The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

1836. at England is einment suf . - Per isly promoted reform, there st intentions; were sincere. erstood by its Teen applying xacerbationg, of discontent liar. To the 7 have freely raging thirst; me wore ag , a favourable jute and rest Look at the 'isborne—two diseases pre !me fatuity of Id the .appro le main quo,. n. What has t complicated ? What re ed, and now ling and ex ith regard to )m our shores, all are lost, or he merchant, 'table world -1 nations—be Iroductions of painted with xw•s and corn- ort into which o shop to im , quitting his ke a speech at' ike the Ghost or, perhaps, 'afters of the of a spot to e do not wish back ground, ;has. But we cubed all over )od policy lies d to represent , covered the .ere all buried this enlight ,litical aberra-- nd intelligent se " habitans ait dane l'nni- cent au com (intent jamais ;" and would ad honourable Pyre—" Nous de la Great chercher des y, even upon most respecta- point we re magnet, yet, i of social and. e those poles ngether by a clamour or the le intelligence heard further, s prosperity of nsive accepta- t common in- ger 4o imitate- tire, and then to secure hic• tntastic article Let a vigilant 1. Whilst we and with civil . ns of national nts of our po " tariff" the- Aes of British, the disturbed, isted, we find, nterests—that i at home, un broad. There this policy of which govern& gligent of our ourselves, that this moment, in the coun .tes that pene- xercise of " a well-arranged sipations, lays .ilst every day lan. Turkey agle has more 7—but the fit er plume her apply of some e ventures to inimpassioned 'm of physical itement—two in the body n of reform— much indiffer r interests in Hecuba ? " is We, we are Lion itself can Ttake the de olved, to me m of England test reformer, to him. It is nt to common t political zeal to throw the the political tion, which, if will prove the [ready greatly [verted the ex f civil discord. rst accompani- for we have at its highest f England was hare seen con the arrival of it of renewed n to toil ; and return—whilst ias climbed the piece of intel 'bridled hopes, independence, And we have ce the cloud" ,1 intoxication nen, who were radually more of that " neon ; of their dis ee, i n th e just what a ehangP short years." native princt a man of edu or time. imme ,' liberal ; now. - Murat seemed ?mble to attack which, under popery, was Nov. 18, 1836, „norastly deemeei an enormous sinecure; but the attempt . 80001. So fard uly ' fromhthat ci they when h i e t e t o o P uld eo n b o r t in g , e_t Clergymen to to destroyonly her, that popery might be established on her Pc:t.iftolreumlatnhaotr ruins, h as di splayed her true character, investe d h er w i t h Church ' ( I YE ou ntland atten,led, he had hiliwdj thecha racter of a Christian martyr, and covere d h er perse- g h t eard the children the Catechism of the Church of England, and, where he understood it, endeavoured to explain it in the sense of tutors with confusion. Then popery offered itself as a lamb, the Clergy,—and in the reading of the Bible also.” and we were assured that all its recorded atrocities were the As Unitarians disclaim uniformity of belief, it is a difficult crimes o f f ormer ages; but as it felt its strength, it began matter to say what their creedis.lt i t s h , e h d o :n e t v ri e n r e , generally rthe yn tosp ea k as a dragon, proving, by perjury in parliament, de rstoodthat th unanimouseN, agree in rejecting denying the divinity of our Sa . atone and by persectition and blood in Ireland, that its character ment ' and are is unch anged and unchangeable. Then there was a con fusion of pai l fres; while large classes of the friends of the cons titution had objects which the destructives were vril -I.ing to t a k e i n t h e i r way ; now t h e quest i on i s b ro ught to one siMple alternative—tire Protestant Church or 13 .. ° PerY, the English constitution or a republic ?—a ques !Lon which allOws no reom for neutrality, compromise, or Indecision.. By one triumph we shall save the country; s he must perish if we fall! But, happy as these presages are of a return to sound doctrines, we should be hap pier still if we . cou ld acce l erate it s p rogress by directing the attention and engaging the energies of our country men in questions that involve their best interests—the ec onomy of trade, the condition of our manufactories, the prosperity of agriculture, and, united with, and influen• tial over all, the monetary state of England. It is the Subtle, selfish policy of a few turbulent spirits in the land, in whom there is what Darwin calls a great deal of "accumulated mobility," to keep up this agitation in the public mind whatever sacrifice be made. They have no s hips rotting without employment—no half blank bills of bi ding —no enginesworking "limited hours"—no freights to countries where profit is absorbed in fiscal exactions. No, like other impurities, they can only be kept from sinking by agitation. Awake, then, ye merchants of Liverpool! try what can be done for yourselves—what for your country during the next session, of parliament. Set an example to the land; and, as ye are the first in c ommercial enterprise, be the first to demand protection to commerce. It is an honourable and praiseworthy emulation that prompts the mind to that only real pa triotism--public happiness. So long as we have this channel of urging an appeal, you shall never have the 4 Pology - to make for neglecting your duty, that you have not beenttMinded of it. vieur. Mr. Rathbone having professed himself to be a Unitarian, there is reason to believe that these opinions, with respect to which there is no material disagreement among the members of that sect, are co-incident with his own. If such be the case, how can he, as an honest man and a ehristian,—for such we are persuaded he would be accounted,—reconcile to his conscience the treachery of the Church Catechism, containing, as that ex cellent formulary does, an explicit declaration that " Gud the Son" hath redeemed mankind ? How can he reconcile this conduct with that zeal which a sincere belief of the doctrines he espouses is t alculated to inspire ? Is it consistent in him to ap peal to Mr. Horsfall for the corroboration of a statement which implies that he instructed the children in doctrines which he cannot hut condemn as erroneous? Is it credible that any one, possessing any regard for the opinion of the public,—any con cern for his own reputation, could teach what would be most repugnant to his own feelings and convictions, —merely for the sake of establishing a claim to the character of a man of li- berality"? To exhibit this matter in a still stronger light, we would ask' what would be thought of a Protestant Clergyman, -- Mr. M'Neile for instance—if he, in the absence of any Roman Catho lic Priest or Socinian Councillor from these schools, were to in struct the children in the doctrine of transubstantiation or hu man perfectibility ? Would not such au outrage upon decency and consistency procure for him the unequivocal disapprobation of all good men ? Would not such conduct render hint the object of universal censure ? No Protestant Minister or layman could so act, we are convinced, without incurring the merited stigma of being accounted a hypocrite. Now, we would *ally appeal to the common sense of the peo ple of Liverpool whether such a man is a proper person to be entrusted with the education of children,—especially in the all important matter of r eligion? Is a man who knowingly and avowedly teaches that which his► own conscience must condemn, a fit and proper person to be on the Education Committee ? This is modern liberality with a vengeance ! With such men as Mr. Rathbone, liberalism and insincerity must certainly be considered as convertible terms, or he would not be found mak ing a shameful dereliction of duty a matter of boast, and claim ing the praise of his fellow-councillors for compromising his religious principles. It is hard,—if it be not impossible,—to determine whether the infidelity or the folly of some characters predominates in their public exhibitions. Let us hope, —it is charitable to do so, — that, in the case of Mr. Rathbone, than an unchecked i►nagi- At the adjourned meeting of the Town Council, on Wednesday last, Mr. Councillor Hope, on introducing a !motion for the appointment of a committee to consider the best mode of securing due publicity and uniformity in the sale of corporate property, took occasion to ani madvert on a paragraph which appeared in the Standard O f the 14th October, relative to the sale of the Globe Chambers. The objectionable part of the paragraph al luded t o i s t h at w hi c h a tt r ib u t es to some members of the gination, and a mistaken impulse of feeling, are the secret springs from which come of his recent extraordinary perform ances have arisen. c ommittee jobbing, in its most objectionable shape, and exercising an influence quite incompatible with their boasted professions of purity. We were at the time in Peesession of sufficient documentary evidence to justify the suspicion, and our opinion was confirmed by the evi deece taken before the special committee appointed, on t he motion of Mr. Councillor Barclay, to enquire into t he particulars of the transaction, and also by the pro- °eedings in the Town Council on receiving their report. Before we reply to the attack which Mr. Councillor Hope has thought proper to make upon the Standard, we shall lay before our readers the opinions entertained by seve. rat members of the Council relative to this transaction, Which proves satisfactorily that we were by no means Singular in the opinion we expressed. In the debate which took place on the 30th of Sep tember, on receipt of a letter from the Directors of the Liverpool Tradesmen's Bank, complaining of the deci sion of the improvement committee, Mr. Councillor Shiel "id, "it had been insinuated to him that members