The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

WILLIAM LEDGER, V BLIND MANUFA( ENETIA r on hand. IRE BLINDS Painted and Or BARGAINS LLING BY PRIVATE FOR A FEW DAYS LONGER AT GLASGOW HOUSE, ?field's celebrated Ladies' Work Boxes, Dressing Cases, able Desks, Tea Caddies, Glass Lustres, Fancy Goods, TREATY ke. &c., at GLASGOW HOUSE, CHURCH-STRI Barrett THE ORIGINAL NEW AND OLD BOOK No. 54, WATERLOO-PLACE, CHURCH JHOWELL b • the Pu Mr. Adam GOODWILL NESS ery other d 3TOR ame system whit. WINDO AN ex G ingly Low Prices, he hopes to merit a continuance of that patronage and support which have hitherto signalised his ex- Libr or taker 54, Waterloo-place, January, 181 es and small Co: of Old Books Purchased Exchange RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. OPTICAL, MATHEMATICAL, AND PHILOSOPHI CAL INSTRUMENTS, SPECTACLES, &c. &c. EDWARD DAVIS, OPTICIAN, &c.. 65, BOLD-STREET. LIVERPOOL, R ETURNS his most crateful thanks to his kind F goished support he has rece at having of A P'PARAT le begs.to serve tt o establish on bled him, in a comparativel the largest businesses in I. end. It is desirable that all accounts for and against be prom settled The PREMISES to be LET FROMOLI and HAUSBURG respectfully announce the completion and arrangement of their SPLEND ID STOCK OF CHANDELIERS, LAMPS, &c FOR THE PRESENT SEASON. I ENGLISH AND_ FOREIGN BRONZE And having devoted ever written pnourec CHINA, GLASS, &c to occur in Materials, I inter AND CANDLES FOR G the assorts 'enture to which has hitherto marked their p ro gress.. TWO LIGHT SLIDING CHANDELIERS, with Water Joint, (ALL CAST,) with Sorl- Ball Joint, Burners and Glasses fitted THREE LIGHT DITTO, DITTO, (ALL CAST,. with Socket and Ball Joint, Burners, Glass Holders, and Glasses, Measuring, Fitting to re quired height, and Fixing, complete . . . • GAS CHANDELIERS, upon the best construc tion, and of first-rate workmanship, (ALL CAST,) beautifully finished, with Sockets and Ball Joints, patent Are Burners, Glasses, and Chimneys, and fixed complete THREE LIGHTS FOUR DITTO And no to HALL LAMPS, ETRUSCAN, Fitted complete from . . . • • • • • ..... FULL-SIZED LAMP PILLARS, from . SOLAR LAMP HEADS , for BURNING COMMO N MILLER'S II PATENT L A MP with Dome Chimney, HEADS, and Wicks com wi-uplete 20s. eacb Dome and Chimney complete . • PALM ER'S PATENT CANDLE LAMP. PATENT SOHO LAMPS, for Burning Candle.. wicks. Fully impressed with the necessity for perfect sec against accidents, P. and H. trust, by the produr'" SUPERIOR CHANDELIERS at exceedingly Prices, to supersede the very imperfect n-e! • duced into Liverpool. comple , 15s. each 10s. each 20s. each n the inferior To remove the difficulties arising solely ft auality of the Oil in general use, P. and H. have undertaken NEW PATENT OIL, In Sealed Cans, at 4s. 6d. per Gallon Lamps will be which, the satisfactory performance of the nsured ; and, as a rise in the price will take _ . venture to suggest the ear of orders transmission DINGS ral a feeling c PROMOLI and HAUSBURG, OLD POSTOFFICE BOIL RECENT events ha the mor entous importan eaa R eco ds . M Cash, _ HOMAS MILNER .aviting public notice to thei , DEPOSITORIES. Heaving Accom umbers r Patent is capa cit the kened so gi of securing a protection S., Books and Papers of Combustib and SON feel excused in again r PATENT FIRE RESISTING of affor als i❑ t amities of the kind asideration of gen mechanical science to the subject generally, and investiga ion into the pretensions of the various means of security in ise, their own amongst the rest. M. and S. are prepared to submit their manufactures to public trial with any others of equal dimensions, whilst their comparatively moderate cost renders them extensively avail able. The Certificate of the satisfactory trial of their Boxes in Liverpool bears the signatures of the following gentlemen, to whom permission of reference is kindly given : T HOMAS BOLTON, Esq. (ex -Mayor.) JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq. (ex -Mayor.) Sir THOMAS BRANCKER, BARTHOLOMEW PRESCOT, Esq. L. GRAHAM, Esq. R. FRODSHAM, Esq. WM. STOCK, Esq. S. WOODS, jun., Esq. In addition to the above, Milner and Son draw attention to the following statements : A trial of Milner's Patent Fire Resisting Safes and Boxes having been announced by cards, issued to 500 of the scien tific and principal gentlemen of Dublin, which was adjourned from the Royal Dublin Society'. -^^^mint of es, on e at the Rotundo alterations in progress thereon, took plat,— _ Gardens, October 7th, 1842. The fire, consisting of half a ton of coals, and fifty to sixty feet of wood and kindling. was lighted at one o'clock, with a box and powder safe finpa with papers, &c., in the centre. The w 1 by the gentlemen present, whose signatures on the certi. were placed inside. Sir John Kingston James kindly conducted the proceed rigs, and locked the box. At two o'clock, at Dr. Meyler's suggestion, a large sugar hogshead, with both ends knocked out, was placed over the top of the fire, which, quickly ig niting, caused a very fierce draught, and produced intense heat on the tops of the boxes, which were seen through the opening crevices of the burning cask most severely exposed. A little before three o'clock, Dr. Meyler, with whom the keys had been left by Sir John Kingston James, opened the box, and its contents, including several parchments with seals attached, were found to be perfectly safe. At half-past tour o'clock the Powder Safe was taken out and opened, and the inner cell, with its contents, were still unaffected by the heat. It was again replaced in the fire of red coke, and kept in until six p.m. ; when taken out, after five hours' trial, al though the outer cell was red hot, the inner one and contents, opened, in the presence of Joshua Abel, Esq.. 11 • ardson, Esq., M - --0., Messrs. Thosand, Gardiner, were still as fresh and perfect as when placed We declare our satisfaction with the result of these experiments, and our confidence in the perfect efficiency ,f this principle for , the preservation of all combustible ma- on being Trouton, & in the fire xamined terials in ordinary fires. (SIR) Joni , ' KINGSTON JAMES, (Bart.) Cavendish WM. FARRAN, Abbey-street, (SIR) THOS. M'KENNY, (Bart.) Fitzwilliam-street, JAMES SHERIDAN, Church -street, JoRHUA ABEL, 27, Eustace-street, ROBERT KANE, M.D., Professor, Royal Dublin Society, ROBERT HUNT, Crampton Quay, ANTHONY MEYLER, M.D., (SIR) EDWARD STANLEY, THOMAS DRIER, ISAAC M. D'OLIER, Gov. of the Bank of Ireland, Registrar, Royal Dublin Society, (SIR) WILSON, (SIR) TOLER OSBORNE, RICHARD PURDY, C. H. MINCHIN, A.M. JOHN DOYLE, ROBERT LEECH, M.D. JOHN Loucx, Architect, WM. M. BENSON, GEORGE DAVIES. Committee of Manufacturers, Royal Dublin Society.-- -That having carefully examined the Pire.proo .duced by Messrs. Milner and Son, and witnessed -erful and continued fire, we recorr end them as articles E or Wa ppraved utility. DARD ST.ANL7 RESOLVED. their application to pov EY, Chairman 12th October, 1842. lessrs. Thos. Milner & Son, Office, Commercial -buildings. Oct. 24, 1842 Gentlemen, —At the late fire which consumed my ware• --• to inform you that my Deeds, Papers, anc were deposited in two Iron Safes lin, were completely reduced to ashes great , es , I regre mnt Book 1 Iron Fir The ince As I hav roof Safes rour humble servant, RICHARD G. HICKS. end me a No. 10, with drawers, and No. I, Hamburgh,29th August, 1842. MILNER and SON'S (of Liverpool) PA PROOF SAFETY BOXES, took place on 'ear the Elbe, this afternoon ; ,having been present during the whole teasure mull expressing our conviction all cares of casual and ordinary 'rig pa pers, circulars, books, and ;ell, Mr. Wenden, the repre- Lkis watch inside ; the whole nresent, and were locked 'ening t S, Adnairalitatistrasse." f seven cwt._of coal, and .n slabs, and other com ndence of Mr. Thomp- Iron Works. The Box d to remain for one hour time it was of a white respecting the watch ; fectly safe, a nd going a contents were also pre whioh this gertifiesate is LI. ful scantly H. G. I. h Envelopes in Travelling Bo NOTICX, ND, of 92, BoL VERY e Publi ast compti ur Coats, Partie H. G. I. has just completed an elegant Assort CARDINALS, CARDINAL BOAS, or VI( Cieani NICHO Friends ed to a continu PROTESTANT PATRONAGI THE SUPPORTERS of CHUI peci.illy those of the Brotherhoot Mr. HOLDEN'S friendly welcome TAVERN, LEIGH- tCH and STA 11 find a h street BILIOUS PILL Bishop of El ni of Worc lop of L Rt. Hon. J. A Advocate of Scotland . Hon. R. C. Fergusson, H.P. Judge Advocate Ge- Hon. Sir Edward Cust,K.C.H Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. r Frauds Burdett M.P. Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., 11 , 1. P Sir Robert Grant, Bart. r Samuel Fludyer, Bart Sir Robert Buxton, Bart Sir John Forbes, Bart. Sir Philip B.V. Br( Sir John Tvrr Sir Hen Smyth, Bart, M.P. w Wood,Bart,M.P Sir Matti Sir John Sir Thoa e Beauvoir, Bar s B. Mash Sir Thos. Wil I.P.SoI.Gen Sir Frederick' Pollock, M.P. J. Wildman, Esq., Chilham Colonel Tynte, M.P . Col.b Col. Bc Colonel Cowell take Park, Surrey Thorington Hall Captain P Gordon Alderman Thom r Charles Walker, by d'Eresby q.,M.P M.P. 1., M.P. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, M.P. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow Ven.Archdeacon of Colchester Ven.Arc Rev. Dr :hdeacon ofSt.Alban's . French, Cambridge. ter. Dr. Benson Rev. Dr. Birch Rev. Dr. Marsh Robert Renwick, Esq. M.D . C. Waddy, Esq., late M.P . Dublin whatev John Hatchell, Esq whatever is catcut all or any of th Dublin, --- of Du ,-- Boles which havt for deeds 1' Filt-r time of I am, Gentleme OR-MOLD TREET CORNS, BUNIONS, &c . SGUTTMAN, from Berlin, begs leave • the Nobility, Gentry, and other Inhabitai pool ar= the vicinity, that he ext 'etts CC BUTT . without the slightest pain or incon of Liver aacts CORNS and ni ence ; quhin.: the exerc L, G. takes this opportu thanke - t) those who lu during the last eighteen May be e msulted fron 2 to 5 in the Afternoon. 41, Pkata it-street, ne R. COCKLE Duke of Grafton Duke of Manches )uke of Bedford Duke of Beaufo Duke c Duke of Marlborough nnke of Ruff! tench Duke of Sutherlar Marquis of Lansdowne Marquis of Normanby Marquis of Winchester Marquis of Abercorn ,r 1 of Eldon Earl of Kinnoul Earl of Errol Earl of Mountcask Earl of Darlington Earl of Guildford Earl of Scarborough Earl of Oxford Earl of Rosc Earl Cowper Earl of Leicester Earl of Gainsboroug Viscount Melbourne Viscount Palmerston Viscount Flo Viscount Fordwich Viscount Torrington Viscount Acheson Viscount Alford Lord Arundel Lord Hill Ylunket Lord Murray Lord Kinnair Lord Bentinc Lord Midd Lord Frede ord Willougt Lord Ha Lord Redesdal Lord Seymour Lord Hartland Lord 'W Lord Sydenham Lord Archbishop of Armagt Bishop of Durham Bishop of Cher,,._ Bishop of Bath and Wells Bishop of Norwich nester Bishop of S. Bishop of Peterborough And numerous Families of the highest respectability. Mr. COCKLE, SURGEON, has much pleasure in laying before his friends and the public, Mr. ABERNETHY'S ESTIMATION of his Antibilious Pills, extracted frc entleman addressed t him in tt " I have or tions of the f your Ant ded with ( nd I have thus had frequent opportunities of witnessing their beneficial effects. They greatly influence the secretion of bile, and act with certainty and in the most effectual manner on the alimentary organs, without occasioning pain or irritation. I consider them a most excellent family aperient medicine, and may be taken at all times with perfect safety," both local They are prepared by Mr. Jamrs COCKLE, Surgeon Extra 3rdinary to Her Serene Highness the late LANDGRAVINE ESSE 11 ne Vend may be had .t ls. NOTICI Let it he especially observed, that those Pills only are genuine which have the name " JAMES COCKLE, APOTHE CARY," in white letters, engraved on the Government Stamp. This mark of authenticity will protect the Public against any dangerous and deleterious imitation. 18, New Ormond-street, Bedford-row. London. Just published, the 12th edition Sold by T. Newton, 16 and 29, Church-street, Liverpool, Price 45., and sent free to any part of the kingdom on receip of a Postoffice Order for 55., THE SILENT FRIEND; a Medical Work, on nervous 1 Debility, and Disorders arising from an Impure State of ie Blood, embellished with Engravings, representing the of Mercury on the Skin, by Er • and Body ; followed by Obser PERRY and Co .uptious on By R. L geons, LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. Pu 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, Brig - gate, Leeds; Steward, Oldham-street, and Courier-office, Manchester; and by all Booksellers in town and country. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is, therefore, calculated to afford decided relief 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 almost s")-- 1- " that activity of led ; they are wan gy of c hensions t which their affairs require rom conscious weakn( are liable to sink despondently into a premature It is for these that Messrs. PERRY and Co., particularly designed their CORDIAL BALM of partly from .e sive appr SY RIACUM Whatever enriches the blood, without s hatever free: throws off habit. and b. I humour iulating out inflaming it 3 violently the jurden resolves obstructions, and effects under certain modifications and restrictions, equally adapted to every species of decay. Hence, though the Cordial Balm of Syriacum makes a direct attack upon the many-headed hydra in one quarter only, it will be found to apply indirectly collaterally, to almost every other; in short, the debility re can be completely reinstated by this excellent me for its reanimating powers exceed almost credibility ; lating balsamic stomachic qualities—its I ft purification the blood- - --and, above au, tne complete invi gorator of the nervous system, whereby the whole faculties become restored to their proper power and functions, and the fallen fabric of life is raised up to beauty, consistency, and duration, upon the ruins of an emaciated and premature decay, to sound and pristine health. As nothing can be better adapted to help and nourish the constitution, so there is nothing more generally acknow ledged to be peculiarly efficacious in all inward wastings, loss of appetite, indigestion, depression of spirits, trembling or shaking of the hands or limbs, obstinate cough, shortness of breath, or consumptive habits. It possesses wonderful fficacy in all cases of syphilis, fits, head-ache, weakness, -, ness and lowness of spirits, dimness of sight, confused wanderings of the mind, vapours, and melancholy ; of hysteric complaints are gradually removed and all ki by its use. ConstitL ...ns relaxed, weak, or decayed, in men or women, .re under its immediate influence. Old coughs, asthroas, and consumptive habits are soon relieved, and speedily cured. Poverty of blood, and emaciated limbs, will, 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 Ils. each, or the quantity of four in one Bottle for 33g., by which one Ils. Bottle is saved. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual fee of one pound, without which no notice whatever can be :aken of the communication (postage pre-paid.) PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIPIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Ils. per box, Warranted not to contain Copaiba, Cubebs. or Mercury. kre of the utmost importance to those afflicted with Scar part of the body, Ulcera ,, being justly calculated counteract every morbid Affections, Eruptions in e blood from all fon Id restore ak and emaciated const street 4, Great Cha )w,) B m a country t and effectual ,ctual. • • an rig Specific Pills, d Cordial 31 allowance to the Trade, by Patent Medicine Houses in al Wholes 'essrs. and Co., Druggist *Loot ALARGE and DO N FANCY MEL'S, irorn ' TW EEDS Aths FLUSHINGS. BEAN SiMt The above are unusu I tion f LIVE m the heads of Families, Schools, &c. IPOOL CLOTH ESTABIASHMEN 99, LORD-STREET. ORREL COAL AND SLACK. 