The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

FRESH ARRIVAL OIL I col use of sent to OF DID SHAWL BROOCNES GLASGOk% HOUSE, 3, CH uR CH-STREET. L CAMEOS AND PEBBLES MOSAIC MOUNTS, REAL al Gold, from 3s. to 14s TAUNTON ALE. )LD ENGLISH BEVERAGE, celebrated for its rth. rarity. and flavour, may be had, in Packages Housekeeping, upon application at .ert. or to the Agent, HENRY H. H AY MAN, nford-buildings, Rumford-street. HALL'S PATENT STARCH. to Use the above well-known Ar nposed upon, are recommended s put up at the Patentee's Ma- LAWRENCE HALL") affixed tin Pa ay be had from all respectable Grocers, Dea- OR MACH! Rai , AT 4s. 3d. PER GALLON. VEGETABLE OIL, which stands the from acid, and equal to Sperm for the Sample Cans, containing one gallon, le country, on receiving a Postoffice )rice of the Oil, Can, and Basket. any part of ~r 6s. 5d., th "•• PATENT COMPOSITE, or IMITATION SPERM CANDLES, which, without Snuffing, give a Light Ito that of Wax or Sperm. Price, Is. per lb. equ Belmont 'l, Surrey IGN INTELLIGENCE WEST INDIES with the West Indian mail, ad- ave been received from Jamaica to the 21st April, ira to the 22d April, Barbadoes to the 18th April, d to the 10th April, and Antigua to the 13th April. ret to be compelled to state that the intelligence, in 'Aim' of which her arrival has been looked forward to with some slizht confidence, is not afforded ; not the rmation as to the cause of the President's non- Colonial I 1. The 4iven either by the commander, passengers, !gislature of Jamaica had been further pro- Illation, from April 13th to May 18th. A , ceedings of the Planters' Bank had been unt of profit to the 30th June, 1840, after enses, amounted to £24,461 19s. 9d., and a E•t per cent. was recommended. at Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Trinidad, had auf- want of rain. The accounts generally ars 'min prevailing in the money market. oing on, and appeared to be well sup. my was making progress. The ship- Trinidad, for the quarter ending 31st Ls. 196 tees. and 492 barrels of sugar, 682,3041 b. of cocoa, and 36,8071 b. of last packet were at 3 per cent. discount, osed that the rate by the ensuing one will lronositions or hints in the speech of Mr. ualization of duties as between East which hinted at some further fiscal )thin; like the extent, or in the sense of ,t forward by the ministry, had excited the neasiness, and even an approach to a panic. :lasses, have suffered, even to ruin, by the fire at The loans appear to have been more extensive irst anticipated. The matter had been brought Islature, and a committee appointed fer the el le distresses of the sufferers. The ship Hope ed and discharged her emigrants. We annex N PRICE 6 CURRENT, APRIL 10.—Flour, sales al 26. Bd. to 31•. Bd. ; Bread, a , 30s sales to any extent; Butter, 20d. to 22d.; Candles, firm at 14d. to 15d. ; Soap, sales at Os. to 21s. Bd. ; Pork, sales at £5 13s. 4d. ; .ous circumstance we extract from a Igo a whaling-boat, conducted by six sailors, l'Arlets. The captain of the customs pin- Yves, went immediately to ascertain from these , and whence they came. They stated cans, had been wrecked near Barbadoes, „3 perished, and that they sought an lay rand was immediately procured for them, ed to stand in need ; but scarcely had they n they re-embarked, and put to sea, steer- This created suspicion, and the pin . r ursuit. They were found next day at Salines, ere taken up, and seat to Fort Royal, where they they were f for St, he Jamaica papers there are accounts from Quibdo of February. They state that accounts from Po- of the 3rd, represented Obando as perfectly recovered, ly four leagues distant from the city, which he threat ith 400 men well armed. In the provinces of Bona / and Cauca some towns had revolted. It had been nniaated that Obando had attacked and entiv cor f Popayan g just observations from the Morning Tuesday last ; they are of general interest, and !xhibit the character of the Anti-Slavery Society, and eatment of the West India body in their true light. Demerara the number of estates for sale was already derable, under the circumstances of the alarm caused strust in the intentions of the government and uneasi. respecting the extent to which they might be carried. that nrotierty was unsaleable, anc of the perfidious intentions of govern is they would be by the last packet known d change free labo .nauce bi Cuba, 1 theretor tkeir aux Ch el ten ham Examiner PROSPECTS of sales would be out of the question. Th clear, was already beginning, and when the in the sugar duties should become ,an, it may be feared that the panic will become so general c an utter disorganization and destruction of property Ibe the consequence. For although the proposed letting . f foreign sagars at lower duties was negatived for this e, the colonists can have no security that the same 'nee ' will not be introduced again, and, if the ministry obtain ajority in the next parliament, surely carried. The i-blow to West Indian interests and property will then been struck, for so long as labour is so dear there, from e. - erg, and the impediments placed by the in the importation of adequate supplies of free clear that British West India sugar cannot -'e-grown sugar of other countries. The ,ages is about is. H. currency per ,censories of medical attendance, and of ground at very low rents or none at )st of slave labour in Cuba, for example, 4d. a day ; the heaviest item in the charge the dried beef of the River Plate, called about half a pound of which is the daily egro, exclusive of the banana and other tro nich grow wild and cost nothing. The interest cost of a slave, which may be taken at about 500 ild in addition be only some £7 or £8 per an- The Demerara papers remark that their chief for defeating the designs of ministers were the the powerful anti-slavery body to the intro ave-grown sugar, and the interest the members y feel, and which they had so often and warmly nrotect and to watch over the progress of the ef cultivation by free negro labour. The c be the more grievously disappointed learn the inconsistent, slavish, and dis .l which the interests of the late slaves, and labourers of the West Indies have been 1 by certain of the so-calling-themselves Itry branches of the parent Anti-Slavery which being composed of furious minis- Preferred sordid party interests before • whose cause they pretended to ad are. It will be some consolation per .ate, the London society have not gone the , nor materially compromised their former pro " 1 great deal of eloquence is always at hand among ic pretenders, such for example as the ministe r referred to, and the spurious tribe of O'Con ..rery people about the twenty millions of coin the West India plante:s for slave emancipation. ~ bt a glorious national sacrifice in the glorious anity, but it should not be fOrgotten that, idemnification to the planter, it amounted to ix shillings and eightpence in the pound, for I cost price of the slaves whose emancipation 1, was reasonably valued at above sixty mil 11together, from the papers now received, nided that the now advanced commercial ed by the ministers will be productive of ',anent in West Indian affairs, and ruin to rty. Let the Anti-Slavery Society look der heavy and conscientious responsi ; more, they are capable of feeling and -esponsibilities, which her Majesty's mi AUSTRALIA. rt-town papers of the 23d of January, advert to )f respectable and wealthy persons about to leave m account of the puerile manner in which the is said to be administered, but this does not al ienr to be borne out by the state of this part of 'or the revenue returns of Launceston for the the sth of that month showed a gradual increase with former years. In 1841 the revenue is given 33 5d ; in 1840 it was £30,591 14s 6d ; and in X 26,999 16s 9. The value of imports in 1841 5, whi o in 1840 they only amounted to £303,110, to only £230,392. The value of exports in 1841 !1, whila in 1840 it was £452,870, and in 1839, The Tos.eis entered inwards in 1811 were 250 in h 35,851 tonrage, and 2,532 men ; and in 1940 251, with 34,765 tonnage, and 2,403 men, and in vere 188, with 22,135 tonnage, and 1,526 men. entered outwards cambered in 1841 263, with age, and 2,583 men ; in 1840 263, with 36,017 d 2,525 men ; and 1839 134, with 23,276 tonnage, len. In Launceston advices had been received of :eptance of bills to the amount of £7,000 drawn Lwler, as colonial commissioner, upon the commis- London. Flour ranged from £2O to £2B per whent...B to 9s per 60 lbs. _ _ t Pbihp papers to the 14th of January notice a .o.1:40 per ton, in consequence of the unfayour in Van Dieman's Land. ,N. A OIIII Ip T ARY.—Three or four large mush .iety to enlarge into the visible world, ac the move' feat of displacing a large paving and of our roost crowded thoroughfares, on Tues- If the conservatives are to themselves, they mu s t an d w ill h e dissolution, come when it m a y. - list of Tues.. iotice with dismay, that iii n t a t all . the The rni ity are to be found the reat manufacturing county °f e l, of mercial emporiums of Liverpool from three metropolitan borough s , ll--- in members I .p c u-Ls of first-class importance; of i populous cities unconnected with commerce, an r c l leen first-rate manufacturing towns. Th ey feel mad not be so, of these great if the public opinion icies were really on their side. Wth still more rtifiestion they are compelled to place on record tho even in the common council of London, so long of liberalism, and even now represented in parlia- Jur ministerialists, a petition against the corn laws vvrvinesday *eel( s tr enuous ly resisted and with diffi stury married-64 out of 140 members dividing against it,— 1111"1""n"4" without presediat in tat *meals •f the eiltT. THEATRR-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Under Me Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lowe THE PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON, WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO BE jPENED AT SEVEN. The New Play of RICHELIEU, having been received on Tuesday night with the most enthusiastic applause by a brilliant and crowded audience, will be repeated on MON• DAY next. Fifth appearance these four years of Mr. MACREADY, who is engaged for Ten Nights. In order to give every possible effect to the Plays in which Mr. Macready will perform, Mrs. WARNER, (late Miss Huddart,) of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane and Haymarket, has been engaged ; and an arrangement has also been