The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS. We beg respectfully to call the attention of Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, to the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, which can be read on that day by the thousands of Manufacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN • MANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and respectable Inns in that town and the surrounding manufacturing district. A SECOND EDIT ON is published at Half-past Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the MARKETS, and any news of importance that may arrive in the course of the morning. Ebe Eibtrpool &naiad'. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1848 THE intentions of Government, with respect to the Navigation Laws, are at length before the public ; and they are precisely such as might have been expected from such a set of reckless and conceited incapables. Mr. Labouchere informs us that he proposes to deal with the laws in question • " in a very large and comprehensive manner." Being under the necessity of doing something, and having no constructive skill to repair the feiv dilapidaticin s which time may_have wrought in the edifice, her Majesty's Whig Ministers, like other bungling workmen, mean to raze it to the ground, and to erect no other in its stead The carrying trade of Great Britain with her colonies, and with foreign countries, is henceforth to be open to all the world; the _native industry which it employs, . _ to be sacrificed to the insolent dem - ands of the manufacturing free-trader ; and the trade of the shipbuilder, the carpenter, the rigger, the sail maker, the roper, the , blockmaker, and the various other artisans dependent upon a prosperous corn menial marine, to be transferred to the shores of the Baltic, or to the building ports of the United States. The policy of centuries, under which this powerful maritime country has grown to its present greatness, is to be swept away, root and branch, at the bidding of a set of political schoolboys and dreaming theorists ; without inquiry, or anything at least that deserves the name ; without any urgent demand from any influential portion of the nation; and without a single fact substantiated, or a state ment which can be depended upon, to justify a measure which long experience, and the evidence of nine-tenths of the thinking and well-informed portion of the community, declare to be utterly ruinous. _ _ _ _ power be reserved to her Majesty in Council to withhold the privileges to be given by the bill from any foreign countries who may refuse to accord to us reciprocal advantages. This is sheer mockery. There is not, we venture to say, a single maritime country, whose trade is worth our notice, that will be so insane as to throw away the opportunity of participating in the vast trade which we throw open to them. The foreigner is perfectly aware that our competition cannot deprive him of half a dozen cargoes a year. And what is the pretext offered by ministers for this measure, and the evidence bywhich it is attempted to be supported ? First, a portion of our colonists, dis gusted with their treatment by the home govern ment, deprived of all the advantages formerly de rived from British connexion, claim to be relieved from the burdens of such connexion. The claim is reasonable enough, although we believe that it is based upon much misunderstanding, and that the irritated feeling which prompts it might be allayed with ease. We have only to treat our colonies with justice, and to legislate towards them in a paternal spirit, to bind them to us once more as valuable ap panages of the British Crown. By this concession, however, we strike away almost the last link of connexion with us. With respect to British Ame rica, in particular, by opening the navigation of the St. Lawrence to the shipping of the United States, we prepare the way for its certain and voluntary annexation by that republic, and should be acting wisely, perhaps, if we were at once to withdraw our viceroy and his staff, instead of allowing them to wait until they are kicked out. Our West Indian colonies, were they not already lost to us by our previous injurious legislation towards them, have now no British element left in them, except the cruel mockery of a resident British governor-gene ral. Our other colonies are no longer colonies ex cept in name—except in the cost which we incur for their maintenance and protection. We no longer offer them an advantage over the foreign producer in our markets, and we are now giving up to the world the advantages which they have hith erto afforded us in return. We shall briefly refer to the leading features of the measure announced. In the first instance, Mr. Labouchere takes credit to Ministers for spa ring the coasting trade, and our shore and bank fisheries, from being banded over to the competi tion of the foreigner. Dutch and other foreign luggers and smacks, with foreign crews, are not to carry our coals, our slates, and our iron from port to port ; to fish in our rivers and bays ; or to run between Great Britain and Ireland. This source of employment—this nursery for our seamen—is kindly left to us untouched; but why ? Because, says the honourable gentleman, the coasting trade is so peculiarly protected by its own nature, that he does not think foreigners could to any extent avail themselves of it; and such being the case, . It is urged also that we have lately been incon venienced by those provisions of our Navigation Laws which prohibit the importation into this country of foreign produce from a European port. There was such inconvenience felt, we are aware ; and a modification of that prohibition would not, probably, have been objected to. But that this in convenience, arising from the operation of a portion of the Navigation Laws, affords any warrant for the destruction of the whole system we must deny. Again, it is urged that we are threatened with reta liation by Prussia, and invited to concession on the subject of these laws by the United States. It is not certain now, however, that Prussia is likely soon to be in a position to carry out her threat; and, with respect to the American invitation, it is re g arded by our astute brother himself as something very like an attempt to coax a fool out of his house and property. May we direct the reader's atten tion to the following letter, which we quote as per tinent to the subject, although it appeared in our columns at the time ? " throwing it open would produce no very great amount of good." Mark the admission, ship owners of Liverpool ! The "good" to flow from this onslaught against the Navigation Laws is the introduction of foreign ships and crews to carry off the trade of Englishmen. For sparing your coast ing trade, you have, by his own admission, to thank her Majesty's Ministers for—nothing. With respect to their non-interference with the coast fisheries, you have equally little to be thankful for. This branch of trade is spared from other motives than consideration for the native industry which it employs, as is shewn by the fact that, by the proposed measure, the foreigner is to be placed in precisely the same position, with respect to the deep-sea fisheries, now exclusively secured to the British shipowner and seaman. • With this exception of the coasting trade, the character of the measure is sweeping. It is to be rendered unnecessary that a vessel, to enjoy all the privileges (!) of a British ship, should be British built. We are to build or buy them where we like; and can demand at once for them a British register. We may have foreign vessels engaged in our coasting trade, or in any other trade, rigged abroad, repaired abroad, upon which not a single Lour of native industry has been employed, the only stipulation being that they must be owned by British capital and sailed by the required propor tion of British seamen. And, with respect to the manning of British vessels, an important alteration is to be made. In consideration of their general