3ANKES, ESQUIRE; (if Winston] VrEYRICK IVI. near Wig pool and the YARDS, at the CANAL s OPDNED COA L the bottom of CF STREET, and at the- HARRINGTON' DOC PURE ORRELL COAL and S ship o For the Sale of the CK ONLY, Whid i from his own extensive Collieries in the T 'ins' an 1 1:.04 1-1 have obtain on the Violin, REMOVED to STREET, ST. A : I SONS, the latter of whom pellation of the unrivalled Brott a Piston, &c. &c., have The Masters Phillips have had the honour of performing fore the Earl of Sefton, Sir John Gerard, Sir Richard Vest, Ruthin Castle, Lieutenant-Colone nor of the Isle of Man, &( 3ands, in uniform or p' 1 Ready, Cover- GEO. PHILLIPS, 3, Goam Ague-street, Liverpool; or at Mr Arms, South Castle-street, Liverpool •-place, B LITHOGRAPHY Parker's AirACLURE, MACDONALD, and MACGREGOR, IVA LITHOGRAPHERS, DRAUGHTSMEN, and ORNAMEN TAL PRINTERS,I Brunswick-street, Liverpool, beg to inform ENGINEERS, SURVEYORS, and OTHERS, that they have fitted up the largest Lithographic Printing Machines in Liverpool, for producing, in a masterly style, Plans, Sur- the services of went of their house in B M. M. a and, at the have had oc larged scale ; that they command, at all times, Artists of the _first talent, in every depart rofession, and being themselves practical men, ,nd M. invite an inspcc ,ey are thereby enabled ,eir thanks to thci ence shown them, but at no time more so than the present when a rapidly increasing business has called for a still fur ther extension of Premises. le Drawings and Visitio, Marriag Circulars; Shipping; Business, _ Cards; Bills of Lading and Exchange ; and Mercantil Forms of every description. Colour Printing, &c Lithographic Establishment, 1 Copies of " 3runswick• street, Liverpool, 2d Jan. 1843. - ...;EtN VICTORIA IN SCOTLAND by Maclure and Co., to be had at it —l4 ll'S. Castle-strept and r‘f M ..„1 LithOgraphe WA RRlmr WRECK OF THE STEAM E VON-TWENTY (OR , NEAR CARNAR LIVES LOST. gret to state that t and recently lilac teamer Mo Carnarvon, was tote , belonging to t. on a on the north bar of the latter if not more individuals and that at least twenty differ on this point 'for the accounts as yet teceived perished by the disaster. The f Ing announcement of t aclancholy fact a'as posted at thi lnd the Exchange-room, soon after 12 o'clock yesterday, and may be considered authentic so far Underwriters'-room "The Monk (steamer) from Portynllaen to this port, with pigs and butter, was lost during a heavy gale on Saturday von-bar. Four men saved by the life-boat; and the remaining twenty persons who were on board perished, owing to the heavy sea washing over them. The two men alluded to were saved by the ex ertions of Captain Jones, of the smack Diligence, who, on seeing the signal-lights of distress in the steamer, imme diately obtained a horse, and galloped several miles for the life-boat—succeeded in mustering a crew, and was alongside the wreck in a very short time. - The sea was running ver high, and it_ was only by great exertions that the two mei e saved.' We bave been favor Newsroor original letter addressed to him by Captain Jones, of the Diligence, who exerted him so praiseworthy a manner. It corrobot near Carnarvon, Jan. Bth, 1842 f you to announce the loss of the steamer Portynllaen to Liverpool, with 140 pigs, by which t EVEI LINES, I NELSON'S " Sia,—l Monk, bound (int 2 fat cog and £6OO worth of butt, down early in tt I went on horseback near the wreck, and, to my surprise, saw persons moving on it. I immediately galloped upwards of three miles for the life-boat, and I mustered a crew, and went on board, and saved two persons.- Three had just died; and, the sea running high, it was impossible to get them out. On Saturday night (when she struck) four saved themselves by coming ashore in the twat. The place where the vessel stranded was opposite the Fair-Way Buoy, inside of Carnarvon Bar. The captain threw himself over board, when the life-boat was in sight, thinking to swim ashore, but failed. We picked him up on board the life-boat quite dead, an.l the body is now lying in our church, w an inquest. " I am, Sir, &c., your humble servant orning, for the purpose of rendering som assistance " JOHN JONES The editor of the Albion, in a second editicW,WyeSte' blished about noon, gives a letter with which he had favoured dated on Sunday Paynter, of Carnarvon, and also e number of tho The writer, after stating that the Skimmer, the Vale, and the Snowdon (steamers of this port) had all experienced the effects of the gale, but without loss, and that the first steamer had got aground, and would be neaped, says : "It has been awfully otherwise with the Monk. In re turning from Portdinllaen yesterday, she struck on the North Bank, about six o'clock, being nearly low water at the time. The engine immediately bceame disabled, and she stuck fast. They shortly after, being apprehensive of danger, showed lights and burnt a tar barrel as signals to the Llanddwyn life-boat, but she having been at Carnarvon yesterday, the - eturning obliged to leave her at Aber nenai, e signals were observed, and an attempt was made to reach the vessel, it was found impossible to do so against a strong flood tide and head wind, and the melan choly consequence was, that the vessel going to pieces, 22 or 24 persons perished, and only six were saved. The pigs, cows, butter and wreck are strewed about the Straits. Four of those saved got into a small punt, about two hours after she struck ; and, though they were once capsized, even tually got safe o❑ shore. Two others were saved this morn ing, on part of the wreck, by the life-boat. The body of Captain Hughes is, as yet, the only one found. He jumped overboard to endeavour to swim ashore, although the Life-boat was seen, and was overpowered, after getting into shallow water scarcely sufficient to cover him, and was, at the time, on his hands and knees, most prdbably in a state of insensibility. I believe he had no person on board ac quainted with the bar. Perhaps you will have inquiries about the circumstance. I give you the names of those saved. PER SHIP'S 130 AT. Mr. Owen Williams, Gafall y gam, who is now with me. Thomas Davies, Portdinllaen, father to little Tom Hugh Jones, engineer. Thomas Jones, Cair dur. crew were in so that when th PER LIFE-BOAT. Griffith Jones Ellis, driver to Mr. 0. Williams. William Oven, Bodlas. Among those drowned is a son of Mr. James, the officer of Portdinllaen, and Mr. Matthew James, master of a large vessel belonging to Liverpool." The Monk was formerly a river boat, plying between Liverpool and Monk's Ferry, and was, we learn, recently purchased by Captain Andrew Jones and others, for the Welsh trade in stock and passengers. It is stated that a considerable number of the unfortunate persons on hoard perished (some of them, it is said, in the hold) from exposure to the weather and the waves. The greater part, it is added were the owners of the pigs, butter, &c., which they had left their homes to dispose of in this market. —We learn that nearly 100,000 copies of " Dickens' Notes" have been already sold, princi pally at 12i cents each. This great amount of demand for a trashy brochure, effectually destroys a taste for American literature. People can only read or buy a certain kind of literature. If that quantity is supplied so cheaply, none will purchase a higher priced kind. This is reason enough for an international copyright law.—American Paper. THE LATE BANKRUPTCY CUANGE,S.—The Legal Ob server, of the 24th ult., contains an article on these changes; " the mischief arising from them, and the duty of the pro fession as to them." The writer says—" The country, it is manifest, will be robbed of thousands, by the scandalous in crease of expenditure this scheme must occasion, to put hun dreds into some new-made pockets; and the obstacles thus imposed, must, in a great measure, prevent the very applica tion of the brankrupt law ; and, where they do not absolutely prevent its application, must so impede its working as to render the remedy almost worse than the disease." lie then goes on to enumerate the objectionable features of the tnea sure, for which we must refer to the article itself. EXEMPTION' OF CHURCHES FROM ASSESSMENTS.—That parish churches have, from time immemorial, been exempt from all local assessments, as well as remarkable for being entitled to remission of duties on materials used in their erec tion, such as glass, timber, bricks, &c., are facts so well known that they need not be here repeated. The public, however, until very lately, were not perhaps aware that, by a recent decision in the Court of Exchequer, churches'erec ted by private individuals, and for private advantages, as well as those by voluntary subscriptions, are also privileged, not only to the above, but to a much_ greater extent. In procf, a case was lately brought before the judges of the ex chequer involving the question, whether a church erected by a nrivate individual, and the rents of the pews in such rnort- tiler the mortgagee in such instance was liable ) - the expenses incurred by the commissioners of police in the paving and sewering of certain streets surrounding the church, in common with all other owners and ruortg;gees of property in the township, in proportion to the extent of their respective properties ? After a long argument, it was decided (in the exchequer) that the mortgagee was not liable. The sum claimed in this case (All Saints' Church, Chorlton-upon-Medlock) by the surveyors of Chorlton was nearly £4lOO. FIRE.—REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. - -St. Michael's Manse, Dumfries, is at present under repair, though Dr. Wallace and his family still continue to occupy part of it. On Wednesday, the men who are engaged in the work, on returning after dinner to the manse, perceived the smell of fire, and observed smoke issuing from an apartment usually occupied by the cook, who at present is on a visit to her parents, in consequence of bad health. On entering the chamber the workmen found a trunk, belonging to the absent zirl, almost completely consumed away by a smouldering ire; the whole trunk and its contents being one charred nd red-hot mass. On breaking down this mass, to see if !ley could save anything from being destroyed, they found vo halfpennies completely run and soldered together—such id been the intense heat within. Fortunately, the trunk is standing almost wholly on the hearth-stone; and so the e had reached the floor only on one side. The wood how tr, was fairly kindled ; and in half an hour more, the 0 1 0 h o use would have been in flames. At its present stage vever, the fire was easily got under. The family were 3ediately apprised of the circumstance ; but none of them 'd account for the origin of the fire. It was suggested, v servant, that the cook was in the habit lucifer matches, and might have kept them in her it they might have ignited of themselves in some Dumfries Herald. however, by a fellov WILLIAMSON-SQUARg Vett! CHRI NINC 'AI A N P NY EV ENI erfortned the New Drama, NIGHT IN THE BASTILE xhieh, the Inteaude of NO ! To conclude with the New Comic Pantomime of BARON IVIUNCHAUSEN ; Or; Harlequin and the Green Wizard. ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRF ;SIGNOR NAGEL, from the Royal Theatres Stockholm, 10 Berlin, and Brussels, begs most respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of Liverpool and its Vi cinity, that he has made arrangements with the Lessee of the above place for a GRAND MASQUED BALL, to take place on TUESDAY EVENING, January 17, 1843, on which occasion the entire of the Pit and Circle will be boarded over, so as to form a Magnificent Salon d'Danse. The Theatre wilrbe'decorated with Emblematical Devices, and Brilliantly Illuminated: every attention paid to the comfort and convenience of Visitors, and will be conducted on the same scale, which has rendered this species of Enter- tainments so popular in London, Paris, Stockholm, Vie St. Petershurgh, and other Cities. In the course of the Evening, Groups of Ballerines and enliven the proceedings. as intro s, Stockholm, and at the GRAND at the Royal Festiva FESTA DI NAPOLI 'he Orchestra will erintendance of Mr full and efficient, and under the able HUGHES, Leader. Prices of - Admission --Single Ticket, Gentleman's, 55.; Single Ditto, Lady's. 4s. ; Double Ticket, admitting a Lady and Gentleman, 7s. 6d.; Family Ticket, admitting Six Per sons, LI h.—Boxes, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Tickets to be obtained of SIGNOR NAGEL, at the Am phitheatre, and at the different Music Sellers. The Doors will Open Half-an-hour after the close of the usual Performance, which will terminate at an early hour, and Dancing will commence immediately. l Ebt RiberPool ,~ "''avl TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1 any unportan to the ads' fiii . the truth of which he has contended, recd, at however late a period, by the. to who {nixed labourers into our .tropical colonies—as affording, at onee, t h e sures t mean s o f restoring the prosperity of those possessions, and, at the same time, of die- couraging the slave traffic of foreign nations—are our readers and the public. Guided convictions, we have resolutely adhered by our sincere clvocacy of such a system, disregarding, alike, the negro race and the sneers and slanders of those who, under the cloa of anti-slavery zeal, soug to carry on a war of extermination against the British planter ; and the gratifying result —we are not so egotistical as to say of our labours, for those labours he country—: at length before us A committee of Parliament has recognised the overpowering necessity of such a measure of aid to our colonial brethren ; and the opinions of the present government, with respect to its details and extent, have just been placed before the public. These opinions are contained in a " STATEMENT," which has been published during the past week, em bodying the suggestions made by a deputation of gen tlemen, with respect to the future emigration from the west coast of Africa to the West Indies, and LORD STANLEY'S decisions upon them." The document in question is somewhat too-long to allow its being trans ferred entire into our columns ; but we shall endea- your to furnish the reader with what we conceive likely to be the course of future legislation upon the subject, so far as we can gather it from Lord Stanley's intimation of his view And Ist As a condition of their receiving the advantages of a government system of immigration, the local colonial legislatures will be required " to prohibit the reception of immigrants brought in any 2ndly. Proclamation will be made by the governor of Sierra Leone, of emigration to the West Indies having been made a government measure, and he must he prepared to give every encouragement to such emigration, 3rdly. The governor of Sierra Leone to send for ward to the West Indies all slaves captured by her Majesty's cruisers—provided such captured slaves do not object to go. Upon this head his lordship does not bind himself until he shall have communicated with the governor; but is of opinion that it may be ar nged, and that the Africans will he henefitted by it. th Portugal, however, the Under the late t re aty v mixed commission courts will no longer sit at Sierra ; but at the Cape of Good Hope, Bona Vista, and Loanda, for Africa, and at Jamaica for the West Indies Under this treaty, moreover, the capturing nation takes charge of the Africans liberated under the capture The extension of the measure to the British settle- ments on the Gambia, his lordship cannot, at present, consent to; and leaves its reference to the United States " to be separately dealt with." 4thly. As to the MODE OF TRANSPORT. All emigrati on from the west coast of Africa to the West Indies shall be carried on " by means of vessels hired . by a governmen t agent, as in the case of t rans p orts ; the wh o l e expense to be repaid by the colonies to which the emi gran t s m ay go " Government cannot enter tain th e proposal that its steamers should be employed (owing to the expense). In the first instance, " three government transports, capable of carrying grants each, shall be employed in maintaining a con stant communication between Sierra Leone and the West Indies ;" and " the Lords of the Admiralty have agreed to place an agent on board any vessels which may he taken up for this purpose, and approved by the Secretary of State." sthly. R OUT E, &c. OF THE VESSELS. On the ground that by restricting the measure in the first instance to three colonies—Guiana, Jamaica, and 'Trinidad —which have already the necessary funds provided, its operation may take place more speedily, each of the colonies will have a separate vessel, the expense of which it will have to pay, and whose route will be therefore direct. It is not intended, however, so soon as the other settlements—Tobago, St. Vincent, &e.—have raised the funds required fur the satisfaction of the government, to obstruct for a moment their par ticipation in the benefits of the scheme. The details of the route and the proportioning of the expenses will then, so far as these do not interfere with the working of the whole plan, be left to be arranged amongst the colonies themselves. 