made for the same period with Mrs. SALS BERG, (late Miss Phillips,) of the Theatre-Royal, Drury lane, on her return from the United States. THIS present FRIDAY, June 4, will be performed the Tragedy of VIRGINIUS Virginius Mr. Macready, As originally performed by him in London. Virginia Mrs. Salsberg. Mrs. Warner. Mr. H. Holl. I Dentatns Mr. Baker, To be followed by the laughable Interlude of MR. AND MRS. PRINGLE. Mr. Peter Pringle.. Mr. Baker. I Mrs. Pringle.. Mrs. Clarke To conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO. King Artaxomines.. Mr. Baker. General Bombastes Distaffina. Mrs. P. Crowe. Servia. Icilius On MONDAY next, will be repeated the favourite Play, written by Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., and performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, ealled RICHELIEU. Cardinal Richelieu, Mr. Macready, as originally performed by him in London; The Chevalier de Mauprat, Mr. H. Boll; Baradas, (on this occasion) Mr. Stuart ; Julie de Mortemar, Mrs. Salsherg. To conclude with the Farce of the SLEEPING DRAUGHT. Popolino, Mr. Baker ; Nonna, Mrs. Clarke. ebt Etintimol (t tanbarb. per neat in Tarte. How Ipn i g would We state of tliinas last? There was one class in Liverpool which had not hitherto suffered amidst the general distress. Importers of all kinds of goods had suffered ; but still there was a nume rous body in this town, the brokers, who had not yet suf- • fered to any great extent, because all goods,.whether out ward or inward bound, must pay toll to their exchequer, whether sold to a profit or not. But again he would ask, how long would this state of things continue ? how long would the brokers be prosperous, if the trade of the princi pals continued to be carried on to a loss?" (Hear, hear.) It is plain from all this that he was rather vexed to, find that Liverpool did not furnish him with such a case as he could wish, and that he was under the disa greeable necessity of making the best, or rather we should say the " worst" he could of the ungrateful materials supplied him. But what has saved Liverpool from the fatality which the professor seemed so anxious we should suffer? Just the fact of her not being a manufacturing town, or depending for her prosperity exclusively on manu factures. We argue born this that it is good not to be entirely dependent on manutactures—thot we might have too much manufactures—and that the very dis tress of which our lecturer speaks, in Manchester and elsewnere, is a sound and irrefragable argument against that measure for which he contends. And why ? Ob viously for this reason,—because the anticipated effect of it would be to make us more manufacturing and less agricultural, and consequently, if not immediately, to create more, much more of that very distress of which the professor complains, but the remedy for which he so entirely mistakes. The Manchester Guardian has done us the favour t o lay before his readers some extracts from those passing remarks which were drawn from us by the late visit of the factory irruptionists. We thank him for doing so, because by this means we are sure they will fall under the eye of some of the party we complain of. It would exceedingly rejoice us to be in any way instru mental to their good. " Smite a scorner, and the sim- ple will beware," saith the proverb; and again, "judg ments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools." And on this principle we have been endeavouring to administer to the travellers a little olesome castigation It is true, our contemporary does not see the matter in the same light. He calls our language " furious vituperation" —" Billingsgate" —" blackguardism"; and he says he will " urge nothing in defence of his fellow-townsmen against these foul-mouthed calum nies." Now as to our language, he may call it what he pleases ; all that it concerns us to know is, that it was just, appropriate, and deserved,—and on this head we are perfectly satisfied ; and with regard to his si lence in defence of his townsmen, we tell him that we commend his prudence. To defend what is indefensi ble would be rather a tough job, and he wisely reserves himself for something more hopeful. There is indeed a line of defence which we would suggest for the agitating party, but we doubt if our contemporary would pursue it : it proceeds upon the suggestion that these men who "go about doing evil" —really " know not what they do." Thiq would be a charitable construction to put upon their labours of mischief, and we should be glad to discover, and ready to allow any likely ground for adopting it. " Men seldom see the consequences of their own acts," says Rochefoucalt ; and ignorance and blindness in this re spect, might, we think, be not unfairly pleaded for the rich men of Manchester and other places who join in the present agitation For instance, they are stimulating the poor against the rich—alluring the labouring classes with the pro spect of possessing the estates of the landowners; but they do not perceive that this is a "petard" which might chance to hoist the " engineer himself." If the multitude may rob the landowners with impunity — if that lesson be taught and acted upon—what should prevent the disciples of such instruction from turning round upon their masters and plundering them also ? Are the lords of the mill so very secure—is their pro perty so altogether inaccessible or indestructible, that they have nothing to fear from a robbery-instructed, anti-corn-law-bred, league-educated multitude ? We say, then, that it would 'he charitable, and not difficult, to suppose that these mill-leaguers do not clearly see what they are about, and if there is any score on which their criminality can be extenuated, it is this. As to that part of their scheme which consists in " dictating" to Liverpool, or - other towns, whom we, or they, shall choose as our representatives, we merely laugh at it. They have caught the idea, we perceive, from the " Catholic Association," as it is called, in Dublin,—and so far as money, meetings, and mouth ings go, we have no doubt they will stick close to the precedent. O'Connell is their master. The man who betrayed the factory-children for £l,OOO is their adviser and patron, and they may imitate his model in all their external and internal arrangements ; but we tell them there is one fatal barrier to their success, and that is, " they have a Protestant people, and not a servile Popish populace to deal with." The electors of Liverpool will again choose Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, two honourable and faithful men, with whom they have no fault to find—to represent them— and the attempt to foist upon them the nominees of an O'Connellized factory league—(exciting in their mind only strong feelings of contempt and indignation)-- will have no other effect than to send them to vote for the men of their own independent choice with more ardour and in greater numbers. We laugh at the dictation, and we despise the dic tators ; but we say advisedly and deliberately, that there is no language we can use too strong to charac terize the abominable instrumentalities—the irreligious and levelling principles they teach, and the foul cor ruption they use, in order to accomplish their ends. We scorn the men, and we shall treat them in any way that we think their merits deserve; but as to their principles we shall hold them up to eternal execration. The news from China is only telegraphic, but it is significant. The celestials have gone back from all their agreements, and our men have been obliged to go for ward and take possession of Canton. We dislike the origin of this business, and have found nothing to admire in its management by the Elliots ; but it be gins at length to assume an aspect of deep and serious interest. It seems highly improbable at present that any amicable arrangement will be speedily come to ; probably not before the celestials shall have received several more lessons from us in the'art of war. The want of confidence motion has been again ad journed, and the Whigs manifest every intention of dying hard. O'Connell and mob agitation are their only hope ; but their doom is sealed. The agitation, though carried on extensively through hired agents, does not ferment among the people. It don't work — the harm is bad—sour—and the cake won't rise. Alas, poor Whigs ! flow chop-fallen you will shortly he! In our parliamentary report will be found an admi rable speech of Mr. Cresswell, delivered in the House of Commons, on Wednesday evening, during the de bate on the want of confidence motion. The hon. gentleman has proved to demonstration, that the pre sent ministry have not now, and never have had such a degree of the confidence of the house as to entitle them to conduct the affairs of the country. In proof of this, we refer to our representative's manly address, where will be found a short but comprehensive history of the various defeats they have sustained in a parlia ment of their own choosing. Mr. Cresswell has done much to entitle him to the confidence of his constitu ents ; and we are glad to see an increasing regard for the hon. member, manifesting itself amongst all classes of the community. Every enlightened member and admirer of the Church of England, who may peruse the Visitation Charge of the Lord Bishop of this Diocese (a / report of which we inserted in our last), cannot but feel de lighted with the sentiments therein so beautifully set forth. They are sentiments admitably calculated to gain over opponents from hostility, and confirm friends in attachment; they are, we would say, emphatically the sentiments whose diffusion will ever be found most conducive to the church's prosperity and welfare. There are parties who profess great attachment to the establishment, and; in their excessive love for it, do, like the Papists, almost, if not altogether, deny salva tion to all who are not members of it; but, i nstea d of making converts, such bigotry is more likely to alienate men from it. An enlightened people will love the Church of England, not so much for her outward forms, or any descent of which she can boast ) as for ker pare and evangelical &Kirin's, and die eurieretts FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1841 Mr. Cobden adduced the extreme distress existing in Manchester as a reason for repealing the corn laws. Extreme distress, all must admit to be a great evil— an evil which imperiously rfiipiires to be remedied ; but it is denied that his recipe would be a