; but that was after the defendant left the concern. I received the letter produced from the defendant ; it is in his handwriting. The following letter was then read THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL DV DEstnr. AND TINDER TIM PATRONAGE OF JOFIN WILSON FRANCE, Esq.. And the GENTLEMEN of the NORTHERN BAR, THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, April sth, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM With the New Comedy of THE PRISONER OF WAR. Both of which will be repeated every Evening this Week First Price.—Lower Boxes, 'ls. ; Upper loxes, 3s. Gd. Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, is. Second Price.—Lower Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, 2s Pit, Is. Gd.; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. MASONIC CHARITY. THIS DAY (T UESD A Y,) April : 6, 1842, Dv DESIRE AND UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF JOHN DRINKWATER, Esq., R.W.D.P. Grand Master AND THE GRAND OFFICERS, MASTER M44ONS, 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, 25.; Gallery, ls.—no Second Price. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had (on and after Thursday, the 30th instant) of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Box office, and of Mr. WALMSLEY, Bookseller, Church-street.' ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET, LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON O , N FRIDAY next, the Bth instantjor the IaNEFIT of Mr. R. M. RAYMOND, previous to ,his appear ance at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, Oh Thursday next. The Public and Patrons ,of this Theatre are respectfully informed that an account . of the Proceeding); at Kirkdale Sessions, (instituted by the Common Informers,) to" take place on the Morning of Friday, the.Bth instant, at Eleven o'clock, will be given in the Evening to those who are kind enough to Patronise the Entertainments for Mr. R. M. Raymond's Benefit. The performances will commence with the, very popular and highly interesting Drama, in Three cts, called CHANGES AND CHANCES; OR, WOMAN'S PATE. _ _ In the course of the Evening an Address will be delivered by • Mr. R. M. Raymond. After which,' BLIND BARGAIN; OR, A MATCH [N THE DARK. Ati,ys Cuthbert will ?lance an admired Pas Seul. To conclude with THE CHRISTENING; OR, MY FIRST BORN. Tickets and Places for the Public Boxes to be had of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Box-office of the Theatre, from Eleven till Three. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s will be Gallery, 6d. (to which the number Second Price.—Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to open at Half-past Six. Performance to begin at Seven. Second Price at Half-past Eight. This THEATRE to be LET for Concerts, Lectures, Meetings, &c. after the Bth of April, on which day it closes for the Season. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET Last Week but One of the Company's stay in Liverpool. THIS present TUESDAY, an d TO - MORROW , (Wed nesday,) April .sth and 6th, 1812, the Entertainments will cemmence with The Pekin Guards, led by Messrs. Derious and Sands. Mr. Sweeney, the celebrated Banjo Player, will introduce a number of his Negro Songs. Master R. Rivea will appear on horsebag as the Tea Ticker of China, with a Chinese ciince. Surprising Display of Agility, by .the sniembers of the Company, in which Mr. W. 0. Dale, the cekbrated Vaulter, will distinguish himself. Mr. J. Buckley as the Shipwrecked Sailor. Cracakatoo ; or, Cocoa-nut Ballet—by Mr. C. hivea, G. Buckley, F. Rivea, and Master Rivea. Mr. Sands will introduce his Wonderful Dog, Schodine. Mr. E. Derious will appear as the Brigand Chief. Mr. Sands as the Courier of St. Petersburgh. Master R. Rivea will introduce his St. Swithen Chair. Posturing, by Mr. R. Rivea. The Ma g ic Sack, o n t wo h ors es, by Mr. C. Riv ea . Mr. W. O. Dale in a principal Act of Horsemanship. Two Great Negroes—J. Sweeney, the Tall Nigger, on the Banjo : Vanhramer, the Short Nigger, in which they will present a variety of Songs and Dances. Grand Fancy Dress Cavalcade; led by Mr. Derious and Mr. Sands. Admission throughout the Performance — Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. TO PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN AND OTHE RS• JB. HEW ITT, SHO RT - HA ND WRITER VD PRINCIPAL . REPORTER TO THE LIVERPOOL STODARD, 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. StAdard-office. THE OVERLAND MAIL FROM CHINA The steamer with the Indian Mail arrived at Marseilles on the 31st nit. The telegraphic despatch was received in Paris on Saturday, but it does not appear to contain any other in ormation thgn the mere fact of the arrival of the steamer. The lefters and papers were expected in London yesterday morning, and as we shall in all probability receive the Bombay Times, and our usual communications from the East at an early hour, we shall give the fullest details of the important in telligence at the soonest possible period in a second edition. Ebt Zibtrpoot &tantarb. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c Our Cotton Market during the past week has been marked with extreme dulness, and the prices of the low descriptions of American have given way to the amount of about id. per lb., whilst the best qualities maintain their prices. Surats have been in good demand; but, being offered freely, have declined about id. per lb. The sales of the week were 18,940, including 1200 American taken on speculation, and 600 American and 450 East India for exportation, leaving only 17,89 Q taken for consumption by the trade. The feeling altogether in the trade is one of great depression. The sales on Saturday amounted to 4000 bales, including 400 for export ; and yesterday fully 4000 were sold, the prices of the close of last week being fully supported. A considerable business has been done in Manchester in Yarns, but at no improvement in prices. Cloth still conti nues heavy of sale, and little hope is felt of a speedy revival of demand, owing in part to the complete stagnation of the American markets. A better business has been doing in the Country Trade. The accounts from the Clothing Districts of Yorkshire continue of a more cheering character than from the Cotton Districts of this and the neighbouring counties. LOCAL NEWS. SAILING OF THE GREAT WESTERN.—This splendid steamer sailed, on Saturday afternoon, from Kinzroad, Bris tol, for New York. She carried out about 70 passengers, among whom was M. Baraigne, the French Ambassador to the United States. Her freight of goods was much smaller than usual. The Great Western will leave New York instant for this port. Professional Gentlemen and Str ers attending the Assizes are respectfully informed tha very description of BATH, Warm, Shower, Sulphur. V our, and Medicated, as used so generally in London and the dontinent, may be obtained on the shortest notice, t the Victoria Baths, Cases-street, three doors from Cl ton-square, near the Railway Offices and St. John's Ma et. LIVER THEATRE.---Edday night next this theatre closes for the season. Mr. Raymond takes his benefit on the occa sion. Mr. Raymond has laboured hard to please the public, and we trust that the public will not be torgetful of him. He deserves a bumper, and no doubt he will have it. The entertainments are of a very varied character. PARISH AFFAIRS.—Our leaders no doubt have been sur prised that we did not give the results of the late parish elec tions in our last publication. Having perceived in all our contemporaries official notices of those results, we expected that we should be favoured with them in the usual course of business. Why we have been left out remains to be shewn We now give the close of the poll : Persons. Votes For Mr. Birkett „ Mr. Cowgill 42 .. 121 For Mr. Hart's re-appointment ll6 .. 315 For the amendment that the offices of Treasurer and Rate-book Clerk be, in 20 .. 40 future, divided. LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND COMMERCIAL INSTITU TION, ST. ANNE-STREET.—Mr. J. D. Russell delivered his second lecture on Eaglish literature, at this institution, on Friday evening. The lecturer gave a succinct but compre hensive view of the literature of the Elizabethan era and that of Queen Anne. His observations on the writings of Shak speare, Bacon, Spenser, and Milton, evinced a sound critical judgment, and a thorough appreciation of the genius of those unapproachable writers. The delivery of the lecture occu pied nearly two hours, and was listened to throughout with intense interest by a most intelligent audience. Mr. Russell closes his interesting course on Friday evening next. LUNE SALMON.—This delectable ish, formerly con signed to an Agency at Preston, is no egularly transmitted, irnmediatelyon its leaving the wat; , to JOSEPH NEWTON'S Wholesabe and Retail Fish Es ..lishment, 14, St. John's Fishinarh3t, so that the nob: / y, gentry, and the public in general, inay now obtain f; Sh Lune Salmon (equal, if not superior, to that of the •,* er Severn) three hours after it is taken out of its nativ -element. No other person will be able to supply the ..lic• with Salmon equally fresh, as Josnrit NEvrrolt i he sole lessee of the Skerton and Lune Salmon Fishery. rimped Salmon to order, at the shortest possible notice. NEUR OITYPNOLOgY.