The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-27 00:00:00

...-,A,PRIL 27, IS.:18, •ZOiffEATRE-ItOYAL LIVEiIPOOL TIIE BENEFIT OF MP. WOOD. 41ont . . First Night of the Opera of NINETTA. Tue Public is respectfully informed that Mr. and Mrs. WOOD, the celehrotraymtlliitts, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-gar den and terurv:iatte, ate engaged fur a limited p er i o d, an d .make i their, fift h appearance, these two years, at this TheatitlNlrs evening. And to,,give additional effect to the qtda L9,py4s, in I, , lkich ,M r. and Mrs. "Wluxl will appea r , au arrange , 'l3' • Inept h as been trade with Mr. MARTYN, principal • Bass W - tr'seVeral seasons at the Theatre-royal, Drury-lane, 1,0 ) Mr. CLEMENT WHITE, of the Theatres-royal, Ediu t _,:r.rulturgh and Bath. )sua l i k,% . NEW COMIC ,PANTOMIME, which continu es t o b e 'received th roug h ou t w i th .reiterated shouts of laughter and 99 f lif fCpplan.se, will be repeated Every 'Evening until further infra srotice. • • ; LA4IO.IS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 27th instant; will ,1134 1;! . hii,proilucl, for the fi rst t i me here, with new Scenery, tee.; f li t - I.enlish versi o n of Rossini's Opera o f L A GAzzA fd ntivAltoOnuier the title of saoL NINETTA; OR, THE MAID OF PAL/its/tell. The Must,. adapted to the English'by Bishop. . Wood. Adolphe Mr Wood, As originate ) , performed by their. at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden.- La Roche Mr. Martyn. J Michel Mercour. Mr. Chaplin. Bertrand Mr. Clement White. Delande . Mr. G. Horneastle. Blaisot Mt. Baker. Petit.lacaues,Mrs.W.ll.l3land. • Madelon Miss Grant. On MONDAY:a FAVOURITE OPERA, in which Mr. and Mrs: Wood, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Clement White will appear. To conclude wit; the New Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN IN SICILY. dONCERT, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' HALL, ___,GREAT GEORGE'S-STREET. VER. MACPHERSON. Pre,Fentor of the Scotch Church, i 11" begs leave most respectfully to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of the above Contzrezation, and the pub lic in general, that his ANNUAL CONCERT will take place on MONDA Y, the3otti instant. Vocal Per farmem Mrs. iiILE 1 - 1 S, Mr. DAVIES, Mr. 00TI-IVY, Mr. MOR - -.- 11 IS, and Mr. M ACP II E ItSO N. ' Mr. 9. EYTON . wiII preside at the Piano Forte. • Tickets to;be had at Mr. MACPHERSON'S, I, Renshaw.street, andiat the Music Shops. TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the very liberal encouragethent which we have received from our advertising friends„ - and for which we beg leave to tender our grateful acknowledgment*, we have come to the resolution TO ENLARGE THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TO THE EXTENT OF SIX AD DITIONAL COLUMNS Hitherto we have frequently been under the necessity of excluding various articles of local interest, and a large proportion of general news, in consequence of the great press of advertisements with which we have been . fa voured.. W.e have often, also, been forced to thealter native of materially curtailing our reports as well as our editorial remarks, on the same account. The pro posed enlargement will enable us to 'embody a greater Share of such intelligence as may be generally useful, and to extend our reports of the various public meet ings,' 4-c., which may be held in the neighbourhood, as well as to present to our readers a mass of amusing ilia instructive extracts from modern publications, • which latter we intend to make a prominent feature in the STANDARD. It will also - afford us great pleasure to avail ourselves of the bpportunity which the contemplated enlargement of the STANDARD will glee us for advocating more fully those conservative principles for which we have uni formly contended. The extended patronage which we enjoy shall operate as a stimulus to increased zeal and energy in defence of that glorious cause to which we feel an ardent attachment—the cause of the Monarchy, the Church, and the constitution of Great Britain. We are happy to announce that arrangements are in Progress for considerably increasing the number of agents . for the sale ,of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. When these arrangements are matured, we anticipate a material increase in our circulation, an advantage which we feel confident will be duly appreciated by our qd6e r ti s i ng friends. We also flatter ourselves that the great increase of matter which the STANDARD will contain in its enlarge4' Arm will.procure for Us ad ditioit,4(.;:support from the :conservative public in LiVerpool. The propCsed enlargement will take place in THE FIRST AVEgil. IN .1 NE,, after which the LIVERPOOL STANDARD will contain TWELVE COLUMNS OF ADDITIONAL MAT TER WEEL:: . .without any increase of price. TO CORRESPONDENTS: Mr. Purnell's letter shall appear in our next. The itiberpool f:tantiarb. fiWIDAYIAIORNING, 41'RIL 27, 1838. c'the Pu.blicatiop of the STAND A commenced this morn- lug at 5 o'clock. Ap • LATEST NLIVS FROM CANADA.---By . trffi.! , packet. ship it Cambridge, w hi c h arr i ve here on Tuesday, we have re ceived N ew Y or k papen 0 the 2d instant. The news front the Canadian frontier is of a satisfactory ; cha. ratter: Panadiaiipapers have also been received. They state that tranquillity prevailed throughout both provinces. At Toronto the trials ere proceeding for high treason. The following extracts will he reittWith interest:— (From the . Courier and Inquire, „March 28.) The Aryus contradicts the rumour that Papineau is at this tune in Albany ; or that it has any knowledge of any interfe rence by Papineau in the affairs of Navy Island. It admits, however, that during Papineau's residence in Albany,•he was freely . visited by "gentlemen of all parties," and, among Others, by the editor of the Argus. • MARCH 29. —Sir F. B. Head arrived in this city yesterday morning from Toronto, having passed through Kingston, Wa tertt:m n, Utica, and Albany. We are happy to add he was ►reated on his route with the respect becoming our national character, and due to his character and station. Sir_ George Arthur arrived at Toronto a few houts previous to Sir Francis's departure. We are informed Sir Francis will embark for England in the next packet. LOWER CANADA.—QUEBEC. MONTREAL, 'MARCH 28. —The house beloug-43g to Mr. Jus tice Bowen on the Cape is undergoing repairs for the reception of his Excellency, Lieutenant General Sir John Colborne, Commander of the Forces. His Excellency, with his staff and t he Officers of the civil and military departments, are expected j o Quebec from Montreal in the first week of May.—Lit. Trans cript, Saturday. It is understood that the order of the 93d Highlanders to coine up to Quebec ,by land from Halifax has been counter manded. Her Majesty's ship Pique is to bring them up, and the left wing may be looked for here about the middle of April. Lit. Trunsci UPPER CANADA. DEPARTURE OF Slit F. B. BEAD.—An extract of a private letter received in town yesterday, and copied on the News 4rioni•slate, gives us the following information, from which it ap pears that Sir George Arthur has entered on his new govern 'meat, and that Sir Francis does not mean to pass through lower Canada on his way home : `lAl,.r Francis Bond, ilead left Toronto at six o'clock on the 'mornin g of the 2.3,1 inst, in the steamer Transit, landed at Bath the next day at two o'clock, and would cross over from 4 4 Kingston to 'Watertown on the morning of the 25th, on his way to England." TottoNTo.—The brigand chief, Sutherland, was again before the court-martial yesterday, when Mr. Prince gave his testi mony the trial is again proceding this day. The "Gene_ rat" has the able assistance of Mr. D. Ridout, as counsel; but it appear s the facts of the case are too stubborn, even from his own admission, to make it possible for him to avoid being con victedl—Patrlot, March 2t). I /AmturoN.