of the Corporation were interested in this transaction." Mr. Councillor Bolton seconded the motion that the sale be 4 /mulled. Mr. Councillor Tayleure thought the best Way would be to put the land up for sale again. The ?notion for appointing a special committee to investigate the transaction was supported by Messrs. J. Holmes, Lo gan, Thornhill, Harvey, Thornely, Rawdon, M‘Gregor, 1. Holmes, Mellor, Birch, Rushton, H. Hornby, J. Lawrence, Lassell, T Holt, Earle, Coglan, E. Cropper, Alison, G. Holt, J. Cropper, Jordan, Duncan, Tayleure, Heyworth, Moon, Bailey, Barclay, Robinson, Stuart, BrOwn, T. Smith, and the Mayor, from a conviction that theie was suTheient ground for inquiry, and that it was necessary to remove the suspicions entertained by the Public. Having ourselves perused the correspondence Which passed between the Directors of the bank and the inwrovement committee, arid being in possession of se veral eorroborativelacts, we were of opinion that a sus. ilieron of unfair dealing did attach to some members of the committee. As public journalists, in the exercise of a public', duty, we fearlessly and honestly expressed our oPitsion,- and sailed public attention to the record of facts in 'another column. When the report of the committee was'presented to the Council, twenty of the members re-, coaled their votes in favour of Mr. Bolton's motion, that it be• not confirmed. such are the facts of the case as they were presented to the public, and thus the matter dropped. Our readers will be at a loss to discover in all this the reason for the charge preferred against us, on two occa sions; by Mr. Councillor Hope. He commences his at tack by charging us with commenting on the proceed ings of the committee in terms of bitter sarcasm and irony, and undef the influence of a malignant spirit. We can assure Mr. Councillor Hope that we are by no means disposed "to establish for ourselves the unenviable dis tinction of maligning the conduct of members of the Council," but at the same time we are determined not to bo driven from the stern path of duty by the senseless and malignant attacks . of any man. Was not this ho nourable councillor aware, when he made the assertion, "that there never were any public proceedings more free from taint of any nature, of any interested Motive, either direct or indirect, on the part of the members of the corn -tnittee than were the proceedings in question"—that .20 members of the Council had expressed a contrary be lief, and voted in favour of the land being again offered for Sale, and submitted to a more honourable competi tion-? Mr. Catincillor Hope is, by profession, a liberal, and in the true spirit of such liberality would fetter pub lie opinion by abusing men whom he cannot reprove. We feel exceedingly obliged to Mr. Hope for his forbear ance,, for it-is just possible that had he inflicted a more severe castigation we could not have survived it. Verily it i s something to be a rafafnled mini-miller. He --would, if it were in his power, deter us from exposing injustice, from commenting upon the actions of public men, and above all from suspecting the motives of our liberal coun cillors, and whilst we quietly sailed with the stream, and allowed error and vice to triumph, he would communi cate the cheering intelligence to the Town Council, that the STANDARD was, at length, bringing forth " the fruits • of repentance." We shall endeavour to profit by the reproof we re ceived from some members of the Town Council, at their meeting on Wednesday, respecting the incorrectness of our rep or ts. It has been our study to give faithful and Impartial reports of all public proceedings, and we have *ecured to ourselves a fair share of public confidence. In reporting the proceedings of the Town Council we have occasionally departed from our usual course, from an unwillingness to expose our liberal Councillors to the Contempt and scorn of their constituents by reporting at length their foolish and unmeaning harangues. Our object has been to give the meaning, although not in the exact words. But we have failed to give satisfaction to some few of these Councillors, and are now resolved to adopt a different course. We perfectly agree with Mr. Councillor Lawrence Heyworth, that " if a man speaks nonsense, the public should know it," and for this simple reason we have reported his speech verbatim. And as some atonement for past errors, we have printed it in Italics, and recommend our friends to read it carefully. In the recent proceedings of the Town Council, under the head "Education Committee," Mr. Councillor Ilathbone, 'Peaking in defence of the system of education adopted in the Corporation Schools, is reported to have said that "he had no I "*ltation in avnw i t y: himself a Unitarian Dissenter: but he 4 0, at the came time that he had the confirmation of Mr. eharl,c TinTsfill, who, he was sorry was not present to hear hitn out, that ho never brought his sectarian principles into tha t MONEY MARKET: TUESDAY EVENING. — Notwithstanding the general expecta tion raised yesterday of some announcement bearing on the existing difficulties of the currency, the day has g assed over without anything of the kind, and people are left in as much doubt as ever what result, if any, is to follow the frequent inter views between the Governor of the Bank and Mr. Rice. That he has been pushed hard for an advance of the interest on Exchequer-bills cannot be doubted, and that he had given at one time a qualified consent to it is equally certain; and the wonder now is, for what reason the public are so long kept with out information on the subject. The prevalent conjecture, in this absence of actual information, is, that Mr. Rice is seized with a fit of indecision—that he is desirous of making only such an advance as will just keep Exchequer-bills above par, and that in balancing this nice point he has fairly been brought to a stand. That 2d. will never do has been already proved; and he is said to have been at first willing to make the advance to 2c11; but some suggestion having been made that 2d'. might be sufficient, he is said to have been wholly confounded in the attempt to determine which of these courses is the best. To decide wrong iu this case, so as to be driven soon to an advance, would, as he feels, tend to make him still more ridiculous, and yet he is desirous not to assist the Bank any snore than is required fur his own security, so angry is he with the whole of the late conduct of the directors. Some persons imagine, and we think with reason, that Mr. Rice has not any very clear no tion what the nature of an Exchequer bill is, as his language always has been, that, however they may fall, there may be loss to the bank, but no detriment to him. lie makes a difference, too, between the holding of the bank in this security and that of any private holder; but, allowing the amount in circulation to remain the same, this cannot matter, as its convertibility into money is the very essence of its character , it must rise with any general rise in the value of money, or the government must be embarrassed, and the implied contract with the public be broken This, or a funding to reduce the amount, is the only mode of proceeding that can be adopted. Various projects have been broached in the city to-day connected with the currency, one of which was to have au issue of small notes payable in sil ver only; and another was a similar issue founded merely on deposits of silver at the Mint, but not absolutely payable in that medium, and to be called Mint notes. These are evidently mere experiments oft the public feeling, and have no chance of being adopted. No one has the courage in a direct way to own the authorship of them. — Times. THE GARRICK.—The new packet ship Garrick, from New York, arrived here yesterday; she is the largest vessel that has , yet entered the port of Liverpool since the formation of the docks. Her burthen is about 900 tons, American, which would be upwards of 1,100 English. Her accommodations are superb, , and in many respects superior to any of the other packets. She has proved the excellence of her sailing qualities by having made the passage in seventeen days. The following is the list of passengers :—Messrs. J. D. Lawrence, J. D. Cogswell, P. Dunn, W. Elliot, Ridgway, C. B. Raymond. HUNDRED OF WIRRALL.—The election of guardians, under the poor law bill, for the hundred of Wirrall, took place yester day. Four conservatives and three radicals were elected. THE EXHIBITION.—This delightful lounge, we perceive, is approaching towards the termination of its season. It continues, however, daily to be the classical resort of great numbers during their leisure hours, and must have contributed much towards improving and refining the taste of the inhabitants of the town. We trust that so excellent an institution for the encouragement of the fine arts, for diffusing a very refined pleasure, and im proving the public taste, may, as its infancy disappears, increase in growth and strength. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.-00 Tuesday last, the 15th instant, Sir Robert' Peel was elected.to fill the office of Lord Rector in Glasgow University by an overwhelming majority. DEATH BY POISON.--On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Sessions'-house, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner for the borough, on view of the body of Joseph Jones. The mother of the deceased stated that she lived in Claremont-street. The deceased was between three and four years old. On Satur day she removed every thing out of the cupboard, and put them on a tray in order to clean out the place. A short tone after she had done so, she heard the deceased cry out, and she said, " What is to do with you now ?" A little boy who was playing with deceased told her he had taken something that had burnt his mouth. She immediately ran to him and found him rubbing his mouth with his hands. The little boy pointed to a bottle which he said the deceased bad drank out of, and found it to contain some vitriol and turpentine, which she had bought to kill bugs with about nine months ago. Witness took him to a druggist's, and from thence to the Dispensary, where he was attended, until he died yesterday morning, by Mr. Craig, the House Surgeon. The jury returned a veadict to the effect that the deceased died in consequence of having accidentally taken poison. CAPTURE OP SLAVE-SHIPs.