—On Friday last, Mr. Braid, surgeon, of Manchester, delivered a lecture on the s c ience to which he has given the above name, at the Templar's-hall. It was announced that the lecturer would explain the mode of ri les _ merising animals, but this was rendered impossible by the ungentlemanly interruption of some surgeons, whose furious zeal carried them far beyond the bounds of discretion, one of them going so far as lo•impute swindling to Mr. Braid, for which he was afterwards ,convelled to apologise. Seve ral of the patients were thrown into the cataleptic and rigid states, and a young lady sang part of a song whilst in the test stage. Mr. Braid being unable to finish his lecture, and to introduce the new experiments , auotiker lectu re was announced for Wednesday (to-morrow). • . On Thursday iast a raectin - of the rate-payers of nirkeT , head was held in St, Mary's Church, for the purpose of nominating overseers of the poor, and assessors for the en suing year. Mr. Robert Hughes, and Mr. James Trotter were appointed overseers, and Mr. Ilugh Williams, jun. and Mr. James Maddock, assessors. We refer our readers to Mr. Thompson's announcement. which appeared in our last publication. in which he holds out great advantages to those desirous of acquiring proficiency in the art of penmanship. We have seen several who have been under his tuition, who gratefully acknowledge the bene fits of his system. SINGING.—It will be seen elsewhere, that Mr. Russell, organist at Dr. Raffles's chapel, intends forming classes for the instruction of singing upon Wilhem's system. We be lieve he is fully capable of imparting a knowledge of the art, having had considerable experience. MR. TEMPLETON'S CONCERT.—Our musical friends will perceive, by the advertisement, the high treat which awaits them next week, in having an opportunity of hearing the com bined talents of the celebrated Miss Delcy, and our old fa vourite, Mr. Templeton. We have no doubt the lovers of Scotch ballad will hail this event with delight, as, in addition to the great celebrity he has acquired in the grand scena, he stands unrivalled in his Scottish molodies. A letter, with the following address, passed through our post-office on Friday last : Mr. Postman, unto your care This letter I to Glasgow send, And hope, on its arrival there, You'll safe deliver it to my friend `WILLIAM CLARK—as gude a chiel As any wi' him you'll compare. He's ken'd by all the ladies weel ; He works in " North-court, Exchange-square." NEW PATENTS.—The following are amongst the patents sealed last month :—Charles William Firchild, of Woley Park, Northfield, Worcestershire, farmer, for an improved pro pelling apparatus for marine and other purposes.—Moses Sperry Beach, of Norfolk-street, Strand, printer, for im provements in machinery used for printing with type, and in the construction of type for printing,—being a commimica tion.---Henry Smith, of Liverpool, engineer, for improve ments in the construction of wheels and breaks for carriages. —John Haughton, of Liverpool, clerk, for improvements in the method of affixing certain labels.—James Clements, of Liverpool, manufacturer of toys, for improvements in com position for ornamenting glass and picture frames, end articles for interior and other decorations; also for the manufacture of toys and other fancy articles. SCHLESINGER'S NEWLY INVENTED CLIP.—We have had an opportunity of seeing a new letter clip or file invented by Messrs. Schlesinger and Co. There are many objections to other letter clips, which have been carefully avoided in . this. The generality of clips have large screws or grips projecting in the front, which must of necessity prevent the possibility of hanging them up without exposing the letters. The,scrpw,i or grips of other clips are so fixed at the top, that the second page of a letter or invoice cannot be read without being taken from the clip, and by the pressure merely resting on one part, the letters are liable to be much disarranged, and often lost altogether.. This most important point is very ingeniously in this clip, as the grip for securing the letters, &c., is so fixed cm the board that they are perfectly secure at the back, and kept in such order as to admit of instant access for perusal, as readily as though in a bound volume. STEALING ORANGES.—Three boys, Hogan, Dogharty, and INl'Guire, were yesterday charged with having stolen a quantity of oranges and apples. They were seen in company on Saturday night, by a police officer, in John's Lane, car rying a bag which was found to contain a large quantity of oranges and apples. Two witnesses, dealers in such fruit, stated, that on receiving information they went to their vaults, under the Pedlar's market, and missed—the one 1.1 hundred oranges, and about 100 apples; and the other, two hundred oranges, and half a cwt. of apples, which had been left safe that night. The:prisoners were committed for trial. ROBBERY IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—At the police court yesterday, a man named Thomas Flannagan, was charged with robbing another named John Dwire, of a sum of money. The complainant said, that on Sunday morning about eight o'clock ,he met the prisoner and another man in a public house in Shaw's Alley, and they sat drinking together till 11 o'clock, when they all went to the prisoner's house in Spar ling-street, to have something to eat. They then remained till three in the afternoon, shortly before which time, the com plainant, who was not perfectly sober, perceived the prisoner thurst his hand into his pocket, and take out some money, part of which fell on the floor. The prisoner's wife wished him to restore it, but he refused, and threatened to strike her for suggesting it. Complainant got out of the house, and gave information which eventually led to the prisoner's appre hension. His identity was made out, and he was committed for trial. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The English stocks, which appeared rather flat in the morning, were strengthened in a material degree towards the close of business by pur chases made by influential brokers on private account. Con sols for money left off 90 to -; for the account, 901 to ; New 31 per Cents., 993 to 1 ; Exchequer-bills rose to 335. to 335. premium ; and India Bonds, to 10s. to 12s. premium. In the foreign market the New Three per Cent. Spanish Stock failed to support the fictitious value it acquired yester day and the two previous days ; there were several bargains in it, which were all done at lower prices ; the closing one was 23 to 4. The other foreign stocks were scarcely so good as yesterday. Mexican left off 401 to ex div. ; Danish, 801 to 81 ex div. ; Brazilian, 66 to 68 ex div. ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 351 to 61; Ditto, 3 per Cents., 201 to 1+ ; Co lombian, 27 to 1; Belgian, 103 to 104 ; and Spani s h A c ti ves , 4* to ?f. SUICIDE.—An inquest was held yesterday before Mr Curry, the borough coroner, on view of the body of Mary Roberts. The deceased, who was forty-five years of age, was the wife of a carter, and resided in King-street, Toxteth park. She had a sister-in-law who died about two months ago, and had from that time been in low spirits, and subject to fits of abstraction. On Saturday morning, about half past eight o'clock, her husband left the house to go to his work, and returned about twelve o'clock to his dinner, when he found th e d oor o f the room i n which they lodged to be fast. He knocked and kicked, but receiving no reply, he called some of the lodgers in the same house, who broke into the apartment. They found the deceased lying on her back in the bed, with her throat cut, and a table-knife lay on the floor near her. She was still alive, but much ex hausted from loss of blood. Surgical assistance was imme diately called, and the wound, which had not reached the jugular or the windpipe, was sewed up. The great effusion of blood, however, from the minor veins of the neck that were dissevered, was such that she died at eight o'clock the same evening, of " venous hemorrhage." The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed suicide, while labouring under temporary insanity. PICKING POCKETS BY AUTHORlTY.—Yesterday, at the police-court, two stout elderly females, Alice Jones and Mary Perry,—the latter with her face much bruised,—were placed at the bar, they having been taken into custody on Satuiday night; but no charge was preferred against them. It ap peared that Alice Jones had been seen taking the money from the pockets of Mary Perry, while the latter was so much in toxicated that she lay on the ground, unable to help herself. Jones was apprehended for the supposed theft, and Perry was conveyed in a hand-barrow to bridewell for safety. Mr. Davenport explained the ci rcums t ances. J ones was a poul terer in St. Johns Market, and Perry a friend of her's who hawked poultry for her about the town, and who being ad dicted to taking occasionally a drop too much, had given her a general authority to empty her pockets of all the coin they contained, whenever she found her " over the line," lest some one else might get hold of it. Mrs. Jones had, on several occasions, acted upon this " right of search," and always with perfect satisfaction to Mrs. Perry. Both parties, on being questioned, stated that this was the fact, Perry adding that the money was always honestly accounted for by her friend. ' They were accordingly both discharged, and left the court in amicable companionship. GROSS ASSAULT BY A MAN ON HIS WIFE.—At the Police Court, on Friday a man was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of grossly assaulting his wife. Th e complainant, a rather intresting and well dressed female, with her face blacked with blows, who had a child with her, said she had been married to the prisoner for about seven years, and that he was a seafaring man. He was father of the child. He did not support her, and was in the habit of abusing and striking her. He had violently beaten her on the day mentioned in the summons, and had inflicted the injuries on her face. She was also much bruised all over. She did not want him to maintain her, but to keep away from her, as she could make a moderate living in quiet., by keep ing lodgers.