400 enii- Gthly. PASSAGES BACK TO SIERRA LEONE ti be given to all emigrants, "at a rate proportionate to the period of their residence, during the first five years after their landing in the colony ; and on the expiration of that time, if they have not been across in the inte rim, a free passage." The provision, that they should not have been across in he interim, Lord Stanley sug gests should not apply to any who may have gone back as delegates. ithly. OCCASIONAL VESSELS may be taken up, when required, in this country; but the proposition, to place the power of chartering on the spot in the hands of the governor of Sierra Leone, Lord Stanley has, at present, a difficulty in acceding to. Bthly. EMIGRATION A GENTS. The government agent at Sierra Leone to be continued, and be in structed to regulate the time and order of precedence of the transports, and g i v e public notices of such time and order. gthly. COLONIAL A GENTS AT SIERRA LEONE. One agent, acti ng f or all t h e co lonies, is thought to be most advisable ; but for the present the decision with respect to this matter is left to the colonies themselves. The governor of Sierra Leone will have the power of suspending the duties of any agent of whose mode of action he may disap prov e, referring the case to the Secretary of State, an d a ppointing a successor during the interval. Where maintenance of the emigrants previous to saili ng, an d a d v ances for clothes, &c. are requisite, such emigrants to be placed and maintained at some depot under the inspection of a governme emigration agent,general at Sierra Leone; and care is to be taken that such advance is not to be made a debt against the emi grant. A ge nts are not allowed to enter into any spe c ifi c agre ements for wages ; but pif y i n g the current rate of wages con fine themF.elves to is s uing public notices of the latest periodical return, sec in the colonies. L or d S tan ley deprecates the employ merit of returned delegates, as subagents in collecting emigrants in the interior ; or the employment of such agents at all. RELAXATION OF EXISTING RESTRICTIONS. Un der this head we ma y b r iefly state that, whilst his lordship agrees to some of the relaxations propoied in the existing restrictions upon emigration, created by a recent order in council relating to the colony of Sierra Leone, those restrictions are left sufficiently stringent, if not indeed too stringent, for the pro tection of the African from any imposition on the part of the colonists. Faithfully, we believe, we have given the substance of the document before us, and perhaps more intel ligibly, to the general reader, than it could be readily gathered from the original itself; and now, we may ask, is there anything in the principles and details here laid down at which the most ardent friend of emancipation can except? We think there is not; and yet we are fully prepared to find the measure, which government are about to frame in accordance with them, assailed, by a section of the pseudo humanists and assumed especial friends of the African race, with furious and unrelenting hostility. We shall he told that immigration, even thus watched by all the vigilance of government, is but a disguised and legalised slave•traffic ; that the condition of the immi grants will he but a modified form of slavery; that the emigration agent is but a licensed crimp ; and that the transports, in which the emigrants are to be con veyed, are but slave-ships, liable to all the miseries and fatalities which attend the middle passage. To the good sense of the people of England we willingly leave the task of determining the justice of these ob jections, and the purity of motive of thf parties by whom they will be made. With respect to the good faith of the statesman by whom the measure is being drawn up, right-minded and candid men will have few misgivings ; and, as to the mode of conveyance, surely, that which is sufficient for our gallant fellow-country when sent to fight the battles of England in a foreign land, is not insufficient for the Africans in Sierra Leone, just liberated from beneath the hatches of the foreign slave trader. .nother objection, and a more plausible one, will he It will be said that its against the rneaur such is its object. We wish to reduce the cost of sugar cultivation in the West Indies; but we hope to ore by the acqui labour ition of continuous labour than merely cheap working population of our colonies would, at this he present moment, perform task-work for half the exorbitant rates now paid, and perform it just at their pleasure, nt, the object of the planter would do at T. not be achieved. But admit that a permanent reduc he price of labour must be the result of the tion of extensive immigration ; yet look at the circumstances which will accompany such reduction. In the first place, the free negro, who has now become owner of a plantation, can cultivate profitably for export ; and, in time, this class must become a powerful middle class-- an important link binding together in amity the two races, and perhaps destined ultimately to take the place and perform the duties of the existing white race in the tropics. In the second place, the working negro, who limits the amount of his toil to his necessi ties, would be only mulcted of the opportunity to indulge his luxurious indolence. No extent of immi gration that we can imagine as at all practicable could have the effect of depressing his condition lower than one which, to his race, is a condition to be envied. Bear in mind, too, the encouraging fact, that every African thus landed upon the shores of our West Indian islands is a soul transported from barbarism and slavery, to be placed within reach of the light of the Gospel and the influence of civilization ! Bear in mind the fact that every additional facility offered to tropical cultivation by free labour is a rivet struck from the fetters of the slave in foreign lands! Surely the sincere philanthropist will cease to place obstacles in the way of a consummation so blessed ! It is not, certainly, with any satisfaction that we point to the large deficiency in the revenue for the year ending the sth of January, 1842, as compared with that of the year preceding. This total deficiency amounts to no less a sum than £922,630, whilst that for the quarter just ended is even more—viz., £940,062, thus shewing, we think, that something more than .dinary causes has been at work to produce the un- satisfactory result exhibited. Undeniably the trade and the circumstances of the country, during the past three months, have been much.more prosperous than during the preceding nine months of the year. But still, bearing in mind that a great portion of the excess of the last quarter over the present must have been created by the amount received in duties on foreign corn admitted into consumption, there is certainly a great falling off to be accounted for and lamented. In part, and especially as the principal falling off is in the excise and customs, we may refer to the unsettled state of the wine trade, and to the effect of the new tariff. Apparently in creased consumption has not, as yet, made up the loss incurred by the various reduced duties. In one im portant trade, too, the timber trade, importation has been almost at a stand still, owing to a further reduc tion to be made this year. It is said, too, that consi derable reductions of expenditure have been made by individuals, to meet the demands imposed upon them by the income tax. Upon this explanation, however, we place little weight, as the particular portions of the revenue suffering are precisely those least likely to be effected by such an imposition. The pressure of the Income tax has, as yet, scarcely been felt'; and it is more likely to tell upon the amount of assessed taxes, than upon the excise or the customs. We shall, no doubt, have the Io pavan of victory ung by the advocates of the late ministry over the government of Sir Robert Peel, on account of this state of the national finances. The cachination, how ever, we would suggest, will be a little premature. No man ever expected that the mere circumstance of a Conservative minister being at the helm could at once right the vessel engulfed, by reckless steering, in the whirlpool. It would infinitely better become such politicians to ask themselves—what would have been the position of the country had its restoration to financial solvency been left to be accomplished by the sugar budget " of the Melbourne edministration— if we had had no Income and Property Tax to fall back upon ? We leave them to reply to the question. There are one or two considerations which the existing state of the national finances cannot fail to force upon the national mind. These are, first—" have we not arrived at the limit of the productiveness of indirect taxation ?" and, secondly—" can free