faithfulness, it is pretended, but more likely in consideration of the lower wages which they may be induced to accept, Lascars and other Indian 'seamen are in future to be rated as British seamen, 'the result of which will be, that whereas by the " Washington_, Dec. 21, 1847. " REPEAL OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—A corres pondence has taken place between the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs and our minister at that court, relative to the repeal of the Navigation Laws of Great Britain. Mr. Bancroft applied to Viscount Palmerston, early in November, to learn whether ministers would consent to establish with the United States a perfect system of reci procity, in making all vessels of either country fitting out from any port in the world, free to trade to any port of the other nation, whether home or colonial. Viscount Pal merston, after the lapse of some weeks, replied that, although her Majesty's ministers did not feel at liberty to advise her Majesty at once to make such a change in the commercial system as was asked by Mr. Bancroft, with out the sanction of Parliament, yet, as soon as that body should meet, a measure would be introduced which would embrace all the views put forth by Mr. Bancroft in his note. It is not doubted that Parliament will at once act favourably on the bill. The importance to the United States of such a measure cannot be exaggerated. The British colonial system has been a most grievous restric-.. tion upon our commerce, and its annihilation, as promised by Viscount Palmerston, will open to our enterprising merchants the lucrative trade of the East and West In dies, and of the other British settlements, from which they have been hitherto debarred. This will be the great est stride yet taken by free trade, and it is not to be doubted that all Europe will follow the example of Great Britain. The liberal commercial treaty made by Hanover with the United States has been, in no small measure, instrumental in disposing the British Government to this wise measure. The Rhine provinces have recently imi tated the example of Hanover towards the United States ; and everywhere silently but steadily, our coyntnereiatrela tions are being put upon the most advantageous footing. The repeal by Great Britain of the laws restricting the trade of the United States with her colonies will be far more beneficial to this country than any commercial treaty ever made by our Government." Undoubtedly, a large slice of "the lucrative trade of the East and "West Indies and of the other Bri tish settlements" will suit our good brother very well, especially as, having himself no colonies, he has nothing to offer in return ; and heartily he will laugh at stupid, old, doting John Bull, when Sa turday's mail from England reaches the United States. We referred in our last to the kind of statistical evidence which had been got up at the Board of Trade, and produced in the committee of last ses sion upon this question, and which we predicted would be made use of to influence the decision of Parliament. It has so been used ; not, however, without being pretty well blown upon ; and we find also that great stress was laid by Mr. Labou chere upon the other evidence brought before the same committee, which, it will be remembered. made no report, and broke up without hearing the counter-evidence of the shipping interest. Let us see who the witnesses for the repeal of the Navi gation Laws were. We quote from Mr. Young's existing law a ship's crew may consist of three- able letter on the subject - 1 -- fourths British and one-fourth foreigners or Las - "By the party hostile to British Navigation were sum we may in future man them with three- moned 24 witnesses, consisting of the two secretaries and ..s Lascars and one-fourth foreigners, to the the director of the statistical department of the Board of Trade, all distinguished advocates of free trade; one col total exclusion of the British-born seaman ! lector of customs in London ; another collector of cus- The remaining provisions, by which the long tla e n n d a ; one nit e r a n n t t lemap tien w gt h o o let, d t es iuff c t r e i wr b e id ot voyages and the colonial trade have been hitherto himself h r av k i 's n secured to our own marine, are to be abolished, times in almost e g very part oi r the hab r it e le with a reservation, only, to which we shall refer was merely the managing clerk of an Australian house •, hereafter. The timber trade of North America— another of extensive mercantile experience connected with a commercial firm, but who, when asked whether he was the produce of our East and West Indian colonies a ra pa r rt i n a e a r, replied, `I do not sign the firm ;'—a Bremen —the whole, in fact, of our present strictly pro- w s s e a d r i sh t merchant, t the Vice Consul, but who tected trade—is to be thrown open to the shipping tho ug ht e i:n a ec S e n o nt inz x es s t p Lg n m e n r st the authority of the of the United States and of Europe. That large committee; a calico y owner m e r - chant, found it unprofitable and had retired ;—an g portion of partly protected trade, at present insured to us by the stipulation in our Navigation Laws, og e e r opper mines in South America, who had been resident n w r e e n r t s v an y t ea w rs i r h o t r e S t o r u n t d h American merchant, that foreign produce can only be imported in Bri- chiel a lv for co t tish ships, or in ships belonging to the countries smelter of copper ores, at Shat free ea in ger c , al lo p r er the ar l7) s en ;— efi a t in which such produce is grown, is also to be of the people of England, that free trade should triumph in the importation of the ore as well as the metal in cheap handed over to the foreigner. The American ship foreign ships for smelting in Wales, but jealous to the last owner can in future load tea and silks in China degree of the consumers having the benefit of separating f -- 4 ree in Cuba in the the metal from the dross at the mouth of the mine, and cars, fourth ,or a British port, sugar awl ~,. ... Brazils, hides at Rio, palm oil in Africa , and wool being spared the expense of the conveyance of the worth at the Cape and Australia, whilst British vessels less dross across the ocean ;—a merchant of Hamburgh ; a manr of a blic com established for sale of ;dlv in foreign harbours, or crowd our docks n age ds in South pu pa ny the Australia .—A Canary Island merchant with the broom at their mastheads. The l e a n engaged in the importation of cochineal;—one merchant cheap ships of Bremen can scour the Mediterra- resident in India ;—a German barrister ;—an American neap, and snatch their freights from our very captain ;—four gentlemen unconnected with commerce, grasp, so long as British seamen retain their ab- who were examined only on incidental points arising in ence of stinking tallow as a cheap substitute the inquiry ;—and though last not least, one naval officer of unquestionable respectability, but having scanty claims junk and biscuit. to rank as an authority, specially selected from-his known Nor is the injury to be confined to the ship- crotchetty opinions as to manning the navy, on which it owner, the shipbuilding trades, and the merchant may well be doubted whether any single naval officer of Great Britain is no longer to remain the established naval reputation could be found to concur with principal depot for the produce of the world. The him. Not a single head of any mercantile house of emi nence in London, Liverpool, or Glasgow was called to sus capitalist will no longer need our bonding system tain the grievous allegations of injury to British commerce or our bonded warehouses. He can store his from the operation of the Navigation Laws ; not a single cargoes in any port of Europe, with full liberty to admiral, lord of the Admiralty, or individual of station, move them either to this country for consumption, experience, or authority, to prove that merchant sailors or to any country in which they may be wanted. were unnecessary for manning