—We understand that Colonel Price said the 'Pot' where Sutherland was taken has been measured by the Atrierican authorities, and declared by them to be within our territory , —Express, March 17. The Legislative Council of Upper Canada has rejected the resolution awarding a sword to M•Nab. ( From the Quebec Gazette.) General Scott, whom the American papers had killed, upon ofßcial" information too, arrived at Buffalo on the evening °l* t 6 Bth instant, from the Detroit frontier, on his way to the eastward, There THE PRISONERS. I, are still uwards of 100 pr o Ml detained 8 7 Political offences. We are glad isoners to see in f some ontrea of the United ale s " patriotic" papers the contradiction of the former stories Of the th eir harsh treatment. There are perscns on both sides of of li ne who seem to take a pleasure in exciting the inhabitants the United States, and those of the British provinces against T vaci, o ther by fal se h oo d s su i te d to t h e i r respect i ve prejudices. ish e37'forget the general character of the British nation, which generous and humane. So far from their being any disposi tigo Unnecessary severity in the present instance, the British government has actually writt e n ou t t o C ana d a t o guar d aga i ns t -pent the possibility of any thing of the kind. The law will no danht be permitted to take its course against those who have been zuiity of crimes, which every one must kninV to be cri►nes. whether, committed from malicious motives, or under the pre text of an usurped authority. UPPER CANADA. - - His lordship addressed the jury in a long and able speech, explanatory of the novel and important duties on which they were summoned to decide. Treason being the highest crime known to the law, and visited with the heaviest penalty, the constitution had secured to the accused the most ample means of defence, s'o th•it prisoners could not be immediately tried on a true bill being found, but must have a copy of the indictment furnished to them 10 clear days before they can be arraigned, which copy must contain all the facts, together with the names, professions, and abodes of the jurors who are to be on ttre panel, and of all the witnesses who are intended to be produced. In addressing the petit jury, his lordship said that the prisoners being entitled to a peremptory challenge of 35, without assign ing any cause, the necessity of a punctual attendance was im perative, and fines would be inflicted on absentees. The,petit jury were then discharged till Friday, the 23J instant.--Ex press, March 10. TRIAL OF SUTHERLAND. Soon after noon, on Tuesday last, the Yankee General Suth erland, and his aide-de-camp Spencer, captured off Point-au Pelee, by the gallant Colonel Prince, after the late bloody en gagement in that quarter, were brought into town, and securely lodged in our:garrison. Yesterday the general was put upon his trial, before a court martial composed of the following offi cers:7oolone' Samuel P. Jarvis, President; Colonel Kings mill, Queen's Own; Colonel W. B. Robinson, 24 Siwcoe; Colonel Carthew, Royal Foresters; Major Gurnett, Queen's Toronto Guards; Major J. W. Dewson, Royal Foresters; Major Henry Fry, ditto; Captain John Powell, Queen's Ran gers; Colonel Fllzgibbon, Judge Advocate. He is tried by the provisions of an act of our Provincial Legislature, passed in the last session, entituled,'" an act to protect the inhabitants of this province against lawless aggressions from the subjects of foreign countries at peace with her Majesty." We attended the opening of the proceedings, and it appeared to us that although the general deportment of the prisoner was calm and self-possessed, he seemed taken a little aback when he found by what law he was to be tried. However, he bore up upon the whOle very well, and without that degree of vulgarity and insolence we expected from him. He stated his profession , to be that of a lawyer, and, at the same time, that he knew little of military law on such occasions. He was anxious to know whether the officers who tried him were of the regular army or Of the Militia, and whether they were residents of this country. We thought we could perceive a slight beam of satis faction pass over his sallow complexion when informed they were all militia officers. Whatever may be his fate, he can have no cause of complaint of the manner in which he is treated, and the leniency that is shown him. He is allowed the benefit of counsel, so far as consultation goes, but not to plead for him. A copy of the charges, and also a copy of the act upon which he is tried, has been furnished to him; and he is allowed the use of a pen and ink. The court adjourned until ten o'clock this morning. Ile is a tall, muscular man, about five feet eleven inches in height, with bold and strongly marked features; a full, quick, light grey eye, dark sallow complexion, and black hair. lie was dressed in a sort of half military, blanket frock coat, much resembling those frequently used by the Indians, with dark Little buttons, collar and cuffs, grey pantaloons, with seams of dark blae.• It is thought his young Aid-de-Camp Spence will give important evidence.— Toronto Palladium, March 14. Postscript of the Toronto Patriot, Wednesday, March 14. We stop the press to announce that the trial of the Brigand Sutherland has met with a sudden interruption, in consequence of his attempt to bleed himself to death by opening veins in his arms and feet. His state of exhaustion is extreme ; another half hour and he would have been dead. AMISE.RSTBURGH.—We have seen a letter from an officer at Amherstburgh, of the 12th March, which states that accounts had been received there of 40 of the Americans, wounded in the engagement at Point Pelee Island; on the 3d instant, - having been taken in for treatment at the hospital in. Portland, and that about 3,./ or 40 •were drowned in their precipitate flight across the ice.' About a dozen of the company of the 83d, ivbo had pursued the runaway brigands about fOur . miles, fell through the" ice, but were fortunately rescued by their comrades.— Gazette. (-Franz the Patriot.) TOOONTo, Ithrtotr 23.—His Excellency Sir George Arthur arrived this mornink,in the Transit, in time to breakfast with Sir F., B. fjewl, who leaves I-his 'evening for Kingston the Transit. We •are. happy to learn that great preparations are .makini.(for his respecAful reception in Montreal. The cyow•n has closed its case against the bandit chief, Suther land, who, on his request, has been granted to Thursday next to enter on his defence. (From the Burlington Sentinel,March 19. TRIAL OF VAN RENSEI.AEit, FOR StiTTING ON FOOT A MILITARY EXPEDITION AGAINST CANADA. This trial was commenced at Auburn, New York, on Monday of last 'week (March 12.) Three witnesses were examined It was proved that Van Rensselaer was at French Creek with a large armed force on the 221 ult.; that early in the moriring he, with 22 others, rassed . over to Hickory Island; that during the day large numbers arrived with muskets, rifles, and pikes, came on to the island; that they had two six-pounders and one eighteen-pounder; that 84 persons were the highest number he could muster; that they all returned to French Creek the same day, and voluntarily disbanded. It was also proved that Van Rensselaer was at Oswego two or three weeks before, requesting men to engage in an expedition against the Lower Province. that he said, "We want men and means to go and see Papinl eau," and that a few pistols, swords, and cutlasses were contri buted. It was also proved that Van Rensselaergave orders, af ter he left Navy Island in January, to Sutherland, to'go west. P.S.—The examination of Van Rensselaer is closed, and as he declined to give bail, he will be committed to gaol in Albany to await his trial in June'. WORKING OF THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT IN. LIVERPOOL. —From the returns of the marriages celebrated in Li verpool and its vicinity during the year 1837, which re turns are oddly enough classified under the head of " A General 13111 of Mortality," we find our conjectures re specting the failure of the New Marriage Act fully rea lised. Here, as well as at Manchester and other places, this preposterous act, designed to unchristianize the com munity, has been almost literally inoperative. For the purpose of showing the decided preference which the people of this town, and its neighbourhood give to the old-fashioned•ceremony of the Church of England, we vital] state the relative numbers of those who have availed themselves of the provisions of the New Marriage Act, and of those who, have conformed to the ritual of the church. We find that 2781 marriages have taken place within the town of Liverpool during the past year. Of this number we find that the Marriages - in Churches amounted to - 2670 Ditto • in Catholic Chapels . B3 Ditto in Scotch Kirk Ditto in Register 'Office Ditto in all the Dissenting Chlpels 13 And of the thirteen marriages which took place i n th e Dissenting Chapels it should be stated that two were so lemnised in th e M a riner's Church, Rathbone- street, where, b e b e li eve , the forms of the Church of En g l an d are used. Again, out of 236 marriages whish took place in the immediate vicinity of Liverpool, we find that 226 were solemnised in the Church and ten in the Roman Catho lic Chapel, (St. Patrick's,) whilst not a single " union according to act of Parliament" took place It should also be borne in mind that the marriages i n the Catholic chapels are solemnised much after the s ame manner as those in the Church of England, so that the number who have entered the " holy state of wedlock" without the sanction of a religious service wilt be very small indeed. We are glad to observe that the large and respectable body of Methodists in this town have entirely eschewed the new-fangled mode of marrying, and shown their de termination to abide by " the good old way." . - Were we wrong, then, in saying that the New Mar riage Act would be despised by the people of England? Is it not now evident that the act was not wanted, and that its enactment was purely a work of supereroga tion ? POSTOFFIcE REFORM.