cure. There is a very obvious connection between hunger and . food. Give bread to the hungry, and you cannot do wrong ; there is no possibility of error there ; but offer cheap bread to the needy, and • the same certainty does not attend your proposal. The story of the Irishman in London illustrates this point. " What do you charge here for half-a-dozen eggs )" said he. He was an- " Sixpence." " Oh," said Paddy, unconscionable. If I was in Mayo, I could get two dozen for that money." "Then why did you not stay in Mayo ?" "Ah, 't was no use—for I could not get " that's awered, the sixpence there." The corn-law doctors make merchandise of the peo ple through this fallacy ; they flatter them with the notion that they are offering them " bread ;" and the unwary and ignorant are cheated into the notion that by a repeal of the corn laws they would have "bread ;" whereas they would only have what the corn-law quacks and swindlers call " cheap " bread—bread which to the poor might be just as unattainable as the Irish man's two dozen of eggs in Mayo, when he wanted the sixpence to purchase them. They are practising a preconcerted trick upon the credulous, and the fraud is carried on by means of this one word " cheap." The people falsely suppose that if bread were " low priced," they would necessarily have it in greater abundance ; but this is an error. The far greater pro bability is, that if bread were made low in price by the means so furiously clamoured for by the big millown ers, it would, in a short time, be much harder to be got by the poor, and the poor would be greatly in creased in number. On this point the corn quacks labour incessantly to abuse them, and we lament to say that they have suc ceeded to a most lamentable extent. " High prices and plenty," says Adam Smith, " are prosperity; low prices and want are misery." This is a sound aphorism, and easily susceptible of proof. In the time of the Norman conquest, says Mr. Alison, the price of wheat was from three shillings and six pence to five shillings a quarter; but nevertheless the labourers had not half the command of the necessaries and conveniences of life they have now, for the money wages of labour were a halfpenny a-day during the re mainder of the year, and a penny during harvest. Provisions are incomparably cheaper in Poland and in Russia than in this country ; but are the Polish or Russian peasants half as comfortably fed, lodged, or clothed, as the corresponding classes of this country ? Every one knows that so far from this being so, or ob taining any benefit whatever from the cheap price of provisions in their own country, they are, in truth, the most miserable labourers in Europe, and feed upon scanty meals of rye-bread, in the midst of the splendid wheat crops which they raise for the more opulent con sumers in this country. Wheat and provisions of all sorts are much cheaper in Ireland than in Great Bri tain ; but, nevertheless, the Irish labourers do not en joy one half of the comforts or necessaries of life which fall to the lot of their brethren on this side of the channel. The mere necessaries of life are sold almost for nothing in Hindostan and China, but so far from obtaining any benefit from that low rate of prices, the labo ring classes are so poor as to taste hardly any thing but rice and water. A cheap loaf, therefore, is not the essential point, but a due proportion between the price and the means of procuring it. But, say the corn quacks, the manufacturing opera tives will be better off, because, though the loaf falls in price, their wages will continue unaltered. Now of all their falsehoods this is the most gross and bars faced ; but it has been so often exposed, and it is in truth so obvious that the manufacturers would have no interest in the existing agitation without they calcu lated on reducing wages in proportion to the lowered price of bread, that it is unnecessary to say more on this head. But even if wages were to remain for some short time (as they possibly might) untouched, the al tered or repealed duties would not fail to create fully as much distress in other quarters as they would re- medy in this. We return then to our " Manchester dictator," and we tell him that repealing the corn duties is not the way to remedy the distress he speaks of; we tell him more—we tell him that it would aggravate it tenfold. With regard to the amount of the distress, we are quite willing to take all his statements ; for, like every other argument he adduces, they make against, and not for him. His account of pauperism and destitu tion at Manchester then, although made out by a Po pish priest, we shall not question. He might have added much more to the same effect from the Report of the Commissioners relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers. In that report we find that in the north of England the lowest paid class of weavers seldom earn more than ss. or 6s. a-week. A family of six persons, two of them employed, average about 7s. 6d. weekly. At Ashton-under-Lyne 483 families were visited, whose average weekly earnings amounted to only 4s. 1 lid. ! The linen-weavers of Yorkshire earn about 7s. 6d. a week each. Long hours, small pay, and inconstant employment, are the hardships with which, from year to year, they have to contend. The labour-market is overstocked, while the labourers have to compete with improved processes of manufacture and the giant powers of the steam-engine. They are thus engaged in a hopeless contest, which certain causes may pro long, but which no ingenuity or exertion, nor any re duction of corn duties, can render ultimately success ful. At Liverpool our lecturer, or " educationer," as they call the hedge schoolmaster in Ireland, seemed rather disappointed at not finding the people in so suitable a state to receive his instructions. The orator was in- deed almost " non-plushed" in the midst of his oral owing to this circumstance, until somebody had the kindness to slip a note into his hand, by which he was informed that " there were 13,000 families claiming parish relief in this town." This proved a grateful and very refreshing piece of intelligence to his parched soul ; so he thanked his informant, and took courage. It was certainly a little provoking that the trade of Li verpool was not, on the whole, languishing in such a way as he would have it. " It was true," he said, " that England had continued to export nearly as much as she exported before ; but would any one tell him that our manufacturers and merchants had been for the last two years exporting to a profit ? He would ask the merchants of Liverpool to answer that. Perhaps they did not like to expose their circumstances, and they were therefore silent, and he might be permitted to take the silence as an admission that they had not. (' They have net.') How long would the trade continue that was carried on at a loss ? Just so long as the capitalists could stand out; when their finances were exhausted, they must. fall, and then where would the trade be? It must be annihilated; and the process he had described was going on in Lanca shire to a fearful extent. Property in manufactures and faille hai 111141 slepraetatei, within the last three years, 10 body of z.ealotta and faithful bishop and ministers whom she supplies for the christianisation of the world. They will esteem her as a means, and cherish her not the less because she would decline being converted Never does she appear so gracious and into an END attractive as when she is preaching, not herself, but the pure and simple doctrines of the cross—never more repulsive than when she is, tractarianly, thinking only of herself, and boasting of the privileges she pos sesses, and can bestow out of her vast treasury. Church idolatry, in whatever form or guise it may pre sent itself, we do certainly condemn ; but if there be anything which would make us intensely love what we would not idolise, it would be such a voice from the temple—so bland, so attractive, so every way fascinat- ing, as that of Doctor Sumner It would give us pleasure to repeat, in this place, several passages from the charge which have a peculiar interest just at this time; but we are obliged to for bear, and must be content with the following passage " The church is that body which assembled in the upper chamber at Jerusalem, and there received the visit of their risen Lord ; the church is that party which abode together, had all things 'n common,' and continued in apostolic fel lowship ; the church is that company of faithful men in all ages and countries who maintained their fealty to the doc trines and institutions of the gospel. The ministers of this church are those called to serve the united world, to perform the prescribed rites, to teach, to rebuke, to exhort, to warn, to comfort, and to commit perpetually to their fellow men the things which they have themselves received. Such is a simple analysis of the church—the Holy Catholic Church — of which Christ is the head, and with which He has engaged to be present by his spirit to the end of the world. We must beware of applying to the members of the body, which members compose it, the power which really belongs to the Head alone. If we speak of the ark of Christ's church, we must bear in mind that we are still speaking metaphorically. The ark is not limited to any special locality on earth, like the ark of Noah ; it extends as far as the knowledge of Christ extends, for He is the true ark that saves all that commit themselves to him. The ministrations of the church are those through which the community on earth enter, but Christ is the only door through which heaven is entered; still many will he admitted into the visible ark who may remain for ever excluded from the heavenly one. The members of the church are branches of the vine • the church is not the vine -- that name belongs to Christ alone ; the church is the pillar and ._round of truth, but the church is not the truth, neither has it life in itself: Christ alone is the way, the truth, and the life,' through which every in dividual member of the church must seek access to God. Yet all this, undeniable in itself, is practically contradicted whenever the services, and the ordinances, and the ministe rial offices are magnified beyond their due proportions or placed before the people with a prominency, and we know the importanceof prominency, to which they have no claim. . . _ Church principles in their proper sense we must approve. All must approve of that cordial agreement