trade in corn or in any other or all other commodities be longer regarded apart from revenue considerations ?" We merely glance at these questions, for the present; and that they are not idle, the reader will perhaps admit, whatever his political creed, when he finds such an opinion as the following coming from the lips of so eminent a free trade authority as the London Times : It seems to us," remarked the Times on Friday last; " very clear, whatever our free trade friends may say, that any alteration which nay be made in the corn laws, ought not to be made irrespective of financial considerations. We 'cannot in these times afford to throw away a revenue." We give, in another place, a summary of the news furnished us by the recent arrival from India and China. It will be seen that the entire British army has retired through the hostile passes of the Khyber, with little difficulty, and with very inconsiderable loss of life, having destroyed in their course the forts and strongholds of the enemy, and established upon a firm basis the prestige of its invincible power in India. :At the time of the last letters from that quarter, the troops were under orders to march through the Sikh dominions; and, long before this date, the last British soldier will have quitted—we trust for ever—the scene and the neighbourhood of those disasters which, though they have been in part wiped away from the national mind by sdbsequent triumphs achieved, must stand upon the page of history as so many damning testimonies of the unfitness of whiff; statesmen—the present rate at least—to rule the destinies of this coun try and of her vast colonial empire. From China we gather little worthy of commenting Affairs, as between the two countries, were in statu quo, both parties waiting for the ratification of the treaty between them by her Majesty the Queen. The Report of the Paid Officers' Committee and the debates in the Town Council thereon seem to have displaced the garrulous self-satisfaction of the Albion, and to have raised the Journal above his accustomed For these blessings we are sure the rea dulinegi of those brilliant luminaries have cause to be thankfl and we hope the dispensation will be received will becoming gratitude There are two bones at which our ex temporaries have been gnawing ; and cc them, they are not very acceptable morsels. One is, that the Town-clerk should have to take the legal possession of the deeds, muniments, and records of the Corpora tion, and so stumble over Mr. Okill, who, they would wish to make it appear, must therefore be dismissed. The trifling difficulty in the way of our contemporaries is a clause in the Municipal Corporation Act, which most stringently imposes the office of custodian upon the Town-clerk ; and another stubborn ohstacle to the truth of their representations is, that the idea. has never suggested itself to the committee of superseding Mr. Okill. The committee, as far as we have the means of judging—and we are governed by the personal character of the members—wish to retain the very efficient services of Mr. Okill ; but they wish also to see the law properly executed—a point, indeed, which was settled by the Town-clerk, who insisted.in Council upon the law being observed. The question, then, is, is one object inconsistent with the other ? nt con- To this we reply, emphatically, that they are -not inconsistent— that Mr. Okill may, and will be, still retained in office, whilst the law will be observed; but to effect this there must be the modification of duties which the Town clerk explained in his speech last Wednesday. One would•think that, in this arrangement, there was very little to cause any discussion, but our cunning con temporaries have discovered in it the solution of some mysterious feeling, on the part of the Chairman of the committee, against Mr. Okill, because the latter, almost before the former was born, was an excellent servant of the Corporation—for which, by the way, he has always been excellently paid. Truly, they are sagacious critics, and profound politicians ; and the public cannot fail to feel deeply indebted to their ingenuity for• making such a very- probable st4„- gcstiOn. The other - bone, at which • this worthy pair of professing Liberals are worrying, is the resolu- tion which was proposed, on the part of the committee, that, on the Town-clerk assuming his proper office with regard to the * Repository, Mr. Abbott would no longer be required. The moment this was . proposed, it was discovered that Mr. Abbott pssesses nearly all the virtues under the sun. Mr. Abbott, like other men, has not the power of übiquity; but, unlike many men, he combines two individuals in the same body. The Town-hall has the honour of having within it "Mr. Abbott, assistant committee clerk," and " Mr. Abbott, law stationer, of South John-street." In the former character he receives annually £270 ; in the latter, as much as he can make, which has been no trifle; and any confusion which might happen to occur between the two has been sure toend in the pecuniary advantage of " Mr. Abbott" proper. Besidesihis keeping " twelve or fourteen " clerks in South John-street, he has had the further advantage of having his clerks in the Town-hall, to perform extra work ; and the history of the poll-clerks is a strong illustration of the extreme disinterestedness with which this valu able servant has promoted the welfare of the Cor poration. The Pai , l Officers' Committee, having framed a scheme which was subsequently adopted by the Town-clerk and confirmed by the Council, for the more efficient management of the legal department, it was at once obvious, that " the assistant committee clerk," as such, would no longer be needed. Hence the proposition which has been the means of publish ing Mr. Abbott's virtues to the world. That gentle man is not the clerk of the Town-clerk. Like Mr. Okill, he derives his appointment directly from the fountain of power, the council; and, of course, no power but the Council could dismiss him There i; the justification► of the committee; but, as in the case of Mr. Okill, he may be retained under the new ar- That, however, very properly rests with ngement ler Town-eerk As far as the Paid Officers' Com mittee are concerned, they have, in submitting the resolution, only performed a duty incumbent upon :hem by the terms of their appointment planations place these parts of the case of our contem poraries, as the lawyers would say, " out of court." With respect to the alterations in the departments of the Town-clerk and Deputy Town-clerk, they have been made with two views---.-economy and efficiency. It would fatigue our readers to describe the confusion in which the two offices frequently were, owing to an inadequate establishment. They will now be efficient : no man's business with the corporation will be ne glected : and a check will be maintained against pro crastination of all sorts. The business, thus conducted, must be a great public convenience : it will, doubtless, These ex- be productive of benefit to the borough fund, by in creasing the fees. It is evident, therefore, that the scheme adopted will prove, as stated in the committee's report, econorncal. .Further, in future there will not be any person paid both by a fixed salary and the convenient weekly addition of extra bills. Human nature is very weak ; and such things may have happened as a frit tering away of the time for which the fixed salary was paid, to provide occupation for the extra hours. Our contemporaries sneer heartily at the duration of the labours of the committee. They are both, no doubt, skilful workmen, and would have managed matter's much better—to their own satisfaction. Our amiable friends, however, will please to be informed, that, although the committee have reported only on the Town-clerk and Treasurer's departments, their labours have not been confined thereto. No time has been lost : no time will be lost : and we are convinced, that the labours of the committee, whether considered as a whole or in departments, will terminate advantageously to the interests of the corporation. The Council of last year deserve credit for having appointed the com mittee, and the committee deserve honour for the per sonal sacrifices they have made in embarking upon so extensive an investigation—an investigation, by the way, from which the soi disant reformers would either have shrunk in dismay, or