-4t. will be seen that a meeting has been convened by the Mayor for the purpose of urging fur% ard the refuttn of the Pustoffiee regulations. • TRIALS FOR HIGH TREASON. The Court, before whom the persons charged with high •rea son are to, be tried, cominenced its sittings on Thursday, the Bth instant. Tile bench was occupied by the Hop. the Chief Jus tice, with • the Hon. Justices She'rwood, Jones, and M'Lean, An able charge was delivered to the grand jury by the Chief Justice. The petit jury was dismissed until - Monday, the 26th instant, as by a mereiful arrangement, under the provisions of the statute, none of the parties accused can be arraigned for trial until ladays after the finding of a bill by the grand jury.— Toronto Guardian, March 14. HAmturOty.—The Court for the trial of prisoners charged with high treason, and treasonable practices, was opened on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Macaulay. After the usual fur thalities, the grand jury were sworn. . THE LIVERPOOL ST 'N'D.A.RD ' "The evidence of the select committee on postage was pub ' lished this morning.' Farewell to the shillinc postages,—fare , well to a decreasing revenue,—farewell to anomalies of charge, —farewell to tardiness,—farewell to 'the contraband postage trade! Not long will they survive the disclosures made in the evidence of the- select committee. Already we have an uniform penny rate,—no postage to pay on the receipt of a letter,—no fears for the security of money letters,—no delays, but deliveries worthy of the name of "post-haste." So confident are we of these results,—so completely has their feasibility been demon strated, beyond our most sanguine expectations, that a few months only can elapse before these important ameliorations will have been accomplished. No minister, with tbe fact of a sta tionary, if not decreasing revenue on postage disturbing his peace of mind, can hesitate to secure the certainty of improved finances, and at the same time confer a most welcome benefit on the people, Let any minister proclaim, in the teeth of this evidence, which demonstrates perfect security to the revenue, as compatible with a penny postage, that the religious and mo ral sentiments of the poor shall continue to be suppressect—that trade shall be annihilated, unless its correspondence be con ducted through a systematic violation.of the law,—that the re verence for the law, so strong and habitual in our countrymen, shall be perverted by a frightful and universal contraband postage,—that the post monopoly and the post smuggler shall flourish together, and be the minister who he may, we trust the people will hoot him from her Majesty's councils. No minister can dare to avow his scepticism of the unanimous amturicOntra dieted testimony of the witnesses whose evidence is submitted to the public. We find a difficulty in pointing to one portion of the evidence as more valuable than another—all are equally so; and it is only because the public are familiar with the fol lowing names that we single them out. There is evidence of Messrs. Knight, Whittaker, Parker, three of the most exten sive publishers in the world : ,—ofMessrs. Dillon and Branckston, belonging to the largest warehouses in the world,—of Messrs. Christie and Moffatt, each most, eminent in his respective busi ness,—of Messrs. F. de Porquet, the school agent; of J. Wright, partner of Warren's blacking warehouse; of B. Sharpe, the medicine vender,—each first-rate witnesses about advertise ments; of Dr. Larduer, R. Taylor, the printer and publisher; J. Desborough, Secretary to the Atlas InSurance; L. Murray, Chairman of the National Loan Society; J. Webster, Secretary to the Civil Engineers; Capt. J. Bentham, &c.,—proving in contestably, the systematic evasion of postage in all their re spective departments, developing the evils of the present sys temll to morals,. t , science , and literature,—the acceptability of Mr. Hill's pi its features of reduction, uniformity, and payment in ad . 6,—the indisputable certainty that 'an in crease of letters consequent upon a reduction to a penny would suffice to sustain the revenue,—and a perfect willingness of all to enter into contracts to secure the revenuelrom loss " The plan proposed by Mr. Rowland Hill embodies the following facts and suggestions:— That all letters passing from one post town in the United Kingdom to another, be charged one penny for each half-ounce, to he paid in advance through the Me dium of stamped covers, or stamps or that letters should be-stamped'when delivered at the Post• offices. This system would introduce uniformity and simpli- city. — An easy and cheap collection of the Revenue. — Avoid a multiplicity of accounts kept at the Post office.— • Save time in charging by pen and ink a varying rate on each letter, and in the delivery. Avoid candle scrutiny into each letter to ascertain whether single or double as at present and consequent temptation to fraud., The English Post-office Revenue has, during the last twenty sears, slightly diminished. The French Post-office Revenue has increased more. titan half since IS2I. The United States Post-office Revenue has more than tripled during the twenty years that ours has been nearly stationari:' - • , The vast ex t " • which the trade of the country has • increased wit last twenty years, must have beer. attended by a '• increase in mercantile cor respondence, while 'the greAt spread of education, and increase of population during the same period, must have greatly augmented the correspondence of all kinds. As the number of post letters sent through the Post office, during the last twenty years, has not increased at all, it is manifest that the whole augmentation must have gone to swell the contraband conveyance. The average of the present postage of a single letter (taking in all chargeable letters) is sixpence halfpenny. The average cost of its actual carriage to any post town is about one-tenth of a penny. The penny posts of large towns are very profitable, even though these pence have to be collected from house to house. The average cost of managing the twopenny post of London, notwithstanding the large allowance of weight, and the expensive manner in which the establishment is conducted, is only 34 per cent. on the iecetpts, or about . two-thirds of a penny per letter. - The chargeable letters do not weigh more than about one fourth of the whole mail. NORTHERN HOSPITAL—On Sunday last, after an'excellent sermon by the Rev. James Martineau, a collection was Made in Yatadise•,street chapel for the benefit of this charity, amounting to £55 16s. CROWS' ,Nasrs.--TWo crows have recently taken up their abode in a singular position, at the back of Air. Lyon's house, in Bold-street, above Slater-street. There are, we believe, but three trees in the yard, yet, in one of them, the crows liavefor about a week been engaged in building a nest. 'A. third crow made his appearance a day or two since, but was beaten off as an intruder. Two crows have also built a nest on a house-top in Wood-street, Hanover-street. 'EXTRAORDINARY DESPATCH. —The barque Brilliant, Gib son, belonging. to Joseph B. Yates, Esq. which arrived from Jamaica on Saturday night, was reported at the Custom-house on Monday morning, began the discharge of her cargo at two o'clock the same day, and finished on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock, having occupied in the discharge less than twenty hours. The cargo consisted of 469 casks of sugar, coffee and rum, and 25 tons of dyewoods. Li 9 KINNEAR.—This notorious character was sent off from Kirk dale prison on Tuesday week for Woolwich, in a van with other convicts. He was in good health, and did not appear to be affected in any degree by his prostrate contlition. During the time he was confined in gaol he subsisted on prison allow ance, and complied with all its regulations without any complaint or apparent uneasiness. His wife; who is stated to be a well educated woman, visited him in gaol only once, a few weeks before his trial. It appears that she was living at Paris at the period of his apprehension. 'rurnuTE of RESPECT.