with the articles, that sincere preference of the services, that willing confor mity to the discipline of the church which shows that our . . profession is honest and consistent; but, upon the contrary, I must think that to set up, as it were, church principles in opposition to the principles of the gospel, and to place them in an invidious contrast is unreasonable and unscriptural. There are other congregations of Christians which profess the same truth. We honour those also, and gladly say, ' Peace be with all men that love the Lord Jesus Christ with sincerity ;' but we attach especial importance to the church of the English nation, and we rejoice that it has pleased God to distinguish her as a witness to himself. We are thankful that the reformed church, of which most is known in foreign countries is the church which has most strictly adhered to primitive doctrine and discipline, and which most near►y approximates both in her articles and creed, as well as in the order of her ministry to Scripture itself, and to what may be proved from Scripture. Let us, therefore, be con tent with these advantages, and let boasting be excluded. It is no sign of greatness to vaunt of authority. In the sight of man as well as God, he that humbleth himself is more likely to be exalted than he who assumes an air of authority, which could never be entrusted to man in after ages as it was to the apostles, unless men, like the apostles, were en abled to read the heart. But though none can forgive sins but God alone, and though regeneration is not of the will nor of the work of man, but of God, yet God, whose spirit goeth where it listeth, has given much to us which we may justly prize as a talent, and esteem as an office of infinite importance sufficient to give us cause to tremble at the posi tion we hold." LOCAL NEWS, THE LIVERPOOL SHIPPING REGISTRY.—We perceive that the Registry Book of the Liverpool Shipping has now commenced. It only remains for those concerned to endea- your to second the views of the promoters of it—its utility -- - - and value are self-evident EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN ROLD-STREET.—OTI Saturday night, or in the course of Sunday, a daring robbery was effected on the premises of Mr. Davis, optician, Bold-street. The perpetrators succeeded in carrying off a large quantity of gold and silver spectacles and eye-glasses, and every thing portable which appeared valuable. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. — The number of passengers on this delightful line for four days, com• mencing on Saturday last, amounted to 5,865. The travel- ling is daily increasing TIMBER AND SALT. — The total number of loads of fir timber imported into Liverpool and Gloucester from Prussia during the year 1840 was 5,039; and the total quantity of salt exported from the above ports to Prussia during the same period amounted to 946,900 tons. REMARKABLY QUICK PASSAGE.—The Lydia, belonging to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, sailed from Antigua on the evening of the Bth May, was off Holyhead on Sunday, the 30th, at 8 p.m., but in consequence of calms and thick wea ther, did not arrive until Wednesday morning June 2, making the passage to Holyhead in 21 days, and 'Liverpool in 24. GRANTS TO DISSENTERS.—From a parliamentary return just issued, it appears that the state grants to dissenters amount to £974,940 16s. 4d., and yet how loudly do dis senters rail about paying a church-rate ! The above return opens to the mind the unreasonable scruples of persons having, or professing to have, consciences, which forbid them paying to an establishment of which they disapprove, when they are actually receiving many thousand pounds more from the taxes of the country than they contribute towards the established church. LONDON H BE RNI AN SOCIETY.—We beg to call the se rious attention of the public to the meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary of this society, which will take place on Tuesday next, when, besides the gentlemen whose names are mentioned in the advertisement, we understand the Rev. H ugh M`Neile will advocate the claims of the society upon the sympathy and liberality of all friends of scriptural education and pro testant truth. - - —•- ---- CONFIRMATION.—During the present week the Right Reverend John Bird Sumner, D.D., Bishop of Chester, has visited several churches and administered the holy rite of confirmation to a considerable number of young persons. On Tuesday morning to 591, at Everton ; and in the after noon to 931, at St. Jude's; on Wednesday morning to 683, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; and in the evening to 726, at St. Michael's ; and yesterday to 1000, at St. John the Bap tist's. On each occasion his lordship delivered an address, urging his hearers, in most affectionate and striking terms, to the due performance of their religious and moral dties, and to a constant remembrance of the vows and promi u ses which they had so solemnly ratified and confirmed. ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS FOR BIRKENIIEAP.—The following gentlemen were elected, on Tuesday last, as com missioners, in the place of the seven whose period of ser vice had expired ; J. D. Case, Esq., Messrs. D. Appleton, Jos. Mallaby, John Laird, Wm. Jackson, J. S. Jackson, and S. Stansfield. Messrs. Rayne", Hanson, and Ravens croft were elected in the room of the following gentlemen who had resigned, Messrs. Brodribb, J. S. Jackson, and R. Russell. • SPEEDY JUSTICE.—On Wednesday morning, at two o'clock, a burglar attempted to enter Dr. Melson's house, Newhall-street, Birmingham; at ten he was taken; at twelve committed; at four pleaded guilty ; at half .pasi five was sentenced to ten years' transportation ,• at eight he was on his way to Warwick in the caravan ; and on Saturday he was on the sea bound for Botany Bay. WEST INDIA PACKET STATION—On Tuesday, in Com mittee on the question, the Post-office authorities gave a de cided testimony that Bristol was, for their purposes, the most preferable port for the depot ture of the mails to the south and west.—Bristol paper.—[The inhabitants of Bristol have evinced a laudable anxiety for the protection of the in terests of that city ; but no suitable manifestation i n favour of the decided prefrence which is due to Liverpool has yet been made. Something more is wanted than a mere petition or memorial from the authorities.] A RASCALLY PORTER.—Thomas Matthew, a young man who has been employed by Messrs. Jeffery and Morish, Compton House, was charged before Mr. Rushton, on Toes , day, with having stolen a sum of money, the property of Mrs. Sylvia Hathaway Delano, wife of Captain Delano, of one of the New York packet-ships. The prosecutrix stated she lived at No. 64, Grove-street. Being an American she was not very well acquainted with the value of English notes. On Wednesday last, she received from Mr. Bowman, of the firm of Wildes, Pickersgill and Co., £25, in three notes and five sovereigns. On Friday last, she purchased goods at Compton House to the amount of £4 18s. lid., and directed them to be sent to her lodgings. In the afternoon, between three and four o'clock, she was about to go out, when she gave to her landlord four sovereigns and a note, which she believed to be a one pound note. She directed him to pay for the goods, when they were brought home, and told him he would have to receive two shillings in change. She returned home about five o'clock, and found the, goods there, and was, on the following morning, showing them to a friend, when she recollected that she had given to the landlord one of the notes which she had received from Messrs. Wildes, Pickersgill and Co., under the impression that it was a one pound note. On examining her notes, she discovered that the note which she had given was a ten pound note, as she had two other £5 notes left. She had no English or Irish notes in her possession when she received the notes from Mr. Bowman. That was the first paper money she had re ceived in England. She went immediately to Compton House and informtd Mr. Jeffery of the circumstance. Mr. Thomas, the keeper of the lodging-house,corroborated Mrs. Delano's testimony, and said that he gave the money to the prisoner without looking at it, who gave him 2s. and de parted. The note which he gave the prisoner was not an Irish note like that produced. The warehouseman in the service of Messrs. Jeffery and Morish said that he sent him with the parcel to Mrs. Delano's, and gave him 2s. to enable him to give change out of the £5. On the prisoner's return, after a long absence, witness asked him for £5. He said, " It will not be £5, but £3 18s., and the 2s. you gave me will be £4." He produced an Irish note and three sove reigns and three halfpence. Witness said, " I want £5." The prisoner said, " I have made a mistake, and only re ceived £3 18s 14d. I must go back for another sovereign." The prisoner left the shop, and w as absent about ten or fif teen minutes. He returned and produced a sovereign, say ing that he had a hole in his waistcoat pocket, and it had slipped between that and the lining. The prisoner was dres sed in the same dress on Friday as be wore at the bar. The Irish note was marked by the witness, and produced in court. J. L. Franklin stated that he was a clerk in the Bullion-office, kept by his broth ers, No. 1, Lo rd - street. On Friday afternoon last, the pr isoner (he beli eve d) ca ll e d at the office, and said that he wanted a£l Irish note. Wit ness gave him one, and he gave for it twenty shillings in sil ver. The prisoner then asked for change of a ten pound note. He gave his name and address, which Mr. Franklin wrote at the hack of the note, but he did not recollect what it was. Ile said he was a pig dealer. The note was changed, , and it afterwards passed out of t heir p ossession in t he course of business. The prisoner, in a very long defence, declared that he only received the sum which he paid over to the warehouseman, and that one sovereign, having passed through a hole in his waistcoat pocket, had been concealed in the li . fling ; but his pocket was examined immediately after he was taken into custody, and no halo was found in it. The pri ' seasr was aosamitasi for 164. The Rev. Jonathan Brooks,. -rector of Liverpool, has been presented by the ladies of the parish church of 'St. Peter with a handsome full suit of silk robes. SMUGGLING.