her Majesty's navy, which vast and sweeping are the chan g es u p on which astounding and novel declaration is left to the unsupported testimony of Captain Sir James Stirling alone , !" • about, blindly and mad l y , to adventure . What confidence can be placed in the representa- It is not concealed that one great object of these tions of such a set of witnesses upon a question of ihanges is cheapness; low freights, cheap ships, such vast importance? Little indeed; and, from and reduced wages of the British artisan and sailor. the indecent haste with which the bill is to be pushed through arl twhilst a committee of in- It is not any sudden necess it y , under which we iamen , w 1 inquiry is sitting Pin the Lords, we are led to labour, of providing increased tonna g e for an sus creasing ccmmerce, which prompts the interference pect strongly that ministers are afraid that their ply whole case will be bl own t o t h e w i n d s by th a t corn of Government; for our existing ma rine is am sufficient for our wants, and freights are barely, if mittee's report. W e h ave h owever excee d e d our at all, remunerative. The fact stands confessed b y space, and shall probably h ave ti me t o recur again Mr. Labouchere himself, that the foreigner will be to the subject. able to carry upon terms permanently lower than --_________ the British shipowner is able to do; for, in endea- THE question is at length pressing urgently upon vouring to reconcile the British shipbuilder to corn- us—are her Majesty's Whig Ministers fit to be en petition with the foreign shipbuilder, he says— trusted with the conduct of the affairs of this great " I will also advert to a circumstance which I think nation at a crisis like the present ? We see around ought not to be left out of consideration, namely, that if us, on every side, the elements of social disorder we repeal the navigation laws, materials for shipbuilding will be brought to England at a f a r cheap er r ate than and of danger. Europe is convulsed to its centre ; they now cost, and in that manner the shipbuilder will and, in Italy and Germany, actual warfare is going derive considerable advantage from the repeal of those on. In republican France, during the past week, laws." the commencement of a reign of terror—a reign of rot . at home seaman How can materials be brought cheaper unless it be the because the foreigner has a cheaper ship, a cheaper gullotine and the assassin's knife — has - only been averted by a miracle, and for a time. The vul crew, cheaper stores and provisions ' • and will thus cano on l y s l um b ers, rea dy to burst forth at a n y be enabled to absorb the British timber trade ? moment, and to desolate half the civilized world. The reservation to which we have referred above, We have a vast colonial empire, in a large portion and which we are to regard as affording a remnant I of which the seeds of alienation have been sown, of protection to the shipowner, is a proviso that a and the plant has already sprung up—a colonial TIE LITIIRPOOL STANDARD. millionaire. Let the constitutional spirit of the nation be once stirred up ; let petty differences amongst conservatives be got rid of, and a power ful and united party be formed in the country and in parliament; and we shall see ample statesmanlike ability developed, which has hitherto been only feebly disp!aved in desultoryand abortive skirmishes, or totally obscured b y the destructive nepotism of great and recognized party leaders. Give to such a party in parliament a commanding influence, in the support which they receive from the voice of public opinion out of doors, and its members will speak and act with a ten-fold confidence, and the nation may yet be preserved from the dangers with which it is at present menaced. empire which fatal and destructive legislation is fast ruining ;—and, at home, we have Ireland, dis tracted with seditious agitation, and ready to plunge headlong into a bloody and exterminating rebellion. We have our own labouring masses idle, starving, and imbibing the pernicious lessons of. the dema gogue ; manufactures prostrate, commerce almost suspended, credit and confidence lost, and bank ruptcy and insolvency striking down, day by day, the proudest, and lately esteemed most stable, struc tures of commercial greatness; and the considera tion is forced upon us—have we, at the helm of the State, men capable of bearing us safely through difficulties so vast; so complicated, so full of dan ger ? There can be but one answer—" No." How ever much we may differ as to the pilot to be chosen, the captain to command, and the crew to work the noble vessel safely out of the breakers upon which she is drifting, the opinion is well nigh universal that the Ministry of Lord John Russell are not the men. Their intellectual proportions are those of pigmies, when compared with the gigantic propor tions of the work which has to be done. They are the inhabitants of a new Lilliput, straining at a frail cord, to right and launch into deep water a stranded three-decker. We are not prepared to deny to Lord John and his colleagues the possession of a certain sort of cleverness. They can look the dignified, and mouthe and gesticulate with all the energy of men in earnest. They can worry and sting, like gnats on a sultry day ; but the world resolutely refuses to believe in them. They have no weight, no prestige, no influence. Brawling treason laughs in their faces and wriggles out of their grasp. The autho rity of the law in their hands is only a rush to restrain an elephant ; a hair sieve to dam up a tor rent. They sit complacently watching the growing storm, until it is ready to burst !Ton the land, and then pelt it with protocols and law papers. They are apt at poking their fingers into every body else's business; are oracularly wise as to how other Governments should deal with passing events; are fertile in advice, and not over modest as to the par ties to whom it is offered ; but here their capabilities end. As a Government they are powerless for good. The suffering masses look not to them for relief; the merchant dreads their interference with his affairs ; the active intellect of the country Scoffs at their feebleness and their petty selfishness ; the demagogue defies them, and the foreigner despises them, whilst he endeavours to wile from them con cession after concession, fatal to the best interests of the country, over whose affairs, unfortunately, they hold, temporarily, a controlling power. Thus far, with the spectacle of their utter imbe cility before us, we have tolerated these men. The Conservative feeling of the nation has been shaken by past betrayals; and not knowing in whom to place confidence, or to adopt as its exponents and cham pions, party spirit has been in abeyance. The time has arrived when this forbearance and lethargy must be thrown off, if the country is to be saved from anarchy. Not satisfied with seeing their efforts to repress sedition and to punish traitors in Ireland frustrated; not satisfied with the spectacle around them of prostrate commerce and almost universal suffering amongst the trading classes ; not satisfied with having earned the contempt both of friends and opponents, her Majesty's ministers, that at least it may be said that they are doing something for their salaries, have just started the vessel of state down hill, without a lock on the wheel to prevent it from being dashed to pieces at the bottom. Their boasted system of free trade has not produced its expected results, It has been fertile only in confusion and commercial distress; and its un happy authors, without the moral courage to con fess their error, or the wisdom required to trace tilt source of the existing evil and to remove it, are about to add to it by the sacrifice of one of the last elemenrs of our national greatness, which their rash hands have left hitherto not hopelessly da maged, They have sacrificed already at the shrine of cheapness, and at the cry of a selfish avarice, the native agriculture of Great Britain ; made bankrupt her colonies ; ruined her merchants and beggared her artisans ; and, at the same bidding, they are about to throw away her maritime supremacy. and to make a concluding holocaust of her shipowners, her shipbuilders, her carpenters, and her merchant seamen. _ . In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Friday, Messrs. Henry and William Davies, the extensive sharebrokers, passed their final examination, to which there was no opposition, after a complimentary allusion by Mr. Sergeant Ludlow to their clear and intelligible balance sheet. FATAL FALLS.