--OR Saturday, a number of gentle - Men, the friends of Mr. Samuel Mime, met, at Mr. Lacy's' 80ld -street, to consult upon the best method of presenting to his mother a picture, ( a portrait of that gentleman) painted by Mr. Midge, when it was determined upon to request him to be the medium of presentation. Mr. Holme being sent for, on his arrival was addressed by one of the gentlemen present:— " I bee,. in the name of the gentlemen present, to request the favour (knowing the retiring habit's of that excellent ladyl of your presenting to your honoured mother this memorial of their regaid for her, and their esteem for you. They thought they could not present to her any thing she would value more, as a Irnenento of friendship, than a likeness of her eldest son. I need not express to you how much pleasure they . have in finding au occasion of exhibiting some token of their attach ment to you, and in congratulating themselves upon having fixed upon an artist who has been so happy in the execution of the work, and in conclusion, I am requested to say, how heartily they wish, that you may continue to enjoy that good health to which it has pleased Divine Providence again to restore you, and their wish that your life may be long spared, that th - ey may have the happiness to continue to enjoy, uninterruptedly, your friendship and acquaint ance ." T o which Mr. Holme replied in a neat and appropriate speech. The picture is a halfdength portrait, an admirable likeness, and well painted; an what adds to the value of the gift is the co n s id er ation that it is a joint contributfon of men of all parties, and not. as was ei rone ously slated in the Mail and Standard of Tuesday, of the con servatives only. DiErdenA ea BAR—IMPORTANT INFortMATJON TO MARINERS. ---Nye understand from Captain Spence, of the ship Johnstone, which arrived here yesterday from De m er ara , tha t a floating 1 ig l h a t c h t i l ; % n light vessel, w i t h n fi xe d w hi te c i rcu l ar l i ght, was nioored off' the bar and of D emerara 13th ultimo, in 3y 2 fathoms at low spring tides, on in 7 d e t tf e r e shore north re a t the latitude, p or a t o i f i d S.W. by S. di stance 12 miles. A ll vessels inward bound will Demeraras7s 59 e t i t e r long.,the g i he supplied w • ith a pilot front the said floating light upon their heaving to fur that purpose ; and the light will be lowered every night ekactl Y at twelve o'clock,• to be supplied with fresh trimmed lamp s : t hi s w ill oceupy not more than fifteen minutes, du ingwhich time a coalition lantern will be hoisted at the mast head, Tn the object of the rryeting we cordially concur, and we hope that the proceedings will be characterised by that prudent deliberation which is so requisite in discussing a stThie6t of such general importance. On this questiOn tht* will be found a degree of concord among men of all shades of-Political opinions which can be very rarely expected to exist on any other topic connected with the fiscal arrangements of government. The glaring ano malies which so frequently present themselves to our ob servation in the Postoffiee regulations, and the gross abuses and mismanagement which are so often witnessed in its various departments, have given rise to an opi nion, almost unanimous, that a searching reform of the whole system is indispensably necessary. The Postoffice Circular has rendered valuable service in bringing the subject of Postoffice reform more promi nently before the notice of the public. In its last num ber, which we have just received, we find the following observations on the evidence taken before .the . Select Committee on Postage : CORRESPONDENCE. THE REV. HUGH AI:NEILE AND HIS RADICAL REVILERS, THE EDITOR OP. THE .I,V.SRPOOL STANDARD. • civi9us to, observe the - jealous malignity with which every public act of the : Rev. H. M•Neile a is viewed by a certain political, party in this town. Whether eloquently support ing time-honoured laws and institutions against the inroads of revolutionary violence,—whether from hiS pulpit, expounding the everlasting word,—whether in the performance of a duty, which it has ever been a delight to him to be engaged in which he has ever been found replenishing by a powerful oratorical dis play,—the decaying fu n d s o f our pu bli c c h ar i t i es,—or, whether, whilst thundering at t.he.gates of the senate, he boldly and un compromisingly demands the total abolition of slavery—on all, or any of these occasions, are there to be found little men, of little minds, anxious, not only to find fault, but also to pub lish their silly animadversions. Witness the effusions of a cor respondent in the Albion, of Monday last, who signs himself J. P. In contradiction to the word of and, as quoted by Mr: M'Neile, at the meeting on Friday last, this Jesuit undertakes to state, that •` God does- not separate the sinner from his sin, till the sinner forsakes sin." Of course this is a bit of logic that Mr. WNeile will laugh at. At the same tithe the cloven part of popery or sociniamsm, (twin feelings,-) is sti clumsily conceaed, that the object of the writer is rendered clear and intelligible. Slavery is incompatible with the doctrine of the Holy Bible, therefore Mr M'Neile opposes it, and in that . op- . positi,in he sometimes necessarily finds himself in strange society. J P. is a member of that society; he is also either a papist or a• socinian 4 or '" something more," and as a conse quence, although an abolitionist to the very echo, he must de nounce, very sincerely denounce, the scriptural doctrinei of the talented and respected minister in, question. I wonder these curs do not find it inconvenient to be eternally annoying their respectable neighbours. Of course some of them must have read the anecdote iu Addison's Spectator,.of the noble mastiff and the cur.—Verb. sap.—l am &c., your'S always, K. W. H. LORD MULGRAVE'S IRISH TRANQUILLITY. LETTER 11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. Sta,—ln my previous letter, which you did ine the honour to nsert, and which favour be assured I estimate as it deserves, I endeavoured to impress upon that portion of the English public which constitutes your readers, the broad down-right fact, that all the statements and assertions of " Lord Mulgrave's Irish tranquillity were nothing better than the frauds and knaveries of certain political rogues and swindlers, who should have been long since arraigned at the bar of their country for the felony of " obtaining money under false pretences." And I went further. I showed that beneath the temporary varnish which it was the interest of the place-keepers to spread over the surface, the grain and knots of Irish turbulence and sedition still existed in all their native : perversity and stubborness, and that the very polish they had so sedulously glossed upon it only tended to preserve unimpaired that natural crookedness and resistance to equality which have so long operated to.preveut her being doVe tailed,into.an integral portion of the British empire. I shall now proceed to investigate the causes of the late tranquillity (?) and cessation from crime, which have given rise to such confi dence and exultation among the supporters of the ministry, and inflated with worse than bull-frog xanity every individual of the Irish executive; from the noble author of "Matilda" himself, to the printer's devil 'of The Evening Posi. • There is nothing in modern Irish politics, strange as they are, so inconsistent and contradictory as the conduct of the liberal party and their journalists with respect to the actual state of the country. Why; sir, until within a short time ago, they were all as industrious to publish,. as they are now to conceal, the out rages of the people. The columns of their newspapers teemed with the very narratives of murders, and turnings, copies of ltockite menaces, and incendiary notices, and details of barba rous and wanton mutilations of dumb and helpless animals, for the teal or imputed crimes of their Owners, which they now term the fabrication of the tory prints. But then it is to be borne in mind that this honesty of publication, and this marvellous pro pensity to tell the truth, only existed in the minds of the wor thies during the ascendancy, as they call it, of Orange domina tion. And for this good reason too, because they served the two-fold purposes of casting the reproach, and the origin of the blood, and the guilt, and the misery of the misguided people, upon the conduct of the government, and of enforcing still stronger the concession of certain measures, the legislative refusal of which, coupled with 'the supremacy of a party, they asserted to be the primary causes of Ireland's Want of prosperity and quiet. N) , ell, sir, emancipation, one of the required sedatives, was at length granted. Was Ireland more tranquil or composed ? Not a whit. Reform too followed in the tracks of the relief bill; hut this also failed to bring either security to life or pro tection to property, or to effect a shadow of change in the disposition of the peasantry towards their rulers, their land lords, or even themselves. Far from it ; and I degress a little, because the matter is worthy of attention—it was after the passing of these very measures that outrages and resistance to law in Ireland began to be systematised and reduced to certain rules and regulations, and to exhibit in their perpetration all the craft and artifice which the science of modern agitation could sugge s t, To Mr. Shiel, the commissioner of Greenwich, and the member for Tipperary, is due the credit of teaching his countrymen the value of combination. To his celebrated plan of "simultaneous meetings" is to be attributed that union, fidelity of purpose, and secresy of