—A sailor, named John George, was yester day fined, at the police court, 40s. and costs, for smuggling from on board a vessel, 2 lbs., of tobacco. Had the quantity exceeded 6 lbs.; the rine would have been .ElOO. SHIP PARKER. — We observe the arrival of the ship Par ker, after a splendid run from this port to Demerara, in the short space of 26days. Her numerous passengers, delighted with the ship, and the kindness of her gallant commander, presented him with a magnificent gold snuff-box, of the most unique workmanship. This is again another proof of the estimation in which Captain Risien is invariably held by his passengers, and of his capability as a commander ; and we are gratified in noticing it PASTORAL AID SODIETY.—We are sorry to observe that the collection made at St. Julian's Church, in Shrewsbury, after a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Stowell, and which amounted to £9O, was placed in the bank on Saturday, and has been all lost to the society by the stoppage of the bank on Mon- day following The following announcement, filed on 'Change, on Tues day, presents a remarkable picture of the inclement weather, and the prevalence of ice at Newfoundland :—The Jessie, Harding, arrived at Liverpool from Quebec, sailed thence 17th November ; experienced heavy gales, and put into New foundland, remained frozen up till Ist April. She sailed that day ; again met with heavy gales, put back, and resailed 30th April. We believe the vessel was given up for lost, having never been heard of since November. The insu rance was paid, and the vessel was what is termed, written off by the underwriters. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—We are happy to state that the petition from the town of Liverpool, in favour of Mr. Colqu houn's motion for an inquiry into Maynooth, has already about 20,000 signatures ; but we beg our townsmen to re member, that the petition lately presented from Manchester on this same subject contained 27,000 names, and we must gain ground upon them this time. There is yet time for us to obtain many thousands of signatures. The petition from Liverpool last year received but 12,050 names. On this subject also there is an evident reaction—thanks to our Pro testant associations. CORN-LAWS.—A noisy meeting of the operative corn-law repealers was held in Clayton-square on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of assisting in the agitation against the corn laws. Mr. Kelly, a working man, was called to the chair. The other speakers were—Mr. Ambler, Michael Sullivan, Robert Jones, William Hind, working men—Mr. William Rathbone, Mr. Alderman Sheil, Lawrence Heyworth, and a Mr. M'Enteer. The resolutions were of the usual descrip tion. Much disturbance took place, which was quelled only by several persons being taken into custody. NEWS FROM AMERICA.—At a late hour on MOnday even ing the packet-ship Roscoe arrived, bringing intelligence from New York to the 10th May inclusive. The informa tion is not of an important character. The steam-ship Bri tannia had arrived at Halifax on the morning of the 4th, and at Bostsn on that of the Gth ult., having made the run between Liverpool and the first-named port in thirteen days. The weather had been, during the early part of the passage, exceedingly boisterous, but the conduct of Capt. Cleland, both as a skilful navigator and an attentive and gentlemanly hoSt, had been such as to secure the esteem of his passengers, who had presented him with apiece of plate as a testimonial of their confidence and regard. The news taken out by the Britannia was not of a nature to produce much effect on the markets. Ali classes were anxiously awaiting her ar rival. The money market in New York was gradually improving. AN IMPOSTOR.—A fellow of the name of Bernard Ca vanagh has lately come to this town from Ireland, or will shortly make his appearance here, and exhibit himself as a human being who lives, chamelion like, upon the air! He began his career somewhere in the county Mayo, under the especial patronage of the Romish priests, who proclaimed him to he an extraordinary holy man—gifted with supernatual powers—a miracle, a saint—in short, a new " lying wonder" in their church. After some time, however, the saint and their reverences quarelled, and Mr. Cavanagh set up fasting and miracle-working on his own account, and we understand that in the sister isle he has carried on an extremely brisk trade in this line. Why he should have come to England we can explain upon no other principle but that which the grave-digger gives for sending Hamlet here, "because here," says he, " all the men ars as mad as he." A people who can lister to the delegates of the anti-corn-law league, who take Cobden for a Solon, and Sir Joshua Walmsley for a Cicero, he probably argued, will listen to, and believe, any thing. They stand gaping and swallowing a " tailor's news," and have been persuaded that they would be quite easy and comfortable if they would smash their own ploughs, and pro cure their corn entirely from foreigners—why then should they not believe me when I tell them that I live upon no thing ? And upon this hypothesis behold the popish saint selling a sight of himself in Liverpool to the anti-corn-law party. 'We say the " anti-corn-law party," because as suredly none but a genuine goose of that breed would be silly enough to give the smallest encouragement to so impudent a knave. During his stay in Dublin he professed to work miraculous cures, and several old women assert that they have thrown assay their crutches, and danced about with all the animation of youth, after availing themselves of his pray ers. As yet, however, we do not perceive that he announces the performance of similar extravagances in this town. All in good time, however; he only waits for the O'Connellites and anti-corn-law men to give him a little encouragement, and then, doubtless, all his feats will be performed in the most striking manner. We need scarcely add, that, as to this fellow's fasting, it carries falsehood on the face of it. He is said to have submitted to an ordeal of seven days' duration in some county town in Ireland, and that his powers of ab stinence were then demonstrated ; but the experiment was made in a priest's house, and we consider it to have been for many reasons quite unsatisfactory. ASSAULT.--At the Police-court yesterday, Cornelius Coates, a disreputable character, was placed at the bar on a charge of assaulting Mary Ann Keefe, a woman of the town. The complainant stated that the defendant was the keeper of three houses of ill fame, that he often behaved in a savage manner to the inmates when he could not get as much money as he wanted, and that in one of his ebulitions, he had un provokedly violently struck and kicked her, leaving on her marksof his brutality.—The defendant attempted to exonerate himself by alleging that he was provoked by the language of the complainant, which, with affected abhorrence of inde corum, he represented as unfit to be addressed to ears polite, and altogether too gross to be uttered ".betwixt the wind and his nobility."—Mr. Rushton said that no language could be sufficiently gross to designate in their true colours his abomi nable conduct and occupation, and he fined him 40s. and costs. CAUTION TO CUSTOM-ROUSE OFFlCERA.—Yesterday Custom-house officer, and a female of dissolute character were placed at the bar, the first on a charge of having take a bottle of ruin from the ship which he attended, arid whic was found upon him by a policeman, and the other for takin about 1 lb. weight of biscuits, which were also produced. I appeaed that the mate was authorised to leave out som spirits for the use of the Custom-house officers, but only t be partaken of on board. The male prisoner said that I) • to( k it on shore merely for the purpose of getting some warm water and sugar at a neighbouring house, to make a glass of punch, and did not intend to defraud the revenue ; though he admitted that he had done wrong and was sorry for his offense: from which he feared he might lose his situation. — Mr. Rushton said that his apprehension would, in all proba bility, be realised, and stated that it was his duty to send the spirits to the Custom-house, and to inform the proper au thorities there of the circumstance. The prisoners were then set at liberty. - - RIVAL TAILORS--A tailor's man, named Lace, appeared against another tailor's man, named Philips, at the police court, yesterday, charging him with violently assaulting him. It appeared that the parties had both gone on board of the ship Victoria, on the Ist inst., to solicit orders for new habiliments for the crew, and the defendant, having first ob- tained the ear of some of the men, no sooner observed the complainant on board, on a similar errand, than he accosted him, and, after some words between them, struck him a vio lent blow that knocked him down. Mr. Rushton remarked that it was somewhat remarkable that tailors fought quite as fiercely as others. Mr. Philips must, however, learn to pur sue his avocation quietly and peaceably and not resort to blows, He fined him 20s, and costs, or, in default, ordered him to be imprisoned for ten days, MUTINOUS CONDUCT ON BOARD SHIP.—At the police court, yesterday, a black, named Bownes, cook of the ship Rosalie, was charged with striking the captain of the vessel, while he was maintaining the discipline of his vessel, It ap peared that the steward, having absented himself below and neglected his duty, the captain called him to account, and, receiving some provoking language which led him to believe he should be struck, was obliged to employ strong means towards the offender. The prisoner interfered, urged the steward to strike the captain, and finally struck him twice himself with the handspike. He had also taken up an axe, but it did not appear that he had used it. Mr. Rushton, (with whom was Sir Joshua Walmsley,) said that the pri soner had been guilty of mutinous conduct, and would thereby forfeit all his wages, after a long voyage, and also his clothes. They had taken this into consideraion, and would not, there fore, inflict so heavy a fine as it would otherwise be their duty to do. The prisoner was then fined 50s. and costs, or, in default, to be imprisoned for a month. TENANCY CASES.