—We have been favoured with the following account of the number of slaves captured by H.M. brigantine Buzzard, Lieut. Campbell acting commander, from 17th Deceniber, 183-1, to July, 1836 : Formidable .Off Old Ca1abar....702 slaves. • Iberia Bonny 313 Bre.nYeneida. ....Lat 44N, long 1 W 433 Seiniramid Bonny 477 Norma Bonny 236 Legira • Nun l9B Mendillo . . ... ...Camaroons 268 Felicia Bonny 4Ol Farnorsa 13ernera Bimini' • cargo Joven Carolina ..Old Calabar 432 Total 3460 The whole were under Spanish colours, with the exception o. the Meridalo and Juven Carolina. The amount of prize-money is so considerable its to afford the sum of £5OO to the common seamen belonging to the brigantine, FIRE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE SILTHOLISE DOCK.—About nine o'clock, on Tuesday night, a fire broke out in the upper sale-room occupied by Mr. Hunt, of the premises adjoining the Dumfries and Kirkcudbright Tavern. There was no person belonging to the sale-room on the premises when the fire broke out, and it cannot be said how it originated. It was first ob served by one of the dock police, who instantly gave the alarm. In a short time three engines were on the spot, and the smoul dering element was suppressed before it burst into a flame. It was owing to the activity of Mr. Bedson, Mr. Cutrie, and seve ral other individuals in the neighbourhood that the fire was speedily suppressed. A partition was broken through into the sale-room—buckets of water were carried up, and the fire was kept well under till the engines arrived. Great credit is due to Mr. Dowling and the Fire Police for their exertions. Had it not been for their promptness a conflagration, such as never had been witnessed in Liverpool, would have destroyed the whole range of warehouses between Ansdell-street and Charlotte-street, as they were full of all kinds of combustible materials, such as pitch, oakum, tar, and oil, besides sails. BLEEDING TO DEATH.'A young woman named Ann Creer, who was living in the service of Miss Whittaker, in Datityb street, came by her death a few days ago in the following extra ordinary manner. Miss Whittaker went out in the early part of the day, leaving the servant (the deceased) to take care of the house. She returned home about half-past one o'clock, having been absent about three hours. She knocked at the door repeatedly, but received no answer, nor did the servant come to open it. At length Miss Whittaker became alarmed, and requested a servant next door to get over the wall and as certain the reason of the silence within the house. The servant was prevailed upon to go over the wall, but she immediately re turned shrieking and evidently much alarmed. A servant man was then sent over to open the door, and on the entrance of Miss Whittaker and the man into the kitchen a most appalling spectacle met their view. The youn , woman, who a few hours before was alive and apparently full of health and vigour, sat in an upright posture quite dead. A pail of water with a sponge in it, was standing by her side, and a large pool of blood was flowing on the floor. A surgeon was sent for, who examined the deceased, and found that the blood had flowed from one of her legs, which was full of varicose veins, one of which was of fected with an ulcer. Two large veins communicating with the ulcer he found quite open, and he had no doubt that the blood had flowed therefrom, and that she had died from the excessive quantity she had lost, almost instantaneously. It was supposed that the deceased had been washing the ulcer with the water that was found beside her, and had by that means opened an old sound, and so hastily accelerated her own death. The body was afterwards viewed 1)1' a coroner's jury, and the above facts having been given in evidence, a verdict was returned, "that the deceased had bled to death, accelerated by natural causes." THE LIVERPOQL STANDARD. TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The council met again, by adjournment, on Wednesday, at eleven o'clock, fur the despatch of public business. THE REPORTERS. As soon as the reporters were admitted into the council room, The M A YOH said, he had always been an advocate for the ad mission of reporters into that room; but he thought when any gentleman's statements were misrepresented it was only right that he should have an opportunity of setting them right. They certainly had made him appear to have spoken in a very rude manner to Mr. Wood, and in a way that he should be very sorry to do. He found he was made to say in one paper (reading from the STANDARD) the following sentence to Mr. Wood:— " The Mayor. Without suggesting what your presumptions will be, the Town-clerk will be ready to answer your questions as soon as you are seated. You have asked a great many questions, and we must not hear your suppositions." Fie was sure that was a very rude speech which he had made, and he begged to say that he never did make it. He merely called Mr. Wood to order, he having spoken before, who, in asking questions, followed them by presuming something. He said, "the Town-clerk would answer the questions when Mr. Wood had done; but he had asked a great m an y , and he would have some difficulty in answering them." He did not think he had said what he bad been made to say. and that if be had, Mr. Wood would have called him to order. He did not, however, believe ,that he had been intentionally misrepresented ; but he thought that it was a mistake which had occurred iu the hurry of business. Mr. Councillor J. N. WOOD was perfectly sure that Mr. Earle never did make use of the expressions which were in the STANDARD. Mr. Councillor LAWRENCE HEYWORTH.---" I hold in my hand something which is very wrong, relative to what is said in this council -1 he MAYOR presumed it only related to what had appeared in the room. Mr. Councillor Liw HENCE HEYWORTH.—“, I anz•quite aware. I am iu order in speaking on this subject, and should be obliged for your permtssion to do so. The paper 1 have in hattd. is a, gross. misrepresentation. (What paper was not stated.) lam made to express sentiments I never intended. If 1 understood right, the main and original object of hoeing reporters in this room to report what is said by this coanail—it is in order that the constituency who have sent them here may form an opinion on our merits or .dente rite, by giving correct views. If our sentiments are misrepresented, or made indeed the reverse of the sentiments we have expressed, then the delusion is as great as can be to the public; and so far from the reporters being of use ' they are an actual nuisance. (" Hear," from Mr. Councillor Francis Jordan.) Fur if a man speaks nonsense, it is desirable that the publics should know it; and if he expresses himself wisely, it is important that the public should know it. I only mention this that the reporters in this room would be so kind that they will endeavour to be correct in •What is said by this board." [Our REPORTER on referring to his notes of what the Mayor did say to Mr. Wood, finds a slight discrepapcy between that and what he is represented to have said, and which he can only attribute to the hurry of writing oat four columns of the council proceedings, occurring the day after a long meeting which re quired all his attention, and to having to dictate to au amanuen sis. The substance, howeiier, is precisely the same. "He finds in his short-hand notes the following, without the omission of a word, and, to the best of his belief , it is verbatim what occurred : "The Mayor (interrupting Mr. Wood.)—sWithout suggesting what your presumptions will be, the Town-clerk will be ready to answer the questions as soon as you are seated. We must not have your suppositions. You have asked a great many questions, and it will be difficult to remember them. Our re porter begs to say that he invariably endeavours to give impar tially the meaning of every speaker, and, when space will allow it, frequently the vary words. With regard to what Mr. Law rence Heyworth has been pleased to say, the reporter begs to repeat that he does "endeavour to be correct;" and in order that Mr. Lawrence Heyworth may not complain of him as a nuisance (if he should be alluded to) iu subjecting Mr. H.'s speeches to the rounding off for which not a few of the town councillors are indebted to him, the reporter pledges himself in future, when Mr. Councillor Lawreuce Heyworth may speak at length, on any subject, to report him literally, in ate first person, that when Mr. Lawrence Heyworth speaks "nonsense, or wisely, the public may know it."' The reporter begs to state. that he has begun to redeem his pledge on the present occasion.] THE LECTURER OF ST. JOHN'S STIPEND. The MAvoit immediately proceeded to the business of the council. He was happy to say they had not much business before them. The reason of adjourning the council tothat day was to get through the business which remained at the termina tion of the last quarterly meeting. The first thing in order was . a notice from the Rev. Mr. Moss. The TOWN-CLERK then read a notice sent to him from the Revs Mr. Moss, lecturer of St. John's, respectfully demanding that the annual stipend of £lBO, which during the seven years past had been usually paid and granted, should forthwith be secured to him, together with all arrears, in pursuance to the provisions of an act of parliament to that end provided. The town-clerk said he should explain that this claim rested on the 68th section of the municipal