—In March, 1847, a man named Peter Murray was engaged in taking down a sign in Burroughs gardens, when he fell off the ladder. He was taken up insensible, and was never able to follow his employment. He died on Monday.—On Saturday week an old man named John Evans, living in a court in Smithfield-street, slipped down whilst going up the , court and broke his thigh, from the effects of which he did next day. TAKING POISON BY ACCIDENT.—Last week a poor old woman who earned her livelihood by cleaning offices, found a small parcel under the fire-grate in one of the offices which she was in the habit of cleaning, and suppo sing the contents were Epsom Salts she took them home and swallowed them as a dose of medicine. It unfortu nately happened that the contents of the paper were oxalic acid, and not Epsom salts, and the consequence was, that titthheTaepnßopiavlr appears acidc pEtyhr.e. mpo w lad, mar ked " Poison," but the poor old creature was poisoned. The paper in which i sT a . smeilwrappedN, wo m an Eoi f c i, o EL u . r w l 1 d. Liverpool, pa o os t ot l s, read. u p n r d e a a y e , h l e 4 d th tw in o stant, ser mons in this town in the morning, at Trinity Church, and in the evening at Great St. Mary's. The sermon in the evening was a continuation of that in the morning ; both were preached from the 15th chapter of Ist epistle to the Corinthians, that in the morning from part of the 4th verse—" And that he rose again on,the third day, accord ing to the scriptures ;" that in the evening from part of the 55th verse —" 0 grave, where is thy victory ?" Crowded congregations attended to hear this eminent preacher.—Cambridge Chronicle. MRS. PARKE'S LAST GRAND CLUB SUBSCRIPTION. — We once more beg to call the attention of our readers to the distribution of this spendid property, which is posi tively fixed to take place at Exeter-ball on the 29th inst. As we before-mentioned, this scheme will be the final dis posal of the celebrated Bowyer Gallery, and containing as it does, some of the most superb works of art in this country, cannot fail to attract the attention of those who lay any claim to refined taste. The tickets are one guinea, for which the subscriber has a chance of an allot ment of the value of one guinea and a-half up to 3,100 guineas. There are several pictorial cabinets, of the ' value of one, two, and three hundred pounds. Immedi ate application for shares should be made to the agents, whose names appear in the first column of our front page. THE NEW LANDING-STAGE.—At the meeting of the Dock Committee the chairman stated that as a wish had I lean expressed by the committee that the landing-stage should remain where it now is, and not he removed further to the north, he had had several interviews with Mr. Cubitt on the subject, and the result was, that Mr. Cu bitt considered it might remain where it was, seeing that there were now three places for the bridges. He said if the committee passed a resolution authorizing him to moor the landing-stage at the south end, he would do so, and undertake that the stage could be removed at any time at a day's notice to the northern point, and without the expense and trouble of taking the bridges off the stage. After some conversation, the chairman was re quested to write to Mr. Cubitt, with the view of obtaining his . opinion in writing. NEW HOISTING POWER.—A machine, of a very singu lar construction, invented by Mr. W. G. Armstrong, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has, within the last few days, been put in operation at the Albert Dock, for the purpose of raising goods from the quay into the warehouses above. The moving power is the pressure of the water supplied from the mains of the Green-lane water-works, and, by the action of this power, nearly two tons of goods can be hoisted up on a sliding stage in a few seconds to the highest floor of the building. The engine works with great precision and delicacy, both in lifting and lowering, and its movements are very easily controlled. We per ceive, by a paragraph from the Newcastle Journal, that an engine upon the same principle, but for a different purpose, and more closely resembling a steam-engine, has been recently put in operation at Newcastle. THE NEW CHURCH AT SEACOMBE.—The Rererend Dr. Byrth, rector of Wallasey, has circulated amongst the subscribers towards the erection of St. Paul's Church, Seacombe, a statement of the treasurer's account, and tenders his cordial thanks for their generous liberality. He says :—" The church contains 450 sittings, one half of which are entirely free ; and on the other portion a moderate rent has been placed towards the minister's stipend. The division of the pews is not only a numeri cal, but a real, equality. Those that are free are in situation as advantageous, and in structure and appear ance as commodious and respectable, as those upon which, a charge has been affixed. Thus only has it been at tempted to avoid all unnecessary distinction between the worshippers in the house of God, where " the rich and the poor meet together;" but an approximation has been made as far as possible, to the principle which seems in volved in the very idea of a National Church, namely, that a place of worship should be provided, free of ex pense, for every member of the community. In the present incumbent, the Rev. E. Roberts, the district possesses an able and zealous minister of the Gospel of Christ, and a no less devoted member of our Apostolical Church." The list of subscriptions amounts to £3,114. The sum of £lOOO has been invested as an endowment fund, and stands as a Great Western bond. To meet the sums now owing there is a deficiency of £157, and £25 Nor is this the worst feature of the crisis which has been subscribed for the erection of a spire, which it is is approaching us. Already we see the commence- proposed to add to the church. ment of a formidable agitation which has for its MR. lIAWKSLEY'S LETTER ON THE WATER GOES object,extensive changes. -in the machinery of the TION.-Mr. Hawksley has addressed a long letter to the Jqurnat, complaining - of misrepresentations and inaccu governing power. The Cobdens and Wilsons of racier in a leading article in the Mercury, and vindicating the late Anti-Corn Law League are again in the his own views on the water question. The " experi field ; and openly threaten to strip the Crown itself ments "" hitherto made to ascertain the yield of the Li of its splendour and its prestige. Chartism defunct, verpool wells, have not, he states, been completed, and an able and eually unscrupulous set of leaders are the permanent supply is not ascertained. Liverpool re q quires—" 1. A peculiar supply for the extinction of fires. exerting themselves to spread dissatisfaction among —2. A supply for watering streets, flushing sewers, the masses, and to mislead them from inquiry into cleansing courts, &c.-3. A supply for shipping.-4. A the real causes of their present fallen condition, by supply for cranes .and hoists.