—Yesterday, before Mr. Rushton, Mr. Hugh Rigby, residing in Circus-street, appeared to a sum mons requiring him to shew cause why he did not give up possession of the premises in his possession, he having, as was alleged, been served with due notice so to do. It ap peared that he had rented the house for four successive years, at a yearly taking, payable quarterly under an agreement to that effect. The house was latterly sold to a Mrs. Cropper, and conveyed to her. Her collector stated that he had called on him and told him that the tenancy henceforward must be as a monthly taking ; that he agreed ; had paid several months' rent accordingly, and though served with notice to quit, had remained in possession. The defendant produced his receipts, both from the former and present collector,• and denied that he was legally bound to quit, as no agreement to alter the taking had been consented to, or was understood by him. The new collector (the witness) had, indeed, called upon him, and had represented that it would be a great conveni ence to him if he would pay his rent monthly, as it was all that Airs. Cropper had fo depend on ; and he had agreed to do so, though he did not know that individual ; but he had mentioned at the time that he still considered himself a yearly tenant. The collector said, that rent which was for merly due on the 2nd of the month, was now not due or paid until the 6th, which he argued was a clear proof that a new agreement had been come to, though not in writing. The defendant said, that the former proprietor had made him a present of four day's rent, on selling the house to Mrs. Cropper, and this accounted for the difference of time alluded to. Mr. Rushton said there was no proof whatever of a new agreement, add dismissed the application, with a severe rebuke of the collector who, with some hauteur, ques tioned the justice of his decision.—The case of a tenant named Samuel Sanson, was next heard. The tenancy was proved to be weekly, and a notice to quit was put in, but was ruled to be informal, and consequently illegal, from the omission of the word you, the words in one part of it, that should explicitly have been " you must quit, &c.,” being merely " must quit." Proceedings to obtain possession must, therefore, be commenced de novo, Mr. Rushton having remarked, that as the new law affecting the tenants of small houses was somewhat stringent, he should require it in all cases to be strictly complied with before he would sanction the ejectment. CHARGE OF MANSLAUCHTER.—On Wednesday, an in quest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Margaret Robinson, who had lived with a man of the name of Edward Nickson, as his wife, for the last eleven years. A son of the man and woman deposed to his father having come home on the evening of Monday last, in a state of in toxication, when, after using some provoking language to his paramour, he gave her a slap on the back, and she fell on the floor, with a child in her arms, and whilst she was lying he kicked her in the back and abdomen, and about the legs, she got up and was thrown down again, and trying to get up the steps, was pulled back by Robinson, who then struck her with a knife which bent, or it would have entered her person. He then endeavoured several times to prevent her leaving, and at last the deceased tell, and struck her forehead against the steps and never spoke after. The deceased was a sober woman, but the prisoner frequently abused her. Mr. Acker ley, the surgeon, said be had made a post rnortent examina tion of the body, but found no marks of violence on either the back or belly. There was a contusion on the scalp about the crown of the head. There were two slight scratches, one on the nose and another on upper right eyelid. On opening the bead he found an effusion of blood at the base of the brain, with a fracture of the skull in the same situa tion. The effusion of blood at the base of the brain was the cause of death, and the result of violence. The jury found a verdict of " neansleughter" against the prisoner. MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL The Town Council met on Wednesday, for the despatch of business. The MAYOR presided. The proceedings were not commenced until a quarter after eleven o'clock, owing to there not having been a sufficient number of members in attendance to form a council. Indeed, when the Mayor had taken the chair there were only twenty oue members present. The MAYOR accordingly rose, and said that a quarter of an hour had been lost by reason of the members not being more punctual in their attendance, and that if more punctual ity were not observed on future occasions, he would think it necessary to adjourn the council. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HENRY HOLMES said the old council only allowed five minutes for the members to be in their respective places. Mr. THORNHILL thought the resolution of the old council a very proper one. The DETUTY TOWN-CLERK then read the proceedings of the last monthly council, as well as the minutes of those held in the interim. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE complained that the members sit ting in the lower end of the council chamber were unable to hear the proceedings, owing to the low tone of voice and ra pid manner in which the deputy town-clerk read them, and suggested the propriety of having an elevated desk placed at the upper end of the room for that officer. Mr. EARLE thought that if the members maintained si lence, the proceedings would be beard distinctly. Mr. SHELL differed in opinion with Mr. Earle, and corro- I borated the opinion expressed by Mr. Lawrence. THE IRISH MAIL-PACKETS The proceedings of the finance committee, comprising a bridge across Wallasey Pool and the Irish mail-packets, hav ing been read, Mr. CASE rose to move their confirmation. He said the committee had given no opinion with respect to the contem plated removal of the Irish mail-packets from Liverpool to Birkenhead, but that they had left the consideration of that subject to the council. The MAYOR read a petition from the Liverpool Guardian Society, in which they stated that the circumstance of Liver pool having been the Irish mail-packet station had been of great value to the town ; that the sum of £lOO,OOO by this means had been annually expended in the borough ; that the distance, which was alleged to be fifteen miles shorter from the metropolis to Birkenhead than it was from the metropolis to Liverpool, was in reality only i miles shorter ; that it only amounted to a saving of a quarter of an hour in point of time ; that if it were intended to have another mail-packet besides the one from Birkenhead, to sail from Liverpool, an expense without any benefit would he incurred ; and that the mails could be accelerated by a quarter of an hour, if that were considered of any advantage, on the present line. The petition was signed by " George Walker, president," and thirteen of the officers of the Guardian Society, and it con cluded by praying the council to resist the attempt. 'The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read a letter from Mr. Deane, of Liverpool, in which that gentleman stated that he was concerned for the hotel and shopkeepers of the' town, who had expressed themselves adverse to the proposed removal of the station to Birkenhead—that though the change was about to be made in order, as it was said, to obtain a speedier com munication between the two capitals, the difference in paint of length was only seven or eight miles, and in point of time about a quarter of an hour; and that in respect of conveni ence nothing would be gained by the change. Mr. Deane concluded by saying it was to be hoped that the corporation would take up the subject and oppose the proposed scheme. A letter from• Lord Sandon to Mr. Deane was next read, in which his lordship gave it as his opinion that he saw no means of moving in the matter unless the corporation, charged as they were with the interests of the whole com munity, took it up, and urged the government to state the reasons by which they had been induced to make the change. Mr. CASE sad that according to a return, moved for by Mr. Stanley, it appeared that the Irish mail packets had been 90 days too late in their arrival in Dublin, in the year 1840, to forward the letters through the provinces—and that up to the 14th of February, 1841, they were 26 days too late in the Irish metropolis to effect the like purpose. He apprehended that those detentions had caused the alteration to be effected. There were, he remarked, two Irish mail packets sailing from Liverpool in the day ; one was in the morning and the other in the evening. The former, and the former only, it was in tended to alter to Birkenhead. The evening mail would go as usual from Liverpool. Mr. WOOLRIGHT suggested the propriety of having a strong memorial sent from the council in opposition to the change. Mr. AIKIN thought it was in vain for the council to be ap plying for an increase of mail packets unless all the facilities of landing were given to the public of which that port was capable. The difficulty of landing in Liverpool was a great cause of.complaint, and until that evil had been removed passengers would be sent elsewhere. A great many of the evils were capable of being removed without much trouble or expense. Almost all the packets congregated, at present, at one spot; by reason of which passengers had to pass through two or three packets before they could reach the quay, whereas, if a distribution took place, greater facilities to landing would be afforded. Attached to the present slips stages for cargoes might be constructed, similar to the one for foot passengers, by which they could be landed at low water. Under those circumstances, he begged to move— " That a committee be appointed to take into consideration the best means of facilitating the landing and embarking of passengers at Liverpool, and to report to the council thereon, with instructions to take immediate measures to secure the continuance of the passing of the Dublin mails through Li - verpool." Mr. EARLE seconded the motion. Mr. EVANS thought there could be but one opinion on the matter. With regard to the conduct of the government, in reference to Liverpool, he thought there was great reason to complain. In the present instance, the interests of Liver pool had been given over to the nobles and• squires of Che shire. Everything great in railways had originated in Liver pool ; and, therefore, he thought that mere decorum ought to have induced those in power to make the people of the borough acquainted beforehand with their intentions, and to ask them whether they could make out a case that would obviate supposed necessities. Mr. BIRKETT presented a petition from a large number of the