act, according to which "all pen sions and allowances granted on or before the sth day of June, 1835, by the corporate body to any retired officer or servant, or to the widow or child of any officer or servant, and all sti pends or allowances which during seven years next before the said sth day of Juue have been usually granted and paid to the minister or late minister of any church or chapel, or to the rnas ter or usher of any school, &c. by such corporate body, shall be secured, as sous as conveniently may be after the passing of this act, to every person entitled or accustomed to have and re ceive the same, by bond or obligation under the common seal of the borough, out of whose funds the same shall be payable, together with all arrears of such stipend." The sub-committee, who had reported on the church proceedings, under the advice of counsel, reported to Mt. Moss that he was not to be consi dered a minister cr late minister of the Chapel of St. John, but appointed by the common council not as minister, but as lec turer. A supplementary report had been made ou the circum stance of Mr. Moss being appointed under the nomination of the bishop and under the seal of the corporation, with a view to its being taken into consideration when the subject should again be brought forward; Mr. Bolton's motion having left that and other claims to stand over. Mr. Moss had urged, in bringing forward his claim, that in not residing in the parish of Liver pool he would not be entitled to benefit under thesetriewment deed. He would read several letters on the claim which had paSsed betwixt him (the townclerk) and Messrs Shuttleworth and Hopkins, of Preston; Mr. Moss's solicitors, to show the amicable manner in which the question was treated. The town clerk then read over several letters and replies on the subject. It would be very right, if Mr. Moss had a claim to this bond, that he should have it without any expensive litigation. The course that he should recommend was, that the claim Should be referred to the finance committee. Mr. Aldermen RoutstsoiS inquired if Mr. Moss was the offi ciating minister of St. John's; for, as far as he could collect, his claim seemed founded on the word "minister," meaning the officiating clergyman. If he' was not the officiating minister, he should think that claim would not avail him. The TOWN-CLERK said the question really turned on this, whether the act of parliament meant any other person than the minister of the church authoriied to be appointed by the act of parliament. The opinions of counsel were, that it did not- It would answer no good purpose to enter into the discussion there. lie thought Mr. Moss was entitled to have the questiOn fairly considered. If its legality could be ascertajned fairly, it ought to be done so.. Mr. Councillor JANIZS HICIWORTII wished the 68th clause alluded to to be read again, which was accordingly done by the town-clerk as above. Mr. Councillor J. Hoestes moved thatd t the subject be referred to the select f ina n c e committee.—A6 !dr. BIBBY wished to know if Mr. Moss had ever officiated for the last twenty years for the church named ? The TOWN-CLERK apprehended there could be no doubt but that he had. The MAYOR thought this was rather opening the question after it had been decided, which was rather unusual. Mr. Councillor Moon believed he could state that Mr. Moss did officiate occasionally. TABLE OF FEES. The Tow ts-cenae said under the municipal act the council had to settle the tables of fees for the clerk of the peace of the borough, the clerks of the magistrates, and also of the fees of the registrar of the civil court. These fees in strictness ought to have been settled before that time, but, in consequence of its being understood that some procedure was intended by govern ment to fix uniform tables for these tees, it had been delayed. A letter bad been received from Mr. Phillips, of the Home office, on the subject. The town-clerk read the letters'which stated that Lord John Russell, having seen the great disparity which existed in the tables of fees, thought it would be ad.visa ble that a revised and uniform table of fees should - be fixed, and enclosing a copy of fees, requesting it to be returned with such. observations as might be made upon it. This subject had been referred to the consolidated committee en the duties and ernes lurnents of the town-clerk, but that committee not having been continued, some other might be appointed to have the claims referred. It would be for the council to appoint which. — Mr. Councillor RATHBONE begged to move that itbesreferreds to the borough court committee; their province. Mr. Alderman RorirNsors seconded that. Agreed.tO.: • A PPOINTMENT ,OF AUDITORS FOR THE DOCKS,,AHD HIDE! CONSTABLE. The MAYOR said the next thing was the appolptineta of four auditors for the docks. and heel. it The Town-ccanK said the order of st a n din g :notices was, when a vacancy occurred, to name it a t one council filled. , up the meat. lie thought, however, in .this Casa; the strictness of the rule might be diapensed with in the sieetion . of' four auditors the dock ,question, ues tion, who were to - eight auditors chosen by the ship-owners and 'other rate-payers h , and who were. to be teected aenually. Thits was a vacancy whic; in point of law ; the council were bounsd to* taki,notiee of ; and the day of appointment• might be either fired for the following Wednesday, or, in strict accordance w i th t he standing rule, od the next nionthly.council. Another thing was the appointment of an officer to be called High-constable. In laying the watch rate, the amendment act directed that the warrant dile mayor' for .levying the rate should be directed to a person filling an office of the nature of the high constable, which rendered it ne 7 cessary that there should be a person appointed to that office. The office would be one of very little trouble and not requiring any emolument; and •when it had been mentioned before, (by the town-clerk) it was proposed (by the town-clerk) that the office •should be filled up by the deputy town'-clerk ; this might also be referred to the next meeting. These appointments were accordingly refer; ad. DOCKS AT TRANMERE. Mr. Councillor E. SMITH said he had been struck by an ad vertisement in one of the Chester papers that morning, which, in its object, materially affected the interests of the town. It was a proposal to construct at Tranmeie two or pore wet docks and graving docks, to be exempt from paying deck rates to Liverpool. He would hand over the advertisement to the town clerleto read. • The Tow N-CLRRK then read the advertisement, which was a notice, signed Samuel Brittain, Chester, to the effect that ap plication would be made to parliament for leave to bring in a bill for building, in the township of Tranmere, two or more wet docks, and two or more graving docks, with proper piers , works, warehouses, &c. for the loading and discharging of all ships and vessels going there, and for the discharge of ships loaded for Liverpool, and that a provision would be made in the act to exempt all vessels. loading and discharging there from th spay f ment of all dues and rates levied on ships entering the prt o Liverpool, and for imposing such dues, on such vessels, for en tering the said dock, as in the said act would be particularly mentioned. The MAYOR said in the old councils there was an order that the Town-clerk should have his eye on things of this sett, which were likely to militate against the interests of the town of Liver pool; and the last year there had been a resolution to the same effect which had. not this year been passed. 'The Town-ceuitx said the resolution was, "that the Town clerk he instructed to watch all hills before Foarliament bearing on the interests of .Liverpool. This notice directly affected the rights of the town, for so long ago as the reign of Queen Anne there was an act ,whi c h s t a ted - that Liverpool was entitled to dock dues as far as 'lloylsilte, and all the intermediate Alas Mr. Alderman LEATHOM, BS chairman. of the doeit commit tee, would state that the eontroittee would take it into their cons sideration. 116 - was not aware of it before. The Mason said the' subject might be referred to the select finance cvaunittee.-- Re ferred. TIM IMPROVEMENTS IN POOL-LANE. Mr. Counbinor ExtGLIT Said souse of the tradesmen in Pool ane-eintititain:ed, that: - They were_ served with a notice to quit their dwellings before this veer, and many of them had dune so as early as January last. 'lite house's of those who had done so were prepared now for their return, but they could uut do so without material injury to their stocks in trade, as the building of other houses in their immediate vicinity was still going on, whilst many houses still remained iu their original state, their tenants uot•liaving left them, and when the demolition of these houses should be commenced it would be very injurious to the stocks el retail dealers. * The ma von said be believed he could answer this himself. The improQeinent committee were alive to the improvement of this street, and regretted very much that there was some legal difficulty relating to some of the proper; and particularly to a warehouse belonging to Mr. Cyrus Morrall. Mr. Councillor RATIIIIONE had no doubt but this would prove a very serious inconvenience to individuals. Mr. Councillor BRIGHT said in consequence of improper no tices having been given, some of the tenants could hold over. Mr. Councillor HOPE said it was merely a question between landlord and tenant; the improvement committee would give every attention to it. Mr. Councillor BOLTON said the houses in Pool-lane belonged to a variety of individuals, and he conceived the corporation had no right to give notices to quit to tenants of property which was not theirs. SALES OF CORPORATE PROPERTY. The MAYOR was happy to say that the business of the day was finished. Mr. Councillor HOPE.