-5. A supply for public directing their attention to extension of the suffrage, baths and washhouses." He enters upon each of these vote by ballot, electoral districts, and other specu- heads, showing the supply required for each ; the gross total being 892,000 gallons per day for domestic use, lative and theoretical reforms, (?) whose achieve- while he believed it was probable that only 300,000 could ment to-morrow would have no more influence in be supplied for this purpose. The question at issue re raising them out of the deep abyss of suffering, into bites " not to the gross yield obtainable at any particular which they have been plunged, than a painted loaf period, and under temporary conditions, but to the avail able quantity permanently distributable to the_inhabi would have in allaying the cravings of their hunger. tants at the time when their wants are the largest and And this agitation will grow and must grow; for their resources the smallest." In a postscript the writer drowning men catch at straws, and starving men says—" The discussions now going on relate to a differ are the materials upon which demagogues ope- ence of opinion as to the aggregate yield of six stations, rate most readily, and out of which revolutions a difference amounting in the whole to only a few hun dred thousand gallons per. day; although the ultimate spring. We must give the working man employ- decision must have reference to a source from which it is ment and food, or he will become desperate and proposed to derive a supply of at least sixteen million dangerous. gallons per day —a quantity which, however apparently The only hope for England in the present crisis large, is certainly not more than is due to the present is the prompt formation of a powerful constitutional necessities and growing importance of the borough of party in Parliament, and throughout the kingdom; tool Arius. Liverpool. Manchester has taken powers to obtain a supply of 30 million gallons per day; Glasgow 22 millions, a party which will not be deterred by the sneers of sae and actually delivers 101 millions ; Gorbals (a small por shallow sophists, or the jabbering of conceited politi- The connection between the new North Docks and the tion of Glasgow) 2/ millions ; Lambeth (half the size of Leeds cal economists, from raising the old watchwords of a nd Liverpool Canal " ships, colonies, and commerce," and re-opening O n W e d nes d ay , as James Halsall, a carter, was walk- verpool) 4 millions." the question of protection to native industry. ing at the top of Seacombe Slip, he fell down dead, in a ROSCOE CLUB--On Saturday, a special meeting of the There is nothing quixotic in such an effort. There fit of apoplexy, the result of natural causes. members was held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt of is a broad basis on which to raise such aeon- Fort Anne Hotel, so beautifully situated at the entrance street. Mr . H. R. Sandbach p resided. Mr. Lei g hton, . 1 Douglas harbour, and commanding an almost unri- the secretary, read a report from the Council, and from vaned stitutional structure amongst those very working ' 1e prospect, has been taken by parties from Liverpool, this it appeared that there had been a falling off of the masses whom, by our lethargy, we are abandoning and will be opened immediately as an hotel. members in the last quarter, ascribed to the deficiency of in their sufferings, and handing over to the delud- Mr. Brown, Sir Thomas Birch, and Mr. Cardwell, with accommodation , andthat , from p reliminar y inquiries which ing and treacherous councils of a party w hich has a deputation from the Liverpool Operative Porters, had have been made , the council co nsider it most desirable that Tuesday at the office of the Board of T an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, on the clubshouldberemoved tomoresuitableandcommodious ever been their worst enemy. The trading and On , rade. premises. The annual gross rent now paid amounts . Tuesday Margaret Johnson died from the effects of to £270; some premises offered, in a more central middle classes—the great strength of the town situa constituencies—and the loyal yeomanry of the poison taken whilst she was in a desponding mood, in tion, and which were in every way more convenient, country, to a man, would be with us. These consequence of her husband having left her, his circum- might be had for a rent not exceeding £350 per annum. i s n t a pi i n c re e .e s cits b e- e ys i tn n ro g eled i t n s h a ad whichi. b s e s) r eilsi d ie e r c e n d i n s p t e a l t l e edd . to vacate classes have felt where the spur goads them. They Removal, &c., was estimated to entail a cost of £6OO, the premises and this capital it was proposed to raise by the accept have watched the growth of the bubble—Free as a dealer in pikes, ance loans of £5, at ten per cent. interest, from Trade—and its bursting. They have seen one &c. The sale of the articl o e c s c ET. been latterly extremely such of the members as might be disposed to ad powerful interest after another sacrificed—handed languid. vance that sum. The average number of members over to the foreigner—to prop up a griping mane- WOOLTON FLOWER Snow.—The first of these inter- for the last three quarters approaches to 700 but such facturing interest, and to enable the capitalist to esting exhibitions for the season will take place on Thurs- has been the decrease that there are not at present day. A splendid display of the products of the garden more than 607. On the motion of Mr. Tinne, seconded swell his hoards ; and if calmly and resolutely and conservatory is expected. by Mr. J. R. Jeffery, it was resolved to remove, as early appealed to as intelligent men, capable of under- It is stated that the Theatre-Roy al will open on the 10th as possible, to more eligible premises near the Exchange, standing their own interest, and of weighing the of July next, under the management of Mr. Simpson, with and to raise the required capital in the mode suggested. 1 hard dry facts of their position, divested of the the new play of " The Wife's Secret," in which Mr. ana The unpleasant fact transpired that the institution empty jargon in which our politico-philosophers Irs. Kean will act the principal parts. had lost considerably by the coffee-room ; but it was seek to conceal them, we do not fear but that I The railway from Southport to Waterloo will be opened stated that effectual measures had recentl y been taken on the Ist of July, and passengers can then go from Li- to render the department self-supporting, and that, they will come nobly to the rescue. verpool to Southport, including the omnibus stage, in what with the experience acquired, and the thorough Let us not be mistaken, however. We do not one hour.revision in the entire management, which was- now seek to fall back into reliance upon what is termed The packet-ship Tuscarora was discharged, in the completed, the future prospects of the club were never " the old country party:—the men of acres and Waterloo Dock, in the short space of thirty-five working more hopeful. It being one of the principal reasons for the game laws, petty sessions, and union bastiles. hours, by Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co.'s men. Her projected removal, to secure the means of developing the These men have been too lon the mere blind fol- cargo consisted of 10,70 0 packages. higher objects for which the institution was raised, we sin g lowers of the prestige of great names; the led The magistrates have lately been in vestigating certain cerely trust that the important class for whose benefit it was charges against Mr. E. R. Highton , Governor of the establ i s hed will, b y g ivin g it their strenuous su pp or t, horses of astute and designing statesmen. We Borough Gaol, and the result is that Mr. Hi g hton has cuniar y and personal, do what in them lies to renderpe it must have men who have gone a little way with been allowed to send in his resignation. This he did on capable of achieving its original design of increasing the the spirit of the age, who have eyes and use them, Tuesday. physical comforts, supplying the social wants, and above On Tuesday last, Mr. Cardwel l entertained Sir Thos. all, forwardin g the moral and intellectual improvement of perience, ud gment and discretion to who have ex j, Birch, M.P., Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, Mr. Ambrose Lace, its members. guide them in unravelling the tangled cords in Mr. Wm. Mann, Mr. Wm. Cubitt, and several other ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The opening pyrotechnic gala which we have permitted the i n dustry of the nation gentlemen engaged in parliamentary business connected at these favourite grounds came off on Thursday evening to be bound down. We want men of intelligence with the local bills now pending, at his mansion in last, and. though we regret the weather was not so favour and honesty, ; men who can use the pruning knife Whitehall-gardens. able as might have been wished, the attendance was great, as well as prop the tree : above all, men who will C O LLISION ON THE MERSEY.