action, which have so long distinguished the proceedings of the insurgents, and which have so frequently defeated the exertions of the magistracy and police in the enforcement of any legal process or writ. In truth, sir, it is since th e quest i ons o f lib erty an d re f orm b ecame the law of the land that the outrage of the Irish people assumed such a character, that in legislating for their suppression it was necessary to divide them according to their nature and origin, and hence, in the discussions on the infamous coercion bill, we have their classified under the heads "agrarian" and "politi cal" outrages. So much for the gratitude and tranquillising . effects of yielding to the p eo pl e of Ireland the objects of their desires and clamours But to return. Emancipation and reform being granted, While the agitation and excitement Of the peasantry were lO mented adencouraged, it was neither the business nor the interest of the liberal (?) journalists to be commonly honest or truth telling, It did not vow suit the designs of Mr. O'Connell, or .'hiS Burgh-teray convention, to have accounts published which daily gave the ready lie to their frothy declarations about their country. Accordingly, the plan now adopted was to cup ceal the truth. To hush up and suppress every fact which at all betrayed the unquiet and restless state of the population, and to represent to the people of England that the •fermentatibti of discontent which had been brewing and boiling for centuries, was rapidly subsiding, and that when it had cooled down to, .a proper national temperament it would be a very wholesome and palatable beverage for home consumption. But although this system of falsehood and misrepresentation began to be thus immediately acted upon, stilt it was never finally methodised, and broadly. and .shamelessly acted upon, until the accession of Lord Mulgrave to peWer. Now sir, it is too plain to be denied that the administration of this noble man is one of Mr. O'Connell's experiments." The Viceroy is the veriest creature 011ie Demagogue of freland, and the mea sures of his government but the obedience to a policy which has involved the character and fortunes of a country, for the vanity of personal ambition and the gratification of individual agrau disement. I thus particularize Lord Ifilulgrave as the creature, and his government as the exp 'or Air. O'Connell, because, al though the whole whi' . I cabinet, taken as a body, is s nothing better th an a pa se which he bestrides with a rod and spur of iron; till as "Ci s i n I re l an d, he is practically des potic, and fr om Ireland he draws the sustenance of his popu larity; it is t here tile government must chiefly cringe and fawn for his favour, and do the drudgery of an Irish Agitator in the livery of a British monarch. To secure then the official existence of this ereature,"artd to promote the success of the experiment, has been the real pal pable cause why the provincial agents of Mr. O'Connell, the priests and the village demagigues, have laboured to make the country exhibit the bite delusive calm; and that his literary hacks and supporters have been striving to force the intelli gence of the Irish wonder down, what they conceive to be, the gullibility of the English public. And with good reason too. Lord Mulgrave and Mr. O'Connell botn know well, that beyond the imputed credit of tranqttillizing Ireland, there is not another ground upon which the viceroyalty of the former is en titled to the confidence or approbation of the well-ordered, and sober-thinking portion of the community. it is true that his lordship has strong claims both upon the trust and applause of the movement faction of.the land he governs. For if to super cede a protestant high sheriff, because he had the presumption to appoint a substitute who was obnoxious to a discontented mob, and to nominate the leading peison among them in his stead.—lf to fill every place and situatiQu with men whose only claim to their emoluments was their connection with previous agitation, and their opposition t o f ormer governments.—lf to throng •the police, the paid magistracies, the vacancies in the courts and other official dignities, with the professors of a par- • ticular, and even all anti-English creed.-11to govern a section of a protestant empire upon, such principles, be enough to en-' title the deputy of the crown to the gratitude and support of those who were always disaffected and disinclined towards it; unquestionably, theadministration of Lord Mulgrave should be prized and' popular amongst the hitherto malcontents of Ireland. But beyond this disgraceful pandering to the passions of a rabble, and this subserviency to the command of their leader, the Lord Lieutenant has nut another claim to the approbation of his to the lowest penny-a-liner, the lan d sovereign .l ence it orhe is, that nation, r,m a s (m s ne v save nd to of oth e t tranquillizing of tig thelre mi- nistry—from D an O'Connell whole end and aim of their speeches and writings, is to estab lish, by every species of humbug and deceit, the fact, that he, Lord Mulgrave, as the creature, nominee, deputy, under strapper or what you ill of the Irish demagogue; was enabled to effect what no other governor could achieve since the sub jugation of the country,—viz—the reduction to peace and good order of a naturally turbulent, and by .habit, a discontented and disaffected population. And all this sir, for the purpose of - etilisting the ,sympathies, while it called forth a renewal of the chuffdenee of the Eng,lish nation in behalf of their Irish breth ren.' and by identifyin g the official career o f Lord Mulgrave nd e fi d ue t n ho c ef ey the and sh o lua a lt s de c e oe s i a t andhis colleagues with th e man if estat i ons of both, give them in the hearts and feelings G oo p t ni h no e ironn, apeople,taurreet intended tne causesni scdeualinn,y7dr, Such sir, in y and pretended tranquillity of Ireland. 1 ant confident that any unprejudiced and dispassionate Englishman, who re flects upon the matter, will come to the same conclusion. As "the machinery by which the late farce of the no capital conviction was got up," is a subject of sufficient importance to merit a separite notice, and as this letter has already ran to a considerable length, I shall f o r 'th e p resent conc l u d e, w i th a re iteration of my thanks fur your kindness, and am sir, your obedi6nt ser van t, A TIPPERARY MAN. Liverpool, April 1811 t, 1838. OPENING OF THE KING'S DUCK.—The King's Dock will, we understand, be opened for the reception of shipping on the first of May. The dock has been deepened, and several other improvements made of practical utility. The shipping which frequent the upper docks will experience the benefit of this ar rangement, ' SHIP LAUNCH.—On Wednes , lay morning last, a very splen did vessel, register 756 tons, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. W. and F. Porter, near the Queen's Dock. 'She was christened the Victoria. Her destination is not yet fixed upon. She is of most beautiful model for sailing, and it is anticip a t e d w i ll be the fastest ship out of Liverpool. .This magnificent naval fabric was consigned, amidst the cheers of thousands of spectators, to the bosom of the waters, without the slightest accident. and was proudly floating up the Mersey, the steamer which had towed her in, having just left her, when the bark Bridgetown, which was in tow of a steamer, foolishly crossed her course, and was, in consequence, stru c k r i g ht amid ships by the Vi ctor i a,. which still had considerable way on her. The concussion was so great that the foretoptnast of the Bridge town snapped off like a carrot, and the topmast, along with the topsail, which was set, and topsail yards, came down npon the deck, anti upon the deck of the Victoria with a tremendous crash, and it is a miracle, considering the crowded state of the deck of the Victoria, that no person was killed. A failing splin ter broke the arm of a boy, which, we are happy to say, was the only casualty occurring. We have since heard that one of the sailors of the Bridgetown was seriously hurt; The Victoria received no damage whatever: THE NEW QUICKSILVER STEAM-SHIP COLUMBUS. . . This splendid new steamer, destined shortly to cross the Atlantic. whi c h h as created inhch intere s t, frOut the novel construction of its machinery, made after - Mr. Howard's invention for the rapid - vapourisation of - Water on iron plates over heated quicksilver, Ott Tuesday - afte . rnoonteok a Mal trip down the Mersey and - round the light-ship; with a highly respectable party of gentlemen on hitard. - She excited mach curiosity on the river, from the novelty of her appearance and the beauty of her model. :In her cocoa ruction She haS wore _of the appearance of an elegantly-made brig ; she - has two chim neys, both very low,. and from.the'peculiar cual,"the autlirasitc, consumed by her no smoke is emitted. By the politene - ss of Captain Daniel Green, her commander, ''and . -Mr. Howard, the inventor of her machinery, we have.been furnished' with the following particuiars:—The Columbus is 330 tens;' builders' tneasurement, being 212 feet beam, and' 145-feet keel, with 131 feet depth of hold. She has 110 horse power, two . 