publicans of the town, which had been got up in the morning of that day, and in which they alleged that the con templated change would cause serious injury. Mr. Arms; expressed his conviction that the government could facilitate the trains along the present line by two hours, if they were so inclined. There was an unaccountable delay of three quarters of art hour at Birmingham, for instance. which might be availed of. Mr. JOSEPH HOHNBY said, as connected with the rail ways, he had no hesitation in saying there would be no diffi culty whatever in carrying the mails in two hours less tune. It had been considered exceedingly desirable, and had fre quently been discussed by the board of directors, who would be glad to carry it into effect immediately. Mr. SHELL was anxious for inquiry to be instituted before anything decisive were resolved upon. The council should recollect that a quarter of an hour, gained by the despatch of the mail from Birkenhead, might be of great importance; the whole kingdom of Ireland being involved in the question. The MAYOR informed the council that arrangements had been made whereby the letters for Ireland would be sorted without going to the postoffice, and that this system, by which considerable despatch would be gained, would come into operation either in the present or the next week. Mr. Sucre expressed himself unwilling to divide the council on the subject, but thought it extraordinary that the members should, on the mere idea of some trifling injury to Liverpool, commit themselves to a proposition without hav ing first appointed persons to make suitable inquiry. Mr. Aikin's resolution was then passed unanimously, and the following committee was appointed for carrying it into effect ;—Messrs. Woollright, Bright, Houghton, Henry Lawrence, Evans, Benn, and Aikin. BIRKENHEAD GAS AND WATER BILL. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES wished it to be distinctly understood that he had not concurred in the determination of the finance cemmittee not to offer any opposition to the Birkenhead gas and water bill, which bill had now passed through parliament and conferred a power upon Mr. Jackson, of Birkenhead, to charge whatever rates he pieased for the supply of gas and water to the inhabitants. He (Mr. H.) was well convinced that in the course of a few years it would be found that the bill in question would be detrimental to the interests of the Liverpool corporation, so far as the property they held at Birkenhead was concerned. In conclusion, Mr. Holmes protested against the manner in which himself and others of the Birkenhead commissioners had been treated by the finance committee. Mr. Casp rose for the purpose of setting Mr. Holmes right. The finance committee had considered it unwise to interfere with any opposition to the bill in question. Mr. Holmes had alleged that the bill passed without any limit being put to the rate. This was not the fact. Mr. Jackson had been limited to a per centage of profit, and that amounted to a limit of the rate. The conversation here dropped. INLAND WAREHOUSING COMMITTEE. The proceedings of the inland warehousing committee hav ing been read, Mr. BIRKETT moved their confirmation. Mr. EVANS regretted that the committee continued to in sert matters in their petition which he thought were untrue. lie had on a former occasion proved that the warehouses were not of the value they asserted, and that the warehouses which would be affected by the inland bonding bill did not amount to a quarter of a million in value. The next assertion in the petition with which he found fault was that in which the petitioners asserted, that the present warehouses were competent to do the work of the town. He denied it. It was only a day or two before that he had found great diffi culty in getting warehouse room for cotton ; and they all knew that the flour and grain at present on its way to the port would increase the difficulty. He objected to a petition which contained allegations that he firmly believed were not supported by fact. He knew not whether the council would wish to be troubled with the subject again, but he did think that it was not asking the council to be too fastidious when he asked it to refuse its assent to what was not exactly cor rect ; and, on that account, he hoped that the petition would be again referred back to the committee in order to the re consideration of those particulars. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said that the petition bad been al ready sent to parliament. Mr. Evasis said it was a breach of trust to forward the petition after the former discussion which had taken place in the council. Mr. HARBORD expressed his belief that the allegations contained in the petition were founded on facts. (Hear, hear.) In reply to the assertion just made by Mr, Evans, that at the present time there was a great want of warehouse room in Liverpool, and that he (Mr. E.) found great diffi culty in finding such room for his cotton, he (Mr. H.) beg ged to say that Mr. Evans's clerk called at his office on the morning of the previous day, and inquired for room for a cargo of cotton. He (Mr. H.) gave him a list of rooms suf ficient to contain double the quantity, and on asking whe ther he would have them, he turned round and said, " We must see whethe r we can get anything cheaper first." (Great laughter, and cries of " Hear, hear.") He was surprised to hear Mr. Evans assert, under such circumstances, that there was a want of warehouse-room in the town ; either his clerk must have told him an untruth, or he must have done so himself. Mr. EVANS was surprised to hear, for it was the first he had heard of it, that his clerk should have gone to Mr. Har bord's to make inquiries, because his clerk had express or ders never to do anything of the kind. He appealed to any merchants in the council whether there did not exist a diffi culty in the getting of warehouse-room ? Mr. BRIGHT thought that no overrated statements should be suffered by the council to go to the legislature, and ex pressed his regret at not having been able to be present on the last day, in consequence of a domestic loss, to support Mr. Evans's motion in favour of the inland bonding bill. Mr. PROCTOR thought it somewhat singular that Mr. Evans should have been permitted to take up the time of the council with a subject which had been disposed of on a for- mer day. Mr. JOHN HOLMES denied that the petition had stated any falsehood. The estimates of two competent persons had been laid before the committee, and they valued the amount of warehouse property, which would be affected by the pro posed scheme, at upwards of two millions. Mr. BIRKETT denied that there had been any breach of trust on the part of the committee; said that Mr. Bright was altogether unacquainted with the subject, and said that the value of warehouse property, as set forth in the petition, had been understated, for proof of which he referred to the opi nions of practical men in opposition to parties who knew no thing about it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. EvANs asked whether he would be allowed to reply ? The MAYOR. answered in the negative; and the proceed ings were confirmed. SALARIES Or THE TRF.ASCRER AND HIS CLERK. The anditors of the Corporation Accounts, in a letter to the Council, after alluding to the want of some check to re ceipts of the Markets and of the Town Dues, respectfully sailed attention to the inadequate rentuneratien of the %reit- -surer and his clerk, Mr. Neilson, and submitted that soar addition ought to be made to their emoluments. several members expressed their opinion that this sugges tion was uncalled for, and an improper interference with the Council. _ _ After some discussion, in which Mr. Blackburn defended the auditors, and spoke highly of the respectful terms in which the memorial was couched. Mr. H. LAWRENCE moved that that part of the letter re lating to the Markets and the Town Dues be referred to the two committees on those subjects. The remaining part of the letter need not be further alluded to. The motion was ultimately adopted. COURT OF REQUESTS COMMITTEE. roceedings of the Borough Court and Court of Re- Committee, comprising the increase of the salary of S. Harris, summons clerk, from £BO to £lOO, the - ation of which was postponed at the last monthly were read and confirmed. THE MAYOR ' S COMMUNICATIONS. The p quests C Mr. W. consider council, The MAYOR read a communication from Sir John Sa lisbury, president of the Royal Institution, stating that a permanent Gallery of Art was about being erected on land in Colquitt-street, and praying the council to grant a reversion of the said land.—Referred to the Finance Committee. The MAYOR then read a communication from Dr. Dick enson, secretary of the Botanic Garden, stating that an ex hibition was to be held there, and requesting the patronage of the chief magistrate and council on the occasion.—Granted. PLAT-GROUNDS FOR THE POOR Mr. EVANS then proposed the following resolution : " That the surveyor be directed to make the requisite in quiry, and report to the Health Committee, as to what un occupied land, the property of the corporation, in the vicinity of large numbers of the inhabitants, can be properly applied to the purpose of providing play-grounds, of dimensions not exceeding, in any situation, eight statute acres, for the youth of this town, arid that failing corporate land, hat other open land, suitable for the purpose can be obtained by purchase or upon rent—stating the value—the price or the rent of the lands in question." The idea of giving the town what this motion contained—a number of play-grounds—was not an original idea of his. It was one that had originated with one or more of the eminent medical men of Liverpool. It was also one which he disco vered lately as having been recommended by one, if not more, of the clergymen of the established church. But what led him the more immediately to adopt it bad been a remark made by Mr. Hume, about a year since, wherein he recom mended lots of land, of Aix or eight acres each, to he appro priated in the metropolis for exactly the purpose he (Mr. E.) had then in view. After some explanatory observations Mr. Evans said he wished to have no expense incurred in forming the play-grounds, except that of laying down a few posts and chains, and perhaps a few seats, like those in the parks in London, and on the parade in Liverpool. He would have no planting or ornament, but he would appropriate them to every