-" Excuse me, there is a notice I have had on the books for some time—a notice fora special purpose." After looking over the notice-book—" '!'be MAYOR said the notice of Mr. Hope, given for the 9th of this month, was, "that a committee be appointed to consider the best mode of disposing of all corporate property, and espe cially for securing due publicity and uniformity in the sale of such property." Mr. Councillor Hoes then spoke as follows : —" In conformity with the spirit of that notice I-move, " that a committee be now appointed to consider the .best mode of securing due publicity and uniformity in.the sale of corporate property, and that the following members do form it." It may be remembered, on in troducing this subject; that I-adeerted to a paragraph which had appeared of a very objectionable nature in the Standani paper. 1 did net then press my motion, as we were then on the eve of an election. 1 took the liberty of commenting on the manner in which it had been made a party question, and the manner in which it reflected ou the improvement committee. I feel it quite due to the council to state that the remarks in question appear to me still as they did appear to me at that time, to discover an intentional malignity in imputing dishonourable and base motives without any foundation, and without even a colour to support any asserted t r act, and must meet with the reprehen sion or all.. it is true, that the editors, or editor of that paper, or amateur editors, have made remarks since a little in extenua tion of their own conduct in, this particular, but I am free to add not altogether in a satisfactory manner. But !forbear, in con sideration of this extenuation, and I trust the contrition they i have expressed will be followed by fruits of repentance, and that they will not venture to establish for themselves the unenviable distinction of maligning the conduct of members whose public conduct will have the support of every member of this council. The resolution I have in my hand you will recollect was occa sioned by an aet of the improvement committee, which has been made the comment not only of the individuals referred to but of others out of 'hors not aware of the facts. The committee have made a report, and they have expressed in the most decided manner their conviction on. the sale which -has been made. I don't mean to enter into any further explanation further than to add, on a matter of so much importance as the sale of the corporate property, we should adopt the very , best course not only for securing the very best sale of property, but in order to give the public mind the most entire satisfaction. The result of the present proposition I hops will be, that though there will be great difficulty it at- least is a subject deserving consideration; and if four or five gentlemen be appointed to take this task, I hope it. will be conducted as its great importance merits." He concluded with moving the resolution. Mr. Alderman STUART begged to state, for the information of the council, that there was now a sub-committee of the finance committee appointed to investigate the whole of the corporate property, aad it appeared to ban that that matter might very well be deputed to theni if the council thought tit. Mr. Alderman BARCLAY begged to second Mr. Hope's motion. • Mr. Alderman LEATEGM betted to second the proposition of Mr. Stuart. 1 After some further conversation it was agreed that a commit tee should be appointed, and that the committee should consist of. Messrs. Currie, Bolton, Bitch, T. Holmes, cud Hope. THE LA.NOING PIERS. Mr. Councillor PLATT begged to be allowed to bring before the council the great.necessity there was for adopting some plan for the embarkation of people at the steam-boats, which had now become &matter of very pressing necessity. Accidents had frequently happened. He was quite aware that the sub ject had been very frequently brought forwards, and it was allowed gat something should be done. He believed that within a fsw days past there had been a very serious accident there, in it hich a man had lost his life. The MAyon said he believed the Finance Committee had the subject wider consideration. He hoped it would be mentioned at every ouncil till some plan was adopted. Mr. Alderman BROWN thought the duty ought to be seen to by the improvement committee; it was an improvement much to be desired. DOCKS AT THE SOUTH END OP THE TOWN. Mr. Councillor JORDAN presented a petition which had been delivered to his care and which was very numerously signed, praying that there might be accommodation for steamers at the south end of the town. He begged that it might be referred by the council to the consideration of the Dock Dues Com mittee. Mr. Alderman Evaivs said there was that accommodation before. ,Mr. Councillor JORDAN begged his pardon. Mr. Alderman BROWN said this matter bad undergone a very deep consideration before. It was thought that the nuisance of these steamers to that part of the town—the danger to life was such that they had better remain where they were. Mr. Alderman LEATHOM _said the business of the Dock Com mittee was, arranged into different divisions, a sub-committee being appointed.to investigat e into each branch. This ob i jest would be taken into full and mature consideration. The committee having been so recently formed, and having much business on its hands, it might be a few weeks before it was considered. But it was on the notices for consideration. Mr. Councillor PLATT agreed in the prayer of the petition. There formerly had been accommodation on the east side of the Brunswick Dock for steamers ; they only wanted encourage ment. With regard to what Mr. Brown had said about danger and smoke—there was some smoke, but there was the same se curity and accommodaton for steamers as for carriages on the road. The TOWN-CLERK then read ono of the standing rules, that the Mayor should,. e.a qfficio, be a member of all committees, and that all committees should cease on the 9th of November, which was agreed to. The TowN-CLERK then proposed that the standing orders of the council should be printed and distributed amongst the mem bers of the council, which was also agreed to. The couueil then adjourned shortly after twelve o'clock till Wednesday next, when the question of the corporation schools will be discussed. - LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY-MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. On Wednesday evening, John Hemming, Esq. President of the Marylehone institution, London, commenced a course of twelve lectures, at the above institution, on Chemistry, as ap plied to the arts. The high reputation .which this gentleman deservedly enjoys as a lecturer on chemistry , attracted a crowd ed audience, which, from the excellent iutroductory lecture he delivered, the Substance of which will be found below, he wilt eoutinue to the end of the course. In the application of chemistry to the purposes of the arts and manufactures, there is, perhaps, no branch of it so useful and of so much importance as that of chemical attraction ; or, as it is more generally called now, of chemical affinity. in almost every process which is not sti ictly mechanical, may be traced the important agency of the affinity between dissimilar bodies and 'the product, new properties and characters in the substances acted upon. In acquiring a knowledge of chemistry the attention of the student should first be directed towards this important part of it, for he will require its aid in every step of his progress. By this we learn what bodies combine with other bodies, and the nature of the resulting compound. By the su perior affinity of one substance for another, we are enabled to separate proximate or ultimate elements from each other, and ascertain the nature or components of any substance submitted to examination. By the same power we unite bodies, and thus create in the compound a substance possessing valuable and useful properties, which none of its elements possessed in their separate state. in considering this branch of the subject it be comes necessary to knew not only what bodies are capable of chemical combi,nation, but also, under what circumstances they combine, and what causes will promote, modify, or prevent their combination. The art of the chemist may create in dif ferent bodies powers of energetic affinity which they do not naturally possess. Sand and pearl ash and red lead have no tendency to unite, nor will they form any other than a mechani cal mixture, if no other than mechanical means are to be 'em ployed, but when we subject them to the chemical process of long continued fusion, they unite together and form that cora pound and valuable material called glass. In like manner, grease and water do not unite together, but each of them has an affinity for a caustic alkali, and if this be added to either, or to both of them, the three bodies unite permanently add form the , important and useful material called soap. The detergent pro perty of the soap exists in the alkali, but the alkali alone would be corrosive and injurious to our clothing or person. The dyer • acts on similar principles in most of his operations, for the co louring matter of the dye will seldom unite directly with the fibre of the article to be dyed. A medium which has an affinity both for the dye and for the fibre is employed, and by the agency of the mordant, as it is called, the colour is permanently fixed wherever it is required, and only there. It will, doubtless, be enquired what is the cause of certain bodies combining chemically with some substances while they will not with others. A cause there must be, but-that cause re mains at present unknown. The probability is, that the-differ eat states of electricity of bodies capable of uniting, causes P thent. to unite, and that by their union electrical equilibrium is re stored. It seems already manifest that electricity is developed in every case of chemical action. It was usual