55 feet engines, the cylinders being 40 inches dioureter and al feet stroke, and the wheel 17 3 / 4 feet diameter. Her speed through the water is ten statute miles per hour; her ins, mersed section at her present load is 150 square feet. She has now on board - twenty days' fuel, besides &Nona of iron ballast. The novelty of the engines (Mr. Howard's• pa tent) consists in a tiew tnethhd of producing the'steam,'and of 'condensing it, the latter part of - the invention being applicable to the ordinary 'boilers. In a boiler the heat from the fuel is passed over very extensive surfaces, in contact with which is a large body of water, the temperature of which is always such as is due to the density or pressure of the steam, and consequently the evaporation is limited by - such circum stances. In this invention the steam is formed by bringing a small quantity of water previously made boiling hot, in contact with acotnparatively small surface, heated to, and maintained at the temperature at most rapid Capohrization, viz. about 400 deg. to effect which a quantity of mercury or amalgam Ices between iron plates, the one near the fire being a plain surface of only three quarters of a toot per horse power, and the other, or vapodrizing surface being about four times as much. • The steam never obtains a density or pressure due to the tempera ture, but is itself heated to about 400 deg. and worked at about ten pounds to the inch, and cut off from the cylinder at half the stroke. " e condensation is e ff ecte d by t h e repeated injection *of the so ater — so that pure :water is continually circulated through engines, the was t e from casual leakages being sup plied by stills a tt ac h e d to t h e fuunels, and which further give a surplus quantity of water for the ship's use. This principle of condensation is effected as follows, on hoard the Columbus:— the air pumps withdraw the warm injection water front the con densers into the hot cisterns, from which it passes slowly through a series of copper pipes exposed to the action of the external cold sea water in a cistern supplied by a pump, on the air pump cross-head, and then is re-jojected amidst the steam in the &nu densers; after having been effextually_cooled by its transmission through the pipes. This process of ctindensatirin is obviously equally applicable to the ordinary engines with boilers, and is most effectual. The fuel made use of is coke - oi stone-coal, or other fuel giving a strong local-heat and little . ..flame; that em ployed on Tuesday was Kilkenny coal. 'The consumption of fuel is three tons per day of 24 hours, and the fire grates have a total bar surface of only 22 feet, 'the- air beittg.supplied by a small blowing machine, under easy regulation. The iron plates exposed to the fire are perfectly" secured cranially bad effect from the somewhat intense heat, by the close contact of the mercury within them, and which absoiliS and gives out the heat with the ut mos t rap idi ty. T he combined effect Of the reduction in the consumption of fuel, and the weight and size of the va pourizers, compared with - boilers is such that a steam vessel of any ordinary tonnage and power will he enabled at her loaded immersion to make a voyage office tunes the length now. Prac ticable. ' The steamer made a delightful trip round the light ship ; her speed is not great—about ten miles an 'hour —hut is very good, taking- into consideration the power tit her engines compared with her tonnage. Her paddle wheels are also on an improved principle, being constructed after Morgan's patent, the paddles turning on an eccentric centre with the wheel, and always turning perpendicularly, exposing-a perfectly flat and perpen dicular surface to the water. By this means the beating of the paddles on the water is avoided, and the &instant lifting and vibration of the vessel done away with, the paddles always descending into and rising out of the water perpendicularly. On Friday last, the vessel made an experimental trip to Mar lin, and was seventeen hours on her passage, having a strong head wind part of the way. She returned on Sunday in 15 3 / 4 hours. At Holyhead, she fell in with the Mermaid steamer, from Waterford, and slightly gained upon her. A rumour has gained very general circulation that the quick silver used on board, in generating steam, bad_ the effect of salivating the crew, and than two of 'the men were landed at Portsmouth, on her way from Loudon, seriously ill in 'conse quence. Such, however, we learn not to be the fact, but that two engineers, landsmen, who were dre a df u lly sea sick, were so landed, and th a t probably gave rise to the report. At the request of Mr. Howard, we made enquiries of one of the en gineers, named Smith, who went on board the first steam vessel of this construction, the Comet, in March, 1834, and sailed froin London to Ramsgate, and afterwards kom Woolwich to Fal mouth, and returned again, and went from thence to Lisbon and returned, and during the whole time never felt the least in convenience or effect from the quicksilver, though constantly in the engine -room. The fires require not half the labour to. keep them up of the ordinary steam-boiler fires. A prejudice appears also to exist about the slow Speed of the vessel compared with that of some of our first steamers;. but, when it is consider ed that the power of the vessel is not drore than half, compared with the tonnage, of most of our steamers, - the speed is in more than proportion. The Columbus poSSesses a cabin and quarter deck of very great extent, compared with her tonnage, and the cabin is fitted up with great neatness. :We wish her every success. THE THEATRE-ROYAL. During the past week we have had the high musical treat of having the Woods to perform at this theatre,, and a series of operas have in consequence'been got up. Last evening we wit nessed the beautiful' Italian opera, L Sonnatnbula, Mrs Wood playing as Ainina, the sleep-walker, and Mr. Wood as Elvino. The tdaygoing public of Liverpool has ,been so often delighted with this opera and the exquisite singing.of Mrs. Wood iu it, (and will, we trust, be so agaitt,) . that it, were useless extending our remarks upon it. Since her last trip across the Atlantic, Mrs. Wood has grown much stouter, which 6,as:um improved her figure; her voice,. however, ..continlies dulcet, delicious, de lightful as ever. The part of Count, 4odolpo was taken by. Mr. G. Horncastle, who does not sustaitolle,character.near so 'well as that of Alessio; whilst the finterwas . played by a new performer pained Martyn, who made a most miserable affair of it; the hills announce " as originally ..performed by him in London." There cannot be a doubt of the " originality"' of the performance, for nothi ng was - ever seen like it before. If he plays in other characters as " originally" as he did in this, hotteli'Suh "originaliti es " may pass in 'London, where the audiences c are not over-discri m i nat i ng —at least, judging from t the success of some of the plays and actors that have there been loudly lauded —we think be will find it expedient to cease "originality" and here become one of the commonality. Mrs. W. H. Bland both played and sung, well. The scenery was excellently got up, and the Opera pas se d o ff very well. The new pantomime of . " Harlequin in Sicily" concluded the per formances. There was a very good house. BAPTISM OF CONVERTED JEws.—On Sunday last, Mr. Moses Woulf Gourlaud and his wife 'were pub-hely baptized in St. Jude's Church, by the Rev. H. McNeile, under Whose mi nistry they were converted to christiautty. CHEAP LITERATURE. —We understand that Mr. Pugh, the News agent, of No. 6., Marybonei and No. 2. Prices' Street, intends giving to each purchaser of the Liverpool neWspapers of the 4th and sth of May a copy of some modern publicatiOn, of which he has a series to offer for choice. STEAM To NEW YORK.—Bv refering to our shipping intelli genie, it will be seen that the Sirius steamer which sailed ou the 4th inst., from Cork, for New York, hap been spok e n in l a t. 47 long. 21, (after bein g s i x d ays out,) by the Intrepid, from La guna, which vessel arrived here yesterday. When the Sirius was fallen in with; the wind was blowing - hard from the S.W., in the above let. she would be between 7or 800 miles on her voyage. Mr. MACPHERSON'S CONCERT —On Monday next Mr. Mac pherson, the Precentor of the Scotch Church, givei Ins annual concert at the Templar's Hall. His bill is a very strong oue, we hope it will be well attended. A singular circumstance occurred to the gamekeeper of Sir H. Russell this week. Walking in one of the woods near Arborfleld, he heard the flutter of some bird dose to him in the •underwuod, and looking about he perceived that he had trodden on a woodcock, which was too much injured to escape; whilst securing it, two more rose close to him. These birdS were alwayS supposed to leave this country in February . . MEETING OF WAREHOUSE-OWNERS.