species of game and innocent recreation with mit any interference of the police. Mr.tßraxErr seconded the, motion. Mr. PARKER wished to ask whether the corporation would find marbles and pegtops--(laughter)—in case the play grounds were established, and whether they were to be open on Sundays or not ? (Hear, hear.) Mr. Platt, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Blackburn, and Mr. Sand bach supported the motion, and it waslcarried unanimously. GRATUITIVi At the suggestion of the Town-clerk, and in compliance with one of the standing orders, the following notice of mo tion, given by Mr. Isaac Holmes, was postponed until the next monthly council : _ " That, upon the retirement of Miss Ellen Robinson from the North Corporation School, she be presented with a gra tuity not exceeding ten pounds, as a reward for the attention and ability with which she has discharged her duties at the said school for a period of upwards of six years." METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL Mr. PROCTOR then proposed the following motion, of which he had given notice : " That so much of the Watch Committee's recommenda tion to the eouncil, of the 28th January, 1840, to memori alise government, and petition parliament on the subject of the metropolitan police-hill, in order that its provisions may, by a public general bill, be enacted throughout the country ; and also that the resolution of the 29th January, 1840, adopting the W,tch Committee's recommendation, so far as a petition to the House of Commons be confirmed by this present council, and that the petition, prepared by the town clerk (with amendments), receive the seal of the corporation and be transmitted to the members for the borough for pre sentation." Sir J. WA LMSLEY was understood to second the motion. He should like to see the bill generally rather than particu larly applied, but he thought that, in supporting the 42nd clause of it, the council had acted wisely and judiciously. Mr. Be SHELL would give his cordial support to the mo tion, though he doubted much whether they should ever have heard of it, if the motion for embodying the 42nd clause in the local bill had not passed. , The council broke up at a quarter past three o'clock. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yes terday. There were present Messrs. Benn, (chairman,) Horsfall, T. Holt, Holmes, Middleton, Smith, Mellor, Bul ley, G. Holt, Tobin, Chapman, and Evans. RESIGNATION OF TIIE DOCK S OLICITOR. Mr. MELLOR asked the chairman whether the resignation of the Dock Solicitor had been accepted by the committee? The CHAIRMAN replied that it had not yet been accepted ; and that the consideration of it would stand over till next week. HOUSES OF THE NORTH HARBOUR AND GEORGE'S DOCK MASTER The Surveyor was authorised to complete the repairs of these houses at an expense not exceeding the estimate he had sent in, namely, £4O. VICTORIA DOCK SILL The Sub-committee of Works repotted that they could not recommend any change to be made in the level of the sill at the west gate of Victoria Dock, principally on the ground of the enormons - expense which would thereby be incurred. Mr. CHAPMAN could not account for the fact that after the expenditure of large sums, on the entrance to this dock, it should be almost useless. He understood that because Mr. Hartley had assumed the whole responsibility of the work the public blamed him ; but he (Mr. Chapman) be lieved the work was not executed according to his plan. It was therefore only fair that.Mr.,Hartley s h ou ld _be tiXO nerated from the responsibility. It was clear, however, that there must have been some gross defect in the engineering de partment ; but if Mr. Hartley was not to blame, let him have all the benefit of the fact. Mr. Chapman then referred to the evidence of Mr. Hodgson, the North harbour-master, and to that of Mr. Wray, master of Victoria Dock, in which it was stated that the sill of this dock was 31 feet higher than the sill of Waterloo Dock, and a variety of inconveniences in the working of the dock shewn to arise from it. Having read this testimony, he contended it was the duty of the committee to make the work perfect. The great regret he felt was that the gates had been put down at an immense expense, whilst the goods of merchants and shipowners were left upon the quay without protection. If any recommendation of the harbour master had overrode the opinion of the surveyor in this mat ' ter, that was a circumstance which, of itself, exonerated Mr. Hartley. He (Mr. Chapman) hoped that for the future, be fore the opinion of the surveyor or the engineer, if the com mittee were to employ one, was overrode by the harbour master, he would be allowed to have the benefit of the opi nion of the engineer to hack him out. Mr. G. HOLT said the sub-committee, when this matter was referred to them, did not consider it any part of their duty to look far back, but that it was merely to deal with af fairs as they now existed. They were not instructed to exa mine where the blame lay, for he could see no practical good in such an inquiry, hut how the matter now stood. They had been advised by very high authority, that if the sill were lowered, mud would greatly accumulate in the dock. It was certainly possible that some little more facility might arise in vessels getting quicker out, but the expense of the - alteration would b so enormous, that, at least for the present, it was quite out of the question. Mr. HORSFALL, on this as on all other occasions, was an xious for most full and particular inquiry. He agreed with Mr. G. Holt, that the committee of works had taken the proper course, in not inquiring whether the sill had or had riot been properly made : nevertheless, he was anxious that such an inquiry should be gone into. In that case, it would be desirable to refer to the proceedings of the committee at the time the sill was ordered, to see whether it had been made as directed, and, if not, to ascertain the grounds of the de viation. He did not mean to shirk the question, either with regard to the surveyor or the harbour-master ; and if the , committee should be of the same opinion, he would recom mend the board of works to inquire whether the sill had been constructed according to the best advice, for he was per suaded it would be found to have been judiciously planned. Mr. Alderman EVANs thought it would be most unhand some on the part of the committee to enter upon this sort of posthumous enquiry. Their duty was to look prospec tively, and to deal with things as they found them. He would not consent to any time either of his own or that of the committee being lost in an examination, for he was con vinced that no good would follow from it. Mr. HORSFALL had given no opinion as to the utility of the enquiry, but when a charge was attempted to be fixed upon the committee, he thought it was the duty of the com mittee to investigate all the circumstances. As Mr. Chem ' man had said, if there was a right horse to saddle with the blame, let him be ascertained. The CHAIRMAN suggested that it might be satisfactory to hear from Mr. Hartley the grounds upon which the decision of the committee regarding this sill had been founded. Mr. MELLOR could riot see the least use in wasting time • by referring to the past. Admitting that a former dock com mittee and Mr. Hartley also had been to blame, enquiry still could do no good. . . The CHAIRMAN said that it might, upon Mr. Hartley's explanation appear, that there were sufficient reasons for placing the sill where it was. Mr. HARTLEY then referred to some plans which he had brought with him, from which, and from his explanations, given in a conversational tone, impossible to be heard, it ap peared, that this part of the work had been constructed COR. trary to his recommendations. Mr. CuaPmaN'.--The . blunder *as not his fault, but he assumed the responsibility of it, and I blame him for that. Mr. TonlN.—lf we are to go on in this way, 20 years from this another committee may blame what we have done. The conversation on this subject then dropped- LIGHT SHIPS. The MARINE SURVEYOR reported that the Crosby light ship had been run foul of by two vessels, one of which was the sloop Druid, and the other a schooner, Mule unknown. The damage in each case was very trifling. Application was ordered to be made to the owner of the Druid, for the re payment of the expenses incurred by the necessary repairs. The Marine Surveyor also reported that the Queen light -ship was in need of repair.—Ordered. BIUSTON LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS. The Sub-Committee of Finance reported that they had considered the application from the keepers of Bidston light house for an increase of salary, and recommended it to be increased from £5O to £73 10s. per annum. In reply to a question, Mr. T. HOLT stated that the keepers of the li g hth ouse were not now permitted to receive fees f rom v i s i tors. He felt bound to say that Bidston lighthouse was kept in the greatest cleanliness—more so, he thought, than any of the others. Mr. HORSFALL said he had never seen any house kept in better order. Bidaton lighthouse . was re a ll y b eaut if u l . A resolution approving of the proposed increase was then passed. Several references as to paving and some minor repairs were made to the respective sub - committees, and the com mittee then separated. THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS. —The arrival of the Halifax steamers has hitherto been so regular and punctual that some little disappointment appears to be experienced if the s lightest delay take place in their appearance. The Britan nia, which was advertised to leave Boston on the 16th tilt., was , according to the usual calculation, due on Sunday last. It is not at all improbable that she may have been detainel a f e w days at the other side in order to bring some definite information as to the result of the present steps in the ease of Mr. M`Leod, who, it is known, has been removed from Lockport to New York. We hope to see the Britannia in the course of the day.—Since writing the above, we under- not 17th. Mr. Penny, the publisher of the Weekly the Chronicle news paper, was drowned on Monday night off Chelsea, by the boat in which he was rowing, coming in contaet with *barge. He was trying to extricate himself, when the boat asset, and he lost his life. Another geutleman who was in tha boat t w h a e s finding aaved b o y f c t l h in e g b i n o d g y. to the barge. 'A reward is a" far ir