to divide the elementary bodies into two classes, electro-positive and nega tive, but this mode of distinction is arbitrary and unscieutihc. Electro-positive bodies combine, and on decomposing thew, we find that one is negative with respect to the other. The same will apply to electro-negative bodies. Indeed, the .roctiody is sometimes positive and sometimes negative; sulphur, - for 'es ample, will combine with oxygen and hydrogen ; in these cases the sulphur is negativeto the hydrogen and positive to the oxy gen. In our present state of knowledge it is safer to adopt the general statement of Sir Isaac Newton, who said that bodies combined together chemically because they had an affinity for each other, and that they did not because such affinity was wanting. if our opinions on this subject are not satisfactory, those of the earlier chemists were much less so, if, indeed, they were not positively absurd. Even Hooke, the illustrious con temporary of Newton, was infected by them, and attributed the changes which occur by chemical union to a new mechanical arrangement of the particles. There is no evidence in favour of this opinion, nor a single fact to justify it. With respect to .the form or size of the atoms of elementary matter we are en tirely ignorant, as also of their weight—their relative weights we are pretty well acquainted with, and for this important and valuable knowledge we are indebted chiefly to the bold and masterly researches of Dalton. Mayow appears first to have noticed the phenomena of affi nity with a philosophic eye. He said if oil of vitriol is mixed with salt of tartar,. that vitriolated tartar is produced, but car bonic acid escapes with effervescence. If a solution of sulphate of iron be poured into a solution of salt of tartar vitriolic tartar is produced, but without effervescence, the carbon ic acid uuit ingwith the iron, and forming carbonate of iron. The highest praise which can be bestowed on Mayow is, that Sir Isaac New ton adopted his views and opinions almost in his own words. Pursuing this subject, Sir Isaac Newton, with his usual saga city, writes, that if we expose common salt and saltpetre .to the air they do not liquify, but salt of tartar does. Newton says that the reason of this is, that salt of tartar attracts water from the atmosphere, whilst the others do not. Newton made various other experiments, and one of these was very remarkabl e . If, said he, you dissol ve ' silver in aquafortis the silver may be sepa rated by means of mercury, in like manner the mercury may be separated by means of copper, and the copper by iron. Does not this show that the acid particles are more strongly attracted by the mercury than by the silver, by the copper than by the mercury, and by the iron strongest of all. In these two in- Stances his exposition was exceedingly beautiful, but there was, perhaps, one circumstance unknown to Newton by which we must explain the nature,of the combination. We say fur con venience that the metal is dissolved by the acid, but the state ment, nevertheless, is untrue. for we must convert the metal into an oxide before the acid will dissolve it. We cannot dis solve silver, but we can dissolve the oxide of silver. When mercury isiadded, the oxygen having a greater affinity for it than 'the silver,leaves thesilver for it, and the silver again as sumes the metallic state, and subsides in the vessel. At about.the same period Boyle was investigating the diffe rent tests or reagents for the detection of minute particles of matter incapable of being detected by the ordinary means. Blue vegetable bodies, such as Infusions of cabbage, violet, &c., were found to be expellent tests for the presence of acids and alkalis, as a slight portion of the former rendered them red, and of the latter green; but these tests are of very limited use, because by adding a portion of acid to the infusion rendered green by an alkali the colour will be restored, thus indicating the presence of neither acid nor alkali when the contrary is the fact. This test can therefore only be applied when the acid and alkali are in free states. Modern.chemistry has furnished us with a va riety of different tests which viill enable us to separate the acid and alkali from its combination in any state of combination, and enable us to say what acid or instance, alkali was employed. If ni trate of barytes, for be added to any quantity of sul phuric acid in combination with another liquid body, a white insoluble compound is immediately .formed, called sulphate of barytes. Papers saturated in infusions of litmus or turmeric are very common tests. The latter is a very delicate test for alkali, and the former for acidois a minute portion of either will change the colours of the papers. The. term chemical affinity is employed in speaking of the attraction which bodies chemically combined exert towards each other, to distinguish it from the different species of attraction exerted by gravitation, electricity, magnetism, &c. The former of these is the most iroportant, as upon its agency the ex istence of the whole universe depends. Chemical attrac tion differs from it, however, in as much as it cannot take place between masses of matter, but only between the ultimate par ticles of matter. It cannot take place at sensible distances, but at insensible distances. It cannot take place between matter of similar kinds, for if we mix together similar matter we shall have a inure mechanical mixture. In 1781; the elder Geoffrey coueeived the idea of arranging lists of certain sub stances which were capable of combining together, in the order of their power of affinity, and accordingly constructed tables of affinity. These tables, however, cannot be implicitly relied upon, as there are various causes which modify, or even reverse, the order of affinity. The power and habit of combination is modified by various circumstances, such as the mode of operat ing, change of temperature, solubility, and other considerations. For example, iron has so great an affinity for oxygen that it decomposes water and takes the oxygen from it. If we add acid to the water containing the iron, the' acid will dissolve the oxide as soon as formed, and thus continually present a new surface for oxidation. In this manner hydrogen is liberated from alb water. Oxygen thus has a greater affinity for iron than hydrogen has; but if we heat.the oxide of iron m a tube and pass a current of dry hydrogen gas over it, the hydrogen will have an affinity for the iron, and leave it in a metallic state in the tube. By different modes of operating we might reverse the order of affinity c fur instance, if to a solution of muriate of lime a solution of carbonate of ammonia be added, .a solid sub tepee is formed, called earbonate of lime, or chalk. The car bonic acid leaves. the ',ammonia and goes .over to the lime; but if we take the muriate of ammonia and heat it with common chalk, then the 'carbonic acid of the chalk unites with the am monia, and carbonate of ammonia will be sublimed, whilst the muriatic acid o f the ammonia combines with the chalk, forming muriate of lime. Another instance is furnished in the metal potassium. Potassium is made from. the alkali potash, by heat ing potash (which is a compound of oxygen, carbon, and metal) in a close vessel, with charcoal; the charcoal takes away tbe oxygen and the carbon from the potash, and the metal flows over. if we heat a portion of the potassium in carbonic acid, it will take back the carbon and the oxygen which it previgua: yielded. Nevertheless, these tables must uot he despi„s!,a they are of great use uuder ordinary circumstances. t for told by them that sulphuric acid has the highest af fi _nt B yOUT potash or soda, . nitric acid next, and then touristic. _sY,f.' we , ing nitric acid on common salt, which is muriate sin set free liberate the muriat i c acikand the nitric acid is ag by the addition of Ailphuric acid. • . effe cting, N . veare t o 19 . There are malty -circumstances to be at tended chemical union. It is an axiom in . chemistry b eco mes cone weak in proportion as cohesion is strong. It b e elented - to each dispensable there fore that wastes:should d ot be affinity is over other, but particles to g then is to particles.: The come the adhesion of matter. This i 6 , r d s n t rie mechanically and n s al e beating, grind chemically. *The usual mechanical ing, rasping, and so forth. will it merely enables us be dissolved by acid to act ' with greater effect. a w all be , comparatively slow ; Dut in many cases it becomes deredstate, the action will du .e combination. Chlorine without breaking, but the aperMaati if, however, we take marble in _p a l l o y :oats. Many metals which be very much more energeticto. necessary to divide minutely a extreme d egree of heat will, when enters into combination vital a o tney sufficient a n d copt showo f u r t a degree of division, be ignited we cannot burn withou t A Th n e ti s u e l reduced to an extreme . , ted when must not be despised'iu che pinired into a however, seldom that the mechanical nish striltingexjivarn;lvfise-ieseiiiii°Elle altateeLtr• that mechanical at • l e t n i o si u h for our enough Th purpose; we must therefore resort to chemical means. Therefore the chemist resorts to the d m iv ic is a i l o o o p o e f ra ut ti ot n te s ; operation of dissolyiegrefractory substances in a proper men employed. The particles of the substances dissolved have strum or solvent: Water, oil, and the acids are the solvents ge- Yerfect freedom of motion, and are prered for any fresh cnthoeuriarsabiPlivation. .It became once an axiom in c hemistry that no action will take place unless one of the bodies is in solution; b u t this axiom is only true to a certain extent, as a portion of dry iodine will enter into combination with another portion of dry potassium, and a very intense action will take place. In the case of carbonate of soda and tartaric acid the axiom holds