avoided from incapacity. The - most prominent feature in our present number is the account we have given of the proceedings at the opening of the Collegiate Institution. Those proceedings will be read with no common in terest ; and in calling attention to them, we congratu- late our townsmen upon the happy circumstance of Liverpool possessing such a noble Institution, for the education of all classes, wherein the purest religious instruction will be intimately and continually associated with the largest communication cf secular knowledge. Of the inaugural address of Mr. W. E. Gladstone there has been but one opinion expressed. All parties are unanimous in ascribing to it merits of the highest order. It commanded immediate admiration, not so much, perhaps, from the elegance of its composition or the propriety of its delivery as from the power of the argument. We have not space to point out its excel lencies, in detail; and at present all we can say is, that it was a proud thing to hear one of the most pro mising statesmen of the day skew an assembly of more than two thousand people the necessity for the definite revelation of God being made a part of the education of all ranks, and empha tically to declare, that in that, there was the only sure guarantee for the permanance of our institutions. It was, indeed, " appropriate, eloquent, and thought ful," in the language of the Morning Herald ; and on perusal, it will he found to justify the character given to it. Now that the Collegiate Institution is before the world, we strongly recommend the public to eKatnine its claims. The more they are investigated, the more worthy will they he found of support. It is founded upon the rock of Christianity, and all its fruits must be good LOCAL NEWS. The Rev. Dr. Booth, M.R.1.A., whose name is well known in the scientific world, has been appointed to the Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, i❑ the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. We are authorised to state, that a corrected edition, printed in large type, of the Report of the Inaugural Address, de livered by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., at the opening of the Liverppol Collegiate Institution, will be pub lished in a few days, by Mr. Murray, Albemarle -street, London ; and Mr. Webb, Castle-street, Liverpool. S.T. DAVID'S CIIURCH.—We are requested to say, with reference to a paragraph which appeared in a contemporary of Saturday, that the Rev. Robert Davies has not resigned the incumbency of St. David's Church, but will continue to officiate at the Welsh service, as heretofore, until his suc cessor is appointed. It is not i in accordance w i t h ecclesi astical law, nor, we believe, is t customary for a c l ergyman to tender his resignation to the trustees of his church, the bishop being the authorised person to receive it. A gentleman had his pockets picked of £49 at the inn-street, on Thursday r The Cheshire at the Th . ree G PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY...-. .VC are g a Wednesday), at aighleiali; on nday - , at Sutton. hear that th Philharmonic Society, whose performatices on Friday, at the opening of the Collegiate Institution, gave such general satisfaction, will, for the future, hold their concerts in the Theatre of that Institution INSOLVENT COUILT.—The Ins Avent Commissioner for the Northern Circuit will attend to hear petitions at Lan caster on the Bth of March, and at Liverpool on the 20th of March. The last day for filing petitions to be heard at Lancaster is the 4th of February, and at Liverpool the 16th of February. BEAUTIFUL Sn.xs.—The old fashion of brocaded silks appears to be reviving:—Time was when silk was made strong enough almost to build a wall with, and the weight of bullion and embroidery as much as one beau could well carry. We have been led to these remarks from seeing some beautiful specimens of vestings at Messrs. Dawbarn and Davis', in Bold-street. IRON SHIPS.—A remarkable circumstance occurred, in this port, on Tuesday last, and which looks like the com mencement of a new era in our mercantile navy, no less than three large iron-built ships having sailed on the same tide, namely, the John Garrow, for New Orleans ; the Ironside, for Bahia ; and. the Vulcan, for Malta. The first of these vessels was of nearly 1,000 burthen. The Bombay prices current furnish full descriptions of the state of the markets at that presidency, which are, however, less favourable than the advice received from Calcutta. The superabundance of freight in the port precluded the hope that rates would rally, and hence the great excess over present wants had induced several owners to lay on vessels for the London and Liverpool berth at 40s. There was no demand for ships to China. FATAL ACCIDENT. — On Tnursday evening, about nine o'clock, as the Seacombe boat from Liverpool was landing her passengers, the coachman at Sir John Tobin's, while stepping upon the plank, missed his footing, and fell into the water. H e was got out with very little delay, and, with the assistance of two men, walked up the slip, not appearing to have sustained more damage than a sound ducking. He was taken, in the first instance, to the tap attached to Parry's Hotel, but as the accommodation there was inadequate, George Robinson, who collects the steam-boat fares, took him to his own house, where he died in about seven minutes after his arrival. It is a remarkable circumstance that, while the jubilee o 7 modern British missions was being celebrated in this cow , ri and the colonies, the treaty of peace with China vias con cluded, by which access to more than one-half of the heathen maid was opened up. Thus, after fifty years of preparatory training, has Pro ,idence suddenly provided a field for evan gelistic efforts too extensive to admit of half measures. There is good reason to hope, from present appearances, that many of our countrymen are alive to the deep responsibility under which our new position places the Christian church. No public movement has yet been made in Liverpool. The Medical Missionary Society may well be expected now to commence its deferred operations. THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. —The Morning Herald, of yestereav, says " Ther3 is scarcely a town in England that has not !o ne noble ebairitable institution erected in modern times ; in many the infirmaries or dispensaries or hospitals are the architectural beauties of the place ; in none is there not a workhouse, and in few is there not a gaol towering its crest above the abodes of peaceful men; yet how seldom do we see a grammar school of modern erection, how vainly do we search England for Collegiate establishments built by modern munificence. Voluntary subscription has accom plished much for almost every locality, but nothing yet for promotion of mon - .1 and religious education of the middling classes. Liverpool, in the midst of commercial embarrass ment and despite of bad times, has set a glorious example in this respect—one which merits Mr. Gladstone's glowing THE FIRE ON THURSDAY NIGHT.—We lament to state, that the joiners in the employ of Messrs. Foster and Stewart have lost the whole of their tools by the late calamitous fire, the particulars of which we detailed in our last. Among the workmen are several of the poor fellows who lost their tools, nine years ago, by a similar visitation. Mr. Samuel Holme, who takes a praiseworthy interest in the affairs of the sufferers, assures us, that the tools destroyed by the fire were worth not less than £1,200. To be thrown out of work by the calamity is misfortune enough, but to be, at the same time, deprived of the means of pursuing their trade, if they are fortunate enough to obtain employment, adds greatly to their sufferings. Under these circumstances, we trust that the hard case of these poor fellows, who are about sixty in number, will be considered by the benevolent, who can, by their contributions, enable them to buy as many as may be required to carry on their business. The premises were in sured with the Liverpool Insurance Company, and the loss is estimated at from £lO,OOO to £12,000. The sum insured is about £7,000. We have not heard any estimate of the amount of damage done in the Arcade. Loss OF THE CYNOSURE.