—The prisoner said the complainant had a bad tongue, but did not adduce any particular instance of her using it in a provoking manner.—Mr. Rushton said he had violently assaulted her, and that he must pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned two months ; and, moreover, find bail to keep theipeace, himself in £4O, and two sureties in £2oeach or he further imprisoned for three months. FIRST APPEARANCE OF MR. ROLL AT THE HAYMAR. KET.—On Wednesday Mr. - Hull made his bow to the Hay market audience in the character of Orlando, in Shakspere s comedy of As You Like It. This gentleman is not new to the London stage, having performed, when a mere child, Prince Arthur, at Drury-lane ; from that period he has ap peared occasionally at some of the metropolitan theatres, but his practice has been chiefly in the provinces, particularly at Bath and Liverpool, where he has played all theleading light comedy business with considerable success. The impression made by him on Wednesday night was decidedly favourable ; he possesses a good figure, free and graceful action, and a prepossessing . countenance. , His voice is sufficiently clear and pleasing in tone, and he treads the stage with the ease and confidence of a veteran. The character of Orlando is not one we would select by which to test the abilities of a light comedian. It is of that halt-sentimental order, in which, if the actor be but gifted by nature with a good voice and figure, and a tolerable knowledge of his business, he can scarcely fail of being successful, as the character may be said to play itself. Judging, however, from what we saw of Mr. HOW; acting, we.consider him to be an artist of more than average merit, endowed with many natural advantages. His faults are occasional inequalities, and a want of finish in his acting He draws the rough outline of his characterswiti; bold and free hand, but we - irnagine that he does not possess sufficient mind to bestow the delicate lights and shades that give truth and beauty to dramatic pereonations. There can, however, be no doubt that he will prove a valuable acquisi tion to the Haymarket company.—Sunday COUNTY CONSTABULARY.—In our last we gave a short report of the annual county sessions held at Preston on the previous day. Our reporter fell into a slight error on the occasion, which we are now wishful to set right. We stated that 81 magistrates voted against Mr. Towneley's motion for disbanding the constabulary force, and 55 for it, whereas the contrary was the case ; 55 voted against it, and 81 for it. But as the act requires the majority for the abolition of the force to be three-fourths of the magistrates present it fol lowed that the motion was lost by a majority of 21 votes. The effect of the decision will be as we stated, that the force will not be disbanded, but the correction is important as exhi biting the fact, that a considerable majority of the magistrates are in favour of abolishing it. The following gentlemen voted for the motion brought forward by P. E. Towneley, Esq. :—Sir T. Potter, Sir T. Trafford, Messrs. Michaelson, Ireland Blackburne, Mackreth, William Marshall, P. E. Towneley, John Armstrong, C. Towneley, Edward Grundy, John Grundy, Le G. N. Starkie, Reginald Hargreaves, John Holt, G. Thornber, John Formby, James Pedder, Richard Newsham, jun., Wm. Turner, Wm. Gray, Wm. Earnshaw, James Blanchard, James Wanklyn, Elias Chadwick, T. Eastwood, Wm. Birley, Critchley, Joseph Brotherton, C. Lacy, Hutchinson, David Harrison, John Hopwood, Jsialamwe,s John npsHe s on y ,l , lobert Andrews, Henry Ashworth, Open . R. E. Jamesw W. Atkinson, i G ns r o ay n, R W ig Holme Maude, J W. gme., Hall, J ames Whittaker R. J. J. N'orreys, W. G. W a l mes l eY, Henry T empest, B. Heape, R. Moore, Parr, Hibbert, T. Newton. Lyon, Peter Ainsworth, E. Silvester, George Ash worth, Brocklehur s t, P. Abbot, W. Wright, A. Bu c kl e y, J. Mell or , 11. Hornby, W. Rathbone, J. Crossley, R. Wal ker, W. H. Wood, E. E. Clayton, H. Whittaker, Joseph Ridgway, G. Baldwin, Wm. Chadwick, Henry Hardman, C. Bourne, J. Heald, J. J. Darbishire, John Taylor, Welsh, Armitage, C. Orrell, J. R. Barnes. The following voted against it :—Messrs. John Saurey, Horton, James Alison, Robert Lomax, C. E. Kendal, J. Bushell, John Austen, John Bentley, John Cunliffe, L. Rawstorne, John Fletcher, Henry Petre, Wm. Gale, John Woodcock, Jonathan Brooks, T. W. Rathbone, Reece Bevan, James Heywood, J. S. Bir ley, John Master, T. Cooke, S. Taylor, R. T. Parker, A. Hodgson, W. G. Bell, J. N. Farington, Harvey, J. C. Ewart, W. F. Hulton, J. Heywood, T. Rodick, P. M. James, Horsfall, Haliburton, T. Lowndes, J. F. Foster, T. Thornely, F. Jordan, Wm. Carlow, M. Feilden, Standish, B. J3arelay, J. F. Hindle, Robinson, G. Jacson, R. Alison J. Buirstow, T. H. Hesketh, W. H. Ho rn b y , J osep h Fi e ld , , A. Wood, Robert Hornby, W. Edwards, R. Ashton, and J. Fletcher.