gond; these substances may be mixed and kept in a dry state without any combination, but when immersed in water a violent effervescence ensues. But the grand agent in the hands of the chemist is heat, which he applies in various ways, sometimes for the purpose of promoting an affinity, as in th e instance of the sand, potash and red lead, but more - frequently to overcome affinity, as in the manufacture of lime front chalk. Chalk is a compound of lime and carbonic acid, and in order to convert it into lime the workmen heat it to redness for along time, until the carbonic acid quits the lime, when caustic lime is the re siduum. We obtain our oxygen gas by heating an oxide of manganese to a red heat, when we obtain a portion of the oxyre e ll which it contains. This mode of operation is constantlyr uosetfodl to by the worker of metals. Almost every one of th hen metals is combined with oxygen or some other subset dug out of the earth. In ernes to reduce thorn tarseuic, sul state, the ores are first roasted, to drive off all , l'hen all we phur and other volatile matters they rosy c oa t M e ore, and this is have to do is to separate the oxygen floouisnroftatter. Sometimes a a n a c. l e arallic done by healing the ore with carb one of which is fused at the chemist employs heat to have a chemical union of two metals, Copper will iuse and Luta temperature and the other at ano th er. mu d i lt - 7, c a e s for instance, where we leave the iron, and by this measure we obtain pureeopper. Mer cury is chiefly obtained in conjunction with sulphur, from which it is separated with great facility by Mixing the ore with iron filings or lime and applying heat, when the sulphur enters intp a fresh combination with the lithe dr iron, and the mercury sublimes and-Condehsei in the Waal fortn This lecture was illustrated throughout by the most brilliant and conclusive. experimenta. , To-inorroiv evening M r. Hem. , ming will explain the laws of chemistry—iLe causes that modify or prevent affinity—Abe atomic theory of definite proportions— and the system of chemical nomenclature and notation. COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. We have been favoured with the following extracts frOm two letters, received yesterday in Liverpool, relating to the attempted counter-revolution in Portugal, and its prompt and effectual suppression :- -'By a private letter received yesterday in Liverpool, via Falmouth, by the Iberia steamer from Lisbon, we learn that tranquility was restored on the . Bth instant in that city. The Queen's party was obliged to, give way. No , further excesses bad bees committed." " Lisbon,- Son. 9.—There is another stop to business in this unfortunate country. On Friday last the Queen went to Belem and proclaimed the constitution of. 1820 at an end, but the na tional guards in the city assembled to the number of 3000 or 4000 and resisted the measure of the Queen. Her Majesty had , with her only, about 1000 or 1200 persons, principally troops of 'the line, but they were insufficient to resist the national guard. On Saturday a number of English marines were landed to pro tect the Queen from any attack that might be made upon her. On Saturday afternoon allwas arranged, and the Queen returned to the city, the attempt .to put down the constitution of 1820 having completely filled. A gentlernan, Jose Freire, was mur dered in the city, and a number of others were killed. Pal tuella T e rceira, and their friends et on board the English vessels ' of war for safety. Business is almost completely at a stand, and we are afraid of selling' fdr long credit, the country is in , such -a distuibed state. Our government have certainly got thisgountry and Spain into such 0 . 4 ,3 1 i 1 44 1 . 1 ed state thit we " hardly know, where it w i ll end. ti r!- THE DOCK TRUST. Dodc Comtuittee met on Tuesday for the purpose of eleCtidg a solicitor to the trust. There were four candidates for the situation, viz., Messrs. Worthington, Halsall, North, and Harvey. Mr. Harvey was elected by a majority of three. The fallowing are the names of the trustees who voted for each candi. date : For M r. Hirvey—Messrs. Bean, M'Gregor ? Waltnsley, Booth, Evens, Hornby, Brocklebank, Higginsi , Rawdou, Bar , clay, and Holt. For Mr. North—Messrs. Leathom, C. Horsfall..Tohin,Tot ter, Dixon, 'Ripley, Yates, Shand, and Wm. Smith. The committee reiolved upon altering the' usual day of meet ing from Monday to Thursday. • - A sub-committee; consisting of Messrs. Rawdon, Blain, Pot ter, and Higgins; was appointed, to 'Consider and report upon various matters connected withlhe dock police. Another sub committee, consisting of Messrs. Leathoni, Benn, and Horsfall, were appointed, to consult certain• members of the 'town Council on the conservation of the River Mersey, and if necessary apply to Parliament for permission to bring iu a bill on the subject. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.IINDAIRD. Sta,—Referring you to the subject of your leading article of yesterday, 1 beg to furnish you with an incident which occurred at the meeting of the Council of the borough of Cambridge, on Wednesday, the 9th instant. The Town-clerk stated, that he had that morning received from London a document and petition from the Church Rate Abolition Committee, with a request that he would lay it before the Council. ' The Mayor, Mr; Ebenezer Foster (a whig) said, he would not receive it; having - that morning bound himself to do nothing which . should injure the Protestant religion as by law established, he would not receive any communication of such a'description. ' The following is the declaration which every Mayor , Alder man, and Councilman is required to make and subscribe upon his admission into Office, and which, in the present-times, can not be brought too frequently under their consideration:— " 1, A. 8., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify,'and declare, upon the true faith of a Christiat.],, that I will never exercise any power, authority, or influence wit I may possess by virtue of the office of to injure or ;l or the Protestant Church as it is by law established in EnY- al 7 ' the to disturb the said Church, or Abe Bishops and CierP.' l o es to said Church, •in the possession of any rights or p are or eg which such Church or the said - Bishops and Clergy are y be by law entitled. Upon reading this it is difficultto determine which is wo rthy of our regard, the plain straight-forward conduc!on t U_to t _qmmmleoer, or the artful impudence of the Church-rat e A holm The former inspires us with hope, and the hater recommends to us the greatest possible caution. What a Ontrtust,• ton, does this behaviour of f the Mayor of Cambridge ex hibit when compared with the act o win/ members of our own Council, Protestant Corporation Schools under the influence of the Ro in placing the Prate man Catholic Priesthood! There is, however, still time for them to retrace their steps. `Lett - hem take Mr. Ebenezer Foster as their example, and con `sidee'vvirether,what they have done is consistent with the solemn dielaration which they made on entering upon their respective duties. I am, yours, &c. CIVIS. IGth Nov., 183 G. The fact I have stated is taken from the Cambridge Chronicle of Friday last. . , LIVERPOOL POLICE. . A HELPMATE.-0a Tuesday, at the Police-o ffi ce, a gocal lanking woman, who was decently dressed, named Margaret Campbell, was placed at the bar charged with Laving been drunk and disorderly. A respectable-looking mechanic (het husband) appeared to prefer the complaint.. .Addressing the bench, he said, "The prisoner at the bar is my wife, and lam sorry to say through her general conduct I um nearly ruined." Mr. Hall—" What has she dune ?" Complainant-=-" Why she drinks, she pawns my clothes, she runs me into debt—." Mr. Hall—" But what particular charge have you against her ?" Complainatit--." Why for leaving her house last night, and get ,, ting drunk. I had forgiven her for previous drunkenness, and the day before went to see a friend at Birkenhead. But a 'bort time before she had been off drinking a week, and I had some suspicion of her, and returned earlier than was expected to see if she was attending to her duties. I. returned home, but she was not there. I then went to a cellar iu Warren-street, and found her drunk in a bed, and-I found she had pawned my last blankets to get the drink. I can show the magistrates billB that she had run me into debt for things that I knew nothing of; in fact, she has almost ruined me."•; Mr. Hall—" I am very sorry for you, but it is not a case in which I can interfere." Complainant said he should be glad if he would order that his wife should receive a separate allowance. He was a joiner, and had an aged mother to support; but he would allow his wife ss. a week. Mr. Hall said he was very sorry for the complainant, and he would arrange with Mr. Evans for him to pay ss. a week at the Parish-office for the support of his wife. 'ehe prisoner was then discharged with a severe reprimand on . her disgraceful conduct. _ _ BiRR-110VSE INFORMATION.—On Tuesday, at the Police. office, Anthony Kelly, keeper of a beer-house in Crosbie-street, was summoned on an information laid by ibspector Postle tbwaite for keeping his house open at improper hours. The information was laid as a third offence, for which the defendant was liable to a penalty of £2O, and to the suspension of 'his license for two years. Inspector Postlethwaite deposed that on Monday week,, at a quarter past one o'clock in the inoruing, he went into Kelly's house, and found seven women and eight men' sitting down and drinking ale • two of the men and one of the women. weie drunk, and the whole compafiy was very dis orderly.' ,A _policeman corroborated this statement. Inspector Roberts deposed that Kelly had • been fined is the 22d of July last of a second offeuce. The defendant's wife appeared tb an swer the summons, and stated that she had a child christeued that Sunday, and had invited some of her own relatious on the occasion. She could take her oath that no one else but herre lations were there, and whom she was treating. Mr. Hall said she had incurred a very heavy penalty; it was a third offence, and the magistrates had power to disqualify her from selling for two years.