—We are sorry to have to re cord the loss of another ship this week—namely, the Cyno sure (Captain Viner) from this port to Liverpool. The Cy nosure left Singapore on the 11th of September last, and had made a favourable passage as far as the Straits of Banca. when on the night of the 2d instant, she struck on a reef near Tree Island, and after remaining on the rocks for about 18 hours she was hove off; but, as she was sinking fast, the ship's company were obliged to leave her and take to the boats. They were picked up in a few hours afterwards by the George Buckham (Captain Sim), by whom they were brought on here, and arrived on Sunday last. On the 7th, the George Buckham spoke a Dutch Ship bound for Minto, which reported that they had seen a bark on the Morning of Wednesday the 4th, bearing S.W., four leagues from Singapore, which was all below the water except the main top-gallant yard-arm. which, there is no doubt, was the Cynosore. Nothing was saved from the ship, except a small portion of the wearing apparel of Captain Viner and his wife, and the ship's comgany. "Every kindness and attention were shown to Captain Viner and his crew, 18 in all, by Captain Sim. The following is a list of the cargo taken by the Cy nosure from this :-54 pls. Cassia, 2,452 pls. coffee, 17 pls. tea, 810 pls. sago flour, 606 pls. Sapan wood, 50 pls. rat tans, 101 ple. cubebs, 44 pls. hides, 2,143 pls. gambler. — India paper. SUGAR.—The quantity of sugar delivered for refining, in bond, at the port of Liverpool, in 1812, was 9,228 tons. This, we believe, is nearly double the quantity delivered in Lon don, of which no return, however, has yet reached us. The employment which this new trade gives tw vhippi n4 in the transport of the raw material and of the refined products, has proved most beneficial to this port, which is now becom ing an important emporium for foreign, as it long has been for colonial, sugars. If the refining laws were altered so as to prmit the co nbined use of both sorts, which we are in foroied can 1 - e done consistently with the safety of the re venue and the privileges of the colonieF, a further stimulus would be given to the business of refining, which is generally in a languishing state, and, of course, to the various branches i of trade and commerce dependant on it. The following s the monthly return : _ From Ist to 31st January „ Ist to 28th February „ Ist to 31st March.. „ Ist to 30th April .. „ Ist to 31st May ... „ Ist to 30th June „ Ist to 31st July.... Ist to 31st August .. Ist to 30th September Ist to 31st October .. Ist to 30th November Ist to 31st December 184,568 cwts. ; Or 9,228 tons 8 cwt• THE FUNDS: SATURDAY EVENlNG.—Afacthastranspired , or rather has been called to recollection, in the city, which is highly satisfactory in explaining the large deficiency found on comparing the item of Excise in the revenue return of the present quarter with that item in the corresponding return in 1842. It will be remembered that an alteration was made some time ago in the period for which the bills had to run in which the payment to the revenue were made. The effect of this alteration, which shortened the period from 30 to 10 days, was completely felt in the quarter terminating in January , 1812, and the result was that a quantity of payments which under the old system would not have been made till the fol lowing quarter, fell into that quarter, and thus the item of excise was swelled to an undue extent. With an item thee unnaturally increased, the item for the present quarter bee been compared, and the difference may be assigned to an ex cess in 1842, instead of a deficiency in 1843. The comparison between the next quarter and the corresponding quarter last year will give a legitimate result, for the new system had by that time come speedily into operation. Business in the stock-markets was not characterised by any particular feature to-day. A moderate amount of dealings occurred in th e English securities, which were the fraction better. The nevi's from India had very little effect indeed iu this quarter., The merchants, however, exp r e s s th em selves much satisfieh with what has been received by the arrival. Consols fo r money and the Account left off 9-11 t o 1 ; Bank Stock, lit to 173 ; Exchequer-bills, 595. to tils. premium ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 951 to ',l-; Three-and-a-Half per Cents' Reduced, 1021 to .1; Long Annuities, 12 11-16ths • Ne ° Three-and-a-Half e per Cents., 1011 to India Bonds, 555; premium ; and South Sea Old Annuities, 92k. The opera*" Gans in the foreign market were without particular interest' Buenos Ayres opened at 25, and after declining to 23, finalb r i closed at 231 to 24, the rumours being spread of the refusts of Rosas to recognize the - mediation of England'or France h i his quarrel with the Montevidean Government. There wer e one or two purchases of Portuguese converted, and the qu o: tation rose to and closed at 36i to 37 ; Mexican Five Per Cents. left off 321 ; ditto, Deferred, 91 to t i ; Spanish A c tives , 191 ; ditto, New, 2411 Danish, 84 t o 85 ; Colombian, 231' Belgian, 1011., to 1021 ; and Peruvian, 19 to 20. INQUEST.—An inquest was commenced on Thursday last' and concluded on Saturday, before P. F. Curry, Esq . ; coroner for the borough, for the purpose of investigating t b circumstances which led to the death of Thomas AilanleV; aged 15 years. A girl, named Sarah M`Gowan, who ° / . 11 , supposed to have caused the d ea th o f th e l a d b y b eat i ng D 1: on the head with a stone, was i n custo d y. T he parties PO"- cipally concerned reside in Atherton-street, and the ev ideal showed that their cond uc t was most disorderly, immoral, an disgusting. The first w it ness ca ll ed was Mary Kelly. 1- 7 deceased was her son by a former husband. She stated th e° five weeks ago on S un d ay l ast, the deceased complained of headache. She heard soon aLerwards that he was fighting' She went out, found him standing at the end of the ent r i; and took him h ome . H e was well till the Sunday followi l l, when he a ga i n comp l a i ned of his head. He continued lh till Wednesday, the 21st of December, when he was so aluf le worse that he w as removed to the Workhouse. When 8 s had given her testimony, she laid her hands on the s houlde r , of a little boy, w i t h w h om, it afterwards appeared, the clieb ceased had been fighti ng , an d said, " You caused the d e % of my lad." Mr. Geor ge Wood, surgeon s t a t e d that deceased was in a coma t ose state when admitted , to the Vi r ° l. i house. The lad died on the Ist of January, and a o,: p wortem examination was ma d e , which convinced the surg eon that death h a d resu l te d f rom externa l i n j ur i es i n fli cte d on P i p , head whi c h h a d cause d concuss i on of the b rain. Ell e n Cp_.,‘ way gave evid ence w hi c h s h owe d t h at, on S un d ay , a bout r d, weeks ago, she saw the mother of the deceased, her huaba P o and many other parties whom she named, all engage,d, o p general fight in Ath er t on - s t ree t. T wo b o y s wer e flgli e i f one of who m was b ac k e d b y hi s f at h er . Th oma s Man Ali the de cease d, came out an d • b ac k e d t h e ot h er. At ad Manley was seen to run away, pursued by . -I, e eqther !zil oo dr backed hi s son . Thi s f at h er h a d a p i ece of brie = hi* h e the which he threw after th e d eceas ed as h e retreated Pig, t he entry, but the witness could not see that it hit him. of fol owing d a y, thi s w i tness swore s h e saw S a lly .ivl' , lo °"" eo the prisoner, b ea ti ng t h e d ecease d on hi s h ea d w ith a . 0 o hit m g-stone " (a stone used for pounding grit). At this p o s e. the inqu es t was a dj ourne d t ill S a t ur d ay f or f ur th e r eva d e she On Saturday, Mary Kelly was the first witness called.: ~t or now swore that she had told nothing but the truth °all her day, but she dared not tell the whole truth for fear of t en husband. She proceeded to state, that she saw Sally M L k i f ig; and her son fighting, and that the former took up a knc ) c ' ev erP stone and strcck her son twice on the head with it. '? I , del other witnesses spoke of squabbles and fights, in wb s i c e el ceased, his mother, and others had been engaged. er so, of the witnesses stated, that they had seen the prio r ' bloc: the deceased quarrelling, but they had not seen anY, _ ceased st lck. hald'h d e ie j d u o ry f i r o e j t o u r r ie n s ed re a e s ei t v h e e d ir oo ve h rd is ict h , ea t d haA t u i rhe lf inflicted there was no evidence to show.