—FLAMBEAU V. WIRRAL. and sufficiently marked with enthusiasm to give the scene ' ce- —The trial in this case, which arose out of a collision represe n te d the character of " a decided hit." In a great not convert politics into a trade for the advance- between the above-named steamers on the Mersey a short maritime port like Liverpool, where the influx of foreign ment • h the Flambeau went down, settled particularlyAmericans—isbe of their own selfish interests. Such men time since, in which there are to be found amongst our mercantile on Tuesday by the Lords of the Admiralty, who gave their great addendalto the patronage bestowed on public amuse bodies, amongst the members of our aristocracy, decision in favour of the Flambeau. ments, it requires some degree of judgment to select for and even amongst the more humble trading classes. S USPENS ION OF A BANKRUPT'S CERTIFICATE.—At representation a subject suited to all. New York admir- We want no regularly apprenticed statesmen—no the Court of Bankruptcy , on Tuesday, Mr. Sergeant ably fills all requirements, not alone from the magnificence Ludlow suspended for six months granting a certificate of the city, but from the beauty of the panoramic scenery political prigs, who have, hung ,on the skirts of to Richard Taylor, a bankr u p t, who had g iven a warrant with which it is surrounded. The view is taken from party, and chattered an d toa di e d until the world o f attorney to one of his creditors, thereby giving a pre. near Chatham-street, and thus commands all the ancient has taken it for granted that there is something in ference over the rest of his creditors. and picturesque portion of the city, the East River and FIRE.—On Wednesday a fire bro ke out in the bui lding the Hudson, Long Island, Jersey, &c. In the painting them. Our confidence should be placed only in shed of Mr. Pendleton, joiner and builder, Whitfield- there is a distinctness of delineation and breadth of colour known and tried men, whose ranks we ought to street, Toxteth-park, ipid though every effort was used by ing, with a judicious introduction of light and shade, but endeavour to recruit from am on g st the intelli gence t he neighbours to ex t inguish it, scarcely a vestige of the the artist (Mr. Fenton) has been more peculiarly successful and worth of the nation, irrespective of the tradi- place remained in three-quarters of an hour. In addition in catching at one glance, without disturbing the general tionary claims of birth or of past party connexion. to the destruction of the shed and other property, the effect, all the important buildings of the city. General Nor shall we meet with any insurmountable woodwork complete for nine houses was consumed. opinion, which does much for ultimate success , pronounces difficulty in finding leaders for a p art y thus W OMAN DROWNED.7AbOUt half - past two o'clock on the painting exce llent, wh i le "Brother Jonathan," bein g Saturday afternoon a middle-aged woman. named Betsy more than delighted to point out to his European friends strengthened and, above all, united in a firm de- Davies, who kept a stall in the Fish Market, in Great each attractive feature, says much for the accuracy with termination to do justice and to exercise their coin- Charlotte-street, leaped from one of the Birkenhead ferry which it is pourtrayed. The pyrotechnic works, by Mr. mon sense, irrespective of theory and philosophy, steamers into the river. The tide was receding at the J. Atkins, were, in colour and design, splendid. The There are gems still in the mine as brigh t and pure time, and she was r apidly drifted down. Two boats were Gardens are now in excellent order , and the late refresh as any which have been drawn out ; and great put ff to the rescue. but she soon sank to rise no more. ing rains have given to vegetation additional beauty ; in emergencies seldom fail to brio SALES OF WOOL.—We are informed that the public deed, there is not out of Lo ndo n an y re s ort more worthy g forward command- sales of East India wool held here on the 18th instant, of a visit; and we think we will be borne out by the ing minds. The a bl e su b a lt e rn o f a skirmishing brought a large attendance of buyers ; the competition was public in awarding to the proprietors that meed of appro party is overlooked, although he display the talent spirited throughout, and the whole was disposed of at bation that is the dessert of spirited enterprise—and cent sales made by private treaty , which is a complete command that support that has prompted them to seek and bravery which make the genera l into a h ero . Prices fully equal, and in some instances higher, than re- wishing that the ensuing season, like those past, will The humble clerk, toiling at his desk , is o ften th e achiever of the wealth which makes his employer in crease d p atronage, • a • -' 1 - contradictior! of reports that appeared inC:several of our ra tiler public praise than pecuniary profit—to give w . th contemporaries, THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSO CIATION.-LETTER OF LORD KINNAIRD. The Liverpool Association continues to increase, and derervedly so, in the number of its members, and its pe cuniary means. Without reference to party it takes up the great cause of reducing and equalizing the general taxation of the country, which has, from popular apathy been swelling out, even in time of peace, to a weight and mag nitude that absolutely crushes the enterprise and energy of every class, and especially of the commercial and the working community. Our merchants and traders have prepared a memorial to the Mayor, requesting hini to call a public meeting, to petition parliament for a general re vision and retrenchment of taxation ; and it is understood that he is prepared to comply,—so that we may expect a legitimate monster" gathering on this all-important and absorbing subject. The example will, we doubt not, be followed in all great and even moderately sized towns, if not indeed in villages, for all are sufferers in proportion. The salaries of Government officials must be reduced ; all sinecures must be abolished ; pensions unmerited withdrawn, and others reduced to merited proportions. Connected with this subject it is pleasing to find that some of the nobles of the land are wisely, for their own 'sakes, taking part with the people. Lord Kinnaird has ,addressed a long letter to Mr. A. H. Wylie, upon the 0 . ..) - 'jeet of the association alluded to. His Lordship. who has ever had commerce and the rights of industry at 'heart, does not go the full length aimed at by the associ ation, but he admits the accuracy of many of the princi ples sought to be brought into play, and expresses opinions with firmness and candour. He addresses him se!f to the four objects in view, and first to " a general retrenchment of national expenditure." On this point he states that only about twenty-one millions or the re venue can be touched, and he questions the policy of any large reduction of our forces in the present disturbed state of Europe. He anticipates much, however, from the en quiry now entered into by the parliamentary committee. He does not think the navy can be materially reduced, but that there is no necessity for so large a standing army. With respect to our colonies, we ought when they received the twenty millions compensation, to have made a proviso that it should be devoted to improvements there, and not encourage the recepients to a baneful dependance on the