- Under the, act of parliament she had forfeited not than £2O. Perhaps the kindest thing to them would be to prevent toe,.. _.--ei ng on the house ' as they could not conduct it properly, and were coa., _ ~i t - Kelly said she had invited her i su b jecte dri.. "to fines. Mrs. d could t t them out : it was a very hard case. Mr. tir make the act of parliament, and must be guided by i a t, i .. d ,- 11 _" magistrates adjudged her guilty of the offence, and, being a. third one, imposed the penalty of £2O with costs. If there were 'any circumstances as to the time of payment, she might come and state them. It was greatly to be lamented that such per sons should continue to carry on these houses; they could not resist the temptation of selling at improper hours. hlr. Whiftv, said they could hardly live if they did not. The wife of the defendant, an interesting looking woman, with an infant in her arms, on hearing the fine, burst into tears. A LITERARY Terur.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a young man, named Samuel Pickup, was placed before the ma strates, charged by a respectable looking widow , named Mary Bowcock, with having come to her house, in Back Grove-street, on Tuesday morning last, under pretence of baying been sent by her landlord to paint, and colour her house. He was ac cordingly admitted, and removed some things from her back room to her front room, for the purpose of making ready. In the front room, were a number of books, piled on a table. On going out to dinner the prisoner saw two broken panes of glass in her kitchen window, and said that her landlord ordered him to put them in, and to borrow the money for the glass from her, and he would stop it from the rent. She replied, she bad no thing but gold, and sent him to her daughter's shop for the silver. Her daughter refuse d to g ive him it, and on his return, she gave him a sovereign, and ire never returned. On Wed nesday, she examined her books, and missed a Gazetteer, a Guide to the Lakes, Pilpays' Fables, Don Quixote, and other books. Letitia Grimely, whose husband is the keeper of a beer house, in Beckwith-street, deposed, that the prisoner gave the books above named, into her_ charge, and desired her not to deliver them to any one but himself. Hearing that the prisoner was in custody, she gave the books to a policeman. Policeman, Robert Foote, deposed, that he took the prisoner into custody from information he had received, and received the books in question from Mrs. Grimely. The complainant identified the books produced as her property. The prisoner, in defence, said; • he had had a little drink, abd that was the reason he got the • money. He was committed to take his trial. • ASSAULT AT Sun.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Thomai Seweus, a man of colour, appeared to prefer a complaint before the magistrates, against Captain Charles Kaiu, the captain of an African trader, for violently assaultin g him at sea. The c omplainant addressed the magistrates in broken English.— It dwas on de sebenteent of Septemba, bound from Africa, it dwar my watch from eight o'clock in de mawnin, till twelve in, de day. De watch was called, and we cons on deck. Had not bin dere long, when de Captain sing out aft, to haul in de starboard main-braces. As I was rnnnin, I lost my cap. We haul in de main-braces. Ses 1 to Mr. Wintiuton, ses I ' is dat my'cap you got on ?' De Captain sing out, who is dat, dat is speaking forrad ?' No anso made; we hold on de brace. Tont ask me dat my cap ?' Captain sing out, is dat gib talkin? God d— his black soul, a son of a --, why dOn't you sun a handspike down his treat ?' Den fuss ting be gib me a kick in de back, and I went on all fours , and knock'd anoder man down wid it. So him com agen, and met me wid dis main to' gallau brace, (pulling about six inches of rope out of his pocket which be had cut off,) and knock me on de head. Down I went; I got up, down I went agen, and he kept me Win, and rising, till I don't know. I den went away, but bib knocked me so. I could nut eat my (Juana, and I went to de wheel, and he hurt me very much in de back fur tree days afte. He struck me wid de rope altogedda about de head and shouldas. Another seaman deposed that they had just left Calabar and were about under the line when the assault occur red as the complainant had stated. He knew of no rule against their speaking. The complainant had complained much about • his back. He (witness) had had a quarrel with the captain, and was going to leave the vessel. The captain, in defence, said that when he gave the command from the poop the cora plainant appeared nut to care about him, or whether he worked or not. He appeared to him as though he would not work, so he took a rope to him, but did not kick bim to his knowledge. He had no witnesses. Mr. Hall said more abominable tyranny he never knew; it was perfectly shocking that any one possess ing the authority which the captain did on board that vessel could have so far forgotten himself as to have treated the com plainant as he had done. There was no language he could use sufficiently strong to express the abhorrence of Ins brother ma gistrate and himself. He was only sorry that be had not power to inflict a heavier fine than the law allowed. The mag istrates' did all they could to preserve subordination on board a vessel, and not to encourage seamen to prefer complaints; but iu this case there was a total absence of every thing like defence. He must pay £5 and colts or in default go to the borough gaol for one month The money was immediately paid, and the &ten ant left the court. • PROTECTION OF THE BANK OP ENGLAND AGAINS' FIRE. The recent fire in the printing department within the Bank of England, and the vast importance of there being a full assn.' ranee of safety for the enormous a mount of securities and mo neys deposited in this national establishment, may render the following account of the means of protection against any acci dent from fire, which the Bank possesses within itself, interest ing to the public generally. In the first place, the entire build ing i s erec t e d i u ofa b ru m e , k n s n , e togetheruir c o a n u e t y i s ti ,u and with securities, g e u r e 0 o ltuo themselves,a nedy closets he spread of fire. In every department are strong rooms for the a n w r i i g e th h d i t n e ly e t i t leo e s d deg t ri a no b og e m ;ie w rf h ec Lc t h ly , fire proof. There is a nightly guard of 32 soldiers sent from the Tower, who have each his assigned post within the building. There are besides a number of por tars, of the principal clerks, and of other officers of thaesta bliableent, constantly resident within the building A_ , "- - ` - ': watc h of the con fi dential o ffi cers of th e ga r y• ..at; take turns in.rotation , is . rigidly required .- , ! , , ueral survey of every de .,artnietit an dnit— -,r Life wattling is made by those gentlemen, ryno are on duty thrice in the course of every night,—namely, at ten o'clock, at midnight, and at four o'clock in the morning. Occasional surveys of the more important apartments are made in the intervals between these stated times, of inure or less ex tent, according to circumstances, and the degree of vigilance of the gentlemen whose turn it is too keep watch. It is to this wise precaution that the timely discovery of the recent fire is to be attributed. The gentleman who was making the midnight survey, discovered the fire, and gave the alarm to all the resi dents within the building, whose untried aid, together with the assistance of upwards of twenty of the soldiers on guard, having for nearly an hour proved ineffectual in-repressing the. fire, in formation was, in the first instance, sent to the Sun Fire-office, which is immediately opposite the principal entrance of the Bank. By the advice there received, the authorities of the Bank were induced to send for Mr. Braidwood and his men from the lead fire-station in IVatling•street, but every precaution wad' taken to prevent any alarm spreading outside the walls of the Bank. Three 'large engines of the fire establishment were placed in Princes-street, and every thing was got in readiness for carrying the hose over the external wall ufAlie Bank, had, an emergency arisen. There are seven very excellent tire en gines kept within the Bank, which are monthly inspected by the lt‘h ei icffire, maker, re, was by s and tuhpe p fallthere ose do fabi someeverydepartmentpassedgoodsupplyof play inggood;Yorkscatchhavepartitions,sparks,aperturethelatefire,uponcareful s a o that no doubt can exist but that under h t l he hearth wi u si l sr a fit t t io hbe n eya e t f b, lu sa t t : in in t g o a.tate of combustion. 'ike property accumulation ) the ends of the girders which whollytheirona ahteaaarcthhedhabdyfofir rested thereon, were gradually undergoing a process of decay, from the coustant action or heat, if 1 within the Bank is wholly -, uninsured. en danudctor of heat, the strong tiltcleutlnt LoaD liticTollslllP OF AitERDILIN UNlVRititTi:—On Wed nesday last the Senatus Academieus of the University and King's College, Aberdeen, unaniinously re-elected the Right Hun. the Vicount Arbuthnot Lord Rector of the University for the ensu ing year; and Mr. Charles Bannerman, of Critnobibogate • Mt. John Gat lock, of lleathcot ; Mr. Robert Grant, of Tillifour ; and Mr. Thomas Abereromby Duff, of Haddo, asiesiors foe the same period:—Scottish paper. The melting of the late heavy fall of snow, followed byelmest constant rain, has caused serious floods in many parts of the Colintry. .ac: "~s`~.y '•:~~ , 7-43 "'7 Kr! - PN ;: tel° 41 , 4 ; ..2 I- 4f,' - - f -- z s ," -;-'r'"