-It will be seen by the advertisement, that the meeting of warehouse-owners will take place on Monday next, the 30th. ST. THOM AS'S CHURCH.—We perceive, that :this church which has been closed for many months, for repairs, is to be re opened for public worship on Sunday next. It is. now fitted up with gas, and it is intended to establish evening service, which is much wanted in that densely-populated neighbourhood. PLATE —A very handsome silver waiter has been presented to Captain Stewart, with the following inscription•:— Pre sented to Captain Yorke Stewart, of the brig Ripley, by the Liverpool Underwriters' Association in testimony of his hu mane and gallant. conduct in rescuing from shipwreck the crews of the Majestic and Catherine, on his passage from India ; in the month of January, 1838." LAUNCH.--On Wednesday was launched from the yard of Messrs. Joseph Rigby &Co. Stanhope-in,reet.,south e nd Queen's Dock, a beautiful iron steam-vessel (ra perfectly novel con struction, being the first of the kind ever Made. We under stand it is intended for the inland navivation - on the-Duke's canal, and will be propelled by two suitable . enkines. the paddle wheel working irr, the centre on an improved .prineiple, which will prevent any injury being done to the banks or sides of the swell. The following came cabin passengers in the packet-ship Cam bridge, which sailed from New York on the 2d tustaut, and ur rived here on Tuesday :—Sir Francis B. Head, Birt and ser vant, Mr. John Keruble Mason and lady, Mr;liam Fox Richardson, Mrs. B. A. Ri c h ar d son, M r. George M. Murray, Mr. Edward J. Woolsey, Mr. Gabriel W. Cort, Mr, George B. Boyle, Mr. John Bates and lady, Mr. D. B. Holbrook, Mr. John - D. Prince, jun., Mr. William Pratt, jun., Miss Ellen Stapleton, Mr. John J. Osborne, Mr. Henry Tobias, Mr. Cun ningham Smith, Mr. Michael Allen. Mr. Daniel Allen, Mr. John M. Miller, Mr. Edward Brusthein, Mr, William Heath cote, Captain Robert Bolton, and Captain Joseph Hunt. INDUCTION OF THE Rev. HUGH CRICHTON.—The age and increasing infirmities of the Rev. Dr. Stewart, the highly-es teemed minister of the 'Scotch Secession Church, in Mount pleasant, having rendered it expedient that he should have as sistance in the performance of his many arduous duties, the presbytery of this above church fixed upon the Rev. Hugh Crichton, a talented, popular, and greatly-respected minister of Glasgow, as a proper person on whom to confer the important appointment of colleague and successor to the rev. gentleman above named. The proper preliminaries having been settled between the presbytery and the heads of th?, church in Liver pool, the ceremony of induction took place on Wednesday last, in the Chapel, at Mount-pleasant. The Rev. Hamilton M'Gill, the Rev. David King, and the Rev. Mr. Johnson, ministers of the Secession Church at Glasgow, and the Rev. Mr. Baird, of Paisley, with several preachers of this town, were present on the occasion. SUDDEN DEATii.—On Thursday an inquest was held on the body of a millwright nam-d Heaton, in the service of the City of Dublin Steam packet Company. The deceased appeared in his usual good health ongoing to bed on Tuesday night. He rose on the following morning at half-past four ; for the purpose of proceeding to.his business; but finding the hour earlier than he anticipated, at the suggestion of hr 's wife; he Welit to bed again. His wife became alarmed at the suddenness with which his head fell upon the pillow; she called the assistance of sonic persons in the house, who found the deceased lifeless. Surgical aid was called in without effect. On Opening► the body, the heart WdS found to have become much enlarged; and a quantity of blood had made its escape into the pericardium—As his death was the result of natural causes, a verdict to that effect was re turned; , it ,- ,!‘K POL/CH IN7'ELLI(iENCE•;:.'4i . ) - ;'• lit;ttc tty.---:00 Tuesday, at the'Polie-cffice, Johti :eve; 888 Wi s 'lotted at the har,' , citarl - witt, having entere d 'the httuse of Thomas Smittes•court, Ashpin-street,'Ttix tech-Lurk. Airs. Moreland stated; that. about half-past five o'ciock on Tuesday mottling ; the 13Th instant, her husband, who was a warehousem a n' ' got up and went to his•work. Wit ness heard him g o out and lock the door. lie then opened the parlour Window, a 6:4miing to • MS cbstoin, and threw the key to upon the floor: Wit lidSs slept on the floor over the parlour, and her brother and a lodger sleptin the room above. Witness fell asleep, and about half-past - skVelock she was aroused by the creaking dr a• basket. in the room. Thinking it was her brother, she said, "Frederick, is that you ?" No answer was retui tied. Witness raised herself iu the bed and saw the pri soner at the room dour. There was also a boy at the toot of the bed. The prisoner had is bundle of clothes thrown over his arm. Witness called loudly fir her brother Frederick, but be fore he came she fainted, upon which the prisoner and his eom panion made their escape. On examining the house, it was diß:overed that a great quantity of apparel had been taken from the bed-room, from some 'drawers, and other places. Two boxes in the kitchen had been opened -by false keys. • Mrs. Moreland havi ng rece i ve d certa i n i nformation, went to the shop of James Wardley, in St. Jauies'-place, where she saw some of the .clothes that, had been stolen, and claimed them She afterwards went to the shop of Mr. Richards, pawnbrokerOu Wolfe -street, where she found some other articles. On Satur ' day last site saw the prisoner in custody, and immediately re cognised.hint as the person whom she had seen in the bed-room on Tuesday. Police-officer James Sharp stated, that he had information of the robbery, and took the prisoner into custody on Friday, from a cellar in Edward -street. The prisoner de nied the charge, saying, he knew nothing of the robbery. He. could get witnesses to prove that he was not out of bed that morning till ten o'clock.—He was committed for trial. THEFT BY A RELATION.-- , TlleSday, at the Police-office, John Kennedy, a very young lad, wit's-placed at the bar, charged with having robbed his aunt, Margaret Hughes, who res i des at No. 11, Ciosshall-street, of three stivereigns and a half and about a pound in silver. Mrs. Hughes stated, that she was the wife of John Hughes. a seaman ; she assisted - hor mother, who kept a poultry shop in the market. About five o'clock on Monday afternoon, she placed nine sovereigns, five half crowns, and is quantity of silver in a velvet purse. She locked the parlour door, and gave the key to her sister, and - they quitted the house together, leaving the prisoner John Kennedy, her nephew, in the house. Aliout nice o'clock in the evening she returned, but did not look at her money till next morning, when she found that three sovereigns, one half sovereign, and the velvet purse were missing. She saw the prisoner in the market during the evening, mei charged him with the 7pbbery, tout be denied all knowledge of it.. Wituessgave him into the custody of Bryant, a market constable. A velvet purse was produce,l, which the Witness identified. Bryant, the market constable; stated, that about eight o' c l o ck on M on d ay n i g h t, h e rece i ved the prisoner into his custody, and took bitn into the market office. Holden; inspector of meat; searched hiM, and found the purse in his pos.- . esston. Briaut fu r the r s t a t e d, th at h e h a d exam i ne d the h ouse of the prosecutrix, and he found that the lock of the parlour was very weak, and that the bolt could be easily forced back wards by the hand. The'prisoner, it appeared, was a well-known thief, and had been convicted of felony before. He was commit ted for hie!. STEALING COTTON.