mother country. He thinks great retrenchment may be effected in our diplomatic arrangements, and trusts we shall cease to intermeddle too much with the politics of other countries. On the second head, the assessed taxes, he thinks that many articles are of luxury and fairly tax able, but a fairly-apportioned house tax would be "a good substitute for window and other assessed taxes. He does not believe the abolition of the malt tax would be bene ficial to any class. The revision of the whole excise and customs' taxes are, he conceives, well worthy of attention. On the other two heads—that taxes are imposts that in terfere with industry and should be transferred to direct tax ation, and " the equitable apportionment of all needful taxation" his lordship to a great sxtent.concurs with the association. The property and income tax should be more equitably proportioned. The loss on the tea duties would be fully compensated for by the additional con sumption of sugar. The navigation laws required amendment, also the restrictive clauses in the Bank Act of 1844. His lordship concludes by saying " I hope your association will keep clear of the question of reform in the representation, although it requires very extensive alteration and extension ; yet the two questions are quite distinct, as, even in its present defective state, the decided expression of the country's opinion in favour or against a measure, cannot remain long unheeded." COMMERCIAL CRISIS.-UNFOUNDED RUMOURS. At a time like the present, when the commercial world is but just recovering from a season of disaster and suffer ing, it is lamentable to find that there are among us thoughtless people, whose idle tattle is continually pro ducing renewed distrust; and pointing at, or insinuating, the names of fresh victims, often without the slightest ground beyond their own senseless conclusions. There can obviously be no security for commercial men—no revival of commercial activity—no confidence amongst capitalists —so long as such wanton practices are in dulged in. We know, however, that it is difficult to put a stop to them. From the press, however, we ought to expect better things; and, although generally, want of circum spection as to the promulgation of reports of an unfa vourable character, affecting individual houses, cannot with truth be alleged against our contemporaries, instances of deviation from this -wise and proper course do occasion ally occur. We had an instance in the columns of a contemporary last week, in which a firm was pointed at, by name, as having suspended ; and although, as it hap pens, the firm in question no longer exists, the report was calculated to do serious injury upon the house which has succeeded to its business. Of course the report was promptly contradicted. In a Manchester paper, the Ex aminer of Saturday week, we find an instance of a diffe rent kind in the following paragraph : "We have information from Liverpool, this evening, of rather an unpleasant character. Rumours have been prevalent there, during the day, with reference to parties whose affairs are understood to be in such a position as to render a public announcement of difficulties not improbable within a few hours. We refrain, in the meantime, from mentioning." No names are mentioned here, certainly, although our contemporary, affecting a great degree of credit for concealing them, intimates that the names are in his possession ; but the paragraph is, on that very account, only calculated to produce the more extensive distrust. It is not one house, definitely pointed out, which is in difficulties, but more than one; and every Manchester manufacturer, who has business transactions in Liverpool, is left to surmise whether one or more of the particular houses, in whose stability he is interested, may be the tottering houses in question. Our contempo rary must by this time be convinced that he has been misinformed. May IS, 184 i. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—At the last annual meet- , ing of this institution, the directors were requested to con sider the practicability of throwing open the gvening School to all who chose to attend, at charges varying . fr o 4 three shillings to ss. per quarter. The reasons assigned for this proposal were, that it was very difficult for tht class of adult mechanics to pay the yearly subscription of twenty-one shillings in one sum, and that they often had to pay for a year, but were unable, in consequence of cir cumstances affecting their employments, to attend the full time for which they had paid. The directors have On' salted the wants and convenience of the working class ea, and at the same time retained to them all the privileges of membership, by making the yearly subscription of on• guinea payable in quarterly sums, by those who attend the Evening School. We perceive, also, that two vat, interesting lectures are announced, one by Mr. Pepper, ot London, on Light and Polarized Light, in the course ot, which a great many experiments will be introduced, an d another by Mr. Melville, of London, on Invertebrate° Animals, to be illustrated by living specimens collected on our own shores. LIVERPOOL AND THE HEALTH BILL.—On ThUndaf , in the House of Commons, on the discussion of the Health of Towns Bill, on clause 1 (excluding London and Westminster from the operation of the act, and extendiet it to all other parts of England and to Wales) having bee's put, Mr. Cardwell, in whose name stood a motion for the insertion of a clause to except Liverpool from the act, but to allow any superintending inspector to report upon, one to superintend the mode in which the local sanatory acle are carried out, and to include it under the act on a par" tion from the Town Council to that effect) suggested to the government that the great town which he had the ho nour to represent, possessing, as it did, several local ad e for drainage, sewerage, and water-works, should be re' garded in the same light as London, which was exempted from the provisions of the bill, and that no extension of those provisions to Liverpool should take place until* special inquiry had been made into the state of the town, and into the way in which the present sanatory regulti- Cons were conducted,—The Attorney-General was under stood to say that as to Liverpool, a preliminary inquirY might be instituted, and a special report presented to the house, on which they could act as regarded the town of Liverpool, but there was no analogy between the circum stances which effected it and London and Westminster , because the very complicated arrangements existing in the latter had no parallel in the few local acts which had been passed for Liverpool.—Mr. Cardwell remarked that the town of Liverpool possessed.a sanatory'act, framed on the model recommended in former commissions, which We° much more efficient than that at present before the house; inasmuch as it had been passed with a regard to local cir cumstances, and was not a mere general bill.—Viscount Morpeth thought the reply of the Attorney-Gcneral was quite sufficient to satisfy the honourable member for Li verpool. There was at present a commission of inquirY into the special circumstances connected with London, but no such inquiry existed as to Liverpool. BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPLETION BILLR.—The Par' liamentary Committee on these bills resumed on Mondel , Lord Charles Wellesley in the chair. Our locaD members were present. The opposition of the coasting trade We° proceeeed with, and it appeared from Mr. Campbell' chairman of the Coasters' Association, that there was noir sufficient beaching ground at Woodside, but if the works were completed as proposed that would not be enough- Others gave similar evidence. A claim was put in bY Wr. Pollard and Mr. Hosker to the land attached totheir frontages in the Pool, down to low-water mark—adverse to the crown—but this was opposed, and the claim net gone into. It was stated by Sir John Rennie and others, that to make the works efficient £580,373 would be required. One witness stated that if the inner pool were made, he doubted the possibility of keeping the outer pool clear by sluicing, and dredging would be very costly- Mr. Gordon, professor of civil engineering, of Glasgerr , thought the contemplated outlay on the outer works would be useless without the completion of the inne r works. Mr. Barnett, who represented bondholders to the amount of £30,000 or £40,000, said they had been given to understand that there was a possibility of amal gamation with the Liverpool D oc k s , w hi c h t h e y wou l d much prefer to the worke- being carried on by the assist ance of Government and subscriptions.. They wanted e, sale or an amalgamation with Liverpool. It was state, that the " Home port clause" would be withdrawn, eef. that the promoters proposed to exce pt a ll vesse ls from' wharfage rates up to 200 tons—so that so far as theLiv,....er" pool Dock petition goes the o pp os iti on ceas es .- --1 -"` , Thursday the committee again met. Mr. Barnett Pro" posed an adjournment should be consented to, so that negotiations might be entered into with the Liverpo:l Dock Trustees, which he b e lie ve d m i g ht resu lt i n m utua l advantage. He applied on behalf of the bondholders: Mr. Webster said the question could not be entertainr s by the committee. After the bill s were p asse d the parts d . might negotiate. After some conversa ti on , it was agre e that the committee should stand a dj ourne d un til Tuesee ,. the 30th instant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAD Does.—The Mayor having issued his usual clamation, requiringall dogs to be confined, fifteel l t Pir sons were summoned on Thursday for permittil e but curs to go at large. All sorts of excuses were ro ad in most of the cases the defendants were fined 5 : bite, FRAUD BY A RAILWAY SERVANT.-JOhll " w e stern carter in the employ of the Lond on an d North- tto Railway Company, was committed a t th e P o lice-cou r —, take his trial for altering a freight note from 2s. 9a• to 3s. 9d. -- • MODE OF INTERMENT.—On Friday a number of sex' tons were charged with infractions Of the provisions of the sanatoryrequires that two feet six inches of eart h shall e placed on every coffin immediately after interment! to rft main undisturbed until the grave is wanted again. In some cases the offence was proved; but Mr. Rushton said that the act was of peculiar construction; and be lieving that the defendants had sinned from ignorance. he dismissed the cases, and warned them to comply in future with the exact conditions of the law. The defendant° promised obedience, and departed. REMOVING-NIGHT-SOIL AT AN IMPROPER On Thursday a policeman represented to Mr. Rushton, that the inhabitants of Burgess-street and the neighbour hood had been annoyed by the men in Mr. Rose's en l : ployment removing night-soil, and, in so doing, allowing a liquid manure to flow down the street, the e ftluvlor,, from which was extremely u n pl easan t. Th e magistril enquired the hour at whi c h th e men were em ployed, al l A was told 11 o'clock. This, he said, was too s oon. person from Mr. Rose's establishment said they n'':„ authority from the parish committee to commence early as n o'clock. Mr. Rushton said he should re ek° the order, and fine Mr. Rose, unless there was a bye-lf, to provide for this ; he confessed himself ignorant of '- existence of such law. r ed SHAMEFUL STREET ROBBERY.—A young manil a - „ Michael Dowdie was brought before Mr. Brush „t e ,"; charged with having stolen a watch from Mr. Wm- ; lands, a music teacher. The prosecutor is almost bile e and on Tuesday evening last, he was going through 0 1, cross streets, with a view to get into Great Howard-streeot It was dark and rainy, and he lost his way. Corning , ,, o length, to the end of a street out of which there we° ;a exit, the prisoner and another man came up to hinl asked him where he wished to go ? He said to 9,,rr af Howard-street, that he might reach the pier-head. T h u s Z took each hold of an arm, and led him along ve ri ne streets till near the canal bridge, when the prisoner, v 4 A,,, the other held him, snatched his watch and ran o ' l He was committed for trial at the sessions. lief, ROBBERY OF A BANKRUPT'S STOCK.—On Thu s. -, Abraham Turbott, William Prescott, and James Hart. e : e ; were charged with an extensive robbery on the Pre ° k lately used by Messrs. Stockdale, soap-boilers, Blackstog street. Police-officers Lloyd and Bates went, on Me," bee morning, to a yard in the above street, and, in a 5 ,1 1 . p. there, found some cisterns, lined with lead, a box of IL " s► six pound weights, large screws, beams, and brass-fi bagging, and a great quantity of other articles. . 1e t he then went to Hornby-street, and, in the house of ir prisoner Prescott, who had charge of the premisesuld and night, found under his bed a basket, containing ra e o ci candles, a large table which had been used as a desk , : e sa an office stand; , also a quantity of bags similar to tmuse, found in Blackstock-street stable. At Turbott 's be d is other art.cles of a similar description were found, an o a Hartley's house, Thistle-court, Shore-place, weights, scales, candles, and testing instruments, were disc° dis- In all, from £BO to £lOO worth of nroperty had beetliva, covered, but a much larger quantity had been take n Aiely Turbott was also charged with, stealing a quantity ° f of; Tome, and offering to-'sell-it Cusey, Nosil -b° de but Mr. Casey, suspecting it to have been stoliire, tamed the property and gave information to th e and was thus the means of bringing all the parties, i n the tice. It appears that the property is now vest 0 0. t. Borough Bank, and it was to be sold on Mon d 0 The prisoners were committed for trial. THE STONELEIGH ABBEY CASE BEFORE T- I 110 e POOL POLICE-counr.—On Friday forenoon a ge, D olts went into Mr. Rushton's court in a state of grew' -whiel) ment, and desired a hearing from the m agistrate , t alea• was granted after some immediate business was desP' ; bat He inquired for the reporter of the Landau Ti/l ies u rt, ll° finding that paper employed no reporter in the ee in sent for the correspondent of the paper, who aPPen7., re' short time. The latter was immediately speciayddie tained." Soon after the gentleman introduce d a trsaliell aged man to Mr. Rushton, who made a statemen'ublicll was taken down in writing .. The gentleman the n P v igh ° tnaL ac ioa' said, that his name was Jones, that he was Lor.e. / porn: solicitor, and that he had arrived in Liverpool ing with a person who was able to . rebut the au" e f iaa charges brought against Lord Leigh,. and that Per i s s letie ll now it court.—Mr. Rushton said be had no :Ju r . e stat e ; in the case, which begun in another court ; but the state; ments made by the person alluded to were of B, ll .. a c i e posr, leave no doubt of their truth. Re then readt,in e nent,,_ tion of that person. It was to the effect that a' a r t Edg e ' name was William Billinge, aged 52, residinf r Adge hill, and at present a mason employed on the ws Lat st,a" erecting in Wavertree-road ; that in 1814 he i _ se pbt, leigh Abbey with his father and his brother.Ju eTr A former of whom was the only Matthew 8i110g, e 8 26, or t knew ; his father died at Stockport, in 18 25 e r e l a L 3 / 4 1070 was buried near that town. Deponent nrodu e ,utr. Je l ls proving that his father was alive after 1814. ,a7;.eiiil4-0 thanked the magistrate for bearing the cases t ) ,l iix Oro) latter said it was the duty of every one tp ° tru th el ti the truth, repeating his conviction of the „ r „. Ita g e statements made. The man was identified blr . sfi t to ton's own son, an engineer, who was sent f sce sabe l ed had seen the accounts in the newspaperspA n " r the send a letter to Lord Leigh when a nevisPer e f tbe 7) to him came to hand, containing au accon mgr . Jo written by Mr. Jones, to whom he wrote, n s yln having succeeded in finding out this witne e ,, n ress._Ate4 quence Mr. Jones came here, travellingf `i; ea t arrived at the mason's boon state ° meat.