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a ware housemau mimed Michael Feneion was brought up before the magistrates charged with h tying robbed his employers, Messrs. Francisco de Lizardi and Co., of a bale of cotton. A witness named Henry Crane, a labourer, deposed that on the 9th instant he was standing at the top of Barton -street, when he saw a bale of caton put out of Lizardi and Co.'s warehouse into a cart. Tnomas Stnediey,lcarter, deposed that he was in the service of the prisoner, who was a warehouseman and carter in the service of Messrs. Lizardi and Co. On the .morning of the 9th of April he waslordered by the prisoner to go to the warehouse for a bale of cotton; he did so, and backed his cart to the ware house door, and whilst it was there a bale of cotton was lowered into it, but he did not see by whom. The prisoner told hint that it hail been left at the warehouse for safety by a person named Beckett, and that he was to take it to Beckett's ware house in Cumberland-street, and he would follow him. He went with the bale tnCumberland-street, but, the prisoner nut coming, he took the bale to Beckett's Waiehouse, and was there paid ls. 3d. for cartage.' On returning, he met the prisoner, and told him he had left the bale, and he told him " it was all right." The book-keeper of MessrS. Lilarni and Co.'s deposed that, from information he had received he went to Beckett'a warehouse to see if the bale of cotton was ther6 which was iniss ing. He there identified a bale of cotton as belonging to his ern plovers, which was worth about £l2 lOs. The prisoner was committed to take his trial for the robbery. S,tnatioNs FOR SEAMEN'S WAGES. — Yesterday, at the Police .office, a coloured lad, named Dover, appeared befiire the Magis trates, to prefer a complaint against Captain Day, of the Laura, for non-payment of his wages to Trieste and back. From the ship's articles, it appeared, that he was to receive lOs. per nionthi He had been absent five months on the voyage, and had received wore than the amount of his wages at that rate would amount to: he claimed 30s. a month. A gentleman nam ed Phillips, who stated that he had been 15 years in one of the merchant's offices in the town, stated, that the complainant had been a slave to his son in the Brazils, and, on gaining his freea dour on coining to this country, did not wish to go back lest he should be made a soldier of, but preferred going to sea, and on his (witness's) recommendation Capt. Day took him on board, as he (witness) understood, at 30s. a month. The complainant could neither read nor write. The 'Captain said, the boy had been perfectly useless; he was diseased and could do nothing. Mr. Hall asked him how he came to put down lOs a month in the ship's articles? The captain said, it was customary to put down something in an agreement. The boy said he was never completely laid up, but always did whatever he was ask ed; be acknowledged to having been sick. The mate of the Laura stated, that tho lad was positively worth nothinv, ; that all he could do was, to coil a rope or sweep the deck. He could neither keep watch nor do any other thinz; and, in his opinion, Ills. a month was us much as Ire was worth. Mr. Hall said, he did not like to see the positive sum of 100. put down in the agree ment; but, according to the evidence, it appeared that the boy was worth nothing. (To Mr. Phillips)—" I suppose you willtake care of him ?" Mr. Phillips" Oh, no; I have nothing more to do with hint." Mr. Hall—" h W ini el s l t , a b r u v t e s ? ' , o , ur brought hint over to this, country." Mr. Phillips— "H " eis worn out." Mr.. Hall—" But y o u would not see " No." Mr, Because he is worn out, and that you can get no more out of him as a slave, you want to have nothing to do with him." (To the boy.) —" Boy, follow that gentleman — lie will take care of you. (A 4 1- Ugh.) The parties then left the court.. APPLICATION 'FOR SumtoriNs..--Yesterday;atthe office, a female named Christian, bett,--r•known ra. Gould. the keeper of a nuhlie-house in the Old•Ohurch Yard, appeared before the Magistrates to apply tor, a summons against her Imo band, tor ill using her and turning her out of doors.'. ed, that she had only been married Seven, months to her presetrk husband, and during five of them he hod kept another female id the house, whom he made the mistress. '•Mr. Hall said,lherci Was perhaps a reason for his conduct. The applicant appeared to be quite tipsy. Mr. Hall, however, granted a suiumouti. MA 116. 'A, sl-7'.7A7.); " • a. NV CRIME IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. Front official tableS of the number of criminals in 1837, pub , lisped under the sanction of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, we derive the following statistics of crime in this county. In the Ir.st year there t, ere 2,809 offenders committed, of whom 2,190 were convicted, 617 were acquitted, and 2 were pronounced insane. Of the 2.19 J convictions the event of sentences were:—Against 29 judgment of death re corded, 30 transported for life, 3 fur 15 years, 86 for 14 years, 22 for 10 Years, and 284. for 7 }ears.—lmprisonett, 1 for 3 years, •72 for 2 years, 278 for one year, and 1,359 f u r 6 mon th s an d un• der. Of the 617 acquitted, 374 were found " not guilty" on trial, as to 78 . n0 bills were found, and in 165 cases there was no prosecution. fif the 2,809 offenders, 2,171 were males, 638 females. Their ages are thus given :-35 males and 6 females aged 12 years and under; 237 and 44 aged 16 and above 12; 647 and and 164 a g ed 21 and above 16; - 611 and 226. aged 30 andabove 21; 359 and 106 aged 46 and above 30; 139 and 65 aged 50 and above 40; 62 and 23 aged 60 and above 50; 25 and 9 above 60 years; and 29 and 2 whoie ages could not be ascer= tained--As to the insttuetion of these offenders, it is thus se- . preseuted in the table:— MALES. FEMALES. Neither read nor write . 9Ol 358 Read and write imperfectly Read and write well Superior instruction Instruction could nut be ascertained ..... 2171 638 Next as to the nature of the cyfiatees. Dividing these into six classes, the aggregate number of offenders in each class stand thus:— MALES. FEMALES. No. 1 Offences against the person 2 Ditto against property (violence) lO9 2 - 3 Ditto do. (with violence) 1723 569 4 Malicious offences against property 5 Forgery and offences against currency 41 14 6 Other offences Of offences in the first of these classes, there is only one pri soner for murder (a female); 9 males and 2 females for shoot ing at, stabbing, administering poison, &c., with intent to mur der, maim, &e, ; 37 males and 3 females for manslaughter; 6 males for bigamy; 30 Males and I. female for assaults; and 50 males for assaults on peace officer s in-the execution of their duty. 'ln the second class of offences there are 17 males for burglary ; 33 males and I female for housebreaking; 36 males and 1 female for breaking into shops, warehouses, and counting .houses, and stealing; 15 males for robbery, and 4 males for assault with intent to rob.—ln the third class there are respec tively-7, 6, and 4 males• for cattle, horse, and sheep stealing ; 17 males and 3 females for larceny to the value of £5 in dwel ling houses; 135 males and 121 females for larceny from tb person (picking pockets); 93 males and 69 females for larcen y by servants; 1,228 males and 307 females for sithple larceny ; 29 males and I telltale for embezzlement; 88 males and 56 fe males for receiving stolen goods; and 70 males and.ll females for frauds and attempts to defraud.—ln the fourth class there - are 5 males for arson (capital) ; 3 males for kill ing and maiming cattle; and one for sending letters threatening to burn houses, &c.—ln the fifth class, there are 3 males for forging and uttering forged instruments not being wills or powers of attorney, or Bank of England notes; 1 for having in possession, &c. forged Bank of England notes; 3 males and 2 females for counterfeiting the current gold and silver coin ; 3 males for having in possession, &c. im- - ;dements for coining; 1 female for buying and putting off court• terfeit gold and silver Coin ; and 31 males and II females fur uttering and having in possession counterfeit gold and silver coin.—ln the sixth or miscellaneous class of offences, are 8 males, for being out armed to take game by night; 1 for prison breaking, &c. ; I for perjury and s u b ornat i on o f per j ury ; 75 males and 1 fmale for riot, breach of the peace, &c.; 1 for rescue and refusing to aid the peace officers;, 30 males and 41 females for keeping disorderly houses; and for misdemeanours not included in the above dendininations, 14 males and one ternale.—Throughout these tables we du not see any persona committed on any of the following of f ences:—Setting fire to crops, plantations, heath, &c.; attempts to commit arson, &c.; riot and feloniously demolishing buildings, machinery, &c.; destroy log silk, woollen, linen or cotton goods, in process of manufacture, and other malicious offences; administering un lawful oaths; cohspiracy to raise the rate of wages. A prospectus of a new banking company, on a large iteilei to be called the " Commercial Bank of Landon," is circulating in the city. The capital of the uew company is to bei:2,ooo,ooU t of which one-half is to be paid up by January next, and as the shares are to be paid of £l,OOO each, there is at ouce a solid basil to begin upon. CHESTER AND CREWE RAILWAY.—We are glad to find, that the landed gentry, manufacturers, and public authorities of Staffordshire, are resolved to take up the subject alt- exten- , sion of the Chester and Ctewe Railway in good earnest; andi for this purpose, are determined to welcome the deputation from this City, on Monday next, with a large meeting of persons ilia terested in the trade of the Potteries, to carry the above object into effect.—Chester Gazette. Dr. Rolph, for whose apprehension the Canadian governs meet has offered a reward of £5OO, has just commenced the practice of medicine in this fig.—New Yuri Porn'.